WEBVTT - 2017 Week 3 Recap 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:05.680 The Around the NFL Podcast, he has placed high on 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:10.840 the Dalton scale of podcast Welcome back to another edition 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.040 of the Around the NFL Podcast, presented by Head and Shoulders. 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:16.720 My name is Dan Hansens, and I am joined by 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.919 room filled with some heroes, Mark Sassler to my left 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:25.160 and Greg Roseal to my right. Gentlemen, this is the 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:30.720 Week three flagship edition of the podcast. The excited. Of 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.640 course we're excited. What other emotion would be would be 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:39.000 you know at this point the permissible that's fair, must 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.879 be excited about pro football at all times. I mean 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.040 it was. It was a very memorable day, not just 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.520 because of you know, the off the field stuff, which 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.519 we're going to talk about soon, but this was by 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.800 far the best day of football season. They were a 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:52.960 great game. How much to compare to, but it absolutely 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.080 was twice as good as any other week. So the 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.520 Thursday night game was great. And then at the end 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.240 of the early games, I was standing up at my 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.040 desk with three TVs around me, all games hanging in 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.319 the balance, a lot of fun. We kind of this 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.960 is a good week. Literally, like the five best games 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:12.920 of the year were this week. Rams forty Niners, the Falcons, Lions, Giants, Eagles. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.839 Was a lot of fun Patriots, Texans and desperately needed. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:20.160 And it's interesting that this this great week of action, 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.959 uh finally hit and this morning before kickoff, the NFL 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.399 was the biggest story in the country. But it had 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.920 nothing to do with the games that we're gonna be played. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.320 It was about the President Donald Trump, and let's let's 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.000 hit this before we get into the games, because it 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.520 is such a massive story that the President of the 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.520 United States is essentially taking on the NFL. And at 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.559 a rally in Huntsville, Alabama, on Friday night, Trump urged 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:50.200 team owners to cut players who kneel during the national anthem, 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.840 actually using which I would say this would go down 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.840 in infamy for for Trump, but there's so many of 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:57.800 these things you lose track what actually is gonna stick. 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.320 But he said get that son of a off the 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:04.200 field in reference to players that didn't kneel. Um. He 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.080 then doubled down on these comments with several tweets, again 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.040 saying that you know, basically to boycott the NFL, that 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.600 will get these guys to respect the flag and Americans, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.800 so on and so forth, and that lad, of course, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.920 now two players reacting in a u you know, in 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.000 a very emotional way, and in a way that that 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:27.160 shows it almost kind of brought the league itself closer. Uh, 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.519 people rallying against what Trump had to say. And the 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.160 day started in London. Of course, shod Con down on 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.200 the field with his players, various players from UM, the 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:39.000 Jaguars and Ravens um kneeling for the anthem. We saw 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.359 owners across the league on the field locking arms. Think 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.480 how far this has come now now owners are down 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.519 on the field doing it. And then the Seahawks and 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.000 Titans greg a perfect example. Neither team either even came 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.120 out for the national anthem, with the Seahawks and out 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.400 releasing a stern statement on the situation. Uh, it is 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:02.079 a huge, huge national story. It's unprecedented times. I mean, 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.399 before we even got to Sunday, Roger Goodell, the commissioner, 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.400 you know, released a statement talking about Trump's words. That 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:13.920 was quickly followed by many teams owners releasing statements, some 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.639 stronger than others. And you know, Patriots owner Robert Kraft, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.080 where there was eleven players on the field for the 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.359 Patriots who kneeled today, he released a strong statement about 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:28.040 being deeply disappointed, and Trump was asked about those comments 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.919 from Craft today at a press briefing. We have Chris 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.720 Collinsworth leading off Sunday Night football, asking the President to 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:39.280 apologize to these players. We've been in unprecedented times in 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.440 this country for a while now, and and it's now 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.839 come even stronger into football. But it's it's been here 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.000 the whole time. We just haven't talked about it been 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.560 here the whole time. And you know, I think, no 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.480 matter who you are, if you're in a position of 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:56.520 power and you're going to make essentially a blanket statement 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.560 about everyone who plays, coaches, own, and as part of 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:05.640 an NFL team, you need to expect a pretty violent reaction. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.760 And that's exactly what happened. I think this is this 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.360 is you have to put nuance with this situation. I 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.800 don't like when I hear that if you kneel or 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.480 if you don't come out of the locker room for 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.080 the anthem, that you're obviously anti military. It is much 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.640 more about pro freedom of speech and pro rights of 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.000 people that don't feel and they support and they are 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.000 with other people that don't feel those rights are given 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.440 to them in this country. I think everybody's entitled to 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.640 their opinion on it. I thought, again, it was a 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.960 reckless use of power by the president and and that 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.760 just my personal opinion. Now that people can think otherwise, 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.000 but like to make a statement like that, I mean, 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.719 everyone has an opinion about this. This is why Colin 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.400 Kaepernick still doesn't have a job. Uh. And now the 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:47.200 story uh has taken gone to the next level. And 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:48.960 you don't know where this is going because now the 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.520 president of the United States has involved Oh my goodness. 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.320 I well, I really thought a lot about Kaepernick this 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.160 weekend and last night and wondered what he was thinking 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.839 watching all of this and it and it gets back 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:07.120 a little bit too how effective I think he ultimately 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.359 has been and was was from the moment it started, 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.760 and it's playing out even more. You know, today Donald 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.800 Trump said this has nothing to do with race. That 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.120 was his quote. And it's always awkward three white guys 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.600 talking about race. But this was Colin Kaepernick standing up 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:29.160 against racial oppression, against racial inequities which have really defined, 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.119 you know, much of what's wrong with this country for 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.880 a long time. And it's amazing to think now a 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.840 year later, this is only grown to the point where 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.919 now the president is addressing it on a weekend where 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.880 there's a lot else going on in this country. He 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.440 is tweeting about the NFL and NBA players too, more 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:53.960 than anything else. And it almost makes you feel that 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.200 Colin Kaepernick's words have even more weight to them now 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.880 because everything that he was standing up for and my 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.080 Cole Bennett and lots of other players are standing up 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.720 for and they protested today that's being played out like 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.039 they are being proven right right, And I don't what 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.240 I what bothers me is when you take the whole 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.760 group of players in the NFL and try to vilify 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.839 those who protest for very different reasons. In some cases, 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.120 these guys have one day off and it's Tuesday, and 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:22.920 it's not every player in the league, but there are 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.160 at least fifteen to twenty guys every Tuesday for their 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.880 team that are out in the community doing more than 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.120 most people that watch football will do over the course 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.200 of twenty years for the people, for the towns they 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.200 live in, the people in that town that are not 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.560 doing so well. And so I Kaepernick is one of 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.360 those people too, and people glance right past that issue 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.400 that he is has done a lot of philanthropy, and 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.000 so have many other NFL players. It's gonna be a 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.080 weekend in the NFL that I think will be Remember. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.039 It's one of those moments, and there's been more of 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.080 those lately, but for the NFL's purposes, a moment where 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.279 you know, ten twenty years from now, we're gonna remember 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.000 this this Sunday. This is Yeah, it's a major situation 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:01.919 in this country, and the NFL is right in the 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.320 middle of it. All right, So we'll track that story 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.800 as it continues to develop throughout the weeks and perhaps months. 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.920 All right, let's now get into Week three of the 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.960 NFL all the events of Sunday, and we'll start, why 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.280 not on the throne of ease. Here's the shotgun snapped 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.560 to Brady, who pop slobs looking deep down the far 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:27.560 left side, open target and June touchdown. Brandon cooks Brady 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.840 on his beckside after heaving to the left corner of 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.119 the end. Zude and Cook's carouse it for second score 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.200 of the game. How do they do it? John? How 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.640 do they do it? They got the greatest quarterback that's 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.840 ever lived. I'll go on record with saying that, boy, 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:46.640 what confidence, what a remarkable throw against this dynamic pass rush, 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:51.679 and Brandon Cooks has become the receiver the Patriots traded 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.840 to get him for. How has he changed this team 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.280 all right, at a time where yet the freedom and 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.480 freedom of speech and free him of expression has never 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.600 been more important in this country. Yeah, that dude saying 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.240 Tom Brady is the best, Oh he is. Let's face it, 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.160 but Tom Brady through five touchdown passes, including that twenty 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.760 five yard hook up with Brandon Cooks twenty three seconds 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.560 to play, the Patriots rally to beat the Houston Texas 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.320 thirty six thirty three in Foxborrow in a game that 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.760 is not the script any of us thought the game 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.720 would follow, But it does end how we all expected, 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.040 with the Patriots winning once more greg Once again, we 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.960 saw an opponent fail repeatedly to close out the Patriots. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.120 And let's be honest with basic execution, Recover a fubble, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.920 hold on to an interception, cover properly on on that 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.040 scoring play with your safety and your quarterback, and you 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.040 know what, you don't do those things against the Pats. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:45.839 Tom Brady's gonna kill you. And he did it again. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:52.680 It it's crazy. He just keeps adding scenarios that normally 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.480 would be the most memorable comeback in anyone's career. But 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.560 Brady's done it so many different ways. But just think 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.680 about how They're offense finished out the game third and 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.920 eighteen on the Patriots forty eight yard line with fifty 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.959 four seconds left. Two plays later, they're in the end zone. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.120 I mean, that just doesn't happen against a great defense. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.640 Maybe that's overstating. They're missing, you know, some cornerbacks right now, 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.400 but the pass rush was all over Tom Brady. Three 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.760 strip sacks, five sacks. He's gonna wake up really sore 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.400 after this game. But despite I'll be fine. Well, I 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.040 know he's got you know, he's got the diet, but 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.440 he's gonna wake up. He's gonna wake up so he 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.400 doesn't get sunburned. And he comes up with it. And 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.920 the Patriots fans are so spoiled it's ridiculous. Well, from 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:39.760 the flip side, I would say that if you're a 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.199 Texans fan and you know, in multiple, multiple dimensions, they 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:47.360 probably lost this game points in this one, thirty six 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.840 thirty three, they really I think played a pretty good gamer. 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.400 DeShawn Watson, what a sign of what an encouraging, you know, 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.680 development from that Thursday night game against the Bengals some 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.360 really good Frosens. I mean, we all talked about it. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.560 The numbers backed up the idea of a rookie going 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.960 into New England and getting completely butchered. And what all 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.000 he did was going there and show no fear, just 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.680 like he is Shaky's as he was at times even 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.560 in the win against Cincinnati, he never showed any fear, 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.319 I didn't think, and he got more confidence in the 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.120 game went along. So you're feeling good about um where 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.320 he is in his development early on. Uh And yeah, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.280 that that's the positive takeaway. But the other side of 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.439 it is you gotta close out the game. And we'll 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.720 see this will come up repeatedly this week and a 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.679 lot of games. Is when you have a chance to 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.880 put a team boy in the NFL in these games 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.720 when your record winning eight nine, ten games will define 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.839 your season. The Houston Texans gotta win this game well. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.120 And and it's a complete team victory for the Patriots 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.000 because even though they gave up all those points, you know, 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.640 some of that was on jadeveon clowneyes, you know, return, 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.080 some of it is on situations where the Patriots offense 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.920 put the defense in bad scenarios. And the Houston Texans 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.480 have a second and three with two forty one to go, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.560 you pick up a first down, the game is over. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.200 Patriots give up two yards third and one. They bring 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.720 in a goal line offense, goal line defense. Bill O'Brien 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.079 does not choose to do a play action or do 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.600 anything but run the ball up the middle. The Patriots 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.400 stuff and then they it's Gronk and Brady picking up 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.000 third down. You know this laws as they all do. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.400 Greg with this lass annoyed me downstairs, and a lot 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.600 of the things that I take nothing away from the Patriots, 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.040 but I have to say, whether you're talking their last 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.480 two Super Bowl wins this game, I'm sure you could. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.160 There are a couple of other examples a little bit 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.360 of luck involved here these teams. Well, the strip sack, 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.920 especially they strip sack Tom Brady. There is no clutchness 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.840 factor of the Patriots center picking up that sack on 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:38.559 the last tif. The game is over at that point. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.760 That's some of these victories that it's almost like kis 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.000 Mitt and and give the Patriots credit, but these teams 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:50.480 should be winning these games well, it's total consistency. Tom 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.120 Brady has been with this team. You can change the 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.640 players around him, but Brady has been into England in 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.600 this situation a million times. Every time Houston rolls in, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.080 they got a different quarterbacks starting from scratch. You need 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.280 to get to Shaun Watson and his third, fourth, fifth, 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.800 sixth start against the Patriots. And but make a play 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.920 is what I'm saying. Just make a play to close 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.120 out a game any of these teams. These are not 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.600 like miracle plays. They need to make. Its converting a 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.640 first down or getting off the field on third and 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.680 eighteen that just never seen. I mean, the catches by 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.640 m and Dolan were pretty good, about credible, they were great. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.920 And the one last thing. Teams are daring Tom Brady 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:25.920 to throw down the field. And in the last two 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.720 weeks he has filled the two offense. He had nine 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.319 passes today that traveled fifteen yards or more. He has 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.960 been a vertical receiver and it's working. It's a long 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:39.520 we are a long way off from that. Thursday against 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.719 Kansas City. Brady once again is up there in the 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.960 m v P. One last single Dan. If you want encouragement, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.240 if you're looking for new England to implode at some point. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.839 I still am concerned about their defense. Oh yeah, sure, 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.600 and I agree. He took a beating, so they gave 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.320 up four yards. You should be celebrating that. Maybe you're not. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.720 Maybe you should. I don't know. This is a team 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.959 that that's figuring things out. They're winning along the way. 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:00.520 But they just gave a four d yards to a 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.400 rookie quarterback. Yeah no, there are some things to hang 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.439 my hat on. But again, another annoying day. Let's move on. 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.000 Mariota gives it to Murray running to the laft. He's 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:15.400 got room in the thirty fifty. He cuts back to 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:28.000 the middle thirty thirty text Titans, I think strikes like 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.200 it Mike Keith w g f X to Marco Murray's 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.880 long touchdown acted. There's a cherry on top for the 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.640 Tennessee Titans, who scored twenty one straight points against the 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:41.240 Seahawks and route to thirty three seven win in Nashville. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.680 Marcus Mariota through for five yards and two touchdowns and 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.800 mark the Seahawks once again look lethargic against an upper 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.560 tier opponent. The Titans looked like they were for real. 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.840 Very weird game. It's it's. It opened with ten combined 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.440 three an ounce for these two teams in the first half, 0:13:58.440 --> 0:13:59.760 and it looked like it was going to be another 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.240 one these twelve to nine type operations where by the 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.760 end you're just you have fellow co workers propping you 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.680 up in your chair to stay awake. And then the 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:12.080 second half happened and it completely altered. It changed to 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:16.079 Marco Murray after the break, very explosive. Derrick Henry finally 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.080 got involved at the end. You know, everyone thought Derrick 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.000 Henry was gonna lead the way here, and I was 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.600 surprised to see Murray get the workload he did, but 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.160 we just heard the call. He paid off there. I 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.520 thought Marcus Mariota played the best game of the season 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.760 and one of his best games ever. And you can 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.640 look at Russell Wilson's box score career high three hundred 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.240 and seventy three yards, almost all of that came in 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.640 the end first half. In the entire second half, when 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.160 Russell Wilson is running around for his life, they have 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.800 no foundational ground game and these yards, yes, you threw 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.600 a lot of big chunk gains and they made made 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.640 big place for the air. Doug Baldwin who left with 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.200 a groin strain and we're waiting for more on that 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.520 was absolutely heroic tonight. But I'm if I'm a Seahawks fan, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.880 I look at this effort and I'm concerned about this 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.480 offense because you Russell Wilson shouldn't have had to do 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.120 what he did with the way that we know Seattle's attack, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.960 and suddenly you have to think that there's leaks springing 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:11.280 up because the defense had a very lackluster game, and 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.400 that's what we don't expect to see out of Seattle. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.600 On thirty two dropbacks for Marcus Mariota, Pro Football Focus 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.000 has two pressures, not not just sack. There's no QB hits, 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.200 no sacks. I think they might have served up a 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.280 ghost in which, for new listeners, is a no sack, 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.680 no QB hit performance by an entire team named after 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.560 one of Dan's favorite players of all time. That that's 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.680 a credit to the Titans offensive line and a bad 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.840 sign that the Seahawks got pushed around. Yeah, I mean, 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.720 I feel like Tennessee's kind of approach no line in 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.080 general has not been quite as impressive as they were 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.240 at their heights last year. But they wound up with 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.200 a hundred and nineties six rushing yards, and that was legit. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.160 They were they were really Seattle looked tired out by 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.560 the end. Seattle gave up that after giving up a 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.840 hundred and fifty nine on the ground last year. So 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.760 you last week, so you get Sheldon Richardson in there, 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.200 and yet nothing seemed to be as dominant balance at 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.240 this front seven. That's that's when if you're Seahawks fan, 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.000 you're troubled. Because this game they started slow, like Mark said, 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.080 and then they scored back to back touchdowns and there 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.920 are fourteen, nine or ten minutes to play in the 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.480 third quarter, and Seahawks teams of old, maybe they get 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.880 a defensive score and they kick a couple of field goals, uh, 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.600 and they're on their way to a twenty four seventeen 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.480 win or something. But in this case, they give up 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.360 then three straight touchdowns and it's like, WHOA, what happened 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.200 to this special defense making one last run together? Sheldon 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.600 Richardson now on the line, what happened to all of that? 