Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we were smart enough to
Speaker 1: draft Jordan Mason in our fantasy league, but not smart
Speaker 1: enough to play him on Monday Night. I am Greg Rosenthal.
Speaker 1: I'm here in the Chris Westling podcast studio late at night,
Speaker 1: but not as late as it is on the East Coast,
Speaker 1: where it's already Tuesday. The first week of the NFL
Speaker 1: season for twenty twenty four is over, and I'm so
Speaker 1: happy to be joined by Nick Schuk joining me straight
Speaker 1: after writing up the Jets loss to the forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers on Monday Night Football, and sorry for framing it
Speaker 1: that way forty nine Ers fans, but it's Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and his return from an Achilles' injury. The Jets were
Speaker 1: the big story here, Nick, but pretty disappointing in a
Speaker 1: thirty two to nineteen loss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of those rare instances in which, in my
Speaker 2: five points on what we learned to usually try to
Speaker 2: give three to the winning team into the using team.
Speaker 3: I got done.
Speaker 2: I looked up and I went, oh god, there's three
Speaker 2: points of the Jets and they got beat this game
Speaker 2: pretty soundly. But you're right, that's the way the narrative goes,
Speaker 2: and it doesn't overshadow a great knighte for Jordan Mason,
Speaker 2: but the Jets are going to be a story for
Speaker 2: much of the season because of Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when the Jets, you know, with Rogers, it was
Speaker 1: just very interesting to see him back on the field
Speaker 1: after so long. And the score was what thirty two
Speaker 1: to thirteen late in this game before Tyrod Taylor attacks
Speaker 1: on some garbage time, and yet, yeah, let's give jan
Speaker 1: Mason some love. So if you're listening to this, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, you went to bed, maybe over in
Speaker 1: the UK, you didn't stay up to watch the Channel
Speaker 1: five coverage with yours truly on Monday night, you might
Speaker 1: have thought, oh, am I going to get my Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey fantasy points. Nope, nope, Christian McCaffrey was out and
Speaker 1: it was a surprise. We'll get to kind of the
Speaker 1: I don't know whether the forty nine Ers acted honestly
Speaker 1: by keeping him out in this game or not in
Speaker 1: a second, but Jordan Mason looked freaking awesome in this game.
Speaker 1: And that's my biggest positive takeaway before we get to
Speaker 1: the Jets, is that the forty nine Ers offense had
Speaker 1: a three and out on their first drive and then
Speaker 1: scored on nine straight possessions and most of it was
Speaker 1: just with bullyball inside runs. Mike Golik put out on
Speaker 1: Twitter that last year, the forty nine Ers are actually
Speaker 1: the team that ran on the inside the fifth least
Speaker 1: of any team in the NFL, and tonight it was
Speaker 1: all about those inside runs. Jordan Mason winds up with
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty seven yards on twenty eight carries.
Speaker 1: He also had one really nice catch. I didn't think
Speaker 1: he had good hands, but he had a nice third
Speaker 1: down conversion. There were a lot of nice third down
Speaker 1: conversions from brock Purty. But this was about one team
Speaker 1: in the forty nine Ers just saying we're tougher than you,
Speaker 1: we want this more than you. This is going to
Speaker 1: be a little easier than we expected.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty eight carries is the most by any running
Speaker 2: back in the Kyle Shanahan era, according to NFL research.
Speaker 2: Consider consider all the running backs that have occupied this
Speaker 2: back field, not just Christian McCaffrey, but Matt Brida and
Speaker 2: Rahee Moster and Jeff Wilson and Elijah Mitchell. You can
Speaker 2: keep going down the list, and that's the beauty of
Speaker 2: this really is that no coach can be trusted better
Speaker 2: than Kyle Shannan to get the most out of a
Speaker 2: running back. You've never heard of. How many of you
Speaker 2: paid attention to Jordan Mason before tonight.
Speaker 3: Not many.
Speaker 1: I just told you I drafted him and I got
Speaker 1: my I think it was my daughter. No, she doesn't
Speaker 1: draft forty nine. Its must have been my son to
Speaker 1: draft him too, because I just saw when I saw
Speaker 1: that caff injury from McCaffrey early on, I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's alarm bells. And then Elijah Mitchell got her and
Speaker 1: supposedly Mason had a great camp and he backed it up.
Speaker 1: He's actually been with the team since twenty and twenty
Speaker 1: two as an undrafted free agent, and this is a
Speaker 1: good example the forty nine ers are good at developing players.
Speaker 1: He gets a chance, and he looked like vintage Chris
Speaker 1: Carson to me, you know, the old Seahawks running back,
Speaker 1: Just a rugged guy you do not want to get
Speaker 1: in the way. There was a play where he ran
Speaker 1: over Chris I mean Chuck Clark of the Jets and
Speaker 1: then kind of stepped over him and he was punishment. Tonight,
Speaker 1: Jordan Mason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Troy Aikman described him as a violent runner, and
Speaker 2: I thought that was accurate and no offense. I think
Speaker 2: can scheme up better to take advantage of a violent
Speaker 2: runner between the tackles like the forty nine ers. And
Speaker 2: the great thing about this was and there was one
Speaker 2: drive in particular where I'm sitting back just watching Kyle
Speaker 2: Shanahan deep in his bag just whipping out different plays,
Speaker 2: different run concepts, and they're executing all of it almost flawlessly.
Speaker 2: You got a little split zone inside, you get a
Speaker 2: little bit of some classic pulling and guys moving around
Speaker 2: outside of his zone concept, and they're just mowing through
Speaker 2: the Jets defense with Mason leading the way. And I
Speaker 2: think in a game like this, if you're going to
Speaker 2: establish control of the game on the ground and in
Speaker 2: time possession, which by the way, thirty eight minutes and
Speaker 2: forty seconds to twenty one minutes and twenty seconds that's dominant,
Speaker 2: then you need a violent runner, a rugged guy like
Speaker 2: a Chris Carson, like this player right here, Jordan Mason,
Speaker 2: and I think it worked out to near perfection for them.
Speaker 2: You could really ask for a better start for the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at one point in the game because the Jets score.
Speaker 1: The first touchdown of the game was a really nice
Speaker 1: drive Aaron Rodgers, and you think, okay, this is going
Speaker 1: to go back and forth, and then you look up
Speaker 1: in the late third quarter at one point it was
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty five yards to eighty seven. Yep,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty five minutes of possession to like twelve,
Speaker 1: and you were like, wow, this was an absolute beatdown.
