WEBVTT - NFL Week 5 Reaction: Bills win OT CLASSIC vs Rams, Eagles & Commanders CLOCK FIASCOS | Nick Wright 0:00:03.690 --> 0:00:07.570 Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright episode 514. As always, 0:00:07.630 --> 0:00:09.610 this episode of What's Right with Nick Wright is presented 0:00:09.670 --> 0:00:12.750 to you by Boost Mobile. If you're watching on YouTube, 0:00:13.270 --> 0:00:16.810 we are not live on YouTube. Typically, we do these 0:00:17.050 --> 0:00:21.450 Tuesday mornings before I head into work to do my 0:00:21.489 --> 0:00:24.169 hit with Colin Coward every Tuesday and then, of course, 0:00:24.230 --> 0:00:30.550 first things first. Today, not because of anyone other than myself, 0:00:30.670 --> 0:00:34.620 we had to change schedules, uh, real life hit me 0:00:34.659 --> 0:00:38.180 in the face a bit this week. 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We will still touch on every game in 0:02:01.990 --> 0:02:06.130 what will go down in history as the weekend clock 0:02:06.210 --> 0:02:10.680 management died in the NFL, up to and including the 0:02:10.810 --> 0:02:15.940 final moments of Monday Night Football. Everything this weekend seemed 0:02:15.980 --> 0:02:22.519 to be defined by teams not understanding time, score, situation. 0:02:22.660 --> 0:02:25.580 And in fact, that is kind of, before I even 0:02:25.620 --> 0:02:28.840 get to Monday Night Football, where I want to start 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.680 the show. But first, straight to voicemail brought to you 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.280 by Boost Mobile. We're not going to get into the 0:02:34.300 --> 0:02:36.139 baseball playoffs here. We're not going to get into, in fact, 0:02:36.180 --> 0:02:38.560 the NBA seasons one week away. We're not going to 0:02:38.580 --> 0:02:42.070 get into the WNBA finals because it is football season 0:02:42.270 --> 0:02:45.050 on What's Right with Nick Wright. And we are going 0:02:45.110 --> 0:02:50.470 to do football, football, football here. However, before I get 0:02:50.510 --> 0:02:55.859 into any of the games, Sunday morning in London, Guys 0:02:55.940 --> 0:03:01.780 can't figure out time score situation. Sunday afternoon in the States. 0:03:03.139 --> 0:03:07.060 Guys can't figure out time score situation. And then even 0:03:07.260 --> 0:03:12.470 including Monday night, the very end of Monday night, guys 0:03:12.510 --> 0:03:18.970 can't figure out time score situation. And I will get 0:03:19.050 --> 0:03:21.810 into the nitty gritty of it when we discuss each 0:03:21.970 --> 0:03:27.930 and every one of those games. But this is, and 0:03:28.030 --> 0:03:31.850 I hate to be, you know, Mr. Captain Nerd here, 0:03:32.389 --> 0:03:40.410 but this is the biggest and most glaring market inefficiency left, 0:03:41.030 --> 0:03:45.510 maybe in pro sports, but certainly in the NFL, where 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:50.760 you are hard-capped league, where everyone in theory has the 0:03:50.860 --> 0:03:58.330 same amount of finite resources. The amount you can spend 0:03:58.390 --> 0:04:02.210 on free agents, the trade capital you have via the draft, 0:04:03.010 --> 0:04:05.580 all of that is to level the playing field. The 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.960 schedule is set to level the playing field. Everything is 0:04:10.500 --> 0:04:14.260 to try to make the edges as small as possible. 0:04:14.750 --> 0:04:20.089 And while teams will spend seemingly infinite in a quest 0:04:20.130 --> 0:04:23.850 to to build the best roster, even though everyone can 0:04:23.930 --> 0:04:26.760 really only spend the same amount, or to find the 0:04:26.810 --> 0:04:32.029 next quarterback, or on getting Jim Harbaugh to come coach 0:04:32.070 --> 0:04:35.150 your team, or keeping Sean McVay as your head coach, 0:04:35.670 --> 0:04:42.109 or we got coordinators now making three to five million 0:04:42.170 --> 0:04:48.510 dollars a year. The fact that so few teams seem 0:04:48.589 --> 0:04:54.230 willing to I can't believe you need to have it. 0:04:54.800 --> 0:05:01.660 But bring in someone not only to be a clock 0:05:02.220 --> 0:05:08.770 and game management expert, but to drill your head coach, 0:05:09.230 --> 0:05:16.490 your offensive