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Speaker 1: So it was an upset weekend in the NFL as
Speaker 1: the Vikings, who played several levels above themselves, beat the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers twenty two to seventeen at home, surprising
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. The Vikings weren't very good
Speaker 1: this season. The Niners were excellent, and that Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: historically shrinks in primetime games. He has a bad record
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football and against playoff teams in his career,
Speaker 1: and was about after that first interception was about as
Speaker 1: good as I think I've ever seen Kirk Cousins play.
Speaker 1: We also saw that Bill's big favorites get beat by
Speaker 1: the you know, BB gun offense of the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: A couple of small upsets, but four to one win.
Speaker 1: Teams went on to win this weekend, and it happens
Speaker 1: in the NFL. The margins are much closer. It's why
Speaker 1: the NFL is so much more popular than college football,
Speaker 1: because you go into a college football weekend and you know,
Speaker 1: if you get two upsets, it feels really special. In
Speaker 1: the NFL, you get weekends like this when teams that
Speaker 1: are going nowhere beat teams with a really good shot
Speaker 1: to make the Super Bowl. You know, again, I said
Speaker 1: this today on FS one. I don't think less of
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions getting clobbered by the Ravens. NFC teams
Speaker 1: are one in sixteen against Lamar Jackson, right, Like, if
Speaker 1: you've never played against Lamar Jackson live, it's a shock
Speaker 1: to the system, you get avalanched. The way to beat
Speaker 1: a Lamar Jackson a team like that is you know
Speaker 1: you're playing repeatedly and can figure out Larubik's cube a
Speaker 1: little on how to slow down Lamar Jackson. So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think anything less of the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: I think the forty nine ers when they have Trent
Speaker 1: Williams back and Deebo Samuel and I have a complete unit.
Speaker 1: They won't be playing. There's a good chance they will
Speaker 1: be playing a playoff game or two at home. But
Speaker 1: needless to say, this just happens in the NFL. I
Speaker 1: do think there's one thing to worry about if you're
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. So they've been kind of injury plagued,
Speaker 1: not ravage, but injury plagued several years. It's becoming an
Speaker 1: older team. Trent Williams and kittle Bosa's got some you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of physicality and miles on those tires. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, the linebackers. They've been in
Speaker 1: the league for a while, and so as you get older,
Speaker 1: you have more injuries. You just hope collectively everybody's ready
Speaker 1: to go by the playoffs. But last year, the defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator was Demiko Ryans. So he is a former player,
Speaker 1: very good. He was a quick rising star as a coach.
Speaker 1: The Niners named him as like, you know, a defensive coach,
Speaker 1: linebacker coach, coordinator, head coach Texans. I mean it was
Speaker 1: four or five year period. He flew through the organization
Speaker 1: of the forty nine ers, and I can remember, like
Speaker 1: his third year, people saying, Oh, this guy's going to
Speaker 1: be a head coach, and You're like, he was just
Speaker 1: playing years ago. He didn't go to the college level.
Speaker 1: He didn't bounce around the league. He coached for one team,
Speaker 1: the Niners. Quality control on defense, linebacker, defensive coordinator gone.
Speaker 1: And he's been excellent so far with the Houston Texas.
Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes college head coach for a year, losing record,
Speaker 1: NFL head coach for a year disaster, was fired, then
Speaker 1: went to Carolina interim. But Steve Wilkes bounced around college
Speaker 1: and pro coaching forever, a lot of jobs, a lot
Speaker 1: of cities. Was not a rising star, and like we've
Speaker 1: all had, most of us have had like one boss
Speaker 1: that's just exceptional. I mean, I've been in this business
Speaker 1: thirty years I've worked with some really good people, haven't
Speaker 1: had you know, only a couple of like wow, and
Speaker 1: they usually in and out of the building quickly. Right.
Speaker 1: It's it's rare for anybody in any business. You know.
Speaker 1: You see sometimes you have a coworker or a boss
Speaker 1: and you're like, wow, they're a visionary that person. She's great,
Speaker 1: he's great. They just and that was Demikil Ryans flew
Speaker 1: through the Niners organization, first team he coached with, and
Speaker 1: he was gone head coach. And so I think they're
Speaker 1: just not as good. I noted this several times on
Speaker 1: FS one. They're not as good in the red zone
Speaker 1: defensively as they have been in previous years. And it's
Speaker 1: I think that's a coaching thing. You know, we always
Speaker 1: talk about offensive coordinators, but we rarely talk about big
Speaker 1: leaps with defensive coordinators. Dan Quinn for the Cowboys has
Speaker 1: certainly been excellent, but I mean, if you look at
Speaker 1: the Vikings tonight, I mean Kirk Cousins in that offense,
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty two yards with an average O
Speaker 1: line no justin Jefferson. They moved off Dalvin Cook and
Speaker 1: they passed for almost three hundred and eighty yards, six
Speaker 1: point eight yards of play, twenty four first downs, eight
Speaker 1: for thirteen on third down. You know you lose to
Speaker 1: Meko Ryans. They've lost their edge. They're not The Niners
Speaker 1: are not as good situationally coaching on defense brock perty was.
