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Speaker 1: Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. I am Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 1: He is Rob Parker. We are in for Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: and Company. It is Friday, November twenty six. I hope
Speaker 1: everybody had a phenomenal not just a great, not just
Speaker 1: an outstanding I'm talking a phenomenal Thanksgiving. We have a
Speaker 1: lot to be thankful for. I'm thankful for you guys
Speaker 1: for tuning in here to the show, for listening to
Speaker 1: my podcast, for my health, my family, my faith, and
Speaker 1: also that we have a lot of sports to gamble
Speaker 1: on all weekend. Rob, usually we get our Christmas tree,
Speaker 1: uh today, the day after drelieving. Yeah, we usually We're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to do it today. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to talk about why we got some other stuff cooking.
Speaker 1: But I love picking up the Christmas tree. I love
Speaker 1: the smell of the Christmas tree. And I got eight
Speaker 1: and ten. You know, I coach him in sports a lot,
Speaker 1: and they're into Christmas like, oh like at that age
Speaker 1: they can't wait. I don't know who I was listening,
Speaker 1: So we should uh not really talk about Santa And no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not at all, But I do want to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm very excited for the month of December is really good.
Speaker 1: I maintain Rob that March and November are the two
Speaker 1: greatest months for sports. Obviously, I'm a big March madness
Speaker 1: geek uh. If you follow me on social media, you
Speaker 1: know I gamble on college basketball all the time, and
Speaker 1: I love November because college football ramps up. We got
Speaker 1: the huge Ohio State Michigan game this weekend. Your guy
Speaker 1: Jim Harball another successful season. But Rob wants to dump
Speaker 1: on him. We'll do that a little bit later. Successful, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Michigan. Michigan has one mythical national championship since
Speaker 1: the Louisiana purchase. Are you talking about season? Is anything
Speaker 1: they can't build staff around the country at like nine
Speaker 1: or ten games. No, maybe we'll talk about the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Bearcats getting into the playoff. I think we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about the Warriors and Steph Curry. But gosh, Steph Curry
Speaker 1: is fun to watch. He is right now the greatest
Speaker 1: show in sports. That's undeniable. He's playing the Washington Generals
Speaker 1: every night and two baby. He also leaves the league
Speaker 1: in buckets of confetti after he makes a three cabot
Speaker 1: that Rob Parker loves to dump on all the things
Speaker 1: that are good and right about American sports. Lebron James
Speaker 1: the Goat, one of the greatest stories in basketball. Steph Curry,
Speaker 1: I mean he wants to bag on the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Let me guess. We got Matt Stafford and the Rams
Speaker 1: in a huge game, colossal game with Aaron Rodgers at
Speaker 1: Lambeau Sunday. It is probably the marquee game of Sunday.
Speaker 1: It is. The Rams have lost two straight after the
Speaker 1: seven and one start when Matt Stafford was talked about
Speaker 1: as a potential MVP candidate. Is still I think he's
Speaker 1: in the discussion. Nobody's won or lost the MVP in
Speaker 1: Week eleven and a history of football, so I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna overreact. But Matt Stafford has not been very good
Speaker 1: the last two games. He's dealing with a bit of
Speaker 1: a bum wheel the ankle. Oh, here we go. Beckham,
Speaker 1: who we know is toxic. I mean, goodness, gracious, Odell Beckham.
Speaker 1: He's been a disaster since the catch. Rob, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you the floor. Here to go and go after
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford, who is you know, former number one pick
Speaker 1: has yet to win a playoff game, but he's put
Speaker 1: up for outstanding numbers throughout his career. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: he has a nickname in Detroit as stat Padford because
Speaker 1: a lot of those numbers have a well, I'm just
Speaker 1: being honest with a lot of those numbers came after
Speaker 1: the lines were down twenty one nothing and defenses relaxed.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to tell you the history of Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford is that he doesn't beat the good teams the
Speaker 1: team's over five hundred. He has some crazy record and
Speaker 1: don't quote me, but it's something like nine and sixty
Speaker 1: nine against teams that finish over five hundred. And that's
Speaker 1: ultimately what if you're a Rams fan you have to
Speaker 1: be worried about. Because you talked about, go look at
Speaker 1: their wins this year and other then beating Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: which was a great win for the Rams, it has
Speaker 1: gone the other way against some of the better teams.
Speaker 1: When they lost to the Titans at home with no
Speaker 1: Derreck Henry, that was an eye opener and Stafford had
Speaker 1: two picks in that game. He's had four picks in
Speaker 1: the last two games and five turnovers, and that has
Speaker 1: come against the better competition. They've lost three of the
Speaker 1: four games when it comes to the best, better competition,
Speaker 1: the better teams in the NFL. They lost to Arizona
Speaker 1: at home, so you start to look at these games.
Speaker 1: They went up to San Francisco or on back to
Speaker 1: back passes he had the interceptions turned the game around,
Speaker 1: and that's what's scary. That's why I think this is
Speaker 1: a big test to see them go on the road
Speaker 1: the Rams. Remember the Rams lost to the Packers last
Speaker 1: year on the road in the playoffs. So if Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford has another bad game on the road against the
Speaker 1: good team, you gotta start to wonder and worry if
Speaker 1: this guy can get it. This is a guy, you're right,
Speaker 1: Jason the number one overall pick who's oo and three
Speaker 1: in the playoffs and has never won a division And
Speaker 1: you start to wonder, can he get it done? Is
Speaker 1: he really the upgrade people when they trade him from
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. Jared Goff got to the Super Bowl. Yes,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff is an all Pro. Yes, yes, Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: hasn't been to a Super Bowl. Go look at Jared
Speaker 1: Goff's numbers those years and the numbers between the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl year and now. They ain't no big upgrade over
Speaker 1: Matthews from Matthew Stafford. Jared Goff was doing the same
Speaker 1: exact thing. So my point is the only difference is
Speaker 1: Jared Goff won some big games in big spots and
Speaker 1: Matthew hasn't done that yet. That doesn't mean he can't
Speaker 1: do it, but this crowning of him and calling him
Speaker 1: the Messiah has been ridiculous. Okay, for the love of
Speaker 1: Tred differ, Jared Goff did not get to a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Jared Goff has never won a game in his career
Speaker 1: without McVeigh, never, Rob look it up. It's the most
Speaker 1: amazing stat ever. Jared Goff has is zero wins in
Speaker 1: his NFL career without McVeigh, zero before McVeagh got there,
Speaker 1: and zero's Jared goffoff. Matt Stafford is on trash teams
Speaker 1: in Detroit, that dumpster fire of friends and three in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. That means that the playoff games, yes or no,
Speaker 1: what's he favored? Was he favored in? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He was the first overall pick. It doesn't matter. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that's why they have upsets in sports. Jason
Speaker 1: stopped giving people excuse time out. If you don't, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, Okay, go ahead, good, wait a minute. If
Speaker 1: if he if he would have won a game, even
Speaker 1: that Cowboys playoff game. That go back that the Lions
Speaker 1: had a number five defense that year in twenty fourteen
Speaker 1: the road. Okay, that doesn't matter. They had Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: got the ball back with two minutes to go, two
Speaker 1: and a half minutes to go and two timeouts, would
Speaker 1: a chance to watch the Lions down the field and
Speaker 1: beat the Cowboys in Dallas. And you know what happened.
