Speaker 1: The volume. You don't do the Bowl championship. That should
Speaker 1: always be the expectation. All right, man Ax, you go ahead.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast. What a week, Mitchell.
Speaker 1: The San Francisco forty nine Ers gonna win, the Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks gonna win, the Buffalo Bills lose through the Rams.
Speaker 1: Your Detroit Lions got a huge win Thursday night in
Speaker 1: front of us, in front of the home crowd. It
Speaker 1: was an amazing game. You gotta be feeling good right now, Mitchell.
Speaker 2: Richard, I'm on cloud nine.
Speaker 3: I would be feeling a little bit better if Carolina
Speaker 3: had squeaked that one out at the end. But our guy,
Speaker 3: big play Sligh had to step up in the clutch.
Speaker 2: Richard.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about you all afternoon. The Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 3: had a huge game. This is an opportunity for them
Speaker 3: to separate themselves from the pack in Arizona. Everyone's wondering
Speaker 3: who is the Seattle Seahawks team. They've been a little
Speaker 3: bit hotter of late, and they proved today. I think,
Speaker 3: at least to me, they proved today this team, this
Speaker 3: team might be one to compete with.
Speaker 2: Richard.
Speaker 3: How fired up are you with that win in the Arizona.
Speaker 3: The Seattle Seahawks come out victorious.
Speaker 1: I'm so I'm so excited. That's their fourth straight coming
Speaker 1: out of Dubai and Mike McDonald made adjustments. He said
Speaker 1: he needed more urgency out of his team, and he's
Speaker 1: getting more urgency, especially out of the defense. Kobe Bryant
Speaker 1: with another interception, Ernest Jones with a huge interception. Both
Speaker 1: both times these things set up scores for their offense.
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant's interception sets up an immediate score to JSN
Speaker 1: from Gino. Gino has another efficient game twenty four thirty
Speaker 1: two thirty three in a touchdown. But it was Zach
Speaker 1: Sharbonnay who really really shined in this game on both
Speaker 1: on the ground and through the area. At seven catches
Speaker 1: for fifty nine yards. He had twenty two carries for
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty four yards two touchdowns. One of
Speaker 1: them was a huge fifty one yard run where he
Speaker 1: just that looked like everything the Seattle Seahawks wanted to
Speaker 1: see when they drafted him out of UCLA, and he delivered. Obviously,
Speaker 1: your guy K nine is banged up, but he stepped
Speaker 1: up in a huge way. This game, JSN continues his
Speaker 1: very consistent season. Five catches for eighty two yards. In
Speaker 1: the touchdown we talked about, Jonathan Hankins gets the sack,
Speaker 1: but it just was a solid effort. And I know
Speaker 1: that the Big Cat didn't get the huge play this week,
Speaker 1: didn't get the highlight play, but he made a number
Speaker 1: of huge deflections, taking on double teams all day, freeing
Speaker 1: up these linebackers. This defense just looks like a whole
Speaker 1: different beast. They were harassing Kyler all night long. They
Speaker 1: were playing tight coverage. Devin Witherspoon again is all over
Speaker 1: the place. Tyreek Wohland Man, I thought he had a pick.
Speaker 1: He undercut Marvin Harrison on a comeback route in this game,
Speaker 1: and it was a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful cover play, and
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna book him up the sideline
Speaker 1: for six. But they had the offensive PI. Marvin Harrison
Speaker 1: Junior wanted to hate on him. Arizona Cardinal team has
Speaker 1: really started to stumble as of late. You know, they're
Speaker 1: still running the ball well. Kyler's playing decent, but he
Speaker 1: just looked rattled early on. This defense was getting to him.
Speaker 1: They were hitting him, they were turning the ball over.
Speaker 1: He had a great throw where he attacked Kobe Bryant
Speaker 1: on the corner route score a touchdown early in the game.
Speaker 1: But after that, this defense cut the water off and
Speaker 1: just kept going all night long. We talked about the
Speaker 1: run game from the offense. This Seattle Seahawks team looks
Speaker 1: really good and I can't wait to see them Sunday
Speaker 1: night against the Green Bay Packers next week. That's going
Speaker 1: to be a great game, a game that really I mean,
Speaker 1: I keep saying barometer, I keep saying litmus test. They've
Speaker 1: won four in a row. But this Packers team has
Speaker 1: looked really good. You saw him take care of Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions to the wire. So if the Seattle Seahawks can
Speaker 1: go in there and get their fifth straight, our our
Speaker 1: host the Packers and get their fifth straight, these conversations
Speaker 1: start to change, Mitchell. For this first year coach Mike McDonald,
Speaker 1: we have to start thinking, oh to the year.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't go that far, Richard.
Speaker 3: I got a guy here in Detroit named Dan Campbell
Speaker 3: that would have an argument with you about that. But listen,
Speaker 3: this Seattle Seahawks team, they've surely impressed, and we questioned them.
Speaker 3: You certainly questioned them, and I was scratching my head
Speaker 3: at the trade deadline when they dealt both their linebackers
Speaker 3: and it seemed like they totally revamped their linebacking corps
Speaker 3: and we both kind of questioned johsh Schneider at that point.
