Episode #300: NFL Week 7 Sunday Recap 2020

This is our 300th episode of the Sports Cast.

Contributors
Santiago Leon – @sleon
Joe Toscano – @joeybagovdonuts

NFL Week 7 Sunday Recap 2020

PACKERS 35, TEXANS 20
Aaron Rodgers had four touchdown passes and Davante Adams had two touchdown catches in the Packers’ rout of the Texans. Rodgers finished with 283 passing yards. Adams had 13 catches for 196 yards.

WASHINGTON 25, COWBOYS 3
Washington looked like a different team against the Cowboys. Antonio Gibson had 20 carries for 128 yards and a touchdown in the win. Andy Dalton was knocked out of the game after a hit by Jon Bostic. Ben DiNucci finished things up for the Cowboys.

BILLS 18, JETS 10
The Jets are still winless after seven weeks. The Bills used field goals to pick up their fifth win of the season. Josh Allen was 30-for-43 with 307 yards. Cole Beasley had 11 catches for 112 yards.

SAINTS 27, PANTHERS 24
The Saints kicked a field goal in the fourth quarter to take a three-point lead and never looked back. Drew Brees was 29-for-36 with 287 passing yards and two touchdown passes. Panthers receiver D.J. Moore had four catches for 93 yards and two scores.

STEELERS 27, TITANS 24
The Steelers held off a charging Titans team late in the game. Ben Roethlisberger had two touchdowns as Pittsburgh remained undefeated. Titans wide receiver A.J. Brown had six catches for 153 yards and a touchdown.

BROWNS 37, BENGALS 34
Baker Mayfield bounced back and threw a game-winning touchdown pass to Donovan Peoples-Jones to win the game. Cleveland was able to withstand Joe Burrow’s 406 passing yards and three touchdown passes.

LIONS 23, FALCONS 22
A timing error essentially cost the Falcons the game. Matthew Stafford used the last minute he had to drive down the field and score a game-winning touchdown for Detroit.

——4pm games ——
BUCCANEERS 45, RAIDERS 20
Tom Brady threw four touchdown passes and 369 passing yards on the way to a blowout victory against the Raiders. He also had a rushing touchdown to his credit. Scotty Miller was his top target with six catches for 109 yards. Las Vegas receiver Nelson Agholor had five catches for 107 yards and a touchdown.

49ERS 33, PATRIOTS 6
The 49ers proved to be no match for the Patriots. Jeff Wilson rushed for three touchdowns and 112 yards on three carries. Cam Newton threw three interceptions and looked like a shell of himself out on the field.

CHIEFS 43, BRONCOS 16
The defending Super Bowl champions put on a solid performance against the Broncos on Sunday, easily taking care of their AFC West rival. Daniel Sorensen and Tyrann Mathieu both recorded interceptions. Sorensen returned his for a touchdown. Mathieu also recovered a fumble. Tershawn Wharton also had a fumble recovery. Denver had four turnovers in the loss.

CHARGERS 39, JAGUARS 29
Justin Herbert threw three touchdown passes and completed 27 of his 43 pass attempts for 347 yards in the win. He also had a rushing touchdown. Gardner Minshew II had two touchdown passes. James Robinson rushed for 119 yards and a touchdown.

CARDINALS 37, SEAHAWKS 34
Arizona fought hard and won the pivotal NFC West matchup in overtime. Kyler Murray was 34-for-48 with 360 passing yards and three touchdown passes. Zane Gonzalez hit a 48-yard field goal for the win. Seattle had its first loss of the season.

NFL STANDINGS
AFC EAST

1). Bills (5-2)

2). Dolphins (3-3)

3). Patriots (2-4)

4). Jets (0-7)

AFC NORTH

1). Steelers 6-0

2). Ravens (5-1)

3). Browns (5-2)

4). Bengals (1-5-1)

AFC SOUTH

1). Titans (5-1)

2). Colts (4-2)

3). Texans (1-6)

4). Jaguars (1-6)

AFC WEST

1). Chiefs (6-1)

2). Raiders (3-3)

3). Chargers (2-4)

4). Broncos (2-4)

NFC EAST

1). Eagles (2-4-1)

2). Washington (2-5)

3). Cowboys 2-5)

4). Giants (1-6)

NFC NORTH

1). Bears (5-1)

2). Packers (5-1)

3). Lions (3-3)

4). Vikings (1-5)

NFC SOUTH

1). Buccaneers (5-2)

