1 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: O. 2 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 2: It is good to be back. We have missed you. 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 2: This is Between the Horns, presented by your Southern California 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 2: Toya the Dealers, and it's a special twenty twenty four 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 2: schedule release edition on JB Long with my friends and 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 2: colleagues DeMarco Farr and Maurice Jones Drew. They roll their 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 2: eyes at me because they know I'm irrationally happy about 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 2: this day. It's my favorite day of the off season. 9 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 2: And I know for nine years now you've wondered why, 10 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 2: But hey, it's happy us. 11 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 3: I'm geekd this year. I'm excited about the schedule. I 12 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:38,599 Speaker 3: can't I can't wait to find out where we're going 13 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 3: and win. I'm with you on this. 14 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 2: So start a year nine for US, eight of which 15 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:46,239 Speaker 2: had been Sean mcveigh's. But how about you thirty years ago, DeMarco? 16 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 2: You joined the Rams thirty years ago at all, my 17 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 2: college free agent out of Washington years. 18 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's been that long. 19 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: Does it feel like it does? 20 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 3: No, it just blew by trying to beat the Niners 21 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 3: every single year period. It never gets old. Yes, yeah, 22 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 3: thirty years really? Wow? Thanks for bringing that. 23 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 2: Up and the land on this year's schedule as the 24 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 2: home opener at SOFI Stadium. I think the best home 25 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 2: schedule I've ever seen from the Los Angeles Rams. We 26 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: might as well get it out of the way early. 27 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 2: The rams dot com slash ti x to get your 28 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 2: singing game tickets. There's also a Thursday night game two 29 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,559 Speaker 2: against the Niners in December that we will talk about. 30 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 2: But on the drive up here, Maurice Jones, youre and 31 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 2: I were catching up. I know you and I have 32 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 2: spent some time together throughout the draft of the draft house. 33 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:31,919 Speaker 2: Maurice and I were talking about the Tom Brady roast. 34 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 3: Oh my god, I see that. WHOA would you ever 35 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 3: do a roast? Have you ever done a roast? 36 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: I've been to a roast, I've actually participated in it, 37 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,559 Speaker 1: but never have I been roasted. But for thirty million, 38 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:43,119 Speaker 1: you could roast. 39 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 2: I was just about to say how many millions? 40 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: Thirty is about it? Right around that area where I'm like, okay, 41 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: say what you want about your boy. 42 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 3: Some of that stuff doesn't go away. Man. I mean, 43 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 3: money's great, but good lord, that was like scathing? Why 44 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 3: did Tom do that? 45 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: Well? Baby, Jane JB. Say what you have to say 46 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: in the car and that was awesome. 47 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 2: We just ripped all the bandais before he goes on 48 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 2: television and broadcast the game of the week for Fox 49 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 2: from now on, including the against the forty. 50 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: How about the smarter of a way is that you 51 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 1: go and let everyone joke about you. Yeah, it's in 52 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: a joking manner. It may be true, but ha ha ha. 53 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: Now I can go on TV and not have to 54 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: worry about any. 55 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 3: You can still stink up there. Just because we got 56 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 3: the jokes out of the way doesn't mean he's gonna 57 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 3: be great. It doesn't still stink. 58 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: He can still stink. But guess what for three hundred 59 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: and seventy five million stink away? Uh. 60 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 2: I'll go through some basics and then I'll toss it 61 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 2: to you guys, and you can kind of give us 62 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 2: your first big picture read on the season that we've 63 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 2: now seen. 64 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 3: You're going to hold the December game, aren't you? Just 65 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 3: tell me where are we going when it gets cold? 66 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 2: Our audience has presumably seen the schedule by now we've 67 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 2: reflected a little bit. The only part that we don't 68 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 2: know is kind of our opponent's schedule. Yeah, so we'll 69 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 2: finish there. But the basics. Buy in week six. That's 70 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 2: as early as it's been since the Rams have come 71 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 2: back to Los Angeles. Two Thursday night footballs. That's not 72 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 2: what you like typically draw. 73 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 3: You get the long bye after, yeah, the long break after. 74 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: Well. Also, I'll say this to about Thursday. The practice 75 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: weeks are really it's like walk throughs. So you get 76 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: to you get to somewhat were yeh go two Thursdays though. 77 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 2: Two Thursdays, once against the Vikings at home, so you 78 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 2: got a team coming from the Midwest to your place. 79 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 2: That's about as good as you could hope for. And 80 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 2: the other is game two of your regular season series 81 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 2: against the Niners. So you only have to go up 82 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 2: to Santa Clara. You know the forty nine ers forward 83 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 2: and backward. That's who can bow up and be ready 84 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 2: Thursday night. As much as it is schematic, prepper I 85 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 2: told I told. 86 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: JB, this is like Pacio Marquez three. Okay, it's just 87 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: like we've already fought twice. There's no yeah, there's no gay. 88 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: We're just gonna go out there and brawl out. 89 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 3: We're going there for a Thursday night to San frans 90 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 3: So Thursday night, San Francisco fans. That's gonna be fun. 91 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they'll be turned out, they'll be fun. 92 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. 93 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 2: Okay, there's only one true back to back, and it's 94 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 2: right out of the shoot at Detroit, which we'll talk 95 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 2: about at Arizona. There is one other back to back, 96 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 2: but it's broken up by that MANI by at San 97 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 2: Francisco at New York. That doesn't really count for you 98 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 2: got ten days of rest in between, so that's good. 99 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 2: You don't get on a plane in October. Oh that's cool, 100 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 2: that's helpful. You'll only leave the state twice in the 101 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 2: final seven weeks of the season, so awesome. All right, 102 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 2: that's kind of a broad outline, but let me turn 103 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 2: it over to you to Marko. You can go first 104 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 2: if you want. You see this schedule, and your initial 105 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 2: reaction is. 106 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 3: What Detroit week one? Right, that's going to be fun? Yes? 107 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 3: Is Jared Goff going to show up in a brink struck? 