Speaker 1: The volume.
Speaker 2: All right. This week on Prime Cuts, John Middelkoff on
Speaker 2: the dominant Cowboy defense, Former coach Dave wanstat on the
Speaker 2: future of Justin Fields in Chicago. Chad Millman Sharp or
Speaker 2: Square in my Top Takes of the Week. I had
Speaker 2: said this years ago. My only concern about the NFL
Speaker 2: once they cleaned up the hitting because of the you know,
Speaker 2: the CTE, the nine hundred million or so dollar check
Speaker 2: the NFL wrote. They cleaned it up. You know, we
Speaker 2: have concussion concerns, but it's the safest the sport has
Speaker 2: been in my life. Also, the practices, there's less hitting,
Speaker 2: fewer players, star players play in the preseason. I think
Speaker 2: they're gonna cut the preseason down to two games. And so,
Speaker 2: you know, if you generally look at the end of
Speaker 2: the year, the final four teams, they're overwhelmingly healthy. Very
Speaker 2: few players are lost for the season. Though it happens
Speaker 2: Trayvon Diggs for the Cowboys at practice. That's just a
Speaker 2: gutting loss for Dallas. But as a sport becomes more
Speaker 2: quarterback centric, you're going to have these wider gaps in
Speaker 2: point spreads. But you know, one of the things I
Speaker 2: was thinking about this today driving home from work, is
Speaker 2: that you know, the NFL has certain advantages on other sports.
Speaker 2: Let's take baseball. Well, there's one hundred and sixty two
Speaker 2: baseball games seventeen football games. So there's always been an
Speaker 2: urgency advantage to the NFL. But as we're a more
Speaker 2: distracted country, why has the gap in baseball and football
Speaker 2: the ratings and interest? Why is it so great now?
Speaker 2: And I think a lot of it is. And I've
Speaker 2: noticed this in terms of consumption. People tend to read headlines,
Speaker 2: they don't read entire stories. We're less patient because of
Speaker 2: our iPhones. We want things that meetly. We want big headlines,
Speaker 2: big stars, big brands, and people just don't have the patients.
Speaker 2: And you have to have patients to watch baseball. And
Speaker 2: I think we're a less patient nation. But I also
Speaker 2: think the reality is the NFL has always thought of
Speaker 2: itself as a football show at a TV show and baseball.
Speaker 2: I'll give you an example. You know, in analytics, if
Speaker 2: you can get a two percent three percent edge in baseball,
Speaker 2: you just do it. You don't think about how it
Speaker 2: hurts the TV product that it takes a star pitcher
Speaker 2: out of a game. Can you imagine in the NFL,
Speaker 2: if you had a one percent advantage over the course
Speaker 2: of a year in getting two more first downs per
Speaker 2: game and half a point a game over the season,
Speaker 2: If it was determined that you pull your starting quarterback
Speaker 2: with five minutes to go in the third quarter, that
Speaker 2: you'd on this season average and a half more first
Speaker 2: downs a game and half a point, you say to yourself, Oh,
Speaker 2: you would do it. No, you wouldn't. In football. Part
Speaker 2: of the drama and the fun in football and part
Speaker 2: of what's been lost in baseball and baseball you go
Speaker 2: to the bullpen. If the analytics say pull the starter,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if he's pitching, well, it's six and
Speaker 2: a third, it's arm fatigue. He's out. And in football,
Speaker 2: you just play a star quarterback even if he's struggling, right,
Speaker 2: You just do. And I think the sport of football,
Speaker 2: you know, tonight's a prime example of you know, you
Speaker 2: had to mismatch giants, row a lot, a lot of
Speaker 2: injuries to deal with, beat up a little bit. This
Speaker 2: was not your classic star quarterback, average quarterback. San Francisco
Speaker 2: is really the only team in the league that is
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl contender and doesn't have what's considered like
Speaker 2: a high end quarterback. But you know, as I was
Speaker 2: thinking about this today, is I watched this game until
Speaker 2: the very end tonight. Why it wasn't competitive? And I
Speaker 2: think a lot of it is you play your stars,
Speaker 2: You play your starters. If they're healthy, they play. You
Speaker 2: don't pull them out because of analytics. You don't pull
Speaker 2: them out because of weather. You don't rest people just
Speaker 2: because you know, you watch this game tonight and Christian
Speaker 2: McCaffrey is running that football in the fourth quarter, and
Speaker 2: you know, over the course of the season he doesn't
Speaker 2: need those extra six seven carries, and Deebo Samuel's getting hammered,
Speaker 2: and George Kittle is getting hammered until the very end.