coordinator, and your quarterback into understanding the situations 0:05:16.529 --> 0:05:20.839 at hand here. Because I guess you know what? I 0:05:20.940 --> 0:05:25.010 will get into it somewhat here, each individual instance, why 0:05:25.070 --> 0:05:27.050 they were so glaring. That way we can just do 0:05:27.070 --> 0:05:30.229 the clock management stuff here, and then we will discuss 0:05:30.310 --> 0:05:34.770 the other pieces of those games. In chronological order that 0:05:34.830 --> 0:05:40.740 they occurred, in the London game, folks killing Nick Sirianni 0:05:41.180 --> 0:05:45.540 for kicking off, as opposed to kicking it into the 0:05:45.580 --> 0:05:50.060 back of the end zone, those people are misguided. That 0:05:50.190 --> 0:05:57.640 was a 50-50, 55-45 call. There is a good argument 0:05:57.900 --> 0:06:02.400 as to why you would kick off in that spot. 0:06:03.020 --> 0:06:07.520 Why you would say, with eight seconds left, with the 0:06:07.580 --> 0:06:12.060 opposing team having the best, the strongest leg kicker in 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.020 the league, I think just kicking it out of the 0:06:15.060 --> 0:06:18.799 back of the end zone, giving Trevor Lawrence the ball 0:06:18.820 --> 0:06:24.150 on the 35, where if he completes a 15-yard pass 0:06:24.190 --> 0:06:29.210 to the sidelines, we can lose, that we think it's 0:06:29.370 --> 0:06:32.750 smarter to kick off, cover the kick, and make it 0:06:32.810 --> 0:06:36.600 so it is Hail Mary or nothing else, unless we 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.620 give up one of the longest kick returns any team's 0:06:39.660 --> 0:06:43.220 given up in the league all year. That wasn't the catastrophe. 0:06:45.190 --> 0:06:51.110 game management-wise. That wasn't where Sirianni and Hertz and company 0:06:51.570 --> 0:06:53.930 lost the game. It is where they lost the game, 0:06:54.370 --> 0:06:59.570 but that was, the failure there was not, I don't 0:06:59.589 --> 0:07:03.100 want to say it wasn't preventable, but it was a 0:07:03.180 --> 0:07:06.820 physical error in kick coverage. That can happen. And kicking 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.800 it out the back of the end zone, it wasn't 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:14.520 the same as Ravens-Cowboys because Ravens had a timeout The 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.560 Jags didn't have a timeout in this scenario, but it 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.240 was justifiable to kick it even though you had given 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.520 up the big kick return early in the game. That 0:07:23.580 --> 0:07:29.510 was justifiable. What was not justifiable was the sequence when 0:07:29.690 --> 0:07:35.370 Philly had the ball with 25 seconds left after Jacksonville 0:07:35.530 --> 0:07:41.890 uses their second timeout. And this is where time, score, 0:07:42.310 --> 0:07:49.070 situation matters. Must be understood. If you are the Philadelphia Eagles, 0:07:51.430 --> 0:07:55.830 and the other team has one timeout left, and you 0:07:55.930 --> 0:08:00.739 are at their 34-yard line, and there is 25 seconds left, 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:10.180 there is no scenario that should exist where you are 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:18.000 ever kicking off. You must, especially because, and this is important, 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:22.850 Philly has a timeout of their own. So they have 0:08:23.190 --> 0:08:28.430 the ability to do whatever they need to do game 0:08:28.470 --> 0:08:31.810 management wise and not have to worry about a Washington 0:08:31.850 --> 0:08:36.680 situation coming up. It's first down. There's 25 seconds left. 0:08:37.059 --> 0:08:42.559 The Jags have one timeout. The single most important thing 0:08:42.620 --> 0:08:48.480 that has to occur is you must force Jacksonville to 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:57.250 use that timeout before you get to third down. If 0:08:57.330 --> 0:09:02.929 you do that, then you guarantee that you have the 0:09:03.010 --> 0:09:08.630 ability to be kicking with two seconds left on the 0:09:08.670 --> 0:09:11.550 clock and your kick will be the final play of 0:09:11.590 --> 0:09:18.160 the game. On first down, Philly sees it's a zero 0:09:18.220 --> 0:09:23.900 blitz from Jacksonville, and Jalen throws it away. Now, it's 0:09:23.940 --> 0:09:28.059 a poor throwaway, and because of that, it's almost intercepted. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:34.660 But still, that's not a catastrophic error. It's thrown away. Again, 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:39.829 because they only have one timeout, you're allowed one Nothing play. 0:09:40.130 --> 0:09:44.450 That's fine. Now there's 21 seconds left. Philly is at 0:09:44.490 --> 0:09:51.770 the 34-yard line. Jacksonville's one timeout. The thing that absolutely 0:09:52.030 --> 0:09:57.570 unequivocally must happen on this play is that at the 0:09:57.650 --> 0:10:01.320 end of the play, the clock is still running. and 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:07.440 Jacksonville uses its final timeout. They call another pass play. Again, 0:10:07.620 --> 0:10:11.540 if you really trust your quarterback, and you explain to him, 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:17.300 it's risky, but it can't be incomplete. If you need to, 0:10:17.620 --> 0:10:20.410 just run with it. You don't really want to take 0:10:20.450 --> 0:10:23.430 a sack there because you're on the fringes of field 0:10:23.470 --> 0:10:26.630 goal range, so calling a pass play is risky. But 0:10:26.690 --> 0:10:31.240 the thing that must be understood from your quarterback and 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.880 your receivers is we are throwing to the middle of 0:10:34.940 --> 0:10:38.900 the field, and if for some reason the defense dictates 0:10:38.940 --> 0:10:42.980 we are throwing an out-breaking route, the player understands the 0:10:43.059 --> 0:10:46.050 moment you catch it, you must go to ground. You 0:10:46.130 --> 0:10:51.839 cannot go out of bounds. Instead, what happens, Dallas Goddard's 0:10:51.900 --> 0:10:54.439 wide open in the middle of the field. Jalen never 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.429 looks to him. He throws to a rookie on an 0:10:57.510 --> 0:11:00.990 out-breaking route who goes out of bounds. And now you've 0:11:01.030 --> 0:11:04.890 set yourself up in a situation where there is 17 0:11:04.890 --> 0:11:10.750 seconds left. Jacksonville still has their timeout. And unless you 0:11:10.770 --> 0:11:14.340 get a first down, you are going to have to 0:11:14.380 --> 0:11:22.730 kick the ball off. is awful mismanagement by Sean Mannion, 0:11:24.110 --> 0:11:29.370 by Nick Sirianni, and honestly, Jalen's got to know better. 0:11:30.450 --> 0:11:33.490 Jalen's the least responsible, but you're thrown to a rookie 0:11:33.530 --> 0:11:37.339 on an outbreaking route. So that was the catastrophe there 0:11:37.740 --> 0:11:40.700 that you ever had to kick off. And everyone's out 0:11:40.740 --> 0:11:44.580 to lunch. Sirianni's apologizing for it after the game, but 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:49.540 he's apologizing for the wrong thing. Sirianni's apologizing for kicking 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.070 it deep, or for not kicking it deep, rather than 0:11:52.130 --> 0:11:56.429 understanding my apology needed to be that I shouldn't have 0:11:56.550 --> 0:11:58.910 had to kick off at all. So that was time 0:11:58.970 --> 0:12:05.900 management catastrophe number one. Game management catastrophe. Then we get 0:12:06.220 --> 0:12:12.940 to Washington against the Giants, which I'll never forget it. And, 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:18.469 you know, folks told me, Privately and publicly, that they 0:12:18.490 --> 0:12:22.810 were shocked by how hard I was on Jaden Daniels. 