Speaker 3: But since then, four straight opponents held to twenty points
Speaker 3: or less. You know, this game did not start off
Speaker 3: great for them. I'm Kyler Murray connected with Michael Wilson
Speaker 3: on a forty yard forty one yard touchdown right out
Speaker 3: the gates, and Seattle looked like they might be in
Speaker 3: for a long day, and then they recover immediately. This
Speaker 3: was a huge, huge, huge win for the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 3: And you're absolutely right. I mean next Sunday night against
Speaker 3: the Packers, when they host the Packers, that is going
Speaker 3: to be the bar because we saw San Francisco. You know,
Speaker 3: look back like San Francisco. They're not out of the
Speaker 3: race certainly yet. There's still a couple of weeks left
Speaker 3: in this season for them to make up ground. But
Speaker 3: if the Seattle Seahawks can continue their winning ways and
Speaker 3: put this division to bed, you got to look out
Speaker 3: for them in the playoffs. Because Geno Smith only six
Speaker 3: incompletions today. I mean, you gotta love to see that
Speaker 3: from Gino. What do they have to do to take
Speaker 3: out the Packers because the Packers are in desperate need
Speaker 3: of it to win as well.
Speaker 1: It starts with stopping Josh Jacobs. That's going to be
Speaker 1: the biggest task. That's the task I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: has done, including your Detroit Lions, but your Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: defensive line is a lot more banged up. They have
Speaker 1: to have a plan to stop Josh Jacobs. If you
Speaker 1: stop Josh Jacobs, then you put more pressure on Jordan
Speaker 1: Love to really drop back. Matt Laflor has not felt
Speaker 1: comfortable with allowing Jordan Love to throw the ball born
Speaker 1: in twenty five, twenty twenty five times a game. If
Speaker 1: he gets to throwing thirty thirty five times a game,
Speaker 1: this team may be in trouble because he gets a
Speaker 1: little reckless with the football. He starts to get a
Speaker 1: little chaotic, a little a little cavalier, pushing the ball
Speaker 1: down the field, allowing believing in his arm strength, believing
Speaker 1: in his arm talent, and putting the ball in harm's way.
Speaker 1: We've seen that throughout the season, and that's why the
Speaker 1: last few games you just have not seen him really
Speaker 1: pushed the ball down the field as much as they
Speaker 1: had earlier in the year. They've really leaned on the
Speaker 1: run game. They're going to have to protect the football
Speaker 1: because Green Bay Packers turn it over at a really
Speaker 1: high level. Especially on defense. Jeff Afley has done a
Speaker 1: really great job all year long just coaching his team
Speaker 1: put him in good position. If they can get JayR
Speaker 1: Alexander back, that'd be a huge boost for this defense
Speaker 1: and change the way that they're covering. Maybe they run
Speaker 1: a little bit more man coverage, so these receivers are
Speaker 1: going to have to beat man coverage consistently. But I'm
Speaker 1: just going to enjoy this one. This team has to
Speaker 1: feel good going on the road getting their fourth straight win.
Speaker 1: They look really good, they look confident, they look together.
Speaker 1: You could see just the camaraderie on defense, the togetherness,
Speaker 1: guys celebrating one another, celebrating all victories. It's really cool
Speaker 1: to see. But you know what else is cool to see? Mitchell.
Speaker 2: Here comes the hat change.
Speaker 1: Hat change Menchell hat Change the San Francisco forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: and they had a great bounce back game. Struggling struggling,
Speaker 1: breaking a three game losing streak that had me and
Speaker 1: everybody else really concerned. We can talk about all the
Speaker 1: injuries that they have, the guys that are out right now,
Speaker 1: the guys that went to IR, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to talk about that right now. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about the guys that played. Right now, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about Brock Perdy twenty for twenty five, three hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five yards, two touchdowns. Isaac Garndo with a
Speaker 1: really impressive game. Fifteen carries for seventy eight yards to
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, two catches for fifty yards, really getting dynamic.
Speaker 1: One of them. I thought that could have been a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Brock perty put that ball up early. I thought Grinda
Speaker 1: was gonna be able to roll into the end zone.
Speaker 1: He wasn't able to do it. But George Kittle, welcome back,
Speaker 1: my friend, Welcome back to getting targets. The creativity and
Speaker 1: the play calling looked great. A lot of screens, middle screens,
Speaker 1: outside screens, just pushing it over routes. Kittle was involved
Speaker 1: in just about every quarter of the game. They finally
Speaker 1: don't waste a good Juwan Jennings game. Seven catches for
Speaker 1: ninety yards, two touchdowns and they get the win. You know,
Speaker 1: every other time Juwan has a great game, they find
Speaker 1: a way to stumble and lose that game. So I'm
Speaker 1: just happy for him. I'm happy for the team he
Speaker 1: was he was going at you know, their dbs. They
Speaker 1: were going back and forth with Jalen Johnson, friend of
Speaker 1: the program, and they were battling. It's always good to
Speaker 1: see that kind of battle. But San Francisco forty nine
Speaker 1: ers putting up these kind of points was really good
Speaker 1: to see thirty eight points in the game against the
Speaker 1: Chicago defense has played really good throughout this season and
Speaker 1: have a lot of talent. Roma Doonza gets active, gets
Speaker 1: his first two i mean gets two touchdowns in this game.
Speaker 1: But Caleb Williams gets sacked seven times, which was great
Speaker 1: for the San Francisco verdy nine ers because without Nick Bosa,
Speaker 1: they just haven't been able to get home very consistently.
