Speaker 1: Mc keeffrey doesn't know what the play is, neither does Hurts,
Speaker 1: but they got a stamp it on the third and
Speaker 1: seven and they do Bengals bring the house. Jade lundling
Speaker 1: up from the corner there zone, Jacob King, he did
Speaker 1: dot jun dot ye Jacob, What.
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 3: Holy?
Speaker 4: Now that right, there was a franchise legend being born.
Speaker 4: The Jaden Daniels game happened, and we were all witnesses.
Speaker 3: Nick shook thirty eight to thirty three.
Speaker 4: Of course, those were the words of Bram Weinstein and
Speaker 4: the cackling laughter of London Fletcher on WB I g
Speaker 4: and I don't blame any commander's fan. If you have
Speaker 4: a commander's fan in your life, they were probably texting
Speaker 4: and they were. They were the Lebron meme, Like, I
Speaker 4: just can't believe what has happened. This woe begone franchise
Speaker 4: has a quarterback. Jaden Daniels goes twenty one of twenty
Speaker 4: three for two point fifty four, an NFL rookie record
Speaker 4: for completion percentage for two hundred and fifty four yards,
Speaker 4: two touchdowns, two absolute dimes to Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 3: And before I get to you, Nick I just want
Speaker 3: to take the listeners.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take you just a little bit through that
Speaker 4: last drive. Okay, here's the situation that they're up by
Speaker 4: five points.
Speaker 3: They'd love to get three.
Speaker 4: They'd love to burn clock because the Bengals, for as
Speaker 4: great as the Washington Commanders, played offense all night and
Speaker 4: they didn't punt, and they didn't turn the ball over.
Speaker 4: For a second straight week, the Bengals didn't punt or
Speaker 4: turn the ball over either. This was the first game
Speaker 4: since nineteen forty for that to happen for both teams.
Speaker 4: That's absolutely insane. So he knows you need points. Early
Speaker 4: in the drive third and two on the Commander's side
Speaker 4: of the field, the Bengals set and six. They send
Speaker 4: the house. Jaden Daniels sees where the blitz is coming from.
Speaker 4: He gets around the edge, he calmly completes the pass
Speaker 4: to keep the drive going just poise for days. Later
Speaker 4: in the drive second and twenty one, after Trey Hendrickson
Speaker 4: finally gets home and gets a big time sack, you
Speaker 4: think maybe they can get him off the field. Here
Speaker 4: he calmly takes two shorter throws where the Commanders get
Speaker 4: nice yards after the catch, he doesn't try to get
Speaker 4: it all back in one throw, and the Bengals can't
Speaker 4: tackle like they can't tackle all night. Meanwhile, they're defenders
Speaker 4: are celebrating that they have big hits or that they
Speaker 4: got him down before fourth down. But this isn't the
Speaker 4: old dan Quinn. This isn't the old Commanders. We get
Speaker 4: to fourth and four and they're going for it. They're
Speaker 4: not gonna punt that ball away. Fourth and four. Calmly
Speaker 4: takes a deep drop back to give him a little
Speaker 4: extra time because again he knows the pressure is coming.
Speaker 4: He gets it to zach Ertz to keep that drive
Speaker 4: going and that finally sets up the third and seven.
Speaker 4: They're in field goal range. They can make it an
Speaker 4: eight point lead, but they see what lou Ana Roumo
Speaker 4: is gonna do. He's gonna send six. He might as
Speaker 4: well have sent everyone, because the guys in the middle
Speaker 4: of the field weren't, you know, doing anything. Jadeen Daniels
Speaker 4: knows he's gonna get hit on that play, but he
Speaker 4: sees his guy Terry McLaurin one on one coverage on
Speaker 4: the outside. They give him a chance. Great job by
Speaker 4: Cliff Kingsbury. Great job by Jaden Daniels and Terry McLaurin
Speaker 4: makes one of the catches of the season. The Next
Speaker 4: Gen Stats say it's the most improbable touchdown catch of
Speaker 4: the season because of the quality of the throw to
Speaker 4: just just put it in the smallest of spots, and
Speaker 4: the quality of the catch too, because McLaurin was well
Speaker 4: covered on that play, had no room on the sideline.
Speaker 4: And Nick that the image that's gonna stick with me
Speaker 4: in all this is actually before the fourth down, and
Speaker 4: it's Jade and Daniels yelling over at the sideline to
Speaker 4: Cliff Kingsbury, who had a great night, let's go, let's go,
Speaker 4: let's go. And he's not saying let's go, let's go
Speaker 4: for it. By then, that's assumed they know they're going
Speaker 4: with Jade and Daniels, give you this play man, Let's
Speaker 4: get the play call in. Stop with the delaying and
Speaker 4: in that moment for him to be hurrying up, and
Speaker 4: you know what he did. I think he really did
Speaker 4: get Cliff Kingsbury to hurry it up like quickly. You
Speaker 4: saw him respond. Get it out. They have plenty of
Speaker 4: time to get the fourth down. This kid is something else.
Speaker 4: Forgive me, Nick, but uh, man, this was an awesome moment.
Speaker 4: One of those performances I think we're gonna remember for
Speaker 4: the rest of Jaden Daniels' career.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not awesome that we look at a
Speaker 2: schedule going into a season and think, ooh, Washington Commanders
Speaker 2: National Game Monday, Week three, Yeah, that's gonna be the moment.
Speaker 2: But this was the moment. If you've paid attention to
Speaker 2: Jaden Daniels like we have since the start of the preseason,
Speaker 2: you've seen a confident, composed, poise quarterback who's had the
Speaker 2: maturity and the ability to handle the situation, never been
Speaker 2: sped up by the game. Even in their first two games,
Speaker 2: he had put together nice performance. In that loss to Tampa,
Speaker 2: he put together a good performance and that went over
Speaker 2: in New York. But this was the moment when the
Speaker 2: rest of the football world was introduced to the guy
Speaker 2: who is probably gonna win Offensive Rookie of the Year
Speaker 2: if you're asking me, because he is every part of
Speaker 2: what you saw Monday night. Like you said, twenty one
Speaker 2: to twenty three, the highest completion percentage for a rookie
Speaker 2: with a minimum of twenty one or twenty pass attempts
Speaker 2: in the NFL history at ninety one percent. That is
Speaker 2: the type of quarterback he is, and he delivered over
Speaker 2: and over again that fourth down. He's a weapon with
Speaker 2: his legs. He led the team in rushing. You can't
Speaker 2: stop him through the air, you can't stop him on
Speaker 2: the ground. He had the Bills or the Bengals defense
Speaker 2: on skates all night. Obviously they couldn't make tackles, but
Speaker 2: they also had no answer for him and for him
Speaker 2: to finish it that way by going to Terry McLaurin,
Speaker 2: the guy who hadn't been involved in the offense very
Speaker 2: much in the first two weeks. That was the narrative
Speaker 2: going into the week. Where's Terry McLaurin. Well, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what. There he is. Catch the nifty five yard
Speaker 2: pass over Cam Taylor, Brad who talked a bunch of
Speaker 2: smack about the offense going into the week. A twenty
Speaker 2: seven yard bomb over Dax Hill to plunge the dagger
Speaker 2: into the hearts of Bengals fans everywhere. That is an
Speaker 2: emphatic way to finish the game. Football world, meet Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 2: He ain't going anywhere, Okay, So you're absolutely right.
Speaker 4: I've been watching and you know, my wife I was
Speaker 4: watching the first gat half of this game and she
Speaker 4: was like, who the hell is Jaydeon Daniels. So it's
Speaker 4: like for some people, it truly is being introduced. And
Speaker 4: you know, Walker thinks that's funny and starts repeating, who
Speaker 4: the hell is Jaden Gamnons. Okay's it's not like a
Speaker 4: welcome to our consciousness. This guy's a Heisman Trophy winner.
Speaker 4: He was in college forever, we've known him. And yet
Speaker 4: for all that you said, Nick, I was shocked. I
Speaker 4: wasn't as convinced from the preseason or even the first
Speaker 4: two games. I perhaps stupidly was looking at some of
Speaker 4: the negatives that Troy Aikman talked about during their telecast,
Speaker 4: that he wasn't always seeing the open receivers, some of
Speaker 4: what Cam Taylor Britt talked about before the game. They're
Speaker 4: not going down the field at all. It's this stink
Speaker 4: and dunk offense, Like it was giving me too much
Speaker 4: Kyler Murray when it wasn't working in Arizona flashbacks of
Speaker 4: like this offense just it can't just be all horizontal.
Speaker 4: He was a fantastic runner, so I was excited. I
Speaker 4: loved all the intangibles. But I guess I needed to
Speaker 4: see this too, because it's okay to compare him to
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: That is the comparison.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and for me it is different on some levels,
Speaker 4: but in terms of game style and even this box
Speaker 4: score for much of the night, that's it. I think
Speaker 4: the difference is like that first throw to Terrychlorin, the
Speaker 4: bomb to him. I mean, that was one of the
Speaker 4: prettiest throws of the entire season. I don't know which
Speaker 4: Daniel's throw I like better. That's even prettier than Lamar,
Speaker 4: who doesn't major in like deep throws outside the numbers.
Speaker 3: So they're different in style.
Speaker 4: But I guess I had to see it tonight that
Speaker 4: there just is something a little extra about this kid
Speaker 4: that I think has that whole sideline you could see it,
Speaker 4: believing you could see it in the first or second quarter.
Speaker 3: That really struck me.
