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Speaker 4: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 4: And on today's show, we continue our look ahead to
Speaker 4: Sunday and Los Angeles and we do our final notes
Speaker 4: on the Dolphins and Chargers. Plus we'll hear from Chargers
Speaker 4: play by play man Matt Muney Smith. A new segment,
Speaker 4: My Thursday Narrative debuts with a look at coach Daryl
Speaker 4: Bevill and what he has meant to the offense since
Speaker 4: his arrival, and of course, the season kicks off tonight
Speaker 4: in Kansas City. That means Picks is back to talking
Speaker 4: about the week that is around the National Football League
Speaker 4: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
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Speaker 4: The Draft Time podcast. May who out there remembers the show,
Speaker 4: Pardon the interruption? Is it still going? I don't know
Speaker 4: if it is, but man, that show was an institution
Speaker 4: before content became what it was, especially in my high
Speaker 4: school days, and it aired at two thirty Pacific time,
Speaker 4: and my high school got out two ten, so in
Speaker 4: the fall when I didn't have an after school sport,
Speaker 4: it was a race to get home to watch it
Speaker 4: every single day in the pre DVR and TVO days.
Speaker 4: But they had a segment at the end of the
Speaker 4: show called airs in a Missions where stat Boy, the
Speaker 4: Great Tony Reality would rattle off the things the host
Speaker 4: missed throughout the course of the show. I want to
Speaker 4: do that on my Thursday podcast, taking a look at
Speaker 4: what maybe I left out of the Wednesday preview podcast.
Speaker 4: And with that, I'm looking at this research packet from
Speaker 4: the wonderful folks at NFL Research and the numbers are
Speaker 4: You often forget how efficient this offense was last year
Speaker 4: because I guess of the narratives out there about all
Speaker 4: the tired talking points we cover every single offseason, and
Speaker 4: once you get to this point of the calendar, it
Speaker 4: seems like every topic has been beaten to a pulp,
Speaker 4: and then you just kind of wind up getting to
Speaker 4: the other side of your original thoughts and I guess predictions.
Speaker 4: And I was talking to someone earlier today about how
Speaker 4: the Dolphins are like out of everybody's playoff predictions, but
Speaker 4: four months ago they were talked about as a super
Speaker 4: Bowl team. Now, I will give credit to those guys
Speaker 4: that still stuck with what they saw happen this offseason
Speaker 4: and didn't get their narrative shaped by maybe hard knocks,
Speaker 4: maybe what happened in a preseason game where no one
Speaker 4: actually played Youth Walder from ESPN picked Dolphins over Eagles
Speaker 4: and his season predictions this year. So looking at this packet,
Speaker 4: the Dolphins were eighth last year and passing EPA and
Speaker 4: when two was on the field, they're number one in
Speaker 4: that category. And look, I know the offensive line is
Speaker 4: a point of contention for so many but I always
Speaker 4: point back to this whether it's individuals winning their matchups,
Speaker 4: scheme doing its job, or two was quick release. As
Speaker 4: much as this offensive line takes crap from every single direction,
Speaker 4: it seems they were fifteenth last year in pressure rate.
Speaker 4: Not great, but better than more than half the league.
Speaker 4: Some more details from that packet a lot of opposite
Speaker 4: end of spectrum stuff. The Dolphins were first in pre
Speaker 4: snap motion a season ago, Chargers twenty fifth. We were
Speaker 4: second play action ran they were twelfth. Not quite opposite,
Speaker 4: but a lot more from Miami. And I will say
Speaker 4: this though their offensive metrics can probably go out the
Speaker 4: window because it is a new system, new offensive coordinator.
Speaker 4: On the other side of the ball, we do know
Speaker 4: that Staley learned under Fangio, so there is some good
Speaker 4: information there about what maybe the Chargers will do, maybe
Speaker 4: what the Miami Dolphins will do. On their defensive side
Speaker 4: of the football. Last year, nobody played more single high
Speaker 4: than us. That's one safety in the middle of the field,
Speaker 4: and we were also third in the league and man
Speaker 4: coverage rate at forty three percent, despite the fact once
Speaker 4: again that the personnel to meters did not match for
Speaker 4: man coverage that often. But the Chargers played single high
Speaker 4: the ninth lease last year. I think you'll probably see
Speaker 4: more of a number close to that for Miami this season.
Speaker 4: But they did play man coverage at the seventh highest rate,
Speaker 4: which is interesting to me because they had the eighth
Speaker 4: ranked blitz percentage just eighteenth and pressure rate, which is
Speaker 4: a prominent itself because traditionally those haven't been the staples,
Speaker 4: the blitz rate and the man coverage rate of a
Speaker 4: Vic Fangio defense. But it's a nice reminder that while
Speaker 4: you have your core principles, coaches tend to construct and
Speaker 4: tailor things around what they have in their personnel. I
Speaker 4: think it's an indicator that you could get a good
Speaker 4: dose of man coverage on Sunday because that's kind of
Speaker 4: how they remade their defense a season ago, beginning in
Speaker 4: that Miami game in early December, and their late season
Speaker 4: surge was built around the defense playing better football because
Speaker 4: the offense wasn't that great last year for the Chargers,
Speaker 4: and then J C. Jackson coming back. He was always
Speaker 4: a man corner up in New England. So interesting stuff there.
Speaker 4: I'm very curious to see what both teams look like.
Speaker 4: That's why I haven't been to I haven't harped too
Speaker 4: much on what I think is gonna the game will
Speaker 4: look like from a schematic standpoint, because we just don't
Speaker 4: really know. But the Chargers were thirty first and rushing
Speaker 4: EPA allowed last year, and that's kind of what they
Speaker 4: If that's what they are again this year, there's no
Speaker 4: guarantee they will be, then you hope that Miami can
Speaker 4: find some success in the ground game. In fact, Argen
Speaker 4: Mennon is a former analytics guy for the Jets and
Speaker 4: now he puts his stuff out there on Twitter, and
Speaker 4: he shared the Chargers allowed last year a rushing EPA
Speaker 4: off tackle that was the fourth highest for their opponent
Speaker 4: of all time since EPA became a stat back in
Speaker 4: the early two thousands, or that's how far back they
Speaker 4: have tracked it so far. And the Dolphins weren't historical
Speaker 4: in their success running off tackle, but they were plus
Speaker 4: point two EPA. That's a cumulative over a rushing attack
Speaker 4: that was negative point four EPA, which was eighteenth in
Speaker 4: the NFL. And that might not sound like a big
Speaker 4: number point two obviously, but it's important to note that
Speaker 4: rushing EPA is way more difficult to rack up than
Speaker 4: passing because EPA basically tracks how much you influenced the
Speaker 4: potential outcome of a game, and a five yard rush
Speaker 4: is great to keep you ahead of the change, but
Speaker 4: it's not going to change the outcome of the game
Speaker 4: as far as the win percentage scope goes. So passing
Speaker 4: the ball gives you much more EPA opportunity, I guess
Speaker 4: is a good way to look at that. But with that,
Speaker 4: in the individual Dolphins and Chargers game last year, it
Speaker 4: was the complete opposite in terms of running the ball wide.
