Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we're not walking on eggshells
Speaker 1: and the Chris Westling podcast studio.
Speaker 2: Because the Eagles won this week.
Speaker 1: We're not afraid of you, angry Colleen Wolf. Yes, I
Speaker 1: am so happy to be joined by Colleen Wolf and
Speaker 1: Jordan rod Reege.
Speaker 2: Welcome.
Speaker 3: Ah, you know what it is. It is a good day,
Speaker 3: a better day than it was last week this time.
Speaker 3: So I'm not acting like a terrorist in here.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 1: It would be fun if Colleen actually was like that,
Speaker 1: like the type of person you couldn't bring up like
Speaker 1: bad things around because she just acts out and lashes out.
Speaker 4: You know what, though, Colleen, if we can't handle you
Speaker 4: at your Eagles loss, we don't deserve you at your
Speaker 4: Eagles win. A.
Speaker 1: Yes, so the Eagles, they got a big win on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I still feel like I'm riding the high from the
Speaker 1: Monday night games were next, Jordan, I sent you.
Speaker 4: Like one hundred texts and thirty seconds. I was so excited.
Speaker 4: I was so freaking fired up.
Speaker 2: That was awesome.
Speaker 5: Even just our show, text chain was going off and
Speaker 5: I was like, comatos on my couch.
Speaker 3: I'll text you guys in the morning.
Speaker 2: But that was exciting.
Speaker 1: That did feel like I mean, I keep replacing him,
Speaker 1: but that felt like the first the next big moment
Speaker 1: of the season, Like that was the best thing that's
Speaker 1: happened this season. Jade and Daniels just going off and
Speaker 1: so you know that that inspires us. We like that
Speaker 1: a lot, and we're going to keep it simple today.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about what we like so far,
Speaker 1: stuff we like and stuff we don't like.
Speaker 2: This season.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like we've had a lot of I think,
Speaker 1: big concept shows on the Connie Jordan Wednesdays. So this
Speaker 1: is kind of like theme you know what a big
Speaker 1: budget director he's got, you like, like Paul Thomas Anderson
Speaker 1: has There will be blood and then you know, you
Speaker 1: got to change a little tone. You can't just keep
Speaker 1: You can't go higher than there will be blood. I
Speaker 1: don't think we can go higher than we did last
Speaker 1: So this is our phantom thread.
Speaker 6: Okay, you're making us chill a little bit, is basically what.
Speaker 1: You're just saying. Fandom but sometimes those are the best
Speaker 1: fandom thread. Yeah, better than there will be bludd.
Speaker 4: I would I think that Greg was just tired of
Speaker 4: losing to me and Judge. Connie so this is where
Speaker 4: we come in with this outstanding theme. I am really
Speaker 4: excited about this because we have.
Speaker 6: Some fun things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do some not so fun things, yes, And
Speaker 1: next week we will go back to big concept because
Speaker 1: we are officially bringing back quarterback Island. We've afard from
Speaker 1: a lot of the listeners who have been proposing. Okay,
Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels, he's on the island.
Speaker 2: Good thing, Greg, you.
Speaker 1: Didn't get Caleb Williams on the island because he would
Speaker 1: have been being taken off. So four weeks, Jordan, I
Speaker 1: know you're a woman that likes things to make sense,
Speaker 1: and four weeks does make sense. For a time, we're
Speaker 1: going to evaluate all the quarterbacks, but today we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about what we like.
Speaker 2: Why don't you get us going, Jordan? Why not?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I'm excited about this.
Speaker 4: I actually like that Offens's quarterback play passing in general
Speaker 4: is down. And stick with me here on this because
Speaker 4: I know that a lot of people are not super
Speaker 4: thrilled with that. But I think that this is going
Speaker 4: to be where we actually kind of weed out some
Speaker 4: of the coaches who are actually great coaches, teachers, adjusters.
Speaker 4: The frauds are going to exposed, and then we might
Speaker 4: weed out some people who maybe aren't kind of ready
Speaker 4: to meet this cycle of offense and of defense as
Speaker 4: being smarter than ever where it's at right now, and
Speaker 4: then it opens up more opportunity for people who are
Speaker 4: ready to climb that ladder. I think that this is
Speaker 4: super interesting, just watching the way that some of these coaches,
Speaker 4: even when they I also like that. I don't like
Speaker 4: when people get hurt, obviously, but I like that some
Speaker 4: of these coaches have also hit adversity. I see you
Speaker 4: guys have put Sean McVay and the Rams on this too. Well.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure I got Jordan with a burn book
Speaker 5: of coaches that she's just waiting to be exposed.
Speaker 4: It's just it's like Ryan from the office, I'm just
Speaker 4: scribbling in a no pot.
Speaker 3: She has a little list that she's just watching.
Speaker 1: It's true, though, like the same stuff never works for
Speaker 1: that long in the NFL, and we're kind of seeing
Speaker 1: league wide that the same stuff is not working and
Speaker 1: you can't buy a big play.
Speaker 6: Well, I like it.
Speaker 4: My point too, I like that coach is some of
Speaker 4: these coaches who are hitting adversity. I'm talking about Sean mcvah.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about Matt Lafleur. I'm talking about Kevin O'Connell
Speaker 4: and what they dealt.
Speaker 6: With since last season.
Speaker 4: Really, these being forced to deal and adjust and adapt
Speaker 4: through adversity is making these coaches better.
Speaker 6: You can see it in front of you.
Speaker 4: You saw it the way Sean McVay completely changed the
Speaker 4: RAMS identity last week. Greg, I know you guys talked
Speaker 4: about that on the recap show. To a twelve personnel
Speaker 4: team has had to completely overhaul certain elements, but they
Speaker 4: had that ready to go just in case they did
Speaker 4: hit adversity. They installed that entire package in the summer
Speaker 4: and in the spring and then recalled it instead of
Speaker 4: uploading it fresh, which is a godsend to players because
Speaker 4: they can recall that memory bank versus actually trying to
Speaker 4: create something new on the fly. The things that Matt
Speaker 4: Lafleur is doing with Malik willis he is raising the
Speaker 4: floor or of the quarterback. He's accentuating where he's gifted,
Speaker 4: and he's giving him more answers. With all that they're
Speaker 4: increasing their motion usage, He's giving him more answers to
Speaker 4: what the defenses will show him in terms of their pressure.
Speaker 4: The way that they'll move when space changes against them,
Speaker 4: because defenses are smarter than ever, and these coaches are
Speaker 4: using every tool that they have to try to get
Speaker 4: those answers from these defenses. But in certain ways, some
Speaker 4: coaches you're seeing already and you'll continue to see from
Speaker 4: the real ones the way that these offenses and these
Speaker 4: teams continue to adjust, and the ones who can't are
Speaker 4: the ones who are probably we're kind of muttering about
Speaker 4: behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: You know, let's do it in front of the scenes.
Speaker 1: Like we got a Cowboys Giants preview coming up. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy stands out to me as a guy who maybe
Speaker 1: doesn't like make game plans as specific to the matchup
Speaker 1: that he has and maybe struggles to deal with adversary.
Speaker 1: We'll get to Dallas Cowboys and Giants and our TNF preview.
Speaker 2: But I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that the league is always evolving in that way.
Speaker 1: It's like it doesn't have to be off it. There
Speaker 1: was actually a moment as I was watching some horrible
Speaker 1: Broncos tape after Week two, and I was like, actually
Speaker 1: kind of miss offenses being this bad, Like it's it's
Speaker 1: bringing it's.
Speaker 5: That's the most greg thing I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 1: It's bringing me back to some like two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: forty nine ers or Jimmy Klausen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those were the big no.
Speaker 1: But I just like diversity where there's there's some like
Speaker 1: truly it's so bad it's good those type of movies,
Speaker 1: or it's so bad it's good that it's almost fun
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 5: It's like a fast and furious like you just want
Speaker 5: to like a compilation of that again.
Speaker 1: But I just being like diversity, where there's there's big ups,
Speaker 1: there's big downs, and sometimes it's so bad you can't
Speaker 1: turn your head away.
Speaker 4: Here's the moment we're at right now, though. This is
Speaker 4: like defenses are smarter than ever, they're more multiple than ever,
Speaker 4: they have more answers to all of the millions of
Speaker 4: things that offenses are doing against them. Defensive coordinators and
Speaker 4: defensive head coaches are better right now than they have been.
Speaker 4: And I think that this is going to tell we're
Speaker 4: at the precipice of the next big shift. We were
Speaker 4: at one back in twenty seventeen, and we're at another
Speaker 4: one again, and you're gonna see that become a catalyst
Speaker 4: with a few people in the front and everybody else behind.
Speaker 4: And that's what I like about this is that you're
Speaker 4: and some of it's forced through people not raising their
Speaker 4: hands and volunteering to be ahead. They just kind of
Speaker 4: have to be because of the ways that adversity has hit,
Speaker 4: injuries have hit, the ways that defense has started playing them.
Speaker 4: They have to change and they are, but they're bringing
Speaker 4: their players with them. I think we're entering this golden
Speaker 4: era of coaching too with the right people. If the
Speaker 4: right people, you know, continue to progress that they're reaching
Speaker 4: their players in really cool ways where they're bringing their
Speaker 4: players with them.