Speaker 1: It was four and out. Don't give me an excuse.
Speaker 1: So they had another chance to win the division over
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, and in the last week of
Speaker 1: the season, and you know what, they lost. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna don't act like he doesn't. He didn't have any chances. Okay,
Speaker 1: you want to bag on Stafford this year, they haven't
Speaker 1: beaten anybody. Give me a team in the NFL that
Speaker 1: you think is good, right now, give me one team.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, and green Bay Packer. Here's the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: These are the teams that they have beat this year
Speaker 1: the eight and three Packers. They beat the Lions, who
Speaker 1: are winless. They beat the Niners in week three? Um
Speaker 1: or the Niners good? I don't know. I don't think
Speaker 1: they were good. And what are you talking about? They
Speaker 1: just beat the Rams and you want to talk about
Speaker 1: Hold on? They're five team? How are they good? We
Speaker 1: three repeating Tampa? And you went three credit for waiting
Speaker 1: the Niners. What in week three when they came back
Speaker 1: on the road with thirty seven seconds left to win
Speaker 1: the game. What were the forty Niners record in week three?
Speaker 1: Come on, jameson, then you gotta give Stafford the credit
Speaker 1: for the win over Tampa. Okay in week three? So
Speaker 1: let's keep going for the Packers. Great wins. They beat
Speaker 1: the Steelers, who are garbage. They beat the Bengals not good.
Speaker 1: They beat the Bears, stink, Washington stinks. Arizona. I'll give
Speaker 1: you that. Their other win was against Seattle, which is
Speaker 1: three and seven. So who if the Packers beat like
Speaker 1: rob this whole argument like who has seven? And oh
Speaker 1: Arizona gave you that. That's a good all right, But
Speaker 1: that's a rolling good win against a really good team
Speaker 1: that would win Okay, what about all have one good win?
Speaker 1: Stop they beat the Arizona. They beat them. That's impressive.
Speaker 1: The Arizona, by the way, is like the fifth best
Speaker 1: Super Bowl odds despite being the number one seed in
Speaker 1: the NA in the NFC, you can't give me other
Speaker 1: than Tampa Bay early on, Great Great Green Bay has
Speaker 1: one more wins than Matt Stafford in the rain. That's
Speaker 1: Stafford's trending down. Bad games in a row. Yes, he's
Speaker 1: on a bum wheel. I get that. I'm not making
Speaker 1: excuses for Stafford. This is the reality quarterback win. Nobody
Speaker 1: wins a game if you're a quarterback. Okay, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady are goats status. They are the only
Speaker 1: two who you can say they won the game. You
Speaker 1: can't pin it all on Matt Stafford his time at Detroit.
Speaker 1: Robert's unfair. You know for a fact, those times I've
Speaker 1: watched him, I watched Carbad, I covered Matthew Stafford differences.
Speaker 1: Your view of him is watching highlights view of him
Speaker 1: and the stats. Matt Stafford has always been a top
Speaker 1: twelve quarterback at the end of the number I watched stats.
Speaker 1: You watch the lights, and you've watched numbers and their
Speaker 1: fake numbers. That's why his nickname was is stat Padford
Speaker 1: in Detroit. Ask anybody from Detroit who actually watched the
Speaker 1: games and watched what what kind of that they ever
Speaker 1: beat anybody? And that's the issue when it comes with Stafford.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying Jason is this year he's got to
Speaker 1: prove that. Okay, and he if they don't get to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl, will have been a flop or fail
Speaker 1: for around. I'm asking I predict that they would get
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. I don't think they don't get there. Rob.
Speaker 1: It's not a failure from Matt Stafford. Trust the numbers.
Speaker 1: It is they just gave Football Outsiders is universally accepted
Speaker 1: as the most important stats in the league. They break
Speaker 1: down every play. They don't give you the counting stats
Speaker 1: of touchdowns interceptions. Okay, The top passers in the league
Speaker 1: this year number one Tom Brady almost across the board.
Speaker 1: Number two Kirk Cousins, who has the best touchdown to
Speaker 1: interception ratio. I know you love that set. The number
Speaker 1: three quarterback according to Football Outsiders in almost every metric
Speaker 1: they have is Matt Stafford, ahead of the beloved Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Ahead of the beloved Dak Prescott, ahead of Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: Justin her heat bad teams. The numbers against the good
Speaker 1: teams are not good, Jason. When you get to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: are you playing Atlanta and the all and the Giants
Speaker 1: and the Jets. No, you guess who you're playing. You're
Speaker 1: playing the best of the best. Give me his numbers
Speaker 1: in the four best teams that they've played against, and
Speaker 1: they're not good. Those are the games you gotta worry
Speaker 1: about if you're the Rams, not the other games. Tampa
Speaker 1: is the best team they played. We had We had
Speaker 1: a guest on the first hour who said Tampa or
Speaker 1: Green Bay is one of the best teams in the league.
Speaker 1: Here's what Stafford did against the mighty Tampa Bay Bucks,
Speaker 1: the defending Super Bowl champs. That was Week three, stop by,
Speaker 1: So we're tossing out week three when he was twenty
Speaker 1: seven or thirty eight for three hundred forty three yards.
Speaker 1: Is here trending up or downs? Trending anywhere he's He's
Speaker 1: got five turnovers in the last two games. He did
Speaker 1: not have two good games against the Titans, Yes, and
Speaker 1: against the Niners, no doubt about that. Is anybody perfect?
