Speaker 1: First ten Dolphins from the eighteen yard line of the
Speaker 1: Rams first possession.
Speaker 2: They fake the handoff.
Speaker 3: Now they got the reverse them a League one because
Speaker 3: the ten the five puts down Miami.
Speaker 4: What a gorgeous played by the Miami Dolphins, totally fooling
Speaker 4: the Rams defense.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: What a drive, What an opening drive for the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: It was a great opening drive for the Dolphins. A
Speaker 2: great play. Not maybe a great night, but that was
Speaker 2: w B g C. Jimmy Sefhalo, Joe Rose in Miami,
Speaker 2: Malik Washington Getty had done just three minutes into the game.
Speaker 2: We have a touchdown. We think it's going back and forth.
Speaker 2: Doesn't end up being that type of game. The Dolphins win.
Speaker 2: In Los Angeles twenty three to fifteen. I am here
Speaker 2: at the Chris Wesley podcast studio. We just raced upstairs
Speaker 2: maybe that race.
Speaker 1: I'm still out of Brouth.
Speaker 2: Just kind of waddled up the stairs from the studio
Speaker 2: where we were on in the UK doing Monday Night Football.
Speaker 2: I am here with Bridget Condon and congratulations Bridget, not
Speaker 2: just for doing a great job broadcasting tonight, but it's
Speaker 2: the first time you've been on the show since you
Speaker 2: were announced you were pregnant. So it's three of us
Speaker 2: here in the studio tonight, it's four maybe four.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that later. I'm excited to be back.
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me. I will say the brain
Speaker 5: diminishes a bit when you're pregnant, So bear with me here.
Speaker 5: Been a little stupid lately, Okay, but yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: this game is good. Could also.
Speaker 1: Be similar to that.
Speaker 2: Let's not just okay, it's good. We're setting low expectations
Speaker 2: early and then we jump over them because I agree,
Speaker 2: we don't need to put lipstick on a pig for
Speaker 2: every game and say every game is a beautiful baby.
Speaker 2: This was not. But I think there were a lot
Speaker 2: of interesting takeaways from it and things that are going
Speaker 2: to matter moving forward, and we're going to talk about
Speaker 2: some of those. Starting with the Dolphins getting a massive
Speaker 2: win in a surprising way where Tua tungo Ilo is
Speaker 2: under a lot of heat a lot of the night,
Speaker 2: takes some bad sacks, but they dial up some good
Speaker 2: plays early. They overcome a bunch of turnovers because their
Speaker 2: defense plays lights out, don't give up a touchdown all
Speaker 2: night to the Los Angeles Rams, and they have offense
Speaker 2: has looked awesome in the last couple of weeks. An
Speaker 2: ugly win matters more than looking good in a couple
Speaker 2: of losses. And somehow this team at three and six
Speaker 2: is only one game out in the lost column in
Speaker 2: the AFC.
Speaker 5: Look coming into tonight's game, these were two teams going
Speaker 5: in completely different directions. You have the Rams since their
Speaker 5: week six by that had won three in a row.
Speaker 5: You have the Dolphins since thereby that had lost three
Speaker 5: in a row. And you know, we thought after that
Speaker 5: first drive it was going to be a high scoring game.
Speaker 5: Of course, it did not end up to be that,
Speaker 5: but the Dolphins still found a way to win. Tyreek
Speaker 5: Hill scored a five first touchdown since week one. They
Speaker 5: This was not a pretty game by either team, but
Speaker 5: somehow they found a way to win. And when you
Speaker 5: look at them at three and six, the fact that
Speaker 5: they are still in the hunt and then we can
Speaker 5: get into their schedule later.
Speaker 1: But there's a real, a real possibility.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we could be talking about a Dolphins team sneaking
Speaker 5: into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Well at least like playing meaningful games as late as
Speaker 2: like Thanksgiving is just yeah, three weeks away. But could
Speaker 2: they win the next couple of games against the Patriots
Speaker 2: and the Raiders. Hell, let's talk to the schedule now,
Speaker 2: why not and get to five and six heading to
Speaker 2: that Thanksgiving game against the Packers. Make that game much
Speaker 2: more interesting. By the way, I don't know if you've
Speaker 2: piked at the Thanksgiving slate. It's not great. We got
Speaker 2: the Bears on Thanksgiving, we got the Cowboys on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Those games don't look as good. But Dolphins Packers I
Speaker 2: think could look better. And I think the Dolphins have
Speaker 2: a real chance because when you look at their team tonight,
Speaker 2: it helps explain why. Yeah two on the offense, especially
Speaker 2: the running game, was not as good as you would
Speaker 2: have liked to see. Their offense did not play well
Speaker 2: enough to win most weeks. But Tua was really good
Speaker 2: out of structure. Surprisingly, he was five of six while
Speaker 2: throwing on the run for seventy nine yards. When I
Speaker 2: think of the best plays that Tua made in this game,
Speaker 2: I think in the first drive, quick pressure by the Rams,
Speaker 2: Jared versus awesome all night, Tua escapes it, steps up
Speaker 2: in the pocket, rolls a little bit to his left,
Speaker 2: hits a long play to Jaylen Waddle. Ends up being
Speaker 2: like the longest play they have right for a while
Speaker 2: in that game. They have a play later in the
Speaker 2: game where he's flushed out of the pocket on a
Speaker 2: third and incredibly long third and nineteen he finds eight
Speaker 2: Chan for a big play that ends up leading to
Speaker 2: points at a huge moment in the game. And then
Speaker 2: also I believe later in the fourth quarter, after Sean
Speaker 2: McVeigh got conservative. We'll get to that in a second
Speaker 2: again to a tongue of Iiloa on third down is
Speaker 2: fleshed out, finds Odell Beckham in his biggest moment as
Speaker 2: a a dolphin, settling down in the zone and Odell
Speaker 2: does a little bit of dance in I think it
Speaker 2: was a little bit of a Michael Jackson move in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. You know, that felt good and they kick
Speaker 2: what ultimately was kind of the game winning field goal. There.
Speaker 2: So Ta creating plays where you don't expect it. That
Speaker 2: is part of his game. We've wanted to see him improve,
Speaker 2: and that could separate, you know, him being just like
Speaker 2: a decent quarterback and him being a really good quarterback.
Speaker 2: On a night where frankly, the Rams took away a
Speaker 2: lot of their usual bread and butter plays.
Speaker 5: Right, this was to his first win since Week one.
Speaker 5: When you think about it, we're already in week ten.
Speaker 5: This is his third game back after missing extended period
Speaker 5: of time because of his concussion going on ir But
Speaker 5: you know, those first two games, it felt like this
Speaker 5: offense still wasn't the two Toungo Iiloa, Mike McDaniel Miami
Speaker 5: intensive offense that we're used to.
Speaker 1: But it kind of feels like they're working their way
Speaker 1: back to being that.
Speaker 5: I thought we would be in here tonight after this
Speaker 5: game talking about the incredible play of Matthew Stafford. He
Speaker 5: has done great these past three weeks up until tonight,
Speaker 5: and for some reason, just couldn't get things going tonight.
Speaker 1: I mean, when you look at the numbers too, it's
Speaker 1: really interesting.
