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Speaker 1: Well, today it's a good day because I am back

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Speaker 1: with my friends Maurice Jones, Drew and DeMarco. Far Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: good evening, whenever you might be watching this, I'm JB.

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Speaker 1: Long and this is a new season of Between the Horns,

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Speaker 1: presented by your Southern California Toyota Dealers. As you know,

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Speaker 1: a pair of division champs, the Texans and the Rams

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Speaker 1: to kick things off in week one. But first, it's

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Speaker 1: great to see you guys, our tenth year together. DeMarco

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Speaker 1: predates us with his Rams tenure. He's bringing that up,

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Speaker 1: your statesman.

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Speaker 2: That walking in the morning haircut. I cut the gray

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Speaker 2: out with me. Listen, come on, you want to know

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Speaker 2: what something funny you talk about? Gray hair? It's starting

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Speaker 2: to It's starting to come to me too. I feel terrible.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go baby face.

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Speaker 3: Soon, Jamie, A fresh cut through and some oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: I gotta hey, Rams kicks raid to roll nice, you know,

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Speaker 3: nice nice, ready to get get to step in.

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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I like it, you know you and I I

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Speaker 1: just haven't really sat down and talked Rams in a while.

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Speaker 1: So when I thought about an agenda for this show,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to keep it pretty open ended because we've

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Speaker 1: been pulled in so many different directions. Good directions is

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Speaker 1: preseason that since the roster was formulated. I just haven't

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Speaker 1: heard from mjd in to Marco about what you think.

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Speaker 1: What's what's got you excited about this season? What's got

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Speaker 1: you concerned? Losing sleep?

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Speaker 2: Where are we? Well?

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Speaker 4: I'm excited because I mean the team. I like the

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Speaker 4: way it's built. But like I said, when you roll

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Speaker 4: out of bed knowing that you have a quarterback, that

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Speaker 4: spot is filled with a quality athlete.

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Speaker 2: I feel comfortable.

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Speaker 4: But the more I think about it, the more I

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Speaker 4: extrapolate out it's not the Johnny's and the Joe's on

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Speaker 4: the field, it's actually Sean McVay that makes me feel

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Speaker 4: so comfortable and calm. So this is another season for him.

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Speaker 4: It's another season with a top flight quarterback. With Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 4: you've got a good young defense. So the way you

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Speaker 4: ended the season in Philadelphia, like you said, thirteen yards

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Speaker 4: short from shock in the world. So it was a

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Speaker 4: great a great cliffhanger. I can't wait to see how

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Speaker 4: they followed up this Sunday and so far. Yeah, I

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Speaker 4: gotta be where my feed are right. I got to

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Speaker 4: that question. I started thinking like December November, like what

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Speaker 2: Type of thing.

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Speaker 3: But I'm super excited about what the Rams have done

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Speaker 3: throughout the off season, that the health of Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 3: getting DeVante Adams. Not really worried about the kicking game,

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Speaker 3: special teams looking really well throughout preseason. Defensively, seeing though

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Speaker 3: the d linemen and that whole defense come together and

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Speaker 3: what they did, how they grew Lasher and what they

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Speaker 3: So to me, the biggest thing that I've my only

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Speaker 2: Right. It's like, you have all the pieces to do

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Speaker 3: Yes, those guys have to play, but if you win

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Speaker 3: the injury report every week with which we know that's

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Speaker 3: Sean's thing, win the injury report, you have a great

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Speaker 3: The health and then the travel gets me too. It's

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Speaker 1: Second most in terms of miles in the league, and

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Speaker 3: And that it starts to take a toll as you

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Speaker 1: A few things on the health front. They're gonna win

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Speaker 1: the refrains i've heard several times from Sean McVay this

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Speaker 1: But when you go up against this defense, and we'll

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Speaker 1: to Matthew Stafford his back, he's talking a good game,

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Speaker 1: saying he's gonna play the way he's always played.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, to me, you have to, right, you have

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Speaker 3: think if you're Sean McVay, you're going to max protect

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Speaker 3: a little bit more. Right, We're not gonna have tight

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Speaker 3: Now they do have a great corner and Derek extingly,

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Speaker 3: it's not necessarily about Matthew Stafford. I need you to

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Speaker 3: be Matthew Stafford and play like him as the play caller, though,

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Speaker 3: I have to make sure that I'm calling the plays necessary.

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Speaker 3: When we do want to take shots, there's seven guys

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Speaker 1: Just having a guy who can win against any coverage

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Speaker 4: That's gonna help any offense. DeVante Adams being on the

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Speaker 4: big time. But I am so with you. Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 4: has to be Matthew Stafford. But for this week, even

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Speaker 4: I would absolutely try to bully them. They're fast, but

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Speaker 4: come off the rock. I would make them. I would

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Speaker 4: take them all the way back to week one training camp.

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Speaker 4: You're going to be hitting, blocking, sleds for the first quarter, absolutely,

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Speaker 4: So first and ten the Rams are paying running backs again,

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Speaker 1: You won't hold your breath the first time he gets hit,

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Speaker 4: Than I've been doing that since he got here, especially

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Speaker 4: is this going to be the one? That's what happens

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Speaker 4: when you have a quarterback that's thirty seven years old.

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Speaker 4: But for the most part, the guy gets up and

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Speaker 2: But it's not the.

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Speaker 1: Doubt about him dusting himself off, it's just that can

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Speaker 1: he be the Matthew Stafford that differentiates him from other quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: which is hanging on to the bitter end, reading that

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Speaker 1: being able to get a shot off, and especially with

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Speaker 1: I think Maurice always wants like more keeper game more

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Speaker 4: You mean boots right? You don't mean running him on

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Speaker 3: First thing is because of his injury, I believe and

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Speaker 3: I feel in talking to Sean that they're super confident.