Speaker 1: Has anybody been flawless throughout It's not about being flawless,
Speaker 1: it's about being realistic. And you know that if it
Speaker 1: was reverse and Stafford had had that game against Tampa
Speaker 1: last week, people would be talking about him and and
Speaker 1: a MVP category. Let's not see the number things he's
Speaker 1: trending down and because game Okay, I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 1: this one question, So Matt, Matt, Matt Jones must if
Speaker 1: he plays trending up right, he play against Green Bay
Speaker 1: and throws two picks, then you can then you can
Speaker 1: worry but the real but rob both things whether we
Speaker 1: would agree both things can be true? Matt Stafford has
Speaker 1: had a phenomenal, outstanding, amazing season where all his numbers
Speaker 1: are great, but yes, he has had two subpar games
Speaker 1: in a row with pick sixes that really badly hurt
Speaker 1: the LA rams. Are both those things true? I just
Speaker 1: yes or no, those things true. He's had a great
Speaker 1: season and he's had two struggling games. But all My
Speaker 1: only issue is his bug a boo coming into this
Speaker 1: year was that he never beat the good teams and
Speaker 1: and you can't say uh through to Calvin Johnson was
Speaker 1: a first ballot Hall of Famers. Despite the Lions not
Speaker 1: winning anything. People looked at his numbers and took them, right.
Speaker 1: They took him for face value, right. It didn't stop
Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson, all right. So you can't use that the
Speaker 1: Lions as an excuse, or or that Matthew Stafford hasn't
Speaker 1: beaten the good teams. He's he's on a great team now.
Speaker 1: And it's scary if you're a Rams fan that the
Speaker 1: teams that they've lost to that he doesn't beat those teams,
Speaker 1: except he beat Tampa Bay earlier in the season. As
Speaker 1: the year has gone on, it's gotten worse. And I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, if he has a bad Dan Green Bay,
Speaker 1: I'll be the first one the Saldy alarm for the
Speaker 1: Rams because they've given the way the future, and if
Speaker 1: they don't get to a super Bowl and win it,
Speaker 1: it will be a failure. And what if matt Stafford
Speaker 1: delivers against the Packers and has a good game, then
Speaker 1: what will you be proclaiming? Well, then that that would
Speaker 1: definitely settle and make people feel better about where he
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody feels bad about two games. Rob.
Speaker 1: We're looking at an NFL season where the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: lost three of four. The Kansas City Chiefs for a
Speaker 1: month couldn't stop a nosebleed. They were terrible. Like, no
Speaker 1: team has been consistent. The only consistent in this league
Speaker 1: this year has been everybody's been up and down. Buffalo
Speaker 1: lost two of three. They lost to Jacksonville. Do you
Speaker 1: want to say Josh Allen is trash and the Bills
Speaker 1: are garbage? Like you can't overreact to a couple of
Speaker 1: games for Matt Stafford that have been bad. I mean no,
Speaker 1: given his history, you can over you can overreact. But
Speaker 1: that's a different coach and a different franchise. But they
Speaker 1: thought when he came here it was going to be
Speaker 1: he will be the Messiah the second Oh you know,
Speaker 1: do you know how many you know how many people
Speaker 1: NFL guys had him winning the MVP. I have money
Speaker 1: on Matt Stafford to win the MVP and the Rams
Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl. Yeah, okay, I get that.
Speaker 1: That's money that your kids won't have to be spent
Speaker 1: for Christian also true. And guess what if if Matt's
Speaker 1: Stafford gets the rail I think I got him at
Speaker 1: plus nine hundred to win the Super Bowl. Guess what then?
Speaker 1: My kids will take a first class trip to Hawaii. Okay,
Speaker 1: as soon as the football season's over. If the ramsay
Speaker 1: they're seven and three and you want to act like
Speaker 1: they're they're they're in deep trouble. And many've lost two
Speaker 1: in a row to two good teams. Don't you get
Speaker 1: that there was seven and one? Why guy have to
Speaker 1: be falling over two losses? Why? Why can't it just
Speaker 1: be man Stafford? He had two bad games, you know what,
Speaker 1: the other seven games where he was great. I didn't
Speaker 1: overreact to those, so I'm not gonna overreact to two.
Speaker 1: So anyways, have you seen what's going on with the
Speaker 1: line movement in Green Bay? This week? The Packers opened
Speaker 1: his favorites at home against the Rams, and now the
Speaker 1: Rams are favored, and a lot of it has to
Speaker 1: do with it. I can't wait for the excuses. Well,
Speaker 1: the Packers didn't have their two best offensive lineman and
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers's toe and no JayR Alexander, so it's just weird, Robert.
Speaker 1: I can already know. I already know the excuses you're
Speaker 1: gonna make when the Rams and Stafford win that I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't make excuses. I don't make excuses. I've seen
Speaker 1: I've already seen the Packers win games, and even the
Speaker 1: game that they lost without their four best defensive players
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, Aaron Rodgers gave them a chance if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for a drop of a of an of an interception. Agree, right,
Speaker 1: I mean they would have won that game, had almost
Speaker 1: four hundred yards and four touchdowns in a game where
Speaker 1: they shouldn't even been able to compete with Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: the best, second greatest quarterback in the history of So
Speaker 1: I'm not going to Aaron Rodgers is historically great. The
Speaker 1: guy is a legend. Okay, He's gonna win games by himself.
Speaker 1: There's two guys in the league who can do that,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. I'm Matt Stafford is not
Speaker 1: in that class. Nobody's in that class unless I'm missing
Speaker 1: somebody who's up there with them. Nobody. Well, you wanna
Speaker 1: put Jalen Hurts in there because he's had a couple
Speaker 1: of good games. Stop you gonna put Derek Carr in
Speaker 1: there because he was great in Dallas. Like I just,
Speaker 1: I don't know what we're doing here. Who's the third
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the NFL? This season, rob who you
Speaker 1: got if we if we want to say Rogers and
Speaker 1: Brady or one and two in whatever order. Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: before he got get the hell out of here. Boy
Speaker 1: just came in and beat San fran and beat Seattle.
Speaker 1: So if Kyler Murray really I said, before he got hurt. Yes,
Speaker 1: they were playing at a at a great clip and
Speaker 1: he had was beating a lot of good teams. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals were on their way. Don't forget he beat Matt Stafford.
Speaker 1: Go look at the numbers in that game. Where what
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray came into LA and beat Stafford on his
Speaker 1: home field. Go look at that game and tell me
Speaker 1: who was better that day? Uh? Yeah, I had money
Speaker 1: on Arizona that day. Kyler Murray was amazing. I like
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. I'm a big example. Know he had two
Speaker 1: touchdowns that day. But that game's not on Matt Stafford.
Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals scored thirty seven points because the Rams
Speaker 1: defense got shredded, gave up four hundred and sixty five
Speaker 1: yards one of the best in the league. No, no,
Speaker 1: not the Rams. No there, The Rams are great because
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford was awesome and an MVP candidate. Getting into
Speaker 1: a seven and one star. Nobody's back in that Rams defense.
