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Speaker 1: coaches do. Welcome to another edition of the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Jansas. Joined in room
Speaker 1: filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Wesling, and Greg Rostal.
Speaker 1: What is up? Boys? Hey Hey? Week two flagship program
Speaker 1: recapping every game on Sunday, UM and another wild Week two.
Speaker 1: They always are wild, Mark, because all the expectations of
Speaker 1: the preseason in the summer give way to the awakenings
Speaker 1: of Week one and then things start to get teams
Speaker 1: into another direction after the second week of football. They do.
Speaker 1: And today was one of those thank you, those one
Speaker 1: of those uh special Sundays where they give you ten
Speaker 1: early games. So you know, if you're at a sports bar,
Speaker 1: you can just choose to do what you want and
Speaker 1: eat food all day long and enjoy yourself. Again, if
Speaker 1: you're us, it's it's like fifteen aircraft's coming at you
Speaker 1: at the same time, and you just come out with
Speaker 1: as much information as possible, and you know the show
Speaker 1: may suffer for it a little ridiculous to have ten
Speaker 1: early games. I don't know what the Stress Network angle either.
Speaker 1: I'd like what spread them out a right you're usually
Speaker 1: you're very plugged in with the shadowy League figures, always
Speaker 1: hob nobbing potentially one of them, potentially one of them
Speaker 1: in the future. Why is it that they can't give
Speaker 1: us more balance on us on? I would say randomness
Speaker 1: would be a factor where the home games are, and
Speaker 1: then you want to load up. You want to have
Speaker 1: the most amount of people watching the national game. So
Speaker 1: that was Saints Rams. So sometimes they like to load
Speaker 1: it up so everyone has to watch. I took a
Speaker 1: quick look because it does affect um some of the
Speaker 1: stuff on Sunday. It looks like it's happening one more time,
Speaker 1: but then you get all the bye weeks and that
Speaker 1: starts to shift some of these clown teams off the
Speaker 1: schedule for a week or two. All right, so, um,
Speaker 1: what happened in week two? We're gonna get to it.
Speaker 1: Two huge quarterback injuries that we'll get to that early
Speaker 1: in the show. But why don't we start west? How
Speaker 1: are you a little quiet and early going? My brains
Speaker 1: a little scrambled today, But take us through it. What's up? Well,
Speaker 1: it's just a lot to keep track of. I didn't
Speaker 1: get to do as much prep work between the because
Speaker 1: of the schedule between the end of the late games
Speaker 1: the Bears, broncoss is like he he had like seventy
Speaker 1: seven snaps in week one. It was it was a
Speaker 1: pretty you know, relaxing off season, and you're feeling that
Speaker 1: sometimes the soreness going into week two weeks two is
Speaker 1: the real time. There is like a flock of American
Speaker 1: bricklayers who are like, okay, boys, what's your what are
Speaker 1: you doing on Sundays? That's so tough? All right, So
Speaker 1: we have quarterback injuries to get to, but let's start
Speaker 1: with the wildest ending to a week to game. And
Speaker 1: it happened. Oh yeah, up in Mile High you go
Speaker 1: to empower Field West and crazy things go down. He's
Speaker 1: made it from forty and fifty two. This one from
Speaker 1: fifty three right hash scales on the ball, oh down
Speaker 1: on the hole from the right hash angle, the left,
Speaker 1: good placement boot, Bye Eddy panierro kick to the up rights.
Speaker 1: The chicken ish god for what that's zero kid to
Speaker 1: send Denver down. As time expires, they're sixteen, they escape
Speaker 1: with the victory on the road. Say dude, black beautiful,
Speaker 1: I thought he said to narrow like money, money, I
Speaker 1: like Panero waiting for something to help does rhyme Jeff
Speaker 1: Johnny Johnny at with the Copper Bears Radio Network, Eddie Panero,
Speaker 1: Eddie Money, maybe hold on to me stroke the fifty
Speaker 1: one yard field goals time expired, lifting the Bears to
Speaker 1: a sixteen fourteen win. It's one of the strangest, most
Speaker 1: unusual endings to a football game that you will ever see.
Speaker 1: Um West, So much happened here, so much to unpack
Speaker 1: in the last few minutes of this game. But the
Speaker 1: Bears stolen at empower Field. It didn't feel like they
Speaker 1: still it. I think that's how Broncos fans will feel.
Speaker 1: For fifty nine minutes, it felt like nothing but holding
Speaker 1: penalties happened in this game. Flacco hits Courtland Sutton to
Speaker 1: convert a pair of fourth down penalties with the game
Speaker 1: on the line, or fourth down situations with the game
Speaker 1: on the line. If then hits Manny Sanders with a
Speaker 1: great catch in the back of the end zone. Sanders
Speaker 1: had a had an excellent game today. And then the
Speaker 1: craziness starts with the two point conversions that Foggio shows
Speaker 1: some onions decides to go for the win, not the tie.
Speaker 1: Let me go through this, West, let me set it up.
Speaker 1: So they score the touchdown. Like West said to Sanders, Uh,
Speaker 1: there down one point, they decided to go for two
Speaker 1: Flacco and the offense gets called for delay of game,
Speaker 1: backing it up five yards. So it's just a brutal
Speaker 1: thing lateran quarterback for that to happen. It might have
Speaker 1: been on the coaching staff for giving a late call.
Speaker 1: Who Foggio says, Uh, effort, Let's send the kicking team
Speaker 1: out for the extra point. Let's try to get to overtime.
Speaker 1: Brandon McManus pushes it wide right, game over and and
Speaker 1: and a win for the Broncos. Butt former jetbuster screen
Speaker 1: offsides another thing that can that happened in that spot.
Speaker 1: So it moves back closer to the goal line and
Speaker 1: Foggio hangs the onions and says, we'll send Flacco and
Speaker 1: company back out there, and this time the play goes through.
Speaker 1: He connects with Manny Sanders again for the two point conversion.
Speaker 1: Uh to put them ahead. Just a wild sequence, a
Speaker 1: wild sequence, and then the ball goes back to the Bears,
Speaker 1: who have not trusted their quarterback at any point in
Speaker 1: this game. The Bears did not trust trust mr Oltrobinski.
Speaker 1: At one point, they scored their only touchdown of the
Speaker 1: year by running the ball nine straight times and not
Speaker 1: passing at all on the drive. So that's how much
Speaker 1: they trusted their quarterback. Trabinsky gets the benefit of a
Speaker 1: very shaky roughing the passer penalty on Bradley Chubb that
Speaker 1: not only gives the Bears fifteen yards but stops the clock.
Speaker 1: More than shaky. That was a disgrace. Yes, I think
Speaker 1: that was a lot worse than the Clay Matthews call,
Speaker 1: which got a lot of attention because the Matthews call,
Speaker 1: and it could be argued, was the letter of the law.
Speaker 1: This one, I failed to understand. Gravity took hold he
Speaker 1: he went down on the quarterback because he was tackling
Speaker 1: the quarterback and it was completely legal when he made contact.
Speaker 1: That should be reviewable and it will be no solace
Speaker 1: to Broncos fan that that judgment calls like pass interference
Speaker 1: as a route reviewable, but a game deciding call like
Speaker 1: this is not reviewable even though it's a judgment call.
Speaker 1: How about a little consistency in philosophy here, NFL. And
Speaker 1: then it gets to the point where they're in desperation
Speaker 1: with that at least gives them a chance to get
Speaker 1: near midfield. And then with their backs against the wall,
Speaker 1: Trabinsky finally makes a play. He steps up in the
Speaker 1: pocket fourth and fifteen, and the Broncos leave Alan Robinson
Speaker 1: wide open in the middle of field. Now, the play
Speaker 1: broke down a little bit, so that's why he got
Speaker 1: wide open. But you still can't allow that. And then
Speaker 1: they got the benefit of the doubt again from the
Speaker 1: clockkeeper that they decided there was one second left on
Speaker 1: the clock, and you could say there was zero seconds.
Speaker 1: I thought that was clear to everyone got all up
Speaker 1: in arms about Okay, did they get the time out?
Speaker 1: You can say before the play and the coach can say,
Speaker 1: the second hits the ground, we're calling a time out.
Speaker 1: And so that rule, that an unwritten rule, that that
Speaker 1: is how the NFL works. In terms of time outs,
Speaker 1: you say, you know, they don't really sweat the time.
Speaker 1: In terms as long you don't never say now if
Speaker 1: you're if you're down, you can call the types. So
Speaker 1: I wasn't worried about that because it seemed clear even
Speaker 1: then it's borderline, it was bordered. It was one second,
Speaker 1: though it looked like there was one second I was
Speaker 1: more hung up like Mark was with the idea of
Speaker 1: don't you need to get someone's attention and get the
Speaker 1: time out called? But I guess if you fine with it,
Speaker 1: if if that's that's how they want to operate with it.
Speaker 1: My one thing because the a win like this, Bears
Speaker 1: fans went through a hellish week after week one, and
Speaker 1: I get that, And you can feel good tonight about
Speaker 1: getting out of Denver, a tough one of the toughest
Speaker 1: places to play with this. And if I'm Vic Fongio,
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with going forward on two
Speaker 1: because I don't think that offense is getting back into
Speaker 1: scoring position in overtime necessarily. But Bears and I in
Speaker 1: nice play by Mitch Drobiski, But I do not come
Speaker 1: out of this team with anything but hyper concern about
Speaker 1: the long the long half of this offense season wide.
Speaker 1: How do you win seven games with this all four
Speaker 1: point four yards per It was pretty interesting that that
Speaker 1: the Bronco I mean, Joe Flacco through an awful what
Speaker 1: appeared to be game ending interception and the red zone
Speaker 1: just before that happened the last their last three drives.
Speaker 1: They're driving up and down the field on the Broncos,
Speaker 1: they kick a field goal, they throw an interception on
Speaker 1: the goal line, and then they score a touchdown with
Speaker 1: the two point conversion on that Bears defense reminded me
Speaker 1: a little bit of that Eagles game in the playoffs
Speaker 1: where the offense was bad for so long that the
Speaker 1: defense eventually caved in. It's gonna be a long and
Speaker 1: wild and fun night at the Kicker Club because Eddie
Speaker 1: Panniero is the biggest superstar in the game this summer
Speaker 1: and the kicker glove after going through the gauntlet of
Speaker 1: Bears training camp and offseason activities where Chicago and Matteggi
Speaker 1: brought in nine different kickers and essentially played mental war
Speaker 1: games on everyone in that competition as they try to
Speaker 1: work their way away from the double Joink and Cody Parky. Uh,
Speaker 1: Eddie Panniero drills a game winner. I'm sure of being
Speaker 1: five thousand feet above sea level help. But hey, that
Speaker 1: was onions chick. Let's hear from Eddie after the game
Speaker 1: because he deserves it. Yeah, that was. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I couldn't have done it without my team. Thank god
Speaker 1: that it was to this point and for everybody listening, Man,
Speaker 1: if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you better start,
Speaker 1: because he's real. I promise you that he's a Bears fan.
Speaker 1: That's now confirmed. He said he was emotional because of
Speaker 1: everything he went through in terms of the Augustus silence,
Speaker 1: everything like that. West, you update us with your state
Speaker 1: of the Broncos because sitting next to you when when
Speaker 1: they called that holding penalty are rather offsides penalty on
Speaker 1: the Bears. That gave the Broncos another chance. It was
Speaker 1: the most emotional I had seen you watching a football
Speaker 1: game in a while. A lot of ups and downs
Speaker 1: for the once team of West Tel. Well, that had
Speaker 1: a lot more to do with the situation that you
Speaker 1: just don't see, like a last minute like this with
Speaker 1: with the two point conversions and the onions and the
Speaker 1: going for it and the penalties. The Broncost had twenty
Speaker 1: seven first downs in this game, which is the same
Speaker 1: number as the Patriots and forty Niners and their forty Burgers.
Speaker 1: They moved the ball up and down the field all game,
Speaker 1: and you ask where the big plays were, they all
Speaker 1: got brought back on Garrett Bowls holding penalties or Ronald
Speaker 1: Leary holding penalties. They moved the ball. They had big plays,
Speaker 1: the big players just didn't count because of what we've
Speaker 1: We've seen at this point, ten or eleven teams that
Speaker 1: West has, you know, cozied up two over the course
Speaker 1: of seasons. Did Joe Flacco led Broncos do not at
Speaker 1: this point to me look like one of those teams.
Speaker 1: I will wait and see what we're not letting you
Speaker 1: off the roller coaster either. That's fair. I spend time
Speaker 1: in the penalty box, but I will say that the
Speaker 1: biggest trapped in baby, the biggest issue with the Broncos
Speaker 1: offense so far this year is they've not been able
Speaker 1: to do anything in the condensed area of the red
Speaker 1: zone except on that go ahead touchdown in two point
Speaker 1: you get twenty seven first downs. That's nice, you scored
Speaker 1: fourteen points that again, watch the game, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: a lot of Garrett Bolls holding penalties, undoing the good
Speaker 1: of Philip Lindsay, Royce Freeman and Joe Flax and he
Speaker 1: he remains their left tackle. They said after the game
Speaker 1: they're not even considering benching Garrett Bowls and I am
Speaker 1: Jean John Elway. Whether there's unwritten rules or written rules
Speaker 1: about that time out is given a call to the
Speaker 1: New York office just to share his feeling on it,
Speaker 1: because that is a tough way to lose a game.
Speaker 1: My goodness. All right, let's move on now to a rematch.
Speaker 1: Rematch of the NFC Championship game. Again, they empty out
Speaker 1: and leave Golf alone in the shotgun. He's gonna take
Speaker 1: this snap with less than eight seconds on the play clock.
