Speaker 1: This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at
Speaker 1: production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Smith Senior and this is a cut to It
Speaker 1: bonus episode. Good Good. There is so much happening in
Speaker 1: the football world right now, we're going to cut to it.
Speaker 1: One of the experts for a segment we like to
Speaker 1: call break it down. And really what breaking it down
Speaker 1: is whatever that current event is going on, whether it
Speaker 1: is a team is stricken with the coronavirus or like
Speaker 1: I talked to Brian Mitchell. We just talked about some
Speaker 1: of the things going on. No preseason. It's gonna impact
Speaker 1: teams and then so I love to call it no preseason.
Speaker 1: I like to kind of breaking down in segments. Generally
Speaker 1: in football, there's uh the season is broken up into
Speaker 1: four quarters. So the first quarters in September. October is
Speaker 1: the second one. Um just like a financial quarter, right,
Speaker 1: so everything going on, so Septem, I'm calling September sloppy September.
Speaker 1: Then you have October, the second quarter, which would be
Speaker 1: awful October, and then the third quarter November. It will
Speaker 1: be a bounce back November and then December. You really
Speaker 1: understand and understand your team, you understand that possibly the
Speaker 1: injuries that you've sustained, So uh, smooth it out December,
Speaker 1: because listen, if your team is awful in December, they're
Speaker 1: pretty much getting ready to go on vacation and head
Speaker 1: to some warmer places. And now with everything going on,
Speaker 1: driving to some warmer places. So Brian Mitchell gave us
Speaker 1: a great understanding of an old school type of mentality,
Speaker 1: but also the current climate and what he thinks about
Speaker 1: UM really why there's a rash of injuries, what and
Speaker 1: how it will impact teams and then really from an
Speaker 1: an analytical and an analyst perspective, how does that impact
Speaker 1: UM the season? And so he gave us some really
Speaker 1: good information. Uh. I was really shocked to hear. Uh,
Speaker 1: just how he breaks things down. And Brian Mitchell, if
Speaker 1: you don't know who Brian Mitchell is, he's a guy
Speaker 1: that stray shoot. So I know I'm a straight shooter,
Speaker 1: but Brian, he just he'll hit you in between eyes,
Speaker 1: almost like the three Stooges, Right, He'll hit you right
Speaker 1: between eyes and you don't even know what's coming. So, um,
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy it. Really look forward to see
Speaker 1: who else we can get their professional opinion, and also
Speaker 1: um the fans perspective from the couch, because if you know,
Speaker 1: just like a lot of teams, they're only letting maybe
Speaker 1: seven or ten or fifteen percent of the fans in
Speaker 1: the stadium. So a lot of times, if you're lucky
Speaker 1: enough to get a seat in the stands, you're like
Speaker 1: the rest of us. Man, you are on the couch
Speaker 1: or sitting in your favorite chair watching the game, maybe
Speaker 1: with a beverage in your hand, or maybe a chicken wing. Right.
Speaker 1: And for some folks that don't need meet maybe um
Speaker 1: Montareali stick, I don't know, but enjoy, appreciate you, thank
Speaker 1: you for tuning in, and uh here you are. Why
Speaker 1: do you believe right now that they are twenty plus
Speaker 1: players injured in the league today? The lack of preparation,
Speaker 1: and the reason I say that is because even beyond preseason.
Speaker 1: I know people who hate preseason, but it has its value.
Speaker 1: But they didn't have off season training, They don't have volts,
Speaker 1: didn't have many camps, they didn't have training camps, so
Speaker 1: you didn't have that build up period to get your
Speaker 1: body ready for it. How do you see this season
Speaker 1: shaping out? It's only week two going into it's going
Speaker 1: on going into week three. Um, I have the same,
Speaker 1: So I have September is sloppy, September, October, it's all
Speaker 1: for October. Bounce back November and smooth it out. The
Speaker 1: said the show mark, which one you got one of them?
Speaker 1: Is like the show me Mark that's Missouri. No not
Speaker 1: you know what I say? How do you how do
Speaker 1: you see? How do you see the season shaping up
Speaker 1: with the lack of preseason, with all the injuries that's
Speaker 1: going on. And you're old school players, so you already
Speaker 1: know the impact of the virus, the impact of the
Speaker 1: inability to have hand to hand combat on the practice field,
Speaker 1: have that muscle memory that we all know has to happen,
Speaker 1: because if it doesn't, you're gonna keep You're gonna continue
Speaker 1: to see guys blowing tires like this. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: believe that injuries are gonna dictate this season. Okay, uh,
Speaker 1: as it always does, but it's gonna be even more
Speaker 1: prevalent this year because with the fact that normally injuries
Speaker 1: happen in training camp and you have a chance to
Speaker 1: go get some players that can come in and help
Speaker 1: alleviate some of the loss. Now, you're in season and
Speaker 1: most of those people are already signed by some other
Speaker 1: team or whatever. And I think the teams that can
Speaker 1: deal with injuries the best are gonna be there, and
Speaker 1: then the team that has the best leadership because you
Speaker 1: just like, I know that as these seasons goes on,
Speaker 1: these guys start winning and more, these states start opening up,
Speaker 1: and then they started having the clubs to go to.
