October 1, 2019 • 30 mins
Doug acknowledges Tom Brady’s slow start to the season could be reason for concern, but it also falls in line with how he usually plays in September. He also defends the Cowboys and their young offensive play caller after their conservative approach in their loss to the Saints. Plus, former NFL QB Chris Simms joins the show to tell Doug why the Rams offense has taken a step back this season.
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you're having a great, great day. Uh, we'll get into
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the Cowboys play calling issues. Wait to hear what Jarah
said about his new offensive coordinator, Genera's Jenkins of the Giants,
who of course had a huge interception against Dwayne Haskins.
Will join us at five o'clock East co time, two
o'clock West Coast time. Randy Code Tour What Randy Coe
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Tour will join me in studio next hour. So we
got a bunch of football. We do have some mm
A and believe it or not, we will have a
Major League Baseball playoff game it's really a play in game, right,
because in order to have playoffs, there has to be
more than one game. This is a play in game.
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And here's the here's the issue I have with the
play in game one. It's not the playoffs. But that's fine.
You know, the n c A terminal has the first
four which is playing games as well. That that doesn't
bother me. What bothers me is there is no hype
to these games, none, Like did you even know? Do
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you even know who's playing? At five o eight Eastern time?
Buyer does because he's a for the brew crewis a
Brewers fan. They're taking on the Gnats of course, you know,
eliminated the Phillies, and the Phillies have their former best
player in Bryce Harper. Like there's some good stories there,
Like all the Nats had to do to make the
playoffs is let Bryce Harper walk is kind of ironic, right,
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But the idea that it starts at five o'clock, where
on the East coast you're still on your way getting home,
and on the West coast you're still at work, Like,
what are we what baseball? What are we doing? Is
your night? This is your night? Why are you not
starting at seven thirty eight o'clock late under the lights.
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One game, huge story, I don't know, ye. And every
year it feels like baseball does this where we don't
pay attention. Then in a week or maybe in a
couple of weeks we get to the A l c
s and n lcs everybody pay attention to every single
pitch and be like, man, why can't pay sball be
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like this more often? It could be tonight. Speaking of
every year, have you seen how Tom Brady has started
off this season? Now? The yards for attempt are actually
up over last year, seven point three is opposed to
six point eight. The touchdowns are are down from last
year nine last year in September seven so far this year.
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Interceptions down though this year from four to one. Yards
of games slightly up. Big thing is last year they
started two and two, this year they start four. Oh.
Some of that has helped out by who they started against.
Buffalo had three wins, but against three of the worst
teams in the NFL. And of course outside of that,
look who New England has taken taken on. But if
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you're you like me, are concerned about Tom Brady and
how he's playing, he did not play well against the Bills,
and I'll point out the Bills have a very good defense.
That defense is nasty, nasty, and had Josh Allen not
gotten hurt, Bill's probably win that game in spite of
the fact that he's Josh Allen is gonna throw a
big pit because how many of you actually knew Matt
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Barkley was still in the NFL? Anybody like I like
Matt Barkley's from Orange County, from modern day, from you know,
down the street from where I live. Nice guy, by
some people's estimation, would have been the number one overall pick.
Came back one more year in college, was the number
ten overall pick. But the idea like, I didn't know
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Matt Barkley was the backup. I'm not gonna lie to
you there. And I usually know these things because I
played Madden for every team and you're like, oh, it
gets the updated, updated the rosters. I didn't know. But
Brady wasn't great, But you know what, He's never great.
In September, here's the truth. In September his passer rating
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is nineties seven point three, the only month throughout his career,
and he's been doing this for nineteen years. The only
month when it's lower is December, when you're playing against
best competition, and he also seems to start to fade,
but also teams have a complete book on what you're doing.
His touchdown interception ratio is lowest in December, second lowest
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in September. His yards for attempt are lowest in December.
Second lowest is in September, October, November, and frankly, January
is when he plays his best football. So just like
the league uses the first month of the season as
extended preseason, and the Patriots themselves have kind of lived
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by that, moniker Tom Brady, while you like me can
go all right, maybe this is the beginning of the end.
What's past is president. What's past tells us this is
usually or this was usually his worst month of the season.
And it's not like this is a small sample size,
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right like Lamar Jackson, we don't have still I don't
have sixteen starts, and and uh Baker Mayfield, we still
don't have sixteen starts, and so it's not like we
don't have this. Dude has started every game every year,
with the exception of the one year which he tore
his knee after the perfect season, and then of course
he had the four game suspension. Was that three years ago?
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Three years ago? Outside of that, you know, we got
nineteen years of data, and through nineteen years of data,
something's changed. But this remains the same. He ain't great
out of the shoot, he great out of the shoot.
So different teams you can freak out about. And Brady
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is a guy that we're waiting for him to look old.
And he did look old, and he didn't look great,
and the offense did look beatable as opposed to how
it looked previously. Here's Tom Brady on the Boston radio
station discussed discussing their poor offense performance versus the Bills.
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No team is perfect this time of year. No team
is you know, this is not the team we're going
to be in December. You know. Offensive football is, I
would say, is always the work in progress. It's never
It's very rare, you know that I've ever had a
offense where I'm like, man, that's we've got it all
figured out. Um, you know, in the twenty years I've
been playing, Yeah, I've been doing this a long time
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and the first month is always clunky. Remember they didn't
have Antonio Brown then they did have Antonio Brown. Now
they'll never have Antonio Brown again. They don't have Benjamin Watson.
They're gonna add Benjamin Watson. They plan on having Benjamin Watson,
but they don't, and they don't have Rob Gronkowski, and
Benjamin Watson was replacing Rob Gronkowski. They don't have their center.
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They lost. I think they're they're left tackle the free agency.
They've reworked some things, right, it's not all the same.
And at the end of the day, their four no
in a division where their toughest, they're only challenger. They
just vanquished in their stadium, and the other two appear
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to be layups. So it's it's okay for you to
sit there and look at Tom Brady and go like,
hey man, father time creeping up on him. He looks old,
it's that did you. You're okay, It's fine, It's fine.
