Speaker 1: Its late fifteen to ten touched up chers.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: Guys? Welcome into a bye week edition of Chargers Weekly,
Speaker 3: as always, joined by Matt Mundy Smith. Chargers even up
Speaker 3: their record two and two entering the bye beating the
Speaker 3: Raiders Never Easy money. Hey, we have a million, that's right.
Speaker 4: I didn't know if this was mail bag day or
Speaker 4: if next week was mail bag day because we won't
Speaker 4: have a game to talk about or how we were
Speaker 4: doing it. I forgot, so we got yes. Well, it's
Speaker 4: a good week to get all the questions right. I mean,
Speaker 4: jac gets traded yesterday, so I'm sure there's a lot
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of JC, a lot of Quinton, and
Speaker 3: a lot of other like just thoughtful questions. Is the
Speaker 3: Chargers enter their by and have Dallas and Kansas City
Speaker 3: out of the gate. But before we get into the
Speaker 3: mail bag, let's just rewind and talk about that Raiders game,
Speaker 3: Never Easy. I did love your call overall, and specifically
Speaker 3: the Jerry Tillery circled and that was almost the moment
Speaker 3: where I think the switch went off for the Chargers.
Speaker 3: I think these scored two touchdowns after that, and it
Speaker 3: got interesting in the fourth. But what a weird game.
Speaker 3: It's always a weird game between the Raiders in charge.
Speaker 4: I just couldn't move the football in the second half,
Speaker 4: you know, and DJ jinxed it because in the first
Speaker 4: half he said, I think we're gonna get our first
Speaker 4: blowout money, and I was like, Eh, hold your tongue,
Speaker 4: you know, let's let's just hold your tongue till the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter at least. And for whatever reason, they well not,
Speaker 4: for whatever reason, you know, I think that first the
Speaker 4: first drive set the tone, right, Cole gets this monster
Speaker 4: punt that pins him inside the five, and the first
Speaker 4: play is a negative two rush, you know, back to
Speaker 4: the three, and then you have a Quinton drop on
Speaker 4: third down that would have allowed you to move the
Speaker 4: sticks and you know, get a little bit of breathing
Speaker 4: room and maybe you pick up where you leave off.
Speaker 4: And here's your middle eight, right, you score two touchdowns
Speaker 4: before the half, and now you get a third one
Speaker 4: here and you go up thirty one to seven, and
Speaker 4: then the game is over. But so three and out
Speaker 4: and JK had some issues punting the ball for whatever
Speaker 4: reason again, and I'm sure that stuff they're going to
Speaker 4: work out, and they'll figure out, you know. I remember
Speaker 4: Don Mattingly when we were talking to him once head.
Speaker 4: I can't remember what player we were talking about, but
Speaker 4: he just said, when you have someone that's done it
Speaker 4: for multiple seasons, it's there. You just have to find it.
Speaker 4: It's you just got to figure out where it is
Speaker 4: and you don't get too worried about that. You know,
Speaker 4: slumps occur, and so like that's the thing with JK. Yeah,
Speaker 4: well last year he was the best punter in football,
Speaker 4: so they'll find it. So I'll just put that aside.
Speaker 4: But so that's kind of what the issue was, right.
Speaker 4: You look at the second half, Chris, and here it
Speaker 4: is three plays, fifty five seconds. The interception was seven plays,
Speaker 4: three minutes, punt, two minutes, downs, twenty nine seconds. Those
Speaker 4: are their four possessions besides the end of the game,
Speaker 4: which was you know, and I don't count that one
Speaker 4: because again, I'm just talking about what led them to
Speaker 4: that point where it's twenty four to seventeen. So you're
Speaker 4: you've got a defense out on the field for all.
Speaker 1: But what one minute.
Speaker 4: That's four minutes, six minutes of the second half, all
Speaker 4: but six minutes of the second half. Your defense is
Speaker 4: on the field and that's how you get a blowout
Speaker 4: turn into a close game.
Speaker 3: A lot of injuries on the defensive side, so I
Speaker 3: give this second. They holding up no Marlow and lane
Speaker 3: Lane no Joey. Khalil was unbelievable. I mean, some of
Speaker 3: those sacks money, it looked like vintage Khalil, mack Aight,
Speaker 3: O'Connell obviously his his first start. So you know, it's
Speaker 3: a little bit different from preseason right.
Speaker 2: The seasons season.
Speaker 1: I say it all the time. It's a lie.
Speaker 4: It's just it's it's a liar, like the idea that
Speaker 4: you're going to put any stock. And we said this
Speaker 4: before the game, you know, when we were previewing it,
Speaker 4: and and you know, you never who knows, you know,
Speaker 4: rookie could be great.
Speaker 1: You know CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud has been great. So it's it's not like it's
Speaker 4: not possible. But the point I brought up was, don't
Speaker 4: you remember the the Zach Wilson is a changed player
Speaker 4: and look at all that Aaron Rodgers has done for him,
Speaker 4: and how great does he look in the preseason, And
Speaker 4: it's like, that's great, and I hope it's you know,
Speaker 4: I hope it works out for Zach. But I was like,
Speaker 4: you can't, can't say that Zach is fixed from the preseason.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's crazy.
Speaker 4: So I think a tip of the cap to Brandon
Speaker 4: Staley for just making things super muddy. You know, he's
Speaker 4: pretty much rushing for the whole time. Occasionally he brought
Speaker 4: a fifth player, but rarely he had. You know, Eric
Speaker 4: Kendricks was dropping a little bit deeper and in different
Speaker 4: spots at different times, and you could tell it just
Speaker 4: Aidan O'Connell didn't quite know what he was looking at.
Speaker 4: The safety's played great, and it's just that extra beat
Speaker 4: right that It's it's all you need.
Speaker 1: It's like two.
Speaker 4: Tenths of a second difference from hold, you know, getting
Speaker 4: rid of the ball at two point four and now
Speaker 4: you're getting rid of the ball at two point seventy five.
Speaker 4: And that's I think that's what O'Connell was clocking in at.
Speaker 4: And that's that's all you need. The interesting thing for me,
Speaker 4: Chris going back and watching every one of those sacks,
Speaker 4: and I went back and when I watched the sacks,
Speaker 4: I then went back and watched all of Tuley's rushes.
Speaker 4: They were doubling Tooley the whole time like it was.
Speaker 4: I think I counted, what was it. I think he
Speaker 4: had thirty seven pass rushes on the thirty seven he
Speaker 4: was doubled twenty eight times, all but nine, and they
Speaker 4: were leaving Khalil single. It was just like it was
Speaker 4: just the craziest thing. But I think it speaks to
Speaker 4: how good Tooley's been and it was just odd to see.
Speaker 4: It's like you would think after the third sack or
Speaker 4: the fourth sack that he would start sending out toward
Speaker 4: Kaleb was like, no, I'm just gonna keep doubling this guy,
Speaker 4: and he kept wrecking it.
Speaker 3: The juxtaposition of Tooley and then I look at the
Speaker 3: top ten pick for the Raiders Wilson who Keenan. But
Speaker 3: I mean that was basically Keen's having an all Pro season,
Speaker 3: And if you put everything together as a blocker, as
Speaker 3: a receiver, as a quarterback for a play, you could
Speaker 3: tell that, you know, it wasn't a huge game for
Speaker 3: him through the three catches thirty two yards, had that touchdown,
Speaker 3: But all the little things that Keenan does, I think
Speaker 3: kind of energize the offense. And I don't want to
Speaker 3: put a lot of stock into the whole Tillery thing.
Speaker 3: But but Buddy, I feel like there are plays throughout
Speaker 3: the course of a season where yeah, it's it's good
Speaker 3: to see a team wake up a little bit. And
Speaker 3: and I thought that that hit on Justin on the sideline.
Speaker 3: You see almost fifty two dudes circle Jerry, and I
Speaker 3: feel like that is the type of play that can
Speaker 3: kind of like show a bit of togetherness that you
Speaker 3: know sometimes when you're you're losing close games and the
Speaker 3: defense is given up a bunch of points and the
Speaker 3: offense stalls out the end of games, you know, you
Speaker 3: wonder is everybody on the same page. And I felt
Speaker 3: like that was a play that kind of illustrated like,
Speaker 3: hey man, we got a quarterback, offense, defense, special teams, coaches,
Speaker 3: staff members. It was actually a pretty cool sight to
Speaker 3: see for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think number one the fact that Herbert just
Speaker 4: popped up like nothing happened and he's like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 4: I'm just I gotta play to run, let's go, or
Speaker 4: we get into the huddle or what are we doing?
Speaker 4: And I love that the first person in there was
Speaker 4: Scott matt Locke, a rookie who's new to the team,
Speaker 4: and yeah, no helmet on and yet he's the first
Speaker 4: guy that's in there mixing it up. So that's a
Speaker 4: good I love that Derwin's not even dressed and he's
Speaker 4: in the middle of it, grabbing Tillery by the face
Speaker 4: mask like that's it's great to see, you know. And
Speaker 4: that's what happens. You rally around your captain, and that's
Speaker 4: what Herbert is and he doesn't need it. He's the
Speaker 4: biggest guy out there. So that's what's kind of funny
Speaker 4: about it, is all these guys are coming in and
Speaker 4: they're sixty pounds lighter than Justin is and they're trying
Speaker 4: to mix it up, and it's it's great to see it.
Speaker 4: Like I you know, we know Tillery, we remember the
Speaker 4: Trey Pipkins play in practice, and it's just like that's
Speaker 4: who he is and that's why he's not here, and and.
Speaker 1: It's just stupid.