Speaker 1: It was good to see Gross Matos get his three sacks,
Speaker 1: Leonard Floyd got two sacks. It was a collective effort
Speaker 1: and just you could see the sense of urgency from
Speaker 1: the d line. You could see the linebackers, everybody flying around.
Speaker 1: It looked like a really good team. Now I get
Speaker 1: to go to San Francisco this Thursday to watch my
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine Ers play the La Rams in
Speaker 1: the game that's gonna be. It's gonna be the loser
Speaker 1: of this game. Likely it kills their hopes at the
Speaker 1: playoffs at the division. Honestly, the Seattle Seahawks might have
Speaker 1: pulled away already with the division. You know, in order
Speaker 1: for either of these teams to have a chance to
Speaker 1: win it, they're gonna need some help and need some
Speaker 1: losses from the Seattle Seahawks. But anything is possible to
Speaker 1: the National Football League.
Speaker 3: The Chicago Bears started off the season four and two,
Speaker 3: and everyone's like, holy cow, maybe this NFC North is
Speaker 3: gonna get four teams in the playoffs. And they've lost
Speaker 3: seven straight since. And you know, they wanted this game bad,
Speaker 3: but the forty nine Ers wanted it a lot more,
Speaker 3: and they needed it a lot more. They've been bruised,
Speaker 3: they've been battered, they've been without several of their best players,
Speaker 3: but they lean on the unknown. Isaac Grendo goes off.
Speaker 3: I mean, like you said, you lean on the reliable,
Speaker 3: George Kittle, Richard I promise you, whoever that two seed
Speaker 3: is in this NFL playoffs, if the San Francisco forty
Speaker 3: nine ers are able to sneak in as that seventh seed,
Speaker 3: they are not gonna want to see them. For the
Speaker 3: love of God, please do not have the Detroit Lions
Speaker 3: be the two seed and play in the San Francisco
Speaker 3: forty nine ers at home. I do not want to
Speaker 3: see that matchup San Francisco. If they can get this
Speaker 3: ship righted, look out down.
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Speaker 1: It's time, Mitchell, It's time to look at this weekend's
Speaker 1: tastiest matchup in a segment we're calling Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's the Buffalo Bills versus the La Rams
Speaker 1: in LA not a game. Everybody saw LA having a chance,
Speaker 1: adding myself, the Buffalo Bills have been rolling Josh Allen
Speaker 1: getting MVP chance in every stadium he goes to because
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills fans travel well, but not so fast. My
Speaker 1: friend old Lee Corso, when you're playing Matt Stafford, you
Speaker 1: better bring you better bring your lunch, Baill, and you
Speaker 1: better bring your offense. And they did. If Buffalo Bill
Speaker 1: scored forty two points in this game, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: if they walked in thinking, hey, Josh Allen's gonna have
Speaker 1: five touchdowns, six touchdowns. He's gonna throw for three, he's
Speaker 1: gonna run for three. We're gonna score forty two points.
Speaker 1: Kalisha Kiir is gonna have five kits for one hundred
Speaker 1: and six yards, Amari Cooper six catches for ninety five yards.
Speaker 1: You're like, that's a dug no, no, not this time.
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford twenty three to thirty three hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: yards two touchdowns, didn't get sacked once. You gotta give
Speaker 1: that Rams offensive line a lot of credit because this
Speaker 1: is a defense that gets pressure on the quarterback. They
Speaker 1: give a lot of exotic looks, they bring pressure, they
Speaker 1: get home, and they were not able to sack him once.
Speaker 1: But Pooking the cool. The game Pooking Nikola had was legendary.
Speaker 1: Some of those catches he's left me scratching my head
Speaker 1: because I I just I couldn't explain it. I mean
Speaker 1: the one where he backed up and kind of went
Speaker 1: over his shoulder, got his feet down like landed, and
Speaker 1: then another one on the same sideline pushed the defender
Speaker 1: by fly by catch it over his head like incredible
Speaker 1: catches and then the screen for the dagger touchdown to
Speaker 1: finish this game off Cooper Cup doing you know, five
Speaker 1: for ninety two in a touchdown, but doing all the
Speaker 1: dirty work blocking had a huge block on the final
Speaker 1: Pooking the cool touchdown. It was a really great play.
Speaker 1: Just sacrificing these guys. Kyrin William has twenty nine rushers
Speaker 1: for eighty seven yards and two touchdowns. They're doing their scraping, clawing,
Speaker 1: doing everything they can to win these ball games. But
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's losing a game like this after everybody told
Speaker 1: me that it was that's the reason why Josh Allen
Speaker 1: was his candidacy was so great. And mind you, Josh
Speaker 1: Allen really raised his bar and scored six touchdowns in
Speaker 1: this game. So is MVP candidacy For the numbers guy
Speaker 1: goes up tremendously. But for the argument that everybody's been
Speaker 1: trying to make about, hey, it's because his team is
Speaker 1: winning so much. Now they have their third loss? Has
Speaker 1: that change the argument at all? Is does that make
Speaker 1: it better? Is it worse? Now? Now the Bill's got
Speaker 1: to go to Detroit and beat the Detroit Lions, so
Speaker 1: they could potentially beat ten and four or they can
Speaker 1: go eleven and three. But if they're ten and four,
Speaker 1: does that change things? Like That's why this whole thing, that,
Speaker 1: that whole idea and that whole argument was just it
Speaker 1: was not great. And Josh Allen had an MVP like
Speaker 1: performance today two hundred and thirty I mean three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty yards, three touchdowns, passing, three rushing, ten carries
Speaker 1: for eighty two yards, Like that's impact that's a huge impact.
