Mark Willard and Ephraim Salaam talk Dodgers vs Padres as they face off in a Game 2 in LA with The Padres jumping on the lead early. Mark and Ephraim also react to a wild week of NFL games with the Vikings winning in London and a lot of upsets that happened. Plus, the guys talk more on Jayden Daniels having a great start to his career and his team, a kicker injury in San Francisco, and so much more!
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should be. Hello, everyone, good evening. Look, it's been a
phenomenal weekend of athletic prowess starting Saturday with the games starting,
rolling right into last night with Baseball Dodgers padres that
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type of game show haes first time in the playoffs
and what did he do? He delivered. But I say
all that to say, of course, it's a football Sunday,
and I'm here and excited about this show. I was
excited about the games all day to day. It was unbelievable.
The thing I realized is that I don't know anything
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about teams, schedules, how they're going to win, lose, Pick them,
don't pick them. I'm glad I'm not a gambler, because
if I was, I'd be really bad at it. I'll
be the first to tell you I'm not like psychotic
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die hard baseball fan. I'm not. I fell in love
with baseball and got to really understand baseball last, you know,
the last six or seven years because I became a coach.
My kids played, so I jumped into it, and so
it really made me understand the nuance of the game,
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just how great the game is. And then when I
tell you, I had turned off all of the college
football games, even though I have a beautiful setup where
I can watch multiple things. Thank you to my wife. Again,
I just couldn't help but just only watch the Dodgers
Padres first game of the NLDS, and it was amazing.
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Like me, I wanted to see what shoe Hey would do,
and he was phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Are you from this Steve at the desk? Did you
see the press conference the day before the open Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The question, I was getting ready to get there. I
was getting ready.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Absolutely. You know what, And the funny thing is because
because my wife is, I mean my wife's mother, my
mother in law is a I'm talking about a die
hard Cubs fan. She loves baseball. My wife's whole side
of the family, they all love baseball. So she had
a conversation with me. She was like he was up
at bat the first time, and she was like, do
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you think he's nervous? How do you think he's feeling
like this is a big deal? Like how do you
she as a former athlete, how do you deal with
that type of pressure? And I said, oh, he's fine.
I said, he's fine because he knows he's better than
everybody else. It's different going into a situation where you're like,
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oh my god, man, I hope I can you know,
live up to it. I hope I can compete at
this level, being the postseason. But it's another one when
you go in and like, oh, I'm better than everyone,
Like I'm better than that picture, I'm better than everyone
they have over there, And all I got to do
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is be me. And it was evident. And prior to that,
I didn't see the press conference. But this morning my
mother in law texted me that press conference and they
asked him the question, you know, how how's it going
to be? Are you nervous about being your first time
in the postseason. He had a one word answer, and
it was nope.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And he didn't wait for the translation show.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
No, he knew. He knew exactly what was going on
and Look, if I didn't know shoe Hey didn't speak clear,
perfect fluent English, I wouldn't have known from that one
word answer. It didn't have an accent on it. It
was as clear as day. And that was nope. And
he went out there and performed, and it was amazing
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coming up to bat and you're already down by three
runs and you got two on base, and the whole world,
not just your team, not just the stadium, the whole world,
it's like, well, let's see what this guy, this show,
hey guy, this fifty to fifty guy from the regular season,
let's see what he's about. And all he did was
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hit a three run home run.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
And quickly tied and changed.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The immediately immediately changed the game.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Because keep in mind the context, the Dodgers had lost
six playoff games.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
In a row.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
We couldn't hit in the postseason exactly all three last
year and never led in the series and were out meekly,
and then lost the last three to the Padres the
year before. Down three nothing quickly last night, the Dodgers,
in their very long postseason history, when they were down
three or more after the first inning, had literally never
won a playoff game before last night and they literally
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had never had Shoho Tani on their roster before last night.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And I'll tell you what, And I know this is
football Sundays, but I just wanted to get this out
because I don't know when we're gonna get to it. Okay,
I can tell you, in my opinion, who felt a
huge sigh of relief, and that would have to be
Mookie Bets. As we know, since he's been a Dodger,
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Mookie hasn't lived up to the billing that he has
in the regular season.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
In twenty twenty and they won the series, and he wasn't.
The next three years, right were out quickly, and.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So just having that amount of pressure on you, right,
and then having someone like when he got hurt and
they switched the lineup and had show Hate leading off
right and Mookie Batten second, it took so much pressure
off of him. And you saw that yesterday in that
first in when they came up and Show Hey tied
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the game up before he could even blink, and it
just changed everything. It changed how you would approach you
to change the level of pressure Mookie would have possibly felt,
because it would have been like, hey man, you have
to do this for us.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Henny walked three times last night bets, and they kept
getting guys on base and making a very good Padre
pitching staff work. Now tonight's game, which is also on
FS one second batter of the night for ten Bernando
Tatist junior Homers, it's Padres one nothing at la bottom
of the first. He absolutely owns Dodger Stadium. But we
all thought this would be a good series going in.
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I don't think it's gonna disappoint us quite frankly. Meanwhile,
we've got an NFL matchup that's Dallas at Pittsburgh. It
seems like, oh man, Dallas at Pittsburgh, I gotta see this.
Have you seen Pittsburgh's offense this year? Have you seen
Dallas this year? Because the Steelers somehow are three and one. Well,
it's not somehow. They're allowing only thirteen points a game.
That's the somehow, So you score fourteen you can just
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keep winning. It seems like with the Cowboys' opponent this year,
and will that happen tonight? The Cowboys, you may have heard,
don't really have a running game at this point. They
got Ezekiel Elliott back this year and said that's our
running game.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, they dropped the ball on that, right. Remember a
couple of weeks ago or last week or whenever, and
the question was photoed out there to Jay Jones, Hey,
how come you guys inn try to go get Dereck Henry. Oh,
we couldn't afford dare Henry. Well, all Derrick Henry has
done was is just dominate.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, dominate like he's the number one rush offense in
the league.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I mean, when you see things like that, you gotta
scratch your here. And I look, I know Dallas Cowboy fans.
They're the most optimistic fans in the world. I mean,
you can call it optimism, you can call it delusional fans,
whatever you want to call it. They're always trying to
find the silver lining, and to me, it's not one.
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At this point, defense isn't living up to the building.
They can't run the ball. They're putting a lot of
pressure on their sixty million dollars a year quarterback and
they're thirty million dollars a year receiver. I get it,
but you gotta have more. You have to have more,
and the fact that they don't, you know, it concerns me.
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On top of that they're in. I believe a weather
delay to start this game. So yes, for people who
are like, turn the game on, it's supposed to be
on right now. It's a little bit weather delay. So
you guys get to listen to us a little bit longer.
You should always watch the game with the mute and
then listen to us anyway, But that's just me. What
I do want to talk about is the London game.
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Last year I went to one of the London games
really right, And what we'll do is we'll get back
into that after the break again. You're in the tire
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Microphone check one two one two. How are we doing?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We're good man, we got action now, we got action.
I missed you, man, but I look at I was listening.
I don't know if it helped.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I was listening.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
How did I do? Was that?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Good man?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You know?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah? That was a great radio show. You know, this
is a good radio show.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
How jump being man?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You know, yeah, I'll just sit back, listen. We're doing good.
We're fine. Tirag dot com Studios. One thing no one
has ever said in this world is I've got too
much to sayger. Nobody's ever said that. Se right, So
if we get more to Saga, then yay, we get
more to Sager. But yeah, now I'm here. We good.
(10:08):
You good, let's ride. You want to uh huh? You
want to talk about the London game? Fire away? What's up?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I went to that game last year. I think it
was Bill's Jaguars. My nephew's going to school out in
Southampton out there, so I went out there and had
some bonding, you know, nephew nephew uncle time. Yeah, it
was a great time. Took him to the game. It
was amazing. He got us lost going back to the hotel.
But I'm like, all right, you know, we'll figure it out.
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After I was mad and I calmed down because I'm like, man,
look all right, we're taking buses and tubes and all
kinds of stuff. But just watching that game, and yes
I did get up at six thirty. Well, I'm gonna
be honest I DVR at the game and I got
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up at eight.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Oh see, now I actually did. I mean I might
have missed, you know, the first driver or two.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But yeah, you gotta be you gotta gotta work smarter
that hard.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah, I had that thing on though. By six forty
five I was ready to go.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
No, man, tape it right DV all right that way
when you wake up, right, I gave myself what you know,
came on at six thirty eight o'clock. I'm up eight fifteen,
I'm watching and it ran because I can skip everything.
It ran right into the games.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
So you did the math so that you could watch
perfect without commercials but still have it. And when right
zone starts, yes, okay, okay, that's next level.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And it was Look, look I'm not you know, I'm
not new to this man. Okay, I've been doing this
for a long time. But just watching that Jets Minnesota game.
Shout out to Minnesota. They're five and oh shoutout producer Patrick,
who has not changed his uh justin Jefferson, Jersey since
the season has started. He refused uses to not wear
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it because for maybe they will lose the game. Patrick,
have you watched it or is it just I'm just
gonna wear it.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Listen, man, I am a man of culture. I will
be honest. Of course, I watch it every week. I'm
a man of culture.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
There's no problem with him with you wearing it every Sunday,
provided that the good stuff happens on Tuesday. We're gonna
need load of laundry every Tuesday.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I do my laundry every Monday, every Monday, and I
don't wear this jersey until Sunday.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Okay, So what makes sense?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So what happens when the Vikings play on Monday night?
What about that? Now? What do we do?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Well, you know what, It's still gonna be clean from
the last time. I haven't been putting it on until
game day.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Come on, Okay, Okay, I'm satisfied.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
We appreciate that. But watching old ass Aaron Rodgers and
the Jets, it's it's giving me elder abuse. Okay, it's
giving me. You know why I feel crazy? And I'll
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tell you why. Aaron Rodgers is an all time great. Right.
He happened to go over sixty thousand passing yards today
in this game, which is unbelievable, you know, even more
unbelievable looking at how many passing yard dan Dan Reno
has and he's not of this era. That's crazy to me.
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But I digress. Watching Aaron Rodgers and this is a
one score game, okay, And it was outside of the
first quarter, it was a one score game for predominantly
the entire game.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And to hand the ball off fourteen times to Breese
Hall and Braylan Allen is crazy to me. And you
have a forty plus year old quarterback throwing the ball
fifty four times and a one score game game three interceptions,
and even even while he wasn't playing his best, and
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they got the ball with a chance to win, I said, Oh,
Aaron Rodgers is gonna kick in in trouble now, Like
I had fooled myself thinking that Aaron Rodgers was about
to pull a rabbit out of his hat, not counting
the fact that he hadn't been good in three years.
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And so it was like, oh, no, this is Aaron Rodgers. Now.
Remember Peyton Manning his last year in Denver, they benched him.
They benched Peyton Manning, one of the all time great
one of my favorite quarterback.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Who was the came in was that like ro something
rock os Wiler.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, exactly. Go check his carell. They've been Peyton Manning
for brock Osweiler, but they end up the team was
so good, the defense was unbelievable, the offensive weapons were there.
They just needed somebody to just be steady, right, take
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a lot of like when you have all time grades
and they diminishing talent, they still, like I said last week,
their minds are still hitting on that level. I can
still do it. I know you. No, you can't. And
although you can throw some pretty passes now and then,
they just needed someone not to throw three interceptions, not
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to stumble out of, you know, a play action. And
of course they put Peyton Manning back in in playoffs
and then they won the Super Bowl. But watching Aaron
Rodgers reminded me of Peyton's last year. Well, I'm like, mentally,
I believe he's there now. Look, he didn't get any
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help from the drops. There's still a lot of times
they're not on the same page. The back showed, the
throws aren't there, and so on and so forth. But
in a one score game and you looking at Aaron
Rodgers thinking you're going to get the magic and you
just get the hat is disappointing. For me.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You want to share with everyone what I texted you
at nine thirty two this morning, Yes, this morning.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
The Jets hate.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
They don't like him. They don't like Breshall. They hate him,
and I don't know why. And yes, you know this
is that is the ravings of a fantasy manager who
wants to know what the hell happened to his first
round draft pick who got four yards last week and
then this week was able to tally a whopping. But
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look at their behavior, their behavior would suggest and I
get it. I know that people don't want to go
all in on a bell count now on most NFL teams.
But Braylan Allen is getting a lot of snaps and
he's a good player, like he did. This rookie looks
very very interesting. But to have Brece Hall tally up
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nineteen carries the last two weeks, the last two weeks combined,
he has tallied nineteen carries that has netted the Jets
a total of twenty seven yards, and today he also
had three catches for fourteen yards. It's the number of snaps,
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it's the usage. By the way, during that time, in
those two games, they've talied a total of twenty six points.
That's it, and so I'm with you, And it's actually
not about being a fantasy manager. With bres Hall on
the team. I just don't get it. He is your
best player. He is a dynamic player. Your quarterback's forty
years old. I don't care if your quarterback's twenty five
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years old. I want to lean on a running back
when I have won. You're one of the few teams
in the league that has a great one. They won't
use him.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Do you know what it's like. It's like having someone
like Steve de Sager and not going to him thirty
after the hour for three hours. That's ridiculous. Steven are disacre.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
And the A the R is four ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Okay, Yeah, sometimes you go to him at seven after
the hour too, just because it's.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Just because that was also ridiculous. Yeah, the NF you're welcome.
After the NFL matchup, we haven't missed anything. I mean,
I'm not sure we were gonna get anything either the
way Dallas and Pittsburgh are playing on some sides of
the ball, but that is the matchup tonight.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
It sounds good on paper.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Because of NFL history, Dak Prescott has been a winning quarterback,
to say the least in primetime games, how about a
seven hundred winning percentage? The only qbs better in history
in primetime Steve Young, Joe Montana, and Peyton Manning. Patrick
Mahomes could get up to about a seven hundred winning
percentage with his primetime game tomorrow. But Dak is twenty
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six and eleven in these primetime games going into tonight.
The problem is they haven't kicked off yet. There's a
severe thunderstorm warning in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The players were cleared
off the field, even the pregame TV set was cleared
off the field. The rain has just started now, but
the rain's really not the problem, and the temperatures in
the seventies in Pittsburgh not terribly windy. Huge lightning strike
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yet another in just recent minutes. So if you were
asking for a guess, there's no way this is kicking
off before nine pm Eastern. It's going to be a
late night in Pittsburgh. Fans were initially asked to leave
their seats. Apparently they can be back now, but even
the broadcast, the national TV broadcast is not at the
stadium at this point. We can tell you as far
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as the enact is. Dallas is without linebacker Mike Arsons
tonight in his high ankle sprain. Dallas wide receiver Brandon
Cooks is on IR with a knee injury. Trey Lance
is the emergency third quarterback. Russell Wilson is the emergency
third quarterback for the Steelers, who are missing injured running
backs Jalen Warren. Also, Cordero Patterson is inactive at running
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back linebacker Alex Heighsmith as well. We'll get to the
rest of the NFL or some of the rest of
the NFL in a moment. Updating the baseball playoffs on
FS one right now, Padres with two homers, lead three
to nothing in LA in the bottom of the second inning.
The Dodgers in their last five playoff games in the
first inning have allowed thirteen runs in those five playoff games,
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including three last night, including a Fernando Tatist junior homer
in the first tonight, David peralta ex Dodger with a
two run homer in the second off, LA starter, and
LA native Jack Flaherty. We were talking about Mookie Betts
of the Dodgers in segment one. It looked like Bets
in his first at bat hit it out, but the
fielder Jerks and Profar of the Padres reached into the
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fans in the left field seats and stole it for
an out and impressive catch, but it's three to nothing
San Diego, bottom of the second thrilling playoff game in Philadelphia. Earlier,
Phil's beat the Mets seven to six with a run
in the bottom of the ninth. The Mets had tied
it in the top of the ninth on a two
run homer. After Edwin Diaz of the Mets allowed three
runs in the bottom of the eighth added all up
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that best of five tied and a game apiece. The
two American League Division series continued tomorrow. NASCAR victory for
Ricky Stenhouse, the Texas Longhorns are back to number one
in the new AP College Football Poll, and we have
an early nominee for Game of the Year in the NFL.
Baltimore in overtime won at Cincinnati today forty one to
thirty eight despite five touchdown passes from Joe Burrow. Justin
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Tucker tied at lighton regulation with a fifty six yard
field goal. He hit the game winner, a short field
goal right after a Derrick Henry fifty one yard run.
Henry today with his one hundredth career touchdown. He's over
ten thousand yards rushing in his career as well. Houston
won on a fifty nine yard field goal final play
twenty three to twenty over Buffalo. At Jacksonville, the Jags,
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who were zero to four, kicked a forty nine yard
field goal with under twenty seconds left to beat Indy
thirty seven to thirty four. Wins for Chicago and Miami.
Wins for Washington and Minnesota, which took the London game
twenty three seventeen over the Jets, Vikings five and oh
Denver came back to beat Las Vegas, Green Bay one
at the Rams, Giants over Seattle, and Arizonta wins at
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San Francisco on a field goal with about a minute
a half left, twenty four to twenty three. San Francisco's
record two and three oh and three in conference updating.
Dodgers have bases loaded, no outs, bottom of the second
down three to nothing to the Padres against X Dodger
You Darvish, who, he says, sarcastically, they really love at
Dodger Stadium, Back to you, great.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Stuff, Steve as always and love the inflection in his
voice what he mentions the forty nine ers situation. We'll
get to that later for sure. Live tire rag dot
Com Studios, Mark with Itty from Salam. Glad you're with
us Week five NFL and yeah, we're still catching our breath.
But before we get to all of the teams and people,
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we need to rip because there's always plenty at this hour.
Can we go to the other direction for a second.
I might end up starting off every single show by
complementing your prediction. And we make tons of predictions, so
there's sure to be some that are right and plenty
that are sure to be wrong. But there are certain
ones to me that stand out, especially the ones that
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are a little eye popping and ear popping at the beginning,
and then they look really good. So I'm just gonna
say every week that you said that the Washington Commanders
are going to win the NFC East, and I don't
know if that all is totally gonna happen, but what
I am really truly starting to believe is that their
quarterback is the next big thing in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Just watching this young man play, it is a different
Washington team. They got it right. Ownership, draft, coach, they
got it all right. And when you get it all right,
we saw a team come from nowhere last year who
got it all right, and that was the Houston Texans. Right.
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It starts there, It starts with the new coach, it
starts with the pick and the draft, and then you build,
you build around that, and that's what they've done in Washington.
That's why I felt like making that type of prediction
at the beginning of the year because it just felt
like it has such similar qualities of what Houston did
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the year prior, and it's spot on. It's spot on,
and they are musty TV. This young man is going
to throw the ball down the field and look, he's
not going to be eighty He's not going to have
an eighty percent completion rate all year. So if that's
your expectation watching them play, then turn the television off
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because it's impossible. But what he can do is he
can continue to get better to lead his team, and
we're watching that happen right now and they have a,
you know, a stranglehold on that division this early into
the year. And I'm excited for.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Him, no doubt, and it's not just a statistical thing.
Like I think whoever grabbed Jaden Daniels on their fantasy
team is probably really excited. But today wasn't anything crazy statistically.
He threw for two thirty eighty out a touchdown. He
did throw one interception, which was actually it was a
great play by a Browns defender down by the goal line,
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not a pass that I would call a boneheaded throw
at all. He ran for eighty two yards. I'm just noticing,
you know, like when you and you'll you'll relate to
this if you're a parent, when you have a newborn
or any kid that's like under two. Let's say you
go away for a week on business. When you come back,
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you're like, oh my god, it's a completely different person
because the growth is so rapid. Each week they've got
new words, or they're able to grab things, or they're
able to walk or whatever. Like it all happens so fast.
And that's what I feel like when I'm watching Jaden Daniels.
