Speaker 1: All right, we're live today right downtown Salt Lake City.
Speaker 1: Beer Bar is where we're at, as we are often
Speaker 1: on remote one sixty one East, two hundreds south.
Speaker 2: Come on bye.
Speaker 1: We've got some football replays going on, both college and pro.
Speaker 2: Little fantasy football show.
Speaker 1: On my left, they're doing the top fifty NHL player
Speaker 1: countdown on the NHL Network.
Speaker 2: So we've got a lot going on.
Speaker 1: They've got one hundred and fifty beers on tap, fifty
Speaker 1: beers and cans and bottles, sausages, burgers, brats, fries.
Speaker 2: It's a great spot. Come on down and say what's up.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more football now, our buddy, Dalton Wasserman Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus back on the drive, Dalton, Happy Wednesday, man,
Speaker 1: How we doing Happy Wednesday?
Speaker 3: Pretty good? I'll tell you what you mentioned all those
Speaker 3: other things on the TV there. But we're squaring the
Speaker 3: herd of football season, now, aren't we?
Speaker 2: Yes we are, Yes, we are.
Speaker 1: So I want to get your take on a situation
Speaker 1: that we've discussed on the show so far.
Speaker 2: And that is and this is. I don't want to
Speaker 2: say I'm not an alarmist.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's a really bad omen, but it
Speaker 1: really feels like kind of a first. UNLV is three
Speaker 1: and oh they've being a couple of Big twelve teams.
Speaker 1: They're the Vegas favorite to represent the G five and
Speaker 1: the CFP, and their starting quarterback left the team this
Speaker 1: morning over a one hundred thousand dollars nil dispute. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: this is a promise that Matthew s Luca and his
Speaker 1: agent are claiming that an assistant coach made via a
Speaker 1: telephone call. Vegas is denying that that promise was ever made.
Speaker 1: So we'll get to games, we'll get to all the
Speaker 1: things you want to break down. But I view this
Speaker 1: as a pretty big deal. Man, give me your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Dalton.
Speaker 3: It's a huge deal because just on the football field,
Speaker 3: Sluca was playing excellent, just like he was at holy
Speaker 3: Cross for several years. And UNLV was a legitimate threat
Speaker 3: to win the Mounta in the West and a legitimate
Speaker 3: playoff threat. And now you take you you know, you
Speaker 3: bring that into question now if you're starting quarterback Leeds,
Speaker 3: who was playing really good, and to get two Power
Speaker 3: five wins already over Kansas and Houston and possibly they
Speaker 3: got Syracuse coming not this week. They got a big
Speaker 3: game at President State this week with Syracuse next week
Speaker 3: at home who with slogo. You couldn't put it past
Speaker 3: them winning that game either, And if they had won
Speaker 3: that game and had three Power five wins, you almost
Speaker 3: have to you would have had to consider them the favorite.
Speaker 3: And they still could be, maybe with Hodja Malik Williams
Speaker 3: or whoever's going to play quarterback there. But it's a
Speaker 3: huge deal, and it says so much about just the
Speaker 3: lack of regulation and what's going on in college football
Speaker 3: right now. There's so many battles to be fought and
Speaker 3: so many so much gray area that just has not
Speaker 3: been handled properly so far, but by just by anybody involved.
Speaker 3: There's just no oversight and no regulation for this sort
Speaker 3: of thing right now. So I understand certain things from
Speaker 3: both sides on this, and it's hard to really it's
Speaker 3: hard to really make judgments when when at a higher
Speaker 3: level that this is not the first or the last
Speaker 3: time that we're going to hear about this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's certainly the first time.
Speaker 1: It seems to have kind of unfolded the way that
Speaker 1: it has with all the different dynamics, But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's it's.
Speaker 2: A tenuous time.