Speaker 2: And I think, like the NFL, even though this was
Speaker 2: a ten and a half point spread, it really never
Speaker 2: felt in the second half like it was going to
Speaker 2: be competitive. You're just waiting to see if the forty
Speaker 2: nine ers hold on and cover.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: But I think that one of the great things about
Speaker 2: football is not only the urgency, but it is a
Speaker 2: great television show. And the stars play beginning middle end,
Speaker 2: doesn't matter how much you lead by Kittle's getting the ball,
Speaker 2: Deebo's getting the ball, mcafrey's getting the ball. Rock Perty's
Speaker 2: going to stay in the game, and I find it
Speaker 2: to be just a really good television product. That's not
Speaker 2: to say that baseball doesn't have its moments, but you
Speaker 2: pull starting pitchers because pitch counts, even if they're pitching well.
Speaker 2: And tonight is like the power of the NFL to me,
Speaker 2: not really competitive. Ten and a half points spread. I
Speaker 2: mean at halftime it felt like, I mean, the Giants
Speaker 2: could not run the football. Daniel Jones trailing without one
Speaker 2: of his better young receivers either available or playing many snaps,
Speaker 2: no chance to win that game. But it held me.
Speaker 2: And that's the power of football. As far as the
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Steelers, they won a game with nine first downs.
Speaker 2: I don't know how long Matt Canada is going to
Speaker 2: get in Pittsburgh. I don't get it. Five years, The
Speaker 2: offensive line still suboptimal, the run games hit and miss.
Speaker 2: I don't see clever. But Mike Tomlin and the Steelers,
Speaker 2: they're all about continuity and loyalty, So Matt Canada retains employment.
Speaker 2: I just don't see it when you watch the Rams
Speaker 2: and McVeigh and the Niners and Kyle Shanahan and the
Speaker 2: Dolphins where they spend their money, the coaching, the schematics,
Speaker 2: the adaptability. They're just playing a different game than the Steelers.
Speaker 2: They won a game. It never breaks my heart when
Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson, who I think the creepy guy, loses a
Speaker 2: football game. I just don't think he's I think you
Speaker 2: take a year and a half to two years off
Speaker 2: in the NFL. I mean, you can make it as
Speaker 2: a coach, I don't think you can do it as
Speaker 2: a quarterback. I just don't think he's that good. I
Speaker 2: don't think he's a top twelve quarterback in the league.
Speaker 2: I never loved how he threw a football. He was
Speaker 2: a playmaker in his best years. But we've had so
Speaker 2: many young quarterbacks get drafted in the last three years
Speaker 2: and emerge in the last year or two. I just
Speaker 2: don't consider Deshaun Watson an elite quarterback. You know, he
Speaker 2: probably should have gotten the benefit of a pass interference call,
Speaker 2: and that one that's sailed out of bounds you're on
Speaker 2: the road, you don't get the call. But the Steelers
Speaker 2: won with nine first downs and being dominated in time
Speaker 2: of possession. You're not supposed to win that game if
Speaker 2: you're a star quarterback and you're Deshaun Watson Nick Chubb,
Speaker 2: injury is gross. I saw the video once. That was enough.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see it again. But you know,
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh one in one, they find ways to win. But
Speaker 2: I just I feel like they're playing a different game.
Speaker 2: They feel very much like New England with better players.
Speaker 2: I just don't think there's much of a ceiling offensively.
