Two for the Win
Mike is a U.S. Navy Veteran and Bryan has more than a decade of civil service experience. Together, these blue collar guys dissect the latest sports headlines and events.
Two for the Win
Two For The Win - S2.39 - The Calm Before The Storm, Jock Talk & Shaping Up For Fall
The summer-to-fall sports transition is in full swing as Brian and Mike deliver a comprehensive roundup of the most compelling storylines across baseball, football, and basketball.
Baseball's playoff race intensifies with the Dodgers reclaiming the NL West lead after sweeping the Padres, while the Yankees display historic power by tying a franchise record with nine home runs in a single game. We examine Bobby Witt Jr.'s milestone 100th career home run and the spectacular knee-catch by Giants' Jung-ho Lee that announcers called "the catch of the decade." Meanwhile, the Astros face troubling offensive struggles that threaten their division lead, and Victor Robles earns a 10-game suspension after a bat-throwing incident during his rehab assignment.
Football dominates the conversation as college season kicks off this weekend. We break down the preseason rankings with Texas claiming the top spot and highlight must-watch matchups including Miami vs. Notre Dame and Texas vs. Ohio State. On the NFL front, we analyze the Browns' quarterback situation, Matthew Stafford's concerning back injury, the Cowboys' contract standoff with Micah Parsons, and potential trades as teams finalize their rosters.
Basketball updates include John Wall's retirement after 11 seasons and his transition to broadcasting, plus WNBA news featuring the Minnesota Lynx's dominance and injury challenges for teams like the Indiana Fever. As summer winds down and school resumes, both college and NFL football are set to reclaim center stage in the sports world.
Listen for our predictions, trade speculations, and breakdown of the upcoming football season as we navigate this exciting transition period in sports. Whether you're following pennant races or anticipating kickoffs, we've got you covered with expert analysis and entertaining commentary across all major leagues.
August 20th 2025. Welcome back everybody for another episode about sports talk. The kids are gearing up for school, we're gearing up for football. I'm Brian with an I and I'm Mike, and we are two for the win. Mike, tell us in depth what we got going on tonight.
Speaker 2:Man, man we're heading hard and fast into not just NFL football. For the win, Mike, tell us in depth what we got going on tonight. Man man, we're heading hard and fast into not just NFL football, but college football. We got week one of college football right around the corner. Same thing with NFL. We only have one week of preseason games left.
Speaker 1:And then we're looking at the NFL season starting. We can see land. Okay, We've been saved. Football's back, everybody Almost. We're not quite there yet. So close so close, so close, but first of all.
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Speaker 2:Excellent, excellent. So, moving into baseball, we got to talk about something that we hope that everybody's had a Dodger kind of weekend this past weekend, because the Dodgers we know they've been scuffling they got swept by the Angels, which nobody saw that coming. Yeah, Because normally they do pretty well against the Angels, but they went ahead and they swept up the Padres. Now, mind you, this is a big thing because the Padres had the lead in the series by a half game going into it. Now Dodgers are like, I see you, they passed them. So not only did they pass them, but now they got the Rockies, who've been a scuffling team, for a series with them, but then they go down to San Diego and have a series with the Padres again, so they have a chance to really up their lead in the division. So if you had a good weekend, we hope it was as good as the Dodgers weekend. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:But talking about feeling good, I'm kind of becoming a Dodgers fan over here.
Speaker 2:Talk about feeling good, man. The Yankees had a feel-good kind of game the other day. The Yankees were playing against the Rays and actually it's kind of funny because the Rays are playing the Rays. The Rays are playing in the facility that the Yankees used as their spring training, because Tropicana Field that the Rays normally play in is still screwed up from the last hurricane, so they're playing somewhere else. But this recent game Kind of started out like this Deep center field.
Speaker 3:Pereira, back On the track At the wall. See ya, a long home run, high off the batter's eye, 40 for Judge and a 1-0 A&D lead. That was some blast. High off the batter's eye, high drive, right field. Mangum back turning. Looking. See ya, the Yankees go back-to-back. A home run for Bellinger. It's 2-0. Bombers. Shane Boz has really been scuffling lately and he has been susceptible to the home run, has really been scuffling lately and he has been susceptible to the home run. High drive, right center field. Mangum back track wall. See ya the yankees go back to back to back and they lead three. Nothing he has been so important since his return and he has done damage to all fields. What a beginning for the Yankees.
Speaker 2:So, in case you missed it, that was Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger and Giancarlo Stanton going yard back-to-back-to-back to start out the game against the Rays the other night, and they wound up mashing nine home runs in this game, tying a franchise record in doing so. Nice. So you've got to be doing something. You've got to think about this. I think so. Think about all the really good names that have been on the Yankees, and then you tie this record with hitting nine home runs.
Speaker 2:They're kind of off and running right now man I mean dude, like you talk about a historic franchise.
Speaker 1:The yankees are one of them well, they're having a historic year right now well, I mean, some of their players are some of their players, but they're saying like they're setting a lot of records here recently well.
Speaker 2:I mean it's. It's kind of nice to see, because, whether you hate the Yankees or like the Yankees, whenever they're doing okay and they're doing well, it just makes for the MLB season a little more interesting, you know, because, let's face it, they're one of the most historic franchises in baseball. They are. So you kind of have to. You got to give them that. You got to give them that. You got to give them some love for that.
Speaker 1:Like the Dallas Cowboys, except they actually have success.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they have a lot of rings to go with that, yeah. But speaking of success, bobby Witt Jr, yeah. Just hit his 100th home run of his very short MLB career. I mean he's 100th and you said short career, so I mean yeah, he hasn't been in the league that long, so I mean I'm pretty sure this is historic in the fact that he's done it the quickest.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I don't have that stat, but I would believe you're pretty accurate there.
Speaker 2:A tip of the cap to Mr Bobby Witt. A tip of the cap. He's a good young player and he's a star for the league and I want to see him have many more years and many more home runs.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so too. I think that's very huge.
Speaker 2:So you, remember a while back we were talking about the Oakland A's and we were talking about their center fielder and all the amazing catches he was doing. Yeah Well, I guess the Giants their center fielder. Jungho Lee, jungho Lee. He's like hold up, hold my beer, hold my yeah, because catch this one.
