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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to you between the horns. I'm Miles Simmons.

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Speaker 1: I'm with Marco far It is Wednesday, September nineteenth. It

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Speaker 1: is about eleven am Pacific time here, and the Rams

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Speaker 1: are two and o after a pretty dominating win over

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals thirty four to zero. JB. Long hit

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Speaker 1: me with a stat nugget. That's the first time the

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Speaker 1: Rams have been two and oh since two thousand and one?

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Speaker 1: Has it been that long? Yeah? Man, two and two

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Speaker 1: and wow? Wow rarefied air in Okay, But here's what

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Speaker 1: I come back with every time. One, I know it's

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Speaker 1: fourteen and two going to the Super Bowl, and then

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Speaker 1: we don't have to talk about the rest. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's to me. I hear two and o, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's a great thing to have happened. Obviously, you

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Speaker 1: would rather be two and oh than one and one. However,

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Speaker 1: I always think about in players and coaches always talk

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Speaker 1: about this too. You break the season up into quarters,

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Speaker 1: and you want to be three and one or four

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Speaker 1: and oz in each quarter, correct, And so I think

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Speaker 1: about the fact that, okay, the twenty sixteen Rams were

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Speaker 1: also three and one, so okay, fair enough. You know,

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Speaker 1: you start out two and oh, that's lovely, but like

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Speaker 1: keep it going. Oh yeah, I mean look at two

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Speaker 1: and o's great, And there are teams that are going

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Speaker 1: to start oh and two and turn it around and

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Speaker 1: teams that start two and oh that are gonna go

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Speaker 1: the opposite way. It's the league. I'm just saying, it's

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Speaker 1: been a long time since a two and oh start. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm marveling at. Yes, yeah, I have an

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Speaker 1: entire teenager that's been like that, grew since the last

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Speaker 1: time the Rams started two and do You don't know

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Speaker 1: how old I was. No, I don't want to know,

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Speaker 1: because you're gonna bring it back around the me. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: save that for the end. Don't crush me at the end.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's fine, um, But also you talk about

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Speaker 1: marveling at something, I am still marveling at the fact

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Speaker 1: that the Rams allowed only five first downs in that game.

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Speaker 1: Why why what do you mean? Why? Why? Why are

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Speaker 1: you surprised or marveling? I mean, look, Arizona is going

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Speaker 1: to struggle. We know this. The Cols are going to struggle.

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Speaker 1: So same thing with the Chargers and Buffalo. Watching that videotape,

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Speaker 1: anybody that plays Buffalo right now is going to look

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Speaker 1: pretty good. Yes, yeah, I agree. They're struggling on both sides.

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Speaker 1: I think the head coach took over play calling duties. Yes,

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Speaker 1: in the second half, yea. On the defensive side, one

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Speaker 1: of their quarterbacks quit, right, there's something going on in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: But I mean I think the Chargers and the Rams

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Speaker 1: handled down opponents like you should handle down opponents. They

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Speaker 1: throttled them and didn't give them a chance to get up.

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Speaker 1: You've said this many times on this podcast. Good teams

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Speaker 1: keep losing, teams losing, and that's exactly what we saw.

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Speaker 1: I mean, But I mean it is exemplary when you

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Speaker 1: shut out anybody, because I think in the pay league,

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Speaker 1: on the Sunday League, you should be able to at

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Speaker 1: least cross midfield to at least to at least kick

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Speaker 1: a field goal. That's what I'm saying, Yeah, not to

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Speaker 1: get shut out. So yeah, I mean it's it's a

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Speaker 1: great defense. They did exactly what they were supposed to

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Speaker 1: do against offenses like that or quarterbacks like Sam Bradford. Yes, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: But I still think when you look at it and

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Speaker 1: it's five first downs, three first downs against the first

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Speaker 1: team defense that was in for three and a half quarters.

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Speaker 1: That's that's something you know. As bad as the twenty

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Speaker 1: sixteen offense was, for example, we didn't see a game

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Speaker 1: where they only got five first downs. They were still

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Speaker 1: getting to double times. This is true. I mean we

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Speaker 1: saw this a ton. I know. Yeah, fourth down, get

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Speaker 1: saw the Cardinals defense do this a few times, Like

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Speaker 1: fourth down weight the Rams are going to stay on

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Speaker 1: the field and try to get the first down. It's

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Speaker 1: over for you. It's the torture continues. Yes, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: But I want to stick with this defense at least

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Speaker 1: to start, because when we have a performance like this,

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Speaker 1: this really is now just living up to expectations, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: I would say so. I mean Sue and Donald are

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Speaker 1: that pairing is everything we thought it would be. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's punishing, it's it's skill on one side, it's

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Speaker 1: So it's just been havoc between those two and Michael

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Speaker 1: Brocker's is doing exactly what he should do playing alongside

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Speaker 1: those guys. Whenever you see a one on one, feast

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Speaker 1: defensive end. The problem is just beats guys faster, right,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that's it. But anywhere else

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Speaker 1: Michael Brockers would be like, he'd be the guy here.

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Speaker 1: You're you're next to the guy, but still good. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: you know what's funny? You bring up Sue. And somebody

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Speaker 1: tweeted this to me actually this morning, and the tweet

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Speaker 1: was basically, is it just me or is Sue going

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Speaker 1: through the motions out there on the field. I said,

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Speaker 1: it's just you. Yeah, he's going through the motions all right,

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Speaker 1: the motions of throwing this guy this way, took the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: taking up double tacking, double teams, not moving, being just

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Speaker 1: being mean, right, I mean just mean and nasty to

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Speaker 1: where I mean guys don't even want to mess with him, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean opposing the offensive lineman. He'll give you the

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Speaker 1: look and just there's just nothing coming back, right, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean? Yeah, yes, don't want to make

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Speaker 1: him mad. No, of course, you don't want to make

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Speaker 1: him mad, just like you don't want to make Aaron

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Speaker 1: Donald mad. Yeah, it could be bad, It could be

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Speaker 1: bad for you. But but they but they're playing great football.