Speaker 4: The Dolphins had a negative point one to six EPA
Speaker 4: running off tackle and negative point seven when running off end.
Speaker 4: Something has to give there. The Dolphins either find a
Speaker 4: way to run the ball or the Chargers make a
Speaker 4: turnaround for the run defense. Some more cool notes here
Speaker 4: from the NFL research packet. Toungo, bai Loa, and Herbert
Speaker 4: were the first quarterbacks drafted with back to back picks
Speaker 4: and a draft This is in the weeds to both
Speaker 4: finish top five in passing yards per game since nineteen
Speaker 4: forty one. That sounds like a bob Yucker stat from
Speaker 4: the Major League Movies. The Dolphins had sixty two completions
Speaker 4: last year of twenty plus yards. That was the third
Speaker 4: most in the NFL behind Case and Philly, and the
Speaker 4: Chargers surrendered the sixth most of those throws fifty four,
Speaker 4: which is also interesting to me because the Chargers and
Speaker 4: this Fangio style defense, the entire purpose is to keep
Speaker 4: the roof on top of the defense and limit big
Speaker 4: plays and expose the offense to more reps and more
Speaker 4: potential mistakes they could make. On the offensive side, the
Speaker 4: Dolphins averaged six point one yards per play a season ago.
Speaker 4: That was the second best number in the NFL behind
Speaker 4: Kansas City and yards per play. If you go back
Speaker 4: over the last decade plus, that number is the most
Speaker 4: consistent with offensive success in terms of predictive models, and
Speaker 4: I think I did a podcast on that. At one
Speaker 4: point last year when our offense wasn't scoring quite enough,
Speaker 4: I think it was like after the Steeler game, but
Speaker 4: you could see their yards per play was still top
Speaker 4: three or four in the league. And sure enough after
Speaker 4: that they go thirty against Detroit, thirty against Chicago, thirty
Speaker 4: against Cleveland, thirty against Houston. So eventually your points catch
Speaker 4: up to yards per play. If we're over six yards
Speaker 4: of play again this season, the offense is going to
Speaker 4: be dominant. The Chargers also surrender the tenth most yards
Speaker 4: per pass attempts on throws ten plus yards downfield long passes,
Speaker 4: and Tua led the NFL in these categories on ten
Speaker 4: plus yard throws, completion percentage sixty one point nine percent,
Speaker 4: yards per attempt thirteen point nine, and a one to
Speaker 4: twenty five passer rating on such throws. Some cool stats
Speaker 4: will do this every single week or on the podcast.
Speaker 4: We'll also hear from a prominent member of the opposition's
Speaker 4: local media every single week, and that's where we turn
Speaker 4: our attention to. Now my interview with the great Matt
Speaker 4: money Smith from the Chargers radio broadcast and joining us
Speaker 4: here on the podcast today. He is the play by
Speaker 4: play man for the Los Angeles Chargers. He'll take you
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Speaker 4: Around the NFL podcast. Matt money Smith, Money, welcome in,
Speaker 4: my friend.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, Travis. Looking forward to this one.
Speaker 2: What a what an awesome game to start the season
Speaker 2: between these two teams that a lot of people are
Speaker 2: expecting big things from, I.
Speaker 4: Would say on the podcast the other day that I
Speaker 4: think that this might be the game maybe SAMs Buffalo
Speaker 4: and New York on Monday Night, that I think either
Speaker 4: team who wins will come away feeling the best about
Speaker 4: themselves after Week one. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 2: Well, I just I feel like going back to well, look,
Speaker 2: I think two of them are similar in that they
Speaker 2: are in divisions that, for the Chargers certainly have been
Speaker 2: dominated by other teams. You know, I think some could
Speaker 2: make the case that Miami's roster top to bottom is
Speaker 2: better than Buffalo's, but when you have Josh Allen, that
Speaker 2: sort of changes the calculus. So I think they're both
Speaker 2: trying to knock off a heavyweight in the top of
Speaker 2: their division. And I think their scar tissue from last
Speaker 2: year in this game for the Dolphins, and believe it
Speaker 2: or not, I think even for Brandon Staley and to
Speaker 2: kind of remind people or to prove himself that no,
Speaker 2: that wasn't fluky. What the defense dating back to back
Speaker 2: weeks against San Francisco and Miami when they were decimated
Speaker 2: by injury. I think, you know, coming off a twenty
Speaker 2: seven and nothing lead and losing a playoff game, you know,
Speaker 2: allowing thirty one points essentially in the second half and
Speaker 2: right there at the end of the first half, like
Speaker 2: he's out to prove something. I think Mike McDaniel and
Speaker 2: Tua and the offense is out to prove something about
Speaker 2: how it went last year. So I just think there's
Speaker 2: so many things that go into this game that make it,
Speaker 2: you know, a lot bigger than just a regular season
Speaker 2: contest between the Dolphins and the Chargers.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent agree. In my game preview podcast the
Speaker 4: previous day, I talked about the storylines and I had
Speaker 4: to just kind of stop at a certain point because
Speaker 4: there were so many whether it's you know, Fangio and
Speaker 4: Staly and Ronaldo Hill and Tua, and it is up
Speaker 4: and down the list storyline after storyline. But I wanted
Speaker 4: to go to you for some more Chargers perspective and
Speaker 4: expertise here because you know, again we have the tape
Speaker 4: of these teams matching up nine months ago, but so
Speaker 4: much changes week to week in the NFL, not to mention,
Speaker 4: you know, year to year. If you could, in one
Speaker 4: answer kind of summarize the Chargers training camp this summer,
Speaker 4: how would you do that? What were the takeaway some
Speaker 4: of the stars of camp surprises, whatever you got money
Speaker 4: from Chargers camp, go ahead and laid on us.
