laptops done that's my all right cyber

monday cyber monday or whatever it is

called pride day i think it's like

tomorrow or something i need something

whatever something that's coming up that's

cheap or something i need a new laptop

at home because mine is officially bit to

dust

Too much fun.

Too sticky.

I literally had that laptop since twenty

seventeen, eighteen.

So that got you through COVID.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm literally charging my old MacBook to

try to try to give it to Mike.

It still hasn't turned on,

but it says it's charging.

oh yeah yeah mine's mine's over with all

right i'm good all right oh we yeah

we're already recorded so i'll get it

going

All right, y'all.

Patriots beat the Bills,

twenty nine to twenty six at the new

Highmark Stadium,

the first team in this season to win

there and hand handed Buffalo their first

loss in twenty twenty six.

Drake May finally threw for two hundred

and sixty nine yards, three touchdowns.

And we all saw Epton Chisholm's big catch

to seal the deal.

The question is, fellas.

Is Drake May back?

What is one word to describe Drake May's

performances this past week?

Learning.

I'll say learning.

Obviously, it's not all on Drake May.

You know, his coaching staff,

especially on the offensive side of the

ball, Josh McDaniels.

But he's learning that, hey, man,

get the ball out.

Get the ball into some hands down the

field and see if these guys can make

plays happen.

You know,

so it's a vast improvement for the first

couple of games, but he's learning.

And hopefully within with him in the

offense and Josh McDaniels,

they continue to tread in this direction.

I believe he threw about thirty seven,

had thirty seven pass attempts.

That's what I want to see from Drake

May every single game.

My word bailout without that catch from

Chisholm,

which might be the greatest one handed

catch by a white player in the history

of the NFL.

Gronk might have something to say about

that against Pittsburgh.

Gronk's not white.

But yeah,

I still look at here's here's my my

concern with it.

Without that catch,

they might not win the game.

Still threw an interception,

fumbled the ball three times,

lost one of them.

Turnovers are his biggest issue,

and he didn't solve the turnover problem.

I'm much more concerned about the

turnovers than the touchdowns.

The touchdowns will come,

especially once A.J.

Brown comes back.

The turnovers.

So I look at it as, to me,

better,

but still that is a bailout catch to

win the game for them,

and I'm not sold that Drake May is

back or anything like that.

My word is few.

That's a big few for Drake May right

there.

Oh, with a P-H.

With a P-H for the listeners.

That's a few with a P-H.

Talking about if May didn't come out here

and didn't succeed with a win or just

have a successful game,

throw him for three touchdowns,

throw him for over two hundred and fifty

yards.

We're really now looking at Drake May as

Was this just a one-hit wonder?

Is this a player that you have jet

bringing the likes of Kyle Murray and

Shadur up on this show?

It wasn't looking pretty.

Last week, I brought up Carson Wentz.

But now, you know,

with a performance like this,

things get to calm down a little bit.

We're going to dive in more into straight

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Easy.

Oh, my gosh.

Let's move on to the main event.

Patriots brought in that same offense.

You had missing pieces.

You lost Matt Collins in the midst of

it all.

Last week,

they scored only six points against

Jacksonville, twenty nine against Buffalo.

Jet,

I'm going to pass it all to you,

man.

What changed this week?

Romeo Dobbs getting the trust of I think

Josh McDaniels and Drake May is a big

part of that and becoming a red zone

threat not something he was really known

for in Green Bay known for being reliable

but not so much in the red zone

and I think that having that sort of

trusted veteran receiver that wasn't Matt

Collins opens up the offense a little

more.

They spread the ball around.

But I think what really changed was more

so on the defensive side that they played

with a lot of purpose and intensity.

And they knew coming into it that there

had been questions.

They weren't without their arguably their

two best players in Christian Barmore and

Christian Gonzalez.

And the defense stepped up.

I think they took it as a personal

slight.

First, I suppose,

getting walloped by Jacksonville and

everybody was already anointing the

Buffalo Bills as the Super Bowl champions

or the team to beat and the AFC

East champions already.

