Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is back on the radio, and this week
Speaker 1: he's not talking about firing anyone, including the host, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, probably good for us too. Hear what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys owner did say about Dak Prescott. In a Dallas
Speaker 1: team that's back from the by and needs a big
Speaker 1: win Sunday night against the battered forty nine ers. Nobody
Speaker 1: is hotter right now than the Ravens, and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: just gave them five more reasons to believe they've got
Speaker 1: the championship formula at last. Can anybody stop them? Our
Speaker 1: buddies Baldy and Mark Ross will help us break that down.
Speaker 1: These Seahawks also got a big win on Sunday, thanks
Speaker 1: in part to a Patchfork secondary led by tonight's guest.
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant got his first career interception. Tonight, he makes
Speaker 1: his first career appearance on The Insiders to tell us
Speaker 1: what they've got brewing now in Seattle, guests probably does
Speaker 1: taste like more w you know, Welcome inside with the
Speaker 1: Insiders alongside Judy Battista and Mike Gariffalo. I am Tom Peliicero.
Speaker 1: It is The Insiders presented by Progressive Insurance. Tonight we're
Speaker 1: going to deliver you some breaking news right off the
Speaker 1: top of the show. Mike, We're going old school on
Speaker 1: this break some news for us right now.
Speaker 2: Saints fans have not had a whole lot to feel
Speaker 2: good about lately, so I'm gonna give you a little
Speaker 2: bit of something right here. Alvin Kamara and the Saints
Speaker 2: have agreed to a two year contract extension. You're seeing
Speaker 2: the numbers right there, twenty four and a half million
Speaker 2: dollars over the next two years for Camara to now
Speaker 2: be under contract through the twenty twenty six season. Now,
Speaker 2: remember he was under contract technically for next year, but
Speaker 2: that number was twenty five million. It was only to
Speaker 2: inflate the value of the deal that he did years ago.
Speaker 2: So for all intents and purposes, he was slated to
Speaker 2: be a free agent in the spring. Now under contract
Speaker 2: with the only team that he has ever known through
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six season. According to sources, this deal
Speaker 2: confirmed by Kamara's agent, Brad Skala of Quality Control Sports.
Speaker 2: The deal includes nineteen ish million dollars fully guaranteed and
Speaker 2: then another three that's going to trigger soon, so effectively,
Speaker 2: twenty two million fully guaranteed for Kamara, who denied that
Speaker 2: he ever requested a trade in a tweet. I think
Speaker 2: it was a couple of days ago when he said that.
Speaker 2: So this proves that he is proud to be a Saint,
Speaker 2: wants to continue to be a Saint into the future,
Speaker 2: and hopes to eventually retire a Saint. This deal is
Speaker 2: going to give him a chance to do that. So
Speaker 2: the New Orleans Saints some.
Speaker 3: Good news there for you guys, as the.
Speaker 2: Season started off so great and then kind of went downhill.
Speaker 2: There you go a reason to be excited about the future.
Speaker 4: It also allows everybody in New Orleans to exhale as
Speaker 4: the trade de line approaches, because this was going to
Speaker 4: be if there was nothing done.
Speaker 3: Before that time.
Speaker 4: This was one of the situations we were going to
Speaker 4: be keeping an eye on, and I would imagine all
Speaker 4: the lip readers are probably disappointed now. Right a few
Speaker 4: days ago when they thought he was saying to Sean
Speaker 4: Payton's ear, come get me, he is not coming to
Speaker 4: get you anymore. So he's going to be there.
Speaker 1: In New Orleans.
Speaker 4: It is good news for Saints fans and the Saints organization, which,
Speaker 4: as you said, it's been kind of an up and
Speaker 4: down start here. With a lot of down recently for
Speaker 4: the Saints, this is some bright news for the future, certainly.
Speaker 1: And this has been a long time coming here, Mike.
Speaker 1: We were talking about this for months, literally going all
Speaker 1: the way back to March, of whether or not this
Speaker 1: was going to get done. It sounded like it was
Speaker 1: close at one point, and then there was the walkout
Speaker 1: during the OTA's or mini camp. A lot of twists
Speaker 1: and turns, but Alvin Kamaria, at age twenty nine, has
Speaker 1: shown when they've actually been a healthy team what he
Speaker 1: can still do. And even though right now well five
Speaker 1: game losing streak, they should get Derek carrbacks sooner than later.
Speaker 1: They're only two games back a first place in the
Speaker 1: NFC South, and let's just say Monday night might have
Speaker 1: opened things up even more in that division. That's because
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost not just a game, but
Speaker 1: one of their most important players in that game in
Speaker 1: the final minute last night, wide receiver Chris Godwin on
Speaker 1: this play, suffering a dislocated ankle. There is additional damage.
Speaker 1: He had an MRI this morning, expected to undergo surgery
Speaker 1: later this week. Todd Bowles left the door cracked just
Speaker 1: a tiny bit on the possibility Mike that we could
Speaker 1: see god Win back if the Bucks make a deep
Speaker 1: playoff run. They also had Mike Evans get banged up
Speaker 1: in that game. He suffered a hamstring injury, not going
Speaker 1: to play in the coming weeks. Here a lot of
Speaker 1: different elements to this, but probably the biggest one is
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who were so good on offense
Speaker 1: at the start of the season, now have major questions
Speaker 1: about who exactly Baker Mayfield's throwing the ball to.
Speaker 2: You know, we talked about the lip readers, or we
Speaker 2: joked about the lip readers Judy did just a couple
Speaker 2: of moments ago. If you read Godwin's lips, I believe
Speaker 2: what he said when he was on that cart, which
Speaker 2: is incredible perspective. A guy who had had an ACL
Speaker 2: injury before said back to work, meaning he knew that
Speaker 2: there was going to be a lengthy rehab process ahead
Speaker 2: of him. So for him to in that moment, no,
Speaker 2: it's going to take a lot of work to get
Speaker 2: back maybe maybe potentially, Like you said, Tom this year,
Speaker 2: I thought that that was a poignant moment to see
Speaker 2: that for Chris Godwin.
Speaker 3: There it's a tough one.
Speaker 2: It's losing Mike Evans for at least the next what's
Speaker 2: at three games? They'll keep him, it sounds like off
Speaker 2: I are with a chance that he'll be back for
Speaker 2: the fourth game, potentially, So to lose those top two guys, Look,
Speaker 2: Sterling Shepherd has kind of been rejuvenated down there, the
Speaker 2: veteran former Giant Jalen McMillan. They've thought highly of him
Speaker 2: since they drafted him this year. Kate Otten has been
Speaker 2: a reliable target at the tight end position. They're still
Speaker 2: really good on defense. But to lose these two guys
Speaker 2: for the next couple of games, and there are some
Speaker 2: tough games coming up here for the Bucks in the
Speaker 2: very near future, it is incredibly.