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Speaker 1: team doctor, sports medical Analyst. You can find him on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Pro Football Doc doctor Chow Harry this morning. Welcome.
Speaker 1: Shall I break up that fight there? No, don't, don't.
Speaker 1: That's fun, That's just fun. Listen. We need you, We
Speaker 1: need your assistance here because there are some real bad
Speaker 1: NFL injuries. Let's start with Aaron Rodgers and his I
Speaker 1: don't know covid toe, his fractured toe. He's holding his
Speaker 1: toe up at press conferences. Can you help us make sense,
Speaker 1: doctor Chow, of what's going on with Aaron Rodgers too.
Speaker 1: It's not COVID toe. He's referred to COVID toe as it.
Speaker 1: He got it when he was in COVID quarantine because
Speaker 1: he had to work out at his home and he
Speaker 1: kicked a bag, you know, a punching bag or something,
Speaker 1: and he broke his fifth pinky toe. It's a fractured toe.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers even made he didn't even know what COVID
Speaker 1: toe was. He was just making a joke on Pat McAfee,
Speaker 1: and then we had all these COVID toe articles that
Speaker 1: people were calling me about COVID toe. Look, it's a
Speaker 1: pinky finger, a pinky toe. It's on his left foot.
Speaker 1: Yes it's gonna hurt, Yes he's gonna be limited in practice, etc.
Speaker 1: But if it hurts that bad during the game, they're
Speaker 1: just gonna numb it up and go. It's not that
Speaker 1: big of a deal. If you look at him last game,
Speaker 1: he played very well and Aaron Rodgers probably doesn't need
Speaker 1: that much practice to play well. So I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about this pinky toe injury at all. But the funny
Speaker 1: thing is to compare it to a turf toe, not
Speaker 1: even close. Right. Then, maybe there's a fracture here, but
Speaker 1: the big toe is really what you need to play
Speaker 1: with him push off, That's what hobb to you, the
Speaker 1: pinky toe will be an essentially non factor. I guess
Speaker 1: if his left tackle, a new left tackle now steps
Speaker 1: on in again like he did last year, it's going
Speaker 1: to hurt him. But you know, it's pain. It's not
Speaker 1: going to be anything significant in my opinion, Ay, Doc.
Speaker 1: After the game last night, Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: said it was pretty obvious that Zekiel Elliot's knee was
Speaker 1: bothering him. What is the issue that Zeke is working
Speaker 1: through and how concerned should the Cowboys be moving forward
Speaker 1: with this knee? Well, I think, you know, having Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard the lessons the concern, but he's going to play through.
Speaker 1: Look at week twelve, now, eighty five percent is probably
Speaker 1: a good week for any player in the NFL. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's been lingering for a little bit, a nique contusion injury.
Speaker 1: It's a main matter of pain and swelling. No, he's
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent, but I think he's going to
Speaker 1: continue to play through. I don't think he's gonna miss
Speaker 1: any games, Doctor Chow. I want to quickly look at
Speaker 1: one of my favorite teams in the NFL, the New
Speaker 1: York Jets. I know nobody cares. But I got to
Speaker 1: ask you, this is Zach Wilson stuff. A lot of
Speaker 1: the New York media, I feel like they're trying to
Speaker 1: sell newspapers, pushing Mike White and then Joe Flacco and
Speaker 1: all this controversy. There's nothing there, right. Zach Wilson appears
Speaker 1: to be one hundred percent for the Jets coming back
Speaker 1: this week in kind of a big spot. You don't
Speaker 1: want to get embarrassed again. They've had a bad streak here,
Speaker 1: you're playing the Houston Texans. Do you from everything you
Speaker 1: can glean, is Zach Wilson one hundred percent to go
Speaker 1: for the Jets? Close to one hundred percent. He's certainly
Speaker 1: good enough to play. I think he was good enough
Speaker 1: to play a week or two weeks ago when it
Speaker 1: first happened in game. We do this video analysis and
Speaker 1: said he had a PCL and it's a two week,
Speaker 1: two to four week injury, but we lean towards the
Speaker 1: four weeks or more because he's a young quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: not Aaron Rodgers who can not practice a week can
Speaker 1: come in and go lights out. He's got to practice
Speaker 1: and he's got to be closer one hundred percent especially
Speaker 1: with that Jets team. Now he's finally close to that,
Speaker 1: but really not a ton of other choice with you know,
Speaker 1: Flacco out, COVID and what have you. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know that Zach's one hundred percent, but I
Speaker 1: put him in the nineties, so I think he should
Speaker 1: be good to go, all right. Justin Fields didn't play
Speaker 1: yesterday in the game against the Lions for the Bears.
Speaker 1: If coach Matt Naggie decides that he's going a bench
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, should we expect to see Fields returned to
Speaker 1: the field next next week? How about this? For the
Speaker 1: irony of all ironies. Justin Field's most numberable moment was
Speaker 1: in the Sugar Bowl with Ohio State when he got
Speaker 1: rocked and broke Ribbs, went into the medical tent, took
Speaker 1: an injection, came back and with Superman hero and led
Speaker 1: Ohio State to victory. Here he left the game and
Speaker 1: some of it maybe coaching decision slash we want him
Speaker 1: one hundred percent and preserved him for the future. He
Speaker 1: didn't even take a big shot. Now there's some non
Speaker 1: displaced Maybe fractures on Mr. Rib Blocks could take care
Speaker 1: of that. This Andy Dalton start might have been Matt
Speaker 1: Naggie preference and or short week syndrome with the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: So I think Fields can be an option for the
Speaker 1: following week if Matt Naggie wants to use him, especially
Speaker 1: since Naggie needed to win a game, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: he probably was trying to save his job because of
Speaker 1: all the reports out there, Doctor Chow, let me just uh,
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford is a very contentious name on this show.
Speaker 1: Rob obviously did not like him. I need to ask why, why?
Speaker 1: Because I don't think somebody's good. You think I don't
Speaker 1: like personal bag on him. He's he's had two awful
Speaker 1: games in a row. But Doctor Chow, has he been healthy.
Speaker 1: He's missed some practice. I believe he's not one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Now they are coming off the bye week. This is
Speaker 1: the pressure filled week for Matt Stafford. What do you
Speaker 1: have on his injury? Well, Matt Stafford is as tough
Speaker 1: as they come. He's never really come out of games.
