Speaker 1: Second and goal for the Lions from the seventh golf
Speaker 1: out of the gun, Montgomery to was right, Jared Lean's in,
Speaker 1: there's the snap. Jared on the end of round gives
Speaker 1: it to Amen Ra He's gonna.
Speaker 2: Throw it to Jared.
Speaker 3: Hello, Jared Babbie on the receiving end of a pass
Speaker 3: from Robin rock Saint Brown.
Speaker 2: Bob bet Johnson, I seek you too.
Speaker 4: That is beautiful stuff.
Speaker 3: That is Sunday Night Magine.
Speaker 5: It was Monday Night Magic w x yt Dan Miller
Speaker 5: with one of the most fun plays of the year,
Speaker 5: one of the most fun calls of the year, one
Speaker 5: of the most fun games of the year. Forty two
Speaker 5: to twenty nine, the Detroit Lions beat the Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 5: on Monday Night Football. It was a showcase of quarterbacks,
Speaker 5: but yes, Jared Goff also as a receiver. Him and
Speaker 5: al monro Saint Brown became only the eighth duo and
Speaker 5: NFL history to throw touchdown passes to each other in
Speaker 5: the same game. You've probably seen the stat out there
Speaker 5: by now. Jared Goff threw the most passing attempts without
Speaker 5: an incompletion in NFL history.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't eighteen for eighteen.
Speaker 5: Nick shook with me on a Monday night, and yeah,
Speaker 5: we'll talk about the Titans Dolphins game two coming up.
Speaker 5: It was actually nineteen for nineteen because I'm on Rod
Speaker 5: laid that out there beautifully over a defender and Goff
Speaker 5: with a little extra speed in some late hands for
Speaker 5: the touchdown.
Speaker 2: What a night.
Speaker 5: That made it twenty eight to fourteen, and these two
Speaker 5: teams were just getting warmed up. Then.
Speaker 6: The one thing I thought was as soon as he
Speaker 6: scored and through the ball in the stands, I was like,
Speaker 6: isn't he gonna.
Speaker 4: Want that ball? Like Hoften is gonna catch touchdown pass?
Speaker 6: It was that kind of night though, I mean, and
Speaker 6: just that alone was an example of where Ben Johnson's
Speaker 6: been deep in his bag of tricks.
Speaker 4: Pulled one out again Monday night.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It was really an antidote to what we've been seeing
Speaker 5: this season where we're hearing like the quarterback play is
Speaker 5: not great. And if you've watched Jared Goff over the
Speaker 5: first three weeks of the season, he even said it
Speaker 5: to the ESPN crew, it has not been up to
Speaker 5: my standard. When he's gotten pressure in his face, he's
Speaker 5: made bad decisions. And tonight there wasn't a lot of
Speaker 5: pressure in his face heat. He only had to throw
Speaker 5: four passes under pressure. I think he took a sack
Speaker 5: in this game. Did two sacks in this game? Yeah,
Speaker 5: but the play calls were there when he had to
Speaker 5: go down the field.
Speaker 2: It was on point.
Speaker 5: He knew what the defense was gonna do before it happened.
Speaker 5: It was a huge role reversal from the game that
Speaker 5: the Ravens defense coached by Mike McDonald played against him
Speaker 5: a year ago and in a big spot with the
Speaker 5: quarterback Island taping looming just the day away, knowing he
Speaker 5: might get kicked off quarterback Island. He just had a
Speaker 5: magical night with just perfect decision making and what more
Speaker 5: can you do? After the game, though, Dan Campbell and
Speaker 5: Jared Goff both didn't seem to know first that Jared
Speaker 5: Goff did not have it in completion, Let's listen to Dan.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I just gave the game ball to somebody else,
Speaker 7: So I feel awful right now? Yeah? No, I well,
Speaker 7: I knew he played a heck of a game. I
Speaker 7: did not realize he was perfect. I did not know
Speaker 7: he was literally eighteen for eighteen.
Speaker 2: Oh that is hilarious.
Speaker 5: Shook, like, what do you what do you think about
Speaker 5: that the Lions after a win like this where yes,
Speaker 5: their defense ended up giving up a lot of points
Speaker 5: in this game. The Seahawks kept cutting it to one score,
Speaker 5: Lions bring it to two score, back and forth throughout
Speaker 5: the second half.
Speaker 4: Yeah, gave up over five hundred yards.
Speaker 6: But I don't care about that, Greg, because for some reason,
Speaker 6: when the Seahawks and Lions meeting Detroit, a shootout just ensues.
Speaker 6: And we got it just like we did. I think
Speaker 6: it was Week one of last season that would ended
Speaker 6: up in overtime. We got another thriller, and for the
Speaker 6: first time after watching Golf and the Lions struggle to
Speaker 6: put points on the board and finished drives against the
Speaker 6: Buccaneers two weeks ago, and even that win in Arizona
Speaker 6: last week really required some grittiness, needed Golf to scramble
Speaker 6: on the third down to pick up a key first down.
Speaker 6: They needed none of that tonight because they couldn't be stopped.
Speaker 6: And really it started with the running game, Greg. That
Speaker 6: was the beauty of it was that, you know, they've
Speaker 6: had some issues offensively in the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 6: and they just said, you know, what forget it. We're
Speaker 6: gonna go back to Week one in the drive that
Speaker 6: won us the game to start the season. David Montgomery
Speaker 6: carry us down the field, and he did that. Set
Speaker 6: the tone, opened up the passing game, and Golf was fantastic.
Speaker 6: No matter the pressure or not, he was sharp all night.
Speaker 6: Really great to see from the Lions because if their
Speaker 6: offense really does produce at this level, that'll buy them
Speaker 6: time to figure out some of their defensive issues and
Speaker 6: help them come into form, you know, as we near
Speaker 6: the midway point of the season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're going into their bye week. I thought this
Speaker 5: was a big game because I think they've been wanting
Speaker 5: to feel like the Lions again, and they haven't quite
Speaker 5: felt like the Lions. I actually think before this game
Speaker 5: the defense had showed real improvement this year. On balance,
Speaker 5: they're a good run defense, but they've been playing better
Speaker 5: against the pass. They were without Brian Ranch tonight, Melafon's
Speaker 5: been out for a minute, and I think they wanted
Speaker 5: to have a game like this. I think it's perfect
Speaker 5: they get into the by three to one. It's going
Speaker 5: to be a tough division race this year, clearly, and
Speaker 5: they can start working on things and they felt like
Speaker 5: themselves and you said it. They are first and foremost
Speaker 5: a run first team. I mean Goff only had to
Speaker 5: throw eighteen passes. Jamir Gibbs goes fourteen for seventy eight,
Speaker 5: has a couple really important chunk plays. They were effective
Speaker 5: in the red zone and they want to run to
Speaker 5: set up the pass. That is who they are. You
Speaker 5: mentioned the Seahawks Lions rivalry. I mean, this is a thing.
Speaker 5: We need it in the playoffs next year. It wasn't
Speaker 5: just last year, and it was Week two, thirty seven,
Speaker 5: thirty one. Gino Smith takes down the Lions in Detroit
Speaker 5: the year before Week four, also early in this season,
Speaker 5: also at home, forty eight to forty five. The Seahawks
Speaker 5: get it done and put the Lions at one in three.
Speaker 5: Remember they started one and six that year before they
Speaker 5: started rallying. And that was a big time Gino Smith
Speaker 5: coming out party. He had the Russell Wilson primetime game.
Speaker 5: But that was the game where you were like, oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, they could really be an offensive force. And
Speaker 5: even the year before when Russell Wilson was the coach
Speaker 5: actually i mean the quarterback for the Seahawks, they beat
Speaker 5: the Lions. So Dan Campbell was very aware of that fact.
Speaker 5: That was a shootout to where they gave up fifty
Speaker 5: points and there's something about Aaron Glenn facing the Seahawks
Speaker 5: that just doesn't work.
Speaker 2: And they got to go back to the lab.
Speaker 5: You can't leave Carlton Davis on an island for this
Speaker 5: whole game.
Speaker 2: But I'm not I guess I'm not.
Speaker 5: That worried relatively that they gave up thirty nine first
Speaker 5: downs in this game.
Speaker 2: That is a preposterous No. Thirty eight.