Speaker 1: The product is still the product which I always talk about,
Speaker 1: Saturday's in the Fall still feel like Saturday's in the Fall,
Speaker 1: and TV ratings for college football very healthy attendance through
Speaker 1: the roof. So the product itself, Daldon, is still the
Speaker 1: product that we all love. But whoever ends up getting
Speaker 1: this thing right, whoever ends up getting college football right,
Speaker 1: you know, the product is amazing. It's a multi billion
Speaker 1: dollar yearly revenue stream business without legitimate leadership.
Speaker 2: Whoever ends up kind of.
Speaker 1: Getting this thing right and studying the ship is going
Speaker 1: to be looked at as some crazy hero for a
Speaker 1: long time because even though the product is what drives
Speaker 1: the business, which means you have an excellent business, it
Speaker 1: does badly need the right guys in the right seats
Speaker 1: in charge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean, and a lot of that comes
Speaker 3: down to, you know, at the NCAA level, where they're
Speaker 3: just going to have to figure out some sort of
Speaker 3: solution to this because the lines were always blurred as
Speaker 3: to whether these players were actually amateurs or semi professionals
Speaker 3: that they should be paid or what. And then eventually,
Speaker 3: instead of finding a solution for all these years, it
Speaker 3: just broke down and the walls came down and they said, well,
Speaker 3: it's pretty much pay to play at this point, but
Speaker 3: there's no rules to it, right, So you know, and
Speaker 3: it makes life harder for teams and for coaches and
Speaker 3: to find success.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: It used to be where, well, we're the program and
Speaker 3: we have the notoriety, so this is where people go.
Speaker 3: But you know, I can't remember what we had on
Speaker 3: our PFF College Football show a while back, months ago,
Speaker 3: we had Mac Brown on the show, and one thing
Speaker 3: he had talked about was recruiting used to be a
Speaker 3: one road of just battle right, high school recruiting. Now
Speaker 3: there's three. There is high school recruiting, there is bringing
Speaker 3: transfers in, and then there's what you have in this
Speaker 3: case of keeping your own players happy and paying your
Speaker 3: own players enough so they'll stay. So it's only gotten
Speaker 3: harder at all levels to regulate this thing.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move over to who hello, let's fix
Speaker 1: those levels. Let's move over now to some college football.
Speaker 1: We'll end with a little NFL. But you know, around here,
Speaker 1: Utah continues to do what Utah does, and that's win games,
Speaker 1: regardless of who's under center.
Speaker 2: It's about that you on.
Speaker 1: The helmet, not the name on the back and no
Speaker 1: Cameron Rising last week and still Water and they still
Speaker 1: were able to get it done. Got a little dicey
Speaker 1: at the end, but Utah off to a flour and
Speaker 1: zero starts after beating Okay, Stayton, Stillwater, where you at
Speaker 1: with our ut sade this way, Daldin.
Speaker 3: Look, that's a huge win because I think one of
Speaker 3: the concerns for Utah for me last year was the
Speaker 3: difference between kind of their home and road splits in production.
Speaker 3: But it's a huge win to go and beat one
Speaker 3: of the bigger contenders in the Big twelve. And Utah
Speaker 3: they just look, they almost defy the metrics and the
Speaker 3: analytics and stuff. They just find ways to get it
Speaker 3: done right. And they played good defense, and the run
Speaker 3: game works and even without their quarterback. We saw it
Speaker 3: last year with several different quarterbacks. They find a way
Speaker 3: to win games. So another huge game this week with Arizona,
Speaker 3: but at home, coming off a big win like that,
Speaker 3: and maybe Rising will be healthy this week. You have
Speaker 3: to think they have an advantage here.
Speaker 1: So let's stay in the Utah space for a moment.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this Arizona game. Arizona thump him a
Speaker 1: year ago, and the players have all talked about it
Speaker 1: a lot this week. Coach who had joined the show earlier,
Speaker 1: so I asked him how much payback is on the mind,
Speaker 1: and Kyle gave a Kyle coaches answer. But they're ready,
Speaker 1: you know, they want to get.
