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Speaker 1: Everybody, welcome to between the Horns. I Miles Simmons, Marco

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Speaker 1: far Is to my right. It is October fourth, It's

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Speaker 1: just about ten thirty a m. Pacific time here in

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Speaker 1: Avora Hills, California, and the Rams are undefeated four and

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Speaker 1: a nice quarter pole. Nice. Isn't it weird that we're

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Speaker 1: like a week removed from the last game. It's been

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Speaker 1: a while. Yeah, yeah, since we were out there, since

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Speaker 1: that's the plus side of a Thursday night game. It

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Speaker 1: is the backside. You get a lot of rest exactly.

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Speaker 1: But it's a short week, no doubt it was, And

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Speaker 1: I think that's kind of what makes that thirty eight

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Speaker 1: to thirty one victory over the Vikings that much more

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Speaker 1: impressive when you consider all of the different scheme things

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Speaker 1: that Sean McVay did to get Jared goffin position to

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Speaker 1: have his career day. No, this is a good group

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Speaker 1: coaching staff, players included, that can get ready for a

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Speaker 1: team like that and do that to them on a

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Speaker 1: short week. Imagine what that would have been if that

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Speaker 1: was a Sunday game, right, if you actually had more

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Speaker 1: time to prepare. But offensively. I think this team is

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Speaker 1: clicking on all cylinders right now. We talked about not

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Speaker 1: having reps in the preseason, how that was going to

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Speaker 1: affect you. Let's see how they would be three to

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Speaker 1: four games in. Well, they put up as far as numbers,

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Speaker 1: yards wise, their best performance of the year. So they

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Speaker 1: are getting better. Yeah, they are. And I think it's

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Speaker 1: really interesting. You know, you bring up the Okay, you

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Speaker 1: don't play in the preseason, but at this point it

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Speaker 1: kind of seems like the only team that's stopping the

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Speaker 1: Rams offense is the Rams offense. You know. Yeah, like

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Speaker 1: if it's either a penalty, it's a drops, it's not defense,

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Speaker 1: it's just coming out and being like, no, you're not

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Speaker 1: doing that, and then they have to somehow. Like the

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Speaker 1: Rams are getting everything they want, and that especially happened

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Speaker 1: in last week, no doubt. I mean, at thirty eight points,

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Speaker 1: that's great. I mean, anytime you score over thirty points

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, that's remarkable, that's notable. But you have

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Speaker 1: to consider this. It was on fifty five plays fifty

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Speaker 1: three if you count the throwaways, the two throwaways, that's

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Speaker 1: unheard of. That's incredible. When you can score that fast

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Speaker 1: or move the ball that fast against a playoff defense,

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl contending defense. So yeah, when you think

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Speaker 1: about what Sean McVeagh has accomplished so far, what Jared

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Speaker 1: Goff has become so far, on what Todd Gurley is

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Speaker 1: right now in this offensive line way underrated. We're not

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Speaker 1: talking enough about them for what they're doing for this team.

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Speaker 1: Imagine what they're going to be in the next five weeks.

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Speaker 1: If everything stays in line, stays the way we think

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Speaker 1: it can be a great and everybody keeps bringing this up.

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Speaker 1: So I'll like that we're going to start here with

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Speaker 1: the offensive line because Jared Goff brings it up that

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Speaker 1: they don't get enough credit. You know, Todd Grilly has

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Speaker 1: said it too. What are they doing to perform so well? Everything,

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Speaker 1: just everything they're asked to do, all these quote ute

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Speaker 1: trick plays or everything that we give Goff or McVeigh

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Speaker 1: doing well, it's the offensive line that makes it possible,

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Speaker 1: either by giving protection, opening up holes or getting down

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Speaker 1: on screens. And this is per down what they're being

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Speaker 1: asked to do. First. You're being asked to pack it

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Speaker 1: Next you're asking them to bluff them and run and

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Speaker 1: go catch dbs, right, and then after that, let's stand

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Speaker 1: in the pocket or let Jared gostand in the pocket

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Speaker 1: All that is impossible without a credible or a good

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Speaker 1: I think when you think about just the fact that

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Speaker 1: pre snap penalties, right, that's amazing. Yeah, without that or

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Speaker 1: a lot. They're being asked to do a lot, and

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Speaker 1: they're maximizing. They're doing everything asked plus more. That's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I'm trying to think about it.

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Speaker 1: Have the Rams really had a false start? I think

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Speaker 1: In terms of the offense, they've been letter perfect. And

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Speaker 1: we talked about a lot about the new editions, the

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Speaker 1: He has paced this entire football team in terms of preparation,

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Speaker 1: being ready to play, and how to carry yourself as

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Speaker 1: but I want to go back to that. Just everything

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Speaker 1: it's the continuity, right, Like you have basically five of

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Speaker 1: the same guys who were there last year. Austin Black, Yes,

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Speaker 1: he is a new starter, However, he was still in

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Speaker 1: was really a part of that room. You're sixth man

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Speaker 1: if you will, no doubt. So that's why I think

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Speaker 1: doing the same things for a second year, no doubt,

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Speaker 1: and you know, being in the pits in the NFL

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Speaker 1: It's like you're stepping in bear traps, literally bear traps things.

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Speaker 1: Your ankles get rolled up on, your knees get bumped

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Speaker 1: some of the offensive linemen will roll around on the

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Speaker 1: In years past, I think some of them might have

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Speaker 1: it's different. They're hurt, they get up, they make the

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Speaker 1: next snap. That's the commitment they made to each other

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Speaker 1: and to the rest of the team. That's how you

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Speaker 1: build championship teams. It's interesting just the way that this

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Speaker 1: I've only been doing this as my fifth season doing this,

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Speaker 1: but just a team that seems more connected than this one.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've been around one. I mean, yeah, it

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Speaker 1: You know. It's funny, man. I'll tell some of these

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Speaker 1: like what is it like to be a champion? I said,

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Speaker 1: look look around this room, this group will be your

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Speaker 1: teammates for life, because in the NFL, your teammates are

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Speaker 1: going to change. Your teams are going to change, Your

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Speaker 1: get the Lombardi, this group will be teammates for life.

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Speaker 1: You'll see each other forever. That's this is where it starts.

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Speaker 1: This is how it starts, and this is what it's about.

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Speaker 1: So if you want this to last forever, you got

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Speaker 1: we had basically all the offensive guys over that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Is cool to me, you know because that's the kind

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Speaker 1: in high school and that's what we would do. You know,

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Speaker 1: we had an off day, we get together, we you know,

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Speaker 1: we watch football, we do whatever. Course that's that's how

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Speaker 1: you build that bomb. No doubt. Women don't want press,

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Speaker 1: they don't want their name in the paper. They want food.

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Speaker 1: They want to be fed and they want it brought

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Speaker 1: to them, and they want it NonStop. That's how you

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Speaker 1: take care of your whole life. And absolutely that's how

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Speaker 1: them food, yeah, whenever they need it. If you can't

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to take care of it. That was funny.

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Speaker 1: That's when Rob Havenstein got his deal. Like the joke

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Speaker 1: from Roger Staffold was like, oh yeah, we're getting mastered.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely yes, yes, and everything twice. Give me two steaks,

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Speaker 1: two bottles of champagne, our song more wide. Absolutely yeah.

