EAGAN, Minn — Packers. Vikings. Week 1 at U.S. Bank Stadium.
We’ll be on-hand for all festivities. Cannot wait to reboot our Gameday Chat. Tune in for all sights, all sounds and all tomfoolery with fellow readers around the country. Always a good time. We’ll discuss anything and everything you’d like all Sunday.
After two midweek clunkers, I’m feeling good about the Sunday slate. Or maybe it’s just the random Blake Bortles jersey I spotted at my layover in Detroit. Either way, let’s get the party started with Jarrett Bailey & Todd Haley of the insightful Pump Fake Podcast. Subscribe to their channel here. You know Haley from his long career coaching in the NFL — from WR coach to Arizona Cardinals’ Super Bowl OC to Kansas City Chiefs head coach to Steelers OC with a year in Cleveland we absolutely touch on. Bailey is an NFL writer at SB Nation and the producer of Behind the Steel Curtain.
We rip through a medley of topics on the cusp of this season.
Aaron Rodgers’ podcast appearance on Not Just Football broke the Internet. He’s saying whatever he wants. Agree with him? Disagree? Bring it on. All of it.
But as a quarterback — 43 years old in December — what does Rodgers have to offer? And what is Pittsburgh’s ceiling?
Bailey has the Tennessee Titans making the playoffs, and explains why.
Haley steers the focus to Robert Saleh. He wants the Titans HC to bring all of his sideline energy as a coordinator to the head job.
Kyler Murray? No, Haley is not quite as bullish.
None of us believe Chicago will make the playoffs. There’s got to be a odd man out in the NFCN.
Which wide receiver did Haley need to convince to embrace blocking? His answer definitely shocked me.
Does he still think about that ‘17 playoff loss to Jacksonville?
C.J. Stroud and the Texans. We’ve got a deep dive live for subscribers. I hit on a few themes covered.
You’ll want to stick around for Haley’s story from the 2018 draft. He was in Cleveland then and, dammit, he tried his best to convince owner Jimmy Haslam to draft Josh Allen. He relives that spring in full.
Super Bowl picks.
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