Speaker 1: Thirty boy, it's hot touchdown and a flag is down
Speaker 1: on the far side of the eleven yard line. So
Speaker 1: for the moment, Ronnie Bell gets into the end zone.
Speaker 1: First down and goal now from the eight yard line
Speaker 1: and a big hole and pulling his way is Matt
Speaker 1: Brida for a touchdown. Pressure deep, hot, Samuel hearts out.
Speaker 2: There. It is the big horn at the big Bell bottom.
Speaker 2: As a San Francisco forty nine ers take care of
Speaker 2: business on Thursday Night football. Let the Giants hang around
Speaker 2: a little bit, but ultimately never a game in doubt.
Speaker 2: Thirty to twelve final. San Francisco improves to three and
Speaker 2: zero on the season. The Giants fall to one and two.
Speaker 2: Dan Hans is here along with the great Mark Sessler
Speaker 2: and Mark we knew this was a big challenge for
Speaker 2: the Giants. Best of circumstances, it's not the best of circumstances.
Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley has a high ankle sprain. I thought it
Speaker 2: was an ordinary sprain. Mark, it's a high angel sprain.
Speaker 2: He confirmed it today on Amazon in an interview. So
Speaker 2: he's out this week and beyond that, and he takes
Speaker 2: Saquon out of the mix. And this was just a
Speaker 2: mismatch really from the start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it kind of is set apart for me
Speaker 3: a little bit with some of these Thursday night games
Speaker 3: where you kind of think you know what's gonna happen,
Speaker 3: and then because it's Thursday night, and they talked even
Speaker 3: tonight about the fact that, like you can't even really
Speaker 3: teach your scout team quickly enough what the other team
Speaker 3: might do. It's like it's just it's such a compacted
Speaker 3: practice and a lot of teams don't even have a
Speaker 3: physical practice.
Speaker 4: But still so that.
Speaker 3: Creates this weirdness and Thursday nights where like games go awry,
Speaker 3: they go a little strange.
Speaker 4: But what the more realistic scenario.
Speaker 3: Is, it's like you kind of lean on who you are,
Speaker 3: and I think we just saw these two teams for
Speaker 3: who they were tonight, and one of them is stripped
Speaker 3: of their best player. It's a running back, and so
Speaker 3: your backup Matt Brida comes in and rushes only four
Speaker 3: times for seventeen yards.
Speaker 4: The Giants, who I.
Speaker 3: Think, if anything, they needed to create disturbance and problems
Speaker 3: out of the gate. You don't get Darren Waller a
Speaker 3: catch until I think a minute to go for the
Speaker 3: half and the Niners.
Speaker 4: You know, just did what they did, like if anything win.
Speaker 3: I thought the plan was with Wink Martindale was to
Speaker 3: come out and throw everything at brock Purty and try
Speaker 3: to create chaos and mistakes, and they did. Like there's
Speaker 3: an interesting stat let me bring this up here. It's
Speaker 3: I saw from PFF that they blitzed the forty nine
Speaker 3: ers on eighty three percent of their snaps in the
Speaker 3: first half, which is the fourth highest rate of any
Speaker 3: game of the past five years.
Speaker 4: So there was a plan there.
Speaker 3: There was a concept of like we can still maybe
Speaker 3: take this young quarterback and throw them off. His game
Speaker 3: and party wasn't perfect, but it's like there's too much
Speaker 3: happening with his Niners offense.
Speaker 4: Brandon Ayuku is not in there.
Speaker 3: But it's like they found a way just to make
Speaker 3: enough big plays where I found it to be sort
Speaker 3: of a prosaic, not very memorable game.
Speaker 4: And to be honest with you, this happens to us
Speaker 4: when you're going to.
Speaker 3: Cover every one of these And the Niners sort of
Speaker 3: performed exactly to the standards that I would have expected
Speaker 3: on a lower octane night out at the ballpark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they they were obviously the better team. We knew that,
Speaker 2: and but they it was almost like they didn't put
Speaker 2: the foot on the accelerator throughout the game because they
Speaker 2: knew they didn't need to for the most part. And
Speaker 2: Rock Party, like you said, he wasn't as accurate, and
Speaker 2: he kind of warmed up as the game went along,
Speaker 2: So he had no Brandon Ayuk. The connection with Debo
Speaker 2: is off early on, and yet they were able to.
Speaker 2: You know, when the passing game's not right, you have
Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey there and McCaffrey in an otherwise I guess
Speaker 2: you could call it ho hum game. Another one hundred
Speaker 2: yards from scrimmage, eighty five rushing yards, yet another TD,
Speaker 2: which is pretty remarkable. I think he has a touchdown
Speaker 2: now in twelve consecutive games, which is just amazing. I mean,
Speaker 2: to have that level of consistency, it feels like we've
Speaker 2: I don't want to jinx the men. It feels like
Speaker 2: we're a long way away now from that cursed period
Speaker 2: of his career where you know he couldn't stay on
Speaker 2: the field. He's really become everything San Francisco could have
Speaker 2: could have wanted. And so when you have McCaffrey there
Speaker 2: and you have Debo there, who eventually warmed up and
Speaker 2: he had another great classic debo game. Deebo's one of
Speaker 2: my favorite players in the league. He's so fun to watch.
