 I'm going to Chicago today and I'm gonna eviscerate Chicago Bears fans on my way to O'Hare Airport. It's a lot of fun. What is this thing right here? We gotta get rid of this! All I said is steal the show, Justin Fields. Steal the show, you've got Primetime, Thursday Night Football on Amazon against the Commanders. You should win that game. Make plays, which she did and will get to you and then next week of course the Bears on Monday Night Football, another Primetime game. We'll have the Patriots. Another chance to show you are the face of the franchise and the worst part of it, you are the face of the franchise. You're good, you just can't get it done because you're in the worst situation possible. I could imagine a hellscape of turmoil in my hometown of Chicago. Now, last night the Commanders did their thing taking down or did very little to take down the Chicago Bears, 12-7 final score. The Bears had a chance of course to win it with 42 seconds left in the game. They faced a fourth in goal, that's a four yard line, Darnell Mooney. Oh, if he could have grabbed this cleanly on the win. Ah, everybody at Giordano's, Eduardo's, Portillo's, all the places in Chicago not happy about this one. Wiener's Circle where we saw Marshall Lynch sitting out of, that was weird. I don't know what the story was behind that. Everyone unhappy, but also unhappy, the winning head coach. It was the head coach of the Commanders that was angry after the game. Take a look. Everybody keeps wanting to say, I don't want anything to do with Carson. Well, I'm the guy that pulled out the sheets of paper that looked at the analytics, that watched the tape and the fricking, when we're at Indianapolis, okay? And that's what pisses me off, because the young man doesn't deserve to have that all the time. I'm sorry, I'm done. Can I do that as a Bears fan? Can I just say I'm sorry I'm done and like Walt ought to hear into my weekend? I'm a big Ron Rivera supporter. I think he unfairly got a lot of grief for what he said when he walked it back. And I think that's what this was too, because there's a question that emerges. And the question is, is the situation with Wentz beyond repair already? Rivera there clearly trying to make up for what he said, how he misspoke, how it was misconstrued, whatever, and have his quarterbacks back. But Wentz already knows he does not fully believe in him. And I'm not sure you can win that trust back at this point. And Wentz didn't do anything to win the trust of anybody last night. He looked rough again. And you have to wonder how much of this affected him because he is one of those players that we can say because there's a lot of data on the matter that those sort of things off the field drama or whatever's going on, it seeps into his play. It's happened before. And then on the bear side, I'm just gonna, you know, I'm not gonna viscerate bears, players, what's going on. It's the fans we need to talk to here because I have maintained, I have defended and I think I'm right to the wrath of Chicago and unappreciative bears fans. This situation was never Matt Nagy. Everything was pinned on him because collectively Chicago fans and most NFL fan bases to be fair, need someone to blame instead of just saying, it's not going cause it might be a collective issue. It's clear the bears cannot protect Justin Fields. Five sacks, 12 quarterback hits, it's over and over, it's Groundhog's Day, it's the definition of insanity and all of that. He was getting teed off on in the pocket. He barely made it through the game in one piece and Fields isn't blameless here either but he did show lots of talent and he showed plenty of guts on that two minute drive. I say this crap every week, every week I stand here with my bear's helmet, I just know where it is but I'm in bad directions. And I say the same stuff. He showed grit, he showed flashes. We always get that, oh, that's why we love it. That's why he's gonna pull us in and lead us to the promised land. There was the incredible run, there was that ball to Mooney and it's a game winning touchdown of course, if he catches it cleanly. But Matt Nagy to me is all I was thinking about because he wasn't perfect but he took the entire brunt of what went on last year and I didn't think that it was fair then and what's gone on here and what we saw under the bright lights last night and what we will see again with the New England game in week seven has proven that the roster is lacking and that is on Ryan Pace more than anyone else. Nagy, he's back in Kansas City. He's going to Joe's barbecue. He's, you know, the quarterback's coach to Mahomes and you first think, oh, well, he's Mahomes. No, he's helping Mahomes thrive this year without Tyree Kil, which was a huge question on everybody's mind. So do the math and Matt Nagy, by the way, doesn't need me to sit here defending him throwing punches. He's doing just fine over in the AFC but let's acknowledge that the Chicago mob needing to find some singular person to blame was not the right move and let's do better going forward. And to talk more about this, commanders 12-7, win over the Bears. Let's bring in Carmen Vitale from foxports.com. Oh, Carmen, I'm a little angry about this game and I know that you were there and Justin feels after the game, this was the quote, right? Let me read it for everybody. Quote, I'm tired of being almost there. I'm tired of being just this close. What does the Bears offense need to do to help Fields here? I mean, I'm not quite sure where to start for all of the things that you said. Not only is this a new system for this team, is it a new system for Fields is stuck in in two years, but there was a giant roster turnover and Ryan Pace didn't set up this team for success so that when Ryan Pulse took over, he has a lot of work to do. And I thought everything you said about Bears fans too, I'm like, I thought we all went into this season knowing that this was going to look worse before it got better. And that is what we are seeing now because these guys, I talked to Braxton Jones in the locker room last night and I think it was a little bit of a microcosm of what's going on here in that he was getting bowl rushed all night. And that's a very