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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. It's November fifteen. Are you shouting? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm excited talking to the live studio audience

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Speaker 1: of one to me and you and Matt even really

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Speaker 1: count as one as the audience because he's a producer.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt. Yeah. Yeah, the Rams are seven and two. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: After that thirty three to seven victory over the Houston

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Speaker 1: texansil bid, it kind of wasn't until it wasn't, it wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Nail biter kept thinking, Wow, thank god Deshaun Watson's not here,

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Speaker 1: because during that slow start, if he's putting up points,

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Speaker 1: you're you could be in trouble in that game. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Tom Savage got into a rhythm, made things difficult. But

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Speaker 1: once the offense, the Rams offense got going, you see

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Speaker 1: what they can do. They can score from from almost anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Right while they scored from ninety four yards out, longest

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Speaker 1: played from scrimmage since nineteen six four, nineteen sixty four.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't even born yet. Yeah, that predates me before

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Speaker 1: you start the old jokes. Yeah, wow, it's been that long.

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Speaker 1: It's been that long. Yeah, and that's pretty crazy. I

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Speaker 1: mean I was thinking about it, you know, like when

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Speaker 1: you were playing and you know, you got guys like Marshall,

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Speaker 1: Tory and Isaac and Kurt and he's launching the ball

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Speaker 1: everywhere and he never launched it. But he probably has

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Speaker 1: ever had to, you know when you think about probably

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Speaker 1: not or maybe maybe the guy's got caught. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, but at Mike marts Dick for meal Back

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Speaker 1: of the Day, I'm sure where they dialed up a

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Speaker 1: pass where your quarterback is standing in his own end

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Speaker 1: zone before he lets it go. So great route, great deception,

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Speaker 1: great design on the play, great catching carry by by

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Speaker 1: Rob Woods to get it in the end zone. Um tremendous.

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Speaker 1: That stuff goes around the National Football League. That's the

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Speaker 1: stuff that, like we said, that's an ambient moment for

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Speaker 1: ambient moment, Yeah, that's the stuff that keeps you up

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Speaker 1: at night. I'm serious for defensive coordinators, I'm serious. That's

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Speaker 1: visit an ambient the opposite it. Like I understand you're

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Speaker 1: saying you have to take an ambient and you can't

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Speaker 1: worry about it. It's gonna stay, it's gonna stay with you.

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Speaker 1: I mean when you think about your defense and your

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Speaker 1: pass rush or your coverage in it. Because look, coaches

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Speaker 1: know more about their team than anyone else. So imagine

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Speaker 1: if you had a corner with a hammy and you

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Speaker 1: see that on tape. Oh boy, yeah yeah right, I

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Speaker 1: mean it just it makes you have to worry and

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Speaker 1: be concerned about something else from the ramp. Well, listen,

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Speaker 1: Robert Woods now has had two really really good weeks

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Speaker 1: in a row. First time he's ever had back to

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Speaker 1: back weeks with two touchdowns. Right, so I think one

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Speaker 1: seventy one and it's a good week. Yeah, you're a

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Speaker 1: tough critic. I said, this is a fantastic weeks. How

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Speaker 1: many times say catches? Do the math on that? How

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Speaker 1: many what's the average? Yes? Here it look it's right there.

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Speaker 1: I know it's right there. I don't have to do that.

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Speaker 1: That's that's not good. That's great. I said, how many

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Speaker 1: really did I put in front of the good? Just

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Speaker 1: go ahead and say great, Okay, he had he's had

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Speaker 1: two great weeks. There you go, okay, yeah, career weeks

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Speaker 1: if you will. Right, since I'm not apparently apparently I'm

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Speaker 1: not being effusive enough in my book, Robert Woods, this

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Speaker 1: is me giving you your prose because you've earned it, right? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Is that anyway I was about to go into this

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Speaker 1: nice little I have all these notes right there on

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Speaker 1: how good Robert Woods? Any of those notes relevant class

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Speaker 1: where you didn't like the Wins discussion? Um, but Robert Woods. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean every time you bring up Robert Woods, either

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Speaker 1: to guys like Jerk Goff, Sammy Watkins, they talk about

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Speaker 1: how he is a leader for this offense and right,

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Speaker 1: and so we always talk about Andrew Witworth being this

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Speaker 1: really good free agent signing for the Rams, and he is.

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Speaker 1: And I've been saying this. You know, It's not like

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Speaker 1: I want to take anything away from Andrew Whitworth, but

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Speaker 1: I think you also have to put Robert Woods in

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Speaker 1: that conversation of being a prose pro as McVay likes

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Speaker 1: to say, and being somebody who can be counted on

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Speaker 1: weekend and week out, both on the field and off

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Speaker 1: the field. You know, it's funny. You love basketball as

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Speaker 1: much as I do, especially the NBA, and guys just

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Speaker 1: know their role on a football team, like playing with Lebron,

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Speaker 1: know where your spots are, where you're gonna get shots. Yes,

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Speaker 1: what Lebron's gonna do and where I can get my shots.

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Speaker 1: I think Robert Woods really understands this offense and what

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Speaker 1: Sean mcvayh is trying to do and where he can

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Speaker 1: pick the shots. So you've been looking for someone that

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Speaker 1: can take the top off the defense. We've have been hoping.

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Speaker 1: I guess beyond hope, can we say praying that it's

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Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins, It could have been Robert Woods this whole time. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think he's got speed to get down the field.

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Speaker 1: You saw that. But he can go from possession a

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Speaker 1: guy that's picking up first downs in the middle of

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Speaker 1: take a pop, to a guy that's a vertical threat

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Speaker 1: like that. So he could be the guy we talked

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Speaker 1: about Whitworth being the mid season MVP. He could be

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Speaker 1: the MVP for the rest of the year. Yea. If

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Speaker 1: this offense keeps churning the way we think it's going

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Speaker 1: to churn, and those plays are gonna open up. Maybe

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Speaker 1: not from ninety four, but definitely you're gonna have opportunities

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Speaker 1: for big plays exactly. And he's had those chunk plays

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Speaker 1: as an immediate plays. But I think now when you

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Speaker 1: does and like he did, and it's not Sammy Watkins.

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Speaker 1: It's Sammy Watkins one week and then the next week

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Speaker 1: it's Robert Woods. Boy. You talk about ambient moments, I

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Speaker 1: mean you have to continue to think about who the

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Speaker 1: Rams can use next, right, because they just keep showing

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Speaker 1: that there are so many different threats, so many different

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Speaker 1: weapons that they have that can make plays from anywhere

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Speaker 1: on the field. I do know from a traditional I'm

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Speaker 1: a guy that came up in a four to three

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Speaker 1: high school college pro the biggest achilles heel to any

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Speaker 1: four three has always been tight ends. So Tyler Higbee,

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Speaker 1: Gerald Everett this week could be the guys. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: When you think about play action and what the Rams

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Speaker 1: behind you are going to be those tight ends. If

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Speaker 1: you're on the road in a hostile environment like Minnesota

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Speaker 1: where they've got the benefit of crowd and they're getting

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Speaker 1: after your quarterback, who's always open those tight ends, especially

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Speaker 1: guys that can make something small gains in the big games.

