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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Between the Horns. It is Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: December eighteenth, Miles Simmons DeMarco far just about eleven am

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Speaker 1: specific time here in Ogora Hills, California. And the Rams

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Speaker 1: have now dropped two straight. Yeah, first time they've done

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Speaker 1: that under Sean McVay. Now eleven and three after falling

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Speaker 1: to the Eagles thirty to twenty three on Sunday Night football. Yeah. Rough, tough,

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Speaker 1: you know, two straight weeks on the big stage, you know,

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Speaker 1: just two games you want back that everyone got to see.

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Speaker 1: So a tough one. The Eagles are tough defending champs.

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Speaker 1: I think you saw why. There's elements of that that

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Speaker 1: was present on game day, the reason they won. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the news I heard or I'm listening

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Speaker 1: to on the way in is what's wrong with the

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Speaker 1: Rams or who's responsible for losing to the Eagles. Well

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Speaker 1: I would start with the Philadelphia Eagles number one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would say they're responsible, more responsible than what the

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Speaker 1: the cool thing is, and I think a keep tally

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Speaker 1: sum this up perfectly. After the game, we're eleven and three.

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Speaker 1: This is an eleven and three ball club still that

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Speaker 1: has already clinched the division. Yeah, I mean, so, I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is not the end of the world. This is

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Speaker 1: not your coach is about to be fired in two weeks.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're looking forward to the draft. This is

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Speaker 1: a little bit different, but I mean it's still a

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Speaker 1: two game losing streak and it's got to get fixed,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. Yeah. And I think you know, the things

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Speaker 1: you see, the things you hear, it's kind of like,

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Speaker 1: all right, is it is it time to hit the

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Speaker 1: panic button? And in some ways, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say panic, but I think that there is definitely there

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Speaker 1: does definitely have to be some sense of urgency at

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Speaker 1: this point to get this fixed going into the postseason,

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Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. And I mean that's and that's

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Speaker 1: going to be the fun part trying to figure out this.

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Speaker 1: Thinking about what goes on at this time of year.

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Speaker 1: The first thing that stands out to me, really, Miles,

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Speaker 1: is you're going to find out if this team really

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Speaker 1: likes each other, because it's rough this time of year.

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Speaker 1: And I just remember going all the way back and

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Speaker 1: I hate being one of those guys that says back

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Speaker 1: in my day, but just constantly being reminded of why

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Speaker 1: we're doing this really helped. Every day we started the

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Speaker 1: day talking about we're doing it for the other guy.

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Speaker 1: It's not about you, It's about the guy next to you,

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Speaker 1: and the guy next to you and the guy next

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Speaker 1: to you. We said that every single day, add nauseum

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Speaker 1: to where you just got so sick of hearing it.

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Speaker 1: But it actually makes sense when you do get tired,

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Speaker 1: you need to find the reason why you're doing this

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Speaker 1: while you're putting yourself through all this, so you hope

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Speaker 1: it's for the other guy. And this might be the

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Speaker 1: point in the year where your head coach stops being

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Speaker 1: your friend and he becomes the blank with a whistle,

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Speaker 1: you know, the taskmaster that winning is above everything, including yourself.

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Speaker 1: So this is when all that starts to happen late

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Speaker 1: in football seasons, no matter what level you're on. Sure,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's the thing that we keep hearing,

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Speaker 1: and we've heard I think throughout the entire course of

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Speaker 1: the season and maybe even going back to last year's

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Speaker 1: just how connected these guys are as a team. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you hear it from the coaching staff about the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff here from the players about the players, and I

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Speaker 1: mean you hear it internally even in this building and

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Speaker 1: we're two separate buildings or whatever, but I think that's

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Speaker 1: each other and getting better in that way. Right. And

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Speaker 1: you know what's the one thing that you can't change

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Speaker 1: is Sean mcvayh does not take the field on game day.

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Speaker 1: It's you, right. So I remember, I've been been on

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Speaker 1: some teams that like where martial law has been declared

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Speaker 1: in the locker room, to where the coach has removed himself.

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Speaker 1: He's coaching you. He's going to hold everyone to the

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Speaker 1: same standards, right, right, he's coming up with the game, right.

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Speaker 1: And really there's two different teams. There's the one that

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Speaker 1: to take ownership. There's only so much he can do.

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Speaker 1: How much do you want this? How much do you

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Speaker 1: want to win a championship? It's all about the guys

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Speaker 1: out of this malaise. Yes, what was Sean McVay like

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Speaker 1: on the Coaches Show last night? As you were there,

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Speaker 1: and I, you know, was not but positive, very positive,

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Speaker 1: He knows his football team and he knows what they

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Speaker 1: figuring out exactly what the team needs. And this is funny.

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Speaker 1: Every team needs something, whatever it is, I kick in

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Speaker 1: the pants, a pat on the back, a day off,

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Speaker 1: hate me, hate him, hate something, right, they need something.

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Speaker 1: He's just got to figure out what it is. And

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Speaker 1: I think he's trying to figure out what it is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I wonder, and I think about this a little bit

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Speaker 1: like his youth and he always talks about you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, like a Wade Phillips, who's been in the league,

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Speaker 1: you know, since before Sean McVay was born and everything.

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Speaker 1: Is this maybe a place where Sean McVay has to

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Speaker 1: grow into. Okay, I I have this team, I have

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Speaker 1: You know, we're eleven and three, we've lost too straight.

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Speaker 1: But we've got this chance to write this in these

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Speaker 1: last two games. I think this is a place where, Look,

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Speaker 1: it's just not something he's ever had to do before,

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Speaker 1: you know. And I'm not trying to say like, oh

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Speaker 1: that it's the third end, because I don't think that right, right, right,

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Speaker 1: But I think that this is just a place where

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Speaker 1: to figure it out. I mean, he's I'm sure of this.