Speaker 5: So thirty eight first downs, Nick, is the most first downs.
Speaker 5: And that was what the Seahawks did in any game
Speaker 5: by any team in eleven years. That was the twenty
Speaker 5: and thirteen, that magical Peyton Manning season.
Speaker 2: I remember it well.
Speaker 5: Was our first round the NFL season with Chris Westling
Speaker 5: and Dan and Mark and Chris especially enjoyed the hell
Speaker 5: out of that Manning season. That was the last time
Speaker 5: a team had this many first downs. And yet the
Speaker 5: Seahawks weren't really in this game, and at least in
Speaker 5: the last five minutes they kept it interesting, but the
Speaker 5: Lions ultimately got the go ahead score when they needed to.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's what happens.
Speaker 6: We saw it in Washington against in Cincinnati against Washington
Speaker 6: last week on a Monday night. You know, if you
Speaker 6: find yourself on a shootout, you really can't afford to
Speaker 6: waste any possessions. They had to turnover early on the
Speaker 6: DK Metcalf fumble, They had a missed field goal, they
Speaker 6: punted in between there. Meanwhile, the Lions go touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, punt, touchdown, touchdown.
Speaker 6: When the opposing offense is scoring at that rate, you
Speaker 6: have very little to no room for air. You must
Speaker 6: produce points. And it was really that fumble that allowed
Speaker 6: the Lions then to go ahead by two scores and
Speaker 6: build out enough of a lead that they were able
Speaker 6: to ride it out to the end. If that doesn't happen,
Speaker 6: we're probably talking about a game that comes absolutely down
Speaker 6: to the wire, one of the classics. And it was
Speaker 6: already a great game even if it didn't get that
Speaker 6: close to the end because of the fireworks. And this
Speaker 6: is the modern NFL. This is but the fans want.
Speaker 6: This is what they want points, they want air attack,
Speaker 6: and the rumors of the demise of the passing game
Speaker 6: very overblown, evidently based on this game Monday night you're.
Speaker 5: Right, and a key moment you went through all those
Speaker 5: touchdowns in a row for the Lions after their punt,
Speaker 5: or at least after their fourth quarter punt that I'm
Speaker 5: thinking of. I mean, there were so many different touchdown
Speaker 5: streaks you could have, you could have chosen different board
Speaker 5: parts of the game. They had three straight touchdowns punt,
Speaker 5: two street put touchdowns, punt, and then another touchdown. It's
Speaker 5: it's just insane. After their fourth quarter punt, Seahawks get
Speaker 5: the ball, uh, with a chance, you know, to maybe
Speaker 5: go take the leads and make it really interesting. And
Speaker 5: there was a kind of a phantom not a phantom
Speaker 5: call in Tyler Lockett. It could have been called, it
Speaker 5: could have not been called a pass interference call on
Speaker 5: a fourth down play where the Seahawks picked up the
Speaker 5: fourth down to get into field goal range. They end
Speaker 5: up throwing the flag. It's fourth and thirteen at that
Speaker 5: point at the fifty yard line. The Seahawks punt and
Speaker 5: they never quite got close again. I look, I can't
Speaker 5: believe it's taken me this long to say that was
Speaker 5: a fantastic Geno Smith performance. I think for most of
Speaker 5: the game he actually was. I wouldn't I don't know
Speaker 5: if he was playing better than Jared Goff, but he
Speaker 5: was having to do more because he was doing so
Speaker 5: much pressure and he was playing really well.
Speaker 2: I think he's been so locked in all year.
Speaker 5: He ends up with three hundred and ninety five yards
Speaker 5: a touchdown, and unfortunately for his stat line, throws a
Speaker 5: pick in garbage time, basically as they're down thirteen, just
Speaker 5: trying to find something in the last two minutes that
Speaker 5: doesn't work. They bogged down in the red zone a
Speaker 5: couple times right at the end of the game. But
Speaker 5: he played awesome, and it it just gets me thinking,
Speaker 5: like this was such a great game because if you
Speaker 5: just like individual plays, like you just like seeing athletes
Speaker 5: do awesome stuff, like this was a game for you.
Speaker 5: So forgive me, Nick, but I'm just gonna list a
Speaker 5: bunch of the plays, and I probably forgot some, but
Speaker 5: this game, this one game, included all of these plays.
Speaker 5: The first throw of the entire game by Gino Smith
Speaker 5: was an absolute dime to the sideline. A toe tap
Speaker 5: to DK Metcalf in tight coverage against Carlton Davis was
Speaker 5: absolutely incredible. The DK near touchdown in the second quarter
Speaker 5: where Gino Smith lobs it over it and DK is
Speaker 5: almost diving.
Speaker 2: For the touchdown.
Speaker 5: They rule it a touchdown at first, it ends up
Speaker 5: being at the half yard line again. Gino Smith's box
Speaker 5: score against wrapped like that was a beautiful play. The
Speaker 5: force fumble that was actually a great throw by Gino two. DK,
Speaker 5: who breaks a couple of tackles, is almost trying to
Speaker 5: do too much. Jack Campbell makes that great punch out
Speaker 5: for the force fumble. Eight Hutchinson, by the way, ten
Speaker 5: pressures in this game.
Speaker 2: Let's go for a few more plays.
Speaker 5: Gino Smith five forty six left in the third quarter,
Speaker 5: there were these back to back plays almost where he
Speaker 5: spins around under pressure, he's about to get hit and
Speaker 5: just throws a dart to lock it in the middle
Speaker 5: of the field to get a first down on a
Speaker 5: third and long. And then just a couple plays later,
Speaker 5: a similar type of dart under pressure to Bobo.
Speaker 2: I believe it was Oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Bobo fell down too and got back up.
Speaker 2: It just absolutely insane.
Speaker 5: Kenneth Walker's twenty one yard touchdown run was it awesome run?
Speaker 5: Like they pitched it to him left. He goes, you
Speaker 5: know he's going left. He goes all the way back around,
Speaker 5: runs around a couple defenders there, and now let's get
Speaker 5: to the Lion side of thing. There was the toe
Speaker 5: tap by a Monros Saint Brown with over five minutes left.
Speaker 5: Normally that would have been the highlight. That was like
Speaker 5: the fourth biggest highlight of the game. If you're watching
Speaker 5: on YouTube and it is a lot of fun. We
Speaker 5: have the highlights. You can see it there and the
Speaker 5: replay of it. What a fantastic catch by Saint Brown
Speaker 5: who had the best six for forty five and a
Speaker 5: touchdown I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: I'm not done yet, Shook, We've got two more.
Speaker 5: The David Montgomery forty yard catch and run Zach was
Speaker 5: just one of the like most Marshawn Lynch type plays
Speaker 5: I've seen in a long time.
Speaker 2: Actually, let's listen to this one.
Speaker 1: Look them the lions. Now Montgomery the single back behind
Speaker 1: golf first down from the thirty golf play action face
Speaker 1: so that's the pocket, drifts left, look foks and now
Speaker 1: throws back against the body at his pot, bouncing golf
Speaker 1: at tackle and get across thirty five?
Speaker 2: Is Motcoffrey still going on forty seven going across the forty.
Speaker 3: Cucomery I believe it was the fifty left sideline Hi
Speaker 3: stepping across the forty inside the thirty.
Speaker 2: Five and run out of bounced down.
Speaker 3: At the thirty two yard like David Montgomery, Are you
Speaker 3: kidding me?
Speaker 6: I'm telling you all that was missing was get off
Speaker 6: me Child's play the old Marshall Lynch run against the
Speaker 6: Saints like that. There's a thing on TikTok right now
Speaker 6: where guys will narrate their like road to Glory player
Speaker 6: in college football twenty five where they'll be like running
Speaker 6: through tackles and making all the like sounds like that.
Speaker 4: I could have used that on that too. It was
Speaker 4: that amazing.
Speaker 2: That was awesome.
Speaker 8: I love.
Speaker 5: I did hear a play by play guy in the
Speaker 5: college football game doing the like on a telecast, which
Speaker 5: was really cool. And you're I mean, like Montgomery was
Speaker 5: stoned and then they came out his legs and he's
Speaker 5: spun out.
Speaker 2: I mean, what ah, what a runner? What a player?