When you go back to week one, I'm like, oh,
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he's good, but he throws to his running backs and
his tight ends. He can't get it outside. The numbers
are down the field, yet five weeks later and Terry
McLaurin is bawling and Jaden is already more mature with
the way he runs. They've been coaching him hard to
not take hits. He's been doing a good job of it.
So the poise, the comfort, I don't even really care
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about the stats right now. The poise and the comfort
are so evident when you want and then if you
haven't seen him, here's how you can tell. Just go
look at the standings, because that's what a team can
look like when they have a quarterback that's making good decisions.
Doesn't even matter if they complete every pass, but when
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you're managing the game in addition to having some elite
physical skills, that's how you win NFL games by three
touchdowns and and and that's what they've been doing the
last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, it's it's amazing to watch. We spend so much
time criticizing young quarterbacks or young our coordinators who put
young quarterbacks in bast situations. I love the short shining
the spotlight on a team and an individual who stepped
into that role and and and has done a miraculous job.
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So shout out to him. I don't want to get
too far away from this Jets conversation, okay, because it's
in It's more than an Aaron Rodgers theme, right, And
I like Robert sala I know Robert Sala. He was
a defensive assistant when I was in Houston, So you know,
I know Robert. I'm pulling yeah, Robert.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
No, let's let's let's let hear Let's let's do a
little bit more of this coming up because I kind
of came away. It's interesting you came away with this
thought this morning. I felt the exact same way that
it was headed that way last week with your home
loss to the Denver Broncos. This one. Look, you were
the underdog, but you're not wrong. Uh, you're not wrong.
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And their situation is getting bad fast and and I
don't really know what the long term answer is, so
we can stay right there. Coming up next and then
also at the top of the hour, I have a
very specific question for one of the other AFCAS teams
with you from Salama, Mark Wellard, and this is Fox
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Speaker 1 (29:02):
Okay, it's tie rag dot com Studios. That is he
from Salama, Mark Whelard Fox Sports Radio. It's supposed to
be the back end of red zone radio, but it's
hard to get in the red zone when you're not
even allowed in the stadium. So lightning situation in Pittsburgh
Bill's Cowboys stinks for you on the East Coast, But
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those of us in the West Coast, I guess they're
gonna get to watch football all the way till bedtime tonight.
If you are a Cowboys or a Steelers fan and
you got school or work early in the morning, just
call out, now, call out, call out now, Come on,
hop some priorities in life. Football games are more important
(29:46):
than everything. So send a text to the boss. You're
gonna be late tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Don't be fired. Don't get fired, and be calling up
to the station tonebo Mark told me to quit my job.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I was. I was making fun on Friday because my
weekday partner was like, I gotta go to a He's
got a two year old and he's like, we got
to go to a birthday party this weekend. And I said,
when's the birthday party. And you know how it is
when they turn two and you invite like the whole class.
So you got to invite the whole class everybody, right,
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And these families don't even know each other. You're like,
just because little Bobby and little Benny are at the
same preschool together doesn't mean we're friends. So you don't
know what kind of family this is. But I can
take a guess what kind of family it is when
they set a party on the first weekend in October
at three o'clock on a Sunday, I know what kind
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of family that is. EFN my call that not my
kind of family. I'm like, you're not going to this party.
Got to go to this party, man. Then of course
we got off the ear and he's like, I'm not
going to the party. I'm like, of course you're not
going to the party. Come on, man, Like you gotta
have some awareness. What the heck is it? What's a
(31:05):
Saturday for? Or what's I don't know, Like, you know,
I know some people are college fans, but like know
your audience.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah that's all you're doing the party on Sunday. You
can miss me exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yeah, Like you got to be thinking.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
About already get together. What couples dinners?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Hey, you got a two year old born in October.
You teach them young, you say, listen, your birthday is
October sixth, but we celebrated, so we celebrated in March.
That's it. We're going to celebrate your half birthday. That's
the way it is. Here's dinner, shut up. That's the
way I'm doing it.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I got summer birthdays. Everybody in my family was born
in the summer. We can have it on any day.
It's all good.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
There you go, there you go, and everybody's out of town,
so no one's coming anyway. It doesn't matter. Right there
you go, Eddie, all right, let's keep going with the
jet man. So you got you got more to say.
If I do think like they're two and three and
fair or foul, I do think Robert sala as it
stands in this moment, he's gonna have a hard time
getting through the end.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Of the year. This is the problem I'm having. When
you're in a and when you're like it was ten
to nothing and you're in you're in your twenty six
yard line and it's fourth and two or whatever. You
went the third and two. You tried to run it,
it didn't work, and so instead of taking the points
in a ten point game in the first quarter, you
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elect to go for it and don't get it.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
To me, those are the mistakes that will get you fired.
Right this whole analytics well, the analytics says, but you
have to understand the team that you have. You have
to understand what points on the board would do for
your team when you're down ten to nothing coming off
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a week where you couldn't score. That's the issue that
I'm having. I don't care what analytics says. You have
to be able to take the temperature and read the field,
read the room, read the sideline. And when you don't
do that, that's when I start to lose a little
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bit of faith. And like I said, I know Robert,
I'm a fan of his, but when you start doing
things like that, when you look at the stats of
this game, they were eerily close. Two hundred and fifty
four total yards, two hundred and fifty three total yards right,
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three sacks, four sacks, neither one rushed over rushed fo
one hundred yards. Penalties eight and eleven, separated by you
know one eight for seventy six, eleven for eighty. So
when you start comparing, you're like, oh, okay, I get it.
I get it. Turnover turnovers, Right, you lose the turnover battle.
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But not only is three to two, but not only that,
you give up a pick six. So the thing that
you brought Aaron Rodgers in to do, which was not
be fooled by anything defensively. Right, when you're talking this
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level of elite passer, there's very few things that can
fool you because you've seen it all. And to watch
Aaron Rodgers get fooled over and over again and this game,
that's why I'm like, oh, we have a problem. This
is an issue because if you don't give up the
pick six, you take the three points, you win the game.
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And I know if it's a fifth, if I was
a fifth, we'd all be drunk. But all I'm saying
is the decisions that are being made are now more
glaring than ever. And yes, it's not time to jump
out to windle there two and three, but this has
cause for alarm for me.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I agree with you. And here's the thing. It looks
a little less silly, it feels a little less silly.
You know, Zach Wilson running around and you like couldn't
see pass rushers that were coming directly at him, not
on his blind side. So like it looks cleaner because
there's credibility at the quarterback position. But the output is
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the exactly the same. Their offense is exactly the same
as it was last year in terms of its firepower
and its ability to get up over twenty points in
a football game. It's pretty much the exact same thing.
We're not done with the AFC East at all. There's
a big question looming over one of the other teams
that's next Sunday Night football is turning into Pac twelve
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after dark. We'll find out when this thing actually ends
up happening, and of course keep you up to date.
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I wonder if you've counted this up, do you know
how many teams right now as we sit just right now, snapshot.
How many teams in the AFC have a winning record?
The answer is six. How many teams go to the
playoffs in the AFC, the answer is more than six.
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So if you're two and three, because by the way,
of those six winning record teams, one of them is
the Broncos, for God's sakes, So if you're two and three,
and this is maybe sort of the other side of
the coin of what we were just talking about with
the Jets, are you're fine, You're great, but you're fine.
Everything's okay if you get things going turned around and
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in the right direction. And let's take that conversation from
the Jets and run it to one of their division mates.
That Miami Dolphins are playing right now some of the
ugliest football I've ever seen at the NFL level.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Unwatchable.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
It's completely unwatchable. And if I'm Tua, I'm out in
the streets as soon as I'm healthy going. That's why
you paid me fifty two. Do you still have any
questions about my ability as an NFL quarterback? Am I elite?
Am I one of the top five? Maybe not, but
look at the difference. Look at the difference tyreek Hill
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and Jada and Waddle have been rendered insignificant when Tua
is not there. But my question, man, oh gosh, oh gosh,
I mean the top of the draft board. If you
do want to take a snapshot of it, think of
what people were doing. Christian McCaffrey, tyreek Hill, Brece Hall.
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Good lord. But anyway, I got this question about the
Miami Dolphins. I brought it up to you two or
three weeks ago, and my curiosity continues. Why have more
phone calls not been made? This is still sitting right
there for you, especially after today you grinded one out,
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you ended up in the wind column. Why are you
not doing more things to find different people to play
quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. Why is this job not
posted on LinkedIn? I don't understand. And a week and
a half ago, it was like snoop unt Ley, way
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do you see this? Well, now we have twice What
is happening? Where is Ryan Tannehill? Where is like the
backup quarterbacks by the way that other teams are trotting
out Andy Dalton and Joe Flacco. Where is the phone
call to the Steelers to beg with like there are
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so many questions, so many different things you could do
here other than what they're doing to get their team
back on track at least until Tour returns, if he returns.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah. I never thought, uh, when they signed, or when
people were talking about them, you know, overpaying tool or
something like that, I never thought it was because of
his ability. I just thought people were like, Okay, well,
we now do understand that he's has you know, injury
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concerns in terms of concussions, right, I mean, the world
knows that. So for me, it was always like, we know,
when he's healthy and he's playing, he's phenomenal. The numbers
speak for themselves. The proof is in the pudding. But
could he last a whole season? Two, three, ten? To me,
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that was you know, that was how I felt about
the contract, the length, the money, Like, could is this
a good investment? Because if he's on the field, one
thousand percent it is. But if he's unavailable like he
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is now and maybe in the future when he does
come back from concussion protocol, then now you have a
very expensive car you can never drive. And so for me,
it was always about his health and not his ability
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to throw the ball. We know he can with that,
with that group, with that, with that offense, Mike McDaniels,
those receivers, the running backs, we've seen him put up
Cray numbers, yep. And so for me it was always about,
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all right, you know, can he stay healthy? Well, obviously
that question has been answered sooner than we all would
have liked it answered. And that's the scary part because
when you're dealing with concussions, and you're dealing with people
who are more susceptible to concussions than others, other guys
can get banged around and hit their head a hundred
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times and not have these c of effects. Remember this
is the same guy two years ago who was like
he took himself out of the lineup because he was like,
man I got I had a concussion in the game
last week and didn't know about it until Tuesday. Right,
this is this is this is real stuff. So he
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was at home on a day off and was like, oh,
something's not right. That and the Bengals game and then
the short week Buffalo game and the whole world got
to see him seize up like that. That was troubling
to me. It's still troubling to me because here we
are you know, a year? What a year and some
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change removed from those images of him on Thursday Night Football.
So that is my biggest concern with the movie forward.
And you're right, they should be ringing the phones, shaking
the trees, whatever they have to do to get a
former starting quarterback, not someone who was the twelfth alternate
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in the Pro Bowl. Right to me, that makes sense.
You gotta go find someone. Where is Nick Foles at?
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Well? Right, like, I don't know where Nick Foles? You
know what?
Speaker 2 (43:22):
And then somebody and I'm just telling, just being you know, silly,
but you know, Jake Plumber, Like somebody's got Plumber.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Somebody ad campaign with the I don't even know what
the product is, but the ad campaign with the backup quarterbacks,
you know, they're like, you know, I think Josh Dobbs
did one. Yes, Yes, yes, Josh Dobbs did one. Keen
ke Well, I saw that commercial today and I went,
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they're available. Josh Dobbs is available. Hang on, it said, well,
he's the third stringer with the San.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Francisco is available, third available.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Remind me where Mike McDaniel came from. I'm sorry, where
was he before the Miami Dolphins. He is a protege
of Kyle Shanahan. If Kyle Shanahan thinks that Josh Dobbs,
who also worked last year with Kevin O'Connell and won
football games, same type of offensive system, if that guy
could be had for a seventh round draft picking, and
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he could, then you can have him. And I'm not
saying that that means now suddenly you're perfect and you're contender,
but you could score I don't know, twenty points rather
than trying to win games with twelve, and you might,
you might win a few more games. And they know
what we don't know, which is when realistically to what
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might be back And if it's if it's not going
to be this year at all, then maybe okay, fine,
go ahead and lose games and get a draft back
right the case. But if he's gonna be back week ten,
then go try to win two or three of the
next four and give yourself a realistic spot, because let's
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be real, you ain't gonna play the Patriots every week, no,
and that might be the only team in the NFL
you could beat right now doing what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Yeah, you're absolutely right, and look they Mike has connections
all over the league, right, and we don't know if
they've reached out. Are just people just like, no, we're
not gonna do anybody any favors, Like, we don't know
what that is. But to us watching from the outside end,
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it just looks like you guys are just okay with
how things are going, and you're in the thick of
this thing. Nobody, nobody, There are no world beaters out here.
Even the best team in the league in Kansas City
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looks like they're on life support and the season just started, right,
no one is going out in dominating.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
It is crazy. You're you're absolutely right. Like if I
just said, hey, when you turn on the TV on Sunday,
who looks amazing? Who looks amazing? I would argue, no one.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
And and and to your point, this is a prime
their schedule, isn't that difficult?
Speaker 1 (46:28):
No? No, I mean, even look at what they.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Got the Colts, Arizona, the Bills. That's rivalry, right, that's division.
They got, the Rams, they got the Raiders and the
pat This you gotta seize this moment, dude.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
They've got in theory, because they've also now get a
bye next week. In theory, they've got one game between
now and Thanksgiving that like looks really hard on paper.
And if you did have just someone sort of kind
of capable, let's keep playing with Josh Dobbs. If you
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add Josh Dobbs, I got one hundred bucks says you
can go three and three in those next six games,
and you can then be five and six on Thanksgiving
night when you go to lambeau Field. And I think
that there's a very fair chance that two a tongue
of I low is playing that game, because that's week thirteen.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
Yeah, you're not going to be able to roll out
with Hunt Lee. And I mean unless you, like you said,
unless they're like, okay, we're just playing for two is
not going to be back. We need a draft pick.
We need one of these young quarterbacks Shador, We need
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beck right, one of these projected first round draft picks
coming out out of college. So we're not going to
middle around.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
I don't see you doing that with the amount of
money you just invested right into it. I don't see
that being fiscally responsible.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
No, you use the draft pick on a different position.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yes, yeah, so it just it bodes for them to
go out and try to find someone who started, who's
won games at a high enough clip to where they
can take advantage of the talent that you have offensively.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
Coming up next, I have a question about the position
we almost never talk about, and I am genuinely curious
how you one of the people who used to bang
a helmet against somebody else on every play. I'm genuinely
curious how you will answer not only this question but
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the opinion that I have about this position in this moment.
So well, you're going to do that. Coming up next,
it's Week five with EA from Salama Mark Wheler. This
is Fox Sports Radio. Okay, we do got a little
something for you here, ty rag dot com Studios. Twenty
five minutes from now. That's the plan. We'll see if
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mother nature cooperates. But the plan right now for Sunday
night football between the Steelers and the Cowboys is going
to be twenty we'll call it twenty three minutes from
right now, which is probably going to put the end
of the game somewhere in the neighborhood at one in
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the morning Eastern time. Like I said, they call the
boss and call the schools too, and see if you
can just make tomorrow minimum day you are, especially if
you're all the way in the east there with the Steelers.
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Mark Willardy from Salam Okay, I really do want your
genuine reaction here, because I know the football players look
at the kickers as a sort of alternate version of
a human.
Speaker 7 (50:21):
Is that correct? It's right, It's close to that. Yeah,
come on, right, Like, I know you guys are out there.
I've watched it. You're practicing, you're sweating.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
You're right, especial training camp, right, you're going crazy, and
they're practicing their golf swing. I get it. I get it.
And then you get out into the game and you
guys go at it for a full hour and everything
is difficult and painful and awful, and then we trot
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this little guy out to the field to figure out
who won the game. So not your favorite And I
get it. And so sometimes we take that to mean
the other players love it when the kickers are forced
into a situation where for once they've got to stick
their head in there and they're willing to do it.
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Makes them feel like a member of the team. Right,
allow this alternate thought. Don't do it, don't ever do it.
Don't go in there. You don't belong in there. Nothing
good is going to happen. If you go in there.
Once in a while, you might actually make a game
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saving tackle, but that's a once in a decade occurrence.
What's much more likely if you look around the league
is something is going to snap or tear, and your
team now needs to go find someone else who does
what you do, and they may find someone who does
what you do really well for much cheap, and you
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may never have your job back again. So first, before
I explain the details of what I'm getting at, your
thoughts on a kicker, whether it be a kickoff or
a punt, really sticking his neck in there, like into traffic,
into all that's going on.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
That's not your job. It's not your job. There are
ten other people on that field to do that job.
Now you can get in the way, you can make
them change directions. Number One, you don't know how to tackle,
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you don't know how to hit. Pretty sure, you've never
played another position outside of kicking, so you wouldn't even
train like everybody else. You didn't grow up with the
Oklahoma drill. You didn't do nine on seven. Are a
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host of other team drills, So just do your job,
and when you do others people's job, you get hurt.
And what happens is when you lose your place kicker,
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it changes the whole dynamic of the game yep by
a mile.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
So all of this this particular week is inspired by
forty nine Ers kicker Jake Moody, who, on a kickoff
decided to not only attempt to tackle DJ Dallas, he
attempted to tackle DJ Dallas at about the thirty five
yard line with other forty nine Er defenders, as you mentioned, Ephraim,
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people paid to do that, literally still right behind him.
This was not a game saving tackle. This was not
going to be a kick return for a touchdown. This
was Jake deciding, you know what, it's machismo time, and
I'm not only going to go in there. I'm gonna
lead with my hat. Let's do it. Let's see what
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this is all about. Let's lead with the hat. Well,
Jake got squashed in such a way because he took
DJ Dallas's shoulder straight to the head to where his
body literally did some sort of an accordion move which
led to a high ankle sprain on his right side.
That's his kicking leg almost broke his leg. I'm surprised
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that thing didn't snap in half. If you watch the play,
don't go in there. You're now out for a few weeks,
and the forty nine ers will audition new kickers, and
who knows where that's all going to go, but you're
out for at least a few weeks. And the way,
it'll be the thing that'll get tucked kind of under
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the surface of the forty nine Ers losing to the
Cardinals today by one point. There were a lot of
things that led to it defensively, offensively, penalties, turnovers, special teams,
lots of weird things. But I want to highlight something
that happened early in the second half when the forty
nine ers had some penalties in a sack and they
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ended up with a fourth and twenty three from just
outside the opponent's twenty five yard line. That is known
as a rather easy field goal.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
It's called a chip shot, that is.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
A north of seventy five percent chance at three points
in the National Football League. The Niners decided to go
for it because they had no kicker and really all
they were trying to do was maybe chunk off about
fifteen yards to play the field position game. They didn't
even attempt to get it because the Cardinals just sat
back and waited at the line to gain nothing you
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could do, but they had no one who could try
a field goal of that distance, so they just went
for it and lost by one point. There you have it.
Don't go in there.
Speaker 2 (56:16):
Not your job, man, especially in this new kickoff format.
This is not what we're doing. And it's so crazy
when when terrible things happen, you're like, man, if I
would have just right, I had no business being over here.
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I knew I should have came over here. But sometimes
that impulse to do more, to be more, kicks in
and you put yourself in. Not only yourself, but you
don't have a backup. That's the difference. It's the only
position that doesn't have a backup on the entire field.
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Think about that. It's the only position that doesn't have
a backup. That's how valuable you are. That's why no
one talks to you.
Speaker 1 (57:19):
Think about it.
Speaker 2 (57:21):
When you're a team is driving down the field in
the fourth quarter to tie the game up or to
win by one or two points, how many people do
you see crowded around the kicker who's behind the bench
with his ball and his net. How many people do
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you see over there pumping him up, are telling him
he got this, or he's gonna do this, and he's
gonna do that. How many people do you see doing that? None?
Speaker 1 (57:55):
None. Yeah, a kicker is treated every day like he's
a pitcher that's taking a no hit into the eighth inning.
Speaker 2 (58:01):
Don't even look over there. So with that knowledge, don't
run up Darren. Especially the new kickoff format. Oh my gosh, bruh.