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Speaker 1: So look week the week, it's going to change depending

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Speaker 1: on who you play. The next time you face a

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Speaker 1: team like Houston, a three four multiple type team, it

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Speaker 1: could be Sammy Watkins. But just knowing that Robert Woods

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Speaker 1: has that sort of ability, it just opens up the

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Speaker 1: plane field for everyone else as well, including himself. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it does so. Right now, Robert Woods has thirty nine

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Speaker 1: for just over eleven hundred yards on the season, which

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Speaker 1: I think you said this a long time ago. It

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Speaker 1: might have even been in March when the signing was announced,

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Speaker 1: and we did a podcast right that that same day,

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Speaker 1: and he said, I believe that we don't know exactly

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Speaker 1: who Robert Woods can be because of the quarterbacks he's

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Speaker 1: been playing. Right, We've seen him. You watch him in Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: and I mean you see the same things. He blocks,

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Speaker 1: he's willing, he runs great routes, but you know, the

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Speaker 1: ball just didn't travel to him. That could have been

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Speaker 1: a function of the offense and who's throwing the football

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Speaker 1: who's making those decisions. But you like what he does.

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Speaker 1: You say, hey, look, if you have a quarterback that

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Speaker 1: can actually understand and find him in the past, in

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Speaker 1: the passing tree passing routes, possibly he could be a

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Speaker 1: big play receiver. I think you're starting to see some

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Speaker 1: you know, people quite being like, oh man, why are

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Speaker 1: you signing Robert Woods for that? You know five? Therefore,

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Speaker 1: are you talking too much? There are people, there are

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Speaker 1: people who said it. I haven't met anyone that's said really, no,

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Speaker 1: no one said that to me at all. Well, they

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Speaker 1: I know, I guess I put these people out. Do

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Speaker 1: I need to pick my friends? But all these naysayers

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Speaker 1: come on, I mean, it's not necessilly naysayers this, people

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Speaker 1: who would question something with a he had coach. I'm

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Speaker 1: saying all the way back, so I guess the sixteens

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Speaker 1: I know. I know that you know that, But I

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Speaker 1: think people were thinking, Okay, why why Robert Woods for what?

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Speaker 1: For that amount of money for that length of time, whatnot.

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Speaker 1: But I think now and I don't know that anybody

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Speaker 1: that a couple of guys where you knew they couldn't catch, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, and there elsewhere still not catching.

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Speaker 1: Robert Woods had a lot of potential. We knew about

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Speaker 1: these guys, yes, exactly. Um, but I think again, it's

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Speaker 1: now looks like it, you know, could turn into a

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Speaker 1: career year for Robert Woods over the next couple of games.

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Speaker 1: At some point he's probably going to eclipse that career

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Speaker 1: high six hundred ninety nine yards that he's had. Um.

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Speaker 1: He had that in Buffalo his second years. I was

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, and he also had a career high five

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in that year. So if he stays healthy and

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Speaker 1: everything continues the way it has, Robert Woods is definitely

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Speaker 1: going to have a career year for the Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: been he's been great. He's been great for Jared, he's

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Speaker 1: been great for the offense's been great for Sean McVay.

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Speaker 1: one protecting the quarterback. Whitworth and Woods. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: that's that's two great additions to your offense. Well, you

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Speaker 1: one of those guys. But Andrew Whitworth, I think we know,

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Speaker 1: does that too. And last week on Sammy Watkins touchdown,

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Speaker 1: defensive backs. That that right there, to me is really

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Speaker 1: setting the tone. Yeah, you know, there was a moment

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Speaker 1: It was right before halftime, and I think the Rams

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Speaker 1: had kicked the field goal and there was a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a scrum. It had got chippy. Remember it

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Speaker 1: Natural reaction is let's just start fighting. Um I'm serious.

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Speaker 1: were you just frustrated. The first guy I saw a

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Speaker 1: don't even worry about them, move on. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what Marshawn Lynch did. No wave guys to the locker room,

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Speaker 1: very professional in a calm way. Yeah, not yelling, just

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Speaker 1: move on, move on, move on. We got bigger fish

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Speaker 1: to fry than this. Yes, I thought that was cool. That. See,

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Speaker 1: of Andrew Whitworth. Yeah. That that stuff that that coaches

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Speaker 1: can't help you with. That's player driven right there. Well,

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Speaker 1: can get one around you. That's the thing that changes,

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Speaker 1: Like with a bart with a Connor Barwin and a

425
00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,000
Speaker 1: Quinn versus a young guy like Samson will come. Um,

426
00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,600
Speaker 1: they can tell the difference between pass and screen in

427
00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,159
Speaker 1: a blink. Uh yeah. I mean some young guys they

428
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,119
Speaker 1: get their first sack, they want their second one, they

429
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,120
Speaker 1: want their third. So you become a mark for a screen.

430
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,880
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that's being wrapped right now, yeah, probably, Yeah,

431
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,320
Speaker 1: And that's something that you know, Wade Phillips has been

432
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Speaker 1: in the forty years. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I was

433
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,760
Speaker 1: a sucker for a draw for years. Oh my god,

434
00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,760
Speaker 1: as soon as you open them, yeah, I'm going that's

435
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:27,840
Speaker 1: a sack that he's still running, Please get him. Oh

436
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,879
Speaker 1: my god, that's from sixty when you say oh no, oh,

437
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,240
Speaker 1: one of those Oh no, just run to the sidelines

438
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,400
Speaker 1: and you know, put a towel over your head real fast. Yeah.

439
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 1: I hope they don't see it on film. Okay, yeah,

440
00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:40,959
Speaker 1: but let's go back to the offense for a second, though,

441
00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,400
Speaker 1: because I do want to talk about Jared Goff. Yeah,

442
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 1: and another kind of career day for him, and I

443
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 1: shouldn't stay kind of and qualified like it was a

444
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 1: career day for him. When you throw for three hundred

445
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 1: and fifty five yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions, no fumbles,

446
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,920
Speaker 1: and what we keep seeing from Jared Goff is that

447
00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 1: he is playing clean games. Why are you staring so

448
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:05,880
Speaker 1: intently at because okay, New York Comedy completions fourteen, yeah,

449
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 1: fourteen to twenty two and you're a player of the week. Yeah,

450
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 1: so what's different? You have more more, You're better this week? Probably, Yeah,

451
00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 1: definitely act a player of the week. Now, well, I

452
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,480
Speaker 1: don't know who was a player of the week today. Okay,

453
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:21,320
Speaker 1: I don't know, Matt. Can you check who was player

454
00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:22,920
Speaker 1: of the week. I'm sorry, I really should know. This

455
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 1: airline is NFC Special Teams Player of the Week. I agreed.

456
00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,440
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if fourteen completions in New York was

457
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 1: worthy of Player of the week, then what is this? Well,

458
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,639
Speaker 1: maybe it was somebody else five or thirty seven with

459
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 1: a ninety four yard touchdown pass. Hey man, I thought

460
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 1: it could have been Robert Woods. Okay, fair enough, because

461
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 1: if you want to lose it to your own teammate,

462
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Okay, who we got, Matt cam Newton?

