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Speaker 1: Welcome to between the Horns. Everybody Miles sevens here at

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Speaker 1: DeMarco far It is Wednesday, November seventh. DeMarco is laughing

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Speaker 1: because that's what he does. Gate Seattle's come in the town.

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Speaker 1: Seattle is coming to tell he's good, always good. Big

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Speaker 1: Division rivalry this weekend. But the Rams are undefeated, I

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Speaker 1: should say no more. They are now eight and one

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Speaker 1: after falling to the New Orleans Saints in the Mercedes

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Speaker 1: Benz Superdome. Five. Yes, Um, that game was a lot

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Speaker 1: I think. I think it was a lot of process.

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Speaker 1: It was fun. It was because the Rams came back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: down twenty one in the second quarter. You don't see

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Speaker 1: a lot of teams come back like the Rams ended

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Speaker 1: up doing. And I think that says a lot just

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Speaker 1: I think the Rocky franchise was started on something like this. Really.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you get all the way to just about

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Speaker 1: winning and then you lose. But the fact that they

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Speaker 1: came back there, and how they came back piece by piece,

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Speaker 1: tie the dang thing up at thirty five. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean that that that's that's an amazing effort. Um you

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Speaker 1: didn't get the result, the end result that you wanted,

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Speaker 1: but there were some there were some true moments in

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Speaker 1: that game where you saw a championship effort and attitude

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Speaker 1: and intensity out of both sides. So yes, yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure, like there's only they can only be one winner.

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Speaker 1: I know there are ties, but they can only be

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Speaker 1: one winner in a game like that, and the Saints

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Speaker 1: got it. But you know, I bet the NFL as

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Speaker 1: a whole was happy. I mean that that was a

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Speaker 1: barn burner of a football game. It was, And I

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Speaker 1: think what you said it is true. Look, there's only

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Speaker 1: one winner, but there were those kind of championship moments

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Speaker 1: you know where you're playing at that really high level

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Speaker 1: where you know, Andrew Wittworth said this after the game.

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Speaker 1: You see in this league there are times when teams

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Speaker 1: will go down like that they have a bad half.

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Speaker 1: But you don't often see is teams have a good

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Speaker 1: second half on the road in a hostile environment to

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Speaker 1: not only get back into the game, but you actually

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Speaker 1: and put that together. I mean when you're down thirty

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Speaker 1: eight thirty five. That's almost what I expected at that point.

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Speaker 1: You know, if the Rams were a bad team when

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Speaker 1: they when the Saints went up twenty one points, I

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Speaker 1: mean I bet that game would have ended with a

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Speaker 1: lopsided score. They that team would have probably lost by

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Speaker 1: forty points. I mean, when the Saints go ahead of

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Speaker 1: you like that and they just seem like they're about

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Speaker 1: to bury you, well, I mean, this is different. This

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Speaker 1: team is different. Both teams are different. You know, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna make plays enough players to either get back in

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Speaker 1: the game or win the football game. And sure enough,

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Speaker 1: it came down to the fourth quarter. Just a handful

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Speaker 1: of plays separated each team from a winning a loss.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens with the good teams. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: you hear that said a lot about just different teams

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Speaker 1: in the NFL in different games in the NFL. That's

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Speaker 1: the Falcons in the Super Bowl. It comes down to

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Speaker 1: no a man, it comes down to one or two plays,

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Speaker 1: and teams like to say that, but I think that

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Speaker 1: this was a game where it was actually true, no doubt,

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Speaker 1: Because a lot of times when they are bad teams

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Speaker 1: and they say that, you're like well, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't do that for me, for the Rams, it

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Speaker 1: was sort of this sequence of plays that happened, especially

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Speaker 1: that's one thing. But now you're coming back in the

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Speaker 1: that happened on third and seven. It did in a

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Speaker 1: that was playoff football in November, right, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: in this is the regular season. This is just one loss.

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Speaker 1: There's a long way to go. It's not the end

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Speaker 1: But this is one game. And I think the thing

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Speaker 1: different players and are they happy they lost? No. But

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Speaker 1: We had to get back to work. We have we

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Speaker 1: It did not seem to crush anybody that they did

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Speaker 1: think everyone would rather the team be up, you know,

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Speaker 1: be undefeated still of course, but yes, some of your

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Speaker 1: best teaching, best learning, and best seasons come after a loss.

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Speaker 1: I mean, when you get to taste what it feels

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Speaker 1: like to lose. Sean McVay said in his at the

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Speaker 1: It's true. Yeah, So that's gonna refocus everybody. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: in November, how beat up I am, right, especially if

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Speaker 1: you haven't had the piper. Yeah, I don't care how

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Speaker 1: don't care who you are. Well, it probably wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: for the rams because they usually just do walkthroughs on

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Speaker 1: I mean, even being with the attention to details different.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's great for a football team. I

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Speaker 1: think what Sea they said was setbacks can sometimes be

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Speaker 1: setups for comebacks. Oh yeah, yeah, that's one of That

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Speaker 1: We haven't heard him after a loss. Oh yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: the things that McVay always says is, nobody flunch, nobody blank.

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Speaker 1: If we face him adversity, we just gotta go and

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Speaker 1: last year, you know, in terms of just coming well

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Speaker 1: heard Sean mcvayh in the locker room after all the

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Speaker 1: that's exactly how they went about their business, right. It

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Speaker 1: We've got to take this one day at a time

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Speaker 1: in the practice week. We've got to take it a

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Speaker 1: the games. Then afterwards they're asking players, oh, have you

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Speaker 1: ever thought about an undefeated season? No, they have not,

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Speaker 1: because that's not what that's not this team's mentality. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing negative about being undefeated. I said this to

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Speaker 1: Sean mcvagh and he didn't know what I was talking about.

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Speaker 1: I was actually talking to those people that undefeat it's bad.

