Speaker 1: Jackson, Teach gets hill and get right touchdown. Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: right up to tuck and welcome back to number eight
Speaker 1: thirty seven yards on fourth and two, doll Men, Johnson
Speaker 1: caught climb on the play touchdown, kellup for two hundred
Speaker 1: yards rushing are the Ravens and the blogging third time
Speaker 1: this season? End zone and caught for the touchdown? What
Speaker 1: a graph by blown the great Joe Buck with the
Speaker 1: call for Fox and NFL Network. It was a performance
Speaker 1: by the Ravens that evoked memories of a year ago
Speaker 1: as Baltimore ran for nearly three hundred yards of on
Speaker 1: the ground in a thirty four seventeen win over the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, a Cowboys team that looked like they are
Speaker 1: ready to go home for the winter. Yes, it is
Speaker 1: our two day night football recap, and joining me is
Speaker 1: the great Mark Sessler. Mark, Um, you have a you
Speaker 1: are a Browns fan, you are ride and high, you're
Speaker 1: nine and three. You know what's coming up next week?
Speaker 1: It's the Baltimore Ravens. And are you a little bit
Speaker 1: nervous right now about what you saw from the Ravens tonight?
Speaker 1: I think I'd be more nervous, Um, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think number one, it was a get right game and
Speaker 1: they got right. So they did what they what they
Speaker 1: would want to do and what they were asked to do.
Speaker 1: The ground game looks potent, um, but I feel like
Speaker 1: you played a Cowboys team, as you said, that is
Speaker 1: ready for a long winter snap. Um. I think it's
Speaker 1: a bit embarrassing to have Orlando Brown roll into the
Speaker 1: end zone and screamed to a cameraman easy money. And
Speaker 1: I think that from the outset, um, it looked like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys uh defensive line in linebackers were so out
Speaker 1: of position that I had to ask if they had
Speaker 1: taken generous tabs of psilocybin before the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: they seem completely um out of any sort of a
Speaker 1: game plan, poorly coached, and the Ravens took total advantage
Speaker 1: of it. Ran rough shot and that's their strength. I
Speaker 1: don't trust the Ravens through the air, but I do
Speaker 1: trust them on the ground. And I mean they had
Speaker 1: four thirty plus yard plays in the first half alone
Speaker 1: to zero for the Cowboys, and three of those came
Speaker 1: on the ground, So they are they are dangerous in
Speaker 1: that area. UM. As As as ever, yes, you have
Speaker 1: to keep in mind that this is the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have been dreadful on defense all season. Um,
Speaker 1: but I do think that the Ravens had been going
Speaker 1: through a really tough six week stretch. They started out
Speaker 1: five and one, uh, and then things have gone sideways.
Speaker 1: They had the COVID disaster a week and a half ago,
Speaker 1: riding a three game losing streak, and sometimes you just
Speaker 1: need to get right game to get your swagger back
Speaker 1: a little bit. And UM, I'm trying not to let
Speaker 1: my analysis from our prior podcast overly shade this situation
Speaker 1: because I predicted, as you did, actually that we both
Speaker 1: see the Ravens going on a big run here to
Speaker 1: close the season. But this basically, I'm glad I said
Speaker 1: that before this game, because now that feels almost like
Speaker 1: an obvious prediction to make because they just had this
Speaker 1: It seemed like they had their swagger back. And yes,
Speaker 1: Orlando Brown yelling easy money into the camera. As Fox
Speaker 1: goes to break, Troy Aikman, the Cowboys legend turned color
Speaker 1: man with buck Uh says the following, I just I
Speaker 1: don't know where this organization goes. As Tuesday's gone by,
Speaker 1: a skinnerd plays them out to break it. Just it
Speaker 1: felt like a super low moment for the Cowboys for
Speaker 1: some reason, even though they're already were dead entering this game.
