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

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Speaker 1: to the wild Card Round edition of Between the Horns.

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Speaker 1: It is January third, twenty eighteen. Happy New Year, everybody.

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Speaker 1: I'm Miles Simmons. I've got De Marco far to my right,

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Speaker 1: our producer Matt is behind the camera, and we've got

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Speaker 1: playoff football to talk about. I kind of want to

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Speaker 1: pinch you right there. Why just if you say out

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Speaker 1: then it's real. Oh if I say I don't want

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Speaker 1: to pinch myself, I don't want to cause myself, Bay,

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Speaker 1: I want to cause you go ahead pinch me. It's real.

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Speaker 1: You said wild Card weekend. I said wild Card weekend.

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Speaker 1: We're doing the show Saturday, January sixth teen, kickoff this Saturday,

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Speaker 1: and the Rams are involved. Hell yeah, that's awesome. So

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Speaker 1: this is SIME. Since two thousand and four, the Rams

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Speaker 1: have clinched the playoff birth and they are They're in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs and this is gonna be fun this week. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Gonna be good, good opponent, good football team. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you got the rest versus San Francisco. So there's no

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Speaker 1: hiccups there. I mean every team has to do with

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Speaker 1: some bumps and bruises, some alleys and whatnot, but for

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Speaker 1: the most part, you're protected. Guys got through week seventeen healthy,

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Speaker 1: so you're gonna go into Saturday with a full compliment

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Speaker 1: on offense and defense. That's always good. Yeah, and this

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Speaker 1: is something I think we talked about this last week.

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Speaker 1: You know, you want to be able to rest the

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Speaker 1: starters basically because you know you already have a home

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Speaker 1: playoff game locked up, and then beyond that, it's the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You know, no matter what happens, you're going away anyway,

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Speaker 1: And a lot of people made a lot about the

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Speaker 1: fact that, oh, if the Rams don't get the number

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Speaker 1: three seeds, then they can't host the NFC Championship games off.

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Speaker 1: Who speaks like that? You know, who are you imitating?

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Speaker 1: The Twitter people? The Twitter people talk like that. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they can't hear them when they tweet, but that's the

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Speaker 1: voice that they have inside my hand. Finally, okay, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: but this is what you hear. Yes, okay, that's what

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Speaker 1: When what you see scary, I should hold up a

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Speaker 1: mirror the next time you do that. That is a

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Speaker 1: scary voice. Anyway, the Twitty people said what now. They

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Speaker 1: said that that if you don't play the starters, there's

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Speaker 1: no chance of possibly hosting the NFC Championship game, which

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Speaker 1: you know is looking very far down the road, especially

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Speaker 1: when you have to have a one week at a

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Speaker 1: time mentality in the playoffs. But you still got the

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Speaker 1: not necessarily ideal outcome. But because you know, the Rams

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Speaker 1: loss ideally was that game and you lock it up,

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Speaker 1: but you got the rest and you still got the

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Speaker 1: three seed and now the Rams will face the Falcons,

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Speaker 1: which that sort of sequence at the end of the

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Speaker 1: after the end of the game where I think you

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Speaker 1: were probably outside the locker room waiting for Sean McVeigh

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Speaker 1: right when those games ended, right we started to find

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Speaker 1: out who your opponent, that you drew Atlanta right when

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Speaker 1: the players were coming in, right, So weird. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that was a weird momentum, you know, just for me

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Speaker 1: doing that the post game. Yes, Okay, the team is

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Speaker 1: coming in and they just lost, so this is you know,

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Speaker 1: not the environment. But then you started to hear that, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you drew Atlanta, so you're moving off the L into

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Speaker 1: next week while you're still dealing with the L. It

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Speaker 1: was weird. Weird, It was, Yeah, it happened all very

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Speaker 1: very I don't mind that. I wish. I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: if it happened again next year, fine, so be it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're moving on into the postseason. This is

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Speaker 1: all good. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, you've got Jimmy

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Speaker 1: the Niners down the stretch this season, which is, you know,

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Speaker 1: good for them, and they did what they were supposed

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Speaker 1: to do, right. Look, it's if you want to play

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Speaker 1: backups against their starters, then so be it. And they

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Speaker 1: treated the Rams as such. They looked like the better

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Speaker 1: football team because to a man, they probably were. Day

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Speaker 1: then that's because the Rams are wresting their starters's and

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Speaker 1: that's fine. So yeah, but they you have the Rams now,

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Speaker 1: who are well rested, and they're going to face a

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Speaker 1: getting the Falcons in that draw, I think what you're

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Speaker 1: instead of talking to Sean Nannon about things that happened,

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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, like, yes, Sean Aga will get to you.

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Speaker 1: But Jared Goff, what do you think about facing the Falcons?

