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Speaker 1: Coming up on the Booth Review myself, Big Fletch. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna go through week by week, how the Commander's got

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Speaker 1: to eight and five and.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna let you know which Commander's players should make

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Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: That's coming up on the Booth Review next. Welcome into

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Speaker 1: the Booth Review. I'm Bram Weinstein with Big Fletch London

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Speaker 1: Fletcher the Bye week edition of the Booth Review. So

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Speaker 1: hope you had a nice relaxing week, London.

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Speaker 2: I did. Got a chance to kind of kick back,

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Speaker 2: watch my daughter play a little basketball yesterday, kind of

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Speaker 2: try to get my life back in order for a

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Speaker 2: few days. So it's been relaxing, spending time with my

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Speaker 2: dogs as well.

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Speaker 1: So you said, what in the past when we had

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Speaker 1: the mini by you start watching football, but then the

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Speaker 1: TV watches you. Did you get dad again this weekend? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You know, no, not this. So let's say Monday Monday. Now.

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Speaker 2: I watched the Browns Broncos Monday night game. Was outstanding, man,

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Speaker 2: that was a you know, good football game. And you

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Speaker 2: know I love watching football. So I doze off here

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Speaker 2: here and there as you watch a little football that happens.

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Speaker 1: I think jamis Winston. It might be the most beloved

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Speaker 1: quarterback ever who throws a lot of pick sixes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's asking for delivering. Say man, guys say that

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Speaker 2: to ask him for anything. So let's see if let's

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Speaker 2: see if he gets delivered from throw up pick sixes.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the commanders a little bit here.

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Speaker 1: And because it's the bye week and fortunately we're off

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Speaker 1: the win, so it's eight and five. There still would

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Speaker 1: be qualifying for the playoffs if the season ended today.

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Speaker 1: They got four games left, two at home, two on

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Speaker 1: the road. A couple of them are under five hundred teams.

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Speaker 1: We'll get a rematch of Philadelphia. The Atlanta game is

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Speaker 1: setting up to be a really big game late week seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Let's kind of set the table here for what some

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Speaker 1: I kind of want to just kind of reminisce a

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Speaker 1: little bit here eight and five. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: your expectations were coming into the season. Mine were about

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Speaker 1: a five hundred team. I was hoping Jaden would look

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Speaker 1: the part. They've exceeded my expectations, So I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's if they're kind of tracking where you thought

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Speaker 2: Well, during our preseason show on the Command Center, we

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Speaker 2: had kind of predictions of wins, and I felt like,

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Speaker 2: I believe I predicted them to win. I think it

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Speaker 2: lot of people may thought I was kind of crazy

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Speaker 1: Why what stood out to you that made you think

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Speaker 2: Well, I just like the you know, obviously the edition

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Speaker 2: the way they were going to play football. Look at

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Speaker 2: was based off of that my belief and and and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like I liked the setup. I thought the staff

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Speaker 1: And then defensively, we know the reputation of Quinn and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Brah, that's why you know I did and you did,

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Speaker 2: So it was a lot of different things that had

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Speaker 1: All Right, so let's reminis a little bit. Let's go

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Speaker 2: Man. That seems so long ago. You take us all

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Speaker 2: Making that that that all the but the line of

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Speaker 1: So then week two they did the same thing. They

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Speaker 1: That's not what the Dolphins did at all. Like they

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Speaker 2: that's totally not not how they operate and have two

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Speaker 2: also it was a great work for Jayden in the

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Speaker 1: The other thing that really stood out about the Dolphins

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Speaker 2: That says a lot. You know, it's smart football. You

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Speaker 1: The Week two game was one of the weirdest games

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Speaker 2: Now. I was watching that game from home and the

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Speaker 1: is going to be different now.

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Speaker 2: He was. He was outstanding in that ballgame against the

436
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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bengals. Think he completed what over ninety percent of

437
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:36,720
Speaker 2: his past so close to him.

438
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Speaker 1: And it was like there was another one of those.

439
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Speaker 1: It was like we it was second week in a

440
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,360
Speaker 1: row that we got the no rookie quarterbacks ever done

441
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:43,959
Speaker 1: that before.

442
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:51,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, he was outstanding. And the growth between week

443
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 2: one week three, all of a sudden, you know, you

444
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,920
Speaker 2: go from as you mentioned, not scoring a touchdown against

445
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Speaker 2: the Giants to lighting up the the Cincinnati Bigals on

446
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:06,400
Speaker 2: Monday night football on the road, hostile environment, and he

447
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 2: did not flinch at all. He was actually absolutely electric.

448
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,920
Speaker 2: I mean the passes that he was completing the poison.

449
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 2: And you know, it wasn't a whole lot of defense

450
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 2: being played in that game, but we got it just

451
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 2: enough from our defense in that game to come out

452
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,119
Speaker 2: of there with a victory. But just you that was

453
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 2: when we finally saw the true potential of this offense.

454
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,879
Speaker 2: That's when you're like, oh, ho, hold on, because we

455
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,639
Speaker 2: ran the ball effectively and as we as I mentioned

456
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,880
Speaker 2: several times, Jaden was outstanding.

457
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Speaker 1: There was a fourth and three I think if I

458
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Speaker 1: remember right where he just found McCaffrey, like early in

459
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Speaker 1: the game. That was like one of those moments where

460
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Speaker 1: you're like, oh, man, and you start to see that

461
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 1: he's unflappable. He's ahead of the time, ahead of his curve,

462
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,480
Speaker 1: and I'm like, listen. The craziest pat they hit was

463
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Speaker 1: the hill Mary, and we'll get to it, but that

464
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: one to Terry McLaurin, where it's a full on free rush,

465
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 1: he's gonna get hit through the ball when Terry was

466
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: at the twenty yard line, hits him perfectly in the

467
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 1: end zone, mcclordy makes an unbelievable contested catch to stay

468
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 1: in mounds. Remember he's like right on the sideline. That

469
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:21,119
Speaker 1: was singularly one of the greatest plays I've seen this

470
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 1: team complete to this point in years. It was wild.

