Latest / NFL Now / Falcons - Panthers Preview, Kyler Murray Back At Practice, & Hunter Renfrow on IR

Transcript

Falcons - Panthers Preview, Kyler Murray Back At Practice, & Hunter Renfrow on IR · NFL Now

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. All Right, we're live in Germany.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Coming up in a little bit ahead of that big
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: game on NFL Network in Munich on Sunday morning. Also
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: coming up, what are the Cowboys think about potentially adding
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. We'll ask one of their wide receivers.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Michael Gallup is scheduled to join us on this game
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: day edition of NFL Now on NFL Network. Also, we're
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: live in Charlotte ahead of TNFL Panthers and the Falcon.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: We begin with an update on Josh Allen. Hither Ian
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: Rappaport NFL Network insider he did not practice on Wednesday
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: with that sprained elbow today, same story, Yeah, not spotted
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: when reporters are out there for the beginning of practice,
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: presumably meaning he did not practice today, although we'll get
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: the injury report a little later to give us the
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: official word, which means that we now wait until Friday
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: and see whether or not Josh Allen is going to
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: be out there. But frankly, Andrew, it just doesn't look great.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: And there's a couple of things here with Josh Allen's
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: elbow sprain, his injury to his u c L, which
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: is basically a pictures injury not considered to be a
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: major major injury, something he can work through, according to sources,
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: but it does leave a status for Sunday and doubt
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: because it's not just how much pain is he in,
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: it's also Kenny grip of football. There's some nerve issues
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: there as well. It's like when you hear your funny
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: bone on your elbow and you can't grip and feel
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: things for a little bit. That's kind of what he's
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: dealing with, which I know sounds funny, but that's basically
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: what it is. So we'll see if he's able to
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: grip a football enough to practice tomorrow. Right if he
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: cannot go to this case, Keenum against one of his
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: many former teams, but one that he took to the
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: NFC Championship game in twenty seventeen. Meantime, in Vegas, you're
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: not gonna have to wait until game day to find
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: out if Darren Waller is going to play this week.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: He is not in and he's gonna be out a while. Yeah,
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: he has been officially placed. You're gonna be officially placed
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: on injury reserve later this afternoon, going to be out
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: a minimum of four games and for a while. This
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: will give him a chance to heal. And this has
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: been an interesting one to watch because there's been several
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: times over the last couple of weeks when the belief
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: has been and he's been really close. Maybe if he
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: works out, he feels okay, he get out there and play,
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: but has not been able to play, just hasn't quite
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: been able to get over the hump. Similar situation for
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: Keenan Allen in the Los Angeles Charges. He also has
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: just fighting it and fighting it, and every step forward
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: is a step back, and sometimes the only way he's
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: just pulled all the way back put him on I
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: R let him heal. That is what the Raiders are
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: doing with Waller. Tony Pollard looked great a couple of
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: weeks ago before the Cowboys. By the Cowboys backfield is better. However,
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: with both Pollard and Ezekiel Elliott, how's he looking for Sunday, Well,
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: it seems to be some optimism regarding Ezekiel Elliott for Sunday,
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: which makes him sense he's gotta let's say, relatively minor
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: m c l and Drew and nothing nothing serious there
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: for Ezekiel Elliott. But they do want to be cautious
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: because last year that pcl sprain that he had basically
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: the entire season, limited him severely. We know that Tony
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: Poller is a baller, So if Zeke hadim is another
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: game just to make sure he healed fully. I think
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: everybody would be okay with that. The by came at
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: the right time that, no doubt helped. We'll see if
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: he's able to get out there. But everything from the
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: Cowboys and from Zeke has been optimism about his status.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: For something. McCarthy said on the podium today that he
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: saw Zeke earlier in the day and that Zeke said, Yep,
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm ready to go. But McCarthy added everyone,
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: obviously I would say that, thank you mean Rappaport our
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: NFL network inside. Now we get to the Thursday game.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: Week ten is hours away. It's the four and five
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons and the two and seven Carolina Panthers. Second
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: time in three weeks these two teams met. They gave
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: us a classic back in Week eight. Camp Wolf was
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: with US Live Now at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte,
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: where the Falcons are four and five. They're actually tied
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: with the Bucketeers, but the Bucks have the head to
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: head here, so they lead the NFC South. But the
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: Falcons have a fun brand of football. What is their
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: offensive identity, and Andrew, they take the mold of their
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: head coach Arthur Smith, and that they're gonna be physical.