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Speaker 1: And Gurley is like, I just found that out a

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Speaker 1: minute ago. I really don't have an opinion. Guys, like, sorry,

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Speaker 1: you have to. I mean you have to start your

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Speaker 1: the players mentally, it started right then. Okay, who does

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Speaker 1: Atlanta have on their team? Who's gonna block me, who's

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Speaker 1: that's all we can just focus Now we know who

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Speaker 1: make that clear like that. I wasn't trying to say that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they thought it was easy. No, no, no, because that

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Speaker 1: wasn't the mood or the vibe or anything. It's just

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Speaker 1: we know who it is. You can put a face

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Speaker 1: obviously going to be a really fun matchup, and we'll

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Speaker 1: dive into that a little bit more as the show

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Speaker 1: things from the twenty seventeen regular season. Yeah, okay, we

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Speaker 1: now know the Rams went eleven and five, pretty remarkable

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Speaker 1: turnaround from going four and twelve in twenty sixteen. And

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Speaker 1: one thing I do think we got to bring up

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Speaker 1: so that the Rams led the league in points, led

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Speaker 1: the league in scoring, which again pretty remarkable turnaround considering

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Speaker 1: they averaged fourteen points per game. Yeah, in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: you finished the year scoring twenty nine point nine points

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Speaker 1: per game. Let's just round up to thirty. It's so funny.

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Speaker 1: It's like my grandmother and you probably can identify with this,

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Speaker 1: But a floor model TV. Does that make sense to you? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the old school TV's floor model. I've seen them in museums.

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Speaker 1: I'll put a lot. Okay, fair enough. It's you went

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Speaker 1: from that to say, a flat screen. Yeah, you modernized

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Speaker 1: old fashioned way, the hard way. Yeah, keep it closed,

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Speaker 1: play defense, punt, try to win that way. I mean,

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Speaker 1: zero margin forever. This is a completely different This is

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Speaker 1: more modern. Like you said, Sean mcvayh Jared Goff, Todd Gurley.

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Speaker 1: if the Rams take the ball away, we're going to score.

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Speaker 1: And now you have to play catch up. And if

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Speaker 1: it puts teams right where you want them defensively because

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Speaker 1: will be a different matchup than when we saw Atlanta

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Speaker 1: last Oh yeah, yeah, there's actually something coming off this

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Speaker 1: sideline to scare them. You know. Somebody asked Jared Goff

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Speaker 1: in Goffs press conference on Tuesday, have you gone back

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Speaker 1: and watched the film of last year's game at all?

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Speaker 1: You know, just to see what? Did he say? No? Good?

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Speaker 1: what can we learn from this? No, nothing you can

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Speaker 1: learn from No, that's stuff your mom does bringing out

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Speaker 1: your most embarrassing videos. You never go to those. Your

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Speaker 1: he did X y Z. Why would you go back

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Speaker 1: and watch that? It's a horror show for him? Well, right,

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Speaker 1: what what was that game? How did you feel after

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Speaker 1: watching that? Again? Why would you do that? I just

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Speaker 1: Rams did play that team last year, and you're you're

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Speaker 1: you're seeing right, Yeah, I know the Rams franchise played

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Speaker 1: Look there, each year is so different. This is an

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Speaker 1: obviously very very very different Rams team. It's a different

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Speaker 1: Falcons team too. Try scored two hundred fewer points this season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: season is different. But if we are climbing Mount Everest

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Speaker 1: where are you going? I'm just saying, And then all

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Speaker 1: start over that's gonna last into the regular season for

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Speaker 1: any football team. Well, even when you win, it's going

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Speaker 1: to it's a new overshadow your regular season. Some I

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Speaker 1: can only imagine what that must have felt like. You

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Speaker 1: were in control of that year. You were up twenty

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Speaker 1: eighth to three. You should be champions and you're not.

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Speaker 1: So it's taken a little something off of them. But

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Speaker 1: here they are. They're still in the postseason. They still

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Speaker 1: have a chance to do it again. Yeah, and they

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Speaker 1: still know how to get things done. Yeah. And I

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Speaker 1: think that's that's part of again, part of the reason

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Speaker 1: why you I went back and watched it in terms of, Okay,

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Speaker 1: where is this team? You know, as in the Falcons

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Speaker 1: the Rams compared to last year? Yeah? And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's not just the helmets and the fact that they

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Speaker 1: actually was kind of striking as you go back and

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Speaker 1: but at the same time, it's just everything about this

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Speaker 1: Rams team is different. True, And you know from the

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Speaker 1: to the way Todd Gurley looks when he's running the ball,

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Speaker 1: you know, the way they stretch and warm up everything.