And that Josh Allen is...

just going to win MVP,

and the defense took on that personal

challenge, and they played really,

really well.

There were some really clean open field

tackles, one-on-ones that they won.

I thought the defensive backs held up

really, really well.

I know that Keon Coleman had a couple

of nice catches,

but one of them there's really nothing you

could do about.

That one on the sideline was an amazing

catch.

The touchdown they got beat.

But I think that May, again,

he played better,

and I like seeing Dobbs emerging as a

red zone threat.

But I think what changed the most from

getting killed with Jacksonville to

beating Buffalo in their home stadium was

that the defense played a lot more like

they played last year than they played for

the first three games of this year with

a lot of purpose and with an edge.

Mike, nice.

What did you see different this week going

into after an abysmal loss against

Jacksonville?

Yeah,

that Jacksonville game could have been a

real backbreaker.

And then going into Buffalo,

into their brand new stadium,

taking on arguably one of the best team

in the NFL.

It could have been real daunting on the

whole team.

But what changed or what really emerged

was just their confidence level going up

against the Buffalo Bills.

You would think being in that situation,

coming off that loss, like I said,

to Jacksonville,

and then being in Buffalo,

going against the almighty,

the great Josh Allen,

the way this team has looked the first

couple of weeks,

I don't think anybody had the Patriots

going into Buffalo and doing what they did

and performing how they performed.

It was still a close game.

It came down to the wire, but

The Patriots answered the call.

They didn't back down.

They played with confidence.

They made plays on their end.

Buffalo made plays,

which was what to be expected.

But the Patriots matched it.

They stayed right with them from start to

finish.

And they didn't look like a team that

was coming off –

where it was very ugly against

Jacksonville.

Exactly how the Patriots played against

Buffalo is what you want out of a

team coming off of an ugly loss.

You want them to not let it seem

like that loss got them down in the

dumps, play with a lot of confidence.

And show everyone that, listen,

I know it's been a first couple of

rough weeks, things have looked ugly,

we've lost a couple guys.

But we're still a team to be reckoned

with and we can hang with the best.

I know there was a lot of talk

of all Patriots got lucky,

just a lucky catch at the end of

the game by Chisholm.

But you know what?

I'm not reading into all of that.

Yeah, amazing catch, but

From start to finish,

from first quarter to fourth quarter,

Patriots were right there with the Buffalo

Bills,

who many people probably sees the cream of

the crop in the NFL.

So it was good to see them come

out in that game and play with a

lot of confidence coming off the first

couple of weeks of the season.

I'm looking at the coaching.

And I think the mentality shifted a little

bit when obviously the back was against

the wall.

You saw the fire in Mike Vrabel in

this game that you haven't seen really in

the first three weeks.

Very lackadaisical.

McDaniels, very mundane offense.

And listen, man, we all know Mike Vrabel.

He was in the news this summer.

All right, let's not get it twisted.

He was in the news.

And I have a theory about this.

Now we're going to talk about it.

You know, when you are an alpha,

you're the big dog on campus,

and that's what Mike Vrabel is.

He's the big dog on campus.

Everyone loves him.

Whenever he speaks, everyone listens.

When you get yourself in trouble and you

embarrass yourself,

you embarrass your family,

you embarrass your team,

you can't just come back with that same

bravado, no matter what.

What do they say?

There's a chink in your armor.

There was a chink in Mike Vrabel's armor,

and I think...

It affected the team in a sense.

I didn't see the fight.

This dude was coming up to the press

conferences with a puppy in his hand,

trying to soften his look.

Everything just seemed a little off about

how this offseason started.

And then what happened last week?

That was it.

The sky was falling.

Patriots are done.

Drake May isn't it.

They're asking about Mike Vrabel and his

relationship with Drake May,

questioning that.

Is he really Drake May's guy?

From there on,

you just got to get back to the

basics, get back to who you are,

get back to what this team's about.

And I think Mike Vrabel and his coaching

staff got back to who they were,

and it took them a little bit.

