Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where your hosts look like the
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Speaker 1: That's right, it's Nick at night, it's Nick Shook. I'm
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, and for the next three weeks it's myself
Speaker 1: and Shooky breaking down everything that could possibly matter and
Speaker 1: probably a bunch of things that don't really matter. From
Speaker 1: the preseason week that was. It's that time of year, Nick,
Speaker 1: And I know you're happy because you got your power back. Welcome.
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Speaker 2: ever again in my life.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's good to see my friend. I was worried.
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Speaker 1: for a hotel room for you out of my own
Speaker 1: pocket because the NFL wouldn't do it. But then you
Speaker 1: caught You texted like hours, you know, a few days later,
Speaker 1: and it was like thank god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like, you know, I learned I had
Speaker 2: power when I was down in the flats in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: It was like the kas won the twenty sixteen title
Speaker 2: all over again. It's the greatest fiaming I've had in months.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we're gonna get to a big sports weekend.
Speaker 1: You know this isn't the Olympics, but I do like
Speaker 1: the preseason. And if you've you know, listened to around
Speaker 1: the NFL and you read shook on on the site,
Speaker 1: we do our takeaways there and yeah, like you can
Speaker 1: only read so much into the preseason, but you can't
Speaker 1: see certain things with your eyes of like certain rookies
Speaker 1: that look like they're a little more ready than others.
Speaker 1: The quarterbacks that lies more than maybe other positions, but
Speaker 1: running backs. There are injuries that happen, there's depth charts
Speaker 1: that are happening, and it's that time of year where,
Speaker 1: especially with the Olympics being over, it's like we're hungry,
Speaker 1: We're ready. We covered two preseason games on the show
Speaker 1: on Friday, so those are done. We got fourteen that
Speaker 1: we're gonna hit here. That's twenty eight teams, so let's
Speaker 1: not waste any more time. Let's start with Vikings and Raiders,
Speaker 1: because this actually, to me, had the biggest takeaway of
Speaker 1: the weekend. Let's actually listen to a clip of Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson on the sideline basically announcing a game before JJ
Speaker 1: McCarthy goes ham, I think.
Speaker 3: He's going to have the full rights to JJ forrona
Speaker 3: on and I mean, I think I'm gonna be the
Speaker 3: Jets man.
Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna keep Oh, then we're gonna.
Speaker 5: Fire this.
Speaker 3: McCarthy forty five yards to Christian Jickson and with Justin
Speaker 3: Jefferson cheering.
Speaker 6: On the sideline, it's twenty fourteen Raiders.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was Jefferson on a beautiful go route.
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy thrown down the sideline just how you draw
Speaker 1: it up. And yeah, if you're watching on YouTube, just
Speaker 1: seeing mc hearthy's reaction, I love these in game announcing
Speaker 1: gigs that the players and coaches get. Sean McVay was
Speaker 1: awesome with our friend Mina Kimes and Andrew Ceciliano on
Speaker 1: the RAMS broadcast on Sunday, and his energy it was
Speaker 1: almost like Shooky was like, oh I got a quarterback
Speaker 1: because he called a touchdown later in the game too,
Speaker 1: where he saw the formation before it happened. He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna hit. JJ McCarthy saw the same thing
Speaker 1: hit another nice long touchdown, and yeah, JJ, I'll get
Speaker 1: into why I think it was so noteworthy. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just the touchdowns, but man, he showed out in this
Speaker 1: game in a way that I thought, Okay, do this
Speaker 1: two more times. And Sam Darnold, I don't care how
Speaker 1: well you play, you might be like Matt Flynn in
Speaker 1: twenty twelve. You might be sitting on the bench with
Speaker 1: all that free agent money.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That's the thing is that Sam actually played pretty well.
Speaker 2: It's just that McCarthy statistically speaking, too, was so solid
Speaker 2: that it's very much a possibility. And this is actually
Speaker 2: going to surprise me because I thought of any of
Speaker 2: the rookie quarterbacks, he would be the guy that maybe
Speaker 2: had the longest road, because the Vikings just seem to
Speaker 2: be so intentional about starting with Donald and making McCarthy
Speaker 2: earn it, or at least giving him a long runway
Speaker 2: to get comfortable.
Speaker 4: And then he comes out in the.
Speaker 2: First preseason game and he looks just like you did
Speaker 2: at Michigan in the National title game. He's throwing touchdowns,
Speaker 2: he's got his top receiver all fired up down the sideline.
Speaker 2: It's good news. It's a good start for him. We'll see,
Speaker 2: though you're right, this could be like the old Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson job that he did back when he was a
Speaker 2: rookie in Seattle. It's not the first time we've seen
Speaker 2: it happen before. We saw it happened with Mac Jones
Speaker 2: in New England. And this is a little bit more
Speaker 2: emphatic than even Mac Jones was that preseason.
Speaker 1: Okay, so preseason to me is more important when it
Speaker 1: confirms what the practice reports of the people who are
Speaker 1: there every day say, and the people who are there
Speaker 1: every day say, JJ's really exceeded expectations, like he maybe
Speaker 1: looks like he's already better than Donald, that he's better
Speaker 1: certainly in some aspects like the red zone, and you
Speaker 1: actually saw that in this game. I agreed, Donald had
Speaker 1: a couple beautiful throws one drive, so you know, you're
Speaker 1: not really looking at too much, but he did hold
Speaker 1: the ball just like a little extra in the red
Speaker 1: zone and so that didn't work out for him. But
Speaker 1: it was really just JJ McCarthy playing against his future
Speaker 1: self and he just showed a lot. So those two
Speaker 1: touchdowns were great. That the go ball was beautiful. It
Speaker 1: took a perfect throw, But the plays before that where
Speaker 1: he knew where to go in short yarded situations to
Speaker 1: keep the drive going. He had a dime as he
Speaker 1: was getting absolutely clobbered on one throw. He showed really
Speaker 1: good pocket feel, I think, moving around in the pocket.
Speaker 1: He was very aggressive, just in a way that I
Speaker 1: know Vikings fans are like, oh, Kirk Cousins, like, wasn't
Speaker 1: consistently aggressive enough after he made mistakes. And yeah, McCarthy
Speaker 1: threw an interception in this game, and there were about
Speaker 1: two throws on crossing routes where he was just like
Speaker 1: a tick late. And I thought our guest Jack Jones
Speaker 1: getting the NFL Daily Bump with a beautiful interception, you know,
Speaker 1: got JJ McCarthy early. So yeah, there was an interception,
Speaker 1: but these were outbreaking routes. It was just six seven
Speaker 1: eight throws in this game that were NFL throws in
Speaker 1: a way that like we'll get to Bo Nicks and
Speaker 1: some other plays like Bonicks had a solid game, but
Speaker 1: I didn't see any like big time NFL throws. He
Speaker 1: had six seven eight plays that were just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to see more out of this guy. It
Speaker 1: got me excited. A nice scrambler too, And again I
Speaker 1: know it's preseason blah blah blah blah blah, but it
Speaker 1: was it was all he could possibly do well.
Speaker 2: I think it's also the product of JJ playing loose
Speaker 2: and free. And you know, we talked about how when
Speaker 2: the intangibles are the like the headliner on a player
Speaker 2: that you're kind of worried about how they might play
Speaker 2: at the next level, but sometimes they can translate positively
Speaker 2: when in the right situation, when supported by the right coach,
Speaker 2: which is why this pairing with Kevin O'Connell in Minnesota
Speaker 2: could be the perfect storm for a guy like JJ
Speaker 2: McCarthy to come in and make waves and actually win
Speaker 2: a job and surprise people like me who just didn't
Speaker 2: quite see it, you know, when it came to the
Speaker 2: physical skills coming out of Michigan, and in order to
Speaker 2: really have that happen, though, you have to give the
Speaker 2: quarterback agency to do that and let him play like
Speaker 2: he wants to play. And that's what we saw. Now
Speaker 2: it's one game. We'll see what happens to the next two.
Speaker 1: But it's a heck of a start, right and it's
Speaker 1: mostly with backups against backups. Jalen Nalea looked pretty good
Speaker 1: in this game, I just think he's starting to build
Speaker 1: a case. Whether it's weak one or week three. You know,
Speaker 1: it was fun to watch and the athleticism was there.
Speaker 1: On the other side was the other real quarterback battle
Speaker 1: that we have in the entire NFL. Along with the Broncos.
Speaker 1: It was the Raiders, Minshew and Am O'Connell. I was
Speaker 1: there a practice and they've been struggling all camp, and
Speaker 1: I think Raiders fans came out of this game saying few,
Speaker 1: you know, they had a nice performance against a very
Speaker 1: vanilla Brian Flores defense. It did not look like a
Speaker 1: Brian Flores Stephens. And then when I watched the game,
Speaker 1: I read those reports and I went back and watched it.
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, this was let's not get carried away.
Speaker 1: It was like Minshew was chaotic, but chaotic good like
Speaker 1: chaotic fun and had a very nice touchdown throw. And
Speaker 1: in O'Connell was good, but there was this one play
Speaker 1: where he's on the run and tries to make an
Speaker 1: athletic play and it was a total duck and none
Speaker 1: of them made neither one of them like blew me away.
Speaker 1: So I think it just confirmed again what we've heard
Speaker 1: in camp. Which is maybe like minshew a little bit
Speaker 1: of an edge. He probably gets the start in the
Speaker 1: preseason game next week and can maybe cement the job.