Speaker 1:Another amazing catch here. Yes, I'm going to give yeah, Because catch this one Another amazing catch here.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm going to give you all the audio on this one, because this was a pretty darn good catch. We should start doing video. So here we go. Your mechanics are good.
Speaker 3:Not really. This is hit out into Triple's alley and John Lilley makes the catch. Did that end up between his legs? I think he caught it between the knees. He caught it between the knees, yep. I don't care what anybody says. That's the catch of the decade.
Speaker 2:So Jung-ho Lee, he goes for this ball, kind of misjudges it a little bit, and it hits off his glove, but starts to bounce off his leg and he catches it with his knees.
Speaker 1:I mean A catch is a catch, bro, exactly.
Speaker 2:Exactly Always heads up, heads up on that play. I mean, that was amazing.
Speaker 1:Knees up on that play yeah, that was amazing. Knees up on that play yeah, knees up, knees up so I brought you a lot of good.
Speaker 2:To start out, I gotta hit you with a little bad, a little bit of nasty.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying. So let's get. Let's get, uh, ratchet, that's what we gonna call this segment, let's get ratchet.
Speaker 2:I don't know how many people have played baseball growing up or just played baseball in general, but being hit by a pitch is super frustrating and it hurts. Like ideally, you want to get hit, maybe in the gluteus maximus, because it doesn't hurt nearly as bad as being hit in the elbow or the wrist.
Speaker 2:How about? Not at all? Well, I'd like to be hit, not at all, but sometimes you just got to lean in and take the hit. Yeah, Literally. Yeah, Unfortunately, Just take it, Just let it happen. Unfortunately for Mr Victor Robles, who has been in the minors doing a little rehab assignment Because, if you remember, a while back we did at the beginning of the year he had an amazing catch diving into the fence or not fence, the netting actually in Giants in their park. Yeah Well, on his rehab assignment. Unfortunately, in this game against the Las Vegas Aviators, their pitcher decided to throw up and in on him.
Speaker 1:Now, typically this wouldn't set you off. It went up and in, all right.
Speaker 2:Well, he didn't get them. But here's the thing. You wouldn't think that that would necessarily set you off. But if you look back, he's been hit like five times over, like the last week. So he's about done with. He's probably short on patience. Well, you hit the nail on the head there. He was so pissed off at this pitcher that he, tom hawk, threw his bat at the pitcher.
Speaker 1:I mean full-on, take this and threw his bat at him and then, if things don't any matter, the umpire and the ref had to get him off the field.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:He threw packets of sunflower seeds on the field as he was exiting, just took the whole box and it rained. Packets of sunflower seeds, hey.
Speaker 2:I mean that's not as bad as he threw it straight out the dugout. I've seen some meltdowns before. I've seen a guy take second base with him when he got thrown out. Some people throw some tantrums but his is kind of warranted. But you knew this was coming, buddy, he got a suspension. His suspension is for 10 games when he gets back to the majors, so he's not going to serve it now. He gets to serve it when he gets back into the majors. He's not going to serve it now, he gets to serve it when he gets back into the majors. Alright, victor, I get you. I understand it. I hate it too. When I was playing, I hated getting hit too.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You took a long, hard road on this one to figure out.
Speaker 1:It's going to be a little longer back to the MLB. Our careers are winding paths. Anyway. What in the world is going on in Astro World, bro? The Astros got shut out three straight times this week, and then again against the Orioles before that. Well, they won one of those games against the Orioles, but is it panic time for the Astros? What's going on in Astro World, mike?
Speaker 2:Well, the Tigers like Well, let's keep it in context.
Speaker 1:I mean Tigers. Almost two out of three of those were shutouts.
Speaker 2:Well, let's keep it in context. They played the Tigers. They lost in the first game 10-0. The next game, they lost 1-0. The game before that with the Orioles on the 17th, they lost 12-0. That's a little more embarrassing than with the Tigers.
Speaker 2:The Tigers are an incredible team and they're destined to be in the postseason and make a bit of a run. So, if anything, if you're an Astros fan, you've got to feel a little bit of I hope we don't see them in the playoffs. Astros fan, you've got to feel a little bit of I hope we don't see them in the playoffs. You've got to hope somebody knocks them out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they're sitting at the top of their division right now.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, detroit has pretty much been on top of their division the whole year, for the most part, yeah. But since you brought it up, let's go ahead and do a little rundown of the divisions real quick, yeah let's talk about this mess.
Speaker 2:So, as I said before, the Yankees have kind of been getting back off the snide because they were a little bit on a cold streak. But during that cold streak they got passed up by the Blue Jays, because the Blue Jays now lead with a 74-54 record atop of the AL East with a four-and-a-half game lead. Yeah, they got a little comfort there.
Speaker 1:A little cushion.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Well, not like the Detroit Tigers who you just mentioned.
Speaker 1:They have a wide lead there.
Speaker 2:They got a nine-and-a-half game cushion against that Kansas City Royals, where Detroit has a 76-53 record, and those Astros we were talking about, their scuffles, are not helping them because they only are 69-58, with a one-and-a-half game lead over the Mariners, which the Mariners made some good moves in the trade deadline and they've been panning out a little bit Mariners are hot on that ass man yeah they are, yeah, they are, yeah, they are, but over in the NL East, philly's been running it man.
Speaker 2:They have a 74-53 record Leading the Mets, leading the Mets by six games.
Speaker 1:Nobody relevant behind them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, unfortunately my Braves are tied up in that, but neither here nor there.
Speaker 1:Not very brave sir. It might have been that but neither here nor there.
Speaker 2:Not very brave, sir. Moving over to the NL Central, where the best record in baseball, Milwaukee Dodgers are 79 and 47, with a seven-game lead up on the scuffling Cubs, the Cubs have been hitting some hard roads. The Brewers Brewers, yes.
Speaker 1:Milwaukee Brewers, the Milwaukee Dodgers, some weird Frankenstein team Anyway yes, my bad, anyway.
Speaker 2:so we do need to give them a little bit of a nod though, because they just had was it like a 14-game winning streak, and it got snapped. So I mean they've been on a pretty good run. And that's twice now they have had a double-digit amount of wins streak, so they've been hitting on all cylinders. Not doing too bad there, and the reason that this is happening is they're playing baseball like baseball used to be played, where it's all about average, that's right, get on base.