Speaker 1: And getting to Rogers, I had a hard time evaluating
Speaker 1: this game. I would give it like a C plus
Speaker 1: bns for Rogers specifically. I actually thought, if you're listing
Speaker 1: the issues the Jets had tonight, Rogers was relatively low
Speaker 1: on it. Some nice throws, a touchdown pass where he
Speaker 1: gets the free play. They somehow have a stat that
Speaker 1: he has three times as many free play touchdowns as
Speaker 1: any quarterback in the league. Another nice throw to Lazard
Speaker 1: actually earlier on that same drive. Some other decent throws,
Speaker 1: and then a couple times where he looked a little
Speaker 1: panicky against pressure, maybe didn't look quite as athletic as
Speaker 1: he used to. His accuracy just a smidge off on
Speaker 1: a fourth down throw late in the game. He was
Speaker 1: a little late on a throw that ends up getting
Speaker 1: tipped up and intercepted in a nice play by Lenor.
Speaker 1: But then you look at the drive chart and it's
Speaker 1: like they just I know, there were a bunch of
Speaker 1: three and outs and there was a fumble forced by
Speaker 1: Fred Warner early in the game, but also they just
Speaker 1: never had the ball, so like they had two pretty
Speaker 1: good drives in the limited amount of drives that he had.
Speaker 1: To me, it really wasn't about Aaron Rodgers in this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a buddy text me, seeing the Jets
Speaker 2: don't have any weapons. I said, they got weapons, they
Speaker 2: just haven't had the ball all night. I mean, you
Speaker 2: talked about the three anounced. Look at some of these
Speaker 2: Niners possessions, nine plays, twelve plays, twelfth plays, eleven plays,
Speaker 2: eight plays, eleven plays, Like that's all in succession. That's
Speaker 2: how you just dominate a team. You play keep away
Speaker 2: and you keep the ball out of a future Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame quarterback's hands.
Speaker 3: And it was as simple as that, really.
Speaker 1: Right, Let's actually take a listen to that interception, which
Speaker 1: came at a point that the Jets are trying to
Speaker 1: make a comeback in the second half.
Speaker 3: East you have to have a catch.
Speaker 4: Play action from Rogers. Again pressure off the edge and
Speaker 4: the pass is broken up and now picked off intercepted
Speaker 4: by planning in fowls after the chip by Lenore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like I said, when you watch that again,
Speaker 1: I think inform Aaron Rodgers, ideally, let's go of that
Speaker 1: ball a tick faster. There's a little bit of pressure
Speaker 1: on the edge. Leonard Floyd had four pressures in this game.
Speaker 1: Had a nice night. I mean Aaron Rodgers who got
Speaker 1: injured against Leonard Floyd last year, Like he does not
Speaker 1: want to see that dude anymore. He must be given
Speaker 1: him nightmares. Nick Bosa also had a good night, so
Speaker 1: the protection was not great. His numbers against pressure actually
Speaker 1: were terrible. Two for five with an interception, four yards
Speaker 1: per attempt and a sack and yet or no, rather
Speaker 1: a three for seven for thirty six yards. And that
Speaker 1: was when he held the ball more than two and
Speaker 1: a half seconds. So if he was holding the ball,
Speaker 1: it did not go well. When he was under pressure,
Speaker 1: it did not go well. When the ball came out
Speaker 1: on time, he looked like Aaron Rodgers and I'll give
Speaker 1: him a little bit of a pass that maybe that's
Speaker 1: just a little bit of rust.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it was the pump fake there,
Speaker 2: which kind of gave away where the ball was going.
Speaker 2: But I really enjoy a lot of these games, especially
Speaker 2: against you know, between two teams that are expected to do,
Speaker 2: you know, significant things in NFL seasons, the chess match
Speaker 2: that goes on between you know, series and everything else.
Speaker 2: Because early on that touchdown drive, the Aaron Rodgers was
Speaker 2: taking advantage of linebackers in coverage against Garrett Wilson. You
Speaker 2: had a moment there where one linebacker came down and
Speaker 2: basically was playing in the slot over Garrett Wilson and
Speaker 2: got lost, kind of peeked in the backfield. He found
Speaker 2: Garrett Wilson right behind him for a first down. And
Speaker 2: then there was another instance where Fred Warner drops back
Speaker 2: in coverage and chases the tight end down. The center
Speaker 2: of the field opens up underneath for Garrett Wilson to
Speaker 2: catch Paul get another first down, continue to drive.
Speaker 3: They end up scoring a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Then the Niners said, screw it, We're not going to
Speaker 2: cover you with linebackers anymore. We're not really worried about
Speaker 2: the run. We're up by multiple scores. Just put corners
Speaker 2: on him and guess what, diamond, Leanor is right there
Speaker 2: to close the window, tip the ball up in the
Speaker 2: air and pick it off.
Speaker 3: It was a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Leonor is a nice player. I don't think people know
Speaker 1: a lot about him, and he get paid sooner than later.
Speaker 1: Tarvarius Ward and him are a nice cornerback duo. I
Speaker 1: kind of agree with your friend though, that they don't
Speaker 1: have enough weapons. They have two, you know, Bristol and
Speaker 1: Gary Wilson, and Wilson goes six for sixty, but the
Speaker 1: offensive line did not play well and that would be
Speaker 1: the concern for me for the Jets was it wasn't
Speaker 1: really about Rogers, but Jonathan Franklin. Myers gets hurt early
Speaker 1: in this game, and the defensive line had very little pressure.
Speaker 1: They missed to Son Reddick. So we talked about how
Speaker 1: they got pushed around in the running game, which if
Speaker 1: you had six success against Roberts solid defense, that's how
Speaker 1: you did it in the past was run the ball.
Speaker 1: That's not as shocked, you know though the amount of
Speaker 1: you know, big runs that Mason made was a little surprising.
Speaker 1: But to not have any pass rush he as well,
Speaker 1: and then the offensive line not really blowing open any holes.
Speaker 1: In the running game either. I think of the sequence
Speaker 1: that ended the game. The forty nine ers are down
Speaker 1: sixteen points twenty nine to thirteen after Kyle Shanahan kind
Speaker 1: of whims out and kicks a field goal on four
Speaker 1: than one inside the five yard line. Considering how well
Speaker 1: Mason was playing, it's like, just go for it. You're
Speaker 1: up thirteen. But he lets his kicker get a sixth
Speaker 1: field goal. I believe on the night at the time,
Speaker 1: maybe that was the fifth. And I guess he knows
Speaker 1: his team because they weren't gonna do anything. The Jets
Speaker 1: run the ball on third and one, they get pushed backwards.
Speaker 1: Then Aaron Rodgers, you know, gets everyone spread out and
Speaker 1: he throws a bad ball to Wilson on fourth down.
Speaker 1: That basically ends the game. So I would say uneven
Speaker 1: from the Jets offense, yep, and just pour from the
Speaker 1: Jets defense. Let's listen to Aaron Rodgers after the game,
Speaker 1: and he was asked if the Jets not playing together
Speaker 1: in the preseason contributed to tonight's loss.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's an excuse for sure. I mean, I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna use that. I don't think we should. You know,
Speaker 5: we expect to greatness when we step on the field.
