Speaker 1: Chief said a power pistol.
Speaker 2: Look here, they will shift to Kelsey.
Speaker 1: Kelsey's in a wildcat position and to.
Speaker 3: Give it off the Worthy on the right side.
Speaker 4: Worthy sneaks out of the hands out touchdown Kansas City
Speaker 4: on an RPO and from Travis Kelsey and Lauren nut
Speaker 4: shoulder and ducking under the defender and the Chiefs go
Speaker 4: up twenty.
Speaker 3: Two to thirteen. That was Mitch Holtis wda F. The
Speaker 3: Saints thought they were in the game for just a
Speaker 3: second and the Chief said, no, thank you. This is
Speaker 3: a one sided affair. Xavier Worthy rushes it in from
Speaker 3: just a few yards out on the way to a
Speaker 3: twenty six to thirteen victory. Welcome to NFL Daily, where
Speaker 3: we wouldn't do anything stupid like picking the New Orleans
Speaker 3: Saints in Arrowhead. I'm Greg Rosenthal. I'm in the Chris
Speaker 3: Westleyan pod studio and so excited to be joined by
Speaker 3: Bridget Condon for the first time, at least in person.
Speaker 3: You did a summer episode with us from Cincinnati, but
Speaker 3: here you are in the studio ready to talk some
Speaker 3: Chiefs and some Saints. Welcome Bridget.
Speaker 5: I know that you guys are probably wondering like how
Speaker 5: do they pick which reporters get to be in the
Speaker 5: studio The one and only Greg Rosenthal. Let me tell you,
Speaker 5: I have been begging this man next to me day
Speaker 5: in and day out.
Speaker 3: It's like a full time job.
Speaker 5: Probably I spend more time doing that job than my
Speaker 5: actual job, begging on my hands and knees to just
Speaker 5: allow me one minute of his time for his beautiful
Speaker 5: NFL Daily podcast that has been incredible since its inception,
Speaker 5: And now finally I get the chance to sit beside
Speaker 5: because I think nobody else could make it tonight.
Speaker 3: Now, no, that is not it. We were downstairs doing
Speaker 3: the coverage on Channel five. So if you're in the UK,
Speaker 3: maybe you watched this bridget does that every week. I'm
Speaker 3: popping in here and there, and yeah, we got to
Speaker 3: walk right upstairs. But I'm glad you brought up the
Speaker 3: elephant in the room right off the bat, which is yes,
Speaker 3: you have been You're very persistent, and you're hilarious, and
Speaker 3: you're you're a mask like me, and look, we got
Speaker 3: like our sets. I'm not gonna defend myself. We can
Speaker 3: get into that during the show. But I'm just glad
Speaker 3: that you're here.
Speaker 5: All I'm saying is, can you guys please give rave
Speaker 5: reviews so that I can come back. It's I'm averaging
Speaker 5: like one episode in this podcast studio a year, but honestly,
Speaker 5: I've got a lot to say tonight. So I think
Speaker 5: this is the beginning of the start of something beautiful.
Speaker 3: I I agree. I think it's it's the beginning of
Speaker 3: big time. Bridget condon Era on the NFL Daily. You
Speaker 3: don't want to just like use all your stars right
Speaker 3: off the bat.
Speaker 5: You want like Xavi, you're worthy, baby son, steady where
Speaker 5: I was going with that. You want to like sprinkle
Speaker 5: it in. Thank you Eric, our producer coming in on
Speaker 5: a Monday night. It does feel good to be in
Speaker 5: the studio on a Monday night. It's what the and
Speaker 5: the Saints deserve.
Speaker 3: And I'm glad we started with that highlight because that drive,
Speaker 3: that possession, to me was kind of this game in
Speaker 3: a nutshell. For a second, Bridget, we're doing this game.
Speaker 3: We stupidly picked the Saints, which is really ridiculous. OK,
Speaker 3: for yourself, I mean you picked the Saints as well.
Speaker 3: I feel ridiculous. We keep track of the records and
Speaker 3: just what a dumb pick even for them to cover
Speaker 3: was dumb, but they got it to within sixteen fourteen.
Speaker 3: After sixteen thirteen, they missed the extra point. Good point.
Speaker 3: That's why you're you're gonna be in this studio a lot.
Speaker 3: Colin Saunders had that insane interception that we will talk
Speaker 3: about a bit, and for a second you're like, wow,
Speaker 3: this game that the Saints really have been outplayed throughout.
Speaker 3: They're in the game and I'm gonna just go through
Speaker 3: like what happened. Immediately after that, they gave the ball
Speaker 3: the Kareem Hunt for four yards like every Kareem Hunt
Speaker 3: run felt like it was successful. Then they give it.
Speaker 3: Then they throw it to Jujuspis fifty yards wide over.
Speaker 5: He almost looked like he was going into the end
Speaker 5: zone that one Saints defender like came out of the screen.
Speaker 5: But for a second he wasn't on the camera shot.
Speaker 5: I thought he was going straight.
Speaker 3: To the end never a burner, but you know, probably
Speaker 3: not as fast as he used to be. Jujus smiths Uster,
Speaker 3: You're right, but it was just miles of green grass
Speaker 3: in front of him, and Juju's like just running open
Speaker 3: fifty yards like he has. Rod Mayo's turning off the TV.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, like Juju hasn't been this happy since
Speaker 3: he was like doing his tiktoks when he was on
Speaker 3: the Steelers and it was like the number one star
Speaker 3: in the league, or maybe when he was winning the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl as a really important role player for the Chiefs,
Speaker 3: and who knows, maybe he will be again. And so
Speaker 3: he ends up with seven catches for one hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty yards, like what okay.
Speaker 5: How was his first game of more than one hundred
Speaker 5: yards since Week seven of twenty twenty two and that
Speaker 5: was when he was with Kansas City. So he goes
Speaker 5: to New England, doesn't have a single game of one
Speaker 5: hundred yards, like, we're gonna cut you. You're not good
Speaker 5: enough for our team, heads back to Kansas City and
Speaker 5: now has a dominant game.
Speaker 3: That the Patriots are paying him a lot of money
Speaker 3: this year to not be on the Patriots because they
Speaker 3: have offsets in the contract where the Chief's paying whatever
Speaker 3: they're paying them, but all the remaining money that the
Speaker 3: guarantees that the Patriots had, which was like seven or
Speaker 3: eight million, they were like, you're so bad, we don't
Speaker 3: want you on our team tonight. And this is a
Speaker 3: shout out to Ben Solac of ESPN had the stat where, yeah,
Speaker 3: Schuster is one hundred and thirty yards tonight is actually
Speaker 3: more than any Patriots receiver has on the season combined.
Speaker 5: That just feels like the Patriots. I don't know what
Speaker 5: else to say. I'm sorry if you're a Patriots fan listening.
Speaker 5: Also an interesting stat I just saw from our research
Speaker 5: team that one hundred and thirty receiving yards the most
Speaker 5: by a Chiefs receiver since Tyreek Hill was treated.
Speaker 3: Wow. Kind of crazy, right.
Speaker 5: I don't think that coming into this season we would
Speaker 5: be thinking juju Smith Schuster, the number one wide receiver
Speaker 5: for the child. Of course they've dealt has multiple right,
Speaker 5: multiple injuries. He had two catches on the season before tonight.
Speaker 5: I don't think he he's gonna suddenly right but the
Speaker 5: fountain of youth. But he could be a role player
Speaker 5: for them.
Speaker 3: He can help and they are so good at scheming
Speaker 3: guys open. And that was sort of my takeaway from
Speaker 3: these sequences. It's just things were easy except in the
Speaker 3: red zone for the Chiefs. So after that, Jujus Smith
Speaker 3: Suster play hunt for another five yards. Like I said,
Speaker 3: every run is successful. He looks like he has a
Speaker 3: lot of Jews. There's a penalty on the play that
Speaker 3: gets them even closer. Penalties were a big problem for
Speaker 3: the Saints tonight, setting the Chiefs up in advantageous situations.
