Hr2 - Cooper Rush Takes the Reins for Falcons as Tua Sits Out vs Steelers

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1:26What if the thing you're listening to right now never got interrupted? What if it could play uninterrupted from room to room on Sonos? What if you start with two Sonos speakers just to see how it feels? What if you really like how it feels and you become a Sonos person who can't stop saying to their friends, what if you start with two Sonos speakers just to see how it feels? Because it's not magic, but it's not not magic. Happy Friday, everybody. We're live. It's Win Peaks in Buckhead. It is Duke's in Bell. And our Friday is taking a turn just a little bit because of the news coming out of Flurry Branch. Cooper Rush is going to be your starter on Sunday. It is not too over the oblique. And we've been discussing this and what it means for not only the game plan but the Falcon's opportunity and chances to go up to Pittsburgh. And when Mike, you said the line has moved, right? Yes, on some sports books it's up to six which has had us talking about.

2:26Now this is still the Pittsburgh Steelers. This is a very anemic offense. And we're still wondering where the past rush comes from, but six seems a bit rich. I'm not saying how that's how we're going to play it, but the picture coming up and it's intriguing. It is. We'll continue to discuss all that that entails guys. And again, so many different comments from you guys coming in on the text line and certainly on our social media about how you're feeling about this, how you're feeling about Michael Pinnix. Again, inactive that has not changed. We will have an emergency third string quarterback, but Jack Strand is your backup. Who is this emergency third string quarterback? I don't know. And the jokes are endless. I mean, you know, guys are sending memes of Matt Ryan running out there. They're working with top men. Who? Top men. Yeah, I mean, nobody knows who this is. And again, Matt Ryan, I wouldn't, you know what? I'd like to see Matt Ryan sign a one day contract. And just get out there and do it. But either way, yeah, that's the thing. And it's fun. A lot of guys, it's funny. A couple guys sent me up on the text line saying, you know, they were, you know, very angry at me for like, you know, questioning Pinnix

3:28and it's just toughness and all this. And I never got, never question is physical toughness. This is metal toughness we're talking about now. It's getting your head right. But they're feeling like, yeah, this was kind of an opportunity here for Pinnix. But again, what maybe next week, maybe the third week, maybe October, maybe in Spain, Michael, Pettics feels right. What have been that? Isn't that November? Oh, come on. Don't know. Okay. Can't rush it, Carl. Yeah, look, I say I'm Newton says you don't know anything to the man. Don't get hassled by the man. Yeah. Well, look, I will say the man is going to put you down, Carl. You know, the man, nothing. I will say and the man is the NFL because the NFL throws guys out every year. Correct. And they don't think twice about him. So he's not wrong about that. That's why I'm always happy when guys do get their back. Get your money. We always agree about that because this, this doesn't last long. But you know, And it's the toughest sport. Next, maybe hockey and the NFL and you can never make enough. You can't because your career can be over like that.

4:29The only thing guaranteed is your signing bonus. I, my confidence level, though, is down. It was, it was dwindling to begin with, to be quite honest with you. Because I just know. And again, I'm just looking at the defensive side of things. It is going to be hard to get the kind of pressure we had last year with two major pieces out. So this just adds to my anxiety about this game. But, but let me ask you just a hypothetical question before we get into some other stuff. Because again, the Braves do play, play tonight. Chris sale on the hill. Aaron Nola, great Friday night matchup. As the Phillies are in here for four games set. We lead or three games should I say. And we lead them by four games in the NL East. Let me ask you a hypothetical. Where would this franchise be? And what would we look like if Kyle Shanahan remained here and was our coach? And the reason I ask you that is because he is now in his tenth season leading the Niners. They've already had Super Bowl appearances. They were on the verge last year of possibly getting back. And they were decimated by injuries.

5:30Last night they beat the Rams the most hyped team in the off season. And Shanahan, who is now just 46 by the way. Gets a deal in the off season Mike to extend with the 49ers and nobody even really knew about. Tom Pelicero said this announcement or this actually happened during the off season. Nobody knew it. And then last night it kind of got revealed. And I'm sitting there thinking the what if game? What if he had stayed and there was vision with ownership to say, you know what? This is really as you used to say the brains of the operation. What would this look like? It would have been completely different than us going through three or four different coaches. I mean Shanahan was never going to say no to the 49ers but then the old argument was Dan Quinn just bringing Matt LaFour. Matt LaFour knows the system Shanahan system. You know, same thing that happened to Alabama the national championship game against Clemson happened with us and Sarkeesian. Even though Sarkeesian was part of that process, throwing it as an OC it was Lane Kiffin's offense. And this was Shanahan's offense. And he had never coached that version of a West Coast offense and it showed.

