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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast Time to shine. Indeed, welcome

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Speaker 1: to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. Week

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Speaker 1: one edition that is Flagship Show. My name is Dan

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Speaker 1: hansis joined by Virtual room for at least one more

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Speaker 1: week built with some heroes, Mark Sessler, Greg Rosenthal. And yes,

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Speaker 1: we have seen the first Sunday of the regular season.

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Speaker 1: And what does it do? And this is I probably

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Speaker 1: said the same thing last year, And if I didn't

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Speaker 1: say it last year, I said it the year before.

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Speaker 1: That first Sunday is a glorious thing because what it

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Speaker 1: does is it up ends all of the various offseason narratives,

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Speaker 1: all the things that we all and not just the

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Speaker 1: three of us, everyone is so sure of. So many

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Speaker 1: things get up ended totally based on one game of football.

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Speaker 1: All and as we go through the games today, Mark,

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Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna see a lot of stories or

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Speaker 1: a lot of ideas about teams that we thought we

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Speaker 1: kind of had a beat on. We do not have

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Speaker 1: a beat. And that's one of the beauties of the

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Speaker 1: actual playing of the games. You quietly want to get

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Speaker 1: to Week two because it is sort of an unmasking

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Speaker 1: of the entire um public that covers football. It's like,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, you've been talking for seven months about, um,

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Speaker 1: these rock solid takes in life scenarios that you're shore

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Speaker 1: going to unfold on a football field, and you've been

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Speaker 1: proven wrong most most all of you. Um and if

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Speaker 1: not this week, next week. But I think also it's

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Speaker 1: like week one. And I'll say this real quick, but

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Speaker 1: like you come out of it, maybe a couple of

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Speaker 1: teams today thought, you know, we're not a very good team.

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Speaker 1: You have a win today, you're feelings kind of you're

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Speaker 1: playing with house money. If you come out with a loss,

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Speaker 1: you're like, wait a minute, this is back in my life.

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Speaker 1: This little amount of sports heartbreak that has been gone

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Speaker 1: not you know, it hasn't been trenchant and it is

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Speaker 1: stabbing you. I mean it's not. It's like those feelings

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Speaker 1: come back your teams. So I'm talking about a lot

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Speaker 1: of things today because as a group, we took a huge,

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Speaker 1: massive l various territories. Oh what a tough what a

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Speaker 1: tough star for the pod. We got swept on our

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Speaker 1: lock predictions. This really again builds back back into the

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Speaker 1: La rabio magnifico of the entire experience. All of our

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Speaker 1: favorite teams lost, the Patriots, the Jets, the Broncos one,

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Speaker 1: so one of our that's shoe. Congratulations on that, Greg.

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Speaker 1: Even the Titans went down. The grave Digger takes an

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Speaker 1: l The grave Digger was on a massive winning streak

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Speaker 1: in life until now. Now it's all downhill. The Bengals

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Speaker 1: one and maybe West in our first season without the

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Speaker 1: man watched it somewhere. I like it. He has like

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Speaker 1: a drink in his hand. He watched it, and maybe

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Speaker 1: he's building a new dossier. Why I'm falling back in

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Speaker 1: love with the Bengals. Who knows, But good day for

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati uh football fans. Greg. We're gonna dig into the games.

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Speaker 1: Do you have anything you want to share before we

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Speaker 1: get role now? I just want to clarify when you

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Speaker 1: say you know for one more week, you said you

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Speaker 1: know some hear us for one more week. We're all

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Speaker 1: gonna be here for one more week. We're gonna be

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Speaker 1: virtual for one more week. We'll be back in person.

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Speaker 1: I'm just don't want anyone to be worried that one

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Speaker 1: back together next week. All right, let's get into it,

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Speaker 1: and Mark, we gotta start where we gotta start, and

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Speaker 1: that is Arrowhead in the game pup faking is Mayfield.

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Speaker 1: Now we'll throw it to the left flat. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: with the call w D A F and welcome back

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Speaker 1: Sam Spence in the NFL most beautiful music in the

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Speaker 1: twentieth century. Patrick Homes through for three seven yards of

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Speaker 1: three scores, and yes, Mike Hughes ice the game with

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Speaker 1: It's just so damn hard to beat the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: the Tyreek Hill mystifying John Johnson on that seventy five

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Speaker 1: Arrowhead was going absolutely nuts. I mean, the crowd was

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Speaker 1: not close drives. When Myles Garrett sacked Patrick Mahomes though

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Speaker 1: is not I don't care about the Baker Mayfiel interception,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't some sort of dunderheaded um ill equipped quarterback mistake.

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Speaker 1: it reminded me very much of January's game in that sense,

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Speaker 1: That's just we've never seen that from a quarterback. And

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Speaker 1: And so then it comes down to one play. Baker

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Speaker 1: I mean he hasn't fully practiced, like really practiced one time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and and they're being careful, and clearly week two is

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Speaker 1: the big It's going to be the big thing to

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Speaker 1: watch with Odell because if he's not playing week two,

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Speaker 1: then you start to be like, oh, is there a

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Speaker 1: makes sense. It checks out. It's not like anti Browns.

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Speaker 1: But when Patrick Mahomes is on the other side and

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Speaker 1: sense though it's not it's really not a Romo thing,

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Speaker 1: year's defense, which was so reliably, you know, for stretches,

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Speaker 1: totally dominant. I think it's a huge development for Seattle

429
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Speaker 1: that Russell Wilson's, you know, happily employed in an offense

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Speaker 1: where he can throw four touchdowns. They didn't need him

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Speaker 1: to do everything. They looked dominant. I mean, and there

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Speaker 1: it sounded like from some of the stuff that like

433
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Speaker 1: Seattle's own defensive front really handled the cults. It's just uh,

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Speaker 1: I mean, whence though, did you did look to you Spry?

435
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Speaker 1: Did he look healthy? He had a couple of a

436
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Speaker 1: couple of throws, he was on the running. Looked good

437
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Speaker 1: to me, it was. That's a surprisingly good performance from

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. I actually thought Wentz was the least of

439
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Speaker 1: their problems. So if if you're looking for a bright

440
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Speaker 1: side as a Colts fan, you just were reminded, like,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, Frank Greik's awesome, Like he put went in

442
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,760
Speaker 1: positions to succeed with open receivers. The problem is it

443
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Speaker 1: when it's third and long and you're always running screens

444
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:27,760
Speaker 1: or you're always throwing short of the sticks and you're

445
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Speaker 1: kind of counting on the play call to get it

446
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Speaker 1: done for you, Like, that's a hard way to beat

447
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: good teams. But you're right. The Seattle defensive line I

448
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:39,040
Speaker 1: think is sneaky good. They're very deep, They won their

449
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,920
Speaker 1: matchups against the Colts offensive line. For the most part,

450
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Speaker 1: I thought Wentz handled about as well as he could,

451
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Speaker 1: but ultimately, like they did not score for most of

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Speaker 1: this game. They had a big drive early and a

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Speaker 1: drive late when it didn't matter, and ultimately couldn't score.

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Speaker 1: India doesn't have big time splash players. I like Taylor

455
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Speaker 1: needs to be Taylor. Yeah. I like Michael Pittman as

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Speaker 1: a pros fact. I know t Y Hilton. He'll come

457
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 1: back eventually, but he's also you know, up there now.

458
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is their big playmaker and held down obviously here.

459
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Speaker 1: He had seventeen carries, never a bigger play than twelve

460
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 1: yards average three and a half yards carried to hem Himes.

461
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: He didn't do much either. So if they can't get

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Speaker 1: the running game going, you're in that situation and where

463
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Speaker 1: you're putting a lot on a passing attack that you

464
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Speaker 1: know is obviously a work in progress right now. Um,

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Speaker 1: but that would be I guess the positive to take

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Speaker 1: out of the game. Greg. If you're saying that Wentz

467
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Speaker 1: did not look lost, I kind of thought they were

468
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Speaker 1: gonna come out of this game and he would have

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Speaker 1: been limping around and playing poorly because he doesn't know

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Speaker 1: the the offense well enough because of a lack of reps.

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Speaker 1: So it looks like he wasn't the problem. And you

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Speaker 1: got to give credit to Seattle's defense, which they took

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Speaker 1: care of business, especially in the trenches. Ten ten QB

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Speaker 1: hits and when said three sacks, you know, if you

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Speaker 1: look at the stats and went ends up with like

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Speaker 1: a twenty six QVR, that looks like more of the same.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's the low expectations, but it just didn't feel

478
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Speaker 1: like he was their problem. Their offensive line, though, could

479
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 1: be a long term problem. You know, Eric Fisher didn't

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Speaker 1: play in this game, but you know, asking that guy

481
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Speaker 1: to come off the achilles, you know, an achilles injury

482
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Speaker 1: and save your season at left tackle um might not

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Speaker 1: do it. So they gotta play a lot better. But

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Speaker 1: I'd feel very good if I'm Seattle that the NFC

485
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 1: West looks preposterously good right now. Quentin Nelson make it

486
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Speaker 1: through that game, by the way, he had the bad back.

487
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Speaker 1: Yeah he played all right, let us now move to

488
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Speaker 1: the NFC and uh yeah, this one was a stunner

489
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Speaker 1: to me. Straight back in the pocket, he's looking deep.

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Speaker 1: His name for Deontay Harris, He's open and Deonte makes

491
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Speaker 1: the Cats see you later, bar touchdown. Saints, my coss,

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Speaker 1: your hoss with the call w w L. Jameis Winston

493
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Speaker 1: was lazik focused in his debut as the Saints QB one,

494
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Speaker 1: throwing five touchdown passes and a glorious I mean I

495
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Speaker 1: turned this game off at three? Is that where it finished? Three?

496
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 1: Romp over Aaron Rodgers and the packers at the Saints

497
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Speaker 1: temporary home in Jacksonville. Um, whoa, Mark and I locked

498
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Speaker 1: up the pack and guess what we're eating the poop

499
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Speaker 1: on this one, buddy boy. And and uh and good

500
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Speaker 1: good for the people of New Orleans dealing with the

501
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Speaker 1: destruction of Hurricane Ida. They get to sit down if

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Speaker 1: they were able to watch the watch this game and

503
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Speaker 1: they're treated to it. Just a brilliant performance all around.

504
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:34,479
Speaker 1: And and Winston, he was tremendous. But he was not alone.

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Speaker 1: I thought their front seven, the secondary, the coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: um even uh. Sean Payton called out the operations department

507
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Speaker 1: for the Saints after the game for everything they had

508
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Speaker 1: done behind the scenes to make this process moving from

509
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Speaker 1: New Orleans to Duval to get set up here they

510
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,719
Speaker 1: obviously did brilliant work because the team looked comfortable and

511
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Speaker 1: ready to play, and the Packers, quite frankly, Mark, they

512
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 1: look stunned. Uh. It was a buzz all game, straight up. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's like I I was tracking this and I looked

514
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 1: at you know, minutes into the third quarter, they put

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Speaker 1: a graphic up noting that New Orleans had had twenty

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Speaker 1: six plays in Green Bay territory where the Packers in

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Speaker 1: reverse it had to uh, you know, and they were

518
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Speaker 1: back to back horrid picks by Aaron Rodgers, who you know.

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Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers obviously has had a rough offseason, a

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00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: weird offseason. He looked a little just despondent to me

521
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Speaker 1: when I when I noted him during the Bruce Arians disease.

522
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Speaker 1: I don't know, it doesn't seem like I'm one that

523
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Speaker 1: should be calling these things out because I probably was

524
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Speaker 1: totally wrong about Bruce Arians, but he just, you know,

525
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Speaker 1: it seemed obviously given it the probably after the Super

526
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Speaker 1: Bowl championship, some hope that you were right, and that

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Speaker 1: well I pack into I always still pack into that

528
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Speaker 1: Arians is broadcasting stint where he seemed very bored to me,

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Speaker 1: so that I I didn't think I got parts of

530
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: it to your point, like the fact that Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: is now looking like a more fit version of the

532
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Speaker 1: big Lebowski, Like he just he just looks like the

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Speaker 1: dude with the long hair and the beard. Well tell

534
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Speaker 1: me about his I did not watch this one yards

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Speaker 1: at half. But by the way, Winston had sixty five

536
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Speaker 1: and became the first quarterback like in the modern era

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Speaker 1: to throw five touchdowns but less than a hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty yards. So this was a weird one field position baby,

539
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Speaker 1: because it's not like Alvin Kamara had a massive game either, right,

540
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: is is did he like does play bad? Was the

541
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Speaker 1: offensive line? But I am stunned when when Aaron Rodgers

542
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: averages under five yards per attempt. You know, hey, they

543
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 1: could not get anything. They could not get anything going

544
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: in this game. And you you know, you're used to

545
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: like what we saw, for instance, with Baker and the

546
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: Browns for most of that game, the mistakes notwithstanding where

547
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: they're just getting whenever they need a conversion of just

548
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 1: going up and down the field. That's all we saw

549
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: from Aaron Rodgers and the Packers for the majority of

550
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: last season too, So to see them in third and

551
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 1: longs and to see him, uh, you know, have a

552
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: miscommunication downfield leading to an interception, to see Adams not

553
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: be able to get the big third down conversion. I mean,

554
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: where's Randall Cobb the security blanket that Rogers wind about

555
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: to get him back? For much of that game that

556
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: I noted, he was not on the field. So it

557
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: was just everything came very difficult for and I think,

558
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: and again you don't want to make too much about

559
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 1: week one, but I think things snowballed. I think it

560
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: was one of those things where you got off to

561
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: slow start and you're like, all right, we're down three. Huh,

562
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: we're down ten. Whoa, We're down seventeen. It's like, oh,

563
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: we get this score, will be back in the game.

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Speaker 1: Oh I just threw an interception. Oh and then they

565
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Speaker 1: went down to score again. Now it's over. It was

566
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: like one of those type of games. So, yes, bad

567
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Speaker 1: start for the Packers. And all though, thinking about all

568
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Speaker 1: those fans Green Bay fans, like we you know, I've

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Speaker 1: always wanted to go with my boy to Lambo and

570
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 1: we never can get the tickets. But we found a way.

571
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: We're going to Jacksonville. There's no Christmas this year. But

572
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: we're going to Jacksonville, you're going home early to the

573
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: parking lot, to the old parking lot walk. But what

574
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: was the what was the crowd breakdown there? Because we

575
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Speaker 1: asked that on last week if we thought it would be,

576
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Speaker 1: would they get you know, eighty they said the Saints

577
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: that Sean Payton actually went on to like um expedia

578
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: to look for the most impossible, most expensive locale for

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Speaker 1: Packers fans to actually have to go see a game.

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Speaker 1: So did that work? Was it? No Saints fans? I

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00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: wish I could tell you. I wasn't plugged in too

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00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: much on that. And again it's harder to hear. You

583
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: could hear their cheers, but there was a lot of

584
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: Green Bay fans, but since they had nothing to cheer about,

585
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: very quickly that became not even issue or anything anything

586
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: anybody we're talking about. But didn't hear a peep from

587
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: Packers fans after about four minutes in. But that last

588
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: the highlight you heard of the bomb touchdown. That was

589
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: just the exclamation point um for what was just just

590
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: couldn't get better. You can't get any better for the

591
00:29:55,320 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: Saints after what's been a really tough month for the team. Uh,

592
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Speaker 1: I think that's a factor. I think it's a factor.

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00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: I mean you can never you can never break this

594
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: down analytically. But in a game like football, like where

595
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: it helps if you have something more to play for

596
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: and you have a coach like Sean Payton, who if

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Speaker 1: you listen to these players, especially all weeks ever since

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Speaker 1: the stormy, they seem like a team. They seem like

599
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: they have a purpose. I think that helps you. And

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00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: they got a quarterback who's got Lasik surgery. That helps

601
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,719
Speaker 1: you too. The old Jamis Winston you can make fun of, uh,

602
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: you know, the best shape of his life. Thing. All

603
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: you want wasn't running six for six times for thirty

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Speaker 1: seven yards. So that has nothing to do with the lace.

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00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: That has to do with the body. And this team

606
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: has a little bit of a higher purpose and maybe

607
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: maybe that along with like an amazing, amazing offensive line,

608
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: can can carry you pretty far. The Saints did not

609
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: punt in the first half. Chris Hogan had a touchdown.