good Washington defensive front for all the struggles Washington has had. That's one of the best units in the league that front seven. He was getting bowl rushed by Montez sweat, all these DNs all night and he flat out said, I really appreciate how candid he was. I need to get stronger. I'm not there yet. And oh, hey, maybe a fifth round rookie out of Southern Utah wouldn't be used to going against these NFL caliber defensive ends and defensive tackles and all of that kind of stuff. And he was just like, I mean, he was over and over and over again, got lit up. And that's, Justin Fields was pressured, I think on 46% of every single play that last night. So, I mean, it's the sacks are one thing because I think a lot of that has to do with Justin, like you alluded to, he's got the slowest release time in the league right now because he's trying to process so much because he doesn't get this offense quite yet. But also he's still under pressure because he just doesn't have the bodies. So when it comes down to it, you're going to have to get the bodies. It's just going to take time. And then I'm looking at field. It's going to take time, right? How much time do we have? Like how grave is the situation? Cause all I said yesterday is just like, he's just like, look, give me something to hold onto as a Bears fan. And that, that is Justin Fields. Just be, give me those bright spots and moments. But it's such a terrible situation. It was so obvious. And we've seen grim examples, right? Like Sam Bradford, if you were to look at Andrew Luck later in his career sustaining injuries, losing confidence, all of that. And how much, you know, how much a quarterback's development can be messed up. Like how concerned are you? Because is it, oh, we're wasting this kid's talent or is it we're going to ruin this kid? No, that was my kind of concern coming into this season cause I saw what they had on the offensive line. And especially now the offensive line still isn't, there's no continuity there. And you're dealing with injuries. And even in this game, I mean, you had Lucas Patrick go out and you had guys sliding over left and right. And I have now, I think I'm getting to the point where I'm like, you're not just hurting Justin's development at this point, he was on the, I like, I can't tell you how tough he was because every single time he dropped back, I feel like in that second half especially, every one of the press box was just holding their breath. And now you start to think this might not, this might have effects now down the line, long-term effects, stuff that's going to glass beyond this season. And I would hate that because I do think that he is such talent but he's putting everything on himself right now because he's got no other choice. He starts up front. And then I'm, you know, Matt Judon, anyone? Dietrich Lies? I'm so, I'm so scared for that. Why do we bubble wrap this poor kid who just wants to be the best? Of course, an emotional leader in the locker room at such a young age, that's unbelievable. Okay, I just want to say you're amazing because you got up to be on our show, you were there late last night. We completely screwed you yesterday, told you a different time, you were supposed to be on to preview the game but it was almost better to have you because you obviously had your eyes and ears everywhere and you were in the locker room talking to Braxton and company. I love you for doing this. I love, I'm sorry we screwed you then. And then of course I'm like, I'm so sorry, did we mess that up? And she's like, I'm running back to my camera. I'm like, don't run back to your camera. We, we messed that up. So I appreciate you at some point. Are you in LA anytime this season? I'm in LA tomorrow for like a while. You're gonna come on the show on Monday or Tuesday? Do you want me to? For like literally half the show? Absolutely. Book it. Carmen Vitale on Up and Atom show next week and she's really just coming to remove that bears helmet. I see you, I see you work and check out all of her work at foxsports.com. And we, of course, I'll see you next week and drinks to follow. Follow us on Instagram stories and we'll be idiots. It'll be great. Okay, let's take a look at what happened last week because we got a look ahead to week six. It kicked off last night with that commanders went over the bears but here we have James Jones. Oh, I've never seen this photo before James Jones. It's so original. Yeah, man, that's a little swag, man. Me and my home boys, man. We got old school Mark Fleming in there. You see Mark Murphy, Nick Collins, all the famer, Leroy Butler, and then just the dude walking with it. What's your favorite Beatles song, James? You gonna put me on the spot? You know I got no favorite Beatles song, man. I'm just going on with the flow. I ain't gonna lie to the world. I love it and I love you. I hear you were in the studios here yesterday and I didn't see you. I'd like to get you in studio if it were ever possible but you've been busy. You were in London with your hoodie going pub to pub last week and you witnessed the Packers fall to the Giants. What was the most concerning to you about the loss other than the fact that I was blowing you up like? Oh, man, it's a couple things to that. Number one, I was a little frustrated with our defense and not just because I'm an offensive player but I was a little frustrated with our defense because the Giants really ran three plays in that game. They ran a boot leg with the quarterback and then you ran Saquon Barkley up the middle and you had one big successful play on the Wildcat formation and Saquon Barkley got big, big yarders but they ran three plays the whole game and we could not figure it out on the defensive side of the ball. And then the offense, they just have to find ways to make explosive plays. They're not making any explosive plays right now. You know, when they do make an explosive plays it's Aaron Rodgers being great Aaron Rodgers escaping out of the pocket, throwing this crazy throw that, you know, he usually makes 90% of the time but they gotta find assistant ways to make explosive plays and when they do play good football teams if you're not able to do that you're not gonna have