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- 0:00Speaker 1: And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.
- 0:07Speaker 2: What's up, everybody? Welcome to move the sticks, DJ, Buck
- 0:09Speaker 2: and as it's going to be on Monday, I could
- 0:12Speaker 2: not be more fired up about this. Our buddy Baldi's
- 0:14Speaker 2: in the house, Baldy. What's going on?
- 0:15Speaker 3: Man, I'm just sitting up here, like in my own
- 0:19Speaker 3: little bubble here, DJ. You know, third floor NFL film.
- 0:22Speaker 3: Nobody bothers me. I don't have any windows. I don't
- 0:24Speaker 3: know what's going on outside. I'm just in my little
- 0:27Speaker 3: bubble here, just watching these games and taking my little
- 0:30Speaker 3: notes and making some videos. Man, I'm having a good time.
- 0:33Speaker 2: This is sneakily my favorite day of the year, Buck,
- 0:36Speaker 2: because we always talk about, like the summer, we get
- 0:39Speaker 2: so tired and sick of Oh this might happen. This
- 0:41Speaker 2: could happen. Hey, they might be this, they might be that.
- 0:43Speaker 2: It's like, hey, actually we've got some games. We can
- 0:44Speaker 2: actually hop on here and talk about what we saw.
- 0:47Speaker 4: I mean that that is a lot of fun. And
- 0:49Speaker 4: I feel a little weird, DJ, because you kind of
- 0:52Speaker 4: made me make a deal with the devil. So here
- 0:54Speaker 4: I am, I mean over here dealing with a blue
- 0:57Speaker 4: deal like that.
- 0:58Speaker 3: You know, I don't know. I don't even want to
- 1:04Speaker 3: go watch Illinois do game Bucky like that was so
- 1:07Speaker 3: we're leading.
- 1:08Speaker 4: Yeah, we're leaning into this stuff or whatever. But that's
- 1:11Speaker 4: good man, My man, Baldy gonna break it down, has
- 1:13Speaker 4: all this stuff. It's gonna be fun to have these
- 1:15Speaker 4: conversations every Mondy.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:17Speaker 2: And by the way, top on Baldi's breakdowns too, because
- 1:19Speaker 2: if you want to see some video, it's going to
- 1:20Speaker 2: company a lot of the conversations we're gonna have on here.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Baldi's got it on, He's got it on Twitter, He's
- 1:24Speaker 2: got on Instagram. Baldie, I'm I'm not a TikTok guy?
- 1:27Speaker 3: Are you?
- 1:27Speaker 2: Are you rocking this stuff on TikTok too?
- 1:30Speaker 3: Forgot on TikTok You're not, like you know, Yeah.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Yeah, no I'm not. Then I'm not. So you've got
- 1:35Speaker 2: me there. So check out all Baldi stuff. It's fantastic
- 1:37Speaker 2: Baldis breakdowns. Let's let's get wrong. I want to get
- 1:40Speaker 2: into this stuff here. First game game of that it
- 1:42Speaker 2: might shoot. I don't know. We're gonna see a better
- 1:44Speaker 2: game all year long than the Sunday night game we
- 1:45Speaker 2: saw with Baltimore h in Buffalo, Balbi, I'll give you
- 1:48Speaker 2: the floor, go wherever you want to go on that one.
- 1:50Speaker 3: So I mean, look, I'll take the losing end of
- 1:53Speaker 3: it in Baltimore because I'm not sure what anybody's supposed
- 1:56Speaker 3: to do to stop this Baltimore offense. And so, like
- 2:00Speaker 3: I just went and I just watched the wide angle,
- 2:03Speaker 3: and all they do is look at the safeties, two
- 2:05Speaker 3: safeties back. Here comes Derrick Henry right once, say like,
- 2:09Speaker 3: everybody up, try to stop Derrick Henry. You got single high.
- 2:12Speaker 3: Here comes a Flowers like they couldn't they couldn't figure
- 2:15Speaker 3: it out. And then if they try to bounce it up,
- 2:19Speaker 3: then here comes this prestaft motion and misdirection and there
- 2:22Speaker 3: goes Lamar ten yards for a touchdown. And I felt
- 2:26Speaker 3: like Buffalo was damned if they did and damned if
- 2:29Speaker 3: they didn't, you know, I mean like they didn't know
- 2:31Speaker 3: what to do. And I feel like that's going to
- 2:33Speaker 3: be most defenses this year. Now forty points one enough
- 2:36Speaker 3: to win the game, all right, but still, I mean
- 2:39Speaker 3: it came down, you know, obviously Derek feels bad about
- 2:42Speaker 3: you know, at Oliver gets the ball out of the
- 2:44Speaker 3: ground and on the ground. It was a difference in
- 2:46Speaker 3: the game. But just from that standpoint, you go, how
- 2:49Speaker 3: does anybody And then if DeAndre Hopkins thows his hand
- 2:52Speaker 3: up and he's just you know, he's just got the
- 2:54Speaker 3: golden sticky glove there, like you got that to deal
- 2:57Speaker 3: with as well.
- 2:58Speaker 4: You know, it's funny you talk about Baltimore and I
- 3:00Speaker 4: think DJ and I've had this conversation about Baltimore. A
- 3:03Speaker 4: lot of what we want to know about Baltimore we
- 3:06Speaker 4: won't know until the postseason, presuming that they get there.
- 3:09Speaker 4: And I've said on here my biggest question with Baltimore
- 3:12Speaker 4: is do they have the emotional maturity to be a
- 3:15Speaker 4: championship team in a game like that when you're up
- 3:18Speaker 4: forty to twenty five. Championship teams close that out regardless
- 3:22Speaker 4: of the Derrick Henry fumble or whatever. But there is that,
- 3:25Speaker 4: hey man, we need to finish this game out when
- 3:27Speaker 4: you have this kind of championship pedigree. And for me,
- 3:31Speaker 4: I am just wondering, because we've seen this iteration of
- 3:33Speaker 4: Baltimore four or five years, when do they finally learn
- 3:38Speaker 4: from all of these heartbreaking lessons to put it together
- 3:41Speaker 4: and in a game in which they you can say
- 3:44Speaker 4: they dominated for greater parts of the game in terms
- 3:46Speaker 4: of their offense and being able to be ahead to
- 3:49Speaker 4: walk away with a loss. To me, it just brings
- 3:51Speaker 4: that question up when we see this team play for
- 3:55Speaker 4: real and all the stakes are on the line, do
- 3:58Speaker 4: they have the wherewithal to finish out the game like
- 4:00Speaker 4: a championship squad?
- 4:01Speaker 2: Shit, Yeah, I want to hit a little bit on
- 4:03Speaker 2: what both of you guys said. Then we can kind
- 4:04Speaker 2: of spin it and get towards Buffalo. But on the
- 4:07Speaker 2: Baldy point, Zay Flowers to me, look, I know Derek
- 4:09Speaker 2: Henry rush for a million yards in this game. I
- 4:11Speaker 2: know Lamar had some crazy plays. You see some of
- 4:14Speaker 2: the scrambles where he's retreating poor guy. Feel bad for
- 4:16Speaker 2: Joey Bosey. He couldn't get the guy on the ground.
- 4:18Speaker 2: I mean he had had him dead to rights a
- 4:20Speaker 2: couple of times, couldn't get him on the ground. But
- 4:21Speaker 2: you think Dereck Henry take Lamar. They're their own thing,
- 4:23Speaker 2: and I don't want it to be just because it's
- 4:25Speaker 2: gotten stale because we've seen so much of them. But man,
- 4:28Speaker 2: I watched Jay Flowers and I went back through and
- 4:30Speaker 2: just looked what he was doing, and that was the
- 4:33Speaker 2: thing that stood out to me more than anything else
- 4:34Speaker 2: on that on that Baltimore offense, you go through and
- 4:37Speaker 2: look at just the balls and the targets, the opportunities
- 4:39Speaker 2: he got, the different ways that he can impact you.
- 4:42Speaker 2: You'll see deep ends. You'll see they use him on
- 4:45Speaker 2: speed shovel. Let's get the ball in his hands, they
- 4:46Speaker 2: hit a tunnel screen for a touchdown. You get him,
- 4:49Speaker 2: You get him run on some of those mesh concepts
- 4:51Speaker 2: underneath where you just pick a guy off by a millimeter.
- 4:53Speaker 2: He's gone. I'm watching him going, like I it's sacrilegious
- 4:57Speaker 2: to compare some of these guys to all time great players,
- 4:59Speaker 2: but it's hard for me to watch a guy in
- 5:00Speaker 2: a Baltimore uniform do that and not think of Steve
- 5:02Speaker 2: Smith with the way with the way he can stop
- 5:05Speaker 2: and start, and how explosive and dynamic he was. But
- 5:07Speaker 2: I wanted to give Zay Flowers his love because I
- 5:09Speaker 2: think he's gonna have a monster, monster year this year.
- 5:13Speaker 2: I thought they to Bucky's point, I thought they got
- 5:15Speaker 2: vanilla at the end. You know, I want that ball
- 5:18Speaker 2: in Lamar's hands. I mean, they just kind of ran
- 5:20Speaker 2: the ball into the line of scrimmage and ran into
- 5:22Speaker 2: a mush of bodies, which was kind of the opposite
- 5:25Speaker 2: of what they've done all day long of making Buffalo
- 5:27Speaker 2: have to think and react. They kind of dumbed it
- 5:29Speaker 2: down at the end of the game, and we talk
- 5:31Speaker 2: about whether they should have gone forward on fourth down
- 5:33Speaker 2: or not. I'm okay with it. I mean to shoot,
- 5:36Speaker 2: you don't get that the game's over. You already are
- 5:38Speaker 2: near field goal range. But I just thought I got
- 5:40Speaker 2: a little bit stale there and then on the other
- 5:42Speaker 2: side getting the Buffalo Baldi. We were talking before we
- 5:45Speaker 2: came on, like, I like Justin Herbert's unbelievable. Justin Herbert
- 5:49Speaker 2: can make a mazillion throws and he's got the size
- 5:51Speaker 2: and the arms, strength and the talent. Like for Justin
- 5:53Speaker 2: Herbert to go to the next level for the Chargers,
- 5:55Speaker 2: he needs to adopt some of the borderline cockiness arrogance
- 6:00Speaker 2: that Josh has for some of the throw's body. These
- 6:02Speaker 2: are throws that people don't attempt, and he makes it
- 6:05Speaker 2: with conviction.
- 6:06Speaker 3: Well, the first the first touchdown of the season is
- 6:09Speaker 3: the Dalton Kincave and this the safeties are sitting it's
- 6:12Speaker 3: ten ten toes in the goal line. You know, Malachi
- 6:15Speaker 3: Starks and Kyle Hamilton are sitting there and they split
- 6:18Speaker 3: the safeties and he just rifles it like a lot
- 6:21Speaker 3: of most quarterbacks aren't attempting that throw in the middle
- 6:23Speaker 3: of the field, and he put it right where Dalton
- 6:25Speaker 3: could Cave could body. He did it again later in
- 6:28Speaker 3: the game down to the goal line, like he's just fearless.
- 6:34Speaker 3: And you know, I was saying, like, uh, you know,
- 6:38Speaker 3: he every single big throw he makes is off a
- 6:41Speaker 3: movement until it's not off a movement and he just
- 6:44Speaker 3: hits his third step and he just rifles it to
- 6:46Speaker 3: the sideline. The throw to Josh Palmer at the end
- 6:49Speaker 3: of the game like over the top, like to get
- 6:51Speaker 3: him down there, like it was an incredible throw on
- 6:53Speaker 3: the move, but it was just it's just like it
- 6:56Speaker 3: felt like it was already a highlight film of the
- 7:00Speaker 3: throws that he made yesterday. I must have counted at
- 7:02Speaker 3: least at least ten or twelve throws of fifteen yards
- 7:06Speaker 3: more where he's just like it's just a rifle shot.
