Week 2.....The Injury Bug comes early

Welcome to another edition of the Pine Pony Podcast! We're feeling great this week as we dive into NFL Week 2, finally past our technical issues and ready for a clean slate of episodes. Join us as we break down the highlights and lowlights from this past week, starting with a look at college football and the latest woes for Clemson. We discuss heated matchups like Packers vs. Commanders, Giants vs. Cowboys, Dolphins vs. Patriots, and the surprising Colts under Daniel Jones. Did the Eagles bore you too with their predictable offense? We felt the same way! We also dive into what’s happening with the Chiefs' surprising 0-2 start. Lastly, We share some thoughts on streaming games outside the U.S. Tune in for all this and more on the Pine Pony Podcast!

Chapters

• 1:40 Clemson and Dabo
• 7:45 Notre Dame
• 9:18 UGA v Tenn shenanigans
• 10:18 South Carolina
• 16:42 NFL Injury Report
• 19:53 Packers v Commanders
• 30:11 Giants v Cowboys
• 34:30 Dolphins v Patriots
• 40:51 Colts v Broncos
• 49:26 Eagles v Chiefs
• 1:00:42 Honorable Mentions
• 1:17:09 outro topic

Transcript

Jason: 0:12

Welcome, welcome to another edition of the Pine Pony podcast. Man, it's a, it's a feel good episode because hopefully we got the computer issues behind us, and we are gonna have a nice, clean set of episodes that are coming up after this one. So without further ado, as always, it's got me the OG and Fantasy Uncle Persian. What's happen?

Pershin: 0:38

Howdy, howdy. What's happening is relief, my friend. Finally, after I think a three week hiatus, we're finally yeah. Able to come back. I have missed it to all of the populace out there. Hope you're, you haven't left. We absolutely love doing this and unfortunately, you know, the ball doesn't bounce your way sometimes and we had no choice but to skip a couple weeks and hurt my heart. But I am relieved'cause we are back in action. The football season is already underway and I am quite excited to talk about as much as we could possibly get in.

Jason: 1:15

Yeah, we've already had quite a wild season so far in college and in the NFL. So let's get down to business. Let's start the show. Alright, so we'll start off with college football. Let's go ahead and get this out of the way Clemson looks like. Absolute dog shit. And I am very much coming over to Smith, friend of the pod side with Dabo Sweeney. His teams the last couple years have come out looking last cluster and not prepared. Just like they're on an ego trip and it doesn't matter what happens in the actual games. Which is, you know, kind of disappointing because prior to when we were winning national championships, we were always prepared and it seemed like we, we never came out flat. Now we've lost, we lose the unranked teams, ranked teams, and then all we get is a press conference with I'll take my ball and go home mentality. Oh, if y'all don't like winning, then oh, just let me go. And, you know, I'm 55. I can coach anywhere and. His ego's kind of outta whack right now, especially when you're losing to Georgia Tech and Troy is taking you to the fourth quarter. Like, I don't want to hear your one or two plays away. I don't want to hear winning. What? Winning isn't enough. We've won the a CC eight outta the last 10 seasons and it was like, well, last year you needed Syracuse to help you out. So this year you've already lost one a CC game. You still gotta play other tough games. What's gonna be the excuse this year if we don't make it? Because FSU, Miami all are, all are better.

Pershin: 3:14

Yeah. I mean the, the vibes have been rough from the outside looking in, obviously I'm, I'm not in the Clemson universe as deeply as, as even Smith, but, i, I have heard a few of these local Clemson fans calling into the top radio. Bobby Arden, our boy, and, and mm-hmm. And the associated shows, and, and I'm telling you, it's as bad as I can ever remember it because at at least when the team wasn't so competitive, there was always hope that like, oh, well you know what? We got nowhere to go but up. You know? Right. This is happening. That's happening. But now unfortunately, the feeling is like, I think we're in for. Like the dissent of, of the, the the program is that basically we're not a top team anymore. We shouldn't expect it. We don't like davo. And I mean, it's just either anger or sadness and hate to see it. But I, I agree with the Dabo critics, man. I think his attitude is piss poor. He basically has this, nah, I'm proven, I'm the guy. If you think someone else is better, have at it, I'm not the problem. And it's like, man, you're, you're at least part of the problem, bro. Like, come on. Yeah. Like, there's no way. You know, and a lot of people seem to chalk it up to simply the way, or I guess the lack of the way that. The portal's being used and people feeling like it's being used much more effectively by so many other teams. I don't know if it's that simple, but something, something's not going right with the coaching and the strategies and the, and the scheme or the game plan or some, something is, is not hitting the way it was a few years ago. And I mean, Davo is, is, you know. He is the, the, the guy that needs to make sure that all of that is there in place. And for him to have this sort of, oh, well, you know, I mean, we had to take the test on the first day of class. I mean, come on man. This is all BS excuses and this sort of idea that he, he can't stand. The critics and people just want to tear'em down and all this come after you. Yeah. Like, come on bro. Come on

Jason: 5:33

bro. When you're a top tier program, people just want to tear you down. Like, bro, we're not top tier right now.

Pershin: 5:39

But the the thing is like people are upset because there's, there's, there's issues and they care about the team. That's it. You know what I mean? And I understand sometimes there's just really curmudgeon ass fans out there who are always gonna be pessimistic. That's not what this is. There's real obvious problems that need addressing. And I don't know if he's got the attitude to really like, look inward and, and pivot. I I it feels like he, he, it feels like he does not see himself as any part of the problem. I don't know.

Jason: 6:12

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, here's the deal. Yes, we went to the playoffs last year, but it was a one and done for me if. You know, we're gonna squeak our way into the playoffs because we won the A, c, C and this and that. Then I expect to win at least the first round for it to be a successful season. Like, I don't wanna get into the playoffs and go, oh, well, we couldn't have even been there. And then we, we don't even win the first game. No for you to con now with the stipulations of how to get into the playoffs, for you to consider yourself a top tier team, you need to make a run in the playoffs the same as the NFL. Just'cause you got in the wild card spot. Yeah. Doesn't make you a good

Pershin: 6:57

backdoor. Sneaking in the wild card and then getting blown out round one is not impressive in the NFL. And, and like you said, I think the NCAA with this expanded playoff is, it's gonna be the same thing. If, if, if the expectation is that you're gonna be a top tier program and you backdoor into the top 12 or whatever and you know, you get blown out your first game people are gonna be rightfully upset. I understand the season's still young and things can turn around. We have seen programs turn around before, but, part of me is skeptical that there's really gonna be that much change given the sort of attitude he seems to have. You know, I,

Jason: 7:41

right. Yeah. Anyway, moving on. Interesting. Another interesting team in college football this season. Notre Dame Owen, two to start the season. Man, that is that's quite the shocker for me anyway.

Pershin: 7:58

Yeah, I mean, they, they were one of the top, the top teams as far as preseason polling goes. I know preseason polling you gotta take with a grain of salt, but still that they were supposed to be like at least the top 10 team. Right,

Jason: 8:12

right, right. Yeah. And they're still ranked, get that they're o and two only team could be o and two, and not only team, but. One of like four teams over the history of college football to be ranked after starting the season. Oh. And two.

Pershin: 8:27

Yeah. If, if it's not the name Notre Dame, then there, there's no way they're still ranked, you know?

Jason: 8:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. You know, that was last week. Lemme lemme look. Yeah, it is weird. They've only played two games while everybody else played three. I had to like double check Mya. My, my statistic there for a second. Yeah, they had a close game.

Pershin: 8:54

Those independents, man, they, they play by their own groups. They

Jason: 8:57

like to do wild shit. But yeah, I mean, for all intents and purposes though, the Texas a and m game was, was good. They just let Texas a and m get back in and the fourth quarter there with, you know, 10 points. I mean, they scored nine on themselves. I mean it was a great game. You know, can't be bad that you lost that game. It sucks, but it is what it is. And then you had over the weekend, Georgia versus Tennessee, that was an incredible game. And then, I don't know if you saw this, but Kirby Smart, as he's walking back to the locker room at the end of the game is, is doing this weird tongue motion to the vans like. Like,

Pershin: 9:37

I didn't even hear about that. Like That's hilarious.