463
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I didn't watch Monday Night. It was a yeah,

464
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,719
Speaker 1: it was a virtuoso performance. Okay. Yeah. Also, then that's

465
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 1: all out. Okay, okay, I'm just saying, all right, yeah

466
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Speaker 1: it was. I was having to start with you. That's

467
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 1: so without that cam Newton performance, then this should have

468
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 1: been Player of the week. Right. Yeah, I'm just saying

469
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: we're setting the standard here. Okay, Okay, the standard is

470
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: the same, just saying right, right. But what's funny though,

471
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 1: is that. As we mentioned, Greg Zeroline zero Line is

472
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 1: now the sixth Rams player to win a Player of

473
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Speaker 1: a Week after a game. He's technically the fifth because

474
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 1: he's won two, but so after six of the seven

475
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 1: wins this year, the Rams have had an NFC Player

476
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Speaker 1: of the Week. Wow, isn't that interesting? That isn't like

477
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: it's been true Johnson, Todd Gurley, Jared Goff, Parall Cooper

478
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Speaker 1: and Greg Zirline now twice. Wow. Yeah yeah. Usually teams

479
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 1: with that sort of resume you call playoff teams. Yeah yeah,

480
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,680
Speaker 1: I'm just saying playoffs. You can't sneak up. I just

481
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 1: hope we can win a game. You can't sneak up

482
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,199
Speaker 1: on anybody. Well, the other thing you do have right

483
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 1: now is that the Rams are leading the league in

484
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 1: point deferential and plus one hundred and thirty four. They're

485
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: thirty higher than the next team on the list. Oh yeah,

486
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: So again that tells you what things where things are? Well. Look,

487
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: Houston showed the Rams the proper respect. They came out

488
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: here and played probably the their best game in four weeks.

489
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: They look better than they've looked in a long time.

490
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,239
Speaker 1: You know what they're facing, the Rams. I think you're

491
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: going to get that out of everyone, including teams like

492
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 1: Minnesota and yeah, everyone, it sounds like kind of you

493
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: know how in the NBA people always say the Calves

494
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: and the Warriors get teams best shots. Yes, that's what's

495
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,919
Speaker 1: that's sort of you're moving into that arena. Interesting. Yes, well,

496
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: I think people do respect the Rams, and I think

497
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: you kind of have to with it being the NFL's

498
00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 1: highest scoring team and a team that's allowing eleven point

499
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:46,160
Speaker 1: four points per game since Week five, Right, so they're

500
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: playing really well offensively and defensively well, so far, so good.

501
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,440
Speaker 1: And look the team still has to, you know, keep performing.

502
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,239
Speaker 1: But what the Rams are telling you it requires your

503
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: best effort on game day. If not, they will hang

504
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 1: fifty on you. Yeah. So I think that's what Houston showed.

505
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,200
Speaker 1: I think that's what everyone else was showed. And Minnesota,

506
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 1: like we said, is next and they're a better football team,

507
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,639
Speaker 1: so this will be a true dog fight. Absolutely, but

508
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 1: still in that game, I think one thing we saw

509
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: from that sort of okay, Houston is giving it their

510
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: best shot is the Rams did face some adversity, which

511
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: they've not really had to do over the course of

512
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: the last month. You know what I mean. I mean

513
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: they basically they've not trailed in a game since the

514
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 1: first quarter of that Jacksonville game. And even that they

515
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: were trailing for six minutes before the Gerald Everett shovel

516
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: pass goes in four yards for a touchdown. So what

517
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 1: was I talked to Jamon Brown right guard after the game,

518
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: and he had said that one thing McVay had been

519
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 1: harping on during the week was the fact that adversity

520
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 1: is going to come up. And so even throughout that game,

521
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 1: there was just this sense of all right, you know,

522
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 1: we're now facing the adversity. We knew it was going

523
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: to come We all we have to do is stick together,

524
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 1: stay the course, and we will get is fixed. Yep.

525
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Speaker 1: And I think it's just another really interesting example of

526
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: McVeigh having the pulse of his team so well, you know,

527
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: because if you're bringing up adversity, knowing that adversity is

528
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,919
Speaker 1: going to come up, and it's the NFL, it's inevitable.

529
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 1: But just the fact that that was sort of a

530
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 1: theme of the week. Yeah, and now you go into

531
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,640
Speaker 1: this game and so bad stuff happens in the first

532
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,640
Speaker 1: half and you could have been trailing by at least

533
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Speaker 1: ten to six, if not fourteen to six, if not

534
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 1: for Mark Parent's interception that you come in a halftime

535
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 1: and you it really really was and then you come

536
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 1: in a halftime and you saw things and then things

537
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,679
Speaker 1: start getting going. I'll give you a thousand bucks if

538
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,360
Speaker 1: you can catch one of those what what he did? Yeah?

539
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: From that distance? Okay, all right, here's the thing about

540
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: this play and Matt and I did calibrate it to

541
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: your vertical, but that was at the top of his vertical. No,

542
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: it was an outstanding cat, don't get me wrong. Yeah, yeah,

543
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: I want to see if you can make that cat.

544
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,120
Speaker 1: I can't do that. I can't. You don't even try.

545
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: Look at you. You can't want to try a thousand?

546
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: See thousand bucks? Thank you God? What is wrong with you?

547
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you also didn't want to get run

548
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: over by a practice squad running back for a million dollars.

549
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: I remember. I'm just see I tried a thousand. Maybe

550
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: i'd get them there, just one jump and catch it.

551
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: A big deal. You're afraid of failure, Yeah, absolutely, I'm afraid.

552
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: You know, I'm afraid of failure. Many different aspects of

553
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: fraid of failure. It's not really the failure that I'm afraid.

554
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,159
Speaker 1: What you're looking at the grand What you can do

555
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: with the money. Yeah, I could do plenty of things

556
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: with a grand. I know that. I'm just saying that

557
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: I can't do it. Oh, I think you can thank

558
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 1: you for thank you for your staunch belief in just

559
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: as long as we could put it on camera. Yeah,

560
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: I'll be there. Obviously, I'm okay with making ice bags.

561
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: And last night was mad real Son coming up five am.

562
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: I wonder if they got cabs. Still, where do you

563
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: just go? I don't know. McVeigh leading the team. We wow,

564
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: anyway ahead some lass, isn't that though? Mark Baron's interception,

565
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: That's where I was going to go, Thank you, Matt.

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00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: All right, So anyway, thank you on that play. Because

567
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: we did this for all twenty two this week. You

568
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: can check out on the Rams dot com if you

569
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: have not. But that play, basically it was crossing routes

570
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: were like levels. If you know the play in Madden

571
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: you know where you've got one guy going up into

572
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: the right at like five yards, another guy going up

573
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,199
Speaker 1: to the right maybe twelve fifteen, and then another one

574
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: coming over from the left on a cross of another

575
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: crossing route and he threw Savage through the ball where

576
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: all of three of them were intersecting. So if you

577
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 1: look at that play, and I'm pointing this out in

578
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: the video, there's just a line of Rams and Texans

579
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: and Mark Baron is the one that makes the catch, right,

580
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: because they're all lined up on this hash Mark, I

581
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: don't understand like it's not a good decision to throw

582
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: that ball there. It really is, obviously right because if

583
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: you just wait a second longer, then maybe somebody's going

584
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: to come open. And I thought that the Rams had

585
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: that play well covered in the first place. So maybe not.