- 7:10Speaker 4: You know, what's unbelievable about Josh Allen is not only
- 7:14Speaker 4: the maturity and the evolution of kind of watching him
- 7:17Speaker 4: go from being the wild gun slinger coming out Wyoming
- 7:20Speaker 4: to being an MVP who has been able to elevate
- 7:24Speaker 4: the players around him, because remember he started on his
- 7:27Speaker 4: ascension when Stefan Diggs were there and they were to
- 7:30Speaker 4: rely heavily on him being kind of the centerpiece of
- 7:33Speaker 4: the offense. He gets to the point where you remove
- 7:35Speaker 4: Stefan Diggs and his game has gone through the roof.
- 7:38Speaker 4: Like He's always been special in terms of the athleticism
- 7:41Speaker 4: and running and throwing on and off platform, but the
- 7:45Speaker 4: last year and some change, he has been next level
- 7:49Speaker 4: when it comes to his ability to put the cape
- 7:52Speaker 4: on and use it when needed and then sometimes just
- 7:56Speaker 4: be Clark Kent. And I think what we want to
- 7:58Speaker 4: see from all of our superstars is they don't necessarily
- 8:02Speaker 4: have to play at that level all the time, but
- 8:04Speaker 4: when needed, they can jump in the phone booth. And
- 8:07Speaker 4: I am more amazed at Josh Allen's ability to do
- 8:11Speaker 4: it in a calm, cool composed manner. I would say,
- 8:15Speaker 4: probably than anybody else I've seen in terms of evolving
- 8:19Speaker 4: from this wild playmaker to being a guy that can
- 8:23Speaker 4: kind of play on and off the script and use
- 8:25Speaker 4: his superpowers when needed. He's amazing and his growth has
- 8:30Speaker 4: kind of changed the way and DJ we've talked about this.
- 8:33Speaker 4: Josh Allen, Lamark Jackson changed the way that we looked
- 8:35Speaker 4: at quarterbacks.
- 8:36Speaker 2: It went from being through.
- 8:38Speaker 4: Fromme tou they what they can't do too well they
- 8:42Speaker 4: could and it's just amazing to do that. So look
- 8:46Speaker 4: all the credit in the world to Josh Allen because
- 8:49Speaker 4: this dude consistently puts the Bill's opposite.
- 8:51Speaker 3: Well, Josh, Josh said it at the end of the
- 8:53Speaker 3: game Buck, he said, like, you never count us out.
- 8:55Speaker 3: We're playing sixteen minutes now, like you know, they're down fifteen,
- 8:59Speaker 3: like it's late fourth quarter, and here they come.
- 9:02Speaker 2: I mean they needed a gift though, Baldi, they needed
- 9:04Speaker 2: and they got one.
- 9:05Speaker 3: They got the gift, they got the ball you know
- 9:07Speaker 3: that's twenty and they capitalized on it too now, but yeah,
- 9:11Speaker 3: they got what they needed for the defense. But that's
- 9:14Speaker 3: all they needed and that was enough now.
- 9:16Speaker 2: So coming into this game, one of the topics we
- 9:18Speaker 2: had talked about for the whole offseason was comparing Buffalo
- 9:21Speaker 2: with the other, you know, premier teams, and really I
- 9:23Speaker 2: think we focused in on Baltimore and it's like, Okay,
- 9:25Speaker 2: we get the great quarterbacks, MVP quarterbacks, but man, the
- 9:28Speaker 2: weaponry uh that Baltimore has just seems far superior to
- 9:32Speaker 2: what they're playing with in Buffalo. And I come out
- 9:33Speaker 2: of this game going, Okay, Kink looks like he's got
- 9:36Speaker 2: his legs back underneath him. He looks like he's the
- 9:38Speaker 2: player I got super excited about when he was coming
- 9:40Speaker 2: into the draft process. I'll get to him, Shakir. You know,
- 9:43Speaker 2: they've got like a nice connection and the toughness that
- 9:46Speaker 2: he brings. He's got Aman Ross Saint Brown light up there,
- 9:49Speaker 2: so that's a nice piece. But Keon Coleman's the one
- 9:51Speaker 2: that I wanted to dig in on because he had
- 9:52Speaker 2: the big game. So when I went back and just
- 9:54Speaker 2: looked at his stuff, Baldy, this is the guy with
- 9:56Speaker 2: the basketball player background and that's the way he plays.
- 10:00Speaker 2: He's not the most refined guy, but you can throw
- 10:02Speaker 2: a whole shot. He climbs the ladder and goes up
- 10:05Speaker 2: and gets it and gets you know, drilled holds onto
- 10:07Speaker 2: the ball. You get the skinny posts at the end
- 10:09Speaker 2: of the game, which was really kind of the game winner.
- 10:11Speaker 2: He makes a big play there. He just kind of
- 10:14Speaker 2: finds space. He kind of works in space. You're not
- 10:16Speaker 2: looking at somebody who's elite getting out of breaks and
- 10:18Speaker 2: all that stuff. But you want to you want to
- 10:20Speaker 2: play soft Kevin Dodd just running out on you and
- 10:21Speaker 2: we'll go pluck the ball real naturally and smooth. But
- 10:24Speaker 2: he's a key piece for them. I mean, he played
- 10:26Speaker 2: really really well, and they figured out how to use
- 10:28Speaker 2: him and not ask him to do stuff he's not
- 10:29Speaker 2: good at.
- 10:30Speaker 3: Well, he's excellent low post basketball now, you know, I
- 10:33Speaker 3: mean you just feed him. You know. He knows how
- 10:35Speaker 3: to use his body, knows how to shield people, he
- 10:37Speaker 3: knows how to catch the ball with his hands, and
- 10:39Speaker 3: so he's got like I don't think he's ever going
- 10:42Speaker 3: to be a router, you know, and he's not really
- 10:44Speaker 3: going to run by people, but everything else like, and
- 10:48Speaker 3: he's becoming dependable and they're going to him. And in
- 10:51Speaker 3: a number of those big spots yesterday he came up
- 10:54Speaker 3: with a big catch.
- 10:56Speaker 2: It's funny to go ahead, go ahead book.
- 10:57Speaker 4: No last thing, I think every we've talked about like
- 11:00Speaker 4: wide receiver corps being like a basketball team. Every wide
- 11:04Speaker 4: receiver cord needs one player that's like a Kian Koman,
- 11:07Speaker 4: a big body ball catching someone that you just throw
- 11:10Speaker 4: it up and they go get it. It's not always
- 11:12Speaker 4: pretty and refined, but his superior size and athleticism and
- 11:16Speaker 4: just terrific ball skills makes him a threat wherever he is,
- 11:19Speaker 4: So even when he's covered, he's wide open.
- 11:23Speaker 2: Let's let's that's a great point. Let's get to the
- 11:24Speaker 2: next one here. This was the theme of this next game. Buck.
- 11:28Speaker 2: Literally one man's trash is another man's treasure was literally
- 11:31Speaker 2: on display in Pittsburgh. They take the two quarterbacks that
- 11:33Speaker 2: neither of them really liked all that much. They switched teams,
- 11:36Speaker 2: and they literally played as good as we've seen either
- 11:38Speaker 2: one of those guys play fields maybe ever. That might
- 11:40Speaker 2: have been the best game I've ever seen him play.
- 11:42Speaker 2: He was awesome. And then and then Aaron the best
- 11:45Speaker 2: we've seen of him since he left the Green Bay Packers.
- 11:49Speaker 4: And look, there's something there's a saying that that that
- 11:52Speaker 4: people will throw out there go whey to celebrate it,
- 11:55Speaker 4: not tolerateed. And in both instances, both guys being acquired,
- 11:59Speaker 4: they were celebrated by those organizations, and in celebrating them,
- 12:03Speaker 4: they're willing to build around them and their talents. First,
- 12:06Speaker 4: you talk about Justin Fields and how Aaron Glenn had
- 12:09Speaker 4: first in knowledge about the difficulty and the challenge that
- 12:12Speaker 4: Justin Fields can bring as a dual threat quarterback, and
- 12:14Speaker 4: he wanted him to lean into those abilities and pairing
- 12:18Speaker 4: him with an old college teammate and Garrett Wilson where
- 12:21Speaker 4: he was comfortable and doing those things. We saw that
- 12:24Speaker 4: playout through our training camp and all of that, but
- 12:26Speaker 4: then allowing him to be the athlete that he is.
- 12:29Speaker 4: That was terrific. And for Aaron Rodgers, the conversations that
- 12:32Speaker 4: I had with some of the people in the Steelers
- 12:33Speaker 4: were they wanted someone who had that edginess in the
- 12:36Speaker 4: quarterback room, and they talked about this openly. It's a
- 12:40Speaker 4: difference having a Hall of Famer in the quarterback room
- 12:43Speaker 4: and what he brings and the swag and the confidence
- 12:46Speaker 4: that they get from him being there, even though he's
- 12:48Speaker 4: a lesser version of the four time MVP. It's working
- 12:52Speaker 4: for Pittsburgh now, just like it's working for the Jets.
- 12:55Speaker 4: Think about Pittsburgh is how do you preserve Aaron Rodgers
- 12:59Speaker 4: so that he is still playing great down the end
- 13:01Speaker 4: of the season. That's the medi other question.
- 13:03Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting Bucket. I stopped the film at
- 13:06Speaker 3: least three different times where he got absolutely due. I mean,
- 13:11Speaker 3: Coldon Williams hit him one time and I just saw
- 13:14Speaker 3: it was like crash test, dummy stuff. I just saw
- 13:16Speaker 3: his head stap and I'm going, that's forty one year
- 13:19Speaker 3: old Aaron Rockets. That's not like not many guys survived
- 13:23Speaker 3: some of the hits he took in that pocket. And
- 13:26Speaker 3: so you know, people, can you know, put labels on
- 13:30Speaker 3: Aaron quirky whatever you want to do, like that guy
- 13:32Speaker 3: is as tough as they come out. Can he survive
- 13:34Speaker 3: you know, the season getting hit like that.
- 13:38Speaker 2: You know, Roderick Jones to that point, by the way, Yeah.
- 13:41Speaker 3: Well, I mean Will McDonald had his way over there.
- 13:45Speaker 3: You know, it's an issue. It's an issue, DJ. I mean,
- 13:49Speaker 3: they drafted roder Jones high and they wanted him to
- 13:52Speaker 3: be the left tackle, and he's there. Dan Moore was
- 13:54Speaker 3: not good. They let him fly, but they got to
- 13:57Speaker 3: get better at that position, no question. The Justin Fields
- 14:01Speaker 3: thing was amazing. I saw him in a scrimmage against
- 14:04Speaker 3: the Jets two weeks ago and I thought, oh my gosh,
- 14:08Speaker 3: poor Garrett Wilson like he's never going to get the ball.
- 14:11Speaker 3: And you know they designed some offense. The first touchdown
- 14:14Speaker 3: deep cross with Josh Reynolds. I mean they gave him
- 14:17Speaker 3: good time, good protection, and he laid. I mean that
- 14:21Speaker 3: was a perfect throw to Garrett Wilson. A lot of
- 14:23Speaker 3: guys missed that shot. He's almost too open, but he
- 14:25Speaker 3: threw him open. Garrett really Justin Well, he had a
- 14:28Speaker 3: great day. But I thought Justin Field's played it as
- 14:32Speaker 3: well as he was under control, he was athletic, he
- 14:36Speaker 3: saw the field surprisingly well, breaking the pocket. It was
- 14:40Speaker 3: very encouraging for any Jet fan to watch Justin Field's play.
