Speaker 1: Devandre Campbell more like Devandre Campball, or at least Devandre
Speaker 1: chose not the ball last night.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: Forty nine ers not happy for a lot of reasons
Speaker 1: after that loss to the Rams, or Brian Baudier will
Speaker 1: be here to help us break down where they go
Speaker 1: from here is everybody gets there fifteen minutes of fame
Speaker 1: or in Adam Rank's case, seven minutes.
Speaker 2: Every Friday, it's fantasy playoff time.
Speaker 1: If you ever in a reality check about your lineup,
Speaker 1: Ranks got some red hot tips to save your season
Speaker 1: once again. It's been eighty one years since these Steelers
Speaker 1: and Eagles combined forces for one season back in the
Speaker 1: early nineteen forties.
Speaker 2: But what if they did it again.
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, that would mean something really bad
Speaker 1: probably happened. We'll have some fun and break down the
Speaker 1: rosters anyway, because we would never walk out on you.
Speaker 1: Welcome inside with the insiders alongside Mike garra Folo, I
Speaker 1: am Tom Pelisero. Week fifteen is underway in the NFL
Speaker 1: and we got a really good slate of games coming
Speaker 1: up here playoff implications all across the board, including Steelers, Eagles,
Speaker 1: including Bill's Lions. We had a three time Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: receiver get cut today working Odell Beckham Junior Land.
Speaker 2: We will get to all of that.
Speaker 1: But let's start out with some of those clinching scenarios
Speaker 1: we've got on the NFC side, very straightforward. For the Vikings,
Speaker 1: beat the Bears and they're in. They'd also get in
Speaker 1: with a Seattle loss. Eagles are in with a win
Speaker 1: and a loss by the Commanders, who currently would be
Speaker 1: in the seventh position.
Speaker 2: As for the AFC, to the Texans, they would.
Speaker 1: Clinch the AFC South Division title in a whole playoff
Speaker 1: game with a win plus a Colts loss. These Steelers, meanwhile,
Speaker 1: are in with a win or a Miami and Indianapolis loss.
Speaker 2: You got all that.
Speaker 1: The Chargers no clinching scenarios for them just yet, but
Speaker 1: they still got a lot to play for in playoffs themselves,
Speaker 1: and they will have their starting quarterback Justin Herbert a
Speaker 1: full participant in practice today despite getting blasted on the
Speaker 1: quad there. He also hurt an ankle. Jim Harbaugh said
Speaker 1: today he's got the strength of ten men, which is
Speaker 1: also something that you say about gorillas.
Speaker 3: So when you.
Speaker 1: See Justin silverback Herbert in the wild, you turn and
Speaker 1: run Lamacacky, meanwhile, is listed as questionable dealing with a
Speaker 1: knee at a shoulder. Missed last week's game, but as
Speaker 1: practice over the past couple of days, we'll see whether
Speaker 1: he can make it against the Buccaneers, whose running back
Speaker 1: Bucky Irving is officially listed as questionable.
Speaker 2: His back tightened up on him.
Speaker 1: It something he's been dealing with for a little bit here,
Speaker 1: Todd bills at the start of the week. The hope
Speaker 1: is he can get it loosened up enough. There's some
Speaker 1: things that you can take, Mike to help you out
Speaker 1: with that. The question is how long can it last.
Speaker 1: We'll keep me keeping an eye on the status of
Speaker 1: Bucky Irving leaning up until Sunday.
Speaker 3: Elsewhere.
Speaker 4: For the first time in a month and a half,
Speaker 4: Marshawn Lottimore will be on the playing field. Last time
Speaker 4: was for the New Orleans Saints, this time against the
Speaker 4: New Orleans Saints. Set to make his Commander's debut this
Speaker 4: Sunday against New Orleans. Remember that trade right before the deadline,
Speaker 4: a third and a fourth round pick and then a
Speaker 4: swap of a fifth and a sixth. It was a
Speaker 4: big price to pay for a guy that the Commanders
Speaker 4: knew wasn't was it gonna be on the field right away,
Speaker 4: But now he is, and this was a trade made
Speaker 4: for the long haul. Theer finally able to see him
Speaker 4: up against his former team on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Does it need something though to half that debut against
Speaker 2: the Saints?
Speaker 5: Of course, I'll be lying about said then. You know,
Speaker 5: you know, like they traded me away and you know
Speaker 5: I'm going at the song, you know, while they said,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm glad, I'm happy where I'm at, but
Speaker 5: you know how, you know, add some motivation for the game.
Speaker 4: He'll be going up against Jake Hayner here in this matchup.
Speaker 4: We'll talk get to that in a second time. But
Speaker 4: I talked about this one being one where the Commanders
Speaker 4: were being patient with Latimore. Felt like that this was
Speaker 4: going to be the first real acquisition of the office
Speaker 4: of next offseason, and whatever they got this year on
Speaker 4: top of that was sort of gravy because this is
Speaker 4: the team setting it up for the long haul. So
Speaker 4: he's finally back. They were very patient with it. They
Speaker 4: made sure not to rush and he came back last week.
Speaker 4: He was sort of closed last week. But this is
Speaker 4: the one where they were really looking forward to having
Speaker 4: him back, and he is back on the field this Sunday.
Speaker 1: Mike, I can't think of a lot of examples of
Speaker 1: a trade like this. It's given me December fifteenth on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and a guy that you acquired before the trade deadline,
Speaker 1: which was back on November fifth is finally seeing the field.
Speaker 2: But you said it.
Speaker 1: They knew that he had a real hamstring injury. He'd
Speaker 1: actually missed time with the Saints prior to the trade
Speaker 1: deadline as well. That ends up missing several games. They
Speaker 1: had the buye. They wanted to be patient. He practiced
Speaker 1: the week before the bye. They were able to get
Speaker 1: him out there. This has really been the issue for
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lattimore in recent years. He has this kind of
Speaker 1: persistent soft tissue stuff. He's only played twenty four games
Speaker 1: total over the past three seasons. But Mike, when Marshawn
Speaker 1: Lattimore is healthy, he is, you know, one of the
Speaker 1: better cover corners man corners in the NFL, which you
Speaker 1: would anticipate, especially as they come down the stretch in
Speaker 1: the NFC East and then go into the playoffs. They
Speaker 1: hope that's gonna free up a lot of things. As
Speaker 1: Dan quinn is setting the schemes, and.