471
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Speaker 2: It was and a lot of quarterbacks can complete that

472
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Speaker 2: pass versus a clean pocket, not under durest or anything

473
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 2: like that. But when you have somebody barreling down on

474
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 2: you on block and you have to stand and deliver

475
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 2: and not flinch. And he did that knowing he I'm

476
00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 2: about to take a shot, but I have to stand

477
00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 2: in here and deliver accurate throw to Terry and I drew.

478
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 2: Terry went to the sideline and ask Cliff to call

479
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,199
Speaker 2: that play, moved him to the right side. You know

480
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 2: what Terry would normally lighted up on the left side.

481
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:07,919
Speaker 2: Moved it to the right side, and they ran that

482
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 2: go ball. And it was also a great job by

483
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 2: Terry because he had to give a little stutter to

484
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 2: the defensive back to to create the type of separation

485
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 2: or give himself a chance because the dB was playing

486
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 2: so far off. So great great opportunity, great play call, uh,

487
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 2: you know by Terry going to ask Ford. Great job

488
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,479
Speaker 2: by Cliff, trusted Terry, and a great throw by Jaden

489
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 2: in that situation. Situation.

490
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Speaker 1: So then I remember, all right, this happens on Monday

491
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: night football. Jaden lights it up. Now you know how

492
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 1: this goes. The news cycles are gonna fall in love

493
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: with you and all. They're only game in town. They

494
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: won a game no one thought they were gonna win.

495
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: They did it in style, and now everybody loves you

496
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,959
Speaker 1: and everyone's gonna hot take how great the team is.

497
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: And they had to turn around on a short week

498
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,880
Speaker 1: and go to the West Coast And actually, that are

499
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: Zoda game is the one that is that will stick

500
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 1: out to me as the most impressive of the year

501
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 1: to this point, and hopefully we got more to come,

502
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: because that is set up for a loss. You're coming

503
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: off of this humongous emotional win, everybody's telling you how

504
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: great you are. You go out to Arizona on a

505
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 1: short week and they blew them out. Like that was

506
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: where I went this. I think when we started going

507
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:29,360
Speaker 1: is this real? Because when they did that to bounce

508
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: back emotionally, physically and to beat a team, and I

509
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: know people at the time were like, well that's not

510
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: that big a deal. Go look at their record now

511
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 1: and how that that one stands up. Now? That was

512
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,120
Speaker 1: the moment where I went, oh, this is really actually

513
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 1: going to be different.

514
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 2: Well, I thought it was brilliant though also by dan

515
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 2: quint to fly directly from Cincinnati to Arizona, not go

516
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 2: from Cincinnati back to Virginia and nan fly out to

517
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 2: Arizona later on a week for them to you know,

518
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 2: fly from Cincinnati directly to Arizona to spend the entire

519
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,120
Speaker 2: week out in Arizona. That that that goes a long

520
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 2: way in terms of recovery, getting acclimated to your surroundings,

521
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 2: also building uh more, chemistry, bonding. That was that was

522
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 2: brilliant move by by Dan Quinn and the staff for

523
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 2: doing that. And you know it's just again you mentioned

524
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 2: the performance. I think collectively that was the best game.

525
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 2: Like you said, offense was rolling. Defense played out standing

526
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 2: in that ball game, holding Arizona. To think at fourteen points.

527
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: Fourteen point, that fourth and one sack, remember that.

528
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so just a at that point in time,

529
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 2: I think that's probably where a team started to believe, like, man,

530
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 2: we really have something special because to that point, you know,

531
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 2: defense had its moments, offense had you know, more moments.

532
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 2: But in that ball game, both of them were hitting

533
00:27:58,520 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 2: on all cylinders.

534
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Speaker 1: And I mean listen, three of the first four were

535
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: on the road. Think whatever you want about Arizona. I

536
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 1: think everybody thinks about them differently now, but think of

537
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: what you want about them at the time at Cincinnati.

538
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's an annual playoff team, so no one knew that

539
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: their season was going to go sideways like this. Tampa

540
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 1: Bay was off of a playoff. The fact that they

541
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: were three and one at that point, I think told

542
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: you a lot about where this thing was going. They

543
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: come back and they get Cleveland, who had really been struggling,

544
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: and you know what the mark of a good team

545
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 1: as you take advantage of it, and they blew them out.

546
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: And Jayden was sitting the whole fourth quarter.

547
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 2: And Cleveland was a good defense going into that ball game.

548
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 2: Like the Cleveland was a team that won eleven games

549
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 2: a year before, and they asked some issues at the

550
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 2: quarterback position to Sean Watson wasn't playing good football at all,

551
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 2: but that defense was going to be a challenging and

552
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 2: earlier in that ballgame and defense of the Browns showed

553
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 2: up and was doing some good things. But our defense

554
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 2: was just, I mean, were all over de Shaun Watson.

555
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: Was that game we have like seven sacks or something? Yeah,

556
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 2: it was, it was. It was just a game, a

557
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 2: crazy game. I think Frankie Leeba was all over all

558
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 2: over the football field of that ball game doing doing

559
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 2: an outstanding job. And you know, just you mentioned Jaden

560
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 2: and sitting in the fourth quarter, You don't sit in

561
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter like that unless you have both offense,

562
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 2: defense special teams playing extremely good football. And you know,

563
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 2: it could have been that could have been a situation where, Hey,

564
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 2: you've had this these great back to back roll victories.

565
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 2: You're going to Cincinnati on the Monday night, win a

566
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 2: big game, go out to Arizona winning win a nice,

567
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 2: u convincingly, convincingly win against the Cardinals. Now potential letdown

568
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 2: game at home against the Browns team that wasn't very good,

569
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 2: but no, what do they do? They took it to them.