Speaker 5: Montgomery has turned out to be. Man, I was wrong
Speaker 5: about him with the Bears. And then finally, let's let's
Speaker 5: listen to one more play. All of these plays happened
Speaker 5: in the exactly in the same game. Yeah, let's let's listen.
Speaker 5: Another seventy yard er to Jamison Willie golf up.
Speaker 1: Under center on first down, off turns, takes the gifts
Speaker 1: to pick up the blitz golf throws. It is caught
Speaker 1: cross way to go online and forget it.
Speaker 2: He's gone, so nobody's need to catch it. You can't
Speaker 2: catch that man.
Speaker 3: Javo the house seventy yards from Jared gobh and he
Speaker 3: slams it over the gold post.
Speaker 2: That's gonna draw a penalty.
Speaker 9: You can't do that.
Speaker 2: But damnage done.
Speaker 1: Jamison Williams up into the crowd for the celebration.
Speaker 2: He may that look easy. We made that looks so easy.
Speaker 2: You know why it looks so easy?
Speaker 5: He shook because it hit him perfectly in stride, like
Speaker 5: over the second level defender that the safety was flat,
Speaker 5: like that's an underrated throw. They had so many yards
Speaker 5: after the catch tonight, I think it was two hundred
Speaker 5: and nineteen, and that's largely because goff is he's that
Speaker 5: West Coast quarterback. He's he's the Joe Montana where he
Speaker 5: puts it exactly where it needs to be. When he
Speaker 5: got drafted first, that was the vision. It was those
Speaker 5: pretty passes that hit you in stride.
Speaker 6: It was that play to Williams. He was so hit
Speaker 6: so perfectly and so open. I think it's the longest
Speaker 6: I've ever seen a receiver start to celebrate a touchdown,
Speaker 6: like he started high stepping at like the twenty eight.
Speaker 6: For those of you who are not watching on YouTube,
Speaker 6: you could see it if you're watching on YouTube, high
Speaker 6: stepping at the twenty eight, to the point where I
Speaker 6: was like, oh, no, oh, no, you're celebrating too early.
Speaker 4: You're gonna get caught. And then he didn't.
Speaker 6: It was just a magnificent play on their part. And
Speaker 6: it is really fun to see them get to Jamison
Speaker 6: more often because he has that big playability that we
Speaker 6: didn't really see consistently over his first couple of years
Speaker 6: in the NFL. So now that he's getting to that point,
Speaker 6: you know, on nights like this where you need every
Speaker 6: score to win a game like this, it's a beautiful
Speaker 6: sight to see.
Speaker 5: It was almost they kept scoring too fast. They ended
Speaker 5: up with fifty plays, which is normal, it's on the
Speaker 5: low side. Certainly, the Seahawks ended up with seventy eight,
Speaker 5: and again a couple of those you know that it's
Speaker 5: inflated a little by those last two relative garbage time drives,
Speaker 5: but that's sixteen more plays another like eighty yards they
Speaker 5: attacked on then, but even before that they were going
Speaker 5: on longer drives. You know, dk Goes seven for one
Speaker 5: oh four, Locketts five for sixty one, Smith and Jigbu
Speaker 5: five for fifty one. They got the running game going
Speaker 5: in the second half after not even trying in the
Speaker 5: first half. They actually only ran the ball four times
Speaker 5: in twenty seven plays in the first half, So I
Speaker 5: think both teams leave feeling some positives. But to get
Speaker 5: Laporta involved, to get Jamison Williams involved, to have this
Speaker 5: offensive performance, and then I think it was a big
Speaker 5: deal Nick going into the buy to get a win
Speaker 5: without Frank Ragnow. They're on off splits without rag Now.
Speaker 5: Last year were miserable and they played great upfront. Obviously
Speaker 5: all the line protection, like the calls. They were ready
Speaker 5: for that moment tonight. And if they need Ragnow to
Speaker 5: sit out for a little while with the strained peck,
Speaker 5: then they showed they can survive it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jared Goffin only pressured seven times. I know they
Speaker 6: had a couple of sacks, but for the most part
Speaker 6: he had relatively clean pockets, and he was able to operate.
Speaker 6: And that's the way you beat them is by getting
Speaker 6: pressure in his face and taking away the middle of
Speaker 6: the field, which the Seahawks did not do, and managing
Speaker 6: to prevent that from happening without one of your best
Speaker 6: offensive linemen, one of your most tenured offensive lineen outside
Speaker 6: of Taylor Decker, a guy that you can count on
Speaker 6: to set the protection and also block consistently in the interior.
Speaker 6: That's a big sign, a big positive sign for the Lions.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to point to their defense really. I
Speaker 6: know they need to correct a lot of things and
Speaker 6: they need to get cleaner. They had like nine penalties,
Speaker 6: But I mean, this is the momentum you want going
Speaker 6: into the bye week, especially now at three and one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, their defense, Terry Nardo needs to stop, you know,
Speaker 5: just holding the receiver tonight. It's been a problem all
Speaker 5: season long. And yes, here comes the cold water on
Speaker 5: everything and Seahawks fans. In my mentions tonight, you know
Speaker 5: when I mentioned like it's probably not a great sign
Speaker 5: that the Gino Smith is playing nearly perfect. I thought
Speaker 5: he was perfect in the first half and they were
Speaker 5: down twenty one to seven, like, I don't know if
Speaker 5: he had one negative play from his angle, like the
Speaker 5: entire first half and they were down twenty one to seven,
Speaker 5: and everyone in my mentions like.
Speaker 2: Yo, they're missing all their stories and stuff. It's like,
Speaker 2: you don't think I know that.
Speaker 5: I'm saying that, Like, it's not a good sign for
Speaker 5: them winning tonight's game. That was all I'm saying that.
Speaker 5: It's not a good sign. If he's having to play
Speaker 5: perfect and they're still losing by a lot, they're probably
Speaker 5: not gonna win tonight. And yes, that was a massive
Speaker 5: factor in this game. They did not have Leonard Williams.
Speaker 5: They did not have Boye Mafe, who was leading the
Speaker 5: NFL in pressures recently. They did not have Ucena Nuoso,
Speaker 5: who hasn't played all year but practice this week and
Speaker 5: there was some hope. They did not have their first
Speaker 5: round pick, Byron Murphy, who would really help in the
Speaker 5: run defense. And they did not have Jerome Baker their linebacker,
Speaker 5: so they were starting a fourth or fifth round linebacker
Speaker 5: who's been okay the last couple weeks, but Goff really
Speaker 5: won over the middle of the field. Then during the game,
Speaker 5: they lost Julian Love, who's been to me playing at
Speaker 5: like an all pro Pro Bowl type level with a
Speaker 5: thigh injury. So that's six starters on defense. So as
Speaker 5: much as I wanted this to be a litmus test
Speaker 5: of all right, what Lions offense shows up, what Seahawks
Speaker 5: defense shows up, that's why we need the rematch in
Speaker 5: the playoffs. This is a great budding rivalry and we
Speaker 5: want to see it with all their players because that
Speaker 5: was a big deal. Lions had their injuries too, Brian
Speaker 5: branches out. You know, I know they're missing some guys,
Speaker 5: but that's a massive difference then basically every Seahawks defense
Speaker 5: that we've seen, at least the first few weeks of
Speaker 5: the season before they had a couple more injuries in
Speaker 5: the Dolphins game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, you could look at their schedule and say,
Speaker 6: well it's been a little soft. You know, you played
Speaker 6: Denver in New England than Miami without Tua. Right, so
Speaker 6: three wins in a row. Who have you played? That's serious? Well,
Speaker 6: this is the serious team. But with all those injuries
Speaker 6: accounted for, you kind of have to take it with
Speaker 6: a bit of a grain of salt and not hang
Speaker 6: your head too much about it because you still manage
Speaker 6: to compete with all those you know guys missing on
Speaker 6: the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 4: It's just that you couldn't quite keep up offensively.
