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Gronk and Jules React to NFL Week 1: Bills Take Down Texans & Bears Drop 59

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Gronk and Jules React to NFL Week 1: Bills Take Down Texans & Bears Drop 59

The NFL season kicked off with high energy and dramatic moments, emphasizing the unpredictable nature of early-season outcomes. A key theme is that every team has a realistic shot at success, backed by historical data showing last-place teams have won division titles in the following season. The Buffalo Bills’ victory over the Houston Texans, fueled by Josh Allen’s over 300-yard performance and a strong defensive showing, hints at an AFC championship preview. The Carolina Panthers delivered a record-breaking offensive performance with Caleb Williams throwing for two touchdowns and rushing for more, validating Ben Johnson’s goal of building a historically high-scoring offense. Meanwhile, the Detroit Lions made a stunning overtime win against the Saints, showcasing Jameer Gibbs’ speed and Dan Campbell’s energetic coaching, signaling a revival for the team. The Patriots’ loss to Seattle, attributed to quarterback Drake May’s impatience and lack of depth, underscored the challenges of playing on the road against a strong defense. The 49ers’ dominant win over the Rams highlighted key contributions from Mike Evans and Trent Williams, while also revealing Rams struggles. Fan engagement and internet memes, including fake retirement news for Aaron Donald and humorous player takes like Romeo Dobbs in a Darth Vader helmet, reflect the excitement and entertainment value of the season. Overall, Week 1 demonstrated that while results are inconsistent, the potential for underdog stories and high-impact games remains strong across the league.