Speaker 5: The Rams had more first downs, they had more yards,
Speaker 5: they had more time of possession than the Dolphins, and
Speaker 5: they still lost. When you are leading in those three categories,
Speaker 5: there's a good chance that you're winning. Interesting too, I'd
Speaker 5: love to hear what Matthew Stafford and the Rams players
Speaker 5: say about the offensive line, because they have two key
Speaker 5: members back. You feel like this has got to be
Speaker 5: his best game. Well, no, he's sacked four times. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they had three fumbles, there was a couple of bad snaps,
Speaker 5: he threw an interception. They finished the game with six penalties.
Speaker 5: It just felt like they from the first drive, the
Speaker 5: Dolphins first drive, it felt like the Rams were not
Speaker 5: ready to play. Sean McVay just got off the podium
Speaker 5: and said that, you know, this Rams offense has been inconsistent.
Speaker 5: That's how he summarized it this after this game, And
Speaker 5: it's true.
Speaker 2: It's true. I don't think enough people watched that Seahawks game.
Speaker 2: To me, it was very concerned and it confirmed my
Speaker 2: priors a little bit about this Rams offense and Dolphins
Speaker 2: fans who are out there and want a little more level,
Speaker 2: we'll talk a little bit more about your defense and
Speaker 2: what's happening here. But my priors on this Rams team
Speaker 2: watching them is the injuries weren't everything that's wrong with
Speaker 2: this team that sometimes, like last week, he was protected
Speaker 2: pretty well and their defense was carrying them in that game.
Speaker 2: Their offense played a d game. Stafford I think has
Speaker 2: had his worst season in a long time. Like I
Speaker 2: don't think Stafford is playing at the level that he's
Speaker 2: played since he got to Los Angeles. And you can
Speaker 2: say it's the offensive line. You can say it's Pooka
Speaker 2: and Cooper Cup. But tonight, in the last few weeks,
Speaker 2: like I think he has been more up and down
Speaker 2: and made more bad decisions even when he is protected
Speaker 2: than usual, and missed more throws. Not that he's bad,
Speaker 2: but that he hasn't been like top twelve level.
Speaker 5: Okay, I want to disagree with you there because there
Speaker 5: are still moments that this where I'm like, Damn, Matthew
Speaker 5: Stafford is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about him enough.
Speaker 5: I think there are a lot of factors that go
Speaker 5: into what you're talking about, and I think one of
Speaker 5: them you kind of alluded to earlier is the play
Speaker 5: calling and some of these why are we running on
Speaker 5: third down? What were they on third down? I believe
Speaker 5: they were three for twelve on third down, and some
Speaker 5: of it was because of the decision making. And it
Speaker 5: does that fall fully on Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's I think it's what you're saying is
Speaker 2: absolutely fair because he does more cool things on a
Speaker 2: weekly basis than almost any quarterback. It's the reason he's
Speaker 2: still been on QB Island. Although Jordan Rodrigg, our friend
Speaker 2: who will be on our show going up tomorrow on
Speaker 2: Wednesday doing some awards. She saw the passive aggressive tweet
Speaker 2: I had where I put that it's okay, we can
Speaker 2: admit that this is Matthew Stafford's worst season in a
Speaker 2: long time, and she was like, I'm giving up the
Speaker 2: fight on Stafford for QB Allen because she knows I
Speaker 2: wanted Stafford QB Island last time around, and he's still
Speaker 2: doing all that cool stuff. But I just think on
Speaker 2: a play to play basis, if you look at his decisions,
Speaker 2: shout out to Eric Roberts behind the glass. By the way,
Speaker 2: he's solo tonight, so he's running from his computer to
Speaker 2: like the soundboard, and when I call for a sound
Speaker 2: he has to get up and run. So for him
Speaker 2: to make that happen, just an outstanding performance. Way more
Speaker 2: calm under pressure tonight than Matthew Stafford or especially Sean McVay,
Speaker 2: Like we'll get to McVeigh. But I think the decision making,
Speaker 2: sometimes holding the ball, sometimes forcing it, sometimes getting away
Speaker 2: with bad decisions, sometimes just missing throws. Like I said,
Speaker 2: he's not been bad, but to me, he hasn't been
Speaker 2: like a big asset and sometimes I know people don't
Speaker 2: loft the PFF grades, but I'm telling you, I think
Speaker 2: it is meaningful to me that his PFF grade and
Speaker 2: it doesn't shock me. In his QBR for instance, at ESPN,
Speaker 2: they're all way lower than they've been in a long time,
Speaker 2: and PFF is supposed to adjust a little bit for situation.
Speaker 2: And I do think on a play to play basis,
Speaker 2: he just hasn't been as great. I don't want him
Speaker 2: to be the focus of all of this because I
Speaker 2: think the Dolphins had a good defensive plan. Do you
Speaker 2: do you think maybe like these two coaches know each
Speaker 2: other and somehow they knew how to miss each.
Speaker 5: Other app I mean, you saw it feels like Sean
Speaker 5: McVay kind of got a little like off his uh,
Speaker 5: I don't know, like that first drive of the game,
Speaker 5: he kind of got like dumped.
Speaker 1: With cold water, because it's like, oh, that was a shock.
Speaker 5: But I do think Mike McDaniel is one of the
Speaker 5: smartest coaches in the NFL, very familiar with Sean McVay,
Speaker 5: and you could see that. I believe through his defense
Speaker 5: tonight and some of the plays that they were able
Speaker 5: to make. Matthew Stafford in this offense never really got going.
Speaker 5: For them to not score a touchdown at home in
Speaker 5: prime time is very rare.
Speaker 2: They did not even get like past the singer was
Speaker 2: like two dreen yard line.
Speaker 1: How many trips to the red zone?
Speaker 2: Not a lot like two in what amounted to like
Speaker 2: one where he chose the field goal late and we
Speaker 2: might as well talk about that app and another one
Speaker 2: in garbage time. But before or that. Yeah, in the
Speaker 2: first half, they got so many possessions. They had seven
Speaker 2: possessions in the first half. They only got inside the
Speaker 2: red zone one time. They in their first six drives,
Speaker 2: they had a total of three first downs and two turnovers.
Speaker 2: That alone, like a lot of times, the game is
Speaker 2: over by that point. The Dolphins should have had like
Speaker 2: a twenty to three lead, but the Rams offense defense
Speaker 2: was bawling out so much they deserve credit for keep
Speaker 2: keeping them in there. But yes, that decision late in
Speaker 2: the game. The Dolphins get down to the Miami four
Speaker 2: yard line, uh was their last line of scrimmage. The
Speaker 2: Rams get down rather to the Dolphins four yard line
Speaker 2: was six thirty one left in the game. Stafford missed
Speaker 2: Kyron Williams kind of coming open on the third down,
Speaker 2: even though pressure wasn't there that Those are the types
Speaker 2: of plays I'm talking about, Like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I give you that. Yep, that was a weird play.
Speaker 5: Kyene was wide open.
Speaker 2: And even the play before it was a little confusing
Speaker 2: to me who he was throwing too, Like he got
Speaker 2: sped up today, He got sacked four times, he got
Speaker 2: hit a lot, and so so some times that affects
Speaker 2: even the best of quarterbacks. And then McVeigh decides to
Speaker 2: kick a field goal.
Speaker 5: I hate it. I hate that decision, especially when your kicker.
Speaker 5: Of course this is a chip shot, but your kicker
Speaker 5: already missed a field goal.