Speaker 2: He had seventy seven yards after catch in this game,
Speaker 2: and that was before he caught the long touchdown. That
Speaker 2: kind of was the exclamation point on this game, and
Speaker 2: it was also one of my favorite debo things. Mark
Speaker 2: I talked about it during our Fantasy Extravaganza. There's one
Speaker 2: bit of a devil's bargain with Deebo Samuel In fantasy,
Speaker 2: there will be a handful of moments. I don't mean
Speaker 2: just one or two. There's gonna be six or seven
Speaker 2: moments where you're watching a Niners game and Deebo goes
Speaker 2: down on the field and all of a sudden, they
Speaker 2: cut to commercial with the entire medical staff around him,
Speaker 2: and you're thinking to yourself, well, that's I gotta go
Speaker 2: to the waiver wire. This is crushing. My team's ever
Speaker 2: gonna be the same. He misses three plays and then
Speaker 2: he comes back and scores a touchdown. He's been doing
Speaker 2: this his whole career. It's one of my favorite things
Speaker 2: that about him is he's a showman when it comes
Speaker 2: to injuries.
Speaker 4: He really is.
Speaker 3: I thought of you tonight because you're one of the
Speaker 3: people that brought that up and kind of encapsulated it
Speaker 3: in a perfect way.
Speaker 4: Like he's been.
Speaker 3: Doing this like for for years, and like tonight I
Speaker 3: was I was watching this with a couple of kids,
Speaker 3: like with a friend or two, and it was just like, wait,
Speaker 3: Deebo does this all the time. He's like down the
Speaker 3: on the ground like arms spread.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, medical. So you're literally wondering, I mean, is
Speaker 2: he dead, Like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Will we ever see him again in this capacity or
Speaker 3: will they be wheeled out to old age events? And
Speaker 3: then like two plays later, he's like walking around like
Speaker 3: this with his like shoulder pads bouncing around. It's like
Speaker 3: he knows what he's doing. He's uh, I love him
Speaker 3: for this, Like I think he's enjoyable. And it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, I look at this team. It's like I
Speaker 3: think we both can say like we've seen.
Speaker 4: The Niners when they're operating at.
Speaker 3: A feverish pace and they're just like hand around the
Speaker 3: neck of the opponent and the opponent is dying slowly,
Speaker 3: like this was not that game, and it said they
Speaker 3: still had fourteen first downs to New York's five, and
Speaker 3: had the half two hundred and forty four yards by
Speaker 3: the break. One plays to twenty four twenty minutes of possession,
Speaker 3: seven of ten for third down, which is like a
Speaker 3: third down is a weird stat but like, when you're
Speaker 3: seven for ten, you're about as efficient as you can
Speaker 3: possibly be. And the Giants had twelve yards rushing, and
Speaker 3: then you're asking Daniel Jones, who we don't totally believe in,
Speaker 3: to save the day with a bunch of wide receivers
Speaker 3: we don't totally believe in, and Darren Waller's not involved. Earling,
Speaker 3: It's like you can just see it on Brian Daball's face. Man,
Speaker 3: he like, I love day Ball, but like he was
Speaker 3: so frustrated. And it's like their schedule has been tough.
Speaker 3: They've been in a tough spot to begin with, and
Speaker 3: this just exacerbated it.
Speaker 4: But the Niners have played.
Speaker 3: Like a a gentleman's sea game and dominated statistically in
Speaker 3: the first half against another NFL team.
Speaker 2: I think he tells you a lot about both teams,
Speaker 2: and even with saquon, the Giants are a tier or
Speaker 2: even two beneath the San Francisco who they're so good
Speaker 2: mark that, like when you see that they drafted Jake Moody,
Speaker 2: which was a total the type of draft pick of
Speaker 2: team makes when they are so full of themselves about
Speaker 2: their roster. We'll go take on day two, We'll go
Speaker 2: grab a kicker because that's the only real glaring hole
Speaker 2: we have left. Even though the previous kicker, Robbie Gould,
Speaker 2: was one of the best veterans in the league. And
Speaker 2: now that guy has started nine for nine Moody as
Speaker 2: a rookie, so he's not Roberto Oguyo. And you know,
Speaker 2: it's almost like they have a big time player at
Speaker 2: almost every position, certainly the glamour positions. And I andnderstand
Speaker 2: Purdy were not ready to put him in the Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame, but he's a very, very good fit for
Speaker 2: this offense. But they have a superstar left tackle. They
Speaker 2: have at least one superstar wide receiver and maybe two.
Speaker 2: They have the best all round running back in the league.