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Speaker 3: It comes with Jimmy Garoppolo run their offense. Unlet's remember

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Speaker 3: going back to last year Week eighteen, they put up

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Speaker 3: what twenty some odd points against the Seahawks and their starters, right,

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Speaker 3: So you feel comfortable in that aspect.

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Speaker 1: He had the single game passing lead. Jimmy g you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're comfortable in that situation. The reason I want

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Speaker 3: Sean to go back to twenty seventeen and eighteen is

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Speaker 3: it was very run heavy and it was very specific

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Speaker 3: I just remember, was it eighteen where we used to

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Speaker 3: used to play fake girly Week and then whip around

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Speaker 3: you can do that four or five times a game

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Speaker 3: with Davante and Matthew Stafford, all of a sudden, it's like, okay,

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Speaker 3: I can go down here and protect them, Like get

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Speaker 2: And the boots always work as well.

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Speaker 3: So again what you said the running running game is

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Speaker 3: this has been a very big emphasis this year, really

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Speaker 3: Right explosive runs, I think Kyron, We're not expecting Kyroen

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Speaker 2: That sets up play action pass, It sets up the.

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Speaker 3: Screen game that gets your offensive line going, and I

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Speaker 2: We saw.

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Speaker 3: I mean, let's just look at what the Rams in

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Speaker 2: Back, I think we should expect explosive runs to be

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Speaker 4: Come on, bro, I'm just asking, I mean, what's set

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Speaker 3: Right before half and then came right out of half

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Speaker 2: Again, okay, but did you know before that this is

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Speaker 3: I was upset because we went into that, We're going

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Speaker 2: In the secon quarter, I had two carries. I think

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Speaker 1: Obviously that was your unique ability, But I bet if

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Speaker 2: It wasn't just you. No, no, no, no, that's what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I would suggest that too much of this offseason conversation

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Speaker 1: would ask DeMarco from your defensive lens when you're breaking

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Speaker 1: does that change your math defensively, especially with how you

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Speaker 4: I'm going to be a step late coming down with

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Speaker 1: Where you were in the middle and the end of

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Speaker 4: I feel like this for running backs, and this is

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Speaker 2: Yeah. If I get you into the open field.

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Speaker 4: If you get a hat on the hat and I

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Speaker 3: And I think that's why I said, like twenty thirty

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Speaker 2: Right. Our job, your.

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Speaker 3: him to do it, but he was selfless enough to

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Speaker 3: And then the other time he blocked two guys on

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Speaker 3: do it. And if you have the speed, you'll get

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Speaker 3: those eighty Kyro just doesn't have that speed to do it.

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Speaker 2: And that's okay, you don't have to do that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, talking to coach Yarbs in Cleveland, he said,

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Speaker 3: after quickness over speed. Oh yeah, we like quickness right,

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Speaker 2: We see Kyroen ducking it out of holes.

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Speaker 3: And so to me, if I can get a twelve

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Speaker 2: I have coach Yarps, quickness is a luxury. Speed. No,

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Speaker 2: quickness is a necessity. Speed is a luxury. There is

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Speaker 1: I like what you said about Tori there because even

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Speaker 1: we've seen moments and weeks where they have not had

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Speaker 4: If that takes a dip because of Davante, I don't

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Speaker 2: No, No, that's not his style. I think he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: But they have a culture, they have they have other

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Speaker 1: But Coop was special in that way, no question.

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Speaker 3: A guy that can go in and block you, inserting

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Speaker 3: like that's just a different type of deal. And again

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Speaker 2: Do you think the passing game is going to look like?

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Speaker 2: understood after seeing Saquon Barkley and the Eagles right has

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Speaker 1: Should we flip sides to the ball there? You can

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Speaker 1: take whatever topic you want. Let's keep talking big picture,

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Speaker 1: But is there anything defensive that's on your mind.

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Speaker 2: From the Rams? Defensively? Come on, man? What come on? Man?

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Speaker 2: Start it off? Well? Just thinking about the D line?

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Speaker 4: Right, Jared Verse and you would think that he led

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Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm gonna respect him that way. And

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Speaker 4: Their offensive line is in flux, but this game is

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Speaker 2: From the defensive front.

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Speaker 4: I'm expecting Jared Verse to from last season get better

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Speaker 4: get the ball out, make game changing plays, change the math.

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Speaker 4: So take it up a step from what we saw

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Speaker 2: For this football team.

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Speaker 4: He's like the Hoover dam Really he is that stubborn

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Speaker 3: So as I was doing my due diligence on the game,

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Speaker 3: He said, whoever's offensive line holds up the longest, that's

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Speaker 4: Side, here's the crazy thing. Some of his best rushes

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Speaker 4: Every win that you had needs to turn into either

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Speaker 2: The ball out.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I saw him do a push pull dip

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Speaker 3: just bull guy's back Like, no, he has. He has

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Speaker 3: Houston Texans, well, one, they have a double agent.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that later. They have a double agent.

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Speaker 3: But you know this offense because it's a it's a

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Speaker 3: what they're gonna do. So you have to go out

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Speaker 3: because this is what we got in practice every day,

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Speaker 3: if your defensive line can take care of that offensive line.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what they do.

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Speaker 2: This is true. Who's secret scrorel? Who's the double agent?

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Speaker 1: Nick Haley?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? The secret score? Okay, go ahead, Sorry.

