place where they have a statue
of him with Nick Foles.
Both men employed by the Jaguars. But at different times
Foles was the starter there until he got injured and it
just didn't work and he was gone, Doug Peterson. Now,
the head coach and it's working and they're back
and it's the Jaguars at the Eagles two and one
Jacksonville, 3 and 0 Philadelphia buy or sell as we
do this week. For grab bag, Doug Peterson hands the Eagles.
Their first loss of the season in His return
to the place from which he was fired Chris. Well, write like
this is like I don't want to buy or sell completely here.
Okay, I'm going to make people watch, the podcast are in our
joint picks podcast. I'm not going to give you a total pick
here, but I'm going to buy this.
If you don't think Jacksonville can go in and upset
Philadelphia. I think people are crazy. You know,
I understand Phillies the better team and a little more
battle-tested,
Jacksonville is real.
Are real. They are not going to be physically outclassed or
overmatched in this football game now whether they can win
the game or not. Hey, that's that's a whole different story.
But I can tell it, tell you that
I by the fact that this will be a competitive football game
and the Eagles aren't going to be able to just March over
them. Like they did the Lions or 3/4, or Washington last
week. That's where I'm going to do it. I don't want to give
away, you know, any of that yet and give all the Deep great
details. People got to
watch our podcast. It's a big deal here.
Here. Okay but yes I do think they can they can go on
the road and have the potential to do this. They're not going to
be you know like an RO no
Philly so good where we can't stop it.
The Jags rosters one of the best in football.
And I'll agree with you there. I'm not tipping my pick.
Anybody that wants to know what we think of the game so they
can bet the opposite Tune In For The Joint. Megapix podcast
coming up later today, I will say this though
and not the Philly fan base is going to listen to me. I got no
problem with you buland
booboo and Jalen. Rhaegar
last Monday. I mean
what did he ever do
for you? Or to you? Yeah, but
I hope to God, they don't boo, Doug Peterson. The guy
delivered, the only Super Bowl championship in franchise
history. Tree and he got fired. He didn't choose to leave.
That's right. Still be the coach there, right? He got
fired. He was told to
leave. He didn't let his contract expire and then go
take a job somewhere else. He didn't try to muscle his way
out of town. He didn't cause any trouble for anybody. He got
fired. So you don't boo him. He blew her. Not a clause.
Boo, anybody else?
But don't Boo. The guy that won you, you're only Super Bowl
championship, please. I'm with you. There I am. And, you know,
to that fact, I'm Irish Should have brought this up, you know,
there's going to be an added incentive because of that from
Doug Peterson, those players in that locker room, going to know
what's going on here. Those assistant, coaches are going to
relay
to their players in their own little individual meeting
rooms. What? How important this is, you know? So yeah, he came
up with Philly, Philly to screw over New England, he might come
up with up, yours up, yours in this one right here, too. So
they better be Howie Howie. Yeah, I think
the plushie Howie, Howie. Yeah. How he how, he, how the hell
did you let me out of here? Yeah, I know. So that's a
I think a real element that plays into the game.
And it was a power struggle,
apparently, obviously and see how I Roseman is. So how
Roseman smart very smart, his audience of one is Jeffrey
Lurie and he knows what Lori wants. He gives Lori what he
wants. We talk about this all the time, it's
the Billionaire's prerogative and the billionaire doesn't
have to say. I want this the people working for
the billionaire are smart enough to figure it out and give him what
he wants and it all works out well and how he's just tied.
The owner
and lets the owner dabble and doesn't say boo about it and
takes the blame when the owners decisions don't go. Well, I
look it is Doug Peterson. Got shoved out and Eagles fans
should not take it out on him because he would still be there
again. If they hadn't told him to leave Patriots,
at Packers, scale of 1 to 10. What is your confidence level
in the Green Bay receivers heading in to week for
especially the time when Rubio Dobbs the fourth round rookie
seems to be emerging as the best option
available to Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, yeah.
Us that, you know, that's they got us, get him the ball more.