Jason: 9:41

Like I can't even explain it to our listeners. Yeah.

Pershin: 9:44

So someone needs to send me that dad J bro.

Jason: 9:47

It's like, he's like, you know, without being disgusting, it's like he's like licking something and he's like, you know, vibrating his tongue. It was so weird. It was so weird. But poor man, poor Tennessee fans, man. They just cannot get over the Georgia hump. I think this is what, like eight or nine straight, they've lost the Georgia maybe, or something like that.

Pershin: 10:12

Oh damn.

Jason: 10:13

Yeah, this was supposed to be the week. And then, let's see, what else? Oh, the only game that made Clemson losing even better or Well just, okay. Was South Carolina getting the absolute. Doors blown off of them by Vanderbilt. 31 to seven. Vandy is three and oh this season. Oh, nice. South Carolina was ranked 11th. Man. Tough tough week for South Carolina.

Pershin: 10:43

For the Carolina, for the Carolina fans, man.

Jason: 10:45

Yeah, man. Yeah. At least we didn't get smoked like that, but still, yeah, I mean that was, that was kind of it, you know, next week we've got, you know, Texas Tech, Utah, that, that's a ranked game. Auburn, Oklahoma, that's a ranked game too bad. UUCF or USF didn't win. This past week against Miami,

Pershin: 11:10

I've heard a, a decent amount of, I guess you would say, discourse about this the Oregon head coach. Did you have any sort of take on that or did you hear his, his short little rant that he did in the, in the Presser?

Jason: 11:26

No. See, so it's, it's a little difficult to watch some of these, you know, I don't get ESPN here, like, so it's like, I can't, can't just throw on like a, like a pre replay of all the highlights. Right. You, you don't, you don't necessarily

Pershin: 11:43

get sports center or whatever over there.

Jason: 11:46

Yeah, I've gotta like search it out, so I, I did not see that one. But anyway, what, what did he

Pershin: 11:51

do? Well, so here's my 2 cents on it. The Oregon head coach says he's, he's a, he's asked a political question basically about the climate of the country, yada, yada. Oh boy. And he responds to it. In, in a way where he says, look, I think that the country could learn a lot from most sports teams, certainly this Oregon locker room, and he ends up catching flack for the comments that he made. But basically what he said was. Look, we got people from all walks of life, different backgrounds, different perspectives on life that all care about each other, work together. And at the end of the day, taking care of each other is more important than the differences, the disagreements, how you feel about X, y, or Z topic or whatever. And he's like you know, I think, I think the, the entire country right now is, is they're, they're saying, oh, it's. It's common sense that these, these people are just mentally ill or, or it's common sense that it's the guns and he's like, yo, listen, it's common sense that it's both. And if protecting children is not the most important priority that you have when it comes to these gun issues, then I think that you're part of the problem. And I thought that was an excellent comment. And it wasn't even partisan, shouldn't be partisan, but a lot of conservative types were upset about that that ran. And I just kick the football. IJI guess, but I mean, it's, no, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. He was asked, that's what they're saying. He asked the political question and he said, look, sports teams all over the nation, all types of different sports, not just football, they come together despite their differences and they end up respecting, cooperating and even caring about each other all the time. And the fact that, that we have these sorts of issues where schools are getting shot up all the time and we as society can't figure out how to come together and protect our children, is astonishing when you think about that. And I thought that that was a, a perfectly reasonable saying, comment to make. And he, it's, it's been been a controversy, so.

Jason: 14:19

Yeah. No, I mean that makes sense. I mean, if you do look at all the sports teams, it's people from all over the place. And even, you know, one of the things why I liked. MLS or soccer in general is just because it feels like when you're in that stadium, like you're with all sorts of different people and you, you're all coming together for a common goal and like you all can get along. So that, that is a, that makes a lot of sense. Speaking of Charlotte FC Boys went on a run, we are winners.

Pershin: 14:57

Hey. Turning things around

Jason: 15:00

of nine straight games. We are third in the Eastern Conference with four games left to go. We just beat ml Messi's Inner Miami Team three to zero Todi. Wow. Yeah. Todi had a hat trick.

Pershin: 15:19

You can't buy yourself a win against FC

Jason: 15:22

bitch. Yeah, dude. No, seriously, man. We're we're, we're looking stupid. Good. And we have, what is there? So there's four games. There's a possible 12 points left, and we are seven points out of first place.

Pershin: 15:38

Oh, wow. That's a hell of a turnaround.

Jason: 15:40

Yeah. Yeah, dude, we had a, we had a rough middle of the season and then we Yeah. Put on the boosters.

Pershin: 15:46

I mean, it was just what, six, eight weeks ago that it was kind of worry. People were worried. Yeah. I was certainly worried. Glad to hear it. Glad to hear it.

Jason: 15:55

Yeah. I mean, it, things are going so well that the Panthers might have Dean Smith, the head coach of, or the manager of Charlotte fc. They might have him coach on Sundays. So Saturday Charlotte fc and then coach on Sunday. The Panthers, you know, maybe do like a reverse Ted lasso.

Pershin: 16:17

Is this the same Dean Smith from college basketball? No.

Jason: 16:20

No.

Pershin: 16:21

Oh, I was about to say, wow,

Jason: 16:23

he's, this guy's actually English, so

Pershin: 16:26

if he could switch over to soccer and be that successful, why not?

Jason: 16:30

Yeah, why not? I mean, he's a, he's, he's winning championships at three different sports. First guy to ever do it. That would be awesome. Alright. So moving on to the NFL injuries, man injuries. Injury. I week two is the injury a week?

Pershin: 16:48

Yeah.

Jason: 16:49

We got kittle out three to five weeks. We got purdy out week to week. Eckler's done for the season with his torn achilles burrow. Had to have turf toe surgery. So he's out for

Pershin: 17:03

three months. Yeah. X

Jason: 17:04

amount of months.

Pershin: 17:05

He's out for

Jason: 17:06

three months

Pershin: 17:06

and, and when, even when he comes back after three months, they're not gonna play him unless they're in the playoff hunt. So,

Jason: 17:13

yeah. So this just could be a season end. Really fucking sucks for my fantasy team. Jayden Reed is out with a broken collarbone and he decided to also have surgery on his ankle. I think his

Pershin: 17:27

foot issue. Yeah,

Jason: 17:28

his foot. Yeah. Yeah, his foot. So, but could get him back before a playoffs, so that would be sweet. Yeah, could be nice. Jayden Daniels is week to week. He's possibly out this week. Week three. Justin Fields is in concussion protocol and JJ McCarthy is out week three with a possible ankle sprain and hurt feelings. Yeah. And then last but not least, before you say something. Sean McVay also injured. He has plantar fasciitis coaching the Titans. Is

Pershin: 18:06

that true?

Jason: 18:06

Coaching the Rams? Yes. Coaching the Rams to a win over the Titans. He, he got plantar fasciitis during that, in that game. So

Pershin: 18:15

great. I love it. I love it. But yeah, well, I was just gonna say that,

Jason: 18:20

say your piece on jj

Pershin: 18:22

A a couple nuggets of updates today. Not necessarily hard updates, but basically the that head coach for the Jets already said that he does expect that Ty Rod Taylor will end up being the starter for this coming week. He does not expect that fields is far enough along in the concussion protocol. I. I thought that was a weird comment to make because we've seen guys basically fly through the compression protocol like the last 24, 36 hours or something. Right. It, it kind of makes you wonder if he just wants to see how Ty God does in this offense, you know, because think fields looked quite rough before he got concussed. And, and then also it's been confirmed that JJ McCarthy has a high ankle sprain, so it's very unlikely that he'll play for the next couple weeks. Carson Wentz, KOCI don't know how I feel about that. I, I kind of lost faith in Carson Wentz, but I did pick him.

Jason: 19:21

But you're not trying to pick him up in fantasy.

