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Speaker 1: Week ten. I'm Dan Hansas. That whoo was Greg Rosenthal
Speaker 1: also Mark Sessler in the house? What is up my heroes?
Speaker 1: What's up my heroes? It's wild Sunday. You guys not
Speaker 1: talk at the same time. We've only been We're in
Speaker 1: show sixty two and we're still doing that. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know what interesting this season in general? Um, and I've
Speaker 1: heard from friends who are hardcore football fans, some people
Speaker 1: complaining a little bit about the product at times this year.
Speaker 1: Maybe this season the entertainment values a little more up
Speaker 1: and down. And then something like Week ten happens. And
Speaker 1: this was an excellent week with a lot of great games.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to all of them, including oh, listen
Speaker 1: to that. You know that is of course, you know,
Speaker 1: we do it. That's it, that's all we get. That
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, bring it back. I thought we were
Speaker 1: getting lighting. Where's the lighting? The game of the year siren,
Speaker 1: that's what that was? Multiple games? No, there can only
Speaker 1: be one. What's the what's the multiple Well, you called
Speaker 1: the what you called the Lions victory today one of
Speaker 1: the games of the year about twelve minutes ago before
Speaker 1: the show, know, the game of the year. Obviously, Wait,
Speaker 1: where's Justin? Justin? What has happened? You know, you know
Speaker 1: it's on my radar. Want to make sure that Mark
Speaker 1: specifically is treating you well behind the glass, Um, But
Speaker 1: I was promised the light show during the siren sequence. Yes, one,
Speaker 1: a small overlooked detail that we if you want to
Speaker 1: bring it back at any point we can, it will
Speaker 1: then be ready. Alright, See that's communication anyway. You could
Speaker 1: have done that on our messaging client, but I think
Speaker 1: it's It's transparency is one of the reasons why the
Speaker 1: listeners love us, um anyway, because like, if I did
Speaker 1: it now, would we get it in about five seconds
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit. It's gone, it's over now, it's over. Now,
Speaker 1: We're going to do it. But let's get into all
Speaker 1: the games. We promise you this episode is gonna be great,
Speaker 1: starting with the Game of the Year light show or no,
Speaker 1: Alan back to pass in the pocket to the end zone. Yes,
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson, hi an He slides down the Minista Vikings
Speaker 1: eight and one, and they come to Buffalo and they
Speaker 1: walk up on Stefan Dicks and the Buffalo Bills the crow.
Speaker 1: It is absolutely stunned. Oh the bongos, Paul Allen and
Speaker 1: Pete Verstas the call k f A. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: hear more from then because this was without a doubt.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of good games this year, and
Speaker 1: they've been very good games throughout the season, but nothing
Speaker 1: matched this game in terms of the vibes they heat.
Speaker 1: Darryl Johnson, calling the game for Fox, said, this has
Speaker 1: been the most amazing two minutes of football I have
Speaker 1: ever seen in my entire life, referring to the end
Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter, that guy's got three rings. Patrick
Speaker 1: Peterson intercepted Josh Allen with one twelve remaining in overtime,
Speaker 1: and the Minnesota Vikings roar back from multiple scores down
Speaker 1: in the second half to beat the Buffalo Bills thirty
Speaker 1: three to thirty. UH in the A. T and era, gentleman,
Speaker 1: UH two thousand thirteen to present. I know there have
Speaker 1: been great games. As I'm watching this game, and specifically
Speaker 1: really end of the third quarter on I don't know
Speaker 1: if I've ever seen a crazy or more exciting, more
Speaker 1: intense game between two teams who understood the gravity of
Speaker 1: the moment. Here amazing to watch. It also might go
Speaker 1: down as one of the great receiver performances of all time.
Speaker 1: I mean, kirk Cousins is showing up big in late
Speaker 1: spots this year. You need to drive from kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: He goes and gets it, and he's partly done that
Speaker 1: by putting the ball up. The last three or four
Speaker 1: weeks we've been talking about and being more confident giving
Speaker 1: the fifty fifty balls to Justin Jefferson, be more aggressive.
Speaker 1: So with that out of the way, they don't win
Speaker 1: this game without Justin Jefferson. The sheer quantity of ridiculous
Speaker 1: catches in huge spots is just preposterous. Next Gen Stats
Speaker 1: had had a number that that all time high of
Speaker 1: receptions on throws that had a under fifty percent completion
Speaker 1: expected on on a throw that wasn't expected to be
Speaker 1: completed was six until this game in the Next Gen
Speaker 1: Stats era, and he had nine of those catches today
Speaker 1: of where you don't expect it to be a catch,
Speaker 1: but kid Kauzi, Kirk Cousins and Justin Jefferson get it
Speaker 1: done together. I think part of it is Cousins has
Speaker 1: been throwing the ball to him beautifully. There were a
Speaker 1: couple of absolute app ropes in this game. And on
Speaker 1: the flip side, Josh Allen, he has the six interception
Speaker 1: this season of inside the opponent's thirty yardland, that's the
Speaker 1: most in the NFL. Four of the five of those
Speaker 1: have come in the last two weeks. And so we've
Speaker 1: seen We've seen Josh Allen, who's you know, superhuman for
Speaker 1: much of the season, go through little many slumps in
Speaker 1: the past, and I think he's in one right now
Speaker 1: to some degree. Still marvelous, absolutely. I mean, remember, this
Speaker 1: was a guy that late in the week it looked,
Speaker 1: like we talked about on Thursday Show, doesn't look like
Speaker 1: he's gonna be playing in this game. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he's trending upward throughout the weekend, and
Speaker 1: then he's on the field and he's throwing ropes too,
Speaker 1: and he's putting up big numbers. And yet, yeah, the
Speaker 1: inner the interceptions, putting the ball on the ground, um, fumbles, um.
Speaker 1: I want to the way to get into this game,
Speaker 1: because every once in a while you do have crazy games.
Speaker 1: Like this, I took out a card holding in my
Speaker 1: right hand, and I starting from one one to play.
Speaker 1: In the third quarter, Tyler Bass for the Bills kicks
Speaker 1: the field going to make it to that point, this
Speaker 1: was somewhat a normal game like it was playing out.
Speaker 1: How many would have expected Minnesota team that had jumped
Speaker 1: out to this big seven and one start, But are
Speaker 1: they really on the level of the top contenders? The
Speaker 1: Bills with Josh Allen looking like a team that could dominate.
Speaker 1: And then from that point on, a big game changing
Speaker 1: play is Dalvin Cook going eighty one yards on the
Speaker 1: ensuing possession on the first drive, first play of the drive.
Speaker 1: That makes been doing that about like once a week lately.
Speaker 1: That right there, and that gets forgotten now, But that
Speaker 1: changed this game because all of a sudden went from
Speaker 1: this game's over to all right, they have a pulse.
Speaker 1: Then uh, In the ensuing possession, Josh Allen throws his
Speaker 1: first of two end zone interceptions in this game to
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson, and Minnesota follows that up with a six
Speaker 1: six minute drive where they convert a fourth and six
Speaker 1: at midfield to guess who Hawkinson. T J. Hockenson has
Speaker 1: been a huge pickup for them that missed the P
Speaker 1: A T which makes three and you're thinking, oh, that
Speaker 1: is so Vikings. But that made the drama even more
Speaker 1: so because after a Buffalo three and out, Minnesota goes
Speaker 1: twelve for seventy five Greggy, and that's when the amazing
Speaker 1: and there are many great catches by Justin Jefferson, but Jefferson,
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson in a fourth and eighteen near midfield, makes
Speaker 1: a one handed snag that you know, people always immediately
Speaker 1: judge things against the O. B J. But it's right
Speaker 1: up there and the fact that the stakes on that play,
Speaker 1: what's ironic about that is that didn't lead to points
Speaker 1: Greggy because on the fourth it doesn't look the more
Speaker 1: you looked at, the more replays of it that you saw,
Speaker 1: when he was coming down at an angle with the
Speaker 1: defender on his wrist, it's like, how is the ball
Speaker 1: still on his head? The mc schre painting of catches.
Speaker 1: But that that drive ends in an insane way because um,
Speaker 1: they have a free play the Vikings at the goal
Speaker 1: line on an off sides for Buffalo and Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: is by himself for the go ahead touchdown and he
Speaker 1: just drops it and it's a free place, so you
Speaker 1: get the ball back. Would have been the all the
Speaker 1: all time Cadence clutch play of all time. Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: is beautiful bass Cadence. He was mad at me for
Speaker 1: not making the Cadence rankings. Gets that offside and that
Speaker 1: the Cadence would have won the game if Coo Cook
Speaker 1: drops the ball. And then on fourth and goal from
Speaker 1: the half yard line, uh, Kirk Cousins gets stuffed. It's
Speaker 1: very close. But then Mark, on the next play, this happens.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen puts Gabe Davis in motion and Davis was
Speaker 1: behind Allen and he tried to push him. He didn't
Speaker 1: get out of it. He didn't get out. He did
Speaker 1: to get out. That's a safety kid to us. Yes,
Speaker 1: even much little straight down, get a little over excited
Speaker 1: the quarter, rock off the snow. You know someone died
Speaker 1: on the ball in the end song are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Just happened? Oh wow? The shades of Mark Charlie Steiner
Speaker 1: in the eighties six Divisional playoffs Jets Browns where he said, oh,
Speaker 1: the Jets are gonna win this game, and they didn't
Speaker 1: because what they forgot was that there're still ninety seconds
Speaker 1: or so, the Bills go down the field. They kicked
Speaker 1: the field goal to force overtime, and only because Gabe
Speaker 1: Davis has a sideline catch that they rule a catch
Speaker 1: that wasn't actually catch. Another highlighter play that I had
Speaker 1: to mention here. And then you get to overtime. Minnesota
Speaker 1: kicks the field goal and then Buffalo mark is set
Speaker 1: up first and ten at the Minnesota twenty. They go
Speaker 1: right down the field and you're thinking, after all of this,
Speaker 1: how Vikings is this gonna be that they're gonna lose
Speaker 1: this game. Josh Allen does it again. He tries to
Speaker 1: force a pass over the middle when he doesn't have to.
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson, who by the way, is still making huge
Speaker 1: plays in this league, in two, makes the interception game
Speaker 1: over stunner Vikings for real, Bills go from best team
Speaker 1: in football seven days ago to third place. And it's
Speaker 1: amazing how quickly the scenery changes. And I mean I
Speaker 1: mentioned those Allen interceptions of late. You know, in these
Speaker 1: spaces that count where it should be the opposite from
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, and I mean, you know, for me, it's
Speaker 1: like this Vikings team, which for years I thought it's
Speaker 1: just been the same team season after season. It's just
Speaker 1: they're fine. They're good, They're not great. Uh, they have
Speaker 1: won seven straight one score games, which I I believe
Speaker 1: I heard today has never happened in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: that is a wild situation. And but this is this
Speaker 1: is any team like this on a run where the
Speaker 1: records started to compile, and it's you struggle to believe
Speaker 1: if they're in that elite class. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're an elite team right now, but I'll tell you
Speaker 1: something like win like this changes everything that we should
Speaker 1: think about the Vikings because they went into Buffalo totally
Speaker 1: hung with him, made life difficult for Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: key situations, and you have a quarterback in a wider
Speaker 1: seaver whose chemistry in Unison is as good as anything
Speaker 1: we have in the NFL At the moment, I mean,
Speaker 1: what does it even meanly they're gonna clinch the NFC
Speaker 1: North potentially before December. I mean, it's it's possible that
Speaker 1: there's still got a massive lead. They're they're playing the
Speaker 1: big boys this week. And this was a perfect pick
Speaker 1: for Game of the Year because it's one of these
Speaker 1: seventeen point comebacks. This season is defined by these monster
Speaker 1: comebacks and Kirk Cousins. This season has been defined by
Speaker 1: you need to drive. You gotta drive from Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: because Justin Jefferson is right there with the most valuable
Speaker 1: players at any position in the league and is helping
Speaker 1: helping them get over the finish line, like he hasn't
Speaker 1: played that well against some bad teams, and then at
Speaker 1: the end of these games, Cousins gets it done. I
Speaker 1: don't think it changes how I feel too much about
Speaker 1: either one of these teams. Maybe it just shows that
Speaker 1: the Vikings got a little bit of hood spot but
Speaker 1: were like an impenetrable a couple of weeks ago. Yes,
Speaker 1: actually it does change how I feel about Buffalo the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks the Turnovers, which is now three
Speaker 1: weeks running for l and we've talked about on the
Speaker 1: show a lot that he's always been a dude that's
Speaker 1: gonna give you a chance, but right now he's on
Speaker 1: a little bit of a cold streak. Like if you're
Speaker 1: at the blackjack table and the dealer keeps on pulling
Speaker 1: twenty one, and it's it's a situation for me where
Speaker 1: this is not the night to be talking about regression
Speaker 1: and the vikings. But because you're saying this is on
Speaker 1: president and no one's won seven straight games in this fashion,
Speaker 1: I guess you could make that call. But I just
Speaker 1: got Sometimes you just gotta give a team it's flowers
Speaker 1: and be like, that's an incredible comeback in a great win.
Speaker 1: And Kirk Cousins, by the way, for most of this
Speaker 1: game looked like he was having all his Cousins primetime
Speaker 1: big spot type games. And he just flipped the switch
Speaker 1: and and I just gotta give him a lot of credit.
Speaker 1: Let's hear from Kirk Cousins. Who does he have plans?
Speaker 1: What's his nickname? Now? It's it's um Kirky Chains? What
Speaker 1: is it? Help me out anybody? Kerk Thuggins. So it's
Speaker 1: all over the place. I was giving him. I've been
Speaker 1: giving him kid Kuzzi for a while. That's pretty good high.
Speaker 1: But that's been taken kind of but not really. It's
Speaker 1: a good one. Uh. Will he be topless on the
Speaker 1: plane tonight? I think we reached the mountaintop last week.