Speaker 1: You are down and you're at home, go for it.
Speaker 2: You're down to eleven, So all it does is close
Speaker 2: it to eight.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 2: If you're closing into eight, you're assuming you'll have to
Speaker 2: get a two point, right, You're assuming that you're not
Speaker 2: going to have give up any points the rest of
Speaker 2: the game, which to me, like isn't a great assumption
Speaker 2: when literally the last you have to have a feel
Speaker 2: of the game. The last two drives that they had
Speaker 2: given up to the Dolphins were a touchdown in a
Speaker 2: field goal. Great, you know, one of them was on
Speaker 2: a relatively short field, but either way, it's not like
Speaker 2: the Rams defense was just absolutely shutting them down at
Speaker 2: that point. And there were two moments of the game
Speaker 2: where I thought McVeigh he almost got panicked like his
Speaker 2: team that was one of them. And then remember after
Speaker 2: the Jonah Jackson bad snap. Yeah, in the third quarter
Speaker 2: at that point, I think it was like a second
Speaker 2: and very long and they ran it twenty something and
Speaker 2: they did the Sean mcvaything where they run it on
Speaker 2: second in twenty four or something. They get like four
Speaker 2: yards and it's like, Okay, we got Sean, we got
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford, we got pookin a coua Tabarcus Robinson, like
Speaker 2: they can make these cool plays. That has Bridget saying like,
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford can still do this stuff. And what do
Speaker 2: they throw on third and twenty like a little screen
Speaker 2: and who sees it coming Mike McDaniel and Anthony Weaver,
Speaker 2: their defensive coordinators. There's a lot of credit and they
Speaker 2: lock it down and that forces the really long field
Speaker 2: goal that Cardi misses after a special team's false start
Speaker 2: another like special teams blender. So just a lot of
Speaker 2: self inflicted wounds.
Speaker 1: I completely agree.
Speaker 5: And when you have young players on this team, I've
Speaker 5: been in that locker room a bunch. They always say,
Speaker 5: Sean MCVAYX instills this confidence in us, he believes in us,
Speaker 5: he makes us play a certain way. Well, those two
Speaker 5: plays don't instill confidence in a team. If you if
Speaker 5: you call that play and even you don't get it,
Speaker 5: I just think you give Matthew Stafford a chance late
Speaker 5: in the game, four yards out from scoring a touchdown.
Speaker 5: We could be talking about a completely different ending because
Speaker 5: you and I were watching this game and we kept saying,
Speaker 5: this is where they're going to score.
Speaker 1: The Rams are going to win this game.
Speaker 5: Like the entire night, I thought for sure that the
Speaker 5: Rams were going to find a way to come back,
Speaker 5: because that's what they do. But for whatever reason, is
Speaker 5: very untypical of Sean McVay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even you could tell he was a little bit
Speaker 2: on tilt because even that last drive, when it's essentially
Speaker 2: garbage time and you're trying to get the touchdown and
Speaker 2: then hit the on side kick, they were making bizarre decisions.
Speaker 2: They were running on third and one, not taking timeouts
Speaker 2: when you would have expected to keeping their time out
Speaker 2: and then they kick a field goal on third and
Speaker 2: ten with like forty two seconds off. This is like
Speaker 2: picking knits, but it just shows a coach that maybe
Speaker 2: isn't thinking totally clearly. Now that's said, the Dolphins kind
Speaker 2: of put them in that position. Let's give some shout
Speaker 2: outs here, all right. Pick a Dolphins defensive player.
Speaker 1: Khalais Campbell.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say it what he I think it was
Speaker 5: the tipped pass right that helped lead to the interception.
Speaker 5: A couple of them, yeah, but that was one of them.
Speaker 5: That how many sacks did he have? One? But he
Speaker 5: helped with then.
Speaker 2: Had another hurry yep, yep.
Speaker 5: I mean he was just fun to watch tonight. He
Speaker 5: was all over this Rams offense. He's a player that
Speaker 5: has completely elevated this Dolphins defense. And we talked about it,
Speaker 5: like pay this man because he's.
Speaker 1: A different thing.
Speaker 2: I love it. He shows up every year as like
Speaker 2: a one year contract, like hired gun, and he always
Speaker 2: ends up being one of the best players on the team.
Speaker 2: People thought like they might trade him, Like you can't
Speaker 2: trade him. He's one of their best defensive players. I
Speaker 2: think it was a big deal for them to have
Speaker 2: Zach Seeler and him together. Seiler is one of their
Speaker 2: best players too. On the defensive line, Chop Robinson made
Speaker 2: a couple of plays in this game, a great sack early.
Speaker 2: I think the Rams were on tilt partly because they
Speaker 2: had big negative plays. The first play of the game
Speaker 2: on offense, Zach Sealer hit him for like a ten
Speaker 2: yard loss on a pass complete. Chop Robinson beats Joe
Speaker 2: Noteboom early a really nice sack, and Robinson's been coming
Speaker 2: on a little bit. When you look at this Dolphins team.
Speaker 2: The reason why I think they have a chance eight
Speaker 2: offense travels and this wasn't a great performance, but they
Speaker 2: played much better the previous two weeks. Just happens to
Speaker 2: be in losses, but they played much better the previous
Speaker 2: two weeks against the Cardinals and the Bills on offense.
Speaker 2: And then when you look at their defense, I didn't
Speaker 2: expect their defense to be this bad. When you look
Speaker 2: at the officis and the efficiency metrics, like DVOA, they're
Speaker 2: towards the bottom because they have players Jalen Ramsey. He's
Speaker 2: been a little up and down this year. Though Kendall
Speaker 2: Fuller left this game with a concussion. That's concerning, but
Speaker 2: he's a good player. I think they have a new
Speaker 2: coaching staff on defense. Maybe the defense comes together and
Speaker 2: the offense carries them and they're at least like in
Speaker 2: the mix. You can see it in a way that
Speaker 2: the rest of these two and three win teams coming
Speaker 2: into tonight, I can't really see it with basically all
Speaker 2: the rest of those teams.
Speaker 5: When we're talking about two and six teams, I mean
Speaker 5: the Jet or what three and seven?
Speaker 1: The Patriots are three and seven, the A in the
Speaker 1: AFC East.
Speaker 5: It doesn't feel like the Dolphins should be in that category,
Speaker 5: but they're right around the same, and I agree to
Speaker 5: your point. They have the pieces and it'll be interesting.
Speaker 5: Is this the game that come December we're talking about
Speaker 5: that completely turned their season around?
Speaker 2: It could. It's funny because I'm kind of talking about
Speaker 2: both sides of them out in my mouth because I
Speaker 2: believe that they are better than all of those teams.
Speaker 2: Do I really think they're gonna make the playoffs? No,
Speaker 2: Like I think the Broncos and the Bengals are better
Speaker 2: bets to make it what I think.
Speaker 5: They also feel Tua is a great quarterback and like
Speaker 5: some of the I don't know some of the things
Speaker 5: he does.
Speaker 2: If he's healthy, good there. I'm gonna give him good
Speaker 2: because he's still taking some bad sacks in this game,
Speaker 2: like where he just.
Speaker 5: I mean, it looks like he was playing like he
Speaker 5: didn't just have a concussion on that block.