Speaker 4: Nick how loose and how much fun they were having
Speaker 4: in the first and second quarter. It was like it
Speaker 4: was like, we've never done anything like this before. This
Speaker 4: is gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2: Let's think about what this franchise was. I mean, a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, Chase Young was pointing at the
Speaker 2: back of Taylor Heineke's jersey. That was where their hope
Speaker 2: was coming from. Now they have a legitimate star in
Speaker 2: the making at quarterback. I know it's only three games,
Speaker 2: but I'm telling you I've seen enough to believe that
Speaker 2: this kid's not He's gonna be around for a long time,
Speaker 2: and he's going to continue to make plays like this,
Speaker 2: and he's gonna be a nightmare for opposing defense. Is
Speaker 2: the great thing about you know what we saw in
Speaker 2: that fifty five yard completion over Cam taylor Bridge to
Speaker 2: set them up for the Daniels rushing score, was he
Speaker 2: missed him earlier in that drive. He had him open
Speaker 2: and ran out of time before he was able to
Speaker 2: actually hit McLaurin for a long what would have been
Speaker 2: a touchdown. And it kind of spoke too well. There
Speaker 2: they are not getting on the same page, and then
Speaker 2: boom they get on the same page. Boom, Daniels is
Speaker 2: in the end zone. And what I also think, and
Speaker 2: you mentioned this with the whole early Kyler Murray and
Speaker 2: everything else, who was his coach, Cliff Kingsbury. In life,
Speaker 2: everything is either a lesson or a blessing. Cliff Kingsbury,
Speaker 2: I think has learned a little bit, even in this
Speaker 2: first month, has learned a little bit because they were
Speaker 2: a great offense between the twenties, but they couldn't finish drives.
Speaker 2: And what do they do tonight? Finished drive after drive,
Speaker 2: three straight touchdown drives to start the game. They went
Speaker 2: perfect throughout that night, didn't have to turn the ball over,
Speaker 2: didn't have to punt, settle for a field goal once.
Speaker 2: That was this team tonight. And I think that that's
Speaker 2: just the maturation of Daniels. It's Cliff's settling in and
Speaker 2: kind of improving in the situations and sometimes he needs
Speaker 2: a little prodding from his rookie quarterback to hurry up
Speaker 2: to get the play call in. That is two guys
Speaker 2: really working in tandem quite well. I'm excited. Terry McLaurin
Speaker 2: talked about it after the game with SVP. He said,
Speaker 2: I think this is a momentum shift for us. You know,
Speaker 2: this is a franchise that's needed that shift for a
Speaker 2: long time, and in dan Quinn's first year, only three
Speaker 2: games in. You never know where something like this could
Speaker 2: take you, right.
Speaker 4: And I love that's really well said, and I love
Speaker 4: as we're getting to do these Nick at Night shows
Speaker 4: together that I'm learning more about. And I like it
Speaker 4: when Nick drives drops the little words of wisdom.
Speaker 3: What was that you said about Cliff. You're either learning
Speaker 3: or you're dy.
Speaker 2: Anything in life is either it's either a lesson or
Speaker 2: a blessing. Somebody told me that in the Sana last
Speaker 2: week at the gym, and I was like, you know,
Speaker 2: that's that's profound if you didn't.
Speaker 3: Tell that part of the story. But I love no,
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: I think it's just like this hard earned wisdom from
Speaker 4: a guy in Nick Schuk who is wise beyond his years.
Speaker 2: I love it, not beyond his hairline that'd betrayed me
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 4: So I mentioned it earlier. But they have gone two
Speaker 4: straight weeks without being stopped. I think it's thirteen straight
Speaker 4: scoring drives. They also had a kneel down that we're
Speaker 4: not counting, you know, at the end of the first
Speaker 4: half a week ago. But that's absolutely insane and I
Speaker 4: don't want to get it lost in this game that
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow in the Bengals.
Speaker 3: Had a good game, not just a good game.
Speaker 4: They scored or attempted a field goal. McPherson missed a
Speaker 4: forty seven yard or early which proved to be, you know,
Speaker 4: an important moment.
Speaker 3: In the game. They scored every time they had the ball.
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow's played really well the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 4: and like we'll we'll get to We'll get to the
Speaker 4: Bengals in a second. But I do just want to
Speaker 4: wrap just on the on the Washington side, pointing out
Speaker 4: that they're now first in the league in EPA per
Speaker 4: drive on the season.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: There's only been three games, and two of them they've
Speaker 4: been almost perfect. McLaurin, who had been so quiet the
Speaker 4: last few weeks too, just outstanding catches, is getting wide open.
Speaker 4: He's been open on tape and it's really cool to
Speaker 4: see him. When they showed the graphic of all the
Speaker 4: different quarterbacks he's played with, I was like Garrett Gilbert.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, yeah, that was like a pandemic.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, was that like a weird pandemic?
Speaker 2: Yeah, frid Time game.
Speaker 3: I thinkt was Cowboys.
Speaker 4: I mean, this kid, I just I relate so much
Speaker 4: to Wes in all these games, and I'll mention it.
Speaker 4: In the Bengals side of things, they were honoring Corey Dillon.
Speaker 4: But I remember a Monday night game that we watched
Speaker 4: actually at an apartment Keisha had with him, the only
Speaker 4: time he ever lived at Keisha's place. It was the
Speaker 4: first time he had cancer. And we watched the Washington
Speaker 4: primetime game with the whole group and it was awesome
Speaker 4: together and Keisha's mom was there too, And I remember Wes,
Speaker 4: who was not feel great at the time, just like
Speaker 4: and I think it was mclaurin's rookie year. He's just like,
Speaker 4: that kid is going to be special. And it's a
Speaker 4: position wide receiver, and he just loved McLaurin from that moment,
Speaker 4: like it's a receiver position that you're just so reliant
Speaker 4: on everything around you. And even after the first couple
Speaker 4: of weeks he had a little worry that maybe this
Speaker 4: isn't going to work at least his role in the offense.
Speaker 4: And suddenly it feels like one of the great NFL
Speaker 4: receivers is going to have a great quarterback to match
Speaker 4: for the next handful of years while he's still kind
Speaker 4: of towards the end of his prime probably, but still
Speaker 4: in his prime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what's great about partnership. That's really starting
Speaker 2: to blossom right in front of us. This is like
Speaker 2: the first step because that's what he's missed for so long,
Speaker 2: and you knew that was going to be an essential
Speaker 2: connection that they would have to if they were ever
Speaker 2: going to get to where they want to go. They
Speaker 2: need to develop that connection. And it is only one game,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure Terry's going to attract a ton of attention,
Speaker 2: as he rightfully should because he is the best weapon
Speaker 2: on this offense. But it was also really nice to
Speaker 2: see Jayden hook up with other guys to lean on
Speaker 2: zach Ertz to find Noah Brown along the goal line
Speaker 2: to set up a touchdown. Like it wasn't just Terry.
Speaker 2: Terry finished with four catchese hundred yards touchdown great, but
Speaker 2: it wasn't just him. And that's why I actually do
Speaker 2: believe in this offense, because they didn't even run the
Speaker 2: ball that well. I mean, Jaden finishes as a leading rusher.
Speaker 2: He had Ackler three for thirty five and Robinson's sixteen
Speaker 2: for a hard earned thirty three and against a Bengals
Speaker 2: front that got torn up by the Patriots in Week one,
Speaker 2: you thought, well, maybe that's where you can make some Hey,
Speaker 2: they didn't even really make that much progress there, and
Speaker 2: yet that didn't matter because of how good their quarterback is,
Speaker 2: and because he got on the same page with Terry
Speaker 2: and was able to spread the ball around. So again,
Speaker 2: super encouraged.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great call. I expected them to run
Speaker 4: the ball so well. Brian Robbins, who's looked much better.
Speaker 4: I think this year actually ends up with only thirty
Speaker 4: three yards and sixteen carries. Austin Eckler, who had a
Speaker 4: big return to start the second half and really let
Speaker 4: everyone know after that first half that was so electric
Speaker 4: by Washington that they weren't gonna go away. He leaves
Speaker 4: with a concussion, which was unfortunate because he's been really
Speaker 4: reborn in this offense. You mentioned Luke McCaffrey, I mean,
Speaker 4: Noah Brown has been a godsend for then. But none
Speaker 4: of them were as exciting and surprising as Jaden Daniels's
Speaker 4: first career touchdown throw.
Speaker 5: Let's listen second goal they brought in an extra offensive
Speaker 5: wineman under center. Daniels got this snap fakes right, throws
Speaker 5: left in the end zone, caught, It's caught by alignment
Speaker 5: in the end zone, and it's craped by Trent Scott,
Speaker 5: the backpedaling fix six catch a six six.
Speaker 1: The lineman caught the touchdown pass. It was a yard away.
Speaker 1: An Washington goes up twenty seven to thirteen. Wait in
Speaker 1: the second half in Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: Shout out to Kevin Harlan there, great job for Westwood
Speaker 4: one Radio, and shout out to Mike Golick Junior, who
Speaker 4: has to feel like he really accomplished something major in
Speaker 4: life that he coined thick six and now Kevin Harlan
Speaker 4: is out there saying it.
Speaker 3: It's that's as someone who just does what we do.
Speaker 4: And I know Mike Golick, you know he was actually
Speaker 4: you know, a college player and everything.
Speaker 3: But someone that does what we do.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's the dream to coin something and
Speaker 4: have Kevin Harlan say it on a big time throw.
Speaker 3: The first ever touchdown pass by.