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Speaker 1: Whenever when one guy gets paid, we all get paid.

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Speaker 1: That's the group, right yeah, yeah, I think on that

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Speaker 1: I think that's something that just it shows the bond

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Speaker 1: the wall together. They're impenetrable exactly, And that's why Jared

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Speaker 1: Goff has been sacked as as few times as he

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Speaker 1: says every PROS game press conference is he says that,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's been sacked. I think at least one

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Speaker 1: and I've barely got hit. And that's where that starts.

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Speaker 1: But again, that's why Jared Goffkin. Then go out there

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Speaker 1: there's just so much you can do. Aaron Krohmer has

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Speaker 1: done a magnificent job with this group. Yes, And when

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Speaker 1: what did they say? Was it Satchel Page that said

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Speaker 1: never look back? They might be gaining on you. It's true,

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Speaker 1: don't make mistakes. The next guy is gaining on you.

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Speaker 1: And that could be per man on this football team. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting. You you look at the way Todd Gurley

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Speaker 1: about Jared Goff, and we will talk about Jared Goff

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Speaker 1: because he deserves it, But Todd Gurley's numbers right now

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Speaker 1: are better than they were last year. Quietly right, Like

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Speaker 1: he already has five hundred and thirty two yards from

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Speaker 1: scrimmage and he already has six touchdowns. Wow, so he's

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Speaker 1: are people outside the building They come ask you about

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Speaker 1: Sean McVay. They want to know, like, what's the secret

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Speaker 1: to his magic? Well, you keep saying it's not magic,

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Speaker 1: it's the preparation, right, it's what they do. But the

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Speaker 1: magic to me is making an entire stadium or an

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Speaker 1: entire defense. Forget about Todd Gurley during the game. During

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Speaker 1: Robert Woods from there, then you lost before the game

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Speaker 1: even started. I mean, seriously, I'm with you, Yeah, seriously,

424
00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,879
Speaker 1: if you really thought that guy was good enough to

425
00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,760
Speaker 1: be able to play the run and cover Cooper Cup

426
00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,879
Speaker 1: or Robert Woods from that position, I don't know what

427
00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,600
Speaker 1: to tell you, right, No, that's hard, It is especial well,

428
00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:04,120
Speaker 1: I think just shows the schemes, the schematic maybe genius

429
00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:07,800
Speaker 1: of Sean McVeigh, because like on that Cooper Cup touchdown,

430
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:09,960
Speaker 1: that's the look that you're trying to get, that's the

431
00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,440
Speaker 1: look you want. You've got Harrison Smith who comes up

432
00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:16,040
Speaker 1: the field and he's just really so focused on Todd

433
00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:19,719
Speaker 1: Gurley that that allows Cooper Cup to just run ride

434
00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,280
Speaker 1: on up the scene on the opposite side of the field,

435
00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,399
Speaker 1: and then you know, Jared's delivers a perfect ball and

436
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,199
Speaker 1: then it's a touchdown. What do they call that with

437
00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,160
Speaker 1: companies where people walk around and they look for safety violations?

438
00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,399
Speaker 1: Is that quality control? Yes? I know there's a position

439
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,800
Speaker 1: on a football coaching staff. Yes, but Sean McVeigh is

440
00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,080
Speaker 1: like quality control for defense. He's gonna look and say, okay,

441
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,160
Speaker 1: you think that guy can cover it? Okay, let's find out. Yeah,

442
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,359
Speaker 1: let's test. Yes, I see what you're trying to do.

443
00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,800
Speaker 1: And this is Oh you think that guy can do that,

444
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,520
Speaker 1: Let's find out for sure. I bet he can't. Bam. Yeah. Yeah.

445
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,560
Speaker 1: That's that to me is a guy that's standing on

446
00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,280
Speaker 1: the sideline not just looking down at cards and calling

447
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,240
Speaker 1: plays or signaling to his quarterback he's out there with

448
00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,480
Speaker 1: his guys. Yes, he's playing the same aim that Jared

449
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,640
Speaker 1: Goff is playing. Right, He's looking at the defense and saying,

450
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,520
Speaker 1: I don't think you can make it from here to

451
00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,600
Speaker 1: there before for the ball gets there. Of those three

452
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,160
Speaker 1: touchdowns that the Rams got on Anthony Barr, I think

453
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 1: my favorite was the one where they went from an

454
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,680
Speaker 1: eye formation in thirteen personnel and they spread it out

455
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,480
Speaker 1: and spread the field, kept Robert Woods in the slot,

456
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,760
Speaker 1: had Todd Gurley on the outside, cornerbacks Todd Gurley. Then

457
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,120
Speaker 1: you get Robert Woods on Anthony Barr. Boom. That's an

458
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,680
Speaker 1: easy read and easy touches. It smelled like a gas

459
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,440
Speaker 1: station bathroom. I could smell it out there from Minnesota's

460
00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,600
Speaker 1: defense when they broke that formation, they didn't know what

461
00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,600
Speaker 1: to do. They've never seen it, they didn't know what

462
00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,959
Speaker 1: to do. Was like, oh gosh, where's the play coming from? Right,

463
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 1: because it's about to be a big one. I mean,

464
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,439
Speaker 1: when you have that much indecision, or when you have

465
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:46,720
Speaker 1: three or four guys turn around pre snap like who's

466
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:49,440
Speaker 1: got what where who? Yeah, and with an offense that's

467
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,640
Speaker 1: clicking like this, Yeah, it's gonna be a big play. Well,

468
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 1: the thing is, I mean the Rams are almost exclusively

469
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,480
Speaker 1: in eleven personnel, so personnel for those who were listening

470
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,520
Speaker 1: to this and they don't know, that's one tight end,

471
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,520
Speaker 1: one running back. I should have done it the right way.

472
00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 1: So one running back, one tight end, three wide receivers. Right,

473
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 1: So that's eleven. So in thirteen you've got one running back,

474
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 1: three tight ends, one wide receiver. The Rams almost never ever,

475
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 1: ever do that. I can recall one other play where

476
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,680
Speaker 1: they did it, and that was an openen. They tried

477
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,960
Speaker 1: to get Todd Gurley on sort of wheel route to

478
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,199
Speaker 1: the left side. It was covered jarcked off through it away.

479
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,200
Speaker 1: So when you see that and you've got to mark

480
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,239
Speaker 1: Hemingway to mark him away, oh my goodness, he's not

481
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,639
Speaker 1: on this team anymore. Keeping you can't. You've got Tyler

482
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,440
Speaker 1: Higbee yesh, same initials, gotcha, I got messed up the

483
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 1: next gerald at the same time, it is it will

484
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: alurt the defense into something. And so I asked Sean

485
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 1: McVay about this, and what he was saying is that

486
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,159
Speaker 1: when you have thirteen personnel, there's only so many different

487
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:54,120
Speaker 1: personnel groupings from the opposite side on defense that you're

488
00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 1: going to call against that. So the Rams got the

489
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,120
Speaker 1: Vikings in their base defense. They had the four three

490
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 1: out there. Usually they're in their nickel coverage because obviously

491
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 1: the Rams are in eleven, so you have three our

492
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,880
Speaker 1: wide receivers all the time. So when you've got that,

493
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 1: it really does force them to make this choice. Okay,

494
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 1: where are corners going? Where a linebackers going? Once you

495
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: spread it out like that, who's covering who? Exactly? If

496
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 1: I see thirteen with this football team, the first thing

497
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to think is how do you cover Everett?