6:32You guys, you realize we went into LA beat the Rams and that was a high powered offense in that time. We go into Philly, keep them under 21 points and we don't go to the next round. We should have been in the NFC championship. We could have actually called flipped the ultimate script from that choke job of the Super Bowl. But again, Shanahan and again, we all know what should have happened. But Dan Quinn had autonomy with his OC and no one had the presence of mind, the situational awareness to look at what we should have been doing that final drive before overtime. But last night, if you watched the game on Netflix, they did a hell of a job. I mean, the Rams, they do that whole celebration where they're napping in the end zone. Being Netflix, of course, you didn't get to see the whole thing because they didn't have a camera guy in the end zone. Netflix is awful. Brock Purti, they'll regroups three touchdowns, one pick, McCaffrey, they grind at the average 6.8, just 10 carries. Yeah. And some hard runs. But the big story for me, I think you and I talked about this off the air. DeMarcus Robinson and Mike Evans, you know, Debo, all three of those guys, Debo back doing what he needs to do. But the way that Shanahan skimmed and also hats off, didn't work out as a head coach on two occasions,

7:36but hats off to coach Rahim Morris with a really great defensive plan, especially Carl losing two of his defensive linemen. He has been, and I said this when he got here, he is a Super Bowl winning coordinator. Say what you want about rock. He is a very good defensive mind. Right. And so what that said, you know, he helped his boy across the road there in Sean McVeigh win a Super Bowl. I think he may be trying to help his other buddy here in Kyle Shanahan get there as well. And there's no reason guys if they stay healthy. The thing about them is they're old. They got a lot of old pieces and they're broken down as the seasons early. When you get late in the season, look at their roster and see how many guys are injured or banged up because they have paid all their stars. Right. Matthew Stafford made some bad decisions. One ball was picked. One should have been picked. You know, and you look at the run game, they tried to use they get the smaller running backs and Cormin Williams, Carl. Yep. And they just, they weren't getting the traction. They ran at 29 times. I mean, there's a lot of running by the Rams, but they just blew it. And I just felt the Rams and everyone's talking about how do you prepare for this kind of game.

8:36First off, can we never do this again? You feel me on this with the Australian experience? Well, you know, I don't like international games. I don't like them. Melburn, I'm lucky to have been there twice. It's an amazing city. I've been there for Formula One. Great sports fan. Great people. But imagine, and I told you yesterday in Guy Talk, you said 165 feet from the sideline. You had some poor slubs who bought tickets from America who thought, I got, I got Front Row. You might as well have a telescope. And, you know, I love the spectacle. It looked great as far as visually, but it's just, we shouldn't be doing this. This is a divisional game with two teams that have super well aspirations to put them into this meat grinder. And again, the Rams, I think in hindsight, maybe don't talk to the, I guess the sleep experts. Yeah. And just get your ass down there for a week and get acclimated. You're going to have nine days till your next game. I just don't like these international games. And, well, this is the extreme. Going to Europe is one thing. That's, that's, that's an LA trip plus two hours. Yeah. This is insane. It is, but they all suck. And here's the other thing. If someone pointed out to me, you know, you're going to another country to give them our best sport.

9:40And then you put it on a pay service. You know, for NFL fans. Right. The people who are that, the most loyal to you in NFL. Oh, we got to pay extra for this. I mean, like there's so many levels and elements to this, Mike, but I'm just not a huge fan of, uh, we've asked you this yesterday about the, our home game. Are we losing a home game when we go to Madrid? You know, like all these things, man, they add up, but this is the greed of, of where the NFL is. And that's just, guys, that's not going to change. You're, they're not doing this to cut less international opportunities. No, it's a, it is a home game for us against the Bengals in Madrid. So I could have sold Joe Burrell down here in my safe place. I know, but that's it. Guys, it's the hubris of Roger Gidell, who just got to raise into contract extension because the NFL is printing money. But this Australian game is literally jumping the shark from the crappy sight lines to Netflix being absolutely horrible at broadcasting the NFL. And that's not a reflection on L Duncan, good friend of ours. But I mean, they've got production issues with that broadcast. It's just not good. You know, I mean, how about last night talking about Terry McCauley.

