NFL Cover Zero: NFL News and Week 5 Previews!

Matt Jones (0:00)

NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and iHeart Podcast.

NFL Cover Zero, it is week five preview. Matt, Drew and Billy are sports here. Hope everybody has enjoyed their week, getting ready for another massive week of NFL football. I say it's massive, it may not be, but people are on by, which is always fun. So you get some teams that have time off. I think the Panthers are off.

Drew Franklin (0:37)

The Chiefs, because I have Kenneth Walker and I need him this week.

Matt Jones (0:40)

Chiefs are off. I have Chuba Hubbard, so that's a problem. By the way, I am just dominating the Fantasy League, Billy. Are you feeling the domination when you look at the scores every week? Had almost 200 points this week.

Ryan Lemond (0:52)

Yeah, we've heard. I am second least point scored in the league, but we're holding on. We're still two and two.

Matt Jones (0:58)

Yeah, four and O and just putting up like dynasty numbers.

Ryan Lemond (1:03)

Well, he went two quarterbacks, two tight ends. It's been quite the strategy.

Matt Jones (1:07)

Well, this is what this is known as the moneyball of fantasy football. I looked at my I looked at my staff and I said, you know, we're going to do this a different way. So like Drake May has not started for me since week one. I'm pulling him back up this week. I let him sit on the bench, let him think about what's been happening.

I'm going to pull him back in the line up, see if he's learned his lesson this week.

Drew Franklin (1:29)

Last week, three of my top four picks were out. So I tapped out, said I'm not going to win. And then I still won. So I mean, mistake on the lake. I don't even know how you show up for our fantasy league.

Matt Jones (1:37)

That's Forrest Wooster.

Drew Franklin (1:39)

I got I got bums out there. All my best players were sitting out and still got a W.

Matt Jones (1:44)

Forrest Wooster has been bad. He's been foosters. He has not done a good job.

Drew Franklin (1:49)

You lost to Michael Pinnix last week.

Ryan Lemond (1:51)

Don't go after Forrest. He had a ton of prep, was ready to go at the draft.

Matt Jones (1:54)

Well, I had no prep and picked... At one point, I had three tight ends on my roster.

Then one of them got hurt, so I cut him. But... And then I made a mistake if I picked up Michael Pittman because he was on my radio show this week. And he was a nice guy. I like... I don't like interviewing athletes, but then when I have one and it's good, I decided we're friends. So I don't know if you know this, B. John Robinson and I are friends.

Drew Franklin (2:18)

Yeah, you're buddies.

Matt Jones (2:19)

And we text a lot.

Drew Franklin (2:20)

He's watching your house this weekend, right?

Matt Jones (2:22)

Our mutual topic is Colgate.

Drew Franklin (2:25)

The school or the toothpaste? The toothpaste.

Matt Jones (2:27)

Because when he did an interview with me, he just had a huge Colgate and a tooth in him.

Drew Franklin (2:34)

So there was some branding involved.

Matt Jones (2:36)

I thought that was a really funny note. Well, when you get these people, they are there sponsored by somebody. So you have to find a way to ask a question about Colgate. We know from the Super Bowl with Ollie Pop and all the others, so with him, I was like, what am I going to ask this guy about Colgate? There's nothing about toothpaste that's easy to talk about. And then he shows up on the screen and he's got a huge can of toothpaste and a tooth.

And I was like, Bichon, that's a nice tooth.

Drew Franklin (3:05)

Good icebreaker. That's better than being like, oh, toothpaste, does Aaron Rodgers have bad breath? He seems like he would have bad breath.

Matt Jones (3:11)

So point being, we've become very good friends. Well, then I had Michael Pittman on Monday.

He was doing like some sort of camp where he was like, with special needs kids and he was very, very nice. And then it came out today, he's hurting out for a bunch of games. Maybe our first ever Matt Myron curse.

Drew Franklin (3:26)

He's taking the curse to a new network.

Matt Jones (3:28)

Yeah, so I just, I've already hurt one player in the season.

Drew Franklin (3:32)

Well, don't interview anyone else. It'd be a hard show to do, but you don't want to risk it.