Speaker 2: And if you don't have home run plays, if you're
Speaker 2: not creative and clever and adaptable, I just don't think
Speaker 2: you can you can get the conference championships or beyond
Speaker 2: the Broncos. And Russell Wilson and Sean Payton's thirty five
Speaker 2: thirty three loss to the Commanders, but I had said
Speaker 2: this before. I didn't think Russell played particularly well. Eighteen
Speaker 2: of thirty two three hundred yards had already really bad
Speaker 2: pick He does not have the juice he had previously.
Speaker 2: And I thought there were large portions of the game
Speaker 2: that Sam Howell was much more mobile, much more of
Speaker 2: a playmaker, and was frankly better from the pocket. And
Speaker 2: Sam How's not as good as Russell Wilson shouldn't be. Also,
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson as Sean Payton a coaching edge. And I
Speaker 2: said this before is you don't have to be best
Speaker 2: friends with your coach. You don't have to be Belichick
Speaker 2: and Brady didn't have dinner for twenty years, but there
Speaker 2: were a lot of things they did have in common.
Speaker 2: Both were driven, aspirational, no nonsense adults. Russell Wilson and
Speaker 2: Sean Payton have the opposite personality. One is harsh, authentic
Speaker 2: to the point, doesn't beat around the bush, doesn't care
Speaker 2: about being polished, and is willing to be intense vocally.
Speaker 2: And then there's Russell Wilson, who is polished, optimistic, refined.
Speaker 2: And by the way, it's okay for a quarterback to
Speaker 2: be more optimistic than pessimistic because people make mistakes. You
Speaker 2: play with young guys. You want Brady try to be optimistic.
Speaker 2: But sometimes optimism can veer away from realism. And so
Speaker 2: in order for Russell Wilson and Sean Payton to work,
Speaker 2: they have to win games. You can't go zero and
Speaker 2: two to start the season, both games in Denver. You
Speaker 2: can't lose to Sam Howell and Ron Rivera as a favorite.
Speaker 2: You can't lose back to back games as a favorite
Speaker 2: against the raid and the commanders, and so this relationship
Speaker 2: only works because the personalities are so different. It only
Speaker 2: works if they win these close games and they're zwer
Speaker 2: And to the very first day he had the opportunity
Speaker 2: he did, Sean Payton acquired Jarrett Stidham for a pretty
Speaker 2: healthy backup quarterback salary, which told you when he got
Speaker 2: to Denver, the first thing he did was look at
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson film. How do I know, because he told
Speaker 2: me that was the first thing he was going to do.
Speaker 2: He was going to look at all his plays. What
Speaker 2: does he do well? What doesn't he do well? Let's
Speaker 2: avoid the latter, let's go toward the former. So he
Speaker 2: obviously saw stuff on film where he wanted somebody who
Speaker 2: could sit in the pocket and make throws. Remember in
Speaker 2: New Orleans, once Drew Brees got older, they had Taysom Hill,
Speaker 2: they had Jameis Winston, they had Teddy Bridgewater. He was
Speaker 2: cycling people through as Drew Brees aged. Well, Russell Wilson
Speaker 2: is thirty four and he looks like he's thirty nine.
Speaker 2: He just simply does not move as well as he
Speaker 2: did four years ago. I don't know if some of
Speaker 2: it's confidence, emotional, no major surgeries. Thirty four, he plays
Speaker 2: much much older than his age. Brady obviously played much
Speaker 2: younger than his age. Aaron Rodgers largely plays younger pre
Speaker 2: injury than his age. But this thing doesn't work, and
Speaker 2: you know, again the Hail Mary makes this game look
Speaker 2: more competitive. Very early on Denver scripted plays had some success,
Speaker 2: that Sean Payton doing the work. But when you get
Speaker 2: to late first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, early fourth
Speaker 2: that's quarterback play, that's pre snap, that's you quarterback line
Speaker 2: of scrimmage. Quarterbacks I don't even like Daniel Jones had
Speaker 2: very very good fourth quarter, late third quarters today, just
Speaker 2: on athleticism and some big time throws. So I think this,
Speaker 2: I think they're headed for major turbulence in Denver next year,
Speaker 2: starting next year for five years. This is a massively
Speaker 2: punitive contract to the Broncos with a coach and a
Speaker 2: quarterback with completely different personalities. And I think there's nothing
Speaker 2: wrong with being optimistic, but I think it gets frustrating
Speaker 2: when somebody's really optimistic and there's obvious problems. I mean,
Speaker 2: I like optimistic people. I don't like negative people. But
Speaker 2: you know, if the walls are caving in. You know,
Speaker 2: we're in the middle of an earthquake. I don't want optimism.
