Speaker 1: On this week's Booth Review. There are no moral victories.
Speaker 2: Hopefully the defense will have a better day, but that
Speaker 2: Ravens offense London might be the best at Washington Sees
Speaker 2: all year.
Speaker 3: And we'll take a look ahead of this week's game
Speaker 3: against the Carolina Panthers and why this is a bigger
Speaker 3: game than yesterday against the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 2: It's all coming up on the Booth Review. Welcome to
Speaker 2: this week's edition of the Booth Review podcast. I Braham
Speaker 2: Weinstein with one of the greatest linebackers of all time,
Speaker 2: London Fletcher.
Speaker 1: This is weird.
Speaker 2: London didn't spend a month we had lost, so we're
Speaker 2: doing a review of a game the Commanders actually lost
Speaker 2: this week to a very good Baltimore Ravens team.
Speaker 3: Now it's definitely a feeling of like, man, are we
Speaker 3: really at this point that winning thing?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 3: I got used to that. I don't know about you,
Speaker 3: but it feels good to win. But obviously that wasn't
Speaker 3: the case yesterday. On my flight back home to Charlotte,
Speaker 3: I was just kind of reflecting on the game and
Speaker 3: where we are at as a as a team, as
Speaker 3: a franchise, as a kind of fan.
Speaker 1: Base, and I'm actually still optimistic.
Speaker 3: About where we are, and you know, we'll get into
Speaker 3: the Ravens and what we think about them, but it
Speaker 3: definitely is not not the thing, the money we've grown
Speaker 3: accustomed to over the last month.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I want to start with this. I mean,
Speaker 2: because we don't know what's going on with John or Dorance.
Speaker 2: You played in what two hundred and fifty six consecutive games.
Speaker 2: I wonder if you're going to get a call from
Speaker 2: DQ this week because we took a couple of injuries.
Speaker 2: Who knows, So hold on, hold on, bron all Right,
Speaker 2: So you mentioned Doris Ordog and Jonathan Allen, two defensiveliaminate
Speaker 2: or injured, Bobby Wagner and Frankie Louvu.
Speaker 3: They're healthy, so you think, I know, I put on
Speaker 3: some weights. So you want toything go what you said, It.
Speaker 2: Was not a fat joke, it really was. It was
Speaker 2: actually trying to be complimentary of you and make a
Speaker 2: snarky joke. That's not going to happen.
Speaker 3: So so myb buddies, my former even former teammates that
Speaker 3: were there that I played with, friend and Smooth, you know,
Speaker 3: some of the other guys I played with they would
Speaker 3: have took that as a fletch.
Speaker 1: We need a couple of d liven That's all right,
Speaker 1: that's all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm hopen As we're taping this, we don't know
Speaker 2: what the situation is with John R. Dort, so hopefully
Speaker 2: we'll get some good news on both of their injuries
Speaker 2: as we move forward.
Speaker 1: Into the Carolina game this week.
Speaker 2: All right, let's focus back in on the Ravens game
Speaker 2: a little bit. Where Listen, this is a team that's
Speaker 2: been in the playoffs five of the last six years,
Speaker 2: seventeen of the last twenty five. They are very stable.
Speaker 2: They've had same front office structure for a very long time,
Speaker 2: Harbaugh's second longest tenured coach, seventeenth year, same owner for
Speaker 2: a long time.
Speaker 1: They have a unicorn quarterback.
Speaker 2: Like I think, you know what you get with a
Speaker 2: team like that, And therefore, I think why this felt
Speaker 2: like such a big game yesterday.
Speaker 1: So I want to go spin z out.
Speaker 2: A little bit here because I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 2: like I follow, you know what the media is going
Speaker 2: to say about the team afterwards, and they could have
Speaker 2: focused on a couple of things, and they seem to
Speaker 2: have focused more that Washington, went toe to toe with them,
Speaker 2: were in a one score game, saw the quarterback go
Speaker 2: toe to toe with an MVP quarterback, and decided not
Speaker 2: to overly focus on four hundred and eighty four yards
Speaker 2: given up. So I think both of these things are true.
Speaker 2: But to your point, I think people remained very optimistic
Speaker 2: that they saw what five in the offense can do
Speaker 2: and went toe to toe in a place where not
Speaker 2: a lot of teams win.
Speaker 3: Frankly, yeah, No, you're definitely right when you I guess
Speaker 3: when the schedule first came out and you saw where
Speaker 3: we are as a recalibration, whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 3: new ownership, new gen, new front office, new head coach,
Speaker 3: over fifty percent, a roster completely turned over, and you
Speaker 3: saw the Ravens on the schedule, like you know where
Speaker 3: they've been in the number one seed in AFC a
Speaker 3: year ago, where we won what three games last year
Speaker 3: four games? I can't even remember it was. I tried
Speaker 3: to wipe that out of my memory bank. But you
Speaker 3: saw that on the schedule and you're like, okay, can
Speaker 3: we go in there kind of be a little bit competitive.
Speaker 3: This is prior to the season and the way guys
Speaker 3: you know, have played recently and going on that four
Speaker 3: game winn streak, You're like, Okay, Baltimore, isn't.
Speaker 1: That they're up here on paper? We're down here.
Speaker 3: But then after you go in there and you see
Speaker 3: it end up being just a one score game, you
Speaker 3: feel pretty good about where we're.
Speaker 1: Where we are right now.
Speaker 3: But I think you also have to look and say,
Speaker 3: we still need there's a lot more room for improvement.
Speaker 3: I think coach Quinn will say that with the guy,
Speaker 3: there'll be some get some things that he takes away
Speaker 3: from the football game. You're like, man, I really like this.
Speaker 3: Love the way we competed, love the way we did this,
Speaker 3: love the way we did that. But these are some
Speaker 3: areas where we definitely hit need to improve, you know,
Speaker 3: to get to where we're at, the point where the
Speaker 3: Ravens aren't as a as a perennial Super Bowl contender,
Speaker 3: a team that could represent the NFC in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think largely like they were a good
Speaker 2: litmus type. I didn't like measuring stick. I thought it
Speaker 2: was the I thought we're just kind of too early
Speaker 2: in this process to use terminology. And I think the
Speaker 2: team like that either but I thought litmus test of
Speaker 2: where this is through five games, because it really thought
Speaker 2: Dan could was very honest about it last Friday. It
Speaker 2: was like the good elephant in the room. This is
Speaker 2: happening faster than you thought it would write, and he
Speaker 2: kind of acknowledged, you know, it's all new, all these
Speaker 2: new players. We are trying to instill a new culture.
Speaker 2: We do think we have a special player at quarterback,
Speaker 2: but you know it's baked in that it's going to
Speaker 2: take some time. It's the NFL, and it seemed to
Speaker 2: be coming along at a really expedited pace, which was
Speaker 2: really good. And that's why we landed on this game
Speaker 2: where you go for the first sixer on the road.
Speaker 2: This is the hardest one of all of them, because
Speaker 2: this is a team that's been there, done that, and
Speaker 2: looks like the type of team that, at least on
Speaker 2: one side of the ball, could compete for a championship. Again,
Speaker 2: let's find out where they are. And I think in
Speaker 2: the end, when you look at the scoreboard and you
Speaker 2: go thirty to twenty three, it feels like it was momentum.
Speaker 2: But and I assume you kind of feel the same way.