2). Saints (4-2)

3). Panthers (3-4)

4). Falcons (1-6)

NFC WEST

1). Seahawks (5-1)

2). Cardinals (5-2)

3). Rams (4-2)

4). 49ers (4-3)

Predictions

CHI at LAR
Joe:

World Series Dodgers are up 3-2, who takes Game 6 on Tuesday
Joe: Rays

Transcript

Santiago Leon
The sports cast October 26 20 if you haven’t yet, please subscribe in all our channels YouTube, Periscope and iTunes. And if you’re an iTunes, please leave a rating and a review. It will help us out tremendously. We’re also on on We’re also on a online radio, you can listen to us on our sports cast app or on the sports cast dotnet website. You can also go to my radio tuner or streamer, you could definitely listen to the sports cast there as well if that’s your preferred option. And of course, visit us on the sports cast dotnet for the latest and greatest we got an article about the Pittsburgh Steelers being six in Oh, last time heard about six and no was the Rams back in the 2000 era. But of course there’s probably been other six knows since then. And of course, follow us at the sports cast one we’ve been live tweeting all weekend. And tonight we have another live tweet for the bears and Rams game. So looking forward to that. So make sure you download the sports cast app because we have notifications news, you can listen to our past podcasts from the past couple of months as beginning we haven’t changed the system we use the same system. So definitely take a look at that. So this is our 300th episode of the sports cast. We started back in February of 2018. With the Super Bowl back then I can’t remember who started and we’re really glad we’ve been doing this for the past two years and a half. And I cannot think of anyone else to do our 300th episode but Joey bag of doughnuts Welcome back to the sports cast.

Joe Toscano
Hey, congratulations, big

Santiago Leon
milestone. big milestone. I drink a coffee for that. Wow. It’s been a one heck of a ride. Of course this year we we launched the app and we have our daily newsletter. The websites going we have interns so we definitely got the wheels turning.

Joe Toscano
That’s great. gratulations of course.

Santiago Leon
Anyways, let’s go to our main business events or get to our business affairs.

NFL week seven, recap. 2020 Let’s start Joe, with the packers and Texans defeating the Packers defeating the Texans 35 of the 20 Aaron Rodgers had a four touchdown passes and davante Adams had two touchdown catches in the Packers route of the Texans. Rodgers finished with 283 passing yards. Adams had 13 catches for 196 yards. We think about that Joe got bounced

Unknown Speaker
back back.

Joe Toscano
We saw text RB. We hope we’ll see. Don JJ Watt to words he plays a lot for the Texans. But back or back. The packers

Santiago Leon
are back with a loss from last week. But hey, of course he got bounced back against the Texans who who cannot be the Texans, right anyways, Washington versus the Cowboys maybe the worst division and the NFL right now Washington looks like a different team against the Cowboys Antonio Gibson had 20 carries for 188 yards and a touchdown in the win. Andy Dalton was knocked out with the concussion after hit by Jon Bostic and yeah, there was a huge hit. huge loss for the Cowboys Washington football team looks a little bit better.

Joe Toscano
The cowboy is off. Done. They have no pride. They don’t. They coach and with dirty Andy Dalton, nobody came to dawn. Nobody fought for him last year when the Mickey Rudolph thing happened and he and he hit Rudolph with a helmet. And finally, teammates came to help them. They kicked him on Cowboys, they RMS they quit on the team.

Santiago Leon
So then definitely look at Of course it was a big question mark on the internet who will who will win between the cowboys and the New York Jets?

Joe Toscano
Yeah, and that’s, that’s pathetic.

Santiago Leon
It’s something we’ll definitely look at. Let’s go on to the next game a little bit close in the scoreline bills via the Jets at the 10. The Jets are still winless after seven weeks to build us field goals to pick up their fifth win of the season just field goals. Josh Allen was 3443 for 300 yards Cole Beasley had 11 catches 412 yards This was probably you know, back to whack a week gains with the bills

Joe Toscano
not sure what happened here I mean the Jets even had a lead in this game that might be their their season highlight that time they had a lead for a few minutes in a in a game in October but yeah, maybe the bills are looking ahead. I mean, they’ve played three games in 13 days is just not their day. You know, six field goals. When your field goal kickers your best player, not a good day for the team.

Santiago Leon
And of course Adam Gates was not doing the play calling so that might have helped the Jets a bit.

Joe Toscano
He should not be doing the play calling or coaching or anything he should be at a he should be at a supermarket bagging groceries.