Speaker 1: Remember the back fracture that he played yet quote no
Speaker 1: one knew about the you know, the thumb injuries, the
Speaker 1: hand stuff. He's always played through stuff and he's tough
Speaker 1: as he come. But before Rams fans start saying, Matt
Speaker 1: Stafford isn't the answer. Do you want to go back
Speaker 1: to Jared Goff? Remember that, you mean the guy who
Speaker 1: took you to the super Bowl and had the fifth
Speaker 1: greatest offense in the history of the NFL. Doc, I
Speaker 1: have to respectfully push back on that that you're you're, you're, you're,
Speaker 1: you're propping up Matthew Stafford, who's never won a playoff game,
Speaker 1: never won a division title, and you're taking a shot
Speaker 1: at Jared Goff who got to the Super Bowl. Come on, Doc, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking a shot at Jared Goff at all.
Speaker 1: I just or supporting Matt Stafford. I'm just giving you
Speaker 1: the comparison. You gotta remember, in the playoffs last season,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff had a thumb issue where he could play
Speaker 1: and start, and the Rams the Bells chose to start
Speaker 1: John Wolford in that game. Now, John Woolford got injured
Speaker 1: in the first quarter at bet and Jared Goff came
Speaker 1: in played three and a half quarters. But the reason
Speaker 1: why we knew he was healthy to play is Blake
Speaker 1: Bortles was not listed as the third quarterback that day.
Speaker 1: No team goes into a game with one and a
Speaker 1: half healthy quarterbacks. That meant to me they knew Jared
Speaker 1: Goff was healthy enough to play, yet they started John
Speaker 1: Woolford and then obviously they traded John Jared Goff. So
Speaker 1: the Rams told you what they think of Jared Goff,
Speaker 1: not me. Yeah, they don't buy him now. But on
Speaker 1: Stafford though, you know, I know he's a tough guy.
Speaker 1: This ankle injury, foot I'm not exactly sure how bad
Speaker 1: it is, but where are you on that? Doc? It's
Speaker 1: only bad when he loses. Otherwise he's great, right, Like
Speaker 1: I said, eighty five percent is a good week. He's
Speaker 1: at least eighty five percent. His health should not be
Speaker 1: a major concern in terms of Matthew Stafford. All right,
Speaker 1: let's I'm want to ask you Saints fans with question
Speaker 1: of how Taysom Hill was healthy enough to be active
Speaker 1: last night but not healthy enough to play over Trevor
Speaker 1: Simeon tell us about Hill's health right now and what
Speaker 1: it could mean for the Saints quarterback situation moving forward.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's an interesting issue there. They just find
Speaker 1: him with a big contract and he couldn't play quarterback,
Speaker 1: but what he could do fullback and height end duty.
Speaker 1: I mean makes sense, items it seems like it should
Speaker 1: be the opposite. There's more to the story there. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is right now, but you know
Speaker 1: that's a that's sort of the big question mark. But
Speaker 1: when things don't make sense to us in the outside world,
Speaker 1: they do from the inside. Will eventually find out, as
Speaker 1: you guys know, but that doesn't make sense right now.
Speaker 1: I've got one last go ahead. Yeah, yeah, I watched
Speaker 1: that Buffalo Bills game last night and they kind of
Speaker 1: glossed over the Tredavious White injury. It looked like a
Speaker 1: non contact His knee kind of had this weird buckle.
Speaker 1: He was on the ground. You could tell from the
Speaker 1: look on his face that it might have been serious.
Speaker 1: Do you have anything on the Tredavious White injury, because
Speaker 1: you know he's an All Pro That feels like it
Speaker 1: could have Super Bowl ramifications for the Bills, No question.
Speaker 1: At Pro Football dot dot com end game. We posted
Speaker 1: on my Twitter timeline and look, it's just video analysis.
Speaker 1: And I studied video for seventeen years while I was
Speaker 1: in the NFL of injuries when I knew what the
Speaker 1: injury was. But in this case, it's going to be
Speaker 1: unfortunately in ACL, tare Ato and mcl and he's going
Speaker 1: to be out for the season. Now, remember this is
Speaker 1: video analysis insider now is not inside information. The Bills
Speaker 1: have said nothing. Sean John McDermott says, we'll tell you
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, but count on their guy having to go
Speaker 1: the rest of the way without Tredavious White, which is
Speaker 1: a big deal. Hey, doc, real quick about thirty seconds
Speaker 1: lasting a baseball. Fernando Tatis Junior was hurt three time
Speaker 1: with the shoulder last year. He decided not to have
Speaker 1: the surgery. Do you think the Padres and Tattiss made
Speaker 1: the right decision to go without surgery and just letting
Speaker 1: it heal in the off season. I have not examined him.
Speaker 1: He's my son's favorite player. I'm in San Diego. I'm
Speaker 1: rooting for the guy. But he's a great player. He's
Speaker 1: a great player. I think I think he's making the
Speaker 1: wrong decision. I think the Padres want him to have
Speaker 1: the surgery. Looked, if he would have played the twenty
Speaker 1: five twenty nine extra games, he'd be the MVP. Look
Speaker 1: he came out five times last season in five different ways.
Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time before it comes out
Speaker 1: again this next season. Rehab hasn't fixed it before. Rehab
Speaker 1: isn't going to fix the label tear. He's an amazing athlete,
Speaker 1: he's a matrix. He changed the swing season and still
Speaker 1: hit forty two home months. But he can be even better.
Speaker 1: I think he's making a silly mistake, but once again,
Speaker 1: I haven't examined him. If I have the ability to
Speaker 1: talk to him, I'd say, Fernando, you want to play shortstop.
Speaker 1: You love shortstop. You don't want to be in the olculus, right,
Speaker 1: get the surgery. Do you like that harness? No, you
Speaker 1: want to take it off. Get the surgery. I mean
Speaker 1: you're twenty three years old. I mean you're not indestructible,
Speaker 1: but you know, twenty three year olds think sometimes think
Speaker 1: they are. He is doctor David Chow x NFL Team Doctor,
Speaker 1: sports medical Analyst. You can find him on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Pro Football Doc A great stuff, Doctor Chow, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1: I hope you had to appreciate you have a great day.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon. Thank you, guys. All right,
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Speaker 1: by Rob Parker, the esteemed Detroit legend. We are coming
Speaker 1: to you live from Los Angeles. Hope everybody had an
Speaker 1: outstanding food filled Thanksgiving. The holiday season is in full swing.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Rob, but I love me
Speaker 1: some Christmas music and I do love how the bumper
Speaker 1: music through from here until Christmas is gonna be Christmas music?
Speaker 1: You got a favorite Christmas two and you want to
Speaker 1: drop on the audience right now. You know what's so
Speaker 1: funny is I'm big into Christmas music, and I do
Speaker 1: listen to it on serious during the holiday season. But
Speaker 1: my favorite Christmas song never actually mentions Christmas in it.