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A possible AFC championship preview in week one, an OT shootout in the motor city. The Iceman Caleb Williams caught fire and Carolina. And of course, we react to the Patriots' loss on opening night. And that was our rough one. This is week one in the National Football League. Man, we're here. Well, before we get going, Joe, as I just want to talk about how every team has a chance going into week one. Every team has a goal. Every team, every fan base has hope that, hey, our team is going all the way this year. We're going to make the playoffs. We're going to possibly make the Super Bowl. And there's so many reasons to back them up. Every single team looks good on paper. And, hey, here's a statistic that you probably don't know. In the past. In the past 20 years. Why it's backing up? Why I said every team has a chance. In the last 23 years, 20 of those seasons. A last place team, at least one time. A last place team in their division ended up landing in first place the following year after they became in last place. So, hey, that's the statistics last year. The New England Patriots did it. The Chicago Bears did it. And the Carolina's Panthers did it. They all were in last place the prior year to winning it all last year. So, hey, who's going to be the possible teams that do it this year? I said it earlier in the NFL kickoff show. The Fox Sunday show that I believe the best team to have the best chances to do that. The two teams out of New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings. Hey, and both of them kind of balled on. I know the Saints didn't win today, but they balled out the Minnesota Vikings showed. Hey, they could possibly be the worst of first team in their division this year. Worst of first. Well, let's let's jump into it. Then we're going to start with our six favorite games of the week. Don't worry. We'll get into the rest of the slate. Well, let's crack open the six pack of the best games of the week. Let's start off with this Buffalo and use your shirt off. No, no, no, I'm not taking the shirt off. I mean, I saw you yesterday. We're at your pool, man. You're looking jack. You're looking boxer ripped right now. Man, the six pack was popping. It's, I mean, I know you're walking a lot playing golf. What's going on? And I'm lifting and lifting. I mean, you're looking at, but we're talking six pack of games right now. Six pack again. All right, keep the shirt out. I'll take my shirt off. You got like a six, you got like six like bricks, bro. Yeah, well, you're two six six six six and you got a six pack. It's pretty impressive. We also ate a lot of food at your house yesterday. And let me tell you I was full. I barely ate anything yet today. Because I had what I think I had two and a half subs at your house yesterday. Probably shut up. You got it. Ooh, that's good. You got it. Oh, delicious. Oh, in the cake cookie and the chocolate. Black and white, black and white. Oh, the black and white. Black and white. All time tastes like cake. Also, the bread put in had all of that. So I didn't need to eat there's bread pudding. Where was that? Yeah, put that in there. I don't need any desserts. We're trying to get you Jack, Jack, okay? Boxer. We'll take boxing. I know. I mean, we need you ripped. I know. I know. No bread pudding for you. Only my body can follow all that. Let's jump into this six pack. All right, let's go and lose our six pack. Let's go down to the lone climbers state. We got a possible AFC championship preview. Buffalo wins this thing. 3631 on the road. Jules, what did you think about that one? Man, I thought this was a very impressive win. Gronk said it in the pregame show. Josh Allen has to put the cape on for this team to win. And that's exactly what he did. I mean, I picked, I picked Tennessee to win. And Tennessee made it hard all game for the, the bills. But you know, you didn't pick Tennessee. Jules, you're a little confused. You picked the Texans Texans. Yeah, the huge Texans. Exactly. That's what I mean back in the day, though, wasn't the Tennessee Titans. Weren't they in Houston? That's why you see that. There we go. A little confused and there we go for each other. That's why we're here. It's been a long day, but we're here to correct each other. Jules, it's okay. You did pick the Houston Texans. I did too. I said if they ball out on the offence inside of the ball, well, then they're definitely going to top the Buffalo bills, you know, in this game. But hey, the Buffalo bills that Josh Allen put that cape on. And he was Josh Allen. I said that had to happen. He had a lot of pressure on him, but he's still performed at the highest level that he needed to. I mean, what, over 300 yards, two touchdown passes thrown. I mean, he ran also for two touchdowns. That's what Josh Allen needed to do, but also James Cook running the ball, you know, up that A gap, up the B gap. He didn't really run that well, though. Yeah, but he started off. No, I have him on my fantasy team. No, he didn't. No, he didn't. I heard you got me 14. He got me 12 points and I got smoked. You're correct in me now. No, I'm just saying, but I'll tell you one thing about the Buffalo bills. That defense align looked like it had a little. It was the most pressure I saw the defense align for the bills having a while. I mean, CJ Stroud gets sacked, sack fumbled to end the game. Like, we haven't seen that from the Buffalo bills, which, you know, with the hiring of an offensive-minded coach, you would have thought that the defense would have. Nah, the defense looked pretty dang good. They lined up a lot of points. They did, but I mean, they needed to make the play. Two touchdowns, but why do they need it to make the play? They needed to make the play. Hey, that might be a different Buffalo Bill scene. We're looking at this year. And look at the bills and the right. Look at, uh, usually one of the defense needs to make the play for Buffalo. They don't make the play in the prior year. So now they made the play, but it was also to take ways. Hey, it was also very CJ Stroud and CJ Stroud ended the game in the most CJ Stroud way possible. Yeah, it was again, it was to prove himself in big situations. But I tell you one thing in the big time moments. Houston, like, don't get your hope down. You had my gumbry who had three touchdowns. That was a huge addition. In addition, he looked great out there. They needed that there were seven for 16 on third down. That's not terrible. They were two for two on fourth down and they were four for five in the red area. They played pretty solid offense. You just have two takeaway. You have two turnovers. Look at that time. That was the game. Look at the time of possession. I mean, you know, you look that that's tough. That's tough. When you look at that box score and you said we got 36 to 23. We got four for five in the red area. Seven for six and we lose the game. That's bad. But what about on the Buffalo side? Dalton, Ken Cade stepping up. You know, he's a big game. You know, the best game of his of his career. I would say 130 yards. I mean, five catches. I mean, that's phenomenal. If the bills want to perform at this high of a level, Dalton, Ken Cade's going to have to play at that high old level on a weekly basis to help out Josh Allen. Whenever you have a reliable tight end, I mean, Josh Allen with a reliable tight end. I mean, Dalton, Ken Cade's in his third year. No wonder why he's performing at this high level. He's starting to feel the game more and more. It makes sense. He's got a lot of potential. And he made a big play on Lassiter. That was it. Did you see that play that? It was like a scramble play. He hits hits it and Lassiter got kind of turned around. Ken Cade made the play in the little plays. Well, it was an absolute shoot out in the Loan Star State. There's no doubt about that. It could possibly be the AFC championship preview. That could be a preview. Let's move on to the next game, Joel. Let's get to the second beer of this six pack. Let's go. Let's crack another one. Oh my god. Oh my god. Potential Game of Week. Oh, it was. This was a fire power. Potential. It was game of the week. The most entertaining game of the week. It was actually the most point scored in a game and week one history of all time in the NFL as well. Raw. Cool stats stats. I mean, stats. I mean, I'm not a stats guy. But that's like an interesting stat. You know, that's something that's that's special to know. Like fans got to know that the most point score. It's just it's showing. It's backing up how entertaining this game is in a 59 piece. Almost almost to my favorite number, Caleb William. Iceman almost got to my favorite number. He was 10 off. He was 10 below it. But he still put up a 59 piece. I mean, this guy's the real deal. Two touchdowns throwing who running. I he looked he looked faster. He looked more in control. I mean, on that drive right before the half, it had a like a display of everything. But you know, he has he has a insane throw where he's run into his left and he slings the ball on the run to his left down the field. Big play. Then he he has a really great read in the play. And doesn't any takes what the defense gives him. And then he has like a huge explosion run for a touchdown. If Caleb can play like this with all the shit that they were talking before the season, talking we want to be the, they backed that they backed it up today. They sure did. You go 59 burger on opening day. That's the third highest on the road. We've ever scored. I got a stat to grog. Yeah, that's beautiful. That is a beautiful step. But what about Caleb Williams as well? Just the way that he looks. I mean, I mean, he looks trim. It looks like a like a beautiful model. Just strouting down the down the runway in the in the, you know, the outfit. What are those? I don't know where you're going. Maybe a skirt looks tight skin tight on him, you know, and that's how he looks running the ball. He looks like he's in shape. Whatever diet he's on, whatever he's doing. And not the skirt. The dress is what I'm talking about. The dress dress skirt. Yes, come on, George. You got to correct me on that. I, but there's not to screw. I mean, I was way off on that. Everyone the dress skin tight on. He looked that good. The way that he was running the ball is well, it looked like a running back. Come out of the backfield. He was fast. Yeah, but that must dash too. Stash is great. Oh my god, that's a Chicago mustache. I mean, they also had two other, they had two running backs. Swift who just got paid 138. A couple of tuds, I think. Monangai had a hundred yards and a long touchdown. I mean, this is what we expected from a Ben Johnson offense run game. And if Caleb can play within the system and add a couple of his freaking crazy plays. Look, they're going to be a, they're going to be tough. But the defense defense, we need a little help on the defense. It actually isn't what we expected from a Ben Johnson run team. We expected about 30 to 40 points, you know, maybe 150 yards rushing in 250 yards passing. He exceeded our expectations. Are you kidding me? Ben Johnson is, is like, has his offense on absolute steroids right now. He's the hottest coach I would say after, after week one. Well, that was a percent. We got to make a quick early prediction here and react to Ben Johnson's quote. He said, I want to have the highest scoring offense in history. And I want blowouts. I mean, he's he's right. He's on track. Will this be the highest one track in history? Well, it'd be the highest scoring off. All right, let's pump the brakes. Yeah, week one guys. It's week one. It's verse Carolina as well. I look. Hey, there's fine. No, there's body. They're not consistent. There's body, but Carolina look pretty damn good on offense. On offense, we talked about a Bryce Young is growing as a player every single week. How great was my comparison to him being a cell phone reception, but you know, I heard him now. I heard the reception. We got full bars. He's got full bars. He's grown as a player. He's out there. He's slinging the ball three touchdown passes over 300 yards. I mean, Bryce Young is proving why he was the number one pick overall as well. I mean, but their skill group looks great too. You know, Coker had 138. He looked freaking really good with two touchdowns. Mcmillan had a couple big plays. You know, and Bryce Young. He just seems like he sees the field. You know, he's always in control. He uses his mind cerebrally to like never make the same kind of mistakes twice. Look, they had three turnovers, but I thought they played pretty dang well on offense before we get to the next game. I just want to say to have that confidence to say, we want to be the highest score in team. We want to blow out teams and you back it up in week one. I mean, you got to be feeling yourself. You got to be feeling good. Who do they got that type of confidence? That's what they got in a soda. You want that. You want to feel like that. I mean, I'm not really knowing. Hey, the best feeling in the world was, hey, I'm going to ball out this game. Watch me. And then you go out and ball out and you back it up. Hey, you're on top of the world. If you can keep that feeling going throughout the whole year, the NFL is so up and down. But if you can stay on that uppity, up, up, up. Let me tell you, you're going to be ahead of a team. Yeah, but when you stay too up and he up up up, like you just said, the football guy to slap you down. That's why I said, that's why I said, you got to float with that line. Stay up with it. If you can stay up there, Jules, it's going to be something you've never seen before that. All right. But like you just said, it always does smack you in the face when you think you're up here in the football world. So, hey, they'll come down the real life, you know, eventually, but you know, let's live it up. Let's enjoy it. Hey, defense had a couple takeaways again, too, which led the league and takeaways last year opportunistic defense opportunistic and they lost guys and they're still figuring out ways. Speaking of that division, let's go to Detroit in a crazy overtime. This is a great game. Our first overtime game of the season Detroit 31 New Orleans 30 big comeback from New Orleans wouldn't quite enough. What'd you think of this one? Well, before we get into it, let's talk about the overtime rules because I was a little confused. I was like, how did Detroit win 31 to 30 in overtime? Well, I guess they switched up the overtime rules because I thought, like, super ones now, if you went and I want to know when they switch up the rules, because when a team usually goes down and score when they have the first possession and overtime, the game's over when it's a touchdown and field goal usually, they went to Super Bowl overtime rule for everything. Now it's a Super Bowl over and did that. That's why I implemented that's why they gave the ball. And okay, and did that rule get implemented? They're implemented this year. Okay, then that makes sense because I think we talked about it at our FOX seminar. Were you sleeping? I was sleeping. I was tired. I came from Europe to the FOX seminar. Okay, that was a 16-hour flight to get back to LA. Okay, so I was like, wait, like Detroit, they went down and scored a touchdown. How did New Orleans