But I also believe that we had twenty years of data,
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nineteen years of data to sit here and go, guys,
slow out of the gate, Patriots, slow out of the gate.
Reasonable people can sit here and say they've had a
lot of chances and are working through some things, and
if worst case scenario is seven touchdowns one or seven
in four oh on the season. That's not a bad
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worst case scenario by anybody's account. Be sure to catch
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Chris sims He joins us in The Doug Gotlip Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Um, was it the Cowboys play calling?
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Was it their offensive line not playing well? Was it
the Saints? What you're going to get the backup quarterback
in Teddy Bridgewater? You hold them to four field goals
and you can only score ten points? What went wrong
with the Cowboys offense? Yeah? Well you you said a
lot of them. So okay, here it's a few, there's
a it's a few part answer here. First off, the
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Saints defense, Doug, their defensive line, it's one of the
best run stopping defensive lines in football. Uh, there's there's
no doubt about that. They have great size and power
and within during the game. I mean, the show you
the confidence they had and I've never seen anybody play
the Dallas Cowboys this way. They brought no safety help
into the box. And that adds to the second question,
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which of course we're talking about Dallas a little last week.
You know, it's one of the best offenses I've seen
in football over the first three weeks of the season
leading up to that game, and not that it was
bad in this game, but I'll tell you this is
the big difference. The D line, like we talked about,
and the Cowboys old line lost that battle and lost
that battle with the numbers in their favor, which I
think is more surprising. But again, that's a great D
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line with the New Orleans Saints big across, they got
great depth. But the biggest thing, and this is something
big for the New Orleans Saints, they changed up the
way they played coverage. And I don't think Dallas was
ready for the game plan that the Saints throughout them,
nor should they have been. The Saints had really shown
none of this type of coverage throughout the first three weeks,
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so I think it caught Dallas a little bit of
my surprise when they walked on the field and they realized, oh,
our game plans a little off. They're playing us completely
different than they played the first three games. A lot
of zone specific type coverages to breaking down teams. Uh,
Doug with just a little scatter of man demand here
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on there and a little on third and four and
third and five. But I really think those are the
main keys to what made Dallas is off installed. I'll
let alone. You know, the two fumbles one on fourth
and one and Jason wouldn't fumbling down the middle. Yeah,
the fumbles were big. You know, the dack out of
halftime is amazing, right, like no incomplete passes, they had
another great touchdown pass touchdown drive out of halftime, which
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signifies what Kellen Moore is able to seeing the adjustments
they're able to make together. Definitely. How do you think
Dak played though? I I thought Dad played well. I
have no issue with the way Dad played. You know,
there wasn't when I watched back the film, I didn't
sit there and go, oh man, he really missed some
throws like he was off tonight. No, No, that was
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not the case. New Orleans played coverage. They played coverage,
and they said, let's play coverage and see if our
front Coop Ford can hold down the fort. And I'm
sure they had a plan B backup plan if Zeke
Elliott started gashing them between the tackles. But the problem was,
you know, Almon Yatta and Malcolm Brown and Sheldon Rankins
and Cameron Jordan and them. Hey, they whooked the crap
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out of Travis Fedric and Zack Martin and Tom Roland Smith.
They just won the war. And then within that they
were allowed to keep two safeties deep a lot of
the night and that was not favorable for the Dallas
passing game. Doug Gottlib show here on Fox Sports trailer
that that's the voice of Chris Simms Football Night in America.
You see him on on the big set. Okay, let's uh,
let's let's get to Tom Brady. He wasn't great against Buffalo.
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Of course, Buffalo had to go to Matt Barkley because
of injury, and if not for that, maybe the Patriots
lose that game. But I put out that we've seen
this before, Like if you look the months in which
he struggles, Brady struggles statistically in comparison to other months.
First month of the season is you know, his second
lowest arms for tent, the second lowest pass rating, his
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second lowest TD interception ratio, and only December when people
have a big book on you and you're playing your
toughest competition, Um, and you're probably a little tired, is it?
Is it lower? Is this the same Tom Brady? Or
does he in fact look old? Well, he's I mean
he's getting older. I mean, you know, I don't think
he's the Tom Brady that just on a weekly basis
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anymore is going to be able to carry the team
if things aren't working. You know, I think the big
thing is, though he's still phenomenal. He's got a great
arm is he like, is he in the class of
Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers at this point of
his career. No, I don't think he is. But he's
in that next group down, you know, Deshaun Watson. I'd
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probably put him in another class above Tom Brady too.
But then there's Brady, which is still phenomenal. I'm sure
all the Boston fans will tweet at me and tell
me what a jerk I am because I just said
he wasn't the best quarterback. But Brady is amazing. His
arm strength is still there. This is the big thing.
The Buffalo deef ense. This phenomenal. You know, I think
a lot of people have forgotten. Last year this was
the top three defense in the sport. They weren't good
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on offense. In fact, they were horrible, so you know,
they couldn't win games and the defense got tired in
a few games here and there. Last year they defended
New England quite well, but again it was the offense
that could never muster anything in the defense and the
damn finally broke. But Sean McDermott doug is for me
one of the best defensive coaches in football, not only
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just coaching scheme on a week to week basis, and again,
like when I say scheme, there is zone defense, right,
and you know what cover four is, right, it's four
you know, four dbs and they all got the quarter
of the field right going straight back pretty much. They
do it like on a weekly basis to make a
little tweak. Oh hey this week, New England does this,
So we're gonna play Cover four this way this week,
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and you know, according to who they'll play next week,
they'll change it a little too. After they break that
team down and find out their tendencies. So they're a
team that doesn't have to blitz a whole lot because
they have a great front for mcdern is also great
at matching talent through the draft and free agent to
meet to meet a scheme. I'm not worried about New England.
