Speaker 1: We are just hours away from Week eleven kicking off
Speaker 1: in the NFL. BOYD, do we have a big one?
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, Jayden Daniels, Mike Garafollo, all the stars are
Speaker 1: coming out at Lincoln Financial Field. That is just the appetizer,
Speaker 1: main course. How about Patrick Mahomes versus Josh Allen on Sunday?
Speaker 1: Our Jeffrey Judea and Mark Ross are going to be
Speaker 1: here to help us break down the latest chapter in
Speaker 1: the Bills Chief Saga Jets Coles also a game that
Speaker 1: some people will watch on Sunday. Will it be one
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers' last games in the NFL? Here what
Speaker 1: the four time NFL MVP has to say? Now, go
Speaker 1: toward the light. Welcome inside with the insiders alongside Ian Rappaport,
Speaker 1: Judy Bautista Garifolo. I am Tom Pelissaro. It's a full
Speaker 1: house on this show today. You know what that means.
Speaker 1: It's Week eleven. Garrifolo's wearing some type of a trench
Speaker 1: goat thing while he's texting on the field and before
Speaker 1: we get to him, you know it's going down tonight
Speaker 1: in Philly.
Speaker 2: We know who we are?
Speaker 3: What was that?
Speaker 4: This is a good football team anyway.
Speaker 1: Way after playoffs, go attack, move to his right, looking down,
Speaker 1: throw it from mcclorin behind.
Speaker 3: The defender made it, Daniel didn't done it again.
Speaker 1: And they hand them full up the bark play put
Speaker 1: down Daniel have to avoid him, run.
Speaker 3: Run running round forty thirty by thirty.
Speaker 5: What you're gonna do with Tomba right now?
Speaker 6: You're floating good footmark player tell me Tom to night.
Speaker 3: I've never seen that move, and I've been watching football
Speaker 3: Allline life.
Speaker 1: Jade worked it.
Speaker 5: Up, tornty on he rot it, get out.
Speaker 7: Hurt the steep hurts, keep the bigle art down seven.
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Speaker 1: If you're not jacked up after watching this? How about
Speaker 1: this poster? I can't get enough of these? Is it
Speaker 1: a superhero movie? Has Jalen Hurt's actually been struck by lightning?
Speaker 1: Why is Jadeen Daniels burning in some kind of hell clouds?
Speaker 1: For more on those answers, let's go to the field
Speaker 1: at Lincoln Financial Field. That's where we find are Mike Karafola.
Speaker 5: What do we got Mike there?
Speaker 1: In Philadelphia?
Speaker 7: We have got no shortage of story lines. Tom in
Speaker 7: this NFC East battle here with the Commanders looking to
Speaker 7: come off that disappointing loss to the Steelers. There a
Speaker 7: couple of things that went wrong lately that could have
Speaker 7: gone the other way. And this is a team that
Speaker 7: a lot of folks thought was we're playing with house money.
Speaker 7: You talk to them down there, They're like, no, we
Speaker 7: are in this to compete this year. Certainly that was
Speaker 7: why they made the trade for Marshawn Lattimore, who has
Speaker 7: been ruled out. They will be without him once again.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 7: But the work week this past couple of days was
Speaker 7: these guys got right back to work, right back to
Speaker 7: that confidence that they have been playing with, so looking
Speaker 7: to put that on display tonight against the Eagles. They
Speaker 7: will have running back Brian Robinson back. My understanding is
Speaker 7: he's expected to be a full go in his return.
Speaker 7: I know both teams want to run the football. That's
Speaker 7: going to be a big key. Which team winds up
Speaker 7: running the football. Bet are probably going to be the
Speaker 7: indication of who's going to win this game.
Speaker 5: Tonight.
Speaker 7: We got the return of Zach Ertz. Julie's going to
Speaker 7: be on hand here with his son Madden as well.
Speaker 7: I talked to him a couple of days ago. He says,
Speaker 7: I can't make it about that. If I start to
Speaker 7: make it about that, I'll come out of my game
Speaker 7: plan with regard to what he needs to do for
Speaker 7: this Commander's team to win. So an exciting NFC East
Speaker 7: matchup here for positioning at the top of a two
Speaker 7: horse race in the nfcas.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 10: This is a huge litmus test for the Commanders because
Speaker 10: it is going to be a two team race in
Speaker 10: the NFC East and they are coming off a loss
Speaker 10: to the Steelers.
Speaker 11: Let's place it.
Speaker 10: They haven't had to come off too many losses this year,
Speaker 10: but they're coming off a loss to the Steelers where
Speaker 10: the Steelers were able to get people around Jayden Daniels
Speaker 10: and sort of sped him up. He did not play
Speaker 10: particularly well in that game, and as a matter of fact,
Speaker 10: something to keep an eye on is his completion percentage
Speaker 10: is off since he suffered the rib injury in Week seven,
Speaker 10: So that's something to keep an eye on if that's
Speaker 10: bothering him. But again, the Steelers were able to get
Speaker 10: bodies around him, or the Eagles going to be able
Speaker 10: to get pressure around him. Will that affect him again tonight?
Speaker 10: Certainly the running games are going to be critical. These
Speaker 10: are two outstanding rushing offenses. As for rushing defenses, the
Speaker 10: Eagles have one of the top five wins that commanders
Speaker 10: have a bottom five rushing defense. That's certainly an inequity
Speaker 10: to keep an eye on.
Speaker 12: Well for me, a couple of things to watch, I'd say,
Speaker 12: first of all, for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 2: Who are really good and have really really put a
Speaker 2: good product down the field the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 12: It's not like their schedule has been the hardest, right Like,
Speaker 12: obviously they've taken care of what they need to take
Speaker 12: care of, but I'm not sure how many big time
Speaker 12: tests there have been. Tonight is a big time test.
Speaker 12: It's in the division is a pretty feisty defense. It's
Speaker 12: a young quarterback that the entire world is talking about,
Speaker 12: entire world is watching, and you know this Eagles defense.
Speaker 12: Vic Fangio's defense has really garnered a ton of praise
Speaker 12: as one of the top units in the NFL. We
Speaker 12: will see because I'm not sure how many quarterbacks lately
Speaker 12: like Jaden Daniels, they faced, So that is going to
Speaker 12: be fun to watch as teams try to figure out
Speaker 12: like how good each of them are, Like this will
Speaker 12: be essentially a Limus test for the egos and then
Speaker 12: the other side of it. You know, Jaden Daniels has
Speaker 12: had an unbelievable meteoric rise of good feeling and good
Speaker 12: fortune and you know, almost all of it caused by him,
Speaker 12: and it has been very cool to watch. Didn't win
Speaker 12: last week, and as Judy mentioned, like it hasn't been
Speaker 12: quite as easy since that injury.
Speaker 2: How well can he bounce back?
Speaker 12: How well can he kind of stave off any sort
Speaker 12: of low or slump a lot on display tonight for.
Speaker 2: All of us watching, and I am very excited about it.
Speaker 1: No matter what happens tonight, I am sure there will
Speaker 1: be a measured response from that crowd in Philadelphia. It's
Speaker 1: not the only tasty divisional matchup, but they do on
Speaker 1: the week eleventh sleek. Might I interest you in Packers Bears,
Speaker 1: a matchup that bell was notable in part because Caleb Williams,
Speaker 1: the number one pick, is going to have a new
Speaker 1: play caller at Soldier Field, but also because Jordan Love,
Speaker 1: who was dealing with a groin injury a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, was not really entirely moving like himself in
Speaker 1: the game against the Lines. He had the bye to
Speaker 1: rest listed as a full participant I in, which certainly
Speaker 1: bodes well for how he's going to be feeling here
Speaker 1: for the stretcher.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and there's a couple of different parts of this thing,
Speaker 12: like remember when you remember because you did it, remember
Speaker 12: when you put out the initial injury estimate on Jordan.
