00:00Eagles and Giants, of all teams, are leading it at 2-1.
00:04Then the Cowboys are 1-2.
00:07The Commanders are 1-2.
00:08Kind of weird.
00:10Only the Cowboys in the division are on the plus side in point differential.
00:16Cowboys are plus 6 through three games, 1-2 record.
00:20Cowboys just played super conservative when they thought that game was going to overtime,
00:24and the Ravens outcoached them late.
00:27I really wish that game went to overtime because I needed one more point from Dak Prescott
00:31to win Shelby's Fantasy League, and now we're 1-2,
00:34and I feel an immense amount of pressure for my 11-year-old daughter's Fantasy League.
00:41But I almost wonder, what are odds to win the NFC East right now?
00:45Because it's not going to be the Giants with Dart out.
00:47That offense looks terrible.
00:49They just happen to play the only team in the NFL they could have beaten with 12 points in Tennessee.
00:55I wonder if New York's going to have to go to McCarthy or if they think there's another level there
01:00for Jameis.
01:01Also, Brian Burns now out for the Giants.
01:04I would say Philly's still the favorite to win that division.
01:07Yeah, they're minus 135.
01:09Cowboys plus 240.
01:11Giants plus 750.
01:12Commanders plus 900.
01:14Am I crazy?
01:15Is plus 900 pretty juicy for the Commanders right now?
01:18I recognize they're already 0-2 in the division, which is going to make that really difficult to win,
01:24just from a tiebreaker perspective.
01:26But I'm not even doing a bit.
01:28I'm not even trying to be a homer here.
01:30Washington has the best win of any of these teams now through three games, right?
01:36By beating Seattle, snapping their win streak.
01:39Washington took Philly to the wire.
01:41They got outclassed in Dallas, but their quarterback also went down,
01:45and that provides a pretty significant emotional hurdle to conquer.
01:50Washington and plus 900.
01:52Am I crazy?
01:52Like, is there someone you feel confident in in the NFC East?
01:57Because I don't know how you can watch that Philly offense and feel particularly confident in them.
02:03When Saquon runs like that, it's one thing.
02:05But he's also wearing a cowboy collar.
02:07You don't see many running backs running around with a cowboy collar on,
02:11and clearly they're worried about the neck issue that had him miss time.
02:18To me, there's no way Philly should be that significant of a favorite.
02:23I don't know.
02:24Maybe I'm crazy.
02:25Maybe I am being a homer.
02:26What was Dallas?
02:28Plus 240.
02:29The Giants I would write off.
02:31You're a Giant fan.
02:32Would you write them off?
02:33With no dart?
02:35Yeah.
02:36Yeah.
02:38I mean, Philly has the leg up because they're 1-0 in the division.
02:43It's the division games that, I guess, get Washington all the way to plus 900.
02:48But if you just look at how this schedule goes from here, I don't know, man.
02:53Like, I'm not trying to be crazy, and I recognize none of it matters if they lose this week to
02:59Indy
02:59and all of a sudden you're 1-3 coming back home.
03:03But, like, Washington had to get through these first three games at 1-2.
03:08And they damn sure could have been 2-1 if they could have pulled off the Philly win week one.
03:15Washington heading to London to take on the Colts as three-and-a-half point technically home underdogs.
03:22The home field stuff in this is obviously irrelevant.
03:25But I have no idea what they're going to win or lose.
03:29Nobody does, right?
03:30The NFL's hard enough to pick week to week, let alone looking out for a while.
03:35But having gotten through these first three games, now you're talking Colts, Giants with Jameis.
03:40The Niners look like a wagon.
03:41That's a Monday nighter on the road in San Fran.
03:43I get that.
03:44I think it's entirely possible that you're 3-3 at the bye, and then you come out with Philly, the
03:51Rams, the Giants, the Bengals, Cardinals, Titans, Texans.
03:55I mean, this stretch, and I recognize it's not until almost Thanksgiving, but you go Giants, Bengals, Cardinals, Titans, Texans,
04:07Atlanta.
04:08You might be able to pull off four in a row right there.
04:12Those are some bad teams.
04:14So I just, I don't know.
04:15I think it'd be pretty silly to close the door on a commander's team that, for better or worse, Dan
04:24Quinn typically keeps them pretty locked in, even late in the year, even in lost seasons.
04:29So we'll see what happens, obviously, but plus 900, pretty damn juicy.
04:35But you got to win this week in what will be a tough matchup against the Colts.
04:40Now, some things that could help them win this week, especially coming off the wild, improbable win over the Seahawks,
04:48excuse me, is, might be getting healthier.
04:52Dan Quinn spoke at length yesterday, explained three key contributors could be back on the field this week.
05:01Frankie Luvu, Chigakonkwo, and Jaden Daniels.
05:04I want to, I want to go in order of the seriousness from which I, I derived these comments.
05:14Frankie Luvu getting back on the field seems very realistic.
05:18And when Dan Quinn talks about Frankie Luvu getting back on the field, I think there's a level of seriousness
05:25to that because when he got hurt, when Luvu got hurt in, I guess Luvu got hurt coming out of
05:33the Eagles game, right?
05:34Like, because then he missed two.
05:36He missed Dallas and he missed Sunday's win over Seattle.
05:40But they also said, we're not going to have to go to IR.
05:43And for a player like Luvu at a position where Leo Chanel tweeted that, you know, he's feeling good on
05:49the road to recovery, but obviously Chanel's not playing again this year.
05:53Thoughts and prayers with Chanel and his family and hope everything's okay there.
05:57Getting Luvu back on the field would be a major, major bonus for this team, especially going against an Indianapolis
06:05team that likes to kind of go heavy and hand the ball off to their very talented, very powerful running
06:11back.