498
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: And I bet that's what they were thinking. Yeah, because

499
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,200
Speaker 1: if you put if you're in regular verses thirteen, it's

500
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,640
Speaker 1: going to be all linebackers. So one of those guys

501
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,200
Speaker 1: is going to be a mismatch for Gerald Everett. So

502
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 1: they're probably thinking, Okay, that's a mismatch, let him catch it,

503
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,679
Speaker 1: we'll tackle him. Well, I think Sean McVay has different

504
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 1: options or different ideas when I break this, because the

505
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,679
Speaker 1: weakness may not be where you think it is. It

506
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,359
Speaker 1: may be on this guy and you didn't know until

507
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 1: after the play. Well, you know what, we can't run

508
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 1: that defense against that. Look, thank you Sean McVay. Right, yeah,

509
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 1: we got scored on here, but it will never happen

510
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 1: again for the rest of the rest of the year.

511
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I just I like that play

512
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: because and I like the design. And McVay said that

513
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: that play was actually in against the Chargers from the

514
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 1: previous week that kept it in. He said that they

515
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: liked that high red zone area that you called it

516
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 1: the high red zone strike or high strike area. I

517
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 1: mean you still have a fade. Yeah, yeah, so you're

518
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: like thirty yards out basically, And that's where they liked

519
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 1: that play, and it just came up in the game

520
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: situation boom, you hit Robert Woods and he goes celebrates

521
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 1: with yg which was really cool. That. Yeah, that little

522
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: end zone sweet level. Yeah, that has a chance to

523
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 1: be really really really really like crazy yeah touchdowns like this. Yeah,

524
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: that little area in there, all they need is a

525
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: disco ball. That's all that's missing from that little area

526
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: over there. You still use disco balls, Like, yeah, when

527
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,080
Speaker 1: you hang a disco ball, have you ever seen a

528
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 1: disco ball and didn't smile? Probably not there you go, actually, yes,

529
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: hang one, it's time to get going. I mean, like

530
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 1: that's like on a jet ski. You know, you never

531
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: see anybody upset on a jet never except when it

532
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: runs out of gas and you're way for from the shore.

533
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 1: Has that ever happened a couple of times? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.

534
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: They told me the thing. They it's it runs on time.

535
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 1: They give you time, like only fifteen minutes. Well I

536
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,880
Speaker 1: can get sixteen seventeen, No, you can't. Fourteen and a half.

537
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,880
Speaker 1: It went dead and now I'm stuck in the middle

538
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: of clear Lake by myself. Yeah it was fun. Well okay,

539
00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,120
Speaker 1: yeah that doesn't sound very it's it's it sucked. Yeah, yeah,

540
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: that's it really sucked. All right. Well, you know who

541
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 1: doesn't suck with Jared? No good player? So let's we finally, really,

542
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,120
Speaker 1: I think should talk about the not only the offensive

543
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: player of the week, but the offensive player of the

544
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: month for September. How good from Jared? Good for him.

545
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 1: You know, look, we love to make these lists about

546
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 1: the elites and the elite quarterbacks. Well, okay, look at

547
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 1: everyone's first four games, and look at his first four games.

548
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: Who's the best quarterback plan right now? Of oh you

549
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 1: mean human this year? This year? This year is either

550
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,360
Speaker 1: him or Patrick Mahomes. It's those two guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

551
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 1: there's an argument for either. So at some point those

552
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 1: elites will cycle out, and then we're trying to figure

553
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: out who the next face of the NFL could be. Um,

554
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: I think a year ago, definitely two years ago, saying

555
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: Jared Goff was potentially the face of the NFL many

556
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: got you laughed out of the room. Probably now, not

557
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 1: out of the realm of possibility, not at all. Yeah.

558
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,959
Speaker 1: You keep playing like this and this team keeps winning

559
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: like this in Los Angeles, it's going to happen. It's

560
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,640
Speaker 1: it's probably going to happen. Yes, it is. What What

561
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: did you think think was his most impressive throw? The

562
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: one to Cup? Yeah, yeah, I mean there was so much.

563
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: The one he threw to Cooks was a great throw

564
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: because he's open, but he threw him open a little

565
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: bit more and he never broke stride. Wow, you can

566
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 1: teach off that. But the one he threw the cup,

567
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 1: I mean I was standing within ten yards of Sean

568
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 1: mcvay's dad. Yeah, yeah, so he raised the head coach

569
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,919
Speaker 1: he knows this. Yeah, he saw the same throw from

570
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: the same angle and we both looked at each other

571
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: and went how how wow, wow, Wow, it's not about playhole,

572
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: that's about arm talent. Yeah, that was amazing, rolling right,

573
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: throwing that to that one spot. You only had what

574
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: a foot A little box, a little box, a little

575
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: a little foot box to drop in the Yeah. Oh

576
00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: I mean dude, that's the stuff that not only does

577
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: it break your back on game day, everyone else that

578
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: sees that on tape is going to be like, wow, yeah, yeah,

579
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: we have to get to this guy soon. If not,

580
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: he's going to beat us. Not just make plays, he's

581
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: going to beat us. That is a throw where you

582
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: beat other people. Yeah. Mcvas said that he thought Jared

583
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: Golf was throwing that away actually, and like I remember,

584
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: you know, sitting in the press box and you start

585
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: seeing him roll to his right and then you start

586
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: seeing him load up to throwing just like no way, yeah,

587
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 1: no way, no wait, no bleeping way, like he made

588
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 1: that boom. You know what else was impressive to me

589
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 1: was you've seen that happen a lot to where a

590
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: quarterback will throw or take a shot and it might

591
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: be offline, but sometimes the receiver will think, just like

592
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: McVay thought, he's thrown this away and slow up. Yes,

593
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup keeps running right through the route. Yeah. Yeah,

594
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: he's throwing it up. He's throwing it to me. Yep.

595
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: And only I know this. The entire crowd and my

596
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 1: head coach doesn't know. But I know those two are

597
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: on a different page. Yeah, they're on a different level

598
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 1: right now. Chemistry, Yeah, it is. It's chemistry. It's timing.

599
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 1: When you see all five touchdowns get dropped in just

600
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: dimes and they can hit every wide receiver and running

601
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: back in this particular case in stride. Yeah, they don't

602
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: have to break one single stride. It's that's elite quarterback,

603
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: no doubt it is. I just want to see Robert Woods,

604
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: you know, have more players where he catches it and

605
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: actually finishes the play in the end zone on his

606
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: feet instead of every catch he takes a big hit. Yeah,

607
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: that's his job, and that's where he catches it. I

608
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: get it. That's why he's here. But just because of

609
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: the other guys, just every now and then, let Rob

610
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: go in stand it up. Yeah yeah, Cooper Cup seems

611
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: to do it. He does it a lot. Yeah yeah, yeah,

612
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: But that's that's every one role. And I bet it's

613
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: gonna switch during the during the year. Well, Robert Woods

614
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: his thirty one yard touchdown. He got to go and

615
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: standing up on that one. I want to see more

616
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: of that. There was somebody hanging off behind him and

617
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: he like extended the football. I like that. Yeah, I

618
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: want to see him go in clean. Yeah. You know, actually,