Speaker 4: It's it's so dumb making a play like that where
Speaker 4: you could really hurt someone. And you know what, I
Speaker 4: had someone mention this and it made sense. He's like,
Speaker 4: if you go back and you look at the Drew
Speaker 4: Bledsoe play where he got the punctured lung that led
Speaker 4: to Tom Brady getting that start it's very similar. It
Speaker 4: is a very similar looking play where Drew was pulling
Speaker 4: up thinking okay, I'm out of bounds and sort of
Speaker 4: lets his guard up and the d lineman just crushes
Speaker 4: him right in the side and it broke a rib
Speaker 4: and it punctured along and you know, changed the course
Speaker 4: of football perhaps forever. And that's kind of how big
Speaker 4: that hit was. The difference is, as tall as Drew is,
Speaker 4: he didn't have that kind of you know, he doesn't
Speaker 4: have the the build that Justin does, you know, of
Speaker 4: a thickness to be able to take those hits, and
Speaker 4: that's you know, that's what goes into drafting a quarterback,
Speaker 4: you know, and when people are saying, well, you know,
Speaker 4: when they're when they're breaking down the stats or what
Speaker 4: kind of ball does he throw us out? Like people,
Speaker 4: I think forget at the punishment that that position can
Speaker 4: take at times and how much of an advantage you
Speaker 4: have when you have someone like a Josh Allen or
Speaker 4: Justin Herbert back there that can take that sort of
Speaker 4: abuse and it doesn't affect them like it might somebody else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just an unnecessary hit and you know, we don't
Speaker 3: need to belabor it. But it's it was. It was
Speaker 3: good to see. I thought it was good to see
Speaker 3: from a team building aspect, and this by comes at
Speaker 3: the right time. Money. We have so many questions. The offense,
Speaker 3: to me, is going to have to figure some things
Speaker 3: out during the bye week. Hopefully you get Austin back.
Speaker 3: Not having Corey is a big deal. And you know,
Speaker 3: obviously in the moment when Mike Williams goes down, you
Speaker 3: know it's a crushing blow. But to see how the
Speaker 3: offense looked Sunday without Mike Williams, man, it's it's jarring
Speaker 3: to know that he's not going to be around and
Speaker 3: they're going to have to make some changes offensively in
Speaker 3: an effort to get the ball down the football field.
Speaker 3: We have a lot of questions as it pertains Quintin Johnston,
Speaker 3: let's just get into the lead. I guess of the
Speaker 3: week and J. C. Jackson, who was active for the
Speaker 3: game Sunday, didn't play a snap, traded to the Patriots,
Speaker 3: essentially a pick swap, and jac is just out of
Speaker 3: the building now. So let's I think almost like twenty
Speaker 3: to thirty percent of the questions were about JC. You had,
Speaker 3: you had the sunk cost analogy, and somebody had that question.
Speaker 3: So I thought that'd be a great place to start,
Speaker 3: because you tweeted that yesterday and somebody kind of wanted
Speaker 3: a little.
Speaker 1: Bit more insoid Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the idea of sunk costs versus opportunity cost, right,
Speaker 4: it's an economics theory term. Sun cost is what you've
Speaker 4: you've already spent, right, You've you've already spent this money.
Speaker 4: Your asset is not performing. So let's just say I
Speaker 4: buy a stock. I buy stock a stock A has
Speaker 4: now lost forty percent of its value. I can't get
Speaker 4: over the fact that I have now lost forty percent
Speaker 4: of my money. It's drive me crazy, and so I'm
Speaker 4: going to keep my asset in the hopes that it
Speaker 4: turns around. I get all of my original investment back
Speaker 4: and I turn a profit. Well, in the meantime, I
Speaker 4: could have taken that loss, and I could have take
Speaker 4: let's just say it's ten thousand dollars, right, I could
Speaker 4: have taken that six thousand dollars I've lost four grand
Speaker 4: and invested it in a separate asset that will then grow.
Speaker 4: I take my loss, but I want that six thousand
Speaker 4: dollars somewhere else where it has the opportunity to turn
Speaker 4: a profit because it's not happening in asset A. So
Speaker 4: I need to move that six grand to asset B.
Speaker 4: Take my loss. That's my sunk cost. The four grand
Speaker 4: is lost. Let's get that six grand working. In the
Speaker 4: case of JC, you gave him a five year, eighty
Speaker 4: two and a half million dollar deal. If he stays
Speaker 4: on the team or if you trade him, it's still
Speaker 4: going to cost you eighteen million bucks against the cap
Speaker 4: next year in dead money. There's no getting around that.
Speaker 4: If he stays on the team, you would have to
Speaker 4: renegotiate the deal, add years on the back end, probably
Speaker 4: give him a little bit more money to try to
Speaker 4: stretch it out to less than that. That's it's not changing.
Speaker 4: That cost is sunk. You are giving that player eighteen
Speaker 4: or nineteen or twenty. I don't know what the exact
Speaker 4: number is. I think it's like almost nineteen million bucks
Speaker 4: of your cap next year, regardless it's not working. He's
Speaker 4: a healthy scratch one week and he's active and doesn't
Speaker 4: play a single snap the next. So let's move on.
Speaker 4: Your opportunity cost is JC is now not hanging over
Speaker 4: your head. You can add another corner to the roster.
Speaker 4: Maybe you a trade for a corner. Maybe you like
Speaker 4: what you've seen from a practice squad player, and now
Speaker 4: they can be active on game day and you can
Speaker 4: give them opportunities, and those opportunities could be more profitable
Speaker 4: for the team than the opportunities that were given to JC.
Speaker 4: And that's the idea behind it. And I commend Tom in,
Speaker 4: John Spanos and the team for saying, Okay, we lost
Speaker 4: a lot of money here. We wrote a check for
Speaker 4: whatever the signing bonus and guarantee was for these first
Speaker 4: two years that they're paying the most of forty fifty
Speaker 4: million bucks.
Speaker 1: But you chalk it up.
Speaker 4: You chalk it up to a loss, and you appreciate
Speaker 4: that someone like Jossier is out there and Assante is
Speaker 4: out there, and Mikey is out there, and those three
Speaker 4: corners combined are only costing you twelve thirteen million bucks.
Speaker 4: So you made up for it, you know, it's it's all.
Speaker 4: You can't get fixated on the sunk cost and hope
Speaker 4: that somehow you can get a return on that investment,
Speaker 4: because it's not coming. And so I appreciated that they
Speaker 4: moved on from that. Now will they trade for a corner.
Speaker 4: You know, sorry, Chris, go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, no, no, no, no, I just keep going. I Senor
Speaker 3: Snappy was the one who asked that question. The Charges
Speaker 3: did sign former Bronco and I guess former charger. He's
Speaker 3: saying Bassie from Denver, so it just adds death. But
Speaker 3: going back to what you were saying, do they trade
Speaker 3: for a corner?
Speaker 4: I mean it's possible, right you know, the deadline's coming
Speaker 4: up and teams, you know, would have certainly been very
Speaker 4: interesting if Denver were zero and four as they were
Speaker 4: getting blown out by the Bears, who couldn't close that
Speaker 4: thing out, you know, had they closed that out, and
Speaker 4: you know fields doesn't fumble that ball, that's a scoop
Speaker 4: and score, and I think you end up at least
Speaker 4: even just punting that ball away and they probably win
Speaker 4: that game. And I think now you're talking about a
Speaker 4: fire sale there, you know, when when you go through
Speaker 4: the standings, and so I'm gonna just kind of get
Speaker 4: a look at them right now here, Chris. You know
Speaker 4: when you when you see going to the bottom here,
Speaker 4: you know the Panthers are rebuilding the Bears or you
Speaker 4: know that's the Chase Claypool that we talked about. You know,
Speaker 4: there's like, it'll be interesting to see what the Raiders
Speaker 4: do with the Devonte Adams. They've got a very soft
Speaker 4: stretch in their schedule coming up. But I think you
Speaker 4: start looking at these teams toward the bottom and I
Speaker 4: think it's worth asking, you know, if things continue to
Speaker 4: go bad, if they're one and five, if they're two
Speaker 4: and six, when the deadline rolls around, there's gonna be
Speaker 4: some players available. And you know, if you're the Broncos
Speaker 4: and it continues to go badly, you've got some really
Speaker 4: good players there. You know, Patrick Surtan, are you really
Speaker 4: gonna give make him the highest paid corner in the
Speaker 4: league moving forward? Justin Simmons is one of the highest
Speaker 4: paid safeties. What are you gonna do with Courtland Sutton,
Speaker 4: Jerry che you know what I mean? The list goes
Speaker 4: on and I don't know.
Speaker 3: So this is very interesting. Last year, really, Randy Gregory
Speaker 3: was signed by the Broncos. J C. Jackson was signed
Speaker 3: by the Chargers. Channel Jones was signed by the Raiders.
Speaker 3: All on an effort to dethrone Kinds of City. All
Speaker 3: three of these guys get released within a week of
Speaker 3: each other. In Week four, Week five, it's like, I mean,
Speaker 3: I think it's all almost speechless because those were the
Speaker 3: three biggest signings money in the AFC West last year,
Speaker 3: all gone.
Speaker 4: And I think it's a reminder. And when Tom Tellsco
Speaker 4: says it, you know, Charger fans think, oh, the team
Speaker 4: is cheap, But it's a true point. There's a reason
Speaker 4: why guys are free agents. Nobody has a better evaluation
Speaker 4: of them than their current team. And so when a
Speaker 4: current team is willing to let go of an all
Speaker 4: pro leading the league in interceptions corner like j C. Jackson,
Speaker 4: and we know how important corners are to Bill Belichick,
Speaker 4: a secondary coach, that's what he does. You know, nobody
Speaker 4: knows secondary better than Bill, right, so when they let
Speaker 4: him go, you should say, eh, red flag. You know
Speaker 4: when Randy Gregor, and I know the Gregory thing was
Speaker 4: weird with the Cowboys, right, they tried to resign him
Speaker 4: and it just got weird in the guarantees and the offsets,
Speaker 4: and it was the language that he got all upset about,
Speaker 4: which is why I ended up in Denver. But you know,
Speaker 4: Chandler Jones was the straw that stirred the drink for
Speaker 4: the for the Cardinals on defense and they.
Speaker 1: Let him walk.
Speaker 4: So I think that's something to remember when your team
Speaker 4: has a bunch of money to spend. Look how much
Speaker 4: money the Bear spent on linebackers, you know this offseason
Speaker 4: Tremaine Edmonds like and they're terrible. So I think it's
Speaker 4: important to remember your best way to, you know, to
Speaker 4: build a quality roster is to draft well and develop
Speaker 4: that that is most likely your path to, you know,
Speaker 4: to success. Like you look at at the Eagles and
Speaker 4: the forty nine ers, and the majority of their players
Speaker 4: are draft and develop. Up and down that O line
Speaker 4: for the Eagles, up and down that D line for
Speaker 4: the forty nine ers. You know, same with the Chiefs.