Speaker 6: They're not assigning people into boxes.
Speaker 4: They're kind of like, oh, you know, you look at
Speaker 4: what Kevin O'Connell's doing, not just with Sam Darnold, with
Speaker 4: Justin Jefferson, absolute bona fide star All Pro receiver, but
Speaker 4: he's not just using him to get him open. He's
Speaker 4: using him to also open up all kinds of other
Speaker 4: answers for the quarterback on any given play, whether the
Speaker 4: defense is right or wrong. And I think that that
Speaker 4: is what you see with coaches who are really like
Speaker 4: seeking how many different things their players can do with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's figuring out what your players do well.
Speaker 1: It's like, I mean, that's in maximizing that instead of
Speaker 1: just having a system and this is the system that
Speaker 1: we run.
Speaker 4: But I like that there's a push behind them that
Speaker 4: they didn't necessarily ask for. Like I like that they're
Speaker 4: kind of having have to do it versus.
Speaker 1: And let's come down about the whole like defenses they're
Speaker 1: dominating and like put like it's like when they were
Speaker 1: talking about we got a ban the cover two and
Speaker 1: stuff that was that was silly, But they were talking
Speaker 1: about the seventies and eighties as if that was some
Speaker 1: like great days of pass catch like points are still
Speaker 1: way higher than they were like fifteen sixteen years ago.
Speaker 2: It's it's fine.
Speaker 5: You mentioned Matt Lafleur, and I know that you guys
Speaker 5: already covered him, but I just absolutely love his tenderness
Speaker 5: for Willis.
Speaker 4: That's a like it's so bure there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And when he talked about how like he can't
Speaker 5: articulate the way that he has come in here and
Speaker 5: been able to adapt and how he's only been there
Speaker 5: for I mean that first week, what he had only
Speaker 5: been in Green Bay for like eighteen days, and then
Speaker 5: this twenty seven days. But he was like, I know
Speaker 5: that you guys think you know how difficult this is,
Speaker 5: but you don't know. And it was just so sweet
Speaker 5: and genuine listening to Matt Lafleur talk about him.
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 2: I just like the use of the word tenderness.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what I felt, a tenderness.
Speaker 5: It felt like there was a real love there between
Speaker 5: the two of them.
Speaker 1: And maliqu Willis seems to be a guy that does
Speaker 1: inspire that sort of tenderness that he's just a very
Speaker 1: likable person that you root for even in Tennessee.
Speaker 2: I think that was the case.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's been to me one of the coolest
Speaker 1: stories of the entire season. That's a great like there,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let's throw out a random like let's go
Speaker 1: defensive coaches, and I'm thinking about Monday Night, but I'm
Speaker 1: also thinking about throughout the league. But Sean McDermott and
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn specifically were he Morris Raheem Morris like going
Speaker 1: forward on fourth down, it's all just now so accepted
Speaker 1: that like, oh, like the war is over, like we
Speaker 1: on the fourth down evangelist one that you don't even
Speaker 1: notice it, but shot like guys like Sean McDermott. This
Speaker 1: year I've noticed are routinely going for fourth and two,
Speaker 1: fourth and three, fourth and fourth because he realizes, oh,
Speaker 1: I've got Josh freaking Allen. And he did it on
Speaker 1: Monday Night's game, And if it had been a close game,
Speaker 1: it would have been a bigger deal. But early in
Speaker 1: the game. I've noticed that over and over again, and
Speaker 1: I went and looked. They have traditionally been at the
Speaker 1: very bottom of the league in terms of going for
Speaker 1: it on fourth down. So far this year they've been
Speaker 1: above average with it. And then dan Quinn doing it
Speaker 1: in a key spot knowing his defense actually isn't good.
Speaker 1: And so I do like to see these defensive coaches
Speaker 1: actually finding religion. And I think of McDermott with your
Speaker 1: boy Ron Rivera back in the day.
Speaker 2: It's like when Riverboat.
Speaker 1: Ron started going for four down, we had a whole
Speaker 1: like we had a whole theme of it for the
Speaker 1: entire season on around the NFL was such a big thing.
Speaker 1: Now it happens like his protecede, Sean McDermott, and it's
Speaker 1: all happening quietly because it's like, oh, of course they're
Speaker 1: going for fourth down in their own end, like early
Speaker 1: in the game when it's close. But it's cool to
Speaker 1: see defensive coaches now, it's like everyone's almost everyone's on board.
Speaker 5: Like Aldamar Hamlin too last night get his first interception
Speaker 5: while we're talking about the Bills, and it was just
Speaker 5: so poetic that it came on his first start on
Speaker 5: a Monday night since the January second game, and that
Speaker 5: Troy and Joe were in the booth in Cincinnati with
Speaker 5: the other game, and it just all kind of felt
Speaker 5: so perfect the moment and the way that the Bills
Speaker 5: bench reacted to him too, it was like it felt
Speaker 5: really heartwarming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really crazy to think of what the Bill's
Speaker 1: record is since the moment Tyler Dunn dropped that story
Speaker 1: about Sean mc dermott trying to motivate his team with
Speaker 1: nine to eleven analogies, because since then they've basically been undefeated.
Speaker 2: So if it was like a different story, you don't.
Speaker 3: Remember this, I remember, but when it was that, it was.
Speaker 1: The very lowest moment of last season, when it was
Speaker 1: all falling apart. They were one game over five hundred.
Speaker 1: After that, they basically didn't lose the game again. The
Speaker 1: rest of the regular season. Of course didn't happen for
Speaker 1: them in playoffs, but they were a flat team and
Speaker 1: then now they're starting out this season like a house
Speaker 1: on fire. So I don't know, right at the lowest moment,
Speaker 1: you know, I like for me.
Speaker 4: To just piggyback on the Bills talk because I think
Speaker 4: we all like what the Bills are doing right now,
Speaker 4: and that tomorrow moment was was so great. No, so
Speaker 4: much joy in that too, and kind of relief probably too,
Speaker 4: just but just.
Speaker 5: Like and that the refs didn't like call anything either,
Speaker 5: because they could have if they were kind of not
Speaker 5: realizing the moment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like excessive celebrations act is what she's talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 4: So I like the general vibes around the Bills. They're fun,
Speaker 4: creative on offense, Josh Allen, And it's too early to
Speaker 4: say this, so I'm not really saying it is playing
Speaker 4: at an MVP clip.
Speaker 6: The defense is clear.
Speaker 1: Actually, it's okay to say if it fits really my
Speaker 1: agenda host because I picked him to win MVP before
Speaker 1: this season, so that Josh all right, it's.
Speaker 4: Always really good to be reminded of when Greg is right.
Speaker 2: So just doesn't happen show.
Speaker 4: But the defense that we're all worried, I mean, they're
Speaker 4: clearly getting coached up. And then I also really really
Speaker 4: like that this is an offense with the quarterbacks room
Speaker 4: and the skill players that all play Settlers of Katan together.
Speaker 4: Josh Allen, Josh, I've been so excited to talk about this.
Speaker 4: Josh Allen was talking about this over the summer and
Speaker 4: ESPN Aleena Getzenberg does a great job over there. She
Speaker 4: just did a story on it as well. But for
Speaker 4: those who don't know Settlers of Catan a strategy board game, listen,
Speaker 4: I am a Settlers of Catan player. I'm decent, good,
Speaker 4: not great, But I will tell you if you can
Speaker 4: healthily get through a serious game of Settlers of Katan
Speaker 4: and still look this cohesive on offense, like that game
Speaker 4: ruins friendships, destroys lives, makes people hate each other. So
Speaker 4: if you can actually get through that game at that
Speaker 4: competitive level that they're talking about, they do and as
Speaker 4: a group and still look this telling you.
Speaker 2: That Jordan's left on the road.
Speaker 3: Have you lost friends over this game?
Speaker 4: I don't want to talk about it, but I'm just saying,
Speaker 4: like this a game gets really intense. There's backstabbing involved.
Speaker 4: So the fact that you can actually like have a
Speaker 4: blast playing and then like you ever played Colleen, No,
Speaker 4: and I'm what you guys are with.
Speaker 3: The an average game.
Speaker 4: Last yeah, ours, there's expansion packs you can you can do,
Speaker 4: there's it's it's a whole thing.
Speaker 3: Well, I get into it.
Speaker 1: I played it once set my friend the v Tex house,
Speaker 1: uh identical twin brothers who are two of my best
Speaker 1: friends growing up, and we went over there like all,
Speaker 1: you'll love it, and we played risk together. Risk was
Speaker 1: one thing I liked risk, but one time I came
Speaker 1: over for Settlers of Catanna and it was like a
Speaker 1: step too far. I couldn't focus for that long, and
Speaker 1: I was the one that was just like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: too much for me.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 4: There's so much, like every moment is like constant strategy
Speaker 4: and like trying to have it so like my worst deal,
Speaker 4: it's very it's total anxiety. It's total anxiety. So I
Speaker 4: already lived.
Speaker 3: With total anxiety.