Speaker 2: Love and it was like, you know, three to six weeks, right,
Speaker 2: that was the knee.
Speaker 12: And then it's like, well, he gets back, and then
Speaker 12: he wasn't himself for at least a couple of weeks,
Speaker 12: and then he was.
Speaker 2: Back feeling to himself, probably by that six weeks.
Speaker 12: Well, with this groin injury, he didn't miss any time,
Speaker 12: but probably wasn't exactly himself. Then you get to a
Speaker 12: couple weeks later and you're like, all right, now he's himself.
Speaker 12: Now he's one hundred percent. And I think that's the
Speaker 12: way it is with Jordan Love. It really does take
Speaker 12: on a different significance for him from being okay, he's
Speaker 12: on the field, that's cool, to being okay, he is
Speaker 12: back to his whole self fully, like he can be
Speaker 12: under center. More play action game can get a little
Speaker 12: more Love here. Has he played his best football recently, No,
Speaker 12: but he's also been pretty banged up essentially, well, not essentially,
Speaker 12: he's been banged up the entire season.
Speaker 2: Now, finally healthy, finally.
Speaker 12: Full participate, you are going to see the Jordan Love
Speaker 12: that the entire NFL world fell in love with at
Speaker 12: the end last year. The entire reason the Packers gave
Speaker 12: him all that money to start the season. A very
Speaker 12: very good benchmark for Love this week.
Speaker 1: Jordan Love already has a short term lease agreement on
Speaker 1: the Bears. Aaron Rodgers, I believe technically and legally still
Speaker 1: owns them, though he's now a member of the New
Speaker 1: York Jets. He's got his own issues to worry about.
Speaker 1: This week, they're three and seven, hitting do a game
Speaker 1: against the Colts. It feels like every game is an
Speaker 1: elimination game for New York. So what does all that
Speaker 1: mean about Aaron Rodgers in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 13: And I think that the verdict's still not out on
Speaker 13: this season, yet, but I think it's it's always a
Speaker 13: challenge when when they're singing your praises or tearing it
Speaker 13: down outside the building, it's it's an important, important, challenge.
Speaker 13: You know, I don't really you know, look at it
Speaker 13: and stuff. So I'm I'm unaware unless the guy that's
Speaker 13: doing a voir deer right now is telling me what's
Speaker 13: going on with, you know, with the messaging out there.
Speaker 13: So I like to insulate myself, and I care about
Speaker 13: the opinions of these guys in locker room. That's obviously
Speaker 13: not the case with everybody. You start going down that
Speaker 13: that path where you're interacting on social media with fans
Speaker 13: or any of you you people, it doesn't doesn't always
Speaker 13: end the right way, you know, And I think that's
Speaker 13: a good reminder for all of us. When you're right now,
Speaker 13: you can't be reading it and loving that seratonin that's
Speaker 13: coming from these positive things just saying about you when
Speaker 13: they're tearing you down.
Speaker 5: You can't either.
Speaker 13: So that's part of the lessons of the season so far.
Speaker 5: You talked about wanting to play beyond this year. Therefore,
Speaker 5: has the way this season gone for you or as
Speaker 5: a team? Change?
Speaker 9: Stop talk at all?
Speaker 8: Not really?
Speaker 13: Not for the negatives, No, not really.
Speaker 3: So you still want to play in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: At various points, Judy, we heard Aaron Rodgers muse not
Speaker 1: just about playing one more year, but maybe two, three,
Speaker 1: four more years. There is a blowing with the wind
Speaker 1: aspect to this. Nobody truly knows what Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: going to do from year to year. But when you
Speaker 1: hear him say that, I think so yes, what's your reaction?
Speaker 10: My immediate reaction was, that is a lot less certain
Speaker 10: sounding than we have heard him sound, even in training
Speaker 10: camp when he told Baldy and me he wanted to
Speaker 10: play two years this year and next year for the
Speaker 10: Jets because you wanted to to have two super Bowl opportunities,
Speaker 10: and even earlier in the offseason when he'said two, three,
Speaker 10: maybe four years. So keep that in mind, but also
Speaker 10: keep a really big piece of this. This may not
Speaker 10: be entirely his decision. We know there's going to be
Speaker 10: a new head coach. There's very likely to be a
Speaker 10: new general manager. Woody Johnson, the owner could very well
Speaker 10: take a job in the new administration, and so Christopher
Speaker 10: Johnson could be running the franchise, and whoever is making
Speaker 10: the football decisions may not want to start with a
Speaker 10: forty one year old quarterback who is coming off what
Speaker 10: might be his worst season as a professional football player,
Speaker 10: So there are a whole lot of moving parts, and
Speaker 10: we don't even know who's going to be making the
Speaker 10: final decisions for the New York Jets. But just keep
Speaker 10: in mind he did not sound as certain, and I
Speaker 10: think we have to see if the people who are
Speaker 10: running the New York Jets when these decisions have to
Speaker 10: be made, are all that certain about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 7: I just have an observation because we run the Aaron
Speaker 7: Rodgers sound every week, and I'm starting to think that
Speaker 7: there's some kind of challenge or something behind the scenes.
Speaker 7: I know he's an educated guy. I know that, Like
Speaker 7: we know he's a smart guy. We know he's well read,
Speaker 7: just ask him. But seratonin, did I hear that there?
Speaker 7: I remember there being a Day new Mont earlier in
Speaker 7: the year. I feel like he's, you know, behind the scenes.
Speaker 7: I watch this word or maybe they're challenging him.
Speaker 13: I think it is.
Speaker 5: I think it is.
Speaker 7: I think I think there's a challenge going on, and
Speaker 7: we are as he referred to us, there you people.
Speaker 7: He is using you people as a way of playing
Speaker 7: a little.
Speaker 5: Game with the media.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: I would like to know more about this.
Speaker 1: I get those word of the day emails I always
Speaker 1: open every single time, so they keep sending it. How
Speaker 1: did I get on that email list? I have no idea,
Speaker 1: but they keep coming and I keep learning a few
Speaker 1: more every day. Kirk Cousins, that seems like something he
Speaker 1: would do as well right now, though he's focused on
Speaker 1: playing quarterback. Listen is limited on the injury report on
Speaker 1: Wednesday with right shoulder right elbow injuries, but upgraded to
Speaker 1: full participation today, Mike, which certainly would seem to erase
Speaker 1: any doubt that he's going to be out there this
Speaker 1: week at Denver. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 7: That's the report. Everything you just said was what I
Speaker 7: was going to say. He was upgrade at the full
Speaker 7: checked in with the folks in Atlanta, had got a
Speaker 7: sense that there was no concern over Kirk Cousins and
Speaker 7: his right shoulder and right elbow injuries. Just gonna repeat them,
Speaker 7: take some time, maybe punch a couple of words and
Speaker 7: make it seem like I said something different than what
Speaker 7: you just said, Tom, But that is the report.
Speaker 1: Yes, if anybody ever had any doubt about whether this
Speaker 1: show is scripted, whether we have teleprompters, no, we do not.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I snip all over my colleagues here when
Speaker 1: I'm trying to just simply set.
