The Top Stories From NFL’s Week 9 Games That YOU Need To Know! | The Pat McAfee Show

The Top Stories From NFL’s Week 9 Games That YOU Need To Know! | The Pat McAfee Show

You know what a really good segus that we have found? Well, it’s nowhere near accurate to the timer place in the lower right corner of the screen. Now, it’s nowhere near accurate with the time. You know, this says 15 minutes. It’s called the first 15. But remember, first 15 means scripted plays. That’s right. It’s first 15 plays of the drive. Nobody’s saying, “Hey, first 15 plays that need to be like in the first minute and a half or two minutes of the game.” No, cuz that drive might extend. First 15 plays driven by Ram, which whenever you hit the gas pedal in one of those Ram trucks, the only sweet sound that you can hear is we ride on clouds obviously and we’re floating on clouds whenever we get a chance to talk about ball for the first 15 scripted plays of the program. That has gone 42 minutes. But let’s go ahead and hit that clock, start that clock right about uh now. Top five headlines from NFL week 9 Sunday slate. Well, the NFL found its fast ball, did they not? Nine out of the 12 games in yesterday’s slate were one-score games. Remember, this follows a historically ass weekend for the NFL. The NFL only had one outcome last weekend that was within a one-score game. It was the worst weekend of NFL football since 1970. That’s 55 years. Then Thursday night goes the way that it goes and all of a sudden you’re kind of [ __ ] talking the NFL offices. Uhoh, you guys might have lost it. First time in 55 years. No, you guys going to go back to back. Oh no. Are you guys turning into soccer? Oh no. Oh no. Is that what’s happening to the NFL? And then all of a sudden the NFL calls back and says, “We up, baby. What a week. What a slate. Let’s go to Bengals Bears.” Now this one was absolute insanity. Let’s head right to an onside kick here. 4135. The Bengals had just scored to make this a one-sore game. Need an onside kick. McFerson goes to bend one back. It’s not going to go 10 yards. Ah, it doesn’t matter. Touches the foot of a Bears player. Bengals recover. Joey Flack has a chance to bring him back because this guy gave a toe tap to the ball. Bengals rock. Joey Flax’s got it now. Hold on. Everybody understands what’s about to take place. Joey Flack walks him down the field. Maybe too fast. Maybe too fast. Delivers an absolute seed to Andre Yosv. Incredibly cool tatted man. Higgins head massive game. Jamar massive. Chase Brown massive. Yosh massive game. No punts. This team unstoppable. Nope. I don’t think so. You can’t give Caleb Williams 50 seconds and one time out. Caleb marches down the field. Third and 10. We pick up on his own. 28. Scrambling doing some Caleb [ __ ] This man walked in to the NFL with the ability to electrify. People were calling him maybe the next Mahomes. Had we seen it yet? No. Harry picks up a huge first down. Continues to drive. Now on zone 42. First and 10. 25 seconds left. No timeouts. We just spent it. What’s he going to do with it? Oh, how about the first tight end drafted? Coen Lovelin over the middle. One tackler. Two tackler. No tacklers. Gone. Cost Lovelin scores a gamewinning touchdown after nobody decides to cover him or tackle him in the most important part of the game, the final minute of the fourth quarter and the Chicago Bears steal a dub in Cincinnati away from Joey Flack and the Bengals. What a drive by Caleb Williams. Now, a lot of people are going to say that Bengals defense is ass. Oh man, certainly a lot of a lot of guys on that defense saying please for the love of God, can you get me out of here? Yeah, there are four guys in the last six months who trade me. Trade me. Okay. Not happening a lot. Normally it’s like agents and teams behind the scenes having conversations. Now it’s being made public. Boom. Get me the hell out of town. Boom. Get me the hell out of town. Boom. I’m not signing this contract. That’s kind of how it’s been for the Bengals on defensive side, let alone with Trey Hendrickson whenever this whole thing started. uh draft uh Super Bowl radio row. I mean, here uh in the history of the NFL, allowing 160 on the ground and 260 through the sky. Yeah, one of those or the other is going to be a glaring weakness. People are going to attack it. Well, the Bengals defense says actually won’t do both. Let’s go ahead and let them do both. You Hey, you have it your way around here. You can have it your way. You want to go on the ground, be [ __ ] best in the league. You got it. You want to go through the sky, be the best in the league. You got it. And it’s almost as if this was