0:12:23.990 --> 0:12:28.100 That I said I'd never look at Jaden Daniels the 0:12:28.140 --> 0:12:34.540 same way. And while everyone's blaming David Blau or Dan Quinn, 0:12:35.059 --> 0:12:37.840 fact of the matter is this. Jaden Daniels turns 26 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:42.109 years old this season. Jaden Daniels played five years of 0:12:42.170 --> 0:12:44.990 college football. It is his third year in the pros. 0:12:45.970 --> 0:12:49.660 He's the same high school class as Kyle Hamilton. He's 0:12:49.780 --> 0:12:59.460 not an 18-year-old college freshman. He took the field in 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:04.770 overtime with a minute 55 left and his team having 0:13:04.830 --> 0:13:12.720 no timeouts. And he seemingly had no idea. And if 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.520 you want, so this, the end of game sequence at 0:13:16.540 --> 0:13:20.060 this point has been, you guys have all seen it. 0:13:20.260 --> 0:13:23.020 It's been drilled to death, but I really want to 0:13:23.100 --> 0:13:29.960 hammer home how outrageous it is. The commanders have the 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:35.699 ball on the Giants 26 yard line with 55 seconds left. 0:13:35.700 --> 0:13:46.750 55 seconds left. On the 26-yard line, they run two 0:13:46.809 --> 0:13:54.770 more plays and run out of time. 55 seconds left. Additionally, 0:13:55.290 --> 0:13:58.770 what is all the more egregious about what happened there, 0:13:59.030 --> 0:14:03.699 and this part I do blame the coaching staff for, 0:14:04.420 --> 0:14:10.830 they are not in the situation that the Eagles found 0:14:10.870 --> 0:14:16.359 themselves in, where they need to game out what happens 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.820 after we make the kick. If they make the kick, 0:14:21.100 --> 0:14:26.080 the game is over. So the only reason you are 0:14:26.140 --> 0:14:28.900 worried at all about the clock, and this shows up 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.760 in the other direction on Monday Night Football, the only 0:14:31.870 --> 0:14:35.470 reason you're worried at all about the clock is the 0:14:35.510 --> 0:14:40.270 scenario of we miss the kick, And the Giants have 0:14:40.330 --> 0:14:46.630 the ball with no timeouts left on their 30-yard line. 0:14:47.290 --> 0:14:53.060 Which again, you do need to plan for that. But 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.940 they are going to be up against it in that 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.180 exact circumstance no matter what. So you don't have to 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:05.880 get it down to two seconds. You would like, in theory, 0:15:05.970 --> 0:15:09.729 to do it perfectly. and get it down as low 0:15:09.770 --> 0:15:15.670 as possible. But obviously, the priority is being able to 0:15:15.730 --> 0:15:19.710 kick the ball. So after they run the ball for 0:15:19.770 --> 0:15:26.910 two yards with 55 seconds left, that play clock starts 0:15:27.090 --> 0:15:33.940 at 52. And in that scenario, the commanders have a 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:40.660 few options. Hurry up. Run the ball again. And then 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:46.070 spike it. Let the clock wind. Let it run all 0:15:46.110 --> 0:15:50.600 the way down. Don't run a play. And then spike it. 0:15:53.730 --> 0:15:59.580 Do none of the above. Where you don't run the ball. 0:15:59.700 --> 0:16:04.940 You don't spike it. And have Jaden do around 30 seconds. 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.760 A one read pass. That if it's not wide open 0:16:09.780 --> 0:16:12.260 to the sideline, he throws out a bounce. That's your worst, 0:16:12.460 --> 0:16:15.580 I would have thought, your worst option. Because that kind 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.180 of leaves you in no man's land on the next play, 0:16:18.340 --> 0:16:20.640 on the next play. Do you run it and then 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:25.470 have to quickly spike it? That's not ideal. In fact, wait, no, 0:16:25.500 --> 0:16:27.190 you couldn't run it and then quickly spike it there 0:16:27.210 --> 0:16:29.630 because that would have been fourth down. So then you 0:16:29.750 --> 0:16:33.290 really are in no man's land. So the ideal thing 0:16:33.370 --> 0:16:38.150 to do would be to tell Jaden, After this run, 0:16:38.490 --> 0:16:41.190 get up to the line. We're going to run again. 