Speaker 5: Up the question in an intelligent manner.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Aaron Rodgers has a word or two for that.
Speaker 1: Another quarterback in the AFC Strake May and the Patriots
Speaker 1: went into Soldier Field. They beat them nineteen to three.
Speaker 1: Last week. The offensive coordinator before Chicago got fired the
Speaker 1: next day. You're not supposed to lose to this Patriots team.
Speaker 1: Get here they are. They got three wins at a
Speaker 1: time that, as offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelton noted today,
Speaker 1: their young quarterbacks still learning a few things.
Speaker 14: He's still growing, he's still pop, So that'll be one.
Speaker 14: I'm sure it'll hold him for the rest of the
Speaker 14: year and he'll learn from moving forward. That a thing
Speaker 14: we always say, if nobody's opened, there's one guy that's
Speaker 14: always open, and that's the tuba player in rote four.
Speaker 14: So I like to see him put that ball right
Speaker 14: in the tuba.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where. I mean, I know where Alex
Speaker 1: Van Pelt played football. Were there more tuba players twenty
Speaker 1: years ago? Judy in the league. Was that common at
Speaker 1: NFL games? Because you're not getting a ton of bands
Speaker 1: these days.
Speaker 10: All I can think of is the minute men who
Speaker 10: are at Patriots games, like in one of the ends
Speaker 10: Z one, like, don't shoot at one of those rifles.
Speaker 10: Don't throw the ball at one of those rifles. That
Speaker 10: would be bad anyway. But Drake may is doing okay.
Speaker 10: He's playing pretty well, especially considering what's around him right
Speaker 10: We know the offensive line is not that Grady doesn't
Speaker 10: have a whole lot of weapons.
Speaker 11: They're not.
Speaker 10: They don't have explosive playmakers. But he's ascending. His trajectory
Speaker 10: is good. As a matter of fact, I think right now,
Speaker 10: given the Caleb Williams backsliding, you might say he's playing
Speaker 10: second best to Jayden Daniels among the rookie quarterbacks. You know,
Speaker 10: he's been good against the Blitz. Five of his seven
Speaker 10: touchdown passes have come against the Blitz. He's got to
Speaker 10: cut down on the interceptions, which is what Alex man
Speaker 10: Pelt was referring to there. But he's completing almost sixty
Speaker 10: five percent of his passes on the whole. I think
Speaker 10: given the supporting cast that's around him right now, he's
Speaker 10: doing okay. He showed some real leadership ability and some toughness.
Speaker 10: I think the Patriots from their vantage point, are really
Speaker 10: happy with what they have seen from him during what
Speaker 10: they know is a rebuilding season, and I think they
Speaker 10: feel pretty confident they got their guy there.
Speaker 12: You know, when we talked about the Colts yesterday and
Speaker 12: the decision about Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2: One of the things I talked about was Billy.
Speaker 12: Thing that really matters is you come out of the
Speaker 12: season knowing whether or not you have a franchise quarterback
Speaker 12: for the Patriots and Drake May obviously rookie as was
Speaker 12: the second year guy, but the way he has played
Speaker 12: really does look like they got the guy that they thought.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, on the.
Speaker 12: Other side of the ball, the Patriots got a guy
Speaker 12: back on defense and that is Christian Barmore.
Speaker 2: This is an unbelievably cool story for the.
Speaker 12: Patriots and for Barmore. He has been on the non
Speaker 12: football injury list. There he is big number ninety, one
Speaker 12: of the best interior defensive lineman in the NFL, and
Speaker 12: as his contract states now, one of the richest. He
Speaker 12: has been out the entire season on the non football
Speaker 12: injury list because of blood clots that started in his
Speaker 12: calf and worked his way up his body. As unfortunately,
Speaker 12: blood cuts do. It was undiagnosed, essentially, just thought he
Speaker 12: had some calf pain and thought it.
Speaker 2: Was a little bit of a bruise.
Speaker 12: Jim Whale and the Patriots had athletic trainer basically forced
Speaker 12: him to go get it checked out. Ended up saving
Speaker 12: his life. Did treatment came out well. Now back on
Speaker 12: the football field, I don't know if he's going to
Speaker 12: play this week. They want to measure expectations and say,
Speaker 12: you know, just because he's back, doesn't mean he's going
Speaker 12: to be the superstar that he was.
Speaker 2: Does it matter?
Speaker 12: The fact that he's back is an amazing win for
Speaker 12: everyone involved in a very very cool.
Speaker 2: Thing to see.
Speaker 1: Patriots hosts the Rams on Sunday. Meanwhile, the Ravens have
Speaker 1: a big divisional game that's the theme of this week
Speaker 1: against these Steelers. And a bit of good news for
Speaker 1: Baltimore in practice today. Safety Kyle Hamilton, who had suffered
Speaker 1: an ankle injury last Sunday, back on the practice field
Speaker 1: for the first time.
Speaker 9: Here.
Speaker 1: We'll see and monitor his participation level and whether or
Speaker 1: not he's good to go, but certainly a good omen
Speaker 1: that he's out there and moving around like this. Per
Speaker 1: Ryan Mink on the social media machine earlier today. Also
Speaker 1: good news for all of us who enjoy going to Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: having some shrimp cocktails, some steaks, and walking around in
Speaker 1: the climate controlled skywalks. The scouting Combine will remain in
Speaker 1: Indianapolis into twenty twenty six. It was already going to
Speaker 1: be there this coming February, s last March, it will
Speaker 1: all straight back the following year. That announcement coming from
Speaker 1: the and the City of Indianapolis today. No better place
Speaker 1: to have the combine. And really, do you really care
Speaker 1: where you're watching Sam Hartman's hair bounce? I think I
Speaker 1: would take this regardless of the venue. We will all
Speaker 1: be watching a couple other quarterbacks. Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It is a huge game in Buffalo. But
Speaker 1: who's got the edge and the matchup of a team
Speaker 1: that always wins in the regular season between these teams
Speaker 1: and the team that always knocks the other guys out
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Our Jeffrey Todia Mark Ross will be
Speaker 1: here to help us break that down.
Speaker 10: Next on the Insiders, this might be the game of
Speaker 10: the season coming up, and as the chief Social team said,
Speaker 10: they meet again. This is how it usually goes. The
Speaker 10: Bills generally win in the regular season. Last three in
Speaker 10: a row they've beaten the Chiefs in the regular season,
Speaker 10: and then the postseason comes around and it turns around
Speaker 10: and the Chiefs have won the last three times they
Speaker 10: faced each other in the postseason. Patrick Mahomes has some
Speaker 10: thoughts on.
Speaker 15: That playing this I mean, the best of the best,
Speaker 15: that's what you want in this league. And I've been
Speaker 15: able to go against Josh a multitude of times, and
Speaker 15: every single game he comes down to the very end
Speaker 15: and he's the guy that competes and he has that fire.
Speaker 15: I think you can see that fire that he plays
Speaker 15: with and that kind of goes through his entire team,
Speaker 15: and a lot of guys have had a lot of success,
Speaker 15: and so we know it's gonna take our best football.
Speaker 15: I think that's what we know, and if we don't,
Speaker 15: we're gonna lose. And we've lost them and we've won some.
Speaker 15: So I'm just hoping that this week we can get
Speaker 15: out there play our best football and find a way
Speaker 15: to get a win.
Speaker 10: You would think the Chiefs would actually be happy with
Speaker 10: how this has broken down. Jeffrey Chidia and Mark Ross.
