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Speaker 1: Coming up on the Booth Review. The Commanders were back

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Speaker 1: in a big way. London dominating performance by the entire team,

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Speaker 1: There is a lot of good candidates for that on

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Speaker 1: the Booth Review. Coming up next, Welcome to the Booth

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Speaker 1: Review podcast presented by Microsoft's Surface Howering a Better Game.

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Speaker 1: I'm brand White side with Big Fletch London Fletcher.

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Speaker 3: It's been a while we won, won big.

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Speaker 1: I'm Big against Tennessee man Man.

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Speaker 2: How good does it feel to be doing this Booth

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Speaker 2: Review coming off of victory? Just outstanding performance all around

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Speaker 2: and the way they did it. It's one thing to win,

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Speaker 2: and we want to win all games. But how they

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Speaker 2: looked in that victory. I think you and I we

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Speaker 2: were all just ecstatic seeing the way that team performed

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Speaker 2: in every every facet of the game. But you know,

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Speaker 2: there's some issues we'll talk about that we can do

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Speaker 2: better on. But we're going to talk about how great

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Speaker 2: the offense looks, how great the defense looked, and how

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Speaker 2: great the tabe looked at general headed to the bye week.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'll go back through the whole thing. I

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Speaker 1: That I think was surprising then and then people went

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Speaker 1: they go where was that? And it showed up again.

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Speaker 1: But I think one of the big things that happened

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Speaker 1: during the week which became really relevant to the whole

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Speaker 1: story of the week was Bobby Wagner spoke to the team,

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Speaker 1: And this is probably not uncommon. Leaders of the team

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Speaker 1: think we can all agree, whether they'll be willing to

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Speaker 3: I think this felt like a must win.

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Speaker 1: And I don't want to speak for Bobby, but it

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Speaker 1: sounds like there was part of him going, hey, we

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Speaker 3: So just before we I want.

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Speaker 1: To play the interaction that you had with him in

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Speaker 1: But what did you just make first of Bobby speaking

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Speaker 2: I thought it was great and it's a testament to

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Speaker 2: You're gonna have adversity during games, But how can you

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Speaker 2: But for him to a guy who's a former Super

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Speaker 2: And so for him to go to Dan Quinn and say, hey, coach,

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Speaker 1: You won a Super Bowl? Did that happen in your

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Speaker 1: Obviously, Bobby has weight in the room. Because it's funny.

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Speaker 1: When we were talking to Dad Quick after the game yesterday,

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Speaker 2: And one thing that he said is he said Bobby

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm sure he talks to the defense, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, teams and players, they respect him first and foremost

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Speaker 3: So they already he already has their ear.

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Speaker 2: But then when he delivers that message, and it's one

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Speaker 1: You know, like what signaled to me that this was

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and here we are.

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Speaker 1: You know, week thirteen, he's already surpassed on hundred tackles,

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Speaker 4: I'm grateful for this. It's really cool. But I'm really

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Bobby, as he mentioned, this is probably I think

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Speaker 1: Well, if he's going to get to fourteen, which is

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Speaker 3: And it sounds like you passed it down to him.

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Speaker 1: You're missing out, Yeah, you're missing the education of it.

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Speaker 2: What I also saw was the it's from my office standpoint,

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Speaker 2: you watched them on film looking at them, I watched them.

442
00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:42,359
Speaker 2: I was like, man, this could be. This would be

443
00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 2: a tough, tough ball game for us. And the way

444
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,680
Speaker 2: that offense came out and perform, the way that offensive

445
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:52,000
Speaker 2: line set a physical tone, the way they protected Jaden,

446
00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,200
Speaker 2: the way he was able to distribute the football. It

447
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,760
Speaker 2: was a full out of tack mo. Maybe against the Cowboys,

448
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,919
Speaker 2: I didn't necessarily see us in full attack mode the

449
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,119
Speaker 2: way we I think that's what.

450
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:04,880
Speaker 3: Dan Quinn was talking.

451
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel the energy.

452
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,680
Speaker 3: Yeah feel us, feel us in attack mode.

453
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,360
Speaker 2: And sometimes you can kind of almost say respect opponent

454
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 2: a little bit too much, but you gotta realize and say, hey,

455
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 2: we's some badasses too.

456
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 3: They got to fear us and respect us too.

457
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Speaker 1: Dallas dominated the line of scrimmage against that they did.

458
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,160
Speaker 1: They did olso O Digizuoa had a terrific game. Michael

459
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,119
Speaker 1: Parsons was in the backfield over and over. There were

460
00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,000
Speaker 1: very good time rushes against them that did not happen

461
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Speaker 1: against a defense that's statistically better than the one that

462
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 1: they faced a week ago. I walked in going, I

463
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,720
Speaker 1: don't know if they're going to run the ball effectively.

464
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:41,560
Speaker 1: I know they're gonna they're gonna be consistent on it,

465
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 1: because the coaches had told me they were going to

466
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Speaker 1: stick with it, but with b Rob coming off the ankle,

467
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,040
Speaker 1: it was hard to know what condition he was going

468
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,680
Speaker 1: to really be in. Austin Eckler obviously wasn't going to

469
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 1: be able to play, and the offensive line had been

470
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:56,080
Speaker 1: beat up, and Andrew Wiley wasn't playing like I didn't

471
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Speaker 1: expect them to run the ball effectively. I expected them

472
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Speaker 1: to run the ball a lot, but they didn't expect

473
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,520
Speaker 1: them to do what they did. To have two sixty

474
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,960
Speaker 1: seven on the ground is a real testament to be

475
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:12,280
Speaker 1: Robs fine. And secondarily, the offensive line really took what

476
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Speaker 1: happened personally. They're the group. They took it really personally.

477
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Speaker 1: This was the closest thing to the early part of

478
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Speaker 1: the season we saw from them collectively. To control the

479
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage that way.

480
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Speaker 2: Now, you're absolutely right about the offensive line taking personally

481
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,719
Speaker 2: and when you have a bad game, which I mean

482
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 2: they they had a bad game against the Tennessee Titan.

483
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 2: It was not their best Brandon football, and you're not

484
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Speaker 2: happy with the way you performed. A lot of guys

485
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,639
Speaker 2: that you know have played well force during the season

486
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 2: just didn't have good games from the offensive line standpoint.