Speaker 2: This thing done.
Speaker 1: And Dalton I can't shake what I watched when k State.
Speaker 1: It's not that they beat Arizona, it's that they bullied them.
Speaker 1: They bullied him in a way that Utah wants to
Speaker 1: bully you. I don't really have a lot of anxiety
Speaker 1: for Utah football this Saturday night. Either an eleven point favorite,
Speaker 1: it's a late kick eight to fifteen, but it's gonna beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's like seventy degrees. It's gonna be an awesome night.
Speaker 1: Cannot wait. I'll be there.
Speaker 2: But what should what would you say to youth fans
Speaker 2: about the challenge? Eliza Ahead, what are your thoughts on
Speaker 2: Utah Arizona?
Speaker 3: No, I mean, I think you should have a lot
Speaker 3: of faith going into this game because Arizona, look, on
Speaker 3: top of getting bullied like you mentioned against Kase State,
Speaker 3: Arizona doesn't have the depth on offense like they did
Speaker 3: last year. Right now, they need to find playmaker is
Speaker 3: other than Tetro McMillan, because he may be the best
Speaker 3: receiver in the country. But their offense right now is
Speaker 3: struggling to manufacture yards and points in ways that that
Speaker 3: are you know, that go the boat where the ball
Speaker 3: goes away from him. Right they he accounts for a
Speaker 3: ton of their receiving yards, a ton of their total yards.
Speaker 3: But last year, when you look at Arizona's team, they
Speaker 3: had Jacob Powing, they had Michael Wilie, they had Jonah Coleman,
Speaker 3: they had other guys that were able to support him.
Speaker 3: So right now, the entire offensive centered around McMillan, and
Speaker 3: Arizona doesn't have a ton of other threats that we've
Speaker 3: seen through the first three games.
Speaker 1: Tell me what your impressions are of this young freshman
Speaker 1: quarterback as you've watched Isaac Wilson really grow.
Speaker 2: A little bit over the past few weeks.
Speaker 1: You know, he he was able to get some run
Speaker 1: week one against SUU Southern Utah because Utah was thumping
Speaker 1: him and it didn't look great. And he really has
Speaker 1: from my vantage point, improved week to week to week. Now,
Speaker 1: we still don't know the deal with Saturday Night as
Speaker 1: far As who is under center. Coach Wit on the
Speaker 1: show just about thirty minutes ago said that both are
Speaker 1: going to get reps with.
Speaker 2: The Ones this week.
Speaker 1: I don't love that, if I'm honest, I feel like,
Speaker 1: if you know who the guy is, he needs all
Speaker 1: the reps with the Ones. Scott Mitchell jumped on the
Speaker 1: show yesterday and talked about that very dynamic, like, if
Speaker 1: you're going to be the starter on Saturday, you want
Speaker 1: the reps with the Ones all week. But they're still
Speaker 1: hoping that Cameron's going to be healthy on Saturday, but
Speaker 1: keeping Isaac waiting in the wings as a contingency. Tell
Speaker 1: me what your impressions have been as you've watched Isaac
Speaker 1: Wilson now for about three games.
Speaker 3: Well, I think two things you see from Isaac is
Speaker 3: he's one. He looks really young, right, he looks like
Speaker 3: a young freshman quarterback out there. And part of that
Speaker 3: is ball security. I believe in this game it was
Speaker 3: it three turnover worthy plays I think he had in
Speaker 3: this past game and they were able to work through
Speaker 3: it and lean on the run game in the defense.
Speaker 3: But ball security is a must that you have to
Speaker 3: get better with. You don't want to give Arizona short
Speaker 3: drives where they can just get some easy access points,
Speaker 3: because that was a big thing with Arizona last year.
Speaker 3: They got ahead in this game. But Wilson, it's ball security.
