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"Hurt or Injured" episode 179 · DMV Mess Hall

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Hi folks, this is Rick Doc Walker the DOC this.
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Is John Kime and you're listening to the mess hall with
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Rally Captain and Tailgate 10. What's going on, Rally?
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How was your weekend without commanders?
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Football man. Well, I got to tell you Ted, it
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was AI had some highs and lows, bro.
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I mean, the, the, the lows were obviously our team wasn't
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playing. The, the highs were.
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I was able to get a lot of SB event stuff done.
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There's just a ton of paperwork that that needed to get done.
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And so I'm, I'm, I'm knocking it out.
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So that that was the high, the lows also the highs were
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believed or not. The call went out and you guys
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listened and you guys wrote your reps you guys made phone calls.
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You did basically what good friends would do for the
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importance of the Roe rallies. And I got to tell you, people
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listened. Things will be I, I want to
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thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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I really do for, for, for doing the things that you guys did
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because people listened and I think some things may be coming
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down the pipe here in the future.
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I, I, I'm not for sure, but just stay tuned and, and keep your
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ear to the ground because you, you will hear it first from the
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DMV mess hall if something does break.
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But without you guys, we, we would not have been shed to the
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light that it where we are right now.
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So I want to thank you. Amen, man.
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Yeah, we got a ton of feedback and I'm, I'm still salty from
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last week's pod that did not air right and the tech support
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issues and this and that. And it was kind of frustrating.
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But the outpouring of love you all showed from just the
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feedback we got from the announcement of the fact that
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there wasn't going to be a road rally in Green Bay, right?
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And the reasons why and your heartfelt message of why you
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were stopping that. And I mean, we're talking about
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it before we hit record and we're making sure it's recording
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this time because it was last time, but that's a whole other
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story. But the fact that people had
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sent screenshots of them texting their ticket reps and emails
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that they had sent to the organization.
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And I had companies reaching out to me to get a hold of you
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saying let us do this, right? Bar I think was breaking tea,
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the T-shirt company. I get all my commanders T-shirts
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from them. I mean, they reached out, said,
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hey, you know, get us in touch with Steven.
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Let's see if we can work something together.
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So that reel got seen, I don't even know just countless
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sometimes and racing because you guys kept sharing it and making
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sure the word got spread. And we really appreciate that
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man. I mean it's grass roots.
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Things like that is what it takes to get stuff done and
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definitely not going to speak at turn.
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I just know that you and people are trying to see what can
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happen next and I I'm waiting because selfishly I am going on
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an SB events trip, right? I booked my trip through SP
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events with Rally. I'm going to be going to Kansas
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City. I was bummed I did not make the
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Green Bay trip because I've always wanted to go to Lambeau.
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But cheese curds or delicious BBQ?
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I'm going with a BBQ. Every time, brother.
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Amen man, and I, I can't wait. I'm hoping there'll be something
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going on in KC the night before. I, I, I hope so too, man.
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I, I really do. I got to tell you, when it comes
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down to fan bases, Green Bay, they're top notch.
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I mean, compared to places where I've been, their fans are saying
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please and thank you and things of that nature.
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Did you have a good time? Just generally asking about my
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time now. I heard that there were some
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people that had some type of skirmishes.
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I don't know how true it was, but I was like where did it
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happen and and who started it? Because no one that I talked to
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had anything negative to say. Even after they beat us, they
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didn't have anything negative to say, which is the way it should
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be. So my hat goes off to to the fan
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base of Green Bay. They they really know how to
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show a fan a good time. And a lot of you guys saw the
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picture between myself and the Green Bay Grinch.
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It was just a little, you know, banter, like if you remember a
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crazy Ray and Chief Z, not that I'm trying to say I'm Chief Z,
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but if you remember the banter that they had back and forth,
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that's what we were trying to do, have our own little memory,
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if your moment, if you will. And it was very positive.
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A lot of people they, they liked it.
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And then of course, some people tried to clown me.
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Whatever have you, But I don't worry about that.
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But it was a good experience And and it just so happened to the
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photographer was right there capturing us play around with
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each other. And then it was a good thing,
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man, I, I had a good time. I was actually going to ask you.
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I mean, how was the trip, all things considered?
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And can you please stop going to Green Bay because you haven't
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won there. And obviously we haven't won
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there as a team, I think since Jay Schrader was quarterback
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like 1986 or some ungodly thing like that.
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But I mean, how was Green Bay? It was nice.
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It it really was nice. As I said, the people treated
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the treated as nice tailgate. I did not really tailgate
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because I because I because there wasn't going to be a
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rally. I came in Thursday morning, the
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day of the game and I had some stuff to take care of.
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So basically I was not able to tailgate.
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I did see where people were tailgating.
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I just didn't have enough time to do it.
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One of the things that I also like about Green Bay, Ted, if
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you can imagine. So Green Bay has a, a lot of,
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I'd say 3 star hotels if you will.
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Well, these hotels have bus stops in front of them, 3 bus
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stops because they know people are staying at the hotel and
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they need to play, they need a way to get to the venue.
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Well, there's A and I forgot to show the picture, but I was on
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my route if you will, for my hotel was called Cheese Headway.
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That was the name of the bus. Route.
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That was the name of the bus way.
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That's awesome. And so it was basically 50 yards
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from the hotel door. You walk out, you stand up by
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the bus stop and there's a schedule.
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The, the bus basically runs every half hour.
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People you get on, it's free. There's like 6 different stops,
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six to seven different stops. And it was excellent.
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And I think that if there's a way that our team could have
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something like that, man it it, it would help cut down as far as
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the traffic is concerned because we were in and out of the
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stadium within 45 minutes, I want to say.
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Damn that sounds like a you ever stayed like a Disney property If
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you ever go to like a park they got.
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Their shuttle come pick you up, yeah.
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Exactly. I mean, I remember we trying to
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stay at the Disney properties down by Disney Springs because
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you get into the park earlier than people that are staying
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outside of it. So it's an extra nice bonus.
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It sounds like you kind of got that maybe at a, you know, RFK 2
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point O just cause not a lot of hotels around Northwest now that
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are. I mean, there's a couple that I
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think the ones I can think of are like on walking distance on
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arena Drive, but maybe at new RFK they can almost do something
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like that to kind of show you there.
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Speaking of which, it's Monday. We're recording this.
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The second vote for the DC City Council is set to happen on
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Wednesday. So I'm going to be down at City
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Hall on Wednesday with the team and we'll we'll see how this
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thing goes. I know I've kind of been, I
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don't want to say called off, but I've kind of called off the
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dogs and the council members because of everything going on
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in the city with the national emergency in the National Guard
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in town and this and that. There's some things that are a
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lot bigger than football. But that second vote is set to
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happen. So hopefully by the time we
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record our second show this week, we'll have some good news
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and we get to talk about, you know, the new home of our
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commanders and where that's going to be.
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But that's kind of cool, man. I had no idea that they had that
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just kind of bus picking you up and taking you around because, I
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mean, you've been to every stadium but Pittsburgh now.
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Does any other place have something like that?