Speaker 2: But what Dan said to us coach Quinn said to
Speaker 2: us in the postgame press conference, in the interview we
Speaker 2: did with him, and even what he said in the
Speaker 2: press conference was there were parts of this and this
Speaker 2: I thought was honest and acknowledging what happened that was
Speaker 2: quote unquote lopsided. And he's talking about the way the
Speaker 2: Ravens were able to move the ball on him. Defensively,
Speaker 2: that's the number one offense in the league. But you're
Speaker 2: gonna give up four hundred and eighty four yards to anybody,
Speaker 2: and it's not just running, it's not just passing. You're
Speaker 2: gonna have a hard time getting to the level that
Speaker 2: the Ravens are at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So when you look at the Ravens last six possessions, touchdown, touchdown,
Speaker 3: field goal, touchdown, field goal, end of game where they
Speaker 3: were driving and they ran out the clock.
Speaker 1: I looked at it.
Speaker 3: I rewatched the game this morning a little bit, watch
Speaker 3: the defensive side, and because that was to decide that
Speaker 3: I wanted to focus on first and foremost to see, Okay,
Speaker 3: where were the breakdowns, Where were the things that we
Speaker 3: need to do.
Speaker 1: Better at first and foremost?
Speaker 3: I thought there were some communication eras that happened in
Speaker 3: that ball game that we had seen during that four
Speaker 3: game winning streaking, and there was a confusion on a
Speaker 3: couple of different different plays. From a passing game standpoint,
Speaker 3: the Ravens there, they got goot good football players. Eight
Speaker 3: flowers is a problem. They're going to win their fair
Speaker 3: share of matches.
Speaker 1: But the.
Speaker 3: Part where I think Joe Witt will kind of be
Speaker 3: really disappointed is some of the miscommunications. There were a
Speaker 3: couple coverage busts where those things we kind of felt
Speaker 3: like and I'm sure they felt like we're behind them.
Speaker 3: If you go back to the Tampa Bay game, the
Speaker 3: first game of the season, that there were some issues
Speaker 3: like that that kind of crept back up in this game.
Speaker 3: From a coverage standpoint, they'll probably do some things, Hey,
Speaker 3: from a technique standpoint that you could have played this
Speaker 3: a little bit different from a technique standpoint, giving yourself
Speaker 3: a better chance to win that down. From a covered standpoint,
Speaker 3: there were some gap fit issues in the running game
Speaker 3: where you know, guys who didn't necessarily stay in their
Speaker 3: responsibilities and they got some they got some runs that
Speaker 3: that that hurt us in that ball game. And Derek
Speaker 3: Henry is a monster, but you can't help him by
Speaker 3: not being where you need to be. So when you
Speaker 3: look at that and you say, are these places where
Speaker 3: we need different personnel it's just an off season issue
Speaker 3: or is this just hey, guys, we still are in
Speaker 3: the midst of the season, and these are things that
Speaker 3: we can get corrected right now. I say yes, looking
Speaker 3: at that film, the communication eras, the kind of lapses
Speaker 3: or technique, the deals you can you can get those
Speaker 3: corrected right now, and guys saying and playing in their
Speaker 3: correct responsibility when it comes to stopping a run.
Speaker 1: Those are things that can be corrected right now during
Speaker 1: this season.
Speaker 3: So when you look at and they call it up
Speaker 3: tell the truth Monday or whatever, when you tell the
Speaker 3: truth Monday, those are the things that they're going to
Speaker 3: talk about in that meeting room.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about the Flowers matchup for a moment,
Speaker 2: because he had obviously a huge first half, and like,
Speaker 2: if you're going in and you're facing the Ravens, you've
Speaker 2: got to try to limit their run game. I mean,
Speaker 2: they came in averaging two hundred and eleven yards a
Speaker 2: game in the modern NFL on the ground, that's stupid
Speaker 2: like that, it's an absurd number. It really is like
Speaker 2: in the modern when he's throwing the ball so much,
Speaker 2: it's an absurd number to have that. So they have
Speaker 2: this kind of unstoppable part of their offense. The one
Speaker 2: thing that Washington defense did really well yesterday was they
Speaker 2: limited Lamar on the ground like he was eleven for
Speaker 2: forty something like that. So they limited him big day
Speaker 2: through the air though, And you could tell early Washington
Speaker 2: was committed to trying to do at least slow down
Speaker 2: the Ravens run, and the numbers were there, but in
Speaker 2: the end when asked to go out and get matched
Speaker 2: up with those receivers, couldn't really handle it. There were
Speaker 2: five receivers for the Ravens that had at least thirteen
Speaker 2: yards per catch. Five like that means everybody's getting chunk
Speaker 2: plays off of them. And the Flowers one I remember
Speaker 2: talking to you pregame talking to Logan about it, and
Speaker 2: I said, you know, like Mike Samers still down the
Speaker 2: road is probably their slot corner. This is a unique
Speaker 2: person that they're facing. They haven't seen a lot of
Speaker 2: teams that have a receiver like this. Flowers as this
Speaker 2: kind of movable part who can go inside outside, quick
Speaker 2: quick cut, quick explosion player. I remember looking at you
Speaker 2: going who are they covering him with? And he ended
Speaker 2: up having a massive first half against them because I
Speaker 2: think Washington was dedicated to try to slow down the
Speaker 2: run and the Ravens responded. I give them credit, they
Speaker 2: responded and found very good matchups, and Flowers I believe
Speaker 2: is a very He may not be perceived as a
Speaker 2: top five, top ten receiver, but at what he does
Speaker 2: for them, he's a very difficult matchup and he was
Speaker 2: for Washington yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, he was had the big play in their opening
Speaker 3: drive with the on the on the screenplay the wide
Speaker 3: receiver rocket screen where we had they caught us in
Speaker 3: the blitz and you know, it's a perfect call for
Speaker 3: them against a defense where we were we're bringing the
Speaker 3: pressure off that edge, so that that that got them
Speaker 3: going early in that ball game. But from a standpoint
Speaker 3: of when I talk about watching the film, keep it
Speaker 3: telling the truth, there were some times, and again I
Speaker 3: don't know exactly being a coach, but just from a
Speaker 3: lot of his routes were in breaking rounds. Routes they
Speaker 3: were across the field against coverage and oftentimes the corners
Speaker 3: they have outside leverage because of you know, you may
Speaker 3: have a post safety and things like that, but may hey,
Speaker 3: maybe you may want to shade a little bit inside
Speaker 3: on these this type of route because or especially with
Speaker 3: the split that this guy has and his feeding, you know,
Speaker 3: if we're gonna if we're gonna give up something forcing
Speaker 3: to beat us on the outside or outbreaking route things
Speaker 3: like that. So that may be something that they're talking
Speaker 3: about in their in their film room. The pass rush
Speaker 3: wasn't what it needed to be either, so there was
Speaker 3: a times where well Lamar had opportunity to go through
Speaker 3: his progressions, had a lot of time to to you know,
Speaker 3: find his open receivers.
Speaker 1: Part of that was off of play action.
Speaker 3: Again, you're geared up to stop Derrick Henry in that
Speaker 3: running game, so there was some open windows there. I
Speaker 3: look at it as you know, and it wasn't just
Speaker 3: Samuge Steel. He wasn't covering him, you know, completely in
Speaker 3: and shadow him anything.
Speaker 1: They were.
Speaker 3: They had some some different guys covering covering him, mainly
Speaker 3: egg Monogony and Samudge Steel.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's a hass off to the Ravens.
Speaker 3: Jay Flowers did a night job and they executed a
Speaker 3: game plan you know to to almost a tea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was funny.