I still think they're, of course the best team in football,
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and Brady is gonna be fine. I just think that's
a really good defensive Buffalo Josh Allen, we'll just you know,
tighten it up a little bit, not play so loose
and throw balls fifty yards down the field into triple
coverage and stuff. Who knows what happens in that game,
and that'll go a long way to helping Buffalo out
in the future. Anyways, Okay, help me out with with
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the Ravens. Um. You know, I mean some of this
kind of we four told saw it coming because you're
playing against legit defenses and he's not great into tight windows. Um.
What are your thoughts long term on Lamar Jackson now
that we've seen four games, two very two very different
ones after the first two, Yeah, well, I mean I
still like Lamar Jackson. He's still trending in the right direction.
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I mean, he is there there. I I don't think
that's an issue for me. I still like that, you know,
they're run games still there too. I mean, I think
the biggest thing I take away from last week's game.
First off, the Browns defense, you know, not been getting
the credited deserves because I get it. The offense is sexy,
it's got all the big names. But that front for
in Cleveland's the real deal. And Steve Wilkes, Yeah, he
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might not been worth a damn as the head coach
at Arizona last year, and I still think he got
kind of a raw deal. He is a hell of
a defensive coordinator, he really is. That's why he got
that job. So he had a good game plan. He
understood how to defend the Baltimore Ravens. But the biggest
thing is the Browns offense. I mean the Browns offense
later whooping on the Ravens like you just don't see
very often. I mean beat them with smash mouth football,
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you know, pulling guards, tight ends, whamming tackles, toss sweeps
with pulling lineman. And then Baker Mayfield. I think it
was his best game yet. He wasn't jittery in the pocket.
He stepped up in the pocket, and the really the
big thing to me, Doug, and I don't know if
I've said it the last few weeks, but I've said
it on my podcast and Pro Football talking all those things.
Cleveland's offensive line, they're not a very good path protecting
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old line, but they're a good run blocking old line.
They were at the end of last year. That's why
they went on the run. And I think Freddie Kitchens
played through the run game this week for the first
time this year, Baker Mayfield was underneath the center. They
ran some play action passes. I think they're more dangerous
that way. I think that's what they gotta do. They
gotta get people to go, oh, we gotta stop this
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run game. We gotta stop Nick Chubb, and then they're
gonna get all the matchups on the outside of Jarvis
and O b J that they want, and then they
can throw for four hundred yards a week. But I
thought it was the right approach on the offensive side
of the ball more than anything for the Browns. Doug
Gottli Show, You're on Fox Sports Radio, what's wrong with
the Rams offense? Okay, that's a good, good, really good question. Okay, Um,
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the Rams offense? What's wrong with it? Okay, I'm not
gonna sit here and go, oh, I'm concerned about the
Rams offense. They played the Browns two weeks ago. Like
we said, they played the Panthers to start the season.
Panthers are one of the better defenses in football. We
just talked about the Saints in Week two. They played them.
They're a good defense. And the Buccaneers, even though they
let up a lot of big plays, they have one
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thing that's really special about their football team. Their front
four can whoop the crap out about it about just
about anybody. When you get into Sue and Vita Villa,
it's a Vita via via Vita. I always mess up
his damn name either way. The big sucker in the middle,
who's three pounds from Washington, their first round pick of
the teen draft. They're immovable and they're athletic upfront. And
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then they have the NFL defensive m VP coming off
the edge right now, right now, it's Shaquille Barrett. I mean,
it's every game. It's not like it's a guy that's
like lucking into a few sacks every game. He whooped
the crap out of both tackles of the Rams. I
mean strip sack fumble interception caused the first interception by
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Jared Goff. I thought Jared Goff actually played well. I
really thought only one of the interceptions was his fault.
And trust me, when I was watching the game and
trying to watch everything and even Monday morning, at thought
Golf was the guy to blame. But when I watched
back that film, I think that was the biggest issue.
They got the turnovers early. Uh, and they got in
a hole and they had to abandon the rug game
and the Rams are a run run first team. Uh.
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And then of course that Rams defense got shredded apart
by Jamis Winston and Bruce Arians and Byron left Foot
with a great game plan. Yeah, kind of amazing. What
what they've been able to do in short order with Jamis?
Would you would you hold on to Jamis if you're
the Buccaneers if he can you know, this is the
fresh three frustrating thing about Jamis. Jamis shows, you know,
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two or three stretches like this every season. I mean
even at the end of last year. If you remember
back the last three or four games, Jamis Winston was
phenomenal and you're going, damn, that's why they picked this
guy number one. It's amazing. Hey, last week against the Giants, phenomenal.
I mean, the Bucks could be three and one if
they didn't take the stupid intentional five yard penalty because
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they like to kick it from five yards back farther.
Yeah right, Okay, I'm being sarcastic. There's you know, and
uh and then of course he was amazing this week.
I mean, if if we can just like stay consistent,
Jamis Winston's good is like really good, Doug, Like when
when he is on a roll, I go, oh my gosh,
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this is like top ten in the NFL type quarterback play.
The problem is that bad is like, you know, somewhere
between forty and fifty as far as a quarterback play.
You'll just he'll throw. You know, history tells us this
week he'll come out and throw a ball behind his
head and try to shovel pass a ball that will
get intercepted, and he'll throw three interceptions into quadruple coverage
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and well, what the hell happened to Jamis Winston? So
if he can just continue to stay consistent on an
upward trend, I do love his ceiling and think he
can be special in this league. Um As Cam Newton
played his last game as Caroline Panther. Oh, I know, well,
I don't think I'm ready to say that. I don't
think I am. I mean again, Kyle Allen has done
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a good job. I'm not gonna sit here and go,
oh my gosh, Kyle Allen's the future of the Carolina
Panthers and they don't need Cam Newton. No. I still
think that the best Carolina Panthers team will be with
a healthy Cam Newton, the guy we saw at the
start of last year that got them off to a
six and two start before he tore his labor. Hum.