Speaker 1: Here it comes rushed from the Saints. He froze Let's
Speaker 1: side Cooper Cup the Cats forty five and fifty stiff
Speaker 1: farm in the Saints Teret Fury Pete break to tackle,
Speaker 1: get to block at the thirty Cooper Cup. Funny Queen's
Speaker 1: back ten Cooper Cup. Cooper Cup was actually ruled down
Speaker 1: at the one foot line, but who cares. Jared Goff
Speaker 1: score to the next play anyway and JB Long with
Speaker 1: the Rams radio network, Uh but the call there? Good
Speaker 1: Man to nine win for the Rams over the Saints
Speaker 1: at the cal seem. It was supposed to be a
Speaker 1: revenge game for the Saints after last January's NFC Championship
Speaker 1: Game officiating tobaccle, but instead the Saints are holding their
Speaker 1: breath after Drew Breese and this is the biggest storyline
Speaker 1: coming out of this game, suffered at potentially serious thumb
Speaker 1: injury in the first half. Breeze. The last thing we've
Speaker 1: heard as as we go up to tape here um
Speaker 1: around UM nine o'clock Eastern time, UH that he's gonna
Speaker 1: undergo testing here in Los Angeles to determine the severity
Speaker 1: of the injury. UM mark. It didn't pass the test,
Speaker 1: the sniff test. When you're watching it on the sidelines,
Speaker 1: right off the bat he he he enters it, his
Speaker 1: hand collides with Aaron Donald on a pass rush and
Speaker 1: he's immediately out of the game, his hands taped up,
Speaker 1: but he's just standing there watching. There's there's no attempt
Speaker 1: to try to warm up. And then at one point,
Speaker 1: UH Fox cameras catch Breeze go to try to even
Speaker 1: just pick up the ball and immediately tosses it away
Speaker 1: because obviously he gets a surge of pain. Very bad situation.
Speaker 1: For the same time, that helps, that's when it helps
Speaker 1: tap Roy aikmen watching what's happening, because he's been through
Speaker 1: these things before. He went through some ups and downs
Speaker 1: with durability, and right away he said, no, Breeze is
Speaker 1: absolutely not coming back. In this game. And it's probably
Speaker 1: more serious than anyone would let on at this point
Speaker 1: because there were no even there were no doctors even examine.
Speaker 1: He was just sort of sitting there with a dejected
Speaker 1: look on his face. And suddenly you're getting a very
Speaker 1: big helping of Teddy Bridgewater. Too much Teddy Bridgewater in
Speaker 1: this game. Uh. And we'll see if Bridgewater ends up
Speaker 1: being there starter going forward in the weeks ahead, and
Speaker 1: we'll find out again. Uh. Probably this time tomorrow will
Speaker 1: have a much better idea of where breezes. But so far,
Speaker 1: what we've seen Greg from Bridgewater has been underwhelming is
Speaker 1: in terms of his Saints career Week seventeen, which I
Speaker 1: get it's a throwaway game. When he played that game,
Speaker 1: did not play well and was not able to rally
Speaker 1: the troops on the road against the Rams here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who would like to see him, you know, in a
Speaker 1: start in a game. They're prepping him as the starter,
Speaker 1: you know, with starters around him. He didn't have that
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen. Obviously came in here and the Saints
Speaker 1: offense wasn't exactly it was very early in the game,
Speaker 1: but this started out as a defensive struggle. I think
Speaker 1: these two teams are both maybe not totally up to
Speaker 1: speed on what they want to do offensively. I know
Speaker 1: the Saints look pretty good in Week one, at least
Speaker 1: in the second half of that Texans game, but both
Speaker 1: seem like they're getting their feet under them in terms
Speaker 1: of having the offensive they used to have. I just
Speaker 1: wonder if you have the next Steve Young, which Sean
Speaker 1: Payton has called Taysom Hill, why is he not getting
Speaker 1: the call over Teddy Bridgewater, who had a ten point
Speaker 1: eight QBR in this game and, like we said, was
Speaker 1: terrible last year in the season. I would imagine it's
Speaker 1: because how they've divvied up any snaps behind breeze from
Speaker 1: August through now. But I'm with you that Taysom Hill
Speaker 1: is this electrifying New Age type player who does so
Speaker 1: many things, throws the ball beautifully. I don't know how
Speaker 1: its depending it breezes out for a while. How long
Speaker 1: of a leash do we need with Bridgewater plane If
Speaker 1: it's this way, there is the possibility that Sean Payton knows.
Speaker 1: He might say he's Steve Young or whatever, but he
Speaker 1: knows maybe Taysom Hills a player better in spurts than
Speaker 1: as they're down to down quarterback and that will probably
Speaker 1: will learn that for sure, depending on how long he'll
Speaker 1: play him. And if he's just talking trash, then he won't.
Speaker 1: Because Taysom Hills three years older than Teddy Bridgewater. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not exactly like a rising young prospect right and
Speaker 1: the Saints who are very close to being oh and
Speaker 1: two this year if not for a bailout by Will
Speaker 1: Lutz there on Monday Night football. Uh. It's what really
Speaker 1: jumps out to me, um from this game is if
Speaker 1: this Breeze injury is serious, the NFC South becomes a
Speaker 1: lot more interesting. It was a kind of a runaway division,
Speaker 1: it seemed like for the Saints. Um. If Breeze misses
Speaker 1: a lot of time, uh, and they do not get
Speaker 1: good quarterback play, that opens the door for everybody in
Speaker 1: that division and that will be interesting to watch. Nobody's
Speaker 1: played well in this division so far. No, No, and
Speaker 1: Jared go Todd Boles. Todd Boles is flying around, well,
Speaker 1: he's killing it his back. It's the redemption season. But
Speaker 1: on the ram side of the ball, Jared got better
Speaker 1: than he was in Week one, but still not great,
Speaker 1: but an improvement. So No, need to panic with Golf
Speaker 1: and Girle. And again it's coming further into focus now
Speaker 1: he had his first touchdown of the year. Um In
Speaker 1: this game, Um averaged almost four yards to carry on
Speaker 1: sixteen carries. But there they ran the ball thirty times
Speaker 1: as a team and Girly had just about half those carries.
Speaker 1: They are going to it seems like it's gonna back
Speaker 1: up what people suspected that it's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a running back by committee in l A at least
Speaker 1: early in the season. Maybe it's something that shifts this time.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. And Greg, you mentioned the Rams
Speaker 1: kind of figuring out what they are about at this point,
Speaker 1: which is absolutely fine. And what I love about them
Speaker 1: in early trade is they played a resilient second half
Speaker 1: against the Panthers last week and went away winning that
Speaker 1: game without too many questions. And yes, the Saints in
Speaker 1: this game, that fumble should have been a touchdown for
Speaker 1: that defense that got whistled dead mid run to the
Speaker 1: end zone is disgraceful and and everyone calling that game
Speaker 1: in the official on hand said that should never happen.
Speaker 1: The rule is you should let it roll and then
Speaker 1: decide later that it's not a fumble, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous that it happened to the Saints in this
Speaker 1: what essentially was a second helping of last year's disgraceful days,
Speaker 1: disgracefully called NFC Title game. That said, I don't think
Speaker 1: in the end it would have stopped the Rams from
Speaker 1: doing what they did in this game. I really love
Speaker 1: the way they played down the stretch two weeks in
Speaker 1: a row. It's a sign of a great team when
Speaker 1: you win games that you don't play that well. That
Speaker 1: they okay, the people saying they haven't played that well
Speaker 1: this year, well they want on the road against the Panthers.
Speaker 1: They end up winning this game by eighteen. Goff ends
Speaker 1: up throwing ten yards per tempt. The Saints defense gives
Speaker 1: up what three straight touchdowns in the second half and
Speaker 1: three possessions? What more do you want? And the girly thing.
Speaker 1: It's a fantasy problem. And I get that's why it's
Speaker 1: in our Twitter feed. But if you're the rank, it's like,
Speaker 1: who don't care? Who cares? He's getting scent of the
Speaker 1: snapsis the starter? You know, it's a fantasy problem. It's
Speaker 1: not really a rank. Through a few beautiful passes in
Speaker 1: this game too. Yeah, his long he had a fifty
Speaker 1: yard hook up with Brandon Cup that broke. Go watch
Speaker 1: that seven yard throw and the other big takeaway. Positive wise, Uh,
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup looks like Cooper Cup from before the a
Speaker 1: c L Tarra last year. You mentioned how the NFC
Speaker 1: South is up for grabs. We'll see if the NFC
Speaker 1: West is up for grabs. But right now they have
Speaker 1: three to and no teams. You don't see that too often.
Speaker 1: I mean there's there's three the three teams out there
Speaker 1: feeling pretty good about themselves. I'll all go, uh, fourteen port,
Speaker 1: so let's start. Let's all start fourteen or no. I
Speaker 1: predict issues there if you're if you're a game official
Speaker 1: that's blowing a play dead. Still after this happens fourteen
Speaker 1: times every year, and everyone else agrees that that makes
Speaker 1: no sense to blow dead, there's gotta be some type
Speaker 1: of penalty. I would put the man wake the official.
Speaker 1: You go to the nearest American shoreline, You put him
Speaker 1: on a vessel, and the vessel just goes deep out
Speaker 1: into sea and we never hear from that human ever again.
Speaker 1: That would all you'd eliminate people doing this. They do
Speaker 1: get graded right, so they get a skull in automatic.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a deeper punishment. They're out, They're gone
Speaker 1: into and maybe you get picked up by a vessel
Speaker 1: that happens to be in the neighborhood. Maybe you land
Speaker 1: on an island and survive or not. Our problem I
Speaker 1: started lately, it's like we were gonna trying to solve
Speaker 1: problems here. These players go out, they have a terrible game,
Speaker 1: knowing you know that it happens. Well, it's not a
Speaker 1: ref's league, Greg, Sorry, alright, more injury issues at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. Let's head to Pittsburgh. Penny is wind to
Speaker 1: the right. Let's keep an eye on Will dis leave
Speaker 1: the tight end. Russell takes the snap, looks far aside.
Speaker 1: He's gonna throw downfield. He's gotten that, Jeff, He's gotta touchdown.
Speaker 1: Save Hawks d J Mett. Jeff one on one down
Speaker 1: the far sidelines. Good luck, perfect passed by Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: a twenty eight yard strike. That's number two hundred one
Speaker 1: touchdowns for Russell Wilson. What a Hall of Fame career
Speaker 1: he is having seven nine. Steve Rabel the Seahawks Radio
Speaker 1: network with the call Yes, Russell Wilson danger us through
Speaker 1: for three touchdowns, including that gorgeous twenty eight yard or
Speaker 1: the DK metcalf. That kid can play. The Seahawks hold
Speaker 1: off the Pittsburgh Steelers at Hines Field. The Steelers and
Speaker 1: we'll get to the the Seahawks in a moment, but
Speaker 1: the Steelers are o and two and Greg that's just
Speaker 1: the start of it. Yeah. Ben Roethlisberger left this game
Speaker 1: with an elbow injury just before halftime. In in the
Speaker 1: final drive that he had moving down the field, he
Speaker 1: was shaking his elbow quite a bit. Sometimes right until
Speaker 1: that he was in a shotgun formation. Sometimes until them
Speaker 1: you were giving him some heat, Well he was. He
Speaker 1: was sitting there flapping his arm until the second the
Speaker 1: ball came and then he actually he moved him down
Speaker 1: the field. I believe they scored on that drive, but
Speaker 1: he obviously was in serious pain. It was his left elbow.
Speaker 1: Didn't come back out. They're gonna have tests. And James
Speaker 1: Conner left in the second half and Mason Rudolph came in.
Speaker 1: Played pretty well, uh for the mo us part, but
Speaker 1: obviously starting the season oh and two and Roethlisberger being
Speaker 1: injured is a disaster. And there has to be a
Speaker 1: part of Mike Tomlin and everyone associated with the Steelers
Speaker 1: that is even more worried because they realized Ben Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: and James Conner's injuries. James Conner also left in the
Speaker 1: second half. We're not the reasons they lost this game.
Speaker 1: I mean, we do that segment in the off season.
Speaker 1: You know what you simpleton's probably don't realize, Like what
Speaker 1: you simpleton's don't realize, is the Seahawks were, you know,
Speaker 1: doubling them up in total yardage in the first Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: just anyone any hot takes men tomorrow who kind of
Speaker 1: put this on the injuries. Mason Rudolph moved the ball
Speaker 1: better than Ben Roethlisberger. It was their defense that collapsed
Speaker 1: in the second half. That's yeah. And James Connor before
Speaker 1: he goes out averages three yards of carry. He did
Speaker 1: not have a big week one ever either. And West,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm if I'm a Steelers fan, I'm concerned
Speaker 1: do I have the do I have the horses here
Speaker 1: that do I not actually have the horses here to
Speaker 1: get this thing going, particularly offense? Or this is just
Speaker 1: one of those things where a team looks terrible or
Speaker 1: early September, and by mid November there you know, eight
Speaker 1: and five and no one's talking about it. I agree
Speaker 1: the offense is more of a concern that you know,
Speaker 1: Collinsworth pointed out last week. They are doing some different
Speaker 1: things on defense, they are playing much more a man demand.
Speaker 1: They are younger, they have a lot of young guys
Speaker 1: in that secondary, and it's gonna take some time for
Speaker 1: them to get used to that plane style. But on offense,
Speaker 1: you know, they should be they should be hitting. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying on all cylinders, but you gotta be playing
Speaker 1: a lot better than they've done these first two weeks.
Speaker 1: I feel like one guy they were counting on was
Speaker 1: and this this was a suspicious guy to be counting
Speaker 1: on to some degree, was Dante Moncrief and he's had
Speaker 1: to really ugly games in a row and he's cost them,
Speaker 1: he's cost them a lot, and that was someone they
Speaker 1: you know, you lose Antonio Brown and obviously Juju Smith.