success. And he's been saying this week that he's giving me shades of relax this week. Like, you know, we always go on a run, we're going to go on a run but after that game, you know him better than I do. I wanna show you the footage of Daniel Jones coming up to him. And I want you to caption, what does Aaron Rodgers think? What is Aaron Rodgers thinking in this moment? Man, 12, 12, you see 12 man even looking at him right there. He's like, man, y'all not even all that. We let y'all up out of here, man. We should have dominated y'all boys, that's enough, you know. But you can see he's irritated right there. Yeah, my favorite is Daniel Jones. It's Daniel, who do you think? I mean, all respect to Daniel Jones and he got the win. But he's like, are you okay, man? Man, tough loss, like you'll get better, you'll bounce back, you'll be okay, it's the fun. I just, that piece of footage really was delightful for me to watch. Aaron's, of course, probably also thinking, I have my thumb really hurts. He's dealing with some sort of injury. How does that impact him? He's got the jets on the docket. Oh man, 12's a goon, man. I haven't been around 12 for a long time, you know. I mean, he done played through a lot of injuries. He's one of those guys and if he can go out there and be out there for his football team it don't matter what he's going through, he's gonna be out there for him. So I think I rubbed a little bit off on him, you know, about being a goon and fighting through injuries and all that type of stuff. But no, he'll be out there, he'll play at a high level. And like I said, they gotta get it going. I mean, you got the New York Jets coming in there who ride high, cause you know, they sitting at three or two. So they gotta get it going on the offensive side of the ball. Like I said, man, get some chemistry, man, and start getting some of these explosive games going. I think I know what the impact of the injury should be. His thumb hurts. How about you run the ball? Oh, say it again. And you talking to a receiver too. Hand that thing off, you're right. You got two of the baddest man in the world in the backfield, right? Coach LaFleur was starting to do a great job of putting both of them on the field at the same time. And sometimes, yes, you gotta hand the ball off. I am not gonna say it's easy, right? Because I'm an offensive coordinator right now for Little League football. My quarterback is a stud, right? He ain't near Rodgers, but he is a stud. So sometimes when I'm calling plays, I'm like, why am I gonna hand it off? Well, my quarterback is a phenom. He is a baller. I'm gonna throw this. So I feel sorry for Coach LaFleur because we're yelling run it, but he's looking at it too. Like, dude, I got 12. Like I have the baddest man in the world. Bill Belichick had Tom Brady. Play for me. Bill Belichick had Tom Brady, but he ran the ball. So I'm through that thing a lot too though. You know what I'm saying? But I'm with you, Gabe. Hand the ball off. Let's run the ball. I'm just wondering. Here's what I want from you. Let's run it. Convince me that Aaron Rodgers will stick to running the ball. Convince you. 12 wants to win, right? So if running plays are called, 12 is gonna hand that ball off. Now Matt LaFleur's not calling any run plays and he's putting Aaron Rodgers in these 50-50 plays. And what I mean by that is, you know what I mean? He could check into the run. You know what I'm saying? You know, 50% of the time, you know what I mean? He ain't running at that. He's gonna throw that ball. But if these run plays are called, 12 is gonna hand that ball off. 12 is all about winning. 12 knows that the two best players, except myself on this off the side of the ball, is my two running backs. And he said it time and time again. I don't care if it's in the past game, part of run game, we gotta find ways to get these dudes multiple touches in a football game, you know what I'm saying? So that has to get done. You know, they gotta hand it off. They gotta run the football in the past game. They gotta get it to AJ Dillon and Aaron Jones as well. And let them boys make hay. And it's, you got Sauce Gardner out there. I know he's the greatest quarterback ever, but I don't, you know, I don't think the receivers, the chemistry are quite there. I'm not saying he should avoid Gardner, but I don't know if it's there yet. So I hope they lean on the run. And I love hearing you reaffirm to Packers fans out there that this is somebody who wants to win and he'll do it at all costs, including being tough, which I don't think he gets enough credit for being a tough player out there playing through injury. Let's look at some other games here. Bill's Chiefs, we gotta talk about it. You know, last time they played this game was the AFC divisional matchup. And I would just like to know which quarterback you would rather catch passes from Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes. You wanted to come on the show. Oh my goodness. I gotta go with Patty. I mean, and it's not easy. Bill's fans, I'm not saying it's like it's just easy. You see me put my head down like, why are you gonna ask me this question? These two, but Patty just, I mean, just so many different angles. I mean, the ball coming out his hands extremely fast. You know, he, besides Aaron Rodgers, he is a quarterback's best friend when you talk about catching the football from a quarterback. There's, you're never covered when you're playing with Patty Mahomes. Never. He is going to put the football where he wants to put the football when he wants to put the football. You are never covered. I don't care if Jaylen Rams, he's on you. I don't care Steph, Gilmore's on you. You are never covered playing with Patrick Mahomes. Right? He is going to put the ball where he wants to put it. Josh Allen, right? Sometimes he likes to get a little happy with his legs and all that. Does he make the big time play? Yes, right? But that don't benefit my receiver stats, right? So I'm going on Patty Mahomes, man. Patty Mahomes just, he's just a special thrower of a football. But that's a tough one, man. Josh Allen is so mental. It's a tough one. I'm taking back. You could have just given me the answer and said, I