Speaker 6: And you know, look, all I really need to see
Speaker 6: from them right now, this early in the season is
Speaker 6: that their offense can consistently score and that Gina's gonna
Speaker 6: play well and he's playing fantastically. So look, man, I
Speaker 6: know you lost the game, but it's a game that
Speaker 6: you can pull a lot of positives out of. You
Speaker 6: figure out what you need to correct. You keep moving
Speaker 6: forward because it does get a little tougher. New York's
Speaker 6: got You know, the Giants they play next week, has
Speaker 6: a strong defensive front. They've proven that through the first
Speaker 6: month of the season, and they will be able to
Speaker 6: cause some pressures. Then you get San Francisco, Atlanta, Buffalo
Speaker 6: and the Rams to get tested.
Speaker 4: You're gonna get tested.
Speaker 5: I actually thought the offensive line took a step forward tonight,
Speaker 5: I think, and I actually thought against Miami the edges
Speaker 5: were okay. I mean, Charles Cross has been good all
Speaker 5: year and the edges were okay. It was all coming
Speaker 5: up the middle. I thought they were better tonight. Detroit's
Speaker 5: pass rush this year has other than Hutchinson has been
Speaker 5: quite thin. It's really Hutchinson on Wuzerique and that's about it.
Speaker 5: Although Gino had that stretch where he was under pressure
Speaker 5: a lot, I thought it was like a normal amount
Speaker 5: of pressure, considering he dropped back to pass fifty six times.
Speaker 5: It was it wasn't that crazy tonight, and he does
Speaker 5: a great job. Part of that is Gino makes him
Speaker 5: look better. I mean, he was getting the ball out
Speaker 5: so fast early. He'd better get onto QB Island. I
Speaker 5: think this was a good final statement. And Jared Goff,
Speaker 5: who if we had done the segment last week, I
Speaker 5: think you would have been booted off. It's it's going
Speaker 5: to be tough to move him, but that will come
Speaker 5: on Wednesday show. Steve Weisch coming into the studio along
Speaker 5: with Colleen Wolf and Jordan our usual crew. Wow, that
Speaker 5: was fun. Do you have anything left to say? If not,
Speaker 5: we will take a break because there was another game tonight, Nick, Yeah.
Speaker 6: We have another game that quite as exciting. I just
Speaker 6: want to say one thing. Yes, Jared Goff goes a
Speaker 6: perfect day for eighteen for eighteen the odds of Golf
Speaker 6: completing all eighteen passes based on the completion probability of
Speaker 6: each attempt according to next Gen Stats, one in one
Speaker 6: and forty five less than a chance.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, that sounds about right, Like if he played
Speaker 5: a game and had all of those passes and he
Speaker 5: played a game every week for about eight years. I'm
Speaker 5: just doing the math very roughly. Yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 5: That is crazy. I don't know how they come up
Speaker 5: with that, but it is absolutely crazy. Not all those
Speaker 5: throws were easy, and yeah, Amnra saved him, and I think,
Speaker 5: I know I Goff wasn't sure at the end of
Speaker 5: the game. He was trying to think of it. You said,
Speaker 5: I think he threw one away that was called back
Speaker 5: by penalty and that might have been what was in
Speaker 5: his head where he had one throwaway that got wiped
Speaker 5: out by penalty. I'm glad it did twelve for twelve,
Speaker 5: by the way, in play action for two hundred and
Speaker 5: twenty nine ers. I mean, you can just find a
Speaker 5: million crazy stats, but this, to me was Jared Goff
Speaker 5: in a nutshell play action over the middle of the field,
Speaker 5: hitting guys in stride.
Speaker 2: Nice night.
Speaker 5: Been so many nice nights for Jared Goff with the
Speaker 5: Detroit Lions. Both these teams are at three and one.
Speaker 5: I think we're going to see them both in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: We will take a quick break. We're going to talk
Speaker 5: about Titans and Dolphins after.
Speaker 9: That fourth and going at the four, gim Pollard around
Speaker 9: right hand trying to score.
Speaker 2: Pollard dives height.
Speaker 3: The thirty point streak is broken, and the Titans fans,
Speaker 3: who dominate the remainder of hard Rock Stadium, celebrate.
Speaker 2: I've never been so happy with thirty points.
Speaker 9: And the Dolphins fans are booing that is really boohoop.
Speaker 8: Mike Keith and former Titans interim head coach Dave McGinnis
Speaker 8: w G f ax Tony Pollard scores in the most
Speaker 8: hilarious of that call and put that on the Calls
Speaker 8: of the Year list.
Speaker 5: Eric behind the glass is that it was to make
Speaker 5: the score thirty one to twelve with under two minutes
Speaker 5: to go, with under thirty seconds to go. Shout out
Speaker 5: to Brian Callahan there for going for and probably changing
Speaker 5: a lot of fantasy fortunes. He must have known that
Speaker 5: thirty points score thing. They had not top thirty in
Speaker 5: over a thousand days. Nick Shook and the Titans are
Speaker 5: winless no more. One in three over the hapless Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 6: Tell you what, he's lucky that Arthur Smith wasn't on
Speaker 6: the other sideline. He might have a bit of an
Speaker 6: altercation in midfield if that were the case. The cackling
Speaker 6: in that call was fantastic. But I think that also
Speaker 6: kind of paints the picture of where the Titans have
Speaker 6: been so far through three weeks, where they've been in games,
Speaker 6: they've had opportunities to win, they just haven't closed the deal.
Speaker 6: He can go back to one and thing about that
Speaker 6: with Will Levis and his pick six that lost them
Speaker 6: that game. The difference tonight, though, is they lose Will
Speaker 6: Levis after he throws a pick to Emmanuel Ogba, of
Speaker 6: all people, who makes one of the greatest catches in
Speaker 6: the history of thunder thighs. You know, ball falls out
Speaker 6: of his hands right in between both those thick thighs
Speaker 6: and he just squeezes them and hangs on the football.
Speaker 6: It was not a good start for them. Levis goes
Speaker 6: out because of a shoulder injury. Mason Rudolph comes in,
Speaker 6: He throws for eighty five yards and somehow steadies the
Speaker 6: ship enough for the Titans to basically cruise to victory
Speaker 6: over a Dolphins team that is searching for answers on
Speaker 6: the offensive side of the football right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's the biggest story. We'll get to the
Speaker 5: Dolphins part of it in a minute. But Will Levis
Speaker 5: was hurt after an early third down where he dove
Speaker 5: for the first down marker. The most Will Levis play
Speaker 5: of all time, just trying to make something happen, do
Speaker 5: you know, passes up a throw to run, looks very
Speaker 5: athletic doing it, but comes up like half a yard short.
Speaker 5: Didn't seem like a great spot, but he came up
Speaker 5: just a half a yard short. So it's like he
Speaker 5: tries so hard and he comes up short. And he
Speaker 5: came up and you could read his lips saying, you
Speaker 5: know something about his shoulder? Yeahouh, yeah, I hurt my shoulder.
Speaker 2: He's very expressive.
Speaker 5: His lip reading was a major feature of this game
Speaker 5: because on that Emmanuel Agba interception, you could see him
Speaker 5: saying I didn't see him at all, and it's like, yep,
Speaker 5: we know Will Levis. So he goes out with that injury,
Speaker 5: he's in pain. They get it checked out. Rudolph comes
Speaker 5: in and he has a field goal drive. Nothing crazy.
Speaker 5: It's like a moderately long field goal, but just a
Speaker 5: couple plays where he got to his second read and
Speaker 5: made normal football plays, normal passes, And it was kind
Speaker 5: of like Brian Callahan saw that and was like, Oh,
Speaker 5: I like that someone who's just doing what he's supposed
Speaker 5: to do within the framework of the offense. Hmmm, I
Speaker 5: might want to see a little more of that if
Speaker 5: if Will is not feeling one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: I also think that given the situation that they stepped
Speaker 6: into on Monday night oh and three, you know, desperate
Speaker 6: for a win, see some stability at quarterback, not a
Speaker 6: high ceiling, we know what Mason Rudolph is, but just
Speaker 6: some stability there to keep the offense going. I think
Speaker 6: at that point he was just like, dude, we need
Speaker 6: to go get a win, like we desperately need to
Speaker 6: go get a win. Let's just ride this out for
Speaker 6: the rest of the night. We know that the Dolphins
Speaker 6: probably aren't going to score a lot of points. Let's
Speaker 6: ride this out and ride the running game, which is
Speaker 6: what they did to perfection or near perfection. I mean, statistically,
Speaker 6: they did a fantastic job between you know, ty J
Speaker 6: Spears and Tony Pollard. Pollard goes twenty two for eighty
Speaker 6: eight and a touchdown. Spears fifteen for thirty nine. Not
Speaker 6: a great average, but also scores a touchdown. Bit of
Speaker 6: a boom or bust running game for them, but it
Speaker 6: did the job. And in a game where you can
Speaker 6: expect that your defense is going to play well enough
Speaker 6: to limit the opposing offense, that's really all you need
Speaker 6: provided you don't turn the ball over. And with Rudolph
Speaker 6: in there, you can basically count on you're not going
Speaker 6: to turn the ball over. So it worked out for him.