Speaker 3: Tough for them. But you know, Todd Bowles, he's a
Speaker 3: veteran coach.
Speaker 2: He's been around, He's been through a lot of things
Speaker 2: in his career, both as an assistant coach and a
Speaker 2: head coach. I expect this team to come out and
Speaker 2: play some tough football this upcoming weekend against the Fountains.
Speaker 4: All right, let's take a few steps back. First of all,
Speaker 4: Chris Godwin was having a career season, which makes this
Speaker 4: all the more devastating that now it's over. Mike Evans
Speaker 4: came into the game hobbling with a hamstring injury. He
Speaker 4: had appeared on the injury report, and he was hobbling
Speaker 4: even at the start of the game. He caught a
Speaker 4: touchdown pass and he came up hobbling even though he
Speaker 4: was wide open in the end zone. And then on
Speaker 4: the second touchdown pass that was intended for him, he
Speaker 4: dropped it and that is when he grabbed the back
Speaker 4: of his leg in what looked to be agony. Todd
Speaker 4: Bowles said it is in the same area as the
Speaker 4: hamstring that landed him on the injury report from the week.
Speaker 4: He said he's heard pretty badly. They're not putting him
Speaker 4: on IR because they do have a bye weekend there.
Speaker 4: So they've got three very difficult games coming up, including
Speaker 4: the Falcons this week, which obviously this week could turn
Speaker 4: the entire NFC south right now, they've got three tough
Speaker 4: games and then the buye So they're not going to
Speaker 4: put them on IR because the bye buys them a
Speaker 4: little time and he could potentially return. I believe it's
Speaker 4: November twenty fourth against the New York Giants, but clearly
Speaker 4: for now the Bucks are going to have to piece
Speaker 4: it together. Todd Bowles said today they're going to have
Speaker 4: to creatively deploy their running backs. Our old friend, Sterling Shepherd,
Speaker 4: as Mike mentioned, is going to be in the mix.
Speaker 4: But this was a top five This is still a
Speaker 4: top five scoring offense that now is going to put
Speaker 4: an awful lot of pressure on its defense and an
Speaker 4: awful lot of pressure on Baker Mayfield to make it
Speaker 4: work until at least Mike Evans can get back.
Speaker 1: And going back to the Chris Godwin injury for a
Speaker 1: second here, that play is being reviewed like all plays are,
Speaker 1: but if you watch it very carefully, there the tackle
Speaker 1: by Rokuan Smith does feature will look like all the
Speaker 1: elements of a hip DROC tackle. It occurs very quickly.
Speaker 1: You can see Rokwan Smith unweighth himself pull him down.
Speaker 1: That's why the NFL has been trying to get that
Speaker 1: play out of the game. It is entirely possible, if
Speaker 1: not probable, the Roquan Smith will end up being fined
Speaker 1: for that injury to Chris Godwin. We've seen so many
Speaker 1: of those in recent years, whether it was Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: or Mark Andrews or Joe Mixon earlier this year. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of questions about why can't you throw flags
Speaker 1: on it? This plays a perfect example. It's bang bang,
Speaker 1: It happens really really fast. They're trying to enforce it
Speaker 1: with fines. A devastating injury for Chris Godwin and that
Speaker 1: Buccaneers team as they now try to move forward and
Speaker 1: potentially be active in the trade market to supplant him.
Speaker 1: Same thing for the forty nine ers, who just lost
Speaker 1: one of their top targets. It is Brandon Ayuk who
Speaker 1: is going to be out for the season with a
Speaker 1: torn acl and MCL. It occurs on this play, not
Speaker 1: a common mechanism. It didn't seem like he doesn't take
Speaker 1: a direct shot on that knee, but knew instantaneously that
Speaker 1: this was going to be a very bad injury. So
Speaker 1: after an off season full of drama that ended in
Speaker 1: a contract extension for Brandon Ayuk, San Francisco now is
Speaker 1: going to be moving on from a player that they're
Speaker 1: still paying thirty million dollars per year. There's optimism they
Speaker 1: will get Deebo Samuel back. He barely played in that
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, was listed before the game with an illness.
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan said he was struggling to breathe dealing with
Speaker 1: something that resembled pneumonia yet fluid in his lungs. Actually
Speaker 1: ended up in the hospital on Monday. The good news today,
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel now out of the hospital, will see you
Speaker 1: whenever you're coming off of respiratory illness, how quickly he
Speaker 1: can get back to full conditioning and be back on
Speaker 1: the field. But the good news is not something more serious.
Speaker 1: Deebo posted on social media a short time ago too
Speaker 1: that he is going to be playing for his guy,
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayyuk. Otherwide receiver injuries to keep note of here,
Speaker 1: dk metcalf bang that knee along the sideline in the
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. Sounds like he should be okay, you've
Speaker 1: got Juju Smith Schuster dealing with a hamstring. He's not
Speaker 1: going to play this week, Chris Olave. The Saints are
Speaker 1: hopeful they're going to get him back. One bit of
Speaker 1: good news. Pooka Nakua, who has been out for some
Speaker 1: time because of his knee injury, having his twenty one
Speaker 1: day practice window open. Probably not going to play Thursday
Speaker 1: night against the Vikings, but sooner than later Jerry Jones also,
Speaker 1: I mentioned off the top of the show back on
Speaker 1: the radio, No, he's not trying to clean out the
Speaker 1: hosts this week, but you going to offer some thoughts
Speaker 1: on exactly what might be going on with that offense
Speaker 1: that notably, Yes, that's right, the Cowboys do not have
Speaker 1: Derick Henry.
Speaker 5: The types of things that we all think we should
Speaker 5: be looking at is well, we're designing bad plays or
Speaker 5: we're designing bad concepts, And the facts are that there's
Speaker 5: some of that, but there's also some of the execution.
Speaker 5: There are some of the talent. I like our talent.
Speaker 5: I really do like our talent. I like our young talent,
Speaker 5: but young talent has a few more mistakes associated with
Speaker 5: it than than if you are dealing with a veteran player.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing here, Judy, and I'm not entirely
Speaker 1: certain what Jerry was driving at. That was a little
Speaker 1: bit meandering in terms of making the point about it
Speaker 1: started out talking about Derrick Henry, why it wouldn't have fit,
Speaker 1: It kind of got into this broader conversation about why
Speaker 1: they haven't been better offensively. It bears noting the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are starting what four or five rookies on a weekly basis.