570
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: The other thing about that one that got me too,

571
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: because it's one of five times this has happened this

572
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: year that they have collected as a team rushed for

573
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: over two hundred yards. Happened this weekend against past week

574
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: against Tennessee they had two fifteen. But really stood out

575
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: to me about that was b Rob had eighteen yards

576
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: rushing and the team had two fifteen. Like, right, if

577
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: you told me at the end of the summer this

578
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: is going to be a top five rush offense, I'm

579
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: not sure I would have believed that they'll be good.

580
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: I like b Rob, I want to see it with

581
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 1: this new O line I know that their quarterback can run,

582
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: so they'll be better than people think. But I never

583
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: would have envisioned this, and that was one of the

584
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,239
Speaker 1: ones that stood out to me too. I'm like two

585
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: fifteen and their best running back had eighteen yards of it, Like,

586
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: what are we looking at here?

587
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: Now? We didn't know what the offensive line was going

588
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 2: to be. Like you you mentioned, hey, let me see

589
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 2: it first. They went out and invest in the offensive

590
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 2: line bringing it, Tyler Battish bringing that, Nick Alligretty, drafting

591
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 2: Brandon Coleman, and I'm not even sure at that point

592
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 2: Tom him and Lucas may haves to they were still

593
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 2: splitting and sharing times at the at the left tackle position.

594
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 2: So for the offensive line to run the way they

595
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 2: ran and the physicality wiched the offensive line in the

596
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 2: run a game, the tight ends you have to include

597
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 2: them as well. When you're and they had the receivers

598
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 2: from a blocking standpoint, you would definitely like, okay, let

599
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 2: me let me it was unexpected. It would definitely unexpected.

600
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 2: I'd say, if you told me top ten, okay, I

601
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 2: could believe that. You know, you bring in athlete lymb

602
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 2: came from the San Francisco forty nine ers. They were

603
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 2: already always one of the best rushing teams in the

604
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 2: International Football League. He's the run game coordinator, so I

605
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 2: can see them, you know, being a top ten rushing offense,

606
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 2: but at that point to be top five, and they

607
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 2: may have even been top three at that point in time.

608
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: They were, and I think they still are now after

609
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: two sixty seven against Tennessee. I got a look at

610
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: the stats, all right. So then we went to Baltimore

611
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: and it was like it felt like the first big game,

612
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: you know, did this team had because they're on a

613
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: winning streak all this sudden there's a measuring stick. Jayden

614
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: had talked about how he grew up. He loved watching

615
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: Lamar play regional rivals. If you will close game, like

616
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: let's find out like everyone everyone buys that Baltimore is

617
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: a contender, Let's find out where we are and how

618
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: real this start is. And you know what I love.

619
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: I know they lost, and they hung in there and

620
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: they fought and they kept the score close. But I

621
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: loved how honest Quinn was after the game where he

622
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,719
Speaker 1: said it was lopsided because it was. The score might

623
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: not have been, but it was. And I loved how

624
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: the locker room was pissed, Like you could just feel

625
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: it when we were there that they felt like they

626
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: could have played better. They weren't going, oh, we lost

627
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: on the road to a really good team, or messaged

628
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: it like, well, we only lost by a touchdown and

629
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: pretended like it was a really really close game. Not

630
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: at all. Like I loved the honesty and intensity in

631
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: that locker room that day.

632
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: Now that that was a game where you you would

633
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 2: have loved to have be robbing that ball game. He

634
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 2: missed that game dealing with believe it was a hamstring

635
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 2: injury at that time or was a knee I can't

636
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: it's been uh, it's been so long. Yeah, it's uh

637
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 2: so missing that ball game against the Baltimore Ravens. They

638
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 2: there wasn't balance like they had had in the prior games.

639
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 2: We were too relyingt on the pass. And I know

640
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 2: Baltimore they were the number one, number one ranked rush

641
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 2: defense at that point in time, but it just was

642
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 2: wasn't the right type of balance and end up throwing

643
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 2: the football think like fifty times, if definitely over forty times,

644
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 2: and maybe just rushing like eighteen times. It wasn't the

645
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 2: same type of you know, run pass ratio that you

646
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 2: you wanted, and they had been success. It was too

647
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 2: relyant on that. Defensively, we had opportunities, didn't didn't get

648
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 2: consistent pressure on Lamar Jackson and Jay Flowers. He had

649
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 2: a day, you know, receiving the football, catching the catching

650
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 2: the football. But again the fact that how they felt

651
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 2: about that game, because they're like, hey, we're nowhere a

652
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,719
Speaker 2: much better football team that we just showed on that

653
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 2: field today. We're going to learn from this. We're gonna

654
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 2: take this and we will be a better team because

655
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 2: of it.

656
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 1: And their passing defense significantly improved from that point forward.

657
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: I think they've been working on the rotation of the corners.

658
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 1: We'll see with marsh On Latimer ope Ley's playing against

659
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: the Saints, we'll see, but like he's going to be

660
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: back sooner rather than later. But they were working on

661
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: the rotation. They were still trying to find I think

662
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: the consistent pass rush where it was going to come from.

663
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: That's really come around here more in recent weeks, but

664
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 1: they were still a work in progress. Then but then

665
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: they come back home, they get Carolina, so they're off

666
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,240
Speaker 1: their first what I think is big loss.

667
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 2: You know, of the year.

668
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: I don't really count the Tampa Bay loss as a

669
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: big loss or but this was the one. There was

670
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: a lot of build up and they loss. How are

671
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: they going to respond? And this is a third time

672
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: in four games that they just blew somebody out and

673
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: Jayden got hurt. Remember like Jayden got hurt. It didn't

674
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: start on the offense for a second.