Speaker 5: I don't want to play a game it induces more.
Speaker 4: But that this team can do that like together, like
Speaker 4: the skill players, the tight ends, the quarterbacks, they all
Speaker 4: play it together. So that they can do that and
Speaker 4: like get through it and look this good on.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm with Colleen, like and this has literally happened.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we're at a party and like people are kind
Speaker 1: of playing like party games or whatever. Colleen and I
Speaker 1: will just be kind of standing talking to each other
Speaker 1: in the corner because it's like that's that's too much.
Speaker 5: Having way less fun to me, so much investment, Like
Speaker 5: how how long is.
Speaker 6: This be playing on your phone?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 6: There are apps different, like come on, guys, let's get it.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I play Jenga and like Backgammon.
Speaker 2: That's it all right, throw us another, like Colleen.
Speaker 3: Okay, Sam freaking I Yes we do.
Speaker 5: Because I would love to remind you Greg that I've
Speaker 5: been talking about Sam Darnold and the Viking since before
Speaker 5: the season started, and I was so excited to watch
Speaker 5: him throw four.
Speaker 3: Touchdowns on Sunday. Thank god. His knee is okay, by
Speaker 3: the way, but he's how about this.
Speaker 5: He's the first quarterback start and win each of the
Speaker 5: Vikings first three games since Brett Favre did it in
Speaker 5: two thousand and nine. They haven't started the Vikings three
Speaker 5: and oh since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: And that was the first a year though. Twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, but outside of the At.
Speaker 2: That hour, Sam Bradford, how could you not love.
Speaker 3: The story of Sam Donald.
Speaker 5: Bill Belichick was on Pat McAfee and he had said,
Speaker 5: everybody is.
Speaker 3: Like Donald except the Jets.
Speaker 5: The people in Carolina that I talked to really liked him.
Speaker 5: I know Kevin O'Connell and some of the coaches of Minnesota.
Speaker 5: They really liked the guy too, So it seems like
Speaker 5: the only people that didn't like Donald was the Jets.
Speaker 1: I just love that he prepped that line, and Greg,
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. He definitely did. He prepped that line.
Speaker 1: He hit it twice. I love that about Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: He loves to just like stick it to the Jets.
Speaker 1: I'd noticed he was sticking it to the Falcons. Oh
Speaker 1: we go, the team that turned him down for a job.
Speaker 1: Don't think that was.
Speaker 6: A good Oh my god, A petty TV moment for sure.
Speaker 5: I hope Bill Belichick has a burn book. Actually probably does.
Speaker 2: He definitely does. I think that's how he operates through life.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I love the Sam Darnald story.
Speaker 4: I know that it's taking You're creaking into the lane
Speaker 4: with us here, Greg, I know that you're like, you know.
Speaker 6: Waiting for the bottom to fall out. The other shooted drop,
Speaker 6: but you know.
Speaker 3: Let your hair down, Greg, I don't come join me
Speaker 3: with the Viking.
Speaker 2: I can recognize he's playing well.
Speaker 4: I thought I heard you use the word awesome in
Speaker 4: a recent recap.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you're using my own words.
Speaker 4: I've never been more powerful in this moment.
Speaker 5: Actually, twitch is faced it, Greg, You're passing touchdown leaders
Speaker 5: through three weeks, Sam Donald, Josh Allen.
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield is is Gino up there?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: He's not so well.
Speaker 6: He's one of my my likes that I didn't get
Speaker 6: on here. He's playing.
Speaker 5: He probably has more backdowns because they are all tied
Speaker 5: with four and then there's a five way tie for
Speaker 5: second play with three touchdowns.
Speaker 2: What are we talking about here?
Speaker 1: We're getting entering week four and tied for three touchdowns?
Speaker 5: Is like in fourth or fifth passing some of them
Speaker 5: are mixing and passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Is are so down yet only one game two three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: It shows you just evaluate.
Speaker 6: The ball as a side note too, on the Viking.
Speaker 4: Again on the Vikings, but I really you know the
Speaker 4: Brian flora is higher. I mean, I know that I
Speaker 4: know that we're We've talked about this a lot, and
Speaker 4: it's rightfully gotten praise.
Speaker 6: I do love this is a sort of a nod
Speaker 6: to the.
Speaker 4: Ringer Stephen Ruiz, who I think came up with the
Speaker 4: original meme for this. But Brian Flores's game plans have
Speaker 4: sort of become acid tests for quarterbacks. I have to
Speaker 4: think that playing against him in practice because just like
Speaker 4: everybody who kind of has come through either the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers buildings, they run a lot more of a
Speaker 4: live scout or like good on good situations that everyone
Speaker 4: calls them something different, but they run eleven on eleven's
Speaker 4: as live as possible at certain periods through the course
Speaker 4: of the practice. So you are getting those looks against
Speaker 4: Brian Flores is like mad scientist scheme. I think that's
Speaker 4: an ego less higher if you're like the quarterback, the
Speaker 4: former quarterback, you know who was the journeyman backup, and
Speaker 4: then you go out and hire like the guy who
Speaker 4: tortures quarterbacks. Sure, I just think that this is just
Speaker 4: a really cool pairing. And even against CJ. Stroud, what
Speaker 4: was really cool that they did was they blitzed CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud on over half of his dropbacks in the first
Speaker 4: half last week, and then all of a sudden they
Speaker 4: completely flipped it on his head, on the plan on
Speaker 4: its head, and then they totally stopped on not totally,
Speaker 4: I mean twenty percent of time stop blitzing at that rate.
Speaker 4: And then they just dropped everybody. So it basically is
Speaker 4: like a blender situation.
Speaker 1: Sure we're having a different game plan for the second
Speaker 1: half than the first half or the second quarter then
Speaker 1: the first.
Speaker 2: That's what the great one.
Speaker 5: And Sam Darnold has improved significantly against the Blitz to
Speaker 5: your point going against Bryan Flores, because he's thrown three
Speaker 5: of his four touchdowns against the Blitz, which is a
Speaker 5: far cry from twenty nineteen when he threw three interceptions
Speaker 5: against the Blitz versus New England, which was the second
Speaker 5: most in any game eighteen.
Speaker 3: And so he was not good before. It is healing
Speaker 3: same Darnald is healing healing us too. Oh, I love
Speaker 3: the drop.
Speaker 6: We're gonna get spicy.
Speaker 1: He is not getting on good job, and I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta check myself.
Speaker 4: Greg needs a fourth in this room because the number.
Speaker 2: Why are you available next week? Wherever you are? Okay?
Speaker 1: I was wondering if I'm being like a little bit
Speaker 1: of a hater watching Donald's tape every week and thinking
Speaker 1: there are still like two or three of the Donalds
Speaker 1: plays that I'm not putting him in like the top
Speaker 1: five of how he's played so far this year.
Speaker 4: And then I tried to I don't think rational people
Speaker 4: are doing okay, okay, yeah, but the producing.
Speaker 2: The numbers are great.
Speaker 1: He when he holds the ball, I think bad things
Speaker 1: still happen. So I did look at some of the numbers.
Speaker 1: He has been great against the blitz, making quick decisions.
Speaker 1: He has been great when throwing the ball under two
Speaker 1: and a half seconds, So I think that's where the
Speaker 1: offensive scheme is winning for him and he's being decisive.
Speaker 1: But he still holds the ball a lot, seventh highest
Speaker 1: time to throw in the league. He's not like having
Speaker 1: these turnover worthy plays. That's good, But when he's held
Speaker 1: the ball, he hasn't really been that effective. When he's
Speaker 1: been out of play action, he hasn't been that effective.
Speaker 1: It's like twelve yards per attempt in play action, like
Speaker 1: six point eight with that, which isn't crazy, Like that's
Speaker 1: Jared Goff. If he can turn you into if he
Speaker 1: can turn into Jared Goff. He's going to make a
Speaker 1: lot of money and have a great, great career. The
Speaker 1: thing that makes me wonder if he is going to
Speaker 1: develop and have so much time to play in this
Speaker 1: system and get better. Actually, in this game against Houston,
Speaker 1: I thought he was much better when he did hold
Speaker 1: the ball, not making bad decisions that I think was
Speaker 1: a problem for him for two weeks. So if that's
Speaker 1: a sign of like progress, I thought his game against
Speaker 1: Houston was particularly good.
Speaker 4: And using play action has often been like the go
Speaker 4: to cheat code for coordinators and coaches and that when
Speaker 4: they're trying to raise the floor of a quarterback. But
Speaker 4: actually what they're doing also in tandem with that, and
Speaker 4: it certainly is raising the floor for Sam Darnold, is
Speaker 4: they're actually using their motions to reset and realign formations
Speaker 4: to pull defenders back down toward the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4: They're using motion as sort of the cheat code in
Speaker 4: this way because they're changing basically the spacing on the
Speaker 4: field with it versus just sending a guy to get
Speaker 4: information from the defense. So it's helping Sam find more
Speaker 4: space basically.