Speaker 1: That's MVP candidate, But you have to look at the overall.
Speaker 1: He's having MVP performances. Win his team needs them late
Speaker 1: in the season, that's definitely gonna bolster his chances. But
Speaker 1: if they lose these games down the stretch and other
Speaker 1: teams win, that's going to bolster their chance. Like if
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles would have lost this game, that would
Speaker 1: diminish Sakwan Barkley's chances. But he just became the all
Speaker 1: time leading run or broke the single season rec rushing
Speaker 1: record for the Philadelphia Eagles already, and it's only week fourteen,
Speaker 1: and so he has three more weeks to put up
Speaker 1: more yards and break it even further and push down
Speaker 1: below That's what MVP candidates. It's always special seasons, records breaking,
Speaker 1: you know, leading the league those that's the kind of
Speaker 1: things you say about MVP candidates. I'm sorry, I know
Speaker 1: they don't want to give it to a running back
Speaker 1: and they're saying, ain't give it to a running back anymore,
Speaker 1: and YadA, YadA, YadA, But at some point you gotta
Speaker 1: look and say, when sacred Jalen Hurst do for on
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty yards is game something like that
Speaker 1: wasn't a great game from Jalen Hurts by any stretch
Speaker 1: of the imagination. And if he's playing like that and
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles are still winning the games, it's because
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley is taken over and he was running his
Speaker 1: butt off. And that's a story. Every single week. This
Speaker 1: team goes as Saquon Barkley goes, and they stumble when
Speaker 1: Sakuon Barkley is not having a great game. He just
Speaker 1: has not had many great bad games this season, so
Speaker 1: they don't lose. But you know that's my little Ted
Speaker 1: talk for the day, Mitchell. The Buffalo Bills have a
Speaker 1: tough week next week against the Lines. We already talked
Speaker 1: about the Rams going to San Francisco to play San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers. I'm excited to be there for
Speaker 1: that week for that game. And that's this week's Sunday
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Speaker 3: The LA Rams are seven and six. The Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 3: are eight and five. LA Rams if they play like
Speaker 3: this down the stretch. They're healthy, they're getting now all
Speaker 3: their playmakers involved. Seattle's doing the same thing, and they're
Speaker 3: looking a hell of a lot better. Do you have
Speaker 3: that much faith the Seattle Seahawks can hold this team
Speaker 3: down with four games ranting in the schedule.
Speaker 1: Well, anything can happen. I mean, I can't say I
Speaker 1: predicted any of this that happened the way it did.
Speaker 1: And so I don't know. If the Seattle Seahawks keep winning,
Speaker 1: they control their destiny. And it's always tough when you
Speaker 1: don't control your destiny. If the Seattle Seahawks keep winning,
Speaker 1: it's their division, they go away with it. The San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers only chance is to win it
Speaker 1: go in as a wild card team, as the seventh seed,
Speaker 1: and so there's a lot of things that got to
Speaker 1: happen there for them to get in as that last
Speaker 1: wild card team. But win and give yourself the best chance.
Speaker 1: You know, at this point, I think they got to
Speaker 1: win every game. They got to win out and just
Speaker 1: to give themselves a shot at ten and seven, and
Speaker 1: at ten and seven, you know, I'm sure they'll have
Speaker 1: an argument. You know, I'm not sure they have every
Speaker 1: tie breaker, honestly, but that will be giving themselves the
Speaker 1: best chance. And these guys are continuing to fight hard,
Speaker 1: They're gonna get healthier, and if they do get in
Speaker 1: those playoffs, it's going to be a very difficult team
Speaker 1: to be They're going to be a very difficult team
Speaker 1: to put out of these playoffs, and so we'll see.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about one of the most shocking, less yet
Speaker 3: unshocking team of the year.
Speaker 2: It's the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 3: I mean, every year we're talking about how the hell
Speaker 3: are they about to make the playoffs again? And they're
Speaker 3: not only making the playoffs their borderline running away with
Speaker 3: this division. They're six and one since Russ has been
Speaker 3: a starter. Let's talk about Russ right now. He didn't
Speaker 3: have the best statistical game, but he's without his number
Speaker 3: one option and George Pickens. I know they're playing the
Speaker 3: low league Cleveland Browns, but the Browns just beat him
Speaker 3: two weeks ago. How impressed are you with the Steelers
Speaker 3: right now and the way they're showcasing it to the
Speaker 3: NFL that they are true competitors for the for the
Speaker 3: whole kitten kabudle the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, this defense really stepped up this game. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you just talked about Russ and what he's done. I mean,
Speaker 1: was it was fifteen or twenty six, one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty eight yards, two touchdowns, you know, not a ton
Speaker 1: of action, but like you said, George Pickens was out,
Speaker 1: really leaned on Mike Williams a little bit more, Calvin
Speaker 1: Austin a little bit more. Najie Harris still running the
Speaker 1: ball well, sixteen carriage fifty three yards, you know, just
Speaker 1: doing enough. But that defense, Cam Hayward huge plays, James
Speaker 1: Pierre with an interception, Keanu Benton with the interception. That's
Speaker 1: the big reason why they win this game. And it's
Speaker 1: happened both ways because I guess the Cincinnati Bengals, the
Speaker 1: offense had scored forty four points and you know, win
Speaker 1: all and need when they needed to have it. In
Speaker 1: this game, the defense steps up, holds Jamis will Winston
Speaker 1: the twenty and twelve yards, hosts this offense to fourteen points.