Speaker 10: It seems to have worked out well.
Speaker 11: For the Chiefs.
Speaker 10: But Jeffrey, I want to start with you, because the
Speaker 10: Chiefs have certainly had some protection issues on the left
Speaker 10: side in particular, How concerned are they about their left
Speaker 10: tackle situation?
Speaker 4: Yeah, some protection issues is an understatement, Judy. They've got
Speaker 4: serious protection issues at left tackle. You know, Yanya Morris
Speaker 4: has been the starter and he went out in the
Speaker 4: last game against Denver and Kingsley Suamataia, their second round
Speaker 4: pick came in and it was a disaster. Denver Broncos
Speaker 4: line up with four sacks. They were dominant at times
Speaker 4: while he was in the game. More should be back.
Speaker 4: He yet a knee injury. That's been an up and
Speaker 4: down thing for him this season. But Patrick Mahomes said
Speaker 4: he believes in these guys. He trusts that they will
Speaker 4: get the job done for him. But again, you're stalking
Speaker 4: about an offense that wance to throw the football down
Speaker 4: the field. They can't get Xavier Worthy going, and if
Speaker 4: they're not able to protect again, Mark, it's going to
Speaker 4: be a serious issue for a Buffalo Bill's defense that's.
Speaker 5: Pretty good, yeah, no question.
Speaker 16: And a part of that which he talked about, is
Speaker 16: this look that Kansas City is having all though he
Speaker 16: struggles and it doesn't matter, like, just get it too
Speaker 16: the last play and we'll go win it again. But
Speaker 16: I think the biggest differential there is the Kansas City
Speaker 16: defense has really been holding this together once again, dare
Speaker 16: we say that the greatest head coach of the generation,
Speaker 16: Andy Reid, and the greatest quarterback and now it's a
Speaker 16: defensive team played by my man, Steve Spagnola, the architect
Speaker 16: of our two thousand, Seve and Giants Super Bowl wins.
Speaker 16: So once again I'm looking to see Kansas City defense.
Speaker 16: Really they have to hold it together against Buffalo's third
Speaker 16: rank scoring offense and Josh Allen, And I think that's
Speaker 16: really going to be the key to the game because
Speaker 16: we kind of know what to expect from the Kansas
Speaker 16: City offense that at this point is a lot of struggles,
Speaker 16: but the defense has been holding it together. And for
Speaker 16: Buffalo's offense, we know what Josh Allen can do. They've
Speaker 16: shown they can run the ball. Will Amari Cooper play
Speaker 16: to give them that extra playmaker for Josh Allen, he's
Speaker 16: been banged up, going to be if until game time.
Speaker 16: If he can play, then that makes the Buffalo offense
Speaker 16: even more potent, and we'll see what my man, Steve
Speaker 16: Bagnola has died up for it.
Speaker 2: If that's the case, we.
Speaker 1: All love spags.
Speaker 10: But let's talk about the wide receivers, Jeffrey, because they
Speaker 10: do have some injury issues in the Buffalo wide receiver room.
Speaker 10: How they're going to manage that they do.
Speaker 4: You're talking about not just Amari Cooper being her key
Speaker 4: on Coleman. Their rookie receiver is not going to play
Speaker 4: in this game because of a risk injury. Dalton Kincaid
Speaker 4: did not practice at least for not outdooring the public
Speaker 4: portion of the practice today with that knee injury. So
Speaker 4: we'll see if they're down three receivers. But you know,
Speaker 4: Joe Brady, their offensive cordiator, talked about this and said
Speaker 4: that they're getting used to this because they've had the
Speaker 4: mix and match players throughout the course of this season.
Speaker 4: He joked that at some points it feels like his
Speaker 4: play call she looks like a Picasso painting because there's
Speaker 4: so many marks and scratches and scuffs on it because
Speaker 4: he's trying to figure out who to get the ball to.
Speaker 4: But this is still a potent offense with James Cook
Speaker 4: and Dawson Knox and all those receivers, so they know
Speaker 4: it's a tough challenge. The bigger thing to look at here, though,
Speaker 4: is pass protection. This team is fourth in the league
Speaker 4: protecting the quarterback, and mark that Chiefs defense is not
Speaker 4: really getting after the passer as it has been in
Speaker 4: the years past.
Speaker 10: Thank you, guys, Jeffrey Mark, thanks so much. And when
Speaker 10: we return, we're going back down the turnpike to Philadelphia.
Speaker 10: We're going to join Mike Grifola more on the big
Speaker 10: Thursday night football matchup.
Speaker 11: Commanders Peoples for the lead in the NFC.
Speaker 6: Yes, we talked yesterday about the detail, right. We talked
Speaker 6: yesterday about the physicality. We talked yesterday about the talent
Speaker 6: that we have, and we said we want to do special,
Speaker 6: and to do special, you gotta do it together.
Speaker 5: There was a moment in this game, right, all right,
Speaker 5: we came out fourteen to six and a half.
Speaker 6: All Right, defense gets a stop, special teams gets a
Speaker 6: big return, offense punches in.
Speaker 5: That's complimentary football, right.
Speaker 6: Continue to find ways that we grow closer together because
Speaker 6: about that's how you do special, right, and we're all
Speaker 6: into special, right, Keep coming closer together as a team.
Speaker 3: I feel it.
Speaker 5: I know y'all feel it.
Speaker 1: It's a great win, all right, But we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to move on quick.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, battle for first place in the NFC East.
Speaker 7: The upstart Commanders, the Old Guard, I don't wanna call
Speaker 7: them the old Guard, but there. You know, they're the
Speaker 7: guys that have been pretty much the litmus test for
Speaker 7: the NFC East over the last couple of years. They
Speaker 7: meet tonight Thursday night, Football Commander's Eagles here at Lincoln
Speaker 7: Financial Field. You want some specials, we got some special
Speaker 7: Brian Boudinger and Mark Ross joining us.
Speaker 2: Baldy.
Speaker 7: I know we're talking about Jalen and Jayden, but I
Speaker 7: think I know what your key to the offense is
Speaker 7: for both of these teams, and I like it.
Speaker 9: What it is.
Speaker 3: I mean both teams. I mean there are two of
Speaker 3: the teams that run the ball more than they throw
Speaker 3: it higher percentage. The Commanders will get Ryan Robinson Junior back.
Speaker 3: He's their thumper. They need him in the lineup to
Speaker 3: be more effective. But honestly, I mean Sakwan came to
Speaker 3: the Eagles. He knows what the NFC East is all about.
Speaker 3: He knows what these matchups, mean he's played in some
Speaker 3: of these games, not a lot, but some of these
Speaker 3: game to the Giants, and this team is built around
Speaker 3: his skill set right now, and they've got him going.
Speaker 3: And you know, right now he's averaging one hundred and
Speaker 3: ten yards rushing a game, only second to Derrick Henry
Speaker 3: at one hundred and twelve yards game.
Speaker 5: He's having his best season.
Speaker 3: And I would expect that the Eagles will do the
Speaker 3: very best tonight behind a powerful offensive line to try
Speaker 3: to get Saque going and really established that run game.
Speaker 5: And everything has when it goes well to the Eagle,
Speaker 5: it starts with the run game.
Speaker 16: Baldy, no doubt. As sat Quon has gone, the Eagles
Speaker 16: have gone. And I am going to talk about the quarterbacks.