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Chicago has it where you park your car and then the bus will
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bring you in from the lot where you parked your car and drop you
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off near a tunnel if you will to get to Chicago.
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I'm trying to think is any no, there's no.
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That's the only place that, well, we used to have that back
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in the day when? Yeah, the Metro buses that was
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dropping off. Well, yes, but it was a service
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that that Schneider provided in the beginning that they, they
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would shuttle you from the metro up to the stadium and drop you
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off. It was, it was a constant
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shuttle that would that would run you.
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They stopped that, obviously. But so that's the closest we, we
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did have it, but Chicago and Green Bay, but an actual like
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metro bus, if you will, that goes through the city streets
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and neighborhood streets to pick people up.
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I should have made a video. I really should have, but I
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wasn't thinking cuz my mind was going a mile a minute.
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But if I've been thinking, I should have logged it to where
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people would actually see you're, you're picking people up
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in neighborhoods with houses. So if somebody happened to live
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on that street, Becky, get out of their house and walk to that
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little bus stop and be picked up to the stadium.
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It's it's amazing man. Well, it was B Mitch was talking
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about how he had a parking pass and it was in someone's yard,
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right? He, I don't know where he got
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the parking pass, but the pass was for somebody's yard at that
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point. And then you walk through the
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house in the backyard. They had a bunch of food and
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everything set up like a bar. To me, that's just, that's kind
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of crazy. I mean, I'm looking here on
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StubHub. Let's see the the Bengals play
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the Packers, right? And these are parking passes and
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1770 Briquette St. 93 dollars, 1877 Saint Agnes Drive, $108.00.
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This is someone's house, right? This is, these are not like the
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gold a lot or gold B lot at Northwest.
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These are people's houses. Yeah.
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I mean, you parked right there on the, you parked right there
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on the yard, on the lawn. Yeah, it's kind of crazy that
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that's what it is, because I'm, I'm curious if I punch this into
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freaking Google Maps, if I'll actually see the guy's front
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yard here. But, you know, it's, I'm also
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wondering is that what's going to happen if we're lucky enough
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and blessed enough to be back at RFK, right.
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Because there's all those houses.
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I was just driving by there the other day just to kind of beat
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some DC traffic and you got people's yards and houses out
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there. And are they going to start?
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And I'm sure if they can do it, they will.
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But you know, yeah, capitalizing and taking advantage of parking
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down there because we talked about on the last pod that
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didn't get cut. But, you know, parking at
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Northwest is crazy expensive. So if people getting sell their
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front lawns, best believe they're going to do it.
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So you live in DC, you're you're a resident.
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What I noticed a lot of times in DC it'll say parking permit or
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no parking during stadium event you have to have a park parking
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permit. So I don't know how you're going
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to be able to get around that, but I'm sure that that people
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who live there will figure a way to get around it.
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I mean, in Tampa, like we're we're down there for games.
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Their stadium is right by all these houses.
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So you literally just pull up on someone's grass and you just
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hang out there on someone's grass and they just funnel you
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in and funnel you back out. So I mean, grand, there's not a
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ton of grass in, you know, that part of DC and people don't
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really have yards, but there are some.
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So I remember having to help, you know, pack up Chief ZS house
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and he lived down by RFK and it was full.
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So I just parked on the grass out in front of Chief's house
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and help pack stuff up. So it's just, you know, but
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yeah, it's I was hoping we were going to play Miami in Miami
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because for those that don't know, that's where Chief is laid
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to rest. Sort of love to have gone out
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there and, you know, just pay respects.
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He's he's in Jacksonville. Jacksonville No, I think I'm
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thinking about Sean. That's.
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What we think about Sean. Yeah down there in Miami, yeah,
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so it would have been just nice to be down there.
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But hey, Madrid is a not too bad in the way the Dolphins are
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looking right now considering they just lost to the Pats this
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past weekend. So could be maybe a more of a
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lock of a game for us because Tua don't look good.
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But once again, that's the ways from now.
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But I I hate to relive the Packers game, but what were you
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thinking when you were there? I got to tell you what went
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through my mind is why haven't we gone on 4th down like we did
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last year? What are they not telling us who
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Who is is hurt or who isn't playing up to the potential
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because of last year it if it was fourth and two we were going
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for it, 4th and three going for it.
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This last week we played scared ball and I don't understand why.
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Obviously I'm a fan. I don't know, but they must have
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known something more than what they let on.
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And then our kicker isn't the guy from Dallas.
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No. We would.
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Kills me that guy's that good. We went, we went forward.
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You went forward on a 52 and a 58 yard or something to that
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effect. Why didn't you go for it?
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So you didn't have a radio or anything to give you updates
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during the game? I should have just texted you to
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let you know what was going on. Because you had no idea that
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John Bates got hurt and Noah Brown got hurt.
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No, because I'm sure. Did they actually post it in
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Lambeau on the Jumbotron when our guys got hurt or no?
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No, you just, you just say the commanders quiet medical staff
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at work and then you try to, you had to try to figure out, well,
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who is it? What's going on?
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So, yeah, I, I keep saying that I need to do what you do and
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bring a radio or play, play, play the app through my phone
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and listen to some headphones or something like that.
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But so, yeah, I didn't know. Yeah, it's all a delay at that
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point, but yeah, just John. When John Bates went down, the
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offense couldn't really move or do anything.
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Granted, they weren't moving or doing anything.
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Anyway, I went back and I watched the game today.
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I just, I needed a break, right? I was just frustrating to see,
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right? Yes, the score was close.
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We were only down by 7 in the third, I want to say, but it
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just, it didn't look good. And what was so frustrating to
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me was watching it on TV. You could tell that we weren't
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making any, any adjustments. And I don't know where you were
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sitting. They never showed you on TV this
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time, So what? I mean, which angle did you
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have? Were you in the end zone again
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or where? Were end zone.
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Yeah, end zone. So they were basically playing a
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kind of eight yards off the ball and they were sitting on
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everything shallow and they had kind of a A2 deep shell over
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top. And the pass rush was just going
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to get to Jayden by the time someone actually made it to the
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second, you know, the second part of that defense.
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Right, I did do that. He just there were a couple
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times where he had guys open, but the pass rush was just there
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in his face. He just didn't see him right.
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There were a couple times where I saw that he just missed some
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guys He typically would have hit.
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But I mean, you like to say what EIEI throw freaking Micah was a
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man possessed and and it just it kills me.
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I'm I'm also happy that we don't have to face him again this year
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unless it's in the playoffs. But I mean, Micah got a 91.3
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best defensive grade for the Packers, got a 90.6 in his pass
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rush. I mean, he just completely blew
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the entire game plan up, right? And he made all the other guys
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around him even better. So it was just so upsetting to
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see because we couldn't chip Josh Connolly, just he didn't
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have help. Once Bates went down, Connolly
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was blocking Micah one-on-one and then Mcnichols would try and
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chip and help out every once in a while and a couple times he
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missed. Right.
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And it's just Connerly. If I'm looking at his pass
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blocking grade, I don't even think it got this low.
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His pass blocking grade was a 20.
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Oh. Yeah, his complete offensive
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grade was a 37. So who was the worst offensive
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graded player was Josh Connolly with a 37.6, right?
