Derek Carr, Oklahoma State HC Eric Morris, The Chiefs Are Back, CFB Recap + Listener Submitted Takes

Pardon My Take

The podcast recaps Week 1 of the NFL season, highlighting the Kansas City Chiefs' dominant performance against the Broncos, with focus on Kenneth Walker's

Key takeaways

• The Chiefs' return to a balanced offense with Kenneth Walker as a dominant running back signals a potential shift in their season strategy.
• Mahomes' ability to play without needing to be Superman suggests he's on track for peak performance later in the season.

Main topics

• Chiefs' Week 1 dominance
• Kenneth Walker's performance
• Patrick Mahomes' health and role

Notable quotes

"The Chiefs are one of those teams that they know how to play with a lead."

"It's like the knee looks fine. The knee's fine."

Conclusion

The episode concludes with optimism around the Chiefs' resurgence, val

Transcript preview

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Speaker 5 (1:03) On today's part of my take, presented by DraftKings, we've got a twofer. We've got Derek Carr on the show. Recurring guest Derek Carr talks some week one football, what he saw out of the quarterback play in the NFL, some college football. Great catching up with him. We also have Oklahoma State head coach Eric Morris off the big victory against the Oregon Ducks on Saturday. We're going to do some college football talk. We're also going to hit Monday night football. The Chiefs look like they are back. Hot seat, cool throne, and pardon your take. A little cleanup from Sunday. It's all brought to you by our friends at Chevy. Football season is here, and whether you're going... grinding through the week or gearing up for kickoff, there's one ride that's always game ready. It's the Chevy Silverado. There's a reason Chevy's called the heartbeat of America and Silverado keeps that heartbeat strong. Whether you're towing, hauling, or tailgating, Silverado lets you show up strong and tackle any task with best in class standard torque, the most functional bed, and the advanced tech that's football guy approved. Check out current offers on the 2026 Silverado at Chevy. Speaker 5 (2:17) Okay, let's go. Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Wednesday, September 16th, and the Kansas City Chiefs are back. Because Monday Night Football, that was a showing in brutality by the Kansas City Chiefs in the way they ran the ball down the Broncos' throat. Broncos, one of the worst tackling performances, I think, ever. It was definitely Speaker 3 (3:12) the worst of week one. Speaker 5 (3:13) It looked like, PFT, it looked like a college football game in that there were two times, and there might have been more, but two times it stuck out in my head. Speaker 5 (3:23) Kenneth Walker touchdown run from midfield where there wasn't a Bronco in sight. It looked like they went field goal block on that play and he bounced it outside. And then the Travis Kelsey catch and run where there wasn't a Bronco in frame. It looked like a college football game. We were like, wait, Speaker 2 (3:39) there's supposed to be a safety there. What's happening? So I know the popular take today is why did we forget about the Chiefs? Yeah. And I Speaker 3 (3:47) kind of agree with that a little bit. I actually don't think that the Chiefs are. near close to what they're going to be at the end of the season. Definitely not. I think they're going to get a lot better from this point on. I don't know that they're a great team Speaker 2 (3:57) right now. I think the Broncos might be kind of broken. So the scariest thing, and I want to talk about the Broncos, the scariest thing about last night, if you Speaker 5 (4:04) are someone who's scared of the Chiefs or like, oh man, the Chiefs, maybe they've reached their downturn, is the fact that that run game, we have not seen a run game from the Chiefs like that since maybe what? first year of Kareem Hunt. Like, it's been a long time. People were saying Jamal Charles. Like, it has been a long time. And Patrick Mahomes was not, he's clearly still coming back from injury. But him not having to be Superman and having a run game like that essentially gives him the perfect on-ramp to get back into the flow and be playing his best football at the end of the season where he doesn't have to do everything. Because that has been... For, you know, the first Chiefs, the first couple of Chiefs like runs, you know, they had the outside weapons, Tyreek Hill. They were able to do dynamic things. Travis Kelsey was younger. The last couple of years of the Chiefs, it was a lot of Patrick Mahomes being Superman and figuring out a way to make plays with no run game, with not the most explosive wide receivers, and him just putting the whole team on his back. Now he can just hand the ball off to Kenneth Walker and they can just run it down your throat and he doesn't have to worry about making like, like constant plays to get the chiefs out of holes. I Speaker 3 (5:17) think he will. And he'll get back to that. I think that right now what they're doing is like, that was, it was a great game plan. They had in place. Kenneth Walker is a, a