Speaker 1: Some guys are not gonna be doing and stuff that
Speaker 1: they're doing right now, like staying at home and not
Speaker 1: you know, being around people in testing possions. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: all of a sudden when they start traveling out again,
Speaker 1: like uh, COVID can be an injury because if a
Speaker 1: guy catches it, he's out for what nine attend days,
Speaker 1: well days, So now you may miss two weeks. Suppose
Speaker 1: you got a game on Sunday, game on Thursday. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's two games. Those things are going to affect people.
Speaker 1: So the guys that like have the leadership to where
Speaker 1: those young guys may listen to them more, they have
Speaker 1: a better hold on their team, and the guys that
Speaker 1: don't get as injured as much as much, those teams
Speaker 1: may end up being the best because let's think about it.
Speaker 1: All the people that San Francisco lost in that one week,
Speaker 1: they lose a few more. Some of these teams that
Speaker 1: we don't expect to do a damn thing that don't
Speaker 1: get don't get a lot of injuries here, they may
Speaker 1: end up sneaking into something. It's gonna it's gonna change
Speaker 1: up things this year. How big of an impact is
Speaker 1: a se Kwon Barkley to already boo boo team with
Speaker 1: the New York Giants or a team like the Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers where they're they're running backs, man, that they're the
Speaker 1: they're the workhorse of their team. It is that whole
Speaker 1: offense goes as they go. Those guys are not there
Speaker 1: now one that's gonna hurt because he's an unbelievable talent.
Speaker 1: Uh and they do so much play action and and
Speaker 1: when you put it into the gut of say Kwan,
Speaker 1: you get a reaction from the defense. You put into
Speaker 1: the gut of somebody else that backs him up, you
Speaker 1: don't get that same reaction Christian McCaffrey when he's not
Speaker 1: on your team in Carolina where they expect him to
Speaker 1: do so much, can all those other running backs to
Speaker 1: everything he can do because I know for sure that
Speaker 1: that that offensive game plan was built because of Christian McCaffrey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so your other your other money backs don't have to
Speaker 1: if they can't have if they don't have the same ability,
Speaker 1: they won't have the same effect and the effect to
Speaker 1: the Passion game through these two weeks. What's one thing
Speaker 1: you've been surprised about and then one thing that maybe
Speaker 1: you expected to happen. Well, I would been surprised that
Speaker 1: nobody tested positive. I'm gonna be honest with youring that
Speaker 1: I was surprised totally about that. Uh, what I did
Speaker 1: not expect to happen. I did not think that, uh
Speaker 1: the Raiders were gonna do the things like that, because
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that. I haven't seen that consistent car
Speaker 1: to where I can believe in him enough. But it
Speaker 1: seemed like Gruden's constant scrutiny and getting on him has
Speaker 1: kind of eventually when when someone is like scrutinizing you
Speaker 1: and and getting on you, either you just fold or
Speaker 1: you start fighting back. Yeah, and I think he started
Speaker 1: to fight back. He showed me something last night. I
Speaker 1: didn't expect to see that, you know, and and I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, San Francisco. I was looking at them to
Speaker 1: do some stuff. Um, I was like Russell Wilson, Hell,
Speaker 1: he know, he never surprised me. But this dude. Everybody
Speaker 1: keep talking about all these people that were m vps
Speaker 1: a chance of being m v P. Do they forget
Speaker 1: that dude in Seattle what he's doing. I'm baffled how
Speaker 1: he gets better every single year? What are you padding?
Speaker 1: Nine testdowns already? This year three he had four and
Speaker 1: then he had five the last one so well. And
Speaker 1: the way he's doing it, He's not doing it with
Speaker 1: a lot of fanfare. He's just like he's just consistent.
Speaker 1: It's like he and I hate to say it this way,
Speaker 1: but it's like he's playing dominoes. He's not scoring points.
Speaker 1: It's like Nickel tim maybe a fifteen, back to five,
Speaker 1: back to ten, and then you look up y'all going
Speaker 1: to two fifty. That brother got a hundred seventy five points.
Speaker 1: You know you three games? How did that happen? Just
Speaker 1: like he thinks the game, and I think we look
Speaker 1: at a bunch of these like mobile quarterbacks they call him,
Speaker 1: and they think that they have to be running backs.
Speaker 1: Russell don't get hit a lot when he breaks out,
Speaker 1: he runs get that little I think a defensive player guy.
Speaker 1: That's the most upset. He's running around for like fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes and then the slides and you can't hear it.
Speaker 1: He does it over and over again, like we got,
Speaker 1: we got, Damn we just ran first down back on
Speaker 1: the field with three more players. Thank you for listening
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