Speaker 1: Schuster is extremely talented, but he's in a different spot plane.
Speaker 1: You know, your lead, your lead receiver week after week
Speaker 1: and it's not really worked out. He's been held under
Speaker 1: a hundred yards two games in a row based on
Speaker 1: the box score, Moncrieff wasn't a big part of the
Speaker 1: game plan. He was targeted once shot off his hands,
Speaker 1: so Mason heard his first third and long, it was
Speaker 1: the second past of the game, went right through. It
Speaker 1: was a great third, third and long throw to the outside,
Speaker 1: went right through Moncrief's hands, off his helmet, up into
Speaker 1: the air for an interception. And then Donte Moncrieffe did
Speaker 1: not play for the rest of the game, which which
Speaker 1: was a smart move. And all this talk about the
Speaker 1: Seahawks does I mean about the Steelers takes away attention
Speaker 1: from what was a really great, mature game from Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: I think this showed some progress if you're a Seahawks
Speaker 1: fans of Brian Schottenheimer. In Russell Wilson adapting to what
Speaker 1: was happening in the first quarter of the game. They're
Speaker 1: doing their normal dropbacks. The Steelers are absolutely destroying them
Speaker 1: up front. The Seahawks offensive line is a big concern
Speaker 1: for me right now. They're not past protecting well, but
Speaker 1: they adjust to the short passing game. Russell Wilson ends
Speaker 1: up getting what did he have yards touchdowns in this
Speaker 1: game with having to look spectacular without running, without running around.
Speaker 1: It was just very composed, uh, dicing up the Steelers zone.
Speaker 1: They kind of went back to his own defense this week,
Speaker 1: and he was picking apart Terrell Edmonds and some of
Speaker 1: the young players in the in the Steelers secondary. And
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll also showed a little new leaf too for
Speaker 1: a sixty eight year old celebrated his birthday. Uh for
Speaker 1: this game. I think he's either the fifth or the
Speaker 1: sixth oldest coach in NFL history. He called passes on
Speaker 1: first and second gown down when they had to go
Speaker 1: kill the clock to end the game after the Steelers
Speaker 1: had cut it to two. They did it by throwing
Speaker 1: and they went for a fourth and one with two
Speaker 1: minutes left that would have set the Steelers up to
Speaker 1: maybe go for the winning field goal. They end up
Speaker 1: going for it on fourth down. So Pete Carroll still
Speaker 1: learning new things. I guess you can teach an old
Speaker 1: dog new trick. Also has to have the greatest passenger
Speaker 1: ference challenge in NFL history. It's only been two weeks,
Speaker 1: but one one play that the announcer I forget who
Speaker 1: was now. I did not think there was any chance
Speaker 1: that he was going to get it overturned and I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't think there was a great chance either. It didn't,
Speaker 1: and it totally changed the game. The Seahawks kept the
Speaker 1: ball and ended up scoring. And that is one of
Speaker 1: those things where he's going to get the credit. There's
Speaker 1: probably someone high up in a booth saying, get on
Speaker 1: that now. Hey, if I'm sixty eight years old, just
Speaker 1: come congratulate me for living. He's he's youth. I just
Speaker 1: want it. That's that's my goal for sixty eight. Forget
Speaker 1: when in a football What about Greg you getting off
Speaker 1: Seahawks corner in early September and you know, I'm loving
Speaker 1: it over there. I mean, they're so accommodating. It's really nice.
Speaker 1: It's been this is what this is what the last
Speaker 1: decade has been like. It's very close, it's crazy, it's fun.
Speaker 1: They'll probably go ten and six and losing the wild
Speaker 1: card round. Sanna enjoined dk Metcalf making game changing plays.
Speaker 1: What about Will Disley not little at all? Actually, Will
Speaker 1: Lee gotta get behind the Will Dislie express, Who's not
Speaker 1: all right? Let's move on. Five and a half to go.
Speaker 1: Can the Packers defense hold first down Minnesota? The Green
Speaker 1: Bay eight yard line take to Cook Cousins book likes right,
Speaker 1: Chase Pykeene Lowry looks at right corner of the end
Speaker 1: song clap car dreen Bay football fake spectacular leafing grabbing.
Speaker 1: Now the officials are talking it over. It is Green
Speaker 1: bayball and yes, Kevin King high in the air using
Speaker 1: every inch six to gather Wayne Larley of the Packers
Speaker 1: radio network with the call Ada deln Kirk Cousins. Kevin
Speaker 1: King intercepted Cousins Layton late in the fourth quarter in
Speaker 1: the back of the end zone, the biggest play in
Speaker 1: Green Bay over the Vikings at lambeau Field. Um Mike
Speaker 1: Patton's defense failed out the Packers for a second straight
Speaker 1: week after Aaron Rodgers and company went ice cold following
Speaker 1: a red hot start. This is a really strange game, boys,
Speaker 1: and when you watch this on Game Ask, you will
Speaker 1: agree because the game begins with after the As we
Speaker 1: all know, the Packers struggle mightily in Week one against
Speaker 1: the Bears on Thursday night on offense, and in this
Speaker 1: game they come out on fire. Three straight bang bang
Speaker 1: bang uh touchdown drives. They're up twenty one nothing um
Speaker 1: one minute into the second quarter, and you think what
Speaker 1: you have is gonna be a total wipeout. From that
Speaker 1: point on, the game entirely shifted and the Vikings take
Speaker 1: control on both sides of the ball. Really, Um, the
Speaker 1: Packers I have about a hundred and fifty total yards
Speaker 1: for the rest of the game period, Uh, don't score
Speaker 1: another point, and the Vikings start, you know, chipping away,
Speaker 1: chipping away, but they continually continuously Minnesota shot themselves in
Speaker 1: the foot in this game. Um. They could not get
Speaker 1: over the hump, and the interception was a perfect uh
Speaker 1: encapsulation of the struggles by the Vikings to get over
Speaker 1: the hump. It was a first and goal from the
Speaker 1: eight yard line midway through the fourth quarter, and Cousins,
Speaker 1: who really did not have a good game and is
Speaker 1: not having a great start to second season in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: forces the ball into douvor double coverage bordering on triple
Speaker 1: coverage on first and goal from the eight for the interception.
Speaker 1: It turned out to be their last real chance to
Speaker 1: do anything. And you know, I think Cousins was brought
Speaker 1: um mark to Minnesota to be a steadying presence at quarterback,
Speaker 1: not necessarily be a superstar that um lifts the team
Speaker 1: to greater heights, but be a guy that in games
Speaker 1: like this and division showdowns on the road where you
Speaker 1: need a big play, he's a guy can give it
Speaker 1: to you. In this game, he wasn't up to the challenge,
Speaker 1: and the criticism is gonna get louder and louder the
Speaker 1: more games that pile up. Like I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think that he should have been brought to Minnesota to
Speaker 1: be a superstar, but at the time he was paid
Speaker 1: like one, and they at this point, it feels like,
Speaker 1: you know, you can look at this game and say,
Speaker 1: Stephen Digs that past interference that nullified that touchdown was
Speaker 1: another I don't want to do this with every game,
Speaker 1: but it seems like the rest are constantly trying to
Speaker 1: out There were three offensive past interference calls that went
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. They were all suspect, none worse than
Speaker 1: the call marks referring to they Kirk Cousins should have
Speaker 1: had a touchdown past two Diggs nothing called on the field.
Speaker 1: As they're bringing out the extra point UH team, they
Speaker 1: get buzzed down from upstairs and they call an O
Speaker 1: p I uh. They call I think Dalvin Cook for
Speaker 1: a screen on a very tiki tach call that was
Speaker 1: not made on the field, taking the points off the board,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you when you watch us, you'll see.
Speaker 1: So they lose by five points. Okay, that play is
Speaker 1: your patent um, Michae Lombardi four point play because they
Speaker 1: fail to get in the end zone, kicked the field
Speaker 1: goal that costs them four points. Now there's a one
Speaker 1: point difference. The next time, the Vikings getting the end
Speaker 1: zone and score. Stefan Diggs has a long touchdown catch.
Speaker 1: Diggs is so angry still that he had the other
Speaker 1: touchdown taken away that in a rage, he takes off
Speaker 1: his helmet and mean mugs the crowd at ambo clearly
Speaker 1: because he was still fired up that he got screwed
Speaker 1: before they flag him for that unsportsmanlike and because there's
Speaker 1: a new NFL rule one that I called would cost
Speaker 1: somebody a game back in like June or something. They
Speaker 1: fifteen yard unsports unlike conduct for taking off your helmet.
Speaker 1: Not enforced on the kickoff, but on the extra point,
Speaker 1: so backs it up to a forty eight yard extra
Speaker 1: point attempt. You know what happens next, it's blocked. That's
Speaker 1: the fifth point directed connected directly to that first play.
Speaker 1: They lose by five, and this was such a Vikings loss.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I was bemoaning my existence and
Speaker 1: moping about the Jets late last week. But Vikings bands
Speaker 1: they know the feeling too, because this is a uniquely
Speaker 1: type Vikings loss that when the season ends and wherever
Speaker 1: they stand up, whether they fall short of the playoffs
Speaker 1: or don't have a home game or they just missed
Speaker 1: the package in the division, you're kicking yourself because they
Speaker 1: should have won a game. They were down twenty one
Speaker 1: nothing and they just killed him. When when these calls
Speaker 1: come down to the sideline, I think it's time that
Speaker 1: we have the technology to trace where they've come from,
Speaker 1: because this probably sounds good came from like Mike Holmgren's
Speaker 1: living room. I mean, who's actually dialing up anyone to say,
Speaker 1: take a look at that Dick's catch? It came from
Speaker 1: somewhere in affair. I promise you. I'm just saying someone
Speaker 1: with Packers ties said I'm gonna get on Green Bay's
Speaker 1: side here and cause some issues. Let's not lose track
Speaker 1: of the good news around the Packers there two and
Speaker 1: oh under Matt Lafloor. The bad news is they could
Speaker 1: not have looked worse now for seven out of eight
Speaker 1: quarters of their season on offense, and you're gonna be
Speaker 1: stunned by how much they struggled, uh to just move
Speaker 1: the ball and and Petton's defense bailing him out over
Speaker 1: and over again down the stretch of this game. They
Speaker 1: have a lot of work to do. And we got
Speaker 1: our first Rogers barking at Matt Lafleur incident on the sideline,
Speaker 1: which was downplayed, of course, as you'd expect by Rogers afterward.
Speaker 1: But keep an eye on this because they're still iron
Speaker 1: iron ironing out some kinks here. Yeah. ESPNS. Rob Demowski,
Speaker 1: great beat reporter, said, if you had under six quarters
Speaker 1: into the season when Rogers would come off the field
Speaker 1: yelling in the direction of Matt the Flower my name
Speaker 1: for him, then you're a winner. Yeah, but survive in
Speaker 1: advance in September football. These teams aren't. No teams are
Speaker 1: going to resemble what they look like now in December.
Speaker 1: And they have these two division wins in their pocket,
Speaker 1: one one in Chicago, one against Minnesota, and they're winning
Speaker 1: different types of ways. And if if you're a Vikings fan,
Speaker 1: it does feel like a Viking stipple. It feels like
Speaker 1: a Kirk Cousins type of loss because he defies He's
Speaker 1: got great stats, but he's sort of is I mean
Speaker 1: a Kime has made at this point our friend who
Speaker 1: we had in the show cut he has all these
Speaker 1: great stats, but all the things that you know, saber
Speaker 1: metrics and people that are in the numbers like don't
Speaker 1: necessarily believe in clutch or big moments or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Like Kirk Cousins does struggle in big moments. He does
Speaker 1: struggle when it matters. He struggles when he's near the
Speaker 1: goal line. Pff at a stat inside the ten yard
Speaker 1: lining in in two thousand seven, he's twenty seven out
Speaker 1: of twenty seven in passer rating with of his past
Speaker 1: his averaging one point six yards per tempt. So he struggled.
Speaker 1: He gets near the goal line and he struggles. That's
Speaker 1: the problem. It's the inverse of that. When they go
Speaker 1: back to the draft of Tom Brady was like, hey,
Speaker 1: all his measurable is not great, but one thing that
Speaker 1: couldn't measure was the only ticker inside. Same thing with
Speaker 1: Cousins that can't measure. It's in the heart. And in
Speaker 1: that case that that makes up why the guy's not
Speaker 1: that good and why his teams are never that good.
Speaker 1: They're playing whatever gets it done in a big spot ever. Alright,
Speaker 1: and by the way, Dalvin Cook, the one really good news,
Speaker 1: a bit of good news for the Seahawks. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the superstar club. This guy balls out and he will
Speaker 1: continue to do so. Let's move on now. It's fourth
Speaker 1: down in two fifteen seconds left to go. Here we go.
Speaker 1: Mariota backs to throw brows left side, and it's a
Speaker 1: good place. It's it did Plate on his slant plantern
Speaker 1: to a j Plann Chritsy Wilson on cleveris for the Cults,
Speaker 1: and the Cults are gonna win. It's the Cults will win.
Speaker 1: In week two, with the eleventh seconds left to go,
Speaker 1: that was fourth Downd the Titans turning over. They're out
Speaker 1: of time out. They trailed nineteen to seventeen, and the
Speaker 1: Cults are gonna win it uh Matt Taylor the Colts
Speaker 1: Radio Network, Yes, the Colts broke up. A Mariota passed
Speaker 1: intended for a J. Brown fourth and two eleven seconds
Speaker 1: to play, clinching Indie's nineteen seventeen win in Nashville. It
Speaker 1: was that kind of day for the Titoons offense, which
Speaker 1: struggled to the move the ball against the good Colts defense.
