Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs picked up another big win over the San Francisco 49ers. Peter Klein explains why this is another example of the Chiefs being the class of the league. Peter also breaks down the Detroit Lions big win over the Minnesota Vikings and some concerning losses for the Houston Texans and Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets.
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00:00I think the biggest story from the National Football League this weekend is the Kansas
00:10City Chiefs continue to roll.
00:14Kansas City with a victory over the San Francisco 49ers.
00:18And now, before everyone gets into, oh well, San Francisco this, San Francisco that, yes.
00:23Understanding that Brandon Ayoub's knee ripped apart and Debo Samuel got sick very early
00:31in this game.
00:33So yes, we are not dealing with the full complement of options here for the San Francisco 49ers,
00:40but still, they had Brock Purdy off-balanced all game.
00:46And I do think that Brock Purdy has taken a step forward this year and is actually a
00:50very strong quarterback, but I do think that this Kansas City Chiefs defense just made
00:55him look absolutely off-balance and just uncomfortable this whole game.
01:00And they do such a great job of making teams one-dimensional.
01:04The run game was not a factor at all.
01:05Mason was back fine in this game, and Kansas City's defense, it just, it didn't matter.
01:11They are able to get such a pass rush, they do such a great job in the secondary as well.
01:15There are no holes.
01:16There's nothing to really exploit with this team.
01:18We have mentioned a couple of times here, from a fantasy football perspective, they
01:22do really lock in on a number one option.
01:25And then Debo goes down, so obviously they can then lock in on Ayoub, Ayoub goes down,
01:30and they do still have some trouble with the tight end, with George Kittle.
01:32And so I just said that this is a team without flaw, and we just, we found two of them.
01:37But still, this is, I do think, a defense that is one of the best in the league.
01:43I think it's down to them and Pittsburgh for the best defenses in the National Football
01:48League.
01:49They are just so incredibly talented, and like, this is a defense-first football team.
01:54And then Patrick Holmes goes out and gets the job done with what he has.
01:58And in this game, it was a lot of stuff with the runs, and I understand that there is a...
02:06It's a little unfair.
02:07What would he can do on the sideline?
02:09Where everyone is just kind of laying up because they don't want to go out and launch at him,
02:13and he takes one step out of bounds, and all of a sudden it's a 15-yard penalty.
02:16But he just kind of does a bit of a hesitation, and then he can keep running for an extra
02:1915-20 yards anyway.
02:21It is a tricky spot for defenses to be put in, but the way that teams have had trouble
02:27moving the football this year, I'm not going to cry too much for defenses.
02:31I know that a lot of how you have been able to play defense in the NFL has been legislated
02:37out of it for a really long time now, but still, we haven't had a ton of points this
02:41year in the NFL.
02:42And so if quarterbacks want to take a bit of advantage of something, then who are we
02:47to get in their way?
02:48But still, you look at what Mahomes was able to do in this game against a San Francisco
02:52defense that, by the way, we all think very highly of, Noah Gray is your number one receiver
02:57in this game for Kansas City with four receptions, I think it was 65 yards.
03:02They were able to get the run game going a little bit with Kareem Hunt, but it's Patrick
03:05Mahomes, and it's not all the time.
03:07So you don't think of him as this mobile running quarterback the way a Jaden Daniels or Lamar
03:11Jackson are.
03:13But he is so smart about doing it at the right time, and his vision when he has the football
03:18is so incredible.
03:19That play that he had, what was the Monday night, was it Atlanta?
03:22No, that was Sunday night.
03:24The one Monday night game that they had, where he is just like, he weaves in it, oh no, see,
03:29we can loop back around and get there.
03:30He is able to set up blocks in a really efficient, really effective way.
03:34And he just sees the field so well that it is difficult to defend him when he starts
03:41getting out, and he starts really running for all of that.
03:45But yeah, this is still the best team in the league, and they proved it in a Super Bowl
03:48rematch against the 49ers.
03:50For San Francisco, you hope that Deebo Samuel is less sick when they play again.
03:55And the Brandy Niyuk injury, it sucks.
03:59He was just starting to kind of get going, and now the knee injury happens, and the season
04:04is over for him, and now Ricky Pearsall gets thrown into it.
04:09One of the things we kind of cautioned about at the beginning of the year was San Francisco
04:13had such great injury luck last year, and now it feels like all of it is just kind of
04:17crashing down, and we get another one here this week.