Speaker 3: But he is gutsy. I will get that much. It's
Speaker 3: not easy to start on short notice like that in
Speaker 3: such a high pressure environment on the road in big games.
Speaker 3: So I think it kind of it kind of goes
Speaker 3: along with that correlates with the rest of the Utah
Speaker 3: team where it's just like it's gutsy and he finds
Speaker 3: a way to have enough success to win a ball game.
Speaker 3: But there's definitely a lot of things he could improve on.
Speaker 1: So there might be a chance, Dalton, that we have
Speaker 1: two really good college football teams in our state. And
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not ready, at least as of now,
Speaker 1: to say that BYU is a legitimate Big twelve, you know,
Speaker 1: conference championship contender.
Speaker 2: But Dave State clean, they're four and zero.
Speaker 1: They get their first conference win as a result of
Speaker 1: just a curb stompion of k State. Like that game was.
Speaker 1: It was crazy, it was bizarre, It was weird, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't close. A lot of people in Provo say
Speaker 1: that's a statement. I kind of say, that's a combination
Speaker 1: of unbelievable fortune and prepared skill and Aaron Rodgers capitalizing
Speaker 1: on his red zone opportunities. They get touchdowns, not field goals.
Speaker 1: That defense is so much better than it was a
Speaker 1: year ago, year.
Speaker 2: Two under j Hill.
Speaker 1: There DC Kalani is a guy who cut his teeth
Speaker 1: under Kyle, so he knows defensive football.
Speaker 2: What are you willing to say about.
Speaker 1: Who you believe BYU football is this year as of today?
Speaker 3: I gotta be honest, it's hard not to look at
Speaker 3: him at least having the possibility of contending because that
Speaker 3: wasn't some miracle last second field goal win, you know,
Speaker 3: And I know there was a little bit of luck
Speaker 3: obviously the punt return and all of that, but that
Speaker 3: was a three phase beatdown, and you you rarely see
Speaker 3: that over a team, Over a Kansas State team that's
Speaker 3: very fundamentally sound generally, and their defense is definitely better.
Speaker 3: Jake Restloff has definitely improved from what he was last
Speaker 3: year for a few starts, and I just think the
Speaker 3: overall physical nature and the well rounded nature of that team.
Speaker 3: If they as long as they avoid a letdown against Baylor,
Speaker 3: and we saw Baylor play a fun game with Colorado
Speaker 3: last week. As long as they avoid a letdown coming
Speaker 3: off a big win like that, I think they could
Speaker 3: contend because they're very well rounded and they're very physical.
Speaker 1: Before we move off the Big twelve, let me ask
Speaker 1: you the question, and again, just as of today, everything
Speaker 1: could change as of next Monday. How many teams do
Speaker 1: you believe as of today, on this Wednesday it can
Speaker 1: actually win this conference.
Speaker 3: Let me count this out. Utah absolutely, Kansas State can.
Speaker 3: They can rebound. They need a big rebound, but the
Speaker 3: Kansas State can still rebound. They're not dead out of
Speaker 3: it BYU if they can, if they can keep up, Look,
Speaker 3: you bk State like that, you at least have a chance.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you something. I think the most fun
Speaker 3: game of the week this UCS Colorado game. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be honest with you. I think this is a bit
Speaker 3: of a pole position game. I think these are two
Speaker 3: very good teams. UCFS a fourteen point favorite, and I
Speaker 3: don't think it should be that wide. I think people
Speaker 3: are under they're underestimating the progress being made in Colorado's
Speaker 3: front seven and their run defense. If Colorado goes out
Speaker 3: to Orlando and they prove that can slow down a
Speaker 3: run game like UCF. You know, the last two weeks
Speaker 3: they've been good, but lighter run games bailor in Colorado State.