Speaker 2: I was worried for him, Yes, on one of the
Speaker 2: that was an interception return and tried to yeah, and
Speaker 2: he lowered his head to try to make a tackle
Speaker 2: and I don't think they even checked him for that,
Speaker 2: and he started making some bad plays. I couldn't have
Speaker 2: been the only one who was thinking afterwards, like I
Speaker 2: hope this man is okay. Yeah, on a night where
Speaker 2: Waddle only ends up with fifty seven yards. Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 2: who tells lisassaulters before the game that he had tore
Speaker 2: ligaments in his wrist and that it was aggravated by
Speaker 2: his arrest when he was put on the ground there,
Speaker 2: which is just a crazy story. And he's been out
Speaker 2: of practice. He was a game time decision for this game.
Speaker 2: And three catches for sixteen yards. Just a lot going
Speaker 2: on with this Dolphins team. But they're getting great play
Speaker 2: out of their left tackle toront Armstead. I think their
Speaker 2: offensive line had a pretty disappointing night overall, and that
Speaker 2: the Rams won that battle. The Rams now at four
Speaker 2: and five, and yes, Odell with welcome back with a
Speaker 2: nice moment. You know, just because we spent so much
Speaker 2: time in the offseason talking about Odell Beckham. You know,
Speaker 2: our regular listener Nick right got on me for just
Speaker 2: always talking about Odell. It was for moments like this,
Speaker 2: a moment that turned a season around.
Speaker 1: The lefty backfield trip to the left back to throw
Speaker 1: two are looking rolling through his left rolling throws it
Speaker 1: and it's caught by Beckham and he's got the first out.
Speaker 4: I didn't here he does.
Speaker 2: He had it by a bunch of dance moooves. That
Speaker 2: was a huge That was a really great play by
Speaker 2: to it. By the way, rolling out like he was
Speaker 2: under a lot of pressure, like he was on mine.
Speaker 1: He looked moments of looking yes tonight for sure.
Speaker 2: If he doesn't make that play, the Rams are getting
Speaker 2: the ball back. Although the way the Rams offense played tonight,
Speaker 2: they probably would have just gone down and kicked a field.
Speaker 1: Goal, kicked on third down.
Speaker 2: So there you have it, Odell Beckham actually making it happen.
Speaker 2: River Craycraft returned for this game. I just thought, like
Speaker 2: Dolphins fans were happy about that made a nice block,
Speaker 2: like they're just getting getting people back. I know, I'm
Speaker 2: getting to the bottom of the notes when I get
Speaker 2: to the river Creak craft of it all.
Speaker 5: I mean, look, you have the Raiders, you have the Patriots.
Speaker 5: Let's see what we can make of this season.
Speaker 2: How about the Rams here? Four and five really disappointing loss.
Speaker 2: It's the tricky part of falling to one in four
Speaker 2: is you just have such less of a margin for air.
Speaker 2: If you had said then they're gonna win three out
Speaker 2: of the next four games, you'd say like, oh, it's
Speaker 2: pretty good, Okay, get to four and five, But having
Speaker 2: won the three straight, it's really disappointing. They have the
Speaker 2: Patriots next week.
Speaker 5: Which is actually a really fascinating game after Drake May
Speaker 5: and the Patriots just come off win against the Bears.
Speaker 1: Yes, which is.
Speaker 5: Interesting because now Drake May, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Like people are buying into him.
Speaker 5: It wasn't Drake May sacks nine times, it was Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting game. Absolutely. I don't think the Rams
Speaker 2: are good enough right now to just assume they're gonna
Speaker 2: win any game they have to go across the country
Speaker 2: on a short week, so that that's not easy. They're
Speaker 2: certainly the favorites in that game. But I just think,
Speaker 2: like like you said with McVeigh after the games showing
Speaker 2: you saying like they haven't been consistent, he's worried. I
Speaker 2: think that Seahawks game was just a little bit of
Speaker 2: a worry because if you think about what they've done
Speaker 2: since the bye week, that Raiders game, they were awful
Speaker 2: on offense. Their defense carried them. Now, granted they didn't
Speaker 2: have Pukinakua back and so you're thinking, okay, we're not
Speaker 2: totally back there, but it was a really bad offensive performance.
Speaker 2: Then you have the one Thursday night gamey and you
Speaker 2: think everything's fine, we're solved. It's good you get the
Speaker 2: offensive lineman back tonight. But when you really look at it,
Speaker 2: the last two weeks they were pretty just not right
Speaker 2: on offense. And maybe it's working out the kinks. It's
Speaker 2: like they're in their preseason getting these guys back in
Speaker 2: the mix, but they don't have much time to waste.
Speaker 2: Four and five in the NFC is not the same
Speaker 2: as the AFC. It is going to be very difficult
Speaker 2: for them to get a wild card in the NFC,
Speaker 2: So it's probably division or bust for these NFC West
Speaker 2: teams who play each other a lot down the stretch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just going to be a test.
Speaker 5: You know. Sean McVay, remember that bad season he had
Speaker 5: two seasons ago, and how on himself? He was like,
Speaker 5: I know that he's probably going to the offen right now,
Speaker 5: Like he's not going home to sleep. Like I saw
Speaker 5: him a little bit in his press conference. You could
Speaker 5: just tell he's pissed off. And you go on Twitter
Speaker 5: right now everybody's talking about Sean McVay and his coach.
Speaker 2: Well, hopefully he's not Hopefully he's not well.
Speaker 5: Hopefully maybe he gets a peep of it and he's
Speaker 5: in the he's in the lounge studying tonight because there
Speaker 5: were a couple questionable decisions that were made tonight. And
Speaker 5: you now have a chance to either fall into another
Speaker 5: trap against the Patriots on Sunday in New England, or
Speaker 5: you get a win then you host the Eagles, which
Speaker 5: is not going to be an easy game, but then
Speaker 5: you're at the Saints, so you could go you could
Speaker 5: win two of the.
Speaker 2: Next three absolutely, but you got the Bills still on
Speaker 2: the schedule. You got the forty nine ers, you finished
Speaker 2: with Jets, Cardinals, Seahawks.
Speaker 1: You could win. Those are winnable. The Niners they always
Speaker 1: play close.
Speaker 2: It's a normal schedule. I wouldn't say it's overly hard
Speaker 2: or difficult, but they are right there in the middle
Speaker 2: of the end.
Speaker 5: Find some consistency, figure out why it's been inconsistent, get
Speaker 5: back to the drawing board.
Speaker 2: It's a long season. And yeah, I don't think Sean
Speaker 2: McVay is going to be easy on himself, but at
Speaker 2: his very core, he's sneaky conservative. Him and Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 2: have that in terms of their play calling and in
Speaker 2: terms of their game management. There is a core conservatism
Speaker 2: which is surprising to me. Jordan and our friend I
Speaker 2: think said it well. The thing about this Rams offense
Speaker 2: is there will be a lot of simple, seemingly avoidable
Speaker 2: things that go wrong, and then there all of a
Speaker 2: sudden they'll do the most difficult thing imaginable and make
Speaker 2: it look at for lists. That really sums it up.
Speaker 2: They do the hard things well and sometimes they don't
Speaker 2: do the easy things. The running game not working tonight,
Speaker 2: but the Dolphins defense deserves a ton of credit, and
Speaker 2: I know to a Tongue of Iloa has to be thrilled.
Speaker 2: His first win in the starting lineup since Week one.