really, really good running back. And I've always thought like they're, they had him in Charbonnet split and carries in Seattle, which can be a really good thing. Keep both guys fresh. But I think that it's really tough on a running back to get into a real rhythm. If they have to come off every series, let the other guy step on the field. And it's like, yeah, it's the rhythm of like getting used to where your blockers are going to be, all that stuff. But I was talking to Aaron about this yesterday, and he was saying that maybe the most important part, why he never liked coming off the field for a series, is you never feel like your job is totally safe. So you never feel like you're free to kind of be yourself and free to take chances in the running game. Like you're thinking I'm one fumble away from getting benched, and that can... That can have a real negative effect on a running back. I think now that he's the guy, he's going to get even better. And I looked up his stats when he was in Seattle, and his yard, I think averaged more than half a yard per carry more in games when he got more than 20 carries than when he got less or fewer than 20 carries. Right. Like getting in that rhythm is going to be awesome for him. He's a really, really good running back. The Chiefs window, I like, I don't think we ever actually closed the Chiefs window. No, I didn't. I think Mahomes was just. in bed because he was injured far away from the window. They had a year from hell last year. They had a year from hell. And even before, like the year before, they won a lot of lucky games. But we still said, like, it doesn't matter that the Chiefs, they'll be fine. It's like Patrick Mahomes gets injured for eight weeks and we're like, well, the Chiefs are fucked. Will they ever be the same again? Yep. Good dynasties find a way to reinvent themselves, Hank. Yeah. You know that. So this might be the start of the next era where they've got. a beast at running back now. They can lean on him a little bit and then open up to play action game. And Mahomes is going to be great. And Rasheed Rice. Yeah, and Rice. But in the season, Mahomes is going to be back to being Mahomes. And Speaker 5 (7:12) the scariest part, though, is the Chiefs are one of those teams that they know how to play with a lead. And they know, like, you saw it even before they had a running game. The Chiefs were one of those teams that they were like an auto bet to the under if they had a first half lead where they just take the air out of the ball. They shorten the game. Their pass rush can get home. They're built perfectly for Kenneth Walker to be an absolute monster. And then Patrick Mahomes, again, Speaker 2 (7:37) to get healthy and be all the way back. They stomped the shit out of the Broncos, and Mahomes was the only quarterback in the league that did not throw a pass longer than 10 yards down. Longer than 10 yards. Here's a crazy stat Speaker 5 (7:48) that's good for our guy Shane. Justin Herbert leads the AFC West in passing yards. That's good. Speaker 3 (7:56) Through Speaker 2 (7:56) one Speaker 5 (7:56) week. Speaker 3 (7:57) Through one week. I'll tell you what, the first run that Mahomes had for the touchdown, because I told you this, Big Cat, going into the game last night, I said I don't necessarily love the Chiefs right now because I don't know that Mahomes is going to be healthy. I think he's healthy. Yeah. He was fast as shit. His Speaker 5 (8:12) timing is a little off with the passes, but it doesn't matter. It's like the knee looks fine. The knee's fine. You would have been concerned if Mahomes was scared to run, but he clearly wasn't. And I don't know about you guys, but I feel like Arrowhead was louder than it's ever been. Maybe that was just the broadcast, and maybe I just forgot how loud Arrowhead can get, but it was fucking loud. Speaker 1 (8:34) I mean, memes went and saw it in person, but when we finished the show on Sunday night, I saw a video of like a long ass line of people like getting ready to tailgate for Monday. This was like more than 24 hours before the game. Yeah. Speaker 5 (8:49) They were so, Speaker 1 (8:50) so loud. Yeah. Speaker 2 (8:52) So, Speaker 3 (8:52) so it was, um, my homes is now 14 and two against the Broncos and undefeated Speaker 2 (8:57) against the Broncos at Arrowhead. So I don't. And I think are the two losses. So one loss was last. No, that wasn't last year. Was one on Christmas? Yeah. Was Speaker 5 (9:08) one of the games when he broke Speaker 2 (9:09) his kneecap? Speaker 5 (9:10) It might have been. That was in Speaker 2 (9:12) Denver. It might have been. He's owned the Broncos. Speaker 5 (9:15) Yeah. Chris Oladukun did not beat the Broncos last year in Arrowhead. No. Speaker 3 (9:18) No. He's owned the Broncos. And I think the Broncos are kind of broken right now. I think they'll probably get back to where they need to be. The defense looks like shit without Cooper. 28. Speaker 5 (9:29) 28 missed tackles. 28 missed tackles. All right, what are the other two games? That's USC stats. Loss, okay. Oh, no, so those weren't. No, no, that was. Okay, so that wasn't the broken kneecap. 