Speaker 1: Three by one to the right side, looks that way,
Speaker 1: throws that way. Tark Nkuah touchdown car time deep.
Speaker 2: Going deep and open and making the catch.
Speaker 1: Shit he for the touchdown. He beat Murderston second and
Speaker 1: three again again touchdown.
Speaker 2: Theredairs. You heard at the Los Angeles Rams left for
Speaker 2: dead before the season started, or in the precipice of
Speaker 2: being a playoff team in the NFC. After another win
Speaker 2: thirty to twenty two over the Saints, a game which
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford continued his dynamic play in the second half
Speaker 2: of the season, and we got another monster game from
Speaker 2: Puka and Nukua. This team is dangerous and they beat
Speaker 2: a Saints team that continues to fade. It's the Around
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Speaker 2: Mark Sessler and Mark again the Rams. They're not a
Speaker 2: perfect team, special teams, sneaky disaster and I kind of
Speaker 2: think when their season ends, whatever it is, whether it's
Speaker 2: regular season or playoffs, probably some type of special team's
Speaker 2: gaff that gets them, But there are so many other
Speaker 2: aspects of this team that are intriguing, and right now,
Speaker 2: it's that offense with Stafford, Puka Cup, Kyron Williams that
Speaker 2: really makes them dangerous no matter who they play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's two teams kind of going in
Speaker 3: a different direction in the rams. I think I just
Speaker 3: point to what a great coaching job Sean McVay has
Speaker 3: done it different segments of the season. Like the team
Speaker 3: they are today is completely different than the team they
Speaker 3: started the season with. You know, it's like people that
Speaker 3: weren't even on this roster year ago. I mean, Kyron
Speaker 3: Williams really was a hammer down the stretch tonight. Puka
Speaker 3: Nakua is just like he's a rookie really. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's so productive in this passing game. With Matthew Stafford
Speaker 3: playing the way that he is, I mean, it's kind
Speaker 3: of like a crazy box score to look at. They
Speaker 3: only completed He only completed passes to four different guys,
Speaker 3: but they were each so critical and like DeMarcus Robinson,
Speaker 3: you know, having really one of the games of his
Speaker 3: life six catches for eighty two yards, anchored them in
Speaker 3: the first half, and I just I think, you know,
Speaker 3: the defense which is still outside of Aaron done a
Speaker 3: lot of like newer faces and unknown players to the
Speaker 3: casual fan. They really like they put the Saints into
Speaker 3: a tough spot out of the gate because cars blown
Speaker 3: up on the first two possessions on a third and
Speaker 3: fourth down sack and I think those failed down fourth
Speaker 3: downs Dan four Carr and the Saints were really a
Speaker 3: critical in this because they had a fourth and five
Speaker 3: pass right before the half incomplete, and the Rams go
Speaker 3: right down withinside of a minute. They go right down
Speaker 3: the field and score and make it seventeen to seven
Speaker 3: when the Saints were hanging around and another field fourth
Speaker 3: down later. They're oh for three on fourth downs tonight,
Speaker 3: and on the season they're oer for seven on fourth
Speaker 3: downs with fourth and five or more to go. So
Speaker 3: it's execution, it's coaching. It's weird decisions where the Rams
Speaker 3: to me are heating up, and it's like, I don't
Speaker 3: care where they land in this wild card race. As
Speaker 3: they get there, they're going to be a strange and
Speaker 3: tough opponent to deal with.