Speaker 1: Now they're three and nine, and by the way, we
Speaker 1: get to fork another team Mark in one of our recaps,
Speaker 1: Goodbye Cowboys, uh, and Andy Dalton's playing for Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: They were never gonna go anywhere this year at this point,
Speaker 1: but it just felt like a dark cloud is over
Speaker 1: this organization right now. I think they have a big
Speaker 1: decision and we and we've mentioned this, I think prior
Speaker 1: to others um to some degree the future of Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy and we don't need to dwell on it. We've
Speaker 1: talked about it before. But um, Jerry Jones, are you
Speaker 1: going to simply confirm uh your decision from a year
Speaker 1: ago to hire him and make no moves or take
Speaker 1: a deep look at this. I think the team has
Speaker 1: been poorly coached all year, but beyond that, it's the
Speaker 1: one team that I think about. And Troy Aikman pointed
Speaker 1: to this too, and I think that I kind of
Speaker 1: enjoy the irritated Troy Aikman because I think it gets
Speaker 1: more irritated at the Cowboys than anything else, because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of pride there because it's Troy at his heart,
Speaker 1: He's a cowboy, will always be cowboy, and he doesn't
Speaker 1: run from that. No, I'm with you. I think it's
Speaker 1: it's um when when you see genuinely raw emotion and
Speaker 1: analysis and irritation from him, and he called the Cowboys out,
Speaker 1: especially on that last Ravens touchdown March where they just
Speaker 1: rolled through Dallas's defense as players that look like have
Speaker 1: given up, And I think that has something to do
Speaker 1: with the fact that they've not bought into the scheme
Speaker 1: on defense specifically. Uh, they got a little bit better,
Speaker 1: I thought in the sort of second third of the
Speaker 1: season where you saw them tighten up a bit but
Speaker 1: slightly a mirrage. I mean they they you know, they
Speaker 1: the holes that were open for Baltimore to run through tonight.
Speaker 1: And you know we saw Cleveland run for three d
Speaker 1: plus yards on this defense too, So it's it's not
Speaker 1: an aberration. This is a terrible defense. Baltimore that said, like,
Speaker 1: I don't discredit teams for beating up on lesser competition.
Speaker 1: That's what Baltimore did. I'm with you in the sense
Speaker 1: that they can feel good about this game. They've got
Speaker 1: a huge match up with Cleveland. Um, that's an it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna look different than Week one. I do think
Speaker 1: these are two different teams. But the Ravens are not
Speaker 1: the team that just got pounded by the Steelers. With
Speaker 1: r G three Lamar's back, he looked healthy, he looked good.
Speaker 1: And I think that this team, according to our predictions
Speaker 1: so we already know the result, are vying for the postseason.
Speaker 1: I would not take them lightly at all. I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone is sad situation for the Ravens with Dez
Speaker 1: Bryant has hasn't He had like a really bummer end
Speaker 1: of his career. This was one of the reason Dez
Speaker 1: is always being written about is that he was such
Speaker 1: an electrifying player in the last decade and he was
Speaker 1: such a fun player to watch, and he was doing
Speaker 1: it all on quote unquote America's team. Uh. He gets
Speaker 1: back into the league last year and gets signed to
Speaker 1: the Saints and right when he's gonna be activated, he
Speaker 1: blows his achilles. This year, he catches on with the Ravens.
Speaker 1: Has you know, he plays nothing, He's not a major
Speaker 1: player on the team, but he has a role. He
Speaker 1: gets out on the field bright and early, uh tonight
Speaker 1: today because he's playing the Cowboys, and then he gets told, oh,
Speaker 1: you have COVID uh and he gets pulled off the field.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a little bit of a sad
Speaker 1: PostScript to his career from one for one of the
Speaker 1: more exciting players during our shared run at NFL Media. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's and and because they're so close to the
Speaker 1: testing facility, they're getting results at a different time than
Speaker 1: other teams, and so he found out at an inconvenient time.
Speaker 1: And you know, he tweeted at one point, We tweeted
Speaker 1: a bunch, but at one point he tweeted, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna sit back and drink a glass of wine,
Speaker 1: which I think of most most of America could relate
Speaker 1: to in to some degree. Um. But there were also
Speaker 1: images of him hugging all sorts of Cowboys personnel and players.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it's another very foggy um Corona
Speaker 1: issue that I thought raised questions. But that's apparently above
Speaker 1: our pay grade. Many things are above our pay grade.
Speaker 1: Uh that that's not hard to accomplish. That is that
Speaker 1: is another snapshot of Corona life in America. It is
Speaker 1: often hard to decipher what is going on. All right,
Speaker 1: there we go any any any other thoughts were cooled
Speaker 1: forking the Cowboys at three and nine. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit late to the game, but given the shape of
Speaker 1: that division, Uh, three and eight seemed like a chance
Speaker 1: to still have a play. But now you have the Cowboy,
Speaker 1: now you have the Giants and Washington thriving. So Cowboys
Speaker 1: are done. Yeah, I think that you know, when we
Speaker 1: fork a team, they should just pack it up and
Speaker 1: go home. I don't know why they continue to play
Speaker 1: games when we do that, because are we're are batting
Speaker 1: averages pristine. It's one thousand, Um. We are essentially a
Speaker 1: voice of God on that front. So well, that's why,
Speaker 1: And at the risk of making light of the situation,
Speaker 1: that's why Santa Clara shut down contact sports. So there's
Speaker 1: no reason to have them. Why why risk it? When
Speaker 1: Dan and Mark had already forked the forty Honors anyway,
Speaker 1: there's no reason to continue playing. So um, now that
Speaker 1: the word has gone out in Dallas, Uh, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens with Cowboys the rest of the way. Well,
Speaker 1: I trust the Dallas Fort Worth Civic Um community to
Speaker 1: uh to follow suit it just as Santa Clara did.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, local governments listened to this show
Speaker 1: and they take orders from it. Um, more people should that.