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Speaker 1: Undefeat is this or you should go after the undefeat

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Speaker 1: You care about winning the next game. Yep, that's it. Yep. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So right now the Rams are and one, Yes, that's it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they're looking to go one and oh this week.

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Speaker 1: That's their mentality. Yes. And to do that though, they're

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Speaker 1: I think we know that tackling, Yes, yeah, tackling tack

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Speaker 1: when people are talking about albun Kamara because he makes

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Speaker 1: you don't love the title. That's okay, I'm with it. Okay, yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: But let's talk about Marcus Peters because he is now

424
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Speaker 1: I think maybe rightly or wrongly, become the sort of

425
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Speaker 1: scapegoat on the Rams defense. Do you agree with that statement?

426
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Speaker 1: First off? You know, okay, um, I can't mention his name,

427
00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:42,880
Speaker 1: but I had a famous corner, great player NFC West guy.

428
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Speaker 1: Tell me. I asked him, what is it like to

429
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Speaker 1: play corner in the NFL? Can I use a curse word?

430
00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:52,439
Speaker 1: Will get bleeped? It depends? Okay, sugar to bleep, sugar

431
00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,200
Speaker 1: too bleep, that's what it's like. Yeah, so it's great

432
00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:59,760
Speaker 1: and sugar salt fair enough. But he that's how he

433
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,480
Speaker 1: just scribe it. I mean, you can be up, you

434
00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,119
Speaker 1: can be playing great and then all of a sudden,

435
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,399
Speaker 1: one play gets behind you and it's the other right,

436
00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,320
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is play in that position. Yes, yeah,

437
00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,639
Speaker 1: So is that what you're seeing right now on film

438
00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,359
Speaker 1: for Marcus Peterson? Yeah, I mean there's some things that

439
00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,800
Speaker 1: he can do better, and I'm sure he's being told

440
00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:18,719
Speaker 1: what he needs to do to get better, and I'm

441
00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,240
Speaker 1: sure he already knows what he needs to do to

442
00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,640
Speaker 1: get better. Get down, get set, get ready to play right.

443
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:29,000
Speaker 1: And the one thing that you can't do as a defender,

444
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,520
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are, from Aaron Donald on

445
00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:33,879
Speaker 1: all the way back to LaMarcus Joiner. You can't commit

446
00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,280
Speaker 1: what I call critical errors if you know you don't

447
00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,280
Speaker 1: have help over the top and there's a receiver that

448
00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,040
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be covering that's in front of you,

449
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,080
Speaker 1: get the guy on the ground. Forget trying to make

450
00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,159
Speaker 1: a play on the ball. Get him on the ground.

451
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,879
Speaker 1: To me, that last play should have been a plus

452
00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,600
Speaker 1: thirty where he caught it and then a few steps

453
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,119
Speaker 1: and then he's down, and then you line up and

454
00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,679
Speaker 1: play again. What you can't do is go after the

455
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,960
Speaker 1: football against the best passer in the history of the

456
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,480
Speaker 1: game and try to knock it out to the air.

457
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,920
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen right once you miss. There's

458
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:04,359
Speaker 1: no one in front of you, there's no one in

459
00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,959
Speaker 1: front of him, there's just a goal line. So those

460
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,359
Speaker 1: things you can't have happened. So and I'm sure if

461
00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:12,600
Speaker 1: you could have a duover, he'd play that play a

462
00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,240
Speaker 1: little bit differently. But you can't look at that one

463
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 1: play and say he's a bad corner or I had

464
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:20,639
Speaker 1: a bad game. There were some plays he made in

465
00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 1: that game that were phenomenal, tremendous against the run. Yeah, yeah,

466
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:27,520
Speaker 1: some some adjustments he made that were great. So if

467
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Speaker 1: you want to be down on them, so be it.

468
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Speaker 1: But it's not going to bother him, and it's not

469
00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 1: going to bother the defense. It's not going to bother

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Speaker 1: this football team. They're even play you said in the

471
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Speaker 1: run game, but even in the past game. I mean,

472
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Speaker 1: he had a pass breakup down the right sideline early

473
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Speaker 1: on in that contest. So it's not like every pass.

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Speaker 1: You know, he was being burnt on. And I'm not

475
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:49,280
Speaker 1: trying to just just sugarcoat or you know, blow rainbows

476
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Speaker 1: at people's rear ends when I'm talking about Marcus Peters

477
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Speaker 1: in his play. I mean, there's obviously some things that

478
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,919
Speaker 1: he has to do better, and he knows that. You know,

479
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 1: he even said after the game, you know, with some

480
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 1: colorful language, that we can yeah exactly. Yeah, But I

481
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 1: mean basically what he was saying, he didn't make any excuses,

482
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 1: took accountability, and he said, I have to be better.

483
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,919
Speaker 1: I've been playing poor football. He didn't say poor, he

484
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,399
Speaker 1: owned it. Yeah, yeah, he owned it, and so you

485
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 1: don't always see that. And I think his teammates appreciate that.

486
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,399
Speaker 1: Probably Sean McVay said that was the best thing about it,

487
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,000
Speaker 1: that he took that accountability and he's going to continue

488
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,480
Speaker 1: to work and he's we know that about him. But

489
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting too that you heard from

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Speaker 1: LaMarcus Joyner after the game and as another secondary guy,

491
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Speaker 1: and I think the question was basically, Okay, how do

492
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Speaker 1: you help you know your teammate when your teammates, you know,

493
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 1: saying that you know, I've been playing poorly, I've been

494
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Speaker 1: doing this, I've been doing that. And LaMarcus Joyner even

495
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,200
Speaker 1: said Marcus Peters is a liar. You know, we know

496
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Speaker 1: that there are some things he can do better. But

497
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Speaker 1: we don't feel like he's you know, bad or anything badda.