619
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: like give me like a more of a touchdown celebration

620
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: without having to dust yourself offers. You know what. He

621
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: seems to get hit a lot, and he like gets

622
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: walloped sometimes, but he always catches that football man, and

623
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: he always pops right back up, you know what, No

624
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: matter what the defense and I'll tell you this from

625
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: our side, the defense side of the football, we're always

626
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: looking for shots. But there's nothing worse than tattooing a

627
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: guy and he catches it and he and he gets

628
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: right back up because we're celebrating a good hit and

629
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: he gets up and celebrates a first down. It's like, okay,

630
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: you're right. Yeah, it makes your celebration look stupid, it does. Yeah,

631
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: it kind of put it puts cold water on everything. Yeah. Yeah,

632
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: it was interesting. This is the first time that the

633
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: Rams and franchise history have had three wide receivers go

634
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: over one hundred yards in the same Wow. Yeah, isn't

635
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: that cool? Very cool? Um no, shock, no, no, because

636
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: it will probably happen again. I would guess that it would, Yeah,

637
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 1: at some point this season because that maybe twice three

638
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: receivers over one hundred versus Minnesota. Not every defense is

639
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: going to be as loaded as Minnesota. Okay, but all right,

640
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna bring up the question, is Minnesota really

641
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: that loaded this? Yes? Well, look they were down there

642
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: one pass rusher that did make a big difference. I agree,

643
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: But everybody in the league, for the most part, will

644
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: take those safeties. Most teams will take those linebackers. Most

645
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: teams will take anybody off that front seven and plug

646
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: them right in, move their own starters out. That is

647
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: a loaded defense. But I mean, I don't want to

648
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: say what's wrong, Like I think the Ram the Rams

649
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: went out and they beat them right like that to

650
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: me says a lot about the Rams offense, and not

651
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: necessarily as much about the Vikings defense, you know what

652
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: I mean. Like the Vikings defense, we still expect it

653
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: to be quite good. Even when they played Buffalo the

654
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: previous week, Yeah, and they let up some points. A

655
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: lot of that was happening because Kirk Cousins kept fumbling. Yeah,

656
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: and then Buffalo had the ball in scoring position, basically

657
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: in the red zone, and Alan played his he did,

658
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,479
Speaker 1: he played his butt off. Yeah, and then he came

659
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: back down to earth against Green Bay. I don't know

660
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: who Minnesota has next, do you. I can look it

661
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: up real quick, Please do it, because I would just

662
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: I would guess without knowing the opponent. I bet that

663
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: defense plays lights out ball. They actually are. They're playing

664
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 1: the Eagles this week. Oh, this will be fun, Philadelphia,

665
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: This will be fun. I kind of wish I could

666
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: watch the game. I might have to watch it later.

667
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: I would guarantee you this, they'll have fewer mistakes versus

668
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: that team than they did versus the Rams. I bet that.

669
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: I bet that defense can't wait to get on the

670
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: field after what the Rams did to him. Yeah, but

671
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: I bet the Eagles can't get wait, wait to get

672
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: back on the field after the way they lost to Tennessee. True,

673
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: I mean it should be, that should be. It'll be

674
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: a great matchup. But that defense will show you what

675
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: they're all about after that sort of butt kicking. Okay, yeah, yeah,

676
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: that's that's fair. I think that's fair. Um, let's turn

677
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: it to the Rams defense too, because we've gone on

678
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: probably a little over a half hour, and we have

679
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: mentioned a defensive thing at all. Okay, let's do this

680
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 1: without mentioning Sue and Donald. That's what I was gonna says,

681
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: go ahead, Well I'll start. Marcus Peters is on my

682
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: all guts he list. Okay, yeah, man, what a guts performance. Yeah,

683
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: what a gutsie performance. Look, you can tell he's not

684
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: on I don't know what percentage he is, but he's

685
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent. And he still went out there

686
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: and played his butt off. Yea. Not only that, played

687
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: like a leader, kept guys motivated. I mean in Minnesota

688
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: and Kirk Cousins, they were throwing the ball around the yard.

689
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: Adam feeling is a problem. Yes, Stefon Diggs is an issue. Yes,

690
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,479
Speaker 1: Treadwell had I thought one of his better games, But

691
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: that those defensive backs led by him, I thought, played

692
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: a great football game. I think that's a good sign

693
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: just for Marcus Peters kind of growing up into that.

694
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: I think everybody expected that a key to Lee would

695
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: be that kind of guy, that defensive leader, and he

696
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: was at the time that he didn't until he got hurt.

697
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: But I think that says a lot about Marcus Peters,

698
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: the fact that, yeah, he wanted to be out there

699
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: so badly for his team. Yeah, and that he wanted

700
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: to lead you know what I mean, no doubt I

701
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: want to use the black path or reference, but I

702
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: can't why King Tachaka says that I haven't prepared you

703
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: for my death, and I failed as a father. So

704
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: if a key to Leib hasn't prepared Marcus Peters for

705
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: to leave not being out there, then he failed. And

706
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: to me, he succeeded because when Talib went down, Marcus

707
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: Peters stood up and became the leader. Yes, yeah, and

708
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: really kept guys together. Yeah, yeah, that I thought that

709
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: was awesome. When you say he kept guys together, what

710
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: do you mean? What did you see sit down on

711
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: the field? And I'm not well, I mean everybody saw it.

712
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: There was a play. It was early in the game

713
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 1: where Kirk Cousins was just getting started and he threw

714
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: one towards the sideline and John Johnson had a shot

715
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: at it and almost could have picked it or at

716
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: least knocked it down, and he missed it and it

717
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: was a catch for a first down. Well, Peters is there,

718
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: but he immediately point to him and said, good play.

719
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: You almost had it. Don't get down in yourself. There'll

720
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: be other plays to make. I thought that was cool.

721
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: Don't not even for a second, don't let doubt creep in.

722
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: We'll be fine. Right, they're gonna players, but so are we.

723
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: That's a leader, Yeah, that's how That's how you lead

724
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: people on defense. That's I think that says a lot

725
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: about Marcus Peters in this team. There's I mean, we've

726
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 1: talked about Marcus Peters before, and I think we know

727
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: that Marcus Peters has a certain reputation. Right. These are

728
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: the kinds of things that make it seem like Marcus

729
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: Peters feels comfortable here and that this team is allowing

730
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: him to be himself and to grow up. And I

731
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: don't want to not don't even want to say grow up, right,

732
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 1: because that's I mean, yes, but it's not necessarily what

733
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,240
Speaker 1: I mean. I think it's more grow into a leader

734
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: rather than grow up. It's not like he's had these

735
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 1: immaturity things that have been off the field. And he

736
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: pointed this out when he first got here. You know,

737
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 1: he's never had off the field issues. Everything that's happened

738
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: has been between the white lines basically for him. And

739
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: so when I hear that and you see it and

740
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: you see him perform, and you know that he had

741
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,839
Speaker 1: a pretty significant calf injury that kept him out of

742
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: the last game for the second half, and he still

743
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: comes in and he's gutting it out that it just

744
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: says it speaks volumes about him and his character. Some

745
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: guys that are considered toothaches are are guys that are

746
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,320
Speaker 1: just perfectionists. And this is what people miss when they

747
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:15,280
Speaker 1: go nuts or pop off or do something that's considered untoward.