Speaker 2: You know, if things stay where they are and we
Speaker 2: don't want to get a hard ahead of ourselves, especially
Speaker 2: in this season where teams have been kind of playing
Speaker 2: rope a dope with us all year. There is a
Speaker 2: real scenario where the Rams are traveling to Detroit to
Speaker 2: face the Lions and it's Matthew Stafford against the team
Speaker 2: that drafted him. And we like the Lions, But you
Speaker 2: cannot tell me the Rams would not have a very
Speaker 2: real chance to win that game. I actually look at
Speaker 2: the Rams and I think they could hang with pretty
Speaker 2: much any team now going to San Francisco in the NFC. Okay,
Speaker 2: that that might be a tall order, but they just
Speaker 2: the way they play, in the way they're coach and
Speaker 2: you know, we've been talking about it, you could this
Speaker 2: is not that this is the sexiest conversation, but when
Speaker 2: you talk about coach of the year, this is a
Speaker 2: really good coach of the year year.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of coaches you can make a case
Speaker 2: for and a credible case, but McVeigh is one of
Speaker 2: them too. And he and the fact that their expectations
Speaker 2: around this team were so low entering the year and
Speaker 2: they're playing at such a high level and they have
Speaker 2: entering even even if things don't work out here Mark
Speaker 2: for this team down the stretch and they have AT
Speaker 2: Giants and AT Niners to close, and we don't know
Speaker 2: what version of the Niners we get because we don't
Speaker 2: know if they'll need the game even if things didn't
Speaker 2: work out. This is a team that finally gets first
Speaker 2: round pickback. They have a lot of cap space. All
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the Rams are looking dangerous, but some
Speaker 2: of it, so much of it is predicated on Stafford,
Speaker 2: who you know, he had so many big time throws
Speaker 2: in this game. I love Stafford. I think we all do.
Speaker 2: On atn he has that sidear motion on a couple
Speaker 2: of those. He's just he's a wizard the way he
Speaker 2: throws the ball. And I just think as long as
Speaker 2: he stays upright, they're going to continue to win games. So,
Speaker 2: you know, are they the Cinderella team. It feels like Mark,
Speaker 2: if there is a Cinderella team, and I kind of
Speaker 2: like not to jinkson, but your brownies, there's another exciting
Speaker 2: AFC wild card type team who's gonna go crazy in
Speaker 2: the playoffs and shock people Like the Rams. They can
Speaker 2: be that team. They just got to close out this
Speaker 2: regular season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just stay healthy and you know,
Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford stay healthy. And I mean they outlined it
Speaker 3: on the show and we've been talking about it kind
Speaker 3: of from a more ethereal standpoint all season that Stafford
Speaker 3: just looks younger. To us, it looks like he went
Speaker 3: back in a time machine. And you're right. I mean
Speaker 3: I thought on display tonight was that one sidearm throw
Speaker 3: to DeMarcus Robinson and they missed a field goal on
Speaker 3: that drive, But it was just like, Okay, not that
Speaker 3: many quarterbacks can make that throw and to have like
Speaker 3: the wide receiver talent that he does right now, it's
Speaker 3: just they feel like a team they've scored thirty plus
Speaker 3: and four or five games. I'm with you that McVeigh
Speaker 3: really fits the essence of what coach of the Year
Speaker 3: is Raheem Morris does as assistant coach.
Speaker 2: Of the year.
Speaker 3: I mean, because these are this was a roster that had,
Speaker 3: you know, thirty thirty plus young players, rookies and undrafted
Speaker 3: free agents that no one knew about. And like the
Speaker 3: fact that they've developed them this quickly, it's to me
Speaker 3: sort of the opposite of what's happening with New Orleans
Speaker 3: that feels like their coach is a couple weeks away
Speaker 3: from hitting the exit door, and you can't just blame
Speaker 3: it on Car. Like Car I thought in a lot
Speaker 3: of these games, has had to come roaring back with
Speaker 3: a hot quarter. But there's too much imbalance on that roster,
Speaker 3: because while the Rams are getting Karen Williams, you know,
Speaker 3: eating up the clock down the stretch and bringing so
Speaker 3: much balance and opening up the passing game because of
Speaker 3: what he can do on the ground, you're getting like
Speaker 3: the worst version of Alvin Kamara tonight. Not nineteen yards
Speaker 3: at two point one yards per carry. They were low
Speaker 3: on the ground. They' running for thirty five yards. And
Speaker 3: then you got Car under duress early in the game,
Speaker 3: when I thought it set the tone that they were
Speaker 3: forced to make tough decisions on third and fourth down
Speaker 3: and couldn't execute outside of a couple of big deep throws.