10:42Well, Terry, why don't you give him a microphone, right? They're literally, you see that? I didn't. I didn't. I mean, literally you've got the, they're talking about a play. And what do they think about it? And they go, Terry McCauley is nodding. Okay, great. How about you give a microphone to the former NFL referee to speak? I mean, Netflix is horrible. And you're right. You're a, you're a diehard fan. If you're our generation or you guys are younger in your 20s, the NFL success is built on our parents to your generation for being loyal NFL fans. And now they screw you with this crap. We're having to watch five different pay services to watch a full season. Cost a lot. And it costs a lot. Let's hear from last night speaking of last night. Shinnahann, this is Kyle Shinnahann talking about the game plan. They were brilliant. I always knew what day it was. I was trying to show how confusing it was comparing it to people at home. But I learned the days when we got here. We're one ahead. Now I'm ready to go back, back into the game. I think it's Thursday at home and it's Friday here.

11:42My son plays on Friday. So somehow I'm going to land over a day later. But still be able to make his game on Friday. So it's pretty cool. I mean, the game worked. You know, I mean, at Winner lose, I knew everyone was going to make a big deal about that for either team. You never know how much that factors into it. You just try to do the best for a pair for three and a half hours. I like how we prepared. But more important than I liked how we played. Yeah, and people gave him crap because he was laying out, you know, I'm a day behind and I'm looking at my watch and I don't know what day it is. And so he clarified that and then obviously talking about the game plan worked and that he did. Here's Shinnahann also talking about no air in Donald's plan because air in Donald was not there last night. Just smile. That's good. So we're going to have to see him eventually. We play them twice. But I was hoping he won it. I was preparing for the worst and glad that we don't have to play. So Mike, we saw Mike Evans in our division all these years. He became a Hall of Fame wide receiver in this division with the bucks. Last night he looked like he hadn't lost anything. And his buddy George Kiddell said as much after the game about how impressed he was with Mike Evans.

12:44One day I've really enjoyed about Mike Evans and being out of practice with them. Like we call these plays for him. And let's just say he has like some type of widened posts and the coaching points are, hey, you have to be the bottom edge of the number. By 15 to 20 yards and you have to keep it high in inside. It takes a lot of receivers a lot of time to try to do that. Like young receivers take some lot of reps. Like Mike Evans gets told what play is and then he just does it. And he just like no coaching points. It's just fun to be around somebody who knows that. Yeah, he was great. You said that receiving core man. Yeah. But Shinnahann, I mean, it was it was masterful. It's the stuff. You know, you and I for guys don't remember we used to line from broke back mountain after the Super Bowl. Which Shinnahann left us. I can't quit you because he's one of the best play callers in the game. And then you heard Sean McVeigh of course, this is on me. I got to do a better job. It's on me. Yeah, no blank Sherlock. But Matthew Stafford was not good. No. And I know a lot has been made about it. And he owned it. Miles Garrett said he's not 100%. But Miles Garrett, I mean, you look at him and it's like an X-band. And he had no impact on that game.

13:44Yeah, but he also was going up against another all pro. Trent Williams. Trent Williams. Right. Give Trent his due. Like Trent, Trent's old too. Well, you can move him around, you know. But if you're if you're Shula, the DC, you're right. But I'm saying like he wasn't going up against some buster. Like Trent Williams has been in this league a long time and gotten a lot of money as well. He did a hell of a job. Zero pressures from Miles Garrett. Like I said, nonexistent. And that truly was. That's that's pro baller, pro baller, Hall of Famer, Hall of Famer. All right, man. A vantage. Niners. Yeah. We're coming back. What about the Falcons? Daniel Flick who writes for the AJC.com covers the Falcons is going to join us next. We'll get the latest from flowery guys. Cooper rushes your starter. Stukes and Bill. Hey, all right. It's almost here. Are you ready? Just grabbing my shoes. That's what you said 10 minutes ago. I just wrapped a video call uploading this giant file on my tablet, looking at my watch group and Nana's with the group chat. And of course, still lining up tonight's playlist on my phone. All at once? Yep.

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16:47And that is Cooper Rush, as your starter. We want to talk to Daniel Flick. He covers the Falcons for the AJC and AJC.com. And Daniel, appreciate the time as always, man. The vibe at flowery. That's start there. Because Kevin's the fan ski address to you guys again. You heard from Cooper Rush yesterday. What's your take on how this is going up there? Because everybody feels like, oh, it's no big deal. We're calm. We're confident. But are they really? This is a really bizarre situation, man. I ask Kevin today, like, if you ever, in your coaching career, have you ever had your quarterback one get hurt late in the week and have to pretty much figure out how you're going to piece it together? He leaned back in his chair. He thought about it. That's a good question. I don't know. And I'm going to guess the answer is probably no. And I asked a lot of his akias very similar deal guys in year seven as a pro and, you know, throughout his entire playing group. Have you ever experienced it? He's like, no, I really, I'm pretty sure I haven't. It's uncharted territory. And the hardest part about this, I think, if you're Cooper Rush,