586
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: But that was probably the absolute worst time he could

587
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: have thrown that ball. I've heard something and I follow

588
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: this through my football life and beyond luck favors the

589
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: well prepared. Oh yes, yeah, So I mean you're lucky

590
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: that Savage decided to let it go when he did.

591
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 1: But I mean Baron was prepared to make the play.

592
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: Absolutely he was. I've seen a lot of those bounce

593
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: off people, yeah, or just they couldn't make the play

594
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: or somebody else makes the play. But it was a

595
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: hell of a catch. It wasn't a hell of a catch, definitely,

596
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: And we've seen Baron makes some actually really good plays

597
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: this year. He was going through that hand injury earlier

598
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: in the season that was going on in London when

599
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: he intercepted I guess that was Drew Stanton at the

600
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: end of the first half in that game. Now as

601
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: a new career high with three interceptions on the scene.

602
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: How about that. Remember when we were like biting our

603
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: nails when he missed all of preseasons. Yeah, how do

604
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: we feel now? We feel pretty good, probably, I would

605
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: say so. And you know what mcvaykeeps saying, A credit

606
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: to head trainer Reggie Scott and then head strength and

607
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: conditioning coach Ted Wrath for the way that these guys

608
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: have put guys on a plan to make sure that

609
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: they stay healthy throughout the year. And thank you to

610
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: Mark Barron too. See, not just the trainers, it's the

611
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: guy that's doing the work. Again, you don't want to

612
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: give Robert Woods's credit now you're taking all the credit

613
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: away from Mark Barron. I don't think I worked your

614
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: butt off that you've earned it. I don't think I

615
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: I I don't think I was doing a critic I

616
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: just don't think that's not what I thought I was

617
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: doing on hundred one yards and it's a good day,

618
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: I said, really really good day. At least a great

619
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: I had, I had at least two to three really's

620
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,719
Speaker 1: in there. Um. But I want to talk about McVay

621
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Yeah, and in the accountability thing,

622
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: because there was a quote that that stood out to

623
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Speaker 1: me in this press conference on Monday. And we're going

624
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: to do a new segment called reading where I read

625
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: this McVeigh quo because I think it's its what you're

626
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: gonna read. Okay, go ahead, what are you going to

627
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: read this? Yeah? In your own voice? Is that? Okay? Yeah? Yeah,

628
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: you're not going to try to sound like McVay. No, okay,

629
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Speaker 1: go ahead, I'm not No, I'm not a very good

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00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: im Okay. I thought it was like bad lip reading

631
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: or something. But ahead, no, no. But what he was

632
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: talking about was how the offense started slow. I mean

633
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: the offense had one hundred and thirty one yards in

634
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: the first half and then got to four hundred and

635
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,719
Speaker 1: forty three, which man, I did this math and now

636
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: I don't have it in front of me, and now

637
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: it's the three hundred and twelve yards in the second half.

638
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: I even noted, good thing. I did the math in

639
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: pre production on my notes, and then I didn't look

640
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,480
Speaker 1: at it when I was saying it out loud. That's explosive. Wow, Yes,

641
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: it is explosive. And so that's why I mean it

642
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: starts with that ninety four yard touchdown pass. But anyway

643
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: McVay said this, he said, it starts with me. I

644
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: made some bad decisions with some of the selections of

645
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: the play calls when we might not have been efficient

646
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: on a first down, second and ten, you're taking some

647
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: negative runs, or you get a first down and you

648
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: run a toss crack to Clowney and it ends up

649
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: being a negative seven yard play, or after a game

650
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: for a first down. That's where you look at yourself

651
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: as a play caller and you say, well, we didn't

652
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: get into a rhythm, But did you really allow your

653
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,239
Speaker 1: players to get into a rhythm when you're exposing us

654
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: to some negative plays like that that probably aren't the

655
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: best decisions. They aren't the best decisions on my part

656
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: when you go back and you look at it. So again,

657
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: McVeigh has said this before that he is self critical

658
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: because that's the way he wants his players to look

659
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: at things. You know, are you doing everything that you

660
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: can to make sure that we're being successful? True? And

661
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: I think when he says stuff like that publicly and

662
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: the Rams won this game thirty three to seven, I

663
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: think it says a lot about the culture of this

664
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: team and where it is right now, no doubt, no doubt.

665
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: And there's also a coach speak too. You know, he's

666
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: taken the heat for his players, that's the way it goes.

667
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: But I bet he doesn't see guys, he doesn't see names.

668
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: I bet he just sees targets and opportunities. So you know,

669
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: Clowney made some plays, so he takes it upon himself

670
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: and says it's my fault. Well, it takes all the

671
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: heat off your guys, doesn't it. Yeah. I mean, I'm

672
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: sure if some of those plays broke running the same

673
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 1: play as Clowney. No. I mean when he says, you

674
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: run a toss crack to Clowney, I was thinking in

675
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: the press box, why are you running a toss crack

676
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: to Clowney? And so when he says that, and he

677
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: takes that accountability, it's not just hey, this players shouldn't

678
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: made the block. I probably shouldn't have asked him to

679
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: make that, Jock, but she'd run a crack to a

680
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: left defensive end plenty of times. Right, Yeah, but since

681
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: he made the play, he becomes Clowney. But he makes

682
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: the play because he's one of he's thought of as

683
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: a really, really good play and right, you can't say

684
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: he did not wreck the game for the Rams offense

685
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: over the first you know, most of the first two quarter.

686
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: But if you run that same crack at Clowney and

687
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: it works, then what do you say you would you say, no,

688
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: one runs a crack at Clowney all because it's happened.

689
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: I know what's happened. But I think you're like, really,

690
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: my point, what is your point? The point is that

691
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: Nick Vase, that's the tone of accountability. Yeah, see's very

692
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: good at that. Yeah yeah, he's very very good at that.

693
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: He will always point the finger at himself first, right,

694
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: as the mark of a great coach. Yes, period, end

695
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: of story. Okay, Yes, so if you just keep you

696
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: just keep hating on my I'm not hating you did

697
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: it last week. You really you hated on it at

698
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: the beginning of you were jumping so far ahead and

699
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,919
Speaker 1: you've got a group of players coming in this week

700
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: to your home, your your your stadium. Yes, yes, you

701
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: were talking about something that was going to happen down

702
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: the road, weren't you. I was not talking about something

703
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: that was happening down the road. The goff Wentz discussion

704
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: from last week was about where those two players were

705
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: a year into their careers, and that's what that was exactly.

706
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: You would remind now, I'm not going to say that.

707
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: What never mind, never mind, We'll move on. No, I

708
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: want to know. I can't. The audience want to know.

709
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,439
Speaker 1: I'll be throwing somebody under the bus, and I won't

710
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: do that, not me. It would be telling. See, I'm

711
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 1: not going to no, not you, not you. Interesting. Move on.

712
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: We can talk about this off the off the area,

713
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: because now I'm actually intrigued. Yeah, I'm very intrigued. You

714
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: should be, Okay, weird episode. I feel like you feel

715
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 1: like this episode has been weird, Matt. I'm just getting

716
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: ready for Minnesota. You're you two. I don't know, man,

717
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just hot here trying to make everybody happy.