Speaker 1: Right now, now you're down Brandon Cooks. He's not playing.
Speaker 1: Your veteran running back, Ezekiel Elliott is essentially a non
Speaker 1: factor in this offense. You spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: over the years, Judy, around Jerry Jones. What do you
Speaker 1: take away from what he's saying right now in advance
Speaker 1: of a huge game Sunday night against that beat up
Speaker 1: forty nine ers team.
Speaker 4: Well, one of our colleagues in Dallas, and I can't
Speaker 4: remember if it was Clarence Hill or Calvin Watkin somebody
Speaker 4: else said, is he saying the quiet part out loud?
Speaker 1: Is this what he thinks?
Speaker 4: I mean, it certainly sounds like he was throwing Mike
Speaker 4: McCarthy under the bus there, intentionally or not. I do
Speaker 4: think what this all comes back to is how very
Speaker 4: much that blowout loss to the Lions at home on
Speaker 4: national television stung and is still stinging Jerry Jones. He
Speaker 4: was embarrassed by it, right, They were embarrassed by the Lions.
Speaker 4: They were running all kinds of trick plays. He was
Speaker 4: stung in the moment that Sunday evening, and he is
Speaker 4: still stung now. And that I think is where all
Speaker 4: of this is coming from, and he is venting his
Speaker 4: frustration with it. He was praising the players, which certainly
Speaker 4: means that if he's praising the personnel, that means he
Speaker 4: is not very happy with some aspect of it. And
Speaker 4: that goes to coaching. We know Mike McCarthy does not
Speaker 4: have a contract after this season. Certainly as we get
Speaker 4: later in the season, going to be talking an awful
Speaker 4: lot about that. The bottom line is Jerry Jones is
Speaker 4: not happy and that is probably not a good thing
Speaker 4: for anybody in the Dallas Cowboys building until they win
Speaker 4: some games.
Speaker 2: You know, I have felt, and I continue to feel,
Speaker 2: that Jerry Jones really does believe in Mike McCarthy, maybe
Speaker 2: more than the average fan NFL fan does. You know, Tom,
Speaker 2: We've talked about a plenty, Like I believe that he
Speaker 2: is a very capable to good NFL head coach. It's
Speaker 2: a tough job to be the coach of the Cowboys
Speaker 2: because you've got to kind of deal with this every
Speaker 2: single week.
Speaker 3: That that's going on.
Speaker 2: But I just and you alluded to it, Tom, Like
Speaker 2: this game against the forty nine ers on side, they
Speaker 2: got housed against the forty nine ers last year on
Speaker 2: a Sunday night in Santa Clara. They've been getting housed
Speaker 2: by multiple teams this year. You just can't afford that
Speaker 2: kind of a game in the spot, Like, I just
Speaker 2: feel like you really can't. We tend to overstate how
Speaker 2: important these games are as we go throughout, like this
Speaker 2: one is huge, huge, just especially with the chance to
Speaker 2: prepare extra for this one, Like it's just gotta be.
Speaker 2: You can't have your owner then on the radio in
Speaker 2: a couple of days talking about scheme and.
Speaker 3: Some of this other stuff.
Speaker 2: So I just I don't want to overstate it, but
Speaker 2: I feel like I have to win this case.
Speaker 3: This is a huge game for Mike McCarthy and the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Ford and Iyers also the team that knocked them out
Speaker 1: of the playoffs twice both in the twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty two seasons. It's kind of been a
Speaker 1: bugaboo for them. Might be catching that team at the
Speaker 1: right time. We shall find out. It'll be interesting on
Speaker 1: Sunday night. That NFC West right now seems pretty wide open,
Speaker 1: and one of the teams that's at the top right
Speaker 1: now is these ones. The Seattle Seahawks went into Atlanta,
Speaker 1: snapped the losing skid, got big plays by that guy
Speaker 1: number eight along the way. So where does Kobe Bryant
Speaker 1: and that defense go from here? Well that's Kobe when
Speaker 1: he joins us right after this on The Insiders presented
Speaker 1: by Progressive Insurance.
Speaker 6: Cousin's gonna throw down the middle, and it's intercepted by
Speaker 6: Kobe Bryant out of the forty yard line and.
Speaker 1: He slides down.
Speaker 7: Take your time, everybody at every seat off, take your
Speaker 7: turns Kobe Bryant with the second pick of the game off.
Speaker 6: Of Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: First name is spelled cob Y.
Speaker 8: It's their third takeaway today on three consecutive series.
Speaker 1: Is in his third season played.
Speaker 8: At the University of Cincinnati. Well, the Jim Thorpe forward
Speaker 8: back in twenty one, he was they have the top
Speaker 8: dB in the nation without Ray Shawn Jenkins, Riepoolin, Trey Brown, right,
Speaker 8: some of the others had stepped up big as Bryant
Speaker 8: comes up with his first career pick.
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant had waited for that moment. I assume he
Speaker 1: had also waited for this moment making his debut right
Speaker 1: here on The Insiders presented by a Progressive Insurance along
Speaker 1: with me, Tom Pelisero, Judy Batista, and Mike Garriffalo Kobe.
Speaker 1: I know your rookie year, you had a couple interceptions
Speaker 1: called back on penalties. This was the first one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: actually get to go to the sideline, you get the hugs,
Speaker 1: you keep the ball. How does that moment feel for you?
Speaker 5: It was?
Speaker 9: It was definitely special first one. The first thing I
Speaker 9: kind of did was like look for flags to make
Speaker 9: sure it actually counted this time. And you know, icually Teas,
Speaker 9: one of my former teammates who's like a big brother
Speaker 9: than me Quandre Diggs, My text him and told him,
Speaker 9: you know, just joking with them about you know, this
Speaker 9: is no flags this time. So this one comps so.
Speaker 4: Right, this was your first start at safety. You just
Speaker 4: got moved to safety this season. I would ask how
Speaker 4: the transition is going. It sure looks like the transition
Speaker 4: is going well for you right now, but how do
Speaker 4: you feel you are adjusting to playing safety.
Speaker 9: I feel like I'm doing pretty well. Obviously, there's always
Speaker 9: room to grow, you know, that's the biggest thing. But
Speaker 9: just having fun and taking on all the communication, you know,
Speaker 9: just have open ears and learn it from, you know,
Speaker 9: guys like Julian Love and you know other guys as well.
Speaker 3: This game for you guys was huge.