675
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 2: He got hurt early in that game, and it was

676
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 2: going back to that Baltimore Ravens game. Jayden threw it

677
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 2: thirty five times in that game and we rushed eighteen

678
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 2: times for fifty two yards. I knew there was a

679
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 2: fifty two in there somewhere, but I had to check

680
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 2: my stats. But yeah, in that game against Carolina, got

681
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,839
Speaker 2: hurt early in that ball game, and Maryoda came into

682
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 2: that game. It took him a you know, a series

683
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 2: or two to kind of get his his foot and

684
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 2: get his rhythm going. He hadn't played a whole lot,

685
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 2: and Dad shared with us he wasn't like he was

686
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 2: he was getting any reps with the with the starters

687
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 2: doing during the practice week. It was him a lot

688
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 2: of times after practice going over the script with the

689
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 2: practice squad guys and some of the other receivers to

690
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 2: get himself ready, and just a tremendous performance by him,

691
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 2: because once he really got got his feet his feet

692
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 2: uh going, and got settled in, he he showed what

693
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 2: he was able to do. And you know, it was

694
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 2: just another excellent victory. Not I convinced. He went again

695
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 2: and left no doubt that we're not gonna play around

696
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 2: with a bad football team.

697
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: And then I just, I don't know, I had this

698
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: premonition on the day of the Chicago game, like they'd

699
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: moved it, they flexed it into the national window. It's

700
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: Jaden versus Caleb. I know, you know, Chicago's gone through

701
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 1: a lot since this happened, But they were four and

702
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: two when Washington played them at the time, like they were,

703
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: they were actually going up, they were streaking up. Their

704
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: offense was playing better. I don't think actually Caleb's played

705
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 1: better since, but like all together, they were playing a

706
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: lot better. And that was a big build up for

707
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: that game. It felt like a really big game and

708
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: so many reasons, so I think we just kind of

709
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: knew that it was going to be a really good one.

710
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: I never would have anticipated what happened at the end,

711
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 1: and I got to tell you.

712
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 2: Like, something excited happened at the end of the night. Guy.

713
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: It's just every time I think about it, I just

714
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 1: feel like privileged that we were there because it had

715
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: never happened before and it was amazing, honestly amazing.

716
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's one of those moments where ten, fifteen, twenty third,

717
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 2: forty years from now, people ask the question, where were

718
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 2: you when the haill know what play happened? And we'll

719
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 2: get to say, you know what, we were in a

720
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 2: radio booth call of that game. We were there and

721
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 2: we witnessed it. I'll say this. You know, it took

722
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,919
Speaker 2: a hill mary to win that game, but we ain't

723
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 2: kicked it. We kicked Chicago's but in that game, like

724
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,439
Speaker 2: they didn't deserve to win that football game.

725
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: I agree we would have been.

726
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 2: We would have been so disappointed we lost that game

727
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 2: because Chicago had really did They had done a whole lot,

728
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 2: especially offensively in that ball game.

729
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: They shut them out the first half. Yeah, I just

730
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: I know, But just every time I think about it,

731
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, like, we may never see that again,

732
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: and it never happened before. We may never see it again.

733
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: It's just unbelievable. So then not only we were talking

734
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: about earlier with like Cincinnati. You know, they had this

735
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: emotional win. They turn around, they played well, Now you

736
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: got to get over a hill. Mary team admitted that

737
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 1: they were kind of smelling themselves a few days because,

738
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: you know, how do you get away from it. Everyone's

739
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: phone's blowing up, everybody wants to do interviews with you.

740
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,439
Speaker 1: It's hard to refocus again. They'd turn around and play

741
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: the Giants again, team that they don't win up there

742
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: very much. I know what the Giants record is, but

743
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: they don't win very much up there, And I thought

744
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: it was just a very professional effort. They gave up

745
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: a couple of late scores that made it close, but

746
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: relatively like I thought they should have won going away,

747
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: And had they not given up a late touchdown to

748
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: the tight end on a busted coverage, I think they

749
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 1: would have.

750
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 2: I understand them being kind of it taking them a

751
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 2: while to get over that game against the the Chicago Bears. Heck,

752
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but for me, I felt

753
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 2: like I was still feeling the remnants of that game

754
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 2: as we were the Chicago game. As we were calling

755
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,480
Speaker 2: the game against the Giants, like I felt still and

756
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 2: mostly draned. We didn't even play it, so I could

757
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 2: only imagine the emotional drant and what it took for

758
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 2: those for those players, and you know, because it was

759
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 2: it was a It was a and exhilarate and play one.

760
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 2: As you said, you know we had seen before and

761
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 2: you know, don't know if we'll see it ever again.

762
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 2: But so it took. It was a testament for them

763
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 2: to be able to go in there, not play their

764
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,959
Speaker 2: best to start with, and steal able to be able

765
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 2: to come come away with the victory. I think coach

766
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 2: Quinn daw said he didn't feel like the team really

767
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 2: was over that until like Saturday, so that that lets

768
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,439
Speaker 2: you know they had already gone through a full week

769
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 2: of practice and then it was like, man, Saturday is

770
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 2: finally what you feel like we recovered from that.

771
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: Listen. That was a crazy week. Like you and I

772
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 1: got real popular after that one too.

773
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:38,959
Speaker 2: It was just.

774
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 1: Crazy, you know, like texts, I guy, I remember we

775
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: were laughing. Like by the time when we went from

776
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: the booth to the locker room, I had ninety one

777
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 1: texts and it didn't stop, you know, once they started

778
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: showing the clips, you know, of everything. It didn't stop

779
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: for us. So what do you think the players were

780
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: going through, like over the whole week, Like I you know,

781
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: many people called me like for the next three days

782
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: after that, it was nuts.

783
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're q scoing went up, bram and yeah and

784
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 2: uh people. People were trying to give me the new interviews.

785
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 2: I'd declined and I'm talked out. I gotta save I

786
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 2: need to save my energy.

787
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,760
Speaker 1: I'm not that popular that often. I gotta take advantage

788
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: of it, you know what I mean, every once in

789
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: a while. I had my fifteen minutes on that one,

790
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: all right. So then we what ended up being the

791
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: rough stretch of the season. This team needed to buy bad.

792
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 1: They've needed it for a month. I'm glad it's here.