Speaker 16: And I think the big difference of the finer point
Speaker 16: difference will be who doesn't turn the ball over. And
Speaker 16: our man Jalen Hurts has turned it over nine times
Speaker 16: this year, whereas Jaydon Daniels has only turned it over
Speaker 16: two times. You think the rookie would be the one
Speaker 16: making the mistakes, and we've seen Jalen make a lot
Speaker 16: of mistakes this year that have cost them these last
Speaker 16: few weeks against these bad teams that has not cost them.
Speaker 16: But I think that when you get two teams this
Speaker 16: evenly matched, the fine line will be the turnover battle
Speaker 16: at all. You know, every game I've ever gone into
Speaker 16: the coach they've talked about winning the turnover battle. And
Speaker 16: I know it's been constantly harped on with Jalen as
Speaker 16: Kenny stopped turning it over, and even last week he
Speaker 16: turned it over. So if he doesn't turn it over,
Speaker 16: obviously against the Eagles a better chance, But that will
Speaker 16: be the difference. And really the bigger picture is I
Speaker 16: know this, we're going to hype this game up. It's
Speaker 16: going to be great, but are these teams any good?
Speaker 16: Of fourteen wins? Two wins between these two teams have
Speaker 16: come against teams with winning records. That was the Eagles
Speaker 16: first game, very first game against Green Bay, and the
Speaker 16: Washington beat Arizona when they hadn't become really the good
Speaker 16: Cardinals yet. So you know, are these teams just beating
Speaker 16: up on bad teams fellas or are these actually legitimate
Speaker 16: teams in the NFC?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know that's been the question about the Eagles,
Speaker 7: but you can say at least they handled those teams
Speaker 7: the way you're supposed to handle teams that have inferior
Speaker 7: records to you. So now this has bit of a
Speaker 7: litmus test really for both teams tonight, Mark specifically with
Speaker 7: Jayden having trouble with this this week, Jalen Jaden specifically
Speaker 7: with Jayden Daniels coming off a long We know what
Speaker 7: he could do, like, we've seen the ability and all
Speaker 7: that stuff, but as a quarterback, especially in a short
Speaker 7: week after a loss like that, you got to get
Speaker 7: these guys right. So Jaden Daniels, what was he need
Speaker 7: to do to make sure that the Commanders are ready
Speaker 7: for this NFC East matchup after that disappointing loss to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 16: Well, he hasn't faced anything like this, Mike and Baldy,
Speaker 16: as you know, going into the link on a Thursday night.
Speaker 16: I know he's played at some big games at LSU
Speaker 16: and a few this year already. But this is a
Speaker 16: whole different deal here playing in Philly, work for him
Speaker 16: for eight years, right down the road now here going
Speaker 16: to go watch the game with my mob. I mean,
Speaker 16: this is going to be something different for him. But
Speaker 16: I think he's built for this. There's certain players, there's
Speaker 16: certain quarterbacks that are just built for the moment, and
Speaker 16: every time this guy gets a moment, he just goes
Speaker 16: in there and pretty much crushes these moments. And I
Speaker 16: think he'll continue to do that if he plays great tonight.
Speaker 16: We don't know, but I think the moment will not
Speaker 16: be too big for him. And I think the team
Speaker 16: has total confidence in what he can do and that
Speaker 16: he will have the ability to bounce back from the
Speaker 16: performance last week and say, you know what, I can
Speaker 16: do this, and everyone has confidence in that Baldy.
Speaker 5: You know, Mark, he's an incredibly poised kid.
Speaker 8: He just is.
Speaker 3: Anybody that meets him, spends any time with him, they
Speaker 3: come away saying the same thing and then you see
Speaker 3: that carry over to the game. But you know, honestly,
Speaker 3: this Eagles defense and the resurgence and how they're playing,
Speaker 3: and maybe to your point, Mark, maybe they're just beating
Speaker 3: up on a lot of bad teams right now. But
Speaker 3: they've got two rookies after starting that have made a difference.
Speaker 3: Gwinyon Mitchell at the right cornerback position. I can't find
Speaker 3: anybody who beat him this year, and he plays the
Speaker 3: game with poise and with his feet, and then Cooper
Speaker 3: dejen Once they've inserted him into the nickel back spot.
Speaker 3: He just keeps making big play after big play. And
Speaker 3: those two guys tonight are gonna see a lot of
Speaker 3: Terry McLaurin, a wide receiver who's been an Eagle killer
Speaker 3: over the years. And they're gonna see Zach Ertz, the
Speaker 3: former Eagle who's having a good season. They are the
Speaker 3: two leading receivers. They will get matched up in man
Speaker 3: coverage or even in the matchup zone concepts that Vic
Speaker 3: Fangio has.
Speaker 5: They're gonna see those two young players a lot tonight.
Speaker 3: And I want to see how those guys hold up
Speaker 3: against Jayden Daniels and against Cliff Kingsbury Stephens tonight.
Speaker 5: Are offense tonight.
Speaker 3: I think those are two of the matchups I can't
Speaker 3: wait to kind of watch here in a couple hours.
Speaker 1: Baldy h don't go far.
Speaker 7: Got you coming up shortly here, Mark Ross, appreciate you
Speaker 7: very much. Jalen versus Jayden just a couple hours away.
Speaker 5: You got it, You got it, Mike, what.
Speaker 2: I'm good?
Speaker 8: Here?
Speaker 5: It drops straight back a bad right corner of the
Speaker 5: end zone.
Speaker 1: Harrison home, want a cat for at much down Warburn
Speaker 1: Harrison Junior halls it in.
Speaker 5: You can't talking down.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, woo whoosh.
Speaker 15: And he's gonna keep it running right to the outside
Speaker 15: ten the end zone for a second touchdown.
Speaker 1: What how about the comeback of Kyler Murray and the
Speaker 1: first place Arizona Cardinals. Murray NFC Offensive Player of the
Speaker 1: Week Arizona right now one of the best stories in football.
Speaker 1: Look at the NFC West standings. It is the Cardinals
Speaker 1: on top. Obviously, the forty nine ers starting to get
Speaker 1: a little bit healthier at this stage, the Rams coming
Speaker 1: off of a tough loss, The Seahawks have slid since
Speaker 1: their hot start. The Cardinals, Yes, the Cardinals are forks
Speaker 1: to be reckoned with right now in the NFC playoff picture.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the insiders. Tom Pellisero here with Omar Ruiz,
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger as well as Mark Ross. Omar, I'll start
Speaker 1: out with you, what do the Cardinals attribute this success to?
Speaker 1: With the fact that coming off of a four win
Speaker 1: season that was impressive by four win season standards, they've
Speaker 1: already got six on the board and potentially could be
Speaker 1: playing late into January.
Speaker 8: Well, Tom, you looked at the highlight reel to start
Speaker 8: this segment with Kyler Murray getting blasted by Quincy Williams,
Speaker 8: who came in off the edge untouched. Kyler Murray's helmet
Speaker 8: goes flying. What happened after that, a drive that culminated
Speaker 8: with Marvin Harrison Junior's touchdown, is everything that the Cardinals
Speaker 8: have been talking about. Kyler Murray on full display and
Speaker 8: a big reason why they are in first place by themselves.
Speaker 5: At six and four.
