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- 0:00Speaker 1: And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.
- 0:07Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. Welcome to move the sticks, DJ, Bucky Rhett,
- 0:10Speaker 1: as we are looking back on a pretty eventful Week
- 0:13Speaker 1: one here boys. Great to see you, Buck. I want
- 0:16Speaker 1: to start with you first, as as we're going to
- 0:19Speaker 1: go through a bunch of these games, but before we
- 0:21Speaker 1: get to the specifics of the game's Rett piggyback on
- 0:23Speaker 1: this big picture takeaway as by the way you see
- 0:26Speaker 1: my shirt, I'm trying to stay positive, Buck, So let's
- 0:29Speaker 1: keep the theme here as positive as we can. But
- 0:31Speaker 1: would you take away.
- 0:33Speaker 2: The preseason is a liar when it comes to the
- 0:35Speaker 2: Rooky quarterbacks. As ready as we think young quarterbacks are,
- 0:39Speaker 2: when you get to the regular.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Season, it is night and day from the preseason, and
- 0:43Speaker 1: so we.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Learned a lot about our young quarterbacks going through their
- 0:46Speaker 2: first game struggles.
- 0:48Speaker 3: I think there's still you know, week one, I think
- 0:50Speaker 3: you could kind of say that same thing, Bucky, like
- 0:52Speaker 3: for some teams, we're going to see some major growth
- 0:54Speaker 3: here in week two. I mean I remember watching the
- 0:56Speaker 3: Jim Harbaugh post game right and when they broke it
- 0:58Speaker 3: down DJ if forgetting a win with the Raiders. You know,
- 1:01Speaker 3: biggest growth week one to week two. So how much
- 1:04Speaker 3: is going to change from what we saw here this weekend,
- 1:07Speaker 3: I think is one of the biggest things that will
- 1:08Speaker 3: be kind of focused on here as well. And then overall,
- 1:12Speaker 3: other takeaway is Panthers still have a lot of work
- 1:15Speaker 3: to do.
- 1:16Speaker 1: I don't think yeah, that's yeah, we'll get there. We'll
- 1:18Speaker 1: get there. My my takeaways, Buck, I'm with you on
- 1:22Speaker 1: kind of the preseason. I think that was reflected in
- 1:24Speaker 1: some of the tackling. Going through the tape this morning.
- 1:26Speaker 1: I felt it was a lot of mistackles. That's really
- 1:29Speaker 1: the way it's been for the last few years. You're
- 1:31Speaker 1: gonna get into the regular season a little bit, let's
- 1:33Speaker 1: wait a couple weeks. It'll get better, it'll improve. But
- 1:36Speaker 1: that was one takeaway. The other one was and we'll
- 1:38Speaker 1: get into these games. But there's I had this like
- 1:41Speaker 1: like Jeff Fisher thought, don't ask me why, but like
- 1:45Speaker 1: a Jeff Fisher, Marty Schottenheimer thought of, you know, everything
- 1:49Speaker 1: cyclical in this league, and there's still an old school
- 1:52Speaker 1: like those old Titans teams. Think about the Marty Schottenheimer teams.
- 1:55Speaker 1: But you played on one of those there's like this,
- 1:57Speaker 1: you know, be physical, don't screw up, shorten the game,
- 2:01Speaker 1: save your defense. Like there's still one of those formulas
- 2:03Speaker 1: that's it still works, like all these years, just watched
- 2:06Speaker 1: all the high you I just wanted wanted Chariler Stalks
- 2:10Speaker 1: game I did. I watched that game. There was there
- 2:13Speaker 1: was the Charger game. There was that game, there was
- 2:16Speaker 1: a there was even the Bears, like the Bears defense
- 2:19Speaker 1: and special teams, Like there was kind of like that
- 2:22Speaker 1: old school kind of grittiness, kind of find your way
- 2:24Speaker 1: to the finish line that kind of juxtaposed this high
- 2:26Speaker 1: flying league that I feel like we'd become lately, so
- 2:28Speaker 1: that those old school names buck those are the ones
- 2:30Speaker 1: that crept into my mind.
- 2:32Speaker 2: No, it's funny because having played for Mardy Schottenhammer, he
- 2:34Speaker 2: would always tell you more games are lost than one.
- 2:37Speaker 2: If you run the ball, play good defense, and find
- 2:39Speaker 2: a way to dominate special teams, you're gonna win more
- 2:41Speaker 2: games than you lose.
- 2:42Speaker 1: I think it's a terrific regular season formula. You need
- 2:46Speaker 1: a little more to go.
- 2:48Speaker 2: From like a regular season champion to a postseason champion,
- 2:52Speaker 2: but it absolutely can take you to ten, eleven, twelve
- 2:55Speaker 2: games if you subscribe to death theory.
- 2:57Speaker 1: Yeah, New England was one of those teams too, right,
- 3:00Speaker 1: you know.
- 3:00Speaker 3: Yeah, und Andre a bunch of sacks and pressure and yeah,
- 3:05Speaker 3: I mean that was the formula.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Well, all right, let's let's jump into some of these
- 3:09Speaker 1: specific games here, Buck, I'm gonna give you the floor
- 3:12Speaker 1: Rams Detroit, coming off Sunday night. What did you what
- 3:14Speaker 1: did you see? What did you take away from that one? Well?
- 3:17Speaker 2: My takeaway for both teams man tough, greedy teams, and
- 3:20Speaker 2: I just love watching those guys get after it in Detroit.
- 3:23Speaker 2: I just think it's the grittiness, the competitiveness of this team,
- 3:27Speaker 2: the fact that they can run the ball with two backs.
- 3:29Speaker 2: They can get it done with David Montgomery or Jamiir Gibbs.
- 3:32Speaker 1: And we saw them.
- 3:33Speaker 2: Really pounded and when they needed to. But I'm gonna
- 3:36Speaker 2: say this, Jameson Williamson, Jameson Williams showing up to the party,
- 3:42Speaker 2: runs a double move to blow by j Davis White
- 3:45Speaker 2: and then makes plays has one hundred yards.
- 3:47Speaker 1: I mean, this is a team that has all the weapons.
- 3:50Speaker 2: But what I love about them they have all the
- 3:52Speaker 2: firepower on the outside, but deep down inside they're an
- 3:55Speaker 2: old school physical team that can get it done the
- 3:57Speaker 2: old school way when they need to.
- 3:59Speaker 1: You know that.
- 3:59Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought up the toughness part because I
- 4:01Speaker 3: think that's something that Sean McVay talked about after the game, right,
- 4:04Speaker 3: He said, I think we learned a lot about our team,
- 4:06Speaker 3: both mental toughness and physical toughness. Come back, score ten
- 4:08Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter, send that thing to overtime. Obviously
- 4:11Speaker 3: couldn't quite get it done. But then on the flip side, oh,
- 4:13Speaker 3: Dan Campbell said about Matthew Stafford, well, you better think
- 4:16Speaker 3: twice about hitting him, because the more you hit him,
- 4:17Speaker 3: the bettering cats.
- 4:19Speaker 4: That is one tough dude right there.
- 4:21Speaker 3: So I love I mean, I think that Stafford does
- 4:24Speaker 3: set the tone for some of that toughness with this
- 4:26Speaker 3: Rams team. I think you see that guy continue to
- 4:28Speaker 3: get up and make some of those big throws in
- 4:30Speaker 3: the face of some of that some of that pressure,
- 4:32Speaker 3: and then you know, you come back to it for
- 4:34Speaker 3: the Rams. Look, this is a team that ran the
- 4:37Speaker 3: ball so dang well last year, right, And I think
- 4:39Speaker 3: that's where you see the offensive line injuries starting to
- 4:42Speaker 3: take hold a little bit with the Rams.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Right.
- 4:44Speaker 4: A Villa leaves early in the game.
- 4:45Speaker 3: They were already without Hanstein and so they didn't run
- 4:48Speaker 3: the ball very well in this game. But Stafford kept
- 4:50Speaker 3: him minute down the stretch for sure, and then Pooka
- 4:52Speaker 3: goes down too. So the fact that they're able to,
- 4:55Speaker 3: you know, kind of continue to find ways to stay
- 4:57Speaker 3: in this game against an NFC, you know, championship favorite
- 5:01Speaker 3: in the Detroit Lions, I thought was pretty impressive. And
- 5:04Speaker 3: I think, you know, one thing they'll go back to
- 5:07Speaker 3: is their efficiency in the red zone. Just two touchdowns
- 5:09Speaker 3: on five trips. And obviously the turnover there the Stafford
- 5:12Speaker 3: interception was a tough one. The turnover on downs down
- 5:15Speaker 3: there close is a tough one. So they clean that up. Man,
- 5:17Speaker 3: that's a game they might even just went out, right.
- 5:20Speaker 1: Yeah, I look at the Lions side of things, I
- 5:23Speaker 1: feel good about saying they will represent the NFC in
- 5:25Speaker 1: the Super Bowl because a lot of that was based
- 5:27Speaker 1: on not what we just what we saw last year
- 5:29Speaker 1: was it was this is an emerging team, Like there's
- 5:32Speaker 1: more guys coming up. I feel like it's almost like
- 5:34Speaker 1: you're watching a baseball season. You're seeing guys get kind
- 5:36Speaker 1: of called up late in the year to kind of
- 5:37Speaker 1: help you get over the hump. I feel like the Lions.
- 5:40Speaker 1: You saw that Buck you mentioned Jamison, like Jameis Williams
- 5:43Speaker 1: coming in here and really starting to find his niche
- 5:45Speaker 1: and carve his role. They've got guys on defense. Terry
- 5:49Speaker 1: Arnold had a bunch of tackles. He was physical. He's
- 5:51Speaker 1: going to be a big player for them going forward.
- 5:53Speaker 1: Where they don't need, you know, Aman Ross Saint Brown
- 5:56Speaker 1: to be Superman. They don't need Jamiir Gibbs to be
- 5:58Speaker 1: Superman to win games. They have a lot of different
- 6:00Speaker 1: ways to beat you, and a lot of good young
- 6:02Speaker 1: emerging players, you know, running especially that offense behind a
- 6:06Speaker 1: very very good offensive line. They can close out games
- 6:08Speaker 1: like they have all. They have everything you need the
- 6:10Speaker 1: formula to be able to win games. Another quick takeaway
- 6:13Speaker 1: with them, man, I don't know why teams, We've been
- 6:16Speaker 1: saying this for years, why you don't incorporate more reverses.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Why don't you incorporate that action even if you're not
- 6:21Speaker 1: going to give it, it holds the end. It's one
- 6:23Speaker 1: less guy. You got a block because you got to
- 6:25Speaker 1: account for him. They get Jameis and Williams on reverse
- 6:28Speaker 1: for an explosive play Khalif Raymond early in overtime. I
- 6:31Speaker 1: might even have been their very first play in overtime.
- 6:33Speaker 1: They get an explosive one on that, so I thought
- 6:36Speaker 1: Ben Johnson was kind of in his bag a little
- 6:37Speaker 1: bit with that stuff. The offensive line takeaway there, their
- 6:41Speaker 1: ability to cut off on the backside is outstanding. You
- 6:44Speaker 1: think about how physical they are on the front side
- 6:46Speaker 1: and mauling people backside. They did an excellent job cutting
- 6:49Speaker 1: off on the on the rams side of things. Yeah,
- 6:52Speaker 1: it was Stafford for me was the takeaway. Did you
- 6:54Speaker 1: see Buck how many times they were like in pistol
- 6:57Speaker 1: and it was pistol play action shots like you know,
- 7:00Speaker 1: you think about the kind of the big play action
- 7:02Speaker 1: under center, you know, seven step off play action taking shots.