- 14:44Speaker 2: Yes, I'd be fired up. Farre a Jets fan. And
- 14:47Speaker 2: the word this is the word that I really honed
- 14:49Speaker 2: in on here the last couple of years with quarterbacks,
- 14:51Speaker 2: and I think there's really something to it. I mentioned
- 14:54Speaker 2: a little bit earlier. He played with conviction. No, it's
- 14:57Speaker 2: not only enough to see something. You've got to trust
- 15:00Speaker 2: and there's no hesitation or no pause. He was there
- 15:03Speaker 2: was There were some first raid throws in there where
- 15:05Speaker 2: he said, hey, this is the look I got. I
- 15:06Speaker 2: like what I get. Boom, Ball's gone on time. Mind you,
- 15:09Speaker 2: first part of the game with gloves, second part of
- 15:11Speaker 2: the game without gloves. I don't know why he switched
- 15:13Speaker 2: it up, but it was nice it went from the
- 15:14Speaker 2: gloves and the no gloves. But then there are other
- 15:17Speaker 2: times Man he was getting front side to backside and
- 15:19Speaker 2: then again once he saw it trusted at Boom working
- 15:22Speaker 2: in the middle of the field. He wasn't just working
- 15:23Speaker 2: on the edges in the perimeter like you get in
- 15:25Speaker 2: the mud. In the middle of the field a little bit.
- 15:27Speaker 2: You got to trust your eyes and trust what you're seeing.
- 15:29Speaker 2: And he threw the ball. It was firm, it was accurate,
- 15:32Speaker 2: like it was as good as I've seen him play,
- 15:34Speaker 2: and it reminded me of kind of the Ohio State
- 15:36Speaker 2: version of him where he played with confidence, and that
- 15:39Speaker 2: was if he plays like that. And Baldy, you had
- 15:41Speaker 2: talked talked about this a little bit when we were
- 15:44Speaker 2: chatting this morning, and I thought it held up in
- 15:46Speaker 2: the tape too. Like Membo played well, Tipman played well.
- 15:49Speaker 2: Like they've accumulated a lot of good pieces. Fashanu was
- 15:52Speaker 2: outstanding at left tackle in the run game, in the
- 15:55Speaker 2: pass game, like they've invested a lot in this offensive
- 15:58Speaker 2: line and it looks like they might actually have one. Now.
- 16:00Speaker 3: Well, the question honestly this week was okay, Olivia Tucker
- 16:03Speaker 3: goes down. Everybody's like, there, here goes the Jets. But
- 16:06Speaker 3: I thought I saw Tipman play guard in preseason games
- 16:10Speaker 3: with Josh Myers at center, and I thought at that
- 16:13Speaker 3: time when I watched Tipman, I think he's a better
- 16:15Speaker 3: guard than center. And after watching him yesterday, especially the
- 16:18Speaker 3: movement he got at the point of attack, and that's
- 16:21Speaker 3: up against you know, Benton and against Hayward and some
- 16:24Speaker 3: of those guys inside, Like, I thought Tipman might be
- 16:27Speaker 3: a better guard than he is a center, and Josh
- 16:30Speaker 3: Myers is fine, So I don't feel like it's obviously
- 16:34Speaker 3: there's a depth concern there. You lose a great player
- 16:37Speaker 3: and you know, trickles down. But I thought Tipman and
- 16:39Speaker 3: Myers played really well in their spots yesterday.
- 16:42Speaker 2: Buck real quick. I want to get to DK because
- 16:45Speaker 2: again watching that DK, not only did he make some
- 16:48Speaker 2: explosive plays, there were seven. I think we're seven explosive plays.
- 16:51Speaker 2: DK had three, Calvin Austin had three, but you get
- 16:54Speaker 2: DK through Calvin Austin's three. Two of them are because
- 16:57Speaker 2: of DK, where DK's running off coverage and taking bodies
- 17:00Speaker 2: and Calvin Austin gets loose. The other one was they
- 17:02Speaker 2: lined him up, which is awesome play design, in between
- 17:04Speaker 2: the tight end and the tackle and they kind of
- 17:06Speaker 2: almost like an elevator screen in basketball. They kind of
- 17:08Speaker 2: fan out. He gets up in between them and they
- 17:10Speaker 2: kind of hit him on a little almost many wheel
- 17:12Speaker 2: there for a touchdown. But I think DK's presence was
- 17:15Speaker 2: felt in that game, not only when he was getting
- 17:16Speaker 2: the ball, but just just having him out there opens
- 17:18Speaker 2: things up for everybody else.
- 17:20Speaker 3: You know.
- 17:20Speaker 4: It's funny and talking to those guys during the preseason,
- 17:23Speaker 4: like Mike Tomlin has openly talked about how they needed
- 17:26Speaker 4: some guys with a little edginess. They wanted to get
- 17:28Speaker 4: back to being the Steelers. DJU obviously are familiar with
- 17:30Speaker 4: the Steelers, haven't been with the Ravens for so long,
- 17:33Speaker 4: and we know that they're at their best when they
- 17:35Speaker 4: have a handful of guys that I would say are
- 17:37Speaker 4: wired a little differently than everybody else. And when I
- 17:40Speaker 4: look at this team with Dk Metcalf and the way
- 17:43Speaker 4: that he is feisty and feroches on the perimeter, I
- 17:45Speaker 4: think about Aaron Rodgers and what he brings in terms
- 17:47Speaker 4: of his temperament and personality, Jalen Ramsey coming over making
- 17:51Speaker 4: a big hit at the end, and some of the
- 17:53Speaker 4: other guys that they've added to the thing. Darius Slay
- 17:56Speaker 4: has a little bit of that to me. Even though
- 17:59Speaker 4: they would say deep abstlee, they didn't play to the
- 18:01Speaker 4: brand the person Kneil. They look and feel like Steelers
- 18:06Speaker 4: and that makes them a dangerous team provided they're able
- 18:09Speaker 4: to stay healthy at some of those key spots.
- 18:12Speaker 2: Let's uh, let's take a quick break here when jump
- 18:14Speaker 2: back in, I want to hit to uh Washington Giants, Ballda,
- 18:17Speaker 2: I know you're cooking with gas on that and we'll
- 18:19Speaker 2: get to that right after this, all right, Baldy, Uh yeah,
- 18:25Speaker 2: feel free. You want to go good Washington, You want
- 18:27Speaker 2: to go bad Giants? Your your call.
- 18:29Speaker 3: Let's go good Washington because well, Giants kept in the
- 18:33Speaker 3: game for a long time, and you know that the
- 18:36Speaker 3: offense is dreadful. I thought Washington consistently moved the football,
- 18:42Speaker 3: and you know it's just good to go, you know,
- 18:45Speaker 3: to Northwest Stadium and just see that place jumping because
- 18:48Speaker 3: it's been a while. But I mean Jadon Daniels. You
- 18:51Speaker 3: can't we when we well never, I don't think we're
- 18:55Speaker 3: gonna run out of superlatives. You can't like the guy
- 18:58Speaker 3: is just so calm. He he seized the field amazingly. Well,
- 19:01Speaker 3: they dropped a lot of his passes yesterday. I mean
- 19:04Speaker 3: zach Ertz dropped one and McLaurin dropped him. You know,
- 19:08Speaker 3: they all dropped passes. But I thought he played spectacular.
- 19:13Speaker 3: And then you look at the run game and this
- 19:17Speaker 3: guy Bill Okay, like this kid, I mean he popped
- 19:23Speaker 3: and he didn't start Austin Hechler starter. But this kid
- 19:26Speaker 3: came in and you know, you talked to some of
- 19:28Speaker 3: the guys there, Adam George whatever, they all said that
- 19:33Speaker 3: he was the best back, and he showed it yesterday.
- 19:35Speaker 3: His pop and his vision and his cutting was just elite.
- 19:39Speaker 3: And so they got they got a good thing from
- 19:42Speaker 3: the run game. And then on the other side, they
- 19:45Speaker 3: were the thirtieth ranks rush defense football and it was
- 19:47Speaker 3: a big weakness and they went out and they got
- 19:50Speaker 3: you know, they got a bunch of different guys that
- 19:52Speaker 3: come in and you look at what they did yesterday.
- 19:57Speaker 3: Javon came in and you look at you know, wis
- 20:00Speaker 3: Dietrich wise, Like, they added some bodies and they played
- 20:04Speaker 3: great run defense. Yesterday the Giants they couldn't score from
- 20:08Speaker 3: first and goal with the one they couldn't score like,
- 20:11Speaker 3: they won the line of scrimmage up front, and it
- 20:14Speaker 3: was pretty impressive for what they did.
- 20:17Speaker 4: When I think about what the commanders are and what
- 20:21Speaker 4: they could be with Jayden Daniels, I think about the
- 20:23Speaker 4: weapons that they added, being able to have more firepower
- 20:26Speaker 4: on the perimeter. You think about Debo, you have Terry
- 20:28Speaker 4: coming back, but also you talk about Bill Little Bill
- 20:31Speaker 4: as they talk about him being able to have that
- 20:33Speaker 4: explosive element in the backfield and then putting it together,
- 20:36Speaker 4: and I would say, by no means was just like
- 20:38Speaker 4: a classic vintage Washington performance. But you can already see
- 20:42Speaker 4: the potential in terms of what they could be. And
- 20:44Speaker 4: I just think and I firmly believe this division between
- 20:47Speaker 4: Philly and Washington, like the arms race that is being
- 20:50Speaker 4: created in the offseason and how they continue to play out.
- 20:53Speaker 4: I just can't wait to continue to see the evolution
- 20:55Speaker 4: of this offense and the maturation of Jayden Daniels. You
- 20:59Speaker 4: always worried that second year when they come back to
- 21:02Speaker 4: the back after the league spends the year kind of
- 21:04Speaker 4: picking apart the game. I just kind of want to
- 21:07Speaker 4: continue to see how does he count the counters that
- 21:09Speaker 4: are going to be used at him, and how does
- 21:11Speaker 4: Cliff Kingsbury get him to continue to play at the
- 21:14Speaker 4: high level that he's playing at right now.
- 21:16Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you guys are on it. I mean,
- 21:18Speaker 2: Bill crossky merit. It's It's one thing when you're like, Okay,
- 21:24Speaker 2: this guy accumulated some stuff. It's another thing when you
- 21:26Speaker 2: pop on the video and you're like, oh that looks different,
- 21:29Speaker 2: like that stop, start and then just burst like he
- 21:32Speaker 2: had big time burst. And I don't think it's it
- 21:36Speaker 2: might already be here. He's their most talent running back.
- 21:38Speaker 2: I don't think that's even a debate. And I think
- 21:40Speaker 2: he's going to be their feature guy, you know, going
- 21:42Speaker 2: forward for the rest of the year. I'm excited to
- 21:43Speaker 2: watch him. He's got a real he's got a legit
- 21:45Speaker 2: shot to be the rookie of the year, like he
- 21:46Speaker 2: could in this offense. With the weapons that they have
- 21:49Speaker 2: and the quarterback they have and the offensive line that's upgraded,
- 21:53Speaker 2: He's going to have an absolute monster year. Baldi, we
- 21:55Speaker 2: were talking about it. I was watching eighty five with
- 21:59Speaker 2: Noah Brown on watching him block his butt off, and
- 22:02Speaker 2: you go all peak baits and I'm like, oh, I
- 22:04Speaker 2: didn't know Bates's number off top of my head, but
- 22:06Speaker 2: I think is he eighty Yeah, he's eighty seven. Yeah,
- 22:08Speaker 2: he's blocking his butt off too. Like it tells you
- 22:10Speaker 2: the culture of a place when you look at how
- 22:12Speaker 2: the receivers and the tight end block.