Speaker 1: The offense scores twenty seven points. And that's what this team.
Speaker 1: They're so balanced, they're so balanced, and they're gonna have
Speaker 1: a tough decision at the end of the season to
Speaker 1: make with in regards to Russell Wilson and what they
Speaker 1: want to do with his contract, what they want to
Speaker 1: do going forward, because he's making himself some money. You know,
Speaker 1: anytime you're winning in this league, he six and one
Speaker 1: as a starter this year, you're gonna ask for good
Speaker 1: money you deserve. And you know it's gonna be up
Speaker 1: to him whether he takes the deal you know that's
Speaker 1: friendlier to the team, or he tries to maximize his
Speaker 1: earning potential. You know, I think at this point in
Speaker 1: his career, he's earned a lot of money. He's made
Speaker 1: his money, so maybe he takes a more team friendly deal,
Speaker 1: you know, forty million dollars a year or so deal
Speaker 1: you know, spread out a different way or figure you know,
Speaker 1: maneuver or figured it out a different way. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe he wants sixty million like that guy. You know,
Speaker 1: And again he has the leveraging this situation, especially if
Speaker 1: he continues to play well, to ask for whatever he
Speaker 1: wants to. He plays quarterback in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna come off a really good season and
Speaker 1: let the guy walk away because of the money. The
Speaker 1: fans in the backlash would be great in Russell's case,
Speaker 1: are you really gonna leave a situation that seems perfectly
Speaker 1: tailored to your skill set perfectly Taylor to who you are,
Speaker 1: a supportive defense, a good run game, offensive coordinator, and
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith who understands you. You know, it seems like
Speaker 1: a perfect match. And I don't think he's gonna let
Speaker 1: money get in the way of them continuing this in
Speaker 1: the future. This is a great coach, not an all
Speaker 1: time coach. And Mike Tomlin, who's done a really good
Speaker 1: job with him. So I think, you know, the way
Speaker 1: this team has embraced him, the way he's changed himself
Speaker 1: to fit this culture and to really step in and
Speaker 1: help this team in the way he has. He's gonna
Speaker 1: deserve the money he can ask for, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be what you value more. And I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: value to fit more than the money, and so he'll
Speaker 1: probably take a more team friendly deal going forward. He
Speaker 1: got a lot of money from the Seattle Seahawks, got
Speaker 1: a lot of money from Denver. Now you got to
Speaker 1: you gotta worry about, you know, legacy and reputation and
Speaker 1: all that going forward, and you don't want to end
Speaker 1: up with an another bad situation after you were in
Speaker 1: a perfect situation because because of the money.
Speaker 3: Our times have changed five years ago. I mean, Richard,
Speaker 3: if you're saying a team friendly deal is forty million
Speaker 3: dollars a year, and God bless it.
Speaker 2: I'll take it.
Speaker 1: God bless it.
Speaker 3: And you know what I mean to your point, rich this,
Speaker 3: I don't want to call him the Seattle Seahawks, and
Speaker 3: I'm not going to call him that, but from a
Speaker 3: structure standpoint, you're right. I mean, they've got everything Russ needs.
Speaker 3: They got an absolute behemoth of a defense, and they
Speaker 3: got just enough playmaking weapons on the offensive side of
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 2: And Najee Harris is a bruiser.
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Speaker 3: got to talk about the NFC North in the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3: This was going to be a tough test for them.
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins coming back to town the Atlanta Falcons, a
Speaker 3: lot of motivation to get a win in Minnesota for
Speaker 3: Kirk coo, and it looked decent, you know, at the
Speaker 3: first half, early in the second half, and then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden Minnesota took over. It's time to talk
Speaker 3: about Sam Donald and this team because I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's going to be a one season and done
Speaker 3: for him in Minnesota. He looks like he's found a
Speaker 3: new home, Richard. They just drafted JJ McCarthy with a
Speaker 3: first round pick. How do you handle this situation? If
Speaker 3: you're the GM of the Minnesota Vikings. Do you let
Speaker 3: Sam walk? Do you assign him to a couple of
Speaker 3: year deal? Obviously he's gonna want some money. What do
Speaker 3: you do if you're Minnesota? What if you're doing if
Speaker 3: you're Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: If you're Sam Donald, you're maximizing your potential. You're maximizing
Speaker 1: your earning potential. You want to be a starter and
Speaker 1: you want long term security. And if you're the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 1: I don't see anything that shows you shouldn't give it
Speaker 1: to him. You know, he's having a really good season.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can look at his past and whatever and
Speaker 1: whatever and say, how is this fool's gold? Is this real?
Speaker 1: But none of this looks like law. It doesn't look
Speaker 1: like he's just oh man, it's tipped passes or anything
Speaker 1: like that. He's going through his progressions. It just seems
Speaker 1: like a hand and glove fit in Minnesota. And so
Speaker 1: I can't see them really really moving on from him
Speaker 1: and really restarting with JJ McCarthy. Maybe they would, you know,
Speaker 1: they spent a high draft pick on him. But if
Speaker 1: that happened, I expect Sam Donald to get to find
Speaker 1: work somewhere else and and and get a really really
Speaker 1: lucrative contract, whether that's the New York Giants, if that's
Speaker 1: an it would be really crazy. If it's the New
Speaker 1: York Jets, I mean, you're talking about full circle. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I couldn't imagine. Sheeez, that'd be a storyline.