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: They're gonna run the ball anywhere, in any weather, in
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: any score, and they are not apologetic for it at all.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: And this game tonight is built for them. As you see,
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: it's raining down now, it's gonna be raining all nights,
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: supposed to be heavy rains, supposed to be heavy win.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: And for a team that loves to run the ball,
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: the second most run raid in the league, fourth most
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: rushing yards in the league, expect them with Cord, Darrel
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: Patterson the rest of the backfield to run plenty against
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: the Panther's defense that's in the bottom five and rushing
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: d and I remember talking to Arthur Smith and right
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: before the draft, and he told me that, look, I
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: know people are picking us to be the worst team
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: in the league, but our guys are gonna fight hard
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: and they do. They play for each other, and so
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: why some people may think it's a surprise for the
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: Falcons to be tied for the NFC South League. They don't.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: And this is a team that's been building for the
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: future for three and beyond. They traded away Julio Jones
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: and Matt Ryan, they've been quiet and free agency the
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: last two years and pres for a big cat space
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: in the future, and so they all have a bright
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: future ahead of them. But for tonight, they are focused
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: on beating the Carolina Panthers and taking a chance in
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: this NFC South that is wide open. And if you
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: look ahead in their schedule, there's quite a possibility that
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: maybe in week eighteen, we're playing in Atlanta Falcons and
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: Bucks in the NFC South title game. Wouldn't that be fun?
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: Cam Wolf and a a rainy Charlotte good looking suit, my friend,
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: go get it, Go get an umbrella. Speaking of the Bucketeers,
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: it's time history in the making. So keep it locked
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: in the barren witness the NFL Network, Got your teekis
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: international business. The very first NFL game in Germany and
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: this muniqu to be specific. Let's get it Seahawk. No,
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: maybe that's gonna be crazy to break out in the
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: trade and so you got pretty. Seattle was NFC West
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: first place in Mr. Smith and d Cabin holding up.
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: Wait lately, what you gotta count town me? Look at
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: that Sunday Bucks come from behind seals matching our first
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: regular season game in Germany. The Bucks arrived tomorrow. But
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: that's Pete Carroll on the practice field today. The Seahawks
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: left Wednesday evening, flew over the North Pole, got there
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: in time for practice after dumping their bags at the hotel,
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: and afterwards quadret things with Sarah Walsh quandary. I know
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: jet lag is real, but you guys are out there dancing.
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: There's some pep in the step. How are you guys
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: feeling not far removed from getting off that airplane? I
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: mean we feel good. I mean that's just energy we
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: bring every day. So, I mean just the type of
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: culture we have, so for us, that's just that's normal.
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: So you know, even if you don't got it, you
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: fake like you got it. But I think we really
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: got and I think guys that really enjoyed the opportunity
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: to be somewhere new, and you know, see I have
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: a new fan base cheering forwards, and you know, see
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: how I go. This has been quite a change of
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: scenery and quite a change on your defense. In the
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, this defense has looked really good
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: for you guys. What has been the difference? I mean,
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: I think we just believe in what we are and
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: who we are. You know, we know we we were
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: what we're really good at, and we just honed in
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: on those things, and um, we do those things very well.
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: And you know, um, the stuff we're not good at
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: we continue to work on and we try to get better.
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: So um, I think you know, we put the emphasis
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: on things that we're not good at, and we continue
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: to get better at the things we are good at,
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: and we all believe in each other. What would it
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: mean for your defense to get a win here on
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: the international stage against the guy that's playing quarterback for
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: the other team. I mean, it would be dope, you know.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: But for us it's another game, another opportunity to come
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: out and play the game. We love. Different stage for sure,
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: you know, we ought in Germany, but at the end
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: of the day, it'd be cool to come out here
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: and get a win against Tampa. And you know, um,
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: just say that you be able to compete against one
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: of the best to ever do it, and probably the
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: best to ever do it in my mind. So, UM,
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: I think it'd be cool. Enjoy your time in Munich.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: All right, Pete Carroll had the team, Thank you, Sarah,
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: thank you Madre. After practice, we took them to bowling.