498
00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,120
Speaker 1: But we're with him. You know, we know that he's

499
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Speaker 1: going to get back to playing the football. He knows

500
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Speaker 1: he can play. It's funny story. I just saw the

501
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,239
Speaker 1: other guy. He's he's a former teammate. He was with

502
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Speaker 1: us for a year and then he left in with

503
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 1: the Tennessee wound up playing him in the Super Bowl.

504
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 1: So I saw him on the sidelines, right, And I

505
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 1: brought up a story to him nineteen ninety eight. We

506
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: called he's a defensive end. We called a stunt between

507
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 1: me and him. That means it didn't come off the bench.

508
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,840
Speaker 1: It's something we're gonna do right, right, So I'm gonna

509
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 1: go first. You're gonna come around and cover me. Okay.

510
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 1: So the play, the ball snaps, I fly upfield, he

511
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 1: doesn't come around, The ball hits right where he should be,

512
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 1: right scores. I think we lose. So Monday's meeting comes

513
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: around and we're watching and it gets to that play

514
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 1: and I get ripped, yeah, because it looks like I'm

515
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Speaker 1: the one void in the play. Yes, and he never

516
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: spoke up for me. Huh, he just sat there, right,

517
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Speaker 1: So what what do you think I should do in

518
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 1: that situation? I think that later in kangaroo court we

519
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 1: find the hell out of that guy maybe, or just

520
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 1: take it and move on. Well, I think we move on. Yeah.

521
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Speaker 1: But that's same with Marcus Peter and what you said

522
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: about la Marcus. We don't know what's going on on

523
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Speaker 1: the field. We don't know what the calls are, or

524
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: the checks are, or what they're communicating. So it may

525
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 1: look like it's Marcus Peters giving up to play, but

526
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 1: in reality, it could have been somebody else that he's

527
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: trying to cover for or should have been there. We

528
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,879
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, so it's it's team defense. So at

529
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,959
Speaker 1: some point, like he did after the game, you just

530
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,679
Speaker 1: own it. I need to play better, yeah, to believe me.

531
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: And the guy that made the mistake in that situation

532
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: is listening and he's thanking you inside for taking the heat.

533
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: I know I should be better. So he's saying, I

534
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: need to be better, I need to do things better.

535
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: I need to play better. Guy over here is saying,

536
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Speaker 1: you know what, I am going to play better because

537
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,640
Speaker 1: you're taking the heat for me. Yeah, it works out

538
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 1: that way. That's team defense. Yeah, and that's why they

539
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: say it takes all eleven to be on the same

540
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 1: page in order. Did you think in order to play

541
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: well as a team on defense, especially I don't know

542
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: to me in this league right now, And I'm going

543
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 1: to go off on a little tangent like it's easier

544
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 1: right now than ever before for quarterbacks to complete passes,

545
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 1: for drives to get stended. For basically, quarterbacks to put

546
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: up numbers that we've never seen in this league before. Yeah, right,

547
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 1: no doubt. It is easy to do that, not to

548
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,120
Speaker 1: make fun of a guy, but I think CJ. Bethard

549
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: came up with a new way to pick up first downs.

550
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: Stand there in the pocket and just get your head

551
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,239
Speaker 1: taken off. Sure, let him hit you, right, you'll get

552
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: the personal foul even CJ. Bethard's completing passes or looking

553
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 1: like an NFL quarterback. Right. So then when you look

554
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: at Buffalo, you really have to say that Nathan Peterman

555
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: is one of the worst quarterbacks in the history of football,

556
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: because if you can't complete passes in today's NFL, and

557
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: I know that some of these passes are being tipped

558
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,399
Speaker 1: and all, but all you're doing is throwing pick sixes.

559
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, in the NFL boile bashing the Bills said,

560
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: I said, I was going off on a tangent. Okay,

561
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: here's why. Here's why because I read an article this week.

562
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: I know, and like, I'm just I'm using, what's the

563
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,080
Speaker 1: article good? But no, it was in The Athletic and

564
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: it was by a Buffalo writer, I think Tim Graham,

565
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 1: who I actually really like, which is why I read it.

566
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: And I have an Athletic subscription, and it's really cool

567
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: that you get to read all the articles from everybody

568
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 1: around the league. Awesome. So but it basically the point

569
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 1: he was making, what and I respect this point, was

570
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna just gonna keep bashing Nathan Peterman because

571
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 1: like they keep sending him out there, but like, you know,

572
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: he seems like he's a good guy and he's a

573
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:27,679
Speaker 1: good teammate and da da da da da da da

574
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,640
Speaker 1: da da. But like, at what point do you call

575
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: it what it is? You know what I'm saying, because

576
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 1: if in twenty eighteen, you you can't complete a pass

577
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 1: and I don't, and I'm not trying to make this

578
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: about you know, people who are unsigned to teams, Like

579
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: this just is what it is. Like you have to

580
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: be able to call a spade a spade, man. Yeah,

581
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:50,199
Speaker 1: it's easier than ever in twenty eighteen. The game is

582
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: made for offense and you and you are throwing that

583
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: many picks, brah, Like I understand that, Like there's no

584
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,479
Speaker 1: control of who gets sit out there, like you're on

585
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,399
Speaker 1: your third string quarterback obviously, and then it's time Matt

586
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 1: Barkley and like dot even I really want to see

587
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: him at either but like man like, let's just call

588
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: a spade a spade. He's not good, right, Okay, he's

589
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: very bad. He's historically bad, especially when you consider where

590
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 1: we are in the end of I get it, That's

591
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,439
Speaker 1: all I want to say. I think I get his point. Um,

592
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: we know he's bad, but Buffalo is gonna keep sending

593
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: him out there. So what's the point that's I know, Yeah,

594
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,400
Speaker 1: I get where he's coming from, and I get where

595
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 1: you're coming from. I think I get where you're coming from. Ipe.