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Speaker 1: I think last season Atlanta's arrow was definitely pointed that way,

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Speaker 1: watch Todd Gurley run and they have a lot of success. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's not just all about his ability, I mean in

425
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Speaker 1: the open field, it is his ability, but the timing

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Speaker 1: the offensive line and Jared Goff delivering the ball on

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Speaker 1: time in the right spot. Yes, I mean is very

428
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Speaker 1: determinate on this screen, working this play working. So to

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Speaker 1: keep Todd Gurley on the field, you have to keep

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Speaker 1: the offense on the field. That's not just thirty, that's

431
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Speaker 1: Jared yep, that's Jared making play, spreading the ball, around,

432
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Speaker 1: making that defense feel like, my god, they have thirteen

433
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Speaker 1: guys out here, and then you have to deal with

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Speaker 1: his hammers. So yeah, I mean the pre snap penalties,

435
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Speaker 1: the turnovers are down. You know, time of possession is

436
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Speaker 1: probably right where you want it. So yeah, that's those

437
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,240
Speaker 1: are all good quarterback numbers, which points to Jared Goff

438
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,360
Speaker 1: having a fantastic year. Yeah. And he finished twenty seventeen

439
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 1: completing sixty two percent of his passes, just over thirty

440
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Speaker 1: eight hundred yards, passing twenty eight touchdowns, seven interceptions, and

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Speaker 1: one hundred point five passer rating. So that's that's fifth

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Speaker 1: in league in passer rating. And I believe he's the

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Speaker 1: first rams touchdown in franchise history to have at least

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Speaker 1: twenty five touchdowns and fewer than ten interceptions. Oh, quarterback

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Speaker 1: quarterback touchdowns, twenty five touchdowns, fewer than ten picks. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean the single digit number, the lowest number on there,

447
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 1: to me, is the most impressive. Yep, the seven interception

448
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,400
Speaker 1: because it's not like Sean McVay is playing conservatives. He's

449
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,479
Speaker 1: letting it rip and you know you've turned it over

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Speaker 1: less than ten times. That's impressive. Eight point o yards

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Speaker 1: per attempt two, which is a really good number. You

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Speaker 1: want that number in the mid to high sevens to

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Speaker 1: the eights. So yeah, that speaks to it too. I

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Speaker 1: made this point yesterday with less Need the GM. I

455
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Speaker 1: think there's more to Jared Goff's game. He can improve,

456
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 1: He's going to improve, yeah, and there's more to this playbook. Well, heck,

457
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Speaker 1: he's only Jared Goff is only twenty three years old.

458
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's going to grow, which yeah, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we talked about it last season and Less

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Speaker 1: I believe brought this up a couple of times too.

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Speaker 1: The fact that Jared Goff came in was a twenty

462
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,160
Speaker 1: one year old quarterback turned twenty two in October, and

463
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Speaker 1: he was still one of the youngest starting quarterbacks in

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Speaker 1: the league. Still is one of the youngest starting quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: in the league this season, So that does speak to

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Speaker 1: the way he can grow over the course of the

467
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Speaker 1: next few years. He's going to get stronger, he's going

468
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Speaker 1: to get his football IQ is going to grow. His

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Speaker 1: time in this offense is going to increase. The more

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Speaker 1: reps you get, the better you are, the more players

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Speaker 1: you can run. But I'm seeing a lot more grown

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Speaker 1: man throws out of him. Yeah, then we've seen in

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Speaker 1: the past. I mean when he's got to put zip

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Speaker 1: on it, it gets there and there's no arc on

475
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Speaker 1: the football. It's a straight shot and it's accurate. So

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Speaker 1: I think you're going to see more and more of those,

477
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Speaker 1: kind of like Matt Stafford how they live up there

478
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Speaker 1: in Detroit, except with the benefit of a running game. Yeah. Yeah,

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00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: you don't have to just live and die off miracle passes.

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00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 1: You can actually be balanced, but your quarterback can put

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Speaker 1: it anywhere. So you're getting there with Jared. Yeah, and

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00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,200
Speaker 1: that's why you you finished the year is the number

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Speaker 1: one scoring team in the league. I do want to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about Aaron Donald a little bit, because

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Speaker 1: you know he missed a lot of the offseason program. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's got a movie coming out, by the way, starring

487
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Speaker 1: The Rock It's called Rampage. Yes, basically what he does, Yeah,

488
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Speaker 1: show up, just tear everything down. Movie ends next game.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but that's what it is that you're advertising

490
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Speaker 1: Rampage as pretty much what it is. Show up, destroy everything,

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Speaker 1: movie over. No. Rampage was like it was a video game,

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Speaker 1: Noe of the first video games I remember playing and

493
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Speaker 1: what's the object of Rampage Everything? Game over, reset right?

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Speaker 1: Rampage a true story based awful life and times of

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Speaker 1: Aaron Don Yes, and the old linemen are the buildings.

496
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Speaker 1: He's just going from building the building. When he's done,

497
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 1: it's nothing but rubble. I don't even know it. And yeah, no,

498
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: he's tremendous. I mean, you know, JB and Murice, we

499
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Speaker 1: were doing that all access and we were giving out

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Speaker 1: our our awards post our twenty seventeen awards. They asked

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Speaker 1: for most Improved and I said, Aaron Donald and they

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Speaker 1: all laughed. I said, why he did? He got better

503
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 1: from last year to this year? I know, Yeah, and

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00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: he missed all of training camps. Yeah, yeah in week one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you couldn't block him sixteen, You couldn't block him

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Speaker 1: last year. You really can't block him now. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: more improved and he's smarter. Well the only thing that's

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of funny haha, but probably not

509
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: for you know, checkbook and you know our argument things later.