Speaker 4: Look at how good their defense is playing. And they
Speaker 4: invested all that draft capital. You know, the big money
Speaker 4: splash they had was Frank Clark, and he never quite
Speaker 4: worked out. He was good, he was never quite great
Speaker 4: and what they wanted, you know, And now they've got
Speaker 4: car Lofti's and they've got you know, Chris Jones of
Speaker 4: course is the most important part of that. But Bolton
Speaker 4: and Gay and like they're all those are all draft
Speaker 4: and developed guys. And I think that's something that Tom
Speaker 4: and John Spanos and the Chargers subscribe to. That's our
Speaker 4: best path towards success, draft, develop, re sign, if they're
Speaker 4: not good, you let them walk. And so it's it's
Speaker 4: it's unfortunately an eighty two and a half million dollar
Speaker 4: reminder that that tends to be the case, but it's
Speaker 4: it's a reminder.
Speaker 3: Another on JC. Do you think it was important for
Speaker 3: this team money, especially at the buy just to eliminate
Speaker 3: the distraction? I think, first and foremost in the secondary,
Speaker 3: the fact that he was inactive in Minnesota, active but
Speaker 3: didn't play, and just the results were not there. It's almost, hey,
Speaker 3: you want that, you want that player to become what
Speaker 3: he was in New England. But this kind of clears
Speaker 3: the deck. Just see here, you're playing the slot, mikey Asante.
Speaker 3: This is what we got and you know, we don't
Speaker 3: have to worry about the distraction of whether JC is
Speaker 3: inactive or active on a weekly basis. Do you think
Speaker 3: that played into it as well?
Speaker 4: And I think it's important for people to remember it's
Speaker 4: not just the game, it's practice. You know, what reps
Speaker 4: is he getting and if he's not getting the reps
Speaker 4: that he wants and he's not about that, And it's
Speaker 4: clear that he's not going to be playing, then why
Speaker 4: carry him? Why not get somebody else like Bassie that
Speaker 4: can come in and get some reps and you hope
Speaker 4: flashes with the twos or flashes with the scout team
Speaker 4: and can work his way, you know, into the rotation.
Speaker 4: So I think that's like look at Dean Marlowe, right,
Speaker 4: Like Dean marlow gets his opportunity, I'm not going to
Speaker 4: be surprised if he jumps JT in the rotation. You know,
Speaker 4: if you talk about the depth chart, he played great,
Speaker 4: like Dean played really well. And I think that's what
Speaker 4: we're talking about. You know, you have an opportunity presented
Speaker 4: to yourself. How do you execute that opportunity? And with JC,
Speaker 4: I think it was just clear that it wasn't going
Speaker 4: to happen. Probably wasn't that, you know, and the injury
Speaker 4: in his defense, maybe the injury slowed him down and
Speaker 4: he wasn't one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: And if that's the case, then okay, just move.
Speaker 4: On, you know, just it's it's not happening, and we
Speaker 4: we need somebody right now. This team has to win
Speaker 4: this year. Team has to win this year. And so
Speaker 4: I think that's the kind of move. That's what that
Speaker 4: move also signals for me, is that they recognize, Okay,
Speaker 4: we need to get bodies in here because we've got
Speaker 4: the Cowboys and the Chiefs coming out of this buy
Speaker 4: and we at the very least have to split those
Speaker 4: games and try to win both because now we're back
Speaker 4: in the division. If we win both, we go to
Speaker 4: Kansas City, we beat them. Now we got a game
Speaker 4: up on them. So that's what it speaks to me
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 3: It's a good point to keep your eye on. I
Speaker 3: think there's like maybe seven contenders right now, a lot
Speaker 3: of mediocre teams, Buddy, a lot of teams that I
Speaker 3: franklyer competing for that number one overall pick. And it
Speaker 3: is worth looking at some of these teams at the
Speaker 3: bottom and see what happens in Week five. Like you said,
Speaker 3: if the Broncos lose to the Jets and Zach Wilson
Speaker 3: on Sunday, maybe that's the signal to say, Okay, we
Speaker 3: got to unload some of these contracts. There's teams like that,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of littered throughout the NFC and obviously
Speaker 3: the AFC two. It just it seems like there's only
Speaker 3: like six or seven teams that have kind of raised
Speaker 3: their hand as Super Bowl contenders at this point, which
Speaker 3: seems a little low to me based on kind of
Speaker 3: the parody that we see in the league year in
Speaker 3: and year out. I don't know, what do you think
Speaker 3: in terms of the contenders in both conferences? The AFC
Speaker 3: I felt like entering it, it is like, okay, this
Speaker 3: is stacked. We got the Bills, we got the Dolphins,
Speaker 3: we got Aaron Rodgers and the Jets. We know what
Speaker 3: happened there. The Bengals are struggling, the Steelers are struggling.
Speaker 3: The AFC South is just two and two. Everybody's kind
Speaker 3: of middling there. And the AFC West, you know, take
Speaker 3: the Raiders in Broncos out of it already.
Speaker 4: To me, it's you know, it's early, but I think
Speaker 4: the Bills Dolphins in chiefs.
Speaker 1: Look, you know, the Bills are back to looking like
Speaker 1: a buzzsaw.
Speaker 4: They have a really good, really deep deep and they
Speaker 4: didn't even have Von Miller for those first four games.
Speaker 4: He's coming back, so now you got that on the
Speaker 4: defensive line, you know, to go with what you already had.
Speaker 4: They're so well coached, you know, Josh Allen is just
Speaker 4: a killer. I mean, he has just got the I
Speaker 4: mean he's got the His guts are second to none
Speaker 4: in the league. I mean that guy will do anything.
Speaker 4: He will crawl on his freaking tongue across broken glass
Speaker 4: to get a first down. And I think you see
Speaker 4: that all. You know, you're seeing that emerge. So the
Speaker 4: Bills are certainly a contender. Obviously, I don't need to
Speaker 4: say anything about the Chiefs. That Miami offense is crazy.
Speaker 4: You know, the defense has got some issues, but the
Speaker 4: offense is going to be a mess to deal with
Speaker 4: a change, you know, with another couple of touchdowns. You know,
Speaker 4: you had that to the mix with Tyreek and Jalen
Speaker 4: Waddle and stuff. So I think they're legitimate. To me,
Speaker 4: it's it's those three teams that have separated, you know,
Speaker 4: and then you start going through it and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 4: the Cleveland defense is really really good, but what's their
Speaker 4: offense going to be is Deshaun Watson. You know, he
Speaker 4: had a nice game last game, but then he missed
Speaker 4: this pass game and wasn't really great in the first
Speaker 4: two to that. So I think we're still waiting there.
Speaker 4: Like you said, the AFC South. There's there's good qualities,
Speaker 4: there's bad qualities. You always believe in that Titans defense,
Speaker 4: you know, and and if they can just keep it close,
Speaker 4: they're they're a headache because of Derrick Henry and how
Speaker 4: he can take the air out of the ball and
Speaker 4: really wear a team down going into the fourth court
Speaker 4: of The Jags are interesting, you know, they just have
Speaker 4: not looked good and it felt like they were trending
Speaker 4: toward being that other team that could join that top
Speaker 4: tier in the AFC, and that just has not happened.
Speaker 4: The Texans are not just frisky, they look they're interesting.
Speaker 4: They're really interesting the way they run the ball.
Speaker 1: You know. CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud has had a heck of a start to his
Speaker 4: career and obviously the Migo can coordinate the heck out
Speaker 4: of a defense. So, you know, I think it's those
Speaker 4: three in the AFC, Chiefs, Bills, Dolphins. I'm not quite
Speaker 4: a buyer on the Ravens at three and one right now.
Speaker 4: I need to see a little bit more there, you know,
Speaker 4: especially with all the injuries on defense. And then for
Speaker 4: the NFC, you knows, it's forty nine ers to me
Speaker 4: and then a gap I think the forty nine Ers
Speaker 4: are ahead, and then that next tier, you know, it's
Speaker 4: the Eagles, It's the Cowboys. The Lions are interesting. The
Speaker 4: Seahawks are interesting, but so Niners, and I would go,
Speaker 4: next tier is Cowboys, Eagles. Then next tier is that Lions, Seahawks,
Speaker 4: sort of collection of teams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Jags are interesting too because I think the offseason, obviously,
Speaker 3: the comeback win against the Chargers and then keeping a
Speaker 3: close against the Cheese. I think that kind of masked
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence's first half against the Chargers. It threw for
Speaker 3: four interceptions and people kind of forgot about that. I
Speaker 3: don't know that Jackson could very well turn it around.
Speaker 3: You mentioned like Aidan O'Connell the interceptions and the fumbles.
Speaker 3: C J. Stroud is doing the complete opposite. He's taking
Speaker 3: care of the football as a rookie quarterback. And if
Speaker 3: you can do that in this league, you got to
Speaker 3: shot every single Sunday. But let's get back to these questions.
Speaker 3: Justin brought could we see more Marlow and Lane lined
Speaker 3: up in safety to a Derwin to play near the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage more when he comes back. That's that's
Speaker 3: an interesting thing. Because you mentioned could Marlow maybe jump
Speaker 3: J T. Woods if if he continues to play.
Speaker 4: I think so because I think they've been looking for
Speaker 4: that and they need it and they want it because
Speaker 4: yet Derwin is just not as effective out there. He's
Speaker 4: not that's not what he's best at. Can he do it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But is it? Is it where you want him?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: You want him near the ball. You want him on
Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage. You want him jamming a tight
Speaker 4: end in the slot. You want him rushing the quarterback.
Speaker 4: You want him run fits. You know you want That's
Speaker 4: where you want Derwin all over the place near the ball,
Speaker 4: that's where he excels.
Speaker 1: And and JT.
Speaker 4: You know, you think about that touchdown by Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 4: He just has had issues. I think, you know early,
Speaker 4: and it's early. He's a young player, you know, so
Speaker 4: I think that you got to keep that in mind.