Speaker 5: There were moments, for sure, the moments have felt really good, good,
Speaker 5: but not sustained, you know. But like we could just
Speaker 5: get a first down, we'd be rolling. And we had
Speaker 5: those three and ounce, which really hurt us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they finished with two hundred and sixty six yards
Speaker 1: and that's after. Like I said, Tyrod earned himself one
Speaker 1: more year in the league with a nice touchdown drive
Speaker 1: at the end of the Who knows. Hopefully Rogers can
Speaker 1: stay healthy and we don't see more of Tyrod. But
Speaker 1: if that's the only thing you see this year that
Speaker 1: officially gets a twenty twenty five contracts, as it should,
Speaker 1: I love me some Tyrode. Like I said, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a little concerned about this Jets team. And one thing
Speaker 1: that made me more concerned was was just this exchange
Speaker 1: with Robert Sala in the postgame press conference.
Speaker 5: We'll be better one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I'm not worried. I mean, give like I said, give
Speaker 3: San Francisco a lot of credit.
Speaker 2: I'm not worried offensively, I'm not worried. Defensively. Well, we'll
Speaker 2: get we'll get it fixed.
Speaker 1: I don't know something about I'm not worried and we'll
Speaker 1: get it fixed after one makes me.
Speaker 2: Worried, well, I mean it worries me because of the personnel.
Speaker 2: I mean I was keying on Jermaine Johnson against Tret
Speaker 2: Williams for a little bit in this game tonight. Tret Williams,
Speaker 2: by the way, went without allowing a single KB pressure
Speaker 2: in a game tonight, the first time since Week three
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty two, according to Next Gen Stats, and
Speaker 2: that's without training So feather in the cap for those
Speaker 2: who think training camp's overrated. You one tonight, congrats have
Speaker 2: one on me. But yeah, it was concerning because they
Speaker 2: just weren't generating in a pass rush rock pretty at all
Speaker 2: time all day. To throw and you're getting gashed on
Speaker 2: the ground, you think you might stack the box and
Speaker 2: maybe incorporate some guys with blitzer. Maybe it's a run
Speaker 2: blitz and ends up being against the pass. It just
Speaker 2: didn't work. It just didn't work. They didn't generate the
Speaker 2: natural pressure that they've gotten in the past, and that's
Speaker 2: what they've hung their hat on as they've gone through
Speaker 2: all these quarterback struggles over the last few years. Into
Speaker 2: Robert Salad is well, our defense is going to show up.
Speaker 2: It's gonna keep it closed. It's going to keep you competitive.
Speaker 2: They couldn't get off the field. So as much as
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers sits back and thinks, yeah, you know, we
Speaker 2: missed some opportunities here and there and we just couldn't
Speaker 2: get a first down, well, it hurts that much more
Speaker 2: when your defense can't get off the field because instead
Speaker 2: of going and sitting down for five minutes, you're sitting
Speaker 2: there for eight nine minutes watching the other offense dominate
Speaker 2: you and run the ball down your throat and just
Speaker 2: makes it that much more painful.
Speaker 1: Now, the good news for the Jets. The schedule to
Speaker 1: me is difficult in terms of having to play another
Speaker 1: road game, but it's against the Tennessee Titans, and then
Speaker 1: you're on a short week, which isn't great, but it's
Speaker 1: against the New England Patriots. You have the Vikings coming up.
Speaker 1: It's not the toughest of schedule. Like you look at
Speaker 1: everyone on this schedule and you think the Jets are
Speaker 1: either favored really in all those games. They also have
Speaker 1: the Broncos at home before that Vikings game, so the
Speaker 1: schedule eases up. You got to get some wins, but
Speaker 1: it's just every zero to one team, and we'll get
Speaker 1: into it during the week. It just Week two just
Speaker 1: feels all the bigger, like Week two at Titans feels
Speaker 1: not must winish. But then it gets a little panicky,
Speaker 1: and it's in New York and there will be some panic,
Speaker 1: and there will be some pressure to get Hassan Redick
Speaker 1: into the building and get other things done, and there
Speaker 1: probably will be some attention on this priest Halk quote
Speaker 1: after the game where he just said they just played
Speaker 1: harder than us, which I kind of hate it when
Speaker 1: players say that, because like, yeah, couldn't you say that
Speaker 1: about any game, But I get it, like they were
Speaker 1: just tougher upfront to give the forty nine or a
Speaker 1: few more flowers. You mentioned it. Perdy had plenty of time.
Speaker 1: I thought he was uneven, like he was playing out
Speaker 1: his preseason in the first quarter, and then he got
Speaker 1: into a rhythm. Brandon Nyuk had a drop in this game,
Speaker 1: had another pass that was deflected. The drop came on
Speaker 1: a beautiful throw by by Brock Purdy when he really
Speaker 1: started hitting his targets. They tried to get Deebo Samuel
Speaker 1: the ball a ton. When they do that, it doesn't
Speaker 1: tend to work that well anymore like it used to.
Speaker 1: Deebo gets nine targets, but only five catches for fifty
Speaker 1: four yards eight carries for twenty three yards, so that
Speaker 1: was inefficient. That's what like impressed me the most shook
Speaker 1: about this game is like Ayuk didn't look right. He
Speaker 1: ends up with two for twenty eight on five targets,
Speaker 1: a couple you know, not great plays from him. Deebo
Speaker 1: was fine, juwan Ja a little banged up, but he
Speaker 1: goes five for sixty four. McCaffrey doesn't even play and
Speaker 1: you stomp like a pretty good Jets team or what
Speaker 1: we think is a good Jets team like that. That
Speaker 1: really shuts up the people like me that were thinking like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be this hangover and it's only week one,
Speaker 1: but they look damn good.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's what happens when you run the
Speaker 2: ball well and when you dominate the trenches. Because they
Speaker 2: dominated the trenches on both sides of the ball. You
Speaker 2: can talk about weapons all day. I know it's a
Speaker 2: quarterback league and everything else, but it starts and ends
Speaker 2: in the trenches.
Speaker 1: And if you win, what are you madge from NFL.
Speaker 2: My extremely wide tie. Not yes, that's me. I'm Meryl Hodge.
Speaker 2: It's it's an NFL matchup. It's two thousand and four
Speaker 2: on a Sunday morning. Yeah, that's who I am right now. Look, man,
Speaker 2: you gotta win up front. If you don't win up front,
Speaker 2: you don't have a chance. I don't care how good
Speaker 2: your quarterback and your wide receivers are. And the Jets
Speaker 2: got beat on both sides of the ball and the
Speaker 2: trenches tonight.
Speaker 1: Now, I remember a question I meant to ask you
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night's recap. It feels like we just finished
Speaker 1: that recap. But he didn't want to cut you off
Speaker 1: because I'm really trying to improve as a as a human,
Speaker 1: as a host and stop cutting people off so much.
Speaker 1: But the question I wanted to ask you last night
Speaker 1: and then I forgot, forgot it was what position did
Speaker 1: you play on the offensive line?
