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"Missed Tackles" episode 182 · DMV Mess Hall

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This is Will Montgomery, former Washington Redskins center.
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Y'all, let's go, folks. This is Trey Johnson, the
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headbanger, y'all, and you're listening to Mess Hall with
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Rally captain and tailgate Ted Bird.
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What's going on? Rally Guessing you got back from
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Atlanta earlier this morning. Yeah, I did man.
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And I'm tired bro. It was.
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It was a fun filled weekend. Except for 90 minutes.
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Yeah, Nah, I hear you, man. I'm tired.
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I'm, I'm tired for a little different reason than you.
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So I ended up going to a three day music festival out of the
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beach. It's called A Ocean's Calling.
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So they do it every year. You ever heard of AOAR?
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Oh yeah, yes. Yeah, so they're from Montgomery
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County right there. They're local.
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Oh. OK, years ago during COVID, they
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decided to come up with this music festival.
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And this I want to say was the 4th year they've been doing it,
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maybe the third, something like that.
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But they had just, you know, two dozen plus bands come out.
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So it's three days on the beach, multiple stages.
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Yeah. Green Day, DJ Cool, Nelly, Fall
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Out Boy. So just like a large swath of
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music, 56,000 people out there. So it was, it was a long weekend
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for me and I was hoping to walk around and join my victory cigar
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on Sunday because I had my commander's gear on because I
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ended up staying back at the house and missed the first half
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of the festival on Sunday so I can watch the game.
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That didn't work out and the next thing I know all I saw
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walking around were just Eagles jerseys everywhere.
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Man it was like I'm glad I already ate because I lost my
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appetite once I got there. Oh bro, trust and believe.
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I was so pissed off to where I wanted to try to catch a a
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flight that night. I really did.
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But and they had a couple of available flights, but the price
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was just through the roof. And I said are you know what,
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you win some you lose some and and and drink your milk sour
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milk like yourself, like an adult.
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So I didn't like it, but it is what it is.
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And, you know, they say losing Bill's character, so I guess I
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got a lot of character, man. We had years of losing like we
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got character coming out of our ass.
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At this point I. Mean it's just.
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I don't know. So I mean, because I know you
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typically have your your victory stake reservation for after the
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game, whether it like Ruth, Chris or something.
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So I mean, where do you get your humble pie?
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Like what are you doing after a loss?
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Well, instead of steak, I had lamb chops from Ruth Chris from
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Ruth Chris, but it it wasn't my tomahawk that I really want.
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But you know, it is what it is. There'll be time where we are
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going to become victorious when we play a visit away away game.
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So I'm not going to worry about it.
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I'm going to just continue and and do what we got to do, man.
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So I got a better idea for you, right?
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You May 2 reservations at Ruth Chris, right?
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So you do a, a victory rally celebration because I saw the
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pictures and the videos from the rally this past weekend.
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I mean, the line around the door, people couldn't get in.
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I mean, after something like that, I'm sure you're probably
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starving and tired and exhausted after organizing that thing.
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So you go get your victory stake on Saturday after the rally's
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done, then you just get a second stake on Sunday.
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This way you at least get one on the weekend.
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OK, all right, maybe maybe I'll look into that.
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I'll I'll look into that. But but yeah, to echo what
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you're saying, man, we had a sold out.
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Not that not that we had anything for sale, but the
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crowd, as far as the crowd is concerned, it was just amazing.
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I couldn't have asked for anything else.
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The the fans, once again, they said there was no way they were
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going to miss us once they found out that they were back on.
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And it truly showed. And I try to tell people, get
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there early, get there early, get there early.
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But some people, for whatever reason, you know, they got other
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things to do. But I want to also give a shout
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out to the Washington Commanders Atlanta chapter.
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They did a heck of a job and assisting and wouldn't be able
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to get things done without them. It just was, it was just
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amazing. And here's the thing, they're
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already planning for 2027 because we play them again in 27
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in Atlanta. We play them every year, man.
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Atlanta might just move to the NFC East, right?
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Let's kick the Cowboys out because they're not actually on
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the East Coast. Just slide Atlanta in there
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because, I mean, we have played them the past four years in a
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row. But that is good to know, right?
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So how many people did you guys have at the rally?
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I mean someone standing there with a clicker just kind of
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counting or what would it look like?
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So they had arm bands and they had boxes, they had boxes of
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900. And so the the manager told me
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that the 1st 900 just went and then he had 700 more that went.
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So it was just, it was just crazy, man.
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It really. Was yeah, yeah.
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And he said actually, if if he said it actually they stopped
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counting because what happened was they've started at that at
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that point, it started to become like a one for one.
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And they said, all right, when somebody comes out, you can just
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go in. And they didn't even put arm
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bands on people at that point because there's no need.
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Brian Mitchell Santana Moss showed up and they had a
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rooftop. And Santana said, I want to be
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amongst the people because we had like a little VIP little
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area. He's like, no, no, no, they
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started off the air. But he said, I want to be
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amongst the people when they went to the rooftop.
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And I mean, he was just swamped. He and B Mitch were swamped.
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Jaden's mom, she showed up as well.
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Apparently she didn't get the memo that the rallies were back
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on because the last that she had heard that they weren't.
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And then all of a sudden someone told her about it.
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And so she came to me. She goes, I thought you told me
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that it you weren't going to have.
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And I said, well, change of plans that happens.
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And so she goes make sure that you have me on your distro for
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the next time. So the next reality that she's
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I've already sent her the information for the next rally
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this upcoming week in California.
