Speaker 1: Another episode here on tape beds as we take a
Speaker 1: look at the upcoming Super Bowl matchup between the Rams
Speaker 1: and the Bengals. And on Tuesday Bobo Shoes and longtime
Speaker 1: radio voice the Jets Standardlovski You see and all the
Speaker 1: Time is our NFL tape breakdown expert on ESPN, longtime
Speaker 1: NFL quarterback, it's Scott the Onlie of course, a long
Speaker 1: time NFL general manager. We spent Tuesday talking about when
Speaker 1: the Bengals have the ball, what will the Rams do?
Speaker 1: How will they attack Joe Burrow? And it's a great
Speaker 1: chess match back and forth on that side. Today we
Speaker 1: flipped the chess pieces around and we talked about Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: this Rams offense and a Bengals defense that probably hasn't
Speaker 1: gotten the headlines this season that maybe they deserve because
Speaker 1: of the terrific year that Joe Burrow and Jamaar Chase
Speaker 1: and all the weapons for the Bengals have had, but
Speaker 1: they have been impactful so far in this postseason. They've
Speaker 1: got a couple of pass rushers on the edge that
Speaker 1: have gotten to the quarterback and have made noise and guys,
Speaker 1: maybe that's where we start this game. Always seems to
Speaker 1: be ultimately decided in the trenches. This is a much
Speaker 1: different offensive line in front of Matthew Stafford than Burrow
Speaker 1: has in front of him. Now he might be facing
Speaker 1: a different kind of pass rush, different kind of scheme
Speaker 1: strategy from the Bengals this week as well. So, Scott,
Speaker 1: do you, when you look at this game see this
Speaker 1: as a blitz game for the Bengals? Is this just
Speaker 1: a we're gonna trust Hubbard and Hendrickson to get home,
Speaker 1: We're gonna rush for what? What do you think, at
Speaker 1: least at the start that we're gonna see schematically pass
Speaker 1: rush wise from the Rams are from the Bengals against
Speaker 1: this Rams offense. I think it's gonna start out pretty vanilla,
Speaker 1: quite honestly, because you know lu Lu Ram rumo Um,
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator is really he's a little bit reactionary.
Speaker 1: And I say that in the most respectful of ways.
Speaker 1: As we watch the Bengals defense this season, what they
Speaker 1: do an incredible job of is reacting and responding to
Speaker 1: the game plan that the offense has. And I think
Speaker 1: what Lou does sometimes is he says, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get the temperature, see what's going on, I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: some basic stuff, but then once I get a beat
Speaker 1: on what they're going to do offensively, then I am
Speaker 1: going to react. So truly, I've been fascinated watching him
Speaker 1: this year. We saw even you know, last in the
Speaker 1: a f C Championship game, the Bengals come out, they're
Speaker 1: they're letting up a bunch in the first half, and
Speaker 1: second half they shut them down as the game every
Speaker 1: time this season are certainly in the second half of
Speaker 1: the season, it seems like Lou does something and he
Speaker 1: gets an idea. It's similar but different to working with
Speaker 1: Romeo Cornell Bill Belichick. They get a beat on what
Speaker 1: the offense is doing and then they react and respond
Speaker 1: and play defense based on what the offense is doing.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what we're gonna see because right now,
Speaker 1: when you look at this offense and the number of
Speaker 1: weapons that they have offensively, starting with the trigger man,
Speaker 1: I mean, Matthew just keeps getting better. The more comfortable
Speaker 1: he gets with O'Dell, the more I mean, he's clearly
Speaker 1: comfortable with Cooper Cup. Now they've got Sony Michelle and
Speaker 1: cam Akers. To me, I think that loose sits back
Speaker 1: and again when I say sits back. I don't think passively,
Speaker 1: but I think he gets a line on what they're
Speaker 1: doing and then reacts to it. I agree. I think
Speaker 1: it's a rolodex. That's what we used to call it.
Speaker 1: You just get a rolodex of calls, you know. And
Speaker 1: that's the challenge for Sean McVeigh in this offense. So
Speaker 1: this is probably the most fascinating part of this football
Speaker 1: game for me. So let's go back a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh goes into the Super Bowl against the the
Speaker 1: Newing the Patriots. Their offense is on goodly and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Patriots go, this is what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do, and you don't know it, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: give you something that you're not ready for. And Sean
Speaker 1: just couldn't adjust. And then they went in the first half,
Speaker 1: they played one coverage, in the second half, they majored
Speaker 1: in another coverage and Sean couldn't adjust. That's very much
Speaker 1: so Whulu in a rumo, the defensive Cornya for the
Speaker 1: Bengals that Scott talked about has become it's so game
Speaker 1: plan specific, and then it's so within the game specific.