Speaker 2: Well, I'd probably start and it's a boring answer, Travis,
Speaker 2: but with health. You know, this is a team that
Speaker 2: was wrecked last year and so you kind of forgot
Speaker 2: how talented it was because of how the season ended
Speaker 2: and how few players were out there at the end
Speaker 2: of it all. And to go into training camp and
Speaker 2: to watch Rashaun Slater, who was an All Pro his
Speaker 2: rookie year, the second year of Zion Johnson who's now
Speaker 2: moved back to where he played at Boston College for
Speaker 2: four years left guard, and Corey Linsley, who missed a
Speaker 2: chunk of time last year as well. To see those
Speaker 2: three operate together, especially in the joint practices against a
Speaker 2: very good Saints defensive line, and just stone them, you know,
Speaker 2: snap in and snap out. That's one of the first
Speaker 2: things that jumped out of me and man talk about
Speaker 2: a test in week one to watch Slater, whether it's
Speaker 2: gonna be Phillips or Chubb. I can't wait for that.
Speaker 2: So the second thing is just how many more downfield
Speaker 2: throws we were watching from this offense. And I don't
Speaker 2: think it's fair to pile on Joe Lombardi, like a
Speaker 2: lot of people are a lot of that was a
Speaker 2: product of injury last year and the fact that he
Speaker 2: lost his left tackle, didn't have it, you know, Justin
Speaker 2: didn't have his center. He had fractured rib cartilage in
Speaker 2: week two. Like the ball was coming out early for
Speaker 2: a reason. But it just looks different. It looks like
Speaker 2: those shots are there and a lot of its health again,
Speaker 2: you know, again not exciting, but to have Mike Williams,
Speaker 2: Keenan Allen, Josh Palmer and now their first round pick
Speaker 2: Quinton Johnson out there, looks like this this could be
Speaker 2: an explosive offense. But even beyond that is the running game.
Speaker 2: You know, they just they never had a signature run
Speaker 2: really in the last two years. You never felt like
Speaker 2: there was a bread and butter. Now they could run
Speaker 2: behind that left side of the line two years ago
Speaker 2: when Slater was an All Pro and it was effective
Speaker 2: and Austin would would you know, kind of bite off
Speaker 2: four and a half five and a half yards per
Speaker 2: carry when he ran that direction. But it just looks different.
Speaker 2: It looks like, Okay, I can see where this is going,
Speaker 2: and it just looks it looks better it looks different,
Speaker 2: So that's offensively defensively. You know, this is just me
Speaker 2: relaying what a lot of the players said, and that's
Speaker 2: just how much of a difference they believe Eric Kendricks
Speaker 2: is going to make and in coordinating the defense on
Speaker 2: the field from players, you know that's wearing the green dot,
Speaker 2: and how important it is to have everybody in their
Speaker 2: same place and know exactly what their assignment is snapping
Speaker 2: and snap out because you know it full well having
Speaker 2: Vic Fangio there. Now, it's a complicated defense and a
Speaker 2: lot of pieces, specifically on the back end have to
Speaker 2: be in the right places for it to be executed
Speaker 2: just right. And they really feel like Eric Hendricks is
Speaker 2: going to make a big difference.
Speaker 4: There, coming back to where it all began for him
Speaker 4: in college at UCLA. There back in Los Angeles to
Speaker 4: play for the Chargers and money. My next question was
Speaker 4: going to be how the offense looks different under Kellen Moore,
Speaker 4: but you kind of already addressed that, so I guess
Speaker 4: I'll follow up and kind of continue that theme of
Speaker 4: Kellen Moore. And you mentioned the players talking about the
Speaker 4: defensive system and Eric Hendricks kind of helping be the
Speaker 4: conduit between coach and player on that side of the ball.
Speaker 4: What are the guys saying about Kellen Moore? Because this
Speaker 4: is a guy that I don't know if you know
Speaker 4: this money, but I grew up in the Pacific Northwest
Speaker 4: and Kellen Moore played his high school ball to a
Speaker 4: small town in Prosser, Washington, about twenty minutes north of
Speaker 4: where I live. A local star up there. Took his
Speaker 4: talents to Boise, where he was one of the greatest
Speaker 4: college quarterbacks of all time. Big fan of him as
Speaker 4: a player and a coach. Just some of the returns
Speaker 4: on Kellen Moore and what some of the guys are
Speaker 4: saying about him so far in year one here.
Speaker 2: He's the best man. He's such a good dude. And
Speaker 2: his dad, you know, moved down here with him and
Speaker 2: to be around his dad, who's as you know, you know,
Speaker 2: high school football coach. It's just a look. They're football dorks,
Speaker 2: you know, both he and Justin Herbert. They just are.
Speaker 2: And you watch them geek out at practice and at
Speaker 2: training camp. And look, I mean you know this, you
Speaker 2: just said it. You grew up there Pacific Northwest. People
Speaker 2: are just different. It's a different lifestyle. And I think
Speaker 2: there's a very special connection between those two that they
Speaker 2: get it. They get each other, you know, they are
Speaker 2: Like Daniel Jeremiah, who I do the games with, was
Speaker 2: up in Idaho and he's like, you have no idea
Speaker 2: how big the Chargers are in Idaho. Now He's like,
Speaker 2: I'm walking around cord A Lane and there's people in
Speaker 2: Herbert jerseys and Chargers caps because Kellen Moore is there.
Speaker 2: Like that's how big of a deal it is. So
Speaker 2: to have Herbert from Eugene, Kellen from from you know,
Speaker 2: from Washington and playing his game is football at at
Speaker 2: Boise State, like it's a there's there's a connection there
Speaker 2: is what I'm getting at. But I do think is
Speaker 2: as special as that connection is. And what I think
Speaker 2: the biggest difference in this offense with with Kellen Moore
Speaker 2: is going to be is the run game. Just the
Speaker 2: run Just like I said, it just never it never
Speaker 2: felt like it was working when they especially when they
Speaker 2: needed it. In that Jacksonville game a perfect example, when
Speaker 2: they needed the four minute drill, they rushed seven times
Speaker 2: for four yards. They just couldn't get it right. It
Speaker 2: seemed like every new the defense knew exactly what was coming.
Speaker 2: Every time they lined up in a formation that we
Speaker 2: knew what was coming. And I think you're going to
Speaker 2: see a big difference in that this year, where you know,
Speaker 2: whether you want to call it, you know, wide or
Speaker 2: outside zone, whatever it is. It worked in the preseason, man,
Speaker 2: it worked as a thing of beauty. And I know
Speaker 2: it's hard to take anything. I never want to take
Speaker 2: anything too much a way from the exhibition season, but
Speaker 2: just kind of having watched the run game the last
Speaker 2: few years and then watch it watching it this year,
Speaker 2: it seems like that is a big, big difference, and
Speaker 2: that's just going to help those play action, you know,
Speaker 2: shot plays that we know they have the personnel for
Speaker 2: and Herbert certainly has the arm for.