Speaker 1: Got a load that there's I don't know that there's
Speaker 1: anywhere to go from here. Someone else to take the mantle, uh,
Speaker 1: because I think he doesn't have a choice on this. Well,
Speaker 1: we know something's happening on that plane. That shows great
Speaker 1: decision making though he knows when a bit has like
Speaker 1: reached it. We could use one of those guys Apex.
Speaker 1: That's the new Kirk. Though two more Kirk Cousins place
Speaker 1: quickly would just be the second that the second and
Speaker 1: one in overtime with a free rusher barreling down on
Speaker 1: him and he gets it off when he would hold
Speaker 1: onto the ball and take a tack unbelievable. And then
Speaker 1: the play that set them up inside the five yard
Speaker 1: line in overtime that was more of a great throw
Speaker 1: than just a great catch by Jefferson. That was an
Speaker 1: absolute time. He has this because he throws to where
Speaker 1: the receiver is gonna be that. Not all quarterbacks have
Speaker 1: that ability to do that or the guts to do that.
Speaker 1: He does it all the time, so even with a
Speaker 1: pass rush bearing down on him, he can hit you
Speaker 1: in stride. I was thinking of he had a scramble
Speaker 1: inside the five yard where he put his shoulder down
Speaker 1: and it's like, I'm not saying that Kirk. I we
Speaker 1: don't know Kirk Cousins. But this is why he's getting
Speaker 1: the chains and everybody's into him. You're winning and you're
Speaker 1: showing that you're a dude and you're a member of
Speaker 1: the team. Really cool. Uh not. By the way, this
Speaker 1: is another and I don't want to bring this up
Speaker 1: because nobody is covered in glory on this another lock
Speaker 1: apocalypse and uh the Cincinnati Zoo and it came strong
Speaker 1: on this one. Nick was Nick was very confident this one.
Speaker 1: Do we have what Nick had to say going into
Speaker 1: this game. There's no way the Vikings go into Buffalo
Speaker 1: and take care of business in November. It's gonna be cold,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be rainy, and the Bills take care of business. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: I didn't think the Vikings were gonna win this game either.
Speaker 1: Once Josh Allen was playing, I mean he also took
Speaker 1: a lot of I did lock it up. It took
Speaker 1: a lot of shots at me. I mean, he's been
Speaker 1: a guy who's mentioned a lot this year that you
Speaker 1: gotta have guts in and pick a game that you
Speaker 1: know is like a close spread or whatever, and there's
Speaker 1: rose they'll settling scores. It's just funny because if we
Speaker 1: knew how long Josh Allen was starting this game. This
Speaker 1: wouldn't even have been in the lock zone because the
Speaker 1: Bills would have been that big of a favorite. That's
Speaker 1: how much it moved to before the game, and yet
Speaker 1: here it is. Justin Nick on Twitter today to the
Speaker 1: a t N lock it Up Twitter account when they
Speaker 1: tweeted this out, said he thought Case Keenan was going
Speaker 1: to be starting, and that's why he locked it up
Speaker 1: because keen wouldn't have made those any of this game
Speaker 1: losing turnovers at the end, and it's a very solid point.
Speaker 1: That's Nick's. That's a great Nick move. Alright, Well listen
Speaker 1: before we can't go in on Nick too hard because,
Speaker 1: like I said, that's the first event many misses in
Speaker 1: the prediction game. I've already lost my TNF prediction. Let's
Speaker 1: move on. So we gave that game a little extra
Speaker 1: love because obviously it deserved it. But there was there
Speaker 1: are a bunch of really good games, including the first
Speaker 1: ever NFL game in Germany. Let's check that one out
Speaker 1: early this morning. White swings of motion, empty backfield, Brady looks,
Speaker 1: Brady looks. Brady looks back to his white laugh car
Speaker 1: touched tavel rock crush Godwin touchdown, bucking airs, we lead
Speaker 1: twenty two three week Levroard and Munich. But there is
Speaker 1: a flag in the end zone on that right side,
Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna try to call it offensive
Speaker 1: pass interference Seahawks, like penal is gonna be all the
Speaker 1: Bucket ears offensive past interference? Where's all the players a touchdown?
Speaker 1: Oh say that? In Sherwin, John hush the Munich ge
Speaker 1: decker half with a call w f U S. I
Speaker 1: love it. This feels like a I'm getting the feeling
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big homer week for the radio guys.
Speaker 1: Two weeks and two games so far. Um Chris Godwin,
Speaker 1: they need him to step up, and he did in
Speaker 1: this game with a touchdown and Tom Brady remained undefeated
Speaker 1: abroad by throwing two touchdown passes. The Bucks beat the
Speaker 1: Seahawks sixteen. Like I said, first game ever in Germany,
Speaker 1: at in Munich at the Allian's very nice facility at
Speaker 1: least from the television, and uh Greg this game was
Speaker 1: very Then We're gonna get to the Packers a little
Speaker 1: bit too, and Aaron Rodgers, these the old guard backs
Speaker 1: against the wall, some big performances. The Bucks all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, pretty good shape at five and five, hitting
Speaker 1: their body. They're in great shape. They're gonna host the
Speaker 1: playoff game. I'm sorry Falcons fans or Panthers fans. I
Speaker 1: know Saints fans have no belief left there at five
Speaker 1: and five in this game had all the things that
Speaker 1: you wanted to see. It wasn't about Tom Brady. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady played well enough, like he has played all season.
Speaker 1: It was about both lines just pushing the Seahawks around.
Speaker 1: They ran all over him. The drive to close the
Speaker 1: game out when Seattle closed the lead to six was
Speaker 1: so impressive that they just run all over Seattle. They
Speaker 1: did it all game. They had a hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: one yards and then on the other side they were
Speaker 1: harassing Gino Smith. They hit him six times while tom
Speaker 1: Brady sitting back, are going pat pat pat. Almost a
Speaker 1: gholston for the Seattle defense. A gholston is when you
Speaker 1: get no sacks, no QB hits. There was one QB
Speaker 1: hit on Tom Brady, and there were a lot of
Speaker 1: plays where he got to get to his third read
Speaker 1: and then let Godwin make a play, Julio Jones makes
Speaker 1: a play. It was just really impressive. In the trenches,
Speaker 1: they look like the tougher team. And if they got
Speaker 1: that going, like they're gonna be a tough team. You've
Speaker 1: been trying to make Gholston a thing for ten years
Speaker 1: on the show. I mean it is a thing to
Speaker 1: me that I don't expect it to ever like carry on.
Speaker 1: I think there was about a three year period where
Speaker 1: I gave it up and now I'm bringing it back.
Speaker 1: It's like I R Boomerang. It's got about the the
Speaker 1: shelf life of that. One's got some legs, Like I've
Speaker 1: heard that I was going to take off. I think
Speaker 1: like that needs a word. No quarterback hits, no sacks,
Speaker 1: that needs a word, and uh, you know ghost works.
Speaker 1: It was, um a really a really fun game because
Speaker 1: like the game we just talked about previously, it felt
Speaker 1: like a game in hand. Tampa Bay is up one
Speaker 1: three and uh, Greg, I know you'd believe me, um,
Speaker 1: but uh, I don't have a problem with watching Gino
Speaker 1: Smith do well. I'm okay with it. And you know what,
Speaker 1: how could you not be impressed by what he does.
Speaker 1: I know he had the big fumble that helped put
Speaker 1: Seattle in a hole in this game, but those two
Speaker 1: drives in the second half late in the game, so
Speaker 1: many money throws like right on the and good decisions
Speaker 1: and going through his progressions. He if you get the
Speaker 1: ball back in his hands, I could have saw them
Speaker 1: saw Seattle steel in this game. It didn't work out
Speaker 1: that way. The defense couldn't get the stop. But I
Speaker 1: just want to throw some flowers the way of Gino,
Speaker 1: I mean. And also it was the Seahawks going for
Speaker 1: it on fourth down, the fourth down pass to Tyler Lockett,
Speaker 1: the fourth the one touchdown shots too. Marku's good when
Speaker 1: like that Gino every week, whether there's whether he stopped
Speaker 1: or not in the team stop, but he continues to
Speaker 1: make some beautiful throws. And to me, this was the
Speaker 1: Bucks offense that we had been sold going into the season,
Speaker 1: and it started with the ability to run the ball.
Speaker 1: They were able to control this game early by by that,
Speaker 1: and it's like we hadn't seen that in weeks and weeks.
Speaker 1: And Brady, to me, is not the problem in that offense.
Speaker 1: When they struggle. He can see he's throwing great, he
Speaker 1: looks awesome, he looks like Tom Brady. I feel like
Speaker 1: this could be now. I don't want to get sucked
Speaker 1: in here. Greggy on the Julio Jones tip again because
Speaker 1: we all did that Julio Clone coverage. I know he
Speaker 1: looked faster making he is moving really well. And if
Speaker 1: Godwin is getting better, obviously Mike Evans and the running
Speaker 1: game is better with it for NET being minimized a
Speaker 1: little bit. I mean, this week, you don't have to
Speaker 1: I feel like you don't have to swin hard to
Speaker 1: see Tampa Bay making a big push in the second half.
Speaker 1: I could, I could. You can really see. Tom Brady
Speaker 1: knows better than anyone. All that matters is how you
Speaker 1: play in that single elimination tournament, and it helps to
Speaker 1: be playing well in a few weeks before to feel
Speaker 1: good about those things. They're injuries that they've had have
Speaker 1: mostly bounced back. Their defense is healthier this week than
Speaker 1: they've been all season. A Keem Hicks was out there
Speaker 1: making plays. Winfield was back making plays. Carlton Davis is
Speaker 1: mac back playing plays for Net's injury in this game,
Speaker 1: I think helped them out for the most part. I
Speaker 1: think Rashad White was already need more work, and I
Speaker 1: think he was more explosive, but there were a couple
Speaker 1: of plays. And Brady has been playing well, but he
Speaker 1: hasn't been in sync with his receivers, and there were
Speaker 1: a couple of plays in this game where they just
Speaker 1: weren't making those plays in previous week. Some of them
Speaker 1: were the third and two runs and that wasn't Brady,
Speaker 1: but the others were that played as Scottie Miller on
Speaker 1: third and two where it just sleeping beautiful throw by
Speaker 1: Brady under pressure. And then another play where Tom Brady
Speaker 1: has to improvise and finds it to Godwin who makes
Speaker 1: the right read with Brady. That they weren't making those
Speaker 1: plays they did today. I I think they're a very
Speaker 1: scary team. You look at they're going to their by
Speaker 1: so let's just get healthier. And then their schedule really
Speaker 1: is relatively soft down the stretch. So you're right, they're
Speaker 1: gonna win the division. They're gonna host a playoff game.
Speaker 1: And if you get this version of Tampa Bay, I
Speaker 1: told you ever won this division was gonna win a
Speaker 1: playoff game on our Friday Funt Show. It's not really
Speaker 1: that daring of a prediction. If you get to take
Speaker 1: you up on that one. I mean, like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's fine. But ten days ago we were talking about
Speaker 1: this team is a moribund offense that couldn't get out
Speaker 1: of its own west well search of itself. I mean
Speaker 1: they were, we were one of them, were frustrating that. Tonight,
Speaker 1: my friend good buddy Um Shellin patel Um, big time
Speaker 1: bucks fan, big time listener of the show went flew
Speaker 1: from Tampa, UH to Germany for this game. Sent me
Speaker 1: a selfie on Friday night with Rich Eisen. I said, oh,
Speaker 1: you you know, say your friends and me. He said,
Speaker 1: oh no, I didn't think to do it. I was like,
Speaker 1: that's fine. Um. But Shellin sent a video to on
Speaker 1: our fantasy thread this morning of him in the stadium UM,
Speaker 1: and he wrote, nobody leaving the blanking stadium. Game ended
Speaker 1: ten minutes ago. Incredible vibe. And we all on this
Speaker 1: show we're we're invested in the success of the game
Speaker 1: overseas because that's given the overseas audience has given so
Speaker 1: much to us. UM, So it's very cool to see
Speaker 1: this game go off in Munich and Tom Brady had
Speaker 1: words along those lines as well. Yeah, that is one
Speaker 1: of the great football experiences I've ever had. So it
Speaker 1: says a lot for twenty three years in the league
Speaker 1: and for a regular season game and I think the
Speaker 1: fan turnout was incredible. It felt like a very electric
Speaker 1: from the time we took the field. So at the
Speaker 1: end of the game with them singing Sweet Caroline and
Speaker 1: uh Country Row, that was that was pretty epic. So
Speaker 1: I think everyone who's a part of that experience I
Speaker 1: got to I got to have something pretty pretty amazing
Speaker 1: memory for their life. So thank you for hosting us.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Thank you. I went to investigate the
Speaker 1: take me Home, Country Road, Country Roads scenario because like
Speaker 1: they were playing it as Tom Brady received like a
Speaker 1: shotgun snap at one point, but it is it is
Speaker 1: for years been a massive sing along hit in Germany
Speaker 1: during Octoberfest, and so they just they brought it to
Speaker 1: would Yeah, they should make that an annual thing. I
Speaker 1: mean you could see like Brady's eyes were kind of
Speaker 1: shining there smiling too. Again, it was they also one,
Speaker 1: I mean it's been a while for it was emotional.
Speaker 1: And and kyleeen Wolfe, who I think we're gonna hear
Speaker 1: at the end of the show, she she sent in
Speaker 1: a missive from from Germany and she had a similar take,
Speaker 1: which was that it was an emotional experience. I think
Speaker 1: for everyone there that the singing and everything that happened
Speaker 1: that it's still going on tent to fifteen minutes after
Speaker 1: the game, Like, I don't think the German fans could
Speaker 1: have done any better. It's awesome. I hope we get
Speaker 1: over there with them next year. Yeah, that sounds fun.
Speaker 1: And Mark when we were down on the field in London,
Speaker 1: I think you were in conversation with m j D
Speaker 1: at the time and they were doing Sweet Caroline, which
Speaker 1: I don't like the song. I'm not a Neil Diamond guy.
