Latest / NFL Now / Jim Irsay shares his thoughts on Jeff Saturday, Seahawks - Buccaneers in Germany, This Week's Power Rankings

Transcript

Jim Irsay shares his thoughts on Jeff Saturday, Seahawks - Buccaneers in Germany, This Week's Power Rankings · NFL Now

0:05
Speaker 1: NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
0:08
Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. So the Ravens are kind of
0:19
Speaker 1: sort of looking like a contender. Josh Allen, how's that
0:23
Speaker 1: elbow doing? There's a lot to talk about today. And
0:25
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Steve White, there's the press or we had
0:30
Speaker 1: last night in Indianapolis. How are you by the lay?
0:33
Speaker 1: I'm doing well? Yeah, that that one about as well
0:36
Speaker 1: as I think a lot of us expected it to,
0:38
Speaker 1: as well as Steve fresh off the power ranking set,
0:41
Speaker 1: we have new power rankings for you as well. All
0:44
Speaker 1: coming up on this show, NFL Now, NFL Network from
0:46
Speaker 1: our news room in Los Angeles. My name is ANDREWS. Ceciliano.
0:49
Speaker 1: Let's get to the Josh Allen injury first. This is
0:54
Speaker 1: Bryce Huff coming off the edge, final possession, fourth quarter.
0:58
Speaker 1: You see Alan grab at his elbow. He admitted afterwards
1:02
Speaker 1: it was a bit sore. Big game here for the Vikings,
1:05
Speaker 1: or rather for the Bills. They get the Vikings coming
1:08
Speaker 1: up at one o'clock Eastern time in Buffalo. We have
1:11
Speaker 1: reported Hi, guys, Tom Pellicero, Mike Garret follow that um
1:15
Speaker 1: the elbow might might limit Allen in practice this week.
1:19
Speaker 1: Garret fuller. What do we know? Uh, we know that
1:23
Speaker 1: my pin is crooked? Where is it? Let's get it straight.
1:28
Speaker 1: There you go, that's half the battle. Josh Allen is
1:32
Speaker 1: uh yeah, likely to be limited. I mean, let's listen,
1:34
Speaker 1: there's multiple doctors giving multiple opinions on this one. Sean
1:38
Speaker 1: McDermott sort of indicated at this press conference on Monday
1:40
Speaker 1: that we would know a little bit more today as
1:43
Speaker 1: we got through the day, as they continue to gather
1:45
Speaker 1: those medical opinions on Josh Allen. Look, you start getting
1:48
Speaker 1: into certain ligaments, you talk u c L. Everybody here's
1:52
Speaker 1: u c L when it comes to baseball. It doesn't
1:54
Speaker 1: mean that Josh Allen's getting Tommy John surgery. That's not
1:58
Speaker 1: usually a thing for NFL quarterback. So relax on that one.
2:01
Speaker 1: It is an elbow sprain. How severe is the sprain?
2:04
Speaker 1: Kenny plays through it. We saw the next past after
2:07
Speaker 1: he got hit, kind of dove down a little bit,
2:09
Speaker 1: but then he threw that last one down the field.
2:10
Speaker 1: Look pretty good right there. So uh yeah, there's hope
2:13
Speaker 1: in Buffalo that Josh Allen will be able to practice
2:16
Speaker 1: and play his way through this injury. Tom But we
2:19
Speaker 1: wait for the final diagnosis. That's right, Mike, and the
2:23
Speaker 1: diagnosis is key here because, as you mentioned, this is
2:26
Speaker 1: not strictly a because you have an elbow injury, you're
2:28
Speaker 1: being shut down, You're ultimately going to have surgery. We've
2:31
Speaker 1: seen other quarterbacks, including Matthew Stafford, played through an elbow injury.
2:34
Speaker 1: There's different types of treatments, there's different things that you
2:37
Speaker 1: can do to manage it, but it all depends on
2:38
Speaker 1: exactly what Josh Allen is dealing with here, which is
2:41
Speaker 1: why he gets those additional opinions. So Ian Rappaport our
2:44
Speaker 1: colleague mentioned it for the first time yesterday that like
2:47
Speaker 1: they limited in practice this week, but certainly early optimism
2:50
Speaker 1: about Josh allen status for this week against the Vikings
2:53
Speaker 1: is also the Bill's most important player, to say the least.
2:56
Speaker 1: That will absolutely exercise caution here. So this will be
2:59
Speaker 1: one one to monitor all the way up till the weekend.
3:01
Speaker 1: In what is quite arguably the best game of the
3:04
Speaker 1: week as well, the Bills and the Vikings Minnesota with
3:07
Speaker 1: only one loss. If Josh Allen can't go, and we're
3:09
Speaker 1: not saying that's the case, case, Keenum would be the
3:12
Speaker 1: next man up against his former team, just saying something
3:17
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. All right, guys, stay right there.
3:18
Speaker 1: Let's get to the Colts press conference from last night.
3:20
Speaker 1: This went down during the first quarter of the Ravens
3:23
Speaker 1: win over the Saints in New Orleans. Will show you
3:25
Speaker 1: that highlight a little bit later. Jeff Saturday, congratulations, goes
3:28
Speaker 1: from TV analysts to head coach with not a lot
3:31
Speaker 1: of stops in between. He's been a high school coach.
3:33
Speaker 1: That's it. The presser was an old Teimer, you know,
3:40
Speaker 1: and Chris and I and talking. We saw things collapse,
3:46
Speaker 1: and I've seen things, you know, go from bad to worse,
3:50
Speaker 1: and and and I thought it was time and it
3:52
Speaker 1: was necessary to make the change. I am very excited
3:57
Speaker 1: to have as Chris is, to have Jeff Um here
4:02
Speaker 1: and and Um next to me is the interim head coach.
