Speaker 1: In this episode of the Command Center Podcast, tell me
Speaker 1: something good about this game. I know, tough game, but
Speaker 1: there's some good stuff to take from it. And what
Speaker 1: did we learn? Lots of things to take away from that,
Speaker 1: And our pop culture expert tells us was Taylor Swift
Speaker 1: in the Popcorn Machine. Welcome to the Command Center Podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm Logan Paulson here with Santanamos, Fred Smoot. What's up? Man? Already?
Speaker 2: Cook ain't that good? Cook is not for those.
Speaker 1: Just for some context, just for some context. While we're
Speaker 1: getting ready for the show, Tannis said that Cook is
Speaker 1: better than Raheem Moster right this second, and so obviously
Speaker 1: Fred does not agree with that. I'm inclined not to
Speaker 1: agree with that as well, because it's right this second.
Speaker 1: One game.
Speaker 3: Hold on, Cook set out the whole entire training camp
Speaker 3: and this got to the Jets two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: So yes, of course Moisture is better than him. But
Speaker 2: it is what it is. We got, we got this
Speaker 2: to talk about.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, but that's a good point, though.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't get the day you knock on
Speaker 2: my door.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't charge you with that at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, right now Moist is better than that at
Speaker 2: numbers today. No, I'm talking about over career.
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously a career, had a better career. He's
Speaker 3: a better back. Knock it out Cook is a better bat.
Speaker 3: Not today in two thousand. He oh shoot old shoot,
Speaker 3: he'll shoot you shoot.
Speaker 1: All right. So we're also kind of stalling here because
Speaker 1: we don't really want to talk about this Bills game. Okay,
Speaker 1: nothing to really talk about, Okay, so let's talk about
Speaker 1: this all right. Let's a lot of negative things come
Speaker 1: out of this game, a lot of things that the
Speaker 1: fans are upset about, and let's talk about some positive
Speaker 1: things you can take out from this game. Let's start
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball, because I felt
Speaker 1: like on the whole there were more more positive defensive things.
Speaker 1: And Fred you said something and Tanny you said something
Speaker 1: which I thought was really insightful. The secondary actually played
Speaker 1: pretty damn good.
Speaker 2: Pretty good.
Speaker 4: They were sticky in coverage, Stephan Diggs mostly got his yards.
Speaker 4: Some broken plays, Uh, we didn't let the tight ends
Speaker 4: get out. I was worried about the knocks and the
Speaker 4: tight ends really getting off because they it kind of
Speaker 4: been out of achilles heels when the defense.
Speaker 2: They took care of that. They Seemi took care of
Speaker 2: the run. And I thought the DB's tackled a lot better.
Speaker 1: Than dude you mentioned, you mentioned Kendall tackle is in
Speaker 1: his bag right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they had a great game.
Speaker 3: I think if you look at the score, you look
Speaker 3: at it and say say different, But you got to
Speaker 3: think about it.
Speaker 2: Fourth quarters went out of points.
Speaker 3: It was going into the fourth quarter, and and the
Speaker 3: Bills was they was in the lead the entire game
Speaker 3: and it was six it was only sixteen zup.
Speaker 2: And most of that stuff was just because the offense.
Speaker 3: Couldn't spark, you know't couldn't couldn't get a play in
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 2: That was just gonna, you know, get those guys a break.
Speaker 2: They just said one play. All now, I need one play.
Speaker 2: So I think our defense did a great job.
Speaker 3: And it just shows you that how much when it
Speaker 3: comes to a team football team, you need all different faces.
Speaker 3: All three phases had to play a key role. You know,
Speaker 3: offensively has to score. You have to do something more
Speaker 3: because you can't leave a defense on the field as
Speaker 3: good as our defense is. And we know we can
Speaker 3: sit here and talk about them not you know, getting
Speaker 3: any sacks and all that stuff. But if you go
Speaker 3: out there and get a score, that ignites your defense
Speaker 3: to come out there and be that much bat Yeah.
Speaker 1: Take some pressure off too. But the other thing I
Speaker 1: want to say is a lot of people were talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, not getting pressure, and I really think that,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously it's a big deal. Defensive line didn't
Speaker 1: create a tounch ton of pressure. They didn't blitz a
Speaker 1: ton smooth. I know that's something that.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm really salty about.
Speaker 1: But my question to you is, like, does it actually matter.
Speaker 1: They only gave up sixteen points to one of the
Speaker 1: best offenses in football through four quarters, after four turnovers. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: like I look at that, I say, that seems to
Speaker 1: be in line with what Jack wants. You play like
Speaker 1: a soft, more conservative coverage structure. You mixing some man
Speaker 1: some match looks, and you just make them kind of
Speaker 1: go the length of the field, have a penalty, getting
Speaker 1: a third long situation, punt, field goal, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: And I feel like, even though we didn't get a
Speaker 1: ton of pressure, like you look at those numbers that
Speaker 1: they are abysmal, but in terms of overall defensive production,
Speaker 1: it's there and so like, that's that's something I kind
Speaker 1: of like, I just wanted to run by you guys.
Speaker 4: In terms of philosophy, I feel like the philosophy is dear,
Speaker 4: but I think sometimes you gotta ben philosophy win a
Speaker 4: team binge you to they win.
Speaker 1: But saying is they did they bend you? Like, did
Speaker 1: they did they bend the defense?
Speaker 4: Let's sorry I felt like this with this defense, with
Speaker 4: this front, with these defensive becks, I don't want them
Speaker 4: to be the reason we win games. I want them
Speaker 4: to be dictating. I want them to dictate.
Speaker 1: The defensive backs. You're saying, the defensive line.