Speaker 1: Now this isn't working, or this is what they're doing,
Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna go to, and it's he
Speaker 1: quickly makes changes, not know only not only of what
Speaker 1: they can't do anymore, but what they should do to
Speaker 1: attack offenses. And I think that's the challenge for Sean
Speaker 1: is how ready is he going to be for things
Speaker 1: that he's not ready for and how quickly he can
Speaker 1: adjust into the things that they need to get to.
Speaker 1: And so when you do that defensively, what it forces
Speaker 1: us offensive people to do is guess rather than predict.
Speaker 1: And that's the worst place for us to be. It's
Speaker 1: third and six. I got no stinking clue but what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do? Do I need to go coverage? Do
Speaker 1: I needed to go concept? Do I need to go
Speaker 1: middlefield open? Do I need to go middle field closed?
Speaker 1: Do I need to get crossers doing? And that's the challenge, candidly,
Speaker 1: and I think that you know, specifically, Bob, I, I
Speaker 1: do not think they are going to pressure. I think
Speaker 1: if you pressure, goodnight, Irene, because it's you don't you
Speaker 1: don't blitz this quarterback, you don't blitz this offense. It's
Speaker 1: bad bad news. I think this the second really interesting
Speaker 1: part of this matchup is Cooper Cup versus Mike Hilton.
Speaker 1: You know Cooper Cup in the playoffs, guys, twenty five
Speaker 1: catches for yards and four touchdowns. Okay, that's on thirty
Speaker 1: three targets. He's playing in the slot predominantly. Mike Hilton,
Speaker 1: the nickel corner for Cincinnati, has given up three catches
Speaker 1: this postseason. We're talking good on good dog on dog,
Speaker 1: who wins that matchup. So I think you trust your
Speaker 1: coverage guys. That the way that they've started to use
Speaker 1: Sam Hubbard as an off the ball player is fascinating,
Speaker 1: and that different places they're moving him around is giving
Speaker 1: those simulations and creating matchups for that. And I'd say this,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford will have to have his best game of
Speaker 1: the season when it comes to ball placement. The Bankers
Speaker 1: are gonna play man coverage. Now. Their man coverage is
Speaker 1: positioned really well and they play with the great leverage
Speaker 1: and they dropped down guys from you know, you're constantly
Speaker 1: making the quarterback think mentally. But his ball placement versus
Speaker 1: where that sticky coverage is gonna be is is gonna
Speaker 1: be a big part. Yeah, you know, the other thing
Speaker 1: I think that I could see the Rams doing at
Speaker 1: some point in time. And this is just instincts because
Speaker 1: of the personalities of the folks involved in in the
Speaker 1: Rams offense. They are going to target Eli Apple and
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to do something to get him because
Speaker 1: they know he can be gotten. We talked about matchups though,
Speaker 1: and kind of back to Hilton Cooper cup, is that
Speaker 1: a follow? Like? Is that just to follow the entire
Speaker 1: game the same way we talked about Jalen Ramsey and
Speaker 1: Jamaar Chase on Tuesday? If that is so, do you
Speaker 1: guys expect and is this something you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: see early on? Does everybody follow? Is this just a
Speaker 1: that cat defense where you got that cat? You got
Speaker 1: that cat? Or can you maybe get an Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: matchup that you want? Or is this now Van Jefferson
Speaker 1: Eli Apple and that's the matchup? I have to try
Speaker 1: an attack? Like how how do you think the Rams
Speaker 1: will play it? And how do you think they'll you know,
Speaker 1: what kind of a matchup do you think they're gonna
Speaker 1: be looking for? Yeah, I don't think that we'll get
Speaker 1: a followed by the Bengals defense. I think what will
Speaker 1: we will see from the Bengals defenses where they dropped
Speaker 1: down their help from, you know, like sometimes they drop
Speaker 1: it down from the boundary the guy closest to the sidelines.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they drop it down from the field and the
Speaker 1: guys underneath are playing in kind of respective positioning of that,
Speaker 1: you know, And so I think that could I see
Speaker 1: them dropping down to Cooper cups side Because here's what
Speaker 1: O'Dell has done for this offense is and you saw
Speaker 1: it a little bit in the NFC title game. It's
Speaker 1: not only that I have a place to go to
Speaker 1: with the ball outside of Cooper. I have a person
Speaker 1: who can hurt you when I do it. And that's that.