2023 and 2025 he lost in Denver. So that's pretty recent. But, yeah, 28 missed tackles. It was shocking to watch them just, like, bounce off guys. And the bigger concern, because I do think their defense will figure it out, but Bo Nix looked. Bad. Yeah. Real, real bad. And I don't know if this is a, like, it's great Sean Payton gave play calling duty away. Is it? Why? No, I'm saying it's great that he's giving guys like a chance. It's not great for the Bronco. I feel like he needs to take it back. That was the third fewest yards in a Sean Payton coached game for his team ever. The other two were. in 2021 when I think it was Jameis like week two. And then later in the season, I think it was Trevor Simeon or Taysom Hill quarterbacking. So that's, I mean, they added Jalen Waddell. Speaker 2 (10:37) They just, Bo Nix looked, he just looked tentative. And I don't know. Jalen Waddell was useless. Sean Payton, maybe bad husband of Speaker 3 (10:45) the year. If we're going to do that in a takey. Speaker 5 (10:47) Yeah. Speaker 3 (10:48) He told his wife draft Jalen Waddell in fantasy. Yeah, really shitty. And then how many catches did he have last night? I remember one. One catch, two yards, I believe. Speaker 5 (10:57) Bad husband. Speaker 2 (10:58) Bring home flowers, Sean. Speaker 5 (11:00) I mistakenly last night, I'm trying to watch more games to my son, and I said, you can stay up until they score again when it was 7-7. And so then we just had to go all the way through halftime. I swear they usually do score, but then we keyed in on Waddle. I was like, root for number 17 to get a catch. Just didn't happen. Just didn't happen. Speaker 3 (11:21) Yeah, the Broncos, their defense looked like utter dog shit. can't tackle to save their life. I think that when it comes to Sean Payton and the play calling, he had to know going into the season that if you make this decision, the first thing people are going to want to change if things go wrong at all is for you to take it back. Yeah. He's one of the best play callers of all time, and he gives it to an offense coordinator that's young and probably pretty smart, probably pretty talented. But if things aren't going well... You have a very easy solution right in front of you. Although I guess Sean Payton. He's got the Speaker 2 (11:53) button. They said he's got to stop himself from hitting the button. His answer might just be, let's get Peyton Hillis here. Speaker 5 (11:58) Yeah. Speaker 3 (11:59) Or no, Taysom Speaker 2 (11:59) Hill. Speaker 3 (12:00) Taysom Hill. The other guy. Yeah. Let's just mix in a little bit of Taysom Hill into the ingredients, and that'll solve everything. Bo Nix, if I'm going to say one good thing about Bo Nix starting slow, Bo Nix has been doubted before. I'll put it that way. Bo Nix has had some pretty bad football games. Yeah, well, I mean... And he typically bounces back from them. He Speaker 5 (12:18) is also coming off an injury. Like, both quarterbacks coming off an injury. I didn't love Bo Nix, like, yucking it up. He was smiling. You know, couldn't believe his life when they were getting just the shit kicked out of him in the third quarter. But I guess it's week one. So the Broncos have coming up. They have Jacksonville at home, which playing in Denver early in the season, September when it's hot, that is a... very tough place to play, but they play Jacksonville, the Rams, the Niners, the chargers, the Seahawks. That's their next five games. That's like, that's why, and we're going to talk about it with Derek Carr. Like the urgency that happens in the NFL after one week is in, it's unlike any other league where you can, you have a game and you're just like, all right, if we lose two in a row, if we lose the first two games, the odds are we're going to be in a big hole trying to chase this for the rest of the year. Speaker 3 (13:09) Yeah. Yeah. Did you see that? the weird touchdown play call that they had. And Kenneth Walker was like, Andy Reid had us watching film from the 1900s. Speaker 2 (13:17) It Speaker 3 (13:18) was probably like 1999, but it was like a single wing play where they, it was like, you know, the Chiefs like to get cute inside the five yard line. Yeah. And Andy likes to unveil something. So Kenneth was saying that it was hard to figure out the play and understand where it was going because it wasn't an HD. So it was hard to keep track of it. Now it turns out that that play call was given to Andy Reid by Chris Berman. Ooh, love Speaker 5 (13:39) it. Boomer told Speaker 3 (13:40) him, like, hey, Andy, I know you like to run these whack shit plays down close to the goal line. Take a look at the single wing shit that nobody has looked at since, like, the 1970s. So I like that for Boom. I do. Again, I'm a little concerned that he's giving aid and comfort to the Chiefs when this is supposed to be him getting the bills to the Super Bowl. Speaker 5 (14:00) Yeah, it feels like. So button Speaker 3 (14:02) that shit up. But that probably means that he's probably talking to Joe Brady, too. And Speaker 5 (14:05) he also probably knows that, like, we don't have to worry about them. Maybe he's