Speaker 6: Big win, not in the fact that they won by
Speaker 6: so many points, but just a big win to get
Speaker 6: a win in the column at this point after a month.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's a huge. Callahan was thrilled after the game.
Speaker 5: He you know, just got the game ball from his owner.
Speaker 5: It's such a heavy thing when you're winless. And now
Speaker 5: that they have won a game, the Jaguars are the
Speaker 5: only winless team in the league. By the way, with
Speaker 5: the Seahawks losing that game, there are only two undefeated
Speaker 5: teams in the league.
Speaker 2: That's the Vikings and the Chiefs.
Speaker 5: Let's actually listen to what Callahan said at halftime to ESPN.
Speaker 5: When he was asked about the quarterback situation.
Speaker 6: Mason Rudolph came off the bench gave this offensive spark,
Speaker 6: who's your starting quarterback in the second half?
Speaker 10: We'll see Will's got an injury he's dealing with, so
Speaker 10: we'll see how it comes out. I weren't sure how
Speaker 10: he was feeling, so we just let Mason finish the
Speaker 10: half and we'll figure out when we get in there.
Speaker 11: Yeah, what will be the determining factor about who should
Speaker 11: be your starting quarterback?
Speaker 10: It's just a matter of if you can physically play,
Speaker 10: and then if he can play, he'll go. But Mason's
Speaker 10: been a really nute shout for us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, after the game he said something similar, whereas,
Speaker 5: if will Levis is one hundred percent, I mean, if
Speaker 5: Willlevis is healthy, he's one hundred percent our quarterback. He
Speaker 5: also mentioned the upcoming by played into his thinking, so
Speaker 5: that even though it was pretty clear will Levis could
Speaker 5: have returned to the game, maybe wanted to return to
Speaker 5: the game. I think he understood the situation and they
Speaker 5: just didn't want to rock the boat. And look, if
Speaker 5: will Levis hadn't thrown that interception, he might have stayed
Speaker 5: in the game. But it's just been a rough start
Speaker 5: for Levis. I think as inconsistent as he was last year,
Speaker 5: I think he's been worse this year because it's just
Speaker 5: been more consistently bad. Like you see stretches, you see
Speaker 5: big plays. He can throw the ball down the field,
Speaker 5: but they really struggle on the short and intermediate area
Speaker 5: with Levis. And to have that brain fart right off
Speaker 5: the bat to start this game, I think Callahan was happy.
Speaker 5: And look, Rudolph didn't do great. He went nine for
Speaker 5: seventeen for eighty five yards. It really wasn't a great performance.
Speaker 5: They had four punts early in the third quarter, but
Speaker 5: after that they started at least getting some field goals going.
Speaker 5: He made a really nice play right before halftime. Maybe
Speaker 5: that played into Callahan's thinking. They actually got the ball
Speaker 5: back shook with twenty two seconds around their own forty
Speaker 5: yard line, and he delivered a strike his best throw
Speaker 5: the night, to Boyd for twenty seven yard lines. They
Speaker 5: run up, they spike it and Nick Folk, who's on
Speaker 5: fire this year, hits a forty seven yarder.
Speaker 2: He hit three fifty yarders in this game.
Speaker 5: Nick Folk is absolutely ageless, and that was like the
Speaker 5: offensive highlight of the night until that late Pollard touchdown.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was nice to see Nick Folk bang through
Speaker 6: a few of those field goals because I still remember
Speaker 6: when he was with the Patriots and couldn't hit a
Speaker 6: fifty yarder and just kept.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't even let him try.
Speaker 5: I don't know what happens. These kickers are getting better
Speaker 5: and better as they get older. They're kicking the ball further,
Speaker 5: like young Wayku used to not be able to kick
Speaker 5: that far, and now he's piping fifty eight yarders.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on here. Yeah.
Speaker 6: The Levis thing, though, Like it's hard because doing QBI
Speaker 6: every week, I just watch him and I think, yeah,
Speaker 6: there it is. There's the potential, there's the potential, and
Speaker 6: there's the bonehead of mistake. And we saw the what
Speaker 6: the eff are you doing turnover in week two. We
Speaker 6: saw the turnovers that he made in week one, and
Speaker 6: it's just like, man, if you could eliminate that from
Speaker 6: your game, then you could actually, you know, take a
Speaker 6: hold of this job potentially long term.
Speaker 4: It's just not there yet.
Speaker 6: And again, in a situation like this where you desperately
Speaker 6: need to go get a win, you go with the
Speaker 6: guy with the lower ceiling who's steadier, and especially in
Speaker 6: a muggy night. Did you see, by the way, those
Speaker 6: of you watched on YouTube saw, but those listening on podcast,
Speaker 6: it was hot in Miami on Monday night so much
Speaker 6: that Brian Callahan sweat through most of his shirt in
Speaker 6: the first half. So with these type of conditions, you know,
Speaker 6: you don't want to let any variables get involved, So
Speaker 6: good good on them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got to do the thing that tennis players
Speaker 5: do and have like a change and yeah change like
Speaker 5: Francis Siafa will change it like twenty times in one
Speaker 5: match or whatever. But just have like a second half
Speaker 5: to shirt. If you're Callahan, who did say that the
Speaker 5: injury was bothering Levis significantly. I mean, this was an
Speaker 5: ugly game. There's some crazy stats in this game. Sixty
Speaker 5: one first half plays between the two teams. Twenty one
Speaker 5: of those this was according to ESPN stats in Info,
Speaker 5: twenty one of the sixty one went for zero or
Speaker 5: negative yards.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's freaking.
Speaker 5: Twenty one negative or zero yard plays in a single
Speaker 5: half between the two teams. So that's why the Titans
Speaker 5: running game doesn't look as good on paper as you
Speaker 5: would expect because their offensive line on the right side
Speaker 5: just gives up huge penetration. I mean, Spears had like
Speaker 5: a negative four, negative eight where he had no chance,
Speaker 5: like it's been happening all year.
Speaker 2: The left side of the Titans offensive.
Speaker 5: Line, Scoronski and Laith them something to build off in
Speaker 5: their center, like they're getting something going there. The right
Speaker 5: side is a total disaster with Petit Frere. There was
Speaker 5: eighteen penalties between these two teams. And yeah, let's get
Speaker 5: to the dolphins of it all. Tyler Huntley somehow didn't
Speaker 5: throw an interception in this game, but he also did
Speaker 5: not throw for one hundred yards despite some garbage time
Speaker 5: yards ninety six yards on twenty two attempts missed open receivers,
Speaker 5: and you know, more to the point, just didn't seem
Speaker 5: like he knew what was going on in the playbook
Speaker 5: that well, which makes sense. It's a very complicated playbook.
Speaker 5: And he's only been there for six weeks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, and he had some inaccuracy issues what
Speaker 6: you come to expect from a guy making us first
Speaker 6: start when he hasn't been there very long. But they
Speaker 6: also can't do the small things very well. I mean
Speaker 6: he found Jalen Waddle open over the middle and Waddle
Speaker 6: drops it. Even the pass to Tyreek Hill that you know,
Speaker 6: picks up a nice game in the second half that
Speaker 6: he might break for a touchdown, he gets cut down.
Speaker 6: They go for it on fourth down and Tyreek goes
Speaker 6: around the end of the Jets sweep and he gets
Speaker 6: cut down short of the sticks.
Speaker 5: Like just nice Condrey digs there. That was like it
Speaker 5: was a few real highlights. I guess their defense had
Speaker 5: plenty of highlights.