Speaker 3: If they can prove their run defenses for real against
Speaker 3: UCF and come out of Orlando with a win, that's
Speaker 3: a huge win for Colorado. To put them on the
Speaker 3: inside track is We've got a couple of teams like
Speaker 3: Kansas and Westbawln and Oklahoma State who I don't think
Speaker 3: are what we expected them to be. There's probably five,
Speaker 3: five or six teams in there, but that Colorado UCF
Speaker 3: game is gonna be a really important game for that
Speaker 3: question you.
Speaker 1: Just asked all right away from the Big twelve, but
Speaker 1: sticking with little college football for a moment, we'll end
Speaker 1: with a thought or two on the pros. Last year,
Speaker 1: For me, Daldon, I can only speak for myself, it
Speaker 1: was hard to know who Michigan was because early on
Speaker 1: they didn't play anybody and they were thumping everybody, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people believe that they were one of
Speaker 1: the best teams in the country. I just didn't really
Speaker 1: see that because they weren't playing anybody.
Speaker 2: Are we dealing with the same.
Speaker 1: Thing with Ohio State right now, because it feels like
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about Texas, everybody's talking about Tennessee.
Speaker 2: We'll get to Georgia Bama.
Speaker 1: But Ohio State, in my opinion on paper, is as
Speaker 1: as stacked as any of them. But we're not talking
Speaker 1: about them because all they do so far just beat up,
Speaker 1: beat up dud teams. Are we kind of dealing with
Speaker 1: the same dynamic this year with Ohio State as we
Speaker 1: did with Michigan a year ago.
Speaker 3: I think it is similar, and they have a little
Speaker 3: They have a little more of a real challenge this
Speaker 3: week against Michigan State, although I still think they should
Speaker 3: take care of business. Look, we're gonna learn all we
Speaker 3: need to know about Ohio State in a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks against Oregon October twelfth, they go to Oregon, they
Speaker 3: go to Austin Stadium and play Dylan Gabriel in that team.
Speaker 3: We're gonna learn everything we need to know about them
Speaker 3: and then how they readjust after either a win or
Speaker 3: a loss from that game. You're absolutely right. Though they're
Speaker 3: loaded with talent. They've got a boatload of defensive talent.
Speaker 3: I think they're the best pair of running backs in
Speaker 3: the country with Trayvon Henderson and Quinchawn Judkins. The true
Speaker 3: freshman receiver Jeremiah Smith is just amazing. I mean, he
Speaker 3: doesn't look like a freshman at all. The question will
Speaker 3: be at quarterback in Big Spot, is will Howard the
Speaker 3: guy who can get him through a game like the
Speaker 3: Oregon game or the Miss game or the Big Ten
Speaker 3: title game. Right, it's going to be the quarterback. But
Speaker 3: everything aside from their quarterback situation looks absolutely elite and
Speaker 3: at the very least, we're seeing them get through these
Speaker 3: games and take care of business.
Speaker 2: Tell me what what that win? If if this did
Speaker 2: anything for you at all?
Speaker 1: Because I actually thought Tennessee was going to go down
Speaker 1: and smoke Oklahoma pretty good. I just had not been
Speaker 1: impressed with it sooner so far. Uh, And it wasn't
Speaker 1: as much of a lopsided game as I thought it
Speaker 1: would be. They're going to be at Arkansas and then
Speaker 1: home against Florida before they see Bama. What are you
Speaker 1: Dalton today willing to say about the start that we've
Speaker 1: seen from Tennessee?
Speaker 2: What what? What? What? What? What? Cold? This act did
Speaker 2: they live in? Right now?
Speaker 3: They absolutely should make the playoff. Assuming they don't have
Speaker 3: any major slip ups, and if they actually it sounds funny,
Speaker 3: but they're two best players that we thought were gonna
Speaker 3: be the two best players coming into the season, quarterback
Speaker 3: Nico Iamalayava and edge rusher James Pierce Junior, and neither
Speaker 3: one of them is dominating. Yet they are dominating with
Speaker 3: the rest of the football team, with Dylan Stampson in
Speaker 3: the run game, with the rest of their defensive line,
Speaker 3: with the receivers. If they get those two superstars going,
Speaker 3: the actual two biggest names on the team, if those
Speaker 3: two guys get going at an elite level, because I
Speaker 3: don't think we've seen Nico's best football yet. We've seen flashes.