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Speaker 1: They're playing discipline football is what I like. When it's

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Speaker 1: it's not their opportunity to make plays, they're they're consistent

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Speaker 1: within the framework of the defense. So guys like Corey Littleton,

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Speaker 1: Samson Ebcom off the edge can make plays. They're discipline

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Speaker 1: and they're making plays. I really like the Samson Abcom

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Speaker 1: trying to confuse that rookie center by taking Corey Littleton

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Speaker 1: to be like a concerted effort to fortify the middle

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Speaker 1: least survey and get the ball out. Well, that's going

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Speaker 1: And that's why you're seeing these quarterbacks rush throws and

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Speaker 1: Sam Bradford only ends up averaging I think three point

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Speaker 1: the throne with a depleted army. You've seen those Game

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Speaker 1: inside and all you hear is boom. Yes, well it's inevitable.

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Speaker 1: Eventually they're gonna bust through and it's all over. You

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Speaker 1: could see that in Sam Bradford's face, like if I

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Speaker 1: Even if I do get the ball out quick, I'm

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Speaker 1: that's and that's the way that game went. Sort of random,

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Speaker 1: off topic, maybe not random. Do you think we will

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Speaker 1: of that game it was a blowout. You had what

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Speaker 1: one drive left. I thought that's where you put the

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Speaker 1: youngster in rosen In. Yeah, all you're running the screens

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Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks get out there and get their feet wet. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 1: But it also could have been I don't know, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to say an issue, but just something where

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Speaker 1: Sam Bradford could maybe get into a little bit of rhythm,

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Speaker 1: even if it is against that second they've scored six

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Speaker 1: points to Marco in two games. Like, that's really bad.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get all I can out of that. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that way. Well, you also had David Johnson who only

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Speaker 1: a nice job to me of just stopping the run,

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Speaker 1: rush the passer. I think they've done that against two

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Speaker 1: good backs and Marshawn Lynch and then David job absolutely,

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Speaker 1: look David Johnson, I mean he made some plays when frankly,

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Speaker 1: you see this Ben move, you see the little jump

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Speaker 1: cut to get out. But it was a road to nowhere. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you know, all roads led to a white jersey. And

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Speaker 1: that's what we talked about with consistent defense starting up

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Speaker 1: the middle, with the bigs letting everything kind of clear

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Speaker 1: itself out for the linebackers. It's a clear path to

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Speaker 1: that's that's just a mark of a great defense. And then,

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Speaker 1: you guy's gonna get their first, but guaranteed one of

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Speaker 1: them is yeah, yeah, And it's it has to do

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Speaker 1: and I think Wade Phillips has done a really nice

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Speaker 1: not necessarily gotten home and brought down the quarterback, probably

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Speaker 1: as much as I think everybody would have thought they would.

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Speaker 1: But that's because quarterbacks are getting rid of the ball

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Speaker 1: Remique Wilson has been exactly what we thought he was

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Speaker 1: The way the Rams responded in that situation I thought

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Speaker 1: that's amazing. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's something that Sean McVay

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Speaker 1: Mark Barron. Okay, Mark Barren steps a pass from and

423
00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,640
Speaker 1: might have been Drew Stanton in at that point. Anyway,

424
00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:06,600
Speaker 1: I could go look at this. I just want a

425
00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,840
Speaker 1: Peterson was running wild before the Rams met him in

426
00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,080
Speaker 1: London and it stopped. And was that the game Carson

427
00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,080
Speaker 1: Palmer broke his arm. Yes, yeah, that When you see

428
00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,479
Speaker 1: stuff like that, it takes your soul. But this was different.

429
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:23,639
Speaker 1: This wasn't your your franchise quarterback getting spatulated off the field.

430
00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,160
Speaker 1: This was they ran Tad Gurley twice at US, Yes,

431
00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:31,800
Speaker 1: scored eight points, yes, and broke you in half. Yeah, no, exactly. Well,

432
00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:33,879
Speaker 1: I did get this wrong. So it was a punt

433
00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,239
Speaker 1: as I'm now looking at this from last year. Oh

434
00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,399
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, I was right. Sorry. So the Rams

435
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:43,119
Speaker 1: had scored already right before, right after the two minute warning,

436
00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:46,399
Speaker 1: when Jared ran that read option in nine yards for

437
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,199
Speaker 1: a touchdown on the right side. So then very first

438
00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,399
Speaker 1: play of the ensuing drive, Drew Stanton throws a pass

439
00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,840
Speaker 1: to John Brown, He's intercepted by Mark Baron. Rams get

440
00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,600
Speaker 1: back on the field and Greg's are only kicked the

441
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,320
Speaker 1: field goal. It's a fifty three yard field goal. And

442
00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,520
Speaker 1: that is a sequence that kind of takes your soul

443
00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:07,199
Speaker 1: because again, yeah, it's ten points within the last minute

444
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,359
Speaker 1: of that first half. This was I mean, okay, to me,

445
00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,720
Speaker 1: that's like pulling ahead in the Tour de France, right, yeah,

446
00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,320
Speaker 1: I mean that's just like, God, I gotta catch this

447
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 1: guy where I can't. Yeah, this was a knockout shot. Okay, Yeah,

448
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,640
Speaker 1: this was I mean straight on the chin, good night, Irene,

449
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 1: because because he's only going to recharge, and I think

450
00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,240
Speaker 1: the Rams were to receive the second half kickoff, right,

451
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:35,160
Speaker 1: Uh no, no, yes, okay, number mind. Yeah, well he's

452
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 1: only going to get stronger from the right. Yeah, no,

453
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,560
Speaker 1: you're right, because at that time, you saw what was

454
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,040
Speaker 1: going on with the Cardinals offense. They had two first

455
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 1: downs in the entire first half, So that tells you

456
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 1: something punch. Here comes the rising tide and we can't

457
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 1: stop it. No, they couldn't stop it at all. But

458
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,440
Speaker 1: that was really good to see. And then Joejoe Natson

459
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,640
Speaker 1: about that filling in for Pharaoh Cooper. He only had

460
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 1: one opportunity to return a kickoff, which is kind of funny.

461
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,560
Speaker 1: But then when he gets back there on those punts,

462
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,160
Speaker 1: he has that sixty yard return, but he also just

463
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 1: kept having returns of over ten yards, ends up averaging

464
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 1: twenty two yards per return on those punts. And at

465
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 1: some point I just kept thinking, like, man, isn't the

466
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 1: definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over

467
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,440
Speaker 1: again and expecting a different result. Why were they still

468
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,960
Speaker 1: kicking to him? Well, I'm sure if you're looking back there,

469
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 1: you don't know much about Joe Joe Natson if you're

470
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, But if you get a sixty, if somebody

471
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 1: returns at sixty yards on you and has consistently been

472
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 1: getting twelve to fifteen yards on a return, don't you stop. Well,

473
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,960
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they're well. Look, Andy Lee is

474
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 1: a great punter. Yeah. Before Johnny Hecker took over in

475
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 1: the NFC West and the NFC, Andy Lee was the

476
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,440
Speaker 1: ultimate weapon. Yeah, the field flippers. So I would always

477
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 1: trust that guy to put it down the field, and

478
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,160
Speaker 1: I would hope my guys can cover the team wasn't

479
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: getting into I guess I would say it. I wouldn't

480
00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,680
Speaker 1: take smoke off Andy Lee because my guy aren't covering.