Speaker 4: Defensive period, and the whole defense. I want you to
Speaker 4: be the reason we win games.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to come back to this. I'm going
Speaker 1: to come back to this man, sixteen points after three
Speaker 1: or four turnovers, going to the fourth quarter, like it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to say that it wasn't effective, because I
Speaker 1: think it was effective.
Speaker 2: Effective, and then but one aggressive effective.
Speaker 1: It wasn't aggressive. But I'm saying, like you come from
Speaker 1: a this is something I always have to negotiate when
Speaker 1: I'm evaluating offenses. Is I come from a very specific
Speaker 1: offensive tree, right, very specific rule is very specific perspective,
Speaker 1: and I cannot evaluate all offenses through that perspective. And
Speaker 1: I can't evaluate all defenses through you.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Because because you love it, you brought into it, it works.
Speaker 1: And so like when I see this, I'm like, you know, objectively,
Speaker 1: it worked, you know, And I think to Tanni's point,
Speaker 1: the thing that didn't work was that the offense didn't
Speaker 1: support them in the offense put them in a lot
Speaker 1: of bad spots. Case think about it, they get that
Speaker 1: fourth this is this this one really just chops me up.
Speaker 1: It's the fourth down. They stop them on fourth down
Speaker 1: balls at midfield. The very next play is a fubble. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very next play is a fubble. And and you you've
Speaker 1: been a part of this. I've been on sidelines where
Speaker 1: this has happened. It just takes the air out of
Speaker 1: the whole team. And so as much as you want
Speaker 1: them to go down and make a stop there, emotionally
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like it's the right thing, does it.
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: No, you right about this? And see there were people
Speaker 4: don't understand about football. It's so many emotional ups and downs,
Speaker 4: especially on defense where if your offense ain't supporting you,
Speaker 4: not like here we go with this game.
Speaker 2: That's a thing like here go, let's go win this thing.
Speaker 3: And you know what's so crazy about all this be
Speaker 3: talking about because we could sit here, if you just
Speaker 3: listening to us right now, you would think, like, man, offensive,
Speaker 3: they didn't do anything, But they did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're something going.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that in a second, like it's
Speaker 1: like it is crazy, yeah, but yeah, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of touch based on that real quick. And
Speaker 1: then also like then they get the ball back and
Speaker 1: the next play after that is the interception. For in
Speaker 1: terms of defense, I think I feel pretty good about
Speaker 1: what that group did. The DVS. I thought did a
Speaker 1: great job. A couple of a couple of misses here
Speaker 1: and there, Yeah, right, which happened, Which happens, team get paid.
Speaker 1: Jamon had a nice physical football games, miss two tackles,
Speaker 1: but other than that, I thought you see him continue
Speaker 1: to progress.
Speaker 3: He noticed that when Jami playing good, no one's nobody
Speaker 3: say anything playing good bad.
Speaker 1: Cody Marden, I feel like he's playing better. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he can still continue to Yeah, Like it's kind
Speaker 1: of like what what Jamon was doing last year. And
Speaker 1: I think this defense is hard for linebackers. It must
Speaker 1: be because the guys come in, it's taking them away
Speaker 1: out again. And so what I see is I see
Speaker 1: him identifying stuff better. I think I see him being
Speaker 1: more aggressive, but it's still like a beat late.
Speaker 2: And I think he's playing though, because you see you
Speaker 2: see him showing up.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's much better than Week one and week two.
Speaker 1: Like it's just it's not to the standard I think
Speaker 1: we all were hoping for him. But I think it's
Speaker 1: it's improving each week. And I think that's a good
Speaker 1: sign because my week four, Week five, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a ball player, gonna have two dudes in there that
Speaker 1: are doing a good job. And I think that's you know,
Speaker 1: a good game was big Ridge. Big Ridge had a
Speaker 1: good game and that is exciting for me going into
Speaker 1: Philly because they're gonna run the heck out of the football.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that on the previous show. But okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the offense. And Tanna already alluded to
Speaker 1: this a little bit in terms of things that saying
Speaker 1: things that are positive, and I will say Tanna like
Speaker 1: they had they had three drives that were very good,
Speaker 1: then they didn't move about three drives with red zone turnovers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so in terms of moving the ball play efficiency,
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot there to be excited about it.
Speaker 2: My question will be.
Speaker 3: The time we got in the red zone, got on
Speaker 3: the goal line, where you take the points or you
Speaker 3: just try to punch it in for it.
Speaker 4: I'm not mad about that fourth down, Like I felt like,
Speaker 4: if you're gonna take down the Super Bowl contending, this
Speaker 4: is how you do it. I'm fine with it. That
Speaker 4: three wouldn't have helped you. Three would have just been three.
Speaker 2: Till you run that play though, where you run the ball.
Speaker 2: You know what, we don't know the player don't work work.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: I just feel like most teams set up for that
Speaker 3: because they already knew that.
Speaker 2: Okay when you look at our offense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like if I had to be a guy people
Speaker 3: watching what we watched all week, we know that maybe
Speaker 3: they can get a run in here, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? Because in the passing game, it has to
Speaker 3: be clear for him to really get and.
Speaker 4: Was calling it with the with the premise of if
Speaker 4: nothing is there, how you took it and you run
Speaker 4: it for two or three years at the first and
Speaker 4: I feel like he could have instead of like just
Speaker 4: you know, putting the ball up there.
Speaker 1: That was tough because kind of be rob misses, not
Speaker 1: not missus, but he's in a one on one with
Speaker 1: the defensive end, gets a little bit of pressure.
Speaker 3: Not a great look at it, kind of went down.