Speaker 1: It's hard to know which way they're leaning, but sounds
Speaker 1: like minshe's been better.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is as they've struggled in camp,
Speaker 2: the prevailing word coming out of Vegas is, Wow, this
Speaker 2: defense might be really good. It might be special, like
Speaker 2: maybe the bro I did radio on Vegas on Friday
Speaker 2: and I was asked, Hey, look, the Browns went to
Speaker 2: the playoffs last year with five different quarterbacks and Joe
Speaker 2: Flacco and it was because of their defense, and could
Speaker 2: the Raiders do something similarly? And I was like, hmmm,
Speaker 2: it's kind of a big expectation to put on a
Speaker 2: team like that. But if you guys are seeing a
Speaker 2: strong defense in camp, is it a product of average
Speaker 2: quarterbacks or is it an actual good defense?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: I don't know, We'll see, but it was interesting that,
Speaker 2: like that's the takeaway they had. It wasn't like both
Speaker 2: of our quarterbacks are just like we know their ceilings,
Speaker 2: Like we don't quite know Aidan o'connells ceiling, but I
Speaker 2: think we pretty much know know Gardner Minshew, Like you said, chaotic,
Speaker 2: but chaotic good.
Speaker 4: That is Gardner Minshew in a nutshell.
Speaker 2: If that's their peak, then they have to start turning
Speaker 2: toward their defense for hope in that right.
Speaker 1: And they moved the ball, which you know, that's all,
Speaker 1: it's all you can ask for, and Connell moved the
Speaker 1: ball to he didn't get the touchdown, And like I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Minshew just looked a little more comfortable. I
Speaker 1: was interested. And then we'll move on to our next game.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go heavier early because they were the more
Speaker 1: interesting rookie quarterback games, and we'll fly through the end.
Speaker 1: But uh, I did watch their usage of Michael Mayer
Speaker 1: and Brock Bauers, their two tight ends. And you know
Speaker 1: people say the preseasons Vanilla, I gotta say they showed
Speaker 1: a lot like they had Bowers as a fullback. They
Speaker 1: had them offset, They had them both on the field
Speaker 1: blocking in the run game on the same side. They
Speaker 1: had them both on the field and the blocking passing
Speaker 1: like they mixed up how they use those two guys,
Speaker 1: And to me, that's going to be the whole key
Speaker 1: to their offense, those two guys together and Bowers made
Speaker 1: a couple of plays after the catch, which showed his burst.
Speaker 1: I mean, he just looks like a wide receiver, just
Speaker 1: like he did in college. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: the next game, which is Caleb Williams making his debut
Speaker 1: in a Bear's uniform against the Bills. I'm gonna listen
Speaker 1: to a play Nick that wasn't like a super highlight play,
Speaker 1: but it got my attention.
Speaker 6: Slot right and singles outside of numbers for Caleb Williams.
Speaker 6: Third down, a lot takes the snap against a four
Speaker 6: man rush, great protection, Williams whistles a pass, It is
Speaker 6: caught and it should be enough for a first down
Speaker 6: across the forty to the forty one yard line to
Speaker 6: DJ Moore. There you go, the first completion as a
Speaker 6: Chicago Bear. Thirteen yards and a first down. Great protection
Speaker 6: for Caleb and a.
Speaker 1: Nice tight spiral. I love that being the first completion
Speaker 1: he ever makes as a Bear because he got to
Speaker 1: the entire opposite side of the field on his reed.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. On third and thirteen and yeah, he got
Speaker 1: great protection, but his first guy was covered and for
Speaker 1: him to go all the way from right to left
Speaker 1: and put a dart like take him out. You don't
Speaker 1: need to see too much in the preseason, but that's
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff you gotta love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we know he has the arm talent,
Speaker 2: but what I really loved about that play was watching
Speaker 2: him process and not freak out because the speed of
Speaker 2: the NFL game will fluster a lot of young quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: And you see there's a moment in the pocket where
Speaker 2: he hitches where he goes, there's nothing on the right,
Speaker 2: and you can see almost him processing in real time
Speaker 2: where he slides his eyes to the left, sees DJ
Speaker 2: Moore there and then just rips one. Because you draft
Speaker 2: that guy at number one because he has that type
Speaker 2: of arm talent. And if he's able to do that
Speaker 2: and process at that speed, obviously defenses are gonna get
Speaker 2: more complex during the regular season and he's going to
Speaker 2: face more pressure and he's not gonna get protection like
Speaker 2: that all the time. But if he's able to actually
Speaker 2: get from one to two to three at that speed,
Speaker 2: then it bodes pretty well for his future.
Speaker 1: Yes, he held onto the ball quite a bit in
Speaker 1: this game, actually, but let's also listen and watch again
Speaker 1: if you're watching on YouTube, to one other play he
Speaker 1: did not have a chance to hold the ball.
Speaker 6: Football at just about the forty yard line, snap back
Speaker 6: pressure coming, he dumps it off cut swipe thirty five
Speaker 6: to fifty, forty to the thirty cutting at the twenty
Speaker 6: turf snake kind of got him with a man on
Speaker 6: his back to finish it off. The Bears will be
Speaker 6: on the red zone of bumpo on a tough up
Speaker 6: pass under pressure. Calebillyams stumps it off and it's a catch.
Speaker 6: It aroun a forty two yards and a Bears first down.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts there, because like when I first saw that,
Speaker 1: I was like, that's just a fluky play, but it's.
Speaker 2: Kind of badass. Actually, well, I just like that there
Speaker 2: were some blockers downfield for him. I almost sat back
Speaker 2: and was like, is that was that designed? Like I'd
Speaker 2: love to run that back two or three times.
Speaker 4: It wasn't.
Speaker 2: It was obviously a dump off under pressure, but again
Speaker 2: a guy finding a way to make a play out
Speaker 2: of nothing. Fluky a little bit, but it's also very
Speaker 2: weird to see DeAndre Swift wearing four.
Speaker 1: I just have to say that, Okay, I agree, And
Speaker 1: there's been reports DeAndre Swift looks like one of the
Speaker 1: best players on that team. So in camp and okay,
Speaker 1: maybe he's gonna take where he was last year and
Speaker 1: stay at that level and then go up, because he
Speaker 1: leveled up DeAndre Swift as an NFL player. But that
Speaker 1: was Caleb creating. He said, I was like, how does
Speaker 1: that play even happen? And you know, the reporters asked
Speaker 1: the same thing, and he said, well, his gloves, Deandress
Speaker 1: gloves are so bright that he just saw a flash
Speaker 1: because he had nothing there. And that's what as Maybe
Speaker 1: it seems fluky, but I honestly don't think there's many
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL that could have possibly made that
Speaker 1: quick of a reaction and made that quick of a
Speaker 1: play in that creative to just flip it in that
Speaker 1: second they had like the it was a bum rush,
Speaker 1: like he had no hope in that play and it
Speaker 1: turned into a big play. So that's awesome. The Bills
Speaker 1: actually played their starters for an entire quarter and and yeah,
Speaker 1: Caleb had another play. Probably his best throw of the
Speaker 1: game was this one where he's rolling out right and
Speaker 1: just has like the Mahomes type of throw, and so
Speaker 1: he showed everything you would want to see in a
Speaker 1: couple of drives and apparently they've struggled that camp against
Speaker 1: the Bears defense, but look good in the preseasons, so
Speaker 1: that was nice. The Bills, they didn't show too much
Speaker 1: in this game. They played a quarter with Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: One thing I noticed, Khalil Shakir was out there in
Speaker 1: twelve personnel and MVS not getting a lot of attention. Davis,
Speaker 1: their backup running back, was getting a lot of like
Speaker 1: maybe the only good thing about that offense. He's their
Speaker 1: backup running back. Otherwise not a lot with the Bills there.
Speaker 2: Not surprised at MVS didn't get much attention there. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be an interesting and potentially trying here for the
Speaker 2: receiving corps. But again, I still feel better about them
Speaker 2: with Joe Brady Doci than I did with Ken Dorsey.
Speaker 2: So we'll see, they'll work it out. Personnel might not
Speaker 2: be quite as good at the top end, but we'll see.
Speaker 2: We'll give him time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've had a lot of injuries at safety right now.
Speaker 1: They sat Von Miller and Matt Mulano in this game,
Speaker 1: but pretty much played the rest of their starters. I
Speaker 1: just think Shakiir is going to catch ninety to one
Speaker 1: hundred passes in this offense. And yeah, Kean Coleman was
Speaker 1: out there every single snap with Josh Allen, so that's
Speaker 1: a great sign for him. Their top three is definitely
Speaker 1: Shakir Coleman and Curtis Samuel. So just learning a couple
Speaker 1: of things. Austin Booker, this fifth round pick as a
Speaker 1: pass rusher for the Bears, has made noise back to
Speaker 1: back weeks. They really need some pass rushing helps, so
Speaker 1: maybe he will provide it. All right, Let's go to
Speaker 1: the other rookie quarterback that the most, at least this weekend.
Speaker 1: It was in Washington when Jade Daniels faced the Jets.
Speaker 7: Third down and six, opening possession of the day for Washington.
Speaker 7: Shotgun formation for Daniels, spread it out on third down.
Speaker 7: Daniels pulls the trigger looking for the deep ball down
Speaker 7: the sideline and it's holed in dummy brown.
Speaker 4: Great snack for the first down.
Speaker 1: You go ahead. I'll let you lead off what you
Speaker 1: want to say about Jaden Daniels in the start of
Speaker 1: the Commanders.
Speaker 2: I love this throw so much because this is what
Speaker 2: the folks in Tempe saw when Jade Daniels is a
Speaker 2: freshman Arizona State. This is what the folks in Baton
Speaker 2: Rouge saw when he was a Heisman Trophy winn at LSU.
