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Speaker 1: From the RAMS studio connected by AT and T. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Between the Horns. I'm Miles Simmons. I'm with DeMarco

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Speaker 1: far It is Wednesday, November eighth, about eleven fifteen Pacific time,

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Speaker 1: and the Rams are six and two November eighth, six

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Speaker 1: and two. Yeah, it's a little symmetry that I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you noticed that. I did not notice that at all.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, fifty two one, goodness gracious, fifty

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Speaker 1: one to seventeen victories over the New York Giants. And

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Speaker 1: I said fifty two because of course I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: my notes and says, first time reaching fifty points since

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Speaker 1: the fifty two to zero beat down of the Raiders

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Speaker 1: back in twenty fourteen. US Ever, yeah, it's up there,

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Speaker 1: beat the Raiders by himself. Yeah and that. But this

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Speaker 1: team right now is really really rolling, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: five and ohing games away from the Coliseum. You're coming

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Speaker 1: back to the Coliseum in first place in the NFC

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Speaker 1: West by game. Thank you to Washington and Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 1: for beating Seattle. But yeah, I mean, it's it's nice

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Speaker 1: to be out in front, especially at the midway point

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Speaker 1: of the season. I'm just happy you finally beat Eli Manning. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the first thing that came to mind, finally you beat Eli.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting? You know? You beat him so bad

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Speaker 1: actually that now they're talking about starting Davis Webb a

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Speaker 1: little bit. Well, it's just crazy. If you're in New

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Speaker 1: York shitting you at this point, what's the point. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. That team setting in the wrong direction. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's bad, It's real bad. I mean, did you

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Speaker 1: see what Ben McAdoo said when they asked him, would

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Speaker 1: you say that the team? I stopped listening. What did

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Speaker 1: he say? Um, that's what he said? Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: And then like pause for a few seconds, and then

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Speaker 1: they had to ask him another question. Because it's just

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Speaker 1: so sad for them because if they if they had

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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Junior, if they had Brandon Marshall back out there,

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Speaker 1: that's a completely different offense, completely different football team. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean, injuries just they take their toll on football team.

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Speaker 1: For sure, they do. But at the same time, I mean,

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Speaker 1: and we don't need to talk about the Giants too long,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know. I think when Eli man has

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Speaker 1: a starting streak of two hundred and seven games, that's

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Speaker 1: been going on since two thousand and four. To me,

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Speaker 1: that's tough to break that. Just to see Davis Webb,

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Speaker 1: who you and I looked at during when they were

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Speaker 1: going through pregame warm ups. Yeah, and you're watching him

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Speaker 1: go through this pregame workout and he does not look

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Speaker 1: to me that ready to start taking stuff. I always say,

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Speaker 1: start streak is one thing. What's your record during those starts? Okay,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll see what's going on down the road.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I'm just pointing out that New

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Speaker 1: York is down right now. So and you're supposed to

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Speaker 1: beat teams like New York like you did on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I mean, maybe not fifty one points, but definitely when

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Speaker 1: you have the upper hand and you're the better football team,

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Speaker 1: you should dominate. I mean, I was talking to coach

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Speaker 1: mcbah the other day, what's it like to call plays

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Speaker 1: when everything's working, everything you're doing is working. I mean

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Speaker 1: a third and thirty third and thirty three goes for

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Speaker 1: fifty two yards and a touchdown and he's untouched. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what do you say to that guy when he comes

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Speaker 1: back to the bench. Great play, you know? Really, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's odd and then you know you have end

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Speaker 1: a rounds with Tavon Austin that gets fourteen yards down

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Speaker 1: the field before he's touched once. Yeah, that's great blocking,

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Speaker 1: that's great execution, and that's just poor defense on the

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Speaker 1: other side. It is, But it goes back to something

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Speaker 1: you said last week, which is what you said, coach

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Speaker 1: Formil told you guys. You know, playoff teams winning teams

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Speaker 1: keep losing, teams losing. Yes, that's what the Rams did

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Speaker 1: on Let them continue on to where they're headed and

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Speaker 1: don't get in their way. They obviously want to lose today,

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Speaker 1: So just get out of their way. I mean, I'm serious.

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Speaker 1: Just get out of their way and do it. You're

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Speaker 1: not wrong, Yeah, and respect them and play as hard

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Speaker 1: as you can and don't hurt yourself. Six penalties not bad.

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Speaker 1: Everything on offense is pretty much working. The only thing

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Speaker 1: that bothered me on Sunday was just the defense a

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Speaker 1: little okay. I mean well, I mean they ran the football.

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Speaker 1: I mean they slammed it at you and they had

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Speaker 1: some success and Eli Manning Early put one in the

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Speaker 1: they had. That's their only chance they had it went in,

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Speaker 1: but there were some concerning moments from the Rams defense

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Speaker 1: on Sunday for sure. I mean it was seven to

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Speaker 1: I think, if you're pointing, if you want to look

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Speaker 1: to seventeen victory, but where do you improve, it's exactly there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: It's it's funny like playing defense, especially on a team

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Speaker 1: like this that has an offense that can score. And

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Speaker 1: everyone's happy with the record and fifty one points, but

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Speaker 1: when you really look at it and think Eli Manning

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Speaker 1: has some shots at you with some open guys that

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Speaker 1: he just missed, I agree. So flip that to this

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Speaker 1: week when you've got Hopkins and you've got Will Fuller

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Speaker 1: to play better than he did against Indianapolis. So some

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Speaker 1: of those and completions are overthrows are going to be

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Speaker 1: connections and possibly touchdowns. So a blowout game could turn

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Speaker 1: into a shootout like that. It can if you don't

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Speaker 1: make plays, and that's exactly what the Rams have to

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Speaker 1: continue to work on in order to continu you're improving. Um,

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Speaker 1: But I do want to talk about Jared Goff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because he's the NFC Offensive Player of the week. First

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Speaker 1: time a Rams quarterback has been NFC Offensive Player of

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Speaker 1: the Week since two thousand and seven. And who was

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Speaker 1: a quarterback then, Mark Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah and Mark

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Speaker 1: Kurt Kurt was gone. Yeah right, But that's I mean,

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Speaker 1: he had basically a career day. What his young career is,

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Speaker 1: he's basically fifteen starts into it on how many completions?