610
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: He's a lacrosse player, right, I just want to read you, like,

611
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: after all the callaway excitement, he went one for four seed.

612
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: I mean they're leading receivers where Deonte Harris Juwan Johnson converted,

613
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: you know, tight end, Deonte Harris, Adam Troutman, Callaway and Hogan.

614
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't need to throw the ball much.

615
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: The way they played it was such a weird game

616
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: boys that I don't really know what to make sense

617
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: of it for anyone involved. But all I can know

618
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: is that it was a really nice day for the

619
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: Saints and their fans, and a really crappy one back there.

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00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: The only downside is it was such a blowout. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: you can kind of skip the fourth quarter of a

622
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: game pass, even when that happened. But I want to

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Speaker 1: see Jordan's love Jordan. I want to see Jordan's love

624
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: and see how he looked down and all those, although

625
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: I know in the condensed version you won't get to

626
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: see it as much, but a lot of salty shots

627
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: of the of the Big Love Bowski Part two on

628
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: the sideline too. Well, you know some of the way

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Speaker 1: they edit some of those game pass you know, in

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Speaker 1: forty minutes in quotes um games, you might see a

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Speaker 1: ton of it. Oh man, Like I'm just I'm here

632
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: for the Aaron Rodgers, like press conferences and whatnot, Like

633
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: if this, if this is a rocky up and down season,

634
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: but it's a little early. They also didn't there are

635
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: another one of those teams that didn't play any steps.

636
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be selective because teams that played well when

637
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: they didn't do that in preseason. It's like there were

638
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: plenty of the Chargers played fine, but they did not

639
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: play a snap in the preseason. They did not look

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Speaker 1: ready here. There were also reports one little thing that

641
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Speaker 1: the Broncos are interested in trading for Aaron Rodgers after

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Speaker 1: this season and have talked to Green Bay about it.

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00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: So maybe not after today, but I don't I would

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Speaker 1: assume they don't such a knee jerk reaction scenario inside

645
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: the idea. I saw it on Twitter somewhere that what

646
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: if this is the ultimate endgame for Aaron Rodgers is

647
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: going to just totally destroy the Packers with a terrible season. Checkmate,

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00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: let's move on back golf time. Golf throws off what

649
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: laughed into the ground and can play no flags down

650
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:54,719
Speaker 1: good forty dinerss. We'll get out of this with a victory.

651
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: Greg Papa with the call and Tim Ryan with oh

652
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: my goodness. K n b R defense stepped up when

653
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: it mattered most forcing an incompletion by Jared Gotham fourth

654
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: Dace secure thirty three win over the Lions at board Field.

655
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: San Francisco led thirty eight ten early in the fourth quarter,

656
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: but allowed Detroit to score twenty three on answered in

657
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: three plus minutes. What Mark has a die hard Kyle

658
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: Shanahan as a man who believes the Niners are gonna

659
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Speaker 1: win all this year. How nervous were you at the

660
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: end of this one? A weird game, just a very

661
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: strange game in the in the second half. Answer the questions.

662
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: I was not nervous on any level like that. That's

663
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: not something that's going to really. It was more just like,

664
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm watching two games at once. I'm taking

665
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: endless notes. But suddenly, you know, like you're you're with

666
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Speaker 1: the Packers Saints game. I kind of checked out of

667
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: the Niners game a little bit, right, but then suddenly

668
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: like they have a two point they get a touchdown

669
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Speaker 1: in Jamal Williams touchdown, get the two point conversion unfurling

670
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: on side's kick that the flex off of George Kittle,

671
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: It's still out of reach that point. You think, well,

672
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: as a little bit of a mistake, Uh, this is

673
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,240
Speaker 1: not an issue to deal with. But then suddenly Quentin

674
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: Sefas has a touchdown, he has a two point conversion.

675
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: They go for the on sides again and they don't

676
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: get it. It's forty one thirty three with a minute

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00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: six left. Then Deebo Samuel loses the ball and Jared

678
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,800
Speaker 1: Goff start making it, starts making a couple of incredible throws,

679
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, this can happen. And you know, one

680
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: of the questions I had about the Lions was with

681
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: how short staff they look as an offensive team in general,

682
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: they can look like they can run the ball and

683
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: if their line holds up. You know, Penei sewell, Pride

684
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: played pretty well today. That would be a note, But

685
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: they seem like a team that was sort of built

686
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 1: to be, you know, within a score or leading the

687
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: way that they are in their wide receiver group. But

688
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,760
Speaker 1: they kind of came up big today down the stretch.

689
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: And I still chalk it up as a strange game

690
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: because you know, outside of the Niners, you know, allowing

691
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: that then back in they dominated early on and we

692
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 1: saw a little bit of Jalen Hurts. He came in

693
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: and threw a five yard touchdown pass um They didn't

694
00:34:58,160 --> 00:34:59,959
Speaker 1: use him a ton. He had made a run as well,

695
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: But Jimmy G. This is the formula. It's sort of

696
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: like when Jimmy G is playing as well as he

697
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: did today, he didn't make any killer mistakes. He's probably

698
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: gonna see more of the playtime until they get a

699
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: couple of weeks into this season. It sounds like what

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Speaker 1: they did in that one preseason game against the Raiders,

701
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: were they both kind of plaid equal time may not

702
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: be on the shelf yet, but you know what, who knows.

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Speaker 1: I believe that Trey Lance got in the game, not

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, right, Yes, that would be more of a

705
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: story if it suddenly Jalen Hurts were in dressed in

706
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: red and gold. It was how did it all like?

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00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: Unfur light? The box score tells me that Trey Lance

708
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: through one pass and it was a touchdown. But this

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00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: is Jimmy G's offense for most of the way. It

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00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 1: looks like, yeah, they used them really early, um and

711
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: he and that they didn't really use them much ever. Again,

712
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: so he came in. They pulled Jimmy G from you know,

713
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: five yards out and then there were a lot of

714
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: comments about what a gentleman Jimmy g Is and how

715
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: such a good sports You're going to hear that a lot. Well,

716
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,720
Speaker 1: he's hugging each other. One killer thing for the Niners.

717
00:35:57,760 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: Like late in this game when some people were maybe

718
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 1: tuning out, Jason Varette got hurt and it sounds serious,

719
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: and that's a killer loss for them in the secondary right,

720
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: they just um you know, had given him, you know,

721
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: a contract to come back. He was a great story

722
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,439
Speaker 1: for them. I think that's their thinnest position to begin with,

723
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: and so that that's a big downer. They lose wheheaem Moster.

724
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 1: In this game, they surprised a lot of fantasy football

725
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Speaker 1: owners by uh scratching tray sermon their third round pick

726
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: that a lot of people drafted pretty high. I thought

727
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: was gonna uh step up, and incomes Elijah Mitchell and

728
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: he runs for a hundred and four yards. This is

729
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,240
Speaker 1: just like the forty Diners. You can put in anyone

730
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: at running back and he's gonna run for a hundred

731
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: and four yards. So he will undoubtedly be everyone's first

732
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: like fantasy waiver wire, unless there's another obvious one that

733
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking about. Deebo Samuel had a huge game.

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Speaker 1: We we've always liked Deebo around these parts, and he

735
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: went off twelve target targeted twelve times, more than double

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Speaker 1: anybody else, including George Kittle. Um, I don't even see

737
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: Brandon Aiyuk in the in the box score mark. Well, no,

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Speaker 1: it really went. It was all Samuel and Kiddle. Samuel

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00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: at a d eighty nine yards and a like a

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00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: seventy something yard touchdown looks great outside that fumble that

741
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: you know, had he not fumbled there, that game would

742
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: have been over. Created a little bit more drama, but

743
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: Samuel is a real deal. Kittle. Kittle looked looked really

744
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: good too, as he normally does, but there wasn't really

745
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: much else out there sherefield. I thought, how did He's

746
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: the one that had the traide Lands touchdown and looked

747
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: pretty good in a smaller role. They barely used a Yuk.

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00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,439
Speaker 1: They kind of decided to ease him back in from

749
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: like a hamstring injury. I really think they managed this

750
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: gap and who knows about most there, like how serious

751
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: it was because they were playing the Lions, you know

752
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: that was part of it. I think they decided not

753
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 1: to risk Ayuke and figure you can win without him.

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Speaker 1: This week and welcome back Nick Bosa coming back from

755
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: the a c L last year early last year, he

756
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: came back four tackles, a sack, three tackles for lost,

757
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,720
Speaker 1: two QB hits, keep keeps left tackle by all accounts,

758
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: played very well against Bosa for the most part. He

759
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: looked like they maybe they just got injured into making

760
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 1: the right decision, like don't don't put Er comes back

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Speaker 1: and you you just kick him to the right. Yeah,

762
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: I mean he's plus. Wouldn't wouldn't like a veteran like

763
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: him be more well suited to be able to change business,

764
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 1: which which player is is more tied to your future.

765
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: Let's put sewell where he feels at home. And he

766
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: looked much better than he did in the preseason. I

767
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: do like the idea of every once in a while

768
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: this happens where there's a quarterback and a crappy team

769
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,479
Speaker 1: and he just has a marvelous fantasy season. Jared Goff

770
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: off to a great start, three touchdowns, eight yards. I

771
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: can't you see him wining some fantasy leagues as his

772
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Speaker 1: own team goes four and twelve four. I could, but

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00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: I would say this that like if the game had

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Speaker 1: changed and been a little bit different. You'd also look

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00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: at the killer interception that he made. He's gonna give

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00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: one of He's gonna give one of those two every week.

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Speaker 1: But that's what I mean. It's not really about like

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00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 1: Jared fantasy wise. Sure he's putting up some numbers, especially

779
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: as they try to kind of throw themselves back into

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00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: games in the second half. Let us move on, snap

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00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: to Murray, quick throw over the middle. Hopkins has a

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Speaker 1: catch of the tent, turns to his lap at the

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00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: five and hits Pater touched down DeAndre Hopkins, m Dave

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Speaker 1: Bassard goll k d A R. Guyler Murray five touchdowns total.

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Speaker 1: I forgot. I'm so mad at myself because I had

786
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Speaker 1: written about it on the thumb website that he was

787
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Speaker 1: my m v P sleeper. Why didn't I just write

788
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: that in the predictions. I don't know. I'm upset. Linebacker

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones had a career high five sacks. What as

790
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: the Cardinals chose the Titans as their subject for a

791
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: nuclear bomb test in the Desert final score thirteen greg.

792
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: This was played in Arizona. Correct, No, it was in Tennessee.

793
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,959
Speaker 1: It was a bomb test in they dropped the nucle

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Speaker 1: or bomb on enemy territory, not their own city. That

795
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 1: makes even more al Right, well, you can't scrub it

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Speaker 1: out of the show, Ricky, because it would have been

797
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,280
Speaker 1: so perfect if it was in Arizona. But anyway, Greg

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Speaker 1: Jones also forced two fumbles that turned into fourteen Arizona points.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like one of the most impactful defensive performances

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Speaker 1: you'll ever see. Did it feel like you watch? It

801
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: was insane? I mean, I've never seen a guy like

802
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: Taylor Luan, who's you know, made some Pro Bowls and

803
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: whatnot tweet after the game, thanking Chandler Jones for humbling

804
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 1: him and and helping him to improve, while also apologizing

805
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: because you got Ryan tanneheld destroyed. Chandler Jones also had

806
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Speaker 1: a sack you know, on the other tackle, at least

807
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Speaker 1: one of them. But it was insane. In the first

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Speaker 1: five plays, he had a tackle for lost. J J.

809
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Speaker 1: Watt had a tackle for lost, and then Chandler Jones

810
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Speaker 1: got the first of his two forced fumbles. It was

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Speaker 1: a bum rush and I'm glad it didn't turn into

812
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:59,439
Speaker 1: one of those games where Tennessee made it look more

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00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: into thing because it wasn't just about um. The the offense,

814
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: it was. The defense was just flying around and hitting

815
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: people like football comes down to matchup sometimes, and new

816
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: Hopkins was destroying Jack Rabbit Jenkins, Chandler Jones, we already

817
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: mentioned how he was destroying t J. Watt was fine too.

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00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: He made a couple of plays. And then Kyler Murray,

819
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: My god, the two touchdowns he had um one to

820
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Speaker 1: Nuke where he runs all around, another third and long

821
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 1: where he runs where you'll see on every highlight package,

822
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: where that's just all Kyler Murray. And then a beautiful

823
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: touchdown to Christian Kirk where they call the right defense.

824
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,240
Speaker 1: They get free rushers in on him, but he sees

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00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,800
Speaker 1: it all before the snap and puts it beautiful touch

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Speaker 1: opposite shoulder to Kirk who makes a long touchdown. It

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Speaker 1: was just like it was amazing. It was just amazing

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Speaker 1: individual performances by their superstars. And I think that's what

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00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: you could get out of this Arizona Cardinals team. I

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Speaker 1: think if you're a Cardinals fan, you are right up

831
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Speaker 1: there in the top two or three. That what we're

832
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 1: talking about coming out of Week one. UM with your

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00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:06,959
Speaker 1: spirits lifted, because they have been taking verbal jab after

834
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: verbal jab all off season. I think people have been

835
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: down on the Cardinals. I've been down on them. I

836
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Speaker 1: saw them as like an eight eight and one type

837
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Speaker 1: of team, and a lot of it maybe had to

838
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: do with the with their finished last year and Murray

839
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 1: wasn't healthy. But you know, there were questions about how

840
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Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury ran the offense, and a lot of their

841
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,959
Speaker 1: offseason signings to me felt like too little, too late,

842
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: Like you're signing guys who would have been a hot,

843
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: actual prospect to have on your team three years ago.

844
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: But look at it's working, at least at work today.

845
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: I mean to the point where Mike vrabel is coming

846
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 1: out of this game saying, we'll find out now what

847
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: our culture actually is. I mean, he's been there years

848
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: that they did this. Rock the foundation of Tennessee that much. Greg.

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Speaker 1: You know, mere days ago you were saying that, you know,

850
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: the football world is too down on Tennessee. They looked

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00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: like a dog locked them up. I locked them up

852
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,399
Speaker 1: one of the you know, the two of the three

853
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: of us made some of the worst locks in the

854
00:42:56,239 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: history of this program to club. I was all into

855
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,320
Speaker 1: a terrible switch to go away from my beloved Broncos

856
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: and I deserve it. Uh. It was just it was

857
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: crazy and I and I would feel good if you're

858
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: Arizona because of the players who did show up, Davin Collins,

859
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons, ron Dale Moore has got some juice, I'm

860
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: telling you he he went four for sixty. Some of

861
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: that was on this phony play at the end of

862
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 1: the first half, but there was one other screen pass

863
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 1: where they threw it short on third and ten and

864
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 1: more had after burners. And you're kind of looking for

865
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: some other playmakers that we didn't know about in Arizona,

866
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: and they've got one, I think in ron Dale Moore.

867
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,240
Speaker 1: And by the way, on the subject of Titanically Lost

868
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: lock Weeks, the Westling Brothers are in the mix this year,

869
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: and they locked up the Steelers. That was they locked

870
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: up the bill. We might as well have the floor

871
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: fall entitle. That would have been. Yeah, that was like

872
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: the most logical one. Also, Julio Jones had kind of

873
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: a nightmare game here, So I'm not gonna push the

874
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: panic button. What does that mean? Nightmare? What do you

875
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: mean by that drop? That led to an interception? Not

876
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: a lot of separation. Not on the same page with

877
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: Tannehill in the end zone where Tannehill through a nice

878
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: pass that probably should have been a touchdown. You know,

879
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: six targets for twenty nine yards. Basically as bad a game,

880
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 1: you know, as as you would want, like a superstar

881
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: receiver to have as one game. One game, just one game.

882
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: And Mike Brabel said after the game, it's unfortunate. It

883
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: is disappointing. There's no other way to put it. It

884
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: sucks when you lose, especially like that, when they're doing

885
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: a nuclear bomb test, uh in your own area of Nashville, Like,

886
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: not even in the desert where it's safe and you

887
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: don't have any homes or apartment buildings or parks or schools.