so confident in the Bills. Like Speaker 3 (14:11) burn all the good plays early in the season. Yeah. Maybe if he's that close to Andy Reid, he can actually feed intel to Jim Leonard behind the scenes about what Andy's going to do. Speaker 5 (14:21) That's not a bad idea. Did you guys see? And I know preseason rankings, we're past getting upset about them. I'm not. Okay, here's one Speaker 2 (14:32) to get upset about. Speaker 5 (14:33) Okay. Where do you think Bo Nix was ranked in the top 100 NFL players going into this season? Speaker 2 (14:39) By the other players or by Sean Payton? I think this was the Speaker 5 (14:41) NFL.com one. NFL top 100 voted on by the players themselves. Bo Nix was ranked 80. Bo Nix was ranked 59th. Okay. Where do you think Lamar Jackson was ranked? Speaker 7 (14:54) He was not ranked. He Speaker 5 (14:56) was ranked. Speaker 7 (14:56) Oh, he was? I thought. Speaker 5 (14:59) He was ranked 69th. Wow. Would anyone take Bo Nix over Lamar Jackson right now? Doddington Bones? Doddington Bones. Speaker 3 (15:10) I mean, we saw him. I Speaker 1 (15:12) wouldn't, but there's probably, I'm just wondering if there's like an analytics guy that would just because of age. Well, I'm thinking like sabermetrically. And like. Bo Nix. I guess not contract. He's going to get a shit ton of money too. Bo Speaker 3 (15:25) Nix was in the Heisman conversation for like three seasons. Lamar was only in for one. Speaker 1 (15:30) Yeah. So. Now Lamar did win one. Speaker 5 (15:32) True. But. Where would you rank these? Mary, fuck, kill. Hank, you ready? Bo Nix, Lamar Jackson, Cooper Rush. Speaker 1 (15:45) I would marry Lamar Jackson. For his money? Fuck, Cooper Rush, kill, Bo Nix. Speaker 3 (15:53) Dude, Bo Nix Speaker 2 (15:55) would kill you in a half second if you even tried. Does Cooper Rush win that game for the Broncos? He Speaker 1 (16:00) might. Speaker 1 (16:02) I saw you got ranked 30th of all the quarterbacks in week one. Speaker 5 (16:08) Yeah. Speaker 1 (16:08) Listen, Speaker 5 (16:08) I was watching Speaker 1 (16:09) with my heart, not with analytical eyes, I guess. I Speaker 5 (16:13) agree. That's why we're not. Listen, this podcast is not meant to be. I'm trying to will Speaker 1 (16:16) a game to victory. Speaker 5 (16:17) Expert opinions. Speaker 3 (16:18) Yeah, we got to come up with some sort of like our own stat for a Cooper Rush adjacent quarterback and what you expect out of that person compared to what you get. It didn't look as bad when Cooper Rush did it as it would if Bo Nix had done that same. It's like Cooper Rush adjacent players. Crap. The crap metric. It's the Speaker 5 (16:37) meme. It's the like Justin Herbert, you know, two picks I think he had or whatever, like 150 yards. Call human resources. Cooper Rush, two picks, 150 yards. Ooh, I'm in love. Yeah. Speaker 3 (16:50) What is the one with Gordon Ramsey? You idiot sandwich or something? What are you? No, you Speaker 4 (16:55) donkey. You Speaker 3 (16:56) donkey. You absolute Speaker 5 (16:57) donkey. Memes, I know you pretty well. How many power rankings did you look at today? Speaker 4 (17:03) I made my own. No, Speaker 5 (17:04) but how many power rankings did you look at today? I Speaker 4 (17:07) looked at Florio's. I looked at yours. Yeah. I looked at some other guy. Were you triggered by any? I was triggered by one. Speaker 5 (17:15) I did do my power rankings, and you did corrupt the software, and I put the Jets ahead of any other 0-1 team because you were kind of right. Like, what's the point? It's one week. I looked at some power rankings last night, and I saw the Rams at, like, three, and I was like, come on. We can't have an 0-1 team Speaker 4 (17:32) at three. That's crazy. People look at preseason rankings and last season into theirs when there's only a sample size of one, and that's how you have to base it off of. Speaker 2 (17:41) Yeah. All right, Jets 24. Jets Speaker 3 (17:44) 24. There we go. What website is that? Speaker 5 (17:46) I think that's NFL.com. So Speaker 3 (17:48) the Commanders moved up from 31 to 25. Speaker 3 (17:52) That's pretty good in a loss. I love that. That actually might be the best loss of the week. Speaker 7 (17:56) Moved up 225 from 31. Speaker 2 (17:59) Yeah. Yeah, that's good in a loss. Speaker 7 (18:01) I Speaker 2 (18:01) don't think I did. Don't gaslight him. Yeah, you're gaslighting me right now, Max. What are you doing, Max? I'm not. It sounds like you're gaslighting. Nope. By the way, I went back. I watched the all 22 of the commanders. Oh, I thought Speaker 5 (18:15) maybe of like our gambling cave. Speaker 2 (18:17) No, no. It would Speaker 5 (18:17) be Speaker 2 (18:17) funny to be like, I actually didn't say. Speaker 7 (18:19) Are you going to talk about that clip where it's like. a bunch of Jane Daniels routine throws? I was just Speaker 3 (18:23) going to say they were all very average throws. Nothing to get excited about. I'm not going to be excited anymore. He Speaker 2 (18:29) should make those throws. Shame on me. Yeah, you're Speaker 3 (18:32) a Speaker 5 (18:32) professional quarterback. Make those throws. You should