4:06
Speaker 1: Um just uh couldn't be more thrilled about having him here.
4:11
Speaker 1: And yes, he is fully experienced enough, Yes he is
4:16
Speaker 1: fully capable. He's extremely smart, he's extremely competitive, he understands
4:23
Speaker 1: the game. If you think I was surprised, I'm gonna
4:25
Speaker 1: get asked I haven't been a coach, you know. I
4:27
Speaker 1: wouldn't uh that that that'd be would be silly, right,
4:30
Speaker 1: So we knew. I knew going in what the expectation
4:32
Speaker 1: was going to be, the questions that we're gonna be asked,
4:34
Speaker 1: and uh, I feel fully capable, excited about the opportunity
4:38
Speaker 1: eight games too. You know, Listen, here's a great part
4:41
Speaker 1: about my career. I came in nobody expecting anything. I'm here,
4:44
Speaker 1: nobody expects anything. If it goes well, hopefully it'll go
4:47
Speaker 1: extremely well. But I have no uh preconceived notion that
4:51
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be some spectacular or anything. I know, I
4:54
Speaker 1: gotta work hard and uh, I mean, you know, I'm
4:57
Speaker 1: audition and not only for this one, but for for
4:59
Speaker 1: thirty one others, just like everybody else in this game.
5:01
Speaker 1: And and make no mistake, man, the job is win.
5:05
Speaker 1: I'm glad he doesn't have any NFL experience. I'm glad
5:08
Speaker 1: he hasn't learned the fear that's in this league. That's
5:11
Speaker 1: because it's tough for our coaches. They're afraid, they go
5:14
Speaker 1: to analytics and it gets difficult. I mean, he doesn't
5:18
Speaker 1: have all that. He doesn't have that that fear, and
5:20
Speaker 1: there was no other candidate. We were fortunate that he
5:23
Speaker 1: was available. Um and he has tons of experience, he
5:27
Speaker 1: knows this game inside and out. Um, with relationships with
5:31
Speaker 1: coaches and players. No, there was it wasn't offered to
5:34
Speaker 1: anyone else. And you know, I don't know, I don't
5:39
Speaker 1: know Chris and I what we would have done, if anything,
5:43
Speaker 1: if he wasn't available and willing. Um. So that Um,
5:48
Speaker 1: that's kind of how it came together. J Mersey says
5:50
Speaker 1: he was the only man for the job. London Fletcher,
5:53
Speaker 1: one of our colleagues here in the past, just tweeted this,
5:56
Speaker 1: here's my resume to all NFL teams looking for a
5:58
Speaker 1: head coach. Sixteen year vet, two and fifty six consecutive games,
6:02
Speaker 1: never missed a game, All Pro Hall of Fame, non
6:05
Speaker 1: the Ring of Fame with the Commanders, radio analysts, volunteer
6:10
Speaker 1: middle school defensive coordinator at Charlotte Latin High School. One
6:15
Speaker 1: of my favorite phrases I would say Crutches on this
6:18
Speaker 1: show is there's a lot to unpack. Well, there's a
6:20
Speaker 1: lot to unpack from that press conference last night, guys,
6:23
Speaker 1: and I want to start off by saying, at times
6:25
Speaker 1: I felt uncomfortable for Jeff Saturday because jimber said the
6:29
Speaker 1: owners being grilled Chris Baller. The GM is being Grilled'll
6:31
Speaker 1: tell you why, because this guy just got a big
6:33
Speaker 1: job and no one's even asking him a question. He
6:37
Speaker 1: you have to wait, wait, wait, He's sitting there watching
6:41
Speaker 1: these guys get grilled, trying to defend the higher that
6:44
Speaker 1: said London Fletcher has a heck of a point, Okay.
6:48
Speaker 1: And there are other coaches on that staff that have
6:50
Speaker 1: been head coaches John Fox, Gus Bradley, college head coaches,
6:55
Speaker 1: Scotty Montgomery, CFL head coaches Scott Milanovitch that could have
6:58
Speaker 1: gotten that job. Let's start with the staff. Tom, who's
7:02
Speaker 1: calling plays? Do we know yet? Andrew? What I can
7:07
Speaker 1: tell you is that Jeff Saturday has spent this morning
7:11
Speaker 1: meeting with members of the offensive coaching staff trying to
7:14
Speaker 1: formulate a plan. The other coaches have been going through
7:17
Speaker 1: their normal game planning process, as normal as it can
7:19
Speaker 1: be when your play caller and your offensive coordinator have
7:22
Speaker 1: been fired in the past eight days here and just
7:24
Speaker 1: trying to get ready for a game coming up this
7:27
Speaker 1: weekend that is still meaningful for a Cold's team that's
7:30
Speaker 1: very much alive in the postseason picture. I would point
7:33
Speaker 1: to a few things in watching that press conference last night.