Speaker 1: And yeah, like the numbers when when he is getting
Speaker 1: rid of the ball third and completion percentage over expected
Speaker 1: second in EPA per drop back second and success right
Speaker 1: when he throws under two and a half seconds. So
Speaker 1: that's coaching, that's Sam Darnold. And you're right about the
Speaker 1: acid test for Brian Flores. It's like quarterbacks are taking
Speaker 1: acid when they're playing the Minnesota can't wait to say that.
Speaker 6: I love that for you.
Speaker 3: What would happen? What did that look like?
Speaker 6: Will Evis?
Speaker 2: It might just be it might just be fun.
Speaker 1: It might just be fun, like the month that me
Speaker 1: and like ten of my restaurant employee friends just were
Speaker 1: like taking acid on Martha's Vineyard one of the best
Speaker 1: months of mine. Were you a waiter with that? I was,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break?
Speaker 2: I mean it was.
Speaker 1: It honestly felt like like this day last boy fun.
Speaker 2: They got a quick break. Mostly back after this back
Speaker 2: on NFL Daily. Yeah, we're feeling positive.
Speaker 1: We're in the flow of the season week four, so
Speaker 1: it's a lot of likes. I do have a lot
Speaker 1: of dislikes too, but we're gonna get to that next.
Speaker 1: We're gonna believe that we're gonna keep it ordered and
Speaker 1: keep it with the likes why don't.
Speaker 2: You go next, Kelly?
Speaker 5: Okay, I love First of all, I love when brothers
Speaker 5: are both in the NFL. It's always super fun, especially
Speaker 5: if they play against each other. But in this instance,
Speaker 5: we have JJ Watt and t J Watt and JJ
Speaker 5: Watt is interviewing TJ Watt and I think it was
Speaker 5: at the half of the Steelers game, so in case
Speaker 5: you didn't hear it, listen to what he said.
Speaker 8: All Right, I know you're trying to get in that
Speaker 8: right headspace. I know you and Danny just announced that
Speaker 8: you guys are pregnant and expecting your first child. Me
Speaker 8: personally knowing what that why means and knowing how important
Speaker 8: that is, I wanted to give you a little gift
Speaker 8: before you head back into the locker room to say
Speaker 8: congratulations on your new child and wish you guys all
Speaker 8: the best.
Speaker 2: Thanks, man, I appreciate you trying to mess up my headspace. Appreciated.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go back.
Speaker 8: In ten days after I had Coha, So I'm just saying,
Speaker 8: we've seen a lot of great things. We might see
Speaker 8: some great We.
Speaker 2: Get it, James, we get it.
Speaker 1: Keep pumping yourself up.
Speaker 4: That's all.
Speaker 3: Go back in the locker room, have a great day,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 9: So that was on CBS's NFL today and it was
Speaker 9: just so funny because JJ gives TJ this little tiny,
Speaker 9: like number ninety jersey.
Speaker 3: That says dad on the back of it. It's like
Speaker 3: a very sweet, wholesome moment.
Speaker 5: And then when TJ says, like, you know, I appreciate
Speaker 5: you trying to get like mess my headspace up.
Speaker 3: Whatever, I'm gonna go lock back in. But when he said,
Speaker 3: as we get it, James, we get it. Keep pumping
Speaker 3: yourself up. That is so great.
Speaker 5: I love it so much, and TJ Watt is saying
Speaker 5: essentially what we all are thinking all the time when
Speaker 5: JJ does what he does, and I love to see
Speaker 5: it alive and well within the family.
Speaker 1: It's very little brother, big brother energy. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: And it is funny because I thought I thought about
Speaker 1: this lately and when did JJ wat get the hair
Speaker 1: he looks completely different. I don't know why I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that for a while. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: not that. But I'm just saying that the haircut he
Speaker 1: has sort of like a CPS haircut where it just
Speaker 1: looks very different. I haven't seen it, and I love
Speaker 1: that because JJ Watt has made it a great transformation.
Speaker 1: He used to be the target of a lot of jokes.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: On the Around the NFL podcast, Chris used to get
Speaker 1: Wes you know who this studio is named that used
Speaker 1: to get so mad about his self promotion and just
Speaker 1: you know. But then I really think as he got
Speaker 1: older and more mature in the end of his career
Speaker 1: and he has a baby and wife and everything, he
Speaker 1: actually became much more likable and a little more self aware.
Speaker 2: And so I like, I still he can't help himself.
Speaker 4: I love the sibling like I'm going to use your
Speaker 4: thing to talk about my thing.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's the typical.
Speaker 4: That's a classic.
Speaker 3: In ten games after we had co o.
Speaker 1: At already, it's like, yeah, all right, I'm going to
Speaker 1: jump in with a couple of Steelers likes. Okay, first
Speaker 1: of all, I just like the Steelers team. Was not
Speaker 1: expecting them to.
Speaker 6: They've grown on you quite a bit. They fit Art
Speaker 6: Smith rebrand.
Speaker 1: They fit the whole twenty twenty four mindset, except they
Speaker 1: can't really run the ball, so I guess maybe they don't.
Speaker 1: But just right, just that the Steelers are doing well
Speaker 1: in this season fit somehow defensively, but number one, they're
Speaker 1: young defensive players. Like it annoys me that it took
Speaker 1: them this long to get Herbig out there, Nick Herberg
Speaker 1: out there because they don't let TJ walk at any
Speaker 1: rest whatsoever when he could use some rest. And you
Speaker 1: have a great third rusher. But it took Alex Heismith
Speaker 1: getting hurt for Herbert to get out there. He gets
Speaker 1: out there for eight snap, eight past rows snaps, he
Speaker 1: gets four pressures, two sacks. This guy has been electric
Speaker 1: in the preseason. Sometimes it's nice to see the preseason validate,
Speaker 1: you know your time spent watching and he's awesome.
Speaker 2: And then Joey Porter Junior is just he's like their nude.
Speaker 1: How perfect Joey Porter and I know they played different positions,
Speaker 1: but in terms of the attitude that he brings, in
Speaker 1: the energy that he brings their defense I think feeds
Speaker 1: off of him. And he's going one on one with
Speaker 1: these great wide receivers.
Speaker 2: He's a dog.
Speaker 4: They are so classic to me, but in a very
Speaker 4: new age way. The premium positions on this defensive roster,
Speaker 4: pass rusher and corner, especially like elite number one corner.
Speaker 6: That's so cool.
Speaker 4: Classic it's vintage in a very steelersy way the way
Speaker 4: that they play football. But it's also a very smart,
Speaker 4: well coach team as well for what twenty four is
Speaker 4: right now. And then the offense is catching up a
Speaker 4: little bit on the other.
Speaker 1: Side, Yes, Justin Fields is playing against the title in
Speaker 1: the middle.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, we actually have a spray chart.
Speaker 1: I believe that we could show if you're watching on YouTube,
Speaker 1: by the way, appreciate you all. We've seen the numbers
Speaker 1: go up in terms of the subscriber so like, subscribe time,
Speaker 1: tell your friends about the podcast. Even if you know
Speaker 1: you're not a video viewer, just listen to the audio.
Speaker 1: But yeah, let's see the spray chart of Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: And let's also think about Yes, he's throwing to the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. That's one thing he hadn't done
Speaker 1: in the past very effectively. He has the third highest
Speaker 1: completion percentage over expected in the entire NFL this year,
Speaker 1: so they he's hitting the throws that he's being asked
Speaker 1: to make. And I think the reason that's so high
Speaker 1: is because it's a lot of out routes into tight
Speaker 1: windows where you have to have a really strong arm,
Speaker 1: and he's hitting those. He scrambled only once last week.
Speaker 1: That was the lowest scramble rate he's ever had in
Speaker 1: his career. Their design run game with him has not
Speaker 1: been effective, but I actually think it's impressive that he's
Speaker 1: playing so well without really his run game adding that
Speaker 1: much to the mix. He is winning from the pocket,
Speaker 1: and yeah, if you're watching, you can you can see
Speaker 1: the charge. It's a lot of short passes, it's a
Speaker 1: lot over the middle, but it's because that's what the
Speaker 1: defense was going to do. They decided not to really
Speaker 1: rush him to protect him against scrambling, and he made
Speaker 1: them pay in a tough matchup against the Chargers.
Speaker 2: And then one other thing in Week two.
Speaker 1: He struggled against the blitz throughout his career, and they
Speaker 1: blitzed the hell out of him, the Broncos did, and
Speaker 1: he was really good standing up to him. So it's
Speaker 1: stacking all these little small improvements you can tell he
Speaker 1: worked on in his own game, and the coaching staff
Speaker 1: deserves some credit too, and it's adding up to a
Speaker 1: really effective version of justin fields. I think he's a
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback so far this season.
Speaker 4: What you said about the designed run game with him
Speaker 4: is not necessarily effective. But then you know, talking about
Speaker 4: how the defense played him and so they changed their
Speaker 4: game plan, show at least showing that designed run attack
Speaker 4: or the threat of it is why the defense is
Speaker 4: changing to play that, to play him like that, and
Speaker 4: then him showing this extra element, Oh, we do have
Speaker 4: another count. It is an adjustment. It is us showing
Speaker 4: on tape what you're afraid of us doing, you as
Speaker 4: a defense trying to counter and stop it, and then
Speaker 4: us pulling out another card. That's not something this offense
Speaker 4: has been able to do before in a free years.
