Coach's Week 3 Top 3 Games | Fury vs. Joshua & Vlad's $500M Quote — Afternoon Drive with The Coach Thursday 9/24/26

Coach starts with the Falcons at Packers on Thursday Night Football. Michael Penix Jr. takes over for Cooper Rush after Atlanta's 0-2 start, and every best bet on the morning's Coach and Company went Atlanta's way. For Coach, the game is really about Green Bay. He argues Jordan Love is playing well below his level at a 52% completion rate, and that the Packers were a Jets collapse away from 0-2. He still thinks an "adequate" Green Bay can win a wide-open NFC North. He also points to the injury wave reshaping teams across the league.

Next come Coach's top three games of Week 3:

1. Patriots at Jaguars: a pair of 1-1 teams with big AFC hopes.
2. Ravens vs. Cowboys: played at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Coach has pointed questions for Lamar Jackson and for Cowboys Universe.
3. Raiders at Saints: a 2-0 Las Vegas team with Kirk Cousins starting and rookie Fernando Mendoza waiting, against Tyler Shough's Saints, who beat Baltimore last week.

He then answers super chats on Shough as a breakout QB, whether the Cowboys' defense is good enough, the Bills against the 0-2 Chargers, and whether Cousins should keep the job.

The second half moves off the field. Fury vs. Joshua is official for Dec. 11 at Principality Stadium in Cardiff on Netflix. Coach covers the reported roughly £200M, 50-50 purse split, Turki Alalshikh's backing, Eddie Hearn's cut, and why he's watching the spectacle rather than complaining that both fighters are past their prime. Last comes Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s "they paid me for what I already did" quote. Coach sets it against the owners' proposed salary-cap system and the reported five-year / 15%-of-payroll contract limits, and explains Shohei Ohtani's deferrals. He argues that under those rules, Vlad's deal would be one of the last of its kind.

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Episode Timestamps Time Segment 00:00 Pre-show 03:05 Welcome and today's three topics 04:40 TNF: Falcons at Packers, Penix takes over 07:45 Jordan Love at 52%: this game is about Green Bay 09:10 The NFL's injury problem 10:16 Top 3 No. 1: Patriots at Jaguars 11:19 Top 3 No. 2: Ravens vs. Cowboys 13:54 Top 3 No. 3: Raiders at Saints 16:04 Super chats: Tyler Shough, the Cowboys D, Bills by 25, Kirk Cousins 22:20 Topic 2: Fury vs. Joshua is official 29:50 Topic 3: Vlad Guerrero Jr.'s $500M quote 31:30 MLB's salary-cap fight and Ohtani's deferrals 37:05 Chat shout-outs and building the brand 39:25 Schedule and sign-off

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