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And it's just, it's not fair to put the rookie up against
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someone like Micah. And that wasn't the game plan.
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But what became so frustrating is Green Bay plays 70 plus
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percent of zone, right? What we kept hearing during the
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offseason when we traded for Debo is he can just find the
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spots in that zone and just sit there.
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And then if a team wants to play Debo man to man, Jane's just
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going to pick him apart and just run against them.
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Well, they play. I want to say it was over 80%
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zone. I didn't see anybody sitting
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anywhere other than Jayden on the ground a lot.
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Yeah, so. It was just that.
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And Joe Witt. Joe Witt just drove me crazy,
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man, because we play predominantly man and they were
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just running a lot of man beater calls.
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I'm sure you could see when you were there guys just going in
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motion and then just being out leveraged.
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I don't feel like we ever adjusted until it was way too
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late. And I just Green Bay's a damn
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good team, right? We saw what the Lions just did
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this past weekend in Chicago. I think they dropped like a 50
18:53
burger on them and it was something ridiculous because
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people are wondering is Detroit, you know, is Detroit bad because
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they lost both their coordinators or is Green Bay
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just really that good? I think Green Bay's just really
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that good, and we just. Got our?
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Butts by a good team that we did not adjust for a game plan for.
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Yeah, it, it, it, it seemed to me that we were down I think by
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7 at one point time. But it, but it was just them
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saying the playing with their food.
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If you would like a cat in the mouse.
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He he, he, he has a mouse trapped underneath his paw.
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He lifts it up, but at any given time he can get it and, and,
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and, and kill it if he wants to. That's how I felt with they,
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they made us feel as though we were in it, but in all
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actuality, we really weren't in it because Matt Lafleur, I, my
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hat goes off to him. He, he dialed up that offense to
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where it made us look like a high school and a, and a
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freshman team or a college and a, and a, and a varsity team.
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It just, it just looked that way.
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And so one of the things that I was happy, I was happy to be in
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Green Bay in the summertime where the temperatures were good
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and I was happy that we got this L out of the way right now so
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that we can move on to the next team.
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I tell you that those are the only two things I was happy
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about. Yeah, I mean, there was a lot to
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be happy about, right? We lost Austin Eckler for the
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season. We lost Dietrich Wise for the
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season. John Bates and Noah Brown have
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soft tissue injuries. Coach said he doesn't expect
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them to be back this week. He's going to know more when it
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comes later. But more importantly, Jaden got
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banged up, right and it didn't come out during the game.
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Grant Paulson actually talked about it on his show.
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Grant and Danny on one O 6-7 on Friday that he heard that Jayden
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had to get an MRI and that his knee was swollen, right?
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And nothing because coach didn't have to do a press conference
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until today, right. So nothing came out over the
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weekend. And I'm actually what did you
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end up doing over the weekend? There was no football going on,
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you said, Just a bunch of SB event stuff.
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Yeah, SB event stuff. I wound up working overnight on
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Saturday night, so Sunday I was tired, but I still had to push
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through with stuff so and I watched the snippets of of
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football. Nothing, nothing major.
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So yeah, just paperwork and and working.
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Yeah, definitely not as fun as I had, but I also almost did not
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survive the weekend because I was in Ocean City for Bike week.
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And let's just say I walked into the wrong bar.
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And I'm sure you've seen the old house party movies where Bilal
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just bumps into like the DJ booth and just the record stops.
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That was what happened when I walked into this bar.
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And I'll tell you about it offline because I don't want it
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on air who I ran into. But I'm just happy I made it out
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of that bar alive. Really.
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Oh. Yeah, man, I.
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I will mention their name the second I turn the recording off
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and you will probably know exactly the gag I am talking
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about and I had no idea what to expect.
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So. It was slightly crazy, but I'm
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sitting there staring at my phone, just following my boys
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because we're walking around and in Ocean City for the weekend
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and I'm trying to like, I'm looking Shafter, I'm looking at
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Rappaport, you know, all of the major guys.
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I'm looking at Jon Kime, Jeep. No one had any reports on
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anything that was going on with Jaden, right?
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If you had an MRI on Friday, it's Saturday night.
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Why don't we have any details yet?
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Well, nothing came out until basically today when Ian
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Rapoport had a report. And this is actually DQ talking
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about it. We have four others for some
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injuries that we're still assessing, Noah Brown, John
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Jones, John Bates and Jaden. Now lots of the questions will
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be about our QB, but I can say here's what I know and when I
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say that it's all really that I know.
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So he did have an MRI and he has already begun his return to play
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process with us. He is truly day-to-day.
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What does that mean for Sunday? I can't tell you that.
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Now I'll have more to share on that when we get to Wednesday
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and practice and what that would look like.
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But in the return to play, he and any of the guys would have
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to hit all of the markers for us to get back and, and do our
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thing. So we got a good plan of, of how
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to return to play for him and for everybody else.
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And I'll give you more insights just as soon as I have them.
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So I want to make sure I gave you all they had that he's
23:29
day-to-day as we're sitting today.
23:31
And I'll share more with you on Wednesday when we get together
23:34
before practice. So did you?
23:39
I mean, I'm assuming you saw Jayden limping around on the
23:41
field. Did you think about it at all
23:43
when you're out there or no? I'm not going to say I saw him
23:48
limping, but I just felt that something wasn't right.
23:53
You know, he, he, he, he masked things really well.
23:58
You know, I, I think too well, if you will.
24:00
So maybe on TV when you have obviously HD to the 100th power,
24:07
you can see things more, but live you really can't see it.
24:11
So he, he, he must have masked it really well, but you just
24:16
felt that something wasn't right.
24:17
And, and obviously the way we played, you could tell something
24:24
wasn't right. Yeah.
24:26
I mean, he, he just did not look OK.
24:30
And I think a lot of that was just the pass rush, right?
24:34
The pressure that he got when he was just back there.
24:37
And I'm trying to go back and look and see, let's see, he got,
24:42
I want to say he got hit trying to pull it up.
24:46
If I can find that, I will. But it was over a dozen plus
24:49
times, right? And it just, I just felt bad for
24:53
Jaden. And a couple times I'm thinking,
24:54
all right, that's got to be a late hit.
24:56
That's got to be a late hit. I mean, he took 4 sacks for 21
24:59
yards. I'd say that this is the worst
25:01
game I've ever seen Jaden play. And even with the broken ribs,
25:06
he just, he did not look good and he still had two touchdowns
25:09
and we were still in this game. I mean, we still had a chance to
25:14
actually do something in this game.
25:15
The defense was tightening up a little bit.
25:18
They're getting some pressure on Jordan Love.
25:20
I just, we can't stop a tight end.
25:23
I mean, Tucker Kraft was just going up and down that freaking
25:26
field and I just kept hearing that stupid Beastie Boy song in
25:30
my head. She's crafty just like every
25:33
time he caught the ball and it was just driving me crazy, man,
25:36
but he looked like a freaking all pro.
25:39
You know it. Just give him a you know,
25:41
whatever colored jacket now and just induct him in a can because
25:45
he just whooped our ass. And it just worries me about
25:47
this week because we got Bauer coming to town now, granted,
25:51
we'll talk about the Raiders later.