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Speaker 1: But I think he has a pretty good idea of

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Speaker 1: or change that's going to get this team, this team's attention,

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Speaker 1: to get them refocused. In high school, we had to

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Speaker 1: earn our wings on our helmets. Oh yeah, so did we? Yeah? Right?

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Speaker 1: Remember if I think if this were Pop Warner or

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Speaker 1: at whatever your team needs to refocus, that's what you're

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Speaker 1: I think Sean mcvayh has done such a good job

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Speaker 1: first two seasons in the league, and like, for instance,

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Speaker 1: The game gets moved from Mexico City back to Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: You end up practicing in Colorado Springs. You come back,

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Speaker 1: Go to Mike Tyson, how do you train the undisputed

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Speaker 1: He's gonna have to learn it in the ring boom

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Speaker 1: Buster Douglas coaching Lebron James exactly. So, I mean you

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Speaker 1: would hope, we would hope everyone would hope that what

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Speaker 1: get into their heads. Hey, we have got to right

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Speaker 1: and get better from this point on. Right, Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: Well let's go to Jared Goff because I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the discussion around what has happened to

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Speaker 1: and for good reason. I mean, he has been statistically

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Speaker 1: So yeah, again, the numbers are not good. Right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: said a pond further review. Yes, Okay, I think maybe

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Speaker 1: a lot of Yes, there's there's a lot that's going

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Speaker 1: can he be better? Could he be more accurate? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Are there some throws he wants back, Sure, Um, But

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Speaker 1: you can't do that. Yeah, you just can't. Right, So

426
00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,040
Speaker 1: those are the things that it's you've gotta correct if

427
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:48,919
Speaker 1: you try to get out of that, you know. I

428
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,639
Speaker 1: mean I think you would say, and I hate to

429
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,879
Speaker 1: say it, oh just eat the football, right, Okay? If

430
00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,280
Speaker 1: they step and if they if you get stepped on

431
00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,960
Speaker 1: and you fall, okay, just make sure you keep posts

432
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,560
Speaker 1: should take the loss, right, Yes, I don't want to

433
00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,000
Speaker 1: take that away from a guy who's aggressive. So if

434
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:06,440
Speaker 1: you're going to try to get up and make a play,

435
00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,800
Speaker 1: make sure you make a damn play right, not to them. Yes, yeah,

436
00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 1: so that's that's how I would you would come after that. Um,

437
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say, Jared, you're making a mistake by trying

438
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 1: to make a play. Ever, but if you make the

439
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,560
Speaker 1: freaking play, well, my I think the issue more is

440
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,239
Speaker 1: how you're trying to make the play right. You know,

441
00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:27,640
Speaker 1: you can't just let the ball go in any sort

442
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,160
Speaker 1: of which way if you're gonna trying to make a play,

443
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,080
Speaker 1: and at that point you got to try to do

444
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:33,920
Speaker 1: it with your leg is. No. I don't want to

445
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,359
Speaker 1: say that that's mean because he's been playing better. But

446
00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,960
Speaker 1: back in training camp when they did the hard knocks

447
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,440
Speaker 1: with Jamis Winston, that was a Jamis. Absolutely, that was

448
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,880
Speaker 1: a Jamis. That was a Jamis. Everything's going so well

449
00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,680
Speaker 1: and why why would you do that? Right? Right? Right?

450
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,359
Speaker 1: And that leads to seven points for the opposition and

451
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 1: you lose by seven pretty much, right, so right there

452
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 1: there you have it. Yeah, but I think there are

453
00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 1: just some other things in that game, you know, like

454
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,359
Speaker 1: a brought up the Whitworth holding call. Yeah, you got

455
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 1: an offensive pass interference on Robert Woods that I thought

456
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,680
Speaker 1: was a little bit questionable. You know, That's that's a

457
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,919
Speaker 1: play that's still bugging a lot of people. Um, you know,

458
00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 1: the officials ruling on that call, especially when it was

459
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 1: happening on the other side. So there were a lot

460
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 1: of fishy things. A neutral zone infraction that got turned

461
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,200
Speaker 1: into a false start because the defender didn't come into

462
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 1: the neutral zone when he clearly was above the football.

463
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,840
Speaker 1: I could see that, Yeah, yeah, I could see it

464
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,439
Speaker 1: from my seat in the press box. And then I

465
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 1: saw it on video again and yeah, well okay, yeah,

466
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:35,919
Speaker 1: maybe that could have gone the other way. So that

467
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,119
Speaker 1: was weird. The one where Rob Havenstein stood up, waved

468
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 1: his hands and then got back in his stands. Yeah,

469
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 1: without flags, that was a right tackle that just moved. Okay,

470
00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 1: I don't care who you calling on, but you got

471
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 1: to stop the play right the offensive shifting there, so

472
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: I guess that he could shift. That's the reason why

473
00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:01,280
Speaker 1: I felt like, yeah, I know I felt that way

474
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 1: as well, but like it just there are just have

475
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,640
Speaker 1: just been things over the course of the last two

476
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 1: weeks where people like to talk about, oh my gosh,

477
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 1: with the rams and the red zone, da da da dada. Well,

478
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 1: you know, if you have penalties, oh, if you're taking

479
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,160
Speaker 1: negative plays, then that's what happens. What's the I'll tell

480
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: you this. I'm not even gonna ask the question. I'll

481
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: just tell you The most threatening guy in the red

482
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:26,119
Speaker 1: zone for a defensive player is always that running back. Okay,

483
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 1: and I think you lost Todd early. Yeah there was

484
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 1: a problem. So no shock, you're having problems in the

485
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,679
Speaker 1: red zone when your best threat is dinged up and

486
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: they know it. Well. Not only that, but I I

487
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 1: mean Todd Gurley. You got to give him credit for

488
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 1: gutting out that performance because he was still able to

489
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 1: be in the game. You know, he had that late

490
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 1: touchdown that was right from a yard out. So but

491
00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 1: I hear what you're I say, half a Todd is

492
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 1: that you think Todd would find that as a disc

493
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he's hurt. Oh and call him half whatever.