make Speaker 2 (18:34) those throws. Speaker 5 (18:35) Make those throws. Okay, what other cleanup stuff from week one do we have? How's everyone feeling? The AFC Speaker 1 (18:42) is absolutely stacked. Yeah. That was my biggest takeaway watching last night. The Speaker 5 (18:46) AFC is all the way back. Last year was the year with Mahomes hurt. With Burrow in and out, and they missed the playoffs. Lamar missing the playoffs. Josh Allen at the end of the rope with Sean McDermott. That was your year. Speaker 1 (19:01) Yeah, Mahomes is like he's the biggest winner in the entire conference. He's won three times. Joe Burrows made it to the championship. Lamar Jackson's won multiple MVPs, been to the AFC Championship a bunch. And then Josh Allen's the best quarterback probably right now out of all of them. Speaker 5 (19:16) Oh, and by the way, and Speaker 1 (19:17) we're not even mentioning a Speaker 5 (19:19) team that's won nine in a row in the regular season, the Jacksonville Jaguars. Speaker 1 (19:23) Yeah. No, the AFC is stacked. Watching that last night, I was just like, fuck. Speaker 3 (19:29) That one throw that Trevor Lawrence had in between four Browns was just absolutely unreal. It's actually so good that I think it was probably a bad idea to make that throw. Yeah. But it was such a... I like that there's so many other people out there just besides like... the handful of original accounts that will break down film because you get to see all the homers find the best throws that their guys make. So there's a lot of pro every quarterback propaganda if you dig deep enough out there. Speaker 5 (19:54) Yeah, the tape. Todd Munkin found the Deshaun Watson tape. He found it. He liked it. Speaker 3 (19:57) He found it. There's some things that he could really enjoy about that. I like the 13-step drop that he had and then got sacked and then got mad at his offensive line. That was good. Oh, one other thing about Monday Night Football. Actually, I guess it's two. One thing that was announced to us before the game started. Drew Brees said that he was in touch with Sean Payton and thought about coming back to play for the Broncos before the AFC Championship game last year. I'm sick of this trend. I fucking hate it. I can't stand it. When Kyle Shanahan was like, yeah, we almost had Phillip Rivers play for us if we were going to beat the Eagles and get to the Super Bowl. Like, fuck that. I don't want to know. I don't want to have to think about what we missed out on because... It would have been awesome. And now I just feel like there's a giant hole in my life where Drew Brees beating the Patriots in the AFC Championship game should have been. Speaker 5 (20:43) Well, it's also bullshit to say, at least Phil Rivers was about that life. Phil Rivers at least did come out of off the couch and play. All these other guys, get out of here. Don't tell us this after the fact. We don't want to hear it. What are you highlighting there, Max? Was there something? I didn't. Oh, it's just the power rankings. Seahawks vaulted to number one. Seahawks should have been one. I'm a big believer in if you win, you should stay one. Indiana should be number one for that reason. Speaker 3 (21:11) I guess he talked to Ed Werner about it and said that part of it was that he didn't want to have to reset the clock on his Hall of Fame. Speaker 1 (21:19) Ah. The weather had to have been a factor. It probably Speaker 3 (21:23) was. But he said that he was assured that it would not affect his Hall of Fame, but it might. And he was like. joking about how he was worried about it, but actually not joking. Speaker 2 (21:32) So Speaker 3 (21:33) I do think that that had something to do with it. And then the other thing, just to ESPN and Joe Buck, if you're going to have a B2 flyover during the National Anthem on Monday Night Football, can we get a camera at the sky? Speaker 1 (21:48) Yeah. Like Speaker 3 (21:49) a B2 bomber? Yeah. It costs, I'm guessing it probably costs the taxpayers a couple hundred thousand dollars. To have that bomber fly over the stadium. Is that the stealth bomber? That's a stealth bomber. They Speaker 5 (22:00) are Speaker 3 (22:00) in, Speaker 5 (22:00) I think they're stationed in Missouri. Okay, Speaker 2 (22:02) so it's probably, let's call it $75,000. I read that article. It's not Speaker 5 (22:07) cool because war is not cool. We don't want people dying. But the stealth bomber that went from Missouri all the way to Iran and back without ever landing. And their whole process of that is fucking ridiculous to hear. Speaker 3 (22:24) It Speaker 5 (22:24) is crazy. Just nuts. The mid Speaker 2 (22:26) -air refueling. Speaker 5 (22:27) Yeah, but they Speaker 2 (22:27) put them in the middle of the country because they're so expensive and so important. Yep. So, yeah. And we can't get a camera pointed up at the sky. There's one. B-2 stealth Speaker 3 (22:36) bomber. Yep. Nailed it. Yeah. It makes you wonder what else ESPN's hiding because that was... We had to see it in the background on the scoreboard. We couldn't see it on our TVs. Yeah. You have one job. I personally blame Joe Buck. Speaker 5 (22:49) It's sad that Arrowhead's closing. It just bums me out again. Why can't we have more stadiums be updated and stay where they are? Speaker 7 (23:01) Do I have permission to ask a stupid question? Speaker 5 (23:03) Please. Always. Speaker 7 (23:06) What does keeping it in the middle of the country have to do with keeping it safe? It's Speaker 5 (23:10) protected from... Because it's very hard for someone else to get into our air... Like, if it was on the coast, you could theoretically attack it. Like, shot down? No, no, no. Like, the base. Oh, the base. Got it, got it, got it. They keep all the B2s in Speaker 3 (23:26) the middle of the country. I'll put it this way, Max. If you go to the grocery store and they keep all the ice cream in the middle of the store... fewer people would buy ice cream. And Speaker 7 (23:35) it's harder to steal the things that are in the middle because you have to... Got it. Let me Speaker 5 (23:39) give it even an analogy that is real world for us. We keep now the food farther away from us. It's safer from us. Farther away it is. Speaker 7 (23:49) Thank you for letting me ask a stupid question. Speaker 5 (23:51) It's a lot of airspace Speaker 3 (23:52) that we have to cover if we want some chips. Speaker 5 (23:54) Yeah, Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri is home to the entire operational fleet of the B-2 stealth bomber. It's pretty badass. Knob Noster, Missouri, which is, I assume, pretty damn close to the middle of the country. I think the actual middle is somewhere in Nebraska. Yeah. So pretty damn close. Speaker 3 (24:15) So I guess it probably didn't cost that much money, but still. Still. I agree. Turn the camera, point it up at the air. Speaker 4 (24:20) Yeah. It's $170,000 per flight hour on the B-2. So that was probably like a 30 Speaker 5 (24:24) -minute flight. Puklo 80. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you guys want some stupid stats that mean absolutely nothing, but you see them, you scroll by them, and you're like, oh, that's cool. The stats that you can tell someone at the bar this week, and they'll be like, oh, shit, you know ball. First one is the Raiders, Cardinals, Jets, and Giants are all 1-0 for the first time in NFL history. Whoa. Raiders, Cardinals, Jets, and Giants, all four won their week one game. That's pretty crazy. Yeah. And then the other one, which is. I still don't understand how this has never happened, but it is pretty cool. For the first week ever, I think this is ever, not just week one stat, each team won by a different number of points. Yeah, we had a week in Dagami. That's crazy. Yeah, there it is. First 16-game week in NFL history where the result of every single game had a different point differential. That's pretty cool. Four got left out. Four is something that should happen. Yeah, four is Speaker 3 (25:25) a Speaker 5 (25:25) football number. Four got left out big time. Speaker 3 (25:27) Four and Speaker 5 (25:28) 11 got left out. Speaker 3 (25:29) I got another stat for you. Yeah. Jaguar stat. Liam Cohn has won 14 games as head coach of the Jaguars. That ties him with Gus Bradley. Oh, I love these. For fifth most wins by a head coach in franchise history. Okay. So it took Gus Bradley 62 games to get to 14 wins, which is, that's honestly sad. That's sad that he was allowed to do that. Mostly for him. He had to hate going to work by the end of it. Cohen did it in 18 games. Gus Bradley, again, did it in 62 games. That's quite Speaker 5 (26:01) a stat. Good Speaker 3 (26:02) time to be Speaker 2 (26:02) a Jaguars fan. Quite a stat. Speaker 5 (26:04) Landon Dickerson out. Max, that actually was like for a guy saying he's going to miss some time. That was better news than you'd expect because he's not going to miss the whole season. And he essentially was like, yeah, I was so bad. I'm hurting the team. Speaker 7 (26:19) Yeah. You never want to see somebody hurt, but it was like the best. Oh, yeah. I'm hurt news of all time because if that's just like what he was now, the Eagles were fucked. Yeah. And now it seems like he's going to take as much time as he needs. Get back to 100%. Try and get back to what he was in his prime, or at least close to what he was in his prime. Like, apparently, the Eagles' offensive line was absolutely horrendous on Sunday. and I'm not one of the tape. I'm not one of PFF grades. Speaker 5 (26:49) Well, PFF grades have been getting roasted. Roasted. Because they had, and I think he played well, but Geno Smith was number one, and Cale Williams was 20th. Congrats, memes. Cale Williams was 20th. Speaker 7 (27:02) Sounds like a shot, memes. No, Speaker 5 (27:04) no. Speaker 2 (27:05) Sounds Speaker 5 (27:05) like Speaker 2 (27:05) a shot. I said he played well. It sounded like a shot. Well, Tom Lee Speaker 5 (27:08) came up to me. He's like, you see Geno Smith, number one passer rating. In week one, I was like, no way, dude. And then he pulled it up, and it was the PFF grades. Speaker 7 (27:18) What I was saying is that, according to the tape, the offensive line, everyone else in the offensive line actually played pretty well on Sunday, but because