Speaker 1: That brought a lot of heat on Mariota. Uh. Jake
Speaker 1: Brisket put the Colts ahead with five minutes to play
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Uh. And at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, West, what you really need to do in
Speaker 1: that spot? And we and we all got excited about
Speaker 1: what we saw from the Titans in Cleveland last week,
Speaker 1: But what you need to do at home if you're
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota and it's time to take the next step
Speaker 1: or you're gonna be sent out of town, you need
Speaker 1: to get something done there. And that last possession down
Speaker 1: nineteen seventeen, UM, he barely was able to move the ball.
Speaker 1: It was checked down pass uh fifteen yards scramble checkdown
Speaker 1: past spike on a third and two, setting up a
Speaker 1: fourth and two that then leads the incompletion. Mariotta after
Speaker 1: the games, that's on me. I should not have clocked
Speaker 1: the ball there and it ultimately cost him. So Mariotta
Speaker 1: fall short again. And this is just a nineteen seventeen
Speaker 1: Titans lost at home to the Colts. That's that nine
Speaker 1: and seven Titoons at you right again. So beyond that
Speaker 1: one drive that mattered at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: why did they only score seventeen points? They because they
Speaker 1: had no offensive aerial tech. It's just Uh, Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: moved the ball just fine. He's he's I think, a
Speaker 1: very good running back. They have that element of it,
Speaker 1: but they you know, there are a couple of things
Speaker 1: that really jump out to you. Delaney Walker, after having
Speaker 1: a great week one, he didn't have a big impact
Speaker 1: in this game. And then remember Adam Humphries. Remember that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, remember what a big deal that
Speaker 1: was that he was going to be a missing piece
Speaker 1: in this offense. Uh, thus far in the season, I
Speaker 1: think he has three catches for four yards in two games.
Speaker 1: It's odd to me that Marcus Marietta. Marcus Mariotta has
Speaker 1: always thrown better between the numbers, but has he ever
Speaker 1: had a slot received? But he does now and he's
Speaker 1: not even right, but now he's invisible the slot. Right.
Speaker 1: So Mariota, the average one five five and a half
Speaker 1: yards per tempt. You have a chance to set up
Speaker 1: the game winning field goal drive with a you know,
Speaker 1: reasonably short field, you don't do it. You spike it
Speaker 1: on third and in two I mean, that's that. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that if he's trying to cover for
Speaker 1: the coaches, probably not, but that's just a I hate
Speaker 1: when teams spike way too much in two minute situations,
Speaker 1: and on a third town with the game on the line,
Speaker 1: is unbelievably brutal. And after the game, Mariotta is talking
Speaker 1: about how he can't keep taking sacks and can't keep
Speaker 1: getting hit. And this is kind of like we talked
Speaker 1: about with Winston the other night, making the same mistakes
Speaker 1: five years and these are Mariotta's same mistakes five years in,
Speaker 1: which is taking those sacks and and taking those hit.
Speaker 1: Titans writers talked about Mariota being sort of spooked down
Speaker 1: the stretch of this game, and to Greg's point, getting
Speaker 1: hit week after week. He got hit a bunch last week.
Speaker 1: It's lost in the final score of week one, but
Speaker 1: he took some punishment. It happens again, and the big
Speaker 1: plays seemed to have dried up in this game. They
Speaker 1: had a bunch less there was three. There was only
Speaker 1: one play in this entire game that was over or
Speaker 1: two plays over twenty yards by by the two teams combined. Right,
Speaker 1: Because yeah, on the other side of it, Jake Brisket
Speaker 1: averages just over five yards an attempt um. He does
Speaker 1: throw three touchdown passes, including the big hook up with
Speaker 1: Hilton uh to put them ahead. Uh So the Colts
Speaker 1: they get back to one on one, but that won't
Speaker 1: be the win. Is only going to be a subplot
Speaker 1: early in the week. And this is another story that's
Speaker 1: gonna kinda adapt as we get away from the studio.
Speaker 1: This uh, this evening, but out of it a Thierry
Speaker 1: in a nineteen seventeen win missed two extra points and
Speaker 1: this comes on the heels of last week where he
Speaker 1: missed what was the two field goals in an extra
Speaker 1: point um and after the game, so they they basically
Speaker 1: got beat because of Antierry last week on some level
Speaker 1: and then uh it almost cost them big here after
Speaker 1: the game, there was a tweet sent out by let
Speaker 1: me make sure it was Stephen Holders. Stephen Holder, I
Speaker 1: think we hear it is Holder. Road just grabbed out
Speaker 1: of Vintieri. Was he As he headed to the bus,
Speaker 1: he said, you'll hear from me tomorrow. I told him
Speaker 1: we don't see him tomorrow, and he said, yeah you will, um,
Speaker 1: which of course makes you think that maybe it's all
Speaker 1: over now for Vintieri, whether he's going to retire or
Speaker 1: the culture gonna make a move and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: some type of joint decision. We'll find out, but that's
Speaker 1: what it seemed like. Um after the game, Ominous Jim Mercy,
Speaker 1: the owner, talked about it too, that they're all have
Speaker 1: to talk about it. Frank Reich really defended his you know, vinitary,
Speaker 1: but he was hurt in camp two, was missing in camp,
Speaker 1: and they can't allow it to you know, maybe cost
Speaker 1: him games. It's a huge win for the for in
Speaker 1: this division. It's a big game in this division. It
Speaker 1: might not feel like a seismic game in the NFL,
Speaker 1: but for the Colts to end up splitting, you know,
Speaker 1: starting on the road against the Chargers, the Titans, they'll
Speaker 1: take that, and to get a road win in the division,
Speaker 1: it is pretty bag. Such a and Titans fans are
Speaker 1: gonna think I'm piling on or doing jumping Jack's in celebration,
Speaker 1: which would be weird to do in celebration. But just
Speaker 1: such a bad loss. It's like you you come out
Speaker 1: of that Week one against Cleveland on fire, big on yourself.
Speaker 1: Delanny Walkers talking about how nobody believes in us, you
Speaker 1: guys always talking us down. Then you come home against
Speaker 1: and Andrew Luckless Colts and I know we like the
Speaker 1: Colts is a still solid team, but you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta show up and you gotta win that game. You
Speaker 1: get to two and oh, how how are you supposed
Speaker 1: to be taken seriously as an a f C contender
Speaker 1: when this is how you come home? This has been
Speaker 1: something you've been railing against for years and the Titans
Speaker 1: have yet to prove you wrong. One bright spot after
Speaker 1: several years of chemotherapy. David Questenberry, the lineman, scores his
Speaker 1: first career touchdown in this game. But Dan one quick,
Speaker 1: which team for the Titan? Titans one quick, but not
Speaker 1: for the It wouldn't be so celebratory had he scored
Speaker 1: for the other team. But I just didn't know it's
Speaker 1: team on. I knew what used to be with Titans. Man. Professionally, Dan,
Speaker 1: I mean, being a great memorable having a memorable beat
Speaker 1: is about being industrious and you know, doing you're part
Speaker 1: of the job, but also hitting it at the right time.
Speaker 1: And you hit this Kickers thing at the absolute sweet
Speaker 1: spot in history because it would have been largely a
Speaker 1: dead storyline. Week after week, every game we're talking about
Speaker 1: has kicker nonsense happening. I wish it wasn't such a
Speaker 1: big deal, because it does. Know, you're very happy that
Speaker 1: it is working out for you, very well. You actually
Speaker 1: nailed it. Let's move on. Two point play. Jackson Bille
Speaker 1: going for the league right here from the two yard line.
Speaker 1: Man sure, we've gone three receivers left, panned off four
Speaker 1: net and running left. Dad. He stopped trust and Reid
Speaker 1: got in there. The deed stiffens about two point conversion try.
Speaker 1: The Texans apply thirteen twelve with Bertie seconds left. Mark Vandermere,
Speaker 1: Texans Radio Network with the call. With the Jaguars looking
Speaker 1: to steal the game with a two point conversion, justin
Speaker 1: read stuff Leonard four Nette on the goal line, clinching
Speaker 1: a win for the Texans. The stop came after Jacksonville
Speaker 1: rookie Gardner Minshew led a long drive that included an
Speaker 1: eighteen yard run on fourth and ten and capped it
Speaker 1: with a four yard touched touchdown past the DJ Shark,
Speaker 1: but Doug Moron opted to take it out of Minshew's
Speaker 1: hands for neck couldn't get it done. Mark Maron's call
Speaker 1: showed onions for days. But shouldn't I think Jackson just
Speaker 1: kicked that p a t well. I don't know, because
Speaker 1: it's this, it's this is football. If they if they
Speaker 1: hadn't got that thing, we would have said, you know what,
Speaker 1: you had a rookie quarterback and you you end the
Speaker 1: game right there, you get it done, and you're out
Speaker 1: of there with a big win against the Texans, who
Speaker 1: had a down day offensively. So I'm not going to
Speaker 1: kill him for that. I kind of like seeing that
Speaker 1: kind of thing that said. I mean, just judging by
Speaker 1: the reaction of fans, people were super down the Maroon.
Speaker 1: I I don't know a huge problem with it, with
Speaker 1: the way that their offense was functioning slash not functioning.
Speaker 1: Why because you think they wouldn't have had a great
Speaker 1: chance to score again, that their best chance was from
Speaker 1: the two kind of do yes? I kind of do?
Speaker 1: I mean, because it was you know, you needed that
Speaker 1: last surge from Minshew and the Jaguars to to even
Speaker 1: get into that situation. Their offense was largely lost. They
Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of continuity from from March to March.
Speaker 1: Minshew and I know he was, you know, and I
Speaker 1: love the guy, the idea of him, and he was
Speaker 1: generating massive Twitter heat he has. He he suffered some
Speaker 1: growing pains here because he took four sacks and if
Speaker 1: you go back and watch, some of them are just
Speaker 1: he's holding the ball too long. I still think he
Speaker 1: throws the ball well. And he showed scrambling ability that
Speaker 1: got them out of a couple of jams here, and
Speaker 1: he did just enough. I think. Another story in this
Speaker 1: game was the Jaguars defense showed up DeAndre Hopkins held
Speaker 1: to forty yards and you know in this case that
Speaker 1: they basically have Jalen Ramsey tracking him, snapped a snap
Speaker 1: and that was a great matchup. It was just a
Speaker 1: weird matchup because by the end, Carlos Hide, with twenty
Speaker 1: touches for ninety yards, had way more than double and
Speaker 1: more more carries and way more than double yardage than
Speaker 1: any other skill position player on the Texans, and more
Speaker 1: than anyone in the entire game that it was a
Speaker 1: Carlos The game channeled through Carlos Hide, and Duke Johnson
Speaker 1: was essentially lost to Shawn Watson took four sacks of
Speaker 1: his own, and at one point he was hobbling around,
Speaker 1: and it's just another reminder that like the you know,
Speaker 1: Laramy Tuns left the game for a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: to I just cannot imagine how Watson gets through this
Speaker 1: entire season. And this game was not a great performance
Speaker 1: by the Texans offensively. I don't know. This was a
Speaker 1: two strange games in the ANFC South. This was part two.
Speaker 1: I mean, neither team top three hundred yards, so that
Speaker 1: all four a f C South teams, none of them
Speaker 1: top three hundred yards, which is pretty it's pretty rare
Speaker 1: if for a team not to get that high in
Speaker 1: today's NFL. I don't mind them doing it because Leonard
Speaker 1: four Nette on that run. You saw the power first
Speaker 1: of all. I mean he should have been taken down
Speaker 1: at the three, and he almost got over the goal line.
Speaker 1: Some Jaguars fans think he did. I reached the ball
Speaker 1: out at some point. I don't mind the team saying
Speaker 1: like this is who we are. If we can't game
Speaker 1: two yards here after we spread you out and you're
Speaker 1: worried about our passing game and get those two yards,
Speaker 1: maybe we're just not gonna be good. I maybe maybe
Speaker 1: they want I don't think they were about to go
Speaker 1: march down the field for a touchdown in overtime. I
Speaker 1: also think Leonard Bournette is never going to be with
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Thought he was gonna be when they drafted
Speaker 1: him with the top five pick. He spent the off
Speaker 1: season losing fifteen pounds working out in Wyoming, and I
Speaker 1: still don't see the big playability from him. So you
Speaker 1: you're saying, if they could do it over, you'd take
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, not Leonard. Let me go out. I mean,
Speaker 1: why they have boardles. They have boardles. They have boardles.
Speaker 1: So who needs a quarterback garden to meet you? Well,
Speaker 1: I know you're down on him, Dan, but he he honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't really. It's like, oh, a rookie sixth round
Speaker 1: pick has growing pains. I mean, he had policing Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: He's also he's also throwing the ball better than some
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that no one's gonna yank out of the starting spot.
Speaker 1: He's throwing the ball. Well, I don't He was not
Speaker 1: the reason they lost. He certainly didn't drag them to
Speaker 1: a win either. It's too bad because if if they
Speaker 1: had if they had picked him, if they had picked
Speaker 1: the perfect play call. I mean you tweeted that you're
Speaker 1: all out, so based on a photo that's like a
Speaker 1: year older, I'm just not like Will Brinson misled the
Speaker 1: public with an old photo. You listen, you gotta know what. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna be on the train and I
Speaker 1: might really miss out on this because if this, if
Speaker 1: this guy goes off and leads the Jags to an
Speaker 1: amazing run to the playoffs, I'm gonna have egg all
Speaker 1: over my face. If you're not really going out, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're not on the if you're not on the train, though,
Speaker 1: he is going to be ultimately destroyed on the show
Speaker 1: with a bunch of secret bits that no one's expecting.