Speaker 2: This is the natural ability right there. I see a
Speaker 2: guy open, quick hitch, step up, flick the ball right
Speaker 2: into the bucket, right over a defender. Deany Brown makes
Speaker 2: a great catch. This is the future and the potential
Speaker 2: of a guy like Jayden Daniels. This is why they
Speaker 2: drafted him, so hi and not only that, not only
Speaker 2: that played, but then they finish off a drive with
Speaker 2: little read option which takes advantage of his mobility and
Speaker 2: it was almost basically a walk in touchdown. Defense didn't
Speaker 2: do the best job when he came to be contained,
Speaker 2: but that's what the potential is, right there is a
Speaker 2: guy who's mobile, who is talented with the arm, who
Speaker 2: can flick the ball down the field, and who can
Speaker 2: get out and get loose as well.
Speaker 4: So love that.
Speaker 2: Obviously, he didn't play a ton in this game, but
Speaker 2: I was the starry for him. And eventually we'll get
Speaker 2: dan Quinn to like stop making him take the baby
Speaker 2: steps in the whole like he's gonna start, but he's
Speaker 2: not our starter yet.
Speaker 1: Well I don't know why there is no baby I mean,
Speaker 1: he's the one that started the game. It's got to
Speaker 1: start his treatment. So they just for whatever reason, aren't
Speaker 1: announcing it publicly, but they're treating him now like a starter,
Speaker 1: which is nice. I do like the hood spot on
Speaker 1: this kid, Jayden Daniels. So after the game, Sam Cosmey,
Speaker 1: their offensive lineman, actually was during the game in one
Speaker 1: of those interviews with the broadcast, revealed that, yeah, he
Speaker 1: checked into that play. It was third and six. I
Speaker 1: think they were only going to have one series, so
Speaker 1: that could have been his last play of the game,
Speaker 1: and he saw something the way the Jets defense was
Speaker 1: playing it. I think a screen was called and they
Speaker 1: were gonna run right, you know, throw it right into it.
Speaker 1: And he didn't like the look. They didn't like their chances,
Speaker 1: and he calls like a bomb. He calls like a
Speaker 1: go to Dianny Brown, and he hits it. And after
Speaker 1: the game, dan Quinn's asked about it, and he's kind
Speaker 1: of he compared it to Top Gun with the whole
Speaker 1: negative ghost Rider scene, and he's like, you know, can
Speaker 1: I buzz down? Can I buzz in? You know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like asking for forgiveness after the fact instead
Speaker 1: of asking for permission, and dan Quinn loved it because
Speaker 1: he hit the throw, you know, And that's that's what
Speaker 1: you want out of your quarterback, man. I mean that
Speaker 1: is that is kind of badass right off the bat,
Speaker 1: that he the rookie, is just taking charge and then
Speaker 1: delivering and kind of convincing the coaches. Yeah, okay, like
Speaker 1: trust me, man, I'm gonna do what I want to do.
Speaker 2: And that's that's the beauty of it right there, is
Speaker 2: he could have put the money to put the ball
Speaker 2: right on Danny Brown. Danny Brown could dropped it, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure they still would have been just this thrilled
Speaker 2: with his decision to do that. You get one on
Speaker 2: one coverage, You trust your arm, your trust your teammate. Hey, look,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make a play. That's the type of leader
Speaker 2: that you need.
Speaker 1: To throw though. I mean it's down the field he
Speaker 1: had to put that. He actually was very good coverage,
Speaker 1: I would say on the play. It's not like Brown
Speaker 1: had separation. No, it was interesting Brown was out there
Speaker 1: by the way, so that this has been a little
Speaker 1: bit of a surprise in Washington. We'll see John Dotson
Speaker 1: was playing very deep into that game and Diamy Brown's
Speaker 1: on the outside, and so I think they're just it's
Speaker 1: a new staff.
Speaker 4: New regime, new regime, they're just.
Speaker 1: Figuring out things. I mean, Dotson's gonna be in their
Speaker 1: top three wide receivers anyways, and I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: play more in the slot maybe than he did before.
Speaker 1: But it's just something to watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's fine to earn it. It's fine,
Speaker 2: you know it's not your guy. Go out there and
Speaker 2: prove it. And then dan Quinn's little old school in
Speaker 2: that way, the same way streeting Jaden Daniels right now, Hey,
Speaker 2: go out there and earn it, go play, and that's.
Speaker 4: A fair second half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I just I didn't expect, you know, Diamy
Speaker 1: Brown to maybe be ahead of Dots. I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I do worry that they're a little thin in terms
Speaker 1: of playmakers. But if Jaden Daniels is great, that's all
Speaker 1: that really matters. This year for the Jets, they played
Speaker 1: their backups, so there wasn't really much to take out
Speaker 1: of the gate brain Braylan Allen, Yeah, looked pretty good
Speaker 1: as a second running back.
Speaker 2: Oh you got me some, Braileen Allen takes pop you
Speaker 2: know he had a little pop. He's a physical runner.
Speaker 2: I liked his little cutups, his highlights. It was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: get out in space, he runs downhill all right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. At the risk of repeating myself, Chris Wesseling, we
Speaker 1: always would talk about on this pot on around the
Speaker 1: NFL how preseason. The one thing you can really tell
Speaker 1: is the young running backs, like the rookie running backs,
Speaker 1: because you can just see which ones have it and
Speaker 1: which ones don't. I'm not gonna go all the where
Speaker 1: that Braylen Allen's like a difference maker, but he looks
Speaker 1: like he can be a good backup. And they have
Speaker 1: some good young juice. Actually like their third guy too.
Speaker 1: Now I'm forgetting his name, what is it, I'm blowing it,
Speaker 1: but Brayleen Allen played well in this game. He's going
Speaker 1: to be the backup. Also, Mike Williams is off the
Speaker 1: pup list, and I did hear Robert Sallas say it's
Speaker 1: going to be a slow build up, like playing against Air,
Speaker 1: and there's some hope he might be ready for Week one,
Speaker 1: but maybe not fully. So that's just something to keep
Speaker 1: an eye. I feel bad now. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that was it. For the big time quarterbacks, but we
Speaker 1: still got three left. But sorry Broncos fans. Bonix just
Speaker 1: feels like he's the guy that's going to get left
Speaker 1: out of the excitement, and yet they're excited. He goes
Speaker 1: fifteen for twenty one on Sunday, they moved the ball.
Speaker 1: It was, you know, one of the highest scoring preseason
Speaker 1: games I can remember. How did that game finish? Thirty
Speaker 1: four to thirty Broncos and Colts putting on a show,
Speaker 1: And yeah, I wanted to be more excited. There wasn't
Speaker 1: really many like exciting throws, but he mostly made quick
Speaker 1: decisions and they moved the ball when he was out there,
Speaker 1: and he was playing with the second team for the
Speaker 1: most part. And he'll get a chance to start over
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham, who started that game. He'll start next week
Speaker 1: and then John Payton will probably decide who's the starter.
Speaker 1: It's probably Nicks at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm really curious to see how he performs
Speaker 2: with their pseudo starters, you know, in the second week
Speaker 2: of the preseason, because I think that's going to tell
Speaker 2: us the most. I thought it was fitting that the
Speaker 2: touchdown pass that he threw was on an RPO. It
Speaker 2: just it was like shades of Organs offense. I was like, well,
Speaker 2: that's where he's comfortable. Like he made a quick decision.
Speaker 2: He ripped the ball to the outside, right in front
Speaker 2: of the corner pylon. Like it was a pretty throw.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like a jaw dropping throw. But that's him
Speaker 2: doing what he already knows how to do, which will
Speaker 2: help him at this level.
Speaker 1: Right, And so that's when I went. I tried to
Speaker 1: watch all his throws and there just wasn't There wasn't
Speaker 1: like much second reaction. There were actually a couple plays
Speaker 1: where he tried to make tougher throws and those worthy incompletions.
Speaker 1: That said, he seemed to know where everyone was in
Speaker 1: the field, and like I said, more than not made
Speaker 1: quick decision. Tim Patrick, who's been out of the league
Speaker 1: for a couple of years with devastating injuries, made the
Speaker 1: first catch of this game from Jared's didham. He was
Speaker 1: maybe too excited and then he got a taunting penalty,
Speaker 1: but just nice to see him. Seemed like a great
Speaker 1: dude and was off to having a really great career
Speaker 1: after being an undrafted player. So he's back healthy. That's
Speaker 1: good to see Anthony Richardson the couple drives he had
Speaker 1: just like a little bit off and which is going
Speaker 1: to be the problem where just like he was just
Speaker 1: like a little bit off on a third down throw
Speaker 1: incomplete and then a little bit off on another one
Speaker 1: where he slowed his receiver down so they couldn't run.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the issues. He's going to make
Speaker 1: good decisions, but that that was the issue today And
Speaker 1: in a very brief appearance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he nearly threw a pick and he had his
Speaker 2: intended target bail him out by getting a pall up
Speaker 2: there to bat it away and basically play defense.
Speaker 4: I expect him rust. It's okay.
Speaker 2: Just give him some time to get acclimated and he'll
Speaker 2: He's always going to be a little bit off, like
Speaker 2: that's just who he is. His accuracy is not his
Speaker 2: greatest strength, but that's not why they drafted him.
Speaker 4: So and shake the rust off over the next couple weeks.
Speaker 4: Get ready for Week one.
Speaker 1: Okay, we've hit the first round quarterbacks except for one
Speaker 1: Nick Shook that played over there. We already had Drake
Speaker 1: May on the last show. On Friday's show, we will
Speaker 1: hit Michael Pennix in his debut with the Falcons. After
Speaker 1: the break and all the rest of the games, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're back on NFL daily, and yeah, I just thematically, Nick,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just We're gonna keep going through these rookie quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of them this year. They're taking over.