Santiago Leon
Somewhere in New Jersey saints the feet of the Panthers 27 to 24. The Saints killed have kicked the field goal in the fourth quarter to take a three point lead and never look back. Drew Drew Brees with 29 for 36 with 286 have been passing yards and two touchdown passes. A Carolina receiver DJ Moore had four catches for 93 yards and two scores Joe How about that for the saints?

Joe Toscano
got to hand it to the Panthers. They kept it close and hey could they almost tie the game in the fourth quarter they tried a 65 yard field goal and almost made it if it was the 63 yard or it would have gone in so very close you know I say this all the time. Teddy Bridgewater is a gamer. He’ll he’ll keep you in it no matter what. And the Carolina Panthers are surprising.

Santiago Leon
Drew Brees obviously has no Michael Thomas is I mean, this saints team. Definitely like the weakest between them and the Buccaneers.

Joe Toscano
Right now they’re down they need Michael Thomas, but once I get him they’ll get going but I have my doubts about Drew Brees. I think he’s lost a step. I think yeah, I think they have to Yeah, they have to manage that. But still, you know, getting one of the best wide receivers in the league. cures a lot of that. So once I get my Michael Thomas back, there’ll be better.

Santiago Leon
Big question marks of course about him. He’s been like every week. People have been trying to figure out is he going to come back or not? But we’ll find out soon. It’s probably sooner than later. But you never know when Michael Thomas the game of the weekend, I would say Steelers and Titans Steelers won 27 to 24 the Steelers held off a charging tiny and Lenin’s team late in the game. Ben Roethlisberger had two touchdowns as Pittsburgh remain undefeated. And the Tennessee Titans wide receiver AJ Brown has six catches 453 yards and a touchdown. Steelers were up like 24 to seven and a half time 10 minutes almost came back. They were able to slow down Derrick Henry Jo

Joe Toscano
Steelers defense is legit. TJ watt should win Defensive Player of the Year he is having an amazing year. He’s had great years in previous years too, but he is he is great this year. Yeah, they were able to slow down their IQ and ray which is darn near impossible. This was a tale of two house dealers absolutely dominated in the first half and and did not look so great. I mean, Titans are a good team. You could only can’t completely stop them. You can only hope to slow him down and that was that Gus koski missed field goal at the end. What a senate overtime but he missed so Steelers. undefeated baby Whoo.

Santiago Leon
And he could add more points in my fantasy Gods koski. Who is my kicker? So Steelers Let’s stay a little bit with the Steelers. Are they the real deal? Do you see them going to the Super Bowl? I mean, of course you got the Jeeves that got the bills and the Ravens. But how do you see this Joe in a unbiased perspective.

Joe Toscano
Here’s why they could. Their defense is amazing. Maybe number one in the league, even though they lost Devin Busch, which is a big loss, but they could work around that. The offense is still coming together. Ben Roethlisberger has three legit weapons chase Claypole, Juju Smith Schuster and Deontay Johnson. They have three potential number ones. He can go to any of them you can’t like they the the Titans double team Chase. Claypool took them out. And so Juju had a big game. It’s always someone takes turns having a big game every year. So the end James Connor is a very good running back to so they have a balanced offensive attack a great defense and Ben Roethlisberger is, you know, one of the best college quarterbacks. He’s having a good year. He’s still good enough even though he’s old. Yeah, Steelers are a Super Bowl contender.

Santiago Leon
Which AFC team do you have? Like the most concern with that could definitely ruin your chances to go super bowl. Is it the Chiefs? Is it the Ravens isn’t even like the Titans or the bills? Which one do you have the most concerned with?

Joe Toscano
All of those teams have a shot. But I’d say the Chiefs right now are just they are they are the Death Star of of the AFC right now but you have to you have to attack them and bring them down to achieve peace in the galaxy.

Santiago Leon
And we’ll see. We’ll see more proof of proof in the pudding when they play the Ravens this weekend.

Joe Toscano
It’s going to be a huge matchup, Steelers and ravens are archrivals always an intense game, but the Ravens have that advantage because of all this rescheduling that the Ravens had this past week often the Steelers had to play so ravens will be an advantage we’ll see how big of an advantage that is. Let’s go to the

Santiago Leon
next game in Ohio Browns defeated the Bengals 37 to 34. Baker Mayfield he, he came back in through a game winning touchdown pass to Donovan paypals Jones to win the game. And keep in mind OBJ got injured so that’s why these people Jones guy became a little bit popular after this one. Cleveland was able to withstand Yo bro is 406 passing yards Joe and three touchdown passes.