Speaker 1: I don't like busting sports teams UM, but that crowd
Speaker 1: that song. I was getting goose bumps because they were
Speaker 1: singing at the top of their lungs that song and
Speaker 1: everybody had just huge smiles on their face, seventy fans
Speaker 1: the International series, and this is gonna sound like we're
Speaker 1: you know, companymen or I am is a huge hit,
Speaker 1: like and this is something they need to keep pushing
Speaker 1: and I know they will. I think it's it's also
Speaker 1: that you know, historically the passion at their football UM
Speaker 1: games nationally and all through Europe is insane, and they
Speaker 1: bring that to this and this German crowded you could
Speaker 1: tell on the television was absolutely off the hook, and
Speaker 1: like I'm sure many spirits were in Bibe going in
Speaker 1: and who knows what else, And I love it, And
Speaker 1: like everyone from NFL network seemed too, as you called it,
Speaker 1: Greg cited as like almost a spiritual awakening for some reason.
Speaker 1: So maybe they never come back to America. They probably will,
Speaker 1: but it seems like and we don't. We always give
Speaker 1: like the UK and the you know, Canadian and Australian listeners. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well you know you guys, Germany. Germany's right there, there
Speaker 1: are number five country in the world. We love you
Speaker 1: German fans. Thanks for listening. All right, Uh, we're just
Speaker 1: getting started. We're just getting started. Greg's more of a
Speaker 1: deep dive on our listener data. Uh, stay right there,
Speaker 1: all right, welcome back. Before we get to the next game,
Speaker 1: we have some developing news, uh, coming out of Minnesota,
Speaker 1: of course, or I say over Minnesota, UM, Greg Rosenthal, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins wasn't lying. He has made the decision, or
Speaker 1: maybe it wasn't his decision to make the chains have
Speaker 1: moved on. Patrick Peterson wearing the chains on the way home.
Speaker 1: Can I add a bod note to this UM news update?
Speaker 1: So I think we were all surprised to find out
Speaker 1: that not shocked, but that Kirk Cousins um delivered a
Speaker 1: surprising eight pack when and he's he's quite um shapely.
Speaker 1: But Patrick Peterson looks like a he man figure to me, Um,
Speaker 1: it is impressive. He's got some deeper check out matter
Speaker 1: who you are, check it out online you too. Let's
Speaker 1: head to Miami where, Yes, the Dolvins had a chance
Speaker 1: to move into first place? Did they do it? From
Speaker 1: just about the two yard line? Wolves the running back,
Speaker 1: he goes in most of the right back. That's all
Speaker 1: a touchdown hill. There's four for the year. Going backwards
Speaker 1: puts a run on the money. They are having fun.
Speaker 1: Everything you're doing is working right now. Well put Jimmy
Speaker 1: Cephalo w q A M. Everything is working and it
Speaker 1: looks easy for two A Tungo Voloa and the Dolphins offense,
Speaker 1: who continued to roll over the opposition to a three
Speaker 1: more touchdown passes. That's an every week thing. It's like
Speaker 1: three hundred and three hundred yards, three hundred yards, three
Speaker 1: touchdowns almost every week. Dolpins beat the Browns thirty nine seventeen.
Speaker 1: That's four straight wins. For two and they haven't lost
Speaker 1: when two has been the starting quarterback who's played the
Speaker 1: full game. Um, and to talk about this is a
Speaker 1: great friend, a man who we don't need to talk
Speaker 1: about eight packs when we got the pipe here? What's up? Nick?
Speaker 1: How are you? Buddy? And I wish I had an
Speaker 1: eight pack right now? I mean I Kirk Cousins doing
Speaker 1: a pretty good job there with it. Patrick Peterson, I mean, Mark,
Speaker 1: how do you get to that point in your career
Speaker 1: without having that type of body? We do all kinds
Speaker 1: of body talk here, Patrick Peterson put them on Mount Rushmore. Oh,
Speaker 1: I am with you. I I was happily surprised by
Speaker 1: what I observed. Very interesting. All right, let's get into
Speaker 1: it now, Shookie again. Like I said, the numbers are
Speaker 1: astounding for ta and I mentioned in the preview show
Speaker 1: last week, if he had stayed healthy, they would be
Speaker 1: on a record setting pace. Hell, they might get there
Speaker 1: anyway by week eighteen, ten touchdowns and zero interceptions since
Speaker 1: returning uh in week seven for two. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: a lot of people are gonna take this as me
Speaker 1: being a hater, but a lot of those numbers that
Speaker 1: they put up could have been prettier visually, and yet
Speaker 1: they stand so strong and had at sheet because of
Speaker 1: where they are. Thank you Greg. Seven and three. Overall,
Speaker 1: this was their best game of the season to a
Speaker 1: perhaps his best game of his career. He was clinical,
Speaker 1: operating drives with no resistance, with no worry, no fear,
Speaker 1: no no hesitation. Go look at the statute from this game.
Speaker 1: It wasn't Tyreek Hill for ten and one fifty. It
Speaker 1: was to a hooking up with eight different guys. Trent
Speaker 1: Shurfield almost outgained Tyreek Hill. He had a great touchdown catch.
Speaker 1: Tyreek gets on the board with that touchdown catch that
Speaker 1: we already played. It was spreading the ball all over
Speaker 1: Raheem Moster, Jeff Wilson, both running with authority. They dominated
Speaker 1: the Browns start to finish. The only time the Browns
Speaker 1: were even really in this game was on their opening drive.
Speaker 1: From then on, it was all Dolphins. And this is
Speaker 1: the game that maybe a bit of a believer in
Speaker 1: t A and a definite believer in the Dolphins. They're
Speaker 1: on a roll. They're playing great, complimentary football right now.
Speaker 1: And it's not just throwing the ball. They can run
Speaker 1: it really well to to It just fits in this
Speaker 1: offense and the way that Mike McDaniel has the wide
Speaker 1: receivers getting open form. It's just like, I don't really
Speaker 1: I'm over the to a debate to some degree, but
Speaker 1: also because I think that the ground game has been
Speaker 1: an issue in various weeks. The balance, they showed it
Speaker 1: a hundred and ninety five yards at five point nine
Speaker 1: yards per Probably, I know it's the Browns, um and
Speaker 1: I thought after the Bengals game, maybe the Browns it
Speaker 1: solved some of their defensive isis game was lackable all
Speaker 1: of us who had the until it started, until it's start.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like I think, if this is
Speaker 1: the Dolphins team to get down the stretch with disability
Speaker 1: to move the ball on the grounds through the air,
Speaker 1: they are legit dangerous and can beat bit pretty much
Speaker 1: anyone in season. But I know, we say, I know
Speaker 1: it's the Browns of the Browns, like we said going
Speaker 1: into this game. With the exception of one week either
Speaker 1: beating every team or just barely lost, they've been competitive.
Speaker 1: They embarrassed Cincinnati in their previous game, So for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins to just hammer them here again. Yeah, Jeff Wilson
Speaker 1: has been a perfect fit here Shookie seventeen for one
Speaker 1: nine team. I mean, is it is it just that
Speaker 1: this offense is is just so functional right now that
Speaker 1: anything they do seems to work well. Kind of It
Speaker 1: is kind of like that. But you gotta give a
Speaker 1: lot of credit to GM Chris Career who went out
Speaker 1: there and addressed their need. They knew that Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: was not a good fitness offense, they weren't getting the
Speaker 1: production from the running and that they needed to be
Speaker 1: the balanced offense that they believe they could be that
Speaker 1: could really allow toa to maximum mines is production with
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and with Jalen Waddle. So they go out
Speaker 1: they get Jeff Wilson. Suddenly, Mike McDaniel has two former
Speaker 1: running backs from the forty nine is that he knows
Speaker 1: pretty well, and they're both producing really well. They're a
Speaker 1: great one to punch. They're pretty similar. Um, they're not
Speaker 1: too different. But Jeff Wilson, I'm telling you, man, you know,
Speaker 1: we got to see him in San Francisco once they
Speaker 1: lost Elijah Mitchell, but it wasn't quite what you would expect.
Speaker 1: He had some nice runs, but their offense overall was
Speaker 1: kind of struggling. Then they bring in McCaffrey. Suddenly he's
Speaker 1: in a secondary role. He's expendable, he goes to a
Speaker 1: place where he's a perfect fit, and it brings this
Speaker 1: offense to a height where now I firmly believe they
Speaker 1: can beat any team. If they play like they did today,
Speaker 1: they can beat anybody. Now their defense is gonna have
Speaker 1: to play better on a week by week basis, gonna
Speaker 1: have to play a lot like it did today. Get
Speaker 1: after the quarterback, break up passes downfield, they were excellent
Speaker 1: secondary multiple attempts to Donovan People's jones broken up by
Speaker 1: their defensive backs. If they play like this, I'm telling you, guys,
Speaker 1: you gotta watch out. Kind of reminds me of back
Speaker 1: in ten when the Falcons kind of got on a
Speaker 1: roll about this time in that season, they ran all
Speaker 1: the way to the Super Bowl. Today they looked a
Speaker 1: lot like that team. And that's a scary team to watch,
Speaker 1: a little bit like last year's Bengals. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought it was impressive. I kept checking out the
Speaker 1: box scoring watching the game at the side of my eye,
Speaker 1: and like they shut down Cleveland's ground game for most
Speaker 1: of this and it was a non factor. I mean,
Speaker 1: Cleveland's a mess to me in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're the some of their parts on
Speaker 1: offense or defense in terms of the players they have,
Speaker 1: and I feel like they keep getting outcoached week after week.
Speaker 1: It's concerning to see. I mean, Mike McDaniel's totally out
Speaker 1: maneuvered Stefanski in this one. Well, you know who was
Speaker 1: on that Falcon staff, uh, Nick, Mike McDaniel. You know
Speaker 1: who was on the Brown staff a couple of years
Speaker 1: before that. Mike McDaniel and his coaching makes their offensive
Speaker 1: line better. I feel like that's the under sold part
Speaker 1: of this whole Dolphins even remember everyone said the Dolphins
Speaker 1: offensive line is terrible to and never gets touched. I
Speaker 1: know the ball is getting out quickly, but now you're
Speaker 1: seeing it in the running game too. And Jeff Wilson
Speaker 1: is a lot less stiff in the passing game than
Speaker 1: most are, and ultimately they're playing mostly on passing downs.
Speaker 1: Wilson in two weeks has passed them and is their
Speaker 1: main back. They did lose Emmanuel Agba for the season today,
Speaker 1: who's one of their highest paid players. They are pretty
Speaker 1: banged up on defense, but that Chub move. Now it
Speaker 1: looks even more important that they got him. Chookie. Miami
Speaker 1: scares me. They scare me. They're the real deal in
Speaker 1: this division. And the Bills, I know what happened the
Speaker 1: last two weeks. The Bills are still the Bills. This
Speaker 1: is a really good division with I think Miami is
Speaker 1: starting to knock on the door of like we might
Speaker 1: be an elite team. We know the Jets are a
Speaker 1: team on the rise. The Pats are in the mix.
Speaker 1: This is a very interesting division as we head towards
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and they have a win over the Bills. They
Speaker 1: do Chookie one and done for you, baby, Now you
Speaker 1: get more time just like the Burgers. All right, buddy,
Speaker 1: love you see your nick. Alright, let's keep moving on
Speaker 1: to another big time game. You never count out number
Speaker 1: twelve yard field goal of Champs Mason Crosby for the
Speaker 1: wind snip placeman kick his up and here is s
Speaker 1: good sir, pis yard dagger Mason Crosby, who's done it
Speaker 1: again into the Cowboys and the Packers have ended the
Speaker 1: five game losing screek. A huge win for the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. Wayne Laravie for the on the call w
Speaker 1: r n W Mason Crosley made the kick in overtime,
Speaker 1: but it was Aaron Rodgers making huge plays all night long,
Speaker 1: including three touchdown passes to rookie Christian Watson. Keep on
Speaker 1: that to keep an eye on that as a potential
Speaker 1: major development for this team and a big connection in
Speaker 1: the overtime period. Uh two, Alan Lazard, I believe to
Speaker 1: set up that field goal Packers thirty one Cowboys and
Speaker 1: um Greggy the Cowboys were in this game, seemed to
Speaker 1: have it in control and it just got away from him.
Speaker 1: No it did you know? Another lock from ahead for
Speaker 1: me and Mark was along with this one too. I
Speaker 1: just checked all of them have given up double digit
Speaker 1: leads in the fourth quarter. That's happened to me twice.
Speaker 1: But that is the NFL. Mark and I were talking
Speaker 1: about it early in the game. I'm like, we'll just
Speaker 1: wait till the fourth quarter because nothing matters until then. Anyways,
Speaker 1: and I thought this was deserved to go to overtime
Speaker 1: because even though the Cowboys got up two touchdowns here,
Speaker 1: at no point did they look like the superior team.
Speaker 1: The Packers had a lot of great signs today. You
Speaker 1: mentioned Watson that that's number one Aaron Rodgers played really
Speaker 1: well for for the most part. I think their game
Speaker 1: plan to stick with the running game uh was smart,
Speaker 1: and they they played physical, and it just looked like
Speaker 1: two really good teams that should have been just about
Speaker 1: tied the entire game, going blow to blow blow for blow,
Speaker 1: and Dac had a couple of interceptions where maybe on
Speaker 1: the receivers not running the right routes, and then Dak
Speaker 1: brings them back, and the receivers for the Packers make
Speaker 1: a couple of mistakes and then Rogers brings them back,
Speaker 1: and it just felt like two really good teams, and
Speaker 1: that means it's the best Packers game of the season.
Speaker 1: It might have ended basically on a holding call in overtime.
Speaker 1: Dallas was moving the ball really well chunks at a
Speaker 1: time they were in field goal range and a holding
Speaker 1: call backed them up for what was it a second
Speaker 1: or in twenty and they didn't recover out of that.
