Well, of course, we're Nolan.

He is someone that I think is a fantastic tentpole director.

I famously not famously when I wrote an article for Inception.

which I liked, I said, Christopher Nolan makes smart movies for dumb people.

And I stand by that.

He is really good at making a smart movie.

And making the lowest common denominator understand it.

So, Joey, how is it? How is it?

Do you think a top five finish is, is possible?

Absolutely.

I mean, you see h- the output that this Patriots offense had last year, and you look at the, uh, quarterbacks around Drake May that were, you know, that finished around him in yardage.

And you've got Matthew Stafford, Jared Goff, Dak Prescott, and even Sam Donald.

All these quarterbacks produced top five wide receivers at some point in their career, if not last season.

So absolutely think that in the range of outcomes A.J. Brown finishes as a top five wide receiver.

And I know Footballguys feels a lot of the same way.

Yeah

Walk me through both of those picks.

Yeah, D.K. Metcalf, we've seen Aaron Rodgers doesn't usually lean on a guy near one.

He usually takes a little bit of time for him to build a rapport with someone.

This looks like it might be the last ride for Rodgers.

He's saying it will be.

Do we trust Aaron Rodgers? I don't know.

But I think D.K. Metcalf, this is the year that him and Rodgers get on the same page.

The elder statesman coming off the MVP, Matthew Stafford.

Uh, w- do you think that this running back room was just a mess all year? Are you optimistic about any of them, and that includes Kaytron Allen, who I also don't think has been picked yet?

Yeah, no, Kaytron Allen hasn't been picked yet.

Um, him and White are both in my queue.

I don't mind saying that.

I like Rashad White a lot.

I feel like he stumbled out the gate once Bucky Irvin kind of got there.

But then Bucky Irvin kind of lit a fire under his butt to say, "Okay, well, I need to learn to get, run through the tackles." And his efficiency improved there.

Ooh.

Walk me through both of those picks.

Yeah, DK Metcalf.

We've seen Aaron Rodgers doesn't usually lean on a guy in year one.

He usually takes a little bit of time for him to build a rapport with someone.

This looks like it might be the last ride for Rodgers.

He's saying it will be.

Do we trust Aaron Rodgers? I don't know.

The elder statesman coming off the MVP, Matthew Stafford.

He's not really quite cleared yet, and so how do you see that backfield working?

Yeah, I, I think the Kenneth Gainwell contract and signing made a little bit more sense yesterday when we saw that news coming out that it looks like Bucky IrvingMight not be ready for the season.

I d- I...

It's still so early, but I have fully expected, you know, we saw this Buccaneers running game working best when it was kind of a tandem, where Bucky Irving was kinda heading down the middle and Rachaad White was running out to the, to the side catching passes for checkdown for Baker Mayfield.

And I think the Bucs went out and probably got down the best checkdown machine you can get in Kenneth Gainwell.

We saw Aaron Rodgers basically build the game around him last year down the stretch in Pittsburgh.

So I'm expecting the Bucs to use him that way.

Anything stand out with these games this week nine?

That was cool.

Yeah.

That was actually...

So we found those...

So at the Thongers Weekend, there usually is, uh, you know, we're, we're pretty much the only ones there.

There's a few other people that are there, but we pretty much have the whole place to ourselves.

And someone will set up a table off to the side, and anybody who has stuff that either doesn't fit them, or they don't want anymore, or they just don't like, they put it all on the table, and it's basically a free-for-all.

Yes

Wow.

I started every other play you can imagine being wrong.

Had an epic meltdown, brought my kids into it.

And the crew over at Razball was like, "Dude, you were hilarious all season, you were super fun.

Have you ever thought about writing?" And I'm like, "Well, I used to be a film critic, um, so yeah." So they gave me their waiver wire column year one, sight unseen.

I wrote some off-season articles for them.

Had a really good time at Razball, have nothing but great things to say about them over there.

Yeah.

(laughs)

I'm not gonna defend it, all right? Because I think that's asinine.

When people come onto shows and they're like, "Oh, well, here are the reasons I was wrong." No, no, no, no.

You own it.

We hit, we miss.

My hit, my miss, I should say, just happened to be on probably the biggest platform I had at that time.

But, uh, yeah, Trevor Lawrence has had a bad season.

Okay.