487
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,439
Speaker 2: And those guys, they they had to sit on that

488
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,439
Speaker 2: for for a week and they I'm sure they, you know,

489
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 2: they's like, you know what, I don't want to feel

490
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,120
Speaker 2: like that again. And we're gonna show, uh, We're gonna

491
00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:59,880
Speaker 2: show the Tennessee Titans. What we saw against the Dallas Cowboys,

492
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Speaker 2: that's not us. What we you know saw during the

493
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 2: game against the Philadelphia Eagles, that's not us. So you

494
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,879
Speaker 2: go out and you you set a second set a

495
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 2: physical tone.

496
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Speaker 3: You mentioned b Rob.

497
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 2: I thought with him showing up and practicing on on

498
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 2: Wednesdays practice, you and I were out of the practice

499
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 2: during the open availability and when I saw b Rob

500
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:28,159
Speaker 2: out there taking handoffs, I was shot first and foremost

501
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 2: that he was on the football field, because you know

502
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 2: he wasn't able to finish the game Sunday against the Cowboys,

503
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,919
Speaker 2: you had you had to assume, like, uh, is he

504
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 2: going to be Is he going to be able to play?

505
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 2: This will have to be something we monitor towards the

506
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,680
Speaker 2: end of the week. But for him to not miss

507
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,119
Speaker 2: a practice and may he was limited a little bit,

508
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,120
Speaker 2: but for him to be out there, that also sent

509
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:55,200
Speaker 2: the message to his team saying, hey, guys, I'm here

510
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 2: for you. I'm ready to fight. I'm not missing this game.

511
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 2: Were in the three game loser week. I'm gonna be

512
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 2: out there. I may not be one hundred percent, but

513
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you everything I got. And that went

514
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 2: a lot a long way to me. Just watching him

515
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 2: out on that practice field, I'm like, man, this he

516
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,199
Speaker 2: gets it and that's gonna resonator too.

517
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

518
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 1: I think, like we talked earlier about Bobby Wagner, right,

519
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: and like so he spoke up.

520
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 3: He said something.

521
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: I think he leads by example, mainly to everyone's point,

522
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 1: like he doesn't do that very often. He did it,

523
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,360
Speaker 1: but he felt it was necessary. I think be Rob similar.

524
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: I don't feel like he's the most talkative guy. He's

525
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 1: not gonna stand up speak his mind all that often,

526
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:33,160
Speaker 1: but he's gonna show you by example.

527
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 3: And you're seeing this.

528
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 1: I know it killed him to miss those games earlier

529
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 1: this year in a couple of occasions, they held him

530
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: out for what they thought was in his own best

531
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:45,199
Speaker 1: interest to not harm himself. He liked that, so he

532
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 1: and I think we all know this, And Quinn said this,

533
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: b Rob. When he's going there's an emotional lift to

534
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: the way he plays. It's just the way he plays.

535
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 1: I describe it as gas in the tank, like he

536
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: finishes runs. He embodies I think what they want in

537
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 1: their players here.

538
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 3: He is tough, and when he's.

539
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: Coming at you, especially in the second half of the lead,

540
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: nobody wants anything.

541
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Speaker 3: To do with it. Yeah. Yeah, sixteen Carris over one

542
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 3: hundred yards Its sea Rob, Chris. That's an amazing Chris Rodriguez.

543
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 2: He finished that game. Man, what thirteen k's what ninety

544
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:23,679
Speaker 2: four yards?

545
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,400
Speaker 1: He wasn't on the roster a week ago. He's been

546
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 1: called up and down multiple times. Practice, squad roster, practicequad roster.

547
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: Hat a very good game in New York, remember playing

548
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 1: that one. Finish that one out right? He was off

549
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 1: the roster. Then Austin Eckler gets hurt, it was logical

550
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: to call him back, bring him back in. You gotta wonder,

551
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: like where is someone's head when they go up and

552
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 1: down on the roster all year long. Well, he showed

553
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 1: up for this team on Sunday too and really finished

554
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 1: the game out physical running up the middle of the.

555
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:54,360
Speaker 3: Field, physical runner. Man.

556
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 2: We're watching those Tennessee Ties defenders just bounce off of

557
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 2: sea rob Man. He I love the kid. I love

558
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 2: watching them. I really liked watching them a season ago.

559
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 2: You look at him coming out of Kentucky, didn't know

560
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 2: a whole lot about him Kentucky football. You think more

561
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 2: of basketball when you think Kentucky. But watching him once

562
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 2: we drafted him, looking at his film like love, loved

563
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 2: how he finished the finish, his runs, just power back.

564
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 3: Then this year he was on our active rouster all year.

565
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 3: This year had to you.

566
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 2: Know, didn't make the fifty three out of training camp,

567
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 2: all the practice squad gets caught up. As you mentioned

568
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 2: Boson back and forth, him even giving up his his

569
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,439
Speaker 2: jersey number two. Yeah by Sean Latimar, Like, man, I

570
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:40,400
Speaker 2: don't need any money here.

571
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 3: You can you can have this.

572
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 2: You've accomplished so much so his his amility, and Chris

573
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 2: Man just I'm so happy for him for him to

574
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 2: have the type of game that he had and being

575
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,199
Speaker 2: able to play the way he played.

576
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Speaker 1: The numbers are stunning. I mean the time of possession,

577
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: they doubled them in time of possession. They had twenty

578
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: nine first downs. They had four hundred and sixty three

579
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: total yards. And I know people look at the record

580
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: and they think, well, they just beat a bad team

581
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: that teams a number two defense in the NFL. They

582
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 1: had given up one hundred and six rush yards per

583
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: game at four yards per carry. Washington had surpassed that

584
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: by the end of the first quarter against them. This

585
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: is with without their right tackle, with a beat up

586
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: offensive line, and a running back that we weren't sure

587
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 1: was going to play, and their second best running back

588
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: on ir right. So like, this is to me the

589
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: best offensive performance. I don't know by far, because I'd

590
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: say the Cincinnati one and the Arizona ones are worth

591
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 1: looking back at, but those feel like a year ago

592
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: now considering where we are in the season, this is

593
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: reminiscent of that, and I would argue it's the best

594
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 1: offensive performance of the season.

595
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 2: I you all get it. You all get an argue

596
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 2: argument for me on that. I think when you when

597
00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 2: you put in context, coming off with three game losing

598
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 2: streak going into this game, and how the offense had

599
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 2: performed during those three games lose doing this three game

600
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 2: losing streak, not not clicking on all cylinders, not being

601
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 2: the high powered offense had we had grown accustomed to

602
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 2: for the majority of the season. Also going against a

603
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 2: tightest defense that was so stout against the run, so

604
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 2: stout against the pass well regardless, highly regarded throughout the NFL,

605
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 2: and how they how many problems they caused for offenses.

