Speaker 1: God takes in leechs and he got in touchdown. Los
Speaker 1: Angeles is Jared Goff scoring the first points of the
Speaker 1: ball game. Same down. Newton trying to set up Scrany
Speaker 1: picks back the other way and down the sideline. He's
Speaker 1: Kenny Young. He makes a move and ends something. The
Speaker 1: ends one with a pick six, got to his right,
Speaker 1: throws his car touchdown. Oh Cooper cup. They call that
Speaker 1: third and cup. At the Rosenthal household, where my family
Speaker 1: has turned on me. No one rooting for the Patriots anymore.
Speaker 1: Everyone's jumping ship because they looked sorry. On Thursday night
Speaker 1: against Lakisha Jackson Westling's Rams twenty four to three, the
Speaker 1: Rams take care of business. Felt like this thing was
Speaker 1: over early after or a camp Newton pick six made
Speaker 1: it seventeen nothing. It was about that point that um
Speaker 1: my son Walker wanted me to text Keisha and just
Speaker 1: let him know that he's a Rams fan and that
Speaker 1: he's on team Rams. And uh the picture Keisha sent
Speaker 1: back was just just buoyant. You know, you were glowing.
Speaker 1: So you got this. You're wearing your your Rams jersey,
Speaker 1: your Rams shirt today and uh, I had to feel good,
Speaker 1: had to feel good to watch this tonight, Keisha. It's
Speaker 1: so great. But I will say this, I hated the
Speaker 1: comparisons to you know, super Bowl fifty three and whatnot,
Speaker 1: because there's just so many players that are not there anymore.
Speaker 1: So it's like I didn't get the sense that it's
Speaker 1: just like I still feel the pain in agony, like
Speaker 1: this doesn't erase it, but you know, it was nice
Speaker 1: to get a win in but it's like a way
Speaker 1: to boot and not move on because no, look it didn't.
Speaker 1: It doesn't change anything, of course, as it really doesn't
Speaker 1: have much to do with it. But if the Rams
Speaker 1: had lost this game, man, you would have been miserable.
Speaker 1: You would have been thinking about that other super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and I would have told you something about where these
Speaker 1: two teams are at. So what happened tonight, I think
Speaker 1: said a lot about these two teams. The Rams, to me,
Speaker 1: are one of the NFC favorites. Golf is still a
Speaker 1: problem and we'll get to that, but outside of that,
Speaker 1: they are I think one of the five or six
Speaker 1: best teams in the entire NFL. And the Patriots feel
Speaker 1: like they're lucky to be a fringe playoff contender. And
Speaker 1: here we are with four weeks left in the season,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what we saw Thursday night. We saw
Speaker 1: one team that was superior, that could win the game
Speaker 1: almost with the hand tied behind their back. They didn't.
Speaker 1: The Rams didn't even need to throw the ball tonight.
Speaker 1: I felt like a great night for your boys. Sean
Speaker 1: McVeigh man, Like cam Makers, that's all I can talk about.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, wait a minute, because it's been hard
Speaker 1: for me to watch like full Rams games with my
Speaker 1: son like pull me in multiple directions about my mom's
Speaker 1: in town now. So I got to really focus on
Speaker 1: this game. And it's just like, man like, he was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, whoa he he is good. I mean
Speaker 1: the scheme, the scheme was great, and the play calling
Speaker 1: was great, and he is a very patient runner. He
Speaker 1: ended up with a hundred and seventy one yards on
Speaker 1: twenty nine carries. Uh, the numbers actually look worse because
Speaker 1: they just had him kind of running into an eight
Speaker 1: man line in the fourth and third quarter with the
Speaker 1: game over. But he's someone coming out of college that
Speaker 1: I liked as much as any running back in this class,
Speaker 1: and I thought he's been a little hesitant this year
Speaker 1: and Uh, it's good to see him going because that
Speaker 1: is an amazing one to punch with him and Darryl Henderson.
Speaker 1: I think people are sleeping on Darryl Henderson being one
Speaker 1: of the most explosive running backs in the NFL. He's
Speaker 1: a little banged up right now. Was a short week,
Speaker 1: makes sense to sit him. But you got them one too,
Speaker 1: even without Andrew Whitworth uh in the lineup, they are
Speaker 1: one of the best running teams in the NFL. I
Speaker 1: loved it. And he broke so many records today too.