Speaker 2: I played guard in high school, and then in the
Speaker 2: brief amount of time I played in college, I played
Speaker 2: tackle because I went to a Division III school before
Speaker 2: I transferred to Kent, and I was large enough to
Speaker 2: play tackle in Division three where I played in high school.
Speaker 2: I played next to a six to seven tackle, So
Speaker 2: that wasn't going to work for me. Okay, impressive guard tonight.
Speaker 1: By the way, Dominic Pooney, I'm not going to say
Speaker 1: I'm a you know, grinding the tape on the guards.
Speaker 1: But Brandon Thorne, who does a great substack on offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: says he was awesome in the preseason. Troy Yikman called
Speaker 1: him out tonight. Looked really good in the running game.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like they found a good rock. Yeah
Speaker 1: he's just stud Yeah, guard there, and what can I say?
Speaker 1: They were impressive? They did play harder. Hell, let's play
Speaker 1: at Jordan Mason touchdown. We didn't hear a positive highlight
Speaker 1: after all that negativity about the Jets. I feel like
Speaker 1: I want to end this reec up on a positive.
Speaker 4: Second of goal. Mason bottling it but a touchdown. What
Speaker 4: an impressive night tonight for Jordan Mason.
Speaker 1: That kid can cut when he sees a hole, and
Speaker 1: he had holes tonight. He doesn't hesitate. He hits it
Speaker 1: like that is a perfect Kyle Shanahan backup. So the
Speaker 1: Jets leave this game wondering, and I tell you what shook.
Speaker 1: You prefer the game, you know, to be one in
Speaker 1: the trenches and for people like you who just always
Speaker 1: talk about the running game, your time is coming. The
Speaker 1: NFL is pretty cyclical. We're going to get into this
Speaker 1: more on Wednesday's show. But because brock Perty didn't go
Speaker 1: over three hundred yards, and yeah, Aaron Rodgers didn't have
Speaker 1: a chance to even get close, there's only two three
Speaker 1: hundred yard passers. That's the lowest since two thousand and ten.
Speaker 1: I believe it was the most one hundred yard rushers
Speaker 1: now that Jordan Mason topped it in a Week one
Speaker 1: since twenty fourteen. You can just roll out all these
Speaker 1: different stats, whether it's passing yards like EPA, if you
Speaker 1: take out scrambles like, if you include scrambles, running was
Speaker 1: more efficient than passing like. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: gonna keep going this way, but you do see a
Speaker 1: trend with two tight ends, two backs on the field
Speaker 1: that the league is getting heavier. And somewhere Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: is sitting either in an Underdog studio or the inside
Speaker 1: the NFL studio or the Peyton Manning Show studio, whatever
Speaker 1: job he's got today, and he's saying, I can't believe
Speaker 1: I'm missing this season of all seasons, I've been trying
Speaker 1: to push it back this way for years.
Speaker 2: Two things one very popular college football podcast to listen
Speaker 2: to and mentioned, I think was Maryland, who just their
Speaker 2: coach said straight up, we're gonna run the We're gonna
Speaker 2: run the IE formation this year. And Defense is saying
Speaker 2: we don't know how to fit the I formation in
Speaker 2: college football.
Speaker 3: So that's a sign.
Speaker 2: But the bigger thing for me that makes me happier
Speaker 2: is about five or so years ago, there be a
Speaker 2: couple teams that ran the ball well, usually like the
Speaker 2: Titans with Derek Henry or the Ravens with the Greg
Speaker 2: Roman offense. And I think it was a Titans lineman
Speaker 2: back then would wear a hat into games that said
Speaker 2: run the damn ball on it. And I would like
Speaker 2: to see everybody start wearing hats to say run the
Speaker 2: damn ball. And I would like to be the face
Speaker 2: of that. So if anybody wants to get involved, let
Speaker 2: me know.
Speaker 1: And what a beautiful face it is. Yeah, like I said,
Speaker 1: we'll get into it more on Wednesday. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: a fun show with Jordan Roudrieg and Colleen Wolf. But
Speaker 1: you know what, we got more than just a recap.
Speaker 1: We got a lot of show left on this Monday
Speaker 1: Night recap show. What we're gonna do each week introduce
Speaker 1: a couple segments along with the news, and we'll get
Speaker 1: to that right after a quick break back on NFL Daily.
Speaker 1: And yes, it's the Monday Night recap show. We bring
Speaker 1: you a recap, we bring you news, We're gonna bring
Speaker 1: you our favorite players of the week. To wrap the show,
Speaker 1: I wanted to hear Nick to just clean up some
Speaker 1: loose ends. We do this big recap show every Sunday night,
Speaker 1: and I'm so excited to get so much information out,
Speaker 1: and then there's just things we forgot to say. And
Speaker 1: I'm now introducing a new segment. We are gonna start
Speaker 1: right now. Eric Roberts, put two minutes on the clock.
Speaker 1: I introduced to you the things we wish we had
Speaker 1: said on the week one Sunday Night recap. Start the
Speaker 1: two minutes, Eric, Nick, you start all right.
Speaker 2: First off, after watching Arizona and Buffalo play Kyler and
Speaker 2: the Cardinals are fun. Okay, I know they lost that game,
Speaker 2: but the way they operated that offense early in that
Speaker 2: game really fun to watch.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see how they grow.
Speaker 2: Oh and by the way, that was definitely pass interference
Speaker 2: on that ball to Greg Dorts and fourth down.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can.
Speaker 1: I know it was, and you're right. Think about that
Speaker 1: three man backfield, James Connor, Trey Benson, who looked pretty
Speaker 1: to Mercado No, and Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray looked awesome
Speaker 1: running in that case. Wait, I can't comment on yours
Speaker 1: or us.
Speaker 3: We're gonna look out. This is my part of this.
Speaker 3: What are we doing?
Speaker 1: All right? One thing that was absolutely disrespectful was the
Speaker 1: way that the Seahawks defense approached bow Knicks, lining up
Speaker 1: and cover one playing press coverage on third and five, saying,
Speaker 1: our cornerbacks are better than your wide receivers. We know
Speaker 1: bon Knicks hasn't gotta throw deep.
Speaker 2: Incredibly disrespectful, yes, but also Bonnicks will get better.
Speaker 3: That's my next point.
Speaker 2: I promise as long as he stops being Charlie Frye
Speaker 2: and locking onto one receiver because of his pre snappoint.
Speaker 2: Team needs to learn how to adjust after coverage changes.
Speaker 2: If you disguise against him, you're going to stop.
Speaker 1: Him, all right. My next one. NFL teams who were
Speaker 1: trailing by at least seventeen score seventeen points and scored
Speaker 1: no offensive touchdowns in a game. We're three and five
Speaker 1: hundred and nineteen since two thousand. The Bears are one
Speaker 1: of those teams. Now. They were also involved in one
Speaker 1: of those games, and it was the Dennis Green They
Speaker 1: are who we thought they were. A game where the
Speaker 1: Bears came back from a similar game. So very interesting.