- 7:05Speaker 1: They get to it. They just get to it out
- 7:07Speaker 1: of the pistol, which I thought was kind of fun
- 7:09Speaker 1: to watch because Stafford can hang out about twelve yards
- 7:12Speaker 1: back there and just let it rip man.
- 7:16Speaker 2: Yeah, and lets you know what arm talent can do
- 7:18Speaker 2: for you when it comes to expanding your passing game,
- 7:21Speaker 2: and their running attack is really set up everything for
- 7:24Speaker 2: a long time. But just Matthew Stafford at quarterback, he's
- 7:27Speaker 2: just a difference maker.
- 7:28Speaker 1: And it's funny because I have trim minister respect for
- 7:30Speaker 1: both guys.
- 7:30Speaker 2: I love Jery Goff, and I think both guys have
- 7:34Speaker 2: kind of benefited from the swap. But what Matthew Stafford
- 7:37Speaker 2: has done to the Rams offense, He's given it a
- 7:39Speaker 2: different dynamic, not only to drop back passing game, but
- 7:42Speaker 2: the vertical stretch game that they can do and when
- 7:45Speaker 2: they get to roll it and when he gets into
- 7:47Speaker 2: that rhythm where he sees a handful of shots go down,
- 7:49Speaker 2: I mean, this dude is Look, he's remarkable because there
- 7:52Speaker 2: are not many guys that can bring what he brings
- 7:54Speaker 2: to the field as a QB one.
- 7:57Speaker 1: I know he's aging out and maybe in the twilight
- 7:59Speaker 1: of his career.
- 8:00Speaker 2: Man if i'm Sean McVay, I want to squeeze all
- 8:02Speaker 2: the juice out of this guy because he was super talented.
- 8:05Speaker 1: No question. All right, let's get to the second game here,
- 8:08Speaker 1: and I want to cue up some sound because we're
- 8:09Speaker 1: going to talk about Dallas and Cleveland, and before we
- 8:13Speaker 1: get to the performance of the Dallas quarterback, let's get
- 8:16Speaker 1: to the contract of the Dallas quarterback.
- 8:20Speaker 5: My confidence in both sides of this that that's something
- 8:23Speaker 5: would get done, understanding that that they were hammering at it,
- 8:29Speaker 5: that I had confidence in it, But it really wasn't
- 8:31Speaker 5: in my mind. For me, it was just about getting
- 8:32Speaker 5: ready for the Browns. Whether it got done today or
- 8:35Speaker 5: not wasn't going to change.
- 8:38Speaker 1: The way.
- 8:39Speaker 5: It wasn't going to affect me. Honestly, I've told you
- 8:41Speaker 5: guys before, I don't necessarily play. I don't play for
- 8:43Speaker 5: the money. I think when you focus and you control
- 8:46Speaker 5: what you can control, things like that just happened. So yeah,
- 8:49Speaker 5: I found out probably an hour I get where. I mean, honestly,
- 8:53Speaker 5: probably twenty minutes before it was you know what I mean,
- 8:55Speaker 5: publicized to everybody else.
- 8:58Speaker 1: So Ratt, first of all, we'll go into the game here.
- 9:01Speaker 1: Just thoughts Dak's new deal.
- 9:03Speaker 3: I mean, look, I think you know you were kind
- 9:06Speaker 3: of wondering if once the season started, would they have
- 9:08Speaker 3: to table this thing. Well, it turns out at the
- 9:10Speaker 3: eleventh hour, or about four hours for kick, the thing
- 9:12Speaker 3: comes out, and it sounded like he had known it
- 9:14Speaker 3: was coming for the last couple of days, and look
- 9:17Speaker 3: played like it played like we expected him to play.
- 9:19Speaker 3: I mean, he's been a fantastic quit. I mean, you
- 9:22Speaker 3: know the way that you know, the prolificness of what
- 9:24Speaker 3: he did a year ago kind of started right back
- 9:27Speaker 3: there again in this in this season. So I think
- 9:31Speaker 3: he has earned that right to be this quarterback for
- 9:33Speaker 3: this team. I think he makes some big time plays
- 9:36Speaker 3: for this team. They just got to put it all together.
- 9:37Speaker 3: And it's not just on him. They got to find
- 9:39Speaker 3: a way to put it all together in the postseason.
- 9:40Speaker 3: I got no doubt that they're going to be there
- 9:42Speaker 3: at the end of the regular season. But what are
- 9:43Speaker 3: we going to see, you know when it comes crunch time?
- 9:47Speaker 3: And look, I don't I don't know that Dak could
- 9:48Speaker 3: do anymore for this team that he has done over
- 9:51Speaker 3: the course of his career. So I'd say earned it,
- 9:53Speaker 3: deserved it, and let's go out and continue to play
- 9:56Speaker 3: for it.
- 9:57Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 9:57Speaker 2: No, I think Dak Prescott's story is he's kind of remarkable.
- 10:00Speaker 2: Just from a scouting standpoint. The fact that a fourth
- 10:02Speaker 2: round quarterback has emerged as a QB one for America's
- 10:05Speaker 2: team is nothing short of remarkable. And when you think
- 10:08Speaker 2: about the player that he was at missis Stape and
- 10:10Speaker 2: the player that he's become for the Cowboys, very different.
- 10:14Speaker 2: The Mississippi State guy was kind of like a one
- 10:17Speaker 2: man John Wayne type that could put the entire team
- 10:19Speaker 2: on his back end.
- 10:20Speaker 1: When you go back and look at the.
- 10:21Speaker 2: Team, not a lot of pros that he led that
- 10:24Speaker 2: team to national prominence, and so maybe that speaks to
- 10:26Speaker 2: his ability to be a franchise guy. But the way
- 10:29Speaker 2: he carries himself I think is even more important when
- 10:32Speaker 2: you think about handing the money to him. To me,
- 10:35Speaker 2: he is the kind of embodiment of what a franchise
- 10:38Speaker 2: quarterback is supposed to be when he stands behind the podium.
- 10:41Speaker 1: We can take shots.
- 10:42Speaker 2: At how he may play the game in those things,
- 10:44Speaker 2: but in terms of handling himself in that presidential manner
- 10:48Speaker 2: that we used to talk about when we were scouting quarterbacks,
- 10:50Speaker 2: Jack Prescott does that.
- 10:52Speaker 1: And so kudos to him forgetting the big deal.
- 10:54Speaker 2: He certainly has had to go through it to get it,
- 10:57Speaker 2: but he's found a way to be the highest paid
- 10:59Speaker 2: quarterback in the league.
- 11:01Speaker 1: Yeah, just to wrap that up on the contract, I
- 11:04Speaker 1: talked to an agent one time and he said that,
- 11:06Speaker 1: you know, you kind of negotiate the deal and then
- 11:08Speaker 1: with certain clients I say, okay, then I need the
- 11:10Speaker 1: extra extra little sugar here for the good night's sleep clause,
- 11:13Speaker 1: and the way he explained that was like, You're never
- 11:16Speaker 1: gonna have to worry about this guy. He is a leader.
- 11:19Speaker 1: He's someone you want to put out in front, you know,
- 11:21Speaker 1: as a face of your organization. So you got pay
- 11:24Speaker 1: a little extra for that as well, because I feel
- 11:26Speaker 1: like with Dak Prescott, you know what you're getting from
- 11:28Speaker 1: the person each and every day and what he's going
- 11:30Speaker 1: to bring to that building, what he's going to bring
- 11:31Speaker 1: to the locker room. So I'm totally comfortable with making
- 11:34Speaker 1: him the highest paid player. He was the next one up,
- 11:37Speaker 1: and I thought, that's you know, that's what he's earned,
- 11:39Speaker 1: that's what he deserved. It good for him, all r.
- 11:41Speaker 1: Let's get to the game itself here. As good as
- 11:44Speaker 1: things were for Dak, the offense, the defense. I know
- 11:46Speaker 1: you guys will hit on the Cowboy defense, which was
- 11:49Speaker 1: was excellent, even though I'm wearing the stay Positive shirt.
- 11:52Speaker 1: I've got to talk about the Deshaun Watson thing and
- 11:55Speaker 1: going back and watching that and trying to figure out,
- 11:58Speaker 1: is there one thing I can pinpoint the struggles too there?
- 12:02Speaker 1: And it turns out it's just a whole host of
- 12:04Speaker 1: things and it's not all him, it's not all just him.
- 12:07Speaker 1: While it was not good on his part, let's start
- 12:09Speaker 1: with his his areas that he needs to improve on.
- 12:12Speaker 1: First of all, there's some footwork stuff that needs to
- 12:14Speaker 1: be cleaned up. There's throws that are not on time.
- 12:17Speaker 1: He's taking extra hitches, extra hops, and that's disrupting the timing,
- 12:22Speaker 1: the rhythm. It's an impacting the accuracy and the ability
- 12:25Speaker 1: to complete ball. So let's start right there. Mechanically, another issue,
- 12:28Speaker 1: he's got into a little bit of a bad habit
- 12:30Speaker 1: of really sinking. So what do you mean by that, Well,
- 12:33Speaker 1: when you get to the top of your drop, he's
- 12:36Speaker 1: not standing tall, he's so low, he's so into his legs.
- 12:39Speaker 1: He's so down low that now to throw the ball,
- 12:42Speaker 1: it's not a smooth, easy process. It's it doesn't look natural.
- 12:46Speaker 1: It's taking too much time. He's got to clean some
- 12:48Speaker 1: of that stuff up. There's times where he's got greedy,
- 12:51Speaker 1: trying to push the ball and looking for things down
- 12:53Speaker 1: the field when he's got underneath options that are open.
- 12:56Speaker 1: Take the layups right now. Don't get so greedy. So
- 12:58Speaker 1: those are some things that are very tangible, they're very
- 13:01Speaker 1: real that Deshaun needs to work on now outside of
- 13:04Speaker 1: his control. You've got a big drop pretty early in
- 13:07Speaker 1: this game. You've got a running back missing a pickup.
- 13:10Speaker 1: He just gets blasted. You've got your main Effetti playing
- 13:13Speaker 1: right tackle who it's a little it's a little much
- 13:15Speaker 1: right now against the guys that they're rushing. So you
- 13:18Speaker 1: had physical beats. I mean he got hit double digits.
- 13:21Speaker 1: You know, he was hit repeatedly in this game. So
- 13:24Speaker 1: there's a lot of other issues to correct around Deshaun.
- 13:28Speaker 1: But make no mistake about it, Buck, when you're watching him,
- 13:31Speaker 1: when you're watching this offense, there's no rhythm and there's
- 13:36Speaker 1: quickly it's quickly becoming evident. There's no confidence either, and
- 13:40Speaker 1: that's a that's I'm staying positive. I'm saying some of
- 13:43Speaker 1: these things are correctable, but the lack of confidence thing
- 13:47Speaker 1: scares me in a big way.
- 13:50Speaker 2: Well yeah, Like I mean, DJ, you just don't go
- 13:53Speaker 2: like almost three years without playing and think that your
- 13:55Speaker 2: game is going to be the same. And you know
- 13:58Speaker 2: the thing that you worry about with Deshaun Wison, let
- 14:00Speaker 2: ever come back and one of the things that I
- 14:03Speaker 2: recently did and talking about the brown because I thought
- 14:05Speaker 2: the Browns were going to have.
- 14:06Speaker 1: An opportunity to be really good this year.