Speaker 1: So it's this is all This is again completely completely
Speaker 1: It's completely talked ahead of time by you because you
Speaker 1: were probably upset you didn't lead the Minshew things. So
Speaker 1: you're they're jumping out. You're jumping out on the anti
Speaker 1: Minshew things. So if someone doing the best he can
Speaker 1: as a backup quarterback who's looked pretty good fails, you
Speaker 1: get to exude some sort of joy in it. That's
Speaker 1: that's an enjoyable like I have a fun time with that, Dan,
Speaker 1: I would like a list of the strangest you guys
Speaker 1: have battled it out on that. I'm dead on. This
Speaker 1: has to be right near at the top. And if
Speaker 1: they had just called the perfect play on that two
Speaker 1: point version of Minshew through it going into Thursday night football,
Speaker 1: we'd be flying in it. What a and still he
Speaker 1: can still facial hair? What a cad? No, please, cad,
Speaker 1: that's not a compliment. All right? Are we ready to
Speaker 1: move on? Yes? I refuse to fight with you about
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew Mark, I'm not gonna do it. I'm not engaging. Well,
Speaker 1: you already have engaged because you get your little sneaky
Speaker 1: tweets out there and then everybody's everyone else's job to
Speaker 1: not respond to it. It's like we all see you
Speaker 1: well didn't didn't have anything. Least you are one more
Speaker 1: thing in this game. How this put the cameras on
Speaker 1: the goal line. You're worried about a thistle that there's
Speaker 1: they didn't have the two camera because this is the
Speaker 1: you know, the CBS is seventeen broadcast. You know it's
Speaker 1: the it's the Q team covering this game, and you
Speaker 1: don't have two cameras on the goal line with a
Speaker 1: sensor in the ball, we could know maybe maybe the
Speaker 1: Jaguars won this game. Maybe they'll determine it in like
Speaker 1: four when they install this technology. A bunch of players
Speaker 1: looked at one angle and thought they did on the
Speaker 1: Jaguars silent. Let's move on. ChEI Williams to the left
Speaker 1: of Mahomes, takes the snap right at his belt, turns
Speaker 1: the right hip. Now he's gonna gun it long. He
Speaker 1: wants to Marcus Robinson coming back to the ball. He's
Speaker 1: done it in the end zone. Touchdown. Can the Marcus
Speaker 1: Robinson it's his turn to have the game of his life.
Speaker 1: And the Chiefs at four consecutive touchdowns and Mahomes isn't
Speaker 1: a human unsettling towards all right, Mitch Holts. You can
Speaker 1: hear his voice. It is fun being the play by
Speaker 1: play man of the Kansas City Chiefs right now. The
Speaker 1: Raiders shut the Chiefs out for three quarters on Sunday.
Speaker 1: It's a one quarter where the Chiefs did score that
Speaker 1: cost Oakland. Patrick Mahomes through four touchdown passes in the
Speaker 1: second quarter, uh the final one to DeMarcus Robinson, ultimately
Speaker 1: ten win at the black hole. Greg good job, good effort.
Speaker 1: By the Raiders. But once the Chiefs gotten gear, this
Speaker 1: thing turned into exactly what we thought about. Right. You
Speaker 1: might you might have a plan for fifteen minutes. You
Speaker 1: might get up in the Chiefs grill and take them
Speaker 1: one on one because they don't have Tyreek Hill, and
Speaker 1: think that you can cover a man and maybe dare
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes to go over the top four you and
Speaker 1: you're flying around, and the black hole was as loud
Speaker 1: as I've heard it in in a long, long time.
Speaker 1: And then adjustments come and then Patrick Mahomes incinerates you
Speaker 1: like old Mitch Hols this said. I mean that it
Speaker 1: was as if the Raiders and even the Chiefs were
Speaker 1: kind of left in a puddle of off for the
Speaker 1: rest of the game. There wasn't even any scoring in
Speaker 1: the second half because everyone had just decided, you know what,
Speaker 1: that's good for today, Patrick Mahomes, You're so amazing. We
Speaker 1: don't need to see anything more than two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy eight yards in a quarter where they called some
Speaker 1: of his plays back, I mean classic Mahomes kind of sequences.
Speaker 1: He throws one of the best throws I've ever seen
Speaker 1: across his body on a third and long it was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: They call it back because of penalty, So what do
Speaker 1: they do? They just throw a forty nine yard touchdown
Speaker 1: the next place on third and twenty two. It's the
Speaker 1: big plays for this offense. They're there week after week
Speaker 1: after week, and it translated through an entire offseason. Nothing changed.
Speaker 1: Mahomes looks better to me than he did before. This
Speaker 1: game weirdly reminded me of Super Bowl twenty two, which
Speaker 1: is a million years ago, but that was the game
Speaker 1: where an inferior Broncos team got up ten nothing and
Speaker 1: you thought, why are they hanging around? And then the
Speaker 1: Redskins with Doug Williams exploded for thirty five second quarter
Speaker 1: points game over, but no one really scored the rest
Speaker 1: of the game. It took that effect by halftime. This
Speaker 1: was the team that was John Gruden's, in a lot
Speaker 1: of other coaches major bugbear last year, and they destroyed
Speaker 1: Oakland twice and it took the same form, and it
Speaker 1: took everything that happened in that nice little Week one
Speaker 1: storyline that we all enjoyed on national TV and put
Speaker 1: a buzz saw right through it in five minutes. Because
Speaker 1: it's hard to keep that going if you're the Raiders.
Speaker 1: You don't have the talent. It's it's true, but I
Speaker 1: still think the Raiders could have something here. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: are gonna are gonna trash teams. Look what they did
Speaker 1: to the Jaguars defense, who played pretty well. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: take out tyreeko Hey, DeMarcus Robinson six for one, seventy
Speaker 1: two and forty four yards, Nicole Hardman a forty two
Speaker 1: yard touchdown, and another seventy two yarder that was called
Speaker 1: back by a shaky penalty. Mahomes would have gone over
Speaker 1: five in this game if it wasn't for that play
Speaker 1: being called back. I just think the Chiefs and Mahomes
Speaker 1: at twenty four years old, is doing things we haven't
Speaker 1: seen in NFL history. It's just facts. Well, that's fine,
Speaker 1: give give the Raiders defense a pass. They're planning against
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, But why are you giving the Raiders offense
Speaker 1: a pass. I think that was the most concerning thing
Speaker 1: in the game that after that quick start, they shot
Speaker 1: themselves in the foot. They moved the ball, uh, they
Speaker 1: would pass midfield. They had a couple of tough breaks,
Speaker 1: maybe a miscommunication on the goal line was one interception,
Speaker 1: a tipped. That was a bed in a pick play
Speaker 1: where the where a car through uh you know to
Speaker 1: an offensive player who kind of got you know, steamrolled
Speaker 1: was another interception. I think this offense is gonna not
Speaker 1: have enough margin for error because they're stationed to station.
Speaker 1: Not enough big plays and if you fall down, they
Speaker 1: might not be a team that can catch up short week. Also,
Speaker 1: it's a it was a tough week to assign for Oakland.
Speaker 1: I'd be interested to where they come down next week.
Speaker 1: One thing I've noticed is different in my homes. He
Speaker 1: moves in the pocket to create more time now better
Speaker 1: than than he did a year ago, where he's he
Speaker 1: did that last week too. It wasn't perfect, but he
Speaker 1: did that last like where he's now backing up in
Speaker 1: in he reads even calling it into some of the
Speaker 1: play calls where in one play like they have him
Speaker 1: sprinting out to the left and then turning around and
Speaker 1: and he's just buying time too so that he can
Speaker 1: set up back there and then he's torturing him. It's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Let's move on. Like Mark Jackson and the
Speaker 1: Shotgun Cardinals rush five Jackson crush shot deep far sidelines,
Speaker 1: want a yard line? It is caught by Hollywood ground
Speaker 1: and he's taken down on the Grolmates red zone. First
Speaker 1: Town Ravens. An absolute strike. He put it in the
Speaker 1: only place where he could catch the ball. Had a
Speaker 1: key moment having want a point by these two young
Speaker 1: guys Jerry Sandusky and Jared Johnson on the call for
Speaker 1: w b A L. Lamar Jackson's picture perfect strike to
Speaker 1: Markey's Hollywood Brown on third and eleven the clincher for
Speaker 1: the Ravens, who got another great performance by their second
Speaker 1: year quarterback win over the Cardinals. Um, everyone's expecting to
Speaker 1: see electricity from Kyler Murray in the season's opening weeks,
Speaker 1: but instead, Gregg the football world is it's fixed on
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. How good was he on Sunday? I mean
Speaker 1: another two touchdowns, a hundred and twenty yards rushing. Mark
Speaker 1: Andrews goes crazy for I mean, they're an offensive team
Speaker 1: right now. I think some of the Ravens beat writers
Speaker 1: after watching this game thought, you know, this is different
Speaker 1: than a year ago when they really relied on the
Speaker 1: defense to carry them and the running game which wasn't
Speaker 1: quite there today other than Lamar y yards on the ground. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's funny for Lamar and and this year it's been
Speaker 1: more Lamar's carrying them. I know it's just two games,
Speaker 1: but this wasn't you know, this was a game where
Speaker 1: the Cardinals moved the ball. I thought that. I think
Speaker 1: that they are perfectly built roster wise to do what
Speaker 1: they are doing early on. And that is the sixth
Speaker 1: time in Lamar Jackson's career where he alone is out
Speaker 1: rushed the opposing team. And there's six and oh in
Speaker 1: those games. And I know that's not what they want
Speaker 1: to do every week, but it was a huge difference
Speaker 1: maker today. But what they have now, they're one of
Speaker 1: these teams with two playmaking tight ends. And they also
Speaker 1: which they lacked last year, which they've lacked essentially outside
Speaker 1: of Steve Smith, their wide receiver group has been a
Speaker 1: issue for Ages forever. And Marquis Brown eight catches, eighty
Speaker 1: six yards, another forty one yard or we saw the
Speaker 1: big play on the highlight. This is contagious. I mean,
Speaker 1: this team can beat you in a lot of different ways,
Speaker 1: and then you throw in their defense that essentially really
Speaker 1: kept the Cardinals totally at bay outside of a bunch
Speaker 1: of field goal drives. I wanna bash the Ravens a
Speaker 1: little bit for not drafting Durwin James, for deciding to
Speaker 1: trade down and draft an old tight end like Hayden
Speaker 1: Hurst in the first room. But then they made up
Speaker 1: for it by drafting Mark Andrews, who looks like a
Speaker 1: pro bowler in his second season. The guy gets a
Speaker 1: hundred yards every week. And I think this is a
Speaker 1: moral victory too. For the Cardinals there at oh one
Speaker 1: and one, I mean, there are already a million times
Speaker 1: better offensively than they were a year ago. I mean,
Speaker 1: they kicked three field goals inside the five yard line,
Speaker 1: which is the first time that's happened since nine So
Speaker 1: it was a little cautious there by Cliff Kingsbury, but
Speaker 1: the game ended up being moose. Kyler Murray's making Lamar
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerud go over a hundred yards every week. Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray's thrown for three fifty in a second game in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is pretty good. I can't get over this.
Speaker 1: I mean, Lamar Jackson, he throws for two and seventy
Speaker 1: two yards, two touchdowns, doesn't throw an interception, runs watch
Speaker 1: on sixteen carries his long. It's like Okane, It's two
Speaker 1: weeks in there must have been a sixty yard run
Speaker 1: or something to spike that total. His long was nineteen,
Speaker 1: so he finished for a hundred and twenty and sixteen
Speaker 1: carries and it was just all him. Look, I guess
Speaker 1: ten fifteen yard runs over and over again, which has
Speaker 1: to kill a defense. Well, but I also think he's
Speaker 1: the kind of guy and we saw when he when
Speaker 1: he takes off with the ball, there's four or five
Speaker 1: defenders looking at him wondering what on earth do I do?
Speaker 1: Because his next second and third and fourth step are
Speaker 1: totally confusing. He's not bashing into the line for three yards,
Speaker 1: He's swinging off off tackle and completely causing chaos. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move up now. Is the long back, second down,
Speaker 1: the thirty nine straight drop, there's a It's by b
Speaker 1: J w Lambeth. They get it out to the Monster
Speaker 1: first on cricks and taco Hey's done checks down San
Speaker 1: fran Shlet's go. They like these thirty eight or thirty
Speaker 1: nine yarders and what's old? Slick Monster gets the ball
Speaker 1: in his hand for again about that is no nickname
Speaker 1: because he is slick and there is just no messing around.
Speaker 1: Greg Papa and Tim Ryan of the forty Niners Radio
Speaker 1: San Francisco. I mean, you know, these guys are sitting
Speaker 1: in there on Saturday and they're like one better apartments,
Speaker 1: practicing these little catchphrases and calls. Wait, over and over,
Speaker 1: did Papa make the move from the Raiders to the
Speaker 1: forty Niners? That's not under my radar? How about that?
Speaker 1: You don't think they pay him better to be in
Speaker 1: a bigger I just imagine like someone like over looking
Speaker 1: over like the San Francisco Bay and one of those
Speaker 1: like whitewashed departments where he's just doing it into his
Speaker 1: hand over and over the little microphone call. Yeah please.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo tied his career with three down fastest map
Speaker 1: for you. It ran for a bucket seventy two yards
Speaker 1: of total offense seventeen lacking of the host Bengals. The
Speaker 1: Niners open their season with back to back roan wins.
Speaker 1: How about that two and over the first time since
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve. You may remember we were there, most
Speaker 1: of us. They went to the Super Bowl that season. Greg.