Speaker 2:They're putting the ball in play. They're not striking out all the time. They're trying to put the ball in play any way, shape or form, and it's working out for them and they're stealing bases and they're getting good production out of their pitching.
Speaker 1:Just play the game, bro.
Speaker 2:That's what they're doing. They're playing it the right way. But, like we alluded to before, in the NL West, the Dodgers have the lead in the division again at a 72-54 record, with a two-game lead up on the San Diego Padres. So with this next series coming up with the Padres, they could build that cushion even more if they sweep them again.
Speaker 1:The Dodgers. Well, that's interesting, interesting. Sorry about the silence there. Yeah, now I got another interesting topic, as we're just, you know, going through the standings there and talking about what's going on in Astroworld. You know, no Travis Scott over here, but still a train wreck anyway. So, mike, I beg to ask the question are umpires the equivalent of Unreliability, as NFL refs are? And I know this is like comparing apples to oranges here, but now they're talking about Implementing. They already do it In the minor leagues. What's the name of the technology? I think it's called ABS You're talking about doing the Robotic strike zone In the minor leagues.
Speaker 1:What's the name of the technology? I think it's called ABS. You're talking about doing the robotic strike zone, yeah, robotic strike zone.
Speaker 2:I forget what the acronym for it, but it's ABS. Well, they've been experimenting with this in the minor leagues, where a batter has the opportunity to tap his helmet and challenge a call by an umpire. And it's going to be coming, that's going to happen. It's not going to remove the umpires entirely, but it's going to aid in both the batter and the umpire in getting the right calls. So it can be a good thing. But I know baseball purists are going to have a hard time dealing with it. But if you think about it, think about the last thing they changed.
Speaker 2:That was kind of drastic the pitch clock. They did the pitch clock and everybody's like, oh, what are you doing? You know, and then they limit the amount of mound visits and stuff. So people are like, oh, what are you doing? You're destroying the game. And it's like, yeah, but the game's faster now you're destroying the game. And it's like, yeah, but the game's faster now. Yeah, the games are way more exciting because there's no more this lull where you know, the manager goes out, brings in one guy to pitch to a batter and then pulls him, brings in another pitcher to pitch to that guy, pulls him and you have like four or five commercial breaks before you get through one inning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know it's like no, it's probably going to and from what I've seen, like I've seen this done Right. Yeah, it's not that slow of a process. You know, like the NFL, they've got to go over to the booth or get the little tablet and look and sit there and try to make a decision. Call up to the booth no, they look up at a jumbotron, they play the strike call and then you can clearly see if it's in or out and the ump either changes his call or doesn't. It's a pretty quick process and it's not unlimited. You can't do it all the time. You only get three right. I'm not sure on the number of them, I just know it's not unlimited. It's not like you can do it on every pitch.
Speaker 1:I think it's up to three calls or something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's kind of like in the NFL you don't get unlimited challenges.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and speaking of challenges, sophie Cunningham has got a long road ahead of her. She is out for the rest of the season with that knee injury, mike? Yeah, they already had.
Speaker 2:Kaitlyn Clark out, and now they've lost Sophie Cunningham as well. The Fever are kind of hitting a bad stretch for themselves. Yeah, it's really awful. But I will say this though Despite them having this little bit of a bump in the road, not having their top performers, they have moved quite well, still being sixth in the standings with a 19-16 record. That's pretty good when you're missing some of your big hitters.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know they just got Mercury. They just got Angel Reese's team. Angel Reese plays for Chicago. Yeah, anyway, I know they just got her back and they still lost, even with her on the court.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they've been bad all year. I mean, look, they're 12th in division, that's right.
Speaker 1:Chicago.
Speaker 2:At an 8-26 record.
Speaker 1:And I mean, if I read correctly, she dropped like 19 points. Not dropped, but she sank 19 points for the team and they still lost.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're just having a rough go. It doesn't quite have the same magic it did before and it is what it is. And she might be the one outlier on the team where she's good and the rest of the team is so bad. It's just not working. You know, I mean, the proof is in the pudding You're not winning. Like the uh minnesota links are the minnesota links at 28 and 6 are leading the wmba and looking like they're not gonna be beaten. You know, like they're they're a tough team, yeah, so we'll see. We'll see how this all shakes out with the WNBA.
Speaker 1:Now you got. Well, they're kind of. They're ahead of everybody, they're six and a half games up on people. Well, I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about the WNBA as a whole. Oh, okay, they're kind of coming down to the thick of their season here. Do you think the standings largely tell the tale, or do you think there's some dark horses in here? Some things are going to shift.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I mean the Lynx. They seem to be firing at a different pace than the rest of the league and I feel like the standings really are showing how the league is shaping up this year. Like there's nobody that's like, oh, they just cut a bad break. You know there's nobody. That's like, ah well, if they just you know, if they had this player on the court or they had that player on the court now get. That being said, I mean, yeah, the Indiana Fever losing Kaitlin Clark for a little bit may have hurt them a little bit in the win totals, but they're still not on the same level as yeah, and I got to give it up to the Valkyries because they had a rough go in the beginning of the season.
Speaker 1:They were just hanging around toward the bottom. Now they're carrying the middle of the pack. So that's interesting. And in other basketball news, John Wall is officially formally retiring from the NBA after 11 seasons played. You know he spent time with the Wizards, notably from 2010 to 2019. He made all-star team five consecutive years, from 13, 14, 17, 18, along with a seventh-place finish in MVP voting during the 16-17 season. I mean he's had quite a number of stats and accomplishments to his own name, so congratulations to him on the retirement. I know it's been easily like two years since he's seen actual NBA action.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's one of those NBA players. He came out with a flash and just kind of fizzled out. You know, like he had such a quick first step and you know the way he could, you know, with his ball handling, get around players and beat them to the dish and get that layup or get that dunk and just his step kind of, as the years went on, was not as great. He lost his step, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I mean it happens especially as you age. But he already knows what he's doing. He's going to Amazon Prime's NBA now. He's going to be an analyst, so he's stepping right into that commentator, sports analyst type role.