Speaker 2: I want to figure out a way to get safe
Speaker 2: and clean the house up. And so I think we're
Speaker 2: looking at a situation here in Denver. This is only
Speaker 2: going to get worse. The schedule's only going to get tougher.
Speaker 2: Now they go on the road. And again, if you
Speaker 2: watch the game, and I did, once they got off
Speaker 2: scripted plays, second, third quarter, fourth, I thought Sam Howe
Speaker 2: played more confidently, really really hard to figure out. Never
Speaker 2: seen a quarterback have it lose it without a major
Speaker 2: injury pre thirty five years old. Never seen it. I
Speaker 2: have no comp Well, well, well here we are again.
Speaker 2: It's like a repeat of last week. So Brandon Staley's
Speaker 2: defense could not stop Ryan Tannehill the last time he
Speaker 2: had the ball in the fourth, nor could they stop
Speaker 2: Ryan Tannehill in his big possession in overtime. Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 2: with an offense that's searching for a second receiver. You
Speaker 2: can blame Justin Herbert, But Justin Herbert has averaged more
Speaker 2: points in his first three year starting than any quarterback,
Speaker 2: including Patrick Mahomes, Dan Marino, John Elway in league history.
Speaker 2: It's not an offensive problem. That's not the problem. Brandon
Speaker 2: Staley and Brian Daboll interviewed for the Chargers job. Brian
Speaker 2: Dabell is who I would have hired. Staley was cheaper,
Speaker 2: and he was on the Rams staff, and perhaps the
Speaker 2: Spanos family felt like, you know, we can pluck him
Speaker 2: away and slow down the momentum of the Rams. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's what they were thinking, But Brandon Staley had much
Speaker 2: less experience in football. So much of the Rams success
Speaker 2: is centered around Sean McVeigh. You have to be careful
Speaker 2: about plucking people from his staff. We know that Daboll
Speaker 2: resurrected Josh Allen and got Daniel Jones to the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I just think they hired the wrong coach. I watched
Speaker 2: this defense, Bosa Derwin, James, J C. Jackson. They've drafted well.
Speaker 2: They could probably use another interior defensive lineman, but by
Speaker 2: and large, this is an experienced defense that brought back
Speaker 2: almost all their starters. Like they're a team that shouldn't
Speaker 2: be fooled or out of sync like they were against Miami. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's Miami, but again, the last two big possessions by Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Tennessee can't get a stop. So the Spanos family has
Speaker 2: never paid a lot of money for coaches, so they're
Speaker 2: not going to run him in season. Plus they made
Speaker 2: the playoffs last year. You know, the athletic the subscription
Speaker 2: sports writer model, which now is owned by The New
Speaker 2: York Times, there's a great I think they do a
Speaker 2: really good job covering the NFL. I think the individual
Speaker 2: team writers are fantastic. The Chargers individual writer this week
Speaker 2: to look back at the Miami game and picked it
Speaker 2: apart on some confusion in the secondary, and his primary
Speaker 2: issue was, these guys are all returning, how can they
Speaker 2: make so many mistakes on third and long and coverages.
Speaker 2: You can see it on television. They just can't make
Speaker 2: big stops. So, you know, it was interesting. I was
Speaker 2: talking to Chad Millman this week. He comes on for
Speaker 2: Sharper Square, and he said, this is a major coaching mismatch,
Speaker 2: which is why, by the way, I thought Denver would
Speaker 2: win today. I thought it was a coaching mismatch. But
Speaker 2: Brandon Staley, I mean, you're that front office right now.