Joe Toscano
Baker looks horrible at first. I went oh for fun. I have an afternoon. oh four, five, he went to 22 of 23 Good for him. Maybe one of his best games of his career. shame about Odell Beckham you never want to see anybody get hurt, but he is out for the year. That’s a shame. But you know, I mean, the the Bengals are legit. I mean, I know they’re not legit, but they’re still competitive. You know, there’s a lot of games where the Bengals could have won. They’re not there yet, but they they fight so good for them. But hey, browns, browns, good record.

Santiago Leon
Is there a question mark? I mean, with Baker Mayfield or do you think he’s the man and just needs a couple games and and maybe if he wins, everyone, like will be confident that he is the man in Cleveland?

Joe Toscano
Personally, I think there’s a lot of question marks with him. He just hasn’t really done it yet. I think the lack of size is an issue. And that’s something he has to work around, you know, someone like Russell Wilson or Kyler, Murray Murray, they could work they can overcome, not being very big. I don’t know Baker can but hey, he had a good game this year, this week. So, you know, maybe he could put it together.

Santiago Leon
And we’ll talk about those two a little bit later on the show. buccaneers defeated the Raiders 45 to 20. Tom Brady threw for four touchdown passes, and 369 passing yards on the way to blowout victory against the Raiders. He also had a rushing touchdown. To his credit. Scotty Miller was his top target with six catches 400 and then Piney yards Las Vegas receiver. Aguilar had five catches 407 yards and the touchdown gronkowski also had a lot of catches, um, this buccaneers is definitely unstoppable, aren’t they, Joe?

Joe Toscano
Yes, they are amazing. Tom Brady is on top of his game, and they’re about to get Antonio Browns to they’re about to get even better. But the defense is that thing in in Tampa, Todd Bowles, a defensive coordinator. He should be a head coach somewhere. He is doing an amazing job with that defense. They’re doing it all around. Great offense. Great defense. If it’s not Seattle, in the NFC, it’s a Tampa Bay right now. Those are the top two teams.

Santiago Leon
We spoke about Bell going to the Chiefs about a couple of weeks ago. Now. Brown, a former Steeler going to the Buccaneers. How do you feel about that? As a Steeler fan? Do you think this is good for Brown and his career?

Joe Toscano
His life is a mess personally, you know, he’s had all kinds of legal issues, you know, suspensions, all that stuff, if he could get it together. Now, when he was with that very brief time when he was with the Patriots last year, he and Tom Brady made magic together. I think he had like three touchdown catches in one game or something

Santiago Leon
like that against adult. Oh,

Joe Toscano
yeah. So you could, you know, if you put a really good quarterback and Tom Brady with Antonio Brown, assuming he’s still, you know, one of the best wide receivers, they have the potential to have an amazing offense into just to have great stats. So you know, there’s so many other factors with Antonio Brown, you know, whether he could stay on the field whether he you know, he has other legal problems, whatever his purpose in life It’s a mess. But if he could stay on the field, it’s staying up the football team he could do a lot of damage with

Santiago Leon
Tom Brady. Of course, he is going to be with a with Michael Godwin or Chris Godwin and Mike Evans. Guy whenever this column that, um Do you think brown will probably move up to be the option number one for Brady

Joe Toscano
it’s very interesting like you said there’s a lot of weapons in Tampa and Scotty Miller, ants and Scottie Miller and gronk you know there’s there’s only so much ball to go around. The problem with Antonio Brown is he kind of outs when he doesn’t get the ball so who knows maybe he’ll have a different attitude. Maybe he’ll just be happy to be on the team and happy to be with Tom Brady. I think he’s living with Tom Brady so maybe they can talk about it over dinner.

Santiago Leon
That’s pretty awesome. I did not know that that should be interesting should be a good therapy session there for the niners patriots at the 40 Niners proved to be no match for the Patriots Jeff Wilson runs for three touchdowns and hundred and 12 yards on three carries Cam Newton threw for three interceptions and look like a shell of himself out on the field. Man Joe, I was thinking I think the Patriots era might be over

Joe Toscano
that’s a wonderful sorry. Yeah, the the the Patriots are a mess right now basically ever since Cam Newton got that COVID diagnosis. I think he hasn’t been the same. I think he’s not healthy. He’s unhealthy. doesn’t have the confidence. The Patriots do not have enough weapons. The Patriots are a mess right now. I don’t know if they can recover. This couldn’t be the end of the Patriot belt ticket. Brady thing right? He’s winning.