Speaker 2: Back in week two after Week one with the Giants,
Speaker 2: I watched one Dale Robinson, who I don't think is
Speaker 2: quite as talented, quick whatever like Jay Flowers is. But
Speaker 2: I watched him and they were dumping it off to
Speaker 2: him a million times, and he's kind of that guy
Speaker 2: in the slot who's got some quickness, and I thought
Speaker 2: for sure the Giants would try to take advantage, and
Speaker 2: when they didn't, I was actually surprised that they went
Speaker 2: neighbors neighbors, neighbors, neighbors, neighbors, because I think that that
Speaker 2: is somewhat of an advantage. I don't think Robinson is
Speaker 2: of Flowers level. Flowers is a unique player for them,
Speaker 2: especially in an offense where every defense has to load
Speaker 2: up against the run. You have no choice. You're going
Speaker 2: to get favorable matchups with him. And in Washington's case,
Speaker 2: I said to you pregame, I'm like, I don't know
Speaker 2: who's covering him. I think it's going to be a
Speaker 2: very difficult spot. Then they had to shift, you know,
Speaker 2: at halftime, because the passing game was getting them, and
Speaker 2: at that point you're playing from behind against them. It's
Speaker 2: a death sentence against them. It's like trying to stop
Speaker 2: a mac truck and over and over and over. You know,
Speaker 2: they're just battering you with Henry Lamar Justice Hill on
Speaker 2: the edge and their run game is dominant.
Speaker 1: Now you're you're, you're, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 3: When you got one league and then you're trying to
Speaker 3: put that out there, you got another league. So you
Speaker 3: go into the game knowing our focus is on stopping
Speaker 3: the ruh, stopping there can we stopping Lamar Jackson. We
Speaker 3: can't allow these guys to just as you mentioned, you know,
Speaker 3: just bulldoze us or run us over in the mack
Speaker 3: truck and the run from a running game.
Speaker 1: To their credit, they went.
Speaker 3: A lot of play action pass on first down, Yes,
Speaker 3: get some some chunk plays. Again, was the technique exactly
Speaker 3: the way you wanted to be played? That's those are
Speaker 3: things that the coaches will talk about. Could you have
Speaker 3: done something different, Could you maybe get into the face
Speaker 3: of of the receivers, try to just rup them a
Speaker 3: little bit, things like that.
Speaker 2: All right, let me get to the other side of
Speaker 2: the ball with you for a minute, because this also
Speaker 2: was semi predictable for Washington, and I actually think it's
Speaker 2: the good thing in my opinion, that really came out
Speaker 2: of this, So be Rob's out. I want to get
Speaker 2: to his impact in a little bit later. But Washington
Speaker 2: has been essentially a fifty to fifty run team. Well,
Speaker 2: they're coming in against the team that has the at
Speaker 2: least metrically best rush defense in the NFL. I think
Speaker 2: that's a little skewed because teams are typically playing from
Speaker 2: behind against Baltimore, so they're throwing a lot more in
Speaker 2: the second half, so the rush numbers are a little
Speaker 2: bit off, But still I don't want to take anything
Speaker 2: away from them. They came in with this b Robs out,
Speaker 2: and I think we could both agree. Everybody knew we
Speaker 2: had to score thirty to win, so this was going
Speaker 2: to be the first game where I think Jaden they
Speaker 2: walked in knowing that Jaden's throwing thirty to forty passes,
Speaker 2: so we were going to be a pass heavy offense
Speaker 2: no matter what. And honestly they passed that test, like
Speaker 2: we didn't know. This year is to me all about
Speaker 2: set the culture, find out where your roster is, try
Speaker 2: to develop Jaden Daniels, which is clearly ahead of the curve,
Speaker 2: and then each week, you're going to have a different challenge,
Speaker 2: and this challenge this week was different than anything they
Speaker 2: had faced. They knew they were gonna have to throw
Speaker 2: the ball a lot this weekend to have a chance
Speaker 2: to win, and we haven't seen them do that yet
Speaker 2: where they had to rely on throwing the ball a lot.
Speaker 2: And honestly, in the end, that's the one I take
Speaker 2: away from this and go, I feel really good that
Speaker 2: forced into that situation to have to win this way.
Speaker 2: I think they're capable of it. And that's why that's
Speaker 2: what I really liked about the game the other day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, you're right.
Speaker 3: And when you look at you mentioned the Ravens defense
Speaker 3: that top billing has been the number one rush defense
Speaker 3: in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: It is earned.
Speaker 3: I know they're I look at yards per rush and
Speaker 3: going into that ball game, the Ravens were allowing three
Speaker 3: yards only three yards per carry. You want to be
Speaker 3: at about three yards or less. Actually, you want to
Speaker 3: be maybe about three point three yards per carry allowed
Speaker 3: rush attempt, and that's a really good run defense. They
Speaker 3: are at three points three points three yards per carry.
Speaker 1: We had eighteen carry for fifty two yards.
Speaker 3: They allowed two point nine yards per carry against US
Speaker 3: that top building as a rush defenses armed looking at
Speaker 3: their their pass defense, they had some issues in defending
Speaker 3: the past. They've given up a lot of a lot
Speaker 3: of players in the passing game. They had some They've
Speaker 3: had some blown coverages, some miscommunications, the guys they missed,
Speaker 3: some guys that are no longer on that team from
Speaker 3: a year ago that left be a free agency. They
Speaker 3: weren't playing the type of pass defense that the Ravens
Speaker 3: are customed to play. They were number one sacks a
Speaker 3: year ago, so they did that. They took the football away.
Speaker 3: They're not that type of defense currently when it comes
Speaker 3: to defending the pass, and we had to rely on
Speaker 3: the passing game. And you know, yeah, you would have
Speaker 3: loved to have be Robbing that game, and I probably would.
Speaker 3: We would definitely would have had more than eighteen rushing
Speaker 3: attempts if he was in that game.
Speaker 1: But the way to go against the he was in
Speaker 1: through the air.
Speaker 2: Right now, Yeah, I'll revisit b Rob in a bit
Speaker 2: because when we talk about him specifically, I want to
Speaker 2: want to get into him. But on the passing game,
Speaker 2: like going in, what I saw from the Ravens was
Speaker 2: they don't get a lot of pressure just rushing for like,
Speaker 2: they don't have the elite pass rushers on the edge.
Speaker 2: They had a little more success with it yesterday than
Speaker 2: I kind of thought they would, but they typically have
Speaker 2: to bring pressure. Kyle Hamilton's kind of a chaos agent
Speaker 2: for them. He kind of comes up to the line.
Speaker 2: You don't know where he's going to be, where he's
Speaker 2: going to be coming from. But they bring pressure, puts
Speaker 2: pressure on their secondary and they're a little slower right now,
Speaker 2: whether that's communication or age or something on the back end.
Speaker 1: And there's big plays to be had.
Speaker 2: So even going in knowing you got to score a
Speaker 2: lot of points, it looks like that's the vulnerability of
Speaker 2: their defense. Now you got to find out can we
Speaker 2: do it? If asked to throw the ball thirty five
Speaker 2: to forty times a game to win, can we do it?
Speaker 2: And I think Jayden and the offense answered that they're
Speaker 2: capable of it. They look like to this point, a
Speaker 2: more comfortable offense being this fifty to fifty be more physical,
Speaker 2: run the ball type of offense to try to control
Speaker 2: the clock and take a little bit of the weight
Speaker 2: off of Jaden's shoulders. But that's not every game you're
Speaker 2: going to be in, and they weren't in one of
Speaker 2: those yesterday. And that, to me was the biggest positive
Speaker 2: coming out of this was if the offense is asked
Speaker 2: to do this, they seemingly are very capable of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very capable of And I was, I was.