25:52
They're coming off a short week. They're playing at 10 O clock
25:55
tonight and then they got to travel out here to the East
25:58
Coast for a one O clock game. So if any of that whole West to
26:00
east thing, you know, is actually true, maybe that's
26:03
something in our favor. And we've had a little mini buy,
26:06
but without Jaden back there and I don't know Mariota's status
26:11
because you don't remember Mariota did nothing all pre
26:14
season, right? Yeah, he had a, he had a
26:16
surgery, shoulder surgery, if I'm not mistaken, right.
26:21
I don't know if it was a shoulder or if it was something
26:24
else but I mean he did nothing all season, all pre season.
26:28
He he had some type of work done and I don't remember what it
26:31
was. I thought it was it was his
26:32
shoulder, but to where? That's why he didn't play.
26:37
So obviously, do you look at Sam Hartman or do you look at Josh
26:41
Johnson? So it's saying it was a a lower.
26:45
No, this is 2024. So yeah, that's not it.
26:49
It's going to be Mary. Well, US is actually DQ saying
26:53
who's it going to be and when's he going to make the decision.
26:56
And obviously Marcus has a lot of experience.
26:59
Can you kind of talk about your your confidence and, and him and
27:02
maybe when you would want to make kind of a a decision on on
27:05
who's going to get the ball on Sunday?
27:06
Yeah, we'll take it all the way to Friday and then, you know,
27:09
have a real good idea of where we're at if called upon.
27:13
This is an elite competitor, teammate, player, and so we'll
27:17
just take it as we go through that one.
27:19
But you know, our confidence in him is is through the roof based
27:23
on who he is, the teammate, what he's shown to us here, Tom.
27:26
But I'll have a better sense for that as I go through the week
27:28
and can give you better insights on that when we get together on
27:31
Friday. So apparently he had Achilles
27:38
tendonitis is what it was. So I mean, that doesn't sound
27:43
good to me. I mean, at least it's not a
27:47
shoulder where he can throw. But we saw Jayden obviously
27:51
having some leg issues with a knee sprain and this is DQ
27:55
talking about what had happened. Is it in fact a knee sprain that
27:59
he's dealing with and was he hurt on that that tackle in the
28:02
4th? Quarter with about. 5 minutes
28:04
left where he came up hobbling. He was hurt on a tackle, he was
28:08
actually looking back on Mike and scrambled away and got hit
28:11
from kind of the opposite direction I would say.
28:14
But he is dealing with knee injury.
28:16
Like I said, it was good that he finished the game and now as we
28:19
get through it, we'll just kind of go through the whole process
28:22
with him and we're not going to miss it either.
28:24
Nikki with Jayden, we know how important he is and so we're
28:29
just going to kind of take it. That's why I truly say it's day
28:31
by day to make sure that he can absolutely be himself.
28:38
Once again, Micah just causing havoc cause I think Parsons only
28:44
had the other had 1 1/2 sacks, maybe just a half a sack or go
28:47
back and take a look. But the fact of the matter is he
28:50
was just back there and just Jaden was run away from him the
28:54
entire time, right? He had a three quarterback hits
28:57
and he had a half a sack. Never actually got to Jaden than
28:59
that one time. But Jaden's run away from, you
29:01
know, basically for his life. Was life yeah which which opened
29:05
the door for their other players to be able to make plays and and
29:10
they were very complimentary if you will, which we were hoping
29:14
is what our guys will be able to do.
29:16
No one has the force of Parsons, but we were hoping that our guys
29:20
would be able to to pour as one if you will to be able to to get
29:25
love and love scramble a couple times we talked about it on the
29:27
show. He's got wheels, he doesn't like
29:29
to use them a lot, but he hasn't if he needs it.
29:32
And there's I think one or two times where we saw the potency
29:35
of his feet so. Yeah, his longest run Jordan
29:39
loves was for 14 yards. Yeah.
29:42
So, yeah, he can definitely some place that he he doesn't seem to
29:46
throw up, you know, put the ball in danger, right.
29:48
I mean, I don't know if you watch that Cowboys Giants game
29:50
this past weekend, but I don't know what the hell Russ was
29:53
thinking. And overtime, just throwing that
29:55
ball up there for nothing. I'm thinking, all right, this
29:57
game is going to go to it's going to be a tie.
29:59
This is going to be amazing. They're not.
30:01
No one's going to win. No one's going to lose, which
30:03
kind of sucks, but no one's going to win.
30:04
It's just going to go to a tie. And then Russ just chucks that
30:06
thing up there. I mean that moon ball.
30:09
Yeah, but Jordan Love doesn't do that and it's just Jaden, man,
30:13
he got hit 12 times, right? So imagine these lineman hitting
30:19
him and landing on him 12 times and one of them should have been
30:22
a hip drop tackle. I don't know if you saw Nicki
30:23
Gevallos tweet, we'll put the video on the YouTube and they
30:27
just didn't call it. I'm not saying, you know, we
30:29
lost because of that. We lost because we got out
30:31
coached. We lost because I don't know.
30:34
Marshawn Lattimore is starting to frustrate the hell out of me.
30:38
I'm just. They were picking on him at the
30:40
beginning of the game. It.
30:42
Was like, oh this your best corner?
30:44
I don't think so. And they just went right after
30:46
him. I want to say like the first 3
30:47
or 4 plays. The loud mouth.
30:49
We got something for you. We got something for you.
30:52
Want to talk all that trash? And they did.
30:55
He was. Just bitching about, you know.
30:56
Oh well, it wasn't his fault the refs didn't call stuff.
30:59
He ended up getting a 29.1 in his coverage grid, right?
31:04
I mean you got Amos the Rook who broke up a pass in the end zone
31:08
and his speed was freaking unreal.
31:10
It really was. I saw him, I said, oh, no man,
31:13
they're going to score. And he closed that distance and
31:16
just came right through. I sent you a picture of the bus
31:19
stop if you if you get it. I don't know if you can get it
31:22
or not, but but yeah, he closed the distance and not that he's
31:27
Sean Taylor, but here that what he did reminded me of Sean
31:31
Taylor, how Sean Taylor could close the distance on a ball
31:34
being in the air and and and and swipe the guy out of the out of
31:38
the air like that. But I think that if Jordan was a
31:43
couple seconds early, it may have been a touchdown.
31:47
But hey, ifs, ifs and buts, whatever have you.
31:50
It doesn't matter. It didn't happen.
31:51
So a good play for for Amos. Oh, yeah, yeah.
31:55
I mean, Amos impressed the hell out of me, right?
31:58
It was, it was good to see him doing that, especially as a
32:00
Rook. It kind of reminded me of Mikey
32:02
when he was a Rook, you know, last year doing that.
32:04
It's just Lattimore, I mean, second lowest defensive grade in
32:11
coverage, right? And it's just, it's frustrating
32:13
because we traded for him and right now what's the excuse?
32:18
Because the excuse last year was he's hurt.
32:20
He's. Banged up.
32:22
I'm not hearing those excuses now.