Speaker 3: And then finally the last play of the drive and
Speaker 3: it took just you know, a couple of minutes. Is
Speaker 3: that direct snap to Kelsey where he hands it off
Speaker 3: to Worthy And we're watching the game and we're just
Speaker 3: so used to this stuff with the Chiefs that it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: they snap it to Travis Kelce, the thirty five year
Speaker 3: old tight end who's that quarterback, and he hands it
Speaker 3: off to the twenty one year old guy who set
Speaker 3: the record at the Combine for the fastest forty and
Speaker 3: he runs in for the touchdown. It's just like, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what Andy Reid does. But it's just that's the
Speaker 3: Chiefs in a nutshell, And I thought it was fitting
Speaker 3: and great for the Chiefs that on their best night
Speaker 3: of the season, which I think this was by a
Speaker 3: good margin, they immediately responded to what the Saints are
Speaker 3: doing and we're like, no, you're not gonna win this game.
Speaker 3: You're not really that competitive. You're not in our league.
Speaker 3: A good friend of mine calls it the fake good Saints.
Speaker 5: I won't say that, but it did look like a
Speaker 5: different These last three games have looked like a different
Speaker 5: Saints team than the first two games. Of course, they
Speaker 5: are dealing with so many injuries themselves. But you talk
Speaker 5: about this offense right coming into this game, it wasn't
Speaker 5: the Chiefs are four and oh, the Chiefs are gonna
Speaker 5: three peet, No, it was the Chiefs are four and oh,
Speaker 5: but they don't look good.
Speaker 3: The Chiefs are four and oh, but their offense hasn't clicked.
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 5: I think they were forty five percent in the red
Speaker 5: zone again tonight two two for six in the red zone,
Speaker 5: or coming into this game forty five percent on the season,
Speaker 5: and then tonight two for six. Patrick Mahomes and the
Speaker 5: offense have you know, in the main key offensive metrics
Speaker 5: some of the worst of the Patrick.
Speaker 3: Mahomes error era.
Speaker 5: But tonight he breaks that six game drought without three
Speaker 5: hundred or more passing yards. So it feels like this
Speaker 5: was maybe the game. Yes, you put all the pieces together.
Speaker 5: You made a good point on Channel five show about
Speaker 5: how it kind of felt like the old school Patriots
Speaker 5: where Bill Belichick gets his you know, sees what weapons
Speaker 5: he has and then figures it out and is like, Okay,
Speaker 5: this is what's going to work this season. This isn't
Speaker 5: And it felt like tonight Andy Reid and this Patrick
Speaker 5: Mahomes offense finally found a way to use all of
Speaker 5: the pieces that they do have. Keep in mind, so
Speaker 5: many are hurt, right. We got the news just before
Speaker 5: the game. Ian Rapaport first reported that Rashie Rice is
Speaker 5: not going to return this season.
Speaker 3: So that huge blow. Yeah, that is a big disappointment
Speaker 3: because there just was uncertainty. They were waiting for the
Speaker 3: swelling to go down, They had to see more, they
Speaker 3: had to do the surgery until they knew. And it's
Speaker 3: framed as good news that it's not going to be
Speaker 3: a torn acl it appears that, but either way, he
Speaker 3: still expected to miss six months not coming back. So
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to rely on Smith Schuster and Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3: You look at the guys who are getting all the yards,
Speaker 3: Michael Hardman and Kareem Hunt, and yeah, spin the dial,
Speaker 3: but you can certainly dial it back to like the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two season. I know Kareem Hunt was in
Speaker 3: Cleveland at that point. So we're mixing different chiefs Era Eras,
Speaker 3: Travis Kelcey with his nine for seventy and you know
Speaker 3: his his girl in the crowd with with her, you're talking.
Speaker 5: About Eras, Yeah, talking about Taylor. I love the way
Speaker 5: that you put that in for the gal. It's in
Speaker 5: my mind today because Bill Belichick. Did you talk about
Speaker 5: that yet?
Speaker 3: No, that was Monday. I don't know exactly what we
Speaker 3: can talk about about the Bill Belichick Instagram picture wearing
Speaker 3: Twitter tailor instaw it was. It was on his girlfriend's Instagram.
Speaker 3: You follow her, they're public, No, but someone you know
Speaker 3: copied it and put it out on Twitter, and well,
Speaker 3: don't think the older follow now. No, even that feels creepy.
Speaker 3: I mean, like forget dating her. But I'm glad they're happy,
Speaker 3: and I'm mostly glad that his Taylor Swift sweatshirt had
Speaker 3: was like chewed on or had the little rip thing
Speaker 3: not chewed.
Speaker 5: But you know the way you just look like the
Speaker 5: image in my mind, okay, it looks like it's it's
Speaker 5: chewed by like your I have I have a young son.
Speaker 3: They chew all their sweatshirts and the way Bill Belichick's sweatshirts. Look,
Speaker 3: that's what his sweatshirts always look like. But no, it's
Speaker 3: because he cuts them and I wanted to see the
Speaker 3: sleeves on it. But I'm very happy, and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: he's out there. He's out there getting work. Just today
Speaker 3: I saw to get off the game for like one second.
Speaker 3: I saw that he's on the Jim Gray podcast with
Speaker 3: a bunch of other coaching legends. He was on the
Speaker 3: Pat mcaffee show earlier today giving like kind of vanilla analysis.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I want a little more when when he's on
Speaker 3: the Manning Cast, at least he dives into like what
Speaker 3: the plays are. And then he was on the Manning
Speaker 3: Cast tonight and I got a text from my wife Emica,
Speaker 3: who said, for the first time ever, Walker turned off
Speaker 3: de Manning Cast and because it's so boring with Belichick
Speaker 3: that he ruins it. I think he ruins. He ruins
Speaker 3: all the fun was the quote, which is like probably
Speaker 3: how a lot of his players felt during his career.
Speaker 5: I think that if he would just pull back the sweatshirt,
Speaker 5: for lack of a better word, he could be really funny.
Speaker 5: But I think that he's still reserved a bit because
Speaker 5: who knows if he'll get back into coaching next year,
Speaker 5: and I don't think he wants to completely give in
Speaker 5: if he then has to go back and try to
Speaker 5: control the locker room and they're like poking fun at
Speaker 5: him for I don't know, doing a TikTok dance or something.
Speaker 3: I think you've nailed it. And to build on that point,
Speaker 3: I don't think he wants to say anything that can
Speaker 3: be used against him when he's a coach next year,
Speaker 3: like he said something negative about a certain player and
Speaker 3: then he goes against that player or he's coaching that player,
Speaker 3: but more likely he's going against it. I think you're
Speaker 3: absolutely right, because I think he does a great job
Speaker 3: when he's in storytelling Bill Belichick mode, and he gives
Speaker 3: old stories and behind the scenes stuff, and sometimes when
Speaker 3: he's a little caustic about you know, the league or
Speaker 3: you know the teams that didn't hire him, he could
Speaker 3: tell he had a little something about the Falcons. Okay,
Speaker 3: let's get back to this game, because you mentioned it.
Speaker 3: Mahomes throws for over three hundred yards, does not need
Speaker 3: to throw the ball deep in this game, And I
Speaker 3: just think it was kind of a masterclass and a
Speaker 3: dominant coaching performance. This is a Saints defense that, yeah,
Speaker 3: has a couple injuries, but not nearly the amount of
Speaker 3: injuries that they do on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 3: They've been building this defense for Dennis Allen forever. I
Speaker 3: picked the Saints in part because I thought their secondary
Speaker 3: would be able to cover this Chiefs team. And what
Speaker 3: do you see, Like it was just easy. It was
Speaker 3: just a lot of like five yard throws with ten
Speaker 3: yards of yak afterwards, and Andy Reid had it all
Speaker 3: over Dennis Allen. Dennis Allen doesn't want to give up
Speaker 3: big plays. Well, he gave up fifty to Smith Schuster.