- 14:08Speaker 2: You go back and look at his years in Houston,
- 14:10Speaker 2: three time Pro bowler, You go back and look at
- 14:12Speaker 2: it last year, even though they were four and twelve,
- 14:14Speaker 2: thirty three touchdowns, seven interceptions, and look, he did it
- 14:18Speaker 2: in spectacular fashion and the passer rating each of those
- 14:21Speaker 2: years was well over one hundred. One thing that I've
- 14:23Speaker 2: always wondered about Deshaun Watson is can he play on time?
- 14:27Speaker 2: Like that was one of the things that I think
- 14:29Speaker 2: was a bit of an issue when we evaluated him
- 14:32Speaker 2: coming out of Clemson. Could he play on time and
- 14:34Speaker 2: on target when you have to do that? And I
- 14:37Speaker 2: do believe he's kind of gotten to this bad habit
- 14:40Speaker 2: of just kind of floating around and then a passing
- 14:43Speaker 2: game that is really built on a ball getting out,
- 14:45Speaker 2: players getting to the spot. You need your quarterback to
- 14:48Speaker 2: hit that last step and the ball has to be
- 14:50Speaker 2: out because they can't protect it. But more importantly is
- 14:53Speaker 2: a rhythm to why you're doing those things in terms
- 14:56Speaker 2: of route up with quarterback drop.
- 14:58Speaker 1: It has to be together.
- 15:00Speaker 2: And when it's not, it's just a little clonky and
- 15:02Speaker 2: wonkey like it's been Yeah.
- 15:04Speaker 4: You know, guys.
- 15:05Speaker 3: I think the negativity around Deshaun some of that is warranted, certainly,
- 15:10Speaker 3: But I mean you look at the fact that he
- 15:12Speaker 3: was down both of.
- 15:12Speaker 4: His tackles as you talked about DJ.
- 15:14Speaker 3: I mean, get those guys back, get a little bit
- 15:16Speaker 3: of pressure off him, and then let's see where this
- 15:18Speaker 3: thing goes. But like, the deep shots were not good,
- 15:21Speaker 3: oh for seven on some of those deep shots.
- 15:24Speaker 4: So it throws over twenty yards.
- 15:26Speaker 3: But I think what you got to do is turn
- 15:27Speaker 3: around and give a lot of credit to Mike Zimmer's
- 15:29Speaker 3: defense in Dallas, right, And I think, you know, I
- 15:32Speaker 3: think that is.
- 15:33Speaker 4: A big deal here.
- 15:34Speaker 3: I mean Michael Parsons, DeMarcus Lawrence, I mean DeMarcus Lawrence,
- 15:37Speaker 3: you know, looked like the tank Lawrence of like three
- 15:40Speaker 3: four years ago and had a couple of sacks in
- 15:42Speaker 3: this game. And let's let's also credit you know, Mike
- 15:44Speaker 3: Zimmer and this this Cowboys front office for realizing, all right,
- 15:47Speaker 3: we're bringing Mike Zimmer, and let's bring in a mouthpiece
- 15:49Speaker 3: to help this deep defense that has known what Mike
- 15:52Speaker 3: Zimmer does very well for a long time. That's Eric
- 15:54Speaker 3: kendricks Well. Again, looked like a player that we saw
- 15:57Speaker 3: four or five years ago when he was in the
- 15:58Speaker 3: you know, when we thought he was really Oland is
- 16:00Speaker 3: one of the best in the league. He gets two
- 16:02Speaker 3: sacks and a pick, and so I think that helps too,
- 16:04Speaker 3: and that goes a long way. Looked like a rejuvenated
- 16:07Speaker 3: player in this defense, and it was kind of like
- 16:10Speaker 3: an afterthought acquisition, I think, in this offseason. So I
- 16:14Speaker 3: think all of that together with the scheme they had ready,
- 16:18Speaker 3: you know, for Deshaun Watson, I mean you look at
- 16:20Speaker 3: what they did to him on third downs. I don't
- 16:23Speaker 3: think he ever saw the same type of look the
- 16:25Speaker 3: same type of coverage either, I mean all over the place,
- 16:27Speaker 3: all over the board and throwing different things at him,
- 16:30Speaker 3: you know, which only helps the defense and helps to
- 16:33Speaker 3: confuse a quarterback that's also dealing with a furious rush
- 16:36Speaker 3: in front of him.
- 16:36Speaker 4: So credit to Mike Zimmer in that defense.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Teach, Yeah, scheme, speed effort. All excellent for the Dallas
- 16:42Speaker 1: Cowboys and that one a big win for them. Let's
- 16:45Speaker 1: get to the third one here. This was in I
- 16:47Speaker 1: think kind of the game of the week coming into it.
- 16:49Speaker 1: When you looked at the matchup Houston, Indy, two teams
- 16:52Speaker 1: battling out there in the AFC South Buck, I'll go
- 16:56Speaker 1: to you first of all. Here your takeaway from a
- 16:58Speaker 1: big win from the Texans.
- 17:01Speaker 2: The newbies were as advertised, meaning Joe Mix and Stefan
- 17:05Speaker 2: Diggs were exactly what the Houston Texans wanted. And even
- 17:09Speaker 2: though there was a lot of I say, consternation about
- 17:12Speaker 2: why would they bring these guys in because both guys
- 17:15Speaker 2: kind of have this loose reputation of being malcontents, you
- 17:18Speaker 2: can already see how the Houston Texas were going to
- 17:20Speaker 2: utilize both of them. And Joe Mixon man the fact
- 17:23Speaker 2: that you gave him thirty carries, he had one hundred
- 17:25Speaker 2: and fifty nine rushing yards. He is pounding the ball
- 17:29Speaker 2: between the tackles. It gives them a different look that
- 17:32Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest with you, benefilable to Jaguars look
- 17:36Speaker 2: I'm a little afraid of because this is a physical
- 17:38Speaker 2: team that is different than the one that played last year.
- 17:41Speaker 2: And then with Stefan Diggs, there's a lot of conversation
- 17:43Speaker 2: about could he be not the number one receiver?
- 17:46Speaker 1: Could he see the number one thing?
- 17:49Speaker 2: I think what he's done has made them dangerous because
- 17:51Speaker 2: you have to keep an eye on him down in
- 17:52Speaker 2: the red zone. He scores two touchdowns. Nico Collins has
- 17:56Speaker 2: over one hundred yards and Tank Dell is still on
- 17:58Speaker 2: the other side. Is really hard to match up with
- 18:01Speaker 2: the Texans on offense because they got a physical running
- 18:03Speaker 2: game and then they got three unique playmakers on the perimeter.
- 18:09Speaker 2: Heaven help you trying to figure out which three corners
- 18:11Speaker 2: matchup with their three guys. It is really problematic.
- 18:14Speaker 1: Yeah, and you got a quarterback when you got to
- 18:16Speaker 1: have the guy to have it throws Stroud makes it.
- 18:19Speaker 1: He puts the ball literally in a mailbox. I mean
- 18:21Speaker 1: that was ridiculous, ridiculous throw. I want to get. I
- 18:24Speaker 1: want to get real quick and then I'll get over
- 18:26Speaker 1: to you rhtt. I know you want to touch on
- 18:28Speaker 1: the run game and'll get over the Colts but quickly.
- 18:30Speaker 1: On Houston's defense, Danil Hunter good investment, guys, that was
- 18:34Speaker 1: a very good investment watching that tape because he still
- 18:38Speaker 1: has it. He's got a whole bag of dricks, he
- 18:40Speaker 1: still has juice. He's a feel rusher as well as
- 18:43Speaker 1: an explosive rusher. So that is a that's been a
- 18:47Speaker 1: home run sighting looking at that. Derek Barnett another guy
- 18:50Speaker 1: who Derek Barnett not going to wow you on the Stopwatch,
- 18:54Speaker 1: is not going to wow you on the stage. But
- 18:55Speaker 1: some guys just have a knack for being able to
- 18:57Speaker 1: get pressure and are very instinctive rushers. So they have
- 19:01Speaker 1: accumulated a nice mix of guys. Obviously you know Will
- 19:04Speaker 1: Anderson being in that group, but they've got guys that
- 19:06Speaker 1: not only are talented, but guys that just know how
- 19:08Speaker 1: to rush, know how to win. And I saw that
- 19:10Speaker 1: when I when I looked at their group up front.
- 19:12Speaker 1: Mario Edwards also getting after it a little bit there.
- 19:15Speaker 1: So that defense for the Houston Texans, Rhett I was
- 19:18Speaker 1: impressed as well as what they did on the offensive
- 19:20Speaker 1: side of the ball. Yeah.
- 19:22Speaker 3: I mean, like you throw in daneil Hunter out there
- 19:24Speaker 3: with Will Anderson and you know Demko Ryans doesn't have
- 19:27Speaker 3: to send a ton of extra rushers. I think they
- 19:29Speaker 3: only blitz two or three times in this game, right,
- 19:31Speaker 3: so you can generate some pressure with four and then
- 19:34Speaker 3: play some coverage behind. Now they don't want to give
- 19:36Speaker 3: up those fifty yard completions anymore. But it wasn't like
- 19:39Speaker 3: the head guys running free back there some good plays made,
- 19:41Speaker 3: you know, Alec Pierce went up and made a couple
- 19:43Speaker 3: of good plays. They got they gotta find a way
- 19:44Speaker 3: to dig in on those those big explosive plays and coverage.
- 19:49Speaker 3: But guys, I mean, like the fact that the first
- 19:50Speaker 3: thing out of my mouth is not about c J.
- 19:52Speaker 3: Stroud and some of the throws you know he made
- 19:54Speaker 3: in this game. I think if you watched our show
- 19:56Speaker 3: last year, is maybe a real telltale sign of what's
- 19:58Speaker 3: going on right now in Houston. You guys talked about
- 20:01Speaker 3: the thirty carries, You talked about the newbies like digs
- 20:03Speaker 3: and mix it. How about Kenyon Green getting back into
- 20:05Speaker 3: the lineup, the first round player on the offensive line
- 20:08Speaker 3: that they now got sitting right next to Laramie Tunsul,
- 20:11Speaker 3: you know, didn't play, you know, is really getting his
- 20:13Speaker 3: first you know, significant real playing time here in a
- 20:16Speaker 3: long time. And his physicality in the run game I
- 20:19Speaker 3: thought was apparent. They had six explosive runs in this thing,
- 20:21Speaker 3: and he was a key piece of just about every
- 20:23Speaker 3: single one of them. I mean, you want to talk
- 20:25Speaker 3: about stunning with physicality some of these linebackers on the
- 20:27Speaker 3: second level. I mean, and look again, this comes back
- 20:31Speaker 3: to GM coaching staff understanding you know where they want
- 20:36Speaker 3: to attack, how they want to attack. Joe Mixon to
- 20:38Speaker 3: come in and run. This outside zone scheme was the
- 20:41Speaker 3: perfect fit his vision on some of these plays, finding
- 20:44Speaker 3: a way to create some of those creases, and then
- 20:47Speaker 3: the explosive ability to burst through was just apparent. And
- 20:50Speaker 3: then the commitment to the run game was awesome, because
- 20:53Speaker 3: I mean, if I got CJ. Stroud back there, I'm
- 20:56Speaker 3: tempted to throw the ball fifty times a game. But
- 20:58Speaker 3: the fact that they were able to hand that off
- 21:00Speaker 3: the Joe Mixon successfully for thirty times shows you just
- 21:04Speaker 3: how difficult this offense is going to be to deal
- 21:06Speaker 3: with this year.