32:24
So I haven't been able to go back and watch the game as of
32:27
yet. How handsy was he?
32:29
Or do you think they were picking on him?
32:32
I just think he has the reputation.
32:34
So now that you got that reputation, anytime you do
32:37
something, they're just going to throw that flag.
32:40
And. There were a couple times he
32:42
definitely did get handsy. But, you know, I mean, the
32:46
offenses, they know that the coaches are going to say, hey,
32:50
get into a hands battle with them, fight with them, you know,
32:53
draw it out of them because he'll get a flag.
32:55
Right. And it just penalties didn't
32:58
really hurt us this week. I mean, the week prior we had,
33:01
what, 12 for 89 this week. They definitely cleaned up the
33:05
penalties, but they were just some inopportune times.
33:08
Yeah, we had five for 30. The Packers had 10 for 77.
33:12
So that's not where we lost it. It's just we couldn't do
33:16
anything right. We just couldn't go anywhere.
33:19
We just looked at him and we look like a team that just
33:21
played an intense game on Sunday and had a short week to prepare.
33:27
OK. The Packers had the exact same
33:29
situation other than they didn't have to travel.
33:31
But we just look like we weren't ready and.
33:35
So do you think that it's because of the age of our team?
33:44
You know what, I don't know if it's because of the age of the
33:46
team. I find that a little hard to
33:48
believe because just looking at the PFF grades, Bobby Wagner,
33:53
who was up there, right, had, according to PFF, the best
33:58
defensive grade, right? An 81.6, right?
34:01
If I go to the offense and I look at Zach ertz Ertz had a
34:07
good game, right? He had a couple of catches, A
34:11
touchdown Debo, who's also up there, right.
34:15
So I wouldn't chalk it up to that.
34:17
This is actually a key to leave with Kay Adams on her show
34:22
talking about Have people found out the commanders?
34:27
On the commander side, like I love when they're great.
34:29
I want them to be great. I want them to be right back in
34:31
the NFC Championship Game. What do you think, Cliff and
34:33
Jayden, that offense could have done or should have done
34:36
differently? I I honestly just feel like that
34:42
duo was pretty new last year. So we've seen Cliff Kingsbury
34:48
before the way you see him with Jaden.
34:50
So when you get a new duo, they kind of mesh different.
34:53
They, they tweak the playbook a little bit and you know it.
34:57
It was just a new duo. It was the hot thing last year
35:00
when you the hot thing now. Now you every offseason on
35:04
offseason, everybody want to make a game plan to stop you.
35:07
So the Eagles kind of put that blueprint out there a little bit
35:10
last year and in the playoffs, 55 to 2023 or whatever it was,
35:15
they held them held them down pretty good.
35:17
So that blueprint is out there, man.
35:21
I know they add they add Debo, they add a couple new nuances to
35:24
the offense, but like that screen game that wasn't working
35:27
yesterday was super successful last year.
35:31
Them quick, all them quick passes.
35:32
It wasn't really successful yesterday because that's your
35:35
MO. Like with the Broncos, that was
35:38
our MO. We we had a new defense.
35:40
We like to play match. We do all this.
35:42
We dominated one year, won the chip the next year.
35:46
The Falcons kind of put an MO out there on us.
35:49
They put me and Chris on one side and they just play on this
35:52
side. Make our linebackers cover.
35:54
Y'all want to play all this man. Then we going to put y'all dogs
35:56
on this side, y'all cover guys on this side.
35:58
We going to make y'all linebackers and y'all safeties
36:00
cover and we going to play one sided football.
36:02
So you get an MO, you know what I'm saying?
36:04
Guys kind of get the blueprint how to beat you and, and you
36:08
know, the, the commanders, they, they going to have to, they
36:11
going to have to fight that. They're going to have to switch
36:12
some things up because God's going to kind of have that
36:15
blueprint on the stuff that they did last year.
36:17
How much you buying that? How much do you think that
36:19
that's what it is? I do believe that teams, since
36:25
they want to talk about analytics, I do believe that
36:27
they they look at where were the highest percentage throws that
36:32
he threw and OK, well, if we know that he only throws, who
36:38
knows, let's say 60% of the time 10 yards, then we're going to
36:43
bubble 10 yards and make him beat us another way.
36:47
I do believe that. I believe, I believe it was just
36:50
good coaching. They not necessarily I believe
36:53
it was good coaching on the on the Packers side, bad coaching
36:56
on our side because when something doesn't work, you got
37:00
to change it up. And yes, everyone knows Jaden's
37:05
strengths or weaknesses, however you want to look at it and what
37:09
they think they should be able to do.
37:12
But the players have to go out and execute.
37:14
And so obviously, Green Bay, they executed what the coach
37:18
told him. But in return, our offense
37:21
didn't change things up. And I know that that Cliff is
37:25
capable of doing it because I'm, I mentioned it on my live in
37:29
Green Bay. I said, OK, this comes down to
37:32
Cliff opening up the offense and doing something different.
37:35
But realistically, can he open up the offense?
37:38
Because at that point time, we were in a pass heavy situation
37:42
to where we really couldn't run the ball because we were behind.
37:45
We were playing from behind so much to where you really
37:47
couldn't have a true balance offense.
37:51
And like you said, he had a you had a, a child going against a
37:56
grown man. So, and by no means am I saying
38:00
Connolly's a child. He, he's a grown man.
38:01
But as far as the experience level is concerned, you know
38:05
you. Yeah, so and and and it showed.
38:09
So now people will have tape on Green Bay, what they tried to do
38:17
or what they did. We have tape.
38:20
So if you know what your weaknesses are, it's time to
38:24
shore those things up to go a little deeper.
38:28
Because as you said, we play the Raiders next and we're not going
38:31
to get deep into it, but best believe they're looking at tape
38:34
2. Their their guys get paid to
38:35
look at tape to figure out, oh, this is what they did.
38:38
OK, well, we're going to try to do this to counter it.
38:41
What are we going to do? I don't care about the Raiders.
38:43
What are we going to do to counter to be on top at the end
38:47
when the clock strike zero? That's what I care about.
38:51
So do you think it's the tape and the analytics or no?
38:56
Terry holding out all pre season, being there for what,
39:00
one week before training camp is over?
39:03
The offense running one series all pre season, the first team
39:08
offense and Jayden not even throw in a pass and not having
39:12
the joint practice against the Ravens so just not really
39:17
getting any work. Well, when you when you make
39:20
this pot of gumbo, you throw in all of that to make it taste
39:23
good. And unfortunately they made it
39:26
taste good against us. They they were chomping down.
39:30
It wasn't good on our end, but they threw all those pieces that
39:33
you just mentioned into that pot, mixed it up and had an
39:37
outstanding game. So what are we going to do to
39:41
counter that gumbo? Are we going to just add some
39:45
biscuits to it and, and, and make them and make them better?
39:49
Are we going to turn skunk and turn it against them to to where
39:53
it tastes bad? You know, all those things you
39:56
mentioned were, were great things that they did.
39:59
And so we have to figure out a way to to get out of that.
40:04
And if it's eight yards an out, then like I said, you have to go
40:08
maybe 15 an out or something. You got to do something
40:10
different. I don't get paid to to figure it
40:13
out but but these millionaires do.