Speaker 1: It could be a number of teams. It could be
Speaker 1: the Raiders if they don't draft Shadora Sanders or our
Speaker 1: Ward in the draft, you know, if they don't take
Speaker 1: a quarterback, or if they don't get the guy that
Speaker 1: they want. So there's a number of situations he could
Speaker 1: walk into and become the Day one starter. But I
Speaker 1: think it's in Minnesota's best interest to just keep continuity.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe maybe you give yourself an out after
Speaker 1: two years and then give JJ chance. But I don't
Speaker 1: think you bring a rookie all coming off an ACL
Speaker 1: injury into the National Football League who hasn't played a
Speaker 1: down and replace a quarterback playing as well as Sam
Speaker 1: Darnold du has been for your team and really winning
Speaker 1: you a lot of these games. To have five touchdowns
Speaker 1: this game twenty two, twenty eight for three, forty seven,
Speaker 1: a career high five touchdowns, a career high one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty seven point nine pass rating, almost a perfect
Speaker 1: passer rating. It just seems like the receivers trust him.
Speaker 1: He's got a great rapport with him. Jordan Addison for
Speaker 1: eight for one thirty three, three touchdowns. Justin Jefferson seven
Speaker 1: catches for one thirty two, two touchdowns. I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a hard time having a conversation with those
Speaker 1: guys and saying we couldn't pay Sam. He's gone. We
Speaker 1: got JJ, and you guys will figure it out with him.
Speaker 1: These guys are having really, really impressive seasons with him,
Speaker 1: and I know that they've had success with her Cousins before,
Speaker 1: but you just I don't know how many times you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to keep doing this. And maybe JJ
Speaker 1: McCarthy comes in and it does just as well, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to risk that if I'm the Minnesota Vikings, well.
Speaker 3: The Minnesota Vikings, they've obviously had a heck of the
Speaker 3: season ten and two. Now, you know, coming into this game,
Speaker 3: the whole talk of the NFC North is my Detroit Lions,
Speaker 3: and yet Minnesota is only a game back.
Speaker 2: And again you.
Speaker 3: Got the emotions of Kirk Cousins coming back into town
Speaker 3: and they get it done and they double them up
Speaker 3: forty two to twenty one.
Speaker 2: Kudos to the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3: I mean this team there, They've got so many dynamic
Speaker 3: weapons on the offense side of the ball and then defensively,
Speaker 3: they're so well coached and they just get it done
Speaker 3: week in and week out. This Minnesota Vikings team is
Speaker 3: a force to be reckoned with. And I just hope,
Speaker 3: you know, they stumble up down the stretch. So the week,
Speaker 3: you know, the final week of the season against Detroit
Speaker 3: Lions is meaningless because you'd hate to see a shootout
Speaker 3: in ford Field. But let's flip the script to Atlanta.
Speaker 3: This team started off hot and now they're six and seven.
Speaker 3: They've had a four game losing street. Kirk Cousins struggled
Speaker 3: in that four games, zero touchdowns over four games, eight interceptions,
Speaker 3: sixty two pass grading, fifteen interceptions so far. Richard, is
Speaker 3: it time that they close that chapter on kirk Cousins
Speaker 3: and turn the keys over to the car to Michael
Speaker 3: Pennix Junior, their first round draft pick.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know that. I just don't
Speaker 1: know if that's the answer. You know it's you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it is, and you put him out there. But
Speaker 1: for font No to pay kirk Cousins fifty million dollars
Speaker 1: a year and put him on the bench and then
Speaker 1: know that next year you're going into the next year
Speaker 1: with him on the bench as the backup of fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars backup is just is just a kind of
Speaker 1: conversation that gets people fired. And so I don't think
Speaker 1: they'd sit him because you you have fifty million dollars
Speaker 1: backing up just get you imagine that they're talking every game,
Speaker 1: that's talking point and so every time the rookie has
Speaker 1: stumbles or those interceptions or makes a mistake, it's going
Speaker 1: to be like, well, why do you have fifty millions
Speaker 1: on a bench, or when you can't afford a free agent,
Speaker 1: why do you have fifty million sitting on a bench?
Speaker 1: If there are just so many conversations and Kirkus struggling
Speaker 1: in a really big way right now, but hopefully he's
Speaker 1: able to come out of it and play well. You know,
Speaker 1: he's played well at point to this season. He threw
Speaker 1: for three hundred and forty four yards. He did throw
Speaker 1: the two interceptions, but they were battling in this game
Speaker 1: for a while and it was really closer than the
Speaker 1: score show that got away from him. Late this Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings defense Byron Murphy made a really great interception, one
Speaker 1: handed interception in this game. But I don't think you
Speaker 1: can bench him. I don't think you can bention him
Speaker 1: at this point of the season. I don't think you
Speaker 1: can bench him with all the money you have invested
Speaker 1: into him, because I just don't think you have a
Speaker 1: way to answer those questions this offseason about what you're
Speaker 1: going to do with the guy you promised. He has
Speaker 1: one hundred and something million guaranteed, so it's not like
Speaker 1: you could just cut him and hey, next season, you
Speaker 1: don't have to pay a salary. You're going to be
Speaker 1: paying him fully guaranteed money next year, So you got
Speaker 1: to just this is the decision you made. This is
Speaker 1: the guy, and you got to stick with him, good
Speaker 1: or bad. You gotta keep going.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: His replacement in Minnesota, Sam Darnold, has earned this week's
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Speaker 2: Richard.