606
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 2: When you add all those those three things together, I

607
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 2: think it was the best offensive performance of the season.

608
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jayden twenty five of thirty. So this is the

609
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: first time since that early part of the season that

610
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: he's over eighty percent completion hit over ninety against Cincinnati,

611
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: So it's hard to kind of compare that one.

612
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 3: That one, and it was a Monday night football on

613
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 3: a row.

614
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: That was the one when we went we might have

615
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: a unicorn like when they did that. Then he turned

616
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: around and had the game against Arizona. He was completing

617
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: over eighty percent of his throws through the first month

618
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: of the season, which was really unprecedented in historic, and

619
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: we were kind of talking about he might be the

620
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: best rookie quarterback ever because that's how his season actually started.

621
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,959
Speaker 1: This was reminiscent of that, which leads me to believe

622
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: the rib injury was significant. It hindered him. He said

623
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: nothing about it, He never used it as an excuse.

624
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: He listened to people talk about it, and kind of

625
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: like b Rob, he let his actions speak louder than

626
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: his words. Because the last two weeks he is clearly healthier,

627
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: feeling like himself, moving like he did early in the season,

628
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: and yesterday pinpoint accurate again with the exception of one

629
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: or two throws, the one that was a little high

630
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: to Ertz that ended up getting intercepted, and one or

631
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: two other misses, but again he was back to where

632
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: he was, which leads me to believe he played significantly

633
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: hurt for probably about a month.

634
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you don't. You have a rib injury,

635
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 2: especially the one like he had. It's not a hey,

636
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 2: you have one week, you know between the injury and

637
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you're you're fine. Those rib injuries,

638
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 2: I've I've dealt with them several times in my career,

639
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 2: it's four to six weeks that you're dealing with that.

640
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 3: You have trouble.

641
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 2: Sleeping, breathing, laughing, all that type stuff. It constantly hurts him. Yeah,

642
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 2: you'll get better. I won't even say day by day,

643
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 2: maybe week by week. You'll get better, but you won't

644
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 2: be fully functioned on totally healed. Especially he's he was

645
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 2: continuing to play, continue to take hits to know that area. He's,

646
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 2: the position he plays, he's going to be exposed to.

647
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 2: His ribs are going to be exposed because of him.

648
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 2: You know the position that he plays, So he may

649
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 2: be he may have suffered slight setbacks in terms from

650
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 2: a healing standpoint. You get you get hit again, that

651
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: may set you back a couple days from a healing process.

652
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 2: So you see the difference that from a just of

653
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 2: the electricity in his legs, the ways the ways moving,

654
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 2: the way he's throwing and stepping into his throws, stuff

655
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 2: like that. You definitely know that that ten days off

656
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 2: between the game against the Eagles and the Cowboys, he

657
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 2: definitely needed that and appreciate I mean rest.

658
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: We were saying it before the Pittsburgh game, this team

659
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: needed to buy you can just tell like they needed it,

660
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: and that's a long time man. That's why that stretch

661
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: was so difficult. That they hit two really really good teams.

662
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is probably gonna win their division, Philadelphia who probably is.

663
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: We need them to go on some kind of losing

664
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: streak that they don't look like they're intending to do it.

665
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 2: They might be the number of eight, might end up

666
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 2: being a number one seed in the NFC.

667
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: Yes, that's very possible right now, that they're gonna end

668
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: up that way. Those are the teams we played in

669
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: a four day span, one of them on the road

670
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: with a team that needed to buy and was beat up,

671
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: including the quarterback who was still injured. We got to

672
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: the other side of it. The Dallas one is hard

673
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: to take because I think it's the one that got

674
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: away from them, But it was the sign that Jayden

675
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: is starting to look like the guy that we saw

676
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: early in the season and manifested again yesterday. He looked

677
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: like that quarterback at the beginning of the year, and

678
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: now with an extra week off. Now it's what really

679
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: gives me the hope that a late season run is

680
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: about to begin. If he's gonna play like this, they're

681
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: going to be extraordinarily difficult to beat.

682
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 3: No, without a doubt.

683
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 2: And you mentioned the game against the Steelers game, the

684
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 2: game against the Eagles Pittsburg what nine in what's they recognized?

685
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 3: Nine and two, nine and.

686
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 2: Three, nine and three loosen up at one point had

687
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 2: still controversial spot, controversial spot.

688
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: Contri spot a jump off side otherwise it would have

689
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: got the ball back.

690
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 3: So there's the the Philly game.

691
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 2: It's a twelve ten game, been over the fourth quarter.

692
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 3: We go for on that fourth, fourth and two. They

693
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 3: had a bad three minute stretch.

694
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yes, that could end up being a different

695
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 2: type of ball cup, different outcome. So we've gone toe

696
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 2: to toe with two of the best teams in the NFL.

697
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: It was Baltimore too.

698
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, And as you mentioned the Dallas loss, considering what

699
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 2: Dallas's record was, and I'll say this, Dallas is better

700
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 2: than what their record in the case as well. They're

701
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 2: five and seven right now. They're a better football team.

702
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: They won thirty six games in three years. That's a

703
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: good roster. Yeah, they have a lot of injuries, a

704
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: lot of injuries. They're very different. They started getting some

705
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: people back on defense. I do feel like they're no excuses.

706
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: That's the one that got away this year. Of the

707
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: losses they've had this year, that's the one that got.

708
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 2: Awa, especially when you look at all of the opportunities

709
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 2: we had in the first half of that Yes, with

710
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 2: the turnovers, the field position all.

711
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: That team's going home with their tabletreeing their legs if

712
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: you get up on them early, because that's what's happened

713
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: to them over the previous five weeks.

714
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 2: It's a twenty eight have a game like we had

715
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 2: against the Test. Besides, if we take advantage of the opportunities.

716
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: I agree, all right to other people on offense, I

717
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: want to talk about it. One is Cliff Kingsbury, because

718
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: he spent the week listening to that. These guys they

719
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: got to stop telling us they don't listen to outside noise.

720
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: Yes they do, Okay, yes they do. Stop lying.

721
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 3: You know you do.

722
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: Because the narratives popped up on him. Everyone looked back

723
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: at the records that occurred in Arizona, right where annually

724
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: in December there's a dip in the offense. Yes, this

725
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: is a different quarterback in a different place with a

726
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: different team, no offense to Kyler Murray, like just because

727
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: and the dip was not as prominent as people were

728
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: making it out to be.

729
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 3: But they saw.