Speaker 8: Murray gets smashed there on that play, gets back. Jonathan
Speaker 8: Gannon credits Drew Petsing, the offensive coordinator, for calling a
Speaker 8: handoff to James Connor. He gets eight yards, sets up
Speaker 8: a third and ten, They call time out, allows Kyler
Speaker 8: Murray to gather himself once again, hangs in the pocket
Speaker 8: after getting smashed by Williams a couple plays before, hangs
Speaker 8: in the crumbling pocket and hits Trey McBride on third
Speaker 8: and ten. Converts in the clutch on that play and
Speaker 8: then the very next one dropping that dime in to
Speaker 8: Marvin Harrison Junior for that touchdown. So we saw everything
Speaker 8: about Kyler Murray how he's been playing this season. That
Speaker 8: particular sequence a microcosm of that. The toughness, the skill set,
Speaker 8: the leadership all on display. Meanwhile, Baldy defensively, I specifically
Speaker 8: remember in training camp Darius Robinson, the other first round
Speaker 8: pick that the Cardinals drafted to go along with Marvin
Speaker 8: Harrison Junior back in April to help with the pass rush.
Speaker 8: He was just announced that he had that injury that
Speaker 8: we've yet to see him play so far this season.
Speaker 8: Bjojulari gets hurt. They're counting on him to take a
Speaker 8: big step this year. He's out for the season, and
Speaker 8: Jonathan Gannon saying, I know it may sound crazy to
Speaker 8: you guys, We're not going to go after anybody. We're
Speaker 8: not going to make any moves. We're not going to
Speaker 8: bring in a star here in training camp. I believe
Speaker 8: in the players that we have defensively. You'll see, we'll
Speaker 8: scheme them up, we'll coach them up, and we have
Speaker 8: a belief and weekend and week out, Baldy, it's a
Speaker 8: different player stepping up defensively, and they are coming together
Speaker 8: when they've needed it.
Speaker 5: Big reason why.
Speaker 8: As well, in addition to Kyler Murray's play, that defense
Speaker 8: has them in first place.
Speaker 5: Baldy omar, this is a very.
Speaker 3: Well coached team and they play like a a well
Speaker 3: coach team. They don't beat themselves. Kyler has turned it
Speaker 3: over six times in ten games. They're getting contributions. The
Speaker 3: offensive line is solid. You go around the league and
Speaker 3: you look at offensive lines. Now you look at Paris
Speaker 3: and Evan Brown.
Speaker 5: And fro Hold. This is a good group.
Speaker 3: And you know, Tristan Coloonne has stepped in and Beach
Speaker 3: has stepped in as you know, the third right tackle.
Speaker 3: But they run the ball well. They run the ball
Speaker 3: with power. They run the ball when they have to,
Speaker 3: when they have a leade. The defensive coordinator, Nick Rayalis,
Speaker 3: I think he's the youngest in the league.
Speaker 5: He came there. I think he was twenty eight years old,
Speaker 5: you know, but they believe in him and the.
Speaker 3: Way that he pulls out some of these pressures to
Speaker 3: get to Aaron Rodgers, to get to Rock Perty and
Speaker 3: key spots of the game. They've overcome some of the
Speaker 3: loss of those pass rushers. The thing that I look
Speaker 3: forward to in the second half is I think the schedules.
Speaker 3: Outside of these first two games on the road in
Speaker 3: Minnesota in Seattle, you know they're two and zero in
Speaker 3: the division. They get New England and Carolina at home.
Speaker 3: They've got winnable games on the schedule. But I look
Speaker 3: for Marvin Harrison Junior to have a great second half.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's been utilized very well so far,
Speaker 3: even with the six touchdown catches. They're gonna get Darius
Speaker 3: Robinson back on the defensive front. They're gonna get some
Speaker 3: of these rookies back for the second half of the season,
Speaker 3: and I like rookie enthusiasm. They kind of pushed veterans
Speaker 3: into a playoff spot. I think they're gonna find one.
Speaker 3: I think they're well led by Buddha Baker, James Connor,
Speaker 3: and Kyler Murray, and it shows up week in week.
Speaker 16: Out right now, you guys touched on it. Why I
Speaker 16: like the Cardinals this year as opposed to the Cardinals
Speaker 16: of the past. I don't think toughness and physicality would
Speaker 16: have ever been associated with the Cardinals in their history
Speaker 16: there and when I watched them Omar you alluded to
Speaker 16: it with Kyler taking that hit. But they are tough
Speaker 16: and they are physical. James Connor is tough and physical.
Speaker 16: Trey McBride is tough and physical. Marvin Harrison Junior, when
Speaker 16: he gets his hands on the ball is tough and physical.
Speaker 16: The defense despite all those no names there, led by
Speaker 16: Buddha Baker, is tough and physical. And I watched them
Speaker 16: and it's like, Wow, this team really brings it and
Speaker 16: that is bringing the energy, and that is bringing the wins.
Speaker 16: And then you get the magic of Kyler Murray and
Speaker 16: the things he can do playing at an outside of
Speaker 16: Lamar Jackson MVP level that this team I think is legit. Baldy,
Speaker 16: you talked about they're well coached as well. So when
Speaker 16: you get those elements of a supreme playmaker, a lot
Speaker 16: of talent on offense, physicality and toughness and well coached,
Speaker 16: this is for real here with the Cardinals.
Speaker 2: I don't think this is a fluke whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Fellas NFC West very tightly packed at this point. Omar
Speaker 1: and games like this week for the Seahawks could play
Speaker 1: a big role in who comes out on top.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the forty nine Ers probably the biggest threat to
Speaker 8: the Cardinals at this point. Mark talked about the toughness
Speaker 8: and physicality of the Cardinals. Well, obviously we've talked about
Speaker 8: the forty nine ers for years having those two attributes
Speaker 8: and reason why they have appeared in four or five
Speaker 8: NFC Championship games and appear poised at this point to
Speaker 8: make a run in the second half to have five
Speaker 8: of six potentially NFC Championship game appearances. And it starts
Speaker 8: with the return of Christian McCaffrey. We talk about how
Speaker 8: he opens up everything in that offense. You see Brock
Speaker 8: Purdy going deep there for George Kittle. The five forty
Speaker 8: nine ers dot caught passes from Purdy on Sunday against
Speaker 8: the Buccaneers. Deebo, Jwan Jennings, Ricky pearsall, George Kittle, Christian
Speaker 8: McCaffrey all had catches of at least thirty yards, so
Speaker 8: that big play capability them going down the field. You
Speaker 8: have to think that Christian McCaffrey's presence helping do that.
Speaker 8: And here's McCaffrey himself getting his big play in that regard.
Speaker 8: Then you have the sideline spat between Deebo Samuel and
Speaker 8: their long snapper Tabor Pepper, something that Kyle Shanahan described
Speaker 8: as an overreaction. Pepper overreacting to the words that Deebo
Speaker 8: had for Jake Moody, their kicker who missed three field goals.
Speaker 8: Shanahan saying that he and Jake Moody didn't have an
Speaker 8: issue with what Deebo Samuel was telling him, So Pepper
Speaker 8: overreacting in that regard and then Deebo Samuel overreacting and
Speaker 8: how he wanted Pepper to get out of his face.
Speaker 8: But sometimes those things can galvanize a team and really
Speaker 8: spur them in the second half to get on that
Speaker 8: same page. They got some good vibes earlier this week
Speaker 8: when one of the most popular players in that locker room,
Speaker 8: Diamondor Lenor, had the huge contract extension, somebody who has
Speaker 8: been a tone setter for that defense starting last year
Speaker 8: and then rewarded into this season playing at an extremely
Speaker 8: high level. So you look at all those factors in
Speaker 8: place for the forty nine ers to really turn it
Speaker 8: on here in the second half and make that surge
Speaker 8: to get to the top of the NFC where they've
Speaker 8: been for years and years and years.
