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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome to move to six, d J,

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Speaker 1: Bucky Rhett back together here on a Monday. A lot

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Speaker 1: of football to discuss here, guys, uh rhet. You do

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Speaker 1: not see a great game I U records, so we're

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Speaker 1: it in the trash can. Buck. We're gonna get to

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Speaker 1: the game you were at in a little bit here,

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Speaker 1: uh your experience there with the Jags, and we'll talk

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Speaker 1: skipped the happy chat and just jump right in here. Boys.

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Speaker 1: Are we good to go? All right, We're good? All right,

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Speaker 1: Let's go big three. Let's go big three, Big three

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Speaker 1: games here, Chiefs forty niners. This is a game, Guillie.

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Speaker 1: What a statement win by the Kansas City Chiefs twenty

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Speaker 1: three h This was a clinic on the offensive side

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid on the same page. And

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Speaker 1: was back to that explosive Chiefs offense that were kind

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Speaker 1: I mentioned, but there were a couple of these, almost

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Speaker 1: and essentially either it's Mahomes Kelsey Jujuice Smith Schuster winning

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Speaker 1: And the screen game is something that we thought they

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Speaker 1: back through their last few games, there's so few runs,

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Speaker 1: talking about Lawa, but I think after watching the backups

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Speaker 1: have an opportunity to drive this offense, it is much

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Speaker 1: different when to us at the helm ball comes out quick,

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Speaker 1: he gets it to the playmakers in an area where

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Speaker 1: they're able to run after the catch and It's not

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Speaker 1: a coincidence that when you look up Tyreek Hill Jalen

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Speaker 1: Waddle combined for a hundred and sixty receiving yards, they're

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Speaker 1: able to do it on eleven catches. And this offense

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Speaker 1: stretches you not only vertically but horizontally. It's a tough

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Speaker 1: matchup when you're dealing with the Miami Dolphins. Went to

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Speaker 1: a talking about is that quarterback? Yeah, and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go kind of go back to what we thought of

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Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel right as an offensive assistant and that Kyle

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Speaker 1: Shanahan system and following you know that that Shanahan philosophy

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Speaker 1: throughout his entire coaching career. Now in his first chance

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Speaker 1: to be a head coach, kind of thought early on,

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Speaker 1: you'd see more of that run game, right, more of

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Speaker 1: that physical presence that we saw at times in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: Really didn't through the first couple of weeks of the season.

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Speaker 1: It was more about getting the ball to Jalen Waddle

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Speaker 1: and Tyreek Hill, which look, I can certainly understand um.

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Speaker 1: And now though in the last three weeks they've really

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Speaker 1: started to kind of put the pieces together up front

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Speaker 1: in the run game where he moster guys starts to

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Speaker 1: me feels like the guy that was such a crucial

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Speaker 1: piece of the forty nine or Super Bowl run back

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Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen. I mean, like his short area

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Speaker 1: of quickness and his ability to slash and burst through

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Speaker 1: those zone uh through the holes in those zone schemes,

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Speaker 1: especially as you get him like on the on the

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Speaker 1: edge of the tackles there. It's just so impressive. Um.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the the old line felt like in this

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Speaker 1: game a bit more that that physical presence that you

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Speaker 1: were kind of accustomed to seeing with the forty niners

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Speaker 1: over the years. Uh. Ten of their fifteen explosive runs

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Speaker 1: on the season have come in the last three weeks.

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Speaker 1: They've been up closer to thirty rushing attempts per game

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Speaker 1: and each of the last three weeks, and the Steelers

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Speaker 1: even had to go to like a bear front to

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Speaker 1: try to slow down that run game at the end

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Speaker 1: to get the ball back to their offense to try

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Speaker 1: to come back and win that game late. Um, here's

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Speaker 1: another thing that's interesting. Connor Williams was the best offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman on the field in that game. He looks like

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Speaker 1: a completely different player at center. He was the most

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Speaker 1: physical dude that I watched, and like, just watching the

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Speaker 1: runs and watching Connor Williams up there, I'm like, man,

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Speaker 1: I just I wonder what the what the um the

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Speaker 1: kind of the perception of him was from an analytical

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Speaker 1: basis going back, So I went back and looked at

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Speaker 1: what his grade was. I had a ninety three run

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Speaker 1: blocking grade from Pro Football Focus in this game. And

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Speaker 1: I know the Steelers rush defense is not what he

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Speaker 1: used to be, but that's pretty impressive from a guy

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Speaker 1: from a from a team perspective offensively running the football.