Dickerson was so, so, so, so bad that it made the entire line that much worse. It brought it Speaker 2 (27:35) down. Speaker 7 (27:35) So if we can figure it. It's just one thing that needs to be figured out. And we got some young guys who are going to get a shot. We're going to compete out there, and then we'll get Dickerson back after he's fully healthy, and the line will be good again. Speaker 3 (27:47) You sound like the offensive line coach right now talking to the media. Speaker 7 (27:50) We Speaker 3 (27:51) got some young guys really excited to get them in there, get them some experience. That type of stuff's invaluable this time of year. Speaker 7 (27:58) I've thought about becoming an All-22 guy this year, just for my own personal files. Speaker 2 (28:04) Yeah? Yeah. Speaker 7 (28:04) I want to make some judgment this year based on my own two eyeballs. I Speaker 5 (28:11) would love to see you get into some film stuff. Speaker 7 (28:13) See, I don't Speaker 5 (28:15) think Speaker 7 (28:15) I could do film breakdowns because I don't really know what I'm talking about. No, you'd have to. Speaker 5 (28:20) No, I think you should do film breakdowns for the average guy and be like, hey, look, all right, here we go. They got two wide receivers, and I don't know which way the wide receiver is supposed to go, but then he passed to this tight end. Good play. Or like, Speaker 7 (28:35) yeah, defense, I don't know anything. And I played football up until senior year of high school. I mean, through senior year of high school. But I played D-line, and it was basically just go straight, go right, go left. That was my... So that's how Speaker 5 (28:51) you should do the breakdown. Be like, look, all right, we're going to key in on this defensive lineman. Watch his technique. He goes straight. Perfect straight. Speaker 7 (29:02) The only defensive thing that I remember from high school is the middle linebacker would tell me, Richie, Richie, Richie, Louie, Louie, Louie. And that just meant if I went right or left. Speaker 2 (29:11) That was all I got. And no one ever figured it out. What do you say, Meebs? Meebs, what do you got? Speaker 3 (29:16) Max Speaker 4 (29:16) said this exact same thing last year. Did I? The exact Speaker 3 (29:19) same conversation. Max got jealous of my film breakdowns Speaker 7 (29:22) that Speaker 3 (29:22) I would put out about Jaden's handoffs. Speaker 7 (29:24) No, I said this on Wake Up Marshall this morning. I said I was going to start becoming a film guy. Let's do it. Maybe Speaker 5 (29:28) Sam Schwartzy can help you. Speaker 7 (29:32) Yeah, but I don't want to know too much. No, I Speaker 5 (29:36) meant literally give you his password. Oh, okay. But I Speaker 7 (29:39) don't want him to teach me too much. I like to live in my brain. I would watch Speaker 5 (29:44) Max's breakdowns for a guy who doesn't really know football but loves football. Speaker 7 (29:49) Yeah. No, no. Yeah, dude. I just want to watch. I just want to watch each player. The all 22 Speaker 3 (29:58) angle is fun. I Speaker 7 (29:59) know. Speaker 3 (30:00) That's what I want to do. I watched the entire game again last night, and I was pretty much doing it just watching one player. And I don't know how the film guys do it. Do they just watch a single player and then go back and watch a different player? I was wondering that, too. Speaker 7 (30:13) Because you Speaker 3 (30:13) can't actually watch more than one guy if you're actually trying to figure out if one guy is good on a player or not. You have to just look at that. They Speaker 5 (30:19) speed through it. They'll watch. The guys who are really good will do game film. They'll do an entire game in 25 minutes. Baldy's just ripping through it. I think it would Speaker 7 (30:29) take me a full nine to five of trying to just watch one game and get a real film Speaker 2 (30:35) break. Because you get distracted, too. Speaker 7 (30:37) No, that doesn't sound like me. I'm really good at multitasking. Speaker 2 (30:41) ADD. Speaker 7 (30:41) Memes? Speaker 2 (30:43) I Speaker 7 (30:44) mean, no, we're having the same exact conversation. I don't think I said this last year, but I'm going to figure it out. I'm going to figure out how to get the all 22. You did. Speaker 3 (30:52) You were jealous of my handoff breakdowns. I Speaker 7 (30:53) asked Stephen Che. I already said it. I said it this morning before you even said that. Speaker 3 (30:57) No, I'm saying last year. That's why you said it last year. Speaker 7 (30:59) Oh. Yeah. Oh, the handoffs. Yeah, the handoffs. Those were impressive. Howard's handoff. You said you watched the game. Yeah, I did. I did. Speaker 3 (31:07) You know what's kind of sad is I was going through trying to find the best handoff to break down. Speaker 3 (31:12) His handoff game might have fallen off. Speaker 1 (31:15) Oh, no. Speaker 3 (31:16) Jaden gets a big downgrade from me this year in terms of handoffs from week one. Comparing week one's year over year, it's bad. There was absolutely no flair to it. He didn't have any joy in the handoffs. I'd like to see more explosiveness in that elbow. Mm