108 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 3: He should? He should do, just like Jalen Ramsey, show 109 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 3: up in a Brinks truck. Back him up onto the field. 110 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: With says, showed me the money? 111 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: But is he that's fun? I mean that was about 112 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 3: as racus an atmosphere as you can find in football 113 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 3: when we were up there the last time for that 114 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 3: playoff game. So I'm glad we're circling back for week 115 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:40,919 Speaker 3: one to play them again. 116 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 2: You surprised the league didn't want to wait. They didn't 117 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 2: want to wait even an extra weekday made football run 118 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 2: that back. 119 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 3: Well you you made perfect sense on that when we 120 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 3: talked about that. I mean you you want to make 121 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 3: sure that game is hot, and you want to make 122 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 3: sure both quarterbacks are there, so guarantee week one both 123 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 3: guys should be there. Later there's you know, there's no guarantees, 124 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 3: but yeah, that's a fun way to start a see. 125 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 2: First of five prime time games on the schedule for 126 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 2: the Rams after only two a Thursday and Monday last year. 127 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 1: Well, eminem better be there, that's the first thing. So 128 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 1: m if you're out there, you're watching this, you better 129 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: show up and talk to your trash. 130 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 2: It's a huge between the Horns fans. 131 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: I know he is. We make sure you're out there. Uh, 132 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: and then for. 133 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 2: Me, all the lines fans are Do you remember the 134 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 2: last January? Yes, we did numbers. 135 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: Why not Troit show up again? 136 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 3: Yeah? This one question. The drummer for the Red Hot 137 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 3: Chili Peppers. PLEA, No, that's the base player drummer on 138 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:31,040 Speaker 3: our side. 139 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: The it doesn't matter because. 140 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 3: He's had a big old thing up in Detroit. I 141 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 3: thought he was a Rams fan, so let's make him 142 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 3: pick sides. Yeah. 143 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: I like that. For me, I would like to talk 144 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: about just the way the Rams built their roster. Yeah, right, 145 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: because you're talking about how physical Detroit is, how physical 146 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: the Niners are, how physical the Eagles are, all these teams, 147 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: and the Rams really built their their roster to fit that. 148 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 3: Right. 149 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: You added the three big guys up front, Uh, Steve 150 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: is the center. You have Jonah Jackson, our other guard, 151 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: Kevin Dotts, and then you have that's three what that's 152 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 1: probably nine hundred one thousand pounds in the middle plus 153 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 1: three thirty three point thirty on the out side. You 154 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: have a big offensive line that can go a mow 155 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: up against some of these tougher, more physical teams. Then 156 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 1: you add in the two running backs to helping the 157 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 1: running game, and then obviously a healthy Cooper Cup with 158 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 1: Pooka Nakua. To me, the Rams have built their roster 159 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: to with staying anything. This schedule is going to say, right, 160 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: if it's all different, if it was the Master. If 161 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 1: it was Detroit Philly Niners back to back to back, 162 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: They're roster's built for that. Now, where then La pass 163 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 1: is kind of like we had. 164 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 2: To you're speaking, you're speaking offensively y, especially offensive line 165 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 2: in particular. But let me take in a different direction, 166 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 2: because the storyline around Detroit is how they rebuilt their 167 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 2: secondary right. But it's kind of true here in Los 168 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 2: Angeles too. And you look at the five game rip 169 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 2: to open the schedule at Detroit at Arizona with the 170 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 2: top receiver off the board and a healthy Kyler Murray, 171 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 2: the forty nine ers arguably the best offense in the 172 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 2: National Football League last year, the Chicago Bears now could 173 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 2: boast the best receiving corps in the league, and the 174 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,159 Speaker 2: Green Bay Packers, who in the back half of last 175 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 2: season set the world of fire. My point is we're 176 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 2: going to have a grasp of what Russian cover under 177 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 2: Chris Shula and life after Aaron Donald looks like early 178 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 2: like right away. 179 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 3: Russian cover, dump and chase, and you don't have Aeron 180 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 3: anymore to bail you out, So that that's gonna be 181 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 3: something interesting. And I think that whole series with Arizona 182 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 3: just changed with one retirement because when Aaron is on 183 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 3: the field, Kyler Murray is a different player. Now that's different. 184 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: Agree, I do disagree, but he's. 185 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 3: Gonna be super confident. He's going to be that mobile 186 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 3: quarterback that everyone hates to play against that you just 187 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 3: can't hit. He plays that sort of game different. 188 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: I'll tell you how to play him. We've learned this. 189 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: Then there's no reason to stunt and do on that rush. 190 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: Keep him in the pocket, make him throw through the trees. 191 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: It's the old Drew Brees when I was in Jacksonville 192 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: and you play shorter quarterbacks, you have these bigger defensive lineman. 193 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: You want to push the pocket, collapse the pocket, but 194 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: not allow him outside. Make Kyler rush through the inside. 