Chapter 1: What does Dianna Russini think about the current state of the NFL?
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Chapter 2: How does stress from fantasy football impact players?
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Chapter 4: What insights does Dianna share about Baker Mayfield's performance?
Frank Reich was fired. It's Caleb Williams. Matt Eberflus was fired.
And now Cam Ward, Brian Callahan was fired all during the first season of these number one overall picks.
Well, guys, it's usually because there's disorder during that time. There's very rarely a GM and a head coach together making the selection. It's all messed up, which is why we're seeing, and I believe it to be the story of the year of just the resurgence of quarterbacks that are in the right programs.
whether it's Sam Darnold in Seattle, whether it's Baker Mayfield in Tampa Bay, Mac Jones in San Francisco, Daniel Jones in Indy, right? Like these guys, most thought they stunk when they were drafted by the teams that took them. And now they all are playing some of the best games
at the position um and think about being those teams right like you think the New York Giants aren't watching Daniel Jones like what the like where did that come from well no they gave him money thinking that they had an idea of where that came from and it's not just the last four it's six of the last eight I want to ask you some things about the last uh the couple of games that we saw last night before we get to this to a sound uh you guys do realize at this point
that the four teams that the Bills have defeated have a combined record of 3-21. And it's not just that, because that's bad enough, right? It's also this, because we've been talking a lot about the Eagles. Over the last two weeks, the Eagles are 0-2, they've scored 17 points a game, and they've allowed 5.7 yards per play. The Bills, also 0-2, also scoring 17 points, also allowing 5.7 yards.
Yards per game. Which is the bigger problem there, Diana? Is it that their defense is really injured or is it that those skill players that I thought would be better can't get deep downfield? That Shakir is their only wide receiver weapon and all of a sudden you've turned Josh Allen into somebody who's not throwing the ball downfield.
Yeah, I'm not going to worry about the offense as much as I'm going to worry about the defense for Buffalo, right? Because you've got one of the best players in football playing quarterback. He just looked rushed last night. He was speeding up too much. And all like the first part of the season, I feel like the part of his game that was so strong was that he slowed down.
I was talking to some defensive coordinators before their games when they would face the Bills. And that was something that they noticed that he is sitting there way more comfortable in the pocket rather than running and doing all those Josh Allen things that are sometimes magnificent.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Brian Callahan's firing?
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Chapter 6: How does the NFL's coaching landscape affect player development?
You better stop. I just keep thinking, like, I'm the senior NFL insider at The Athletic owned by The New York Times, and I'm going...
And the Zoom's not picking it up, unfortunately, because the Raspberry is always a good sound. Diana, we're in a really interesting time for quarterback play in the league. It used to be a guy like Geno Smith, a guy who bounced around and reshaped himself into a starter in the NFL, was an outlier. And now you have stories like
Baker Mayfield, Daniel Jones, Sam Darnold, guys that it took a little time and now they're playing at elite levels. How does the league take this recent sample and apply it to guys like Spencer Rattler, Trevor Lawrence, even Anthony Richardson?
Because we're seeing this recent trend in the league now where guys are bouncing around, they're getting with the right quarterback coach, and they're meeting their ceilings.
Yeah, it's find the right programs led by the right people, right? I think Kevin O'Connell has done a great job with any quarterback that stepped in Minnesota. Kyle Shanahan does it every single season. It's why he's so well regarded. It's this McVay tree, the Shanahan tree of people, of coaches that are the ones that seem to be unlocking a lot of the quarterback play.
So I think the story, or at least a lesson from this is, You really can't give up on a lot of these guys that have the mental toughness, right? Like I was talking to somebody in Indy recently about Daniel Jones. And also I was talking to someone in Minnesota about Daniel as well. And they just kept falling.
pointing to his toughness from his time in New York, dealing with a lot of those challenges, but also just the fact that he's so coachable. And those are things I think that are just really important, even at the level of the NFL. I think those characteristics exist.
Sam Darnold was probably one of the best examples of when you talk to coaches around the league, they used to always say, he can play, I'm telling you. And it would get so frustrating because you wouldn't see it. Saquon Barkley said the same thing to me about Daniel Jones when he went to Philly.
I remember the first thing I said to him was, you know, man, you got to be pumped about playing with Jalen Hurts now, right? You know, Daniel Jones. He's like, no, Daniel is really good. You guys don't get it. Like, you give him an O-line, you give him a run game with someone like me, which we're seeing with Jonathan Taylor, we're seeing with a great O-line in Indy. Voila. It's there.
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Chapter 7: What are the current challenges facing the Buffalo Bills?
Yeah, I'll pay for Roy.
Yeah, but then it has to be, because this is what happens. You go to a restaurant. And then couples throw in one card, and then the single people throw in one card. And then you realize, oh, the couple, each person's actually paying half as much as the single person who's putting in a card. So we need to set this down and get everything.
Well, first let's see if we won anything. I had none of the appetizer.
Yeah.
So Juju, as I recall, had nothing to do with this bet. You guys are now divvying money up that isn't yours yet and was never yours to divvy up. I asked Nick Wright to send a video of how he did and who he's giving the money to. You guys don't get to decide who gets the money. I was just curious how it is you'd already divvied it up. So I wanted to see who would get mad at whom.
Nick definitely said in yesterday, you guys divvied up how you see. Yeah, that's true. That was definitely.
Well, but I asked him to send a video to tell us an update, and I see that this is about what it would look like if he were leaving a billionaire's party, walking down the street, being Nick Wright. So at 2 o'clock in the morning, after complaining that I text him at 2 o'clock in the morning, he sent this. What up, Levitar crew? Promise you guys an update.
This is what I call a good news, bad news, bad news situation. Good news. I've definitely got a seat in that game whenever I want it. Runs about once a month. As I said going into it, huge favorite. Moving forward, that is. Bad news. I lost.
how much did i lose you know no way to tell except i mean there's a way to tell but enough that my chest is a little tight right now not from the cigarette double bad news for the shipping container i really wanted you guys to have that five grand but i'm gonna i'm gonna need it
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