Speaker 4: He's still getting better, he's still figuring this out and
Speaker 4: it's a tough position. But like I said, you got
Speaker 4: to win this year. Dean Marlin has been doing this
Speaker 4: for seven years. The guy was a starter for a
Speaker 4: full season. So if he shows that he he's a
Speaker 4: depth at the system, that he's comfortable playing all the
Speaker 4: different coverages that Brandon Staley's calling, and he takes good
Speaker 4: angles and he makes tackles when they're there to be made.
Speaker 4: Then yeah, I think I think we could see he
Speaker 4: and a Loewie a little bit more moving forward. You know,
Speaker 4: Rahim's always going to be active on game day because
Speaker 4: he's such a good special teams player, So if you
Speaker 4: want to mix him in there, you can. But simple
Speaker 4: answer to that question, yeah, I could definitely see him
Speaker 4: moving up the depth chart in JT.
Speaker 1: Sliding back.
Speaker 3: From our buddy James, I'm posing the same question I
Speaker 3: did before the season started with four games in what
Speaker 3: is your biggest concern offense or defense? I'll let you
Speaker 3: answer this money just really quickly. For me, I still
Speaker 3: think it's the defense because you have Justin Herbert on offense,
Speaker 3: but the offense without Mike Williams. I kind of mentioned
Speaker 3: it earlier. You don't want to get back into that
Speaker 3: same path from last year where you can't get the
Speaker 3: ball down the field and I'm looking around and you
Speaker 3: hope Geiton comes back because that's your hope to get
Speaker 3: some speed on the outside. I don't know when that's
Speaker 3: gonna be hopefully sooner than later. But they're gonna have
Speaker 3: to figure some things out during this bye week with
Speaker 3: Corey Linsley down, with Austin Eckler missing the last three games.
Speaker 3: I'm very intrigued to see what the offense looks like
Speaker 3: against the Cowboys with a week to prepare, an extra
Speaker 3: week to prepare during the by Defensively, it's it's gonna
Speaker 3: be the secondary until they prove otherwise. So James, that's
Speaker 3: that's my take on it. Money, what do you think?
Speaker 4: So I guess I'll be a little bit more specific
Speaker 4: because we're four games in. So one, how how is
Speaker 4: this finger injury going to affect Herbert playing under center,
Speaker 4: taking snaps under center, gating some play action and how
Speaker 4: good that? How big of a boon that's been? How
Speaker 4: much better the running game has been with him under center?
Speaker 4: And Austin Eckler, who I expect will be back against
Speaker 4: the Cowboys. You know, it made sense for him not
Speaker 4: to play in the game against the Raiders. Just take
Speaker 4: the extra two weeks and get a hundred percent or
Speaker 4: as close to it as you can. So that's that's
Speaker 4: one too. Is I thought we'll clap had a really
Speaker 4: good game, so I'm fine there in terms of Corey's
Speaker 4: He's not Corey, but but I thought he played that.
Speaker 4: He certainly played fine. And Rashaan got bent back on
Speaker 4: a sack in the game, and that's something I want
Speaker 4: to keep an eye on because we don't see Rashaun
Speaker 4: Slater give up four pressures in a game. And those
Speaker 4: weren't four pressures to Max Crosby. You know, it was
Speaker 4: a little bit of tyree. Wilson got one. I think
Speaker 4: it was divine. Diablo was opposite him on another and
Speaker 4: he got bent back and his knee got kind of
Speaker 4: caught up underneath justin on a sack from Crosby against Pipkins.
Speaker 4: And so that's something that I think is super concerning
Speaker 4: because that's sort of what led to a team that
Speaker 4: did not have a whole lot of pass rush outside
Speaker 4: of Max Crosby getting quite a bit of pressure on
Speaker 4: him that entire game. So that's something I'll keep an
Speaker 4: eye on. You already said it about they need they
Speaker 4: need a deep threat. Quentin's got to beat it. He's
Speaker 4: just got to play better, you know. It's so he's
Speaker 4: so there's that or they have to find somebody else
Speaker 4: that that can take the top off a defense and
Speaker 4: can catch the ball when it's thrown to them, and
Speaker 4: then defensively, you know what, Chris, I thought they played
Speaker 4: really well, especially considering like we didn't have a whole
Speaker 4: lot of explosives. You know though that we had that nineteen,
Speaker 4: we had a third and nineteen. One of the explosives
Speaker 4: was that twenty two yards from from Jacobs on the
Speaker 4: dump off, and that was just a busted coverage. Kenneth
Speaker 4: was kind of floating on the wrong side of the
Speaker 4: middle of the field and he was covering nobody and
Speaker 4: instead he allowed Jacobs to kind of leak out. That
Speaker 4: should have been a gain of like six and a punt.
Speaker 4: Instead it was a gain of twenty two and and
Speaker 4: obviously Devonte Adams is exceptional, but I thought the secondary
Speaker 4: did really well. You know, you didn't have a lot
Speaker 4: of explosive plays in that game, and that's moving forward
Speaker 4: something they're going to have to continue to be good at.
Speaker 4: You know, I thought this had an opportunity for especially
Speaker 4: without Joey, you know, with Kendrick's just kind of coming
Speaker 4: back and getting more snaps in this one, not knowing
Speaker 4: he was right, you know, with the safeties is the
Speaker 4: last line of defense. I thought this set up to
Speaker 4: potentially be a big Josh Jacobs game, who has routinely
Speaker 4: crushed the Chargers in there were no explosive runs. Tully
Speaker 4: as exceptional as an edge defender against the run. We
Speaker 4: know Khalil Mack is great. The interior has been solid,
Speaker 4: so I think that's encouraging. If they can carry that
Speaker 4: over to Dallas and then Kansas City, which is obviously
Speaker 4: gonna be a lot tougher but I think possible, then
Speaker 4: you know, feel a lot better moving forward.
Speaker 3: Our buddy Dan throughout some defensive rankings through the first
Speaker 3: four weeks, and one of our thoughts, I just go
Speaker 3: over a few of them. Points per game twenty seventh
Speaker 3: in the league, sacks first. I think Kalil Beck had
Speaker 3: a big, big say in that. Yards per game through
Speaker 3: the air, thirty second and third down conversion, fifth turnover seventh,
Speaker 3: So kind of a mixed bag defensively. Maybe it's something
Speaker 3: where you know you're starting to see the team come
Speaker 3: together a little bit in that that thirty second ranking
Speaker 3: in passing defense can change here over the next couple
Speaker 3: of weeks, though it will be challenging against the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think it's I don't want to look
Speaker 4: at the season stats. I know that sounds like, oh well,
Speaker 4: why not.
Speaker 1: Well, because you know the first game of the year.
Speaker 4: Was just a wrecking machine. Yeah, so I think that's
Speaker 4: you know, something to remember. I mean, you look at
Speaker 4: the offensive leaders right now in the league. To it
Speaker 4: leads the league in passing yards. Kirk Cousins is third.
Speaker 4: So that's two of their four games, you know, receiving
Speaker 4: yards justin Jefferson is one, Tyreek Hill is three. So
Speaker 4: you know they're facing teams that have explosive offenses. And
Speaker 4: have you know that the Tennessee game was the one
Speaker 4: real red flag for me? You know that that they
Speaker 4: allowed those explosive plays to Chris Moore and Treiling Burks,
Speaker 4: you know, while keeping Derrick Henry in shack. And so
Speaker 4: you know, when I look at when I look at
Speaker 4: the charges, I'm kind of looking at, Okay, are they better?
Speaker 4: And to me, the last two weeks where the defense
Speaker 4: was asked like think about this, Chris, the defense could
Speaker 4: have won the game against Miami and against the Titans.
Speaker 4: Right they were on the field when the Chargers were leading,
Speaker 4: and they gave up a score late in the fourth
Speaker 4: quarter that then had to bring the offense back on
Speaker 4: the field to try to gain it best. So that's
Speaker 4: your first two weeks. Your last two weeks again, the
Speaker 4: defense is tasked in a much more desperate situation, by
Speaker 4: the way, the red zone with coming up with a stop,
Speaker 4: and they did so, like that's and for whatever you
Speaker 4: want to say, Oh, they got lucky. He's a young quarterback.
Speaker 4: He didn't see the assante was squating and knew exactly
Speaker 4: what play was. Okay, well yeah, but the defense did that.
Speaker 4: They executed that well. Kirk Cousins rushed to the line.
Speaker 4: He should have called the time out, but he didn't.
Speaker 4: And Nick Neeman knew what play was coming and he
Speaker 4: let JT know what was coming, and they popped the
Speaker 4: ball in the air and they got the interception. So
Speaker 4: like that's a good development. That's progress for the defense.
Speaker 4: So in terms of looking at numbers in totality, I
Speaker 4: would say, moving forward, let's see if these are stepping stones,
Speaker 4: and if they are better against the Cowboys, if they
Speaker 4: are better against the Chiefs, and if not, let's see
Speaker 4: him dominate the Bears and the Jets the two weeks
Speaker 4: after that and allow the offense to get a couple
Speaker 4: of blowout wins in there, Like that's I think that's
Speaker 4: more important moving forward than trying to figure out where
Speaker 4: they rank through four games because of how crazy that
Speaker 4: first one was.
Speaker 3: Money, What did you make of the fourth down call
Speaker 3: with Justin undersenter the quarterback sneak that didn't go the
Speaker 3: Chargers one?
Speaker 4: So I loved it, and I loved the play call,
Speaker 4: and I think it was clear that Herb you know,
Speaker 4: I think the question, if you want to question him
Speaker 4: on that, it's like, hey, clearly his hand was not
Speaker 4: in a position to be able to run that play.
Speaker 4: He had kind of pinned that ball way up here
Speaker 4: because he was worried about fumbling it with his hand,
Speaker 4: and then that caused him to get really tall, and
Speaker 4: what do you want to do. You want to get
Speaker 4: small and you want to get leverage underneath, and Herbert's
Speaker 4: the tallest guy in the pile, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: that doesn't work, you know, unless you're going to reach over.
Speaker 4: And maybe that's what the call was. Like he had
Speaker 4: at the goal and like, hey, I'm going to take
Speaker 4: the snap and I'm going to reach over. And when
Speaker 4: he took the snap, he's like, I can't do this.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm going to fumble the ball if I
Speaker 4: tried it, And then he just tucked it against his
Speaker 4: chest and it's like it was it was doomed to fail.