Speaker 1: There go ahead, Nick, you the Bears.
Speaker 2: Tory Taylor, the punter has a hammer for a leg.
Speaker 2: Ryan Stonehouse, you better watch out. You got somebody coming
Speaker 2: for your job, your title as the you guy with
Speaker 2: the biggest leg in the NFL because he booms some
Speaker 2: punts in that game.
Speaker 1: Ramandre Stevenson awarded twelve tackles according to True Media. His
Speaker 1: season high last year was six. He looked like a
Speaker 1: different player. Veterans can suddenly get better. Nick Suk a.
Speaker 2: Clip I wish we got from the Bears game. Caleb
Speaker 2: Williams drops back to pass. He throws the toward Romo. No,
Speaker 2: he actually throws it over the middle.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm out of time. It gets deflected Romo Dunes.
Speaker 2: He catches it, he fumbles, and Tevin Jenkins the man
Speaker 2: following the ball like you're following your shot in basketball
Speaker 2: recovers to preserve possession. It was beautiful, it was chaotic,
Speaker 2: it was calamity.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad we got that in two minutes of
Speaker 1: great nuggets that we couldn't get in to the week
Speaker 1: one recap show. And so all the regrets that I'm
Speaker 1: filled with as I leave the Chris Westling podcast studio,
Speaker 1: I can now fill them up the next night. So
Speaker 1: that felt good to me. Let's do some news, all right.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start the news with something that seems familiar, serious,
Speaker 1: and we'll see where it goes. A lawsuit was filed
Speaker 1: on Monday in Houston, Texan that alleged that Cleveland Browns
Speaker 1: quarterback DeShawn Watson committed sexual assault and battery while on
Speaker 1: a date in October twenty twenty. The suit claims Watson
Speaker 1: exposed himself, requested a massage, and sexually assaulted the victim
Speaker 1: before she was able to resist. That was back when
Speaker 1: he was with the Texans. A league spokesman declined to
Speaker 1: comment on Monday. Of course, the NFL suspended Watson for
Speaker 1: eleven games and find him five million dollars for violating
Speaker 1: the league's personal conduct policy. This allegation is different in
Speaker 1: scope and exactly what it alleges. It puts it in
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different category, and there's no
Speaker 1: sense in speculating what this is all going to mean.
Speaker 1: I tend to think I think it has a chance
Speaker 1: to have lasting repercussions, not just because of Watson's history,
Speaker 1: but also because of where his career is right now
Speaker 1: as a member of the Cleveland Browns, and just wondering
Speaker 1: if there's a possibility that they look to see what
Speaker 1: sort of recourse they could have if he ends up
Speaker 1: being away from the field. But we will see. We
Speaker 1: really have no idea at this point in terms of
Speaker 1: injury news. Well, just while we're on the Browns, we're
Speaker 1: here with you it chok So, I like keep it
Speaker 1: at to the one team. It's like David and Joku
Speaker 1: high Inkle Sprain and they signed Kadarius Tony. That's a
Speaker 1: big loss though Nijoku is a big part of that team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they like to rely on him. They're letting him
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 2: With Joe flaccol last year they tried to on Sunday
Speaker 2: and it didn't really work out well, and then of
Speaker 2: course he gets hurt. So interesting to see how they
Speaker 2: rebound He is not the only tight end on that roster,
Speaker 2: of course, but he is their best. So after a
Speaker 2: rough start, things get a little bit rougher for them.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I unfortunately only had a lot of injury news, Like,
Speaker 1: as I'm filling out this running now, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's not much news on Monday. And then one more
Speaker 1: thing gets announced that we didn't even know was a problem.
Speaker 1: Then another thing, and then another thing. One thing we
Speaker 1: did know was was Pukainakua got hurt and he is
Speaker 1: going to injured reserve. That's not the only bad injury
Speaker 1: news for the Rams. Joe Noteboom, who was in as
Speaker 1: their swing tackle replacing their already missing left tackle who's
Speaker 1: on suspension right now, is going to be out likely
Speaker 1: multiple weeks. And Steve Abula, who is a great guard
Speaker 1: center young player for them, also likely to be out
Speaker 1: a few weeks. That's tough. They're heading to Arizona this week.
Speaker 1: That's maybe a game you could pull out without all
Speaker 1: these guys. But they are the team I think most
Speaker 1: impacted by injuries in this young season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and especially with a guy like Matt Stafford who's
Speaker 2: not young and he has battled through his own injuries
Speaker 2: throughout his career, even though he started last year healthy.
Speaker 2: Keeping him protected is key. And right after that Arizona game,
Speaker 2: they play against the Niners, and they play the Bears,
Speaker 2: whose defense more than their Week one game, and then
Speaker 2: they play the Packers. So it's not going to get
Speaker 2: any easier. So hope for a speed of recovery. But
Speaker 2: not looking great right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they showed Look they played so well in that
Speaker 1: Sunday night game despite all this happening, and now they
Speaker 1: can plan around it for a week. But yeah, if
Speaker 1: you're the Rams, it just makes this game huge. You
Speaker 1: really want to get this game so that that forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers game in Week three doesn't feel like a
Speaker 1: must win when you're not really fighting with all your guys.
Speaker 1: So they could be short three to four starting offensive linemen.
Speaker 1: It's just a lot at one time. In addition to
Speaker 1: losing Pokin Cool, I will say, like the receiver depth
Speaker 1: is better than I would have expected a month ago.
Speaker 1: Jordan Winnington and then Tyler Johnson showed up in that game,
Speaker 1: which which surprising to me.
Speaker 2: You have DeMarcus Robinson on that roster as well, and
Speaker 2: he made a few nice plays in that Winter or
Speaker 2: that lost the lines.
Speaker 1: Too to at well the world's fastest and smallest decoy
Speaker 1: but makes a big play every once in a while.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was more Tyler John and Waitning Tod.
Speaker 1: I just didn't expect them to be factors, so I
Speaker 1: would not count this RAMS team out. Let's actually dive
Speaker 1: just let's take a step back from like the news
Speaker 1: of the day and dive a little deeper into the
Speaker 1: Jordan Love situation, just because we haven't hit it in
Speaker 1: depth on NFL daily since we found out the timeline
Speaker 1: of how long he's going to be out, so they're
Speaker 1: not putting him on injured reserve. That was the news
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. On Monday rather In addition, Matt Lafleur says
Speaker 1: Malik Willis will be the starter, which I suppose we
Speaker 1: could have assumed they hadn't signed anyone, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: John Clifford had been on the roster last year and
Speaker 1: literally was their game day backup for all of last year,
Speaker 1: so I didn't assume it was going to be Willis,
Speaker 1: but it will. What a fascinating challenge this is going
Speaker 1: to be for Lafleur, who's a really good coach, but
Speaker 1: now has to navigate a significant part of the season.