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Speaker 1: I know. Also I'm getting fourteen of twenty two for

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Speaker 1: three hundred and eleven yards, four touchdowns and player of

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Speaker 1: I guess the Giants defense is the is the opposite. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: fourteen compa he is the player of the week, right,

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Speaker 1: He's seven eight elite and if you you got fourteen

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Speaker 1: they've been flirting with that for a while. You finally

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Speaker 1: hit one that was a great That was a great

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Speaker 1: play to see Robert was making plays that screen that went.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, Jared had a great efficient day throwing the football.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there wasn't much for him to do in

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Speaker 1: an open window, but he wasn't really avoiding bodies and

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Speaker 1: else on the field that was out there with him. Oh,

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Speaker 1: at what he's been doing, he's just really taking good

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Speaker 1: for this offense to be successful. McBay often talks about

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Speaker 1: managing the game and things like that, and I sort

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Speaker 1: of wonder sometimes when they go no huddle, like what

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Speaker 1: Watch this. I think they're gonna blitz and then you know,

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Speaker 1: the MIC's go dead. But I mean just just watching

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Speaker 1: big high five, just congratulating good shot down the field.

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Speaker 1: have we talked about Jared Goff and arm strength. It's

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Speaker 1: been a while it has and you almost overthrew one

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Speaker 1: I think that all it's all coming because of the confidence.

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Speaker 1: that pass that was connected between Goff and Walkins. If

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Speaker 1: on the website, there whatever, they saved that. That's the

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Speaker 1: longest pleaded passed through the air this season. Sixty one

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Speaker 1: That's the longest pass they've completed. I was on the

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Speaker 1: almost nothing you can call exactly. The screen game is

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Speaker 1: adding that to your offense. I mean that makes you

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Speaker 1: one of the elite teams. It absolutely does. And that's

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Speaker 1: why this this Ram's offense right now is so hard

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Speaker 1: as opposed to Sammy Watkins going past. Now that's an

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Speaker 1: it's a blown coverage anytime you let somebody get fined

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Speaker 1: away behind you in a way. Yes, this is so funny.

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Speaker 1: We were just having this discussion. I was talking to Marshall,

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Speaker 1: that masters of offense, Hall of Fame offensive guys are

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Speaker 1: actually masters of defense. Well, you've got one as a

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Speaker 1: you're showing this coverage, you better get there because if not,

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Speaker 1: he's going to test you. And I think that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what happened. Landing Collins is an all pro. Sometimes you know,

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Speaker 1: that's probably what Landon Collins was going off of instinct

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Speaker 1: just catching fire for that football season. They make them dangerous,

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Speaker 1: they make them faster, they make them better just because

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Speaker 1: of that hunger. Well you saw I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you saw this, but today as we speak, then Monday morning,

427
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Speaker 1: Quarterback Sports Illustrated came out with like super Bowl, midseason predictions,

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Speaker 1: playoff predictions, super Bowl predictions, and you know, not to

429
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Speaker 1: look too far ahead. I know the Texans are this

430
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Speaker 1: week and we're going to get to the Texans and

431
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Speaker 1: I believe in the one game out of time in philosophy,

432
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Speaker 1: and I think that's why the Rams have been successful

433
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Speaker 1: when you're talking about Carson Wentz. But just saying I

434
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 1: thought it was an interesting topic. All right, go ahead,

435
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,880
Speaker 1: something it is. It's very interesting. Some things flop, some

436
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 1: things are successful. I thought it was great. Matt loved it,

437
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Speaker 1: did you, Matt? I'm here for you, but see you

438
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Speaker 1: love thank you right there? Yeah. But I say all

439
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,080
Speaker 1: that preamble stuff to bring up the fact that Peter

440
00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,760
Speaker 1: King picked the Rams to win the Super Bowl over

441
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Speaker 1: the Patriots? Did he really? Yes? Which is funny. I mean, like, yeah,

442
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,680
Speaker 1: good for him, because right, And it's like, okay, that's

443
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,239
Speaker 1: that's nice and that's interesting. But on the other it

444
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 1: makes me want to go all Jim Mora. You know, playoffs, playoffs.

445
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Speaker 1: Someone said that to me on Monday, and I looked

446
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Speaker 1: at them kind of cross syded. What playoffs? No, They

447
00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 1: said super Bowl, and I'm you've You've got the Texans

448
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,679
Speaker 1: coming up. Yeah. But then he asked me like, okay,

449
00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 1: who are your other teams in the NFC? And I

450
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 1: started to think, well, you know what they are in

451
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Speaker 1: the mix right now? Yeah, I mean the best, They

452
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,680
Speaker 1: have the best point differential in the NFL. They sort

453
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Speaker 1: of have to get actually a valid mix. It's a

454
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,639
Speaker 1: valid point, but is I mean you're getting too far ahead.

455
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Speaker 1: You still have to beat the text absolutely like this again,

456
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Speaker 1: this is a team that has not gone eight and

457
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Speaker 1: eight right since you know, yeah, ten years ago, more

458
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,720
Speaker 1: than that two thousand and six. The Texans are the

459
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Speaker 1: perfect team or the perfect example of how your season

460
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Speaker 1: outlook can change in an instant, no point in looking

461
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Speaker 1: past December or even next week. At this point, I agree, right,

462
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 1: because right, I mean, you lose your quarterback and then

463
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 1: things start to look incredibly different than they once did, right, exactly.

464
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Speaker 1: Um So, anyway, we'll talk more about the Texans in

465
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Speaker 1: a second, but I do want to get back to

466
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Speaker 1: what was going on in the last game, especially with

467
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Speaker 1: Woods and Watkins. I think, do you think Buffalo wants

468
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Speaker 1: them back? Buffalo, Tyrod Taylor wouldn't mind having them back.