596
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: I don't know why we're talking about this because I

597
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about I didn't really I didn't really

598
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: want to talk about it. Doesn't Oh okay, okay, this

599
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,439
Speaker 1: is me just using the fifty minutes that I have

600
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: to yeah, say something that I guess I really wanted

601
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 1: to say this week. If you can't complete passes in

602
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, like you said, when the league is wide

603
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: open offensively, you're bad. But I don't care if it's

604
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight, nineteen eighty eight. If you can't complete passes,

605
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: you're bad. Oh, I know. Yeah, So he's historically bad.

606
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 1: He's historically bad, yes, historically historically bad. Yeah, But somebody

607
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: who's been quite good historically good, yes, is Todd Gurley.

608
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: Oh boy, as we started talking about the Rams again,

609
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: Sorry everybody, but yeah, I mean Gurley now, who's said

610
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 1: a franchise record with twelve straight regular season games in

611
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: which he's played with a touchdown. That to me is

612
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: crazy because you can go back to the Greatest Show

613
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: on Turf days and that didn't even happen with Marsha. No,

614
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: he's a horse Manum, he is a war daddy, a

615
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 1: war daddy. I mean he is a stud whatever you call,

616
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: the best guy on the field, the toughest guy, the

617
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: best athlete. He is that. Um. You know, you watch

618
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: him on carries where he's in the open field and

619
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: he becomes dynamic. He makes guys miss, he becomes slippery.

620
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: You watch him in the hole when he's surrounded. He's

621
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: got to turn into a power back. I mean he's

622
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty pounds or whatever he is, right,

623
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: I mean he can just morph into whatever you need

624
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: on the one step, and he's so smart. His pass

625
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: protections are great, right, yeah, just everything about him is tremendous.

626
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 1: So whatever however we're labeling great players on football teams.

627
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: He is everything, He's that and more, right, Yeah, and

628
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: there's more for him to do. There's he still has

629
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: room to grow. That's the scary thing. Yeah. The great

630
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: part about girl is that he also always talks about

631
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: that and that he you know, it's never just enough,

632
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: you know. And I think that one of the things

633
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: he loves doing is getting better and working to get

634
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: better and adding different elements to his game. And that's

635
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: the beauty right now of the Sean McVay offense is

636
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: that they can continue to do that and he's got

637
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: somebody who can design plays for him to be so

638
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: effective each and every Sunday. How many touches do you

639
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: have the numbers? How many touches does he have right now?

640
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: Does he have right now? He's leading the league. It's

641
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: something like, um, I can play a lot in just

642
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: a second. Yes, it's it's a ton, it's so the

643
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: other part is physical for him. Two nineteen, two hundred

644
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: nineteen touches total. Yeah, and we're just getting to week ten. Yeah. Yeah,

645
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's a lot of touches. So part

646
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: of that is availability, which means those two hundred plus touches,

647
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: I'd say one hundred and ninety end in some sort

648
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: of car wreck, probably big time collisions, and you've got

649
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: to roll over, get up, and do it again on

650
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: the next play. So besides the fact that he's fast,

651
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: he can catch, he can do all these things, his

652
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: toughness is unreal. And that's the only thing you can't

653
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: put a stat on. You can't put a stat on

654
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: his heart, his passion and his toughness. That to me

655
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: is tremendous if you look at it. You have to

656
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: go back to his rookie year to say the last

657
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: time he missed a game due to injury, and that

658
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: was Week seventeen against the San Francisco forty nine ers.

659
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: That was after the week where the Ramps had played Seattle.

660
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: I guess that was on the Christmas or something, and

661
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: then we had stayed in Napa. You remember that, yeah, yeah, yeah,

662
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: So then he had like some kind of turf toe injury,

663
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 1: I want to say, and so he did He probably

664
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: could have played if need be, but he didn't play

665
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: against the Niners. The Rams ended up losing that game

666
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: and then went seven to nine instead of eight and eight.

667
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: But I think if you look at Todd Gurley and

668
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: just what you're saying, look, the availability is there, right,

669
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: you know, And like James Laurenius always used to say this,

670
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: the most is we go back to the twenty fifteen

671
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: Rams even more, but the most important ability is availability, right.

672
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: And so if you look, Todd Gurley played all sixteen,

673
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: started all sixteen in twenty sixteen. He was available to

674
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: play all sixteen last year, but then you arrested everybody

675
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen, also against the Niners, and then this

676
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: year he has started and played every single game. So

677
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: that is why this works so well. You know, everybody

678
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: says the Rams offense runs through Todd Gurley, and that's true.

679
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: But it's able to do that because he's out on

680
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: the field so much. Pretty much, I'm right there with you, man,

681
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: And look when I'm on the field and I can

682
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: see him, and I can see things that I guess

683
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: other people can't see, like how he's going down and

684
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: what actually happens to him when he hits the deck.

685
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: Marshall Falk told me this about running backs, and it

686
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: didn't really occur to me because they used to be

687
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: targets for me. I'm just chasing you around. You're a destination.

688
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: But it never occurred to me that running backs can't

689
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: protect themselves from the ground for the most part because

690
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: they're carrying the football, right me, If I get if

691
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: Aaron gets knocked on the ground, he can put his

692
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: hands out because he's not carrying the rock. Running backs

693
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: are different, man. I mean you're going on your head,

694
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: You're going on your shoulder, yeah, you know, just with

695
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: guys on top of you. And I'm like, oh, that

696
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: must hurt. And then he bounces up, jogs back to

697
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: the hubble. Even if it does hurt, He's not going

698
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,959
Speaker 1: to tell you or show you that stuff. That stuff

699
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: playing the game within the game is huge. Well, if

700
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,239
Speaker 1: you look at his snap counts, and so I'm on

701
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: Pro football reference dot com right now looking at this

702
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: and pro shout out to Pro Football Reference because I

703
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: would not be able to do my job without them.