Speaker 1: But if you can just get one win with Malik Willis,
Speaker 1: if you could, if it ends up, then maybe you
Speaker 1: buy Love an extra week to come back. If you
Speaker 1: get two wins. I mean, you know, Matt Lafleur Coach
Speaker 1: of the Year, Candacy start starts picking up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that kind of speaks to what we think
Speaker 2: of Milie Quillis. Unfortunately, like, this is a guy who
Speaker 2: was drafted by Tennessee and never got any better to
Speaker 2: the point where they were like removing on from you.
Speaker 2: I don't feel confident about their potential offensively with him,
Speaker 2: even if they have Josh Jacobs and a bunch of
Speaker 2: talent around him, just because I know that this is
Speaker 2: a quarterback who has never really shown me anything. But
Speaker 2: if you look at their schedule, they play Indianapolis at home,
Speaker 2: they go on the road to Tennessee, they play Minnesota
Speaker 2: at home, they go on the road to the Rams,
Speaker 2: and they play the Cardinals. And that's like roughly that
Speaker 2: three to five week range that you're thinking for Love.
Speaker 2: But we'll see how how long it actually lasts. I'm
Speaker 2: just glad, honestly, Greg, after watching that replay you see
Speaker 2: it in slow mo. You see his knee pop, and
Speaker 2: I thought in that moment, he's done for the year,
Speaker 2: because anytime you see something like that pop usually it's
Speaker 2: pretty devastating in terms of injury. So to find out
Speaker 2: that he's not out for the year at this point
Speaker 2: is positive news. It's just that you're now going to
Speaker 2: have to soldier through this next month or so and
Speaker 2: try to scrape by and maybe get a win or
Speaker 2: two just to stay afloat. It makes that Eagles loss
Speaker 2: a little bit more painful.
Speaker 1: It really does. But they were sloppy in that game.
Speaker 1: They defense, yeah, defensively. I was almost a little more
Speaker 1: disappointed than even on the offense because Jordan Love didn't
Speaker 1: have the greatest of games. But their running game was good.
Speaker 1: They you know, they had a lot of big plays
Speaker 1: in the in the running game overall, and I like
Speaker 1: the weapons. Jayden Reid obviously was good with a run
Speaker 1: and a catch, and I think the offensive line is okay.
Speaker 1: Milik Willis is playing with a much better group of
Speaker 1: players around him and a much better coach than we've
Speaker 1: ever seen. You figure they build it around the running game.
Speaker 1: The home game against the Colts this week it's compelling.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not as compelling as if Jordan loves
Speaker 1: the quarterback, but it.
Speaker 2: Just concerns me. It concerns it because you lacked time
Speaker 2: more than anything. You lacked time, even with the coaching,
Speaker 2: impact usually is seen over time, and they just got
Speaker 2: him and now he's thrown into the fire.
Speaker 3: So I'm worried about that.
Speaker 1: I am too. It's this season gets late early for
Speaker 1: some of these teams, like the Packers, not quite the Rams,
Speaker 1: but all these injuries, you just suddenly feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this we have to navigate this portion of the season
Speaker 1: if we want to get to where we need to be.
Speaker 1: Just get us to one and two. Get us I
Speaker 1: guess Love wouldn't be back by then. Get us to
Speaker 1: two and four, Malik Willis, get us to two and three.
Speaker 1: Maybe Jordan Love can be back by then. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm thrilled that he is coming back, but still pretty
Speaker 1: disappointing that he's not going to be in our lives
Speaker 1: selfishly over the next few weeks. All right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about other surprising injury news and the day Derek Brown
Speaker 1: is out for the season, the Panthers defensive.
Speaker 2: Line well, potentially he's got a meniscus issue and they
Speaker 2: have to have surgeries. They don't quite know yet, but
Speaker 2: once they get in there, they'll know, and if it
Speaker 2: goes like it did with JJ McCarthy, he'll be done
Speaker 2: for the year. We just don't know definitively at this point,
Speaker 2: but it's trending toward that, which is not good news.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is the guy who just got paid.
Speaker 2: He had a breakthrough year last year, had his first
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl nod with a bad Panthers team, and this
Speaker 2: is the guy that you were counting on, and it
Speaker 2: kind of explains why they got bludgeoned so badly by
Speaker 2: the Staints. You take away your best guy up front,
Speaker 2: it's gonna get pretty tough.
Speaker 1: That was potentially the thinnest defensive line in the league
Speaker 1: because Derek Brown's really good, but more of a run
Speaker 1: stopper than a peer pass rush. Sure that he gets
Speaker 1: some good push last year, right, he really improved it.
Speaker 1: He's an example of how those interior guys tend to
Speaker 1: get better year three, year four. Sometimes it takes some
Speaker 1: time to develop. He was a guy they were disappointed
Speaker 1: by it as a rookie, I remember, and then he
Speaker 1: just got better and better and better. So now you
Speaker 1: have Dedevian Clowney and one of the thinnest defensive lines
Speaker 1: in the league. I think this could be the worst
Speaker 1: defense in the league, which is crazy because they were
Speaker 1: the worst offense in the league last year and they're
Speaker 1: hoping for improvement there. We didn't see it week one,
Speaker 1: but the talent on defense is rough, So that was
Speaker 1: surprising news. We just had no idea that it was
Speaker 1: going to be that serious when it came to Derek
Speaker 1: Brown Bucks a bunch of bad injury news. Antoine Winfield there,
Speaker 1: they're great cornerback out two to four weeks according to
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles, Bryce Hall, which you know, not a not
Speaker 1: Brice Hall, Bryce Hall, but who is getting significant snaps
Speaker 1: for them at cornerback, in part because another one of
Speaker 1: their starting cornerback, Zion McCollum, has been hurt. Bryce Hall,
Speaker 1: is out for the season. McCollum's still hurt. Elijah Canty
Speaker 1: missed their Week one game, and so that's just a
Speaker 1: team that I think right now, three of their top
Speaker 1: four cornerbacks are out, another safety is out, and another
Speaker 1: team is just gonna have to manage injuries at this
Speaker 1: point in the season, hope to get better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's gonna be tough for them because you
Speaker 2: know the Ryde and High after this dominant went over
Speaker 2: the Commanders. But they're facing the Detroit Lions in Detroit
Speaker 2: in week two and they're gonna be thin up front,
Speaker 2: and then you go and play Denver and Philly at home,
Speaker 2: then you go on the road to Atlanta, and that's
Speaker 2: starts off your divisional slate, like it's not gonna get
Speaker 2: any easier. So you got to hope that those guys
Speaker 2: come back, because what you don't want to get is
Speaker 2: dominated up front and on the ground, because then suddenly
Speaker 2: you're asking a lot of Baker Mayfield, who had a
Speaker 2: great first game, had a great year last year. But
Speaker 2: you don't want to put too much pressure on the
Speaker 2: quarterback to try to keep up in a shootout if
Speaker 2: you can't stop a nosebleed. So you got to hope
Speaker 2: that the guys they replace them with play pretty well
Speaker 2: in their absence.