Speaker 3: Now, Omar NH might very well go on a run
Speaker 3: like they did a year ago when they came out
Speaker 3: of the buying, went six in a row, and you know,
Speaker 3: we're the team to beat in the NFC, But their
Speaker 3: special team problems have not gone away, and it's not
Speaker 3: just Jake Moody missing three field goals last week.
Speaker 5: It's the buff punt, you know, It's it's week in,
Speaker 5: week out.
Speaker 3: This team like really doesn't put anything special in their
Speaker 3: special team and it's an issue and it's cost him
Speaker 3: games this year, you know. And if you go around
Speaker 3: this division now, the Rams are still trying to get
Speaker 3: Kyrin Williams going. He was the key to the second
Speaker 3: half surge a year ago. The offensive line had struggled.
Speaker 3: They got a couple of starters back last week against
Speaker 3: Miami that didn't really you know, prove to be anything great.
Speaker 3: You know, we got to see how the secondary with
Speaker 3: the Rams, you know, comes together here down to stretch,
Speaker 3: because it has not been a strength of theirs.
Speaker 5: So far this season. And Seattle, look, they just released
Speaker 5: their starting middle linebacker.
Speaker 3: They've had major issues on defense, trying to adopt Mike
Speaker 3: McDaniel when what he wants to do, you know, as
Speaker 3: far as Mike McDonald what he wants to do defensively
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 5: And I don't trust their offensive line.
Speaker 3: It's just they haven't figured out how to protect you
Speaker 3: well enough or to get Kenni's Walker going.
Speaker 5: And so I feel like.
Speaker 3: Arizona doesn't have a lot of these issues, and why
Speaker 3: I think they're still going to be standing here as
Speaker 3: they get ready to play the Rams and forty nine
Speaker 3: ers to finish out the season. Maybe this division comes
Speaker 3: down to those last two weeks.
Speaker 5: In this league.
Speaker 16: Baldy use the word I was thinking about trust, like
Speaker 16: who do you trust the most and who has the
Speaker 16: highest ceiling in the division? Seattle, I don't trust them
Speaker 16: at all. You talk about the offensive line. You watched
Speaker 16: Seattle game in a game out, like what is his
Speaker 16: team doing here? But and then the Rams don't After
Speaker 16: that lost last week against Miami, seems like things are
Speaker 16: going in the right direction. I don't trust them down
Speaker 16: the stretch anymore. So it comes down to San Fran
Speaker 16: and Arizona and who you trust more. And when I
Speaker 16: watch San Fran, it just seems as if I don't know,
Speaker 16: just things aren't working out quite right like we've seen before.
Speaker 16: But they're still in it. And ultimately I do trust
Speaker 16: Arizona the most out in this division because of the
Speaker 16: factors we already talked about with the quarterback and the
Speaker 16: physicality and the toughness and being well coached, and they've
Speaker 16: beaten San Francisco already in San Francisco, So that extra
Speaker 16: motivation of the extra confidence we can do this, you know,
Speaker 16: to be the man, you gotta beat the man.
Speaker 5: They've done it once.
Speaker 16: The last game of the season is in Arizona. That'd
Speaker 16: be the biggest game in Arizona in a long time
Speaker 16: if the division comes down to those two. So I
Speaker 16: think it'll go right down there to the end between
Speaker 16: those two and the other two out of it, and
Speaker 16: I'm going to ultimately go with the Cardinals there.
Speaker 8: And we talked about the toughness and the physicality of
Speaker 8: the Cardinals and Tommy, you remember last year and speaking
Speaker 8: with Drew petsiing that's something that they were establishing last year.
Speaker 8: Maybe they didn't have the talent to find ways to win.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 8: This year, they're finding those ways to win. They blow
Speaker 8: people out when it happens, they win games that they
Speaker 8: shouldn't win. They can win games going back and forth.
Speaker 8: So they're a young team that is finding its consistency
Speaker 8: and finding ways to win and obviously have been a
Speaker 8: huge factor for their success here.
Speaker 1: Omar Baldy, Mark, thank you all very much. Enjoy Week
Speaker 1: eleven kicking off tonight in Philadelphia. We got some other
Speaker 1: good games. We've got some players coming back from injuries
Speaker 1: going into this weekend as well, including in that Seattle game.
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf was a full participate in practice on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: first time that he had practiced at all since he
Speaker 1: suffered that low grade MCL spring several weeks ago, missed
Speaker 1: a couple of games, had the bye week to rest up.
Speaker 1: Certainly sounds like he is on track to be back
Speaker 1: and face the forty nine ers. San Francisco has had
Speaker 1: its own injury issues, to say the least, throughout the
Speaker 1: course of this season. One of the latest, George Kittle,
Speaker 1: their standout tight end, did not practice a practice on
Speaker 1: Wednesday because of a hamstring issue. Kyle Shanahan had downplayed it,
Speaker 1: said it was just some soreness, but certainly one to monitor.
Speaker 1: George Kittle tends to miss some practice time, usually shows
Speaker 1: up on Sundays. We'll see if indeed that is the case.
Speaker 1: Also a significant injury with a two time defending Super
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs as they get set
Speaker 1: to go to Buffalo. I was told literally during that
Speaker 1: segment Cheeves kicker Harrison Bucker expected to miss three to
Speaker 1: four weeks, likely headed to injured reserve. He suffered a
Speaker 1: meniscous injury in his left knee. He's going to undergo
Speaker 1: arthroscopic surgery to clean that up. I am told no
Speaker 1: concern that this is anything season ending for Butker should
Speaker 1: be back well before we get the playoff time. But
Speaker 1: for now, the Chiefs are signing Spencer Schrader off the
Speaker 1: Jets practice squad in Buffalo. But the way the win
Speaker 1: can go there, if it comes down to a game
Speaker 1: winning kick, no butt kicker for the Chiefs, It'll be
Speaker 1: Spencer Schrader getting the call. Coming up after this, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have their own injury issues to soar through, namely
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott out for the season undergoing season ending hamstring surgery.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said, it's Cooper Rush again this week, but
Speaker 1: for how long? And could we soon see Trey Lance
Speaker 1: at least in packages as well? Nobody knows the Cowboys
Speaker 1: like our James. Later, she joins us next on the Insiders.
Speaker 12: For better or worse, the Dallas Cowboys are going to
Speaker 12: be seeing a lot of that guy. There's been good
Speaker 12: a couple of years ago, went four and one, then
Speaker 12: won another game in relief.
Speaker 2: He has played good football. Did he play good football
Speaker 2: last week?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 2: He certainly did not. But this is the reality.
Speaker 12: Now, It's gonna be a lot of Cooper rush now
Speaker 12: that Dak Prescott had season ending surgery on his hamstring.
Speaker 2: The Cowboys want the good Cooper, not the not so
Speaker 2: good Cooper.
Speaker 12: But either way, as Mike McCarthy notes today, they're gonna
Speaker 12: need to rely a lot on their run game, which
Speaker 12: now will take on a little bit of a different
Speaker 12: focus for Dallas.
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely gotta get them the ball. I mean, you know,
Speaker 9: that's that's my focus. You know, just continue to get
Speaker 9: him opportunities. Uh, he's you know, he's the lead back,
Speaker 9: and you know, I thought he had a really good
Speaker 9: first half and I think that's really illustrated by you know,
Speaker 9: the attempts. You know, Rico needs touch the ball.