494
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 1: I compromise, Todd compromises a good word is better than

495
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,479
Speaker 1: a full time backup. I just refuse to believe that. Well,

496
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 1: at this point, who based on who your backups are?

497
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 1: I refused. I just as a football player, I refused

498
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 1: to believe that. What do you mean? No, if the

499
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: guy is clearly dragged dragging a leg, then it's my opportunity,

500
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 1: it's my responsibility to go out there and play running back.

501
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,880
Speaker 1: But yeah, but you have to execute. I know, say

502
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: we're on the same page. We are on the same page.

503
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: I mean, like, look, this is the this is why

504
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 1: when Sean mcvass announced the Malcolm Brown injury and somebody

505
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 1: asked him, Okay, you know, is there maybe some kind

506
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 1: of silver lining here that you will get some younger

507
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:45,440
Speaker 1: backs experience, right, Jean McVay said no, I don't think so. Wow,

508
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: And you know what, it's because Malcolm Brown is that

509
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: guy that you can trust to come in and to

510
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: execute at a high level because he's done it throughout

511
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 1: the last two seasons and he's done it so well.

512
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,639
Speaker 1: I mean you there was that play in New Orleans

513
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,199
Speaker 1: where he tiptoed the sideline and still got in the

514
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: end zone. Yeah. Man, that was a good play. That

515
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: was a great play. He's a Malcolm run is a

516
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:12,120
Speaker 1: starting caliber player that they had on their bench that

517
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,120
Speaker 1: he could come in and you really did not notice much,

518
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: if any drop off in the play of the office

519
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 1: the second starter. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah. I mean that game

520
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 1: was going to be on Sunday night, was down and dirty,

521
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,679
Speaker 1: it was gritty. Um. I think Talib understood immediately what

522
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 1: type of game it was. Um. Robert Woods definitely understood

523
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 1: what type of game nothing's going to be easy. It

524
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,120
Speaker 1: always does. Yeah, it's just gonna have to be nasty.

525
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 1: So if I think if you had a healthy Todd,

526
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of that game, where you

527
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 1: can actually keep the defense honest and off balance running

528
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:46,679
Speaker 1: the football, um, maybe the second half is different. And

529
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,239
Speaker 1: even with that, even with the turnover, the the the

530
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: muffed punt or the I don't even know what you

531
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 1: call it with Jojoe Nelson, he said he tried. He

532
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 1: said he was trying to switch hands, which came out,

533
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 1: and it came out even with you still had a shot.

534
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 1: So I mean, look, they came roaring back. It's just

535
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: not enough. But and it was a perfect storm. I mean,

536
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 1: they were getting pressure, you couldn't run the football, and

537
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: you know, Jared was a little bit off with some

538
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 1: of his throws. So it's just one of those things

539
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 1: that's it's starting to add up. And it just so happened.

540
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: It was both games were on Sunday night. Yes, so

541
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: it just makes you the thing to talk about in

542
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 1: the National Football League, Oh for sure. And you know what,

543
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: that's the thing. But um, with Todd Gurley though, I'm

544
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: just a sort of injury update at this point. Sean

545
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,439
Speaker 1: mcfay said yesterday that he's day to day but that

546
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 1: they expect him to be all right with just some

547
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 1: knee inflammation. So hopefully that means that he will be

548
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: available to play against the Cardinals, because again, I like,

549
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: I understand, and I've seen these tweets that it's like,

550
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,199
Speaker 1: oh God, you gotta arrest Todd. You just gotta arrest him,

551
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: you know, if you can't beat the Cardinals without Todd Gurley, Like,

552
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see it that way, because you

553
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: have so much to play for right now, you know,

554
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 1: you get this first round by I might be with

555
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:04,560
Speaker 1: the man. I don't know what I mean. I think

556
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: I think you have to maybe differentiate the amount of

557
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: snaps that you might play with Gurley. But I I

558
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 1: don't think you can rest him right now. I don't.

559
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 1: I don't think you can afford it. Oh okay, then

560
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: we're in agreement. Then that's what I mean. Yeah, I

561
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,479
Speaker 1: think you you need that guy. If you don't have

562
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: a capable backup, then he's gonna have to do it, right. Yeah,

563
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: And that's that's that's the I guess the shame of it, yes, right,

564
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate right, you know what right now, I mean, look,

565
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,640
Speaker 1: we sort of mentioned it, but like John Kelly's out there,

566
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 1: he with some pass protection. Yeah wow, that was a

567
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 1: big play too. That was a huge play the game. Well,

568
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: that's what I mean, Like, you're gonna have to be

569
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: trusted to run the offense and know what to do.

570
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: It's that important for the rest of the year. Yes,

571
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: or I mean you're gonna have to ask more of

572
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: your starters. And that's fine too. You know, Hey, Robert

573
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: Woods has done a lot, Cooks has done a lot.

574
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to do more. Same thing on defense.

575
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: You know, everyone's asking what if Aaron's being doubled? Were

576
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 1: the other guys? Okay, maybe they're not going to show

577
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: up for the rest of the year, So you're gonna

578
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 1: have to do more. Yeah, you know, you're you're gonna

579
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: have to tell the guy that's got sixteen and a

580
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: half sacks you may need twenty. Yeah yeah, I mean yeah, yeah,

581
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: but that's where the rams are right now. But that's

582
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: and that's well and good, that's fine. That's what they

583
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: get paid for, right, That's just the way it is.