Speaker 2: I mean it started off the season hot, a couple
Speaker 2: of losses in a row. There needed to come east,
Speaker 2: you guys, still, even with Mike McDonald, you did this
Speaker 2: under Pete Carroll doing a great job of coming east,
Speaker 2: getting acclimated. You come out a day early, and you
Speaker 2: wind up winning games in the Eastern time zone. What
Speaker 2: was the feeling like on the plane ride home, knowing
Speaker 2: that you'd stop that streak and potentially started a new
Speaker 2: winning streak.
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely. You know, we had fun on the plane ride.
Speaker 9: A little long, you know, the plane ride is always
Speaker 9: long coming or going to the east, coming from the
Speaker 9: East coast, I mean, but just an enjoyable plane ride,
Speaker 9: you know, just being able to smile and seeing everyone
Speaker 9: happy that you know, we came out and got the
Speaker 9: job done.
Speaker 1: What do you do, Kobe, I mean, you played in
Speaker 1: college right in the middle of the country. You're not
Speaker 1: taking long plane rides from You're playings instead, he got like,
Speaker 1: what a six hour flight there? You're bringing crossword puzzles,
Speaker 1: like what do you do to pass the time?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm definitely always like watching movies any more movies,
Speaker 9: it doesn't matter, or I'm joking with my teammates or
Speaker 9: most of the time, I try to sleep as well too,
Speaker 9: because you know a lot of them they like to
Speaker 9: mess with me on the plane, so I just try to,
Speaker 9: you know, get as much ress or just watch movies.
Speaker 4: All right, we heard on that clip as you were introduced,
Speaker 4: like sort of what a patchwork secondary. It was so
Speaker 4: many guys out, so many new people in. How did
Speaker 4: you guys sort of keep it together? How did you
Speaker 4: get together, especially when you know you were facing a
Speaker 4: pretty prolific passing attack.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, the biggest thing is, you know, you always
Speaker 9: want to be number. Be ready when your numbers called.
Speaker 9: That's the biggest thing. And just be prepared. You know,
Speaker 9: we prepared all week.
Speaker 1: We have fun.
Speaker 9: Just made sure that, you know, we hounted on the
Speaker 9: little things. It just went out to execute it time.
Speaker 1: Mat I got it back up.
Speaker 2: I got other questions about football, but they like to
Speaker 2: mess with you on the plane.
Speaker 3: I need to know what that's about.
Speaker 2: And like, when you get a pick, you can't be
Speaker 2: messed with at that point, right.
Speaker 9: Huberd said, But you know, I do it to myself.
Speaker 9: You know, I always mess with them every day, you know,
Speaker 9: so they just kind of give you back on the plane.
Speaker 9: So you know, it's all I love at the end
Speaker 9: of the day.
Speaker 1: Okay, So tell me about Mike McDonald. He comes in,
Speaker 1: he's replacing a legend in peak Carrol. Obviously, he changes
Speaker 1: a lot of things. There are things culturally, changes a
Speaker 1: lot of things schematically. He's also a really young dude.
Speaker 1: There's not many guys that young were head coaches in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Just tell me, well, what that guy brings
Speaker 1: the table on a daily basis for the Seahawks.
Speaker 9: Just extremely smart, you know, he challenges challenges every day,
Speaker 9: you know, and just allowing us to take that next step,
Speaker 9: not just as a defense but just as a whole team.
Speaker 9: And you know, we have fun with him as well,
Speaker 9: and you know, it's actually nice. You know that he's young,
Speaker 9: and you know he can relate to a lot of us,
Speaker 9: and you know, we're extremely thankful to have him, and
Speaker 9: you know.
Speaker 1: It's just been fun, all right.
Speaker 4: It handled the big challenge with Kirk Cousins and the Falcons.
Speaker 4: She got another big challenge coming up with Josh Allen
Speaker 4: and the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3: How are you preparing for that?
Speaker 4: Now that you've got the big win behind you? How
Speaker 4: do you go forward with Buffalo?
Speaker 9: The biggest thing is just stay level headed, you know,
Speaker 9: obviously learn from our mistakes. Obviously a great team we're
Speaker 9: about to face, and just be ourselves and go out
Speaker 9: and just you know, execute in every way, and you know,
Speaker 9: just play our game.
Speaker 2: Kobe, I know you've been asked about this before, but
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's people out there watching there being introduced
Speaker 2: to you for the first time. Your name rhymes with
Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant, spelled differently. Your parents wanted to make sure
Speaker 2: that you were able to create your own identity by
Speaker 2: naming you co b Y, but also it was an
Speaker 2: honor of Kobe. Was there ever a time in your
Speaker 2: life where you're like's you know, it's a pretty big
Speaker 2: weight to bear to be named after a guy like that.
Speaker 3: Or have you always kind of leaned into it.
Speaker 9: I've loved it from the day, you know, obviously when
Speaker 9: I was born, but you know, just growing up actually
Speaker 9: in like lunch lines, the people didn't used to believe
Speaker 9: my name, and it's so crazy. When I was getting
Speaker 9: on the plane to come back from from Atlanta the
Speaker 9: late he didn't believe it was my name because I
Speaker 9: didn't have my ID, so I had to have DK
Speaker 9: I was for me, and you know, a couple other
Speaker 9: guys too, So it's always fun. You know that had
Speaker 9: his name and you know, just try to carry on
Speaker 9: that legacy as much as I can.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. The Kobe Bryant co b y on the show.
Speaker 1: He got his first interception, first start of the season
Speaker 1: at safety, first appearance on the inside. We appreciate you man,
Speaker 1: good luck the rest of the season.
Speaker 9: Thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: All right. Coming up after this day, gon to gonna
Speaker 1: be able to stop Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry and those Ravens.
Speaker 1: If so, how do you do it? Step one, get
Speaker 1: like five guys in front of Derrick Henry because he's
Speaker 1: run wild at this point. We'll talk Lamar and all
Speaker 1: things Ravens coming up after this. Brian Baldinger Mark Ross
Speaker 1: breaking all down on The Insiders presented by Progressive Insurance.
Speaker 2: Hey case you're just joining us here. On The Insiders,
Speaker 2: we had breaking news Alvic Caamara, who was for all
Speaker 2: intents and purposes, slated to be a free agent, after
Speaker 2: this season. He had a dummy year on the end
Speaker 2: of his deal. Says, I never requested a trade. I
Speaker 2: want to be here. I'm gonna prove it. Two year,
Speaker 2: two twenty four point five million dollar extension. He's now
Speaker 2: under contract in New Orleans through twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: He wants to retire a Saint.
Speaker 2: This deal now going to give him a chance to
Speaker 2: do so. And guess what, they still have a shot
Speaker 2: in the NFC South because the Ravens and Lamar Jackson
Speaker 2: went into Tampa Bay last night and here is Jackson.