He's the one guy right now with Christian Watson being out of
the lineup that can do something a little bit, you
know. Randall, Cobb is nice and all that this guy has some like
special gifts that he can contribute to the football
team.
And also, I mean, confidence level,
I'm going to put it at like a,
I'm gonna say a 6 right now,
you know, but it's going in the right direction is trending in
the right direction. I mean, again that game their last week
they didn't throw the ball down the field during my Much. It
was just Aaron Rodgers throwing the quickest. Fastest rpos
you've ever seen in your life and
really I think he's probably the only guy in the NFL that
could consistently do that, that quick with that kind of
pace and that kind of accuracy over and over.
But they are growing.
And you know I guess my confidence is
is like higher as far as I think they're going to be in
the right spots and all that how many plays are going to
make? That's the part that I'm still. Like I don't know yet
and they got to give guys like him the ball a little
bit more. So I'll go with a 6 right now. How about you?
I
I'd say I'm still 25. I still think it's a work in progress.
I hear you. There aren't enough guys. There aren't enough guy,
right?
And more guys need to step up and are and they only scored 14
points. 9 defense won them that game in Tampa Bay, so
the offense still has some work to do Broncos, a traders buy or
sell the Broncos offense will put up
more than 20 points against the Las Vegas defense.
Then ver is averaging 14 point 3 points per game this year.
That is second fewest in the NFL. Yeah, there are demons of
football team and there are running football team right
now. I'll buy that they get there but it ain't going to be
by much
in this is, it'll be close. I know the one thing you can
count on the Raiders and still have the right tactical
approach and playing the game.
They will. The problem is the Raiders just they have no
Talent on defense. They have nothing. It's Max Crosby. And
other than that I don't know of anybody's name gets called more
than two or three times again and that's the real issue but
Um, I'll buy them, you know, they get over 20, but it mean,
it'll be 20 or 23. I don't think it's going to be much
over. That
Raiders are giving up on average twenty five point seven
points per game. That is 24th in scoring defense.
I think that the Broncos won't get to 20. I
don't want to get ahead of what is coming later in the day,
where I have to sit here with searing back pain for another
hour. Yeah, make our picks one at a time,
but but, but
This Raiders are 0 and 3 Broncos, a two-in-one. There's
something wrong with both halves of that picture. I don't
think it's going to be a good day
for Denver in Las Vegas.
Chief said Buccaneers fill in the blank with both teams.
Looking to bounce back from week three losses. This game
will come down to what Chris
Patrick Mahomes. Andy Reid's ability to come up with short
Patrick Mahomes. Andy Reid's ability to be patient, that's
maybe the better way to put it.
You know, Todd Bowles, we know it's creative its he wants to
pressure. You play some cool Zone coverage is behind it but
we saw
right? We just talked about this a little, the last
segment. I mean or two segments ago when they played that way
in the regular season matchup back in 2020, I mean it was
bombs away and they just
and they should have obliterated Tampa more than they did.
You know, the Super Bowl. What happened?
Todd Bowles broke the mold and said, you know what? Damn it,
I'm gonna play deep zones and
Coverage and see if they can work underneath and be patient
and there was in the inventory of plays to attack what Tampa
was doing
and then Mahomes got
impatient. So that's what I think will be
the
big thing and I think that's going to be the key to the game
for me.
And look, I'll flip it just a little bit against down to that
Buccaneers defense because we know the Tampa Bay off has. Now
they're getting some of the receivers back but there's just
something missing there.