Speaker 4: I mentioned Jake Hayner on the other side of this
Speaker 4: matchup getting his first NFL start for the Saints with
Speaker 4: Derek Carr out of action. Remember they had Spencer Rattler
Speaker 4: jump over Hayner basically when Car suffered that oblique injury
Speaker 4: against the Chiefs earlier in the season. Came in in
Speaker 4: relief against the Broncos, played well right there, and you're like, well,
Speaker 4: why didn't this guy start this game? Well, now he's
Speaker 4: going to get the chance to start his get start
Speaker 4: this game. They were playing the charade early in the week,
Speaker 4: but this was always going to be Hayter who was
Speaker 4: going to be the guy to take over for Derek
Speaker 4: Carr in this game and again get his first NFL start.
Speaker 1: Tom Jay Cayner the Senior Bowl MVP a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, on the sideline reporter for that night before
Speaker 1: the game, Hater's coming through the restaurant with his parents
Speaker 1: seize me.
Speaker 2: He's like, Tom, how you doing? Man? Man, I'm so
Speaker 2: excited for tomorrow's game. He is a dialed in type
Speaker 2: of dute.
Speaker 1: He played well enough again to take home the MVP award,
Speaker 1: finally getting his opportunity to get out there on the field,
Speaker 1: and he said it today, I got nothing to lose.
Speaker 1: Saints are clinging to their fate playoff hopes. We'll see
Speaker 1: exactly how it goes. You can't say Chiefs, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, nothing's ever fate with their playoff hopes. Basically,
Speaker 1: they check in for training camp and you're like, they've
Speaker 1: clenched a playoff berth and now look at this.
Speaker 2: Some reinforcements on the way.
Speaker 1: They open the twenty one day practice window today for
Speaker 1: both wide receiver Hollywood Brown and kicker Harrison Butker. For
Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown, he was ruled out for this week's game.
Speaker 1: He's coming off surgery for that sc joint sprain, which
Speaker 1: is basically in the front of your chest. It's not
Speaker 1: a common surgery in the NFL, but optimism that he's
Speaker 1: going to be back, perhaps before the end of the
Speaker 1: regular season. As for Harrison Butker, who was dealing with
Speaker 1: that knee surgery that he had, he's coming back from
Speaker 1: injured reserve, officially listed as questionable, but it seems Mike
Speaker 1: like he's making good progress. We may see him out
Speaker 1: there this week.
Speaker 3: Will we see DeAndre Swift out there?
Speaker 4: The Bears running back did not practice today with a
Speaker 4: groin injury. Remember they got that game on Monday against
Speaker 4: the Minnesota Vikings, So the Bears hopeful that he's going
Speaker 4: to be able to get out there and be his
Speaker 4: usual dynamic self, but we're gonna have to see as
Speaker 4: we get closer to that game on Monday. Elsewhere on
Speaker 4: the running back front, Kenneth Walker for the Seahawks listed
Speaker 4: as doubtful. He went and got further testing on a
Speaker 4: caff under injury. It's just taken a little bit longer
Speaker 4: to come along than they had hoped, and they wanted
Speaker 4: to get a better grasp for it. They got good
Speaker 4: results from that MRI earlier in the week and thought, well,
Speaker 4: maybe he's got a shot here.
Speaker 3: But that's not going to wind up being the case.
Speaker 4: But the good news is that the pictures that they
Speaker 4: receive indicated an injury that is not that serious, and
Speaker 4: hopeful that he will start to make some more progress
Speaker 4: next week.
Speaker 1: We got some other key injuries impacting Week fifteen games
Speaker 1: in the NFL and surely the first round of fantasy
Speaker 1: playoffs for a lot of people. Brease Hall listed is questionable,
Speaker 1: but Jeff Olbrick indicated that they think he's trending toward
Speaker 1: being able to go in that game. Tony Poulard's been
Speaker 1: dealing with that ankle listed as questionable once again. Darnell
Speaker 1: Mooney is expected to play. That is a Monday night
Speaker 1: game against the Raiders. George Pickens out once again. Sounds
Speaker 1: like he's got a pretty good shot to be back
Speaker 1: next week, but that doesn't help you for this week's games.
Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs finally after three weeks, cleared to play coming
Speaker 1: back from his concussion. Cedric Tillman still in the protocol,
Speaker 1: he's officially ruled out. Last night in Santa Clara, Devandre
Speaker 1: Campbell ruled himself out, decided in the third quarter that
Speaker 1: he did not want to play. They had had a
Speaker 1: couple of injuries, Devandra Campbell not getting the start Drake
Speaker 1: Greenlaw back into the lineup. They basically told him, if
Speaker 1: you're not going to be out here, you're not going
Speaker 1: to be on the field at all. In the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers, to put it lately, they did not seem pleased.
Speaker 6: No whatever, No, his decision was, it wasn't for this organization,
Speaker 6: that wasn't for this team, and that's on him. So
Speaker 6: started to win football games. When someone doesn't want to
Speaker 6: play football, especially when you suited up, that kind of
Speaker 6: puts you, uh puts you down, especially when you lose
Speaker 6: two linebackers and you know, I could address another one.
Speaker 6: I've never been around anybody that's ever done that, and
Speaker 6: I hope I've never run anybody that does that again.
Speaker 7: I mean, he has a preferensentally been playing for a
Speaker 7: lown time. I mean, if he didn't want to play
Speaker 7: some a dressed out, you know, he could have told
Speaker 7: that before the game.
Speaker 2: So I feel like.
Speaker 7: Doing some indeed definitely hurt the team because you know,
Speaker 7: the d went down and we needed a lineburger, you know,
Speaker 7: and I think Fan was named up too, so for
Speaker 7: him to do there there's some that's some subble stuff
Speaker 7: to me and my view like it's probably gonna get
Speaker 7: cut so and so you know, it is what he.
Speaker 8: Is with that.
Speaker 9: We're working through the semantics of exactly how to deal
Speaker 9: with it. But I mean, you gets hurt from me
Speaker 9: last night, you got hurt from her players. Think his
Speaker 9: accents from the games just stuff something you can do
Speaker 9: to your team or your teammates and still expect to
Speaker 9: be a part of our team. So we're working through
Speaker 9: exactly the semantic center right now, but won't handle the
Speaker 9: situation appropriately.
Speaker 1: Bringing our Brian Baldinger here when Kyle shan and referring
Speaker 1: to the semantics of it. That has to do with
Speaker 1: the collective bargaining agreement how teams discipline players. They probably
Speaker 1: may need to suspend him first in order to be
Speaker 1: able to get back some money from his contract. We've
Speaker 1: seen this happen a few times, I think every year, Baldy,
Speaker 1: where there's something where a guy won't go in a game.
Speaker 1: Have what Deontay Johnson a couple of weeks ago, but
Speaker 1: you played when you see this happen, What's going through
Speaker 1: your mind?