Speaker 1: It's only played during the holiday season. Isn't that weird?
Speaker 1: It doesn't mention anything, Baby It's cold outside. Oh that's
Speaker 1: old school. That the Dean Martin Virgin, which that's a
Speaker 1: great song, and it's only played because it's talking about
Speaker 1: the elements of the winter, but it's doesn't mention the holiday.
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with Christmas. But it's a
Speaker 1: great song. If you've never heard it, Baby It's Cold Outside.
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people have sang it. But
Speaker 1: but the Dean Martin version, I love that solid no doubt,
Speaker 1: the one that I've gotten into. Gosh, I listen, I
Speaker 1: keep it one hundred with you, guys. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not afraid to admit anything. As a national radio show
Speaker 1: with massive reach, I do the same on my podcast.
Speaker 1: It's why it's successful. I like the Kelly Clarkson song
Speaker 1: the Kelly Clarkson Christmas song. My daughter did some figure
Speaker 1: skating for like five minutes until my wife and I
Speaker 1: were like, listen, this is too much work for us
Speaker 1: driving to arenas it's freezing, and you're not gonna take it.
Speaker 1: Let your daughter have our dream because with this. But Rob,
Speaker 1: you know how it is. Well I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know how it is with the kids, but like,
Speaker 1: I can't drive two hours to a high skating performance
Speaker 1: and then she performs for five minutes and we gotta
Speaker 1: turn around and drive back. Like that's just that's not
Speaker 1: my deal. Basketball. I'll drive you anywhere soccer, deal, gymnastics,
Speaker 1: and we'll see um. But the Kelly Clarkson Christmas song?
Speaker 1: Can you give me the name of it? Ryan? You
Speaker 1: know the one? Don't even know the name of it.
Speaker 1: I'm jowing a blank because I'm thinking about all my
Speaker 1: my Deak Prescott debate that we're gonna have here. At
Speaker 1: a second, Ryan, can you hook me up with the
Speaker 1: Kelly Clarkson Underneath the Tree? Thank you? That song will
Speaker 1: put a smile on your face. I will be jumping
Speaker 1: and dancing in the car and now I'm embarrassed, all right, Rob, Parker.
Speaker 1: I do, I do want you to look at real quick.
Speaker 1: I sent you and Ryan, our producer a tech. Oh
Speaker 1: did you see the picture? Can you just look at
Speaker 1: it real quick before we gets better not being not
Speaker 1: safe for work images. No, yes, that's funny when you
Speaker 1: think it's Black Friday, but it's actually people returning their
Speaker 1: Cowboys jerseys. It's a long line outside this building and
Speaker 1: that's what it was funny after after the Cowboys lost
Speaker 1: at home to the Right. I don't know. Listen, you
Speaker 1: know me. I'm a gambler. Sports gambling is what I
Speaker 1: do for Fox Sports. I love it's a gamblings. No't
Speaker 1: different than the stock market. Right, this is a great
Speaker 1: buy low opportunity on the Cowboys. Everybody's selling Dallas. Oh
Speaker 1: they stink. Their defense is a joke. Anthony Brown is
Speaker 1: the worst quarterback in the league for four flags. I
Speaker 1: just want to remind people when you can get a
Speaker 1: value stock such as the Dallas Cowboys off losing I
Speaker 1: think three or four, you gotta grab it. Okay, they
Speaker 1: did not have Randy Gregory, they did not have DeMarcus Lawrence,
Speaker 1: their best two pass rushers. Derek Carr was wearing a
Speaker 1: tuxedo in the pocket. The cornerbacks will be better once
Speaker 1: you get a pass rush, and when those guys come
Speaker 1: back and the receiver Ceedee Lamb comes back Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: hopefully he got the vacs, maybe even he got the booster.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys are gonna be fine, Rob. I
Speaker 1: still think this is one of the top three teams
Speaker 1: in the NFC. I'm not selling their stock. After a
Speaker 1: home loss to the Raiders, which was a bad loss.
Speaker 1: I don't even understand, given their history, given the coach
Speaker 1: that they have given, the undisciplined, with the penalties given,
Speaker 1: I mean, all the bad stuff. They've lost three out
Speaker 1: of four. They lost a terrible game to Denver at home.
Speaker 1: They lose to a Raiders team going nowhere fast. Three
Speaker 1: losses in a row have all kinds of turmoil. They
Speaker 1: can't win that game. They haven't been to the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship Game since nineteen ninety six. Ever since Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: took over the franchise and turned it into a mom
Speaker 1: and pop store, They've won nothing. They've won nothing, and
Speaker 1: people keep propping up the Dallas Cowboys as if they're
Speaker 1: they're not one of the best teams the top three
Speaker 1: teams in the NFC. They were in a terrible division.
Speaker 1: They've gotten fat off of beating those teams, and when
Speaker 1: it mattered most, right after a six and one start,
Speaker 1: they had a schedule that easily a good team would
Speaker 1: have won three out of four, maybe would have lost
Speaker 1: to Kansas City. And Kansas City had been scuffling going
Speaker 1: into that game, barely beating Jordan Love and the Packers,
Speaker 1: barely beating the Giants by three points, a bad Giants team,
Speaker 1: and yet they got steamroll. We're never in that game
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, they beat up. Even though they scored
Speaker 1: thirty three points at home, they still lost. And people
Speaker 1: are still trying to convince you that the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: have something going Count me out, Jason McIntyre. I'm not
Speaker 1: buying the Cowboys, not buying that Dak Prescott was ever
Speaker 1: in the running for MVP. Not buying the phony numbers
Speaker 1: against and the big numbers against the bad teams. I'm
Speaker 1: not buying any of that. The Cowboys are who we
Speaker 1: thought they were, which is they will be on the
Speaker 1: outside looking in when it comes to when the big
Speaker 1: boys show up for the postseason. Okay, Rob, that's all fair,
Speaker 1: I can. I'm not gonna argue the history lesson. Thank
Speaker 1: you for that. By the way, they Dallas Cowboys historically
Speaker 1: of stunk. All that being said, toss it out the window.