You know, he's special still, but the first two games,
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there's no way guy can make any excuses for him.
And you know he you know, he was hurt, and
I know I saw the YouTube video and blah blah
blah whatever. Uh, but he was the problem in the
first two games, and he left so many yards on
the field. And Kyle Allen, as you see, is just
he's not making a ton of mistakes. Carolina has a
very good defense and he's just making a few throws
every game just to get the job done. And uh,
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I give him a lot of credit for that. But
I still I still think there's a chance Cam gets
back healthy this year. Shows us all what he's got,
gives us all the middle finger, and then they got
to give him a new contract. Awesome stuff. That's Chris Sims.
Check him out in Football Night in America every Sunday.
Of course, download his podcast as well. Thanks so much
for joining us, Man the Man, Doug, I'll talk you did.
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That's great. That's Chris Sims. Be sure to catch the
live edition of The Doug gott Leap Show weekdays at
three pm Easter noon Pacific. Very Jerry Jones like weird
comment earlier today. Take a listen to what he said
about the finger pointing after a tough loss to the Saints.
I see the one that gets is more likely to
have the most criticism. As the offensive coordinator in the NFL,
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it's the hottest seat in the business. And uh boy,
when that balls, when it doesn't work and you don't
get to win, uh, then get ready, they're gonna be
coming for your coming, coming for you as a as
a coordinator. So, uh, Kellen knows this, his head coach
knows that I know it, And uh that still doesn't
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mean now that you don't come in there and improve
on you got ready to play that game. We played
against the Rams last year changed a lot of things
for us. That's when we decided that he wanted to do.
Some of the things you're seeing right now was that
Ram game. So you're supposed to make adjustments when you
don't get it done. Yeah, I think if you listen
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to that, it's super super reasonable. People are Look it's
Jerry Jones. They hear what they want to hear. But
I will tell you what I heard. I heard Jerry
Jones going like, look, when you don't score that many points,
everybody points the offensive coordinator. He didn't say he was.
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He said Jason Garrett knows it because Jason Garrett has
called plays too, which is exactly what's happened. I call
her today. Put the blame at Jason Garrett. But other
people have said, Kellen Moore, what's with the play calling whatever?
Whereas if you listen to Jerry Jones, Jerry Jones like, look,
I've done this long enough. I know that they're coming
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gonna come after him. It's the first time being critical
of him, and you gotta do better. But you know,
part of it is you have to learn from things
like that, just like they learned last year against the Rams.
That they want to do some things differently, which they're
doing now. It's like Matt Laflour is learning right, like
you learn over time, you just do. New play callers
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can be innovative and also could be inexperienced and make mistakes.
Old player callers make mistakes. You know. It's like, uh,
do you guys watch college football over the weekend? You
see Clemson and North Carolina and Carolina went for two,
and everyone's like, man, love North Carolina going for two?
What do you think of a play call speed option? They? Yeah,
I didn't like that, and I didn't didn't like that one.
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I didn't like that one either. Um, but you know
it's like you can you can like the like the
play caller and not like the play he called. He
can be experienced to make mistakes, are inexperienced. I didn't
take that to be Jerry Jones saying, Hey, I'm coming
after offensive coordinator. He said, like, we've all done this
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enough to know when you only scored ten points and
the other team kicks four field goals and you've got
plenty of possessions, they're coming out. They'll they'll be critical
of the play caller, the the other part, which is
I think the most interesting is no one ever says, hey,
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it could just be that they have to have a
limited playbook because Dack's kind of limited, right, I mean,
it's it's it's not that dissimilar with Jared Goff. I mean,
I would tell you that Jared Goff through for five yards.
Granted some of it was they had the ball bunch
because of the interceptions. But if you take away somebody's
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primary threat and you make that person beat you, it
does tell you what the other team thinks of you.
But you have it relatively still a fairly inexperienced quarterback
and inexperienced play caller. You're playing on the road, and
whatever the scheme was that was taking Ezeki Elliott out
of the game, they struggle to adjust to not the
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end of the world, and that sounds like a reasonable,
sensible approach from Jerry Jones. Fox Sports Radio has the
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listen live. There's a legit conversation we had in Minnesota,
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like I don't think I don't think Adam theeland saying hey,
we need to throw the football. Is any profound damnation
of kirk Cousins. But kirk Cousins struggles and they're lack
of faith in Kirk Cousins tells you what you need
to know if they want to cut him thirty one
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million dollars in dead cap money. Remember you took that
all inclusive, three year guaranteed deal that was championed by
so many and I told you at the time, I'm
like one. I didn't think it was a terrible deal
for the Vikings. But this is why you don't guarantee
long term deals. I understand why the players want them.
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I also understand why the owners don't want to give him.
Between injuries and just guys not performing, He's thirty second
in QBR only ahead of Cam Newton. Three touchdowns, two interceptions,
were four games in only a hundred a three yards
per game, which is second to last among quarterbacks behind
Mr Robinski. According to Next Gen Stats, Kirk Cousins is
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thirty one in average intended yards per play. In other words,
he wants to get rid of it as quickly and
as horizontally as possible. That's the average how many yards
each past step traveled past the line of scrimmage. It's
crazy because what it used to be was Kirk Cousins
in primetime games. But he hasn't played primetime games yet.
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Now he's he's just shook, just shook. And I will
say that this does speak to this is a Jay
Gruen is probably gonna get fired, a right, like, there's
enough rumors now Jay Grub's gonna get fired. Didn't want
him to draft Dwayne Haskins, didn't want to play Dwayne Haskins.
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And of course they played Dwayne Haskins last week and
he threw three picks and looked totally overwhelmed. But Jay
Groom was also the same coach that he just didn't
think Kirk Cousins had it, and they thought Alex Smith did.
If the story is told about Jay Gruden, and we
can go through the how he didn't get along with
Kirk Cousins, how Bruce Allen called He kept calling him
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Kirk Cousins instead of Kirk Cousins, and I'm sure that
pissed him off. Alex Smith broke his leg in two
places and multiple places. He'll never likely never played football again.