793
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: And the schedule did them no favors. It just worked

794
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: out that they got two heavyweight teams in a four

795
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: day span, Pittsburgh Philadelphia with Pittsburgh, Man, I don't know

796
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,800
Speaker 1: how we'd be feeling about the playoffs had they, I

797
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: don't know, gotten a better spot on the zach Ertz catch,

798
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: or didn't jump off sides late in the game, had

799
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: gotten a chance to steal that thing. That was a

800
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: great matchup between two really good teams. Give Russ credit

801
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: for hitting not on like when we hit that one

802
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: to Terry and Cincinnati. That was a big throw. That

803
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 1: was a big boy throw that he hit late to

804
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: Mike Williams. That ended up being the difference of the game.

805
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: His team fought through it, and it's just unfortunate we

806
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: fell short against them.

807
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 2: No, it was definitely was a big time throw by

808
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,959
Speaker 2: by Russell Wilson. And you know, it was a game

809
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,919
Speaker 2: again where not really able to have the the sort

810
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 2: of balance you wont not being able to run the

811
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 2: ball the way you would love to run the football.

812
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 2: I thought it showed a lot of we showed a

813
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 2: lot of toughness in that game, going going toe to

814
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 2: toe with with Pittsburgh. I'm still perplexed on that spot.

815
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 2: How you can It's obvious that the that the spot

816
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 2: was short, you review it, and yet you still, hey,

817
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 2: let's change it, move it up a half yard or whatever,

818
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 2: let's remeasure. But for whatever reason or another, they opted

819
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 2: not to do that. But you know, I think you

820
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 2: mentioned I think our offensive line we were starting to

821
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 2: deal with some injuries up in that point. At that

822
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 2: point in the season, offensive line was banged up and

823
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 2: and you know it's a as you were mentioned that

824
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 2: the Bay was still a little bit of ways away.

825
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, they needed it, had to turn around go up

826
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia. I just didn't have a good feeling about it.

827
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: I mean, philadelphiare streaking, this team needs a buy. The

828
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: injuries are piling up. Jayden wasn't fully healthy yet. I'll

829
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: give them credit. They hung in there and were right there.

830
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: It's a two point game. In the fourth quarter, they

831
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 1: chose not to kick a field goal and things just

832
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: went crazy for three minutes where this happens every once

833
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,280
Speaker 1: in a while. It was like it's like a snowball

834
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: hit a mountain and an avalanche fell, and Philadelphia walks

835
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: down the field, scores, gets an interception, Scores again gets

836
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 1: out of hand, and you know, I'm very, very excited

837
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,919
Speaker 1: to see these two play again under different circumstances, under

838
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: a different schedule, and hopefully with Washington being a lot

839
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: healthier than they were when they played them the first time.

840
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:52,240
Speaker 2: That coming off that tough, tough game against the Pittsburgh Dealers,

841
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 2: going into Philly's going to be difficult regards in a

842
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,280
Speaker 2: normal week where you have a full week to prepare

843
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 2: for them. The team is built, you know, the players

844
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 2: that they have out their coach. That's gonna be a

845
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 2: difficult environment in a normal setting. But to have it

846
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 2: on a short week, You're coming up to Pittsburgh and

847
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 2: and said, let's go tee it up again on on

848
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 2: on a Thursday night, and to be you know, going

849
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 2: toe for toe to toe with them. It was it

850
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 2: was twelve ten with the eight minutes or so left

851
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter, didn't get the fourth and two.

852
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 2: Since you didn't get the fourth and two and the

853
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 2: uh the Eagles were able to kind of open things

854
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 2: up in that fourth quarter after that, and the score

855
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 2: was not indicative of how coach the ball game was.

856
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 2: And as you mentioned, would love to see what it's

857
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 2: gonna look like. Hopefully we're at full strength, and you know,

858
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,919
Speaker 2: I hope they've been a full strength as well. Let's

859
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 2: kind of see, uh see what it looks like a

860
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 2: normal week if they're if they're going flexes, they would

861
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 2: already flex us by now, Is that correct.

862
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,720
Speaker 1: I don't think it's happening. I don't remember. I remember

863
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 1: looking at the schedule there's a prominent game that night,

864
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: so I don't I don't think it's getting moved, and

865
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: I had heard Fox one it, so I don't Yeah,

866
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: so that's not okay.

867
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,479
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe it goes to the four o'clock even maybe

868
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 2: not window.

869
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe maybe Well I don't know if that's Fox's

870
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 1: national window. Not sure. So I think I had heard

871
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 1: We're stuck at one o'clock with them. It stuck the

872
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: wrong court, but you know, you know it is all right.

873
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: So then we get to Dallas had the mini buy.

874
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: This is the only one of the year of the

875
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: losses where I went, this is the one that got

876
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 1: away from them, and not like we were talking about earlierbout

877
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 1: the Giants game where we're kind of down for anything.

878
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: That was the weirdest finish I've ever seen in my

879
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 1: life because that that game was frustrating because this team

880
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 1: had so many chances to put them away or at

881
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: least get a lead. In the first half. Dallas had

882
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: a field goal blocked, missed, a field goal, had a

883
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: block count and a fumble and Washington was tied at

884
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: half three to three. That's on them, and then everything

885
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: went haywire. But really that's how I kind of remember it.

886
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: They lost it in the first half, not the second half.

887
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,240
Speaker 2: They definitely did take advantage of some great field position

888
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 2: you mentioned of the block actually the block field goal

889
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 2: to block pump, they turnover forced fumble by it was

890
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 2: Bobby or or Johnny Newton forced to fumble. Just did

891
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,919
Speaker 2: not take advantage of the great field position that we had.

892
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,240
Speaker 2: And you know, at that point in time, the Cowboys,

893
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 2: they were struggling. They were coming off of, you know,

894
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,720
Speaker 2: a game where they lost against the Houston Texans. I believe,

895
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 2: you know, anytime you have a bad team, a team

896
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,439
Speaker 2: that's not playing great, they're already coming to the game

897
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 2: with doubt and they're looking for a reason to kind

898
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 2: of say, you know what, this is just not our day.