40:15
So let's make it happen and and yes, we are injured, we're
40:19
banged up, but football still needs to be played.
40:22
So figure out who's the 2nd man, best man up that you have and
40:27
and let's get this thing going and make it happen.
40:30
Yeah, I'm looking at the passing breakdown for Jayden.
40:33
He threw 13 to 17 passes. He completed 13 to 17 passes
40:38
under 10 yards between the numbers.
40:41
Under 10 yards. Under 10 yards between the
40:43
numbers, right? And if I just go back to Week 1,
40:48
let's see here, he threw 5 for 510.
40:52
He actually in Week 1, he went 5 for 10/10 plus yards between the
40:58
numbers. So you know, if let's just go
41:01
back to last year's divisional playoff round against the Lions,
41:09
right? And we just check to see what
41:11
Jayden did, 14 for 16. Now let's jerk off.
41:16
Let's go to Jayden. Jayden was a majority of his
41:20
throws were 5 for seven under 10 yards between the numbers.
41:28
And is that? Yeah, let's go to the wild card
41:31
game between Jayden, 5 for 10, 110 yards between the numbers.
41:38
I'm I'm not liking this pattern right now.
41:40
I'm saying. So, So what does that tell you?
41:42
If I'm a defensive coordinator, they're going to make it seem as
41:46
though one or two things a this kid either can't.
41:50
We know he can throw the long ball.
41:51
We know he can do it. But consistently, Cliff's
41:56
offense is they're saying Cliff's offense is only going to
42:00
let him be great for five to 10 yards.
42:04
Shut that down right at the 8 yard mark.
42:06
Right 8 yards off the line is where they sat.
42:08
And that's what I'm saying, shut that down, make him work for
42:11
everything and don't allow him to go to his right.
42:15
Make him they they know it's like a basketball player who you
42:18
see, most people are right hand dominant, but then you have
42:21
people who who who are left hand.
42:23
You watch a guy who can't dribble with his left, he's not
42:26
amidestrix. They will purposely force him on
42:30
his right, make him to make him go try to go try to go left.
42:33
They will make him try to go that way because they know
42:35
that's his weak side. So if we know this and it shows
42:40
you didn't, you didn't have to to touch the Holy Grail to
42:43
figure this out. You just went to Google or
42:45
whatever you did and typed in a couple things and bam, there was
42:48
in front of your face. So if it's that easy, then
42:52
Cliff, I need you to make it harder.
42:54
Yeah, I mean, this is just PFF, right.
42:56
Best believe they got subscriptions.
42:58
I'm looking at the Eagles game last year that we beat them in
43:01
seven for 9:00 and 3:00 for four under 10 yards.
43:06
And then you talk about him going right, a majority of his
43:08
completions were to the right hand side of the field.
43:11
So I mean they've got so many people on a coaching staff that
43:16
all look at this stuff and all see this stuff.
43:19
And that's what I'm talking about.
43:20
We just we got out coached, right?
43:23
We have tendencies in this offense and we kept talking
43:26
about how it's such a good thing that Kingsbury is here for
43:31
second year in a row because Jaden doesn't have to learn a
43:34
new offense. The problem with that is people
43:37
know his offense and you've got to evolve, you've got to adapt
43:42
and you've got to come up with ways to throw some wrinkles in
43:45
there. And having Debo now is a
43:48
wrinkle. But if defenses know, hey, we'll
43:50
just sit at 8 yards in and we'll have see if we can get to him.
43:54
Now, I get it. Not every team is going to have
43:56
the pass rush at Green Bay has the Raiders.
43:59
They're not going to have a mica on their team or other guys on
44:02
the team. They're going to be able to get
44:03
to Jayden like he did. But some people are saying I'll
44:07
take Jayden at 70% over Mariota 100%.
44:11
No, I, I, I don't, I don't. I personally don't want that
44:14
because what makes him so special is his ability to just
44:20
evade and that run threat if he needs to.
44:23
And if he cannot be Jayden and he has to all of a sudden be
44:27
just a thrower in that pocket that's not mobile, then I don't
44:31
want to see him out there because to me, that's when he's
44:33
going to get hurt even more. Agreed agreed.
44:38
So we are all on the same page and, and truthfully, it was over
44:43
a decade ago, but people are still have the RG3 Black Hat on,
44:50
on our side, on our shoulder man.
44:52
And, and, and no, this isn't the same thing, But people, it's
44:57
hard to let it go and they don't want to see that again.
45:00
So I'd rather them sit them get well, there's no, there's no
45:08
Kirk cousin slash RG3 controversy here.
45:12
Jayden meets your team, you know, and, and if I was a coach,
45:16
I would. That's when that's when the
45:18
coach says, I'm going to sit you down because you're a young
45:22
football player and we've got a lot of football left and, and I
45:26
don't want you to hurt yourself anymore, you know?
45:31
Yeah. And they always, they always
45:32
say, are you hurt or are you injured?
45:37
Which one is it? And The thing is, do you, do you
45:41
trust them because of the rib injury last year and all the
45:45
smoke and mirrors with that, right?
45:47
It didn't come out until this offseason that he had cracked
45:50
ribs right there being coy about it.
45:55
I, I think they knew that we were in the hunt for for the
45:59
playoffs and that's that's why they were being coy.
46:02
At this juncture, there's no hunt for anything.
46:06
It's just two games in. I'd rather lose you for two
46:09
games and still have enough to make a push to to to to to come
46:14
down the the stretch versus hurt you on the third game and now
46:20
you're out for the season or something stupid like that.
46:23
So that's when the coach has to step in and say, Nope, I wear
46:27
the pig pants. I'm making a big boy decisions.
46:30
I'm a sit you if it needs if it needs to go that way.
46:34
This is actually DQ talking about how you protect Jaden from
46:37
himself. Hey, Dan, you, you've talked in
46:40
the past about having to protect players from themselves with,
46:43
with, with a guy like Jayden and his competitive drive.
46:47
How hard is that to balance what I'm guessing he's going to want
46:50
versus what you guys have to look at kind of long term?
46:52
Yes, you are correct. That's just who he is, which I
46:57
also love about him, by the way. But it is part of that's my job,
47:00
you know, to make sure that one, I'm getting all the information,
47:04
you know, from the medical side. Is he hitting all the tests?
47:07
And then you also have to trust your eyes.
47:08
Where's he at? Where are we going?
47:09
And so we're just not going to miss it, JP for he and for any
47:13
of the guys in that space. So that is the good part of
47:17
being a competitor. But I'm constantly watching and
47:20
pushing to see. And then before we even get on
47:22
to the practice field, they have to go through a pretty strenuous
47:25
testing to see where they're at even before the actual on field,
47:29
you know, reps begin. So that's for he and for a
47:34
couple of other guys as well. So earlier today, the spread was
47:41
commanders are favored 6 1/2, so we're giving up 6 1/2 points to
47:45
the Raiders. Parsic is a home field and
47:47
partially because, you know, they're traveling West Coast,
47:49
blah, blah, blah. Guess what the spread is now.