718
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: I don't want to pick sides. You're good, all right, Well,

719
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 1: then let's turn into Minnesota. Go for it. Since we're

720
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 1: out here trying to talk about Minnesota. What's it was

721
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: interesting today is that head coach Mike Zimmer did announce

722
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: that case Keenum will start this week over Teddy Bridgewater,

723
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: who is now back. And I think it is a

724
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: really well before we talk about Case, I think it's

725
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: a really really good story of Teddy Bridgewater being able

726
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: to come back from that horrific injury that he suffered

727
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: last year. I wish we could have seen it, do

728
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 1: you well, I mean, and all I heard about it,

729
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. I just know how bad it

730
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: was and what he had to do to come back, right,

731
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean I'm happy to have that

732
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: guy back and actually competing because what you heard come

733
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: down to Minnesota. Well, he may never play football, right,

734
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: and here we are. You know, he's got a chance

735
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: to you know, not only get back on the field,

736
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: he may start at some point. Yeah. Yeah, I think

737
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: that's fascinating, absolutely, especially Bradford is still there, but he's on.

738
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: He's on. I R Now, I would never have guessed

739
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: that that Bridgewater would have a chance to come back

740
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: and play this year. Yeah, well, and that he would

741
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: be replacing Case Keenum instead of Sam Bradford, and that

742
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: that that quarterback situation, that quarterback room right now, it's

743
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,879
Speaker 1: probably really interesting to be in because you have three

744
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 1: players who have shown that they can play at a

745
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 1: starting caliber level in this league right now, right in

746
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: Keenham Bridgewater and Sam Bradford. Obviously not all of them

747
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: are completely healthy, but you know, heading into yeah, you know,

748
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 1: this offseason and that's a really long time way, but

749
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: it's just a sort of fascinating dynamic. I think right now,

750
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: if they were all healthy and you started training camp,

751
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:10,479
Speaker 1: I think it would Bradford Bridgewater and then Keenum. Yeah,

752
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: I mean Bradford Bridgewater would compete for that number one job. Yes,

753
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. Yeah to say so if Bridgewater

754
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 1: were one, if he looked great right now, I why

755
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: not turn it over to him right now? Because you're winning,

756
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 1: You're a you're on a five game winning street. Maybe

757
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 1: he needs more time to you know, get back up

758
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: to speed. But right you know, the way Case Keendom

759
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: played last week, outside of the two picks that he threw,

760
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you scored thirty five points. That's not bad. No,

761
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 1: it's not bad at all. And they actually scored thirty

762
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: eight thirty eight points. That's not bad. Yeah, it's even

763
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: not bad at all. Right, that wins for you, Yes, exactly.

764
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: I mean, Case Keenum has played very, very well for

765
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings this year. He's completing about sixty five

766
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: percent of his passes, has just under two thousand yards, passing,

767
00:37:55,600 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: eleven touchdowns, five interceptions. And obviously this could be the

768
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: Case Keenum revenge game after what we saw from him

769
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: last season and going back I guess into twenty fifteen

770
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: as well. Now he is going to play his former team.

771
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: You know, funny guys like Case Keenum is starting to

772
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: go that way for him. Josh McCown, I mean, you've

773
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 1: bounced around a few times. Are there really revenge games

774
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: at this point? I mean, he's only played, but was

775
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: it just I'm happy to be lining up and playing.

776
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: I think it, I think of with with Keenum, it's

777
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,280
Speaker 1: probably the latter, But I mean it's not like Keenum

778
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: has played for that many teams. He's played. He bounced around,

779
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 1: but he bounced around from Houston to Los Angeles to

780
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,720
Speaker 1: well Saint Louis first, then Houston to Los Angeles and Minnesota,

781
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: And I mean, right, now he's in Minnesota. Yeah, so

782
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: this and this is a team, and he was replaced

783
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: by a quarterback who is now performing at a level

784
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 1: that I think everybody would have expected out of a

785
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,359
Speaker 1: number one overall pick. So it's not like you can

786
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: say I don't get why they replaced at this point,

787
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Interesting, I mean, but yeah,

788
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: as soon as Jared Goff was selected, you knew your

789
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: time was limited, right, and he acknowledged that many, many,

790
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 1: many times last year. But the way he's playing, I

791
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: think he's with the right coordinator in Pat Schremer. Yeah,

792
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: he just gets the best out of the quarterbacks that

793
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: are playing for him. And if you watch Case keen him,

794
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 1: the way he's playing, his footwork top notch. He's doing

795
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: things that Jared Goff's doing here, rolling to his left,

796
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:26,959
Speaker 1: throwing dimes back across his body, looking good, looking, looking

797
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: like he's done it forever, because he has. He's always

798
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: been a good passer, he's been a great college quarterback.

799
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: He was a good starter here for as long as

800
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: it lasted. And he's got a better offense than he

801
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: had last season in Minnesota, no question, and he's making

802
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: it go. So yeah, look, best team on game day,

803
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: best quarterback on game day. I can't wait to see this. Yeah,

804
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting. Um, what do you think

805
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: about Pat Schermer's offensive scheme? Just generally because he obviously

806
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: he's a guy you're you know, you're familiar with because

807
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,760
Speaker 1: he was with the Rams and he was first coordinator

808
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 1: for Sam Bradford. It's funny, man. I mean when you

809
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: talk about football history and you know, just Ram history,

810
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,280
Speaker 1: what would have happened had he stayed for Sam Bradford's

811
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: second year and not gone to Cleveland, not taking that

812
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 1: head coach coach there because Sam Bradford had a hell

813
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: of a rookie year, Rookie of the Year that year.

814
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: I mean you you went from one in fifteen to

815
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,760
Speaker 1: seven and nine and then he leaves and everything changes.

816
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:27,120
Speaker 1: So good coordinator. Um, what I do notice and what

817
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 1: I picked up when he was here is he creates

818
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: a lot of conversation on defense with a lot of personnel,

819
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: different personnel groupings, a lot of shifts, a lot of motions.

820
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on that you have to worry about.

821
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: And then, like with Sean McVay, he'll change tempo. So

822
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 1: he's given you a lot to think about and a

823
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 1: lot to worry about and then boom the balls by it. Yeah,

824
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,720
Speaker 1: when he has a dominant run game and a dominant

825
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: running back, that offense is a nightmare. And they're doing

826
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: pretty good running the football now with a good online

827
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,800
Speaker 1: and Case Kingdom is making them pay on play action.

828
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: So the same thing the rams due to people Minneso

829
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,359
Speaker 1: does to people, just a little more, a little more

830
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: physical and brutal. Yeah. Well, I mean you brought up

831
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: their running game and they don't have Dalvin Cook right

832
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: now because he tore that ACL. But I think Latavius

833
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: Murray is doing a really nice job of still being

834
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: that consistent running back that they probably need for Case

835
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: Keenom to be as effective as he has. Oh. I agree.

836
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: They have what I call a heavy offensive line. I

837
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: don't mean in terms of weight. You don't see a

838
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: lot of fat bodies three hundred and forty pound guys.

839
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 1: They're all around, you know, three ten, But they play heavy.

840
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,399
Speaker 1: When it's run, they show run. Yeah, they don't care

841
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: stop it. When it's passed, they show pass. They're confident

842
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: in what they do and they like to block on

843
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: angles and you won't see them without Dalvin Cook beaten

844
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,879
Speaker 1: too many people to the pylons or around the edges.