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Speaker 1: And then for Connor Williams, who's perception of him was

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Speaker 1: maybe he wasn't the most physical guy up front there

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Speaker 1: in Dallas. So I think that's a that's all good news,

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Speaker 1: not just for this offense, but for twa as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it is great news anything. It was rate

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Speaker 1: news on a day in which they were celebrating the

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two perfect team that they're able to run

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Speaker 1: the football because ultimately, as excited as we get about

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and Jayden Waldn Mike Asiki on the outside,

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Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins are going to be a problem for

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Speaker 1: teams when they're able to run the football in Michael

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Speaker 1: Daniel being able to get in his bag and really

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Speaker 1: have a creative running game. That is the part that

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Speaker 1: can separate them from others in the a f C.

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Speaker 1: And so as they lean it to the ground attack

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Speaker 1: as ready you are able to speak to with the stats.

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Speaker 1: As they lean into the running game, this is when

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Speaker 1: this team becomes dangerous because they can go ground and

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Speaker 1: pound and then they can throw it over your head

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Speaker 1: with an explosive aerial attack. Yeah, this is gonna be

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Speaker 1: a fun division to follow, you know. As we get

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Speaker 1: to the second half of the season, the Jets had

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Speaker 1: some injuries, Breese Hall being a big one. That's confirmed

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Speaker 1: this morning towards a c L I'm and they're off

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Speaker 1: to a hot start, obviously. The Buffalo Bills are doing

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Speaker 1: their thing, and New England's gonna be there. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be there at the end. So it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be fun to watch Miami and the rest of those

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Speaker 1: teams there in the a f C East. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's get to the Cowboys. Dak Prescott's back, Um, he's

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Speaker 1: back against the Detroit Lions. I'll lead us off on

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Speaker 1: this one. Guy's uh, you know, watching the tape. The

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Speaker 1: first thing I want to see, number one, just how

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Speaker 1: the ball is coming out of his hand. I thought

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Speaker 1: he threw the ball with tremendous velocity, the you know

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Speaker 1: things were accustomed to seeing from Dac where he doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to have his legs, he can be you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of have pressure in his face, not be able

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Speaker 1: to step into throws, falling off throws. He could still

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Speaker 1: really drive it now what you're seeing on some of

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Speaker 1: these clips. And he even said it and some of

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Speaker 1: the comments after the game, a little bit overconfident. But

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Speaker 1: I'd rather have a quarterback coming off a right thumb

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Speaker 1: injury be a little bit overconfident trying to jam balls

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Speaker 1: in tight spots than somebody who's, you know, just really

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Speaker 1: concerned and and and worried about how he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to grip the football. So it wasn't a clean

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Speaker 1: performance from Dak Prescott, but I bought the ball jumped

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Speaker 1: out of his hand, and I like the fact that

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Speaker 1: buck he was attacking in this game. He wasn't sitting

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Speaker 1: there taking check downs and trying to really protect himself

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Speaker 1: and see what he had with his thumb. He came

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Speaker 1: out there to grip it and rip it. You know,

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Speaker 1: I liked that, and I like that from Prescott, But

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Speaker 1: what I really liked was at Kellen Moore and Minema Card.

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Speaker 1: They didn't eva from the formula. This is a team

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Speaker 1: that has found this identity while Dak Prescott was away.

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Speaker 1: This is a team that plays complimentary football. Defense says

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Speaker 1: the table offense, runs the ball. Quarterback needs to make

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Speaker 1: a handful of place. When you look at the way

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys have traditionally won the division, that's holways

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Speaker 1: been with Dak Prescott under center, going back to his

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Speaker 1: early days, his rookie year, they were able to run

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Speaker 1: the football with Dickie Elliott compementary passing game defense playing

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Speaker 1: at a high level. That is what they have to

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Speaker 1: do now. And so even though Dak Prescott is well compensated,

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Speaker 1: he's a forty million dollar man, that Cowboys stayed disciplined,

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Speaker 1: ran the football, leaning on the defense, and eventually they

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Speaker 1: ran away from the Lions. This is the way that

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Speaker 1: this team has to play. But it is a luxury

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Speaker 1: to have a high end quarterback in the full because

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Speaker 1: he can make a handful of plays that allows in

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Speaker 1: the windows. Games that are tight down the end but

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Speaker 1: the formula needs to remain the same for the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: going forward. Anybody got a dictionary, handy anybody anywhere dictionary

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Speaker 1: because when you look, when you look up, it's called

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Speaker 1: your phone. Right with respect to our good friend Webster,

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Speaker 1: they do still print those things. Um, so when you

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Speaker 1: look up complimentary football in a dictionary, it will say