7:36
Speaker 1: Let's start with the fact that Jim Mercy saying that
7:39
Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday was the only man for the job is
7:42
Speaker 1: sort of the reason that the Rooney rule exists. It
7:44
Speaker 1: just does not apply to interim head coaches. They will
7:47
Speaker 1: have to run a search after the season. But Ursa
7:50
Speaker 1: also said this is for eight games, hopefully more. In
7:53
Speaker 1: other words, he's going into this with a guy who
7:56
Speaker 1: has never coached above the high school level, and admittedly,
7:59
Speaker 1: according to Jeff Saturday was shocked that he got the
8:02
Speaker 1: call in the past twenty four hours, preyed on at
8:04
Speaker 1: the sided he was being called for a reason to Indianapolis,
8:07
Speaker 1: Jim Ursay is hoping this person is going to figure
8:10
Speaker 1: out in the next couple of months how to be
8:12
Speaker 1: a head coach and then be given that job moving
8:16
Speaker 1: forward here. Having said that, this is also an indication
8:19
Speaker 1: of something that people who know Jim Ursay know very well,
8:22
Speaker 1: which is he is largely a hands off owner. He
8:25
Speaker 1: does not get involved in the nitty grinny of personnel
8:29
Speaker 1: and football decisions up until the point that he sees
8:32
Speaker 1: things going south. And you can certainly point back to
8:35
Speaker 1: the end of last season with the way that things
8:37
Speaker 1: played out. Carson Wentz, who was unvaccinated, getting COVID than
8:41
Speaker 1: playing poorly in the last two games the season, or say,
8:43
Speaker 1: released that video outside an airplane. He was very obviously,
8:46
Speaker 1: very unhappy. They move on from Wentz Frank Rereich, who
8:49
Speaker 1: had advocated for Carson Wentz to come in. He ends
8:52
Speaker 1: up allowing Frank Rereich to get another quarterback, which ends
8:55
Speaker 1: up being Matt Ryan. Within the past few weeks, Matt
8:58
Speaker 1: Ryan bench, their office coordinator, Marcus Brady fired, Frank Reich fired,
9:03
Speaker 1: and Jeff Saturday higher. All those things have Jim Ursay's
9:07
Speaker 1: fingerprints all over it. And now we'll see whether the
9:10
Speaker 1: Arsay plan works for the Colts here for the rest
9:12
Speaker 1: of two and potentially beyond. Well. I want to start
9:15
Speaker 1: out by saying this. I know Jeff Saturday personally, I
9:18
Speaker 1: love the dude. So what I'm about to say is
9:20
Speaker 1: nothing for Jeff Saturday because it's it is this process here.
9:24
Speaker 1: Uh my phone blew up, of course, from a lot
9:27
Speaker 1: of black head coaches, former players, agents things like this
9:32
Speaker 1: by saying what a black coaches always here, They don't
9:36
Speaker 1: have enough credentials, they haven't called plays, they haven't done
9:39
Speaker 1: this when they get denied opportunities. So this one right
9:43
Speaker 1: here was as triggering as it gets in terms of
9:45
Speaker 1: the process as them going outside and hiring Jeff Saturday
9:49
Speaker 1: after getting rid of a black offensive coordinator, Marcus Brady,
9:52
Speaker 1: who didn't call plays but had the opportunity. He's the
9:55
Speaker 1: first one who escape goated. Right. Then you get rid
9:57
Speaker 1: of Frank Wright because we knew who's on the green
9:58
Speaker 1: mile anyway. But then they make a move like this
10:00
Speaker 1: when you have people on staff, like some of the
10:03
Speaker 1: calls I got from what about the guys on staff?
10:06
Speaker 1: Can you imagine being a player in that locker room
10:09
Speaker 1: or a scout in that building, knowing that they're going
10:12
Speaker 1: with a guy who's got a personal relationship with the
10:14
Speaker 1: owner but has no credentials, no necessarily a pedigree in
10:18
Speaker 1: terms of leading guys in the locker room. Now he's
10:20
Speaker 1: coming in mid season. Can you imagine how when comfortable
10:22
Speaker 1: it is. So it just came back to the saying,
10:24
Speaker 1: over and over again, don't ever say it can't get worse,
10:27
Speaker 1: because it possibly can with this type of situation, and
10:30
Speaker 1: and listen, listen, go ahead, by go ahead, Well, I
10:33
Speaker 1: was just gonna say, as reporters were supposed to pass on.
10:35
Speaker 1: You know what we're gathering. What I'm gathering is a
10:38
Speaker 1: bunch of words that I would use myself, which is
10:41
Speaker 1: bush league, brutal fraud. That was impressive. That's a sarcastic text.
10:46
Speaker 1: That was impressive, lacking enough words in my vocabulary to
10:49
Speaker 1: effectively some this train wreck up. These are the reactions
10:52
Speaker 1: around the NFL right now from other folks. I would
10:55
Speaker 1: just say this, and I'll preface this by saying the
10:58
Speaker 1: Texans wanted to hire Josh McCown a couple of years ago,
11:00
Speaker 1: or at least Jack Easter be did. I actually made
11:04
Speaker 1: the point that, yeah, that that was kind of a
11:06
Speaker 1: little crazy, but not as crazy as you think. And
11:09
Speaker 1: boy did I take heat on Twitter for that one.
11:11
Speaker 1: I still stand by that one, by the way, having
11:13
Speaker 1: said that me as that guy, this is looney Tunes
11:16
Speaker 1: right here, because you're asking Jeff Saturday to come in
11:19
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season, joined a coaching staff
11:22
Speaker 1: that he doesn't really know, and guys that are gonna
11:24
Speaker 1: be upset that they were passed over when they have
11:28
Speaker 1: the resume to get this done. He's got no experienced
11:31
Speaker 1: offensive play car, he's got no quarterback, like this would
11:34
Speaker 1: have been different if if it happened when Chuck Pagano
11:37
Speaker 1: had gotten sick. Let's say, and Bruce Arians had almost
11:40
Speaker 1: forty years of experience, by the way, that's important, almost
11:43
Speaker 1: forty years of experience and coaching and been ah heead
11:45
Speaker 1: coach in college before, and you had Andrew Luckett quarterback.
11:48
Speaker 1: You don't have that right now. Jeff Saturday is being
11:50
Speaker 1: asked to come in here and build this thing from
11:52
Speaker 1: the ground up with stuff that's already laid right now
11:55
Speaker 1: that you're gonna have to redo for the long haul.