Speaker 2: They have a little life in this Dolphins season. But
Speaker 2: we're gonna listen to to a Tongue of Iloa and
Speaker 2: then we're gonna take a break.
Speaker 6: Felt good, and I think it's, you know, a testament
Speaker 6: to the character of this team. We've come a long
Speaker 6: way through, however, many losses in a row. The resilience
Speaker 6: of this team, with the external noise, everyone counting us out.
Speaker 6: You know, hopefully this is an opportunity for us to.
Speaker 2: Not waste.
Speaker 6: You know, hopefully we can go on a run with
Speaker 6: this win and find our rhythm towards the back end
Speaker 6: of the season.
Speaker 2: Now back on NFL Daily doing the late night shift
Speaker 2: here in Inglewood. I just saw a tour go by
Speaker 2: and they said, that's that's where our podcast, NFL Daily
Speaker 2: tapes the late night shift.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to NFL Daily. On your drive home, make
Speaker 5: sure to roll up the windows and turn up the
Speaker 5: volume because we're talking NFL on the late night ship.
Speaker 5: I feel like I should be in a radio booth
Speaker 5: late night.
Speaker 2: Have you ever done that? No, He's done a lot
Speaker 2: of interesting things in your time. I wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 5: Maybe this is the beginning of Late Night Home with
Speaker 5: Bridget Condon. Let's break down what we just saw from
Speaker 5: the Rams and Dolphins. Make sure to call in. Caller
Speaker 5: Number one thinks to a Tongo vi Los taking his
Speaker 5: team to the Super Bowl. Fall in love or break
Speaker 5: your heart next on the postgame show, I'll work on it.
Speaker 2: I was a little worried about you, Bridget, because you
Speaker 2: know we put put in a long date. You're you're
Speaker 2: eating for two now.
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say because of my parasite.
Speaker 2: I wasn't going to bring it up. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: be polite on the air, but wow.
Speaker 5: I'm carrying for three me, myself, my baby, and I
Speaker 5: have a parasite breaking news here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know where I got it, Guys, I don't
Speaker 5: know what's going on Los Angeles County.
Speaker 1: Beware.
Speaker 5: There's some things walking around this uh walking around me
Speaker 5: and walking.
Speaker 1: Around the water fountain.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was I was gonna make that joke, but
Speaker 2: you know it's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm an open book. People.
Speaker 5: People got up anything you want to know about me,
Speaker 5: I got you. I have a parasite. We're doing well,
Speaker 5: me baby in parasite.
Speaker 2: Yeah. My first question when you told me that, you know,
Speaker 2: as I'm eating dinner during our Monday night football bar,
Speaker 2: I was like, that's not contagious, is it?
Speaker 5: Like, I guess we'll find out. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5: I finished my antibiotics.
Speaker 1: I'm fine. Yeah, hopefully fingers crossed.
Speaker 2: Shout out to you.
Speaker 5: No, it was my birthday last week, so it was
Speaker 5: just like a little happy birthday bridge it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I I was truly asking about about your
Speaker 2: newborn to be, so like, that's the more exciting news.
Speaker 2: That's the more exciting addition to the Conton family. The
Speaker 2: parasite's only going to be with you so long. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Oh that's sad. It doesn't get say with me for
Speaker 1: nine months. Okay, back to football.
Speaker 2: Let's do some news. Let's talk about Matt Iberflus and
Speaker 2: what's been going on in Chicago. He had a press
Speaker 2: conference on Monday where he announced there will be changes.
Speaker 7: There will be changes, adjustments being made. Again, I'm not
Speaker 7: going to disclose those right now. I'm not at that
Speaker 7: point in the process. You know, Monday's a long day,
Speaker 7: you know, in terms of the evaluation of everything, you know,
Speaker 7: in terms of you know, lineups, in terms of the
Speaker 7: you know, coaching, in terms of how we need to
Speaker 7: do better, you know in that coaching, and how we
Speaker 7: need to do better in a communication in game, during
Speaker 7: the game, after the game, prior to the game. So
Speaker 7: it's important that we take time to make make those
Speaker 7: decisions and make the right decisions.
Speaker 4: That's for the Bears.
Speaker 2: Matt Iberflues says there will be changes. I don't want
Speaker 2: to go on too long about it because I have
Speaker 2: a feeling those changes will be announced by the time
Speaker 2: plenty of people hear that. It's pretty easy to surmise
Speaker 2: that an offensive coordinator change could be part of those changes.
Speaker 2: Caleb Williams being the starting quarterback will not be part
Speaker 2: of those changes. That should go without saying, but someone
Speaker 2: did ask him that, So we'll see. Maybe there's some
Speaker 2: personnel changes like a benching some of those receivers and
Speaker 2: the routes that they're running.
Speaker 5: If I'm Shane Waldron, I'm concerned. I mean, yeah, your
Speaker 5: quarterback sacked nine times, you're one for fourteen on third down.
Speaker 5: I'd hope there's some changes like you're not going to change.
Speaker 5: You're four and five after starting promising that NFC North
Speaker 5: is a very good division. You can be competitive. You
Speaker 5: just got to make some changes. And that's the Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, they've lost three consecutive games after they'reby haven't
Speaker 5: scored a touchdown in two straight games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now, multiple things some changes, right, Yeah, multiple things
Speaker 2: can be true. Like the expectations were too high in
Speaker 2: Chicago to begin with, and that market had this weird
Speaker 2: thought that this team was going to be a juggernaut
Speaker 2: because they're on hard knock blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: And it's like, no, maybe your third place of the division.
Speaker 2: Probably not in terms of total talent, you know, compared
Speaker 2: to Minnesota coming into the season. I don't know why
Speaker 2: expectations should have been hard. Now that said, the tape
Speaker 2: they have put out offensively over the last two weeks
Speaker 2: is some of the worst tape any offense has put
Speaker 2: out in the last couple of years. And so that
Speaker 2: speaks to a dysfunction that is bigger than just Shane
Speaker 2: Waldron or Matt Eberflus. It's everything. There's so many problems
Speaker 2: and I don't know if Eberflus is the man to
Speaker 2: solve it. His exchanges in Chicago are becoming increasingly uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: but he had one on ESPN Radio in the morning
Speaker 2: was Cap and Jay Hood on ESPN Chicago that was
Speaker 2: uncomfortable to the point of being comical.
Speaker 7: If this isn't crisis, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 7: So I ask you again, is this a crisis that's
Speaker 7: going on right now in hallis hall?
Speaker 2: And how does it get addressed?
Speaker 4: You know, we're looking at this week and this week only.
Speaker 4: We do have evidence on tape that we've played good
Speaker 4: football during the course of this year. We got to
Speaker 4: pull those experiences.
Speaker 2: Coach, coach, your cell phones as bad as the offense.
Speaker 2: Right now, we'll put them on hold and see if
Speaker 2: we can re establish. Oh come on, man, wow, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. Can we get a freaking landline? What are
Speaker 2: we doing? Seriously, get the man a phone that works, please.
Speaker 5: We'll try to re establish for Matti refluse momentarily here
Speaker 5: on the I'm serious, Captain Jay Hood Morning show that.
Speaker 2: Cap, You're not wrong. Communication issues prevalent all season for
Speaker 2: the football team.
Speaker 4: I mean, his fall.
Speaker 2: Lines as bad as Waldron's play calling. I mean, what
Speaker 2: are we doing?