730
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: What they didn't see was the unprecedented stuff that was

731
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: happening early right, which there was no chance on earth

732
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: that that was going to continue at that rate. But

733
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: because it wasn't as good, there was a narrative that

734
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: was built. Right, don't tell me he didn't hear this,

735
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,720
Speaker 1: because all of a sudden, Terry's moving around James looking good,

736
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: He's in his bag starting with all these secondary targets again,

737
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 1: and the offense looked really different this week.

738
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 2: Here, I'm a squash up. Let you all on a

739
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,439
Speaker 2: little known secret. We hear those thieves, We definitely hear

740
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 2: those things. You can't help but here, because either you

741
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 2: wanna hear personally or somebody who's close to you is

742
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,399
Speaker 2: gonna let you know what's being said, you'll you'll hear

743
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 2: those criticism.

744
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 3: And and we're all.

745
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 2: We all have egos, we all have we want to

746
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 2: be viewed as as some of the best of what

747
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 2: we do.

748
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 3: We don't want our work criticized. And it was just like, hey,

749
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 3: it just made sense.

750
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 2: We're let's move Terry round, Let's figure out how to

751
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 2: get him the football and and it's not just about Terry.

752
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 2: Then when you move him around, that opens up other guys,

753
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 2: that opens up the offense. That that that's the the

754
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 2: wares Waldough type of scenario that we used to have

755
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 2: when we were playing like a Jason Witten or you know,

756
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 2: a t O or somebody like that, like where when

757
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 2: he lines up a certain different places, what does that mean?

758
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 3: Ad tennis? Shit go up?

759
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 2: So it was it was interesting very first player, the

760
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 2: gay Terry lies up on the right side. They throw

761
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 2: a quick hitch. It was like, okay, so Cliff, he

762
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 2: heard you. He was he was in the slot. They

763
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 2: lined him up in the slot, They lined him up

764
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 2: at number three on the right side. They lined him

765
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 2: up in a bunch of different places. The touchdown that

766
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,879
Speaker 2: he caught, the second touchdown he called on the right

767
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 2: side goes in motion deep over and he was the

768
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 2: he was a third read on that play.

769
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: But again moving him around, yeah, moving him around. So

770
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: for Kingsbury too, I don't know where you were on

771
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: the unlocking Terry part of it, but where I landed

772
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: on it going in was earlier in the season. What

773
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: was really telling about the offense was how they were executing,

774
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: but the ball was and I thought it was. It

775
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: was really interesting when Jade Daniels was asked about Terry

776
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: McClain going into the game, and he basically just shrugged

777
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: and said, listen, he's a great player.

778
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:05,879
Speaker 3: We know that.

779
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna put the ball where the defense basically

780
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: tells me.

781
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 3: To put the ball.

782
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: Right, I'm not just going to force it to anybody.

783
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: If the defense says you got to throw it here,

784
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: well that's where I'm going to throw it. That's what

785
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: you want your quarterback to do. This one then went

786
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: back to Cliff where we go, all right, then you

787
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: need to scheme it up to where the defense wants

788
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: you to throw it to Terry or demands you to

789
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: throw it to Terry. And secondarily what was lost to

790
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: me and it lost the wrong word, but like what

791
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,840
Speaker 1: had changed was some of the secondary targets. Alamine's a

792
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: Kias really comes to mind with this, Diami Brown to

793
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: a certain degree, Luke McCaffrey, their targets were way down,

794
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: like over the last month. To me to unlock Terry,

795
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: the offense needed to be as diverse as it was

796
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: earlier in the season, and the defenses needed to take

797
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: those guys, I think more seriously than they had over

798
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. So some of this I thought

799
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: was moving Terry around, and some of it was if

800
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna try to take Terry away, we're gonna hurt

801
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: you with somebody else. That's right, I landed on it.

802
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 3: Now, you're right about that.

803
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 2: I like them, especially with a young quarterback, for Jaden

804
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 2: to say, hey, the defense is gonna dictate where I

805
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 2: go with the football. You don't want to have a

806
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 2: young quarterback getting in a situation where you're telling them, hey,

807
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 2: throw this ball here, throw this ball here, throw this

808
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 2: ball here, because that's when you get into the situation

809
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 2: where you're turning the football over, you're having incompletions, things

810
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 2: like that. So that's the right messaging to have with

811
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 2: a young quarterback. Now, you played Tom Brady, Peyton Manney.

812
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 2: You know some of the season quarterbacks who had they've

813
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 2: been in the trench, has been in these battles, and

814
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 2: there they can say, hey, I know the coverage is

815
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 2: saying hey I should go over here, but let me

816
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 2: I know how to manipulate the defense to go to.

817
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 3: Marvin Harrison.

818
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 2: I know how to get to a Randy More, I

819
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 2: can do some things to manipulate to cover stuff like that.

820
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 2: He's a young quarterback. He's not to that level yet.

821
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 2: I'll say this, though you talk about the targets, those

822
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 2: guys also had to win more and take advantage of

823
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 2: the opportunities to catch the football when it was throwing

824
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 2: to him, because again, if they're producing, it's gonna help

825
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 2: help the office in general. Those guys during the stretch,

826
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 2: they weren't playing at the level that they needed to

827
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 2: play it.

828
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: It was interesting too, like all the narratives on Cliff

829
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: like going into the game, if you looked at them,

830
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: there's still a top ten offensive yards. They were top

831
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: five in scoring, number three in total points. That people

832
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: were asking a question like what's wrong with the offense?

833
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there going what's wrong with the offense?

834
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: Like it hasn't been as good as it was? It

835
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: took a dip for a few weeks. The quarterback was hurt,

836
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: the offensive line was beat up. They were missing people

837
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: every single week. These guys are all on the injury list,

838
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: b Rob miss games, No kidding, They're not scoring forty

839
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: points a game right now, Like give it a minute,

840
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: right and so I was actually happy for Cliff because

841
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: I know he was hearing it and then everybody, you know,

842
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: makes up this narrative that what happened in Arizona's going

843
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: to happen here, and I was happy for him that

844
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 1: it turned out the way that it did that yesterday.

845
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 2: As well, Man, it's time, it's time you want to

846
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 2: give it out the belt?

847
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, time for the belt. It's time of the belt, man.

848
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 4: And now it's time for the Big Fletch Heavyweight Commander Championship.

849
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 1: I think we've already kind of hinted who it might

850
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: be going to.

851
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ah, it's been a while since we've gave it

852
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 2: give it out the belt, Okay, big Big Fletcher's heavyweight

853
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 2: command this championship belt, and we only give this out

854
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 2: during wins. And the ranted champion guy who still had

855
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 2: the belt was a Dante Fowler that was.