Speaker 1: But that that's football, Danny. That. Yeah, they passed on
Speaker 1: a fourth and four they went forward instead of about
Speaker 1: a fifty five yard field goal, and that came after
Speaker 1: the end of the fourth quarter where the Packers had
Speaker 1: gotten the ball back after a stop and had a
Speaker 1: chance to win the game in regulation and then kind
Speaker 1: of like I don't know, they got inside their heads
Speaker 1: a little bit, played that terrible poor play calling, poor
Speaker 1: use of the clock, and it gave Cowboys a chance
Speaker 1: to to win the game and overtime. But give Green
Speaker 1: Bay credit their defense without Rashaan Gary, with all the
Speaker 1: issues they've had, got the big stops. And this is
Speaker 1: what I was talking about on Thursday, Mark with Rogers
Speaker 1: that he Packers they took a message, they took it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when when he went on McAfee show Rogers and he said,
Speaker 1: you know I am the back to back reigining m
Speaker 1: v P. That really did ring a bell from me, like, oh,
Speaker 1: this sets up pretty well for them with their as
Speaker 1: a caged animal, wounded deer type game. And that's exactly
Speaker 1: how this ended up playing out. So uh, credit to
Speaker 1: Rodgers and the Packers because they saved their season here
Speaker 1: potentially well they did, I mean, we forked them, But
Speaker 1: in real life they are very much still in the
Speaker 1: mix if they're gonna play like this, and I you've
Speaker 1: been waiting all year for someone to emerge in the
Speaker 1: passing game and Christian Watson it's not perfect eighty eight
Speaker 1: yards all year long until today and showed up in
Speaker 1: the big spot. I do think though they're like Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy was freaking out after that one passed the lamb
Speaker 1: on third and four. There was a clear to me,
Speaker 1: a defensive pass interference that it's just not called, and
Speaker 1: I you know, little things like that like that. That
Speaker 1: was why he slammed it down. You're right, and then
Speaker 1: it looked like a pretty clear passenger. But I think
Speaker 1: they missed that. It was saying like we like we
Speaker 1: could be talking about something very different. It's a kind
Speaker 1: of game where little things like that happened. But again,
Speaker 1: green Bay ran the ball really well. They found something
Speaker 1: in the passing game. If it's like with a lot
Speaker 1: of these teams, if this is the version you get
Speaker 1: of the Bucks, if this is the version you get
Speaker 1: of Green Bay the rest of the season, the NFC
Speaker 1: takes on a bit of a different complexion, right. I
Speaker 1: don't think they made some big statement that they're like
Speaker 1: better than the Cowboys, and they huge They've had the
Speaker 1: wrong side of essentially end of game luck a lot
Speaker 1: this year and now it kind of worked in their favor.
Speaker 1: But the fact that they went blow for blow and
Speaker 1: the defense. It was like a full team victory. The
Speaker 1: defense you mentioned got three stops in a row at
Speaker 1: the end, so it wasn't just the overtime stop. They
Speaker 1: got two stops in the fourth quarter when I expected
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Cowboys to be able to run the ball
Speaker 1: and do that for eath quarter. Thing that's happened to
Speaker 1: the Packers defensive didn't happen. I think it is a
Speaker 1: huge statement by the Packers. And listen, they've been so
Speaker 1: inconsistent this year. They were in a five game losing
Speaker 1: streak that even with this when there four and six
Speaker 1: and have a lot of work to do Titans and
Speaker 1: Eagles next, we got a nice TNF game. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: gonna want to say, you gotta get out of there
Speaker 1: with a split. At least if you get swept there,
Speaker 1: you're you're pretty much close to cook there. So our
Speaker 1: fork situation that could be still something where we don't
Speaker 1: sweat out. But at the same time, it's like, I
Speaker 1: think the running game was better, the defense stepped up.
Speaker 1: But Rogers, if we're gonna kill him like we killed
Speaker 1: him last week and he deserved it, you really gotta
Speaker 1: credit him from making big throws in this game, and
Speaker 1: the Watson thing part of the reason why they were
Speaker 1: uh three and six going into this game. It's not
Speaker 1: Watson's fault, He's a second round rookie, but it is
Speaker 1: that they haven't had that guy that they could connect
Speaker 1: with and and make big plays. So for one leak,
Speaker 1: at least they found him. Let's see if they build
Speaker 1: up right. And the fact that he started the game
Speaker 1: looking like a volleyball player, spiking down multiple throws on
Speaker 1: their first drive which ruined their first drive, and then
Speaker 1: he didn't know the ball was coming to him on
Speaker 1: another beautiful long pass by Rogers that could have been
Speaker 1: a touchdown late in the game. He actually still made
Speaker 1: those rookie mistakes, but Rogers kept going to him because
Speaker 1: he's a real dude. If you really look at it,
Speaker 1: just those three catches alone. Rodgers only threw twenty passes
Speaker 1: in this play game. He only had six attempts in
Speaker 1: the first half. He played a close to perfect game,
Speaker 1: missed like a couple of reads and that was about it.
Speaker 1: He played hostess. It ran the ball thirty nine times.
Speaker 1: I mean the thing with like I think that Aaron Rodgers. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: his delivery um verbally during the week and the way
Speaker 1: that you know, even today he was going off on
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur big time after that one bust to drive.
Speaker 1: I like, I I do get where he's coming from,
Speaker 1: though with his frustration. You're a two time m v P.
Speaker 1: You came into the season, they trade away Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: and for two plus months he has been out of
Speaker 1: sync with a wide receiver corps that is young, that
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to kind of jive with their offense or
Speaker 1: know how to get into into. In the unison with Rogers,
Speaker 1: he after the first touchdown to Watson, which was I
Speaker 1: think sixty some one yards, they showed, you know, the
Speaker 1: classic cut to Rogers after the throw and he kind
Speaker 1: of like threw his hands up like it's not that hard,
Speaker 1: like help me out here. I'm gonna keep putting on
Speaker 1: you help me, help you. And in this case, everyone
Speaker 1: helped out and the Packers save their season for one
Speaker 1: Sunday at least. Let's move on to another game that
Speaker 1: Greg says is in the conversation is the greatest game
Speaker 1: of the year, no regrets. Let's his on. Giants get it,
Speaker 1: Jones gets hit, throws it left caught by slaying one's
Speaker 1: out of a tackle. He's got a first down of
Speaker 1: the forty getting upside fifteen time five tuck down Giants
Speaker 1: slifty four yards and a third and nine her point,
Speaker 1: I thought we were doing that. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: referenced this a Game of the year off. I don't
Speaker 1: remember you said tell be smirched my name with this
Speaker 1: Texas trash plays. Apologies Bob Papa with a call on
Speaker 1: w f A. And yes it was Darius Slayton with
Speaker 1: the fifty four yard touchdown, but it was se Kwan Barkley,
Speaker 1: who again was the bell cow for the human who
Speaker 1: ran for a hundred and fifty two yards on thirty
Speaker 1: five carries. That's a career high over the morabund Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: That's one, but it's not the last. Sessler, your thoughts
Speaker 1: on this one. You are correct about the moribunds on
Speaker 1: the Texans, That is true Giants, though I mean coming
Speaker 1: out there by this was sloppy early on, and I
Speaker 1: what I loved about it was you got the Brian
Speaker 1: Dable like nucleus exploding and he's a very active coach
Speaker 1: on the sideline. And there was a series where early
Speaker 1: on Animated, it was fourth and one and an offensive line,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's all over the offensive line to
Speaker 1: try to recrap that thing, and it's all he goes
Speaker 1: off sides and it blows up the chance to go
Speaker 1: for it on fourth and one and Tables just on
Speaker 1: the on the sideline screaming at the higher bunch. Later on,
Speaker 1: there was a fourteen yard punt from the fourth and
Speaker 1: twenty three from the Houston forty, which had Table throwing
Speaker 1: his head set down. They put they try to put
Speaker 1: Kenny Gollady out there for some reason, who was an
Speaker 1: absolute disaster. I don't That's been one of the worst
Speaker 1: freas of our life. Jump in one second on that one,
Speaker 1: because I love when uh I love when roadal world
Speaker 1: just gets feisty. Yeah, around this time of year and
Speaker 1: their their headlines, uh n y g call and Kenny
Speaker 1: Golladay goes off for one drop in Giants way, get
Speaker 1: a terrible drop and it's just like bang out of
Speaker 1: the lineup. But they did get their act together and
Speaker 1: it had a lot to do with their defense. And
Speaker 1: I know you're playing the Texans, but the Texans, I
Speaker 1: will say one thing. You can call him moribund, but
Speaker 1: they do find ways to stick around in these games.
Speaker 1: We saw it a little bit against the Eagles, which
Speaker 1: should have just blown their doors off. But in this
Speaker 1: one they at one point they're down to ten. They
Speaker 1: mined down to New York Giants ten and the Giants
Speaker 1: get a fumble off Damian Pierce. That was huge. I
Speaker 1: mean just it basically kind of took the air out
Speaker 1: of the Texans balloon. If there's there's there one seven
Speaker 1: and one team, we're gonna get to five and a
Speaker 1: half or four and a half. The over not looking good, right.
Speaker 1: You know, like when you're my son Harrison just had
Speaker 1: his birthday, and you know, when there's a milar balloon
Speaker 1: that you purchased for way too much money, and then
Speaker 1: it's the party happens, but you don't want to throw
Speaker 1: out the balloon because you paid damn fourteen dollars for it. Um,
Speaker 1: So it stays in the kid's room and then three
Speaker 1: weeks later you realize it's still there, but now it's
Speaker 1: on the floor or it's like a foot and a
Speaker 1: half off the ground. No, it's on the ground. It
Speaker 1: does have it's like it's in a launch period. Technically,
Speaker 1: It's still a balloon, but no longer what it once was.
Speaker 1: A depressing state for that balloon. I mean they got
Speaker 1: mills on an on an interception in the end zone
Speaker 1: on the next drive. They just they did what they
Speaker 1: needed to do. It's a typical ascension balloon. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Was it feeling bad about itself in my children's bedroom. No,
Speaker 1: I think it was close to the end of its
Speaker 1: I think I think a depressing that balloon would be
Speaker 1: a good sound draft. Just because you delivered it with
Speaker 1: the vigor of a professional broadcast, You're welcome anything else
Speaker 1: from this game. Mark, that really jumped out to you
Speaker 1: because as someone that I will be watching it for
Speaker 1: power rankings reasons, Um, I feel like this is exactly
Speaker 1: what I would expect it here, sae Quan would get
Speaker 1: the ball a ton, they'd find ways get a couple
Speaker 1: of touchdowns of Houston when it scoring enough points, and
Speaker 1: the Giants get that seventh win and kind of leaves
Speaker 1: you a little bit. I know you're a bigger fan
Speaker 1: Mark of the Giants and they um, but like kind
Speaker 1: of like do we think about the Giants now? This
Speaker 1: is this is their identity. I mean, they pulled out
Speaker 1: the win. Um. I think they did it with good coaching,
Speaker 1: with with their main stars sort of showing up the
Speaker 1: best they could. Uh. It was if you were to
Speaker 1: dream of this game at night before it occurred, and
Speaker 1: you would have dream realistically, this would be the dream
Speaker 1: that you would have dreamed. They mean, hey, they covered.
Speaker 1: They gotta just win these They gotta win these games
Speaker 1: that they're supposed to win and they will be going
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. They are now in second place in
Speaker 1: the NFC East. Were still waiting for the Eagles to
Speaker 1: to play Monday night, but now they're a game ahead
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys who are three back potentially Eagles. It's
Speaker 1: just you keep stacking up these winds and it's very close.
Speaker 1: I want to just close by saying this is and
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to denigrate with the Giants have done.
Speaker 1: It is pretty amazing that Brian Dabele has this team
Speaker 1: at seven and two. I don't care what they're who,
Speaker 1: They've beaten. That is the greatest coach of the materials.
Speaker 1: With the way they vote for that. One quick thing
Speaker 1: is thirty five carries for Barkley. That lot is outrageous.
Speaker 1: They had a third not outrageous. But they had a
Speaker 1: thirty one carry game for him earlier in the year
Speaker 1: and then at thirteen the next week, so maybe they'll
Speaker 1: be conscious of it. But the history of players having
Speaker 1: injuries after thirty plus type games when they're not named
Speaker 1: Derrick Hendry and they're really given Daniel Jones seventeen through
Speaker 1: I mean attempts in this game, that nothing running back
Speaker 1: who is known for getting injured. Keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: Give Matt Britos, I'm carries, you'd still beat the Texans.
Speaker 1: And now Greg Rosenthal's submission for greatest game of the
Speaker 1: season ever ever. Here we go, boys, let's get off
Speaker 1: the field. There's the shotguns. Snap the fields. He's back
Speaker 1: fields looking feels pressed. Keep hard. He's going down. No,
Speaker 1: he stayed up. He's going down. Oh yes, this is fun. Jane,
Speaker 1: Oh rise, holy yarm. Julian finally took it down. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness. I've never seen anything like that. Oh yeah, life,
Speaker 1: and you've seen anything like this. You're right. The team
Speaker 1: of back, Baby, We're back. Turn up alf being the
Speaker 1: team team singer, Greggy deep tee singer Mark only how
Speaker 1: he's that dealer. I ain't like the team. I don't like.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, hey, listen, part I don't like this
Speaker 1: caption that I that I suggesting that I quit on them.
Speaker 1: I just I was I was disappin. On the YouTube
Speaker 1: copy of this, it says, hey, many multiple platforms, very
Speaker 1: many platforms. This is why you don't quit on the
Speaker 1: team of a t L will tell yourself that I
Speaker 1: didn't quit on them. I just was disappointed in them.
Speaker 1: Weeks on. I was trying to get him excited during
Speaker 1: this game too, and he was like, well I do.
Speaker 1: I kind of like Justin Fields, and that's fine. Just
Speaker 1: a superstar. And that's why this is one of the
Speaker 1: candidates for the Games of the Year because Justin Fields
Speaker 1: lit it up. He does everything in this game. Ad
Speaker 1: didn't say what happened in the game, Hey hang on,
Speaker 1: that was the big stop by the Detroit Lions defense,
Speaker 1: the much brelined Detroit Lines defense, and a game where
Speaker 1: Justin Fields again pounding on the door of the superstar club.
