NFL Cover Zero: NFL Week 5 Upsets, Statements Wins, and MVP Race
NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Matt Jones and Drew Franklin begin with three big upsets in NFL Week 5. Matt is back from South Africa and there are no more undefeated teams in the NFL! The Bills and Eagles lose and the Jets are the only team in the league without a win. Fans got statement wins from Drake Maye and Bo Nix. Did the Bucs and Seahawks both come out of the game looking better, even with Seattle losing? Matt weighs in on the current MVP race.
How do Vikings fans feel about Carson Wentz or JJ McCarthy? How did the Texans put together this win over the Ravens? Matt wonders what happens when Lamar Jackson comes back to the team. Jaxson Dart comes back to Earth and Spencer Rattler gets his first career win. Drew is impressed with Dak Prescott's play this season. There's no doubt that the Colts are for real, but Matt feels bad for Pete Carroll.
The Panthers are a curious team, but Matt has really enjoyed their announcer, Eric Collins. Titans-Cardinals could've had the craziest play of the season. A tough loss for the Chargers and the Chiefs are knocking on their door on Monday Night. Matt is stunned over what the AFC North has become.
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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. |
| 0:18.5 | Okay, week five NFL cover zero podcast. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm Matt Jones, along with Drew Franklin. |
| 0:25.4 | It is, we're taping this about 1135 at night. |
| 0:29.2 | They've just finished Sunday night football. |
| 0:31.7 | The Patriots with a huge upset on the road, take out the bills in what is a huge upset day all around. |
| 0:38.7 | Three massive upsets. |
| 0:40.2 | The three biggest spreads each went the other way. |
| 0:43.9 | Drew back from South Africa, excited to be with you. |
| 0:47.6 | You're wearing a Titans hat because your team actually won a game today, which is exciting. |
| 0:52.7 | Good to see you after all that's after three weeks on the road. Yeah, it's nice to do this in person again. I'm surprised. We actually managed to get through it without many technical difficulties. Well, we just started. Oh, you mean when I was gone? Yeah, but I'm saying it's much, yeah, obviously we don't have technical difficulties right now. It's one minute in. But no, it's good to have you here. And I'm amazed we were able to get through the South Africa trip as easily as we were. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah, it was. |
| 1:15.4 | It was kind of amazing we got through it. |
| 1:18.8 | You know, started in Cape Town, the city on the southwestern corner of the globe. |
| 1:26.8 | You know, my tour guide got very angry that I said on this show that it was the southernmost tip of Africa. |
| 1:35.2 | He was like, the Cape of Good Hope is the southwestern most tip of Africa. |
| 1:39.3 | So I want to be clear for all the geography people that it wasn't the southern. |
| 1:43.8 | It was a southwestern. Then went and saw the animals at the safari, and then went to Johannesburg, or is the locals call it Joeberg? Oh, Joeberg. They call it, yeah, they don't have time for the Honest. Okay. Just shorten that up a little bit. Well, you got places to be. You can't say Johannesburg. You say, you say Joeberg. Well, Wednesday, we did this show without you. We were wondering how you could possibly travel for a day without a phone. So that had to have been excruciating on a... Yeah. On how long was that flight? 16 hours. Without a phone. I did. I had an iPad, so I watched, I'm watching the show Next. |
| 2:20.6 | Have you seen the show Next? |
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