Speaker 3: He gave up a room long pass interference to Xavier
Speaker 3: Worthy that was on paulsen Adebo. There could have been
Speaker 3: another one of those called earlier in the game. And
Speaker 3: so this is a defense that needs to carry this team.
Speaker 3: And they're good, but they're not good enough. Like they're not.
Speaker 5: But the offense wasn't helping at all. You throw the
Speaker 5: first drive of the game, you throw an interception that
Speaker 5: just took to me, totally offset the entire game because
Speaker 5: their defense. Then very next drive to the Chiefs gives
Speaker 5: up a touchdown that was the first time all season
Speaker 5: they've given up a touchdown in the opening drive, and
Speaker 5: it felt like they were playing catch up the entire time.
Speaker 5: And then we didn't even talk about it. You talk
Speaker 5: about the injuries to the offense. Derek Carr goes down
Speaker 5: at the end of the game, and you know who knows.
Speaker 5: I think that Dennis Allen just said in the press
Speaker 5: conference that it's a right side injury and he doesn't
Speaker 5: have updates.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's just.
Speaker 5: It feels like bad news, fifteen guys on the injury
Speaker 5: report coming into this game turning into even worse news.
Speaker 3: We hope that he's okay, but.
Speaker 5: I don't know what's going on again, and like totally
Speaker 5: different team first two weeks of the season to the
Speaker 5: last three weeks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I looked back at the show that I did
Speaker 3: with my friends, uh from the Saints Block Party podcast.
Speaker 3: Who are going to be back on the show. I
Speaker 3: guess they're going to get back on before you get
Speaker 3: you get back on, but they're probably they're not in
Speaker 3: the studio. Well, I've already better than I've already scheduled them.
Speaker 5: I literally told you for weeks that I'm wide open,
Speaker 5: my schedule open, Greig.
Speaker 3: You call me, I respond, call me. Beat me baby.
Speaker 3: I you know they have you know we have like okay,
Speaker 3: Tuesdays this day, Wednesdays this day, but we have We're
Speaker 3: getting bridget more in the mix. But I just was
Speaker 3: saying this as a way to.
Speaker 5: Pass it because I'm the host on Channel five and
Speaker 5: you feel threatened.
Speaker 3: No, I love not hosting. I'm happy to like, but
Speaker 3: I mean, you feel threatened that I might become the
Speaker 3: host of NFL Daily. I mean, now you're now you're
Speaker 3: going too far. I'm just kidding everybody. I'm joking. We know,
Speaker 3: we know you're joking. It's it's the thing I love
Speaker 3: about you is your your mass. Like me, when I
Speaker 3: move moved out here, I just kept acting like I
Speaker 3: acted in college. People out here don't like it. And
Speaker 3: then in New York certainly, and I just kept getting
Speaker 3: this vibe that's like, hey, he's an , or just
Speaker 3: like he's not very nice. And then you start to realize, like, okay,
Speaker 3: I got you, gotta you gotta pull it back now,
Speaker 3: all right, I'll try not everyone like show's love by
Speaker 3: just brutally picking at like other people's weaknesses. But that's
Speaker 3: how I think that's how I do it, and I
Speaker 3: think it is fun. I'll try to be better. I
Speaker 3: think you do a great job. Greg. Thank you. I've
Speaker 3: now been here for what twelve eleven twelve years. I'm softer.
Speaker 3: I have kids, I'm softer. I'm like, look, I was
Speaker 3: mean enough for some reason that Derek Carr at one
Speaker 3: point block me on Twitter and then yes on the
Speaker 3: on the Around the NFL podcast, we got together with
Speaker 3: David Carr and they unblocked me. So I hope he
Speaker 3: doesn't block me off for anything we're about to say.
Speaker 3: I I just think it was a typical Derek Carr game.
Speaker 3: We'll get into the injury side of it in a second.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought that up. They said bleak officially,
Speaker 3: like the the the broadcast said that, So that was
Speaker 3: what the team said, and that.
Speaker 5: Makes the team said left side in ja left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that must be. It happened on his last
Speaker 3: throw of the night, which was probably his best throw
Speaker 3: the night, maybe the best throw the receiver should have
Speaker 3: either quarterback. Yeah, that was Mason Tipton, which kind of
Speaker 3: points out an issue from this Saints team. Mason Tipton
Speaker 3: is an undrafted player and they're forcing him and they
Speaker 3: don't really have a third receiver. Taysom Hill's not in
Speaker 3: this lineup, and so they're trying to play a little
Speaker 3: more three receiver. And he had a couple third down
Speaker 3: plays where he came up short. That was a play
Speaker 3: where Spagnola gets early pressure. The Saints offensive line was
Speaker 3: really banged up, did not play overall very well tonight,
Speaker 3: and so that was a problem for Derek Carr. He
Speaker 3: contributed to it somewhat too, and he throws a dime
Speaker 3: down the field and he gets hurt really bad. But
Speaker 3: I think that was a really typical car sequence because
Speaker 3: the very play before that, he backs away as if
Speaker 3: there's a ton of pressure in his face. There's a
Speaker 3: blitz coming. You remember this play, there's a blitz coming,
Speaker 3: Bridget and most of the night that blitz was getting
Speaker 3: through and Carr was just having to throw the ball
Speaker 3: against the pressure. But that time actually did they picked
Speaker 3: up the blitz. It held up really well. He had
Speaker 3: a nice clean pocket, but he just started backpedaling and
Speaker 3: throwing it as if someone was right in his face,
Speaker 3: and that throw was there. I think that throw was
Speaker 3: down to a lavee and it was just a bad throw,
Speaker 3: and that was kind of the experience of Derek Carr
Speaker 3: tonight and Derek Carr throughout his career. Like you see
Speaker 3: enough in each game that is really high level quarterbacking,
Speaker 3: and then you see enough that makes you think, I
Speaker 3: can't trust this guy on a week to week basis.
Speaker 5: I think that I don't want to like talk paud
Speaker 5: about Derek Carr because I think that he's a better
Speaker 5: quarterback than a lot of people think he is. I
Speaker 5: think the issue is his offensive line is so beat
Speaker 5: up right now, and especially the center position right like
Speaker 5: the cadence you get from working with your and to
Speaker 5: have two or three different centers since the beginning of
Speaker 5: the season, I think that adds to it. And that throw,
Speaker 5: Like you said, he thought the pressure was coming on
Speaker 5: him and he wasn't, But that to me says that
Speaker 5: he's just not comfortable with that offensive line right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the pressure rate was extremely high in this game. Up.
Speaker 3: I'm looking for a tweet I shared earlier from Catherine
Speaker 3: Terrell from ESPN just to summarize the left tackle. The
Speaker 3: rookie Fuaga is playing through an injury. There is a
Speaker 3: backup at left guard. One left guard, the other left
Speaker 3: guard shifted to center to start this game, Lucas Patrick.
Speaker 3: He got hurt at one point, actually after she even
Speaker 3: tweeted this, and was in and out of the game.
Speaker 3: A backup right guard who is replacing Caesar Ruiz, who
Speaker 3: is getting paid a lot, and then I'm at right tackle.
Speaker 3: Is everyone's favorite punching bag over the last couple of years,
Speaker 3: Trevor Penning, and so like, that's your offensive line.
Speaker 5: And also, okay, let's talk about Chris for a second.
Speaker 5: He had and did you see was it his brother
Speaker 5: the tweet? Did you see the tweet that no, his
Speaker 5: brother put out. I'll find it in a second. He
Speaker 5: had two receptions for ten yards. He was only targeted
Speaker 5: four times. That to me is a question mark. And
Speaker 5: for a while he had only been targeting targeted once.
Speaker 5: I think those next three, Yeah, Jay Cayner came in
Speaker 5: and threw at least one to him. He came into
Speaker 5: the game, I think banged up.
