NFL Cover Zero: Injuries Mounting and NFL Week 5 coming!
NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Matt Jones is traveling back from South Africa, so Drew Franklin takes over the reins. Looking back to Sunday's tie between the Packers and Cowboys, are you still okay with teams playing to a draw? Tyreek Hill and Malik Nabers suffer season ending injuries and we're awaiting news on Lamar Jackson. The Browns are benching Joe Flacco in favor of rookie QB Dillon Gabriel. How do you feel about Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl Halftime Show?
Heading to NFL Week 5, the Rams host a hampered 49ers squad. The Vikings and Browns are in London and Dillon Gabriel gets his first start. Will the Eagles stay undefeated after facing the Broncos? The Bucs and Seahawks don the throwback jerseys both looking for their 4th win. Jayden Daniels returns as the Commanders visit the Chargers. Drew explains why he's got no hope for the Cowboys against the Jets. Jaxson Dart gets his 2nd career start when the Giants are in New Orleans. How can the Ravens get back on track against the Texans? The Bengals will have their hands full against the Lions. Can the Patriots hold an edge against the Bills? Drew wonders which Chiefs team we'll see this weekend against the Jaguars. We wrap up with the Touchdown Parlay and looking forward to Matt's return on Sunday!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and IHeart |
| 0:09.4 | podcast. |
| 0:18.2 | Welcome in to a new episode of NFL Cover Zero, the NFL podcast featuring Matt Jones and Drew Franklin. |
| 0:26.5 | You're used to hearing Matt Jones right now, but I am Drew filling in in the host seat today. |
| 0:31.5 | Matt is finally on his way home from South Africa. |
| 0:35.2 | Our longtime listeners know that he spent the last few weeks over there on a safari |
| 0:39.5 | and hanging out with people in his fellowship group that has travels the world a couple |
| 0:44.0 | times a year. |
| 0:45.4 | We did a good job checking in with Matt from, I think he was in a hut last week. |
| 0:50.2 | We've talked to him in Cape Cod when he's been putting his life on the line to go out and get yogurt. |
| 0:55.6 | But today he is actually on a flight on his way home and all day travel days. |
| 1:00.5 | So I am taking over the reins of this midweek edition for week five of the NFL season. |
| 1:07.2 | I'm going to preview the week five games, talk a little bit about the biggest news of the week, |
| 1:11.2 | but I won't be alone because Billy Rulich, who you usually hear on this podcast in the third chair, |
| 1:16.8 | he produces the show, but occasionally pops in with stats. |
| 1:20.6 | He's just sliding on over to chair two. |
| 1:23.4 | And Billy, it's good to have you here as a co-host as we get by with one episode without Matt before we return to our regular routine when he gets back. Yeah, I'm honored. Who needs a guest, Drew? Just bring your producer in to fill in the second host chair. Wishing Matt is safe travels as he come back from South Africa. I'm hoping he has a bottle of wine for me and a Tate Ratlitz jersey, but you know what? |
| 1:45.4 | Beggars can't be choosers, Drew. So just hoping he can make it back safe and sent. And that hyena, he's been carrying around in his luggage. We know that he won't have a phone. He's still been without that his entire trip. He told that story on this show a couple weeks ago, how he lost it on a ferry, going across, some cape down there in South Africa on his way to see where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned at Robin Island. |
| 2:08.0 | He's made it without a phone so far down there. |
| 2:10.5 | But Billy, now he has the travel day without the phone. |
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