Speaker 1: They've been very good at beating the teams that they
Speaker 1: should though, And that's what I talk about. What I'm
Speaker 1: saying managing the schedule. Okay, Antoine Winfield is to me,
Speaker 1: the most important safety in the entire NFL. But they
Speaker 1: managed the schedule by dropping a hammer on the Commanders,
Speaker 1: you know, to open the season. Then maybe you lose
Speaker 1: this one to the Lions, but you had that win
Speaker 1: in your pocket. And then you get the Broncos week
Speaker 1: three at home. You have another home game after that,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe you can manage it. And it's
Speaker 1: two and two and Winfield's back. But yeah, bad news
Speaker 1: for Antoine Winfield. There just a bunch of cornerback news today.
Speaker 1: Dyson Campbell's going to be out for a little while
Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury for the Jaguars. That's bad news
Speaker 1: for them. Jordan Addison is very iffy to play this
Speaker 1: week with an ankle injury. I feel better about the
Speaker 1: Vikings receiver group because of Jalen Naylor than than I
Speaker 1: would have a year ago if they lose a starting
Speaker 1: wide receiver. But that's big news. And then in receiver news,
Speaker 1: that's off to the side. Here this this Tyreek Storre
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hills story. It's pretty crazy. The body cam footage
Speaker 1: from when he was dragged now we know for sure
Speaker 1: out of his sports car was released on Monday, and
Speaker 1: it showed there there was kind of an altercation between
Speaker 1: the Miami Dade County officers in Hill and watching the video,
Speaker 1: the officers cursed at Hill. He did not really resist
Speaker 1: them at all, and he drags them out and strikes them.
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins released a statement on the encity incident
Speaker 1: on Monday, and they said, uh, they condone and want
Speaker 1: strong action against the officers involved. We are saddened by
Speaker 1: the overly aggressive and violent conduct directed towards Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: Kalaius Campbell, and John new Smith by police officers, but
Speaker 1: for yesterday's game, the statement read, it is both maddening
Speaker 1: and heartbreaking to watch the very people we trust to
Speaker 1: protect our community use such a necessary force and hostility
Speaker 1: towards these players. Yet it is also a reminder that
Speaker 1: not every situation like this ends in peace. As we
Speaker 1: are grateful this one did, what if I wasn't Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill is a question that will carry with resounding impact.
Speaker 1: They go on to say that they have a strong
Speaker 1: and proud relationship with the police department and that they
Speaker 1: basically recognize that there are good police officers out there,
Speaker 1: but then they also ask for this misguided power to
Speaker 1: have action taken against them. It's a strong statement, and
Speaker 1: one I'm sure is really appreciated nick by the players.
Speaker 1: It's hard to be shocked when we've seen worset bodykim
Speaker 1: footage over the last decade. Unfortunately that this is all
Speaker 1: too common, but it is striking to see it with
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and then Klais Campbell and Johnny Smith are
Speaker 1: also involved trying trying to help it in the videos
Speaker 1: really just say it all. And so if you you
Speaker 1: haven't watched them, you know, I would say say, and
Speaker 1: you're interested too, that they will speak a lot more
Speaker 1: eloquently than I could on the issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we're pretty dessensitized to this stuff by now, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: you know. But at the same time, there was a
Speaker 2: moment in that footage where an officer said, do you
Speaker 2: know who that is? That's one of the Dolphins star players.
Speaker 2: He just goes, oh, really, and they're still they've got
Speaker 2: him pinned down. They go to Klais Campbell very aggressively.
Speaker 2: It was just it was all very startling footage considering
Speaker 2: that these are guys on their way to work, you know,
Speaker 2: and it's nothing more than a speeding violation, and it
Speaker 2: escalated that quickly. So you know, we'll obviously keep an
Speaker 2: eye and see what type of action is taken. But
Speaker 2: disheartening to say the least.
Speaker 1: Right, they showed Tyreek Hill at one point putting his
Speaker 1: window up after talking to the police officer, and I
Speaker 1: believe he was actually calling his agent at the time,
Speaker 1: because when they drag him out and put him on
Speaker 1: the ground, you can hear him talking to Drew Drew
Speaker 1: and that I believe that's his agent, Drew Rosenhaus. And
Speaker 1: I know the Dolphins probably had a lot of meetings
Speaker 1: before releasing that statement, and yeah, I think their fans
Speaker 1: and their players will certainly appreciate that, and so we'll
Speaker 1: see what comes of that. Some final just quickie news
Speaker 1: items hit the music, Eric, just one by one, let's
Speaker 1: go through it. Lamar Jackson out of practice Monday. We've
Speaker 1: got another Lamar Jackson missing practice mystery.
Speaker 2: Nick, Yeah, extra apparently I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, we don't know.
Speaker 2: He gets sick a lot, so like, I don't know
Speaker 2: what it is, but I'm not too concerned.
Speaker 3: They do play Thursday night, so.
Speaker 1: I'm always a little concerned. Jake Ferguson has an MCL
Speaker 1: spraying the Cowboys tight end, but he could play this week. Yeah, boy,
Speaker 1: Kadie York missed a couple kicks for the Commanders, and
Speaker 1: your Browns will not get a seventh round pick. I
Speaker 1: believe because he did not last long enough. The Commanders
Speaker 1: have cut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he struggled. The pride of Lsu has not had
Speaker 2: a good NFL career. I thought he was back on track.
Speaker 2: He was with the Browns in preseason and then it
Speaker 2: all fell apart.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Romadoonza. He's gonna get his knee tested for
Speaker 1: an MRIRI. He's believed to be weak to week with
Speaker 1: that injury. So we will see Toron Johnson, who's one
Speaker 1: of the most important players for the Bills, is out
Speaker 1: for Thursday Night football. He is their slot cornerback. And
Speaker 1: then finally, Kendrick Lamar is the halftime guest at the Superdome.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this.
Speaker 2: One, all right, So I don't need to turn this
Speaker 2: into Shooks music corner, but I'm going to right now
Speaker 2: real quick.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I got a text today because there's a big discourse
Speaker 2: online about why they didn't pick Lil Wayne. You know,
Speaker 2: New Orleans own obviously a legendary rapper, but they didn't
Speaker 2: pick him. They picked Kendrick guys Recncy. Kendrick Lamar dominated
Speaker 2: the summer with his disc tracks. Regarding Drake, you know,
Speaker 2: he hasn't put out an album that's produced a ton
Speaker 2: of hits in a while.
Speaker 3: But this guy.
Speaker 2: All you need to do is go watch the pop
Speaker 2: out concert that he put on at the Forum this summer.
Speaker 2: It was amazing and that's exactly the perfect kind of
Speaker 2: scenario for a halftime show.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see it.