Speaker 1: Not yet, Son, because the Lions and Dan Campbell get
Speaker 1: to stop win thirty one thirty. I think there's a
Speaker 1: p A T. Sian involved here, Greg, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: tell us about Okay, there is the table set. We
Speaker 1: got a little carried away. I I get carried away
Speaker 1: when I talk about the three and six Bears versus
Speaker 1: the two and six Lions. It doesn't get any bigger
Speaker 1: than that. NFC North action on real grass. They're trying
Speaker 1: to play us on artificial turf. Check out those injuries
Speaker 1: not happening in Chicago. They just did a They just
Speaker 1: did a you know, don't be don't be a company
Speaker 1: man there. Literally that's the data. This was a beautiful game.
Speaker 1: A fourteen point come back by the Lions, so improbable
Speaker 1: because it wasn't just a fourteen point come back in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. It was one where the Bears started
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter with the ball, and to that point
Speaker 1: in the game, the Lions defense had created one stop
Speaker 1: that Justin Fields just had them in a torture chamber.
Speaker 1: Every time that they thought that they had him, he
Speaker 1: scrambles out and gets a touchdown. He did it scrambling
Speaker 1: on a third down. He did it on third downs
Speaker 1: throughout the game. But he also had a ton of
Speaker 1: great throws. And because of the run game, they would
Speaker 1: just bite on the play action and leave guys wide open,
Speaker 1: and they didn't know anything. They didn't have any clue
Speaker 1: of what to do, and yet in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: you gotta give the Lions defense credit for forcing a
Speaker 1: three and out, for getting a pick six where pressure
Speaker 1: and Aidan Hutchinson in the way of the receiver made
Speaker 1: Justin Fields frizz out and throw a terrible pick six.
Speaker 1: Right after that, Justin Fields gets that sixty two yard run.
Speaker 1: Then I'm sure our listeners have have seen that was incredible.
Speaker 1: But after a couple more stops, including that one to
Speaker 1: end the game, meanwhile, just Jared Goff is doing his
Speaker 1: Jared Goff fourth quarter thing and making plays, and this
Speaker 1: Lions team for the second straight week. Look, if if
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell's ever gonna turn his career around, this is
Speaker 1: how it would look at home against the Packers in
Speaker 1: a game that felt like you shouldn't have won. On
Speaker 1: the road against the Bears down to not in, this
Speaker 1: is how it would look. It was. It was stirring.
Speaker 1: It was I don't like I don't like to do
Speaker 1: this on the show, but sometimes there's a lot going
Speaker 1: on on the Sunday. I don't know this. I just
Speaker 1: saw a couple of tweets from angry Bears fans that
Speaker 1: they said, the officials played a major role in how
Speaker 1: this game closed it. Did you sense anything officiating wise
Speaker 1: that was fishy? I need some more specifically on which
Speaker 1: plays they're calling. I mean, they could have their kicker hidden.
Speaker 1: Next they're just crying in their milk. I'm sure there
Speaker 1: was some questionable call at some point. All right, so
Speaker 1: there you go. We'll never get that time back. Oh no,
Speaker 1: who is this speaking of missed extra points? That banged
Speaker 1: to me in a big spot? Locked up the Bears
Speaker 1: justin fields against this defense was everything I expected until
Speaker 1: the final drive attempt to go win the game, and
Speaker 1: then they lost. The locks that hurt the worst are
Speaker 1: the ones where they're in your back pocket and you
Speaker 1: even move on with your day two touchdown late in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, I'm like, and it happened to you? Sorry,
Speaker 1: justin the witching hour, got me? Yeah, you didn't lose
Speaker 1: is any ground? Though nobody lost ground? Some credit for
Speaker 1: Jared Goff here, though, I was about to make this
Speaker 1: whole thing of like two This is like a perfect
Speaker 1: example of Stone Age ponies versus like the new NFL.
Speaker 1: That's what it looked like through three quarters. But Goff
Speaker 1: was just hanging back there. This Bears defense is terrible.
Speaker 1: They created no pressure and he hung back there and
Speaker 1: made a lot of good throws. In the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of Monroe st Brown with over a hundred yards, Jamal
Speaker 1: Williams with with some big runs at the end, and
Speaker 1: yet Golf is in his final swan song as a
Speaker 1: starter in Detroit. I would I would imagine and the Bears.
Speaker 1: I don't really get the Bears fans. You could be
Speaker 1: annoyed with the refs. You want to win these games,
Speaker 1: you want to hang around in the NFC. You've got
Speaker 1: something special, You've got a feature. I mean, if anything, literally,
Speaker 1: it's another one of these things that four weeks ago
Speaker 1: justin Fields was viewed. I think widely is sort of
Speaker 1: a bottom seven quarterback in the league. And everything has
Speaker 1: changed right to everything's changed. Some of my favorite plays
Speaker 1: from him today where when the rush got there and
Speaker 1: he kept his eyes downfield and it looked like he
Speaker 1: was gonna run and then may a really nice throw.
Speaker 1: He's doing it all. I mean, they ran for two.
Speaker 1: They're like a Bear's dream. And so they set that record.
Speaker 1: They became the first team in NFL history to do
Speaker 1: that five weeks in a row. That two d plus
Speaker 1: mark that the seven seventies six Steelers held that mark previous.
Speaker 1: Felt has a rushing in a passing touchdown in five
Speaker 1: straight games. He also has the most rushing yards in
Speaker 1: the history of the NFL and in a five game stretch.
Speaker 1: For any quarterbacks, you don't get into the superstar club
Speaker 1: without a really good resume and team success as well.
Speaker 1: But what he's doing right now I think as a
Speaker 1: passer yet though, I don't think. I think it's just
Speaker 1: that his overall game puts them and puts them there. Mark,
Speaker 1: will you going forward give the Lions your full heart?
Speaker 1: I see, here's the thing. Like you in Hard Knocks,
Speaker 1: you can't even give a yes or no answer. Actually, totally, Mark,
Speaker 1: totally support what the Lions are. I think Dan Campbell
Speaker 1: is totally enjoyable. Going back to Hard Knocks, I absolutely
Speaker 1: adored them. I was just simply disappointed them in them
Speaker 1: the way you would be with a child. Yes or no?
Speaker 1: Will give them your heart? Yes, I give them my heart.
Speaker 1: They already had ever stopped talking. Greg, It is just
Speaker 1: another fabricated narrative on this on this show. This one
Speaker 1: is not fabric No, it is fabricated. I do like
Speaker 1: other teams that may be regretted. You know, the let's
Speaker 1: finish strong, Lions. Let's take a break heart here, Lions.
Speaker 1: All right, let's keep the good times rolling, arrowhead checking
Speaker 1: down gold to go with the six Chiefs are spread
Speaker 1: now my homes far as quick touchdown turns city. Fourth
Speaker 1: touchdown pass by Patrick Mahomes, this time to Kelsey his buddy,
Speaker 1: for seven yards and sweet nectar the end zone in
Speaker 1: the Chiefly. I love it. I love when Niche holt
Speaker 1: Is hits us with a sweet nectar. Great job by
Speaker 1: the radio guys today, Great job by justin everyone behind
Speaker 1: the glass every week. The work that's being done behind
Speaker 1: the glass does not go overloads. It's pretty good. W
Speaker 1: D A f and Patrick Mahomes through for three one
Speaker 1: and touchdown passes the four different receivers, the Chiefs offense
Speaker 1: nearly five hundred yards, three turnovers too, and the end
Speaker 1: win over the Jags. Um. Seeing some talk out there
Speaker 1: that was a good quarterback play on both sides in
Speaker 1: this game. I would agree with that. And uh one
Speaker 1: of the turnovers was on a kick return to end
Speaker 1: the second half, and it was a reminder like how
Speaker 1: many things have to go right? To beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: In the first half of this game, the Jaguars had
Speaker 1: a couple turnover, they forced a couple of turnovers, and
Speaker 1: they had a successful on site kick to start the game.
Speaker 1: They stole three possessions and they were down seven at
Speaker 1: half time this fight, stealing three possessions. Both quarterbacks were great,
Speaker 1: but only one of them was was Patrick Mahomes, and
Speaker 1: only one of them his coached by Andy Reid, who
Speaker 1: kind of had it all over. Doug Peterson just Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson play a little cautious despite that up on side kick,
Speaker 1: he decided to punt in multiple situations where he should
Speaker 1: have gone for How do you do that? How do
Speaker 1: you go from inside kicking he started game to playing conservative.
Speaker 1: It was crazy, just like the routes that in the
Speaker 1: route combinations that the Chiefs had just had the Jaguars
Speaker 1: scrambling where it felt like they almost won this game
Speaker 1: before it even started. Where were we with the I
Speaker 1: know you picked this largely because Tony Romo was operating
Speaker 1: the color broadcaster. What happened with him fawning over plastic Mahomes.
Speaker 1: It was one of my safe bets on the Friday fight.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you asked I have this little note
Speaker 1: card things to talk about. I circled Romo plus and
Speaker 1: what that means is I think Romo has his fastball back,
Speaker 1: or at least he did today. He made a lot
Speaker 1: of really incisive comments about the development of Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: on some of that he didn't see Trevor Lawrence that
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, you're you're teaching me something here.
Speaker 1: He talked about the way that Kelsey was running his
Speaker 1: routes and Juju smiths Uster how Juju is kind of
Speaker 1: getting how Patrick Mahomes thinks that don't run it like
Speaker 1: it's written up on the textbook, start adjusting in the
Speaker 1: way Mahomes wants to. And he had a couple of
Speaker 1: great examples with Juju and Travis Kelsey that we're both
Speaker 1: big plays, and I think we're one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why this game never felt that closet. You mentioned Tony
Speaker 1: Romo in his eyes, the eyes Patrick Mahomes, how Mahomes
Speaker 1: just dominating this game with his eyes the new Tony
Speaker 1: Romo and my eyes is Mark Sanchez, and he will
Speaker 1: be on our show on Tuesday. Mark Sanchez on Around
Speaker 1: the NFL Tuesday so getting these incredible guests tune in
Speaker 1: for that. How about this Darius Tony touchdown. He's catching
Speaker 1: the ball, he's running the ball. We've talked about why
Speaker 1: he potentially can be a big time fit in this
Speaker 1: offense once he gets reps. Did you see you're seeing
Speaker 1: some of that in this game. It was only a
Speaker 1: couple of plays, but you can see his athleticism. The
Speaker 1: run after the catch that he made, not on the
Speaker 1: touchdown was just outrageous. He just and he just skied
Speaker 1: high for another catch. And I guess it was like
Speaker 1: three different places that letticism. And they might need it
Speaker 1: more because Juju Smith Schuster got hit in the helmet
Speaker 1: in one of the craziest non penalty calls of the year.
Speaker 1: They didn't give a intentional or roughing, but threw the
Speaker 1: flagon picked it up and it was like helmet that
Speaker 1: we both both watched that replay. It's like what can
Speaker 1: compelled them to pull the flag off the turf? And
Speaker 1: then it was Andre Cisco the Jacks, not either right.
Speaker 1: Cisco the Jaguars was taken out the entire receiver group.
Speaker 1: He then took out Valda Scantling on a play where
Speaker 1: it looked like he kind of launched himself and scant
Speaker 1: Valda scantly did end up returning, and that one was
Speaker 1: a little more borderline. But the Chiefs should have been uh,
Speaker 1: the chief should have been unhappy. Jaguars fans gotta be happy. Though.
Speaker 1: These were two great games by Lawrence in a row.
Speaker 1: You I know, you set me up to start there.
Speaker 1: For the most part, he played outstanding and had four
Speaker 1: or five just beautiful throws in this game. So another
Speaker 1: nice That's like all you want to see from the
Speaker 1: Jaguars at this point in the season. Maybe I mean
Speaker 1: they're they're they're not a playoff team at all, but
Speaker 1: like a definitive growth from Trevor Lawrence to go in
Speaker 1: the next off season. They got two dudes, him and
Speaker 1: the E t N and Kirk is a great slot
Speaker 1: receiver signing like that would ended up being a good signing.
Speaker 1: And the Chiefs are now seven and two. They get
Speaker 1: the Chargers next week. They take care of business there.
Speaker 1: That division looks like it's going their way. Their number one.
Speaker 1: I think how recently that last game of the year
Speaker 1: was against Buffalo. That was kind of the game of
Speaker 1: the year. People were China say and think so. And
Speaker 1: they were down a game and the tiebreaker, and now
Speaker 1: they're up on the Bills. Uh. Speaking of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: the number one seed last year, the Tennessee Titans. They've
Speaker 1: been on a roll. They look to keep it, keep
Speaker 1: it going against the Broncos. Wilson under pressure, stepping up
Speaker 1: track down field. It's Tippen intercepted by Mitchell, who takes
Speaker 1: a knee at the lawn. Now let's take that one hole,
Speaker 1: get out of here by it scanning for a flag,
Speaker 1: I am not finding one tight. We're gonna win this
Speaker 1: football game. But with the limit seconds to go, all right,
Speaker 1: there we go. So we got two we's today and
Speaker 1: now we got a lets let us two Weason and us.
Speaker 1: They are literally team employees, like a Super Bowl ring
Speaker 1: if if they win, I enjoy them leaning into it.
Speaker 1: I have no issue with it. It's something in the
Speaker 1: New York media they were taught not to do so.
Speaker 1: If you're from that land area of the country, you
Speaker 1: didn't hear it as much, but you hear it all
Speaker 1: over the place. I think it's nice. Mike Keith with
Speaker 1: the call w g f X, Yes, Terrence Mitchell had
Speaker 1: the interception to ice the game and Ryan Tannehill, who
Speaker 1: they're rolling. They lost last week, but I think that's
Speaker 1: six out of seven now for the Titans who take
Speaker 1: care of business against the Broncos. Seventeen ten wasn't easy.
Speaker 1: They rallied back from a ten point deficit to do it.
