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Speaker 1: It's time for an instant reaction from all three games today.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the game we just watched the Ravens
Speaker 1: putting up a really valiant effort outman Tyler Huntley the
Speaker 1: quarterback back instead of Lamar Jackson. You know, fourteen point
Speaker 1: swing on that goal line quarterback sneak where they were
Speaker 1: about half a yard to a yard too far out.
Speaker 1: I didn't think that was a brilliant play call by
Speaker 1: the Ravens staff, and it was a fourteen point swing.
Speaker 1: And there's your ball game right there. I talked about
Speaker 1: this last week on the volume. When you ask a
Speaker 1: team even if it's a superior team, and the Bengals
Speaker 1: with Burrow are clearly the better team. They were favored
Speaker 1: by nine and a half. Ravens covered, but Bengals big favorite.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get close games. I mean, Miami. I'll get
Speaker 1: to that in a second. I thought out played Buffalo
Speaker 1: again even though they were out man, even though they
Speaker 1: were on a third quarterback. So these AFC North games
Speaker 1: are so competitive. Let's talk Cincinnati. I've had Cincinnati ranked
Speaker 1: number one in the league for about a month and
Speaker 1: a half, four or five, six weeks you know, they're
Speaker 1: not the same team now because of Lyle Collins, the
Speaker 1: tackles out, Alex Kappa, the interior lineman's out. Jonah Williams,
Speaker 1: a tackle got hurt during this game. So they're down
Speaker 1: three starting offensive lineman. You're not going to win the
Speaker 1: AFC missing three starting offensive linemen. So they're a little
Speaker 1: bit in flux right now. And really how that slows
Speaker 1: you down. Burrow's going to have less time to throw,
Speaker 1: so that's going to take away a lot of the
Speaker 1: vertical passing game for Joe Burrow. He's not going to get,
Speaker 1: you know, to pound the football back. There a couple
Speaker 1: of pomps three and a half seconds, that's over. That's
Speaker 1: the downside. You won't run the ball quite as effective.
Speaker 1: It'll take away some of your over the top stuff
Speaker 1: with Jamar Chase and Tee Higgins. You'll do more short
Speaker 1: passing underneath routes. You can be effective. You can move
Speaker 1: the ball, move the ball, but that's Cincinnati likes to
Speaker 1: occasionally with Burrow, go over the top. So Cincinnati got
Speaker 1: dinged in this game, losing another offensive lineman. And let's
Speaker 1: face that they had a couple of players hurt because
Speaker 1: the games with the Ravens are so damned physical. So
Speaker 1: Cincinnati limped and wobbled out of this thing with aub
Speaker 1: We'll check on their injuries throughout the week. But they
Speaker 1: got dinged. They got dinged in this game. It was
Speaker 1: like every game this weekend. A very unique game. I
Speaker 1: thought Tyler Huntley played his butt off. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a backup in this league. Total gamer. Played his college
Speaker 1: ball at Utah. Watched him there, but you know he's
Speaker 1: a pro. He's a gamer. We've seen it with Taylor Heineke.
Speaker 1: You see it with Tyler Huntley. Athletic guys undersized, not
Speaker 1: going to build a franchise around him. But in a
Speaker 1: one game setting, anything can happen. So Cincinnati goes on
Speaker 1: to win. Dinged up. Will update you, everyone will throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the week, but they have been weakened
Speaker 1: because of these offensive line injuries. Let's move to the
Speaker 1: Giants win. I guess it's an upset over the Vikings,
Speaker 1: although it didn't feel like that. You know, I can
Speaker 1: hear all Giant fans now, the owner Mara said, we're back.
Speaker 1: Well kind of. This league overwhelmingly is about two things.
Speaker 1: Find the right coach, the Giants have and find the
Speaker 1: right quarterback kind of You know, a lot of the
Speaker 1: downfield statistics are not great for Daniel Jones. Some of
Speaker 1: that is it's a pretty anemic receiving corps. They're going
Speaker 1: to go have to go out fix the interior O line.
Speaker 1: I would go out if they couldn't get another tight end,
Speaker 1: get another wide receiver. This offense needs a lot of work.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a classic Giants team. You can go
Speaker 1: back to Jeff Hostetler, Phil Simms, the Eli Manning teams.
Speaker 1: It feels like the Giants always have a good, solid
Speaker 1: running game, a better than average quarterback though not super athletic,
Speaker 1: good defensive front, and they've when they've had the right
Speaker 1: coach Parcels, Tom Coughlin and now Brian Dable, they can
Speaker 1: win playoff games, especially on the road. Daniel Jones now
Speaker 1: is pretty athletic, and there's a fundamental advantage in the NFC.