Speaker 2: They have one of the best edge rushers in the league.
Speaker 2: They have one of the best linebackers in the league
Speaker 2: and Fred Warner. They have big they have depth in
Speaker 2: the secondary. They have everything that you could want on
Speaker 2: a team, and anything short of a super Bowl this
Speaker 2: season is considered failure for this organization, which there's pressure there.
Speaker 2: So I think games like this when they don't even
Speaker 2: seem to be playing that well and they still take
Speaker 2: care of business, that's what really good teams do, and
Speaker 2: kind of swing it back to the Giants because you've
Speaker 2: mentioned his name twice, Mark, I am not into this
Speaker 2: Darren Waller situation with the Giants. I like that Kirk
Speaker 2: Herbstreet was kind of calling Waller out. I don't think
Speaker 2: Waller's effort level was where it needed to be near
Speaker 2: the end of his Raiders time really maybe coincidentally when
Speaker 2: he got a huge contract and Herbstreet all but called
Speaker 2: the guy out for not trying hard in this game.
Speaker 2: And it is a bad sign when Darren Waller is
Speaker 2: not coming down with contested catches. When the Giants one
Speaker 2: of their biggest glaring deficiency is they don't have a
Speaker 2: true number one wide receiver, and that's something I think
Speaker 2: you're gonna see them address aggressively in the upcoming offseason,
Speaker 2: whether it's going after a guy like T Higgins or
Speaker 2: through the draft they because that is a big hole
Speaker 2: in this roster. Ostensibly, Darren Waller Mark was supposed to
Speaker 2: be this guy that filled that hole and was a
Speaker 2: red zone monster. I'm just not seeing it through three weeks,
Speaker 2: and I don't know, like Herbstreet, if this guy is
Speaker 2: really giving everything he can to this offense when they
Speaker 2: need him so badly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought that criticism.
Speaker 3: I kind of liked that from an announcer to begin with,
Speaker 3: a lot of these guys shy away from that. You're
Speaker 3: down your number one running back, your best player on offense,
Speaker 3: like you said, you don't You've got some you got
Speaker 3: Jalen Hie, you got some young interesting guys in wide out.
Speaker 3: But this should have been the Darren Waller game. Now,
Speaker 3: I don't think that would have made the entire difference
Speaker 3: had he even played one of his better games against
Speaker 3: this team. But like it's a combination of like the
Speaker 3: Giants not finding a way to get on the ball early,
Speaker 3: and that could be a Daniel Jones thing. Like I said,
Speaker 3: you didn't have a catch till right before half. You
Speaker 3: can question the effort. It's hard for me to gauge that,
Speaker 3: like as a viewer necessarily, but I would say that
Speaker 3: like the plan for him seems not totally on point
Speaker 3: on any level, and like the Giants.
Speaker 2: Just looks so different than the guy in the Raiders
Speaker 2: three or four years ago. Now, yeah, and the guy
Speaker 2: we've seen remember to get you knew that. The one
Speaker 2: thing it was a good trade at the time, but
Speaker 2: the one thing that smelled funny was why do how
Speaker 2: do the Raiders make him? I think he might have
Speaker 2: been the highest paid tight end in the league when
Speaker 2: they gave him the contractor close to it, and then
Speaker 2: one year later dump him for a Day two pick,
Speaker 2: and like, you just wonder if there's more to it,
Speaker 2: and they did. There was a shot to Brian Dable
Speaker 2: after the ball that kramed off his hands for the
Speaker 2: interception that kind of was the end to end of
Speaker 2: the game where you could tell Dables' faces like come on, bro, yeah,
Speaker 2: you got to help me out here. And so it's this.
Speaker 2: They didn't lose because of Darren Waller tonight, but I
Speaker 2: think they have an issue like it. Daniel Jones is
Speaker 2: not maybe a star, but I don't know if he has,
Speaker 2: especially with that barklay. There a lot at his disposal
Speaker 2: to really put together consistent production week after week, not
Speaker 2: let him off the hook. But unless you know people
Speaker 2: are higher on Waller, I get it. Then it's there
Speaker 2: when Barkley comes back. But I think there are a
Speaker 2: couple of guys away on that offense.
Speaker 3: I'm with you, and I think like you have your
Speaker 3: Graybeard's roster that you create the final like elderly unsigned,
Speaker 3: previously star free agents, and I think there should be
Speaker 3: another roster where it's like Kenny Pickett would be the quarterback,
Speaker 3: Darren Waller would be the tight end. Where it's like
Speaker 3: we spend a month plus or two or three months
Speaker 3: hearing about how glowing you know it was Michael, it
Speaker 3: was Robinson, Alan Robinson a year ago, like these guys
Speaker 3: that get the five or six weeks of like insane
Speaker 3: beat writer praise in print and inc. And then the
Speaker 3: season happens and it's like, wait, Kenny Pickett doesn't look
Speaker 3: good and Darren Waller is not fitting in so well
Speaker 3: in this offense, and it's Mark, are.