195 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: He doesn't like going through the tackles. He likes to 196 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: go out and a round. So if you can contain 197 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: him and make him go in. Granted, having not having 198 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: Aaron Donald is to me is it's a bit huge 199 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: loss because he was terrified of him. But on the 200 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: other side, because I'm always going from the offensive side, 201 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: the Rams always scored thirty points agains him, so you 202 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: have to put up points and the one times they 203 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: didn't do that. The Cardinals won, so to me, I think, yes, 204 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: losing Aaron is huge in that in that series, But 205 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: if the Rams could always get right like they do 206 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: against them, the Tyler Higby always has a big game 207 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: against the Cardinals. There's always a tight ends game there. 208 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: Your running game always works there. I mean, we saw 209 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: Kiren with the big run down there last year. If 210 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: you can get that running game going, puts more pressure 211 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,079 Speaker 1: on him and allows those young guys to kind of 212 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:40,199 Speaker 1: kind of quit the team. 213 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 2: To Marco on this one though, I think the NFC 214 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 2: West is actually going to be the best division in 215 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 2: the NFC. Everyone's talking about the North, and it's interesting 216 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 2: because those divisions go head to head this year, right, 217 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,719 Speaker 2: You'll have sixteen games between them to decide it, and 218 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 2: the Rams play their NFC North opponents right off the top. 219 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: But I think Arizona has stacked a couple of nice drafts. 220 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 2: I think their coaching staff got their best out of 221 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 2: them at the tail end of the last season. Their 222 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 2: running game got going. Kyler's healthy, Marvin Harrison Junior like 223 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 2: for the better part of the McVeigh era, the Rams 224 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 2: have kind of started the year like one point seven 225 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: to zero right right because they played the Cardinals. I 226 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 2: don't think that's try different now. Yes, in Seattle. I 227 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 2: know some folks in the Seahawks like they feel like 228 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 2: they won this coaching cycle. The ross in a good place, 229 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 2: and they feel like they hired the best staff in 230 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 2: this cycle. 231 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is you're gonna have to re establish dominance 232 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,719 Speaker 3: on defense in this division for the Rams. Offensively, I'm 233 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 3: with you. I think this offense right now could score 234 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,319 Speaker 3: points against just about anybody. But can you slow down? 235 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: But what helps what helps a good What helps a 236 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: good defense the offense that scores points right if you 237 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: put them if you have an offense on the other side. 238 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: And the reason I say that is when you have 239 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: a young defense Firs simmer last year when Sean was like, look, 240 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: we're gonna bet on the offense putting up points and 241 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: they allow the defense to come along as they go. 242 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: You have to do that again this year, which I 243 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:55,719 Speaker 1: think they're better suited to do this year because of 244 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 1: the way they've made some moves and drafting, uh and 245 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,079 Speaker 1: and free agency. But if you can score points, that 246 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: puts pressure on the other offense that have to try 247 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: to score points with you with make someone want to 248 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: throw the ball. So let's just be honest. Young guys 249 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 1: don't do well against the run game. 250 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 3: Or keep you on the field and keep Stafford off 251 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 3: it by running the football right, you can't get off. 252 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 3: That's the other part. And that's where Kyler scares me 253 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 3: because before he plays the Rams he is the best 254 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,559 Speaker 3: at keep away. Remember that nineteen second play, but he 255 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 3: just ran around. That's the stuff that scares me. All 256 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 3: that stuff, that guy will start to show up because 257 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 3: somebody's not here. 258 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 2: Before I lose the thread on the NSC North. Let 259 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 2: me get to the Packers, because the Rams have lost 260 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 2: at Lambeau the last four years. It'll be nice to 261 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,839 Speaker 2: have the chiefs heads in Englewood. Finally they come to 262 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 2: Los Angeles. 263 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,599 Speaker 3: This year was the last one when they fumbled the 264 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 3: kickoff with Aaron Rodgers. That was the last time. Oh 265 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 3: we stole one. 266 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, the Todd Gurley Rolex game, thank. 267 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,319 Speaker 1: God, Yes, sir, Yeah, I think in that situation that 268 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: they're new too. They have a lot of new pieces 269 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: on offense there. Granted every time we play them. I 270 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: actually talked to a couple of their coaches about that. 271 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 1: I was like, why is it every time you guys 272 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,839 Speaker 1: have your get right game was against against the Rams. 273 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,439 Speaker 2: Well I haven't, honey, Yeah what Well, let's just go 274 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:07,679 Speaker 2: back in time and look at the quarterbacks who have 275 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:10,959 Speaker 2: played that game. Brett Rippon played last year, Baker the 276 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,559 Speaker 2: year before, Obj breaking in with Stafford, the one time 277 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 2: Stafford took the Rams there, and then Jared Goss last 278 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 2: game as a Ram. 279 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: Well, this is what they told me. They said Joe 280 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: Barry Fingers was Joe Barry was the secret agent. He 281 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,719 Speaker 1: was because they ran the same defense. So he was like, 282 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: this is what they literally came. He's like, we practiced 283 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: against the Rams defense all throughout trading camp, so that 284 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: was our secret sauce. You don't have Joe Berry anymore. 285 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: Maybe that's the difference. 286 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 2: That's October sixth, It's Week five, the Green Bay Packers, 287 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 2: the second home game of the season. The Rams dot 288 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 2: com slash t i X. Where should we go next? 289 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 2: Where should we go? No holiday games? 290 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 3: Thank goodness? Okay, a lot of people. 