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Speaker 1: A couple follow ups. Who do you think, when all

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Speaker 3: I think Kobe Turner does. Oh, and I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 2: Is that what you thought? No?

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Speaker 1: twenty three Rookie of the Year revenge game. Yeah, Pooka

439
00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,000
Speaker 1: and Kobe both just missed because of some Houston Texans.

440
00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:21,560
Speaker 2: But anyway, go ahead on the Kobe. I like.

441
00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:23,800
Speaker 3: The reason why I say Kobe is because he's like

442
00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:25,000
Speaker 3: the one that no one's talked about.

443
00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,160
Speaker 1: Everyone's crazy, because I think he's got all pro upside.

444
00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:32,359
Speaker 3: Everyone's talked about Verse and Fisk and how fast Young

445
00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,439
Speaker 3: is and Poona Ford and for whatever reason, we just

446
00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:38,680
Speaker 3: haven't talked about the conductor. Right, It's just and that's

447
00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:41,000
Speaker 3: what happens. Right, You had a really good year, but

448
00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,200
Speaker 3: there's so many guys like somebody can't. Everybody can't. What's

449
00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:46,800
Speaker 3: the movie with the singers? And then they have the

450
00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:48,800
Speaker 3: least sing and they're beefing all the time. The Temptations,

451
00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,920
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, it's like they're beefing all the time

452
00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,480
Speaker 3: hard everybody.

453
00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,800
Speaker 4: What's the guy? Oh can't sing like Eddie K? Yeah,

454
00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:58,800
Speaker 4: and everybody everybody Eddie K.

455
00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:01,200
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. But those other guys put

456
00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:01,840
Speaker 2: in a lot of work.

457
00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,480
Speaker 4: You know, I would not be surprised if Kobe Turner

458
00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,639
Speaker 4: leaves this theme to Sacks. I think, like you said,

459
00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,360
Speaker 4: he has all pro potential. But I mean we were

460
00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:11,120
Speaker 4: talking about this is gonna be an edge heavy team

461
00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,679
Speaker 4: and you are set to go. I haven't given up

462
00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,440
Speaker 4: on the Velociraptors. I still think they exist and they're

463
00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,200
Speaker 4: gonna get better. So it's coming off the edge here

464
00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:20,600
Speaker 4: and they're gonna get more opportunities.

465
00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,000
Speaker 2: But you gotta think they're gonna get double teamed right.

466
00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:27,639
Speaker 3: When you go, Oh, trust me played against Dwight Freeney

467
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,640
Speaker 3: and Robert mathis with double team on all day, right,

468
00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:32,360
Speaker 3: Chip help, you're gonna.

469
00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,840
Speaker 1: Have all given protect somebody.

470
00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,800
Speaker 2: Somebody get singled up. Okay, you don't think they're gonna

471
00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:38,840
Speaker 2: slide to fist. Of course.

472
00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,399
Speaker 3: The one guy's gonna get singled up, I think is

473
00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:42,800
Speaker 3: Kobe Turner, and that's gonna be where he takes advantage.

474
00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:43,840
Speaker 2: Of it, and then when he gets going, guess what

475
00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:45,119
Speaker 2: someone else is gonna get singled up?

476
00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,720
Speaker 1: What about with respect to the run defense? And I

477
00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,880
Speaker 1: want to preface this by saying, big picture, the Rams

478
00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,200
Speaker 1: were not good enough against the run last year start

479
00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,439
Speaker 1: of the season, especially last game of the season, But

480
00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,399
Speaker 1: between the Saquon games they actually were much improved. And

481
00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,080
Speaker 1: I hope that's a sign of what's to come, especially

482
00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,159
Speaker 1: when you bring in Puna Ford and when you have

483
00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,560
Speaker 1: a full year of omar States and Nate Laman is

484
00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,720
Speaker 1: named a captain and came in and took the green

485
00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,879
Speaker 1: dot the moment he arrived. What is your level of

486
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,720
Speaker 1: optimism that year two under Chrishula leads to a big

487
00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:16,720
Speaker 1: step forward in that regard and you can earn more

488
00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,680
Speaker 1: known passing situations for DeMarco's veloci rapis.

489
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Speaker 4: You you beat me to it? Year two of Chrishula,

490
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:23,880
Speaker 4: He's going to get better as a corter. I thought

491
00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,520
Speaker 4: they got better as he got better as.

492
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Speaker 2: The season war on.

493
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:28,919
Speaker 4: Towards the end of the year, when you had the

494
00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,800
Speaker 4: trust and everyone understood what this defense was about, they

495
00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:34,959
Speaker 4: turned into one of the best defenses. Had they got

496
00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,560
Speaker 4: past Philadelphia. I think they would have been rolling on

497
00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,199
Speaker 4: that side of the ball, so I think they hit

498
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,840
Speaker 4: the ground rolling, So couldn't they be better stopping the run.

499
00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,280
Speaker 4: I think they ranked twenty two, so they're in the

500
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,840
Speaker 4: bottom third of the league. But I think they need

501
00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,400
Speaker 4: to get more consistent. Just don't let these quarterbacks jump

502
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,600
Speaker 4: out the window. That kind of change or skew your

503
00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,199
Speaker 4: rush defense numbers. Get those guys on the ground, be

504
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,240
Speaker 4: better on third d get off the field when you

505
00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 4: should and not have to defend those twelve to fifteen

506
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,400
Speaker 4: extra rushing plays because you messed up on third down.

507
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 4: Be more consistent, get off the field your rushing numbers.

508
00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,640
Speaker 3: Well, I want to say this too, as a running back.