predictable. Was this predictable? I mean, huh? I don’t know. Interesting. Anyways, the whole conversation in the offseason was you pay two number ones, which they are. Yes. Very good. If T Higgins would have went to another team to be their number one, he would be Yep. by far the number one. And Jamar, same exact unbelievable. Pay Joey Burrow. Now he’s hurt. Got Joe Flacco. Good news. He’d come here kind of do the same thing. He’s absolutely crushing it. Pay him. Okay. Can you win like that? Everybody was saying going into the year, everybody was saying your defense wasn’t good. What what you do on that side? He said, we got a new DC. Has a guy really ever done, we got a new DC. See how good Notre Dame’s defense was last year. Has he ever we got a new DC? Don’t worry about it. And they’ve just been ass. And everybody that saw the way they built their team going into the season says, “Yeah, it’s almost as if every football person told you that’s not how you can actually win football games in football, especially in 2025 when the Eagles just proved that what you need to do is run the ball, stop the run.” And the Bengals said, “We’ll be able to throw it though a lot.” And uh we might not be able to stop the run or the pass, which is what stats are saying. But that defensive side was glaring weakness going into season. And now it’s turning into kind of biting him in the ass. And on that note, Caleb Williams. Okay. Yeah. Can’t leave Caleb that much time. No. Had it. Can’t leave Caleb that much time cuz he has the number uh the first uh tight end drafted right there down the middle. Good for Coulson Lovely. Oh yeah. Big day. Big day for Coulson Love. Especially videos coming out of training camp. Mhm. You know where he’s singing them boys going crazy then in the locker room as soon as he gets a game ball. I don’t know if you saw the defense everybody went crazy for him. It’s like wow they love this guy in there. It is very cool. That’s a good culture building win for the Chicago Bears. Yeah. Not to mention Ben Johnson’s uh the finding the five in his pocket. That that was incredible. I mean you talk about coaches that have a sense of humor after a victory. Ben Johnson one of one knocked that out of the park. Yeah. We like and I appreciate the fact that he’s super intense and the boys know that. So, in a couple moments in the postgame speech, Ben Johnson his delivery pretty intense. Boys know it’s a lighting mo lightful mode. So, you go a lot of those from the boys there, you know, kind of keeping it light. Feels like they have built their culture. At the beginning, this was uh what appeared to be a train wreck. Wasn’t going to work. His mindset, Caleb’s mindset, the building’s mindset. This isn’t going to work. And all anybody wondered is how is this guy the bell of the ball for coaching? And why would he go to Chicago? It feels like the complete opposite of what he would want. How’s this ever going to work? And here they are. It’s working. Congrats to Chicago Bears making a great play now. Huge win over the Bengals. That was just one of the incredible finishes around the NFL. Let’s go to the Panthers upsetting the Packers. 76 third quarter. Ass game to watch. Rico Dell. The Rico says, “Hold on. Only two. Only two.” And oh, one two. All right, that’s good. No worries. Right. Turn the sound on, please. Uh the ref said actually uh uh personal foul uh un super unsportsman 15 yards. They backed that extra point up 15. They missed that extra point. Okay. So all of a sudden the double pump actually starts affecting Oh. Oh no. I thought that was okay. Well, Keon Peele said it was okay. I I don’t know if this said NFL ref said it was okay. We all believe that two was good, three way too much. These refs said to one, two, we want none. Come on. Okay, we want none of the hip thrust. Nonetheless, 1313. Packers were able to make it a tie ball game. Let’s go to Bryce Young. Second and 10. 118 left in the fourth quarter. When Bryce was coming out into the NFL draft, they said, “This dude’s a Steph Curry of this draft. An absolute steal.” Well, he finds the Irish Terrone McMillan wide ass open. Good first down. Let’s go to second and 10 now. later. Give it to Rico Daell. This dude is unstoppable. Ty might be the best player to ever play football. Yeah, certainly the best player in the NFL this year by far. But yes, I I think you could argue he’s the best football player of all time. So, they find themselves into field goal territory. Ryan Fitzgerald from 49. Give me that. 48 was the extra point that he missed earlier. 