Pershin: 19:23

I, but I did pick him up just in case JJ McCarthy ended up being bad and he got injured instead of being bad, but also kind of looked bad too in the first couple weeks I thought.

Jason: 19:35

Yeah. J JJ McCarthy doesn't look good, man. I'm sorry. This is looking like a big fat. We'll get to it. We'll get to it.

Pershin: 19:46

They probably should have just paid Sam Dar, right?

Jason: 19:49

Yeah. Alright, well let's, let's, let's talk about the games. Week two, we got the Packers commanders. That was a Thursday night game. Before I get into my notes, go

Pershin: 20:00

off, go off on your team. The

Jason: 20:02

Packers look absolutely dominant. Dawn, defense offense everywhere. Like Jordan Love is cooking. You know, Josh Jacobs is cooking. Michael Parsons is cooking. Michael Parsons is upset'cause he is not getting enough time to cook. So the defense is disgusting trade for Parsons. Looks, i'm already satisfied with it. You can't tell me otherwise. Right now he's already made several plays at peak moments in both games and he, you know, not only is he getting sacks, he's, his pressure rate is, is ridiculous. Even with the short amount of snaps that he has taken. It just feels like he, and he's even upped the game of Luke Van Ness. Luke Van Ness is having a, a great season so far, two games, and he's dominating. So, you know what? See you Kenny Clark. Sorry. Yeah, but the Packer's only allowed 13 points to the Lions who dominated the Bears with 52 points. It like it was the Packers defense. I wasn't sure what to think of them. And it made me second guess keeping golf and then golf went off and I was like, okay, so it's not golf problem, it's our defense is actually that good. I left 47 points on the bench, but really it was like 20 something. But neither here nor there. Love looked in command the whole game. He did have a couple of overthrows with, with Golden that, you know, chalk it up to two new people getting to know each other because if when they start hitting on those, oh my gosh. I mean that's touchdown every, every time. But the only thing negative that I will say about this game is the injuries that we already spoke about. Jayden Reed, Austin Eckler. So I expect Golden to see a few more touches. And then Wix, I think Davian Wicks is, is the guy right now. And then, I mean, even Heath comes out of nowhere with this ridiculous sideline catch to move the ball. I mean, just every love is putting it on the money. And then as far as Washington, their office just looks stagnant. I mean, it looked like they couldn't really do much. The 51 yards rushing. For the most part, throwing the ball was average. I mean, the corpse of Zach Ertz is still getting it in. I mean, the guy is disgusting. Devo Samuel impressed. I, I just, I don't think there's anything negative to say about the commanders. I just think Green Bay defense is that good. Yeah, I think the commanders are fine though. What's your take?

Pershin: 22:53

Yeah. The Packers have looked amazing so far. I, I was happy to hear you know, basically come on here and see your excitement. Truthfully, I would, if we're, if we're basing it on just the first two weeks of the season, my power rankings would have the packers number one, like extremely impressive. I am on Michael Parson's side. Go ahead and let him have a full like allotment of snaps. I mean, every time he's on the field, he's making an impact. And as you were hinting at already with the Van Ness thing, even if he's not making an impact, he's making it so much easier for everyone else, right? Because they have no, they have no choice. But the double team Parsons maybe even have a third guy try to chip in and, and. Leak out or whatever. I mean, there's so much attention being drawn to Parsons, and obviously a lot of the times he's still disruptive, but even when he is not, he's making it easier for everyone else to make plays. It's just, you might as well just put him out there. I can understand why you want to ease him in. He's brand new to the team. He doesn't know every, all the nuances of the plays yet. Whatever. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's Michael Parsons, man. Just let him, it doesn't matter. Just let him be a bull in a China shop. You know, just, just let him do his thing. The defense is, is looking just so, so good. It, it's, it's, it's even exceeded my expectations. I was expecting to be a really good defense with Michael Parsons. It looks even better than that. You look at how, how good the commander's offense looked Week one. I understand it was the Giants, but then you look at what happened with the lions and week two, the lions are, are like fireworks left and right, huge plays all over the place. They couldn't do shit against the Packers. Man. Absolutely stifling defense. There's constant pressure against the opposing quarterbacks there, there's a ton of movement in the secondary. They're changing things up and throwing people off guard. Love it, love to see it. And then of course the offense looking fine. No problems. Not quite as, as impressive as the defense, but I mean, come on. Right. But come on. I mean, things are going well on that front too. I mean, it's unfortunate. With the reed injury, this guy's been injured a lot. I like how he plays when he is on the field. But look, the thing is that Lu's out there making plays, Josh Jacobs running fools over. I mean like you said with the golden thing, unfortunate getting underthrown a couple times or, or should I say overthrown a couple times. Mm-hmm. But it, the cool thing is you're seeing golden get open. And so, you know, the most likely thing that would improve with these rookie players, these young players is that chemistry getting on the same page. And that is likely to improve. The thing that's much harder to improve is the thing that we're already seeing, which is that separation and burn and his man coverage. So, yeah. I like it. He's probably gonna get some more snaps. I think what happened with the commanders game is they actually started throwing craft into the slot. Oh my god. Yeah. For those three wide receiver sets. So I think low key craft is gonna be even more. Sort of fantasy friendly than he has been the first two weeks, which has been amazing. He's

Jason: 26:19

a beast, dude. He's such a beast.

Pershin: 26:21

Yeah. I mean, talk about a player that improves year over year. I mean, he, this year they're actually getting him more stuff down the field and he's, he's doing it. He. Getting open further down the field, and he's still a yards after Cash monster nightmare to bring down. I think what might end up happening is, is they'll actually get Luke Musgraves a lot more snaps than he has been, which I think is fine. I don't think that Musgraves is necessarily bad. I think craft has just emerged as such a good tight end that he's won that position. But I, I think probably Davian wigs Malik Heath Matthew Golden are all gonna slide into that slot role that Jayden Reed has. And you know, it's, it's wheels up to the moon for craft for the time being.

Jason: 27:12

Yeah. Yeah. Man, craft has been such a. Like a, just a pleasant surprise. Like, I mean, we knew what he was like last year, but like he has been featured I feel like just more this year and Yeah. Has been, yeah, deservingly. So he's, he's created with the ball.

Pershin: 27:29

Yeah. We talked about this, this pass off season, how he quietly kind of pushed musk grapes all the way out and it was really just him as the first string guy on like 75% of the plays. And now that's actually shot up. It's basically like 85% of the plays now. And what's crazy is that they're actually putting more on his plate as, as I was saying, like he, he was sort of yards after the catch monster first two seasons, didn't do a whole lot of down the field routes or when he did, he certainly wasn't targeted. And then this year you're seeing a lot of down the field stuff and he's looking good with it. So yeah, I mean, this is a player that just keeps getting more dynamic year after year. I think he's great. I, he honestly reminds me of George Kittle. I know that's, that might sound ridiculous but he is that type of player. He, he is becoming that type of player. So love what I've seen from the packers so far. Good, good for you and your boys.

Jason: 28:27

One, one last thing I'll say on the defensive side of the ball is it just seems like they're quicker. Like everybody's just faster to, to get, to tackle. To tackle. And it always seems like there's two, three guys around tackling, like is like, whereas previous years a before Jeff Hasley, it just seemed like we, we were willing to give up yards and then like a more of a bend don't break. Whereas this year it's like, no, we're not giving up Jack. Yeah. Like where we're gonna make you work for every single down. And I mean, I, I, I hope that that can sustain throughout a season long.

Pershin: 29:09

Yeah. It, what I, what I noticed is a ton of movement, like as soon as the ball snapped, as far as like, what, what's the, the pre-snap shell versus what, what, what was actually running. And certainly in the first game against Goff, he looked hesitant and even threw a couple bad balls. One of'em was certainly a bad interception. But I, you could see Jaden Daniels not necessarily putting the ball in harm's way, but just, just. Hesitant, not, not quite sure what he's looking at. Mm-hmm. And I think that has a lot to do with just a ton of movement both pre-Snap and just after Snap on that defense something like that early in the season, you love to see because that, that means that the players are already on board. They know what the hell's going on. They're not fucking up their assignments. You know, it's good to see that early on in the season.