704
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: But he has played right now, eighty four percent of

705
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: the Rams offensive snaps. That is a big number for

706
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: a running back because you don't usually see guys out

707
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: there on the field for that many snap No, you're

708
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: three down back, Yes, yeah, you're a guy. You're a

709
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: guy that doesn't come off the field that proves it. Yes, yeah,

710
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: And it's It's one of these reasons why when folks

711
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: asked me, okay, well where's John Kelly? You know why

712
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: what's up with John Kelly? Da da? And it's because

713
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: you know he had a nice preseason. Um, the answer

714
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: is usually okay, when do you want him to come

715
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: on the field? Who would he replace? And why? You

716
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Right, Like, I understand that there's

717
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: a want for another dynamic piece to the offense, but

718
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: the Rams are in eleven personnel probably ninety eight percent

719
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: of the time, so that means you have one running back.

720
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: Usually that's going to be Todd Gurley. And if not,

721
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: it's Malcolm Brown, right, And if it is Malcolm Brown,

722
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: you saw why it is Malcolm Brown last Sunday when

723
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: he is able to, you know, do some type of

724
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: fantastic dance. When did right? Now, Malcolm, you're a bruiser man.

725
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,239
Speaker 1: You are a bruiser, not a tap dancer. Was It

726
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: was amazing? It fooled every well, I mean Jared goff

727
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: By in time to get the ball out and then

728
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown to get the ball in the end zone.

729
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: I mean, like that's stuff where Sean McVeigh gets credit

730
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: for the design of the offense, and he's the best

731
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: play caller in the game. Right. We hear that a lot.

732
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: But stuff like that is where you help out your coach. Yeah. Yeah,

733
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: It's where you create off schedule and then you find

734
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: a way to make a good play a great play.

735
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: I mean, just watch that play again and see Malcolm

736
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: Brown's body control to stay in bounds and then get

737
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,359
Speaker 1: the ball in over the pylon. Yeah, tremendous. I mean,

738
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: just awesome play. It was one of the better plays

739
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see all your period, Yeah,

740
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: by any offensive player, honestly, because it's just like you said,

741
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: that body control. I don't know how you do that.

742
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: I can't do that. And I'm like, you know, I'm

743
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: not a guy that's totally like, I'm not the most

744
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: fit guy in the world, but I'd like to think

745
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: that I'm pretty in shape. Well, like I can go

746
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: out there and run a little bit, But I don't

747
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: know how you do it. I bet you and I

748
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: could do it, just not on purpose. Yeah, probably not. No. No,

749
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: that's why it's funny. You know, I'm listening to the call,

750
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: like listening to it back from JB and then also

751
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: hearing the call on the television, and like what I

752
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: saw from my angle of it as I was just

753
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: watching the press box, it was like, Okay, he's out

754
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: of bounds. He's not out of bounds. Yeah, touchdown, Okay,

755
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: zebras are putting their arms up, that's cool. I was waiting.

756
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: I was watching the side judge. He came up, and

757
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: he came up with thumbs up to the to the

758
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: judge that actually called touchdown, Like thumbs up, he was

759
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: in bounds. Yeah, right, because I'm thinking the same thing

760
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: you thought, and I'm right there. Yeah, I'm like he

761
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: had to have gone out about it because it's just

762
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: it seems like it would be impossible to keep your

763
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: balance like that. Amazing, right, tremendous play, Yeah, it is,

764
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: and I think that's why. Look you, yes, John Kelly

765
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: would be nice to have out there, I guess in

766
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: some capacity, but when you have two backs who have

767
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: been as effective as Todd Gurley and Malcolm Brown. And

768
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: again Malcolm Brown, it's not like he's playing all that much,

769
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 1: you know. So Malcolm Brown is in there for sixteen

770
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps, right, I mean that, and like

771
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: that's the math, you know. Todd at eighty four I'd

772
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:09,919
Speaker 1: love to see more. John Kelly, I just like you said,

773
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: I don't know who you pull out to put him

774
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: in right or where? I mean, that's just not your offense.

775
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 1: Are you taking that's because that's what you have to

776
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: ask Okay, are you going to take the tight end off? No?

777
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: Does that help? Because now does that help? Your protect

778
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 1: changes everything? Right? Are you gonna take one of Cooper Cup,

779
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks or Robert Woods off the field? No? Why exactly?

780
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying. It's just the math doesn't

781
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: work out there in terms of Okay, how do you

782
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: put somebody on the field if you have to take

783
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: somebody else off? But I will say this, what's that

784
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: when he does take the field, you're gonna see some Oh,

785
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:44,439
Speaker 1: you're gonna see some juice. Yeah, you're gonna you're looking

786
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: for a ward there that you could say clean. Well.

787
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: I was thinking of Back to the Future when Doc

788
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 1: Brown said, when this car hits fifty five, you're gonna

789
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: see some serious blank. But I couldn't say that when

790
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: he does, I've never seen Back to the future or

791
00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: surprised mad Okay I did, yeah, wow anyway, Yeah, when

792
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: he does take his first carry or first reception, the

793
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,879
Speaker 1: first time he gets his hands on the football, You're

794
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: going to see some serious plank. The kids got some jets. Yes, yeah,

795
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: he's the guy that followed Kamara and at the University

796
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: of Tennessee. Yeah, so I mean you're gonna see some

797
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: fantastic stuff out of him, no doubt. Yes, eventually, Yes,

798
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 1: that's a maybe against the forty niners in Week seven.

799
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: We'll see. Yeah, we'll see for sure. All right, So,

800
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: but how could you not have seen Back to the

801
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: Future easily? Do you know who Michael J. Foxes? I do, okay,

802
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: but unfortunately, and I'm like, I hope this doesn't come

803
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: off as like horrible when I say this, But like,

804
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I know him because of his fight with

805
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: Parkinson's disease, more about more than about that than I

806
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: know than like Back to the Future or Mad about You.