I look at the first drive of this

game, and that's where the difference was.

May starts off with a fifteen-yard

scramble,

and then he hits his first six of

the seven passes,

and that leads to the touchdown to Romeo

Dobbs.

That right there set the tone.

Those type of drives is what we used

to see in the Brady era.

First drive, very scripted.

Let's go down there and smack them in

the mouth.

And that's what we saw this week.

And I thought that was the change.

Yeah, I thought that that was,

to that point,

the best drive of the season, undoubtedly.

It was really encouraging to see,

especially because you felt like, okay,

this is a big moment for the team.

They just got their asses kicked last

week.

They looked shaky against Pittsburgh,

but they beat them.

But Pittsburgh's not really all that

great.

We know what happened in week one in

the opening game of the season against

Seattle.

And so I think there was a lot

of pressure on that drive,

a lot of pressure on Drake May,

a lot of pressure on Josh McDaniels to

script it correctly.

And it did end up being scripted

correctly,

and they ended up cashing in for a

touchdown, which is great.

But to your point about Mike Vrabel and

the coaching staff,

I think –

of course with everything that was going

on with Rabel and Diana Orsini and news

and stuff like that,

like you can't have your full attention

beyond coaching.

And as we know with the NFL,

like it's a, almost a, almost a,

almost a, almost a, almost a, almost a,

almost a, almost a,

So I think it'd be foolish to say

he was able to devote all of his

time and energy mentally and physically to

being able to be present for the Patriots

and be the best version of Mike Rabel

that he could be to make this team

be the best version they could be.

And I think you saw some of those

holes and those flaws in that optimistic

approach and that –

Yes,

I agree with you to a point that

he looked more like himself being fired up

and stuff like that on the sidelines.

But I will say he did make a

huge error that I thought could have cost

them the game at the end of the

first half.

Instead of just taking in the – they

were aggressive, which usually you like,

but you're on the road and you already

lost last week to Jacksonville badly.

They instead turned the ball over and gave

Buffalo three points that they didn't need

to do,

and that could have swung the game,

and they're fortunate it didn't,

but I thought that that was a major

coaching blunder.

It's sort of like you have to read

the room, take the lead,

be happy that you have a lead,

and get out of the half feeling good

about yourselves instead of feeling bad.

I see that play a little differently, Jet,

wherein Vrabel this week was like,

I'm going to show everyone and show Drake

that I have the ultimate trust in him.

So yes, at the end of the quarter,

usually he might not go for that.

But Drake,

I want you to go out there and

make a statement.

Drake fumbled.

or turn the ball over.

And I think we're to the point where

he's not going to pitch a perfect game.

But I enjoyed the aggressiveness this week

compared to what we have been seeing where

it's Ramondre Stevenson,

Travion Henderson, HB Dive.

hb dive no i mean that's no one

wants to no one wants to watch that

football even if it's working no one wants

to watch that kind of football i mean

it's the football you see in the nineteen

sixties and fifties that's the game has

evolved so far beyond that point and

Similar to what you were saying, Marv,

I'm curious what you and Mike think about

this.

Did you,

on their last drive of the game,

did you also like the aggressiveness of

going for it instead of trying to make

Buffalo burn their timeouts?

Because that also, I thought,

could have been a humongous error.

And they ended up winning the game,

so hats off to Mike Rabel.

But I think if they did not convert,

then suddenly Josh Allen has the ball with

a timeout or two and a chance to

win the game.

I think that all the questions and all

the talk will be about, wow,

Mike Frabel has no idea what he's doing.

Like that is,

that was an idiotic coaching decision.

So did you guys,

were you all for that?

For me, I would have said,

make them burn the timeouts.

I think kind of similar to what I

think Marv just said it.

This might have been a game where it

was just Mike Rabel was trying to show

the world and the media that, listen,

all this talk about we – there's issues

between Drake May and myself.

Like,

I look at the game and I look

at the numbers.