Speaker 2: The Spano says Tom to let's go the GM. I
Speaker 2: can assure you they're not happy, and I do believe
Speaker 2: one of the reasons they brought Kellen Moore over not
Speaker 2: only did they feel it was an upgrade, but they
Speaker 2: were concerned on what they saw in the first two
Speaker 2: years of Brandon Staley's defense. And my guess is Kellen Moore,
Speaker 2: I don't know if it would happen at the end
Speaker 2: of the season or Thanksgi. This team is just simply
Speaker 2: too talented to be zero and two. There's too many
Speaker 2: good players on this roster. There's almost no holes. I've
Speaker 2: been reluctant for years to embrace the Chargers. This is
Speaker 2: the year I finally did. It's just inexcusable. There's too
Speaker 2: many good players, too many returning starters, they're young, just
Speaker 2: a sprinkle of the right veterans Keenan, Allen, Mike Williams,
Speaker 2: just enough veteran presence. Gotta be better than this, all right,
Speaker 2: John Middlecoff, I think Dallas. You know, there's not a
Speaker 2: lot of great quarterbacks in this league. There's about six
Speaker 2: great ones and another six good ones. Anybody that's not
Speaker 2: on that list is not beating Dallas this year.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts can Daniel Jones can't. He can't beat him.
Speaker 2: Sam Sam Hall can't beat him. Zach Wilson can't beat him.
Speaker 2: I mean I look at Dallas and I go up
Speaker 2: and down their schedule, and the way I look at
Speaker 2: that defense John is there's about six quarterbacks in this
Speaker 2: league that can beat him, and another four or five
Speaker 2: that if they get protection, you know it'll be a
Speaker 2: close game. I think Dallas's defense is going to win
Speaker 2: the twelve games. I think Dak is not. The story.
Speaker 2: Is Micah Parsons the best defensive player in the league.
Speaker 1: Well, he had a play today on I think his
Speaker 1: first sac He was at full speed in half a
Speaker 1: step on a little stunt. It's like, what are you
Speaker 1: supposed to do with this? I was way too young
Speaker 1: to really remember or you know, watch LT's prime, but
Speaker 1: that has to be some of what it looked like.
Speaker 1: The speed, the violence, the closing ability, how you can
Speaker 1: move him around like a chess piece. I thought this
Speaker 1: last year in the second round, they went toe to
Speaker 1: toe with the Niners, who are clearly, if not the
Speaker 1: most but right there now with Dallas is the most
Speaker 1: physical team. I mean they are violent on defense, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were ready to win a championship on defense,
Speaker 1: but Dak threw the two picks and that the game
Speaker 1: was tight. Perty didn't play that well because it's hard
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. This defense feels even a little bit better.
Speaker 1: Maybe Micah's five percent better. All the guys have played
Speaker 1: together a little longer. They kept Dan Quinn. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I picked Dallas to win the East at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year, not because I don't think highly of
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I think both of them are thirteen fourteen
Speaker 1: win teams. But I've seen what the Niners do. Separating
Speaker 1: with an elite defense and an elite pass rush, it
Speaker 1: just takes over. I mean, Zach Wilson, listen, has he improvement?
Speaker 1: Who knows? You weren't gonna find much out this week.
Speaker 1: Probably have a better idea next week when he's playing Belichick.
Speaker 1: But that team, I'm telling you, if they just need
Speaker 1: to get the four game stretch, if they stay healthy
Speaker 1: like Eli got, like Joe Flacco got, whre Dak could
Speaker 1: just under control. They don't need the wild card game
Speaker 1: where he throws five touchdowns every week. Can he just
Speaker 1: play a couple game stretch where he's not throwing the
Speaker 1: ball to the other team and they can win a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, because that's how good the defense is. The
Speaker 1: same with the Niners. The Niners could have won several
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. Their defense was right there. Jimmy just let
Speaker 1: him down a couple times.
Speaker 2: Well look at this. So here are the quarterbacks. The
Speaker 2: Cowboys face Dobbs Arizona win. He can't beat it, now,
Speaker 2: Mac Jones Patriots, but no number one receiver win Now,
Speaker 2: brock Pertty's got a shot because of his personnel. Herbert Okay, Stafford.