04:20Moving on.
04:21Who's going to get the blame with the Jets now?
04:24Alright, we fired the coach, Mike Williams fell down on a play on Monday Night Football
04:28so we had to go out and trade for Devontae Adams, where's the next scapegoat going to
04:33be found with the Jets?
04:35For the Jets to get absolutely punished by the Steelers was quite a thing to see on Sunday
04:44night.
04:45And you have Aaron Rodgers coming out.
04:46It's like, oh, we just came out a little bit flat.
04:47First of all, no you didn't.
04:48You had a 15-6 lead in this game, and then gave up 31 points in a row.
04:53But still, let's just, let's work under the assumption that he is correct.
04:58He was there, he knows, he was in the huddles, all that stuff.
05:01I was just watching on my couch.
05:04Let's just say, for argument's sake, that they came out flat.
05:07What more sparks do you need?
05:09Why are we a team that is in need of sparks?
05:12Your season is, I'm not going to say your season is on the line, because a lot of people
05:14still think they can make the playoffs, but any hope you have of winning this division,
05:18and getting any kind of a home playoff game, is on the line.
05:21You're 2-4.
05:23What more spark do you need?
05:25You're playing on Sunday Night Football against a very good Pittsburgh Steelers team.
05:29This should be getting, this, that should be spark enough.
05:33You've already fired the coach to get a spark, to try to jumpstart this team, and move them
05:37in a different direction.
05:38You traded for Devontae Adams to give a spark to this offense.
05:41Why, why are we so sparkless in New York, that there's a need for more sparks to be
05:47coming in?
05:48I just, I don't understand that at all.
05:51And it is, I feel like Aaron Rodgers has had so many things just tailored to him the last
05:58little bit, that, well, something else must be wrong.
06:02We just need to fix this.
06:03Fix this.
06:04Fix this.
06:05Because it's always been, well, my receivers are too young.
06:06My team isn't helping me, even though, you know, we've made it to the NFC Championship
06:09game all these times and all these things, but my team isn't giving me the support I
06:12need.
06:13So I need to go somewhere else.
06:14Okay, well now I don't have the right coach, well now I don't have the right wide receivers.
06:18At some point, it's not going to be perfect.
06:21Patrick Mahomes, I just said, won with Noah, by God, Gray, as his number one receiving
06:27option.
06:28So, spare me the, oh, we didn't have a spark.
06:33You only get to play 17 of these a year.
06:36Find it.
06:37Aaron Rodgers is supposed to be a leader on this team.
06:40And I came out and was very complimentary of him a little bit ago, which didn't feel
06:44great, but I was complimentary of him because he actually, it felt like, held this team
06:48accountable and was actually saying, like, no, this is, this needs to improve.
06:54And this team was not one with a lot of accountability for a while.
06:59And so I thought he did great at kind of saying, no, we need to be better.
07:03Well now, I think that accountability has to fall on him.
07:06He needs to be better.
07:07He needs to be the one who is providing the spark.
07:09He needs to be the leader that is getting his team all sparkled up and ready to go on
07:14Sunday night football.
07:15Good morning, Anand.
07:16Happy Monday.
07:17Yeah, thanks for popping in the chat today.
07:18Really appreciate it.
07:19We're going to get to some Flames chat in a little bit.
07:22But, Anand, one of the hosts on a game over Calgary, it was myself and Conrad on that
07:26this weekend.
07:27But back to the football, it's a disaster with the Jets.
07:30They are 2-5, they're three games back of the Bills for first place in the East.
07:35They do still have one more game against the Patriots, that's this week.
07:39They have two more games against the Dolphins, but Tua might be inching his way back.
07:43There are bigger problems there for sure, but it may not be the cakewalk that it seems
07:46to be.
07:48They do, as difficult games left, they have the Texans, the Seahawks, and the Bills.
07:51As, eh, games, they have the Jags, the Rams, and the Colts, where it feels like 50-50.
07:57But the only wins this team has this year are against Jacoby Bursette and Gerard Mayo
08:02in his first Thursday night football game, and Will Levis, who is Will Levis.
08:09Like this is not a good football team.
08:11And the last little bit of this, and this is a, um, this is definitely like a hot takey
08:20whatever thing, but is that Garrett Wilson drop that late leads to an interception?