Like I said, Drake May, what,

he threw – had thirty-seven pass attempts

from Andre Stevenson and –

uh henderson combined for thirty attempts

between the two of them in my opinion

that's how the game should go i want

to see drake may constantly getting the

ball out of his hands remandre stevenson

fifteen carries max that should how that

should be how it looks every game and

then you balance in and work in uh

henderson that should be what it looks

like every game so i have no problem

bravo trying to show the world that you

know he trusts drake may to have the

ball and and go make a play and

see what happens obviously if it doesn't

go his way and things go left and

they end up losing the buffalo because

josh allen gets the ball back and they

score and whatever take the lead you know

things are going to sound different but it

worked in new england's favor worked in

rabel's favor of how things played out but

i i like the fact that

Drake May had the ball in his hand

a lot more this game,

trying to make plays down the field.

There'll always be questions about the

receivers down the field.

I know a lot of people still don't

like Romeo Dawes.

He had his best game as a Patriot.

But there's still some plays that he made

or didn't make that people are looking at

him like, why is he even here?

We didn't even need him.

But at the end of the day,

it was his best game as a Patriot.

And him stepping up,

Chisholm obviously making plays,

Hunter Henry still reliable.

Um,

These guys are who Drake May has to

work with.

Obviously, you get A.J.

Brown back,

and that adds even more talent to the

group.

But at the end of the day,

Drake May is the quarterback of this team

who you want to see throwing the ball

down the field.

And I'm fine with thirty thirty five plus

pass attempts a game.

That's what I want.

Don't need to see Henderson doing twenty

five or or Ramondre doing twenty five

carries.

Drake may get the ball down the field

and trust and believe in your receivers to

make plays.

So with that being said, fellas,

I want you to think back to week

four.

What was the play of the game for

you?

What stood out?

What was that one play that stood out

that was the turning point for the game?

I'll throw that back to you, Mike.

I mean, it's easy to simply say.

I guess I'll be the one to say

the Chisholm catch was amazing.

And who was the cornerback that was

talking all that?

C.J.

Gardner.

C.J.

Gardner.

Gardner, yeah.

Him talking all that mess after the game.

Oh, no one knows his name.

No one will remember that guy.

One guy made a lucky catch, this, that,

and the third.

You know what?

This could be the breakout game for

Chisholm.

This could be the game that really,

you know,

sets him apart from maybe some of the

other receivers in the room.

Obviously,

we've been looking for a lot more to

pop Douglas, you know, with this being,

what,

his fourth year or third or fourth year,

whatever the case may be.

But Chisholm makes a grab like that,

and...

Usually that instills a lot of confidence

in him,

but a lot of confidence in the offense.

McDaniels made that like, OK,

if this guy can go make that big

of a play in that situation,

that scenario,

maybe he needs to be on the field

a couple more times.

So that play was huge.

Obviously, it did a lot for the game,

but.

I love the confidence it probably

instilled in the team having in him.

And they're looking for the next guy up

to emerge.

Matt Collins, how healthy is he?

We don't know.

Obviously,

Brown is still a couple of weeks away.

Dobbs is questionable sometimes with his

play.

Pop Douglas,

we're still looking for him to carve out

his way in offense.

But Chisholm is a guy who steps up,

wouldn't be mad at that.

And his play was incredible.

One to be on highlight reels when it

comes to the end of the season.

Looking back at some of the greatest

catches from the season,

he's definitely top ten.

And I don't care what else happens in

the rest of the season.

I mean,

Jet already got it in the Louvre.

Said it's the greatest one-handed catch by

a white player ever.

Yep.

Top ten.

Got to be top ten.

It is.

It's in the white.

It's in the white Louvre.

I mean, yeah,

that was obviously the play of the game.

I think I don't think you can you

can make an argument for anything else in

terms of just like the way it happened

and the the fact that it was.

A similar place on the field,

a similar place, sorry,

in the end zone to where the interception

was thrown by Drake May at the end

of the Seattle game in week one.

It was almost kind of like a nice

redemption arc, though, you know,

it's only week four.