Speaker 1: I kept like getting my note PAMs like wait, what
Speaker 1: did they just say? Okay he broke Okay, Well, what's
Speaker 1: some you know what? Scot he was the Rams. He
Speaker 1: was the most rushing yards for any Rams rookie since
Speaker 1: Night and three. The last peason through that was Jerome Bettis.
Speaker 1: He's at uh, the most rookie yards, the most rushing
Speaker 1: yards for rookie this entire season, and the most ever
Speaker 1: against the New England Patriots. So he's just and it
Speaker 1: ended what was one of the craziest stats of the
Speaker 1: night that Joe buck throughout their a six game losing streak.
Speaker 1: Uh from the Rams to the Pages. The Rams hadn't
Speaker 1: beaten the Patriots since before the Super Bowl. That started
Speaker 1: at all, back when Ricky Hollywood was just, you know,
Speaker 1: knee high to a graphop. I couldn't believe that. So
Speaker 1: it's nice. I do want to give mcmigh credit because
Speaker 1: to me, he's in my top three or four for
Speaker 1: coaches of the Year. What he did tonight early with
Speaker 1: tempo was awesome. They they caught the Patriots not really
Speaker 1: ready on a few third and downs where GoF must
Speaker 1: have snapped the ball with about thirty five seconds left.
Speaker 1: I mean, you, you do not see teams ever play that,
Speaker 1: even the Patriots, who used to play like insanely fast.
Speaker 1: That was like warp speed. It was just the first
Speaker 1: driver too, and then you they adjusted. But that was
Speaker 1: one of the reasons they got some real easy third
Speaker 1: and twelves, third and tens early. And then he comes
Speaker 1: out all night using twelve personnel, and the broadcast talked
Speaker 1: about that. But two tight ends on the field, they
Speaker 1: went power. They kind of knew that the Patriots weren't
Speaker 1: gonna be buying any play action, not even they're gonna
Speaker 1: be begging golf to be throwing. And they didn't take
Speaker 1: that bait they went to totally other way. So a
Speaker 1: couple of years after a Super Bowl where Belichick and McVeigh,
Speaker 1: I think, um, we're at the opposite ends of the
Speaker 1: talent spectrum. I think the Rams had a little more
Speaker 1: talent than the Patriots even back then. This time, the
Speaker 1: Rams had more talent and they out coached you boy.
Speaker 1: And I think he deserves some credit for hiring Brandon Staley,
Speaker 1: who's no one had ever heard of before, and he
Speaker 1: might win the defensive Coordinator of the Year worder Coordinator
Speaker 1: of the Year award because he he is nasty. I mean,
Speaker 1: they could have played this game for another twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Patriots weren't going to catch up and scored with the
Speaker 1: way the defense was playing. Man Like, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: I just the defense is where it's at for me,
Speaker 1: Like Aaron Donald, Like, I know the stats everyone's looking
Speaker 1: at like sacks and whatnot, But on certain plays I'm
Speaker 1: just like, whoa even the first um, the pick six
Speaker 1: or whatever from Kenny Young. I was looking and it
Speaker 1: was just like Aaron Donald was almost next to Kenny
Speaker 1: Young like running, I'm just like everywhere he's a freak.
Speaker 1: Um he there. I think they're the best defense in
Speaker 1: the league. I threw that out on me and at
Speaker 1: times this show last week, and Sheet thought that was crazy,
Speaker 1: and I was like, to me, it's them or the Steelers.
Speaker 1: You can't just do it off a reputation. You gotta
Speaker 1: do on what you see now. A lot of you know,
Speaker 1: the Patriots make a lot of defenses look good right now,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't change the fact that the Rams are good, uh,
Speaker 1: each and every week. They're deep, they can stop you throwing,
Speaker 1: and we saw tonight and stop you running. Um. It
Speaker 1: was tough though. I mean the Patriots, like the key
Speaker 1: offensive series for me for them was where they ran
Speaker 1: at twelve times in thirteen plays I think um in
Speaker 1: the second quarter and they got it inside the seven
Speaker 1: or so first in goal and they just ran it
Speaker 1: four times and I didn't mind it. Everyone's like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Cam Newton's looking bad, making bad decisions,
Speaker 1: not pitching the ball, and I'm like, that's what they
Speaker 1: do well, and if they can't win that way, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. I mean that they're just so limited
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty tough to watch. So what do you
Speaker 1: expect now from like your Patriots At quarterback. It's a
Speaker 1: good question. I wish I could hear still look better
Speaker 1: than Cam Newton. I mean, he looked a little better.