Speaker 1: Tannehill obviously on the bed ankle um and you could
Speaker 1: see it. He was limping after one scramble. But he
Speaker 1: made a couple of big passes, uh touchdown passes on
Speaker 1: a day where Derrick Henry was unable to get going
Speaker 1: at all. Uh So that is a that is a
Speaker 1: good sign for the Titans that they can win a
Speaker 1: game when Henry does nothing. In Tannehill, I thought played
Speaker 1: very well. It's bringing the grave digger. Uh And when
Speaker 1: I say he played very well, it's not gonna statistically,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna jump out at you. But I thought,
Speaker 1: given the fact that clearly he's not a pent and Denver,
Speaker 1: even without you know, Bradley Chubb anymore, this is still
Speaker 1: a good defense that was playing well. I thought he
Speaker 1: really muscled up, including at the end of the half
Speaker 1: of that big touchdown pass that kind of changed things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tannehill put together a great two minute drive with Henry
Speaker 1: Bareley on the field for that for that drive, drove
Speaker 1: him all the way down the field and and threw
Speaker 1: a dot to Nick westbrook Akina in the back of
Speaker 1: the end zone to make it ten seven at halftime,
Speaker 1: and then he had the huge play to to get
Speaker 1: to fourteen with the flea flicker touchdowns also to Nick
Speaker 1: westbrog Aquina, who really stepped up and had a career
Speaker 1: game five catches, hundred nineteen yards and two touchdowns after
Speaker 1: a week after the Titans receivers all combined for zero catches.
Speaker 1: So obviously Tannehill being back is a huge part of that,
Speaker 1: but also guys stepping up and making plays helped a lot.
Speaker 1: Traylon Burkes was back for this game, but this game
Speaker 1: also featured a combined total of seventeen punts between the
Speaker 1: two teams. Gonna be a tough games. This is the
Speaker 1: recipe for a forty five minute game pass and this
Speaker 1: game ended like a lot of games had already gone
Speaker 1: final in this game still had like five minutes left
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarters. Yeah, the Titans, you know, they
Speaker 1: gave the Broncos a chance in the fourth quarter to
Speaker 1: bring Malik Willis on the field and a key third
Speaker 1: down play that leads to a fumbled snap which gave
Speaker 1: the Broncos life. And yet and this isn't breaking news,
Speaker 1: but you know, it is so hard to watch. You thought,
Speaker 1: maybe a bye week and the chance to reset, and
Speaker 1: maybe Russ gets healthy, maybe the different version of the
Speaker 1: Broncos offense shows up. But Wilson was just completely under siege.
Speaker 1: Great job by the front seven of Tennessee, obviously, but
Speaker 1: there's also a lot of stuff going on here with
Speaker 1: the Denver offense. It just seems to me that Wilson,
Speaker 1: and again this is everyone seeing this, but you watch
Speaker 1: it and it's just it's glaring when you think about
Speaker 1: what Denver gave up to get him, and how in
Speaker 1: deep they are. That he's a beat or two or
Speaker 1: three slow to recognize pressure and he doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: have the athleticism Russell Wilson to escape, in addition to
Speaker 1: accuracy issues. He's said, it's kind of it's just he's
Speaker 1: not a very good quarterback right now. And I don't
Speaker 1: know what they do about this. That's the bigger concern
Speaker 1: for me. It's just like, wait a minute, this isn't
Speaker 1: a just now thing. Potentially it could be who Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson is going for. They lost Jerry Judy. That did
Speaker 1: not look good. It looked like an achilles. When it
Speaker 1: happened on the first series of the game, they said
Speaker 1: it was an ankle, and Ian rap report reported that
Speaker 1: it's not an achilles, but it looked pretty bad. Judy
Speaker 1: in the locker room said he hopes he might even
Speaker 1: just be a low ankle sprains. Yea. The fact that
Speaker 1: they come back from the by and then in the
Speaker 1: second half of the game have five punts in an interception.
Speaker 1: It's like Judy gets hurt in the first for eight
Speaker 1: on third down in the second half. The Broncos were
Speaker 1: but also they came into this game without their starting
Speaker 1: right tackle Cam Fleming and their starting center Lloyd Cushionberry whatever.
Speaker 1: The Titans were down seven defensives literally seven defensive but
Speaker 1: then they also lost Billy Turner and Graham Glasgow, their
Speaker 1: backup center and their backup right tackle, and so they
Speaker 1: were down to Thursday hit a rookie third string center
Speaker 1: snap in the ball and he They had multiple mishandled
Speaker 1: snaps in the fourth quarter after this guy important that
Speaker 1: you say that justin um but also when you give
Speaker 1: up what you did to get Russell Wilson, he's supposed
Speaker 1: to lift your team up a little bit and they
Speaker 1: get down to the red zone in that final minute,
Speaker 1: and I think it just says so much that I
Speaker 1: know you're you're a fan of the team involved, so
Speaker 1: it might be different from you. I had no comminants
Speaker 1: at all that it was gonna end with a touchdown
Speaker 1: for the Broncos, just because we've seen it too much
Speaker 1: this season, and I just want to play something, Mark,
Speaker 1: and I want you to react to this from Nathaniel Hackett,
Speaker 1: who he knows his job is in danger right now. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he knows why his job is in danger. And
Speaker 1: I wonder at what point he is going to start
Speaker 1: pushing back on It's all on me? Who else should
Speaker 1: you be blaming here? It's another close game, another one
Speaker 1: score game, and we feel like, you know, the defense
Speaker 1: stepped up to the challenge with Derrick Henry. I I
Speaker 1: give our defense so much credit, and I mean the
Speaker 1: offense has to find a way. We're one s course
Speaker 1: each time. And I think what you're what you're pointing
Speaker 1: to a little bit there is that this has to
Speaker 1: be a fractured locker room. And if you're Nathaniel Hackett.
Speaker 1: The one thing we've heard from players, guys like when
Speaker 1: you talk to mg D other stuff, it's like coaches,
Speaker 1: the first time head coach has to come in with
Speaker 1: a special trait. It's really unclear. In fact, it's clear
Speaker 1: to see that Nathaniel Hackett is not offering a special
Speaker 1: trait right now. And the players in these meetings week
Speaker 1: after week, you just start to lose him. Well, what
Speaker 1: what I'm saying when I think he's saying there, and
Speaker 1: of course who knows. But the offense has to find
Speaker 1: a way. I think he's saying, Russell Wilson has to
Speaker 1: find a way. Help me, help me man, because we
Speaker 1: need we need you. We're throwing you. You need to
Speaker 1: save us be as you were supposed to save us
Speaker 1: the season. The way thing is, though, therek you could
Speaker 1: point to, especially early on the year, five games in
Speaker 1: a row where coaching decisions and coaching management sunk the team.
Speaker 1: He should issue he should be they're giving up less
Speaker 1: than seventeen points a game and they're three and six.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's move to Sophie Stadium where the Rams
Speaker 1: and a battle of backup quarterbacks same old problems popping up.
Speaker 1: McCoy drops back and throwing deep ball left side and
Speaker 1: a one handed chat's by Ron del Moore. What a
Speaker 1: dime by col McCloy. Incredible grab by Ron Dale Moore dropped. Yes,
Speaker 1: oh what a day for the radio cruise. Dave passed,
Speaker 1: but that was Ron wolf Ley. Yeah, Mr, it's a
Speaker 1: dewey leaf our sunlight, moonlit night. I don't know. He's
Speaker 1: the best k m v P. We highlighted that we
Speaker 1: all watched together in the newsroom because Colton McCoy hung tough,
Speaker 1: came back from a bang dumb knee earlier in the
Speaker 1: game and then delivered that strike on fourth down to
Speaker 1: Rondel Moore that basically put this game away. Seventeen. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals beat the Rams here in l A across the sidewalk,
Speaker 1: and uh, let's start with the Cardinals. Um, even though
Speaker 1: I believe the Rams are the more intriguing story, you
Speaker 1: gotta give him credit. They took care of business here.
Speaker 1: Rams team that was playing with John Wolford at quarterback,
Speaker 1: but it was Kyler Murray out with a hamstring Mark
Speaker 1: Um and he uh gets replaced by Colt McCoy, who
Speaker 1: does the job and leads his team to a win.
Speaker 1: Cult McCoy did this last year. He came in and
Speaker 1: he's just I'm not I know that when I'm around
Speaker 1: you guys, I'm like a huge Colt McCoy. Guy named
Speaker 1: my child Colt after Colt McCoy date based on stuff
Speaker 1: from a long time ago when he was on the Browns.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Like he comes in, he's just solid.
Speaker 1: Here the chemistry that Kyler was showing with DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: transferred to Colt McCoy. Uh, the A J. Green who
Speaker 1: was essentially vanished from the atmosphere uh this season suddenly
Speaker 1: making big catches with Cult McCoy. So he just came
Speaker 1: in and did what you need a backup quarterback to do,
Speaker 1: which is not really what John Wolford did. And I
Speaker 1: think if you're the Rams, you're a burning house right now.
Speaker 1: This is a big problem. Well, we we get on
Speaker 1: cliffs so much for not providing an advantage. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is kind of a coaching game, and the Cardinals won.
Speaker 1: You could you could down like I get it. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying they had lost to John Wolford would be
Speaker 1: the flip side. The point is it's like they threw
Speaker 1: the ball eleven straight times to start the game. They
Speaker 1: showed a lot of confidence in McCoy there with the
Speaker 1: fourth down, and they like threw the ball the whole game.
Speaker 1: They ultimately had the better looking offense, and I was
Speaker 1: disappointed by the Rams defense. I I did not expect
Speaker 1: the Rams defense to allow twenty seven points to Arizona.
Speaker 1: I know the Ram offense contributed to that, but ultimately
Speaker 1: Colt McCoy led them on three really long touchdown drives.
Speaker 1: I that Jonathan Vilma was all over it. He was like,
Speaker 1: even when the Rams are making big plays on defense
Speaker 1: and getting off the field, they're not that excited. That
Speaker 1: like gonna talk about bad vibes in the locker room
Speaker 1: right that, Like they don't think their backup quarterback is
Speaker 1: gonna make any place. Even when they make a big play,
Speaker 1: they're not celebrating. I mean, listen, it's unbelieved. We talked
Speaker 1: about going into this game, like, oh, Matthew Stafford might
Speaker 1: not play with the concussion, But you know, how much
Speaker 1: more of a downgrade could it be. I'll point to
Speaker 1: Cooper cup stat line today three catches for negative one
Speaker 1: yards on five targets. The last target, a throw sailed
Speaker 1: out of bounds, that Cup gives everything he has to
Speaker 1: grab in the second half, gets rolled up on and
Speaker 1: what looks like a bad potential lower leg ankle injury.
Speaker 1: Um looked like a guy that was gonna miss significant
Speaker 1: time potentially. We'll see what happens, what we learned in
Speaker 1: the next twenty four hours. But yeah, you take Cup
Speaker 1: out of the mix and there's just nothing there. And
Speaker 1: like on the Friday Fun Show, just because first of all,
Speaker 1: you know, it's well documented. I'm not a fan of
Speaker 1: this Cardinals regime or this team, and I thought the
Speaker 1: Rams would have some type of muscle memory to keep
Speaker 1: their season interesting here and namely they're big name players
Speaker 1: like Aaron Donald to step up and have a big game.
Speaker 1: And I look again, Aaron Donald nowhere to be seen
Speaker 1: in the statute one QB hit. And it's just this
Speaker 1: team is not They've no showed. Let's face it, the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams have no showed this season coming off
Speaker 1: their Super Bowl win, and you're seeing it week after week.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of empty seats in this building.
Speaker 1: In December, there were booze raining down. It's so far today,
Speaker 1: which is this is a team that you know is
Speaker 1: months removed from having won the Super Bowl. I think
Speaker 1: the frustration is at peak levels. I will say this
Speaker 1: about one little thing about Cult McCoy too. I know
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is an incredible talent, but they're the characteristic
Speaker 1: of that offense has been well, I'm just gonna say
Speaker 1: Pault McCoy is someone that came in and ran a
Speaker 1: cleaner ship today, cleaner offense from a long time Cardinals
Speaker 1: writer who is like, I think this is the offense
Speaker 1: Cliff ones to run, which I think that says more
Speaker 1: about Cliff, if that's even true. And then I thought, wait,
Speaker 1: this is the offense Cliff has been running five yards
Speaker 1: per per attempt. They didn't go over three yards on
Speaker 1: the on the play. You're right, you didn't make. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't any different the Rams offense wasn't even that
Speaker 1: much difference that. The surprising thing here is that, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Rams defense got over and um, you know, guys,
Speaker 1: because something they come to mind because they're playing together
Speaker 1: behind p J. Walker right now. But Sam Donald Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: you could look as you spin forward in your career
Speaker 1: and look at Gino Smith is maybe the North star
Speaker 1: after what he's been doing doing this year long time
Speaker 1: backup has his moment. But you know what, you could
Speaker 1: also calibrate this. Go for Colt McCoy, play twelve to
Speaker 1: fourteen years in this league, make three to five million
Speaker 1: dollars a year, have a couple of good moments every year,
Speaker 1: and then that pension and that notoriety and the private jets.