Speaker 2: Daniels, Yeah, the first ever touchdown pass thrown by a
Speaker 2: rookie selected in the top five in a draft to
Speaker 2: an offensive lineman in NFL history. The only other guy
Speaker 2: to do it JP Losman, who connected with Jason Peters.
Speaker 2: He was a twenty second overall pick. Losman was on
Speaker 2: September eleventh, two thousand and five for the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 4: Are we sure Peters was alignment at that point? He
Speaker 4: came into the league as a tight end, but he
Speaker 4: did he did switch. I think he switched the line
Speaker 4: that they're not gonna they're not gonna get that run.
Speaker 4: JP Lossman from Tulane. All right, let's get to the
Speaker 4: Bengals side. I mentioned Joe Burrow. He was desponding after
Speaker 4: the game. He was almost uncommunicative to be er to three.
Speaker 4: This Bengals team has Super Bowl aspirations and they have
Speaker 4: lost back to back home games that couldn't have been
Speaker 4: any more different. So it's frustrating they don't know what
Speaker 4: is their biggest problem. To the Patriots and now to
Speaker 4: the Commanders. Let's listen to.
Speaker 3: Joe mostrating thing about how that played out.
Speaker 6: You, yeah, that was uh, that was a tough one.
Speaker 3: So we didn't get to wink.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 2: I'll think I've ever seen to go inside not a
Speaker 2: lot of rooms right through.
Speaker 3: The least it's private conversations, aren't.
Speaker 2: So he said something here after that that I thought
Speaker 2: really hit the nail on the head. And it was
Speaker 2: right after I had filed what we learned and what
Speaker 2: sticks out to me. For the Bengals through three weeks
Speaker 2: and especially tonight's just missed opportunities. They had red zone opportunities.
Speaker 2: In week one, they fumbled the ball away. They had
Speaker 2: red zone opportunities. Tonight they installed and had to settle
Speaker 2: for field goals. They missed one of those field goals,
Speaker 2: and he even spoke to it. He just said, the
Speaker 2: common denominator through three weeks is missed opportunities for our offense.
Speaker 2: We just have not cashed in. And in a night
Speaker 2: like tonight, when your defense cannot get a stop, you
Speaker 2: have to play almost perfect, and Joe almost did, but
Speaker 2: they didn't convert in those key moments, and that's what
Speaker 2: the difference of the scoreboard was. And that's gonna be
Speaker 2: their biggest hurdle because as they figure out this defense.
Speaker 2: Lou An Rumo is a venerated defensive coordinator. We know
Speaker 2: why he's earned it. But they're not generating pressure and
Speaker 2: they're not playing as a unit as well as they
Speaker 2: did in past years. So if that's going to be
Speaker 2: what they're gonna be for most of the season, then
Speaker 2: the pressure is going to be on that offense, which
Speaker 2: means they have to cash in consistently, and they just haven't.
Speaker 2: They got T Higgins back tonight. He made somewhat of
Speaker 2: a difference, but they got to be better and they
Speaker 2: just weren't to.
Speaker 4: I mean, okay, but they had thirty first downs in
Speaker 4: this game, and I guess that point four hundred yards right.
Speaker 4: That does point out that they went two for four
Speaker 4: in the red zone. But two for four in the
Speaker 4: red zone is fine. That's that's normal. You shouldn't have
Speaker 4: to be right, you have to be pro now. I
Speaker 4: hear your point, and from his perspective, I get it.
Speaker 4: That's why he's great, That's why he is who he is.
Speaker 4: And there were some frustrating moments. They threw the ball
Speaker 4: on third and goal from the one, and they threw
Speaker 4: it because they weren't winning in short yardage right then.
Speaker 3: But they threw a couple times there.
Speaker 4: And you got to be able to trust your running
Speaker 4: game and you got to be able to execute your
Speaker 4: running game in that situation. Like there was no way
Speaker 4: Washington was going to give up on the running game
Speaker 4: if they got stuffed once or twice. I mean, they
Speaker 4: ran the ball better than the Commanders tonight. I'm stunned
Speaker 4: by that. Chase Brown seven for sixty two looked good.
Speaker 4: Zach Moss very effective, twelve for fifty eight in the touchdown.
Speaker 4: So they ran the ball for six point two yards
Speaker 4: per carry tonight, and so some key decisions where they
Speaker 4: chose not to. Yeah, you could look back, but it's
Speaker 4: all on the defense. And this defense. You can say
Speaker 4: what you want about lou Anrumo. They stunk last year.
Speaker 4: Their run defense is so bad, and then they lose
Speaker 4: DJ Reader, their best run defender, and then this season
Speaker 4: to injury, they've lost BJ Hill and Sheldon Rankin. So
Speaker 4: you had a defense that was set up to defend
Speaker 4: a certain way against a certain team, frankly the Chiefs,
Speaker 4: and in twenty twenty four in Nick Schook's run the
Speaker 4: Damn Ball season, they're not quite set up the same way.
Speaker 4: I've been thinking about this as this season develops, that
Speaker 4: the defenses and the Bears I would throw in there too,
Speaker 4: that are like built to stop the pass, Like that's great,
Speaker 4: you still obviously want to do that, but there's kind
Speaker 4: of a breaking point where if you're a soft run defense,
Speaker 4: this was a terrible matchup for them, and I know
Speaker 4: they ended up stopping the run and everything and ended up,
Speaker 4: but the run set up the pass. And still Jane
Speaker 4: Daniels was extremely effective what he did run in terms
Speaker 4: of pick camp of the yards that he needed, and
Speaker 4: maybe they're not quite built for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Nick took football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, what I'm really concerned about is the pressure
Speaker 2: numbers were so low and the blitz numbers were so
Speaker 2: low until late. I mean, like I took a quick
Speaker 2: look at the stats right after the game because I'm like,
Speaker 2: I felt like they didn't get home all night, and
Speaker 2: they didn't they pressured. The numbers were so low. I
Speaker 2: mean they pressured it the seven pressures the whole night.
Speaker 2: Twenty one point nine percent. That's not gonna get the
Speaker 2: job done. But they only blitzed ten times, and I
Speaker 2: think three or four of them came on that last possession.
Speaker 2: So strategically, do you not believe in your defense enough
Speaker 2: to be able to blitz like you'd think a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 2: What's the number one thing you do to a rookie quarterback?
Speaker 2: You speed him up? How do you speed him up?
Speaker 2: You blitz him. I know he's a mobile guy and
Speaker 2: he's gonna evade guys, but I mean, send the pressure.
Speaker 2: If you're that desperate and yet they didn't. So I
Speaker 2: think there's gonna be a little bit of soul searching
Speaker 2: done with this Bengals defense with Loui an Arrumo and
Speaker 2: trying to figure out, like, how do we fix this
Speaker 2: if we if we go on to face a team
Speaker 2: that may not even run the ball that well, but
Speaker 2: we got to get after and get after the quarterback.
Speaker 2: We got a manufacturer somehow. So very curious to see
Speaker 2: how they evolve over the course of the season, because
Speaker 2: if this holds for a long time, they're gonna be
Speaker 2: a tough spot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I highly suspect they did the door
Speaker 4: to the Belichick thing where you're playing a runner like this,
Speaker 4: and you know it's they're focused on trying to not.
Speaker 3: Let Jayden Daniels out the gate and.
Speaker 4: The rush is a little more cage that. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: a big focus of it. But Hendrickson, like you said,
Speaker 4: didn't get home all night, and Sam Hubbard's been quiet
Speaker 4: this year, and they're just they're just a little thin.
Speaker 4: They have a lot of money to a handful of guys,
Speaker 4: and I think they they honestly just trusted their guys
Speaker 4: in one on one coverage because other than McLaurin, no
Speaker 4: one scares you. But the Washington scheme got them wide open.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'd love to see the average separation because
Speaker 4: there weren't a ton of tight point one like, there
Speaker 4: wasn't a ton of tight window throws. Those two ons.
Speaker 4: McLaurin sure, on the go balls, those are going to
Speaker 4: be tight. But otherwise those guys were open. Cliff did
Speaker 4: a great job. I mean, Cliff has a history not
Speaker 4: to pour a little water on it, but his Arizona
Speaker 4: teams consistently started so fast. We were talking Kyler MVP
Speaker 4: a couple times, like the numbers were dramatic. Weirdly, it
Speaker 4: was similar at Texas Tech that his teams would start
Speaker 4: super fast and then it fall locked. It was like
Speaker 4: a thing. So this is one thing to think about.
Speaker 4: But he is starting fast, and I like that. They
Speaker 4: had a very different game plan tonight than they have
Speaker 4: the first couple of weeks. The Bengals have lost three straight.
Speaker 4: They have a long road. It's a long season. You
Speaker 4: get one extra game now, we're still getting used to that.
Speaker 3: That helps.
Speaker 4: You got the Panthers next week, that helps, But you
Speaker 4: know you're gonna start into the vision scheduled. I think
Speaker 4: the Ravens are after that, and you know, just just
Speaker 4: every game is gonna feel so big. And they are
Speaker 4: only the seven teams since nineteen ninety to lose three
Speaker 4: straight to start the season by six or less, so
Speaker 4: they've all been close. I mean, they gave that Patriots
Speaker 4: game away. That was just a dumb game where they
Speaker 4: made a bunch of boneheaded mistakes. The Chiefs game they
Speaker 4: should have won, and they didn't. They blew it at
Speaker 4: the end, but they should have won that game. They
Speaker 4: outplayed the Chiefs, and then this one where they just
Speaker 4: couldn't stop a nosebleeds. It's adding up, and we'll close
Speaker 4: here on a night in terms of this game, we
Speaker 4: got a whole other game to talk about, Chuck. In
Speaker 4: terms of this game, on a night where they honored
Speaker 4: Corey Dillon, I couldn't help but think first of all
Speaker 4: of Wes again, one of his absolute favorite players, Corey Dillon,
Speaker 4: one of my favorite Patriots of all time. Corey Dillon
Speaker 4: one of my favorite runners. What a natural, instinctive hard runner.