Speaker 4: It's almost like you're holding up a mirror to the
Speaker 4: Dolphins right now, because I would say, going back to
Speaker 4: you know, last year and Kellen Moore and Mike McDaniel
Speaker 4: kind of fall into that offensive young genius category that
Speaker 4: so many teams cover it right now and all teams
Speaker 4: that don't have it wish they had. And they both
Speaker 4: I guess More is different because he wasn't there in
Speaker 4: Los Angeles. But for Mike, you know, he was saying
Speaker 4: that he wished he did run the football more last year.
Speaker 4: And these offenses that do have all these playmakers in
Speaker 4: the perimeter at the receiver positions, So it should be
Speaker 4: a fascinating matchup to see who can get more execution
Speaker 4: in the ground game. To follow up off that first
Speaker 4: question game, when you mentioned the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 4: you mentioned Eric Hendricks. Again, I'm a WSU guy money,
Speaker 4: so Deyon Henley's my guy. I love that dude. But
Speaker 4: returning pieces as well from Andrew, like you mentioned j C.
Speaker 4: Jackson coming back. Never really got going last year before
Speaker 4: the injury. But a loaded group my talent perspective, how
Speaker 4: do you think they'll make things challenging and opposing offenses
Speaker 4: this year?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll start with you know where you started in
Speaker 2: Wazoo and dayon and unfortunately he's got a hammy. I
Speaker 2: don't know if he's going to play. That dude's going
Speaker 2: to make an impact as a rookie. He will make
Speaker 2: an impact this year. It'll definitely be on special teams.
Speaker 2: But he's gonna get he's going to get in the rotation,
Speaker 2: he's going to get defensive snaps. He he was the best,
Speaker 2: he was the best player on either side of the
Speaker 2: ball save Zion Johnson. That the left guard in the preseason. Wow,
Speaker 2: he's just and you know it because you saw it.
Speaker 2: Like he is so explosive. I mean, he is so
Speaker 2: fast in that body that's now a legit two hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five pounds. You know, is kind of that
Speaker 2: hybrid safety linebacker. I think you might see him at
Speaker 2: star I would not be surprised if you see him
Speaker 2: in the slot. I wouldn't be surprised if you see
Speaker 2: him creeping up on the line of scrimmage. Like to me,
Speaker 2: he's got that sort of and I know it's high praise.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean to sound like a you know,
Speaker 2: a Chargers homer or whatever because I call the games.
Speaker 2: But he's just got that Derwin James. Look where you
Speaker 2: can envision him playing any position, Like I could see
Speaker 2: Derwin play outside corner, slot corner, high safety, box safety,
Speaker 2: linebacker like you know, that's what Dayon reminds me of.
Speaker 2: Where you can put him up high if you want to.
Speaker 2: You can have him as a box safety. So he's
Speaker 2: going to be an important piece. I think he's going
Speaker 2: to be an important piece. Look, Derwin James was an
Speaker 2: All Pro his rookie season. I'm not saying that's what
Speaker 2: Dayon is, but I do think he is going It's
Speaker 2: going to be interesting to see if Kenneth Murray can
Speaker 2: finally realize all that potential that he has physically that
Speaker 2: just hasn't quite come together. And a lot of people
Speaker 2: have talked about how Eric Hendricks has helped him out
Speaker 2: a lot, and they're expecting big things from from Kenneth
Speaker 2: because he got his fifth year option declined. It's going
Speaker 2: to be a free agent at the end of this year.
Speaker 2: And I mean you see this right when you're around
Speaker 2: the Dolphins, there's certain players that when they're walking around,
Speaker 2: and I would imagine Jalen Phillis is like this, Like
Speaker 2: when you see him walking around, You're like, my god,
Speaker 2: what is that? You know that's Kenneth Murray. Like when
Speaker 2: you see him walking and then you see how fast
Speaker 2: he moves on the football field, You're like, that's just
Speaker 2: not that. That should be illegal, like that that's going
Speaker 2: to kill somebody. But it just hasn't quite come together
Speaker 2: for him. So that's that's going to be an important part.
Speaker 2: And I think just having this defense healthy. I even
Speaker 2: forgot where you were going with it. I'm sorry you
Speaker 2: mentioned Dayon and I got all excited because it was
Speaker 2: so fun to watch him out there. But I think
Speaker 2: you know, oh, jac Jackson, right, So that's remember how
Speaker 2: this game was played last year, right, It was actually
Speaker 2: the rookie Josser Taylor that was just impressed man on
Speaker 2: Jalen Waddle on every snap. So if you can turn
Speaker 2: that into j C. Jackson, we know he's one of
Speaker 2: the best press man corners out there. He's very physical
Speaker 2: at the snap. Mikey Davis is a legit six two,
Speaker 2: two hundred and five pounds to be able to have
Speaker 2: the full complement of weapons to hopefully be able to
Speaker 2: do what they did last year, I don't expect it
Speaker 2: to be that way, you know, Mike, Like you mentioned,
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel's way too good of an OC, of a
Speaker 2: play caller as a head coach to do the same
Speaker 2: thing you did last year. But that goes a long way, right,
Speaker 2: and trying to disrupt the timing and try to get
Speaker 2: physical line of scrimmage. So if Jc's out there, I
Speaker 2: think that's going to go a long way.
Speaker 4: He's Matt Smith, He's the Chargers radio play by play
Speaker 4: man here join us on the Draft Time podcast today
Speaker 4: and Matt. A few teams do this every year, and
Speaker 4: I find it so fastating to play or to not
Speaker 4: play starters in the preseason. And the Chargers are a
Speaker 4: team from the latter category that they don't play their
Speaker 4: stars in the preseason at all. What's the thought process
Speaker 4: behind that, do you think? And how do you think
Speaker 4: they handle their prep without getting those live game reps?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. You know, look, I don't necessarily think
Speaker 2: I would subscribe to it. If I were a head coach,
Speaker 2: I'd probably play the guys. It just you know, they
Speaker 2: can get hurt on the first series of the first
Speaker 2: regular season game. Now there's you know, to use the
Speaker 2: same term. I probably sound like a broken record of
Speaker 2: people listening. But there's a lot of scar tissue there
Speaker 2: with injuries and the Chargers that they have not been
Speaker 2: able to stay healthy. It's been a rough go in
Speaker 2: really the entire seven years that they've been here, They've
Speaker 2: had at least one major injury every single season. And
Speaker 2: considering how things went last year in losing JC and
Speaker 2: Joey and Slater and only having Mike Williams and Keenan
Speaker 2: Allen out there for one hundred and thirty eight snaps
Speaker 2: or one hundred and thirty eight dropbacks. Like, I get it.