17:50you go into this. Apart from a two minute drive, you know, early in training camp. Like, you opening week of camp, late July, early August. He hadn't taken a snap with the one since then, prior to yesterday. So now you've got two days in a walk through tomorrow to try to create chemistry, create timing. Make sure everybody knows your cadence and all that stuff. It's just a really hard situation, a really bizarre, really, really bizarre times is probably how I would describe it. Yeah, I know that fans are excited about Jack Strand. So he'd be the backup. Does anyone know who the emergency quarterback is because Petics is inactive? So it won't be a quarterback. That's the deal. So by declaring to her and Petics out today, they cannot play on Sunday. And so in turn, but you also cannot label a non quarterback as your emergency quarterback. So in that case, what Kevin said, we got clarified this after the fact. What Kevin said about them having a plan, it was not that they have a quarterback necessarily planned as their emergency quarterback.

18:50It would, in that case, be we have, you know, a wide receiver or whoever else has played quarterback in his past, he would be our QB3. That's their approach to it. It's not, it won't be to it. It won't be Petics. It won't be any either of those guys. As Kevin said, hopefully it doesn't happen. And hopefully it's not a problem. But yeah, no, so in the event that it does, it wouldn't be a quarterback. Wait a minute. There's a rush that in the crowd. Matt Ryan is making his way from the owner's box. But no, I mean, and by the way, they kept Jack Strand on this roster for a reason. They see something in Jack Strand or they just envisioned there was going to be so much turnover. I mean, I can't imagine them ever anticipating this. What happened to Tua? Yeah, no, I think with a vision a little bit, I think envisioning and having an insurance policy is why Cooper rush made the team. I think long-term intrigue is why Jack made the team. Like from what I've heard and from what Ian told us last week is that they're very high on Jack's upside. And so I think David, Jack is more of an intriguing long-term option and kind of see how much

19:50how large of strides he can make this year as a prospect. And in ideal world, he's not playing, right? Like in an ideal world, he's not going to play a game this year. He didn't take a single rep and even like a scout team rep from the end of pre-season up until yesterday. He hadn't done a single rep. He'd done a walk through and that's it. So collectively, Jack really has an even harder job than Rush does in the sense that he's taken even fewer snaps. So it'll be interesting to watch that goes, but I really think Jack is primarily just here as a long-term guy. And they're not really somebody who has a chance to start unless Cooper rush gets hurt. For all. Let's get away from the game for a second. I found the article that you wrote about Kyle Pits very interesting. He's been somewhat of an enigma since he's been here, soft-spoken, Mike and I have had him on the show numerous times. He's got a great personality, but he really is very careful and calculated about what he says. What did you learn about Kyle Pits?

20:50Because I love the line, you know the unicorn, but you don't know Kyle Pits. Yeah, I really appreciate the question. I had a lot of fun writing that. You know, I talked to a lot of people. I talked to his high school coach, his high school trainer, college tight ends coach, a variety of coaches here. I talked to Kyle for 25 minutes and we got into some really cool conversations about his life as a dad. What he enjoys being as a, you know, how much he enjoys being a dad and how much that's matured him. And you know, kind of here in him talk about like, you know, I don't really read much online. He seemed like he sees bad comments. He doesn't really care too much about him. And you can tell he's somebody who's just incredibly smart, but the lines are like the most. One of his trainers nowadays who's in the Bahamas who trained Julio Jones. And that's that's how he met Kyle was through Julio. And he said Kyle Pits is the humblest person I know. And this is a guy who has been around, you know, pro out he trains pro athletes for a living like this is his job is livelihood.

21:51He's trained numerous Atlanta players in the past present and you know, players from around the league. And I thought it was a really carried weight that you hear things of that from guys who are around pro athletes all the time. We talked about a Kyle will come in and have a conversation with even like the normal people in their gym because they have a private section in their gym and a public section. And Kyle will go into the public and just talk to people. So I learned a lot about Kyle in that sense that you know, you you you land this job and you read comments online about. He's not a hard worker. He's lazy. Whatever. There's a big misconception about Kyle Pits, I think. And so what I really learned about this is that a lot of those people were wrong. He does work hard. He cares. And he's a really good dude. So he expressed a lot of appreciation to me for writing it. And I really, you know, enjoyed that aspect of it as well. Oh, he's a fun guy to talk to his Carl mentioned. We've always felt as we're talking with Daniel flick our man flick from the AJC who's up at Falcons every day. You know, just a lot of this was unfortunately that injury, which kind of lingered from 22 into 23. And then we see, you know, against Tampa, he can look like one of the best players in the league.