509
00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,879
Speaker 3: Having a running quarterback is like the cheat code. I

510
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,920
Speaker 3: remember playing and David Garar was mobile, but he wasn't

511
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,159
Speaker 3: Vince Young. And I remember when Chris John's arrested for

512
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 3: two thousands. I was jealous Chris. I was jealous because

513
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,000
Speaker 3: Vince Young had two sets of eyes on him all time. Right,

514
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 3: And if you remember the last game against Philly, what

515
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 3: really sparked everything. It was a Jalen Hurts touchdown run

516
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:36,600
Speaker 3: right for forty yards and now all of a sudden,

517
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,280
Speaker 3: we have to worry about you right now. If you

518
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,120
Speaker 3: don't have a running quarterback, I don't have to worry

519
00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,119
Speaker 3: about the quarterback, and I could play regular defense instead

520
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,480
Speaker 3: of playing eleven on eleven football. So that's what makes

521
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 3: Philadelphia special. I think that's what where the ram struggled

522
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 3: is when they had those running Kyler Murray. They struggled

523
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,880
Speaker 3: against Kyler because again, you have to have eyes on

524
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 3: that guy. And so once you figure out how to

525
00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:01,040
Speaker 3: play that type of football, I think the Rams, they've

526
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,199
Speaker 3: had a whole year to kind of figure out how

527
00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 3: we're going to play these mobile guys, you'll have a

528
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,400
Speaker 3: better opportunity. But last year it was just I mean,

529
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,199
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurds broke that run early in that game in

530
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 3: the divisional round, and then it was like I heard,

531
00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,640
Speaker 3: we got to focus on him, and now everyone's out

532
00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 3: of gaps because you lost the gap to the front side.

533
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 2: It's a math advantage.

534
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 4: You have one extra guy you have to account for

535
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 4: in the run game, which is going to make you

536
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:23,439
Speaker 4: short somewhere.

537
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,160
Speaker 2: That's the problem with running quarterbacks.

538
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 4: The only way to recreate that with a quarterback that

539
00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 4: doesn't run is using a lot of twelve two tight ends.

540
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 4: It keeps the defense off balance, which leads us right

541
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,200
Speaker 4: to back to the offense. With Tyler Higbee and Ferguson

542
00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 4: on the field at the same time, that will create

543
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 4: the same sort of mathematical problem that a running quarterback

544
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 4: does because you don't know which way do you call

545
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 4: strength depending on who's out there right, Plus Puka and

546
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,480
Speaker 4: DeVante Adams are still on the field, it creates a

547
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 4: lot of indecisions. So that's the way I would recreate that.

548
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,359
Speaker 4: But running quarterbacks, it's all with their nightmare. The problem

549
00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,400
Speaker 4: is once you blunt the run attack, sometimes those guys

550
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:01,919
Speaker 4: can't throw in the game is yours?

551
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,120
Speaker 2: Well, that's the key stop to run, right.

552
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 1: You know who else plays a role in stopping the

553
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 1: run though, And I want to bend this back to

554
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,159
Speaker 1: the offense because the way that you can take an

555
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 1: opponent's running game away is by going up two scores.

556
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,680
Speaker 1: And the Rams just simply did not do that enough

557
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 1: last season. They didn't start games well, they played a

558
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 1: lot of close games. They closed out a lot of

559
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: games with their defense. I think I speak for this

560
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: entire footprint, this entire building. It would be nice to

561
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,400
Speaker 1: get back to putting up some points this year to

562
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,159
Speaker 1: not be in the twenties in scoring offense, and I

563
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: think that'll change a lot of your defensive fortunes as well.

564
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was.

565
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 3: It's so funny when you go back to the years

566
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 3: whe the Rams were scoring thirty thirty five points a

567
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:45,880
Speaker 3: game that all of a sudden the defense was really good.

568
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, Aaron Donald had twenty. Right, Aaron Donald had

569
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,880
Speaker 2: twenty And that's what happens. Right.

570
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 1: By the way, do you know who the biggest cap

571
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 1: hit on this defense is to this day?

572
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 2: Aaron Donald?

573
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so it's a young assembly.

574
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 2: Yeah wow.

575
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 1: But where are the resources on this team? Where does

576
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: this team need to be led from? I think it's

577
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,719
Speaker 1: still an offensive driven team and as efficient as they

578
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: were last year, their next level metrics looked really good.

579
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: They look like a top ten offense. At times, it

580
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 1: did not translate to points because of turnovers at sometimes

581
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: because they did not finish drives well enough in the

582
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: red zone. That's one for me. I think red zone

583
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: offense is a huge step forward this ya.

584
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 2: That was solved when they win and Gouty Davonte a.

585
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,159
Speaker 2: I think that's one piece hope so.

586
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 3: And the reason I'll tell you that is it goes

587
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 3: back to twenty twenty one when they went in and

588
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 3: signed Odell Beckham junior. He goes to Arizona, he's out

589
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 3: by hisself at a wide receiver. He runs a slant,

590
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 3: catches touchdown. The next week, fade right is those two

591
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 3: routes are those are the hardest routes to cover in

592
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 3: the tight red well.

593
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,640
Speaker 2: Guess what does it all the time?

594
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: I just like their options down there better. I don't

595
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: know which one they'll choose. DeVante's clearly the leading one,

596
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 1: but Puka Nakua I think will finally crack the code.