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But, but back to Atlanta, man, it was just an awesome
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experience. They had a signature drink
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called the capital city. It was a good burgundy and gold
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drink, man. Strong drinks, bro.
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Oh yeah, strong drink, bro. I mean if you if if you would
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like light hearted, you might want to not touch this one.
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Now I, I saw a bunch of people, you know, I'm, I'm living
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through social media and just kind of hanging out like we
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were. So my Saturday night was pouring
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rain at the beach. Oh no.
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Right, it's Saturday. Some dude named Noah Khan was
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performing. Our listeners probably know who
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he is. I don't.
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They don't play him on one O 6-7 The fan or the team 980 coming
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out of break. So I have no idea who the hell
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this dude was, but one of Misses Tailgate's best friends flew up
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from the show and that's the only dude she wanted to see.
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So we're sitting there toughing it out in the rain and they all
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went to go get something. So I'm, I've got these
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inflatable couches, so you just catch wind in it and then you
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can roll it up and it's just like a couch on the beach.
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So I'm just lying there just getting drenched all in the
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rain. And I am watching all of the
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pictures from people at the rally, the videos and everything
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else, just living vicariously through you guys while I'm just
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getting drenched about to listen to some e-mail music.
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But man, it, it looked like so much fun.
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And then I think the next day you were hyping up some
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tailgates. What was going on with that?
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So there's a tailgate, and forgive me, I cannot remember
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the name of the group, but it was basically $65 for all you
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can eat and all you can drink. And they had some really good
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food. I, I was really surprised.
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I mean, besides the food at your tailgate, you know, you don't
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always get good food. I mean, it's, it's, it's, you
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know what I mean? But this was this was really
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good. They had these pork chops that
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were just so moist. It's been a long time since I've
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had a pork chop that moist. And when I say all you can
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drink, that was all you can eat, all you can drink, man.
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I mean, they had two bartenders just doing it up.
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Shout out to Drew corn. He stopped by, he surprised me
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and stopped by and, and Drew was like, I'm going to give me a
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little fuel for the game today. And so we had a couple of toast
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and man, it was just a good atmosphere and a good
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environment. Like I said, it's just sucks
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that, you know, for 90 minutes out of my life, we went through
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what we went through. But yeah, that.
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That part was tough, right? I mean, at least, you know, you
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got a chance to tailgate and hang out with everybody else.
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And, you know, the rally was good the night before.
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So I was just man, getting to the game it was, I was starting
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to get worried, right? Because every Sunday morning I
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jump on FanDuel and I start to place my bets because that's
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when FanDuel comes out with all the bonuses, right?
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So an extra bonus here if you put this in.
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So I think 1 was like a 50% bonus.
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So if you bet and you're supposed to win $10, you'll win,
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you know, 15 bucks instead, right?
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And I noticed the spread went from us giving 2 1/2 points to
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us now getting 2 1/2 points. So coming into Sunday morning,
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we were the underdog, right? We weren't the favorite anymore,
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but we already knew Jade wasn't playing on Friday.
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Coach came out with that. So the line had changed a ton.
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I mean, that's a huge, you know, almost 6 point swing for us to
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be the dogs and just from the world.
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I don't know, man, I don't from TV.
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It felt like the team had zero energy coming out.
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And hearing a lot of people recapping it today, they're
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saying it was reminiscent of the Packers game where we went on
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the road in Green Bay and the guys just look flat.
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And to me, that game, OK, I get that right.
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It's a Thursday night on a short week, so you're going to be
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tired. But this, you're just flying
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right down South to Atlanta. You got the same amount of seven
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days to prep for this thing. No need to be out there and
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exhausted and just lackadaisical.
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So I mean, what did it look like to you?
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Because you're down there for warmups and everything else.
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I mean, what was the vibe like during warmups and everything
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from the sideline? Well.
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I'm going to say this. The fans showed up.
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I would say it was probably 5545.
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The fans showed up. It was a lot of burgundy and
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gold. We did our part.
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The team, they looked like they were tired.
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They didn't look well rested, if you will, and, and maybe I'm
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wrong, however you want to slice it, it just they just didn't
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seem like, I don't know, like the fire was truly in them.
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And and, and let's let's be clear here.
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I am not talking about the team to get on you guys.
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I'm I'm talking just based on what I saw and I felt that they
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were fired up, but it just didn't equate to being on the
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field, man. It just didn't.
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And so many things that I said, why are we doing this?
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And, and, and I, I just didn't understand.
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And, and so one of the biggest things is, you know, and I'm not
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going to pile on Bobby, but but, but Bobby has a hard time
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covering out of the backfield. You know the same thing kind of
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London Fletcher, you know, am I? I'm the big I'm the biggest
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London Fletcher fan that you would ever find.
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But when old man time, father time starts to talk to you with
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these younger cats who are more spry, as they say, it's time to
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re look at some things and but who do we have?
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I don't know that we have anyone, but that tells me that
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Joe Witt has to know the deficiencies that we have and
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figure out a way to make some other changes to make things
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happen. Because I just didn't like what
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I saw. And once again, we said week in
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and week out, it's a copycat league and guys are going to
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figure out a way to put a back on a linebacker and speed them
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in. And, and Bobby knows the game.
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The man is smart, but you just can't beat speed in age.
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You just can't. I honestly think that it could
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have been, you know, Revo lining up, right?
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Bijan's just that dude, right? He was the one guy that we
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talked about being worried about heading into this game, right?
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And he showed why he basically is their team.
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And it came up during the press conference today, right?