Jason: 30:03

Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. Enough enough. Homer Talk for now. We'll, we'll revisit when we hit the Broncos up. But let's move on to our next game, giants versus Cowboys. This was an absolute shootout in the second half, mainly fourth quarter, 20 and 21. The final score was 40 to 37. Off of a field goal on the Cowboys and overtime. I mean, Rus was, Rus was cooking neighbors in company. Th this is kind of what I feel like they would be with Russell Wilson. What I'm surprised about is Scab Boo had 11 touches and he only had like 40 something yards. It was, I, I just expected him to do more with his touches, but also the fact that he got more touches than Tyrone and Tracy is surprising because Tracy was the guy last year and maybe I'm just not seeing it, but I feel like he should be the guy this year and, you know, kind of more of a dual threat running back situation with him and Scbu. So that remains to be seen what happens, but. This is how Dallas is gonna have to win games like their defense to give up 21 points in the fourth quarter. No Micro Parsons. I mean, Kenny Clark is a good replacement, but he's not micro Parsons and he's 30 years old. So, so Dak is gonna have to have an MVP season in, in my opinion, which I'm okay with'cause he's on my fantasy or one of my fantasy rosters. So, yeah.

Pershin: 31:46

Yeah, this was low key, the best game of the week. This is the sort of game people were not pumped about before the game started. But man these offenses were, were on point. Dak made some really nice throws. Russell Wilson was even better than Dak Russell Wilson was. Oh my God. I, I was honestly, the yard shocked. Insane. I was honestly shocked. I, I mean, this was statistically every statistic that you can look at. Russell Wilson's best game as a pro and watching, watching the plays. Yeah. I mean, this is higher pass, highest passing rating, highest amount of yards. That's crazy. Everything, yeah. Efficiency. Everything was just, this is the best game he's had as a pro. And it, it's just like. After what we saw from him week one, where everyone was like, oh, put Jarred in there. Dar should start week two. And and apparently that motivated Russ because, I mean, he came out absolutely in the zone on fire. I mean, and almost all of his throws were down the field. I couldn't believe it. One Dale Robinson, who catches everything around the line of scrimmage, had a 17 adot, 17 yards down the field, was his average depth of target. I was like, holy shit. 140 yards from Dale Robinson, 140 yards from Juan Dale Robinson, that the. That's not normal. That's Russ was on in the zone. He was absolutely in the zone. It was fun to watch these defenses need work, these defenses need some work. But it was fun to watch and, and these players were making plays too, man. It wasn't just CD lamb Malik Nabors was making some huge plays. Darius Slayton made a good play. Theo Johnson made a good, I mean, a lot of people stepped up. And in fact, speaking of that, Cowboys defense to his credit, Kenny Clark was the only one that made any plays on that, on that team.

Jason: 33:45

I mean, that is fair. That's fair. Kenny a beast.

Pershin: 33:48

So, you know, he, he's, he's known Marco Parsons. Everyone understands why they're willing to give him a get Marco Parsons, but to his credit, he did show up and say, Hey, I'm not dead. Okay. Fuck you guys.

Jason: 34:00

I mean, he was one of two people that had had a sack. You know, so he, he didn't lead, yeah. For tackles, but he did the, did probably the most damage.

Pershin: 34:17

Yeah. And watching a big chunk of that game, I could tell you there was a lot of plays where Russ was under pressure and Ken Clark was the only one that was given that pressure.

Jason: 34:27

Yeah. Alright. Moving over to the Dolphins and Patriots, also kind of another little bit of a shootout. The final score was 33 Patriots, 27 dolphins. Although the dolphins put up points, I'm not super impressed. They could not keep the Patriots from scoring at all in Miami's offense. Is is the same as it ever been. It's the exact same. And that's fine. It's not, it's not a bad offense, it's just the defense. I'm not sold on you. You couldn't stop. Drake may, I don't think Drake May's superstar potential quarterback, I think he's serviceable. But there was an interesting note with this game we had back to back punt, like kickoff punt returns or whatever on special teams, which was kind of cool. You know, to a through a pick at the worst possible time. You know, great win for the Patriots. Vrabel got his first win as a, as a Patriots head coach. Drake May has some dudes you can catch. I mean, Stevenson balled out. You got STIGs there. There are digs. I said STIGs, Stefan digs. You see where I was going with that? But I mean, you know, and, and Drake may look good. I just, I don't know man. It is just, what, what's your analysis on this game? Because like to me, the dolphins look like shit and they're not winning anything with this team, with Mike McDaniels and two weeks into the season, you're losing to the Patriots who have a new head coach. Again, Drake May is average quarterback at best. And you, you know, it just, it just isn't a good look for the dolphins and I think they should start the rebuild.

Pershin: 36:27

Yeah, I, I don't see either of these teams as being very impressive. On the whole, I think it was good news if you've got shares of the Dolphins. The week one Dolphins offense was honestly concerning. I was like, whoa. Yeah. Everybody, every part of the Dolphins is going to be completely nuked for betting or fantasy, DFS, anything but cooler heads prevailed. And they decided to throw some passes to Tyreek and Waddle. So that helped. Oh, good

Jason: 36:58

Throne. Oh, hold on real quick, because even, because you brought up Tyreek. I watched the play, and I mean, Tua threw that ball five yards. Underthrown, Tyreek Hill had to come back. He, yeah. And he was open because he had to come back and it was just like, dude, Tua ain't got it anymore, bro.

Pershin: 37:16

Two has not looked good so far. There's no, no doubt about that. It, it was good to see that the, the offense was functional, though. The good thing about this Dolphins offense is that the, the opportunities are going to be split just pretty much between three guys. You've got a chan, you've got Waddle, you've got Hill, there's nobody else. You need to worry about stealing things. We have. The opposite problem in New England though, when you go to the other side of the ball, they're rotating all of these fucking wide receivers. Stefan Diggs had like the highest like percentage of snaps. He only had 61% of snaps. And the first week I was like, maybe he's banged up, or perceptions whatever. And the thing is like, there's like this rotation of dudes and none of them are being very impressive. The first week it was kind of Keshan, Boutte had like several big plays. He looked all right and this game he didn't even play. I think he played like 35% of the snaps. He had one catch. At least it was a touchdown. But I mean, it's, it's, it is just a huge rotation of dudes that are getting in there. I think what they're, they're trying to find someone to step up and actually be the guy. I don't know if it's on this team right now. I, I don't know if they have any weapons like that. No, it's certainly not gonna be de Mario. Douglas. I don't think it's gonna be a geriatric Diggs or STIGs as we call'em these days. I don't think it's gonna be Khan Boutte. And honestly, maybe the dark horse is actually Kyle Williams, the rookie who hasn't gotten many snaps yet, but maybe as the season goes on, he'll step up and, and he could become a prime target. But for now, there's, there's not much to like about this offense. There's, you got re Stevenson making some big plays. I, I like what I've seen from him, but, but the truth is they drafted Trayvon Henderson to be that guy and so you, you gotta think as the season goes on, he gets more and more of that snap share. So even a guy like Roman Andre, as good as he's looked the first couple weeks, I, I'm not feeling that great about the rest of the season for any of these guys. Drake May is fine. He's in that big pool of guys that we talked about before the season where it's like, maybe this week it'll be pretty, maybe this week it'll be love. Maybe this week it'll be right. It'll be Herbert or whatever. He, he runs enough to where he'll have some spike week games, but he, he's not anything special other than that. He's just in a big clump of guys. That is who, who knows, you know. So

Jason: 39:59

here, here's my problem with the Patriots. You've got Andre Stevenson, Drake May, RightAnd Stevenson. 11 carries Drake May 10, receiving. Who's your, your most receptions? Most yards, most targets. Re Stevenson. That to me is a red flag that your running back is also your best receiver. Right? Yeah. That ain't good, man. That ain't good. I mean, I love it from a fantasy, from a fantasy perspective, you know, that could be good. For the now, but when is Craig beyond Henderson gonna start, you know, eating some of that up? We'll, we will see. All right, we're gonna move on to your boys Colts versus Broncos. Dude, I it is wild man. Danny Dime in company have not punted yet this season two games in, and they have yet to punt

Pershin: 41:10

that. I saw that this is the first time since the nineties that that's happened. It

Jason: 41:15

is just wild to me that who would've thought if I'm the New York football giant, I'm firing Brian Dbol, I'm firing the whole front office. Like so you mean to tell me this guy could go over to the Colts, not punt the whole, not punt for two games and you guys, he couldn't even get a touchdown over. I, I, yeah, like it's wild.