845
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: They're just coming up the gut. They're slamming you up

846
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: the middle and they get you to buy it and

847
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: then they hit you with play action and it always

848
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: seems to work. Yeah, it does. But the other thing

849
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,800
Speaker 1: that they've got is too really good young wide receivers

850
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: on the outside. And talking about Adam Feeling and then

851
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: also Stefan Diggs and Feeling last week was just outstanding. Yeah,

852
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: for the Vikings against Washington. He had eight receptions one

853
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six yards and a touchdown long of

854
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: forty nine there. But his story I think is interesting

855
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: because comes out of Minnesota State, He's an undrafted guy,

856
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: and now over the last few years he just steadily

857
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,879
Speaker 1: got better. Last year pretty pretty breakout season for him,

858
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: nice sixty nine receptions for nine hundred and sixty seven yards,

859
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: and now this year he's got fifty six catches for

860
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: seven hundred ninety three yards already, So I think that

861
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 1: he's on his way to a career year. When you

862
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: play Madden, are there just certain guys whatever team you

863
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: pick or the team that you pick, that you just

864
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: feel comfortable with throwing the ball too. Oh yeah, like

865
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: if you have the falcons, you keep throwing the Julio Joe.

866
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: But just you just kind of have a feel for

867
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: where he's going to be, don't matter what happens. Yeah,

868
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: well he also can do the aggressive care well yeah,

869
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:04,919
Speaker 1: he can make bad quarterback great. But it's last week.

870
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 1: It just seems like case Keenum and feel feeling were

871
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: on the same page. Yeah. Yeah, Um, they just had

872
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,320
Speaker 1: a great feel for one another, and he was putting

873
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 1: the ball in great spots and he was going up

874
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: and getting it so tremendous. Um what he did to

875
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: that secondary yeah, Mega Roll Sharman. Yeah, I mean he

876
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: should send that to that locker room because that's what

877
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,799
Speaker 1: he was doing all over the field, all on you. Yes, yeah,

878
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:33,439
Speaker 1: and they just kept getting worse and worse yeah Mega

879
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: Roll oh yeah yeah, and you're gonna need it Meg

880
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: Mega Rol Charman. Yeah, yeah, oh I understand why yeah, yeah.

881
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: Over the field yes, oh yeah, And that's what it was.

882
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. It was disgusting. Oh my god,

883
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:01,879
Speaker 1: oh my god. The other one, steff On Diggs though, Yes,

884
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: I've been impressed with him since he came out of Maryland,

885
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: and as a rookie, he made a pretty big impact

886
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 1: on that team if you remember back in twenty fifteen.

887
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,240
Speaker 1: But now twenty seventeen, has been healthy the whole season,

888
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 1: and I excuse me, he actually has not been Maybe

889
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,919
Speaker 1: he's missed one game. I knew that, But what he's

890
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: done this year has been really impressive. I think still

891
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: with case Keenum, especially as a quarterback, he and Keenan

892
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: looked like they were on the same page two Early

893
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: in that game, there was a nice deep ball that

894
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: keen him throw down the right side and Diggs was

895
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: able to kind of lay out and grab it. Man

896
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: beat her. Yeah, like Hopkins, you know, yeah, here's a

897
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 1: guy that can just take your guy and you know

898
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: time and knot. Yeah. Yeah. So when it comes to

899
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: that situation, that situational you know football, when it's man

900
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: coverage and they need to make a play and they

901
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: just turn him loose, we're going to him. So you've

902
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: got problems. So if you don't get pressure on any quarterback,

903
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: on case Keenum in particular, he's going to make you pay. Yes, yes,

904
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 1: feeling will too, but on a consistent basis, this guy

905
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 1: is gonna make you pay. Well, what do we I mean,

906
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: what do we know about case Keno? I mean that

907
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: he if he has time and can get out of

908
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: the pocket and do things like he can make things happen.

909
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: We've seen that before. Oh yeah. The one thing about

910
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: case that we do know is he hasn't grown. He's

911
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 1: still the same height. So I mean some of these

912
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:25,800
Speaker 1: passes are still getting knocked back in his face. So

913
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 1: his launch point isn't going to change. Yeah, it's gonna

914
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: be where it is, and he's gonna have to buy

915
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: time sometimes because he's not the biggest guy in the world.

916
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: So but even if you move him off his spot,

917
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: he can still he's still eat you, right. I just

918
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,240
Speaker 1: I remember thinking watching the Vikings game against the Browns

919
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,839
Speaker 1: that they played in London the week after we were there,

920
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: Um that sometimes they don't necessarily ask case Keno to

921
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: do too much, and that's probably the best way that

922
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: they can get the most out of him, if that

923
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,439
Speaker 1: makes sense, right, I mean they do. I mean, he's

924
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: got a lot to do, Like like Jared Goff here, Um,

925
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: he's directing traffic pre snap right, come here, move here,

926
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: do this, do that, and then get the ball out fast.

927
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: And his footwork is great getting the ball out. Um,

928
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: you know, like same place. This is funny. Not to

929
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: dump on your guys, but a similar play or you

930
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: know everybody in the league runs similar stuff, right, So

931
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: you watch so much case keenum execute a receiver screen,

932
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:26,359
Speaker 1: flips it out, balls out, they gain yards. I watched

933
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 1: de Sean Kaiser do the same thing, and it's just

934
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 1: a little bit off and the timing's off right, throws

935
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,439
Speaker 1: it to the wrong spot. Now your advantage has gone.

936
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: Instead of a fifteen yard game, that's three or maybe

937
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: a loss. So he's doing a lot of things right,

938
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: even if it doesn't look like they're not asking him

939
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: to do that much. That's but that's there. I think

940
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: they're asking him to play within himself. Oh yeah, I

941
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: like that. That's what less. What I'm saying is that

942
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: you know, you're not asking him to You're trying to

943
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: stay in these man manageable situations in terms of down

944
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: and distance. Yeah, where case Keendom control back quickly and

945
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball pretty quickly. And I definitely

946
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: anticipate that they would do that this week against the Ram.

947
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: They don't ask him to overcome third and twenty two, right, Yeah,

948
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: I think that's smart. Yes, yeah, I wouldn't ask too

949
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: many quarterbacks to overcome third and twenty two that aren't

950
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,399
Speaker 1: named like Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady or a third

951
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: and thirty three that goes for fifty two and a touchdown.

952
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 1: You're all fired. Sometimes you're all fired sometimes, kids, everybody

953
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: pursuing the football and blue keep running. Just take your

954
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: pads off, keep running. Yeah. Um, what do you see

955
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: from Minnesota defensively? Oh my god, big, strong, fast, they hit,

956
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:39,280
Speaker 1: I mean everything. Yeah, yeah, they're they're a good defense.

957
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 1: Like Summer coaches them very well. He's been a good

958
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: defensive guy for a very long time in this league

959
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: and that's continued. I would love to see their practices.

960
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: I like the way they're all line plays, munch of

961
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: smart guys, bunch of captains. When you go and look

962
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,720
Speaker 1: at their history, they're all ex captains, you know, captain

963
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: of the football team there, and they're all on the

964
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: offensive line and they play physical. And then you watch

965
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: the defense line and how they play. They play physical.

