Russillo starts the show with his college football predictions and shares his 12-team playoff picks (0:44). Then, Mike Sando comes on to break down his NFL quarterback tiers and talk about which QBs rose and fell and who has the potential to improve (16:56). Plus, a mini British Columbia travelogue and Life Advice with Kyle and Ceruti (53:11)! How do we handle a friend ruining our night with a weird comment?
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29 Comments
2 weeks without RR… hope you enjoyed your break before football season sir 😅
Tier list is one of the best pods of the year!
Stafford has two Pro Bowls in 15 seasons. Zero All-Pro teams. Doesn't that reveal what those closest to the game truly think?
Sando has the bed side manner of a dentist and I love it
Stick to the NFL buddy. Those college takes were forced and bad.
Bro Herbert has black mail on media there is no way people actually think he’s going anything ..Herbert has had extremely good wide outs and has done fuck all ..what in the actual fuck are you people talking about. Love was not even a nfl quarterback the first 7 games of the season let alone a tier two quarterback . The kid has played 5 above average nfl games in his entire career . This is why you can’t any of this shit serious even the packers paying him what they did was one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen . He’s played 5 good professional football games , and when the pressure was on in the 4th quarter against the niners what did love do? Oh yea that’s right game ending pick ..hurts didn’t even look like a college level quarterback last year he was absolutely terrible in every aspect . Goff didn’t play remotely good as baker did last year. Goff has one of the best o lines in the league but suddenly he’s try hard fans most underrated guy in the league , except he’s not he’s still extremely average ..Goff was statically worse then tua in every category last year , tua played with easily the worst offensive line I’ve ever seen in professional
Football they had dudes that wouldn’t sniff a sec roster STARTING FOR THEM . But because the try hard thing to do is pretend Goff is great but tua sucks people parrot the same narratives back so they can pretend they understand what they are talking about ..
So you’ll criticize PSU if they go 11-1 and lose to the team that you said has the most talented roster in the country and might possibly be the 1 seed…how does that make sense to you?
1) Mahomes
2) Allen
3) Lamar
4) Burrow
5) Stroud
6) Love
7) Hurts
8) Herbert
9) Rodgers
10) Stafford
lmao, Herbert's had the worst defense of every top 10 QB , but this guy thinks it's a Herbert problem, unbelievable.
Russillo getting all defensive about his boy Rodgers
Great for Ryen to bring on Matt McCusker
listen to this one at 1.25x speed its much better
I'll never understand why americans care so much about college sports.
Agree that Stroud fell into a remarkably good situation for a young quarterback in Houston and that no one seemed to comprehend that. Watching the Houston games, Stroud had all the time in the world to throw to receivers who were largely wide open. That's not to say he didn't make some good plays on his own, but I certainly wasn't watching a guy who was throwing his receivers open or who was getting it done despite being under constant pressure.
So far, so good, but we need to see how he does under some adversity.
when do they talk about Lamar. Or they know it’s BS and they avoid it
Goff had the best line and second best running game in the league and had a decent year… no shit? lol
Gents…How can you say you’d contemplate Love over Purdy? Brock was a possession away from a Super Bowl. Let’s stop acting like he’s not important, if it was easy, Trey Lance would have worked out.
Herbert has scored the most points through 3 seasons in nfl history 1233. His defense has given up the most points in 3 seasons in nfl history 1256.
It is absolutely unreasonable the expectations he has. They would be nowhere near competitive without him.
This is like blaming LeBron for bringing absolute dog teams to the finals. Getting there was the achievement.
Sometimes, good players are just stuck in bad places.
Basically did the dog walking thing…. Been married 8 years now
People say you can’t judge Matt Stafford for losing in Detroit, but Calvin Johnson had a whole hall of fame career under 10 years on Matt Staffords watch and suh on defense was a 3x 1st team all pro and 1x 2nd team all pro for Detroit during Staffords time. People are overrating him a bit I believe because when it comes down to actually vote for the best of the best in league whether it’s the fans/coaches for the probowl or the associated press with the all pro he’s consistently been determined to not be among the best
1:05:00 Kevin Nealon does a classic bit like this about ski trails
Ceruti genuinely brings down the pod. Nobody is doing this "ninja creamy" trend. relax
Stroud shouldn't have gotten any Tier 1 votes. 1 year and if you look at the bad throw % he was 2nd worst in the league
Mahomes defenses werent good? Hes had three future hall of famers on his defense lol
this is the same podcast every year.
how high are Sando's screens? He is craning his neck and looking to the heavens as he reads the screen.
1:25:08 Get a God damn editor. Jesus fucking Christ.
It's sad there is no objective journalism coverage in sports anymore. Same thing with NFL, every article and fan base says every player will break out this upcoming season. No players or teams will regress. Somehow everyone is going to have a career year.
This is the best St. John’s podcast out there