807
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: He was in that show too, Okay, but I just

808
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: know I know him because he's a famous actor. Who Okay,

809
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: you do know Christopher replays Superman? Right? Yes? Okay, just

810
00:37:55,920 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: making sure it's an Ohio thing. I'm just checking, Okay. Yes, Well,

811
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: let's take a look ahead to the Seattle Seahawks. The

812
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,839
Speaker 1: second time, the Rams will face the Seahawks. This sea

813
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,439
Speaker 1: easier the second time around. You think, so, oh yeah, yeah,

814
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: you're familiar. Why what do you mean it's division foe.

815
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: I mean you see him twice a year, so you

816
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 1: get two games with him, so it's it's phone booth time.

817
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: You can't fool the other guy, right, I mean, you

818
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: might have some wrinkles for him, you know, you may

819
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: have a few new things that you're going to throw

820
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 1: at him, But for the most part, it's you versus

821
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: that guy, Marcus Peters versus Baldwin Cooper Cup versus whoever's

822
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: gonna line up over top of him. You've seen all

823
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,959
Speaker 1: their stuff and how they've played up until this point,

824
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: so this is just about who wants it more. And

825
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 1: it's at your house. Yes, that was the other thing

826
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 1: I was going to say. This one is going to

827
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: be at the call CM, which definitely helps. I think

828
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,479
Speaker 1: when you're not playing them at their place, it's such

829
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,839
Speaker 1: a tough place to play up there, that when you're

830
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: going to be able to come back here have the

831
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,439
Speaker 1: crowd with you, at least you hope, ye, then that's

832
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: gonna make it a lot better. And they're they're going

833
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: to fight to the dead. I'll tell you this, man.

834
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: No one likes to get swept in the division. Yeah,

835
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't end your season, but it gives

836
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: that other team bragging rights for the year. And not

837
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: just I mean not just bragging rights, it's just that

838
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: feeling of dominance. This year, they were better and there's

839
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: no way around that. You lost twice. You've seen them

840
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: twice and you lost twice, So they're gonna come in

841
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,439
Speaker 1: here with some get back. They're looking to split this year,

842
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: so you really have to take it out of Seattle,

843
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 1: and they gave you a hell of a fight up there. Yes,

844
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: expect the same here. Absolutely. The thing when you talk

845
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: about that just base looking at the standings right now,

846
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: the way things are. The Seahawks really need this game

847
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: in order to stay in the division rings. And that's

848
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: something that they know because if the Rams take this game,

849
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: then you've got that tiebreaker over them, you know, basically

850
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. So if you finished

851
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 1: tiede and you know, say the Rams stay at you know,

852
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: nine and seven, that which would don't think anybody's anticipating that,

853
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: but say it what happened, right, you would still have

854
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 1: that tiebreaker over the Seahawks if they also finished at

855
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: NIG seven. Yeah, So it's huge if the Rams are

856
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: able to win this game, just in terms of their

857
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: control of the division. So I wonder if if let's

858
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 1: just jump ahead, say the Rams get the victory on Sunday. Yeah.

859
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: So when we get to the offseason and you start

860
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: ranking NFC West quarterbacks, which guy do you put on

861
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: top if the Rams sweep the Seahawks. Oh? Man, that's

862
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: that's a rough one, right it is. Yeah. Usually, yeah,

863
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 1: you usually would because Russell Wilson has the pedigree. He's

864
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 1: been to the playoffs basically every year until last season,

865
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: and he has a Super Bowl ring, So usually he

866
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: gets the nod. Usually he does. But if you get

867
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,839
Speaker 1: swept by the same guy, it'll be hard to give

868
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: him that same credit. Absolutely, So that's what I mean.

869
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: They're not gonna want to give that up, right to

870
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: a man, They're not gonna want to give that up.

871
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to take it from him. Exactly. I'm

872
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 1: looking at my phone because I wanted to bring up

873
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: something that JB. Looe put on his Facebook, and it's

874
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: that there is a scenario in which the Rams can

875
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: clinch a playoffs by clinch the division. I think I

876
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: should say before the bye week, which is a little

877
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: bit crazy case. The one, I know, you have to

878
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: beat Seattle, Yes, what's the other? You have to beat

879
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: Kansas City as well? Okay, so then you have to

880
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 1: have Seattle drop Thursday Night football the Green Bay next week. Yes,

881
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 1: and then Arizona has to fall or at Kansas City

882
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 1: or versus Oakland. Arizona has to lose to the Chiefs. Yes,

883
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: this week, the Arizona Cardinals have to lose to the

884
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Okay. So then if that happens, then

885
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: LA worst case would be ten and six with head

886
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: to head tiebreaker over Seattle, the only other West team

887
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: with fewer than seven losses. What are the chances Arizona

888
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: beats Kansas City, Well, in your opinion, probably not great.

889
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 1: Okay unless it's unless it's a trap game for Kansas City.

890
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: But they don't seem to have been playing many trap

891
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: games this year. I mean, like a last week could

892
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: have been a trap game for them versus Cleveland and

893
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: they came out and played. Really, what do you think

894
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,280
Speaker 1: would bite your head off faster? Andy Reid or Sean McVay.

895
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: If you say, hey, is this game a trap game?

896
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: Which guy would bite your head off faster? I would

897
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: say McVay because he's younger maybe, But those guys, those coaches,

898
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 1: there are no trap That's what I mean. Yeah, yeah,

899
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 1: Like you know, Andy Reid hash and I don't know

900
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: what it is off the top of my head, but

901
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: Andy Reid coming off a bye week has been amazing

902
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: over the course of his career, basically doesn't lose. Why

903
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: do we give coaches credit for that? Shouldn't you be

904
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: good after bye weeks? Yeah, but like they have they

905
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: I think it's because the guys who are bad after

906
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: bye weeks, Yeah, let's do that too bad one just

907
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 1: saying that, Like, but yeah, you give a guy two

908
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: weeks to two weeks excuse me to prepare, then boom,

909
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: that's what he should beat you. Yeah, yeah, right exactly.