- 21:08Speaker 1: Yeah, let's put a bow on them because they I
- 21:10Speaker 1: would put them in the same boat as what we
- 21:12Speaker 1: talked about earlier with Detroit. These teams are very young,
- 21:15Speaker 1: they're very talented, and through one week we can see
- 21:17Speaker 1: the additions they've made and the next steps that those
- 21:20Speaker 1: two squads are taking. By the way, Anthony Richardson that throw,
- 21:24Speaker 1: that throw needs to be NFL film sized, which means
- 21:28Speaker 1: it needs to be slow motion. Zoom in on the
- 21:31Speaker 1: ball and just watch that thing turn over and look
- 21:34Speaker 1: at how far he chucked that thing. Buck you know,
- 21:38Speaker 1: in terms of just the talent, and I think you're
- 21:40Speaker 1: seeing already just in this one little snapshot. You're seeing
- 21:45Speaker 1: the handful of games he got last year, a little
- 21:47Speaker 1: bit of experience for Anthony Richardson. The talent is next
- 21:50Speaker 1: level freaky stuff. And I think you're going to see
- 21:53Speaker 1: this dude just get better and better and better.
- 21:56Speaker 2: Yeah, DJ, Like, if he does it, man, he's going
- 21:58Speaker 2: to kind of break the mold of what we think
- 22:00Speaker 2: when it comes to quarterbacks. Like the fact that he's
- 22:02Speaker 2: only played since high school. Prior to this game, he
- 22:05Speaker 2: had only had seventeen stars since he left high school.
- 22:08Speaker 2: The fact that we're talking about a guy who is
- 22:10Speaker 2: really a freak athlete that they are making into a quarterback.
- 22:15Speaker 2: If they pull this off, it changes everything when it
- 22:18Speaker 2: comes to this out of the evaluation. It is part
- 22:20Speaker 2: of the reason why maybe the New England Pages drafted
- 22:22Speaker 2: a guy like Joe Milton, even though his game is
- 22:26Speaker 2: not as refined. You're like, hey, give me the trace
- 22:28Speaker 2: and we can figure it out.
- 22:30Speaker 1: Anthony Britton.
- 22:31Speaker 2: Anthony Britton is a nice science lab experiment, because if
- 22:34Speaker 2: it works for him, it's going to work for some
- 22:36Speaker 2: others down the road.
- 22:37Speaker 1: I think we'll see these teams again square off one
- 22:40Speaker 1: more time this year, and I look, we'll see that,
- 22:42Speaker 1: you know, with the Jacks here just a moment, but
- 22:45Speaker 1: this could be it right here. These two teams are
- 22:48Speaker 1: very evenly matched. It's going to be a fun race
- 22:50Speaker 1: in the AFC South. All right, Buckets, time to talk
- 22:58Speaker 1: about the two games we were at here. Let's get
- 23:00Speaker 1: to your Jags Dolphins game. I'll be honest, I was
- 23:02Speaker 1: following the score in the press box at so Far
- 23:05Speaker 1: and I thought I thought the Jags were in business,
- 23:08Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I looked up and it
- 23:10Speaker 1: got away from them.
- 23:11Speaker 5: There.
- 23:11Speaker 1: What was your what was your takeaway being in the stadium?
- 23:14Speaker 1: Takeaway one?
- 23:16Speaker 2: The Miami Dolphins are as fast as team as I've
- 23:18Speaker 2: ever seen up close in person.
- 23:21Speaker 1: DJ.
- 23:21Speaker 2: They are the NFL's version of the old school Golden
- 23:26Speaker 2: State Warriors in terms of like the uniqueness of their
- 23:29Speaker 2: style of play with the personnel that they had, Like
- 23:31Speaker 2: it is one thing where we always kind of loosely
- 23:33Speaker 2: throw out like, hey, this is a track team, YadA.
- 23:35Speaker 1: YadA, YadA.
- 23:36Speaker 2: But DJ, they are a track team that almost plays
- 23:39Speaker 2: a high school version of football. It is screens, sweeps,
- 23:44Speaker 2: and shots. That's what you get when you did with
- 23:46Speaker 2: the Miami Dolphins. And at one point on the board, Man,
- 23:50Speaker 2: they put on the board like, oh two, a tone
- 23:52Speaker 2: of lower is thrown for well over three hundred yards
- 23:54Speaker 2: and I felt like two hundred and eighty of them
- 23:56Speaker 2: where yards have to catch the fact that you have
- 23:59Speaker 2: to tackle the these guys in space. They not only
- 24:02Speaker 2: challenge your athleticism, but they challenge your fundamentals. And I
- 24:06Speaker 2: now understand why it's so important for them to get
- 24:09Speaker 2: a home game or multiple home games in the playoffs.
- 24:12Speaker 2: If they play at home in perfect conditions, Man, DJ,
- 24:17Speaker 2: it is a very difficult team to deal with. As
- 24:21Speaker 2: it relates to the game, the Jaguars were one. I
- 24:24Speaker 2: was surprised. The Jaguars have been playing Mandeman the entire preseason,
- 24:27Speaker 2: so I was like, are they really gonna play Mandaman
- 24:30Speaker 2: against the Dolphins?
- 24:30Speaker 1: And they did so.
- 24:31Speaker 2: They stayed true to form and for the most part,
- 24:35Speaker 2: it was fine. But here's the thing about speed. It
- 24:37Speaker 2: only takes one mess up for the game to flip.
- 24:41Speaker 2: They were dominating the game. It was seventeen to seven.
- 24:43Speaker 2: They're on their way to go score it's gonna be
- 24:45Speaker 2: twenty four to seven Travis Ncy and fumbles in the
- 24:48Speaker 2: back of the end zone DJ.
- 24:49Speaker 1: Much like a high school game. What happens after sudden
- 24:52Speaker 1: change shot?
- 24:54Speaker 2: They throw an eighty yard bomb that looked like we
- 24:57Speaker 2: were playing Madden.
- 24:59Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking like, there's no way, Tyreek kill,
- 25:02Speaker 1: let's go track that down. He can't track that down.
- 25:04Speaker 1: He's coming from one number all the way across the
- 25:07Speaker 1: field to the other number. DJ.
- 25:08Speaker 2: He catches it the strit and from then on it
- 25:11Speaker 2: was like Steph Curry whipping the crowd into a frenzy
- 25:14Speaker 2: in the.
- 25:14Speaker 1: Old Oracle Arena.
- 25:16Speaker 2: It is the same thing that happened, because after that
- 25:19Speaker 2: the stadium got jumping, and their defense and offense just
- 25:22Speaker 2: came to life. The impact of a playmaker like Tyreek Hiell,
- 25:26Speaker 2: it goes beyond what he does for the offense. Everyone
- 25:30Speaker 2: pays the price of admission to see him make an
- 25:33Speaker 2: explosive play.
- 25:34Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 25:34Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, Man, that was a huge
- 25:37Speaker 3: turning point in the game, right, I mean, that's that
- 25:39Speaker 3: is a fourteen point swing. Etn going into score to
- 25:42Speaker 3: make it a two score advantage, and then it flips
- 25:46Speaker 3: on its head. And now the Dolphins are often literally
- 25:49Speaker 3: running by the.
- 25:50Speaker 4: Way on an adyr catch.
- 25:51Speaker 3: I was like, all right, he caught it, but ninety
- 25:54Speaker 3: nine percent of the players in the league do get
- 25:55Speaker 3: hawked down at that pain.
- 25:57Speaker 4: But the fact that he was able.
- 25:58Speaker 3: To turn the corner with about that much space between
- 26:02Speaker 3: the defenders and the sideline was incredible. I've never seen
- 26:05Speaker 3: anything like that on the sideline like that, So that
- 26:07Speaker 3: was that was pretty special. The thing I'll say, you
- 26:10Speaker 3: know in this game for the Dolphins was Jalen Phillips
- 26:14Speaker 3: is back. Like the way that he gets after it
- 26:16Speaker 3: off the edge right now coming off that injury was impressive.
- 26:18Speaker 4: It's an excellent pressure. He got a sack on another
- 26:21Speaker 4: play he was beating up.
- 26:22Speaker 3: I was at Cam Robinson on on the right side,
- 26:24Speaker 3: Kalaias Campbell getting in on the action there as you
- 26:26Speaker 3: see it. So the other thing that I thought was,
- 26:29Speaker 3: you know, where where did the Jaguars, you know, offense go,
- 26:31Speaker 3: Where did the play calling go on third down? Didn't
- 26:33Speaker 3: convert a single third down in the second half, didn't
- 26:36Speaker 3: have a completion on third down in the second half,
- 26:38Speaker 3: So extending drives became very difficult, and I think part
- 26:42Speaker 3: of it you got to give credit again to the
- 26:43Speaker 3: Dolphins defense. They did not show the same look or
- 26:46Speaker 3: run the same coverage on any of those third downs
- 26:48Speaker 3: that the Jaguars had, So we were always getting different
- 26:50Speaker 3: looks and just there was not an adjustment made to
- 26:55Speaker 3: deal with the way that they were getting attacked, you
- 26:59Speaker 3: know from a you know, in a Jaguars offensive perspective there.
- 27:02Speaker 1: So got to figure that out here down the stretch. Yeah,
- 27:05Speaker 1: I'll pick you back on both your points here. Explosive
- 27:07Speaker 1: plays when you have an eighty yard catch from Tyreek Hill,
- 27:11Speaker 1: a sixty three yard catch from Jalen Waddle, in a
- 27:13Speaker 1: thirty nine yard catch from a Chan like like, holy cow,
- 27:17Speaker 1: man like these it's it's literally it's that scene. I
- 27:20Speaker 1: always go back to it, but it just reminds me
- 27:22Speaker 1: every time I see this stuff. It reminds me of
- 27:26Speaker 1: Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the guys just wielding
- 27:29Speaker 1: the sword and doing all that, and he just kind
- 27:31Speaker 1: of rolls his eyes, pulls out his gun and then
- 27:33Speaker 1: like the fight's over, like there no need for a
- 27:35Speaker 1: prolonged battle here, Like you're literally bring a knife to
- 27:38Speaker 1: a gunfight in that regard, So the explosives, that's who
- 27:42Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins are, and then I went and watched
- 27:44Speaker 1: all their pass rush stuff. So Jalen Phillips looks like
- 27:47Speaker 1: he could be someone who could lead the league in sacks.
- 27:50Speaker 1: Like that's how good he looks with every every trick
- 27:53Speaker 1: in his bag. He can combine moves, he can win
- 27:55Speaker 1: with speed, he can turn the corner, he can They
- 27:57Speaker 1: tried to block him with a tight end. God bless him.
- 28:00Speaker 1: I didn't go well. So he was outstanding. And then
- 28:03Speaker 1: you also look Chop Robinson got a chance to see
- 28:05Speaker 1: him the speed to power that was there. Rhett, you know,
- 28:09Speaker 1: touched on Kalais he was unblocked on his but Ogba
- 28:12Speaker 1: got some heat, Siler got back there. So they've got
- 28:17Speaker 1: a pretty good front that they can throw at you
- 28:18Speaker 1: right now with Phillips kind of being the headliner there.
- 28:21Speaker 1: But that was that was a good win for the
- 28:23Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins against the Jags team that I thought. You know,
- 28:26Speaker 1: they matched up from a physical standpoint, no question, But Buck,
- 28:28Speaker 1: you hit it on the head, you know, one place
- 28:31Speaker 1: swing momentum shifted. And then once that happens, once that
- 28:35Speaker 1: car got into overdrive, man, it's tough to slow that
- 28:37Speaker 1: thing down.
- 28:39Speaker 2: It is, And I got to say he was a
- 28:40Speaker 2: hundred degrees hundred degrees plus on the field, and what
- 28:43Speaker 2: the Jaguars were doing, they were rolling people in and
- 28:45Speaker 2: out like it reminded me of watching Oregon doing the
- 28:47Speaker 2: Chip Kelly era when they were having hockey line shifts
- 28:50Speaker 2: and pulling everybody in. What happened is the cumulative effect
- 28:54Speaker 2: of chasing down those rabbits.