06:12Getting Luvu back seems quite realistic and would be the biggest help for this defense that you could probably get
06:20at this point.
06:22Getting Chigakonkwo back could be huge for this team because the tight end position, as much as the offense moved
06:30the ball well, you're still not getting much of anything from the tight end position.
06:35If you look at the Seattle game where they scored 33 points, they had one catch for nine yards from
06:42John Bates.
06:42It was a nice catch down the right sideline.
06:44And Bates was really good in this game, especially as a blocker.
06:47Colson Yankoff had a catch for two yards.
06:49Ben Sennett had one target.
06:51If you could get some explosive play out of that tight end position, it might really, really help this offense.
06:57I'm not sure when that's going to come, but getting Chigakonkwo back on the field would be huge.
07:02Then there were these comments from Dan Quinn about Jaden Daniels, about Jaden's possible availability.
07:10The head coach talking about QB1 in London.
07:14Also on the injury side, they have some questions regarding Jaden.
07:18We're good to report that he and Frankie and Chig will all be back in practice this week in some
07:24form and fashion.
07:26Like a return to play process that we set forth of where it's at, like different than just running and
07:32throwing, you know, kind of the whole process for it.
07:34But he'll definitely be participating in some fashion, John, as we go.
07:38But we'll take it through tomorrow and Wednesday will be a lighter practice for us.
07:43So we'll really ramp up, you know, our work as we get there on Thursday.
07:47All right, so we're not going to hear anything until Thursday, and I am one of many that often gives
07:55DQ a hard time about how little information actually gets provided around the injuries.
08:01I'm not going to knock him on this one because all the guy has to do between now and then
08:05is get a football team across an ocean and situated in a hotel and then practicing in another country.
08:12Like, there's a lot of moving parts with these London games.
08:16I believe the organization's flying out today, so they'll get there kind of this evening.
08:20Guys will probably have dinner and kind of pass out with the jet lag.
08:24Tomorrow's practice, I've been to enough of these international practices.
08:28Tomorrow's practice is going to be a sleeper.
08:30It's going to be kind of, it's difficult.
08:35You're trying to just get the guys acclimated, let them see where they are.
08:39Tomorrow will probably be somewhere between a walk-through and a jog-through.
08:42So for them to say Thursday will be the real injury updates, I believe that.
08:47I also, and maybe we can open the phone lines up on this, I don't think there's any way Jaden's
08:52playing this weekend.
08:53I said this last week that when the news got better and better for Jaden Daniels, that he wasn't going
08:59to have to miss significant time, that he wasn't going to have to have surgery.
09:03I thought this was somewhere between gamesmanship to keep Indy at least thinking about the possibility of Jaden being on
09:10the field.
09:11I thought it was somewhere between gamesmanship and I know Jaden Daniels enough.
09:17He's an extreme competitor.
09:18He is probably texting DQ and AP all week that he can go.
09:22And I think appease is probably the wrong word, but there's some level of, hey, we know how hard you're
09:29working.
09:30Let's see how it looks on the practice field and we'll just kind of take it slow and we'll see
09:35what happens.
09:36So, of course, he's traveling.
09:38That's not a surprise at all compared to last year where he didn't even go to Madrid.
09:44So I think these are all real positive steps.
09:46For me, the timeline has always been that giant game.
09:51I think the giant game makes a lot more sense.
09:53You're back home.
09:56You let Marcus go.
09:58Marcus looked great against Seattle.
10:00He did what Marcus does.
10:01He was very under control.
10:02As long as Marcus doesn't have kind of the bonehead turnovers, they can win every game he starts for them.
10:08And the way the defense last week played where they were super opportunistic and able to get turnovers and win
10:16the turnover battle.
10:17You're telling me Danny Dimes can't turn it over a couple times?
10:19We've seen that operation.
10:21So, I just think for me and my gut, there's no way Jaden's playing this week.
10:28And it tracks towards returning for, what would that be, week five against the Giants?
10:34I haven't even asked for calls, but this dude already called.
10:37Henry is in Northwest.
10:39Henry, you think Jaden's playing this weekend?
10:42No, he's not playing this weekend, J.P., and I think he should rest that elbow another week so he'd
10:49be good and ready for the Giants.
10:51I think you're dead on, Henry.
10:53I appreciate the call, bro.
10:54And thank you, J.P.
10:55You're doing a good job on Channel 4, all ears.
10:58Thanks, bud.
10:58I appreciate that.
10:59We'll be live from London Thursday night.
11:02Tune in.
11:03All right.
11:04Yeah.
11:06Shout out to the homie, Tailgate Ted.
11:07You need a field producer in London?
11:09Tailgate Ted gets stuff done.
11:10We just booked a location to shoot the show from Thursday night.
11:14If anybody's going to be in London, I might as well say it, right?
11:20The Barrow Boy and Banker, Jeff, which is the same place back in the 2016 London game that they had
11:28this Redskins rally at where Bruce Allen poured me a beer and handed it to me.
11:33Pretty wild afternoon in London.
11:37It's a cool bar, though.
11:38It has this huge staircase and stuff.
11:39Should be a lot of fun.
11:40Here's what we're going to do.
11:41We're just getting settled in for the day.
11:43The Eagles lost.
11:44John Shearer, I hope you enjoyed that game.
11:46You haven't even watched your Eagles lose because I enjoyed watching that.
11:50Phone lines are open.
11:51800-636-1067.
11:54800-636-1067.
11:57You think there's a chance Jaden actually plays against the Colts in London?
12:00Do you think this is gamesmanship?
12:01Do you think this is the actual return to play process that Dan Quinn is so fond of discussing?