510
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: But he had his twelfth sack. He forced the fumble

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Speaker 1: on Mariota and that was a sack until Mario recovered

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Speaker 1: the fumble. Yeah, fans the ball, which is unfod. It

513
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: happened to me, it should happen to him. That's a

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Speaker 1: sign of respect when they when they have to actually

515
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Speaker 1: call in or do the paperwork to the league and say, hey,

516
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Speaker 1: this wasn't a sack. I mean, we don't want this

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Speaker 1: on our ledger that that's so cool because we all

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Speaker 1: know what the hell just happened. I know, yeah, he

519
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: just beat up your whole player. I also want to

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Speaker 1: point out that DeMarco just said good on what would

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Speaker 1: have been Aaron Donald's twelfth sack, which would have broken

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Speaker 1: DeMarco's record, not the record, just having one taken back.

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Speaker 1: It happens to all of them. He said, yeah, But

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Speaker 1: I just want to point out your first reaction to

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Speaker 1: that was good, which it would have broken your record

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Speaker 1: for most sacks. But but I'm not saying good for

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Speaker 1: that history. I'm actually rude for the guy to break it.

528
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Speaker 1: But I'm just to have a team actually go through

529
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Speaker 1: the because I was shocked when the forty nine ers

530
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Speaker 1: did it to me. Really, you can do that, you

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Speaker 1: snitch my sack away. We all know it's a run play,

532
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Speaker 1: but why would you do that? Yeah, so good. I'm

533
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Speaker 1: glad it happened to him. It happens to everybody. Okay, yeah,

534
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Speaker 1: I know you do want him to break this, of course.

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Speaker 1: I want him to bury that record, absolutely, and that

536
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: he will also on the defensive line, though, are this

537
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Speaker 1: This is technically an outside linebacker, but Matt long Anchor

538
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: is going to be out for the postseason. He had

539
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: that back injury. We know that he did a nice

540
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: job of rotating in with Robert Quinn throughout the season.

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Speaker 1: It's actually third on the team with five and a

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Speaker 1: half sacks, which I think speaks to how well I

543
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: keep saying speaks to how well I keep using these

544
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: verbal crutches talking to I'm talking to the room. Okay again,

545
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Speaker 1: I'm right here, didn't I This happened yesterday Matt obviously, Yes, obviously,

546
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: and we were shooting something going to work. Yeah, okay,

547
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: that's cool. It just keeps That's fine. I know I'm

548
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: judging myself Twitter people again. No, I'm just you know,

549
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: I'm being probably a little too hard on myself in

550
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: real time. You got the best on some credit. Listen,

551
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: I gotta do it better. No, it starts with me,

552
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: and I have to do a better job. Oh my God, Okay,

553
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh just walked that. Yeah, I like it. I

554
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: think we really look at it. De Marco it starts, wow,

555
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: I love it. No, but no, I'm with you, Matt

556
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 1: long Agre. I feel bad for him not being here

557
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: because he's earned it. Um. That was the guy that

558
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 1: most people had written off in training campus. No way

559
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to find a spot in this

560
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: defense exactly, and here he is. And it was even

561
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 1: talking to him during the season, you got the sense

562
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 1: that he even was like, I wasn't sure where I

563
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: was going to fit because he's always been that defensive

564
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: end and then you put him an outside linebacker and

565
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: lot on behold. Wow. He actually he was playing really well.

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Speaker 1: I told him one day, I think he was still

567
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: in passes before you know, he went on I R

568
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:57,719
Speaker 1: I said, I don't know what to call you, so

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Speaker 1: I just call you football player. Yeah, I mean, I swear.

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Speaker 1: I think if you asked him to play linebacker or

571
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Speaker 1: like safety, he would try and find a way to

572
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,360
Speaker 1: be productive. Yeah. Just some guys can do that. Yeah,

573
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: and he's that kind of person. Okay, special teams though,

574
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: Sam Ficken obviously there was a big story after the

575
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans game where he missed a couple of kicks.

576
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: But what McVay said and what Fossil has said to

577
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Speaker 1: various media outlets is they like the way he responded.

578
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: He responded well, and I think he responded well in

579
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Speaker 1: this game against the forty nine ers two. McVeagh even said,

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Speaker 1: you probably would have liked to get him more field

581
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: goal opportunities. The Ram's offense just wasn't driving down the field.

582
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, that's because they're playing backups.