get the ball back? Because they implemented that rule. And then New Orleans went for two to win the game, which, hey, I like that play. Yeah, New Orleans, New Orleans shouldn't have been in that situation to even be, you know, a possible chance to win this game. Because I think Detroit's that much better every team. And when you're in that situation of not being the best team on the field, you always go for two to win the game. Yeah, it was, you know, the mental toughness that shook showed in that game early in the game. I mean, early in the game, they didn't look that good. It was 21-0. Wasn't it? It was 21-0. It was 21-0. And then he comes back and that's what you want to see from a quarterback. You dropped the year before you had a strong end of the season. You know, I mean, they didn't win the game, but they weren't supposed to win this game. Yes. Well, let me tell you this. They're actually in first place in their division right now as well. And like I said, everybody has a chance in IC, New Orleans, a possible team that could go from worst to first that I was talking about earlier. How are they in first place? Because they're in first place because everyone in that division, they played the Packers. Minnesota isn't. Oh, yeah, I'm thinking of the line. I'm talking, hey, I know we get a little confused been a long day, but the NFC South lost every single game. It's one of the weakest divisions in football. And I'm saying, hey, if the Saints can win 8, 9, 10 games, that's all they got to do. They can possibly win that division and go from worst to first. So, congratulations to the Saints for being in first place right now. No, but it was it was definitely a good game. But are the lines back? The lines, you know, shall be back. I like that performance on the off and side of the ball. Who I just really love as a player. One of my favorite players to watch in all the football right now is he's just so flashy. He runs with power. He runs with speed. He does it all. He's a three down back. And that's what I appreciate. Complete football players, you know, Jules, you were a complete football player. Hey, if you needed to be asked, hey, play special teams, you can play special teams, defense, you can play defense. Hey, we need you in the backfield. We need you line up and slide. You were a complete football player. I was a complete football player for my position. And Jameer Gibbs is a complete football player for his position at the running back position as well. And that's why I love him. And he's so flashy. He's got the moves. And he can take the ball to the house at any time. And Jameer Gibbs is the fastest player in history, the 50 touchdowns. 51 right? Another hit. One touchdowns and 50 games. Yeah, that was that's an incredible stat. Oh my god. Do you now? Are you taking him over B. John Robinson? I think I am. Yes, I am. I don't know, man. Yeah. Yes. I am. B. John Robinson, unbelievable week, but just Detroit Lions and how they utilize Jameer Gibbs. He's phenomenal. And yes, I think the Lions are back. We need the Lions back. I love Dan Campbell's energy. He brings. He brings that fun to the NFL. And we got a shout out Hutch. Didn't he have two sex? He was big. And that's what they need big. He's going to have a if they're going to have guys that aren't on the field. Their best players are hurt or locked up or whatever. Hutch got to come through and Hutch came through. He closed that game. We got to talk. We got to talk about MCDC on 4th down though. MCDC didn't go for it on 4th down. They win the game. Zero for zero. I'm just saying. Did he watch the Fox kickoff show? Did he listen to me? Wait, time out. I'm confused. Who's MCDC? Motor City Dan Campbell. What are we talking about? I know I never heard of a motor Campbell. I know Dan Campbell and he's got a motor, but I didn't know it was MCDC. I never heard that kind of like ACDC. I get it. I'm totally get it. And I love it. Did they do it? I don't know, I just I don't know. And I love it. Someone coined it. I love it. I didn't. I just I heard someone say it. So then I started saying it. And also the Detroit Lions need to be back. It's kind of like a team that everyone can cheer for. Everyone wants them to be. Everyone wants them to be great. Everyone wants them to win. It's a team. All of America can agree on that. I don't know. I got to go. I got to check with the boxes. Rough. It was up there. You know, usually if it's an opening big night game. I don't know. What about matters, kid? I told I said M&M and kid rock. I said an anime. M&M. Oh, I was thinking about M&M's like the ones that you eat. All right, let's head out. Let's get to our next game here. Let's head out to the nadi where the bangles took down your old squad. Rob the bucks 3327. Robbie G. What'd you think about? I know we're on a six pack. You're talking about nadi lights like that type of beer. But now I get to talk about since the nadi. I thought you I know we're on the six pack run right now. So Jack's always thinking about beers. I used to drink that. He likes to college out of Cincinnati as 30 back. He a really good 10 bucks brewers. Innocence atty. I remember going there and visiting off topic. Good chili. Good beer. All that. It's okay. We're off topic. That's what it's all about. We can always go off topic. Yeah. We're here for you. We're off topic on the field all the time. Jules are you're supposed to run in row and then you're running out row. But when we're off topic, that's what made us so great. Long as we're on the same page. We could still read each other. As long as we're on the same page. We're on the same page. Sinergy. Tom will sit back in the pocket like this idiot running the wrong route again. But I'm on the same page. Up boom. First down. Oh my god. I remember he gave me a out once and I read a slant and he hit me. Yeah. Because I couldn't get outside. The guy was played. Yeah. He goes. As long as you're as long as he it works. What's what is he say it when you're you're very I can't think of the word right now. Like you're very like smooth with it. Like you're no hesitation. What's that word called decisive? You decisive as long as you're very decisive of what you're a mistake. Got a decisive like a boxer. Guess what? Then it's not a mistake if you're decisive. No. Yes. I tell you to Tom's being decisive on the calls right now. He was he was he was sounded pretty good. Hey, I gave him props. I had before I asked him a question. Hey, did you what did you think about that two point play by the Washington commanders to tie up the game? But before I asked him that question, I said, time I want to give you some props man. You look comfortable. It was the best I've ever seen you in the booth. And at the moment the earpiece was kind of going in and out. So I couldn't hear what he said back. I think he was throwing some shots [BLANK_AUDIO] at me. Sorry. Obviously, but it was all right. He's looking comfortable. Man, I love it, but it's Tom Brady. You know, he prepares to be the best at all. Got it. And if he's struggling a little bit, he's going to find ways to make that struggle into a success. And we learn from him. And that's how we roll to because we were, we were lucky enough to see that greatness. And, and the greatness that we saw in the field with the Bengals, let's talk about this guy. Was that defense of track, but it was decisive. That defense. What are we talking about in the kickoff show? They have four editions. Yes, in my pay, freaking Dexter Lawrence. Cook. Cook. Oh, man. Both fours. Thumb was coming out. All hard, man. I mean, that's strong. How, how happy do you think Joe burrow is right now? Very happy. I mean, if Joe burrow can have a defense the whole entire year. I mean, this Cincinnati Bengals team is going to be lethal. He's never had a defense before, but hurry up. I mean, I'm going to pump the brakes real quick. They did have some turnovers, but I believe those turnovers could have been the bucks. Yeah, the bucks. They did have the turnovers. The Cincinnati Bengals did cause them, but I believe those turnovers could have been prevented. I mean, if Baker may feel just took care of the ball, if he went down and just got sacked instead of trying to be a hero. If he tucked it on the run, I mean, you know what I think over is really what I think it was. What was it? I think bake was so juiced. I think so, because he wants to show that they are right because he got paid that he was going extra ham on the field. You see that juke move? He had a couple juke moves. I was looking at me. I'm like, bro, you're going to, dude, settle down, settle down, bake, put that he did it again. And then he fell for it again. Oh, you're right, though. I think he was so he was so juiced. He just wanted to prove him some worth all of that 55 million. Hey, you got to appreciate that. You got to appreciate someone that cares. He just has to tone it down a little. He doesn't have to put the cape on it all times. Just protect the ball. Let the guys around you do the work, too. He has a solid foundation, a mecca, a book, Chris Godwin. I mean, Kate, I think that tight end is very solid. I mean, just let the guys around you do the work Baker and make a play when it's when it's truly necessary, but protect that ball, brother. Got to protect the ball. You got to shout out T Higgins for a great celebration. The league hasn't caught on quite yet. Did you haven't caught on? Yeah, they haven't caught on. I thought I didn't see that. What was he? No, I thought I thought that man. I didn't see that part, but I saw him do that. I was like, is he dropping the elbow? I saw a lot of elbow elbow. That's what I haven't. Yeah, you're elbow. I haven't seen that first. I don't know, like, what's that? He's dropping the hammer. He's dropping the shorts. Instruction. He's dropping the song. Dropping the hammer. He's going to the bathroom. Is that the crane? No, like the crane's knocking down the building, putting new syndrome on the crane. What is it? The crane? I'm confused. I don't like, that's what that's how I took this celebration by T Higgins there. Yeah, we'll stay confused on this. Who knows? But it was great. I mean, dropping the elbow, dropping the crane, whatever it was. Oh, boys, let's go back. Quiet night for Jamar Chase. I know. Didn't he know? I mean, they still won. They still won. That shows that defense. Oh, they sense the batty bangles can be very dangerous. Jamar Chase, two catches, 12 yards. It's not overreact. It's, it's, it's, it's week one breaks. Yeah, he's pumped the brakes. Yeah, you got to pump the brakes. But hey, what about other guy stuff? You know, like, just Jackie, they got to tie it down. He looks smooth. He was running Chris Routes. Like, he always finds a way to get open. Yeah, but that he was, he was, he was looking phenomenal. It was one of the best, I've, the one of the best games I've ever seen on, but how, how decisive he was. Let's get back to how, how crisp his routes were, how easy it was to read him with the way that he was running. They're on the same page. Yeah, same page. Joe Burrow. Let's head back to Wednesday, boys. Oh, Wednesday night football. Tough one. Super well rematch. Patriots go into Seattle and fall 13 to 10. Fellas, what do we think? Oh, man. I think, ooh, that was a rough one for the, for the Patriots. They had the game in the, you know, in the books. I thought Drake may start pretty well and he was, he was keeping the offense going running, using his legs to get the first downs. I think the Seattle defense, just a game plan that they had with the blitz packages. I think it was just to, you know, to complicate it, you know, for the Patriots, offensive line and for Drake May to be able to pick up everything. And that's, I, yeah, I mean, the scrant, you know, just drop back. Drake may lost patience. Yeah, because they're not so much pressure on them. That offensive line played pretty damn good. They did. They played pretty damn good. That's a really good defense line. They're going to win a couple. They get eight, too. They'll put a lot of pressure on a lot of pressure. Still Drake said it himself. He got impatient. If you look at the end of the game, like Seattle is not going to let you throw over them, especially when your AJ Brown is not in the game. They're not going to let, do anyone go past you and and Drake got impatient, tried to force it. The last play of the game was a bad play. You know, you're supposed to get an M O R from the outside receiver. He goes inside. Eyes automatically. She go backside. You know, and that play right there specifically showed me that he's not quite there with the playbook because he saw it was middle field closed. There's one safety. He had tosser on the back side, which is two slants. He had a gaudy on the front side. If there's post safety back in the day, Tom would always make that first slant. He'd make it a D. So that's a better three-beater or better post safety beater. So he would have got a diagonal, a diagonal flat route, a flat in a slant. So there's still little things that you see that he's still has to pick up on. But like we said, this is week one. They were doing okay. They're on the road against defending Super Bowl champions. It wasn't going to be easy. The good thing about it is, they played a shitty game and they still almost won. Yes. Off defense played a pretty damn good game. I know it was against Drew Lock, but they played pretty damn solid. Yes. And Patriot fans, I'm sorry that loss of AJ Brown. That's going to hurt. They're going to need AJ Brown. He's a deep threat. He's a reliable receiver. You can't bring them like it now, hindsight. Moody, we're not inside the building. We don't have a technical parts about it. You know, so they probably should have kept them though. We won down that road. But AJ Brown, he's a huge loss. AJ Brown's a deep threat. I mean, they can't replace them as well. Shout it out. Hey, Drew Lock, hack of a game, man. You know, you go out. That's what best game of his career. Look, opening opening night, opening week in the NFL couple quarterbacks already go down. Kyler Murray. Whence comes in, gets a win. Drew Lock gets a win. Back up quarterbacks are valuable right now. I know. Is that the second most important position in football? The backup quarterback position? I don't know. I mean, they're so you can argue it. I mean, already week one, we got a Drew Lock playing. We got Carson Wentz playing. You want to win? Well, uh, and he, and he got a win. Drew Lock got a win. And these are, these are veterans as well that have a lot of experience. So that's huge. You can't just throw a rookie in there. You know, if they had a rookie going in for Seattle, I don't think they would have won that game, except they had experienced Drew Lock, who's got, you know, starts underneath his belt. So it's huge. I'm telling you, it's, it's a very important position. It is. You don't want you don't want to lose your starting quarterback. And then all of a sudden, your season's totally over because your backup quarterback is just getting paid minimum. And he just really shouldn't be there. But you just have him because you'd never thought that he was going to play. You got to tip your cat backup quarterback Anna. First time play. Call her blind, really? Brian Flory. Brian. He's got a, he's got a cool story. He