Speaker 2: Well, this is egregious for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 10: Tom Number one, Drake Greenlaw just went ten months of
Speaker 10: rehabilitation coming back from an achilles tear. It was an
Speaker 10: emotional night for him coming on the field. Fred Warner,
Speaker 10: Nick Bosa. It tore them apart in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: This was his night.
Speaker 10: Dev Andre Campbell had started twelve straight games because it
Speaker 10: was a question of whenever Drake was going to be
Speaker 10: So you now go to a backup role. Dre Goes
Speaker 10: out with tightness in his leg. Whatever happened, It's time
Speaker 10: for divide, ready to go, and he doesn't go in
Speaker 10: This thing is we talk.
Speaker 2: About it all the time.
Speaker 10: This is a fraternity, this is a family, and when
Speaker 10: one of your family members doesn't want to share the
Speaker 10: same commitment as everybody else on the team, then you
Speaker 10: just cut the court. Now, the semantics are the semantics.
Speaker 10: But I was always taught ton that this is a
Speaker 10: privilege to play this game. It's not a right, it's
Speaker 10: a privilege. We're all fortunate to be able to play
Speaker 10: this game. And when you get that opportunity to go
Speaker 10: in there and support your team and you out not to,
Speaker 10: then you're not a member of the team. And they
Speaker 10: all cut the court, you know by what they said,
Speaker 10: and I'm sure their actions what they really wanted to say,
Speaker 10: could have been a whole lot more dramatic.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was asked earlier today Baldy is doing a radio
Speaker 4: deal and they said, have you ever seen anything like this?
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, just a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 4: D'ontae Johnson and yeah, and I go back. I remember
Speaker 4: this one. They're the forty nine ers were playing. I
Speaker 4: believe it was the Giants at MetLife Stadium and Ahmad
Speaker 4: Brooks very similar situation, was part of a rotation and
Speaker 4: felt like he should have been the lone starter.
Speaker 3: Started cutting the tape off of his cleats and loosening
Speaker 3: his cleats and just refused to.
Speaker 4: Go into the game, and that didn't sit well with
Speaker 4: the team at the time, and Kyle Shanahan and the
Speaker 4: forty nine ers making it clear that this is not
Speaker 4: gonna sit well with them right now. The best part
Speaker 4: of this, by the way, I'm gonna take the guy
Speaker 4: in the Santa. What's this guy in the Santa?
Speaker 2: Get up?
Speaker 3: And you took it away? I was I was just
Speaker 3: about to enjoy that part.
Speaker 10: We go back to it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he doesn't look like a traditional Sannah like I'm
Speaker 4: wondering if that's just like what he's wearing or if
Speaker 4: he was getting ready to run out in the field
Speaker 4: and do something.
Speaker 3: But regardless, this is something that happens from time.
Speaker 2: It's time that looks like I think it's it's it's
Speaker 2: the flash. But he's Santa Claus, right, isn't that a flash?
Speaker 2: He's got the hook like a superhero cut? Is that
Speaker 2: a super hero costume? Right here?
Speaker 9: Is that what that is?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he looks like he looks like he he doesn't
Speaker 4: look like he's about to go do something, looks like
Speaker 4: he's supposed to be stationed there and decided in the
Speaker 4: spirit of the holidays, to get dressed up. And I'll
Speaker 4: tell you what that Santa guy, as ridiculous as he looks,
Speaker 4: probably saw Campbell walk by him and say, well, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Why is this guy.
Speaker 11: There are guys on practice squads, there are guys working
Speaker 11: out for teams on a weekly basis for the chance
Speaker 11: to be part of a roster, and Campbell to sit
Speaker 11: there and say, you know what, I don't care, I'm
Speaker 11: not gonna go play.
Speaker 12: I do like the way the.
Speaker 3: Forty nine ers responded to this to make it clear
Speaker 3: that they're not going to stand for.
Speaker 10: Well, they're a quality organization, will do the right thing
Speaker 10: and it really doesn't take much thinking. Like they reacted
Speaker 10: the right way. The players said the right things, Kyle
Speaker 10: said the right things, the front office.
Speaker 2: Will do the right things. He'll never played for a
Speaker 2: forty nine er team again.
Speaker 1: Devandra Campbell off the forty nine ers sooner than later,
Speaker 1: and the flash perhaps thrown out of the justice league
Speaker 1: for not racing to action. Your baldy, Mike stick around
Speaker 1: a lot more from you shortly here, But first we
Speaker 1: have a serious story coming from one of our colleagues
Speaker 1: in the media. One of the greatest players that I
Speaker 1: have ever seen on a football field Pro Football Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame receiver Randy Moss, saying today he's being treated
Speaker 1: for cancer found outside his bile duct between his pancreas
Speaker 1: and liver. An appearance on Instagram Live, Moss, aided by
Speaker 1: a cane, introduced himself as a cancer survivor and thanked
Speaker 1: his prayer warriors for their support. He was hospitalized for
Speaker 1: six days before being released. Today, he said he's being
Speaker 1: treated with radiation and chemotherapy and can go to Randymoss
Speaker 1: dot com. You selling T shirts and sweatshirts to raise
Speaker 1: money for the cause. You see the Minnesota Vikings among
Speaker 1: others chiming in here as well as one of his
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame teammates, Chris Carter, who asked for everyone
Speaker 1: to please join in praying for Randy Moss.
Speaker 2: Curly wish Randy Moss well.
Speaker 1: Coming up after this fancy football playoff time, Chase Brown,
Speaker 1: he be in your lineup, should Adam Thalen come off
Speaker 1: the bench with where the Panthers are going. Adam Rank
Speaker 1: will have a lot of answers on that a little
Speaker 1: bit later. And in real football, we got a Bill's
Speaker 1: Lions matchup that you absolutely can't miss this weekend.
Speaker 2: Could it be a Super Bowl preview? We'll discuss next
Speaker 2: on the Insiders. Big game here in Detroit.
Speaker 10: This is gonna be a tough environment for these guys
Speaker 10: that play in the night and the Detroit Lions are
Speaker 10: ready to go to come out.
Speaker 2: Here, Domini. Let's take what's ours?
Speaker 10: Man?
Speaker 1: This is broke behind, but somehow caught and now lateral
Speaker 1: to allan and reach.
Speaker 2: It for the pylon?
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 9: Hop out a little.
Speaker 2: Bengo Park worlds one more point than again?
Speaker 9: Does it?