49 was the gamewinner. And the Carolina Panthers beat the Green Bay Packers in a walk-off in Lambo. What a moment. What a time. And Ty, the Panthers are good football team. Yeah, I mean they they dominated this game or controlled it. Dominated, I guess, is one way of saying it because it was a one-sore game and it took a field goal to beat them, but I think the Packers only had three possessions in the first half. They just knew exactly what they needed to do to win. They knew it was potentially going to come down to a field goal. And on the flip side, you know, the uh the Packers once again, special teams kind of kills them, whereas special teams could have killed the Panthers, but what a what a kick by rookie Ryan Fitzgerald. It was massive. And when he was lining up for it, every Packers fan knew there was a 0% chance that he was going to miss that. Uh let’s go to the next game in the NFC North. Vikings Detroit Lions. Fourth quarter 141. Lions only have one timeout. First down wins it. JJ McCarthy in a bucket to Naylor. JJ scored a touchdown on the ground. He threw a couple. JJ had some inaccurate passes where he missed like by 10 yards and then whenever the moment’s the biggest, JJ walks in and makes a play. His teammates love him. Okay. All the way back from high school, IMG, they loved him. College at Michigan, they loved him. And in Minnesota, they love him. He comes into the locker room, boys go crazy. I think his leadership is one of the aspects of him that makes everybody say he is the guy in Minnesota. I think he acts like a guy, they treat him like a guy and on the field he’s able to win these games and he has so much so much up and to the right. I mean you if he takes the trajectory Josh Allen took in the offseason and I know we’re comparing a lot of people to Josh Allen and we saw Josh Allen. Yeah, that’s what you want. That’s that is what you’re looking for. But if he takes the trajectory of Josh Allen in these off seasonasons, he gets more accurate. if he’s able to get a little bit more accurate, especially with his leadership and his work ethic that everybody says, if he’s able to stay healthy, it’s like JJ, hey, all of a sudden you start looking at that draft class and it’s like, holy [ __ ] they’re that might be the best draft class of all time. Go ahead, comment. Yeah. And he he’s a sicko. Like when Kevin Oonnell’s giving him the game ball after in the locker room, like after they walk in and everything, like him losing his mind before getting the game ball, awesome. The team reacting to him doing that was really cool. and just him living up to the moment. Like, how many times in the last two years have teams gone into into Detroit and beaten them? Like we talked about the Lions being 13 and three in prime time games since the MCDC era has started. Like, typically the Lions rise to the occasion. The fact that they did it, especially since we were kind of, at least I was kind of talking a bit of junk about him not playing last week when Carl Wentz had a baby on the way in one arm. Like, for him to show up like that was incredible. 27 24 27 points against a Detroit Lions team. Now, and it wasn’t, you know, it wasn’t the prettiest. There was some blocked kick. There was a block kick. There was a turnover. You get it. There was good field position, but JJ McCarthy of Minnesota get a win over the Detroit Lions, which is crazy to think about, especially to your point, Connor, about the convoy by JJ. Here’s a little stat from Hembo here. Nine plus point underdogs this season. Uh, weeks one through eight, they were 0 and 10. Uh, week nine, they were 2-2. Carolina and Minnesota netted the two largest upsets of the season just yesterday. Congrats to the Panthers. Damn good football team. Damn good football team. JJ McCarthy might be a for real NFL dude. Seems like every moment he needs to step in, he does. Congrats to the Vikings for them. And then the Jags and the Raiders go to overtime. Trevor Lawrence scores a touchdown on their first drive. So that’s a big deal. Congratulations to the Jacksonville Jaguars. They kick an extra point. They scored on their first drive. They’re up seven. Now the Raiders get a chance to answer. They go down. Are they going to be able to score? 