Speaker 1: It stays in your life for years and years, and
Speaker 1: wearing tears down and he's last year. He's doing it
Speaker 1: right now. Become a Hard Knock storyline this week. I mean,
Speaker 1: they'll be a little more interesting this week. Now, I'll
Speaker 1: let you guys cover this. You guys should do a
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks podcast. Taking this personal because he's not doing
Speaker 1: a podcast. He's like, how dare they do it? In
Speaker 1: season one? No, I was I would. They asked me
Speaker 1: to do the podcast, and I said, I'm not really
Speaker 1: interested in this team, and then there's a lot going
Speaker 1: on in the league right now. But it doesn't mean that,
Speaker 1: you guys, we could couldn't do it. Let's see what
Speaker 1: the next episode brings it would it would be him
Speaker 1: in That's a yes. It would be an absolutely flawless
Speaker 1: production to start two weeks into Hard Knocks. Let's let's
Speaker 1: pencil Greg and Mark in for when do we wrap
Speaker 1: up the Tuesday taping usually about one o'clock. Just roll
Speaker 1: straight into a Hard Knocks hard Now let's stress with
Speaker 1: a pencil. Not by the way, I thought you're going
Speaker 1: to break out the more of an l A Rams
Speaker 1: because this was a fork off to me. I think
Speaker 1: I think we got away with it this week, but
Speaker 1: it's coming for I think this was death and they
Speaker 1: got forked. Alright, let's take a break and we'll be Rebeck.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. The Colts were buried all week for their
Speaker 1: decision to can Frank Reich and moved to Jeff Saturday
Speaker 1: every Sunday. Let's see how it all started for Saturday
Speaker 1: on Sundays, it's confusing the town field into the end,
Speaker 1: so it's broken up by the cult by stuff on
Speaker 1: Kilmore till dant Adams. The intended receiver had no flags
Speaker 1: on the plane and the raiders have turned it over
Speaker 1: run downs. But und minutes ago, oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: good on good right there, and we wanted yeah, we
Speaker 1: did win. That's three weeks bingo. We got one to
Speaker 1: three hat tricks for Weeze and an us Matt Taylor
Speaker 1: and Rip Venturry Venturry with the big we there off
Speaker 1: the top turn buckle out of nowhere macho man style
Speaker 1: w f N. I yes, Matt Ryan got his job back.
Speaker 1: That was random, uh this morning? And then he said, Okay,
Speaker 1: I might as well play well because probably going to
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, and I'm better than the eleender guy.
Speaker 1: Maybe you shouldn't be in the league. Everything I said,
Speaker 1: it's the final scoring Colts over the moribund Las Vegas
Speaker 1: Raiders in their building. I mean, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Mark Sesler? You were emotionally invested in this game. You're
Speaker 1: a fan of chaos and the cults. From one week
Speaker 1: at least, UH proved the doubters wrong. I mean, this
Speaker 1: game was bathed in ultra chaos. I don't I can't
Speaker 1: really remember witnessing something like this from a from a
Speaker 1: thing where everyone all week long, like you said, just
Speaker 1: looked at the Colts and said, you clowns, What a
Speaker 1: clown show, What a clown car you've become. And then
Speaker 1: suddenly days later, Jeff Saturday, who was on ESPAN a
Speaker 1: week ago, is winning a game as head coach of
Speaker 1: the cults and they actually looked fun optional today compared
Speaker 1: to weeks past. Now you you pointed it out, I mean,
Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday arrives and suddenly Matt Ryan's starting it totally.
Speaker 1: Frank Reich has gotta be. Frank Reich's sitting home getting paid.
Speaker 1: But from Frank Reich has got is a man of pride.
Speaker 1: We know that, Like, I mean, he put his heart
Speaker 1: into this job, and he's watching Matt Ryan play good
Speaker 1: football with a healthy Jonathan Taylor looking like Jonathan Taylor, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, just it's they. I will say this though,
Speaker 1: from the flip side, from the Saturday part of this,
Speaker 1: I wanted to see, like, if you're gonna come in
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, you've been nothing but a high school coach,
Speaker 1: you're a television analyst. You've got mere days to organize
Speaker 1: a coaching staff that had fired the ROC, fired the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach. You hand the offense over to Parks Frasier,
Speaker 1: a thirty year old. Like what this had the this
Speaker 1: had the chance to be an epic disaster. Instead, I
Speaker 1: will say, like they kept cutting the Parks Frasier up
Speaker 1: in the booth, and you can tell he's a little underwater.
Speaker 1: Of course we all he's doing something different this time.
Speaker 1: He is calling the best cults offensive show of the year.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, like, it's kind of incredible and
Speaker 1: probably a little embarrassing to a lot of people that
Speaker 1: the Cults in this situation, this was functional Saturday, seemed
Speaker 1: totally in control emotionally, uh, and they won. Well. I
Speaker 1: think you could be two things. I think everything last
Speaker 1: week was kind of a clown car for the Raiders,
Speaker 1: for the Cults, the way they handled certain things. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's like, hey, these guys are
Speaker 1: all professionals, and and if you cannot sleep on one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why someone that is super plugged in,
Speaker 1: like a Zach Kiefer for the Athletic was like, I
Speaker 1: think maybe his team has one winning it because the
Speaker 1: organization is so strange and out of control right now.
Speaker 1: That they went from having Ellinger as the quarterback on
Speaker 1: Friday to Matt Ryan back after we were told like
Speaker 1: very specifically that he will not be the quarterback again
Speaker 1: about four weeks ago. You put Matt Ryan back in,
Speaker 1: a guy that I think if he's not an Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer Greg, he is right on the cups. A
Speaker 1: former m v P. We discussed, um, it really changes things,
Speaker 1: and I think it's it's kind of a disgraceful look
Speaker 1: quite honest, honestly for the Raiders to get beat in
Speaker 1: the spot and what the season mark is just crashed
Speaker 1: for this team. Well, it's just I you do look
Speaker 1: at a team that you don't have Darren Waller, you
Speaker 1: don't have Hunter Renfro. It's so much more than that, though,
Speaker 1: it is, but you've lost a bunch of you. There
Speaker 1: are like legit parts of this roster that are a mess.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr, like did not play. He played a good game.
Speaker 1: He at one point had thirteen straight completions, ten in
Speaker 1: a row on a drive that finished with a touchdown.
Speaker 1: They kept coming back and like he and Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: we've seen this before. They got electric for you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen minutes in a row, and they got enough
Speaker 1: from Josh Jacobs where they had a chance to win
Speaker 1: this game. But I don't think there's anything about the
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels experience right now that is anything other than
Speaker 1: a mess. We just saw Josh McDaniels hugging Jeff Saturday
Speaker 1: at midfield and McDaniels was to be thinking myself, how
Speaker 1: the hell did I get here. Jeff Saturday, who as
Speaker 1: an analyst a couple of weeks ago we mentioned this,
Speaker 1: tweeted the Raiders basically sucks. It was an analysis was great.
Speaker 1: You're saying, like, people must be embarrassed. You know, people
Speaker 1: who went hard on the Colts this week are like
Speaker 1: almost annoyed that they won this game. You know who
Speaker 1: also might be quarterbacks coach of the Colts, Scott Milinovitch,
Speaker 1: who turned down the offensive coordinator job because he thought
Speaker 1: he was putting him in a bad spot. That's what
Speaker 1: our guys Ian Rappaport and Tom Ploceero reported. They weren't
Speaker 1: going to revise his contract either, and he was like no,
Speaker 1: but here he is out on the field and you
Speaker 1: must be watching this be like maybe I should have
Speaker 1: um on the other side. Uh. We were told that
Speaker 1: Derek Carr was very emotional. None of us have heard this.
Speaker 1: After the game, here's a car had to say two
Speaker 1: and seven the Raiders out more bunt. Sorry for being emotional.
Speaker 1: I'm just piste off. This is some of the things
Speaker 1: you know that a lot of us trying to do
Speaker 1: just to practice. Well, we put our bodies through just
Speaker 1: asleep at night mhm. And for that to be the
Speaker 1: result of all that effort. This is me off oof.
Speaker 1: I feel for car he seems like a good dude.
Speaker 1: He's caught and there's a lot of criticism around this team.
Speaker 1: He deserves some of it. Um, but two and seven
Speaker 1: this was not the plan. And to lose to this
Speaker 1: Colts team with like you're saying, Mark and greg Um,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the low point in what's been
Speaker 1: a really low season in general. You couldn't create a
Speaker 1: season to make you more emotional and upset if you
Speaker 1: are a Raiders, because it's not like they've just looked
Speaker 1: like the worst team. Think about some of these games
Speaker 1: they've had. They had the twenty to nothing lead against
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. They had the Titans game that they blew
Speaker 1: right at the end. They had the Chief Scheme where
Speaker 1: they on Monday Night Football, they they look like they
Speaker 1: play amazing and go into Arrowhead and then blow it
Speaker 1: at the very end. They get shut out in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: which is this incredibly deflating. They had the seventeen point
Speaker 1: lead that they blew a week ago to the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: and then you have losing to Jeff Saturday. I mean,
Speaker 1: that is a torture chamber. That is the worst season. Um,
Speaker 1: and Mark, you're you were very excited. You're Amanda agent
Speaker 1: of chaos, allow the joker in the dark night. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm not looking to create that. I was not. Um.
Speaker 1: I thought the cults deserved whatever they had coming until
Speaker 1: for me. It hit a pivot point this morning on
Speaker 1: CBS is Pregame Show, when the Great Bill Kawer shared
Speaker 1: a long prepared monologue that ended, thus, lee for an
Speaker 1: owner to horror coach who's never been an assistant at
Speaker 1: the college level or the pro level and overseeing a
Speaker 1: very much a lot of candidates. They are qualified for
Speaker 1: that job, as we I and Steve Wilkes an opportunity
Speaker 1: to build a resume. It's a disgrace to the coaching
Speaker 1: profession in regardless of how this thing plays on. What
Speaker 1: happened Indianapolis is a traves to and like not disagree
Speaker 1: with everything there, but it's just like serious football man
Speaker 1: has serious takes on a very serious issue. It's just football.
Speaker 1: The owner gets to do whatever the hell he wants.
Speaker 1: The owner liked Saturday and I understand, but like, are
Speaker 1: we all crying in our beer because John Fox didn't
Speaker 1: get another chance to do the head coaching thing in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Bill, calm down, everybody, relax, it's just And
Speaker 1: also Jeff Saturday is like, this is not someone with
Speaker 1: zero football experience in life. I guess it was a
Speaker 1: totally out of the box higher but like the one,
Speaker 1: the drumbeat from the minute he got there was like, wait,
Speaker 1: this guy, we like this guy. This guy's good. Good
Speaker 1: with us here. Um if if either Dan or I
Speaker 1: I would be more annoying. Was sitting next to Bill
Speaker 1: Cower as he was saying that and laughing like we
Speaker 1: were on the show like that would have made for
Speaker 1: some good TV. That would have been Yes, perhaps, I
Speaker 1: mean those are like he would have punched that. That
Speaker 1: was like like you can put like Walter Cronkite reading
Speaker 1: the bullet news flash from Dallas next to Bill Kawer
Speaker 1: and Derek Carr right now, you wouldn't tell what's the
Speaker 1: most serious situation except they were like tons of people
Speaker 1: saying similar things all week. I know, but it's just
Speaker 1: the way Bill said, no, the delivery separate, like a
Speaker 1: dad that's mad at you for bringing home a bad
Speaker 1: report card. You think that this goes anywhere. That's just
Speaker 1: like as a one one week fun thing. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think what goes somewhere is if Matt Ryan's going
Speaker 1: to play the way he did today and Jonathan Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor season Taylor was excellent today. All right, let's wrap
Speaker 1: up the early games with a trip to the field
Speaker 1: formerly known as Hines from ten getting the gun, Andy
Speaker 1: Dolton gets their snap. He's back because the Cults fired
Speaker 1: their head, yes and hired the ESPN. That would have
Speaker 1: been amazing if he started crying and he shall be
Speaker 1: called le By shut it down about it? A right
Speaker 1: nice play there to seal it by the Pittsburgh d
Speaker 1: Bill Hill Grove and Craig Wilkeley the call w D
Speaker 1: V E can He Pickett and George Pickens ran for
Speaker 1: one yard touchdowns and the defense with T. J. Watt
Speaker 1: back shut down the Saints ten. Watt still believes they
Speaker 1: have a chance to make a run at three and
Speaker 1: the six. Maybe probably not, but mark Um it was
Speaker 1: nice to see them get in the wind calm and
Speaker 1: the Saints are just a mess this year. Saints are
Speaker 1: a mess. Pittsburgh has been a mess. They've been tough,
Speaker 1: to watch. But I think two things happen today for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Their ground game, which has been um I think one
Speaker 1: of the root causes of why you know Nny pick
Speaker 1: It's been put into a tough spot passing the law
Speaker 1: because you don't buy their ground game. Nagy Harris has
Speaker 1: not been good today. They just started. They exploded. They
Speaker 1: have not had a run all year long going into
Speaker 1: today of more than twenty yards. They had four of them.
Speaker 1: It was Naji Harris with a titanic thirty six yard
Speaker 1: run pick it ran for two of them over twenty plus.
Speaker 1: He is good on the ground and Jalen Warren end
Speaker 1: the game with a twenty one yard run on the
Speaker 1: flip side. Andy Dalton just had a classic sort of
Speaker 1: late game Andy Dalton melt down. He had a meltdown.
Speaker 1: I mean this defense. They had t J. Watt back
Speaker 1: and the changed the game right away. There are different
Speaker 1: defense obviously, but guys like demonte Cazi has not played
Speaker 1: at all, had a huge pick of Andy Dalton. Uh.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton was stuffed on downs on a big fourth
Speaker 1: down attempt at sneak that that went nowhere. Levi Wallace
Speaker 1: ended the game with an interception so when you get
Speaker 1: that version of Andy Daltons, he still makes you know,
Speaker 1: he still throws the ball well, and I think it's
Speaker 1: like it's not just him. But they really couldn't get
Speaker 1: anything going with Alvin Kamara. Uh Landry was back, Jarvis Landry,
Speaker 1: Chris LaVey does wonderful things, but when any Dalton's gonna
Speaker 1: give you those interceptions and that meltdown content um pits
Speaker 1: a team like Pittsburgh with what they have their defense
Speaker 1: to care of them. The Saints had ten first downs.
Speaker 1: It looked like the Steelers. I know J. T. J.
Speaker 1: Watt was back, but they also had ten penalties. I
Speaker 1: think they had a pre snap penalty before they had
Speaker 1: a play, which is just their season. They are so
Speaker 1: injured too right now, so it's a combination of things.