- 28:56Speaker 1: I mean, like after a while, man, you just wear out.
- 28:59Speaker 2: And in the fourth when the Miami Dolphins got it going,
- 29:01Speaker 2: I mean they could have their way just because of
- 29:04Speaker 2: I would say the cumulative of fatigue of chasing those
- 29:07Speaker 2: guys all over the field. And even though it's funny
- 29:10Speaker 2: their offense is really horizontal with the occasional vertical shots,
- 29:14Speaker 2: I mean, they just test the tackling. You have to
- 29:17Speaker 2: be a great tackling team to deal with them. And
- 29:19Speaker 2: I look, I feel like the Jaguars played an a
- 29:21Speaker 2: plus game for the most part, in particularly on defense.
- 29:25Speaker 2: I can only imagine when that Dolphins team gets in
- 29:27Speaker 2: rhythm and they add some more pieces of the puzzle,
- 29:29Speaker 2: it'd be a very very difficult team to deal with.
- 29:32Speaker 1: No doubt. Let's get to the next game here. Game
- 29:35Speaker 1: I was at Jim Harbaugh's debut is a Chargers head
- 29:38Speaker 1: coach and ugly first half with the Raiders. It is
- 29:41Speaker 1: a seven to six ball game. And then next thing
- 29:43Speaker 1: you know, the Chargers come out in the second half
- 29:45Speaker 1: and all those ones and twos, you know, yard runs,
- 29:48Speaker 1: they can't get first downs, can't convert. All of a sudden,
- 29:51Speaker 1: you're popping a couple of those runs. JK. Dobbins pops
- 29:54Speaker 1: two of them. Then they get in the red zone.
- 29:56Speaker 1: You need Herbert on a big down to be able
- 29:57Speaker 1: to make a play. He hits Lad McConkie for a touchdown.
- 30:00Speaker 1: The defense who is rested. You know, that's one of
- 30:02Speaker 1: those things when you're running the ball, you know, when
- 30:04Speaker 1: you're not being as successful, you're shortening the game. You're
- 30:07Speaker 1: giving your defense a rest. And Mac and Bosa were
- 30:11Speaker 1: dominant on that side of the ball. The whole defense
- 30:14Speaker 1: was outstanding that poona Ford had an interception late, but
- 30:17Speaker 1: he was all over the field, very active, big time
- 30:20Speaker 1: from him. Joe Alt and I was talking to Baldy
- 30:24Speaker 1: this morning about it. I'm like that, dude, you got
- 30:25Speaker 1: to watch this what he did with Max Crosby, because
- 30:28Speaker 1: Max Crosby obviously is as good as it gets and
- 30:30Speaker 1: Joe Allt more than held his own there his debut
- 30:34Speaker 1: for them to trust him and leave him one on one,
- 30:36Speaker 1: that was impressive. But you know, overall, big picture, I
- 30:40Speaker 1: go back to what I said at the top, which
- 30:41Speaker 1: is there is a formula and not a lot of
- 30:44Speaker 1: people want to do it. But I was reminded that
- 30:45Speaker 1: it's felt like a Marty Schottenheimer era Chargers team buck
- 30:49Speaker 1: where it was we are going to run the ball.
- 30:51Speaker 1: We're okay with field goals and punts. We're going to
- 30:53Speaker 1: play field position. We're going to make you drive the
- 30:55Speaker 1: length of the field. We're not we're going to give
- 30:57Speaker 1: you nothing. We're not giving you anything, and when you
- 30:59Speaker 1: screw up, we're going to cash it in. And that's
- 31:01Speaker 1: a formula that literally goes back to the man you
- 31:03Speaker 1: played for, and it still works to this day.
- 31:08Speaker 2: So I remember our conversations a long time with Ladanian Thomason,
- 31:11Speaker 2: and I would always talk to him about the Marty
- 31:13Speaker 2: Shathaim error with the Charge and he said, man, if
- 31:15Speaker 2: Marty had hung around it, they eventually would have knocked
- 31:17Speaker 2: the door down. He just talked about the physicality and
- 31:20Speaker 2: the toughness and running power over and over and over again,
- 31:23Speaker 2: and the confidence that comes from knowing they know exactly
- 31:26Speaker 2: what we're doing and they can't stop it. And you
- 31:30Speaker 2: already can sense that the Chargers are emboldened by I
- 31:33Speaker 2: would say harbor O's arrogance and stubbornness when it comes
- 31:38Speaker 2: to we're running the football. Yes, I have one of
- 31:40Speaker 2: the best quarterbacks in the league, but he is a
- 31:42Speaker 2: compliment to how we want to play in DJ. I
- 31:45Speaker 2: just think the way they were able to wear the
- 31:47Speaker 2: Raiders down in the second half, and how he talked
- 31:50Speaker 2: to the team after the game about improvement and physicality
- 31:54Speaker 2: and toughness. Man, they are all then drinking the kool aid.
- 31:58Speaker 2: It's going to be a very very interesting run. When
- 32:00Speaker 2: we watched the Charges this season, I.
- 32:03Speaker 3: Mean, the dichotomy of style I think is just so different.
- 32:07Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's so apparent, I should say DJ.
- 32:09Speaker 3: I mean, like you think of JK. Dobbins going for
- 32:12Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty five yards, which was, by by
- 32:14Speaker 3: the way, the second best game of his entire career,
- 32:16Speaker 3: although we haven't seen a lot of those games in
- 32:18Speaker 3: the last couple of years due to the injuries.
- 32:20Speaker 4: What the Chargers player last year with a rushing performance
- 32:23Speaker 4: of over one hundred and twenty five.
- 32:25Speaker 3: Yards, So like it's already taking shape, like you we
- 32:29Speaker 3: talked about it, and we're now seeing it, and now
- 32:31Speaker 3: it's going to be up the defenses as to whether
- 32:33Speaker 3: they can stop it when it comes to Harball and
- 32:35Speaker 3: Roman in.
- 32:36Speaker 4: This physical attack.
- 32:37Speaker 3: The thing that I'll go to here, just from the
- 32:39Speaker 3: Raiders point of view, I was really intrigued to see
- 32:41Speaker 3: what what brought Bauers was going to look like, how
- 32:43Speaker 3: they're going to use him. I think he basically split
- 32:45Speaker 3: his time DJ and correct me if I'm wrong if
- 32:47Speaker 3: you saw it differently, but kind of as a you know,
- 32:50Speaker 3: attached inline type of player and then you know kind
- 32:53Speaker 3: of split is more of a slot receiver type of player.
- 32:56Speaker 3: And they were moving him all over the place. I think,
- 32:58Speaker 3: I want to say almost every play you saw him
- 33:01Speaker 3: in motion, well in a lot of different ways.
- 33:03Speaker 1: Right.
- 33:03Speaker 3: They were using him at the point of attack, you know,
- 33:04Speaker 3: coming in on motion and some of the run game.
- 33:06Speaker 4: Stuff there that was that was useful.
- 33:08Speaker 3: They were using him to chip as much as he
- 33:10Speaker 3: could and can then kind of get out into the
- 33:11Speaker 3: routes on delay type routes. But the thing that I
- 33:14Speaker 3: didn't see that I really wanted to see, was him
- 33:16Speaker 3: getting the ball with the opportunity to really make some
- 33:19Speaker 3: moves with the ball in his hands, right run after
- 33:21Speaker 3: the catch, because that's the stuff that we love seeing
- 33:24Speaker 3: at George. It's a little bittle more difficult to generate
- 33:26Speaker 3: that type of attack. I get it in the league
- 33:29Speaker 3: with the speed and athleticism of the players here, but
- 33:31Speaker 3: I just didn't get to see him kind of turn
- 33:33Speaker 3: on that running back mode right a bunch in this game.
- 33:35Speaker 3: His short hands, his strong hands. Though, I think we're
- 33:37Speaker 3: very beneficial to Gardner Minshew here. I mean, you know,
- 33:40Speaker 3: three of his six catches, you know, went for first
- 33:42Speaker 3: downs at the sticks.
- 33:43Speaker 4: So I'll be curious to see how that evolution moves forward.
- 33:47Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to give you to wrap it up
- 33:49Speaker 1: there on this game. I said when I went to
- 33:52Speaker 1: training camp, and I got so much grief for this,
- 33:54Speaker 1: but I said, I know, and DeVante Adams and what
- 33:56Speaker 1: he's accomplished in his career, Rock Bowers is going to
- 33:59Speaker 1: be the best player on this offense. And seeing it
- 34:01Speaker 1: out there live and in person, and I'm seeing a
- 34:03Speaker 1: team that's offensively challenged, you know, in the quarterback situation
- 34:07Speaker 1: is not great. I came away from that and this
- 34:10Speaker 1: was my takeaway, free, free, free of charge. I'll put
- 34:12Speaker 1: a bow on this. But here's my one recommendation to
- 34:15Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders. You need a personnel group with
- 34:19Speaker 1: no running backs. You're gonna go out there and you're
- 34:22Speaker 1: gonna have one tight end and you're gonna have four
- 34:24Speaker 1: wide outs and you're gonna use brock Bauers. You're gonna
- 34:27Speaker 1: see what looks you get. You can literally put him
- 34:29Speaker 1: in the backfield. You want to see him run after
- 34:30Speaker 1: the catch, Well, I'm gonna toss it to him. I'm
- 34:32Speaker 1: gonna hand it to him. I'm gonna give him a
- 34:34Speaker 1: reverse like this offense is gonna need him to be
- 34:38Speaker 1: the focal point and in a big way that he
- 34:40Speaker 1: cannot have enough touches because they just don't have guys
- 34:43Speaker 1: that can that can really make plays, and he is
- 34:45Speaker 1: their best offensive player. And I say that with total
- 34:48Speaker 1: respect for for what DeVante Adams is accomplished in his career.
- 34:52Speaker 1: They're gonna have to get very creative to score points.
- 34:54Speaker 1: They're just gonna be a little bit challenged there. So
- 34:56Speaker 1: that's my bow, that's my free advice to the Las
- 34:59Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders. All right, right, let's jump to some of
- 35:02Speaker 1: these rookiy quarterbacks. Here. I'll start first of all here Chicago.
- 35:06Speaker 1: We'll work top top of the list. Here at Caleb
- 35:08Speaker 1: Williams first overall. Pick. The stat sheet doesn't look great.
- 35:11Speaker 1: You see it, fourteen for twenty nine, doesn't even throw
- 35:14Speaker 1: for one hundred yards. One of those deals. When you
- 35:17Speaker 1: see the numbers and you're working another game, you're like,
- 35:20Speaker 1: oh boy, this is going to be a tough watch.
- 35:23Speaker 1: And then I studied it. I was like, actually, I
- 35:24Speaker 1: took a lot of good out of that, including the
- 35:26Speaker 1: throw you're looking at right here on a boot where
- 35:27Speaker 1: he puts the ball right on the money. Look, there
- 35:31Speaker 1: was on time throws which I love seeing. There was
- 35:35Speaker 1: a touchdown that was dropped by Keenan Allen that was
- 35:37Speaker 1: a perfect throw on the pylon on a quick little out.
- 35:40Speaker 1: You see him scramble for a first down on a
- 35:43Speaker 1: third and long, which was a nice addition to this offense.
- 35:47Speaker 1: So I can pull out a lot of those things
- 35:48Speaker 1: and be very encouraged. Now him and Keenan all we
- 35:50Speaker 1: are not on the same page on some of these
- 35:52Speaker 1: option routes, which Keenan is one of the more unique.