Speaker 1: And Michael Penix doesn't have a chance to start Week one,
Speaker 1: but he is going to play a ton in the
Speaker 1: preseason because Kirk Cousins I don't think is going to
Speaker 1: play at all. And Pennex looked pretty good nine for sixteen,
Speaker 1: one hundred and four yards. Did hit one nice go ball.
Speaker 1: I believe that was to Blair. I don't even know
Speaker 1: who Blair is. It's that time of year in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But did the thing where he held the safety for
Speaker 1: just a half a second and then looked over and
Speaker 1: dropped one in the bucket. Had maybe one or two
Speaker 1: other passes that were a bit inaccurate, but other than
Speaker 1: that was kind of Bonix in it and just hitting
Speaker 1: a lot of receivers underneath and moving the ball pretty well,
Speaker 1: so you know, he kind of it was like a
Speaker 1: par It was like a straightforward three hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: yard par four and he got on the green like
Speaker 1: twenty five, a lot of a lot of three and
Speaker 1: it was just fine. It was fine. You didn't get
Speaker 1: to see a lot of like exciting panics, but it
Speaker 1: was fine.
Speaker 2: No, but the the details were what mattered to me.
Speaker 2: This is one of the games I watched live. And
Speaker 2: as I'm sitting there watching him, I'm thinking, Okay, that's
Speaker 2: that's what he did well at Washington in it Indiana,
Speaker 2: Like he's got that arm. He uses that live arm
Speaker 2: to his advantage. He'll throw a little bit like off
Speaker 2: a back foot or not quite perfectly balanced with his feet,
Speaker 2: just to whip it out there because the guy's open,
Speaker 2: the windows closing, and they'll get it there. And it
Speaker 2: showed that time and time again. He didn't have a
Speaker 2: ton of time to play before they replaced him with
Speaker 2: Taylor Heinike. But when he was in there, you know,
Speaker 2: all of his strength, you know, carried over, which is
Speaker 2: what you want to see. I would love to see
Speaker 2: like a full half of him, if not more.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think he'll play a lot in the preseason.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, he got sixteen throws in however many
Speaker 1: drives that was I guess it was? What was it too?
Speaker 1: And like, yeah, he's got to play plenty, because the
Speaker 1: one thing that actually made him look great was Taylor Heinike,
Speaker 1: who came in and went four for eleven for eleven yards.
Speaker 4: It was really ugly.
Speaker 2: I'm a little concerned about the Falcons offense overall because
Speaker 2: they lack a lot of Jews. They had gold go
Speaker 2: situations twice in that game, came in with no points
Speaker 2: in the four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're really benching guys though, Like these teams in
Speaker 1: the McVeigh tree go hard in terms of their benching,
Speaker 1: so it's tough to take too much out of it.
Speaker 1: And I know Heineck's playing with the third stringers, but
Speaker 1: you just wonder where his head is at that he's
Speaker 1: stuck in this terrible position. But and then the guy
Speaker 1: behind him, Nathan Urke, went three for thirteen, So the
Speaker 1: two of them combined to go seven for twenty four.
Speaker 1: That's not even a good batting average for forty eight yards.
Speaker 1: And poor Rourke was cut a few hours later. Essentially,
Speaker 1: I did it a couple other tape one last takeaway
Speaker 1: for the Falcons. Unfortunately, they lost Brayln Trice, who was
Speaker 1: their third round edge pick for the season with a
Speaker 1: knee injury. And that's a position that's among the worst
Speaker 1: position groups in the league. And he was practicing with
Speaker 1: the starters and maybe had as high a ceiling as
Speaker 1: anyone they have just because they don't have anyone. So
Speaker 1: you really hate to see that for that young man
Speaker 1: and and for that team. I do want to go
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins quickly, who they didn't play many starters
Speaker 1: early any either. But can you guess what guy got
Speaker 1: me excited on the Dolphins?
Speaker 4: What guy got you excited on the Dolphins?
Speaker 2: Like I said, this is a game that I watched live,
Speaker 2: but now I have to access my memory.
Speaker 4: I to Jalen right, the running back.
Speaker 1: Yes, that was it. This is the This was the guy.
Speaker 1: This was the guy of the weekend that I was like, Oh, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm in You'm drafted Jalen write two rounds hire in fantasy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got it. He's definitely got it. He's he's
Speaker 4: got some juice.
Speaker 2: I see why they traded up to draft him all
Speaker 2: to talk about him when he came out of Tennessee Like,
Speaker 2: it's there, It's definitely there. This is one of the
Speaker 2: deepest backfields in the NFL. Think about Devon chan you've
Speaker 2: got Raheem Mostert. Now you got this kid, you can
Speaker 2: just cycle him out and you've always got fresh legs,
Speaker 2: got all those weapons on offense, like load up, baby,
Speaker 2: let's just let it fly in this offense. This year
Speaker 2: very fun to watch him. But I will say this, Greg,
Speaker 2: you talked about Braly Trice getting hurt. A ton of
Speaker 2: guys got hurt in this game, and I think a
Speaker 2: lot of it had to do with the field. The
Speaker 2: field was terrible. It was just sloppy, big chunks of
Speaker 2: turf coming out.
Speaker 4: Not good.
Speaker 2: I understand it's hard to grow a grass field outside
Speaker 2: sometimes I get it, but this was probably the worst
Speaker 2: surface of the weekend where you know, they showed close
Speaker 2: up shots and you just said, massive chunks of sod
Speaker 2: just on the ground, falling left and right, people losing
Speaker 2: their footing. Got to get it better before a week one.
Speaker 1: That game was in at Miami, right, well, they had
Speaker 1: a million different events there. You know, they had obviously
Speaker 1: the soccer tournament there just a few weeks ago. I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe we got to be prioritizing keeping that
Speaker 1: football field first. They got that got tennis, they got
Speaker 1: f one. I mean, they're they're rolling people through hard
Speaker 1: rock stadium. I really thought right was really exciting and impressive,
Speaker 1: like on inside runs, good vision, crazy burst to you know,
Speaker 1: cut across field, which you probably can't get away with
Speaker 1: against starters. But I don't know.
Speaker 4: Saw that play. You saw that play where he went
Speaker 4: right and there was nothing direction.
Speaker 1: But also the touchdown run two where he kind of
Speaker 1: gets skinny in the hole, like the fact he can
Speaker 1: do that too. So I do have a takeaway that
Speaker 1: they they need to they'll use him, and they got
Speaker 1: too many running backs. You do wonder was there any
Speaker 1: team would be like desperate enough to give like a
Speaker 1: good pick for him moster I doubt it, but like
Speaker 1: if the if the Cowboys would, I think the Dolphins
Speaker 1: would consider it, and they definitely would consider just hey,
Speaker 1: if you want like Jeff Wilson for a fifth yeah
Speaker 1: we could, we could do that.
Speaker 4: I don't think he makes that team.
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson is better than any running back on the
Speaker 1: He's gonna make the Dolphins anyways, they have four good
Speaker 1: running backs, but ye, like he's better than anyone on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. He would be the backup in New Orleans
Speaker 1: who could use a running back, So I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe Moster and if they got really crazy, but why would.
Speaker 2: The crazy thing is Moster's age and like he's too
Speaker 2: you know, where his production is and everything else is
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: Well, so the Dolphins love him. It's a good it's
Speaker 1: a good problem to have. OBJ. By the way, still
Speaker 1: not really doing anything at some point. That's an issue.
Speaker 1: Aaron Brewer, they're starting center, is out a few weeks
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. That's a problem. Kevin King was out of
Speaker 1: the NFL the last couple of years because of injuries also,
Speaker 1: I think two years ago because he just maybe wasn't
Speaker 1: totally feeling it.
Speaker 4: And it was like it was a mental health thing. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But then last year when he was trying to come back,
Speaker 1: no one knew. I didn't know this that he tore
Speaker 1: his achilles when he was trying to come back, and
Speaker 1: so he was out there. So he was a big
Speaker 1: winner with the nice he had in that game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, big moment for him. Really a heartwarming moment everybody.
Speaker 2: Every time somebody goes through some struggles like that, and
Speaker 2: you see, even if it's preseason, it's always nice, you know,
Speaker 2: it's just nice.
Speaker 1: He has some talent and he could be playing pretty
Speaker 1: significant snaps for them at cornerback. The Falcons. All right,
Speaker 1: let's rap with not wrap, but wrap the rookie quarterback section.
Speaker 1: The agenda. It's being pushed on this podcast, certainly on
Speaker 1: the block Party podcast hosted by my friend Adam West,
Speaker 1: and of course that boy Wolf Ryan. Look Spencer Rattler.
Speaker 1: People are excited about Spencer Ratler. I know he's a
Speaker 1: fifth round pick, but he gets out there, he shows
Speaker 1: an impressive arm, he shows some athleticism with some runs,
Speaker 1: and then he gets a chance to go have a
Speaker 1: game winning drive and he calmonly moves him down the
Speaker 1: field and gets that game winning drive.
Speaker 4: So let's go.
Speaker 1: I'm pushing the agenda only if Derek Carr's struggling in
Speaker 1: the regular season, but at least give Rattler the backup job.
Speaker 1: And like, if this Saint season is not going anywhere,
Speaker 1: maybe this is not a normal fifth round pick. This
Speaker 1: is a guy that could have been a six second
Speaker 1: round picks a nice little debut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he could have if he had taking
Speaker 2: more ownership of his collegiate career. But that's neither here
Speaker 2: nor there's a.
Speaker 1: Little tongue in cheek, but he's having some fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's cool, it's fine. I mean, sure, give
Speaker 2: him the backup job. Kid's got some moxie and some
Speaker 2: physical tools.