Speaker 3: I was impressed with the way Jaden played in that
Speaker 3: in that environment, the way, you know, got off to
Speaker 3: a kind of a little slow start from an offensive
Speaker 3: standpoint in the passing game. But thought he saddled in
Speaker 3: thought the offense Saturday, and I thought the tempo kind
Speaker 3: of started to affect the Ravens defense, going no huddle
Speaker 3: for a majority of the game. And you mentioned the
Speaker 3: passing game, We were able to make plays in that
Speaker 3: make and make Hey the thing, I'll look at it
Speaker 3: from a I'm gonna look at it from a defensive
Speaker 3: standpoint and what it does to you. You talked about
Speaker 3: the fifty to fifty run run pass element just from
Speaker 3: a defensive standpoint, when you're going against a team where
Speaker 3: you have to defend both, it just it always has
Speaker 3: you on your heels from a defensive standpoint, because you
Speaker 3: can't just hang your hat and say, hey, this is
Speaker 3: a run heavy team. We stopped to run, we increase
Speaker 3: the likelihood of us winning this football game. Conversely, if
Speaker 3: you're if this is a team that they throw the
Speaker 3: football seventy percent of the time, hey we can drop
Speaker 3: eight and the coverage, we can do all the different
Speaker 3: types of things. Really just focused on taking away their
Speaker 3: passing game, force them to run the ball. Kind of
Speaker 3: like a lot of teams you have to play the
Speaker 3: Indianapolis Coats where they're like, hey, we're gonna make you
Speaker 3: run the football. We're gonna play a lot of Cover two,
Speaker 3: force you to play to run the ball.
Speaker 1: Can you be patient?
Speaker 3: Things like that, And it wasn't until the Coat started
Speaker 3: to run the ball a little bit more effectively that
Speaker 3: they actually were able to get over the Hunt hump
Speaker 3: and win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So those are the.
Speaker 3: Things that a defense, i mean offense like ours, the
Speaker 3: challenges that they present present to a defense when you
Speaker 3: can do both, when you can run the ball effectively
Speaker 3: and now coming off that game showing we can also
Speaker 3: to do a lot of damage through the air. So
Speaker 3: that's that is a great positive. Like you said that
Speaker 3: we need to air it out.
Speaker 2: You brought the no huddle thing up And when they
Speaker 2: showed this stat on the television broadcaster today, I was surprised.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, we've run a lot of no
Speaker 2: huddle and up tempo. I didn't realize the disparity was
Speaker 2: so high with Washington versus everybody else, like coming into
Speaker 2: the game. I don't know, I didn't see the metrics
Speaker 2: from yesterday, but it was a lot again that they
Speaker 2: barely huddled, Like they had run one hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: three plays no huddle and the next closest team had
Speaker 2: run half of that. So, I mean, and they've been
Speaker 2: very they're the number one scoring offense in the league.
Speaker 2: So like I was surprised. I guess like that's validation
Speaker 2: in itself. It works for them, and I think, you know,
Speaker 2: to some degree too, that's a surprise that that operates
Speaker 2: that well with a rookie quarterback, that they are operating
Speaker 2: efficiently enough that they can do something that no one
Speaker 2: else in the league is doing and they're prolifically scoring.
Speaker 2: Even yesterday, it was there they left points on the field,
Speaker 2: they had a field goal blocked, they had some mishaps
Speaker 2: you know, at other points of the game, like there
Speaker 2: were points left on the field.
Speaker 3: Again, No, absolutely they The second you mentioned the know
Speaker 3: how to plays, the next closest team, I think they
Speaker 3: On the graphic it was one hundred and sixty three
Speaker 3: plays of no huw to plays run by us. The
Speaker 3: next closest with these Chicago Bears with eighty one, so
Speaker 3: slightly more than double the amount of plays of no
Speaker 3: how to plays. And again, no huddle was a weapon.
Speaker 3: It's a tool, and then you don't have to necessarily
Speaker 3: snap the ball quickly. Again, I'll speak to you from
Speaker 3: a defense standpoint. When a team goes no how to
Speaker 3: hurry up, it forces us to kind of streamline the
Speaker 3: calls that we're going to make from a defensive standpoint.
Speaker 3: You know, we may we may not have a ton
Speaker 3: of plays in from a defensive standpoint, if we run
Speaker 3: to run pressure, we may want to get into our
Speaker 3: look immediately. We don't want to disguise as much. So
Speaker 3: it gives the answers to the quarterback right away, like, hey,
Speaker 3: you may know it. You may see a pressure coming.
Speaker 3: You may know if it's single high safety or uh
Speaker 3: cover two or two deep type safety. You may be
Speaker 3: an identified man versus zone. Those type of things you get,
Speaker 3: you're able to get pre snap and that works to
Speaker 3: an advantage, especially averse to an advantage for any offense, especially.
Speaker 1: For a young offense with a young quarterback.
Speaker 3: So that's that's brilliant actually when you think about running
Speaker 3: so many no how to plays and huddle up type
Speaker 3: type of plays because it gives answers immediately to a
Speaker 3: young quarterback.
Speaker 2: All right, let's pick a few more topics, and let's
Speaker 2: do this in our game that we call this or that.
Speaker 1: All right, so all right, here we go this or that.
Speaker 2: The defense for Washington regressed against the Ravens or the
Speaker 2: Ravens offense is elite.
Speaker 3: I'll say, I think we regressed just a tad bit.
Speaker 1: Well, let me let me say this. No, what it's not.
Speaker 3: It's that we, as I mentioned, the communication situations weren't
Speaker 3: what they had been prior to that easily correctable. We
Speaker 3: had some run fit eras and we had some communication
Speaker 3: lapses on the on the from the passing game standpoint. Now,
Speaker 3: the Ravens offense is elite as well, but just a
Speaker 3: tad bit of regression.
Speaker 1: Now, what do you think?
Speaker 2: So on the Washington defense part, I would say this
Speaker 2: for both sides of the ball. Actually, I think part
Speaker 2: of the reason why they were four and one going
Speaker 2: into this game was the they were largely the more
Speaker 2: physical team in the games that they played, Like Jayden
Speaker 2: played really well. They did a very creative offense. They
Speaker 2: were executing with it. The defense was getting better, but
Speaker 2: they were winning the line of scrimmage, and they were
Speaker 2: the more physical teams, specifically on offense. I didn't feel
Speaker 2: that yesterday. I know you rewatched it. I didn't feel that.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Baltimore's kind of been there, done that with this for
Speaker 2: a very long time, and this is like when dan
Speaker 2: Quinn and Joett and they talk about, this is how
Speaker 2: we get down. You're gonna like how we play. We're
Speaker 2: gonna be the more physical team. I didn't feel that
Speaker 2: part of it. Yesterday. Felt like the Ravens were the
Speaker 2: more physical team. Maybe I'm wrong about that, so I
Speaker 2: don't know if I would call that a regression, but
Speaker 2: that was just my general sense in watching the two
Speaker 2: that the more physical team ended up winning the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't, I don't. I don't. I don't think that.
Speaker 3: I don't feel like the Ravens were more physical than us.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a physical situation that the Ravens offense just
Speaker 3: like pounded us up from with get uh, you know,
Speaker 3: moving our defense alignment out of I don't think they
Speaker 3: all physical to us. I just think we didn't. We
Speaker 3: had some communication breakdowns in the secondary, did cover very well,
Speaker 3: and the past Russ wasn't able to really get get
Speaker 3: to him. Now, missing Doris Armstown that definitely hurt. John
Speaker 3: Allen's John Allen missing the second half of that game,
Speaker 3: that hurt. So that's not a physical, you know, physicality deal.
Speaker 1: In my part, I thought we didn't.
Speaker 3: We didn't communicate well, and we didn't play coverages as
Speaker 3: as we needed to in and and the pass was crash.
Speaker 1: Russ wasn't what it needed to be.
Speaker 2: Now, I am more on the side of this question
Speaker 2: that the Ravens offense came in as the number one
Speaker 2: offense at least in terms of yardage, and I think
Speaker 2: that they have the unstoppable thing in the league this year,
Speaker 2: their run game, and therefore they're gonna end up top
Speaker 2: five or number one in offense. And so they are elite,
Speaker 2: Like they have two Hall of famers who carry the
Speaker 2: ball for their team.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson became the second most prolific running quarterback in
Speaker 2: the history of the NFL yesterday and by the end
Speaker 2: of this year or early next year, will surpass Michael
Speaker 2: Vick as having the most rush yards by any quarterback ever.