- 22:13Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I mean John Bates at number eighty seven
- 22:17Speaker 3: for Washington. He is a he's a great he's a
- 22:20Speaker 3: great blocker. And he's and Cliff. It's interesting, you know,
- 22:24Speaker 3: so Cliff comes out of the Big twelve and Texas
- 22:27Speaker 3: Tech and never saw a tight end in his entire life.
- 22:30Speaker 3: Now he knows how to use these tight ends. Amazing,
- 22:33Speaker 3: how he's evolved and how he'll have you know, zach
- 22:37Speaker 3: Ertz out there, he's still doing his thing somehow, and
- 22:39Speaker 3: his thirteenth year, zach Ertz is still winning one on
- 22:42Speaker 3: ones and scoring touchdowns and you know he's gonna fall
- 22:45Speaker 3: down as soon as he catches it, but it's just
- 22:47Speaker 3: gonna be in the end zone. But John, Yeah, this
- 22:50Speaker 3: John Bates is a great blocker at the point of attack.
- 22:52Speaker 3: They ask him to do a lot of different things.
- 22:54Speaker 3: He's in motion, he's ceiling, you know, the split zones.
- 22:58Speaker 3: He's really good at what he does, and they really
- 23:00Speaker 3: take advantage of it. And so they got a strong
- 23:03Speaker 3: side attack, whether it's Jade Daniels or Crosskey Merritt, whoever's running,
- 23:07Speaker 3: and they ran a countertrait like Joe Gibbs to be
- 23:11Speaker 3: really proud of, you know, to thinking it's Russ Grimm
- 23:13Speaker 3: and Joe Jacobe pulling on the backside, and you know,
- 23:17Speaker 3: Bates got the key block on the linebacker buried him
- 23:20Speaker 3: and Crosskey Merritt scored on the play, and I just thought, like,
- 23:23Speaker 3: where's the hogs when you when you do that's what?
- 23:27Speaker 4: Hey?
- 23:27Speaker 2: Buck, who's starting a quarterback for the Giants next week?
- 23:30Speaker 2: As we record this?
- 23:31Speaker 4: Look, man, I think Russell gets one more than eventually
- 23:34Speaker 4: to go aheaded to Jackson Dart.
- 23:36Speaker 2: You'll take the under on that.
- 23:38Speaker 4: Oh okay, well, inside information.
- 23:41Speaker 2: No, no, there's no inside information.
- 23:43Speaker 4: I'm just it's interesting.
- 23:45Speaker 1: But before he answered, like yesterday, Ian reported before the
- 23:49Speaker 1: game that Jackson Dart was going to have a package
- 23:52Speaker 1: of place for him, and I saw him down the
- 23:54Speaker 1: field and he didn't say no.
- 23:56Speaker 3: When I asked him about it, he didn't say yes,
- 23:59Speaker 3: but he did shut it down by any stretch. And
- 24:01Speaker 3: then he didn't get on the field, And I kept
- 24:03Speaker 3: looking on the sideline going how much longer you're going
- 24:05Speaker 3: to watch this.
- 24:07Speaker 2: Wilson as an offensive head coach?
- 24:10Speaker 3: You're an offensive coach walking.
- 24:12Speaker 4: It's brutal. Look, man, it's been like that. But they
- 24:15Speaker 4: knew that when they signed it. And so it's one
- 24:19Speaker 4: of those things like if you are da've all like, like,
- 24:22Speaker 4: how long are we going to go with this? Because
- 24:24Speaker 4: he was brought in and hired as head coach where
- 24:26Speaker 4: his offensive widgery wizardry, but we're not seeing any of that.
- 24:29Speaker 4: And the more that I see elite neighbors on the
- 24:31Speaker 4: sideline getting mad and fed up and frustrated, Like it's
- 24:34Speaker 4: a lot to manage and I don't know if Jackson
- 24:37Speaker 4: darts could be the answer to managing that, but it's
- 24:40Speaker 4: an issue and they got to figure out what's going
- 24:42Speaker 4: to happen.
- 24:42Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting. So you know, Milik and Jake Daniels
- 24:45Speaker 3: are literally best friends, so like they can't before the game,
- 24:49Speaker 3: after the game, like they're hugging. But I'm sure Malik
- 24:53Speaker 3: is watching Jaye Daniels get the ball till his whole
- 24:56Speaker 3: fleet of receivers, and he's like, that's all I want.
- 25:00Speaker 3: That's all I want is a guy that could get
- 25:01Speaker 3: me the ball. And the only thing they can really
- 25:03Speaker 3: do to Malik right now in this offense is throw
- 25:05Speaker 3: jump balls to him, which he's great at. And he
- 25:08Speaker 3: caught a couple, and they probably should have flagged a
- 25:10Speaker 3: couple of interference penalties on Marshall Lattimore or you know,
- 25:14Speaker 3: Trey Angs on some plays. It looks like it to me,
- 25:17Speaker 3: but I'm sure Malik is just watching this like a
- 25:20Speaker 3: lot of these guys just give me a quarterback and
- 25:22Speaker 3: get me a ball, like we're down in a goal line,
- 25:24Speaker 3: like I should be scoring here, and they can't rEFInd
- 25:27Speaker 3: him right now.
- 25:28Speaker 2: All right, Calvin just put in the chat as we're
- 25:30Speaker 2: talking here that Ian had tweeted the day Ball announced
- 25:34Speaker 2: Russell Wilson will start Sunday versus the Cowboys. I have
- 25:37Speaker 2: not seen a tweet that said if he will finish
- 25:39Speaker 2: versus the Cowboys. Yea, so we'll see. I know he's
- 25:42Speaker 2: not as an offensive head coach who's in a gotta
- 25:45Speaker 2: have it year to maintain employment. I cannot imagine he
- 25:49Speaker 2: watches four more quarters of what he watched, but there's
- 25:52Speaker 2: no way you start rest. But if that Jay he
- 25:55Speaker 2: finishes that game, do.
- 25:56Speaker 3: You think that the conversation is being had with Kafka
- 25:59Speaker 3: and Marya, the whole group over there, and they're saying, boy,
- 26:02Speaker 3: if we make to switch now this is a panic move,
- 26:04Speaker 3: or you say the hell with the panic move. This
- 26:06Speaker 3: gives ourselves the best chance to win.
- 26:09Speaker 2: We got to be we gotta be playing, and more importantly,
- 26:12Speaker 2: this rookie quarterback needs to be getting better and playing
- 26:15Speaker 2: well at the end of the year. So to me,
- 26:17Speaker 2: if you look at their schedule, it is murderer's row.
- 26:19Speaker 2: You can say, oh, we're going to what where you
- 26:21Speaker 2: gonna slide him in? It's one freaking a head knocker
- 26:23Speaker 2: after another after another after another. So my thing is, okay,
- 26:27Speaker 2: there's two things that you have to be buck to
- 26:29Speaker 2: get on the field as a rookie quarterback, and that
- 26:32Speaker 2: is mentally and physically tough, because you're gonna they're gonna
- 26:35Speaker 2: get hit because they're going to come after him, and
- 26:37Speaker 2: then you're gonna have failure. So to me, from what
- 26:40Speaker 2: we know and we spent time around him. I did
- 26:42Speaker 2: all my homework on Jackson Dart. I know for a
- 26:44Speaker 2: fact he passes the physically tough part of it, and
- 26:46Speaker 2: everything that I've heard about him in my interactions with him,
- 26:49Speaker 2: I think he's mentally strong enough to be able to
- 26:51Speaker 2: handle a little failure that's going to come his way.
- 26:53Speaker 2: But get him out there, get him up and running,
- 26:54Speaker 2: so that by the end of the year he's playing
- 26:56Speaker 2: some good ball and we can all run this thing back.
- 26:58Speaker 4: You know, here's the thing. I think it all depends
- 27:01Speaker 4: on how the conversation is shaped between head, coach, front office,
- 27:04Speaker 4: and ownership. Like, if you have I don't want to see
- 27:08Speaker 4: assurances that you're going to be back and this is
- 27:09Speaker 4: part of a long term plan and process, then I
- 27:12Speaker 4: probably feel better about putting the young guy out there
- 27:15Speaker 4: to work through it. But if it's a mix of, hey,
- 27:17Speaker 4: we want to work the young guy out, but we
- 27:19Speaker 4: still are holding you to a standard where you need
- 27:20Speaker 4: to win some games that can be hard to pull
- 27:22Speaker 4: off at one time, particularly against the murderers road that
- 27:25Speaker 4: you talk about on the schedule. This has to be
- 27:28Speaker 4: an organizational decision when you decide that Jackson Dart is
- 27:31Speaker 4: going to be the quarterback, and once he goes in,
- 27:34Speaker 4: it can't be oh, we're gonna pull him out once
- 27:36Speaker 4: he goes in. It has to be a full commitment
- 27:38Speaker 4: that we're all in on the Jackson Dart Show and
- 27:41Speaker 4: our job, offensively is to get him going and we're
- 27:44Speaker 4: going try and win as many games as we can
- 27:46Speaker 4: while we're working through some of those growing pains.
- 27:49Speaker 2: God, it's just so ugly what they're watching. I don't
- 27:51Speaker 2: know how much longer they're going to want to watch that.
- 27:53Speaker 2: So we'll see it. Hey, let's get to let's get
- 27:55Speaker 2: to Michcah parsons first game there with Green Bay. I mean, look,
- 27:59Speaker 2: we're talking about what we saw personnel wise, and that's
- 28:02Speaker 2: kind of what we do on this show. But Paul
- 28:04Speaker 2: I got to give the stadium operations folks some love.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Pretty cool when they had him introduced as the last
- 28:10Speaker 2: guy coming out of the tunnel. Saw that little clip
- 28:12Speaker 2: that was floating around, pretty epic scene there in Lambeau.
- 28:16Speaker 3: You know, first of all, I mean he played thirty snaps,
- 28:19Speaker 3: so you know, probably about half half the action. A
- 28:22Speaker 3: lot of them were pass rushers, and he looked like
- 28:24Speaker 3: Michael Parsons in a Green Bay uniform. The guy was
- 28:27Speaker 3: elite off I mean, there's Penney Sewel over there and
- 28:30Speaker 3: he's beating him inside and you know he's getting into
- 28:33Speaker 3: Goth's face and he's thrown an interception. Evan Williams GoF
- 28:36Speaker 3: gets off the spot and here he comes like it's
- 28:39Speaker 3: just you know, nobody's getting away from Michael Parsons. No
- 28:42Speaker 3: quarterback is getting away from when he's on the chase.
- 28:44Speaker 3: So you saw a lot of that. But then you know,
- 28:47Speaker 3: you saw you saw in the game where they Detroit
- 28:52Speaker 3: was already game planning for They're already chipping him, They're
- 28:55Speaker 3: already taking the guard and sliding there. And so here
- 28:57Speaker 3: comes Rashaun and Lucas nests and they're eating a little
- 29:01Speaker 3: they they want to rob the middle of the field.
- 29:04Speaker 3: But you know, Jared Goff that was offense looked awful.
- 29:07Speaker 3: But I thought Micah looked excited to be there, like
- 29:10Speaker 3: he's jumping on. I haven't seen him that excited in
- 29:12Speaker 3: a while, but I think he was pumped to get
- 29:14Speaker 3: out there and do this thing. I don't know how
- 29:16Speaker 3: bad the back is, I'm not really because it didn't
- 29:18Speaker 3: look like it affected him at all. He looked like
- 29:20Speaker 3: the same guy, instant takeoff, beating some good players out there.
- 29:24Speaker 3: They moved him around quite a bit. They played, they
- 29:26Speaker 3: rushed them over the guard, they rushed them right side,
- 29:28Speaker 3: left side, so they had a play in form and
- 29:32Speaker 3: I thought he had about four or five rushers that
- 29:34Speaker 3: were outstanding.