Speaker 3: The score in the end feels not fraudulent, but it's
Speaker 3: a little It doesn't guide you to what this game
Speaker 3: is really about, which was the stammering.
Speaker 2: Them absolutely fraudulent. I mean, forget about lipstick on the pig.
Speaker 2: This is this is mascaro on the pig. Some blush
Speaker 2: on the pig. Put a blonde wig on the pick.
Speaker 2: You're looking at the pig and you're saying, do I
Speaker 2: love this pig? Am I gotta buy this pig a drink?
Speaker 2: But then you like take another step back and you
Speaker 2: kind of squint. You're like, no, that's an ugly that
Speaker 2: is an ugly animal. Because this game was everything that
Speaker 2: tells you why the Saints cannot be taken seriously. They
Speaker 2: were non competitive, could not run the football. You mentioned
Speaker 2: Kamara struggles. They ran sixteen for thirty five yards in
Speaker 2: this game, two point two yards per carry. Non competitive.
Speaker 2: The defense was just as bad. The Rams kind of
Speaker 2: were scoring at will while the game was before the
Speaker 2: game kind of got out of hand. I think they
Speaker 2: had maybe one punt late in the third quarter Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: So the defense of New Orleans, which as I've said,
Speaker 2: I said earlier this week, has been very topsy turvy
Speaker 2: this season. They've had big weeks, they've had shutout weeks,
Speaker 2: but they've all said plenty of weeks like this where
Speaker 2: I think they gave up close to four hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty yards in this game. And you know, Mark, you
Speaker 2: know I'm by the by any matter trick. I guess
Speaker 2: I'm a Derek Carr defender. But this game, I can
Speaker 2: even say, like, this is why Derek Carr drives people nuts,
Speaker 2: because you want you want to point to him and
Speaker 2: say he stinks, and you want the smoking gun with
Speaker 2: the stats to back it up. But he's the king
Speaker 2: of this. Like he did not play a good game here,
Speaker 2: not certainly, not when it mattered. But when they pile
Speaker 2: up those fifteen points in the fourth quarter on a drive,
Speaker 2: block punt, quick touchdown, two point conversion, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the statline finishes twenty seven to forty three to nineteen
Speaker 2: eight yards per attempt and three touchdowns and one pick
Speaker 2: and a passer rating over one hundred and five. That's
Speaker 2: super annoying. And it is another reminder just not to
Speaker 2: judge a player based on stats, because he is even
Speaker 2: as a defender of Car, he's a compiler. And those
Speaker 2: last two drives really kind of made this game look
Speaker 2: a lot more competitive than it truly was. And you know,
Speaker 2: as someone, oh, I locked this one up, by the way,
Speaker 2: nothing better, whew, nothing out of the way. Is there
Speaker 2: anything better than a Thursday night football lock the whole world?
Speaker 3: Joy st you're operating with house money for the rest
Speaker 3: of the football weekend. So I think that was a
Speaker 3: wise move on your part and well executed, unlike the
Speaker 3: Saints and what they tried to do tonight.
Speaker 2: But you know, I've had a terrible lock year. And
Speaker 2: when they were what was the score at one point
Speaker 2: it was thirty to what seven or whatever it was.
Speaker 2: When they score the two quick touchdowns, the Saints saying
Speaker 2: if the Rams ever blow this game, I am not
Speaker 2: doing the podcast. It's a Mark monologue, which might be
Speaker 2: interesting and prefable for some. But they got the first
Speaker 2: down they needed the Rams after that second Sants score
Speaker 2: after of course, Pooka and Akua recovers the onside kick,
Speaker 2: because of course Pooka Akua had to recover the onside kick.
Speaker 2: Because Pooka and Akua, It's almost as if Mark is
Speaker 2: great as he's been, and he has gotten plenty of press.
Speaker 2: It's not like nobody knows what's going on with pookin Akua.
