The LNBE Podcast
Mike Rispoli presents: The LNBE Podcast. "LNBE" stands for "Literally Nothing, But Everything" and the goal is to touch on what his thoughts and opinions are…just like every other podcast...
The LNBE Podcast
Episode 35 - Nothing but Celebrity Gossip and Gridiron Drama
What if NFL teams are deliberately misusing their star players, and it's costing you your fantasy football championship? Tune in as I, Mike Rispoli, unleash my raw reactions to the recent Commanders-Bengals and Jags-Bills games, while venting about my underperforming fantasy lineup. James Cook shines, but Dalton Kincaid disappoints, and the Ravens' baffling misuse of Mark Andrews leaves me fuming. Beyond the gridiron, I share the news that we have approached the final 100 days of the year why you should savor the last bit of good weather before winter sets in. Oh, and I can't forget my survivor pool disaster and the unexpected triumph of Andy Dalton with the Panthers.
But the drama doesn't stop there. Prepare for a deep dive into the complex world of NFL strategies and rookie struggles. Whether it’s Justin Fields lighting up the Steelers or Caleb getting overworked, we're breaking down the action in real-time. We also scrutinize the Patriots' amidst an offensive line crisis, while the Jets' defense keeps opponents on their toes. And let's not ignore the elephant in the room: our undying disdain for Sean Payton and the Saints post-Bounty Gate scandal. This portion of the episode is packed with passion, frustration, and some heated debates about the current state of NFL football.
Lastly, get ready for a whirlwind tour through the latest celebrity scandals and football controversies. From the jaw-dropping allegations against Diddy, I’ve got stories and reactions that will leave you speechless. I share a humorous anecdote from "The Other Guys" and highlight a TikTok personality named Jaguar who claims to have insider info on some scandalous activities. We'll also touch on a controversial non-call that might have cost the Falcons a win. Plus, Wrapping it all up, we discuss the surprisingly competitive NFC South and the Falcons' failed fourth-and-short play. This episode is a rollercoaster you won't want to miss.
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What up everyone? Welcome back to the LNBE podcast, where LNBE stands for literally nothing but everything. I'm Mike Rispoli and let's get into this bitch. Just a fair warning I do have some football going on in the background, so if I'm a little distracted I apologize in advance. I got the Commanders Bengals game and the Jags Bills game going, so curious to honestly just see how my fantasy is playing James Cook. That seems to have been a good pick from when I called it like a couple weeks ago when I was doing my initial fantasy draft. So James Cook seems to be flying through this season, which is great because I have him in one of my leagues, yeah, so anyways, he just scored a touchdown.
Mike:Also, kincaid not doing shit so far, except for this game this season. Also, what the hell is going on with Mark Andrews? He's put up two goose eggs in the past three weeks. What the fuck is going on? Why are the friggin' Ravens not using him? He's like one of the top tight ends in the league. How the hell is he not getting any touches? What is he just being used as a blocker? I'm so over the Ravens. I was actually over the Ravens because I don't think if it was for the Ravens, the Flategate would have even happened. Because I think, what is it John? Is it John who's the coach of them, one of the Harbaugh brothers? If it wasn't for John, he never would have gone over to Chuck Pagano over there in the Colts when the Pats defeated him like 45-12 or whatever the score was, and that never would have started the Flakegate. So fuck the Ravens. But anyways, I digress.
Mike:So we're about like 100 days left of the year here. Excuse me while I cleared my throat there, but yeah, so we're in the last 100 days of the year and everybody talks about the first 100 days, but nobody ever wants to talk about the last 100 days. Like the first 100 days, like the first 100 days in office for presidents, first 100 days when you start a new job, the first 100 days of school, the first 100 days of the new year, I'm going to hit the gym, I'm going to go on a diet. I the new year, I'm gonna hit the gym, I'm gonna go on a diet, I'm gonna get that new job. But then, when we get to the last hundred, when winter's coming days are getting darker, your patience grows shorter with every hour less of sunlight. And why? Because you realize you didn't set out to do what you wanted to do those first hundred days and you're just a fatter, more miserable piece of shit now than when you were at the beginning of the year, in those first hundred days. But hey, at least you got those first hundred days of the following year to look forward to, to setting your eyes on those new but old goals, because it's always the same goals you just had the previous year that you just gave up on three weeks into it. You couldn't't even last 100 days, you only got to the first 20.