was on defense for like 15 years. And then he came over to offense. Kyle Shanahan brought him in. He was doing the tight end thing. Now he's calling plays for Seattle. I mean, that's a cool story. What do you think? Brian Flory's favorite McFlurry is. Oh, oh McFlurry. When the machine's not broken. Let me tell you, I was in it's always in Europe. I mean, it's got to be worried. I was in Europe. It is. Oreo is the best. It has to be his. But I was going to go M&L in Europe. Nah. And they make McFlurry's with gelato there. No way. Yeah, it's, it's top of the line. What? Yeah. So good. Where? What country is this? Uh, in Italy. Oh my gosh. With gelato. Yeah, with gelato. Yeah. That's how they make their McFlurry. It tastes a different. So good. Real. Better than any of ours. We got over here. Chef. Man. I don't worry. Yeah. I'll bring you guys. My road. My road. I mean, you know, put them in the cool and bring them back. I like that to put a bow on this Patriots game. I think the patch are going to be all right. It's going to be hard. I was going to say you got to. No, they're going to make the playoffs still. They got a solid team. Their defense looks solid. Why are you looking at me? I said they're going to make the playoffs. You looked at me like, you want to get locked out of this facility. Again, Jules. I know. How? Because you just looked at me like they're not going to make the playoffs. No, I looked at you like, I mean, I think though, of course, they're going to make, I still think they have a shot at the division. Maybe who knows? They do. There's no doubt about it. No. All right, let's get on to the next game here. All right. What is the six pack? This is a six pack. This is a six and fun feeling a little tipsy on the on the first five, you know, cans of the six pack. Let's go down on empty stomach down and down. Oh, man, Sam Friend put on a classic San Francisco defensive performance 27 seven. Wow. Right him. Right him. What a game. What do you have to think of this one? Jules. This one's for you, man. You know what? I instantly thought after the game, well, the travel plan for the Niners looked like it worked better. I mean, put it ahead. I don't care what you say. They have way more energy. They had juice. They had juice. The 49ers did have juice. That's right. They had a lot of juice. I mean, put if the Rams won, then everyone would have said, but they didn't. But they didn't. They looked tired plans, but they didn't. And they looked tired. Okay, that's the case. They didn't. Rams looked tired. And the 49ers didn't. They were playing with high juice. the linebackers were hitting the holes at full speed. They're tackling well. And across the board, everyone was wide awake for the Niners. I tell you, they played with the chip on their shoulder. They sure did. That was so big. They've been hearing all off season about these LA Rams. I bet you that whole division's been hearing a whole lot about these Rams. And they went out and played possessed. Fred Warner, like he had those two punch outs one takeaway with it. All their superstars made big plays that were hurt last year. Kittle was big in the run game. Had a couple big conversions. Mike Evans. The addition of him was huge on third down. He had three conversions and he had a red area touchdown. They haven't had a traditional X. I don't for a long time. They haven't had like a guy that you said that you could say on man coverage on the backside go win in a long time. And Mike Evans could do that. And they struggled recently in the last couple years in scoring in the red area. And they fixed their problem with Mike Evans. He's a right area. He's a beast. Just toss it up to him. But you also got to give a shout out to the San Francisco 49ers left tackle. Just going blank real quick. What's his name again? Joy and he's all pro. First name. Trends. Trends. Trends. How did I go blank? He's in my put it this way, bro. He was in my draft class, man. I'm not playing. I'm here talking about him. This guy is an absolute savage. He's an absolute loop beast. He overcame cancer before in his lifetime while he was playing when he was on the Washington Redskins at that point. Now, now, now the commanders, but this guy, you know, he put on miles Garrett stat line, absolute zeros across old style. He's getting started on his. I know, but he's getting started to be to Trent Williams, just being absolute dog out there. He's one of the best offence alignment. He's a guaranteed first ballot hall of fame or in the future. This dude is just an animal out there and just doesn't get enough credit. Trent Williams, man, keep doing what you're doing, man. You're older than me. You're still playing. You're still stronger than me. You're tossing guys around. You're tossing best defensive players around as well in the field. Whatever you're doing, give me a call and share, man. I want to know, dude. And you got to get, you got to shout out Brock party. Brock party looked like the raining MVP boy, didn't he? I mean, he sure did. He was smooth. He was processing. He climbed that pocket a couple times. He had three touchdowns of three different receivers. He got his little swag, Duggy dance that he does. And he, he's quick and fast and he's a thick little Joker. Like, you know, he, he's 220. They say, and we were talking about it yesterday as well. Yeah, Brock party is one of the best quarterbacks in the league that can process a defense. Yeah. There's a lot of quarterbacks that can scramble, you know, and the, but they can't, you know, process a defense. That great boy. Brock party's a guy that can process what's going on? How to operate? And that's what makes them a pretty, you know, style quarterback. It's sad that they lost their receiver. What's his name from Ole Miss second rounder, second round pick of rugby. Stribbling. Yeah, they, they lost him. And then the Rams lost Miles Garrett. Miles Garrett. Tough. Aaron Donald will be coming back soon. They'll be all right. I think the Rams, honestly, on the way back, we'll see how this all unfolds about the schedule, because I think they're going to be better for the next week, too, probably then what the Niners exactly. Well, that's how we'll truly determine who had the better. You got to, you guys all two weeks. Once we see how these teams do in the next couple of weeks as well. But, Joel, here's a question for me before we get on to our next segments. Shall there be another game in Australia, man? I think so. I thought the stadium was electric. I thought those fans, like they understood the football culture. They have Aussie rules football, which is kind of similar without pads. So I think they kind of like it. I thought it was a cool experience. The Niners, they went out there early and seemed like they had, they enjoyed the whole process. The whole stadium was all ninered out because that probably, I mean, how many, how many foster beers do you think kiddo drink on the way home? Probably 20. That dude is an absolute savage. They had no Wi-Fi either. No Wi-Fi. I think there was no Wi-Fi. Oh, I mean, shot out the kill man. I think no Wi-Fi for the real. That's, do you imagine? No, no, no, no, that's why I would have to get in your Wi-Fi. Oh, I mean, hopefully they had movies on the plane. Yeah, but I mean, you can download the movies prior to 2026. Well, talking it to you now, I'm after losing the game. They're on their, they can't be on their phone. They probably don't want to be. Trust me, they didn't want to see the feedback from that game. But also being in Australia, I only saw positive feedback from Australians, from all the kangaroos over there, from all the big unit, you know, people that are all the qualifiers, all the animals, all the snakes, only positive reviews about the NFL over in Australia. I think that's why I shall go back again. And now this time, both teams traveled like 10 days prior to the first game. So everyone has energy. It's two days before. Come on. I thought the ramp. I thought it'd be fine. I thought it was going to be fine. I was rolling with. I watched that, I was like, man, that traveled in. Look, it's not looking good. Pretty awesome. We're playing football in Australia now. And what a game it was. Didn't you go to Australia last year? I did. And it was absolutely awesome. I was hanging out with koala bears, kangaroos, ate some veggie might. Yeah, veggie might. Yeah, I know. And I saw some awesome sites in Sydney. Did you get a shrimp on a bobby? I did not. I don't even know what you're talking about. I think that's like an Australian thing. They get shrimps. And they cook them on barbecues. And I was trying to do it in Australia. And I said, yeah, it didn't quite work. No, no. Well, there's one thing I'm just walking around. They don't really know who I am in Australia. It's really cool. I just glaze the streets and do my thing. But a lot of people walk up to me and they go, Oh, you're a big unit. You're a big unit. Are you playing basketball? Big unit. You are. Is that your old show in accent? Yeah, it makes me feel proud that I was being called a big unit. I love to go back for a game. It's a good reminder for fans traveling for games and it's a great opportunity to list your place on Airbnb. You're so smart, Jules. It's a great call for fans who want to help pay for that long trip. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at air bnb.com/host. All right, fellas. It's time to see what the chatter is like around the internet for this week. Step into the meme corner. The meme corner. I like it. We know we know the the rams on the travel back. They can check out these memes. No, that's good. You don't want to see these memes. Speaking of that, oh, speaking of that, especially this first meme, Jack, what do you think? The old NFL memes account put up a fake breaking news announcement that Aaron Donald after the game would be re retiring. What do you guys think of this? Are you sure it's fake? Oh, yeah. I mean, this isn't what he signed up for. He signed up to play, you know, alongside Miles Garrett. He's going to play alongside Miles Garrett in like three weeks. Yeah, I mean, he's out in four weeks, four weeks. Yeah, I was about five weeks. So yeah, I think this was kind of funny. When do you think we'll see this is kind of funny? That's weak or two. I don't I was looking at that classic. He hasn't even played a game yet, and he's already re retiring. I mean, that's pretty funny. The internet is unbeacon. NFL memes is pretty good. They're pretty gnarly. They don't get oh grunk. But they're pretty good. They're real rock. It is ghetto grunk. Yeah, but also, hey, it's not too late to retire, Aaron Donald. You can give that $20 million back. Yeah. Oh, right. Oh, it's not too late. You can change your mind. He can be like, you know, something I thought I was I thought I was going to be in love playing the game of football again. I just not feeling it. And that's why I'm just going to step away before I step on the field. He's going to do the, he's going to basically do what the Ravens did with next cross. And I'm good. I'm good. But no, he's as far in now. Yeah, he's probably in the building. Yeah, I was insane. They tapped on those shows back to Vegas. But I'm super excited to see what he's got. This was a fun. Oh God. Next up, rough night for our boy Romeo dobs. The boys that pardon my take gave him the Rick Moranis treatment, put him in the, uh, the oversized Darth Vader helmet from space balls with the Patriots jersey on there. That was, that was brutal. I when you have a tough night, everyone goes right at the Guardian cap. It was hate to see it when you when you have a tough night, just shut off your phone. Yes, I can tell you that that's what I do. That's what I do sometimes on on the Fox Sunday show. Like I have a tough day. I don't even look at my phone. You never have to. Some of the Guardian cap. Some of the Guardian caps don't have the right color or the helmet though. Have you noticed that? You got to get the shades right. The shade is I know a lot of it looks pretty good. A lot of it is good. It looks almost tighter. I think there's a helmet that has the same safety ability as a helmet with the cap on. If you work it right out, get in the comments real quick. Yeah, shut or explain what's going on in this meme though. I I never really seen space balls before. It's like a parody of Star Wars. It's a parody of Star Wars where he's oversized helmet. And what's he doing? Like he's kind of hiding in this meme. No, he's Darth Vader. He's Darth Vader. But they're just overexaggerating. Yeah, they're like Romeo Dodgers helmet. What are those? What are those call it? Guardian cap. Yes, I mean, he just doesn't want to get from cuss. It's understandable. It does look funky. It makes these players look less jacked because their head's so big that it makes them makes their bodies look smaller. Yeah, bobble head out there. If you guys are in the locker room with Romeo, what are you saying after that? You got to bring them up after this first game as a patriot. That's a rough game to have that. So as a teammate, you're going to try to boost them up. Man, hey, we got 16 other games, bro. You're going to have a couple other passes thrown to you. So we're going to be all right, dude. We need you. Needed without agent need you, bro. You don't knock down someone that's already knocked out. You got to pick them up, build up their confidence again. And he's going to have to come out and have some solid practices, getting the trust. in Josh McDaniels to get him back out on the field. But hey, the Patriots are gonna need, need Romeo Dobbs more than ever, too, as well. And the next four weeks with A.J. Brown being out. I'm sorry for laughing. We're trying to have our nice heart to heart, but I just saw this cam scan. I'm freaking me. Just throw up our next meet. I'm sorry. Those are your bows. Oh, my God. I look like he doesn't look like a bull. The gene goes into your post. We got Kim high school bully from 20. We got Kim. Scott. I'm a winner in the game tonight and a little ton of luck here. Scott was fun. I love him. Scott looking like your high school bully from the thousands. He's got on his jorts is high top all blacks. That's how you know you mean who's jerseys and a Jackson dart high school jerseys. I mean, what do you think of that move? They got a bromance bro. They do. They love each other. Man. Yeah, looks like he's going to take your lunch for it. I appreciate him just being him, man. You got to appreciate players like that. And it's going to be a hell of a story. They're loud right now. Let me tell you the New New York Giants. They're loud, but that's fine. You can be loud. They're on commercials. They really haven't won any games. They won how many last year they're entertaining out in the field. But you know, that loudness, it's going to be a hell of a story. If you keep winning, it's going to be a hell of a run. It's going to be a lot of fun. But it's also going to be a hell of a crash if you don't win. Too loud. Are we too loud right now? I think I think you're just a little bit too loud. You want to win games, you know, before you start being in all the commercials and everything. Yeah. I see a good dog food commercial. It was. It was. I saw a different side of Kim that I'd never seen before. He seemed like I love dogs. So