11:57
Speaker 1: I mean, this is just And I mentioned the the
12:00
Speaker 1: Arians thing because Ursa tried to compare this to when
12:02
Speaker 1: he hired Arians, almost four decades of coaching experience. He
12:06
Speaker 1: was ready. Jef Saturday's just not and was adam and
12:10
Speaker 1: if not defiant yesterday saying you know why. He was
12:13
Speaker 1: asked why should this be trusted? Why should your decision
12:16
Speaker 1: here be trusted? And he said, well, look, I heard
12:18
Speaker 1: a hall of fame GM, I hired a hall of
12:20
Speaker 1: fame coach. I drafted a hall of fame quarterback. Suggested
12:22
Speaker 1: maybe two if if obviously Andrew luck did not retire
12:26
Speaker 1: early quite young and that I don't get these decisions wrong,
12:29
Speaker 1: and said that the perception problem is from the media.
12:33
Speaker 1: He had a broadcast journalism degree, he pointed out, and
12:35
Speaker 1: so he knows therefore how it works. Okay, just real,
12:41
Speaker 1: real quick. If you're if you're a potential future head
12:43
Speaker 1: coaching candidate, how attractive does this situation look to you? Now?
12:48
Speaker 1: I mean that that's all I have to say. After
12:51
Speaker 1: seeing what just happened here, would you really want to
12:53
Speaker 1: cast your name into that lot after the season? Coming
12:57
Speaker 1: up next, the Seahawks also look good? Can Gino Smith
13:00
Speaker 1: keep it going on the road in Germany? We say,
13:05
Speaker 1: Anita say next, Yeah, oh my god. We all liked Okay, boys,
13:15
Speaker 1: here we go. Let's go to work world. I'll touchdown
13:18
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. My Covin's reach us up with one hand
13:20
Speaker 1: and grabs and you can't knock this kid off his seat.
13:24
Speaker 1: Ken Walder scores his second touchdowns on Beyond Us. It's
13:29
Speaker 1: book by the book of There. You're gonna throw again,
13:33
Speaker 1: got a man at the corner. Toutchdown Sea hard, You're
13:37
Speaker 1: gonna cheat some w down the middle, totchdown, Da came back,
13:41
Speaker 1: Capac Dob young Man Tyler Larbert was not going to
13:45
Speaker 1: let this one get away. That's the dagger, my friend
13:48
Speaker 1: box Harder Candida out. They go to Germany. Football made
13:53
Speaker 1: in Germany. Go, let's go to Munich. Am I the
13:58
Speaker 1: only one that remembers soccer made in Germany back in
14:00
Speaker 1: the eighties on PBS? Am I aging myself? No? It
14:04
Speaker 1: was the Bundesliga, know that you like? It was on
14:06
Speaker 1: every weekend. No, yeah, I didn't watch. You don't remember this.
14:09
Speaker 1: I didn't watch PBS Andrew, okay, but props to you
14:11
Speaker 1: from being so collected. Okay, it was soccer, Seahawks, Bucket Ears,
14:15
Speaker 1: football made in Germany. Here's Brady with Jim Gray last night.
14:22
Speaker 1: It's a big challenge because you know, to fly across
14:26
Speaker 1: the ocean like that new time zone to nine thirty
14:29
Speaker 1: eastern kickoff. They don't have its challenges. The weather's gonna
14:32
Speaker 1: be a little cool. But we're playing in a very
14:34
Speaker 1: very cool arena, uh where Baron Munich plays, you know,
14:39
Speaker 1: kind of the country's top soccer team, and it looks
14:42
Speaker 1: amazing and pictures and look, I mean the chance to
14:44
Speaker 1: go across to another country play a sport that I love,
14:48
Speaker 1: you know, I had heard there's three million ticket request
14:51
Speaker 1: for sixties seven thousand seats, so the place is gonna
14:53
Speaker 1: be rocking. And if it's anything like what I see
14:57
Speaker 1: those German Bundesliga games, I mean, this is gonna be
15:01
Speaker 1: one of the epic games that we've ever played in
15:04
Speaker 1: some super excited. It's gonna be pretty pretty cool. Tickets
15:07
Speaker 1: are allegedly going for like two thousand euros. The city
15:12
Speaker 1: is buzzing. That's nighttime right now in Munich. Earlier today
15:16
Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt ran around a Leaderhausen and Hosen and scared
15:20
Speaker 1: the locals. It was kind of It's kind of funny.
15:22
Speaker 1: On Good Morning Football, Sarah Walsh is also there. Tom
15:28
Speaker 1: Brady has been flawless in international games, and on Sunday
15:32
Speaker 1: here in Munich he looks to go four and oh overseas. Now,
15:36
Speaker 1: it hasn't been such smooth sailing for his offense so
15:38
Speaker 1: far this season, and I talked to his wide receiver
15:41
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin, and I asked him to describe what these
15:43
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks have been like for the Buccaneers.
15:46
Speaker 1: Godwin told me it's been strange, to say the least.
15:49
Speaker 1: He said, it has been frustrating because they really have
15:51
Speaker 1: not been able to pinpoint exactly why it is that
15:54
Speaker 1: this offense has sputtered. He said, it's been misques, miscommunications,
15:58
Speaker 1: dropped balls, all happening at different times out on the field.
16:02
Speaker 1: Godwin told me, for himself personally, come back from that
16:05
Speaker 1: a c L tear has been challenging. Now. He came
16:08
Speaker 1: back earlier than anybody had expected, but he said the
16:11
Speaker 1: physicality he uses his ability to make certain cuts has
16:15
Speaker 1: been hard. He does feel though, that he is on
16:18
Speaker 1: the cusp of returning to the Chris Godwin we are
16:20
Speaker 1: used to seeing. He is still looking for his very
16:23
Speaker 1: first touchdown catch of this season, and he also told
16:26
Speaker 1: me that he believes that this offense is closer than
16:29
Speaker 1: what anybody thinks. He goes, I know what you're thinking,
16:31
Speaker 1: because you're looking at the product on the field, but
16:33
Speaker 1: the guys inside feel like we are really close to
16:36
Speaker 1: getting where we need to be. I asked Godwin what
16:39
Speaker 1: he's looking most forward to eating over here. He said schnitzel,
16:43
Speaker 1: and he said, I don't even know what that means.