Speaker 1: That's the challenge for Cincinnati is Okay, you want to
Speaker 1: play outside leverage on Cooper in the slot, and then
Speaker 1: you want to drop down from the boundary, and so
Speaker 1: you're kind of vising him cool. I will say this definitively,
Speaker 1: if they tried to solo up Odell with either Ousia
Speaker 1: or Eli Apple for the majority of that game, Odell
Speaker 1: was gonna win m v P. That's how I feel
Speaker 1: like that. I just don't think they can do it
Speaker 1: over the court. He's too he's creating too much separation
Speaker 1: and he's too explode as if with the football still.
Speaker 1: So that would be one of the things to look at,
Speaker 1: is is how Sean DeShawn doal up the right way
Speaker 1: for guys to be running away from the help at
Speaker 1: the right times. This would be my question. Then, Scott,
Speaker 1: play this from the Bill Belichick mindset, because Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: has always, i think, gone into games game plan specific
Speaker 1: and said, at the very least, I'm gonna make you
Speaker 1: play left handed. Robie. If you've got a Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: that has caught a million balls for a million yards
Speaker 1: and a million touchdowns this year, shame on us if
Speaker 1: he goes out and catches fourteen balls for a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty yards and three touchdowns in this game, Like,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna let that happen. So how do you
Speaker 1: game plan specific give Hilton help if he needs it,
Speaker 1: vice Cooper Cup and not have those matchups that you
Speaker 1: don't want to have happened on the other side of
Speaker 1: the field, Like how do you make the Rams play
Speaker 1: left handed and not give Cooper Cup the numbers he's
Speaker 1: had that we've seen all season long and even in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, And yet at the same time accomplished the
Speaker 1: other goals. Yeah, and I still think the primary player
Speaker 1: you have to take away is Cooper Cup, and you
Speaker 1: have to so take away Cup. And you understand you
Speaker 1: can't take away everyone. And we're gonna try to deal
Speaker 1: with Odell Beckham however, and taking away Cooper Cup. That's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do on the backside. On the front side,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford is too good when he's given time, he's
Speaker 1: too good. And then when given time, it becomes a problem.
Speaker 1: And what they need to do take away Cup and
Speaker 1: figure out a way with what's up front. Pressure Matthew
Speaker 1: into making a mistake. Although you know I've gotten to
Speaker 1: this point now, you know when we talked a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, the last couple of weeks, and again
Speaker 1: I said this, Dan, I don't know Matthew like you,
Speaker 1: but I just see this this look in his eyes
Speaker 1: of peacefulness that he's just not going to make those
Speaker 1: mistakes that he has made at other times because he
Speaker 1: just knows it's like this bliss he's playing with house
Speaker 1: money and he doesn't tighten up anymore. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things to that, Scott. I think
Speaker 1: when we're talking about in relation to Cooper and shutting
Speaker 1: down Cooper, I think the challenge of that is he
Speaker 1: has such freedom in his routes, He has such the
Speaker 1: ability they give him those choice routes, and he's so
Speaker 1: smart and it's not sometimes he runs it off leverage
Speaker 1: and then sometimes he gets you, gets you in the
Speaker 1: leverage that he wants, you know. And so I think
Speaker 1: that's the challenge. In relation to Matthew, I would say this,
Speaker 1: I don't think that he loses this football game. Um,
Speaker 1: I know this isn't sports talk radio fire, and I
Speaker 1: just don't. I just don't think the guy has gone
Speaker 1: on the life journey that he has gone on and
Speaker 1: got to this moment and doesn't get it done. This
Speaker 1: is the same guy that in high school committed to
Speaker 1: Georgia because he didn't want to go on the recruiting
Speaker 1: visits anymore. You're so sick and tired of it. And
Speaker 1: then this is the same guy that has a sophomore
Speaker 1: at Georgia when they went on the road and lost
Speaker 1: to Tennessee. On the field after the game, his dad
Speaker 1: put his arm around him and said, don't worry, son,
Speaker 1: We'll get him next time, and his debt, looked up
Speaker 1: at his dad and said, Dad, there ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: the next time I'm gone, you know. And so it's
Speaker 1: the same guy that for twelve years in Detroit, you know,
Speaker 1: never got the credit. And I think that Um, to
Speaker 1: your point, Scott, one of the things that has always
Speaker 1: been undervalued about him because he's so physic physically talented,
Speaker 1: how intelligent he is, and he's a very very smart guy,
Speaker 1: and I think he's very aware of if he plays
Speaker 1: clean football, the talent is there and it will shine
Speaker 1: over the course of seventy plays and he'll be a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion and probably a Hall of Famer as
Speaker 1: it's all said and done. And one other point, you know, Dan,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Um Cooper cup being free, and to Bob's question,
Speaker 1: you know, if it's Bill Belichick, I think what's happening
Speaker 1: is that they beat the heck out of people, right,
Speaker 1: they get physical, because let's remember this too in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. In the Super Bowl with as we get
Speaker 1: to the championship games and the Super Bowl, there are
Speaker 1: fewer and fewer penalties called and pay attention to that.