Speaker 1: You don't have the Burroughs. Send him the Homes and
Speaker 1: the Josh Allens. You know, Daniel Jones, with his legs,
Speaker 1: his size, with that run game, he can stack up
Speaker 1: pretty much in the NFC. This is not the AFC.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have to win by a shootout. I mean
Speaker 1: when I'm watching Daniel Jones against Kirk Cousins, Daniel looks
Speaker 1: bigger and stronger than he did a year ago. He's
Speaker 1: much better athlete than Kirk Cousins. He probably has a
Speaker 1: stronger arm, and I thought he played with more confidence
Speaker 1: than Kirk Cousins. It was very telling late in the game.
Speaker 1: Not only did Kirk Cousins on a fourth and eighth
Speaker 1: throw underneath, but the previous drive the Viking staff had
Speaker 1: him throwing screens. Brian day Bole has unleashed Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: over the last four or five games. He's really unleashed him.
Speaker 1: He's throwing the ball down the field, He's taken shots,
Speaker 1: He's letting him move. I think it's a great if
Speaker 1: you're a Giants fan, that this coaching staff has gained
Speaker 1: trust in Daniel Jones. He looks more confident. He's always
Speaker 1: been a big kid. He looks a little bigger, a
Speaker 1: little more willing to run. Not only do they design
Speaker 1: running place for him, but he's more confident and willing
Speaker 1: to run. So I do think there's this ceiling right
Speaker 1: now with this Giants team. But if I told you
Speaker 1: before this season with the Daniel Jones, we had seen, Hey,
Speaker 1: they'll get into the playoffs, go on the road and
Speaker 1: win a playoff game. You would have taken that in
Speaker 1: a New York minute. So much of this league is
Speaker 1: coaching quarterback, and Dable is a home run. I have
Speaker 1: my reservations big picture with Daniel Jones, but with this quarterback,
Speaker 1: they're only going to get better in the draft. Tight end,
Speaker 1: another receiver, clean up the interior O line. Pretty interesting
Speaker 1: for people in Minnesota veter at wits end with Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: This is who he is, you know, one o'clock window.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. He's not a playoff guy. He's not a
Speaker 1: big play guy. Is it frustrating? Yes, But as Greg
Speaker 1: co Sell has often told me, there's only five or
Speaker 1: sixth great quarterbacks in this league. Somebody's got to have
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins right, He's going to need to be surrounded
Speaker 1: by more. But I mean listen, throwing underneath to a
Speaker 1: tight end in man coverage is useless. A corner on
Speaker 1: a tight end underneath is useless. Kirk should know better,
Speaker 1: but I think he plays with his teeth clenched and
Speaker 1: he plays scared. In big spots, and I think it's obvious.
Speaker 1: You know, they drafted a quarterback Texas Han m a
Speaker 1: few years ago. If I was the Vikings, I would
Speaker 1: draft a quarterback every year, third, fourth, fifth round. See
Speaker 1: if I'm yet lucky. Kirk Cousins was a fourth rounder.
Speaker 1: But for the time being, they won their division. They
Speaker 1: want a lot of one score, close games. What you
Speaker 1: don't want to be in the NFL is chaotic at quarterback.
Speaker 1: You're not with Kirk Cousins. But going into this weekend,
Speaker 1: a lot of people, myself included, had a strong feeling
Speaker 1: about the Giants winning the game, and one of the
Speaker 1: reasons was Kirk Cousins and that Vikings run defense. And
Speaker 1: in both instances you saw the weakness up close and personal.
Speaker 1: All right. First game of the day was Buffalo in Miami.
Speaker 1: Surprisingly close. So I talked about what concerns me about Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: They've been dinged with the injuries to the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I think something that's very obvious now as Brian Dayble
Speaker 1: has cleaned up the game of Daniel Jones, completions up,
Speaker 1: turnovers down. Josh Allen has gotten in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season increasingly turnover prone and sloppy, missed open receivers,
Speaker 1: missed wide, missed high made poor decisions, bad choices, especially
Speaker 1: in crucial times. This Buffalo team is really talented. I've
Speaker 1: compared them multiple times to Mike Tyson, not the early
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson, who had a little bit of a jab,
Speaker 1: had custom Atto as a trainer, was really an ascending
Speaker 1: boxer with a lot of weaponry. At the end, Tyson
Speaker 1: was sloppy, didn't have much of a jab, wasn't no
Speaker 1: it was in the greatest shape, but he still had
Speaker 1: knockout power. Buffalo does a lot of things poorly. I
Speaker 1: felt for the second time Mike McDaniel, with a significantly
Speaker 1: less talented quarterback went into Buffalo and out coached Sean McDermott.
