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I'm Robert Mays. Week two, a crazy week two. It was hard to even figure out what we wanted to talk about

and what we wanted to slot into some of these segments because I think you probably could have

made an argument for like seven different teams and you have my attention in good ways. The Bucks had a great day. The Vikings go to two and oh. The Saints offense is arguably the biggest story in the entire league. Kyler looked phenomenal. Gino Smith had a big day against the Seahawks. But then there's still some stuff on the other side of the coin. Rough day from the Ravens again, blowing a lead they probably shouldn't have. Panthers look like a complete mess. The Jags look like a complete mess. So there was a ton for me and my buddy Derek Classen to dig into today. Really enjoyed week two. It felt like a proper return to the NFL after week one, which is always

kind of hard to pin down. So let's get to our conversation with Derek.

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on

Prime Video. I'm Robertbert may's joining me tonight

it's my co-host derrick class and derrick how you doing man i'm doing great man i mean we end sunday night

football with a kind of a bizarre drive yeah you're doing great i'm so glad to hear that you're doing

great yep i'm doing okay this is you know my fandom is not staked in this um we got a couple

of upsets today a couple of a couple of other really fun performances. So a really nice treat for week two. We did not have the Bears' Texans game on the outline here. Just so as you guys understand the mechanics of this, typically we're prepping for the show during the Sunday night football game. Unfortunately, I had to watch this game and watch more of it than I typically would because I'm so emotionally invested. We're going to spend a couple minutes talking about this before we get into the meat of the outline. It was a disaster. I'm going to wait until I wasn't half watching the game, or not half watching, but watching it while I was prepping for a podcast, and I also would like to go watch the tape. It was a gross. It was ugly on

so many different fronts. And we can talk about some of the details, but the interior

offensive line being unable to pick up a stunt, period, and just pretty elementary stuff,

darn all right getting roasted by Daniel Hunter multiple different times. The quarterback looking

pretty lost at times. I mean,

just some like bizarre misses down the field and down the field accuracy has been consistently an

issue. I'm, I'm concerned. I'm going to be concerned until it starts looking better. Tonight was

not a good experience. That's what I would say. Yeah, you were sold a different, you know,

tail for the Bears quarterback situation. And we're kind of back in the same spot that we've always been with them. I still, most of this, to me, came down to the offensive line. I mean, Daniel Hunter getting, just getting home to Caleb on that last drive was, I mean, he just full on bear tackled him. That was kind of just insane to watch. And then to me, like, you kind of saw... Don't right just looks lost.

I mean, after the spin move, he just looks lost.

And that's the case for a lot of the guys on the offense right now. He was playing lookout protection where you just guy gets by and you scream lookout and that's all you got. But then the Bears see, like, they were just waving the white flag with pass protection. they were in split back gun the entire game, which says,

all right, we need as many guys back here as possible.

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