291 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:50,599 Speaker 2: I feel bad for those of you who wanted to 292 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,960 Speaker 2: see the Rams play Detroit on Thanksgiving. That's not going 293 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 2: to happen. The longest Thanksgiving route in the National Football 294 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,719 Speaker 2: league continues, but no Christmas midweek on Netflix either. No 295 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 2: Black Friday game. You're good with yeah, big time. 296 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 3: I you know, look if from a defensive perspective, and 297 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 3: this is the way I think if I could have 298 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 3: planned this out, it would come out probably just like 299 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 3: the schedule. You're playing some of the youngest quarterbacks early 300 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:13,679 Speaker 3: as you get your feet wet. Deficially, you think of 301 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 3: Chris Jula. He's establishing himself as a decordinator, so there's 302 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 3: bound to be issues there. There's going to be some 303 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 3: rough patches. So you get the youngsters early and then 304 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 3: you face those great quarterbacks later when you have a 305 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 3: chance to get rolling and know what you're doing and 306 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 3: when everything is second nature versus having to learn how 307 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 3: to communicate. Remember, you don't have that steady and influence 308 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 3: out there that can bail you out, that can change 309 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,079 Speaker 3: the math with one hit. This is going to be 310 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 3: a true start from the ground zero and work yourself 311 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 3: up to December type of season defensively for the Rams. 312 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,079 Speaker 3: So if you could pick you put those great quarterbacks 313 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 3: later and you get the young ones early and figure 314 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 3: out what you're doing by the first by week. 315 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: So when do you think Aaron decides to come back 316 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 1: week one, week fifteen. I think he just like, you 317 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: know what, kind of a little bit, maybe I can 318 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 1: get out there and give you fifteen places. 319 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 2: Teasing Maurice, don't. I'm just saying maybe our audience don't. 320 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,559 Speaker 1: Maybe. Man, It's just like, hey, we're gonna make a 321 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: run of this thing. Come on back. 322 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 3: I say his name all year. 323 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 2: By the way, if you haven't seen the debut episode 324 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,319 Speaker 2: of Behind the Ground the Grind, check it out on 325 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 2: YouTube and all the Rams platforms. It was excellent. Take 326 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 2: it behind the scenes of Aaron's retirement announcement. 327 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:22,719 Speaker 3: Did Aaron show up like he is? 328 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 2: He's like right now, just visiting with him in Pittsburgh 329 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 2: as he talked everyone through that decision. But let me 330 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 2: go back to your point about young quarterbacks early. The 331 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 2: Rams are gonna face five of the first ten picks 332 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 2: in this year's draft on this schedule, including three quarterbacks. 333 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 2: I think we all know Caleb Williams is gonna be 334 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 2: the starter from day one in Chicago, right, So you've 335 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 2: got a week four trip to the Windy City, Hey, 336 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 2: Chicago in September. 337 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 3: We're all good with that, right, absolutely? Yes, the Mark. 338 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 2: Almost didn't survive the sun in that football game. 339 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: We almost didn't survive, but we were inside, so I 340 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: know he wouldn't make it. 341 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:56,959 Speaker 2: He and I were just cold. You were about to 342 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 2: fight with a bit. 343 00:13:57,840 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: I was cold and about to fight. That's the worst. 344 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 3: Wow. 345 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 2: I would have been a couple of weeks before I 346 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 2: got you back to California. Drake May and New England 347 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 2: in November, we'll see interesting, probably be probably yeah, JJ 348 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 2: McCarthy and the Vikings in October on a short week 349 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:13,839 Speaker 2: that could be favorable. 350 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 3: For how scary that logo used to be New England 351 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 3: logo when you just saw it. I mean it's different now, right. 352 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: Oh, I mean listen, it's so funny. You have to go, 353 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: you know, when you get some promised times like them 354 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: twenty years of being on top, you. 355 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 3: Gotta go through the valley of death. Oh, I'm gonna 356 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 3: have fun now, should have fun stomping New England. That's fun. 357 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: I remember we went to New England with Jared and 358 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: it was. 359 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 3: Like, oh, yeah, but that logo used to be so 360 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 3: scary and now it's so different. Yeah, it's weird. Trying 361 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 3: to figure out how to feel about Minnesota because Minnesota 362 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 3: is a good football team that may be starting a rookie, 363 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 3: So how do you feel about them? Right now? Right? 364 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to start the rookie because I know what 365 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: Sam Darnold's gonna give me. 366 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 3: I've seen that. 367 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: I've read that book multiple times before, so I know 368 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: what that how that book ends. I think you start 369 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: the rookie because you have enough weapons around him, and 370 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: now you have a running game with Aaron Jones that 371 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: you can kind of lean on. Minnesota's gonna be a 372 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: little bit different. This is gonna be about the play caller, 373 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: I think more than the players. How do you protect 374 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: your young quarterback? 375 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 3: And go ahead? IM sorry, I was gonna say. 376 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 2: They also went up to ge Dallas Turner. Yeah, two 377 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 2: spots ahead of Jared Verse. So a matchup of rookie 378 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 2: edge rusher in Los Angeles. 379 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 3: And I did not buy into the negative hype about 380 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 3: Caleb Williams. There seems to be a lot of negativity 381 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 3: around that kid. But look, when you watch that guy 382 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 3: on film, that is a problem for anybody's defense. 383 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: Well, I will say Boddy, I will say this, The 384 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: biggest issue that he has is he's an improviser. He 385 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: likes to improvise. He doesn't take that first that first 386 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: read all the time, and that's going to come back 387 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: to bite you in the league. You can't improvise in 388 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: the league as much as you do in college. 389 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 3: Not to you know who you sound like, you sound 390 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 3: like what was his name, Chucky the Raiders coach? Oh, 391 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 3: John Gruden, Yeah, when he was talking about Mahomes. 392 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, but hey, but listen what happened down that stretch 393 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: last year. But home, stop improvising is because you can't 394 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: do a Yeah, you got problems, but that mobility, that 395 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: sort of issue. Those mobile quarterbacks give any defense fits, 396 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: they really. 