481
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,639
Speaker 1: I get. I'm not necessarily saying it's Andy Lee's fault.

482
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 1: I'm saying from a perspective of the top down. Yeah,

483
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 1: so aren't you don't you have to change your strategy

484
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 1: if somebody is doing that to you, Not that it

485
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: benefited the Rams, So hey, that's great angle punt, sure.

486
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 1: I mean if you have something else, if you have

487
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,360
Speaker 1: a guy that's hurting you, I mean I would try

488
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 1: to get the punter to put it between the numbers

489
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 1: of the hash or numbers on the sideline try. But

490
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 1: maybe he couldn't get it there that day. I don't know.

491
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 1: Maybe so we're not there with the carcase. I don't

492
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:31,120
Speaker 1: know what he can do. But yeah, it's good for

493
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 1: Jojoe Natson and the return team that they can design

494
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:39,200
Speaker 1: and scheme and get holes on just about anybody. If

495
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: that's Pharaoh Cooper, I expect the same thing to happen,

496
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 1: maybe even better it's an All Pro. Yeah, it's gonna

497
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 1: say it probably should be better. Joejoe's had a phenomenal game.

498
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 1: He had a phenomenal game filling in for an All Pro.

499
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 1: Now imagine when an All Pro would do in that

500
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 1: same situation. Yes, yeah, maybe we'll see the next time

501
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 1: the Rams play the Cardinal. A ten yard average, that's

502
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: exactly what you want out of your punt returner. A

503
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 1: first down per return, that's all you need. If you

504
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: want to bust one, so be it. But at least

505
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: the bare minium you have to get a first down. Yes,

506
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: and he was doing that very consistently, doing doing even

507
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: better than Let's turn it to the offense though, because

508
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: we talked a lot about this, but this game, but

509
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: it was still a thirty four to nothing game. Yeah,

510
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,880
Speaker 1: and you gotta get you get thirty four points. Yeah,

511
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 1: that's a lot it is. Let me show you. So

512
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 1: I'm in the locker room after the game, right and

513
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 1: I'm walking in and Roger Staffold is behind me, and

514
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: Whitworth is kind of flank I mean, Havenstein's in front

515
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: of me. It's just like a bunch of trees walking

516
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 1: and I'm like, good game, good game, And Roger looks

517
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: at me and goes, do you know any players we had?

518
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 1: And it was the way he said to him, like

519
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 1: was that a question? Are you like telling me? I'm like, um,

520
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll check, and I said I went

521
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: back and looked, and I went to Roger. I said,

522
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 1: you guys had seventy five players, and he goes, I know.

523
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: And he was leaning back in his chair like, man,

524
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 1: I am exhausted. But he had a look on his

525
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 1: face like you'd see a guy in training camp. So

526
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: think about this. Not playing preseason and getting into shape

527
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,919
Speaker 1: in the regular season. These guys are actually rounding into

528
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 1: form as we're looking at them. And they scored thirty

529
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 1: four points, so imagine what they're going to be when

530
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: they're fully warmed up and ready to go. Wow, that's interesting. Yeah, yeah,

531
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 1: they're they're getting better from this point. I thought it

532
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,679
Speaker 1: was funny I saw him asking with the same question.

533
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,919
Speaker 1: I said, you know, put this offensive performance in perspective

534
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 1: thirty four to nothing. He goes, well, there's a lot

535
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: of things we can clean up where and he's like, yeah,

536
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things we can do to get better.

537
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, man, that's scary for everybody else.

538
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,639
Speaker 1: Good for us, but scary for everyone else. But yeah,

539
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:42,160
Speaker 1: seventy five plays, getting your cardio and getting better from

540
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 1: that point, man, Wow, you can make the games really easy,

541
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: easier than what they've looked like so far. Well, look,

542
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 1: I don't think that first one against Oakland looked that easy.

543
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,320
Speaker 1: The second half looked better the second half, but even

544
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 1: it and that this one looked difficult. But early on

545
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 1: in that game, you could see that the Rams are

546
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: trying to get into rhythm, they're trying to do different things,

547
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: and it was still tough sledding for Todd Gurley throughout

548
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:11,120
Speaker 1: that game. So it was very clear that the Cardinals

549
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: were like, we're not gonna let Todd Gurley run the

550
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 1: ball right, and like if you do that, it's like, okay, Well,

551
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 1: Jared Goff is going to have a near career passing

552
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: yards day because he gets three hundred and fifty four

553
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: one office career high of three fifty five. Brandon Cooks

554
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 1: is gonna get one hundred and fifty nine yards receiving.

555
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: So it truly is a pick your poison with the

556
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: Rams offense. I don't know about you, man, I was

557
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 1: having a blast watching those receivers make those catches. Oh heck, yeah,

558
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I look, I don't like to laugh at

559
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: other people's misfortune, but I meant, well, you're you're a

560
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,400
Speaker 1: mean guy. You've never been on You've never been tortured

561
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: on defense. That's why. Oh I've never been out there

562
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: against like Jim Kelly and the k gun to where

563
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: it's just torture. No, but let me just go ahead

564
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: and score and kill us already. Let me tell you

565
00:26:55,080 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: about kaya hugg and It's offense back. That was a

566
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: bear man hammered all the way down the field by

567
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: Emmett Smith and the Dallas Cowboys, the Torgerson guys. I

568
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: don't even know where I'm kidding. No, I mean, look,

569
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: it just Usually I don't like to like gloat or not,

570
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: like I feel bad for defenders, but I know what

571
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 1: they're going through. Okay, this time it was just a pathetic.