Speaker 1: It's irrelevant. Dak wasn't on those teams in the early
Speaker 1: two thousands. Okay, Mike McCarthy wasn't the coach. They didn't
Speaker 1: have Zekin ceedee, Lamb. Let's look at this season and
Speaker 1: what do the numbers tell you. The numbers don't lie. Okay,
Speaker 1: humans lie a lot, players lie, coaches lie. The numbers
Speaker 1: don't lie. And Dallas right now is the fourth most
Speaker 1: efficient team in the NFL. Currently, they rank eighth in
Speaker 1: offensive efficiency, fourth in defense. Why are they fourth in defense? Well,
Speaker 1: like you said, they beat up a lot of bad
Speaker 1: teams and their defense showed well. Okay, that being said,
Speaker 1: the defense isn't even healthy. If we're gonna give rob
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers a pass because they don't have
Speaker 1: JayR Alexander excuse me, and the add rushers, we gotta
Speaker 1: give Dallas a little bit of a pass. They haven't
Speaker 1: had DeMarcus Lawrence, They're best defender. They haven't had Randy
Speaker 1: Gregory since he's gone out the pass rush has been
Speaker 1: non existent this week. They did not have Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 1: who's emerging as one of the ten best receivers. They
Speaker 1: did not have they were favorites. They did not have
Speaker 1: a Murray Cooper. So if you if I think the
Speaker 1: common obvious, you know, look is Dallas lost the game.
Speaker 1: They stink, They're terrible. I'm looking at it as a gambler.
Speaker 1: Oh man, this is a good buy low opportunity to
Speaker 1: give me some Cowboys if their odds changed to win
Speaker 1: the NFC East, to win the Super Bowl. I know
Speaker 1: Philly's coming, I know Washington's not dead yet, but Dallas
Speaker 1: is still a big flashing by folks. The reality is
Speaker 1: this team's gonna be there, maybe in the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 1: They're trending downward. Three losses in the last four games.
Speaker 1: I think people got crazy. Even when they beat the
Speaker 1: Falcons forty three to three, that terrible franchise. People were
Speaker 1: ranting and raving about the Cowboys. That's what they were
Speaker 1: ranting and raving about. And instead it's been bad since then.
Speaker 1: That Chiefs game nine points, that was another stinker. The Raiders,
Speaker 1: of course another that team, a bad team should have
Speaker 1: beaten them up. Even with all the missing pieces and parts,
Speaker 1: they still were in that game. They still scored thirty
Speaker 1: three points. And those are the things you gotta look at.
Speaker 1: It's the trends of now. You can't tell me about
Speaker 1: September and October games were in December almost and you're
Speaker 1: talking about games they won in the first two months
Speaker 1: of the season. No, I want to talk about where
Speaker 1: they are now going forward? Well, and that's the problem
Speaker 1: I have, is that they're trending downward. You could go
Speaker 1: ahead and say it's a great buye gambling wise and
Speaker 1: pile up and you'll be stuck holding the bag like
Speaker 1: everybody else has the last twenty five years. Why have
Speaker 1: they lost three or four? Well, they didn't have Tyron
Speaker 1: Smith against Denver and the Chiefs. He's one of the best.
Speaker 1: The injuries are part of what about the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: Get that offense in the second against Kansas City without
Speaker 1: their top two receivers. You could go ahead and take
Speaker 1: almost any team in the league outside of Brady and Rodgers,
Speaker 1: take away their top two receivers and they're gonna sputter
Speaker 1: and they're gonna stink Tyber two receivers out against the Broncos. No,
Speaker 1: against the Bronhalls. They did not have Tyron Smith and
Speaker 1: it was clearly a massive letdown after the win against
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush. I'm not excusing the loss. That's a bad loss.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't lose to Teddy two Gloves. You should not
Speaker 1: lose to Teddy Covers, Teddy Bridgewater. They were down thirty
Speaker 1: to nothing after like fifty minutes. It's like gutless performance.
Speaker 1: It looked terrible. You could tell they were feeling themselves
Speaker 1: after winning with Cooper Rush in Minnesota. Okay, and Dak
Speaker 1: probably wasn't one hundred percent, but whatever, you move on
Speaker 1: from that game. Rob. I don't know if it's maybe
Speaker 1: I'm getting the fumes from the California cush that everybody
Speaker 1: smokes out here, but maybe I'm getting a little zen.
Speaker 1: One of my new mantras in life, and I suggest
Speaker 1: taking this on for twenty twenty two. It's helped me immensely.
Speaker 1: Never get too high, never get too low in life.
Speaker 1: In sports, I didn't get too high when Dallas won
Speaker 1: forty three to three against the Falcons. All Right, I'm
Speaker 1: not going there were a lot of people who went crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get too low because they choked against
Speaker 1: the Raiders as favorites on Thanksgiving at home and losing
Speaker 1: overtime without I don't know, three of their top five players,
Speaker 1: top seven players. I'm not gonna get too low. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look holistically at this team and say, man, this
Speaker 1: is a good buying opportunity when they had so many injuries. Yeah,
Speaker 1: give me some more Dallas, just as I did when
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers was out and that defense fought hard. Green Bay,
Speaker 1: by the way, in Kansas City, I mean they were.
Speaker 1: They were in that game right Robin in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter with Jordan Love, who I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: ready to coach quarterback of college football team. That's how
Speaker 1: bad he looked. I thought Green Bay was a buy.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, Rob, you asked me who
Speaker 1: were the best teams in the NFC. I think Tampa
Speaker 1: is up there. I think Green Bay, once they get
Speaker 1: healthy on defense, is gonna be very dangerous if they
Speaker 1: can get their left tackle situation figured out. I like
Speaker 1: the Rams with Matt Stafford, and I like the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Those for me are the four clear cut best teams.
Speaker 1: And I know I didn't mention Arizona and a lot
Speaker 1: of people are gonna be at Arizona has nine wins
Speaker 1: and you're putting the Cowboys ahead of them, which makes
Speaker 1: no sense to me. I mean, I think it's total
Speaker 1: disrespect and I don't I don't understand and why you
Speaker 1: don't have Arizona in your top four. I'd have Dallas
Speaker 1: in the top seven or whatever, but I don't have
Speaker 1: them ahead of Arizona with the most wins. They went
Speaker 1: in the LA, they beat up the Rams in a
Speaker 1: big game. They did lose the Green Bay at home.
Speaker 1: That was a bad loss. They've battled their own injuries.
Speaker 1: They've gone and beaten teams without Hopkins and without Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: That they didn't use those excuses because they were a
Speaker 1: good team. Go look at those games that they won
Speaker 1: that they had no business winning without their quarterback and
Speaker 1: top receiver. But you sit around and make excuses that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have lost because they're missing people the NFL,
Speaker 1: you miss people, People get hurt, players get hurt all
Speaker 1: the time. You know what, the next guy has to
Speaker 1: get it together. Yeah. So here's the thing about Arizona.