597
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: Like for all he's done, he's not scored many touchdowns

598
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,160
Speaker 1: for two years. I think they will run in pass

599
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,920
Speaker 1: utilize them in that short red zone area. I think

600
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,199
Speaker 1: Terrence Ferguson by year's end is going to be a

601
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: huge asset down there and finishing drives. And then Kyrin

602
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 1: Williams is that hammerhead shark that can still get in

603
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 1: from the five or inside the five.

604
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 4: I like going up by two scorers with this young

605
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 4: defensive line. You've if you just take the training wheels

606
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 4: off and just say light your hair on fire and

607
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 4: go get them.

608
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 2: They'll win. Oh yeah, they'll win. Absolutely.

609
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: If there's a scenario Sunday, but where chubbing the offensive

610
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 1: line are not manufacturing much by way of a running game,

611
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: and you go up ten points or fourteen points, that's

612
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,160
Speaker 1: a game that I want to see in.

613
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 4: The sun, no doubt. And you could. It's a possibility

614
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 4: that you could. You just have to get around that defense.

615
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,959
Speaker 4: Let me say this for the Rams offense. Understand, when

616
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 4: you're playing the Houston Texans, they're slanting. They're the different

617
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 4: team than the Niners. Demgo with the Niners. Demgo just

618
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 4: let those guys go.

619
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 2: This team.

620
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 3: They're stunting and slanting every they know they can't hold

621
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 3: up against a run. So you just have to make

622
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 3: sure that you have your eyes where you need to

623
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 3: because those guys are wherever they start, they're not finishing.

624
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: There is Coleman health.

625
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. But I'm just saying you're gonna have guys.

626
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 3: Well, we used to play teams and the only reason

627
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 3: I remember this is because I played against Amiko Ryans.

628
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 2: If they're not big and stout, they're slanting guys.

629
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 3: Everybody's slanting, stunting, they're doing ET's or some type of

630
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,439
Speaker 3: run slant to get your lineman so they can't get

631
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 3: to those linebackers. And those linebackers aren't big either. They're

632
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 3: smaller guys too that can run. And so if you can,

633
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 3: if you can zone that off or find a way

634
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 3: to get up on those backers with your lineman, you're

635
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 3: gonna have some run running lanes.

636
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 4: They're gonna guess wrong at some point. Just be be there.

637
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 4: But I'm with you with the Coleman Shelton thing. It's

638
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,239
Speaker 4: that's an experienced driver. You could take a nap if

639
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 4: you wanted to read a book. You don't have to

640
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 4: keep looking where he's looking.

641
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 2: Uh.

642
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 4: It takes a lot of pressure off Matthew Stafford. It

643
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,800
Speaker 4: takes a lot of pressure off those two guards right

644
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 4: next to him and the whole offensive line. Just talking

645
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 4: to him about ball is like talking to a quarterback

646
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 4: the way he sees it.

647
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 2: Uh.

648
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 4: He can recognize coverage just by where you are. You

649
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 4: know you're not supposed to be there if he's going

650
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 4: to be there. A Matthew, watch this, you know what

651
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 4: I mean? Hey, we're gonna go this way. I thought,

652
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 4: I don't worry about it. We're going this way. He's

653
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 4: got that kind of cred So that's one thing you

654
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 4: lacked last year. Center was kind of in flux. It

655
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 4: was green until bow Lemmer kind of settled it down.

656
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 4: And he's green. Like you said, this is a whole

657
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Speaker 4: different animal, which should make your offense, your offensive line,

658
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 4: and your offense better.

659
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: Let's stick with Rams offense against Texans defense. As we

660
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: start to transition more into a Week one preview, you

661
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: mentioned Namiko Ryans has had some great success against Stafford

662
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: and McVeigh when he was with the Niners. You could

663
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: argue his personnel is as good or better right now

664
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Speaker 1: in different places, but as good or better.

665
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 2: On defense.

666
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: They got two elite corners. Yes, I think adding CJ

667
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: to their safety room is a big deal. That's a

668
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: huge Is there a better pass rushing tandem on the

669
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: edge in the league.

670
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Speaker 2: I'm just saying Bosa was like during that time, was blockable, unblockable.

671
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Speaker 1: Let's agree to not argue about that and see the

672
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: fact that it's even a conversation means a good thing.

673
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Speaker 4: He's got a talented defense defense.

674
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Speaker 3: Yes, again, I I think two things I don't Fred

675
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 3: Warner roaming the middle of the field is a big

676
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 3: they don't have that.

677
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 2: They're a guy that can run.

678
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Speaker 1: I think is that guy.

679
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 2: He's good.

680
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 3: I think he's good. He's great, great, he's a good player.

681
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 3: But he's not running like Fred Warner. Like Fred Warner

682
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 3: would run through the middle of the field and that

683
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 3: would take away those digs. I don't see him doing that.

684
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 3: He's a physical guy, though, he's gonna come and he's

685
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 3: the one that again he brought him over because of

686
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 3: his physical presence. Right, Drake Greenland, Right, that's their dre Greenlaw.

687
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 3: I do believe that their dns are special, but the

688
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 3: d tackles are different.

689
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 2: Right, Those d tackles are different in San Francisco.

690
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Speaker 1: Which I hope we feel that on Sunday, especially if

691
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: De Marco wants them to what do you say, go

692
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: up against the sleds?

693
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Speaker 4: I would like, I said, I would take them back

694
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 4: to early August. You have to sled for the first

695
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 4: quarter of the game. Yes, I want all that.

696
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: Yes I agree with kind of a downhill bullyball approach,

697
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: but I think I would just include in that run

698
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:14,719
Speaker 1: game anything quick, quick game, perimeter throws, speed outs to

699
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: to two eye bubbles, anything horizontal that's fast and keeps

700
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: Matthew's time to throw down. I would I would consider

701
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: in that same section of the place sheet.