Santiago Leon
Yeah, yeah, that’s something that’s very interesting because you know, like, Brady was complaining about not providing weapons and the Patriots never got on top of that and now you know with Cam Newton um you know, he just Hey, he’s might not be the guy that bill check needs. Jared stood up Do you think there’s a chance with him?

Joe Toscano
I don’t think the issue I don’t think the issue is I mean stem is not the guy what I say about them sit up Cam Newton i think is okay i think i think they can work together but I think with all the issues with lack of practice and possibly not being in a totally healthy and yet confidence due to slump or whatever but you just better

Santiago Leon
better so definitely look that of course Cam Newton is pretty upset by what I mean when he got bench for Hey, when you when you when you throw for a lot of interceptions, that’s what’s like what’s going to happen. So we’ll see what happens in the Patriots camp. Let’s go the chiefs and Broncos the first note game of the year the defending Super Bowl champions put on solid performance against the Broncos on Sunday, easily taking care of the AFC West rival suranne sin and blue both recorded a interceptions. Sorensen returned this for a touchdown. But few also record a fumble. Touchdown Wharton also had a fumble recovery and the Broncos had four turnovers in the loss. Not good for the Broncos but of course, it was a given chiefs had had a good chance of beating the Broncos right Joe?

Joe Toscano
Yeah, the Chiefs just look unstoppable right now and the rich get richer, they get levy on bell. He had some pretty nice runs. He’s potentially a perfect complement to the client and words Hilaire caleres weaknesses, he can’t really get it done in the redzone and goal line situations. And that’s levy on Bell specialty. So together, they can make a really good running back to them if everything works properly. And that’s scary. The rich are getting richer, and the Chiefs defense isn’t bad either. You know, honey badger is really good. And you know, the chiefs. Defense makes things happen too. So right now they’re just looking unstoppable.

Santiago Leon
Yeah, CH definitely good. He scored a touchdown or two yesterday, so he’s definitely improving. Hopefully he’ll, he’ll learn under belt, which I’m very sure he will. Let’s go on to another matchup that was gonna be a little bit murky but turned out to be the Chargers being the Jaguars, Justin Herbert, the rookie threw for three touchdown passes and completed 27 of his 33 Pass attempts for 350 yards in the wind. He also had a rushing touchdown. Gardner Minshew had two touchdown passes, James Robinson rush for 120 yards and a touchdown. I’m good good way For Herbert.

Joe Toscano
I’d say Herbert is one of the surprises of the season. Not sure how many people saw this happening. He is amazing and he’s getting better every week. He has his his Donald parman Jr. I’m probably saying it wrong, but he 6.9 real easy to throw to a guy that’s 649 it’s all I’m saying. He’s a maybe another Antonio Gates.

Santiago Leon
I do agree Herbert definitely was a big surprise. This past weekend, a rookie started his first year of course, with Taylor had an injury with chest. So looking forward to and looking forward to see what happens with to attack below which he plays next week. Let’s go on Sunday night game and explosive game and a NFC West classic. Arizona fought hard and won the pivotal NFC West matchup in overtime. Kyler Murray was 30 444 34 448 with 360 yards and passing three touchdown passes. Zane Gonzalez hit a 48 yard field goal for the wind. Seattle had his first loss of the season. But great job Cardinals because they said hey, we’re a force to be reckoned with.

Joe Toscano
Right Joe? I’m very surprised. I was kind of down on the Cardinals. I thought they they were going to fade. And this was this was possibly the game of the year just back and forth. The Cardinals would never would never stay out of it. Great, great comeback. Great. Come back to tie it. Crazy game. You had that situation with Buddha Baker. Go with a tech six and the getting back half with his insane speed, catching up to him and preventing a touchdown. And eventually stop the touchdown on that drive.

Santiago Leon
That was a video of the night for Twitter.

Joe Toscano
Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was it was it was amazing. Lots of names. But uh, yeah, it was an amazing thing. You even had the Arizona coach, I think his own kicker and causing him to miss a field goal, which was pretty crazy. But great game one of the best of the year.

Santiago Leon
Definitely one of the best games. Matt cafr. Lockett always been the question marks Metcalf is definitely winning that game, of course between those two, so we’ll definitely keep an eye on what’s going to happen but the Seahawks are okay, one loss is fine.