Speaker 2: And the Beast has been released? The game Table Gamble
Speaker 2: past off and we have got up ballgames.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, We've got this Lions Bills matchup coming up
Speaker 4: on Sunday. Gonna be a big one, Gonna be a
Speaker 4: great one here with these two teams going up against
Speaker 4: each other in the fight for the one seed in
Speaker 4: both of their conferences. The Bills had a bunch of
Speaker 4: guys in the secondary who hadn't practiced up until today
Speaker 4: or some limited designations, so DeMar Hammon or douglases out,
Speaker 4: but DeMar Hamlin and Taylor Rapp have a shot here
Speaker 4: as their listen this questionable. Dalton Kin kaid as well
Speaker 4: to hope is he's gonna be ready to go after
Speaker 4: missing the last couple of weeks. On the Lions side,
Speaker 4: some key players who will play despite injury designation, so
Speaker 4: that's a great sign for the Detroit Lions. Stacy Dales
Speaker 4: now joins Brian Baldinger and myself to discuss this one
Speaker 4: Stacy ahead of Sunday.
Speaker 3: The narrow loss for.
Speaker 4: The Buffalo Bills this past week, despite Josh Allen having
Speaker 4: six touchdowns six touchdowns, the defense a performance. It is
Speaker 4: a gut check week obviously for these guys. How much
Speaker 4: is the urgency ramped up for the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I'll put it this way, Mike K Baldy.
Speaker 8: The Bills had a snow day yesterday, right because of
Speaker 8: all the weather in the Northeast, But the urgency is
Speaker 8: probably doubled in terms of that loss to the Rams
Speaker 8: because of really the defensive performance. When Josh Allen goes
Speaker 8: for a career high six touchdowns, three on the ground,
Speaker 8: three through the air. But the defense gives up almost
Speaker 8: four hundred and sixty total yards of offense and forty
Speaker 8: four points.
Speaker 2: To that team.
Speaker 8: You heard Bobby Babbage, the defensive coordinator, say it was
Speaker 8: a whole He used the word conglomeration of US coaches
Speaker 8: and players not doing our jobs at a high level.
Speaker 8: So as well as Josh Allen played, and even having
Speaker 8: a snow day yesterday, I can tell you the urgency
Speaker 8: is not just double, but it's triple that will be
Speaker 8: heavily multiplied heading into Detroit. These are two of the
Speaker 8: best teams in their respect of conferences Offensively, Josh Allen
Speaker 8: is just such a task, you know.
Speaker 2: And I find this interesting.
Speaker 8: How will the silent count work for the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 8: Because I spoke with Connor McGovern, Baldi, their starting center,
Speaker 8: and he said it was about fifty to fifty against
Speaker 8: the Rams. They travel well, those Buffalo fans, but they're
Speaker 8: walking into a similar home environment in Detroit and it's
Speaker 8: going to be extremely loud, as you know, and that
Speaker 8: silent count's going to be huge on Sunday.
Speaker 2: It will stacy and this is obviously a Martee matchup.
Speaker 10: It's interesting to me how Detroit plays and how consistent
Speaker 10: they are. The Buffalo Bills are going to have to
Speaker 10: stop a very powerful rushing attack, and they've troubled They've
Speaker 10: had trouble with that San Francisco a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 10: Baltimore trounced some pretty good earlier in the year. Did
Speaker 10: one thing about Detroit as much as Ben Johnson's got
Speaker 10: different wrinkles every week. The foundation to what they do
Speaker 10: is running the football. The Bills are going to have
Speaker 10: their hands full. They always start the same way. They
Speaker 10: feed David Montgomery behind that powerful offensive line with Ragnow
Speaker 10: and Petty Sewell and Zeidler and a whole group, and
Speaker 10: then they start working in Ejremieer Gibbs, and they might
Speaker 10: have play action passes Offen, they might have some quick
Speaker 10: game plays.
Speaker 2: They might have a big shot down the field of
Speaker 2: James and Williams.
Speaker 10: But the Buffalo Bills have got to pre prepare to
Speaker 10: stop a powerful rushing attack where guys can hit home runs,
Speaker 10: they break tackles.
Speaker 2: You need to gain tackle this group.
Speaker 10: It is a challenge for every team and will be
Speaker 10: I think the biggest challenge. Stacy this week for the
Speaker 10: Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3: Bill's challenge will be matching whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah good, Sorry, I think we're going the same way
Speaker 4: because we're talking about these offenses and we got no
Speaker 4: weather concerns right in this one, obviously with the indoor
Speaker 4: game here. So these offense gonna have to match each
Speaker 4: one's gonna have to match whoever gets out first.
Speaker 8: Well, and that's the interesting thing because this is a
Speaker 8: number one and number two scoring offense. To Baldy's point,
Speaker 8: it starts with a run for the Detroit Lions in
Speaker 8: the Nowational Football League. But you know, in talking to
Speaker 8: Greg Russo defensive end for these Bills, they have to
Speaker 8: shut down or slow down David Montgomery, and Jamier gives
Speaker 8: to Baldy's point to piggyback on what he talked about.
Speaker 8: They cannot allow Josh Allen. And here's where it gets tricky.
Speaker 8: This is a Lions team that averages thirty five points
Speaker 8: at home. That's the highest mark I believe in the
Speaker 8: National Football League. And again starts with a run. But
Speaker 8: he said, we can't allow them to get two dimensional.
Speaker 8: Two dimensional? What does that mean, Well, it means you
Speaker 8: can run it and throw it. So if you take
Speaker 8: away the run all of a sudden and create some
Speaker 8: negative plays on first down. Russo told me that's going
Speaker 8: to be critical because if you can do that, get
Speaker 8: him into some second and third and long situations. Now
Speaker 8: you can force them down the field and a little
Speaker 8: bit more time for Russo and company up front to
Speaker 8: get to the passer. And that's going to be the
Speaker 8: objective to make that offense with Jared Goff one dimensional,
Speaker 8: but easier said than done, especially when you're facing the
Speaker 8: Lions at home. It's just going to be such a
Speaker 8: great matchup Jared Goff. Just to again touch on what
Speaker 8: Baldy talked about in his relationship with Ben Johnson, they
Speaker 8: are absolutely locked and synked at the hip. They create
Speaker 8: the game plan, they design it, they co design it,
Speaker 8: if you will, each week. And that's why you see
Speaker 8: Jared Goff be able to go out there, Baldy and
Speaker 8: perform the way he does. And there is implicit level
Speaker 8: of entrust from the head coach, Dan Campbell to make
Speaker 8: those four fourth down calls.
Speaker 10: Well, one last thing here to button this all up, Stacey,
Speaker 10: is you know the Lions have scored forty nine touchdowns,
Speaker 10: the most in the league.
Speaker 2: They believe in touchdowns and outfield goals.
Speaker 10: We saw that the last game against Green Bay where
Speaker 10: two of their touchdowns they scored were on fourth downs.
Speaker 2: They've got that gambling aspect to it.
Speaker 10: And where it comes into play Stacy and Mike is
Speaker 10: if it's third and six, most teams are dropping back
Speaker 10: to throw the ball, but the Lions are more than
Speaker 10: content to.