Speaker 1: Wow, I've got a couple thoughts right off the bat.
Speaker 5: Have you ever been on a conversation with someone like
Speaker 5: an ex girlfriend when she's like asking you about you know,
Speaker 5: where you were last night and you just pretend that
Speaker 5: the call drops And.
Speaker 2: Was it like you mean when I was actually when
Speaker 2: she was my girlfriend? I don't. I don't regularly speak
Speaker 2: with my ex girlfriends on the phone.
Speaker 1: I mean, like we were in high schooler, Oh.
Speaker 2: Okay, didn't pretending like the car call drop? No, I
Speaker 2: don't think I'm thinking I was to pull that off.
Speaker 2: I just would like not answer, like was.
Speaker 5: This an actual call drop where he was like, I'm
Speaker 5: not going down this route.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna that is hilarious And that would be
Speaker 2: amazing And I would give Matt Eberflus more credit if
Speaker 2: that was the case, because that was actually the third
Speaker 2: time his phone dropped. Apparently in the conversation he had
Speaker 2: to call back a couple of times. I spoiler alert,
Speaker 2: he did not call back after that, and based on
Speaker 2: how that ended, I would guess he is never calling
Speaker 2: back and doing that hit ever again. And when Matt
Speaker 2: Aberflus is the ex girlfriend of the Chicago Bears, which
Speaker 2: unfortunately is gonna be either after this week or after
Speaker 2: this season. That moment right there is gonna be remembered
Speaker 2: because I'm gonna bring it up. But I think locally,
Speaker 2: like I've seen this enough, that moment is like, oh,
Speaker 2: you're done. Like I know that sounds stupid. It's just
Speaker 2: like a radio thing, but it's like, you're not coming
Speaker 2: back from this and it kind of sucks to have,
Speaker 2: just like when you're a dead man walking.
Speaker 5: Well, it's interesting, Yes, that could be an issue too,
Speaker 5: but the players themselves talking about how frustrating this season
Speaker 5: has been, running Back DeAndre Swift said essentially like he
Speaker 5: was asked about what's going on, He's like, well, we
Speaker 5: can't be good on Sundays if we're not good Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 5: So there it feels like there's something going on during
Speaker 5: practice or they're not all. I think he used the
Speaker 5: word focusing enough, which whose fault is that?
Speaker 1: I don't know?
Speaker 2: Right, It's one of the things I think is amazing
Speaker 2: about football that it's sort of inexplicable and yet you
Speaker 2: can see it on the field. Like that Saints team
Speaker 2: they didn't really want to play for Dennis Allen and
Speaker 2: even in a game where they outgained the Panthers by
Speaker 2: like one hundred and seventy yards, and even with the
Speaker 2: Bears defense playing well, there is something that you can't
Speaker 2: define about a collection of these fifty three men that
Speaker 2: somehow actually comes out on Sundays. And you can see
Speaker 2: it with this Bears team. They're not coming back. Like
Speaker 2: the line is six and a half against the Packers
Speaker 2: this weekend. I can tell you, like that line's gonna grow.
Speaker 2: Take it now. There's no freaking way the Bears are
Speaker 2: staying within a touchdown of the Packers on Sunday like
Speaker 2: they're done. They've been done. And like the film that
Speaker 2: they are putting up says, it all not on defense really,
Speaker 2: but on offense, like Roma Dunza and DJ Moore and
Speaker 2: Keenan Allen should not be running like the routes that
Speaker 2: they're running. They're just an out there playing when you
Speaker 2: watch them like it, it's all very weird, is I
Speaker 2: guess the word I would use?
Speaker 5: Isn't it interesting when you talk about a professional athlete
Speaker 5: though that like, for whatever reason, except it didn't happen
Speaker 5: with the Jets. It feels like the interim head coach
Speaker 5: win Right, Like, whenever you fire someone, it's like.
Speaker 2: The next week, oh yeah, that's the back gone.
Speaker 5: Together, and we it's like, well, why can't you do
Speaker 5: that every week?
Speaker 1: I don't cat it.
Speaker 2: It's a fair point. It's kind of human nature. Is
Speaker 2: one of the reasons why, in hindsight, maybe the Dolphins
Speaker 2: were always dangerous coming into this game, because a lot
Speaker 2: of times when I'm picking games and stuff, it's like
Speaker 2: which team just needs it? More like the two teams
Speaker 2: are relatively even, but like this game is bigger for
Speaker 2: the Dolphins. That team. A lot of times that team
Speaker 2: comes out and they play like it, and that I
Speaker 2: think that did happen on Monday night. Not to bring
Speaker 2: it back to that game. All right, let's move on
Speaker 2: in the news. We got to get Bridge at home
Speaker 2: to her wonderful husband and her parasites. Got to go
Speaker 2: to bed, just getting sleepy. Let's get me off this.
Speaker 1: Desk before we have an emergent.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about Brian Dable, who essentially ended the Daniel
Speaker 2: Jones era without officially ending the Daniel Jones era.
Speaker 3: Is Daniel Jones still your starting quarterback going forward?
Speaker 8: Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna spend a lot of time here,
Speaker 8: uh watching, watching our tape and evaluating things, and you
Speaker 8: know we'll do that as a coaching staff over the
Speaker 8: next week here.
Speaker 3: That's a little bit different, Brian than the yes that
Speaker 3: you give us to that question when we ask it
Speaker 3: every week. So I think to be clear, everybody's going
Speaker 3: to assume that assume that means yes, you're at least
Speaker 3: considering a change.
Speaker 2: Is that fair?
Speaker 8: Well, I would say we're we're evaluating, you know, our
Speaker 8: team at the BUYE week is what we're doing.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm going to ever have a
Speaker 2: legacy as a podcasters as an analyst, but one thing
Speaker 2: I think I've I've helped to contribute to the conversation
Speaker 2: is that when a coach says we're evaluate on a Monday,
Speaker 2: that quarterback is getting benched on a Tuesday, it's one
Speaker 2: hundred for one hundred, and no one ever wants to
Speaker 2: report it at the time. And we did this a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago with Anthony Richardson. I said, when
Speaker 2: they said he was evaluating on Monday, he's getting bench
Speaker 2: It's to the point now where people are just tweeting
Speaker 2: it for me. My friend Bill Barnwell said, that's Greg
Speaker 2: Rosenthal's music playing when Brian Dabele had that answer, So, yes,
Speaker 2: it's over. The Daniel Jones era is over. Drew Locke,
Speaker 2: I assume will be the quarterback and not Tommy DeVito
Speaker 2: after the bye week.
Speaker 5: Well, okay, you're evaluating what have you been doing the
Speaker 5: past six years?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean he hasn't been there the whole time,
Speaker 2: but no, no, But like.
Speaker 5: The Giant, Daniel Jones has been there six years. Yeah,
Speaker 5: give me the stats of the consistency over the past
Speaker 5: six years.
Speaker 2: It was just the second half of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: which happened to me when his contract came up. And
Speaker 2: I personally always believe that Brian Dable was lukewarm at
Speaker 2: best about that contract and that was an ownership move.
Speaker 1: And this happened so long ago. Why is it taking
Speaker 1: this long?
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, you're right. I think I love scouting. It's
Speaker 2: it's the mistake that bad organizations make more than any other,
Speaker 2: that people don't talk about enough. If you can't evaluate
Speaker 2: your own players, which wants to invest in, then you're done.