Speaker 2: I get that you want to if you're going to
Speaker 2: put them in harm's way, let's make sure it's in
Speaker 2: a game that counts. So I think that's one part
Speaker 2: of it. The other part I also think is they're
Speaker 2: a balanced team, much like the Dolphins are a balanced team.
Speaker 2: When you practice, again, when this offense practices against this defense,
Speaker 2: you are practicing against what they believe are an elite
Speaker 2: unit in the NFL, and so you're going to have
Speaker 2: iron sharpens iron in your practices, and you don't necessarily
Speaker 2: need to go out in the preseason and face the
Speaker 2: backups for New Orleans in order to get yourself ready
Speaker 2: for a regular season game against the Dolphins. You're you know,
Speaker 2: they love the joint practices. They went hard in those
Speaker 2: joint practices against a very talented Saints team, and they
Speaker 2: felt like they get more out of that than they
Speaker 2: do plaan their starters in a regular season game. So
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry in a preseason game. So that's
Speaker 2: the thought process behind it. If it were me, I'm
Speaker 2: a little more in the Mike Tomlin you know kind
Speaker 2: of category which I believe he stole the saying from
Speaker 2: Bill Parcells, which is, you know, it's hard to win
Speaker 2: a boxing match if you don't spar So, I think
Speaker 2: that's how I do it. But I understand it, and
Speaker 2: I you know, like I said, I think both the
Speaker 2: Dolphins and the Chargers are fortunate that they're very talented
Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball. And these you know,
Speaker 2: in practice every day you're going against any elite offense
Speaker 2: versus an elite defense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the entire job, right, give and take and
Speaker 4: trying to find the pros and cons to the multiple
Speaker 4: decisions you make every single day as a head coach.
Speaker 4: Money we end these chats every single way on the crossover,
Speaker 4: opponent beat writer or radio man, whatever it might be,
Speaker 4: here podcasts, here on drive time, and I always ask
Speaker 4: the Chargers will win the game if and the Dolphins
Speaker 4: will win the game if, like, what are your keys
Speaker 4: for victory for both teams?
Speaker 2: Here on Sunday, Well, I think Chargers win the game
Speaker 2: two things. One, I think prevent explosive plays. Obviously you're
Speaker 2: playing the Dolphins, right, but that beyond Tyreek Hill and
Speaker 2: Jalen Waddle and how good this offense was. It being explosive.
Speaker 2: It was just a team that the statistics can be
Speaker 2: a little misleading because it wasn't like down in and
Speaker 2: down out. They were terrible against the run. They would
Speaker 2: just miss assignments and teams would rip off sixty yard
Speaker 2: runs in forty yard runs and like that's what so
Speaker 2: much of their their issue was on defense. Last year,
Speaker 2: they'd be given up third, they'd be like third nineteen
Speaker 2: and a missed assignment would allow that to be converted
Speaker 2: far too often. So they've got, you know, when they've
Speaker 2: got a team behind the sticks, they got to cash
Speaker 2: that in on third down and prevent those explosives because
Speaker 2: I think they gave up more explosive runs than any
Speaker 2: team in the league last year. The second thing would
Speaker 2: be they got to win the third quarter like they
Speaker 2: have had far that. This was in the game last
Speaker 2: year against the Dolphins, right, they're smoke of the Dolphins
Speaker 2: and next thing you know, you're like, holy Cole, they
Speaker 2: could lose this game. You know. Yeah, they let teams
Speaker 2: back in way too much last year. So that's that's
Speaker 2: the charger side. Dolphins just run the ball man like
Speaker 2: I was so surprised last year, and like you said,
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel acknowledged it. It's like, man, you've got this is
Speaker 2: a team that's given up explosives and you've got one
Speaker 2: of the fastest players in the NFL and Raheem and
Speaker 2: Jeff Wilson, you know how explosive he is. Like, I
Speaker 2: expect them to come out and test to see if
Speaker 2: what I just said is true, if this defense is
Speaker 2: fixed against the run, because once you get that thing going,
Speaker 2: now you're talking about shot plays or opening up because
Speaker 2: they got to commit resources to try to slow that
Speaker 2: thing down. So I think if they're effective running the ball,
Speaker 2: it's it could end up being a long day for
Speaker 2: the Chargers. Second is you know Vic vic Fangio when
Speaker 2: he was with the Broncos, and you know they had
Speaker 2: good pieces on defense. You know, a couple of those
Speaker 2: games he gave Herbert fits. And I think if coach
Speaker 2: is as good as we all know he is, and
Speaker 2: this roster is as talented as it is on that
Speaker 2: side of the ball, that'd be The other thing is
Speaker 2: is it one of those Vic Fangio games that we've
Speaker 2: seen when he was with Denver that frustrates Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2: So that's I think that's I think that sounds about right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you covered it pretty well there. It's
Speaker 4: one of the best games on the schedule this weekend.
Speaker 4: He's one of the best play by play guys in
Speaker 4: the entire business. You can find him on the call
Speaker 4: for those Chargers games, on Petros and Money and on
Speaker 4: social at Matt money Smith. Matt, thank you again for
Speaker 4: your time, sir. I really really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You got it, Travis looking forward to this one.
Speaker 4: And there he goes, the great Matt money Smith. I
Speaker 4: was telling him before we got on the podcast or
Speaker 4: on the air how much I loved his previous sound
Speaker 4: drops on the Around the NFL podcast. The Voice of
Speaker 4: God as it were on that show doesn't do it anymore,
Speaker 4: but I miss him in that capacity either way. One
Speaker 4: of the best play by play guys in the country
Speaker 4: and has, in my opinion, the best color commentators and
Speaker 4: Daniel Jeremiah in that booth. So I know you're not
Speaker 4: gonna listen to Charges Radio on the game on Sunday,
Speaker 4: but it's a pretty good booth they have out there
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles. We have a football game tonight, the
Speaker 4: Chiefs hosting the Lions for Thursday Night Football Kickoff. I'm
Speaker 4: going to enact my old man habit of getting a
Speaker 4: dairy Queen blizzard and watching the game not by myself.
Speaker 4: Have a couple buddies coming over tonight for the first
Speaker 4: time in a long time, Caroline and Cameron looking forward
Speaker 4: to that as well. But let's go ahead and pick
Speaker 4: these games this week. Last year, I was one eighty
Speaker 4: nine and eighty and two two ties on the NFL schedule,
Speaker 4: also one for your game because the Bengals and Bills
Speaker 4: were canceled. On the podcast. We've been doing this for
Speaker 4: This is the third year we'll pick the games every
Speaker 4: single game. So the two year cumulative record three hundred
Speaker 4: and seventy seven wins, one hundred and sixty three losses,
Speaker 4: three ties, And I didn't put the percentage ups. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna do some live math for you guys right now
Speaker 4: on the air. Three seventy seven plus one sixty three
Speaker 4: is five point forty three seventy seven divided by five
Speaker 4: forty That is a sixty nine point eight win percentage.