Speaker 4: You can't measure how hard a runner runs. I swear
Speaker 4: no one ran harder than Corey Dyllon My God, I
Speaker 4: mean just the tenacity that he played with was electric
Speaker 4: and he was a special player and they honored him tonight,
Speaker 4: and I thought that was great considering the way it
Speaker 4: all ended and the way it ended with Cincinnati. It
Speaker 4: was a contract dispute and all this stuff, Mike Brown
Speaker 4: not wanting to pay, and it's one of the many
Speaker 4: things that was in Wes's dossier of why he gave
Speaker 4: up being a Bengals fan. And I couldn't help but
Speaker 4: think that in context with what's going on with this team.
Speaker 4: The Jamar Chase thing was weird. I listened to Paul
Speaker 4: Dayner's podcast The Growler. People should check that out. That
Speaker 4: week where they didn't get the contract done after the
Speaker 4: week one of the seasons, it felt like a big loss,
Speaker 4: Like Jamar Chase felt like he lost.
Speaker 3: The Bengals felt like they lost.
Speaker 4: There were some weird stuff going on behind the scenes,
Speaker 4: Like it was really disappointing. They thought they were gonna
Speaker 4: get that done. It didn't get done. Their best player
Speaker 4: wasn't happy, They weren't happy. The t Higgins thing is
Speaker 4: out there. He comes back in this game, and I'm
Speaker 4: not saying that's the reason why they lost tonight. But
Speaker 4: I am saying, like history is instructive, it wasn't all
Speaker 4: like this, these great dan Quinn vibes like the Washington
Speaker 4: has coming into this season. It was like a heaviness
Speaker 4: and the stuff you don't want to be dealing with
Speaker 4: with your best players. Trey Hendrickson asked for a trade,
Speaker 4: you know, in the offseason. It's just like it's a
Speaker 4: little too much same old Bengals for me. And it's
Speaker 4: hard not to think about that when you see Corey
Speaker 4: Dillon's name go up and when you start zero to three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Corey Dillon had an issue with the team
Speaker 2: himself before they finally reversed course and inducted him to
Speaker 2: their Ring of Honor.
Speaker 3: Right, that's what I mean.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was going on for twenty years and
Speaker 4: the only reason he wasn't there was the issues that
Speaker 4: he had with Mike Brown back in.
Speaker 2: The There's a bit of a like a last Dance
Speaker 2: vibe here, but not with like they're going to go
Speaker 2: on to win the title. But just like, you know,
Speaker 2: you have all this money to these stars, you know,
Speaker 2: te Higgins into the franchise tag probably not going to
Speaker 2: be there next year. You know, you got a pay
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase. The pressure is mounting. And the beauty of
Speaker 2: the Bengals before was we had Joe Burrow on a
Speaker 2: rookie contract. We had all these young stars that were
Speaker 2: playing alongside each other and everybody was playing well together.
Speaker 2: Doesn't feel like that anymore. I know it's early, but
Speaker 2: it just doesn't feel like that right now.
Speaker 4: No time moves on and they're not that young, up
Speaker 4: and coming team anymore. With the whole like life in
Speaker 4: front of him. That's the Washington Commanders and Jayden Daniels. Yeah,
Speaker 4: right now, and look, Dough Burrow's just starting as prime.
Speaker 4: Jamar Chase just started as prime. I'm not saying like
Speaker 4: windows are closing. It's nothing like that. But this season
Speaker 4: that they're in right now, it's heavy, and Zach Taylor
Speaker 4: absolutely feels it. We feel it, and there's another team
Speaker 4: that's feeling it that we're gonna talk about after the break.
Speaker 4: Bill's Jags recap and then a little bit of injury
Speaker 4: news coming up in a bit.
Speaker 7: Two receivers to the right along with the tight end
Speaker 7: one to the left and now knocks in motion right
Speaker 7: to left. Here's the stats back to pass pressure coming
Speaker 7: pros has Ty.
Speaker 3: Johnson for a touchdown, a sixteen.
Speaker 7: Yard touchdown reception for Ty Johnson, and.
Speaker 3: Josh Allen has four touchdown pass in the first half.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: We are not kidding you, Chris Brown of wg R.
Speaker 4: Josh Allen was on one Monday night four touchdowns in
Speaker 4: the first half of this game, two hundred and forty
Speaker 4: seven yards in the first half of this game. By
Speaker 4: that point, the score was thirty four to three and
Speaker 4: the game was over. I mean this is like, Hey,
Speaker 4: if you're a beat writer, you love a game like this,
Speaker 4: you're right in at halftime. You barely have to update
Speaker 4: that thing because the story was told, and that throw
Speaker 4: to me Shuk was typical. Here's Josh Allen fading to
Speaker 4: his left, feathering a beautiful ball over a stumbling, bumbling
Speaker 4: Jaguars linebacker who was that Muma, Chad Muma? And he
Speaker 4: hits his like backup tight running back, like his third
Speaker 4: string running back, Ty Johnson, and it's just an absolute
Speaker 4: thing beauty that he makes look so easy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, throwing it over Chad Mooma. That's wyoming on wyoming crime.
Speaker 2: By the way, I love that. How dare you Josh
Speaker 2: Allen take out one of your fellow cowboys. Yeah, this
Speaker 2: is just another example of an offense that is just
Speaker 2: absolutely blossoming before our eyes. Like it makes me think
Speaker 2: back to the Ken Dorsey era with the Bills and
Speaker 2: where we are now with Joe Brady, and I'm just like,
Speaker 2: how did they stay in that for so long? Because
Speaker 2: it's just so much better. Obviously, like in the first
Speaker 2: couple of weeks it was about the running game, and
Speaker 2: it's still predicated on the run, but you have Josh
Speaker 2: Allen back there and you're not asking him to also
Speaker 2: lead the running game. He can just go be himself.
Speaker 2: There was a period in the first half where he
Speaker 2: was getting out to his right and ripping missiles for touchdowns,
Speaker 2: and I heard the broadcast crew just talk about, like
Speaker 2: where do you not want to let him escape to
Speaker 2: to his right? And that's where the Jaguars were. Let
Speaker 2: him go. He could do whatever he wanted on Monday night.
Speaker 2: It's a thing of beauty. The Bills are absolutely rolling,
Speaker 2: and you're right, this is one of those games where
Speaker 2: like beat writers could just sit back and kick their
Speaker 2: legs up. In the second half, my righte up's done.
Speaker 2: I know what happened here? Let's get mac Jones in
Speaker 2: time for the Jags. Let's get this one's over.
Speaker 4: Yeah. By the end, mac Jones was getting strip sacked
Speaker 4: and I'm just having flashbacks to some ugly Patriots afternoons
Speaker 4: and discussed that evening even a playoff game in Buffalo,
Speaker 4: though mac Jones wasn't really the problem in that particular game.
Speaker 4: That was another game where a team did not punt
Speaker 4: or turn the ball over, but it wasn't both teams
Speaker 4: like in the Washington game.
Speaker 3: My god, this Bill teams.
Speaker 4: So they did something only one other Bills team had
Speaker 4: ever done, which was score four straight touchdowns to start
Speaker 4: the game in a row. I was surprise only one
Speaker 4: team had ever done that. But it is hard to
Speaker 4: do four straight without even a field goal. And you
Speaker 4: mentioned like he's not killing them with his legs, but
Speaker 4: it's still the most effective play in football. I like
Speaker 4: to bring this up that just by success rate, there
Speaker 4: is nothing higher than a Josh Allen run. And he
Speaker 4: went six for forty four tonight. The success rate, so
Speaker 4: that's defined as it depends which down it is. Obviously
Speaker 4: a first down is a successful play. I think it's
Speaker 4: four yards on first down. It depends on the down
Speaker 4: and distance. He had three third down conversions shook that
Speaker 4: really stick in my mind from the first half. One
Speaker 4: was a designed run. Actually two of them were design runs,
Speaker 4: and then one was a scramble. And it's just like,
Speaker 4: no matter what you do, if you cover them up,
Speaker 4: you're screwed. If you spread out and you're in zone
Speaker 4: your man coverage, you're screwed. Then they call Then he
Speaker 4: calls a design run and he just goes up the middle,
Speaker 4: and now he's actually being smart about it.
Speaker 3: He's sliding. And it reminded me.
Speaker 4: Actually these two runners tonight Jade Daniels too. His success
Speaker 4: rate on the runs he had in the game was
Speaker 4: sky high, and it's been sky high throughout the season.
Speaker 4: It's just that little extra something that makes a quarterback
Speaker 4: like Allen who's at the absolute peak of his powers.
Speaker 4: My MVP pick is feeling pretty good. My Super Bowl
Speaker 4: pick's feeling good. It's week three, but you know, I
Speaker 4: still like it. But it's just one of those things
Speaker 4: that you don't know how to stop him.
Speaker 2: Were you the only one who did that? Who picked
Speaker 2: the Bills?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I gotta I think that time I
Speaker 3: should should check.