888
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: You're doing it straight up in the Nashville area. The

889
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: crowds were going. The crowd was like stunned. They were booing,

890
00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 1: they were so ready to enjoy this game, and they

891
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: were just like, what is happening to us? Our faces

892
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: are melting off. I mean to your point. And if

893
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: you dropped a nuclear bomb on Nashville, it would resemble

894
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: a desert in many ways. So we have two deserts

895
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: who had a worse who had a worse week. One

896
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: of the Packers or the Tytoons. All the Packers come

897
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: on because it's so on Aaron Rodgers, it's a Rodgers. Yeah.

898
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: The Titans feel like they mix in these games every

899
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: now and then, like where you're just like what the

900
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: heck just happened? And a lot of these plays like

901
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: no one could have stopped these Kyler Murray plays, like

902
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: they were just too good. Just one quick note. One

903
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: last one was that he's the second quarterback ever to

904
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 1: like throw for fifty and rush for sixteen and like

905
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,439
Speaker 1: x amount of games. Uh, Dante Culpeppers the next one,

906
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: and uh, I don't know, he does remind me of

907
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 1: Dante Culpepper in some weird way, even though he's like

908
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty pounds less. As just like a

909
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: joy to watch that there's sometimes there's nothing you can

910
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: do to stop Kyler Murray. And that was the case today. Um.

911
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 1: By the way, money bad money Badger Michael Badge Lee

912
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: Um got on the team when Sam Faking was moved

913
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: to injured reserve and he missed more kicks. I mean

914
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: that the Titans, this is a game from hell. Missed

915
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: an extra point in the field, missed an extra point,

916
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: and I'll just say that. Um. Chandler Jones. We cannot

917
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,320
Speaker 1: give him enough love for this performance. His five sacks

918
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: are the third most by a player in a season opener.

919
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: Derrek Thomas had six to open the ninety s, and

920
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: Derrek Thomas was unbelievable. Watch out, Michael Strahan, watch out here.

921
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: You know, Chandler Jones got pretty close. Chandler Jones got

922
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: pretty close. Chandler Jones should be going into Steve Kime's

923
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: office tonight and saying, give me my money. Give it

924
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: to me now. You wanted to wait and uh, you

925
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: wanted to wait and see I did show up. I'm

926
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: playing on time. How about you go make like Mickey

927
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: Loomis over in New Orleans and give me the contract

928
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: right now. They gave Marshawn Lattimore a contract after the game.

929
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works out. Marshall and Lattimore

930
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: got more guaranteed money than any defensive back in history.

931
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: According to Ian Rappart, after one, you know, solid week one,

932
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones as well, And they showed Chandler owns, you know,

933
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,319
Speaker 1: on the sideline after he had had five sacks and

934
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: he was just confidently strutting up and down with a

935
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: smile on his face. He knows good things are about

936
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: to happen. And I don't want to leave up Billy Gay,

937
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: who had five and a half sacks for the Detroit

938
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 1: lines to open the ninety three season. Let's move on.

939
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: Donald fakes to McCaffrey, moves up with the pocket, throws

940
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: long and middle An says they're cought ted toutsdown Robbie Anderson.

941
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: Now Nick mix and w BT with called Robbie. You

942
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 1: know after he catches that, he puts up the Jets side.

943
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: He's like going through the end zone, which was his

944
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: celebration when he was with the Jets. And Keith hands

945
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: as text me and he's all fire up. He's like, God,

946
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: that think doing that celebration. I said, Dad, I wrote back, Dad.

947
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: Jet's quit on Robbie Anderson. They did not want to

948
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,600
Speaker 1: bring him back. He's sticking it to a team that

949
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: didn't want him. Fair play, I like to think coming

950
00:47:56,160 --> 00:48:00,040
Speaker 1: back into the operation. Sam Donald through for seventy on

951
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: in a touchdown and ran ran for another score against

952
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: his former team as the Panthers beat the Jets nineteen fourteen.

953
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 1: And um, yeah, this started very badly for the Jets,

954
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 1: and some really bad stuff come out came out of it.

955
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: But it was a nice, nice day for Sam Donald. UM.

956
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: Even though they got shut down in the second half,

957
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 1: they were held to three points, but Sam Donald played

958
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:27,319
Speaker 1: a big role in the win. He looked much more comfortable. UM.

959
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: It turns out having Christian McCaffrey on your team makes

960
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 1: you a lot better as both an offense and as

961
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,800
Speaker 1: a quarterback. And he avoided the type of mistakes. He

962
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: did have a fumble lost fumble in the red zone.

963
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: But I when I think about the Sam Donald mistakes

964
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: that haunted his time in New York, and they mounted

965
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: as his confidence wayne as the as the roster got

966
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: worse and the coaching bottomed out late in his third

967
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: season with the Jets, I think about all those interceptions

968
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: and as a Jets fan now and it was even

969
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: weirder than I anticipated when the game started, because in

970
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:01,439
Speaker 1: a lot of way, it feels like and this also

971
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: goes back to just how fast time goes now is

972
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: you start to get older and you have kids and

973
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: things like that, Like Sam Donald was I blink and

974
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: he was the Jets future, and now he's on the

975
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: other sideline and we have Zack Wilson here how many

976
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: times he would kill the Jets with interceptions and I'm

977
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,320
Speaker 1: rooting for that to happen now and he just didn't

978
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 1: do it. So good for Sam Donald. I truly am

979
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: happy for him that he had this moment and on

980
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: the Jet side of the ball, total wipe out performance

981
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: in the first half. There was some good to take

982
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 1: out of the second half of how the defense fought hard.

983
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 1: Robert Sala obviously has these guys passionate and caring about

984
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: their job, which was not happening in New York under

985
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 1: Adam Gaze last year. And then um, Zack Wilson, after

986
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: a very quiet first half where he's running for his

987
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 1: life and looking like he was a little scatter brained,

988
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,440
Speaker 1: really turned it on and did some nice things in

989
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: the second half. So there were some positives there, but

990
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 1: the Panthers get the win, and UM, a nice way

991
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: to start the season for for Sam Donald. I mean

992
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: McKay beck in the injury there as a killer. Uh

993
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: that there's so many of these around the league today

994
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,399
Speaker 1: that suddenly you look at certain position groups and you're like, oh,

995
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: but I love Zach Wilson's comments after the game. Um,

996
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 1: what Robert Sala had to say about Zack Wilson, He's

997
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 1: in a tough spot and not every one of these

998
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks. Today was a huge example of that are

999
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:19,799
Speaker 1: gonna be shining stars from the beginning. There's a lot

1000
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: to learn. And I love his mental makeup. Though I

1001
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: know that's sort of a cliche thing to say about

1002
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: some of these quarterbacks, but everything I hear from Zack

1003
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: Wilson UM seems like a total team guy, who is,

1004
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: you know, not going to shy away from some tough sundays.

1005
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 1: I thought he was pretty beaten up today. Was it

1006
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 1: like ten quarterback hits? I don't know if that's a

1007
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,360
Speaker 1: Carolina defense thing or if that's a Jets problem on

1008
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 1: offensive line. It's both, Um, but you know that's part

1009
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: of the job, is not turning into what happened to

1010
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz last year from the neck up when you're

1011
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: getting beaten up on these Sundays. Eight to what you're

1012
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: saying nineteen eight. Midway through the fourth quarter, the Jets

1013
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 1: are scrambling to try to get it back within a score,

1014
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: and they're they're knocking on the red zone of Carolina

1015
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: and and Wilson gets absolutely creamed. And it looks like

1016
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: in the moment it looks like a concussion. On the telecast,

1017
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: they thought it might have been because he got slammed

1018
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: so hard. Uh, this is just with two minutes to

1019
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: play and he pops up, shakes it off, completes a

1020
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 1: past two minute or and completes a touchdown past and

1021
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, okay, that's that's something that that really

1022
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 1: showed me something. Um and Christian McCaffrey, I just want

1023
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: to say this like he is. It's almost like Matt

1024
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: Rule has to Um. Really, it's it's a test for

1025
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 1: Brady and Rule the O C two not use him

1026
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,919
Speaker 1: too much because he's just so good that I feel

1027
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:42,320
Speaker 1: like they could have put the Jets away in the

1028
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: second half if they just just started feeding McCaffrey every

1029
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: time nine cast. That's what I mean. It's like. But

1030
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: it's like if they would have given Hi an extra five,

1031
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 1: I think he would have broken one of those. And God,

1032
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: because he's that good, he looks, he looks like a guy.

1033
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: It's poised to challenge all those records when it comes

1034
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: to multipurpose in terms of total yards. Well, our Guy

1035
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 1: rap Sheet reported Beckton has a sprained MCL, so it

1036
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 1: could be worse, but could be better. You know. With

1037
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 1: with the Patriot, that's actually great news over I mean,

1038
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 1: you were thinking the knee was completely gone, but during

1039
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 1: the game, had he blows out or it looked like

1040
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 1: he blew it out on that first touchdown pass by

1041
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: Wilson And when he's leaving in the cart, when you

1042
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:26,360
Speaker 1: whenever the player has had the look of anguish with

1043
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,800
Speaker 1: the towel over the face, I usually take that to

1044
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: me in an addition to him being pained and upset

1045
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 1: that he's been told they did a test and he

1046
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: has a tour and that's what everyone kind of assumed.

1047
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: So if you're telling me he's gonna be back at

1048
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: some point this season and he doesn't have a year

1049
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 1: rehab ahead of him, that's a huge win. Yeah, that's

1050
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: the early evaluation. Sometimes they do change a day later,

1051
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: but you're right, that's that's good news. But the kind

1052
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: of buzz that maybe the line that they're really putting there,

1053
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 1: that Joe Douglas putting his kind of name behind, is

1054
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: this line that they had a rough first month. Just

1055
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: looking you know, at the box score. That's the crooked

1056
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:00,040
Speaker 1: I like looking at the ESPN box score, I have

1057
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 1: to admit, just for like the crooked numbers, the ten

1058
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: QB hicks hits, six sacks and six tackles for loss,

1059
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: Like I just like that's just a quick snapshot. Are

1060
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:10,800
Speaker 1: you making splash plays behind the line of scrimmage and

1061
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: those are big numbers? Ten? Good job. And it's not

1062
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 1: just on the Jets offensive line. It's Brian Burns, um

1063
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: uh Shaq Thompson everywhere. They really, Um, Caroline is interesting.

1064
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,399
Speaker 1: Your team, buddy, your team. That's my wild card pick,

1065
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: and I I don't think it would be that surprising

1066
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: if it happens, because I just think they're well coached.

1067
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: I'd like to see them against the team other than

1068
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 1: the Jets. But um, they have some they have speed,

1069
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:37,720
Speaker 1: they have some guys that can get after the quarterback.

1070
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 1: They have some playmakers in the secondary. Of course with

1071
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:44,720
Speaker 1: Chin in the second year, and this offense will score points,

1072
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 1: especially if Donald plays like this. All right, let's move forward,

1073
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: pressure Taylor throws are hits, takes it across rocking roll,

1074
00:53:55,920 --> 00:54:03,919
Speaker 1: touchdown Houston. I guess it's got him a dad move

1075
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:08,560
Speaker 1: rock and roll. I love rock and roll. That's the touchdown. Call.

1076
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: It's not like term is a reference to something more

1077
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: that where you don't know, I don't know? Or is

1078
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: that always the TOUCHDOWNE call Ricky dig In on this

1079
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: Mark Vandermere find out if he has any connection? Does

1080
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 1: he does he have a I don't know. That's some

1081
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: type of name play there. K l I t Tai

1082
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,399
Speaker 1: God Taylor through for two to ninety one and two

1083
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: touchdowns filling in for Deshaun Watson, leads the Texans to

1084
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: a thirty one win over Trevor Lawrence sloppy Jaguars team

1085
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: in urban Meyer's NFL debut. This is a fever dury

1086
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:46,840
Speaker 1: and for Rosenthal. Now, Greg, I have to I have

1087
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: to dip my cap because you thought A the Texans

1088
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:52,320
Speaker 1: had a legit chance to win this game, which I

1089
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 1: pushed back on, and B that the Jaguars might be

1090
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: a bloody mess under urban Meyer and so far at

1091
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 1: one game, Yeah nailed it. Yeah, I mean I didn't

1092
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: nail it. If I what a glorious moment, it would

1093
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:08,880
Speaker 1: have been a lock up the Texans. Uh. And you know,

1094
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: instead you go for the lousy tightens tie God and

1095
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,919
Speaker 1: the coaching staff showed out though Tyler Tyrod Taylor once

1096
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:19,919
Speaker 1: it was like the second best running quarterback in the league,

1097
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 1: like just in terms of pure running ability. It's a

1098
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: little bit of that. Today there's only one like twenty

1099
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 1: nine yard run. But you saw a little juice and

1100
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 1: you saw a running game that you know, just kept

1101
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,400
Speaker 1: the ball the whole time. But the key moment was

1102
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,719
Speaker 1: that Amndola touchdown. I was watching this game late in

1103
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,919
Speaker 1: the second half. They score a touchdown with under a minute,

1104
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: or score get a field goal with under a minute

1105
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 1: to go, and urban Meyer does the thing where they

1106
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: throw three passes. They're trying to be aggressive, don't take

1107
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: any time off the clock punted away and I was like,

1108
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:51,839
Speaker 1: David Kelly's gonna tell me something here, is he gonna

1109
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 1: try to be aggressive with like thirty seven seconds in

1110
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 1: seventy yards to go with Tyrod Taylor because like the

1111
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: move that you expect the Texans do is now there's

1112
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: not you know what he does. They go balls to

1113
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: the wall to get like another touchdown, and Tyrod and

1114
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: the rest of those boys delivered. Like Pharrell Brown's making plays,

1115
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,799
Speaker 1: a Mendola is making plays. Nico Collins's okay, he made

1116
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:15,400
Speaker 1: like one place he didn't make any place. But I

1117
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,479
Speaker 1: was just like, wow, that was that was an impressive moment.

1118
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: That drive, to me was impressive because it was Collis saying, like,

1119
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: we need to put up a lot of points. I

1120
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: know Tyrod Taylor's our quarterback, but like, let's be ultra

1121
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: aggressive with thirty eight seconds to go, and then they

1122
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 1: rewarded him with the touchdown. Dra It's the old Lester

1123
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: Burnham quote. I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.

1124
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: That's David Culley. Why not, why not just go for it?

1125
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 1: Everything's set up against you. Nobody really expects you or

1126
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:44,399
Speaker 1: maybe even wants you to succeed. So do the old

1127
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: major league thing with you beat go full Behringer, Always

1128
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,719
Speaker 1: go full Berenger. I mean they've they've you know, he

1129
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,760
Speaker 1: talked about after the game that one of their biggest

1130
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 1: chores in two Dudes was shutting out the intense negativity.

1131
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: There aren't that many teams that have been dumped on

1132
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 1: and for a lot of their own reasons. I mean,

1133
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 1: they created they've created a lot of their own mess, obviously.

1134
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: But you know, you're you're deactivating to Shaun Watson, you're

1135
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,959
Speaker 1: starting Tyrod Taylor. Most of the nation things, you're gonna

1136
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 1: go one in sixteen, you drop a hammer on a

1137
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: Jaguars team that there were whispers today, even little stories already,

1138
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: that there are players in Jacksonville not adoring the urban

1139
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 1: Meyer experience already were one game into the season. So

1140
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 1: I know that delights Greg as well. But you know,

1141
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 1: it's just it is I think for the Jags. My

1142
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 1: question on our TV show, well the honeymoon and at

1143
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: four PM, I feel like I didn't think there was

1144
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 1: a honeymoon to begin with, but I see. But but

1145
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 1: to your point, like something ended today. Those whoever, those

1146
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,919
Speaker 1: guys that are given these quotes of the press, you better,

1147
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: you better trust your journal because if it gets back

1148
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: to urban Meyer, he ain't one and done, you will

1149
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: be one and done. Especially uh, you know that's a

1150
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: young team. Everyone's replaceable except for the big guy. Uh.

1151
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: Number one. Overall, what did you see uh in that

1152
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: game from Trevor Lawrence Greig? His you know, his interceptions

1153
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 1: were bad, Like it was him on the run plays

1154
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: you would think he could make, just didn't make it.