Speaker 3: The one touchdown throw against Oklahoma was amazing. The kids
Speaker 3: got all the talent in the world. But they're actually
Speaker 3: doing this with a team wide effort. And actually it
Speaker 3: slipped from my preseason expectation of them, where I thought, Okay,
Speaker 3: the quarterback and the star power is going to carry them.
Speaker 3: But right now the depth of their team is carrying them.
Speaker 3: And they're doing this, I could argue without even playing
Speaker 3: their best football yet. So there's still quite a heavy
Speaker 3: range of outcomes. You could see with Tennessee, but they should.
Speaker 3: They're very close already to being if they go ten
Speaker 3: and two at least locked into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move over to some games this weekend,
Speaker 1: and let's just head on down to Tuscalusive, because why
Speaker 1: not where Alabama is a home underdog for the first
Speaker 1: time since two thousand and seven. Georgia is getting too
Speaker 1: They're George's two point favorite. And the conversation this week, Daldin,
Speaker 1: as you know is does Kirby Smart have.
Speaker 2: A Bama problem? Or does he have a Nick Saban problem?
Speaker 1: I mean, I watched Kaylen Debor out coach Dan Lanning
Speaker 1: twice last year, and I'm not saying he's Saban, but.
Speaker 2: You know we've seen what Kaylen de Bor can do.
Speaker 2: What do you make of this matchup coming up?
Speaker 1: I mean it is the conversation is, you know, does
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart have a Bama problem or a Nick Saban problem?
Speaker 1: How do you think Saturday is going to play out
Speaker 1: down in Tuscaloosa.
Speaker 3: Well, honestly, I think what you have is Alabama is
Speaker 3: just one of the few teams that is on a
Speaker 3: similar talent level to Georgia every year, Right, and look.
Speaker 3: And I know Nick Saban was famous for beating all
Speaker 3: of his assistants, right I think I don't remember view.
Speaker 3: I think he was what he went like years and
Speaker 3: years without losing to an assistant before. What Jimbo Fisher
Speaker 3: did it? I think it was. I can't remember, but
Speaker 3: it's I think you just have teams of such similar
Speaker 3: talent that the margin of error is so small in
Speaker 3: these games. Personally, I have picked Alabama to win this game.
Speaker 3: I don't love what I'm seeing from Georgia's passing game
Speaker 3: right now. I think I think this game is going
Speaker 3: to be decided in moments when George's in third and seven,
Speaker 3: third and eight, third and ten, and if they can
Speaker 3: drop back in obvious passing situations and make things happen.
Speaker 3: I don't love what they have going on at receiver
Speaker 3: and at tight end right now in the passing game.
Speaker 3: Georgia really needs to lean on their run game, lean
Speaker 3: on play action to stay in this or Alabama's secondary
Speaker 3: could take over on third downs.
Speaker 1: Baylor are two point favorite over BYU. Let's go back
Speaker 1: there real quick, because I didn't ask you about that game.
Speaker 1: How do you think it plays out in Waco? Ten
Speaker 1: Am Mountains on kick.
Speaker 3: It's very odd to me that BYU is the underdog
Speaker 3: after what they just did. So I don't know if
Speaker 3: somebody knows something that we don't, but BYU looked fantastic.
Speaker 3: They look well rounded last week, and you know, maybe
Speaker 3: it's is it a letdown spot? I don't know. I
Speaker 3: know it's a road game now and and you know,
Speaker 3: getting away from Provo and the and the friendly confines there.