572
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: It was just too artistic, Like, wow, did you see

573
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 1: where Jared put that? Did you see what Robert was

574
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 1: just Robert Woods catch on the last line? Did you

575
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: see the route Brandon Cooks just ran man? I mean

576
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 1: all you saw at the end of these routes where

577
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: Cardinals doing this? What am I supposed to do? Like, hey,

578
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: I thought, okay, yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, it was

579
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: just amazing. The one guy that fought back is the

580
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 1: one guy you expect to fight back, and that was

581
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,400
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson. He made one play, yeah, one one play

582
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 1: against the past. Everything else was oh my god. It

583
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: was just terrible. Well that's that's the thing about this game.

584
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,400
Speaker 1: The Rams really could have scored more points. Yeah. When

585
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 1: so when Andrew Witworth talks about we have some stuff

586
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: to clean up, you get those two fourth down fourth

587
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: and shorts and the Rams don't convert those, yea, and

588
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: the Vey is not happy about them yet. One that

589
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 1: you do, and that's the Todd Grilely touchdown at the

590
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: end of the first half. But also Jared Goff throwing

591
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: that interception down there in the red zone where you

592
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: know what. And he didn't necessarily say this, but I

593
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: think it if the Rams have Greg zerline in that game,

594
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,360
Speaker 1: I don't think Jared Goff tries what he tried. Yeah,

595
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: you might kick the field goal there. Yeah, yeah, I'm

596
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: not trying to sneak one past Patrick Peterson like home.

597
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: Nobody does. That was a phenomenal play. You got a

598
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: blitz that got home, so you have to give them credit.

599
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: Right then Jared Goff gets out of it. Yeah. Wow,

600
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: Not only does it get out of it, he spins

601
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: out and he frees himself. Yeah, so there's a chance

602
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: to at least move the football, either running or throwing.

603
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: You have a chance. They're offensively so you get out

604
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: of trouble. And then Patrick Peterson to recover and make

605
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: the play that he did. Just tip your cab, Patrick

606
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 1: Peterson's Patrick Peterson things. Get the ball out of Todd

607
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: Gurley's hand way back when they played Seat last year. Yeah,

608
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: they said it was a Todd thing. No, that was

609
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: an earl thing coming across the field and getting the

610
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: ball out there. Good play, safety, great play, corner. Yeah. Yeah,

611
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: and I think we can get Patrick Peterson credit absolutely

612
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: the best corners in the league. Yeah. I bet he

613
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: slept well Sunday night. Yeah, they work him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

614
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: But it's it's those kinds of plays I think where

615
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: the Rams do have some space to clean those things up. Yeah,

616
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: and everyone's gonna have a wrinkle. For the Rams and

617
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: Sean and for Sean McVay, they're always going to have something.

618
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 1: I see something. We can take this away, but just

619
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: remember he's he's he's a play ahead of you. Yeah.

620
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: If you react this way, he's gonna go here. If

621
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: you react that way, he's going to go there. Yeah.

622
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: So I mean stopping Todd Gurley early, it's just okay,

623
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: that's that's just part of the fun. See if you

624
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: can do it for four straight quarters, right, I doubt it. Yeah. Yeah,

625
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: And that's that's the way the Rams are going to operate.

626
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: You know. I heard this once and I think it's true.

627
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: Throw to get the lead and then you run to

628
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: keep it fair enough, you know. Yeah, especially the way

629
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: the rules are in the league nowadays. You know, when

630
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: you want assault and bleed the clock out, that's a

631
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: good way to do it in the second half is

632
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: by running the ball, and it also allows you to

633
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,959
Speaker 1: really kind of bludgeon defenders and make them that much

634
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: more tired after you got to try to stop that

635
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: workhorse in Todd Gurley for the last fifteen minutes of

636
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: the game. Speaking of bludgeon man, So we did a

637
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: lot of talking about Kim Dchi, right powerlifter. Austin Blythe

638
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,719
Speaker 1: absolutely buried him on a few plays. Yeah, he did

639
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,479
Speaker 1: some of the biggest runs Todd had, I mean popped

640
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: on that side. Yea. And not only did he block,

641
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: he pancake the guy. Yeah yeah, I mean he's better

642
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,719
Speaker 1: than average. We said he could be a starter anywhere

643
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: in the league. Well I guess we have to include here. Yeah. Yeah,

644
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: Well he's proved that. And it's interesting now that Jamon

645
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: Brown is back as if this recording has not been

646
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: moved from the exemption list to the active roster. But

647
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: I sort of expect that that would be the case,

648
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: especially since the Rams currently have two open spots on

649
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: the fifty three. But it's not necessarily anything Jamon Brown

650
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: did or did not do. But Austin Blyth's play has

651
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 1: made this a conversation where who are the Rams going

652
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: to put at right guard? And that speaks to Austin

653
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: Blythe and the way he's performed. He's been the two

654
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: games have been great run and pass. I mean when

655
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: he's covered up in an obvious passing situation and it's

656
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: one on one with Blythe and this guy, he absolutely

657
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: stones people. I mean he looks good at doing it.

658
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: So it is what it is. It's like Sam Shields.

659
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: If you have Jamon Brown, a healthy starter on the bench,

660
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: what a luxury if you lose a guy plug him in. Yes, yeah,

661
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: it's a good problem to have. He's not coming back

662
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: from injury, right, Yeah, he's healthy, ready to go, and

663
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: I bet he's chopping at the bit. So that's another

664
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: great problem to have. Yeah, it is. And the nice

665
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: thing about Austin Blythe is that I think you can

666
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: plug him in in any of those interior spots. Say

667
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: something happens to Saffled or then it's sold it. Well,

668
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: I get where you're going, but I'm not saying it.

669
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: If is what I why does he put that in

670
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: the universe? Man, I get where you're going. It's a

671
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: nice safety valve. You don't have to save anybody if

672
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: you in a pinch, you can always slide a guy in.

673
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: That's that's what I'm saying. Left in a pinch, thank you,

674
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: We know what can go in. Then you can then

675
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: slot Jamon Brown back at right guard absolutely if need

676
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: be yes, And you still have Brian Allen that's hanging around,

677
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: Yes you do. Yeah, and Joe Noboom as a swing tackle.

678
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: You know you may need to like enroll him in

679
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: like a UFC fight school. Brian Allen he just needs

680
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: to fight. Well, he got to play a little bit

681
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: in this last year. He needs to play more or

682
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: just not because he's better, just he needs to play.