Speaker 2: I think maybe a game like this brings into focus
Speaker 2: that he's having a truly historically great rookie year. This is,
Speaker 2: I believe, a fifth round pick who finishes this game
Speaker 2: with nine catches for one hundred and sixty four yards
Speaker 2: and a touchdown on eleven targets make it all sorts
Speaker 2: of tough catches, making DB's look foolish, And they flashed
Speaker 2: up a stat that I thought, really it was put
Speaker 2: in perspective what he's been doing this year. In the
Speaker 2: time that you and I have been working for NFL media,
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody has ever exploded on the scene.
Speaker 2: Odell Beckham when he was a rookie with the Giants,
Speaker 2: a first round pick in twenty thirteen, he gets he
Speaker 2: hurts his leg in training camp. It's a hamstring injury,
Speaker 2: and he's out the first four weeks. He joins the
Speaker 2: Giants and immediately is the best wide receiver in football
Speaker 2: and tonight Pokinakua and that included you know, the one
Speaker 2: handed catch against Dallas on Sunday Night Football. It was
Speaker 2: one of the great debuts in the history of the sport.
Speaker 2: Was Odell's rookie season. Nikoua has now tied Odell Beckham
Speaker 2: for one hundred and forty plus yard games as a rookie.
Speaker 2: He's got four of them already this season. So you know,
Speaker 2: offensive Rookie of the Year is certainly if you give
Speaker 2: it to him. I know CJ. Stroud's the favorite, although
Speaker 2: the injury clouds it. But Nikouah's mergence has been just
Speaker 2: an incredibly important part of this Rams rise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I think you could have imagined a world
Speaker 3: where he was thriving certainly statistically and looking like it
Speaker 3: as a player when Cooper Cup was out. But then
Speaker 3: Cup comes back and Puka Nakua fades to the background,
Speaker 3: and they found a way to keep them both so
Speaker 3: productive together. I mean even tonight, you know, there was
Speaker 3: the one throw and it was one of the Matthew
Speaker 3: Stafford's few gaffes where he missed.
Speaker 2: Puka Nakula wide open.
Speaker 3: It would have been another touchdown, I mean a large
Speaker 3: catch removed at the end of the game by a penalty.
Speaker 3: In general, the Rams also missed a field goal. It's
Speaker 3: like they could have poured on more points. But like
Speaker 3: pokin Akua came close to having them even more of
Speaker 3: a monster evening to add a cherry on top to
Speaker 3: what I would have no problem with him being offensive
Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year if we didn't see Stroud return again,
Speaker 3: if Stroud's lost for you know, a big chunk of games,
Speaker 3: which is a possibility, then there's a real argument for it,
Speaker 3: and it's like, I think part of it is like again,
Speaker 3: these are It's not that it's narrative driven, because he's
Speaker 3: just literally a great player. He doesn't look to me.
Speaker 3: It's like he and Odell Beckham are different players. But
Speaker 3: it's like he is, I think for some reason to
Speaker 3: me and tell me if you you agree. When I
Speaker 3: watch him on the field, he looks They keep saying
Speaker 3: he's six too and two hundred plus. He doesn't look that.
Speaker 3: He doesn't look big to me on the field, but
Speaker 3: he but with each catch and catch and run and tackle,
Speaker 3: shedding exploit, it's like he is. His strength does show
Speaker 3: in the type of play that he plays, and I
Speaker 3: think he's such a perfect fit for the Rams offense.
Speaker 3: And it's like he's just getting better and this whole
Speaker 3: offense is getting better. And I don't know, I'm looking
Speaker 3: at a team that could easily have scored forty points
Speaker 3: to night if a few things went a little differently.
Speaker 2: You're right, Stafford missed Nikoua on that one gimme touchdown,
Speaker 2: one of the only truly bad throw Stafford had all night,
Speaker 2: or even the less six weeks. Stafford has been so
Speaker 2: good this stat from a big Funk behind the glass.
Speaker 2: Nikua sitting at one three hundred and twenty seven receiving
Speaker 2: yards after week sixteen. He only needs one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty seven in the final two games and now we
Speaker 2: play an extra game now, so keep that in mind.