So I don't know if you can really

be talking about redemption or anything

like that.

But for me.

was less about one play and more about

a lot of little plays and i'm going

to go back to what i said at

the beginning about the defense josh allen

we all know what he could do with

his legs the defense absolutely was not

allowing it so it's the place to me

that you're not seeing the spies that that

were that were on josh allen the zone

that they were able to play and keep

him in containment because josh allen can

and will be with his legs

Ultimately, on Sunday,

five carries for four yards.

He had the touchdown.

You can't stop that play, by the way,

when he's just goal-line touchdown.

He's too big.

But the defense's scheme and ability to

contain Josh Allen,

every time that they had a spy on

him,

they were not letting him get

break-contained and bust for a big run.

Whereas on the other side,

Drake May constantly was making big plays

with his legs,

picking up first downs and stuff like

that.

So I'm going to say not necessarily,

obviously the play of the game, Chisholm,

but the most important plays,

all those plays that you don't necessarily

see a statistic recorded on,

but the defense is staying in where their

assignments and doing their job,

to borrow a phrase from Bill Belichick,

and not letting Josh Allen break contain

and beat you with his legs.

That was more key to me than anything

in the entire game of being able to

go into Buffalo and beat them.

I love that you shout out the defense.

Makes me want to make sure I remember

to shout out Elijah Ponder.

This dude is stepping up, man,

especially with Barmar being out right

now.

Elijah Ponder,

we got to really start to look out

for him because he's making some noise

right now on this defense.

So thank you, Jeff, for bringing that up.

I would say my play of the game,

I think the two-point conversion.

I look at that two-point conversion.

Drake could have ran that in as well.

It was well-designed,

and he threw it to Ramondre Stevenson to

get that two points.

And it just showed that the Patriots were

never rattled throughout this whole game.

Even when the Buffalo Bills came back,

got the lead, Patriots were not rattled.

They came and they answered away.

Obviously,

there's some word that the stadium ain't

what it used to be now.

It's gentrified a little bit.

So

It's not as noisy as it once was.

So Bills Mafia, I don't know.

Y'all got to have to change things up.

But Patriots were poised.

They were ready.

Whatever was happening during practice

this week,

Vrabel and the coaching staff really had

these boys ready.

And I look at that two-point conversion,

and that sums it up for me right

there.

Well,

I think if you look at the team

too, Marv,

and we talk about something that they

didn't do well last year and that they've

actually struggled with for a while now is

red zone offense.

And when you're scoring a two-point

conversion,

you're essentially getting back-to-back

touchdowns.

So that's two conversions in the red zone

in a row.

And that's not easy to do in the

NFL.

You saw Buffalo fail on a two-point

conversion.

It's hard to score a touchdown in the

NFL,

especially from where you're stopping the

ball for a two-point conversion.

And I'm relieved that they didn't call a

run play on that because I feel I

was very concerned that that's what they

were going to do.

No, for sure.

Buffalo's in the books.

The next game is Sunday at Gillette.

And the Raiders are three and one in

their head coach who beat the Patriots in

the Super Bowl as the Seahawks offensive

coordinator.

Clint Kubiak is running the show now.

So there's some history now coming in to

Gillette.

Raiders are looking good.

I watched the game against Kansas City.

I was really impressed how, you know,

Kirk Cousins got these boys going now.

But their defense,

their defense is what the story is.

Max Crosby,

that whole mess with him going to

Baltimore and now coming back.

But they got those boys ready.

Let's dive a little deeper into this

matchup against the New England Patriots.

Jet,

what is it looking like for you right

now?

Well,

Max Crosby to me is the key because

he's one of the best defensive players in

football, especially when healthy.

And he's going to be going up frequently

against Will Campbell,

who up until last week had had a

nice start to the season.

But I wouldn't say he had a rough

game,

but he certainly didn't play particularly

well against Buffalo.

And Buffalo is a good defensive front,

but they don't have anybody as good as

Max Crosby.

So that's something to really look at.