Speaker 2: Hand it off to Gibbs or Montgomery.
Speaker 10: And if they gave four it is fourth and two,
Speaker 10: they'll go fourth on fourth and two two, and so
Speaker 10: if they able to possess the ball, they've want touchdowns
Speaker 10: and he could be in field goal range. We've seen
Speaker 10: it backfire in the playoff game a year ago. But
Speaker 10: as a defense, you can't just sell up and say, okay,
Speaker 10: this is a passing down. We've got to be balanced
Speaker 10: in being able to stop this powerful rushing attack because
Speaker 10: they might just stayed with didn't play four down football,
Speaker 10: and it puts a lot of teams in a difficult predicament.
Speaker 2: It did for the Packers the last time. They just
Speaker 2: saw him in the last game.
Speaker 3: Gonna be a fascinating matchup with these two teams.
Speaker 4: What we see as many points as they are expecting
Speaker 4: in this one we shall see Stacy Dal's thank you
Speaker 4: very much.
Speaker 3: Brian Baldinger you as well.
Speaker 4: Baldy will talk to you a little bit down the
Speaker 4: line here in this program tonight coming up. It's week
Speaker 4: fifteen and the fifteen minutes of fame that some of
Speaker 4: these guys who could carry you to a ton like
Speaker 4: guys got more than fifteen minutes, though Aj Brown No.
Speaker 4: Adam Rank will be here to explain after the break
Speaker 4: on the Insiders, Odell Beckham Junior.
Speaker 1: On the move again, the Dolphins and the three time
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl wide receiver mutually agreeing to part way please
Speaker 1: after what had been not the greatest fit since he
Speaker 1: got there in the offseason, never practiced until the season
Speaker 1: got rolling, never entirely fit in nine catches for fifty
Speaker 1: five yards.
Speaker 2: He will be on waivers.
Speaker 1: Until Monday, and there are some teams, including those Rams
Speaker 1: and the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Who have had him before.
Speaker 1: We'll see whether he gets claimed and maybe turn up
Speaker 1: on a team with playoff hopes. Time now to go
Speaker 1: inside with NFL Fantasy Live. Tom Pilicero, Mike Garafolo join
Speaker 1: now as we are every Friday. By Adam Rank, who
Speaker 1: a short time ago fell asleep in a Tanning bed. Rank,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for being here. It's week fifteen.
Speaker 1: What do you have on tap for us this time around?
Speaker 13: Well, first of all, tom My face is so red
Speaker 13: because NFL Fantasy Live ended twenty five minutes ago. We
Speaker 13: filmed that in Inglewood. I'm now in my home in
Speaker 13: Huntington Beach. I still somehow managed to pick up both
Speaker 13: my kids from school and get here. So I'm a
Speaker 13: little flushed because I've been running the entire time. But
Speaker 13: what we're doing is we're being thematic with our with
Speaker 13: our fantasy hopes and dreams. Here this week, it's fifteen
Speaker 13: minutes of fame some players that you might not have
Speaker 13: had at the beginning of the season, who are now
Speaker 13: enjoying a great run in fantasy football, who can help
Speaker 13: you out as we embark on the fantasy playoffs right now.
Speaker 13: And you know what I'm's gonna start off. I roll
Speaker 13: through your tee ups anyways, So I might just just
Speaker 13: well take us to the quarterback position.
Speaker 12: That's what I do. Listen.
Speaker 13: I just I want to make it easy. I gotta
Speaker 13: just sat there and done this all. But no, I'll
Speaker 13: do this. I got some quarterbacks though, that I really like.
Speaker 13: This week, Sam Darnold has been playing off. I'm sorry, Mike,
Speaker 13: am I bothering you? I know that you're on the
Speaker 13: phone now, I'm.
Speaker 3: You go, you go.
Speaker 13: I just want to make sure I don't want to
Speaker 13: I don't want to put you out or anything. I
Speaker 13: know you're probably breaking you goose. We do like Bryce
Speaker 13: Young and Sam Darnald, but bo Nicks has been exceptional
Speaker 13: this year. And this is a player who the first
Speaker 13: couple of weeks had a little bit of a slow start,
Speaker 13: but has really picked it up over the last couple
Speaker 13: of months. He's the same guy that we saw in college,
Speaker 13: and let me tell you, we saw him a lot
Speaker 13: in college. He was a college contemporary of Justin Herbert,
Speaker 13: who's in like his thirtieth year in the league. But
Speaker 13: bo Neicks has been fantastic and one of the big
Speaker 13: things Sean Payton was talking about it this week.
Speaker 12: One of the things that's made him so good is
Speaker 12: that he's become really efficient in the red zone.
Speaker 13: You see right there his running ability, but making throws
Speaker 13: like this has made bo Nicks a top fantasy quarterback.
Speaker 12: And as we go into the playoffs, if.
Speaker 13: You've been riding bo Nicks go ahead and insert him
Speaker 13: back in the playoffs this week, and I'm good with it,
Speaker 13: I think. But remember he was on a buyer last week,
Speaker 13: so you might want to check your lineup. Make sure
Speaker 13: you don't have Will Levis in there or something. Make
Speaker 13: sure you switch that out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry. I wasn't being rude. I was just
Speaker 4: doubting your story. Huntington Beach is that south of Anaheim?
Speaker 4: My LA geography still struggling. You got twenty five minutes?
Speaker 12: Yeah, somehow amazingly because the show just ended.
Speaker 13: And you know that live is in the name, so
Speaker 13: you know we wouldn't pull your leg and say that
Speaker 13: it's something live.
Speaker 3: It says an hour twenty seven right now?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 3: Running running backs, running backs.
Speaker 12: There's a host of running backs that I really like.
Speaker 13: I'm going to talk about Sincere McCormick because he has
Speaker 13: been great ever since he's been given an opportunity with
Speaker 13: the La Raider La Raiders, Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 12: One of my ninety Brian Robinson Jr.
Speaker 13: Tank bigsby Isaiah Davis Bresall looks like he's back. But
Speaker 13: Sincere McCormick got an opportunity with the Raiders a couple
Speaker 13: of weeks ago, and now more and more he's being
Speaker 13: more involved.
Speaker 12: In this offense.
Speaker 13: And to be quite honest with you, I swung and
Speaker 13: missed this year with Zamir White like so horribly, but
Speaker 13: I held on to him with great hope because when
Speaker 13: north Turner was added to the coaching staff of the
Speaker 13: Raiders along with his son Scott, I really love the
Speaker 13: opportunity to run the football. If you think about north
Speaker 13: Turner's career and you think about all the greats that
Speaker 13: he's coached from EMMITTT.