- 29:35Speaker 4: I'm gonna say this because we all have been tied
- 29:38Speaker 4: to great organizations. Organizations that I say are first class
- 29:41Speaker 4: or they have championship standards have been played in Green Bay.
- 29:45Speaker 4: What I get from Michael Parsons is there's a clear
- 29:49Speaker 4: understanding of what is expected of him, and that might
- 29:52Speaker 4: have been different than what it was in Dallas. Baudy,
- 29:54Speaker 4: you played in Dallas. I'm sure Dallas now is different
- 29:56Speaker 4: in Dallas back then. But what I do know about
- 29:59Speaker 4: Green Bay when you walk in those hallowed halls, everything
- 30:01Speaker 4: goes back to those days of Ben's Lambarden, even Curly Lambau,
- 30:05Speaker 4: about how you expected to conduct yourself in that building.
- 30:09Speaker 4: Michael Parsons talked early in the week about Hey, on
- 30:12Speaker 4: the day off, I came in and there were so
- 30:13Speaker 4: many guys here I've never seen that I can tell
- 30:16Speaker 4: you in Green Bay. That is the expectation, like They
- 30:19Speaker 4: don't call that place title town for nothing, so I'm
- 30:23Speaker 4: not surprised that when they did the intro and they
- 30:26Speaker 4: called him last. Part of that is to ingratiate him
- 30:29Speaker 4: to the franchise, the community, or whatever, but it's also
- 30:34Speaker 4: to let him know what the expectations are for him
- 30:37Speaker 4: on the field. Look, man, Jeff Affley, I knew he
- 30:40Speaker 4: was gonna have a thing because when you are a
- 30:42Speaker 4: vision and break seaball getball defense like they want to be.
- 30:45Speaker 4: When you get a pass rusher, the turnovers come in droves,
- 30:49Speaker 4: and moving him around and being able to take advantage
- 30:52Speaker 4: of his pass rushing prowess not only sets up those
- 30:56Speaker 4: other pass rushers to get busy, as you talked about
- 30:58Speaker 4: Rashan Gary and Devin Wyatt and those guys, but in
- 31:02Speaker 4: the back end, man, you talk about being able to
- 31:04Speaker 4: squat and include a quarterback knowing that, hey, thousand and one,
- 31:09Speaker 4: one thousand and two, the balls coming out. The Green
- 31:12Speaker 4: Bay Packers became a title contender when they acquired Michael
- 31:16Speaker 4: Parson's because I felt like they're going to be one
- 31:19Speaker 4: of the few organizations that could get the best out
- 31:22Speaker 4: of him. Because he has to comply to the standards
- 31:25Speaker 4: because they've been greater players that are played there before him,
- 31:29Speaker 4: and he'll understand what is expected of him.
- 31:32Speaker 2: To me, it's about what it does for all the
- 31:34Speaker 2: other guys on that defense. It's literally like I think
- 31:37Speaker 2: about baseball. You acquired a three hole hitter at the
- 31:40Speaker 2: trade deadline, is what you did. And now all of
- 31:42Speaker 2: a sudden, your three hitter gets to move down a
- 31:44Speaker 2: little bit. All of a sudden, now your five hitters
- 31:46Speaker 2: now hitting this set. Everybody's getting better pitches. And you
- 31:48Speaker 2: saw Rashan Gary in one on ones with Taylor Decker,
- 31:52Speaker 2: and I'm not you know, Baldly, you own nicknames for players.
- 31:56Speaker 2: We go to the condor with Max Crosby, go you
- 31:58Speaker 2: know Highway seventy seven. You're the nickname guy. I'm gonna
- 32:01Speaker 2: give you one free of charge. Rashan Gary, it should
- 32:04Speaker 2: be his nickname should be Amco because he is testing
- 32:08Speaker 2: your breaks as an offensive tackle and and Decker's breaks
- 32:11Speaker 2: were not working well against the power that he was facing.
- 32:14Speaker 2: That was roller skates straight back to the quarterback. But
- 32:17Speaker 2: there is a lot of power there that if we
- 32:20Speaker 2: just put that video on Baldy's breakdowns and let's get
- 32:22Speaker 2: the amco thing double a. So that that was one thing,
- 32:27Speaker 2: and the other thing was if you haven't I loved
- 32:31Speaker 2: him coming out and I haven't just watched a ton
- 32:33Speaker 2: of him since he's been in the league. Eddrin Cooper
- 32:35Speaker 2: is going to be a major problem for people, no doubt, dynamic.
- 32:39Speaker 2: He's explosive. Guards trying to get up to him that
- 32:42Speaker 2: he just dips and dodgs. You can't get your hands
- 32:44Speaker 2: on him. He's too sudden, too twitchy, and too explosive.
- 32:47Speaker 3: So that game, uh, you know when he was at
- 32:50Speaker 3: A and M against Alabama when it was just like
- 32:52Speaker 3: about him drafted like he did everything that day. But
- 32:56Speaker 3: he took over the second half of the season last
- 32:58Speaker 3: year and he's on a he's on a good course
- 33:01Speaker 3: to a bunch of tackles that make a lot of plays.
- 33:04Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the negative side of this thing,
- 33:06Speaker 2: because a lot was discussed about Detroit. You lose both coordinators.
- 33:10Speaker 2: What's that going to look like? What's the plan? So
- 33:12Speaker 2: I'm just gonna start this is the area I focused on,
- 33:14Speaker 2: Buck and then I'll see what you think and Baldy
- 33:17Speaker 2: pick it up. But red Zone. Look, they lost the
- 33:20Speaker 2: game by a couple scores, but you're one of four
- 33:23Speaker 2: in the red zone. That's the that's the story of
- 33:25Speaker 2: the game. Green Bays three of five, Like, just do
- 33:27Speaker 2: the math on that one. That that tells you the
- 33:29Speaker 2: whole story of the game. So they had thirteen plays.
- 33:31Speaker 2: They ran in the red zone, ten passes, three runs
- 33:34Speaker 2: for Detroit. Let's go with the first time they're in there.
- 33:37Speaker 2: They go gun, no play action, throw a flat route
- 33:40Speaker 2: for five yards to Gibbs. They come back, they're under center.
- 33:44Speaker 2: It's a run, no game. That's where Drian Cooper just
- 33:46Speaker 2: beats the tight end on the backside cut off. Then,
- 33:49Speaker 2: so now we're in third down, we're in Gun's there's
- 33:53Speaker 2: absolutely nothing there. There's no play action, there's no mesh.
- 33:57Speaker 2: There's just just swarmed and covered in smooth there's nothing
- 34:00Speaker 2: for golf incomplete. So that's their first one. They go
- 34:02Speaker 2: to the second time they're down there, gun, no play action,
- 34:05Speaker 2: pass throwaway, gun run Pina sewell he gets beat, Mahogan,
- 34:11Speaker 2: he gets beat. So you get nothing on a second
- 34:13Speaker 2: down run the third down, gun, no play action, no mesh,
- 34:17Speaker 2: golf just locks on. There's nothing there, gets picked. So
- 34:21Speaker 2: now we've got one failure, one turnover we get to
- 34:23Speaker 2: the third possession under center, they go under center play action,
- 34:27Speaker 2: but there's no mesh. There's nothing in that restricted space
- 34:30Speaker 2: to create any separation. So they're just absolutely smothered under center,
- 34:35Speaker 2: run tackle for loss, third and sixteen. They just dump
- 34:38Speaker 2: one off to the flat. The only time they did
- 34:40Speaker 2: anything in the red zone is the fourth quarter, minute
- 34:42Speaker 2: thirty four. You're down by twenty one points. They run
- 34:44Speaker 2: four verticals, they dumped the ball down and then they
- 34:47Speaker 2: hit Tesla in the back of the end zone makes
- 34:49Speaker 2: an unbelievable catching, but the game's over at that point
- 34:51Speaker 2: in time. So I go back and watch last year.
- 34:54Speaker 2: I'm like, what was the difference. I watched all the
- 34:56Speaker 2: red zone snaps against Green Bay last year. I saw
- 34:59Speaker 2: more shifts, motion movement, I saw a tight end screen.
- 35:02Speaker 2: I saw Mom and Ross Saint Brown on an inside
- 35:04Speaker 2: reverse pop one the I'm just it looked stale and static.
- 35:10Speaker 2: It did not look creative. And it's one week buck.
- 35:12Speaker 2: I don't want to overreact on the coaching side of things,
- 35:15Speaker 2: but that was alarming what you saw from Detroit's offense.
- 35:18Speaker 4: Look, I'm not surprised. That's one of the things that
- 35:20Speaker 4: was the biggest question is why you couldn't pencil the
- 35:22Speaker 4: Detroit lines in as a prohibitive favorite in that division.
- 35:26Speaker 4: When you lose both coordinators you talk about Ben Johnson
- 35:29Speaker 4: and Aaron Glnn respectively, it changes the way this team's
- 35:32Speaker 4: going to be, regardless of the personnel carry over. When
- 35:36Speaker 4: you have John Morton coming in, who is a John
- 35:38Speaker 4: Gruden West Coast disciple, and he's replacing Ben Johnson, who
- 35:42Speaker 4: is a creative, artistic wizard. When it came to that offense,
- 35:48Speaker 4: it was going to be different, and I wondered how
- 35:51Speaker 4: much pressure John mort would have to match the creativity
- 35:55Speaker 4: that Ben Johnson left, because that offense was fun, it
- 35:58Speaker 4: was physical, and they had a bill needed more between
- 36:01Speaker 4: Finesse and Forrest. I don't know if you can match that,
- 36:04Speaker 4: and we have to get used to seeing a very generic,
- 36:08Speaker 4: very static Lions offense and I just don't know. Personnel wise,
- 36:13Speaker 4: that's cool, but you have to have superior personnel everywhere
- 36:17Speaker 4: to play vanilla ice cream type offense and win consistently
- 36:20Speaker 4: in this league.
- 36:21Speaker 3: I've always I've always maintained since I was in Dallas
- 36:26Speaker 3: and we lost a lot of great assistant coaches, Jeene
- 36:28Speaker 3: Stallings and Dickens some really good coaches that it's more
- 36:32Speaker 3: difficult to replace great coaches than it is great players.
- 36:35Speaker 3: Now that being said, losing Frank rag Now and Kevin
- 36:39Speaker 3: Zeitler and just seeing Graham Glasgow will go over to
- 36:43Speaker 3: center and then two new guards in there, like, they're
- 36:46Speaker 3: just not as good upfront right now. Now maybe they
- 36:49Speaker 3: get better. And Decker, you know, they thought about replacing
- 36:52Speaker 3: him a year ago, so they're not as good upfront
- 36:56Speaker 3: where you might have the confidence to try some of
- 36:59Speaker 3: these things and work some of these gimmick not gimmicks,
- 37:03Speaker 3: but some of these things that Ben Johnson liked to do.
- 37:06Speaker 3: It all started with the ability to win the line
- 37:08Speaker 3: of scrimmage, and I don't know that they weren't close
- 37:11Speaker 3: to doing that yesterday, And so I think that that's
- 37:14Speaker 3: another thing to watch, is the guard, the interior offensive
- 37:17Speaker 3: line play and how that affects this offense.
- 37:21Speaker 2: It's gonna be hard in that division too, with who
- 37:22Speaker 2: you're gonna see defensively. So look, it's one game. Let's
- 37:27Speaker 2: I'm not gonna try and way overreact to it. But
- 37:29Speaker 2: I would just use the word alarming. It wasn't great
- 37:31Speaker 2: there for Detroit. Baldi Tampa Atlanta great game. Did what
- 37:36Speaker 2: did you see in that one?