0:16:41.210 --> 0:16:47.880 And then no matter where he ends up, take your time, 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:55.100 get everyone set. And with about eight seconds left on 0:16:55.140 --> 0:16:57.700 the play clock, spike the ball. And we're going to 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.380 send out the field goal kicker with, you know, six, seven, 0:17:01.580 --> 0:17:04.100 however many seconds left in the game. That's the ideal 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:08.150 way to do. The safest way to do it is 0:17:08.450 --> 0:17:11.670 after Rashad White runs the ball for those two yards 0:17:12.130 --> 0:17:15.430 and there's 52 seconds left in the game, tell Jaden, 0:17:15.850 --> 0:17:17.560 take the play clock all the way down and then 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:28.980 spike it. Instead, the following happens. David Blau calls a 0:17:29.619 --> 0:17:35.540 play that involves massive subs and a motion. And this 0:17:35.619 --> 0:17:37.680 is the part that I can't get over from Jaden. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:44.810 And Jaden clearly has no idea what's going on. I've 0:17:44.910 --> 0:17:47.450 heard some folks say Jaden thought they had a timeout. 0:17:48.630 --> 0:17:55.580 He never signals for a timeout. That Jaden thought, I 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.360 don't know what Jaden thought. Here's what I do know. 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.980 He had no clue what was going on. Watch him 0:18:03.180 --> 0:18:07.320 after he goes down. he stays on the ground. He 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.189 has no urgency to get up. He does not realize 0:18:11.810 --> 0:18:16.850 that literally the only way it's possible for the play 0:18:16.890 --> 0:18:22.429 clock to start at 52 seconds and for you to 0:18:22.590 --> 0:18:27.170 only run one more play and not even come close 0:18:27.190 --> 0:18:29.650 to having time to spike it is if you do 0:18:29.770 --> 0:18:33.359 exactly what he did there, which is milk the entire 0:18:33.450 --> 0:18:37.690 play clock then run around, then not throw it away, 0:18:38.130 --> 0:18:40.830 then go down in bounds. That's the only way, and 0:18:40.869 --> 0:18:46.890 it's exactly what he did. And that is a scarring 0:18:47.290 --> 0:18:54.570 and searing indictment of his understanding of time score situation. 0:18:56.550 --> 0:19:03.450 And for your quarterback, it's wholly unacceptable. Wholly and entirely unacceptable. 0:19:04.570 --> 0:19:07.070 I used this comp on the show today. The guys 0:19:07.130 --> 0:19:15.359 didn't like it. Anthony Richardson got absolutely excoriated by every 0:19:15.430 --> 0:19:18.520 former player in the world when he tapped out of 0:19:18.580 --> 0:19:24.020 a game because he was tired. If you're actually trying 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:31.600 to believe a guy can be your franchise champion quarterback, 0:19:33.990 --> 0:19:38.220 not understanding how to run the simplest facets of a 0:19:38.260 --> 0:19:43.129 two minute drill is so much more damning than a 0:19:43.170 --> 0:19:46.879 guy who got winded in a game and didn't realize 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:53.479 that it's, verboten in football circles to tap out for anybody, 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:56.639 much less the quarterback. Or certainly for the quarterback. I 0:19:56.660 --> 0:20:00.020 shouldn't say for anybody. So that's just as bad as 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:08.250 you'll ever see. And then Monday night comes around. And, 0:20:08.510 --> 0:20:10.790 you know, people are killing Sean McVay for not going 0:20:10.830 --> 0:20:16.120 for two. That's a judgment call. It's not actually, it is, 0:20:16.660 --> 0:20:19.440 you can make the argument with the new overtime rules 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.760 why he wouldn't go for two. I'm not going to 0:20:21.780 --> 0:20:24.240 kill him for that. That's a judgment call. People are 0:20:24.260 --> 0:20:30.889 then killing McVay for the conservative play call on third 0:20:30.930 --> 0:20:34.910 and five where you're just basically settling for a Harrison 0:20:34.950 --> 0:20:39.660 Mevis kick. I didn't love that. But again, Kyron Williams 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:45.130 is an explosive back. And McVay has been conservative by nature. 