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Speaker 1: see Cowboys versus Lions, October twenty two. I'm glad you

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Speaker 1: mentioned that, Bucky, because that is the formula the defense

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Speaker 1: does really curiously where this is all going, okay, but look,

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Speaker 1: the defense is what makes this team go and and

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Speaker 1: and I don't think that's disrespect at all to Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott or to what the offense ultimately does for the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys this year. They are an aggressive defense. Dan Quinn

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Speaker 1: is absolutely, Um, you know, has this defense rolling? I

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Speaker 1: think we've we've obviously seen that, whether Deck's in or

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Speaker 1: out of the lineup, and in this game, I mean

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Speaker 1: it took really until the third quarter, but this defense

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Speaker 1: started turning the football over, right, They started turn in

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Speaker 1: it over. They were putting heat on Jared Goff and

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Speaker 1: then you had the secondary making plays that picked him off.

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Speaker 1: Every touchdown the Cowboys scored in this game came directly

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Speaker 1: off a turnover that the defense force happened on the

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Speaker 1: first possession. Lion's first possession of the third quarter had

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Speaker 1: an interception, turned that into a touchdown, and then on

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Speaker 1: back to back possessions in the fourth quarder, they absolutely

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Speaker 1: sealed the deal with a sack, fumble return and interception

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Speaker 1: and the Cowboys turned both of those into touchdowns. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if I'm reading this correctly, one to three, four five

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Speaker 1: of the Lion's last six possessions and didn't turnovers. That's

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Speaker 1: pretty good complimentary football with the offense taking advantage of

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Speaker 1: those extra opportunities. DJ yep, no doubt. Defense has been

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Speaker 1: great and to kind of put a bowl on it

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Speaker 1: here with Dak Prescott average ten point five are yards

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Speaker 1: with the next Gen stats, which was the highest average

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Speaker 1: of the Cowboys have had this year. So that's a difference.

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Speaker 1: When he gets back in the line up, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to take some shots uh down the field.

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Speaker 1: That's that's good to see there with Dak Prescott. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna take a break, we come back, we're gonna find

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Speaker 1: out if Bucky's dog killed the Amazon delivery guy, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna dig into a couple of games we saw.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to a couple of games we

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Speaker 1: saw live here. Bucky had the Jags and the Giants.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to that one in just two minute.

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Speaker 1: Some of the takeaways there. I was at the Chargers

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Speaker 1: Seahawks game, a game that the Seahawks really dominated from

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Speaker 1: start to finish. It was impressive and doing it with

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Speaker 1: so many young players. We've talked a lot on the

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Speaker 1: show about Trick Woollin and the job he's done. He

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Speaker 1: had a great matchup with Mike Williams. Won some, lost some,

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Speaker 1: but a real competitive effort from him. Kobe Bryant another

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Speaker 1: rookie on that defense, playing well. Boy ma Fe was

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Speaker 1: out there. You've got the two tackles and crossing lucas

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Speaker 1: that are starting for this football team. But the biggest

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Speaker 1: takeaway was Kenneth Walker, the running back out of Michigan State,

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Speaker 1: their second round pick, was the best player on the

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Speaker 1: field and the Chargers had absolutely no answer for him.

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Speaker 1: You see a hundred and sixty eight yards of two touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: had five explosive runs, including this long one with what

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Speaker 1: seventy five yards or whatever? This one was taking it

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Speaker 1: to the house. So we hit twenty two miles per hour.

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Speaker 1: It was the fastest speed we have on a ball

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Speaker 1: carrier so far this year according to Next Gen Stats. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, when I look at when I look at

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Speaker 1: his game, Buck, the combination of of rugged, quick, and

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Speaker 1: then to me, the the instincts. Those things don't always

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Speaker 1: go together. When you have the big time, you know, suddenness,

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Speaker 1: you have the power to go with it. A lot

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Speaker 1: of times those are straight line guys. They can't make

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Speaker 1: people miss or they don't have vision. This guy's got everything.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they haven't really used him yet in the

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Speaker 1: passing game, much like we saw at Michigan State. We

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Speaker 1: wanted him to get more involved there. I think that's

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Speaker 1: gonna come. But this is this is like giving me

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Speaker 1: some Jonathan Taylor type vibes. The way he's running the

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Speaker 1: football right now. You know, DJ is funny you talking

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Speaker 1: about Kenneth Walker because I'm looking at the Seahawks and

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's a little bit of deja vu

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Speaker 1: back to the early two thousand tens when this team

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Speaker 1: emerged is one of the best teams in the NFC,

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Speaker 1: and part of that emerges came when they had a

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Speaker 1: solid foundation from a draft class that was loaded with talent.