Speaker 1: If you guys listen to my podcast straight Fire, you
Speaker 1: know I've loved Arizona. I picked them to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, and look up all the pundits back in August,
Speaker 1: I'm nobody had Arizona in the playoffs. I liked this
Speaker 1: team a lot. I've got a good connection with the organization,
Speaker 1: and I've liked Arizona a lot this season. I've beattled
Speaker 1: him and want a lot of money. That being said,
Speaker 1: my concern Rob is Kyler Murray. We've now seen two
Speaker 1: straight seasons where he's a small quarterback and he's broken down,
Speaker 1: and when he's hurt, they are far from a good
Speaker 1: football team. I don't think colpe McCoy could go win
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I liked the idea of sitting Kyler Hill.
Speaker 1: Now I've had a full month with that high ankle
Speaker 1: spraying to be out a full month, okay. My problem
Speaker 1: is if he's not one hundred percent, there's no way
Speaker 1: this team is doing any damage in the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: I also question against good teams, can the defense get
Speaker 1: it done. We know the offense, if Kyler's healthy, is
Speaker 1: going to be there. But Rob, this is a defense
Speaker 1: that got dump trucked at home by p J Walker
Speaker 1: and Cam Newton. A couple of weeks ago, we talk
Speaker 1: about bad losses. They got destroyed. They got curb stomped
Speaker 1: at home by Carolina and it wasn't I know, the
Speaker 1: offense was bad, but defense couldn't stop them. That's what
Speaker 1: makes me nervous. The Arizona defense and Kyler Murray's health.
Speaker 1: Those are two massive red flags for the Cardinals heading
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. But but somehow they've won nine games, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it, playing in the toughest division
Speaker 1: in football. I mean, you gotta give them credit for
Speaker 1: where they are and what they've been able to do.
Speaker 1: And I think Arizona obviously you got to have your
Speaker 1: quarterback healthy long term. But they've been able to manage
Speaker 1: and get through this and it's been pretty amazing where
Speaker 1: they are. And even in that game that they lost
Speaker 1: to Green Bay, if you remember they lost twenty four
Speaker 1: twenty one, and Murray had the interception in the end zone, right,
Speaker 1: remember they were Murray had the interception or a J.
Speaker 1: Green didn't know what the hell he was doing and
Speaker 1: didn't Still was an interception on Murray's record, right, Yes
Speaker 1: or no, it counts for Murray, but I don't think
Speaker 1: that was his fault. I mean, if your stage accounts
Speaker 1: you're not blocking on that play right there, there's you're
Speaker 1: not blocking like It's all I'm saying is they had
Speaker 1: a chance to win that game as well. So I
Speaker 1: take a look at what they've been able to do.
Speaker 1: It's been pretty incredible. What do you trust more in
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Matt Stafford or Kyler Murray? Kyler Murray, I've
Speaker 1: seen Matthew Stafford. I've just I've seen, and I'm not
Speaker 1: buying into him until he proves to me that he
Speaker 1: can win a big game. Okay, if they lose in
Speaker 1: the first if they lose in the first round, want
Speaker 1: you to have me on your podcast? Uh, straight fire,
Speaker 1: while I'll dump water on your straight firepot. Okay, who
Speaker 1: do you trust the more as a coach? Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: or McVeigh. Well. Mcveag got addressed by Bill Belichick and
Speaker 1: couldn't make any adjustments. You remember, it wasn't a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and they came into the Super Bowl averaging thirty three
Speaker 1: points six points a game, and they scored a grand
Speaker 1: total of three and he was undressed and the only field,
Speaker 1: the only three points came on an eighty nine yard
Speaker 1: field goal. That's how bad he got a taking Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury over. I'm not saying that, but befo, who you
Speaker 1: got well before? You don't sit on the fence. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't sit on the fence. Okay, So
Speaker 1: who you got, Kingsbury or McVeigh. Who you trust me?
Speaker 1: I'll take McVeigh because he got there. But I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: don't try to act like he's done something or he's
Speaker 1: the greatest coach since Slice Brett. I just want to
Speaker 1: remind some people of the stuff Kingsbury pulled last year
Speaker 1: in the second half of the season. He was the
Speaker 1: biggest liability outside of Kyler Murray's health. So I know
Speaker 1: we're going in on Arizona and we should have been.
Speaker 1: Let you go in on Dallas, But do you have
Speaker 1: a final word on Dak Prescott? Rob Yeah. I just
Speaker 1: think that as time goes on, there's still more to prove.
Speaker 1: And I think some people tried to push him in
Speaker 1: the top tier. I think even you agree he's not
Speaker 1: in the top tier quarterback. He's not. So if there's
Speaker 1: thirty two teams in the NFL, what would the top
Speaker 1: tier be? The top the top tier would be Uh,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes. He's not in that group.
Speaker 1: And that's a that's that's a small group. Well, well
Speaker 1: that's the top time. Okay, the top tier. You can three,
Speaker 1: so that's the top tier. Three not in that group.
Speaker 1: But I think people when they look at some of
Speaker 1: his numbers think that he ranks up there. Prescott in
Speaker 1: the same class as those three guys. But you don't
Speaker 1: have Aaron Rodgers in that group. I said Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: I said Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Uh, Tom Brady, Golser. Okay,
Speaker 1: what I would consider the top three. So then fine,
Speaker 1: what's the next tier. You gotta have Dak in there? Lamar, Well,
Speaker 1: Lamar should be Lamar should be in there. Definitely. Um.
Speaker 1: I have to take a look at all my kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins numbers and again, I listen, I'm not a kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins guy, but Rob, it's undeniable. Kirk Cousins has been
Speaker 1: great this year. I'm just telling you right now. If
Speaker 1: they beat San France, and I don't really have a
Speaker 1: good I think they're five and five. Yeah, listen, maybe
Speaker 1: at six and five, I don't know, but bottom line,
Speaker 1: if they beat San France, they will firmly be in
Speaker 1: the playoff mix. Now I don't know about that. The
Speaker 1: line has had some wonky movement. It was two and
Speaker 1: a half San fright now it's three and al or
Speaker 1: a training toward three and a half. So somebody knows
Speaker 1: something about the vikings. They had that defensive lineman Um
Speaker 1: with that sketchy moment on social media. It sounds like
Speaker 1: he's having a mental health thing. He doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: he's gonna play. But if Kirk Cousins wins that game,
Speaker 1: and I know you're not gonna want to hear this,
Speaker 1: but we need to readjust the MVP discussion and include
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, who is having an unbelievable, unbelievable season as
Speaker 1: a quarter. Kirk Cousins will not win the MVP with
Speaker 1: a He's not fin he's not five hundred. If he
Speaker 1: gets to ten and ten and seven, can he win
Speaker 1: the MVP. Yeah, I'd have to see it to believe it.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that that would be the case, not
Speaker 1: yet