Speaker 1: He took a bunch of backs. He Jared Stidham has
Speaker 1: Um looks better. I think the last two weeks when
Speaker 1: he's coming in each of the fourth quarters. Uh, they'll
Speaker 1: definitely ask Belichick about it after the game, which is
Speaker 1: probably happening right about now, So I hope this isn't
Speaker 1: out of date. Um, I think this could be the
Speaker 1: week that, yeah, he makes a switch to stid him,
Speaker 1: But it wouldn't surprise me at all if he stays
Speaker 1: loyal Belichick loves Cam and stuck with it for like
Speaker 1: one more week until they're officially knocked out of the
Speaker 1: playoff contention. I mean, I'd be surprised that either one
Speaker 1: of those dudes has a legitimate chance to be their
Speaker 1: starter next year. So I think he's just thinking about
Speaker 1: this year. I did see a tweet from Um, if
Speaker 1: you're going to make a switch, now would be the
Speaker 1: time because you guys have what like to Sundays from now.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't don't put you guys on me. I'm
Speaker 1: not on the field. I don't like it. When people
Speaker 1: say we I didn't do anything, I mean, hell, my
Speaker 1: families jumped ship. They're all routing on the routing for
Speaker 1: the Rams. Um, I mean, they're not going to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I didn't think they had much of a chance,
Speaker 1: but they really had to win out. Now they play
Speaker 1: three good teams in a row, Miami, Buffalo, UM, and
Speaker 1: then the Jets. So not three good teams in a row.
Speaker 1: They have to win out, and even then they must
Speaker 1: have no chance to make it. So this tonight, for
Speaker 1: all intents and purposes, UM probably knocked him out. I'd like,
Speaker 1: I guess I would say, take a look at Steadham
Speaker 1: for three weeks. But Bill belichecks the goat, and he
Speaker 1: has his reasons for sticking with Cam Newton, and if
Speaker 1: he wants to stick with him for one more week, whatever,
Speaker 1: How about the Rams though this, I mean whatever, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, like Cam's just not like letting go of
Speaker 1: the ball quickly. Everyone looks bad against the Rams, but
Speaker 1: he's clearly not comfortable in terms of just um like
Speaker 1: what he's seeing out there. So the Patriots playoff road
Speaker 1: is almost over. But the Rams, this was a huge
Speaker 1: game for them because they get a little mini by
Speaker 1: and then they get the Jets, which is like another
Speaker 1: buy and then you're a tenant four. What tonight really
Speaker 1: clinched was all the Rams have to do to win
Speaker 1: the NFC West is go up to Seattle, win that game,
Speaker 1: and they win. That's it. Yep, you gotta feel confident
Speaker 1: about that. They kind of own the Seahawks lately. Yes, now,
Speaker 1: if you said, um, I'd be like m But the
Speaker 1: NFC West has this weird sort of round robin thing
Speaker 1: where the forty niners on the Rams, the Rams of
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, and the cards weirdly on the forty niners,
Speaker 1: which is bare. And then you know, the Seahawks always
Speaker 1: played play good games, so that that sets up well
Speaker 1: that they they're not gonna get like, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: get home field advantage or anything like that happen. They
Speaker 1: can win the division. The problem is winning the division
Speaker 1: isn't much of a reward because if you're the number
Speaker 1: five seed, you're probably gonna play your first game against
Speaker 1: the Giants or the or the Washington football team. Just
Speaker 1: not the worst draw. What are you rooting for? What
Speaker 1: am I rooting for? Yeah? Don't you wish that stadium
Speaker 1: was open tonight of all nights is the game. I'm
Speaker 1: only wearing this T shirt because of you. I've been
Speaker 1: like saving it because I'm like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: waste an cute Rams outfit when I'm not even at
Speaker 1: the stadium, Like I just all the shots of I
Speaker 1: just I can't wait, like I'm gonna go nuts, is
Speaker 1: gonna go crazy the first time, Like I'm I'm there.
Speaker 1: This is This would have been the game that I
Speaker 1: would have gotten the kids tickets and they would have
Speaker 1: gone and it would have been a whole thing. We
Speaker 1: would have done a little pod afterwards and drive home
Speaker 1: would have been nice. In a in a future time,
Speaker 1: will do it. I told Ellis, she'll be uh seventeen
Speaker 1: years old. She's nine right now, my daughter by the
Speaker 1: next time the Patriots are out here about once every
Speaker 1: eight years. Now, you gotta get walkers from Rams Gere.
Speaker 1: This is, this is. I don't I don't mind it.