1155
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 1: I think he made a lot of positive There's two

1156
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 1: kind of like the kind of like the preseason. So

1157
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 1: I don't think it was on him. They were. They

1158
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: were bum rushed for the most part, but there was

1159
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: a couple of surprising decisions. The Texans three interceptions tied

1160
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 1: their total from all of last year. Love Smith, how

1161
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: about Lovey Smith. We haven't given Lovey Smith any I

1162
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: gotta say Lovey Smith was a was not just a

1163
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 1: good defensive coach in the NFL. People think like his

1164
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: the way he coached passed them by in terms of

1165
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: the scheme. It's a very safe, boring scheme. He was

1166
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 1: a great defensive coach. I'm just I'm just saying. And

1167
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: and in this game, they didn't blitz as far as

1168
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 1: I know because I heard this that midway through the

1169
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 1: third they didn't blitz one time. They dropped seven or eight.

1170
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 1: Every single play made Lawrence have to like make decisions

1171
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: and play played very good team sort of defense and

1172
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 1: it worked. Um. Somebody tweeted at me, because you know

1173
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: the power rankings, a lot of eyeballs get on them,

1174
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: and then people take it personally and they save it

1175
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 1: and they get ready to attack me on Sunday as

1176
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: soon as something happens that I didn't predict in terms

1177
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: of with my rankings and someone wrote tweeted me, you're

1178
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: sticking by your ranking the Texans last than the power rankings.

1179
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: That is probably gonna burn you owned. And then another guy,

1180
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 1: another guy, got pre emptively mad at me, a Titans

1181
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: fan who's obviously very upset and probably about six or

1182
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: seven beers in at least. He said, if you put

1183
00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: the Titans anywhere inside the top twenty, you should be

1184
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: ashamed of yourself, like preemptively shaming me for something I

1185
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: didn't do. In Wait, they want them inside or outside.

1186
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: So if I if I don't drop them, I think

1187
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:52,959
Speaker 1: I haven't. Oh, he wants you to punish his own team.

1188
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: And if I don't, think the Jaguars might be thirty two.

1189
00:59:55,600 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: I haven't really thought about it. But if you lose

1190
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: to the Texans by this much, maybe you replay them.

1191
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 1: But like, I just thought it was funny, like you

1192
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: should be ashamed of yourself for something that I hadn't

1193
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 1: even done. I mean, that's how this works. Though, you're

1194
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:09,959
Speaker 1: gonna get tweets like that. You said six or seven

1195
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: beers in was what you assumed based on how you know?

1196
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 1: That was? K I l t by the way, kind

1197
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 1: of transposed a letter to there I was, but I wasn't.

1198
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 1: I wasn't asked actually gonna ask on this show, but

1199
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask after. But you've solved the mystery

1200
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 1: and solved Let's keep moving. I mean that would be

1201
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:32,600
Speaker 1: an interesting radio station. The other one, Yes, it would

1202
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 1: and he who's got it? Yeah, but don't write wow.

1203
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 1: Jimmy Seo and Jason Taylor. The sack MASTA w q

1204
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 1: A M with the call to a tungle by Lowa

1205
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:55,240
Speaker 1: through a go ahead touchdown past the Jalen Waddle rookie

1206
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, and Davian Howard recovered to Damian

1207
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 1: Harris bumble with newing and driving to help the Dolphins

1208
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: hold on for a seventeen sixty and win over the

1209
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: Patriots in Foxborough. Greg, we entered the season viewing these teams,

1210
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 1: or at least I did. I think you did too,

1211
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 1: as very close in their division, and it didnty closer

1212
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 1: than seventeen six week one. No, it was um an

1213
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:21,600
Speaker 1: example of how the Dolphins have kind of become the

1214
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:25,000
Speaker 1: new old Patriots where you're like, how did they win

1215
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 1: that game? Where you where you leave the game being like,

1216
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:31,480
Speaker 1: what what just happened? Um? Like, because I think they

1217
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 1: do a lot of smart things schematically, but the Patriots ultimately,

1218
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, outgained them by hundred forty yards something like that.

1219
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 1: Mac Jones looks like the better quarterback. And at the

1220
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 1: end of the day, they forced two really key fumbles

1221
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 1: by the Patriots running backs, including one you know that

1222
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: you heard inside the ten late in the game where

1223
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 1: you really felt like the Patriots were gonna go in

1224
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: for a touchdown of nothing else, they were gonna take

1225
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 1: the lead there. But the Dolphins, like Xavian Howard, like

1226
01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: they find a way to make play is and I

1227
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 1: just think they are a smart, like well coached team

1228
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 1: that again is like greater than the some of their parts.

1229
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 1: The out patriot of the Patriot your your boy, Flora's

1230
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 1: I don't know whose boy it is is three and

1231
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 1: two over. He is shown over the past few years

1232
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 1: that he knows what he's doing and that that had

1233
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: to feel really good to be a Belichick disciple going

1234
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: up in that building and started season and out Patriots

1235
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 1: eying the Patriots. I mean that is that was their

1236
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 1: earmark last year. I thought they found ways to win

1237
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 1: games by dismantling quarterbacks and getting you know, fringe no

1238
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 1: namers to do special things down the stretch. I mean,

1239
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: this game, you're right, was so bizarre to watch. But

1240
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,800
Speaker 1: I did think that mac Jones got more comfortable and

1241
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 1: made great throws as it went along. I mean, if

1242
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 1: you're just wanting to say, look at where are we

1243
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 1: as the Patriots offense with this new quarterback. I saw

1244
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: Erica tweeting about him. She seems um enamored to some degree.

1245
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, because part of it was

1246
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:56,960
Speaker 1: this was the two of verse, two of verse mac

1247
01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:00,040
Speaker 1: Jones and I don't know mac Jones supprested. Is do

1248
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 1: it to me? It looks better? No, you flipped the

1249
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the and give mac Jones to the Dolphins.

1250
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 1: The Dolphins win by twenty. I was I was kind

1251
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 1: of flying after this game. I was surprised to hear

1252
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: how sad. I mean, I wasn't surprised, but a lot

1253
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 1: of you know, my dad and a couple of Patriots

1254
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 1: friends in my life, you know, really down that they

1255
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 1: can pull this out. Yeah, Ricky jump into and I'm like, Yetta,

1256
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:23,440
Speaker 1: look at the big picture. Mac Jones looked awesome in

1257
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:26,280
Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, I think beyond the stat lines, the

1258
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:28,960
Speaker 1: next level things that he's already doing as a rookie,

1259
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: the touch on his throws, the way they're going like

1260
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 1: five wide and empty and crucial moments. The offensive line

1261
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 1: for the Patriot, which is supposed to be great, played terrible.

1262
01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 1: He was under more pressure than than to a he

1263
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 1: handled it much better for the most part, and it's like,

1264
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:44,840
Speaker 1: I feel like the Patriots have a quarterback and that's

1265
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 1: that's the bigger story. I totally agree, Greg, Like I

1266
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 1: think at the beginning, you know, in the top of

1267
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 1: the show, you guys were talking about that feeling of

1268
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 1: like getting excited and when they were marching down the

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01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 1: field too, before that fumble happened, like my heart's right

1270
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:01,760
Speaker 1: saying and I'm like, oh my god, like we're gonna

1271
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 1: do this, Like I can't believe this is happening, and

1272
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 1: that feeling when it when you know it didn't go

1273
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 1: that way, But yeah, of course it was like wow.

1274
01:04:09,480 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 1: This Actually there's so many times where I was like,

1275
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 1: if Cam Newton was the quarterback right now, I don't

1276
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:17,800
Speaker 1: think we would have been even close in this conversation.

1277
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: I hope because I really like Damian Harris as a player,

1278
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 1: and I hope this doesn't lead to him having to

1279
01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 1: sleep outside for three months or now, and he looked incredible.

1280
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 1: He also got banged pretty hard by a helmet um

1281
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 1: and his helmet came off during one play. Greg, I

1282
01:04:35,280 --> 01:04:37,200
Speaker 1: don't know if you remember that, and not saying that

1283
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:39,320
Speaker 1: I had anything to do with it, but like he

1284
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 1: carried so many times, and like just like the brute

1285
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:46,200
Speaker 1: force of what he did for this team, like helmets

1286
01:04:46,240 --> 01:04:51,120
Speaker 1: coming on. I just he's awesome. How annoyed was Belichick

1287
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. I thought I saw

1288
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 1: a few looks from him where he seemed a little peaked.

1289
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:59,040
Speaker 1: But or does he share your optimism to Greg? No,

1290
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,960
Speaker 1: he looked pretty flung that, like what are we doing here?

1291
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 1: We just fumbled the ball inside the ten? You know

1292
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 1: they lost, they lost the turnover battle, like they couldn't

1293
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:09,320
Speaker 1: get They had a chance to get a stop in

1294
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:12,000
Speaker 1: the end and you know that they couldn't. Um. But

1295
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 1: I just think as a Patriots ban, you just look

1296
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 1: at the players that are on this team and they

1297
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: just look they look a lot better, Like Damion Harris

1298
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 1: looked great today. There's a couple you know, the passing

1299
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 1: game was the passing game wasn't perfect, but it's like

1300
01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:28,480
Speaker 1: when you're throwing the ball to Johnny Smith and Hunter

1301
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:30,600
Speaker 1: Henry and agil Are at the end, it's like a

1302
01:05:30,720 --> 01:05:32,440
Speaker 1: couple of them made plays on their own, and it's

1303
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 1: like they just didn't have guys like that last year.

1304
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 1: So I think even though they lost, I felt a

1305
01:05:35,880 --> 01:05:38,200
Speaker 1: lot of productivity. That's what's kind of tricky here with

1306
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: the pats um that you spend a hundred and sixty

1307
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 1: million and guaranteed money in free agency, which tells you

1308
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:47,400
Speaker 1: we're looking to win now. But then you cut Cam

1309
01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:50,040
Speaker 1: and you say the rookies starting, and then that puts

1310
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:52,600
Speaker 1: you into different places a team, which is well, it's

1311
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:55,480
Speaker 1: not really always about wins. It's about progress for the

1312
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 1: kid as well. It's almost like they're trying to live

1313
01:05:57,200 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 1: in two worlds. And I'm not saying that can't work

1314
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 1: at least from a fan standpoint. Maybe there's gonna be

1315
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: some Uh, it's gonna be tough to focus for some people.

1316
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 1: I know if Cam would be well, they told you

1317
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:13,720
Speaker 1: everything that they that you need to know about what

1318
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:16,200
Speaker 1: they think about Cam Newton. And there's another world where

1319
01:06:16,240 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 1: Mac Jones by week eight is playing in the universe

1320
01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:22,000
Speaker 1: that we didn't expect in all these pieces. Physically today

1321
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:24,440
Speaker 1: he did today. I know that numbers weren't crazy, but

1322
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:27,440
Speaker 1: I think, like what he's doing as a rookie, I'm

1323
01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:29,160
Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying not to get too carried away

1324
01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:31,080
Speaker 1: because I know I am a Patriots fan, but I

1325
01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,280
Speaker 1: swear I would be saying this if he was on

1326
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:36,000
Speaker 1: another team. That the things he's doing now maybe like

1327
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:38,440
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the room to improve as much as

1328
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 1: some of these other quarterbacks, but the level he's at

1329
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:45,240
Speaker 1: now is rare for a rookie. How did he look?

1330
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 1: Look looks better than last year. I know that there

1331
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 1: was a lot of and I'll shut up because that

1332
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 1: no one wants to hear me talk about the Dolphins,

1333
01:06:51,560 --> 01:06:53,920
Speaker 1: But I think there was a lot of stuff, you know,

1334
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:56,400
Speaker 1: going in this offseason. It's like, is to a really

1335
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 1: the guy that you know the Dolphins? You know Tank

1336
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:01,600
Speaker 1: for two? I do inc that you know there were

1337
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 1: some you know, he had a rushing t d and

1338
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:06,200
Speaker 1: and he I think he played better, and Greg correct

1339
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. I think that there was an

1340
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 1: improvement from last season better, but a couple of groaners

1341
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 1: you don't need to take, you know, you you asked

1342
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 1: the question and then left Eric like you were like,

1343
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:19,160
Speaker 1: I'll hang up and listen. Uh, a couple of growners.

1344
01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:21,400
Speaker 1: I mean a killer interception at the end where he's

1345
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:22,800
Speaker 1: trying to throw the ball. He said, he's trying to

1346
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:24,400
Speaker 1: throw the ball at a bounds but he didn't reach it,

1347
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:26,920
Speaker 1: which is kind of the thing with Tow Like we

1348
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:30,000
Speaker 1: heard mac Jones's arm wasn't great, Like mac Jones's arm

1349
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:32,640
Speaker 1: looks fine to to his arm, I think it's a

1350
01:07:32,720 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 1: question of some of those deep balls. Hanging up. Um

1351
01:07:36,080 --> 01:07:38,200
Speaker 1: had another groaner where he was lucky to get away

1352
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 1: with another interception but had positive place. Miles Gaskon looked

1353
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: awesome and they looked pretty tough to defend with some

1354
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 1: of the read option and everything they got. Will Fuller

1355
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:49,480
Speaker 1: coming off suspension next week. He is an underrated guy

1356
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 1: and a great deep threat to we can get it

1357
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:56,000
Speaker 1: to him. Let's move on. That goes hurts, he is

1358
01:07:56,080 --> 01:08:01,440
Speaker 1: lucky he is firing for a touch Um the first

1359
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 1: touched off the l career Merrill Reese, the legend w

1360
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:12,520
Speaker 1: I P with the called Jalen hurts through three touchdown passes,

1361
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:15,640
Speaker 1: the first of them too. Yes, the heisman Trophy winner

1362
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith and the Eagles made a winner of Nick

1363
01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 1: Sirianni his head coach debut rout of the folly filled

1364
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:28,560
Speaker 1: with the bang thing on him at Mercedes Benz Stadium.

1365
01:08:29,080 --> 01:08:33,040
Speaker 1: But me arc Nick Sirianni sounded kind of nervous and

1366
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: his introductory press conference, how can this happen? Exactly? I

1367
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:39,639
Speaker 1: don't appreciate the way you just addressed my name either,

1368
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:43,280
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna I'm gonnafod John uh I would point

1369
01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:45,519
Speaker 1: to this one little chunk of the game where it

1370
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:49,640
Speaker 1: turned from a positive Eagles experience to an incredibly hopeful one,

1371
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: and it was the end of the first half. Jalen

1372
01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:55,920
Speaker 1: Hurts and the two minute offense totally comfortable Number one,

1373
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:58,519
Speaker 1: the heat basically just went out there and said, I'm

1374
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:00,400
Speaker 1: going to run against the Falcons one I need to.

1375
01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:02,840
Speaker 1: They had nobody that could stop him. He moved to

1376
01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:06,200
Speaker 1: feet the team so confidently down the field, and Sirianni

1377
01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 1: is an aggressive coach to who I'll get into that

1378
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 1: in a second. But Hurts on this drive to help

1379
01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 1: them go up fifteen to six, because what happened was

1380
01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:16,880
Speaker 1: they were up seven to six. They he threw a

1381
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 1: great pass to Dale at Dallas Goddard, who really battled

1382
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:22,080
Speaker 1: Dion Jones to make a great catch in the end zone.

1383
01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:24,639
Speaker 1: Then there was a penalty on the Falcons. So it's

1384
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:28,760
Speaker 1: at that point thirteen to six, and Sirianni dials up

1385
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:32,360
Speaker 1: a two point conversion that Miles Sanders got and suddenly

1386
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:34,960
Speaker 1: it's fifteen to six at halftime and the Falcons, who

1387
01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 1: came out of the gate explosive on offense, I mean,

1388
01:09:38,400 --> 01:09:40,240
Speaker 1: moving the ball really well, to the point where I

1389
01:09:40,280 --> 01:09:42,040
Speaker 1: thought the first quarter of this game was one of

1390
01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:43,840
Speaker 1: the better first quarters I'd seen in Week one in

1391
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:47,920
Speaker 1: a long time. They could not get out of their

1392
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:50,280
Speaker 1: problems in the red zone. They had drives that finished

1393
01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:52,640
Speaker 1: at the three and the nine I believe of Philadelphia,

1394
01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:55,560
Speaker 1: and they never got back there again. Arthur Smith was

1395
01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:58,560
Speaker 1: visibly annoyed on the sideline. I think that everything that

1396
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:01,439
Speaker 1: they planned to do, he the announcers made comments that

1397
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 1: he wanted to say, look at we don't want to

1398
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:05,639
Speaker 1: be predictable, and they got stuck into a predictable place

1399
01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 1: because they got down. I think this jail and hurts

1400
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 1: offense works very well under Sirianni. There's a lot of

1401
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:14,160
Speaker 1: encouragement here if you're an Eagles fan, and after another

1402
01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 1: after a bad offseason, he looked great. Let's hear from

1403
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:20,879
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith, who was very unhappy with his team's performance

1404
01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:23,240
Speaker 1: in his first game as head coach. I did a

1405
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 1: really poor job getting us ready to go. I feel

1406
01:10:26,479 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 1: uh awful for our fans. Everybody showed up today. We'll

1407
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 1: do a better job at games on going to define us.