Speaker 2: Derrick Henry in his first one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 2: games is in the company in terms of yardage and
Speaker 2: touchdowns of only four other running backs ever, Emmett Smith,
Speaker 2: Adrian Peterson, Ladanian, Tomlinson, and Jim Brown. They have unicorn
Speaker 2: players that play in an offense that runs the ball
Speaker 2: really well. And I also say this too, I don't
Speaker 2: know if you felt the same way, Like, I've really
Speaker 2: been very pleased with what Cliff Kingsbury has put together
Speaker 2: in terms of execution creativity of the offense throughout the
Speaker 2: first six games, Like he gets them into these very
Speaker 2: good second and manageable situations. A lot of creative players.
Speaker 2: I'll say this for Todd Munkin too. It's not that
Speaker 2: they're just handing the ball off to Dereck Henry and
Speaker 2: he's running up the middle and he gets three four
Speaker 2: yards and then they go from there. They're very creative
Speaker 2: in the way that they try to start eat set
Speaker 2: of downs. So I'll give them a lot of credit
Speaker 2: for being creative as well. And they're the number one
Speaker 2: offense for a reason. They are elite. This is the
Speaker 2: reigning MVP. That's ridiculous that that running backs on this team. Frankly, Like,
Speaker 2: I think that they're like the Eagles from a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago, where their rush offense was so good,
Speaker 2: so unstoppable, and in third and fourth and shorts, when
Speaker 2: the Eagles are doing this touch push thing, it becomes
Speaker 2: something that you can't stop. I don't care how good
Speaker 2: you are on defense, you can't stop. That's kind of
Speaker 2: how I feel about that aspect of the Ravens offense.
Speaker 2: I defy anybody to hold them to under one hundred
Speaker 2: yards rushing this year. Like, I don't think anybody will
Speaker 2: be able to do it as a team. Nobody will
Speaker 2: be able to do that against them.
Speaker 3: You know what, your heads in your bed, that's going
Speaker 3: out on the limb with that bet?
Speaker 2: Huh that on hundred one hundred team? Could you hold
Speaker 2: them to? Like even dan quincid is we can't talking
Speaker 2: about one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: That'd be good.
Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty, Like, that's a huge game for anybody.
Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty years not for them.
Speaker 1: Was my number. I was like, yeah, fifty, that was
Speaker 1: my number.
Speaker 2: Like who else would you say that about the what
Speaker 2: other team running the ball? Would you say, let's just
Speaker 2: hold them to one fifty? You wouldn't say that about anybody.
Speaker 2: That's because they're that good at it.
Speaker 1: Like, that's that's what it is, the Ravens and you
Speaker 1: hope they don't have a type of passing game that
Speaker 1: they had. Yes, that's that's the difference.
Speaker 2: If Lamar hits intermediate and deep throws, you're dead. That's
Speaker 2: that's the point. And that's why they're elite. This is
Speaker 2: why and this is not their show. I'll just say
Speaker 2: this to you. They're the ones that audit at the deadline.
Speaker 2: Go get a available receiver and go over the top
Speaker 2: and lean into this. Like the Warriors didn't need Kevin
Speaker 2: Durant when they got them, but they got them and
Speaker 2: made them that much better. They are a top target
Speaker 2: opposite Flowers away from in my opinion, being basically unstoppable
Speaker 2: on offense. You can't stop their run game. What if
Speaker 2: they have a number one like primary receiver out there, Like,
Speaker 2: what's gonna You're gonna have to score forty to beat.
Speaker 3: Them, said Brown, I'm a Browns. I mean, I'm a
Speaker 3: Cavaliers fan. And the fact that you said the Warriors
Speaker 3: didn't need Kevin Durant, I disagree. They needed Kevin Durrat.
Speaker 3: They were not going to be the Cavaliers without Kdie.
Speaker 3: Let's move on to the next this or that?
Speaker 2: All right, we missed Brian Robinson or the Ravens defense
Speaker 2: is just that good against the run?
Speaker 1: Where are you on that one?
Speaker 3: We miss b rob We definitely miss b Rob because
Speaker 3: you mentioned physicality, peace, and a lot of things that
Speaker 3: b rob does first and foremost, it opens up a
Speaker 3: lot more. Having him on the field will open up
Speaker 3: a lot more in the passing game. And I know,
Speaker 3: I know well Jaden had a career high in passing
Speaker 3: yards yesterday with sixty nine yards passing. But having b
Speaker 3: Robbed on the field forces you to commit more resources,
Speaker 3: maybe an extra guy into the box to try to
Speaker 3: stop the run, which will open up things in the
Speaker 3: passing game a little bit more. Also, his ability to
Speaker 3: catch passes out of backfield and break tackles and make
Speaker 3: play yards at the contact, So you miss you miss
Speaker 3: having him on the field. Him and Austin Eckler as
Speaker 3: a dynamic want two punch, and I know Jeremy mc nichols,
Speaker 3: he's played well in and they when thrust in and
Speaker 3: called into duty. But b Rob Man, he's a difference maker.
Speaker 3: He is a difference maker, So we definitely missed him.
Speaker 3: I think their defense is I think both are true here.
Speaker 3: I think their defense is very good against the run,
Speaker 3: and b Rob not being there I think is a
Speaker 3: big deal. I describe it as he's kind of gas
Speaker 3: in the tank for this offense. And I agree with you.
Speaker 2: I think you honor Washington's run differently when he's actually
Speaker 2: out on the field because he is apt to get
Speaker 2: the ball fifteen to twenty times a game, and I
Speaker 2: think the Ravens know that Eckler isn't going to be
Speaker 2: used like that, Like I don't think there would be
Speaker 2: a usage where they were Washington gives him the ball
Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty times a game. So I do think
Speaker 2: that that kind of altered probably the predictability to some
Speaker 2: degree of what Washington was going to do without having
Speaker 2: b Rob out there. But I will say this, like
Speaker 2: it'll go back to what we were talking about earlier,
Speaker 2: Like I think Washington knew b Rober. No, b Rob,
Speaker 2: they're going to throw the ball more this week. So
Speaker 2: like would it have been thirty five passes in eighteen rushes?
Speaker 2: Would it more have been thirty one and twenty one?
Speaker 2: You know, like would it have been something like that,
Speaker 2: like a few more runs from b Rob.
Speaker 1: I'll buy that.
Speaker 2: Like that they would have carried the ball more with
Speaker 2: Robinson as opposed to him not being there. I still
Speaker 2: think this was a pass heavy game plan, and so
Speaker 2: it's not to you know, insinuate they didn't need him
Speaker 2: or didn't want them, or wouldn't have been better with them.
Speaker 2: All those things are true. I just don't know that
Speaker 2: from a game plan perspective, knowing what they had to
Speaker 2: get done, that I think it would have been more
Speaker 2: run heavy with him out there either way. Honestly, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll say this.
Speaker 3: I just think here's the difference where I see so
Speaker 3: some of them Ron's where you may pick up two
Speaker 3: yards with with Eckler or McNichols, you may probably pick
Speaker 3: up four yards with b Rob.
Speaker 1: Or five yards.
Speaker 3: So now you're agree you're in a second and five
Speaker 3: or second and six, or possibly a third and three
Speaker 3: as opposed to a third and five and things like that.
Speaker 3: So just having him because of the bigger body being
Speaker 3: six foot two. You talked about this on the on
Speaker 3: the air on the yesterday when Derrick Henry so big,
Speaker 3: he just falls forward for an extra two or three yards.
Speaker 1: You stop him and he gets four yards.