Speaker 2:And it's always nice when you have a plan when you step away, you hope that you're not stepping away into nothing, where you're just sitting at home going what now? Yeah, so I'm happy for him that he has figured out a path to what's next for him. Yeah, I agree, you know you're hearing they're having troubles. You know where, oh, they have issues with their family, or you know they're running out of money or whatever the case may be. You never want to hear that kind of stuff. You want to hear people having success.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree with that. So, and the fact that you know, was it like a considerable percent, was like 60 percent or something like that of not just NBA players, but all sports athletes go bankrupt in the first five years after they're done playing whatever sport they're playing.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know. I mean like there has been quite a few of them. They did a whole special on it. Yeah, talking about how players, you know they went from you know being being rich you know rich and having these mansions, to being out, you know nothing yeah, I agree with that crazy.
Speaker 1:But you know, uh, congratulations to him again and uh, let's see here, what do you think? The correlation man? We've had some notable, shall we say, outlaws in sports history, especially here in America. I mean, oj Simpson, ray Lewis, you know, have had some. So you're saying people have had brush-ups with the law.
Speaker 1:Yeah, unfortunately, you know, call it what you want Michael Vick and Aaron Hernandez himself. Now Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, the boxer, was deported as soon as he arrived in Mexico. He was arrested, I know, most notably on gun racketeering charges, but may have also been human trafficking as well.
Speaker 2:Well, this happened right after he had a fight with Jake Paul. Yep, right after that loss he had that fight with Jake Paul, which, mind you, most of those aren't fights. Those are basically a glorified sparring match where there are so many rules that you can't even hit Jake Paul and he keeps fighting guys that are past their prime. Yeah, he doesn't actually fight anybody.
Speaker 3:That's worth a darn like now.
Speaker 2:I mean he fights people once they're past their abilities and then he puts stipulations in there like what they can and can't do. Yeah, I didn't see as much as okay. Okay when he did that one against tyson. You know how many times, if you watch the tyson fight, you'd see him do an uppercut. I did not see one good one.
Speaker 1:No uppercuts in that fight he had with tyson no biting anything and no uppercuts yeah, I'm sure the bite thing was probably in the contract there.
Speaker 2:But I'm telling you, if he caught one of those Tyson uppercuts rap, I don't care, tyson can be as old as hell, but that man can still throw an uppercut like nobody's business. He knocked out plenty of guys with that uppercut.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so good. Good, but say, yeah, I'm starting to wonder like the correlation between, uh, especially major sports athletes, uh, that seem to make it to the big time one way or another, and their activity with organized crimes. I mean there's been numerous other ones.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean it's, it's well, for, for for chavez, that is organized crime. But some of these other guys, you know, just having, you know, brush-ups with the law where you know you may have flashed a piece, or you know, if, like you, murdered somebody, like in Aaron Hernandez's case, or multiple somebodies, that's not quite organized crime, that's just being a being an idiot, you know.
Speaker 1:It's just crazy to me to think about the history with some of that and, like I said, you know, oj simpson, one of the more notable, uh, one that still rings throughout history, you know, even though he wasn't necessarily an athlete when his you know shit went down, but well, former athlete, he was a former athlete but still, you know, um, so I just think that's interesting, uh, you know to to bring up something maybe we can revisit.
Speaker 2:Well, the crazy part about that Chavez story was like his agent, his own agent, is like where is he, where did he go?
Speaker 3:What happened.
Speaker 2:Oh, I can't find my client.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, there's a good reason.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's gone bro, they got him. See them guys with the van. They took him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, he's in that van.
Speaker 2:Yeah they took him away. Yeah, good luck so quick that his agent didn't see it. But moving on, let's talk about some college football.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about some college football. The kids college is already back in school, but the kids at lower levels are getting ready to go back to school now.
Speaker 2:Well, some kids, it depends on where you are. Some areas of the country they're already back in school.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some are already back in now. But you know mine goes back which by the way, don't be a dick.
Speaker 2:Stop for the bus, for the little kids. Oh now they.
Speaker 1:yeah, stop for the bus and don't speed through school zones. Yeah, they got cameras and shit out there now.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's a warning for all y'all. They have cameras. They will catch you if you speed through the zone.
Speaker 1:Don't do it. Some guy in Utah is laughing at us right now. He's like cameras.
Speaker 2:fuck this shit, oh it happens, ain't nothing around for miles, bro, we ain't stopping for nothing. Look, the buses have cameras and people still drive around the damn bus. I don't get it. Look, don't be a jerk. You can wait the couple minutes for the kids to get up and on the bus, Chill out. Let the crib midgets do their thing.
Speaker 1:All right. Anyway, enough of that nonsense. Let's talk about pre-rankings here, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the pre-rankings are always interesting because no games have been played. Season 1 kicks off this weekend I get that, but no games have been played, so they already have an idea of how they're ranking them. It's always a little like Honestly, it's not unexpected. I mean, I know they have the rankings.
Speaker 1:I mean we'll just ring down the top 10 here, but honestly it's not unexpected. I mean I know they have the rankings. I mean we'll just ring down the top ten here, but honestly it's not unexpected.
Speaker 2:Well, coming in at number ten Miami.
Speaker 1:Who I expected honestly to already be ranked pretty high, and they have a game coming up that we want to see, don't we? We'll get there. Yeah, we'll get there in just a second. Give them number nine, Number nine, now one of my favorite schools, LSU Coming in at number eight. Alabama At number seven, we got good old Oregon. Yeah, they're down a few spots from last year. I still think of Marcus Murray.
Speaker 2:Coming in at numbers. Coming in at number six Notre Dame.
Speaker 1:I expect them to be a very strong school this season. Number five Georgia.
Speaker 2:And coming in at number four, Clemson.
Speaker 1:And then number three, we got the Ohio State.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you had to go there, Coming in at number two.
Speaker 1:Penn State and then, wouldn't you know it, number one good old Longhorn Nation, Texas. Yeah, they're riding high on Archie. They think Archie's going to be the next savior.
Speaker 2:Hey, he showed some stuff last year when he filled in for yours, but we'll see. We'll see If he can get his grandfather.
Speaker 2:Well, he had a chance and I got to give it to him. He had a chance to transfer at some point because he showed some stuff last year and he looked good and if he didn't want to sit behind yours he could have left at any point. Name any of the other schools under that that might have taken him on. So for him to stay, oh, there's always somebody. It shows a little bit of his character. You know, he didn't bitch, he didn't complain, he was there. Now, granted, he had 6.3 million reasons to stay.