Mike:Because what's the thing with gym memberships? Like January is always packed, but then come like February, everything's back to normal. Like the gyms get empty again and what's crazy is you'd think that it would be after February. Like Valentine's Day would be when, because everybody's trying to get in shape, for when everybody's trying to see each other naked. But I guess that's not really a factor when it comes to people going to the gym.
Mike:What's that meme that I saw? I think it was like I don't work out to get fit, I work out so I can look good. When I'm booty bone naked, oh my goodness. But yeah, but yeah, man. Winter is coming, so utilize the remaining last good weather that we're gonna have, at least up in this area, the freaking northeast of the United States. Utilize the good weather now, before you have to go into hibernation mode, because, oh my god, I'm trying to get in as good of shape as possible, because come winter, I don't know what it is, I just decide. You know what it is. It's because the holidays I also got my birthday, um, thanksgiving, oh my gosh.
Mike:Halloween, even though I never get any trick-or-treaters, what do I do? I still buy the fucking bag of candy and I just sit in my basement and just house it. Oh, oh, touchdown. Oh, who was that? Shurfield? No, coleman, ah, and, of course, the one time I'm not playing that fucker, all right, whatever. Yeah, bills are bills are running away with this. So far 19-3. Second quarter with six, just under six and a half minutes left to go here. Jesus, dude, the jaguars just look freaking pathetic. Oh, and I lost my freaking survivor pool last week.
Mike:Oh my God, you know, I would have thought that the Panthers would have been a good pick against. I picked the Raiders to go against the Panthers and all of a sudden, you know what I'm realizing is. I think Bryce Young was actually the freaking problem because Andy Dalton, once a starter, now a backup, gets the call, comes into the game, starts acting like a big dick in a locker room, just starts slinging it. I have no idea, and it's the same thing. It's not like they got any new receivers. It's not like the old line wasn't the same old line this game as it was the past two weeks. No, it's just because Bryce Young has no experience. They should have let Andy start the season and I think that's what the Patriots are doing.
Mike:The Patriots they got Brissette. He's not really that mediocre of a starter. I mean he hasn't been playing too bad unless you watch that friggin' Jets game. It's like he's never played a freaking game of football in his life. But also, you know what? In defense of that, the dude was also running for his life the whole time. I mean the freaking Patriots old line. It was the as much shit as I want to give Mac Jones. It was the death of his career as a Patriot.
Mike:Those four years or three years, however, the how long he played for with the Patriots, and I think if the Patriots want to start rebuilding, they need to start going after it. They need a wide receiver one, and I think that's part of the reason why Brandon Ayuk did not come over is because he realized that the Patriots right now just seems to be like an organization where skill players just end up going to die. So, yeah, so Brandon Ayuk didn't want to come over because he even said he was just like yeah, it's not just about the money, he wants to win games and the Patriots are not gonna win games because games are also won in the trenches and that Patriots offense and defensive line just truly needs some work. But what's really wild to me is that, even with how the game has been progressing, have you guys seen this, where this is the least amount of passing yards so far within the first three weeks of a season than I think in the past, like five years or something crazy For all teams combined, which is nuts because it's a passing league.