Speaker 2: You stop them and he gets four yards, and you're like,
Speaker 2: that's a good play.
Speaker 3: So it's a similar type of situation with b Rob.
Speaker 3: He has great body of body lean, so he's getting
Speaker 3: an extra yard, two yards, three yards to carry just
Speaker 3: because of his forward lean and he's a much bigger body.
Speaker 3: So now that that instead of us having to convert
Speaker 3: third and eight, third and seven, thirty six, now we're
Speaker 3: having to convert third and three, yeah, thirty four, you know,
Speaker 3: thirty five.
Speaker 1: A lot a lot more mattersable down in this.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's their best lead running back, pure running
Speaker 2: back inside the tackles. He's money on these short yards downs.
Speaker 2: He's like Henry to the point of it. And it's
Speaker 2: never going backwards. It's always getting an extra yard or two.
Speaker 2: They're better with him, Like it's not and it's not close.
Speaker 2: They're better with him. I just think yesterday that just
Speaker 2: the setup and for all the reasons why they were
Speaker 2: going to have to throw the ball more to keep
Speaker 2: up with Baltimore. I'm not sure that his absence is
Speaker 2: the difference here, and it's no offense to him. It's like,
Speaker 2: I just feel like they were throwing the ball a
Speaker 2: lot either way that that would be Robert, no b Rob.
Speaker 2: They were throwing the ball a lot yesterday, no choice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was gonna be.
Speaker 3: It was going to be a probably a sick I
Speaker 3: would say it wouldn't be sixty I mean, wouldn't be
Speaker 3: fifty to fifty.
Speaker 1: I think it would have been sixty forty maybe a
Speaker 1: little closer.
Speaker 2: I agree, because I think it was thirty five eighteen
Speaker 2: I think is what it was. So what would it
Speaker 2: have been thirty twenty three? You know something like that?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: Is that what we're talking about here? Maybe we passed
Speaker 4: the ball. How many pass attempts we had? Yeah, thirty
Speaker 4: five five pass attempts and eighteen runs.
Speaker 3: And think about this though too, with b Rob on
Speaker 3: the field, as I mentioned, maybe we convert some more
Speaker 3: third downs we have the We possessed the ball a
Speaker 3: lot longer too, and the Ravens don't have the ball
Speaker 3: as much as they did, and they're not controlling the
Speaker 3: clock as much. So I'm saying we definitely miss b Rob.
Speaker 3: I would have loved to have him in that game.
Speaker 3: Long term wise, he's too valuable to what we want
Speaker 3: to accomplish. So hopefully he is not a situation or
Speaker 3: injury that he's he has to miss multiple games, but
Speaker 3: he's a very valuable to him to what we're trying to.
Speaker 2: Like with John and George, We're waiting here from dan
Speaker 2: Quinn and we'll see what his situation is moving forward.
Speaker 2: All right, what more of this or that Jaden Daniels
Speaker 2: is not at the MVP level yet he just played
Speaker 2: an MVP yesterday, or the kid is still really balling.
Speaker 3: It's Jason, who's our producer, Brad, he goes MVP level
Speaker 3: and a kid in.
Speaker 1: Six games into his NFL career. I was you on this.
Speaker 2: I didn't even want to ask you that question, but
Speaker 2: it was put on the paper in front of me.
Speaker 2: So we blamed Jason for a question that I'm not
Speaker 2: even comfortable asking.
Speaker 3: But yes, all right, so like he's still balling, let's
Speaker 3: say that he is under your ball. There was there
Speaker 3: were some throws in that game. Yesterday where he hits
Speaker 3: a couple of throws on some out routes to the
Speaker 3: sideline where wal was to Terry almost to Noah Brown,
Speaker 3: where he put the ball in perfect position where only
Speaker 3: his receiver can catch the ball. The first touchdown pass
Speaker 3: to Terry Way throws it to a spot. Let's Terry
Speaker 3: run underneath the ball across the field over a safety
Speaker 3: that's way back there.
Speaker 1: I mean some of the plays that.
Speaker 3: The second testyle to Terry, he could have He could
Speaker 3: have laid Terry down thea towards the back pielin Ashley
Speaker 3: ends up throwing a back shoulder again, perfect ball placement.
Speaker 1: The kid is still balling.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent fourth and goal from the six and
Speaker 2: a must throw, and he puts it in a spot
Speaker 2: where only McLaurin can make a catch. Yes, Like nothing's
Speaker 2: too big for him. The spotlight's not too big for him.
Speaker 2: His instincts are just outrageous. His clutch ability is there.
Speaker 2: Nothing seems to get to him. He had like a
Speaker 2: couple airant throws and one bad one that should have
Speaker 2: been picked off. But like your nitpicking at this point,
Speaker 2: when you just go, oh, he had two bad throws
Speaker 2: in a game like, okay, name the other quarterbacks who
Speaker 2: have two bad throws in a game like he's playing
Speaker 2: extraordinarily well ahead of the curve. I love his demeanor
Speaker 2: about everything, you know, like we're yesterday, Like it ain't
Speaker 2: m it's not why they lost like it, you know,
Speaker 2: but you could feel it in him that he's all
Speaker 2: about the team, that it doesn't matter what he does.
Speaker 2: He doesn't he don't want nanny, he doesn't want any
Speaker 2: like nice adjectives about his play when the team loses.
Speaker 2: You can feel this about him, and I think this
Speaker 2: is why they're rallying around him, why they believe in him,
Speaker 2: Why Dan Kuhn was talking about that yesterday. You could
Speaker 2: feel this in the locker room. And I'll tell you
Speaker 2: what too, Like I liked how it sounded in there.
Speaker 2: You know, they lost to a good team, Yester. That
Speaker 2: team was in the AFC Championship a year ago. They're
Speaker 2: on a four game win streak, They've got the number
Speaker 2: one offense, the reigning MVP. They're better on offense in
Speaker 2: my opinion this year than they were a year ago.
Speaker 2: And that's saying something like there's no shame it losing
Speaker 2: to a team like that. But they didn't want to
Speaker 2: hear about moral victories. They were disappointed. They know they
Speaker 2: can go toe to toe with them, they know they
Speaker 2: can be better on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 2: And I liked hearing it, like the vibes matter to me.
Speaker 2: And I liked hearing what they had to say out
Speaker 2: of that locker room where they're like, don't tell us
Speaker 2: we played the Ravens close, like we don't want to
Speaker 2: hear that right now.
Speaker 1: I liked that.
Speaker 3: Nobody wants to hear that. And again, I've had the
Speaker 3: chance to rewatch the game. You haven't yet. We didn't
Speaker 3: play our best football offensively or defensively, so we play
Speaker 3: our best football, maybe it's a different result. And we're
Speaker 3: not talking about we went toe to toe with the Ravens.
Speaker 3: We're talking about we beat the Ravens. And I'm not
Speaker 3: I don't think I'm you know, this hyperbole or anything
Speaker 3: like that, like we play our best football if we
Speaker 3: play in some of it hed you say, well, the
Speaker 3: Ravens forced us to play the way we played, did
Speaker 3: they really? It's just my opinion. It's my opinion, and
Speaker 3: I can see why they're like, hey, we're not happy
Speaker 3: with the moral victory because they know they can play better.
Speaker 3: They know from offensive execution, from a defensive execution, we
Speaker 3: can be a lot better than what we were yesterday.
Speaker 1: And I'm excited about that.
Speaker 3: And I feel like, you know, this is a gop
Speaker 3: opportunity to have a great week of preparation, great week
Speaker 3: of practice going into this game at home against the
Speaker 3: Carolina Pators, to get back on the winning side of things.