22:53You know, just got to hopefully that with this offense, it's sustainable. All right, brother, with the game this weekend, what about the past rush to his all break, have to dial up blitzes or can I've been saying all week to Carl the OG's the guys that we've assembled in lieu of Jalen Walker and certainly without Pearson, the suspension. Are we going to be able to have past rush without a blitz? I really don't think so. I asked for about that yesterday. What's your plan for it? You said that they're hoping they don't have to blitz. He's hoping they could, but obviously you always hope that. And he said, you know, last year they went in and they were incredibly blitz heavy the first half of the year. And then similar younger guys came on late and it allowed them to, you know, rush more with a more, you know, usual rush package and not have to blitz as much. So they're rate drop. I think they're going to have to come out and be very blitz heavy this year. And I'm sure you guys saw a little bit out at camp Q like they they've put their, you know, off ball linebackers on the ball. They've let them down. I think we'll see their linebackers rush and blitz quite a bit and line up in a lot of spots. I think they'll bring corner pressure a couple times. I think they'll, I think they'll be aggressive with it.

23:53So I think it's a past rush collectively that'll be similar to last year where especially when Pierce comes back, you'll be able to see the unit gel. You'll see them get more pressure as a group. There's a lot of new faces. I mean, they, you know, you, you only bring back 28% of your sacks from last year. You sign a ton of new guys trade for a couple. They're going to, it's going to take time to get forward or rush as one. So I think you're going to have to bring more. I think you got to also lean into the fact that your back end is really, really good. That's kind of the strength of your team, really. So you've got to trust those guys to win one on one matchups and say, hey, I'm not sure about our past rush. But if we light them up and we bring, you know, pretty heavy pressures that that might be a way that you can kind of, you know, have a little bit of an edge. How do the Falcons win this game? Run on the football. You don't have to, right? You can't go into this now and say we're going to pass our way to a win. You just can't do it. Not with who per rush, not with a guy that through four picks and two starts last year. You can't do it. So they're going to have to run the ball while they're going to have to control line of scrimmage.

24:55Time of risk and have to have a have a have a heck of a game calling it. And they're going to have to find ways they've talked a lot this off season about. Hey, we think we've got one beaters for every defensive concept. You can throw it as well. You're going to get a whole lot of heavy boxes this week. You got to go prove it. So I think you got to run the ball while you got to control line of scrimmage and you have to figure out a way to make Aaron Rogers a little bit uncomfortable. However, that can be. All right, man. Always a pleasure. Daniel, enjoy as much as we can. You know, a great job, man. And we will certainly get a chance to catch up with you as this season moves forward. What's the phrase you used weird as we started this conversation with the school? It is the most unusual. Yes, bizarre. It's a great word to state what's going on. And Dan, just as we're saying goodbye, give me odds on Michael Penex starting next week against Carolina. Oh goodness. Um, 25 to one. I'll go. How much? Okay. Out of 100. I'll put out a percentage rate. Mike. I'll go 45%. Okay. All right. Give me hope. That's more than what I expected.

25:57I'm talking to the man. Come on, Mikey. Get out there. Daniel, thank you. Appreciate you. Take care, bro. Absolutely. Guys, I appreciate you too. No doubt. There it is at flowery. And again, Kevin's the fanski talking to the media today saying, hey, we got a plan. Boy, let's hope so. I'm with them with the time he resplays calling thing. And look again, it's not that Cooper Rush can't win games. Everybody's like, oh, I've watched Cooper Rush. I watched the Cowboys. I know what this is about. But Mike, you got to put him in positive situations. My buddy coach Jimmy goes, come on you guys. Buck up. We steal his world beaters. It's just it's so disappointing. I mean, I'm beyond the, you know, the fact that Mike can't go. I knew there was a level of competency with Pekis, but again, Cooper is nine and seven as a starter. It's just you heard from Daniel Flick. You got no reps. Yeah. Oh, and two last year with the Ravens, right? The starter when Lamar was out. Right. Okay. I mean, like with some weapons. Correct. All right. We're coming back. We got to get to the picks of the week. Oh, what's it going to look like?