16:45
Speaker 1: He also told me he eats gluten and dairy free.
16:47
Speaker 1: So Chris, good luck over here. Good luck with that
16:51
Speaker 1: Seahawks Bucketeers. It's live on NFL Network nine thirty Eastern.
16:55
Speaker 1: That's in the morning on Sunday. Also live on NFL Plus.
16:59
Speaker 1: Steve Whitch with me, Brian Baldinger with me. White was
17:02
Speaker 1: at the Rams Bucks Game Bucks Rams Game and we'll
17:05
Speaker 1: call it that this past Sunday. For the record, Soccer
17:07
Speaker 1: Made in Germany was a PBS show, uh that ran
17:10
Speaker 1: from seventies six to eight eight with some of the
17:13
Speaker 1: best highlights of German Bundesliga games. You don't remember that, Baldi, No,
17:20
Speaker 1: I remember, and I also am a big fan of
17:22
Speaker 1: Schnitzel so old yeah. Okay, um, Steve, that Vida vea
17:29
Speaker 1: defense that tormented Matthew Stafford on Sunday. How does Gino
17:33
Speaker 1: Smith and the Seahawks that is that matchup on Sunday?
17:35
Speaker 1: That's good. I'm not gonna make a Dirk new Whiskey
17:37
Speaker 1: Pool or anything like that. I'm gonna keep it football.
17:39
Speaker 1: But it's look, Baldi, and you saw this. The Buccaneers
17:42
Speaker 1: defense played like we're used to seeing them play, right.
17:45
Speaker 1: Vita Villa was by far the best player in that
17:49
Speaker 1: Rams game, and that defensive front overall was absolutely stout right.
17:53
Speaker 1: You get a team Hicks back. They played like they're
17:56
Speaker 1: we're used to seeing them play. The inside linebackers as well,
17:59
Speaker 1: Devin White has been taking a lot of heat. He
18:01
Speaker 1: was fantastic along with Lavonte David that was that led
18:04
Speaker 1: to a lot of complimentary football. So if they can
18:07
Speaker 1: continue that while this offense still figures this out against
18:10
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, they can have a shot here. I mean,
18:12
Speaker 1: they get pressure on Gino and they're able to stop
18:14
Speaker 1: the run Kenneth Walker like they were able to do
18:17
Speaker 1: against the Rams, and everyone stops the Rams against the run.
18:19
Speaker 1: But if they were able to play like they did,
18:22
Speaker 1: just the way the gaps sound and the way they
18:23
Speaker 1: were they held their integrity, They've got a really good
18:26
Speaker 1: shot here. And and Bald, I know you love watching
18:28
Speaker 1: v ta Via do his thing last week. Well it's
18:31
Speaker 1: straight ponies of power, you go. It's no no one
18:34
Speaker 1: man can block him. So we recognize that. So Seattle, though,
18:39
Speaker 1: they've got a counter to its Steve like they nobody
18:42
Speaker 1: has a better trio of tight ends than the Seattle Seahawks,
18:45
Speaker 1: and they play a lot. You know, Noah Fan had
18:47
Speaker 1: a huge game last week, Will distily along with Cody
18:51
Speaker 1: Cody Parkinson. Like these three guys in concert are excellent.
18:55
Speaker 1: There's diste with the touchdown right there. But like you
18:58
Speaker 1: watch these guys in thirteen personnel or whether they're two
19:01
Speaker 1: tight ends, Kenneth Walker is running behind these tight ends
19:04
Speaker 1: there both excellent blackers. There are all three, you know,
19:07
Speaker 1: excellent receivers, and they're good after the catch. So I
19:10
Speaker 1: just think that this is a formula that Seattle has
19:13
Speaker 1: used to protect Geno Smith to get play action passes
19:16
Speaker 1: down the field. And a big part of why Kenneth
19:19
Speaker 1: Walker has run for seven touchdowns in the last five
19:22
Speaker 1: games and why Seattle is four and oh in those
19:26
Speaker 1: games right now. So this is a big formula that
19:29
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay has to get prepared for because I
19:32
Speaker 1: don't think they've seen a trio of tight ends quite
19:34
Speaker 1: like Seattle's, and it's something that they've got a you know,
19:37
Speaker 1: really work on. This week nine thirty am Eastern Time,
19:40
Speaker 1: coming up on Sunday, NFL Network right here, the Seahawks
19:44
Speaker 1: and the Bucks also on NFL Plus. Those Bucks, by
19:47
Speaker 1: the way, lead the NFC South, but they are tied
19:51
Speaker 1: in the win loss record here at four and five.
19:53
Speaker 1: With the team we're gonna see on Thursday Night, Adel
19:56
Speaker 1: Foul Kids win at thirty seven to thirty four. So
20:01
Speaker 1: that was only nine days ago when d J Moore
20:04
Speaker 1: ripped office helmet, Edie panieramist a couple of kicks and
20:07
Speaker 1: eventually the Falcons won the game. Just imagine if the
20:10
Speaker 1: Panthers had won that game, if DJ Moore maybe hadn't
20:13
Speaker 1: ripped his helmet off, then the Panthers would have been
20:14
Speaker 1: in first last Monday on division record. It's strange but true.
20:19
Speaker 1: P J. Walker is still going to be the quarterback
20:23
Speaker 1: when these teams meet for the second time in three weeks.