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You know, Bobby Wagner and people taking kind of advantage
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of. So they mentioned it without
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actually saying Bobby and coach said are you talking about that
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swing pass out? You know where Wagner was on
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them, right? And it's just it's bad matchups,
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right? The other guys get paid too.
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The other coaches get paid too. And the problem is it is now the
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4th week where we have seen something like this happen and
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it's a copycat league and best be sure the same thing is going
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to happen next week going up against the Chargers, right?
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And if we can't get a pass rush there, it's we're in for a long
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week, you know, a long weekend out there in Lai mean the
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weather's hopefully going to be nice.
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But you know, who else can you stick out there?
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I don't know because you got Jordan McGee, who's got a
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linebacker, you got Kane Medrano, right?
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Bobby's not coming off the field.
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They're not sitting him at all. He is your captain out there.
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He's got that green dot. So what do you do?
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I mean, wit's got to scheme some other stuff up.
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I'm looking at the snap count right now.
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Bobby played 100% of the snaps. And he can't do that and see,
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that's OK. That's what I want to talk about
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right there. I didn't see enough
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substitution. I didn't feel to where look, you
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got your breather. I need you to go balls to the
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wall. And I just didn't see it.
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And, and I'm not trying to say they didn't do it, but I just
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didn't see. I didn't feel it and because I
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didn't see it, I didn't feel it. The results were there.
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So and, and I and I, I don't want to talk about my team.
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I, I don't, I want to, I want to be as positive as, as I always
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am, but man, it didn't look good, bro.
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And, and, and we've got this season is a long season.
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And once again, if you don't have someone who can put up
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points and hide your deficiencies, you're going to
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get this type of result every week.
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And everyone, I'm sure, has either seen or heard what
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happened last night with the Cowboys.
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And you know, I'm not a Cowboy fan.
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You know, I can't stand those guys.
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But Dak Prescott put up points when everybody thought that they
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were going to. I thought they were going to get
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Molly whopped. I really did, but they, they,
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they, he did a hell of a job. And so we at some point time you
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got to take away the dislike and say what a man really, truly
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did. And and that's what we expect
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from our guys, you know, but we're we're missing.
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Right. I mean, if I would have told you
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we're putting up 27 points on the Falcons this weekend, you
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would have thought we're winning that game, right?
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I mean, the Falcons didn't score a single point the week prior
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and we put in 27 against them. You should win that game 9 out
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of 10 times. You should win that game if you
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put up 27 points against them, right?
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The offense did not let us down other than not being able to
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convert third downs or the defense is what led us down.
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Yeah, yeah. The defense is, is is what let
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us down. And I'm saying that I still
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needed more. I needed more when when you felt
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when the tide started shifting because it felt weird from the
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from the onset. It, it, it did.
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And so that's what I'm saying. I needed more from my offense.
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I needed more from my quarterback.
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You know, he didn't run at all. I think he scrambled maybe once
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when? Mariota had two for 20.
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Yeah. And and at the time, everybody,
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once again, everyone always says who in the offense is
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unaccounted for the quarterback, yeah, you know, everyone else is
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matched up. He's got to he's got to
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understand the importance, not to say that he doesn't.
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And and see, it sounds like I'm just bashing.
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You're calling it like it is, man.
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We, we lost the game, right? There's there's no excuse for
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what happened this past weekend, right?
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I mean that that's the thing people enjoy about the show.
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We're not going to sit here and be homers, right, If they screw
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up, which they did this weekend, you know, it's got to be said.
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And Mariota, I mean, his rating was a 84.8 past week.
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They're giving Mariota a 89.2 passing, right?
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His offensive grade. Mariota, I think, had the
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highest offensive grade, yeah, at a 90.4.
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But the problem is the offense had 22 plays in the first half,
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right? You have 22 offensive snaps in
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the first half. So what does that mean?
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You're obviously not moving the ball and your defense is on the
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field, tired as hell, right? And then when you got someone
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like Bobby and it keeps coming up that we're the oldest team in
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the league, right? But you got a guy like Bobby
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that's out there playing 100% of the snaps, Yeah, he's going to
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be tired, right? I mean, anybody would be tired
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at that point. It's just it's frustrating to
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see these things happening and it go on because you think it's
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it's fixable, right? And I'm I'm trying to look at
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time of possession. Time possession.
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Was it was 25 to 34? I'm trying to see the first half
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time of possession and if I find that I find it, but it was just.
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I mean it was 25 like 10 something something crazy like
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that 25 to 18 or I mean, it was, I looked at it and and my
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numbers are off obviously, but Atlanta had.
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Yeah, it was 10 minutes to 19 minutes in the first half,
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right. It's just we were O for four on
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3rd down. We we just couldn't keep drives
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going at all. We were one for one the red
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zone, but we were O for four on 3rd down, right.
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Other than that Luke McCaffrey touchdown, there was no
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highlight really. I think McCaffrey was the only
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highlight the entire first half for me, right?
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And I'm I'm happy for the kid. I'm proud of him.
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And this is actually DQ talking about Luke.
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And then Luke McCaffrey, what have you seen out of him just in
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his growth as a receiver, especially these last two weeks,
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and then his contributions on special teams as well?
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Yeah, I thought the I recognized him today in the special teams
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meeting. I thought what a cool play,
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catch the touchdown and then makes a tackle, you know, on the
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next play on a kickoff and involved in a tackle.
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I think that speaks to him as the competitor.
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I love the fact that, you know, the opportunities there for him
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to dig in some more and like he's taken advantage of it,
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whether that's on offense or on the return game.
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He's got a fearless side to him as a returner, which in this day
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and age, in terms of the kickoff return, you have to do that.