Speaker 2: They were down early. He really should have been down
Speaker 2: fourteen nothing or almost down fourteen nothing. Next thing at oh, they're.
Speaker 1: Up twenty seven to ten.
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson to Rashan Bateman forty nine yard touchdown. And
Speaker 2: then right here, I texted my friend Nick, and I said,
Speaker 2: what did I say?
Speaker 1: Nick?
Speaker 3: I'm putting you on the air right now.
Speaker 1: Tell him what I said. You told me watched this
Speaker 1: Neford play for ninety yards? Were sold?
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 1: He did not go for ninety yards.
Speaker 3: It was eighty one.
Speaker 1: Thanks Nick, I'll call you later.
Speaker 2: But I called him because you wouldn't believe me if
Speaker 2: I said it I told him it was going to happen.
Speaker 1: It almost did.
Speaker 2: Eighty one yards and then the fourth quarter Ravens up
Speaker 2: now thirty four to eighteen. Lamar Jackson, the Derrick Henry,
Speaker 2: thank god he didn't curse on air, thirteen yard touchdown, forty.
Speaker 3: One thirty one.
Speaker 1: The Ravens take this one. And here, I mean just
Speaker 1: I didn't want to say anything. Just look at that.
Speaker 1: You can read that.
Speaker 2: Okay, most career games with five touchdown passes, zero interceptions.
Speaker 3: I mean to get three more.
Speaker 2: He's got like one hundred and eighty more games to
Speaker 2: get it done, to rest Drew Brees.
Speaker 3: And then Tom Brady after that.
Speaker 2: It's just amazing game flow presented by Progressive right here,
Speaker 2: Baldy is here he always and Progressive Insurance, by the way,
Speaker 2: it's sponsoring this segment. Baud, you heard that accent. That's
Speaker 2: definitely one of my friends. That's a Philly accent that
Speaker 2: you heard right there.
Speaker 1: No, I heard it a straight from South phild fake friend,
Speaker 1: fake friends.
Speaker 2: Mike, Come on, now, okay, both we talk about a
Speaker 2: lot of things in the offseason, and then those things
Speaker 2: don't happen. What we talked about with Derek Henry and
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson in the seat.
Speaker 1: We're seeing it now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, it's it's it's unreal because they complement each other.
Speaker 6: And so if you try to take Derrick Henry away,
Speaker 6: Lamar Jackson has all kinds of time to make throws
Speaker 6: down the field of Rashad Bateman one of his five
Speaker 6: touchdown passes last night. But really, I mean, Lamar is
Speaker 6: just an improving player. When you put that last set
Speaker 6: up there, five touchdowns, no on receptions. I mean, these
Speaker 6: kind of throws, it's every part of the field right now.
Speaker 6: It's the deep ball, it's the crosses, it's the checkdowns
Speaker 6: like this throw right there to Mark Andrews. Every throw
Speaker 6: right now he had. Look, he had five incompletions last night,
Speaker 6: five touchdown passes, I mean, and his reads are spot on.
Speaker 6: He's finding the open receiver and this when this happens
Speaker 6: like this, and he can just launch these bombs like
Speaker 6: he does right there to uh, Rashad Bateman. He's almost
Speaker 6: indefensible at this point right now, this screen pass, beautiful
Speaker 6: set up to Justice Hill got the convoy out in
Speaker 6: front right there.
Speaker 1: But he's large and in charge.
Speaker 6: And look, uh they were down ten to seven to
Speaker 6: the second quarter last night, and Lamar and the offense
Speaker 6: scored on six straight drives to go up thirty four
Speaker 6: to ten and really put the game out of reach.
Speaker 6: So they finish it with the Derrick Henry touchdown right there. Really,
Speaker 6: he's doing whatever he wants to do right now. And defense, look,
Speaker 6: I mean, Todd Bowles said every blitz that we could
Speaker 6: draw up on a blackboard right now, and he was
Speaker 6: unfazed by it all like it just it. Really, teams
Speaker 6: are really having a hard time struggling trying to figure
Speaker 6: out what you could take away from this offense right now, Baldy,
Speaker 6: one agree with you.
Speaker 10: And I completely believe in this Ravens team. I don't
Speaker 10: have to call a fake friend to verify this. Just
Speaker 10: go to the NFL dot com preseason predictions where I
Speaker 10: picked the Ravens and go win the Super Bowl and
Speaker 10: Derrick Henry to be the offensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 10: But my game flow, presented by progressive moment of the
Speaker 10: game is when Marlin Humphrey saved the game last night
Speaker 10: with his interception in the end zone, where it looked like,
Speaker 10: oh my gosh, here we go again with this Ravens
Speaker 10: defense just giving up all kinds of points, all kinds
Speaker 10: of yards. But his first interception, that was the second one,
Speaker 10: the first one in the end zone, that would have
Speaker 10: had them down seventeen to three, but instead, to me,
Speaker 10: that changed the whole entire tide of the game, the
Speaker 10: whole complexi of the game.
Speaker 1: Ba's when Lamar really started getting.
Speaker 10: Getting cooking with Zay, with Andrews, with everybody else, but
Speaker 10: without Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: Okay, now what do you do?
Speaker 10: Well, here comes Derrick Henry in the spirit of the
Speaker 10: Yankees being in the World Series. He's like Mariano Rivera.
Speaker 10: Now you know he's coming. They plan entered the Sandman,
Speaker 10: and then here comes Derick Henry and here comes this
Speaker 10: eighty one yard run and the game is absolutely completely
Speaker 10: over by then. It's just such a toll on a
Speaker 10: defense to know that Derek Henry's not even doing anything,
Speaker 10: and then in one play he just rips your heart out.
Speaker 10: So yes, Baldy that this is completely the game flow
Speaker 10: on defense with Marlon Humphrey saving it. But then here
Speaker 10: comes the closer, the new Mariano Rivera. There the new Samman,
Speaker 10: Derrick Henry crushing the dreams of the Bucks, and they're
Speaker 10: gonna be tough to beat. The only team that can
Speaker 10: beat the Ravens are themselves. You saw a bunch of
Speaker 10: the mistakes last night once again. That's why they lost
Speaker 10: to the Ravers. Raiders eleven penalties, two bad ones at
Speaker 10: the end. So to me, they're the only team that
Speaker 10: can beat themselves is the Ravens, and.
Speaker 3: They have high expectations those Ravens do.
Speaker 2: For proof of that, let's go to Derek Henry's tweet
Speaker 2: about that touchdown last night.
Speaker 3: His post on X excuse me.