683
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: He's that kind of guy. Needs to get that all out. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

684
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: we had. He got seven snaps in at the end

685
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: of the game. Um, And I asked Sean McVay about

686
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: it the other day and he said that, you know,

687
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: Brian Allen looked good. He looked at how we expect

688
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: him to look. So that's that's something. He got seven

689
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: plays and I bet he got a half dozen snaps.

690
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: I'm talking about bones. Oh yeah, yeah, he's I love

691
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: the way he plays. I do he plays for keeps.

692
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: He's he's the miniature version I don't know if you

693
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: know this guy. He's a miniature version of Kyle Turley.

694
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: I know the name Kyle Turley was. He was the

695
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: resident psycho. Oh yeah, but played great. I mean he

696
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: backed off. He backed you off with intimidation. Okay, yeah,

697
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: I mean you just had to give this guy space

698
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: because he's playing for keeps. This isn't this isn't a

699
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: game to him. Yeah, that's how Allan plays. Okay, yeah, Oh.

700
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 1: I like that about Brian all solutely. And the other

701
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: thing too, is that he does have the advantage of

702
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: coming from a pro style system where he was at

703
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: Michigan State. I've talked to Aaron Kromer about this, and

704
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: you can tell that he had that in his mentality

705
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: or what have you when he got to the Rams.

706
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, he knew how to learn and pick

707
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: up that kind of playbook. I love it when the

708
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: quarterbacks hands are under center or under Brian Allens he

709
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: is physical. But when you go to shotgun it's the

710
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: same thing. Some guys lose a little bit when it's

711
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: a shotgun snap because you're either thinking about it or

712
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: their body position change is the ump is still there

713
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: no matter where the quarterback is That's what I like

714
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: about him. The same thing with Sully. Yeah, yeah, Sully,

715
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: it doesn't change depending on where the quarterback is. The

716
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: other center is a little bit different. Hu. Well, it's

717
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: something to think about, I think as they go forward.

718
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: One thing I do want to bring up to since

719
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: this happened in this particular game with Sean McVeigh going

720
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: for it more. You know, on those he went for

721
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,960
Speaker 1: three fourth downs. You also had the two point conversions,

722
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: and he was asked about this on Monday in this

723
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: press conference. Then he said, yeah, you know, I might

724
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: be a little more willing to go for it in

725
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: certain situations based on that success and the fact that

726
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 1: the Rams did well in those kind of situations, especially

727
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,280
Speaker 1: the two point conversions. Do you like that Well, it depends.

728
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: And I asked him about this before the Coaches Show.

729
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: It wasn't at Pittsburgh at one point that was going

730
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: for two part of their game player and they I

731
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: think everybody tried it and then they went away from it. So,

732
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: I mean, if seven points as a to eight, you

733
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: know guaranteed you get the extra point, or there's a

734
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: chance you could miss the two point conversion. I'd rather

735
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: go with the place kicker. Just get the guaranteed point.

736
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 1: If you need it, you have it. Yeah. I don't

737
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: think you need to, you know, overkill. I don't. I

738
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 1: don't know that you need to overkill either. Yeah, I

739
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: think in certain situations it's probably good. Maybe if you're

740
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 1: trying to go up two touchdowns as opposed to just

741
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: take the lead, you know what I mean. Right, if

742
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: you need to, absolutely if you buy the card, if

743
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: you have a chance to, like you said, bury them

744
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: a two score game or turn a two score game

745
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: into a three score game, go for it. Yeah, if

746
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,959
Speaker 1: you got the game in hand. But I mean, save

747
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: that stuff. This is just my opinion. Save that stuff.

748
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: Like if you know you can just keep hitting two

749
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: point conversions on this football team, save that for a

750
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: message team when you've got somebody to pay back. Okay,

751
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, this league is all

752
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: about what getting better and getting guys fired. That's just

753
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: the way it goes. Wow. So I've never heard that before,

754
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,919
Speaker 1: but that is so true. If you have a chance

755
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: to bury a franchise, that's when you do it. Absolutely interesting. Yeah,

756
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,280
Speaker 1: if I can embarrass you enough in your own stadium

757
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: to get you fired, well you just you've beaten them

758
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: for the next five years on that play. Why not.

759
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: It's kind of like what Atlanta did when they went

760
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 1: up forty two to nothing in twenty sixteen. Keep the

761
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: hammer down. Yeah, you've seen it before. Yeah, yeah, all right,

762
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: So let's update some the injuries roster moves. So Ficken

763
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: Sam Ficken is back for Greg's the air line. I

764
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: think everybody kind of expected that once their line went down,

765
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. We'll see how long Greg will

766
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: be out. McVay said it's going to be at least

767
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: a few weeks, So I don't know if that means,

768
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: you know, the middle of October is a target date

769
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: or maybe the end of October. Well, we'll see as

770
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: things keep happening. The Rams did wave Brandon allan quarterback,

771
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: and then safety Isaiah Johnson. I think it was Tom

772
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: pell Sorrow reported from the NFL network that if Alan

773
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: clears waivers, which we will know in a couple of hours,

774
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: then he's a candidate to go back on the Rams

775
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,799
Speaker 1: practice squad. Interest. Yes, so that that's interesting, especially because

776
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: the Rams now are down to two quarterbacks on their

777
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: roster and practice squads since they cut Luis Perez and

778
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: Tameric Hemmingway from the practice squad yesterday as well. I'd

779
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: like to keep Alan tethered to this football team. Yeah,

780
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: any way possible? Um, yeah, because I think there's something there. Okay, yeah,

781
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: so I'm sure they probably feel the same way too.

782
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: But at some point, you know, you were carrying too

783
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: many quarterbacks. You wore that. I don't think there's any

784
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: reason to carry four quarterbacks in the regular season. So

785
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: something had to give there, I said Johnson. Look, he

786
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: I think he's a good safety and I thought he

787
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: played well. So if not here, then someplace else. Yeah,

788
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: at least he's coming off a good game. Yeah. I honestly,

789
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: Cleveland could be a place where he goes with familiarity

790
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: with Greg Williams. There'sthing like that, yes, and that defense

791
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: is playing well over there. They played tomorrow night against

792
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: the Jets. Oh boy, who you gotten that? Oh? I

793
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: don't pick games, you know, I don't pick games. I

794
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: always don't games. Come on, No, that should be a

795
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: fun matchup. Though. Maybe those beer maybe those beer fridges

796
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: will finally open in Cleveland. Look, they have a lot

797
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: of talent in Cleveland. Miles Garrett is playing Oh my god,

798
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: it's like a freaking house a fire man. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,

799
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: that's the guy you're gonna have to account for. Yes, yeah,

800
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to worry about him. If you're an

801
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, can react your day. Yes, yeah, for sure.