don't know, okay, flip a coin. You know, you're right. You're exactly right. I'll take the young fellow from Kansas City. I mean, I don't think anybody's going to blame you for that except about 2 million Buffalo Bills fans when they see this clip on Twitter. And then Aaron Rodgers for saying, you know, Aaron will text you too and say, why don't you pick me anyway? Why are you picking another quarterback? I started to. You played for Mike McCarthy. So I want to ask you about the Cowboys because it's fascinating to me. And it's the game of the, it's really the game of the week. It's Sunday night football in the NFC East, which is the exciting division of football. But it's Cooper Rush. She's going into Philadelphia to take on this undefeated Eagles team. If Cooper pulls it off and goes five and oh, as Dallas is starting quarterback, what happens? Nothing. This is that, this is that press cost team, right? You know, when that press guy comes back and they drop a couple of games or something, I mean, you might hear the fans and all that yelling Cooper Rush, but come on man, let's, let's be honest. This is that press cost football team. Kudos to Cooper Rush for coming in and keeping his team afloat and being five and oh, he's playing good football. He's not turning the football over. Kudos to the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff, man, for getting this young fellow ready, getting him going and putting him in position to have success on that offensive side of the ball. But let's not get it twisted, right? Because they are winning football games because of this defense, right? Mark, Michael Parsons and Marcus Lawrence. I mean, Cooper Rush threw for a hundred yards last week. You know what I mean? This defense is problems, right? Nothing to take away from Cooper Rush, but as a, as a owner and Jerry Jones, as a head coach, as an offensive coordinator, this is Dak Prescott's football team, right? We are going to let Dak Prescott sink this ship. That is why Dak Prescott got paid all that money. So if Dak Prescott goes out there and he loses, that's what we pay to God, right? This is our God. This is our quarterback. But Dak is going to come in there and play well. Like I said, they're winning football games right now because of their team. If they keep the offense, not simple, but if they have it running the way it's running right now with that defense, when Dak comes back, I think they'll have success as well. All right, thank you so much to my guy, James Jones, who, stop, stop avoiding me when you're here. Will you come in studio sometime? Well, I'm up bright and early. You know, you get extra hours to sleep. You know what I'm saying? You gotta wake up a little early. I have like a fan in here, but I'm beyond saying it. There's like a fan with my hair today. It's really working for me on a Friday. We appreciate you, James Jones. You are amazing. So I've been putting you on the spot with the Beatles and Air Rogers and Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen. But that's just, you know, that's what it is. You can handle it. That's just what you do. I ain't ever go a lot of the fans, you know? I ain't gonna say I got the Beatles on my up, so I don't got it. I bet you though. I bet you if you went on their greatest hits, you would know every song. I bet you. Oh, I'll probably know a couple words, so. I would say, I would say so. You're the best. Have a good weekend. Enjoy the game. We will be back here. I love having James Jones on the show. He's incredible. We have a true NFL legend joining us next on my old friend Carl Beggs. Look at that New York smile. Yeah, I think they're looking good. I need that sweater. I need that sweatshirt. This is Jon Snowden. I love that footage. Our next guest is a two-time Super Bowl champ with the New York Giants. I'm currently an analyst on the New York Giants Radio broadcast and co-host of the Believe in Giants podcast with my guy Bob Papa. It is the legend, Carl Beggs. Good morning. Hey, what's happening? How are you doing? I'm so good. It's great to see you. I need the sweatshirt. All the details. What are you wearing? Oh, we hooked it up for the London games. We did this for the Giants. Starter did it for the Giants. So all hand-created graphics, and we wanted to do a whole London theme. So I have to show you the back to make it official. Yeah. Oh my gosh. I love it. I'm a size extra small, but I think with that one. We got you. Yeah. So we did it with the whole aesthetic of London graffiti. Like kind of a Banksy feel. I can see it. Kind of a London street scene feel. But yeah, we did this for the team and they went out and they played well in London. So I'm so happy. And we did it for the fans also. You know who didn't have those? The Packers. And so I'm just, I'm not. Well, they were all hurt. I'm just saying, basic arithmetic. You got it. The team that had the Giants, Banksy, sweatshirt, got the win. The Packers said, no, what is going on in that organization? All right, let's talk about your team because your team is in fact four and one, which is incredible best start since 2009. You host a podcast about believing in the Giants. Are you and our fans there in my old city of New York believing? Yeah, I think they are believing, but they're believing in the culture shift. I don't think there's an illusion that this team is this year away from a Super Bowl. But what they're seeing is a culture shift. They're seeing players that believe in the system and they're looking at football in, I would say modern day era football in terms of how it's played on both sides of the football. Like the way Brian Debo and Mike Kafka, how they run offenses is not what Giants fans are accustomed to. They're, you know, anytime something goes wrong, they always want to go back to the parcels days or the coughlin' days. And though Kevin Gilbride was a forward thinker in terms of how he ran his offense, these guys are doing things a little differently. They are approaching NFL on today's NFL terms. So, and they like it. And then, you know, Wink Martindale is, you know, doing things that a lot of defensive coordinators don't have the guts to do, especially when he doesn't have, you know, a