Speaker 2: He said, should have scored SMH, slow af face palm
Speaker 2: much love flock. I think he did just fine on
Speaker 2: that play, right there, Derek Henry.
Speaker 1: You guys did.
Speaker 3: Brian Baldinger and Mark Ross.
Speaker 2: This was your game Flow of the Week, presented by
Speaker 2: Progressive Insurance, and we have some updated power rankings here.
Speaker 2: Baltimore right up there at number two. Eric at Hoolmer
Speaker 2: guy at NFL dot com says, listen, if you're undefeated,
Speaker 2: you're number one. About style points, It's about how many
Speaker 2: games you win.
Speaker 3: Judy and the Kansas City Chiefs still a top.
Speaker 4: This is going to be one of the biggest stories
Speaker 4: of the week, maybe one of the biggest stories of
Speaker 4: the season. To a Tugo Violoa, the Dolphins quarterback is
Speaker 4: coming back from a concussion. He is off ir He
Speaker 4: is expected to start practicing tomorrow. Still has to be
Speaker 4: cleared through the concussion protocol, but all signs indicate that
Speaker 4: he is going to be able to play on Sunday.
Speaker 4: To a total reporters yesterday, he hasn't had a concussion
Speaker 4: symptom since the day after he suffered the concussion. In
Speaker 4: Week two. Cam Wolfe is joining me in. Before we
Speaker 4: start talking about this camp, we should note there was
Speaker 4: a big reaction when Tua said he was not going
Speaker 4: to wear a Guardian cap. But Tua all along wears
Speaker 4: a quarterback specific helmet that is designed to offer special
Speaker 4: protection to quarterbacks, extra protection two quarterbacks. It's a really
Speaker 4: highly rated helmet, and quarterback have always been exempt from
Speaker 4: wearing Guardian caps, so I thought him saying he was
Speaker 4: not going to wear one was not that unusual. Having
Speaker 4: said that, he said a whole lot of things in
Speaker 4: that press conference. As he gets ready Cam to start practicing.
Speaker 4: What do you expect to see from two of this week.
Speaker 11: Well, Judy, I expect two a tongue of ilo. I'm
Speaker 11: told to practice fully tomorrow, which is a key step
Speaker 11: for him as he enters the final stages of concussion protocol.
Speaker 1: If all goes.
Speaker 11: Well he practices fully, he will be cleared towards the
Speaker 11: back end of this week and scheduled to play Sunday
Speaker 11: versed Arizona Cardinals. And this is what this team has
Speaker 11: been leading up to for multiple weeks now. As Tua mention,
Speaker 11: he hasn't felt concussion symptoms since the day after concussion.
Speaker 11: He's told people around him he could have returned earlier
Speaker 11: if he wasn't on injured reserve, But when I asked
Speaker 11: him about it on Monday, he mentioned that he understands
Speaker 11: the team put him on injury reserve to protect him
Speaker 11: from himself, his competitive nature and the vice they got
Speaker 11: for medical esperts initially was that too a needed time.
Speaker 11: It will be for five days on Sunday, removed from
Speaker 11: that concussion, and as you mentioned, Judy, there was a
Speaker 11: lot of reaction from a frustrated too as he explained
Speaker 11: himself talking about how he went about the process and
Speaker 11: what is next. As far as the Guardian cap, it's
Speaker 11: a personal choice, he said. For him. I'm told the Dolphins,
Speaker 11: including Mike McDaniel talk to him about the Guardian cap,
Speaker 11: but per the NFLPA, they can't force a player to
Speaker 11: wear the Guardian cap, so it's his choice. And as
Speaker 11: you mentioned, he is wearing a Vices helmet, which is
Speaker 11: actually the safest of the quarterback specific helmets as you
Speaker 11: was mentioning Judy, So they feel like they have protection
Speaker 11: for him as far as the helmet. And as he said,
Speaker 11: he just plans to be smarter with decision making. He
Speaker 11: certainly hears all the noise, a lot of people saying
Speaker 11: that he shouldn't play, he should retire, that he maybe
Speaker 11: quote unquote foolish with his decisions.
Speaker 1: He said, he doesn't listen to any of it.
Speaker 11: He said that for me, I made this decision. He said,
Speaker 11: I love football. I love it to the death of me.
Speaker 11: And he said, there's a lot of risk in anything,
Speaker 11: and I'm willing to take those risks. And so Tua
Speaker 11: is ready to go back on the field, and everybody
Speaker 11: else just has to, whether you like it or not,
Speaker 11: get prepared for the Dolphins quarterback to get back there.
Speaker 11: His teammates can't wait to have them back.
Speaker 1: I've heard from several of them.
Speaker 11: They've been the lowest scoring offense in the NFL without
Speaker 11: two as their quarterback, and they hope that he will
Speaker 11: provide that spark for them.
Speaker 4: Well, Kim, I will be there. I know you'll be
Speaker 4: there to watch it too. And welcome to a back
Speaker 4: to the playing field. Thank you Cam Wolf for joining us.
Speaker 4: We're going to talk a little bit about Jared Goff
Speaker 4: and the Detroit Lions and their statement win last week.
Speaker 4: It's time for Tuesday Takeaways presented by Chipotle. I'm Judy Batista,
Speaker 4: Mike Carafalo, and our friend Jeffrey Chadiu who has his
Speaker 4: article on NFL dot com with big statements that were
Speaker 4: made in Week seven. Let's start with Jeffrey. I thought
Speaker 4: was the biggest one made by the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, no question.
Speaker 12: You're talking about a Lion's team going into Minnesota and
Speaker 12: facing that Ryan Flores defense and really just dominating the
Speaker 12: statement they made. They have the best offense in the
Speaker 12: NFL by far. Look at what Jerry Golf did going
Speaker 12: twenty two for twenty five, one hundred yard day from
Speaker 12: Jamior Gibbs, one hundred yard day from Aman Ross Saint Brown,
Speaker 12: four straight touchdowns on fourth rate possessions. They made a
Speaker 12: huge statement in saying that, hey, look, we know eight
Speaker 12: Hunderson is gone, but this offense with Jamison Williams and
Speaker 12: San Laporta, all the weapons and golf playing at an
Speaker 12: MVP level is going to be hard for anybody to
Speaker 12: deal with.
Speaker 2: All Right, the Chiefs when they whenniversity hits. You know,
Speaker 2: if you're going to be a champion, you got to
Speaker 2: be the strongest when university hits. That's what they seem
Speaker 2: to be doing on their way to an under unblemish
Speaker 2: mark right now.