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And it's what makes Debo excellent at it, what makes him
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excellent at it. Yeah.
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So over the last two weeks, I've certainly been pleased to see
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the growth in Luke. I mean, I'm not going to lie, I
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did place a bet on McCaffrey to score a touchdown and that hit,
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so I was happy about that. But.
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All right. I also put one on JM Wayne
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didn't, so you know, but it's still where I think McCaffrey
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was like plus 600 or something. It was kind of ridiculous.
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But I'm looking at the drive chart, right?
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Our first drive, 3 and out, we gained -6 yards.
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We punted the ball. Second drive it was 8 plays for
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70 yards with that McCaffrey touchdown, right?
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Third drive, 6 plays -10 yards in penalties and we got 26.
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The other drive after that was a field goal.
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Other drive after that, 6 plays and a punt.
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Other drive after that, I mean -25 yards in penalties and we
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ended up kicking a field goal. Like we keep shooting ourselves
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in the foot. Our average starting position
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was a 36. There was something they got
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tweeted out by Commanders PR about Luke.
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Luke McCaffrey recorded 199 kickoff return yards in
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yesterday's game. Mccaffrey's 199 kickoff return
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yards the most by any NFL player in 2025 and the most by any NFL
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player since Debo Samuel Senior 2008.
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In Week 13 of the 2024 season, his 199 kickoff return yards
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were the most by a Washington player in a single game since
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Brandon Banks in Week 8 of 2010. Right?
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So it's just, I mean, the shining moment for me of the
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game was the fact that Gay didn't miss a single kick.
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But it was also frustrating because we were in a freaking
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fight, right? It it's a shootout and we're
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trading, you know, touchdowns for field goals.
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So obviously things just weren't adding up.
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And you would think that Penex would cough the ball up because
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he had a couple of the week prior, but we only got the
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turnover one time, so it just didn't equal out.
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I I didn't see wit with very many blitzes.
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I mean, I did see Phoenix scramble when he got a first
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down if I'm not mistaken, maybe once.
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But if, you know, this guy is not really a mobile guy and why
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didn't we send more pressure? And it seemed like we played a
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lot of zone and and I mean, maybe we don't have the dogs
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that we thought we had to play man to man.
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But but I just know that if if the defense of line doesn't get
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there and you're in zone, it's going to be a long day.
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And it was a long day. Yeah, it was.
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It was frustrating, right? Because guys, they weren't
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getting home. We're not getting home rushing
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for right Lattimore at this point.
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He needs to change his name to liability instead of Lattimore.
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It's just when he is out there and I don't know where you were
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sitting. I don't know if you got to see
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that double move. He got put on them, but he got.
23:32
Down my sideline. He had the worst coverage grade
23:37
on the team, right? And it's just, it wasn't even
23:39
close. Lattimore was a 36.2, right?
23:43
And he just he looked horrible and I don't know what's going on
23:48
with Sandra still. I mean he did have that I and T,
23:52
but he just doesn't look the same.
23:54
And they moved him inside this year.
23:57
He used to play on the outside last year.
24:00
People are thinking like, what do you do?
24:02
I'm I'm driving back from the beach, stuck in traffic and you
24:04
got all these people calling into one O 6-7 because they're,
24:07
you know, sideline GM's from the couch, right?
24:11
And everyone's like, Oh, you need to move Mikey back to where
24:13
he was last year and this and that.
24:14
Like, I'm sorry, if if you guys knew what to do, you would be
24:19
coaching some place, right? You wouldn't be sitting at home
24:21
and worried about your fans football team.
24:23
But to a degree, something has got to change, right?
24:26
The secondary does not look good.
24:28
And more like we got a we lost another dude, Jovante Jean
24:33
Baptiste done at least for a while.
24:36
Going to go to IR, had a torn pack.
24:39
Oh, so that did come out that he had a torn pack.
24:42
OK. Torn Pack and those that
24:43
remember John Allen tore his PEC against the Ravens last year in
24:47
Baltimore and was able to come back to the playoffs.
24:50
But he tore his PEC, right? It's just the injuries are just
24:54
mounting, right? And the problem with what's
24:59
happened with Peters is we don't have a ton of depth.
25:02
That's why he's had to bring in these older veteran guys because
25:06
you don't have younger guys to fill in because we just didn't
25:09
draft well the past couple years before Peters got here.
25:13
So now it's it's it's funny that you say that because I saw
25:18
Preston Smith walking out of the sidelines and I said, I said, yo
25:22
press, when you going to start? He's like, I don't know, dog.
25:26
And I was like, oh, not when you're going to start, but when
25:29
you going to play? Yeah, I don't know, dog.
25:31
I was like, what? I would have thought by now,
25:34
this is what his third week that he would have, that he would
25:38
have suited up at least. One second.
25:41
OK, it could be second. I don't know.
25:43
Yeah, regardless, yeah, regardless why he's suited up,
25:46
We we need the bodies, you know, we need, we need to keep that
25:49
rotation going. I mean, at this point, I really
25:51
didn't hear Von Miller's name called.
25:54
I just, I don't know why or what scheme, but I just didn't hear
25:58
his name called. So, so if it means that maybe
26:02
putting him alongside if I'm, I don't know, bro.
26:05
I just want the best for our team and I want to win.
26:09
And here right now we are getting ready to go down a huge,
26:17
huge beast of teams to play, you know, so we can't get soft right
26:23
now, man. I think, I think, I think the
26:26
softest part of our schedule is over with you.