Speaker 2: There is one other, like kind of larger point that
Speaker 2: I'm curious about this week, which goes back to you know,
Speaker 2: we're learning week to week about this team. I think
Speaker 2: that's why people were so kind of can't believe my
Speaker 2: eyes after the first few weeks, because it was so
Speaker 2: good and you're like, it's new. It's a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 2: new staff, new everything, thirty new players, Like I can't
Speaker 2: believe this is happening this fast. So this is all
Speaker 2: every week is kind of a new test. And the
Speaker 2: game that really got me, that turned me into this
Speaker 2: isn't going back, like this is a new normal was
Speaker 2: actually Arizona, Like they played in Cincinnati, they had that
Speaker 2: incredible moment they won, everybody saw it. It's on Monday
Speaker 2: Night football. The next day, everybody's talking about them. Who
Speaker 2: are these guys? How good is Jayden Dane? How great
Speaker 2: they are? The schedule you played, this is the worst
Speaker 2: they play on a short week. Kept to go to
Speaker 2: the West Coast and play like that's a loss, Like
Speaker 2: it's just set up to be a loss. They go
Speaker 2: out there and play their best game by far, put
Speaker 2: their heads down, dominate both sides of the ball. And
Speaker 2: after that one, I went, all right, we're onto something here.
Speaker 2: It means they know how to handle wins. It means
Speaker 2: they know how to handle wins like early. We're gonna
Speaker 2: find out this week can they handle a loss? And
Speaker 2: that's why I'm saying like I liked hearing what they
Speaker 2: had to say. They weren't claiming moral victories. They weren't
Speaker 2: complaining about whatever outside of what was happening in the game.
Speaker 2: They weren't doing any of that stuff. And I want
Speaker 2: to see what happens this weekend when they come back home,
Speaker 2: because I've seen them handle a win really well. Let
Speaker 2: me see how they handle a loss now.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're gonna do it. They're gonna handle it in
Speaker 3: a proper way. Because a game you're talking about, tell
Speaker 3: the truth, Tell the truth Monday. The coaches are going
Speaker 3: to tell the truth to those guys. We didn't play
Speaker 3: our best football. A lot of you guys didn't play
Speaker 3: up to your abilities, you know capabilities, didn't execute the
Speaker 3: game playing the way we wanted to execute it, didn't
Speaker 3: carry out your assignments the way you they needed to
Speaker 3: be carried out. And that's just the reality of the situation.
Speaker 3: That's what happened yesterday. I'm not calling anybody out or anything.
Speaker 3: This is that's what happened yesterday. We did not execute
Speaker 3: and play to the level that we have been growing
Speaker 3: accustomed to playing. Guys didn't play their best football at
Speaker 3: a number on a number of different occasions.
Speaker 1: When you lose a football game, one of the things
Speaker 1: that happens there's greater attention to detail. I worry about
Speaker 1: teams more so, and you mentioned after a candling and win.
Speaker 1: Oftentimes you gotta worry about teams more so after victory
Speaker 1: because you make gloss over some issues, some mistakes that
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily get exposed in that ballgame. So all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get that done the next time.
Speaker 3: But when you when you lose a football game, the
Speaker 3: attention to detail wraps up the focus, all the things,
Speaker 3: the intensity, the preparation, all.
Speaker 1: The things that you need to do.
Speaker 3: It's at a highened level. And so you go into that,
Speaker 3: you have a great week of practice, and then you
Speaker 3: go into that ball game ready to play your best.
Speaker 2: And here's the reality. Like, for their first six were
Speaker 2: on the road, they're four and two. For their first
Speaker 2: six were on the road, they're four and two. So
Speaker 2: they're in a really good spot as they kind of
Speaker 2: turn the corner here where the schedule becomes very favorable
Speaker 2: in terms of home games, lack of travel. And that's
Speaker 2: why I think this week is huge. I want to
Speaker 2: see how they handle this and everything I heard last
Speaker 2: night in the locker room scream to me. Not unlike
Speaker 2: the win against Cincinnati the loss here, they're very measured
Speaker 2: about the whole thing. And I expect a really good
Speaker 2: performance this weekend, honestly.
Speaker 3: And here's so let's talk about this weekend they got
Speaker 3: we got three things kind of going on here alumni. Well,
Speaker 3: first and foremost, Derk Green's jersey is being retired at
Speaker 3: that ball game, the one of the mount rushmoores of
Speaker 3: our franchise. His jersey is going to be immortalized definitely
Speaker 3: want to. That atmosphere should be great Alumni weekend, hundreds
Speaker 3: of former players who've doned the burgundy and gold. Whether
Speaker 3: you did it when the franchise was the Redskins or Commanders,
Speaker 3: whatever the case may be, you are Washington legend.
Speaker 1: You doned the Burgundy and gold. Third win the situation,
Speaker 1: we're still in first place in NFC East. We need
Speaker 1: our fans to come out and droves.
Speaker 3: Don't look at this as a oh man, They're playing
Speaker 3: the low league Carolina Panthers. We don't need to be there.
Speaker 3: We need to protect our home field. We want to
Speaker 3: the Carolina Panthers when they're on offense on third down,
Speaker 3: to have to call time outs because the crowd is
Speaker 3: so loud, to get false stars to feel like they
Speaker 3: are in a hostile environment and they picked the wrong
Speaker 3: day to show up at Northwest Stadium.
Speaker 1: We need our fans to come out and.
Speaker 3: Droves and feed off that and feed that energy to
Speaker 3: the players because it matters. It matters a lot. This
Speaker 3: is a big game. I would say this is bigger
Speaker 3: than the game we just played yesterday. Sunday's game against
Speaker 3: the Carolina Panthers is bigger than the game we just
Speaker 3: played last weekend because it's an nfcast, it's an NFC game,
Speaker 3: and it's a game. Those wins matter a lot more
Speaker 3: than an AFC AFC loss, or even if it was
Speaker 3: an AFC win, a win against AFC team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I thought the Cleveland crowd was great.
Speaker 2: That showed up a week ago. Like, just think about
Speaker 2: what the crowd was able to do. The Browns got
Speaker 2: confused on whether they were going to go for it
Speaker 2: on a fourth down. That's part of the crowd. How
Speaker 2: many procedural penalties did they have. That's a function of
Speaker 2: how they're playing right now. But like it also has
Speaker 2: to do with the crowd, and it's nice to have
Speaker 2: the partial crowd. And this team has really turned a corner.
Speaker 2: And this is a big game this weekend because unlike
Speaker 2: the measuring stick or litmus tests or whatever you wanted
Speaker 2: to call last week, wash, he's gonna be favored this week.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be an expectation that they're going to.
Speaker 1: Go in and win.
Speaker 2: That's why I want to see how they handle this.
Speaker 2: Carolina has the record that they have. I don't really
Speaker 2: want to say anything about it because in't really watched
Speaker 2: much of them yet, so it's hard for me to
Speaker 2: really know what they're really about, but I know what
Speaker 2: their record is, and so there's going to be a
Speaker 2: lot of let's get ready for the Bears in two weeks.
Speaker 2: That's what's going to be the noise because Caleb's coming on.
Speaker 2: The Bears are surging. That's the home game after. Be
Speaker 2: careful here, we need people at the game like they
Speaker 2: were at that Cleveland game. And honestly too, I was
Speaker 2: very fortunate I got to cover your career a little
Speaker 2: bit here is I was kind of off the ESPN for
Speaker 2: a little while while you were here. I got to
Speaker 2: cover the end of Daryl Green's career as a reporter,
Speaker 2: and that was an honor and a privilege. He played
Speaker 2: twenty years at Corner at an exemplary level. He is
Speaker 2: one of the most unique players and people you'll ever meet,
Speaker 2: and I agree with you. If there is a mount
Speaker 2: rushmore of this franchise, he's on it. So this is
Speaker 2: well deserved and I'm very excited for Daryl Green's day
Speaker 2: this coming Sunday.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, no, absolutely. I'll say this about Carolina Pats.