Speaker 6: I take that back, yeah, but like the small things
Speaker 6: are just not working for the Dolphins right now, which
Speaker 6: is why they start. I mean, they had eighty four
Speaker 6: yards of offense going to the fourth quarter. That's not
Speaker 6: the Miami Dolphins we expected to see the season. But
Speaker 6: that's what happens when you lose your quarterback and you'd
Speaker 6: throw two different guys in there in two weeks.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's true.
Speaker 5: And yet on the other side of the ball, Mason
Speaker 5: Rudolph comes in and it was operable. You know, they
Speaker 5: go for two forty four. What actually wasn't that much better?
Speaker 5: To be fair, Uh, Malik Willis, he's still in this
Speaker 5: coaching you were in this coaching tree. I mean they
Speaker 5: had the number one ground game in the NFL when
Speaker 5: Malik Willis was the coach, I mean was the quarterback
Speaker 5: in Green Bay, and that's that's sort of one of
Speaker 5: his rivals there. Lafleur, I think some of this has
Speaker 5: to go down on McDaniel. Joe Flacco comes in and
Speaker 5: plays well, who's another one like that. There's been a
Speaker 5: bunch of backup quarterbacks that have come in and been
Speaker 5: good enough, like Andy Dalton. I know that's a different
Speaker 5: type of situation, but you can say that they've lost
Speaker 5: their starting quarterback. But it shouldn't all fall apart like
Speaker 5: this when that happens.
Speaker 6: But it falls apart when you don't have a trusted,
Speaker 6: veteran option who's familiar with the offense, which is right.
Speaker 5: So that's on them though, because Skyler Thompson has literally
Speaker 5: been there for Skyler Thompson, but he's been there for
Speaker 5: three that was their choice, So that's on mcdeith's on them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can put it on Greer a little bit.
Speaker 5: I guess it's hard, but when it comes to quarterbacks,
Speaker 5: I think it's on McDaniel, but I think more is
Speaker 5: on McDaniel. This Dolphins team was on my radar of
Speaker 5: not really being what we expected coming into the season
Speaker 5: because of the offensive line and the running game could
Speaker 5: be better. They had the seventh This was from Austin
Speaker 5: Gale at the Ringer. They had the seventh best rushing
Speaker 5: offense in EPA in the last ten years last year.
Speaker 5: That's how good their rushing offenses was last year. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they are thirty first now, they're thirty first in the
Speaker 5: NFL now. And even when Tua was in for those
Speaker 5: six quarters, it was an up and down game against
Speaker 5: Jacksonville where they had to come back to win late
Speaker 5: against a team that right now has the thirty second
Speaker 5: ranked defense according to DVOA.
Speaker 2: So that game does not look good.
Speaker 5: And the two and a half quarters with two against
Speaker 5: Buffalo wasn't good either. So there's you can't collapse this bad.
Speaker 5: They're the worst team in the NFL. I don't even
Speaker 5: think there's a question. I mean, I guess the Jaguars
Speaker 5: could because they're zero and four. I would take the
Speaker 5: Jaguars right now against the Tyler Huntley Dolphins.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I mean, if you want one defining moment of where
Speaker 6: the Dolphins are offensively and how lost they are just
Speaker 6: go back to last week when they played the Seahawks
Speaker 6: and they got a turnover inside the ten and came
Speaker 6: away with a field goal. That's just not enough. That's
Speaker 6: not enough.
Speaker 4: But that's who they are right now.
Speaker 2: It's tough.
Speaker 5: Four point four yards per attempt for Huntley Jordan Brooks.
Speaker 5: I think he's been good. Trying to think of some
Speaker 5: positives to say Jalen Phillips, this is not a positive.
Speaker 5: Got hurt again tonight. He was frustrated, he was in
Speaker 5: and out of the game. He was kind of banged
Speaker 5: up last week too. He's coming off that serious injury
Speaker 5: and got back for week one. You do wonder if
Speaker 5: you're going to hear another offseason article at some point
Speaker 5: of Phillips saying I rushed back too quickly off of
Speaker 5: such a serious injury, and he hasn't quite been right.
Speaker 5: Like they've gotten some good linebacker play, like Steelers played well,
Speaker 5: but the defense has been bad too. They were thirtieth
Speaker 5: inefficiency coming into tonight according to DVOA. That will improve
Speaker 5: after this performance, but their defense hasn't been good too.
Speaker 5: It's depressing. They're playing the Patriots next week, and actually
Speaker 5: those might be the two worst teams in the league.
Speaker 5: I would say, Dolphins, Patriots, get excited. All right, let's
Speaker 5: get excited. Let's do some news, Nick Schuk, that's enough.
Speaker 2: On that game. Congrats to the Titans. It's Monday night.
Speaker 2: You know, we're going through a bunch of injuries.
Speaker 5: Jonathan Taylor had a high ankle sprain and that came
Speaker 5: out of nowhere in that game against the Steelers.
Speaker 2: It happened, we believe.
Speaker 5: On the last play of the game. So that's why
Speaker 5: you didn't really notice. I kind of hobbled over on
Speaker 5: the last carry that he had. Ian Rappaport believes it's
Speaker 5: not a bad high ankle sprain. Whatever that means. I
Speaker 5: don't know how that works. And Athony Richardson is day
Speaker 5: to day. So this Colts team will be, you know,
Speaker 5: waiting and seeing if they can play this week.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Taylor did a good job of keeping that offensive
Speaker 6: float with Flack in there. They leaned on him, especially
Speaker 6: in the second half, to keeps some drives going outside
Speaker 6: of that make if it's Patrick penalty. He kind of
Speaker 6: paced them and balanced it out. Losing him would be
Speaker 6: a blow because behind him is.
Speaker 4: What Trey sermon like. It's not the best one two punch.
Speaker 6: But if it's not bad, which I don't know how
Speaker 6: high ankle sprain's not bad, then that's still encouraging.
Speaker 4: We'll see. They're a little bit on the men right now.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think there are different variations. There's the
Speaker 5: ones like I'm thinking of a Ryan Tannehill injury at
Speaker 5: a couple of years ago, which he could barely move
Speaker 5: after being out a week or two. And then there's
Speaker 5: ones like home is played through it. But even then
Speaker 5: he like we're talking about a running back, there's no
Speaker 5: way he should be playing this week against the Jaguars.
Speaker 2: We'll see. I think Anthony Richardson will be ready to play.
Speaker 5: That is just my hunch. They called him day to day,
Speaker 5: but we'll have to track that. That's a chance there
Speaker 5: for the Jaguars to possibly get a win before they
Speaker 5: head over to London. Come on, Jaguars, I'm covering you there,
Speaker 5: let's do it. Christian Watson, the Packers receiver, has a
Speaker 5: high ankle sprain and he is out at least a
Speaker 5: week or so. This is a receiver group that can
Speaker 5: probably live without a receiver just because they're so deep.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Dantavian Wicks had a nice start to the season
Speaker 6: in a nice game on Sunday. You have Romeo Dobbs
Speaker 6: there as well, and as long as Jordan Love isn't
Speaker 6: throwing a bunch of interceptions as he did this past weekend,
Speaker 6: you'll find a way to keep it afloat. Thankfully, you
Speaker 6: have Josh Jacobs back there to lead the ground game,
Speaker 6: which has been you know now in terms of EPA
Speaker 6: or like you know, success rate has not been high,
Speaker 6: which is kind of weird. I'm not I still have
Speaker 6: an unpacked deb but visually it's a it's a better
Speaker 6: running game.
Speaker 2: So you know, they got the rams. That's that's a
Speaker 2: very winnable game.
Speaker 5: And look, Jayden Reid has turned into He's not a
Speaker 5: traditional one. But the more he plays, the more I
Speaker 5: think about him like like an Aman Ross Saint Brown.
Speaker 5: He's not like aman Ross Saint Brown. I don't know
Speaker 5: if he can be like that consistent, But what I
Speaker 5: mean is that you can build a chunk of the
Speaker 5: offense around this guy and he's going to show up
Speaker 5: every week. So he is their one, even if he's
Speaker 5: not a traditional one. And then I mean his numbers
Speaker 5: look like he's a traditional one. He's a really unique player.
Speaker 5: I really like Jane Reid, so I think they'll be
Speaker 5: able to survive without Watson for a bit.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's not too long.
