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Rams Bounce Back on Monday Night, Giants’ QB Injury Fallout, and Steelers Struggles · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: The Rams handled business on Monday night, dominating the Giants
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  Speaker 1: 28-6 to get their first win of the season. LA
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  Speaker 1: looked how we expected them to look going into the season,
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  Speaker 1: kind of erased that icky, weird situation in Australia. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I almost don't count these international games when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to Australia or Rio or Berlin or anywhere other than London,
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  Speaker 1: because at this point, most teams are used to going
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  Speaker 1: to London or at least are used to making that flight.
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  Speaker 1: When you start throwing in places like Australia, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to hold that against an organization that much, even
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  Speaker 1: though they do count.
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  Speaker 2: As much as a regular season game at home or away.
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  Speaker 1: But I did not overreact to what I saw in
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  Speaker 1: Australia from LA. I also did not think it was
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  Speaker 1: a great idea for Sean McVay to fly them in
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  Speaker 1: last minute.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't entirely convicted about it.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a risky move and obviously the
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  Speaker 1: Niners turned out to be right on that. But the
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  Speaker 1: LA Rams looked more like their Super Bowl selves as
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  Speaker 1: they started off the season in in the United States,
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  Speaker 1: thanks to Devante Adams, nearly 200 yards and two touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: in a vintage performance. And Matthew Stafford threw for over
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  Speaker 1: 300 yards and four touchdowns. And Aaron Donald made his
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  Speaker 1: re-debut and Sean McVay got a sigh of relief and
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  Speaker 1: made a little joke about Australia saying sometimes you win,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you learn. And sometimes you have a dumb ass
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  Speaker 1: coach that makes travel plans to put you in a
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  Speaker 1: bad spot.
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  Speaker 2: So we got the answer to that. I think that.
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  Speaker 1: In general, we saw what the Rams were capable of
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  Speaker 1: in this game.
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  Speaker 2: I think they showed.
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  Speaker 1: That they have a lot of depth, which is very
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  Speaker 1: important for a team that is expecting to make a
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  Speaker 1: very deep run and a run that will end up
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  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, which of course is in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: And as I said, after the Giants-Cowboys game in week one,
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  Speaker 1: I did not entirely trust the Giants. Now, look, in
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  Speaker 1: all fairness, and we will talk about this in a second,
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  Speaker 1: they had some injuries that.
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  Speaker 2: No one accounted for in Jackson Dark.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that the Rams are an exceptional organization
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  Speaker 1: and exceptionally well-coached. And when they are fully healthy, which
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  Speaker 1: they will eventually be, They are going to be a
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  Speaker 1: terrifying team. Now they have a bit of a stretch
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  Speaker 1: ahead of them. You have to keep your head about you.
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  Speaker 1: So they have coming up the Broncos on Sunday night,
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  Speaker 1: followed by an early window game in Philly. And then
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  Speaker 1: they host the Bills on Monday night in week five.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a very, very tough stretch. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we will feel very strongly about where the Rams
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  Speaker 1: are as a Super Bowl contender after week five and
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  Speaker 1: examining the stretch of teams that they have competed against.
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  Speaker 1: But a great week two for the Rams and a
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  Speaker 1: team that we expect to go very late into the season.
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  Speaker 1: Sticking with Monday Night Football, as I mentioned, big fallout
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  Speaker 1: for the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: I hate how.
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  Speaker 1: Many terrible, injuries we have had to young quarterbacks so
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  Speaker 1: early in the season.
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  Speaker 2: And Jackson Dart is a part of that.
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  Speaker 1: He left the game with a knee injury on the
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  Speaker 1: first drive on Monday night, and he may need to
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  Speaker 1: miss extensive time.
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  Speaker 2: So we didn't want to overreact to the injury.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, during the game, there were reports that he tried
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  Speaker 1: to get back in, but tests didn't have revealed that
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  Speaker 1: reportedly the knee injury is more severe than initially anticipated.
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  Speaker 1: And John Harbaugh declined to comment on the timeline, but
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  Speaker 1: said we've learned a lot more about it and we
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  Speaker 1: know what direction we're going to have to go in.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it might be, we'll announce that, but we don't
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  Speaker 1: know that yet. So I don't want to.