Speaker 5: The Giants were shut out in the first half on
Speaker 5: Sunday in Munich by the league's worst defense. I'm not
Speaker 5: just saying that to be dramatic. Thirty two. They are
Speaker 5: ranked thirty two out of thirty two the Panthers defense,
Speaker 5: and the Giants were shut out by them.
Speaker 2: And you're value right now. That's not even Bridget talking.
Speaker 2: That's her parasite. Look, I love it, You're mad. I
Speaker 2: just don't get it.
Speaker 3: Why.
Speaker 5: It's like, there are certain things that we talk about
Speaker 5: every day that drive me crazy.
Speaker 1: I recently talking about the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Why, why are why?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 5: I love Daniel Jones. Look, I covered him at Duke
Speaker 5: when I was in North Carolina. Humblebrock, humble Brock. Great guy,
Speaker 5: love him, amazing person. I wish nothing but the best
Speaker 5: for him. But unfortunately I don't believe that he should
Speaker 5: be the starting quarterback for the professional football team.
Speaker 1: New York Giants.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I also think the worst thing that
Speaker 2: you can say about Daniel Jones at this point about
Speaker 2: his NFL career is he's a nice guy. Everyone says
Speaker 2: that about Daniel Jones and they're like, he's a nice guy.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, maybe if he was in a better position, but look,
Speaker 5: he's not.
Speaker 2: But the Giants in part did him dirty by giving
Speaker 2: him the contract. It never made any sense like that.
Speaker 2: That was the original sin and they've been stuck on
Speaker 2: it for a couple of years. It didn't make sense
Speaker 2: at the time. Also, he's coming off of torn acl
Speaker 2: and he's worse than he was before.
Speaker 5: I think he should take his money, buy a house
Speaker 5: in the cabin, like, buy a house in the mountains, and.
Speaker 2: Just like no. I think what he needs to be
Speaker 2: is a backup quarterback on like a McVey team, and
Speaker 2: he'll end up coming in on some Thursday night football
Speaker 2: game and playing a couple games, playing fairly well, and
Speaker 2: maybe have some fun playing football again. He's a perfectly
Speaker 2: fine backup quarterback and that's what he'll be. I think
Speaker 2: he's better than Drew Lock. That's the problem is terrible.
Speaker 5: Put in Tommy DeVito, it's Tommy time. I want to
Speaker 5: see what his mom's been cooking. Like, give me some
Speaker 5: entertainment giants.
Speaker 2: That could happen. I think by the end of the season.
Speaker 2: Let's wrap just in terms of quarterbacks with Shane Stikeen.
Speaker 2: He did insist that Joe Flacco is our quarterback moving
Speaker 2: forward for now. He did kind can.
Speaker 5: You explain this to me Joe Flacco one in three
Speaker 5: as the starter to and two Richardson. I believe Flacco
Speaker 5: three interceptions, four sacks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gone as bad as badly as it could.
Speaker 2: That was What's is it?
Speaker 5: Because he tapped his hat and said take me out.
Speaker 5: How much of an impact does that have?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna actually listen to Shane Steiken talk about Anthony
Speaker 2: Richardson and him probably possibly even having a role to
Speaker 2: us on the offense at all, and I think this
Speaker 2: answer speaks to something that will answer your question. You
Speaker 2: guys have struggled in short yardage with Joe. Is there
Speaker 2: a thought to put Anthony in there?
Speaker 8: What has kept you from using Anthony in a short yardage package?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm not I won't get into the scheme stuff
Speaker 7: of it, but yeah, obviously he would he would help there.
Speaker 2: Okay, now I'm I'm trying to like weed through things here,
Speaker 2: but obviously he would help there. After two weeks where
Speaker 2: he hasn't been helping there, they haven't used him at all.
Speaker 1: But we're not doing it.
Speaker 2: Support would support the conspiracy theory in Indianapolis that hasn't
Speaker 2: been overtly reported, So I don't think it's fair to
Speaker 2: say it's a report, but it also checks out and
Speaker 2: a lot of fans believe it, and maybe some media
Speaker 2: people do too, that this is not Shane Steiken's move
Speaker 2: because Shane stikeen all along said we're gonna leave Anthony
Speaker 2: Richardson in higher dry like we want him to be
Speaker 2: in there in that maybe it's not Shane Stiken's decision. Now,
Speaker 2: I personally don't believe there's any chance it's the front
Speaker 2: office's decision.
Speaker 1: So whose decision is it?
Speaker 2: From the very top that ownership gets involved with interest
Speaker 2: with decisions this important, it's and.
Speaker 5: They want to penalize him for what he did making
Speaker 5: them looking well.
Speaker 2: They just want to get to I think they want
Speaker 2: to get to the playoffs. And maybe that there was
Speaker 2: an angle of the players being upset with Richardson that contributed,
Speaker 2: but that he thinks that.
Speaker 5: We need cameras in the locker room right, that we
Speaker 5: have a reality show in front of us, because I
Speaker 5: want to know the real juice of what's going on
Speaker 5: in the Colt locker.
Speaker 2: I mean him saying he could help in short yard.
Speaker 2: It almost sounds like Shane Steichen is stuck there and
Speaker 2: can't actually decide which wouldn't be the first time it's
Speaker 2: ever happened. Johnny Manzel was playing quarterback for the Cleveland
Speaker 2: Browns in what year was at twenty fourteen. Andrew Hawkins,
Speaker 2: our old colleague and friend you know, has told the
Speaker 2: story publicly because yeah, it was. It was told to
Speaker 2: the coaching staff he had to play, even though Brian
Speaker 2: Hoyer was the better quarterback, And in this case, I
Speaker 2: think it was more that they thought Flacco gave him
Speaker 2: a better chance to win and they're just not winning,
Speaker 2: so they're getting the worst of both worlds. I think
Speaker 2: we will see Richardson sooner than later, but Joe Flacco
Speaker 2: will get another chance against a pretty bad Jets defense,
Speaker 2: so they do have a chance to win this week.
Speaker 2: Moving forward, we're just gonna roll through a couple very
Speaker 2: quick stories. I thought it was interesting the Seahawks wave
Speaker 2: their starting linebacker Tyler Dodson today, who is a big
Speaker 2: free agent pick up. They signed two guys for pretty
Speaker 2: good money in the offseason, Jerome Baker and Tyler Dodson.
Speaker 2: He started every game and played almost every snap so
Speaker 2: far this season and they cut him after nine weeks.
Speaker 2: Just interesting.
Speaker 1: It takes you wonder where are those cameras. What's getting
Speaker 1: on in this case?
Speaker 2: I actually believe Mike McDonald is the one with a
Speaker 2: strong hand here as a coach. Maybe that was his signing,
Speaker 2: maybe it wasn't, Probably not, And he explained the thought
Speaker 2: very clearly, I think, and I think it's a case
Speaker 2: where he's like, I know what's not working. This is
Speaker 2: not working. I want to play some younger players. We
Speaker 2: brought in Ernest Jones self scouting, yes, and so he's
Speaker 2: making some decisive move. But that's crazy. You bring in
Speaker 2: two starting linebackers and a guy who's played every staff
Speaker 2: for you has gone week nine ten. They're in a
Speaker 2: fascinating spot. Alex Heismith the Steelers edg Rusher is gonna
Speaker 2: miss two or three weeks according to reports. That's a
Speaker 2: big loss for them. He's very valuable. Tristan Wurf's one
Speaker 2: thing I regretted to mention on the Sunday Night recap
Speaker 2: show that the great tackle for the Bucks had an
Speaker 2: mcl sprain in that game. The MRI confirmed it. He
Speaker 2: is week to week man. That team has really been
Speaker 2: devastated with injuries. Just a couple of random QB news.
