NFL Cover Zero: Top 5 teams, Tailgate Weddings and Week 2 Previews!
NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Matt Jones and Drew Franklin start with the excitement coming into Week 2 of the NFL! Matt shows his disappointment in the Bears' collapse. There's not a lot of optimism around the Dolphins, but could things get worse? Top 5 looks at the best teams out of the gate. Drew has a surprise team at #2 despite a loss in Week 1. Will Taylor Swift be the Super Bowl Halftime Show? Matt addresses the Bills fan that was banned from all NFL games after touching Lamar Jackson. Will Travis Hunter play more on defense in Week 2 for the Jaguars? Matt was surprised to see two players cut after mistakes during games.
Brown Spider and 1st Lady join the show to discuss their tailgate wedding in Cincinnati. The couple talks about their meeting and how it resulted in vowels at the stadium.
Week 2 Previews start with Thursday night's matchup between the Commanders and Packers. Is the Chiefs game against the Eagles already a 'must win'? Bears/Lions will leave a team 0-2, so both teams need a win! Can the Jets rebound against the Bills? Matt wonders which teams will be surprising at 2-0 after Week 2. We wrap updating the Survivor picks/standings and the Touchdown game!
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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 IHeart |
| 0:09.4 | podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | All right, episode four of the NFL Cover Zero podcast, Matt Jones and Drew Franklin. |
| 0:24.9 | I hope everyone out there is doing well on this Wednesday. |
| 0:29.4 | We are getting ready for another exciting weekend of action after what was a, I think a fun week one. |
| 0:37.9 | You know, the NFL started doing this thing where they pair all the good teams together. |
| 0:42.1 | And I think that works. |
| 0:44.1 | Week one got everybody excited. |
| 0:45.5 | There were record TV ratings, or at least I can't keep up with TV ratings every week now |
| 0:50.5 | because it seems like they're always records. |
| 0:52.6 | But Drew has me ready for the second week |
| 0:55.1 | and you know the second week of doing an NFL podcast with you yeah if it's anything like last |
| 1:00.3 | week we're in for a fun time i mean last week you start with Thursday Cowboys Eagles through that |
| 1:05.7 | wild Sunday night finish and you couldn't ask for a better first week so let's keep that momentum going |
| 1:09.8 | and then my bears stuck it up uh stunk I have to tell you, I don't know why I get my hopes |
| 1:17.2 | up. You know, that Monday it started with such excitement. Caleb Williams drives right down the |
| 1:23.3 | field. Then they get a quick three and out. Actually, got two three and out stops, come down, Look like they might score again. End up with a field goal. But I was like, oh, it's good. 10 nothing, no problem. And then they didn't score again until the middle of the fourth quarter. Bears are cursed. But JJ McCarthy looked nice in that fourth quarter. I was watching the Manning cast. And Randy Moss was, I mean, he wasn't doing like Collinsworth in my, my Collinsworth impressions, but he was close. He was so excited watching McCarthy. Yeah, I saw he was named NFC offensive player of the week in that highly interesting. Was he really? I didn't realize that. Big debut. Yeah, not a great look for you all there in the fourth quarter giving up. |
| 2:01.3 | What was it? |
| 2:01.6 | Like three straight touchdowns or something? |
| 2:03.1 | Just an absolute meltdown there on prime time for week one. But as a Bears fan, Titans fan, we're kind of used to it. Yeah, we've seen those movies a couple times. I'm used to it. I was expecting it to happen. And I knew that. |
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