Speaker 3: He had he had I'm not sure what you call
Speaker 3: that block off when I hid in GM when of
Speaker 3: my best tackles, but he was. He was crashing down
Speaker 3: that guy and it seemed like it was just too
Speaker 3: much in the inside. Like all those on the run
Speaker 3: you're saying that.
Speaker 1: The goal line run, I think is really interesting because
Speaker 1: it's like they're in twelve personnel. So there's two tight
Speaker 1: ends on the field, there's two receivers and one running back,
Speaker 1: and the Bills matched essentially what would be goal line, right,
Speaker 1: So they've got an extra defensive lineman in there, and
Speaker 1: so they have a true nose and they have a
Speaker 1: linebacker stacked. And so one of the run stunts you
Speaker 1: see all the time in goal line situations, odd yes,
Speaker 1: is the is the Nozle pinch week in this case
Speaker 1: and the my the linebacker run right through the a
Speaker 1: gap because you're trying to stop lead and so basically
Speaker 1: in that formation, they're in a position where they can
Speaker 1: run lead, but it doesn't look like lead, which I
Speaker 1: kind of like. But like Bates is going to be
Speaker 1: the lead guy, but because he's coming from the wing,
Speaker 1: it's hard for him to get over there and make
Speaker 1: that block. So and again then the inn the front
Speaker 1: side double team because the noses pinching gets picked and
Speaker 1: you can't get to the backside backer. So it was
Speaker 1: it was tough. And again, like I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: I would have done something different there, and I actually don't.
Speaker 1: The more I watched the play the role pass the
Speaker 1: second one, the play action pass, the more I kind
Speaker 1: of like it because they ran the tight end on
Speaker 1: a cross and a stop and then back to the
Speaker 1: back to the back line. It was kind of a
Speaker 1: nice little design, but the timing just takes a lot
Speaker 1: of time. It takes a lot of time, So I think, like, yes,
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with it, and it's easy to second
Speaker 1: guess the call, but those are calls that they've repped
Speaker 1: in the week of practice that they probably really felt
Speaker 1: good about, and you know, maybe they didn't get the
Speaker 1: exact response, or maybe Buffalo did something different, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I'm telling like and I'm at the high school, right,
Speaker 1: and there our plays where I'm like, this is gonna
Speaker 1: work one hundred percent, and it does and it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Like what the hell? Man, Like, why I study this?
Speaker 1: I watched it. I know they're blitzes and then somebody
Speaker 1: say they get the Yeah, they get paid to right.
Speaker 2: I can'tnot wait to watch you against my man. I'm excited, son,
Speaker 2: we will pick your office. I'm gonna be dancing on
Speaker 2: the side.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see you. But that's gonna be
Speaker 1: so funny, bro, because it's that it's at your son's school.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that'll be. That'll be other day when this
Speaker 1: game I wear.
Speaker 2: My shirt the offense of coordinator state.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be like, why is why is the talking
Speaker 1: so much smacking that guy in.
Speaker 2: The stands, I mean saying I'm gonna come to the game, right.
Speaker 1: All right? So I think you know obviously that that's
Speaker 1: a positive element of the offense, right, And I think
Speaker 1: for the next section, in terms of what did we learn,
Speaker 1: we can talk a little about the pressure of the offense.
Speaker 1: Gave up. So what did we learn from this? For Sam? Hell?
Speaker 1: How can grow? And I think those are things that
Speaker 1: are tough to talk about, but I think they're important
Speaker 1: to talk about because if you get those things corrected,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be babies. So pamp dude, I knew that
Speaker 1: was gonna get in it.
Speaker 2: Because I've been saying it for weeks.
Speaker 1: And hold up one second. First off, everyone, I'm not
Speaker 1: being mean to Fred.
Speaker 2: Thank you for following me, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, first of all, I be the one to tell
Speaker 3: y'all this dude here talk about baby so and baby
Speaker 3: salt in a little.
Speaker 2: Bit, you know.
Speaker 1: But so, like you were, you were talking like last
Speaker 1: week they were gonna win this game. Did you still
Speaker 1: think that Sam was going to struggle in this game?
Speaker 2: I didn't think he was struggle like he did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 2: Was anticipating this game.
Speaker 4: This is the somewhere I was like, you know, what,
Speaker 4: when is that game gonna happen where he gets brought
Speaker 4: down the earth?
Speaker 1: And it was it was coming.
Speaker 4: He got welcome to the NFL this game. He went
Speaker 4: into the building feeling good. He left out of the
Speaker 4: billing wondering and my starting quarterback in this League, like
Speaker 4: we all have those moments. We had those moments when
Speaker 4: we meet our match and where one day where no
Speaker 4: matter what I do.
Speaker 2: And does it work.
Speaker 1: Did you have a game like that?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did, which against Carolina and I was in
Speaker 3: Minnesota time Steve Smith. Now, the first five games I
Speaker 3: played against Steve Smith, nobody even heard his name.
Speaker 2: Shut him down that game. No matter what I know,
Speaker 2: I played off, I played zone, he would be he
Speaker 2: would beat me in zone. And it wasn't even man
Speaker 2: was crazy about that game.
Speaker 3: Now that he brings it up, Steve Smith mentioned that
Speaker 3: he was going to do something to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they both you.
Speaker 3: Know, the pre game there, he spoke before the game
Speaker 3: about what he gonna do to Fred. You know, I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 3: that's gonna be one of them games. You know, a
Speaker 3: guy who knows Fred. And yeah, I'm sitting there like,
Speaker 3: well I wanted and we had a game. So I'm like,
Speaker 3: what happened with the Steve Smith and Fred? And when
Speaker 3: I saw the highlights, I'm like, damn.
Speaker 4: You know what I can tell people about dB It
Speaker 4: ain't nothing worse than running looking back because everything happened
Speaker 4: in the slow motion, the.