Speaker 2: The Browns are sticking with Jamis Winston. The Cowboys are
Speaker 2: sticking with Cowboy Cooper.
Speaker 1: Rush Cowboy Rush Baby.
Speaker 2: I apologize to you for doing that game, but everyone
Speaker 2: should check out MJD and Bridgett on the Channel five
Speaker 2: coverage of Monday Night Football next week and Nick Shook
Speaker 2: and Eye on our podcast version. We're going to make
Speaker 2: it fun but Texans Cowboys in primetime next week and
Speaker 2: then finally.
Speaker 1: It'll be good because they don't need to worry about
Speaker 1: the sun in primetime.
Speaker 2: What a great host you are. I don't even know
Speaker 2: if that was intentional, but our last item of news
Speaker 2: is yes, the Cowboys versus the Sun. I just wanted
Speaker 2: to show you some of the pictures that were out
Speaker 2: there from their press conference on Monday. This is from
Speaker 2: Jonah Javid on Twitter and it actually shows Mike McCarthy
Speaker 2: who was at the podium and the sun was getting
Speaker 2: in his eye. So you know what the Cowboys did
Speaker 2: and the media did. They set up a little shade
Speaker 2: to block the sun. You can't make this up. You
Speaker 2: really can't. Like they're multiples of it. It is the office.
Speaker 1: This is hilarious. This is something you watch on TV.
Speaker 5: This is why the NFL is the best reality show
Speaker 5: on television.
Speaker 1: Because this is clowning, it's funny. Is this real?
Speaker 2: It is absolutely real? And I love one thing. I
Speaker 2: will give Mike McCarthy a ton of credit for. You know,
Speaker 2: he's having to answer questions about these Michael Parsons comments
Speaker 2: which weren't great and you could interpret him a few
Speaker 2: different ways. We don't need to get him into on
Speaker 2: this podcast. And there's all sorts of stuff it's going.
Speaker 2: He knows the score and he handles it, Mike McCarthy
Speaker 2: about as well, I think as anyone could. And he
Speaker 2: even made a joke about that. He was like, oh, like,
Speaker 2: what are we in the stadium there? He makes a
Speaker 2: little joke about it. So like Mike McCarthy, he's always
Speaker 2: doing it with a wink and a smile, like he's
Speaker 2: in the last year of his contract and he's still
Speaker 2: cashing them checks.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and get an umbrella while you're at it.
Speaker 2: That is it for the news. It is now time
Speaker 2: for the Captain's Corner, presented by Captain Morgan Bridget. This
Speaker 2: is where we give some love to someone who excelled
Speaker 2: over the weekend. Who do you got?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: So I had a little trouble with my pick because
Speaker 5: you'll understand why I don't like to give it to
Speaker 5: somebody who lost, But in this case, I had to.
Speaker 1: I had to. I'm going with Jamar Chase.
Speaker 5: I know the Bengals lost to the Ravens, but anytime
Speaker 5: you have a player rack up more than fifty five
Speaker 5: Fantasy points, how can he not be your Captain of
Speaker 5: the week.
Speaker 1: Not totally his fault. They lost either. He said it.
Speaker 5: I was open when they went for it on the
Speaker 5: two point conversion and it fell incomplete.
Speaker 1: He said he was open. Two hundred and.
Speaker 5: Sixty four yards, three touchdowns, eleven for seventeen. Look, I
Speaker 5: know the Bengals are four and six, but I'm not
Speaker 5: ready to write them off. I am not ready, and
Speaker 5: maybe I've been too high on them because they were
Speaker 5: my Super Bowl pick.
Speaker 1: Them in the Packers, I.
Speaker 2: Know, you never know. Sometimes it's that season. You start
Speaker 2: out four and six and then it's a magical run.
Speaker 2: That's how they kind of made it the last time
Speaker 2: they made the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5: They got the Chargers this week here at so far,
Speaker 5: Sunday night gonna be a big game. But Jamar Chase,
Speaker 5: you know he played lights out Thursday night.
Speaker 2: I love that pick. I love his comment, how he
Speaker 2: was open on the two point play. I love everything
Speaker 2: about Jamar Chase. Actually, I have a take related to
Speaker 2: that comment that I'm gonna save for our awards podcast.
Speaker 2: Is he one of your We'll see Bridget Condon is
Speaker 2: going to be involved. She is stepping in very excited.
Speaker 2: We're going to go through all the big awards.
Speaker 1: As long as the parasite doesn't kill me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as long as the parasite doesn't take you out,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be here with Jordan, will make up some
Speaker 2: awards of our own. That's gonna be a really show Wednesday.
Speaker 2: So let's get out of here. I don't need to
Speaker 2: honk anymore. My captain is going to be Tyron Matthew,
Speaker 2: one of the captains of the Saints, and Cam Jordan.
Speaker 2: Let's us give it to them both. These two guys
Speaker 2: are two of my favorite defensive players of the last
Speaker 2: ten years. Through comments that they had after the Dennis
Speaker 2: Allen firing, I think they were relieved maybe by the change,
Speaker 2: that they needed a vibe change, that they needed a
Speaker 2: scheme change, and for Cam Jordan to have a monster
Speaker 2: sack that helped change that game against the Falcons. And
Speaker 2: then in the crucible Falcons driving Kirk Cousins moving the
Speaker 2: ball down the field, and who steps in for a
Speaker 2: crucial interception late in the fourth quarter. It's the Honey Badger.
Speaker 2: It's the future Hall of Famer. He's been doing that
Speaker 2: his whole career. For the two of them to have
Speaker 2: big moments in this particular game to get a win.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're going anywhere, but this was kind
Speaker 2: of their super Bowl against the Falcons. They are my
Speaker 2: captains this week. This was the Captain's Corner, presented by
Speaker 2: Captain Morgan. It's delicious and crisp, perfect for game day
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Speaker 2: to find a captain near you. Please drink responsibly. You,
Speaker 2: my friend, have been a captain and wow, doing a
Speaker 2: doubleheader here. You were begging. You want it on the show,
Speaker 2: you want it in the NFL Daily Road. You're gonna say,
Speaker 2: I drink responsibly. I was like, no, Greg, I'm six
Speaker 2: months sober. I don't know. I don't know you that well,
Speaker 2: but I know you well enough that No, you're avoiding
Speaker 2: like Deli meats and stuff. You're serious about it.
Speaker 5: I'm serious, and I'm serious about this football. I gotta
Speaker 5: go home and to get me study going because we
Speaker 5: got a big show tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Maybe let's get out of here. He teased our Wednesday show,
Speaker 2: so you're gonna know all about it. Really excited for that,
Speaker 2: for Jordan Rodrig for Eric Roberts behind the glass do
Speaker 2: you oh my gosh, Well that's a compliment.
Speaker 5: That's a huge compliment, maybe for Bridget Condon and parasite
Speaker 5: football is back.