26:30
Know it's done, right. I mean, we've got Chargers
26:32
coming up that we got the Bears on Monday night, that we're
26:35
going to Dallas, and after watching that Cowboys game
26:39
against the Pack, right? I mean, that that ain't going to
26:41
be easy. Then we got Kansas City.
26:43
KS City just crushed the Ravens. I mean, they had what, Mahomes,
26:47
I think at 4 touchdowns. So and then we've got Seattle
26:52
coming to DC for another night game.
26:54
And then we got the Lions, right?
26:56
The only game that appears to be easy coming up is the Dolphins
27:01
in Spain, right? I mean, we got a murderer's row
27:05
coming up. So the good news is, right,
27:08
we're two and two, right? It's just you know, if 500 say,
27:12
you know, 500, you know the first quarter of the season,
27:16
right? It it's not doom and gloom.
27:17
You have people calling up the radio today acting like the
27:21
season was over. Like it it's all downhill from
27:24
here at the Chargers lost to the Giants, right?
27:27
Who? I mean, OK, they had Jackson
27:29
dart start and you had that rookie kid, a lot of them and
27:31
I'm going into that. But the Chargers lost to the
27:33
Giants. They are beatable and they lost
27:36
one of their all pro tackles this past game.
27:38
So that game that looked daunting a couple of weeks back
27:42
might not be as and we'll talk about that later on this week.
27:46
But yeah, we're we're we're just not playing well on the road and
27:49
guess what? 3 out of the next 4 on the road.
27:53
So they got to find a way to get these guys more hyped up, right.
27:59
I mean. So question, remember when we
28:03
you played in a team that was in a way team and then they
28:06
immediately flew to Phoenix? You remember that?
28:10
Did they? Did they immediately fly to LA?
28:13
No, but they did say they were going to get out there earlier
28:16
and spend more time out there. OK.
28:18
So I have a feeling that that's going to be coming up.
28:22
I'm trying to see if I can find anything on it.
28:26
I'm not seeing anything yet, but I'm almost positive I saw
28:29
something or heard someone say that they were going to go out
28:32
there earlier. OK, yeah, because I can't
28:34
remember who we played, but I know when the game was over
28:36
where they were like, because it's kind of like a short week,
28:38
if you will it. Was the Bengals.
28:41
It was that Bengals game that Monday night, and then they went
28:43
out there and they went out to Arizona early.
28:46
Yeah, yeah, OK. So maybe they need that, right,
28:51
Maybe they need some extra rest and some extra time.
28:53
But one thing they do need to do is learn how to tackle.
28:55
All right. And it was just, I don't know if
28:57
you did you see how many missed tackles we had.
29:00
I stopped counting Ted. Well, let's put it this way, you
29:05
would have had to use your toes if you were counting man.
29:08
Yeah, I, I, like I said, I stopped counting and I, I, I
29:12
don't understand what's going on.
29:16
Do you think, do you think that the next the person next to you
29:21
is going to get the job done? Are you relying on that person
29:24
to do it? Because if you are and that
29:28
person is relying upon you to do it, then we're going to be in
29:32
for a hell of a time, man, you know?
29:34
And I just don't see that dog that we need.
29:40
I, I, I know, I know he's there somewhere, but what's going on?
29:46
Why haven't he? Why hasn't he emerged as of yet?
29:50
I I don't get it and I just tackling is something to teach
29:53
you and you know, pee wee man, it just.
29:55
It was. Frustrating to see.
29:57
And the guys were getting there and they were hitting.
30:01
They just weren't rapping, right.
30:02
It just, it reminded me of watching, you know, Lavar back
30:06
in the day. Just go up and it's like, oh, I
30:08
hit you, you should fall down now.
30:10
Like, no, it doesn't work that way.
30:11
And then DQ got asked about it this morning.
30:15
Dan, what's your level of concern with the the missed
30:17
tackles yesterday and is there anything you can do mid season
30:20
to address that? Oh yeah.
30:22
There's plenty to do in each practice, in each day.
30:27
You can, you can work on that hard time.
30:28
It doesn't have to be something that you have to take to the
30:30
ground, but you do have to get your angles, your tracking
30:33
correct. But they're way too high.
30:35
We were in double digits and if you hit double digits between
30:38
defense and special teams, that is too many.
30:41
Going into it, we knew Bijan, you know, is somebody that's
30:44
exceptional with that. But you track two men tackles
30:48
and we've got work to do. Yeah, we were not pleased with
30:51
our tackling performance. And yes, there is plenty you can
30:54
do to work on that. So coach is talking about
30:59
there's a ton of stuff you can do, right?
31:01
They are allowed to have because of the CBA, 14 total padded
31:06
practices through a 18 week regular season, right?
31:11
That's 14 the entire season. So I mean, and you don't have to
31:17
take someone to the ground, right?
31:19
It's just we see it when we go out there for training camp,
31:22
right? It's just it is what it is.
31:24
But it was frustrating to watch because we had guys dead to
31:29
rights and they just, they weren't rapping, right?
31:32
And we were also last year and it's a different team this year,
31:37
but we had guys swarming, right. I don't know how many times I
31:41
saw one guy there and they will get busted and the next, you
31:45
know, the guy was running for the 567101520 yards right before
31:48
someone else got to him. And thank God Revo was as fast
31:52
as he was or else no one would have caught Dijon on that one
31:54
pass, right Grant? I think they got it anyway, but
31:57
I. Was just about to talk to you
31:58
about that. I'm going to say that yeah, that
32:00
that's my my chain. He used to wear the chain yeah,
32:04
I know we haven't got to that segment yet, but I'm just
32:05
putting it out there at Revo. You, you, you stopped them from
32:08
scoring and they eventually did score.