Speaker 2: Bill's island by yourself.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 2: And that's that's why the NFL has shifted in this
Speaker 2: direction over the last decade. The running ability of quarterbacks
Speaker 2: makes it so hard to prepare for an offense. As
Speaker 2: a defense, it makes it so hard to predict what
Speaker 2: they're going to do. And especially when you have a
Speaker 2: running game that you have to respect that doesn't involve
Speaker 2: the quarterback, as soon as you mix that quarterback into
Speaker 2: the element, it's that much more difficult to stop them.
Speaker 2: The Bills are firing on all cylinders. The funny thing
Speaker 2: is that so much of this offseason we spent talking
Speaker 2: about how are they going to replace Stefan Diggs. They
Speaker 2: lost Gabe Davis, Khalil shook Here, Mac Hollins, Dalton Kin,
Speaker 2: k Tyd Johnson, Keon Kleman has one catch for twenty
Speaker 2: four yards for a touchdown tonight. Otherwise didn't need to
Speaker 2: do anything else. They put up forty seven points on
Speaker 2: the board. It doesn't matter because they can go anywhere
Speaker 2: because they're firing on all cylinders.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if I mentioned the final score
Speaker 3: was forty seven to ten.
Speaker 4: The second half was such an afterthought, Like many people,
Speaker 4: by the fourth quarter. I just have it in a
Speaker 4: small screen in the corner, just loosely paying attention to
Speaker 4: Mitchell Trubisky get into the game. But yeah, you mentioned
Speaker 4: it like coleman is wide receiver five now because he
Speaker 4: didn't at least for this game.
Speaker 3: It's probably a game plan thing.
Speaker 4: But he was behind Valdez Scantling and Matt Collins and
Speaker 4: Curtis Samuel and Shakir and then they just put him
Speaker 4: in for like one play, and he's talented enough he
Speaker 4: can win those one on one situations, so they find
Speaker 4: a role for him. But you mentioned Shakir seventy two
Speaker 4: yards touchdown. He had more yards after the catch than
Speaker 4: he had yards because that's how many like because he
Speaker 4: had a play where he made a big play that
Speaker 4: he caught behind the line of scrimmage and everything else
Speaker 4: is just he's a great runner with the ball. He
Speaker 4: reminds me a lot of Cole Beasley. Just a perfect
Speaker 4: guy to add to this offense. James Cook drops what
Speaker 4: would have been a forty yard touchdown. Of course they
Speaker 4: score later that drive anyways, so Josh Allen got his,
Speaker 4: but James Cook gets eighty seven yards from scrimmage and
Speaker 4: a touchdown. Has been about as consistent in terms of
Speaker 4: his success rate as any running back in the league.
Speaker 4: This offensive line is awesome, and I wasn't just picking
Speaker 4: them just because like whatever. It was, Like Josh Allen
Speaker 4: is at the peak of his powers and he has
Speaker 4: the best offensive line he's ever had, and they've got
Speaker 4: enough around him Like that just seems like a year
Speaker 4: where I don't want to pick the Chiefs. I'm sick
Speaker 4: of picking the Chiefs. I got to pick someone else
Speaker 4: else that it could happen, and they're a long long
Speaker 4: way from making it happen. But it's really positive that
Speaker 4: they can pick it take advantage of bad defenses. And
Speaker 4: I think the Jaguars defense right now is bad. They
Speaker 4: lost Jerry and Jones, who's a rookie cornerback. They are
Speaker 4: now down three of their top corners there, Nickel, Darnell Savage,
Speaker 4: their top cornerback Tyson Campbell.
Speaker 3: So there are reasons for this.
Speaker 4: And the Bills have had a relatively easy schedule in
Speaker 4: terms of the defenses that they've played, but whatever, that's
Speaker 4: what great teams do.
Speaker 3: They beat up on bad defenses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we went into this game with Washington Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: Washington was the worst defense the NFL last year, and
Speaker 2: look what happened, you know, like it didn't really Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean they put up a ton of points, but
Speaker 2: at the same time, they still weren't able to win
Speaker 2: that game. So like we can you have to say
Speaker 2: that with a grain of salt, because you still to
Speaker 2: go win that game. It's just it's it's so amazing
Speaker 2: to see them doing this, yes, against some bad defenses earlier, whatever,
Speaker 2: but to do it so early in the season when
Speaker 2: we just had so much worry about where they were
Speaker 2: going to be and like you said, it's all Josh
Speaker 2: Allen and now I just wonder, like can they just
Speaker 2: I want to see them tested. That's what I want
Speaker 2: to see. I want to see them tested. Because these
Speaker 2: games are great and they make the fans happy and
Speaker 2: everything else, but I want to see them test.
Speaker 3: I've got it.
Speaker 4: I've got a game for you next Sunday night. How
Speaker 4: do they do it? NBC? They I mean, look, all
Speaker 4: the primetime games are great, the ESPN. It didn't look
Speaker 4: like it was going to be a great game tonight
Speaker 4: Washington Cincinnati. Necessarily that ended up being one of the
Speaker 4: best games of the year.
Speaker 3: So you never know.
Speaker 4: But NBC always just seems to have that stroke of luck.
Speaker 4: And they got Ravens bills next week, which to me
Speaker 4: is perfect. I know the Ravens are one and two.
Speaker 4: They're also like third or fourth in overall DVO way
Speaker 4: like they are better than their record shows, and they
Speaker 4: are the Ravens and that is a great matchup next week.
Speaker 4: Keep an eye on that one note. I had a
Speaker 4: Spencer Brown their right tackle we just got a contract extension.
Speaker 4: Has faced the most amount of dropbacks without giving up
Speaker 4: a pressure all year, so they're getting great protection on
Speaker 4: the right side.
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence can't say the same.
Speaker 4: My god, it wasn't all on the offensive line, but
Speaker 4: it was part It's been partly on the offensive line
Speaker 4: all year. They have not been able to run block,
Speaker 4: they have not been able to pass block. And they
Speaker 4: had run three plays by the time they were down
Speaker 4: fourteen nothing, so they had a three and out their
Speaker 4: first possession. By the time they get the second possession,
Speaker 4: they're down fourteen nothing, and you could almost see Trevor
Speaker 4: Lawrence panic. He did not play well in this game.
Speaker 4: His stats at halftime ten for twenty one fifty one
Speaker 4: yards in an interception and an overthrow on that interception.
Speaker 2: It was better than last week that he was five
Speaker 2: for fifteen or five for sixteen fifteen yards by halftime.
Speaker 2: They're in a bad spot offensively right now. And this
Speaker 2: started last year. Honestly, watching Trevor week to week, it
Speaker 2: was as if you know, I heard them talking about
Speaker 2: in the broadcast and it kind of made sense where
Speaker 2: he's try to make the perfect play and it was
Speaker 2: just like near misses all year and this year it's
Speaker 2: just getting worse. Like he has a guy open over
Speaker 2: the middle of the field early third quarter and he
Speaker 2: misses him, throwing it low, bounces it off the ground.
Speaker 2: He makes some nice throws. He ripped another one a
Speaker 2: nice pass down the scene, but it's just too inconsistent.
Speaker 2: And this was my fear. I knew they had to
Speaker 2: pay him because they believe he's the guy, and they
Speaker 2: were in a situation where they had to pay him.
Speaker 2: But I just wonder if he's ever gonna take that
Speaker 2: next step, and behind an offensive line like this, it
Speaker 2: really concerns you. Like if you look at some of
Speaker 2: the next gen numbers, he was five for ten against
Speaker 2: pressure for twenty nine yards, but he also had twenty
Speaker 2: eight attempts where he wasn't pressured, and he threw a
Speaker 2: pick when he wasn't pressured, So of course that pick
Speaker 2: being Damar Hamlin. Highlight moment, by the way, for a
Speaker 2: guy like Damar who has traveling an incredible road back,
Speaker 2: really cool scene to see on primetime. He gets his
Speaker 2: first career interception in Buffalo. That was really nice. But yeah,
Speaker 2: Trevor Man, bad spot. And I mean they're struggling like
Speaker 2: it's only after It's only week three and you don't
Speaker 2: start looking at coaching jobs and everything else.
Speaker 3: Really at this point, I know you can.
Speaker 2: God, I'm worried about Doug Peterson's job because I just
Speaker 2: don't see any signs. So it's going to get better.
Speaker 3: Oh, no, you can.
Speaker 4: Here's a quote from shod Con, the team owner. Now
Speaker 4: this was as part of a team documentary that they released,
Speaker 4: and it was actually a message to his players in
Speaker 4: the building, and he said, I met. This was like
Speaker 4: him kind of confirming some things he had said recently.
Speaker 4: He said, I met with the reporters and the discussion
Speaker 4: quickly turned to football, and I was quoted saying for us,
Speaker 4: winning is now the expectation. So really, I've been looking
Speaker 4: forward tonight to set the record straight. I was not misquoted,
Speaker 4: and let me just repeat, winning now is the expectation.