19 seconds left in overtime. They score a touchdown. Down one. could opt to kick the extra point. They say for the good of football, we’re going for two. We love that move. Ultimately, it gives them a loss though instead of having a one at the end. Raiders decide to go for two. Pete Carol says that was he was open. For the good of ball, they went for two. And to that, we say thank you, Raiders. Thank you. No more times. And congrats to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Not only a huge win, but also Cam Little, this kicker out of Arkansas, drafted last year in a sixth round, has hit a 68-yard field goal in a regulation football game. He hit from 70 in preeason. And this dude, Little hits big ass balls. I mean, he is so incredibly impressive. Uh, obviously had to drive it a little bit, they say, for the side angle. Didn’t get blocked. Wasn’t even close to getting blocked. A lot of guys had their arms up obviously from 68. That thing would have been good from 71 72 yards. Unbelievable kick. And obviously we talk about Aubrey a lot. Cam Little hits massive balls. I mean, this dude just murders balls. In the new Kball institution that we’re in right now, guys are hitting these long balls at a more accurate clip than they ever have. Guys are also attempting it more than they ever have before. And for those that are sleeping under a rock and maybe don’t know this, the kickers are allowed to bring the balls to the game now. Used to come out of a box, have a 30 minute like session on when you were allowed to break it down. So, it was a little beat up, but it wasn’t too beat up. Now, just like quarterbacks, kickers are allowed to bring their own balls. Have to pass an inspection for how hard it is. Obviously, the amount of uh pressure in there, and then what it looks like, and then guys now have gone seven for 11 from 60 pressure and a 68 yard field goal has been hit and everybody’s just assuming that a 70 yard is on the way. So, right now, Cam Little has the record, but I think for the first time in the history of ball, we it’s not safe. Oh, yeah. I I do not think it’s safe, especially if you get a situation at the end of half. Okay, let’s go to the number four headline as we got 132 left and we’re through the first headline here. Injuries, we don’t like them. No, we don’t at all. Hate them actually. We despise him. Trying to get rid of him. Yeah, multiple times, man. Yeah, multiple times. Joe Al obviously legend for that Chargers team. The way they play with him and without him a little bit different. He leaves the game with an ankle. Travis Hunter last Friday was listed on the IR after getting hurt in Thursday’s practice with a knee. Obviously T’s and P’s to all these dudes were pulling for him. But these are electrifying, very important players. On that note, Jaden Daniels last night up 38-7. Uh it dislocates his elbow, it appears, and who knows what else whenever it comes out of uh testing. But that was nasty, especially for a guy that is as important to the game of uh football in the NFL right now as he is. Jane is a big deal for football. We all like the way he plays. We all love watching him. They obviously didn’t play their best game. They’re down by a lot. He’s on the field. Why is he on the field? If he’s not on the field though, people saying he’s not going down with the ship. He ends up getting hurt. Don’t love to see that. Tucker Craft, we were just singing his praises literally last week for taking over a game. He exits with a knee. And then obviously CJ Strad got a concussion as well. Marshon Latimore and Luke McAffrey, both from the Commanders, also get hurt. Uh broken collarbone for Luke Latimore has a knee. Michael Hoy, Bill’s linebacker out. Michael Williams for the 49ers. I mean, just this was a week that was a lot a lot of big names, a lot of injuries, and uh we don’t we hate them. Hate them. All right, now we have three more headlines still to go. Uh let’s go to number three headline. The NFC West is a problem. Yeah. Listen, now obviously tonight the Cardinals will play against the Cowboys. They have a losing record. Let’s leave them out of this particular conversation. Even though, hey, a lot of football left. That’s right. A lot of football left. Who knows what they’re going to have to do. Matthew Stafford’s number four right now in the MVP conversation. Okay. Matthew Stafford currently. Odds are fourth to win the MVP. He’s been put Puka is back. Okay. Puka scoring touchdowns. Puka actually commented uh in our Instagram uh through one of his numerous highlights that were posted and uh he said, “Just trying to be good enough to get back on the program, Moose. And we’d like to let you know, Puka, you’re welcome anytime. What a perfect superstar for Los Angeles, Puka Naku is. He’s a dog. He’s tough. And he’s got a quarterback thrown to him that isn’t scared to break NFL records. If you look at the wide receivers with the best seasons throughout the history of the NFL, you’re going to see the quarterback, Matthew Stafford, next to the guys that are doing that. He’s a special talent. He and I were drafted in the same year. He was number one overall. Got like 175 million