You should never pass someone to go make a tackle.
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There is no one left. He was my kicker in
fantasy football too.
Speaker 1 (58:30):
Say yeah, yeah, yeah, mine too too. I mean a.
Speaker 2 (58:36):
Got me a cup lord?
Speaker 1 (58:38):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (58:42):
Do you know who I bet? You know who I
bet who can kick?
Speaker 1 (58:45):
And I know he would stick his head in there
when he needed to also, and he would be welcome
to do so.
Speaker 2 (58:50):
He not only would he be able to kick, he'd
be able to tackle punt the whole nine yards. That's
our own Swiss army knife. Steven S K di Seger.
Speaker 4 (59:05):
I'm not stupid. I wouldn't do what I saw if
it's just kind of by the way.
Speaker 3 (59:10):
The good news for the NFL game Dallas at Pittsburgh tonight.
Players are on the field. People, it has stopped raining.
They're done with the lightning storm. It's not due to
rain the rest of the night. And the problem wasn't
the rain and the little hail they got as well,
it was the lightning. Fans are back in the stands again,
players on the field, and they're due to kick off
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in about fifteen minutes after this long weather delay.
Speaker 1 (59:33):
Tonight, if only the Chargers were playing, I would like
unload every dollar I had on the Chargers because it'd
be like God is speaking to us right now.
Speaker 3 (59:44):
But it's because of lightning bolts and lightning bolts Pittsburgh.
You know what I thought with such a lightning I
thought Brady Quinn was in the stadium, because it seems
every other Fox game he's done the last five years,
if there's a lightning day, he's delay. He's involved the
Steelers this year, allowing just thirteen points a game. So
(01:00:04):
we'll see when we actually get a game going what
it'll be like, especially after this long delay. Pittsburgh is
three and one, Dallas two and two again, about fifteen
minutes away from kick Arizona on a field goal at
San Francisco with about a minute and a half left
won the game twenty four to twenty three, and that
kick was by Chad Ryland, a thirty five yarder. Matt
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Prater of Arizona was out with a sore knee. The
Giants won at Seattle twenty nine to twenty. Giants, with
one minute left blocked a field goal and returned it
for a touchdown. Green Bay won at the Rams twenty
four to nineteen. Jordan Love two touchdown passes in the
third quarter, both to tight end Tucker Kraft. And at Denver,
the Broncos have won three in a row. They trailed
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ten to nothing to the Raiders after the first quarter.
In fact, Denver had lost eight straight to the Raiders
head to head. They came back for a win thirty
four eighteen Todays, the Raiders threw three interceptions. SUPERB game
at Cincinnati, Baltimore wins in overtime forty one thirty eight.
Despite Joe Burrow's five touchdown passes, he had one interception.
Burrow was thirty of thirty nine through the air three
(01:01:07):
hundred and ninety two yards, and yet the Bengals are
oh and three at home Houston won on a fifty
nine yard field goal on the final play twenty three
to twenty over Buffalo at Jacksonville, and the Jags were
zh to four. A win for the Jacksonville Jaguars on
a forty nine yard field goal with under twenty seconds left,
thirty seven to thirty four over Indianapolis Chicago at home.
(01:01:28):
Three and o this year, after beating Carolina thirty six
to ten. By the way, it's Jaguars Bears next week
in London. Today in London, Minnesota went to five and oh,
beating the Jets twenty three seventeen. Miami a fifteen to
ten winner at New England Washington over Cleveland thirty four
to thirteen. If you haven't seen a Browns game, you
haven't missed much. Browns with just three first downs in
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the first half today. In every game so far this year,
the Browns have been held under twenty points and under
three hundred yards. They weren't even within sniffing distance of
three hundred yards in this one. Today, Texas Longhorns back
to number one in the new AP College Football Poll.
A NASCAR victory for Ricky Stenhouse at Talladega. Brad Keslowski
finished a close second in the WNBA playoffs best of
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five semifinals. Connecticut still alive after winning over Minnesota, New
York eliminated Las Vegas. The Celtics took another exhibition against
the Nuggets in Abu Dhabi, won thirty to one oh four,
although Denver's Nikola Jokic had twenty points in nineteen minutes.
As far as the baseball playoffs, the two American League
Division series continue tomorrow, Detroit at Cleveland, then Kansas City
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at the Yankees. The Mets played another thriller today, but Philadelphia,
with a run in the bottom of the ninth, beat
the Mets seven to six.
Speaker 4 (01:02:42):
The Mets had just.
Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Tied at top of the ninth on a two run
homer and on FS one as well. Right now, it's
the Padres leading the Dodgers in LA three to one
in the top of the sixth inning and two men
on with nobody out for San Diego, the uh, well,
let's just say good news in a game that you're
losing at home is that the starter is still actually
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in the game. For Los Angeles. By the time Jack
Flaherty had completed four innings, that already was the longest
postseason start by a Dodger pitcher in two years. Whoa,
that's how bad things have been.
Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Oh my, oh my gosh, say that again.
Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
They had not had a starting pitcher go four innings
in any playoff game in two years.
Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
And like the amount of money.
Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
Yeah, every year they do every year.
Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
And the Dodgers currently have seven starting pitchers on the
injured list. It's a four man rotation in the playoffs.
They have seven out.
Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
They've been trying to make tackles on kickoffs too, good, Lord,
stop doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
They're just trying to hit everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
Right well, and they often do, they often. But yeah,
we'll keep tabs on that one too. Three to one.
Padres threatening for more in game two of that series.
Tyreck dot com Studios. Thank you, Steve. It's Mark Willard,
Thanks Steve from salam Hey. Following that kicker thing, is
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this the emotional response of a forty nine er fan
to say that, I think, surprisingly the NFC West might
be the worst division in football? No, no, no, no, no, no,
might go with me there, like right, and like again,
Seattle's three and two? But what what at home? To
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Daniel Jones that like, what what's happening? That division was
supposed to be one of the better divisions in football,
and like, yeah, it's not good. Nobody's good.
Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
No, it's it's it's weird. It's like it's like a
a you ever seen that show them. It's like a
Twilight Zone episode. Yeah, where things seem to be a
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certain way. It's like I remember them being this, and
then in reality it's not at all.
Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Okay, right, I mean, like black Mirry, let's go there
for a second though, because I know you have the
utmost respect for so many things that are going on
with the forty nine ers. Just spotlight them because they're
supposed to be the ones and they're two and three
and two of their losses have been absolute, just like
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comical collapses, to where you're watching what's happening and you're like,
there's no way that those eight things all just happened
in ten minutes. It's hard to do, right, and it's
so there's no way to look at it and go well,
at least in my opinion, it's the coach, it's the quarterback,
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it's the kicker, it's the defense, it's the offense. It's
an unbelievable series of events. This is what happened against
the Rams two weeks ago. It happened with the Cardinals today.
You know, from Moody getting hurt, changing the whole thing.
The defense can't stop James Connor, Jordan Mason fumbles as
the Niners were kind of like going in to end
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the game. It's just it's a constant flow. It's like
hitting two weeks ago. I likened it to hitting a
seven pick parlay. It's like, we're gonna need these wild
seven things to all happen in the next ten minutes,
and then they do. Who's that on?
Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Yeah, it's it's They've lost three games by a total
of ten points. Well, right, and two of them though,
like if it happened right, so.
Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Double digit leads fourth quarter of the whole deal.
Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
So when teams good teams, things like that happen, I
don't panic. I don't panic because it just takes an adjustment.
It just takes tapping into attention from detail. Now, so
let me explain to you how the Niners are feeling
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right now. They've been the standard in the NFC for
close to five years, and so what has the regular
season meant to the forty nine ers? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
Less, less and less.
Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
Every single year less and less. When you watch the show,
we talk about all the time receiver and you hear
de Bow and you hear Carrie, not Carrie Kittle Kittle
talk about what getting back to the super Bowl means.
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There is a natural regular season hangover because you know
it doesn't matter. There's a natural lack of attention to
detail when you continue to repeat it over and over again.
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You know, games in September October don't dictate what's gonna happen.
You've been ten in oh and nine, in oh and seven,
and oh you've been ten and three at one point,
like so it the fatigue is that because they haven't
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had the payoff. So it becomes a grind. Oh my god,
we gotta go through this just to get back to
the only thing we want to do, and that's to
play in the Super Bowl and win. So you lose
fourcus and you the attention to detail slips a little.
And it's just not players. It happens with the coaching
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staff and ownership as well. You know your team is
good enough to compete with everybody. When you get to
the postseason. There's a long way from the postseason. Whether
you limp in or you have a first round. By
the results are the results, and I think that's what
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you're seeing from them. On the flip side of that,
you look at the AFC standard and that's Kansas City, right.
Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
They've looked awful so completely.
Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
They're five and zero, but they are easily one call,
two plays away from being two and two, one and two,
one and three.
Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
And so it's just because Andy Reid and that staff
and Patrick Mahomes are able to eliminate in the very
last moment what would normally be an unforgettable game are
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a forgettable game. Excuse me. That's the difference. So when
you talk about the Niners, the talent level and all
of that, it doesn't bother me because they're literally just
biting time. It's not like the NFC is full of
world beaters. It's not like, oh, no, we've dug ourself
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a hole.
Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
No, you want to hear the craziest thing of all
they play in four days. If they beat Seattle, they're
in first places.
Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
And that's where they are right now. Mentally, it's so
hard to get up for the fight over and all
you want to do is go to the twelfth round.
You mean, oh my god, I gotta fight eleven rounds
just to get to the twelfth round. So you start
taking punches you wouldn't normally take. You may lose two, three,
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four rounds, knowing our knockout powers in the twelfth round
are the eleventh round going into the twelfth round. You
show up for the eleventh round and you got to
try to figure out a way to win the twelfth
And that's where they are right now. So I would say, hey, man,
don't panic, don't sell your stock, don't jump out the window.
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Just know that it's this is the fatigue, this is
the grind. That was very telling having them talk about
getting back to the super Bowl the beginning of last year,
how everyone was focused on that they did it and
they still lost.
Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
Yeah it's too soon, Yeah yeah, Okay, more on that
coming up. Plus, is there a team that has now
shown that their backup quarterback is better than their starter
even though he didn't win today, we'll tell you who
we're talking about coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.
Okay with e from salam Mark Whillard. These aretheti rag
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dot com studios. I want to get this off real quick.
What do you think I mean? Is it obvious to
you that Joe Flacco is better than Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
Oh yeah, of course, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
And I mean I get the part of that that's
not fair because Anthony is still I'm trying to think,
what did he start last year? Five games?
Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
This year four? Like, he hasn't even start ten football
games in his career. So and Joe Flacco has started
twelve hundred I think. So, Like, I get it, that's
not fair. But what do you do in a situation
like this where the locker room knows you have to
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play Anthony Richardson, but the locker room knows he's not
the one who gives you the best chance to win
in score points?
Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
You you don't play him until he's ready. And it
depends on what your season goals are. If your season
goals are to make it to the playoffs, then you
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don't play them. If your season goals are to develop him,
then you put him in and you develop. The only
way he's going to develop at this stage is to
play him. And so it comes down to a question
of are you competing for a divisional title? Are are
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you trying to find out if he can play quarterback?
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (01:14:07):
It sure does I mean they're two and three the Colts.
It's different than the Panthers. You know, the Panthers made
this move to Andy Dalton. I still don't think they're
gonna win a lot of games. They're certainly more viable,
though they give you a better game, they're much more watchable.
Here are the Indianapolis Colts. The Texans are four and one.
The Colts are now two and three, so there are
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two games back. But I also, as I mentioned, already
two and three is still totally in the thick of
the playoff chase. I mean, I don't think the Colts
are in tank mode by any stretch.
Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
No, I don't believe so either. But you do have
to figure out if he can play quarterback. So if
that is your priority, then he The only way you're
going to figure that out is if he plays, So
you have to make a decision. That's the reality of it.
Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
We talked about it last week when Joe Flacco came in,
and it's kind of a crazy story. I don't know why.
It's all just so believable that Joe Flacco now can
go team to team and he keeps getting thrown in there,
and then all of the sudden boom, all the receivers pop,
the whole offense pops. You know, they lost today, but
they scored over thirty points and so I don't know, man.
(01:15:33):
You know, if Richardson comes back and doesn't play well,
it feels like the leash has to be pretty short.
All right? Coming up next, Edgar Allan Poe is going
to join us on the show. All right, The Cowboys
on the board with a three, The Steelers on the
move into Cowboys territory. We actually have Sunday night football.
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DeVante Adams when you and I get back together again
next week. Both have been involved in the rumors. I
think the Steelers the only one. Realistically, however, you translate it,
you tell me what it means. When Davante Adams through
all this simply posts on social media a picture of
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Edgar Allan Poe, whose most famous works include The Raven.
What does it all mean?
Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Oh my gosh? Social media crypt sot right.
Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
I gotta say this, Cryptic messages are more fun than
scrubbing the gram because you are mad at your team.
I find this to be at least more fun.
Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
That's true. It is. Look, I don't know where you know.
It depends on teams have a unique opportunity two what
do you what do you say he would he would
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garner in terms of a draft pick?
Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
Well, not a one the NBA, right, So it's not
It's not a one, and we'll go from there. And
I think the Raiders know that, which is why the
reporters started the idea on Twitter last week that the
Raiders want a two plus, which means they may not
even get that. That's what they're hoping for. I think
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they're going to at least get a three. Depends on
what comes with it. Is it two picks? Is it
one pick? Is there a player? All of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
Well, let me tell you this, because conventionally are common knowledge,
is it won't be a one. Then someone could jump
the line. Let's just say there's a team who normally
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picks in the late first round, and they don't feel
like their late first round pick is as valuable as
say a top fifteen pick, top ten, top five, and
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the going rate is a three and a five and
a six or two in a seven. Who's willing to
pull the trigger for Davante Adams in his prime and
you have everything else you need? Can you see a
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team doing that? Yeah, so that's what you know. Conventionally,
it would be oh, well, you know to with that knowledge, right,
Let's who are those teams? Buffalo, they're usually picking in
the bottom of the bottom half of the draft. Kansas
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City as always taking the thirty second pick in the draft.
Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
Right, but stop stop right there? Can I remove Kansas City?
Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
I understand it, I know what that means. I get that,
But I'm just saying, sure, Baltimore, Baltimore. Sure, right, So
there could be a very unique situation happening where you
offer up a two, you know, three and a five
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or or whatever. But someone might be hungry enough to
offer up a main dish, right, a meal out of
those teams that customarily pick in the back half of
the draft. If you feel you are one player away,
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if Davante Adams lands in Baltimore, there's going to be
a problem in the AFC. If Davante Adam lands in Buffalo,
there's going to be a problem in the AFC. You think, yeah, yeah,
I do, and so you have to keep Now he
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can go elsewhere. He can go to other you know,
he can go to Green Bay, or you can go
to you know, a bevy of other two the whole NFC. Right,
you can, you can put them anywhere. But those teams
that I specifically mentioned have the ability to really put
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pressure on others and jump the line if that's what
they want to do.
Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
I don't think that I'm even hearing much about teams
in the NFC. The Cowboys have already publicly said no,
the fairy Niners are right, the forty nine ers are
this weird dark horse that but on the inside, no,
And that was also based on Brandon ayuk frustration, which
for at least one week goes away because he finally
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played well. And other than that, it's the Saints, the
New Orleans Saints. That's literally the only team in the
NFC that I find to even be realistic in this discussion.
Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
What if he landed in.
Speaker 1 (01:22:02):
Well, why would you do that if you're the Lions?
Is that what they need to get better? I get what.
I know how you're gonna answer that. Everybody wants Devonte Adams,
but you just broke off thirty million for aman Ross
Saint Brown. You've got draft capital and excitement surrounding Jamison Williams.
You want to go redistribute the target share when everything
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seems to be going very well.
Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
I get it, I understand. But as we do know,
Detroit will do some strange things.
Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
Well, and they have through the years, especially at that position.
Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
Well look, but even heading back to the last game
of the season two years ago when they foolishly won
and gave up the first pick in the draft. Now
we all knew they wanted Hutchinson with the first pick
in the draft, but they went out and like that
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whole situation could have changed just on the crazy idea
that we're going to win this last game. Because it right,
like when you start making decisions like that that can
alter your future, right then you're like, oh, okay, well
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anything is possible. So yeah, on paper, it's like, well,
why would you do that? You got Amoran Saint Brown,
but if you had Amaralan Saint Brown and Davante Adams.
Would that add value to your team? You were at
two decisions, two terrible decisions away from being in the
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super Bowl? Yep and so yep for a team that's
gotten a taste of a real meal, and they're usually
just eating appetizers, not even eating sorry, excuse me, you're
not even eating that hunger to get back to the table. Well,
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it's almost insane. It's almost insane. So it's such a
he's such a dynamic weapon. He's such a game changer
to me that I can see someone doing something out
of the ordinary. And that's all I'm trying to hit on.
Speaker 1 (01:24:26):
Sure, Like no, and I this may not go.
Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
As conventionally as it normally will for a free agent.
You may a trade.
Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
Excuse me, I mean you may well be right. The
teams that I hear the most Saints, Bill's, Ravens, Jets,
those and I will bet that he ends up playing
for one of those one of those teams. But I
hear what you're saying. This is kind of it's quiet,
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it's under the radar. I do think it's going to
happen this week, And maybe somebody is lying in the weeds.
Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
I will say this because soon as the first offer
goes out there, now you know where you stand, Oh totally.
As soon as that, hey, we're going to give you
a second and a fourth, uh whatever whatever? Now you know, okay,
I can, I can jump the line. Right, You've already
had the conversation of worst case scenario, what are you
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willing to give up? And if it's anything better, then
what the offer is? You're jumping the line. That's how
I think about it. That's how I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
I got something to throw at you here, and it's this.
Are you familiar with the next gen analytics stat? Intended
air yards for quarterbacks in the NFL? Intended air yards? So,
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in other words, this is a metric that suggests some
information with regard to how far a quarterback is pushing
the ball down the field. Right, Not just hey I
dinked it and I dunked it and you ran, but
intended air yards ball in the air. Number one in
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the NFL as of right now is Geno Smith. Number
two is CJ. Stroud, Number three is brock Purty. I
could give you the top five. Number four is Kirk
Cousins and number five is Joe Burrow nineteenth is Josh
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Allen nineteenth. And I really think in this particular conversation
that matters. We have and you know this, we have
wild thoughts that I hear spew about quarterbacks in the NFL,
and the reputation certain quarterbacks have absolutely do not match
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the way they actually play. You'll hear it. Josh Allen
and Patrick Mahomes, they're just hawking the ball all over
the place. They are, respectively, nineteenth and twentieth in the league.
But of course Brock Purdy, who do and did dunk
third in the league. So and we know because we've
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had that conversation a thousand times, but especially now with
Stefan Diggs gone, and for that matter, Khalil Shakir Hurt.
Watch a Bills game and they've lost two games in
a row. And everything Josh Allen does is right in
front of him. And if he's got a receiver that
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can go downfield, it hasn't developed yet. They drafted Keon
Coleman early. Maybe he'll be that, but he's not yet.
And I look at a team that obviously is staring
at a division championship. If they just dot their eyes
and cross their t's and and they they don't want
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this player a from they need this player facts. So
if I'm the Bills, I've already called the Raiders and
I just say, here's the deal. We're gonna wait to
the end. You just call us, you tell us what
your best offer is, and we will beat it. Period.
Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
Go shopping that, Yeah, that's it. That to me, that's
the team. They have got to get this player because
that changes everything everything. The super Bowl is so gettable
this year.
Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
It changes it immediately. And so that's what I think.
He is the caliber of player where we're going to
see a different trade scenario. You know, normally there are
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very few big trade blockbuster deals. Are trading of first
round draft picks are in the NFL. That's an NBA thing.
You you will mortgage, you know, your next four first
round draft picks in some cases, right you know, with
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a KD got five first round draft picks.