Speaker 4: Make no mistake, this is the best team assembled by
Speaker 4: the Jacksonville Jaguars ever, best players, best coaches, but most importantly,
Speaker 4: let's prove it by winning now. And to me, that
Speaker 4: sort of quote and the quotes that he said to
Speaker 4: the reporters that like winning the expectation, they have to
Speaker 4: win now, that is a clear message to Doug Peterson
Speaker 4: and it informs something I heard last week. John Shipley,
Speaker 4: who does a great daily podcast on the Jaguars with
Speaker 4: s I, said Doug Peterson was about as down in
Speaker 4: his press conference after their loss last week as he's
Speaker 4: ever seen him. That He's usually very you know, up
Speaker 4: beat and afterwards talking positively, and you know, just he
Speaker 4: just sounded like a little a little defeated, like he
Speaker 4: didn't know what the answers were. And so I was
Speaker 4: thinking about that press conference and then watching a team
Speaker 4: that looked completely defeated tonight, and yeah, it's it's only
Speaker 4: week three, but they're winless, and like he they got
Speaker 4: to they gotta have like ten nine or ten wins
Speaker 4: this year or else he's losing his job.
Speaker 2: So just through the math, Yeah, now I'm wondering do
Speaker 2: we get an I'm pissed Angelo situation like we did
Speaker 2: in Philly before he got fired by the Eagles, because like,
Speaker 2: if he doesn't have that much like energy in him
Speaker 2: responding this early in the season, I feel like he's
Speaker 2: not gonna have it at that point in the season
Speaker 2: when it actually gets really dire. Not saying it's going to,
Speaker 2: but as it looks right now, it's certainly trending that way.
Speaker 4: Right in Laurence, you remember Lawrence after last week games
Speaker 4: and like we just suck right now, and yeah, you sucked.
Speaker 4: That interception was typical. It points out my problem with
Speaker 4: that I've had with Lawrence other than like he just
Speaker 4: seems to be missing something in terms of I don't
Speaker 4: know whether it's processing or intangibles of just like not
Speaker 4: always putting together making the right decisions at the right
Speaker 4: moments that it's just like a little uneven. But the
Speaker 4: main thing I've had the problem with because I used
Speaker 4: to do it charting QB index, is just he misses
Speaker 4: way more throws than top tier quarterbacks then you would
Speaker 4: expect for him. He just he'll just miss like three
Speaker 4: or four game and he makes so many great throws
Speaker 4: that you don't get it, and like that interception was
Speaker 4: one of them. Like he just missed his throws. His
Speaker 4: completion percentage over expected coming into this game was third
Speaker 4: or fourth worse than the entire NFL and probably only
Speaker 4: getting worse after this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's my biggest concern. When they paid him,
Speaker 2: I was like, are you sure, because that's what showed
Speaker 2: up last year as well, the occasional misses, the inconsistency,
Speaker 2: and it seems like it's just getting it's exacerbated through
Speaker 2: three weeks this year. That's just not a good that's
Speaker 2: supposed to be the guy's scary your offense, and it's
Speaker 2: just not happening right now. I feel bad for guys
Speaker 2: like Brian Thomas who he could be leaned on, you know,
Speaker 2: like a Milik Neighbors is with Daniel Jones in New York,
Speaker 2: but they can't even get the ball there because they're
Speaker 2: just so dysfunctional offensively right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they had a sequence where they had the ball
Speaker 4: in the seven yard line, false start, incomplete pass drop,
Speaker 4: false start sack, they ended up on the twenty seven yard.
Speaker 2: Line it's like it's bad football.
Speaker 3: It's rough. The lines are back.
Speaker 4: I mean the pass rush actually has been there one
Speaker 4: saving grace usually, but in this game, like I mentioned,
Speaker 4: the Bill's just dominated up front. Josh heinz Allen one
Speaker 4: pressure on out of twenty six rushes. Their best player,
Speaker 4: Trevon Walker, the number one overall pick who's played pretty
Speaker 4: well this season, zero pressures. Eric Armstead, the big free
Speaker 4: agent pickup one pressure. And yeah, that's just it's just
Speaker 4: a rough night. Let's end this recap on a positive note.
Speaker 4: You mentioned the Deamar Hamlin interception. What an awesome moment.
Speaker 4: Let's take a listen.
Speaker 2: One receiver to each side, the two tight end.
Speaker 7: Look, here's the snap picks the handoff, gonna roll to
Speaker 7: his left, has time, throws deep.
Speaker 3: Over the middle, He overshoots.
Speaker 7: Thomas intercepted by Tamar Hamlin coming the other way to.
Speaker 2: The forty five.
Speaker 7: As he races to the far sideline and is tackled
Speaker 7: at the forty one yard line by Ferrell, hits an
Speaker 7: I int and another.
Speaker 3: Takeaway for the Buffalo defense. This time Tamar Hamlin is awesome.
Speaker 2: The crowd there case in point right there, like like
Speaker 2: if you look at that footage right there, that's everything
Speaker 2: you need to know. Like Thomas has four yards of
Speaker 2: separation on both sides of him and he just misses
Speaker 2: him over the head by three or four yards too high.
Speaker 2: Great moment for DeMar Hamlin.
Speaker 4: And all you need to know with the reaction from
Speaker 4: the teammates and the crowd, that.
Speaker 3: Sneaky.
Speaker 4: Just one of the most electric moments that that stadium
Speaker 4: is going to have all year because when he got
Speaker 4: over to the sideline, just like the teammates and he
Speaker 4: said it after the game.
Speaker 3: With Laura Rutledge.
Speaker 4: You did a good job on the interview just saying like, hey,
Speaker 4: seeing them, they were even more excited for me than
Speaker 4: I was for myself. And she asked him sort of,
Speaker 4: just how do you process this because he's having a
Speaker 4: good season, he's starting, they're playing really good defense, Like
Speaker 4: his coverage numbers for what you want to put into
Speaker 4: that from PFF are outstanding, and more importantly, they're just
Speaker 4: not giving up big plays and that's you know, his
Speaker 4: priority number one.
Speaker 3: And yeah, she asked him.
Speaker 4: Like, how do you process like a night like this,
Speaker 4: and he gave very honest answers, like everything that's going
Speaker 4: on with me is like, I'm still in the middle
Speaker 4: of processing it, honestly, just like it's a yeah, it's
Speaker 4: a day to day thing, and it's still not that
Speaker 4: far away when he was in Cincinnati, and for him
Speaker 4: to be out there, it's amazing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know, they cut to that during the Bengals
Speaker 2: Commanders game and Buck and Aikman mentioned that the last
Speaker 2: time they were in the booth in Cincinnati was the
Speaker 2: game in which you know, everything happened, And I mean,
Speaker 2: that's fitting. I know that obviously that the Bills game
Speaker 2: isn't taking place in Cincinnati, but the fact that game
Speaker 2: was also on like that just tells you we are
Speaker 2: not that far removed from it. And what a story. Man.
Speaker 2: And he's he like you said, he's playing well, he's
Speaker 2: probably just he probably wakes up every day and thinks, like, man,
Speaker 2: I'm lucky to be here and now look I'm starting
Speaker 2: in the NFL and I'm delivering it said.
Speaker 4: He said, I'm just so glad that I'm a Bill,
Speaker 4: I'm a Buffalo Bill, that this is the perfect place
Speaker 4: for me. I'm so happy to be there right now.
Speaker 4: That was the Bills. That was the Jaguars. Bills moved
Speaker 4: to three and oh, Jaguars at oh and three. I'll
Speaker 4: see it in a few weeks, Jaguars, Let's get some
Speaker 4: wins before I see that Jags Bears game. Okay, it's
Speaker 4: not over, please, we can we can respond. Let's take
Speaker 4: a quick break. We're gonna come back with some news
Speaker 4: and our players of the week back on NFL Daily. Hey,
Speaker 4: there's a whole league out there, Nick, not just these
Speaker 4: four teams, and a lot happened on Monday that we.
Speaker 3: Found out, So let's uh, let's do some news. Okay.
Speaker 4: So there was a lot of injury news today, but
Speaker 4: there were like huge, huge head lines for the most part.
Speaker 4: To me, the thing that struck me the most was
Speaker 4: that Sam Darnold's fine. It's crazy that we're at this
Speaker 4: point and the season's crazy that I'm at this point
Speaker 4: in the season because I get so annoyed by the
Speaker 4: Donald hive and look at to give it up to him.
Speaker 3: He's just playing good football right now.
Speaker 4: That I was really relieved, and I thought the biggest
Speaker 4: story going into the day is how serious is this
Speaker 4: Sam Donald injury? And it sounds like he's gonna be fine.
Speaker 4: They had an MRI and he's expected to play this
Speaker 4: week and it's just a bruise. So Vikings the one
Speaker 4: of the five undefeated teams along with the Bills.
Speaker 3: They're gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: Bullet dodged and it's a good one for the Vikings.
Speaker 2: All the vibes are very good in Minneapolis right now,
Speaker 2: and a lot of it has to do with Sam Donald,
Speaker 2: So keeping him on the field fantastic news.
Speaker 4: I will say I did a deep dive. I watched
Speaker 4: Donald closely. He's playing really good. There are some like
Speaker 4: everything's really good around him too. He's really good, Like
Speaker 4: under two and a half seconds. I thought Sunday was
Speaker 4: a step forward for him in a major way because
Speaker 4: actually he did better holding the ball on plays in rhythm,
Speaker 4: and that's more what you got to see because those
Speaker 4: numbers haven't been as strong, the numbers against pressure or
Speaker 4: anything like that haven't been as strong. But play, they're
Speaker 4: through the roof, quick decisions are getting guys open, and
Speaker 4: he's avoiding the big mistake, which is absolutely massive. So
Speaker 4: I am that is awesome because what a value loss
Speaker 4: that would be if Darnold went away, because it's a
Speaker 4: big drop to their next quarterback.
Speaker 3: Who would be?