Joe Toscano
Yeah, they’ll be fine. I mean, Russell Wilson is still amazing. Tyler Lockett had one of the best games by a wide receiver ever. What 200 yards catching, I believe 15 catches something like that. So Russell Wilson is just out of his mind, but a little bit of concern with the Seahawks defense. They give up a lot of points. But yeah, Seahawks will be fine.

Santiago Leon
Their next game is the 40 Niners Do you think it’s gonna be a close game where you think that like the the CX will have the edge there?

Joe Toscano
Like Seahawks. We’ll take them.

Santiago Leon
I do agree with that one. Because the niners haven’t, like they’re trying to trying to calibrate here but they haven’t, you know, gone back to that thread of last year.

Joe Toscano
No, I mean, you know, they’re talking about benching Jimmy g a few games ago so you know, not not all as well with the 40 Niners are dealing with injuries. They’re just they’re they’re not at their peak right now.

Santiago Leon
Absolutely not. Of course, the NFC West is looking at Seahawks still first place the Cardinals at second Rams and third before the niners at fourth. So it’s definitely a very competitive division. Let’s look at the standings so far. The bills are first place dolphin that second place Joe, Can you believe that?

Joe Toscano
That’s amazing. I mean, if if someone told you that a couple months ago that the dolphins will be ahead of the Patriots. you’d laugh

Santiago Leon
of course the ryan Fitzpatrick the whole issue with him being Ben Do you think it was too early or do you think it’s it’s time for too

Joe Toscano
It’s time for to I mean look at what Justin Herbert’s doing Look what Joe burrows doing bring these rookie quarterbacks and it’s this isn’t the time to to keep the your your rookie quarterback on the bench. Throw him in there.

Santiago Leon
Which is I am actually getting a little convinced I want him to start till December but November I can compromise in November anyways. patriots a third? The Jets are fourth AFC North Steelers looking pretty up top. ravens browns and Bengals you didn’t see the Steelers being six to know by now.

Joe Toscano
No, we didn’t. But how crazy is that? That’s the Steelers are six and odo is a Baltimore Ravens are right behind them at five and one and then the Cleveland Browns are right behind them at five and two so you know very tough division. Even even an undefeated team doesn’t have a comfortable lead.

Santiago Leon
Who would have thought the AFC North will be as competitive AFC south, the Titans are still up top With with just one loss, the Colts are second Texans and jaguars one and six. The Titans have that one pretty much so far.

Joe Toscano
Yeah, the only the only threat is the Colts and not real

Santiago Leon
big on them. So it’s not saying

Joe Toscano
yeah, I mean, I was I was extremely impressed with the Titans. I mean, they almost came back to tie that game. It was a they’re there. They have some weaknesses. But otherwise, I mean, Derrick Henry is a beast, Bryant Canton, Ohio, those very good, they have a very good offensive. They’re gonna win a lot of games.

Santiago Leon
Now. Did the Steelers figure out the formula to slow down Derrick Henry?

Joe Toscano
Ah, yeah, have a really good defense. The thing about Derrick Henry is t so big and fast. I mean, he’s a freak. He is a he’s definitely almost like Bo Jackson back in

Santiago Leon
the 80s. Wow, that’s a good comparison. I was talking about it with a few of the sports cast contributors last night. We’re talking about Riggins and someone else we didn’t talk about like, we didn’t bring up Bo Jackson. That’s a good comparison. I like that.

Joe Toscano
It’s, you know, I mean, it’s it’s that combination of size and speed that you just almost have never seen. So yeah, it’s amazing. But what the Steelers were able to do is stop them before he could get going. You know, they hit him. They penetrated a lot. They you know, they run Blitz they did everything they could to not get him going because once you get Derrick Henry go and he could that’s when you get those 7080 yard runs.

Santiago Leon
AFC West dominated by the chiefs, Raiders chargers and Broncos. Can we see the Chargers maybe be competitive to win second place in the AFC West?

Joe Toscano
No, unless Herbert has some like, you know, just just plays out of his mind. I mean, he’s playing very well but he would have to just play out of his mind. But the Raiders possibly their cars is playing pretty good. So possibly the Raiders can

Unknown Speaker
at least make the playoffs.

Santiago Leon
Yeah, Raiders. Yeah, go ahead.

Joe Toscano
definitely definitely chiefs division.