47:52
Now that the press conference happened and it's out, what
47:54
happened to Jayden? Raiders on top by three.
48:00
No, it's they're still not on top.
48:02
Raiders are getting 3, so we're favored by three points, right?
48:06
Where commanders -3 so it's a 3 1/2 point swing without having
48:11
Jayden in there. And I thought that it was kind
48:14
of high, 6 1/2, right? If Jayden truly does have an
48:19
issue with his knee with an MRI, because you don't, you don't get
48:22
an MRI for nothing. There's got to be something
48:24
going on for you to get that MRI.
48:26
So they did it out of an abundance of caution just to
48:29
make sure that everything was OK.
48:32
And you had people calling into the shows today saying why did
48:34
they leave him in? You know, we were the game was
48:37
out of reach. Why did they take him out?
48:38
Like, do you guys not remember the Hail Mary game against the
48:42
Bears? Do you not remember?
48:43
You know us coming back and they're never going to give up
48:46
and just sit him. So, well, OK, he also wasn't
48:52
limping in the Chicago game. He also wasn't showing the, the,
48:58
the, the fatigue, if you will, from being hit in the Chicago
49:04
game. So on one aspect, I understand
49:07
what they're saying. On the other aspect, hey, we're
49:09
trying to win this ball game. So I, I, I, I, I do understand.
49:14
And like I said, I noticed something was off, but I never
49:18
would have thought that it would have been enough to pull him per
49:22
SE. But but, but if you remember
49:25
though, they did pull him half time at the Dallas game and
49:29
Mariota stepped in. And I wasn't sure why they
49:31
pulled him, whether he's just having a bad game or was he, was
49:33
he injured, you know, so he has been pulled before and so on one
49:39
aspect, I understand what these fans are saying.
49:41
Part of me just wonders, is Micah his kryptonite?
49:44
Because that Dallas game, Micah was getting to him too.
49:47
So yeah, he is. And it just Jerry Jones finally
49:52
built a Super Bowl contender. The problem is it's a Lambo not
49:55
in Dallas. So.
49:57
And you had fans and I don't understand, I'm happy that we
50:01
don't have to face him 2 * a year.
50:02
Then you had fans that are saying, damn, now we're going to
50:06
have to deal with them in the playoffs.
50:07
Like, well, not necessarily, right?
50:08
Green Bay got knocked out in the playoffs early on.
50:11
We never had to see him. So you never know what's going
50:13
to happen come the post season, right?
50:15
I am still happy that he is not in our division and we don't
50:18
have to worry about him. But every four years, you know,
50:21
at the least at that point. So we'll see how it goes.
50:25
I'm just. It also makes me wonder, right.
50:27
OK. Did Jayden not tell them
50:31
something was going on with his name?
50:32
Because every time they showed him on the bench, he was just
50:36
sitting there just kind of cool, calm, collected.
50:40
And he's got to know the camera's going to look at him.
50:42
So he's probably been told by his agent and you know, Miss
50:46
Jackson, everyone else like, hey, no, don't see if you got a
50:49
cliffhanger. You know, you never know when
50:50
that camera's going to be looking at you, right?
50:52
Just sit there, be professional the entire time.
50:54
Makes you wonder, did he ever actually say anything to the
50:56
staff? Did he say anything to the
50:58
coaches that this is bothering me because you talk about trying
51:01
to save him from himself, right? And this is, I'm not trying to
51:04
compare this to Robert, but we all know, you know what how that
51:08
happened, how that ended up. And I just hope that the young
51:11
man is smart enough to know that this is his team.
51:13
Like last year. He's still a Rook, right?
51:16
There's still a chance. There ain't no chance this is
51:19
his team, no matter how well Mariota does or Johnson or
51:23
anybody else. So to me, just get yourself
51:26
right, young man, because it's a marathon out of Sprint.
51:30
Yeah, and I I like you said, I think if we want to just go back
51:34
in several years, it was pressure behind cousins taking R
51:39
GS job. I mean, it just was there's no
51:41
offense or buts about it. And so he felt he had to push
51:43
yourself through because he tasted the success.
51:46
He RG tasted the success. He had the keys in the city.
51:49
He he wanted to keep that. You know, this is not anywhere
51:53
close. It's your team, Jaden.
51:55
No one is on your heels, nothing like that.
51:58
So hey, man, do what you got to do and get yourself better
52:03
because ultimately you're it's a win win.
52:06
It's a win for you and it's a win for your fan base.
52:09
Yeah. And I just, to me, DQ isn't
52:14
going to make this announcement until Friday just because he
52:16
doesn't want to give the Raiders an advantage.
52:18
You need to make them prepare for both scenarios.
52:22
And when Mayor, you talked about that Cowboys game, Mariota came
52:26
in and did well. I also think part of that is
52:28
because the Cowboys game planned for Jaden the entire time.
52:33
So it's very tough if you have to switch that up.
52:36
I mean, I, I remember multiple times where we game plan for a
52:40
Steelers game in particular, we game plan for Byron Leftwich and
52:44
not we game plan for Roethlisberger.
52:46
And then Leftwich came in and freaking torched our ass, right?
52:49
It just, it's very, very different when you're preparing
52:52
for one guy, guess what? Now they're going to prepare for
52:54
two and people that don't remember, I mean, that Cowboys
52:57
game, Mariota won that for us. We needed to win that game.
53:00
He had a 88.1 PFF. I mean, I'm trying to pull up
53:05
his actual stats for that game. But he is a very, very capable
53:10
backup. That is why he is here.
53:12
And if he does need to play, then so be it, right?
53:16
The the thing for me is need Connolly to step up.
53:19
Mariota can't do this on his own, right?
53:21
We're going to have to have Bill step up and we'll talk about the
53:24
Raiders match up later on this week.
53:26
But for those of our listeners that aren't local, we want to
53:28
make sure that y'all know. Hopefully 5 will be on it, but
53:32
if not, all right, next man up. Unfortunately, that's the NFL.
53:38
You know, it really is injuries happening.
53:40
We're not we're not the only team that's going to be bit by
53:42
the bug. And so they're not laying down.
53:45
They are continuing to fight because there's there's 15 games
53:49
that are left 1515. So we we are far from out of it.
53:56
And all it takes is to give the young man just a a couple weeks
54:00
rest, if you will, to get himself together in modern
54:02
technology. The way that it is now with all
54:05
the different pills and and you know, cold, hot compresses that
54:11
they put on stuff. If it's not too bad, he'll be
54:15
back, but just give him the time to heal cooler.
54:19
At this juncture, cooler heads prevail and that's what it comes
54:22
down to. You know who has the coolest
54:25
head and the fan base sometimes does not.
54:30
But I, I am one of these ones who does.
54:32
And I'm going to trust that the investment that they have in JD,
54:39
they will they will definitely put it on the put them on the
54:42
shelf if need be and not put them in harm's way.
54:46
Yeah, I I agree with you. And to me, I've I've got more
54:50
concerns over now this running game because you lose Austin
54:55
Eckler for the year. And I don't want to speculate,
54:58
but some are saying for him at his age to come back from an
55:01
Achilles. They don't see it happening.