that's why I love him even more. And I'm hoping for their success because I want to see this story keep riding. I want to see what they keep doing, man. They bring that heat to the table. They're relatable to everyone and they play the game hard. How they are off the field as well. That's their personalities on the field. That's how they play the game. They go hard on the field. They go hard off the field. And we respect that, because that's what we did, baby. They fully are running with the new school gang. They're fully just taking it and running with it. And I like it. I respect it. Hey, man. Cowboys just tied it up. By the way, seven, seven, seven and that was really good. Five and a half. Who scored for the giant? I mean, we got the game going live right now. Yeah. Oh, scataboo scored. He's going to have more dog commercials coming, baby. That's what I'm talking about. Love scataboo. Oh, and then deck to CD to tie it up. Oh, back to CD. Okay. All right. Oh, did scat land the backflip. And he did a backflip. I think he landed it. We landed it. He's been a little dangerous. I love it. I'm a fire here, scat. My guy. He threw gymnastics. He must get or something. He must have. He's pretty explosive. Joker's at it. Yeah. Pretty explosive. Little Joker. Oh, my God. That was the meme quarter. Great week of points in the NFL. Okay. We come memes. We can get better. A, in the comment section. Why don't you guys throw the memes you want us to talk about too? That'll be the memes. Curious memes. I mean, if you want to see some serious memes, you can probably just go to ghetto gronks page. Oh, we can't use all those. No, but we can't use all what he's trying to get canceled. Oh, no, let me. Some of those are bad. We can't use them all. But also we don't. We also don't need ghetto gronks rights to use as mean because he ever asked me to use my life. How do you feel about that? So that I mean, if we're going to use memes, I think it's a, how about baby gronks? Do you see how the side of these gronks ball in right now? Yeah, ball in right now. I mean, baby gron got big. He's on the sideline for this. Where's the game? Yeah. It's either that he's two years older than these kids and his dad. No, we see him grow or he's the same age as his kids, but he's just that much more beastly and that much. He's dad. No, he was going to be big. He's dad. Well, he's a better man. It could never matter. But I mean, I mean, I'm hoping for him. I'm hoping for all this access for baby gronks. And it's going to be a hell of a story because let me tell you, I was the first one to think him back in my head. I think they're going overboard as baby gronks a kid because if things don't go the right way, it's going to be a crash course for him. Just like you said in New York Giants, like the New York Giants, it'll be a great freaking story. If you win, if you win, and if you keep it up, it's so, and like you said, football always slaps you in the face and always brings you back down to. I don't know. Hey, man, baby grog baby grog shout out me. Just yesterday, you got out baby grog. Libby done got all grog baby grog. I mean, what other grunts can we have? We got two big ones. We only got three of you. You could, who else could be a grunge? Who else? No, no, like these names. I know that deserves that. Well, I always thought you should have got a check from what is it, grog? Oh, grog. Yeah, like AI. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They even copied me, but I thought what grog at least an ad. Yeah, some sort of something super welcome. I mean, we need something from them. I mean, they stole my last name, but you know, my they dropped the half of my last name, but they dropped the end. So like, what the heck? Yeah, all these. I'm actually, there's only one. I'm five. There's only five grunks. Yes, there's not one. There's five grunks. Yes. And then there's five original little baby grunks. Yeah, there's really only seven grunk. How many? There's a lot of grunks. Oh, I mean, I got a lot of grunks. There's a lot of true baby grunks out there. But, you know, you know, they're just going to just, we like to show it, you know, not not talk about it. So they're going to be showing their stuff in the future. Trust me. They're great athletes. And I love watching them. I love following them. We need grunk for his grog and like on Jeopardy when they had like IBM Watson versus like Ken Jennings, we need that rock first. I like that. Make it happen. But also tell you the truth. Those stats. I've been dropping today. You're a rock. I'm smarter than rock. You are rock. Rock can't drop those stats. Rock don't know ball. Like you know, rock. Don't know. Come on. Yeah, rock. Don't know. No ball. Rock can't even ball. Rock ain't no athlete. Yeah, right. Not yet. Let him know. Rock don't know stats like I know. Yeah, but wait until they put rocking to one of those Tesla robots. And then they start fucking merking fools. Well, they're going to need me to start marking fools. They're going to need the higher grog give it to those. That'll rock. Yeah. You're early hope. I'm going to really hope. Let's get a NASCAR. All right. Let's go. All right. All right. Let's get into NASCAR. Jewels. All right. Let's hit the rest of the slate. Just a couple thoughts on each of these games. We got to be quick. All right. Run some NASCAR offense. Yes. NASCAR offense. Can you explain to everyone what NASCAR offense is first before we get going and what it meant in our career as well. No huddle. Go fast. Tom said it today after I believe Jalen Hertz went to the line of scrimmage after a big place and oh, they're jumping in a NASCAR. They're going fast. They're going fast. And that's exactly what it is. And that's what we're going to do for these next slate games. And can you explain in football terms how we went faster? Then we had one word. Yes. That would tell everyone what to do. So Jordan was like I was it was I see before. I see you. What's Charles Barkley? Uh, I just know. Pearl smash wheel. I don't know the formation. It was always zero on or something. It was always the I just know what to do on Charles Barkley. I didn't know. He's had the shoot. Yes. Oh, I always yeah, I always had the shoot. I could go. I had the pearl across the face of the middle safety or if the middle of the field was open. Show time. Show time. Oh, magic. That's magic Johnson. Yeah. Well, it was magic. Yeah, out of, out of magic. Yes. So that's how you condense the whole entire play call into one word. And Tom would just say as soon as someone gets tackled, the hurry up and get to the line. We can throw the defense off. So they're not. And we can catch them off guard and just go fast. We can make the defense tired as well. Because we've got to see we're in better shape. And that's what we're about to do. We're about to do NASCAR offense. But with our takes on some games. Alright, let's do it. Probably G starters off. All right. We got the Jets first Titans. I mean, the Jets beat the Tennessee Titans 23 to 10. And my first take is that Robert Sal finally helped the Jets get a win. Oh, that's some NASCAR offense right there. That's tough. Yes. Shout out, Geno. Shout out, Geno. I mean, go out and get a win. A lot of people saying the Jets were going to be really in some trouble. You know, that's a big win for the Jets. Winning any game is big. No explanation. NASCAR offense. NASCAR offense rolls. All right. That's too slow. Falcon Steelers. All right, same old Steelers. They looked just like the Steelers with Mike Tom and the Falcons. They need a quarterback. They got the weapons, but no quarterback to give it to them. Now, that's NASCAR. I thought the Steelers offense was the best that looked in a while. Yes, but kind of the same old Steelers. Now, they they they they looked it looked different. Mike McCarthy has never struggled on offense. They're yes, they got to tighten it up, but like they were spreading them out. They had a lot of crossers. Like last year, I felt like all I saw was just four verticals. Every every important thing was just four verticals and hit big Washington. The tie down fire move. That a big. All right. Next we would do the NASCAR. We ask our jewels. All right. All right. I also want about TJ Wattler real quick. That's my god. Oh my gosh. Interception. That takes me 10 or 10 surgeons of TJ watt man. This guy's showing once again, why he was defensive player of the year. And he's he didn't dominate like this last year. Two sacks interception guys on fire. He's got 10 interceptions. His career. I'm freaking crazy. That's car NASCAR NASCAR NASCAR. All right. We got the Browns versus Jaguars 34 to 10 Jacksonville Jaguars want the Browns jewels. Go Browns might be there in trouble. Todd Monkin has his hands full. That's all. That was that was a tough one. Rough tough one. Really tough. I feel bad for Browns fans for real. Yeah, because they're great fans. Great fans. They bring a lot of energy. You're still high, man. If I was a if I was a Browns fan, I think everyone should revolt against going to any games. There should be zero people in the stands for Browns. I'm not lying. They deserve. They're going to start Shadour next week. They deserve way better Packers Vikings NASCAR NASCAR. That's Packers, they need Mike Parsons back bad. There's no doubt about them. The Vikings showed once again. Well, you're not once again. They showed why I could possibly rewrite that they can go worse to first in their division. B flow. Let's go B flow. Oh, our guy. Next one. All right. Dolphins versus Raiders. Raiders 1 27 13. Raiders look like a competent football team. Yes, they look like a professional football team like like a competent football team. Yes. No doubt about that and looks like they can compete this year. Hey, it was the dolphins. That's that's car. That's car. That's car. The manners Eagles. Dolphins are your enchambles. Uh, uh, Commanders Eagles. Uh, same old Eagles. Jalen Hertz. Quite, uh, quite successful game. What was it? Three touchdowns thrown in the interception division win and they, they snuck out the win versus the commanders. Uh, I think they're the bad, definitely the better team versus commanders, but bad play call by the commanders to, uh, on that two point conversion. Thought it was good for the commanders to see them have any kind of offense. Where was scary Terry? I don't know. Digs had a pretty cool game. Welcome to DC, but like Jaden Daniels having some success. They haven't seen Jaden Daniels look like that in a long time. No, it was good to see. All right. We got the kernels versus the charges and kernels 1 26 14. Kobe. Oh my gosh. It is Justin Herbert overrated. That's the question Mark already after week one. I saw Madison beer in there. Uh, I mean, she was showing her a lot. They were showing her a lot. I mean, that was more of a highlight than the whole entire offense for the chargers. They got it. They got to figure something. I think week one new system. They'll get better. Shout out LaFloor getting his first win. I got the guy looks like he's, you know, in college. Yeah, Mike LaFloor brought her to Matt LaFloor. Little brother, little Lord. Little brother. That is. I mean, the floor family, they got. They know ball jeans. They know ball. Shout out a little jar. That's no ball. Like it's a big win. Like Grock. Dog rock. Nobody does. Grock of Grock. They don't know about that though. Last one Colts Ravens. Uh, they are dangerous. Ravens are super dangerous. And it's the Ravens. Same as that Ravens team is last year. The Ravens should have looked like that all last year as well. That's why they switch up their coach. You know that they needed that extra spark. The Ravens Derek Henry. This guy just never ages. It's pretty. Never going to slow down. If they play like they played today. Watch out. This. This might be the most lethal offense. And Derek Henry only gets better over 150 yards and three touchdowns. The guy's like what, 32, 33. He's not slowing down. I mean, RS R. What's that mean? Rest. Regular season Ravens. Oh, we did. Hey, regular season, Ravens are good. That's like record coverage. We got to be 18. We got to get to save flowers, man. He got to hit. Hey, he ran for so many yards in the first half. He pulled a damn ham. We can't even blame him. Yeah, he had other 50 yards in the first half unbelievable. Smokes look like Tyrick out there. You know, Jules, we love talking about football on Sundays, but you can't forget about the people who work to make game day happen. Seriously, you spend your whole career running into stadiums. And you don't always stop to think about the thousands of people who actually built the place. That's why I love what car heart is doing with the Buffalo Bills. They're celebrating the crews behind the game. We love the ones building the stadiums, growing the grass, making the football and well into uprights. All the people who make football possible long before the players ever take the field. And it's cool because that's what football has always been about teamwork, rolling up your sleeves, doing your job. Exactly. So here's to the workers behind the game because before the glory, there has to be grit. Check out car hearts made possible campaign and see the story behind the new high mark stadium in Buffalo and the hardworking men and women who made it possible. We've been gone for a little bit guys week one had the summer off. I was in Europe. Jules Lake all over the place. So we got to catch up on a couple things. We got crossed our desk in a little segment. We call we got to talk about. So I'll throw you out some some stories around the football world or reactor. What do you think? Let's do it. Just do a little housekeeping here. Let's do it. Come on, Jack. What do we got? First up, we got to talk about Sam Levitt's wellness routine. This one came up on the screen as a little graphic in that blow out against Clemson. I mean, this is insane. What is wellness routine supposedly is you're going to go through here real quick. Nine and a half to 10 hours of sleep a night that can include naps they stipulated blue light glasses an hour before bed. His phone has to be down at 8 p.m. F. R. C. routine. I don't even know what that is EQ flux electric wave full body flush systematic energy and relaxation bands organic food in parentheses by a chef. No micro plastics only glass. We got concentrated seawater with magnesium and genetic testing slash blood work to optimize his cortisol and stress levels. That's just bring in routine. Well, let me tell you, I need that genetic testing blood work to optimize my cortisol. I'm always waking up at 3 a.m. Walking two miles around my kitchen. Just a knock down that cortisol. Everybody. This is a little overboard your college. I mean, he's making four million bucks. I mean, I agree. You got a football now. Is it? I know so glad I live like a college student throughout my college career. You want that experience, you know, you want to live and learn. You want that college, you know, that college whatever experience, experience more than anyone in the world. I wanted it to go that overboard totally understand. I respect it. If you're really that all in, if you're really that focus, that's great for your health. That's great for your wellness. It's the absolute total opposite of Johnny Manzal in college. And Johnny, at