802
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,760
Speaker 1: RAMS don't play them until next year though. Um, another

803
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: guy that I want to bring up, RAMS did add

804
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 1: excuse me, Daryll Williams to the practice squad. And this

805
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: is a different Darryl Williams as an offensive tackle than

806
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: the RAMS cut, than the one the Rams cut who

807
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: they had had since twenty fifteen. This Daryll Williams will

808
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: spend time with San Francisco and is coming out of

809
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: Western Kentucky. So there's one more transaction for right, Yeah,

810
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 1: I mean I would expect there's going to be a

811
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: few more moves at some point. Yes, yeah, the opening

812
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: day roster. I mean, everybody thinks that's the goal, the destination.

813
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: It is for most guys, but these things keep changing. September. Yeah,

814
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: they definitely just all right, so let's call let's talk chargers. Now, sure,

815
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 1: are you used to calling them the LA Chargers? I

816
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,919
Speaker 1: have to really focus on calling them chargers. Yeah, yeah,

817
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 1: because it just rolls off the tongue. The other thing

818
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: San Diego. Yes, that rolls off the tongue. That's what

819
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: you're talking. The reason I don't want to say it

820
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: is it's San Diego. Oh yeah, sorry, so yeah, I

821
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: have to consciously think to say the charger. You're not

822
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 1: the only one though. I mean, like players in the

823
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: locker room post game. I think even Sean McVay had

824
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 1: to like stop themselves and say LA charges And it's

825
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: it's this interesting thing now, you know. I was at

826
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: the Stadium UM in Inglewood yesterday because they were showing

827
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: everybody the latest progress. And I mean, it's a good

828
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: time when you have these two LA teams that are

829
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 1: meeting for one of the first times, and the first

830
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 1: time I should say in the regular season as too,

831
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: at two LA teams. And then the next time that's

832
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: going to happen, it's gonna be in twenty twenty two

833
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 1: at the at the Los Angeles Stadium and Entertainment District UM.

834
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: But right now you look and you see that the

835
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: precast of the concrete where all the seats are going

836
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: in like that, so much of that is done. I

837
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: think they said fifty percent maybe a little bit over

838
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: fifty percent of that is done in the stadium. It

839
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: looks awesome. Yeah, and then they're starting to put the

840
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: canopy over the stadium as well, so that also was

841
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: really cool, just to sort of see that. Usually I

842
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 1: had straight down four or five south when I'm heading home.

843
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: Just this past weekend, I had the concussion study thing.

844
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,760
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry to say, I'm fine. I mean, sorry

845
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: to tell you. It's what they tell me. I'm fine,

846
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: but sure, that's what they say. But no, this time,

847
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: I hit the one oh five going east. Yeah, and

848
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: I hardly ever take the one oh five from the

849
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: four or five, and I caught a shot of the

850
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: stadium from the one. Wow. That is awesome. Yeah, oh man.

851
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I grew up dreaming about professional football.

852
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: I used to drive by the Oakland Coliseum like three

853
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: times a week and just stare at it and just

854
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: dream about it. I mean, I meant, you know, in

855
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: southern California, high school football is a big deal. So

856
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 1: it was morner. Yeah, to build a stadium like that here,

857
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: You're gonna have every kid dreaming about playing in there.

858
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,439
Speaker 1: Oh man, I mean I'm dreaming about playing in there. Yeah,

859
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 1: And I know I can't you know what I mean. Now,

860
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: you just put on a helmet outside before we started.

861
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,720
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that to me, is what a stadium

862
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: is supposed to be. Oh heck, yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah,

863
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: that's where everybody all road should lead to that place

864
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: on game that place, places like US Bank Stadium in Minnesota, yeah,

865
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 1: you know, eight and T Stadium even yeah in Dallas.

866
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:38,760
Speaker 1: Just these big majestic buildings that boy, they're just beautiful.

867
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: And the Minnesota Stadium in the game day experience there

868
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: is it's top notch. You know, I can't wait till

869
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 1: it's open, But I can't wait five six years after

870
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 1: it opens to all the events that are going to

871
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: go through there, plus the games, because you know, it's

872
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: going to be like the center of the sporting universe

873
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 1: is going to be right here, oh when that thing

874
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: is open. So it's just like, wow, that's beautiful. You know.

875
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,760
Speaker 1: It's interesting to think about whether or not Philip Rivers

876
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 1: will be a part of that stadium opening, because he's

877
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: getting up there in years. You know, I'm glad you

878
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 1: said that. Um, when is the last time the Rams

879
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 1: played the Chargers twenty fourteen, fourteen? Do you want to

880
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: know the starting lineup from that game for both teams.

881
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: So Aaron Donald was in the game. Uh, yes, let's

882
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: see if you can guess. I don't know six offensive redefense.

883
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: There's there's no way I can guess. But Aaron Donald

884
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: was in that game. Aaron Donald did start that game.

885
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: So I'm this is what I'm thinking. This is your

886
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 1: first white Whale of the season. As far as quarterback,

887
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: as far as pass rushing that this is this is it.

888
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: This is what you dream about. Yeah, when you want to,

889
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: you know, hit big time quarterbacks, this is your first one.

890
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: This guy will wind up in Canton, but this might

891
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: be your last time you see him. Yeah, he's got

892
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: a lot of years up there. So go ahead. If

893
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: you haven't introduced yourself to Philip Rivers, do it now.

894
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: He has. He did sack Philip Rivers in that game, okay?

895
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: Was Michael Brockers did too, And you probably will never

896
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: guess this. Kendall Langford, Wow, you had a sack in there.

897
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: I gotta read this on all right. The starting offense

898
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: in this game. This was eleven twenty three, twenty fourteen,

899
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: so No. Number twenty third of that year. Kenny Britt,

900
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: Jared Cook, Greg Robinson, Roger Saffold left guard is still

901
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:21,720
Speaker 1: there there, yeah, Scott Wells at center, Davin Joseph right guard,

902
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: Joe Barksdale right tackle, Tavon Austin, Sean Hill, Trey Mason,

903
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,240
Speaker 1: Lance Kendrick. Oh yeah, and then on defense, more familiar

904
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 1: names here, probably Will Hayes, Aaron Donald's playing, Michael Brocker's play,

905
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn, James Laurenidas retired, yes, alec Ogletree still playing, yep,

906
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 1: Truemain Johnson still playing, Jens Jenkins playing, Rodney McCloud still playing,

907
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:52,879
Speaker 1: t J. McDonald's right, and E J. Gaines still playing

908
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: but hurt. Yes, yeah, yeah, So how many of those

909
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: guys on offense are still playing? Go back? Who are we? Uh?