- 35:55Speaker 1: I guess he is just unique as a route runner
- 35:58Speaker 1: in terms of setting guys up and trying to get
- 36:00Speaker 1: a feel from it. I think that's going to take
- 36:02Speaker 1: a minute for those guys to sync up and be
- 36:04Speaker 1: on the same page. So there's some things to work
- 36:07Speaker 1: on there. There's a couple of deep shots where it
- 36:10Speaker 1: was overthrown a little bit, and I'm not going to
- 36:12Speaker 1: make excuses for him. Look, it is called the Windy City,
- 36:15Speaker 1: that is the nickname, so there's gonna be some adjustments there.
- 36:19Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit too much air on the ball.
- 36:21Speaker 1: But then you know from other things that I think
- 36:23Speaker 1: he does need to work on first and foremost is
- 36:25Speaker 1: just finding lanes. There's too many tip balls. He's not
- 36:29Speaker 1: the tallest guy in the world, and if you study
- 36:31Speaker 1: the guys like Drew Brees who played forever in this league,
- 36:34Speaker 1: you know, not being real tall, there's a movement within
- 36:37Speaker 1: the pocket, as Andy Reid used to always say when
- 36:39Speaker 1: I was around, and we throw between buildings, not overbuildings.
- 36:42Speaker 1: So that's why size isn't as important. So he's got
- 36:45Speaker 1: to work on that a little bit.
- 36:47Speaker 3: Yeah, three batted passes in this game and like that
- 36:50Speaker 3: number may seem like low in general to you know.
- 36:54Speaker 1: Sevent team for twenty nine looks it's a lot better
- 36:57Speaker 1: than fourteen for twenty nine.
- 36:58Speaker 4: Exactly right, exactly right.
- 37:00Speaker 3: So if those get completed, you know, maybe it does
- 37:03Speaker 3: have a different feel.
- 37:04Speaker 4: But yeah, you know, I go back to, you know,
- 37:07Speaker 4: part of this.
- 37:08Speaker 3: I think you gotta also give a little bit of
- 37:09Speaker 3: credit to the Titans defense here, you know, and they're
- 37:12Speaker 3: good at sweat up there, right, you know, Jeff Simmons,
- 37:15Speaker 3: Errol Landry coming off the edge, like that's that's where
- 37:18Speaker 3: this team is built to, you know, have some success.
- 37:21Speaker 3: And I think part of what we saw from Kayleb was,
- 37:23Speaker 3: you know, like they weren't able to run the ball
- 37:25Speaker 3: at all. I mean they tried, I think six different
- 37:27Speaker 3: ball carriers. DeAndre Swift was leading the way, but he
- 37:30Speaker 3: ends up with just thirty yards you know, on the
- 37:32Speaker 3: day on ten carries. So I think they've got some
- 37:34Speaker 3: work to do there up front to try to figure
- 37:36Speaker 3: out you know, defenses that that are pretty stout upfront,
- 37:39Speaker 3: and they will.
- 37:40Speaker 4: But I think overall this is really good news, Like.
- 37:42Speaker 3: You're giving us, you know, the positive take on a
- 37:45Speaker 3: less than productive stat performance for Caleb Williams right, because
- 37:49Speaker 3: there is some hidden stuff that was good. And I
- 37:51Speaker 3: think ultimately they win the game and Caleb Williams doesn't
- 37:54Speaker 3: throw for one hundred yards. I think that paints a
- 37:57Speaker 3: picture of the evolution under Matty eberflu is better than
- 37:59Speaker 3: any right, you get a special team's block punt return
- 38:02Speaker 3: for a score. You block a punt, you're gonna win
- 38:05Speaker 3: the game more often than not. You return it for
- 38:07Speaker 3: a touchdown, that percentage goes way up, right, and then
- 38:09Speaker 3: on defense you're able to get the pick six. I
- 38:12Speaker 3: think when you compare these two quarterbacks, Will Levis, sure
- 38:15Speaker 3: his first season is QB one, but he's got more
- 38:18Speaker 3: experience than Caleb Williams, and he made throws that you'd see,
- 38:21Speaker 3: you'd you'd hope a rookie doesn't make it, you know,
- 38:24Speaker 3: and Caleb didn't do that in this game, right, didn't
- 38:27Speaker 3: really hurt them that way. So all in all, I
- 38:31Speaker 3: feel pretty good about this. If I'm the Bears. If
- 38:33Speaker 3: on the Titans, you know, Brian Callahan and Will Levis
- 38:37Speaker 3: got to get together and make sure that those throws
- 38:39Speaker 3: aren't there, and you protect the ball a little bit more.
- 38:41Speaker 3: You're in a much better spot to win this game
- 38:43Speaker 3: on the road in Week one.
- 38:45Speaker 1: No. Absolutely. By the way, Sweat, you mentioned him defense
- 38:48Speaker 1: for the Titans rookie Texas. Really good performance from him,
- 38:51Speaker 1: was encouraged by what I saw at his size to
- 38:53Speaker 1: be as disruptive as he was as impressive. All right,
- 38:56Speaker 1: let's get to the other two rookie quarterbacks here. Let's
- 38:59Speaker 1: start Tampa Washington. So that's a tough ask for Jadan
- 39:02Speaker 1: Daniels to go up against that Bucks defense. Still found
- 39:05Speaker 1: a way to make plays. Of all the rookies definitely
- 39:07Speaker 1: look the best on paper, and I think what he
- 39:09Speaker 1: did with his legs probably was what stood out the most.
- 39:13Speaker 3: Sixteen carries eighty eight yards and got into the end
- 39:15Speaker 3: zone a couple of times. And yeah, I get it.
- 39:17Speaker 3: Some of that came, you know, a little bit later,
- 39:19Speaker 3: right when the game felt like, you know, the Bucks
- 39:21Speaker 3: were kind of controlling it and dominating it, and they
- 39:23Speaker 3: were really from start to finish in this game, which
- 39:26Speaker 3: was pretty impressive. But yeah, I think there's a lot
- 39:29Speaker 3: of optimism on what Jayden Daniels can be moving forward.
- 39:33Speaker 3: You know, like, look again, I don't think we expect
- 39:35Speaker 3: Dan Quinn to have a defense that gives up thirty
- 39:37Speaker 3: seven points every week and to have a defense that is,
- 39:41Speaker 3: you know, outmatched in that way. So I feel pretty
- 39:44Speaker 3: good about them figuring that out. Whether that's you know,
- 39:47Speaker 3: middle towards the end of this year, or whether that's
- 39:48Speaker 3: even going into next year right and finding you know,
- 39:51Speaker 3: the players that fit this team. But you know, Jayden again,
- 39:57Speaker 3: I feel like that's a performance that gives you some
- 39:59Speaker 3: optimism here moving forward that even if this offensive line
- 40:02Speaker 3: isn't up to it weekend and week out, he's going
- 40:05Speaker 3: to find a way to make some plays, extend some plays.
- 40:07Speaker 4: I'd like to see him get you know, some of
- 40:09Speaker 4: their playmakers really going.
- 40:10Speaker 3: I mean if Terry McLaurin having two catches in this
- 40:13Speaker 3: game is not how.
- 40:13Speaker 4: You're going to win football games.
- 40:15Speaker 3: You know, Austin Eckler was the leading receiver, and look,
- 40:18Speaker 3: we know the two running backs is the leading receivers.
- 40:21Speaker 3: I think that paints a picture of what this thing
- 40:22Speaker 3: looked like downfield. For Jade Daniels in this.
- 40:24Speaker 1: Game, I just knew. I don't think they thought they
- 40:26Speaker 1: could run the ball in this game, you know, with
- 40:28Speaker 1: their backs when you look at just the touches, I mean,
- 40:30Speaker 1: the running backs combined for fourteen touches on the ground
- 40:34Speaker 1: fourteen carries, and Jayden has sixteen. So they just didn't
- 40:37Speaker 1: think they could run into the teeth of this defense.
- 40:39Speaker 1: And that's one of the things I've said about Jayden
- 40:41Speaker 1: going into the shar Look, I drafted him up, he
- 40:42Speaker 1: starts on my fantasy team because I think they're going
- 40:45Speaker 1: to ride him, as Charles Davids would say, like seabiscuit here,
- 40:49Speaker 1: because he is going to carry this offense with his
- 40:52Speaker 1: arm man with his like now, I'm concerned about him
- 40:55Speaker 1: holding up long. You know, over a long season with
- 40:58Speaker 1: this type of share of the offense, they're going to
- 41:01Speaker 1: have to be able to run the ball with their backs.
- 41:03Speaker 1: But I think in this specific game, just knowing the
- 41:05Speaker 1: front they were going up against and how well they
- 41:07Speaker 1: are against the run, I think they almost just abandoned
- 41:09Speaker 1: that early. So that'll be something to keep an eye
- 41:11Speaker 1: on for his long term future and long term success.
- 41:14Speaker 1: That's too much, that's too much on him. He doesn't
- 41:16Speaker 1: need to carry the ball that many times. All right,
- 41:18Speaker 1: Seattle bo Nicks against the Denver Broncos.
- 41:21Speaker 3: What you see, Yeah, And look, I think this would
- 41:24Speaker 3: look very familiar to folks who watched a lot of
- 41:26Speaker 3: Bonnicks to college. I mean, ball came out quick on
- 41:29Speaker 3: the majority, but look he made the two interceptions were
- 41:33Speaker 3: one hundred percent on him, right. Those are decisions that
- 41:35Speaker 3: you don't want to make, and one of them ended
- 41:37Speaker 3: up awesome.
- 41:38Speaker 4: An opportunity to get.
- 41:39Speaker 3: At least three points, right because they're down there inclose
- 41:41Speaker 3: by the red zone and you like to think you'd
- 41:43Speaker 3: be able to get three points on the board there.
- 41:44Speaker 3: That makes you know a bit of difference here in
- 41:46Speaker 3: a six point game. At the end, Sean Payton said
- 41:49Speaker 3: they need to be better around bo Nicks.
- 41:52Speaker 4: I would agree.
- 41:52Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I think that includes, you know,
- 41:55Speaker 3: finding ways to get the ball a little bit further downfield.
- 41:59Speaker 3: I mean, you look at that scatterplot DJ, and it
- 42:01Speaker 3: is a lot of green from five yards behind the
- 42:04Speaker 3: line of scrimmage to five yards past the line of scrimmage.
- 42:06Speaker 3: That's where they were making those throws. In those completions.
- 42:10Speaker 3: He was two for nine. Bo Nix was on throws
- 42:13Speaker 3: beyond ten yards past the line of scrimmage, right, and
- 42:16Speaker 3: one and two of those throws were the interceptions. So
- 42:21Speaker 3: I think you got to find a way to get
- 42:23Speaker 3: some more separation and clear that picture up a little
- 42:26Speaker 3: bit for Bow and to give him some, you know,
- 42:28Speaker 3: the confidence to make those throws down.
- 42:30Speaker 4: The field a little bit more. Like it's tough.
- 42:32Speaker 3: If you're gonna get those you're gonna start getting those
- 42:34Speaker 3: defenses creeping down pretty hardcore on some of that quick game.
- 42:37Speaker 3: And so I think you got to back them off
- 42:38Speaker 3: a little bit and find a little bit of a way.
- 42:40Speaker 3: And now, look with caution, right, I mean, you're not
- 42:44Speaker 3: just throw it down field all over the place with
- 42:46Speaker 3: a rookie quarterback. But I think you got to press
- 42:48Speaker 3: that defense a little bit more and find some more
- 42:50Speaker 3: success that way.