that, he did at that age, you don't need to do that much, but understandable. I respect it. But I would have rather lived like a college, you know, you know, the college experience. The college kid, like a college kid, then doing all of that. Come on, Sam, live a little mix and a microplacic. Yeah, one Michael plastic. Maybe a donut. Come on now. Look at these guys are pro. They're pro players now. So whatever it ain't going to kill you. And next up, everyone's had to take. But we got to talk about Desion love. Now that the dust is settled. He scammed over 26 women at over a million bucks. The whole scam stretch costs four states. I mean, the internet's out of field day with this one. What do you guys think? I was a little disappointed in the girls. I know. I know. Because if you saw the videos, this guy running routes it was like, what the heck? I can't play football. I mean, that really definitely none of the girls were athletes. No, they were athletes at all. I played any sports growing up. They would have known Desion loves videos of him. You know, catching footballs that he was not an NFL. There's been a couple other other guys coming out two after my guy. I know there's been a couple. There's some rip off. There's some rip offs. There's a cowboy's guy. I mean, hey. There's a box player too. Hey, Julian, did he DM you? No, that was, that was, that was fake. That was fake. That was fake. Why are you putting out fake? Because it was, it was like to jump on the, the fun. Well, don't do that. We're jumping on the front. It was like a meme. It was like a meme. No, I don't care. I want you to know how many people hit me. You're not. That was real. Like I would. You're not AI, man. You're, you're not fake. I love it. If it's like 26 women and one former NFL player fell for. Yeah. I mean, that's what I was hoping for. I mean, who else besides? Someone like what company fell for it? There had to be a company that. Oh, yeah. You scan like the barber like restaurants, all sorts of stuff. Yeah, clubs. Even go everywhere at the helmet. The helmet gets to you. Anything. I mean, opens every door. I mean, it's just so easy not to get scam in this situation. You can just Google someone. And then just ask the question, why aren't you on Google? And then just if his explanation just doesn't make sense, you just move on. But he must have had a great mouthpiece with these people. I mean, this dude must be able to talk. No one's actually heard him talk. Not yet. But yeah, this guy. This guy must have game. There's about to be. He's got to have a TV show. Yeah. I'll be a TV show. The love guru with they love a days on love dating show. That could be something. You're right. Yeah, days on love dating show. Yeah, my goodness gracious. And next, the catch a days on love. There we go. There we go. Bachelor. Here's our guy. We got to talk about that. That's your guy. That Texas game over the weekend was insane. First off, I mean, the comeback was insane. Well, we have to talk about this lineman that stole the show 69 with the knife. Who is this? I mean, Texas. He's the red shirt. No, he's a junior. Why isn't he dressed? How is this guy not a dog? How is he not a starter? I mean, there's a disappointment. It says on his bio. He's an office alignment and his weight is 268 pounds. First off, that's he's way underweight. And second off, if you're 268 pounds, go eat a burger and be 269. I mean, if you're going to change that a couple of pounds, you could you could lie one pound of. I mean, British number 69. If you're going to jump in with this, you got to dive into this. Yes, I mean, I don't get it, though. The Eiffel Tower chain with the number 69. That's kind of not possible to do both of those, you know, I don't know what you're talking about. It's guy would have been a fun kid to go to school. Yeah, he should have dang it. Should we call him up? Shall we put him on our practice squad of podcasts? Maybe next week. Maybe we'll see. I don't know. I mean, but he's not playing. He's a senior on the sidelines. I mean, my guy, he stole the show, bro, I mean, his major is exercise science. So maybe he can do the Eiffel tower in San Antonio 69 at the same time, because he's defined. Yeah, he's like, I'm a science. I'm a scientist of the shit. So is he. He's a senior. Yeah, he just, yeah, he didn't play any last game or last season. Didn't get in on this game. I got to see what that's definitely one of the boys that is that is Eiffel. That ain't real, though. is it? If he's a senior, not dressing up, he ain't getting paid. He's got something. I'll deal something. No. Come on, bro. Now, if you're, if you're dressed, if, if you're a senior, and he's not playing, obviously they respect the heck out of them. I like him on them on the team probably. He's obviously a great team guy. He's a blue guy. A glue guy. He's a glue guy. Keeps the team together. Rocks everyone with jokes, you know, probably works hard on the, on their whatever, practice squad or scout team, whatever it's called, show team in college. And you got to keep them around. Keep, keep, keep, can't hide money with that chain. Life, lively. Would you guys think of the comeback, though? How about arch? I mean, that was on that was on real unbelievable. Great comeback. Definitely, it just got already drawn 28. Our chat some hiccups throughout the game, but you know, he showed that way. When the game's in the line, when it matters most, that final drive, he went down there and did what he needed to do. And that was his biggest moment in his college career. That was a huge moment, though. That's a big moment. That was a finding moment in the nation, right? It was on the state number one. And Matty P, like that defense at the beginning, first half was looking unstoppable. Unbelievable. They couldn't get anything going on. Oh, arch. Look at the score bug. Look at you. You got the three. He's got the Brady, the Brady down. That's right. Look, he sure does. He's studying how to act when you're down. Yeah. Who wants to study that? Hey, it worked. Shout out, arch. Man, all right. Glad we caught up on some of those stories. Yeah, the big stories got to catch up. Well, okay, never mind. I'll say it. No. All right. Should we move on to game balls? All right. Let's go to game balls, but a long day for me, guys, I'm getting tired. Let's hit the game. We're on game balls closing it out. All right, we're closing out. Let's do it. First up, employee of the week. This is the guy. Your favorite, just individual guy. That's performance of the day or the week. Employee of the week for me, Caleb Williams, man, that was, that was a, was a fun game to watch. That's what you want to see out of your offense. Week one 59 points. Man, I love that. He threw it well. He rushed it well. He looked fast. The whole embracing the Chicago culture. That was a fun, cool win, man. That was, that was big time. And he's going to draw viewers in because of the way he plays a game. It's special. It's entertaining. That's what people want to see. Just he's electric. And when you're electric, you know, that's, that's, you know, that's a special trait to have, you know, people are going to tune in just the city of Chicago. It's going to, is absolutely is head over heels and got it Williams got to be. And for my employer of the week, I mean, I, I talked about them a lot already earlier in the segment, which are me or Gibbs. I got to go with them. I mean, he balled out. Oh, can I not great pick right there? He absolutely balled out. 156 yards, two TDs rushing. He, he contributed in the past game as well. And like I said, I just want to reiterate it one more time, fastest player to 50 touchdowns in history. It's 51 touchdowns currently because he scored two in this game and 50 games. I had to reiterate that again, because that is special. This guy is a special town and he, and just like head Williams, he's electric as well. And he's fun to watch. He's fun to watch. And it's going to be a hell of a game when the Detroit Lions face the Chicago Bay. They face him twice. Twice as well, and that's, and another reason why it's going to be a battle. Ben Johnson came from Detroit. I mean, this rivalry is getting more special as, as, as it goes on. So much drama in the NFC North. Oh, drama in the LBC. What's our next one? We have rough Monday incoming. This is kind of the flip flop of that. Who's going to have a tough Monday? Oh, and we all know like as former players. Let's, let's, let's expand on this. If you go in and you had a rough game, that Monday morning, when you're watching the film with the team, it hurts. That is like, you're sitting there praying to God that maybe the film guy didn't get that one or two bad plays. Oh, they never miss. No, they never miss. The eye in this guy never lies and he's never gone. That is what rough Monday incoming mean. I mean, and it kind of hurts more mentally, sometimes than physically. Yeah, for real, like all those hits hurt more, but like mentally, if you, if you, like, you know, if you fail, then you had some bad ass and you had some misses and your employees are going to see it. And they're calling you out in front of the whole team. That mentally hurts. And it makes the hits hurt even more on Monday that you took on Sunday. Yeah. Yeah. Who are you going to go with, Jules? You know, you know, let me just start it off. I want you to start it off. I'm going to go with CJ Stroud. I mean, he played well. It's not going to be that rough on Monday, but it's going to be rough because they didn't win the game, but that fumble at the end was such a CJ Stroud way to lose. And he kind of left off where, you know, where he was last year in the playoffs, how he finished last season. And that's not a good start to the year. I mean, that was a chance for CJ Stroud to make a statement like, hey, we're going to, we're going to go down and we're going to make some plays and we're going to score. I'm going to show the league, you know, why I am a clutch player. He had that opportunity. So no matter how good of a game you had, if you can't finish the game, it's going to be a rough Monday incoming. Yeah. I think for me, I'm going to give a, a two for Justin Herbert and Mike McDaniel together had such high hopes going into this season. And yet you're at home and you, you get double digit loss to the cards. Oh, like that's, that's a rough one. That's like one that you don't want to go home. Do you think the Mike McDaniel magic is kind of, no, it's week one. Let's not over. Yeah, but it's a continuation from the Miami. No, it's last year smart. Do you think you like he's losing it? He came up like he used to be able to be all right. I'm just gonna be all right, but it's going to be a rough Monday morning. Okay, it's going to be a rough Monday. We'll see how it goes. Let's get on to our next one. Let's go into our next one. This is the Matthew Slater teamer of the week. Shout out slate. Who you got here? Yeah, shout out to Tyler Owens. I mean, hold on. We're only going to go with Tyler. Yeah, he got that was number one. That was an insane play to beat the vice. He was a, he's a gunner. So the gunner is the guy on the outside on the punt team that basically gets his ass kicked the whole way down the field. And he, because you have two vice guys on you and these two guys are doing whatever they can to not let you get off that line of scrimmage. He gets through the double team, beats the double team, makes the tackle crosses face. I mean, it was a really tough, great play that gives your team so much momentum when you see that. And that's, that's, that kind of play right there is when you're looking forward to going to Monday morning, man. This is what he did. Yeah, you're looking forward to. You want, you're walking in that building, what you're, you're, you're just sticking out pounding that. You're proud of yourself. And it, it looks like slate anyways, 18. It sets the tone as well as, as, as, you know, that's how we're going to, that's how we're going to be as a football team tone, tone setter, but this is what he did. He, he Derek Henry sift arm one guy, the, the vice, he did, he Derek Henry sift stiff armed another guy on the vice. He was double, he was double whatever vice, and then he went and found the returner and he goldberg speared him, WWE style and dropped him to the ground and stood over him. That's a proud moment right there. And that's why Tyler Owens is the Matthew Slater teamer of the world. Hey, wearing number 18. Is that because of slate? Yeah, it should be should be. It should be later. He earned everyone's respect. 2024 undrafted out of Texas tech. Let's forget about Tyler. Let's go. Let's go, baby. And last, but certainly not least, who gets the game ball for big old W. This is the most impressive win. You guys saw this week. Man, there's been a few. There's been a few. This is a tough one. I mean, the various Buffalo, Niners Vikings. I'm going to go with the Vikings, man, division game. Go in your quarterback gets hurt in the first quarter or first 10 plays. You have Carson wins, and you still find a way to win the game against a team that, you know, has had a lot of continuity over the years, the, the Packers. So Vikings at home against the division rival. Yep. Yeah, that's a good one. But hey, the Packers still don't have Michael Parsons. And here's the difference. When they were up, yeah, what it was like, 23 to 10 in the third quarter, the thing is Michael Parsons. That's when he teased off. That's when he doesn't let, you know, the quarterbacks make a comeback. And that's why they miss them so much. They need them back so bad. It's a two win win, though. Yeah, he's visioned win. Yes, it is. It's huge. But I'm going to go with the Buffalo Bills, you know, new head coach Joe Brady going into Houston, you know, beating a defense, putting 36 points up versus probably the number one defense last year in the Houston, Texans. 1,000 Josh Allen showing that he can be performing like Josh Allen performs just overall a solid team win shout out to Buffalo. That was one of that was the most impressive win to me. It'd be fun to see him go home in that new stadium next week. Yeah, it's going to make it that much more electric now. Excellent. Everyone. Hey, Julian, that was an absolute awesome week one. That's how we started. That was that was a fun day, man. Very fun day. Football is back. Yes, it's the absolute best. And there's two things that bring the country of the United States of America together. I believe in its music and it's NFL football, baby and it's back and check back in Thursday for our midweek episode Mondays and Thursday's all year long, baby. And it's currently the second quarter in the New York Giants Dallas Cowboys game. Julian, who do you have winning this game? It's seven seven. Actually, the Giants just scored. You know, going into the half 14 seven right now, Giants, shout out, shout out the dart for that. He's here likely. Who's that? It was likely. Let's call as I likely their new pickup coming from the Ravens. Hey, Julian, who do you have winning this game? Going Dallas. I'm going Dallas. as well. All right. We shall see. We'll see. We shall see. That's why week one's the best. Hey, that's why week one is the best week one. Everybody's got books. Every book got hope. Besides the teams that lost now. [BLANK_AUDIO]