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  Speaker 2: Get over our skis with that.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think that the Giants were exactly where everyone
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  Speaker 1: thought that they were after the Cowboys win, but obviously
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  Speaker 1: I could not have anticipated that Jackson Dart would have
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  Speaker 1: gotten injured and that we wouldn't know how long he
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  Speaker 1: was going to be out for and potentially that he
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  Speaker 1: could be out for the rest of the season. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that the Giants are where they need
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  Speaker 1: to be to be competitive.
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  Speaker 2: And Jameis Winston is.
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  Speaker 2: A wild card.
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  Speaker 1: Like he can be great. He can be a liability.
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  Speaker 1: He obviously is a big personality and that has its benefits.
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  Speaker 1: But as far as if they are going to be
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  Speaker 1: consistent this year, I don't know that Jameis Winston is
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And if Jackson Dart.
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  Speaker 1: Is not going to be back, then we can't really
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  Speaker 1: evaluate what the Giants are actually capable of this year.
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  Speaker 1: It's really frustrating that there are so many injuries to
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  Speaker 1: so many starting young quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: In the league already. I don't think there's a particular reason.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's a hundred percent injury rate in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: but it just is unfortunate that this is happening so
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  Speaker 1: early and it is happening to young up and coming
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league. Like it's just incredibly disappointing and
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  Speaker 1: frustrating for them. And I can't imagine how frustrating they are.
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  Speaker 1: So another team that is in a tailspin is the
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 2: Not surprising. Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Only in the offense mustered one field goal against the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots as they lost 20-3. Pittsburgh is not playing great
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  Speaker 1: ball this season under Mike McCarthy. They did beat Cooper
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  Speaker 1: Rush and the Falcons, but I think that the Falcons
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  Speaker 1: and the Dolphins are going to be competing for the
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  Speaker 1: worst teams ever. in the league this year so not
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  Speaker 1: a huge accomplishment um mike mccarthy said we can all
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  Speaker 1: give a little more the best teams are player-led teams
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  Speaker 1: we need to be better it starts with me to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that mike knows what's working and what's not
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  Speaker 1: working our coaches know so that can so that we
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  Speaker 1: can call stuff that we think has a better chance
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  Speaker 1: listen at the end of the day i am not
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  Speaker 1: surprised that these Steelers look the way they did and
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  Speaker 1: that this is the situation that we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to them, to the Steelers, this early
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  Speaker 1: in the season.
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  Speaker 2: My frustration with the Steelers is that they're sort of
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  Speaker 2: where the Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Bears were a few years ago, where it was like
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  Speaker 1: this constant drumbeat of the same thing, of the same.
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  Speaker 2: Theory, of the same messaging, of the same identity.
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  Speaker 1: Of the same, this is what we are, the same
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  Speaker 1: draft style of the same style of play, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not leading to results. And at some point you have
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  Speaker 1: to play the game that is currently being played. And
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  Speaker 1: you saw that with the Chicago bears and now they
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  Speaker 1: have Caleb Williams and they have Ben Johnson and they
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  Speaker 1: have entered the modern NFL. I feel like the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: are holding on to the past. They are white-knuckling to
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  Speaker 1: the past. And that is why the Aaron Rodgers situation
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  Speaker 1: is frustrating. And while I think Mike McCarthy is a
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  Speaker 1: good coach and has the ability to run an organization well,
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  Speaker 1: he was not the right hire for the Steelers at
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  Speaker 1: this particular moment.
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  Speaker 2: And they are.
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  Speaker 1: They're in this sort of cycle where they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: appease the idea of what they are rather than the
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  Speaker 1: reality of what they are. And I think that that
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  Speaker 1: is going to be their demise this season and moving forward,
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  Speaker 1: because obviously this is Aaron Rodgers, at least according to him,
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  Speaker 1: his last year as a quarterback in the NFL. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little concerned about what's happening and what I
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  Speaker 1: saw from them this week. I think that is something
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  Speaker 1: that they will continue to build on. They have Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: next at home, and then they are at Cleveland on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football and at Indy. So we will get
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  Speaker 1: a good stretch of competition to see what.
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  Speaker 2: The Steelers really are this year.
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  Speaker 1: But I am disappointed in that performance and also not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily that surprise because I do feel like they're holding
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  Speaker 1: on to identity over.
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  Speaker 2: Reality, which is a little bit frustrating. Thanks a lot.
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