Pershin: 41:40

It's

Jason: 41:40

it is. I also

Pershin: 41:41

thought

Jason: 41:41

the Bronco's defense was better than this.

Pershin: 41:44

Yeah. Yeah, the, it was very unfortunate. I felt that, that the Broncos defense looked good in week one, but they weren't really tested in week one. It was a, a fumbling, bumbling rookie quarterback, which is fine because rookie quarterbacks would do that sometimes, but it, it, it was easy for the Broncos defense to hold down that Titans offense, and then come week two and, you know, the score at the end of the game is close because our red zone defense was really good. But the thing is. We let them move into the, into the red zone, every single, mm-hmm. Possession. Mm-hmm. With ease. It, it honestly looked, watching it like they were doing it easily. That, that's shocking and it's concerning. This is supposed to be, the strength of our team is that defense and I mean, they just look like they're lost out there. Like they're confused as to why Pitman's running open. They're confused as to why Alec Pierce is, is way down the field with no one covering him. I mean, this is, I don't understand. Most of these guys are, have, were with the team last year too, so it's like, what's going on? This is Vance Joseph. Same defense, same stuff. You know, Patrick Ctan got injured, but that's not the full story here. You know, there was a lot of missed assignments. Players looking like they don't understand, like they're confused. Hate to see it. One bright spot from the team Troy Franklin, really, not only is he getting more opportunity, but he looks good out there. He looks legitimately fast. I like what I've seen from him. He got some schemed up stuff, which means Peyton actually is, is showing some real confidence in him. Could hardly even get on the field it felt like as a rookie, but maybe a year or two breakout is in line. I, he was the most targeted and in fact he had more snaps than even Cortland Sutton. So I think there is really a turning of the tide at, at least as far as how Peyton sees him and the confidence he has in him. I like him as a sort of guy you could find in, in a lot of Reaff leagues, you can find him on the wave wire. Oh yeah. He's there. I think he's worth a guy sticking on your bench and just seeing if this is gonna be the norm or if this was just a blip.

Jason: 44:05

You know, yours truly has already got him on the waiver pickup. But yeah, I, well, he got most of the targets by a long shot. Nine. The next highest was three. What is concerning for me is Courtland Sutton only getting four targets, one reception for six yards. You know, if you're the number one receiver, that to me is you've, you've a, you've gotta get more targets and I understand, you know, sometimes the game doesn't, doesn't play it out that way, but to me, cordless Sutton needs to get the ball in his hands. I did like what I saw out of JK Dobbins you know, 14 carries 76 yards. You know, so that, that I think is a positive because you do have a running back and, and you still have RJ Harvey who, you know, rookie wise, that's great, but you know, you have somebody else that's serviceable while him, he's getting up to speed. I like that he was involved in the pass game, even though it was two targets. RJ Harvey had, you know, a, a reception for 16 yards. So, you know, you can kind of see a little bit of. Sean Peyton's offense there with the running backs involved heavily in the receiving game as well. So again, the offense isn't really concerning for me. Bo Nicks went 22, 33 touchdowns, one interception 200 yards. Like I got no problem with the interception. Whatever. It's gonna happen to me. That defense, like they, they gotta play better. You can't have Daniel Jones throwing a fucking ball all over you and only one. He accounted for two touchdowns. One of'em he rushed and one of them he threw. Like, I'm just, I'm not until, until said otherwise, I guess I have to believe in Daniel, Daniel McBrien Jones. And then, you know, on the cold side, Tyler Warren, 79 yards, seven targets, like he's. Getting a nice little share more than I thought he would. You know, and they look pretty, pretty good wide receiver wise. So I'll be interested to see where the Colts go from here. They're two and oh right now, so, yeah. Unsuspecting cults, I will say.

Pershin: 46:40

Yeah. I, I think that Tyler Warren has stepped in and he's been like the 2025 Sam Laporta type to just hit the ground running mm-hmm. In the receiving game. You could tell how much they're excited to use Tyler Warren because they, they have him schemed up like what do you call it? I can't, I can't think my brain is, is fried right now. Screens, they, they, they, they tossed him not only two, two screens, which you don't, you don't typically see a ton of screens for a guy that size, but they tossed him a couple screens and then they also, week one had him take. Two handoffs from the Wildcat formation. I mean, they're, they're like, Hey, we want, yeah, we want the ball in this guy's hands. This guy's a playmaker. He's a Hoss. He, he honestly plays in a style that reminds me of Gronk, where he actually is just trying to bully people and he's successfully doing it. He'll absolutely love to see how much faith they have in him. He seems to be doing fine and as a blocker as well, which always helps just stay on the field. You know, you, you gotta be excited about Tyler Warren if you've got shares of him. For sure. The one thing I would say is that Daniel Jones play himself is surprisingly good. And also the offensive line is you know, I didn't think they'd be necessarily a bad offensive line, but they seem really, really good.

Jason: 48:05

Yeah, dude, Taylor had a monster, but

Pershin: 48:07

so when you, when, when you, you know, start to take a step back and you're like, wait a minute, if they're getting good offensive line play and they're actually getting good quarterback, play with this wide receiver broom and Jonathan Taylor like, okay, mm-hmm. This is actually a really good offense. And, and yeah. Even though I, I will admit there, there's something going on with our defense and, and too many guys looking like they don't know their assignments or something. Even still, it's not a trash defense. I think this Colts offense is legit. And, and two weeks in, you need to take this seriously, pick these guys up. But Daniel Jones is still out there for whatever reason. Pick him up, put'em on your bench. Even, even if you've got a good starter, you want to someone like that who could produce get he, he's in line for probably double digit rushing touchdowns this year. And apparently a lot of yards too. So, I mean, great guy pick up. I think that Michael Pitman is a guy who was drafted probably, you know, mid, round to later rounds in most drafts. That, that's a great guy to have on your team. And of course, Tyler Warren, I don't think he's gonna be on any waiver wires, but he might be someone that you could trade for. And I think it, that the hype is real with him.

Jason: 49:24

Absolutely. All right, last game, we're gonna hit up on the Super Bowl rematch. Eagles 2.0 Chiefs, Owen, and two oh and two star. That is, that is like, I don't. I am, I have no words. I'm surprised. I like, I am shocked. It's rough. And here's the thing is like this game itself, nothing was wild. Or, you know, there wasn't anything crazy about it. It just, the chiefs dominated on the stat board. You know, they, they had everything going their way. It just, it just didn't work out for them. But, so Saquon had a great game. Eagles showed to me anyway, that they didn't really need wide receivers between Saquon and Jalen Hertz, at least in the Red Zone for that matter. Devonta Smith had, Smith had a, had a outstanding catch in the second quarter, you know, Kelsey for, for all the shit I gave him in the off season. Kelsey seems to be looking pretty, pretty decent. I mean, leave it leading the team in receptions and targets and yardage, you know, so, so good for him. You know, he, he cut his hair off and he looks good. The only other thing I'll have to say about this game was I'm so fucking over the tush push, dude. The amount of ego that you have to have to do the tush, push four yards from the goal line and then, and then ballsy enough to do it again, to get and, and get a touchdown just pisses me off. I don't know why. And I, because if it was my team, I'd be, fuck yeah. Toothbrush, let's go. I, I'm all for it. I don't want to band. Because I'm a hater and I can't do it. I don't want to band, but what the fuck? Like, there has to be like, I don't understand why no one can fucking stop it. I mean, the chiefs had like, what seemed to be their entire defense on the line of scrimmage, and still he got three yards. It was a fourth and one for the goal. I'm just like, this is fucking stupid. And it just, I don't get it.