Speaker 2: You pitching a really good Wednesday podcast segment right now?
Speaker 2: Maybe stand pin in it. I know what you're saying, though,
Speaker 2: got hype bunnies from the summer who now are getting
Speaker 2: you know, we're heading into week three. We got to
Speaker 2: start to see some of that anything else kind of
Speaker 2: jump out to you. I'll throw a couple of things
Speaker 2: out there. You mentioned third down efficiency. I love that
Speaker 2: stat because it tells you a lot. I think about
Speaker 2: both the offense and the opposing defense. Gents could not
Speaker 2: get off the field on this game. Maybe it's a
Speaker 2: different game if they do get off the field. A
Speaker 2: couple times in this game. I mentioned that I think
Speaker 2: a lack of a wide receiver one is glaring. They
Speaker 2: have a bright spot on that defense. And Mike McFadden,
Speaker 2: who was all over the field in this game and
Speaker 2: had a great in addition to every time they needed
Speaker 2: a you know, a big hit, he seemed to be there.
Speaker 2: He knocked away a touchdown to Christian McCaffrey, which means,
Speaker 2: you know, he's in coverage down field swatting a ball
Speaker 2: out of McCaffrey's hands, and nobody does that. So they
Speaker 2: have a player in McFadden. So it wasn't all bad
Speaker 2: for the Giants, and in general, Mark like based on
Speaker 2: when you look at their first three weeks, it's been
Speaker 2: a little topsy turvy. But they hung in this game
Speaker 2: for about three quarters and you could give them a
Speaker 2: little bit of credit for that, even if the Niners
Speaker 2: maybe didn't perform at their typical levels.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean so, like compared to the last two
Speaker 3: games where the Giants did this like multiple personality scenario
Speaker 3: situation last week against Arizona, They're outscored sixty three to
Speaker 3: six in the first half this season through tonight. That's messy,
Speaker 3: and but they were not a disaster out of the gate.
Speaker 3: I think we're seeing a more stabilized version. But the
Speaker 3: stabilized version is going to win about six or seven
Speaker 3: games the team that I'm seeing right now. So I
Speaker 3: think if you're a Giants fin, you're disappointed because like
Speaker 3: you'd like to build off of what happened last year,
Speaker 3: and you'd like to have all the people that giggled
Speaker 3: at you saying like, well we were wrong, like they
Speaker 3: actually were that team and they can consistently build off
Speaker 3: of that. I don't love the idea that someone like
Speaker 3: Adore Jackson gets hurt tonight. It's like they're losing their
Speaker 3: best players and they and they're in the player that's
Speaker 3: paid the most, Daniel Jones.
Speaker 4: Is half baked. It's like, uh, I want to ask
Speaker 4: you this.
Speaker 3: Because I went and looked at Nick Schuk is doing
Speaker 3: QB Index doing a great job. I read the whole
Speaker 3: thing two weeks in a row, and like he's a
Speaker 3: great writer and like he's got a good eye for this.
Speaker 4: But like he is Party at number eight in his list.
Speaker 3: That's a that's before tonight, But that, like that is
Speaker 3: intriguing to me. I think that's like I kept trying
Speaker 3: to inflate him last year and it was like people
Speaker 3: are killing me, but it was like I just liked,
Speaker 3: I like what I see from Party. But like Daniel
Speaker 3: Jones down at number twenty one, and like I don't
Speaker 3: have a problem with that either, Like it's like that's
Speaker 3: who he is.
Speaker 4: Like they they paid the guy they had and there
Speaker 4: was no other options.
Speaker 3: But like Daniel Jones outside of the two quarters against
Speaker 3: the Cardinals is not getting done this year and it's
Speaker 3: like he's not their answer next year.
Speaker 4: I like, you're stuck with him financially.
Speaker 2: But like, wow, you're down on him.
Speaker 3: Huh Well, so like I know, so I think number
Speaker 3: one is floor is high because he can run really
Speaker 3: well and like when you win everything around him, like
Speaker 3: last year it seemed like for the first time in
Speaker 3: his career and why I do. I do like the
Speaker 3: idea of him, Like everything around him kind of works.
Speaker 3: Saquon was healthy, Like how many injuries did they deal
Speaker 3: with in the years before? With Saquon and all the
Speaker 3: wide outs, It's like, finally they got it. Daniel Jones
Speaker 3: put it together. He had a couple of games where
Speaker 3: it's like, I mean, I don't like I like his arm,
Speaker 3: talent and all the other business, but it's like, this
Speaker 3: is just a guy that's going to be here until
Speaker 3: the next New York Giants quarterback, like two seasons from now,
Speaker 3: ur a year from now.
Speaker 4: It's like, what evidence do we have right now that
Speaker 4: he's their dude? Beyond like this.
Speaker 2: Year next I would say, uh, we disagree on this.