The offense is not scoring points like it did last year 30
points per game last year, 17 points per game so far this
year, Tom Brady's yards per attempt Peter and I were
talking about this on Friday,
it's down near 6.5,
that is not Tom. Brady, like in the latter stage of his
know for rear, where he's become a passing machine and
getting the ball, All down the field. Yes, they're not getting
the ball down, the field. 6.5 mean it used to be seven was
a big deal. Now,
seven is just kind of a given, like, 89 is where your should
be, right? 15 is just, that is not what the Buccaneers need to
have the kind of offense that they're used to. Yeah, that's
a great point. They're still looking to make
those throws and they'll let me just a Brady is
he's throwing it phenomenal
if if you're open by a quarter of an inch down the field, he's
gonna throw it and he's gonna throw a strike and it's going
to be a completion. I really. I love that about him,
you know, but right now he doesn't have the people that it
can even throw the ball down the field. Like, even that game
last week against Green Bay, they were attacking. But
you know, there was nobody opened some of the times on
those plays down the field. So he had to throw it short and do
some of that. He's got no choice, so little,
but he's looking to be aggressive. Trust me, he's aggressive
as he's ever been. That's the thing I admire about him right
now. I mean him and Aaron Rodgers have done a role
reversal in the last five years. Rogers used to be
the guy I'd be like men
you know nobody's open and boom. He's throwing rifles down
the field. And he's carrying the team now, he's checked down
Charlie and scared a hello. Throwing the ball down,
the football field and Bradys just caught in the loose play after
play
and it makes you dangerous. And
yeah, I think, you know, like you said with the weapons back
this week, they'll be a little bit different on that side of
the ball
Rams Head 49ers on Monday Night Football. What's more likely
the 49ers get revenge for losing to the Rams in the NFC
championship game or the 49ers. Have another disjointed
performance like we saw in Primetime on Sunday night where
you and
Both stunned by that final outcome. Yes. Well they blew
too many opportunities to kind of control the game and Jimmy
G. Do you know reminded us all of why they wanted to get rid
of them
and why they have you know, traded to pick number 3? I mean
you know you talk about me being the Meathead in the gym.
Well
I mean I this play is made for this Con. See you later. Wait
wait I got I called I called Jimmy Garoppolo meet had
the other day
and I got some nasty emails that I was being mean to Jimmy G.
Yeah. Don't Call Him stupid. Well, you know you can only do
so many stupid things before people come to the conclusion
that you are indeed stupid. Yeah, I you know, listen I'm
not going to go as far as it is stupid but I'm going to say
he's
a meathead and he does some Meathead things every now and
then where the you know you just picture me like all
handsome and stopping like which way is the waiting room?
Well I guess he's flexing his like bicep muscle. Like Chris
Farley
and Tommy Boy but yeah and
I don't know. There's just things that happen where you
just go. How does this happen as much as you've played in?
Of the mistakes and the missed the rose and all of it.
That's where it's just, it's crazy. But the 49ers traditionally,
when the backs against the wall here
and Jimmy G is the quarterback,
they find some way to bounce back and win the football game. So,
you know, they're going to be like, you've talked about their
one and two they're there. They don't want to be one of three
that makes life very hard as we go down the stretch here.
And, you know, it's funny.
And I understand Trey Lance is injured and I feel badly about
what happened to him and we still don't know what he's
going to be calm. He's going to be under so much pressure next
year to finally unlock the potential. Yeah, it's one thing
to be the third overall pick, it's another thing to be
the third overall, pick the team traded up,
giving up to extra first-round, picks
to use the third overall, pick on you. Plus a third, rounder
puts extra pressure on the kid, no doubt.
And he didn't ask for this,
but but the fact that they felt compelled to keep Jimmy around
I think tells us more than we want to know, no doubt about
their what they really thought of Trail ants. Before he got
injured, Mike, I don't disagree with you at all.
Well, I think we've been we've been
saying this and we said it that week. They did not want to keep
Jimmy G, they have been doing everything to get rid of him
for three years.
Everything and here he is back in the fall because they went
uh
I don't know. I've trained Lance is better than Jimmy. We
need to keep him around, we don't know what the hell's it
happened. So that that's yes, that is Scary, like you're
saying along with the pressure to go along with it is going to
make it,
you know, very interesting. Next year, evaluating trail ends
and a prime opportunity for Jimmy Garoppolo to lay
the foundation for his next contract. But if he keeps
playing like he did on Sunday night,
no one's going to be interested in him in March of 2023. They
weren't interested in March of 2022 because he had surgery.
They're not going to be interested in March of 2023
because of how he played in 2022. If he keeps
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