Speaker 12: Smith, the Ladanian Tomlinson.
Speaker 13: Sinceer McCormick might not break that class, but at the
Speaker 13: same time, he has still given an opportunity on a
Speaker 13: team that wants to run the football. So this week
Speaker 13: against the Atlanta Falcons, I think this is a really
Speaker 13: good opportunity for him. A and O'Connell has been battling
Speaker 13: an injury. We still don't know if he's gonna be
Speaker 13: able to play on Monday night or not. So sinceer
Speaker 13: McCormick is somebody you can start in the fantasy playoffs
Speaker 13: this week, how.
Speaker 2: About wide receivers s Frank, what do we get?
Speaker 13: Well, you know what this is somebody who had their
Speaker 13: fifteen minutes of fame kind of went away and has
Speaker 13: now re emerged. Maybe he's the Andrew McCarthy of NFL
Speaker 13: wide receivers. But Adam Thielen has been fantastic for the
Speaker 13: Carolina Panthers over the last couple of weeks. In fact,
Speaker 13: over the last two games, he's had at least ten
Speaker 13: targets and eight receptions in each game, and he's had
Speaker 13: at least seventy yards in both of those games. And
Speaker 13: he's got a really good matchup against the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 13: this week. The Cowboys have given up a lot of
Speaker 13: production to opposing wide receivers. They've allowed a top ten
Speaker 13: wide out and two out of the last three weeks now,
Speaker 13: one of them was Jamar Chase, So give that a
Speaker 13: little bit of a grain of assault. But I will
Speaker 13: say that this Carolina Panthers offense has been playing a
Speaker 13: lot better Bryce Young right there, as you see making
Speaker 13: the connection now I mentioned earlier, I do like Bryce
Speaker 13: Young in fantasy this week, and that means that I
Speaker 13: really like Adam Feelen, and Legette is also a nice
Speaker 13: option to some other guys.
Speaker 12: Who else did I have on that list? Hold on.
Speaker 12: Let me check my notes here, Oh Christian Watson.
Speaker 13: Christian Watson is one of them trying to figure out
Speaker 13: which Packers wide receiver we're starting.
Speaker 12: Christian Watson is my pick this week. Sorry, you didn't
Speaker 12: have to pay.
Speaker 3: That's okay. They really get They don't need to see me.
Speaker 3: They just I just want them to hear me.
Speaker 4: Zaverly getan wanna make up for last week when he
Speaker 4: had that play late in the game. He could have
Speaker 4: made that clutch crab, So it wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 4: he goes out and make some plays to make up
Speaker 4: for tight ends. Who are the tight ends with the
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes of fame you can rely upon?
Speaker 12: Oh my gosh, John new Smith has been amazing.
Speaker 13: As a matter of fact, John ou Smith has been
Speaker 13: the number one wide receiver in Fantasy since Week eight,
Speaker 13: despite the fact that he has twelve less targets than
Speaker 13: the number two guy, who is Trey McBride. And and
Speaker 13: you might be asking yourself, how is that possible? Well,
Speaker 13: number one John hu Smith scores touchdowns.
Speaker 2: What is up with tray?
Speaker 13: How does Trey McBride have like ninety receptions and no touchdowns?
Speaker 13: Perhaps that'll change this week, but John hu Smith has
Speaker 13: actually became kind of the de facto number two pass
Speaker 13: catcher in this offense behind Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 13: Coming into the season, we thought it was going to
Speaker 13: be Jaylen Waddell. I know a lot of you drafted
Speaker 13: him in the third and the fourth round, but John
Speaker 13: new Smith has been the guy who stepped up. And
Speaker 13: last week it was hilarious because everybody's on board with
Speaker 13: John new Smith goes the whole game with nothing, donut,
Speaker 13: nothing going on, and then they go to overtime. He
Speaker 13: has three catches, including a touchdown, and makes up for everything.
Speaker 13: But still there is consistency there. The matchup might not
Speaker 13: be that great because the Houston Texans are great against
Speaker 13: opposing tight ends, but at the same time, John, who's
Speaker 13: been so great.
Speaker 12: I can't ignore that.
Speaker 13: Plus we by the way, if you need a tight end,
Speaker 13: to store one on your bad. Stone Smart starting to
Speaker 13: get more more production for the Chargers. Will Disley could
Speaker 13: be out for a little bit of time, so Stone
Speaker 13: Smart with two t's might be an option for you.
Speaker 1: Rank love watching you on NFL Fantasy Live, which is
Speaker 1: definitely really live at six feet.
Speaker 2: On the Insiders come next Friday. Thank you very much
Speaker 2: rank coming up after this.
Speaker 1: It was a sloppy one on Thursday night and a
Speaker 1: disappointing one for the forty nine ers. Browdy is back
Speaker 1: to help us break down that game. We're both teams
Speaker 1: go from here next on the Insiders.
Speaker 3: Niners Rams on Thursday Night.
Speaker 4: Two teams that need to get some stuff going and
Speaker 4: maybe get some help along the way to get into
Speaker 4: the postseason. And whoever winds up losing is going to
Speaker 4: be probably out of it. Deebo Samuel, after saying all week,
Speaker 4: feed me the ball, he drops it and he knows it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just look at his reaction went, yeah,
Speaker 3: there it is okay.
Speaker 4: We are going to show that Debo knows that was
Speaker 4: an opportunity he was asking for and he just dropped it.
Speaker 14: Matthew Stafford to pooka Nikua Puoka for fifty one yards
Speaker 14: to the Niners sixteen yard line, sets up a field
Speaker 14: goal ninety six Niners and then.
Speaker 3: This one sort of felt like the drive that would
Speaker 3: maybe end in the end zone. It did just not
Speaker 3: the way that you would want.
Speaker 4: There intercepted Darius Williams brock Party's ninth interception of the season,
Speaker 4: and they now have the forty nine ers two less
Speaker 4: than a one percent chance of making the playoffs. It's
Speaker 4: a coin flip for the Rams who are excited to
Speaker 4: get this one in Santa Clair. So looking at the
Speaker 4: NFC playoff picture right now, here's how it stacks up.
Speaker 4: As the Rams are hot on the heels of the
Speaker 4: Seattle Seahawks are going to have to win against the
Speaker 4: Green Bay Packers to keep that one game advantage there
Speaker 4: in the NFC West.
Speaker 2: Bringing in Brian Boudinger.
Speaker 3: Brian Baldinger, I want to talk to you about Kyron
Speaker 3: Williams last night.
Speaker 4: He was a physical runner and I thought the Rams
Speaker 4: were dictated things with their running game last night.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's interesting, Mike, because he leads the National Football
Speaker 10: League right now with two hundred and eighty caters. All right,
Speaker 10: So the end twenty nine last last night, in twenty
Speaker 10: nine a week before, like he carries the load for them.