Speaker 2: But one hundred and forty seven in the last two
Speaker 2: games to break the single season rookie receiving yards record,
Speaker 2: which is fourteen seventy three is that Odell? Does Odell
Speaker 2: have the record? Well, he missed four games, so it's
Speaker 2: probably not Odell. Let us know who that is, Akwon Bolden.
Speaker 2: That's a good trivia question. Bolden had that monster rookie
Speaker 2: year with the Cardinals once upon a time. Anything else
Speaker 2: from this game jump out to you. Mark.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't I get on Greg for doing
Speaker 3: this kind of thing, So I'm not trying to mimic
Speaker 3: him here, But like is as unwatchable as like the Saints'
Speaker 3: offense is for large stretches of time. Like They've got
Speaker 3: this like insane matchup with Tampa Bay coming and then
Speaker 3: they play Atlanta. It's like they can really they can
Speaker 3: find a way too. If you want to talk about
Speaker 3: putting like lipstick on pigs and other animals like that
Speaker 3: would be like the next level version of that.
Speaker 2: But they're still alive.
Speaker 3: But the Rams they kept talking tonight about like how
Speaker 3: the percentage is totally flipped on who won tonight, and
Speaker 3: the Rams just keep getting it done. They're gonna get
Speaker 3: the Giants and then you're right, we'll see what kind
Speaker 3: of San Francisco Niners roster is operating a wiki team.
Speaker 3: But like, I could see the Niners needing to play
Speaker 3: their starters based on what happens here over the next
Speaker 3: couple of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Christmas Night game against the Ravens is so
Speaker 2: big in that realm. Some more data on Big Funk.
Speaker 2: Let me know who has that receiving record. The Rams
Speaker 2: have now won six of seven. The only game they
Speaker 2: lost in that stretch was an overtime lost to the Ravens.
Speaker 2: So this has been a legitimate rise for Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: They're up to a seventy eight percent chance to make
Speaker 2: the playoffs according to ESPN Analytics and Stafford. Since he
Speaker 2: came back from the thumb injury in week eleven, the
Speaker 2: Rams have scored at least twenty eight points in five
Speaker 2: straight games. So not only is this a team on
Speaker 2: the rise, with a really bright future and plenty of
Speaker 2: assets and money to get better in the offseason. Sean
Speaker 2: McVay has re established himself. Even think where we were
Speaker 2: this time last year, mark where McVeigh as the season went,
Speaker 2: you know, as as regular season came to the close,
Speaker 2: there was this idea that he was going to walk away.
Speaker 2: He'd even told his assistance, Hey, don't wait for me,
Speaker 2: go look for other jobs. And then at some point
Speaker 2: he had some type of come to Jesus moment and
Speaker 2: decided to come back to LA And at that point
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say that mcveigh's starr had dimmed. Obviously, he
Speaker 2: had won the Super Bowl the previous year, but you
Speaker 2: kind of understood why maybe he was looking at take
Speaker 2: a break. He was a young guy. The Rams seemed
Speaker 2: like they were going into a down cycle. But this
Speaker 2: is just proof that in the NFL, you just got
Speaker 2: to hit on a couple draft picks as they have,
Speaker 2: and hit on a couple of personnel moves as they have.
Speaker 2: Cooper Cupp was a mid round pick, Stafford was a
Speaker 2: savvy trade, nikoua fifth round pick, Kyron Williams. These guys
Speaker 2: were not expected to be stars. They've all kind of
Speaker 2: stepped up and the defense, and you're right, you obviously
Speaker 2: have to give credit to the DC on this because
Speaker 2: they have put together a defense that is competitive week
Speaker 2: after week, that is very young and outside Donald and
Speaker 2: a couple other players inexperience, So very good time for
Speaker 2: the Rams right now. Yep.
Speaker 3: And we will just note that it was Bill Groman
Speaker 3: of the Houston Oilers that had that fourteen hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy three yard rookie record in nineteen sixty. The Super
Speaker 3: Bowl era version of that is Jamar Chase with fourteen
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty five.