910
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: Saw it last week with the Rams against the Giants,

911
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: where everybody was like, oh, it could be a trap game,

912
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: and then they won fifty one to seventeen. What was

913
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: the knick sabe? Give Nick Saban a month and he's

914
00:42:56,200 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 1: gonna beat you give him three days? That LSU game, man,

915
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,240
Speaker 1: that was my God, that was an illustration of talent.

916
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: All that Friday and Saturday, all those LSU fans we coming. Oh,

917
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: and I was like, so was Alabama. They're coming to

918
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: Alabama was coming. Alabama dominant and they're still going. You know,

919
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: it's funny. I watched that game at this place called

920
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 1: the Bayou Beer Garden down in New Orleans, and it

921
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: was the atmosphere was great, you know, because you're sitting

922
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 1: in it was an outdoor space and there were a

923
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: lot of TVs around, and then a lot of LSU

924
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: fans started to pack the place as it got closer

925
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: to that seven o'clock kickoff, and then they basically just

926
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 1: had nothing to cheer about the entire game. Wow. Wow,

927
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: like at all wow. And I remember thinking, you know,

928
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 1: at a certain point in the first quarter, I turned

929
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: to one of the guys we were with and I

930
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know how elab excuse me, LSU

931
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 1: was going to score right like with that front that

932
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: Alabama's gone like they basically got four first round. You know,

933
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: before the game kicked off, I was trying to like,

934
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: how are they going to get the ball in the

935
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: end zone? Yeah, or how are they going to keep

936
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,279
Speaker 1: Alabama out of the end. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's

937
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: kind of look that offense is irresistible. Anyway, let's let's

938
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: yea anyway, We're sorry. What was that word digressing? Digressing

939
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: right there with them? Man, Yeah, there you go. It

940
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: was Pac ten back then, see I see. Um, what

941
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: do we learn from that last game with Rams versus Seahawks?

942
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 1: The Ram oh, the last game versus the season? Yeah? Yeah,

943
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: oh gosh, that you know. I like the way I

944
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: like Pete Carroll's approach. Um would just run the ball, right, Adam,

945
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: that that super bowls and championships afford coaches a chance

946
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: to rebuild right before your eyes. So going back to basics,

947
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: playing good defense and running the football right. They kind

948
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: of started a couple of weeks before they played the Rams,

949
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: and I think if if the stats and my memory serves,

950
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: that was their high water mark for points and individual

951
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 1: rushing yards from Carson. Yeah, I believe. So it was

952
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 1: a concerted effort to run the football and take air

953
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: out of the take air out of the football to

954
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: keep the Rams offense on the bench. So they had

955
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: a great game plan against the Rams, but the Rams

956
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: were just a little bit better in Seattle, so I

957
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: would expect the same game plan coming to Los Angeles,

958
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: and they are running the daylights out of the football

959
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: save for last week versus the Chargers. Well, even last

960
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: week against the Chargers, they got over one hundred and

961
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: fifty on the ground, And so they've gotten over one

962
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty on the ground in the last five games.

963
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: That started when they played the Cardinals the week before

964
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 1: they played the Rams. Then, just as you were saying,

965
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: their high watermark of the season is one hundred and

966
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: ninety rushing yards that came against the Rams. And you know,

967
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: anytime you're getting nearly two hundred yards rushing and you lose,

968
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 1: like that says a lot about the game the Rams played,

969
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: for sure does, and you've made some mistakes. They want

970
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: the football, Pete Carroll's all about possessing the football, so

971
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: when they take it away and run the football, they're

972
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,399
Speaker 1: they're almost impossible to beat. Yes, Um, you ever watched

973
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:59,439
Speaker 1: those old lumberjack shows on ESPN, the lumberjack competitions where

974
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: you have guys like chopping trees down. No, well have

975
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: you seen it? Okay, thank you, I should be talking

976
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: to you. But you watch guys chop trees and it's

977
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: a race. And when they show you the marks on

978
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,919
Speaker 1: the tree when the competition is over, well, the guys

979
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,399
Speaker 1: that waste licks are the guys that lose. Yes, this

980
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll offense doesn't waste licks running the football. They're

981
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:25,760
Speaker 1: gonna pound you in the A gap, They're gonna pound

982
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 1: you in the B gap. They're gonna try to blow

983
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: a hole in your defense and keep coming after you

984
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: because it does two things. One it wears you down.

985
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: Two the clocks running, so it starves the other team's

986
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: offense to death. And if they can get the takeaway

987
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:44,359
Speaker 1: on that, you lose. So I mean it's it's a

988
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: tough way to win, but it's a brutal way to

989
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: attack another football. Yes. Yes, And if you look at that,

990
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: plus that that last five weeks stretch. So right when

991
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: they started running the ball as they did, getting over

992
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty on the ground, they've even up

993
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: the ball twice, they have two turnovers and they have

994
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 1: eight takeaways. Yes, so that is how they want to win.

995
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: They want to play ball control and they want to

996
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 1: take the ball away from you. And if they do that,

997
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: that is their path to make no doubt, and seeing

998
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: Drew Brees last week lined up at receiver and letting

999
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 1: Hill take snaps at quarterback. I mean, that was a

1000
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: hell of a cell job by Sean Payton. Second best

1001
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: would be Pete Carroll to tell your franchise quarterback, I

1002
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,839
Speaker 1: think it's better if you throw it fifteen times or less.

1003
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: That's how they won the Super Bowl, right. Go tell

1004
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: that to Tom Brady. Tell that to Aaron Rodgers. It's

1005
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: better if you if you throw it less. No, you're

1006
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: gonna look at you funny or get you fired. But

1007
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: he sold that to Russell Wilson and he bought it right,

1008
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 1: and he's great at it, and they can win with it,

1009
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,439
Speaker 1: and they have one with it. But I think that's

1010
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 1: probably why, you know what I mean, like that they

1011
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl that way, Brady Rogers and did

1012
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: not win their Super Bowls that well. I with the

1013
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:04,239
Speaker 1: Brady being a young pop, that's not how I mean.