32:11
But the fact is you, you put a hellified effort into that, that
32:16
guy not to, for Bejon not to go all the way and and it didn't go
32:20
unnoticed. Yeah, I mean, I think Revo got
32:23
to love like 25 miles an hour or something like that.
32:26
I'll have to find it. But it was just, it was, I could
32:30
not believe he caught him right. But the big thing is he had the
32:34
right angle. And that's what I feel like a
32:36
lot of it comes down to is our guys were taking the wrong
32:38
angle, all their tackles and their pursuits, and they were
32:41
just getting just completely blown out of their blown out of
32:46
their shoes, right? And with a guy like Bijan, just
32:50
that one touchdown he had just busting through holes right down
32:53
there and you think he got them and next, you know, he's gone.
32:57
The good news is stuff like that is fixable, right?
33:00
Stuff like that you can definitely address and take care
33:04
of. Now you only have 14 padded
33:05
practices, so you know they got to come up with something to do
33:09
it. But from a player perspective,
33:11
we're not getting any new guys coming in off the street.
33:14
And if they are, they ain't going to be that good.
33:17
So we got the cards were dealt with.
33:20
We just lost another car with Jean Baptiste going down.
33:24
Like, I don't know, man. I don't know what the answer is,
33:26
right? You and I are just sitting here
33:28
and we're watching the games from our couch and you from the
33:30
stands. But tell you right now what I'm
33:33
seeing, it just it ain't working from a defensive side of things.
33:37
No. So maybe this will be the week
33:38
that, what's his name, Prescott E, not Prescott Preston Smith.
33:45
Maybe this be the week that he gets out and maybe has a
33:47
breakout game. Who knows.
33:49
I think he'll suit up this week with basically the injuries that
33:52
we've had. I don't see a reason why he
33:54
wouldn't unless they just feel as though someone on the team
33:59
already is that much better than he is.
34:03
I don't know, Maybe it's conditioning isn't where it
34:05
needs to be. How about that?
34:06
That's possible, right? And I also, I think it's more
34:10
than that, right? They had to make a bunch of
34:12
people inactive because of so many injuries that we have going
34:16
on right now. So they had to dress other guys
34:19
that might not have dressed because of some of the offensive
34:23
stuff that we've got going. So that could be part of it.
34:25
Who knows, maybe he would have been OK.
34:27
But I mean, I'm looking at the PFF grades right now.
34:32
Guess who had the worst pass rush grade?
34:36
Who? Von Miller, who was brought in
34:39
here to pass rush right, had a 48.3 on his pass rush grant.
34:44
Didn't hear his name called it all.
34:46
Maybe maybe once I heard, I may have heard it, but it was in
34:50
conjunction with something else. But not, you know, Von Miller
34:56
Strat sack, individual sack or whatever.
34:58
Have you. I I just didn't see it.
35:00
And so it's like, wait a minute, man, are we reverting back to
35:05
our previous owner who brought those old guys in?
35:08
They were washed up because they were childhood legends of his
35:12
that he wanted to play on the team.
35:14
I mean, I know we're not that bad, but man, you know, it just
35:18
feels that way. Ted and I, and I know that this
35:25
is this year and that was last year, but can we get some of
35:28
those good vibes from last year to come back?
35:31
You know, maybe, maybe do we is do you OK?
35:34
Let me ask you this. How much different do you feel
35:40
this game would have been if JD 5 was on the field?
35:43
Do. You think I just go back to the
35:47
fact that the offense, they left points on the board, but they
35:51
put up 27, right? I feel that some of those plays,
35:55
Jaden, a healthy Jaden, like 100% healthy Jaden, not a
35:58
whatever percentage he is now. I feel like 100% healthy Jaden.
36:01
We win the game. We win the game easy, right?
36:04
OK. I think that a lot of those
36:06
third, we were one for four on 3rd down in the first half.
36:09
I don't think we go one for four if Jaden's there, right?
36:11
You've got, you talked about it earlier, who's not being
36:15
accounted for? It's that quarterback, right?
36:16
Mariota we know can run. We know he did it the week
36:19
prior, but there's just something different.
36:23
I mean, Atlanta's defense, they can move sideline to sideline.
36:26
So maybe they didn't want to put in as many of those runs
36:29
because, right, you didn't want to risk Mario to getting hurt
36:34
and next thing you know, you're going to have to go to Johnson
36:36
or someone else at that point. I mean, Hartman did shave the
36:39
beard off, so maybe he's, you know, good ready to go.
36:41
But I do think that if 5 does play right, you get your victory
36:47
tomahawk. That's what I need in my life,
36:51
brother. I need my victory tomahawk.
36:54
I mean, the defense isn't going to be as tired, right?
36:56
I mean, Bobby will play. Time of possession.
36:59
But yeah, the TLP, you know, he was out there for 20 minutes in
37:02
the first half. Right and you can't you can't
37:05
not cover somebody. The man is not a machine.
37:08
He just isn't and and it goes back to like even video games,
37:13
even video games, you start off from the green and and you're
37:18
100% and then your play goes to the to the yellow and then the
37:23
red or whatever. Have you see the meter?
37:24
You see the meter and and so they got to come out, take a
37:28
breath. And if you don't do that, you
37:31
know you're in trouble. So I'm hoping that that they can
37:36
have faith in someone that can give the man a playoff, at least
37:41
a playoff to where if if something bad happens, he's he
37:45
wasn't on the field to slow it down, but he he, he, he was able
37:49
to take a breather, take a breath and now make up for it.
