NFL Cover Zero: NFL Parity, Vrabel revenge, and Mayfield MVP
NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin
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4.9 • 569 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Matt Jones and Drew Franklin kick off with some excitement around the Titans with a new head coach and Mike Vrabel coming back to Tennessee. Caleb Williams and the Bears make a statement, while the Falcons shocked the Bills. Is there concern over the Eagles and Bills losing to the Giants and Falcons? Matt points out the parity this season and re-ranks their Top 5.
A rare fight after the Lions loss, Drew explains what happened. The Chiefs have rebounded and are back to being a contender. Drew expects Vrabel to want revenge against the Titans and the crowd could cheer their former head coach. Matt has been amazed at how big the NFL has gotten and how ratings are so much bigger than the playoffs of other sports. Is Baker Mayfield the new favorite for MVP? The Browns play the Dolphins this week and Shedeur Sanders is the backup, could he play in this game?
Will the Jets win a game this season? Matt thinks the team should roll the dice on a QB rather than play Justin Fields. Matt and Drew pick their favorite 3 games in NFL Week 7. Drew is close to sounding the alarm on the Eagles if they don't find their offense this week. We wrap up with Survivor picks and TD parlays plus picking all the NFL games this weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | It is NFL Cover Zero. |
| 0:20.7 | Matt Jones, Drew Franklin, back with you for a little midweek, getting into week seven. |
| 0:27.3 | Drew, I see that Titans gear over there. |
| 0:30.8 | We're going to talk about you. |
| 0:31.5 | You got a new coach. |
| 0:32.4 | You got some new swagger walking in. |
| 0:35.5 | How's it going on? |
| 0:36.6 | I'm still proudly wearing my Titans gear, but they were big in the news this week, and they have a big game on Sunday that I've got my eyes on. What is it, the Patriots? Is that right? Vrable's coming home. That's good. Well, we will get to all of that. I want to thank everybody who's been listening here on NFL Cover Zero. Our listeners continue to grow every week. |
| 0:56.1 | Make sure you tell your friends about it or, you know, just people that you meet around the way. |
| 1:02.5 | It's a Wednesday. |
| 1:04.1 | So one of things I like to do when we start the midweek show is talk about what happened on Monday Night Football because we didn't get to talk about it. |
| 1:09.8 | Two games. |
| 1:10.9 | I think we got to start with My Chicago Bears. |
| 1:14.3 | Okay, folks, that I said going into last week, Drew, this is the game that this is a big |
| 1:21.8 | night for Caleb Williams and he comes through. |
| 1:24.1 | Gets a field goal. |
| 1:25.5 | They win at the buzzer. Are you now, like, did Caleb make the statement he needed to make? I think you did. I said going into it, if you can win that game, that's a big breakthrough, prime time win against a team that haunted you last year. What is that, three in a row now? Three in a row? Just one week one. You should be four in one right now. But it was a fun game to watch neutral observer here, but just a nice dramatic finish. Commanders obviously had it, let it slip. And you get the big Phil goal in the middle of the weather. So it was fun to watch, but I know you were excited. A North Easter hit towards the end of the game, which, as I have learned in the last few days, just means when from the Northeast. Feels like it shouldn't get its own name, but it does. But they kicked the field goal. Jake Moody, who had been sent away by the 49ers, kicks it. I knew he was excited because in the postgame interview, he didn't even take his helmet off. That was one of my favorite parts of the whole night. It's, you know, just yapping right through the facemax. Why didn't he take his helmet off? Did he not want to be seen? Has he never been interviewed in a football game before? He was like, I'm sorry, helmet on the entire time. Moody played hero at the end, but there was a stretch there in the second half where DeAndre Swift was going wherever he wanted to. He was a real star of the night with Williams. It's nice to have |
| 2:37.0 | for the Bears or running back like that. But I think it was huge for Caleb Williams. We talked about |
| 2:41.6 | that. That was where the Hail Mary was last year that kind of changed the fortunes of each of those |
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