Speaker 1: You know, now we've seen Brock pretty last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks playing from behind, and you know it's not quite
Speaker 1: as special as I've said many times. I think brock
Speaker 1: Purty's good, and I thought tonight you saw Troy Aikmann
Speaker 1: pointed this out. Brock Purty six to seven times throws
Speaker 1: the ball down the field, higher risk throws, and throws
Speaker 1: it accurately a lot. Now, he had a couple of
Speaker 1: picks won, a bad pick could have been on the receiver.
Speaker 1: But you know, I've said this about Jordan Love, he
Speaker 1: just can't throw the ball down the field. He's completing
Speaker 1: thirty eight percent of his throws ten plus yards. Like
Speaker 1: Green Bay's got a problem at quarterback. Rock Purty moves
Speaker 1: well enough, throws the ball aggressively down the field, and
Speaker 1: for the most part, very accurately. But there's a big
Speaker 1: difference in this league playing with a lead and a
Speaker 1: run game at home and trailing the entire game on
Speaker 1: the road, and Brian Flores is bringing heat with every snap,
Speaker 1: sometimes to his detriment, like that Christian McCaffrey touchdown. But
Speaker 1: that's a different ball game. Playing from behind, you've got
Speaker 1: to throw. Everybody knows it. Brian Flores tends to be
Speaker 1: hyper aggressive. Just a different ballgame. And so there's very
Speaker 1: few quarterbacks in my life that you can't distinguish a
Speaker 1: difference between their playing with the lead or trailing. I
Speaker 1: think Brady was one of them. Elway was one of them.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is one of them, and I can't think
Speaker 1: of a fourth. So it's you know, Brock pretty looks very,
Speaker 1: very human playing from behind, but I think he's good.
Speaker 1: I think he throws the ball accurately down the field
Speaker 1: to a lot of different weapons. He's got some physical courage,
Speaker 1: he'll take a hit. So I like Brock Purdy. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's great, And I think over the last
Speaker 1: couple of games playing from behind on the road, it's
Speaker 1: not the same quarterback. Nobody is really except for the
Speaker 1: r Lways. And you're Patrick Mahomes and your Brady's so
Speaker 1: really interesting game. I that's as well as Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: has played. Jordan Addison, the rookie from USC what a night.
Speaker 1: You know. Again, they didn't Steve Wilk's defensive coordinator. They
Speaker 1: didn't throw a lot of change ups. I mean, Jordan
Speaker 1: Addison worked the nine or second from the beginning to
Speaker 1: the end. Didn't change much coverage as far as I
Speaker 1: could tell. But I think with Kirk Cousins, you know
Speaker 1: what you could look at if you're Minnesota. Not only
Speaker 1: do you feel good about the win, I don't think
Speaker 1: it translates to anything beyond this win, but you showcased him.
Speaker 1: Think about that you can get if you move off
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. If you have a top ten twelve pick,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go get a quarterback you can get. Could
Speaker 1: you get a first round pick for Kirk Cousins certainly
Speaker 1: get a couple seconds. I mean, he looked young, he
Speaker 1: was accurate, arm strength was good tonight. He's never been
Speaker 1: a big mover, but he can move a little. I
Speaker 1: thought Kirk Cousins standalone game against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: If I'm a general manager looking around this league, I'm
Speaker 1: like he's somewhere between ten and thirteen, ten and twelve
Speaker 1: we have a good roster. Let's roll the dice. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna give up three picks to get Trey
Speaker 1: Lance or move up to get college quarterbacks, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna give up a second round pick for Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: Think somebody is I've said this about Justin Fields. He's
Speaker 1: got too much talent not to get a second chance.
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold got a second chance, right, He's just too
Speaker 1: much talent. So I mean, you know Kirk Cousins tonight,
Speaker 1: I mean, he he didn't look his age. And this
Speaker 1: is a very respected defensive roster for the Niners, and
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins tore it up. He tore it up. He
Speaker 1: had that battery pick boom, tore it up for the
Speaker 1: next three and a half hours. So really interesting weekend.
Speaker 1: I you know, it's I don't on a macro level,
Speaker 1: I don't feel much differently. I think Detroit will do
Speaker 1: just fine. I know they got crushed by the Ravens,
Speaker 1: but they'll win eleven or twelve games in the NFC.
Speaker 1: They will, you know, host a playoff game, probably win,
Speaker 1: and then go on the road and probably lose. They'll
Speaker 1: go on the road and face of Philadelphia. Detroit go
Speaker 1: on the road face of San Francisco and they'll probably lose.
Speaker 1: But considering they gave up Matt Stafford, they got Jared
Speaker 1: Goff came in with a kind of shaky reputation right
Speaker 1: couldn't play in certain big games. I don't think less.