Speaker 4: Why not.
Speaker 1: Jay Caner actually played pretty well in this game. Who
Speaker 1: is the guy battling Rattler for the backup job? But
Speaker 1: Ratler had one of the best throws of the game.
Speaker 1: I forget if it was. It was either dropped or
Speaker 1: there was a penalty, so he didn't he didn't get
Speaker 1: credit for it, but like a beautiful throw down the field.
Speaker 1: Puka Nakua's brother was involved in this uh game winning drive.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, I'm putting in the work for
Speaker 1: NFL Daily listeners when I'm watching Samson Nkoua late on
Speaker 1: my Saturday night in a game winning drive for Spencer
Speaker 1: Rattler over Clayton Tune and the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if they're related, but that's yet another
Speaker 2: Nakua in the NFL. There was a Kai Na Kua
Speaker 2: in the NFL for a little bit. Something about that
Speaker 2: that name.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I know they the other one, well,
Speaker 1: I know it's Puka's young brother. And they got another
Speaker 1: one coming up that was in the Polynesian Bowl this year,
Speaker 1: which is like high school players. So don't ask how
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: That, but because you're you're a sicko, and we're all
Speaker 2: sickos here. That's why you come to NFL daily for
Speaker 2: football cicico talk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there weren't a lot of starters in this game,
Speaker 1: so otherwise there wasn't a lot. Ratler really has been
Speaker 1: playing well at training camp, according to everyone there, playing
Speaker 1: better and better. That they're gotting improved quarterback play, and
Speaker 1: so that's exciting to see. Kool Aid mckinnistry was out
Speaker 1: there for a little while in this game and giving
Speaker 1: up a lot of passes. I think there was some
Speaker 1: thought would he start for this team. The answer is no,
Speaker 1: they have a really good trio to start, Paul Senadebo,
Speaker 1: Marshaun Lattimore assuming he gets healthy, and Alante Taylor, and
Speaker 1: so Taylor has that job over Koolid mckinnistry. So that
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a nugget. And then supposedly
Speaker 1: according to the Cardinals, people like Clayton Tune greater than
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter. He certainly wasn't this game, but even at practices.
Speaker 1: So if you're interested in that battle, that is the
Speaker 1: backup quarterback battle in Arizona. You don't look that interesting?
Speaker 1: Can I interest you in a Trey Benson was in
Speaker 1: this game and didn't didn't do a lot, might be
Speaker 1: the backup running back.
Speaker 4: I'm interested.
Speaker 2: I'm just I think about I'm still curious about that
Speaker 2: trade to acquire Ritter. Like I understood they had Tune
Speaker 2: he played one game last year and everything else, and
Speaker 2: you got Kyler. But I'm just like, really, like you
Speaker 2: just were.
Speaker 1: Like one Rondeale Moore, who unfortunately is now out for
Speaker 1: the season. But Rondeale Moore, I guess maybe just didn't
Speaker 1: fit what they wanted to do on offense. But he's
Speaker 1: an NFL player, I guess Ridder, Yeah, maybe it was
Speaker 1: just two guys who who are trying to revive their career.
Speaker 1: So I get why they did it, but it might
Speaker 1: not work out for Ridder there. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: through the rest of the games in no particular order.
Speaker 1: Now that we've gotten through the rookie quarterbacks, let's go
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati Tampa because they did play Joe Burrow in
Speaker 1: this game. I always appreciate the coaches that played the starters. Now,
Speaker 1: some of the teams, I think the Bills might be
Speaker 1: like this this year. They like doing it in the
Speaker 1: first week because they got joint practices coming up and
Speaker 1: they would rather just do it further away from the season,
Speaker 1: And so that might be. This might be the only
Speaker 1: couple the series that we see Joe Burrow. But we
Speaker 1: saw Joe Burrow and he looked good.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, he had an abbreviated season last year.
Speaker 2: It's been a long time since he's played competitive, full
Speaker 2: speed football. So if you're gonna get it out of
Speaker 2: the way, you get it out of the way. Now
Speaker 2: we know who he is. All he has to do
Speaker 2: is stay healthy. It's good to see him out there,
Speaker 2: and I'm glad he's not the statue que guy he
Speaker 2: was last year in the first month of the season,
Speaker 2: because that was just sad call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he rolled out. The best throw he made was
Speaker 1: not caught. He threw it into double coverage about fifty
Speaker 1: yards down the field while he was rolling out, and
Speaker 1: it was like he just put it on a platter.
Speaker 1: To T Higgins, I was like, man, this guy is
Speaker 1: so talented. Yeah, just with his accuracies, just maybe the
Speaker 1: most accurate quarterback in the league. And T Higgins leaped
Speaker 1: up for it, had it in his hands and it
Speaker 1: was knocked out at the last second by the cornerback.
Speaker 1: So it was just good football. It's good football by everyone,
Speaker 1: you know. No one made a bad play there. I
Speaker 1: did notice Higgins got like a target on almost every
Speaker 1: other snap he was in the game, made a bunch
Speaker 1: of catches. I think it was Joe Burrow saying like,
Speaker 1: hey man, like let's get back on this same page
Speaker 1: and let's get you some confidence. And so he made
Speaker 1: some nice catches to keep that drive going. I noticed
Speaker 1: Andre Yoshavas, who we've been talking up a lot each week,
Speaker 1: made a big third down conversion early in that game
Speaker 1: to keep that drive going. And yeah, Amarius Mims their
Speaker 1: right tackle, first round starter, I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be a Week one starter, and looked pretty good out
Speaker 1: there against backups against the Bucks. But he's been a
Speaker 1: big story in Bengals camp too.
Speaker 2: Jermaine Burton three catches eighty two yards in a touchdown. Hey,
Speaker 2: I know we're all team Yoshivas here, but maybe there's
Speaker 2: some sneaky death in the receiving core.
Speaker 1: Okay, So he looked incredibly athletic late in the game.
Speaker 1: Just Torch these undrafted like third stringers. So that's one
Speaker 1: of those things in preseason where I've learned over the years,
Speaker 1: like is it good that he's torching the third stringers
Speaker 1: or is it a bad sign that he's out there
Speaker 1: at the very end of the game. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a bad sign. He's obviously making the team and
Speaker 1: can have a role eventually and showed them, hey, you
Speaker 1: got to figure out a role for this guy. But
Speaker 1: it does show me he's further down the depth chart
Speaker 1: right now, certainly than Yoshavush because Burrow had been out
Speaker 1: of the game for like two quarters by the time
Speaker 1: Burton came in. Then again, he freaking host these guys
Speaker 1: like a guy from Alabama.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say, is like, that's
Speaker 2: the Bama product right there, is like I try to
Speaker 2: still be ready and he'll find a way to make it.
Speaker 1: So he might be just a slow builder. Not much
Speaker 1: from the Bucks. They did play their first round pick,
Speaker 1: Graham Barton. I watched the cut up of him making
Speaker 1: a lot of nice blocks, and they were good in
Speaker 1: the running. Bucky Irving, their rookie running back, had some
Speaker 1: nice runs and kind of all their young skilled position
Speaker 1: guys which have I think this team has a chance
Speaker 1: to be a little deeper skill position wise than people realize.
Speaker 1: Trey McMillan, tre Jayalen McMillan, Trey Palmer. They all made
Speaker 1: some plays. Let's talk about a game that happened on Sunday,
Speaker 1: Rams Cowboys, and Yeah, I'm gonna watch as many of
Speaker 1: these Rams preseason games as I can, just because I
Speaker 1: just love listening to our good friend Andrew Ceciliano along
Speaker 1: with our good friend Mina Chimes and someone I don't
Speaker 1: know personally, Andrew Whitworth in the booth. Let's listen to
Speaker 1: the most electric moment of the weekend. Take it away, Andrew.
Speaker 3: Fourth and goal to tie the game. This is it,
Speaker 3: Stetson Bennett oh rolling out to the left, Bennett SLINKs
Speaker 3: and waiting for time with four seconds to go.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love Mina getting into a radio
Speaker 1: call on the show. She's gonna be back on NFL
Speaker 1: Daily by the way, next week, and I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to that. Yeah, that was a great redemption moment for
Speaker 1: Stetson Bennett, who threw four interceptions in this game, and
Speaker 1: it was down twelve to six when they got the
Speaker 1: ball late and delivered the only touchdown drive and that
Speaker 1: was actually a pretty sweet play fourth down, rolling to
Speaker 1: his left side, arming it right handed for the touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So that that's the preseason for you. Moment moments like that.
Speaker 2: It's fun to see a guy like Stetsan Bennett, who
Speaker 2: was basically not with the team last year, now in
Speaker 2: preseason and making a play. Yeah, he threw four picks,
Speaker 2: but it's still fun to see him backing the uniform
Speaker 2: on a field making a play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he threw four picks is kind of a big
Speaker 1: but I did watch a decent amount of this game,
Speaker 1: and you know, other than the four picks, I thought
Speaker 1: he looked much better than last preseason where he looked loft.
Speaker 1: Then again, he threw four picks.
Speaker 2: Can we also talk about how Trey Lance threw forty
Speaker 2: one passes in a preseason game?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, can we talk about Trey Lance?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Start, I'll start with a positive. I've never seen him
Speaker 1: run any better. I don't know if he's lost weight
Speaker 1: or it's just not that he was ever overweight, but
Speaker 1: he just was incredibly explosive as a runner. I was
Speaker 1: just like wow, I mean, I know he's always been
Speaker 1: a good runner, but this seamed next level. But yeah,
Speaker 1: those one hundred, those forty what was it forty one throws,
Speaker 1: it only resulted in one hundred and eighty eight yards.