guaranteed. I was drafted number 222. I got 47,000 which wasn’t enough to pay off the Cadillac Escalade. Okay, so it’s a little different life but what he has been able to accomplish especially with Kershaw his high school team or yeah battery friend whatever it is on the baseball team just wins his last World Series. The fact that Stafford looks the way he looks and is still doing what he’s doing insane. And then Devonte Adams the amount of touchdowns that he has that are in close distance. So you know the Eagles are doing the tush push whenever they’re down there. You know what the Rams do? They do. Devonte get open and Matthew Stafford is just delivering him. Distance of each uh touchdown in the last two. Three yards, four yards, two yards, one yard, one yard. Unguardable. Remember, all anybody talks about is his get off. How he doesn’t even have to use his hands. He’s able to shake everybody. They used to do this with Gronk, the Patriots. Anytime they were down the red zone. Let’s go and get Grank one-on-one. And then you got a two-way go, three-way go, whatever the hell you want to do, Grunk. We’re just going to wait on it. Right now, they got Devonte one-on-one down here. And they have to do that because they got Puka and other weapons. Devonte always the number one. normally going to have two people on him, especially in a red zone area. Now, with where he is on that roster, Devonte’s getting one-on- ones down there, and all you got to do is just let Devonte Cook basically. And Stafford’s just waiting on him. Offensive line has to be able to block for half a second, not even. Soon as Devonte’s uh loose, we get it. And it’s an easy go. Brilliant by Shawn McVey. And if you cover him, Dvonte, it’s all right, we got Puka. Yeah. Over here on the other side. And uh we’ll see how it all goes. So, I mean the NFC West only ners get a huge move. San Francisco 49ers of Matt Jones. M. Jones playing really good. Yeah. Now, their defense obviously very dinged up. We have no idea what the defense is going to be able to be longterm and also trade deadline tomorrow. The San Francisco 49ers are always a pretty active squad whenever it comes to making moves to try to better their team. And this Matt Jones, Christian McCaffrey, obviously otherworldly. Otherworldly. Okay. I saw Jackson Dart run one in. I saw a couple touchdowns for this Giants team. And obviously his Giants team looks different now than he did just a few weeks ago with the loss of Scataboo. And obviously the Niners look different now than they did a few weeks ago with the loss of Fred Warner and everybody else, but M. Jones playing quarterback looks more than capable to be leading this San Francisco 49ers team. And they get a huge win against the New York Giants. Tone Diggs. Yeah, Mack has looked incredible stepping in for Brock Party. Like to have him as their backup in this situation to get them to six and three like no like if you would have looked at all their injuries. So like if you would put said, “Hey, N lose all these people. Max’s gonna be the quarterback. What’s their record? We never would have given him six and three at all. And here’s the Giants defense to that point. The last two games, uh, week eight vers one, he had 18 touches, 174 yards, and two touchdowns. Week nine, Christian McCaffrey, 33 touches. He’s the guy. 173 yards and two touchdowns. Giants defense need to figure out how the hell they’re going to cover a running back. Yeah, we need a linebacker that can run, it sounds like, is what we’re looking for in New York. Trade deadline day. Maybe some buyers at the at the trade deadline. Yeah, I don’t think we’re we’re going to be buyers, but it was like we didn’t know Chris McCaffrey was on the 49ers. Just a complete embarrassment. That’s the life of a Giants fan living alongside Bruce. And then obviously last night was just a show of the NFC West. The Seahawks team is a problem across the board, dude. Leonard Williams is what 6’9. Did you see him running? He chased down Jaden Daniels last night and I I was just like, there’s no way that’s Leonard. Leonard Williams been around a long time. And he looks phenomenal. had no idea he’s spear fishing. Okay, they’re saying he’s going down for five minutes at a time. This guy could hold his breath for five minutes as he’s freewater fishing out there. Held a tuna the size of him up on the screen. This how they were filling time late. Leonard Williams is a fisherman, a free diving fisherman. I think they said 80 feet, five minutes holding his breath. I think they said on Leonard Williams. Absolutely. Yeah. Well, I think Collinssworth said I scuba dive down there. I you know and he