584
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: I mean, he was the highest paid defensive player in

585
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: the League for about twenty four hours, So all the

586
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 1: attention he's getting, he's proven it, Yes, exactly. I think

587
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 1: though from that the standpoint of you know, the injuries

588
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: and who you're missing and everything in Malcolm Brown, I

589
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: think it's really worth mentioning at this point and how

590
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: much the Rams are missing Cooper Cup. Oh, yeah, because

591
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,239
Speaker 1: you know and I don't. And every time you know,

592
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: Sean McVay Jared Goff talks about this, they make sure

593
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: that they're saying they don't mean any disrespect to Josh Reynolds.

594
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: And I don't really either, because I think Josh Reynolds

595
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: has shown that he can't make plays. But at the

596
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: same time, there's a reason why Cooper Cup, Brandon Cooks,

597
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: and Robert Woods were the starting three wide receivers. Cooper

598
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: Cup is a great player. He is a dynamic route runner, yeah,

599
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: and he shakes tacklers and also in a dynamic matter.

600
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: So there are so many different things that he does

601
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: for the offense. And when you lose him, you're now

602
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: playing Robert Woods out of position, and you put Josh

603
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: Reynolds on the field where Robert would supposed to be.

604
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna be out of position anywhere

605
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: you put him. I don't, right, I'm not. Yeah, that's

606
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: probably a bad He's not necessarily out of position. He's

607
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: not where he started, right, right, I know what you mean? Yeah?

608
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: You know, right? And and that doesn't mean anything necessarily

609
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: for Robert Woods, because he became I think the thirteenth

610
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: player in league history to have at least excuse me,

611
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: I think he's the sixth player in league history to

612
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: have at least to have thirteen straight games with at

613
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: least sixty yards receiving. Wow. Wow, the consistency is unreal.

614
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 1: Who's tracking this? I don't know. It was like a

615
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: li of sports Berger or something. Wow, I don't know. Wow.

616
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: I want to meet that guy in the basement, right.

617
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: Oh no, no. But my point here is that, you know,

618
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: especially in these last couple of games, Cooper Cup would

619
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: have made a significant difference. You know, he he's the

620
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: last power pellet on the board. You ever played Miss

621
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: pac Man, the last power Yeah? Yeah? Or when you

622
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: when you when you stupidly go through all your powerpellets

623
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: too soon and now you've got no help against like

624
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: eight ghosts, you know what I mean? Yeah? Yeah, I mean,

625
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,719
Speaker 1: that's what he provided for the offense. I mean, he

626
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: was a guy that can always get you a play,

627
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: make you a play when you need a play, plus

628
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: when you're just running your offense. He's so deceptive and

629
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: there's almost nothing he can't do. So yeah, it is

630
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,959
Speaker 1: you can't replace that. That's why he's special exactly, and

631
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: that's what you know everybody. But you can overcome it.

632
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: You can overcome his loss. That is the thing. And

633
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: I think the Rams maybe you have to do a

634
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 1: better job of looking to overcome what this is, what

635
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: the loss of Cooper Cup is, you know what I mean? Yeah,

636
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: I still think you can be dynamic. You won't be

637
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: the same without Cooper Cup offensively, but I think you

638
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: can be You can make up for him, make up

639
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: for it with how dynamic you can be with a

640
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 1: guy like Reynolds. There was a reason they went to

641
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: him on that last play. Yes, yeah, yeah, he's tall

642
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: and he's got springs. He's the guy that can go

643
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: up and get it so that and he uses his

644
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: six foot three frame all the time. That's an added dimension,

645
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: you know to the offense. You'd like to be able

646
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: to sprinkle that with Cooper Cup, Cooks and Woods then

647
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: you become something deadly. But now you're gonna have to

648
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: lean on it a little more. But that athleticism is

649
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: still there, So I still think you're just scratching the

650
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: surface with him. I agree, I absolutely agree, And I

651
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: will never forget how excited receivers coach Eric Yarber was

652
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: in the draft room when they got Josh Mayolds when

653
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: they did in the fourth round. Yeah, so we just

654
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 1: got the steel of the draft. Now, yeah, that Josh

655
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: Marynolds has definitely made plays. I think that he can

656
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: step up a little bit more and show why he

657
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: was that kind of steel. Yeah in the fourth round

658
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: back in twenty seventeen. I'll make a bet with you.

659
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: I bet this coming Sunday, if we start to see

660
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: a spark out of the offense, it's going to come

661
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: from a play he makes. Okay, Yeah, I'm serious, Like

662
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: a one handed leaping grab. It's gonna come from him.

663
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: That touchdown Grady he had on Sunday night was pretty

664
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: damn good. It was. Yeah, I thought he was. I

665
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: thought he scored. I mean he was right there on

666
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: the goal line. It was tremendous. Great route, great throw,

667
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 1: great everything. So I bet if there's going to be

668
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,959
Speaker 1: some sort of the some sort of spark in the

669
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: offense that makes you go, Okay, that's it. It's gonna

670
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: come from a guy like him. So I would argue

671
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: that it might come from another guy that comes from

672
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: that twenty seventeen draft, and it would be Gerald Everett. Well,

673
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: he was open, God, he was open, Oh my god, open. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, man,

674
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: he's playing. And that's one of those throws that Jared

675
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: Goff he had time. You have to make throw. You

676
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: have to make that throw. And he's made it. And

677
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: that's the thing, you know in Jared, excuse me, Jared

678
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: Goff said this. Sean McVay said this. The things that

679
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: have gone wrong, they're fixable. And there are things that

680
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: the Rams have done throughout the course of the season

681
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: right now. They were doing it a few weeks ago. Right,

682
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: It's just you have to get back to it somehow. Yeah,

683
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: if they're gonna give you the tight end, then he's

684
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: got to make you pay, right, He's got to keep

685
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: making them pay until they show him attention, which is

686
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: going to open up everything else the Rams want to do.

687
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: That's how offense works, That's how these good tight ends.

