NFL Cover Zero: Surprising Outcomes, Bears outlook, Broncos Offense and Raiders Surprise
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What surprising outcomes defined Week 2 across the NFL?
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Welcome, it is week two of NFL Cover Zero. I'm Matt Jones, Drew Franklin, Billy R. Sports here. We are doing this on a Monday for scheduling reasons, so we missed the late night window last night, but that means we've had time to fully digest all the games. Drew... As exciting and score-filled as Week 1 was, Week 2 was kind of characterized with a lot of really boring starts to games. Now, there were some really good finishes, but there was a period during the 1 o'clock window where, like, every game was 6-3 or 7-0. The defense has kind of won in Week 2.
Yeah, it was unusually chaotic. We didn't get the exciting start in the beginning like we did a week ago, but then when you look at the scoreboard at the end of the day, Sunday seemed kind of drunk with some heavy favorites going down and some teams we didn't expect to be undefeated, undefeated through two weeks.
Well, okay, just to make that point, I mean, after the first week, you would have probably said that the worst teams were the Browns, you know, the Jets, you know, the Dolphins, etc. some of them put up huge fights and one of them even won. Vikings are 2-0 in first place in the division. This has been a weird, Chargers are 0-2 and like almost seem like a lot to not make the playoffs. We have to remember, I think we forget this every year. The NFL is ridiculous. Yeah. And unless you have one of the three best quarterbacks and they're healthy, you can make an argument that you never really know how these teams are going to do.
Yeah.
Yeah, we think of teams that stink, and there are teams that stink. I'm a fan of one of them. But for the most part, not to be cliche, any given Sunday a team can show up and win in the NFL. It's not college where the disparity is so big. These are pros. It still has been quite surprising, though, even knowing that. Like the Chargers-Raiders game yesterday, Sure, I would expect one of those teams to be 0-2 and the other 2-0 after that game, but I wouldn't have the Raiders as the undefeated team and the Chargers as winless. So it's been a little more upside down than I thought it would have even been being the NFL at this stage.
I think that's right. Did you sit and watch? Watch all the games yesterday, or were you like me and celebrated so much watching the Kentucky game that I maybe took a good nap from the second quarter through halftime of the first set of games? I'm
glad you confessed first. I told Billy before we started this, I rarely miss a minute of NFL football. And I was on my couch the entire time, but there was a moment where I woke up and there was like five minutes left in the fourth quarter. I probably was out for about 30 minutes, but it was a very action-packed 30 minutes on red zone when I was out.
I give them credit, though. It was a good nap day. You don't get a lot of those in the NFL, and a good nap day is not bad. So let's get started. I'll lead off on the first one. The Chiefs last night win in overtime against the Colts, 33-30. Last year, the Chiefs were, what, 1-9 in one-score games. Of course, two years ago, they were 11-1. Seems like they can never hit a happy medium, but they, for a night, get their old ways. Travis Kelsey hit the throwback machine and had over 100 yards. He ties Gronk for the most times any tight end's ever done this. I think the most important takeaway of this game, were you cool with Taylor Swift pointing to the ring after Kelsey scored the touchdown? Is that good wifey behavior?
Yeah.
Was she just saying that's my husband or is she saying he's going to go get another? Was that like a let's get a Super Bowl ring? I hadn't thought about that. I hadn't either. I wasn't sure with the interpretation. I loved it, whichever it is, but I wasn't sure if she was just saying that's my man or like we're good and we're going to get another one. that's an interesting point i hadn't thought about if she was like that's my husband or he's gonna go get a ring
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What surprising outcomes defined Week 2 across the NFL?
0:00–12:23
2
How did the Chiefs’ overtime win over the Colts shape early playoff expectations?
12:23–28:51
3
Will Caleb Williams’ hamstring issue keep the Bears out of the playoffs?
28:51–42:46
4
Did the Saints’ comeback win over the Ravens signal a new contender?
42:46–56:22