Speaker 2: But I think, I think.
Speaker 3: Exactly think there was that there was that feature that
Speaker 3: came out about McVeigh in the offseason, and I you know,
Speaker 3: it painted the picture of someone that is just classically
Speaker 3: so hard on themselves and like probably burns themselves out.
Speaker 3: And I think he thought he was walking around the
Speaker 3: building last season burning everyone else else else out too,
Speaker 3: And I think this is such a different experience, and like,
Speaker 3: you know, it is like also like less sneeds creation
Speaker 3: because they've kind of shifted the philosophy of who they
Speaker 3: are because I think it's we're back to the world
Speaker 3: of draft picks back to the world of like drafting
Speaker 3: a lot of guys, drafting, taking undrafted guys on the side,
Speaker 3: like forming the kind of Rams team that you want.
Speaker 2: And it's really different than chasing a.
Speaker 3: Top heavy selection of prizes to go win won Super
Speaker 3: Bowl and then the whole thing could have crashed. Instead,
Speaker 3: we're here, like we read the team has been redone.
Speaker 3: It's happening, quicker. I think the best today's NFL rebuilds.
Speaker 3: It's inexcusable to say they should take four or five years.
Speaker 3: This is not nineteen ninety three. It should happen faster, quicker.
Speaker 3: And a team like the Seahawks did it a year ago,
Speaker 3: and I think the questions were like could the Rams
Speaker 3: do it too? And here we are, and like they're
Speaker 3: better than the Seahawks, the kind of team that could
Speaker 3: probably knock off a surprising Lions team in the playoffs,
Speaker 3: like you talked about. So it's like, it's kind of
Speaker 3: an interesting time to be a Rams fan. It's so
Speaker 3: different than where we were two years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you just as you're making that very good point, Mark,
Speaker 2: I think have the Jets gone thirteen straight years without
Speaker 2: stumbling into the playoffs once but that tells you a lot.
Speaker 2: And I did mention Raheem Morris and the Rams defense
Speaker 2: deserves credit too. We were focusing on the offense because
Speaker 2: that's the special part of this team. But Kobe Turner
Speaker 2: had a big fourth down sack on car He leads
Speaker 2: all NFL rookies with six and a half sacks this season.
Speaker 2: He moved ahead of Byron Young, his teammate, who has
Speaker 2: six sacks. So you know this isn't just aaron' donell.
Speaker 2: And you know everything is taped together with spitting bubblegum.
Speaker 2: This is a team that's that's really figuring things out.
Speaker 2: And I mentioned the last thing here. I mentioned the
Speaker 2: special teams is an issue for the Rams. Remember they
Speaker 2: got that overtime loss. They're only lost in seven games.
Speaker 2: Is a punt return for a touchdown? This loop? You
Speaker 2: know we have the kicker club. What's the opposite of
Speaker 2: a kicker club? I don't know a kicker, well, a
Speaker 2: ghetto a kicker. I don't know something bad like a like.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've ever been to like the
Speaker 3: the bus bathroom, the bus terminal BATHROOMAH or port authority.
Speaker 3: But Cleveland, Cleveland's just like you walk up into the
Speaker 3: men's room. I can't speak for the women's room, but
Speaker 3: like there's eighteen stalls, none of them have doors on them,
Speaker 3: so it's like, I know what we're doing here, but
Speaker 3: like it was sort of a decrepit nightmare. And that's
Speaker 3: where you put these special So the.
Speaker 2: Kicker Cleveland Bust Authority location is where Lucas Haversik belongs.
Speaker 2: He missed from forty seven in the second quarter. LA
Speaker 2: has now missed eleven field goals this season. The motion's
Speaker 2: the twenty fifteen Bucks. According to ESPN. They also got
Speaker 2: a punt blocked in this game, so they got all
Speaker 2: sorts of problems on that end of the ball. They'll
Speaker 2: get that fix in the off season. But I think
Speaker 2: it's gonna haunt I just got this feeling mark that's
Speaker 2: what's gonna get them. They're gonna have a big, fun, competitive,
Speaker 2: back and forth playoff game because I do think they're
Speaker 2: gonna be a playoff team and that will get them.