Speaker 1: And you know, it was part of our mindsetting, our
Speaker 1: mentality when we started getting physical against the Colts in
Speaker 1: a f C Championship games and then physical against the
Speaker 1: Rams in Super Bowl thirty six. Part of it was
Speaker 1: with the knowledge of we could be physical and maybe
Speaker 1: get away with a little bit more on the releases.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't just at the corners on the receivers.
Speaker 1: It was knocking the heck out of Marshall Falk coming
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. So that may be one of
Speaker 1: the tactics to that. Lou Uses, I have one more
Speaker 1: big schematic question to ask these guys from an offensive
Speaker 1: standpoint for the Rams, defensive standpoint for the Bengals, and
Speaker 1: then some keys to the game. We're gonna do that
Speaker 1: and we continue our preview of the Super Bowl here
Speaker 1: on Tapeds. We are back on tapeds as we get
Speaker 1: your set for the Super Bowl, Bobo Shoes and Scott
Speaker 1: Pioli and dan Or Lobsky and guys. We kind of
Speaker 1: did this on Tuesday with the Bengals offense, Rams defense,
Speaker 1: flipping it around with the Rams offense and the Bengals
Speaker 1: defense today as we preview the Super Bowl. And we
Speaker 1: spent so much of the Tuesday show talking about Burrow,
Speaker 1: talking about Chase talking about coverage, is talking about weapons,
Speaker 1: and now to this point we've talked a lot about
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, how do you take Cooper Cup out of
Speaker 1: the game, odell Um coverages and pass rush. And we
Speaker 1: wrapped up Tuesday show asking the question Joe Mixon in
Speaker 1: the run game and how much of a factor that
Speaker 1: had to be for the Bengals for them to win
Speaker 1: this game. And I'll flip it back around and wonder
Speaker 1: of these two teams, if one Scott, as you alluded to,
Speaker 1: can get physical and can run the football like the
Speaker 1: Bengals don't have that two headed monster. It really seems
Speaker 1: to be mostly just Joe Mixon. But this is sony
Speaker 1: Michelle Camakers want to punch potentially that we're gonna see
Speaker 1: in this game. So if one of these two teams
Speaker 1: has to at some point just flat out get physical
Speaker 1: with their run game, am I right to think that
Speaker 1: the Rams of the team that's much more likely to
Speaker 1: be able to do that. And will they have to
Speaker 1: do that to win this game? I don't know if
Speaker 1: they'll have to do that to win the game, but
Speaker 1: if they need to, they will. But here's what I'll say, though,
Speaker 1: I think that their their toughness was challenged midway through
Speaker 1: the season. You know that they weren't physical enough up
Speaker 1: front on the offense. They weren't physical enough on defense.
Speaker 1: They were a finesse team, a scheme team people were
Speaker 1: talking about on the outside. We weren't here, but what
Speaker 1: I think we saw was I think that affected them.
Speaker 1: I think it affected Sean because it wasn't accurate. They
Speaker 1: were playing as tough as they needed to. But then
Speaker 1: it ramped up after that moment when the outside world
Speaker 1: was kind of calling into again, calling out their toughness,
Speaker 1: they got tough, they got physical. I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1: Austin Corbett, Bryan Allen, those are tough guys, right, and
Speaker 1: they can play tough. You know you mentioned Cam Akers,
Speaker 1: He runs tough, Sony Michelle. He knows how to run tough.