Speaker 1 (01:29:38):
That's setting everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
But that's not very customary in in the NFL. It's
very rarely happens. Now, you may give up picks for
to move up in a draft, first round draft pick,
future first round draft picks to move up in a
draft but not not necessarily for player. But I think
this may be one of those situations to one of
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those key teams we just talked about that it would
make a world of difference and quite possibly put them
over the Kansas City Hump.
Speaker 1 (01:30:13):
While we're talking about things to do with the Las
Vegas Raiders, we'll stay right there. Coming up next with
Epram Salaam, I'm Mark Willard, and it's Fox Sports Radio, Okay,
Lon Tye Rag dot Com Studios with Ephram Salaam, I'm
Mark Willard. A three to three tie between the Cowboys
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and Steelers. Very delayed start, they're still in the first quarter,
and Steve de Sager will be along with details here shortly.
All right, while we're talking about DeVante Adams, what if
we talk about Antonio Pierce for a second. Look. It's
been a minute and only a minute, so I don't
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think anything gets solidified necessarily anytime soon. He's in a
tough spot, but he is classically that interim coach that
comes in with an energy shift that was needed in
the moment, but that doesn't really have anything to do
with the long haul. Antonio was needed in that moment,
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but then to give him the job, to me, looks
like a big mistake. He looks totally overmatched, and I
know there's something that's unfair about that. It's not his
job in a short term to find a new quarterback
and they just don't have one. But at the same time,
when you look at the way all of these things
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are being handled, and you remember what I said earlier
this year about how he handled the press conference the
day after Tua got hit, completely different scenario, nothing to
do with Davonte. I thought totally out of line for
a head coach to say what he said. It's one
thing to express compassion and care, that's wonderful, but to
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openly and directly suggests that someone else's fifty two million
dollars per year investment in starting quarterback should unequivocally up
and leave the game, and you would suggest it directly
to him to me, out of line for another head
coach to say, I agree. Now you're right, yes, right,
And now there's this. Now there is a team that
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is quickly looking like it's going to have a hard
time staying competitive in games. I don't know how on
earth you give up that many points to the Denver Broncos,
adding the DeVante Adams situation. We got co we're liking
things on Instagram. It just the whole thing has gone
(01:32:48):
so fast. He looks so underwater with everything he's doing
right now.
Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
It looks like it's a bit much. Now. They did
need his energy, yep. But I will say this, Things
look different when you don't have a quarterback. Things feel
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different when you don't have a quarterback. Having a quarterback
can solve a lot of problems. Not having one can
cause a lot, and I think that's where we are.
They don't have enough talent offensively to compete when everybody
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else is stocking up, So it puts them in a
position of you can only talk yourself into so many wins.
It's a good line, and so at a certain point,
you're gonna need the rubber to meet the road. You're
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going to need somebody to come out and be able
to throw the ball down the field, and your only
best your best weapon on offense doesn't want to be there.
So it's not an ideal situation for a new coach
trying to find his way and trying to figure out
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what type of team he has. That's where we are
right now, and I understand I understand that oh fumble,
Oh goodness, gracious Sach meet at the quarterback. TJ. White
is a difference maker. That's who they need and want
Michael Parsons to be. Michael Parsons is not that. Let
(01:34:39):
me just say that, Michael Parsons is not that. But
you can say, Miles Garrett is that. You can say,
you can say right, you can say, uh Bosa is that?
Speaker 5 (01:34:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
As considerable not This dude is gonna show up like
he is his brother. Yep, just more athletic. As crazy
as that sounds.
Speaker 1 (01:35:06):
I got t J. Watt and Fred Warner right now
as the two players who run away defensive side look
like they are just changing almost every play.
Speaker 2 (01:35:15):
They're playing with boys, yes, and not that way they're
playing amongst boys. Sound weird. It sounded weird coming out.
We wait wait wait wait, let me back, let me
back up.
Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
Hold on. I was like, hold on, Fred just called
he would like to talk to you. Hold on one
second anyway, Yes, Zach Fumble, Dak Prescott Steelers, grab it
and we're going the other way. I would also suggest
this though, for the Las Vegas Raiders, I get wanting
to slow play this, you know, act like we're not
(01:35:54):
sure how it's all gonna go. We'd like to keep
the leverage a boy if we don't get the right off,
or we're just to keep him and DeVante's hurt and
we'll put him back out there, and or you know,
let's wait till the offers get a little high. There's
no hurry. There's a lot of hurry. You got to
do this by Thursday, maybe by Wednesday. You have to
(01:36:16):
do this by Wednesday, because it's not being handled well.
It is sitting on everyone's shoulders. Watch a press conference
in Las Vegas right now. Nobody wants to ask Antonio
about anyone else. Nobody wants to talk about anything. It's
(01:36:36):
gathered media trying to find new ways to ask about
DeVante Adams, and Antonio looks like he's gonna lose it.
He doesn't know how to answer any of the questions
and he's not really answering him right because they're still
trying to act like they don't have to do this,
and they might not, and they're totally going to do this,
and they do have to do this, and they should
(01:36:56):
do it by Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (01:36:57):
It's going to get done. It's gonna get I mean,
the team that acquires him wants him to get up
to speed so they can get the ground running.
Speaker 1 (01:37:07):
That too, that too, And by the way, I think
he's got a hamstring, but this is starting to feel
very Jalen Ram.
Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
Is not hamstring level of.
Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
I'm like, dude is going to really get great treatment
on that plane wherever he lands for his new team,
because he's gonna slide down the stairs of that plane
and he will be active next Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:37:38):
How you know how how therapeutic the right plane ride
could be.
Speaker 1 (01:37:48):
I would argue almost as therapeutic as listening to a
Steve de Seger radio program, very soothing voice, very just
feels good. Yes, good, Even, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
We've got football on the field at Pittsburgh and they've
started the second quarter and it's three three Steelers and
Dallas the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
With their field goal drive.
Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
One first down after the opening kickoff, and you're in
field goal range with Brandon Aubrey. He kicked a fifty
five yarder and then Pittsburgh responded with a forty one
yard field goal, and that's where we are, early second quarter.
Even there was a long weather delay at the start
kickoff was not till nine forty five pm Eastern time.
Steelers are allowing just thirteen points per game. Keep in
(01:38:31):
mind they are three and one this season. Arizona one
in the heat at San Francisco on a field goal
with about a minute and a half left, twenty four
to twenty three. San Francisco's record two and three. The
Giants were zero and three in conference, but got to
win at Seattle twenty nine to twenty. Gino Smith was
sacked seven times. Green Bay was a winner at the
Rams twenty four to nineteen. Jordan Love two touchdown passes
(01:38:53):
in the third quarter boats to tight end Tucker Craft.
Denver was down ten to nothing early, still beat the
Raiders thirty four eighteen. Raiders through three interceptions out today
for Las Vegas, we're running back Zamir White and wide
receiver Devonte Adams that combined twenty penalties in that game.
A classic at Cincinnati went to the Baltimore Ravens in
overtime forty one thirty eight. Justin Tucker tied at Leyton
(01:39:16):
regulation with a fifty six yard field goal. His game
winner was twenty four yards out, set up by a
Derrick Henry fifty one yard run. Houston won its home
game against Buffalo twenty three to twenty on a fifty
nine yard field goal on the final play. Houston is
three and zero at home. Jacksonville was zero and four overall,
but got a home win against Indy thirty seven thirty
(01:39:37):
four on a forty nine yard field goal with under
twenty seconds left. Trevor Lawrence three hundred and seventy one
yards passing Chicago over Carolina thirty six to ten. Miami
on a touchdown run in the last five minutes won
fifteen to ten at New England. Washington over the Browns
thirty four to thirteen. Washington has won four in a
row to go to four and one. They're alone and
(01:39:57):
first in their division. Minnesota took the London game today
over the Jets twenty three seventeen. The Vikings are five
and oh seventeen nothing late first half today. The Texas
Longhorns are back to number one in the New AP
College Football Pool. A NASCAR victory at Talladega for Ricky
Stenhouse break Keslowski finished a close second in the WNBA playoffs.
(01:40:17):
Connecticut stayed alive, beating Minnesota New York in its semi
final best of five eliminated Las Vegas to Major League Baseball.
It's now Padres six to one over the Dodgers in
La top of the eighth inning of this best of
five division series. The Padres will host games three and
four Tuesday and Wednesday nights on FS one. A great
start from you, Darvish former Dodgers. Seven innings, eighty two
(01:40:40):
pitches thrown so far. Philadelphia with a run in the
bottom of the ninth beat the Mets seven to six.
Nick Castillanos the game winning single. He had three hits,
including a home run. That series tied at a game apiece,
just as the Padres are apparently about to tie it
at a game apiece because Sander Bogarts is now just
homered off the pen.
Speaker 4 (01:40:58):
It's seven to one San Diego in the top.
Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
And he did it would have hurt hamstring. He heard
his hamstring on the swing before.
Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
Well on a home run, Jog, I guess you don't
have to go full speed. There was a delay in
the seventh inning stretch. Those who have been to Dodger
Stadium may know that the folks who sit around the
foul poles or the outfield position, the fan behavior is
just a little different than the rest.
Speaker 4 (01:41:19):
Of the stadium.
Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
So let's just say those parts of the stadiums caused
a delay at the seventh inning stretch and some things
may or may not have been thrown on the field.
Philadelphia beating the Mets today makes it one game apiece
in that series. Game three is Tuesday in New York.
That'll be five pm Eastern time on FS one. The
two American League Division series each continue tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:41:41):
Back to you, Steve, great stuff tonight. Thank you as always,
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wherever you get your podcast, and you see this show
posted right after we get off the air. Okay, a
couple of things that still wanted to play with here,
and I think it's been a theme tonight. This thing
is wide open. I asked you earlier who looks amazing
in the NFL, and we couldn't really come up with anyone.
(01:42:23):
And I know, I know they'd be fans of a
few teams out there not thrilled with that. I mean,
the Vikings are five and oh and and for however,
the Chiefs have gotten there, they are four and oh
and that's all fair. But here here's sort of another
way to look at it. IM. If I asked you
this right now, what would you do with it? If
I gave you an MVP vote? Who are you giving
(01:42:47):
it to?
Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
H That's pretty good, that's it.
Speaker 1 (01:42:56):
I mean, I think your response already it kind of
speaks the volumes that we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
I would probably, I mean, in this situation, I mean you,
I guess you would lean lean towards a quarterback like
most MVPs these.
Speaker 1 (01:43:24):
Visually plus plus, I don't necessarily see anybody else in
the non quarterback world who's like just totally you know,
blowing us away. I could think there's a couple of players.
Speaker 2 (01:43:46):
I would probably, you know, do something like maybe a CJ.
Stroud in Houston. M hm, quite possibly. Uh, you know
outside of today is Sam Donald even though they got
to win, sometimes you gotta win ugly, but just it's
(01:44:15):
not a lot out there.
Speaker 1 (01:44:17):
Can I can I give you four candidates. Yes, I
shall give you five. I give you five. And my
stats are not updated through today's play, so this is
basically through Thursday's play. So most of these qbs have
played four games to amass these stats, and you can
then put together what they did today with their stats
(01:44:37):
and then a winner or a loss. But Sam Donald
is five and oh and before today's game led the
league with a one hundred and eighteen point nine quarterback
rating is also tied for the league league.
Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
Oh you know what, let me on before you let
me before I hear yours. Let me just throw this
in there. Jaydon Daniels, well, Jadon Daniels definitely on the list.
Go ahead, sorry, I but in terms of giving yes,
he would be probably my fruit runner.
Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
And again fourth rated quarterback in the league. Four and one,
Josh Allen, even though he's lost to in a row,
second rated quarterback in the league. They're in first place.
And then you mentioned CJ. Stroud, and I will throw
in Lamar Jackson, who has got them to three and two.
(01:45:25):
Is the reigning MVP an excitable George Good. Yeah, and
also you know you look at, for instance, the numbers
he put up to the box office He's unbelievable. If
I were going to look at any non quarterbacks, you're
probably I don't know if your list can go far
beyond Nicocollins and.
Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
Derrick Henry that would be it. Yeah, has a hamstring, now, so.
Speaker 1 (01:45:48):
Nico's got a hamstring, yes, yes, but but that's that's
probably your your list. Who would you vote for?
Speaker 2 (01:45:58):
I would give it, you know, because of what he's
meant to his team and the trajectory he's on. Or
Jayden Daniels. The kid is fun to watch, man, Isn't
that crazy good? And it's crazy? This kid is fun.
It's fun as as good as Lamar Jackson is to watch,
as electrifying as this kid is something special. Man, he
(01:46:22):
can throw a pretty ball.
Speaker 1 (01:46:23):
Yep, yep. You know what's wild? Do you have any
touchdown passes Jaden has this year?
Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
It's like what three to two, four? Or yeah it
was fourth?
Speaker 1 (01:46:35):
Yeah no, no, but but his quarterback rating is is
over one hundred and six. He's rushed for four touchdowns
as well. And maybe the prettiest thing of all, this
young kid in his first five games as an NFL
player is not only four and one, he's turned it over.
Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
Twice it, so you just multiply that three more times.
Speaker 1 (01:47:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
If he can stay there and you know three and
do that, just continue to duplicate that, then he'll run
away with this thing.
Speaker 1 (01:47:17):
MVP is a rookie now, see.
Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
I would love to see him put that type of
pressure on the voters because obviously he would win Offensive
Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1 (01:47:30):
Sure, all of.
Speaker 2 (01:47:32):
Those things, right, but then do they give the Offensive
Rookie of the Year and the League MVP to them?
Has that ever happened?
Speaker 1 (01:47:43):
That's a Steve question, certainly, not that I can remember.
I doubt it. Well.
Speaker 2 (01:47:49):
The good thing about Steve is we'll have that answer
before you can shake a stick at it.
Speaker 1 (01:47:57):
He's probably already saying the answer and the other room
right now as we speak, is my guess. Okay, some
final thoughts coming up as we continue to watch the
Steelers and Cowboys, we'll get ready to hand the baton
off as well with e from Salama Mark Weather. It's
Fox Sports Radio all right, tyerrag dot com Studios. Yeah,
(01:48:19):
it's a night of rain and night of field goals
as well. Cowboys in front of the Steelers six to
three second quarter, second quarter action as we close in
on eleven pm Eastern time. This game is going to
quickly switch from Sunday night football to Monday morning football.
(01:48:43):
But that's the way it all went down. I wanted
to throw this at you because I do feel there's
a city out there that's sitting there going come on,
how are you going to sit there and talk about
Jade and Daniels all day? You're gonna start bringing them
up as a division winner. You're gonna bring him up
as potential MVP. Hold on a second, can you say
(01:49:05):
something about the one player who was drafted in front
of him, who today I would argue, for the first
time in his young career, he really looked like something too.
Speaker 2 (01:49:17):
Oh, he was special today.
Speaker 1 (01:49:19):
He was fantastic. And if you missed the line for
Caleb Williams, it was three hundred four yards passing, it
was a seventy percent completion percentage. It was two touchdowns
to his leading receiver, DJ Moore, who went over one
hundred yards. It was thirty four yards rushing. It was
under control, it was no turnovers, it was poised, it
(01:49:40):
was all. It was all the same thing. And look,
that doesn't do anything to knock me off of Jayden Daniels.
But who knows, Man, maybe both of the teams got
it right.
Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
Yeah, I think they did get it right. I think
Caleb Williams is a generational talent. That's just because Jaden
Daniels is playing the way he is doesn't take anything
away from CJ. So it's it's one of those situations
(01:50:11):
where today was Caleb's day. It was just coming out party,
even though they won the first game. It can't be
your coming out party. You have eighty two yards passing
as a quarterback in the NFL. So today he showed
what he can do. He showed the type of player
(01:50:32):
he can be. And I think that's amazing, and I
think that's great for him. But Jaden Daniels has been miraculous,
oh man, every week, oh man. And you don't have
the completion percentage like he has and the ability to
(01:50:53):
take care of the ball like he does. And now, look,
it's not taking anything seriously away from Caleb. Caleb is
he will be amazing, yep, But right now is Jade.
Speaker 1 (01:51:13):
I don't think there's any question about that. Ye're absolutely right.
But the other thing, you know, what I thought was
kind of achieved by Caleb today. It's actually a little
tope board that you and I should probably play with
every Sunday night for the rest of the year, which
is the wide receiver frustration board, right because like, yeah, yeah,
like we should we should have a little like top
(01:51:34):
three on the wide receiver frustration board everybody in Miami
exactly there. Tyreek Hill is definitely number one right now.
Two Waddle will be number two. But you know who
was floating around there the last few weeks is DJ Moore. Yeah,
he had a few moments and he had to kind
of apologize for for letting it be seen out there
(01:51:57):
on the field. And we know how the wide receivers
are built. And I actually give him a little bit
of slack for this because it's such an odd position.
You just you sort of have absolutely no control. I mean,
you have some you have what you can do, but
you're such a complimentary piece yet a central figure at
the same time. And so that's what leads to that
(01:52:18):
frustration because you're expected to do great things, but if
the person isn't there to deliver the ball to you,
you can't do great things. You can do it, you
can't do it. And so Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle
are going crazy and DJ Moore has been dealing with it.
Garrett Wilson has been on that list so far this year.
I don't know if Brandon Aiyuk has shown any of that,
(01:52:39):
but I gotta feel like things have been summering there. Yeah,
we should probably call this the Stefan Diggs board, just
because it should be named after him. I haven't seen
anything from him yet, but that's surprising, and I don't
feel like it's sustainable. The fact that the other receiver
on the Texans is like leading the world and receiving
(01:53:02):
and getting us to talk about MVP. I just don't
feel like that's gonna sit very well with Stefan. Who knows,
Maybe now he'll get his turn, because I don't know
if Nico's gonna miss time. And then obviously we've been
talking about DeVante Adams tonight and Poster He's got to
be very very high on the list as well. So anyway,
(01:53:23):
Caleb kind of calmed that down for a week, and
that's a very good thing.
Speaker 2 (01:53:26):
Yeah, he did, he did. He You know, he's going to,
in my opinion, live up to expectations, all right. Everything
about him says that the talent is there, that's obvious.
The leadership is there, right, he's the same guy with
(01:53:47):
you know, some people had a problem with him telling
guys to clean up after themselves, you know, but the
city loves him already. The city loves him already because
he's put them in a position to compete. And as
a fan, you only all you want to do is
see your team go out there compete. And that's where
they are. And you know it started with the second
(01:54:12):
half of last year and and Justin Fields had them competing.
They've revamped the team, brought more in, created a situation
in an environment where you know, an expectation is now there.
So look, both of these young men in Washington and
(01:54:37):
in Chicago are doing exactly what they were brought in
to do.
Speaker 1 (01:54:42):
Yep, yep. And both of them have a winning record
yep after five weeks, which is impressive enough. Speaking of records.
Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
Bone Nicks too, don't forget about him.
Speaker 1 (01:54:51):
Bone Eggs winning record. Yeah. Absolutely. We shouldn't leave tonight
with our congratulating the Jacksonville Jaguars. Every team in the
NFL now has a win.
Speaker 2 (01:55:01):
Hey, welcome to Welcome to the party.
Speaker 1 (01:55:05):
Everybody. Everybody has a win.
Speaker 2 (01:55:09):
You get a win.
Speaker 1 (01:55:10):
So the Lions are safe. You get a win. Thanks
for hosting the first segment of the show. That was fun.
Speaker 2 (01:55:15):
What I'm here for? Man?
Speaker 1 (01:55:18):
All right, brother, have a good week. We talk to
you next week. Playing in Spaniard are coming up next
on Fox Sports Radio.
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should be. Hello, everyone, good evening. Look, it's been a
phenomenal weekend of athletic prowess starting Saturday with the games starting,
rolling right into last night with Baseball Dodgers padres that
(00:48):
type of game show haes first time in the playoffs
and what did he do? He delivered. But I say
all that to say, of course, it's a football Sunday,
and I'm here and excited about this show. I was
excited about the games all day to day. It was unbelievable.