Speaker 1: No doubt in my mind, back to back. I think
Speaker 1: McDaniel's got a great future. Whether they bring back two
Speaker 1: or not. There's a report earlier today they're bringing back Ta.
Speaker 1: That's fine. I don't think in a division with Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: If the Jets went out and got a Derek car
Speaker 1: or a better quarterback or Ryan Tannehill, I think there's
Speaker 1: limitations to Ta physically athletically be that as at May,
Speaker 1: I think McDaniel's an excellent coach. It's hard. There was
Speaker 1: a couple of things situationally, I didn't love with Miami,
Speaker 1: but he's clever. I thought he outcoached McDermott for the
Speaker 1: second time in two meetings. I have grave concerns about
Speaker 1: Buffalo's ability to play clean football. You're not beat in
Speaker 1: Kansas City right now, and it feels like it's getting worse.
Speaker 1: You know, I've said throughout the course of the season,
Speaker 1: they tend to bail on the run game. They need
Speaker 1: Josh Allen too much in their run game. Stefan Digs
Speaker 1: is excellent. Gabriel Davis had a little bit of a
Speaker 1: showing today. Dawson Knox the one headed touchdown catch. That've
Speaker 1: got the weapons. It's not a lack of talent, but
Speaker 1: they're sloppy a lot often. This game should have been
Speaker 1: over several times. So, you know, my takeaway throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the weekend is number one. Not only was
Speaker 1: the comeback by Jacksonville startling, the second half domination by
Speaker 1: Brock Purdy's offense in San Francisco was startling. This was
Speaker 1: a great wildcard weekend. I don't remember anything like it.
Speaker 1: Every game was unique. Brock Pretty as a rookie, had
Speaker 1: one of the great second halfs ever for a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback in the playoffs. The Chargers blow a twenty seven
Speaker 1: nothing lead. Keep your eye on Sean Payton for that job.
Speaker 1: All of the Spanosas may not want to pay that
Speaker 1: kind of money. Buffalo gets a real scared by outmanned
Speaker 1: Skyler Thompson and the Dolphins. The Giants, Daniel Jones looked
Speaker 1: like a significantly better quarterback to me than Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: Have they found their guy. Probably they're going to keep
Speaker 1: him for a while. And Baltimore on a fourteen point swing,
Speaker 1: was a play away from potentially beating Cincinnati. So I
Speaker 1: just thought, from top to bottom, it was an outstanding
Speaker 1: Wildcard weekend. I said, going into the weekend, I worried
Speaker 1: that you put in a couple of years ago another
Speaker 1: playoff team Seattle in Miami, and I said, cross your face,
Speaker 1: is one of these teams going to get knocked out?
Speaker 1: Is a star player from a team the Niners who
Speaker 1: should have a buy or the Bills who should have
Speaker 1: a buy going to get knocked out? Crossed our fingers.
Speaker 1: Everything went sort of kind of as planned, I don't
Speaker 1: really count Jacksonville as an upset in that space. If
Speaker 1: I'd have told you going into the weekend, one team
Speaker 1: will blow a twenty seven nothing lead, it would be
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Would it not be the Chargers. I grew
Speaker 1: up in the Pacific Northwest, and there was always sort
Speaker 1: of a running joke with the Washington State Cougars Kugnet
Speaker 1: because they just had a way of blowing games, and
Speaker 1: chargering is a term used in the NFL. I have
Speaker 1: said this multiple times. I think Brandon Staley's smart, but
Speaker 1: I don't think he's created a consistent identity for this team.
Speaker 1: If you go and look at second half stats offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively for the Chargers, they struggle to adjust on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. They're a bad second half
Speaker 1: defense and a bad second half offense. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to tell you. I think Sean Payton is the answer.
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn and Brandon Staley feel like they're wasting some
Speaker 1: of Justin Herbert's inexpensive years. But the Spanos family historically
Speaker 1: go look at their coaching hires. They don't pay big money.
Speaker 1: You'd have to buy out a couple of years from
Speaker 1: Brandon Staley, Sean Payton's going to cost you twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars a year. Do I think it's worth it? Yes,
Speaker 1: for a franchise that would sell tomorrow for four or
Speaker 1: five billion dollars. Do I think paying the second most
Speaker 1: important person on a football team quarterback one coach too?
Speaker 1: Do I think he's worth twenty billion dollars? Yes? And
Speaker 1: I believe it's the only job Sean Payton has truly
Speaker 1: ever wanted. He would go back to the Saints if
Speaker 1: he could get a star quarterback, or the Chargers and
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. It's a really good roster. I think they
Speaker 1: have a smart young coach, but he's not a great coach,
Speaker 1: and Sean Payton is. That's our Sunday night instant reaction
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