Speaker 2: Ball coming you look and he just dance. Listen, it's
Speaker 2: the Lord.
Speaker 1: What what did he do? That was?
Speaker 4: So it was nothing that he did. Couldn't get right
Speaker 4: like you, like you had that game and then the
Speaker 4: players that I'm winning, they ain't looking.
Speaker 3: His way, like I'm winning these route and it ain't
Speaker 3: looking his way, but I'm a step behind right there.
Speaker 2: They got it. So it just wasn't the days where
Speaker 2: good ain't good enough.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, it's hard for me to imagine you
Speaker 1: having a game like this because I came in. When
Speaker 1: I came in, you know, I was a rookie and
Speaker 1: you were like God, But did you have a game
Speaker 1: like this where you were like.
Speaker 3: Well, there's games as a receiver where you just don't
Speaker 3: catch you're dropping.
Speaker 1: Do you ever feel like the DBS just gotcha?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest with you. I swear on everything
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 1: I never.
Speaker 3: Was in a game where I felt that that I
Speaker 3: just can't beat this guy. I was in games plenty
Speaker 3: of time where I felt like the hands I got.
Speaker 2: Hands and what's going on?
Speaker 3: And no, I've been in game where I told the coach, hey,
Speaker 3: don't throw me, no damn ball.
Speaker 4: I'm that dude, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not one of those guys that gonna sit here
Speaker 3: and be like egoing to coach.
Speaker 2: I'm not feeling it. I can't catch.
Speaker 3: So I've been in those games, and those games always
Speaker 3: bring you down. I'm talking about from every level though,
Speaker 3: Like I tell folks all the time. High school, I've
Speaker 3: been in the game where the game before State, I
Speaker 3: dropped a ball. It hit me on this arm. I
Speaker 3: couldn't see the ball.
Speaker 2: I rent the ball down located it couldn't locate it.
Speaker 1: It hit this arm.
Speaker 2: It ruined my whole game. That was the game before State.
Speaker 3: So I went from every game before that probably I
Speaker 3: had two touchdowns in one hundred yards, and that game
Speaker 3: before State I dropped that ball. I went home, went
Speaker 3: to the last out that night, court balls all night
Speaker 3: in the dark. So every level I've been on, I've
Speaker 3: had a game or two that woke me up or
Speaker 3: told me this is either you or you're gonna do
Speaker 3: something about it. Got it got into college Florida State,
Speaker 3: first player of the game, I bumped the whole entire
Speaker 3: team ball.
Speaker 2: I dropped it, but it really scraped my face.
Speaker 3: Man, if people don't give me the credit for that,
Speaker 3: that game made me. It made me who the guy
Speaker 3: would end up being, because I had to go home
Speaker 3: and say I feel I feel like But it.
Speaker 4: Was always an US thing. It wasn't the other player.
Speaker 4: You think, what are you gonna feel like that day?
Speaker 4: So I look at Sam.
Speaker 2: It was him. It was him.
Speaker 1: It was him.
Speaker 3: You can't blame nothing else and nobody their situations in
Speaker 3: the game. When you watch and you say, okay, Sam,
Speaker 3: this is what they're gonna do to you for now on.
Speaker 3: They're gonna brain for they're gonna drop the rest. They're
Speaker 3: gonna say, you beat us. So in that situation, if
Speaker 3: I don't have anybody and I'm not confident about that
Speaker 3: throat or that lane, I.
Speaker 2: Gotta dump it down.
Speaker 3: I have to make these decisions quick, or if I
Speaker 3: can't dump it down, get three or four yards, get
Speaker 3: it right now. So Grig William would have told with
Speaker 3: this young quarterback, he got the um talent. So we're
Speaker 3: gonna take his arm away and we're gonna force him to.
Speaker 2: Beat us with his mind. And that's what Buffalo did.
Speaker 1: They did.
Speaker 2: His mind ain't caught up to his.
Speaker 3: Arm, and that him their head coach is one of
Speaker 3: the best when it comes to you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: he forced him to beat me with this. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: what I saw, And I'm like, you know what I'm
Speaker 3: I was during the time of the game. I wasn't
Speaker 3: happy with what I was saying because I'm like, man,
Speaker 3: I want to win this game.
Speaker 2: But you watched it again. But I watched it again.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, I'm happy that this is
Speaker 3: gonna tape just now, like you can see it. Like
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure when they're watching it, the coach is
Speaker 3: telling him this, like, look, it's nothing there, what are
Speaker 3: you doing it away? So these are one of those
Speaker 3: games where you're going to see this week, what did
Speaker 3: he learn?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: What did you take from last week and say you
Speaker 3: can't do this week? And that's I can't wait to
Speaker 3: watch this game coming up because it has to be
Speaker 3: improvement for him to feel confident with him going forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. I think that's something that definitely
Speaker 1: he can learn on it. And also I think there's
Speaker 1: something that the offense can learn because I felt like
Speaker 1: there was times where I was watching where like the
Speaker 1: splits wort one hundred percent right, like the depth of
Speaker 1: the route was a little bit of and again an inch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you play good football teams, you have to be
Speaker 1: hyper detailed, you know what I'm saying. When you're playing
Speaker 1: against the playoffs Colt right, and I think there was
Speaker 1: a little bit of that. Like it just shows you again,
Speaker 1: like when you're playing Denver right, everything looks great, man
Speaker 1: all you can't even tell. But when that coverage is
Speaker 1: that much tighter, the rush is that much better, those
Speaker 1: details matter. So I think it'll it'll help them.