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Speaker 1: So you don't off all the names of the rookies

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Speaker 1: that are making contributions. And I'm looking at these young guys.

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Speaker 1: You got two young tackles playing well. You've got two

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Speaker 1: cornerbacks that are playing well. Uh, you have all of

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Speaker 1: these young guys getting it done. But then I'm looking

644
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: at the quarterback in Geno Smith, and Geno Smith has

645
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: become what I call a game manager. Plus he's doing

646
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: a really good job of taking care of the football.

647
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 1: He's completing over his passes. Passer rating is solid. He

648
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: has an eleven to three touchdown the interception ratio, and

649
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: so he's doing what a young Russell Wilson did when

650
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: they had Marshawn Lynch and they were really running the football.

651
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that this Seattle team is going to

652
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, but what I am saying is that

653
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: I think Pete Carroll has some new energy because he's

654
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: able to play the game the way that he wants

655
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: to play. Because there's a new set of cast off misfits,

656
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: guys that were unheralded playing the way the Seattle prefer

657
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: to play and has been refreshing to watch this team

658
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: surprise everybody with their style of their production. Yeah, and

659
00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: when I look at the Chargers, uh, the good vibes

660
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: are not there offensively, And you know how much of

661
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: this is in dj Ill come back to you on

662
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: this here. How much of this is you know, the

663
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: continued recovery from the rib injury of Justin Herbert, you know,

664
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: the loss of Corey Lindsley for a bit of time,

665
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: and now you know you're you're still dealing with the

666
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: loss of your Pro Bowl you know, rookie left tackle

667
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: from a year ago who we expected to take even

668
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: more strides coming in to a second year, and it

669
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: just doesn't feel like there's that efficiency and Herbert's ability

670
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: to kind of push the ball down the field hasn't

671
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: been there as much in the last couple of weeks. Like,

672
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: what what do you make of where this Chargers offense

673
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: has been. Well, it's been a slog I mean, they

674
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: they've won, they've won three games in a row coming

675
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: into this one, they're still sitting at four and three.

676
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,479
Speaker 1: But Rhett, you know, Herbert coming off that injury has

677
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: not been the same guy. And some of it has

678
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: to do with the fact, look, you don't have you know,

679
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: Rashawn Slater. The offensive line has been a little leaky.

680
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: They cannot run the ball at all, um, So you're

681
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: in a position where you're throwing in a bunch in

682
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: this game, they're chasing points. But you know, look, Joe

683
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: Embardi has caught a lot of heat saying everything's underneath

684
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: and they're not stretching the field vertically. There were some

685
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: opportunities early in this game with DeAndre Carter where I thought,

686
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: you know, Herbert when he's when he's really rolling, is

687
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: going to take those shots and be aggressive. He hasn't

688
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: really been dialing those ups, so I think he's lost

689
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: a little bit of his aggressiveness over the last few weeks.

690
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: And then look, let's let's face it, there was a

691
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: key down yesterday, guys, and Buck, I'll go to you

692
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: on this one, but there's a key down in this

693
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: game where you look out under the field and they've

694
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: got Jason Moore, they've got DeAndre Carter, they had Trade McKitty,

695
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: and they had Michael Bandy. That's that's who they were

696
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 1: throwing the ball too. Keenan, I when I played a

697
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: handful of players in this game. He's still not right

698
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: from his hamstring. Mike Williams went down got hurt in

699
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: this game. You know, Donald Palm hasn't been playing like.

700
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: They don't have the firepower. And I think the other

701
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: thing is a name that people probably aren't familiar with.

702
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: This guy named Jalen Guiton. He went down with a

703
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: season ending injury early in the season. And what he

704
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 1: was and he doesn't have a ton of production. He

705
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: had speed, He could take the top off the defense.

706
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: They don't have that right now in the field has

707
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: really shrunk. Yeah, feel this wrong. They are playing half

708
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: court basketball. They do Y m c A. And until

709
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: they're able to recognize what the issues are and then

710
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: maybe flip into more of a ground centric approach. With

711
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler and some of the other guys playing pivotal roles,

712
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: it would be tough for them to generate the big

713
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: plays in the passing game. And so they have the

714
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: Bible coming up, and so maybe they can not only

715
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: get healthy, but maybe they can reassess who they are,

716
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: what their identity needs to be, not on offense but

717
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: on defense. Because this team, despite all the injuries, they're

718
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: still too talented. They have the struggles that they've really

719
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: been displaying over the last couple of weeks, no doubt.