Speaker 4: But you know, we talked to Brandon Staley after every game,
Speaker 4: and I thought he brought up a great point when
Speaker 4: we asked him about it. He just said, hey, man,
Speaker 4: I believe in the team. I believe in the call.
Speaker 4: I just need him to execute it. And I think
Speaker 4: that's fair. I think it's We've got one of the
Speaker 4: best quarterbacks in the league and I am going to
Speaker 4: put my trust in him to make the play and
Speaker 4: for the offense to make play, and if they can't,
Speaker 4: I trust that my defense is going to make a play.
Speaker 4: So I'm fine with that answer. And I think I've
Speaker 4: said this before. I really thought he got away from
Speaker 4: his personality. You always want a coach to be genuine,
Speaker 4: to be authentic, and I think it is in Brandon's
Speaker 4: I think it's in coach Staley's personality to be aggressive,
Speaker 4: to go for these fourth downs. He believes in justin Herbert,
Speaker 4: you know, in implicitly, and so I think all the
Speaker 4: media incoming that he took after that Raider game in
Speaker 4: Week eighteen in twenty twenty one. I think it affected
Speaker 4: the way he called the game last year, and I
Speaker 4: think this year he realizes, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: do this my way and I don't. And he basically
Speaker 4: said that to us. He's like, I'll take it. I
Speaker 4: know it's coming, I don't care. I still believe it's
Speaker 4: the right play for our team in that moment, and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna keep calling it. And I hope he does
Speaker 4: because I think the team feeds off it. I really do.
Speaker 4: I think it's part of their identity and they liked
Speaker 4: having that identity in twenty twenty one, and I would
Speaker 4: like to see them get back to it, to a
Speaker 4: little bit of that swagger, because it does send a
Speaker 4: belief to both sides. I believe in the offense, you're
Speaker 4: gonna get me my two feet and we're gonna end
Speaker 4: this game right here, and you believe in the end.
Speaker 4: If I don't, I believe in my defense, they're gonna
Speaker 4: do something. They're gonna make this work. They need to
Speaker 4: get a touchdown and they're gonna make sure they don't
Speaker 4: get in there. So I was fine with it and
Speaker 4: I know that's not the popular position, but I've said
Speaker 4: it all along.
Speaker 3: The defense answered the bell. Yeah, last two weeks too,
Speaker 3: you know, two interceptions. Let's get into more of these questions.
Speaker 3: We got a ton of these money. I'm gonna give
Speaker 3: you victors over the bye week. Do you guys believe
Speaker 3: Kellen and Staley will find a way to get QJ.
Speaker 3: Moore involved in the offense. We've talked about this looking
Speaker 3: at the Raiders specifically as a golden opportunity for Quintin
Speaker 3: Johnston to really get going in his pro career. It
Speaker 3: didn't shake out that way, just one catch.
Speaker 4: Three targets. But he's on the field for thirty seven
Speaker 4: receiving snaps, so he's out there.
Speaker 2: It's up to him.
Speaker 4: You know, this is on him now, Like that's you know,
Speaker 4: I was talking about it before because he was on
Speaker 4: the field for eight snaps and then he's only on
Speaker 4: the field for twelve snaps, and no, he's out there.
Speaker 4: He's one of the three receivers, and now it's up
Speaker 4: to him. Get open, and when you get open, catch
Speaker 4: the ball. And when you start doing that, your quarterback's
Speaker 4: gonna trust you and he's gonna look at you and
Speaker 4: he's gonna throw the ball at you. You know, he
Speaker 4: had three targets. It was a great catch. Had Herbert
Speaker 4: seen him a little bit earlier on that catch that
Speaker 4: he made ready to dive and come back and get it,
Speaker 4: and it was a great catch. He got his hand
Speaker 4: under the ball. But had Herbert seen him a little early,
Speaker 4: that could have gone for a touchdime because he flashed
Speaker 4: open and he was following, and I give him credit.
Speaker 4: Q was mirroring Herbert and Herbert was just locked a
Speaker 4: little bit to the right. Had he come back to
Speaker 4: the middle earlier, he could have hit Q in stride
Speaker 4: and that might have gone for a touchdown. We talked
Speaker 4: about it earlier. The third down drop is inexcusable. You
Speaker 4: can't do that. You're pined deep in your own territory.
Speaker 4: The ball hits you in the chest. First of all,
Speaker 4: you gotta catch that thing. You cannot pin that to
Speaker 4: your body, and it popped up in the air and
Speaker 4: could have been an interception. So and then after that,
Speaker 4: I think, you know, I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 4: what's happening, but he's out there. So to me, it's
Speaker 4: not on Staley, it's not on Kellen Moore. It is
Speaker 4: on Q first, and then it's on Herbert second. You know,
Speaker 4: it's on Quintin to earn the trust of Justin, and
Speaker 4: then it's on Justin to have enough trust to throw
Speaker 4: on the ball. And when he does, he's got to
Speaker 4: catch it. And that's and that's how this thing's going
Speaker 4: to grow. But until that happens, and I think it's
Speaker 4: important for people. Again, this is a dead horse I'm beating.
Speaker 4: But remember these teams practice. They practice, so they know
Speaker 4: exactly what happens in practice and that's what they expect
Speaker 4: to happen in the game. So if Q is getting
Speaker 4: open and if he's catching balls in practice, then that's
Speaker 4: going to carry over to the field on Sunday or
Speaker 4: in the case when we come back from them by Monday.
Speaker 2: So that's so to me, it's up to him.
Speaker 4: This is no longer a what's wrong with Staley, what's
Speaker 4: wrong with Kellen Moore? Why aren't they getting cue the ball? No,
Speaker 4: Q's got to get the ball, So he's got to
Speaker 4: make it right moving forward. It's on him and and
Speaker 4: I had a perfect view of it after he dropped
Speaker 4: that third down pass. You know, in the first possession
Speaker 4: of the second half, there was a three and out
Speaker 4: all the way back at their five yard line. I
Speaker 4: was watching him because I wanted to see what his
Speaker 4: body language look like. He was upset with himself. All
Speaker 4: the receivers are sitting with coach Batty going over the surface,
Speaker 4: and he kept pounding. His chest was up set, and
Speaker 4: he sat down on a gatorade cooler by himself, and
Speaker 4: Gerald Everett came over and put his arm around him,
Speaker 4: was trying to encourage him. And so he knows, you know,
Speaker 4: he knows that was a bad play. He knows that
Speaker 4: was when he left out there, and that when those
Speaker 4: when you're only getting three targets, you got to catch
Speaker 4: all three. You can't short arm in the end zone.
Speaker 4: I know the ball was tip, but his arms got
Speaker 4: a little short. You can't let a ball pop off
Speaker 4: your chest on third down. And he made a heck
Speaker 4: of a play to get that first down, digging that
Speaker 4: ball out. So just make more of those, and more
Speaker 4: targets are gonna come your way, and more catches are
Speaker 4: gonna come your way, and you're gonna pile up some
Speaker 4: yards in one of these games. Get a touchdown and
Speaker 4: then we're gonna start rolling you know, But that's to me,
Speaker 4: that's what it is. It's not don't put this on
Speaker 4: the coach, don't put this on Kellen. Put it on
Speaker 4: q It's now his time. He's getting the opportunity.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the accountability. Yeah, And when you look at
Speaker 3: what's ahead, hey Man, Dallas Cowboys, Monday night football at
Speaker 3: SOFI Stadium. I mean, this is a big opportunity for
Speaker 3: Quentin to you know, and I think you're right. It
Speaker 3: starts on the practice field in the trust and it
Speaker 3: takes Listen, sometimes it takes a while for a quarterback
Speaker 3: and a wide receiver to trust each other. Justin we've
Speaker 3: seen him connect with Geiton and t and.
Speaker 2: That's the thing, Chris, But like, that's the thing, Like Justin.
Speaker 4: I know that he had all those targets to Keenan
Speaker 4: that day and stuff, and that's understandable. He's one of
Speaker 4: the greatest receivers that's ever played the game. But we've
Speaker 4: seen that. We've seen Justin throw the ball to Parham,
Speaker 4: to giton to Tyron Johnson. These are undrafted free agent guys.
Speaker 4: These are our first round picks. These are not all pros.
Speaker 1: Like Keenan.
Speaker 4: You know, he's Josh Palmer. He's comfortable. He targeted Josh
Speaker 4: Palmer like crazy. I mean, he's in tight coveraging. He's
Speaker 4: trying to throw the ball in tight windows to Josh
Speaker 4: all game against the Raiders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's not Justin doesn't care.
Speaker 4: What your resume reads, you know, he doesn't care what
Speaker 4: your pedigree is. Get open, I'll throw you the ball
Speaker 4: and when I do catch it, and you're gonna get more.
Speaker 4: And that's like, think about that fourth down throat it.
Speaker 4: It's Donald Parham. He's taken from the XFL, you know,
Speaker 4: and two red zone opportunities, one on a fourth down
Speaker 4: and Justin throws him a bullet, a freaking bullet, and
Speaker 4: he snatches it out of the air for a touchdown,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like, he doesn't care.
Speaker 4: Justin does not care what your number or the name
Speaker 4: on the back of your jersey is. So just go
Speaker 4: out there and earn it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. And if there was any misunderstanding and
Speaker 3: training camp ort the beginning of the year, there should
Speaker 3: be no misunderstanding now that Joshua Palmer is clearly wide
Speaker 3: receiver two. Now that Mike Williams is out and Justin
Speaker 3: has a lot of trust in Joshua, and Joshua earned
Speaker 3: that trust. He earns it after practice in his work
Speaker 3: ethic in practice. But he earned it last year in
Speaker 3: a bunch of spots from Keenan and Mike no down,
Speaker 3: and he was called on to help win them football games.
Speaker 3: And you saw it. Nothing went right in the second
Speaker 3: half against the Raiders' Money except for that fifty one
Speaker 3: yard catch to seal the game. Yeah, so so Joshua.
Speaker 3: I feel good about Joshua in his progression. We got
Speaker 3: to see it with Quinton though, and he's gonna have
Speaker 3: a huge opportunity Monday night football. Let's let's stay with
Speaker 3: the offense. Bolt Fan twenty four. How significant is Eckler
Speaker 3: coming back to play next week, not only for his
Speaker 3: abilities with the ball, but for pass blocking. I think
Speaker 3: the offense changes dramatically with Austin one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Austin ecker money completely.