583
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: But he did. Ficken did hit two field goals. They're

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Speaker 1: twenty three twenty one yards, and then he made the

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00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: extra point when he had to. And I think maybe

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Speaker 1: the most important thing arguably, well I don't know if

587
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: it's the most important thing or not, but there was

588
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: another important aspect of this, and that's that he had

589
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: three kickoffs. All of them were touchbacks. Yeah, and that's

590
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: very important. That's very important because you can score on offense. Uh,

591
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: you know, your your kicker is a major part of

592
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: your scoring on this football team. But I mean, you

593
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: can put the ball in the box, so it's a

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00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: little bit different. But you know, kickoffs, especially in January

595
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: in the postseason, you want those balls out of play. Yep,

596
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: that's one more attempt they get to score. Ye. So

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00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: if you can limit that by having a guy that

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00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: can at least bang it out of the back of

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00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: the end zone, then so be it. I think that's

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00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: way more important than you know. I don't want to

601
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: say accuracy in field goals, that's that's important, but you know,

602
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: bring the argument was, let's bring in the veteran who

603
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: has who's who's really accurate from forty five and in

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00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: I said, well, what is he giving you on kickoffs?

605
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: Because those three points are one thing? But if he's

606
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: kicking everything to the one yard line and they're returning everything,

607
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: you're actually losing the field position battle. And I don't

608
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: like that. No coach likes that. So yeah, I thought

609
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: the most important thing that we saw out of him

610
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: was the kickoffs. Yeah yeah, And look, I mean, you're

611
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: you're not as good because you don't have your long

612
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: range gunner. Greg's rline is not in the building. He's

613
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: not going to walk through the door anytime soon. So

614
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: if you're in the paint, you don't have three points

615
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: in your back pocket. That does That doesn't mean Sunday

616
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: is lost. That just means your decisions get a little

617
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: bit different, that's all. Yes, And you know it's just

618
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: they're not asking Thicken to be Zerline. He's not going

619
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Speaker 1: to be Zeroline. Fossil said this when they when they

620
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: initially signed Thick in. It's but they need Ficken to

621
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Speaker 1: be the best that he can be. That's it. And

622
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: you know they're trying not to ask him to do

623
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: anything outside of his abilities, right, but when you're talking about, Okay,

624
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: can you drive the ball through the end zone for

625
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: a touchback? Can you kick it accurately where we need

626
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: to get points? That's the most important thing, and that

627
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: is something that I think he's showing that he can do.

628
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: I think they got better from the Tennessee deal when

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Speaker 1: they had an opportunity that was Zeroline range. I believe

630
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: they were just across the fifty remember this, they were, Yeah,

631
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: they were. It was the first drive they were in.

632
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: Um they're in field goal range for ze field goal

633
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: because it was about a fifty yard field goal, right,

634
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: And instead they went with that fake punt right, which

635
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: kind of worked, but Johnny just underthrew a correct So

636
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: I mean that's an idea or an indication of their

637
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: decision making from those points. Yeah, we're not in zerline range.

638
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: So we're not really in field goal range for this

639
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: football team as it stands, right, And that's something that

640
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: we're definitely going to have to groanitor this week as

641
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: the Rams are going to take on the Atlanta Falcons.

642
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: So what changes with postseason football? The intensity gets rasheted up.

643
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: Man's it's real. And I told this story to JB

644
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: just yesterday. I did succumb to the pressure. I will

645
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: admit that my first playoff game ever, it kind of

646
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: got to me. The environment and I realized, Man, that

647
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: was like the first time I'd actually had pads on

648
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: me at that point in time in a year, never

649
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: through college. I mean yeah, through college. I mean a

650
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: January first Bowl and then I was off. But before that,

651
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: I had like a month off. So playing football that

652
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: long was new. Each step, each rep I'm taking is

653
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: new ground for me. So that all came into play

654
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: pregame it kind of got to me. But then you

655
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: settle down, you see the ball in the air. It's

656
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: just football, go play. So everyone's going to have to

657
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 1: deal with that in certain aspects going out there and playing.

658
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you this, this is where if you

659
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: want to get played as a guy that's a difference

660
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: maker in the National Football League. I mean, everyone gets

661
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: paid well in this game, you know this. But if

662
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: you want to get paid as a difference maker, the

663
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: guys that make the most money, right, this is when

664
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: you earn it. This is when you go nos to

665
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: knows would say Julio Jones and turn him back. This

666
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: is when you take on an entire defense by yourself,

667
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: if you're Todd Gurley and absolutely rip it. Yeah. This

668
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: is how you separate yourself from a regular season guy

669
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: to a postseason possibly championship contender, right, and this is

670
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: this is the time that they have to do it. Yeah.

671
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: So looking at the Falcons, this is a team and

672
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: we alluded to this earlier. It scored two hundred fewer

673
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: points this year than last year. What do you see

674
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: on film for We'll start with their offense. What do

675
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: you see there? Well, Matt Ryan um like we talked

676
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: about that that hangover. I mean, the the the base

677
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: of their offense is good. I love their offensive line.

678
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: It's like an old school Denver Bronco type offensive line,

679
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: except without the cutting. I mean the same attention to detail.