720
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: These last two games, by the way, they're leading rusher

721
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler thirty one yards in this game, thirty six

722
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: yards the previous game. So just have zero run game

723
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: to speak of at this point in time. All right, Buck,

724
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: you saw an interesting one there with the Giants and

725
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: the Jags. I think Giants might be the most surprising

726
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: team thus far. The Jags, team that you cover on

727
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: a weekly basis, continue to be competitive in these games,

728
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: just couldn't quite get it done to win the ball game.

729
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: What was your takeaway seeing this one live? So my

730
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: takeaway is these teams are really really close, but there's

731
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: one team that knows how to win while the other

732
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: team is learning how to win. And the Jaguars with

733
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: the Giants, I think it was very impressive to watch

734
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 1: them up close in person because dj is is one

735
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: thing to appreciate the way that they've been winning from afar,

736
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: but to see it play out in front of you

737
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: is different. This is a team that they can run

738
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: the football, the physical but the most important thing about

739
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,959
Speaker 1: the Giants they know exactly who they are and they

740
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: don't deviate away from their identity. Sae Kwon Barkley could

741
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: not move the ball the first three quarters of the game.

742
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: The fourth quarter when they needed it, he got loose.

743
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: But the guy who was able to carry the offense

744
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: while se Kwon was figuring it out was Daniel Jones.

745
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: And not Daniel Jones the passer, but Daniel Jones the playmaker,

746
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: running zone reads, running design quarterback runs using his feet

747
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: when the pocket broke down. Daniel Jones is in a

748
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: very effective dual threat playmaker. Had three hundreds scrimmage yards

749
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 1: and I'm not ready to put him in that same

750
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: category as Jalen Hurst, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, but he

751
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: is one of the best du three of playmakers that

752
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: we've seen at a position. Credit brand day Ball for

753
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: utilizing his entire skill set to get the fourth year

754
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: pro up and running because he's playing well. Yeah and Bucky,

755
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: you know, looking at what the Jaguars were able to do.

756
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,320
Speaker 1: It was obviously watching this one pretty closely on the

757
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 1: set of Game Day Live on the early edition in

758
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: this uh yesterday, and you know it's Jags go down

759
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: and score on their first possession. They answer the giant

760
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: score and you're like, all right, Like this kind of

761
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: feels like maybe a little bit of a back and

762
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: forth game, And you know, you look at the final

763
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: numbers and you're like, all right, Trevor Lawrence through for

764
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: three hundred yards, Travis E. T n ran for over

765
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: a hundred almost at like ten yards of pop. Obviously

766
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: had a big one in there mixed in, and yet

767
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: they only put up seventeen points. So when you look

768
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: at this Bucky from the Jaguars offensive perspective and knowing

769
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: that the head coaches, you know, calling the plays and

770
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: a guy that's obviously very much in tune with what's

771
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: going on offensively, Like where do you feel like the

772
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: points need to come from? Where? Why haven't they been there?

773
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: And like are there signs of progress offensively that leads

774
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: you to believe that they're gonna my find a way

775
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: to kind of get this thing clicking. Once you get

776
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: into the second half of the season, you know, it's

777
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: funny you bring it up Red because it's the same

778
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: issue every week. They're so close to being a really

779
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: really good team in a really good offense, but that

780
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: a seven inflicted mistakes that hurt him so Travis n

781
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: t N is running like crazy, has a red zone

782
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: opportunity where he's about to go into the end zone,

783
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: he foams it through the end zone for a touchback. Uh.

784
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: This is a team that gets in the red zone.

785
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: They have first intent from the fourteen yard line, three

786
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: straight incompletions, having a subtle for a field goals. So

787
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: the combination of self inflicted mistakes and red zone inefficiency

788
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: is preventing the Jaguars from max and their talent maximizing

789
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: their talent. This is one of those moments where they

790
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,320
Speaker 1: have to keep learning these hard lessons, but at some

791
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: point they're gonn knock the door down and when they

792
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 1: unlock their potential. This is a team that's gonna be

793
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: a really good team in the National Football League. And

794
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 1: as good as the news is right now for the

795
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 1: six and one Giants, I just look at this team

796
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: and I look at their personnel. It's only gonna get

797
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: better that They're only going to add more pieces and

798
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: more playmakers, and they're gonna figure out other Daniel Jones

799
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,439
Speaker 1: is a guy going forward and how to build around

800
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: him if he is that guy. If he's not the guy,

801
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,879
Speaker 1: they're gonna get somebody else. But this is a six

802
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: and one team that's not a complete football team right now.

803
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 1: And that tells you you've got the right head coach.