Speaker 2: But you know, we'll see Big Funk chimes in with
Speaker 2: Kicker Roadhouse and that just makes me think of the
Speaker 2: Patrick Swayzee moving. I think that place is awesome.
Speaker 3: The double deuce, Yeah, the Roadhouse, that Plato much of
Speaker 3: a potential reward for these for these players.
Speaker 2: Did you see Roadhouse with Patrick Swayzee? Oh, Kelly Lynch,
Speaker 2: who's the guy with the big mustache from Big Lebowski
Speaker 2: with a great voice?
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I know Sam Samuel, Sam Elliott, Sam Elliott's
Speaker 3: in that?
Speaker 2: What a film? Check out road Out? Excellent? All right,
Speaker 2: let's take a break alright to welcome back to around
Speaker 2: the NFL. This will be fun. So time for who
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Speaker 2: some members of the ATM production team around Sofi Stadium
Speaker 2: and we said ask the fans who they thought would
Speaker 2: deliver in tonight's game. Here's what some of them had
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 5: Remember hoping Derek Carr has a great game. The Saints
Speaker 5: bringing the game for their fourth win in a row.
Speaker 5: This is a really important game for us. Both teams
Speaker 5: is seven and seven and we need it. Rams are
Speaker 5: gonna win his playoff, Baby Williams is gonna go off
Speaker 5: for three touchdowns tonight. Two touchdowns Williams two touchdowns, Pookah
Speaker 5: and my long shot is two touchdowns hickbee.
Speaker 4: I think that Kamara's gonna go off a Lobby's gonna
Speaker 4: score a touchdown as well.
Speaker 2: And I think this score is gonna be twenty one
Speaker 2: to seventeen.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be.
Speaker 6: Close Stafford tonight and predicting, you know what, a good
Speaker 6: at least two fifty possibly three tugs. I'm gonna give
Speaker 6: him about fifteen fifteen yards rushing tonight. You know what, Hey,
Speaker 6: possibly possibly a close game throwing a late rushing tug.
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, it's gonna be a great victory,
Speaker 5: that's for sure. Right, we're gonna take it tonight, of course, right,
Speaker 5: and you know well, Stafford is gonna put it down today.
Speaker 5: He is gonna have three touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: I cannot calckilate homa yards, but it's gonna be probably
Speaker 5: over three hundred yards. And guess what we just gonna
Speaker 5: end up going back. We're gonna go on Victoria. It's
Speaker 5: only matters, man, make the damn playoffs.
Speaker 2: There we go. Well, those fans are passionate, don't tell me,
Speaker 2: LA football fans don't get it. They were fired up
Speaker 2: for this game, and not all of them nailed their predictions.
Speaker 2: But uh, fun vibe. So far. Yeah, I tended.
Speaker 3: I'd say overall, it seemed like the Rams fans very
Speaker 3: optimistic and came relatively close in theory. The Saints fans
Speaker 3: not so much. Their predictions didn't pan out on any level.
Speaker 2: But you know who really delivered, Greggy. He took the
Speaker 2: kids to the game, took the wife to the game.
Speaker 2: So Otani up close. That's great. By the way, Otani.
Speaker 2: Otani visits the Rams and he's on the sideline and
Speaker 2: he's sitting, you know, in the in the in the suite.
Speaker 2: They give him a jersey and he's all over Twitter
Speaker 2: and everything, and it's like Otani's been here. Otani was
Speaker 2: on the Angels for the past like five years. Like
Speaker 2: they're the Los Angeles Angels, and that I mean, don't
Speaker 2: tell rank because I love Rank, but like that's pretty
Speaker 2: like sand indictment of where the Angels are within the
Speaker 2: the greater sphere of sports here in Los Angeles, although
Speaker 2: they are if you don't if you know the area,
Speaker 2: the Angels are like the Orange County team, and it
Speaker 2: is that it is a Dodgers town here in this
Speaker 2: area of the city or state, I should say. But anyway,
Speaker 2: never mind that Greg took his kids to the game.