The thing I realized is that I don't know anything
(01:13):
about teams, schedules, how they're going to win, lose, Pick them,
don't pick them. I'm glad I'm not a gambler, because
if I was, I'd be really bad at it. I'll
be the first to tell you I'm not like psychotic
(01:35):
die hard baseball fan. I'm not. I fell in love
with baseball and got to really understand baseball last, you know,
the last six or seven years because I became a coach.
My kids played, so I jumped into it, and so
it really made me understand the nuance of the game,
(01:59):
just how great the game is. And then when I
tell you, I had turned off all of the college
football games, even though I have a beautiful setup where
I can watch multiple things. Thank you to my wife. Again,
I just couldn't help but just only watch the Dodgers
Padres first game of the NLDS, and it was amazing.
(02:24):
Like me, I wanted to see what shoe Hey would do,
and he was phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Are you from this Steve at the desk? Did you
see the press conference the day before the open Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The question, I was getting ready to get there. I
was getting ready.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Absolutely. You know what, And the funny thing is because
because my wife is, I mean my wife's mother, my
mother in law is a I'm talking about a die
hard Cubs fan. She loves baseball. My wife's whole side
of the family, they all love baseball. So she had
a conversation with me. She was like he was up
at bat the first time, and she was like, do
(03:02):
you think he's nervous? How do you think he's feeling
like this is a big deal? Like how do you
she as a former athlete, how do you deal with
that type of pressure? And I said, oh, he's fine.
I said, he's fine because he knows he's better than
everybody else. It's different going into a situation where you're like,
(03:23):
oh my god, man, I hope I can you know,
live up to it. I hope I can compete at
this level, being the postseason. But it's another one when
you go in and like, oh, I'm better than everyone,
Like I'm better than that picture, I'm better than everyone
they have over there, And all I got to do
(03:43):
is be me. And it was evident. And prior to that,
I didn't see the press conference. But this morning my
mother in law texted me that press conference and they
asked him the question, you know, how how's it going
to be? Are you nervous about being your first time
in the postseason. He had a one word answer, and
it was nope.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And he didn't wait for the translation show.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
No, he knew. He knew exactly what was going on
and Look, if I didn't know shoe Hey didn't speak clear,
perfect fluent English, I wouldn't have known from that one
word answer. It didn't have an accent on it. It
was as clear as day. And that was nope. And
he went out there and performed, and it was amazing
(04:26):
coming up to bat and you're already down by three
runs and you got two on base, and the whole world,
not just your team, not just the stadium, the whole world,
it's like, well, let's see what this guy, this show,
hey guy, this fifty to fifty guy from the regular season,
let's see what he's about. And all he did was
(04:47):
hit a three run home run.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
And quickly tied and changed.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The immediately immediately changed the game.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Because keep in mind the context, the Dodgers had lost
six playoff games.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
In a row.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
We couldn't hit in the postseason exactly all three last
year and never led in the series and were out meekly,
and then lost the last three to the Padres the
year before. Down three nothing quickly last night, the Dodgers,
in their very long postseason history, when they were down
three or more after the first inning, had literally never
won a playoff game before last night and they literally
(05:20):
had never had Shoho Tani on their roster before last night.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And I'll tell you what, And I know this is
football Sundays, but I just wanted to get this out
because I don't know when we're gonna get to it. Okay,
I can tell you, in my opinion, who felt a
huge sigh of relief, and that would have to be
Mookie Bets. As we know, since he's been a Dodger,
(05:44):
Mookie hasn't lived up to the billing that he has
in the regular season.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
In twenty twenty and they won the series, and he wasn't.
The next three years, right were out quickly, and.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So just having that amount of pressure on you, right,
and then having someone like when he got hurt and
they switched the lineup and had show Hate leading off
right and Mookie Batten second, it took so much pressure
off of him. And you saw that yesterday in that
first in when they came up and Show Hey tied
(06:17):
the game up before he could even blink, and it
just changed everything. It changed how you would approach you
to change the level of pressure Mookie would have possibly felt,
because it would have been like, hey man, you have
to do this for us.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Henny walked three times last night bets, and they kept
getting guys on base and making a very good Padre
pitching staff work. Now tonight's game, which is also on
FS one second batter of the night for ten Bernando
Tatist junior Homers, it's Padres one nothing at la bottom
of the first. He absolutely owns Dodger Stadium. But we
all thought this would be a good series going in.
(06:55):
I don't think it's gonna disappoint us quite frankly. Meanwhile,
we've got an NFL matchup that's Dallas at Pittsburgh. It
seems like, oh man, Dallas at Pittsburgh, I gotta see this.
Have you seen Pittsburgh's offense this year? Have you seen
Dallas this year? Because the Steelers somehow are three and one. Well,
it's not somehow. They're allowing only thirteen points a game.
That's the somehow, So you score fourteen you can just
(07:17):
keep winning. It seems like with the Cowboys' opponent this year,
and will that happen tonight? The Cowboys, you may have heard,
don't really have a running game at this point. They
got Ezekiel Elliott back this year and said that's our
running game.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, they dropped the ball on that, right. Remember a
couple of weeks ago or last week or whenever, and
the question was photoed out there to Jay Jones, Hey,
how come you guys inn try to go get Dereck Henry. Oh,
we couldn't afford dare Henry. Well, all Derrick Henry has
done was is just dominate.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, dominate like he's the number one rush offense in
the league.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I mean, when you see things like that, you gotta
scratch your here. And I look, I know Dallas Cowboy fans.
They're the most optimistic fans in the world. I mean,
you can call it optimism, you can call it delusional fans,
whatever you want to call it. They're always trying to
find the silver lining, and to me, it's not one.
(08:15):
At this point, defense isn't living up to the building.
They can't run the ball. They're putting a lot of
pressure on their sixty million dollars a year quarterback and
they're thirty million dollars a year receiver. I get it,
but you gotta have more. You have to have more,
and the fact that they don't, you know, it concerns me.
(08:38):
On top of that they're in. I believe a weather
delay to start this game. So yes, for people who
are like, turn the game on, it's supposed to be
on right now. It's a little bit weather delay. So
you guys get to listen to us a little bit longer.
You should always watch the game with the mute and
then listen to us anyway, But that's just me. What
I do want to talk about is the London game.
(09:00):
Last year I went to one of the London games
really right, And what we'll do is we'll get back
into that after the break again. You're in the tire
rag dot com studios. This is E from salam Mark.
Will it be joining us soon? See you when I
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Speaker 2 (09:33):
We're good man, we got action now, we got action.
I missed you, man, but I look at I was listening.
I don't know if it helped.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I was listening.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
How did I do? Was that?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Good man?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You know?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah? That was a great radio show. You know, this
is a good radio show.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
How jump being man?
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You know, yeah, I'll just sit back, listen. We're doing good.
We're fine. Tirag dot com Studios. One thing no one
has ever said in this world is I've got too
much to sayger. Nobody's ever said that. Se right, So
if we get more to Saga, then yay, we get
more to Sager. But yeah, now I'm here. We good.
(10:08):
You good, let's ride. You want to uh huh? You
want to talk about the London game? Fire away? What's up?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
I went to that game last year. I think it
was Bill's Jaguars. My nephew's going to school out in
Southampton out there, so I went out there and had
some bonding, you know, nephew nephew uncle time. Yeah, it
was a great time. Took him to the game. It
was amazing. He got us lost going back to the hotel.
But I'm like, all right, you know, we'll figure it out.
(10:37):
After I was mad and I calmed down because I'm like, man,
look all right, we're taking buses and tubes and all
kinds of stuff. But just watching that game, and yes
I did get up at six thirty. Well, I'm gonna
be honest I DVR at the game and I got
(10:58):
up at eight.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Oh see, now I actually did. I mean I might
have missed, you know, the first driver or two.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But yeah, you gotta be you gotta gotta work smarter
that hard.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah, I had that thing on though. By six forty
five I was ready to go.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
No, man, tape it right DV all right that way
when you wake up, right, I gave myself what you know,
came on at six thirty eight o'clock. I'm up eight fifteen,
I'm watching and it ran because I can skip everything.
It ran right into the games.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
So you did the math so that you could watch
perfect without commercials but still have it. And when right
zone starts, yes, okay, okay, that's next level.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And it was Look, look I'm not you know, I'm
not new to this man. Okay, I've been doing this
for a long time. But just watching that Jets Minnesota game.
Shout out to Minnesota. They're five and oh shoutout producer Patrick,
who has not changed his uh justin Jefferson, Jersey since
the season has started. He refused uses to not wear
(12:02):
it because for maybe they will lose the game. Patrick,
have you watched it or is it just I'm just
gonna wear it.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
Listen, man, I am a man of culture. I will
be honest. Of course, I watch it every week. I'm
a man of culture.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
There's no problem with him with you wearing it every Sunday,
provided that the good stuff happens on Tuesday. We're gonna
need load of laundry every Tuesday.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I do my laundry every Monday, every Monday, and I
don't wear this jersey until Sunday.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Okay, So what makes sense?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
So what happens when the Vikings play on Monday night?
What about that? Now? What do we do?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Well, you know what, It's still gonna be clean from
the last time. I haven't been putting it on until
game day.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Come on, Okay, Okay, I'm satisfied.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
We appreciate that. But watching old ass Aaron Rodgers and
the Jets, it's it's giving me elder abuse. Okay, it's
giving me. You know why I feel crazy? And I'll
(13:07):
tell you why. Aaron Rodgers is an all time great. Right.
He happened to go over sixty thousand passing yards today
in this game, which is unbelievable, you know, even more
unbelievable looking at how many passing yard dan Dan Reno
has and he's not of this era. That's crazy to me.
(13:28):
But I digress. Watching Aaron Rodgers and this is a
one score game, okay, And it was outside of the
first quarter, it was a one score game for predominantly
the entire game.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And to hand the ball off fourteen times to Breese
Hall and Braylan Allen is crazy to me. And you
have a forty plus year old quarterback throwing the ball
fifty four times and a one score game game three interceptions,
and even even while he wasn't playing his best, and
(14:09):
they got the ball with a chance to win, I said, Oh,
Aaron Rodgers is gonna kick in in trouble now, Like
I had fooled myself thinking that Aaron Rodgers was about
to pull a rabbit out of his hat, not counting
the fact that he hadn't been good in three years.
(14:36):
And so it was like, oh, no, this is Aaron Rodgers. Now.
Remember Peyton Manning his last year in Denver, they benched him.
They benched Peyton Manning, one of the all time great
one of my favorite quarterback.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Who was the came in was that like ro something
rock os Wiler.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, exactly. Go check his carell. They've been Peyton Manning
for brock Osweiler, but they end up the team was
so good, the defense was unbelievable, the offensive weapons were there.
They just needed somebody to just be steady, right, take
(15:23):
a lot of like when you have all time grades
and they diminishing talent, they still, like I said last week,
their minds are still hitting on that level. I can
still do it. I know you. No, you can't. And
although you can throw some pretty passes now and then,
they just needed someone not to throw three interceptions, not
(15:45):
to stumble out of, you know, a play action. And
of course they put Peyton Manning back in in playoffs
and then they won the Super Bowl. But watching Aaron
Rodgers reminded me of Peyton's last year. Well, I'm like, mentally,
I believe he's there now. Look, he didn't get any
(16:06):
help from the drops. There's still a lot of times
they're not on the same page. The back showed, the
throws aren't there, and so on and so forth. But
in a one score game and you looking at Aaron
Rodgers thinking you're going to get the magic and you
just get the hat is disappointing. For me.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You want to share with everyone what I texted you
at nine thirty two this morning, Yes, this morning.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
The Jets hate.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
They don't like him. They don't like Breshall. They hate him,
and I don't know why. And yes, you know this
is that is the ravings of a fantasy manager who
wants to know what the hell happened to his first
round draft pick who got four yards last week and
then this week was able to tally a whopping. But
(17:02):
look at their behavior, their behavior would suggest and I
get it. I know that people don't want to go
all in on a bell count now on most NFL teams.
But Braylan Allen is getting a lot of snaps and
he's a good player, like he did. This rookie looks
very very interesting. But to have Brece Hall tally up
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nineteen carries the last two weeks, the last two weeks combined,
he has tallied nineteen carries that has netted the Jets
a total of twenty seven yards, and today he also
had three catches for fourteen yards. It's the number of snaps,
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it's the usage. By the way, during that time, in
those two games, they've talied a total of twenty six points.
That's it, and so I'm with you, And it's actually
not about being a fantasy manager. With bres Hall on
the team. I just don't get it. He is your
best player. He is a dynamic player. Your quarterback's forty
years old. I don't care if your quarterback's twenty five
(18:04):
years old. I want to lean on a running back
when I have won. You're one of the few teams
in the league that has a great one. They won't
use him.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Do you know what it's like. It's like having someone
like Steve de Sager and not going to him thirty
after the hour for three hours. That's ridiculous. Steven are disacre.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
And the A the R is four ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Okay, Yeah, sometimes you go to him at seven after
the hour too, just because it's.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Just because that was also ridiculous. Yeah, the NF you're welcome.
After the NFL matchup, we haven't missed anything. I mean,
I'm not sure we were gonna get anything either the
way Dallas and Pittsburgh are playing on some sides of
the ball, but that is the matchup tonight.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
It sounds good on paper.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Because of NFL history, Dak Prescott has been a winning quarterback,
to say the least in primetime games, how about a
seven hundred winning percentage? The only qbs better in history
in primetime Steve Young, Joe Montana, and Peyton Manning. Patrick
Mahomes could get up to about a seven hundred winning
percentage with his primetime game tomorrow. But Dak is twenty
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six and eleven in these primetime games going into tonight.
The problem is they haven't kicked off yet. There's a
severe thunderstorm warning in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The players were cleared
off the field, even the pregame TV set was cleared
off the field. The rain has just started now, but
the rain's really not the problem, and the temperatures in
the seventies in Pittsburgh not terribly windy. Huge lightning strike
(19:35):
yet another in just recent minutes. So if you were
asking for a guess, there's no way this is kicking
off before nine pm Eastern. It's going to be a
late night in Pittsburgh. Fans were initially asked to leave
their seats. Apparently they can be back now, but even
the broadcast, the national TV broadcast is not at the
stadium at this point. We can tell you as far
(19:57):
as the enact is. Dallas is without linebacker Mike Arsons
tonight in his high ankle sprain. Dallas wide receiver Brandon
Cooks is on IR with a knee injury. Trey Lance
is the emergency third quarterback. Russell Wilson is the emergency
third quarterback for the Steelers, who are missing injured running
backs Jalen Warren. Also, Cordero Patterson is inactive at running
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back linebacker Alex Heighsmith as well. We'll get to the
rest of the NFL or some of the rest of
the NFL in a moment. Updating the baseball playoffs on
FS one right now, Padres with two homers, lead three
to nothing in LA in the bottom of the second inning.
The Dodgers in their last five playoff games in the
first inning have allowed thirteen runs in those five playoff games,
(20:40):
including three last night, including a Fernando Tatist junior homer
in the first tonight, David peralta ex Dodger with a
two run homer in the second off, LA starter, and
LA native Jack Flaherty. We were talking about Mookie Betts
of the Dodgers in segment one. It looked like Bets
in his first at bat hit it out, but the
fielder Jerks and Profar of the Padres reached into the
(21:03):
fans in the left field seats and stole it for
an out and impressive catch, but it's three to nothing
San Diego, bottom of the second thrilling playoff game in Philadelphia. Earlier,
Phil's beat the Mets seven to six with a run
in the bottom of the ninth. The Mets had tied
it in the top of the ninth on a two
run homer. After Edwin Diaz of the Mets allowed three
runs in the bottom of the eighth added all up
(21:24):
that best of five tied and a game apiece. The
two American League Division series continued tomorrow. NASCAR victory for
Ricky Stenhouse, the Texas Longhorns are back to number one
in the new AP College Football Poll, and we have
an early nominee for Game of the Year in the NFL.
Baltimore in overtime won at Cincinnati today forty one to
thirty eight despite five touchdown passes from Joe Burrow. Justin
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Tucker tied at lighton regulation with a fifty six yard
field goal. He hit the game winner, a short field
goal right after a Derrick Henry fifty one yard run.
Henry today with his one hundredth career touchdown. He's over
ten thousand yards rushing in his career as well. Houston
won on a fifty nine yard field goal final play
twenty three to twenty over Buffalo. At Jacksonville, the Jags,
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who were zero to four, kicked a forty nine yard
field goal with under twenty seconds left to beat Indy
thirty seven to thirty four. Wins for Chicago and Miami.
Wins for Washington and Minnesota, which took the London game
twenty three seventeen over the Jets, Vikings five and oh
Denver came back to beat Las Vegas, Green Bay one
at the Rams, Giants over Seattle, and Arizonta wins at
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San Francisco on a field goal with about a minute
a half left, twenty four to twenty three. San Francisco's
record two and three oh and three in conference updating.
Dodgers have bases loaded, no outs, bottom of the second
down three to nothing to the Padres against X Dodger
You Darvish, who, he says, sarcastically, they really love at
Dodger Stadium, Back to you, great.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Stuff, Steve as always and love the inflection in his
voice what he mentions the forty nine ers situation. We'll
get to that later for sure. Live tire rag dot
Com Studios, Mark with Itty from Salam. Glad you're with
us Week five NFL and yeah, we're still catching our breath.
But before we get to all of the teams and people,
(23:13):
we need to rip because there's always plenty at this hour.
Can we go to the other direction for a second.
I might end up starting off every single show by
complementing your prediction. And we make tons of predictions, so
there's sure to be some that are right and plenty
that are sure to be wrong. But there are certain
ones to me that stand out, especially the ones that
(23:35):
are a little eye popping and ear popping at the beginning,
and then they look really good. So I'm just gonna
say every week that you said that the Washington Commanders
are going to win the NFC East, and I don't
know if that all is totally gonna happen, but what
I am really truly starting to believe is that their
quarterback is the next big thing in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Just watching this young man play, it is a different
Washington team. They got it right. Ownership, draft, coach, they
got it all right. And when you get it all right,
we saw a team come from nowhere last year who
got it all right, and that was the Houston Texans. Right.
(24:20):
It starts there, It starts with the new coach, it
starts with the pick and the draft, and then you build,
you build around that, and that's what they've done in Washington.
That's why I felt like making that type of prediction
at the beginning of the year because it just felt
like it has such similar qualities of what Houston did
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the year prior, and it's spot on. It's spot on,
and they are musty TV. This young man is going
to throw the ball down the field and look, he's
not going to be eighty He's not going to have
an eighty percent completion rate all year. So if that's
your expectation watching them play, then turn the television off
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because it's impossible. But what he can do is he
can continue to get better to lead his team, and
we're watching that happen right now and they have a,
you know, a stranglehold on that division this early into
the year. And I'm excited for.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Him, no doubt, and it's not just a statistical thing.
Like I think whoever grabbed Jaden Daniels on their fantasy
team is probably really excited. But today wasn't anything crazy statistically.
He threw for two thirty eighty out a touchdown. He
did throw one interception, which was actually it was a
great play by a Browns defender down by the goal line,
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not a pass that I would call a boneheaded throw
at all. He ran for eighty two yards. I'm just noticing,
you know, like when you and you'll you'll relate to
this if you're a parent, when you have a newborn
or any kid that's like under two. Let's say you
go away for a week on business. When you come back,
(26:08):
you're like, oh my god, it's a completely different person
because the growth is so rapid. Each week they've got
new words, or they're able to grab things, or they're
able to walk or whatever. Like it all happens so fast.
And that's what I feel like when I'm watching Jaden Daniels.
When you go back to week one, I'm like, oh,
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he's good, but he throws to his running backs and
his tight ends. He can't get it outside. The numbers
are down the field, yet five weeks later and Terry
McLaurin is bawling and Jaden is already more mature with
the way he runs. They've been coaching him hard to
not take hits. He's been doing a good job of it.
