WEBVTT - Breaking Down the Big Week 11 Games 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:06.760 And now Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.640 What's up, everybody? Welcome to Move the Sticks. DJ Bucky 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:14.640 ret with you on a recap Monday here, coming off 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.280 a short night for me, Chargers home game, night game, 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.320 a lot of traffic. Apparently we had the triple header 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:26.799 with be was Clippers concert Chargers night game. So Inglewood 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.440 was a little congested getting out of there last night. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:30.720 Uh don't know who was. 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:32.800 In the concert. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.519 Yeah, everybody stayed to the end. Everybody stayed in. It 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.320 was a great atmosphere. Yeah, I bet. And by the way, 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.080 Jason's in my ear telling me it's Sabrina Carpenter was 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.480 at the was A the LA Forum. So the KIA 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:44.800 form is that what it is? Now? I don't know 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.280 it's ah might I think it is? 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:48.600 Yeah, I think it's the key. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.080 Yeah, packed house. We're gonna get to that game. That 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:52.760 second on the list. Today, we're going to start with 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.680 what was, you know, literally one of the best matchups 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.520 in the regular season we've seen in the last half 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.960 dozen years. If you look at where Kansas City was 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.320 coming into this game at Buffalo, a game that felt 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.560 man Buffalo had to have this for a whole host 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.000 of reasons, but just to know that this collision is 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.640 coming again into the future. Fascinating game there, Buck, I'll 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.440 give you the first word on this one on what 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:15.560 your takeaway. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:20.440 Was, Look big time, and I'll say we've talked about 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:22.880 Josh Allen playing at a high level before, but this 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.320 was big time, a big time performance for him. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:25.760 Now. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.800 I won't do like the overreaction Monday where everyone is like, 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.120 oh my god, he's overtaken Pat Mahomes is the best 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:32.600 player in the league in those things. But what I 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.800 will say is the Pat Mahome experiment that the Buffalo 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.920 Bills decided to use, meaning take away some of the 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.400 notable names, make it maybe a little more comedye on 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:45.960 the perimeter, It has allowed him to really be the 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.560 best version of himself. We're seeing Josh Allen do things 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.440 that we've seen before, but he's doing it in a 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.120 more controlled manner. The running, the passing, utilizing all of 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.840 the weapons, managing the game, all of that shows significant 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.760 growth and maturity in his game, where he certainly is 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.480 deserving of being in the conversation as MVP because he's 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:05.160 playing that well. 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.640 Yeah, I think, Look, I don't think it's hyperbole to 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.080 say that Josh Allen was the more dangerous player in 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.440 this game. When you look at the way that the 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.160 Chiefs were still able to get pressure on and twenty 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:19.320 six pressures. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.760 On Josh Allen didn't sack him once. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.120 It just it felt like they were the more explosive team, 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.040 certainly down the field in the past game. 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.520 I mean dominant really in that category of it. 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.239 And for a Chiefs offense that at times has been pedestrian, 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.919 you ran up against the team that had a lot 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.000 of different ways to go at you, and so much 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.480 of that has to do with the number seventeen leading 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.480 the way a quarterback. So I was really a fan 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.880 of the way that Josh Allen played this game, and 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.920 you know, knew when he needed to take off and 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.519 go get yards for his team, like you did hear 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:54.920 on this incredible touchdown run that was just kind of 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.600 the exclamation point on the whole night for a day 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.680 in which you look, he was better than Patrick Mahomes 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:00.000 on this day. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.840 Not to say that he is a better player overall. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.280 I'm glad we get to see these guys go at 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.079 it each and every year, and I'm excited to see 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:08.720 him go at it again in the postseason if that 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:09.400 comes to fruition. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.560 Yeah, I just I want to start on the Allen 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.920 side of things. You just look at his legacy, what 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.400 it looks like if they don't have that miraculously Casey 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.040 comeback with. However many seconds were left on the clock. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.800 Uh in that playoff game. How differently we view Josh 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.960 Allen And this is literally it is peer. It is 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.600 peers with him and Patrick Mahomes if they're able to 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.919 finish off that game. But you guys talked about the 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.760 athleticism watching the tape on that They were on a 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.600 lot of empty runs with Josh Allen. Some of them 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.920 are scrambled, some of them are designed runs. But man, 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.480 that is deadly. It's like it's like high school football 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.400 where you just gonna spread. You're gonna put your biggest 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.640 best athlete at quarterback. You're gonna spread the field, try 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.040 and you know, get as many defenders away from the 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.120 box as you can and then let him just do 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.720 his thing. That was that was impressive watching that. On 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.720 On the Buffalo side of things, I do want to 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.160 when we get to the Bears game a little bit 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.080 later on, I do want to talk about scrambling quarterbacks 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:09.200 and how maybe there's some negativity skewed towards Oh, you know, 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.760 we need to play on time, play on schedule. If 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.800 you're scrambling around, then you don't you know, that's not 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.760 why the game's played. I've got some interesting stats on that. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.360 We'll get to that when we get to the Bears thing. 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.000 But I do want to get to the chief side 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.400 of things here. Patrick Mahomes last year sacked twenty seven 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.320 times sixteen games. Patrick Mahomes been sacked twenty two times 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.080 and ten games this year. Only sacked a couple times 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.800 in this ballgame. But this is an offensive line that's 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.560 deteriorating from what they were from as dominant as they 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.919 were when he first got going twenty eighteen, those early 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.800 Chiefs offenses, which we're averaging I want, I believe two 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:48.200 touchdowns more than this team is averaging. And a lot 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.359 of it we've talked about the weaponry or this, that 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.360 and the other. This offensive line buck is nothing like 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.119 it was early on. Here. The tackles are not good 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.520 and it puts a lot of pressure on him and 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.480 you're not going to have a vertical passing game if 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.080 you can't secure the edges, and that's that's been a big, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:05.560 big problem. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:07.839 Yeah, it's been a huge problem because you talk about 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.920 they've tried to commit to it. So Wanie Morris playing 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:14.040 on one side, Juwan Taylor who they paid big money 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:15.560 for from the Jaguars to. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.600 Put at the other tackle, like, they have not been 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:18.719 able to secure the edges. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.560 The interview three are solid, but the edges that's problematic 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.159 because you're right, DJ, you can't sit in the pocket 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.320 for long and push the ball down the field. He's 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.760 always under pressure and the rest and so he never 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.760 can get comfortable and even though he likes to improvise, 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.000 it's still the big part of Pat Mahomes that played 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:39.480 really well on schedule and they lose that part of 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.240 the game. And so yeah, it's a big problem going in. 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.039 And the Chiefs are different because they don't have a 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.520 tie end that they can waste by leaving in protection. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.760 They don't have someone that can say, oh, we're gonna 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.440 let you chip and do all these other things their 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.440 best when all of the guys are eligible in the route. 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.040 It's something that we know Andy Reid will address. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.960 It's been exposed and he'll continue to tweak and refine 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.080 how they go about it. But it's a huge issue 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.440 and as to one thing that could keep them from going. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.760 To making that three pet that some of us are 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:07.240 pining for. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.120 Look, it does, in a way feel like where this 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.480 team was when they ran up in the COVID season 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.760 against the Tampa Bay Bucks and lost the Super Bowl 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.719 because the locker Bucks absolutely got after him off the 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.640 edges right and they went and that's when they went 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.880 and made the addition to go get Joan Taylor. And 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:25.120 then they went and made the addition to go get 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.200 Orlando Brown, and then that was short lived. And now 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.280 they're kind of recycling that process again, and I think 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.440 we're kind of back to where they were before. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:33.600 Now here's the thing. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.360 Kingsley Suwamatilla is not the answer this year, and they 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.159 figure out a way for him to be an answer 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.200 for them at one of the tackles moving forward. I 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.560 would say that's probably at least still a possibility. It 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.039 doesn't feel like it's certainly the way that we'll find 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.159 them success this year. So how do they minimize that 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.320 moving forward? I think is really where you have to 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:53.480 look if you're the Chiefs at this. 