899
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 2: Let's get out of here, healthy, get back on, get

900
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 2: back to Dallas, you know, healthy or healthy. But we

901
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,439
Speaker 2: allowed them and stick and hanging and hanging around, hang around,

902
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 2: hang around, give up a big play right before the half.

903
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 2: Instead of being up maybe seventeen twining at halftime, we

904
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 2: got a situation where we're tied at three to three

905
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 2: in that ball game, and we had nobody to blame

906
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 2: for that loss but ourselves.

907
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: And you know, like I thought that Giants game was weird.

908
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: The end of this game was maybe the weirdest in

909
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: the series history. Two kick returns for touchdowns, one on

910
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 1: an onside kick, two missed extra points, blocked punt, blocked

911
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: field goal, two missed field goals. The play a tear

912
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:39,960
Speaker 1: tear thirty seconds, a six yard touchdown, like the emotional

913
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: up and down on those last five minutes. I've never

914
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,439
Speaker 1: experienced anything like that because they got back in the game.

915
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: Turpin pulled up Madden move to score a touchdown on

916
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: a kickoff return. We come back again anyway, get the

917
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: ball back late, score a miracle touchdown, don't get to overtime.

918
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 1: It was that was in same.

919
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:06,760
Speaker 2: No, it was if you think about the game, quite honestly,

920
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 2: it wasn't a great offensive display up until the last

921
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 2: five minutes of that ball game was kind of like, ah,

922
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:19,320
Speaker 2: this game kind of boring. And then you know what happened.

923
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,439
Speaker 2: You mentioned the terry play and the missed extra point,

924
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 2: all the things that happened. That the turpe it up

925
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 2: kick return. Where that that mad move where you hit

926
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 2: the I think it's the X button where you do

927
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 2: the spin or exers or the circle button. Think it was,

928
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 2: I asked my son. I think he told me was

929
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 2: the X button.

930
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: I'm not guessing.

931
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:43,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think my think my son turned was the xbunt,

932
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 2: But he not only did the spin move, he spit

933
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 2: and he went zero to sixty and a one step. Yeah,

934
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 2: that's the part of it too. Okay, It's one thing

935
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 2: to do the spin move, but to go from zero

936
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 2: to sixty and one step. And he's a tremendous playmaker.

937
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 2: And I'm the mostion is of that game. The way

938
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 2: it ended, I mean, it was like, Wow, what did

939
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 2: we just witness?

940
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 1: So to your point about what a team is losing,

941
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: you wonder what their psyche is coming in. I'll be

942
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: honest with you. I was paranoid coming into this Tennessee

943
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: game because if this team's serious about making a playoff run,

944
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: they had to win that game. They had to win.

945
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 1: Right three and eight AFC team, you know, who's struggling

946
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 1: quarterback turns the ball over a lot, but they have

947
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: the number two defense of the league. They had just

948
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: come off a win against Houston. I was surprised by

949
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: the Dallas outcome, Like I just didn't see that coming.

950
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 1: I thought it was a get right game for Washington,

951
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: and it's just so reassuring that like out of the blue.

952
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: They looked like that team that played Cincinnati, Cleveland and Carolina.

953
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was. This was a situation where we

954
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 2: took advantage of the great field position in that ball game,

955
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 2: especially early. You get the short field to start the

956
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 2: ball game. I think we took over at the round

957
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 2: our forty yard line. B Rob first carry goes forty yards.

958
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:15,280
Speaker 2: We had a what a fumble recovery by Mikey Sadrigs Steele,

959
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 2: some other players that went our way, where instead of

960
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 2: the difference between the game against the Cowboys and the

961
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 2: game against his Tights, we actually capitalize on that great

962
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 2: field position. Then in the first quarter we were up

963
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one nothing or twenty eight zip. Yeah. So

964
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 2: you know, two similar type of flows to the games

965
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 2: in terms of great field position, but the difference was

966
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,280
Speaker 2: we took advantage of that great field position.

967
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: I mean it was crazy. Like the whole time, I'm

968
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: like walking in going I think they're gonna win, but

969
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:48,879
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. I hope they just I don't

970
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 1: care what the score is. I just hope they win.

971
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 1: Get to the bye week eight and five feeling good.

972
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: Put the losing street behind them. No style points necessary,

973
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: But Jayden looks like Jayden from early in the season.

974
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: The run game was completely unstoppable. Chris Rodriguez is emblematic

975
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 1: of all the things we were talking about earlier, the

976
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: buy in on the team. The guy's been up and

977
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: down from the practice squad to the roster, had to

978
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 1: be released. Then Austin Eckler gets hurt, they call him back,

979
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 1: like where's his head? Shows up? Nearly runs for one

980
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: hundred yards. That team was giving up one hundred yards

981
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,360
Speaker 1: a game. This team almost had two hundred yard rushers

982
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 1: against them. It was really it was really telling.

983
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Jayden. You mentioned Jayden looking like he he looked.

984
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 2: That was as good as we had probably saw him play,

985
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 2: and especially from a running aspect, and maybe over a

986
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:41,479
Speaker 2: month since prior to the reb injury. He was making

987
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 2: people miss it. The one touchdown run he had inside

988
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 2: the rezon where he was dodging, dodging Tyson defenders like

989
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 2: a you know, a pedestrian trying to cross the street

990
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 2: a five o'clock rush hour traffic. I mean, he was

991
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:57,400
Speaker 2: he was making he was making people miss zigging and zagging.

992
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 2: But the uh that when I looked at Tennessee's defense.

993
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 2: That defensive front. They have some guys who can who

994
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 2: can cause trouble for you. They have some manage rushers.