Speaker 1: Which is why, like Mike Tomlin did the thing Tuesday
Speaker 1: again where he's like, yeah, Justin Field is planning to
Speaker 1: start again because Russell Wilson's not healthy.
Speaker 2: I'll make that decision when I mean.
Speaker 3: That's one of my dislikes.
Speaker 5: Okay, anyone still talking about a quarterback switch in Pittsburgh?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's fair, that's fair. Should we squeeze in
Speaker 1: any more likes before we get to the disclay?
Speaker 4: I have one like because I yelled about them. I
Speaker 4: think for fair reasons because they were playing atrocially on offense.
Speaker 4: But the Carolina Panthers, there's a lot to criticize them
Speaker 4: for the first two weeks of the season. I'm going
Speaker 4: to give them some well earned love here. I mostly
Speaker 4: like the Panthers offensive line. Ikwanu is still strugglings. He's
Speaker 4: sort of the weak spot here. Eleven pressures allowed. That's
Speaker 4: obviously not great the left tackle, but the rest of
Speaker 4: the four offive linemen have allowed only sixteen combined pressures
Speaker 4: through these three games, and the interior of Austin Corbett,
Speaker 4: Robert Hunt, and Damien Lewis have only allowed seven pressures
Speaker 4: the entire season so far. And this is great for
Speaker 4: the Dalton the Andy Dalton renaissance here the red haired
Speaker 4: guys in the league are apparently.
Speaker 3: You know, you know how I love Dalton and Darnold.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's really great for him in terms of
Speaker 4: it's still the same. It would still be the same
Speaker 4: issue that they talked about of wanting to really shore
Speaker 4: up the interior against interior pressure. That's the same thing
Speaker 4: with Andy Dalton still needs that tool. And you know,
Speaker 4: this offensive line I think deserves some kudos and some love.
Speaker 6: I like them so far.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Dalton sons doesn't really roll off the tongue.
Speaker 1: I know, the way the glow up that he's had
Speaker 1: just its looks later in his career and now he
Speaker 1: could match it with his on field play. Panthers Bengals.
Speaker 1: I know it's one and two versus zero to three.
Speaker 1: That's on my screen. That is one of my toph week.
Speaker 1: That's this week, No Dalton. So exciting Dalton to bury
Speaker 1: the Bengal season at zero to four.
Speaker 2: That's pretty de listic.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: I do too.
Speaker 1: And yeah, they're run I'm checking out their running game.
Speaker 1: It's been fine, Like, okay, it hasn't been great.
Speaker 6: But the protection is there.
Speaker 2: Last week it was fine. And so he's.
Speaker 4: Throwing the ball of crap load still and product producing
Speaker 4: the way that we thought other quarterbacks were going to produce.
Speaker 4: Right this season and quarterback play is down and Andy
Speaker 4: Dalton's riding in on a on a horse and saying.
Speaker 3: I will see it.
Speaker 6: I'll save the passing game. And like his protection is there,
Speaker 6: it's great.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So you talked about anyone still talking about a quarterback
Speaker 1: change in Pittsburgh. That was a dislike, we'll we'll switch.
Speaker 1: I'll just do a quick one first. AFC South has
Speaker 1: been bumming me out. Remember how I talked it up
Speaker 1: as like, oh, this is going to be the season
Speaker 1: the AFC South, But they are two and eight.
Speaker 6: I remember you saying that two.
Speaker 2: And eight outside the division.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what is going on with the
Speaker 3: Jags like.
Speaker 1: All the like, And it was going to be exciting
Speaker 1: because the quarterbacks were going to be exciting. Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: is not happening, Will Levis. It's kind of a.
Speaker 4: Way.
Speaker 2: Even C. J.
Speaker 1: Stroud I think has been uneven. I think he's played well,
Speaker 1: but their passing game has been uneven. Their success rate
Speaker 1: is very low actually as a passing attack, like they've
Speaker 1: had some big plays, but on a down to down basis,
Speaker 1: they haven't been great. Not that I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: Texans when I'm talking about the struggles here and then
Speaker 1: the Browns, I mean, I mean not the Browns, what
Speaker 1: the Colts and Anthony Richardson just rougher than I could
Speaker 1: have imagined from a passing game perspective.
Speaker 5: On it down to that, the Colts really thought this
Speaker 5: was good.
Speaker 3: They won the Colts.
Speaker 2: They won last week. They won last week.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry that was a big week.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's a long season, I would say for
Speaker 1: Colts especially here. I mean, Jags and Titans are in
Speaker 1: a hole. But Colts, you just got to scratch out
Speaker 1: some wins and maybe it'll round into shape by November.
Speaker 1: If you're just like three and four after seven weeks
Speaker 1: or something, they could be fine.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: As I said in July and August and now September,
Speaker 4: I really wanted to see not only Trevor Lawrence take
Speaker 4: a step forward, but the coaching staff take a step forward.
Speaker 6: That was really embarrassing.
Speaker 4: Uh this this last game that they played, and it
Speaker 4: just was disheveled.
Speaker 6: It looked like not cohesive at any point.
Speaker 4: And one of my dislikes, because I don't I don't
Speaker 4: relish talking about this, but one of my dislikes is
Speaker 4: that this is the time of year, from basically now
Speaker 4: onward where you start to sort of, you know, do
Speaker 4: the thing where you're walking down the hall and you
Speaker 4: see someone who you know you want to avoid like
Speaker 4: having a hard conversation with, and you sort of don't
Speaker 4: make eye contact.
Speaker 6: And this is like starting to be lame duck.
Speaker 3: Have you fired?
Speaker 4: This is all my Katan upon its actually, this is
Speaker 4: all my This is all my settlers of Katan opponents actually.
Speaker 3: Like I avoid them. I avoid them. Jordan is ruthless.
Speaker 2: I hear you. It is a little early for that.
Speaker 1: But but now onward is we're about to talk about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Doug Peterson I spoke about on the Monday
Speaker 1: Night recap, how there was an edict before the season
Speaker 1: they have to win and everyone in the building knows
Speaker 1: the score, and that's and you have stuff.
Speaker 6: And you know what though too.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I cover a lot of coaching
Speaker 4: cycle stuff, and this is the time of year where
Speaker 4: you know, the agents start to gather all the materials
Speaker 4: and start figuring out who would partner with each other
Speaker 4: and what jobs might be coming open. So like it
Speaker 4: or not, it happening this early. Those conversations about several
Speaker 4: several places that are sort of either teetering or you
Speaker 4: get sort of an ominous sense that things are just
Speaker 4: continuing to go south. They're you know, you're you're thinking
Speaker 4: about the possibility of who is going to be placed
Speaker 4: in their.
Speaker 1: Next Jaguars are Yeah, that's one where people are definitely
Speaker 1: looking thinking, I chers guy, I can They're looking at
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and saying I can fix them, I.
Speaker 3: Can fix them.
Speaker 5: That is I just wonder if they're going to switch
Speaker 5: play callers at some point. I know Press Taylor was
Speaker 5: calling plays last year, he's calling plays this year.
Speaker 3: But point Peterson.
Speaker 1: Won't admit it. We could see his lips moving, Doug.
Speaker 1: They have cameras, give me.
Speaker 4: It's like the Geico commercial. We could see you, Carl.
Speaker 2: I have so many more dislikes, but why don't you
Speaker 2: do it?
Speaker 5: Dislike, Okay, wow, Braxton Burios in Miami getting pants. Oh,
Speaker 5: that's it.
Speaker 3: I was like, where is she going with it? It was.
Speaker 5: I just first of all, as because we talked about
Speaker 5: it as soon as we walked into the studio.
Speaker 2: How because put on his Instagram.
Speaker 4: Did Colleen Colleen walked or no, you walked into this?
Speaker 4: You've basically showed us what it was the photo And
Speaker 4: I mean we've all.
Speaker 1: Seen the photo, but Damna check had it on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I know I was, and then there was no and
Speaker 1: I was, how does this not?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 5: How does this happen? And Greg was like pretty easy.
Speaker 5: I'm like, well then why doesn't it happen more? How
Speaker 5: did this go so wrong?
Speaker 3: For him?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: I hate it.
Speaker 5: It wasn't seen on the broadcast, which is great for him,
Speaker 5: but that's just very embarrassing.
Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was, but there was a
Speaker 1: player on the forty nine ers who I remember had
Speaker 1: his pants pulled down years and years ago on the broadcast.
Speaker 2: No, no, yeah you saw.
Speaker 4: This section should not be called dislikes. It should be
Speaker 4: called things were not over the moon about.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: Sorry, thanks dad.
Speaker 1: I did find a YouTube to a minute five second
Speaker 1: long highlight reel of NFL's players pants falling.
Speaker 6: Oh on your work computer.
Speaker 2: This is not I don't. I dis like all of
Speaker 2: I dislike it. I dislike it.