That's what led to the downfall. They were in first place.
That's what led to the downfall the Redskins. But of
course cold McCoy got hurt like the next week. So
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if you if you say I don't like the case
Keenom signing, or I don't like the Dwayne Haskins, that's fine.
But they found themselves in such a desperate position, that's
what they had to go with. But Jay knew that
Kirk didn't have it, and Jay knew that Alex Smith
did you know. I mean, I would say that one
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of the reasons Sean McVeigh got a shot was people
didn't totally believe in Kirk Cousins. And yet Kirk Cusins
threw for over four thousand yards and got a big
contract because of the offense that he put Kirk Cousins in.
So that the customs things that they're stuck with him.
They're gonna have to make it work. They ain't know
buy anyway at thirty one million in dead cab money,
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He's just gonna have to play better. They're gonna have to,
you know, put lipstick on a pig. I was told
by somebody on the Vikings this offseason that before big
games he's inconsolable, like he's so stressed, he's so tight,
nobody can even have a conversation with him. That's a
member of the offense of the Minnesota Vikings told me
he's like, Kirk, say, great, dude, He's like, but when
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we play a big game, especially one of those night games,
he's like, he's in too early. He's too stressed, he's
too worried about everything, and he plays that way. He
plays tight and the rest of his play type because
of it.
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the Cowboys play calling issues. Wait to hear what Jarah
said about his new offensive coordinator, Genera's Jenkins of the Giants,
who of course had a huge interception against Dwayne Haskins.
Will join us at five o'clock East co time, two
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Tour will join me in studio next hour. So we
got a bunch of football. We do have some mm
A and believe it or not, we will have a
Major League Baseball playoff game it's really a play in game, right,
because in order to have playoffs, there has to be
more than one game. This is a play in game.
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And here's the here's the issue I have with the
play in game one. It's not the playoffs. But that's fine.
You know, the n c A terminal has the first
four which is playing games as well. That that doesn't
bother me. What bothers me is there is no hype
to these games, none, Like did you even know? Do
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you even know who's playing? At five o eight Eastern time?
Buyer does because he's a for the brew crewis a
Brewers fan. They're taking on the Gnats of course, you know,
eliminated the Phillies, and the Phillies have their former best
player in Bryce Harper. Like there's some good stories there,
Like all the Nats had to do to make the
playoffs is let Bryce Harper walk is kind of ironic, right,
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But the idea that it starts at five o'clock, where
on the East coast you're still on your way getting home,
and on the West coast you're still at work, Like,
what are we what baseball? What are we doing? Is
your night? This is your night? Why are you not
starting at seven thirty eight o'clock late under the lights.
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One game, huge story, I don't know, ye. And every
year it feels like baseball does this where we don't
pay attention. Then in a week or maybe in a
couple of weeks we get to the A l c
s and n lcs everybody pay attention to every single
pitch and be like, man, why can't pay sball be
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like this more often? It could be tonight. Speaking of
every year, have you seen how Tom Brady has started
off this season? Now? The yards for attempt are actually
up over last year, seven point three is opposed to
six point eight. The touchdowns are are down from last
year nine last year in September seven so far this year.
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Interceptions down though this year from four to one. Yards
of games slightly up. Big thing is last year they
started two and two, this year they start four. Oh.
Some of that has helped out by who they started against.
Buffalo had three wins, but against three of the worst
teams in the NFL. And of course outside of that,
look who New England has taken taken on. But if
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you're you like me, are concerned about Tom Brady and
how he's playing, he did not play well against the Bills,
and I'll point out the Bills have a very good defense.
That defense is nasty, nasty, and had Josh Allen not
gotten hurt, Bill's probably win that game in spite of
the fact that he's Josh Allen is gonna throw a
big pit because how many of you actually knew Matt
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Barkley was still in the NFL? Anybody like I like
Matt Barkley's from Orange County, from modern day, from you know,
down the street from where I live. Nice guy, by
some people's estimation, would have been the number one overall pick.
Came back one more year in college, was the number
ten overall pick. But the idea like, I didn't know
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Matt Barkley was the backup. I'm not gonna lie to
you there. And I usually know these things because I
played Madden for every team and you're like, oh, it
gets the updated, updated the rosters. I didn't know. But
Brady wasn't great, But you know what, He's never great.
In September, here's the truth. In September his passer rating
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is nineties seven point three, the only month throughout his career,
and he's been doing this for nineteen years. The only
month when it's lower is December, when you're playing against
best competition, and he also seems to start to fade,
but also teams have a complete book on what you're doing.
His touchdown interception ratio is lowest in December, second lowest
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in September. His yards for attempt are lowest in December.
Second lowest is in September, October, November, and frankly, January
is when he plays his best football. So just like
the league uses the first month of the season as
extended preseason, and the Patriots themselves have kind of lived
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by that, moniker Tom Brady, while you like me can
go all right, maybe this is the beginning of the end.
What's past is president. What's past tells us this is
usually or this was usually his worst month of the season.
And it's not like this is a small sample size,
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right like Lamar Jackson, we don't have still I don't
have sixteen starts, and and uh Baker Mayfield, we still
don't have sixteen starts, and so it's not like we
don't have this. Dude has started every game every year,
with the exception of the one year which he tore
his knee after the perfect season, and then of course
he had the four game suspension. Was that three years ago?
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Three years ago? Outside of that, you know, we got
nineteen years of data, and through nineteen years of data,
something's changed. But this remains the same. He ain't great
out of the shoot, he great out of the shoot.
So different teams you can freak out about. And Brady
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is a guy that we're waiting for him to look old.
And he did look old, and he didn't look great,
and the offense did look beatable as opposed to how
it looked previously. Here's Tom Brady on the Boston radio
station discussed discussing their poor offense performance versus the Bills.