Mike:But yeah, going back to the Patriots-Jets game, let's talk about that for a bit. So Brissette was running around for his life and I mean mean they have no receivers? No, none of the guys that we have can get space. Plus I said it, I think, in week one if the patriots just constantly try to keep settling for field goals, they're not going to win games. That's what happened against seattle and then against the jets. They only scored three points. So I don't know what's going on. And I mean, granted, the offensive line, I think they were missing a couple guys. And then I think, jawan Bentley I think he's out for the season I think I saw or maybe he's out for a few weeks. I don't know what's going on with the Patriots, but they got hit with some of the injury bug. But I'm curious to know when they're going to start Drake May, because I think teams have now started to adapt to the fact of what the Packers did. I mean, look at Aaron Rodgers. He came into the league. I think he sat behind Favre for like three years and then Jordan Love sat behind Rodgers for three years.
Mike:You've got to allow your quarterbacks to like, have some time to develop here, because they come out of college. They're not used to the freaking speed of the nfl, they're not used to the same defensive schemes that go on. You gotta let them learn. And now we see that with bryce young, you see that with mac jones and you, I mean granted, both really bad examples because they're both alabama quarterbacks and alabama quarterbacks and Alabama quarterbacks. Oh, interception, let's go, bills, hand that ball off to Cooks. Let's fucking go here, guys. Alabama quarterbacks just do not translate well to the NFL. It's just a recurring thing. I don't know why, but that just seems to be the common going. I think it's because Saban for all those years was more defensive-minded, kind of run heavy.
Mike:Didn't Derrick Henry come out of Alabama? Wasn't he on that team where Alabama missed that field goal and Auburn won the game? Wasn't that that year? Didn't Henry come out of that season? I have no idea. Wasn't that that year? Didn't Henry come out of that season? I have no idea. Wasn't he on that team? At least I don't know. I don't really watch college, but you just don't Even looking at what's his nuts there on the Bears Caleb Caleb Williams. On the bears Um, uh, caleb Caleb Williams. I think they had that fucker throw the ball like 50 times in that game. If it wasn't for the fact that the bears defense was so good, they would have nowhere like nothing to ride home about. And you also can't blame Caleb Williams for such bad play, because his offensive line is just god-awful.
Mike:Did anybody watch that game on Sunday. I don't know what down it was, it was definitely like a fourth down or something. They were trying to go for the score. They were on the goal line. I think they were just going to do a pitch to the running back. It was like all of the linemen were on one side of the field and all the defensive linemen were just rushing the hell out of him and he had nowhere to go and it's kind of like.
Mike:And then you see what's going on with Justin Fields on the Steelers and he's actually looking pretty good. So maybe it's actually not the quarterback play, maybe it's just the fact that the Bears are a dogshit organization when it comes to their quarterbacks. But after that Houston game, even CJ Stroud, he was like dude, you just got to learn some fundamentals, you'll be good, like I think that's what he pretty much said during the mic'd up moment. So there is stuff to like about Caleb. I just think he kind of holds on to the ball too long. I think he just tries to force plays, he tries to extend plays that aren't there and I think he ends up paying the price for it. He just gets hit way too much. But I think they had him throw the ball 50 times, which is nuts you should never have, like your rookie quarterback. It's only his third frigging game. You're having him throw the ball 50 times. That's crazy. You can't run the ball once.
Mike:Let's put this in perspective here. Even Brady I think there was only two times where he threw over 60 times in a game and we're talking Brady here One of them is in 2012 against the Niners, I want to say. And then another time was actually in that game against Dallas, in the wild card game, when he was on Tampa. Well, when was that? Was that a year or two ago? That was two years ago, I think. He threw the ball like 66 times because he had absolutely no run game. So it's like, okay, well, if you can't run the ball, what else are you going to do here? You got to throw it, but to have your rookie quarterback throw the ball 50 times, that honestly just seems like irresponsible as a coach. But I think that's also why, going all the way back to why the Patriots picked up Brissette Because he's a veteran player.
Mike:They want Drake May to kind of learn some of the system here and despite how bad that patriots defense or that patriots offensive line is, jacoby is kind of a game manager. I mean, the dude in those first two games did not make a mistake. He did not throw an interception. Granted, there were a couple close. Turns out that the defenders just didn't make the catch but didn't count as an interception. He would make the right play. If he didn't see something, he wouldn't force it, he would just make the check down.