roster full of great football players on defense. He's playing to his strengths and he's putting offenses in some bad situations. Yeah, Eric Guetta calls in Winkers and there's a lot of affection for him. When we turn him into a top 10 unit, it's incredible. You mentioned parcels there. And of course, you know, the comparisons start flying with all coaches. It does Dable do anything that reminds you of parcels. Are there similarities? Yeah, I think when you talk parcels and you talk Bill Belichick, both guys, Brian Dable knows well, they subscribe to winning principles. That's what it really comes down to. Good fundamentals, they want smart football players and they want players who love playing football. So, and that can be coached hard too. So they have those things in common, philosophy and how they see the game is a little bit different, but it all comes down to the basic fundamentals at the end of the day. Is there one quality that you think Dable has that the predecessors to him that didn't work out lacked? Is there one thing that sort of distinguishes him? Well, I think the connection with the players and that's no disrespect to any of the other coaches. Sometimes players respond differently to different coaches and those coaches can go on and have success elsewhere. But he just connects, his staff connects with the players. Whatever they're doing within the building, the players have all bought in. Yeah, Daniel Jones, he doesn't have a contract, right? He's coming into this season without a contract extension. So four-on-one start just took down the Packers missing his entire wide receiving depth to our core. What do you make of Daniel Jones and do you think he's the future? Well, the future is now for anybody playing in the league. Yeah, you're playing for a future contract, you're playing for future security, but the only way you do that is to play well. And when you talk to Coach Dable and even Joe Shane, they continue to say really positive things about Daniel Jones. You know, we get a chance to speak with him the Monday after the game for his show and he can't say enough great things about how Daniel Jones is doing everything that they've asked him to do in terms of executing. And just keep in mind too, they don't have, they just found a receiver healthy that can create separation and that's Darius Slayton. Other than that, they've had to scheme their way through every offensive possession because they don't have anybody who can flip the field in one play. Now, Darius Slayton with his speed and he's got his confidence back, has been able to do that a little bit for them. But with the absence of guys that just hadn't been there, they just had to kind of scheme crossing routes and get Daniel Jones on the move. But now that they have guys that can get down the field, you see Daniel Jones can drive the ball down the field. Yeah, and Saquon being healthy of course and out there with Dable, he's the really helps. That is the difference maker. Like Saquon, you have Saquon Barkley, he is the fourth multiplier because he can catch it, he's explosive. So you can stop him for, you know, three quarters of the game and hold him to two or three yards to carry and the next thing you know, he breaks one for like 65, 70 yards. There was this footage, I was showing James Jones, who, you know, very close with Aaron Rodgers. And this was the, you know, the takedown over in London. And just everyone's looking at Aaron Rodgers in this one and how he doesn't even want to make eye contact is of course, devastated. He's probably like, I lost to this kid. But Daniel Jones, look at the confidence in this young player, this player that's gone through it in the New York media backpages. And is his confidence sort of the thing that puts him, you know, that you think of first when you think about things that aren't tangible? I do believe it's confidence. And to play, listen, to play in this market is tough enough. But then to not have success and a lot of it is not your own doing. And to take all the bullets that he's taken and then to step on the field and still believe that he's a great quarterback or a really good quarterback or NFL level quarterback when everybody's saying he's trash and he's just proving everybody wrong. And he just, you know, he's just, the beautiful part about him and that's a lot like Eli Manning, they have the ability to block out the noise and just focus on the things that they can control and that's getting better and executing, you know, the offenses that he's been given. He's been given a lot of different offenses. Yeah, the microphones, the lights, but he just says, I'm not worried about my contract. I'm worrying about winning. It's just a part like you can't create a better mentality for a player than what he was day one there. It's really, really impressive for such a young kid and such a vicious marketplace like New York City. This weekend, it's a really good one. And, you know, you mentioned Wink Martindale. So we got to get into it here. It's the Giants hosting the Ravens. You know, so much praise on Winker spending 10 years in Baltimore. What do you think his game plan will be to stop Lamar Jackson, who he of course knows very well. And, you know, you played, you're nothing to sneeze at analyzing the game. 12 seasons at linebacker, how would you contain Lamar? Contain is the right word because you're not going to stop him. He's a unicorn. But, you know, you've got to choke off the edges, not let him break your contain, but they make everything look the same. Their runs, their quarterback runs, their play action passes, stays the same. But look, they've got a great tight end. They've got a really good speedy receiver slash back. So it's a matter of first of all, making sure Lamar Jackson doesn't beat you on the edges running. If he beats you passing, you just got to make sure that you keep him off rhythm as much as possible. You got to be disruptive. That means you're cutting off edges and hitting gaps and just screwing up the timing. But it's just hard to say you're going to stop Lamar Jackson. You don't stop him. You contain him, you know, and you contain him by taking away some of his key receivers. So you take Andrews away and you make him go to another, or Duvenay away. You make him go to another read, but it's just, and then that other read might be him taking off, but it's just, you got to pick your poison, but you just don't stop a guy like that. I wonder, I mean, Wink does know him in and out. So it'll be super interesting to say what happens. You forgot to say pray. You prayed that you can stop him. You do do whatever, whatever you can. Karl Banks, you are such a delight. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for being on my show and taking the time. And enjoy that Giants Ravens game this weekend. We'll of course talk to you down the line. Until Bob I say hi, I love Bob. I will do. He's the best. Sonry that shirt. All right, we got to get out of here. We got him show. We know what he's like. I mean, I'm such a fashionable person. Look at me. I look like I'm going to hunt deer after the show. We know Josh Allen is good. What are the numbers that make him a really special? Have to say, Sam Monson. Are we drinking beer next? Yay, I love Fridays on the show. Great show on a Friday to celebrate the start of football season. Fanduel Casino's hosting a Friday Casino happy hour. All you got to do is log on to Fanduel Casino app. Tonight from seven to eight Eastern Standard Time to get the special offer. Don't miss out. Download the Fanduel Casino app and get tonight's Friday happy hour for me bonus speaking of happy hour. It's Friday. We do beers on Friday. I'm looking forward to the weekend. Not before I get a little PFF action joining me again. As always on Fridays, or at least until he gets sick of me, the co-host of the PFF NFL podcast, PFF's lead NFL analyst, Sam Monson. Is that a Lentster jersey? Yes, it is. They wrote that in Promptor. I don't know what that is. Tell me again. It's the province of Dublin is in, my province. Yes, your province. Yes. Well, I'd like to introduce you to Poland. This is a zivietz beer. Say piwo. Piwo? Piwo. Piwo. It's beer, piwo. This is piwo in Polish and I'm going to Chicago in the Bears Law. So I'm a big Polish community. So now, zdrowie, my friend. What are you drinking? We're going local. So we've got the Dublin jersey and we've got the Cincinnati area, Reingeist brewery. Why are you so much cooler than me? This is awful. Cheers to you. Yay. You do. Okay, delicious. Fridays are my favorite day of the week because of this segment because I get a lot smarter and a lot drunker into my weekend. So let's get through some of the numbers and get PFF'd up. These are numbers that I see and I'm like, man, this is super weird. So the first number I've been given is 116.8. Now, I think that's the miles per hour I'm going to have to run to make my plane at LAX on time to go to Chicago and celebrate my niece's first birthday. But what is it? Well, LAX is rough at the best of times, let alone when you've got a plane to catch in quick order. That is the pass rating that Josh Allen has under pressure this season. Under pressure, 116.8 is pretty insane pass rating at the best of the times. But to get that under pressure this season is crazy. It's the best rate in the NFL and he's a player whose pass rating actually goes up this season when he's put under pressure, which is basically impossible. Doesn't happen to any other quarterback. Yeah, we had James Jones on. I put him on the spot and said, who would you rather catch balls from? Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen? He picked Patrick Mahomes. Do you think he was wrong? I think those are the two best quarterbacks in the NFL this right now, you know, in the last year or so. Those two guys are special in terms of talent, in terms of arm, what they can do, the special plays that they can make. It's one of the two right now. And honestly, I don't know if you're wrong, whichever already you pick. Flip a coin! Ooh, that still hurts Bill's fans. I know, but this doesn't hurt Bill's fans. Josh is currently leading the NFL, averaging 330.2 passing yards per game. So the passing rating, 116.8 is huge and amazing. Now the next number is a low one, 6.4%. I'm just gonna say it's a percent chance I make my flight after the show, or actually the percent chance the pilot decides to fly it, that it leaves the airport, all those things. So one of the things PFF tracks is what we call big time throws. We let Steve name it, unfortunately, so it does not have the best name in the world, but they're basically the best graded throws in our system. They're the high impact players. They have a really high correlation to scoring at the end of the drive. Gino Smith leads the NFL in big time throw rate this year. He's not just accurate. He's not just efficient. He's not just a game manager. He is making big time throws deep down the field. That's insane. Through five weeks, he's leading the NFL in completion percentage, pass the rating. Did anybody have that on their 2022 bingo board? Anybody think that was the case? Do the PFF numbers think he can keep it up? There's no sign of it slowing down. I mean, Gino Smith looks like a different quarterback than earlier in his career and he has a good situation around him in terms of players to throw the ball to. An offensive line that's been better than it has been in previous years in Seattle. I don't see a reason it will slow down. Yeah, I love it. All right. The next number they're telling me in my ear is 27. Now, I'm guessing 27 is the number of times that you'll tell me what Lenster is and I still won't know. But what do you think of him? Well, I'll keep going until we all know I'm just educating the world over here at Lenster Road and Beacon. 