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No team is perfect this time of year. No team
is you know, this is not the team we're going
to be in December. You know. Offensive football is, I
would say, is always the work in progress. It's never
It's very rare, you know that I've ever had a
offense where I'm like, man, that's we've got it all
figured out. Um, you know, in the twenty years I've
been playing, Yeah, I've been doing this a long time
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and the first month is always clunky. Remember they didn't
have Antonio Brown then they did have Antonio Brown. Now
they'll never have Antonio Brown again. They don't have Benjamin Watson.
They're gonna add Benjamin Watson. They plan on having Benjamin Watson,
but they don't, and they don't have Rob Gronkowski, and
Benjamin Watson was replacing Rob Gronkowski. They don't have their center.
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They lost. I think they're they're left tackle the free agency.
They've reworked some things, right, it's not all the same.
And at the end of the day, their four no
in a division where their toughest, they're only challenger. They
just vanquished in their stadium, and the other two appear
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to be layups. So it's it's okay for you to
sit there and look at Tom Brady and go like,
hey man, father time creeping up on him. He looks old,
it's that did you. You're okay, It's fine, It's fine.
But I also believe that we had twenty years of data,
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nineteen years of data to sit here and go, guys,
slow out of the gate, Patriots, slow out of the gate.
Reasonable people can sit here and say they've had a
lot of chances and are working through some things, and
if worst case scenario is seven touchdowns one or seven
in four oh on the season. That's not a bad
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worst case scenario by anybody's account. Be sure to catch
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and the I Heart Radio app Football Night in America's
Chris sims He joins us in The Doug Gotlip Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Um, was it the Cowboys play calling?
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Was it their offensive line not playing well? Was it
the Saints? What you're going to get the backup quarterback
in Teddy Bridgewater? You hold them to four field goals
and you can only score ten points? What went wrong
with the Cowboys offense? Yeah? Well you you said a
lot of them. So okay, here it's a few, there's
a it's a few part answer here. First off, the
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Saints defense, Doug, their defensive line, it's one of the
best run stopping defensive lines in football. Uh, there's there's
no doubt about that. They have great size and power
and within during the game. I mean, the show you
the confidence they had and I've never seen anybody play
the Dallas Cowboys this way. They brought no safety help
into the box. And that adds to the second question,
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which of course we're talking about Dallas a little last week.
You know, it's one of the best offenses I've seen
in football over the first three weeks of the season
leading up to that game, and not that it was
bad in this game, but I'll tell you this is
the big difference. The D line, like we talked about,
and the Cowboys old line lost that battle and lost
that battle with the numbers in their favor, which I
think is more surprising. But again, that's a great D
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line with the New Orleans Saints big across, they got
great depth. But the biggest thing, and this is something
big for the New Orleans Saints, they changed up the
way they played coverage. And I don't think Dallas was
ready for the game plan that the Saints throughout them,
nor should they have been. The Saints had really shown
none of this type of coverage throughout the first three weeks,
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so I think it caught Dallas a little bit of
my surprise when they walked on the field and they realized, oh,
our game plans a little off. They're playing us completely
different than they played the first three games. A lot
of zone specific type coverages to breaking down teams. Uh,
Doug with just a little scatter of man demand here
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on there and a little on third and four and
third and five. But I really think those are the
main keys to what made Dallas is off installed. I'll
let alone. You know, the two fumbles one on fourth
and one and Jason wouldn't fumbling down the middle. Yeah,
the fumbles were big. You know, the dack out of
halftime is amazing, right, like no incomplete passes, they had
another great touchdown pass touchdown drive out of halftime, which
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signifies what Kellen Moore is able to seeing the adjustments
they're able to make together. Definitely. How do you think
Dak played though? I I thought Dad played well. I
have no issue with the way Dad played. You know,
there wasn't when I watched back the film, I didn't
sit there and go, oh man, he really missed some
throws like he was off tonight. No, No, that was
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not the case. New Orleans played coverage. They played coverage,
and they said, let's play coverage and see if our
front Coop Ford can hold down the fort. And I'm
sure they had a plan B backup plan if Zeke
Elliott started gashing them between the tackles. But the problem was,
you know, Almon Yatta and Malcolm Brown and Sheldon Rankins
and Cameron Jordan and them. Hey, they whooked the crap
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out of Travis Fedric and Zack Martin and Tom Roland Smith.
They just won the war. And then within that they
were allowed to keep two safeties deep a lot of
the night and that was not favorable for the Dallas
passing game. Doug Gottlib show here on Fox Sports trailer
that that's the voice of Chris Simms Football Night in America.
You see him on on the big set. Okay, let's uh,
let's let's get to Tom Brady. He wasn't great against Buffalo.
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Of course, Buffalo had to go to Matt Barkley because
of injury, and if not for that, maybe the Patriots
lose that game. But I put out that we've seen
this before, Like if you look the months in which
he struggles, Brady struggles statistically in comparison to other months.
First month of the season is you know, his second
lowest arms for tent, the second lowest pass rating, his
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second lowest TD interception ratio, and only December when people
have a big book on you and you're playing your
toughest competition, Um, and you're probably a little tired, is it?
Is it lower? Is this the same Tom Brady? Or
does he in fact look old? Well, he's I mean
he's getting older. I mean, you know, I don't think
he's the Tom Brady that just on a weekly basis
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anymore is going to be able to carry the team
if things aren't working. You know, I think the big
thing is, though he's still phenomenal. He's got a great
arm is he like, is he in the class of
Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers at this point of
his career. No, I don't think he is. But he's
in that next group down, you know, Deshaun Watson. I'd
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probably put him in another class above Tom Brady too.
But then there's Brady, which is still phenomenal. I'm sure
all the Boston fans will tweet at me and tell
me what a jerk I am because I just said
he wasn't the best quarterback. But Brady is amazing. His
arm strength is still there. This is the big thing.