Speaker 4: I dislike all the injuries that we're seeing. Yeah, there's
Speaker 4: a lot of really fun, interesting players. Injuries happen every year,
Speaker 4: it just seems like they're compounding so early in the season,
Speaker 4: and you know, certainly there will be discussions about the
Speaker 4: preseason and player safety, and especially as the seasons get
Speaker 4: longer than ever and more players are putting more workloads
Speaker 4: on their bodies, and also as the physicality, which we've
Speaker 4: talked about out of this game increases towards the run
Speaker 4: game versus a heavier passing game, you're going to have
Speaker 4: a heavier toll taken on your body over time. This
Speaker 4: is obviously like marginally marginal things over time. But if
Speaker 4: you're really talking about this, I fear that this is
Speaker 4: going to continue to be an issue.
Speaker 6: Really really interesting.
Speaker 1: Any proof that there's more injured players because we go
Speaker 1: through this every year. I feel this and we're just like,
Speaker 1: there's so many injuries.
Speaker 4: It really happened as the stars do happen every year.
Speaker 4: It just seems like every week though, we're seeing like
Speaker 4: a headliner name.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like five, Like so many teams get devastated.
Speaker 1: But it's not a sport that should be played by
Speaker 1: anyone expecting to have like short term or long term health.
Speaker 1: It's brutal, correct, right, I mean it's getting but it's
Speaker 1: getting more. Old fact of the sport, the off.
Speaker 4: Season is getting less brutal in terms of you know,
Speaker 4: what they are, the toll that they're taking on their
Speaker 4: in terms of like what their the CBA says that
Speaker 4: they can and can't do and practice those types of things.
Speaker 4: That's getting less the game itself. I posit that it's
Speaker 4: getting a little bit more because of the arc of
Speaker 4: the philosophical shift that we're seeing, and over time, you're
Speaker 4: going to see that brutality. You're going to have to
Speaker 4: adjust everyone because of the arc of the league right now,
Speaker 4: everybody eventually will have to adjust, including the sports science
Speaker 4: departments and the the NFL training staffs.
Speaker 2: Well, and they can start wearing the different helmets.
Speaker 1: The Guardian, I'm kind of I'm surprised that didn't become
Speaker 1: a bigger talking point after the tu A thing, that
Speaker 1: we have this technology that literally everyone could do and
Speaker 1: there's no reason that everyone's not wearing them except we
Speaker 1: don't think it looks cool. So we are kind of
Speaker 1: saying what we care about, Yeah, we don't care that
Speaker 1: much like it. And it's not going to say it's
Speaker 1: going to be one hundred percent prevention for concussions, and
Speaker 1: that's only one type of injury, but so far it
Speaker 1: has had one hundred par It takes.
Speaker 5: A while for this like players to adapt to any
Speaker 5: type of change, and when you're playing at this high
Speaker 5: of a level and you have something at like that's
Speaker 5: a signific choice out.
Speaker 1: Of there, and just like the NFL could do it,
Speaker 1: they could just make they could if it was like
Speaker 1: it's going to take either a rash of concussions or
Speaker 1: something else drastically happening, and then it'll slowly happen I
Speaker 1: shout out to the players that are doing it already,
Speaker 1: like it is kind of cool to see the players
Speaker 1: that have taken that initiative. There aren't that many. There's
Speaker 1: a couple on the Colts I noticed, but there aren't
Speaker 1: that many. Why Why don't you give me a dislike
Speaker 1: Colleen Sad?
Speaker 3: Travis Sad? Travis Kelcey, I don't love seeing it.
Speaker 5: I he's not been involved in any of these games
Speaker 5: as as much as he was last year, and all
Speaker 5: of the shots of him just looking forlorn on the
Speaker 5: bench are just crushing me.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't love it at all.
Speaker 4: If only that guy could get a W somewhere, you know,
Speaker 4: somewhere in life, if only the universe thro the league is.
Speaker 3: Better and more ointaining. When Travis Kelcey is happy, I
Speaker 3: think you're right, it'll take.
Speaker 1: It'll happen eventually. Right, he really is drying lots of coverage.
Speaker 1: I don't that's not totally made up. There was this
Speaker 1: play where I saw Rashie Rice bust wide open basically
Speaker 1: because the two underneath defenders go towards Travis Kelcey. It's like,
Speaker 1: you don't need to send those two defenders at Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'd send a second one with Rashid Rice,
Speaker 1: who's running right past you for about sixty yards. That
Speaker 1: is said, all right, I've got some sad ones. I've
Speaker 1: got a bunch still unfortunately, okay, all right, the Drake No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not happy about, like laughing about the direction that
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams and Drake May's seasons are going, in particular,
Speaker 1: just in contrast to Jayden Daniels. Now, Drake May hasn't played,
Speaker 1: but the situation that's there for him to enter in
Speaker 1: New England is not good. They are dead last in
Speaker 1: pass rush win rate so far. So like it's not
Speaker 1: working with Jacoby Brissette. They have no wide receivers who
Speaker 1: get open. I'm not really confident in the scheme to
Speaker 1: get them open, and the pass protection isn't good. So
Speaker 1: when he does play, and he should play eventually, I'm
Speaker 1: just worried about how I'm not confident that they're going
Speaker 1: to come up with good solutions. And then Caleb Williams
Speaker 1: a step in the right direction. He had way more.
Speaker 1: Caleb b plays against the Colts but still bears thirtieth
Speaker 1: fifty two times. Oh right, a lot of that was
Speaker 1: a lot of it was coming back when it was
Speaker 1: effective late in the game when they were down two scores,
Speaker 1: Like he was at a fairly I mean he was
Speaker 1: at like thirty late third and then like it was
Speaker 1: working kind of in the fourth quarter. It was the
Speaker 1: best stretch he had of his career. But yeah, pass
Speaker 1: rush winn't rate there thirtieth. Not sure if they're going
Speaker 1: to be able to scheme their way out of it.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen's not healthy, might not be the full Keenan Allen.
Speaker 1: It's just a little bit of a bummer.
Speaker 6: There's some heat there too.
Speaker 4: A couple of sort of social media posts whatever that
Speaker 4: popped in terms of the linemen in the locker room
Speaker 4: talking about their bewilderment at the speed option call late
Speaker 4: in the game. I mean this it's starting early there,
Speaker 4: frankly is what is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And the tackles are playing pretty well, but it's three interior, Yeah,
Speaker 1: interior guys, the forty nine ers. You mentioned the injuries
Speaker 1: so Hardgrave, that's part of the injury situation to me.
Speaker 1: He has a torn triceps. He's missing the season. That
Speaker 1: was an injury that didn't exist in the sixties and
Speaker 1: seventies and eighties, and you can surmise different reasons why
Speaker 1: different muscle groups are happening to burst now or not.
Speaker 1: But every you know, in terms of how you're training,
Speaker 1: and lots of things could be affecting that. But like
Speaker 1: there are more of those types of injuries. He's out
Speaker 1: for the season, and so the forty nine Ers defense
Speaker 1: is on my list of things. I just like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you some numbers. Twenty fourth in defensive EPA,
Speaker 1: thirtieth in net yards per attempt allowed to passers, thirtieth
Speaker 1: yards per play allowed, twenty first in DVOA. In general,
Speaker 1: they're just bad and I'm thinking, like why, And I
Speaker 1: think if they're thin, like there's bigger weak spots. Leonard
Speaker 1: Floyd is not playing well for them, and he's playing
Speaker 1: a lot uh play, Yeah, and that's probably why he's
Speaker 1: not playing well. I ter gross spot before, like there's
Speaker 1: no rotation. Now you take away to von Hargrave. They're thin.
Speaker 1: They have just problem spots. Isaac Yadam just picked Don
Speaker 1: by Matthew Stafford in that game. That's a really weak spot.
Speaker 1: Devandre Campbell who's playing at linebacker. They really missed Drake
Speaker 1: Greenlaw and then their coordinator Nick Sorenson. It just might
Speaker 1: be one of those things kind of that Belichick went through.
Speaker 1: We talked about the disease of more in terms of
Speaker 1: what happens to teams when you have a lot of success.
Speaker 2: This isn't the disease and more, but I think it happens.
Speaker 1: To winning teams that like they're now on what Kyle's
Speaker 1: on his sixth defensive coordinator he's ever hired. I mean,
Speaker 1: he nailed it with those first three or four, but
Speaker 1: then they fired Steve Wilks last year, and maybe it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a brain drain situation and a
Speaker 1: talent drain.
Speaker 6: There was a report that.
Speaker 4: Came out last week too that Kyle Shanahan tried to
Speaker 4: hire Jeff Ulbrick. Oh my gosh, the New York Jets. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Mikelber that reported this at the San Francisco Chronicle and
Speaker 4: it was Jets defense. To me, yeah, the Jets defensive corner.
Speaker 4: To me, that was like pretty telling again that he's
Speaker 4: thinking there is some brain drain. I know he lost
Speaker 4: his I'm not going to say this right continuitous guys,
Speaker 4: the ones who were there for a while who he
Speaker 4: developed in house, who stuck around for a while, he
Speaker 4: lost him, their head coaches.