Speaker 3: There. There was a reporter that that saw I'm working
Speaker 3: on something. I don't think he's one hundred percent healthy,
Speaker 3: So I think he's out there gutting through it and
Speaker 3: isn't really Chris o'lovey, But that again points out how
Speaker 3: thin they are that wide receiver.
Speaker 5: And then without Taysom Hill too, right, like he's been
Speaker 5: missing since Week three.
Speaker 3: He came back in briefly helped a lot. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: on off splits for Taysom Hill are crazy that when
Speaker 3: he's been on the field, I think for eighteen drives
Speaker 3: they scored eleven touchdowns and when they've been you know,
Speaker 3: Taysom Hill's not on the off the field, it's really
Speaker 3: the running game that he impacts the most. He runs
Speaker 3: the ball great, but if you looked at what Kamara
Speaker 3: did tonight, you saw that first run that Kamara had,
Speaker 3: Like Kamara's running well, yeah, but he ended up eleven
Speaker 3: for twenty Yeah, how many yards did you get on
Speaker 3: that run?
Speaker 5: Because he only finished with twenty six and I yeah,
Speaker 5: like that first run was majority of those yards, right.
Speaker 3: He could have gone for like a negative four on
Speaker 3: that and he ends up getting positive yards. He had
Speaker 3: a nine yard run. But they just couldn't run the ball.
Speaker 3: And this Saints team isn't going to make sense if
Speaker 3: they can't run the ball. So all the Clinton Kubiak
Speaker 3: love that we were giving and yeah, I didn't finish
Speaker 3: my thought earlier but thinking back to when we had
Speaker 3: the Saints Twitter the block Party podcast on, it almost
Speaker 3: seems like it was like this moment in time, like
Speaker 3: if you were a Saints fan listening to that would
Speaker 3: be like a horror movie. Everyone was so happy. We
Speaker 3: were talking super Bowl, best offensive line in the league,
Speaker 3: and yes, they will be back with me. You're going
Speaker 3: to be back on this show too. It's not a competition.
Speaker 3: Bridget is very competitive. He's like when someone else is on,
Speaker 3: She's like, why why is he on it? Why is
Speaker 3: she on? My boss is going to listen to this
Speaker 3: and be like, hey, we need to talk. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3: I have enough sense that it's okay. You can bring others.
Speaker 3: She's like Weis have you seen have you seen his
Speaker 3: gray hair? Like, let like, let's let's put him out
Speaker 3: to pasture. I'm like, whoa, that's weird. You're getting ages
Speaker 3: about Steve Weis's Bridget that that's.
Speaker 5: See if I love you, I would never ever, ever
Speaker 5: dare say.
Speaker 3: Anything like that. Before we uh take a quick break.
Speaker 3: Let's just hit us a couple. Can I hit one
Speaker 3: thing that we haven't please? Kareem hunt?
Speaker 5: Like we talk about Andy Reid and what he does
Speaker 5: for this offense. We talk about Juju Schuster, we talk
Speaker 5: about Cream Hunt. Kareem Hunt had just one game with
Speaker 5: one hundred or more rushing yards in his five seasons
Speaker 5: with the Browns. He had one hundred and two tonight.
Speaker 5: That is kind of ridiculous, isn't that?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 5: When I saw that stat, I was like, that is
Speaker 5: massive what Andy Reid is doing with these players who
Speaker 5: were backups, were cut from their teams, like didn't have
Speaker 5: a place in the NFL.
Speaker 3: I mean, Browns fans have to be watching this and
Speaker 3: wondering like where was this guy? Because towards the end
Speaker 3: of his Browns career he just looked like a guy
Speaker 3: who had run really hard for a really long time
Speaker 3: and was banged up. And again it's just.
Speaker 5: One game, but I mean, to be able to get
Speaker 5: that much out of these players, that says a lot
Speaker 5: about a Patrick Mahomes. That says a lot about Andy
Speaker 5: Reid and Travis Kelcey. We haven't really talked about him.
Speaker 5: He had a career high nine receptions. Still hasn't even
Speaker 5: found he's high, yes, season high. Yeah, sorry, he still
Speaker 5: hasn't even found the end zone this season.
Speaker 3: No, but seventy yards. They did show him leaving the field.
Speaker 3: I don't know if anyone else saw that, And maybe
Speaker 3: he just got that by week Yeah, girls there, his
Speaker 3: girlfriend's there. Maybe just wanted to get off the field quickly.
Speaker 3: But while everyone is like hugging in everything, he's already
Speaker 3: in the walk to the locker room and looking every
Speaker 3: bit like a guy who you know, just participated in
Speaker 3: forty different car crashes, which is what playing football is.
Speaker 3: Let's actually listen to the Travis Kelcey moment of the night.
Speaker 3: It was a reception, but he didn't end the play
Speaker 3: with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 1: In twenty two, at the forty four yard line of
Speaker 1: the Saints leitting ten to seven again, a four man
Speaker 1: rush quick pass, Kelsey at the forty, coming all the way.
Speaker 3: Across the field, flips it off. He goes to pay Ryn.
Speaker 3: He's at the twenty five. He's close to our first down.
Speaker 4: Kelsey came right the left all the way across the
Speaker 4: field and almost was tackled, and then he shovels.
Speaker 1: It underneath the Sama JP run on an old hooking ladder.
Speaker 3: I mean it's not a hooking ladder in a way,
Speaker 3: because I don't think it could have possibly been planned.
Speaker 3: By the time you listen to this, the news will
Speaker 3: be out of date, whether whether they say it or not.
Speaker 5: Andy Reid was asked about this postgame, and he said
Speaker 5: that they practiced Travis Kelcey's pitches in practice, but I
Speaker 5: don't think it was drawn up in the huddle now.
Speaker 5: It's something they just practiced. So he looked at Smaji
Speaker 5: and is like, you know what's coming on right now?
Speaker 5: And as you mentioned again on the show earlier, like
Speaker 5: if you're a player.
Speaker 3: On this team, you gotta be ready.
Speaker 5: Even if you're thinking you're running down the field, you
Speaker 5: gotta be ready to cash that ball if he's looking
Speaker 5: at you.
Speaker 3: That was awesome, And yes, so I guess I think
Speaker 3: they've practiced that almost as part of the offense. This
Speaker 3: is something that could happen with Kelsey gets the ball,
Speaker 3: but it's not part of that specific play. And I
Speaker 3: know that because p Ryan for a second gets in
Speaker 3: the motion like he is going to run to block
Speaker 3: for Kelsey, and then he kind of looks up, he
Speaker 3: sees Kelsey and he realizes that's not the move. There. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they had another play, another trick play that did not
Speaker 3: work out. Earlier Alantae Taylor was all over. I love
Speaker 3: Alonte Taylor. There are some positives here for the Saints,
Speaker 3: like Marshall Lattimore and Alonta Taylor are playing really well,
Speaker 3: and he got Carson Steele to fumble on another play.
Speaker 3: They are not going to give Carson Steel the ball
Speaker 3: much more because he has been a part of a
Speaker 3: lot of negative plays. I do want to say before
Speaker 3: we move on from the recap that Mahomes's ability to
Speaker 3: scramble is somehow getting better. As on his footwork.
Speaker 5: Maybe he's going to some of the practices for Swift's
Speaker 5: dance team, because the way that he is stepping, I
Speaker 5: don't know what He's just trying to get his ten
Speaker 5: thousand steps on his Apple watch or what some.
Speaker 3: Of those Some of that footwork was impressive. Okay, So
Speaker 3: there was the play in the inside the ten yard
Speaker 3: line where he just spun around where he yeah, he
Speaker 3: pivoted with off his left foot because he saw a
Speaker 3: defender then there and just completely spun and then throw
Speaker 3: to a pretty open receiver in the end zone. At
Speaker 3: this point, I was just thinking, like, is he just
Speaker 3: doing this stuff because he wants to feel a little alive?