Speaker 4: Who would it be? It would be Nick Mullins, Yeah,
Speaker 4: would be said not good. Yeah, Javon Hargrave, Man, this
Speaker 4: came out of nowhere. It's going to miss the rest
Speaker 4: of the season. The forty nine ers defensive tackle there,
Speaker 4: they're big signing in free agency a year ago, who
Speaker 4: had a great game on Sunday in a losing effort
Speaker 4: against the Rams. A ton of pressures is out and yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a huge loss for a forty nine Ers defense.
Speaker 4: I'm going to talk about a little bit more on
Speaker 4: our next show with Jordan Rod Reagan and Collien Wolf.
Speaker 3: But that has not been playing.
Speaker 2: Well, hasn't been playing well. And they also got a
Speaker 2: little thinner on the defensive line. They led Javon Kinlaw
Speaker 2: walk in the off season. They replaced them Jordan Elliott
Speaker 2: former Brown and I mean, look, man, you lost two
Speaker 2: in a row. That's just not good news right now.
Speaker 4: No, and they don't rotate as much as they used to,
Speaker 4: like into torn triceps that knocked him out for the season,
Speaker 4: and they're really counting on Bosa to dominate. And when
Speaker 4: he has games like he did against the Rams where
Speaker 4: he was just like good but not amazing, that it
Speaker 4: shows up more injury news in Los Angeles. This time,
Speaker 4: Joe Alt, the Chargers first round pick at tackle, is
Speaker 4: going to miss some time. That's a surprise because he
Speaker 4: did finish the game. I didn't even know anything was
Speaker 4: wrong with him, although he did give up a late
Speaker 4: sack to TJ. Watt maybe that was part of it.
Speaker 4: I don't think he could extend, so he's gonna miss
Speaker 4: some time. They have a bye week coming up, which
Speaker 4: also could inform how they handle Justin Herbert X rays
Speaker 4: were negative on his ankle, Rashaan Slater and Joey Bosa.
Speaker 4: Slater with a pectoral injury. Bosa with a hip injury,
Speaker 4: also could be out. It's uncertain how long. But if
Speaker 4: you were making a list of the Chargers' best players,
Speaker 4: that's a bunch of them. Another person that would be
Speaker 4: on it would be Derwin James, who is suspended for
Speaker 4: this game against the Chiefs. Like maybe it's like a
Speaker 4: fantasy football league situation where almost I always was of
Speaker 4: the mind, like it's fine to have all your guys
Speaker 4: on the same bye week. Just try to win that week.
Speaker 4: You might win anyways, but just take the l that
Speaker 4: one week if you have to. That's like the Chargers
Speaker 4: this week, like all their good players are gonna be out.
Speaker 2: Well, we thought that was the proch of the Rams
Speaker 2: and they came out and beat the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 2: It's bad because what the story was last year, and
Speaker 2: while they went and spent you know, a pick on
Speaker 2: Joe Alt was because they couldn't keep Justin Herbert protected.
Speaker 2: Now he's dinged up with that ankle, which is really concerning.
Speaker 2: I know that we're still kind of awaiting what's going
Speaker 2: to happen with that, but like he's clearly not mobile,
Speaker 2: and then you lose both your tackles, suddenly you're right
Speaker 2: back where you were last year. And it's only week four.
Speaker 2: So it's definitely a concerning situation for them right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and for all the people that complain about the
Speaker 4: Chiefs getting the breaks, you're not gonna enjoy Sunday's Chargers
Speaker 4: game with Trey Pipkins blocking for Taylor Heineke and whoever
Speaker 4: is back there one and a half speed one and
Speaker 4: a half speed. Although frankly, the secondary is the least
Speaker 4: of my concern. This Chargers defense is playing really well.
Speaker 3: They're good.
Speaker 4: They're a good group overall, but yeah, that they have
Speaker 4: the bye week. Like I said in week five, it
Speaker 4: might just be a take your medicine situation all around,
Speaker 4: and then come back.
Speaker 3: In week six.
Speaker 4: At two and two, the Ravens were in the news
Speaker 4: signing Unique and Gacway. This is just like the most
Speaker 4: Ravens news ever. They just they need a little more
Speaker 4: juice up front. I thought that the defensive line has
Speaker 4: played pretty well, but they get a pure pass rusher,
Speaker 4: can't really stop the run. It's it's just such a
Speaker 4: Ravens signing.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: In the division, the Steelers lost Troy Fautanu for the season.
Speaker 4: It's just something I wish I mentioned on our show
Speaker 4: Sunday was news that happened. We didn't know about until
Speaker 4: the weekend. But he's on injured reserve. He is not
Speaker 4: coming back. He suffered the injury at practice. Been a
Speaker 4: lot of practice injuries. That's brutal for a team that
Speaker 4: just benched Broderick Jones their first round and now they
Speaker 4: got to put him back in the lineup.
Speaker 3: He could be back for the playoffs.
Speaker 4: According to Ian Rapaport, that was the update from Monday.
Speaker 4: So if they make the playoffs and at three and oh,
Speaker 4: they have every reason to think they might. He might
Speaker 4: be back by then, but that's cutting it close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Historically Dan Moore has not fared well. That's in
Speaker 2: one of the tackles that they're gonna have to rely on.
Speaker 2: So I'm a little concerned about that, But it is
Speaker 2: a little bit easier to bear when you are three
Speaker 2: and l Just keep an eye out, Steelers fans. If
Speaker 2: the protection starts to break down, the offense changes a
Speaker 2: little bit, that's gonna be your reason why.
Speaker 4: It's been bad. It's been like really bad. I would
Speaker 4: say their offensive line is bottom man. There's so many
Speaker 4: bad offensive lines. There's no way they're outside of the
Speaker 4: bottom quarter of the league, which is eight teams. There's
Speaker 4: no way they are. They're in that group. It might
Speaker 4: be bottom four or five. Like I know, there's a
Speaker 4: bunch of bad offensive lines, but they're one of them,
Speaker 4: and they're not really playing well. They got the run
Speaker 4: game going at the end of last week's game, but
Speaker 4: they've been overcoming that with defense in good play by
Speaker 4: fields and the skill position players. The Raiders surprise me
Speaker 4: in twenty a peers. Just I love a coach that
Speaker 4: is not afraid to just say something, and yet he
Speaker 4: talked on Monday about possibly changing quarterbacks.
Speaker 6: Well, I just think, you know, you look at how
Speaker 6: the game went. We're down by two scores or so,
Speaker 6: they ain't come in and see what he can do
Speaker 6: with the offense, move it, and we're just trying to
Speaker 6: the first part.
Speaker 3: Did that mean anything going forward?
Speaker 2: Or is it still Gardner still the guy?
Speaker 6: I think we got to give with the players and
Speaker 6: just you know, evaluate everything from yesterday first.
Speaker 4: Usually when a coach says that it's bad news, and
Speaker 4: yet literally an hour or two later, the athletic UHC Victaffer,
Speaker 4: who's been on this show before, reported it's gonna be
Speaker 4: Gardner Minshew, which is just kind of funny to me, don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I mean I watched this game back today
Speaker 2: and I was like, I mean, Gardner wasn't like awful,
Speaker 2: awful like Benji.
Speaker 3: He was fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was fine. I thought that that was people
Speaker 2: jumping to conclusions based on the result. I thought he
Speaker 2: was fine. It would be unnecessary to make that change
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 4: No, it sounded like a coach who was like still
Speaker 4: mad that his defense got dog wins his decision Like
Speaker 4: Gardner Minshew has played better than you could have expected,
Speaker 4: especially after what we heard in training camp all season.
Speaker 4: I mean, he he has like one play a week.
Speaker 4: That's just truly mystifying. But he's played better than I
Speaker 4: would expect it. I think he's played better this year
Speaker 4: than he did on average last year so far. So
Speaker 4: it will be Minshew's still according to the Athletic. But
Speaker 4: Pierce was also asked about that comment where he said
Speaker 4: he's going to have to make some business decisions about
Speaker 4: his players too.
Speaker 1: After the game, you talked about the Raiders having to
Speaker 1: make business decisions and have you made any of those yet?
Speaker 6: No, we haven't. No, we haven't got to give with
Speaker 6: the players first. Obviously a lot was made of that comment,
Speaker 6: you know, national media wise this morning, I guess you
Speaker 6: if you think about it, are you happy that you
Speaker 6: pointed it out?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I like it, honestly, it freshly the media.
Speaker 4: It's like people now is like, are so careful back
Speaker 4: in the you know, back in they wasn't back in
Speaker 4: my day. It's more like reading some of these books
Speaker 4: behind me, the Paul Zimmern books and the great history
Speaker 4: books here, uh man, they were always trash talking the
Speaker 4: hell out of the other players like in the other
Speaker 4: teams partly because the news like didn't ever get to
Speaker 4: them until like weeks later. By carry your Pigeon, it's like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, we saw it in the paper like three
Speaker 4: days later whatever like.
Speaker 3: But sometimes a big deals.
Speaker 4: But they were trushed that they were They were honest,
Speaker 4: they were talking, they were talking their ish when there
Speaker 4: was this to be talk. So I like Antonio appears
Speaker 4: a bit of a throwback, just some other very quick
Speaker 4: injury and it was all throw out there. Marcus Davenport,
Speaker 4: pass rusher for the lines is out for the season.
Speaker 4: Man bad luck in terms of injuries for him and
Speaker 4: elbow injury, and uh, they kind.
Speaker 3: Of needed him.