Speaker 2: I don't think they have enough weapons. Cooper Cup is back.
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting. Jalen Hurts, Yes, then Daniel Jones, Bryce Young,
Speaker 2: Sam Howe, Geno Smith. I mean they're gonna win a
Speaker 2: lot of games.
Speaker 1: They're gonna win a lot of games. But they got
Speaker 1: three games you know, if they if they somehow split
Speaker 1: with the Eagles in that Niner game on Sunday Night football,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a coin flip game. If
Speaker 1: they can somehow go two and three, you're looking at
Speaker 1: the number one seed, right, and if they go one
Speaker 1: in three, you're maybe looking at the wild card, right.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna and I think all these games the
Speaker 1: Niners play the Eagles obviously Nighters play the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: the Eagles play the Cowboys twice. You know, it's these
Speaker 1: games are gonna come down to a fumble here who
Speaker 1: doesn't throw a pick? And it's gonna decide because all
Speaker 1: three have number one seed talents. Right. I think clearly
Speaker 1: the Niners have the most established head coach right now
Speaker 1: in terms he's the play caller. Also, McCarthy say this,
Speaker 1: when you have that good of a defense, it hardened
Speaker 1: your team because you practice against it. And now this
Speaker 1: team so the Cowboys to me just look a little
Speaker 1: bit better than they did last year, and they were
Speaker 1: pretty good last year. And the Eagles, you and I
Speaker 1: talked about this, anytime you change. If we got we
Speaker 1: went to the store and got a set of ingredients,
Speaker 1: you know two X I cook a meal, and you
Speaker 1: know Gordon Ramsey cooks the meal. Even though it's the
Speaker 1: same ingredients, the meal is gonna taste different. So just
Speaker 1: because the players return new coordinators, doesn't look.
Speaker 2: The same, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I also think dan.
Speaker 1: Quinny'll they'll be fine.
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, I Dallas is I haven't. I hadn't
Speaker 2: as a playoff team. I also think Philadelphia, we can
Speaker 2: circle back to Thursday, Philadelphia is pulled back. They don't
Speaker 2: they don't know quite what they are. And it's interesting
Speaker 2: because you know, they have a power running quarterback and
Speaker 2: they signed into a big contract. And it's like when
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson signed his big deal, he didn't want to
Speaker 2: run anymore. And then Jalen hurt signs his big deal.
Speaker 2: And my takeaway is if he plays only four more years,
Speaker 2: that's worth the contract. He's a power running quarterback. Lean
Speaker 2: into what he is. It's almost like some of these
Speaker 2: guys that run around with they signed the big contracts,
Speaker 2: they think, okay, that's for a pocket quarterback.
Speaker 1: I missed on hers. I thought he was. I didn't
Speaker 1: like him in college, but I said, hell, if you
Speaker 1: can't play quarterback, he could just transition to become a
Speaker 1: running back. His instincts as a runner or elite. What
Speaker 1: do you do right away? When he came in the NFL,
Speaker 1: he's a dynamic runner. Well now it feels like clearly
Speaker 1: they've told him be careful. Last year, you hurt your shoulder, Lamar.
Speaker 1: Today's run around like it's twenty nineteen. Now Hurts is
Speaker 1: kind of feeling his way out. It's like Jalen either
Speaker 1: they called some quarterback powers. Well, if you're gonna tell
Speaker 1: him he can't run fast, don't call those plays anymore.
Speaker 1: But that's a huge element of why he's a fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars player. So now they're kind of caught in
Speaker 1: no man's land. He's thinking he's not running as fast.
Speaker 1: He's never gonna be. He's more of a rhythm player,
Speaker 1: kind of like Russell was in his peak. He's not
Speaker 1: just gonna sit back and throw forty times and go
Speaker 1: thirty seven to forty. That's not his style. It's blended
Speaker 1: in with the runs like Lamar and he can outplay
Speaker 1: Mahomes in the Super Bowl. But when you take away
Speaker 1: one of those elements, new play caller is clearly not
Speaker 1: as good as Shane's ssiching. It's just it just it
Speaker 1: looks a little weird.