0:20:45.710 --> 0:20:48.490 That is a fair criticism of him. But that is 0:20:48.550 --> 0:20:52.810 not a black and white error. There was one black 0:20:52.850 --> 0:20:57.510 and white error, however. And nobody cares. And it wasn't 0:20:57.530 --> 0:21:05.139 even mentioned on the broadcast. After Mivas misses, and the 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.790 Bills get the ball, And they drive down the field. 0:21:09.730 --> 0:21:13.670 And we get to the two-minute warning. The scenario is 0:21:14.310 --> 0:21:19.619 the Rams have no timeouts left. The Bills have the 0:21:19.650 --> 0:21:27.020 ball on the 27-yard line. There are two minutes remaining 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:32.200 because it's the two-minute warning. We come back from commercial. 0:21:36.109 --> 0:21:43.670 And Tyler Bass is on the field in a simply indefensible, 0:21:44.330 --> 0:21:46.209 and they got away with it so no one cares, 0:21:46.670 --> 0:21:52.300 decision by Joe Brady that was damn near as bad 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.840 as anything we'd seen all day. Again, the Rams have 0:21:55.900 --> 0:22:00.879 no timeouts. There's two minutes left. You have a B-field 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:07.379 goal kicker in Buffalo. It's a 45-yard field goal. If 0:22:07.450 --> 0:22:11.840 he misses that kick, the Rams are getting the ball 0:22:12.940 --> 0:22:17.160 on the 34th with an offense that has scored 34 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:22.390 and moved it at will. And the Rams, again, keep 0:22:22.450 --> 0:22:27.869 in mind, had no ability to stop the clock. Now, 0:22:27.890 --> 0:22:31.330 if you make the kick, obviously it doesn't matter. The 0:22:31.369 --> 0:22:37.630 fact that Joe Brady did not recognize... The only acceptable 0:22:37.990 --> 0:22:44.090 option there is on first down, you must run a 0:22:44.130 --> 0:22:48.450 play and end in bounds. Now, you can say we 0:22:48.530 --> 0:22:53.909 can't risk a James Cook fumble. No problem. Do a 0:22:53.950 --> 0:22:56.020 Josh Allen sneak, and it doesn't have to be an 0:22:56.060 --> 0:23:00.399 aggressive sneak. Just don't lose yardage. Do a Josh Allen sneak, 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:05.780 and now there's a minute 15 left. When on second down, 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:08.639 you do another Josh Allen sneak. First of all, you 0:23:08.660 --> 0:23:12.720 probably made the kick a little bit shorter. And then 0:23:12.780 --> 0:23:18.179 there is 30 seconds left. Apologies for my dog. And 0:23:18.300 --> 0:23:20.520 then if you want to say, you know what, we're 0:23:20.560 --> 0:23:25.470 not going to do a fire drill field goal. We are, 0:23:26.210 --> 0:23:28.750 you know, we're not going to do a third sneak 0:23:28.790 --> 0:23:31.750 and then, you know, kick it as time expires. We have, 0:23:32.450 --> 0:23:35.380 we have, soaked up enough of the clock that now 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:38.590 on this net on third down, we're going to let 0:23:38.609 --> 0:23:41.070 the clock go down to about 30 seconds and then 0:23:41.250 --> 0:23:44.970 spike it. And yes, if he misses, we are leaving 0:23:45.290 --> 0:23:49.869 Stafford with 25 seconds, but that is a trade-off worth 0:23:50.390 --> 0:23:52.560 not having to rush the kicker on the field just 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:55.500 so we can leave Stafford with zero seconds if he misses. 0:23:55.859 --> 0:23:58.820 So be it. I don't even think it occurred to 0:23:58.859 --> 0:24:01.440 the Bills. I don't even think it occurred to Joe Brady. 0:24:03.190 --> 0:24:08.609 So think about that, guys. Talking about one of the 0:24:08.710 --> 0:24:11.550 faces of the league, but one of the most promising 0:24:11.590 --> 0:24:14.730 young quarterbacks in the league, Jaden Daniels. No clue what's 0:24:14.770 --> 0:24:19.189 going on clock management-wise. A Super Bowl champion head coach 0:24:20.340 --> 0:24:23.920 in Nick Sirianni. No clue what's going on clock management-wise. 0:24:25.380 --> 0:24:30.540 A guy who is at the helm of one of 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:34.490 the Super Bowl favorites, Joe Brady. No clue what's going 0:24:34.580 --> 0:24:41.679 on game management-wise. It's so wholly unacceptable. And... It. 0:24:43.660 --> 0:24:44.240 Is. 0:24:45.560 --> 0:24:54.300 It decides championships. It decides so many more games than 0:24:55.300 --> 0:24:59.540 who your number two receiver is. And people just accept it. 0:25:01.580 --> 0:25:01.760 And. 0:25:02.480 --> 0:25:04.550 And people can say, oh, it's so much easier from 0:25:04.590 --> 0:25:08.590 your couch or during the live bullets on the sideline 0:25:08.609 --> 0:25:11.630 or the head coach is too much going on. Maybe. 