748
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: Most of the time they can just see through the

749
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: bs and they and they don't like it and they

750
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 1: don't have a filter. Now, there are people that are

751
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: just toothaches for the sake of being toothaches. That's who

752
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: they are. But for the most part, with guys like him,

753
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: it's just passion. That's what I see. Yeah, now, ask

754
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: him what's making him mad, and then go fix it,

755
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: and I guarantee you things will be okay from that,

756
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: or at least tell him we're trying to fix it.

757
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: But if he can see it and the whole world

758
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: can see it and it's not being fixed, then of

759
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: course he's going to let you know. Yes, yeah, and

760
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: that's who he is. But I think the way he

761
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: goes out and he plays a passionist, Oh my god,

762
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: it means a lot to him. Yeah, yeah, yes, yes,

763
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: it means a lot to him this game, yeah, big time, absolutely, Yeah,

764
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,040
Speaker 1: and I have a ton of respect for that. Have

765
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: you seen the little clips that have been on social

766
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: media of him screening Cooper Cup. No, it's awesome. I

767
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: heard about it. Yeah, just screening Cooper Cup. Please show me, okay,

768
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: because it's like every time like Cooper Cup makes a

769
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 1: big catch, you're like a Cooper Cup. Wow, Cooper Cup. Wow.

770
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: Guy's got respect. Many Yeah, he's got respect. It's funny.

771
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: At some point, man, what was the play where he

772
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 1: stepped out of a tackle and ran it in If

773
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: any time you wanted to spike the football, that would

774
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 1: have been at and still nothing. Yeah. Yeah, he's more

775
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: happy for other people. Yes, dude, you just made the

776
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: biggest play in the game. Celebrate some fund throw in

777
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: the air. We'll give you a pass for what. Note,

778
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: mister mister humble, it's not him, man, like, it's just

779
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: that's just Hoopper Cup. Whiet assassin love us yes, yes,

780
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: And I just that wide receivers group, it to me

781
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: is so unique because there's not one diva among them. No,

782
00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: like they they want everybody to do well and they

783
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: understand that, Like this game, it might not be me,

784
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: but you know what, we're going to celebrate everybody. And

785
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: then last game it was everybody. True, you know what,

786
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: It's just I don't know that there was special. There

787
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 1: was a short era in the NFL of before we

788
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: talked about number one receivers, like when guys had to

789
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: be number one, there was posses and groups of receivers

790
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: that were dangerous in the National Football League. It wasn't

791
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: just one guy you worried about, it was the entire group.

792
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,919
Speaker 1: This seems like a throwback to that era. Yeah, where

793
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 1: it's a group that's that's hurting you, not just one

794
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: guy in a bunch of co stars. Well you know

795
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: what's funny too. You know everybody talked about the season,

796
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 1: Oh well, why would they do that with you know,

797
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks right again, he's not even gonna get a

798
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: thousand yards receiving that off. Have you seen that guy since? Okay, no,

799
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: have you seen the guy who said that? Oh? Yeah,

800
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: I think people. I mean, it's just tweeters. I didn't

801
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: use my normal life. Okay, but like those are the

802
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: people who were saying, okay, Brandon Cooks right now has

803
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: twenty six receptions for four hundred and fifty times. I

804
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 1: never forget. I'll never call you on it, but I

805
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,760
Speaker 1: remember everything you say. Yeah, so I see those people

806
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, we'd never bring it up. I'm just

807
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: waiting for you to say something absolutely well, right now,

808
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: you've got three wide receivers who are on pace for

809
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: over a thousand yards receiving. Wow. Yeah, that would be amazing,

810
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: it would be all right. We're supposed to be talking

811
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: about the defense. And there was another cornerback who was

812
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: kind of making his not kind of. He was making

813
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: his first start since twenty sixteen. That's Sam Shields. What

814
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: do you think of his performance? You know, I thought

815
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: he had a chance for two big plays. He was

816
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: in position for one pick when the rams were they

817
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: were backed up and the past was actually not was

818
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: knocked out. Yes, but if you look at Sam Shields,

819
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: he'd undercut the route right, he read it. He was

820
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: right there and if he gets his hands on it,

821
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: if he does catch it, yeah, that's going back for six.

822
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: McVay mentioned that at that point there's no one there,

823
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: and I thought the other one where he did get

824
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: his hands on it, it just bounced right to I

825
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 1: believe it was Treadwell. No, that was dig Digs one

826
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: of those guys and caught it. But I mean, he's

827
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 1: in position to make plays. But you know Minnesota's offense,

828
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: they're receivers, they're good, they made plays great, but so

829
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: did the Rams defensive backs, especially Sam Jields, and not

830
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: just against them against the run too, right, Yeah, that's

831
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: the big thing that really really I was worried about

832
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:11,959
Speaker 1: if you're gonna lose to leave in Peters. It wasn't

833
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: pass coverage. I think Wade Phillips can handle that. It

834
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: was run, run protection or run stoppage. Those guys coming up,

835
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,720
Speaker 1: those big corners coming up and setting edges against running

836
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: backs was very, very important. I thought Sam Shields has

837
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: played a really good game against the runs since he's

838
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: gone into the game and now as the starter, and

839
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: they're going to definitely need him to do that. As

840
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: things hinting you, especially this week. Yeah oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

841
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: run run protection, run stoppage, run prevention, prevention. We just

842
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: need stopping the run. Yeah, stopping the run is going

843
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: to be paramount against the Seattle Seahawks. A couple transaction notes,

844
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,720
Speaker 1: a couple of injury notes. Let's start with dom Easily,

845
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: who unfortunately had to go on IR and have the

846
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: knee surgery. Um, And I think McVay said, don't go away, man, No, really,

847
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: look wherever you are, if you're listening to this, if

848
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: you're recuperating, what have you. As soon as you can

849
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 1: get down to the sideline, you're you're a part of this. Yeah,

850
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: everybody knows it. Yes, yeah, he's he's part of the

851
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: heart and soul of this football team. And I think

852
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: McVeigh really conveyed that this week. You know he's talking

853
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: about this when you see what Dominique Easley went through

854
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: just to be able to get back to play in general,

855
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,879
Speaker 1: that was really really tough. He worked his butt off

856
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: all through camp and before that just to get ready

857
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,800
Speaker 1: to play, and he made it back and became a starter.

858
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 1: Yes that's a different position. Yeah, and played well too. Yes. Yeah,

859
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: so that's something you hate to see that, Yes, you

860
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: really do, That's what I mean, Just don't I hope

861
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: he doesn't disappear. Yeah, I hope he stays around this

862
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: group because you helped begin this or helped start this. Yeah,

863
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: wherever it finishes, it's because of your contribution exactly. Yeah.