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: Try to keep a mump and get him on a
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: Germany schedule. Our Germany schedule is nine thirty am on
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: Sunday for kickoff live here on NFL Network, seven am
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: up in early for game day morning. Also by the way,
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: on NFL Plus Steve Whych and Brian Bowlding. It's almost
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: like you got the kids in the backseat and you
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: want them to stay awake until you get home. It's like,
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: stay await, we're going bowling. We're going bowling, and then
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: get on the normal sleep schedule. Um, let's talk about
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: Quandre Diggs in that defense, because Gino understandably and Kenneth
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: Walker are getting a lot of the hype here. Steve,
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: you have pointed out repeatedly this defense deserves a little more.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: Does the first up ball? You remember what Quandre Diggs
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: just said right there, Even if you don't have the energy,
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: fake it like you whatever the watch says. That's what
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: time it is. That's okay, period. Yes, Well, look about
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: the defense. We're talking about the secondary, right, Quandre Diggs,
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant, you know, Tarik Wooling. These guys have been
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic. It's been a developmental process. Something we talked
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: about in the last Pete Carroll and Clint Hurt, the
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, have done with the shooting. But now they're
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: playing a Bucks receiving corps. Baldy, that one is diminished
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: and two drops a lot of balls, but three gets
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities because they don't run the ball
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: very much. So this is a stage where this secondary
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: has an opportunity to shine. They're a heavy zone defense.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: You know, Tom Brady likes to find the holes in
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: the zone. But the fact that receivers have not helped
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: them out that much, and the fact that, um, they've
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: got these players on the secondary that that are all
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: over the ball. Tom Brady has one pick coming into
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: this game. Baldy may finish this game with a little
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: bit more than that. Well, the Bucks are so one dimensionals, yeah,
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: I mean you watch the rushing attack. I mean it's
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: when they're last in the league in rushing yards and
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Rush Adams their last like there's nobody close to him
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: right now, and so they were very one dimentionally two
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: fifteen times more than they running, and Seattle knows all
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: those stats. They're gonna get a lot of opportunities. And
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: when I watched Duck Woolen lockdown the right side where
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: Mike Evans is a lot that's a matchup. You know,
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: if I was there in Munich at that beautiful stadium,
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: I'd be watching that game within the game because it's
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: a lot like what Mike Evan sees when he goes
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: up against Harland Humphrey or Jalen Ramsey. He's gonna see
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: Trek Bulleer on that side, and he's very, very good.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: And so they're gonna get a lot of chances. One thing,
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: because the offensive line isn't great for Tampa, and they
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: do throw it so much. The ball comes out fast.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: And so right now Tom Brady and every measure throughout
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: his career, it's the lowest area are yards yards part
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: of tempt All that stuff is way down right now
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: because he's got to get rid of the ball quickly.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: And so if I'm Seattle, I'm kind of sitting on
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: some of these passes right now. For what it's worth.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady three and one in his career head to
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: head against Gino Smith. If you like the quarterback head
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: to head stats here, but the no, no, the Kuantan
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: research came to me and here's why, three wins of
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: it by a grand total of six points. My point
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: is they play close games, obviously, Todd Bowles Gina Smith,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: familiarity from the time together with the Jets. Wait, you
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: looking at me like that fake a team making Andrew,
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: I'm giving a quanta solid or you give me a
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: note here. I haven't used all his notes today. I
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: feel bad about him. It does a great job. I
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: want to use when research kids notes and then I
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: don't use them. Then I feel back. Okay, it's a
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: good note coming up next. The latest of these two
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks who potentially face each other is that okay, yeah, okay, yeah,
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: Sunday at so or maybe they don't oh and maybe
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: they tell so. There is a new Hard Knocks. The
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals debut last night on HBO Max. The in
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: season last year we had it with the Colts. This
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: year with the Cardinals. Last night's episode had more details
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: on this little conversation more details on Kyler's second quarter
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: hamstring injury. La plus this man, I want to challenge
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: you guys. Somebody play murder than Buddha. Get a game.
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: Watch from comes from here, trying to play hard? What
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: kind of defense? What do we have? Should be Bowler again?