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Every NFL team has a chance to make a playoff run, as last-place teams have historically won the division the following year.
  2. The New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings are highlighted as potential "worst-to-first" teams due to their current standings and strong performances.
  3. The Buffalo Bills' win over the Houston Texans showcased a dominant defensive effort and Josh Allen’s elite performance, suggesting a potential AFC championship preview.
  4. The Carolina Panthers’ explosive offensive game featuring Caleb Williams, who delivered 59 points, signaled a high-scoring, dynamic style of play under head coach Ben Johnson.
  5. The Detroit Lions’ thrilling overtime win over the Saints, driven by Jameer Gibbs’ speed and Dan Campbell’s energetic leadership, signaled a strong return to form.
  6. The Patriots’ loss to Seattle in Week 1 was attributed to quarterback Drake May’s impatience and a lack of depth, especially with AJ Brown sidelined.
  7. The 49ers’ dominant defensive and offensive performance against the Rams highlighted key players like Mike Evans and Trent Williams, while also showing the Rams’ struggles.
  8. Memes and fan reactions, including satirical headlines and player humor, reflect the lighthearted and engaging culture surrounding the NFL season opener.

Summary:

The NFL season kicked off with high energy and dramatic moments, emphasizing the unpredictable nature of early-season outcomes. A key theme is that every team has a realistic shot at success, backed by historical data showing last-place teams have won division titles in the following season. The Buffalo Bills’ victory over the Houston Texans, fueled by Josh Allen’s over 300-yard performance and a strong defensive showing, hints at an AFC championship preview.

