WEBVTT - Breaking Down the Big Week 12 Games 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:06.559 And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:08.959 What's up, everybody? Welcome to move to stacks. 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:12.960 DJ Bucky with you on a recap Monday, Buck. It 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:16.560 was a week where the Jags. You've got to buy right, 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:18.560 So you got nothing going on on your end, I've 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.759 got a Monday night or I mean, I'm gonna be 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.080 honest with you. I caught a nap yesterday. I watched 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.119 a lot of ball and then I caught it. It 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.760 was a Sunday nap. What I mean, there's nothing better. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:29.840 I searched in the morning and a Sunday nap. I 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:31.160 was like unbelievable. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:35.600 So so it's strategically when when did you take the nap? 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.080 Did you take the nap after the one? After the 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:41.920 morning game? So you came to the late games? Okay, 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:43.640 you got there a little late. I was a little 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.000 late getting to the late games. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:46.880 Hour nap. 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:48.720 It was nothing too much, just the hour nap. By 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.440 the way, if you're noticing, yes, Indiana did lose. Yes 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.840 rhtt Lewis is not on. He needed a sick day. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.320 He needed a sick day after the loss. It was 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.560 a little trouble. So he caught in. He caught his 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.800 sick today. So yeah, he caught his sick. Hopefully he's 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.160 recovered by Lady new week. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:10.200 Yeah, it was a wellness day. 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:11.920 I thought it was a little much, though, I mean 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.440 for the bosses to send out the counseling hotline to him, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:16.480 you know, on the group. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.240 A lot happened. I was worried about him. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:21.760 I think this was actually scheduled, believe it or not. 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.400 So Red'll be back. We'll have a rookie draft coming up. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.440 That'll be tomorrow. We had a lot of games to 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:27.720 get to the back, and I want to start, first 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:29.560 of all, what we saw last night, and that was 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.399 I don't want to say JV Varsity. That's insulting to 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.319 the Rams. And I don't think this was as much 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.600 about what's wrong with the Rams as it was what's 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.080 right with the Philadelphia Eagles. And I want to get 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.720 to you on this point because I think there's a 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.560 thread that you'll see as we go through a lot 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.560 of these teams that are that are winning right now 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.040 and playing good football and chasing a championship. It is 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.640 a blend of speed and power. It is having explosiveness 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.040 but also being a physical team, and no greater example 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.279 of that than what the Philadelphia Eagles put on display 0:01:59.320 --> 0:01:59.760 last night. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:04.600 Yeah, and one percent agreement with you when it comes 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:05.480 to that, I think this. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.040 I think the Philadelphia Eagles are a great example. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.880 The Detroit Lions are another example of how you have 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.399 to build your team and what we call an ideal way, 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.200 meaning what is the ideal team that we can build, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.720 And it has to have a combination of speed power. 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:20.440 You got to be able to I say it all 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:21.320 the time. You got to be able to. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.360 Win with force orphinesse, meaning you can impose your will 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.920 with the running game, but also have the firepower on 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:28.640 the outside to throw it all over the yard. 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.400 Because to win games, you have to be a bit 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:32.160 of a chameleon. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.120 And when you look at the top teams in the 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.679 league and whatever top five you put up there, they 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.480 all have the ability to kind of change as they 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:42.400 need to put themselves in a position to win against 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:43.799 the opponent on that given day. 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.800 Yeah, I mean it's it's impressive, man. And they are 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.400 on a heck of a run right now, and they 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.519 are big and they are physical and I want to 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.680 get to the offensive line in a moment here, and 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.800 that in regards to Saquon Barkley. You can pull out 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.040 a lot of different stats along different numbers from this 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.080 game on Saquon and what he did. But how about 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.880 this one second player since nineteen fifty to have two 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.079 hundred and fifty plus rush yards three hundred plus scrimmage 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.360 yards in the same game. The only other one Adrian Peterson. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.280 That was in two thousand and seven against the then 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.320 San Diego Chargers. Barkley one hundred and eighty two rushing 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:22.639 yards and two rushing touchdowns in the second half alone, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.720 So it was a it was an impressive performance. And 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.360 let's go back in time too, by the way, that's 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.960 an excellent saucy nug back in time to the Rose 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.800 Bowl against USC. Maybe Saquon just likes southern California. Man, 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.880 he feels very at home out here, he does. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.000 And it's funny you brought up his Penn State success 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.040 because DJ when you go back to it, you remember 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:47.360 watching him he was a bit of a boomer bust playmaker, 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.320 meaning it was one yard, three yards, one yards, five yards, 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.800 thirty yards, one yards, three yards, five yards, fifty yards. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.280 That's kind of the way that he was able to 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.520 put up his production as an Indy Lion. Think about 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.760 the Philadelphia Eagles, which is very different from the New 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.840 York Giants. He's playing with a much better offensive line. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.800 He's also playing with better weapons around him. I think 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:14.040 part of I would say the impressive part that I've 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:20.800 seen has been the consistency, fewer negative plays, more pop, 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.360 but also the steady string of four, five, six, seven 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.120 eight yard runs that he's able to produce. I used 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.920 to think he was something from him stylistically, I'm now 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:32.919 beginning to see maybe it was the environment that he 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.480 played in, because he is the running back that every 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.799 team should want because he has the ability to grind 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:39.159 it out. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:41.000 He can make big plays as a runner. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:42.840 He can catch the ball out of the backfield and 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.720 run all the routes out of the route tree. I mean, 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.839 he is the ultimate running back, and we're seeing it 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.600 because he's an environment that really showcases the skills because 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.120 they're so good everywhere else. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.960 I want to get your thoughts on whether you believe 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.520 the bully can translate from one side of the ball 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.239 to the other, because this is a Phladelphia Eagles defense 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.040 that did the same thing. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:03.360 The Rams came out and gashed him. 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.200 They had a fumble on their first drive, and then 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:06.680 the second drive they go down to score like they 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.320 came out and moved the ball. Vic Fangio made some 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.400 adjustments and then I thought, kind of the typical play 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.320 that stood out to me. I mean, there was a 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.680 bunch of pressure on Matthew Stafford from this front, but 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.320 when Nakobe Dean just flat out ran right over Kiraen 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.839 Williams on the way to Matthew Stafford, I thought, Okay, 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:29.279 this is kind of Philadelphia in their prime right now, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.520 which is bully football on both sides of the ball. 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.080 Hate to see the injury to Brandon Graham, they lose 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.200 him for the year, who was actually playing great here 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.120 in his mid to late thirties, which is pretty remarkable, 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.839 But they do they have a bunch of other depth 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.960 around him. I think you'll see Hunt start to make 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.720 some plays for them. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:49.839 They've got other pieces. Nolan Smith. 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.400 That's the na Kobe Dean, the bully play that I'm 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.280 talking about. But do you buy into that, buck? Because 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.880 I am a firm believer and when you are a 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.599 physical bunch on one side, it tends to translate to 0:05:59.600 --> 0:05:59.920 the other. 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.160 Yeah, because you faced that every day. 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.480 And even though like pro practices are not like college 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.200 or high school where ones go against ones all the time, 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:08.920 you can't. 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:09.880 Help but get some of that. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.080 So when you're a very physical defense, you have to 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.360 have a physical offense to compliment it. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.120 You think about the toughness that. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.640 Is created DJ that comes from the trenches, and so 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.600 as much as we talk about stylistically how they do it, 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.600 I would say the investment and the trench warriors on 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.640 both sides of the ball something that Philadelphia has done for. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.600 A long time. They did it with Andy Reid, They've 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:31.440 continued to do it. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.920 They invest in line of scrimmage players, and because they're 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.680 so good at the line of scrimmage, they're always able 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.760 to impose their will. But let me say this, big 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:45.800 Fangio coming over, people think that you can't coach today's 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.560 players in an old school way. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.800 I disagree. Fangio is a testament to that. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.960 People worried about him coming over to Philadelphia after Miami, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.919 after some of the players bristled at his methods. He 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.120 has been the right guy for Philadelphia because he's not 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.520 only made the defense tougher, I would say that his 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.599 tactics have made the team tougher and has helped Nick 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.240 Siriani gain control of the team and build a different bully. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.000 Vig Fangio deserves a lot of credit for what he's 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.520 been able to do with a very young defense that 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.680 is getting after it not only at the line of 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.080 scrimmage but also into back yet. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:22.840 Yep, and as we move on to the next one, 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.400 just real quick on the rams, look the defensive front. 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.000 Jared Versus was still rushing while Bradon Fisk was still rushing. Well, 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:29.440 they have a lot of good pieces. They've got to 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.280 get better on the offensive line, particularly at tackle. That 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.080 was a nightmare out there on the edge. That's something 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:37.920 that you know that can be a focus for less 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:39.640 than the offseason. Less He's got a lot of good, young, 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.280 talented players there, but continue to double down on the 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.400 offensive line in the off season is going to be crucial. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.400 All Right, let's get to San Francisco, Green Bay. Everybody's 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.400 gonna take this approach in this game. I want to 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.720 take a different one. Everybody's going to have an autopsy 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.400 on San Francisco and how they fell apart. The windows closed? 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:59.080 Is Kyle Shanahan. Has he passed his prime? All these 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.280 conversations are gonna be taking place everwhere. I just want 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.560 to focus on two things. Number One, this team is 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:07.080 one game out in the division. Nobody's put them away 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:08.560 like you got to knock them out. They have not 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.680 been knocked out. Nobody in the divisions run away from him. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.880 That's the first thing. The second thing is, fuck, you 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:18.160 can't lose. You know, your quarterback, your defensive player of 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.400 the year in Bosa, the best offensive lineman of football, 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.200 and Trent Williams, your best route runner in Brandon. I like, 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.840 at some point in time, Yeah, the welts dry, like 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.840 that's too much. And McCaffrey, you know, let's give him 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.480 a little more time to kind of get back into 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.880 the groove. He doesn't look quite the same as before 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.559 he got hurt. But to me, this is more about 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.200 attrition than any type of you know, exclamation point on 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:42.640 the end of the Niners. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.800 Uh yeah, I would say this. 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:46.880 I feel like the night as well have a hard 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.520 time this year, just because of the Super Bowl hangover. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.520 When you pour so much into getting to the Super 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:53.959 Bowl and winning the Super Bowl and then you fall 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.560 short the way that they did in overtime, there's an 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.040 emotional hangover. That kind of lingers with the team for 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.720 a while, and you can't really get past that until 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.280 you get into the postseason again. The thing about the 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.080 Niners this year in the offseason and leading them from 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.840 training camp, probably more distractions with the contracts and the stuff. 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.280 Never felt like they were fully together. 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.160 Now you get into the regular season, with the injuries 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:22.080 and those things, you're playing with backups and young, inexperienced 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.240 players thrust in more prominent roles than they were expected 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.880 to be in and they're not quite ready for that. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:29.160 It's a tough situation. 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.280 But as you pull out the silver lining, yeah, DJ, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.080 they're only one game back. If they don't knocked them out, 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:38.280 they can get two or three wins in a row. 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:39.320 They can do it. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:39.719 Now. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.240 They're a shell of themselves in terms of the heavyweight 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.920 contended that we used to see. But there's still a 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:49.840 dangerous fold because Kyle Shanahan's a terrific schemer. They have 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.920 really good players, and if they get in they certainly 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.880 can do some damage. But right now they certainly don't 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:56.920 look like the team that we've seen dominate the last 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:58.040 three to four years. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.360 I've heard David Ort he's a baseball player tell the 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.200 story about when they were down three to zero to 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.160 the Yankees in the playoffs and they're playing in that 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.600 pivotal game for and he said, don't let us win 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.160 one game. Don't let us like, don't give us life, 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.360 don't keep us around, and that you know how that ended. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:17.920 So I'm just saying I think it's a little premature. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.880 This team still has a chance to get healthy. And 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.120 if they're a team that's sneaking in, do you want 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.240 to be one of these teams welcoming in the forty 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.000 nine ers in the first round of wild Card weekend? Like, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.200 I wouldn't want any parts of that. So a little 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.480 premature there. Let's give the Packers some love, though, a 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.200 team that we've talked about the turnovers and the issues there, 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.319 this was like this was no nonsense. They just kind 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:41.959 of they beat them up. I knew that was a 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.280 team that wasn't healthy upfront, especially on the defensive line, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.200 and that was a lot of Josh Jacobs right at you. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.199 So I'm gonna say this again, DJ. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.600 We talked about you open the program talking about like 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.559 the teams that can mix speed and power, force infiness. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.040 The Green Bay Packers have done that. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.120 The addition of Ash Jacobs in the offseason gave them 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.280 what I call an anchor for their offense. So no 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.880 matter what is going on with Jordan Love, they always 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.160 know that they can slow the game down by handing 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.520 the ball to number eight and that'll get them back 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.440 on track. Being able to do that on offense allows 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.960 them to gain better control of the game when things 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:22.160 can kind of get uneasy. And then defensively, defensive coordinator 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:27.839 Jeff Hapley coming over bringing a pressure based scheme while 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:32.080 also keeping vision on the quarterback, more turnovers, off tips 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.400 and overthrows. In those things, they are a very balanced 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.960 team that can get it done in a major way. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.200 And I know right now we're talking about the Detroit 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.480 Lions being the team of the NFC. 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.200 I'm just saying, man, keep an eye on the Packers. Man. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.000 They are coming and they're coming fast. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.640 And when you think about them in the Minnesota Vikings, 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.880 there's a balance to the Green Bay Packers that just 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.520 kind of has me leaning towards the pack because they 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.679 have some intriguing pieces on the roster that could really 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:01.000 get in the postseason. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:03.760 Well, I mean, let me just ask you this, just 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.880 as we're getting into this. How would you stack them 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.680 right now? And you obviously the Philadelphi Eagles we talked 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:10.360 about earlier, they didn't no joke. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.280 Right now the NFC is loaded, man. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.679 It is loaded, and I was stacking as we talk. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.320 We can talk about the Lions, then the Eagles, and 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.640 then I must still have the Vikings over the Packers. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.680 And so they rematched and played again. But to me, 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.199 the Packers are the dangerous team, and that because the 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.200 running game with Josh Jacobs and their ability to create 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.720 turnovers that is a huge thing. We always talk about. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.560 The biggest deciding factor in football is the turnover. The 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.360 way they can produce turnovers is something that could be 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.680 the advantage that tips them over all of the teams 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.000 when we get into the tournament. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.840 Now we get Packers Vikings week seventeen. So that's a 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.439 fun division. We said going into the year that was 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:51.839 going to be the best division. It is going to 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.160 be a fun division to follow as we come down 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.280 the home stretch. It is again though, that that that 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.840 theme we talk about power, speed, explosiveness. All these top 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.400 teams in the NFC have those two elements. So it's 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.320 interesting to see how evenly matched they are. As we 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.240 go forward, how about this talk about a wild division. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:09.960 NFC North isn't the only one in the NFC. How 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:14.199 about the NFC West Arizona Seattle. This is a game 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.719 that was just controlled by the Seattle defense. They get 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.160 a pick six Kobe Bryant house house call on Kyler. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.160 Kyler was not sharp in this game. They can only 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:28.480 muster six points. Leonard Leonard Williams like the forgotten man. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:31.440 Go back to what he was coming out Buck, how 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.520 good he was at USC. He ends up, you know, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.080 not sticking there with the Giants. They trade him to 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.000 Seattle and kind of a reminder, Oh yeah, he's still 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:41.000 really really talented. 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.240 They got after the quarterback five sacks, he had. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.599 Two and a half. Boy, Mafey's getting pressured. They have 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.920 a lot of different athletes up front. And then I 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.560 think Mike McDonald, he get into a new environment, you 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.200 get into a new surrounding, you're trying to build your 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.280 roster around the way you do things. I thought, give 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:58.960 him a John Schneider a lot of credit. They go 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:00.480 out and make the trade in the middle season for 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.600 Ernest Jones. Tyrese Knight, the rookie out of UTEP. Those 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.520 are their two linebackers, and they have started to gel 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.480 these last couple weeks. They're fast, they're flying all over 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.720 the field. We know about all the resources they have 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.160 in the secondary, all the talent they have there with 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.520 Devin Witherspoon and company. But now they've got that middle 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.360 level under control. So hats off to John Schneider and 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.040 coach McDonald for figuring that out. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.480 Yeah, DJ, So on Friday, the Scouts Notebook was me 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.520 kind of breaking down the NFC West Race, and one 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.080 of the things was like, who did you have the 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.560 most confidence in? The Seattle Seahawks with the team that 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.760 had the most confidence in because of Mike McDonald and 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.560 his ability to get this defense right. When you look 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.240 at the athletes that they have, it's funny because it's 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.720 very similar to the way that Pete Carroll operates, but 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.920 Mike McDonald to me, might be a little more organized 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.080 when it comes to the deployment of the personnel. 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.640 This team can get after it up front. 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.760 They got talented playmakers on the outside because they can 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.600 play man demand HoriZone, and then they have speed, speed 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.560 speed at that second level. This is a really good 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.520 defense and if they can just play middle of the 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.960 pack to getting close to playing top ten defense. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.160 With the offense that they have. Man, they are a 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:11.240 very difficult team. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.480 And you saw in that environment with the toils being 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:18.880 a factor, some of that nostalgic Seattle Seahawks stuff does 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.640 really dangerous team, really dangerous team. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:22.680 Yep. 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.240 No, they're playing good football right now. Arizona, Man, they 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.320 are just kind of streaky. They are up and down. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.160 You don't know exactly what you're gonna get from them 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.600 week to week, but just could never get anything going 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.160 offensively in this ballgame. So maybe that goes back to 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.640 your trust factor. I think Arizona plays hard. I think 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.200 they're getting the most out of what they have. I 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.680 think if you're talking about the stealings of the rosters, 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.680 I would agree with you. I would put Seattle above them. 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.200 And again though, that's why I'm just saying, as this 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:53.440 division kind of hangs in the balance, I'm just somebody's 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.600 got to put some distance between themselves in San Francisco. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.240 I know San Francisco's. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.960 Schedule is brutal, I know they have all these injuries, 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.320 but still I just get a little nervous with them 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.440 kind of lurking, just kind of hanging around, hanging around, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.240 and eventually they might figure it out. So one of 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.280 these teams and maybe this Seattle needs to create some 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:09.960 distance here. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:12.120 Yeah, now that's the thing. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.240 And because of the schedule, because when you look at 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:15.840 the schedule, here's the thing about the Niners. 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.640 Man, they have a difficult road down the strew. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.600 So when we talk about them reeling off a few games, 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.720 it's gonna be hard to stack wins against the opponents 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.040 that they have coming in. The same could be said 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.240 for the Rams and with the Cardinals. The Cardinals I 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.600 believe are one year too early. The talent is not 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.960 quite there to win the division, but I love the toughness, 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.400 to energy, all of that stuff. To me, the Seattle 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.720 Seahawks are best position to just kind of win the 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.520 division by default. The schedule lines up well, Mike McDonald 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.520 being able to fix the defense. But it's going to 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.240 be an interesting six week process to watch how this 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:53.000 thing plays out. 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.400 Yeah, this is a division that I think is going 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.640 to come down to the very end, and I'm really 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:06.000 excited to see how this thing shakes out. This is 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.720 a team that I guess it's probably appropriate that when 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.760 we do that segment, we should always follow it up 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.800 with the Lions game because they're not messing around buck, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.640 They're just handling business and they're not making things competitive 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.679 that don't need to be competitive. Once again, they do 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.760 it here twenty four to six over the Colts. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:21.760 Yeah. DJ. 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.280 What was interesting to me was listening to Ben Johnson 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.080 talk about the team and talk about how the offense 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.840 is perfectly constructed to play a variety of ways we 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.560 have talked about, like when you building the team, you 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.479 want to be a bit of a chameleon, meaning that 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.840 you can kind of shift and morph into whatever type 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.679 of team you need to to win each week. The 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.280 Lions have that ability. They can become a power football team. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.520 They have two running backs at the top at upper 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.240 echelon players in David Montgomery and Jamior Gibbs. They have 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:51.280 one of the best offensive lines in football, so they 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.840 can impose their will at the line of scrimmage. And 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.080 even though they're wide house are terrific with the ball 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.919