910
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: Roger Jared Jared Cook is still playing, Greg Robinson is

911
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: still on a roster and uh no is not? I

912
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: don't know that is? Lance Kendricks still playing the Tamon

913
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:15,400
Speaker 1: Austin is still playing playing, Joe Barkstales part is with

914
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Yes, and he's hurt. I almost said the

915
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: wrong city. Absolutely, I don't think Davin Josepher, Scott Wallser, Okay,

916
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: all right, Kenny, Britt just also does not have a team. Wow, wow, yow. Yeah.

917
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: Do you remember how that game ended? You know what?

918
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: I think I deleted that from memory. I I did not.

919
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: I will never forget because it was ridiculous. What was

920
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,720
Speaker 1: the ending? The ending was, well, the Rams had gotten

921
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:45,360
Speaker 1: a fake punt to go score. Okay, Then they forced

922
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: a punt with an Aaron Donald sack. Then they get

923
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: down the field because Tavon Austin is a really good

924
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:57,800
Speaker 1: punt return okay, and Sean Hill hits this ridiculous pass

925
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 1: to Kenny Britt on the right side. Kenney Bridg gets

926
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: a knee down and catches it. Wow, they're at the

927
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 1: Then they get the ball its first and goal at

928
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: the San Diego six yard line. Right, yeah, run Benny Cunningham,

929
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: Benny up the middle. Yes. Then they call time out

930
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: and then pass intended over the middle for Kenny Britt

931
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: gets picked up. Oh God, I hate you for bringing

932
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: this up. Oh yes, Oh my heart just hurt. Oh right, yeah,

933
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: Oh I remember that snatching defeat out of the jaws

934
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: of victory. Seriously, Yes, down twenty four all you needed

935
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: was just a whole until you could kick a field goal. Oh,

936
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: let's not ever that again. Yeah, let's just leave that

937
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: right where it was. Wow. Wow yeah wow. Well, I mean, look,

938
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, this is deep blue. You ever heard of

939
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: deep blue? No, so you guys think just iPhones were

940
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: made overnight. Deep Blue was made by IBM. It was

941
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: a chess computer. What is a deep blue. It's a computer.

942
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: It was a chess It's a computer that played Kasparov,

943
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: one of the best chess players in the world. It

944
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:12,319
Speaker 1: was a man versus computer. This was way back when.

945
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 1: But this is like IBM, this way back in IBMA.

946
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 1: But I mean, it learns, it gets better. It's playing

947
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: chess against one of the greatest chess champions, and I

948
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: think the second time they actually met it won. The

949
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: first time it lost, the second time it won. Well,

950
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers is the same thing, man. He's going to

951
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: have answers whatever questions you throw, He's going to have

952
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 1: quicker answers. Yeah. Yeah, that's how good he is. That's

953
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 1: his genius. Well, Marcus Peters is also going to have answers.

954
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters has four career interceptions off of Philip Rivers. Yeah,

955
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: and he's had at least one in the last three matchups.

956
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: That the Kansas City played with the Chargers. Well, this

957
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: is what I mean. You can't break Philip Rivers. You

958
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: just can't. He's a Hall of Famer, But you can

959
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: break his confidence in the guy's upfront. Steady pressure will

960
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: get him to start rushing throws. Yes, he's human, just

961
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,800
Speaker 1: like any other quarterback. So there'll be times there'll be

962
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: plays to be made against Philip Rivers. I think he's

963
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,879
Speaker 1: thrown one hundred and sixty nine picks career to three

964
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty touchdown passes. So yeah, I mean he'll

965
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 1: nail you for a touchdown, but with consistent pressure, he'll

966
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: throw it up just like anybody else. Yeah. Well, the

967
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,320
Speaker 1: other thing you've got when it comes to the Rams,

968
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: in terms of that experience, you've got a key to

969
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: leave who also has gone against him a whole lot.

970
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: And then you have Wade Phillips, Yeah, who was actually

971
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: in San Diego when they drafted Philip Rivers back in

972
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: two thousand and four. That's the field general. You know,

973
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: taking things away, You're not gonna fool Philip Rivers, and

974
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: I think Wade Phillips knows that. So what you have

975
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 1: to do is play letter perfect and you got to

976
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 1: hammer Gordon out of the backfield. You got to hammer

977
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: these guys. Yes, you've got to force them to start

978
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: giving you the body so you can translate body language

979
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: so you can start reading plays, and then you'll be

980
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: able to step in front. Buttering, that all has to

981
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: come with and couple with that consistent pressure up the gut. Yeah.

982
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are, Tom Brady, John Elway,

983
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: Joe Montana, the greatest quarterbacks alive. If you get pressure

984
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: up the middle, right over your guards, there's nothing you

985
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: can do, right but hold the football and take a

986
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: sack or throw it out as fast as you can

987
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: to the flat. Yeah. Yeah, and you have monsters here.

988
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: This is a fact. Like Antonio Brown, like whatever, anything

989
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: that you think is a guarantee on game day, what's

990
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: guaranteed here is you're going to get interior pressure on

991
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: any quarterback because of the guys that are lined up

992
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: there well in terms of swing passes and things like that.

993
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: That's something Melvin Gordon has done really well since his

994
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: time at Wisconsin and now they also have their number thirty.