Speaker 2: I think he really did did take a big step
Speaker 2: forward last season, and this year has been I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's really hard. The Cowboys game in Week one
Speaker 2: was what it was. It was, it was grim, They
Speaker 2: got blown out by a much better team, bad weather game.
Speaker 2: He was phenomenal in that comeback win over the Cardinals
Speaker 2: last week and you could say it's the Cardinals, but whatever,
Speaker 2: he was a big time in that game and this game,
Speaker 2: like I'm pointing to it I'm pointing to he's missing
Speaker 2: his best player. The offensive line didn't keep him clean,
Speaker 2: he didn't have a running game, Darren Waller can't do
Speaker 2: a damn thing, and they don't have like enough weapons
Speaker 2: for him to go to. So I just don't think
Speaker 2: he's the problem right now for the Giants. I think
Speaker 2: the schedule is a big problem for the Giants. I
Speaker 2: think starting with the Cowboys in Week one and then
Speaker 2: getting the Niners on a short week on the road
Speaker 2: in Week three is their biggest problem because they're not
Speaker 2: an elite team and they're gonna be exposed in these
Speaker 2: type of situations. That's that's where.
Speaker 3: I no, I hear you, and I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: be too like down on Daniel Jones, but I just
Speaker 3: think there's like if we've watched you and I have
Speaker 3: probably watched probably like four hundred quarterbacks in our lives,
Speaker 3: right Like there's these tiers, and like Daniel Jones to
Speaker 3: me is in the tier of like great athlete, great
Speaker 3: not maybe not great quarterback, but I see it as
Speaker 3: an athlete. I see like the physical specimen and what
Speaker 3: it can do. Everything needs to be right around him.
Speaker 3: I think we've watched quarterbacks where it's like you're watching
Speaker 3: like four apocalypses occur around them and they're somehow still
Speaker 3: surviving the storm.
Speaker 4: Like I just don't see him that way.
Speaker 3: Like it's not that I'm down on him, it's just
Speaker 3: like they got to manage him and deal with what
Speaker 3: they have, and like the pieces around him are not
Speaker 3: living up. They're hurt or they're not living up to
Speaker 3: the billion and it's like that'll put any quarterback in
Speaker 3: a tough situation. But like Daniel Jones isn't the first
Speaker 3: guy I trust to like save them, Like I mean,
Speaker 3: he'll go.
Speaker 4: He's spurts. He spurts.
Speaker 3: Like the second half against Arizona, which is the game
Speaker 3: I tracked last week in the office, was like, you see,
Speaker 3: this is the last year's Giants team. But then you
Speaker 3: lose Saquon and then suddenly everything else falls around a
Speaker 3: part of around on you, and the Giants are gonna
Speaker 3: win six or seven games. And it's not Brian Dables' fault.
Speaker 3: It's like he's not doing a lesser coaching job. I
Speaker 3: don't like the Dallas game, but like it's not a
Speaker 3: lesser coaching job. It's just like a lot of stuff
Speaker 3: a lot of crap is happening, a lot of nonsense
Speaker 3: and bs is unfolding around you left and right, fog
Speaker 3: a war, and you got to fight through it.
Speaker 2: I'll just say different types of players. But a lot
Speaker 2: of people felt that way about his predecessor as well.
Speaker 2: And now he's well, I would sell fame with two rings,
Speaker 2: So he's not what I guess what I'm saying Mark
Speaker 2: is like. There are quarterbacks that are high level, big times,
Speaker 2: you know, star quarterbacks that can lift a team up
Speaker 2: and take them higher if you just give him a
Speaker 2: nice setup. Then there are quarterbacks that are solid guys
Speaker 2: that like a Kirk Cousin tier Kirk Cousins tier, and
Speaker 2: I think Daniel Jones is in that tier where if
Speaker 2: you surround him with the right team, watch out, like
Speaker 2: that team could make some noise. Actually, if you get
Speaker 2: to the playoffs, I'll like a Joe Flacco who's that
Speaker 2: type of guy too. You put him with the right team,
Speaker 2: you get to January, and some magical things happen. Eli
Speaker 2: Manning another example. He could actually end up going on
Speaker 2: a running and look elite for a month and and
Speaker 2: and you know, flags fly forever. So I think That's
Speaker 2: where the giants probably see Jones. I don't think they
Speaker 2: see him as Patrick Mahomes, but they see him as
Speaker 2: a guy that like we could put him in here,
Speaker 2: and if we surround him with talent, he's gonna thrive it.
Speaker 2: That's where I'm at on him.
Speaker 3: I know I'm with you, and like I don't want
Speaker 3: to like I don't want to exit this uh and
Speaker 3: or not like I don't want to exit the conversation
Speaker 3: with me as like suddenly I'm anti Eli manning to
Speaker 3: like like I love Elion, like uh, you know, like I'm.