469
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Speaker 1: I mean, they did just get Benjamin from Panthers and

470
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 1: obviously been I think Benjamin's a good wide receiver. But

471
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Speaker 1: you know, when you have a guy like Robert Woods,

472
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Speaker 1: who I think he's been outstanding all year, you know,

473
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Speaker 1: on the field and off it. You can see the

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Speaker 1: leadership he brings to that wide receiver's room, which is

475
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Speaker 1: something that they kind of really did not have before

476
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Speaker 1: with the guy that is now elsewhere. But you have him,

477
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Speaker 1: and you see that he can put on the jets

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Speaker 1: like he does on that third and thirty three. Yeah, yeah,

479
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,639
Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of special, man. I mean a

480
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 1: lane to the end zone and he absolutely took it.

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Speaker 1: Great blocking down the field, yes, by all his teammates,

482
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Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins at the top, Pancas blocks, but he sets

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Speaker 1: the standard, and like Andrew Whitworth sets the standard when

484
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Speaker 1: a guy that's has that many years in the league.

485
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,679
Speaker 1: And Robert Wood same thing, who's a veteran, and you

486
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Speaker 1: see him working as hard without the ball as he

487
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Speaker 1: does with it. So if you're a guy behind him

488
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Speaker 1: or on the field with him, the standard is set.

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Speaker 1: If you're not playing to his speed, it's gonna show. Yep.

490
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: Same thing with Whitworth, if you're not covering down the

491
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Speaker 1: field after the ball is released, it's going to show

492
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Speaker 1: because he's going to every single play. So I like

493
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Speaker 1: guys like that, the pace setters that are they expect

494
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Speaker 1: you to get with them. And they're also great players

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Speaker 1: to boot. Yes, Um, he has every right to be

496
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Speaker 1: a diva, but he's not. He just wants to win. Um.

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Speaker 1: When you see Todd Gurley getting the end zone, or

498
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Speaker 1: Tavon or Sammy Watkins, anybody else getting the end zone,

499
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Speaker 1: the first guy over there is going to be Robert Woods. True. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the next guy probably Whitworth. They're just excited about seeing

501
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Speaker 1: their team win. It's all about one thing, and that's

502
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Speaker 1: the w UM. You don't see that with other teams.

503
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Speaker 1: You don't see that a lot with other teams. UM

504
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: guys will score and the entire offense will just turn

505
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Speaker 1: their back on him and walk to the sideline. It

506
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Speaker 1: must be something going on in the locker room. But

507
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Speaker 1: Robert Woods is his attitude is infectious. It seems like

508
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 1: he just wants everybody to get some that day. Yeah,

509
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Speaker 1: and that's that's that tone setting I think is really important.

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Speaker 1: I think you're saying about the rum blocking especially that's

511
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Speaker 1: what happened on that third and thirty three for the

512
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Speaker 1: fifty two yard touchdown. You get Andrew Whitworth and Roger

513
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Speaker 1: Saffold releasing and they go and then they start getting

514
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Speaker 1: the downfield guys. Then talking to Robert Woods after the game,

515
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Speaker 1: he said, you see those blocks, and then you're like, oh,

516
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Speaker 1: all right, I got this lane inside because you've got

517
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Speaker 1: Roger Saffold and Andrew Whitworth doing their job on the

518
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Speaker 1: first level right, and then all of a sudden, like

519
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 1: if that lane opens, boy, you're moving. And I think

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Speaker 1: it's great. You pointed out that the pancake block from

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Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins at the line. I mean, Matt, you know, and

522
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Speaker 1: and I were doing all twenty two yesterday and Matt

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Speaker 1: actually pointed it out to me because I hadn't seen

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Speaker 1: it at first. And when you see that, you realize

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Speaker 1: that's why that touchdown happened, because if Sammy Watkins doesn't

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Speaker 1: get that pancake block, then he's gonna have that corner,

527
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Speaker 1: is gonna have a chance to make the play close

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00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: or to send it back to his help. Yeah, exactly.

529
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Speaker 1: So now you've got open field and he can just

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Speaker 1: turn on the jets. I think the Rams might be

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Speaker 1: the best screen team in the league. And I mean

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Speaker 1: that's after years and years and years of the screens

533
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Speaker 1: not being able to work at all, but just when

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Speaker 1: it's called, how they execute and the guys that are

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Speaker 1: coming out and getting out in front. I think they

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Speaker 1: do a tremendous job. And if you go back to

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Speaker 1: that third and thirty three that scored, I mean he

538
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: actually called three screens on that drive. Two got called back,

539
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: but he's not giving up on it. He's coming right

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Speaker 1: back to it again and bang it worked. Yeah. Well,

541
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Speaker 1: the great thing about that play is Robert Woods got

542
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Speaker 1: to I think twenty some miles an hour. Did he

543
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Speaker 1: really yes? On that? So the Rams had three of

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Speaker 1: the fastest times of al of players running. I just

545
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: messed that up, But the Rams had three of the

546
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Speaker 1: fastest times a players running in the league over this

547
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Speaker 1: last week. So it was on that particularly touchdown Robert

548
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Speaker 1: Woods got over twenty miles an hour, Sammy Watkins got

549
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Speaker 1: over twenty miles an hour on his sixty seven yard touchdown,

550
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Speaker 1: and Todd Gurley also got over twenty miles an hour

551
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Speaker 1: on his thirty six yard You know what that makes

552
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: me think? New York may not win a game for

553
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Speaker 1: the rest of the year. Three of the fastest guys

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Speaker 1: in the league that week we're against you. Yeah, without

555
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: Cody Davis. Without Cody Davis, Davis, you know is on

556
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: I no but he is one of the fastest players

557
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 1: in the league. He's consistently over Don't you ever suspend

558
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: Genoras Jenkins again, I don't care what he does and

559
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: never supposed to be back this week. Good good, But yeah,

560
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,439
Speaker 1: so you have that. And also apparently Pharrell Cooper was

561
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: also up there on the punt return that got called back. Man,

562
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: I love his role and I love how he's accepted

563
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: that role. Um. His punt return ability phenomenal, it really is,

564
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: and he can take a pop. I thought the best

565
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: play and it wasn't the reverse field punt return or

566
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Speaker 1: the one that got called back. I'm used to seeing

567
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 1: good punt returns, the one where it's kind of dangling

568
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 1: in front and he has to make a decision on

569
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 1: the ball when he's backed up, and he let it

570
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: go an instantly started the block and got the touchback.