Pershin: 52:02

Well, look, part of the problem is the way that it's officiated and I,

Jason: 52:08

yeah, there might be some rules being broken here.

Pershin: 52:10

I, I think that all, all of the play, all of the tush pushes and I think there might have been one, there might have been one or two that I actually didn't watch, but all of the, I mean, packers. All of the tush pushes that I saw from the Eagles and we two, both of the guards were jumping early and, and Right. They weren't getting flagged. So part of the problem with, yeah.

Jason: 52:37

cause there was the video with the ball with the Chris Jones hitting the ball. Right.

Pershin: 52:40

Part of the problem. That I have with the tush push is that it's not being officiated properly. They're getting away with just cheating and they're getting an early jump and it, it, it, it just infuriates me because you, you see it over and over again where they're just jumping early and they're not, if for some reason it's not getting called, I'm not sure why the reps are not calling it if, if it's just too hard to see in the moment. With tho those kind of formations, it's really hard to see the ball or something. There

Jason: 53:15

should be a a, a weekly report that is like, Hey, referees, who. Referencing the Eagles game. We're not saying call the tush push, but when the tush push is happening, I want you to look out for X, Y, and, and Z.

Pershin: 53:31

Yeah. I, I mean, if I'm the head coach of a team that's gonna be playing the Eagles, I'm talking to the refs the entire game. Oh yeah. I'm like, good call. I'm like, look for the jump. They're jumping. The guards are jumping every time, and not just one of'em. Every now and then, both of them, every time. Like, look at it because it's going to happen. I'm telling you before the game starts. It's going to happen. Help me out here because I, for whatever reason, it, they never called it in the chief's game. If I'm Andy Reed, I'm fucking livid. I'm absolutely livid. Right? It sucks. The, the other thing I'll say though, it, the other reason why I don't love it is it's fucking boring, man.

Jason: 54:10

Dude, dude, it is the worst to watch,

Pershin: 54:12

dude. Their entire offense is so fucking boring. They don't do anything fun. Nothing, nothing. They, they fucking, they, they have meat and potatoes run plays. You'll get lucky if there's like a five yard out by fucking grant calcaterra. You know what I mean? You'll get lucky if there's a five yard out by anybody, anybody. But it's basically, we run once or twice and then when we're two or three yards out, we just do our gimme play and we cheat as we do it. And it's just so boring. It's like Madden in real life. Oh my God, it's so boring. And I understand why they do it. They don't have to do anything that they, they literally, they can win most of their games with defense. Yeah. And a good offensive line.

Jason: 54:59

So I wouldn't care if I was in their position either. Yeah. Don't care

Pershin: 55:02

how boring it is. And their fans don't care that their fans are like, oh, whatever we're winning. No one gives a shit. The doctors started doing it tomorrow. I wouldn't care. I totally get it. But man, as a football fan, this is a fucking awful display. I it that offense is, it's, you're talking about the Super Bowl Wi Winning team and, and I can hardly stand to even watch it. It's like, ah, it, it, it's annoying. It, it is annoying. But I will say this, as annoying as the Eagles were, I was even more annoyed with the Chiefs in this game. They did a bunch of cringe ass shit. Let me just say, okay. First of all, with the players. The players coming out pregame with the free number four shirts on, like, bro. Yeah, that's a fucking break, dude. Your dude is not a victim. Your dude hasn't been unduly persecuted. He, he did something incredibly stupid that put a bunch of other lives at risk. Okay? Just, just spare me with the free for bullshit. Whatever. Look, I understand you want Richy Rice back. We all want him back. He's, he's a cool player, but look, man, you can't do the crazy, dumb shit that he does and expect not to get suspended. Okay? That's the first thing. And then after the game when the fucking, oh, yeah. When the offensive line dominates your ass, then Chris Jones has the nerve to say, oh, you barely got a hundred yards passing, or whatever. I'm like, bro, that is not our own. You just lost the game to someone who didn't have, did you Jaylen the bump?

Jason: 56:46

Did

Pershin: 56:46

I say

Jason: 56:47

what? Jaylen hurt. Did you see what Jaylen hurt? Said? He said, we won the fucking game. Yeah.

Pershin: 56:53

Yeah. He just said we won the Yeah, yeah, of course. Like, who cares? The, the thing is like, if they don't have to throw the ball and they still beat you. They should be. The ones bragging about that. Like, you shouldn't be losing a game and being like,

Jason: 57:08

yeah. It's like they beat you int the easy, you can't throw more than

Pershin: 57:12

a hundred yards. You must be bad or something like, bro, they don't throw because they don't have to throw

Jason: 57:18

to beat you. We beat you, we beat you without throwing more than hundred yards.

Pershin: 57:22

Right? It's, it's, you know, he throws for a hundred or one yards. That's, that's a, a chief stat actually. You know what I mean? It's, you know, and it, it, it's not, it's not the, like the chiefs are the only ones that like, they're winning this way against all of their opponents, which is why they haven't stopped and they're, they're not going to stop if you're not

Jason: 57:42

this season,

Pershin: 57:43

if you're an aj, if you're an AJ Brown owner, you should be worried because they're not going to have to throw very much.

Jason: 57:50

What about a Devonta Smith owner? Same deal. Should those people be worried? Yeah,

Pershin: 57:55

they should definitely be worried.

Jason: 57:57

cause I am.

Pershin: 57:58

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you're, you're my

Jason: 58:01

EST team's in shambles.

Pershin: 58:02

I guess if you're a Devonta Smith owner, you're in for like 20% of the yardage, which is 20 yards on. A hundred yards.

Jason: 58:10

Right. So I'm in for, for six targets, four receptions, 53 yards and zero touchdowns by the wide receiving corps.

Pershin: 58:20

Yeah.

Jason: 58:21

Great. Yeah. What a great offense in 2025. It

Pershin: 58:26

it, it's frustrating to watch and, and, you know. Travis Kelsey, I, I understand what, what your point was with the, Hey, you know, he's not dead or whatever, but man, dropping that ball in the end zone, that, that's just right there so easy for, I, I was shocked that he dropped it. I was like, oh man, that's rough

Jason: 58:48

that you still have the loop on it.

Pershin: 58:50

That I get. Well, I, with, with that, that handsome new haircut. Why not? Right? Someone should be popping up, right? I dunno. I'm not gonna make any inappropriate comments about Swift. She, she seems like a nice person, but look, I, I kind of hated watching this game because the Eagles were boring. The chiefs were cringe. Just, just stop.

Jason: 59:19

Yeah. Stop. Just

Pershin: 59:20

stop guys.

Jason: 59:21

I can't believe they're owing too, man. But what if the chiefs don't make the playoffs? Like Derek? Oh dude, it's our friend of the pod. Derek is. We might have to go to Bama to check on him.

Pershin: 59:32

Dude, thi this is actually an interesting point. I, I think in most on most sports book on mo on most sports books, you actually get plus money betting against the chiefs missing making the playoffs, right? And, but here's the thing is that historically a team starts out, oh and two, they have less than a 10% chance of making the playoffs. And so it are, the chiefs good enough to be in that less than 10%. Quite possibly. Okay, let's keep it real. They're, they're still gonna get it together. They're gonna be a, a competitive team, but to, to start out, oh, and two makes things much, much harder. And I, I think that the, the Raiders, the Chargers, the Broncos, they're all decent enough opponents in that division to where it, if, if I'm betting on do they make it or not make it, I'm actually betting that, that they don't make it at this point. Just'cause oh and two is a, a hard hold to dig yourself out of in the NFL.

Jason: 1:00:34

Right on. Yeah. So I guess put some money down

Pershin: 1:00:39

maybe.

Jason: 1:00:39

I don't know.