1014
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: Tell Matt Stafford that, Okay, yeah, it's better if you

1015
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:11,240
Speaker 1: throw less. He's gonna look at you. What. I'm the guy.

1016
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is the guy, but he's he understands what

1017
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 1: this offense is and what it takes to win on

1018
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 1: this football team, right, I throw less. I think he

1019
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: was fourteen of seventeen against Detroit. They got four takeaways,

1020
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: but he had a perfect quarterback rating. Yeah on seventeen throws, right,

1021
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: that's how they're going to win. That is perfect Sea football, Yes, exactly,

1022
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: And that's why they want to be able to run

1023
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 1: the ball effectively in the Rams have got to be

1024
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 1: able to stop that, no doubt. Now the Rams have,

1025
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 1: I think, have done a better job over the last

1026
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: couple of weeks in doing that. And but with a

1027
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: guy like Dante Fowler in there, how does that change things? How?

1028
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 1: I meant to ask you about this earlier in the yea,

1029
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: how did Fowler play? In your mind? Left? It's a

1030
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: shame that we didn't get to see him at his

1031
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: best because look how many plays did New Orleans run?

1032
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: Uh something around seventy one seventy one plays? And you

1033
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: racked up a grand total of two tackles for loss

1034
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:09,399
Speaker 1: and no sacks. One tackle for loss? Oh they took

1035
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:11,359
Speaker 1: one away because there were two Aaron Donald had one

1036
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: and Fowler. Oh oh oh you mean like as a

1037
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: team I thought you meant Fowler as a team. Yeah, yeah,

1038
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: as a team, you racked up a grand total of

1039
00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 1: two tackles lost. So you're not doing a good enough

1040
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 1: job against the run, so you can unleash a guy

1041
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: like Fowler. So right, if you can somehow find a

1042
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: way to blunt Seattle's rushing attack, yeah, and force the

1043
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: game back into Russell Wilson's hands, then you'll see what

1044
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:32,879
Speaker 1: Fowler can do exactly. But last week, I mean, look,

1045
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 1: it's that was Sean Payton had what he wanted. He

1046
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: kept you off balance with balance, but if you can

1047
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: make them one dimensional, that's where he'll show up exactly.

1048
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: All Right, what do you think you need to see

1049
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: from the Rams offense to win? As we start to

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Speaker 1: wrap this up, no more takeaways for no more turnovers? Yeah? Um,

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Speaker 1: and I keep watching this that that that turnover, that

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Speaker 1: interception that goff through, and I have to give I

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Speaker 1: think it's enzelone a lot of credit for the play

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Speaker 1: he made. But I mean, that's that's that's Randy Johnson

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Speaker 1: throwing a fastball on a three two pitch to McGuire

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Speaker 1: that lands in the upper deck. You just live with that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I would bet that that guy couldn't make

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Speaker 1: that same play again. It was a really really really

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Speaker 1: hell of a play and it was a fastball and

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Speaker 1: it was in the right spot. He just made a

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Speaker 1: great play on it. So saying avoid avoiding turnovers is

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Speaker 1: going to be key, but you really have to underscore

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Speaker 1: that against Pete Carroll and the Seahawks. You can't turn

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Speaker 1: the ball over. Well exactly the last time the Rams

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Speaker 1: and Seahawks played at the call CEM last year, I

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Speaker 1: guess it was Week five. It was right before we

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Speaker 1: went to Jackson going then to London. The Rams had

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Speaker 1: five giveaways in that game and that's why they lost

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Speaker 1: sixteen to tens. So yeah, you cannot do that against

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Speaker 1: this team. See, I would say this right against New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: a takeaway like that or a turnover like that will

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Speaker 1: cost you points. It may or may not against Seattle,

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Speaker 1: but I'll tell you what it will cost you about

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Speaker 1: six minutes. Yep, you won't see the ball. If you

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Speaker 1: turn it over and give it to them, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: pound you. You'll you'll get ten extra carries onto their

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Speaker 1: rushing total. So if you stay clean, stay consistent, and

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Speaker 1: play pitch and catch and just move the football, I

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Speaker 1: think you'll have a chance to wear that defense down.

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Speaker 1: But if you turn the ball over, you're gonna feed them.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be energetic, and they're going to be motivated,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be tough for you to get the

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Speaker 1: ball back. Absolutely. All right, Well, thank you DeMarco for

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Speaker 1: at some clear points today, clear points. Yeah, was it really? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Are you being funny? No? I don't know how to

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Speaker 1: take you anymore. And I don't even know are you human?

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Speaker 1: You didn't see back to the future. What did you

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Speaker 1: do growing up? Just read books? I read books? I

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Speaker 1: played Madden. So you had a TV? Well, no, I

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Speaker 1: would actually mad compun Oh my god, never mind, see exactly. Wow, okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, everybody, thanks so much for tuning into this

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Speaker 1: edition of Between Those Delian. Delian is a car. There

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Speaker 1: is actually I'm not going to go there with you

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Speaker 1: right now, his name. I'm gonna end the show. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for tuning into this edition of Between the Horns,

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Speaker 1: Defar and I will see you from the sidelines of

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Speaker 1: the LA Coliseum on Sunday for RAMS pregame live on

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Speaker 1: Facebook and on Twitter, Slash, Periscope. You can catch a

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Speaker 1: game one twenty five Pacific on CBS this week. The

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Speaker 1: Jim Ramp Jim Nance, Tony Romo, Tracy Wilson are going

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Speaker 1: to be on the call out and Doc Brown's going

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Speaker 1: to be on the sideline. There we go, all right, everybody,

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Speaker 1: thanks for tuning into this edition of Between the Horns.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you next time.