Speaker 4: They're they're not that deep in terms of their pass rushers.
Speaker 4: Derek Barnes, who's a good linebacker for them, is gonna
Speaker 4: be out a while. Your Brown's got good news on
Speaker 4: Miles Garrett day to day after an MRI. Uh was
Speaker 4: his ankle or his foot? But bad news and why.
Speaker 2: Hell fat Yeah, that's not to cut you off there,
Speaker 2: because why I tell her news is more concerning considering
Speaker 2: their offensive line has not played well through three weeks.
Speaker 2: But Miles Garrett's feet not foot, but feet, and I
Speaker 2: know your feet are important because he does look a
Speaker 2: step slow, and I know it was good news. I'm
Speaker 2: not buying it. I would wait to see the next
Speaker 2: few weeks because he just he's not quite.
Speaker 4: Wait a second, here, wait a second. He housed Andrew
Speaker 4: Thomas in that game when I that was my that
Speaker 4: was the first game I watched.
Speaker 3: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I was just like, why would you do that to yourself?
Speaker 4: Well, I like to when I get home Sunday and
Speaker 4: I sometimes like to bang out a game that I
Speaker 4: don't think is that gonna be that good? Just as
Speaker 4: like I don't know why because after the blur of Sundays,
Speaker 4: that game that I try to knock out because I
Speaker 4: try to get through all these games eventually, sometimes I
Speaker 4: like almost have hard time remembering it, and I write
Speaker 4: down all the notes I can remember it, but it's
Speaker 4: like I usually throw like a mediocre game in that
Speaker 4: spot because I want to like be fresher and enjoy
Speaker 4: the game's So I was like, let's hear, let's see
Speaker 4: some Deshaun Watson slop in some surprisingly fun Daniel Jones early.
Speaker 4: But I thought Miles Garrett played great in that game.
Speaker 4: He kind of housed Andrew Thomas over and over, which
Speaker 4: is hard to do.
Speaker 2: You know, he did, he did, but he's not getting
Speaker 2: that last half step to get home. He's getting really close.
Speaker 2: He didn't get in the pressures. He's not getting the sacks.
Speaker 2: And that's the difference for me, because if you just
Speaker 2: watch him year over year, he's been much faster than
Speaker 2: he is right now.
Speaker 3: Fair the strength is there because there was one for
Speaker 3: Shay where he sort of carried Thomas, who's one of
Speaker 3: the best players in the league, and he is like
Speaker 3: three hundred and ten pounds, like on his shoulder a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 2: He got that bend. Yeah, he got a holding.
Speaker 3: One to one man. He is one holds a freak.
Speaker 3: Uh Yeah.
Speaker 4: Teler is going to miss a month a starting guard.
Speaker 4: Their tackles, they thought they were going to get back
Speaker 4: on Sunday. Will's comes back, he gets hurt. Conklin's still hurt.
Speaker 4: Is just it's a dissawan. Jones got smoked all Game two,
Speaker 4: just getting beat with speed. It's not a good situation
Speaker 4: for them. There's some teams in some rough situations. I
Speaker 4: don't think there's any anyone worse than the Browns. I
Speaker 4: guess the Jaguars would be worse because the Browns at
Speaker 4: least have some hope that the defense is going to
Speaker 4: do something.
Speaker 3: But I think just globally not good.
Speaker 4: At Least the Jaguars can convince themselves they have a
Speaker 4: quarterback long term. Globally, I'm very worried about the Browns.
Speaker 2: One of the toughest or easiest experiences for me is
Speaker 2: Mondays when I go to the gym, when I work
Speaker 2: my split shift on the news in the morning, go
Speaker 2: to the gym, come back for Monday night football because
Speaker 2: all the people my gym are Browns fans and they
Speaker 2: all like to come up to me one by one
Speaker 2: and talk about the game. Today it was just, oh man,
Speaker 2: that was really ugly what happened. And I'm like, dude,
Speaker 2: they're not a good football team. They have a good defense,
Speaker 2: and that's it. And it's kind of get worse before
Speaker 2: it gets better. I think that is rough.
Speaker 4: And yeah, the last just little item of injury news,
Speaker 4: chidobiu Wuzzy, the quarterback for the Titans, was a big
Speaker 4: free agent signing.
Speaker 3: Is a candidate from I Are.
Speaker 4: Actually, one last thing I did want to mentioned just
Speaker 4: on the forty nine ers was that Kyle Shanahan said
Speaker 4: that Christian McCaffrey went to Germany to have his achilles
Speaker 4: to the nightis examined.
Speaker 2: Which that's not good.
Speaker 4: Feel like it's never good sign. No, never good sign.
Speaker 4: Lit'tle worrisome Christian McCaffrey. This forty nine ers team, it's.
Speaker 3: Not really happening for him. All right. That's it for
Speaker 3: the News.
Speaker 4: We did the recaps, but we're not saying goodbye until
Speaker 4: we do the Captain Morgan's Players of the Week. It
Speaker 4: is time for the Captain's Corner, presented by Captain Morgan.
Speaker 3: I'll let you get us going, Nick.
Speaker 2: All right, let's pour an extra strong one here. Instead
Speaker 2: of two fingers, gonna go three fingers in this one.
Speaker 2: And it's in honor of the red rifle Andy Dalton.
Speaker 2: You might call me going chalk here. That's fine. I
Speaker 2: don't care. The guy sits on the bench except for
Speaker 2: one game last year. He's on the bench behind Bryce Young. Again,
Speaker 2: he gets the call and he maximizes his opportunity. We
Speaker 2: already talked about his performance yesterday, but I do want
Speaker 2: to bring this out. He's the first Carolina Quarps with
Speaker 2: three plus passing touchdowns in the first half of a
Speaker 2: game since Cam Newton in Week fifteen of the twenty
Speaker 2: fifteen season at the Giants. Do you remember what the
Speaker 2: Panthers were back then? That's how long it's been since
Speaker 2: Carolina has had the type of performance from a quarterback
Speaker 2: that they got from Andy Dalton on Sunday. It was
Speaker 2: funny to me that we even had to like check
Speaker 2: this box where Dave Canalis had to answer, like, is
Speaker 2: Andy Dalton still your quarterback today? Yeah? Obviously they're much
Speaker 2: better with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that's that.
Speaker 4: Twenty fifteen season was one of the best quarterback seasons
Speaker 4: I've ever seen. And Andy Dalton, I just he's making them
Speaker 4: more watchable. Jade Daniels has put the Commanders up a
Speaker 4: bunch of notches, but let's be real, Andy Dalton has
Speaker 4: put the Panthers up at least one notch. Like, I'm
Speaker 4: not saying they're the first team I want to watch
Speaker 4: on Sunday, but I want to watch them more than
Speaker 4: I did with that Bryce Young experiment going on.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I loved watching it was a really good performance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, out there has a chance to watch against what
Speaker 4: we thought was a pretty good defense. I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: I'm gonna double do it the captain, you know, why
Speaker 4: not there can be two captains, two receivers, you know,
Speaker 4: to two at Well and Juan Jennings. Duan Jennings is
Speaker 4: like six three two fifteen to two. At Well is
Speaker 4: five to nine lifted as one sixty five. But we
Speaker 4: learned on one of those Rams documentary type things that
Speaker 4: he's really like one fifty five, which is crazy.
Speaker 3: He's in the.
Speaker 4: NFL and Juan Jennings, I have to give him the
Speaker 4: love of one of the best wide receiver games I've
Speaker 4: ever seen. If you just go watch his completions on
Speaker 4: NFL Pro or anything, it's just he mosses a guy
Speaker 4: for one, he beats him at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 4: for another deep one, he digs one out that's in
Speaker 4: the ground for another, he leaps for another contested catch.
Speaker 4: It was a sideline catch. Like everything that you could
Speaker 4: possibly do. He had some yak, not exactly a burner,
Speaker 4: you know. Maybe that's why he's not usually the starter,
Speaker 4: But my god, I don't necessarily think this is a
Speaker 4: one game wonder. I think he's gonna have a big
Speaker 4: role on their team. And then two to Atwell, who
Speaker 4: was the number five Rams receiver coming into this year
Speaker 4: always viewed as like Sean mcvay's pet project. This guy
Speaker 4: they took pretty early and he finally became a good
Speaker 4: role player last year. But this year he's kind of
Speaker 4: moved down in the pecking order and hasn't played much
Speaker 4: this year. And then man, he comes out there and
Speaker 4: he makes some contested, difficult catches, including one on the
Speaker 4: sideline they ended up ruling wasn't a catch, but he
Speaker 4: made an incredible effort ends up I think almost one
Speaker 4: hundred yards in that game. But just the quality and
Speaker 4: the clutch catches that Tutu Atwell had, he gets my
Speaker 4: nod along with Juwan Jennings. Just the yin and the yang.
Speaker 4: I like the NFL. You know, you can have all
Speaker 4: sorts of different body types. Jaydan Daniels like one of
Speaker 4: the skinniest quarterbacks I've ever seen. He's out there taking
Speaker 4: big hits. Tough guy, even slid tonight. What a remarkable development. Yes,
Speaker 4: he did a better job of avoiding hits. The only
Speaker 4: times he took hits were kind of when he had to.
Speaker 4: I'm like third and three is up the middle where
Speaker 4: he needed to get the first down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your two receivers. Since this is Captain's Corner shot
Speaker 2: chaser right there, Boom.
Speaker 3: There you go. Thank you, Nick Shook, and thank you
Speaker 3: for everyone listening. Again.
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