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Speaker 3: Well, Sam Darnald is the recipient. We already talked about it, man,
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, if I'm not going to throw them
Speaker 3: in the MVP, conversation, but his stat line today certainly
Speaker 3: was deserving of such three forty seven five touchdowns on
Speaker 3: one fifty seven point nine passer rating. Shout out to
Speaker 3: Sam Darnald, our players in prime Time Recipient of the Week,
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Speaker 3: I want to talk about my Honolulu Blue and Silver
Speaker 3: hosted you in town this week in Detroit. I mean
Speaker 3: I first off, I mean listen, the Richard Truman piet
Speaker 3: has become the official podcast of the Lions here. I
Speaker 3: feel like in Detroit, you know a lot of folks
Speaker 3: talking about your podcast here Detroit, and we're excited to
Speaker 3: see you come to Detroit. You've spoken a lot of
Speaker 3: kind words about my Detroit Lions over the last couple
Speaker 3: of years. And what was your rating of Detroit as
Speaker 3: a city as your time here? What was your thoughts
Speaker 3: on Detroit overall?
Speaker 1: Well, Mitchell, I loved it. I love the people, the energy,
Speaker 1: the Christmas decorations. There was Christmas cheer, and any city
Speaker 1: that I come to that has Christmas cheer and holiday
Speaker 1: spirit and great football they get a high rating. For me.
Speaker 1: Mittro that was a nine out of ten and we
Speaker 1: had a blast. That was a ten out of ten.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed our time at Joy Baale's place. It was
Speaker 1: really fun, really really good food, good vibes, good energy.
Speaker 1: And then the stadium, the stadium, the fans, the energy,
Speaker 1: the staff. Everybody was so positive. Everybody was so optimistic.
Speaker 1: Everybody was so energetic, so excited. And they deserve it.
Speaker 1: They deserve this season. These fans have been loyal and
Speaker 1: dedicated for so long and they get to finally see
Speaker 1: their team come home and win week after week. Jared
Speaker 1: Golf has a really good game thirty two forty one
Speaker 1: eighty three, three touchdowns, did have the one interception to
Speaker 1: my guy, Keishawan Nixon, friend of the program. We got
Speaker 1: to have him on here soon. But they really did
Speaker 1: a really great jobs at Darius Smith in this defensive
Speaker 1: line of misfits. You know, guys that you had to
Speaker 1: look up as they were making plays. Aaron Glenn deserves
Speaker 1: to be a head coach. And you know, I hope
Speaker 1: you guys don't lose both your coordinators, but there's a
Speaker 1: chance you lose both your coordinators this year. And that's
Speaker 1: what you know. That's one of the things about being
Speaker 1: a really good team is is they take from you,
Speaker 1: They take from good teams. They everybody want some of
Speaker 1: what you're doing. They want what you're doing, they want
Speaker 1: some of a piece of that pie so that they
Speaker 1: can help increase their team and help their team win games.
Speaker 1: What he's been able to do with a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys that he just got off the street, that he
Speaker 1: elevated from practice squad. He gets a tip of the
Speaker 1: cap from me because this is This Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: team is a really good team, and Josh Jacobs has
Speaker 1: been running the ball down in just about everybody's throats.
Speaker 1: He was held eighteen carries for sixty six yards, which
Speaker 1: isn't a bad game. He had three rushing touchdown, but
Speaker 1: it's not the kind of game that he's been having
Speaker 1: in the past. Christian Watson has the four catches for
Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteen yards, but lost to fumble a
Speaker 1: great play made by Carlton Davis. You know, didn't give
Speaker 1: up on the play, punched it out it was able
Speaker 1: to be recovered. We talked about Keishaw Nixon in his interception.
Speaker 1: This Green Bay Packers team is really good, but they
Speaker 1: needed this win. They falled in nine to four. Now
Speaker 1: two and three games behind the Detroit Lions for the division.
Speaker 1: But like you said, it's the Minnesota Vikings that you
Speaker 1: got to worry about, and you play them at the
Speaker 1: end of the season. Jamier Gibbs continues his excellent season
Speaker 1: with seventy three all purpose yards the receiving touch down.
Speaker 1: Tim Patrick has two touchdowns any game. It just seems
Speaker 1: like this team doesn't care who gets the ball, doesn't
Speaker 1: care who gets the credit, doesn't care who gets the success.
Speaker 1: They just want to win. And if you can see
Speaker 1: it each and every week, you could see it. Each
Speaker 1: and every play, gods are doing whatever it takes, blocking, tackling, hitting.