856
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 3: So long ago.

857
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 2: Man, I don't even know what what game was that

858
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 2: that he even got the belt in a month ago.

859
00:40:58,400 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll figure that out.

860
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 2: But the contender is going to be Terry McLaurin. There

861
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 2: was a couple of guys that that that I thought

862
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 2: about is from contendent standpoint, Ja Jaden was up for

863
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 2: consideration in that uh b Rob b Rob was in consideration.

864
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 2: I even thought about Chris Rodriguez. Defensively, Dante Fowler, Okay,

865
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 2: he had in the ball game two tackles, one TfL.

866
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 2: He had a sack and then the NFL ended up

867
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 2: taking it away from him. We'll see what happens whether

868
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 2: they're gonna give him that sack or not. And if

869
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 2: he does, you know that that that could change some things. However,

870
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:45,280
Speaker 2: I'll say this about a Foler. He had an impact

871
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 2: on two plays right after the interception where he helped

872
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 2: keep the tits office.

873
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 3: That by him, and he makes tremendous plays the.

874
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 2: Challenge Terry eight receptions, eight targets, seventy three yards.

875
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 3: It's a touching.

876
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: I think the fan the fans agree with you here too,

877
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: because they were chanting his name from quarter one yesterday.

878
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: It was like Mike Tyson Walker in fight. Yeah, Paul,

879
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: the Terry chants.

880
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 2: That were going on so the fast they knew they

881
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 2: were all just something. So with that being said, and do.

882
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 3: Big fletch combat this heavyweight champion.

883
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 2: Ty Till Terry Terry.

884
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 3: We got a new belt. He deserved to champion.

885
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: Eight on eight targets. Yeah, seventy three yards nine point

886
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: one average, two touchdowns. I did the math on him,

887
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: like he had had more than six targets in a

888
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: game in about seven eight weeks, and then I think

889
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: to the point of like getting him going early in

890
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: three of the last four coming into this game, he

891
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,439
Speaker 1: had two targets or less in three of the last four.

892
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: So they had to get him going. He's their best playmaker.

893
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:08,879
Speaker 1: You have to get him going.

894
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 2: They had to. And think about Terry Man. He's so

895
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 2: just humble, doesn't most number one receivers. Him and Santana

896
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 2: Moss are. I've been around a lot of number one receivers.

897
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,919
Speaker 2: Those guys are just like they don't complain. They don't

898
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 2: go to the offensive coordinator. They're not yelling at their

899
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 2: quarterback like you've seen it. We've all seen it where

900
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 2: on the TV copy they'll show a receiver slamming his head,

901
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 2: slamming his helmet on the ground, you know, being demonstrative,

902
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,959
Speaker 2: showing up their quarterback, showing up the offensive coordinator, showing

903
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 2: up the receivers coach, Hey get me the ball. I'm

904
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:45,720
Speaker 2: open cussing out everybody. Those two guys be number one guys.

905
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 3: They don't do that.

906
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 2: And Terry hasn't complained about you know, games where whether

907
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 2: you only had one target, two cargets, whatever the case

908
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 2: may be. He just wants to win football games and

909
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,240
Speaker 2: he knows, you know, he can impact games. So I'm

910
00:43:59,280 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 2: happy for him.

911
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: I just I want to go back to the crowd

912
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: for a moment, because they were as locked in as

913
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: I remember, like they knew the storylines right. They wanted

914
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: Terry to get the ball early. The second he guy

915
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: that they're chanting his name. They came and brought it

916
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: on the first possession and caused two false start penalties

917
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 1: against Tennessee. They knew that this team needed to start better.

918
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: They were part of They were a twelfth man.

919
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 3: They were the uh, the energy of the crowd.

920
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:28,840
Speaker 2: You think a game like this, this just goes to

921
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 2: show a year ago, two years, three years ago, you

922
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 2: know that that stadium would have been half empty. So

923
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 2: for the state the fans to be out and droves

924
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 2: to come out and support the team the way they

925
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 2: supported the team and realizing and saying, hey, we need

926
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,320
Speaker 2: to help cheer our team to victory.

927
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:48,240
Speaker 3: Impact.

928
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 2: As you mentioned, the two falalse Star penalties that the

929
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans had to start their drive up. They went

930
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 2: from first to ten. They were second and third and

931
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 2: twenty It.

932
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 1: Was like third and twenty two on the first drive. Yeah,

933
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: and then they they classically lost their minds. I mean,

934
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 1: I know, the thing snowballed on them, but Tony Pollard

935
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: at eight carries, which I don't know if you've watched

936
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: us play this year, but that's on you guys to

937
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: figure out how running the ball eleven times over the

938
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: course of a game was going to make any sense whatsoever.

939
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: They played right into Washington's hands. Like I know, people

940
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: think that Washington's pass defense isn't great. Yeah, their top

941
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: ten pass defense. It's the run defense. It's been a problem.

942
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: And Tennessee the score got away from them, and then

943
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: they got away from the run and they were playing

944
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: right into Washington's hands.

945
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 3: The whole way it was.

946
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 2: And you know the Parlor had that fumble earlier that

947
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 2: that kind of helped help also get us another touchdown

948
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,720
Speaker 2: put us ahead of them. And you mentioned the score

949
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 2: getting away from them, but at one point it was

950
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 2: twenty eight ten, So now the run game could be

951
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: a part.

952
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: Of the They got twenty eight thirteen. It was the

953
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: third quarter, and I'm like, I turned you and I go,

954
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:00,240
Speaker 1: this is two score.

955
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 3: Game, right right right?

956
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, he could get the get the run game back

957
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 2: into into the mix. But the defense, to their credit,

958
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,280
Speaker 2: I thought they did an excellent job not allowing Tony

959
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 2: to have those explosive type of runs, which he he

960
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 2: had been doing. He had a he had what one

961
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 2: hundred and nineteen yards and a week ago against the

962
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 2: Houston Texas, and he's an explosive player.

963
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 3: He broke tackles, he.

964
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 2: Made people miss, but they didn't allow him to get gone,

965
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 2: allows to really get going either.

966
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 1: No, I thought they did a very good job unsettling him.

967
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: He's someone that holds the ball a little too long,

968
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: is apt to make mistakes early in the season, kind

969
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 1: of like low light cartoonish type turnovers. He hadn't had

970
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: those in recent weeks, but over the last few weeks

971
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,919
Speaker 1: since he got the starting job back, his passer rating

972
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,479
Speaker 1: was like one ten. He was coming off a jue

973
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: seventy five to two touchdown game and a win over Houston,

974
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: like he was playing his best ball, and Washington's defense

975
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: really unsettled him early and often in that game.