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: Hush lays hey, listen up, listen to man. We're going
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: in this. We mad angry. We gotta make the slimy,
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: make the dirty win. That's the only go on. Our
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: mindset is win. That's it. Man. We gave him one
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: in Seattle with win win hey Man when went on
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: three three hard knocks, had a lot of Buddha. Baker
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: try to get his team fired up, both on the
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: field and in the locker room. The quarterback up. There
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: is this Matthew staffords and concussion protocol. His status for
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: Sunday is very much up in the air. If he
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: doesn't go, it's gonna be John Woolford. The news on
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is positive today. He didn't practice yesterday. It's
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: a hammy again. You could see more and hear more
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: about that injury on Hard Knocks. Kyler was seen on
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: the actice field today in the early portion that was
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: open to the media. This is Steve White, this is
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: Mark Ross, and you can't overstate how important this game
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: is for both teams. Rams desperately needed. We saw what
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: happened in Tampa, and from a Cardinal's perspective, Cliff Kingsbury
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: is getting asked about his job status and Mark they
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: are O and three in the division. Yeah, we've been
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: talking about the Cardinals that their dysfunction the whole season.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: First it was they can't score at all in the
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: first quarter, in the first half. And now you see
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: clips of Kyler Murray first yelling at Cliff Kingsbury, the
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: head coach, a couple of weeks ago. Then he's yelling
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: at DeAndre Hopkins last week. Their offense can't get going.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: No one's on the same page. So it seems as
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: if there's something to the core here of the foundation
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: of the Cardinals that just isn't right. And now when
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: you have the pressure of a head coach where you're
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: just on when's he gonna get fired? Watch, that's never
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: good for a team. Uh. And when you look at
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals as a whole, they are talent arriffed and
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of positions really just rely on Kyler Murray
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: to make magic happen, and now with his hamstring, you
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: know Kyler especially because he can run around and do
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: those sort of things. So that's a major concern with
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: this offense if it will get better. Uh. To add
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: to that, you know, all great organizations I've been a
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: part of with the Giants, you know, the ownership and
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: John Mayra was heavily involved, invested, invested and mostly always
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: ask great questions. But let you do your job. And
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: then you have reports this week that the head coach
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury in the defensive Coordinatordvantage Joseph are watching film
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: with the owner. That that's never a good thing where
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: they should be invest in their time getting ready for
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: a game and preparing the team and not doing that
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: with the owner. That that I have never heard of before.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: So I think this, this function of the Cardinals runs
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: at a lot of different levels. Steve. Yeah, they're watching
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: filled with the owner. Both of them are savvy enough
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: to understand that's not great really for either of we. Look,
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: we saw Jimrcia and owner get involved into football decisions
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: with the Colts over the past couple of weeks as well.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: But I want to flip it over to wis going
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: on with the Rams because they don't have as much
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: as this function is going on in Arizona. But the
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: record is only one game better, and so part of
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: the is their offense, well a lot of it is
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: their offense. We heard Jalen Ramsey actually pop off a
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: little bit about the ineffectiveness of the offense. If Matthew Stafford,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: the concussion thing is clearly something to watch. So his backup,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: John Walford, is gonna be getting snaps in practice because
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: even if Staffords and protocol, he cannot actively be out there,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: but until it goes through some steps in terms of
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: getting team practice reps in. So if Stafford's out there,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh, sets of things have to change. Maybe it's schematic,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: maybe it's hitting more crossing routes. Things that they used
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: to do they're kind of getting away from because Stafford's
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: gotta get rid of it quickly on these screens and
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: and and horizontal routes. Um. But look, if Wolford has
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: got to play and Bryce Perkins is the backup, those
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: are two mobile quarterbacks. These are guys who can maybe
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: escape some of the woes on the offensive. Line. Maybe
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: they can create some running lanes as well. Andrew. It's
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: not the ideal situation, but if they have to go
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: to the backup situation, that will allow them to open
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: up the play some and maybe overcome some of the
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: issues up front. Listen, you'd love to see Matthew Safford
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: played this game absolutely. Rams fans have also been clamoring
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: to see Bryce Britton's used he's been around for a
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: couple of years in a regular season game. Both can
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: be true here. Maybe that happens on Sunday. Thank you Steve,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you Mark withsvat of the Sunday night game that
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: will feature the l A Chargers who eat out a
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: win this past Sunday in Atlanta up in Santa Clara
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: facing the forty Niners. They eaked out the win after
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: this fumble gave Cameron Dicker a chance coming off of bye.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Rely with the Chargers now talking to Bridget Condon taking
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: the Niners angle here where maybe we see Christian McCaffrey
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: and Deebo Samuel together for Kyle Shanahan Andrew. Deebo Samuel
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: was listed as a full participant in practice yesterday, so
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: all signs are pointing to Sunday being the first complete