702
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 3: I think a screen to Pooka getting him running on

703
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 3: those dbs because they're they're they're really good. Make guys,

704
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 3: make them tackle the big your big back right uh.

705
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 2: I will say this the one the difference. Stingley's really good.

706
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 3: I just don't know how their safeties are though, And

707
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 3: I think that's where you're You're you'll be able to

708
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 3: take advantage a little bit with those tight splits. The

709
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 3: other thing is this too. And I actually Henry Tooto,

710
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 3: he's his dad. I coached with him at Dayla Soul.

711
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 2: So I went to the linebacker linebacker, so I want

712
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 2: to go talk to his dad.

713
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 3: And I was like, make sure you tell Henry you know,

714
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 3: he has to have his eyes right because there's gonna

715
00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 3: be a lot of moving going on there and and

716
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 3: and I think that's where they're going to be able

717
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 3: to take advantage because this team flies around, they play fast.

718
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 2: They do have a lot of eye violations or they're

719
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 2: out of position a lot.

720
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Speaker 4: When you said they move and they stunt, that's the

721
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 4: only thing that screws that I've been in those defenses

722
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 4: where everything's a stunt, everything's moving, but when the offense

723
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 4: starts to move, we have to communicate, and that gives

724
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 4: that quarterback a lot of data before we even move

725
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 4: because we have to change everything. Which where are you going?

726
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,000
Speaker 4: I thought I had to do this. Now they moved

727
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 4: over there. Which where are you going?

728
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?

729
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 4: That gives you some sort of indication as to where

730
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 4: the pressures coming from.

731
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: If I had to choose between elite edge rushers or

732
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 1: stout defensive tackles, I would prefer this matchup actually for

733
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: the McVeigh rams. Am I wrong in that regard? Like

734
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: I think back to Minnesota Thursday Night football, like going

735
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: up against Obrian Flora's defense and the way that this

736
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: building knows how to neutralize some of that compared to

737
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: when you're just outmatched in the middle. More of maybe

738
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: Miami game.

739
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,200
Speaker 2: From Fletcher Cox back in the day.

740
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Speaker 1: But yes, you know what I'm saying though, If you're

741
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: saying that the strength of this Houston defense is not

742
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: down the spine of the field, then I'll take my

743
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: chances going into Sunday.

744
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 4: Yes, you're gonna get a lot of that coming down

745
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 4: the road, but this one here, like and Sean McVay

746
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 4: has been through this, Like you said, no matter what

747
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 4: the game plan is or what the complexion of the

748
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 4: game is, they he has found a way to adjust

749
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 4: to just about any plan. It's it's a rarity when

750
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,479
Speaker 4: he gets run out of the gym or doesn't have answers,

751
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.

752
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 3: Well, you've gone against Amika before, so you know what

753
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 3: he's gonna run and vice versus. So it's gonna literally

754
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 3: be what plays work for you and what plays work

755
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 3: for them.

756
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: Except other than when you had OBJ really going, I

757
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: don't know that you've seen a McVeigh offense with that,

758
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: you know, maybe in the height of Brandon Cook's power

759
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: or something.

760
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 2: I love. I love Brandon Cooks, I love the Archer,

761
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 2: But no, this is different.

762
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: I do think you know what is this year nine

763
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: now for Sean, with all that his coaching tree has expanded,

764
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: it's tough to find that next iteration. And I don't

765
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: know that you can just do it on a whiteboard,

766
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: but you can do it with personnel. And my hope

767
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: for this season is that it does evolve and it

768
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: does look different and it does look prolific because Davante

769
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: is the most accomplished receiver he's ever.

770
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Speaker 3: Worked with, no question, And I think that's the difference. Right,

771
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 3: You're gonna they're gonna have to go one for one

772
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:20,959
Speaker 3: or two for one on him, which is gonna open

773
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 3: up for everyone else guaranteed, Yes.

774
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: Anything else on that side of the ball, or should

775
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: we flip it all right? Houston offensively, a reworked offensive

776
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: line isn't improved.

777
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Speaker 2: We'll see.

778
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about the comparative advantage that goes

779
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: to Demico's press conference. Yea, they've changed a lot up front,

780
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: but you have to give the edge to the Rams

781
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: offensive line going into Week.

782
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 2: One, No, I think so.

783
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 3: I mean, anytime you lose Laramie Tunsel, you trade your

784
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 3: guard who gets cut by the Eagles like your first run.

785
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 3: Like they have some issues, right and they and they

786
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 3: they made a decision because they couldn't run the ball

787
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 3: last year the way they wanted to write.

788
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 2: So you know coming in they're gonna want to run

789
00:32:59,240 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 2: the football.

790
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 3: It's going to be on this Rams deepense to shut

791
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 3: that run down early and often make sure Nick Chubb

792
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 3: And the thing about Nick Chubb terrific running back. If

793
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 3: you get him off his track, he struggles. If he

794
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 3: can stay on that track, oh he's a world beater.

795
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 3: So you got to make sure you make him stop

796
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 3: his feet and go sideways in that north and south

797
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 3: and you'll have a great opportunity there.

798
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: How about starting a rookie left tackle on the road

799
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: in nursery against Jared Verse.

800
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 4: I told you earlier he should eat absolutely if Jared

801
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 4: Verse wants to take his place. And they're paying money

802
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 4: to top flight pass rushers now in the NFL, they

803
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 4: just started doing that. We see that now. I mean

804
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 4: the money is going up. You're getting quarterback.