Speaker 3: You know, like he's just like a little board, like
Speaker 3: I'm here week five, like I've done this all before,
Speaker 3: I got to do more stuff. That's what it felt
Speaker 3: like to me. Then there's another play where the Saints
Speaker 3: have an absolutely crazy defensive formation where they have nine
Speaker 3: or eight guys lined up on the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 3: all standing up, and a bunch of them drop out,
Speaker 3: like just total Dennis Allen's in the lab like cooking
Speaker 3: up this great stuff and it works. They confuse Mahomes.
Speaker 3: He's like, what's going on here? He freezes and then
Speaker 3: he's like, oh, I guess I'll just outrun every He
Speaker 3: went to the corner for seven yards, get the first
Speaker 3: down and completely ruin your play. And then that sets
Speaker 3: up what was one of the better scrambles of Mahomes' career.
Speaker 3: Let's listen to that.
Speaker 1: Perron is in it running back. Nelson's had a very
Speaker 1: productive night. He comes in chipped out motion. Now Mahomes
Speaker 1: he's got time moving around, shifting the feet, and now
Speaker 1: he's in trouble and he's gonna.
Speaker 3: Tell about everybody talks by it. I've got there. He's
Speaker 3: stretching out the football on the near side.
Speaker 1: Shades of the Houston game in the AFC Championship of
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: I mean that is okay. People are getting annoyed. I
Speaker 3: think of just like Mahomes and Chiefs. People are getting
Speaker 3: tired of it. It's like how they were with the Patriots. Right,
Speaker 3: yes to Mahomes. As long as he's doing that and
Speaker 3: giving us these fun plays, I'm with it. What I
Speaker 3: don't like is the boring Chiefs, which is what they
Speaker 3: were for good chunks of last year and for much
Speaker 3: of the first month. Offensively, this was a much better performance.
Speaker 3: They finished with twenty eight first downs four hundred and
Speaker 3: sixty yards. That is an old Chiefs score line five
Speaker 3: and zero. And they head into their by just feeling
Speaker 3: great about life. They have the forty nine ers after
Speaker 3: the bye, and they bullied the Saints. They were stronger
Speaker 3: than them up front on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 3: The Saints want to be bullies, but they got bullied.
Speaker 3: Before we move on though, I keep saying that, but
Speaker 3: I'm just having so much fun. Like Eric told me
Speaker 3: the time in my ear of how long we've gone,
Speaker 3: It's been a while already.
Speaker 5: Really, and it's just like I feel like it's been
Speaker 5: five minutes. We're just never getting out of this chair.
Speaker 3: We're we're having a good time, and that's a credit
Speaker 3: to you. Maybe maybe we got to be in here
Speaker 3: every Monday night. Now, Nick shook his feeling that he's saying, like,
Speaker 3: what's happening here? I wanted to just give some love
Speaker 3: to Colin sand Saunders. This guy. They're okay, where do
Speaker 3: we even begin.
Speaker 5: Let's begin on the broadcast how they were talking about him,
Speaker 5: and they were saying that his brother leave. His name
Speaker 5: is Cameron was there. His brother is a backup dancer
Speaker 5: for Taylor Swift. Okay, and so they were asking his brother,
Speaker 5: who are you rooting for? Are you rooting for your
Speaker 5: brother who is a player on the Saints team, or
Speaker 5: are you rooting for your boss Taylor Swift whose boyfriend
Speaker 5: plays for the Chiefs. As they're telling this story, he
Speaker 5: gets an interception. The big boy takes it thirty six yards.
Speaker 5: One of my favorite plays the night.
Speaker 3: It was outstanding and it was a play worthy of
Speaker 3: our best announcer in the game, Kevin Harlan. Take it away.
Speaker 2: Here we go shucking down in gold, the homes and
Speaker 2: the gun, the two in New Orleans. P Ryan in
Speaker 2: motion there's a shotgun, snap the big cord off the
Speaker 2: cook forth the goal whil it's deflected and it's intercepted
Speaker 2: on the play by Saunders. He runs the big Man
Speaker 2: the ten. Here's Sode line twenty. I'm the nether side
Speaker 2: line thirty. Got a blocking from behind. The former chief
Speaker 2: is taken down the Saints big man got it on
Speaker 2: the rokachhet at the goal line on a pass intended
Speaker 2: for Smith Schuster.
Speaker 3: A thick pick pick. Forget the thick six. It's the
Speaker 3: thick pick. One of the moments of the year. Throw
Speaker 3: the next gen stats on this. I just saw this
Speaker 3: screen thick six. I love that phrase.
Speaker 5: He reached the top speed of fifteen point seven nine
Speaker 5: miles per hour. That is the third fastest speed by
Speaker 5: a ballcarrier who weighs over three hundred.
Speaker 3: And twenty pounds.
Speaker 5: I don't win twenty pounds, and I don't think I
Speaker 5: could get up to fifteen.
Speaker 3: No, you definitely can't. I don't think. I mean I
Speaker 3: couldn't either, right, I get I would have It's incredible.
Speaker 3: I would have to do the math. But this is
Speaker 3: was he a running back in high school? He was
Speaker 3: It was nearby in Missouri, they mentioned, and yeah, that
Speaker 3: essentially gave the Saints second life, gave us some entertainment
Speaker 3: on what was otherwise starting to feel just like a
Speaker 3: slow death march of this like a one sided game,
Speaker 3: and that they were play is a play I'm gonna
Speaker 3: remember all sees it and sometimes that's what these games
Speaker 3: are about. We learned something. We'll find out if Derek
Speaker 3: Carr is healthy enough to play next week, which is
Speaker 3: really important. We'll get more reporting on that. The Chiefs
Speaker 3: look better than ever. But ultimately from this game like
Speaker 3: that just gave us a shot of joy in the studio.
Speaker 3: That in one of the best interceptions, and you just
Speaker 3: never know when that play is gonna happen. Thank you
Speaker 3: to collins On.
Speaker 5: We got the shovel pass, we got the fixed six.
Speaker 5: What more could you need for a Monday night?
Speaker 3: We could need a little bit of news, So we're
Speaker 3: gonna take a quick break. We're gonna hit some news
Speaker 3: very quickly, and if you're a fan of these Monday
Speaker 3: night shows, you know we wrap up with our players
Speaker 3: of the.
Speaker 5: Week and then we're gonna drive home fun. This is
Speaker 5: like your nighttime drive on the NFL Daily. Thanks for listening,
Speaker 5: Stick around, as we return with your news, remember to
Speaker 5: call into the hotline one eight hundred NFL Daily. We'll
Speaker 5: give you our advice after the.
Speaker 3: Break back on NFL Daily and uh yeah, Bridge's coming back.
Speaker 3: I mean I have no choice in the matter that
Speaker 3: people are gonna demand it. I demand it.
Speaker 5: You know what we could do for a segment coming
Speaker 5: off of that music, can we do like advice with
Speaker 5: Bridget calling one eight hundred NFL Daily And and like
Speaker 5: you you write to us you need advice on your
Speaker 5: team or like how you should handle a situation your
Speaker 5: girlfriend is like not letting you watch the London games
Speaker 5: because she wants you to stay in bed something and
Speaker 5: we'll handle it on the advice segment.
Speaker 3: I love that. So that's giving you what you called it,
Speaker 3: miss Delilah vibes. I don't even remember, no, not Miss Delilah,
Speaker 3: just Delilah.
Speaker 5: Like I remember this is a very only Boston people
Speaker 5: will remember this. Like going to the Cape on the weekend,
Speaker 5: driving back Sunday night, it's late and like Delilah is
Speaker 5: on the radio and she's like, you know, like she
Speaker 5: would play jewel and like you know, slow love songs
Speaker 5: and you could call into Delilah what.