Speaker 1: They are a tough football team. And I think sometimes
Speaker 1: because of because they have so much skill. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at their you know, flip it around and look
Speaker 1: at the other side of the ball. You know that's
Speaker 1: a tough group over there. I mean Aaron Donalds is
Speaker 1: real tough, Greg Gaines von Miller. So I I think
Speaker 1: that they were Sometimes when you're so skilled, you get
Speaker 1: labeled something unfairly, and I think that was happening to
Speaker 1: the Rams. Yeah, you know, that's why in the middle
Speaker 1: of this season, you know, the because I don't think
Speaker 1: Scott they were given the opportunity to be physical, you know,
Speaker 1: because they played such empty drop back football and kind
Speaker 1: of challenged Sean. It was a little bit like the
Speaker 1: Bucks were last year. You know, the Bucks midway through
Speaker 1: the season's like he you guys aren't doing stuff to
Speaker 1: help the football team. It's just quarterback centric. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what the Rams made the switch. I can
Speaker 1: say this, if the Rams are unable to run the
Speaker 1: football well, they can still win this football game. And
Speaker 1: I feel comfortable saying comfortably. I think their offensive line
Speaker 1: has protected so much better here because Sean will run
Speaker 1: it a little bit um, but I think that they've
Speaker 1: gotten so much better within their protection. I also think
Speaker 1: that the way that they're got quick passing game, the
Speaker 1: underneath passing game, and how convicted they've been and executing
Speaker 1: it at a high level is something that is a
Speaker 1: big part of the offense. And also they're as good
Speaker 1: a perimeter screen as their perimeter screen team as we
Speaker 1: have in football, and so I don't think that this
Speaker 1: needs to be a heavy dose of Sony Michelle and
Speaker 1: cam Akers game. And when it comes to the run game,
Speaker 1: I think they'll be part of it. But I've said
Speaker 1: this before on the on the pod, you know every
Speaker 1: offensive you know, coach should go into every game with
Speaker 1: the number one question, can we block them? And I
Speaker 1: think they can. You know, Hubbard and Hendrickson are great,
Speaker 1: and I think that they you'll you'll have to go
Speaker 1: help those cats a little bit on the edges, but
Speaker 1: I think they can block them pretty good on the perimeter,
Speaker 1: specifically if they do some of their chips and whatnot
Speaker 1: and there on their edges. And I just think, all right,
Speaker 1: if you guys are gonna line up and play your
Speaker 1: man coverage as much as you want to. The difference
Speaker 1: that between Patrick Mahomes two weeks ago. In the end,
Speaker 1: it's a f C title game and Matthew is Matthew
Speaker 1: will play boring football. The reason I know is because
Speaker 1: I watched him do it. That This is where you
Speaker 1: know a plethora of reps in your career comes. Vic Fangio,
Speaker 1: one of the best defensive minds in football, used to
Speaker 1: constantly he was in Chicago for a long time, constantly
Speaker 1: three man rush Matthew, constantly three man rush Matthew. And
Speaker 1: I remember one of the first times we played him,
Speaker 1: Matthew didn't play well and we watched the table and
Speaker 1: there's completions underneath. Dude, you just and he would be like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't want to take him. I don't I don't care.
Speaker 1: You know, like, that's what the defense is telling you
Speaker 1: to do. And I think Matthew has learned over the
Speaker 1: years because of that experience with Vic Fangio. It's not
Speaker 1: what you want to do. There's a difference between taking
Speaker 1: what the defense gives you and taking what you want.
Speaker 1: And he's got enough empirical data repetition that he can
Speaker 1: go back in time and say, Okay, if you guys
Speaker 1: are gonna do that defensively, then I'm going to take
Speaker 1: some of those, if not all of those underneath completions,
Speaker 1: because then that's gonna help her offense and where we
Speaker 1: don't have to get into this. Okay, third and eight
Speaker 1: plus every play, you know, and Dan, this is part
Speaker 1: of what I refer to as the peacefulness that you
Speaker 1: see with him as a player. And to me, what
Speaker 1: is boring football checkdowns to pick up four or five yards,
Speaker 1: or that's not boring to me. And again, I was
Speaker 1: around these teams that coached and encouraged the checkdown. Again,
Speaker 1: it goes way back to Ron hair Earhart and Bill
Speaker 1: Parcels having Phil Sims build his confidence and build the
Speaker 1: team's confidence. It was then we had any Testaverdy doing it,
Speaker 1: you know at the Jets, and Brady made a career
Speaker 1: out of it. You know, you look at Brady's game.