- 37:37Speaker 4: Uh?
- 37:38Speaker 3: Well, you know, they lost Tristan Waris in the offseason
- 37:42Speaker 3: and so in the preseason they had different guys playing
- 37:46Speaker 3: left tackle. Well, for this game, they adjusted the whole
- 37:48Speaker 3: offensive line. They took Graham Barton and played him at
- 37:50Speaker 3: left tackle. They took Ben Britis in their left guard,
- 37:53Speaker 3: they put him at center, and then they put Michael
- 37:56Speaker 3: Jordan in at left guard. And they played great. They
- 37:59Speaker 3: played great. I mean, all those all the emphasis that
- 38:02Speaker 3: Atlanta had on getting these pass rushers James Pearce and
- 38:06Speaker 3: Jalen Walker and you know, Leonard Floyd, like all of
- 38:09Speaker 3: the whole emphasis was We're going to get to the quarterback,
- 38:12Speaker 3: except they didn't. And Baker was like, the two touchdown
- 38:18Speaker 3: throws to Abuca are just dying absolute dimes. But he
- 38:22Speaker 3: also had trusted his protection and he did it from
- 38:25Speaker 3: the pocket and they were beautiful throws, including the game winner,
- 38:29Speaker 3: uh to a Buka.
- 38:30Speaker 4: Uh.
- 38:31Speaker 3: That was that was really encouraging that you could manage
- 38:36Speaker 3: the offensive line, make the switches they did, and the
- 38:39Speaker 3: players and not playing at all in any games together
- 38:42Speaker 3: in preseason and then putting that out there on the
- 38:45Speaker 3: road in Atlanta in a packed house that was encouraging.
- 38:48Speaker 3: On the other side of Michael Pennis, I thought he
- 38:50Speaker 3: played great. You know, it really came down to a
- 38:54Speaker 3: turnover at the end of the game, but I thought
- 38:56Speaker 3: he had him in the game all the way to
- 38:58Speaker 3: the very end. Fact, he throws a ball to Casey
- 39:00Speaker 3: Washington with sixteen seconds ago, He's got it at the five.
- 39:04Speaker 3: It's in hands that Antoine Winfield came and just blew
- 39:06Speaker 3: him up and it became an incompletion. Buddy. He gave
- 39:09Speaker 3: him a chance to the very very end. And the
- 39:12Speaker 3: talent they lost Drake Drake London is a huge loss.
- 39:15Speaker 3: But you know, the throws to Bijon what he did,
- 39:19Speaker 3: Kyle Pitch looked like he was involved in the offense
- 39:21Speaker 3: for the first time in a long time. Casey Washington,
- 39:24Speaker 3: I didn't know who he was until this game. Like
- 39:28Speaker 3: it was, it was a good It was a good
- 39:30Speaker 3: NFC South game, I'll say.
- 39:31Speaker 4: You that, yeah, a good NFC South game. And I
- 39:34Speaker 4: think we have to come to the realization that Tempay
- 39:36Speaker 4: Buccaneers have kind of cracked the code when it comes
- 39:38Speaker 4: to dominating that division. They won four straight division titles.
- 39:41Speaker 4: They always kind of have a sense of how to
- 39:43Speaker 4: win those games. But Todd Bowles and the job that
- 39:47Speaker 4: Jason Light has done and kind of building up that talent,
- 39:49Speaker 4: this is a team that's gonna be very dangerous down
- 39:52Speaker 4: the stretch. And when I think about offensively, what they
- 39:54Speaker 4: were able to do a Mecca Buca. You have Mike Evans,
- 39:57Speaker 4: you don't have Chris Gottwin yet, but when they get
- 39:59Speaker 4: those guys back and then they're able to continue to
- 40:01Speaker 4: run the ball, this is gonna be a tough team
- 40:04Speaker 4: because officously they're gonna be able to control it via
- 40:06Speaker 4: the run or pass. But defensively, what Todd Bowles does
- 40:10Speaker 4: with all those exotic zone pressures, man, he gives you
- 40:14Speaker 4: a headache physically and mentally with all the stuff that
- 40:17Speaker 4: they do. This is a really good team and they're
- 40:19Speaker 4: gonna fly out the radar, but they're gonna be one
- 40:21Speaker 4: of those teams that you're gonna have to deal with
- 40:22Speaker 4: when we talk about who's gonna be in the final
- 40:24Speaker 4: four when it comes down to Super Super Bowl contendent.
- 40:27Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not click bait, I'm not a power
- 40:30Speaker 2: statement guy, but I know you've got a first bout
- 40:32Speaker 2: Hall of Famer and receiver at Mecca Book is the
- 40:34Speaker 2: best player, their best skilled player on offense. Just just
- 40:37Speaker 2: watching what right now today, and to me, it's not
- 40:40Speaker 2: only the you know, the trust Baker has in him,
- 40:43Speaker 2: his ability to go get the ball, his ability to
- 40:45Speaker 2: set guys up. To me, it was like Temple when
- 40:47Speaker 2: you get guys that know how to temple routes in
- 40:49Speaker 2: their first NFL game, I understand how to let things
- 40:52Speaker 2: open up and then you see different. I was like,
- 40:54Speaker 2: this is some different polish like that, and that's why
- 40:56Speaker 2: they center Ohio State. This guy's a pros pro like
- 40:58Speaker 2: he's he takes in and information. He's going to learn everything.
- 41:03Speaker 2: He knows all the coverages to your point, Baldy, So
- 41:06Speaker 2: uh that was uh, that was what blew me away
- 41:08Speaker 2: from that watching the Mecca Book. Baldi, We've got you
- 41:10Speaker 2: for about five more minutes. So I want to jam
- 41:12Speaker 2: through a couple more games and then if you're listening
- 41:14Speaker 2: to this for the first time, catching us on a Monday,
- 41:16Speaker 2: whatever game, we don't hit here today, Bucky and I
- 41:19Speaker 2: we're going to clean up from more because if we don't,
- 41:20Speaker 2: if we don't talk about it today, we'll get it tomorrow.
- 41:22Speaker 2: I don't want to. I don't want to just short
- 41:23Speaker 2: change stuff because I love the discussions that we're getting
- 41:25Speaker 2: ready to have here, Baldy, let's get to uh, let's
- 41:28Speaker 2: get to Indy. And what they did, I mean maybe
- 41:31Speaker 2: that was the biggest surprise of the week.
- 41:32Speaker 3: That was starting to nothing at one point and it
- 41:36Speaker 3: was just it was complete domination. But I mean, you know, look,
- 41:39Speaker 3: Inianapolis Colts first pick was Tyler Warren, and you can't
- 41:42Speaker 3: watch that game and go, this is Tyler Warren's offense. Like,
- 41:46Speaker 3: first of all, they I thought Chane did a great
- 41:49Speaker 3: psych and did a great job of just making things
- 41:52Speaker 3: like I call it paint by numbers, but Daniel Jones
- 41:55Speaker 3: had very few reads to actually really make you just
- 41:57Speaker 3: had to drop back his back foot and throw it
- 42:00Speaker 3: and there was a guy open. Whether it was the
- 42:02Speaker 3: first touchdown to Pittman where Tyler Warren takes the safety
- 42:06Speaker 3: with him and it opens up the wheel behind it
- 42:08Speaker 3: and there's a great throw. But I just thought that
- 42:10Speaker 3: Tyler Warren in the blocking from the opening drive, catching
- 42:14Speaker 3: three balls and the opening drive right down the field,
- 42:17Speaker 3: like he's so he's so fiery, and how he lays
- 42:22Speaker 3: the game guys bounce off him like he is an
- 42:25Speaker 3: unbelievable target. He runs really well. He is a difference
- 42:30Speaker 3: maker for that team. Third and one, here comes Tyler
- 42:33Speaker 3: Warren on you know, the sneak up the middle. There's
- 42:35Speaker 3: they used them to seal, to pass protect, so many
- 42:39Speaker 3: different ways that they used them. And he was really effective.
- 42:42Speaker 3: And you know by anybody that you know, if you
- 42:45Speaker 3: guys have had a chance to talk to him, like
- 42:47Speaker 3: he says two words, you know that's a lot. Like
- 42:49Speaker 3: he just lets his play do the talking. Like he's
- 42:52Speaker 3: just and you can see it. He's having a great
- 42:54Speaker 3: time out there whatever it is that he's doing. And
- 42:57Speaker 3: he it opened up the whole offense to me.
- 43:00Speaker 4: You know, it's funny you talk about opening another the offense.
- 43:03Speaker 4: Daniel Jones gave us a little preview of what this
- 43:05Speaker 4: was going to look like during the week when he
- 43:07Speaker 4: talked about how Shane Stykeen has a unique ability to
- 43:10Speaker 4: make things very very simple for the quarterback, very.
- 43:12Speaker 3: Black or white.
- 43:14Speaker 4: He gave him credit for not being egotistical enough to
- 43:17Speaker 4: have this huge playbook, but he does the simple things
- 43:20Speaker 4: better than anybody else, and he'll find a million different
- 43:23Speaker 4: ways to run simple concepts that are easy for the quarterback.
- 43:26Speaker 4: And what we saw was the best version of Daniel
- 43:29Speaker 4: Jones in terms of being able to take this thing
- 43:31Speaker 4: and get hot and get going.
- 43:33Speaker 3: And never in a.
- 43:34Speaker 4: Million years did people envision Daniel Jones having this kind
- 43:38Speaker 4: of game, not only in a debut, but where he's
- 43:40Speaker 4: a dominant player and performer. And so if I'm the
- 43:44Speaker 4: Indianapolis Ghost and I'm Shane stycken Man, I feel great
- 43:46Speaker 4: about what this is and what this could be because
- 43:50Speaker 4: Lou and Aroumo and that defense is going to be
- 43:53Speaker 4: much better than people think. And if they can get
- 43:55Speaker 4: consistent production, I'm not saying thirty three points a game
- 43:58Speaker 4: from the offense. Do they get consistent for production where
- 44:01Speaker 4: they're twenty four to twenty six, they're gonna win a
- 44:04Speaker 4: lot of games because defensively, Lou and Aroma is whereas
- 44:07Speaker 4: he knows how to how to unlock the defensive person
- 44:11Speaker 4: in the talent, and we saw that against Miami.
- 44:12Speaker 2: You got me to the defense is where I wanted
- 44:14Speaker 2: to go. I don't want to no name defense has
- 44:16Speaker 2: been used. I don't want to say that, but I
- 44:17Speaker 2: would say when you're putting a scouting report together and
- 44:19Speaker 2: you're going to play the Indianapolis Colts defense. I don't
- 44:22Speaker 2: think there's that one guy where we're like, Okay, we
- 44:23Speaker 2: got to give all our attention to this player. What
- 44:25Speaker 2: they do is they have a lot of really really
- 44:27Speaker 2: good players. So you know, in terms of how many
- 44:29Speaker 2: true blue players they have, I don't know that there's
- 44:31Speaker 2: a lot of those, but there are not a lot
- 44:33Speaker 2: of weaknesses. And when you go through that tape and
- 44:35Speaker 2: you watch Kenny Moore blitzing, you know, playing with timing
- 44:37Speaker 2: and instincts. You watch Grover Grover Stewart putting the centers
- 44:40Speaker 2: and guards on roller skates all day long. Is just
- 44:42Speaker 2: a big, powerful, physical guy. Nick Cross, you know, was
- 44:46Speaker 2: active and physical in the back end. Lat Too is
- 44:49Speaker 2: starting to come along and starting to see some of
- 44:50Speaker 2: what they love so much about him come out of
- 44:52Speaker 2: UCLA Ebukam, who, by the way, I don't know if
- 44:54Speaker 2: he's played for fifty teams, but I feel like every
- 44:56Speaker 2: year I watch Ebukam making plays for somebody. But they
- 45:00Speaker 2: we all can run their athletic and they play really
- 45:02Speaker 2: really hard, And I mean that was that was.