So the poise, the comfort, I don't even really care
(26:54):
about the stats right now. The poise and the comfort
are so evident when you want and then if you
haven't seen him, here's how you can tell. Just go
look at the standings, because that's what a team can
look like when they have a quarterback that's making good decisions.
Doesn't even matter if they complete every pass, but when
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you're managing the game in addition to having some elite
physical skills, that's how you win NFL games by three
touchdowns and and and that's what they've been doing the
last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, it's it's amazing to watch. We spend so much
time criticizing young quarterbacks or young our coordinators who put
young quarterbacks in bast situations. I love the short shining
the spotlight on a team and an individual who stepped
into that role and and and has done a miraculous job.
(27:48):
So shout out to him. I don't want to get
too far away from this Jets conversation, okay, because it's
in It's more than an Aaron Rodgers theme, right, And
I like Robert sala I know Robert Sala. He was
a defensive assistant when I was in Houston, So you know,
I know Robert. I'm pulling yeah, Robert.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
No, let's let's let's let hear Let's let's do a
little bit more of this coming up because I kind
of came away. It's interesting you came away with this
thought this morning. I felt the exact same way that
it was headed that way last week with your home
loss to the Denver Broncos. This one. Look, you were
the underdog, but you're not wrong. Uh, you're not wrong.
(28:30):
And their situation is getting bad fast and and I
don't really know what the long term answer is, so
we can stay right there. Coming up next and then
also at the top of the hour, I have a
very specific question for one of the other AFCAS teams
with you from Salama, Mark Wellard, and this is Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
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Speaker 1 (29:02):
Okay, it's tie rag dot com Studios. That is he
from Salama, Mark Whelard Fox Sports Radio. It's supposed to
be the back end of red zone radio, but it's
hard to get in the red zone when you're not
even allowed in the stadium. So lightning situation in Pittsburgh
Bill's Cowboys stinks for you on the East Coast, But
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those of us in the West Coast, I guess they're
gonna get to watch football all the way till bedtime tonight.
If you are a Cowboys or a Steelers fan and
you got school or work early in the morning, just
call out, now, call out, call out now, Come on,
hop some priorities in life. Football games are more important
(29:46):
than everything. So send a text to the boss. You're
gonna be late tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Don't be fired. Don't get fired, and be calling up
to the station tonebo Mark told me to quit my job.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I was. I was making fun on Friday because my
weekday partner was like, I gotta go to a He's
got a two year old and he's like, we got
to go to a birthday party this weekend. And I said,
when's the birthday party. And you know how it is
when they turn two and you invite like the whole class.
So you got to invite the whole class everybody, right,
(30:22):
And these families don't even know each other. You're like,
just because little Bobby and little Benny are at the
same preschool together doesn't mean we're friends. So you don't
know what kind of family this is. But I can
take a guess what kind of family it is when
they set a party on the first weekend in October
at three o'clock on a Sunday, I know what kind
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of family that is. EFN my call that not my
kind of family. I'm like, you're not going to this party.
Got to go to this party, man. Then of course
we got off the ear and he's like, I'm not
going to the party. I'm like, of course you're not
going to the party. Come on, man, Like you gotta
have some awareness. What the heck is it? What's a
(31:05):
Saturday for? Or what's I don't know, Like, you know,
I know some people are college fans, but like know
your audience.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah that's all you're doing the party on Sunday. You
can miss me exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yeah, Like you got to be thinking.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
About already get together. What couples dinners?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Hey, you got a two year old born in October.
You teach them young, you say, listen, your birthday is
October sixth, but we celebrated, so we celebrated in March.
That's it. We're going to celebrate your half birthday. That's
the way it is. Here's dinner, shut up. That's the
way I'm doing it.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I got summer birthdays. Everybody in my family was born
in the summer. We can have it on any day.
It's all good.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
There you go, there you go, and everybody's out of town,
so no one's coming anyway. It doesn't matter. Right there
you go, Eddie, all right, let's keep going with the
jet man. So you got you got more to say.
If I do think like they're two and three and
fair or foul, I do think Robert sala as it
stands in this moment, he's gonna have a hard time
getting through the end.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Of the year. This is the problem I'm having. When
you're in a and when you're like it was ten
to nothing and you're in you're in your twenty six
yard line and it's fourth and two or whatever. You
went the third and two. You tried to run it,
it didn't work, and so instead of taking the points
in a ten point game in the first quarter, you
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elect to go for it and don't get it.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
To me, those are the mistakes that will get you fired.
Right this whole analytics well, the analytics says, but you
have to understand the team that you have. You have
to understand what points on the board would do for
your team when you're down ten to nothing coming off
(33:00):
a week where you couldn't score. That's the issue that
I'm having. I don't care what analytics says. You have
to be able to take the temperature and read the field,
read the room, read the sideline. And when you don't
do that, that's when I start to lose a little
(33:23):
bit of faith. And like I said, I know Robert,
I'm a fan of his, but when you start doing
things like that, when you look at the stats of
this game, they were eerily close. Two hundred and fifty
four total yards, two hundred and fifty three total yards right,
(33:44):
three sacks, four sacks, neither one rushed over rushed fo
one hundred yards. Penalties eight and eleven, separated by you
know one eight for seventy six, eleven for eighty. So
when you start comparing, you're like, oh, okay, I get it.
I get it. Turnover turnovers, Right, you lose the turnover battle.
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But not only is three to two, but not only that,
you give up a pick six. So the thing that
you brought Aaron Rodgers in to do, which was not
be fooled by anything defensively. Right, when you're talking this
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level of elite passer, there's very few things that can
fool you because you've seen it all. And to watch
Aaron Rodgers get fooled over and over again and this game,
that's why I'm like, oh, we have a problem. This
is an issue because if you don't give up the
pick six, you take the three points, you win the game.
(35:00):
And I know if it's a fifth, if I was
a fifth, we'd all be drunk. But all I'm saying
is the decisions that are being made are now more
glaring than ever. And yes, it's not time to jump
out to windle there two and three, but this has
cause for alarm for me.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I agree with you. And here's the thing. It looks
a little less silly, it feels a little less silly.
You know, Zach Wilson running around and you like couldn't
see pass rushers that were coming directly at him, not
on his blind side. So like it looks cleaner because
there's credibility at the quarterback position. But the output is
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the exactly the same. Their offense is exactly the same
as it was last year in terms of its firepower
and its ability to get up over twenty points in
a football game. It's pretty much the exact same thing.
We're not done with the AFC East at all. There's
a big question looming over one of the other teams
that's next Sunday Night football is turning into Pac twelve
(36:07):
after dark. We'll find out when this thing actually ends
up happening, and of course keep you up to date.
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I wonder if you've counted this up, do you know
how many teams right now as we sit just right now, snapshot.
How many teams in the AFC have a winning record?
The answer is six. How many teams go to the
playoffs in the AFC, the answer is more than six.
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So if you're two and three, because by the way,
of those six winning record teams, one of them is
the Broncos, for God's sakes, So if you're two and three,
and this is maybe sort of the other side of
the coin of what we were just talking about with
the Jets, are you're fine, You're great, but you're fine.
Everything's okay if you get things going turned around and
(37:17):
in the right direction. And let's take that conversation from
the Jets and run it to one of their division mates.
That Miami Dolphins are playing right now some of the
ugliest football I've ever seen at the NFL level.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Unwatchable.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
It's completely unwatchable. And if I'm Tua, I'm out in
the streets as soon as I'm healthy going. That's why
you paid me fifty two. Do you still have any
questions about my ability as an NFL quarterback? Am I elite?
Am I one of the top five? Maybe not, but
look at the difference. Look at the difference tyreek Hill
(37:59):
and Jada and Waddle have been rendered insignificant when Tua
is not there. But my question, man, oh gosh, oh gosh,
I mean the top of the draft board. If you
do want to take a snapshot of it, think of
what people were doing. Christian McCaffrey, tyreek Hill, Brece Hall.
(38:22):
Good lord. But anyway, I got this question about the
Miami Dolphins. I brought it up to you two or
three weeks ago, and my curiosity continues. Why have more
phone calls not been made? This is still sitting right
there for you, especially after today you grinded one out,
(38:45):
you ended up in the wind column. Why are you
not doing more things to find different people to play
quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. Why is this job not
posted on LinkedIn? I don't understand. And a week and
a half ago, it was like snoop unt Ley, way
(39:06):
do you see this? Well, now we have twice What
is happening? Where is Ryan Tannehill? Where is like the
backup quarterbacks by the way that other teams are trotting
out Andy Dalton and Joe Flacco. Where is the phone
call to the Steelers to beg with like there are
(39:29):
so many questions, so many different things you could do
here other than what they're doing to get their team
back on track at least until Tour returns, if he returns.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Yeah. I never thought, uh, when they signed, or when
people were talking about them, you know, overpaying tool or
something like that, I never thought it was because of
his ability. I just thought people were like, Okay, well,
we now do understand that he's has you know, injury
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concerns in terms of concussions, right, I mean, the world
knows that. So for me, it was always like, we know,
when he's healthy and he's playing, he's phenomenal. The numbers
speak for themselves. The proof is in the pudding. But
could he last a whole season? Two, three, ten? To me,
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that was you know, that was how I felt about
the contract, the length, the money, Like, could is this
a good investment? Because if he's on the field, one
thousand percent it is. But if he's unavailable like he
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is now and maybe in the future when he does
come back from concussion protocol, then now you have a
very expensive car you can never drive. And so for me,
it was always about his health and not his ability
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to throw the ball. We know he can with that,
with that group, with that, with that offense, Mike McDaniels,
those receivers, the running backs, we've seen him put up
Cray numbers, yep. And so for me it was always about,
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all right, you know, can he stay healthy? Well, obviously
that question has been answered sooner than we all would
have liked it answered. And that's the scary part because
when you're dealing with concussions, and you're dealing with people
who are more susceptible to concussions than others, other guys
can get banged around and hit their head a hundred
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times and not have these c of effects. Remember this
is the same guy two years ago who was like
he took himself out of the lineup because he was like,
man I got I had a concussion in the game
last week and didn't know about it until Tuesday. Right,
this is this is this is real stuff. So he
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was at home on a day off and was like, oh,
something's not right. That and the Bengals game and then
the short week Buffalo game and the whole world got
to see him seize up like that. That was troubling
to me. It's still troubling to me because here we
are you know, a year? What a year and some
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change removed from those images of him on Thursday Night Football.
So that is my biggest concern with the movie forward.
And you're right, they should be ringing the phones, shaking
the trees, whatever they have to do to get a
former starting quarterback, not someone who was the twelfth alternate
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in the Pro Bowl. Right to me, that makes sense.
You gotta go find someone. Where is Nick Foles at?
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Well? Right, like, I don't know where Nick Foles? You
know what?
Speaker 2 (43:22):
And then somebody and I'm just telling, just being you know, silly,
but you know, Jake Plumber, Like somebody's got Plumber.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Somebody ad campaign with the I don't even know what
the product is, but the ad campaign with the backup quarterbacks,
you know, they're like, you know, I think Josh Dobbs
did one. Yes, Yes, yes, Josh Dobbs did one. Keen
ke Well, I saw that commercial today and I went,
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they're available. Josh Dobbs is available. Hang on, it said, well,
he's the third stringer with the San.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Francisco is available, third available.
Speaker 1 (44:01):
Remind me where Mike McDaniel came from. I'm sorry, where
was he before the Miami Dolphins. He is a protege
of Kyle Shanahan. If Kyle Shanahan thinks that Josh Dobbs,
who also worked last year with Kevin O'Connell and won
football games, same type of offensive system, if that guy
could be had for a seventh round draft picking, and
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he could, then you can have him. And I'm not
saying that that means now suddenly you're perfect and you're contender,
but you could score I don't know, twenty points rather
than trying to win games with twelve, and you might,
you might win a few more games. And they know
what we don't know, which is when realistically to what
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might be back And if it's if it's not going
to be this year at all, then maybe okay, fine,
go ahead and lose games and get a draft back
right the case. But if he's gonna be back week ten,
then go try to win two or three of the
next four and give yourself a realistic spot, because let's
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be real, you ain't gonna play the Patriots every week, no,
and that might be the only team in the NFL
you could beat right now doing what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Yeah, you're absolutely right, and look they Mike has connections
all over the league, right, and we don't know if
they've reached out. Are just people just like, no, we're
not gonna do anybody any favors, Like, we don't know
what that is. But to us watching from the outside end,
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it just looks like you guys are just okay with
how things are going, and you're in the thick of
this thing. Nobody, nobody, There are no world beaters out here.
Even the best team in the league in Kansas City
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looks like they're on life support and the season just started, right,
no one is going out in dominating.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
It is crazy. You're you're absolutely right. Like if I
just said, hey, when you turn on the TV on Sunday,
who looks amazing? Who looks amazing? I would argue, no one.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
And and and to your point, this is a prime
their schedule, isn't that difficult?
Speaker 1 (46:28):
No? No, I mean, even look at what they.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
Got the Colts, Arizona, the Bills. That's rivalry, right, that's division.
They got, the Rams, they got the Raiders and the
pat This you gotta seize this moment, dude.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
They've got in theory, because they've also now get a
bye next week. In theory, they've got one game between
now and Thanksgiving that like looks really hard on paper.
And if you did have just someone sort of kind
of capable, let's keep playing with Josh Dobbs. If you
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add Josh Dobbs, I got one hundred bucks says you
can go three and three in those next six games,
and you can then be five and six on Thanksgiving
night when you go to lambeau Field. And I think
that there's a very fair chance that two a tongue
of I low is playing that game, because that's week thirteen.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
Yeah, you're not going to be able to roll out
with Hunt Lee. And I mean unless you, like you said,
unless they're like, okay, we're just playing for two is
not going to be back. We need a draft pick.
We need one of these young quarterbacks Shador, We need
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beck right, one of these projected first round draft picks
coming out out of college. So we're not going to
middle around.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
I don't see you doing that with the amount of
money you just invested right into it. I don't see
that being fiscally responsible.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
No, you use the draft pick on a different position.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Yes, yeah, so it just it bodes for them to
go out and try to find someone who started, who's
won games at a high enough clip to where they
can take advantage of the talent that you have offensively.
Speaker 1 (48:38):
Coming up next, I have a question about the position
we almost never talk about, and I am genuinely curious
how you one of the people who used to bang
a helmet against somebody else on every play. I'm genuinely
curious how you will answer not only this question but
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the opinion that I have about this position in this moment.
So well, you're going to do that. Coming up next,
it's Week five with EA from Salama Mark Wheler. This
is Fox Sports Radio. Okay, we do got a little
something for you here, ty rag dot com Studios. Twenty
five minutes from now. That's the plan. We'll see if
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mother nature cooperates. But the plan right now for Sunday
night football between the Steelers and the Cowboys is going
to be twenty we'll call it twenty three minutes from
right now, which is probably going to put the end
of the game somewhere in the neighborhood at one in
(49:45):
the morning Eastern time. Like I said, they call the
boss and call the schools too, and see if you
can just make tomorrow minimum day you are, especially if
you're all the way in the east there with the Steelers.
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Mark Willardy from Salam Okay, I really do want your
genuine reaction here, because I know the football players look
at the kickers as a sort of alternate version of
a human.
Speaker 7 (50:21):
Is that correct? It's right, It's close to that. Yeah,
come on, right, Like, I know you guys are out there.
I've watched it. You're practicing, you're sweating.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
You're right, especial training camp, right, you're going crazy, and
they're practicing their golf swing. I get it. I get it.
And then you get out into the game and you
guys go at it for a full hour and everything
is difficult and painful and awful, and then we trot
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this little guy out to the field to figure out
who won the game. So not your favorite And I
get it. And so sometimes we take that to mean
the other players love it when the kickers are forced
into a situation where for once they've got to stick
their head in there and they're willing to do it.
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Makes them feel like a member of the team. Right,
allow this alternate thought. Don't do it, don't ever do it.
Don't go in there. You don't belong in there. Nothing
good is going to happen. If you go in there.
Once in a while, you might actually make a game
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saving tackle, but that's a once in a decade occurrence.
What's much more likely if you look around the league
is something is going to snap or tear, and your
team now needs to go find someone else who does
what you do, and they may find someone who does
what you do really well for much cheap, and you
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may never have your job back again. So first, before
I explain the details of what I'm getting at, your
thoughts on a kicker, whether it be a kickoff or
a punt, really sticking his neck in there, like into traffic,
into all that's going on.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
That's not your job. It's not your job. There are
ten other people on that field to do that job.
Now you can get in the way, you can make
them change directions. Number One, you don't know how to tackle,
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you don't know how to hit. Pretty sure, you've never
played another position outside of kicking, so you wouldn't even
train like everybody else. You didn't grow up with the
Oklahoma drill. You didn't do nine on seven. Are a
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host of other team drills, So just do your job,
and when you do others people's job, you get hurt.
And what happens is when you lose your place kicker,
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it changes the whole dynamic of the game yep by
a mile.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
So all of this this particular week is inspired by
forty nine Ers kicker Jake Moody, who, on a kickoff
decided to not only attempt to tackle DJ Dallas, he
attempted to tackle DJ Dallas at about the thirty five
yard line with other forty nine Er defenders, as you mentioned, Ephraim,
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people paid to do that, literally still right behind him.
This was not a game saving tackle. This was not
going to be a kick return for a touchdown. This
was Jake deciding, you know what, it's machismo time, and
I'm not only going to go in there. I'm gonna
lead with my hat. Let's do it. Let's see what
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this is all about. Let's lead with the hat. Well,
Jake got squashed in such a way because he took
DJ Dallas's shoulder straight to the head to where his
body literally did some sort of an accordion move which
led to a high ankle sprain on his right side.
That's his kicking leg almost broke his leg. I'm surprised
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that thing didn't snap in half. If you watch the play,
don't go in there. You're now out for a few weeks,
and the forty nine ers will audition new kickers, and
who knows where that's all going to go, but you're
out for at least a few weeks. And the way,
it'll be the thing that'll get tucked kind of under
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the surface of the forty nine Ers losing to the
Cardinals today by one point. There were a lot of
things that led to it defensively, offensively, penalties, turnovers, special teams,
lots of weird things. But I want to highlight something
that happened early in the second half when the forty
nine ers had some penalties in a sack and they
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ended up with a fourth and twenty three from just
outside the opponent's twenty five yard line. That is known
as a rather easy field goal.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
It's called a chip shot, that is.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
A north of seventy five percent chance at three points
in the National Football League. The Niners decided to go
for it because they had no kicker and really all
they were trying to do was maybe chunk off about
fifteen yards to play the field position game. They didn't
even attempt to get it because the Cardinals just sat
back and waited at the line to gain nothing you
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could do, but they had no one who could try
a field goal of that distance, so they just went
for it and lost by one point. There you have it.
Don't go in there.
Speaker 2 (56:16):
Not your job, man, especially in this new kickoff format.
This is not what we're doing. And it's so crazy
when when terrible things happen, you're like, man, if I
would have just right, I had no business being over here.
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I knew I should have came over here. But sometimes
that impulse to do more, to be more, kicks in
and you put yourself in. Not only yourself, but you
don't have a backup. That's the difference. It's the only
position that doesn't have a backup on the entire field.
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Think about that. It's the only position that doesn't have
a backup. That's how valuable you are. That's why no
one talks to you.
Speaker 1 (57:19):
Think about it.
Speaker 2 (57:21):
When you're a team is driving down the field in
the fourth quarter to tie the game up or to
win by one or two points, how many people do
you see crowded around the kicker who's behind the bench
with his ball and his net. How many people do
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you see over there pumping him up, are telling him
he got this, or he's gonna do this, and he's
gonna do that. How many people do you see doing that? None?
Speaker 1 (57:55):
None. Yeah, a kicker is treated every day like he's
a pitcher that's taking a no hit into the eighth inning.