Speaker 3: Do you want to Yeah, I was thinking more. I
Speaker 3: thought you were referring to more like of a Miss
Speaker 3: Cleo vibe. That music, though, reminds me more of a
Speaker 3: seventies or sixties game show, a seventies like match game
Speaker 3: that is coming back from break. You don't even know
Speaker 3: what match game is. But I was once like a
Speaker 3: production no, a production assistant on the program Most Outrageous
Speaker 3: Game Show Moments three I Believe and four, hosted by
Speaker 3: Chuck Woolvery, where I just watched game shows all day long.
Speaker 3: That's now you're the host. That's what everyone says that
Speaker 3: that's a cool job to just watch old like password
Speaker 3: episodes all day long. But after like a week or so,
Speaker 3: after like a couple months of it, it gets pretty old,
Speaker 3: you kind of go a little crazy. All right, let's
Speaker 3: do some news, Eric, all right, So I mentioned the
Speaker 3: Rashi Rice news from Ian Rappaport. He will I'll not
Speaker 3: be back this season, and we're looking to find out
Speaker 3: I did at Sometimes, you know, if you're connected with rapport,
Speaker 3: I'm like, what's up with Pachecko? I never heard any
Speaker 3: backup on pachecko Ian's like I had reported it six
Speaker 3: to eight weeks and I said yes, but Andy Reid
Speaker 3: said after that that they're not sure if he's going
Speaker 3: to come back this season. So if you see an
Speaker 3: Ian Rappaport report in the next day or two about Pachecko,
Speaker 3: give me the credit that I was like, go go
Speaker 3: find that out, like fantasy owners, That's why I'm asking. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they want to know. But the Rashi Rice news uh
Speaker 3: is big for the Chiefs injury wise this week, Nico Collins,
Speaker 3: we found out from the Texans coach Tomko Ryans is
Speaker 3: going to be weak to week with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 3: He suffered that injury while scoring a touchdown.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he leads the league with five hundred and sixty
Speaker 5: seven receiving yards. You know, coach did say he's in
Speaker 5: good spirits, but that's a blow, and it felt like
Speaker 5: he and c. J. Stroud were finally getting their you know,
Speaker 5: stride together, working together, going to give more time, I
Speaker 5: guess to Stefan Diggs, tankdal Dell, and Dalton Schultz. But
Speaker 5: without him on the field Sunday after he got hurt,
Speaker 5: they were limited to just nine points and those came
Speaker 5: from three field goals. So it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 5: how this offense adjusts if he's not out there on
Speaker 5: the field.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a big issue for them because
Speaker 3: I think they've been too reliant on CJ. Stroud and
Speaker 3: Nico Collins just making magic. I kind of don't think
Speaker 3: their system is working incredibly well because I look at
Speaker 3: c J. Stroud and I'll save it. I'll save it
Speaker 3: for future shows. This is not the CG. Strat Show.
Speaker 3: But I think he and Nico Collins were playing as
Speaker 3: well as any quarterback wide receiver combination in the league,
Speaker 3: and yet the total numbers of the team aren't amazing,
Speaker 3: So that's a concern for them. I am can curious
Speaker 3: what you think about what's going on in New England.
Speaker 3: Now we got I'm glad we're talking about it. It's
Speaker 3: in the name of the show. It's NFL Daily, so
Speaker 3: I have a Unfortunately, like this show, this dudes will
Speaker 3: get updated. I think we're gonna hear from Drake May.
Speaker 3: I think he is going to be the quarterback, but
Speaker 3: as we're taping this, we don't know.
Speaker 5: Well, they won't to announce it until quarterbacks don't talk
Speaker 5: till Wednesday, so it won't be outdated tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Might might be might not be outdated soon. You never
Speaker 3: know if a report comes out. But just the way
Speaker 3: drowd Mayo sounded not fully backing to Kobe Brissett. Usually
Speaker 3: when you do that on a Monday, a change half coming,
Speaker 3: do you want you want it to happen? That's more okay.
Speaker 3: So here's my question.
Speaker 5: My question is what's different now than the beginning of
Speaker 5: the season, Because we knew this was going to happen, right, Like, yes,
Speaker 5: they found a way to win Week one against the
Speaker 5: Bengals and everyone kind of thought, oh my god, there's
Speaker 5: hope for this team. Maybe they're better than we thought.
Speaker 5: This offensive line has been a struggle throughout the entire
Speaker 5: training camp. They were switching guys in and out. They
Speaker 5: just didn't have I mean, even going back to last season,
Speaker 5: this offensive line, the lack of weapons, the lack of receivers,
Speaker 5: the lack of tight ends. Like we knew that this
Speaker 5: Patriots team was going to be an issue. So and yes,
Speaker 5: Jacoby Brissett made some throws we talked about earlier that
Speaker 5: could have been better. But what is the point. This
Speaker 5: is what I don't get And maybe you can answer me.
Speaker 5: And I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. I just
Speaker 5: am trying to understand what is the point of putting
Speaker 5: Drake May in there now?
Speaker 3: I think because you want to see what he can do,
Speaker 3: You want to see how the offense is.
Speaker 5: So okay, I understand what you're saying. So you you
Speaker 5: put him in there, he gets destroyed. Now you have
Speaker 5: the fan base calling for him, saying.
Speaker 3: Get this guy out of there, who had drown Mayo. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: calling for may now.
Speaker 5: As they did with Bailey Zappi and Mac Brown a
Speaker 5: little different.
Speaker 3: Did I just say Mac Brown, I would like to
Speaker 3: see him play quarterback. He could have maybe played quarterback
Speaker 3: better than Mac Jones did last year. I think the
Speaker 3: difference is their coaches and they they didn't think it
Speaker 3: was going to be this bad. They thought they could
Speaker 3: I disagree. I think they were hopeful that it would
Speaker 3: go by this.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, maybe better than this. And yes, you lose
Speaker 5: to a Dolphins team without their quarterback to a TONGUEO
Speaker 5: vii loa. You should have won that game, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: Should have won that game. Poor clock management row at
Speaker 5: the end of the game. I get that, But what
Speaker 5: is going to happen if Drake may goes in there
Speaker 5: get socked four or five times a game, the Patriots
Speaker 5: or whatever.
Speaker 3: It's football like. So I think you asked the right
Speaker 3: question at the beginning. What's different now between now and
Speaker 3: week one? I think that's a totally fair question. They
Speaker 3: were hopeful it would be better. They've actually what's different
Speaker 3: it is actually the offensive line is even worse. Now
Speaker 3: they've lost two to three left back. You're going to
Speaker 3: put it in in their center, so that that's a
Speaker 3: point against it. They thought, we sign Jakobe Brissett, we
Speaker 3: want to see how he can do. I actually think
Speaker 3: they find value in the five weeks that Drake May
Speaker 3: has just had to see see. I just greek to
Speaker 3: weak process and everything like that. But I don't think
Speaker 3: they wanted to play him. But here's the difference. I
Speaker 3: think the locker room would want to play him because
Speaker 3: they see him in practice every day and they're like,
Speaker 3: this dude is better. And everyone acts with quarterbacks like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, what if he gets destroyed? And I.
Speaker 5: Understand it's the NFL, and you need to like you're
Speaker 5: gonna get destroyed and you're gonna injury.
Speaker 3: Is gonna happen in practice? It can even happen. They're
Speaker 3: throwing out centers that just that just joined the team
Speaker 3: ten days ago to go out there and make the calls?
Speaker 3: Like what about? I under saying that I'm more just
Speaker 3: this is what happens. If you didn't put.
Speaker 5: Mac Jones out there as early as you did and
Speaker 5: you got a you got an offensive line, you got weapons,
Speaker 5: would people have been calling like Boston is such a
Speaker 5: different sports market.
Speaker 3: You know than even Lay. But they're dumb and you can.
Speaker 5: But I understand, But I think that I wonder how
Speaker 5: much of this is outside noise for drawd Mayo. How
Speaker 5: much is he seeing Caleb Williams, how much is he
Speaker 5: seeing Jayden Daniels And how much is he thinking Drake
Speaker 5: making going to the Patriots system and do the same
Speaker 5: thing Chicago And.