976
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 2: I was one of the things that I noticed, even

977
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 2: in these these three games where his his QB rating

978
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 2: was a lot higher rating a lot higher, he had

979
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 2: been sacked twenty times. You mentioned him hold on to

980
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 2: the football for a long period of time. He was

981
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 2: a lot of times he was. You take away his

982
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 2: first read if it wasn't there. His natural inclination was

983
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 2: to look the bill from the procket. He wasn't going

984
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 2: to go through progressions, especially if you're playing his own covers.

985
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 2: That really hurt him in terms of not wanting to

986
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 2: throw footballs into tight windows. There were there were times

987
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 2: where he did that against us. We had we had

988
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 2: him on a on a sack on a third and

989
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 2: I think twenty play and he was able to avoid

990
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 2: that and he hit he had really right before the

991
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 2: half that that got that allowed them to get there

992
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 2: their first points to the ball game that touchdown eventually.

993
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 3: But think about will Levis.

994
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 2: He does hold on to the ball a long period

995
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 2: of time, and that's something they're gonna have to coach

996
00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 2: about of him. You're gonna have to be able to

997
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 2: if he's one thing, to hold on to the ball,

998
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 2: but at least be hold on to the ball and

999
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 2: making quicker decisions, going to your reads a lot quicker,

1000
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 2: and you.

1001
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:08,879
Speaker 3: Know, but he did.

1002
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,399
Speaker 2: He did have a couple of nice throws too, where

1003
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 2: it's like he layered the football over some some defenders

1004
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 2: and made some nice throws. And so there were there were.

1005
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 2: He had a couple of moments in that game, but

1006
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 2: not enough, not enough to win.

1007
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: Frankie Louvou Dante Fowler if they may have taken a

1008
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,399
Speaker 1: sack away because of a play, but they're both right

1009
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: on the cusp of nine plus sacks, so they both

1010
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: could end up double digit sacks.

1011
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 3: Easily by the end of the season.

1012
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: The last time that's happened nine plus is twenty sixteen,

1013
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: Ryan Carrigan and Trent Murphy. So remember at the beginning

1014
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: of the year when everybody said, where's pass rush couldna

1015
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: come from? Where the sacks could come from? They don't

1016
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 1: have prominent pass rushers, obvious like double digit sack guys.

1017
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: Joe Whitten Company had figured it out.

1018
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 3: They have, and they figured it out through a scheming up. Guys.

1019
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:57,280
Speaker 2: You know, bring in bringing five a lot, blitzing Frankie

1020
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 2: and Bobby through the through the a gaps and doing

1021
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 2: some what you call Cross Dogs and and.

1022
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:04,720
Speaker 3: Dante Foler.

1023
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 2: They mentioned the work that he's done with Ryan Carrigan

1024
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 2: and how Ryan Kerrigan, who you just talked about my formertainment,

1025
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 2: who was just just a great pro franchise all time

1026
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 2: leader in sacks taught, is teaching him and really emphasizes

1027
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 2: how to finish on a quarterback, how to continue to ban,

1028
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 2: how to do those things. And you know, followers, followers

1029
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 2: been tremendous, you know for us, and there was some

1030
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 2: concern like, Okay, who's gonna be Yeah, the pass rusher,

1031
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 2: and those two guys have have done it consistently throughout

1032
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 2: the season.

1033
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: When they signed him, you know, because we played him

1034
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: in Dallas under that defense for the last couple of years.

1035
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: Like he's a dangerous player, but he's a situational player.

1036
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: Not for this team. He's been a full time dangerous

1037
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 1: pass rusher for them, probably a little more out of

1038
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: necessity that they need to maybe the Dallas Dallas has

1039
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: uh they had George Armstrong and they had DeMarcus Lawrence,

1040
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: and they had Micah Parsons. They didn't need him out

1041
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: on the field as often as this team needs him

1042
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:02,879
Speaker 1: out on the field.

1043
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 2: But he has really stepped up this year. The injury situation.

1044
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,799
Speaker 2: I think Pharaoh was injured and Drin smised a couple

1045
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 2: of games, if a memory serves me correctly, So that

1046
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 2: aided in Dante playing a lot more snaps than he

1047
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 2: did a season ago with Dallas. But also it's just

1048
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 2: one thing to play a lot more snaps, but what

1049
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 2: are you doing with those STAPs? And he took advantage

1050
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 2: those STAPs and he was making an impact. He's it

1051
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,439
Speaker 2: was games man at one point, what it was, seven

1052
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 2: or eight sacks in seven games. Yeah, so just like constantly,

1053
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 2: and even even yesterday.

1054
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: And he was hurt early and these people forget this part.

1055
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 3: The end of camp. He was hurt a little bit.

1056
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: I think it took him a couple of weeks to

1057
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 1: feel healthy before he got into the season.

1058
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 3: And even yesterday he made impactful plays. Yeah.

1059
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't get the sack, he took one away

1060
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 2: from him, but he still had an impact on the game.

1061
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: I've been work shopping nicknames for him.

1062
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 3: So we'll see.

1063
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 2: I'll let you off work shot. I got watch for him.

1064
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 2: Watch watch you mention them here, I'll give you lets.

1065
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 2: I'll give you one. Well, I only have really one

1066
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 2: that I like. The others I didn't like so much.

1067
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 2: This is one I've been working on Louvu too. We

1068
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 2: gotta get a nickname for him. He's really for Fowler,

1069
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 2: so like you never know where he's coming from, right,

1070
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 2: Like he's come.

1071
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 1: Up the middle of round, kind of like I kind

1072
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: of got you. Yeah, he's always like he's in your nightmares.

1073
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: He's always going to show up somewhere when you least

1074
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 1: expect it. He's the Boogeyman. So that's what I've been

1075
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: work shopping on him. But you know, I want him

1076
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: to like that before I would actually use it. So

1077
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: I'm actually glad we're doing this here because, like I see,

1078
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: he's like the guy who you never know where he's

1079
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: coming from. He just kind of shows up. Sometimes we're

1080
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,839
Speaker 1: calling these plays, I can't believe he's where he is,

1081
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: Like when he shows up and makes the play on

1082
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:48,280
Speaker 1: the quarterback.

1083
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 2: You say this for Fouler Fowler, Yeah, I think that's

1084
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 2: more suitable for So.