Speaker 2: Let's bring in Dave Wanstat, former Bear and Dolphin coach.
Speaker 2: You know, I came into the season and I said,
Speaker 2: I think I'm kind of fifty five forty five sixty
Speaker 2: forty justin fields will work. I thought Dj Moore was
Speaker 2: a huge get for them, and he's been kind of
Speaker 2: their receiving corps. But Dave, I just don't think he
Speaker 2: sees the field well. He reminds me a lot of
Speaker 2: Zach Wilson. He's got a good arm, he moves well,
Speaker 2: and he just doesn't anticipate the play. I think justin fields.
Speaker 2: I mean I watched him on a lot of different views,
Speaker 2: almost like drone footage or behind him. There's wide open
Speaker 2: guys everywhere he has time on certain plays. Do you
Speaker 2: think in the you know, you know this, the GM
Speaker 2: and the head coach can say we didn't draft him,
Speaker 2: he's not our guy. And next year there's six to
Speaker 2: seven first round quarterbacks. The Bears could have two top
Speaker 2: six or seven picks. Coach, I think it's really hard
Speaker 2: if he ends up. I mean he's five and twenty two.
Speaker 2: If he goes seven and ten, six and eleven, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're not sticking with him in Chicago. There's no way.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: They have two number one picks next year, as we
Speaker 4: know their's and the Panthers with the trade Carolina, so
Speaker 4: they're gonna they're gonna be Uh, they could have two
Speaker 4: ten top picks.
Speaker 3: I mean maybe two five top five. Who knows the.
Speaker 4: Way this thing's unraveling, but uh, you know the whole
Speaker 4: plan here and I'm close to all those guys, Ryan
Speaker 4: Foles and Matt Egriflus.
Speaker 3: I'm up there all the.
Speaker 4: Time OTA's training camp, and the blueprint.
Speaker 3: Was the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 4: You know, two years ago people were uncertain of Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3: That's when they went and got a J Brown.
Speaker 4: Uh That's that's when they kind of changed their philosophy
Speaker 4: and they buried down. It's gonna be a quarterback o
Speaker 4: t you know, quarterback run pass option offense that Jalen
Speaker 4: Hurts can execute to a high level. Uh. Well, the
Speaker 4: difference is so that's what. So they go out and
Speaker 4: they get dj on here, absolutely outstanding. The problem is
Speaker 4: Philadelphia Eagles got one of the best offensive lines and
Speaker 4: last year they led the NFL in sacks. The Bears can't,
Speaker 4: but they the strong safety was the leading socker for
Speaker 4: the Bears last year, and you saw him against Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 3: Even when they got in.
Speaker 4: There, their defense couldn't get Baker on the ground. I mean,
Speaker 4: they make no plays on defense now. So my point
Speaker 4: is this that justin fields, Yes, he did have time.
Speaker 3: He held the ball for once.
Speaker 4: I was timing him over three seconds one time, it
Speaker 4: was four seconds one time. Five seconds and he's trying
Speaker 4: to be not a running quarterback. Last year he leads
Speaker 4: a league in rushing calling, and there was an outcry,
Speaker 4: we can't win a super Bowl that way.
Speaker 3: He's got to throw it.
Speaker 4: And I'm afraid to say, I think, you know, I
Speaker 4: think Luke Getzi, the offensive coordinator, fell into the same
Speaker 4: trap as Justin did.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're going. They had one quarterback run in the
Speaker 3: opening game. It was a quarterback sneak. That was it.
Speaker 3: That was the only pull.
Speaker 4: And they were averaging about ten or twelve game last year.
Speaker 4: I thought it was too many, but they were moving
Speaker 4: the balls and the offense was generating a rhythm.
Speaker 3: That's all gone in this game. The opening drive.
Speaker 4: The second week against Tampa, they have the run pass
Speaker 4: option on the rollout. Justin keeps it, runs it in.