Speaker 4: It's one of the best running backs in the league,
Speaker 4: one of the most complete running backs in the league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pass pro has been okay, josh He's left a
Speaker 2: few out.
Speaker 4: There, a couple of those blitzes against Tennessee and against Miami.
Speaker 4: I think he kind of missed his assignment.
Speaker 2: A little bit, but it's been okay.
Speaker 4: It's the difference is that, you know, Austin is such
Speaker 4: a threat that people don't know what the heck to
Speaker 4: do with him when he's on the field. It's like, okay,
Speaker 4: is he going to get the handoff? If he does,
Speaker 4: I know, he never goes down in first contact in
Speaker 4: the guys in his career as out over four yards
Speaker 4: per carry, So I've got to be worried about that.
Speaker 4: If he leaks out into flat we know he's going
Speaker 4: to make the first man miss every time. So that's
Speaker 4: a headache. Now I got to think about that. And
Speaker 4: God forbid he goes on a wheel route and he's
Speaker 4: got a lineback around him because he's gonna torch him
Speaker 4: and that thing could go for fifty sixty yards. So
Speaker 4: it changes everything. You know, you you now have to
Speaker 4: account for that player. Where is he?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: And that's as good as Joshua has been, you know,
Speaker 4: as good as I believe Isaiah Spiller can be, that's
Speaker 4: just not the effect that it has on the defense
Speaker 4: when you have a player that when they're on the field,
Speaker 4: where is he?
Speaker 1: Where is he?
Speaker 4: And how many resources do we have to commit to him,
Speaker 4: it has you know, it compounds the ability for the
Speaker 4: offense to be successful.
Speaker 3: Money. How about the creativity out of Kellen knowing that
Speaker 3: Austin was down using Darius Davis on that first drive,
Speaker 3: that fifty one yard pitch, and you know he accounted
Speaker 3: I think for fifty six to the eighty six yards
Speaker 3: on that drive. We talked to Keenan about it after
Speaker 3: the game. He just say, hey, man, it's we got
Speaker 3: to get these young guys going. And I thought that
Speaker 3: that was brilliant and it almost gets the wheels turning
Speaker 3: when Austin does come back. Why not have Darius and
Speaker 3: Austin on the field at the same time and you know,
Speaker 3: have some sort of threat to take the ball the distance,
Speaker 3: have more speed on the field.
Speaker 4: I think it's again, let's let's go back to what
Speaker 4: we said about practice. Darius is clearly showing stuff in practice.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: They trust him, they love what they see, and I
Speaker 4: think we're going to see more of that. So to me,
Speaker 4: it's it's he's earned it. I think he's an interesting weapon,
Speaker 4: right And and DJ made a really good point too.
Speaker 4: He made a really good point with with the Raiders
Speaker 4: in town yesterday. He's like, hey, don't forget you know,
Speaker 4: Justin loved DeAndre Carter. Like DeAndre had a career year
Speaker 4: last year. The guy had seven hundred receiving yards. I
Speaker 4: don't remember how many touchdowns he had, might have been five.
Speaker 4: I mean he had quite a few touchdowns too, though,
Speaker 4: But like Justin went to him on third critical third
Speaker 4: downs repeatedly last year. So it's not like Justin needs
Speaker 4: this tall drink of water as a target. He's totally
Speaker 4: fine with the smaller guys, and DeAndre is one of
Speaker 4: the smallest guys in the league. So I think, you know,
Speaker 4: Darius only had six receiving snaps, had two targets, and
Speaker 4: guess what, he caught him both. So caught him both
Speaker 4: twenty seven receiver yards after catch. I think we're gonna
Speaker 4: see more of that. I think that's probably something where
Speaker 4: I could see Justin going into Kellen Moore's office and saying, Hey,
Speaker 4: do me a favor, go back and look at some
Speaker 4: of the stuff that DeAndre Carter was doing last year,
Speaker 4: and let's figure out, you know, if we can do
Speaker 4: that with Darius, because he's just as fast, if not faster,
Speaker 4: and the guy catches everything that that you throw at
Speaker 4: him and you know the running replays. I mean it's
Speaker 4: guys converted a killer fourth down you know in Tennessee
Speaker 4: that led to a score. You know, had that fifty
Speaker 4: whatever it was, fifty one yard run, you know this
Speaker 4: last week against the Raiders. Like, I love it, man,
Speaker 4: I love the creativity and I do think you're going
Speaker 4: to see him earn more and more snaps moving forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the d id Carter thing is a great point. Money,
Speaker 3: the trust that did Justin and DeAndre they were only
Speaker 3: together for a year. And remember the game in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: He had the game of his life as a wide receiver,
Speaker 3: keeping him in it until the ends on Sunday Night football.
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Speaker 3: questions involving the name Kyle Pitts. I'm just gonna read
Speaker 3: one of them, Cody Ray Thompson. Should the Charger sniff
Speaker 3: around Kyle Pitts to see if there is a trade
Speaker 3: possibility there. You mentioned Chase Claypool two at the top.
Speaker 3: I think fans are wondering what they can do offensively,
Speaker 3: specifically on the outside or a weapon as a tight end.
Speaker 3: And you know, I thought Gerald was gonna have a
Speaker 3: bigger game frankly against against Vegas that didn't turn out.
Speaker 3: But is Kyle Pitts a name that interests you?
Speaker 1: Sure? Absolutely.
Speaker 4: I don't know what it would cost, and you know
Speaker 4: he's coming up at the end of his Here's the thing,
Speaker 4: the Chargers have a lot of veteran contracts right now.
Speaker 4: They want more rookie contracts, So I think if they're
Speaker 4: trading for a player, it's probably going to be somebody
Speaker 4: that like last year, I thought they should have traded
Speaker 4: for Hokinson. Like to me, that's you know what, this
Speaker 4: is exactly what you want a tight end to be
Speaker 4: in the NFL. You know what You're Yes, it's going
Speaker 4: to cost you some money, but that problem is solved.
Speaker 4: He's great in line blocking. He is a great receiver,
Speaker 4: and he's proven it. You know, he's great in the
Speaker 4: red zone. So it's going to cost you a second. Kyle,
Speaker 4: for whatever reason, has just not flashed. It just hasn't happened.
Speaker 4: And I think some of that could be quarterback. Some
Speaker 4: of that could be Arthur Smith likes to run the
Speaker 4: heck out of the ball. Are those opportunities there? So look,
Speaker 4: if you can get him for a steal, sure, I
Speaker 4: got no problem with that. But I just don't know
Speaker 4: if they're ready to give up on a guy that
Speaker 4: they drafted in the top five for, you know, for
Speaker 4: a flyer, you know, for someone Oh yeah, we'll give
Speaker 4: you a fourth you know. I just don't quite know,
Speaker 4: you know. And the nice thing is you have a
Speaker 4: fifth year option, so you pick that up. I'm not
Speaker 4: quite sure where. Let's see if I can find let's
Speaker 4: see where he is in his contract. My apologies, folks,
Speaker 4: but as.
Speaker 3: You're looking for money, Johnny Smith is outplaying him on
Speaker 3: the roster, you know. So that's just a little curious.
Speaker 3: But I do wonder the quarterback situation in Atlanta, how
Speaker 3: much that is affecting Kyle Pitts and how different it
Speaker 3: may look with Justin Herbert throwing him the football, having
Speaker 3: a top five guy getting you the ball, as opposed
Speaker 3: to Desmond Ritter, who clearly is in his second year
Speaker 3: in a run heavy offense.
Speaker 4: So he's cheap. Here's the great thing, right, he's gonna
Speaker 4: cost you. He's on the books for three point six
Speaker 4: million this year and you're talking about you know, two
Speaker 4: thirds of that, and then next year he's on the
Speaker 4: books for five point one you pick up the fifty
Speaker 4: year option. I mean that's nothing for a tight end.
Speaker 4: So yeah, there you go. Now that I've looked at it,
Speaker 4: my answer is yes, I would like that. I would
Speaker 4: because I still as someone who follows college football and
Speaker 4: keeps tabs on college football, he's one of the freaks,
Speaker 4: absolute freaks of nature that we've ever seen at the position.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I would be all for that. And
Speaker 4: again it goes to his team's got to win this year.
Speaker 4: This team has to win this year. Yeah, so go
Speaker 4: get it.
Speaker 3: Staying with that theme, our buddy Brian Rick talking about
Speaker 3: the cap space that the Chargers have now that J. C.
Speaker 3: Jackson has been raided in the spendable cap, what position
Speaker 3: groups would you target right now? If I said money,
Speaker 3: give me your top three position groups that the Chargers
Speaker 3: need to address during the season, whether it's trade or
Speaker 3: you know a guy who's out there in free agency,
Speaker 3: what positions would you target.
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's it's probably you know, it's it's
Speaker 4: probably secondary, I think, is what we're looking at. So
Speaker 4: much of it's going to revolve around what this roster
Speaker 4: looks like next year. You know, they pushed money. You know,
Speaker 4: they pushed money down the road for Bosa, for Keenan,
Speaker 4: you know, for Mike. So I don't know what that
Speaker 4: looks like at those positions. But it goes back to
Speaker 4: the conversation I was having about about JC. You know,
Speaker 4: there's a reason why guys become free agents. You know,
Speaker 4: they get too expensive for their current teams and how
Speaker 4: they value them, and they figure, well, we know them
Speaker 4: better than anybody else, and we're just not going to
Speaker 4: pay That's that doesn't you know, that doesn't even up
Speaker 4: for us. And I'm not saying that all free agents
Speaker 4: are bad.
Speaker 1: They're not.