Speaker 3: Wondering because when I'm watching them right now and seeing
Speaker 3: some of the split, seeing some of the formations in
Speaker 3: some of these routes, it's almost remind It reminds me
Speaker 3: of twenty ten when Shanahan first got here and we
Speaker 3: wasn't we knew it, but we didn't know. I was
Speaker 3: just about to say that, and I'm like, damn, this
Speaker 3: reminds me of me and Enjoy Galloway out there talking
Speaker 3: before we got to the line of trying to figure
Speaker 3: out who well, but it's not even it's.
Speaker 1: Something you don't know the route.
Speaker 3: You know it, but it's just like it's not it's
Speaker 3: head to the point.
Speaker 1: Where you got it. Like it's like I got an
Speaker 1: example for you. So like, for example, we used to
Speaker 1: run this play called dagger right, and we'd run it
Speaker 1: out of like multiple.
Speaker 2: Formations, so like anybody can get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, usually would Usually you'd run to the side, like
Speaker 1: if I'm the same if it's three by one, I'm
Speaker 1: the tight end. I would run a five yard sit
Speaker 1: right to pull that coverage down and open up the window.
Speaker 1: But it was a formation hotel. Every third down we
Speaker 1: were in three by one. So Kyle's like, we need
Speaker 1: to run this out of two by two and the
Speaker 1: title needs to get across right. But because it's a
Speaker 1: dagger right and it's a fifteen yard incut, I don't
Speaker 1: sit in the same spot that I went on like
Speaker 1: a shallow cross. I need a ship like two yards wider.
Speaker 1: So that was something that like again like a detail
Speaker 1: that we didn't know the first time we did it,
Speaker 1: but as you ran.
Speaker 2: It, like let me let me get outside.
Speaker 1: I need to be wider, right. And so when I
Speaker 1: look at some of these again, some of the little
Speaker 1: details in terms of spacing and positioning, they know, they
Speaker 1: know the routes, everyone knows what they're doing. It's just
Speaker 1: about bringing the offense to life. And Kyle I said
Speaker 1: this before, but Kyle was always big guy. Takes three
Speaker 1: years to learn an offense, and it's not three years
Speaker 1: to learn what's on the paper.
Speaker 2: No, it's three years to be comfortable with how it
Speaker 2: needs to be done.
Speaker 4: So we like jumping the gun because he's only been
Speaker 4: his six month.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I love what I'm seeing, but I just
Speaker 2: feel like they got it, got it, yeah, because they
Speaker 2: need they need to do it.
Speaker 3: I've seen that times when you got players in the
Speaker 3: same same area, like, ah, somebody route that he thought
Speaker 3: he was running with.
Speaker 1: The spacing and even the spacing man like just understanding.
Speaker 1: Like on that curl where we're Sam throws the picture
Speaker 1: in a four by one, Right, can that special route?
Speaker 1: Can that crossing route get a little wider? Pull that
Speaker 1: safety more? Right? Can the rail get a little bit wider?
Speaker 1: Open the window, carry the flat player? Like those are
Speaker 1: the things that make routes come to life on paper, right.
Speaker 2: And we take them dangerous to us.
Speaker 1: And we've talked a lot about how they've done a
Speaker 1: good job of like, oh, hey, this is his own concept,
Speaker 1: but you can run versus man. But there's even more
Speaker 1: layers to that. And so I think This is a
Speaker 1: This is a good opportunity for everybody to learn that
Speaker 1: Sam to get better at this, detailing up the offense
Speaker 1: in general, even protections. Man, there's details there to what.
Speaker 3: I love the most about what I've seen because you
Speaker 3: look at what we had the first two weeks we
Speaker 3: had success, was able to overcome a lot of stuff,
Speaker 3: you know, not playing versus that time, and then you
Speaker 3: overcame it this game. We couldn't get out of a rut,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, we just couldn't get right everything
Speaker 3: that can happen bad having bad. And so now you
Speaker 3: say yourself, who are we put three games together already
Speaker 3: as a core, as a team, as a unit. No,
Speaker 3: are we the guys who were in game two, I
Speaker 3: mean the game one and game two? Or are we that
Speaker 3: team in game three? Clearly didn't eyre not the team
Speaker 3: in game three. So now you get to the drawing
Speaker 3: board and you say, okay, we have to be so
Speaker 3: much better with everything we do.
Speaker 2: You know, I tell my room for era.
Speaker 3: Look, first thing I always harp on, and I'll probably
Speaker 3: do this as a coach. As an individual course, I
Speaker 3: would say alignment and assignment. If you get those two down,
Speaker 3: the rest is is you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean effort, I mean not even effort.
Speaker 3: It should be gravy to you because if I get
Speaker 3: to where I gotta go at and then I know
Speaker 3: what I gotta do, then I gotta go out there
Speaker 3: and produce.
Speaker 2: I gotta go out there and make something happen.
Speaker 3: So when I watched the team, I just want to
Speaker 3: make sure that and I'm pretty sure that they're telling
Speaker 3: these guys in the meetings that look, we know we
Speaker 3: got to do so now it's about making a play.
Speaker 2: You know, quarterback OFFICI, line receivers, running backs.
Speaker 3: It's times saying we can't blame this all on Sam either,
Speaker 3: because you got to look at it. It's times when
Speaker 3: guys come in that backfield, I need I need his
Speaker 3: protection better. I need the running backs to step up
Speaker 3: in there and guess what, you gotta hit a guy
Speaker 3: in the face. Hit him in the face, because that's
Speaker 3: what that's what you're paid to do, besides running the football.
Speaker 3: So whid receivers get open, even if that dropping back
Speaker 3: and they got seven seven in coverage, final lane.
Speaker 2: It's a south get open.
Speaker 3: So they have to just see things a little clear,
Speaker 3: knowing what's gonna be you know, brought to them weekend
Speaker 3: and week out.