0:25:12.470 --> 0:25:14.530 I'm pretty good. Granted, it is on my couch, but 0:25:14.570 --> 0:25:18.490 I'm watching seven different games and I can clock what's 0:25:18.530 --> 0:25:22.070 going on. 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On the actual Monday night football game, Concern 0:27:14.410 --> 0:27:22.940 level for the Rams is at a six. Stafford seems 0:27:22.960 --> 0:27:28.860 to just vacillate between red hot and what's wrong with them. 0:27:29.119 --> 0:27:33.250 Bill's game obviously was red hot. They are now going 0:27:33.290 --> 0:27:37.310 to be without their left tackle, Larrick Jackson, for two games. 0:27:38.609 --> 0:27:42.080 He is a guy who has been suspended before for 0:27:42.119 --> 0:27:44.699 personal conduct stuff. A lot of us thought he was 0:27:44.720 --> 0:27:47.360 going to be suspended this offseason for personal conduct stuff. 0:27:47.380 --> 0:27:50.280 That didn't happen. Then he punched Bradley Chubb after the game. 0:27:50.580 --> 0:27:54.260 So he's out two games. They are just committed to 0:27:55.040 --> 0:27:59.250 having the worst special teams imaginable year after year after year. 0:27:59.990 --> 0:28:00.250 And, I. 0:28:01.770 --> 0:28:05.310 Mean, I can check right now. Let me see if 0:28:05.350 --> 0:28:15.000 I can find it. Polymarket NFC West odds. They are 0:28:15.020 --> 0:28:20.620 NFC West champion. Here we go. I mean, they are 0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:28.650 down to 21%. Yeah, it costs 21 cents for them 0:28:28.690 --> 0:28:31.470 to win the NFC West. So they're a 4-1 dog 0:28:32.190 --> 0:28:36.639 to win the NFC West, which means... they're going to 0:28:36.660 --> 0:28:41.030 be on the road the whole playoffs. None of that 0:28:41.090 --> 0:28:43.090 is good. Now, do I think they're going to miss 0:28:43.150 --> 0:28:49.250 the playoffs? No. But they've got three losses, still have 0:28:49.770 --> 0:28:54.650 two games left against Seattle, one game left against the Niners, 0:28:55.450 --> 0:28:59.500 a game left against the Chiefs, a Cowboys game, a 0:28:59.560 --> 0:29:05.800 Bucks game, a Packers game. Their next four... is the 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:08.380 soft part of their schedule, but they didn't expect to 0:29:08.420 --> 0:29:10.860 be two and three here. And they had to really 0:29:10.960 --> 0:29:16.110 pull it out the fire against the Eagles. So it's 0:29:16.190 --> 0:29:20.490 not abject panic, but for a team that was supposed 0:29:20.510 --> 0:29:22.330 to be far and away, the best team in football, 0:29:22.370 --> 0:29:26.130 they haven't looked like it. And I, man, oh man, 0:29:26.150 --> 0:29:30.370 they ask a lot of Puka. So that's, that's the 0:29:30.410 --> 0:29:33.590 concern for the Rams getting miles. Gary back obviously should help, 0:29:33.710 --> 0:29:40.820 but it, you don't love Myles Garrett, you know, having 0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:43.880 to come off knee surgery, didn't really have a full 0:29:43.980 --> 0:29:48.930 offseason because he was dealing with the knee. So, Rams concern, 6-6.5. 0:29:50.930 --> 0:29:53.910 The Bills are just the Bills. Like, I... I. 0:29:56.190 --> 0:29:56.270 Am. 0:30:00.170 --> 0:30:05.670 I was bemused when mid-second quarter, when the broadcast did 0:30:05.690 --> 0:30:11.410 its obligatory homage to Josh Allen, that when they came 0:30:11.550 --> 0:30:14.070 out of it, they showed his stat line for the game, 0:30:14.130 --> 0:30:21.480 and he had seven passing yards. However, where Josh deserves 0:30:21.660 --> 0:30:24.640 a ton of credit, and where he's unlike just about 0:30:24.720 --> 0:30:28.730 any other quarterback in the league, is he can have 0:30:29.010 --> 0:30:34.230 a very nondescript or off passing night and still be 0:30:34.290 --> 0:30:38.030