Speaker 4: If you round up at seventy percent, that's the goal.
Speaker 5: Baby.
Speaker 4: So we're hoping to hit seventy percent this year, Why
Speaker 4: don't we go ahead and up the annie. Let's try
Speaker 4: to get better, because if you're not getting better, you're
Speaker 4: getting worse, even though you can get the exact same,
Speaker 4: which just makes the whole saying pointless. Let's try to
Speaker 4: get seventy Let's aim for seventy two this year. The
Speaker 4: perfect team, right, seventy two percent is the goal this year.
Speaker 4: How many wins would that be? One hundred and ninety
Speaker 4: two or three? Who cares? Week one Chiefs and Lions.
Speaker 4: This one really conflicts me because I don't want to
Speaker 4: pick against Kansas City because I think Andy Reid, coming
Speaker 4: off of any additional time to prepare as impossible to beat,
Speaker 4: evidenced by Patrick Mahomes's Week one numbers that are basically
Speaker 4: the greatest numbers of all time. I also don't like
Speaker 4: Jared Goff on the road. I think it's been an
Speaker 4: issue for his entire career. Even if it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a nice, sweltering night in the Midwest, and no Chris
Speaker 4: Jones means I think the Lions offensive line is gonna
Speaker 4: whoop the Chiefs butt in the trenches, maybe run the
Speaker 4: ball successfully. I think the absence of Travis Kelcey is massive,
Speaker 4: even as good as Mahomes is. But all that said,
Speaker 4: I'm not going against the defending world champions in their building.
Speaker 4: I think the only time, going back to maybe the
Speaker 4: Ravens and Broncos game, that they flipped the they put the
Speaker 4: game in Baltimore despite the fact that Denver no reverse
Speaker 4: that I was in Denver, despite the fact that Baltimore
Speaker 4: had won the Super Bowl because there was like an
Speaker 4: Orioles game or something, and they flipped it. And then
Speaker 4: the Peyton Manning led Broncos through like six touchdowns in
Speaker 4: that game and beat them. But I think after that
Speaker 4: the only road team to win the opener was the
Speaker 4: Alex Smith led Chiefs Patrick Mahomes's rookie year on the
Speaker 4: road in Foxborough when Kareem Hunt had that like seventy
Speaker 4: five yard touchdown catch. So I'm gonna take the chalk
Speaker 4: and take the team raising the banner, give me the
Speaker 4: Chiefs and the opener Atlanta and Carolina Caroline's awfully banged up.
Speaker 4: I also just don't really believe in their offensive operation
Speaker 4: at this point, and I cannot wait to watch the
Speaker 4: Falcons do their thing and run the football over and
Speaker 4: over and over again. I think they're gonna have a
Speaker 4: kind of Titan South there under Arthur Smith. Give me Atlanta.
Speaker 4: Give me the Browns to continue upsetting the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 4: They seem to have their number for whatever reason. I
Speaker 4: don't believe in their quarterback. I don't want to believe
Speaker 4: in their quarterback. But I think in this instance, Joe
Speaker 4: Burrow coming off the calf that rob him of the
Speaker 4: entire preseason and training camp, might be out to a
Speaker 4: slow start like you had last year. Four picks in
Speaker 4: the opener. Give me the Browns over the Bengals. I'll
Speaker 4: take the Jags over the Colts. I just probably won't
Speaker 4: pick the Colts a whole lot this year, even though
Speaker 4: I love their quarterback. I just think that entire operations
Speaker 4: not great. The Vikings over the Bucks. I'm not going
Speaker 4: to pick the Bucks to win many games this year.
Speaker 4: I think it was four in total. And where is
Speaker 4: that game? I think it's in Tampa. Either way, Give
Speaker 4: me the Vikings to get a win with Kirk Cousins
Speaker 4: over Baker Mayfield, Titans, and Saints. Not many of these
Speaker 4: games really like, I mean, Week one's tough to talk
Speaker 4: about impact games in terms of your playoff standing, but
Speaker 4: there's just not really many games where it's you look
Speaker 4: at it like, oh, that AFC team has to lose
Speaker 4: for us. So there's not a lot of like scoreboard
Speaker 4: watching I think this week. But give me the Titans
Speaker 4: over the Saints, even though it's in New Orleans. I
Speaker 4: think that people are sleeping on the Titans this year.
Speaker 4: They're healthy right now. Their offensive lines not great, but
Speaker 4: Ryan Tannehill's literally never had a good offensive line except
Speaker 4: for like the one year they went to the AFC
Speaker 4: Championship game. I think he'll find a connection with DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 4: I think Derek hen he has a chance to get
Speaker 4: some good push in this game and some good totals.
Speaker 4: I'll take the Titans to win on the road in
Speaker 4: New Orleans. This is the one that I think I'll
Speaker 4: probably watch in the morning, This one. And Cleveland versus Sincy.
Speaker 4: Give me the Niners over the Steelers on the road.
Speaker 4: That everyone's buying the Steelers hype right now, I'm just
Speaker 4: not seeing it as much. I like their defense, I
Speaker 4: like the weapons on offense in their offensive line. But
Speaker 4: we'll see about Kenny Pickett A good preseason does not
Speaker 4: get me as excited about a quarterback that does some
Speaker 4: other folks. Gonn be the Niners to continue doing what
Speaker 4: they do and win football games. I'll take Washington over Arizona.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to pick the Cardinals one time this year.
Speaker 4: I think Washington's going to be a saur Prize playoff team.
Speaker 4: That one's easy. Baltimore over Houston. Houston has some issues
Speaker 4: at tackle right now, their offensive line is awfully banged up,
Speaker 4: and the Ravens I think are going to come out
Speaker 4: and kind of set the league on fire this year.
Speaker 4: Give me Green Bay over Chicago. I know Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: owned the Bears, but I think Jordan Love is going
Speaker 4: to pick up where Rodgers was not very good last
Speaker 4: year and play even better than what Rogers was this
Speaker 4: season ago. Also, I think we're here early on Bears
Speaker 4: hype after a crazy off season full of spending for them.