Mike:The Jets also have a top five defense in the league and are oh, is that Chase? No, that was Higgins, and Higgins just freaking fumbled. Oh, wow, that sucked. Oh, no, no, they didn't. Did they call that? What did they call that? I don't know. All of a sudden now they're saying it's second and 11. Did I miss something here? Buffalo just freaking scored again. Oh, no, they didn't. He dropped the ball. Wow, I'm just looking. That would have been a freaking dime to Cooks if he could have held on Jesus. Wow, freaking dime to Cooks if he could have held on Jesus. Wow, I'm just watching these games at the wrong time. But yeah, no, the Patriots had to go up against like a top five defense, up against the Jets, with receivers. That can't get any freaking space and the offensive line had some holes in it because they couldn't run the freaking ball. So Stevenson couldn't really do much.
Mike:And then it was just punt city and all of a sudden Rodgers looked like he was back to true form, just literally running all over the friggin field. I mean, the dude was kind of playing a conservative the past two weeks and then against the patriots hey, you know what my achilles actually fucking feels. Pretty good time to fucking roll out, let's go. Oh my gosh, I never. I didn't really like rogers before, and now the fact that he's on a team within the pats division it kind of makes me dislike him even more, which kind of like it was unfortunate because the dude's a great talent. But you know what? I kind of felt the same way about breeze. As much as I loved drew breeze growing up, watching him ever since that whole bounty gate thing with, uh, with the saints. I think that was in 2009 or 2010, whenever that colt saints super bowl was. That was the bounty gate year and ever since then I was just like you know what the saints can go? Fuck themselves.
Mike:Football is already a violent sport. You should not be targeting people on the other side, that shit. Honestly, I think that sean payton, from that alone should have just been like because he knew about it. Don't tell me that he didn't fucking know what was going on. He's in charge of his players as the head coach. He knew exactly what was going on and the dude only got suspended for a year. For a year purposely putting guys in actual danger by targeting them specifically.
Mike:If, honestly, if it wasn't for Bounty Gate, I swear to God, I think that Minnesota team with Brett Favre probably goes to the friggin' Super Bowl. So that's honestly, and you know what I'm so glad. You know what sucks is they ended up friggin' winning that Super Bowl. They should have taken that Super Bowl away. But you know what, as a Pats fan, I can't really say shit. Because then, with Spygate, deflategate, what am I going to say? They should take those away, absolutely not. Hell, no, I'm not taking away those trophies. But actually, how long into this? Oh my gosh, I'm like 16 minutes into this freaking podcast. I really talked about nothing except football. I am so sorry. If y'all ain't football fans, all right.
Mike:What else happened this weekend? Um, I literally had oh, you know why. You know why I'm kind of distraught this week. I ended up getting that freaking tattoo. So I got to say I gave the tattoo artist some shit because he canceled out on me last week I got to say the dude did fantastic work. Once this thing is officially healed I have it unwrapped now, but it's still a little red. It hasn't started peeling yet. So once this thing is officially healed, I'll post it on my Instagram so that way you guys can all see it. I did share something on my personal Instagram when the shop itself was taking videos while the guy was tattooing me. So I shared that Because, honestly, it came out freaking sick. All I did, I just got four roses on my forearm and it just looks so nasty with the level of detail that he did. Oh, my gosh, I'm so happy with it. So I usually don't do names on this, but I gotta give the guy a shout out. Name is jesse solano.
Mike:Anybody who's in like the stanford area, go check out cultured ink tattoo if you guys are looking for a tattoo. They do great work. There's also a bunch of really great guys in there. They they all are fantastic artists. If you guys are looking for any sort of work done, go check them out. Pretty reasonably priced too, I gotta say.