Speaker 1: I mean, in general, you and I should just uh
Speaker 1: four teams and and for once it has some teeth,
Speaker 1: and then as soon as they're forked, you shut the
Speaker 1: whole thing down. We it's our own version of the bubble.
Speaker 1: It's the fork bubble. We're doing a service, and it's
Speaker 1: a good service. And and and more people should praise
Speaker 1: the work we're doing while I'm here. I feel so
Speaker 1: I believe, I believe, I believe I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1: Mr Sessler. All right, Ricky, we're gonna we're gonna shut
Speaker 1: this thing down. Did you have anything to add before
Speaker 1: we sign off? I have, UM one point that I
Speaker 1: think really really needs to be said, Um that you
Speaker 1: said this was gonna be ninety seconds and it wasn't.
Speaker 1: That was close enough? What about ten minutes? And may
Speaker 1: I add that with you? Uh, you were in front
Speaker 1: of a Christmas tree, their stockings behind you. You look
Speaker 1: like the girl next door. I mean, what a sweetheart?
Speaker 1: Thank you appear to be in the virtual behind the
Speaker 1: virtual glass tonight. Yeah, gonna cozy up with some hot cocoa.
Speaker 1: Maybe throw on a Christmas movie. You know it's it's
Speaker 1: getting around that time is definitely code for something else.
Speaker 1: I can promise you that Christeners. What is your favorite
Speaker 1: Christmas movie record? Huh? I like the Chris Kringle you know,
Speaker 1: the the animation kind of three D one where he
Speaker 1: saves Christmas and the the guy that hates Christmas, the Mayor.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. When Santa Claus comes
Speaker 1: to town. You've got a raging classic. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: know what about you. Mark Christmas movie, Um, eyes wide shut, hands,
Speaker 1: don go watch it. It is is It is a
Speaker 1: quintessential Christmas film imagery. I think works kidding, but it's true.
Speaker 1: Like if Mark had one path to take in life,
Speaker 1: like you need to inhabit one Stanley Kuber movie. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely eyes wide shut. And I don't even need to
Speaker 1: tell you anything else other than Mark is running into
Speaker 1: that life scenario. Yeah. I have to agree, and I
Speaker 1: wouldn't disagree. The pre eminent Christmas movie is a Christmas
Speaker 1: story starring Peter Billingsley. I won't I won't hear anything else,
Speaker 1: but uh, that's it very solid choice. Your eye out, kid,
Speaker 1: All right, that's it. Uh. Next time you hear from us,
Speaker 1: it will be Thursday when we oh my god, that
Speaker 1: just never stops. The Week fourteen preview, when we preview
Speaker 1: all the games to come, and we'll have a second
Speaker 1: show on Thursday as well. Greg and the mystery guest
Speaker 1: of some kind will recap uh the Rams and Patriots,
Speaker 1: a game we previewed on a different podcast we did today.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of content. Like Ricky said, please go
Speaker 1: over to uh apple um your iTunes and rate us
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Speaker 1: That's the currency we request. Mark again, Mark asked for Venmo.
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Speaker 1: ninety seconds. It's gonna be ninety minutes. Supposed to be
Speaker 1: ninety seconds. But now you know it's it's past that.
Speaker 1: If you've made it this far into the show, just
Speaker 1: tweet at Greg and Greg alone hashtag Nirvana. That's all
Speaker 1: you have to do is text or if you have
Speaker 1: his number, text him, but tweet hashtag Nirvana at Greg Rosenthal,
Speaker 1: would you like to give his phone number out? Do
Speaker 1: it twice? I don't know, you know, whatever you gotta do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he might end up muting the word like I
Speaker 1: did with Godzilla. So maybe do hashtag and then like
Speaker 1: and then space out Vana. I don't think he'll do that.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll even know to do that. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is annoying and he won't change anything. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: make sure, jeez. What it is that too from our
Speaker 1: marks should be not no, no no. I I cannot
Speaker 1: undo what's been done, so you know, at this point,
Speaker 1: you know what, I gonna see what happens. Let's put
Speaker 1: this on Erica. Erica. Mark and I both said this
Speaker 1: might be a little bit too far, but you want
Speaker 1: to follow through with this, that's fine. Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: all right, everybody for listening. I get to work over
Speaker 1: on the Twitter birds and we'll see you on Thursday. M. S.