688
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: We were just talking about how great Watson is in

689
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: New Orleans. Oh yeah, yeah. I mean just when you

690
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: think you've got it sewed up, that's when he starts

691
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: hurting you. And then you have to show him attention.

692
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: And then Kamara gets loose out the back door. So

693
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,959
Speaker 1: as long as if they say, okay, we'll let the

694
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: tight end catch passes, then he should absolutely hurt you

695
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: every single time it does. Yes, you know, and then

696
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: make plays, make make a guy miss, get up feel

697
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: get the extra yards. The yak yardist. I believe you.

698
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: I think he can be one of those guys. But

699
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: I just have this this deal. When you're looking for

700
00:33:55,880 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: something explosive, you look for probably your most explosive guy politically.

701
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: You know, I would bet it's going to come from him.

702
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: But we'll see either one it's gonna work. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

703
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,280
Speaker 1: All right. Let's turn it to the defense too, because

704
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: I think a lot of what's happening, I mean a

705
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: lot of what's happening with Goff and you know, the offense,

706
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 1: and they're not scoring the thirty points a game like

707
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: they had. Yeah, I think it's taking a little bit

708
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: of heat off the defense because the defensive performance, to me,

709
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: especially you know, we go back to this phrase upon

710
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: further review, defensive performance in that game just was not

711
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: good enough. I don't think you know, hard man, And

712
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 1: going back to a lesson I learned way back when

713
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 1: I remember screaming at my offense in college, like, damn it,

714
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: why can't you guys score? And Lincoln Kennedy of all

715
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: people shooting back at me. It's not that easy. I

716
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:48,919
Speaker 1: just didn't get it back then. I get it now,

717
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: but it is. It's frustrating. I had to learn to

718
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: deal with the frustration. When your offense goes stagnant or

719
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: they turn the ball over, it really starts to wear

720
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,760
Speaker 1: on you because every time you do that, you're basically

721
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: taking years off our life. We got to go dig

722
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: ourselves out of this hole, you know what I mean? Really,

723
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: I mean, we're in bad field position. It's all on us,

724
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,479
Speaker 1: and they've got all the advantages. It just doesn't seem

725
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: fair because when you turn it over in bad field

726
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: position and they score, that goes against you, guys. So

727
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: somebody in your room is probably going to lose their

728
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: job because of that. And when it happens over and

729
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: over and over again, it does start to well up.

730
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: You get a little angry, but you just have to

731
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: know they're trying as hard as they can on that

732
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: side of the football as well, so you know, having

733
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: to get better. I mean I thought they played great.

734
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: I did, really I did. I mean there were some

735
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: situations to where I mean, you let some guys free

736
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: down the middle of the field. Can't happen, That's what

737
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: I mean. All Sean Jeffrey had a great day against you.

738
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, but yet and still with everything that was

739
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: going wrong offensively, you still had a shot to win it.

740
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: He did. Yeah, you still got the ball back when

741
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: it mattered most. Yes, I mean, yes, that and that's fair. Yeah,

742
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: I can't look at these bad plays and ignore the

743
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: great stuff you did too. I thought they played great

744
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: ball in key situations, all right. But I to me though,

745
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 1: that's like you gotta even an out right, Like there

746
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: were great plays, but like you you let two guys

747
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: get down the field completely on you for a play

748
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: that should have been a touchdown, but Nick Foles underthrew

749
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: it so bad that it was only and I use

750
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 1: air quotes on this, a fifty yard reception right on

751
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: the first play of the drive. And you actually got

752
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: a pretty good quarterback hit in there by a Dominican

753
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: sue on that place. So that to me, you know,

754
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 1: there were just too many plays I think made by

755
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: Alshan Jeffrey and you did a decent job in limiting

756
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: zach Ertz. Zach Ertz didn't kill you, and you knew that,

757
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: you know, that was probably the guy that she had

758
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: to look for. But when Jeffrey gets eight receptions on

759
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: eight targets for one hundred and sixty yards, yeah, you

760
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 1: gotta do better than that, no doubt, no doubt. I

761
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:02,479
Speaker 1: mean I never thought that would happen, But I mean neither.

762
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 1: I think they took enough away um and made plays

763
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: when they needed to. Believe me, it's not like I'm

764
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: giving them a pass at all. Some guys really are

765
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: some guys really need to step up, um, you know,

766
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: and and play better. I thought some guys that didn't

767
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: play as well the week before, I thought they played better.

768
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: Like Michael Brocker's in the middle was a stalwart in

769
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 1: the a gap. I mean he was really down and dirty.

770
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: Like I said that game was nothing was going to

771
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: be easy. This is going to be nasty, and I

772
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: thought he played nasty ball. Um. So there were there

773
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: were there was a lot of good stuff. John Johnson

774
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: was all over the place. He was all over the

775
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: place absolutely run and pass, and the plays that LaMarcus

776
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,919
Speaker 1: made towards the end of the game to to give

777
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: you life, to to keep hope alive, so to speak.

778
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: There was a lot of good defense being played out there. Um,

779
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: it's just hard when you turn the ball over to

780
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: a defending champion that knows how to win. Yes, I agree, like, okay,

781
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: So to me, there are thirty points scored in that game, right,

782
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: twenty three of them are probably on the defense, you know, yeah, yeah,

783
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,720
Speaker 1: based on the way things went at that the golf

784
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: you know, interception whatever, that went back to the twelve

785
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: yard line and then you get that sudden change that

786
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: you've set them up for a touchdow the offense set

787
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:23,879
Speaker 1: them up for a touchdown. I think that's what you're

788
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: speaking to you in terms of the turnovers, and like

789
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: you know, everybody, you're that those points go on the defense,

790
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 1: they don't, you know, no doubts not. Yeah, now here's

791
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: where you where you would say, Okay, it's you guys,

792
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: And I don't want to hear anything else about where

793
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: they got the football. I mean how they score those

794
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns. This isn't a stupid tackle eligible. I mean,

795
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: these are some basic off tackle players. They just beat

796
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: you on. Yes, yeah, so there's there's Jaredain out there.