Speaker 12: Probably good news for those fantasy teams that have Rico Downell.
Speaker 12: I don't, by the way, welcome in Jane Slater are
Speaker 12: Cowboys guru.
Speaker 2: And guru of obviously many many other things.
Speaker 12: Okay, I want you to weigh in on the Rico'dowdell
Speaker 12: news slash declaration slash making official where it seemed to
Speaker 12: kind of be going anyway.
Speaker 2: But the Cowboys have that injuries, as we've detailed, they got.
Speaker 12: Other issues to take me through some of these scoring
Speaker 12: issues that the Cowboys have had.
Speaker 17: Listen, third quarter has been an issue for them. But
Speaker 17: one way you might be able to address this is
Speaker 17: why don't you get a little bit of help on offense?
Speaker 17: In terms of consistency? Running back by committee is gone.
Speaker 17: It's been an internal debate, I think in this building.
Speaker 5: Ian.
Speaker 11: I mean at times we saw them rolling out four
Speaker 11: different running.
Speaker 17: Backs, and you talk to a lot of players, you
Speaker 17: talk to coaches, and they will tell you that it
Speaker 17: is a philosophy that many of them disagree with back
Speaker 17: to the one position that needs to get in a rhythm. Now,
Speaker 17: you might push back and say, well, look, you guys
Speaker 17: had Tony Pollard in Dallas and Zeke mark Ingram and
Speaker 17: Camara go down the list. Yes, when you have change
Speaker 17: of backs are complimentary. Back the way they were doing
Speaker 17: it just wasn't working. So we started to see Rico
Speaker 17: Daddle take that lead back role in games. And now
Speaker 17: it's official and it sounds like Mike McCarthy has finally
Speaker 17: won an internal debate. So maybe that will address those
Speaker 17: third quarter wos that I was telling you about. I
Speaker 17: have joked with Rico Daddel yesterday. I said, are you
Speaker 17: guys not eating enough uncrustables at the half?
Speaker 1: Down?
Speaker 11: All half laugh?
Speaker 17: But he did say, in all seriousness, they've been outscored
Speaker 17: eighty two to twenty second in the third quarter.
Speaker 11: That is a minus sixty differential. How does that stack
Speaker 11: up against the league?
Speaker 17: Almost double that of the second worst brows. Now, Donald
Speaker 17: tells me they do come up with a plan at
Speaker 17: the half, and they know what they need to do
Speaker 17: based on the first half, but it isn't happening. He said,
Speaker 17: quote definitely something we've got to get fixed. And I
Speaker 17: went back and I looked at looked at the third
Speaker 17: quarter against the Eagles. Here's here's a way to help.
Speaker 17: But why don't you have drives that are more than
Speaker 17: five plays? This was their third quarter punt, punt, fumble, fumble, interception, punt,
Speaker 17: and again most of those were three or four plays.
Speaker 17: The longest was five. So let's see if the running
Speaker 17: game can help them extend some of those drives.
Speaker 11: I think that's sort of the focus here.
Speaker 12: You left the lot out there by talking about the
Speaker 12: internal debate that Michae McCarthy one, which I'd like to
Speaker 12: ask you about. But the Cowboys are also playing another
Speaker 12: team this week. The Houston Texans say their offensive issues
Speaker 12: have been slightly under the radar, but very real offensive
Speaker 12: line issues have been real. They are getting a big
Speaker 12: piece potentially back this week. Talk to me about the
Speaker 12: Texans and Nico Collins.
Speaker 11: The return of Nico Collins cannot be understated.
Speaker 14: Ian.
Speaker 17: If we look at the Houston Texans and some of
Speaker 17: their woes on offense, remember they start off the season
Speaker 17: four and one and they've been on a two.
Speaker 11: In three run as of late.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 11: Some of that has to do with some of the
Speaker 11: offensive line plays. I mean, when you look at c. J.
Speaker 17: Stroud, he's been astonishedlyly sacked thirty four times this season,
Speaker 17: and this is with three veterans on the offensive line
Speaker 17: and just two young guys in Week nine eight times
Speaker 17: against the Jets for just this week. Now, when you
Speaker 17: get Collins back, he helps with the separation and the
Speaker 17: stats really show that. According to next Gen with Nico,
Speaker 17: the Texans saw less interceptions, less dropbacks, higher completion rating,
Speaker 17: and more touchdowns. But for Stroud specifically, less sacks, and
Speaker 17: blitzes Titan Dalton. Schultz says, more than anything, it's his
Speaker 17: mentality that's contagious.
Speaker 11: He said, look who he's running through. Watch how he transitions,
Speaker 11: how he gets the ball in his hands.
Speaker 17: Schultz told me that's the mentality that they preached to
Speaker 17: the offense as a whole. So just getting him back
Speaker 17: really helps everything around them. So let's see if this
Speaker 17: offense turns around. But I do think it's really interesting
Speaker 17: when you start to see this offense struggle. It had
Speaker 17: a lot to do with having one of their leading
Speaker 17: wide receivers not on the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like he left us for like five games.
Speaker 12: We all forgot how believably good he was playing. Looking
Speaker 12: forward to seeing that for the Houston Texans. Jane, thank
Speaker 12: you very much for hanging out with us as always. Meanwhile,
Speaker 12: the Steelers and Ravens are going to be hanging out
Speaker 12: this week. One of the NFL's best rivalries, one of
Speaker 12: the NFL's toughest rivalries, has a new participant. Russell Wilson
Speaker 12: has been absolutely balling since he took.
Speaker 2: Over these starting quarterback positions. But is he as good
Speaker 2: as Lamar Well, we'll get into it.
Speaker 1: It's a rivalry week across the NFL, including the Ravens
Speaker 1: and the Steelers. Those two guys up at the top,
Speaker 1: they've done this a number of times. Sometimes one of
Speaker 1: them wanders into the field during a live play bottom line,
Speaker 1: John Harvard Mike Tomlin. They know each other.
Speaker 5: Well, how you doing much?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Good?
Speaker 5: You bet man?
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 5: We'dn't been in a bunch of these you.
Speaker 9: And I have.
Speaker 5: We have grown them up again, I guess.
Speaker 3: I mean, what time talking.
Speaker 5: About what our kids were for Halloween?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Grown?
Speaker 9: How you doing? Bro?
Speaker 2: That's cool?
Speaker 1: It's good stuff with those two guys there. Judy, where
Speaker 1: do you put this one? What's your favorite rivalry in
Speaker 1: the NFL?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 10: Well, I have a few, but this is actually my
Speaker 10: current favorite because this is usually like the most these
Speaker 10: two games are usually the most brutal games of the
Speaker 10: entire season. Like these teams beat the crap out of
Speaker 10: each other usually, and so many great players have played
Speaker 10: in these games.
Speaker 2: So I actually love this game.
Speaker 7: Like for me, it's I was watching the Eagles Cowboys.
Speaker 7: I don't know where it came up or how it
Speaker 7: came up. With a Bounty Bowl clip from way back,
Speaker 7: that's the one that I grew up watching, so that
Speaker 7: that's it for me.
Speaker 12: For me, it's it's this one only because of what
Speaker 12: Judy said, like, and I don't players talk about during
Speaker 12: the playoffs, how like everything's faster and hard, And I'm like,
Speaker 12: is that true?
Speaker 2: Probably definitely true for this game. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 2: it on Sundays.
Speaker 1: Sounds like the helicopters coming to get Mike. So we
Speaker 1: gotta go enjoy the game. Everybody, see you