Santiago Leon
Jon Gruden is doing some wonders. Of course it’s a 10 year contract. So he has time but the dividends are being you know shown are paying off. NFC East the weakest division, the laughingstock eagles are first watch 10 cowboys and giants. cowboys are not out of it. But can the spin Eagles finish?

Joe Toscano
I think it’s the Eagles division to lose. I think they just they’re they’re really hurt. Right now. They’re dealing with a lot of injuries. So, but they’re still staying in it. And I mean, it’s kind of By default, the Cowboys are just a mess. They’re lost. They’re down to their third string quarterback, who by the way, local boy benvenuti high. But you know, the giants are done. Washington is there, they’re not going to do anything. So it’s basically the Eagles by default,

Santiago Leon
you know that. When it came to the Cowboys coaching search, it was between like all they interviewed was two coaches, which was you know, Mike McCarthy and Marvin Lewis. They didn’t do much. I mean, like they didn’t do much interviews. Do you think that was like a red flag? The Cowboys kind of like, you know, should have interviewed some more possible coaches?

Joe Toscano
Yes. Mike McCarthy is a mistake. He’s just not good. He wasn’t good in Green Bay. Aaron Rodgers been one of the best quarterbacks ever masked a lot of problems there. He wasn’t good in Green Bay. And now it just seems like the the players have quit on him. Not a good sign. There’s either going to be changes either either. He has to change his coaches because of McCarthy, Brian, a lot of his buddies, and it’s not working out, especially on the defensive side. So they’re either going to have to change the coaches underneath McCarthy or just get rid of McCarthy. It would not surprise me if they just got rid of them.

Santiago Leon
Yeah, I’ve heard that Mike McCarthy has lost the locker room

Joe Toscano
as well. Exactly. They’ve just quit on him. There’s there’s no desire there. And that’s really bad. I mean, we’re really

Santiago Leon
early in the season. And for our team to quit like that. It’s gonna be a long season. He’s making Jason Garrett look amazing. Anyways, NFC North Chicago Bears, Packers, lions and Vikings is between the packers and the bears, but the bears Wow. I am quite surprised to being competitive. It could be a Nick foles thing.

Joe Toscano
pretty surprising, you know, in this era of offenses going crazy in aerial attack, the bears are doing it with defense and just good enough quarterback So, I, I like Nick foles we’ll see what happens but they’re doing it on defense. And just on a personal note, just if you lose tonight Just do it by under 6.5 points. That’s awesome. So

Santiago Leon
there you have it. That’s our gambling feature of the show. And it’s the south of course buccaneers saints and Panthers and Falcons we talked about that before we know buccaneers are going to go all the way saints are so foreign to Joe I mean like they’re gonna win and out every game by three points. It feels like

Joe Toscano
it’s possible Yeah, yeah. I mean you know, they’re right behind the name of a their foreign Tuesday’s payment is five into so you know, they’re still there. So even even with their problems are still they’re still winning.

Santiago Leon
And of course finally NFC West Seahawks, Cardinals Rams and Niners definitely looking good. And we’ll see how the Rams do tonight against Chicago which leads to our prediction segment of the show. Monday Night Football Joe, who do you have between the the Chicago Bears at the Rams

Joe Toscano
I think the Rams are going to win. I mean, they’re just you know, they have they have a little bit of everything they have that suppose a great a Rams offense with that genius coach, and they have Aaron Donald so I mean, in theory, they should win all the time. We’ll see. I think it’s going to be close. And World Series game six who takes the Dodgers or RAM I mean Rams Dodgers or rays. Dodgers are up three to Joe Do you think Dodgers will finish it up or think rays will take it to game seven I want to raise it take it that game seven boys that game over the weekend was one of the most fun finishes ever. That was amazing. I happen to be watching that live and being on social media and just you know it’s it’s fun when when something crazy goes on live and you’re on social media and you could share it with everybody but that was one of the craziest finishes ever. I still can’t believe that.

Santiago Leon
Joe, before we close How will you recap week seven of the NFL this past week.

Joe Toscano
All I care about a Steelers. undefeated. They are number one they are top of the mountain baby.

Santiago Leon
How How long can they stay undefeated?

Joe Toscano
I think it’s gonna be really tough against the Ravens. I mean, the Ravens have that extra week of rest and they’re at home. I think that’s gonna really help them. So I hate to say it, but I think the undefeated streak ends this week.

Santiago Leon
Now who do you think is better? The Ravens are the Titans.

