00:00And I don't know if he also had this on his bingo card at the beginning of
00:04the year, a big game heading into week four, Chiefs and Raiders.
00:09Who would have thought that?
00:10No, wait a minute.
00:11I got to give it its proper due.
00:13The Raiders.
00:14All right.
00:15Here we, I mean, two, three, you know, football teams here, AFC West.
00:18I mean, it's a battle for first place in the West.
00:21What do you like here?
00:23I mean, if you would have told me it was a big game, I'd listen because
00:26any divisional game is big in some regard.
00:28If you would have told me it was a matchup of undefeated, I'd say,
00:31what in the world is going on?
00:33I understand the Raiders haven't exactly bowled over great competition.
00:36You take Miami out in week one.
00:38The charges look like a dumpster fire right now.
00:40And then you win the close game with New Orleans in a shootout last weekend.
00:44But yeah, I mean, I keep coming back to this and I'm pretty sure I've said it
00:49on this show probably a few times now.
00:51I think Kirk Cousins is ultimately doing more damage than more harm than good
00:55with winning these games.
00:57You're reducing the Mendoza experience for season one.
01:02And realistically, as good as you want to say the Raiders are,
01:05they're not going anywhere.
01:06They're going to overachieve, but I don't think they're a real threat to do
01:09anything.
01:09In which case, you're just getting Kirk Cousins.
01:11You're just putting carries on the end of his career instead of getting
01:15Mendoza worked up to a professional level.
01:18I think they get exposed a little bit here.
01:19I would have said the same last week and I did.
01:21So, you know, I was wrong there, but the schedule gets tough in a hurry.
01:24Kansas City, I think, can control this thing from start to finish, beat them
01:28by a dozen points and move on.
01:31Lions and Panthers.
01:32You know, this Panthers team, I got to give Dave Canales a lot of love for what
01:37he's done with Bryce Young, right?
01:40Bryce Young is at the top of the board right now when it comes to passing yards.
01:44And he looks like he's really, you know, what's funny here, Kyle, is that the guy
01:48who's starting to get better and better looking each week is Bryce Young, who
01:52started slow in his career.
01:54And CJ Stroud is actually going the other way.
01:57And now we're starting to see this football team play with a lot of physicality.
02:02And they got this Lions team.
02:03Pretty interesting ball game this weekend.
02:05Yeah, over under 51 and a half.
02:08And that might not even be enough for two defenses that can't really stop anybody.
02:12Two offenses that right now can't be stopped.
02:14You mentioned Bryce Young.
02:15And he's got Tett McMillan.
02:16I get that he's got his one.
02:18But he's not really doing it with a lot of pedigree anywhere else.
02:22Jalen Coker, undrafted, out of Holy Cross.
02:24Darren Waller, he was making rap albums like two years ago.
02:27Cuba Hubbard, he's been left to die for a few teams here.
02:30I can't help but be impressed.
02:33Maybe it regresses with time, but I can't imagine it goes in the wrong direction against
02:37a Detroit team that can't stop a nosebleed right now.
02:39I do think Detroit gets the better of them because I trust the equity of their offense
02:43to turn these scoring drives into seven instead of three a little bit more than I do Carolina.
02:48But if you told me this game was 34-27 or something along those lines, I'd 100% believe
02:53you.
02:54I think this is a fun one on Sunday Night Football.