Speaker 1: The Bengals were frisky in Week one and Week two
Speaker 1: they were outclassed by the Niners. Well, this was a
Speaker 1: great example of not overreacting to Week one, which we
Speaker 1: all did getting excited about the Bengals and being down.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying we all did. I mean about
Speaker 1: the like and even like being worried about Seattle, and
Speaker 1: then you know, being as worried as we were about
Speaker 1: the forty Niners who put together the best game that
Speaker 1: we've seen under Kyle Shane. I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: dream five hundred and seventy two yards, twelve yards per attempt,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty nine on the ground, and as
Speaker 1: as good a US as well schemed the game as
Speaker 1: there possibly could be because there's just receivers flying open
Speaker 1: for Jimmy Garoppolo all throughout the game. The running game
Speaker 1: was terrific. Mostard had more snaps than Matt Brieda, but
Speaker 1: Matt Brida went twelve one on the ground, so everyone
Speaker 1: was getting there's and and Jimmy g through for two
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns without even really having a big break
Speaker 1: a sweat made. Some really made a few nice throws too,
Speaker 1: but a lot of guys were just streaking through that
Speaker 1: Bengal secondary. Both those guys Breeda and most There it
Speaker 1: can play. I'm not convinced that Tevin Coleman he might
Speaker 1: be the third best runner on this team when he's healthy.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jeff Wilson scored two touchdowns in this game,
Speaker 1: maybe the fourth UM few games, both on the East Coast.
Speaker 1: They win by a combined thirty eight points. And we'll
Speaker 1: find out that the schedule head is not out of control.
Speaker 1: But it's interesting because you're gonna be you come home
Speaker 1: for two games, one against the Steelers, who are gonna
Speaker 1: be desperate. Uh might be starting Mason Rudolph and Mason
Speaker 1: rude could be playing. And then he got the Browns.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens on Monday against the Jets, and
Speaker 1: but that will be an interesting matchup. But this is
Speaker 1: the best case scenario for San Francisco. When you think
Speaker 1: back to um, how how bad things looked when Garoppolo
Speaker 1: was getting his first preseason reps and he played so
Speaker 1: terribly in that game and there and there was just
Speaker 1: this general concern that this was not gonna come together. Well,
Speaker 1: he wasn't very good in Week one West, but this
Speaker 1: game it looks like it was a huge step forward. Um,
Speaker 1: you gotta be feeling pretty good if you're the Niners,
Speaker 1: right now, well, there is a big black cloud hanging
Speaker 1: over this. It might not be the best case scenario
Speaker 1: because arguably the best player on their team, or at
Speaker 1: least on their offense, is the left tackle Joe Stanley.
Speaker 1: What happened to Joe broken fibula looks like he's out
Speaker 1: two months and they have very little depth behind him.
Speaker 1: It'll be interested to see if they move Mike McGlinchey,
Speaker 1: their right right tackle, over the left tackle. But then
Speaker 1: are you hurting two positions with one moved. That's where
Speaker 1: stacking that win in Tampa, where they didn't play well
Speaker 1: and it was a pretty ugly game that was up
Speaker 1: for grabs in the last five minutes, is so big.
Speaker 1: Like when you have injuries like that. That's a difference
Speaker 1: sometimes between a good season and bad. The Bengals lose
Speaker 1: the game where they play well on the road last week,
Speaker 1: the Fortins managed to win an ugly if you're the Bengals,
Speaker 1: the twenty five yards rushing in this game, and they
Speaker 1: were the team that I thought changed a lot of
Speaker 1: minds last week, and maybe not permanently. West Yours mind
Speaker 1: was not changed. The three of us I think maybe
Speaker 1: fell and spell to some degree because they look different
Speaker 1: to me on offense. I thought that they looked like
Speaker 1: a new like totally. They had a completely different, revised
Speaker 1: plan on offense. And today is is killing you. And
Speaker 1: the Niners had another big turn over Kwan Alexander coming
Speaker 1: back from his ejection a week ago. That changed the game.
Speaker 1: And yeah, as as good as the vibes are last week,
Speaker 1: as Cincinnati, as low as they are now, they're owing
Speaker 1: to you. Gotta win a football game next week. Let's
Speaker 1: move on first for the National Footballs got it looks
Speaker 1: just looks loose, glows deep middle is outstanding yard and
Speaker 1: the Lions definite league for the first time to day.
Speaker 1: That was a great job. But Kenney Golladay shielding the
Speaker 1: defensive back, keeping them on the back side, coming up
Speaker 1: with a hands catch touch. You don't think they're saying
Speaker 1: that in their little apartment rooms. Huge estates Uh and
Speaker 1: uh we know Jons House. That's it's looking pretty good,
Speaker 1: Dan Miller and Loomis Brown with a call for the
Speaker 1: Lions radio network jaunty Uh. Matthew Stafford threw that go
Speaker 1: ahead thirty one yard touched up past the Kenny Golladay
Speaker 1: midway through the fourth quarter. The difference in the thirteen
Speaker 1: ten went over the Chargers at Ford Field. God they
Speaker 1: put the lines ahead with one after ahead and Darius
Speaker 1: Slay made its stand up with his interception with one
Speaker 1: minute to play. West. This doesn't sound like it was
Speaker 1: the most beautiful display football, but the Lions will after
Speaker 1: Week three without a loss. They got a tie too,
Speaker 1: but they have a loss. That was a grown man
Speaker 1: catch by Kenny Golladay with one of the best cornerbacks
Speaker 1: in the league hanging on his back Casey hey word.
Speaker 1: That was a big play, and the Chargers can blame themselves.
Speaker 1: They had a three drive sequence. First drive, two touchdowns
Speaker 1: called back on penalty, and then a fumble at the
Speaker 1: one yard line. The next two drives missfield goals on
Speaker 1: each of them, and it's hard to blame them for
Speaker 1: going with um Ti is it? Thai Long, their kicker
Speaker 1: who was Special Teams Player of the Week short in
Speaker 1: Week one. This is a guy who nailed eight eight
Speaker 1: percent of his kicks as an All star kicker in
Speaker 1: the CFL. They had reason to believe he could kick.
Speaker 1: In addition to punt, he misses two with the game
Speaker 1: on the line, and to me, this is the NFL
Speaker 1: and anybody who tells you that some soccer player can
Speaker 1: come in and just take over kicking duties, like it's
Speaker 1: no big deal. It's ridiculous analysis, and it's incredibly disrespectful
Speaker 1: day it's it's awful analysis against the pass rush with
Speaker 1: angles to beat, with pressure on you. It's way different
Speaker 1: than kicking a fifty five yard field going practice. Give
Speaker 1: me a break, give NFL there's a little bit of respect. Well,
Speaker 1: even the great one didn't. Matt Prater missed two kicks
Speaker 1: in this game too. It's hard to kick in the NFL,
Speaker 1: so even even the best of them are missing him
Speaker 1: back and forth. This unfortunately Chargers fans who love Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers and and know that they're lucky but probably have
Speaker 1: a little part of them that are is like remembers
Speaker 1: these types of players. The interception by Rivers West at
Speaker 1: the end of the game, like, I mean, that's just
Speaker 1: a play. You don't expect the veteran quarterback to make. Well,
Speaker 1: he was picking on Darius Slay all day and then
Speaker 1: Slay came up big with the game on the line. There.
Speaker 1: It does feel like if you're a Chargers fan, you
Speaker 1: keep waking up into the same awful reality of oh,
Speaker 1: half our team is injured, and oh, our kicker suddenly
Speaker 1: is hurt, and there's a backup kicker flooding kicks and
Speaker 1: we're losing to the Lions by three points in a
Speaker 1: terrible looking doom. I'll have to go back and pay
Speaker 1: a little bit closer attention. But to me, we asked
Speaker 1: the question, how many players can you take away from
Speaker 1: the Chargers and have them be less talented or than
Speaker 1: the Lions. They were in control of this game for
Speaker 1: most of the game, and they really had no business losing.
Speaker 1: But maybe the taking the kicker away is making you
Speaker 1: just a little bit less talentant than the Lion. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's if it's coaching. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure Stafford got rid of the ball quickly. But the
Speaker 1: entire Chargers team had one quarterback hit and no sacks,
Speaker 1: and even that hit was from a cornerback. So they
Speaker 1: shut down Joey Bosa in Melvin Ingram West. What happened
Speaker 1: to our t J Hockenson hype express one catch for
Speaker 1: seven yards on three targets. Well, the Lions offense didn't
Speaker 1: do too much outside of carry on Johnson for a while.
Speaker 1: It was basically carry on Johnson and Kenny Golladay. Again,
Speaker 1: I'll have to take a closer look. This was sort
Speaker 1: of my second game with the Cowboys, so I want
Speaker 1: to take a closer look on Hackinson. But the Lions
Speaker 1: didn't really do much until that Canny Golladay touchdown. And
Speaker 1: we know West was bathing in that Cowboys action. We
Speaker 1: were watching that like the that the Dolphins are tanking
Speaker 1: to try to like avoid being the type of team
Speaker 1: the Lions are. The Lions are just squarely. It feels
Speaker 1: like right and headed for the middle all of the NFL.
Speaker 1: It's not bad. You know you're gonna have some fun weeks.
Speaker 1: Another way to look at it, undefeated, that's true. Let's
Speaker 1: move up and they have Brown and Gordon to the left.
Speaker 1: They spread it against the Dolphins with an empty set
Speaker 1: from the guard. Brady takes the snap and retreats. He
Speaker 1: looks left. He fires the back shoulder Brown touchdown. Patriots inside,
Speaker 1: but you're left pylon. Welcome Anno England kid by the
Speaker 1: quarterback to the back, shops Antonio O'Brien truss bumping run
Speaker 1: from the slot. Brady signals to the head. He checks
Speaker 1: the playoff and throws a tagger to the orts pylon.
Speaker 1: That's how you run the back shoulder faid, folks, tell
Speaker 1: elite talent right there. Good for you. Charming Bob Sochy
Speaker 1: and Scott and Zolak with the call for the Patriots
Speaker 1: radio network. Antonio Brown caught a touchdown pass and his
Speaker 1: Patriots debut, and the Patriots ran back two interceptions for touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick kept coming after his former pupil, Brian Flores
Speaker 1: to the end forty three zip clown suit competition at
Speaker 1: the stadium formerly known as Joe Robbie. The Patriots have
Speaker 1: outscored opponent in the first two weeks, and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have been outscored one oh two to ten. Mark there
Speaker 1: was only one NFL team on the field in this game.
Speaker 1: Yes or no Yes for the second week in a row.
Speaker 1: That's true of Miami and thank you. Look get a
Speaker 1: little cough out there, because this theme annoyed me a little.
Speaker 1: I mean, they Patriots made it very clear for all
Speaker 1: the people wondering what would happen with Antonio Brown out
Speaker 1: of the gate, that they were going to lean on
Speaker 1: him right away. He he got the first three catches
Speaker 1: and his fourth was for that score, and when I
Speaker 1: watched the Dolphins, you know, it was thirteen nothing and
Speaker 1: a half time, and you almost got the sense of
Speaker 1: the Patriots were really not going all out on this.
Speaker 1: In this situation, Miami cannot on either side of the
Speaker 1: ball push anyone around at all. It's it's I get
Speaker 1: it what you're trying to do. You're trying to position
Speaker 1: yourself to get a generational quarterback that you can build
Speaker 1: an entire team around you. There's a lot of steps
Speaker 1: to that. Number One is getting there in real time,
Speaker 1: which is going to be a very long process for
Speaker 1: everyone involved on this team. And I like the creative
Speaker 1: approach in terms of NFL team building, but you've got
Speaker 1: to nail that draft pick. Who even knows that that
Speaker 1: quarterback exists right now? And I just wonder who comes
Speaker 1: out on the other side of this still attached and
Speaker 1: willing to sign up for a year two because it's
Speaker 1: gonna it's already for Brian Flores has to feel like
Speaker 1: they've been through eighteen weeks. This is impossible to watch,
Speaker 1: impossible on the eyes. And if your Ryan Fitzpatrick, who
Speaker 1: was held to about seventeen yards passing on an offense
Speaker 1: that had about thirty eight yards total at halftime. And
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like this week after week. Ryan Fitzpatrick's
Speaker 1: struggles through two and a half quarters, they bring in
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen to mop up, if that's what you want
Speaker 1: to call it. A game that is utterly lost, and
Speaker 1: it's it's we. This is looking like the worst team
Speaker 1: in NFL history, And I don't care about anyone that's
Speaker 1: going on Owen sixteen. You look at that Browns team
Speaker 1: to do that, they were much more competitive in games. Well,
Speaker 1: how many teams in the NFL history have ever tried
Speaker 1: to tank their season their entire season? Well, no, that's
Speaker 1: on one hand. I would imagine that's on one hand.
Speaker 1: But when the processes is ongoing. Minka Fitzpatrick played in
Speaker 1: this game. He's not expected to play next week because
Speaker 1: the reports in Miami are that the trade trade is
Speaker 1: close enough where the Dolphins believe they're gonna get a
Speaker 1: first rounder back and they and they're probably gonna move
Speaker 1: on from him. Kenyan Drake might be another guy that
Speaker 1: gets moved. I think the you know, the defense I
Speaker 1: think was competitive, kept kept the Patriots from scoring a
Speaker 1: ton of points until late in the third. The offense
Speaker 1: had two first downs late in the third quarter. The
Speaker 1: problem is Danna Jeremiah said this is you know, he
Speaker 1: watched the tape from last week. He thinks it might
Speaker 1: be the worst off defensive line in history. Now and
Speaker 1: maybe it's not the worst team in history, but the
Speaker 1: offensive line is giving Ryan Fitzpatrick and when Josh Rosen
Speaker 1: is out there apps no chance and it's going to
Speaker 1: give their offense no chance to move. It's they they
Speaker 1: have been pushed around to an embarrassing level in two weeks.