Speaker 1: I do think less of the Buffalo Bills because, unlike
Speaker 1: the Lions, I don't like their offensive line. I don't
Speaker 1: like their momentum. I thought they were bad at the
Speaker 1: end of last year. So there are you know, They're
Speaker 1: all losses are not the same. Buffalo losing to New
Speaker 1: England feels like we have a negative trend here. Detroit
Speaker 1: losing to Baltimore. I don't take much from it. That's
Speaker 1: a hard place to play, and I think right now
Speaker 1: Baltimore is the best team in the NFL. Last two weeks,
Speaker 1: I've thought Lamar Jackson has been the best player in
Speaker 1: the league, absolutely beyond exceptional. So I don't take a
Speaker 1: ton from this game. San Francisco is going to probably
Speaker 1: win their division. I would say it's highly likely, and
Speaker 1: they're going to host a playoff game, and Minnesota's going
Speaker 1: nowhere and it's going to move off. Kirk Cousins, and
Speaker 1: now we'll probably get a little more off a showcase game.
Speaker 1: He plays in a lot of one o'clock games. These
Speaker 1: these standalone games, every GM in the league is watching
Speaker 1: doing their homework. Got the CV on Kirk Cousins, you
Speaker 1: probably got the Vikings another pick or certainly a better pick.
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Speaker 1: You know this Jim Harbaugh Michigan story. You know that
Speaker 1: people are adding to the story now and that this staffer,
Speaker 1: this low level staffer, he bought tickets on a ticket
Speaker 1: app and had his iPhone and some equipment watching other teams. Listen.
Speaker 1: The Big Ten, like the SEC, cares so much about
Speaker 1: its football. It is so important for the revenue, the
Speaker 1: overall economy and sort of the the kind of emotional
Speaker 1: happiness of a lot of these Big Ten schools that
Speaker 1: it's intense. And you know, we've seen this in the
Speaker 1: SEC for years. If this story would have come out
Speaker 1: in the SEC, you'd be like, well, that's the cost
Speaker 1: of doing business. And you know, the Big Ten has
Speaker 1: got these esteemed academic powers, Penn State, Northwestern, Michigan, but
Speaker 1: Big Ten football is so financially strong. There is so
Speaker 1: much at stake. You know, you can laugh and say,
Speaker 1: why would Michigan have to, you know, do this against
Speaker 1: Rutgers in Maryland. It just shows you the intensity of
Speaker 1: the conference. And I think it's a lot of nothing.
Speaker 1: Burger I think they'll probably be a slap on the wrist,
Speaker 1: you know, the equivalent of sending an intern to a
Speaker 1: spy using you know, whatever the device is. It doesn't
Speaker 1: rise to you know, major suspension or forfeiting wins. But
Speaker 1: it does make me think about the intensity. And it
Speaker 1: does remind me of Pete Carroll at USC when he
Speaker 1: hired a special teams coach and it was a violation.
Speaker 1: And you know, Pete was always pushing the envelope. Competition Wednesday,
Speaker 1: move beyond that, pushed the envelope and he got very,
Speaker 1: very frustrated. Pete did with the NC Double A and
Speaker 1: eventually went to the NFL. And I remember a couple
Speaker 1: of years before he left, his name came up with
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, and I thought, oh, why would Pete
Speaker 1: leeve He's done the NFL, He's you know, he's been
Speaker 1: fired twice. Why would he Why would he go back
Speaker 1: to the NFL. But he got very frustrated with the
Speaker 1: limitations in the NC DOUBLEA of college football. And so
Speaker 1: I think Jim Harbaugh relentlessly competitive. We know that like Pete,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's having great success at Michigan, and
Speaker 1: I could see him getting frustrated. I think he's much
Speaker 1: more important for college football than pro football. I hope
Speaker 1: he stays in college football. But it's got a Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll feel to it. It's got Pete Carroll field that
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh wants to take more, one more big swing
Speaker 1: at the NFL. And as great as Pete Carroll it
Speaker 1: was at USC, I mean, it's hard to remember when
Speaker 1: he was there. It's like such a distant memory. And
Speaker 1: I mean, Harbaugh is still vibrant and young. He's got
Speaker 1: fifteen more years. He's got incredible energy and juice. If
Speaker 1: Jim went to the NFL after this year and coached
Speaker 1: for fifteen years somewhere, would it surprise anybody. Hope he
Speaker 1: stays at Michigan. But I think he sort of looks
Speaker 1: at this and the slap on the wrist for the
Speaker 1: Hamburger violation earlier, and I think he rolls his eyes,
Speaker 1: and I think he thinks, you got to be kidding me.
Speaker 1: Got you got schools out there buying and players years
Speaker 1: ago in the South, you know. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: he looks around college football and thinks, this is it,
Speaker 1: this is really you're gonna hold this against me? And
Speaker 1: I think it's a lot of the ways that Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick thought about Spygate in to Flakegate. I think Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick rolled his eyes it. It's not golf, it's not
Speaker 1: a gentleman's sport, you know, it's you're gonna push the envelope.
Speaker 1: I mean, Pete Carroll in the NFL has been tagged
Speaker 1: a couple of times because of practices practice violations. So
Speaker 1: I'm watching it. I'm interested to see the result. I
Speaker 1: read the latest story or stories today on it. Not
Speaker 1: that it was an eye roll, but it doesn't rise
Speaker 1: to heavy forfeiture or violations. But we'll see, all right,
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