Speaker 2: Unless you and man just know it's his zone somewhere.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, you gonna know as a
Speaker 3: receiver when you and man, we should always beat our man.
Speaker 3: I always tell God, you should always beat your man.
Speaker 3: But I love the fact that this stuff is happening
Speaker 3: now because you get a chance to grow, You get
Speaker 3: a chance to.
Speaker 2: Say, it's only week three. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It's classic overreaction time, and that's what people doing.
Speaker 2: But that's what they want old God analysis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you got you got burned on your
Speaker 1: pregame show or the postgame show, right, I won't say
Speaker 1: you're a company man, Like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, most they said I was a coming because I wasn't.
Speaker 4: I wasn't like blown away. I was like, guess what
Speaker 4: it wasn't this game was coming.
Speaker 3: They didn't get dominated either. I don't feel like we
Speaker 3: sat there in later egg.
Speaker 4: Everything that happened, we had control over him, Like it's
Speaker 4: easily we got blue out.
Speaker 2: We could have blew them out there.
Speaker 3: I felt it, and everybody like, why are you just overacting?
Speaker 3: Because No, I got a quarterback this literally three days old.
Speaker 3: I got a coordinator.
Speaker 4: They've been here for six months. I know they gonna
Speaker 4: go through a metro racing period where they.
Speaker 2: Got to learn.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, So that's what we learned from the offense.
Speaker 1: I think that's all very productive. Is there anything on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball that you're like, Man,
Speaker 1: they learn this because I think, like we said, they
Speaker 1: played pretty solid. I mean, is it. The thing that
Speaker 1: sticks out to me is as a rusher maybe not
Speaker 1: respecting Josh Allen so much. I felt like there were
Speaker 1: times where they were a little bit you know, not
Speaker 1: I don't say nervous is the wrong word, but just
Speaker 1: conscientious of him as a rusher.
Speaker 2: Him and I'm here.
Speaker 4: I'm sure that the d line hurt all week because
Speaker 4: we get tired of this. We running quarterbacks. We can't
Speaker 4: play two man. It just shurts that we can't turn
Speaker 4: back to him. And all they heard last week was
Speaker 4: rush up the field and stop because he's a runner,
Speaker 4: so don't rush.
Speaker 2: They they usually rush the loop.
Speaker 4: Guys rush, stop and revert and go back and get him.
Speaker 4: They hurt that all week, and Josh Allen is used
Speaker 4: to that. He seeing that they weren't coming all the
Speaker 4: way around He's like, I ain't gonna run. I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna sit in his body and I'm gonna throw the ball.
Speaker 4: So that's the only thing I can say is sometime
Speaker 4: we handicap ourself by who were playing. Instead of I
Speaker 4: would have just let the dogs loose, I've been like,
Speaker 4: just go get him and if he gets some run yards,
Speaker 4: okay when the.
Speaker 1: Playbreak, because you'd rather I guess you'd rather him be
Speaker 1: running the ball.
Speaker 4: I rather him run the ball because usually when he
Speaker 4: runs the ball, a lot bad things happen.
Speaker 1: That's a great point, man. Maybe it's just like, hey,
Speaker 1: like we as a defensive line can stay aggressive and
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, I don't know what that
Speaker 1: conversation looks like in that meeting, but that's something that
Speaker 1: when you.
Speaker 4: Play a running quarterback, we are all the hands always
Speaker 4: told rush three years up the field, stop it, revert back.
Speaker 3: It's almost them. If you don't, damn if you do them.
Speaker 3: If you do them, if you don't. But I just
Speaker 3: feel like, at the end of the day, you gotta
Speaker 3: play football. Yeah, I mean you can't let you can't
Speaker 3: let all that stuff kind of, you know, make you
Speaker 3: overthinking and feel like you got to do something other
Speaker 3: than what you're known to you know to be or do.
Speaker 3: So this week he's gonna get the same situation, maybe
Speaker 3: worse because now they haven't.
Speaker 2: Run run a quarterback.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure that we're gonna be like, man, forget it,
Speaker 4: go giddy like whatever happens happened.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in the preview pod on Friday. Right,
Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah? Yeah, that is all right. So
Speaker 1: let's talk about our Command Center pod. Fantasy League. Whatever
Speaker 1: we got here.
Speaker 2: I am getting bambooze and swimdle.
Speaker 1: You drafted your team?
Speaker 3: No, No, Jason's the GM right, Ruin, I'm trying to
Speaker 3: building fantasies.
Speaker 1: Get out of here.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying, hold on, hi, Jason ruining.
Speaker 3: You ain't want to be a part of it. That's
Speaker 3: why you ass getting bad movies because you want to.
Speaker 3: Should have got a hand Tour and he put up
Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy points this week.
Speaker 1: That is that is wild?
Speaker 2: Did I lose with Tour? Let's just telling you who?
Speaker 1: But who found too for you? Jason went and got him.
Speaker 4: No, because I told Jason last week, if Justin Fields
Speaker 4: is my quarterback, I am through.
Speaker 2: I am through with the league.
Speaker 1: Said, if you fire Jason, unless you make a movie.
Speaker 4: Unless Justin Fields, I have never seen a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Who else is on my yes okay, Stephan Diggs, I'm
Speaker 1: and Ross Saint Brown. You're not getting a lot of
Speaker 1: production and giems right now, and Waller's having a tough time.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, I'm twoing one right now.
Speaker 1: Oh you did this Jason talking to like when we're doing.
Speaker 4: This, Yeah, yea, I'm gonna say, show up so injuries
Speaker 4: in his fan That's why I love it, Kyle fantasy
Speaker 4: because it's all the joke.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you just drafted poorly. Yeah I did so, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you obviously are having a rough a rough fantasy. I
Speaker 1: am to this.