805
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: What thirty one teams are, Yes, there's one in Texas.

806
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 4: If you want to get into that pay grade, then

807
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 4: you should eat this sort of situation up. If you

808
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 4: can go into Philly and you saw it, we were

809
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 4: all there and knock them around and talk trash to

810
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 4: them and their fans and back it up, you should

811
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 4: eat the rookie alive. This rookie should say years from now,

812
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 4: this was my welcome to the NFL moment.

813
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 3: Well that's what he did with the Dolphins left tackle

814
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 3: Toron Armstad made him retire.

815
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 2: So now you're in year two.

816
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, are their defensive keys are the things that

817
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: you'll be watching.

818
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 2: You know, get off the field. C J.

819
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 4: Stroud is a guy that can run. He's the guy

820
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 4: that can jump out the window and pick up first downs.

821
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 4: He can get out of third and fourteen's if you're

822
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 4: not disciplined. So the last thing you want to do

823
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 4: is to have teams make you pay.

824
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 2: For being aggressive.

825
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 4: Go from being aggressive to over aggressive, as in you're

826
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 4: wasting your gas and you keep giving them first downs

827
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 4: and you wear yourself out. So when you have a

828
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 4: chance to get off the field on third down, get

829
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 4: off the field, make the play, move on, get gator right,

830
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 4: and then come back.

831
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 2: You can help yourself that way.

832
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: It really is Nico Collins and then who else. I

833
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: think that's a question that remains to the answered. Christian

834
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: Kirk is on the injury report with that hamstring. He

835
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: was going to be their clear number two. We'll see

836
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: about his status of this week.

837
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 2: Coulton, Schultz, Shulder, he's solid starter.

838
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: But they've only rostered too. They'll probably promote one from

839
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: the practice squad, but they're th at that position. And

840
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: then they got the two Iowa State rookies. We'll see

841
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: how much they give them early.

842
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 3: But my biggest thing is is don't allow Nico Collins deep.

843
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 2: Force CJ.

844
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 3: Stroud to come off of that read right, because he's

845
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 3: always going to look at Nico Collins first.

846
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 2: That's his guy.

847
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 3: Even when Stefan Diggs was there, they had all those guys.

848
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 2: He looked at Nico first.

849
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 3: If you force him to hold the ball and kind

850
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 3: of move his feet a little bit and slide in.

851
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 2: The pocket, he's not as accurate.

852
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 3: It's a little bit different when he has to move

853
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 3: and he's feeling things and his eyes are downfield. When

854
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 3: he can get back on that fifth step or seventh

855
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 3: step and Nico's striking down the field, he throws the

856
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 3: prettiest pass in the world.

857
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 2: It's one. And that's what he did his rookie year.

858
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,240
Speaker 2: That's what he did his rookie year. He was on fire.

859
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,359
Speaker 3: Last year he struggled, and so I think a lot

860
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 3: of its people were are to realize Nico was out

861
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 3: for a couple of weeks. He started to struggle. They

862
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 3: started to take him away and they kind of do, well,

863
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 3: take Nico out of the pitcher, make him go somewhere else.

864
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 3: Make him have to play left handed, then you're good.

865
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Speaker 1: I'm fascinated to see defensive back snap counts when we're

866
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 1: here next week.

867
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 2: Aren't you like?

868
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: What does Emmanuel Forbes week one workload look like? How

869
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: do they platoon those safeties and where do they align?

870
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 2: I'm going to four of exactly how.

871
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: Many of those looks do they play against this Houston offense?

872
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 2: Thirty percent? I'm thinking, I don't know.

873
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 4: Uh Darius is going to start and play, uh as

874
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 4: he's going to play. He's a different guy. I hope

875
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 4: what we see out of that confidence with him, the

876
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 4: way he looks, in the way he's playing.

877
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 2: I hope that translates the game day. I really do.

878
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 2: I think all finished the year very strong.

879
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:34,280
Speaker 4: I hope he picks up finished, physical and not afraid

880
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 4: to make play getting in there. So I hope that

881
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 4: translates to something special a late bloomer. But then you

882
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 4: got to roll in the other guys. How do you

883
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 4: play Forbes? And the safeties too? And q Lake? I

884
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 4: think Qlake has done everything except make the wild plays.

885
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 4: I mean, really, when you think about where he is

886
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 4: in his career, year four right, this is big for.

887
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: Him, contract year for both your Nichols, yes, and Kobe

888
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: Durant big nickel and small nickel. I think they give

889
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,720
Speaker 1: you a lot of optionality time.

890
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 4: But the only thing that he hasn't done is make

891
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 4: a game changing play.

892
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kobe Durant.

893
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: Has Yes, he's the DeMarco far this defense. In the

894
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: same game on Captain Q's first interception.

895
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 4: It's coming, it's coming. He had a great training cramp

896
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 4: he really did.

897
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

898
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, quick run on special teams. You talked about it

899
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:18,919
Speaker 1: early on. Feel good about the kicking game.

900
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 3: I think I'm comfortable with the kicking game, and I

901
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 3: think that's the mostion. That was one of the things

902
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 3: we've we having last year was kind of like yes, no,

903
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 3: and then it got going.

904
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 2: I'm comfortable. And then the fact that you don't have

905
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 2: to worry about the kicking game.

906
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 3: The punter can punt the ball out of you know,

907
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 3: to the form if you need him to, or you

908
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 3: can drop it inside the ten and your kicker is good.

909
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 2: From I would say, what forty.

910
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 1: Against the Seahawks fifty five?

911
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 2: You're you're confident in that.