571
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,880
Speaker 1: That is smart punt return. Yes, that's brilliant. Yeah, yeah,

572
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: that's that's a guy's getting better. Yeah, that's a guy

573
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Speaker 1: getting better, you know what. I think one of the

574
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Speaker 1: sort of underratable maybe blessings in disguise of this season

575
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: has maybe been Taylon Austin struggles with the punt returns

576
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: could be. So you get Pharaoh Cooper in that role

577
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: because he's really excelled in it, and Tavan gets an

578
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: expanded role in the offense. Yeah, and he's excelled in that. Yes, Yeah,

579
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: so it worked. Another good coaching move. See, little things

580
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 1: like that make you a genius as a head coach. Yeah.

581
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 1: But I mean at a certain point, I think the

582
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: genius aspect of it might have been putting Pharaoh Cooper

583
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: back there instead of just Cooper Cup to just wave

584
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: his hand and catch him. But it makes makes you smart.

585
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: It does make you smart. All you did was sit

586
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: one guy down here, and you had you had to

587
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: because you couldn't keep muffing punts and bringing up offensive possessions.

588
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: But I understand what you're saying there. Thank you. You're welcome.

589
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: Any more next gen stats you want to throw at me,

590
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think that I thought that

591
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: was interesting too. It is no roasting all the nice

592
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: things I wanted to talk about all the I'm not

593
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: roasted for all the draftnicks it is building up to.

594
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: I mean it's going to be Goff versus Wins, and

595
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: I hope that the Rams do their part getting through

596
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: this Sunday and moving on to get to that match. Absolutely. Yeah,

597
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,959
Speaker 1: I'm hoping Philadelphia doesn't. Sure, Yeah, I hope they fall apart.

598
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: J jb Along Voice of the Rams and our friend

599
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: always tweets this. Every NFC loss helps, no doubt. Yeah, yeah,

600
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Speaker 1: because I like the Seahawks losing last week. You know,

601
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 1: Washington wins, but Seahawks being in the division, that loss,

602
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: that does help you. How they lost, Yeah, you know

603
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: they had a lead, yes, and their defense gave it up.

604
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: The guess who helped Brian Quick thirty one yard catch

605
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Speaker 1: against the Seahawks. I didn't know he did that. He

606
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Speaker 1: helped Yeah, on that last drive. I didn't know that,

607
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Speaker 1: I see because remember were obviously we were on the

608
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: plane coming back six hours from New York, so I'm

609
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: following this thing on Twitter. But I did know is

610
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Speaker 1: that Matt your dude TCU horned frog. Josh Dotson made

611
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: a big catch down there. They was right after Quicks. Oh,

612
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 1: wasn't Quick hit him for thirty one and then Dotson

613
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: hit him for thirty seven? Yeah, one yard line and

614
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: they were even looking at it to see if he

615
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: even got touched and rolled into the endzine right and

616
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: that's on a championship level defense. Yeah, with a lead, right,

617
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: and they took it from him. That's that's a big

618
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: win for Washington. Yeah, absolutely a huge one for them.

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Speaker 1: Apparently they do well against teams from the West Coast

620
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: and against the Rams, the Seahawks and the forty nine ers.

621
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Speaker 1: But for Summers, hasn't beat anybody in and out Burger.

622
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: That's all I can say. I don't know either. One

623
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: other guy do you want to talk about on the

624
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: offense though, Is Gerald Everett? Yea, because the way the

625
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: Rams are using him right now is so exciting to

626
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: me because he is a tight end that he is

627
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: basically just the Swiss army knife, and anywhere Sean McVay

628
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: wants to put him, he can put him, and he

629
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Speaker 1: can make a play. I had fun another draft Nick thing,

630
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Speaker 1: Evan Ingram on that side New York and then Gerald

631
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Speaker 1: Everett on this side. I mean, when you talk about

632
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: the draft, you talked about those two guys who was

633
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Speaker 1: going first, and you see their ability, you do. They're

634
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: both problems for defense their matchup night Mayors, but for

635
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: completely different reasons. One guy pure speed, that's Evan Ingram.

636
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: Gerald Everett can do anything, anything, anything from anywhere. So

637
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: even if you've got the right guy over the top

638
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: of him covering him, well, you're not sure what he's

639
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: gonna do. Right, he can actually rush the football. Now, Yes,

640
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: we're seeing new things out of him. So at some

641
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: point he'll probably be the focal point of the offense

642
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: for the day. Yes, yeah, at some point, possibly coming Sunday.

643
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: Maybe when you think about matchups and how this offense

644
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: is flowing and the plays that they're going to run

645
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: counters off of, he's going to be the guy that

646
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: has several big plays in a game, right, And that's,

647
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: to me is one of the most exciting things because

648
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: you saw whether it was in the first quarter, second quarter,

649
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: I can't quite recall, but it was in the first

650
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: half when I think it was third down in six

651
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: and Jared buff kind of comes to the line and

652
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: don't necessarily quick snap it, but they snapped that ball

653
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: if they think nineteen seconds left on the playclock, and

654
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: from there you're sort of running a bench concept. I

655
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: think it was Robert Woods who runs the out and

656
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: you've got Joe Everett just going down the field on

657
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: the nine route and Jared Goff hits him and Everett

658
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: makes a really good catch, secures the ball, make sure

659
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: he keeps two hands on it as we try to

660
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: rip it out from him, and goes out of bounds,

661
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: and then he sets up a touchdown. And that to me,

662
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: I love that first of all, because you can line

663
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: him up on the outside and he can still be effective.