The Buffalo deef ense. This phenomenal. You know, I think
a lot of people have forgotten. Last year this was
the top three defense in the sport. They weren't good
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on offense. In fact, they were horrible, so you know,
they couldn't win games and the defense got tired in
a few games here and there. Last year they defended
New England quite well, but again it was the offense
that could never muster anything in the defense and the
damn finally broke. But Sean McDermott doug is for me
one of the best defensive coaches in football, not only
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just coaching scheme on a week to week basis, and again,
like when I say scheme, there is zone defense, right,
and you know what cover four is, right, it's four
you know, four dbs and they all got the quarter
of the field right going straight back pretty much. They
do it like on a weekly basis to make a
little tweak. Oh hey this week, New England does this,
So we're gonna play Cover four this way this week,
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and you know, according to who they'll play next week,
they'll change it a little too. After they break that
team down and find out their tendencies. So they're a
team that doesn't have to blitz a whole lot because
they have a great front for mcdern is also great
at matching talent through the draft and free agent to
meet to meet a scheme. I'm not worried about New England.
I still think they're, of course the best team in football,
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and Brady is gonna be fine. I just think that's
a really good defensive Buffalo Josh Allen, we'll just you know,
tighten it up a little bit, not play so loose
and throw balls fifty yards down the field into triple
coverage and stuff. Who knows what happens in that game,
and that'll go a long way to helping Buffalo out
in the future. Anyways, Okay, help me out with with
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the Ravens. Um. You know, I mean some of this
kind of we four told saw it coming because you're
playing against legit defenses and he's not great into tight windows. Um.
What are your thoughts long term on Lamar Jackson now
that we've seen four games, two very two very different
ones after the first two, Yeah, well, I mean I
still like Lamar Jackson. He's still trending in the right direction.
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I mean, he is there there. I I don't think
that's an issue for me. I still like that, you know,
they're run games still there too. I mean, I think
the biggest thing I take away from last week's game.
First off, the Browns defense, you know, not been getting
the credited deserves because I get it. The offense is sexy,
it's got all the big names. But that front for
in Cleveland's the real deal. And Steve Wilkes, Yeah, he
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might not been worth a damn as the head coach
at Arizona last year, and I still think he got
kind of a raw deal. He is a hell of
a defensive coordinator, he really is. That's why he got
that job. So he had a good game plan. He
understood how to defend the Baltimore Ravens. But the biggest
thing is the Browns offense. I mean the Browns offense
later whooping on the Ravens like you just don't see
very often. I mean beat them with smash mouth football,
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you know, pulling guards, tight ends, whamming tackles, toss sweeps
with pulling lineman. And then Baker Mayfield. I think it
was his best game yet. He wasn't jittery in the pocket.
He stepped up in the pocket, and the really the
big thing to me, Doug, and I don't know if
I've said it the last few weeks, but I've said
it on my podcast and Pro Football talking all those things.
Cleveland's offensive line, they're not a very good path protecting
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old line, but they're a good run blocking old line.
They were at the end of last year. That's why
they went on the run. And I think Freddie Kitchens
played through the run game this week for the first
time this year, Baker Mayfield was underneath the center. They
ran some play action passes. I think they're more dangerous
that way. I think that's what they gotta do. They
gotta get people to go, oh, we gotta stop this
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run game. We gotta stop Nick Chubb, and then they're
gonna get all the matchups on the outside of Jarvis
and O b J that they want, and then they
can throw for four hundred yards a week. But I
thought it was the right approach on the offensive side
of the ball more than anything for the Browns. Doug
Gottli Show, You're on Fox Sports Radio, what's wrong with
the Rams offense? Okay, that's a good, good, really good question. Okay, Um,
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the Rams offense? What's wrong with it? Okay, I'm not
gonna sit here and go, oh, I'm concerned about the
Rams offense. They played the Browns two weeks ago. Like
we said, they played the Panthers to start the season.
Panthers are one of the better defenses in football. We
just talked about the Saints in Week two. They played them.
They're a good defense. And the Buccaneers, even though they
let up a lot of big plays, they have one
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thing that's really special about their football team. Their front
four can whoop the crap out about it about just
about anybody. When you get into Sue and Vita Villa,
it's a Vita via via Vita. I always mess up
his damn name either way. The big sucker in the middle,
who's three pounds from Washington, their first round pick of
the teen draft. They're immovable and they're athletic upfront. And
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then they have the NFL defensive m VP coming off
the edge right now, right now, it's Shaquille Barrett. I mean,
it's every game. It's not like it's a guy that's
like lucking into a few sacks every game. He whooped
the crap out of both tackles of the Rams. I
mean strip sack fumble interception caused the first interception by
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Jared Goff. I thought Jared Goff actually played well. I
really thought only one of the interceptions was his fault.
And trust me, when I was watching the game and
trying to watch everything and even Monday morning, at thought
Golf was the guy to blame. But when I watched
back that film, I think that was the biggest issue.
They got the turnovers early. Uh, and they got in
a hole and they had to abandon the rug game
and the Rams are a run run first team. Uh.
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And then of course that Rams defense got shredded apart
by Jamis Winston and Bruce Arians and Byron left Foot
with a great game plan. Yeah, kind of amazing. What
what they've been able to do in short order with Jamis?
Would you would you hold on to Jamis if you're
the Buccaneers if he can you know, this is the
fresh three frustrating thing about Jamis. Jamis shows, you know,
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two or three stretches like this every season. I mean
even at the end of last year. If you remember
back the last three or four games, Jamis Winston was
phenomenal and you're going, damn, that's why they picked this
guy number one. It's amazing. Hey, last week against the Giants, phenomenal.
I mean, the Bucks could be three and one if
they didn't take the stupid intentional five yard penalty because
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they like to kick it from five yards back farther.
Yeah right, Okay, I'm being sarcastic. There's you know, and
uh and then of course he was amazing this week.
I mean, if if we can just like stay consistent,
Jamis Winston's good is like really good, Doug, Like when
when he is on a roll, I go, oh my gosh,
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this is like top ten in the NFL type quarterback play.