680
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: I think the similarities between a Tom Naalen that was

681
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: in Denver, who I think might be a Pro bowler

682
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: or is going to the Pro Bowl at some point.

683
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: I think he might already be in at center. Same

684
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: thing with Alice Alex Mack. They can do things other

685
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: teams can't do. Alex, I'm sorry, Alex Mack. I want

686
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: to respect this guy, so they can do things that

687
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: other offenses can't do because of that. Yes, I mean

688
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: he is absolutely tremendous. So in the run game, they're

689
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: very professional. They're they're lighting the pants, but they're very

690
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: very quick. Well this and no get position on you

691
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: and the heartbeat right. It goes back to what Kyle

692
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: Shanahan was doing, which is why you're talking about the Yes,

693
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: Mike Shanahan's son, Mike Shanahan obviously former head coach of

694
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. But what dan Quinn was saying on

695
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: the conference call with some of us in the LA

696
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: media a couple days ago is that they wanted to

697
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: keep that base of the outside zone, the stretch reads

698
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: under Steve Sarkisian, who is now their offensive coordinator down

699
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. So that's why a lot of that stuff

700
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: still looks kind of the same, even though Kyle Shanahan

701
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: is now in Yan Francisco. Well, you watch them, man,

702
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: I mean they're great at what they do with those

703
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: zone blocks. I mean they'll have everybody hooked up front.

704
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: Five guys are blocking five, they've got all the blocks.

705
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: It's the running back has to beat one man and

706
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,320
Speaker 1: then it's off to the races. And if he can't

707
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: beat that one guy, you'll see those old linemen give

708
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: him a look. Really you can't beat him, really, I

709
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: mean really, you can't beat him. It's almost like a challenge.

710
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, Freeman or whoever starts

711
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: carrying the football and they start defeating that single that

712
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: one guy you can't block, and then it's off to

713
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: the races running. So it's a similar sort of offense

714
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: with a quarterback that can throw off play action or

715
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: if it's third and a mile and you've got to

716
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: pick up you know, a big chunky yards to pick

717
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: up the first down, Well he can get it there

718
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,719
Speaker 1: and you've got receivers to catch it. So they're a

719
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: good offense, a very very good offense. Well, they're efficient too,

720
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 1: and they get down the field and they score points.

721
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: I think we saw that last week when they were

722
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,479
Speaker 1: playing the Carolina Panthers. And even though you know they're

723
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 1: in position to maybe score more points, but they're getting

724
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: down the field, and you know, when it's the second half,

725
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: they're kicking those field goals and Bryant is making sure

726
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: that they're getting points. It's almost a little bit like

727
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: the way the Rams offense was functioning kind of earlier

728
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: in the season. They can get down the field and

729
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: they can get points on you. Yeah, it's important to

730
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: hold those points to field goals rather than touchdown every

731
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: round that they every drive, I consider it around they're

732
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: doing damage. It may not be max damage, but it's

733
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: a little bit of damage. By the fourth quarter, you're

734
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: a bloody mess. And then they've got you right where

735
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: they want you if they don't turn the ball over. So,

736
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: I mean, they know exactly what they're doing. This is

737
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: a very credible offense. Now you can say they're not

738
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,240
Speaker 1: as good as last year. You can make that mistake

739
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: if you want, right, Yeah, I mean they can move

740
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: the football down I'll say this. Julio Jones over fourteen

741
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: hundred yards receiving in only three touchdowns. Yep, there's your

742
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: scoring there, But it's not like you're stopping the guy. Sure, yeah,

743
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 1: he's having his way with anybody's defense. Well, I think

744
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: what people are sort of underestimating or maybe overstating, I

745
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: don't know, is that he had six touchdowns last year, right,

746
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: and he has three this year. So three touchdowns is

747
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: is significant, But it's not that it's not as far

748
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: off I think as people make it seem like it is. Yeah,

749
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I mean they may

750
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: not be scoring touchdowns, but they're putting you in the

751
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,879
Speaker 1: red zone a lot. Right, Yeah, they're getting down the field.

752
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: They can move the ball with the best of them all.

753
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,360
Speaker 1: How about those two backs, DeVante Freeman and Tevin Coleman.

754
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,919
Speaker 1: I think in the Saints game from Week sixteen, Yeah,

755
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: you kind of saw the Saints limit what they were

756
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: doing with the Falcons. I should say, let me take

757
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 1: a time out here, go ahead, all right, you saw

758
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: the Saints kind of limit the Falcons in terms of

759
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: what they were doing with their backs, especially out of

760
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: the backfield. Sure, then last week against the Panthers they

761
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: really went back to that with Freeman. You look at Freeman.

762
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: I think he had eight receptions somewhere around eighty yards.

763
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: How do the rams have to contend with that? Well,

764
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: it's similar, man, I mean similar to what you know.

765
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: Sean McVay and Jared Goff and Todd Gurley are given defenses.