Speaker 3: Who did I say?
Speaker 5: Jayden Daniels and Washington are two very different places than
Speaker 5: New England right now. They have two very different types
Speaker 5: of players on their own.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, No one is arguing that Drake may is
Speaker 3: set up for success. He is. I Like I said,
Speaker 3: a lot of quarterbacks play in really brutal situation.
Speaker 5: So you think Drake ma can go out there and
Speaker 5: this Patriots team can contend for the AFC East, of
Speaker 5: course not.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't even think he's gonna play that well.
Speaker 3: I mean in the circuit, why to kill the kids confidence.
Speaker 3: That's where I do disagree. I think, if you're gonna
Speaker 3: be a great NFL player, you'll you'll withstand it. Like,
Speaker 3: he's not gonna play worse than Jared Goff played as
Speaker 3: a rookie. He's not gonna play worse than Eli Manning
Speaker 3: played as a rookie. He's not gonna play worse than
Speaker 3: Alex Smith played as a rookie. And the thing, what
Speaker 3: about Trevor Lawrence. He's not gonna I don't think he's
Speaker 3: gonna play worse than Trevor Awrence played as a rookie.
Speaker 3: But if he did, all of those quarterbacks came back
Speaker 3: and had the careers that they were gonna have. Anyways,
Speaker 3: it's fine. Drake May is so much more talented than
Speaker 3: Jacoby Brissett. Now, I have very little faith that this
Speaker 3: offensive staff is gonna have any solutions, any cohesion. They
Speaker 3: really look like a coaching staff of leftovers, which it
Speaker 3: is harsh, but it's kind of what they were. They
Speaker 3: were all these guys on the other staffs that the
Speaker 3: other teams didn't want to hire, like McAdoo is still
Speaker 3: kicking around like Alex van Pelt. He's the one guy
Speaker 3: in that Stefanski and McVeigh and Shanahan coaching tree. That's like,
Speaker 3: no one was giving him those jobs. No one was
Speaker 3: giving these opportunities. And it's not going well. And maybe
Speaker 3: Drake Macon save them all. He probably can't, but he
Speaker 3: is the most important person in the franchise and he's
Speaker 3: the best quarterback on the team. Let's just see him
Speaker 3: play some football, like, let's get some yards. And if
Speaker 3: it goes poorly, Like, what's that it's going poorly, it's
Speaker 3: not gonna go any worse. Well, what's gonna happen? They
Speaker 3: go from like thirtieth to thirty First, I'll stop talking.
Speaker 3: People are gonna say, who cares about the people? You
Speaker 3: can't worry about the boss.
Speaker 5: I'm not worrying about the media. Yeah, but I think
Speaker 5: a young player that has to deal with media is
Speaker 5: I don't know. Let's let's just see it happen and
Speaker 5: then we can talk in ten weeks and figure out
Speaker 5: who who was right?
Speaker 3: Okay, we will like if he if he really struggled
Speaker 3: for the most part and only showed little signs of him. Well.
Speaker 3: I think he wasn't. He came along a little slowly.
Speaker 3: I think he came on better at the end where
Speaker 3: people thought he was playing better. I think there is
Speaker 3: frustration from the wide receivers to on this team that,
Speaker 3: like Jacoby's just not throwing them the ball. I don't
Speaker 3: think it's Jacoby Brissette's fault, but why not you took
Speaker 3: this kid third overall? Quickly, We're going to go through
Speaker 3: a bunch of injuries. I'm just gonna roll through these, uh,
Speaker 3: and then we'll get onto our players of the week.
Speaker 3: Dax Hill is believed to have a torn acl actually,
Speaker 3: that was confirmed by his coach, Zach Zach Taylor. He's
Speaker 3: the cornerback of the Bengals. Really disappointing for him. He
Speaker 3: was having a good season for them at cornerback. David
Speaker 3: and Joku hurt himself again. It's a new injury. It's
Speaker 3: a knee injury. He's getting an MRI on that. That's disappointing.
Speaker 3: A couple offensive linemen who were playing well or out
Speaker 3: for the season. The Cardinals their guard Will Hernandez, the
Speaker 3: Panthers their center Austin Corbett. Not like flashy teams, but
Speaker 3: actually those have been two of the better offensive lines
Speaker 3: in the league. So that's big news for those teams.
Speaker 3: Those are the strength of those teams. Taylor Moten, the
Speaker 3: Panthers right tackle, is also going to be out this week.
Speaker 3: And then the Cowboys pass rusher Marshawn Nelan has a
Speaker 3: torn meniscus is probably going to be out a month.
Speaker 3: Brutal another player at that position for Dallas. That is
Speaker 3: really scary. Before we move on to our final segment,
Speaker 3: I did just want to mention Hurricane Milton, which is
Speaker 3: bearing down on Tampa. The Buccaneers, just to kind of
Speaker 3: connect it with football, are evacuating Tampa. Like a lot
Speaker 3: of the city, there's a mandatory evacuations in a lot
Speaker 3: of Tampa. The Buccaneers are going to New Orleans actually
Speaker 3: early in this week. They play the Saints on Sunday,
Speaker 3: and so they will be staying in New Orleans, a
Speaker 3: place very familiar with scary hurricanes. And this is the
Speaker 3: reports on this are just I don't know, it.
Speaker 5: Comes after if they just dealt with a hurricane Hurracleen
Speaker 5: just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I mean this is brutal.
Speaker 5: You never want to see any city go through this,
Speaker 5: especially a city that just dealt with this a couple
Speaker 5: of weeks ago. Sarah Walsh, our very own reporter, dealt
Speaker 5: with some scary, scary stuff a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 5: and is getting ready to evacuate once again. And you know,
Speaker 5: our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody in the
Speaker 5: Tampa area. I know, like coming from a news background,
Speaker 5: I had to cover a lot of hurricanes, and I
Speaker 5: know how scary really it is, especially because you don't know,
Speaker 5: and you know, you don't know if it's going to
Speaker 5: be as bad as they say they are.
Speaker 3: You don't know whether you should stay and risk it.
Speaker 5: And you know, of course the word is to evacuate
Speaker 5: if you're in an evacuation area, because this looks bad,
Speaker 5: it looks scary. You know, this is a football podcast,
Speaker 5: and we hope that if you're in those areas, just
Speaker 5: know that we're here whatever we can do to help,
Speaker 5: and hopefully listening to us fight about football can get
Speaker 5: your mind out away from it. But that doesn't dismiss
Speaker 5: how severe and serious of an issue is.
Speaker 3: That it's happening. Yeah, it seems like a bad one
Speaker 3: that kind of snuck up in terms of the severity
Speaker 3: and the strength of the hurricane and how much it's
Speaker 3: grown in the last few days. And so yeah, our
Speaker 3: thoughts are with everyone in the Gulf Coast region. We're
Speaker 3: gonna wrap up the show here. As we do, I
Speaker 3: give you a little bit of homework, Bridget Did you
Speaker 3: do it? Yeah? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: Greg?
Speaker 3: You never? I wouldn't miss that mess up this opportunity.
Speaker 3: Some people say they did the homework and then they freestyle,
Speaker 3: and that's fine as long as you're good at freestyling.
Speaker 3: It's our Captain Morgan Players of the Week time for
Speaker 3: Captain's Corner. What if we have the same resent. I
Speaker 3: haven't even talked about this by Captain Morgan. I guess
Speaker 3: it's possible. I will let you go first, then, ladies first,
Speaker 3: our first time guest, longtime listener. No, you've probably never
Speaker 3: listened to this show. You want it? You're honking about
Speaker 3: wanting to come on?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 3: I will say something.