397 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 2: Do, and circumstances matter. It's been a long time since 398 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 2: a one one came in the league with these circumstances. 399 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, you know it is. 400 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to see what they do in 401 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: Chicago haven't really had a quarterback in their whole history. 402 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: You finally get one, you put weapons around them, weapons 403 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 1: around and now we'll see and then guess what. Shane 404 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: Waldron's the OC there. So that's another familiar phone that 405 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: the Rams have to deal with. 406 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 2: One other rookie to mention, brock Bauers was clearly coveted 407 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 2: and he comes so far too, and I know you've 408 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 2: got a baby. 409 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: Man, it's my baby. I'm so hurt. I truly thought 410 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: we talked. I thought the Rams were gonna have to 411 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: We're gonna have a chance to go and get them. 412 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to see because the Rams are 413 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: struggled against tight ends, and he'll be utilized. I've talked 414 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: to the Raiders a bunch over this since the draft 415 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: about him. He's played slot receiver, tight end, been lined 416 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: up in the backfield, played out wide already. They moved 417 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: him all around, so he'll be a chess piece of 418 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: the you know, very similar. I want to say Travis Kelce, 419 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: but close to guy is gonna be moved allround the field. 420 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: You're gonna have to count for for sure. 421 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 2: All Right, we glanced past it earlier. But I think 422 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,360 Speaker 2: let's circle back to the two drawbacks of this schedule. 423 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,199 Speaker 2: A week six by is earlier than any of us 424 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 2: are accustomed to, and in a seventeen game structure, that 425 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 2: really hurts, right, And then two Thursday nights as well, 426 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 2: Which one of those bothers you most more at all 427 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 2: got to be the early. 428 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:19,719 Speaker 3: Bye, right? 429 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 1: It depends on how you practice. I think the Rams 430 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: don't practice like we used to back in the day, 431 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,639 Speaker 1: where it's like pads all the way until November. But 432 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 1: having that early buy does hurt because then it's what 433 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 1: thirteen straight games or something like that, twelve straight games, 434 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 1: and so that's gonna be tough. But I like the 435 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: Thursday night games as a player. I love Thursday Night 436 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: because I just had to find a way, like to 437 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 1: mentally just get through it. Knowing that I had a 438 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: long by after I had the weekend to hang out 439 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: with my family and chill, and then I was coming 440 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 1: back to work on Wednesday, kind of just gives you. 441 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: It kind of gives you a little body clock. 442 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 3: You're practicing at night or late, anyway you're playing it late, 443 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 3: it works. Yeah. 444 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 2: I just think that a trip to San Francisco on 445 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 2: a Thursday night is going to be immensely consequential. But 446 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 2: if you can survive it, if you're intact, then you're 447 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 2: teed up for a big finish. You got ten days 448 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 2: before that trip to face Aaron Rodgers in New York, 449 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 2: and then you finished with back to back Home Division games. 450 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 2: It could be spun favorably. It could be spun favorably 451 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 2: if you're looking for silver linings. 452 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: And I'll say this too. You you talked about not 453 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: leaving LA in October, right, and. 454 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 2: Then there home games in a bye in October September. 455 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 1: That is awesome. And then December when you only on 456 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 1: the road what twice. 457 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 2: And one of those trips this is Santa Clara Like, 458 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 2: it's just like your set up. Yeah, So after you 459 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 2: come back from New Orleans December, the first you only 460 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:45,920 Speaker 2: leave the state once to go to New York. 461 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 3: Can we go back to New Orleans? Are they over it? Yeah? 462 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 3: We can? 463 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 2: I thought you meant, can we go back to New 464 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 2: Orleans in February? 465 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 3: That too? But can we go back to New Orleans? 466 00:18:58,080 --> 00:18:58,199 Speaker 1: Now? 467 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 3: Are they over that hole? Nickel Robey Coleman. 468 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: It's not even about are we gonna Are we gonna 469 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: go back to New Orleans and go to the place 470 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: that we always go to go get dinner? And we 471 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: gotta that's that's the best. That's what I saw. When 472 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: I saw that, I was like, Now, I was like, 473 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, ow's here we come. That's what I thought. 474 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 1: When I saw try to shake that pudding, Oh my god, 475 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 1: I was like, I was like dude, I have to 476 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:20,360 Speaker 1: go back. I gotta find a way to get there. Yes, 477 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: I don't care less about the game. It's more about 478 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: the dinner we had in the oyster. 479 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 2: Like o'clock, none of us needed to be out. We 480 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 2: get there, there's a line out the door, and to 481 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 2: Mark and I look at each other like what did 482 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 2: we just get ourselves into? 483 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,639 Speaker 3: But for it? 484 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 2: And do you remember the husband and the wife and 485 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 2: Donald Jersey's at the bar that was finishing up gave 486 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 2: us their seats just in time. It made for a 487 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 2: perfect eve. 488 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 3: New Orleans is a great spot for foo and it's great. 489 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 3: They know how to do it, yes sir. 490 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 2: And for listeners wondering like the Saints again, Yes, the 491 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 2: Saints again. And also just the preview there on next 492 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 2: year's schedule too well, and they're coming to so fine 493 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:54,479 Speaker 2: next year. 494 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 1: So this is the other thing too that I will say, 495 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 1: because as we start to see the league in the 496 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 1: national the bigger picture, a lot of Rams coaches and 497 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,200 Speaker 1: a lot of Niners coaches are out in the league. 