766
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: I mean, they'll get you out of the backfield with

767
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 1: those screens. I mean I love to pause it. When

768
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: they do run a screen, you'll catch four defenders up

769
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: the field with a quarterback and one blocker, and they've

770
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: got four offensive linemen going down the field against your

771
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: second level and those guys are coming back from fifteen

772
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 1: yards and up. So it's all about the timing and

773
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: where Matt Ryan puts the football, where any quarterback puts

774
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: the football. And for the most part, they're accurate, and

775
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: they're very, very timely, and they've got good quick back

776
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: so as soon as they make that catch, it's in

777
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 1: an advantageous spots or all they have to do is

778
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: turn north and south and get yards and if they

779
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: make a guy miss, it's off to the races again.

780
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: So the same things we love about this offense is

781
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: the same thing that makes them successful on the other side.

782
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: Now they don't have an MVP Todd gurl At running back.

783
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: But they do have guys that can hurt you. There's

784
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: two of them out there, yes, yeah, and that's what

785
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: the Rams definitely have to look at. I want to

786
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: quickly want to go to Grady Jarrett on their defensive

787
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: line because I think he can be a game wrecker

788
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. He was against Carolina. What

789
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: do you see from his technique? Well, this is funny.

790
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: I mean if we go back to the old Denver

791
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,919
Speaker 1: Bronco San Francisco forty nine ers, well, Dan Quinn kind

792
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 1: of came up at the tail end of the forty

793
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: nine er dominance the late nineties. Yeah, so he took

794
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: that same similar approach to excellence and discipline on defense

795
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: and just two team building to Atlanta and if you

796
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: look at their defensive staff, Bryant Young is there. I mean,

797
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: some of the forty nine ers best players on defense

798
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: are coaching Atlanta's defense and you can see it through

799
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: how they play. So they're very tenacious. They get after

800
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: you with four they make it like a super g

801
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: slalom course. Right, those wickets and gates aren't gonna move.

802
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna play very disciplined defense and pass

803
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: coverage and against the run um it's it all depends

804
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 1: on how fast you get through there. But they're not

805
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: going to beat themselves. You don't see any freelancing going on.

806
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: The defense is better than the sum of their parts.

807
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 1: They really get after you with all eleven. They pursue hard.

808
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:15,919
Speaker 1: You can get them with misdirection. But if you get

809
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: into like I like to say, a hitter's count or

810
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: a pitcher's count if it's third and a long, third

811
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: and long, They've got fast guys that can get to

812
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: your quarterback in a blank. So if they get you

813
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: where they want you, chances are they're gonna get out there.

814
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: Whether that's Jared or Vic Beasley Junior, both of those

815
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: guys can can really kind of wreck a game. One

816
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: thing that has come has come up over the course

817
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: of this week is that the Falcons play this cover

818
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: three structure. Right that goes back to the Seahawks and

819
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: what the Seahawks do, same thing. Yes, because Dan Quinn

820
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: was with the Seahawks, and yeah, Robert Salah who is

821
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers defensive coordinator, also was with the Seahawks.

822
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 1: And you can say Jacksonville's defensive coordinator. Guess where we're

823
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: gonna be. We're gonna be a cover three, right, We're

824
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,240
Speaker 1: not gonna change, That's what I'm saying. Ye, so other things,

825
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: So guys have said, Okay, yes, they play that same

826
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: structure or the cover three, and the Rams have seen

827
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: that probably seven times over the course of the regular

828
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: in preseason. Are there things that you can tell from

829
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: Atlanta that make them a little bit different than what

830
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: the Rams have seen so far this year? No, Uh,

831
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty similar. It's it's a standard defense. Like

832
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: you said, they sacrifice size for speed and they've got

833
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 1: guys that can pursue, but they're not overly tricky. Yeah,

834
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,280
Speaker 1: they don't have the legion of boom. You know, they

835
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: didn't have a Cam Chancellor out there. Seattle doesn't even

836
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: have the legion of Boom anymore. But when they did

837
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: same deal, it was just a little bit of a

838
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 1: little bit more oom when they got to the football.

839
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: They don't have a Bobby Wagoner at middle linebacker. So

840
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: they're not, I don't want to say not as good.

841
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: They're just they don't have top one hundred players on defense.

842
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 1: But it's a similar scheme. It's still gonna make you

843
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: have to sing for your supper and work for it

844
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: because they're gonna come up and make tackles sing for

845
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: your supper. I like the oh yeah, I mean if

846
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: tight end, if you catch a pass on the hash marks, no,

847
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: you're gonna get hit. Hold on to the football because

848
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: they're trying to rip it out. If you're going deep,

849
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: just no, it's you're gonna have to fight for it.

850
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: There's a safety there that's gonna come over and contest.

851
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: Like you said with Jared Goff or your offensive line.