1085
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: I think Louvu there's some kind of like lightning quickness

1086
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: thing that fits more for him. So I've been thinking

1087
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:03,800
Speaker 1: about him too. But there's something that like there's something

1088
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 1: about like the energy and the lightning that I want

1089
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:09,280
Speaker 1: to like lean into. I like the Boogeyman for Fowler.

1090
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: You just never know where he's coming. He's in your nightmares.

1091
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: You don't know where he's coming from.

1092
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 2: Let's let's let the uh the viewers chime man, yeah

1093
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 2: and they hate it. Tell me we all like the Boogeyman. Yeah,

1094
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:22,920
Speaker 2: the Boogeyman for follow Yeah. And if you can't, what

1095
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 2: nickname would you give?

1096
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 3: Yeah? We need a good one.

1097
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: There's something about his quickness though that I want to

1098
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: come and the energy he brings that I want to

1099
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: kind of lean into it.

1100
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 3: I haven't found anything I like yet, so have to

1101
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 3: see what he takes. Suggestions though, question for you, you

1102
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 3: you're a smart guy. Thank you. The Alchemists. What would

1103
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 3: that be appropriate for? Like Alchemists? I just want to

1104
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 3: say that, Yeah, you're familiar with the book Alchemists. Yeah?

1105
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: What what was the guy who mixes the formulas and

1106
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 1: comes out with the whatever serum that kills everybody? Yeah,

1107
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 1: let's see alchemist. Maybe that sounds more like dan Quinn.

1108
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 3: Together like Cakesbury. That seems like a coaching one. We'll

1109
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 3: put that one it all right?

1110
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: So, uh, we hit the bye week I think I

1111
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: think it goes without saying they needed to win. It

1112
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: feels really good the way they won.

1113
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 3: Sure like that.

1114
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: It wasn't just a I was gonna be happy with

1115
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: no style points. Let's just end this losing streak, get

1116
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: back on track. Everybody feel good about themselves. Well, this

1117
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 1: is different. This feels like the week four Commanders as

1118
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:36,759
Speaker 1: opposed to the one that's been kind of getting through

1119
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: the last month or so. So it feels really good

1120
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: as they turned the corner here. What's important for them

1121
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: over the next week as they take a little time off.

1122
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 2: You'll continue to get healthy this this week. I'm assuming

1123
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 2: the guys will have the majority of the week off.

1124
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 2: But Steel stayed locked in as much as possible to

1125
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 2: take take some time get away from it.

1126
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 3: But I understand when you come back, don't don't.

1127
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 2: Look at it as, hey, we got a we got

1128
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 2: a four game run, all these types of things. Look

1129
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 2: at it as let's prepare to go into a hostile

1130
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 2: environment against New Orleans Saints. First and foremost, how can

1131
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 2: we continue to build off what we just had, what

1132
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 2: we just did against the Tennessee Titans.

1133
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 3: Can we take this show on the road, And what are.

1134
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 2: The things we we had a great we had a

1135
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 2: great outing office. Defensively, you know some things we need

1136
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,879
Speaker 2: to show up from a special team standpoint, and there's

1137
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 2: some things that even within the win, that we can

1138
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 2: do better. Yeah that's uh, let's sharpen, sharpen our tools.

1139
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 2: Get ready to go down to New Orleans. They're gonna

1140
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,800
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a tough environment. And take that game

1141
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 2: that we just had a Tennessee against the Tennessee Titans

1142
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:44,919
Speaker 2: and build upon that against a New Orleans Saints team

1143
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 2: that are they're gonna be tough.

1144
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 1: I would like to see how they think about kick

1145
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:49,839
Speaker 1: returns now that Eckler's out for at least a few

1146
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,840
Speaker 1: more weeks, because he's been extremely productive on kick returns.

1147
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: He was top five, averaging almost thirty yards per return.

1148
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 1: They were getting pretty good field position. Yesterday was a

1149
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,399
Speaker 1: sign of they miss him. So I want to see

1150
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: how they think about kick returns moving forward here as

1151
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 1: well over the last month of the season. That's one

1152
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: thing to probably look at and try to improve because

1153
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 1: the field position on the traditional kickoffs wasn't as good

1154
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 1: as it had been with Eckler, who had been exceptional

1155
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: in this New kickoff, Phil go field goal kicker.

1156
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 3: Yes, you know Zang Gonzalez.

1157
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 2: He had been he had been pretty consistent, pretty accurate,

1158
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 2: but yesterday he had he had a rough outing. Is

1159
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,359
Speaker 2: that something you just you know, chalk it off to, hey,

1160
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 2: he just had he had a bad day, or or

1161
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 2: do we need to make a move there? Those those

1162
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 2: are things a deal they'll definitely spend some time on

1163
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 2: and try to figure out and you know, kind of

1164
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 2: see what happens.

1165
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, Austin Cybert is on ir so he has to

1166
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: miss at least three more games, so he can't come

1167
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: back for the next few weeks. As for the Saints,

1168
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of hard to know what you're

1169
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,959
Speaker 1: gonna get because they fired their coach in the middle

1170
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 1: of the season. There's always either it either goes the

1171
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:54,319
Speaker 1: wrong way or it bumps up. And it bumped up

1172
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 1: for them. Actually, they were playing better closer to what

1173
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,879
Speaker 1: they were at the beginning of the season. They lost

1174
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: it home to the Ram, but they were very competitive

1175
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:03,839
Speaker 1: in it. So things have kind of straightened out and

1176
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: they have explosive players on that team. Derek Caarr can

1177
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: light it up, Alvin Kamara can light it up. There

1178
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: are explosives, and that's a very tough place.

1179
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 2: Yes, four touchdowns and four games for them, but they

1180
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 2: did just lose their Swiss Army knife potentially for the

1181
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 2: season and take some hill. Yeah, so we we don't

1182
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:27,479
Speaker 2: we don't know, you know, if that's gonna be the case.

1183
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:29,800
Speaker 2: But I know I saw, I remember seeing something yesterday

1184
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 2: when they mentioned him potentially being lost for the season.

1185
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 3: So we'll see.

1186
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 2: It's uh, you said, they guess they got some players

1187
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 2: and some explosive players at that.

1188
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 3: They do.

1189
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: And that's fun stadium too. It's a great place to play.

1190
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: You think like our fans were terrific yesterday. Their fans

1191
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 1: always show up dressed up, ready to go. It's great,

1192
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 1: lathered up. Yeah, you know, consider how cold it is

1193
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: right now. You want to fly down and go root

1194
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 1: the team on down there. You'll have a good time

1195
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:54,440
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, trust me on that. And the stadium's

1196
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: amazing experience. Let's talk about the playoffs a little bit.