Mike:But freaking, 10 hours of my life was spent on this tattoo and I always find it funny. After I get a tattoo, I have one friend. He always asks me oh, did it, did it hurt, dude? Of course it fucking hurts a needle going like a million times into my arm. Go take a bobby pin and stab yourself like a thousand times really fast and tell me how it feels. But according to one of the artists because I was the last guy there I mean, I was the last man standing after 10 hours he was just like yeah, unfortunately, this style of tattoo, because it's high contrast, takes the most amount of time and patience because of the level of detail that we put into it.
Mike:But the worst part wasn't the actual tattooing. Like I said, it was actually the fact that I was like on my stomach and, instead of my arm just being like flat down, I had to face my palm up towards the ceiling. So my arm was also twisted and I kept falling asleep, which is something that I was really trying to do. I actually almost did fall asleep if it wasn't for the fact that I couldn't actually get comfortable. Like you know, that feeling that you get when you sleep in a new place that's not your own home. So you really have a hard time falling asleep, unless maybe that's just me, maybe I'm the only one who has that issue. But then, on top of it, imagine also that your dog or something is also just sleeping right on top of your chest. So you just can't get into a comfortable position. Even though the dog is comfortable you're not, but you can't move because you don comfortable position. Even though the dog is comfortable, you're not, but you can't move because you don't want to disturb the dog. It's kind of how the situation was here, but that was actually the most uncomfortable part.
Mike:The tattooing itself was not that bad. The only part that was kind of bad was when he went up by my elbow, which obviously makes sense. There's not a lot of skin there. Plus, it's funny, he was just like yeah, dude, there's a lot of loose skin there because it's your elbow area. There's not much like there's not much meat there, so it's trying to fight me a little bit. I was like all right, we'll do what you gotta do fucking presses harder, like ah, um, so, yeah. So I know that now I, even though I want to complete the hat, I only have like a three-quarter sleeve even though I want to complete the three only have like a three-quarter sleeve. Even though I want to complete the three-quarter sleeve, we're just going to leave that little elbow area blank, like I don't need that.
Mike:I know what my pain tolerance is. I could do my whole arm easy. That whole thing was a breeze, but elbow not doing. Knowing how much the elbow sucked, I can only imagine how much it would suck to do your ribs. But you know, what's funny is, you know how there's a bone in your arm, like in your forearm, that you can feel If he went over like that bone. I have no idea what it's called, but if it's anything like that that's in your forearm, I feel like ribs would not be as painful as people think it is.
Mike:But maybe I also just have a higher pain tolerance. I don't know. Not trying to toot my own horn here, but people are bitches. I mean, keep in mind, I did do 10 hours straight of a tattoo, no real breaks. We took maybe like 120 minute break just to eat a couple slices of pizza and it was funny. At the end of the day one of the other tattoo artists was just like dude, your patience level is unmatched.
Mike:Meanwhile he also told me a story about how he tattooed a guy until like 2 am the previous morning and I'm like, well, what about that guy? And he goes oh, I actually give that compliment out a lot. Meanwhile here I am just thinking I'm special. Oh, yeah, you're special. All right, mike, now actually you're special. All right, mike, now actually I do have a funny story I could tell you, speaking special.
Mike:So on nice days I tend to go for a run nothing too crazy, but around from where I live there's a mechanic shop and I always wave to this one guy and every time I wave to him he always like, kind of makes like a sound like like I never. I always thought that he was maybe a little bit special. So I'm just like, hey, maybe double check that car when you get it back. Okay, you go to turn on the car, the windshield wipers go on, but anyways, one day I'm running by and now I see him actually doing sign language. So I'm like, dude, I'm idiot. The guy isn't special, he's just fucking deaf. So I'm either an idiot or an asshole or both. Does anybody know sign language? Because now, instead of waving, I think it would be really cool if I could be able to actually do some sign language and have a conversation with this guy. Conversation with this guy. So if anybody knows any like easy to do tutorials on youtube or something, feel free to reach out to me at lmbemedia gmailcom and shoot me a link or something.