804
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: You've got the right general manager there as well. So

805
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: things looking up there for the Giants. All Right, we're

806
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: gonna take We're gonna come back and look at the Yeah,

807
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: go ahead, hight what do you got? Well? I was

808
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: just the one thing to watch though for the Giants

809
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: is like, you know, they're a team that has some

810
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: good talent right in that top twenty two. You wonder

811
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: a little bit about the depth and we started to

812
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: see that in this game. Evan Neil was out was

813
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 1: ruled out very quickly in this game back in the

814
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: first half. Same with Ben Brettison the right guard. So, um,

815
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: you know, can they still maintain that dominant run game

816
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: if they've got to shuffle some pieces around on the

817
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: offensive line. Just something to follow for the Giants movie.

818
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: I appreciate you putting on your blue polo to talk

819
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: about the Giants. Well, if we get rhet to coordinate

820
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: the polo with the team that we're talking about or

821
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: the quarter zip, that would be the next level. That

822
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: was like it was issued by the Giants equipment staff

823
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: right there. That's how blew that thing is. That's impressive.

824
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: Al Right, we're take a break. We'll be right back.

825
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the Battle for the a f

826
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: C South and what that looks like right after this. Alright,

827
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: time for Battle at the Line presented by Caesar's Sports Book.

828
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: And I guess this should be titled Battle behind the

829
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: Line today because we've got a quarterback change in Indianapolis.

830
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 1: Guys were we were all scheduled to talk about that

831
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: game between the Titans and the Colts, all ready to

832
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: go on that, and literally moments ago it just came down.

833
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: Frank Reich has announced that Sam Ellinger is going to

834
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: start at quarterback for the Colts. This is not an

835
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: injury situation with Matt Ryan. He has been benched, and

836
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: this is not a one game audition. This is for

837
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: the remainder of the season. They have given the keys

838
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,879
Speaker 1: to the Colts offensive car to their former six round pick,

839
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: their recent six round pick who's not played a hasn't

840
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: started a game in the NFL. Uh So they're off

841
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: and running. They have ripped the band aid off. Buck.

842
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: They are done with Matt Ryan. You were there and

843
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: saw him in person. Wasn't a week ago and now

844
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: it's it's that's over. It's amazing because a week ago

845
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: he threw it over fifty times leads into a win

846
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: with a tear drop past to Alec Pierce to win it.

847
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: And now I'm hearing that, oh he's done, he's done

848
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: for the year, that Sam Elegor is gonna be the

849
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: starting quarterback, not just against the Commanders but for the

850
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 1: rest of the season. To me, this doesn't sound like

851
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: a move that was done by the coaches. This sounds

852
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: like this was something that was above their play pay grade.

853
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: And so maybe they want to see what Sam Ellinger

854
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: can can bring to the table as a franchise quarterback.

855
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: But it doesn't make any sense to me that they're

856
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: getting rid of Matt Ryan. They're putting them out the

857
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: pasture because this offensive line underperformed. They don't have high

858
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: end playmakers on the outside. So yeah, Matt Ryan can

859
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: be the scapegoat, but the issues for the Colts it's

860
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: in well beyond number two at quarterback. Yeah. I'm just

861
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: looking here, guys, real quick. I'm just trying to find

862
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 1: which veteran aging quarterback that the culture gonna go after

863
00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: this offseason next. I don't, I don't. I don't see

864
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: it just yet. I mean, why why make why go

865
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 1: get Matt Ryan? Like what what is he shown this

866
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: year that is that much that different than what we've

867
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: seen in the last couple of years in Atlanta? Like,

868
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: I don't know that he's been marginally worse, um, and

869
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 1: have you really done enough to get the most out

870
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,879
Speaker 1: of him? John John Taylor carried the ball ten times

871
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: in this game. I mean Matt Ryan threw at forty

872
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 1: plus times in this game. Um, this is like really

873
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 1: surprising to me, just from like an organizational standpoint moving

874
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: forward this early in the season, from a philosophical standpoint offensively,

875
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,280
Speaker 1: like with the way you want to run your offense,

876
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: like are you it must just be like just the

877
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: lackable ability, um from Ryan in the pocket, like just

878
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: hampering what you really want to do and your ability

879
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:53,360
Speaker 1: to to get out of trouble like that. That seems

880
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: to me to be the biggest thing. I don't know, Um,

881
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: it's hard to put a finger on this, just with

882
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 1: the way that they've gone and tried to attack defenses,

883
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,240
Speaker 1: amount of times they put the ball in Matt Ryan's hands.

884
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like that's the way this offense should run.