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: game with Debo and Christian and keeping mind Kyle Shanahan
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: has had an extra week to game plan because they
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: had that by last week. So not only is it
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Debo and Christian who can both catch, they can run
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey even through a touchdown pass in that game
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: against the Rams. But you also add in a tight
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: end George Kittle, who can line up in the slot,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: he can line up out. Why he can even line
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: up in the backfield. And I was talking to safety
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: for the Chargers, Derwin James, about preparing for such a
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: versatile offense, and he told me that's where his versatility
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: comes into play. He's one of the most versatile UH
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: safeties in the NFL. He's spent five percent of snaps
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: this season at four different alignments. And that's what Brandon
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Staley says is important to have on your team, those
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: chess pieces for games like this. He also said this
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: week in practice, there's no way that they can try
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: and replicate everything the forty Niners can do with this offense.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: But it's just opening that library and telling your players
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: that this is what we could see so that Sunday
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: they can react and be fast and not be thinking
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: about what they're seeing out there on a defensively here,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: for the Chargers, run defense was a huge offseason priority.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: It is not necessarily worked there near the bottom of
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the league, and now bridget they don't have Austin Johnson right,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the hits just keep on coming. Sebastian Joseph Day said,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: losing Austin Johnson is a huge loss. You cannot speak
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: to what that means for this defense. He said, We're
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: gonna have to rely on the players that are inside
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: this locker room. One benefit though, Andrew is Sebastian Joseph
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Day is a player that came from the Ramps. He
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: spent four seasons with them. He has a lot of
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: familiarity against this forty Niners team. So he's telling his
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: teammates this is going to be a fast and physical game.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: This is a game where we cannot get caught with
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: our cleets not in the ground, because they will come
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: out and punch you in the face. He also said
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: it's going to be important to focus on the attention
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to detail this week in practice. Try not to have
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: those explosive plays that we've seen the Chargers give up
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: recently and just focus on repetition, repetition, repetition coming up next?
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: How did the cults prepare for the Raiders? Invite verse
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. You're watching NFL now and we have more
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: news out of Vegas. More bad news here for the Raiders.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Darren Wallers going on injured reserve. Same for Hunter renfro So,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: no Waller, no renfro for at least the next month.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: It's an oblique injury. As the two win Raiders get
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: set on Sunday to take on Jeff Saturday in the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. And here's our first look at Jeff Saturday,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: their new head coach, on the practice field. Look there,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: there is a lot of snark, understandably going around here
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: about the Colts and the way they've handled things here
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Mark Ross, the last couple of days, I will say
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: this about Jeff Saturday handled himself really well on the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: podium yesterday in his first press conference as a head coach,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and I think people are legitimately rooting for him. But
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: from front off this perspective, as you sit here, what's
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: your take on how things have played out in Indianapolis
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: this week? Well, if you're specifically Chris Balladier the general manager,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: and er Say has made these moves. You're used to it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: You've been You've been the general manager since two thousands
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: seventeen and you work with Jim Ersay every day, so
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you know his personality, you know how involved he is,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and this probably is not a surprise that he acted
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: like this is probably surprised that it was Jeff Saturday,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure Chris Ballard talked to him about it,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: try to talk him out of it. But when you
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: have an owner that is so involved, and look, there's
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: different levels of ownership involvement from guys that are completely
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: hands off, the ones that are in the middle of hey,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I'm involved in talking, asking questions, but let you do
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: your job. And then you have certain owners that are
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: just running over the organization and making decisions without anyone
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: one else's input. That's what it seems like here with
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the Colts, because I'm sure Chris Ballard didn't say, let's
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: hire a guy who has no experience before, but for him,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: he's just gonna go business as usual. Well, get ready
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: for the draft exactly, and this late in the season,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: after the trade deadline, there's only so much that a
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: general manager actually does do a lot of it is
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: prep for next spring. Thank you Mark Ross there in
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: front of office perspective on what they're dealing with in Indianapolis.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Where they're dealing with in Denver is a bye week
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and getting back at it on the road against a
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: division leader this week there at a one o'clock eastern
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: kickoff in Nashville against the Titans. One of the things
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: James Palmer I would think they might have worked on
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: after they got back from London is getting better on
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: third down. They are second to last in the NFL,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and that was a major focus of the bye week.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett Andrew calls that their achilles heel and they're
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: going against the Titans, who have the number one third
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: down defense in all of the NFL. Keep an eye