Speaker 1: Isn't sexy, right, it's it's checkdowns, it's all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: For years we heard him being called, well he can't Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he can't throw the deep ball. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Who cares? He's winning games? Again, here's a guy who
Speaker 1: won seven Super Bowls and has only been m v
Speaker 1: P three times because his game isn't big, it's not flashy,
Speaker 1: it's just winning. And Matthew has his piece now, Dan,
Speaker 1: and again or he appears I can't speak as if
Speaker 1: I know, but he appears out his piece to do
Speaker 1: the exact thing that you just talked about, Dan, when
Speaker 1: Randy Moss showed up all of a sudden, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: could throw the deep had a human to do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I called a couple of those. But all right, Dan,
Speaker 1: every time this we're gonna wrap it up this way.
Speaker 1: Every time you and I do a college football game,
Speaker 1: we talked to the offensive defensive coordinator's head coach. You
Speaker 1: always wrap up our production meetia with each of those
Speaker 1: guys with I think a really good way to wrap
Speaker 1: up this podcast, and that is like we're not in
Speaker 1: the sports radio predict a score. We don't do that.
Speaker 1: What you always ask those guys is, all right, Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: you go back and look at the tape of this game,
Speaker 1: give me one or two things that have to happen
Speaker 1: for you as to why you win the game. So
Speaker 1: both of you guys do that dance start. What are
Speaker 1: one or two things that have to happen for each
Speaker 1: of these two teams to win the game. On the
Speaker 1: Bengals on the Rams the day after the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: I go back and look at the tape. This happened.
Speaker 1: That's why I want it has to Yeah, I'd say
Speaker 1: for the Bengals offensively number one, figure out what's going
Speaker 1: on with Jalen Ramsey and Jamaar Chase and either use
Speaker 1: it as strength for Jamar or use it as strength
Speaker 1: for the other pieces. The second thing is on first down,
Speaker 1: either run the ball with your outside zone game for
Speaker 1: at least four yards a clip or get the ball
Speaker 1: out of the quarterback's hands and two point five seconds
Speaker 1: or less. And then on third down, you've got to
Speaker 1: make sure that you start with protection first. And if
Speaker 1: if they do that, I think they got a chance. Defensively,
Speaker 1: for the Bengals, number one, you are going to have
Speaker 1: to make sure that the ball doesn't go over your head,
Speaker 1: you know, make this team methodically marched down the field.
Speaker 1: Number two, I would move Sam Hubbard around as much
Speaker 1: as possible and obvious passing situations. And then number three,
Speaker 1: when those backs are carrying the ball, punch and they
Speaker 1: put it on the ground, punch steal possessions. That way,
Speaker 1: I think the Rams win defensively. Let your domination dominate,
Speaker 1: you know, let that front four and let those pieces
Speaker 1: that you've acquired win the football game for you. Make
Speaker 1: sure that Jamaar Chase doesn't have any anything more than
Speaker 1: fifteen yard complete a single fifteen yard completion. And then
Speaker 1: the third thing would be that Troy Readers should be
Speaker 1: used as a pressure guy, not a coverage guy. Uh
Speaker 1: And then for the Rams. Offensively, I would take shots
Speaker 1: early on. I would take at least one shot take
Speaker 1: and make take at least one shot a quarter. Make
Speaker 1: sure that if they are going to minimize Cooper Cups production,
Speaker 1: that oh b j and or Van Jefferson are ready
Speaker 1: for their opportunity. And I would be very focused on
Speaker 1: using jet sweeps to make this defense. See a lot
Speaker 1: of different moving parts we think. Scott to me, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit more simple here. And if
Speaker 1: you're the Bengals, protect Joe Burrow. You've got to find
Speaker 1: a way to protect Joe Burrow again, whether that's through
Speaker 1: the offensive line play or scheme the thing defensively for
Speaker 1: the Bengals, you better adjust quickly. Don't think that you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to hold this offense back in the
Speaker 1: second half and be able to come back if you
Speaker 1: let them get up early. If you're the Rams, you know,
Speaker 1: I would say use that rotation more often early in
Speaker 1: the game, talking about the defensive upfront rotation this way
Speaker 1: in the second half, that that the important guys, the
Speaker 1: best guys are fresh to get the pressure on because
Speaker 1: they're gonna need that pressure from Miller, from Donald, from
Speaker 1: Greg Gaines, from Floyd, so use the rotation more often
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