885
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: Like we were about to talk about this game, this

886
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: Colts Titans game, which by the way, it was a

887
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: battle for first place in the SEC South um and

888
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like, the Colts should be operating

889
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: more like the Titans operate. They should look more like

890
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: the Titans. They've got it running back that's on the

891
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: same level as Derrick Henry, the last two rushing champs

892
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Yet Henry carries the ball thirty times,

893
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: which helps minimize you know, what Ryan Tannehill has to

894
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: do in that Titans offense, whereas Jonathan Taylor in the

895
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: they handed off to ten times, is ten times in

896
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,479
Speaker 1: this game, and he you know, five yards to carry.

897
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: I get it, he's still coming back to injury. But

898
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, none of it really matches up to me.

899
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: D Day. Well, I'm looking at it right now, right

900
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: and first of all, on the bottom of the screen

901
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: you see Matt Ryan nine touchdowns, nine picks. No, boy, no,

902
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: I'm looking at sacks this year. There's they've allowed twenty

903
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: four sacks, second most in the league. So that's got

904
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: to be sitting down the quarterback. Yeah, he can't move

905
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: your offensive and is not played well, they've got holes

906
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 1: up there. So you got a quarterback can't move. You've

907
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: got some receivers. This Buck mentioned like when you look

908
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: at Pears and Pittman and Paris Campbell. They've got some

909
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 1: guys they should be able to generate some explosives, especially

910
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: if they could get the run game going. And I

911
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: think one of the things that's gonna help the run

912
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: game is Sam Ellinger. I went back and looked at

913
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: my college report on him and I did not have

914
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: a big grade, full disclosure on him, but the positives,

915
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: he was excellent the r P O game. We know

916
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: Frank Reich, we know that he loves that. You think

917
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: about Doug Peterson. Buck sees that on a weekly basis

918
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: that that's a big component of what they do. Quarterback

919
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: run game, you can mix in. Ellinger did that a

920
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: ton of Texas. He's gonna compliment the run game there

921
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: with Jonathan Taylor, and he's gonna be able to bail

922
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: you out when you get your butt kicked up front,

923
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 1: which is happening every single week. Matt Ryan's just sitting there,

924
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: He's done. The play is over and we've seen back

925
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: footed interceptions, we've seen him just take out. He has

926
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: no answers, and that's where the league is like, if

927
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: you want to play with the pocket passer. We talked

928
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: earlier about Tom Brady, what's wrong with Tom Brady, Well,

929
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: they're not great up front. They lost all three of

930
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 1: their interior guys, and you've got it in mobile quarterback.

931
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 1: It doesn't work well. Aaron Rodgers there there. They can't

932
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: run the ball, their offensive line has been in shambles.

933
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: And even though he can move around better than those guys,

934
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: he doesn't move around like he used to. So that's

935
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,760
Speaker 1: why this wave of quarterbacks has gone to more mobile

936
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 1: players the league, Buck and you can jump in on this.

937
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: Every year when we do the draft, we look at

938
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: the number of defensive lineman coming in, we look at

939
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: the number of offensive lineman coming in. It doesn't match up.

940
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: There's more defensive talent up front than there is offensive talent.

941
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the reasons why offense as

942
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: a whole in the league right now is way down

943
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 1: because they're not the playoff front is not good. It's

944
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: just not good, and that you had no answers to

945
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: solve those problems with Matt Ryan. Yeah, a few different

946
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: things come to mind when I think about this one.

947
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: I feel like the Coast didn't do Memorians justice in

948
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: terms of they brought him in, but he didn't necessarily

949
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: play the right way. At thirty seven years of age,

950
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to carry an offense. You're supposed to

951
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: be the guy that makes a handful of plays on

952
00:42:56,239 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 1: an offense that runs through somebody else, namely the running. Secondly,

953
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: let's get to the point where when we're evaluating the

954
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,320
Speaker 1: quarterback position, if you don't have mobility, it's going to

955
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 1: be tough for you to play in the National Football League.