Speaker 2: He saw Tani. His wife probably you know, was thinking
Speaker 2: about greg Or Otani. Where should I go? I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll get back to you mission anyway. But he did
Speaker 2: give us a report from the game. Maybe he'll talk
Speaker 2: about Otani.
Speaker 4: Let's hear all right here at Sofi Stadium, Rams Saints.
Speaker 4: I gotta say Rams fans brought it tonight. They get
Speaker 4: a lot of grief, but they brought it. Show Hey,
Speaker 4: Tani brought it. We saw him on the sideline before
Speaker 4: the game. Matthew Stafford brought it all. The trick shots
Speaker 4: are fun to see in person, like the angles are crazy,
Speaker 4: bust the rhymes brought it at halftime. That was good Walker,
Speaker 4: My family brought at Walker. You got anything to say?
Speaker 4: Who's whose Okay?
Speaker 2: PoCA rules. That's it from so far.
Speaker 1: Good night at the game.
Speaker 4: Thank you from the Rams, making my kids happy.
Speaker 2: Ran a podcast all right. That was Who Will Deliver,
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Speaker 2: of the NFL Order. Now we've talked about how Greg
Speaker 2: and he tries to play it off, but he's been
Speaker 2: turning Walker, training Walker to be a little like a
Speaker 2: football robot, A twin, So it is I think instructive.
Speaker 2: It tells us that that Walker's training is going on
Speaker 2: that if he only says two words puka nakua, because
Speaker 2: that was the story. So and Walker Walker was just
Speaker 2: locked locked in on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not I'm not surprised he's They're all there
Speaker 3: are rams family. I would ask you this though, because
Speaker 3: I remember when we were young. One of the reasons
Speaker 3: we got into this what we do is because of
Speaker 3: w F A N. And they had this incredible show
Speaker 3: on Sunday where you know, I was a Browns fan.
Speaker 3: It's like you're you're getting you're looking for any morselivan
Speaker 3: information pre internet, right, and they'd take They had like
Speaker 3: that six hour long show where they'd go to beat
Speaker 3: reporters at the stadiums for like three or four, you know,
Speaker 3: thirty forty seconds each. You could barely hear them. But
Speaker 3: that Greg report had that essence in that feel where
Speaker 3: it's like, this guy is trying to get his message
Speaker 3: across to us clearly with about eighty thousand people behind him,
Speaker 3: going absolutely bonkers with about six beers in the meach.
Speaker 2: How about this idea? That's our show? Now we every
Speaker 2: week we send Greg to a stadium. You and I
Speaker 2: do forty fifty sixty seventy minutes. Maybe we get Colleen
Speaker 2: in the mix. Yeah, you know, shookey CLAYBN, you know,
Speaker 2: typical ATM setup. Greg's still very much a part of
Speaker 2: the ATN universe, but now we're just sending him to
Speaker 2: different parts of the country to give us ninety second dispatches.
Speaker 2: And that's It's an important part of the show. It's
Speaker 2: maybe a smaller part of the show, but equally important
Speaker 2: and gets us closer to the game, which I think
Speaker 2: makes the show better. And I think even Greg would agree,
Speaker 2: whatever makes the show better is probably the way we
Speaker 2: should be doing this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he'd have to agree. I mean, it's sort of
Speaker 3: our version of reimagining our operation as the Rams have
Speaker 3: done over the past three hundred and sixty five days.
Speaker 3: And I think it gets that It ignites that natural
Speaker 3: reporter in Greg. Even if it's only forty to fifty
Speaker 3: seconds per episode, it would really bring him back to
Speaker 3: his roots.
Speaker 2: Good, good, good. So that's settled. Then do you want
Speaker 2: to make the phone call? I feel like you might
Speaker 2: want to make that phone call.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, No, it's just to be informative.
Speaker 2: I'll let them know, all right, good stuff. This was
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