Speaker 1:Well, we did a story on that one kid. I forget his name, but he left that small religious school to go to a bigger school. He wanted a bigger NIL deal. He didn't get it.
Speaker 2:Then he was locked into that school. That was.
Speaker 3:Dang.
Speaker 2:You got me stumped. I remember it. I remember it. Then it turned out not to be true. His monies, his monies yeah.
Speaker 3:His monies.
Speaker 1:His monies was just promises. It just stayed where he was at. As we have said, monies, his monies, yeah, his monies. His monies was just promises, so Just stayed where he was at.
Speaker 2:As we have said, week one is coming up, and it's weird because normally when we say week one, we mean you know that weekend, yeah, in this case we mean literal week one.
Speaker 1:Week one is like two weeks long.
Speaker 2:We're going from like August 23rd all the way up to September 1st. So, it's like a literal week of football.
Speaker 1:Getting some mileage out of this one here.
Speaker 2:So Brian, I got to ask what matchup do you really want to see?
Speaker 1:Are we limiting it to just this Saturday's kickoff or?
Speaker 2:all of the time frame, all the matchups. What's the matchup that you want?
Speaker 1:to see Because, honestly, I really want to see that one. We pointed out. Where is it at? It was Notre Dame's first match they were taking on. It wasn't Clemson, was it? Keep going down, keep going down.
Speaker 2:We're going down. Sorry about the technical difficulties here. We're going down.
Speaker 1:No, oh, lsu-clemson. That's another good one, but the one I was just looking at. There we go Miami and Notre Dame. That's the one I was going to say, but I just saw so many other good matchups here Right. Which one are you looking forward to? You can?
Speaker 2:pick two. Since I picked two, I personally want to see those Longhorns against Ohio State. I think that's another solid one. That's going to be an amazing matchup that's going to be on September 30th. That's a 3-0. Or August 30th sorry, oh shit.
Speaker 1:Might be it, man. I said September. I'm so focused on the number.
Speaker 2:I'm sitting here looking at Saturday it's a Saturday game, August 30th. It'll be at noon on Fox. You can catch that game. Don't miss it. And speaking about primetime games, if you wanted to catch a little TCU North Carolina action, see Bill Belichick in his first game. That's going to be a Monday night game. Oh, Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1:And they tried to give him. I mean, tcu is a relatively decent football school but you can tell they tried to give him like a too hard school. Well, it's going to be All right. Let's ease him into this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, september 1st, monday night. Monday night game It'll be at 8 o'clock on ESPN, and the Notre Dame game against Miami. That'll be an ABC game, that's right.
Speaker 1:It'll be at 7.30 on August 31st. It makes you buy all their streaming services, so you can then get blacked out anyway.
Speaker 2:Well, no, I mean ABC, you could probably, you could antenna, I mean if you wanted to catch the ESPN games. Yeah, you're kind of screwed.
Speaker 1:You've got to have that. You could do it like the old ant races where it's all like just try to make out the silhouettes. Oh geez.
Speaker 2:I don't think that's a problem for this day and age.
Speaker 1:That was a touchdown, Sure a touchdown with quotation marks.
Speaker 2:Even the Texas and Ohio game is going to be on Fox. I mean, yeah, you can still catch some of these games. Some of the more obscure games you're not going to catch on TV Obscure.
Speaker 1:Define obscure like UT Martin and Oklahoma State, that kind of obscure.
Speaker 2:Well, like Nebraska and Cincinnati, it's going to be on ESPN. I don't think that's obscure. How many people do you know that's going? Man, I can't wait to see that Nebraska game that doesn't live in Nebraska.
Speaker 1:I honestly like Nebraska football, so don't make fun of me. I like Nebraska football, so don't make fun of me. I think you just like it because I mentioned it. Ye olde corn huskers.
Speaker 2:Anyway, let's talk some NFL. Man you ready to talk some NFL?
Speaker 1:I bleed red in corn, you bleed red because of corn. No, I bleed red and corn. Red and corn. I bleed corn. You, old Nebraska.
Speaker 2:That sounds like a serious medical issue. Dude Possibly.
Speaker 1:Anyway, let's move on into some NFL action here. You want to start first.
Speaker 2:Go ahead.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Lead into it dude.
Speaker 1:Well anyway, former Oregon quarterback Dylan Gabriel faces criticism over his recent comments. Okay, guys, I'm not sure what is it he said again. Let's pull these things up real quick. Okay, I got you, I got you, I got you.
Speaker 2:So he said you know, there are entertainers and there are competitors. I totally understand that, but my job is to compete and what I am focused on. Doing. So basically he's gotten a lot of backlash because people are starting to say well, wait a second, is he talking about Shador?
Speaker 3:Is he?
Speaker 2:talking about Shador entertainer, you know, and it's like okay, yeah, I could see where you could make the correlation. But also, at the same time he is talking to a reporter. You know he could be also saying well, it's y'all's job to make it entertaining and it's my job to compete.
Speaker 1:I think people are just really wanting to read into that. That was a really simple statement. Honestly, at first I didn't take it as a shot at Shadur, because Shadur's kind of been working his ass off too, for real.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they both have had their moments. I mean, gabriel, his pick six didn't help, but for the most part he's looked pretty good running the offense and Shadur showed us what he can do and I mean we've been kind of cycling through injuries with their quarterbacks and they've already named Flacco the starter.
Speaker 2:So this is all going to be based on who is going to be kind of at the back end of all this, who's going to be the backups. Kind of at the back end of all this, who's going to be the backups? We got Gabriel, we've got Shadur, we got Pickett and still floating around in there Watson. He's hurt, but we'll have to see what happens with that. So I don't know if Watson even factors into their plans now he's still getting over his Achilles shit yeah, and you gotta think Pickett too.
Speaker 2:He's getting over his hamstring injury, so you're wondering how is that going to play out? I think they're going to wind up trading Pickett. I mean, they talk him up. Wind up trading Pickett. I mean they talk him up, but that's probably only to get his trade price up, and you're not going to really want to trade away either of the young guys you just drafted, and if you try to put them on the practice squad they'll get picked up before they ever make it there.
Speaker 1:I think they should trade Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 2:You know, trading Gabriel would be kind of difficult because you're not going to get nearly what you did pick-wise for him. You know what I mean. Like you got Gabriel before you got Shador.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Shador was a fifth-round pick, you know.