995
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,839
Speaker 1: Austin Eckler. I was really impressed with him watching those

996
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: two games that the Chargers played on film, both with

997
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: Kansas City and then the Bills. Change of pace guys

998
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: like Chris Thompson we talked about in Washington. Oh yeah,

999
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: they bring him in. He's a change of pace guy

1000
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: and he's an absolute nightmare. The same thing you might

1001
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: think just because of his number and where he lines up,

1002
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 1: that he's just an running back. He's a little bit

1003
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: different and he can hurt you in a couple of

1004
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: different ways. He they used him on jet sweeps, they

1005
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 1: use him on into rounds, and a lot of the

1006
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: things that we see from Sean mcvay's offense, kind of

1007
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: like Tamon Austin was used last year and now everybody's

1008
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: doing it. But those are the kinds of things that

1009
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: I saw from him. Oh yeah, I mean that that's

1010
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 1: always going to be an issue, and that's I'm glad

1011
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: we're talking about that. Markie Christian, I think, is a

1012
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: guy that can really, really really be a factor with

1013
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: guys like that because you can bring him in as

1014
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: the extra safety, extra linebacker against that sort of personnel

1015
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: group and not lose a bit right of toughness. He's

1016
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,720
Speaker 1: been actually gain more speed, yes, and he's been splitting

1017
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: that time kind of at that second inside linebacker spot

1018
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: with Remique Wilson. Yeah. And so when they, I think MC,

1019
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: they put it like they're putting him in in more

1020
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: those known passing situations kind of as the dime safety. Yeah.

1021
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: And so you bring him in there, and you're right.

1022
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: He has the speed, he has the pop. He can

1023
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 1: come up there and hit you, and he can come

1024
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: and he can really be that guy to combat those

1025
00:49:57,760 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: kinds of things. Why I thought, you know, I'm I

1026
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 1: can te him now. I can only go to ten

1027
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: grand when he gets fined. I can only help you

1028
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 1: as far as ten grand, because it's gonna happen, It's coming.

1029
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,680
Speaker 1: He is a hitter, love he is. He's definitely a

1030
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: hitter um for the Chargers defense. Looks like they're still

1031
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: gonna be without Joey Bosa. Yeah, and that's huge because

1032
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: at least from my vantage point, when they've got Bosa

1033
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:25,399
Speaker 1: in there, that completely changes their defense. He's the West

1034
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: Coast wat to me. Yeah, Bosa, I mean he's he's

1035
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: so technically sound, he's so smart. He's fun to watch. Yeah,

1036
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 1: you can teach off him. The other guy, Melvin Ingram

1037
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: is a bullet off the edge. Yeah, Yeah, So if

1038
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: we were gonna do what to watch, I would say,

1039
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: you have to stay keep your third downs manageable. Their

1040
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: wheelhouse is third and long. Yeah, they're gonna be tough

1041
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:51,720
Speaker 1: to stop in third and a mile. Really for anybody's tackles,

1042
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are, But if you keep

1043
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 1: them manageable and make them have to go through the

1044
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: tackle to get to Jared Goff, then look, chances are

1045
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:02,839
Speaker 1: they won't get there, right. Yeah. And it's interesting when

1046
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: you look at the way they performed against Kansas City.

1047
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:08,399
Speaker 1: They had one sack there and then five sacks last

1048
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: week in Buffalo. I think some of that has to

1049
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,319
Speaker 1: do with playing a rookie quarterback who is very inexperience,

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00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: you think, Yeah, yeah, okay, we can say a lot

1051
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 1: of that probably very charitable in Buffalo right now, giving

1052
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 1: away sacks. Love it. Yeah, they kind of favorite teams. Yeah,

1053
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: it's oh man, Buffalo is kind of a mess. Man.

1054
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 1: You know, Look, everybody's going through growing pains with rookie quarterbacks.

1055
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: They don't know what they don't know. Um, that's just

1056
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. And there's a lot

1057
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: of adjustment there. So you know, who cares you'll have

1058
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: to play on Sunday. Yeah, yeah, it's true. I just

1059
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 1: I think that it's almost hard to know how good

1060
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 1: the Chargers are playing that game last week, you know,

1061
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: and you play really good Kansas City team in that

1062
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 1: first week. If things don't get dropped, that that game

1063
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: may have ended up a lot different. True, I did

1064
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 1: go I first I watched Chargers Buffalo, and then I

1065
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:07,279
Speaker 1: went back and watched Chargers Kansas. Did this end they

1066
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: looked different? Yeah, so some of the things they had

1067
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,440
Speaker 1: success with they did in versus Kansas City offensively and defensively.

1068
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: So if the level of opposition rises, I think we're

1069
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 1: gonna find out exactly who and what the charges are.

1070
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:21,960
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be hard. You can't judge them off

1071
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:23,800
Speaker 1: what they did in Buffalo. No, yeah, I don't. It

1072
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 1: just like in some ways you can't really judge the

1073
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 1: Rams off of what they did to Arizona. True, us,

1074
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: we know, but for the rest of the world, Okay,

1075
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 1: Arizona is going to struggle this year, we know. So

1076
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 1: this might be the first test for a lot of

1077
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:38,479
Speaker 1: people outside of Los Angeles. Yeah, does that make sense?

1078
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: I think it makes a ton of sense. Yeah, all right,

1079
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: any parting shots before we let the people go. Let's see,

1080
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:46,359
Speaker 1: I think we covered everybody. Did we miss anybody? Oh

1081
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: hey there was a tight insighting? Yeah yeah, how about that? Yeah? Funny.

1082
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: I I asked Tyler Higbee last week. I think it

1083
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 1: was on Friday before I wrote the story about not

1084
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:01,280
Speaker 1: receiving a target after playing ninety five five percent of snaps,

1085
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: and he goes, yeah, you know, I told Jared I'd

1086
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:07,720
Speaker 1: make him a sandwich if he threw me a bath. Wow.

1087
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: Is that all it takes? So I guess Jed got

1088
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: a sandwich. Yeah, Tyler, we got to start. The touchdown

1089
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 1: was a great. Look there was no one there, and

1090
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: I like the run after cash forever. Yeah, that is

1091
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:21,799
Speaker 1: what we thought he could be in this office. Look,

1092
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 1: it's that sort of dynamic quality that can come from

1093
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,760
Speaker 1: that inline spot, it can come from outside. It's something

1094
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: that I know Sean McVay wants to integrate more into

1095
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 1: the offense. And the fact that Jarald Everett got hurt

1096
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 1: with that shoulder in the preseason didn't help matters, not

1097
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 1: at all. So now we may start to see more

1098
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: of that. Welcome back, sir, Now let's get better from there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely,

1099
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Speaker 1: all right. I'm glad you brought that up. A great

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00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,279
Speaker 1: way to finish, all right. So that'll do it for

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Speaker 1: this edition of Between the Horns. Everybody, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for tuning in wherever you may be in football.

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Speaker 1: We will see you on Sunday at the Callus CIM

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Speaker 1: kickoff is at one oh five. We will be on

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Speaker 1: RAMS pregame. Lie they're about twelve fifteen, twelve twenty. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: the game.