966
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: Practice must be fun. But I do like no matter

967
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:08,319
Speaker 1: what scheme they see defensively, that front four you could

968
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 1: tie a rope between all four of them. They just

969
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: don't give ground and there's no separation and technique. You're

970
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: gonna have to really slam the ball through there to

971
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,919
Speaker 1: make something happen. You've heard me talk about vertical seams. Yeah,

972
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: that's where one guy gets too far up field and

973
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: one guy gets trapped in the line of scrimmage and

974
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: there's a vertical scene for the running back to get out.

975
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 1: You don't see that with Minnesota at all. No, no, no, Yeah,

976
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: they keep everything flat, they force everything out, and they've

977
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: got linebackers to catch up to you from anywhere. So

978
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: they're really good and disciplined. Well, it's two UCLA guys,

979
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: Bar and Kendricks. I mean, we all know what they're

980
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: capable of because they're they're very fast and they're very

981
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: very physical. What do you think the rams have to

982
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: do to sort of combat that funny we were talking

983
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 1: about this man. For me, it comes back to Todd

984
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:59,839
Speaker 1: Gurley again, definitely out of the backfield making something happen.

985
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: Just in the normal course of this offense, He's going

986
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: to catch a few out of the backfield and make

987
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: something happen. But traditionally, I mean, you're gonna have to

988
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: go in there in battle. Yeah yeah, and try to

989
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 1: drag some of these guys through the middle, because it's

990
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: only going to open them up for play action. That

991
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,879
Speaker 1: when I see people like Pittsburgh having success and beat

992
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: in Minnesota or anybody that has Washington having success in

993
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: spurts against that defense, it's all been off play action

994
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: getting them to collapse. And that's the only way to

995
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: do that is to run the ball effectively to force

996
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: those guys into that phone booth so you can make plays.

997
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: If not, they think they can stop you with seven

998
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 1: and then you've got no chance. Yeah. Yeah, So you're

999
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: gonna have to run the ball effectively early. It may

1000
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: not be one hundred yards or breaking big runs, but

1001
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,320
Speaker 1: they've got to believe you're on the cusp of breaking

1002
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: one to get the play action going. Okay, that's interesting.

1003
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing they're going to have back,

1004
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: one thing, one player they should have back, I should say,

1005
00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: is Everson Griffin, star defensive any missed last week's game

1006
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: against Washington with a foot injury. And you know, Matt

1007
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: may or may not have had something to do with

1008
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 1: the fact that Kirk Cousins was able to get off

1009
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: as many passes as he was throw for three hundred

1010
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,800
Speaker 1: and twenty seven yards and a touchdown as they scored thirty.

1011
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: But Griffin right now has ten sacks and a sack

1012
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: in each of the vikings first eight games at least one.

1013
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, that tells you you, I mean, you'll let

1014
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: him get going. You can have a long it's pain

1015
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: in a three point stance when I love him one

1016
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: in a three point that's that's what's coming off the edge,

1017
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,320
Speaker 1: nothing but pain, and not just for the quarterback, for

1018
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: the guy trying to block him. I mean, he's he's

1019
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: His technique is good, very very good. He's very fast,

1020
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 1: very athletic. But his want to is it outsizes anything

1021
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 1: he does. His want to get there, Yeah, outsizes any

1022
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 1: movie he throws at you. It's going to be a

1023
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: fight for you. You're just not gonna shut him down

1024
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: for one play, two plays, three plays in a row

1025
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: and think he's gonna stop and quit. No, no, no, no,

1026
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: he's gonna coming. Now. Do they move him around a bit?

1027
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: Do they keep him on one side? No, they got

1028
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: robuston on the other side, who's a great left end.

1029
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: They've they've got a lot of good players that he's

1030
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 1: a right defensive end, and that's where he's coming from.

1031
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: And if he does come from a different angle than

1032
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: that right end, that means he looped around. But he's

1033
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: got the athleticism to get you from there, which means

1034
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: I can line up outside of Andrew Whitworth and beat

1035
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 1: you around Sullivan to the quarterback. Yeah on a five step. Yeah,

1036
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: that's how fast you are. Yeah, So I mean he is,

1037
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 1: he's relentless. He's about as relentless as they come. Yeah.

1038
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: What do you think of this sort of coaching matchup?

1039
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: Because again, the Vikings played Washington last week, right, so

1040
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: that means they're sort of scheming against what is relatively

1041
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,919
Speaker 1: a very similar offense this week than they were last week.

1042
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: And for mcvayh, he's gonna be, you know, seeing the

1043
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,439
Speaker 1: same stuff that Washington ran last week's similar offensive scheme

1044
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: that he runs here in LA and in taking a

1045
00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:00,919
Speaker 1: look at that and how that might translate against the Vikings, well, look,

1046
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: that's up to Wade Phillips and how they practice. Look,

1047
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: every offense has a tell, you know, either situationally or

1048
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: personnel groups. There's going to be some stuff they're giving away,

1049
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,399
Speaker 1: but getting beat with your eyes is going to be big.

1050
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: That's why the play action works if you're looking too

1051
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,240
Speaker 1: far in the backfield versus your keys, like for instance,

1052
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: case Kingdom turns his back to the defense and he

1053
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: sticks the ball out, which tells the defense run run, run, Okay,

1054
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 1: But right in front of him is an offensive line

1055
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: that's standing up, which means that's play actions. Yeah. So

1056
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,360
Speaker 1: you might your first reaction on a run is to

1057
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,359
Speaker 1: step forward. But if you're really reading your keys, your

1058
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 1: key told you back out yea. So it's it's up

1059
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 1: to this coach to rep that and get them to

1060
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: understand what those tells are, and that just takes all

1061
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: the magic away from that offense. If you can do that, yeah,

1062
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 1: there's nowhere to go with the football. If it's if

1063
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: he sticks it out and pulls it back and he

1064
00:52:57,520 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: turns around and those linebackers are right in that zone,

1065
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:01,919
Speaker 1: like barn, Yeah, you're gonna throw a pick. Yes, Yeah,

1066
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: especially if you're just doing it off, if you're just

1067
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: playing by road, do the play fake, turn around and

1068
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: just fired. Oh my god, I didn't see him. You

1069
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,479
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. Yes, yeah, So if you're reading

1070
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 1: your keys and you're really dialed into what they do,

1071
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: it just takes all the magic away from that offense.

1072
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:18,919
Speaker 1: But I feel like you're we're talking about two different things.

1073
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: Like I'm saying the Rams and Washington's offense are similar.

1074
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: So like, but from ah, I'm not talking about Minnesota. Yeah,

1075
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,280
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, no, because you got the like Jay Gruden

1076
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 1: and Sean McVeigh. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I see where

1077
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:33,240
Speaker 1: you're going. Yeah, I'm sorry. I guess I wasn't. That's okay.

1078
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: But so from the Viking standpoint, you know, you you're

1079
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: looking at basic Yeah, yeah, he's looking at basically the

1080
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: same offense, and the Rams offense is sort of maybe

1081
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, looking at itself in some ways against

1082
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: the Vikings last week. You're gonna take what works. Yeah,

1083
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: what worked, and probably if you look at the statuet

1084
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:53,399
Speaker 1: or watch on tape whatever happened on in the game,

1085
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: even if it didn't work, Sean mcvayh may see something

1086
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: in that play that hey we can we can hit this. Yeah,

1087
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,240
Speaker 1: and maybe John Gruden or not John Green, Jay Gruden

1088
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: was going to come back to that and the game

1089
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 1: wouldn't allow it. But there's some things you can take

1090
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: away from it. But remember Minnesota's going to be faster

1091
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: for two reasons. One, they're at home. It's gonna be raucous.