08:26Maybe a sign of something else?
08:27Because he doesn't drop that nine times out of ten.
08:30And it could just be it hit his shoulder pad, and it like it's just it is one of those plays.
08:35And that is like the Occam's razor of just what is the most likely scenario.
08:39That's it.
08:40I understand I am doing a gigantic philosophical reach with this.
08:45But you do wonder if that is a man who is overthinking a little bit.
08:48They have just brought in Devontae Adams, who is the best buddy with Aaron Rodgers.
08:53You have all these different distractions going on.
08:57You just wonder if there was just something in his head where I need to make this get
08:59this is my play that this is my chance to do it.
09:02And it's just it's the football equivalent of just gripping the stick too tight.
09:07And he whiffed on it.
09:08So I just I wonder if there is just too many distractions and too much going on with the
09:13New York Jets right now.
09:14But credit to the Sealers as well.
09:16They step up.
09:17The defense plays really well and comes up with a few big plays.
09:20And Russell Wilson.
09:21I didn't think he was amazing, but he steps up and the offense did look better in this
09:25contest against a pretty good Jets defense.
09:28Another one of the big games of the weekend was the Detroit Lions.
09:30They come up with a big showing against the Vikings of Minnesota.
09:35And Jared Goff showed up in a big time way.
09:39Like this team went to the NFC Championship game a year ago, and this is still probably
09:43the most impressed I have been with him.
09:45He does not strike you as a quarterback who would handle pressure that well.
09:49And the Vikings brought it.
09:51And he was exceptional.
09:54He was so good with getting the ball out.
09:57Amon Raw St. Brown was I think a big benefactor of all of that.
10:01And I think this does kind of show game plan wise how you can take a Jamison Williams out
10:05of it, which from a fantasy standpoint sucked this week.
10:09But with that pressure coming, Amon Raw is going to be the guy who's a little bit closer
10:13to the line of scrimmage.
10:14He is going to get those quick check down passes, and he did a lot with them.
10:17And that allowed the Detroit Lions to really step up in this football game.
10:21But just a fantastic game.
10:23I think both of these teams come out of it with you feeling a little bit better about
10:26them.
10:27I don't think the Vikings have a whole lot to hang their heads about.
10:30Sam Darnold and Justin Jefferson were fantastic, and I do think you get just a touch concerned
10:36about your defense being your strength and giving up 31 points.
10:40But I still think that you have to feel very good about this from a Vikings standpoint.
10:45To think of where we thought of them at the beginning of the year, and now what they are
10:48doing here is really impressive stuff.
10:52The Houston Texans, I think, have some concerns now.
10:55They did not manage that game late well against the Green Bay Packers.
10:58They had a chance to basically set it up where they can kick a field goal to win it, or at
11:04least come close to it.
11:05And they just didn't take enough time off of the clock.
11:07They left Jordan Love with some time.
11:08He marches down, and Green Bay, who have had some field goal kicking issues for years
11:13now, get Brandon McManus to just sneak it in, and it looked like it was drifting left,
11:18and then it just kind of stays the course and goes through and gives Green Bay a very
11:23important win.
11:24But for the Texans, this is a Green Bay defense that we said last week, we're not really taking
11:29them all that seriously anymore.
11:31Maybe they haven't taken that big step that we thought.
11:33Even though it was a good performance against Arizona, it still is not a defense that's
11:38like, no, we're locked in, this is a good one.
11:41And they gave the Texans a lot of problems.
11:43C.J. Stroud, with only 99 yards passing in this game, with no Nico Collins, you can really
11:47see where things are lacking.
11:50This was where we said Stephon Diggs needs to step up, and he just gets into fights.
11:55I am pretty done with Stephon Diggs.
11:58I think that's fairly clear at this point.
12:01They need him to get better.
12:02And look, they ran the ball really effectively, and I think that that is an area that you
12:06can attack Green Bay on now.
12:08But Jordan Love did not have a great game.
12:10It felt like this game was here for the taking, and it feels like the Houston Texans kind
12:14of let one slip away on Sunday afternoon.
12:17The Seattle Seahawks step up.
12:19Just when we were ready to kind of give up on the Seahawks, they come out with one of
12:22their better performances of the year, specifically on defense.
12:25That was the type of defense that we were expecting to see from them.
12:28And they're getting a little bit healthier, and they're getting a little bit better now.