1408
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:35,160
Speaker 1: It's a long season to go, but I certainly didn't

1409
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:38,679
Speaker 1: a good job getting us ready to go today. Kyle

1410
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 1: Pitts not much there and his debut after an off

1411
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:45,080
Speaker 1: season of breathless hype from the tight end, but that

1412
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:48,800
Speaker 1: it's early. Um, and in general, Greg, this is not

1413
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 1: the offense I think you saw either, because I know

1414
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:53,479
Speaker 1: you were pretty high and Matt Ryan entering the year. Yeah,

1415
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 1: I never liked to hear when the coach says we've

1416
01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 1: got a long season to go after week one, like

1417
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:00,720
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a cell phone. It's like,

1418
01:11:00,800 --> 01:11:02,800
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna define It's like, bro, no one said

1419
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 1: it was gonna define you. It's like week one. Um,

1420
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:11,160
Speaker 1: he's feeling it, and you know the caveat Yeah, the

1421
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 1: caveats apply. That it's going against the Falcons defense, which

1422
01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:16,920
Speaker 1: probably the most talent poor defensive league. But I do

1423
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:21,599
Speaker 1: think there's a Lamar Jackson element to Jalen Hurts where

1424
01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:24,479
Speaker 1: he raises the rest of the running game to an

1425
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:27,400
Speaker 1: incredibly efficient degree. You know, you think of the Eagles

1426
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:31,920
Speaker 1: is all about analytics, like so are the Ravens like team.

1427
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:35,000
Speaker 1: You know, teams are into running when it's incredibly efficient.

1428
01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 1: So if if you if you run at thirty one

1429
01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 1: times for a hundred and seventy three yards, that's great,

1430
01:11:39,680 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 1: you know, Like, and I think Jalen Hurts is running

1431
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 1: ability with this offensive line at least has a chance

1432
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:48,479
Speaker 1: to like raise the running floor really high for this

1433
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 1: Eagles team where that can be something that's repeatable even

1434
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:53,200
Speaker 1: if you're not, you know, dropping thirty every week. Yeah,

1435
01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we just have to look back

1436
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:57,480
Speaker 1: at some of these teams to turn into total disasters.

1437
01:11:57,520 --> 01:12:00,519
Speaker 1: Like last year's Eagles that the line went through multiple

1438
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 1: combinations was never healthy today healthy line? And how about

1439
01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 1: the defensive line that down the stretch when the Falcons

1440
01:12:07,040 --> 01:12:09,439
Speaker 1: were becoming predictable and Matt Ryan was stuck in passing

1441
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 1: only situations, was completely and totally harassed um Javon Hargrave

1442
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:17,600
Speaker 1: played great. The Falcons left guard Jeralen Mayfield had his

1443
01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:20,679
Speaker 1: name mentioned for the wrong time, way too often today

1444
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:22,840
Speaker 1: because he got smoked a number of times. And so

1445
01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 1: it's a bad matchup for Atlanta. But that's it's because

1446
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:28,519
Speaker 1: the Falcons are completely legitimate up front or the Eagles.

1447
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:31,840
Speaker 1: I should say, let's move on St. Juice in coverage.

1448
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:33,880
Speaker 1: That's where he's looking, That's where he's throwing. Mike Williams

1449
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:37,559
Speaker 1: talk touch style. Mike Williams and the big body at St.

1450
01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:42,759
Speaker 1: Juice never had a chance. That's my power rankings Buddy

1451
01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 1: and the voice of God for the Around the NFL podcast,

1452
01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:48,640
Speaker 1: Matt Money Smith of k Y s R. With the

1453
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:52,040
Speaker 1: call justin Herbert wasn't perfect, but he lets scoring drives

1454
01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 1: of seventy, seventy six and sixty eight yards lost that

1455
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 1: go ahead pet ten to Mike Williams secures the bag

1456
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:03,599
Speaker 1: and win over the Washington football team. Now let's welcome

1457
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:06,679
Speaker 1: in the pipe for another season. On The Flagship Show,

1458
01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:11,320
Speaker 1: Nick Shook, Herbert didn't look special in Washington because it's

1459
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:16,760
Speaker 1: I would be concerned if we don't Clip secures the

1460
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:19,880
Speaker 1: bag as a drop in there because it really wasn't

1461
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:22,320
Speaker 1: like a correct usage of it, right, I mean right

1462
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:26,800
Speaker 1: exactly getting that money. It's all about money. I mean

1463
01:13:26,840 --> 01:13:28,800
Speaker 1: he's not getting the money. When is he gonna get

1464
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 1: the money? Like three years? I guess we'll just say

1465
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:34,200
Speaker 1: that it still works. Um, I can't stay with you

1466
01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:36,720
Speaker 1: hip kids, Go ahead, show Yeah. I mean you try that.

1467
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 1: That's that's showing that you're trying so far. Um yeah,

1468
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:41,960
Speaker 1: justin Herbert, I'm telling you what you know. We we

1469
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:44,080
Speaker 1: saw what he did last year and the Rookie of

1470
01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 1: the year offensively, and everything's great, but you always have

1471
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:48,720
Speaker 1: that question going into year two, is there going to

1472
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:50,600
Speaker 1: be a sophomore slump? Is he gonna take? You know?

1473
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:52,720
Speaker 1: Is he gonna continue moving forward? And and all I

1474
01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:54,759
Speaker 1: saw out of him today was a calm and cool

1475
01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:58,560
Speaker 1: and collected quarterback who looked wise beyond his years and

1476
01:13:59,080 --> 01:14:03,599
Speaker 1: basically served as the difference in a game that Chargers

1477
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:05,800
Speaker 1: teams of years past would have lost. They would have

1478
01:14:05,840 --> 01:14:07,760
Speaker 1: found ways to lose it. There were moments where they

1479
01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:10,679
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there watching and going, oh, that's the crushing

1480
01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:13,240
Speaker 1: penalty that gives Washington another chance. They go down and score.

1481
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 1: They end up winning this game by three points or whatever.

1482
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:17,160
Speaker 1: There was late in the game where they forced a

1483
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:19,320
Speaker 1: fumble and the Chargers get the ball on their own territory.

1484
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:21,640
Speaker 1: It's third and long, and what does Justin Herbert do.

1485
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 1: He steps up in the pocket and rips one down

1486
01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:24,760
Speaker 1: the middle of the field for our first down. He

1487
01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:28,120
Speaker 1: did it on multiple occasions on that possession alone, and honestly,

1488
01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 1: they probably would have won by more if his receivers

1489
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 1: would have figured out how to catch the ball in

1490
01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:34,960
Speaker 1: the first half. So um, you know, Chargers fans who

1491
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:37,559
Speaker 1: have dealt with so much crushing heartbreak, especially in recent years,

1492
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 1: they gotta be really excited after watching this knowing that

1493
01:14:40,280 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: they have a quarterback who, more often than not, if

1494
01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:44,800
Speaker 1: their defense plays adequately, is going to be able to

1495
01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:47,160
Speaker 1: throw them too close victories. Well I know. Also, you know,

1496
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:49,760
Speaker 1: Washington lost Ryan Fitzpatrick in this game, and we can

1497
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:52,920
Speaker 1: get into it, but you know, first takeaway small sample size,

1498
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:55,000
Speaker 1: but of the Joe Lombardi offense which we talks about

1499
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:58,400
Speaker 1: on Thursday, does it look like a Saint Fitch offense

1500
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 1: or is there Shanahan elements like you mentioned. Did it

1501
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:03,760
Speaker 1: stand out to you to have a certain vibe. I

1502
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,400
Speaker 1: would say, yeah, there are definitely some Saints ish to it,

1503
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:08,479
Speaker 1: but they throw the ball further downfield than they did

1504
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:11,320
Speaker 1: uh in the final years of of Drew Brees with

1505
01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 1: the Saints. So I think that there's kind of an

1506
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 1: adjustment because you have a quarterback who's more capable at

1507
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:17,800
Speaker 1: this stage in his career when he's younger, he's got

1508
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 1: a live arm than the Saints did down the stretch

1509
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:21,360
Speaker 1: with Drew Brees. But I mean, you've got to be

1510
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 1: encouraged about what you saw. I know they only put

1511
01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:24,920
Speaker 1: up twenty points, but they had a lot of opportunities

1512
01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:26,599
Speaker 1: where they probably could have scored more. Like I said,

1513
01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:28,760
Speaker 1: if these guys had just executed. There was even a

1514
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:30,400
Speaker 1: moment I think in the second half or Keenan Allen

1515
01:15:30,439 --> 01:15:31,880
Speaker 1: had to catch and run and he just dropped the

1516
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:33,680
Speaker 1: ball during the run. He was able to recover it,

1517
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:37,840
Speaker 1: you know, averting a disaster. But um, it took them

1518
01:15:37,960 --> 01:15:39,640
Speaker 1: a solid two and a half quarters to kind of

1519
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:42,320
Speaker 1: rediscover that they had hands and then put them to work.

1520
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:44,120
Speaker 1: So I think if you kind of clean that stuff up,

1521
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 1: you get that in week one, you know, from time

1522
01:15:45,760 --> 01:15:47,920
Speaker 1: to time and continue to move forward, you're going to

1523
01:15:47,960 --> 01:15:50,400
Speaker 1: be in a situation where this offense is gonna look

1524
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:51,800
Speaker 1: a lot better than I think, um it has in

1525
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:53,680
Speaker 1: pasted years, because you know, you have the weapons. It's

1526
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,200
Speaker 1: just really been down to execution and uh and being healthy.

1527
01:15:56,520 --> 01:15:58,559
Speaker 1: And they got for the most part, they got all

1528
01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:02,840
Speaker 1: that to come together. So what happened with Fitzpatrick He

1529
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:06,160
Speaker 1: was tackled by Yucheno osu um and and suffered a

1530
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:08,639
Speaker 1: hip injury. And it was really strange when it actually

1531
01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 1: happened because you couldn't quite tell. It looked like a

1532
01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:12,519
Speaker 1: pretty normal sack, but he couldn't really get up and

1533
01:16:12,560 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 1: he needed help walking off and everything else. And um,

1534
01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 1: he was done after six attempts, so it was really early.

1535
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:19,920
Speaker 1: But oddly enough, you know, you think, we think about

1536
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:22,280
Speaker 1: all the excitement that Ryan Fitzpatrick has created over the

1537
01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:24,599
Speaker 1: years with his many stops with different teams, and you're like, well,

1538
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:26,479
Speaker 1: that's got to take a lot of juice out of him.

1539
01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 1: But Taylor Heineke actually did the opposite. He injected some

1540
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:31,479
Speaker 1: life into them. Their problem was that they couldn't close

1541
01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:33,840
Speaker 1: the deal, They couldn't finish drives, and we do see

1542
01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 1: that a lot again in Week one as well, teams

1543
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 1: that show potential, but they haven't quite figured out how

1544
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:40,639
Speaker 1: to finish off drives by getting points, and that's ultimately

1545
01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:43,760
Speaker 1: what kind of did them in, especially fumbling down the

1546
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:47,519
Speaker 1: stretch late right. The Chargers, you know, sneakily had almost

1547
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:50,479
Speaker 1: a dominant offensive performance here. They only had eight drives,

1548
01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 1: they reached the red zone and six of them, so

1549
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:54,800
Speaker 1: you're right, like there were those charged moments. There was

1550
01:16:54,880 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 1: the it was kind of a flukey fumble from Herbert

1551
01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:00,519
Speaker 1: where he was trying to throw the ball and they

1552
01:17:00,560 --> 01:17:02,640
Speaker 1: slapped it out as he's throwing it, and you know,

1553
01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:05,680
Speaker 1: it ends up being Washington ball and then there's an interception.

1554
01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:08,679
Speaker 1: But to end the game on on a fifteen play

1555
01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:11,519
Speaker 1: eighty two yard drive, to me, that's like the best

1556
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:14,280
Speaker 1: way to end any games. And then you're just kneeling

1557
01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:17,880
Speaker 1: on it. They should give style points, like because I

1558
01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:20,120
Speaker 1: guess they covered anyway, so it doesn't matter, but they

1559
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 1: should after the game a judge should award them five

1560
01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:26,519
Speaker 1: at least five extra style points for that drive. There

1561
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:28,439
Speaker 1: there were a few throwers in that drive were actually

1562
01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 1: like audibly yelped, like where he just could connect you

1563
01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:33,320
Speaker 1: with Mike leans down the side and I was like, oh,

1564
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:36,760
Speaker 1: oh wow, you know I fired me up. At one

1565
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:38,320
Speaker 1: point I think I had tweeted I know I wrote

1566
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:40,720
Speaker 1: about in the recap. I would trust Justin Herbert. If

1567
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:42,760
Speaker 1: I had to diffuse a bomb, I would call in

1568
01:17:42,880 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert to cut the proper chords and avoid blowing

1569
01:17:45,880 --> 01:17:47,639
Speaker 1: us all. I mean, Dan, the Titans, could you could

1570
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 1: use that? Well, that's a nuclear bone. I'm not sure

1571
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 1: you can different properties, different mechanics to it. But when

1572
01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:56,559
Speaker 1: I didn't see a stitch, I didn't see a second

1573
01:17:56,600 --> 01:17:59,320
Speaker 1: of this game. So but based on what people are

1574
01:17:59,320 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 1: saying about her its performance, which doesn't sync up with

1575
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:04,800
Speaker 1: the box score, I'm really looking forward to it. The

1576
01:18:04,880 --> 01:18:06,720
Speaker 1: Chargers have a good one and we'll see this Ran

1577
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick injury. I believe I'm seeing some reports out there.

1578
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:11,960
Speaker 1: It's a multi week situation to Taylor, Heineke is gonna

1579
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:16,719
Speaker 1: get his chance Thursday night, Thursday night, four days against

1580
01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: the Giants. Let's head speaking of the Giants to the

1581
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:22,080
Speaker 1: swamps of Jersey. Lord on the right side of the

1582
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:30,360
Speaker 1: big hole. Here we go. Midfield sixteen ten five touchdown

1583
01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 1: dead four seventy yards for Melvin Gordon. Oh you gotta

1584
01:18:41,520 --> 01:18:45,439
Speaker 1: get in the groove of the bottles. I mean if

1585
01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:47,439
Speaker 1: when she sends us on so so, no one's looking

1586
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:52,320
Speaker 1: at me there, like because you don't really have the flows.

1587
01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:57,360
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one they've got the shirt forard

1588
01:18:57,360 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 1: at least when you say ko a with it called,

1589
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:07,400
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon says, don't fade me yet, fantasy heads, Yeah,

1590
01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:12,560
Speaker 1: give me the bag. It was one run. It was

1591
01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 1: for seven yard touchdown run. It was the clincher for

1592
01:19:18,479 --> 01:19:24,240
Speaker 1: the Broncos cruise to over the Giants at MetLife Stadium.

1593
01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:29,400
Speaker 1: Uh shook. Uh. Teddy Bridgewater two touchdowns and his broadcast debut,

1594
01:19:29,520 --> 01:19:31,880
Speaker 1: and the Denver defense had all the answers against New York.

1595
01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 1: You know, watching Teddy Bridgewater play quarterback can be an

1596
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:39,800
Speaker 1: adventure sometimes because every time that he does something that

1597
01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:41,639
Speaker 1: makes you think, like we did early in his career,

1598
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:43,599
Speaker 1: that oh, this guy can be a franchise quarterback. There

1599
01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 1: are a few plays where he's slowed to decide to

1600
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:48,760
Speaker 1: deliver the football, or he makes a mistake or whatever

1601
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:51,519
Speaker 1: it is. We were like, oh, that's what's always held

1602
01:19:51,640 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 1: him back. And I think it was perfectly captured. Surprising

1603
01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 1: on a touchdown pass that was completely chaotic in the

1604
01:19:57,439 --> 01:19:59,439
Speaker 1: second half. He rolled out to the right and it

1605
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 1: looked like it is just gonna end in complete disaster.