Speaker 3: But I think BYU should win that game. I mean,
Speaker 3: I know, I know Baylor played a good game with
Speaker 3: Colorado last week, but they they are just they're one
Speaker 3: of the lower tier teams in the Big twelve, and
Speaker 3: if BYU is looking to contend, this is a game
Speaker 3: to have to win, first of all. But I do
Speaker 3: from what I've seen so far, and they've grinded through
Speaker 3: the first three games and then a huge win last week,
Speaker 3: I think by US a better football team.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Before I say you lose, just a couple of quick
Speaker 1: NFL questions. First of all, THURSD in that football look,
Speaker 1: I don't think the Cowboys will lose. But what's the
Speaker 1: conversation sound like if the Cowboys can't beat the Giants
Speaker 1: tomorrow night?
Speaker 3: You're gonna hear, you're gonna I think you're gonna hear
Speaker 3: about Mike McCarthy. I just I just think. And the
Speaker 3: Giants look they look better with Molik Neighbors. Their defensive
Speaker 3: line looks great. They they really really put a good
Speaker 3: beating on the Browns the other day. The score was
Speaker 3: closer than a lot of that game was because they
Speaker 3: fumbled the opening kickoff. But no, this is I'm in
Speaker 3: the boat where this is the must win for the
Speaker 3: Cowboys or you really start questioning them. But honestly, there's
Speaker 3: been a lot of talk about their run defense, but
Speaker 3: they need to be better upfront on offense two. And
Speaker 3: the Giants are a tough team to block with guys
Speaker 3: like Dexter Lawrence and Brian Burns up front. So that
Speaker 3: game could absolutely be tight. And the Giants looked really
Speaker 3: good against the Browns this past week, especially upfront. They
Speaker 3: could cause the Cowboys issues. But I think if they
Speaker 3: lose this game, you start you're gonna start hearing Mike
Speaker 3: McCarthy's name in some conversations.
Speaker 1: All right, but before I set you loose, let me
Speaker 1: just ask the question this way. At this point, when
Speaker 1: you look at the at the way that things have
Speaker 1: played out. I mean, I talked to you when you
Speaker 1: first joined US preseason that Vegas is telling us Chiefs Niners,
Speaker 1: if you're going to bet on a Super Bowl winner,
Speaker 1: bet on Chiefs Niners. They're the two most Eleague teams
Speaker 1: by far. Injuries happen, things change. Who else now lives
Speaker 1: in the same neighborhood as the Chiefs and the Niners
Speaker 1: that you think will be in it come February next year.
Speaker 3: I think the Buffalo Bills have obviously said a great
Speaker 3: three weeks, and you've got a quarterback playing the way
Speaker 3: Josh Allen is playing at an MVP level, you can't
Speaker 3: take the Bills out of I think I'll tell you
Speaker 3: what I think the Green Bay Packers getting these two
Speaker 3: wins with Malik Willis and stalling until Jordan Love can
Speaker 3: get back. I think that's huge, and I think that
Speaker 3: shows you something about the rest of our football team.
Speaker 3: I think the Packers and the Detroit Lions, and they've
Speaker 3: got Minnesota standing in front of them right now in
Speaker 3: that division. You know, the Lions are starting to figure
Speaker 3: some things out. They're trying to get back to their
Speaker 3: roots a little bit. But I'm so impressed with these
Speaker 3: team wins that the Packers have gotten the last two
Speaker 3: weeks that I think they're a team in the NFC,
Speaker 3: especially with the Niners. The Niners are kind of limping
Speaker 3: a little bit. You've got pushed to McCaffrey. I read
Speaker 3: something that he might be out till December. Javon Hargraves
Speaker 3: out for the year, and that's not a great loss
Speaker 3: that they just had to the Rams. So I think
Speaker 3: the NFC is pretty wide open, honestly.
Speaker 2: All right, man, thanks for the time, great football weekend ahead.
Speaker 2: Can't wait for it. We'll get you back on soon.
Speaker 3: Thanks Dalvion, absolutely appreciate you, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Daldin Wasserman.
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