797
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: That's right, that's you guys, right, So I'm with you.

798
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: I mean those situations you've got to be tighter. But

799
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: you know, bad plays, good plays. I mean, you just

800
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: can't put it all on them. It's beastly when you're

801
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: turning it over. No, I don't put at all. I

802
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: wouldn't put it all in the defense for sure. Obviously

803
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: the offense is not performed up to its standards. And

804
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: you know when you have um two offensive turnovers and

805
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: then a special teams turnover like that, that that is

806
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: going to hurt you. It's an impact the way the

807
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: game works. Another failed fake punt or another failed fake

808
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: special teams play. Yes, I thought he caught it. Oh

809
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 1: my god, I thought he caught it. Really, I thought

810
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 1: he got Really I'm up there, I could I could

811
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: tell under why it was because basically, like from where

812
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: I stand during the game, like it's it was an eyeshot.

813
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: Oh really okay, So, like I turned to Um Clarence,

814
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: our staff writer, yes, no, oh wow wow, oh yeah yeah.

815
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,439
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, even with all that going

816
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: against you, you still you were throwing for the end

817
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: zone on your last Yes, and that's true. But so

818
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 1: you mentioned Michael Brocker's Um. But there are I think

819
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 1: a lot of people I hate to do the people

820
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 1: are saying things. But people are saying and I tend

821
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: to agree, like where where is the more production going

822
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: to come from? Because when we've got guys like Sue

823
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: and Brockers and Fowler and everybody else, the guys that

824
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: are playing with Donald, because Aaron Donald is getting double team,

825
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: he's getting triple team, he's getting fewer and fewer one

826
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: on one opportunities. And while teams I think have done

827
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: a good job of sort of scheming a way away

828
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: from Donald, that means that somebody else has to be

829
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: out there and able to make a play, right right.

830
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: You know how I look at it, Aaron, you gotta

831
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 1: crack it. I don't care what they're doing it. You

832
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 1: know you mentioned that earlier. You got to crack it. Um. Yeah,

833
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: they're they're doing things to take you away. Okay, beat it.

834
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to find a way to win. End

835
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: of story. Yeah, if you want us to win, you

836
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: got to get on the quarterback. There's this weird stat

837
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: now that when Aaron Donald has a sack in a

838
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: game since the Rams hired Sean McVay, they are undefeated.

839
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: When he does not have a sack, the Rams are

840
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: apparently five and seven. Okay, great, let's tattoo that. Yeah,

841
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 1: I mean, put that above his locker, Put that above

842
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: every everybody's locker that plays defensive line or Russians ada sack. Yeah,

843
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 1: when this guy makes a play, we win. Okay, how

844
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: do how do you think that should make everyone else

845
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,399
Speaker 1: around him feel that we gotta get him to make

846
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: plays or I mean, or like, let me make plays too.

847
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: You've been saying that for the last couple of weeks,

848
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: but it just is not translated to the field. That's

849
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 1: what I keep, That's what I would go back to. Okay, Aaron, Yeah,

850
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: they're taking your away. You're gonna have to crack it, Okay. Yeah,

851
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: Like I said, you're gonna ask the guy that's got

852
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: sixteen and a half sacks, you're gonna need twenty. That's

853
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: an impossible that's an impossible ask what you're gonna have

854
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: to is it impossible. It's too over the next two weeks.

855
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: I don't think it's an impossible. You're gonna have to

856
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: find a way to get it out of him. Yeah, right,

857
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: that's that's if it is to be, it's up to me.

858
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: That's how you have to think. Yes, I think that

859
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: that that that the Wow, I really short circuited there,

860
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, But I think that that's part of

861
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: it with Aaron, you know, yes, you want him to

862
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: be able to crack that. It's two sackless games in

863
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,240
Speaker 1: a row, which he has not had since the beginning

864
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: of the season. Well, look this, We've been playing football

865
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 1: for a long time in this country, right, he had

866
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,919
Speaker 1: the first guy that's been double most of the time.

867
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 1: You got to find a way to get through it.

868
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: That's that's all there is to it. Well, for the

869
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: most part through I would hope to hes not enough

870
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 1: to take him away, but for the most prout this

871
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: season he's been able to do that. Right. I think

872
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks though, especially what you've seen

873
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: is teams really be able to get rid of the

874
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:35,240
Speaker 1: ball quickly. That was definitely the strategy that the Eagles

875
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: employed with Nick Foles. They weren't going to let Aaron

876
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: get really get those opportunities to rush because you are

877
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: either throwing the ball very quickly or you're rolling out

878
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: opposite of him, yeah, and getting foles outside, and that's

879
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,720
Speaker 1: when he has a little bit of time to deliver

880
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: a ball stack okay and get there faster. Yeah. Period,

881
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: No matter what, no matter what they're doing to take

882
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 1: you away, you're going to have to defeat it. I

883
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 1: am not disagreeing with you on any part of what

884
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: you're saying in this right now. I'm not right unless

885
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,240
Speaker 1: you get somebody else to take advantage of the double

886
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: take advantage of the one on ones. If not, then

887
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: it's got to be him. Yes, I'd rather lean on him.

888
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, that's just where you are for

889
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 1: good reason. In the in the secondary, it was nice

890
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: to see you keep too. You have an interception. I

891
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 1: thought that he did a great job of falling off

892
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: the wide receiver route and then just saying, oh, I

893
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,879
Speaker 1: know where this is going. That's a baller. Yeah, right,

894
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: that's a baller. That's Troy Palomelo ed Reid stuff. I mean,

895
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: if you play it letter perfect, I guess the way

896
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: they draw it up it's a touchdown. They hit that play.