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30:38We pick three games against the spread over under. It can be college football. It can be NFL season. You're. And right now according to day J. I'm one and two after week one, Mike is two and one orange two and one. Day is two and one. After last week's games, did you pick Florida State? I'm trying to remember doing it. No, I did tell you to take take take Florida State or the and take SMU. That's right. That's right. So we are now in week two, obviously the NFL. It's really week one for us here with the NFL. So we've got NFL games we can get after. You put me on the board right now for Alabama over Florida State next week right now. You want to you want to jump the car. Yeah, we're calling this the Mike Norval buy out weekend. A lot of Florida State fans are going to be dancing around ironically carol the fire like Indians. If a Norval gets got people are over him. Look, you guys are better than I am in week one. I'm going to go first. Then we'll go to Mike. Orn and then day day will do you last since you guys are all two and one. It starts and ends with Austin this week for me. It is payback. And this is the best team. Sark has had win and since he's been at the University of Texas. But he also has a very secret weapon. That is the defensive coordinator that he hired this off season. Maybe Georgia fans might be familiar with him. Mike, what's his name?

32:00Oh, I'm trying to remember. Oh, will must champ coach boom bringing the heat Texas is only a one and a half point favorite in this game. They think it's a field goal game. Rightfully so both teams are loaded. But I'm taking the horns to cover the one and a half at home. Archmaning plays well. The defense holds up and they hold Ohio State down and get the victory. I also like Oregon. Oh, I'm going to stay in Ohio. Excuse me. Oklahoma State. You guys realize they had like 90 new players. A new coach. And last week, do you know who beat him? Tulsa. I am rolling with Oregon, even though they look like they struggled against boys. He last week. Don't discount. Boise. I think they may be the best non power for school out there. Boise is better than what you know, you give them credit for. But Oregon is a 23 and a half point favorite day day. That's what I have them down for. I'm going to go to the board, double check all of this. I'm taking Oregon on the road to cover that. And then I keep debating Mike, should I go NFL or should I stay college and I told you I like these college games this week. I may stay all college.

33:11But there is one game that I do think has upset potential, at least cover potential. And that is the panthers taken on the bears this week. Chicago travels to Carolina. Now you guys know, I don't like the fact that we've been talking about Carolina and this ascension. But everybody's on the bears. Everybody's on Caleb Williams. Everybody thinks the bears are going to lead the NFL in scoring, which they might. Roma Dunes a banged up a little bit for this game. Correct. But Luther Burton watch him out. I think I want to go there. Dayday put me down for the panthers that cover the three. Oh my goodness. At home. Oh my goodness. The bears. Wow. This could be the crazy pick for me. But that's what I'm going to do in the NFL. It's the one game. I really like I've got three more college games. I could have gone. But give me Texas covered the one and a half. Oregon on the road. 23 and a half and give me the panthers. Carolina plus three at home against the bears. You liked San Francisco last night, but you didn't put your money or your mouth was. I told you I really liked them going into this game. It had nothing to do with the whole flight thing. I just I felt like Mike. No one raw.

34:15They were going to have a really good game plan. And they did. Guys, Matthew Stafford only passed for 155 yards last night. Right. So what that said. Those are my three on the board. Mike Bells two and one. What do you got? Hey, man. I'm going to go with the game, which is not about Michigan looking so awful and stealing a game from Western Michigan. It's nothing to do. Carl with the bad karma that Michigan has incurred the last couple of years. Terrible. This is simply that Oklahoma shut down their quarterback last year that material is healthy. Oklahoma has got that defense of the doubles. And there's going to be apparently 30,000 Oklahoma fans invading the big house. True or more. Right now, day day. I've got it at five. I'm going to take the Sooners minus five at the big house over Michigan. I like it. It's that Fox noon game. I like it. And I think honestly Kyle winning him is a great winning coach. To me, he reminds me of John Fox at the end of his career. Thinking about the beach. Sitting on the beach. I mean, 20%. This is not going to happen for Michigan. And they deserve it too. Because they're just awful people like Dave Portney. All right, man. The other one. I'm going to go with Mike real quick. I do see that five and a half. So where are you?

35:20What are you guys? I'll let you guys take it. What's going to get lay it, man? I'm going to lay it. I'll lay the hook. I'm with you. I'll lay the hook. I'm with Michael in this by the way. I went by five and went by six. Yes. I totally agree. All right. So late at five and a half. Joe. All right. I got you. All right. Here's a. I'm going to go college for my second pick. Tough, miserable game last week. Got really punched in the stomach. The run game was abysmal. How Georgia Tech wouldn't stop Colorado? 15 run plays in a row at one point. This is an uptempo offense. Josh Hype was going to lean into their run game. But I think the Brent key challenges the manhood of his guys. You're going there. It's going up to 12 and a half. I've got a biggest insider day day. So take a look. But I like Georgia Tech getting now 12 and a half. Not saying Georgia Tech and win. But I don't think Brent Keyless. I'm guessing humiliated at Bobby Dodd. A lot of orange, by the way. Can they block these guys? We're going to find out someone say Mike. You're too close to it with my buddy George God see and Brent Key. Mike you're too close to it. I just I cannot see Georgia Tech starting. I mean, only two in the seasons over. They've been mad all week. I will say that.