664
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: And then in the third quarter he takes a jet sweep,

665
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: a tight end jet sweep. I mean, how often do

666
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: you see that? That is beautiful to me. I think

667
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey might be the only other one Delaney Walker

668
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 1: Walker has done. Yeah, he's a fourth toe tight end guy,

669
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: Vernon Davis. Maybe in the past, Davis, I mean, I

670
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: would have to go back and look. I bet they

671
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: did run that. There's some fast guys that I mean,

672
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: but not every tight end can do that. Not every

673
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: player can do that, right, Um, So that speaks to

674
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: his versatility. And then when you're going just a little

675
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: bit faster, you're affecting communication of the defense. So even

676
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,479
Speaker 1: if I have the right personnel group, we don't have

677
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: time to communicate because the ball just got snapped. Yes,

678
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: and then away goes Gerald Everett. Yes. Yeah, So it

679
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: makes you play catch up two guys that are already

680
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: faster than you, right, And that's why I think, you know,

681
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: at some point I would not be surprised to see

682
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: Gerald Everett like line up in the backfield and take

683
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: a read option from jerk Off because who knows, or

684
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: throw it. Yeah, yeah, right, I'm just kidding. But you

685
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: get that. You know, that little inside tight end stuff

686
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: that they do with the shovel pass, it's a lot

687
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: of it. Nickvay has even said that he looks at

688
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: other teams, and you know, he takes things from around

689
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: the league. Nothing in this league really is that it is.

690
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: It's absolutely a copycat league. And we talked about this before.

691
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: I think the fifty three yard touchdown that Todd Gurley

692
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: had against Dallas basically took that from Kansas City against

693
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: New England in Week one where they threw it to

694
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt down the field. But you also see that

695
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: Kansas City playbook comes in with the Gerald Everett stuff sometimes, because,

696
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: like I said, when you get the Travis Kelcey on

697
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 1: the jet sweep scene, that the inside shovel pass to

698
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,479
Speaker 1: Gerald Everett also seen that to Travis Kelsey. And I

699
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: think it's interesting that McVeagh sees so much of I

700
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: guess his personnel groupings from the rams that can take

701
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: advantage of those kinds of plays from different different spots. Well,

702
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: he's on the cutting net. I mean, it seems like

703
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: everybody in the NFL. It seems like pick routes are

704
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: in vogue, picks and rub routes. Definitely, everything is coming

705
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,919
Speaker 1: off an intersection and defenders are colliding with each other

706
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 1: and with other offensive players, which gets a guy wide open.

707
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 1: Remember with Adam Gase and with the Broncos before they

708
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: went to he and John Fox went to the Bears.

709
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: That was a lot of that, the pick routes and

710
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: everything getting in vogue in that way. I think the NFL,

711
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: the way it's going and the rules that favor the offense,

712
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: have allowed more of that to go on. Now they're

713
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: trying to police it. The offensive passion afference calls. Yes,

714
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: you have to be on time with the throw, but

715
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: I think coaches and coordinators offensive guys have mastered that now.

716
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: And really, as a defensive person, I'd love to have

717
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: this conversation with Wade Phillips. I don't think there's any

718
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: way around it, right, And if you're in man coverage,

719
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: or even in zone. These picks and rubs and how

720
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: they're getting away with it, and the guys that are

721
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: using tight end with a running back, tight end with

722
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: a receiver, running back with a receiver, and how they're

723
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: getting to these picks and rubs has been phenomenal. But

724
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: as long as your quarterback gets the ball out on

725
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 1: time in an advantageous spot, there's almost nothing you can

726
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: do as a defender but make the tackle. Right, you're

727
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: not making a play on the ball, you're not going

728
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: to be anywhere near it. But that's why tackling is

729
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: so important. And I think we've seen the Rams get

730
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,240
Speaker 1: better in that way that they are sort of defending

731
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: these things. I think about Mark barn thing about alec

732
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: Ogletree in particular. When you have guys that are in

733
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: man coverage on the running back and they get the

734
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: thing out quickly from the quarterback's hand to the running

735
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: back and you're in the flat like that's it's hard

736
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: to do. You've got to be able to run and

737
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 1: make those tackles. And that's another guy fifty two point

738
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: him out. He was playing like gangbusters. Oh yeah, yeah,

739
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: I mean not just making plays, which he did, but

740
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 1: just ruining offensive lineman like actually taking guys on at

741
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: the point of attack and shedding and disengaging. So he's

742
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: getting more stout at the point of attack, like understanding

743
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: what they're trying to do against you now, So he's

744
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: getting better. And Mark Barron has been frenetic. He's everywhere now,

745
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: he's everywhere. So as long as you have a lead,

746
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: this defense will be at their best. When you don't

747
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 1: and teams start to come at you and just run

748
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: straight ahead, I think that's when you're gonna have when

749
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: it's zero zero or seven seven. Yes, this is where

750
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna have problems. Yeah, it is. And that's what

751
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: the Rams have to death. You can't take it away, right, Yeah,

752
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: if you can't take it away. They did though, take

753
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: it away against New York. They had three takeaways in

754
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: the first half which led to seventeen points. And boy,

755
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: if the offense and defense are working in tandem like that,

756
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: you're going to win most games. Oh man, I've watched

757
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: that Aaron Donald sack about one hundred times, and you

758
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: could watch it one hundred more, couldn't you. Yes, I

759
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: told the guys we were on break, or actually I

760
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: wasn't on air. I was listening to JB and Maurice,

761
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: and I told Julio, who I'm talking to most of

762
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: the time, I said, look our producer. I said, if

763
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: if Eli lines up in shotgun, this is going to

764
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 1: be a sack. I said this. Two seconds later Sack

765
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: caused fumble. Yeah, there's no way you can block Aaron

766
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: Donald one on one in a passing situation. When you

767
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: go shotgun, you're forcing that guy to have to block

768
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. So that is also on tape. And this

769
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: is what I told Sean McVay. Still with that, you

770
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: still can't take him away. At some point you're gonna

771
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: have to go one on one with Aaron Donald. Yeah,

772
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 1: unless you want to start sliding people towards him, which

773
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: opens yourself up for backside blissings. Yes, he is the

774
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: best defensive weapon in the game, hands down. You can't

775
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: take him away. You can't, Yeah, stout because and he

776
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: affects every single play because he's on the line of scrimmage. Yeah,

777
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: he'll dominate this Sunday. I'd be surprised if he didn't. Yeah. Yeah,

778
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the Texans game plan is going

779
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 1: to change a little bit. Um It looked like somebody

780
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: had hit the pause button on the offense. It's the

781
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: same stuff, just a little bit slower, and they've lost

782
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: their ability to create when things break down. When you're

783
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: in practice Wednesday and Thursday, you're practicing for the best