Unknown Speaker
Oh, that’s tough. That’s a great question.

Joe Toscano
Okay. If the Ravens played the Titans I would say the Titans would win because it seems like the Titans have the Ravens number and I think they could they could slow down Lamar Jackson somehow. But man that would be a really good game talk about Battle of the rushing attacks but I mean, the thing about REITs Canna hills I think he’s just a very underrated I think they’re very good you know

Unknown Speaker
he’s a

Joe Toscano
perfect fit for the Titans they’re just perfect for each other. So you know when that Titans offense is is working well and Derrick Henry is going you could work off that play action and Tannahill is effective so that Titans offense is amazing. Their defense is suspect and so that’s that’s the weakness and you know ravens have a good offense and good defense. So maybe that gives the Ravens a little bit of an edge or the

Santiago Leon
Ravens one dimensional x Justin Riley

Joe Toscano
they’re not one dimensional they’re maybe one and a half maybe they’re all rushing I don’t want to say it’s a poor rushing poor passing attack but you know it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s good enough, but let’s just say it’s not their strength.

Santiago Leon
Steelers do have a little bit of a couple of games after the Ravens are pretty easy to be walks. They got the Cowboys the Bengals and the Jaguars. That’s not bad. Yeah,

Joe Toscano
yeah, we’ll take it. Maybe. Maybe there’ll be nine in one after all this after 10 games.

Santiago Leon
Yeah. And looking at the rest of the schedule. Like you got the Colts browns and ravens are like the Titans well also the bills. Okay, nevermind, then it’s gonna still be a rough, rough couple of weeks. But you do have some three easy games in a row. And the Steelers. I think they’re going to the playoffs. You just can’t doubt that. Anyways, Joe, what is the best way to reach you to talk to you about the playoffs of the NFL? I live

Joe Toscano
on Twitter. If Twitter was a house I would be in there. 24 seven. I enjoy a bag of doughnuts v instead of an F i Yeah, I post basically all the time. I’m, I’m addicted.

Santiago Leon
You should own some stock from Twitter.

Joe Toscano
I was thinking that like I need to I need to monetize this. I need to like do something new make some money off this thing.

Santiago Leon
And of course you can contact us at the force cast one or the sports cast dotnet we do not give stock advice or we don’t own any stock on Twitter. So you could definitely contact us there for sports only. And read our latest article about the Dodgers tomorrow. Tonight we have Tyler Turner recapping the big 10 this past weekend. First good weekend, Indiana, Indiana is in the AP Poll. I don’t want to say which which part, but they’re in it’s a big 10 it’s definitely making a splash and a threat to the SEC the top two conferences in college football I think and everyone probably agrees with me is the SEC and the big 10. So things are kind of formulating together. And tomorrow night Riley and constant comedian Steve Brown is back. He made the everyone laugh for the whole hour. So I’m definitely looking forward to that. And bamas Saints legend Kenny Smith will be on the show tomorrow. So he’s a defensive lineman. Looking forward to tomorrow show with Riley and constant always laugh and then we’ll recap what happened this past weekend with Tennessee. Watteau got injured so there might be some ramifications? I don’t think so. Because probably their benches is as good as their starting a starting team. So looking forward to that show and the busy week 300th episode Joe, I I honestly don’t know how to end it. But maybe you can have some closing words.

Joe Toscano
all I’ll say is I just wanna I just want speak specifically to the Steelers fans that are complaining about the Steelers right now. Shut up. You’re complaining about team be happy and stop complaining. It’s the NFL. It’s real hard to win games. So be happy. We are undefeated because that is an amazing accomplishment to be undefeated at this point in the season.

Santiago Leon
What they’re complaining about.

Joe Toscano
Oh, they let the Titans back in the game. It was close. They haven’t really beat anybody ever week schedule. There’s all kinds of excuses. Like you know what, don’t worry, be happy.

Santiago Leon
Hey, the Titans are a tough team. That is I mean time is our primary one like the top 10 teams in the NFL. So that’s tough to do. They’re gonna come back and plant in Tennessee with a few fans but hey, I’ll take a win in Tennessee every day a week and twice on Sunday.

Joe Toscano
Exactly. It was very impressive to go down there and get a win. regardless of the circumstances. The Titans are a good team. And it was very impressive what the Steelers did.

Santiago Leon
Anyways, we got to go grab that dirty towel Joe. Thanks for coming on to the sports guest anytime, brother

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