Speaker 3: I live here in Charlotte, As I mentioned multiple times.
Speaker 3: The They've been steve number one overall draft pick from
Speaker 3: a year ago, Bryce Young and replaced him with Andy Dalton.
Speaker 3: The their offense has been better with Dalton at the
Speaker 3: helm of the at the quarterback position. They played a
Speaker 3: lot better football. I think the receivers feel more involved.
Speaker 3: The offense has just operated more efficiently. Defensively, they were
Speaker 3: they were really good defense last last year. I don't
Speaker 3: know that they're playing at the same level as they
Speaker 3: did a year ago, but they'll They'll be a tough out.
Speaker 3: They're they're very well coached. The it'll be a game
Speaker 3: where we gotta we gotta come to play. They're not
Speaker 3: going to lay it.
Speaker 1: Down for us.
Speaker 3: They're going to bide on to our our burgundy helmet,
Speaker 3: bergundy and gold helmet.
Speaker 1: They're not going to do that.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure dan Quinn will have those guys ready
Speaker 3: to play.
Speaker 1: I don't worry about our.
Speaker 3: Team being ready to play a football game, or playing
Speaker 3: down to the competition or or anything like that, being
Speaker 3: high and low and things like that.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I don't worry about that at all.
Speaker 2: Everybody's got their own specific motivations every week. I would
Speaker 2: think that Frankieluvu is thinking this week why this team
Speaker 2: didn't want me back. So I'm waiting to see that
Speaker 2: energy on the field as he takes on his old
Speaker 2: team with the way that he's played, with the energy
Speaker 2: he's played, and you know, to claps and a Rick flair,
Speaker 2: I'm ready for it.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 3: I'm laughing because when you mentioned that Washington was my
Speaker 3: third franchise, so I played against my former teams I
Speaker 3: played against When I left the Rams, I went to Buffalo,
Speaker 3: we played against them, and then when I went and
Speaker 3: left Buffalo with the Washington, you know, we played against
Speaker 3: those seas. I remember when I first left Saint Louis
Speaker 3: and I'm in Buffalo and we're playing a preseason game
Speaker 3: against the Rams, and it's just to tell you how
Speaker 3: former players feel about going against their other team. We're
Speaker 3: playing the Rams, and it happened to be the third
Speaker 3: preseason game, and this was back when you would play
Speaker 3: like a half of football back back as a starter
Speaker 3: getting ready for the for the regular season. So I'm
Speaker 3: playing half of half of the game against the the
Speaker 3: Saint Louis Rams. Tory Holt was a who was a
Speaker 3: really good friend of mine. Comes to me in pregame
Speaker 3: warmups and Tory are great friends, and he's talking, Hey, Fletch,
Speaker 3: what's up, what's going on? And this tell you how
Speaker 3: I felt about that game. I said, toy. He says
Speaker 3: was up to me? I said, Toy, I can't wait
Speaker 3: to knock your ass out.
Speaker 1: Brown, I had.
Speaker 3: I had ten tackles and one half of football in
Speaker 3: a preseason game. So to your point, do you think
Speaker 3: if Frankie Louis definitely is going to be ready to
Speaker 3: play against the Carolina Pats?
Speaker 1: You can book that.
Speaker 2: Jeremy chiin two Jeremy Tin two.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 2: Yes, one other thing too, because I would like to
Speaker 2: end on a very positive note here.
Speaker 1: So I didn't get to see the Eagles place.
Speaker 2: I don't really have anything to say about them at
Speaker 2: this moment other than I saw what their coach did
Speaker 2: jawing at their own fans who's booing them while they're
Speaker 2: winning okay, and then saw his press conference talking about
Speaker 2: it because they didn't think they beat Cleveland by enough. Then,
Speaker 2: because Dallas played in the four o'clock window, I got
Speaker 2: to watch a lot of that. They got blown out
Speaker 2: by the Lion. So of the litmus test that Washington
Speaker 2: had with the Ravens. Dallas was having one with a
Speaker 2: front runner in the NFC, and they failed bad at home,
Speaker 2: got blown out, where the owners being asked, we're going
Speaker 2: to change coaches, and then we get to the night
Speaker 2: game and the Giants without a couple of their stars,
Speaker 2: play a close game but lose. So look like Washington
Speaker 2: went toe to toe with one of the best teams
Speaker 2: in the NFL on the road in a place where
Speaker 2: over the last fifteen sixteen years second or third best
Speaker 2: win percentage in the NFL. They were right there with them.
Speaker 2: The other three teams of the NFC East aren't looking
Speaker 2: too good today.
Speaker 1: So if you like, go look.
Speaker 2: Up and think about what the road is for the
Speaker 2: rest of this season, watch what's happening in those other
Speaker 2: three cities right now, and you'll come to the conclusion
Speaker 2: that everything is very much in front of this team
Speaker 2: for the rest of this season.
Speaker 1: Right I tried not.
Speaker 3: To, I tried not to get too far ahead of
Speaker 3: myself because of no And it's just I get what
Speaker 3: you said.
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, those teams do look bad.
Speaker 3: When I was at the airport and I was watching
Speaker 3: the Cowboys game, I don't know if you got it,
Speaker 3: you did?
Speaker 1: You say you did get a chance to watch?
Speaker 2: I saw, yeah, I saw the majority of it, right so,
Speaker 2: and the Lions were toying with them, like they were
Speaker 2: running hooking ladders with linemen against.
Speaker 3: Them, right right, Yeah, So I watched watch that game
Speaker 3: at the airport, and I watched the Monday, I mean
Speaker 3: the Sunday night game with the with the Giants and
Speaker 3: the and the Bengals. Yeah, we're a good spot. We're
Speaker 3: definitely a good spot. But that's let's continue to get better.
Speaker 3: Let's not get too far ahead of our sales list.
Speaker 3: Let's focus on the Carolina Panthers Sunday at Northwest State.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a good one, and I'm you need
Speaker 2: the fans there be there. I'm with you. It actually
Speaker 2: is at four and two to respond to get the
Speaker 2: five and two at home. It is a bigger game
Speaker 2: than the Ravens game. It might not be the test
Speaker 2: that you think it is, but it's a bigger game
Speaker 2: because this show ain't gonna be pretty if they lose
Speaker 2: on next Monday.
Speaker 1: Honestly, right now, you're absolutely right now, it's can you
Speaker 1: imagine the sports talk radio?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not even going to go there. No, this
Speaker 3: is we're going we don't have our business. We're gonna
Speaker 3: have our business, but we definitely need the fans there
Speaker 3: and droves come out with the same type of energy
Speaker 3: and the atmosphere.
Speaker 1: That was my first home game. Last week.
Speaker 3: I missed the the Giants home game, so me being
Speaker 3: at the Cleveland game, I mentioned it too. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: talked about it. You and I talked about it. We
Speaker 3: may even talked about it on Booth Review last week.
Speaker 3: The amount of people that were on the sidelines for
Speaker 3: that game was just, Man, I like.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 3: I can remember in a really, really long time and
Speaker 3: I was. I played with RG three his rookie year
Speaker 3: and it was that was crazy during that era.
Speaker 1: But it was so many people.
Speaker 3: I'm talking We're talking six seven, eight rows deep of
Speaker 3: people on the sideline for a regular season game.
Speaker 1: We need that type of energy, that type of atmosphere
Speaker 1: it was there. Get on board.
Speaker 2: This is a different team and they need you. And
Speaker 2: this is a big week. You can watch them get
Speaker 2: to five and two. It's a big, big week. So
Speaker 2: we hope we get everybody out there. All right, that'll
Speaker 2: do it for the Booth Review, You'll see you next week,