864
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: And then also Cairo Santos is now going to be

865
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: the Rams kicker at least four this week. We'll see

866
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: if something changes for next week with Greg's or line,

867
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: but Sam Ficken is out. And it didn't quite surprise

868
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: me that they made that change because when we talked

869
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: to McVeigh on the conference call on Frond after that game,

870
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: you could tell he was disappointed in the kicking. Yeah,

871
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: when you miss a twenty eight yard field goal that

872
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: could have put the Rams up by forty one to

873
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: thirty one by thirteen, it would have been at that

874
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: point that really, I think irked the head coach, especially

875
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: after you'd gone on a pretty time killing drive, right,

876
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: you know, and you you think when you are going

877
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 1: to be in position for a twenty eight yard field goal,

878
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: you've got points, Well, yeah, I have to have the

879
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 1: points there. Well it's it irks, I don't know, but

880
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: I mean you can lose confidence in that position because

881
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: when you're calling plays, you think everyone's going to be

882
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: either a big player or a touchdown. Right, So if

883
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: you have to go to field goal, you're expecting it

884
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: to be good because you're moving on to the next drive. Yeah, Okay,

885
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: we get this. We're up by thirteen, and then when

886
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 1: I come back, I can call this in this way

887
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: I just missed. Okay, Now I have to go back

888
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: and do it all over again. Okay, So if I

889
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: get in that same situation, can I put you back

890
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: out there? It's just it creates the indecision and the doubt.

891
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: So it's not necessarily the guy you're upset with. It's

892
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: just I can't trust my place kicking my my I

893
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 1: can't trust my kicking team to finish off a drive,

894
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 1: which changes everything from my play calling. Right. Yeah, yeah,

895
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,919
Speaker 1: and that I think that's fair. It's weird, man, We've

896
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: seen so many miskicks around the league. There's something in

897
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: the water, man. It's it's it's the place kickers this

898
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 1: year that are placekickers are suffering, are suffering, But the

899
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 1: points are just up dramatically. Yeah, we're on pace for

900
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: a record scoring. You're in points in the NFL. I

901
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: don't have an I don't have an answer for why

902
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: placekicking has been a struggle for the entire league. Yeah,

903
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: they haven't moved it. I don't think kickoffs are affecting

904
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: them in placekicking, So yeah, I thought they made it's

905
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: safer for them. I don't know why, but it seems

906
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: like every placekicker for the most part is struggling. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

907
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,320
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Well, we'll see what Carro Santos

908
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: can do. He's had a pretty good career all things considered,

909
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 1: until he's sort of run into some growing issues the

910
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 1: last couple of years. That happened. I'm in Kansas City,

911
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: he went on injured reserve, they waved injured him. He

912
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: went to Chicago and played a couple games before they

913
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 1: also had to put him on injured reserve with that

914
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,359
Speaker 1: groin injury. Was still kind of going through things with

915
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: that groin with the Jets in the preseason. So he

916
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 1: says he's feeling good right now. Good. And he tried

917
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: out for the Browns recently too, and they ended up

918
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: going with a different guy after the Browns kicker missed

919
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:29,439
Speaker 1: everything in the world in New Orleans. Yeah, so we'll

920
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 1: see how long a Caro Santos is here. But what

921
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: he said, is you know, I want to come in

922
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: and I want to fill in for Greg and make

923
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: sure that when we have chances to get points, we

924
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: get them. So points. Yes, I think the team can

925
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: score kickoff just as long as you're booting that thing

926
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: out of the end zone. Ye. Sam Ficken did a

927
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: great job on Thursday. At least keep in Minnesota's kick

928
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: return team out of the game. Yes, So at least

929
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: keep that part up. Yes, yes, for sure, he said,

930
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: we weren't going to talk about them, but I do

931
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: want to talk about Sue and okay just for a second. Sure,

932
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: go ahead, nothing. Why why aren't you going to say anything?

933
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:13,399
Speaker 1: You saw it? Is that it? I mean it's like

934
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:15,879
Speaker 1: if they send us like in in back in the day,

935
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 1: send us to to cover like Godzilla, Like we're looking

936
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,760
Speaker 1: at a wreck city. You know what are we gonna

937
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: You saw it? Yeah? Godzilla just walked through here. You

938
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: still you saw it. I mean, they're they're tremendous and

939
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: they've been that way all season long. They're just now

940
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: starting to get the numbers, right, Yeah, because as Sue said,

941
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: you know, we're getting they were in situations where they

942
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: had to pass and they had to hold onto the

943
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 1: ball a little bit longer so that they could get

944
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. And when that happens, well,

945
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: Sue's gonna get there. Funnel is gonna get there. Right.

946
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: So everybody who's like these guys, well they're not they're

947
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: not making they're not many. Man, Man, who why would

948
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: you even click? Why why would you even click on that?

949
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: I don't click. I have tweet that. It just comes up.

950
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 1: Man to ignore it or whatever I usually like, because

951
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:08,720
Speaker 1: I can't. Whoever says that clearly has never played I'm sorry,

952
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: and I hate to pull that card. You've never pulled

953
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: that card in three years of doing this podcast, and

954
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: I'm not upset. But whoever can put that out there

955
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 1: about those two guys, clearly you've never played it down

956
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 1: in your life ever, ever in your life to say

957
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,760
Speaker 1: that you're not getting return on investment from those two guys,

958
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: are you nuts? Are you crazy? Really? What game? And

959
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: what film have you been watching? I'm sorry, I just

960
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,799
Speaker 1: have to know this show me because it must be

961
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: different from the film I'm watching. You never go on

962
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,479
Speaker 1: rants like this. I'm loving them, just saying that's usually

963
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: my role on this show. I love it, you know,

964
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: you could have predicted this when he signed the contract

965
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: that eventually some nutcase was gonna write, oh, they're not

966
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 1: getting return on investment on Aaron Donald because he's not

967
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: racking up ten sacks per game. Okay, well, clearly you

968
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: don't know football. That's not the game. That's not how

969
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: it works, especially down from that position where still Aaron

970
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: Donald is gonna get his and we've seen it. Yeah,

971
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: we talked about it last week. I think I went

972
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 1: through the weeks. Look, Aaron Donald starts getting those sacks

973
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: usually week three, week four, it turns up. And now

974
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: we're going to Seattle and he's gonna face Russell Wilson,

975
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:21,399
Speaker 1: who he is sacked seven times in his career, which

976
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: is significantly more than anybody else, and he's gonna get

977
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: sacks this week. Guys, I'm like, either he's gonna do it,

978
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: or See He's gonna do it, or Abracam's gonna do it,

979
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: a long Acre is gonna do it, or Brocker's is

980
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,479
Speaker 1: gonna do it, or Franklin Myers has got somebody's gonna

981
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: get some sacks this week. The funniest thing that I

982
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: saw right and this is you had to be there Okay.

983
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 1: So Aaron Donald's out there on the right side, playing

984
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: the right defensive tackle, and Dominican Sue is on the

985
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: left side, either on the nose or just to the

986
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: inside shade of the guard. Well, Aaron Donald decides to

987
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: take a left, I'm going inside. Sue says I'm going right,

988
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: and they collide, and they collide and knock each other down,

989
00:46:58,040 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: and they stood up and looked at each other like

990
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: it was just that little standoff, like I go where

991
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: I want to go, when I want to go. But

992
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 1: they were saying the same things, and they were like, Okay,

993
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:12,399
Speaker 1: I got it now, Yeah, if you're going there, I'll

994
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: go here. And then like two plays later they both kissack.

995
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: It was amazing, but just for that moment in time

996
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: was like, Wow, who's gonna back up? But look, don't

997
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: take my word for it. Whatever, Go talk to the

998
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: guards in Minnesota, Go talk to the guards in Arizona.