Speaker 1: I think they're really poorly coached and they're incredibly injured
Speaker 1: and well so great to your point, they had a
Speaker 1: new left tackle, left guard, and center in there, and
Speaker 1: I think that caused a lot of problems right on
Speaker 1: defense too. They were just like they're just losing role
Speaker 1: players and Pete Werner, my guy was gone to and
Speaker 1: just like Callowey, just a lot of guys were out,
Speaker 1: but they're sloppy and you talk about buying with Hackett.
Speaker 1: It's weird that there really are a few one and
Speaker 1: done coaches, you know, the last decade, and yet we've
Speaker 1: got four Canadons. Love, E, d A and McDaniels are
Speaker 1: all at least conversations right now. And to me, I
Speaker 1: think the Saints might be the most likely and has
Speaker 1: the potential to just get the ugliest movie, because it
Speaker 1: also feels like almost like an interim higher. It's not
Speaker 1: like we went and went out and got this guy
Speaker 1: that we see as our dude for the next four years.
Speaker 1: It's like one and done check relating. I mean they
Speaker 1: they were talking him up as a guy that they
Speaker 1: really believed in. I thought, when when the job changed hands,
Speaker 1: I wonder if if the old guy would potential be
Speaker 1: back in the mix. I don't think he's going to
Speaker 1: come back to this. He does, we'll have a lot
Speaker 1: of time for that. But he could go to a
Speaker 1: two and done l a Chargers team potentially. Hey, at
Speaker 1: least the Steelers won a football game. The Steelers did
Speaker 1: get a w And how did Kenny Picket look in
Speaker 1: this game? Really up and down? I just don't think
Speaker 1: he reads the field really well. I think his mobility
Speaker 1: really helps them. Um, George Pickens and Pickett have a
Speaker 1: nice thing going on. You know, we'll make a couple
Speaker 1: of throws. He's aggressive. I like that about him. But
Speaker 1: I was almost surprised they didn't bench him at one point.
Speaker 1: But I know they just they want to stick with
Speaker 1: him and see him point. Really, I mean, I just
Speaker 1: like the first half of this was a mess like that.
Speaker 1: It just he looked to me, it was one of
Speaker 1: his one of his and he's had a lot of
Speaker 1: bunch of a string of ineffective appearances. Just didn't look
Speaker 1: like ready for prime PM Easter thirty eight minutes. The
Speaker 1: Saints defense like it just says, no, no, back to it.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. No, it's just crazy. Like you had a
Speaker 1: lot invested in the Saints and I did not. Did
Speaker 1: I like four it? Oh yeah, I'm fascinated by what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen next. But they didn't like the Saints, And
Speaker 1: then they lost some games and the Seahawks started winning games,
Speaker 1: So now I like them exactly. Like that's why you
Speaker 1: spread it out. You just like tea, You like a
Speaker 1: bunch of teams. Gina Smith it's almost it's almost like
Speaker 1: you're loyal to not a team, but the whole of
Speaker 1: the sport. There we go, come on, justin. I know
Speaker 1: you got it in yet, I'm loyal to football. There.
Speaker 1: I was never pumping up this team, but it is.
Speaker 1: It is wild to have twenty one minutes time of
Speaker 1: possession against this Steelers team who hasn't been able to
Speaker 1: like exert their will at all. All right, good stuff.
Speaker 1: You know what else is good stuff? A little Sunday
Speaker 1: night football. It's just gonna be me and Mark Dan
Speaker 1: has taken off into that dark Los Angeles night. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do it. We're talking about it's fifty three seconds.
Speaker 1: You need a touchdown. Sign shut Paul? It is who's
Speaker 1: Funa picking it off and run out of bounds at
Speaker 1: the forty two yard Linel Meta who got the pressure,
Speaker 1: got the arm, who funk against the pick and the
Speaker 1: Niners I'm gonna get the picture. That was Talanoah who
Speaker 1: funga Dan's boy getting it done in Dan's absence. Twenty
Speaker 1: two to sixteen. The forty Niners get it done. They
Speaker 1: shut out the Chargers twelve to nothing in the second half.
Speaker 1: Good offense, good defense, and ultimately smothered the Chargers mark.
Speaker 1: Is this what Kyle Shanahan envisioned when he traded for
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. Well, I think the second half was. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the story of the game. At halftime was was
Speaker 1: the Chargers defense, which allowed fifty one yards rushing after
Speaker 1: getting gashed weekly on the ground. And you thought that
Speaker 1: would have been the way the Niners would establish it
Speaker 1: at the outset. But in the second half it you
Speaker 1: got to the point where the banged up Charges were
Speaker 1: down to three healthy defensive lineman and I think it
Speaker 1: allowed behind Trent Williams and the rest of the Niners
Speaker 1: offensive line for them to just pound it away. I mean,
Speaker 1: they just they were they get The second half went
Speaker 1: by so quickly because that's what the Niners want to do,
Speaker 1: just controlled long drives and a couple of key throws
Speaker 1: by Jimmy g Right. It didn't feel like it's some
Speaker 1: great game by the forty Niners offense when you finished
Speaker 1: with twenty two points, and you know, until late until
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, I think what they had thirteen points
Speaker 1: or twelve points going into the fourth quarter, but after
Speaker 1: it was thirteen to three, they have a long touchdown drive.
Speaker 1: Uh that ended their possessions in the first half. Then
Speaker 1: they had a long field goal drive to start the
Speaker 1: third quarter. Then they have a long touchdown drive to
Speaker 1: start the fourth quarter. They kind of did what they
Speaker 1: needed to do. They don't really get that much from McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: but this team is just like someone's gonna pop up
Speaker 1: out of all these guys, and today it was Ayuk
Speaker 1: and it was Elijah Mitchell. Kind of is weird that
Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell got more carrious than Christie McCaffrey and looked
Speaker 1: better than Christian McCaffrey, But I guess that's a good problem.
Speaker 1: Also down at the goal line. I don't know why
Speaker 1: they were using him the way that they do, But
Speaker 1: I mean, for me was also the defense because you
Speaker 1: look at the Chargers second half possessions, punt, punt, punt,
Speaker 1: very little happen there. Obviously a drive that ended on
Speaker 1: downs and then that final interception by Justin Herbert when
Speaker 1: they had a minute, you know, essentially a minute to
Speaker 1: try to go downfield and win with a touchdown and
Speaker 1: they couldn't get going right it. It's tough watching the Chargers,
Speaker 1: like you want to give them pats on the back
Speaker 1: because Okay, nobody's out there and it's DeAndre Carter and
Speaker 1: it's Joshua Palmer and there injuries on defensive have obviously
Speaker 1: been a problem too. But in the end, you look
Speaker 1: up and they had twelve first downs in this game
Speaker 1: in two and thirty eight yards, and I thought until
Speaker 1: the end Herbert played well. I do think he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to get to a point where he's willing to
Speaker 1: force the ball into tight places that maybe he hasn't
Speaker 1: been willing to force it into, because after that first
Speaker 1: touchdown drive, and he had some beautiful throws on that
Speaker 1: drive and elsewhere in the first half when they got
Speaker 1: the ball down to the two, he was throwing it
Speaker 1: short on third and long quite a bit. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of been a Chargers theme that he profiles statistically,
Speaker 1: and sometimes when you just watch the game as like
Speaker 1: and Alex Smith in Kansas City or a Drew Brees
Speaker 1: late in his career, and that that shouldn't be Justin
Speaker 1: Herb like Brandon still, he had those comments that you know,
Speaker 1: now he's finally healthy, no matter what we've been telling you,
Speaker 1: and he's ready to be aggressive and be the old
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert and we just haven't really seen that guy
Speaker 1: in a while. He did have an incredible touchdown past
Speaker 1: tonight to DeAndre carterthre was like a look typical like
Speaker 1: Herbert absolute dart Right. And he had another great He
Speaker 1: really did play fantastic in the first half, like Trey
Speaker 1: McKitty dropped a potential touchdown. He had another gem to
Speaker 1: Palmer that set them up inside the five that they
Speaker 1: didn't score a touchdown on. I thought that was a
Speaker 1: key play. But like, he needs to be brilliant. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like the Atlanta game a year a week ago.
Speaker 1: I thought he played great and they end up with
Speaker 1: twenty points against Atlanta. I thought he played really well
Speaker 1: in the first half tonight, and they go into halftime
Speaker 1: with thirteen points. Like even though even despite the fact
Speaker 1: that they got a couple of things breaking for them,
Speaker 1: they gotta recovered fumble, they had a special teams turnover,
Speaker 1: and your special teams big play and still nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's like they talked about how Brandon Staley had
Speaker 1: a little bit of an edge to him in their
Speaker 1: meetings the broadcast team with him saying, why aren't we
Speaker 1: being talked about we were banged up to like other teams.
Speaker 1: We have this fine and three record, and you're five
Speaker 1: and four, And I think this is we kind of
Speaker 1: saw tonight reasons why the Chargers aren't really talked about
Speaker 1: in a certain special light. Potentially there he was the
Speaker 1: same guy that said a few weeks ago, we've won
Speaker 1: three in a row, but it doesn't feel like it.
Speaker 1: But so that's why. And they're they're doing fine. They're
Speaker 1: they're five and four. The season isn't over for them,
Speaker 1: but they are in Sunday night football and back to
Speaker 1: back week So if you weren't inspired watching them tonight,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be home against the Chiefs. And I'm have
Speaker 1: a feeling there's gonna be like a lot of Kansas
Speaker 1: City fans here, traffic that is a that is a concern.
Speaker 1: What do you think the traffic is going to be
Speaker 1: like tonight? There's a post malone show at the Forum
Speaker 1: right next door. Uh concerned. I'm ubering. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: catch an uber somewhere. So as long as those um
Speaker 1: those that employment type job for people that are drivers,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I I am, we don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't I think I hopefully if they're in the post
Speaker 1: malone show, then we're good. Now, Yeah, that's true that
Speaker 1: the show won't be over, and yeah that the forty
Speaker 1: nine end up with a hundred and fifty seven on
Speaker 1: the ground. So it wasn't McCaffrey that got it. Elijah
Speaker 1: Mitchell had eighteen free nine. McCaffrey goes fourteen for thirty eight.
Speaker 1: McCaffrey more involved in the passing game. Uh Jown Jennings
Speaker 1: makes a couple of plays. This team just has so
Speaker 1: many guys that are difficult to tackle that when Kittle
Speaker 1: and Debo are almost silent in this game, Deebo had
Speaker 1: a couple of runs, you still look fine. So they
Speaker 1: have a lot of different ways they can win games.
Speaker 1: That's why I just want to jump in to address
Speaker 1: the controversy that's going around on Twitter about this hole
Speaker 1: should have been a touch back towards the end of
Speaker 1: that game. I don't like. I guess you know they
Speaker 1: weighed in that officially it should have been like to
Speaker 1: my eyes was like, I mean, they blew the whistle.
Speaker 1: At no point did they mention now that they blew
Speaker 1: the whistle before he got pushed into the end zone
Speaker 1: or fell back into the end and so at that point,
Speaker 1: the play's over, and yeah, maybe they've made a mistake
Speaker 1: and blowing it too soon, but his feet were stopped.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're just picking knits. We got other things
Speaker 1: to be worried about when it comes to officiating, and
Speaker 1: I'm not that worried about the guy like slowly moving
Speaker 1: back with that right there, including the ejection in this
Speaker 1: game that was that was that was a bit of
Speaker 1: a bit of a loose ejection for Jake Glen green Law,
Speaker 1: who clearly deserved a penalty on that play against Herbert.
Speaker 1: But that was a quick objection asking defensive defenders to
Speaker 1: like simply move their bodies and shift in midair depending
Speaker 1: on where the head of the quarterback is when you
Speaker 1: mean yeah, alright, So the forty nine is moved to
Speaker 1: five and they have the the seventh spot right now
Speaker 1: in the NFC. It's not too early to start looking
Speaker 1: at this stuff. But they are tied in the lost
Speaker 1: column with Seattle. The Chargers now fall a couple games
Speaker 1: back of the Chiefs. The a f C West can
Speaker 1: be decided next Sunday night, but that's there basically clinched
Speaker 1: next Sunday night. But that's next Sunday night. This Sunday's
Speaker 1: over started in Germany. It's ending here Dan somewhere else
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. And you know who was in Germany,
Speaker 1: Justin Graver, Colleen Wolf And it was such an exciting
Speaker 1: uh day there. We asked Colleen for some of her
Speaker 1: thoughts late in the German night and after after the outro,
Speaker 1: here we're gonna say goodbye. Here, we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: little easter egg if you guys are curious what it
Speaker 1: was like to be there in Munich. But until then,
Speaker 1: for Mark Sesler, Dan Hansas, for Bono, for Brad Pitt,
Speaker 1: for Nick Shook, for Justin Graver, for Fonga, for everyone
Speaker 1: hit the call. At the end of that game, when
Speaker 1: we started the postgame show, I was supposed to start
Speaker 1: talking about how the Bucks can build off this win
Speaker 1: and did they turn the season around, And immediately that
Speaker 1: felt so wrong, and I just wanted to share what
Speaker 1: it was like to be in that stadium while everyone
Speaker 1: remained in their seat well after the game finished, nobody left,
Speaker 1: and everyone was singing and holding onto each other and swaying,
Speaker 1: and their lights were out on their phones, and it
Speaker 1: just felt so cool and so powerful and just like
Speaker 1: a true connection where everyone was present and just living
Speaker 1: in the moment, and it was undeniable. I don't know
Speaker 1: what it was like to watch on TV. I hope
Speaker 1: it came off that way because it was like the
Speaker 1: coolest thing that's ever happened in my life. And I
Speaker 1: know that it sounds like crazy hyperbole, but I have
Speaker 1: chills even just talking about it right now. And to
Speaker 1: see Henry Hodgson and to see the German fans like
Speaker 1: really really embrace this night and this day, it was
Speaker 1: so cool. I miss you, guys. I feel really vulnerable
Speaker 1: at this point, so maybe it'll play it. Just use
Speaker 1: it as background or you know, use your judgment. Don't
Speaker 1: route my career, kay, Love you, see you guys soon.
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