1197
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 1: I know this team likes to stay locked in, but

1198
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: four games to go, if the season ended today, they'd

1199
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: be in. The path has gotten a little narrower because

1200
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: Philadelphia just won't lose anybody. I was hoping for some

1201
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,879
Speaker 1: help from Baltimore yesterday. We didn't get it. Philadelphia hasn't

1202
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,280
Speaker 1: lost them two months. They're really rolling right now. Obviously

1203
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: Washington will get another shot at them in a few weeks,

1204
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: but it may not be enough because they need to

1205
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 1: lose a couple more times to give Washington this chance.

1206
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: So it's screaming wild card. I'm sure you believe it too.

1207
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 3: It.

1208
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: I think the people in the building believe this. We

1209
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: take care of our business. None of the rest of

1210
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: this matters. But it's narrow now because the NFC North

1211
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: teams are all top three having great seasons. Unless they

1212
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 1: beat each other up or knock one of them off enough,

1213
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: the spot to get is a seventh seed.

1214
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 3: I mean, that's where it is right now.

1215
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: So Washington's got to either hope for the NFC West

1216
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 1: to remain really messed up and none of those teams

1217
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: emerge as a wildcard team and there's just a division winner,

1218
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,880
Speaker 1: or they're gonna have to just kind of do it

1219
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: on their own and just get in that way.

1220
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,040
Speaker 2: I think you folk on what you need to do,

1221
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 2: focus on your handling your own business. You're not you

1222
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 2: don't want to go into a situation where you're limping

1223
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 2: into the playoffs. You're not playing good football going into

1224
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,640
Speaker 2: the playoffs, you got to get help from somebody else.

1225
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 2: We're in a situation where we control our own destiny

1226
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 2: by if we win football games. Keep winning football games,

1227
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 2: we'll be in the playoffs. Where that ends up, whether

1228
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 2: it's sixth seed, seventh seed, fifth seed, hey, some crazy

1229
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,080
Speaker 2: thing where the Philadelphia Eagles all of a sudden start

1230
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 2: playing extremely bad football.

1231
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 3: Maybe we end up as a two seed. You never know.

1232
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 3: But focus on what you can.

1233
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 2: Control, which is the games that's being played on that

1234
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 2: given game day. December fifteenth, geinst New Orleans Saints Setember

1235
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 2: twenty second against the Philadelphia Eagles, December twenty ninth against

1236
00:58:54,400 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons, and to be determined date against the Dallas Boys.

1237
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 2: In Jerry's world, that's right, those are the things we focus.

1238
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a make good game for this team.

1239
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 2: That's the one to remember, the one that got away

1240
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 2: this year too.

1241
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 3: You're look at too far here. Let's focus on this.

1242
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 3: I hear you.

1243
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: Did you think, because there are four games away, they

1244
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 1: are in the playoffs as it speak. If they go

1245
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: two and two, they probably get in. If they go

1246
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: three and one, they're almost definitively get in. If they

1247
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 1: went out, they might have a shot at the division.

1248
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 1: When we broke camp, did you think we'd be sitting

1249
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 1: here and going playoffs?

1250
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 2: I'll say this, and I'm on record, when we did

1251
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 2: the Command Center show, we predicted wins.

1252
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 3: I think I had predict us maybe about ten wins.

1253
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: So yeah, all right, So so you're saying, yeah.

1254
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 3: Pretty much, I eleven, Yeah, go back.

1255
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:52,320
Speaker 1: Ten would be dependent on Philadelphia. Dallas may or may

1256
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 1: not win a division, but definitively would be the playoffs.

1257
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 2: Philadelphia, I thought I thought I'd say this. I thought

1258
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 2: Philadelphia was going to win our division. I thought they were.

1259
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:05,120
Speaker 2: They had the best, best football team, most talent top

1260
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 2: to bottom.

1261
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1262
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: So, and Saquon is streaking towards at bare minimum offensive

1263
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: Player of the Year, and I'd argue, MVP, Yeah, the

1264
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: way they're going he is, Yeah, the.

1265
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 3: Way they're going right now?

1266
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 1: All right after what you saw yesterday, which was closer

1267
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,320
Speaker 1: to the beginning of the season, which I think was

1268
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: a little surprising how good it was at the beginning

1269
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 1: of the year. Is their room to improve?

1270
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 2: There's always room to improve in what way you anytime

1271
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 2: you win a game, lose a game, you're gonna always

1272
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 2: look at how can we continue to improve? There's a

1273
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 2: maybe there's some some points left out on the board.

1274
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 2: There's a you know, from an individual standpoint, can I

1275
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 2: block a little bit better? Can I catch a little

1276
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 2: bit better? Can I do something better?

1277
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 1: They should?

1278
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 2: Defensively, you allow the the Tennessee types of score right

1279
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 2: before the half to give them some momentum.

1280
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 3: You know, what can we do to shure up not

1281
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:02,040
Speaker 3: giving up.

1282
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 2: The the bigger plays, the plays that we gave up

1283
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 2: in the passing game. So there's always rome to improve,

1284
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 2: regardless of how how how you won and how many

1285
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:11,840
Speaker 2: you won by.

1286
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:14,520
Speaker 3: That's the mentality you got to continue to improve. There

1287
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:15,919
Speaker 3: were two turnovers left on the field.

1288
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: Had his first inception get some more interceptions?

1289
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll see, all right, But.

1290
01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: It feels good going into the buy off a win

1291
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 1: and a win like that, Yeah, more than anything, a

1292
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:28,480
Speaker 1: win like that, absolutely all right. What are you doing

1293
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 1: for the bye week?

1294
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1295
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:36,919
Speaker 2: I'm relaxing, man, trying to get my life together. It's

1296
01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 2: been a I'll finally get a chance to be at

1297
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 2: home with my kids. For a full week.

1298
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: So yeah, you had quite a weekend London over there,

1299
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 1: went to the Michigan Ohio State game, didn't get mased,

1300
01:01:50,080 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: showed up the next day, went to the Tennessee Washington game,

1301
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 1: and then that night goes and gets into the Christmas

1302
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: spirit by seeing Mariah Carey. Well, you shoved it all

1303
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:00,919
Speaker 1: in what weekend? Man?

1304
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 3: Man, I'm just I'm just, you know, living a dream

1305
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 3: and I guess I do. That was Mariah Good they

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Speaker 3: played on DV. It was a good guy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, everybody that'll do it for the booth reviewer,

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Speaker 1: We'll see you after the New Orleans game.