Speaker 4: A pro giant, I'm prone to be pro giants.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm a little surprised by how down down
Speaker 2: you are on mister Dimes right now.
Speaker 4: I just I don't. I just I feel like we've
Speaker 4: got a large enough.
Speaker 2: Tough spot to Markie. That's a tough spot for Danny.
Speaker 4: I like you whatever, It's fine. Well we'll see.
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not desurbed. Like I don't determine his faith.
Speaker 3: He will determine his faith, so will fate.
Speaker 4: Fate will determine his faith.
Speaker 2: So well. Put you know who doesn't care about anything,
Speaker 2: including fate. This is another reoccurring theme that I forgot about.
Speaker 2: Al Michaels is in the Golden Years, and Al is
Speaker 2: now on Amazon, and he's like, I don't even know
Speaker 2: if Al knows what Amazon is. But Al's on Amazon
Speaker 2: and he's getting paid a lot of money to be
Speaker 2: the voice of Amazon. But Al at this stage and
Speaker 2: God bless him, and I hope I'm the same way.
Speaker 2: He suffers no fools and he does not care to
Speaker 2: tow any company line. So with that said, I want
Speaker 2: to show my favorite moment from the broadcast where they
Speaker 2: came back from break and as they'd been doing all night.
Speaker 2: And Mark, we've talked about this when we covered the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl fifty. How long is that bus ride from
Speaker 2: the downtown San Francisco hotel we were at to get
Speaker 2: up to the Big Bell Bottom.
Speaker 4: I don't know what I mean.
Speaker 3: I feel like I like I we celebrated a number
Speaker 3: of birthday is.
Speaker 2: On the right, so I think we changed time zones. Anyway,
Speaker 2: it's long. It's like an hour thereby San Jose and
Speaker 2: Al is sick of seeing the Golden Gate Bridge. He's
Speaker 2: sick of showing the seals you know on the on
Speaker 2: the Watchman call it the pier. Let's listen to Al
Speaker 2: keep it real, because he doesn't care if Amazon is
Speaker 2: happy about this or not.
Speaker 1: I mean, San Francisco, it's beautiful. We got somebody's seen it.
Speaker 2: Now. We'd like to bring aeriels from nearby here.
Speaker 1: But what are we supposed to do the salt evaporator
Speaker 1: flash Shantos Airport?
Speaker 2: Now, where was the stick here from that?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: I know you, yeah right?
Speaker 2: How far was candlestick from from here?
Speaker 1: Forty miles San Francisco?
Speaker 2: Yeah right? The producers in his ear like, Al, come on, man,
Speaker 2: oh my god, what did he say? What did he
Speaker 2: say was up there? What are we supposed to get
Speaker 2: aerial shots of? What did he say?
Speaker 4: Like the salt flats or something like that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little a little world weary.
Speaker 2: I love Uncle Al. Yes, yeah. And also he doesn't
Speaker 2: have the he doesn't have the red the red hair anymore.
Speaker 2: I like, he's just he's going all the way in
Speaker 2: and this is who I am, this is where I'm at,
Speaker 2: and God bless him. Anything else from the game. We
Speaker 2: have a couple of NFL news things to hit before
Speaker 2: we say goodbye, But anything else from the game, mark No,
Speaker 2: I think we.
Speaker 3: Can I think we're I think we've said as much
Speaker 3: as it's needed to be said about that contest that
Speaker 3: I quickly forget.
Speaker 4: It evaporates from the mental mind.
Speaker 2: And the Giants host Seattle next week, and then their
Speaker 2: schedule is really brutal after that. So they need to
Speaker 2: find a way to get past Seattle and get back
Speaker 2: to two and two. And if they get to two
Speaker 2: and two, they're in good position. The Niners have a
Speaker 2: layup next week. Well, everybody thinks they have a layup
Speaker 2: against the Cardinals. So so far it's been more like
Speaker 2: backing down in the paint and then you know, muscling
Speaker 2: it up and getting it to go down eventually, but
Speaker 2: it's not a layup. But they get the cards next
Speaker 2: week and then mark Cowboys Niners on Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 2: Everybody stay healthy. Well that we were already past that point.
Speaker 4: I'm really surprised they put that in prime time. I
Speaker 4: don't know what they.
Speaker 2: Were because the Cowboys aren't going to be healthy when
Speaker 2: that game comes. They won't have everyone because star cornerback
Speaker 2: Trayvon Diggs suffered a torn acl in his left knee
Speaker 2: during Thursday's practice. He suffered the injury during a one
Speaker 2: on one period in practice, briefly spotted inside the team facility,
Speaker 2: according to ESPN's Todd Archer, on crutches before undergoing an MRI,
Speaker 2: which quickly revealed the tear just a huge loss for
Speaker 2: the Cowboys, mark they through two weeks. They they put
Speaker 2: it on both New York teams, the Giants and Jets
Speaker 2: had no answers for that defense. And Micah Parsons gets
Speaker 2: obviously much of the pub as the new lt But
Speaker 2: but Diggs, there's a reason he got a massive contract extension.