897
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: But you've got one guy that just knows how to

898
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: play football, one guy that can go beyond the rules

899
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: or what you think he's going to do and make

900
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: a play. And he did it. Yes. Yeah, that tremendous play.

901
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: And it was at the perfect time too. Yeah. Yeah,

902
00:43:54,840 --> 00:44:00,240
Speaker 1: sparked momentum. Well, it bailed out the specially failed specialties play. Yeah,

903
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 1: so that's I mean, when you put the defense in

904
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: that position, I think you know you haven't Again, it's

905
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: not necessarily a sudden sudden change because it's a turnover

906
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 1: on downs, But at the same time, that's a tough

907
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: spot for the defense to be put in when they're

908
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: already in plus territory. Yeah, and then you have your

909
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 1: heady corner. You know they're trying to make a play. Well, no,

910
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: he makes the play instead, and he keeps them off

911
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: the board. What if you made him head coach for

912
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: a day, keep to Lea. Yeah, man, that would be cool.

913
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:28,919
Speaker 1: Why do you want to see that? I just feel

914
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: like you like that because you're a defense, That's what

915
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Just close the doors. He's the head coach

916
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: for the day. Yeah. It reportedly had a player's only

917
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 1: defensive meeting does not surprise me at all. That's what

918
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: I'm close the doors, lock them, just us and let

919
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 1: him be head coached for the day. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

920
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 1: that's what I mean. The leadership. Yeah, the ones that

921
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: we don't know the the the true football team. Those

922
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 1: guys will start to emerge. The guys that made plays

923
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 1: on Sunday are the guys that we're talking about. Yeah.

924
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,959
Speaker 1: Like I said, Robert Woods got it in the blink. Okay,

925
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna be one of those days. Give me the ball,

926
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: let me do it. Yeah, the the Marshawn Lynch run

927
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: through your face mask over and over and over and

928
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 1: over and over type day. He didn't say face mask

929
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: or face run through your face over and over and

930
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: that type of game. So those type of players will

931
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: drive you for the rest of the year. Yeah, yeah,

932
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: all right, Well let's turn it forward. Talk a little

933
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 1: bit about Arizona. Still a little early in the week,

934
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: but I think, yeah, I just think it would be

935
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: silly not to say that. You know, again, it's nice

936
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 1: you're planning Arizona. There are a three and eleven team,

937
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: they've not played that well. They've got a rookie quarterback.

938
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: And you know, looking at their game last week, it

939
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: really reminded me of the Week fourteen matchup that the

940
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: Rams had with Atlanta back in twenty sixteen. Rookie quarterback.

941
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: Ball keeps getting turned over, he's getting blasted and eventually,

942
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: oh god, the forty four to whatever it was at

943
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: one point it was. I think it ended up like

944
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 1: forty two to fourteen, but at one point it was

945
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,839
Speaker 1: forty two to nothing in that game, Um, Matt Ryan

946
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: put on a clinic without Julio Jones, Yes, yeah, yeah,

947
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: and whoever the Mohammed Sanou Yeah yeah, okay, right, I

948
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: remember that. So it sort of reminded me of that

949
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: game because you have Rosen got sacked six times. Um,

950
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: he threw I think two picks and I really have

951
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:31,879
Speaker 1: in front of me, so I should just look. But

952
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: you know, you had struggling scuffing, right, and so again

953
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: like they are a team that is having some trouble.

954
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: Rosen also fumbled. You know, it's if you're playing I

955
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: got three wins and I'm a member of that football

956
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: team and I'm sitting in my team meeting room watching

957
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: the Rams the last two weeks. How do you think

958
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: you feel about playing them right now, you feel great

959
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,359
Speaker 1: because you think you can beat that. Yeah, so all

960
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 1: this stuff about they got three wins, forget about record. Yes, yeah,

961
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: it's it's all about how you play from this point on, absolutely,

962
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: and the stuff you put out there. I bet Chandler

963
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 1: Jones is licking his chops. He can't wait. Yeah. Yeah,

964
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: if you're watching the same film, anybody that lines up

965
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: in the interior defensive line is like, yeah, finally I

966
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,839
Speaker 1: get a chance to make plays. So it doesn't matter

967
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,839
Speaker 1: who you play from this point on. It's they're all

968
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: going to give you their a game for as long

969
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: as that last, and if you help them, you can

970
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: make any game a game, regardless of records. Well, Dante

971
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,840
Speaker 1: Fowler said this yesterday during the open locker room period

972
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: that we had, and he was in there and he

973
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: was saying that, you know what, when you have a

974
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: team like the Cardinals, and despite what their record is,

975
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: you know that they're going to give you everything that

976
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: they have because that's what they're trying to play. Spoiler.

977
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: They're trying to keep jobs in the league next year. Right,

978
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 1: There's always so much to play for because there's only

979
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: sixteen of these regular season games that anybody is ever

980
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: guaranteed in the NFL per year, right, So that that

981
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: I think you again, I think you're right. You know,

982
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: they may have three wins and that's whatever, but you

983
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,799
Speaker 1: have to come out there and you have to make them.

984
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: You have to make them look like a three win team.

985
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: What's better than three four? You want to win the game.