956
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that every quarterback needs to be an

957
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: A plus runner, but if you don't have that in

958
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 1: your back, you don't have that club in your back,

959
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: it's going to be hard to play in the National

960
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,400
Speaker 1: Football League with the superheroes that are playing on the

961
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: on the defensive line. And third, if you're an offensive coordinator,

962
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: you better look at the college game and have some

963
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: of these concepts available to use. What your quarterback r

964
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: p o s design, quarterback runs, read option plays. You

965
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: need to have those things to slow down what they're

966
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: doing defensively to attack the running game. You better have

967
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: all of this stuff together because if not, you're not

968
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,400
Speaker 1: gonna be able to have an effective offense because the

969
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: game is shifted and we're in the middle of an

970
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: evolution at the position in DJ I get your points

971
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: and they make a lot of sense. He's a sitting

972
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: duck back there, and when he does get pressure, that's

973
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: when the turnovers have come, and there's far too many

974
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: to win football games. Um, coming out of the right

975
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: hand of your quarterback. But what's like, what did you

976
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: expect from Matt Ryan? Like, Yeah, you already knew the

977
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: last couple of years that he can't get out of

978
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: trouble in the pocket. That's not his game, right, and

979
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,879
Speaker 1: and yet you still go and you're gonna spend whatever

980
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: it was third round pick I think to send to

981
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 1: the Falcons to bring him over. He's got a huge

982
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: cap number next year. You know, maybe you can find

983
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: ways around that. But it just felt like, in a way,

984
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,920
Speaker 1: you're kind of getting, you know, what you expected in

985
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,919
Speaker 1: a in a certain sense, um with Matt Ryan running

986
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: this offense the way that they're choosing to play. So

987
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: that's that's just the thought there, Well, I'm looking at

988
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: their schedule and I'm seeing Washington, and we know what

989
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: their defensive front in terms of talent with Montes, Sweat

990
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: and Company can do. New England. Who's gonna be able

991
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: to blitch you and do the things Bill Bill Belichick does.

992
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 1: Followed by Vegas with Max Crosby and Company, followed by Philadelphia,

993
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 1: and they're pretty pictures of lineman like, it's not they

994
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 1: can't play like this. It ain't gonna work. And they've

995
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: got to find a way to get the ship right,

996
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 1: and they gotta find a way to do something offensively

997
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: because um, it's just it hasn't worked, guys. And the

998
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,959
Speaker 1: other thing is, sooner or later, Chris Ballard is gonna

999
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: have to, you know, plug his nose, cross his fingers

1000
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: and toes and draft one of these quarterbacks, you know,

1001
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: high at some point in time. You gotta take the

1002
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: plunge because guys like Matt Ryan and you know, even

1003
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: fill Up at the end of his career. Those guys

1004
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: are available for a reason because they're not the same

1005
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: guys that they were when they were a little bit younger.

1006
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz was another example. Yeah, DJ, I'm gonna I'm

1007
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,840
Speaker 1: gonna steal your host title for a second as we

1008
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: transition into the college takeaways, because I think you set

1009
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 1: the table perfectly there. I was gonna talk about one

1010
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: of the players I saw live in the Indiana Rutgers

1011
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 1: game and Rutgers safety Christian Issy and who's a ball

1012
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: hawking dude. But let's just let's just get right into

1013
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: the college takes because if I'm a Colts fan, you

1014
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: should be paying close attention to the Ohio State Penn

1015
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,439
Speaker 1: State game, Big newon kickoff c J Stroud. Uh there.

1016
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 1: You should also be paying attention to the Kentucky Wildcats.

1017
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: But the rest of the season with Will Levice at quarterback,

1018
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: obviously you want to see what Alabama is doing. Um,

1019
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,919
Speaker 1: and then you know, I think there's there's a number

1020
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,800
Speaker 1: of options in this draft for Chris Ballard. As you mentioned, like,

1021
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,720
Speaker 1: it's time, it's time to put the stop gaps aside.

1022
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: It's time to take whatever capital you have and find

1023
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: yourself in a position, get yourself in a position to

1024
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 1: make a play for one of the top quarterbacks in

1025
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: this class. I think you can all, we can all

1026
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: give the Colt to a bit of a pass for

1027
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: not going all in last year and what was a

1028
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 1: weaker quarterback class overall. But now it's time. There's plenty

1029
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: of options for you to choose from. I would say,

1030
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 1: first round, second round. There's gonna be plenty of quarterbacks

1031
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: available to be one of those guys that you can

1032
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: count on for years to come, no doubt. Um, that's

1033
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: a good way to put It's a good way to

1034
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: wrap the show. I know we went along today, but

1035
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 1: this this breaking news kind of got us talking a

1036
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:45,919
Speaker 1: little bit, so we went a little bit long there.

1037
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: Red's gonna save the breathtaking take he had on that

1038
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: Rutgers player for next week's show, so tune in for

1039
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 1: that one. I appreciate you guys. You can find us

1040
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: on NFL's YouTube, nfl dot com, the NFL channel, and

1041
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: the NFL app. Until then, we'll see you next time

1042
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: right here on move the sticks. You want to want,

1043
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: you want to tell