Speaker 2: He is kind of the heartbeat of that secondary and
Speaker 2: the playmaker that secondary, and moving on without him will
Speaker 2: not be easy.
Speaker 4: It's terrible loss. Like I feel like if you're the Cowboys, you're.
Speaker 3: In this arms race with teams like the Niners and
Speaker 3: the Eagles, where it's like you can't be the next
Speaker 3: team losing these star players, and it's like, but I don't,
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 4: This happens left and right.
Speaker 3: I think the one thing about him is like I
Speaker 3: think we understand he's not one of the greatest coverage
Speaker 3: guys of all time.
Speaker 4: He's hot and cold on his rankings for that.
Speaker 3: But ball hawk wise and what he does to infuse
Speaker 3: the defense and generate turnovers is wild.
Speaker 4: And they also lost Tyler but dazz their center.
Speaker 3: I believe I'm saying this last night, like he he
Speaker 3: had a hamsterring injury and it's.
Speaker 2: Like he'll be okay, though that doesn't seem like a
Speaker 2: serious issue.
Speaker 4: I hope. So, I mean, like that's like you, like you,
Speaker 4: just you.
Speaker 3: It feels almost like you're taking a silent bullet to
Speaker 3: the head when you're losing guys in practice. If you
Speaker 3: lose them in a game, and we all understand why,
Speaker 3: you know, he's in the keta battle, but like you're
Speaker 3: losing them in practice, it's just like.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's brutal, and you're happy that Diggs from a
Speaker 2: person standpoint, he got that payday before this injury happened,
Speaker 2: and that included forty two million and guaranteed money. Good
Speaker 2: for him that he got paid before this terrible setback,
Speaker 2: and he'll come back strong, I'm sure next year. But
Speaker 2: he had gotten off to a great start. According to
Speaker 2: next Gen stats, he had allowed just three catches for
Speaker 2: thirty one yards on eight targets as the nearest defender
Speaker 2: and coverage this year, quarterbacks had a pass rating less
Speaker 2: than ten on throws coming his way. He also forced
Speaker 2: the fumble, intercepted a pass, three pass breakups, six tackles.
Speaker 2: These are all that's a playmaker at cornerback, and you
Speaker 2: take him out of the mix, they are not going
Speaker 2: to be the same back there. They have Deron Bland
Speaker 2: who had a pick six, I believe in week one,
Speaker 2: So you're gonna he's probably gonna maybe slide over and
Speaker 2: be that guy, but you're gonna miss him. They're just
Speaker 2: they're not as good now without digs. And that's the
Speaker 2: brutal part of the sport, yep.
Speaker 3: And like I think the thing you believe in and
Speaker 3: them like even like no matter what, Like their offense
Speaker 3: is spicy, but like it's their defense that's like truly
Speaker 3: special and somehow carried over from last year to this
Speaker 3: year is like a top three, top four defense, And
Speaker 3: like you start taking these guys away and they can't
Speaker 3: do the same thing. Like when you lose your secondary,
Speaker 3: it's like your pass rush is affected. Everything's affected. So
Speaker 3: the Cowboys like they stay healthy. It's like we talked
Speaker 3: about it all day to day. It's like they could
Speaker 3: be that team that we're talking about for two weeks
Speaker 3: prior to the Super Bowl. You lose four or five
Speaker 3: guys and it's like someone else creeps in there.
Speaker 2: Tough one, tough one, all right. Circling back to the game.
Speaker 2: By the way, Mark, I know our front Keveon Thibodeau,
Speaker 2: he did, he has another tackle a he got a sack.
Speaker 2: It was a coverage sack early in the game. He
Speaker 2: did the robot after he got the coverage sack. That
Speaker 2: was it for Kvon in the game. So we're still
Speaker 2: waiting for Kavon to make a big impact for the Giants,
Speaker 2: the former first round pick. And I'm not saying I
Speaker 2: or we are rooting against Cavon, but the man spoke
Speaker 2: a pretty large game this summer and a little bit
Speaker 2: quiet tonight.
Speaker 4: I in general don't know why anyone.
Speaker 3: I think if you're on the Giants and you're a
Speaker 3: professional football player and you can get an idea of
Speaker 3: how the game is shaping up, the idea, the concept
Speaker 3: that you would spend a number of seconds or minutes
Speaker 3: doing the robot feels atypical with like the actual situation,
Speaker 3: Like let's get an idea where we are.
Speaker 4: This isn't all about you.
Speaker 3: We're not in a narcissistic landscape, like the team is struggling,
Speaker 3: you've had a tougherly start of the year, like the
Speaker 3: over celebratory robot thing.
Speaker 4: Uh, I don't know. I don't need it. I don't
Speaker 4: need it.
Speaker 2: Would you say a narcissistic landscape.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like, well no, I mean look at look
Speaker 4: at like I.