995
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 2: They're pretty solid in what they did schematically from a

996
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 2: from a coverage standpoint, I did not. I thought we

997
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 2: have a tough time, tougher time running the ball. I

998
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 2: guess that we did. We ran for over two out

999
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 2: of sixty yards, so I was definitely surprised by that.

1000
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was wild, all right. We got four games ago.

1001
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 1: Playoffs are very much in sight. Division's gonna be tough

1002
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: because they need Philadelphia to stop winning so much and

1003
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: for their last five home so it's gonna be it's

1004
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: gonna be very tough to catch them. I still am

1005
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,439
Speaker 1: very interested in this rematch because I think it's gonna

1006
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,240
Speaker 1: be a very different game. But New Orleans is first

1007
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: under five hundred team that changed their coach in the

1008
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: middle of the season. What's kind of your early expectations

1009
00:51:58,200 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: for the game against the Saints.

1010
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:03,760
Speaker 2: I just started watching, you know, one of the Saints

1011
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 2: games against he was against the Browns man where they

1012
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 2: ran for over two hundred yards in that game against

1013
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 2: the Browns, and I was now a lot of that

1014
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 2: run running success they had came from Takesam Hill, you know,

1015
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 2: being a Wildcat quarterback. He's he's he's out for the

1016
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 2: season now. So I will say this, uh, kamaraw he's Camara,

1017
00:52:26,960 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 2: he's a he's an outstanding football player. And they got

1018
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 2: they got some playmakers on offense. And you know it's

1019
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 2: not gonna be an easy game. So for us and

1020
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 2: our fan base, don't get to thinking, hey, the the

1021
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 2: Saints there with four and eight right now that this uh,

1022
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,640
Speaker 2: at this current juncture, they're not a good football team.

1023
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 2: They are going to play extremely tough. If you allow

1024
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 2: that dome to get rocket, it will be extremely difficult,

1025
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 2: you know, extremely difficult environment to deal with because those

1026
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 2: fans come out and support their team. So you know,

1027
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 2: we we we have to come in there a game.

1028
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 2: We're gonna come out of there with a victory. And

1029
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 2: I know, I know Dad Quinn, he he knows what

1030
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 2: it's like to play in New Orleans. He was the

1031
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 2: head coach of the Falcons for for a number of years.

1032
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 2: So he'll have those guys ready for that environment and understanding, hey,

1033
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 2: this is what we're up against. They got you know,

1034
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,800
Speaker 2: Cam Jordan, he's gonna be He's still a good productive

1035
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 2: player for them. Tyron Matthews still good football player for them.

1036
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,839
Speaker 2: We know Chase Younger want to have a good game

1037
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 2: against his former team team that traded him. So you know,

1038
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 2: we'll we'll have to be ready to rock and roll

1039
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 2: against the Saints in New Orleans.

1040
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 1: So obviously, like the playoffs are very much in reach,

1041
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 1: what do you think team needs to do the last

1042
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: four games to ensure they get there.

1043
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 2: I think we need to win at least two more.

1044
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 2: I think we we get to ten. I feel like

1045
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:52,879
Speaker 2: ten and ten is will be enough. Obviously, I would

1046
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 2: love for us to go four and oh you know,

1047
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 2: but I'm just saying, I think if we get to ten,

1048
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 2: that'll that'll be enough. Giving need the state of the

1049
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 2: NFC West, the NFC Central or North whatever they can

1050
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,040
Speaker 2: whatever they're called now, NFC North, I think they're gonna

1051
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 2: get three teams in and the South and the West.

1052
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,879
Speaker 2: South and the West will only get up. We'll get

1053
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 2: one each. Whoever the division winners are of those those teams.

1054
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 1: I'll tell you though, we need to get one that

1055
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 1: worries me is the South. Go look at the schedules

1056
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 1: that Atlanta and Tampa Bay have it's like littered with

1057
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:34,120
Speaker 1: under five hundred teams so well playing each other twice.

1058
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 1: So that's the worry I have about those teams.

1059
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. One of those ten beat the Falcons.

1060
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 2: One of those victories needs to be against the Falcons.

1061
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 2: I agree, because and let's have hopefully the the Buccaneers.

1062
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 2: If the Buccaneers want win that division, great, but we

1063
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 2: don't need the Bucks to get to ten wins. We

1064
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 2: need the Bucks to win their division because we would

1065
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,439
Speaker 2: have the we would lose head to head with those guys.

1066
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 2: I don't know what the bucks current record is. Are

1067
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 2: there five? And are they six and six? I think

1068
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,920
Speaker 2: they're six and six right now? Huh, you got a

1069
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 2: shoo in front of you. Look hey, let me uh,

1070
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,320
Speaker 2: let me got what to right? Let me hold on.

1071
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 2: I'll tell you right now. The Bucks are I believe

1072
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 2: it was six and six last time I checked.

1073
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: I think so because they barely beat Carolina in overtime

1074
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: last week.

1075
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 2: Yeah. Actually, the Bucks and and Atlanta both are six

1076
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:37,319
Speaker 2: and six. Yeah, they're both six and six, So you

1077
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 2: want to get one of them.

1078
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 1: Look at their schedules because there so that is, it's

1079
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,800
Speaker 1: gonna be huge. It's gonna be absolutely huge again Washington.

1080
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 2: Ideally we would want the Falcons. I believe we would

1081
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 2: want the the Buccaneers to win that division and US

1082
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 2: have the tiebreaker over the Falcons. Yeah, that would be

1083
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 2: the best cation area. We wouldn't want the Falcons to

1084
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 2: win that division. And I said the ty Beerker scenario

1085
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 2: with the with the Buccaneers because they they beat us

1086
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:06,799
Speaker 2: and they had to hit it.

1087
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: All right last thing. So we got a month. Pro

1088
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: Bowl nomination is gonna come out in a few weeks.

1089
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:14,840
Speaker 1: All the other awards are can come at the end

1090
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 1: of the year. But I think there's a number of

1091
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: people here who are up for prominent awards on the

1092
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:21,919
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl real quick, because I think there's a lot

1093
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 1: of good names on this team that are up for it.