- 45:05Speaker 3: Tua look absolutely flummixed in that game.
- 45:08Speaker 2: Well, their offensive line stinks so let's start.
- 45:11Speaker 3: Okay, but like you know, for Tua not to feel
- 45:14Speaker 3: those two backside blitzers that they talked about anymore and
- 45:16Speaker 3: hit cross coming clean and hitting them and getting the
- 45:19Speaker 3: ball out on one of the occasions, like to not
- 45:22Speaker 3: feel that or know that, like credit lou on a
- 45:25Speaker 3: Room was gonna hit. He's gonna he's gonna blitz the
- 45:27Speaker 3: backside of Tua, but not to feel see it like
- 45:31Speaker 3: that just doesn't feel like to it to me. And
- 45:33Speaker 3: then once he gets hit, now he's starting to read
- 45:36Speaker 3: the rush after that, and that's what Then he really
- 45:38Speaker 3: got himself in the truble.
- 45:40Speaker 2: It was not pretty from Miami. Will we'll spare Miami
- 45:42Speaker 2: the our heat today. I want to get to two
- 45:45Speaker 2: last things, Baldi. Then we'll let you scoot two. Number
- 45:48Speaker 2: one overall quarterbacks. I'll start lead us off on the
- 45:51Speaker 2: first one. Cam Ward making his first start. That's I mean, look,
- 45:54Speaker 2: you're on the road against Denver and that defense. That's
- 45:56Speaker 2: a tough assignment, man, But I'm watching that. He's twelve
- 45:59Speaker 2: to twenty eight for a twelve. He got sacked six times.
- 46:02Speaker 2: He did not run the football one time. So those
- 46:04Speaker 2: are kind of the numbers as they stand out when
- 46:07Speaker 2: you watch the sacks, there's a couple of them of
- 46:09Speaker 2: him just holding the ball. That's the speed at this
- 46:12Speaker 2: adjustment of the speed of the game. You think about
- 46:14Speaker 2: how many times at Miami he would be a statue
- 46:17Speaker 2: like he would just sit there feet in the ground
- 46:18Speaker 2: with that great Miami offensive line. Yeah, that ain't happening here.
- 46:22Speaker 2: So he's got to speed up his process a little bit.
- 46:25Speaker 2: They got beat I mean, gosh, I don't Kushion Barry
- 46:28Speaker 2: got killed in this game. Latham I think was hurt.
- 46:31Speaker 2: I haven't seen the update on that, but he would
- 46:33Speaker 2: laid off the ball the time he struggled, but he
- 46:36Speaker 2: had three drops down the field. I thought that the
- 46:39Speaker 2: biggest takeaway watching him throw the ball was he made
- 46:43Speaker 2: he made two plays on scrambles. But that's not who
- 46:45Speaker 2: he's going to be or how he's going to be
- 46:47Speaker 2: with this team. He's got to play on time. When
- 46:49Speaker 2: he played on time back football gone, he was Okay,
- 46:52Speaker 2: that's baldy. I think that's just kind of the speed
- 46:54Speaker 2: of the game thing for Cam He's just got to
- 46:56Speaker 2: get adjusted.
- 46:57Speaker 3: Well. They probably couldn't have been a worse defensive start
- 47:00Speaker 3: then against Denver. I mean Denver had as many five
- 47:02Speaker 3: man rushes as anybody in this business because they know
- 47:05Speaker 3: they can hold up on the back end. And so
- 47:07Speaker 3: it all takes is Dan Moore, Jay you know, or Kushenbarry,
- 47:11Speaker 3: somebody to get beat by Zach Allen or Benito whoever
- 47:14Speaker 3: you know, was winning the one on ones and now
- 47:16Speaker 3: he's under pressure. Now he's now it's speeding him up.
- 47:20Speaker 3: And so they they are relentless. Van Joseph does a
- 47:23Speaker 3: great job, but he's got great personnelity. Olfango really showed
- 47:26Speaker 3: up in that game, you know, immediately, and so I
- 47:30Speaker 3: just feel like, man, try to find a weakness in
- 47:32Speaker 3: that Denver defense and then have the offensive line to
- 47:35Speaker 3: be able to hold up so a guy can at
- 47:38Speaker 3: least have two and a half seconds to go find
- 47:39Speaker 3: a receiver. He didn't get many of those opportunities.
- 47:43Speaker 4: No, he didn't get many of those. You knew advance
- 47:44Speaker 4: Joseph was gonna doallod up. He's gonna at him up
- 47:47Speaker 4: because that's all he knows. Like this is a team
- 47:49Speaker 4: that was at the top of the league in sack
- 47:50Speaker 4: last year. They believe in bringing pressure. They're relentless when
- 47:53Speaker 4: it comes to it, and having a young guy, they
- 47:55Speaker 4: were setting them up. I'll say this offensively, just got
- 47:58Speaker 4: to see better ball security from bow Knicks and this offense.
- 48:02Speaker 4: Like this is a game that the score was much
- 48:05Speaker 4: closer than it should have been, and that's because they
- 48:07Speaker 4: turned the ball over. They take care of the football
- 48:09Speaker 4: and they kind of get the running the ball and
- 48:11Speaker 4: vo Nicks is efficient. This Broncos team is built and
- 48:14Speaker 4: it just makes me think, Man, the AFC West is
- 48:17Speaker 4: gonna be a head knock because you talk about the Kansay,
- 48:20Speaker 4: the Chiefs being at the bottom, Pete Carroll working his magic,
- 48:23Speaker 4: the Broncos winning, and then the Charge is winning. It's
- 48:26Speaker 4: gonna be tough and I can see it game down
- 48:29Speaker 4: the stretch.
- 48:29Speaker 2: I cant see them all here. So you got to
- 48:31Speaker 2: see the Chiefs Week one. For the Chargers, we'll go
- 48:32Speaker 2: play the uh the Raiders. I'll see that game Monday night,
- 48:35Speaker 2: and then the following week Denver comes to LA, so
- 48:37Speaker 2: the Charger will get a taste of the entire division here.
- 48:39Speaker 2: To start us off, last one Buck game, you were
- 48:42Speaker 2: at Bryce young again, hoping that was going to be
- 48:44Speaker 2: a step forward for him after last year. The Jags
- 48:48Speaker 2: team that you you work for and call games for
- 48:50Speaker 2: they kind of they kind of bottled up this offense.
- 48:53Speaker 4: Yeah, they bought up the offense. But here here's the
- 48:55Speaker 4: funny thing like it, the score is not truly indicative
- 48:59Speaker 4: of what it looked like him watching it up close.
- 49:03Speaker 4: The Panthers want to run the football, and Trouepa Hubbard
- 49:05Speaker 4: had it going. He was averaging like five years of
- 49:06Speaker 4: clip the first half, and then there was a turnover
- 49:09Speaker 4: that kind of flipped the script a little bit, gave
- 49:11Speaker 4: the Jaguars life and they were able to separate, and
- 49:13Speaker 4: then you had the long weather delay and all that
- 49:15Speaker 4: other stuff, and so it just didn't fall in their favor.
- 49:17Speaker 4: When this offense is at his best, Chebra Huver's running
- 49:20Speaker 4: the ball, they finding creative ways to get Bryce Young
- 49:23Speaker 4: out of the pocket on play action, boot action in
- 49:25Speaker 4: those things. Well, let me tell you something. All those
- 49:28Speaker 4: opinions that we had on tedor Roy McMillan about oh,
- 49:31Speaker 4: I don't know, tell me wrong on that this dude
- 49:34Speaker 4: is amazing when it comes to his hand out coordination,
- 49:38Speaker 4: his ability to play big, looking like a natural number
- 49:41Speaker 4: one receiver. If they're able to dictate the terms, meaning
- 49:45Speaker 4: they can run on early downs and get to the
- 49:47Speaker 4: play action where they can find tedyor Roy McMillan, and
- 49:50Speaker 4: he might have to say his whole name, because his
- 49:51Speaker 4: mom chastised me in the elevator about he's not Ted.
- 49:54Speaker 4: He's not going to make sure I call him by
- 49:56Speaker 4: his entire name or t mac whatever it is he's
- 50:00Speaker 4: If they can get that going, they have a chance.
- 50:03Speaker 4: But right now it was piecemeal. It wasn't clean. You
- 50:06Speaker 4: just hope the operation gets better for that offense with
- 50:08Speaker 4: Dave cannot.
- 50:10Speaker 3: Well just just a biggie back here. I mean, Liam
- 50:13Speaker 3: Cohen did an unbelievable job last year in Tampa to
- 50:16Speaker 3: unleash the running game. Now, Bucky every helped. But I
- 50:19Speaker 3: thought the way that he runs it, the way that
- 50:21Speaker 3: he attacks the I thought the way that that offensive
- 50:28Speaker 3: line played together up front, like Traves e. Tan ran
- 50:32Speaker 3: the ball as well as I've seen him running now
- 50:34Speaker 3: in a couple of years, maybe since his rookie year.
- 50:36Speaker 3: And I thought they were really really tight in their
- 50:40Speaker 3: combo blocks when they came off to the linebackers, how
- 50:43Speaker 3: they executed just running inside zones with them. I thought
- 50:47Speaker 3: that was encouraging. It's just it just started. It's not
- 50:49Speaker 3: the greatest I thought it was a good start for
- 50:51Speaker 3: a team that desperately wants some toughness coming out of
- 50:55Speaker 3: the run game, something that they had nothing going for
- 50:58Speaker 3: it the last two years. So I thought that was
- 51:00Speaker 3: a good start for the Jacks.
- 51:01Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll wrap us up here on that one. The
- 51:04Speaker 2: you know, that division all of a sudden, which he
- 51:06Speaker 2: thought might be the worst division in the NFL. All
- 51:09Speaker 2: of a sudden, you look up and Indy does what
- 51:10Speaker 2: they did, and then you look at Jacksonville who looked
- 51:13Speaker 2: like they've they've got it going now with a new
- 51:14Speaker 2: coaching staff and some fun pieces that they've added to
- 51:17Speaker 2: the mix. Yeah, Houston, don't know less of the Rams
- 51:19Speaker 2: on the road. That's a really, really good football team.
- 51:21Speaker 2: Houston is going to be good going throughout the season.
- 51:24Speaker 2: So it looks like that division might end up being
- 51:26Speaker 2: a little bit better than we initially thought. And then, uh,
- 51:28Speaker 2: last thing on on Bryce and the in the Panthers. Yeah, no,
- 51:32Speaker 2: I saw some good things from McMillan.
- 51:34Speaker 4: Buck.
- 51:34Speaker 2: I agree with you on that. My man, look gets
- 51:36Speaker 2: got to freaking get his feet down.
- 51:37Speaker 3: Man.
- 51:37Speaker 2: There's there's two big plays in that game where he
- 51:40Speaker 2: catches the ball. He's got plenty of time, get your
- 51:42Speaker 2: back foot down. He doesn't get it down. Those cost
- 51:45Speaker 2: him a couple They had a couple other drops. I
- 51:47Speaker 2: didn't think the box score wasn't pretty when I watched
- 51:50Speaker 2: the tape. I didn't think Bryce was as bad as
- 51:52Speaker 2: the box score made it look. It could have been.
- 51:54Speaker 2: It could have been a little bit better there. So
- 51:56Speaker 2: that was just bad.
- 51:57Speaker 4: Yeah, not as bad as is it made out be
- 52:00Speaker 4: like it wasn't great, but like it certainly it wasn't
- 52:03Speaker 4: a terrible performance. Like you can build off of some
- 52:05Speaker 4: of the things that he displayed.