498 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak is now the OC for the Saints, runs 499 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: the same who was with the Niners last year, so 500 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: he'll run this the Niners offense, so he'll give you 501 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 1: a little more familiarity with what the Niners are doing 502 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: in practice wise. I mean, I think all that is 503 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,199 Speaker 1: going to end up playing to try to win this division. 504 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 2: Feel free to jump in with other thoughts schedulated as 505 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 2: you want. But this is the first time we've sat 506 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 2: down together since the draft concluded, and since it was 507 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 2: so defensive driven, and especially along the defensive front, and 508 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 2: that's your position, and since Blake Korum is now a 509 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 2: Ram to team with Kyen Williams, I thought I could 510 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 2: just kind of ask each one of you guys to 511 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,879 Speaker 2: give us your evaluation of what the Rams did to 512 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 2: fortify those two positions over the weekends. 513 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 3: I saw a picture of on social media. Is that 514 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 3: really him? 515 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: I just saw him in the and the room. Yeah, 516 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: oh my. 517 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 3: God, Wow, that's your guy. 518 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 1: Go ahead, I'll talk listen first and foremost. I'm very 519 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 1: excited for the short running back. Yeah, the short running 520 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: back is back. 521 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 3: You know. 522 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 1: I feel like I should have pattened that so I 523 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 1: could have got a little cheese on the side. But 524 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 1: I love what the Rams are doing because when I 525 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: played in Jacksonville, especially when I became the guy they 526 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 1: went huge on the offensive line. We ended up drafting 527 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: Eugene Monroe, who was six ' five three forty out 528 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 1: of Virginia. We had Tony Paschos, who was huge. We 529 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: end up drafting Van Britten out of Arizona, who is 530 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 1: another three hundred pounds sixty four sixty five tackle. I 531 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: had a three hundred and sixty pound left guard, three 532 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty pounds three hundred fifty pound right guard, 533 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 1: and then at three hundred pound center. And all that 534 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: to say is those double teams, you gotta see me 535 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: right and we know the Rams want to run downhill. 536 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: So when you look at Blake rum one, I had 537 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: him as my third or fourth ring back one because 538 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 1: I felt like he came out of a pro He's 539 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,159 Speaker 1: the most pro ready guy to go right now. He 540 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: understands productions, he's smart, he's physical, he runs downhill. And 541 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: the reason he was third is because not many teams 542 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 1: are downhill runners anymore. A lot of teams are going 543 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: that spread side to side kind of single back deal. 544 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: But I knew there was a couple of good fits 545 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 1: for him. Obviously, the Chargers would have been a good 546 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: fit with his old coach and what the rams are 547 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 1: doing here is gonna be a good fit of what 548 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: they do with Kyron. And so when you put him 549 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 1: in this situation, in this system, imagine the Dotson and 550 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: Avola and Jackson double teaming or Havenstein, all these guys, 551 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: these big linemen double can you see him? 552 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 3: Oh no? 553 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: And we saw what Kyraen was able to do last year, 554 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,120 Speaker 1: So you bring another back that has the same ability 555 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 1: as Kyron, a little bit faster, but the same ability 556 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: that can find those holes and go. And then I 557 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,160 Speaker 1: just think like it's all built to be around Stafford, 558 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: right because Stafford loves He doesn't like to waggle. He 559 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: likes to go straight, drop back, So that play action 560 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: passed with those two guys will be huge. Plus is 561 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: like I said, his uh past protection, You don't have 562 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: to question that. You saw that on tape. You saw 563 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 1: him run slide protect, you saw him run pro style stuff. 564 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 1: So I just thought he fit fit perfectly. Now do 565 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: I think? I don't know if his ceiling is highed 566 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: as high as some of the other guys that are 567 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,119 Speaker 1: out there, because there are a lot of guys are 568 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: pretty raw, but I think that you put him in now, 569 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 1: he'll still be a ten years ten yure player for. 570 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,160 Speaker 2: You in terms of game identity and the personnel built 571 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 2: to match it. The Rams probably haven't been in this 572 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,439 Speaker 2: position year of a year since seventeen to eighteen. 573 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,159 Speaker 1: Yes, right, I agree with you. 574 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:10,679 Speaker 3: Built to run in. 575 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 2: Terms of knowing who they are in their run, game 576 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 2: identity and having the personnel to do that over the 577 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 2: course of a full season. I don't think since Todd 578 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,959 Speaker 2: Gurley's twenty seventeen Offensive Player of the Year coming back 579 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 2: for eighteen have been in this Remember. 580 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 1: It was just Todd though. 581 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 3: Yeah. 582 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: And I think the key to this is if you're 583 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: thinking about longevity, Kyroen the last was it last year? 584 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:33,920 Speaker 1: In the last five games almost rush for one thousand 585 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 1: yards or something crazy like that. Imagine having another version 586 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: of that that can go in and run. 587 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 3: Yeah. 588 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,120 Speaker 1: So now and again it brings me back to when 589 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: I was with Fred Taylor, Like Fred would be the 590 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: starter and then I'd come in and then I would 591 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: They like, you can't take a rest. There is no 592 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: rest because this other guy can go and taking the 593 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 1: distance other guy can be just as explosive. 594 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 2: I just love how they know who you are. They 595 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 2: built an identity around a quarterback at the start of 596 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,679 Speaker 2: Sewn's tenure, and now they've completely built a new identity 597 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 2: all the way up. I think now from what's left 598 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 2: of Matthews. 