- 42:51Speaker 1: Yeah, Courtlin Sutton's got to be a bigger part of
- 42:53Speaker 1: this thing, man Like, You've got to find a way
- 42:55Speaker 1: to get him more involved. And he's somebody who can
- 42:57Speaker 1: do it down the field as well. So I'll be
- 42:59Speaker 1: keeping an eye on that. By the way, on the
- 43:01Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, for Seattle, boy A Mafe
- 43:04Speaker 1: was awesome. He had a ton of pressures. They're a defense.
- 43:07Speaker 1: It's gonna live off nickel Blitz as well. I'm a
- 43:12Speaker 1: huge Witherspoon guy. He's one of my favorite guys I've
- 43:14Speaker 1: evaluated over the last handful of years, and you saw
- 43:16Speaker 1: what he's done early in his career. They blissed him
- 43:19Speaker 1: a bunch. I saw it in the preseason as well.
- 43:21Speaker 1: He looks like Antoine Winfield senior, not junior, who's been
- 43:24Speaker 1: a step in Tampa Bay. But if you remember Antoine Winfield,
- 43:27Speaker 1: how he used to blitz off the slot like he
- 43:30Speaker 1: Witherspoon is a fun player and a great fit in
- 43:32Speaker 1: this McDonald defense. It felt like an old school approach.
- 43:35Speaker 1: They were one of those teams when I talked about
- 43:38Speaker 1: same with the Chargers, you know, and same with the
- 43:40Speaker 1: way New England won their game. Just kind of an
- 43:42Speaker 1: old school we're gonna be really physical, and that's what
- 43:45Speaker 1: he's brought there to the Seattle Seahawks, so a good
- 43:47Speaker 1: win for them. I do want to hit before we
- 43:50Speaker 1: leave this little portion of the show here. We talked
- 43:52Speaker 1: to the top about the Panthers and how bad that was.
- 43:55Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about the first round picks this year.
- 43:57Speaker 1: Let's go back and look at one from last year
- 44:00Speaker 1: and Bryce Young, I didn't think it could get worse.
- 44:02Speaker 1: It got worse. It was bad. I mean it was
- 44:05Speaker 1: it was bad, and it was last year. The debate
- 44:09Speaker 1: was is this Bryce?
- 44:11Speaker 4: Is this?
- 44:12Speaker 1: Is this a Bryce issue? Or is this an environment issue?
- 44:15Speaker 1: And they've done their best to improve the environment, and
- 44:19Speaker 1: it's still not great in terms of what's around him.
- 44:21Speaker 1: But I'm I'm leaning towards after one game, this thing's
- 44:25Speaker 1: heading toward it being both RTT that it's it's a
- 44:29Speaker 1: shared blame and man, it's there's some pressure. As bad
- 44:33Speaker 1: as that looked week one, they play the Chargers next week,
- 44:36Speaker 1: I'll be out there to see it. But man, and
- 44:39Speaker 1: that is not an easy defense he's going to be
- 44:41Speaker 1: going up against next week. You can argue it's say,
- 44:43Speaker 1: more talented defense than the one that just suffocated him.
- 44:45Speaker 1: But man, they have got to make a lot of
- 44:47Speaker 1: improvement quickly or else you were going to have You're
- 44:50Speaker 1: going to have doubts, not only in amongst your fan
- 44:53Speaker 1: base and your city, your entire building is going to
- 44:56Speaker 1: have major doubts about where this thing's headed.
- 45:00Speaker 3: Uh Yeah, And I would just say this, and I'm
- 45:02Speaker 3: checking one thing here to just to get a sense
- 45:06Speaker 3: of where this pressure came from.
- 45:07Speaker 4: Yeah, when you got three sacks, like you.
- 45:10Speaker 3: Were just talking about the pressure that Devin Witherspoon puts
- 45:13Speaker 3: from the slot.
- 45:13Speaker 4: Alante Taylor had three sacks coming from the spot. Yeah,
- 45:17Speaker 4: how does that happen? Like, you've got to see that
- 45:21Speaker 4: right like a little bit.
- 45:22Speaker 3: I mean I get it they're gonna catch you every
- 45:24Speaker 3: now and then, but to have three sacks from the
- 45:27Speaker 3: slot corner, I mean, look, they're gonna be better up front,
- 45:30Speaker 3: but you got to understand where the protection is.
- 45:32Speaker 4: You got to get rid of the football exactly.
- 45:36Speaker 3: Interception Yeah, I just man, they got to find a
- 45:41Speaker 3: way to I mean, at this point, are we talking
- 45:44Speaker 3: about finding the way to limit the ball in his hand,
- 45:47Speaker 3: like to just to take the ball out of his hands.
- 45:51Speaker 3: But when we running the football, they were nothing, couldn't
- 45:54Speaker 3: do anything. It was just as bad. So they got
- 45:57Speaker 3: a lot of work to do there.
- 45:58Speaker 4: I don't know what they.
- 46:01Speaker 1: There's a lot of issues there. By the way, Andy Dalton,
- 46:02Speaker 1: o for one, had a higher pass rating and eventually,
- 46:05Speaker 1: I mean the calls are going to come. Andy Dalton
- 46:07Speaker 1: has accomplished some things in this league. He's led teams
- 46:09Speaker 1: to the playoffs, so it's not like you've got nobody
- 46:12Speaker 1: to turn to here. So the pressure, yeah, it's going
- 46:15Speaker 1: to really crank up these next couple weeks. Are going
- 46:18Speaker 1: to be crucial for brace Young and for the Carolina Panthers.
- 46:26Speaker 1: One of the fun things to look at when you
- 46:28Speaker 1: get through week one is not only looking at the Rookies'
- 46:30Speaker 1: spent a lot of time talking about those guys, but
- 46:31Speaker 1: how about new faces, new places and some of the performances.
- 46:34Speaker 1: There were some really good ones. Talked about JK. Dobbins
- 46:37Speaker 1: and Joe Mixon, as well as Tefon Diggs a little earlier.
- 46:41Speaker 1: But how about the performance by Saquon Barkley going in
- 46:43Speaker 1: the division that's got a sting in New York a
- 46:45Speaker 1: bucko nine on the ground, three total touchdowns and then
- 46:48Speaker 1: this one at the very top of the list, Sam
- 46:51Speaker 1: Donald nineteen to twenty four to eight, two touchdowns and
- 46:53Speaker 1: a pick overall really efficient. I think he started out
- 46:56Speaker 1: fourteen in a row. I mean he was he was
- 46:59Speaker 1: rolling and yeah, twelve to twelve he was rolling right
- 47:02Speaker 1: out to shoot. So, as someone again card carrying member
- 47:05Speaker 1: of the Sam Donald fan club, the way I described
- 47:08Speaker 1: it was, I feel like it's a you know, it's
- 47:10Speaker 1: a son that maybe I hoped one day would be
- 47:13Speaker 1: a doctor, but now I'm just look, I just want
- 47:16Speaker 1: you to graduate from the junior college and let's just
- 47:18Speaker 1: move out of the house, like, let's get you let's
- 47:20Speaker 1: get you going. And I think right now, where that's
- 47:22Speaker 1: the steps that we've taken and then we can see
- 47:24Speaker 1: what life has for us going forward. But he's in
- 47:27Speaker 1: a great, great position the three p's. He's got playmakers,
- 47:31Speaker 1: he's got a play caller, he's got protection. And that's
- 47:34Speaker 1: a good That's not a bad Giants, Steve. That's not
- 47:36Speaker 1: a good Giants team, but that is not a bad
- 47:39Speaker 1: Giants defense that he was playing against, especially upfront with
- 47:42Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence and company. So impressive what we saw there
- 47:46Speaker 1: from Sam Donald. I won't I won't even force you
- 47:48Speaker 1: to jump in on the bandwagon there. We're not taking
- 47:50Speaker 1: new members currently at the moment.
- 47:51Speaker 4: Martin, all right, there you go.
- 47:54Speaker 1: Atlanta Pittsburgh rehtt takeaway from that game.
- 47:57Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess I was expecting more from the foul offense.
- 48:01Speaker 3: I really was, And I know the Steelers play good
- 48:03Speaker 3: defense right with that is something we have come to
- 48:05Speaker 3: expect and TJ. Watt is one of the best closers
- 48:07Speaker 3: in the league. We saw that with the walkoff sack. Essentially,
- 48:09Speaker 3: Cam Hayward was fantastic in this game, especially at the
- 48:12Speaker 3: point of attack of the run game.
- 48:14Speaker 4: But I just I expected.
- 48:16Speaker 3: More knowing you know, where Zach Robinson has come from,
- 48:20Speaker 3: you know, as a play caller and his influences. Obviously
- 48:23Speaker 3: Kirk's ability to operate in an offense like this, and
- 48:26Speaker 3: then the terrific targets, right, Drake London, Kyle Pitts.
- 48:28Speaker 4: Yeah, Kyle Pits got into the end zone.
- 48:31Speaker 3: That was only one of you know, I think three
- 48:32Speaker 3: catches he had on the day. I just like, I
- 48:34Speaker 3: want more from Drake London. Like, Drake is an incredible talent.
- 48:37Speaker 3: We talked about his ability to be physical with the
- 48:39Speaker 3: ball in his hands after the catch. Didn't really have
- 48:42Speaker 3: a lot of those opportunities. He did not get a
- 48:43Speaker 3: target or a catch in the second half. Watched all
- 48:46Speaker 3: of his routes run. A couple of times. Kurt wanted
- 48:48Speaker 3: to get to him, but he was either you know,
- 48:50Speaker 3: didn't really generate enough separation to make Kirk confident to
- 48:53Speaker 3: get that throw out, or just wasn't out of his
- 48:55Speaker 3: break or ready when Kirk was ready to.
- 48:57Speaker 4: Let go of it.
- 48:58Speaker 3: Didn't seem to have patience Kirk on this that deeper
- 49:00Speaker 3: stuff that they were They sent Drake on a couple
- 49:02Speaker 3: of times could have ended up going London's way, but
- 49:05Speaker 3: ended up going somewhere else and ended up being fairly successful,
- 49:07Speaker 3: So can't fault it there. I thought, he you know
- 49:10Speaker 3: something that may work against him here is he's actually
- 49:13Speaker 3: a really good physical blocker out in the perimeter when
- 49:15Speaker 3: they're running some of that quick hitter stuff to Bijon
- 49:18Speaker 3: kind of helps generate some lanes, so you know, they
- 49:20Speaker 3: want to get him out there on those types of plays,
- 49:22Speaker 3: which of course is going to take you down on
- 49:24Speaker 3: target chair every now and then. They really only connected
- 49:27Speaker 3: in the quick Gay her Cousins and Drake London. So
- 49:30Speaker 3: credit to Dante Jackson, to Deshaun Elliott, who I thought
- 49:32Speaker 3: were really good in the secondary for Pittsburgh speaking of
- 49:35Speaker 3: new faces and new places and plus they always put
- 49:37Speaker 3: up some good pressure. But overall I wanted to see
- 49:40Speaker 3: more from the Falcons offense.
- 49:43Speaker 1: I'll flip it over to you. This side justin fields
- 49:45Speaker 1: did not turn the ball over, which was good to see.
- 49:47Speaker 1: And this again, I feel like this has been my theme.
- 49:50Speaker 1: I keep hitting it. But that was that was kind
- 49:53Speaker 1: of the old school approach, right that you can win games,
- 49:55Speaker 1: don't turn the ball over. Take your opportunities when they're there.