Speaker 2: He had one hundred and eight yards.
Speaker 10: It wasn't the prettiest average, but coming out of your
Speaker 10: end zone right there running on third and one, third
Speaker 10: and five, like they put the ball in his hands.
Speaker 10: It's raining out there. You want to take care of
Speaker 10: the football. The passing game is tough. You feed Kyron Williams,
Speaker 10: and I thought the way that he did the dance
Speaker 10: with Kevin Dotson and Bo Limmer and Steve Aville and
Speaker 10: the guys up front, they really did a good job
Speaker 10: of pushing the pile.
Speaker 2: And then when it got to the fourth quarter, Mike,
Speaker 2: and it's a six to sixth game, what they do.
Speaker 10: They went play action to Kyen Williams and they throw
Speaker 10: it fifty one yards down the field to Puka Nakua
Speaker 10: and oh, by the way, on that play it was
Speaker 10: Kyen Williams with the blitz pick up on Lenore that
Speaker 10: allowed Stafford to have time.
Speaker 2: And so they they they know where the bread is.
Speaker 10: But he is their factor back, Kyrin Williams. He led
Speaker 10: the National Football League a year ago, Mike, when the
Speaker 10: Rams made the playoffs on a big second half surge
Speaker 10: in yards per game, rushing yards per game, over one
Speaker 10: hundred yards of game. And so this is the guy
Speaker 10: that they really lean on. They leaned on him last night,
Speaker 10: and he's durable and he does come through.
Speaker 3: When you're in the dog days of training camp.
Speaker 4: And Baldy, we make several stops together, you and I
Speaker 4: during training camp, and boy, wouldn't be nice to be
Speaker 4: in an eighty five degree outdoor setting right now, We've
Speaker 4: got like twenty something degrees.
Speaker 3: Although I think you may be in Florida right now
Speaker 3: if I'm looking at this correctly. But anyway, coaches.
Speaker 4: During training get emphasizing the four minute offense. If you
Speaker 4: watched last night's game and the way that they ran it,
Speaker 4: that's why. And they love a successful four minute offense.
Speaker 4: They ran that thing the perfection last night. Brian Baldinger,
Speaker 4: thank you very much, my friend. If you are in Florida,
Speaker 4: go enjoy some warm weather because we're dying up here
Speaker 4: in Jersey.
Speaker 2: My man.
Speaker 3: Oh you're coming back, that's even better. Stay inside a
Speaker 3: little longer.
Speaker 4: Chargers Bucks, we're gonna preview that coming up with Brian
Speaker 4: Balding or there it is. I'm checking the notes now
Speaker 4: Bridget Condon as well, coming up with the Insiders, a.
Speaker 1: Couple old Bucks teammates, so you can see that full
Speaker 1: interview Sunday morning on game day morning. Meanwhile, this year's Bucks,
Speaker 1: including Mike Evans taking on the Chargers in a good one.
Speaker 1: I don't really know why we've got uh Rashaun Slater
Speaker 1: upside down?
Speaker 2: Is that both him it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with this promo poster,
Speaker 1: but I do know that word in the Powder Blues.
Speaker 1: We always love that. Let's bring in a couple of
Speaker 1: other people who are going to be at that game.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the insiders. I'm Tom Pelvisero with Baldy
Speaker 1: once again, as well as our Bridget Condon.
Speaker 2: Bridget.
Speaker 1: This is a top five Bucks offense going against the
Speaker 1: number one scoring defense in the league.
Speaker 15: What do we expect, Well, Tom, there's a very small
Speaker 15: margin of error for both of these teams entering this
Speaker 15: game on Sunday, both teams for a spot in the playoffs.
Speaker 15: When you look at the Bucks, they're averaging about twenty
Speaker 15: eight points per game, which is top five across the league,
Speaker 15: and then you go up against a Chargers defense that
Speaker 15: has some stars on it, they're only giving up about
Speaker 15: sixteen points per game. Khalil Mack talked about it this week.
Speaker 15: He called Baker Mayfield the ultimate competitor, competitor with how
Speaker 15: tough he is to bring down, saying he's kind of
Speaker 15: like a running back in that regard with his mindset,
Speaker 15: just having the mindset that he will not go down.
Speaker 15: And then the arm talent that Baker has. There are
Speaker 15: only two quarterbacks in the league with a higher completion
Speaker 15: percentage than Baker Mayfield two Atano Vailoa and Jared Goff.
Speaker 15: So this team understands they have to find a way
Speaker 15: to interrupt Baker and get him off his mark. This defense, though,
Speaker 15: they're confident Tom and Baldy. The Chargers lead the league
Speaker 15: with twenty six sacks since Week eight, and in that span,
Speaker 15: Baker has only been hit in dropbacks twenty times, which
Speaker 15: is tight for the fifth fewest amount of times by
Speaker 15: any quarterback in the league since that Week eight period.
Speaker 10: Baldy, Yeah, Bridget So you know Baker's best friend is
Speaker 10: the run game, and for the last couple of years
Speaker 10: they were the worst in the league. No team last
Speaker 10: year was worse than the Bucks, whether it was run
Speaker 10: average or rushing yards per game. They now are fourth
Speaker 10: in this league right now, and the improvement is for
Speaker 10: a lot of reasons. It's the scheme of Liam Cohen,
Speaker 10: the new offense coordinate. It's drafting Graham Barton at center,
Speaker 10: It's putting Brent Brigson in there at left guard, watching
Speaker 10: the development of Cody Mack and then the young backs.
Speaker 2: You know, Kyrie, we will see if Bucky Irving plays
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 10: It's a little bit in doubt, but whether it's Rashad
Speaker 10: White or Sean Tucker, they are running the ball effectively.
Speaker 10: It's the biggest improvement in this whole team, and it's dramatic.
Speaker 10: It's the best in the league right now. And so
Speaker 10: it's one of the things that Chargers really have to
Speaker 10: to kind of like take a look at right here,
Speaker 10: because they struggled against the Ravens couple of weeks ago
Speaker 10: shopping the run.
Speaker 2: But you know, the Bucks are going to try and
Speaker 2: establish it.
Speaker 10: They were good with it the last three weeks, winning
Speaker 10: these games, getting back on the winning track.
Speaker 2: It's just something to look at week, Bridget, as we
Speaker 2: kind of break this game down.
Speaker 1: Chargers has got a little bit beat up here recently.
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert at least is off the injury report, good
Speaker 1: to go despite the quad injury and the ankle Bridget.
Speaker 1: They're eight and five four games ago, in prime position
Speaker 1: to make a return to the playoffs. What's the Chargers'
Speaker 1: mindset going into the home stretch.