1606
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:03,560
Speaker 1: And then he finds a tight end Albert albert O

1607
01:20:03,560 --> 01:20:04,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna call him because I don't want to try

1608
01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 1: to pronounce his last name, and he sneaks into the

1609
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:09,360
Speaker 1: end zone on the front right pylon and it was

1610
01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:11,160
Speaker 1: and it was another one of those things where you're

1611
01:20:11,160 --> 01:20:14,960
Speaker 1: sitting there going, oh, no, no, alright, alright. They scored um.

1612
01:20:15,320 --> 01:20:18,599
Speaker 1: But I do see why Vic Fangio picked him because

1613
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:20,880
Speaker 1: for like the stat line says, for the majority of

1614
01:20:20,880 --> 01:20:23,679
Speaker 1: the game, he was a very serviceable, if not better quarterback,

1615
01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:26,800
Speaker 1: and he kept their offense moving. I mean that some

1616
01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:28,280
Speaker 1: of the points they scored late were kind of just

1617
01:20:28,360 --> 01:20:31,280
Speaker 1: tacked on. It was a close game until about late

1618
01:20:31,320 --> 01:20:33,400
Speaker 1: in the fourth midway or late in the fourth quarter.

1619
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:37,160
Speaker 1: But you gotta be, you know, pretty excited because serviceable

1620
01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:39,120
Speaker 1: or better, if you can get what you expect out

1621
01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:41,919
Speaker 1: of the Broncos defense, should make them somewhat of a contender.

1622
01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:43,760
Speaker 1: It's it's gonna be, you know, tough to battle with

1623
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:45,360
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, but it should make them at least a

1624
01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:48,240
Speaker 1: competitive team instead of the team that they've been in

1625
01:20:48,280 --> 01:20:50,840
Speaker 1: recent seasons. I mean they put up a four and

1626
01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 1: twenty yards offensively twenty my right endver Hey, that's the

1627
01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:57,479
Speaker 1: right city for it. Um, It's like, and what more

1628
01:20:57,479 --> 01:20:59,000
Speaker 1: do you want? If they put up four hundred yards

1629
01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:01,320
Speaker 1: a week, They're they're gonna go to the playoffs and

1630
01:21:01,360 --> 01:21:04,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna win my sandwiches right now. Winning on the

1631
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:07,800
Speaker 1: road is is you know, I'm impressive when you do

1632
01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:10,640
Speaker 1: it comfortably. But this Stian's team seems like it it

1633
01:21:10,760 --> 01:21:13,840
Speaker 1: has some problems. Chookie that that this week didn't, you know,

1634
01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:15,720
Speaker 1: make you feel any better about them? I'm sure. And

1635
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:17,719
Speaker 1: that's the perfect lead into because while I said Teddy

1636
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:22,200
Speaker 1: Bridgewater is an adventure, Daniel Jones is a damn roller coaster.

1637
01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:24,800
Speaker 1: And he's a roller coaster with an eighty eight degree

1638
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:27,880
Speaker 1: drop on the first, second, and third hill. Because as

1639
01:21:27,920 --> 01:21:29,400
Speaker 1: soon as you get down, you go, all right, well

1640
01:21:29,439 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 1: we survived. Here we go here's the big hill. Oh

1641
01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:34,640
Speaker 1: my god, we're dropping again. Daniel Jones with a textbook

1642
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 1: fumble at a bad time that kills a drive, making

1643
01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:43,080
Speaker 1: mistake a play and then making another mistake and then

1644
01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:46,120
Speaker 1: ultimately digging themselves too much of a hole to get

1645
01:21:46,120 --> 01:21:47,640
Speaker 1: out of, you know, not being able to convert on

1646
01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: fourth down on the edge of the red zone late

1647
01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:50,600
Speaker 1: in the game when you absolutely have to have it.

1648
01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:53,800
Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but as I watched him,

1649
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:56,600
Speaker 1: like man, Giants fans just have to be absolutely exasperated

1650
01:21:56,960 --> 01:21:59,600
Speaker 1: with Daniel Jones because again, it's just like it was

1651
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:01,800
Speaker 1: last year and somewhat in the year before too. He

1652
01:22:01,840 --> 01:22:04,120
Speaker 1: shows flashes where you're like, man, this guy can make

1653
01:22:04,160 --> 01:22:06,240
Speaker 1: a play. Wow, he's talented, he's athletic, he's got a

1654
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 1: good arm, but he can never really quite get out

1655
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:10,320
Speaker 1: of his own way there. It was really what did

1656
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:12,960
Speaker 1: Then I saw a good tweet and twitter from when

1657
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:14,560
Speaker 1: I wish I didn't remember who it was. It was

1658
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:18,559
Speaker 1: one of the guys who covers the Giants um who wrote,

1659
01:22:18,640 --> 01:22:21,759
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is good until he's not. And that's the problem.

1660
01:22:22,040 --> 01:22:24,479
Speaker 1: Like just when you feel like, okay, he's in a groove,

1661
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:26,840
Speaker 1: we're in the right direction. Maybe this is something to

1662
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 1: build off that fumble. That fumble killed him. And I'm

1663
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:32,040
Speaker 1: not saying they're gonna win that game, because the Bronchos

1664
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:35,479
Speaker 1: were just the better team, but it's just it's all

1665
01:22:35,560 --> 01:22:37,519
Speaker 1: the air goes out of the balloon in that building

1666
01:22:37,560 --> 01:22:39,559
Speaker 1: after that bumble. And I'd say, like ten years ago

1667
01:22:39,600 --> 01:22:42,040
Speaker 1: when we started doing all this, like there were a

1668
01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:45,160
Speaker 1: dozen teams that had somewhat flaky quarterbacks, and there were

1669
01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:47,519
Speaker 1: five or six that had terrible quarterbacks, and there was

1670
01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:50,479
Speaker 1: a dearth of quarterbacks. That's obviously changed in the last

1671
01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 1: three or four and you can't have a quarterback that's

1672
01:22:53,120 --> 01:22:55,880
Speaker 1: being described and is living up to the description as

1673
01:22:55,920 --> 01:23:01,519
Speaker 1: a roller coaster. He also like need more from the

1674
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:04,040
Speaker 1: running game. And in Sa Kwan Barkley, it's like I

1675
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:06,479
Speaker 1: read so many articles how how much of a difference

1676
01:23:06,479 --> 01:23:08,120
Speaker 1: it will be with Sa Kwan Barkley and he goes,

1677
01:23:08,640 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 1: you know ten for twenty six their first round pick,

1678
01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:14,639
Speaker 1: cold areas Tony has two catches for negative two yards,

1679
01:23:14,720 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 1: Like Denver is gonna present a lot of problems to

1680
01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:19,680
Speaker 1: a lot of offenses. I think even even without you know,

1681
01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:22,280
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb, I don't think played today right, but it's

1682
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:25,240
Speaker 1: still I don't know. I just you don't see a

1683
01:23:25,280 --> 01:23:28,479
Speaker 1: lot of answers. And they suddenly that that Thursday night game,

1684
01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:30,400
Speaker 1: it's like one of those teams is gonna feel very

1685
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:33,600
Speaker 1: dark at and two Yeah, there seems to be a

1686
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:37,240
Speaker 1: lack of balance with this offense, and and almost like

1687
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 1: they need Daniel Jones to prove it. But there it's

1688
01:23:39,439 --> 01:23:41,160
Speaker 1: not quite that they're putting too much on his plate,

1689
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:44,000
Speaker 1: but that in these in these scenarios, you know, thirty

1690
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:46,000
Speaker 1: seven passes, it's not a ton of passes, but they

1691
01:23:46,040 --> 01:23:48,160
Speaker 1: were never down by a margin that would necessarily say

1692
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:49,760
Speaker 1: that you have to air it out until we got

1693
01:23:49,800 --> 01:23:52,360
Speaker 1: pretty late in that game. It's just they don't you

1694
01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:54,240
Speaker 1: know they you have the glimpses, you have the touchdown

1695
01:23:54,280 --> 01:23:56,280
Speaker 1: pass to Sterling Shepherd, but there's too much in between

1696
01:23:56,320 --> 01:23:58,040
Speaker 1: the just it just leaves a lot to be designed.

1697
01:23:58,040 --> 01:23:59,920
Speaker 1: They also had I think maybe the worst summer of

1698
01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:02,360
Speaker 1: anyone on offense. I mean outside of maybe one or

1699
01:24:02,400 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 1: two teams, and half of those guys that you mentioned.

1700
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:07,840
Speaker 1: Greg barely played all August, so it's gonna take some time.

1701
01:24:08,240 --> 01:24:11,240
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy looked for all the world like he had

1702
01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 1: a season ending injury. They announced after the game that

1703
01:24:14,479 --> 01:24:17,240
Speaker 1: it was a high ankle sprain. Tom Passaro reported that too.

1704
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 1: That's even more stunning. And Mackay Beckton because you know,

1705
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:24,719
Speaker 1: we don't you know, you don't want to be graphic

1706
01:24:24,760 --> 01:24:26,560
Speaker 1: about it, but that looked like one of those, you know,

1707
01:24:26,680 --> 01:24:29,400
Speaker 1: leg injuries where the leg is not attached the way

1708
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:32,240
Speaker 1: it should be anymore. Good. That's great news to but

1709
01:24:32,320 --> 01:24:34,840
Speaker 1: maybe in general we shouldn't be eyeballing injuries from like

1710
01:24:34,920 --> 01:24:37,080
Speaker 1: our living rooms that you don't you know, we didn't

1711
01:24:37,080 --> 01:24:39,920
Speaker 1: do anything. I'm not pointing that you specifically, just the

1712
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:43,599
Speaker 1: general public. When a player who's clothed goes on the ground,

1713
01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:46,200
Speaker 1: we may not know everything that's happening with the person's body.

1714
01:24:46,320 --> 01:24:49,960
Speaker 1: That's all, just do I don't follow your take total. Yeah,

1715
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:53,160
Speaker 1: that one was gruesome. His his it looked like the

1716
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:56,000
Speaker 1: saying the fact suggests that it's not. It looked like

1717
01:24:56,120 --> 01:24:58,040
Speaker 1: that to you, But the facts suggests that it's not

1718
01:24:58,240 --> 01:25:00,840
Speaker 1: quite as severe as you think. So my point is,

1719
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:02,439
Speaker 1: you wait a little bit, just let it. You know,

1720
01:25:02,560 --> 01:25:06,640
Speaker 1: settle can move the show, please do. We're onto Cincinnati.

1721
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:10,439
Speaker 1: Borrow back to pass, has time throws it down field

1722
01:25:10,479 --> 01:25:16,600
Speaker 1: for you. He has it at thirty twenty yardline. What

1723
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:21,000
Speaker 1: a gutsy call and what a throw by show the chicken.

1724
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:32,000
Speaker 1: Oh what a day with the Bengals. Dan Bard w

1725
01:25:32,200 --> 01:25:34,800
Speaker 1: c k Y with the call Dave Lapham there too.

1726
01:25:35,320 --> 01:25:38,080
Speaker 1: Evan McPherson kicked the thirty three yard field goals time expired,

1727
01:25:38,160 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 1: an ot to push the Bengals to win over the

1728
01:25:41,560 --> 01:25:47,200
Speaker 1: Vikings and shook. You know, we've talked about Zach Taylor

1729
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:51,360
Speaker 1: on this show is a faceless entity entering this season

1730
01:25:51,760 --> 01:25:54,080
Speaker 1: an important season for his career, and I thought he

1731
01:25:54,200 --> 01:25:57,640
Speaker 1: gained one when then guts he asked play call in

1732
01:25:57,840 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: that spot to set up the game winning kick. Good

1733
01:26:00,439 --> 01:26:02,880
Speaker 1: job by Zach Taylor, good job and Joe Burrow, good

1734
01:26:02,960 --> 01:26:05,679
Speaker 1: job of the bank. Yeah, it wasn't the only time

1735
01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:07,639
Speaker 1: in that game where you saw a play call where

1736
01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:10,360
Speaker 1: you're like, wow, that was perfectly time. That was genius

1737
01:26:10,400 --> 01:26:12,080
Speaker 1: that it felt like he was getting into a rhythm.

1738
01:26:12,320 --> 01:26:13,560
Speaker 1: You know, you want to talk about a lack of

1739
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:15,720
Speaker 1: balance with other teams. The one thing I thought the

1740
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:18,639
Speaker 1: Bengals were really hurting with last year was dropping back

1741
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:21,360
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow to pass fifty times a game behind the

1742
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:23,320
Speaker 1: offensive line, which is better now than it was then.

1743
01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 1: It's still not great. The only seven past attempts today

1744
01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:30,280
Speaker 1: Joe Maxon ran the ball twenty nine times for seven yards.

1745
01:26:30,479 --> 01:26:32,920
Speaker 1: That's the balance that you need to be effective and

1746
01:26:33,040 --> 01:26:34,800
Speaker 1: end up winning these close games. The only thing that

1747
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 1: really mattered to me that kind of um I didn't

1748
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:40,040
Speaker 1: enjoy was the fact that there was this push and

1749
01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:42,920
Speaker 1: like tug of war of sorts as some ambulances and

1750
01:26:42,960 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 1: cop cars drop bam. Sure you guys can hear that

1751
01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:51,840
Speaker 1: the downtown city life. Yeah, well that's every night there

1752
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:53,760
Speaker 1: was this. There was this tug of war sorts where

1753
01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:54,920
Speaker 1: they were just it's kind of like when you see

1754
01:26:54,920 --> 01:26:56,639
Speaker 1: a team spent a lot of time between the twenties

1755
01:26:56,920 --> 01:26:59,000
Speaker 1: and and that's where they were for a lot of

1756
01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:01,840
Speaker 1: the final quarter and then going into overtime and it

1757
01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:03,280
Speaker 1: was like, all right, you guys need to break one.

1758
01:27:03,320 --> 01:27:04,800
Speaker 1: He had a great play play call where they got

1759
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:06,920
Speaker 1: to c j Usama off a tight end leak that

1760
01:27:07,040 --> 01:27:09,320
Speaker 1: got him down into you know, scoring territory. That I

1761
01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:11,040
Speaker 1: was like, wow, it's a great play call. But really,

1762
01:27:11,080 --> 01:27:13,200
Speaker 1: if they have this type of balance, they can be

1763
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:15,600
Speaker 1: competitive and they can win these close games. It's just

1764
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:17,640
Speaker 1: that they have to commit to it. It helps, of

1765
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:19,080
Speaker 1: course when you can get a good day out of

1766
01:27:19,160 --> 01:27:21,840
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon. You know. I I saw that throw to

1767
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:25,000
Speaker 1: Zama and I like the borough's response to it too.

1768
01:27:25,720 --> 01:27:27,600
Speaker 1: He was so fired up, and you can tell his

1769
01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:29,760
Speaker 1: teammates love him and like talk about another guy that

1770
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:32,720
Speaker 1: had a rough summer and they've showed so much faith

1771
01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:34,639
Speaker 1: in him. And I love what he did today. Why

1772
01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:36,960
Speaker 1: I don't like a game where Kirk Cousins is throwing

1773
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:40,120
Speaker 1: the ball? What was it forty nine times? Yeah? Did

1774
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:42,759
Speaker 1: they just shut down that? I mean, if you're the Vikings,

1775
01:27:42,800 --> 01:27:44,400
Speaker 1: you wanted to run the ball all day long and

1776
01:27:44,720 --> 01:27:46,519
Speaker 1: have Cousins throw the ball about twenty a few more

1777
01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:49,960
Speaker 1: times in that. Yeah, that's usually your formula victory in Minnesota.