Speaker 1: But I would also look at their defense and say
Speaker 1: maybe they maybe they were competitive for a stretch today.
Speaker 1: They also look at last week they were I mean,
Speaker 1: as they're also playing the Patriots and a defense that
Speaker 1: is loaded for bear right now, you know, but it's
Speaker 1: forty three nothing. It's like they like they played two
Speaker 1: great teams over Week one and two, and so maybe
Speaker 1: every week won't won't it won't all look like this,
Speaker 1: But it's hard to get wiped out more than they
Speaker 1: have in two weeks. And also, you know, these are
Speaker 1: human beings like you. They players are not gonna be
Speaker 1: all in or even vaguely in, and you're gonna start
Speaker 1: to play for yourself you've lost huge chunks of the
Speaker 1: locker room already. These are savvy dudes, like they're not thinking, Oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna turn this thing around when the team is
Speaker 1: week after week trading away your talent. Patriots did have
Speaker 1: some bad news in this game. They lose their left
Speaker 1: tackle Isaiah Win. He was replaced by Corey Cunningham, who
Speaker 1: is yeah foot injury, who was you know, traded for
Speaker 1: is kind of a placement level player. They started Marshall Newhouse,
Speaker 1: who signed on the team on Wednesday, and I believe
Speaker 1: pff Adam graded as the lowest ranked player in the
Speaker 1: entire NFL this week, So that was their thinnest position
Speaker 1: in the enda. If you're looking for a reason for
Speaker 1: hope here, Dan, I think that was their thinnest position
Speaker 1: on the roster by a good deal going into the
Speaker 1: year and they've lost both their starters in the first
Speaker 1: two weeks. Well, I don't root for injuries, Greg, but yes,
Speaker 1: I would like someone to challenge the Patriots in the
Speaker 1: a f C right now. It is not looking good.
Speaker 1: But I don't take a lot of I don't take
Speaker 1: a lot lot of these Dolphins games. As much as
Speaker 1: it was fun watching Lamar Jackson did last week. Who
Speaker 1: is this opponent? I would say, you could take this
Speaker 1: so if you tell me when you when you check
Speaker 1: this game out, if you disagree Brady and Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: as much as as annoying as that play call was
Speaker 1: from the Homerisms, they're like they already are in sync
Speaker 1: and it is an extreme to the point where Josh
Speaker 1: Gordon was unnecessary in the first half. They're in sync
Speaker 1: and he's going to be a mass effect. And he
Speaker 1: only played twenty five snaps, which is really injured, like
Speaker 1: less than Ryan is, you know, about a third as
Speaker 1: much as Julian Edeman. But they threw the ball to
Speaker 1: I do wonder if there's a chance is the only
Speaker 1: game Antonio Brown place for the Patriots the NFL is
Speaker 1: meeting with his sexual assault accuser on Monday. I think
Speaker 1: it's very strange that he played in this game with
Speaker 1: that looming over them, that there's a chance that the
Speaker 1: NFL could potentially put him on the Commissioner's exemplest. I
Speaker 1: would assume it's possible based on how that meeting goes
Speaker 1: and the findings that they have, and it just why,
Speaker 1: like why was that necessary until this process? The reports
Speaker 1: that they would not have signed him had they known
Speaker 1: this was coming. So then you so this is here
Speaker 1: and now you play him to meet I don't don't
Speaker 1: hear those reports. That's the thing is if if if
Speaker 1: I like to hear them right, I'm saying, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna put that report out there, like show us with like,
Speaker 1: don't play him. Their actions do not match anything else.
Speaker 1: Put an adult in the room next time. Somebody has
Speaker 1: to make a decision on this guy. Please, and uh
Speaker 1: the know I mentioned how Belichick kept them going after
Speaker 1: Brian flores Um. According to miniche Meda, greg I knows
Speaker 1: scotch ump in arms your hand motions through eight times
Speaker 1: they had two pick sixes, and Bill Belichick called a
Speaker 1: zero blitz on the final play of a forty three
Speaker 1: nothing win. Zero blitz, if you don't know, is when
Speaker 1: you send the house at the passer. He did that
Speaker 1: forty three nothing Well, Rosen couldn't handle it was eighteen.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you think Belichick agree? Stop defending this
Speaker 1: was a joke. Let's move on. Zero blitz second in
Speaker 1: again three win left side the Sam Josh Allen looks
Speaker 1: for blocks, Gonna try to run it in himself, headed
Speaker 1: to the corner of the end in touchdown Buffalo Josh
Speaker 1: Allen his second touchdown run of the year. This one
Speaker 1: goes six yards around the right side and it looked
Speaker 1: him awful lot like the one left week untouched. There.
Speaker 1: The Bills pull two guys out in front, gets a
Speaker 1: great cut block online back for Ryan Connolly to set
Speaker 1: up the scoring touchdown. John Murphy and Eric would with
Speaker 1: the call for the Bill's radio network. Josh al ran
Speaker 1: for one touchdown through for another. The Bill's cruise to
Speaker 1: win over the Giants at MetLife Stadium. It completes a
Speaker 1: metal and sweep by the Bills to start the season.
Speaker 1: The Bills defense force two turnovers um Trent Murphy and
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer both had picks, allowed only three of the
Speaker 1: giants eleven drives to spend longer than six plays. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's dominance, mark the Bills in control of this one.
Speaker 1: What an impressive opening two game stretch for the Bills,
Speaker 1: who obviously, as you said, we're on the road and
Speaker 1: you guys got tired of me mentioning this to you downstairs.
Speaker 1: But Sean McDermott I thought had an ingenious plan and
Speaker 1: it's a little O. C. D. And it's a little superstitious.
Speaker 1: It's in a little bit overorganized to mixed all into one.
Speaker 1: But they stayed at the same hotel. They put the
Speaker 1: players in the same exact rooms as last week. The
Speaker 1: coach wore the same clothing day after day, and they
Speaker 1: went out and they drummed a second New York team.
Speaker 1: And the Bills to me are a playoff team if
Speaker 1: they're getting if they keep getting the coaching that they're
Speaker 1: getting from McDermott and from Leslie Fraser as the defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: and surprisingly to me, Brian Daball as well, I think
Speaker 1: has done a really, really good job. Josh Allen has
Speaker 1: impressed me two weeks in a row by overcoming mistakes.
Speaker 1: The four turnovers last week could have buried some quarterbacks
Speaker 1: we've seen who struggle with confidence in this in this
Speaker 1: early season. He bounced back from that. Took a couple
Speaker 1: of bad sacks early on in this game, didn't phase them.
Speaker 1: They've got just enough on the ground with Frank Gore
Speaker 1: and Devin Singletary. I like Singletary a lot. He got
Speaker 1: bang banged up in this game. They're getting just enough
Speaker 1: from Cole Beasley and the rest through the air and
Speaker 1: their defense at Oliver, when you nail these first round
Speaker 1: picks like they have at Oliver looks like a star already.
Speaker 1: He helped generate on a bad pass, a big turnover
Speaker 1: in this one. And the Giants are an absolute wandering
Speaker 1: lost ship and I don't even know where to go?
Speaker 1: Is it their defense that could not be more confused
Speaker 1: and leave Bill's players more wide open and has an
Speaker 1: absolute talent train or an offense and a coaching staff,
Speaker 1: especially if you're Pat Shermer, I don't know who is
Speaker 1: not allowing you to start your other quarterback at this point,
Speaker 1: just to see what would happen. Because if you continue
Speaker 1: on this path with Eli Manning, you are not going
Speaker 1: to be a head coach. You need a spark, you
Speaker 1: need someone to come in. We've been saying it every
Speaker 1: the entire world has been saying and everyone but the
Speaker 1: Giants organization. It's not just that Eli Manning is better
Speaker 1: than we think and we're just piling on him. He
Speaker 1: was the problem today, along with an offense that after
Speaker 1: the first drive with Sequon Barkley has no ability to
Speaker 1: surprise anyone. If you could, you're gonna get scored on
Speaker 1: on that first drive two weeks in a row. That happens.
Speaker 1: Then you just drop a bomb on him and the
Speaker 1: Giants have no answer. Jack Rabbit Jenkins after the game
Speaker 1: through his pass rush under the bus, saying that he
Speaker 1: can't cover for ten seconds on every play. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then Pat Shammer said, look, we're not going to take
Speaker 1: a look at the quarterback situation. Eli is not the problem. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't. It shocks me at an NFL coach would
Speaker 1: would come out of this game, uh, saying that there's
Speaker 1: a they have a lot of problems. They don't they're
Speaker 1: talent poor, and they have an old quarterback that they
Speaker 1: have to make a switch up Bill bills right now
Speaker 1: are QB killers? I mean they am not that they
Speaker 1: you know, gave Sam Darren momano, but they made him
Speaker 1: look well, you know, we don't know. They gave him
Speaker 1: the worst performance. I think Mary's Thomas might have given
Speaker 1: him on that's that's they gave him the worst performance
Speaker 1: you know a quarterback had last week? Really and it
Speaker 1: sounds like similar to Eli Manning nine passes defense, it's
Speaker 1: that secondary is a veteran secondary and they fly to
Speaker 1: the Ball's a tough, likable well coached team, and maybe
Speaker 1: the Jets and Giants both end up drafting in the
Speaker 1: top five. So these two wins won't seem as impressive
Speaker 1: late in the season, but going on the road the
Speaker 1: first two weeks of the season, that's pretty good. And
Speaker 1: everyone you know says, the Patriots have this cake schedule
Speaker 1: early in the year and it gets harder, but they
Speaker 1: have the Bills in a couple of weeks. They that
Speaker 1: could be a matchup of two three and oh teams
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, because because Buffalo has the Trevor Simeons showing week,
Speaker 1: and people forget that Buffalo gave New England fits on
Speaker 1: on Monday Night football last season. And so the Bills
Speaker 1: finally they have their home opener, that's right, their home
Speaker 1: opener next week against the Bengals. Bye bye since and
Speaker 1: then you've got New England at home the next week
Speaker 1: at one p m. EA. St't don't bumble against Cincinnati, though,
Speaker 1: because if you stubble against Cincinnati and then get killed
Speaker 1: in New England, also you're two and two and all
Speaker 1: this juice is gone. Take care of business next. This
Speaker 1: doesn't feel to me like the Bills teams of old
Speaker 1: that have done that systematically year after year, they feel
Speaker 1: a little bit different. I hope you're right. All right,
Speaker 1: let's hope I'm right. Preshot under center, sucking down six
Speaker 1: with a play fight for Eli. He's got a lot
Speaker 1: of time deep for the middle. He's got a man
Speaker 1: of the middle fields and it's tune for the text
Speaker 1: down to Dvin Smith. How about Davin Smith? You're all
Speaker 1: that's just play action in the backfield. They've got no
Speaker 1: safety in the middle of the field. Devin Smith, because
Speaker 1: runs away from Josh Mormon. Here, great route, great, great,
Speaker 1: great pass protection, great call by tell him more. Brad
Speaker 1: Sham the Sham God, and Babe Lappenberg with a call
Speaker 1: k R l D stay hot. Dak Prescott, the Cowboys quarterback,
Speaker 1: carved up the Redskins defense with his arms and legs
Speaker 1: thirty two sixty three touchdowns and sixty nine yards rushing
Speaker 1: in the thirty one one Cowboys win West Well. Zeke
Speaker 1: Elliott eventually take full control this offense once he rounds
Speaker 1: into shape where we all of a sudden in the
Speaker 1: middle of us sneaky EVV m VP candidate Dak type Dakassans.
Speaker 1: I absolutely think Dak can be an m VP candidate
Speaker 1: this year, considering the strength of that roster and what
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore has done with the offense, and then add
Speaker 1: on top of it Dak Prescott's improvements starting with the
Speaker 1: second half of last year. He entered this game with
Speaker 1: the most passing yards in the NFL over the previous
Speaker 1: nine games going back to last season. He has been
Speaker 1: playing well for a long time now, and in this
Speaker 1: game you saw another playmaker emerge, a guy I've been
Speaker 1: talking about. Devin Smith led the team in receiving in
Speaker 1: this game, burned Josh Norman, which seems like not that
Speaker 1: great of a feat. I think we could do that now.
Speaker 1: Josh Norman is getting burned a lot on deep balls.
Speaker 1: Michael Gallant burned him on another deep ball and Dak
Speaker 1: missed threw it turned him around on the play um.
Speaker 1: After last week, Dak had a perfect passer rating sluggish
Speaker 1: starting this one, and the interception off Randall Cobbs hands
Speaker 1: was his fault. It was a bad throw, But then
Speaker 1: he completed eighteen straight passes at one point in this
Speaker 1: He is getting hot with Kelly Moore calling the plays,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's a coincidence. You do have
Speaker 1: to point out the caveat that the Giants defense is terrible.
Speaker 1: The Redskins secondary was injured coming up into this game
Speaker 1: and suffered another cornerback injury during the game. So I
Speaker 1: think you have to say, let's let's hold off and
Speaker 1: see if this truly is one of the most dynamic
Speaker 1: offenses in the NFL. So far this year, they have
Speaker 1: been Prescott led Dallas on consecutive touchdown drives of night
Speaker 1: three and seventy five yards. Well, and they're different. You know,
Speaker 1: Dan has been on Seahawks owner there's no one, and
Speaker 1: been on Devin Smith corner like Chris Westley, And to me,
Speaker 1: that is emblematic of the fact that this team is
Speaker 1: a little deeper that they have guys like Devin Smith
Speaker 1: and Gout. On a day where you know, Cooper gets
Speaker 1: forty four yards and Randall Cobb gets twenty four yards,
Speaker 1: they're still putting up four seventy four doing what a
Speaker 1: really good team should do, which is control a game
Speaker 1: on the road against an inferior opponent in the division
Speaker 1: and just walking into two and no. I think I
Speaker 1: think you can't lose against the Redskins and the Giants
Speaker 1: right now if you're the Eagles or Cowboys. You just
Speaker 1: need to rack up four wins against those two teams.