999
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 1: Go talk to the guys in Oakland about how good

1000
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 1: these two area and what they've been doing. Yeah, really,

1001
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: forget the numbers, use your eyes right, Yeah, no, I

1002
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: agree with you. The thing I think is maybe the

1003
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 1: most fun about those guys is you get Sue on

1004
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 1: the left end and you get dumped playing right tackle. Yeah,

1005
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. And we talked to Sue about this a

1006
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: little bit this week. He looks like Reggie when he's

1007
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: out there. I don't know if you've ever seen Reggie

1008
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:54,760
Speaker 1: White play. Well, I wasn't really alive in football conscious

1009
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: ohe's career. That was one of the coolest things for

1010
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 1: me for my career when I played. I actually got

1011
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: to see Reggie White play live. Yeah. And when I

1012
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 1: see in Domickinsoue lineup at left end, yeah, he looks

1013
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: like Reggie White. It's the same stuff because it's it's

1014
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,879
Speaker 1: speed and power off the edge right. Yeah, and it's

1015
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: like the offense pick you're poison. Depending on how you

1016
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 1: set is what you're going to get from him. If

1017
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: you set too far back, he's just going to run

1018
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: you right into the quarterbacks. If you try to attack him,

1019
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: he's quick enough to get your hands down and get

1020
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: around you, like you saw. So I love when I

1021
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 1: see that, and I love when he does it. He

1022
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: doesn't waste it. He waits for the key opportunities and

1023
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,720
Speaker 1: he goes after it. Yeah, he's gotten his two sacks

1024
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: from that left end position. So far this year, that

1025
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: one on Rivers and then that one on Cousins. But

1026
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: he was saying this week that a lot of times

1027
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: that left end and the opposite defensive tackle they pair together.

1028
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: So I think just having that and he said this,

1029
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, my goal when I'm out there is to

1030
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: always be opposite of Aaron because I know that it's

1031
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:51,359
Speaker 1: going to be a good matchup for the two of us.

1032
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: No doubt. You got two of the best in the

1033
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: game of what they do there, So that that's really

1034
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: cool to see from that defensive perspective what Wade Phillips

1035
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,399
Speaker 1: is doing with those two guys. Well, it's coming, it's

1036
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: coming to fruition. Like there was a time when they

1037
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: had the center of the guard jump eron, so that

1038
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: left Sue backside one on one with the guard and

1039
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: immediately he got pressure. Immediately, Yeah I know. I mean

1040
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: as soon as that center left him and went to Aaron,

1041
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 1: the push began and it went right to Kirk Cousins. Yeah,

1042
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: so it is it's it's picked your poison and I

1043
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 1: don't know which way you slide. But they did have

1044
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 1: a game plan for those two and they max protect

1045
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 1: left the back end. They funneled Aaron to the running back,

1046
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,439
Speaker 1: so it was three guys blocking him or two guys

1047
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 1: blocking Sue, so they had the doubles they wanted. When

1048
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: that does happen, and I would imagine that's going to

1049
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: happen this Sunday, somebody outside's got to win. Yeah, somebody

1050
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: out there has got to win those one on ones.

1051
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be clean. At least get pressure

1052
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: on the quarterback, right, Yeah, you can't get stuck on

1053
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage when everybody's wadded up. Now you've

1054
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 1: got nothing, Yeah, exactly. But I think those two guys

1055
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,439
Speaker 1: and maybe even Sue especially, he just looked like they're

1056
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: having so much fun playing together. Like when Sue got

1057
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:00,120
Speaker 1: that sack and he starts backing away and like this

1058
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: thing he was doing with the arms. Yeah, yeah, that

1059
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: was awesome. Yeah. Can you imagine him doing that in

1060
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: the nightclub. You know, just just just move, just go ahead,

1061
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 1: just move, just move, Yeah, just go ahead and move.

1062
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:12,879
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, that's that's that's the deal, and

1063
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: they're accepting the challenge. And I think there's more left

1064
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,839
Speaker 1: with them because really they haven't started running games together yet.

1065
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: I imagine at some point that's coming between the two. Yeah,

1066
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,839
Speaker 1: I just I like I like that. You know when

1067
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: you get two guys and they just or three guys

1068
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 1: really with Brockers in there too, and you just see

1069
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: how much fun they're having, yeah, playing this game. And

1070
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: it happened at practice the other day in the portion

1071
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:39,320
Speaker 1: that we were allowed to see or Sue and Brockers,

1072
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: Sue and Donald. I think it was really imitating each

1073
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: other's sack celebrations. So like Sue was basically like walking

1074
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: on a catwalk and like waving to the crowd and

1075
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:50,879
Speaker 1: like it was hilarious, and then Donald did the like back,

1076
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I love it. That is cool. You know,

1077
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: we talked about being a connected team in the chemistry

1078
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: like that. To me, it shows it too. I love

1079
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 1: it when there's no jealousy. It's all about getting quarterback

1080
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: on the ground here. Who cares? Who gets it? Yeah? Yeah,

1081
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: who cares? Who scores the touchdown? As long as the

1082
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: ram score. Yes, yeah, that's the way it should be,

1083
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: all right. So let's quickly talk a little bit about

1084
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: this Seattle Seahawks, K Yeah, they worry me. Is not

1085
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:16,280
Speaker 1: the legion of boom really anymore? I think the legion

1086
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 1: of Boom is right his course, Yeah, it's not there anymore.

1087
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: I mean, especially with Earl Thomas going out with that

1088
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: fracture last week. I have a question for you, Okay, okay.

1089
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: The legion of Boom consists of Richard Sherman, Cam Chancellor,

1090
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas, and corner whatever, corner Byron Maxwell, one of

1091
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: those guys. Why doesn't anybody ever include Bobby Wagner in

1092
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: the legion of boom because he's not He's technically a

1093
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: linebacker and not a member of the secondary. He should

1094
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,479
Speaker 1: be a part of that legion of boom. Yeah, he's

1095
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: still there. Yes, he is a cement mixer of a

1096
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: middle linebacker. He is the red line on your GPS

1097
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 1: that signifies traffic. I'm serious. He is an absolute problem

1098
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 1: in middle does not hesitate, which is why he's always right.

1099
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: He reads it. He's downhill, and he's downhill in a blank.

1100
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:09,239
Speaker 1: It's either a zero game or minus. He's that good. Well,

1101
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: last year when the Rams went up to Seattle and

1102
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: beat the snot out of them, Bobby Wagner wasn't healthy,

1103
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: and I think you could kind of tell in the

1104
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,319
Speaker 1: way he was playing, and still played pretty well. Yeah, yeah,

1105
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: still played reasonably well in there. Yeah, I mean, so

1106
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: he is still a leader of that defense. So, like

1107
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, it seems like they're they're building a foundation.

1108
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: Like Pete Carroll, since he won a Super Bowl, he

1109
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 1: has afforded the right to rebuild, and they're they're rebuilding,

1110
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: and they're building a foundation offensively and defensively. Yeah, the

1111
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: last two weeks. Offensively, they're starting to run the ball better. Yep.

1112
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: Defensively they're starting to stop the run. So it's like

1113
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:46,879
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks of both units are growing new units. If

1114
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: that makes any sense. Yeah, it does, Yeah, it does,

1115
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: especially because Russell Wilson, now, I mean he still has

1116
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 1: Doug bad one, but you know he's got different weapons,

1117
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:58,320
Speaker 1: doesn't that. Marshawn Lynch, You've got Chris Carson, Mike Davis,

1118
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: and Rashad Penny back there, and those guys they have

1119
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 1: they've run the ball well, especially over the last two weeks.