Speaker 1: So that's not what you want.
Speaker 4: No, not great, Greg, not great.
Speaker 2: Easte looks spring when he's running, and everybody wants, you know,
Speaker 2: to ride that story because it's what happens with DAG
Speaker 2: And they got Trey Lance. Ob basically nothing, but it's
Speaker 2: still Trey Lance. It's still you know, it is what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem is they wanted him to be their
Speaker 1: backup this year and he's not going to be. Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush is going to be their backup. And Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: made the best play of this entire game, really the most,
Speaker 1: the best NFL play I saw the whole Well, that
Speaker 1: last the last touchdound was pretty sweet, but he hit
Speaker 1: Jalen Brooks for forty three yards early on a total dime.
Speaker 1: I will mention Chuma Adoga, who is their left tackle
Speaker 1: projected starting left tackle for the season, left with an
Speaker 1: injury that sounded like it was at least somewhat serious
Speaker 1: that he's going to be out at least a week
Speaker 1: or more. And so that's going to give their first
Speaker 1: round pick, Tyler Guyton a chance to be their starting
Speaker 1: left tackle. Jordan Wittenham is a camp guy for the
Speaker 1: Rams that looks a lot like pukin Akua body type wise,
Speaker 1: and they've said off sat all summer has just been
Speaker 1: lighting it up. And he went six for seventy four
Speaker 1: in this game and had another long catch overturned by
Speaker 1: a penalty. So they know how to pick wide receivers
Speaker 1: and I think at least he's going to be a
Speaker 1: good depth pick for them. And then just a little note,
Speaker 1: Nayshaun Wright, who was taken in the third round a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, was traded for Andrew Booth to
Speaker 1: the Vikings, who was taken in the second round a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. So a trade of guys who
Speaker 1: weren't really working out for.
Speaker 2: Their second straight year in which the Cowboys traded a
Speaker 2: corner for a cornerback in August. They did it last
Speaker 2: year for if you have to do Millifon as well,
Speaker 2: And uh no, it was Kelvin Joseph for Kevin Joseph.
Speaker 2: Yeah right right yeah, Nogy ignoghny that's not not not
Speaker 2: no fun ignitogmy long last names. Uh and then he
Speaker 2: blought he returns to the blockfield goal for a touchdown
Speaker 2: in Week one against the Giants, and that was the
Speaker 2: highlight of his year. Ye that time it was a
Speaker 2: first rounder, they trade a second rounder for a first
Speaker 2: rounder former, and then this year was what third rounder
Speaker 2: for a second former?
Speaker 4: Second round?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and probably these guys, aren't you know, if they
Speaker 1: make the team, they're gonna be the last cornerback. So
Speaker 1: we don't need to spend too much too much time
Speaker 1: on that. I do want to say though, that Jerry
Speaker 1: it is watching Lance like his contract runs out the
Speaker 1: same time as Dax, and it's Jerry Jones basically told
Speaker 1: everyone he made that trade on his own without telling
Speaker 1: anyone like or less. He just wanted to do it.
Speaker 1: Like a year ago. He was like, we didn't tell anyone.
Speaker 1: We didn't even tell Mike McCarthy, and it was just
Speaker 1: like he just wanted to do it. And my son,
Speaker 1: who's back from Japan in as jet Lag, was we
Speaker 1: were watching last night this show. He just watches anything football.
Speaker 1: He doesn't care. The show The Pick is In, which
Speaker 1: is on Roku. You've never seen before. It was actually
Speaker 1: pretty good. And this was the twenty twenty three draft process,
Speaker 1: and they were They had pretty good inside inside the
Speaker 1: room of the Cowboys draft room, and it was just
Speaker 1: so clear that Jerry Jones is just doing whatever he
Speaker 1: wants and then like everyone else is just like making
Speaker 1: up arguments to support him. And I just don't know
Speaker 1: if that's like a yeah, they all like he's like, hey, this,
Speaker 1: Mazzie Smith, this seems like a good idea, and then
Speaker 1: everyone's like jumping into support, like, yeah, it is a
Speaker 1: good idea.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, No, it's not the best way to operate
Speaker 5: in today's NFL, But then again, he is an owner
Speaker 5: and he's the boss he is.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take one last quick break and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna wrap up the final few games preseason League one.
Speaker 1: We still got six games left, Nikki, we got a crank.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a good thing.
Speaker 2: We just went and pulled some music from the vault
Speaker 2: out in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
Speaker 4: NFL films.
Speaker 1: Seahawks Chargers might be the game of the week that
Speaker 1: I have the least to say about. The only thing
Speaker 1: my biggest takeaway was like, it was cool Jim Harbaugh
Speaker 1: had to fall back in on the first two plays.
Speaker 1: It was kind of like a Hey, this is what
Speaker 1: we're gonna be, and they like used them in creative ways.
Speaker 1: It was like, Hey, this is what we're gonna be.
Speaker 1: They also did not move the ball. They did not
Speaker 1: have a first down Nick until their seventh possession. That's
Speaker 1: not good.
Speaker 2: I mean the quarterbacks that played Eastern Stick Max duggan
Speaker 2: that if you look at that on paper, that explains
Speaker 2: everything to me. It's pre season week one and we're
Speaker 2: putting the fullback out there. We're working out the kinks,
Speaker 2: all right, we're established.
Speaker 1: Joel was out there, and Joel I think played pretty well.
Speaker 1: There was one pass rush where Nuosu kind of pushed him.
Speaker 1: I was watching, but other than that, I don't think
Speaker 1: he gave up a pressure. But otherwise it's ugly. I
Speaker 1: think Harbaugh might start panicking over the Eastern Stick is
Speaker 1: our backup quarterback things sooner than later. Eastern Stick had
Speaker 1: thirty one yards in an interception on thirteen attempts. The
Speaker 1: Seahawks played their starters for a couple drives and they
Speaker 1: gave up a total of seven yards. So that's good.
Speaker 1: I mean, they feel good about it. Byron Murphy had
Speaker 1: a couple nice flashes and then I just noticed, you know,
Speaker 1: the Chargers practice reports lately, like Harbrough said, Bosa is
Speaker 1: likely to be back for Week one, but there's some
Speaker 1: question there. Like Junior Cole, who they thought would start
Speaker 1: at linebacker as a rookie like basically has in practice still.
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards is back in and out of practice. Ladd
Speaker 1: McConkie has been out of practice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's concerning.
Speaker 2: You want to be about as healthy as possible and
Speaker 2: they're going to count on a guy like Lad mcconkeye
Speaker 2: and the fact that he's been in right practice, I mean,
Speaker 2: unless Quentin Johnson lives up to his bill.
Speaker 1: And Daniel Popper of the Athletic was going through the
Speaker 1: wide receiver battle and he was making clear like he
Speaker 1: wasn't sure if Quinton Johnson was even wide receiver for Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was like he might not make the team necessarily
Speaker 1: or they would trade him, I think. But there's a
Speaker 1: battle there. But all bad. Not a lot of Seahawks
Speaker 1: starters played there either. But they showed some creative looks
Speaker 1: on offense actually some blocking schemes and they were doing
Speaker 1: some things with grubs. So they're just someone to watch.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about the Seahawks Titans. Forty nine ers played
Speaker 1: big time win for the Titans seventeen thirteen. We haven't
Speaker 1: even been giving scores because they don't matter. Here's what
Speaker 1: you need to know about the forty nine. Twenty three
Speaker 1: players of their team missed their recent practice because of
Speaker 1: injuries or because they're holding out in the case of
Speaker 1: Brandon Nyuk and tread Williams. That's so many players that
Speaker 1: they actually cancel their joint practice with the Saints this
Speaker 1: week because they're like, we're missing too many players, we
Speaker 1: don't even want to do a joint practice. Or maybe
Speaker 1: they just didn't feel like it and change their mind.
Speaker 1: I don't really know, but that's what they said. That
Speaker 1: is a lot of players. That's a lot to deal with.
Speaker 1: You're missing twenty five three players, so they're not coming down.
Speaker 1: And Ricky Piersall is the one that caught catches my
Speaker 1: attention most because he wasn't healthy in the offseason, then
Speaker 1: he wasn't healthy coming into camp with a different injury.
Speaker 1: Then he plays for like four days, and then he
Speaker 1: gets hurt again with the old injury from OTAs and
Speaker 1: it to me puts a different light on the whole
Speaker 1: brand the NYUK situation because Ricky Piersaw is their first
Speaker 1: round pick who plays wide receiver.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think those two things can operate exclusively.
Speaker 2: I think they're interdependent on each other. And the longer
Speaker 2: that he is not on the field, the more the
Speaker 2: Niners are like, I'll hang on to eye. You can
Speaker 2: try and work something out because if we don't have him,
Speaker 2: not like he is Ayuk, but we're talking about numbers
Speaker 2: and talent on a depth chart, and if you get
Speaker 2: rid of Brandon Ayuk, you got to have somebody else's
Speaker 2: slot in there unless you get a receiver back on
Speaker 2: a trade. But we're also going on like week three
Speaker 2: of is gonna get traded? Is he's not gonna get traded.
Speaker 2: So we just continued to ride until it's all sorted out.
Speaker 2: By the way, Greg, I don't know if we've had
Speaker 2: a joint practice or any sort of two team activity
Speaker 2: not on a you know, game field canceled since COVID,
Speaker 2: I have to wonder how do the Saints feel when
Speaker 2: like they get the car, they.
Speaker 4: Get stood up on their date like they're annoying, they're annoying.