37:53
You know what I mean? Yeah, No, I, I hear you.
37:56
I mean, he he's not coming off the field, right?
37:58
That just Jordan McGee was hurt last year, didn't do anything
38:04
right. They wanted him to kind of be
38:05
the heir apparent. You got Kane Medrano, who's a
38:08
converted wide receiver turned linebacker, and you got that.
38:12
That's actually that's it, right, Like a guy like Percy
38:15
Butler didn't play this past week, right, Who's now granted,
38:18
not a linebacker, but maybe someone can kind of come in and
38:20
do it. You just don't have someone else
38:22
there. And I don't know if you rush
38:25
Wagner more, but they had him covering.
38:28
So Bobby was they got him in verse Kyle Pitts.
38:33
Pitts caught a 12 yard Passover, Bobby, right?
38:37
You got the Bijan play 69 yards and you got the railroad McLeod.
38:41
Bobby actually got him for a -, 7.
38:44
But the average reception against Bobby was 24.7 yards,
38:49
right? He just, he did not, he doesn't
38:50
do well in coverage. You talked about getting
38:53
flashbacks in London. I don't know how many times we
38:55
would see London Fletcher and a tight end running down the seam
38:59
and London's not the tallest dude and he's just sticking his
39:02
hand up in the air trying to bat that ball down and it just goes
39:05
sailing over his head, right? I love London man.
39:07
London's a freaking fan, we do. But he's just, you know what
39:11
he's good at? You know what he's not good at?
39:13
He's not good at covering, right?
39:15
And it's, it's the same thing with Bobby, right?
39:17
Bobby's coverage grade was better than Lattimore's.
39:20
But he just, he shouldn't be doing that.
39:22
And the offenses are scheming it up where you get him one-on-one.
39:27
And what good news is we're not playing a guy like Bijan every
39:31
week, right? The bad news is Bobby still
39:34
can't cover. So it's going to be interesting
39:37
to see what happens, but I think we've we've kind of beat up the
39:42
bad. What?
39:42
What's your your good moment from this past weekend, man?
39:47
My good moment was Debo Samuel saying, give me the freaking
39:51
ball. I, I'm not sure if they show
39:54
this on television, but Debo came in and they were going to
39:58
run a play and he looked at the sideline and was like, like,
40:02
like, I don't know if you can see my hands, like what?
40:05
And he started like there's a obviously.
40:08
A sign of a certain play that he wanted to be ran and he was in
40:15
it about doing this, doing this particular sign.
40:18
And guess what happened? That's when they scored a
40:20
freaking touchdown. They threw it to him.
40:23
That's what I want to see when I say I need to see a dog.
40:26
He he he was I saw him wave it off.
40:28
He like no, do whatever this. I don't know what it was bro
40:33
but. Yeah, they did not show that.
40:35
That play or I saw it and, and he was like, no, no, and, and he
40:41
was doing something, you know, and, and all of a sudden they, I
40:45
guess they, they said sure. And that play was a touchdown.
40:49
So that's what I need to see more dogs saying give me the
40:54
ball or, or, or trust in me, trust in me.
40:58
Let's get this thing done, Trust in me.
41:00
And so obviously Debo's a vet. We got to have some of the
41:05
younger cats be able to do the exact same thing, put that trust
41:08
in them and say give me the ball, man.
41:10
You know, who do you go to? What did you think when Diva
41:14
wasn't returning kickoffs right? I mean, I don't.
41:16
Did you even notice that he wasn't?
41:17
Back there, I noticed it. This this is actually the second
41:20
week he didn't do it. He didn't he didn't do it.
41:23
Nope, he didn't do it last week. This is the second week.
41:26
This is the second week he didn't do it.
41:27
So maybe he said, I got enough of this coach, you need to, you
41:32
need to save me because the coach said you got to have a,
41:35
what did he say? A ruthless eye or, or unwavering
41:37
eye or whatever he said. No, I, I think that the fact is
41:42
you might be like, Hey look man, I, I don't need this right now,
41:46
you know? Debo Debo returned some kicks
41:48
against the Raiders. Just looking at it right now.
41:50
I didn't see him, but OK if you say he did.
41:52
Yeah, he he actually could. Debo busted that long one for 69
41:56
yards against the Raiders and we were there, so I'm almost
41:59
positive. Yeah.
41:59
But so because Terry was out this week, they didn't want Debo
42:05
to return kicks. So it was Luke back there and
42:08
Jalen. So, yeah, I completely get it,
42:10
right. I mean, and Luke did a damn good
42:12
job. And you and I talked about it
42:14
earlier on and preseason and training camp.
42:16
Like, I don't want to see Debo back there.
42:18
Right? And if Terry is hurt and we
42:21
don't know how bad he's hurt, we don't know what's going on.
42:24
We don't know how long they haven't put him on IR, so if he
42:28
doesn't go on IR, odds are they think it's going to be less than
42:30
four weeks because if you go on IR it's a four week minimum.
42:35
So this is week 1. I don't know if he's going to be
42:38
back yet. Coach said he'll know more on
42:40
Wednesday. I believe to hear about Terry
42:43
and John Bates and Noah Brown, Mr. Glass and you know, everyone
42:50
else that's all banged up and Jayden.
42:52
But yeah, seeing Debo not out there to me, OK, he's going to
42:55
have more energy for on offense. And I'm glad to hear that he
42:58
stepped up like you said and asked for that because he was
43:01
the highest graded receiver, actually second highest graded
43:06
to believe it or not, Jalen Lane, who Jalen had three
43:10
targets, 2 catches. Debo had six targets, 6 catches,
43:15
right? It was just it was good to see
43:18
him out there. I just the offense seems
43:21
one-dimensional to me. And did you see Bill just
43:24
completely whiff on a blitz? I, I, I probably missed it.