12:32And we will see what the DK Metcalf injury situation is.
12:35It didn't look great on the sideline.
12:38Reports this morning are that it's not that bad.
12:40Like, he did get carted off, but watching Good Morning Football, Ian Rapoport was saying,
12:44yeah, locker rooms are a far way away.
12:47Like they just, everyone kind of gets carted off these days.
12:50So they just didn't want him walking all that way.
12:52So maybe it's not that serious, but this defense is back to performing the way that we thought
12:57they would at the beginning of the year.
13:01And offensively, it's not a gigantic stats day for Geno Smith, but it was a good enough
13:06day to take advantage of what the defense was giving him and pick up some big points
13:10and pick up a big win.
13:11And it's just a reminder of where the Falcons are.
13:14It's a good team who can beat up bad teams and get the occasional win against good teams,
13:18but can also lose to good teams.
13:19Like this isn't, this isn't a juggernaut of any sort or anything like that.
13:24Let's look at the wins.
13:25Atlanta beat Philadelphia.
13:27That one I think is a good win still.
13:29They beat New Orleans, Tampa Bay, and Carolina.
13:32So they've won their division games and Philly.
13:34They have lost to Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and Seattle.
13:38There's no shame in losing to Kansas City.
13:40Pittsburgh, it was a weird one, weak one, but this was just a, okay, there is a ceiling
13:46to what Atlanta can do and a limit, I think, on who Atlanta can beat.
13:52And so this was a good reminder of that.
13:54The Eagles dominate the Giants.
13:55The big story from this was Saquon Barkley just running like a man possessed.
13:59And running like he absolutely saw a lot of those things on hard knocks and took it
14:03all out on what is a pretty good Giants defense.
14:07This was the first time the Eagles came out and made a statement in a couple of years.
14:12Like we said last week, this needs to be an ass-kicking game against Cleveland to reestablish
14:16yourselves as one of the top teams in the NFC.
14:19They didn't do that, well they did that this week.
14:21And it's not a big Jalen Hurts game, but with Saquon Barkley going the way he was, it's
14:26going to be difficult to stop them.
14:28The Giants offense was bottled up by an Eagles defense that's just okay.
14:32And it's very clear that it's just, it's not it for Daniel Jones and the Giants.
14:37Sticking in that division, hopefully Jaden Daniels is alright.
14:40That was concerning to see him come out with a rib injury.
14:43He had a family member tweeting out during the game, yeah he's going to be fine.
14:48They didn't put him in because why did they have to?
14:50Washington just absolutely dummied the Carolina Panthers and just whooped that ass for a gigantic
14:58win.
14:59But this is the thing that you're concerned with, with Jaden Daniels, is that he's small,
15:04he runs like crazy, and he takes a bunch of hits.
15:07So hopefully this is just quick and he's going to be alright, but you do also hope again
15:10that he learns from this.
15:11And now for Carolina, it is time to move on from Eddie Dalton again.
15:17And it is time to bring Bryce Young back in.
15:19If all the mock drafts are correct, and this team is going to go quarterback again in the
15:25first round of this upcoming draft, I think you need to give Bryce Young one more opportunity
15:30to go in there and see what he can do.
15:34It has now been weeks of him learning, it has been weeks of him on the sidelines seeing
15:38what this offense maybe can be, and now I do think it is time for him to try to get
15:43back in there, or for them to get him back in there and give him one last go with this
15:47if you are going to do that.
15:49Or I think the trade deadline is either this week or next week, that's something I should
15:55know before I go into this, but I think at that point, if you're not bringing him back
15:59in and you're just going to trade him anyway, or sorry, you're just going to get rid of
16:05him anyway, then just move him now.
16:08Just do it.
16:09You're not going to get a whole lot back for him anyway, so why not just move him now?
16:19And November 5th is the trade deadline, so there's still a little bit of time.
16:21So even if you just put him in against Denver and he sucks again, move him to Raiders for
16:24a 7th round pick.
16:25We'll talk about the Raiders here in a second, but I don't see the point of what they are
16:31doing anymore with Bryce Young.
16:36Either throw him in there and see what he has, and see what you have in him, or if you've
16:41just decided you have moved on, then fully decide you've moved on and try to get something
16:46back for him here at this deadline, and really kind of solidify that you are going in a different
16:52direction.