00:00Well, listen, the Saints almost did it for me last week.
00:03That was really close.
00:04But now we've learned, and for me last week,
00:06it wasn't as much the Saints as it was the indictment on Detroit.
00:10And now that's sort of coming to pass here.
00:11I think you could see that Detroit is not that good.
00:15So probably won't do that again with the Saints this week.
00:17I think they were really fortunate that Detroit, for whatever reason,
00:20decided to take their foot off the pedal in the second half of that game.
00:23They take on the Ravens this week.
00:24And now, you know, the Ravens, to me, are a far superior team than the Saints.
00:30But again, you're talking about covering a big line on a Sunday here.
00:35And the Saints proved last week that Chuck could at least, you know, take the team back.
00:39Chuck, to me, Joe, this season, I feel like maybe last year's Jacoby Brissett,
00:44where the Saints could be down a lot, and then Chuck just, you know, starts chucking it.
00:48No pun intended.
00:49All the way down.
00:50Olave had the monster game last week for them, too.
00:53Is there a chance for a close game this week?
00:55The one thing that I sort of see here is points, man.
00:58Like, I feel like the Saints are not going to get blown out like they have in the past.
01:03I feel like they're going to be able to score points over the course of the season.
01:07Oh, absolutely.
01:07Look, I still think the Saints are very much in play to win that division.
01:10I'm just going to put it.
01:11You want to talk about the strange of the NFC South?
01:13I think that's the strange.
01:14And I think Tyler Chuck showed you no quit last week, right?
01:17They were getting their butt kicked in the first half of that game.
01:19And they came back, and they pushed the Lions to their brink.
01:21And, yes, we do know a little bit more about that Lions defense and how much they miss Kirby Joseph
01:26and some other pieces there in the secondary right now.
01:29But I'm kind of with you.
01:31This is also one that feels a little strange.
01:33When you take, say, Flowers out of the mix of this game, too, you lose a little bit of that
01:37explosiveness in the passing game.
01:39So what that turns into for the Ravens now is more of an unknown.
01:42And so I thought I knew who the Ravens were last week.
01:44And I was like, all right, here we go.
01:45And now you're taking, say, Flowers immediately out in week two.
01:48You're taking Jacoby Lane, who also was working in that game, out in week two.
01:51It's a lot more questions.
01:52We get back to what we do best, right?
01:54If you're the Ravens, you run the football.
01:56You run the football.
01:57And then you run the football some more.
01:59And then after that's done, you run the football.
02:01And I think that's what you're trying to do here if you're the Ravens.
02:03And just win this game at home, get off to a 2-0 start.
02:06And on the Saints side, too, look, this is going to be tricky for them to go 0-2 to
02:09start things out.
02:10You don't want to be there.
02:12This definitely has a lot of week two weird vibes in it for me, especially with Zay Flowers out of
02:17this game.
02:17So I'm with you.
02:18That 8.5 does sound like a very large number.
02:20Don't love the game.
02:21Also, Chris Olave, a little banged up this week.
02:23He is going to play in this game.
02:24Does Devon Vele in his second half carry over this week?
02:28Does the bad week of Travis HN in that debut also not carry over into this one?
02:34Do we see a little bit more of him?
02:35More questions still to be answered.
02:37I think this is one, too, where I just need a little bit more information before I start investing in
02:41this one.
02:41So I look to the players instead of the game necessarily in this one.
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