43:30
Those things happen. So things happen so fast in real
43:33
time to where probably missed it.
43:35
And, and so as we say, you win as a team and you lose as a
43:41
team. And that was one of the
43:43
questions that we had. How would he be able to perform
43:46
when the when the big lights are on and they are blitzing and you
43:49
said that he whipped. So, you know, that means more
43:54
field time, more coaching, more, more, you know, scheme
43:59
recognition if you will to be able to to pick to pick it up.
44:04
Mariota got hit on that play and I think I want to say it was a
44:08
second down or a third down, but regardless, he just, it looked
44:12
like someone trying to dodge a ball, right?
44:15
His pass block grade was a 7.2, right?
44:19
So he's just out of 100 and no one has ever gotten 100, right?
44:24
What? Yeah.
44:26
So it was a 7.2. I mean, best was Tunsil.
44:30
Tunsil had a 72.5, right? So let's just say 72 to 7.
44:36
Obviously there's a big gap there and people are saying why
44:38
don't you give them the ball more?
44:39
Why aren't you doing this more? The kid is a liability because
44:42
you know what's going to happen when he is out there, right?
44:45
If he is out there, the offensive play calling becomes
44:48
one-dimensional because the kid can't pass block, right?
44:51
So he'll go out in the flat and go catch something and do this
44:54
or do that. Or if he's there, odds are he's
44:56
going to get the ball. But this is the problem when
45:00
you've got that youth movement we talked about last week where
45:02
some of the guys just aren't ready to do everything right.
45:06
And Mcnichols was a 41.9 grade, right?
45:11
I mean, it's just it was it was tough, right?
45:14
It was a tough day all around for me.
45:18
I guess the highlight I have is the fact that Gay didn't miss a
45:22
kick, right? And he actually made some long
45:25
ass field goals so. Surprised me.
45:28
Yeah, dude was 4 for four, right?
45:30
I mean 3 for three from 49 or 40 to 49 and one for one for 50
45:36
plus, right? So he kept us in that game.
45:40
I mean, I'm sitting here on my couch thinking shit, all right,
45:45
it's a 50. He's missing this, but dude
45:47
drilled him right down the middle.
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So I mean, that's I for at least one week.
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We can stop the do we need to bring in a field goal kicker
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discussion right heading out to. LA we don't.
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Got to deal with it. At least for a week.
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It's like the news, man, Somebody else, you may have done
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something bad, but give it 10 minutes.
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The new news cycle will show up and somebody else does something
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worse. So he's off the hot seat.
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And, you know, I bet that that affects his psyche, the fact
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that he's not in the in the heat of the moment anymore, that hey,
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you know what? Yeah, I was the guy last week,
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but it's not me this week, so. Yeah, it's, it's definitely some
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other people this week. And you know, I'm not, I don't
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know, man, if, if I'm Lattimore, I just I don't know what to
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think anymore, right? It's you're just getting abused.
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You're getting picked on by everybody.
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They are coming after you now, right?
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They know that you're handsy. They know a double move on
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Lattimore. It just reminds me of the days
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with freaking Benjamin St. juice and a pass interference.
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That's that's what it feels like from watching man.
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Yeah, Lattimore St. Juice.
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I know man. I mean.
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Don't like it, but I understand. Or, or tackle the guy right.
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Don't let him if you're going to, if you're going to get a
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hold of him, just tackle his ass.
47:05
Don't let him just burn you down the sideline.
47:07
I mean, that double move. The guy still caught the damn
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ball for like 70 yards. It was it's frustrating, man,
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but it's it's a small things like that.
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They just, they pile up and that's what it felt like.
47:17
This game was just a bunch of stuff just piling up and piling
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up and we can never get out from underneath it.
47:24
The good thing is this, we've got 13 weeks to improve and get
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it right. The season is is is far from
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being over and the same way that the injury bug has hit us, we
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know that it will sprinkle its eye around.
47:42
So not that I want to win by injury, but we know that it will
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happen. It's inevitable.
47:48
All teams go through it. You know, maybe we, we're, we've
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gotten hours out of the way now to where guys can heal up to, to
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where it really counts, when it really counts.
47:57
They they'll will be picking the hunt.
47:59
I mean, one of our offensive lot, Cosby should be back,
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right? Cosby should be coming off a
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pup, hopefully sometime soon. The coach talked about it today.
48:08
But you know, once we get him back, then that means we can
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move Chris Paul out and do some other stuff.
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So you know. Yeah, so, so, so, so don't,
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don't fret guys. Just just hold tight, you know,
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just hold tight because one bucket of water does not drown
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on a ship. So it's it's, it's, it's
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outpouring the water coming in. We haven't gotten there yet.
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So, you know, the ship is upright.
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Just got to continue to, to, to do the right thing and keep our
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head in it. Well, look.
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Two and two man 2 and 2. 2:00 and 2:00, yeah.
48:43
A lot of football left. Yeah, a lot of football left and
48:47
I always say every week I hear the music playing, which lets me
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know we're bringing another show to A to a close.
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Good news far as LA rallies. So we'll see you on the next pod
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on you'll find out about the LA rally.
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That's going to do it for the DMV mess hall this episode.
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Remember, you Rep it hard or you don't Rep it at all.
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Tailgate tail rally captain. We'll see you next time.