Speaker 1:Well, he fell to fifth, but if he had just taken part in the pre-draft evaluations, I feel like maybe he would have gone slightly higher.
Speaker 2:Well, I think if he would have treated the interviews a lot more professionally. Well, yeah, that as well, Because let's face it for what it is. What they were trying to do is get him to go to the place he wanted to go. And by butchering interviews you're not doing yourself any favor, because you know what happens A lot of these general managers and a lot of these scouts. They talk to one another and they'll come out of that interview and say, man, you'll never believe what he did.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, it's the old watering hole. Elbows that rub will trade skin.
Speaker 2:Well, you know what's crazy about this, though. Right, what's that? We're so focused on this football quarterback situation with them that we're not focused on any of the other stuff that's going on with the Browns, on this football quarterback situation with them, that we're not focused on any of the other stuff that's going on with the Browns. They have a laundry list of problems. They do, they do, don't they?
Speaker 2:For those who don't know, their rookie running back Jutkins hasn't even played a single snap for them yet, because he's dealing with charges like domestic assault charges. Yeah, so he hasn't even played, he hasn't even signed his contract yet. So they haven't even worked that out. And you got your pass, rusher, that you just signed to a huge contract. Who's having speeding issues, where he's been busted two times, you know, speeding like in excess of over 90 and 100 miles an hour, and it's not the first time. He's had like seven of them, not not like in like the last month or whatnot, but he's had quite a few of them over the years and they signed a player, low-key, undrafted college player, under the radar.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2:I believe it was Isaiah Bond.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:For those who don't know, he's facing sexual assault charges, but I guess that's probably been mitigated or cleared up, but none of this has been really discussed. I've heard more people talk about the quarterback situation the quarterback's definitely dominating, yeah less about the browns, other situations going on.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm not, I'm not wishing for for that to be the spotlight, but I'm just saying, like you know, I feel like at times the nfl does a good job of sweeping the bad stuff under the rug, like here. Don't pay attention to this. Hey, look at our quarterback situation no accountability league.
Speaker 1:It happens so often, but anyway, I beg you another question. Let's talk about somebody else's future here. Okay, I'm listening. Daniel Jones is now QB1 for the Colts. They had a lot invested in Anthony Richardson. You know what they said when they said that.
Speaker 2:You caught what they said Starting QB for the year For the year, not like he's our starting QB for now. They said for the year For the year For the year, Not like he's our starting QB for now. They said for the year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that sounds bad. There's multiple ways you can take this.
Speaker 2:I don't think any of them good, though Well, I applaud they already said, I applaud Richardson in the way he handled it when he did his presser, but I think he did the right move. He let his agent go and do all the talking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and not only that, but the Colts said that he doesn't have to quote win the QB job to have a future with the Colts. So that lets me know that maybe they don't necessarily view him as their franchise starter anymore, but they still like him enough to keep him around and try to develop him.
Speaker 2:Well, his agent said that the trust between him and the organization is fractured, Like it's not good anymore, which I don't blame him for the way that it kind of comes off. But at the same time I kind of think I can point to exactly when things started to go awry the game, when he tapped his helmet and tapped himself out.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Where he said he was tired, he needed a break. You can't be the QB and need a break on a drive where you're about to go down and try to score when you're running downfield. You're going downfield. You cannot have your quarterback, your franchise guy, tap and say I need a break. You know what I mean. Plus, let's say for what it is, they draft him for upside. He has a lot of upside. This guy in one turn can throw a deep ball right on a guy after avoiding a sack but at the same turn can sit there and miss a guy in the flat Wide and damn near throw it into another defender's hand.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, the airbender's hand. Yeah, yeah, words are hard, that's funny.
Speaker 2:But speaking of things that are hard to deal with, yeah. How about backs?
Speaker 1:Yeah, as in back injuries. You know this is ironic because that girl that fell off the stage yeah, she hurt her back and now Stafford's having back problems. Did he also fall off a stage recently?
Speaker 2:I don't know what he did. I don't know what he did. All I know is he's dealing with a disc injury and you got to be careful saying that because you might wind up like that ESPN reporter. That was like the ESPN reporter was like he had a bulging and he didn't say disc yeah Rhymes with discs. Yeah, it rhymes with discs?
Speaker 1:Yeah, anyway, with discs. Yeah, it rhymes with discs Anyway.
Speaker 2:so it's kind of weird because if you've been watching their preseason games, they're not putting Garoppolo in. Garoppolo hasn't been starting, it's been their third stringer. So it kind of almost seems like they're trying to keep Garoppolo's touches down because, let's face it, garoppolo has a history of being injured as well. So you've got a guy who has a back injury, who finally made it back to practice, but I don't care. You're going to be facing some of the best pass-rushing teams in the first few weeks and then you're going to be expecting Matthew Stafford, a guy who's known for sticking in the pocket and getting hit, to be all right with that.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I don't know if he'll make it through. Might be thinking about some backup plans.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so too. Maybe they trade for, you know, for Kenny Pickett or Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 2:Well, they'll have to figure something out. I don't know that Pickett would be the answer. Yeah, kenny Pickett might be a target that they could go after if they need to find a backup. But one guy I know they're not going to be going after is the Bears backup in Tyson Bajan. He just signed a two-year $10 million extension with the Bears. It's not bad. Hey, he might be the next guy that the Bears wind up trading in the offseason to some quarterback-needy team and he might turn into a little something. He's been looking pretty good in preseason, but we'll see how that pans out. I mean some other notable things that have happened recently contract and just player-wise in the NFL, jets acquire defensive tackle Harris Phillips for a late-round pick swap. Yeah, so he'll be a Jet now instead of being with the Vikings. Good rotational player there. Unfortunately for the Niners, demarcus Robinson is being suspended three games for violating the league's substance abuse policy.
Speaker 1:Man, these guys, usually it's always something stupid. It hasn't been anything crazy here recently.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, speaking of something stupid, how about this Micah Parsons contract situation?
Speaker 1:Look, I am dead certain. Jerry Jones will let Micah Parsons rot on his couch before he trades him away. Yeah, I don't see him being traded, but I'm just like man, he's got one year left. Let Micah Parsons rot on his couch before he trades him away.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't see him being traded, but I'm just like man he's got one year left, it's like.