- 49:59Speaker 1: It's not gonna a high scoring, high flying affair, but
- 50:02Speaker 1: it was efficient Field seventeen to twenty three, a buck
- 50:05Speaker 1: fifty six and ran for fifty seven yards. It's just
- 50:08Speaker 1: enough when you got a defense like they have, don't
- 50:10Speaker 1: turn the ball over. He fumbled one time, they got
- 50:12Speaker 1: it back. That's a that's a formula that the Steelers
- 50:16Speaker 1: can can win a lot of ball games with. So
- 50:19Speaker 1: happy for Fields. Again, that's back in his hometown where
- 50:21Speaker 1: he grew up, So a great moment for him. We'll
- 50:24Speaker 1: see what that means, you know going forward Russell Wilson,
- 50:27Speaker 1: you know, with his health, you know, does he just
- 50:29Speaker 1: assume that position? I'm not so sure about that. So,
- 50:32Speaker 1: you know, really really happy for Justin Field has kind
- 50:34Speaker 1: of been through a lot over the last year to
- 50:37Speaker 1: get that opportunity to cash it in. TJ. Watt is
- 50:39Speaker 1: a freak show. Nothing's changed from that standpoint. Rookie note,
- 50:43Speaker 1: I think I mentioned this to you earlier, but Zach Frazier,
- 50:46Speaker 1: the center of the rookie center is really good man.
- 50:49Speaker 1: Excellent performance there in his first start. A couple more games,
- 50:53Speaker 1: real quick, Yes, sir.
- 50:54Speaker 3: Real quick, real quick, just to paint one last put
- 50:56Speaker 3: last ball on this. Arthur Smith, offensive coordinator for the Steelers,
- 51:01Speaker 3: coming back to Atlanta where he got fired as the
- 51:03Speaker 3: head coach, put up a very Arthur Smith offensive output.
- 51:06Speaker 3: And how many times did we see that in Atlanta
- 51:08Speaker 3: when they were in a position to win. But as
- 51:10Speaker 3: you mentioned, Justin Field's no turnovers, quarterback turns it over,
- 51:15Speaker 3: add mistake, red zone turnover and they lose those close games. Well,
- 51:19Speaker 3: this time Justin Fields helped them win in an Arthur
- 51:22Speaker 3: Smith type you know, attack on offense.
- 51:24Speaker 1: That thought was cool. Yeah again, nice homecoming for both
- 51:27Speaker 1: him and for Justin Fields. All right, New England Cincinnati Man.
- 51:31Speaker 1: An ugly game from Cincinnati standpoint, This is an offense
- 51:34Speaker 1: Joe Burrow only one hundred and sixty four yards. No
- 51:37Speaker 1: T Higgins in this one. But you know New England again,
- 51:41Speaker 1: same theme, right, muck it up, make it a dirty game,
- 51:44Speaker 1: physical game, a grimy game, not a lot of scoring,
- 51:48Speaker 1: don't screw up. It's like, I feel like that was
- 51:51Speaker 1: my theme and this is another example of it with
- 51:53Speaker 1: this game.
- 51:55Speaker 4: That's right, You're absolutely right.
- 51:56Speaker 3: I mean that fits the bill of what you were
- 51:58Speaker 3: talking about at the top of the show without qu
- 52:00Speaker 3: and Ramondre Stevenson. You know, essentially, you know, open the
- 52:03Speaker 3: scoring here and set the tone for the game, right
- 52:06Speaker 3: open the scoring for the Patriots and for proclude. I
- 52:08Speaker 3: mean the Bengals didn't score till forty four minutes into
- 52:11Speaker 3: the game. That's how good this Patriots defense was playing.
- 52:14Speaker 3: And I know the Bengals have had the yo yo
- 52:15Speaker 3: with you know, is Higgins gonna play yes, but Chase isn't.
- 52:20Speaker 3: Is Chase gonna play no, but Higgins is? And then
- 52:22Speaker 3: it gets flipped again this time, so I know that
- 52:25Speaker 3: that has taken a toll.
- 52:26Speaker 4: I would imagine how this offense wants to operate and attack.
- 52:30Speaker 3: And they missed Joe Mixon today it felt like to
- 52:31Speaker 3: me too, or on Sunday it did not get a
- 52:34Speaker 3: lot out of the ground game, didn't run it a
- 52:36Speaker 3: whole bunch anyway, they were trailing quite a bit. But
- 52:39Speaker 3: I think, you know, Keon White is one to really
- 52:41Speaker 3: dig in on here, DJ. You know, big player with
- 52:44Speaker 3: some positional flexibility that we talked about in the draft process, right,
- 52:49Speaker 3: not quite an edge rusher, not quite a deep tackle,
- 52:51Speaker 3: but it's really well in what Girodmeo wants to do.
- 52:55Speaker 3: It reminds me a lot of Jarvis Green when he
- 52:57Speaker 3: was back playing.
- 52:57Speaker 1: You know.
- 52:57Speaker 4: It's one of those kind of bigger old scowl guys. Yeah.
- 53:00Speaker 3: For the Patriots, two and a half sacks in this game,
- 53:03Speaker 3: a physical presence against that Bengals defense.
- 53:06Speaker 4: Offensively.
- 53:07Speaker 1: It was a good day for me on kind of
- 53:09Speaker 1: statement grades, because Keon White was a statement grade when
- 53:13Speaker 1: I did my first top fifty, he was my eighth
- 53:14Speaker 1: overall player. Now did not have a good Senior Bowl,
- 53:18Speaker 1: get to the whole process. He ended up twenty eighth
- 53:20Speaker 1: for me, which is still, you know, higher than where
- 53:22Speaker 1: he ended up getting selected. But someone who was a
- 53:24Speaker 1: big explosive played really really hard. Those are traits that
- 53:28Speaker 1: I thought would translate really well, and it's nice to
- 53:29Speaker 1: see after they make the decision to move on from
- 53:31Speaker 1: Matt Judon, he takes it and runs with it and
- 53:34Speaker 1: it has a really really good game. So excited for
- 53:36Speaker 1: Kean White. The other one was Greg Grussou going back
- 53:38Speaker 1: to Buffalo, who was one that I kind of pushed
- 53:40Speaker 1: my chips and he was He was very disruptive in
- 53:43Speaker 1: the job he did in that Buffalo game. So it's
- 53:46Speaker 1: always it's always fun. Now there's some other draft president
- 53:49Speaker 1: where I try to forget about j Grade. I don't remember.
- 53:53Speaker 1: I don't remember what it gave him. But you take
- 53:56Speaker 1: the wins where you can find him. It's time for
- 53:58Speaker 1: the money.
- 53:58Speaker 2: That game preview presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook this week
- 54:02Speaker 2: is the Jets at the forty nine Ers. This bread
- 54:04Speaker 2: is minus four and a half favoring the forty nine Ers.
- 54:06Speaker 2: The over under is forty three and a half points.
- 54:11Speaker 1: All right, we've got one game left here and it
- 54:13Speaker 1: is a fun one. It's Aaron Rodgers. He's back New
- 54:15Speaker 1: York Jets going to take on forty nine Ers. May
- 54:18Speaker 1: maybe just one thought here RTT, like, we're gonna know
- 54:22Speaker 1: based off of what who wins this ball game?
- 54:26Speaker 4: What is it?
- 54:28Speaker 3: It's whether the you know, Big three for San Francisco
- 54:32Speaker 3: skip a beat or not. Right, Christian McCaffrey Brandon, I you,
- 54:35Speaker 3: Trent Williams, if they are out and running the way
- 54:38Speaker 3: that we expect them to when they are full go
- 54:41Speaker 3: and you know the fact that they haven't practiced really
- 54:45Speaker 3: at all throughout the preseason in training camp, does it matter?
- 54:48Speaker 3: Maybe not, But if they are full go I don't
- 54:51Speaker 3: think there's a way in which the forty nine ers
- 54:52Speaker 3: at home lose this football game. I feel really good
- 54:56Speaker 3: about the way that they can attack that way, and
- 54:58Speaker 3: then defensively, well, you know, we'll see, you know, what
- 55:01Speaker 3: they do against Aaron Rodgers. But I would also keep
- 55:03Speaker 3: Breese Hall in mind here. I know there's a lot
- 55:05Speaker 3: of talk about Rogers going back to the Bay. You
- 55:07Speaker 3: can get draft him and all that, but Brees Hall
- 55:09Speaker 3: is what's gonna you know, really sounds the alarm bells
- 55:12Speaker 3: for me when you look at that side of the ball.
- 55:15Speaker 1: There haven't been a ton of wins for the Jets
- 55:17Speaker 1: since Breese Hall got there. But when you look at
- 55:20Speaker 1: big wins that they have had, b Reese Hall is
- 55:23Speaker 1: the center of all of it. And Brees Hall is
- 55:26Speaker 1: the one who's going to make this thing go. If
- 55:27Speaker 1: Breese Hall can get loose a little bit and pop
- 55:30Speaker 1: a couple of runs, it's going to scare a safety down.
- 55:33Speaker 1: And now you have to deal with Garrett Wilson. Now
- 55:36Speaker 1: you can open this offense up a little bit. Now
- 55:38Speaker 1: you get the tight ends involved. But if we come
- 55:40Speaker 1: out there and Breese Hall is literally running into a
- 55:43Speaker 1: brick wall of forty nine ers. Then it's going to
- 55:46Speaker 1: be a tough one for Aaron Rodgers. So to me,
- 55:48Speaker 1: that is the key to this game. If the Jets
- 55:50Speaker 1: are going to win it, I think it goes through
- 55:51Speaker 1: Breese Hall, not through Aaron Rodgers. So that's my that's
- 55:55Speaker 1: my look on this ball game. It's a tough place, man,
- 55:58Speaker 1: It's a tough assignment to go in there against that team,
- 56:01Speaker 1: and you're going to test, you know, an offensive line
- 56:03Speaker 1: that looks much better for the Jets. You know, then
- 56:07Speaker 1: it's been due to injuries the last couple of years.
- 56:09Speaker 1: This is as good an offensive one as they've had
- 56:11Speaker 1: there in some time. What do they look like against
- 56:13Speaker 1: a front like this one? That's a pretty stiff test right.
- 56:15Speaker 4: Out the gate, no, no question.
- 56:19Speaker 3: Yeah, and so almost you know, that's that's the part
- 56:21Speaker 3: that's gonna be fun to watch, right I mean that
- 56:22Speaker 3: physicality piece. It'd be fun to watch, you know, Aaron
- 56:24Speaker 3: Rodgers play more than five snaps, I think, and see
- 56:27Speaker 3: what this thing, you know, really does look like. We
- 56:29Speaker 3: haven't seen him in two years. So there's a lot
- 56:31Speaker 3: of intrigue with this one. I'm actually I'm really fired
- 56:33Speaker 3: up to get this one rolling. You know and see
- 56:36Speaker 3: what we got here on the first Monday night of
- 56:37Speaker 3: the season.
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- 56:50Speaker 1: The Crown is yours. It's been a fun weekend of football.
- 56:52Speaker 1: One more to go and.
- 56:53Speaker 4: I whisper something back to you.
- 56:55Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, go ahead, we'll go.
- 56:57Speaker 3: Just as a teaser for later in the league to
- 57:00Speaker 3: see football might be back.
- 57:02Speaker 1: I know they're pretty good. That was on the call.
- 57:04Speaker 1: Uh Drew, our producer, has got in my air and
- 57:07Speaker 1: said that, uh yeah, Michigan might not be that's what
- 57:10Speaker 1: do you think?
- 57:11Speaker 4: That's right, that the album might not be.
- 57:14Speaker 1: That's a rough one. That's gonna do it for us today,
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