784
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: case scenario, everything's in rhythm. You know, you snap, you

785
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: drop back, you throw it, everything's on rhythm. Well, in

786
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: a game, it's going to be different. Guys are coming

787
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: at your quarterback's going to have to move and can

788
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: you stay in that play. Well, Deshaun Watson was killing

789
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 1: people with that right. He was a master of getting

790
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: out of the play and back into it, keeping his

791
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: heads up, getting the ball down the field. Well, that's

792
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: going to change a little bit. So I would imagine

793
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: they're still going to try to run their same stuff

794
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: just a little bit faster, which means you're going to

795
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: have to expect your guards to hold up against Aaron

796
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,879
Speaker 1: Donald and ain't gonna happen. It's well, it's very hot,

797
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: it's not going to happen. And the other thing about

798
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: Tom Savage that I noticed at least is that when

799
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: he was playing with a clean pocket, and not only

800
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: clean pocket, but he had the sight lines. Yeah, against Indianapolis,

801
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: then he was able to make the strong accurate fourth quarter,

802
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: he was pretty good, Yes, he was. He finally kind

803
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: of got into that rhythm, especially as they were going

804
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 1: no huddle down the field. But if things get muddy,

805
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 1: because he is not as mobile quarterback as Deshaun Watson,

806
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: and if you can get him into those kinds of

807
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: situations where your hands up and you got bodies all

808
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: around him, it's gonna be tough for him to throw. True.

809
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 1: Like I would say this, one guy getting to win

810
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: in the middle in a pass rush against Deshaun Watson,

811
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: I'd still take the Texans because he's gonna make that

812
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: guy miss. Yeah, you can't, especially if he has space

813
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,839
Speaker 1: and still get get back into the play. Now, one

814
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: guy getting free to the middle against Savage plays dead right. Yeah.

815
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: He just doesn't have the mobility the athleticism of a

816
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. So that opens you up. And you can

817
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 1: even tell with Indianapolis man. I mean, if you go

818
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: back and watch other teams try to rush Watson, you

819
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,760
Speaker 1: have to rush with some control because he could wind

820
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 1: up anywhere on the play. Well, when they didn't have that,

821
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 1: Indianapolis just pent theirs back and went right. Sheard had

822
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: two sacks. Yeah, I mean just absolutely became a pass rusher.

823
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 1: So imagine the Rams and how we feel about them

824
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: just becoming pass rushers on the day and not having

825
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: to worry about anybody escaping. That's gonna be dangerous for

826
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: any It is, absolutely, and that's why the Rams work

827
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,800
Speaker 1: so well when they get a lead and they can

828
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 1: keep a lead. I mean we talked about this, I

829
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,359
Speaker 1: believe going back to that Jacksonville game. Yeah, where you say,

830
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: all right, look, if you get a lead on Jacksonville

831
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: and they have to let and they have to have

832
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles win, it's gonna be a lot easier for

833
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 1: you win because you can probably force him in the

834
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: situations where he's going to turn the ball over. Right.

835
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: I kind of feel the same way about this Houston

836
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,240
Speaker 1: Texas team, you know, except for the receivers. M okay,

837
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: and that's yeah, that's really Hopkins is tremendous and will

838
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: Fuller has the best body control of any receiver I've

839
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: seen all years. Wow. Really, yes, I mean really, his

840
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: body control when the balls in the air is phenomenal. Yeah,

841
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 1: he can set you up like Gronk, which means it's

842
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: a fade, except he's facing you, and then when the

843
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,479
Speaker 1: ball's thrown he can flip and go get it, which

844
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: means you're walled off as a defender. So he is

845
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: just that good. So some of those incompletions, like we

846
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: said against New York with those two receivers, will turn

847
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 1: into catching carries. Yeah. Yeah, so you're gonna need good

848
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: pressure on Savage. The ball's gonna come out quick. Make

849
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: sure you make the tackle on both those guys on

850
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: the perimeter. If not, they're gonna still, they're gonna run.

851
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: They're gonna get going and get to the end zone. Yes, yeah,

852
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,359
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. It will be tough. But one

853
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: thing I think we have seen from the Rams is

854
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:27,120
Speaker 1: that the defense has improved. I think the defense did

855
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 1: turn that corner against Dallas in Week four, which we

856
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: sort of said, okay, does it look it looks like

857
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,760
Speaker 1: they may have turned a corner? Have they since that game?

858
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 1: I mean, the Rams have not allowed more than seventeen

859
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: points in a game. Yeah. Yeah, And you know we're

860
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 1: coming up on a Takeaways help that. Takeaways takeaways help that,

861
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: and the Rams are seventh in the league, and takeaways

862
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: right now they have fifteen. They have ten interceptions and

863
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: five force fumbles. But yeah, is the defense getting takeaways

864
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: or not? Right? I mean, like like if somebody says,

865
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 1: you know, wondered four Nette had a seventy five yard

866
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: and then he had twenty then nothing five? But did

867
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: that run happen or did it not? It happened? Oh yeah,

868
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: I'd like relate him to Mike Tyson. There's a young

869
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson who's you're not making it out of the

870
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: first round. I mean really, I mean when he was

871
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: young and you couldn't hit him and he's hitting you

872
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: a lot, you're not making it out of the first round.

873
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: Then the older Mike Tyson that was just a little

874
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: bit past his prime may lose rounds, but it only

875
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: took one punch and then the fight's over. Same thing.

876
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: I mean, the Rams were getting backed up, the Giants

877
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,399
Speaker 1: were moving the football, and then they took it away. Yeah,

878
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,240
Speaker 1: and then the Rams scored and makes the score a lopside.

879
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: The same thing, as long as you're if you want

880
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: to be a takeaway team, then so be it. If

881
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: you want to be a team that stops everything and

882
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: be one of the greatest defenses, out there. I mean,

883
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: I still think you have that ability to be able

884
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: to stop everything. But an opportunistic defense that feeds an

885
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 1: offense that scores also wins in this league, Yes, definitely does.