Speaker 2 (58:01):
Don't even look over there. So with that knowledge, don't
run up Darren. Especially the new kickoff format. Oh my gosh, bruh.
You should never pass someone to go make a tackle.
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There is no one left. He was my kicker in
fantasy football too.
Speaker 1 (58:30):
Say yeah, yeah, yeah, mine too too. I mean a.
Speaker 2 (58:36):
Got me a cup lord?
Speaker 1 (58:38):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (58:42):
Do you know who I bet? You know who I
bet who can kick?
Speaker 1 (58:45):
And I know he would stick his head in there
when he needed to also, and he would be welcome
to do so.
Speaker 2 (58:50):
He not only would he be able to kick, he'd
be able to tackle punt the whole nine yards. That's
our own Swiss army knife. Steven S K di Seger.
Speaker 4 (59:05):
I'm not stupid. I wouldn't do what I saw if
it's just kind of by the way.
Speaker 3 (59:10):
The good news for the NFL game Dallas at Pittsburgh tonight.
Players are on the field. People, it has stopped raining.
They're done with the lightning storm. It's not due to
rain the rest of the night. And the problem wasn't
the rain and the little hail they got as well,
it was the lightning. Fans are back in the stands again,
players on the field, and they're due to kick off
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in about fifteen minutes after this long weather delay.
Speaker 1 (59:33):
Tonight, if only the Chargers were playing, I would like
unload every dollar I had on the Chargers because it'd
be like God is speaking to us right now.
Speaker 3 (59:44):
But it's because of lightning bolts and lightning bolts Pittsburgh.
You know what I thought with such a lightning I
thought Brady Quinn was in the stadium, because it seems
every other Fox game he's done the last five years,
if there's a lightning day, he's delay. He's involved the
Steelers this year, allowing just thirteen points a game. So
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we'll see when we actually get a game going what
it'll be like, especially after this long delay. Pittsburgh is
three and one, Dallas two and two again, about fifteen
minutes away from kick Arizona on a field goal at
San Francisco with about a minute and a half left
won the game twenty four to twenty three, and that
kick was by Chad Ryland, a thirty five yarder. Matt
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Prater of Arizona was out with a sore knee. The
Giants won at Seattle twenty nine to twenty. Giants, with
one minute left blocked a field goal and returned it
for a touchdown. Green Bay won at the Rams twenty
four to nineteen. Jordan Love two touchdown passes in the
third quarter, both to tight end Tucker Kraft. And at Denver,
the Broncos have won three in a row. They trailed
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ten to nothing to the Raiders after the first quarter.
In fact, Denver had lost eight straight to the Raiders
head to head. They came back for a win thirty
four eighteen Todays, the Raiders threw three interceptions. SUPERB game
at Cincinnati, Baltimore wins in overtime forty one thirty eight.
Despite Joe Burrow's five touchdown passes, he had one interception.
Burrow was thirty of thirty nine through the air three
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hundred and ninety two yards, and yet the Bengals are
oh and three at home Houston won on a fifty
nine yard field goal on the final play twenty three
to twenty over Buffalo at Jacksonville, and the Jags were
zh to four. A win for the Jacksonville Jaguars on
a forty nine yard field goal with under twenty seconds left,
thirty seven to thirty four over Indianapolis Chicago at home.
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Three and o this year, after beating Carolina thirty six
to ten. By the way, it's Jaguars Bears next week
in London. Today in London, Minnesota went to five and oh,
beating the Jets twenty three seventeen. Miami a fifteen to
ten winner at New England Washington over Cleveland thirty four
to thirteen. If you haven't seen a Browns game, you
haven't missed much. Browns with just three first downs in
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the first half today. In every game so far this year,
the Browns have been held under twenty points and under
three hundred yards. They weren't even within sniffing distance of
three hundred yards in this one. Today, Texas Longhorns back
to number one in the new AP College Football Poll.
A NASCAR victory for Ricky Stenhouse at Talladega. Brad Keslowski
finished a close second in the WNBA playoffs best of
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five semifinals. Connecticut still alive after winning over Minnesota, New
York eliminated Las Vegas. The Celtics took another exhibition against
the Nuggets in Abu Dhabi, won thirty to one oh four,
although Denver's Nikola Jokic had twenty points in nineteen minutes.
As far as the baseball playoffs, the two American League
Division series continue tomorrow, Detroit at Cleveland, then Kansas City
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at the Yankees. The Mets played another thriller today, but Philadelphia,
with a run in the bottom of the ninth, beat
the Mets seven to six.
Speaker 4 (01:02:42):
The Mets had just.
Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Tied at top of the ninth on a two run
homer and on FS one as well. Right now, it's
the Padres leading the Dodgers in LA three to one
in the top of the sixth inning and two men
on with nobody out for San Diego, the uh, well,
let's just say good news in a game that you're
losing at home is that the starter is still actually
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in the game. For Los Angeles. By the time Jack
Flaherty had completed four innings, that already was the longest
postseason start by a Dodger pitcher in two years. Whoa,
that's how bad things have been.
Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Oh my, oh my gosh, say that again.
Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
They had not had a starting pitcher go four innings
in any playoff game in two years.
Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
And like the amount of money.
Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
Yeah, every year they do every year.
Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
And the Dodgers currently have seven starting pitchers on the
injured list. It's a four man rotation in the playoffs.
They have seven out.
Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
They've been trying to make tackles on kickoffs too, good, Lord,
stop doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
They're just trying to hit everybody.
Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
Right well, and they often do, they often. But yeah,
we'll keep tabs on that one too. Three to one.
Padres threatening for more in game two of that series.
Tyreck dot com Studios. Thank you, Steve. It's Mark Willard,
Thanks Steve from salam Hey. Following that kicker thing, is
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this the emotional response of a forty nine er fan
to say that, I think, surprisingly the NFC West might
be the worst division in football? No, no, no, no, no, no,
might go with me there, like right, and like again,
Seattle's three and two? But what what at home? To
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Daniel Jones that like, what what's happening? That division was
supposed to be one of the better divisions in football,
and like, yeah, it's not good. Nobody's good.
Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
No, it's it's it's weird. It's like it's like a
a you ever seen that show them. It's like a
Twilight Zone episode. Yeah, where things seem to be a
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certain way. It's like I remember them being this, and
then in reality it's not at all.
Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Okay, right, I mean, like black Mirry, let's go there
for a second though, because I know you have the
utmost respect for so many things that are going on
with the forty nine ers. Just spotlight them because they're
supposed to be the ones and they're two and three
and two of their losses have been absolute, just like
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comical collapses, to where you're watching what's happening and you're like,
there's no way that those eight things all just happened
in ten minutes. It's hard to do, right, and it's
so there's no way to look at it and go well,
at least in my opinion, it's the coach, it's the quarterback,
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it's the kicker, it's the defense, it's the offense. It's
an unbelievable series of events. This is what happened against
the Rams two weeks ago. It happened with the Cardinals today.
You know, from Moody getting hurt, changing the whole thing.
The defense can't stop James Connor, Jordan Mason fumbles as
the Niners were kind of like going in to end
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the game. It's just it's a constant flow. It's like
hitting two weeks ago. I likened it to hitting a
seven pick parlay. It's like, we're gonna need these wild
seven things to all happen in the next ten minutes,
and then they do. Who's that on?
Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Yeah, it's it's They've lost three games by a total
of ten points. Well, right, and two of them though,
like if it happened right, so.
Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Double digit leads fourth quarter of the whole deal.
Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
So when teams good teams, things like that happen, I
don't panic. I don't panic because it just takes an adjustment.
It just takes tapping into attention from detail. Now, so
let me explain to you how the Niners are feeling
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right now. They've been the standard in the NFC for
close to five years, and so what has the regular
season meant to the forty nine ers? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
Less, less and less.
Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
Every single year less and less. When you watch the show,
we talk about all the time receiver and you hear
de Bow and you hear Carrie, not Carrie Kittle Kittle
talk about what getting back to the super Bowl means.
(01:08:03):
There is a natural regular season hangover because you know
it doesn't matter. There's a natural lack of attention to
detail when you continue to repeat it over and over again.
(01:08:23):
You know, games in September October don't dictate what's gonna happen.
You've been ten in oh and nine, in oh and seven,
and oh you've been ten and three at one point,
like so it the fatigue is that because they haven't
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had the payoff. So it becomes a grind. Oh my god,
we gotta go through this just to get back to
the only thing we want to do, and that's to
play in the Super Bowl and win. So you lose
fourcus and you the attention to detail slips a little.
And it's just not players. It happens with the coaching
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staff and ownership as well. You know your team is
good enough to compete with everybody. When you get to
the postseason. There's a long way from the postseason. Whether
you limp in or you have a first round. By
the results are the results, and I think that's what
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you're seeing from them. On the flip side of that,
you look at the AFC standard and that's Kansas City, right.
Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
They've looked awful so completely.
Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
They're five and zero, but they are easily one call,
two plays away from being two and two, one and two,
one and three.
Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
And so it's just because Andy Reid and that staff
and Patrick Mahomes are able to eliminate in the very
last moment what would normally be an unforgettable game are
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a forgettable game. Excuse me. That's the difference. So when
you talk about the Niners, the talent level and all
of that, it doesn't bother me because they're literally just
biting time. It's not like the NFC is full of
world beaters. It's not like, oh, no, we've dug ourself
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a hole.
Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
No, you want to hear the craziest thing of all
they play in four days. If they beat Seattle, they're
in first places.
Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
And that's where they are right now. Mentally, it's so
hard to get up for the fight over and all
you want to do is go to the twelfth round.
You mean, oh my god, I gotta fight eleven rounds
just to get to the twelfth round. So you start
taking punches you wouldn't normally take. You may lose two, three,
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four rounds, knowing our knockout powers in the twelfth round
are the eleventh round going into the twelfth round. You
show up for the eleventh round and you got to
try to figure out a way to win the twelfth
And that's where they are right now. So I would say, hey, man,
don't panic, don't sell your stock, don't jump out the window.
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Just know that it's this is the fatigue, this is
the grind. That was very telling having them talk about
getting back to the super Bowl the beginning of last year,
how everyone was focused on that they did it and
they still lost.
Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
Yeah it's too soon, Yeah yeah, Okay, more on that
coming up. Plus, is there a team that has now
shown that their backup quarterback is better than their starter
even though he didn't win today, we'll tell you who
we're talking about coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.
Okay with e from salam Mark Whillard. These aretheti rag
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dot com studios. I want to get this off real quick.
What do you think I mean? Is it obvious to
you that Joe Flacco is better than Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
Oh yeah, of course, yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
And I mean I get the part of that that's
not fair because Anthony is still I'm trying to think,
what did he start last year? Five games?
Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
This year four? Like, he hasn't even start ten football
games in his career. So and Joe Flacco has started
twelve hundred I think. So, Like, I get it, that's
not fair. But what do you do in a situation
like this where the locker room knows you have to
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play Anthony Richardson, but the locker room knows he's not
the one who gives you the best chance to win
in score points?
Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
You you don't play him until he's ready. And it
depends on what your season goals are. If your season
goals are to make it to the playoffs, then you
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don't play them. If your season goals are to develop him,
then you put him in and you develop. The only
way he's going to develop at this stage is to
play him. And so it comes down to a question
of are you competing for a divisional title? Are are
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you trying to find out if he can play quarterback?
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (01:14:07):
It sure does I mean they're two and three the Colts.
It's different than the Panthers. You know, the Panthers made
this move to Andy Dalton. I still don't think they're
gonna win a lot of games. They're certainly more viable,
though they give you a better game, they're much more watchable.
Here are the Indianapolis Colts. The Texans are four and one.
The Colts are now two and three, so there are
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two games back. But I also, as I mentioned, already
two and three is still totally in the thick of
the playoff chase. I mean, I don't think the Colts
are in tank mode by any stretch.
Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
No, I don't believe so either. But you do have
to figure out if he can play quarterback. So if
that is your priority, then he The only way you're
going to figure that out is if he plays, So
you have to make a decision. That's the reality of it.
Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
We talked about it last week when Joe Flacco came in,
and it's kind of a crazy story. I don't know why.
It's all just so believable that Joe Flacco now can
go team to team and he keeps getting thrown in there,
and then all of the sudden boom, all the receivers pop,
the whole offense pops. You know, they lost today, but
they scored over thirty points and so I don't know, man.
(01:15:33):
You know, if Richardson comes back and doesn't play well,
it feels like the leash has to be pretty short.
All right? Coming up next, Edgar Allan Poe is going
to join us on the show. All right, The Cowboys
on the board with a three, The Steelers on the
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DeVante Adams when you and I get back together again
next week. Both have been involved in the rumors. I
think the Steelers the only one. Realistically, however, you translate it,
you tell me what it means. When Davante Adams through
all this simply posts on social media a picture of
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Edgar Allan Poe, whose most famous works include The Raven.
What does it all mean?
Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Oh my gosh? Social media crypt sot right.
Speaker 1 (01:16:53):
I gotta say this, Cryptic messages are more fun than
scrubbing the gram because you are mad at your team.
I find this to be at least more fun.
Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
That's true. It is. Look, I don't know where you know.
It depends on teams have a unique opportunity two what
do you what do you say he would he would
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garner in terms of a draft pick?
Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
Well, not a one the NBA, right, So it's not
It's not a one, and we'll go from there. And
I think the Raiders know that, which is why the
reporters started the idea on Twitter last week that the
Raiders want a two plus, which means they may not
even get that. That's what they're hoping for. I think
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they're going to at least get a three. Depends on
what comes with it. Is it two picks? Is it
one pick? Is there a player? All of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
Well, let me tell you this, because conventionally are common knowledge,
is it won't be a one. Then someone could jump
the line. Let's just say there's a team who normally
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picks in the late first round, and they don't feel
like their late first round pick is as valuable as
say a top fifteen pick, top ten, top five, and
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the going rate is a three and a five and
a six or two in a seven. Who's willing to
pull the trigger for Davante Adams in his prime and
you have everything else you need? Can you see a
(01:19:07):
team doing that? Yeah, so that's what you know. Conventionally,
it would be oh, well, you know to with that knowledge, right,
Let's who are those teams? Buffalo, they're usually picking in
the bottom of the bottom half of the draft. Kansas
(01:19:29):
City as always taking the thirty second pick in the draft.
Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
Right, but stop stop right there? Can I remove Kansas City?
Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
I understand it, I know what that means. I get that,
But I'm just saying, sure, Baltimore, Baltimore. Sure, right, So
there could be a very unique situation happening where you
offer up a two, you know, three and a five
(01:20:01):
or or whatever. But someone might be hungry enough to
offer up a main dish, right, a meal out of
those teams that customarily pick in the back half of
the draft. If you feel you are one player away,
(01:20:26):
if Davante Adams lands in Baltimore, there's going to be
a problem in the AFC. If Davante Adam lands in Buffalo,
there's going to be a problem in the AFC. You think, yeah, yeah,
I do, and so you have to keep Now he
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can go elsewhere. He can go to other you know,
he can go to Green Bay, or you can go
to you know, a bevy of other two the whole NFC. Right,
you can, you can put them anywhere. But those teams
that I specifically mentioned have the ability to really put
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pressure on others and jump the line if that's what
they want to do.
Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
I don't think that I'm even hearing much about teams
in the NFC. The Cowboys have already publicly said no,
the fairy Niners are right, the forty nine ers are
this weird dark horse that but on the inside, no,
And that was also based on Brandon ayuk frustration, which
for at least one week goes away because he finally
(01:21:41):
played well. And other than that, it's the Saints, the
New Orleans Saints. That's literally the only team in the
NFC that I find to even be realistic in this discussion.
Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
What if he landed in.
Speaker 1 (01:22:02):
Well, why would you do that if you're the Lions?
Is that what they need to get better? I get what.
I know how you're gonna answer that. Everybody wants Devonte Adams,
but you just broke off thirty million for aman Ross
Saint Brown. You've got draft capital and excitement surrounding Jamison Williams.
You want to go redistribute the target share when everything
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seems to be going very well.
Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
I get it, I understand. But as we do know,
Detroit will do some strange things.
Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
Well, and they have through the years, especially at that position.
Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
Well look, but even heading back to the last game
of the season two years ago when they foolishly won
and gave up the first pick in the draft. Now
we all knew they wanted Hutchinson with the first pick
in the draft, but they went out and like that
(01:22:57):
whole situation could have changed just on the crazy idea
that we're going to win this last game. Because it right,
like when you start making decisions like that that can
alter your future, right then you're like, oh, okay, well
(01:23:19):
anything is possible. So yeah, on paper, it's like, well,
why would you do that? You got Amoran Saint Brown,
but if you had Amaralan Saint Brown and Davante Adams.
Would that add value to your team? You were at
two decisions, two terrible decisions away from being in the
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super Bowl? Yep and so yep for a team that's
gotten a taste of a real meal, and they're usually
just eating appetizers, not even eating sorry, excuse me, you're
not even eating that hunger to get back to the table. Well,
(01:24:04):
it's almost insane. It's almost insane. So it's such a
he's such a dynamic weapon. He's such a game changer
to me that I can see someone doing something out
of the ordinary. And that's all I'm trying to hit on.
Speaker 1 (01:24:26):
Sure, Like no, and I this may not go.
Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
As conventionally as it normally will for a free agent.
You may a trade.
Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
Excuse me, I mean you may well be right. The
teams that I hear the most Saints, Bill's, Ravens, Jets,
those and I will bet that he ends up playing
for one of those one of those teams. But I
hear what you're saying. This is kind of it's quiet,
(01:24:56):
it's under the radar. I do think it's going to
happen this week, And maybe somebody is lying in the weeds.
Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
I will say this because soon as the first offer
goes out there, now you know where you stand, Oh totally.
As soon as that, hey, we're going to give you
a second and a fourth, uh whatever whatever? Now you know, okay,
I can, I can jump the line. Right, You've already
had the conversation of worst case scenario, what are you
(01:25:26):
willing to give up? And if it's anything better, then
what the offer is? You're jumping the line. That's how
I think about it. That's how I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
I got something to throw at you here, and it's this.
Are you familiar with the next gen analytics stat? Intended
air yards for quarterbacks in the NFL? Intended air yards? So,
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in other words, this is a metric that suggests some
information with regard to how far a quarterback is pushing
the ball down the field. Right, Not just hey I
dinked it and I dunked it and you ran, but
intended air yards ball in the air. Number one in
(01:26:21):
the NFL as of right now is Geno Smith. Number
two is CJ. Stroud, Number three is brock Purty. I
could give you the top five. Number four is Kirk
Cousins and number five is Joe Burrow nineteenth is Josh
(01:26:44):
Allen nineteenth. And I really think in this particular conversation
that matters. We have and you know this, we have
wild thoughts that I hear spew about quarterbacks in the NFL,
and the reputation certain quarterbacks have absolutely do not match
(01:27:09):
the way they actually play. You'll hear it. Josh Allen
and Patrick Mahomes, they're just hawking the ball all over
the place. They are, respectively, nineteenth and twentieth in the league.
But of course Brock Purdy, who do and did dunk
third in the league. So and we know because we've
(01:27:32):
had that conversation a thousand times, but especially now with
Stefan Diggs gone, and for that matter, Khalil Shakir Hurt.
Watch a Bills game and they've lost two games in
a row. And everything Josh Allen does is right in
front of him. And if he's got a receiver that
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can go downfield, it hasn't developed yet. They drafted Keon
Coleman early. Maybe he'll be that, but he's not yet.
And I look at a team that obviously is staring
at a division championship. If they just dot their eyes
and cross their t's and and they they don't want
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this player a from they need this player facts. So
if I'm the Bills, I've already called the Raiders and
I just say, here's the deal. We're gonna wait to
the end. You just call us, you tell us what
your best offer is, and we will beat it. Period.
Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
Go shopping that, Yeah, that's it. That to me, that's
the team. They have got to get this player because
that changes everything everything. The super Bowl is so gettable
this year.
Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
It changes it immediately. And so that's what I think.