20:26
Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes made that decision yesterday ahead of the Panthers
20:31
Speaker 1: and the Falcons coming up in two days. They all
20:36
Speaker 1: have bad games. Um, p J wasn't the only one,
20:41
Speaker 1: So um, we gotta play on Thursday. I can bench
20:44
Speaker 1: everybody if we go off bad games, you know. So um,
20:47
Speaker 1: we're gonna rally behind PJ and you know, definitely give
20:52
Speaker 1: him the things that he needs from a game plan
20:54
Speaker 1: standpoint that he can go out and execute cam Wolf.
20:57
Speaker 1: With us now trying to figure out the Panthers quarterback
21:00
Speaker 1: situation with Sam Donald coming back off, I R. Baker
21:03
Speaker 1: Mayfield played well this path last week in the second half.
21:06
Speaker 1: Can what do we make all of this? Andrew? The
21:08
Speaker 1: bottom line is the Panthers three starting quarterback isn't on
21:13
Speaker 1: this roster. We've seen that from the moves they've made,
21:16
Speaker 1: and the rest of this season, notably Thursday's game against
21:19
Speaker 1: the Falcons, will be seeing who is worth building around.
21:22
Speaker 1: And you mentioned Baker Mayfield. Will Carolina brought him in
21:24
Speaker 1: hoping he could potentially be the answer, but through five
21:27
Speaker 1: games he had the worst QBR among quarterbacks who started
21:31
Speaker 1: the most games for their teams. And so starting p
21:33
Speaker 1: J Walker tells to me what the numbers say if
21:36
Speaker 1: they don't need to see more of Baker to make
21:38
Speaker 1: their offseason decisions. And p J Walker brings what Baker
21:42
Speaker 1: and Sam Donald haven't, which is excitement to this offense.
21:46
Speaker 1: We saw two weeks ago in that game maybe the
21:48
Speaker 1: most exciting Finnis of the season the hail married a
21:51
Speaker 1: DJ Moore. Well, p J Walker has the arm strength
21:53
Speaker 1: to bring you a chance in any given game. But
21:56
Speaker 1: the reality is the Panthers are very much looking for
21:59
Speaker 1: their franchise quarterback. We know that because Panthers GM's got
22:02
Speaker 1: Fitterer said a few weeks ago. Hey, we're not looking
22:05
Speaker 1: to sell our core players like d J. Moore, Brian Burns,
22:09
Speaker 1: and Derek Brown. We believe we can build around them
22:11
Speaker 1: and just pop in that franchise quarterback. And so it
22:14
Speaker 1: may be this offseason when they're drafting potentially in the
22:17
Speaker 1: top five, when they can get that quarterback. But right
22:20
Speaker 1: now they're hoping to find out about their team starting Thursday.
22:24
Speaker 1: And speaking about the Falcons, that's another team that could
22:26
Speaker 1: be in the mix the next off season four quarterback.
22:28
Speaker 1: But right now they're most importantly in the mix for
22:31
Speaker 1: that NFC South title with the Bucks tied for them
22:34
Speaker 1: uh division lead as you mentioned, and they're really core
22:37
Speaker 1: of this team has been their three headed rushing attack
22:40
Speaker 1: Cordelle Patterson, Tyler Algerry and Caleb Huntley. And a lot
22:44
Speaker 1: of fantasy football owners have been frustrated with Atlanta not
22:46
Speaker 1: using Kyle Pits, not using Drake Lennon. Arthur Smith does
22:49
Speaker 1: not care. He's gonna build this team in this mode.
22:52
Speaker 1: They run the second most runs per game of any team,
22:55
Speaker 1: and they're gonna run a ball a lot in Carolina
22:58
Speaker 1: this past week, this this Thursday against a team that's
23:00
Speaker 1: in the bottom five and rushing defense. And so look
23:04
Speaker 1: for this team to continue to be a smashed mouth,
23:06
Speaker 1: downhill rushing team as they go down the stretch and
23:09
Speaker 1: hope to knock off the Bucks and somehow be a
23:12
Speaker 1: surprise division winner. We'll see come it up next. Steve
23:16
Speaker 1: has been working on the power rankings today. Well he
23:19
Speaker 1: didn't make them, Answers made him. But we have them
23:23
Speaker 1: and they might surprise you. Thanks, they might not. And
23:42
Speaker 1: then's going and keep the focused and my boys make
23:44
Speaker 1: major moves still the same ones that I came with.
23:46
Speaker 1: I've been a payment to you. We need up in
23:48
Speaker 1: a play with gets some things unchanged for the perch.
23:51
Speaker 1: Just coach in from the touchdown right on the money
23:53
Speaker 1: with his throw sins. It's just I'm standing football. All
23:57
Speaker 1: these is blood sweat, it's it is. But I'm still
24:00
Speaker 1: in there. None of things stop me, running up, running
24:04
Speaker 1: up up, thing to stop me. Not only does Dan
24:13
Speaker 1: Hansens do the power rankings here, that's his playlist as well.
24:16
Speaker 1: Playing You Into the Eagles now at number one according
24:20
Speaker 1: to Dan's new rankings on NFL dot com. It is
24:24
Speaker 1: my favorite part of Tuesday, I mean, other than Baldi,
24:27
Speaker 1: other than the sevoys and other than everything else we
24:29
Speaker 1: do on this show. That is when Dan sits here
24:31
Speaker 1: and we go through the new power ranking, is good
24:33
Speaker 1: to see a dance. I'm behind all those in the
24:35
Speaker 1: power rankings. What I started to say, you're my favorite,
24:38
Speaker 1: and then I thought to myself, I don't want Steve
24:40
Speaker 1: or Boldi or anyone to think that I was slighting that. Alright,
24:43
Speaker 1: I'm going to start for all segments of this show equally,
24:46
Speaker 1: all ten of them. Uh right. So the Eagles are
24:50
Speaker 1: number one, Dan, They're the only remaining undefeated team of
24:53
Speaker 1: the NFL. They've been that way for like a month.