Mike:Oh, we are like 20 minutes in here, all right. Uh, what else did I want to talk about? Oh, we got to talk about diddy. I'm sorry, guys, sorry. I. I had a lot to catch up on this weekend. I also lost like a full day with this tattoo, so I just did not really have a lot of time to prepare and I am still watching the game, so I am just distracted this week. I'm really sorry I get to not watch games.
Mike:I should have learned my lesson when I was trying to do a March Madness episode, when I was watching the games, but we're going to talk about some Diddy stuff, so I actually don't even know what exactly the problem is. I know it was a lot of sex stuff. I know he's getting charged with trafficking, but let's be real here, with a name like Puff Daddy, no one suspected that he was a pimp. I mean hindsight's 20-20. And considering all the name changes, didn't he call himself P-Love at some point? And given what he's being charged with, the P actually stands for prostitution love, because, my god, how ignorant of this shit were all of us Like? He was literally right in front of our faces. The fur coats, the jewelry, the entourage that he had, it's just like oh, that's just Diddy. But nobody ever wants to fuck with Diddy because apparently Gator don't play no shit. Oh my god, that scene in the other guys with Will Ferrell, his pimp alter ego comes out. It's so fucking funny where he's just like Gator never been about that, gator never been about playing no shit. But you know what's crazy?
Mike:There's some chick on my TikTok that my friend keeps sending me stuff over. I think her name is Jaguar or something and I don't know how she knows all of this stuff. Check her out. If you're on TikTok, I think you could probably look up Jaguar. I have no idea what her my friend keeps sending it to me. Next week when I post an episode, I'll give you the actual TikTok.
Mike:I usually don't do names on this stuff, but I feel like in this case it's like fine, because I'm promoting, but um, I usually don't do names only for the fact of like, say, I say something offensive and then other people who I'm affiliated with, it gets out, and that way it just makes it less harder for people to get tracked down. Um, if I say something bad and I go down, I don't want my friends or my family to go down with me. So that's why I try to keep everybody anonymous, trying to do my my part and keeping other people safe, even though I'm putting my shit out there in my opinions, because I think people care. I just want to make sure that everybody who is affiliated with me or is friends with me or whatever, they don't also get in trouble. So, um, anyways, back to jaguar.
Mike:So I don't know how my friend knows about this woman, but I also don't know how this woman knows all this stuff. I mean, she talks about, like diddy, she knows about how, like she calls Diddy the diddler it's so fucking funny. But she talks about how the diddler was like messing around with Bieber. Um, I think she came out and was talking shit about J-Lo, how Diddy was like J-Lo was the perfect girlfriend. But now J-Lo's got more rings than Tom Brady and Diddy is the only one to say that she was a perfect girlfriend. Everybody else has their issues with them. I mean, granted, it's not like A-Rod was really that great of a guy considering he's got a history of cheating. Was really that great of a guy considering he's got a history of cheating? But I mean, jayla was taylor swift before taylor swift. Just knowing how much she got around and yeah, what? Just because she's dating travis kelsey don't mean that she don't got a history. Nah, do we forget that? I think she dated sam smith, and now look at him. What did she do to that guy? No, I think that dude probably had issues well before she got involved. So all right.
Mike:But speaking of Taylor Swift, we got to talk about the Kansas City Swifties in that game last night. So the one thing I really want to talk about is how everybody is losing their shit on the fact that the Falcons didn't get a PI call that probably would have won them the game. Put them on the one-yard line in the end of the fourth quarter. Put them up a couple points for the touchdown, if they got it. Here's the thing Going down, because this was actually the first Chiefs game that I actually was able to watch this season and it ended up being a great game. I think Kirk Cousins looked the best that he looked all season so far from what I'd seen.