Speaker 1: Well, he's a legend, He's one of the greatest of
Speaker 1: all times. So Lil Wayne and my prediction will be
Speaker 1: Lil Wayne comes out and I know he doesn't have
Speaker 1: songs with Kendrick that would be worth playing there, but
Speaker 1: he'll just come out and do one of his songs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one he had won, I know, but it's not like
Speaker 1: a song that you would play at the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge little Wayne fan. I hope they I
Speaker 1: want a little Wayne to be the halftime guess when
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl was there twelve years ago, which he
Speaker 1: could have been an option for that, but that was Beyonce.
Speaker 1: This is Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Labar is like at that levels.
Speaker 1: Even I'm not mad about it. But my prediction is
Speaker 1: we get some Kendrick, we get some little Wayne.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we get some West Coast guests too. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be real nice.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for that though, Like, although, is he really
Speaker 1: going to play not like us? I don't know. That
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like a super Bowl halftime. Of course, I
Speaker 1: know everyone would go crazy for it. It will be
Speaker 1: that will be like the ultimate moment in distract history.
Speaker 2: It really uh being played at the super Bowl, especially
Speaker 2: because Drake was quoted as saying big as the what
Speaker 2: big as the super Bowl?
Speaker 3: Except no, Hendrick said the super Bowl? So killer shot fired.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's wrap up this show. That was it for
Speaker 1: the News. Was something we're going to do every week.
Speaker 1: It's time for the Captain's Corner, presented by Captain Morgan.
Speaker 1: We're gonna highlight a player that we believe deserves a
Speaker 1: little bit of extra shine. As we close the book
Speaker 1: on week one of this twenty twenty four season, let's.
Speaker 2: Start with you Shuck, all right, So Sam Darnold, raise
Speaker 2: a glass to you, my friend, because look, people like
Speaker 2: me doubted you. I've seen you see ghosts many times
Speaker 2: over your career, whether it was in New York, or
Speaker 2: it was with Carolina, and then you had that one
Speaker 2: game with the Niners last year that was all fine
Speaker 2: and Danny and somehow got you a job. And yet
Speaker 2: here you are in Week one in the Meadowlands playing
Speaker 2: the Giants and their crazy throwback uniforms, and you come
Speaker 2: out you handle the situation like a captain. You go
Speaker 2: out there, decomplete nineteen to twenty four passes for two
Speaker 2: hundred eight yards.
Speaker 3: Do you have throw two touchdown passes?
Speaker 2: And even the interception that you threw wasn't really your
Speaker 2: fault as a deflected ball. You commanded the day and
Speaker 2: led your team like a captain. So I raise the
Speaker 2: glass to you, sir. A great job.
Speaker 1: Okay. Reminds me a little bit of this Sam Bradford
Speaker 1: game that he had in Week one for the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Am I right? They traded for Sam Radford.
Speaker 3: It was after Teddy got hurt, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it was like the best Sam Bradford game of
Speaker 1: all time in Monday night football. Unfortunately he got hurt
Speaker 1: after it. I don't want Sam Donald to get hurt,
Speaker 1: but I just wonder if this is if that's going
Speaker 1: to be the highlight of Sam Bradford. I mean Sam
Speaker 1: Donald season or not, we'll see that's fair. I'm going
Speaker 1: outside the box here. I'm going Chris Boswell. Wow, when
Speaker 1: your team doesn't score a touchdown and you win the
Speaker 1: game anyways because your kicker, and this is the Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Steelers longtime kicker goes six for six and three over
Speaker 1: fifty once from fifty seven. We just take these games
Speaker 1: for granted now, like Blake Group, he's knocking out fifty
Speaker 1: sevens and plus fifties and it's just like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, Like kickers are so much better now. But
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have gotten this honor for just hitting three
Speaker 1: over fifty and going six or six, as good as
Speaker 1: that would be. He gets this honor because he did
Speaker 1: all that. And then with three point twenty nine left
Speaker 1: in the game, their punter Kim Johnson gets injured and
Speaker 1: there's a penalty on the play on the Steelers. Kim Johnson,
Speaker 1: by the ways out for the season, which is very
Speaker 1: unfortunate for him. He looks like my boss from my
Speaker 1: other job at the Justsel Nick. Yeah, at the JUSTL
Speaker 1: Nick and Rosenthal Vanity Project.
Speaker 3: Yeapy.
Speaker 1: He looks exactly like Bill Burr and now he's out
Speaker 1: for the season, so I'm very sad for him. And
Speaker 1: what does he have to do on no notice. It's
Speaker 1: not like Boswell had any time to prefer it. He
Speaker 1: got hurt and then he had to run out onto
Speaker 1: the field immediately because they had to run the next
Speaker 1: play because there was a penalty on it. And Boswell
Speaker 1: goes out there and he hits a forty three yard punt,
Speaker 1: nice hangtime, and it's forty three yards net like no
Speaker 1: return because it was such a good punt, like that's
Speaker 1: just a good old punt, and he did it under
Speaker 1: adverse situations. And then just a minute later they bring
Speaker 1: him on to have another kick to make it an
Speaker 1: eight point game. To me, that is that's a hell
Speaker 1: of a performance by Chris Boswell. He did.
Speaker 2: He did it effortlessly, He really did. He came through
Speaker 2: in the clutch in a day that they couldn't find
Speaker 2: the end zone. So you know, typically Captain Euster, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give you a bonus one. I'm breaking the rules,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna give you a bonus one because I
Speaker 2: to prepare in case you went Sam Darnold, just because
Speaker 2: who knows Darryl Taylor gets traded in August to Chicago
Speaker 2: and in his first game with the Bears, records two sacks,
Speaker 2: including a huge stripsack of Will Levis that helps them
Speaker 2: swing the game. They kick a field goal afterward at
Speaker 2: seventeen sixteen, and we know what happened after that with
Speaker 2: the pick six.
Speaker 3: Hats off to you as well, Darryl Taylor. Great debut
Speaker 3: for the Bears.
Speaker 1: There are no rules in the Captain do whatever you want,
Speaker 1: but I can promise you one thing. I will never
Speaker 1: ever you Sam Darnold in this spot. You can be
Speaker 1: assured that is not coming from me. That was Captain's Corner,
Speaker 1: presented by Captain Morgan. It's the Listas and Chris, perfect
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Speaker 1: drink responsibly. I am getting out of here, Nick Schook.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. And this is just the first of
Speaker 1: eighteen times. We're gonna go Sunday night and we're gonna
Speaker 1: go Monday night. So you better not call any of
Speaker 1: them off because I just committed you to each in everyone,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: As soon as the season arrived. I spent last weekend
Speaker 2: having some fun because I knew that football time from
Speaker 2: here on out, baby, So I am gonna hydrate responsibly
Speaker 2: with some water tonight in celebration of our first week
Speaker 2: tell season.
Speaker 3: We're done.
Speaker 1: It's nick at Night, Sunday nights, and Monday nights. As
Speaker 1: I mentioned, we'll be back on Wednesday with Jordan Rodrigue
Speaker 1: and Colleen Wolf. That is going to be a fun one.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, it's confirmed football is back.