Speaker 12: Yeah, they keep defying gravity somehow here, and it's amazing
Speaker 12: to keep They keep losing players. They lost Juju Smith
Speaker 12: Schuster to a hamsterring injury. They'd already been without Rashi
Speaker 12: Rice and Hywood Brown, Isaiah Pacheco's out, but still they
Speaker 12: find ways to get it done. And really what you're
Speaker 12: seeing is this defense step up and get to back
Speaker 12: to where they were last season. I know the Niners
Speaker 12: lost Brandon I well Saniel didn't play, but they still
Speaker 12: found a way to take advantage of the opportunities there
Speaker 12: with three interceptions.
Speaker 1: And I got to tell you, it feels as.
Speaker 12: If the Chiefs are getting so much good luck with
Speaker 12: these injuries. They're going to face the Buccaneers coming up
Speaker 12: here a couple of weeks. They just lost Mike Evans
Speaker 12: and Chris Godwin, so they know how to get it
Speaker 12: done when it matters, when opportunities arise.
Speaker 4: All right, jeff we all spent a lot of time
Speaker 4: talking about the Davante Adams trade last week, But is
Speaker 4: Amari Cooper actually going to make a bigger impact on
Speaker 4: the AFC East than DeVante?
Speaker 12: I think that will be the message we see throughout
Speaker 12: the season from the Bills. The statement here is, yes,
Speaker 12: Amari Cooper is going to have a bigger impact on
Speaker 12: this race. Only had four catches for sixty six yards
Speaker 12: and a touchdown, But I think this offense was not
Speaker 12: that bad before he showed up. Josh Allen has not
Speaker 12: had a turnover. You give him a weapon like this
Speaker 12: to go along with the other things they have there
Speaker 12: and James Cook and Dalton Kincaid. I have to imagine
Speaker 12: that he's going to play a huge role in this
Speaker 12: team's run. And as far as Vante Adams, that's an
Speaker 12: Air and Rogers thing. Aaron Rodgers is not playing very
Speaker 12: well right now.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Saquon Barkley downplayed, at least publicly the rematch with
Speaker 2: the Giants, but just saw the motivation there and then
Speaker 2: even after the game, he retweeted a clip with the
Speaker 2: Giants audio of the Hard Knocks with them talking about
Speaker 2: not bringing back Saquon Barkley while he was training.
Speaker 3: It was quite an absolute cinema.
Speaker 2: As Martin Scorsese might say, do you think this is
Speaker 2: something that's going to haunt the Giants for quite some time?
Speaker 12: It will haunt the Giants, that's a statement that was made.
Speaker 12: And you live in that area of the country. So
Speaker 12: much gets made of the giant of the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 12: and Nick Sirianni and all the drama and Jalen hurts quietly.
Speaker 12: Saquon Barkley has become the heartbeat of this team and
Speaker 12: you saw it in this game with one hundred and
Speaker 12: seventy six yards and three explosive runs of thirty yards
Speaker 12: or more and could have gotten more if he wanted
Speaker 12: to go back in the game until Nixy Ryan let
Speaker 12: the backups go, get go eat, you know, for the
Speaker 12: rest of the game. So I love what he brings
Speaker 12: to this team. This offense is going to get better
Speaker 12: with him in there, and the defense has probably been
Speaker 12: playing better. So Saquon Barkley off needs to go through
Speaker 12: him the rest of the season. But the Giants are
Speaker 12: going to hate losing him to their NFC East rival.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: Before the big Sunday night came, there was a whole
Speaker 4: lot of head scratching about why Mike Tomlin would make
Speaker 4: a quarterback switch now when the team was four and
Speaker 4: two at that point. I think maybe Russell Wilson answered
Speaker 4: that question why he would do it?
Speaker 12: That's right, you guys smell that, yes, smell some cooking.
Speaker 1: I smelled some cooking in Pittsburgh. It may be the
Speaker 1: Dino nuggets. My sixth grade son loves.
Speaker 12: To eat out of the microwave and not the lame Minyon.
Speaker 1: But it's he's cooking. He's doing some good things in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 12: Thirty seven points scored re touchdowns to were the sixty
Speaker 12: four yards passing.
Speaker 1: He's taking some chances.
Speaker 12: With the football justin fields would not take, and you're
Speaker 12: seeing this offense come alive. I know it was it's
Speaker 12: a low bar there, but I love what he brings
Speaker 12: to this offense, and I think he proved that he
Speaker 12: should be the guy for the job moving forward.
Speaker 2: We used to do a segment on Good Morning Football
Speaker 2: Weekend who said that where we had the quotes of
Speaker 2: the week, this one would have been on it. It
Speaker 2: was Mike tom and asked about starting Russell Wilson, which
Speaker 2: was a gutsy call. He replied, quote, that's why I'm
Speaker 2: well compensated flank.
Speaker 3: He could say whatever you want right now, my friend.
Speaker 2: And credit to the offensive coaching staff for switching quarterbacks
Speaker 2: and getting Russell Wilson ready to go. Finally, we showed
Speaker 2: the highlight a little bit earlier the Ravens and their
Speaker 2: statement in Tampa Bay number two on our NFL dot
Speaker 2: Com Power rankings.
Speaker 3: They look legit.
Speaker 1: Should be number one if I'm doing the ranking.
Speaker 12: I know Eric, a lot of respect for him, but
Speaker 12: the way they're playing right now, the statement here not
Speaker 12: too many answers to what they're doing. Lamar Jackson is
Speaker 12: probably going to be get his third MVP if he
Speaker 12: continues on this pace. Derek Henry is probably going to
Speaker 12: be the Offensive Player of the Year. And I just
Speaker 12: don't know how you stop this offense right now. What
Speaker 12: they're doing. They are destroying teams, and I know the
Speaker 12: Chiefs beat them in Week one. If they stall the
Speaker 12: Chiefs right now, it would not be the same result.
Speaker 12: This team is on fire and right now I feel
Speaker 12: like they're going to win the AFC the way they're
Speaker 12: playing well football.
Speaker 2: God's willing they will see the Chiefs again in the postseason,
Speaker 2: because I think we would all like to see that
Speaker 2: at this point.
Speaker 3: You know what, we'd like to see more of Jeffrey
Speaker 3: here every week.
Speaker 2: And on NFL dot Com Backslash First Read for all
Speaker 2: of its hot takes at opinions out there, appreciate Jeffrey
Speaker 2: to deal. Despite what you may have read on ex
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford still the quarterback of the Rams.
Speaker 1: Not the Vikings.
Speaker 2: Gonna face the Bikings, However, that guy as well Sam
Speaker 2: Darnold are Sam our guy.
Speaker 3: Sam Schwarzstein gonna.