Speaker 2:Terry McCord I know he has one year left, but look at it this way you knew he was a star. You could have signed him a year or two ago and be way less money than if you sign, wait and sign them now which, by the way, you sit there and you let him wait behind other pass rushers getting their deals why the hell would you wait? I mean, jerry is this is dumb business, like yeah, I say honestly, I say go ahead and pay him.
Speaker 1:He should have been paid. But if you're not gonna pay him them, I'm sure Dan Quinn wants them.
Speaker 2:That's one place I can assure you Cowboys are not going to send them.
Speaker 1:Hey, Parsons, just finished your last year. Then walk to free agency. You can go wherever you want.
Speaker 2:If there's any places he could wind up. He could wind up with the Patriots, who have a ton of cap space and could sign a big-time player because they have a rookie quarterback. Or he could wind up in a place like Green Bay where they're not really paying much of anybody. It's a young team, so he could wind up there.
Speaker 1:He's going to want to go somewhere with some prospects.
Speaker 2:Or he could wind up in no man's land and be sent to the Titans.
Speaker 1:I mean, I could even see him going to the Ravens, to be honest, with you pairing up with the Falcons.
Speaker 2:No, because they don't have the cap space to take on a contract of his magnitude. Oh yeah, they just don't.
Speaker 1:They don't have any money, but they need that. I forgot they gave it all to Lamar and Derek.
Speaker 2:It brings up since we're talking trades, it brings up an interesting situation right now. Yeah with your team. Because there was a certain player on your team, tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1:I'm a Dolphins fan.
Speaker 2:Stop your business man. Look, we all know you're a Washington fan. Look, you had a player that didn't play yesterday, or I say yesterday, the other day against the Bengals.
Speaker 1:Monday Might as well have been yesterday. They all panned together. Yeah, they just piled together, but I wonder and you know I started thinking on this I wonder was that a result of them? It might have been a result of both of these, by the way. Was that a result of them trying to shop him around and not even put anything on the field? Or we know he just came back. Well, not just now, but a year ago. He was shot in the leg, so maybe they're just resting him. Checking out that young kid. Checking out that young kid. They got Rodriguez and some other running back.
Speaker 2:they just drafted. He is fully healthy, fully cleared and, by the way, go ahead and say his name, since we've just been talking about him.
Speaker 1:Oh, if, you don't know, it's Brian Robinson Jr. I just thought everybody could read my mind through the podcast.
Speaker 2:They're listening. They're not reading. Minds If you are. Oh my God, that's some bad stuff.
Speaker 1:It's like guess that picture and it's like a super pixelated picture, but a conversation form.
Speaker 2:I feel like every time that happens, it's usually somebody's junk. Yeah, right Guess the picture I don't want to.
Speaker 1:That's why they never guess it. But we play that game, but with conversations, and they gotta figure out who we're talking about.
Speaker 2:No, I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 1:We already do that.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying so, Brian Robinson Jr is possibly a trade candidate. What would be some good suitors for him? Where do you think he might land?
Speaker 1:Well, for one, the Browns, since they seem to need some, you know, running back help, some running back help here, at least to start the season.
Speaker 2:Well, that's a possibility. And then there's also somebody in division that needs running back help that basically just picked up everybody's leftovers this offseason the Cowboys.
Speaker 1:Nah, we're not going to send them to the Cowboys. Alfred Morris did that once. It didn't work out for him well.
Speaker 2:I think that was through free agency. It was through free agency. But what about the Texans?
Speaker 1:I mean, they got that kid down there. What's his name? I know they have a running back. I forget his name. Sorry, words and names elude me tonight, but I feel like maybe he could be a good one to punch with him. What about the Bears? No, no, maybe he could be a good one to punch with him. What about the Bears? Oh, no, well, who's the Bears running back right now? They got. I am not prepared for this conversation right now.
Speaker 2:Apparently. Well, I mean, I know they have a rookie running back that's been showing up here in preseason. Yeah, which, speaking of Bears the Bears, we got our first. Speaking of Bears the Bears, we got our first glimpse of what Caleb Williams is going to look like in a Ben Johnson offense and I got to say, still pretty bad. No, it looked pretty good. It looked pretty good. I saw something out of him and I'm not talking about the passes that he made, some of the decision making he made. I felt like he made some better decisions this time around, because there was a play, I recall, where the play was breaking down. Whatever they had called was not going to work and instead of trying to play hero ball, he just dirtied it. He dirtied the pass and was like play for another down. That's something he wasn't doing a year ago, a year ago he's going to try to run around.
Speaker 2:He was doing too much, he's going to throw it up and it's going to get picked, or it's going to be batted down, or he's going to be hit while he throws it up and he's got some weapons down there in Chicago too, man, yes, he does, but Chicago might not be a good, might not be a bad place.
Speaker 1:You know, the Saints are still rocking with Kamara. Amazingly, nobody wants to go to the Saints right now. No, not right now. They're in cap hell at this moment. So well then okay, the Chiefs are rocking with Kareem Hunt.
Speaker 2:Well, that was kind of a late-season pickup for them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I don't see them using him.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, he could go to the Chiefs, but I don't know. It's fun to speculate. I mean there's tons of players Because we're coming up after this last preseason week.
Speaker 1:There's going to be a ton of players cut. The real question is if he does get traded, is he going as a starter or is he going as a rotational player? I'm thinking he's going as a rotational player.
Speaker 2:I think everybody at the running back position is now kind of rotational, where you see one guy do a series and then the next guy does a series.
Speaker 1:Yeah, now you have your 1As and your 1Bs now, or?
Speaker 2:your 1A and 2A.
Speaker 1:No 1A and 1B Sounds better. No, both as, but then that would mean you have another 1 and then another 2.
Speaker 3:You can't be 1A and 2A.
Speaker 1:They're both as Well.
Speaker 2:I like the way I do it, If you got an A on your paper and I got an A on my paper. We both got as.
Speaker 1:Okay, they were both good papers, one A and one B. That just sounds bad. Anyway, one A and two A. I mean, I guess you could do it. This is where we have fundamental differences in our friendship.
Speaker 2:I unfriend you, unfriend you.