Speaker 2: He deserves what he get.
Speaker 1: Yeah so, but London beat you, and I'm sure London
Speaker 1: places takes us pretty seriously. He has Travis Kelcey on
Speaker 1: his team. Obviously, he looks like.
Speaker 2: He allows to a brother coach.
Speaker 3: I'm like, very solid and me, oh my god, oh
Speaker 3: my god.
Speaker 2: Okay, fans, this.
Speaker 1: Is what I'm talking about. After flashed right now like brutal,
Speaker 1: but just catching straight.
Speaker 2: I lost. I'm glad he's showing his true color.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, and Tanny, you beat me, and I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna win for sure because you had
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes again, he had a pretty good game, and
Speaker 1: I had Hackinson, but I also had Lamar Jackson, and
Speaker 1: I thought Lamar Jackson balled one hundred yards. Yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: And then I was like, how did you? And then
Speaker 1: we get into the scientistics Tyreek Hill and that Miami
Speaker 1: offense big seventy.
Speaker 4: Listen, I ain't play football in the decade, and I
Speaker 4: have nightmares about checking Tyreek.
Speaker 2: He is so scary.
Speaker 4: About fast in the ability to stop that with Tanner
Speaker 4: had Cheetah has fast, ability to stop and he has
Speaker 4: a ballance.
Speaker 2: But he's not fast. He's not fast.
Speaker 1: He's elite. He has blazing heard someone make this top
Speaker 1: through and it's he's Randy Moss.
Speaker 3: Like he's Randy Moss, He's he can't he can do
Speaker 3: whatever you want to do.
Speaker 2: He's a sports car all right, running round truck. I
Speaker 2: was trying to find them.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to find a proper analogy for this guy
Speaker 3: when it comes to just what he does. But you know, folks,
Speaker 3: some one brought his birth name of like a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago when he was in Kansas City, Like, yeah, man,
Speaker 3: you know Tyrek and you know he could fit in
Speaker 3: that pool with you and Steve Smith.
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, Tyreek run circles with Smith.
Speaker 3: He might not could just be on the outside all
Speaker 3: the time, but he can just plea everywhere. Like he's
Speaker 3: the guy you're gonna have in the backfield. Put him
Speaker 3: on part return, put them on kick return. He's gonna
Speaker 3: make a plate, you know what I mean. He's just
Speaker 3: one of those guys that.
Speaker 4: I thought when I watched Antonio Brown in the midst
Speaker 4: of his glory years.
Speaker 2: I was like, damn he.
Speaker 4: Somebody just don't got And then I saw Tyree he
Speaker 4: and I was like, no, he is a step better.
Speaker 2: He's a step faster, quicker, and he just never.
Speaker 4: Seeing him lose balance. Have you ever seen them trip? Yeah,
Speaker 4: he sold the ballots.
Speaker 2: Everything's scary.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. So real quick question before we bring in
Speaker 1: our special guests for the day. Oh yeah, yeah, the analysts. Analysts.
Speaker 1: But my question is do you think they can put
Speaker 1: keep sustaining this offensive production Miami?
Speaker 3: Like that's my thought, no question, no question, no question.
Speaker 3: I think you know why because we've we played in
Speaker 3: that offense. Before we didn't have the firepower. We had
Speaker 3: some guys that can go out and play football, but
Speaker 3: they got they got weapons. They got by one weapons
Speaker 3: of mass destruction.
Speaker 2: Every guy and then wattles hurt. Yeah, just think without
Speaker 2: waters out there on the field.
Speaker 4: Got problems with the number one, your number two corners
Speaker 4: got problems with their number two.
Speaker 2: Your line back looks got problems.
Speaker 3: One thing that Calsh in the hands said to me
Speaker 3: and I and I say, you're absolutely right. I'm mad
Speaker 3: that I just got to you with this office. He
Speaker 3: got to me in year ten. Yeah, if I had
Speaker 3: that in the middle of my career where I was
Speaker 3: on one, Yeah, bro, and you remember what.
Speaker 2: I was doing. I was running slots. I was lining
Speaker 2: up at tight end.
Speaker 3: Like when I got to that, to the chance to
Speaker 3: get inside again, I'm like, man, I've been playing for
Speaker 3: ten years and these guys just put me in the
Speaker 3: slot inside. So just know what they can do with
Speaker 3: all those guys, all those guys, and all those guys
Speaker 3: so much space able to create. You got Mike McDaniel's
Speaker 3: as the Some.
Speaker 1: Of those runs, those toss cracks they cultivated were unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, crazy, it's gonna be It's gonna be something
Speaker 2: done in mind.
Speaker 1: All right. So now for our special guest, a piano
Speaker 1: and how you doing great?
Speaker 2: How are you talking to the microphone?
Speaker 1: Okay, so Anna is here because she has especial insight
Speaker 1: on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 5: But before I am the resident pop.
Speaker 1: Culture Actually that's right, but before we get to that,
Speaker 1: you had a funny story happening this weekend. I heard
Speaker 1: you got you locked yourself out of the car at
Speaker 1: the stadium after the game. So what happened?
Speaker 5: Basically, my car is not fancy.
Speaker 1: What kind of cardio?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't want to give away too much.
Speaker 2: Let me just leave it at this. Do you use
Speaker 2: a key? Yes, okay, it's.
Speaker 5: A ten can that locks, and it takes me to
Speaker 5: and from work. Does the trick you need?
Speaker 1: Okay? So it happened. It's a new car.
Speaker 5: I don't know how that.
Speaker 1: What happened.
Speaker 5: I was hot and I took my jacket off, and
Speaker 5: I was being dramatic and I slammed my trunk shut.