We know in the past that Drake May,

when he's pressured,

doesn't always make good decisions and

tends to struggle.

And the other thing I'm going to look

at is, to me,

the Raiders have the best tight end in

football in Brock Bowers,

who's just a matchup nightmare.

the Patriots are already relatively thin

at linebacker.

Uh, that's not going to work, uh,

because he'll just eat linebackers alive

all day long.

So you might have to see some double

coverage on him.

Um,

and really game plan like Belichick used

to try to take out their team's best

offensive player.

Uh,

he was hurt for the first two weeks,

but he's been just on fire since he's

come back.

Uh,

he is just so difficult to cover and

opens up everything else.

So I'm going to look for the matchup

for the Patriots to try to neutralize

Crosby as much as possible and see how

Will Campbell holds up.

And on the other side of the ball,

I really want to see the Patriots do

their best to take Bowers out of the

game and force those other receivers and

Gentee to beat you.

Mike Nice,

what are you looking at with the Raiders

coming in this week?

So Jet brought up a lot of good

points, especially defensively.

And Brock Bowers is a force to be

reckoned with.

When he's healthy on the field,

Brock Bowers is a problem.

I think Marvin and I had this conversation

a couple weeks back just talking football.

And what a great call by the Raiders

organization,

even though they took Mendoza with the

first pick in the draft,

letting him cook on the bench a little

bit and giving Cousins a chance to lead

the charge and have Mendoza sit back and

kind of

Learn from Cousins.

You know, whose call was that?

Was it Brady's call to have that be

the case?

Who knows?

But I'm happy to see the Raiders doing

that and allowing Cousins to kind of take

control of the offense and let Mendoza

watch from behind.

With that being said...

Patriots in the first couple of the game,

the first couple of weeks of the season,

what they scored, ten points, six points,

nine points, whatever the case may be.

And then they exploded in a sense against

Buffalo, putting up twenty nine.

I need to see another game like that.

I want to see Patriots putting points up

on the board.

You watch a lot of these other teams

across the league numbers being put in a.

They're being put up left and right.

Quarterbacks are making plays.

Obviously,

Patriots don't have a player like this at

the moment.

CeeDee Lamb, seventeen receptions,

hundred and seventy something yards,

touchdown or two.

Obviously,

AJ Brown would be somebody on the Patriots

to put up similar numbers to that if

he's healthy and able.

But overall,

I wanna see Drake May having a similar

game like he just had against Buffalo.

get that ball out of your hand,

hopefully protections there.

I know we mentioned Crosby and how Will

Campbell might have a rough day trying to

deal with him.

But you wanna see Drake made being smart

in the pocket and getting the ball out

and hoping that his receivers can make

plays down the field and put up another

twenty plus points.

Mike, I need a clean game from him.

Are we going to see a no turnover

game from Drake May this year?

It'd be amazing.

It's not going that direction.

It'd be amazing to get a clean game.

Obviously, these first couple of weeks,

it looks like he can't go a game

without doing something to turn the ball

over.

Fumble, interception.

But I mean,

if we're going off of just the last

week against Buffalo,

it's steps in the right direction.

It was more good Drake May than bad

Drake May, if you ask me.

Yes, the mistakes were there,

the fumbles and the interception.

But it was more good Drake May than

bad Drake May against Buffalo.

And you just want him to use that

game as a building block just to continue

to improve.

And hopefully, you know,

you get tested again in a team like

the Raiders.

You want to step up and rise to

the occasion that test and see if you

can put some numbers up on their heads

as well.

So let's put it on record.

Mike,

you kind of already teased some stats here

that you want to see.

We're entering the put it on the record

segment.

Let's hear both take.

What is a score, a stat,

something wild that might happen in this

game that you're putting on record right

now?

I'm going right back to you, Mike Nice.

What are you putting on record for this

week five's matchup?

I think Patriots, like I said,

continue to build on the success they just

had versus Buffalo.

Offense keeps rolling and guys continue to

get comfortable.