Speaker 1:Anyway, you're not friends anymore. Yeah, that is an interesting thing to talk about if he's going to be the guy which obviously, like you just said, everybody's kind of a rotational player, I mean Aaron Glenn wants to use all three of his running backs straight up. He said Brees Hall is not for sale.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, if you're going to use all three, of course that means you're not going to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but Devin Singletary, that was the name I was trying to think of, devin Singletary, down there in the Texans.
Speaker 2:I thought Singletary, no, no, devin, they were doing a rotational thing down there too.
Speaker 1:They had a rotational thing.
Speaker 2:He was one of them, though, because they had Damian Pierce, they had Devin Sillentary and they had one other guy. I am horrible with names and this sucks.
Speaker 1:It's okay, we'll better prepare next week.
Speaker 2:Well, how about this? I got a bit of a question for you.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's shoot.
Speaker 2:How about faces in new places, like Sam Darnold? Do you think he's going to make a change being with the Seahawks? Do you think he's going to play better?
Speaker 1:He was on my buy or sell list. I am selling Darnold. Okay, the Seahawks are not nearly as well put together as the Vikings were.
Speaker 2:I mean he's going to have two good receivers. He has Jason and he has Cooper Cupp.
Speaker 1:Now granted.
Speaker 2:Cooper Cupp is not quite as good as he once was, but it's not like he doesn't have people to target.
Speaker 1:They got some tight end help. They got a little bit of running back help with what's-his-name.
Speaker 2:I think Noah Fant's going to be better where he's at now with the Bengals yeah, when he's got Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1:So I mean, maybe he balls out a little bit. You know, nobody expected him to ball out in Minnesota and he did.
Speaker 2:No, Then nobody was expecting that out of him.
Speaker 1:I say keep that fire lit.
Speaker 2:I'm going to sell right now.
Speaker 1:So you're a wait and see, I'm a wait and see, but I think he's not going to be as good as he was in.
Speaker 2:Minnesota. I'll tell you the one I'm selling on Aaron Rodgers with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm selling hard bro. I'm trying to sell now. I am out of that boat.
Speaker 2:Aaron Rodgers is a good quarterback, but you're playing in one of the roughest divisions. And look who are you throwing to DK Metcalf. And then who? I mean Pat Friermuth. I mean you got him. So okay, you got two people to throw to.
Speaker 1:This is like the Jets experiment all over again. Okay, and the only reason he didn't go to the Vikings is because he doesn't like Favre and he doesn't want to do everything Favre does, so he's going to do it slightly different.
Speaker 2:No, I think he didn't go to the Vikings because JJ McCarthy is there and they're going to see what they got out of him since they drafted him.
Speaker 1:I'm eager to see how that works out, even though I know it's not a new face.
Speaker 2:If they suck, then they'll be up there to get Arch.
Speaker 1:And the other thing, just going back to our trade conversation real quick, Trey Hendrickson, oh yeah. Where do you think he's going to land at man?
Speaker 2:You know, again, the Patriots would probably be a good spot because they can pay him, and that's ultimately. You've got to ask yourself that what teams have the cap space to pay him? Yeah, and that's probably where you're going to lead to, where he could go. And right now the Patriots got a lot of cap space. I know they spent some cap money, but they got a rookie quarterback on a rookie deal For the majority of their team. They're younger, with a few veterans. They added in the offseason to shore up some of their defensive and offensive line problems. But yeah, they're a building team and they could use them. But yeah, they're a building team and they could use them. But you know, there's also teams like the chiefs who seem to always find a way to bring in some name player.
Speaker 1:I'll make shit happen I'll throw out a new face in a new place. I'll throw out a rookie. Are you hot? Are you cold? Ashton? Jean t ashton, genti, genti, whatever I call himinty Ginty, whatever I call him Ginty, I mean, I love Ginty. It's all the same.
Speaker 2:He's walking into a good situation because that offensive line for Oakland is underrated. They're underrated because they got a very good left tackle, which is, you know, if you want to be good at any spot on your offensive line, the left tackle is usually the best one.
Speaker 1:That's usually the best one to be good at Then probably center after that.
Speaker 2:Not to throw any shade at any of the other spots, it's just generally that's how it goes. But he ran all over my Niners in preseason. But let's curve that because it's preseason.
Speaker 1:And then there's what's-his-name. You ain't facing starters You're facing.
Speaker 2:sometimes you're facing guys that are not even going to be in the NFL.
Speaker 1:And then there's a what's-his-name, a Marion Hampton, with the Chargers. Yes, we were hoping we had high hopes for Judkins. We'll have to wait just a little bit longer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Well, he hasn't had any reps yet, so who knows how long you know, but it's all. This final week is where all of the teams start to round out and figure out who's going where, how it's going to look.
Speaker 1:Get one last look at, maybe players that you're on the fence about.
Speaker 2:Not just on your team, but but this is where other teams go over and they look and see case in point, Like Tinsley, the wide receiver for the Bengals that kind of showcased himself the other night.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:They see players like that and they go, hey, if they ain't picking you up, come on over here, we'll put you over here. They ain't picking you up, come on over here, we'll put you over here and the Bengals' other receiver, los Vallas.
Speaker 1:He had a similar showing when he came out Pre-season. Boomer, yosevash, is that how you say it? You mean Yosevash Losvallas, losvass, or however you say it? Anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a difficult name. We suck with names. You guys have figured this out by now. Maybe it's Yoshibosh.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I know a lot about football, but I don't know people's names very often. Point being, if you just look at the player tracker, you're seeing players cut and moved left and right already. Yeah, by the end of next week, when all the preseason games are finished, they've got to cut down. Yeah, next week, when all the preseason games are finished, they got to cut down.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They got to get down to their roster and people got to make some tough decisions. Yeah, and it's going to be interesting because this also brings into the trade conversation where players they're going to be like all right, we're kind of five deep at wide out, we don't need five wide receivers, all right, trade one. Yeah, let's see what we can get for them. You start getting these teams that have been blessed by the injury bug or cursed, however you want to look at it. They start looking around going we could use him, or maybe their offensive line needs a little help, and you're seeing somebody getting cut or being pushed back to a practice squad. Yeah, we'll pick them up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and there's been a handful of player movement already, like I said, not just cuts, but trades too, some of them we didn't even mention here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I mean we're not going to run through all those. I mean, Lord, you guys can look that up for yourselves.
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