- 52:07Speaker 2: Yeah, so anyway that look, there's a lot there's a
- 52:09Speaker 2: lot more games we will we'll get to those tomorrow
- 52:11Speaker 2: on the show as well as so we'll recap our
- 52:13Speaker 2: rookie draft from last week. We'll have our rookie draft
- 52:15Speaker 2: for the upcoming week. And I did just find out
- 52:18Speaker 2: we've got an old friend, Mike Max going to join
- 52:21Speaker 2: us on Thursday, so we'll have him on the show
- 52:23Speaker 2: ball the Maiden Voyage. Man, I kept you seven minutes
- 52:26Speaker 2: longer than I was supposed to, but I love you.
- 52:28Speaker 3: All right, man. I will just put the fine in
- 52:31Speaker 3: the jar.
- 52:32Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, that's right. Two Starbucks, two Starbucks you
- 52:38Speaker 2: next Monday, man, take care of.
- 52:43Speaker 4: All right, buck.
- 52:44Speaker 2: As we kind of wrap this thing up here, Uh
- 52:47Speaker 2: other other big picture takeaway you've got here from week one.
- 52:51Speaker 2: As we close this thing down, don't overreact to anything
- 52:54Speaker 2: that we saw in week one. You really don't know
- 52:56Speaker 2: what a team really looks like. And after we see
- 52:58Speaker 2: about four games.
- 52:59Speaker 4: I use our scouting take where we take three or
- 53:01Speaker 4: four games before make evaluations on players. Same thing about teams,
- 53:05Speaker 4: some guy, Some teams are going to start out slow
- 53:06Speaker 4: out the box. Other teams are gonna get out fast,
- 53:09Speaker 4: but we won't know what team really is until we
- 53:11Speaker 4: get to the quarter point. So fans don't freak out.
- 53:15Speaker 4: But do know, if you start owing two dods or long,
- 53:18Speaker 4: you're making the playoffs. So I'm saying, don't freak out,
- 53:21Speaker 4: but you don't want to be in the in the
- 53:23Speaker 4: winless column for too long because it will into your
- 53:27Speaker 4: ability to make it to the postseason.
- 53:28Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to. I want to just do. We'll
- 53:30Speaker 2: knock out two more things here as we close up shop.
- 53:33Speaker 2: And again thanks to Baldy for joining us. I didn't
- 53:35Speaker 2: get a chance to talk to you about the Charger
- 53:37Speaker 2: game from Friday, so just one point on that. I
- 53:39Speaker 2: mentioned Justin Herbert a little bit earlier talking about how
- 53:42Speaker 2: like I think he can get to where Josh Allen is.
- 53:44Speaker 2: I think he can and if he plays like he
- 53:46Speaker 2: did in that game, he's there just because that was
- 53:49Speaker 2: some big boy throws man against that defense, and they've
- 53:52Speaker 2: all of a sudden. You look up and Chargers team
- 53:54Speaker 2: last year that you know, was a little bit void
- 53:56Speaker 2: of weapons to the point where Will Disley was their
- 53:58Speaker 2: number two option in the playoff game. You look up
- 54:01Speaker 2: and Keenan Allen's back, picking up right where he left
- 54:03Speaker 2: off with Justin Herbert. You look at Quentin Johnson now
- 54:06Speaker 2: as the three, who's getting some advantageous matchups because of
- 54:09Speaker 2: McConkie and Keenan Allen. And then all of a sudden,
- 54:12Speaker 2: Trey Harris, this rookie second round pick, makes a play.
- 54:14Speaker 2: Conklin's an upgrade form at tight end. He makes them play.
- 54:17Speaker 2: I mean, they got some firepower. Not to mention, you
- 54:19Speaker 2: got a new backfield with two big, big dudes back there,
- 54:22Speaker 2: including Hampton, who can go.
- 54:24Speaker 4: You know, it's funny because it is an upgrade in personnel,
- 54:27Speaker 4: and a lot of times DJ we talked about players
- 54:30Speaker 4: and pieces and roles and how important it is to
- 54:33Speaker 4: be cast in a role that suits your talent. Quentin
- 54:36Speaker 4: Johnson man put in a role that suits his talent
- 54:38Speaker 4: as a guy who is Urkele Thread can do some
- 54:40Speaker 4: of the things you talk about, Like this guy is
- 54:42Speaker 4: an accomplished track and field athlete in high school. They
- 54:45Speaker 4: have him in the right role. Keenan Allen coming back
- 54:47Speaker 4: being able to be the third down playmaker, the possession
- 54:50Speaker 4: receiver that just finds a way to consistently pick up
- 54:53Speaker 4: first thousand. Then McConkie kind of be in the underrated
- 54:56Speaker 4: number one receiver. But it's so crafty. They have so
- 54:59Speaker 4: many different things, but at the end of the day,
- 55:01Speaker 4: the Charges ability to be able to be a physical
- 55:04Speaker 4: football team because they have upgraded the back through and
- 55:06Speaker 4: they will be committed to the running game with a
- 55:09Speaker 4: quarterback that look man Harvard taosseim at every turn, he's
- 55:13Speaker 4: specially he's a franchise, he's a beast, all the a
- 55:16Speaker 4: few some of adjectives that he's used to describe. Justin Herbert,
- 55:19Speaker 4: they have one of those now with what you're saying,
- 55:22Speaker 4: Herbert just owning those superhero powers and letting them shot
- 55:28Speaker 4: being okay with being a little more as you say,
- 55:31Speaker 4: like Josh Allen, like, wait, man, I'll take over the
- 55:33Speaker 4: game when I need to. He has all the tools.
- 55:36Speaker 4: He just refused to kind of crack open the thing
- 55:39Speaker 4: every now and didn't do it. But hey, man, break
- 55:41Speaker 4: the piggy bank. Let's let some of that come out,
- 55:43Speaker 4: because if he does that, the Charge become a bit
- 55:46Speaker 4: very dangerous team.
- 55:47Speaker 2: Yeah, no question, including the run there to seal the
- 55:50Speaker 2: game with a sweet little baseball slider to wrap that
- 55:53Speaker 2: game up.
- 55:53Speaker 4: Mahomes.
- 55:54Speaker 2: By the way, seeing him down there in person on
- 55:56Speaker 2: the field before the game, he looks leaner. That's as
- 55:59Speaker 2: well as a we're seeing him move. He played really
- 56:01Speaker 2: really well. I mean they got a little Greek early
- 56:03Speaker 2: in the game that cost him in terms of just
- 56:05Speaker 2: not taking what was there worth. He goes out, they
- 56:07Speaker 2: don't you know, have or she rice, so they're shorthanded
- 56:09Speaker 2: their offensively. But I thought in terms of some of
- 56:11Speaker 2: the plays he made, but more so just how he moved,
- 56:13Speaker 2: Homes is gonna have a very big year for the
- 56:16Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs. Now quickly, buck go ahead one more
- 56:18Speaker 2: on that one.
- 56:19Speaker 4: No, no, no, I was gonna say this It's funny that
- 56:20Speaker 4: we're seeing that right because I felt like, have mahomes
- 56:23Speaker 4: look good and there's been a lot of attention on
- 56:25Speaker 4: what he's done in terms of conditioning, but Dak Prescott too,
- 56:28Speaker 4: as that's where I was going next, getting lean, getting fit,
- 56:31Speaker 4: That's being a big part of it. We rarely talk
- 56:33Speaker 4: about quarterbacks and fitness and conditioning, but it matters, and
- 56:37Speaker 4: we're seeing some of the best in the business really
- 56:39Speaker 4: double down on making sure that their bodies are right
- 56:42Speaker 4: as they hit into the season.
- 56:44Speaker 2: That's why I was going to go with the last
- 56:45Speaker 2: one because that was the other game we didn't get
- 56:46Speaker 2: a chance to visit on and that was the opener
- 56:49Speaker 2: with Dallas and Philly. Jalen Hurts, you know, making the
- 56:52Speaker 2: plays that need to be made, using his legs, whatever
- 56:54Speaker 2: it takes. That defense up front is young, fast and physical.
- 56:59Speaker 2: Jalen Carter doesn't play. I thought that that impacted them
- 57:01Speaker 2: for the first half and then they kind of settled
- 57:04Speaker 2: in defensively. I did think he was interesting when you
- 57:07Speaker 2: look at an issue that popped up at corner and
- 57:09Speaker 2: they were getting attacked there with a Dori Jackson and
- 57:11Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, Uh, you know we're recording
- 57:14Speaker 2: this on a Monday morning. There's reports they were looking
- 57:16Speaker 2: at bringing in a Nickel, I think was it Hilton
- 57:18Speaker 2: with Mike Hilton it was, but bringing in someone that
- 57:21Speaker 2: would then Cook kick Cooper Dejene outside. But I mean, look,
- 57:24Speaker 2: the Eagles aren't. They're not, you know, labeled the smartest
- 57:27Speaker 2: organization in the NFL for no reason. They know that
- 57:29Speaker 2: was a problem and they're going to have to try
- 57:30Speaker 2: and address that.
- 57:31Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, here's the thing. I don't think
- 57:33Speaker 4: anybody had them the beingo card that the Dory Jackson
- 57:35Speaker 4: would be a starting quarterback for the defending champions. Like
- 57:37Speaker 4: when you bring him in, you're thinking about veteran depths,
- 57:40Speaker 4: ub packages, nickel, dime quarter situations where he comes in
- 57:44Speaker 4: as part of a five, six, seven defensive back package.
- 57:47Speaker 4: And what they found out quickly is, hey, we can't
- 57:49Speaker 4: have him on the island as a one or two
- 57:52Speaker 4: kicking Cooper Degene back outside where we've seen him have
- 57:55Speaker 4: some success. He can to have success inside. But it
- 57:57Speaker 4: makes sense to me, those young athletic corners, did they've
- 58:00Speaker 4: invest in it, man, Put them on the field. Let
- 58:02Speaker 4: them do it, because they're good enough. Vig FANJOI figure
- 58:04Speaker 4: out a way to make sure that they're playing to
- 58:06Speaker 4: their stress. This team has it all and even when
- 58:09Speaker 4: they didn't have their a game during our coronation night,
- 58:13Speaker 4: there's still plenty good enough to be able to win
- 58:15Speaker 4: and that is scared for the rest of the league.
- 58:17Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get to it later in the week. I
- 58:19Speaker 2: think Mayock, We're gonna have mayok on to talk a
- 58:21Speaker 2: lot about that Chiefs Eagles game that's coming up. But
- 58:25Speaker 2: that's gonna be a lot of fun to watch that
- 58:26Speaker 2: contest coming up this next weekend. But what a great
- 58:29Speaker 2: weekend of football. One more game tonight. We will discuss
- 58:32Speaker 2: that on tomorrow show as well as RHTT rejoins us.
- 58:34Speaker 2: We'll do the rookie draft. We'll hit on these games
- 58:36Speaker 2: we did not hit on today. But man, what a
- 58:38Speaker 2: treat having Baldi with us on Mondays. It's just it's
- 58:42Speaker 2: next level.
- 58:43Speaker 3: Man.
- 58:43Speaker 2: It's fun to be able to dive into these games.
- 58:45Speaker 4: I mean, it was a lot of fun.
- 58:46Speaker 3: Baldy's great.
- 58:47Speaker 4: He's terrific when it comes to like taking what he's
- 58:49Speaker 4: able to see on film and explain it. I just
- 58:51Speaker 4: love that conversation, I think, and that only makes us smart.
- 58:54Speaker 4: I think it makes everyone who listens in smarter because
- 58:56Speaker 4: that's a real ball conversation.
- 58:58Speaker 2: If you've made it all the way to the end
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