Speaker 4: I mean, we've seen free agents have huge impacts on teams,
Speaker 4: you know, So I'm not suggesting you don't go out
Speaker 4: and spend zero dollars. But I think what you're talking
Speaker 4: about originally, you know, making trades. Can you trade for
Speaker 4: players and use those draft picks for someone who has
Speaker 4: cost certainty for two and a half more years, like
Speaker 4: Kyle Pitts. You get the half of this season, you
Speaker 4: get all of next season, and then a fifty year
Speaker 4: option for the season after that. Like that makes sense
Speaker 4: to me, you know, that's kind of what I'm That's
Speaker 4: sort of like what I'm getting at. Like if I
Speaker 4: go to the Broncos right now, it's it's a little
Speaker 4: bit of a different deal for Justin Simmons because he's
Speaker 4: already on that free agent VET contract. Right The guy's
Speaker 4: making fourteen million bucks this year, He's making fourteen point
Speaker 4: five million bucks next year, and then he becomes an
Speaker 4: unrestricted free agent. I don't think that's something as much
Speaker 4: as I'd like to see him, and I think he'd
Speaker 4: be a big help for the Chargers. I'm just sorry
Speaker 4: about the lawn lawn care outside. It never fails, like
Speaker 4: anytime I do this pod for whatever reason. But then
Speaker 4: I go and I look at someone like Patrick Sartan
Speaker 4: and you break down his current contract situation, and you
Speaker 4: got three point five million bucks on the books next year,
Speaker 4: and then you get the fifth year options. You get
Speaker 4: a year and a half of cough certainty before you
Speaker 4: got to pay him. Like, that's one that makes more
Speaker 4: sense for this team to get this year and next year,
Speaker 4: you know, and the following year, so you get all
Speaker 4: He's he's in the exact same boat as Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 4: So you get the rest of twenty twenty three at
Speaker 4: two point five million, you get twenty twenty four at
Speaker 4: three point five million, and then you get twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five on.
Speaker 1: The fifth year option.
Speaker 4: So like, those are the guys that I think makes
Speaker 4: sense to trade valuable picks for for this team that's
Speaker 4: ready to win right now.
Speaker 3: Well said, we'll keep it going with Chris Chi. Do
Speaker 3: you guys think Geiton in a bone yard back against
Speaker 3: the Cowboys? And how do you think they make room
Speaker 3: for those two on the roster when they do return.
Speaker 3: You know, getting Tito back is going to be a
Speaker 3: big deal for this defensive line. Uh Jalen Geiton obviously too.
Speaker 3: If he can come back and flash that speed that
Speaker 3: he had pre injury, then we're talking about another weapon
Speaker 3: on the outside.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think when you look at the d line,
Speaker 4: you know they just waved, hinting in order to bring
Speaker 4: in Bassie. So that's that's one spot that you know
Speaker 4: is gone. Nick Williams has played well, I could geez,
Speaker 4: what do you do? So you got obviously Austin and
Speaker 4: bash and and Nick Williams are your kind of three
Speaker 4: rotational guys inside. You bring Tito into the mix, and.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna combine a question if someone asked about Matt
Speaker 3: Locke in his performance through the first quarter of the season.
Speaker 4: Hey, step, you know, Matt, that's a development piece. You're
Speaker 4: talking about a guy that was drafted in the sixth
Speaker 4: round I think is where Scott was was drafted. So oh,
Speaker 4: you know, I think it's it's probably let me see,
Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out where I'll see there you go,
Speaker 4: I'm looking at the wrong thing.
Speaker 1: So here we go.
Speaker 4: You got Dash Morgan, Fox Hinton who just got waved,
Speaker 4: Nick Williams, Johnson, Mattlocke. Boy, I don't know where they
Speaker 4: make room for him. I don't know if Tanner Muse
Speaker 4: gets waved just to make room there. I guess I
Speaker 4: could kind of see that. Maybe I would probably be
Speaker 4: the one that that.
Speaker 1: Makes the most.
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously a j Finley is gonna go down
Speaker 4: when when Gilman gets back in j T. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I think probably Tanner Muse might be the guy that
Speaker 4: that makes room. And and then obviously you know you
Speaker 4: had Keelan DAWs up. He was reverted back to the
Speaker 4: practice squad, but you know he'll take he'll take one
Speaker 4: of those spots there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh. Your thoughts on the Cowboys and Chiefs being
Speaker 3: scared edgewled on six day rest coming out of the
Speaker 3: bye week. This is from Alexis. So Chargers have the
Speaker 3: Cowboys Monday night football, short week, got to go to Kansasity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it stinks. It's you know, it's just
Speaker 4: kind of been whatever every year. It seems like we're
Speaker 4: on the road for Thursday night football in Kansas City,
Speaker 4: seemingly on.
Speaker 1: A short week.
Speaker 4: You know, I think you look at the Chiefs and
Speaker 4: you know they get they They've got Denver on Thursday
Speaker 4: at football. So not only are the Chargers on a
Speaker 4: short week from Monday to Sunday, but the Chiefs are
Speaker 4: playing the Broncos the previous Thursday night, so they've got
Speaker 4: a mini buy. When the Chargers got a short week,
Speaker 4: it stinks, you know, it stinks. But it is what
Speaker 4: it is. You can't change the schedule. And I think
Speaker 4: more importantly than being on short rest is hoping that
Speaker 4: the refs don't swallow their stinking flags every time the
Speaker 4: offensive line holds. You know, finally, and you credit NBC
Speaker 4: for doing it. You know, they got Jawan Taylor exposed
Speaker 4: and he can't play like they's it's like they can't
Speaker 4: play him. He's got to figure it out. He has
Speaker 4: got to line up where he's supposed to line up,
Speaker 4: and he cannot jump the snapcount because there's a magnifying
Speaker 4: glass on him now. So I'm glad to see that
Speaker 4: iron down. We've said it here before, but you want
Speaker 4: to know why Joey Bosa was losing his mind in Jacksonville,
Speaker 4: It's because that's what he was doing and it was
Speaker 4: driving him crazy, and that's why he freaked out on
Speaker 4: the referees over and over again. Because the guy was
Speaker 4: getting to set up three yards back of where Bosa
Speaker 4: is rushing and it's just a huge advantage.
Speaker 1: So that's one too.
Speaker 4: You look at the Patrick Mahomes run and I know
Speaker 4: the clip has made its way all over social media,
Speaker 4: as it should, and I mean, Johnson is getting held
Speaker 4: the entire time, right in front of a referee, and
Speaker 4: they never throw the flag. And that has always been
Speaker 4: my contention with the Chiefs is their offensive line holds
Speaker 4: on every single play, and they just operate under the
Speaker 4: philosophy of they can't throw the flag on every play,
Speaker 4: they can't throw the flag on every third play, they
Speaker 4: can't throw the flag on every fifth drop back. You
Speaker 4: know what, We're just gonna keep holding and we'll take
Speaker 4: our hits here and there, but we don't care. And
Speaker 4: that's and look, I give him credit.
Speaker 1: It works.
Speaker 4: It's a philosophy that has clearly worked for them, but
Speaker 4: it's infuriating for opponents because you know, when you're Bosa
Speaker 4: or mac or Tuley and you're getting held and that's
Speaker 4: the only reason why you can't get to Mahomes. And
Speaker 4: that's when he's at his best, when he's freelancing and
Speaker 4: extending the plays, it can get upsetting. And so that's,
Speaker 4: you know, that's more of an issue to me than
Speaker 4: the six days.
Speaker 1: Throw the flags. If there's a hold on every play,
Speaker 1: throw the flag.
Speaker 4: If Shack gets filed every time he's underneath the basket,
Speaker 4: blow the whistle and send him to the free throw
Speaker 4: line until teams stop following him. And that's just something
Speaker 4: I've always subscribed to.
Speaker 3: Guys. We appreciate your questions. We got time for a
Speaker 3: few more blue goat. At the beginning of the year,
Speaker 3: we thought the bye we came at a bad spot.
Speaker 3: Now that the season is underway, how do you think
Speaker 3: differently of the week five by and how do you
Speaker 3: think guys, how do you guys think the week six
Speaker 3: to seventeen stretch will play out? So now it's good,
Speaker 3: hopefully you get as many guys back as possible money
Speaker 3: going into Monday night football. But now the bye week's gone,
Speaker 3: and you hope that this team can stay healthy to
Speaker 3: a point. Everyone's gonna have injuries from weeks one to
Speaker 3: seventeen or eighteen now, I guess, but I hope that
Speaker 3: this team can sustain some semblance of health from the
Speaker 3: Cowboys game all the way a week.
Speaker 1: So here's what I would say to that.
Speaker 4: And this is and this could actually go back to
Speaker 4: an earlier question, right about you know, now that you're
Speaker 4: four games in, what are your concerns? Like they got
Speaker 4: to start blowing teams out. They should have blown the
Speaker 4: Raiders out, and that way you can pull Rashawn out
Speaker 4: of that game in the fourth quarter, and you can
Speaker 4: put Foster surrelling if his knee's not right. Let's get
Speaker 4: Rashawn out, Let's get Keenan out, Let's get Khalil Mack,
Speaker 4: Let's get Austin and Bash, and let's get those guys
Speaker 4: out of the game because you're up twenty five thirty
Speaker 4: points with eight minutes to go. You got the Bears,
Speaker 4: the Jets, the Lions are a very good team. But
Speaker 4: after that, you're at Green Bay, you get Baltimore at home,
Speaker 4: You're at New England, Denver at home, at Vegas. Look
Speaker 4: at that stretch. In that stretch, you've got the Bears,
Speaker 4: the Jets, the Packers, the Patriots, the Broncos, and the Raiders. Let's,
Speaker 4: if this team is truly a Super Bowl contender, get
Speaker 4: blowouts in four of those games, and that's your bye.
Speaker 2: Can we see it?
Speaker 3: We have a blowsysne.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's get a blowout and let's rest some guys
Speaker 4: and that way, that's your bye. Right, You didn't have
Speaker 4: to play sixty five snaps. You only had to play forty's.
Speaker 4: That's how you get your buy and it's it's an
Speaker 4: opportunity for you to get guys some rest, you know,
Speaker 4: and not have to to play until zero's in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter. So that would be the way I would
Speaker 4: hope to negotiate not having a buy know for the
Speaker 4: remainding for the remaining thirteen games.
Speaker 3: Uh, our buddy of fear. He asked about the offense.
Speaker 3: I think we answer that question the game plan versus Dallas.
Speaker 3: Somebody asked, you know what, I remember last year the team,
Speaker 3: the team coming off playing the forty nine ers was
Speaker 3: lost because they got beat up. Right, and the Cowboys
Speaker 3: have the forty nine Ers Sunday Night Football before they
Speaker 3: play the Chargers. I'll be it. They get an extra day.