Speaker 2: And they happen to be like some of the best
Speaker 2: defense lines in right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and can't find the people necessarily who too right
Speaker 4: or wrong to his own specifications are doing the things
Speaker 4: that those guys did.
Speaker 5: Also, did you see by the way that Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 5: is going to Germany for his Achilles toll this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's never a good sign either. Another thing that
Speaker 2: wasn't happening in the seventies and eighties. But their offense
Speaker 2: has been fine.
Speaker 1: Brock Perty bawled out in that game that was one
Speaker 1: of the actually I think the best games of rock
Speaker 1: Perty's career. Weirdly, and they lost. I'm actually not worried
Speaker 1: about their offense. Their offense, by the numbers, in by
Speaker 1: the eye test has been fine. Yeah, the floors cooked
Speaker 1: him up a little bit, but their offense is good.
Speaker 1: The last one I did want to get in Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: How brutal is watching Deshaun Watson play football right now?
Speaker 1: And then my dislike is actually the media coverage of
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. I actually think people are so uncomfortable talking
Speaker 1: about Deshaun Watson because of who he is as a person,
Speaker 1: and also because of their relationships at the highest levels
Speaker 1: of our industry with his agent, David Mullagetta, who was
Speaker 1: very powerful, and I think they're at that relationship that
Speaker 1: he has with the media. I said it a lot
Speaker 1: that I think that trade would not have happened if
Speaker 1: there was more pushback from the media because of that
Speaker 1: that not only is that turning out to be like
Speaker 1: the worst trade in NFL history, but weirdly, he's not
Speaker 1: getting a ton of heat.
Speaker 2: For being the absolute like dog of a player that
Speaker 2: he is.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's lost, he's holding on to the ball,
Speaker 1: he's not accurate, he's not athletic. Imagine, like I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of a good comp like someone that Young
Speaker 1: in his career was a top ten quarterback and then
Speaker 1: for a pretty long stretch of time last year when
Speaker 1: he played, you know, the year before, certainly these three games,
Speaker 1: was not just like not what he used to be,
Speaker 1: but literally one of the worst quarterbacks in the league
Speaker 1: by any metric. Like last he's second to last or
Speaker 1: third to last at everything. It's just a question of
Speaker 1: Bryce Young's behind him and everything. Skyler Thompson is now
Speaker 1: behind him in some things, like and that's Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 2: And yet there's like, weirdly, not a lot of like, hey,
Speaker 2: why are we benching this guy? Aren't we trying to
Speaker 2: win football games?
Speaker 1: And I think it's because people are uncomfortable, and I
Speaker 1: think it's because of the agent.
Speaker 3: But I think he's getting baken out by a sniper.
Speaker 1: It's like if Trevor Lawrence was playing this bad like
Speaker 1: and that's not even a great comp Like I'm saying
Speaker 1: this bad like worst quarterback in the league, wouldn't that
Speaker 1: be leading all the shows?
Speaker 2: I mean, forget Dak Prescott. Imagine if Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: Played this bad for a month, much less for three seasons, like,
Speaker 1: people would go in insane.
Speaker 4: I know it's Cleveland, but market to be fair, but
Speaker 4: I will I will say like or.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, that's a better example. Daniel Jones has never
Speaker 1: been close to the Heights. And again it's a different market,
Speaker 1: but no market. Deshaun Watson's a big superstar. We're not
Speaker 1: talking about this superstar who is sinking this franchise because
Speaker 1: of the way he's playing.
Speaker 3: There's no upside.
Speaker 4: I think there's a part of the nuance here is
Speaker 4: that there's it seems to be a sense of helplessness,
Speaker 4: helplessness from the organization itself who made this decision because
Speaker 4: of the contract. So it's like, you know what the
Speaker 4: solution is, right and you know there is no sort
Speaker 4: of uh, you can't move in this. It's suffocating you.
Speaker 4: You know, it's just it is one of the craziest
Speaker 4: things I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: They have the ability to make a change, though, like
Speaker 3: I think they're going.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to if he plays like this
Speaker 1: another couple of weeks. I think it's like you think
Speaker 1: it takes two more weeks. I get why they came
Speaker 1: into this season like, well, let's try it again, but
Speaker 1: this time he'll stay healthy. And you know you had
Speaker 1: you had to try it again, maybe because of the contract.
Speaker 1: But I do think it's getting to the point he's
Speaker 1: unplayable that you don't think the other players on his team.
Speaker 4: I don't, and I don't think that people who general
Speaker 4: generally do know what they're looking at in terms of football,
Speaker 4: like the or they're smart people in that building. What
Speaker 4: I'm saying is I feel like this is a ownership situation.
Speaker 4: We've put I feel like I feel like it's the
Speaker 4: contract it self is holding a lot of people's hands
Speaker 4: behind their backs in that building.
Speaker 3: Jamis Winston. Let's see, let's go.
Speaker 2: That would be fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, the sneaks aren't really fooling anyone. All right,
Speaker 1: we alred that was it for the dislikes. I have
Speaker 1: to get that one, and let's talk about this Giants
Speaker 1: and Cowboys game. Will do it after the break.
Speaker 3: I like this game.
Speaker 1: We too. We are back on NFL Daily and yes
Speaker 1: it is time for our tenf preview presented by Prime Video.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Jordan had the temerity to ask me, as we're going
Speaker 1: to break, do you really like this Cowboys Giants game? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, I'd be dying for this game, and
Speaker 1: you know, the desert of May. But second of all,
Speaker 1: how dare you imply that I would ever be anything
Speaker 1: but one hundred percent genuine with the audience?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 6: How dare I? And how dare I suggest that I.
Speaker 1: Really am excated for this game because I think losing
Speaker 1: teams have bigger steaks early in the season, so there's
Speaker 1: actually a reason to it. When they enter the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: In the Commanders Bengals game, I thought like, ooh, this
Speaker 1: is a big moment in this season. It's a real
Speaker 1: deal Super Bowl contender. We thought that's about to go
Speaker 1: to zero to three. So there's more stakes than if
Speaker 1: you're just two and one and it's like another game.
Speaker 1: And for the Cowboys, this is a big spot.
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy, this is a big spot.
Speaker 1: Yes, So Mike McCarthy has been taking some heat and
Speaker 1: he is starting to sound like he feels the pressure.
Speaker 2: His players just uniformly.
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis, Michael Parsons, DeMarcus Lawrence, Dak Prescott all said
Speaker 1: separately that we need to do a better job with
Speaker 1: the details, with the preparation, as if they were sending
Speaker 1: a message to I don't know if it was other
Speaker 1: players or it was the coaches or what, but let's
Speaker 1: listen to Mike McCarthy asked about it on Monday.
Speaker 10: Big Harris Bowarsar Tellingery Monday, you said, you guys don't
Speaker 10: have a ton of time for corrections this week. But
Speaker 10: with Jordan Lewis talking about details, Michael Parsons last night
Speaker 10: talking about accountability, how do you kind of work those
Speaker 10: conversations And.
Speaker 7: It's pretty dramatic there, Nick I tell you must practice
Speaker 7: that one. I mean, well, hey, Thursday schedule. I mean,
Speaker 7: that's what we're on. I mean, it's, uh, we didn't
Speaker 7: win the game, so it's I think that's that's that's
Speaker 7: part of where we are. I mean, so yeah, I
Speaker 7: think they do a good job of, you know, answering
Speaker 7: your questions. It's emotional after the game, so I'm not
Speaker 7: I'm not ever going to referee motion on the field
Speaker 7: or after a game.
Speaker 3: That's some sass there from Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 4: I thought that question was the appropriate amount of dramatic
Speaker 4: considering how this is going.
Speaker 2: It wasn't dramatic at all.
Speaker 1: That was said Nick Harris for asking a good question,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he accused him of practicing the question ahead of
Speaker 5: I'm as well.
Speaker 1: That gave me, Oh, you're feeling some heat vibes, because
Speaker 1: that's just like a coach lashing out.
Speaker 2: It's like someone taking it out on like a preparation.
Speaker 4: What about being prepared to answer that question if your
Speaker 4: players were publicly talking about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard some speculation on.
Speaker 1: A Cowboys podcast just like you know, maybe that came
Speaker 1: right after a meeting with Jerry you know, what I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just in like a bad mood.
Speaker 6: You could see that.
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 4: Well, also, by the way, it's genuinely like a good dude,
Speaker 4: seems like. But it just also is like, man, when
Speaker 4: you when coaches feel the heat like that, the lame
Speaker 4: duck conversation, you know that type of thing. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: when oh man, people get real tight.
Speaker 3: You can tell that wasn't about the actual question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that wasn't about the question or the person. That
Speaker 4: was about him and only him.
Speaker 2: Although maybe he would know that.
Speaker 1: He's taking it as a shot of like we're not
Speaker 1: that prepped and he's in a lame duck year that
Speaker 1: you mentioned I mentioned earlier. Like to me, they all right,
Speaker 1: not like a very game plan specific type of team.
Speaker 1: They kind of run what they run, and I didn't
Speaker 1: think they attacked some of the weaknesses of the Ravens
Speaker 1: that well Mike Zimmers had going into the game. It
Speaker 1: was a prove it game, approve it game to against
Speaker 1: the Ring. Wow, what they prove That's what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: especially the lineback.