1094
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:26,880
Speaker 1: Here are the ones I came up with. You know, Jayden,

1095
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 1: I think Jayden should be a Pro Bow quarterback. I

1096
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: know he's a rookiad that he should be Terry Terry's

1097
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: top five receiver as entering play this week, and obviously

1098
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: they've played one more game than everybody else, so we'll

1099
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: see where his numbers are, but I think he belongs there.

1100
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: Louvu's been outrageous this year, and I think ought to

1101
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: make the Pro Bowl. Dante Fowler, I'm hoping it's gonna

1102
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:50,279
Speaker 1: end up double digit sacks. Louvu two, I think he's

1103
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: got a shot to do it. And then on the

1104
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 1: offensive line, Beiadish and Cosmi I think are both really

1105
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: really good candidates for the Pro Bowl too.

1106
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:00,399
Speaker 2: Now knows, you make a great point with the with

1107
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 2: those guys, I really would love for for the offensive

1108
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:06,879
Speaker 2: line because when you when you played as well as

1109
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 2: our offense has played, look at us being the top

1110
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:13,800
Speaker 2: three I think top three rushing offense and Jaydenen and

1111
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 2: offense scoring as many points, that offensive line is very underrated.

1112
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 2: And Beyondis has been the glue for that offensive line.

1113
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 2: You know, you look at the battles that he had

1114
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 2: with Dexter Lawrence, and you know, and just when he's

1115
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 2: when he's on top of his game and health is

1116
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 2: is is good for him that offense role. So he

1117
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 2: had got banged up a little bit, but definitely deserved.

1118
00:57:39,600 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 2: Sam Cosman, he's been a lynch Pen tremendous leader on

1119
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 2: this offensive line. He kind of brings the toughness and

1120
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 2: physicality of that offensive line and and He's definitely very

1121
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 2: deserving off making the Pro Bowl. Jaydeen. Obviously Terry, he's

1122
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 2: second in the NFC right now and receiving behind receiving

1123
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 2: yards behind Justin Jefferson, So they'll take think what they

1124
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 2: take four wide receivers into Yeah, from the NFC. So

1125
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 2: I believe, I believe Jade and that Terry will definitely

1126
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:13,439
Speaker 2: be there. You mentioned the guys on the defensive side.

1127
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 2: Louver's been Housta, He's anybody who's seen us play, They're like, man,

1128
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 2: Frankie Louvo deserves to be there. Uh, Bobby Wagner's going

1129
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 2: to be He's playing. He's been in the you know what,

1130
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 2: Ted Pro Bowl, So I think he has a great

1131
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 2: chance that he'll it's a great chance he'll he'll make it.

1132
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 2: He's still playing at a high level. He mentioned Foler,

1133
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 2: he would, he would be very He's very deserving as well.

1134
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: And for the last month, I mean, I think Jade's

1135
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: a clear front runner for Rookie of the Year and

1136
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 1: deserves it. There's only two other players that I think

1137
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 1: really are in the discussion at this point. Bo Nicks

1138
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 1: has had a very good season in Denver has Similarly,

1139
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of expectations, but are playing

1140
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 1: above you know, I think what people thought he's he's

1141
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 1: really come on and then brought Bowers. So I don't

1142
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: know why he isn't getting a lot of attention, but

1143
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: he's posting un real numbers for a rookie fight and

1144
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 1: like greatest rookie tight end numbers. Ever. He's among the

1145
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: league leaders in receptions and yards and all that stuff.

1146
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 1: I mean, so I think it's their record. He's not

1147
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 1: getting a lot of shine for it, right, But I

1148
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: think Jaden's gonna end up the rookie of the year

1149
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:16,640
Speaker 1: if this team ends the way they kind of started.

1150
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:20,800
Speaker 2: Well, it's funny because coming out of the draft, coming

1151
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 2: into the draft, I text, there's a Command Center group text,

1152
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 2: and I text the guys. I was like, man, I

1153
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 2: love Jade and my second favorite quarterback was a Bold Nicks.

1154
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 2: And I don't know if people, you know, really took

1155
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 2: me serious at that point in time, But when I

1156
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 2: watched him, how he played at or Auburn and how

1157
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 2: he played in Oregon. He shoot at Oregon. He completed

1158
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 2: almost seventy percent of his past maybe even more than that,

1159
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 2: and he had, you know, some ridiculous amount of starts,

1160
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 2: tremendous athlete. He was a number one dual threat quarterback

1161
00:59:56,320 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 2: coming out of high school, and people didn't really understand.

1162
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 2: If you didn't watch a lot of Oregon games, you

1163
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 2: probably didn't realize his mobility. I thought he would have

1164
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 2: been tremendous in that Kyle Shadahan that that type of

1165
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 2: office obviously ended up going to a to a you know,

1166
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 2: Sean Pagne and the Broncos, and he's one of the

1167
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 2: great quarterback guys. But Rookie of the Year is Jade's

1168
01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:21,959
Speaker 2: Deluz you know he could he's he's the front runner.

1169
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 2: I don't think it's it's really that close. Brock Bowers,

1170
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 2: they're two and ten. That's why you're not here about him,

1171
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 2: and and the quarterback is gonna garner more attention. And

1172
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 2: until you just mentioned Brock and I think I've heard

1173
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,200
Speaker 2: a couple other people mentioned him recently. I didn't know

1174
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 2: he was, you know, so high and receiving yards. Yeah, yeah,

1175
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 2: because again he's playing for the Raiders and they're two

1176
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 2: and ten.

1177
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's having it outrageous year. But for Jaden, hey

1178
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:51,240
Speaker 1: get to go back to Louisiana this week, hopefully put

1179
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 1: on a showcase against the Saints. Get this team, hopefully

1180
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 1: the nine to five, which is where we're gonna leave

1181
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: it here for the Booth review, We'll talk to you

1182
01:00:58,240 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 1: after the Saints game.