The Rundown Take
NFL Week 2 Reaction: App Launch Day, Raiders Grief, and a Dead Man Enters the Chat
Devin opened the Wednesday NFL show solo off a 12-hour shift, Larry Frank Jr. rolled in from work, and Melvin "G5" Bratton crashed the party on his infamous Dollar Tree phone — because this wasn't just a picks show. This was the day the U Talk Podcast app officially hit the app stores, six years and 23,000 subscribers after Devin started with five.
Key Takeaways
- The app is live on Apple and Android — tiers from $3.99 to $9.99, VIP interview access coming, and a party-format show the next night featuring Gators legends Louis Oliver and Errict Rhett, with a DJ on the ones and twos every fifteen minutes.
- Week 2 scorecard: Larry Frank edged Devin by one game, powered by calling Seattle over Pittsburgh while Devin's Saints faith and Denver pick went sideways.
- Devin's Raiders eulogy: Geno "is just a guy" who stares down receivers, Chip Kelly's play calling got roasted, and the Ashton Jeanty bust talk got a firm pump-the-brakes — there's no line and no weapons around him.
- Bratton's film-room gem: the sophomore jinx is real because NFL coordinators pull the college tape of whoever beat you and run that defense back — see Lamar's year two, and watch out for every hot rookie's encore.
- Week 3 picks split on just four games — including Devin riding his Raiders in Washington and taking Cincinnati's weapons over Minnesota, while Frank rolled with "Discount Double Check" and the Eagles.
Petey Pablo and Chocolate Thunder
The storytelling segment was an all-timer. At the Magic City 40th anniversary event, Devin confidently greeted David Banner as Petey Pablo — loudly, repeatedly, in front of the man's table — and the wife's photo request did not survive the encounter. Larry Frank countered with the receipts on Bratton's own hall of shame: announcing on mic that Chocolate Thunder was in the building at the bash, years after Darryl Dawkins had passed. "D really announced that a dead man entered the chat."
The Goat's PSA
Between roasts, Bratton got real: thirty minutes of walking, three days a week — "too many people checking out of here, man." He also broke down why the mid-September firings at UCLA and Virginia Tech hand rival recruiters a wrecking ball ("you don't even know who the next head coach is"), praised Mike Evans as the standard-raiser in Tampa's locker room, and rendered his Dolphins verdict on Mike McDaniel in one word: expeditiously.
"Who ever thought, man — a little country boy from a small town got an app that says U Talk. Started from nothing. It ain't no us without you, baby."
Gators in the building tomorrow night. Canes-Gators recap Sunday morning. Go get the app.