Speaker 1: They gave him like four days notice, which was is
Speaker 1: like canceling a dinner reservation or whatever, like you're a
Speaker 1: higher cut, you're not going to pay the fee because
Speaker 1: it's far enough out, I guess, but I'm sure they're
Speaker 1: a little annoyed, the Saints, and maybe they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to change their practice schedule. Maybe the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: were just like, Eh, there's not enough juice down there.
Speaker 1: There's no fans intervene Eryvine was weird. It is weird environment.
Speaker 4: It's a weird environment. It's very stry.
Speaker 1: I wish down there, and it just was. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was there, and it was that part was normal,
Speaker 1: but it was just it was like on.
Speaker 2: A campus, it's yeah, and it's it looks very higher
Speaker 2: ed around you.
Speaker 4: It does not feel like a football environment, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Raiders only had like three hundred fans
Speaker 1: because they only could bring season ticket old and those
Speaker 1: three hundred fans were louder than half the camps out there.
Speaker 1: They were and the music was blairing. It was great.
Speaker 1: There is the We do have more on Ayuk and Titans.
Speaker 1: We'll give you a quick note or two. Since we've
Speaker 1: last taped. Tom Peli Sero at NFL Network reported that
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers have re engaged contract talks with
Speaker 1: Brandon Nayuk and there is an increasing chance that I
Speaker 1: signs with them. I just defer to Brandon Nyuk here,
Speaker 1: and he just keeps putting out on Instagram, like stop
Speaker 1: just putting all this stuff out in the media and
Speaker 1: like make a decision. He he literally went into the
Speaker 1: comments of one of these reports and said that, and
Speaker 1: he kind of said what I was thinking too, like,
Speaker 1: what what is this public like facing back and forth? Well,
Speaker 1: why is it necessary? Just I get that you're negotiating,
Speaker 1: but you don't need to leak everything and just make
Speaker 1: a decision at this point, because it's pretty clear Ayuk
Speaker 1: is not interested in going to the Browns. It's pretty
Speaker 1: clear that the Steelers, according to reports, are not interested
Speaker 1: in paying enough in a trade for Ayuk. Like there
Speaker 1: was a report that you know, they just wanted seconds
Speaker 1: and thirds and the Steelers like weren't. Now we don't
Speaker 1: know how many exactly, but they weren't even asking for
Speaker 1: a first and the Steelers weren't even meeting their price
Speaker 1: on that. So just pay the man. I guess that's
Speaker 1: that's my take.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all about trying to control the narrative outside
Speaker 2: when you're leaking stuff like this, And honestly, I got
Speaker 2: tired of this a week ago. Guys figure it out.
Speaker 2: It's not that hard. I mean it's hard, but it's
Speaker 2: not that hard.
Speaker 1: My read of this situation is they would trade him
Speaker 1: to a team that's giving up enough in compensation, and
Speaker 1: the Browns reportedly were giving up Cooper a second and
Speaker 1: a fifth. Cooper then sends an Instagram out a story
Speaker 1: that said I wouldn't mind that one bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now he didn't say what it was about, and he
Speaker 1: didn't talk to the media after the game, so he
Speaker 1: can have some deniability. That's like, oh, I was talking
Speaker 1: about something else, but it's like, we know what you
Speaker 1: were talking about. I mean, I wouldn't mind it either.
Speaker 1: No offense to your Browns. Now, the forty nine Ers
Speaker 1: are contending for a Super Bowl every year, and they
Speaker 1: are the number one offense in the league, and the
Speaker 1: Browns are very much not the number one offense.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I had friends text me panicking as soon as that
Speaker 2: became public, and I said, could you blame him? I'd
Speaker 2: want to go play for the forty nine Ers if
Speaker 2: I was Amari Cooper as well.
Speaker 1: Right, and he's not going to though. It's just it
Speaker 1: seems pretty clear to me that that doesn't want to
Speaker 1: play for Cleveland. He obviously didn't want to play for
Speaker 1: New England, and I think they're going to get the
Speaker 1: deal done in the end, maybe because pearce All can't
Speaker 1: get healthy. My biggest takeaway from the Titans in this
Speaker 1: game was just Will Levis needs to protect himself. I mean,
Speaker 1: he tried to run over like a linebacker at the
Speaker 1: goal line again and took out a huge shot. And
Speaker 1: because he's Will Levis and he's incredibly strong, he's very
Speaker 1: like Cam Newtony to me. Yeah, they keep bounced off
Speaker 1: it and was fine, But this that's kind of how
Speaker 1: he plays. And I don't know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can keep playing that way.
Speaker 2: That's not who he is. He is a bowl in
Speaker 2: a china shop. He is a guy who with a
Speaker 2: chip on his shoulder. These guys out there to prove
Speaker 2: a point and usually it's done physically. This is the
Speaker 2: same guy that went to the cobbine and bragged about
Speaker 2: how live his arm was, and he does have a
Speaker 2: strong arm, but he does. Yeah, he's not going to
Speaker 2: back down, and that's usually not good for the longevity
Speaker 2: in a career.
Speaker 1: So you know what else I learned from that or
Speaker 1: remembered from that show the pick is in was how
Speaker 1: the consensus last year I couldn't believe this before the
Speaker 1: draft was that Levis was going to the Texans. I
Speaker 1: kind of forgot that. I memory holed that as like CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud was predictably going there. And that was only the
Speaker 1: key once you got to like three hours or two
Speaker 1: hours before the draft. Before that, no one knew that
Speaker 1: this is great, this is crazy, how wrong that was.
Speaker 1: And I will support my friend Justin Graver the grave Digger,
Speaker 1: in his assessment that this is the best running back
Speaker 1: duo in the league. Tony Pollard looked really good in
Speaker 1: this game, had some juice, which was nice to see
Speaker 1: because he definitely did not have as much juice as
Speaker 1: we were used to last year with Dallas. And then
Speaker 1: Tajy Spears didn't have many big plays, but great touchdown
Speaker 1: run showing just his great ability to stop and start.
Speaker 1: So I do like that running back duo Jags Chiefs.
Speaker 1: We got Trevor Lawrence versus Patrick Mahomes. This was like
Speaker 1: a playoff game as it goes for the preseason. Now
Speaker 1: they were out by the end of the first quarter,
Speaker 1: but that's you can't ask for much more than that.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a good reason to watch.
Speaker 2: You know, the people that got to the stadium on
Speaker 2: time and paid their preseason ticket prices, they got a
Speaker 2: little bit of a show, at least for a quarter.
Speaker 2: This is like a playoff game. I'm not gonna last
Speaker 2: stop laughing at that in my head for a while now, but.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just like it was two real
Speaker 1: quarterbacks looking like real quarterbacks. Mahomes's drive was fine. Sue
Speaker 1: Mattea continues to be their left tackle. He's going to
Speaker 1: be their guy. The big takeaway from this game was
Speaker 1: Marquise Brown got hurt and you hate to see that.
Speaker 1: He had a clavigal shoulder injury that I'm gonna stumble over,
Speaker 1: how the how you say it, But he's out four
Speaker 1: to six weeks. That's not official from the team. But
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill had almost the exact same injury, and that
Speaker 1: was how long he was out for. It was for
Speaker 1: four games when he had it. And you know, some
Speaker 1: of the Twitter doctors and say stuff, say that's about
Speaker 1: the timeline. So that puts Marquise Brown's availability for that
Speaker 1: opener in doubt, which is disappointing. He's going to be
Speaker 1: a big part of their offense.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Fun fact about that injury, according to NFL Network insider
Speaker 2: Ian Rappaport and his report on NFL Network Today, usually
Speaker 2: associated with car crash injuries, not footballing.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what the that's what I like
Speaker 1: these guys do seventeen weeks a year. It'sgress when the
Speaker 1: biggest takeaway of standing on the sidelines of NFL games
Speaker 1: other than obviously it's very fast, faster than you can imagine.
Speaker 1: And then number two, I'm amazed officials get anything right,
Speaker 1: and I have way more tolerance for them after being
Speaker 1: on the field. I was just like, how did they
Speaker 1: get anything right?
Speaker 4: This is impossible I stay healthy enough to officiate right.
Speaker 1: The third thing is I can't believe there aren't more
Speaker 1: injuries all the time. Yeah, every everyone just isn't always hurt.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it seems insane. Let's go a couple of
Speaker 1: more games. Eagles, Ravens not a lot here, Tanner McKee,
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett. I did like how Nate Wiggins looked in
Speaker 1: this game. The cornerback for the Ravens. He then left
Speaker 1: with a shoulder injury that he got diving on a tackle.
Speaker 1: John Harbad did say that his injury and Rashad Bateman's
Speaker 1: injury which kept him out of the game, are believed
Speaker 1: to be pretty minor, so that's a good sign. Before that,
Speaker 1: he looked incredible that the rookie corner in Nate Wagins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is This is the two sides of the
Speaker 2: coin with Nate Wiggins that I've held since the combine.
Speaker 2: The guy's incredibly fast, incredibly athletic, and was very productive
Speaker 2: to the Clemson right and he is a natural cover corner.
Speaker 2: There was a sequence where can you Pickkett went after
Speaker 2: him like three or four straight plays early in this game.
Speaker 2: He's a little gravy on the first one, but he
Speaker 2: bats it down. Second one he basically blocks it with
Speaker 2: his like lower back because he just shielded off the
Speaker 2: receiver and pick it under through it. And then the
Speaker 2: third one was a legit good pass breakup, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: there it is.
Speaker 4: There's the product. You got this guy.
Speaker 2: At the end of the first round, Ravens fans are
Speaker 2: all fired up, but then he gets hurt and he
Speaker 2: actually had a couple more nice plays before he.
Speaker 4: Went out of that game.