24:55
Speaker 1: Congratulations you finally put them at number one. Yeah, you know,
24:58
Speaker 1: and I don't regret anything. It is what it is.
25:01
Speaker 1: The Bills, to me, we're the best team in the
25:04
Speaker 1: league until Sunday when they got humbled by a certain
25:07
Speaker 1: team out of northern New York and out of northern
25:09
Speaker 1: New Jersey. I got to say, so it is what
25:11
Speaker 1: it is. And the Eagles and another way for powering
25:14
Speaker 1: this guy. It's great because you have a locked and
25:16
Speaker 1: loaded team. You slide him into number one, and they
25:18
Speaker 1: deserve it. Obviously they haven't lost yet where they overwhelmingly
25:22
Speaker 1: um exciting on Thursday night against the Texans. No, but
25:27
Speaker 1: they got the win, and when you put it in
25:29
Speaker 1: concert with the Bills lost, an easy move up the chart,
25:31
Speaker 1: all right, So the Bills go down to two. Then
25:33
Speaker 1: you get the Chiefs and the Cowboys at three and four,
25:35
Speaker 1: and then you have the Ravens up one to number five.
25:38
Speaker 1: They're ahead of the one lost Vikings at seven. I know,
25:42
Speaker 1: Baltimore look good last night, defense, running game like the
25:44
Speaker 1: old school Ravens, and there's six and three, but the
25:46
Speaker 1: fifth best team in football ahead of the Viking. Yeah,
25:50
Speaker 1: and that's now that the Eagles fans have been satiated.
25:53
Speaker 1: It's Vikings fans that are upset with me on Twitter. Uh.
25:57
Speaker 1: They say we're seven and one, why aren't we number two?
26:00
Speaker 1: Or whatever? They expect? Probably number one, I guess, But
26:03
Speaker 1: I just think the Ravens end send. There some issues
26:06
Speaker 1: in the passing game right now, and that's understandable with
26:08
Speaker 1: no Mark Andrews shod Bateman out for the year. But
26:10
Speaker 1: they're better at everything else than the Vikings in my opinion.
26:15
Speaker 1: They have excellent defense, the great, battle tested coaching, a
26:19
Speaker 1: running game, and then a quarterback in Lamar Jackson, who
26:22
Speaker 1: is just special and the And that's where it gets
26:25
Speaker 1: a little tricky, obviously, because the Vikings, what have they
26:27
Speaker 1: done wrong? Besides it gets spanked by the Eagle Eagles
26:30
Speaker 1: way back when. I guess it's still that you watch
26:33
Speaker 1: them every week and you you respect that they win
26:35
Speaker 1: these close games, but you also want to see that
26:38
Speaker 1: big performance that announces, hey, we are on the we
26:41
Speaker 1: are on par with these top What if they beat
26:42
Speaker 1: the Bills this week with Josh Allen is Josh Allen's elbow?
26:48
Speaker 1: N I think I'm annoyed because I want the Vikings
26:52
Speaker 1: two ball out and destroy the Bills and show that
26:55
Speaker 1: they are a true Super Bowl contender. And now they
26:57
Speaker 1: might get a compromised Josh Allen. But at the same time,
27:00
Speaker 1: maybe Allen's healthy. We hope he is, and that will
27:01
Speaker 1: be a great game. It's a great test on paper.
27:04
Speaker 1: Right now, it sounds like a Jets fan here, speaking
27:06
Speaker 1: of which I'm kidding, I'm messing with you. Speaking of which,
27:09
Speaker 1: you have the Jets at number nine. They're up from
27:11
Speaker 1: fourteen to nine. After listening to the first thirty minutes
27:15
Speaker 1: of the Around the NFL podcast yesterday, which included an
27:17
Speaker 1: appearance by your father. Big Jets fans as well. I'm
27:20
Speaker 1: shocked you don't have them at number one. See, well,
27:22
Speaker 1: that shows that I'm a man of integrity, as you know. Uh.
27:26
Speaker 1: It is a weird feeling and a surreal feeling for
27:29
Speaker 1: the Jets and their fan base right now, because it
27:31
Speaker 1: was everything seemed to be crashing down to earth after
27:34
Speaker 1: the Patriots lost a week earlier. But that was such
27:36
Speaker 1: a great team effort and that defense, and we talked
27:39
Speaker 1: about it was Steve Weish today on the Power Rankings podcast.
27:42
Speaker 1: That defense is for real. They match up really well
27:45
Speaker 1: with Buffalo. Hell, they match up really well with everyone
27:47
Speaker 1: because they can get pressure and get home upfront without blitzing.
27:51
Speaker 1: And you have in DJ Read and Sauce Gardner a
27:54
Speaker 1: dynamic one to punch it. I'm not saying it's Revas
27:57
Speaker 1: and Crimarty, but you have to go back to those
27:59
Speaker 1: teams with Rex to find a back end that was
28:02
Speaker 1: as strong as this. I don't know what's Wilson's future
28:05
Speaker 1: is the season and whether he'll be the dude, but
28:08
Speaker 1: this defense is going to keep him in games all
28:09
Speaker 1: year long. All right, Well, the dude bide at this
28:11
Speaker 1: past Sunday, and the Jets wanted to beat the Bills.