Speaker 3: They need help with their run defense.
Speaker 1: In safety level. I know the Giants aren't like a
Speaker 1: great running team, but I think they're a little more
Speaker 1: specific and intentional in what they do Brian Dable on offense,
Speaker 1: and they've had some positive things, and I think their
Speaker 1: offensive line is solid. I think this is the best
Speaker 1: offensive line the Giants have had in like a decade.
Speaker 1: It's like a reasonable offensive line. That's a good place
Speaker 1: to start.
Speaker 5: Devin Singletary has a juicy matchup, I think in this
Speaker 5: game because the Cowboys defense, as we're talking about them
Speaker 5: right now, they've allowed one hundred and ninety and two
Speaker 5: hundred and seventy four rushing yards the past two weeks,
Speaker 5: so more than twenty two hundred and twenty of those
Speaker 5: yards have come before contact. They've missed thirty two tackles
Speaker 5: this season, and on those plays, they've allowed two hundred
Speaker 5: and forty one yards, which is third most. DeMarcus Lawrence
Speaker 5: has missed nine alone. Singletary, he's done a really good
Speaker 5: job making guys miss force nineteen miss tackles through three weeks,
Speaker 5: which is third most in the entire league. But I
Speaker 5: think that because Dallas can't stop the run. They've had
Speaker 5: no pass rush either the past at least the past
Speaker 5: two games, so teams they just haven't been in long
Speaker 5: passing situations on those critical third downs. So opposing quarterbacks
Speaker 5: have had a ton of time to just like picnic
Speaker 5: if they wanted to, and we saw it with Lamar
Speaker 5: Jackson and what he was able to do. Plus the
Speaker 5: Cowboys offense was completely asleep for the first three quarters
Speaker 5: of that game, finally woke up in the fourth or
Speaker 5: I guess you could see it as the Ravens weren't
Speaker 5: able to close out a game once again in the
Speaker 5: fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: I think this is an opportunity to for Brian Dable
Speaker 4: and the Giants to start doing a little bit more
Speaker 4: of what has been somewhat effective, especially more recently, which
Speaker 4: is getting designed runs in for Daniel Jones. Next Gen
Speaker 4: says he's recorded the fifth most designed quarterback rushes this season,
Speaker 4: resulting in the fourth most such yards. And so if
Speaker 4: you can add that type of layer, that threat, like
Speaker 4: we talked about earlier, that threat of that type of
Speaker 4: run against a defensive front that's already poorous last in
Speaker 4: the league in yards per game rushing defense, if you
Speaker 4: can add that and then also just have a straightforward
Speaker 4: running back attack as well, that gives them all kinds
Speaker 4: of nightmares to think about when they're already struggling that
Speaker 4: much to defend the run.
Speaker 1: Right, let's give some love to the giants. Two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: were saying, is this going to be Daniel Jones's last game?
Speaker 2: That was me my bet.
Speaker 1: Two positive games, two positive games in earw you're playing
Speaker 1: the Browns defense. Last week he got away with a couple.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones he plays, so there was some fortune there.
Speaker 5: I mean the way that they open that game, they
Speaker 5: completely put up the beginning of that game.
Speaker 1: Colleen, this is a program. This is the best I
Speaker 1: want my child, So listen now I'm kidding. You're right
Speaker 1: they started that game that way. But then you think
Speaker 1: about what Daniel Jones And yeah, he had an interception
Speaker 1: that was called back, but he started eighteen for twenty
Speaker 1: in a game against the Cleveland Browns. That's good coaching.
Speaker 1: I think he's played better in terms of his decisions.
Speaker 1: And then they have a real football guy in Malik Name.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, he's a miracle.
Speaker 2: You know what, Like the great catches are one thing.
Speaker 1: I really got into the fourth down, like now you
Speaker 1: can give him the ball on fourth down as a
Speaker 1: runner in a key spot. And then he had a
Speaker 1: pass breakup where Jones was gonna one of those Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones plays where it was going to be intercepted and
Speaker 1: Neighbors comes flying in and knocks it down.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that's a football guy.
Speaker 6: Oh here's what I think.
Speaker 4: So you're you're seeing like all of this potential here.
Speaker 4: They're trying different things with the quarterback in the run game.
Speaker 4: They're trying a couple you can, you can't, you can
Speaker 4: hand it off to Malik Neighbors, And what they're doing
Speaker 4: almost seems to hint to me like they're sneakily sort
Speaker 4: of setting up different types of mister plays, sweeps and
Speaker 4: end arounds, things like that, especially against the front that
Speaker 4: has just gassed on the other side, and he and
Speaker 4: lak Naghbors has been sent in motion on thirty one snaps,
Speaker 4: which is the highest of any anyone else on his team,
Speaker 4: and a lot of it's at snap motion, which to
Speaker 4: me talks about the potential down the road of taking
Speaker 4: these handoffs and again adding like three layers into your
Speaker 4: run game, three dimensions into your run game, that there
Speaker 4: is no way this Cowboys defense is prepared for.
Speaker 6: If they keep playing the way that.
Speaker 1: They have, giants are going to win this game, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going that far. They're four
Speaker 1: and a half point underdogs.
Speaker 3: Which to me is way too big, and so I'm
Speaker 3: taking the Giants.
Speaker 2: I think I'm taking the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: It's a really important game for them, and I think
Speaker 1: the Giants are better, and so I'm threading the needle.
Speaker 1: I feel better about the Giants picking both. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I mean. I feel better about the Giants
Speaker 1: plus four and a half than I do.
Speaker 2: Either team win the game.
Speaker 1: But I ultimately I am gonna trust in talent, but
Speaker 1: I think game plan wise, I trust Stable to do
Speaker 1: more to help his players win. Then then McCarthy coming
Speaker 1: up with some schemes, it's like where are there other guys, Like,
Speaker 1: let's get a little more for I literally wrote this
Speaker 1: down and thought, this is not a good sign.
Speaker 2: We need more Turpin, we need more lip Key.
Speaker 1: That's their god, that's their like fourth string receiver who's
Speaker 1: more of a gadget guy but is so explosive. And
Speaker 1: then Hunter Lipkey, who's their fullback but is actually kind
Speaker 1: of awesome. But the Giants secondary is is Cheeks.
Speaker 2: It's rough.
Speaker 4: So if like if you get see we got quite
Speaker 4: a theme on this showday.
Speaker 1: It's rough like they wanted Deontay Banks to be a
Speaker 1: top cornwreck.
Speaker 2: He's just not.
Speaker 1: Dorri Jackson is hurt court like there are there are
Speaker 1: there should be guys open for the Cowboy.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have to throw it because they can't. They're
Speaker 4: not running it well either.
Speaker 1: No, they're not built for twenty twenty four. I've been
Speaker 1: thinking about who are the teams not built for this
Speaker 1: new run based world we're in. Yeah, the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: might be your number one team on the list because
Speaker 1: they can't run the ball and they can't stop the run.
Speaker 3: They have no big plays they I mean, they can't
Speaker 3: score touchdowns. It's a real problem, man.
Speaker 1: It would be something Giants fans out there, I can't
Speaker 1: remember the last time I rooted for you, but I'm
Speaker 1: rooting for you in this game. Just same, the chaos
Speaker 1: of it all. But I've taken the Cowboys to win
Speaker 1: by three. Yeah, n you want to pick.
Speaker 4: I'm I was waiting for you to introduce the my
Speaker 4: probably losing pick because I am terrible at picking. Listeners
Speaker 4: have not figured everyone is I am horrific at picking,
Speaker 4: but I am picking the Giants in this one. Sorry
Speaker 4: Giants fans if that means that your team loses, because
Speaker 4: I'm terrible at picking, but I am picking it. I
Speaker 4: just think the Giants just can do more things to
Speaker 4: antagonize this Cowboys defense. I think that that is very
Speaker 4: This matchup is glaringly obvious for those reasons. And Brian
Speaker 4: Dable is also kind of coaching with his back against
Speaker 4: the wall in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: Yep, they hate their pass rush played awesome last week,
Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence one of the very best and league Brian
Speaker 1: Burns coming a long against a Cowboys line that has
Speaker 1: been playing great like even Zach Martin Pac Martin's first
Speaker 1: bout Hall of Famer, but he is not at that
Speaker 1: high level.
Speaker 2: You just you just see the the erosion Cowboys. Let's
Speaker 2: let's enjoy it.
Speaker 1: On Thursday night, I'll be with Danny Hifitz, who's a
Speaker 1: Giants fan from the Ringer.
Speaker 6: I really like, Oh, you're buckling in for a Giants
Speaker 6: game with Danny.
Speaker 1: And the Dantasy uh Fantasy Hour over at the Ringer.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm calling it, all right. That was this
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Speaker 1: watch the Dallas Cowboys take on the New York Giants
Speaker 1: this Thursday on Prime Video.
Speaker 2: Let's uh say goodbye to you. What a great show.
Speaker 2: Enjoyed having you guys in the Chris Wesley Podcast Studio.
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