Speaker 5: Jason was there.
Speaker 2: He saw me.
Speaker 1: I was dead for the day. You were there, Jason.
Speaker 5: I threw my jacket in my trunk. I slammed the
Speaker 5: door shut and then I immediately turned around and I.
Speaker 1: Was like so bad.
Speaker 5: I was gonna go to the police. And then I
Speaker 5: didn't realize, well, I didn't know the police were an option,
Speaker 5: so I whatever, I didn't go to the police. I
Speaker 5: made Maddie, our producer, driving me home, and I had
Speaker 5: a spare Is.
Speaker 1: Your car still there? Now?
Speaker 5: Somehow I made it here, so no, I drove back.
Speaker 2: It was a long day.
Speaker 4: I also want to know what's in take about Taylor case.
Speaker 2: Will I will say.
Speaker 5: I'm waiting on the Karma reprise instead of Karma is
Speaker 5: my boyfriend? Kelsey is my boyfriend?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: I'm ready for it.
Speaker 1: But is that a song? Is that a song that
Speaker 1: she did? Okay has a ice?
Speaker 5: Spice is also on her other reprise. I'm just she's
Speaker 5: just gonna keep reprising it.
Speaker 4: So like me, you think this relationship is real because
Speaker 4: I think it's genuine because if you with Mama Kelsey,
Speaker 4: that's when I knew it was real.
Speaker 2: Like when you're chilling with my mama. This ain't for joke.
Speaker 2: We didn't give anybody who worth the big chill. My
Speaker 2: mama should have doing nothing. Man, she the she ward
Speaker 2: some bees man.
Speaker 1: You know what's it? Right here? By?
Speaker 2: Mama?
Speaker 1: You know? So? So what's your what's your take on it?
Speaker 5: I think it's real, but I don't think.
Speaker 2: It's end game.
Speaker 1: You don't think it's end game? What do you mean
Speaker 1: by that?
Speaker 5: Like they're not gonna together?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: You don't think they're gonna get mad?
Speaker 1: Why not? Okay, that's what I want them to get.
Speaker 5: Want them to be married, Like I wish the best.
Speaker 5: I'm like, it would be a really good duo, but
Speaker 5: I don't know. They be so busy you never see
Speaker 5: each other.
Speaker 3: Y'all could sit here and praise Kelsey because of what
Speaker 3: he has a come. He's one of the best tight
Speaker 3: ends of all time. And he mama, chel Mama, Kelsey.
Speaker 6: Did go by, so y'all, Yeah, yeah, get the drop
Speaker 6: top with with Taylor Swift in the drop top beat
Speaker 6: out in this trunk.
Speaker 1: He's got so I would I met him down at
Speaker 1: Titan University. That man has some swag. Some swag?
Speaker 2: Are they not Americles the hottest couple right now?
Speaker 1: That's why that's Amanda. Are they the hottest couple? Ana? Yes?
Speaker 1: And are they really?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: They're the world? Come on, three hundred thousand followers. He
Speaker 4: gained four hundred up on his jerseys. Yeah, but that's
Speaker 4: because of her. When she throws her in this concert,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be number to see a red Kelsey jerseys
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 5: And I'm saying at the Chiefs game, everybody's gonna wear
Speaker 5: their Taylor Swift clothes.
Speaker 1: So the other thing I wanted to say, did you
Speaker 1: see that clip of the fans that thought she was
Speaker 1: being smuggled out of the oder suite.
Speaker 2: And popcorn machine box?
Speaker 1: Is that true you think of? Really?
Speaker 5: I didn't see anything.
Speaker 1: You're worth a billion dollars. You're gonna get stuffed in
Speaker 1: a metal box like that. You don't want to be seen.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's kind of my ejection. Come on, Mike sneak
Speaker 2: in his shoe box.
Speaker 3: Might used to be at the damn Disney World and
Speaker 3: a fat man suit all the time. Really, Yeah, they
Speaker 3: got video of Michael Jackson at Disney World sitting on
Speaker 3: the bench and the fat man suit.
Speaker 2: What video? I don't know who made that up, but no,
Speaker 2: go look it up.
Speaker 1: Tanna's our conspiracy. No, that's your your daddy, So real
Speaker 1: quick final thoughts on this relationship and anything we should
Speaker 1: be watching for in the next Chiefs game.
Speaker 5: With regards to them, Well, gosh, I don't know if
Speaker 5: I have any final thoughts.
Speaker 2: I just well, you did say you didn't think they
Speaker 2: were gonna make it.
Speaker 5: No, I think maybe they'll make it through the season.
Speaker 5: It'd be really fun if Dealer was there for if
Speaker 5: you know. Of course, I hope we go to the
Speaker 5: super Bowl.
Speaker 4: But look, but we can play the we can with
Speaker 4: her there.
Speaker 1: Jason, how pump would your wife be a moment for
Speaker 1: Jason's wife?
Speaker 3: What player on team could one up the Swift? Who
Speaker 3: could date someone?
Speaker 1: Nobody? I was just saying, let's let's like someone breaks
Speaker 1: up beyond.
Speaker 2: Jay z Co manual four day nice Spice.
Speaker 1: No, I don't even know who who's ice spice? You
Speaker 1: don't know who's on a Taylor Swift songh is she?
Speaker 1: But she's a she's on a Taylor Swift song. Taylor
Speaker 1: Swifts on on ice spice spice?
Speaker 2: Got a coffee drink? No dunkle donut? And I hate
Speaker 2: this time of year they trying to make everything pumpkin.
Speaker 2: I'm just a pumpkin.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna do it for us Ana. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. That was great. Insight. Thank you for
Speaker 1: sharing with your story, appreciate it. And then that does
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