Speaker 5: Before I got this job at the NFL, it was
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, right after the Super Bowl, right when
Speaker 5: Chris passed, and I used to listen to this podcast
Speaker 5: and I remember I was on a walk in Washington,
Speaker 5: d C. Twenty twenty one right after the Super Bowl,
Speaker 5: and it was the episode where you guys were all
Speaker 5: like talking about how much Chris meant to you and stuff,
Speaker 5: and that is the like one episode that's stuck in
Speaker 5: my mind, and I remember I was like, if I
Speaker 5: ever work at the NFL, like I got to meet
Speaker 5: those guys. They sound like they have such a great
Speaker 5: connection because you know sometimes when you listen to a
Speaker 5: podcast and it's like these two people are talking and
Speaker 5: nobody's listening, like like they're not listening to each other,
Speaker 5: they're not collaborating together, They're just people want to hear
Speaker 5: themselves talk. When I used to listen to Around the NFL,
Speaker 5: it felt like you were just at the table with
Speaker 5: your friends talking football. And yeah, no, I think it's
Speaker 5: one of my favorite shows to listen to. NFL Daily
Speaker 5: has been incredible. You've done an awesome job. I know,
Speaker 5: hosting is okay, okay, forte, okay, fine, host It isn't
Speaker 5: my forte. I mean, like, it's not what you usually do.
Speaker 3: It's not what I usually do. But it's been a
Speaker 3: lot of fun. Now I appreciate everything you said about
Speaker 3: right on that note, you're my player of the week. No,
Speaker 3: I appreciate everything. Yeah that you said there, they're yeah,
Speaker 3: I think of because that was the Tampa super Bowl.
Speaker 3: That was the you know, one of the most brutal
Speaker 3: weekends of our lives obviously, but one thing it did,
Speaker 3: if you, if you want to find a positive about it,
Speaker 3: is no podcasts seem hard. After that, there were some
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say no podcasts seem hard. There were some
Speaker 3: really tough ones this summer. I mean having or having
Speaker 3: it around the NFL and the way that it ended
Speaker 3: and and starting this that was brutal, but honestly, like
Speaker 3: even that week I actually was thinking about like having
Speaker 3: a podcast after Chris died and everything, like nothing will
Speaker 3: ever compare to that in a way that in a
Speaker 3: positive way. And he would remind you me of this
Speaker 3: all the time, like we're just talking football here, like
Speaker 3: you know, like we love football. We're talking football, like
Speaker 3: even though it's our livelihood and there are stresses around
Speaker 3: us and it's our careers and everything we just talked
Speaker 3: about with like when this show is starting, like that's
Speaker 3: all extremely stre life situations, Like nothing will be like that.
Speaker 3: So I appreciate your kind words. Yeah, so never say
Speaker 3: I don't listen. And Captain Morgan is like, what are
Speaker 3: you guys talking about? We want a lighthearted segment about
Speaker 3: players of the week, so give it to me, all right.
Speaker 5: My player of the week is mister Coles Cash himself.
Speaker 3: Okay, Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 5: I love him and I love his story, and I
Speaker 5: just love that people continuously count him out, especially Kirk
Speaker 5: in primetime. And look what he did Thursday night in
Speaker 5: the primetime game over the Bucks to take the lead
Speaker 5: for the NFC South. He had a career high five
Speaker 5: hundred and nine passing yards, four passing touchdowns, and interception,
Speaker 5: and led that game winning touchdown. He tied his career
Speaker 5: high with four passing touchdowns. He just he was everything
Speaker 5: that the Falcons wanted him to be that night, and
Speaker 5: he did it on primetime where everybody could see.
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins is still alive and well, and he is
Speaker 3: my player of the week. I love that choice and
Speaker 3: it sets up one of the most fascinated I stories
Speaker 3: of let's just say the next month of the season,
Speaker 3: because the way they won that game is that replicaal
Speaker 3: can you keep doing it that way? Where he's just
Speaker 3: slinging it in the pocket, barely moving at all and
Speaker 3: just dropping dimes. It was impressive, It was awesome. It
Speaker 3: was a great choice. I'm going similar in the sense
Speaker 3: I'm picking a quarterback who's not always everyone's favorite player.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Daniel Jones just because we were
Speaker 3: talking about this guy you making a face.
Speaker 5: I cover Daniel Jones at Duke, you know, and nice guy.
Speaker 5: He seems like real, nice guy, like I would. We
Speaker 5: were watching the video, you see that type of guy.
Speaker 5: Everyone says, nice guy. No, we were watching the video
Speaker 5: earlier of Sefon Diggs and the Vikings and everyone asking like,
Speaker 5: who would you not want to date your sister and
Speaker 5: they all said, Sapan Digs, I would.
Speaker 3: I would let my sister date.
Speaker 5: Daniel Yes, nice guy, nice guy, great quarterback, that's another question.
Speaker 3: Nice guy though, No, but a good quarterback when he's protected.
Speaker 3: And the reason why I wanted to throw him out
Speaker 3: here is more of like how this season is going.
Speaker 3: I mean, he goes into Seattle. Did he block you
Speaker 3: or something? You're trying to get him done? Block you? No.
Speaker 3: I've always said that if he's protected, he can just
Speaker 3: be like a league average quarterback. I don't mean a positive,
Speaker 3: like he's not a huge positive. They shouldn't have given
Speaker 3: him that contract. But if you protect him, he's not
Speaker 3: like people this year coming to the year is like
Speaker 3: he's the worst quarterback in the league. He's number thirty
Speaker 3: two going into the league year after Week one, I
Speaker 3: was one of the people saying, like, is this game
Speaker 3: in Washington going to be his last start ever for
Speaker 3: the Giants. That was the conversation because he was that
Speaker 3: bad in Week one. If you look at his numbers
Speaker 3: over the last month since Week two total EPA, he's
Speaker 3: like fifth or sixth in the league. I mean, he's
Speaker 3: not that good of a player. He's had some good opponents.
Speaker 3: But my point is they went into Seattle. They dominated
Speaker 3: that game. I watched that game on Monday, and they
Speaker 3: the Seahawks were lucky to even be in that game.
Speaker 3: If you protect him, he was mostly short stuff, accurate,
Speaker 3: and the thing that gave him my Captain Morgan Captain
Speaker 3: of the Week was him trucking defenders like he wanted
Speaker 3: that business, like he saw out I don't know if
Speaker 3: this is the smartest thing for his health long term,
Speaker 3: but he saw Seahawks in his way, whether it was
Speaker 3: going for a first out or not, and he ran
Speaker 3: over them like he is playing with an edge that
Speaker 3: tells me like, hey, I've got this job. I am
Speaker 3: keeping this job. And he's playing pretty well right now.
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Speaker 3: Oh thank you. Bridget what a time here in the
Speaker 3: Chris Westleyan podcast. Dude pretty crazy. It's named after him
Speaker 3: for all of our new listeners, Like it's good, it's
Speaker 3: good to bring Sometimes I just bring him up with
Speaker 3: no context and assume people know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: And so I'm glad you gave some context there. And uh,
Speaker 3: this was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: A lot of fun. Monday is always fun when you're
Speaker 5: in town. I am heading to Thursday night football in Seattle.
Speaker 3: I mean I'm always in town. I live here. Well,
Speaker 3: I see you in the news room like all day
Speaker 3: and you ignore me. No, we we have great conversations.
Speaker 3: I'm not what you're missing thing about Greg. I'll DM
Speaker 3: him and he'll respond to me three days later. I'm
Speaker 3: not like a DM. Yeah, text me? Do you want
Speaker 3: me to respond? Text me? I'm an old You found
Speaker 3: out how old I was today and you were like,
Speaker 3: I was shook. You were a gay. I want to
Speaker 3: know where you get your botox. I wish I look
Speaker 3: so much older than I did a few years ago.
Speaker 3: I looked so much older than I did like four
Speaker 3: hours ago. When this game started. We got to get out,
Speaker 3: We got to drive home. Thank you to Bridge of Condon.
Speaker 3: Thank you to Eric Roberts behind the glass. Let's go, Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Need to win. Your boys. Hey, when the Chiefs are
Speaker 3: looking like a dominant team again, you know football is back.