Speaker 2: And I were the reason that I even bring up
Speaker 2: the injury, beyond the fact that it's probably like day
Speaker 2: to day whatever, is the fact that I when I
Speaker 2: watched his tape and I looked at his bild, I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: he's super athletic, but he's kind of wiry, Like he's
Speaker 2: a little slight slight. He's almost like you need to
Speaker 2: put some weight on to be able to play, you know,
Speaker 2: a full NFL season, and you know it's already kind
Speaker 2: of popped up. So hoping for the best, hoping it
Speaker 2: doesn't become a consistent thing. But that's the two sides
Speaker 2: of that there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've had a lot of injuries. Kyle Hamilton left
Speaker 1: Sunday's practice with a knee injury, but they initially they
Speaker 1: think they dodged the bullet, but they were sending him
Speaker 1: for more tests. So we're taping this Sunday night, and
Speaker 1: so we just don't know that obviously is something to
Speaker 1: watch that Arthur Malette, who had a role in their
Speaker 1: secondary's gonna miss the beginning of the season. So I've
Speaker 1: had some injuries, you know, really, Rack up, Eagles didn't
Speaker 1: play many starters. Weren't any huge takeaways for me. I
Speaker 1: have one takeaway please.
Speaker 2: I'm very concerned about the long term future of Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 2: I know the statistics say he was okay. I'm not
Speaker 2: like panicking, but he has not gotten any better. He's
Speaker 2: still the same guy. And in a game against a
Speaker 2: lot of backups and Baltimore defense led by a new
Speaker 2: defensive cordiator in Zach Orr, I was underwhelmed.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of confidence. You can just sometimes you
Speaker 1: can see it with quarterback when they're just not playing
Speaker 1: with any confidence, not sure of himself. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: mentioned Tanner McKee that there's a battle there. I guess
Speaker 1: for the backup quarterback job. I guess is they keep
Speaker 1: both those guys. They're not going to cut Kenny Pickett anyways,
Speaker 1: but Picket's probably been bad enough that they want to
Speaker 1: have McKy there. They might like him better. We don't
Speaker 1: know Steelers Texans. I'm a little worried about the Steelers tackles.
Speaker 1: That was my big takeaway in this game. So Fautanu,
Speaker 1: who is their first round pick, gave up a sack
Speaker 1: and a half and then left with an injury and
Speaker 1: is out at least a week. Broderick Jones, who was
Speaker 1: their first round pick a year ago, had three pressures
Speaker 1: in this game. Played a lot, played deep, switching sides
Speaker 1: back and forth. They're just it's a little unsettled when
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be the identity of their team.
Speaker 2: And the crown jewel of their offseason, which is that, look,
Speaker 2: we invest in the offensive line, we should be good
Speaker 2: to go. But this is the risk you run anytime
Speaker 2: you depend on rookies or young guys to play keep
Speaker 2: hissitions on the offensive line, I mean, and it'll pop
Speaker 2: up in the preseason if they just don't have the experience.
Speaker 2: Roder Jones worked his way into the lineup last year.
Speaker 2: It's not like he had a full season of experience.
Speaker 2: He had two other rookies on that offensive line. This
Speaker 2: is gonna be a problem until it's not anymore. It's
Speaker 2: just can it be solved before it actually affects them significantly?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: And there were two botch snaps from their new center
Speaker 1: Herbig who was there a year ago but now he's
Speaker 1: playing center. They also drafted a rookie Fraser at center,
Speaker 1: so we'll see, like just a lot going on there,
Speaker 1: justin fields had good numbers. Tomlin kind of downplayed it
Speaker 1: because the two botch snaps, he said was partly on
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks too, But I don't know, it seemed like
Speaker 1: watching it look more like this was on the center.
Speaker 1: Naje Harris looked like he had a little juice. There's
Speaker 1: been a lot of best shape of my life buzz
Speaker 1: on Naje Harris, and he did look pretty good in
Speaker 1: this game. So that's something to watch. And then just
Speaker 1: watching an NFL team rollout Calvin Austin and Van Jefferson
Speaker 1: as your wide receiver two and three Pittsburgh and you're
Speaker 1: not giving up a seconds and third for Ayuk.
Speaker 4: Really, if I had hair, I'd pull it out.
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon was back at practice for the Texans on Sunday,
Speaker 1: so that's a good sign. Christian Harris, who's a really
Speaker 1: key linebacker for them, also back up practice for the
Speaker 1: first time I believe all camp, and then immediately left.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the same injury, but
Speaker 1: that's a bad sign for them. Daniel Hunter had a
Speaker 1: sack in this game. Stroud and Tank Dell just had
Speaker 1: a beautiful touchdown that was it just made me not
Speaker 1: you know, I can't wait to watch them in the
Speaker 1: regular season. And then one thing I will note about
Speaker 1: the Steelers. They came back to practice on Sunday and
Speaker 1: Justin Fields is still taking first team reps. Not all
Speaker 1: of them. I guess Russell Wilson's still getting some of them.
Speaker 1: That's something. And then Nick, on top of that, the
Speaker 1: team sent out a celebratory photo. The annual Home Run
Speaker 1: Derby was won by Justin Fields. No, no, Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: drafted in Major League Baseball and Justin Fields is out
Speaker 1: there winning the Home Run Derby.
Speaker 2: He's a supreme athlete. But oh no, we're reading the
Speaker 2: tea leaves already. I can't wait for any jam that's
Speaker 2: an athlete right there.
Speaker 1: Because there's some professional ballplayers and Fields goes out there
Speaker 1: and wins the Home Run Derby. I give him. I
Speaker 1: give him some credit. And supposedly in the situation all
Speaker 1: the red zone drolls and stuff, he was out playing
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. It's like, if this wasn't a battle before,
Speaker 1: it's obviously a battle right now.
Speaker 4: I'm curious if they actually let it get that serious.
Speaker 1: Well, they're gonna let Russell Wilson play. They said, Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson will probably play in this game, So yeah, something.
Speaker 2: A while, like does this level off? Like does all
Speaker 2: the excitement kind of taper off? And they they return
Speaker 2: to business as usual with Russell?
Speaker 1: Willbe is going to be so much more?
Speaker 4: Does it? Yeah? Does it run long enough that it
Speaker 4: actually does? Because we're almost there right.
Speaker 7: Now, right.
Speaker 1: I think he has a chance. I think at this
Speaker 1: point it's very fair to say Justin Fields has a
Speaker 1: realistic chance to start Week one. That was that twenty percent?
Speaker 1: Is it forty percent? I wouldn't give it over fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty yet, But if Russell Wilson doesn't look great
Speaker 1: in practice and doesn't look one hundred percent, then yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. Last game is the game I have
Speaker 1: virtually no notes for. It's your Cleveland Browns. Good went
Speaker 1: dtrya preseason dtr is back D'antavian Wicks, I love him,
Speaker 1: had a long touchdown. Yeah, he did think that the
Speaker 1: couple young Packers recent draft picks, Devontae Wyatt, Lucas van Ness,
Speaker 1: they had some flashes. And so that's about all I
Speaker 1: have for you from the Packers in Browns.
Speaker 2: Game, Yeah, curious to see what type of jump van
Speaker 2: Neess is capable of making. He's a hulking edge guy.
Speaker 2: Came from Iowa and didn't see a whole lot from
Speaker 2: him last year. But that's something that I'd like to track.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, Greg, you and I talked about this.
Speaker 2: I think off on the side, Sean Clifford versus Michael Pratt.
Speaker 2: Sean Clifford looked really good. He looked in command of
Speaker 2: that offense. He looked comfortable. He uses his athleticism, He
Speaker 2: rolled out, he delivered on on target passes all over
Speaker 2: the field. It almost felt like they were playing like
Speaker 2: the junior squad for the Browns or something like the
Speaker 2: JV team because that's how well he was playing.
Speaker 1: So I got to this game. I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: my eyes on all these games. But I did check
Speaker 1: the PFF grades because I'm a sicko to see if
Speaker 1: Proud and they had Pratt out playing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well Pratt got less time. Clifford played into the
Speaker 2: third quarter, and I'm sitting there at the game going,
Speaker 2: can I see Michael Pratt already?
Speaker 4: Please? Why?
Speaker 1: I'm seem like, how was it? Little preseason Browns.
Speaker 2: Action Browns act good if all downtown had power the
Speaker 2: whole time, luckily for them because they had a bunch
Speaker 2: of sports going on in the city this week. But yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it was the Savannah Bananas were playing at Progressive Field
Speaker 2: during this team, so it was a very busy downtown
Speaker 2: but typical preseason action. Beautiful day of whether the Browns
Speaker 2: couldn't do much offensively, not surprised.
Speaker 4: It is the preseason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and look we're we're trying to get into regular
Speaker 1: season for him. We're going to do this every Monday morning.
Speaker 1: You'll have it in your feed. There's three preseason weeks.
Speaker 1: Some weeks. Next week they'll be even I think more.
Speaker 1: Take more to sink your teeth into week three. We'll
Speaker 1: keep it quick and just go around the league of
Speaker 1: what's going on because it'll probably be a little less.
Speaker 1: But it was fun having actual football with officials and
Speaker 1: uniforms and all that fun stuff. So we'll be doing
Speaker 1: that nick at night once the season gets going. You're
Speaker 1: with me on Sunday nights, You're with me on Monday nights.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to a buddy. Thanks again.
Speaker 4: Burn it into your brains, get used to it.
Speaker 1: It's not going anywhere, all right, four Nick shook in, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for all fourteen of those games. We'll be back on
Speaker 1: Tuesday with Jordan Rodrigue, Steve Weisch. We're doing a new
Speaker 1: fun segment called QB Island. Check this one out. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be good until then,