27, the number of defensive stops that Dre Greenlaw has to lead the NFL. Look, tackles are great and you'll hear a lot about players leading the league in tackles, but where do those tackles take place? Where they actually wins to the defense or did you just happen to be the guy that brought down a player after a good, successful run? So that defense is playing spectacularly and Dre Greenlaw leads the NFL and defensive stops. This makes me so happy you brought this up because listen, I'm a Fred Warner gal. Love Fred Warner, love his family, his whole situation, but he gets so much shine there and rightfully so. But it does seem like it's about time to start acknowledging and giving love and saying, now's the time and cheers to Greenlaw. It's crazy to me, Sam, to think that the Niners got Warner in the third round of 2018. Greenlaw was taken in the fifth round just the next year. Now we're looking at maybe the best linebacking duo in the NFL, both mid-round picks. So can we just do a cheers to John Lynch on this one? John Lynch, we see you. You are crushing it. That defense is crazy and nobody wants to plan. Okay. 28.4% is the number. The number of my, the percentage of my budget that goes to coffee to survive this show. It's a good percentage, good place to spend it though. That is the RPO percentage that Green Bay's offense has this season. Which is number one in the NFL and it's up 10 percentage points over a year ago. I think what you're seeing is them trying to manufacture offense because Aaron Rodgers still doesn't have confidence in that receiving court. Whether it's Alan Lazard, Romeo Dobbs, Christian Watson, he doesn't have trust in any of these guys and they're trying to scheme up free plays. They're trying to scheme up offense to production because they can't just rely on their receivers winning one-on-one consistently. Yeah. And for the struggles the Packers have had in the passing game, and I was, you know, not rough with James Jones, but I was saying like teams to run the Baltimore, what's going on? Rodgers still has the sixth highest completion percentage in the NFL this season. And you have to listen to what Aaron says. Aaron all week has been sort of doing that RELAX thing. He's been like, we're about to go on a run and hopefully they run the ball and that's what he's really trying to say. But I'm not as worried about them as a lot of people are. Finally, the number is 47.2%. I'm gonna guess that is the percent my iPhone screen time went up compared to last week. And iPhone, stop making me feel bad about it every week. Yeah, nobody needs to know that. They don't tell people. 47% is blitz rate for the Giants. Number one in the NFL, Wink Martindale, the most aggressive defense in the league, going up against his old player from Baltimore. A guy on the other side, he knows well. And Lamar's been great against the Blitz this season, but not in previous years. That's a fascinating match up this week. I love it. And clearly having a positive effect with Giants defense ranked 23rd in points allowed last season. They've jumped up to ninth this year. All right, Sam, cheers to you. Enjoy. What's in back of you? Can you just let's do a little? They're not yelling at me yet in my ear. So what do we got? We got Brian O'Driscoll here, one of the greatest rugby players of all time. Okay, and the other one? That's, we got the ultimate warrior on the other side. Yeah, no Chris Hogan. I don't have a Chris Hogan, no. No Chris Hogan on your wall. All right, we appreciate you, Sam Monson, with PFF, catch all of his work. And please download the new PFF app, unless you don't want to be smart, unless you don't care about that kind of stuff. All right, George Pickens, a PFF star the past two weeks coming up. I'll tell you why I think that continues this week. And see that PFF up in Adam's show, family. I love that. Y'all five, y'all just five. You fight your asses off. Okay, find a way. All right, it's not about who's the toughest, it's about who's the toughest and longer. Man, defense, that's a hell of a job. Number one in scoring, shot out, shot out. Six, six fourth down, stops. We're about to go down there and kick the game when you feel good. That's exactly what you guys did, man. You did it as a team. That's a hard fought victory. Congratulations, we haven't forgotten how to win. Make this normal. It is absolutely normal. I'll see you Wednesday. Love seeing the Patriots get a win. My bears lost. What's it like to win? That's what it looks like in the winning locker rooms, of course. Nope, not in Chicago. Now where I'm headed after the show, quick shout out before we get to this. For the first time ever, my best, well, my brother's in-laws, I guess, but they're like parents to me. Kathy and John Rep and I love that you guys are in Chicago. I love that you're waiting for me. Happy birthday to my niece, Natalia. Big celebrations, I'm on my way drinking a beer on television, this is my new life. So thank you guys for watching and I love you and I'll see you in a couple of hours, but we've got work to do because you need a spark for your fantasy team. I wish I could inject players into Chicago's lineup, but I can't do it, but I can do it on your Yahoo, on your NFL, on your ESPN League. So I got you covered with some guys. This is Sleepers for week six edition and let's do it. Remember, this is our first round of buys people. It's Wolf Task, a dick, it's not fun. It's Raiders, it's Texans, it's Lions, Titans all off this week, so we gotta dig a little bit deeper into this week's Sleepers. How about Eno Benjamin? I always go to fantasy pros, that's just me, and he's ranked 27th there. James Connor dealing with a rib injury, Williams and Ward, they've already been ruled out, so hello Eno, get him in your lineup because he'll have a heavy workload against the struggling Seahawks defense that's allowed the second most yards to running backs this season. Even though he's been primarily the third running back in Arizona, he's averaged nearly 50 total yards per game. So listen, bump up and roll, expect him to put up solid numbers. All right, moving on to Ron Dale Moore. After missing the first three games of the season, he got eight targets on Sunday and a second came back in the lineup. If you know me or followed my career, you know I love him and I want Cliff to use him so he can do his thing. He caught seven balls though for 68 yards against the tough Eagles secondary and even got two carries on the day. So use him like that, Cliff, I'm begging you and I think we might see him have a day because it's Seattle and they have the 26th ranked past defense, George Pickens. He has emerged as Kenny Pickens go-to dude. As far as targets are concerned, right? Eight targets and back-to-back games, he's averaging a team