He is the caliber of player where we're going to
see a different trade scenario. You know, normally there are
(01:29:14):
very few big trade blockbuster deals. Are trading of first
round draft picks are in the NFL. That's an NBA thing.
You you will mortgage, you know, your next four first
round draft picks in some cases, right you know, with
(01:29:35):
a KD got five first round draft picks.
Speaker 1 (01:29:38):
That's setting everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
But that's not very customary in in the NFL. It's
very rarely happens. Now, you may give up picks for
to move up in a draft, first round draft pick,
future first round draft picks to move up in a
draft but not not necessarily for player. But I think
this may be one of those situations to one of
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those key teams we just talked about that it would
make a world of difference and quite possibly put them
over the Kansas City Hump.
Speaker 1 (01:30:13):
While we're talking about things to do with the Las
Vegas Raiders, we'll stay right there. Coming up next with
Epram Salaam, I'm Mark Willard, and it's Fox Sports Radio, Okay,
Lon Tye Rag dot Com Studios with Ephram Salaam, I'm
Mark Willard. A three to three tie between the Cowboys
(01:30:34):
and Steelers. Very delayed start, they're still in the first quarter,
and Steve de Sager will be along with details here shortly.
All right, while we're talking about DeVante Adams, what if
we talk about Antonio Pierce for a second. Look. It's
been a minute and only a minute, so I don't
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think anything gets solidified necessarily anytime soon. He's in a
tough spot, but he is classically that interim coach that
comes in with an energy shift that was needed in
the moment, but that doesn't really have anything to do
with the long haul. Antonio was needed in that moment,
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but then to give him the job, to me, looks
like a big mistake. He looks totally overmatched, and I
know there's something that's unfair about that. It's not his
job in a short term to find a new quarterback
and they just don't have one. But at the same time,
when you look at the way all of these things
(01:31:43):
are being handled, and you remember what I said earlier
this year about how he handled the press conference the
day after Tua got hit, completely different scenario, nothing to
do with Davonte. I thought totally out of line for
a head coach to say what he said. It's one
thing to express compassion and care, that's wonderful, but to
(01:32:06):
openly and directly suggests that someone else's fifty two million
dollars per year investment in starting quarterback should unequivocally up
and leave the game, and you would suggest it directly
to him to me, out of line for another head
coach to say, I agree. Now you're right, yes, right,
And now there's this. Now there is a team that
(01:32:27):
is quickly looking like it's going to have a hard
time staying competitive in games. I don't know how on
earth you give up that many points to the Denver Broncos,
adding the DeVante Adams situation. We got co we're liking
things on Instagram. It just the whole thing has gone
(01:32:48):
so fast. He looks so underwater with everything he's doing
right now.
Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
It looks like it's a bit much. Now. They did
need his energy, yep. But I will say this, Things
look different when you don't have a quarterback. Things feel
(01:33:14):
different when you don't have a quarterback. Having a quarterback
can solve a lot of problems. Not having one can
cause a lot, and I think that's where we are.
They don't have enough talent offensively to compete when everybody
(01:33:36):
else is stocking up, So it puts them in a
position of you can only talk yourself into so many wins.
It's a good line, and so at a certain point,
you're gonna need the rubber to meet the road. You're
(01:33:56):
going to need somebody to come out and be able
to throw the ball down the field, and your only
best your best weapon on offense doesn't want to be there.
So it's not an ideal situation for a new coach
trying to find his way and trying to figure out
(01:34:18):
what type of team he has. That's where we are
right now, and I understand I understand that oh fumble,
Oh goodness, gracious Sach meet at the quarterback. TJ. White
is a difference maker. That's who they need and want
Michael Parsons to be. Michael Parsons is not that. Let
(01:34:39):
me just say that, Michael Parsons is not that. But
you can say, Miles Garrett is that. You can say,
you can say right, you can say, uh Bosa is that?
Speaker 5 (01:34:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
As considerable not This dude is gonna show up like
he is his brother. Yep, just more athletic. As crazy
as that sounds.
Speaker 1 (01:35:06):
I got t J. Watt and Fred Warner right now
as the two players who run away defensive side look
like they are just changing almost every play.
Speaker 2 (01:35:15):
They're playing with boys, yes, and not that way they're
playing amongst boys. Sound weird. It sounded weird coming out.
We wait wait wait wait, let me back, let me
back up.
Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
Hold on. I was like, hold on, Fred just called
he would like to talk to you. Hold on one
second anyway, Yes, Zach Fumble, Dak Prescott Steelers, grab it
and we're going the other way. I would also suggest
this though, for the Las Vegas Raiders, I get wanting
to slow play this, you know, act like we're not
(01:35:54):
sure how it's all gonna go. We'd like to keep
the leverage a boy if we don't get the right off,
or we're just to keep him and DeVante's hurt and
we'll put him back out there, and or you know,
let's wait till the offers get a little high. There's
no hurry. There's a lot of hurry. You got to
do this by Thursday, maybe by Wednesday. You have to
(01:36:16):
do this by Wednesday, because it's not being handled well.
It is sitting on everyone's shoulders. Watch a press conference
in Las Vegas right now. Nobody wants to ask Antonio
about anyone else. Nobody wants to talk about anything. It's
(01:36:36):
gathered media trying to find new ways to ask about
DeVante Adams, and Antonio looks like he's gonna lose it.
He doesn't know how to answer any of the questions
and he's not really answering him right because they're still
trying to act like they don't have to do this,
and they might not, and they're totally going to do this,
and they do have to do this, and they should
(01:36:56):
do it by Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (01:36:57):
It's going to get done. It's gonna get I mean,
the team that acquires him wants him to get up
to speed so they can get the ground running.
Speaker 1 (01:37:07):
That too, that too, And by the way, I think
he's got a hamstring, but this is starting to feel
very Jalen Ram.
Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
Is not hamstring level of.
Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
I'm like, dude is going to really get great treatment
on that plane wherever he lands for his new team,
because he's gonna slide down the stairs of that plane
and he will be active next Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:37:38):
How you know how how therapeutic the right plane ride
could be.
Speaker 1 (01:37:48):
I would argue almost as therapeutic as listening to a
Steve de Seger radio program, very soothing voice, very just
feels good. Yes, good, Even, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
We've got football on the field at Pittsburgh and they've
started the second quarter and it's three three Steelers and
Dallas the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
With their field goal drive.
Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
One first down after the opening kickoff, and you're in
field goal range with Brandon Aubrey. He kicked a fifty
five yarder and then Pittsburgh responded with a forty one
yard field goal, and that's where we are, early second quarter.
Even there was a long weather delay at the start
kickoff was not till nine forty five pm Eastern time.
Steelers are allowing just thirteen points per game. Keep in
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mind they are three and one this season. Arizona one
in the heat at San Francisco on a field goal
with about a minute and a half left, twenty four
to twenty three. San Francisco's record two and three. The
Giants were zero and three in conference, but got to
win at Seattle twenty nine to twenty. Gino Smith was
sacked seven times. Green Bay was a winner at the
Rams twenty four to nineteen. Jordan Love two touchdown passes
(01:38:53):
in the third quarter boats to tight end Tucker Craft.
Denver was down ten to nothing early, still beat the
Raiders thirty four eighteen. Raiders through three interceptions out today
for Las Vegas, we're running back Zamir White and wide
receiver Devonte Adams that combined twenty penalties in that game.
A classic at Cincinnati went to the Baltimore Ravens in
overtime forty one thirty eight. Justin Tucker tied at Leyton
(01:39:16):
regulation with a fifty six yard field goal. His game
winner was twenty four yards out, set up by a
Derrick Henry fifty one yard run. Houston won its home
game against Buffalo twenty three to twenty on a fifty
nine yard field goal on the final play. Houston is
three and zero at home. Jacksonville was zero and four overall,
but got a home win against Indy thirty seven thirty
(01:39:37):
four on a forty nine yard field goal with under
twenty seconds left. Trevor Lawrence three hundred and seventy one
yards passing Chicago over Carolina thirty six to ten. Miami
on a touchdown run in the last five minutes won
fifteen to ten at New England. Washington over the Browns
thirty four to thirteen. Washington has won four in a
row to go to four and one. They're alone and
(01:39:57):
first in their division. Minnesota took the London game today
over the Jets twenty three seventeen. The Vikings are five
and oh seventeen nothing late first half today. The Texas
Longhorns are back to number one in the New AP
College Football Pool. A NASCAR victory at Talladega for Ricky
Stenhouse break Keslowski finished a close second in the WNBA playoffs.
(01:40:17):
Connecticut stayed alive, beating Minnesota New York in its semi
final best of five eliminated Las Vegas to Major League Baseball.
It's now Padres six to one over the Dodgers in
La top of the eighth inning of this best of
five division series. The Padres will host games three and
four Tuesday and Wednesday nights on FS one. A great
start from you, Darvish former Dodgers. Seven innings, eighty two
(01:40:40):
pitches thrown so far. Philadelphia with a run in the
bottom of the ninth beat the Mets seven to six.
Nick Castillanos the game winning single. He had three hits,
including a home run. That series tied at a game apiece,
just as the Padres are apparently about to tie it
at a game apiece because Sander Bogarts is now just
homered off the pen.
Speaker 4 (01:40:58):
It's seven to one San Diego in the top.
Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
And he did it would have hurt hamstring. He heard
his hamstring on the swing before.
Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
Well on a home run, Jog, I guess you don't
have to go full speed. There was a delay in
the seventh inning stretch. Those who have been to Dodger
Stadium may know that the folks who sit around the
foul poles or the outfield position, the fan behavior is
just a little different than the rest.
Speaker 4 (01:41:19):
Of the stadium.
Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
So let's just say those parts of the stadiums caused
a delay at the seventh inning stretch and some things
may or may not have been thrown on the field.
Philadelphia beating the Mets today makes it one game apiece
in that series. Game three is Tuesday in New York.
That'll be five pm Eastern time on FS one. The
two American League Division series each continue tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:41:41):
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posted right after we get off the air. Okay, a
couple of things that still wanted to play with here,
and I think it's been a theme tonight. This thing
is wide open. I asked you earlier who looks amazing
in the NFL, and we couldn't really come up with anyone.
(01:42:23):
And I know, I know they'd be fans of a
few teams out there not thrilled with that. I mean,
the Vikings are five and oh and and for however,
the Chiefs have gotten there, they are four and oh
and that's all fair. But here here's sort of another
way to look at it. IM. If I asked you
this right now, what would you do with it? If
I gave you an MVP vote? Who are you giving
(01:42:47):
it to?
Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
H That's pretty good, that's it.
Speaker 1 (01:42:56):
I mean, I think your response already it kind of
speaks the volumes that we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
I would probably, I mean, in this situation, I mean you,
I guess you would lean lean towards a quarterback like
most MVPs these.
Speaker 1 (01:43:24):
Visually plus plus, I don't necessarily see anybody else in
the non quarterback world who's like just totally you know,
blowing us away. I could think there's a couple of players.
Speaker 2 (01:43:46):
I would probably, you know, do something like maybe a CJ.
Stroud in Houston. M hm, quite possibly. Uh, you know
outside of today is Sam Donald even though they got
to win, sometimes you gotta win ugly, but just it's
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not a lot out there.
Speaker 1 (01:44:17):
Can I can I give you four candidates. Yes, I
shall give you five. I give you five. And my
stats are not updated through today's play, so this is
basically through Thursday's play. So most of these qbs have
played four games to amass these stats, and you can
then put together what they did today with their stats
(01:44:37):
and then a winner or a loss. But Sam Donald
is five and oh and before today's game led the
league with a one hundred and eighteen point nine quarterback
rating is also tied for the league league.
Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
Oh you know what, let me on before you let
me before I hear yours. Let me just throw this
in there. Jaydon Daniels, well, Jadon Daniels definitely on the list.
Go ahead, sorry, I but in terms of giving yes,
he would be probably my fruit runner.
Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
And again fourth rated quarterback in the league. Four and one,
Josh Allen, even though he's lost to in a row,
second rated quarterback in the league. They're in first place.
And then you mentioned CJ. Stroud, and I will throw
in Lamar Jackson, who has got them to three and two.
(01:45:25):
Is the reigning MVP an excitable George Good. Yeah, and
also you know you look at, for instance, the numbers
he put up to the box office He's unbelievable. If
I were going to look at any non quarterbacks, you're
probably I don't know if your list can go far
beyond Nicocollins and.
Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
Derrick Henry that would be it. Yeah, has a hamstring, now, so.
Speaker 1 (01:45:48):
Nico's got a hamstring, yes, yes, but but that's that's
probably your your list. Who would you vote for?
Speaker 2 (01:45:58):
I would give it, you know, because of what he's
meant to his team and the trajectory he's on. Or
Jayden Daniels. The kid is fun to watch, man, Isn't
that crazy good? And it's crazy? This kid is fun.
It's fun as as good as Lamar Jackson is to watch,
as electrifying as this kid is something special. Man, he
(01:46:22):
can throw a pretty ball.
Speaker 1 (01:46:23):
Yep, yep. You know what's wild? Do you have any
touchdown passes Jaden has this year?
Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
It's like what three to two, four? Or yeah it
was fourth?
Speaker 1 (01:46:35):
Yeah no, no, but but his quarterback rating is is
over one hundred and six. He's rushed for four touchdowns
as well. And maybe the prettiest thing of all, this
young kid in his first five games as an NFL
player is not only four and one, he's turned it over.
Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
Twice it, so you just multiply that three more times.
Speaker 1 (01:47:07):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
If he can stay there and you know three and
do that, just continue to duplicate that, then he'll run
away with this thing.
Speaker 1 (01:47:17):
MVP is a rookie now, see.
Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
I would love to see him put that type of
pressure on the voters because obviously he would win Offensive
Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1 (01:47:30):
Sure, all of.
Speaker 2 (01:47:32):
Those things, right, but then do they give the Offensive
Rookie of the Year and the League MVP to them?
Has that ever happened?
Speaker 1 (01:47:43):
That's a Steve question, certainly, not that I can remember.
I doubt it. Well.
Speaker 2 (01:47:49):
The good thing about Steve is we'll have that answer
before you can shake a stick at it.
Speaker 1 (01:47:57):
He's probably already saying the answer and the other room
right now as we speak, is my guess. Okay, some
final thoughts coming up as we continue to watch the
Steelers and Cowboys, we'll get ready to hand the baton
off as well with e from Salama Mark Weather. It's
Fox Sports Radio all right, tyerrag dot com Studios. Yeah,
(01:48:19):
it's a night of rain and night of field goals
as well. Cowboys in front of the Steelers six to
three second quarter, second quarter action as we close in
on eleven pm Eastern time. This game is going to
quickly switch from Sunday night football to Monday morning football.
(01:48:43):
But that's the way it all went down. I wanted
to throw this at you because I do feel there's
a city out there that's sitting there going come on,
how are you going to sit there and talk about
Jade and Daniels all day? You're gonna start bringing them
up as a division winner. You're gonna bring him up
as potential MVP. Hold on a second, can you say
(01:49:05):
something about the one player who was drafted in front
of him, who today I would argue, for the first
time in his young career, he really looked like something too.
Speaker 2 (01:49:17):
Oh, he was special today.
Speaker 1 (01:49:19):
He was fantastic. And if you missed the line for
Caleb Williams, it was three hundred four yards passing, it
was a seventy percent completion percentage. It was two touchdowns
to his leading receiver, DJ Moore, who went over one
hundred yards. It was thirty four yards rushing. It was
under control, it was no turnovers, it was poised, it
(01:49:40):
was all. It was all the same thing. And look,
that doesn't do anything to knock me off of Jayden Daniels.
But who knows, Man, maybe both of the teams got
it right.
Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
Yeah, I think they did get it right. I think
Caleb Williams is a generational talent. That's just because Jaden
Daniels is playing the way he is doesn't take anything
away from CJ. So it's it's one of those situations
(01:50:11):
where today was Caleb's day. It was just coming out party,
even though they won the first game. It can't be
your coming out party. You have eighty two yards passing
as a quarterback in the NFL. So today he showed
what he can do. He showed the type of player
(01:50:32):
he can be. And I think that's amazing, and I
think that's great for him. But Jaden Daniels has been miraculous,
oh man, every week, oh man. And you don't have
the completion percentage like he has and the ability to
(01:50:53):
take care of the ball like he does. And now, look,
it's not taking anything seriously away from Caleb. Caleb is
he will be amazing, yep, But right now is Jade.
Speaker 1 (01:51:13):
I don't think there's any question about that. Ye're absolutely right.
But the other thing, you know, what I thought was
kind of achieved by Caleb today. It's actually a little
tope board that you and I should probably play with
every Sunday night for the rest of the year, which
is the wide receiver frustration board, right because like, yeah, yeah,
like we should we should have a little like top
(01:51:34):
three on the wide receiver frustration board everybody in Miami
exactly there. Tyreek Hill is definitely number one right now.
Two Waddle will be number two. But you know who
was floating around there the last few weeks is DJ Moore. Yeah,
he had a few moments and he had to kind
of apologize for for letting it be seen out there
(01:51:57):
on the field. And we know how the wide receivers
are built. And I actually give him a little bit
of slack for this because it's such an odd position.
You just you sort of have absolutely no control. I mean,
you have some you have what you can do, but
you're such a complimentary piece yet a central figure at
the same time. And so that's what leads to that
(01:52:18):
frustration because you're expected to do great things, but if
the person isn't there to deliver the ball to you,
you can't do great things. You can do it, you
can't do it. And so Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle
are going crazy and DJ Moore has been dealing with it.
Garrett Wilson has been on that list so far this year.
I don't know if Brandon Aiyuk has shown any of that,
(01:52:39):
but I gotta feel like things have been summering there. Yeah,
we should probably call this the Stefan Diggs board, just
because it should be named after him. I haven't seen
anything from him yet, but that's surprising, and I don't
feel like it's sustainable. The fact that the other receiver
on the Texans is like leading the world and receiving
(01:53:02):
and getting us to talk about MVP. I just don't
feel like that's gonna sit very well with Stefan. Who knows,
Maybe now he'll get his turn, because I don't know
if Nico's gonna miss time. And then obviously we've been
talking about DeVante Adams tonight and Poster He's got to
be very very high on the list as well. So anyway,
(01:53:23):
Caleb kind of calmed that down for a week, and
that's a very good thing.
Speaker 2 (01:53:26):
Yeah, he did, he did. He You know, he's going to,
in my opinion, live up to expectations, all right. Everything
about him says that the talent is there, that's obvious.
The leadership is there, right, he's the same guy with
(01:53:47):
you know, some people had a problem with him telling
guys to clean up after themselves, you know, but the
city loves him already. The city loves him already because
he's put them in a position to compete. And as
a fan, you only all you want to do is
see your team go out there compete. And that's where
they are. And you know it started with the second
(01:54:12):
half of last year and and Justin Fields had them competing.
They've revamped the team, brought more in, created a situation
in an environment where you know, an expectation is now there.
So look, both of these young men in Washington and
(01:54:37):
in Chicago are doing exactly what they were brought in
to do.
Speaker 1 (01:54:42):
Yep, yep. And both of them have a winning record
yep after five weeks, which is impressive enough. Speaking of records.
Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
Bone Nicks too, don't forget about him.
Speaker 1 (01:54:51):
Bone Eggs winning record. Yeah. Absolutely. We shouldn't leave tonight
with our congratulating the Jacksonville Jaguars. Every team in the
NFL now has a win.
Speaker 2 (01:55:01):
Hey, welcome to Welcome to the party.
Speaker 1 (01:55:05):
Everybody. Everybody has a win.
Speaker 2 (01:55:09):
You get a win.
Speaker 1 (01:55:10):
So the Lions are safe. You get a win. Thanks
for hosting the first segment of the show. That was fun.
Speaker 2 (01:55:15):
What I'm here for? Man?
Speaker 1 (01:55:18):
All right, brother, have a good week. We talk to
you next week. Playing in Spaniard are coming up next
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