Speaker 5: We keep getting news about the Cowboys injuries that get
Speaker 5: worse and worse. Now it's DeMarcus Lawrence out four to
Speaker 5: seven weeks and Micah Parsons likely to miss this week
Speaker 5: with a high ankle sprain. Their bye week is two
Speaker 5: weeks away, so they might be tempted to keep Micah
Speaker 5: out for those two games. He says he's never missed
Speaker 5: a game at any level, which is a wild Stati
Speaker 5: Parsen college, Yeah, high school or college or.
Speaker 6: Like insane with that. It wasn't a good game for
Speaker 6: them defensively against the Giants. I know it was a
Speaker 6: low scoring affair, but in terms of like pressure and
Speaker 6: Parsons making a difference and everything kind of a little
Speaker 6: bit concerning. And you saw what the Saints did to
Speaker 6: him a couple weeks prior, so losing both those guys
Speaker 6: at the same time is concerning to me. But it's
Speaker 6: more about Lawrence than it is Parsons. If Parsons is
Speaker 6: to come back.
Speaker 5: Quicker, I mean, it's absolutely brutal. Those are the two
Speaker 5: best players on their defense. I guess you'd throw Trevon
Speaker 5: Digs in there. Yeah, that's a killer. They're playing the Steelers.
Speaker 5: Steelers keep getting pretty good schedule luck, although I guess
Speaker 5: you could say they got bad luck that they had
Speaker 5: to face Joe Flacco on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Nick Chubb is set to practice on Thursday.
Speaker 5: So all these players that were put on short term
Speaker 5: I are, there's the option to have them start practicing
Speaker 5: this week. Some players are, some players aren't. For instance,
Speaker 5: Kendrick Bourne, I believe is ready to start practice. That
Speaker 5: opens the three week window and then they have to
Speaker 5: be activated within that three weeks if they're going to
Speaker 5: play this year. So Nick Chubb getting closer to playing.
Speaker 5: They desperately need them. Shaq Thompson, the Panthers linebacker, is
Speaker 5: going to miss the season with a torn achilles. Steelers
Speaker 5: guard James Daniels is going to miss the season with
Speaker 5: an injury. That's a big loss for them. A solid
Speaker 5: starter on a fairly shaky offensive line. Tank Dell expected
Speaker 5: to return on Friday. Excited about about your guy Chubb
Speaker 5: getting back on the field.
Speaker 6: No, because they have offensive line issues and I think
Speaker 6: that's going to prevent him from being able to really
Speaker 6: get out and get going. But it's still an upgrade
Speaker 6: over Jerome Ford. The Browns don't run the ball very much.
Speaker 6: They haven't through the first month. When they have, it's
Speaker 6: just been random chunk plays from Jerome Ford. Chubb's more
Speaker 6: liable to produce those. But they have so many problems
Speaker 6: up front that I'm concerned they can't run.
Speaker 5: They have nothing, they have nothing, they have to run
Speaker 5: the ball. I mean, maybe they'll get He'll down that
Speaker 5: offensive line. By the time Chubb plays, I think the
Speaker 5: earliest Chubb, if he's just starting to practice this week.
Speaker 4: It's got it would be two weeks or so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be next week at the earliest.
Speaker 5: And and we'll see because he's coming back, yeah from
Speaker 5: that that devastating injury he suffered on Monday Night Football.
Speaker 5: All right, let's get to some comments that I wanted
Speaker 5: to talk about on Sunday Night show.
Speaker 2: And it was. It was a packed show.
Speaker 5: But I did love that Baker Mayfield had that baller
Speaker 5: game with Tom Brady up in the booth.
Speaker 2: And yeah, Tom.
Speaker 5: Brady seemed to be in his feelings a little bit
Speaker 5: about some Baker Mayfield comments let's listen to Tom Brady's
Speaker 5: response on the Fox broadcast.
Speaker 9: Oh, Baker Mayfield sizzling to start and took a little
Speaker 9: playful jab at our guy here said quote. They wanted
Speaker 9: me to come in, be myself, bring the joy back
Speaker 9: to football for guys who weren't having as much fun.
Speaker 1: I thought stressful was not having super Bowl rings. So
Speaker 1: there was a mindset of a champion that I took
Speaker 1: to work every day.
Speaker 4: This wasn't daycare.
Speaker 1: If I wanted to have fun, I was gonna go
Speaker 1: to Disneyland with my kids.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he mad Man. Yeah, like he came out ready
Speaker 5: to say that. And look the comments from Baker who
Speaker 5: was on a podcast. Look good things never happened. If
Speaker 5: you go on a podcast and just start talking that.
Speaker 5: He said, everyone was pretty stressed out when Brady was there.
Speaker 5: The building was a little different, was a high strung environment,
Speaker 5: and they wanted Baker to come in and just kind
Speaker 5: of be himself. And that was the response to Brady,
Speaker 5: which Baker said after the game. He said, I think
Speaker 5: they were these were taken out of context. They can't
Speaker 5: be taken out of content. They were your they were
Speaker 5: your quotes. I think it's fair to say that, Like,
Speaker 5: he wasn't saying that Brady was a bad guy. He
Speaker 5: was just he was just saying, like every the building
Speaker 5: was a little stressed, and they want me to be
Speaker 5: me because they can't.
Speaker 2: You know, they can't. I can't be Tom Brady and
Speaker 2: get everyone stressed out like that.
Speaker 6: Look, both guys can be right and both things can
Speaker 6: be true. This is Tom Brady arriving in Tampa was
Speaker 6: exactly what you've seen in the NBA with Lebron James.
Speaker 4: It's Lebron effect.
Speaker 6: You show up, you are instantly expected to contend with
Speaker 6: a veteran guy who doesn't have many years left and
Speaker 6: he expects to win titles. And that's all that happened
Speaker 6: with the Buccaneers. It's just that they got one and
Speaker 6: then they didn't get there again over the next two years,
Speaker 6: and they fell short, you know, in somewhat dramatic fashion
Speaker 6: one year. So like you're dealing with that pressure constantly
Speaker 6: because you know that the clock is taking on the
Speaker 6: greatest player to ever play the position who happens to
Speaker 6: be on your team, and you know you have to
Speaker 6: deliver before he's done.
Speaker 4: That's all it was.
Speaker 6: And Baker's not wrong. But also should we be surprised
Speaker 6: if Tom Brady responded that way?
Speaker 2: No, No, I mean I just love that.
Speaker 5: It truly bothered him a lot for him to say that,
Speaker 5: and there's just like an edge in his voice, and look,
Speaker 5: Brady sounds like he would stress you out. Of course,
Speaker 5: of course he would stress you out. Just it was
Speaker 5: like watching Aaron Rodgers on Sunday with all the miscommunications,
Speaker 5: just the look of disgust at the false starts, and
Speaker 5: everyone's trying to get to that level. It's difficult. It's
Speaker 5: not helping Tom Brady be a broadcaster. I mean, I
Speaker 5: think sometimes he's a little stressed out as a broadcaster,
Speaker 5: which is not the vibe you want to give off
Speaker 5: to the listener.
Speaker 2: Although you know, I think it's getting better.
Speaker 6: He's been niacle about football and he's a perfectionist, and
Speaker 6: that's what it takes to usually win titles is you
Speaker 6: have to be a little bit crazy. In fact, there
Speaker 6: was a Neil Brnnan special where he mentioned like I
Speaker 6: want my athletes to be crazy because that's what leads
Speaker 6: them to win titles and be great.
Speaker 4: And that's Tom Brady in a nutshell.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I've definitely seen it in the broadcast, there's some pauses,
Speaker 6: he's getting better.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it was now that Baker had his best
Speaker 5: game of the season and Brady gave him props. I
Speaker 5: think he was even on like a postgame show of
Speaker 5: where he was a player of the game or something
Speaker 5: like that. So they're all good, you know, to Tampa legends,
Speaker 5: Baker Mayfield and Tom Brady. Finally, I mentioned Rogers here
Speaker 5: mini controversy, very New York controversy after the game, where
Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers spoke about Robert Salace comment that maybe after
Speaker 5: five false starts, they have to look into, you know,
Speaker 5: changing up what he's doing with his cadence, the cadence.
Speaker 8: Specifically, Robert said, that might be something you guys have
Speaker 8: to dial back a little bit.