Speaker 2: Join us after this the Prime Video and Thursday Night
Speaker 2: Football analytics expert.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna wanna miss it.
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football on Prime features and explosive NFC battle
Speaker 1: which justin Jefferson and the Minnesota Vikings against Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: and the Los Angeles Rams this Thursday, eight fifteen pm
Speaker 1: Eastern only on Prime Video. Welcome back to the Insiders
Speaker 1: presented by a Progressive Insurance. Let's bring in Sam Schwartzstein
Speaker 1: Prime Video in Thursday Night Football's analytics expert to give
Speaker 1: us next gen stats to help us break down this matchup.
Speaker 1: The Brian Flores defense head Alts could handle. Last week
Speaker 1: it was fire versus fire, as he might say, against
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. What are you looking for from this
Speaker 1: defense against the Rams?
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is going to be the most unique defense
Speaker 7: at the rams C all year. It's because they're going
Speaker 7: to present some exotic looks. What do I mean by that?
Speaker 7: They're going to walk every player up to the line
Speaker 7: of scrimmage on defense and make it look like it's
Speaker 7: going to be Cover zero, which they run the third
Speaker 7: most in the NFL, but they'll also from the exact
Speaker 7: same position drop into Cover two, having Harrison Smith maybe
Speaker 7: starting at the end of the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 7: getting all the way to the deep middle of the field.
Speaker 7: And this is what's going to confuse him. You see
Speaker 7: Jared Goff before the snap trying to process it, and
Speaker 7: then after the snap's seeing a completely different look. This
Speaker 7: was their game in London. Andrew Van Ginkel, who amongst
Speaker 7: the Inside Football people is one of the key players.
Speaker 7: He starts out as a D lineman and gets right
Speaker 7: into the passing lane. Brian Floor's defense almost knows what
Speaker 7: the offense will check into once they see these Blitz
Speaker 7: looks and then get them to the exact right spot.
Speaker 7: It's difficult for these quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So how is Matthew Stafford done this season when he's
Speaker 1: facing the Blitz.
Speaker 7: Well, historically he's been one of the best quarterbacks against
Speaker 7: the Blitz, especially since he came to Los Angeles. This year,
Speaker 7: he's having his worst year negative point two four epa
Speaker 7: per dropback. And that play right there was the exact
Speaker 7: same look that the Vikings gave the Jets and that
Speaker 7: led to a pick six. Here's the same one Splayne
Speaker 7: gets a tip and this is what they want to
Speaker 7: do as the Rams. He wants to get the ball
Speaker 7: out quick. Nobody gets the ball out of their hands
Speaker 7: faster against the Blitz than Matthew Stafford and their fortune
Speaker 7: to get Cooper Cup back back this week because what
Speaker 7: he likes to do is throw that crossing route. We
Speaker 7: saw the exact same play back to back. Here's the
Speaker 7: difference when it's Cooper Cup catching the ball back in
Speaker 7: twenty twenty two able to take it all the way
Speaker 7: to the house.
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup versus Justin Jefferson on Thursday night, presuming the
Speaker 1: Cup is still a la Ram by Thursday, he gives
Speaker 1: us the twenty twenty one twenty twenty two Offensive Players
Speaker 1: of the Year, both on the same field. What are
Speaker 1: the next gen stats tell us about what makes these
Speaker 1: guys so special?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Tom, both quarterbacks come our coordinators have the same
Speaker 7: type of mindset. Kevin O'Connell coach under Sean McVay, and
Speaker 7: so you think they'd be similar type players. But actually,
Speaker 7: Cooper cuple lines in the slot fifty six percent of
Speaker 7: the time and he's in motion fifty five percent of
Speaker 7: the time. He's the guy that want to get moving,
Speaker 7: get the pre snap reed, get a speed advantage by
Speaker 7: moving him early, and then he can break out of
Speaker 7: his routes from there. On the other side, Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 7: he's more of a outside player and a stationary player.
Speaker 7: They'll use other players like Jalen Naylor to get the
Speaker 7: pre snap reed so that ultimately Justin Jefferson can make
Speaker 7: those big time plays. And yes, he is saying he's
Speaker 7: like that, He's like that we all know you're getting
Speaker 7: paid like it. Better make some big plays. Coming up
Speaker 7: on Thursday.
Speaker 1: You can get Sam Schwarzstein every Thursday night on Thursday
Speaker 1: foot Ball's Prime Vision with next Gen Stats on Prime
Speaker 1: Video and NFL Plus. Sam, thank you as always for
Speaker 1: being here. Saquon Barkley, you might have heard as we
Speaker 1: look one more time at the promo for Thursday Night. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's those two guys. One beard a little bit thicker
Speaker 1: than the other, but they're both quarterbacks and they'll be
Speaker 1: out there on Thursday Night. Like I was saying, Saquon Barkley,
Speaker 1: I think he's still running through that Giants defense, or
Speaker 1: at least he could have if he hadn't had a
Speaker 1: little bit of an unselfish moment at the end of
Speaker 1: that game. Saquon Barkley still rolling in Philly. A good
Speaker 1: day for the Eagles offense. One hundred and seventy six
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown for Saquon against his old team,
Speaker 1: the Giants. He had the opportunity to go for even more,
Speaker 1: which led to this cool micd up moment with him
Speaker 1: and Nick Sirianni on the sideline.
Speaker 3: You're thirteen yards away from their career high. I would
Speaker 3: love for you to get that, but that's up to you.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just don't want I like, I'm gonna take out
Speaker 2: all the starters if they don't school let me sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah good, I promise.
Speaker 7: I'll listening.
Speaker 3: I want you to do what if you want to do.
Speaker 1: So I want to see the young boys, Judy. I
Speaker 1: feel like this is where you're playing your buddy in
Speaker 1: a video game and you're like, ah, I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: just kind of like, you know, half assing it a
Speaker 1: little bit here, because I don't want to blow him
Speaker 1: out so bad in the game that he never wants
Speaker 1: to play again. Just I like these guys, right, Judy.
Speaker 4: I would just say to young players, get yourself a
Speaker 4: teammate like Saquon Barklay, because that is pretty special right there.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable coaching is like when you're talking to your kids
Speaker 2: and you get down to their level. He sat down
Speaker 2: on the bench to talk to him, wanted him to know,
Speaker 2: wanted him to have the call, and then for Barkley
Speaker 2: to not do that against the Giants in their stadium.
Speaker 1: Amazing. Hey, we got zach Ertz on the show tomorrow,
Speaker 1: so be here seven pm. Eastern time, more of the insiders.
Speaker 1: We will see you then