Speaker 5 (31:32) -hmm. Speaker 3 (31:34) Okay. Also, Mikey Sanders still sucked, and he's probably going to get benched. Speaker 2 (31:38) Damn. Yeah. You Speaker 7 (31:39) love Mikey. I Speaker 3 (31:39) do love Mikey. I thought he was going to be my honey badger. Speaker 7 (31:42) That one touchdown that he gave up to Wicks was. Speaker 5 (31:46) Can I do a little? I don't want to overload everyone with my love for Ben Johnson because it's getting borderline too much. You know how a coach after having a really good season and there's a catchphrase. The next season, it's like, do you bring back the catchphrase? Do you not? So he did the perfect thing after the Bears won where he broke down the huddle, and then he was just like, all right, that's all I got. And then I'm not joking. If you pull up the clip, like, Jadae Walker looked like he was having, like, a mental breakdown because he needed good, better, best so bad. He was convulsing. And then he hit it, and everyone was like. Fuck yes. That was like the best. He blew balls the entire locker room to a point where they're like, we need it so bad. You have to do it. It was before that. I don't know if you have it. We just get a Speaker 3 (32:38) taste of some good, better. Speaker 2 (32:38) It was before he did Speaker 5 (32:41) good, better, best. He said, I'm going to break it down here. You know what? You look, I'll do an ad draft Kings. The wait is over. Football is here, and so is DraftKings. DraftKings Sports app is now live in all 50 states. That means from Texas to California to Florida, every fan is in on the excitement. And this September, DraftKings is giving customers the opportunity to get boosted every football game day. That's right. Every game day, all month long, DraftKings customers can get a football profit boost. One app, every sport, all 50 states. New DraftKings customers sign up with code TAKE. Spend just $5, get $200 in total rewards within 21 days. Includes all markets. 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Right here, right here, right here. That's all I got, right? Speaker 5 (34:17) Hey, Walker, look at him. Speaker 2 (34:20) He's shaking. Yeah. Speaker 5 (34:37) Whole locker room, guys just screaming, I need it. I need it. But it is a hard thing to decide Speaker 2 (34:42) if you're going to bring back the thing that you did last year. He knew what he was doing that walk away. Yeah. Speaker 3 (34:46) He Speaker 2 (34:46) had a Speaker 3 (34:47) little Speaker 2 (34:47) smirk Speaker 3 (34:48) on his face. All Speaker 2 (34:48) right, see ya. Because you don't know. Speaker 3 (34:50) Unless you guys have anything else that you want me to say. Speaker 5 (34:52) Yeah, do you bring something back? You know what I mean? Because eventually it probably. Speaker 5 (34:57) falls on deaf ears. So then you just make them Speaker 3 (35:00) beg for it. You're retired after you win a Super Bowl because your best can't get any bester. Speaker 5 (35:03) Yeah. Or if this season doesn't go well, then you retire it. Speaker 3 (35:06) Yeah. Hank, what do you think? I like it. I just want to know your thoughts. I like it. How are you feeling about your Patriots? You've had the benefit of watching every other team play and digesting all that. Speaker 1 (35:19) Yeah, I talked about it earlier. The AFC's stacked. It's concerning. A lot of good quarterbacks, a lot of good teams. Speaker 3 (35:27) Gino Smith ranked number one. Speaker 5 (35:29) Yeah. I'm so excited. Week two, there are some Loser Leaves Town games already. Wow. Actually, Cowboys Commanders is a losing leap Speaker 2 (35:39) sound. Speaker 3 (35:40) Maybe. No? I don't know. It's still early. Okay. I think we just got to win one of our first three. I've Speaker 2 (35:48) seen Speaker 3 (35:48) some bad starts before. Speaker 5 (35:50) The Packers are in must win, it feels like. Yeah. The Broncos are going to be in must win with their schedule coming up. The Chargers might have the most must win game of all time, playing the Raiders with the schedule they have. If they don't win this week. It's over. And I know that sounds crazy, but it's over. Might be pinky team if they lose the Raiders. I might not do pinky team this year. Flew too close to the sun. It's just so stressful. It's so stressful. And I don't know if I really want all that stress for something that because I would go through with it. And I don't like I feel the stress. I'll have to decide. See who loses, who starts. Oh, and two. You're going to end up doing it. The Texans lose to the Bengals. Let's do the Texans again. No, no, Speaker 2 (36:36) no. Speaker 5 (36:38) Run back to Texas. All right, you guys want to talk some college ball? Let's talk ball. The big game, obviously, Ohio State, Texas. Texas. That was an incredible second half. Really bad first half for March Manning. Do you, PFT, see this as more a Texas win or a Ohio State choke? I Speaker 3 (37:00) think it's a Texas win. Okay. As much as I would like to say Ohio State choke, I think, I don't know what the numbers are. It's probably... just about impossible to look up, but it's got to be very, very rare that in a