Speaker 4: Is that something you think could potentially help the situation.
Speaker 11: It's one way to do it. The other ways hold
Speaker 11: him accountable.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 11: We haven't had an issue. We've had one false start.
Speaker 11: Morgan had one false start I believe until this so
Speaker 11: you know, it's been a weapon. We use it every
Speaker 11: day in practice. We don't you know, we rarely have
Speaker 11: a false start, and to have I don't know five today,
Speaker 11: it seemed like four or five yeah, it seems like
Speaker 11: an outlayer. I don't know if we need to make
Speaker 11: mass changes based on you know, kind of an outlier game.
Speaker 5: You know, I agree with Aaron Rodgers there, but I
Speaker 5: couldn't help but laugh. You know, when Robert Sala spoke
Speaker 5: at the podium Monday and gave the most predictable answer
Speaker 5: when asked about.
Speaker 12: It yesterday, I was, I was. I was mentioning operation.
Speaker 12: We're always going to push the envelope with cadence always,
Speaker 12: but but with regards to operation uh, you know, getting
Speaker 12: in out of the huddle, getting to the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 12: of the communication that's being had, We're uh, those are
Speaker 12: all things that we can continue to look at and
Speaker 12: clean up. But from a cadence standpoint, that's part of
Speaker 12: what makes us who we are, and we're going to
Speaker 12: continue to always push push the envelope on that.
Speaker 2: Nothing to see here, sicky.
Speaker 6: I feel like Robert Sala has been under more pressure
Speaker 6: and scrutiny as a head coach in his time with
Speaker 6: the Jets than any coach in recent memory. Every year
Speaker 6: it's something, and this year it's this. You want to
Speaker 6: talk about daycare. Aaron Rodgers is right, we're not running
Speaker 6: a daycare here in Floria Park, New Jersey, and in
Speaker 6: the meadow Lands, we're running an NFL football team. Level up, guys,
Speaker 6: learn the cadence, quit committing errors. I think Rodgers is
Speaker 6: completely right to be like, no, we don't need to
Speaker 6: change it. They just need to be better, because I'm great.
Speaker 5: If it's a one game thing and they haven't had
Speaker 5: any problems and it's a weapon that they use. But
Speaker 5: it was a real issue for them on Sunday. But
Speaker 5: it was it was so easy to see that Sala
Speaker 5: like he just got caught saying something he wishes he
Speaker 5: didn't say, and he realizes.
Speaker 4: What not on a podcast?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: I'm sure there was a conversation between Robert Sala and
Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers on Monday and that led to that.
Speaker 2: Press government And that's fine.
Speaker 5: It's okay for Aaron Rodgers to basically be calling the
Speaker 5: shots on that offense. People, I think make almost too
Speaker 5: big of a deal about it. When great quarterbacks have
Speaker 5: been doing that throughout the history of this league. People
Speaker 5: always say like, why can't we go back to those
Speaker 5: days where you know, Peyton Manning and certainly Brady and Breeze,
Speaker 5: but also you know, Johnny Unitis and really going back
Speaker 5: till it's like where they're calling the plays like it's okay.
Speaker 6: Where Peyton Manning is calling a hot mic, going damn
Speaker 6: it Donald as Donald Brown blew up the pass protection.
Speaker 6: The best part about that Rogers clip him looking up
Speaker 6: at the lights in the ceiling in the room, try
Speaker 6: to like, all right, how do I get through this answer? Like,
Speaker 6: oh my god, It's like the ben Afflecks smoking Meme's
Speaker 6: just like, oh my god, I have to deal with
Speaker 6: this right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, fun game in London this week between the Jets
Speaker 5: and the Vikings. I'm looking forward to breaking that down
Speaker 5: later in the week on our previews show. But that's
Speaker 5: just a couple of days away. Before that, it's time
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Speaker 5: the last couple of weeks. I thought this was it
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Speaker 2: Shook. We got two more.
Speaker 5: Monday Night doubleheaders, two more, there's a week seven and
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Speaker 2: It just makes it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you get a stinker, you're like, both of
Speaker 5: these last two weeks are perfect examples. We've gotten one
Speaker 5: stinker and then a really fun game to talk about
Speaker 5: to save it. If we only had that stinker, then
Speaker 5: it's kind of a it's kind of a blast show
Speaker 5: that we really need to tap dance a little bit.
Speaker 2: So I like it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you can watch me stare at the
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Speaker 6: So Chicago Bears had a rough go first few weeks
Speaker 6: of the season, but they finally broke through on Sunday
Speaker 6: with a close win over the Los Angeles Rams. And
Speaker 6: the hero from that day is not Caleb Williams. It's
Speaker 6: DeAndre Swift, who finally popped a couple of nice runs
Speaker 6: for this team.
Speaker 4: That's what they expected when they got him.
Speaker 6: He finishes with sixteen carries for ninety three yards, including
Speaker 6: a thirty six yard touchdown that gave him a nine
Speaker 6: point lead in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Big day.
Speaker 6: He also chipped in seven catches for seventy two yards.
Speaker 6: If they are going to grow as an offense. In
Speaker 6: a week in which I had to listen to Shane
Speaker 6: Waldron talk about communication over and over and over again
Speaker 6: in word soilid his way through a press conference, this
Speaker 6: is how it gets done. Takes some pressure off the quarterback.
Speaker 6: So a rays of a glass and it cheers to you.
Speaker 6: DeAndre Swift, first big performance with the Bears.
Speaker 5: Great choice there, DeAndre Swift getting done for the Bears
Speaker 5: at two and two. I'm going with some big names.
Speaker 5: I'm going two guys. Neil Collins twelve for one point
Speaker 5: fifty one in a touchdown. I'm not just box score
Speaker 5: reading here. I went back and watched that game today
Speaker 5: and I'm just so in love with this guy's playing style.
Speaker 5: He's so good like he I think he might be
Speaker 5: the best receiver in the league right now, other than
Speaker 5: Justin Jefferson. Like, no one's gonna make me put anyone
Speaker 5: ahead of Jefferson. But on a week to week basis
Speaker 5: it is insane. I love that they can give him
Speaker 5: the ball to run with for ten yards of yak
Speaker 5: on third and ten and he'll go get it. But
Speaker 5: then the plays that he makes on the ball down
Speaker 5: the field are just awesome. And then I also want
Speaker 5: to give Chris Jones some love. I think in the
Speaker 5: era of Aaron Donald, we don't realize how rare it
Speaker 5: is to have a defensive tackle who's just the best
Speaker 5: player in the game. And that's what Chris Jones was
Speaker 5: again on Sunday. So many big plays and then when
Speaker 5: you need a play on the goal line, who's the
Speaker 5: guy who gets the pressure. It's Chris Jones in a
Speaker 5: big spot. Always he is rising the list of the
Speaker 5: best defensive tackles of the last twenty years. And yeah,
Speaker 5: he's not going to pass Aaron Donald, who cares like
Speaker 5: he is getting to I mean Hall of Fame level.
Speaker 2: Right, like yeah close, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 5: He was a little bit of a late bloomer, but
Speaker 5: year after year stacking up these all pros and game
Speaker 5: changing moments in the playoffs, I actually think he's he's in,
Speaker 5: like it's gonna happen for him. And I don't want
Speaker 5: to take that for granted. I think he's been among
Speaker 5: the best defensive players in the league. Would be on
Speaker 5: my short list for Defensive Player of the Year through
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Speaker 5: I set you free into the Cleveland streets, Nick Shook,
Speaker 5: I think the bars are all closed by now.
Speaker 2: It's like one am there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not a Monday night out of the town
Speaker 6: kind of guy, because my Monday nights are spent watching football.
Speaker 4: Greg Why.
Speaker 2: Why? I don't know.
Speaker 5: Oh, because football is back. I blow it, roll this
Speaker 5: out Eric. We will be back on.
Speaker 2: Wednesday.
Speaker 4: What a day.
Speaker 2: This is going to be QB Island. We've been pumping
Speaker 2: this thing up for six weeks. We're only doing it
Speaker 2: four times a year during the season.
Speaker 5: Who stays on? Who goes? Gino Smith making it happen
Speaker 5: in primetime against the Lions. You know football is back.