Speaker 4: Give me the Eagles over the Patriots, although I think
Speaker 4: that could be a little bit closer than maybe some
Speaker 4: folks think. I saw a great tweet from Brett Coleman
Speaker 4: that you guys know who he is talking about how
Speaker 4: the Eagles worst offensive game last year was against the
Speaker 4: Colts and they cover one package they deployed that kind
Speaker 4: of stifled that Eagles offense. Well, no one runs cover
Speaker 4: one better than Bill Belichick. But still give me the
Speaker 4: Eagles in Tom Brady or on Tom Brady Day, I
Speaker 4: should say, in New England, Seahawks over the Rams. I
Speaker 4: wanted to pick the Rams to upset them here because
Speaker 4: those two teams seem to always play really close games.
Speaker 4: But because it's in Seattle, I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 4: take the team that I think is much better in
Speaker 4: this one, Denver over the Raiders. This is a coin
Speaker 4: flip to me. But give me the Broncos because it's
Speaker 4: in Mile High and the Broncos record in September when
Speaker 4: teams have not had a chance to adjust to you know,
Speaker 4: full conditioning. Going up into that altitude and playing is
Speaker 4: very difficult. Honestly, I'm very fifty to fifty on Dolphins
Speaker 4: and Chargers. If you told me we had a healthy
Speaker 4: Jalen Ramsey and a fully healthy Toron Armstead, I would
Speaker 4: take Miami. I still actually am going to take them
Speaker 4: because I just think that we are going to out
Speaker 4: coach them, and I think our quarterbacks can outplay their quarterback.
Speaker 4: Give me the Dolphins over the Chargers, although I'm not
Speaker 4: as convicted as I usually am on those picks. Give
Speaker 4: me the Cowboys over the Giants. One of these teams
Speaker 4: I think is going to go to the Super Bowl
Speaker 4: this year. The other one I think is going to
Speaker 4: disappoint in terms of what their record was a season ago.
Speaker 4: I'll take the Cowboys in prime time, and then the
Speaker 4: Bills over the Jets. Speaking of overhype, I'm just not
Speaker 4: buying it. I think I maybe have undersold it a
Speaker 4: little bit. I think the Jets could still win eight,
Speaker 4: nine to ten games, but I think their opening start
Speaker 4: is going to be critical, and I don't think it's
Speaker 4: going to go off well for them like they had
Speaker 4: hoped it would to kick the season off, because I
Speaker 4: just I don't know, man, like that. That offense has
Speaker 4: so many holes right now, and we don't hear about it.
Speaker 4: I know, like you know, Joey Jets loves telling you
Speaker 4: how Breeze Hall and Dalvin Cooks the best backfield in
Speaker 4: the NFL. Like pound sound with that stuff. Man, Josh
Speaker 4: Allen is still Josh Allen. That defense is healthy again.
Speaker 4: Sean McDermott's a great coach, give me Buffalo over the Jets.
Speaker 4: I hope they do spoil that opra because I didn't
Speaker 4: want that that's hype to chill the f out for
Speaker 4: a little bit. All right, let's go ahead and take
Speaker 4: our last break right there and come back on the
Speaker 4: other side and finish up with the Thursday Narrative. That's
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Speaker 4: new segment we're going to do on the podcast here
Speaker 4: every Thursday. I'm calling it the Thursday Narrative. A storyline
Speaker 4: that develops throughout the week that I think is worth
Speaker 4: pursuing and sharing with you guys. And this week it
Speaker 4: kind of came about naturally. I'm hoping that's how it
Speaker 4: happens every single week about quarterbacks coach Darryl Bevell, and
Speaker 4: I referenced the Jory Epstein piece on Yahoo from earlier
Speaker 4: in the week where she detailed coaches retin a surgery,
Speaker 4: he had, the recovery process, and how he essentially for
Speaker 4: more than a week, was confined to lying face down
Speaker 4: on different you know, massage tables and beds throughout the
Speaker 4: course of his house. So sounds terrible to me, but
Speaker 4: to fill his time, all he really did was watch
Speaker 4: practice tape. There's a great photo in the story of
Speaker 4: coach lying face down on the edge of the bed
Speaker 4: with a tablet that he's watching back the plays from
Speaker 4: that day's work. In fact, coach McDaniel talked about that
Speaker 4: on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Do you want to talk about adversity being an opportunity.
Speaker 2: Show?
Speaker 3: A great way to show people how much you care
Speaker 3: is lay down for a week and just the only
Speaker 3: thing you look at is practice footage endlessly. I you know,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of things that I haven't really gone through.
Speaker 3: I can kind of venture to, I don't know, extrapolate
Speaker 3: what that would be like a week like this, like
Speaker 3: I mean that, So, you know, what was cool was
Speaker 3: the tea moment with that because that little story, which
Speaker 3: you know, people have their own stuff to worry about
Speaker 3: when you know there's so many little stories like that
Speaker 3: where people are sacrificing things, going through things to contribute
Speaker 3: to this team, whether it's coach or player. And I
Speaker 3: think it wasn't lost on on the quarterbacks. You should
Speaker 3: have seen there the first time we talked about it
Speaker 3: after you got the surgery. You should have seen their
Speaker 3: eyes light up when I was like, so, this practice
Speaker 3: is all Bev's got going. He's gonna watch it on
Speaker 3: his iPad for the next twenty four hours, so just.
Speaker 2: You know, live with that.
Speaker 3: And they were like, you know, we're not gonna and
Speaker 3: they and they ended up having collectively, all three of
Speaker 3: them had a really good practice that that particular day
Speaker 3: that it occurred. So I think that is a testament
Speaker 3: to who Bev is, who the players are on this team,
Speaker 3: and kind of how people are all in with each other.
Speaker 4: And when coach Bev was hired, I put together a
Speaker 4: little research packet. Maybybe the wrong phrase there, but I
Speaker 4: went over his career in the entire Dolphins coaching staff
Speaker 4: back in March of twenty twenty two, or maybe it
Speaker 4: was February when they hired him. I can't remember, but
Speaker 4: a few things from that story to me stood out
Speaker 4: was that Aaron Rodgers, Brett Farr of Russell Wilson, quite
Speaker 4: the triumvirent of quarterbacks to have developed their craft under
Speaker 4: one coach, and Bevll was there for all of that.
Speaker 4: And the story that I shared, or in that story
Speaker 4: that I wrote, I shared a link where Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: praised Bevll for correcting some of his basic fundamentals as
Speaker 4: a rookie quarterback from that story, he said, I'm reading
Speaker 4: from the story now. In fact, Rodgers credited Bevell in
Speaker 4: part for helping him undergo a major fundamental change in
Speaker 4: the way he carried the football on his dropbacks. At
Speaker 4: the University of California, Rogers was taught to hold the
Speaker 4: ball high near his ear hole of his helmet at
Speaker 4: all times. He needed to change that in the NFL.