Speaker 15: Yeah, Tom, you talk about those injuries, Lad McConkie, who
Speaker 15: they didn't have the rookie receiver who was out against
Speaker 15: the Chiefs. He's questionable, so there could be a chance
Speaker 15: that he plays Sunday. But look, this Chargers team has
Speaker 15: two big games in a five day span. First they
Speaker 15: take on the Buccaneers Sunday, and then five days later
Speaker 15: it's the Broncos, a big division matchup at home.
Speaker 3: For Thursday night football.
Speaker 15: They've struggled against teams with winning records, just one for
Speaker 15: four this season against teams above five hundred and those
Speaker 15: two teams I just mentioned, of course with winning records
Speaker 15: as they come to town at Sofi Stadium. But Jim Harbaugh,
Speaker 15: you see him there. He has been a crucial part
Speaker 15: of this turn around for this program. He loves the
Speaker 15: mindset that his team has.
Speaker 2: This is his quote.
Speaker 15: I haven't been around a team with this much fortitude
Speaker 15: to them stalwart football players. How's that for a vocab word? Stalwart?
Speaker 15: I had to google to see what that meant.
Speaker 2: Means loyal, you know.
Speaker 15: But he does one thing that is interesting that he's
Speaker 15: done all season. They call it the wise Words Period.
Speaker 15: At the end of practice, they're all in a huddle
Speaker 15: and he picks a player to kind of give words
Speaker 15: to and you never know if you're gonna get selected,
Speaker 15: so it's kind of like a little nerve wracking for
Speaker 15: these players. Khalil Mack was that player this week on Thursday,
Speaker 15: and he said, when you say something in that moment
Speaker 15: to the team, you better go out there and actually
Speaker 15: do what you're saying. He said, like, I told the
Speaker 15: guys that at this point of the season, we have
Speaker 15: to take it up a notch and just told them
Speaker 15: that you're never going to have, like if you look around,
Speaker 15: you're never going to have this amount of people in
Speaker 15: the locker room the exact same people. Let's go out
Speaker 15: there and make something of it. So it's going to
Speaker 15: start Sunday, hopefully they can get their second win again
Speaker 15: against a team above five hundred.
Speaker 10: Well, we know this Bridget, We know that nobody has
Speaker 10: it better in Marball and the Los Angeles charges. Nobody
Speaker 10: has it better. But the one thing they do have
Speaker 10: to do better and you know, they've got to score
Speaker 10: more points. I mean, they're you know, they've really struggled
Speaker 10: obviously with the injuries to JK and to Ladd, and
Speaker 10: you know they don't have the same firepower and so
Speaker 10: they've got to find some way. This week against a
Speaker 10: very talented blitzing Bucks. Defense to you know, to to
Speaker 10: really put up more than seventeen points, which they've done
Speaker 10: the last two weeks, So points are going to be
Speaker 10: at a premium. One way you could do that, you know. Obviously,
Speaker 10: defense is a way that you know, you put your
Speaker 10: defense out there. We saw tarhb Stills you know, on
Speaker 10: a pick six against Atlanta two weeks ago. Defense, special teams.
Speaker 10: There are other ways to kind of make up for
Speaker 10: some of the injuries that they've suffered over the last month.
Speaker 1: Big game Sunday at SOFI Stadium, Bridget and Baldy, you'll
Speaker 1: be there, Enjoy that game. Look forward to talking to
Speaker 1: both of you again soon. Coming up after this, we
Speaker 1: another big game on Sunday. It is the Steelers against
Speaker 1: the Eagles. No, this is not footage of the Eagles offense,
Speaker 1: even though the passing game at times just look kind
Speaker 1: of like this will explain why we're showing things from
Speaker 1: the leather helmet era. Coming up right after this. How
Speaker 1: awesome are these highlights on the Insiders. Two NFL Christmas
Speaker 1: Day games will be live on Netflix on December twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: starting at one pm Eastern. The Kansas City Chiefs take
Speaker 1: on the Pittsburgh Steelers, followed by the Baltimore Ravens at
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans at four thirty pm Eastern. Talk about
Speaker 1: winning the game lottery for Netflix. Two huge AFC tilts.
Speaker 1: We'll think it back to nineteen forty three.
Speaker 2: It was World War II.
Speaker 1: The Eagles and Steelers were granted permission to merge for
Speaker 1: one season. That team was known as phil pitt and
Speaker 1: called the Steegles by fans. They divided their home games
Speaker 1: between two cities. Greasey Neil and Walt Keasley served as
Speaker 1: the co coaches. It was dissolved at the end of
Speaker 1: the year, but a unique piece of NFL history which
Speaker 1: got us thinking, besides just wanting to show you these highlights,
Speaker 1: which are absolutely fantastic, going into a huge game between
Speaker 1: these teams on Sunday, what would it look like. What
Speaker 1: were the decisions you would have to make if you
Speaker 1: had fully loaded rosters to set them up for another merger.
Speaker 2: Mike, you look at it. Here, give me give me
Speaker 2: your breakdown. Here.
Speaker 3: Who are you taking?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Who's who's my head coach? That's one of the
Speaker 4: harder decisions that you've got to make. Here because both
Speaker 4: of these guys are having terrific seasons. I might give
Speaker 4: I might give to Mike tom on the edge for
Speaker 4: coach of the year right now. So that's what role
Speaker 4: do you give Nick Sirianni. He's not a play caller.
Speaker 4: He can't make him off as a coordinator. Uh So
Speaker 4: that was my first thought here. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: if you matched up these rosters, you'd probably go Eagles
Speaker 4: in a number of places, like maybe more so than
Speaker 4: the Steelers. But that doesn't mean the Steelers are a
Speaker 4: worse team. I mean they're just so well coached and
Speaker 4: they've got guys that fit what they do. It'd be
Speaker 4: a really good team. Make it smaller sure.
Speaker 2: Sways, get some more of those highlights up real quick.
Speaker 1: I just want to see more black and white guys
Speaker 1: running around with no pads and leather helmets. This is
Speaker 1: this is the stuff that it's made. Always wanted this
Speaker 1: place here.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's that's a coverage breakdown.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that was still a coverage bust even
Speaker 1: back in nineteen forty three.
Speaker 2: Watch out for the goldpost and the photographer with a
Speaker 2: flash right behind the end zone.
Speaker 1: That's you can talk about equipment all you want. That's
Speaker 1: probably the most dangerous thing in this entire video here.
Speaker 2: We should just do an hour of this.
Speaker 1: Hey, thank you to our production manager, Jackie Downy on
Speaker 1: her last day.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you. We'll be back next week through the games.
Speaker 2: Everybody see it.