886
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: Right now, the Rams have gotten back to plus three

887
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: in the turnover margin, which is good. McVay often says this,

888
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: The biggest indicator of wins and losses aside from points

889
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: is takeaways, no doubt, and that turnover margins. So that's very,

890
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 1: very important, and you're going to need you really should

891
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: expect to get at least one, probably more against this

892
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: team if you can force them into bad situation. Probably,

893
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: I mean, at some point I would assume. I mean

894
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: remember Tom Savage did start the season as the starter, right,

895
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,879
Speaker 1: and then everybody asked why because Deshaun Watson, and then

896
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: he took off. But he's going to round back into

897
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: some sort of form in the offense is going to

898
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: start to fit his skill set and they'll start to

899
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: look like a credible offense. I mean, they're not going

900
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: to look like they did against India against the Rams, right,

901
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: It's going to be a little bit different. So maybe

902
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: picks on tips and overthrows absolutely getting the ball out

903
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: on a pass rush is definitely a possibility with the

904
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 1: guys you have, But as far as him just messing

905
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: up and throwing it to you, I don't see that happening. Okay, yeah,

906
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: I don't see that happening. Well, I agree with you

907
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: that they're going to be better than what they showed

908
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 1: last week. And last week they didn't get their off

909
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: their first offensive touchdown of the game until they were

910
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: just over six minutes left in the entire thing. Sure,

911
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: their first touchdown came from sack fumble and then they

912
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 1: returned it all the way back and it was a

913
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: really good play. Yeah, it was a good It was

914
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: a good play call too. On they sacked to Kobe

915
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: Brissette and a two minute drill, then returned that fumble

916
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: all the way to the end zone, and that's kind

917
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: of how this game got closed. So I think that

918
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: tells you again, taking care of the football going to

919
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: be very, very important against this defense. I was just

920
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: forty four attempts and he didn't throw a pick, right,

921
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. I don't. I don't say a

922
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,919
Speaker 1: guy like Tom Save is just throwing you the ball.

923
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 1: That's not going to happen. But if if he if

924
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 1: he's a little bit late and you're playing a little

925
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: bit faster on defense, and you get your hand on

926
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: it and it's tipped, then I can see a couple

927
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: of turnovers that way, no doubt. Yeah. What do you

928
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: see from the Texans defensively? I mean ninety that's all

929
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: I see. Yeah, jadeveon Clowney. Um, he's going to start

930
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: the play on like balance downs, first and second down

931
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,479
Speaker 1: when it's could be a run pass, heavy run pass.

932
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: He's gonna start on the right when it's obvious passing situations.

933
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: He's gonna stand up and pick on the week. Yes,

934
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 1: he's gonna pick the guy he thinks he's gonna have

935
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 1: the best chance to beat m So we'll fight. We'll

936
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: figure out who that's gonna be on game day, and

937
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: chances are it's going to be on an interior guy,

938
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 1: and that's I would probably guess Jamal Brown. Yeah, I

939
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: mean I think Roger Staffold is on his way to

940
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. So is Andrew Whitworth. I think that

941
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: side has been great. But if you had to pick

942
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,879
Speaker 1: Um and unlike New York, why in the heck would

943
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: you put your best pass rusher on Andrew Whitworth. You're

944
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 1: helping the Rams. Listen. I don't know. Okay, I don't know, Hetch. Yeah,

945
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: you move that guy around, right. I told you I

946
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 1: talked with Spags about his defense for a long time

947
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: and I still don't get it. Stuff like that is

948
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: head scratching. Wow. Um. But I would bet that they're

949
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: gonna put Jadevan Clowney in passing situations somewhere in the middle,

950
00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: probably on the defensive left on Jamon Brown and see

951
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: if you can get pressure there. But outside of that,

952
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: I don't see a lot of world beaters up front.

953
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 1: So to get pressure on the quarterback, you're gonna need

954
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,800
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure. You're gonna need to bring people

955
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: to get there like they did versus Indy, which is

956
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,959
Speaker 1: gonna open you up for a lot of stuff going

957
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: down the field. Right. And that's but why their defense

958
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: has been the way it is, why nineties you probably

959
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: the only one who shows up is because J. J.

960
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: Watt is hurt, Martin Merciless is hurt. Yeah, you have

961
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: Brian Cushing out for ten games suspension for using PD

962
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: for shorthanded team, right, so they are pretty shorthanded and

963
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys are very impactful players who

964
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: are not playing. Um, now let's just pass against the

965
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 1: run pretty stout. I mean, they're they've got some they've

966
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: got some girths, some big dudes that you know, they're

967
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: well coached. Bill O'Brien is, he's a tough minded coach. Yes, Um,

968
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna be tough to move the ball, you know,

969
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: to run the football against. But at some point, if

970
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: the scorer gets lopsided, or if if the Rams defense

971
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: is stopping that Texans offense, at some point this defense

972
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,280
Speaker 1: will collapse. If you look at their fourth quarter scoring,

973
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:08,919
Speaker 1: I think they've lost the fourth quarter of the last

974
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 1: five weeks in a row, they've been outscored. So I

975
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: mean at some point attrition kicks in and you know,

976
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: teams just get tired. You saw it all last year

977
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: with the Rams defense. Yes, this is true. Start out

978
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,440
Speaker 1: like gangbusters and eventually they've got more players than you've

979
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: got effort, and you wind up losing games. Right, And

980
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 1: I think we would actually be remissed to not talk

981
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,800
Speaker 1: about Lamar Miller a little bit and just running the ball,

982
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: because I think that Lamar Miller actually just a really

983
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 1: good job for them. He's a guy that can get

984
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: them some yards. You also can get out of the

985
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: backfield and catch a pass if need be. So he's

986
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: going to be a guy that you're talking about, you

987
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: know Rams man defense and those pick routes and things

988
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,800
Speaker 1: like that, that Lamar Miller is going to be a

989
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: guy that the Rams have to stop. Oh yeah, and

990
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: if he's watching, I'm sure he's watching, you know, the

991
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: Rams versus in New York. You see dark Wood get out, right,

992
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: you see Goldman get out a few times. So Lamar

993
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: Miller thinks, why not me? Right, I think you're going

994
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: to get a heavy dose of run. He gets skinny

995
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: in the hole, he can get out there. And like

996
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: you said, he's he's a he's an all purpose back.