Drake may continue to get comfortable.

Twenty seven.

Seventeen Patriots victory.

But sorry, Raiders look good.

But I want to trust and believe that

Patriots are just a couple steps ahead of

the Raiders and they take the win and

they put another twenty plus point game on

the board and the defense holds the

Raiders under twenty points.

What are you thinking, Jack?

What are you putting on record?

a twenty four twenty Patriots win.

They get a pick six.

Kirk Cousins plays his worst game of the

year because he's looked really good so

far.

I think that

The Patriots have a lot of tape on

Kirk Cousins from over the years and are

going to be able to scheme for him.

So I'm going to say he's going to

throw three interceptions.

One of them is going to go for

a touchdown.

Drake May is not going to have a

clean game.

He'll fumble again and he'll throw another

interception.

That's my prediction.

But the defensive touchdown is going to be

what swings the game for the Patriots in

their favor.

We're going to come back to this.

We're going to see who got real close.

Here's my prediction, man.

Vinny Terry's coming back first.

That's not a prediction.

That's just a fact.

He's coming back this game.

Hold on.

He is coming back this game.

And obviously,

we know Vinny Terry has some history when

it comes to the Raiders.

All right?

Ooh.

What you doing there?

What you doing there, Mark?

Patriots walk off win with...

Bora Gallas.

Bojangles.

Bora Gallas.

Thirty-one.

Twenty-nine.

Patriots take the win.

Thirty-one points.

I would love to see it from the

New England Patriots.

I would love to see that.

Anything twenty-plus would make me happy.

I just want to see Drake May getting

the ball down the field.

And, you know, Ramondre Henderson.

They have their pros.

They have their cons.

Either way,

they don't need to touch the ball that

much.

Let Drake get busy.

It's kind of a sneaky,

huge game for them, right?

Because if they win,

it's a win streak for the first time

in the season, and you're feeling good.

Okay,

they've capitalized off the momentum.

If they lose,

Buffalo suddenly looks like a fluke.

So it could go drastically in either

direction.

Right.

Was that an emotional game against Buffalo

where the emotions were high,

you had to win?

back against the wall,

or can you actually carry momentum against

a really good team in the Raiders,

what it looks like?

They look like a real team.

Have you guys watched the Raiders and see,

like, okay, this team is legit,

or you guys think, ah,

this is just a mirage?

Yeah, I mean, they think they have,

you know,

they have talent on their team now.

You know,

they had a really solid offseason.

They signed a lot of veterans,

proven veterans on their team.

They got arguably the hottest name on the

coaching market, including Kubiak,

who was, you know,

really highly sought after.

after a great season with the Seahawks

winning the Super Bowl,

turning Sam Darnold into a really

competent quarterback.

And they also have a lot of talent

that they've accumulated through picking

highly in the draft for the past couple

of years because they've been terrible.

And they have a veteran quarterback who –

He's been in the league for a while

as a starter.

Like Kirk Cousins.

You don't just stick around and start a

lot of games in the NFL just by

being there.

He's been a good quarterback in the NFL.

So they have the pieces in place,

and they have an anchor defensively in Max

Crosby, as we talked about.

So, yes, they're a good team right now.

They're certainly way better than what

they've been the past couple of years.

And last year, obviously,

they were the worst team in the league.

But I think this will be a very

telling game now that they're going back

to back playing Kansas City and the

Patriots on if they are for real or

if they was losing to Kansas City close

last week,

the beginning of them finding level and

turning into maybe a middle to lower third

team in the NFL.

Coming back down to earth a little bit.

The Raiders we know from over the years.

We're going to find out.

That defense is real, man.

So we're going to see,

and we'll be right back here next week

to break down that game and moving

forward.

This is Straight Cash.

Once again, I'm your host, Marvin Nizam.

We got Jet Stryer and Mr.

Mike Nice in the building.

Fellas, great, great show.

Let's do it again next week.

Looking forward to it.

Maybe Mike will be at more of a

disclosed location.

I know he's recording in secret right now.