36:22Yeah. They've been mad all week. Mike, if they come into this game that way, maybe you see that energy. And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. And then you then you brought in the wrong. You spent the wrong money on the wrong guys on defense because they ran through you like poop through a goose. What about the coordinators? Right. Well, I mean, but the Georgia Tech defense couldn't do Jack and like the reps got involved too. There was some crappy calls. Sorry, but when you can't run the ball and they say stubborn. Let Mendoza cook. Okay. Let Alberto Mendoza. Right. Is that the right Mendoza? It is. Let that. Let that Mendoza brother cook Georgia Tech getting 12 and a half. And finally, go with the National Football League. I believe that CJ Stroud turns it around this year. I think to me go Ryan's and that defense gets after Josh Allen and Buffalo in H town. I've taken the Texans getting a point and a half. I like it. So the Texans plus one and a half Georgia Tech getting 12 and a half and Oklahoma now five and a half laying the points. Those are my three week one is hard to predict in the NFL, but I've told you. I think Houston and I only want to say sleep or Super Bowl. Possibility. They got a team that could get there.

37:25All right. Let's continue to move. Mike was two and one last week. Day day was two and one. So it was on and on. What are your picks this week? All right. Here we go. I'm going to reverse that to a yours. Car. Okay. I'm going to take the day. Time out. Orin. What did we say about energy? Speak with your chest. I thought I thought that was energetic when I told Carl. I was in feeling it. Sorry again. I got a yeah. I'm going to reverse. I do it. Your picks. Is that okay? Hey, there we go. That's what you got. What you got me. I felt so inauthentic. Oh my gosh. It's a lot of force. It felt forced. It felt really forced. Like this Falcon quarterback situation. That's not so much force. It is real, but we'll get to that. Oh, no, it is. We got forced into this. Um, I am. We didn't land on two. A pineapple boy landed on us. We got this. Go ahead. I'm sorry. I like the bears minus three over the panthers. Roma Dunes. A is going to be healthy this week. And then the other guy just got a new contract. So they come in. We did some juice. Yeah. Give me the bears minus three. And I like that pick. I don't think your boys are going to do it this weekend. Carl. Give me the bus minus the one and a half versus the champion.

38:32I'm going to play on this. So this is a very special. Highest right now. Yeah. There's too much on offense right now for a house. Stay protected. Give me that. Okay. I know who's calling the place. Good luck. Okay. All right. Arthur Smith. He's definitely going to score more. Smith versus Steve Sarkisian. Good luck. You could argue if either one of these guys won the lottery ticket. They'd lose it. All I know is we might see Titan three throwing the Titan one. All right. Oh, sorry, Falcon fans didn't want to bring back bad memories. Now Carl just realize you can lose this game but still win the national championship. There's no doubt neither both of these teams can lose this game and win the national champion. That's the beauty of having these games. That's why I want more of this, Mike. Let's not do less of these big games. This is a really good. This is this be Sark's biggest win. Well, they have been in the playoffs. But still I mean, like I don't want to go back to eat. Eat over Arizona State. I mean, you guys look so shaky in the fourth quarter.

39:32We have to get around two times, but they've been in the playoffs. I wouldn't go that far. Go ahead. Oh. I ended my last one to Michigan. Look got off the last week and the students look really good. So that line's gone up a couple points, but I'll take it at five and a half so you've been the Sooner. It's five and a half versus Michigan. Jump on the Sooner Train. What it sounds like to me is that oh, listen to our picks and just jumped on the opposite side. But that's what it sounds. He's with. He is with Boomer sooner. He's with Venables. Yeah. The get back coach to be grabbing him. I like that. I like that. Hey, George. better watch out when they come to Athens. That's that's a dangerous game. All right, day day two and one last week. Your picks of the week, sir. Well, I'm going to start winning. I hate to do this. Yeah, I should have known there would be two more of you, but I too like Oklahoma. Oh, kiss it down. Yeah, we're done. Thank you. Good luck, guys. Good luck, guys. Oh, that's a kiss. I mean, listen, I think this may be the one time that we can all like feel good inside of the famous last words. I'm sorry. They just they did not look like a team. Guys, they're not even in the top 25, even after a win that