said even that is uh obviously a little scary. couldn’t imagine going down there without a tank. But on that note, they got talent everywhere. They got dogs everywhere. The them talking about how Jackson Smith and Jiga this off seasonason said, “I want to be the best wide receiver in football.” And McDonald said, “Well, you got to this is how we work.” And then him just buying in and doing it. Sam Darnold, this guy was let out of the building obviously in Minnesota. I think it’s because JJ McCarthy’s leadership abilities. I I genuinely believe that. I think there’s two alphas in the building. If J Everybody’s like, “Well, why don’t you let JJ kind of watch somebody?” I think JJ’s pretty big alpha. I I I think JJ is a alpha personality at least and leader and kind of everybody gravitates towards him. So I think it would be tough to kind of have a starter in there with him. So Sam Darnold heading to Seattle. What a move for them. And uh they’re special. Always winning on the road. Always winning on the road. And uh I like the cut of their jib out there a lot. And we all know Seattle, especially if their fans are all in, which it feels like they are and it should be, is impossible to play at. This Seahawks team is very special. Well, and very cool for Mike McDaniel and the Seahawks to like be good last year and then make McDonald, excuse me, be good last year and then make a change. Like Gino Smith and the Seattle Seahawks with DK, they were good. And then instead of kind of just riding that out, see what happens. They say, “Hey, look, Sam Darnold’s better. Jackson Smith and Jigba, he needs to get the ball more.” Mhm. I mean, Sam Darnold threw two touchdowns to a guy named Tory Horton. I get it. I probably should have known who that guy was. I didn’t going into this game. That’s the touchdown parlay builder there. If not to mention the the third string tight end, he threw a touchdown too. Number 82, Wilson. No idea who that is either cuz they got a touchdown parlay builder. It would have been it would have been dynamic. Uh but I mean Aoyo here, AJ Barner, Jackson Smith and Jigba. Jackson Smith and Jake didn’t even score and and they still put up 38 points. The the Seattle Seahawks are awesome to watch. Yeah, the Commanders fans said they’re be they’re being an elementary team. Yeah, they’re they’re being an elementary team. And here’s a guy that uh Connor was talking about. White, excuse me, not Wilson. I’m sorry. Mr. White had a W in Wilson. What? Steelers actually cut him. What’s that? Steelers actually cut him this year. Uh Mr. White. Yeah. Okay. So, he looks like he’s found a good home out there in Seattle then. Congrats to Seahawks and the NFC West. We’ll see the Cardinals tonight as they take on obviously the Dallas Cowboys. Let’s go to the number two headline from the weekend. The Bills beat down the Chiefs. Okay. And everybody’s going to say, well, the Bills, they beat the Chiefs again in regular seasons. You can’t beat them in postseason. Well, it’s like, what are the Bills supposed to lose in regular season? It’s much better to win than it is to lose in these games. And if you watch the way this game went, boy, that Bills team beat the hell out of Patrick Mahomes. I I mean, there was like there was a string there three, four straight plays where Patrick was just taking huge shots. Huge shots. Huge shots. It’s like this Bills team has a little bit of a different attitude. Maybe they they seem to be the ones that want to be the aggressors. They’re the ones that want to be tougher. They beat Don the Buff or the Kansas City Chiefs. I think that is a little bit alarming if you’re a Kansas City Chiefs fan. And also, if you’re a Buffalo Bills fan, it’s like, hey, hold on now. We got a little bit of an edge. Feels like this team has. You got Josh Allen obviously on the offensive side. So, you’re going to be great on the offensive side of the ball, you would assume. defense thumping this Kansas City Chiefs team as much as they did and obviously making plays all over the place and getting a huge win. Great for the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, great for the Buffalo Bills, but like you were saying, if you’re a Chiefs fan, you’re just holding your breath every single time you’re watching Mahomes play. Now, we’ve talked about it the last couple weeks about him running the ball and kind of get smacked around more. It’s like I, you know, obviously this game does isn’t the end all beall for them because there is a good chance they see each other in the playoffs, but boy, they Patrick Mahomes needs to take care of himself. We can’t have that guy getting hurt and missing a good chunk of time over the next couple weeks. Here are some Hembo stats out of the Bills Chiefs game. Patrick Mahomes verse this Bills defense. 