986
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: And you know their problems are their problems. You have

987
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: your problems too. Who can cover up? There's the best

988
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,879
Speaker 1: is going to win on game day? Yeah? Yeah? And

989
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: you know what, Rosen actually, I think has a lot

990
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: of talent. Even in that game against the Falcons, there

991
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: was one he threw down the right sideline to David

992
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: Johnson out of the backfield and Johnson, you know, it

993
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: was a really pretty pass and he dropped it right

994
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: in the bucket and so that helps set up their

995
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: first touchdown. And they didn't really do much else throughout

996
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 1: the course of that entire game. However, you don't want

997
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: to let them get on the board early and let

998
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: them feel like they're getting something going early. I have

999
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: a feeling they probably won't. I think you're going to

1000
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: get a reaction by by ninety nine. This week. Okay, Yeah,

1001
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: and this might be the week for him because that

1002
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,799
Speaker 1: hasn't changed since the first time you saw Arizona. You

1003
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: know what do you mean? Well, their offensive line didn't

1004
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: get better and he ripped them. So you're you're going

1005
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: to see a repeat performance. You're not going to do

1006
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: much changing. So they are what they are. They going

1007
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: to try to run their their offense against you. It's

1008
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,399
Speaker 1: not going to be really specific towards taking one guy away. So,

1009
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:27,800
Speaker 1: like you said, there were an evaluation period towards the

1010
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: end of the year, so I expect him to be dominant.

1011
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: So I think that you can be confident in offensively speaking,

1012
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's a wait and see. I don't know

1013
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: what the condition of how Todd's gonna look or perform

1014
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,919
Speaker 1: come game days, so that part is a question mark.

1015
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: Defensively speaking, yeah, this this could be the get right

1016
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: performance you're looking for defensively from the Rams. From the

1017
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 1: Rams for second, it should be. I mean, if you

1018
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: think about that game that they played earlier this year,

1019
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,720
Speaker 1: and granted it was with Sam Bradford as their quarterback,

1020
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: who's no longer even on that team Slash in the NFL,

1021
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,439
Speaker 1: but that was a game where you shut them out

1022
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 1: and completely shut them down on offense, and so you

1023
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: know that you have that potential to do that absolutely

1024
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: that Yes, I think you can feel confident and have

1025
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: rest assured there you should win on that side of

1026
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: the ball. The other side, we'll have to wait and see.

1027
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: What does Sean McVay have up his sleeve if you

1028
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: don't have one of the best backs in the league. No, well,

1029
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:32,919
Speaker 1: I think in some ways you just kind of put

1030
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 1: it on your number one overall pick QB. Can he

1031
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: right himself by just throwing it out of it? Let's see.

1032
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: I mean, what does the offense look like when if

1033
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: you have to go to that Yeah, you know you

1034
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:46,800
Speaker 1: don't have Malcolm Brown too, right, because that's the biggest

1035
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,319
Speaker 1: thing versus some guys down there that can really pass

1036
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: rush and they have the benefit of crowd noise. So

1037
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 1: that part we'll see. Defensively speaking, I think the Rams

1038
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: will be fine against the Cardinals. Well, the Cardinals also

1039
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: have one of the top corners in the league. I mean,

1040
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: we mentioned Chandler Jones early, but Patrick Peterson is still

1041
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: playing pretty well this season. Yeah, oh my god, And

1042
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 1: I swear he lives for games like this. He does,

1043
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: you know, just one of those all around performances where

1044
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, he seems to rise to the occasion,

1045
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, like and wins the

1046
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: game almost by himself, either punt return or some stupid

1047
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 1: pick or gets the ball out, you know, just makes

1048
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 1: these kind of plays. Oh, he just drives you crazy.

1049
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,520
Speaker 1: Towards the end of the year. One of Golf's interceptions

1050
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: this year was to Patrick Peterson in that beautiful I remember, yeah,

1051
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: beautiful pick too. And look, he's a complete guy. So

1052
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: if you're expecting him or you want the corners to

1053
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: make tackles today, okay, he'll oblige and he'll bring it.

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Speaker 1: He's a good corner, Yeah he is. And that's again

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Speaker 1: the Rams Now basically to me, these last couple weeks

1056
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: are about what the Rams can do for themselves. You know, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll do you one star. What the Rams are offensively

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Speaker 1: going forward, That's That's where I'm at. You know, what

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00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: are you going to be? What are you? Um? I

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00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:04,240
Speaker 1: saw a renewed effort out of the Philadelphia Eagle defense

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Speaker 1: when they kind of knew and it's not that hard

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Speaker 1: to tell that you had to compromise running back on

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Speaker 1: the other side, they just became a different group. Yea,

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Speaker 1: and that could happen against any defense that only has

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Speaker 1: to face one phase of an offense. So we'll see,

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Speaker 1: we will see. All right, Well, I think that will

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Speaker 1: do it for this episode Between the Horns. Mark on

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Speaker 1: any other parting shots, parting shot. You know what, bring

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Speaker 1: a tape recorder next time. Bring a tape record because

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Speaker 1: we talked to Jim Everett right before the game. We

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Speaker 1: should interview. We should just do it right there and

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Speaker 1: then play it on Between the Horns. Yeah, there's so

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00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 1: much that goes on like before the game. That's true,

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Speaker 1: isn't it, Like all the people that walk around, all

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00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: the people that we see. Honestly, I really should have

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00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: just pulled out my phone. That is a great idea.

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Speaker 1: That's thank you coming soon to the next BTh XX. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Who on the sideline? We start on the sideline if

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Speaker 1: if they say hi, we'll stop them and we'll play. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we had a nice conversation with Jim Everett about this

1081
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: very same situation. So um, it's it's really cool. So

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Speaker 1: that's my party shot there. Yeah, all right, shout out

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00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: to Jim Everett. He says he's a listener. Yeah, so

1084
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Speaker 1: you should be like Jim Everett and subscribe to the show.

1085
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Speaker 1: God if he only, if he only knew what I

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00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:17,840
Speaker 1: tried to do to him when we were playing against

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Speaker 1: each other. I don't think he would like me very much.

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Speaker 1: But he's really cool. I love him. Good guy, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: great guy. All right, Well, everybody, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: listening to this edition of Between the Horns. Kickoff this

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Speaker 1: Sunday from the desert in Arizona. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: a fox at one oh five Pacific. It'll be two

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Speaker 1: oh five local. We will be on the sideline for

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Speaker 1: RAMS Free Game Lab at about twelve twenty five Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Until then, I forget when everybody