1778
01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:51,800
Speaker 1: But they were down by two touchdowns in the second half,

1779
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:53,080
Speaker 1: so they kind of had to get things going. And

1780
01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:55,599
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what if we give Zach Taylor credit,

1781
01:27:55,840 --> 01:27:58,560
Speaker 1: he also had a moment of faceless entity where he

1782
01:27:59,280 --> 01:28:01,040
Speaker 1: opened the door for them to come back. You know,

1783
01:28:01,120 --> 01:28:03,439
Speaker 1: he went for it in his own territory, didn't get it,

1784
01:28:03,520 --> 01:28:05,400
Speaker 1: sets the Vikings up for a quick score, they get

1785
01:28:05,439 --> 01:28:08,320
Speaker 1: the ball, they go down in the game. At least

1786
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:11,639
Speaker 1: it's being aggressive. But you're right, um, the the whole

1787
01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:15,000
Speaker 1: ending sequence was weird. Like Cousins was totally bailed out,

1788
01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:19,920
Speaker 1: um by by his kicker after really like managing the

1789
01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:21,880
Speaker 1: two minutes situation in a way that you're just like

1790
01:28:22,240 --> 01:28:25,280
Speaker 1: a veteran quarterback shouldn't be. I guess I'm just you

1791
01:28:25,439 --> 01:28:27,880
Speaker 1: just used to like the bradies of the world, like

1792
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:30,040
Speaker 1: knowing kind of what to do. But he got it

1793
01:28:30,080 --> 01:28:32,200
Speaker 1: close enough, and Joseph then hits it, and then that

1794
01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:35,479
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook fumbles it in overtime. Both offensive lines, just

1795
01:28:35,600 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 1: looking at the stats in terms of QB hits, tackles

1796
01:28:38,200 --> 01:28:41,200
Speaker 1: for loss, could be really bad all season, or at

1797
01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:43,559
Speaker 1: least at the beginning of the season. Both defenses kind

1798
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:46,320
Speaker 1: of I have a Vikings fan buddy from back home

1799
01:28:47,200 --> 01:28:50,160
Speaker 1: who is very salty and unhinged on text a lot

1800
01:28:50,200 --> 01:28:52,240
Speaker 1: about his team, and he thought that they got totally

1801
01:28:52,360 --> 01:28:56,160
Speaker 1: jobbed on the fumble of Dalvin Cook. Was that was

1802
01:28:56,240 --> 01:28:58,240
Speaker 1: that something that could have went either way? Because it

1803
01:28:58,600 --> 01:29:00,840
Speaker 1: swung the game? If so? I mean it was close.

1804
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:02,599
Speaker 1: But if you're talking to somebody who's a Vikings fan,

1805
01:29:02,920 --> 01:29:04,479
Speaker 1: I haven't imagined that, you know, a little bit of

1806
01:29:04,520 --> 01:29:07,920
Speaker 1: the bias comes in right, it kind of gone. It

1807
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:11,040
Speaker 1: didn't surprise me at all that they didn't overturn it. Yeah,

1808
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:14,400
Speaker 1: it looked bang bang, and whatever what happened on the

1809
01:29:14,439 --> 01:29:18,439
Speaker 1: field was gonna happen. How about five for one oh one,

1810
01:29:18,880 --> 01:29:21,920
Speaker 1: talk about bad summers and it just goes again. We

1811
01:29:22,240 --> 01:29:25,519
Speaker 1: the first Sunday wipes it all away because everyone is saying,

1812
01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:27,840
Speaker 1: this guy is not ready. We were mocking him about

1813
01:29:27,880 --> 01:29:30,599
Speaker 1: the comedy made about how the college football is different

1814
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:33,400
Speaker 1: with the white mark around the edge on the ends

1815
01:29:33,439 --> 01:29:35,840
Speaker 1: of the ball. All that mark, All that's gone now

1816
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:38,800
Speaker 1: because he steps in and delivers the five for one

1817
01:29:38,800 --> 01:29:41,160
Speaker 1: oh one in a touch in his first game. Shookie, Yeah,

1818
01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:43,679
Speaker 1: three targets his first three targets for receptions, he gets

1819
01:29:43,720 --> 01:29:45,280
Speaker 1: the long one for the touchdown. Looked a lot like

1820
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:47,400
Speaker 1: Burrow to chase him or l s u days. And

1821
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:50,160
Speaker 1: we also might have learned that Jamar Chase is never

1822
01:29:50,200 --> 01:29:54,559
Speaker 1: gonna be brutally honest with us in press sessions ever. Again, Yeah,

1823
01:29:54,680 --> 01:29:57,200
Speaker 1: that's what you get, and it's just a bad loss

1824
01:29:57,240 --> 01:29:58,880
Speaker 1: for the Vikings. That's a that's a bad way to

1825
01:29:58,920 --> 01:30:01,640
Speaker 1: open your season. I know, maybe Cincinnati is gonna be

1826
01:30:01,640 --> 01:30:04,360
Speaker 1: a frisky team this year. Maybe this isn't the first

1827
01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:06,840
Speaker 1: time they're going to surprise the team who thinks they

1828
01:30:06,920 --> 01:30:10,240
Speaker 1: have a w on their schedule. But you you know,

1829
01:30:10,320 --> 01:30:12,439
Speaker 1: you open up that way and I know how these

1830
01:30:12,479 --> 01:30:15,400
Speaker 1: scheduled makers work. By the way, I'm not I'm looking

1831
01:30:15,479 --> 01:30:17,439
Speaker 1: at it in real time. They'll they'll give you a

1832
01:30:17,520 --> 01:30:19,559
Speaker 1: quote unquote cookie in week one, but then they give

1833
01:30:19,600 --> 01:30:22,479
Speaker 1: put you in a tough spot right after that, and yeah, well,

1834
01:30:22,680 --> 01:30:24,920
Speaker 1: you know, it could be worse, but they have at Arizona.

1835
01:30:25,200 --> 01:30:26,800
Speaker 1: They might have to go to the desert and get

1836
01:30:26,840 --> 01:30:29,560
Speaker 1: the bomb dropped on him, you know, next week, and

1837
01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:33,840
Speaker 1: then home against Seattle, then home against the Browns, So

1838
01:30:34,720 --> 01:30:37,200
Speaker 1: you don't get that win against Cincinnati, and now you're

1839
01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:39,559
Speaker 1: in You're in a tough situation here and you're you're

1840
01:30:39,600 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 1: clawing for your life in September. Yeah, and and I

1841
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:44,360
Speaker 1: don't know if how much of the preseason that you

1842
01:30:44,560 --> 01:30:47,280
Speaker 1: managed to really like really tune into with them, But

1843
01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:49,559
Speaker 1: like Mike Zimmer had this halftime press conference and they

1844
01:30:49,600 --> 01:30:50,720
Speaker 1: get in week one. It was, you know, just a

1845
01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:52,600
Speaker 1: little like sideline thing, not a press conference, but the

1846
01:30:52,640 --> 01:30:55,080
Speaker 1: sideline thing where he just like unloaded on his team.

1847
01:30:55,120 --> 01:30:57,280
Speaker 1: It was when they played Denver, because they're always one

1848
01:30:57,280 --> 01:30:59,479
Speaker 1: of the most annoyed coaches around. I mean, he's generally

1849
01:30:59,680 --> 01:31:02,200
Speaker 1: a little salty, but um, it seemed to be peaking.

1850
01:31:02,320 --> 01:31:05,320
Speaker 1: I witnessed some of that. Yeah, so he that has

1851
01:31:05,439 --> 01:31:07,920
Speaker 1: essentially kind of carried into the regular season because they

1852
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:10,760
Speaker 1: looked a lot like that team in the first half

1853
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:13,120
Speaker 1: before they ended up making up the deficit. That does

1854
01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:17,040
Speaker 1: worry me about them going forward, all right, Chuck, going forward,

1855
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:19,759
Speaker 1: I hope you will continue to be with us because

1856
01:31:19,840 --> 01:31:23,080
Speaker 1: you are a weapon and a pipe a pipe is

1857
01:31:23,120 --> 01:31:27,760
Speaker 1: a weapon. So again the nickname is perfect and round

1858
01:31:27,800 --> 01:31:29,920
Speaker 1: on and I could tell look at that, He's like,

1859
01:31:30,040 --> 01:31:33,880
Speaker 1: I get it. It makes sense now, the pipe a weapon.

1860
01:31:36,200 --> 01:31:38,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd like to be a weapon instead of

1861
01:31:38,520 --> 01:31:41,160
Speaker 1: the opposite. Darry Smith was six Men of the Year.

1862
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:45,120
Speaker 1: He was all these connections, important city for a lot

1863
01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:47,920
Speaker 1: of people in the Midwest. Anyway, Chuck, thank you, buddy,

1864
01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:52,320
Speaker 1: Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Now on to Sunday night.

1865
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:08,080
Speaker 1: Enough of that, Oh highlight running left after the faith,

1866
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:11,400
Speaker 1: He's gonna air it out deep downfield has a man

1867
01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:13,760
Speaker 1: often he's called at the fifteen yard line by Van

1868
01:32:13,920 --> 01:32:16,479
Speaker 1: Jefferson and he gets up and run those to the

1869
01:32:16,680 --> 01:32:21,600
Speaker 1: end zone. Matthew Stafford with a bomb. It's got the

1870
01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:24,519
Speaker 1: great arm. We know that. And then Jefferson makes the

1871
01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:28,960
Speaker 1: cash rolls over it doesn't get touched and takes it in. Yes,

1872
01:32:29,200 --> 01:32:32,400
Speaker 1: Al Michael's the legend with the call friend d C.

1873
01:32:34,840 --> 01:32:41,000
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford connected on three touchdown passes, including that wild

1874
01:32:41,680 --> 01:32:46,040
Speaker 1: catch it run by Ban Jefferson, and the game that

1875
01:32:46,120 --> 01:32:48,400
Speaker 1: was a little closer than perhaps the final score indicated.

1876
01:32:48,439 --> 01:32:52,280
Speaker 1: But also that's about right to board team over the

1877
01:32:52,439 --> 01:32:56,120
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. The Rams triumph in their first game in

1878
01:32:56,160 --> 01:33:03,840
Speaker 1: front of bands at so BI Stadium, Mark, I feel

1879
01:33:03,880 --> 01:33:06,439
Speaker 1: like this is exactly what the Rams had in mind.

1880
01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:09,479
Speaker 1: If they could have drawn up their first game with

1881
01:33:09,720 --> 01:33:13,519
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford in front of the home fans and the

1882
01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:16,880
Speaker 1: shiny new stadium on in prime time. This was it

1883
01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:25,680
Speaker 1: a clean, tidy fourteen victory in every possible way. I mean, okay,

1884
01:33:26,439 --> 01:33:29,560
Speaker 1: he's back. It's an old trope. I mean it would be.

1885
01:33:29,640 --> 01:33:32,200
Speaker 1: It would be. You know, if that were Erica's original gag,

1886
01:33:32,320 --> 01:33:34,120
Speaker 1: that would be even more effective. But if you want

1887
01:33:34,160 --> 01:33:36,800
Speaker 1: to pull gags from days ago, that's fine, years ago.

1888
01:33:37,280 --> 01:33:39,360
Speaker 1: Um I can take it. Would you say that as

1889
01:33:39,400 --> 01:33:43,760
Speaker 1: a manufactured joke? Okay? Hi, the original gag was that

1890
01:33:45,720 --> 01:33:49,160
Speaker 1: that was that's that was from the Sydney realms. I

1891
01:33:49,200 --> 01:33:51,599
Speaker 1: mean Erica has many effective gags of her own Trump.

1892
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:53,400
Speaker 1: It's also a bit of a low blow because that's

1893
01:33:53,479 --> 01:33:55,719
Speaker 1: that's part of the show's history. It's not Erica's fault

1894
01:33:55,760 --> 01:33:57,560
Speaker 1: that that's one of the that's the greatest hit and

1895
01:33:57,640 --> 01:34:00,960
Speaker 1: it still works, right. But if I'm gonna be attacked,

1896
01:34:01,080 --> 01:34:04,880
Speaker 1: I can attack back. That's how this works, you know.

1897
01:34:05,240 --> 01:34:07,920
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. It doesn't please me to attack

1898
01:34:08,080 --> 01:34:09,960
Speaker 1: Erica on that front. But you just had she she

1899
01:34:10,120 --> 01:34:12,920
Speaker 1: pressed the button, So that's how it works. Do you

1900
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:15,080
Speaker 1: want me to say anything or have I Is that

1901
01:34:15,280 --> 01:34:20,120
Speaker 1: enough for me? Another nuclear bomb goes off in the desert? No?

1902
01:34:20,360 --> 01:34:22,519
Speaker 1: I mean I just would say that. First of all,

1903
01:34:22,520 --> 01:34:24,880
Speaker 1: I think outside of the four of us, everyone else

1904
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:27,519
Speaker 1: from our office went to this game apparently in suits

1905
01:34:27,560 --> 01:34:29,280
Speaker 1: and ties, and they're sitting up in the seats. So

1906
01:34:29,760 --> 01:34:33,000
Speaker 1: I'm very happy for them. Like everyone on Instagram that

1907
01:34:33,080 --> 01:34:34,960
Speaker 1: I know from our work is like taking shots from

1908
01:34:35,000 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium. I mean, so incredible, every single one of them. Um,

1909
01:34:39,439 --> 01:34:43,200
Speaker 1: you could not design a more perfect opener on offense

1910
01:34:43,280 --> 01:34:46,280
Speaker 1: for the Rams, because with the first shock wave of

1911
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:50,360
Speaker 1: the offseason was the we're upgrading at quarterback. We're moving

1912
01:34:50,400 --> 01:34:57,200
Speaker 1: on from Jared goff, we're getting matt Stafford. No, but

1913
01:34:57,320 --> 01:34:59,800
Speaker 1: she's going to be annoyed because he's got a little

1914
01:34:59,800 --> 01:35:01,280
Speaker 1: bit of Greg and her where if you take a

1915
01:35:01,320 --> 01:35:03,840
Speaker 1: shot at Greg, Greg's gonna his The wheels are gonna

1916
01:35:03,880 --> 01:35:06,479
Speaker 1: spin inside the mind for the next minute or two.

1917
01:35:06,600 --> 01:35:08,599
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this comment out very quickly because I'm

1918
01:35:08,600 --> 01:35:10,960
Speaker 1: not gonna have this happen again. Last year, I mean,

1919
01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:14,599
Speaker 1: the Rams had two touchdown passes of over forty yards.

1920
01:35:15,080 --> 01:35:17,760
Speaker 1: Stafford tonight did all of it in one evening. He

1921
01:35:17,920 --> 01:35:19,680
Speaker 1: was sensational, and I might have been one of the

1922
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:22,240
Speaker 1: people that thought, like, what are we sure we're getting

1923
01:35:22,240 --> 01:35:25,120
Speaker 1: in Matthew Stafford after all those lines years great quarterback,

1924
01:35:25,160 --> 01:35:28,000
Speaker 1: good arm maybe great quarterback, I don't know. But tonight

1925
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:30,920
Speaker 1: he just looked like he completely mind melds and fits

1926
01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:33,160
Speaker 1: with Sean McVeigh. And you know, all that I needed

1927
01:35:33,200 --> 01:35:35,840
Speaker 1: to see was the smile on Stafford's face at the

1928
01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:37,799
Speaker 1: end of the game walking up and down the sideline.