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: on rookie tight end Greg Dulsitch as being a guy
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: that Russell Wilson is now really looked for quite a
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: bit in these last three games. He's only played three
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: games because he has a hamstring injury that up him
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: out of all of training camp the first part of
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the season. He's already third on this team in receiving yards.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: He used a vertical threat when he was at u
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: c l A the third round pick coming into this offense,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and rych Brabel said, when you watched the film, Russell
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Wilson already has an eye for him and it stands
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: out to the Titans, and he could be a guy,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: as Portland Sutton told me, working in the middle of
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the field that could open some things up for him
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: on the outside. But this offense also takes a little
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: bit of a hit today as kJ Handler, their speedster
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: wide receiver, who was expected to increase his snaps coming
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: out of this bye week, injured his hamstring in practice yesterday.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: He is now out of practice. They are evaluating the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: severity of that injury Andswer. That takes a blow to
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: this offense. But Greg Dolsitch has been a bright spot
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: over these last three games. That look for him on
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Sunday to be a you know, one to catch Russell
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Wilson's the rookie tight end from here in Los Angeles.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: End from u c l A, thank you, James Palmer.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: The latest on the Broncos head an actually station Titan's
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: coming up next. We have time for one more thing
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: about that guy. We were just talking about one more
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: thing about Russell wilson An history in the making, so
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: keep it locked in the bear witness. The NFL network
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: got your teekis international business. The very first NFL game
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: in Germany, in this Munich to be specific. Let's giddy
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Seahawks and no, maybe this's gonna be crazy to break
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: out in the grate it so you got you, Brady,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Seattle was NFC West first place in Mr. Smith and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: d Cabin holding up way lately. But you know you
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: gotta count Tommy. Look at that Sunday Bucks come from behind,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Seahawks matching up for the Munich candy. This is the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: first when you moved the chance. All right. If you
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: didn't know, I'm gonna remind you again. Sunday Morning football
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: football made in Germany, Seahawks and Bucketeers. The very first
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: NFL regular season game in Germany has not only an
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I'm thirty a m e s turn kickoff right here
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: in the network at NFL Plus exclusively on either but
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: we have a seven am NFL game day and pick off. Yeah, okay, good,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: got it. We're good for one more thing before we
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: go with some Dales going first. Well, as Matthew bu
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Bar pointed out to me, the Chicago Bears. Who is
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: my desk person today and doing fine job as always
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: have had two plus rushing yards in four straight games.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: That is tied for the longest streak in NFL history
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: with the seventy six Steelers, so they could make history
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: against Alliance on Sunday. All right, Bubar gets a shout
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: at me somewhere here over my shoulder, Palmer, what do
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: you get. I'm glad we got a shout out. That's nice.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: He's working with Stacey. I work with him a lot.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: He's a great guy. How about this. Let's talk more
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: about Russell Wilson and this wristband Andrew right, that's all
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the rave right now here in Denver, and it was
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: brought out today that he's wearing this wristband now these
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: last couple of games here in Denver because of the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: length of the burbage and some of these play calls,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: and that we know the Brontos have had some issues
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and how they have gotten play in quickly, how they
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: have communicated the operation in the early portion of this
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: season with new head coach Nathaniel Hackett. This is helping
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that development in some sense. But talking wristbands in Denver
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: has been a very popular thing over the last twenty
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: four hours and I hope it doesn't die down anytime soon. Yeah.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: The thing it is fun to backstory is the Seahawks.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Shane Waldron P. Carroll said that Geno Smith worth the
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: wrist band of that in years past. The other guy
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: didn't want to do that. Some some resistance that. Now
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: that's a thing, Mark Cross. One more thing speaking of
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Geno Smith and no Seahawks of course are going over
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the Germany and Munich to play, and they took their
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Techno two they dance party over to Munich. But check
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: out the one the thirty five year old truth Irvan
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: who's just chilling like the old uncle at the party,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: like I'm gonna let the kids and do the thing.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go kill right here overwit not can get
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: on home. Ruth is not having any of that. You
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: gotta you gotta love that energy. I love the number
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: thirty one is jumping up it down in there. That
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: is d J Dallas. So we had a d J
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: at the Tuesday Techno dance party. So who we did there?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: All right? I got you my one more thing friendly reminder.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: We had our friend Tory Holt on yesterday. Check out
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the bottom of the screen right here. Type Tory Holt
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: into the search bar when you go to NFL dot
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: auction dot, NFL dot com, NFL dot auction dot, NFL
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: dot com. Tory and his brother, their charity, their foundation,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Great auction Charity do it all right. So long everybody
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: enjoy the game. NFL Now is a production of the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with I Heart Radio. For more podcasts
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: from my Heart Radio, visit the i heart Radio app,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.