44% completion percentage, which is career low. I think he had to go back to college since he had a completion percentage below 50%. 13.1 average depth of target is his uh career high. Nobody’s getting kind of throwing around. He threw for 444 airs and 69 yak. Nothing easy underneath says Hembo. Little anecdote he says. And they hit him a career-high 15 times. Flawless playing and execution from the Buffalo Bills defense, says Hembo. They literally beat him. Don. Yeah. And they had at Oliver out. You know, their best defensive lineman, highest paid defensive line wasn’t even playing and they had that all that pressure. It was awesome. Good for the Beatles. Maybe this is the year. Could be. Hey, maybe this is the year for the Buffalo Bills. Good to see Abosa cooking out there. And then number one headline from the weekend is turn back the clocks an hour. Yeah, right. About 11 years. Hell yeah. Look at the AFC leaders. Colts, Patriots, Broncos, Steelers. That’s 2025. Let’s go back 2014, shall we? Boom. Who’s up there? Old school tradition. 11 years ago. Now, did I choose to take this angle for the number one headline so that I can show go back 2025, please? Boom. The Colts still number one. Let’s make sure we understand that. Okay, let’s make sure we understand that. Tough loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Good team. But Pittsburgh Steelers currently leading the AFC North, which is why they’re seated in fourth, although others might have a couple more wins than them, including the Buffalo Bills, who are six-2, who have already had their buy. New England Patriots lead the AFC East. The Denver Broncos lead the AFC West, and the Pittsburgh Steelers and Indianapolis Colts got the North and the South, respectively. It’s like this is old school football all of a sudden. And this Broncos team, hey, dude, Denver Broncos are a real deal. going into the season, the Broncos were some Super Bowl favorites, some Super Bowl um uh what’s it called? Whenever you’re like um people love you, Darlings, Super Bowl darlings by a lot of fans. And the Denver Broncos get a huge win over the Houston Texans down in Houston with a walk-off from Will Lutz. And there was a moment before this kick between Shawn Payeyton, head coach of the Broncos, and Will Lutz. Hey, right through, man. A little smile. That’s awesome. I love everything about it because you have to think to yourself, hey, the head coach has got to really get along with the kicker if this is what he’s saying to him right before. A little bit of a violent motion. Don’t know exactly what he said. Just say, “Hey, Will. Hey, look at me.” [ __ ] Yeah, we need to make this one. We need to make this one. Will Lutz makes the kick. Will Lutz now under Shawn Peyton because he is with him at the New Orleans Saints. Shawn Peyton brings him up to Denver. Shawn Peyton and Will love 14 of 16 and clutch field goals under Shawn P. all the way back to the Saints game tying or go ahead field goals in the final two minutes of regulation plus OT. Yeah, I think Shawn Payeyton has a lot of faith and he was just reminding Will, hey, you’re going out there to make this thing. Let’s remember that. Smile. Will says you got it. Broncos back in a position where it’s like, wait, is this the Broncos team that we all thought it was going to be? Is this the Broncos team that can go win a Super Bowl? Shawn Peyton has been able to do it in the past. Can he do it again? Rebuilding it in his own image. Crazy to think about in Denver in the top four is incredible. But if you were to go back to 2014, look at those top four teams, the wild card teams are nowhere near how good the wild card teams are now. You know, you’re looking at that and you’re damn near worried if you’re the two seed or the three seed or the four seed just because hey, Chiefs are there, Bills are there, Chargers are there. Like there are a lot of really let alone the Ravens if they continue to play well. Like the buy this year might be the most important buy the AFC has had in a long time. Yeah. I uh and then who’s already out of it? you know, who’s out of it that we think might be in it. You know, there’s some teams that might not be able to catch some of these teams. I’ll be fascinated to see how the AFC falls. And also, uh, congratulations to the Steelers and the Patriots and the Colts and the Colts. Tough one for me to be able to celebrate the Colts, but still number one in the AFC out here. Don’t you worry about it.

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