40:37that was really a loss. Like there was nothing that they showed on the field last week that convinces me they can handle with no Oklahoma. Well, word on the word on the street day is the signs have already been stolen by them. They know exactly what Oklahoma will be running. Conor Stallions 2.0. He's back. Remember, guys, the clock you see on television doesn't matter. It's the super secret clock that matters most. All right. My next one, I'm going. This is a very interesting match up. Duke and Illinois. They both come off wins last week. I'm going with the over on this one. Is that 51 and a half? Both these teams last week put up some points offensively. They both can can move the ball, you know, or again, coming off of two matchups that they were highly favored in. But I feel like this one's going to probably be high scoring. So give me Duke Illinois's over 51 and a half. And then my third one, Carl, I was kind of like you originally, I was really leaning at staying away from the NFL. And I was looking at that Boise State Memphis game. Oh, that's going

41:42to be a big one, by the way. That's going to be a very good game. But they got Boise State as an eight and a half favorite. And that just that line is a little scary for me because Memphis, they wrote, I think Memphis, I think a lot of people thought, what is it, some wrong, right? The coach or John some wrong. That's right. Now that he's gone, I think a lot of people thought they make there may be a serious fall off. But they did not, I mean, they dominated last week. So I was really leaning towards Memphis covering, but you know, Boise State, but then again, Boise State almost took it to Oregon, right? So I was just like, you know what, let's just stay away from that one off again. And I'm going to go to the NFL. Yep, I'm not afraid to say it. And I'm going to go to the Raiders. They're three point favorite over the Dolphins. Dolphins, which has got off. So I know that he'll play on the years. That's bad team, bad team. Yeah. Well, listen, I think I think they have enough veteran leadership in court and in Kirk Cuddon's office league. You got

42:45a lot of people who are in the Austin Gentry at running backs. Like I still like what you got on the Raiders side a lot more than what you got on the Dolphins side. So give me the Raiders at three over the Dolphins. Dayday, how much are you putting on that? Because you can just hand it to me now if you want. Actually, I like to pick two. Look, the Dolphins should be bad. This is this is you talk about teams tanking Mike. Oh, purposely. Dolphins, it's going to be a long game. Well, I mean, you know, Malik Willis is going to try to show he's got something in the tank and he's worth, you know, the contract they gave him, which was in the biggest, but wasn't the smallest either. I know. By the way, just for extra curricular activity, Brandon Lang was on the stay couch today. The guy that's two for the money was based on long time prognosticated Carl. He loves the Vikings this week against green Bay. And it's a close spread too, by the way. It's just one and a half points. He also likes Minnesota to go on the over under total seven and a half. He likes over. Yeah. Look, you're underestimating Calamari. I get it. He's a small dude, but he makes plays. And this is his opportunity.

43:46I'm about revitalizing yourself with that wide receiving core. I really like Oklahoma until everybody jumped on Oklahoma. Too late. That's screwed down. Good job, that a alright. Oh, picture in the books. We'll see how we do and we'll be talking about it next week. But when we come back, the latest from flowery guys, Cooper Rush will be the man under center to lead the Falcons against the Steelers on Sunday. We'll tell you our thoughts when we come back on sports radio, 92 9, the game. Hey, our rides almost here. Are you ready? Just grabbing my shoes. That's what you said 10 minutes ago. I just rubbed the video call, uploading this giant file on my tablet, looking at my watch group and Nana's with the group chat. And of course, still lining up tonight's playlist on my phone. All at once? Yep, story of my life. That's why I

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45:48L.A. Carguide.com is the perfect place to find your next car. The ocean moves us. Whether that's surfing a wave or taking in an inspiring view. The ocean feeds us. Sustainable seafood practices bring the ocean's bounty to our plates. The ocean teaches us. How are everyday choices? Big and small make an impact. The ocean delights us as playful otters restore coastal kelp forests. The ocean connects us. Find your connection at monoraybeacquarium.org slash connects. Presented by T-Mobile, the official wireless partner of Odyssey Sports with an awesome network and great savings, there's never been a better time to join T-Mobile. Visit your neighborhood store to make the switch today. People say I got you all the time. Dad say to their kids the first time they ride a bike. Friends say to other friends when they buy them lunch, it's a good thing when someone's got you. It's especially good when someone's got you with important things like your health.

46:52And that's where we share his got you. We got you with a massive nationwide network of over a million doctors, which means you can likely keep your current doctor you know and trust. We got you with affordable prices that can save individuals up to $5,000 annually compared to traditional insurance and save families even more. And we've got you with over 68,000 CVS care mark pharmacies across the country. If you're tired of overpriced health insurance bills, come visit us at wesharehelp.org or call 1-888-WeShare. Other smart Americans are making the switch every day. In a world filled with companies that cost you, it's nice to have one that's got you. We share health. We got you.