Speaker 2: Think that's exactly where we are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would like I.
Speaker 3: Would aim to like repair our relationship with him, if
Speaker 3: that's even needed. I don't think he even remembers that
Speaker 3: he was with us. But it's like I'm not looking
Speaker 3: to inflame it or exacerbate it. But I would just say, like, hey, work,
Speaker 3: work with my sensibilities a little bit as an observer
Speaker 3: of the game, like you're you're walking around doing robotic things,
Speaker 3: like because the giants are down, like you know you're
Speaker 3: gonna get flamed.
Speaker 4: We know you're gonna give up thirty points, you got
Speaker 4: to tackle? Is this all about you? That's the narcissism,
Speaker 4: That's that's the landscape I'm discussing.
Speaker 2: Finally, the game that we watched today, Mark is a
Speaker 2: certain type of football game. It's it's the Swingers game.
Speaker 2: It's it's remember in Swingers when Nicki played by John Farvara.
Speaker 2: He he didn't have confidence. He's and he's a bear,
Speaker 2: but he just didn't know how to use the clause
Speaker 2: and he needed his buddies Sue and double Down Trent
Speaker 2: to help show him the ways. I thought about that today.
Speaker 2: Let's let's listen it.
Speaker 5: But you are like a big beer with claws, with fangs, teeth, man,
Speaker 5: fucking teeth on you. She's just like this little bunny
Speaker 5: who's just kind of countering in the corner shivery. Yeah, man,
Speaker 5: just kind of you know, you got these claws and
Speaker 5: you're steering at these claws, man, and you're thinking to yourself.
Speaker 5: With these claws, you're thinking about how am I supposed
Speaker 5: to kill this bunny and supposed to your funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not hurting it.
Speaker 5: You're just kind of gently batting the bunny around, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean. And the bunny scared, like the
Speaker 5: bunny scared of you, and you got yours and these fangs. Man,
Speaker 5: you're looking at your claws and you're looking at your fans,
Speaker 5: and you're thinking to yourself, I don't know what to do, man,
Speaker 5: I don't know how to kill the bunny with this.
Speaker 5: You don't know how to kill the bunny, do you
Speaker 5: know what I.
Speaker 4: Mean, You're like a big bear.
Speaker 2: Man, You're like a big bear forty nine ers. Take
Speaker 2: the claws out and your big fangs and you just
Speaker 2: sink into that little bunny, which eventually they did. But
Speaker 2: that was the classic Swingers game, the big angry bear
Speaker 2: for some reason, just just batting around the bunny, Like
Speaker 2: what are we doing here, Let's just just kill the
Speaker 2: bunny and let's all move on with our life. The
Speaker 2: Swingers game.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: And at the end of that film when they're in
Speaker 3: the diner and you know, he's just shouting, I would
Speaker 3: never eat here, and like uh like the you know,
Speaker 3: there's an incredible diatribe against many backpacks that were a
Speaker 3: big problem for us, you and I back in the day.
Speaker 4: The girls walking around with a mini backpacks. We don't
Speaker 4: have to deal with that now so much. That's good.
Speaker 2: I don't really know what you're talking about with the.
Speaker 3: Little well, no, like like they are, you know, like
Speaker 3: in the beginning of the film and he's going on
Speaker 3: is insane, like you know, he's on the phone in
Speaker 3: his apartment. That any like I would say in the
Speaker 3: late nineties early two thousand window, there was a period
Speaker 3: where like a lot of like city girls or girls
Speaker 3: in general were like walking around with like bedazzled like
Speaker 3: backpacks that were about like six inches by six inches.
Speaker 4: And I don't know what. I don't know what they
Speaker 4: were keeping in these backpacks.
Speaker 3: I don't know, nobody knows, but like, but it's like,
Speaker 3: but they were wearing them, and they're wearing them with dresses,
Speaker 3: and it's like, why are It's like eleven at night
Speaker 3: and you're walking around with a backpack. And so it's
Speaker 3: mentioned in the film, and I agreed with the point.
Speaker 4: I love the film for many reasons.
Speaker 2: So all right, the film is Swingers nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 2: a breakthrough in the indie movement of the nineties. So
Speaker 2: please check it out if you have. That's our film
Speaker 2: recommendation for the night coming up on the In the
Speaker 2: Around the NFL universe, we have a Thursday Around the
Speaker 2: NFL NFL Plus joint with Colleen Wolfe serving as the
Speaker 2: psychiatrist too tortured fans of around the NFL. That's fun.
Speaker 2: And then Sunday night, of course you have the preview
Speaker 2: the week three previews out there already, and then Sunday,
Speaker 2: we'll be back with the flagship show, and I think
Speaker 2: that's everything. Mark Niners roll in anything short of the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl in Vegas work failure. This team is locked
Speaker 2: and loaded. Let's see how far are they heat The
Speaker 2: call
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