Speaker 4: Dj Moore was open for a pass across the middle.
Speaker 4: Never saw it again. They go back to the drop back.
Speaker 4: They're kind of running. You know, Luke Getzi came from
Speaker 4: Green Bay and it almost looks like a Green Bay
Speaker 4: Packer type of offense, and.
Speaker 3: We can't do that. They've got to abandon that.
Speaker 4: Their only chance and go back to the run quarterback
Speaker 4: run option and hope that their defense gets better. Otherwise,
Speaker 4: this kid's got no chance, no chance.
Speaker 2: It's like right now, the Philadelphia Eagles are a good
Speaker 2: team that doesn't have an identity, and they won't embrace that.
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts is a power running quarterback. That's what he is. Baltimore,
Speaker 2: to their credit, is allowing Lamar Jackson to be Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson last year in Denver stopped running. Kyler Murray
Speaker 2: doesn't want to run to me. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 2: it's basketball, football, or baseball. Lean into what you do.
Speaker 2: And I look at this when I watch justin Fields. Listen,
Speaker 2: it's Zach Wilson. He's got some gifts, but he's a big,
Speaker 2: strong kid who moves. Kid.
Speaker 4: This what's happening now is he's dropping back if he
Speaker 4: doesn't like his throw, rather than running and making something positive.
Speaker 3: DJ Moore twice was open clapping his.
Speaker 4: Hands during the game, trying to get his attention to
Speaker 4: throwing the ball. So you know, it's your only chance
Speaker 4: is to go back to what they did last year
Speaker 4: and turn them loose. Get him on the move and
Speaker 4: in passing situations. Hope that he has improved now their
Speaker 4: offensive line might be worse than last year. The draft
Speaker 4: pick is a player Darnel right the right tackle, but
Speaker 4: the right guard, the right guard. They're in their third
Speaker 4: right guard, Davis. They signed him. He don't practice. Then
Speaker 4: he had personal reasons. I think it was a family thing.
Speaker 4: So they started a guy they drafted in a seventh
Speaker 4: drawn last year never played Lucas Patrick the center. He
Speaker 4: didn't take one snap in a preseason. He's starting at center.
Speaker 4: The offensive line, too, is struggling bad. And so again,
Speaker 4: by the.
Speaker 2: Way, another another defensive coach, Sean McDermott, Mike Tomlin, Matt
Speaker 2: eberflu struggling with the old line. Do you know in
Speaker 2: Week one ten of the eleven top rated Old Lions
Speaker 2: were offensive coaches. Andy Reid fixed his in an offseason.
Speaker 2: Sean McVay this year, his in an offseason. I think
Speaker 2: we have to be honest. Defensive coaches can fix D
Speaker 2: lines quickly. Offensive coaches can fix O lines quickly. How
Speaker 2: many years in a row can the Bears two? Three
Speaker 2: years in a row? They can't get the offensive line right.
Speaker 2: And by the way, they've used a lot of draft
Speaker 2: capital and money on it. They've drafted a lot of
Speaker 2: offensive linemen. Yeah, yeah, I just I think no. It's
Speaker 2: their first round pick this year, darned. Now, right out
Speaker 2: of Tennessee, he's going to be a player.
Speaker 4: But from there they've got some guys that need to develop,
Speaker 4: and they've got some older guys.
Speaker 3: Now, it's not.
Speaker 4: It's not conducive to giving your quarterback a lot of
Speaker 4: time and having him sit back there.
Speaker 3: And be able to read the field. So they can't
Speaker 3: they can't do what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: They've got to go back to the run offense, abandon
Speaker 4: this hope their defense comes up with a few plays.
Speaker 3: You know, we get no.
Speaker 4: Help from our defense in Chicago because you know, the
Speaker 4: balls on the ground, we don't do it and get it.
Speaker 4: Against Tampa, we had chances for interceptions, we don't get them.
Speaker 4: So the offense never gets a short field, you know,
Speaker 4: they never get it's always drive eighty yards to score
Speaker 4: a touchdown, and that that doesn't happen in the NFL.
Speaker 1: The volume