912
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: That's what you Last year is about, going from worse

913
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 1: to average in the kicking game. I wonder if you

914
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 1: can weaponize it this year. I wonder if you can

915
00:37:55,920 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: really tilt fuel position. Yeah, I'm confidence.

916
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 3: The first preseason game he kicked like a seventy yard

917
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 3: or a missile.

918
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. Should be a weapon, yes, no doubt.

919
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: And then the dynamic kickoff. I wonder what they choose

920
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: to do.

921
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,919
Speaker 4: Kick that thing out of the en zone. Yeah, get

922
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 4: anything out of the zone. We're not even don't be

923
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 4: scared of it.

924
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 2: Kick it out of there.

925
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: I'm the team cardioff the tea. I think you get

926
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: that thing on the ground in the landing zone.

927
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm making kicked that thing throw.

928
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: I think you're bigger and faster and deeper on your

929
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: special team's portion of the roster. I want to see

930
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: those guys go work. I want to see you want to.

931
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 2: Be on the field with the short field. Come on, shortie,

932
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 2: and if.

933
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: You give away the thirty five, their two first downs

934
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 1: are a chunk play away from having three on the board.

935
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 3: Kick that thing, or you could do the dynamic kick

936
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,280
Speaker 3: and the guy could be running down the sidelines.

937
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 2: Because someone can take chances. Come on, you know, let's

938
00:38:58,760 --> 00:38:59,919
Speaker 2: make sure we do it the right way.

939
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: Last chance, last call, anything you want to say before

940
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 1: we break for the week.

941
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 4: No, just I'm happy that the whole Matthew Stafford back

942
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 4: drama has kind of died down some. If he plays

943
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 4: well on Sunday, I think it goes away until it

944
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 4: comes back up again. But I have to give a

945
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 4: shout out to the quarterback room. I think this is

946
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 4: the healthiest that room has been and the most talented

947
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 4: it's been in a while. When you go out and

948
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 4: watch them practice, even Stetson Bennett, they are very athletic

949
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 4: and they're competitive. They compete with each other. It's not

950
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 4: just Matthew Stafford who is far and away the best.

951
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 4: Like over everyone everyone has something to say. So if

952
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 4: something bad does happen knock on Wood, it's not the

953
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 4: end of the world, although you'd rather have nine out there.

954
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 4: So I think that's the best thing you can say.

955
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 4: That's another thing that I woke up thinking. That is

956
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 4: something else that gives me calm about this year. Jimmy

957
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 4: Garoppolo and just the health of the quarterback room.

958
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: It's interesting you started by backing yourself out of December, Like,

959
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 1: I don't want to get to the end of the

960
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,399
Speaker 1: journey until we take care of the front end. I'm

961
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: kind of the other way around where I came into

962
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: this thinking I'd like to see the twenty five Rams

963
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: compete for a one seed, oh no question, And like,

964
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: I think they've got that in them. And whether it's

965
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: Aler Jackson's deal or Stafford's deal or the Packers trading

966
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: for Micah Parsons, I'd still like to see that. But

967
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,959
Speaker 1: that's not primary for me anymore. I think this group

968
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: is about just getting back in the dance and being

969
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: the tough out that they've always been. Stafford play seventeen

970
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: or not, Are you good to go come wild card

971
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: weekend or Division run weekend? If so, I like the

972
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: possibility of ending this season at Levice.

973
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 3: I'll say this, Not many teams have a backup quarterback

974
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,399
Speaker 3: that played in the Super Bowl started in the Super Bowl, right,

975
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 3: Not many teams have a quarterback that beat you six times, right, Like,

976
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 3: so you forget about that.

977
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 2: I forget about those.

978
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 3: How good Jimmy was when he played us, and so

979
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 3: that's what makes me sleep well at night. But to

980
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 3: be honest, I'm just happy football is back, yes, right,

981
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 3: Like I'm happy to be here and to talk about

982
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 3: the Rams and to have a game on Sunday, a

983
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 3: game tonight, a game Friday. I'm happy to see this

984
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 3: marathon again, you know, I know it's this not the

985
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 3: New York Marathon. It's bigger than that, right, And to

986
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 3: see how the the evan flows of the game. And

987
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 3: you know, being in Detroit a couple of years ago

988
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 3: and being on the tarmac for five hours, not even

989
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 3: have an idea that we're on the tarmac for five hours. You,

990
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 3: I mean, like all those things, That's what I love

991
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 3: about being here. That's what I love about this. It's

992
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,479
Speaker 3: just so many different things that are going to happen.

993
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 2: I can't wait till he talk about bringing that up.

994
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: You can sleep on an airplane. I can sleep anyway

995
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 2: all over.

996
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: And I always remember about that flight Aaron Donald knowing

997
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: he was done, Yes, Tyler Higbee's nicheh redded.

998
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 2: Oh Man and MJD sleeping.

999
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 4: Sleeping the whole It was like ten hours have we landed? No,

1000
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 4: we haven't left yet. Okay, No.

1001
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 2: I woke up, like, why is a sunout? De Mark

1002
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 2: goes like, what do you mean?

1003
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: The only thing we know for certain is that half

1004
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 1: of what we said here today we will not want

1005
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: to revisit in January because the twist and turns that

1006
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: will go down throughout this journey are unpredictable, and the

1007
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: rams are well equipped to hand them. The Rands are

1008
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: well equipped to handle them. DeMarco far Maurice Jones, Drum JB. Long,

1009
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: Glad that you can join us all season long right

1010
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 1: here on between the horns presented by your Southern California

1011
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:10,360
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