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.400 And that it just seems like the team is suffering 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.680 from a little bit of a crisis and confidence. Perhaps 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.240 it doesn't have any mojo, and you're seeing it on 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.200 the field against a good Titans team and I'll say 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.480 it tight tens. Oh yeah, they proved it. Yeah, I 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.560 get listen. I wasn't even a high bar. It's like 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.200 Seattle's a struggling NFC power But you know they did 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:57.280 an in Seattle. Well, the look on Mike Malarkey's face 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.320 at the end when they when he realized it was 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.640 finally going in his favor, I can think he thought 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.160 this was a big opponent to beat. One last thing. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.120 Richard Sherman had three penalties on one play in this thing. 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.080 It was there was some crazy stuff going on. There 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.879 was another play where a fight broke out after after 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:17.320 he hit Marcus Mariota with clear helmet helmet, big scuffles. Well, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:18.919 I thought he came very close, but it was not. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.080 That's not actually a personal foul. And how can you 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.439 get three penalties and one play he got called for 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:27.679 defensive past interference, he got called the passes intercepted, and 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.080 then he got called for offensive holding for holding while 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.720 camp Chancellor was trying to make a runback, and then 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:35.399 he ripped his helmet off and was yelling at the 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.680 rest and they threw the flag front sports and conduct 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.560 the opposite of a hat trick. If you're a Seahawks fan, 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.359 what a hat trick it was. Let's move on with 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:47.680 another great NFC game. Look's gonna throw and it's caught. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.320 It is a touchstown for Golden tight and it was 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.880 the slat arts on the left after betting to play. 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:01.840 The ruling on the field has changed. Let's let's touchdown. 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.639 It's a half of yard line. He was short of 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.560 the goal line. By rule, we would go back to 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.120 a running clock and we have a ten second runoff. 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:18.280 So by rule of the game is over. Well, you 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:22.440 don't think this shouldn't go stir some stuff up? How 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:28.040 about that? That was westerham uh w z g c uh. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.400 That is not how that game was supposed to end. 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:34.159 I I understand the rules that are in place. They 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.320 got the call right, but that is very frustrating. And 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.280 and if if you didn't see the game, he had 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.760 Golden tate what looked like the game winning touchdown. They 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:46.479 were down thirty in the last minute. He gets knocked 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.720 down at the goal line. It looked like a bald 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.399 crossed over, but it didn't. And when they did that, 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:53.760 it wasn't challenged by it. It was the official review 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:55.600 and they ruled that he didn't get in, which was 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.400 the right call. But there's something wrong with that mark 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.600 the idea that they're they're not giving the team a 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.800 chance to end the game. It's not the team against 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:05.959 the team in the last play. I just don't like 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:07.840 that rule, and I wish it would be amended in 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.000 the future. I mean, it's rough optics to have a 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:11.960 game and the way it did, because if you're in 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.600 the stands and you and you heard the reaction and 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.200 you're got to half of these Lions fans piling out 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.840 of the stadium, they have no idea what actually just happened, 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:21.600 and they certainly don't agree with it. The call is 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.159 technically right, but it's the most frustrating way for a 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.160 game to end. It's a tough rule, but I don't 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.240 think it's one where there's an easy solution. And I 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:30.960 don't want to get bogged down in this, but you 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.560 can come up with scenarios where it's completely unfair to 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:36.919 the defense if you don't have the ten second runoff. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.040 So I don't know they this was this was an 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.600 addition to the rule book essentially because of plays that 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.399 ended games that infuriated fans in the opposite direction. But okay, 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:49.520 I get that, but what you're doing there then you're 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.680 making the assumption that Detroit would not have been able 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:56.040 to stop the clock, and that that's not their fault either, 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.200 because they never got it wasn't their fault. They had 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.359 bad luck there. They also might not have in that 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.600 that playoff, and from the sound of it, you thought 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.920 that they this was really about them stealing the game 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.000 if they had won it. That for the most part, 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.679 the Falcons looked like the better team. The Falcons are 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:12.840 kind of weird this season because obviously they had a 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.639 record breaking type offense last season, and for most of 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.520