997
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: If it's not happening, you know, between the tackles or

998
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: running the football, he can also get you on screens

999
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: or out of the backfield. So again it's it's going

1000
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: to be a four quarter job for the Rams. D Absolutely. Okay,

1001
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 1: So before we get out of here, there's one thing

1002
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 1: that I do really want to bring up because it's

1003
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: sort of like m once again, No it's not Carson Wentzkin,

1004
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: but it's the rant of the week. So have you.

1005
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:27,399
Speaker 1: I know you don't tweet, Dak Prescott, stop just saying

1006
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: I know you don't tweet very much. I know. Okay,

1007
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: you did favorite a tweet today, I did. That was

1008
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 1: a mistake. That's just fat finger now my favorite. Oh

1009
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: it was. It was a question for the mail bag.

1010
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 1: See I was just trying to see the question. But anyway,

1011
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: go ahead, all right, what's the question? This is not

1012
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: a question, it's more of a statement. And then shoot

1013
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: like a rant. So Twitter has now gone from one

1014
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: hundred and forty characters to two hundred and eighty for

1015
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 1: everyone like this was did you even know about this

1016
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: thing in the in the past? So they like, did

1017
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: it beat a beta version? I guess you would say

1018
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 1: with a few different people, and like everybody started taking

1019
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: vantage like oh I have two eighty hahaha, and then

1020
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: would like just put aaaaa two hundred and eighty times

1021
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: like a jerk. Okay, But then now you've got everybody

1022
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 1: who has this ability, and I'm telling you it's ruining Twitter.

1023
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: It's ruining it, ruining it for all of us. No

1024
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: how so, how so because everybody now thinks that all

1025
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: of their thoughts are so important that they can't be

1026
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,480
Speaker 1: they can't have any brevity about themselves. Oh so everybody

1027
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 1: is using this two hundred and eighty characters and now

1028
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: nobody knows how to act on Twitter. And the worst

1029
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 1: part is the worst part is that Twitter, in their

1030
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 1: justification for giving everybody two hundred and eighty characters, said, well,

1031
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: what we noticed was that when we gave people two

1032
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty characters, they used them for like a day,

1033
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: and then they pretty much didn't use them at all anymore,

1034
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 1: Like they just went like halfway. They weren't really using

1035
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 1: two eighty. So no, but this is the problem though,

1036
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: because everybody who's using two hundred eighty characters for everything,

1037
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: and your timeline is just littered with two hundred and

1038
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 1: eighty characters. This two hundred and eighty characters that I'm

1039
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: using this full quote from this one person just because

1040
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: I can see how much fun six and two is.

1041
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: I'm just saying twit. Twitter, please do us all a favor,

1042
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: go back to one hundred and forty characters, just please

1043
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: God what he said, Yeah, I'm a little afraid right now.

1044
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: We don't need to be afraid a little scared of Miles.

1045
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: Are you afraid? Matt I'm not afraid, but I do

1046
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: concur that like Facebook was for the stories, Twitter was

1047
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 1: for the quick brief thoughts and Instagram was for the pictures. Yes,

1048
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: and instead everything's kind of molding into one giant social

1049
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 1: media blob. Right Twitter. Twitter is great because if you

1050
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: want to know something quickly on Twitter, that's where you go.

1051
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: That's news, right, when something happens in the world, right,

1052
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:08,320
Speaker 1: that's where you go. And now you can't find anything

1053
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: because you have to sift through all the garbage and

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Speaker 1: gobbly cook of people using two characters to express their

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Speaker 1: every thought. I think put that on the Facebook set.

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00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: You're about this close to Santa curse word. No, I'm not,

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Speaker 1: you are. I know we're on the air, just saying

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00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 1: and even if I did, mac to believe it. See

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00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 1: that is what MAT's here for, all right. So after

1060
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: that rant, I feel better. Now, got that off my chest. Wow,

1061
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: what's the single most important thing the Rams have to

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00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: do to beat the Houston Texas and one hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty characters are less? Just to make sure I don't

1064
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Speaker 1: want to get ripped. No, because this is a podcast

1065
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: from it and we can talk as long as we want. Uh,

1066
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Speaker 1: just take care of the ball, take care of the football.

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00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: Don't be loosey goosey with it. Um. You know there's

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Speaker 1: there's you mentioned. Playing at home. Defensively, it's gonna energize

1069
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 1: the Rams d you get to play with crowd noise,

1070
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:58,839
Speaker 1: it's going to be a little bit easier to rush

1071
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 1: the passers. So, but I do worry about the other side.

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00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: At home, there is a tendency to let your guard drop.

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Speaker 1: And I think most of the takeaways or turnovers have

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00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:14,359
Speaker 1: happened at home. I believe so yes has at least

1075
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Speaker 1: two picks and fumbles. Yeah, yeah, so have happened at home.

1076
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Speaker 1: So just reverse that trend. Come out of the gate

1077
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: like you already have the lead. So we'll see what

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Speaker 1: happens on game day. But yeah, just take care of

1079
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Speaker 1: the football, be professional, and just remember rule number one

1080
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: is keep losing teams losing. You're a better football team

1081
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: than the Texans, so go out there and play like it.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, Well, everybody, thank you so much for

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00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: tuning into this edition of Between the Horns. Kickoff this

1084
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Speaker 1: week is at one oh five on CBS. Now. There

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00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 1: are actually Rams and Chargers are playing at the same

1086
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 1: are playing on the same network this weekend, so the

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Speaker 1: game might begin on KCAL nine and then it will

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Speaker 1: be oh, go over to CBS once the chargers end,

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Speaker 1: so that the chargers end quicker then later making your work,

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Speaker 1: yes exactly, but KAKAL nine. There will definitely be kickoff

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Speaker 1: on KAKAL nine Access, the other CBS owned station here

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, so Defar and I will probably have

1093
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: our sideline pregame live for you at twelve thirty Pacific

1094
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: right before kickoff. Also brief yeah, be sure to turn

1095
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 1: in for that though. You can be able to check

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00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 1: that out on Facebook Live and Periscope. So for my

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Speaker 1: producer Matt for DeMarco Far, I'm Miles Simmons. We will

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Speaker 1: see Sunday Death