00:00I think one of the best games and most exciting ones on the board for me this week features
00:06two 0-2 teams, Greg, and that's Houston taking on Indy.
00:10So now Indy, we've seen, can't stop a nosebleed defensively.
00:15We watched the Chiefs run all over them.
00:18We saw the Ravens run all over them.
00:20Now they got to take on a very experienced Texans team.
00:25The Texans started 0-3 last year and then won, what, 13 of their last 14 games.
00:30They did very well.
00:31So the Texans have been here and done this.
00:35They got to go to Indy.
00:37They, I believe, are 5-1 against Indy over the last couple of seasons.
00:41So they have done a great job against Indianapolis.
00:45Again, I don't want to say must win, but with Houston going on the road as a slight favorite,
00:51I still, from what I've seen, think they are the better team here.
00:55Are they not?
00:57I think so.
00:58The Colts, I guess it just becomes dangerous when you're giving mediocre teams the amount
01:05of points that the Colts got against Kansas City.
01:08Like, that's kind of the bottom line.
01:09But in a straight head-to-head, yes.
01:11Yes.
01:12In a straight head-to-head, I believe Houston is better than Indianapolis.
01:16But if you want to put Indianapolis, you know, up against Buffalo and give me 8, I'll take
01:22the 8, you know?
01:23Like, because they're, like, not horrible.
01:25But, gosh, like, it's hard to get behind Indy, Joe.
01:29It's hard.
01:29It's really, really, like, looking at it, even trying to find, like, what do they do well?
01:35They give the ball to Taylor?
01:37That's about it.
01:38Like, there's really not much.
01:39Here's the bigger question.
01:40How were they so good at this time last year?
01:42How were they 8-1 or 7-1 at this time last year?
01:46What was different?
01:47I guess that's it, right?
01:49Nothing else?
01:50Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes in the first two weeks of the season is not good.
01:54Same thing for Texans.
01:56They had to go up against Josh Allen and Joe Burrow.
01:58Like, not exactly great ways to start the season here.
02:04But I think from a defensive standpoint, I think Houston is – I think the Colts are
02:11a step down, let's say that, than what the Texans have just had to play.
02:15They've had to play Josh Allen and Joe Burrow.
02:17Danny Dimes is not in that breath.
02:19That's tough.
02:19I think this is a good opportunity with a better defense to go there.
02:25But most disappointing 0-2 team, shocking 0-2 team, is it the Chargers for you by far?
02:32Yeah, I mean, look, nothing is shocking anymore in the NFL.
02:36The Ravens were 0-4 last year, you know, so –
02:39They lost the two teams that didn't win 20% of their games last year.
02:43Yeah, it's surprising.
02:44It's surprising.
02:45I know everyone's making a lot of the – everyone is making a lot of the schedule
02:49until they beat Buffalo and Seattle, and then everyone forgets about that.
02:52I'm not saying they will.
02:53I'm just saying, like, we make too much of everything in the NFL because it's a week-to-week
02:58league and there's one game and that's it.
03:00But, yeah, no, look, obviously last week I thought of the five picks that I had,
03:06I liked the Chargers in those.
03:08And probably – well, I mean, I 100% still would have used San Francisco in Survivor
03:13no matter what because I don't play that look-ahead game.
03:16But the Chargers would have been probably my number two, I think.
03:19Like, I think that would have been one of the ones that I would have went with.
03:24And, you know, for me, I really can't figure out because it doesn't seem like there's
03:28anything different, Joe, about their team this year to last year.
03:31Like, nothing.
03:31Like, everybody's back.
03:32They have the same team.
03:33McDaniel, I guess, is the offensive coordinator now.
03:35And maybe that is factoring into the way that he wants to run the offense.
03:39But it seems to me that their defense isn't very good either.
03:42They're fumbling the ball all over the place.
03:44So strange.
03:45Yeah, it's another one of the – and I understand, like, even going in that the Raiders were
03:49going to have more fans than the Chargers.
03:51And it was clear that they did.
03:52It was like 80-20.
03:53It was crazy how many Raiders fans were there.
03:55But, yeah, the Raiders had no business with Kirk Cousins and Trey Tucker.
03:59I like Trey Tucker.
03:59He's a nice player.
04:00But come on.
04:01Like, the Raiders had no business going in and doing what they did to the Chargers there.
04:05So in the end, Chargers will go on a roll.
04:08They will win their seven games or eight games or whatever it is.
04:11I don't think this is going to be a complete disaster, and I don't want to overreact to it.
04:14But as I was telling Chris before the show, there's a couple of teams right now in the NFL
04:18that just generally speaking, 1-1, 2-1, 2-0, that I'm going to stop for a minute on,
04:23and the Chargers are going to be one of those teams.
04:24Like, I am not just going to all of a sudden start fading them and saying,
04:27oh, they're finished, they're done.
04:28Not going to do that.
04:29And at the same time, I don't want to take them either because I'm not sure that they may be
04:33done.
04:33It's possible.
04:34But there's other games to find for me on the board.
04:36So the Chargers are an absolute push to the side for me.
04:39Like Atlanta.
04:40I'm going to push Atlanta to the side too for now.
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