1929
01:35:37,800 --> 01:35:40,880
Speaker 1: I mean, we have not seen Matthew Stafford smile like

1930
01:35:41,040 --> 01:35:43,960
Speaker 1: that ever, So I think you brought that up because

1931
01:35:44,040 --> 01:35:46,040
Speaker 1: it was he was glowing as he was going up

1932
01:35:46,080 --> 01:35:47,840
Speaker 1: and down that sideline. No I just think it was,

1933
01:35:48,000 --> 01:35:51,160
Speaker 1: you know what, it was closer than than perceived. But

1934
01:35:51,280 --> 01:35:52,840
Speaker 1: that doesn't really bug me at all because I think

1935
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:54,680
Speaker 1: the Rams took their completely, took their foot off the

1936
01:35:54,720 --> 01:35:57,479
Speaker 1: gas at the end. They are a deep strike, um

1937
01:35:57,640 --> 01:36:00,840
Speaker 1: intriguing passing offense, and after or what they watched the

1938
01:36:00,880 --> 01:36:03,879
Speaker 1: rest of the NFC West do today, there was pressure

1939
01:36:03,920 --> 01:36:06,519
Speaker 1: on them to deliver and they did just that. That's

1940
01:36:06,520 --> 01:36:13,960
Speaker 1: a good point. NFC West undefeated, NFC North windless. There's

1941
01:36:14,040 --> 01:36:16,759
Speaker 1: two different divisions. You know. I wasn't on the Graham,

1942
01:36:16,880 --> 01:36:18,439
Speaker 1: you know, I'm more of I'm like a football guy

1943
01:36:18,479 --> 01:36:20,320
Speaker 1: on Sunday, So I didn't see that. But I do know,

1944
01:36:22,200 --> 01:36:26,240
Speaker 1: I do know I care about people and friends. Our friend, uh,

1945
01:36:26,720 --> 01:36:29,200
Speaker 1: you know, our great friend Nakisha Westling. She's not in

1946
01:36:29,240 --> 01:36:31,160
Speaker 1: a suit and time, but she was in in the

1947
01:36:31,240 --> 01:36:35,240
Speaker 1: crowd watching this game and enjoying this game and um,

1948
01:36:35,479 --> 01:36:37,920
Speaker 1: you know, yelling for Cooper cups. So I think that's

1949
01:36:37,920 --> 01:36:40,880
Speaker 1: awesome that they got got her the victory. And you

1950
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 1: do almost get the feeling like that the Bears were

1951
01:36:44,560 --> 01:36:46,479
Speaker 1: like served up. I mean, you don't want to be

1952
01:36:46,560 --> 01:36:49,559
Speaker 1: too conspiratorial that, you know, they get good ratings the Bears.

1953
01:36:49,960 --> 01:36:51,760
Speaker 1: But it was almost like it felt like they were

1954
01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:54,479
Speaker 1: served up on this night. And it's almost like everything

1955
01:36:54,560 --> 01:36:56,400
Speaker 1: we've been saying for the last four months about like

1956
01:36:56,479 --> 01:36:58,680
Speaker 1: don't put Andy Dalton on Sunday night football and the

1957
01:36:58,920 --> 01:37:00,560
Speaker 1: no one wants to see that in London, it's like

1958
01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:04,920
Speaker 1: here it comes and you kind of like see Matt

1959
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:08,479
Speaker 1: Naggie's galaxy brain thinking of like why he would start Matt,

1960
01:37:08,800 --> 01:37:12,280
Speaker 1: you know, Dalton because they're they're already short at tackle.

1961
01:37:12,320 --> 01:37:15,040
Speaker 1: They lose Jason Peters, then they lose their backup tackle.

1962
01:37:15,240 --> 01:37:17,559
Speaker 1: The Bears actually had six more first downs in this game,

1963
01:37:17,640 --> 01:37:20,639
Speaker 1: like nineteen more plays. You know, they moved the ball

1964
01:37:20,720 --> 01:37:24,240
Speaker 1: up and down. I think they went into Ram's territory

1965
01:37:24,560 --> 01:37:26,960
Speaker 1: six straight times the first six times they had the ball,

1966
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:29,200
Speaker 1: but they kept coming up short on fourth downs. You know,

1967
01:37:29,280 --> 01:37:31,360
Speaker 1: there was that tip play by the Rams early and

1968
01:37:31,479 --> 01:37:34,560
Speaker 1: so if you're Matt, you're like convincing yourself somehow that

1969
01:37:34,680 --> 01:37:36,519
Speaker 1: this is like a better thing to do to put

1970
01:37:36,560 --> 01:37:39,439
Speaker 1: the veteran in. But in the end it's like, uh,

1971
01:37:39,560 --> 01:37:41,760
Speaker 1: you just throw the ball thirty eight times. Only one

1972
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:44,960
Speaker 1: play went for more than eleven yards. You got Jared

1973
01:37:45,040 --> 01:37:47,599
Speaker 1: Goff and the Rams now got this whole new offense

1974
01:37:47,720 --> 01:37:49,479
Speaker 1: is like, hey, maybe we don't need to work so

1975
01:37:49,640 --> 01:37:52,439
Speaker 1: hard and go fourteen plays every drive. We can just

1976
01:37:52,520 --> 01:37:55,640
Speaker 1: go fifty bombers here and there and uh be on

1977
01:37:55,720 --> 01:37:58,360
Speaker 1: our way go in Now Rams had like thirty three plays,

1978
01:37:58,840 --> 01:38:01,560
Speaker 1: you know into the fourth quarter. It's it's when you

1979
01:38:01,640 --> 01:38:04,439
Speaker 1: can cover fifty eight yards on one throw, it's less place.

1980
01:38:04,800 --> 01:38:07,880
Speaker 1: And that was a missing aspect of their offense last year. Absolutely,

1981
01:38:07,920 --> 01:38:10,759
Speaker 1: and the idea was, now we have de Sean Jackson

1982
01:38:10,840 --> 01:38:13,400
Speaker 1: and that's gonna take care of business there. Well, no,

1983
01:38:13,560 --> 01:38:15,640
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson said, I can do that stuff and give

1984
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:18,320
Speaker 1: it to me Cooper Cup the yak MC monster. I

1985
01:38:18,360 --> 01:38:20,160
Speaker 1: can get a chunk place if you give the ball

1986
01:38:20,200 --> 01:38:22,560
Speaker 1: to me in space. And you know, color me a

1987
01:38:22,600 --> 01:38:25,439
Speaker 1: little bit suspicious when, um, you know, late in the

1988
01:38:25,520 --> 01:38:28,920
Speaker 1: telecast you hear Collins World start to say, well, this

1989
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:32,200
Speaker 1: is a problem with Justin Fields. Andy Dalton gets the

1990
01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:34,479
Speaker 1: ball to his receiver when he pops open, and Justin

1991
01:38:34,560 --> 01:38:37,280
Speaker 1: Fields is slow to go through his progressions or holds

1992
01:38:37,280 --> 01:38:39,439
Speaker 1: onto the ball for too long. I mean that felt

1993
01:38:39,479 --> 01:38:40,880
Speaker 1: like I could have been fed to him straight from

1994
01:38:40,960 --> 01:38:43,880
Speaker 1: Naggy and the brain trust in Chicago, UM, who are

1995
01:38:44,240 --> 01:38:48,680
Speaker 1: out thinking themselves here? Um and again, Andy Dalton, this

1996
01:38:48,840 --> 01:38:50,719
Speaker 1: is what you know. Five and a half yards an attempt,

1997
01:38:51,240 --> 01:38:54,120
Speaker 1: um thirty eight attempts and now they go back to

1998
01:38:54,240 --> 01:38:57,280
Speaker 1: Chicago to play the Bengals. The Bengals team that might

1999
01:38:57,320 --> 01:39:01,040
Speaker 1: be better, who knows, but they look very good today anyway,

2000
01:39:01,520 --> 01:39:04,320
Speaker 1: and it's a tough spot. So whether Justin Fields is

2001
01:39:04,400 --> 01:39:07,080
Speaker 1: ready or not, he's coming soon. That's That's one thing

2002
01:39:07,120 --> 01:39:08,400
Speaker 1: I took out of this game. And the other thing

2003
01:39:08,600 --> 01:39:10,000
Speaker 1: the other thing I took out of it is and

2004
01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:11,599
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna put them in the top five,

2005
01:39:11,640 --> 01:39:13,680
Speaker 1: maybe even the top three the power rankings and make

2006
01:39:13,720 --> 01:39:16,360
Speaker 1: a frisky here. I just love this Rams team. I'd

2007
01:39:16,400 --> 01:39:18,400
Speaker 1: like the mix on both sides of the ball, and

2008
01:39:19,040 --> 01:39:22,280
Speaker 1: this this McVeigh Stafford thing, assuming if Stafford can stay healthy,

2009
01:39:22,280 --> 01:39:23,800
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a special season for

2010
01:39:23,840 --> 01:39:26,920
Speaker 1: the Rams. Twelve or thirteen wins. I mean. Mcveigh's need

2011
01:39:27,000 --> 01:39:29,920
Speaker 1: to stop talking about Jared Goff though, like every quote

2012
01:39:30,080 --> 01:39:32,320
Speaker 1: is like he's trying to make it sound good, but

2013
01:39:32,400 --> 01:39:34,240
Speaker 1: it makes it sound worse when he's like, well, we

2014
01:39:34,360 --> 01:39:36,880
Speaker 1: really want to thank Jared Goff for making us the

2015
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:39,360
Speaker 1: type of team that Matthew Stafford wants to go for it.

2016
01:39:39,439 --> 01:39:42,479
Speaker 1: That's not a compliment. Put like slugs in his back

2017
01:39:42,520 --> 01:39:45,840
Speaker 1: and dumped them in the Pacific. Let's said he wanted

2018
01:39:46,040 --> 01:39:48,439
Speaker 1: he wanted a partner, not a student. Well that we

2019
01:39:48,520 --> 01:39:51,160
Speaker 1: know that's not a compliment, but that is that is

2020
01:39:51,200 --> 01:39:54,320
Speaker 1: a tough one. Um one. My other, my other big

2021
01:39:54,400 --> 01:39:57,479
Speaker 1: takeaway was though this Bears defense has lost some players

2022
01:39:57,560 --> 01:40:01,080
Speaker 1: over the years, and you know when they're going through

2023
01:40:01,160 --> 01:40:03,719
Speaker 1: all the starting lineups and they do like the PF

2024
01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:06,120
Speaker 1: ranks at the bottom, It's like half the Bears starting

2025
01:40:06,120 --> 01:40:09,160
Speaker 1: lineup doesn't have PF ranks because they didn't play last year.

2026
01:40:09,640 --> 01:40:11,960
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't play enough, or their rookies or

2027
01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:15,360
Speaker 1: their randoms. Like it's you've got a couple of you've

2028
01:40:15,360 --> 01:40:17,000
Speaker 1: got a couple of really good players, but it's not

2029
01:40:17,120 --> 01:40:19,360
Speaker 1: a difference making defense anymore. And if you don't have that,

2030
01:40:20,160 --> 01:40:22,559
Speaker 1: I think you do have double digit losses. I mean,

2031
01:40:23,080 --> 01:40:26,439
Speaker 1: you know, it's like our producer and friend Matthew Tanton

2032
01:40:26,600 --> 01:40:28,920
Speaker 1: was up in the stands something like section to twenty

2033
01:40:28,960 --> 01:40:31,320
Speaker 1: eight or whatever, and he tweeted that he was closer

2034
01:40:31,400 --> 01:40:35,160
Speaker 1: to Cooper Cup than any Bears defender. So you're right.

2035
01:40:35,240 --> 01:40:37,680
Speaker 1: I mean that you could trust the Bears in Mattnegie's

2036
01:40:37,720 --> 01:40:41,080
Speaker 1: first year to score the defense alone to generate you know,

2037
01:40:41,200 --> 01:40:44,559
Speaker 1: a touchdown turnovers in great field position. It's not happening,

2038
01:40:44,680 --> 01:40:46,680
Speaker 1: is easily right. Now, think about think about how fun

2039
01:40:46,720 --> 01:40:51,000
Speaker 1: it must have been. Like all our colleagues, they probably rad.

2040
01:40:51,640 --> 01:40:54,160
Speaker 1: They probably all got together at the commissary and like

2041
01:40:54,400 --> 01:40:56,880
Speaker 1: they were wearing their little like outfits or their jerseys,

2042
01:40:56,960 --> 01:40:58,960
Speaker 1: and maybe they had a couple of pops or you know,

2043
01:40:59,080 --> 01:41:02,160
Speaker 1: maybe that who knows. Maybe the because we're so close

2044
01:41:02,240 --> 01:41:04,120
Speaker 1: to the stadium, maybe there's a little place you could

2045
01:41:04,120 --> 01:41:06,240
Speaker 1: pop in and get a little loose before the game.

2046
01:41:06,280 --> 01:41:08,240
Speaker 1: Then they all went into there and they were enjoying

2047
01:41:08,280 --> 01:41:12,240
Speaker 1: the popping circumstance. But then here we are grinding, sitting

2048
01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:15,439
Speaker 1: in our little holes or caves. Yeah, I just ordered

2049
01:41:15,720 --> 01:41:18,320
Speaker 1: I ordered take out food that is um an hour late,

2050
01:41:18,400 --> 01:41:19,880
Speaker 1: and all I can see on the app is that

2051
01:41:20,000 --> 01:41:22,840
Speaker 1: the car that was bringing it just stop somewhere in

2052
01:41:22,960 --> 01:41:25,320
Speaker 1: like South Englewood. Yeah, it's at the bar with everybody

2053
01:41:25,320 --> 01:41:28,240
Speaker 1: from the Rams games. Well, that's probably exactly where. If

2054
01:41:28,320 --> 01:41:30,519
Speaker 1: nothing else, they gave you a short game, Mark, I

2055
01:41:30,600 --> 01:41:32,680
Speaker 1: mean this was this had to be the shortest game

2056
01:41:32,760 --> 01:41:35,280
Speaker 1: of the of the week less than three like well

2057
01:41:35,360 --> 01:41:38,639
Speaker 1: less than three hours. So you know, maybe he's warming

2058
01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:41,240
Speaker 1: up to these rams if if they give them a

2059
01:41:41,280 --> 01:41:44,519
Speaker 1: lot of credit that to the recap of this game.

2060
01:41:45,200 --> 01:41:50,840
Speaker 1: All right, good stuff. We're on two week two. We're

2061
01:41:50,880 --> 01:41:54,439
Speaker 1: on two week two good uh Week one in the books. UM,

2062
01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:58,960
Speaker 1: coming up, We'll have a podcast on Tuesday from the

2063
01:41:59,760 --> 01:42:02,160
Speaker 1: are be back together on Tuesday. Now, Thursday is are

2064
01:42:02,200 --> 01:42:05,080
Speaker 1: Hopeful day one in the studio, So Tuesday is the

2065
01:42:05,120 --> 01:42:07,840
Speaker 1: next time you'll hear from us. So enjoy this extra

2066
01:42:07,960 --> 01:42:11,559
Speaker 1: long edition the week one uh super Flagship Show, UM,

2067
01:42:11,720 --> 01:42:15,360
Speaker 1: the two hour around the NFL broadcast on Friday, I

2068
01:42:15,439 --> 01:42:17,719
Speaker 1: implore you guys to check that out on NFL Network.

2069
01:42:18,120 --> 01:42:20,000
Speaker 1: That will also be we'll be back in the studio.

2070
01:42:20,080 --> 01:42:22,519
Speaker 1: So this is now happening. We are moving out of

2071
01:42:22,600 --> 01:42:26,400
Speaker 1: this remote world, hopefully for good. And UM, we thank

2072
01:42:26,479 --> 01:42:29,160
Speaker 1: you for sticking with us during this time. And I

2073
01:42:29,280 --> 01:42:32,519
Speaker 1: thank a special thank you, UM as we get to

2074
01:42:32,560 --> 01:42:36,240
Speaker 1: the end of this yellow brick road, hopefully to Erica

2075
01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:39,680
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood herself for doing such an awesome job this

2076
01:42:39,760 --> 01:42:45,080
Speaker 1: whole time, UM, getting us through this technological maze. But

2077
01:42:45,560 --> 01:42:48,880
Speaker 1: all right, any any other thoughts on week one before

2078
01:42:48,920 --> 01:42:51,439
Speaker 1: we I also would thank Erica. That's my final thought,

2079
01:42:51,520 --> 01:42:54,000
Speaker 1: and there's a you know a lot of appreciation. Mark.

2080
01:42:55,760 --> 01:42:58,280
Speaker 1: I also want to thank Erica, and I just want

2081
01:42:58,320 --> 01:43:01,679
Speaker 1: to thank the listeners, um, because this is the last

2082
01:43:01,680 --> 01:43:03,559
Speaker 1: time I'm gonna be able to say this all year.

2083
01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:06,680
Speaker 1: Football is back. I mean, oh my god, that's it.

2084
01:43:06,840 --> 01:43:11,160
Speaker 1: It's over. I can't with you guys. You're just so ridiculous.

2085
01:43:11,280 --> 01:43:14,320
Speaker 1: All right, that's it. Then Hadn't signing off for it,

2086
01:43:14,439 --> 01:43:18,559
Speaker 1: Quiet Star, then the old Bows and Ricky Hollywood He'll Tuesday,

2087
01:43:21,160 --> 01:44:00,280
Speaker 1: whoa we did? It might eight