55:04
And you know, I just pray for him and Dietrich wise that
55:09
they're OK, but right, you know, next Rook up is is Bill going to
55:13
be able to carry that weight? Right, And we handle it.
55:16
And now kind of makes you wish that you didn't trade away.
55:19
B Rob, right? For the draft up.
55:22
So my question is, what's up Rodriguez?
55:26
I mean, he's going to be, he's going to have to be active.
55:30
There's no way they're going to put him on the practice squad or
55:33
not practice squad. There's no way they're going to
55:34
make him a, you know, a healthy scratch.
55:37
No, not this game. No, we did bring in a new guy.
55:42
Let's see here. We signed a guy to the practice
55:44
squad. Let me see if I can find it.
55:49
Chase Edmonds to the practice squad.
55:51
I don't know much about Chase Edmonds, but I do think he has
55:54
some experience with Kingsbury in the past.
55:58
Yeah, he was with the Cardinals back in the day.
56:02
So I think that's. Where?
56:04
Running back, my bad. Yeah.
56:06
So they brought him in at RB and these on the practice squad now.
56:12
So what about receiver? You know, they, they keep saying
56:15
that, that obviously the, the, the teams have blanketed our
56:18
receivers and they say, well, there's not that many receivers
56:21
that are out there. It's not that hard to believe
56:23
that there's not some receiver that can just take the top off.
56:28
Now here's the other thing. Jayden threw the ball well to on
56:33
some aspects and our receivers didn't give him any justice.
56:36
They ain't doing me, just they missed the ball.
56:38
So that would have moved the chains a couple times that I
56:43
remember they they didn't help the brother out.
56:46
Yeah, Noah definitely had a couple of drops that he should
56:49
have hold in. He had the worst receiving grade
56:51
out of the bunch, right? But it's just, I honestly think
56:54
a lot of it guys weren't getting open, all right?
56:58
And when guys finally got open, Jayden had someone in his face
57:01
just going back and look at the game.
57:02
And I just, I think a decent amount of a decent percentage of
57:06
it is rust, right? You did not have the reps that
57:11
you needed against real competition.
57:13
And you kept hearing about the DBS.
57:17
Sorry. The DBS look good during
57:19
training camp. And this is not to be, not to
57:22
slight anybody else on the team, but the DBS look good because
57:26
they're going against Luke McCaffrey and freaking Jalen
57:30
Lane and Noah Brown. None of those guys are starters
57:33
on another team. They weren't going against
57:35
Terry. So you're saying that the saying
57:38
goes steel sharpen steel? You had steel and something else
57:42
that wasn't being sharpened. I mean poo sharpening poo.
57:45
I I don't know, man, they just they obviously they weren't
57:49
getting the work that they needed against a true number
57:52
one, or else we would have or they would have seen that maybe
57:56
change this up, Marshawn, right. Maybe do this instead of this.
58:00
You just kind of leverage. Right.
58:02
And I think that's, that's just part of it.
58:04
And we're going into Week 3, so technically preseason will be
58:08
done by now if they still had four games and preseason and
58:11
guys are playing more. So I just don't see any excuses.
58:15
And we need these guys to step up, but we need the coaches to
58:18
also look in the mirror and understand you can make
58:22
adjustments in game. And I just did not see that this
58:25
past week. And Vegas now, you know,
58:29
definitely, it wouldn't surprise me if that thing swung a little
58:31
bit more. The Raiders, they're not bad,
58:34
man. You know, You know, it's not
58:35
bad. And.
58:37
He's a he's a experienced guy. He he definitely is.
58:40
He he knows what he's doing and we need these guys to step up
58:44
because you lose Eckler for the year, you lose Dietrich Wise for
58:47
the year. I mean, just going back to what
58:49
Wise did in Week 1 from a defense perspective, I mean, he
58:55
had a ton of pressures and he definitely had a good game and
59:00
that's why they brought him in here.
59:01
But it's just that leadership from Equus perspective, you've
59:05
got Chris Rodriguez who's going to have a huge chip on his
59:08
shoulder to prove something. And then you got Bill and you
59:11
talked about it, you know, two shows ago.
59:14
How are they picking up a pass rush?
59:16
How are they picking up a blitz? Right?
59:18
Those are things that are going to concern me because if you
59:20
don't have a John Bates and doesn't doesn't sound like it's
59:22
going to be ready. We need to make sure that we got
59:24
someone there chipping and helping out.
59:25
So Mariota is the next man down. Yeah, How did Ken Law do?
59:32
What was his stats? Going to Ken Law.
59:36
Ken Law is just a just a a huge beast of a man.
59:40
Yeah, he definitely is. This guy is freaking massive.
59:43
So Javon, he was 14th down the list.
59:47
He had a 56.1. 56 Yeah, I. Mean from a a defensive line
59:53
perspective, no one did well right from a run defence
59:58
perspective. Devonta Jean Baptiste had the
1:00:02
best grade with a 69. I mean, Ken Law was all the way
1:00:07
down at the bottom. It's just, and that's why we
1:00:10
brought him in here, right? Johnny Newton was a 53.5, right?
1:00:13
It's just Green Bay had our number and it was frustrating.
1:00:17
Worst person Duron Payne with a 34.7 right?
1:00:21
Really. So I'm just hoping Green Bay is
1:00:25
that good and it's not as much a combination of us being that
1:00:30
rusty. They're just give me world
1:00:32
beaters. And I am curious to see where
1:00:34
they're going to be on the power rankings this week, because to
1:00:37
me, it's probably Philly still #1 and Green Bay at #2 and maybe
1:00:43
Detroit at #3. I'll take Buffalo at #3 and then
1:00:46
Detroit. Yeah, well, we'll be curious to
1:00:50
see how that goes because, I mean, dropping A50 burger this
1:00:54
week because Josh Allen did not do anything this weekend, right?
1:00:58
I mean, James Cook, I think is the one that took over the
1:01:00
Buffalo game. But Goff, did you see him trying
1:01:03
to do the Lambo leap in the end zone?
1:01:05
He couldn't do it. They needed to boost him up.
1:01:09
He needed to boost this year. Yeah, it's Oh well.
1:01:12
And I'm hoping they just cooled off by the time we play them
1:01:15
later on this year. But up next LA and I'm actually
1:01:19
done with my menu. I came up with some LA Nevada
1:01:22
food which I did not think I was going to be able.
1:01:25
To do Oh, OK, well, the hey man, leave it to you.
1:01:28
You always figure it out. That's one thing I know about
1:01:31
resourceful tailgate head. That's what that's what I know.
1:01:34
So hey guys, I hear the music playing in the background and
1:01:38
once again, I want to thank everyone who wrote letters,
1:01:41
screenshot of them, you know, called and did all the things
1:01:45
you did. You know, we'll, we'll see what
1:01:48
what, what happens. And hopefully we have some some
1:01:52
news here in the upcoming weeks and of the direction everybody
1:01:56
wants to go in and, and just thank you again.
1:02:00
So before signing off, as I always say, you Rep it hard or
1:02:08
you don't Rep it at all. Rally Captain Tailgate Ted,
1:02:14
We'll see you later this week.