leading 92.5 yards per game over that span. So given how the season's going and gone for the Steelers, I have a feeling they fall behind against the Buccaneers. What does that mean? Game script, baby, the rules are the rules. He's got to throw early and often. Pickens will have plenty of opportunities. Irf Smith, Irf Smith, junior, I missed him last year and now he's 12th on fantasy pros. He's young, he's talented. I know he has a lot to prove and he's thinking, hey, this is gonna be a breakout game for me this season. As he gets steady volume, he's averaging six targets a game over the last four and it could be in the works. He's got the Dolphins defense. Dolphins defense, we love them, but they are top 10 most generous to the tight end spot. It makes sense, get him in your DFS lineup over at Fandle. And last but not least, Trevor Lawrence, he's had a few tough ones, but I'm feeling a bounce back against my Colts here. He finishes the QB1 in each of his last two matchups with Indy. So if you had your hopes tied up, if you were a Russell Wilson person, or if you've been streaming as you lost at Prescott and somehow weren't able to add Cooper Rush who you missed my show that day when I told you to do that, I would give Trevor a shot this week. All right, quick recap here. Eno Benjamin, Ron Jailmore, George Pickens, Ersmith Jr. and Trevor Lawrence and Sleepers. Fandle has the best daily fantasy options and they got overrunters. So grab these guys and put them in your lineup. Oh, you want touchdowns? I've got K-makers, next. Lots of fun here on the Friday. Big thanks to Carl Banks and James Jones, Carmen Patale for joining me, but here's some K-makers. Yep, you need to find the guys who are gonna score touchdowns. Yikes, did we have to show this? I only got one right. Jamar Chase, man, the bangles. Zach Taylor, thanks. Thanks for not knowing how to use Jamar Chase and scheme him open. I appreciate that. Wow, so at least Tyler Lockett got two on Fandle. Do you get bonus points for that now, huh? These are guys that think will score touchdowns today. Jalen, or this week, Jalen Hurts. We're gonna go with a quarterback. We haven't done that yet, but it's worth it. He's totally a Red Zone weapon in this league. He has six rushing touchdowns on the year. Cowboys defense ranks 19th against the run this season and another guy, I submit Clyde Edwards-Hilaire. He has not been held out of the end zone in back-to-back games yet this year. This is not just a shout out to my family watching from Kansas City. Everyone on the Buffalo Bills is gonna be looking at who? Mr. Ford touchdown, Mr. blah, blah, blah, Mr. Kelsey, right? No, Clyde is going to punch one in in this bout. My last K-maker, Mike Evans. He and Brady have been rolling. Everyone perennially always sleeps on Mike Evans when these things happen. Evans has 184 yards, two scores over the last two weeks, and he's the most consistent Red Zone option, in my opinion, over the last decade, right? His 78 receiving touchdowns since entering the league in 2014 are tied with Devonte Adams for the most in the NFL over that span. So there you have it, my K-makers. I guess we don't have a, there we go. These guys are going to score touchdowns. I feel very good about this. Jalen, Clyde Edwards-Hilaire, and Mike Evans. All right, we do this every week. We couldn't get to it because we had so many tremendous guests on the program this week, but we'll spin it forward. The Patriots play the Browns in week six, then they go on to take on the Bears, and it's time to hit the lights. We do this when there are tremendous performances, some that are a little bit more unheralded, and no one stood out to me in all of week five action more than Matthew Judon. Patriots, 29 zip, huge performance. You know, Eric Wettel was all over it. They beat the Detroit Lions, which was by the way the number one offense in the NFL. Judon was incredible. He racked up two sacks in the Patriots against really what's been one of the best offensive lines in the entire week. He strips sacks Jared Goff. It leads to a Kyle Dugger scoop and score that completely breaks the game open for New England in the dominant 29 to zero win. And that's all over and offense has been averaging over 35 points a game. He gets defensive player of the week, so he got some honor, some accolades. And if it wasn't enough, Judon leads the NFL with six sacks on the year. And on that play also becomes the first player in the Patriots illustrious history to rack up a sack in five straight games to start the season. I'm giving him a big cheers. I'm sorry to everything going on with the Browns. The Patriots are absolutely gonna win the game probably with Matthew Judon acting the way he's acting and playing the way he's playing. He is cementing himself as a lead, at least really in the conversation when it comes to defensive player of the year. And Twitter, you know, he's also a fan favorite up there. Patriots fans, their heads are spiraling. Well, who are we going to be rallying around? And then, you know, he has his iconic red sleeves. He comes back out for the game with red sleeves back on. So he's toying with everyone, all these fans. I don't know if we have any of that. But he says, he goes, we don't. I'm never gonna let y'all know what I'm doing. So Matthew Judon, you are a fan favorite. You are a bright light there on that lighthouse that turns up in Foxboro. And we see you keep dominating and keep bringing personality to everything you do. They need it up there in New England. And that was our show. We have 30 left to go. Okay, I don't even know that that was true. Should I just chug my beer like I did last week? No, my family is watching. I can't do that. They've seen it before. They have seen it before. No, we won't do that, but thank you everybody. The guests this week were incredible. We're gonna keep it going. Sean Payton sat with me for an entire hour. He and Mark Ingram chopped it up. He yelled at him for, you know, coughing up the ball. So we had a great time. Big thanks to Eric Weddle and all the guests today. And we'll see you guys when I'm gonna drink my beer now. Goodbye. Have a great weekend. Wish me luck at LAX. And if you see me, don't bother me.