599 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 3: Prime, he's done. That was that the year they went 600 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl and won it, when they went 601 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 3: twelve and had to run the football and changed in 602 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 3: mid season, I. 603 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 2: Don't remember them running football. Yeah, the super Bowl, that 604 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 2: was what was. 605 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 3: But knowing who you are early, okay, that's that's fine, 606 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 3: and being built to run, I mean you might have 607 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 3: to go beyond Todd to to have a line this 608 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 3: size that were you. You're telling people by the size 609 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,640 Speaker 3: of the guys up front, this is what we're gonna. 610 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 2: Do, not by the size, by by the skill set. 611 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 2: When they found out what they had with Todd, they 612 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:32,360 Speaker 2: kind of went the opposite direction. 613 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 3: Okay, but uh and I thought when they took Korum, 614 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 3: I mean, either that's competition for Kyroen or Kyroen insurance. 615 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 3: Either way, it works out good for the offense because 616 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 3: the running game keeps going no matter what. 617 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: That In Boston, Scott too, I was gonna say, when 618 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: you just remember last year what the running game did 619 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: for the Rams and the play action passed, how how 620 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,200 Speaker 1: much space was back there after you did the play 621 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: plate the kiren Blake Krum gives you that word. I 622 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: thought Royce Freeman kind of stepped into some good stuff, 623 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,360 Speaker 1: but I think Blake Krum gives you a different type 624 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:02,399 Speaker 1: of explosiveness with that. 625 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 2: Okay, Now on your side of the ball, Verse Fisk, 626 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 2: Davis Brennan, Jackson Manner. 627 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 3: Well you can't have you can't replace the man. I 628 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 3: told you, I will not say his name, but you 629 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 3: can't replace the man with just one guy. So they 630 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 3: threw somebodies, you know, at the position, which is what 631 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,359 Speaker 3: they should have done. So Verse I thought was one 632 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 3: of the the the top edge rushers in the game 633 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 3: or in college football. You got him, and then you 634 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,239 Speaker 3: take his buddy that can move down the line if 635 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 3: you need from nose tackle out to the five. Just 636 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 3: a big, strong type of guy, a he man in 637 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 3: the middle that can play a run and give you 638 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 3: some wiggle in the pass rush. So you're gonna need that. 639 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,360 Speaker 3: Plus Kobe Turner getting better, and same with Pooka Nakua. 640 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 3: I hope these guys are just getting ready to be 641 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 3: the best version of themselves. I hope Pooka doesn't think 642 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 3: that he has to top what he did last year. 643 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 3: That's too much pressure on yourself. Just be the best 644 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 3: version of yourself. Kobe Turner too, it's going to be 645 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 3: harder than you thought. It's going to be without that 646 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 3: guy out there with you, all the attention. Everybody in 647 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 3: the stadium is gonna be looking at you like you're 648 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 3: saying the national anthem. This is gonna be different. So 649 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 3: you're gonna have to learn how to do that. But 650 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,639 Speaker 3: as long as you have bodies and waves and you're 651 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 3: scoring points on offense, this defense will get measurably better 652 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 3: weekend and week out. They're gonna be young, they're gonna 653 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:15,959 Speaker 3: make a lot of mistakes, but they're gonna be very 654 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,479 Speaker 3: athletic and flying off the ball. So as long as 655 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 3: you're ahead, you'll have chance to rush the passer. If 656 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 3: you're behind, you're playing the run. Then it's gonna be 657 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 3: a little bit different. 658 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,719 Speaker 1: I will say this, I think Jared versus mindset, it's 659 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: a little bit different than what a lot of the 660 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 1: guys that if you kind of hear him talk like 661 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 1: he wants to beat up other guys, right, He's like, 662 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go through you to get to the quarterback. 663 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go around you like you see with 664 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,399 Speaker 1: a lot of passers. Was like, take he's gonna try 665 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 1: to bring a physical nastiness to the defensive line. 666 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 3: And be a voice on the defense. Yes, be your voice. 667 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that void. And it's also the disposition. Like 668 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:52,680 Speaker 2: when Aaron was on the field, you always knew what 669 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 2: your worst case scenario was, no matter which position you played, 670 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 2: because you had number ninety nine on your sideline right right. Yeah, 671 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 2: he was an enforcer. He said temperature. Well, and you 672 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 2: lost a lot of that. And I think you go ahead. 673 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 2: I think you replaced something. 674 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,639 Speaker 3: You think versus going to step into that. I mean 675 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 3: you got to earn that. 676 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 2: No, I'm just saying they have guys who seem to 677 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,360 Speaker 2: be willing to step into the fray and have done 678 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 2: it at a championship level in college and so to 679 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 2: the extent that you can fix some of what you 680 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 2: lost this offseason, I think they've done everything within their power, 681 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,360 Speaker 2: both free agency, getting a guy like Jona Jackson, big guard, 682 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,360 Speaker 2: getting some vets in the secondary. Like, I think they've 683 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 2: done as well as they could to replace some of 684 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 2: the intangible I hope both in terms of upholding the 685 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 2: standard here in the facility and then on Sunday when 686 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 2: things get rowdy. 687 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 3: I hope they got the right version of Darius Williams too, 688 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 3: that guy, I think you will. 689 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,879 Speaker 1: I think Jacksonvie played it. They played a different defense 690 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: of what Darris was used to. But I will say this, 691 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,640 Speaker 1: remember what Florida State went through last year. That takes 692 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,880 Speaker 1: a big hu. Your quarterback breaks his leg, he's out, 693 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,560 Speaker 1: and they still find a way to win because of defense. Right, 694 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: And so you're bringing that mentality which I think a 695 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: lot of times when you do draft you guys, you 696 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: want to draft the best player, but you want to 697 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: draft circumstance too. Like they had to step up and 698 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: be huge in those games and they were beaten, still 699 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: beating teams because of the defense, not because of the offense. 