The Carolina Panthers delivered a record-breaking offensive performance with Caleb Williams throwing for two touchdowns and rushing for more, validating Ben Johnson’s goal of building a historically high-scoring offense. Meanwhile, the Detroit Lions made a stunning overtime win against the Saints, showcasing Jameer Gibbs’ speed and Dan Campbell’s energetic coaching, signaling a revival for the team. The Patriots’ loss to Seattle, attributed to quarterback Drake May’s impatience and lack of depth, underscored the challenges of playing on the road against a strong defense.

The 49ers’ dominant win over the Rams highlighted key contributions from Mike Evans and Trent Williams, while also revealing Rams struggles. Fan engagement and internet memes, including fake retirement news for Aaron Donald and humorous player takes like Romeo Dobbs in a Darth Vader helmet, reflect the excitement and entertainment value of the season. Overall, Week 1 demonstrated that while results are inconsistent, the potential for underdog stories and high-impact games remains strong across the league.

FAQs

Yes, in the past 23 years, 20 teams that finished last in their division went on to win the previous year's title. This shows that a last-place team has a real chance to make a playoff run.

The New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings are highlighted as possible teams that could go from worst to first due to their current struggles and strong potential for improvement.

The game was a high-scoring, entertaining matchup with Caleb Williams throwing for 59 yards and two touchdowns, showcasing his offensive firepower and confidence.

The Lions won in overtime after a strong second-half comeback, with standout performances from Jameer Gibbs and defensive pressure, showing mental toughness and team resilience.

Yes, because of their current first-place standing in a weak division and the fact that a last-place team has historically made a playoff run in the following season.

It refers to a fast-paced, aggressive style of play where teams rush the line of scrimmage and make quick decisions, often leading to explosive plays and defensive disruptions.

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