852
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: If it's third and a mile, they're gonna get those

853
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: ends wide. Those tackles are gonna be wide and they're

854
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: flying off the football. So it's a personal challenge. You

855
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: don't have to wonder where they're going to be. They're

856
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: gonna be right there. You just have to block them.

857
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: They have four break tackles right now. They have not

858
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: allowed a one hundred yard rusher in the last four games.

859
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,280
Speaker 1: And I was talking to Jamal Brown about this yesterday

860
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: and he said that, yeah, we kind of do sort

861
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 1: of take it as a challenge because we know who

862
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: we've got behind us running the football, and we know

863
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: what we've done against top competition, you know. And it's

864
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: interesting because you look at the way the Rams ran

865
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: the ball against the Eagles, who came in as the

866
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: number one rush defense. You look at the way they

867
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,439
Speaker 1: ran the ball up in Seattle, you know, you look

868
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 1: at the way they did it against Tennessee. Something's got

869
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: to give here because this is too good off a

870
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 1: good offense and a good defense, and they're gonna clash

871
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: at some point, Like if we don't have the knock

872
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: on Wood. The takeaway is if you don't shoot yourself

873
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: in the foot with turnovers or pre snap penalties, and

874
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: you keep all things equal like first and second down,

875
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: first and ten, second and medium, you'll keep your third

876
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: down short. Yeah, And that's not a knock on Atlanta.

877
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: That's me saying how good this offense can be with

878
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley. So you know, it stands to wonder how

879
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: Sean McVay is going to attack this defense. First, Are

880
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: you gonna come out firing? Are you gonna run the football? Um?

881
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: I think offensive offenses have tried both ways against Atlanta.

882
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: I think the teams have had the most success start

883
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: out slamming the ball at them and then start to

884
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: throw off play action and then all of a sudden

885
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter they start to wild. So I

886
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: would imagine it would be a similar type game plan

887
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 1: for for the Rams versus the falcon Yeah. I'm really

888
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: looking forward to this one. I mean, it's gonna be

889
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: the first playoff game I've ever attended, let alone covered really,

890
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:51,439
Speaker 1: you know, oh yeah, yeah, Oh my bad, sorry man, Yeah,

891
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: well yeah, which is kind of funny, but like, no,

892
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: I just think the atmosphere and everything about this game.

893
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: You know, the first playoff game in Los Angeles in

894
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: over twenty years. You know, it was funny. Actually, I

895
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: looked this up. Wade Phillips was on the field as

896
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: the opposing head coach for the last playoff game in

897
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: the Coliseum. You're kidding me? Wow, Yeah, he was the

898
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: Broncos head coach and they lost to the Raiders. I

899
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: love it. Think of his notes, I know, oh my god, right, yes,

900
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: I can't wait for the book. Has he written the

901
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: book yet? He has written a book. You haven't read

902
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: his book? Seven, I haven't read his book. No, you

903
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 1: gotta read the I gotta read the book. Is it interesting? Yeah, okay,

904
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 1: lots of stories, fascinating. I want the real stuff. Yeah, yeah,

905
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: I want names and numbers in circumstances. Got names in

906
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: there and circumstance. I want everything. Yeah, I don't say

907
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: Joe Peluca. I want to know. I want to hear

908
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: the guy Oka. Single most important thing the Rams have

909
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: to do to beat the Falcons this week? Oh man, Um,

910
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: be ready to play on Saturday. That's number one. I mean,

911
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: that's that's a little bit different. Um, you haven't done

912
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: that before. Um, you're gonna have to gas it up.

913
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:00,359
Speaker 1: It's a late game, it is, yeahoff, So I'm that's

914
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: body clock deal. But it breaks down everything we've said

915
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: for like the last sixteen seventeen weeks. Take care of

916
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: the football. Number one. Yeah, you can't have takeaways in

917
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: the postseason. If you do, that's a problem. Especially with

918
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, they know how to capitalize. So that's number one.

919
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: Number two, when it's time for you to make a

920
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: play as a player, no matter who you are, either

921
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: offense or defense or special teams, when it's time for

922
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: you to make a play, you have to make it

923
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,919
Speaker 1: being at your best when your best is required. That's

924
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: another Sean mcveighism. Absolutely all the time. That's the one

925
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: thing you don't get you don't get them back in

926
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 1: the postseason. Yeah, like you know what, I'll get it

927
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: next time. No, you mean you'll get it next year. Yeah. Yeah.

928
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 1: So that's the intensity of postseason. All right, everybody. I

929
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: am really looking forward to this one. I know that

930
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: you are too. So Saturday five fifteen at the call,

931
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: see and we hope to see you there. And if not,

932
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: kickoff is going to be at five fifteen, which I

933
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: just said on NBC, and of course you can listen

934
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: to the call on ESPN LA with DeMarco MJD. We

935
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: are out of time outs, Yeah, we just gott spikes

936
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: the ball and forth down that quarterback. I hope enjoy

937
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:05,959
Speaker 1: the game. Everybody will see you next week.