Welcome to SVPod with Stanford Steve, because you definitely need another podcast saying was this the greatest weekend of football we've ever seen.

Every single podcast on earth is doing this today. But none of them have Stanford Steve except this one. So there you go. There's the cell.

Go. Look, we try to be reasonable, right? That's our thing. Be reasonable. Don't over react to what we just saw. Okay, right? I mean, it's pretty good. Yeah, can't be better, can't it? No, no chance.

Four consecutive games. And on field goals, three of them are one by road teams. The fourth is tied at the gun. As an aside, 49 yarders now are like layups. Back in the old days, 49 yarder felt like, I don't know, it's like a scratch off lottery ticket now, but care from 49. It's just, yeah, it's a layup, no doubt.

And then, of course, it's one and over time. I think the only I went on with our guy she in this morning, and we I think we talked for like an hour and a half. And I don't know if any of it made any sense, because the two of us were just willy nilly all over the place, ping ponging back and forth. I feel like the only way to do this and have it be coherent is to go in order.

So let's start in Nashville Saturday afternoon Cincinnati wins a game where Joe burrow sack nine times. I think you could argue that Jeffrey Simmons was the best player on any field this weekend. And that includes my homes and Allen who were preposterous, but that man is a monster.

But burrow gets sack nine times. They don't blink. Tanya hill gets picked three times the end of the game was madness. We talked about burrow last week competitive arrogance, dude, just believes it believes it and then shows why.

I know you know some people at Cincinnati group. What do you, what's the takeaway from how they managed to go in and beat the one seat?

Well, it's it's pretty cool to hear and talk to Scott guys around that organization from the beginning of the season preseason and and feel how excited they were for the possibility.

And you know, for example, they knew burrow wasn't going to do one thing. He wasn't going to play one preseason snaps in any game and they were going to go along with it and guys couldn't be more excited about it because they knew what they had was he rusty. Yeah, where they're things to work out. Yes.

But to see how they built the roster and using the draft for offense and free agency for defense, you could just feel it like, hey, you know.

They could build something in that locker room because everybody outside is just going to look at the uniform, be like, yeah, they're the bangles, something's going to happen. And you know that it won't follow through that divisions too tough.

But to hear those guys talk about the strength of the team and how they believed and how much they could put on burrow shoulders and that talent they had at the wide receiver position.

It was just really cool to see it all play out. And I was telling people, you know, before the season, you know, their goals, their goals, the winning division. I know that and people are like, yeah, right.

They're going to beat each of those teams once. And I'm like, all right, say what you're I'm just telling you what they believe in that locker room. They had the goods to do it.

And then to see the season panel, a couple of bad losses there. They got smoked by Cleveland early and it just kept building. And you saw the splash plays chase from, you know, the year.

But to go on the road and and and do that against the one seat. I said it last week. They have the feeling to me about the far packers. I believe it was 93 or 94.

They went to San Francisco and beat the Niners when it was still the Niners and the Cowboys. And it was like far from that group was a year ahead.

These guys feel like they're all more than a year ahead with that win at Tennessee. So I mean, they made plays when they need you.

I mean, I don't know how you how you wake up Sunday morning. If you're on that Tennessee defense and you're like, we're not playing anymore because they were incredible.

And that could have got out of hand and they kept it. And they just couldn't overcome they drove the ball down the field and turnovers were a huge part and can't and Cincinnati cast in on the turnovers.

And a rookie kicker on the road. That's that's just nuts to me. So I just think all that goes into it. The guys in that in that locker room deserve a ton of credit for what they accomplished.

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