700 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:12,360 Speaker 1: Offense couldn't do much of anything. Those receivers were good, 701 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: but they weren't good because the quarterback was they think 702 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 1: they play their third quarterback yet Verse Fish. Those guys 703 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 1: were dominating, and when you watch their tape, they were 704 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 1: the energy, the energy creators, and that's what you want. 705 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: You need Again, you're losing an energy creator, right, Like 706 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 1: you're a guy that can go like, hey, we gotta 707 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,160 Speaker 1: go make a play. You brought two of those guys 708 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: in to come help their teammates. I got drafts with 709 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,159 Speaker 1: my teammate. It makes a big difference when you get 710 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,600 Speaker 1: drafts with your teammate. I'm comfortable because I know you. 711 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 2: Yes, huge, all right, one more promo the Rams dot 712 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 2: Com slash tix to get your single game tickets to 713 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 2: join us for the nine game regular season home schedule 714 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 2: at SOFI, stating that kicks off against the division rival 715 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 2: from up north. I cannot wait for the twenty twenty 716 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 2: four season to get here, but we've got a lot 717 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 2: of amazing content between now and then. Enjoy all of 718 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,239 Speaker 2: the schedule release activity tonight Behind the Grind Episode one 719 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 2: if you haven't seen it yet. Ernest Jones has a 720 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 2: new golf apparel collab. Tyler Higbee's recovery was touching. 721 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 3: Hold on, he's a linebacker. Right linebacker's gonna play golf? Man, 722 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 3: What are you doing? 723 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 2: It looked pretty fluid to me. Come on, you're not 724 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 2: gonna win the PGA. But he can play, and he 725 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 2: looks the part. 726 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: He likes it. 727 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 2: We also take you inside Chris Shula's defense as he 728 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 2: prepares for his first season as defensive coordinator, and some 729 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 2: touching moments between Pooka and his mother. You've always got 730 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 2: rams iconic right to get us through the off season. 731 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,719 Speaker 2: We'll have coverage of OTAs starting on Monday from here 732 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 2: in Thousand Oaks, So a lot of good things to 733 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 2: look forward to. Final thoughts before I go, did you. 734 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 3: Everybody I talked to you probably ran over at some point. 735 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 3: That's what drives me nuts. There's probably a highlight for 736 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 3: the guys that like I do. Rams Iconic that played 737 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 3: in your era, you probably ran them all over. I 738 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 3: don't like you right now. 739 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 1: I mean that was that was old. That was a 740 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 1: different time, different different me. 741 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 3: See. 742 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: You know, I wish it I was the other way. 743 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: But you guys have Stephen Jackson. 744 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,800 Speaker 3: I hope there's some video of you getting blown up to. 745 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: I never happen like that. I don't think that ever 746 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: happened now. The last thing I will say is I'm 747 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 1: excited to have a healthy Cooper cutback. Watching him from Afar, 748 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: it has been really exciting the way he's training. Not 749 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,960 Speaker 1: only that he's training, but who's training with him. Cook 750 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 1: in the court, now all of a sudden, Cooper has 751 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: this new thing of trying to get back healthy and rolling. 752 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: You bring your young guy and who had a crazy year, 753 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 1: and it's again you talked about being the best version 754 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 1: of yourself. You don't have to have the fourteen hundred 755 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 1: yard you're You just got to try to get your 756 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 1: team back to the playoffs again. That's what's going to 757 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: That's how your success is going to be measured. And 758 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 1: if he can continue to grow the way he's grown, 759 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 1: limiting some of those drops that he had last year 760 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 1: and then getting a healthy Cooper cutback with this running game, 761 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: that offensive line, your defense will have time to get 762 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: to where they need to get to. 763 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 3: Absolutely. Can you imagine Pooka without the drops? Fantastic season, 764 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 3: but just take away the ones he dropped and turn 765 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 3: those into receptions. 766 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 1: And we haven't talked about the Gunslinger yet, right, all 767 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: this stuff that we're talking about, you still have a 768 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,239 Speaker 1: guy that can go back there and drop I can 769 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: throw it sixty times if you need to and win games. 770 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 1: And so to me, it's just again like I said, 771 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 1: I'm so excited because last year you went, you had 772 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 1: a banged up Cooper Cup, you had a banged up 773 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. You were trying to find your way. You 774 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 1: needed to move some things, and JB talked about this 775 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: last year about moving your guard to center and all this. 776 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 1: You've done, all that you wanted to do. This is 777 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: where you make your push. 778 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 2: Kind of like what you said there though, that Cooper 779 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 2: Cup is the key to the twenty four season. That 780 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 2: your ceiling is as high as his health and productivity. Yeah, 781 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 2: his returning to the Triple Crown form. 782 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: I mean it's a high expectation, but if he can 783 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 1: get there. Uh oh, spaghettios. 784 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 2: All right, We're thirty minutes closer to kicking off in 785 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 2: Detroit Sunday Night Football, the rematch between Stafford and his 786 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,479 Speaker 2: former team, the Lions and Jared Goff with a new 787 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 2: contract extension and the Los Angeles Rams. Thank you for 788 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 2: watching this schedule release edition of Between the Horns that's 789 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,479 Speaker 2: always presented by your Southern California Toyota Dealers.