Speaker 1: And on the one series where they sat Zeke for
Speaker 1: the entire series, Pollard came in. They marched right down
Speaker 1: the field. Pollard scored and lost a touchdown on a penalty,
Speaker 1: but they ended up with a field goal on that
Speaker 1: and it didn't feel like I mean, Zike played well.
Speaker 1: He played much better than he did last week. He
Speaker 1: went on over a hundred yards because he had a
Speaker 1: twenty seven yard or to salt the lead late in
Speaker 1: the game. But this was not something where Zeke carried
Speaker 1: the team. No matter who they're putting back there, they're
Speaker 1: moving the ball. My biggest concern for the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: this is a little more long range after what could
Speaker 1: be who knows a super Bowl season for them, is
Speaker 1: that Kellen Moore, with the way that coaches are being
Speaker 1: promoted at such rapid pace, could be a head coach
Speaker 1: by mid January. And if it, if Dallas doesn't have
Speaker 1: decisive nature to make him their head coach, I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be somewhere else. And then you're stuck
Speaker 1: with a one and done scenario. There's no way. Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones is letting this guy out of the building. He'll
Speaker 1: make him the head coach. You're giving me flashbacks because
Speaker 1: they did not let Jason Garrett go not to Baltimore
Speaker 1: when he was the hot rising guy, and Garrett decided
Speaker 1: to stay as the highest paid assistant in NFL history
Speaker 1: by far, to stay for another year and then eventually
Speaker 1: got the job. I'm with you, you can't like it's early.
Speaker 1: What's the Super Bowl? I think everything's gonna be. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's debate the move. It's like going
Speaker 1: to Switzer, except the better. It's not insane. I think
Speaker 1: I could see fire Jason Garrett if if they won
Speaker 1: the Super ifew if it is largely identify that it
Speaker 1: was Kellen Moore's you know they've had Jason Garrett whatever.
Speaker 1: If it was Kelly Moore's influence, they flipped the switch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they might have the top two candidates. Crazy. Why is
Speaker 1: that crazy? The Cowboys win the Super Bowl, you would
Speaker 1: fire Jason Garrett to make sure Kellen Moore didn't get
Speaker 1: out the door. If the if the Cowboys win the
Speaker 1: Singer Bowl, it's because Kellen Moore is the guy pulling
Speaker 1: the d It's not my coaching Candida. On the other
Speaker 1: side of the Chris Jerry Jones is also the guy
Speaker 1: who insanely fired Jimmy Johnson. He can do insane things,
Speaker 1: and he's done them before and they'll do them again.
Speaker 1: The only in same thing is we're having the conversation
Speaker 1: after week two. But I like it. We're ahead of
Speaker 1: the game on this one. And if the cow if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are a soap opera, if the Cowboys are entertainment,
Speaker 1: what a better cliffhanger than after being so unbelievably loyal
Speaker 1: to Jason Garrett for a decade back, they have jumping
Speaker 1: off this bus too fired up? Right when he wins
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, no one's gonna see that he altered
Speaker 1: coming people be coming back for seeing. I should have
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh and let Ja Gruden go there you go,
Speaker 1: all right? Um by the much more saying to keep
Speaker 1: Jake Gruden. Um. Devin Smith tours a c L twice
Speaker 1: as a second round pick of the Jets. This one's
Speaker 1: not one of those ones. You're like, h they blew
Speaker 1: it again the Jets. I'm happy for this guy, like
Speaker 1: he was basically, uh, he was a great college player,
Speaker 1: amazing athleticism, and it looked like his body just was
Speaker 1: never gonna cooperate. He gets the chance with the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and making the most of it. Anybody could have had him.
Speaker 1: This was his first catches since two thousand sixteen. Um,
Speaker 1: all right for you on the play clock to one
Speaker 1: snap to Ryan. Here comes Philly quick prow. This is
Speaker 1: Leo jos forty five forty thirty ten five touchdown at Latta.
Speaker 1: Holy goodness, smokes. What a great call by either Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan or KRK Cutter or both. They showed selloutlets. They've
Speaker 1: been showing zero coverage and coming with everybody that wouldn't
Speaker 1: covering somebody. All Atlanta needed was one block. They got
Speaker 1: the walk on the perimeter and who shows the world
Speaker 1: class speed to put it in the end zone. When
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons needed a big play, they went to
Speaker 1: the big man, Jule Julio Jones, who takes the screen
Speaker 1: pass perfectly executed and goes fifty four yards to the
Speaker 1: end zone, putting the Falcons ahead, and they stayed ahead.
Speaker 1: It got a little dicey there at the end with
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz making a charge deep into Falcons territory, but
Speaker 1: they get the stop on fourth down and secure a
Speaker 1: much needed twenty four to twenty win over the Eagles.
Speaker 1: The Falcons approved to one and one. The Eagles dropped
Speaker 1: to one in one. Greg this is a um really
Speaker 1: quality Sunday night football game, especially the second half where
Speaker 1: things got really dicey. Nelson Aglar is not going to
Speaker 1: sleep tonight. That dropped down the sideline would have put
Speaker 1: the Eagles back ahead, and then we see what happens
Speaker 1: with the Falcons, but that's not how it all played out,
Speaker 1: and the Falcons get the w. You like to see
Speaker 1: the team that look like the better team for most
Speaker 1: of the night get the win. That the Falcons moved
Speaker 1: the ball better for most of the night. They were
Speaker 1: certainly the healthier team. The Eagles seemed to have the
Speaker 1: worst injury luck in the league. Where you talked about
Speaker 1: it earlier at the NFC South, how wide open it is,
Speaker 1: and this was a reminder how quickly Week one can evaporate.
Speaker 1: Because the Falcons are feeling great right now on a
Speaker 1: night where Matt Ryan through three interceptions, through some of
Speaker 1: the passes that everyone like you, the doubters, Dan Handis,
Speaker 1: you were getting I'm in here and I didn't doubt him,
Speaker 1: I challenged, I think he heard motivated him. You called
Speaker 1: them a bum uh. I said, do something right here
Speaker 1: in a big spot, Matt Ryan, I'm sick of you
Speaker 1: not coming up big. And what do you do? He
Speaker 1: came up big, He went to the plane, changed the
Speaker 1: call at the line of scrimmage, scene that Jim Schwartz
Speaker 1: once again playing without a safety bringing the house, which
Speaker 1: he brought the house all second half, and Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: made him pay on that and Jake Matthews with a
Speaker 1: pancake block. It was just a perfectly executed play by
Speaker 1: a Falcon's offense that has been maligned in the post
Speaker 1: Uh Shannahan Shanahan years. But for one night and one
Speaker 1: play call, everything was right and they and they really
Speaker 1: should have lost. I mean, if you think about the
Speaker 1: agile ARPI, maybe who knows, maybe Matt Ryan would have
Speaker 1: gone back down the field to the fact that the
Speaker 1: Eagles were in this game despite Carson wentzaid about eighty
Speaker 1: nine yards at some point in the fourth quarter with
Speaker 1: two interceptions. He had been hit all night. They lose
Speaker 1: Aushan Jeffrey, they lose the Sean Jackson, and yet the
Speaker 1: Eagles were still right in that game to to have
Speaker 1: agil Or drop it and missed the chance to win there.
Speaker 1: This in so many ways other than the Ryan picks,
Speaker 1: This is the kind of defense and the kind of
Speaker 1: game that dan Quinn wants. I think if if the
Speaker 1: Falcons find a way to not win this game. Okay,
Speaker 1: I forgot about that Garry now? Is that's all a song?
Speaker 1: She know what? She's croony? Now the newer version is
Speaker 1: even lesser than that version. Well, she's heading in the
Speaker 1: wrong direction. So I've got nothing to worry about. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're the Falcons, dan Quinn is faced with questions
Speaker 1: all week about his job security and the direction of
Speaker 1: a team that you know everyone was all in on
Speaker 1: dan Quinn, and if they start oing too, they look
Speaker 1: farther removed from that Super Bowl year than ever imaginable.
Speaker 1: I'm still concerned though, about an offense where Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: is thrown five picks in two games. He had what
Speaker 1: West seven all year? You mentioned the leading rusher is
Speaker 1: Edo Smith with thirty two yards. DeVonta Freeman, who's back
Speaker 1: from injury, is rushing for two yards per carry. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's nice to escape with a win here,
Speaker 1: but the Dafonte Freeman comeback season is not off to
Speaker 1: a great start. Edo Smith, you mentioned he goes four
Speaker 1: for thirty two. The long was twenty eight yards, so
Speaker 1: he had most on one play. Uh So yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think the Falcons are a finished uh product on offense.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they'll continue to evolved Calvin Ridley and Julio Jones
Speaker 1: again like one of the best one two punches in
Speaker 1: the league. I just want to get back to the
Speaker 1: Eagles for a second here, went This is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite and need to rewatch this game, but especially
Speaker 1: the second half was one of my favorite Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: games I've ever seen because he did nothing and the
Speaker 1: Eagles had tons of issues in the first half with
Speaker 1: the injuries, including Wins who went into the pop up
Speaker 1: uh tent for a while after taking that vicious shot
Speaker 1: to his his chops uh and he was he just had,
Speaker 1: you know, great will and spirited in the second half
Speaker 1: of this game. And if alcohol, if alcohol doesn't drop
Speaker 1: that pass, I mean, this is a totally different conversation
Speaker 1: we're having. You can't get too excited about the Falcons
Speaker 1: defense on that last stand because they got bailed out
Speaker 1: on a terrible drop um and then on fourth down
Speaker 1: went in the face of incredible pressure and a crushing
Speaker 1: another crushing hit, hangs in tight and delivers another big reception.
Speaker 1: AlGohar caught this one um and then they you know,
Speaker 1: they got out of it from there. But I think
Speaker 1: the Falcons have a lot of issues still, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna feel good about them cells right now, as they should.
Speaker 1: But I think this team has a lot of work
Speaker 1: to do. Once is still the guy that. You know.
Speaker 1: There were two or three plays tonight where we were
Speaker 1: like he is dead meat, and then he's escaping rolling,
Speaker 1: you know, pulling away from a defender. You think he's
Speaker 1: pulled down. A second time, unfurls a throw, the one
Speaker 1: where the knee is nearly touching the ground and it's
Speaker 1: a completion. He's magical to watch when he's on Grady
Speaker 1: Jarrett with a big game. We talked before the season
Speaker 1: started how the season could come down to Attack McKinley
Speaker 1: and Vic Beasley. Beasley not necessarily a good game. He
Speaker 1: was the guy that that Carson Wentz was carrying on
Speaker 1: his back on one play as he threw, falling to
Speaker 1: his knee. But Vick Beasley did kind of run into
Speaker 1: a key sack late in the game, and McKinley had
Speaker 1: eight hurries and two QB hits, so he was very active.
Speaker 1: Uh for the Falcons. I'm not worried about the stab. Boy,
Speaker 1: give me a break. They're playing the Eagles, one of
Speaker 1: the super Bowl type of favorite teams. It's week two.
Speaker 1: You just try to get out of there with the win,
Speaker 1: and you're you're happy and break. There's no style points.
Speaker 1: You just put this one in the gang and you
Speaker 1: hope you keep getting better. Flat and ugly in week one,
Speaker 1: and this was not a very pretty game either, but
Speaker 1: they did come out on the right end. Well, there's
Speaker 1: no NFC South team that any of us can feel
Speaker 1: good about right now. They should feel the best tonight
Speaker 1: that they're not the team outside both Noel Sean Jeffrey
Speaker 1: in this game that feels so four days old. De
Speaker 1: Sean Jackson leaves with an injury, uh and went still
Speaker 1: almost brought this team back, but he doesn't. They have
Speaker 1: to be worried though about about the injuries. They feels
Speaker 1: like they have some of the worst injury look in
Speaker 1: the entire NFL. And sometimes sometimes that's what it comes
Speaker 1: down like. Sometimes you're I mean, seasons come down to
Speaker 1: luck probably more than anything that that they make the
Speaker 1: tackle on that hurts when he's coming back to the ball,
Speaker 1: so he's half a yard short on fourth down, and
Speaker 1: maybe that's the difference between winning or losing. You stack
Speaker 1: up like three of those versus getting unlucky three times,
Speaker 1: you're eleven and five versus five and eleven. And most importantly,
Speaker 1: there are reports that this affected uh Rick Holiday's fantasy team,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, which certainly directly affects our show,
Speaker 1: in the result of our show and how we're treated.
Speaker 1: Why why does that have anything? I don't know anything. Well,
Speaker 1: because that's what I'm talking about right now. That's why
Speaker 1: we don't get that if your fantasy team is playing.
Speaker 1: I'm abused by Erica that the Julio Jones touchdown costs
Speaker 1: you your fantasy It did, It did, and well they
Speaker 1: also had the Patriots defense on their team, but I
Speaker 1: was still pay it forward. These are the Eagles injuries
Speaker 1: before we sign off, Corey Clement's shoulder, Tim Jarnagin foot
Speaker 1: to Seawan Jackson, Groin, Dallas Goddard, Calf, Alshon, Jeffrey Calf,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, check, for concussion. Nelson Algar check for concussion.
Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey was injured, I mean Jason Peters at the end,
Speaker 1: Dan Hands's check for concussion. Please all right, you'll be
Speaker 1: checked for a concussion with the Jets take out the
Speaker 1: Browns on Monday Night. See this how you really feel?
Speaker 1: Fan hands, a signing off or quiet storm, the mail man,
Speaker 1: the whole plots and Ricky all I find the glads.
Speaker 1: J