Speaker 4: That process continued under Mike McCarthy, who was hired in
Speaker 4: two thousand and six to replace Sherman, and under McCarthy's
Speaker 4: first quarterback coach, Tom Clements. At cal Rogers said quote,
Speaker 4: we were very robotic in the way we dropped and
Speaker 4: obviously the way I held the football, so being able
Speaker 4: to naturally on my own lower the ball to where
Speaker 4: I was throwing at a butte college and in high
Speaker 4: school to learn to tie my feet with the route
Speaker 4: time my feet, I should say with the first was
Speaker 4: the first important lesson in the league. And I do
Speaker 4: appreciate Coach Bevel's help with that end quote. And yesterday
Speaker 4: I asked to a tongue Bai Loa about the relationship
Speaker 4: between he and Daryl Bevell and how it has evolved
Speaker 4: in the second year together. You might recall toua last
Speaker 4: year talking about how coach had his family over to
Speaker 4: their residence for dinner and a movie. So I was
Speaker 4: just curious to find out how the relationship has blossom
Speaker 4: further here in the second year together.
Speaker 2: It's been really good.
Speaker 1: It's been really good. You know, he's someone that's very
Speaker 1: detail oriented. He doesn't let anything, you know, slide when
Speaker 1: you think it's like, ah, he won't catch that that's where.
Speaker 2: You've gone wrong.
Speaker 1: And he's helped that. He's helped us tremendously. He's yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of things that probably shouldn't share,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he he helps us a lot.
Speaker 4: McDaniel to mention, you know, the eye surgery he had
Speaker 4: and the impact of you know, the meeting and showing
Speaker 4: him laying down. I just wanted to get your perspective
Speaker 4: on all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that that just shows you the dedication
Speaker 1: he has to the game. You know, he always wants
Speaker 1: to be there for his guys. So we thought it
Speaker 1: was hilarious seeing that he he had to be down
Speaker 1: with one eye covered.
Speaker 5: I mean, I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I couldn't stay down like that.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 4: I think that detail emphasis is so important and for
Speaker 4: anybody really, it can be hard to stay hardwired into
Speaker 4: a task repeatedly for six days a week, really all
Speaker 4: day long. And hell, even I have some great people
Speaker 4: here that look after me and stay on top of me,
Speaker 4: that consistently challenged me to develop new and exciting content ideas.
Speaker 4: And quite frankly, I think drive time right now is
Speaker 4: as good as it's ever been. And some of that
Speaker 4: guidance is a big reason why to just relate those
Speaker 4: two things together, Let's go back to Frank Smith, and
Speaker 4: you heard coach rather to talk about Coach Bebel's attention
Speaker 4: to detail. So first thing that comes to mind when
Speaker 4: Frank Smith thinks about Coach Beble and his impact he's
Speaker 4: had on him.
Speaker 5: As a coach, you deal with guys who are just
Speaker 5: very they go through it, and you know, it's not
Speaker 5: like it's week nine, week fifteen, week one, all right
Speaker 5: the first day you got here. He's just a very
Speaker 5: detailed guy who understands has been a part of a
Speaker 5: lot of good football and coached a lot of great players.
Speaker 5: I mean, hell, what was it two weeks ago? We
Speaker 5: were joking about something and then we pulled up the
Speaker 5: Saints Vikings playoff game from nine in the NFC Championship
Speaker 5: game because we're talking about Brett Favre and his ability
Speaker 5: and is just courage in the pocket. And it was
Speaker 5: like it flashed us back because then I got to
Speaker 5: New Orleans right after that season, and then we opened
Speaker 5: with the Vikings to start that season in ten. And
Speaker 5: you know, his wealth of experience is great. I mean everything,
Speaker 5: Like I think we talked about before, it's perspective and
Speaker 5: who you work with. You know, if we all came
Speaker 5: from the same place I thought the same thing, had
Speaker 5: the same viewpoint, right, it'd be a pretty boring day,
Speaker 5: you know. I mean we'd all just kind of go
Speaker 5: like we're good. When you deal with guys with perspective
Speaker 5: and you know, and expertise like he has, it's been awesome,
Speaker 5: And I think that's the great part of our staff
Speaker 5: is that the perspective from everyone.
Speaker 4: And it's not just quarterbacks that coach has had this
Speaker 4: impact on. Doug Baldwin one of my favorite all time
Speaker 4: wide receivers who won with details, knowledge and film study,
Speaker 4: because that's the route for most undrafted free agents. Right.
Speaker 4: But when he retired, he tweeted a photo of he
Speaker 4: and Coach Bev and had the caption, don't forget the coaches.
Speaker 4: There will be good ones and there will be better ones.
Speaker 4: You will come to appreciate the great ones even if
Speaker 4: others don't.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 4: When he was in Seattle, Bev went up against coach
Speaker 4: Fangio yearly and what to me was the best rivalry
Speaker 4: in the NFL maybe in the last decade, at least
Speaker 4: close to it. Here's Coach Fangio on Coach Bev.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean when I was with the Niners and
Speaker 6: he was with the Seahawks, you know, we were probably
Speaker 6: over that two three year stretch, the two best teams
Speaker 6: in the league, and we had some really good battles.
Speaker 6: And we've talked about him a little bit here and there,
Speaker 6: but he's a really good coach. He's doing a great
Speaker 6: job with the quarterbacks here. I always have had a
Speaker 6: lot of respect for him. Think he has a good
Speaker 6: knowledge of what it takes to win in this league,
Speaker 6: not just to accumulate stats. And I always had a
Speaker 6: lot of respect, and now that I've got to know him,
Speaker 6: my respect was justified.
Speaker 4: And to put a boat on all of this from
Speaker 4: my Miami Dolphins dot Com story from I guess eighteen
Speaker 4: months ago, Bevill has overseen ten top ten offenses six
Speaker 4: times in his career. And I wrote that in before
Speaker 4: last season. And while Bev wasn't the OC here, I
Speaker 4: think it's pretty clear that the impact he did have
Speaker 4: on this team another top ten offense last year. So
Speaker 4: he's been an integral part of the development of offenses,
Speaker 4: but also some unique players like Percy Harvin, Jermaine Wiggins,
Speaker 4: Chester Taylor, guys that had multiple roles and offenses, and
Speaker 4: of course less others. And you can now add quarterback
Speaker 4: to a tongue by Loo to his resume of curating
Speaker 4: increased production from a player's previous accomplishment. So there you go.
Speaker 4: That's the Thursday narrative, that is the Thursday podcast. Let's
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