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.800 Point, Yeah, Well, it's not the last time we're going 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.520 to see these teams together. They're going to meet up 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.360 again in the postseason and we'll see again. Only one 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.440 loss separates them in the lost column, and now Buffalo 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.719 has a tiebreaker. So we just to see how this 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.359 season unfolds for both these ball clubs going forward. All right, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.000 let's get to the Senna night game that I was 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.080 at Chargers and the Cincinnati Bengals. I'll start on the 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.160 Charger side of things. You know, calling their games for 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.560 seven years, I've seen the Chargers lose this game a 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.400 dozen times, if not more, where things start going bad 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:28.360 and they can't stop the bleeding. This was different last night. 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.840 They get out to a big lead. Offense was really clicking. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:33.680 I mean, I thought you had a quarterback and a 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.480 coordinator with Herbert and Greg Roman in sinc they were 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.800 running the ball with the you know, just in terms 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.440 of committing to the run. But then they were going 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.520 heavy boxes play action and hitting shots Will Disley down 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.480 the steam. You had Quinton Johnson getting another touchdown, but 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.520 they were just loading up the box. And then they're 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.880 getting a little pull from the second level off play action, 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.480 and then they're letting Herbert attack vertically and then Herbert 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.520 using his legs has been a nice component to this offense. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.200 So anyways, all clicking second half, they get out of rhythm, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.040 they can't find it. Herbert has a fumble on a run, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.840 he misses some throws, the defense has given up points. It's, 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:14.760 you know, Joe Burrow's playing out of his mind as 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.000 he has all season long, and just felt it slipping away. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.600 They get a couple miskicks, but then when they had 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.400 to have a drive, you know Herbert can can do 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.200 it within you know, two three plays. It's just really 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:30.000 two throws to Lad McConkey, who's been excellent and who's 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.760 someone I think is going to be a high, high, 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.840 high end two, if not a lower one. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:37.240 But Buck. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.240 I was watching them, and I've said this for a 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.240 few weeks now to Money up there in the booth 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.680 is when I watch this Chargers team, it feels like 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.440 I'm watching the Lions of like a year or two ago. Man, 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.600 like they are. You can see where this is headed, 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:54.040 and they're going to get some more skill around this group. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.400 But man, it's exciting to see. This is kind of 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.720 the ground floor and it's it's going to be a 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.600 playoff team when they're here on year one. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.200 So the comments that I heard after the game, I 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.520 heard Joey Bosa talk about like their culture and how 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.200 they believe that the work and the preparation that they 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.599 do puts them in a position to win games, and 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.360 they feel like something specialist brewing hearing the other comments 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.360 from some of the other players saying that in the 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.240 past we have lost this game, but we just know 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.520 that we're so connected and so together that we were 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.280 going to find a way to win it. 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:25.200 To me, they are. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:29.559 All in on their leader, and that connectivity between players 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.679 and coach is essential. The fact that they believe in 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.440 Jim Harbor and he's done a really good job of 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.959 creating an environment where they do buy into the work, 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.000 the toughness, the physicality in those things. DJ, they don't 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.800 even have the pieces of the puzzle yet, right, So 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.959 you talked about, you know the guys they brought over 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:44.840 lab McConkie. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:45.480 They got JK. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.520 Dobb and Gus Everards and all those guys, but they 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.200 haven't upgraded. They've tried to flush out the salary cap 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.640 situation and just win with what they could. So when 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.120 this team is really constructed the way that they want 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.720 it to be, It's gonna be a problem. And that energy, 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.240 that attitude, that toughness that they bring it certainly is 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:04.840 going to be a thorn in the side of the 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:06.280 other opponents in the AFC West. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.880 And I would look at it as you know, all right, 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.320 you've is you make the analogy with the Lions DJ, 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:14.960 It's like, okay, well, how can you hold on to 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.000 the majority of this and push it forward? And I 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:18.560 think one of the big, you know, things that you're 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.280 gonna have to hold on to is Jesse Minter, defensive 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.920 coordinator for the Chargers, has just done a phenomenal job. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.719 I mean, look, he's got some great players back there. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.960 I get that, but man, he is who ordinated this 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:30.600 this unit very well. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.320 I mean, like generated thirty six pressures. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.520 They generated pressure on Joe Burrow almost seventy percent of 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.280 his pass attempts back there, Which kind of brings me 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.280 to the point for Cincinnati, like they're not altogether in 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.280 much different of a spot than the Kansas City Chiefs 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.920 were after their Super Bowl run. Remember the year before 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:49.960 the Bengals went to the Super Bowl, they kind of 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.360 remade that offensive line made a bunch of those those 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.640 free agent acquisitions, but now it feels like they're kind 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.680 of back in a spot where they're giving up pressures 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.079 all over the place, Burrows taking hits and he's got 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.720 to be superhuman back there trying to complete some of 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.040 these passes under duress. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.040 That's just not sustainable. And we're going to be in. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.880 A position here where you're getting your quarterback knocked around 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.800 again and the last thing you want to do is 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.200 see him, you know, have to miss time like he 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.600 did each of the last couple of years. So you know, 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:19.840 as you look at that, it's kind of like a 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.719 cause and effect Chargers again, exposing where the Bengals are 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:28.199 from a pass protection situation. And you know, the Chargers 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:29.880 defense has just flat out really good and would be 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:31.280 a big reason why they are a playoff team. But 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.000 here's the thing that was a little concerning to me, guys, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.720 and I'd love to get your opinion on this. You've 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.600 listened to all the comments from Bengals players after the game, 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.360 Jamar Chase, maybe with some of. 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.080 The most you know, explosive. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.480 It feels like a team that's unraveling, you know, and look, 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.360 maybe some of what he's saying isn't wrong. But do 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.360 you go out there and say it, like, yeah, yeah, 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.319 you paid McPherson go out and make the dang kicks. 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.280 I get it, he didn't make the kicks. You know, 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.920 you pay Zach Taylor to help get this team in 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:03.640 a framework to go finish games. 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.080 They're not finishing games right now. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.240 But it's not like you and you and you, it's 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.079 it's us, and that to me feels like that's not 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.200 the messaging that's happening in Cincinnati, and there's no way 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.760 they recover from this if it keeps getting singled out, you, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:18.600 singled out you. 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.400 All I got to do is worry about me. That's 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:22.360 that is not one. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.719 So I wouldn't plan on going into this direction. This 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.240 might take us a minute here, so I have to 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.520 ask for some patience. But if we were talking on 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.560 here the last couple of weeks and Buck, I know 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.040 we've had this conversation about Ben Johnson and we've made 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.680 the case that hey, unless he gets blown away, just 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.319 just just make Detroit pay it, you know, head coach 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.000 money to stay as the offensive coordinator because it's just 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:49.960 so hard to find the right fit for you to 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:51.800 be successful. And if you look at the jobs that 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.800 might pop up, and we know who the where those 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.200 jobs are, we know who the quarterbacks for those teams are, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.400 and there's some intriguing names. There's nothing like Joe Burrow. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.200 Burrow and seeing it in person. You mentioned those pressure 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.400 numbers rhet He is an assassin. He is a stone 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.679 cold killer to the point where as great as Josh 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.280 Allen and his greatest Mahomes, both those guys are I'm 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:17.000 not if you give me equal talent, I'm not. I 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.640 don't know that I'm picking against Joe Burrow. So if 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.439 i'm if, I'm the Bengals, and I'm never going to 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.360 advocate for anybody to lose their job. And I think 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.560 there's a lot of other issues with this team, but 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.000 if they did make a change, to me, that is 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.920 easily the most desirable job that would be available. And 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.640 if I was Ben Johnson, I would call them before 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:37.280 they called me. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.800 Here's the thing, though, I thought they extended Zach Taylor 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.720 where it would make it almost cost prohibitive. 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:44.720 Knowing the Bengals, and that's. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.120 Not the way they normally do business, and that's that's 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:47.679 not business. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.480 Will I will say this about what Red is talking about. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.600 And I would say the comments that come off as selfish, no, 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.040 they are selfish from Jamar Chase. Here's what happens when 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.800 you run the risk of not playing pain your players 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.120 before you get into the season. So now all of 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:09.720 those feelings of feeling disrespected and that stuff, you're seeing 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.880 it not in their performance, but the body language and 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:17.840 the actions of T Higgins and Jamar Chase. At some point, 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.080 you want to try and keep the family together and 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.240 keep the family happy. And I know we're talking about 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.160 businesses business, but I feel like they're disjointed because of 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.600 contract negotiations that have gone awry. And now you're just 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.400 having them say, well, I don't really care. I'm trying 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:32.800 to get mine, I want to be healthy, I want 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.480 to put up numbers, and then whatever happens to the 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.080 team happens with the team. And that's not a way 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.480 that a team can be successful in this eraor yeah. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.920 Look, look guys, I mean this is a situation for 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.320 the Bengals. It's just man, they've lost so many close games, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.400 and you know, I think you're seeing some of the 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.120 frustration that comes from that. Look at the Ravens game, 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.480 you look at the Chiefs game. You look at this game. 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.000 They've had opportunities, haven't been able to get it done. 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.280 So I think that's why all this stuff is really 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.040 starting to bubble up. All right, let's keep it moving 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.480 here and let's get to another big time game, big 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.800 time performance by the Pittsburgh Steelers. They take care of 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:11.880 the Baltimore Ravens in a field goal fest. For the Steelers, 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.960 they didn't finish drives, didn't get things done the way 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.360 they wanted to. But this is a game ret where 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.480 they controlled the clock, They had the ball for thirty 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.480 six minutes, twenty two minutes for the Baltimore Ravens, and 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:29.600 Baltimore penalties twelve turnovers three. There's your ball game. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.200 There's really no other way to describe it. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.080 This was a mistake game, full of mistakes for the 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.640 Ravens and uncharacteristic like mistakes. You would talk about the 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:40.800 turnovers and the penalty shore, but how about the two 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.640 misses in the second quarter for Justin Tucker, the most 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:49.360 accurate kicker and NFL history, is now barely middle of 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.360 the road in field goal made percentage so far this season. 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.400 I mean miss back to back kicks, Sure not gimme's 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.200 forty seven and fifty yarder, but those were I mean, 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.680 in Tucker's landscape, those are gimmes and so he's had 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.880 some misses now this year. And it starts, oh boy, 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.000 there's a drop obviously concentration drop for Zave Flowers. He 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.120 made up for it with a touchdown later, but it 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.520 just it felt like from the jump Derek Henry fumbles 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.200 on his second carry and it was like, holy smokes, 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:23.560 you know that the onsought of negativity was just really 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.120 hard for the Ravens to overcome, even though they went 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:27.800 down and scored and we're leading at the half and 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.800 just just couldn't find a way to take advantage of 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.680 the Steelers kind of keeping them in the game and 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:35.840 ultimately Steelers find a way to win. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.480 Yeah, this is frustrated for the Baltimore Ravens because this 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.480 is a team that has been so good this season, 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.680 but the issues that have hurt them in the games 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:48.520 that they've lost are the dbos, don't beat ourselves, turnovers, penalties. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.760 Big plays allowed. When you do that, you're gonna lose games. 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.200 Twelve pen is too many penalties, too many self inflicted mistakes, 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.840 three turnovers plus two additional miskicks which we could really 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.320 count as turnovers. It's just hard to win when you 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.000 have so many mistakes. And they'll look at the tape 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.640 and they're going to kick themselves knowing they didn't give 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.480 themselves a chance to win because they had so many 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.520 egregious errors that they have to eliminate. And so the 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.959 next time they see the Pittsburgh Steelers, we'll see if 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.560 they can tighten it up. But the Stealers feel so 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.960 confident whenever they see the Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.960 for whatever reason, they just have a hold over this 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.359 team and the Bravens somehow have to get past it. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.840 And a lot of times it's games like this one. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.000 Remember remember last year all the drop passes that Baltimore 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.840 had at Pittsburgh as they Flowers had to drop touchdown 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.040 in that game last year. I mean they they just 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.320 something about the Pittsburgh Steelers brings out some funky stuff 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.679 from the Ravens. And I do think there is I 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.600 think with Lamar Jackson and the rest of the league, 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:49.679 or most of the league, I should say there's a 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.280 fear factor. You don't see a lot of them, and 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.400 when you do it's like, oh gosh, okay, hey, be disciplined, 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.760 don't get caught out of your lanes. You're cautious to 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.960 rush the quarterback, you know, you just there's a fear 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:05.080 factor there. And I think familiarity buck, I know, I 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.919 know your Dodgers beat my Podres. But the but the 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.879 Potteries don't have any There's no awe, there's no fear factory. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.560 If they see him, they see them all the time. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.280 So like it takes away some of that. It takes 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.320 away some of that when you have a team of 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:20.760