Speaker 1: Pane Sewell's catching passes. He didn't catch any of this game,
Speaker 1: but every time, every time, every week you look up,
Speaker 1: they running another play for him. And they ran like
Speaker 1: a reverse for him. A couple of weeks ago, I said,
Speaker 1: what are we doing now? We're running running traps with
Speaker 1: Piney Sewell at getting the ball. But I'm excited for
Speaker 1: this game coming up against the Bills in Detroit. That's
Speaker 1: going to be the game of the week. I would
Speaker 1: imagine Josh Allen and his crew coming into Detroit to
Speaker 1: play this very talented Detroit Lions team. They win that game,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a claim as the best team in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. And it's that It's going to
Speaker 1: be very difficult to say. It's close depending on what
Speaker 1: happens tonight with the Kansas City Chiefs. I think that's
Speaker 1: going to be a doll fight of a division game
Speaker 1: with the Chargers. We'll see how that goes. But your
Speaker 1: Detroit lines are the beast. It can't be the beast
Speaker 1: in the East, the best in the Midwest. That might.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's got a ring to it. You know, well,
Speaker 3: they've won, they've won eleven straight games, Richard. But critical
Speaker 3: fourth and one down the stretch. I think it was
Speaker 3: about forty seconds left in the game, And I know
Speaker 3: you shared a conversation with Jared Goff post game about
Speaker 3: what was going between Dan Campbell and his mind. What
Speaker 3: was that conversation, because I think it's important for the
Speaker 3: Detroit fan base and the heck the National Football League
Speaker 3: fan base to hear what was going through a mind
Speaker 3: between player and coach when you're facing a fourth and
Speaker 3: one in field goal range with forty seconds left. Richard,
Speaker 3: what was the words you share with Jared Goff post game.
Speaker 1: Well, Mitchell, it wasn't It wasn't me. He was having
Speaker 1: a conversation with Andrew Whitworth while he's having in conversation
Speaker 1: with all and was like, Hey, what was the conversation
Speaker 1: like on the sideline before that fourth and one and Jared.
Speaker 1: You know, the summary is Jared basically comes over and
Speaker 1: Dan's on the headset, you know, telling him, Hey, we're
Speaker 1: kicking it and just get the field goal team ready.
Speaker 1: We're gonna stand there. We're talking through, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: kick it. And Jared, you know, dejected. It's like, man, man,
Speaker 1: I want to go, and Dan Campbell just looks at
Speaker 1: him and said, you want to do it, efort, We're
Speaker 1: going for it. And then he changes his mind and
Speaker 1: goes for it. And he trusts his men, He trusts
Speaker 1: his team, He trust his offensive line that they're gonna
Speaker 1: get it done for him. And some people may look
Speaker 1: at that and be like, hey, is that really how
Speaker 1: it should go? Yeah, that's how it should go. You
Speaker 1: can do all the analytics in the world. You can say, oh, man,
Speaker 1: this percentage and this percentage, but at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, do you trust your team, do you believe
Speaker 1: in your guys. And if your quarterback says he thinks
Speaker 1: they can get it done, and you say, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: believe in my quarterback and what he sees and what
Speaker 1: he does, that's a gut feeling and that's what that's
Speaker 1: what his team is ready to run through walls for
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell because he believes in them like they believe
Speaker 1: in him. And he is a leader of men. And
Speaker 1: as a leader of men, in order to show them leadership,
Speaker 1: you have to show them trust and faith and belief.
Speaker 1: And that is what he did. He said, Hey, if
Speaker 1: we lose, I lost with my men the way they
Speaker 1: wanted to go out. I didn't play it conservative. I
Speaker 1: didn't play it soft. I didn't play scared. Scared money,
Speaker 1: don't make no money. And they reach in Detroit right now.
Speaker 3: It's Dan Gamble's season here in Detroit, and we talked
Speaker 3: about it last season. I'll never forget my rant when
Speaker 3: they lost to the San Francisco forty nine ers INNFC
Speaker 3: championship game. They lived by the sword, they died by
Speaker 3: the sword. Today they won by that sword. On Thursday.
Speaker 3: They run by that sword. And you know, kudos to
Speaker 3: him for believing in his men. You gotta love to
Speaker 3: see the emotion he displayed after the game. This Lions
Speaker 3: team faced is a huge opponent in the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 3: freshoff of loss. This next Sunday's game is gonna be
Speaker 3: one that I'm sure America is gonna tune into. And
Speaker 3: I'm so proud to be a Detroiter right now. I
Speaker 3: love to see this eleven straight. Let's keep this train rolling, Richard.
Speaker 3: I'm thrilled that you are on the train. I like
Speaker 3: to think you're an honorary member of the Detroit Lions bandwagon,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna I'm gonna, I'm just gonna leave it
Speaker 3: at that. I'm gonna buy you a Detroit Lions hat
Speaker 3: so you can swap into that when we do these
Speaker 3: game breakdowns.
Speaker 1: Well, Bettroll, I have no problem putting on that Honolulu
Speaker 1: blue Detroit Lion hat. I am a fan of the program.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of what they're doing. I'm a fan
Speaker 1: of Dan. Dan gets it done, and I respect it. Well.
Speaker 1: This has been another Richard Sherman podcast, and I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: It's week fourteen. Like I said before, if your team's
Speaker 1: doing great, fantastic, let's get to these playoffs. If your
Speaker 1: team's doing bad, start studying college because there might be
Speaker 1: a savior somewhere in there. And I preciate every single
Speaker 1: one of you guys for tuning in. You could be
Speaker 1: anywhere in the world, but you're here with us, and
Speaker 1: we sure do appreciated. Happy holidays, and I wish you
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