Pershin: 1:00:39

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I think it's a good bet

Jason: 1:00:42

to make notable mentions. That I had for week two is there was a lot of close games and also fair amount of blowouts. The browns stuck, not, not surprising there, but again, I'm, I'm calling the Calvary Inn. It is time to trade away your fucking assets. Get rid of your coach, get rid of the GM, and rebuild from the front office all the way down to the water boy. It is Kevin Stefanski cannot turn this team around. He will not turn this team around and I cannot believe that they are still wasting their time on him as a head coach. He's absolutely awful. This team has what, six quarterbacks on the roster? They're projected to go pick a quarterback next year. Probably not Kate Knick'cause he looks like shit this season. But still get as young as possible and trade every single thing away for picks A, you might

Pershin: 1:01:58

be,

Jason: 1:01:58

you might be able

Pershin: 1:01:59

to get two

Jason: 1:01:59

firsts

Pershin: 1:01:59

for Miles Garrett.

Jason: 1:02:01

Exactly. Exactly. And then, the Steelers game kind of had like a weird, like they got blown out by the Seahawks and Sam Darn. Which was unexpected. But there was like a weird gaff that a rookie had that

Pershin: 1:02:20

Caleb Johnson,

Jason: 1:02:21

the ball. Like

Pershin: 1:02:24

for a guy that's already struggling to get on the field, that's not, that's not a good look.

Jason: 1:02:30

And correct me if I'm wrong, but because of the new rules, that's what made it a touchdown, right? Or or that's the standard. Yeah. That, that

Pershin: 1:02:39

would've been a

Jason: 1:02:40

touchdown with the old girls too. Okay. Alright. So then I, that's just something that I wasn't familiar with.

Pershin: 1:02:46

Yeah.

Jason: 1:02:46

But anyway, still huge flips a weird thing. Air Rogers is looking Okay. Okay. We will see what happens. They'll probably put up MVP numbers by the end of the season. The jets are absolutely awful. I'm so fucking mad that I even have Breeze Hall on my team right now because he is like, it's like every week I'm like, come on man. Get me in the double digits. Come on. And, but you can't not start him'cause he's the starter there. It, it almost seems like Braylin Allen is eventually gonna get some sort of starting shares, which is just fucking annoying. Anything you got on the jet? I,

Pershin: 1:03:34

I, I think Brie Hall actually looks good so far this year. I, I don't think it's his fault. Well, fantasy wise, he sucks. Yeah, I mean, it's a concern fantasy wise, but I think the issue is that teams don't care that they got Garrett Wilson out there. Teams are basically loading the box. Why would you, they're loading the box and they're saying, go ahead, try to throw it. Like, yeah, you have Justin Fields throwing in the fucking ball. Yeah, and I mean, the crazy thing is, is like, I kind of fell for it week one. I was like, damn, Justin Fields actually looks all right. But then in week two, he went back to being Justin Fields. Like it was bad. It

Jason: 1:04:10

looked bad. Well, that's Justin Fields for you, Cinderella?

Pershin: 1:04:13

Yeah. Yeah. Actually played him in DFS this week. Dumb idea. Yeah.

Jason: 1:04:17

Yeah. I am so happy that in Costa Rica, like it's impossible for me to gamble for the most part. I feel like I would've run a loss, so I'm okay with that. Next game saints 49 ERs. Was, was close. You know, the Saints, for what it's worth are, in my opinion, they're looking all right. Spencer Rower.

Pershin: 1:04:43

I, I'm afraid, I'm afraid to say it out loud because I'm gonna get clowned when he turns back into a pumpkin. But Spencer Rower's been decent. He's been decent. Been decent, been decent. He hasn't been Joe Montana, but he hasn't been special Rattler either. That's the crazy trick. I

Jason: 1:05:00

mean, as the, as the first year, like I know it's his second year, but yeah, in his first year officially starting multiple games. You can't be mad with what he has produced. And his throws have looked really good on the money.

Pershin: 1:05:16

Yeah. And what's cool about fantasy perspective is that he's been running too. He's, he's quicker than I realized. I didn't realize how quick he was on his feet. He could scramble and get a bunch of yards in a hurry. He's making a lot of good decisions with keeping the ball out of harm's way, at least for the most part. And actually making a lot of really good sort of like back shoulder type passes to Jaan Johnson. Mm-hmm. And I mean, I don't know. He, he just looks decent. I, I wouldn't say he looks amazing, but I mean, a lot better than I expected from him.

Jason: 1:05:50

Yeah. I mean, we'll see how Mack Jones continues on as a starter while purdy's out. And then, funny one note I had about the Titans landscapes. Cam Ward, he had a really good. Throw, you know, across the field, the, what, what is it that Lec

Pershin: 1:06:09

amor,

Jason: 1:06:11

well, what is it? The ex quarterbacks call, like, they're like, you know, you'll hear it on all the announcers and like, oh my God. He made the, the sin of a lifetime. He threw

Pershin: 1:06:22

cross his butt

Jason: 1:06:22

across the field and across his body. He threw it across

Pershin: 1:06:25

his body, way down the field. Yeah, I'm pretty sure his, his coach is gonna be like, great pass. Never do that again. Like, yeah. There's still lost though, so. Yeah. I do think though, like he has shown a propensity to make a bunch of mistakes, which I, I kind of think it's usually fine being that. He's a rookie. Only two games in, but also he has shown some really good passes. So just some really good dimes. I think if you're a Titan fan, there's low key, a little bit to be excited about. Here you have Alec ior, who fell to the fourth round on the NFL draft, primarily due to health concerns. But he was healthy enough to get through basically all of training camp without having to miss. And now he's a, a full-time starter right out the gate, and all of a sudden you're like, oh, wait, maybe we got, maybe we got a nice young receiver on top of camp or so you know, I, I could see things going well for them. Those, those two young guys.

Jason: 1:07:28

Yeah. Yeah. And then the last little note that I have is, the Vikings. I bet, I bet they wish they had. Sam. Darn. And, and what, what makes me chuckle about this is because week one, I thought to myself, man, Sam darn looks like shit. And so I was unconfident about my quarterback positioning and my Ty league. So I made a trade. I traded Tet and you know, whatever, which Persian hates that. And he, you know, oh, I know I got fleeced. I'm not, not being fleeced. Like I understand what I did. And in a way it's gonna work out because Joe Burrow's out now. So now I'm in, I already only had three quarterbacks. Now I'm in desperate quarterback of need because I'm in a superflex. Yeah. So now I, now I'm like, you know, and I feel like wide receivers are a dime a dozen Every year you can kind of. Pick up anyway, nonetheless. You know, I just, you know, I wonder now because Sam Darro looked pretty decent this past week. I'm like, man, Minnesota's gotta be, damn. We, we put our marbles in the JJ McCarthy basket and it is not working out. And, and to be honest, like as a Packer fan, fuck the Minnesota Vikings, like, who gives a shit? Like you made your band lie in it. And I, we all knew

Pershin: 1:09:02

plus Aaron Jones got injured. Yeah.

Jason: 1:09:05

Yeah. We all, no I'm not, I'm mad, I'm sad about the Aaron Jones, but we all knew JJ McCarthy was not the guy coming out of college, Michigan. A had to cheat to win the games. And B, they ran the ball like 90% of the fucking time. So why on earth as the Minnesota Vikings bm, would you take JJ McCarthy and then without ever seeing him play in the NFL, all those trade away, Sam fucking Arnold, who had his best season that he's ever, or not even trade away, but just let him walk. He had his best season that he's ever had is his entire NFL career. Like to me, if I'm a Minnesota Vikings guy, you should have kept Sam darn. Let JJ sit one more year and then maybe move on from Sam. Darn. I don't know, man. Minnesota to me is in a lot of trouble this season. Two games in.