1092
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,360
Speaker 1: They're gonna have crowd noise. Number Two, it's a similar offense.

1093
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 1: So your muscle memory, you're gonna play that much faster. Yeah,

1094
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: all the stuff you practice for Washington, you're gonna practice

1095
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: for Las. Yes, So you're gonna be just a little

1096
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: bit faster probably, Um, but with Sean McVay seeing you

1097
00:54:27,280 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 1: and how you react to things, he might be a

1098
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: step ahead of you. So that's I think one of

1099
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: the fun chess matches. This is gonna be our second

1100
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 1: time technically in this new stadium, US Bank Stadium, UM

1101
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: last year. Oh yeah, do you like? What do you

1102
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: think of the stadium? I thought it was cool outside weird.

1103
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: It is a little weird because yeah, what is X?

1104
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's like, what is the UFO? I

1105
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,319
Speaker 1: haven't even seen it? You haven't seen it? Yeah, that's

1106
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: coming with us. It looks like one of those uncut diamonds.

1107
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,320
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a good call. That's what it looks like.

1108
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like effects the skyline. It's sort

1109
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: of it's sort of weird. But the one thing that

1110
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: I remember distinctly from that stadium. Aside from it being

1111
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:11,440
Speaker 1: a pretty nice it's a nice place and I liked them.

1112
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: I can never remember if it's EFTE or ETFE, but

1113
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: it's that clear sort of glass roof, and that's what's

1114
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: going to be on the new Ram Stadium. But it's

1115
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: basically over half of the half. It's over half of

1116
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: the roof, so that you get that feel of kind

1117
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 1: of being outside even though you're in an indoor in

1118
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: an indoor space. But the thing I distinctly remember is

1119
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: that when Minnesota scored a touchdown in that game, that

1120
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:41,800
Speaker 1: preseason game Week four last year in twenty sixteen, it

1121
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,240
Speaker 1: was one of the first times they'd ever done anything

1122
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: in that stadium, right, But they were basically explosions. They

1123
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: were like five explosions and like boom bom boom, bom, boom,

1124
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: boo boom, and then they started blasting let's go crazy,

1125
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 1: and the lights just went in and on and off.

1126
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you the first time that happened, like

1127
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: I powered, like yeah, yeah, I went. I remember, hands

1128
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,879
Speaker 1: above my head, like really scared. Did we lose Prince

1129
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: by then? Yes? Yes, okay, because I wonder was that

1130
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: all connected. Made I sort of feel like it was

1131
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,280
Speaker 1: it could have been, but yeah, I mean it reminded

1132
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,879
Speaker 1: me of being like inside that that speed Racer movie.

1133
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 1: I don't know that movie, but you ever seen speed Racer?

1134
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 1: Oh my dad used to watch speed Racer all the time. No,

1135
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 1: the movie New One. Yeah, there was a movie they

1136
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:29,479
Speaker 1: made about it and they said it was like giving

1137
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 1: people seizures because it was just the same people that

1138
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 1: did the matrix did it okay, and it was just

1139
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: like really really like really lights and sounds and everything.

1140
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 1: But when they did score, just the lights and everything

1141
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: that was going on, I kind of got dizzy. It

1142
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: was a lot. Yeah, it was a lot, a lot

1143
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: than it wasn't a press pat Yeah, it was a

1144
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 1: fantastic song. Yeah it was crazy Prince, But yeah, I

1145
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: kind of look forward to going to Minnesota. Minnesota is

1146
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 1: a fun it's a fun place, the Twin Cities. Yeah.

1147
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: I liked being indoors better than being at the the

1148
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: the Golden Gophers. Yeah yeah, yeah, and feel like we

1149
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: were in fifteen just seemed like a breeze was coming

1150
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 1: right through. Yeah. It was just wow. The rams were

1151
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:12,959
Speaker 1: also on the shaded side, so that side was really

1152
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: it was freezing from what I remember people saying. And

1153
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 1: then on the other side there was some sun over.

1154
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that. How cold that Seattle Playoff that

1155
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: year must have been at that stadium. Did LaMarcus knock

1156
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: out Bridgewater? Yeah, not the whole deal? Okay, Yeah, that

1157
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 1: was that game. And I will never forget. You know

1158
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: Marcus talking about how I would never intentionally hurt Teddy

1159
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: because he knows him. Yeah, he's like our parents are friends. Like,

1160
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: I would never intentionally do that. Things happen there, would

1161
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:43,439
Speaker 1: never intentionally mull you. You just happen to look like food. Yeah,

1162
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: jeer that well, yeah, I guess that game also was

1163
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: where Greg's aline. I thinks that the franchise record for

1164
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 1: longest field goal was there back in back in fifteen

1165
00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: because the overtime loss Rams had in November. I'm up

1166
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: there in Minnesota. Yeah yeah, yeah, another one they had anyway, Yes,

1167
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: but now the Rams are seven and two, and they

1168
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: could be eight and two with a victory, and if

1169
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: they win this game the first time, getting to five

1170
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 1: hundred at least since two thousand and six, I agree. See,

1171
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: I'm not hating. What do you mean, I'm agreeing with

1172
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: you now, now you made me feel bad. That's a fact,

1173
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, I'm agreeing with you. Thank you

1174
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: for agreeing with a fact. You're You're right, I'm agreeing

1175
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 1: with don't want it's gonna shake my head. Yeah, okay, okay.

1176
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: Single most important thing Rams need to do to win

1177
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: this weekend. Take care of the ball. Yes, yeah, you're

1178
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: on the road. Take care of the football. I mean,

1179
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 1: and not just the the I guess the people that

1180
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 1: we know, Todd Girly, m Dunbar, whoever's carrying the football,

1181
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: and Jared Goff. I'm talking special teams to take care

1182
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: of the football. You cannot lose it. You cannot give

1183
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: them the advantage of takeaways on the road because they're

1184
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 1: going to capitalize. So take care, take care of the football,

1185
00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: and um, you know, don't hurt yourself. I think you're

1186
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: good enough to compete and beat just about anybody left

1187
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 1: on your schedule, including these guys, but you have to

1188
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: play your best game absolutely all right, guys, thank you

1189
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 1: so much for tuning into this week's edition of Between

1190
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 1: the Horns The Game? Am I really yelling? You're yelling again?

1191
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 1: I don't feel like I'm yelling by hating again. Yes,

1192
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: you're hating because you won't let me close the show ahead,

1193
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: close the show. Yeah, thanks so much for tuning into

1194
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 1: this edition of Between the Horns, and I guess I'll

1195
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 1: just talk a little quieter. There, you go, this better.

1196
00:59:30,240 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 1: I'll use my INKR voice if I'm going to in

1197
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 1: the show up there. The game is at ten o'clock

1198
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 1: this weekend. It'll be on Fox for my producer Matt

1199
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: for DeMarco far Miles Simons will great day.