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Heavy Hands Tonight

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Show Notes

Scott Van Pelt and Stanford Steve Coughlin react to Week 3 of the NFL season. SVP begins by sharing his thoughts on Case Keenum’s incredible performance in the Chicago Bears’ 27-7 Monday Night Football win over the Philadelphia Eagles and the incredible post-game SportsCenter interview with Case and his daughter, Cadence.

The guys then get into the biggest storylines from Week 3, including the Las Vegas Raiders big win over the Saints to improve to 3-0, Brock Purdy’s continued excellence as the San Francisco 49ers improved to 3-0, the bogus roughing the passer call on Chop Robinson in the Miami Dolphins’ loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, the Washington Commanders improbable win over the Seattle Seahawks, Drake Maye’s serious issues to start the year, the Atlanta Falcons’ dominant win over the Green Bay Packers, the Ravens-Cowboys and Rams-Broncos thrillers, the Jacksonville Jaguars’ potential and more.

Plus, how SVP got sandwiched as the Eagles came onto the field in Chicago and Stanford Steve previews College GameDay’s upcoming trip to Iowa City for Ohio State-Iowa. | SVPod

Approx. TIMECODES:

(0:00) Intro

(2:10) Case Keenum story is incredible

(6:44) Bears-Eagles reaction

(12:42) New Orleans next week for MNF!

(18:00) Art of making the card

(20:21) Looking at the 3-0s

(21:28) How about the Raiders!

(22:34) 49ers are FOR REAL

(24:20) What’s happened to Marvin Harrison Jr?

(27:12) Vikings are 3-0 thanks to defense

(29:08) Ravens-Cowboys reaction

(33:36) Rams-Broncos reaction

(38:46) Commanders-Seahawks reaction

(41:09) Falcons-Packers reaction

(44:50) What has happened to Drake Maye?

(47:30) Jaguars are really good

(49:40) What was that Chop Robinson call?

(55:48) Compelling NFL stats

(56:50) CGD is headed for Iowa City!

(59:54) Ohio State-Iowa preview

(1:09:40) Exciting times for Chicago

(1:10:28) Afternoon musings

(1:13:00) MLB playoffs coming up

(1:16:36) SVP got sandwiched by Eagles players

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