Pershin: 1:10:07

Yeah, I, I, I think you, you, you were spot on with the, the JJ McCarthy analysis here Kendall Valenzuela, who is really close with the Vikings. She's a beat reporter and, and close contact with a lot of the Vikings organization. I think she works for the Athletic, but at any rate, she was saying how basically they were not expecting this much sort of stumbling from JJ McCarthy in this first couple games and, and that they, they had a ton of confidence in JJ McCarthy, and that's why of course, they were able to, to let. Sam Darnell Go, and they didn't want to go out and pay for like a Daniel Jones type or, or make any, any big investment because they, they were just really that confident. But I'm just like, he got injured before the season ever started. I know. Good. Well, he wasn't practicing for the majority of that. How in the world could you be so confident when you don't see the guy play? Like, I, I thought it was crazy. It's wild. And, and the thing is that Sam Donald even said that he would've been willing to do a one year. Or two dear, or or two year with one year guaranteed to stay with the Vikings because he really liked playing in the KOC offense. And frankly, why would you not? I, I, I said that it made sense for both parties to do a one year deal, like Sam Donald after another year of putting up that kind of year, and that same offense could go out in, into free agency and get even more than he could off of one good year. Right. And then also for the Vikings, they, they now got two quarterbacks that they feel good about. Right? So it, it's much better that way than to put all your eggs in an unproven guy. I understand. They, they took him early first round, so they wanna see their investment pay off, but it's like Sam Drawn was good for you last year, and he was willing to stay. On a one year or two year deal and instead you, you told him to take a hike and now there's a big question mark. You know, you got wince, but we kind of already know that Wince is, is not going to be the guy to take you to Super Bowl. You know, he's, he's a decent as a backup for sure, but, you know, I, I don't think he's gonna play as well as startled did last year.

Jason: 1:12:34

Absolutely, absolutely. Couldn't agree more. And then just, we'll just do a quick look ahead for the next week and then we'll wrap it up. I mean, you got the Dolphins and the bills on Thursday night. I think that's gonna be a Bills domination game. I'm, I'm not interested in that game at all, but what I am interested in, as we just talked about the Vikings Bengals and Vikings. That'll be an interesting game just because of the Joe Burrow situation. Browning, Jake Browning's gonna take the lead and, you know, with JJs situation, it, it'll just be an interesting game. The Steelers versus the Patriots just, you know, see what happens with Drake May and how he affects the Steelers and see if the Steelers defense can get back on top. The battle between two, two and O teams rams Eagles. That should be fun. And then Bronco's Chargers one, you know, Bron Interdivisional game. Interested to see if the Broncos can, defense can step up against the Chargers offense. Chiefs giants, both oh and two, which I can't, I just can't even get over saying. The Chiefs are oh and two. So that's the Sunday night game. I'll be interested in watching that to see if the chiefs can, I mean, if the chiefs still owning three here. Whoa. Dude, that'd be

Pershin: 1:14:00

wild If Russ puts up another four 50. It passing yardage. They probably owning three.

Jason: 1:14:07

Dude. Like triple. I know. Triple D Derek is, is hating my

Pershin: 1:14:14

friend. Oh yeah. Derek, we love you. If you still listen to the show. Sorry about that earlier thing. Your team was being cringe. I, I don't know what to tell you. I, I love you and, and I'm not a Chief's hater, even though I'm a Broncos fan. But the thing is, man, look, you look at the, the Chief's offense, man Xavier worthy out Rashi Rice still suspended, and you're, you're having to rely on Hollywood Brown and, and Kelsey, both of whom, no, no disrespect, but are clearly past the prime. And it's not an explosive offense, it's just not. And that's crazy to say about Andy Reed and Mahomes team, but it is wild. It is, they are like two yards per carry, five yards per pass sort of offense right now. And they're, they're staying in these games with their defense, and that is their identity these days. And well, I I don't think that the, the Giants defense is anything to be afraid of. I will say that if Russ is, is cooking again next week, the, the Chiefs might not be able to, to keep up with them straight up. Yeah. Don't let'em saute

Jason: 1:15:24

those onions. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's gonna get funky. It, it

Pershin: 1:15:31

will, it will get funky.

Jason: 1:15:33

It is the last game, but the Monday night game, I mean, the primetime games other than Thursday right, seem pretty decent. But the Lions versus the Ravens, both 1 0 1, both potential, you know, expect it to be playoff teams. So I'll, I'll be interested in both of those. Any, any thoughts you, for next week's games? Any outlooks that you had?

Pershin: 1:15:59

Yeah, I mean you are, you really already talked on it and, and it's my team, so it's just kind of homem, but really would love to see the Broncos step up to the plate against the Chargers. The Chargers have looked really good so far in, in, you know, this early stages of season. But in particular their offense has looked really, really good. Keenan Allen has a lot left in the tank, apparently, guys getting wide open on a lot of these places, like, holy shit. And then. You, you add that to the fact that it seems like Quentin Johnston continues to develop as an actual sort of down the field route running type of receiver instead of just a jump ball artist or, or whatever the hell he was, a jump ball artist that can't catch or whatever. He, he's becoming more useful. The offensive line has actually looked pretty good despite using losing Slater before the, the season started. But anyway, that's just all to say that I would love to see that the Broncos defense actually stepped up to the plate here and look good against a good offense. And I'm interested to see how that'll play out.

Jason: 1:17:06

Yeah, agreed with that, agreed with that. And then as we exit the show, one thing one last thing I wanna say is, it is nice watching football outside of the United States because let me tell you, the price difference is insane. Like I literally get every single game for$150. I get replays, all the jazz, and it's all on one app in the United States. It's on what, four different apps

Pershin: 1:17:38

and we get price couched on

Jason: 1:17:39

each one, and it's$350 for Sunday ticket, plus the$75 a month for five months. It's like 700 bucks and it's just. It's insane, man. It's insane. And, and for football fans, that's absolutely bogus in my opinion. I understand you want to grow the game, so of course, outside of the United States market, you're gonna offer these wild packages for these other streaming services and whatnot, which is why I, I am lucky to get the days in app and, and, you know, you get multi-view all the things, everything that you ever want. I watch all the games, red zone, blah, blah, blah, one 60 for the entire season. It just sucks that the people who watch the game the most are the ones who have to forfeit the most money. And, and that's just the way the American ideology is, that's, it's, it's greedy. It's, it's all about money and it's very eye-opening, living in a different country. When it's not all about money. So yeah,

Pershin: 1:18:56

it's it is amazing. Sometimes you talk to your fellow Americans and they have no idea how the rest of the world lives, and they will say things to you like, oh yeah, of course that sucks. But I mean, that's, that's just human nature. That's just how it has to be. And it's like, actually, it doesn't always have to

Jason: 1:19:12

be like, it really isn't.

Pershin: 1:19:13

It's you know, you, you talk about how some things are so exploitative and greedy just based in greed and exploitation, and, and people will say, well, but that's, that's just, that's how it's always gonna be. No, it's actually not. Like,

Jason: 1:19:30

no,

Pershin: 1:19:31

but

Jason: 1:19:31

the rest of the world is completely different. United States folks.

Pershin: 1:19:35

Yeah.

Jason: 1:19:36

And you know. It is what it is. So what I suggest is I, if you wanna go ahead and risk that 1 51 60 VPN to Latin America yeah. Not the UK because the UK doesn't get game pass, but Latin America for sure. Anyway, check all that out. But VPN drop that one 60 and get every single game is what I would do if I were you. There is a chance that you may get caught and they'll just suspend your account, but. Right. I mean, it's whatever you, you're already not using

Pershin: 1:20:13

that account. How, how often are they actually gonna do that anyway? Think about how much use you're getting out of your days in account right now. Okay? There's not much to lose.

Jason: 1:20:23

Zero, right? It's pretty awesome, man. But anyway da feel free to

Pershin: 1:20:28

sponsor the pod.

Jason: 1:20:29

Yeah, you've heard enough from me about days and I text them regularly every week about how great Daon is. So with that being said, you know, we're at an hour and 23 minutes. Let's go ahead and end this puppy. As always, you can hit, you can hit us up on Threads, blue Sky, Instagram, whatever, email, text me, pine Pony podcasts. as always, adios, adios.