1120
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 1: So I think and when we saw the Rams maybe

1121
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: struggle a little bit against the run that was against

1122
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 1: the Chargers, I think the Seahawks are going to try

1123
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 1: to do that to the Rams. Absolutely ball control offense. Yeah. Yeah,

1124
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 1: so that the one way to stop the Rams from

1125
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: scoring is to make sure they're not on the field. Look,

1126
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: they're looking for week links when they're running the football.

1127
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: When they say stretch, they mean stress. They are literally

1128
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 1: stretching the defense from either hashmark to the sideline. They're

1129
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: running sideways and looking for a week link and then

1130
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,399
Speaker 1: they're gonna make the cut. So if one guy this

1131
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,359
Speaker 1: is what I mean, all eleven have to be on

1132
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: the same page. If one guy is not on his game,

1133
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: that's the guy that's gonna get cut chopped, and the

1134
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: running back's gonna make may not be a big play,

1135
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: but at least keep the offense on the field longer,

1136
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: which wears a defense out. So it'll be a challenge

1137
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 1: up there in Seattle. And I know people don't want

1138
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 1: to hear it. They think Seattle's down. But until you

1139
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: beat them there, Seattle is still Seattle. I agree with you. Yeah,

1140
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,799
Speaker 1: And just because the Rams beat them last year doesn't

1141
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: mean anything, right. It means that was last year. Now

1142
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: it's going to be this year, and the Rams have

1143
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 1: to continue to bring their a game and get better.

1144
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:11,359
Speaker 1: You can't take your foot off the gas because you

1145
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 1: think Seattle is wounded, right, This is when they're dangerous.

1146
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,399
Speaker 1: If you ask me, one piece that may make them

1147
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: a little bit better is Mark Baron. He is, at

1148
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: least at this point in the week, expected to play

1149
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: and make his twenty eighteen debut against the Seahawks. I

1150
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 1: think that helps in a number of areas, but especially

1151
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 1: stopping the run. Oh my god, you could see the

1152
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:33,399
Speaker 1: smoke coming out of his nostrils. He'd be dying to play, yes,

1153
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:36,479
Speaker 1: and now his body has cooperated, so you know, trying

1154
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 1: to I'm trying to figure out where you put him,

1155
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: because I think both linebackers have been playing great football.

1156
00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:45,520
Speaker 1: Rebek Wilson, especially Corey Littleton, I think is coming into

1157
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: his own as the captain of the defense. So which

1158
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: guy do you pull off to put Baron on? Or

1159
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: do you have certain sub packages to where Baron comes

1160
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: on the field with them. He's got speed, he's got instincts,

1161
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 1: he does okay, if you need help with edge rushing,

1162
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: just just saying, yeah, if you look at the size

1163
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:04,440
Speaker 1: of Mark Bairn and look at the size of Seattle's

1164
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 1: defensive ends, yeah, they're almost the same. And those are

1165
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,359
Speaker 1: four or three guys, right, So if they can do it,

1166
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: why can't he. I think that's that could be something

1167
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: to watch this week. When he's on the field, you're

1168
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,919
Speaker 1: going to have to account for him absolutely, because he's

1169
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 1: got the speed, he's got the power. I was talking

1170
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 1: to him yesterday and he really said that it's been

1171
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: tough because this is the game he loves and he

1172
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 1: really wants to be out there. So for the offense, yeah,

1173
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: the Rams offense. Do you think that Seattle will take

1174
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:31,439
Speaker 1: the same approach? And we were sort of talking about

1175
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: this earlier as making Goff throw in order for them

1176
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: to get down the field and beat them. I'm not

1177
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: sure if that's how I would present it to my defense,

1178
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:41,839
Speaker 1: but what I would say is we're going to stop

1179
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 1: the run. Okay, we're gonna take away Todd Gurley. Yeah,

1180
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 1: and we're going to make the Rams go the hard

1181
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: road to beat us, which means it's going to be

1182
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: on Jared Goff's arm. So I think we know that

1183
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:54,440
Speaker 1: Jared Goff is up to that challenge. I think we

1184
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,399
Speaker 1: know the offensive line is up to the challenge. You're

1185
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: protecting him. The only difference is it's going to be

1186
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,439
Speaker 1: loud there. Crowd noise is going to be a factor. Sure,

1187
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: which will affect their get off coming towards Jared Goth.

1188
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: So I think the protection has been great, but just

1189
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 1: by virtue of being there, there's gonna they're gonna have

1190
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 1: guys that get good jumps off the football. So you

1191
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 1: might see a little more pressure on Goth than you have. Okay,

1192
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: so it's actually sound stop Todd Gurley. You might have

1193
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: a better chance to stop this offense, right yeah, But

1194
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 1: that's sort of the only way to do it, right

1195
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 1: because again, and we talked about this earlier, if you

1196
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: don't stop Todd Gurley, it's going to be a very

1197
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: long day for you or short. Yeah, if you if you,

1198
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 1: if you don't stack the box against Tyd Gurley, it'll

1199
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,000
Speaker 1: be the shortest game in history because all the Rams

1200
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 1: are going to do is continue to run the ball

1201
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: down the field and the clock will keep moving. Absolutely

1202
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 1: when Russell Wilson gets the football, who'll have three or

1203
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: four minutes a quarter to make something happen if they

1204
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:46,879
Speaker 1: don't make a concerted effort to stop Todd Gurley. At

1205
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 1: some point, I think a team is going to try that.

1206
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to. You can't stop everything, right yeah,

1207
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: So I think that a team is going to say,

1208
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:56,919
Speaker 1: all right, you're not going to throw today. Let's see

1209
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: if Todd Gurley can be right. So I don't know

1210
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: if it's going to be this week, but I think

1211
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: at some point there's going If Jared Goff keeps performing

1212
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: that the Wings performing, there's going to be a team

1213
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:09,479
Speaker 1: that tries that. And this is games specific because next

1214
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:11,879
Speaker 1: week the challenges will change. Oh yes, because of who

1215
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: you're who you're playing. But for this defense, I would

1216
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: suspect they are going to stop the run. They're gonna

1217
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:19,600
Speaker 1: make it a point to stop the run. All right, well,

1218
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: I think that'll do it. You have any parting shots

1219
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: to Marco no man going up to Seattle. This is

1220
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 1: where it begins. Um, you know you took the title

1221
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: from Seattle and you want to keep it, and you

1222
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: blew them out last time up there. So their fan

1223
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: base is thinking, ah, it can happen twice. Okay, let's

1224
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: test that. Yeah, yeah, let's see what happens. Let's see

1225
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 1: what happens for sure. All Right, everybody, thank you so

1226
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 1: much for watching and listening to this edition of Between

1227
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: the Horns. Kick Off on Sunday is going to be

1228
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 1: at one twenty five Pacific. We will see you at

1229
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: rams Man rams Ending. Yeah, we'll see it for rams

1230
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: pregame live at about twelve thirty twelve forty five. You

1231
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: can catch that on the social channels until then. I'm

1232
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: Miles Simmons. That's de Marco far This is between the

1233
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 1: horns Rabbit, no rebbit.