Speaker 3: But the game plan against this Dallas Cowboys team, both
Speaker 3: offensively and defensively, money, what do you think?
Speaker 4: Well, it's limited explosives. It's you know, it's look, it's
Speaker 4: a very good offense. It's a really good offense. You
Speaker 4: have to count for Tony Pollard, you have to a
Speaker 4: con for Ceedee Lamb, Michael Gallups got speed. So I
Speaker 4: think it's limited the explosives. To me, it's it starts
Speaker 4: with the run game. Though they want to be you know,
Speaker 4: they want to run. They they want Tony Pollard to
Speaker 4: do damage, and so I think that's where I start.
Speaker 4: You know, he's got two rushing touchdowns this year. He's
Speaker 4: averaging four and a half per carry, So I start there.
Speaker 4: I think in terms of Dak, he's taking care of
Speaker 4: the football this year. You know, he's completing seventy one
Speaker 4: percent of his passes as I'm looking at the numbers,
Speaker 4: and then you know, ceedee lamb is he's got some explosives.
Speaker 4: He's got what seven explosives already, so you want to
Speaker 4: control those. I think that's I know, it sounds simple,
Speaker 4: you know. And look there's like against the Raiders, there
Speaker 4: were two people you had to worry about, right, DeVante
Speaker 4: Adams and Max Crosby, and for the most part, they
Speaker 4: committed the resources they needed to. The few times that
Speaker 4: Max Crosby was left one on one one time was
Speaker 4: the Trey Pipkins rush that he just wrecked him, sacked
Speaker 4: justin and that's the one that got pushed into Rashaan
Speaker 4: Slater and bent his knee back, Like that's all you
Speaker 4: have to do. So like to me, that's so here
Speaker 4: you go. I'm talking and not in platitudes, but in
Speaker 4: a little bit more generality. So here's my specific plan.
Speaker 4: Do not let ceed Lamb and do not let Micah
Speaker 4: Parsons beat you. I know that's easier said than done,
Speaker 4: but at the very least commit the resources where you
Speaker 4: have to. Micah Parsons should have zero one on one
Speaker 4: rushes zero and Ceedee Lamb should have zero one on
Speaker 4: one opportunities. Do to him what you did to Justin
Speaker 4: Jefferson for most of the game. Double the heck out
Speaker 4: of him, double the heck out of Micah, and take
Speaker 4: your chances everywhere else.
Speaker 3: Freaking Max Crosby, Man, did you see the baldy breakdown.
Speaker 1: Of He's incredible?
Speaker 2: Now? He's incredible.
Speaker 3: Micah Parson's coming to town. I think you need to
Speaker 3: account for him with you guys. Okay, a couple more,
Speaker 3: What do you make of Murray wearing the dot Sunday?
Speaker 3: More about him improving at linebacker, easing Kendricks's plate. Also,
Speaker 3: if you guys have thoughts on Justin finger, Justin's finger
Speaker 3: and chance aggravation as it heals, love the pod go
Speaker 3: charges from Sandusky, Ohio.
Speaker 4: Jack Mills not a doctor. I don't mean to be
Speaker 4: smug or snarky about that, but I just hate doing
Speaker 4: the diagnosis things, so I truly don't know about the finger.
Speaker 4: The only thing I'll say, Jake is that we know
Speaker 4: how tough that guy is and that he will play
Speaker 4: through anything. So whatever it is, he's going to play
Speaker 4: through it and they'll adjust.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: I think you saw that toward the end of the game,
Speaker 4: a lot of shotgun, and to me, that means you're
Speaker 4: probably gonna have to play a lot of pistol, so
Speaker 4: you can at least still have a little bit of
Speaker 4: play action a lot more RPOs. What was the other
Speaker 4: part of his question, the finger and the.
Speaker 3: Uh Ken's progression and wearing the green dot.
Speaker 1: I think he did a great job with it.
Speaker 4: So why not have the guy that's been in the
Speaker 4: offense for four years, you know, three plus years where
Speaker 4: the green dot. If he's comfortable with all the calls,
Speaker 4: I have no problem with him keeping the green dot moving.
Speaker 3: Forward, Antonio, what are your opinions on why qj's usage
Speaker 3: has been so limited? You answer that, but greetings from
Speaker 3: Saan Pallo, Brazil, So shout out to Antonio listening to
Speaker 3: us from Brazil. That's awesome. You know, a couple of
Speaker 3: claypool questions too, would you take a flyer on Claypool.
Speaker 3: Let's say he gets released, this would be his third team.
Speaker 3: I think little margin for error for Chase Claypool. Wherever
Speaker 3: he goes next. It's a it's kind of a boomer
Speaker 3: bust signing if that were to happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Chris, I'll equate it to the Rams from two
Speaker 4: years ago when they picked up Odell Beckham and there
Speaker 4: was a lot of whining and him and Han about
Speaker 4: why would you do that? This is a team that's
Speaker 4: on a track for a super Bowl because they can
Speaker 4: just cut him. Let's see what he's a talented player.
Speaker 4: Let's see what he can do. If it's not great,
Speaker 4: we'll cut him after a week. If it's great for
Speaker 4: a week, we'll cut him after two weeks. Like that's
Speaker 4: so like to me. That's the thing with Chase, with
Speaker 4: with Claypool. And now the one red flag for me
Speaker 4: is Pittsburgh's done a great job with wide receivers. They draft,
Speaker 4: they develop, and they turn wide receivers into premier players.
Speaker 4: So the fact that they gave up on Claypool was
Speaker 4: a little bit interesting. You know, it tends to be
Speaker 4: a locker room that's super strong, and you really kind
Speaker 4: of got to be a bit of an issue to
Speaker 4: not fit in in that particular locker room. So that
Speaker 4: would be the one red flag. But I think there's
Speaker 4: just there's so little there's so little investment or equity
Speaker 4: that you have to put into it that it'd be
Speaker 4: super easy to just move on if it didn't work out.
Speaker 3: Last question money, This is from a Junius Limb. Should
Speaker 3: there be any major concerns with the lack of production
Speaker 3: from special teams, especially the play of JK or just
Speaker 3: fick and turn this around? He says, not a sexy topic,
Speaker 3: but something other than j C. Jackson.
Speaker 4: Sure, I think this last week was a terrible special
Speaker 4: teams week, right you know, I mean that save Dicker,
Speaker 4: But like you have Darius Davis, who I think fumbled
Speaker 4: if I remember Righty fumbled a punt out of bounds,
Speaker 4: but still you know, ended up booting one out of bounds.
Speaker 4: You had, you know, you had JK whose issues showed
Speaker 4: up again from the first half of Minnesota. I think
Speaker 4: it was a twenty two yard punt and like a
Speaker 4: thirty one yard punt when they really needed him to
Speaker 4: flip the field. I thought his punt out of the
Speaker 4: end zone was really good. He got to pass the
Speaker 4: fifty so when he had no room to operate, so
Speaker 4: that was a good one. But yeah, that's all stuff
Speaker 4: that can be fixed, because you know what, it was
Speaker 4: great last year. It's something we said at the top
Speaker 4: of the show, right, we've seen it be exceptional. We've
Speaker 4: seen all these players play great. We've seen Darius Davis
Speaker 4: return upunt eighty one yards for a touchdown. You know,
Speaker 4: in the preseason. We've seen him return a punt for
Speaker 4: twenty five yards already, So we know those that greatness
Speaker 4: is there. So yeah, I suspect that that they'll get
Speaker 4: it right. I think coach Ficken is exceptional. I think
Speaker 4: his units tend to be some of the best in
Speaker 4: the league. So the buys probably a good opportunity for
Speaker 4: them to kind of dig into to see what's going
Speaker 4: on with JK and and why he's got a little
Speaker 4: bit of the you know, whatever you want to call him
Speaker 4: in golf it's the shanks or the yips or whatever.
Speaker 4: But we know he can do it because he did
Speaker 4: it for an entire season last year. Like I said,
Speaker 4: the guy was incredible last year. So I suspect they'll
Speaker 4: come back against Allison, and they better be by the
Speaker 4: way because our friend Turpin's over there returning punts. So
Speaker 4: let's make sure we get this thing right before Cavante
Speaker 4: shows up at sofa on a Monday night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that guy the problem does the TCU wide receiver?
Speaker 3: All right, all right, buddy, what are you looking forward
Speaker 3: to on Sunday? Charges aren't playing but some decent games.
Speaker 3: I guess we talked about San Francisco, Dallas, Kansas City
Speaker 3: has Minnesota, right, it's Packers.
Speaker 1: Let's see what am I looking forward to?
Speaker 3: Denver Jets is very intriguing to see you most definitely
Speaker 3: how Denver treats the rest of this season.
Speaker 4: You know what, I'll tell you what's super interesting. It's
Speaker 4: Bengals Cardinals. That's because the Cardinals have played their tails
Speaker 4: off this year and the Bengals have looked terrible, like
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow statistically has been the worst quarterback in the league,
Speaker 4: which is crazy to think, right, So they go one
Speaker 4: and four, and man, that's that's gonna get sideways in
Speaker 4: a hur Obviously, the Sunday Nighters incredible Cowboys forty nine
Speaker 4: ers is going to be you know, must watch for me.
Speaker 4: But yeah, let's go Vikings. Let's see if Kirk Cousins
Speaker 4: can can light it up a little bit, and if
Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes can struggle like he did against you know,
Speaker 4: against the Jets, if they can get some stuff going there.
Speaker 4: Although that secondary is terrible, I expect him to make
Speaker 4: a you know, to humiliate Byron Murphy Rams Eagles is interesting.
Speaker 4: You know, the return ram Rams are spunky. I did
Speaker 4: not think that they were going to be good this year.
Speaker 4: And you know, Aaron Donald had a monster game last
Speaker 4: week against Indy. They almost you know, gave that one away.
Speaker 4: What was it, twenty three to nothing? So that's a
Speaker 4: good one. I think I'm giving you way too much information.
Speaker 4: You just wanted a simple answer, So there you go.
Speaker 3: That's good. Puka Nakua, what a fuck it?
Speaker 1: Yeah right, awesome, It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: All right, guys, Hey, appreciate the questions. Always appreciate you.
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