Speaker 1: People people are weird about teams, like you know, they'll
Speaker 1: like they'll end up rooting for both teams whichever one's
Speaker 1: better that year. It's like they don't they don't live
Speaker 1: in foxbor they never will. Before we go, I do
Speaker 1: want to give some positives for the Patriots. If you
Speaker 1: made it this far in your Patriots fans, you deserve
Speaker 1: some positives. So I don't know if we have any
Speaker 1: music or anything. I don't. We don't any music, alright.
Speaker 1: Five positives for the Patriots. Number one. No team loses
Speaker 1: quicker than the Patriots. They're like the Bill Callahan Washington
Speaker 1: team from a year ago on speed. They are Mark
Speaker 1: Ssster's favorite team. Each one of these games ends in
Speaker 1: about two hours and fifty minutes. The Patriots. They might
Speaker 1: not win, but they get it over with quickly. Nikkil
Speaker 1: Harry number two. It's kind of sad their first round
Speaker 1: pick from a year ago. I thought that was maybe
Speaker 1: the best game of his career and it was only
Speaker 1: for forty nine yards. But he's coming along. Um. Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: your boy Erica made history tonight. That was the first.
Speaker 1: That was the first pick six thrown in the red
Speaker 1: zone off a screen pass and ten years by Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: History That was that was that was more of a
Speaker 1: that was more of a joke, But that was a
Speaker 1: bit of a flukey play to have a pick six
Speaker 1: on a screen, like the the most safe thing you
Speaker 1: can do. Number four, no one opted out um during
Speaker 1: this game or even during this week from the Patriots season.
Speaker 1: And then the last thing is they came to Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: played the two l A teams and they outscored him
Speaker 1: forty eight. You have told me that beforehand, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: all right, that's cool, we just doubled up the charges
Speaker 1: in the Rams. I just can't believe you wint to
Speaker 1: zero last week and then this game happens. I mean,
Speaker 1: credit to the Rams. They are phenomenal. Like you said,
Speaker 1: their defense is unmatched. But the defense didn't even have
Speaker 1: to be out there tonight. Like the Patriots shot themselves
Speaker 1: in the foot no matter what, like they could be. No,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be any they're not gonna beat any
Speaker 1: top ten. The last thing before we go, actually is
Speaker 1: what is your concern level about Jared goff So, because
Speaker 1: even in this win, it really started to feel like
Speaker 1: that McVeigh is starting to like coach around him a
Speaker 1: little bit, like a little bit of Carson Wentz vibes
Speaker 1: that I'm like, uh, they're like not really trusted him.
Speaker 1: They don't need to look a little iffy right now.
Speaker 1: Up and down. It's like an emotional roller coaster because
Speaker 1: it's like when he's good, he's freaking good, and when
Speaker 1: he's not, it's just like it's yeah, that was something him,
Speaker 1: Mr Oros and then McVeigh kind of dial in it
Speaker 1: back and being like, bro, we don't need to. But
Speaker 1: also he's latting him on fourth down, you know, like quarterback,
Speaker 1: um get you know, the first down he got, the
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown. Like I also feel like he was giving
Speaker 1: him a little bit of power at some points too,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like this one I would I didn't
Speaker 1: watch this game, and maybe you know, he better be
Speaker 1: able to be allowed to sneak it on fourth and goal.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They had give me the greatest story
Speaker 1: yards quarterback in the history of the NFL. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's like third and forty and he checks it down
Speaker 1: ten ft. It's like ridiculous. Well, I don't think what
Speaker 1: they're gonna have Kim Newton a year from now, Erica.
Speaker 1: So that is great news for you. It was great
Speaker 1: to have you Keish in here. Um, any any parting thoughts,
Speaker 1: you know, for the listeners, for me, for my family, anything.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to see you guys, Like this is
Speaker 1: the most interaction I like get with you guys like
Speaker 1: I never see Erica and sometimes I see you when
Speaker 1: you pick up Chris from an appointment. But man, it's
Speaker 1: just you know, I got to put on a little makeup,
Speaker 1: felt normal for a minute. There you look good, um,
Speaker 1: and uh, we're gonna be We'll probably be talking to
Speaker 1: you again after some Rams playoff games. It's happening they're
Speaker 1: back when you're off for them, but they're back. That's
Speaker 1: a good sign of a good organization. That's it for us, um.
Speaker 1: Thanks Keith for joining and Dereka for a long day.
Speaker 1: We will be back on Sunday, of course with the
Speaker 1: Week fourteen recap show. It should be fun until then,
Speaker 1: See yea Deuces s