28:13
Speaker 1: Now beyond that, you get the Hawks, the Bengals, the Dolphins,
28:15
Speaker 1: the Giants, the Patriots. That's the top fourteen kind of
28:18
Speaker 1: the playoff line. And it seems like, and this was
28:20
Speaker 1: kind of group think on our six am call this morning,
28:23
Speaker 1: that beyond say like sixteen seventeen, you kind of just
28:26
Speaker 1: threw them all against the wall because you have the
28:28
Speaker 1: Raiders ahead of the Jaguars, who they just lost to
28:33
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville this past Sunday. Is I'm not saying that
28:37
Speaker 1: that that speaks to your lack of effort? Does that
28:39
Speaker 1: effort there? Does that speak to the parody or the
28:43
Speaker 1: or the middle class here? Like, No, it's the effort
28:46
Speaker 1: is there, but the execution is flowing. I think that's
28:48
Speaker 1: what it probably is. No, it is all these teams
28:51
Speaker 1: are so close. I guess there's still just a little
28:54
Speaker 1: part of me that thinks the Raiders aren't this bad.
28:58
Speaker 1: I mean, they've lost now, they've blown three seventeen point leads,
29:01
Speaker 1: but you got to get a seventeen point lead to
29:03
Speaker 1: blow a seventeen point lead. So while I last half,
29:05
Speaker 1: all while I'm out on the silver and Black. Obviously,
29:08
Speaker 1: I see they're plumbing down the rankings the last couple
29:11
Speaker 1: of weeks. I also have to say that the Jaguars
29:14
Speaker 1: aren't exactly a dynasty in the making right now. These
29:17
Speaker 1: are all teams that are in the murky. They're the
29:20
Speaker 1: soft underbelly of the NFL right now. So yes, it
29:22
Speaker 1: is a bit of a coin flip at a certain
29:25
Speaker 1: I will say the spinning the Jaguars positively heading into
29:28
Speaker 1: last week's game. Their offense and this includes twenty four
29:31
Speaker 1: first downs of via penalty as well, had the most
29:33
Speaker 1: first downs in football they're making and I wrote two
29:37
Speaker 1: and six before. They want undeniable progress under Doug Peterson.
29:41
Speaker 1: You want some more consistency from Trevor Lawrence obviously, but
29:44
Speaker 1: you've definitely had a step up in that direction as well.
29:47
Speaker 1: We'd all like to see the Jaguars, you know, clean
29:50
Speaker 1: things up and pick outside the top ten in April's draft.
29:53
Speaker 1: Let's hope for that. Houston would first right now. He's
29:56
Speaker 1: a man of anting podcast here, Dan Hansers the Power
29:58
Speaker 1: Workings podcast around the NFL podcast too Many. That's for management,
30:02
Speaker 1: not for me, Thank you, Danny. You're probably watching the
30:05
Speaker 1: game last night while a lot of people in Indianapolis
30:07
Speaker 1: were watching the Jeff Saturday introductory press conference. If you
30:10
Speaker 1: missed it, here are some of the highlights. If anyone
30:14
Speaker 1: wants to kind of diminish anything that that coach did,
30:18
Speaker 1: you'd be wrong because your opinion really doesn't matter. What
30:22
Speaker 1: matters is is the facts. There is no problem of perception,
30:26
Speaker 1: except some of you guys make a problem of perception.
30:29
Speaker 1: But you did hits, so you gotta do it. I understand.
30:32
Speaker 1: I do the same thing. I was a broadcast journalism major.
30:35
Speaker 1: The game is not different. We don't build rockets to
30:37
Speaker 1: go to Mars. We're not nuclear scientists. That is none
30:40
Speaker 1: of our jobs here. You operate like the c i A.
30:44
Speaker 1: It's very analytical, it's very unemotional, it's very very methodical.
30:48
Speaker 1: I don't know how to make sausage. I don't know
30:50
Speaker 1: what goes into sausage. But I do know how to
30:52
Speaker 1: build a football team because I've been around for fifty
30:55
Speaker 1: two years. Where the fourth winning is franchise in the
30:58
Speaker 1: league since two thousand alright, that means in the upper
31:02
Speaker 1: quartile of winners were in the top quartile. That upper quarttile.
31:06
Speaker 1: You want to bet against this guy put your money down.
31:09
Speaker 1: People love to see it. I love to see it,
31:13
Speaker 1: all right. We wanted to play some of that because
31:15
Speaker 1: we didn't have a chance to play the forty two
31:17
Speaker 1: minute presser in its entirety, Dan Hansus, I joked with
31:20
Speaker 1: your buddy Mark Sessler earlier, is there going to be
31:23
Speaker 1: an emergency around the NFL pod after that pressor your
31:27
Speaker 1: two cents? Yeah, just about to go record that. I
31:30
Speaker 1: don't know how to make sausage either. I do prefer spicy,
31:34
Speaker 1: oversweet by like all kinds of sausages. I just want
31:37
Speaker 1: to say this. I don't agree necessarily with the direction
31:41
Speaker 1: that the culture going right now, but the horses out
31:43
Speaker 1: of the barn on the NFL season, let's get weird.
31:47
Speaker 1: That was weird last night. Let's keep it going. I
31:49
Speaker 1: love it. Look, I know, do merstay to support you
31:52
Speaker 1: Saturday and make his decisions, you know, and and kind
31:55
Speaker 1: of pound his chest about knowing how to you know,
31:57
Speaker 1: win football games. If all that were true, they wouldn't
31:59
Speaker 1: be there where they are right now. Okay, so if
32:02
Speaker 1: all decisions he made were great, they would be firing
32:06
Speaker 1: a coach and making a decision like this right now.
32:07
Speaker 1: But all props that you have shattered to good luck
32:10
Speaker 1: absolutely and horse out of Barnes that like a Coults,
32:13
Speaker 1: it's like stay weird two. I'm for it, see it Yeah.
32:22
Speaker 1: NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
32:26
Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. For more podcasts from my heart Radio,
32:29
Speaker 1: visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
32:33
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.