Mike:But that last drive that the Falcons were on, the Falcons got literally every other call that went their way. Now the problem that I have is during that drive there were a couple of questionable calls that the refs made where there should have been. Maybe a no call really was kind of like a ticky tack foul that the falcons got. And I think what ends up happening is when refs make those stupid or bad calls, what they do is when there's a big call that they could make, they don't call it to make up for all the bad calls that they did make. And I think this goes to make up for all the bad calls that they did make. And I think this goes both ways. If there's a bunch of calls that should have been made and they don't, then they'll call something ticky tack that will make up for the lack of a call that wasn't made. And I think we saw that happen with the chiefs bangles in the week prior, where that pass interference yeah was a pass interference, sure. Could both the players have made a play on the ball? Sure, I think that was a ticky-tack pass interference call. I think the problem is those fouls always end up coming up late for the Chiefs and I think that's where people are like oh, the Chiefs always get the call. I think it just always ends up happening that way. But also, even with that no call pass interference against the Falcons.
Mike:Um, the Falcons still had a chance to win the freaking game. They just blew it harder than did he, or what. Fourth and short they were run the ball. They run the ball left. Everybody and their mother knew that they were going to run the ball. What they should have done probably stack up the line, go play action, fake the run, kind of throw it over the top. At least try to get the first down. You didn't necessarily have to go for the touchdown because you had some time left in the game. I think they also had a couple timeouts. So the Falcons ultimately ended up losing the game on a bad play call, not a penalty.
Mike:Steve Spagnuolo's defense ended up making just a great play. I mean, that linebacker, whoever the fuck it was just shot the gap and the running back just got smacked. But I think it was a stupid call. Fourth and two the way that that defense was playing all game. I didn't think that they were going to get it on a run anyway. I think they had a better shot at trying to like just throw a short one, but she still ultimately ended up winning.
Mike:I also think that the storyline with the game is going to be tra Kelsey the fact that he just did not really have that much of an impact during the game, but Mahomes came out afterward and said hey, they have just been doing a really good job of containing him. I just can't get him the ball. So I think we're going to continuously see that storyline. Where is Travis done? Should Travis retire? I don't think so. I mean, we saw what he was able to do in preseason Dude looks still pretty good.
Mike:I think players now are just trying to take away, or defenses now are just trying to take away Travis just because, even though he's a tight end, he's really not a tight end. He's just a big ass wide receiver that just is able to go anywhere on the freaking field because Andy Reid trusts him to do so. I mean, andy Reid came up initially as a tight ends coach, from what I know. So I think you just trust Travis to make a play and I think defense is. Now we're just locking down Travis as if he's like a number one target because he is, and they're just trying to take away one less weapon that Mahomes can use to work with. So I don't necessarily think Travis is washed, I just think that people are just learning how to contain him a little bit better.
Mike:But again, my main issue with the Chiefs is the fact that that right guard just does not line up on the line of scrimmage as a lineman. He's always like a few steps back. Lineup on the line of scrimmage as a lineman, he's always like a few steps back. I don't understand how that's not like a motion or some sort of a shift penalty, like it's got to be something. It's not right. And I will say the right guard I didn't see him false start, but I did see him like kind of move his leg a few times. I'm like that should technically still be. I didn't think a lineman was able to move at all once they're on the line. So there's something with that. That just drives me absolutely crazy, because if that was any other fucking team, I can guarantee you that that would be called as a penalty. But that's where I think because it's the Chiefs they're going to get that call. So that's really my only critique.
Mike:I don't think that the Chiefs neither won nor lost the game on a penalty. I think it just ultimately because the fact that Atlanta just made a boneheaded play where they just decided to run the ball, I think that ultimately ended up losing them the game. But I would not be surprised if we see the Falcons a little bit later on in the season, at least with a wild card, because they look pretty good. Honestly, the whole NFC South looks more decent than I thought they would. Hell, even with Dolan at the helm, the Panthers look like they could have a shot. So who the hell knows? I mean, it's still early in the season. I don't want to get my hopes up too much. I mean, what the fuck do? I know I just lost my survivor pool because I ended up taking the friggin' Raiders over the Panthers. I wonder how many people took that game. But alright, speaking of, I kind of want to get back to watching these games. So I'm going to let you go, because I've also run my app now for 30 minutes. I kind of lost track of time here. Alright, guys, that does it for me.
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