The problem is that bad is like, you know, somewhere
between forty and fifty as far as a quarterback play.
You'll just he'll throw. You know, history tells us this
week he'll come out and throw a ball behind his
head and try to shovel pass a ball that will
get intercepted, and he'll throw three interceptions into quadruple coverage
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and well, what the hell happened to Jamis Winston? So
if he can just continue to stay consistent on an
upward trend, I do love his ceiling and think he
can be special in this league. Um As Cam Newton
played his last game as Caroline Panther. Oh, I know, well,
I don't think I'm ready to say that. I don't
think I am. I mean again, Kyle Allen has done
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a good job. I'm not gonna sit here and go,
oh my gosh, Kyle Allen's the future of the Carolina
Panthers and they don't need Cam Newton. No. I still
think that the best Carolina Panthers team will be with
a healthy Cam Newton, the guy we saw at the
start of last year that got them off to a
six and two start before he tore his labor. Hum.
You know, he's special still, but the first two games,
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there's no way guy can make any excuses for him.
And you know he you know, he was hurt, and
I know I saw the YouTube video and blah blah
blah whatever. Uh, but he was the problem in the
first two games, and he left so many yards on
the field. And Kyle Allen, as you see, is just
he's not making a ton of mistakes. Carolina has a
very good defense and he's just making a few throws
every game just to get the job done. And uh,
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I give him a lot of credit for that. But
I still I still think there's a chance Cam gets
back healthy this year. Shows us all what he's got,
gives us all the middle finger, and then they got
to give him a new contract. Awesome stuff. That's Chris Sims.
Check him out in Football Night in America every Sunday.
Of course, download his podcast as well. Thanks so much
for joining us, Man the Man, Doug, I'll talk you did.
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That's great. That's Chris Sims. Be sure to catch the
live edition of The Doug gott Leap Show weekdays at
three pm Easter noon Pacific. Very Jerry Jones like weird
comment earlier today. Take a listen to what he said
about the finger pointing after a tough loss to the Saints.
I see the one that gets is more likely to
have the most criticism. As the offensive coordinator in the NFL,
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it's the hottest seat in the business. And uh boy,
when that balls, when it doesn't work and you don't
get to win, uh, then get ready, they're gonna be
coming for your coming, coming for you as a as
a coordinator. So, uh, Kellen knows this, his head coach
knows that I know it, And uh that still doesn't
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mean now that you don't come in there and improve
on you got ready to play that game. We played
against the Rams last year changed a lot of things
for us. That's when we decided that he wanted to do.
Some of the things you're seeing right now was that
Ram game. So you're supposed to make adjustments when you
don't get it done. Yeah, I think if you listen
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to that, it's super super reasonable. People are Look it's
Jerry Jones. They hear what they want to hear. But
I will tell you what I heard. I heard Jerry
Jones going like, look, when you don't score that many points,
everybody points the offensive coordinator. He didn't say he was.
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He said Jason Garrett knows it because Jason Garrett has
called plays too, which is exactly what's happened. I call
her today. Put the blame at Jason Garrett. But other
people have said, Kellen Moore, what's with the play calling whatever?
Whereas if you listen to Jerry Jones, Jerry Jones like, look,
I've done this long enough. I know that they're coming
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gonna come after him. It's the first time being critical
of him, and you gotta do better. But you know,
part of it is you have to learn from things
like that, just like they learned last year against the Rams.
That they want to do some things differently, which they're
doing now. It's like Matt Laflour is learning right, like
you learn over time, you just do. New play callers
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can be innovative and also could be inexperienced and make mistakes.
Old player callers make mistakes. You know. It's like, uh,
do you guys watch college football over the weekend? You
see Clemson and North Carolina and Carolina went for two,
and everyone's like, man, love North Carolina going for two?
What do you think of a play call speed option? They? Yeah,
I didn't like that, and I didn't didn't like that one.
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I didn't like that one either. Um, but you know
it's like you can you can like the like the
play caller and not like the play he called. He
can be experienced to make mistakes, are inexperienced. I didn't
take that to be Jerry Jones saying, Hey, I'm coming
after offensive coordinator. He said, like, we've all done this
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enough to know when you only scored ten points and
the other team kicks four field goals and you've got
plenty of possessions, they're coming out. They'll they'll be critical
of the play caller, the the other part, which is
I think the most interesting is no one ever says, hey,
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it could just be that they have to have a
limited playbook because Dack's kind of limited, right, I mean,
it's it's it's not that dissimilar with Jared Goff. I mean,
I would tell you that Jared Goff through for five yards.
Granted some of it was they had the ball bunch
because of the interceptions. But if you take away somebody's
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primary threat and you make that person beat you, it
does tell you what the other team thinks of you.
But you have it relatively still a fairly inexperienced quarterback
and inexperienced play caller. You're playing on the road, and
whatever the scheme was that was taking Ezeki Elliott out
of the game, they struggle to adjust to not the
(26:08):
end of the world, and that sounds like a reasonable,
sensible approach from Jerry Jones. Fox Sports Radio has the
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listen live. There's a legit conversation we had in Minnesota,
(26:29):
like I don't think I don't think Adam theeland saying hey,
we need to throw the football. Is any profound damnation
of kirk Cousins. But kirk Cousins struggles and they're lack
of faith in Kirk Cousins tells you what you need
to know if they want to cut him thirty one
(26:50):
million dollars in dead cap money. Remember you took that
all inclusive, three year guaranteed deal that was championed by
so many and I told you at the time, I'm
like one. I didn't think it was a terrible deal
for the Vikings. But this is why you don't guarantee
long term deals. I understand why the players want them.
(27:11):
I also understand why the owners don't want to give him.
Between injuries and just guys not performing, He's thirty second
in QBR only ahead of Cam Newton. Three touchdowns, two interceptions,
were four games in only a hundred a three yards
per game, which is second to last among quarterbacks behind
Mr Robinski. According to Next Gen Stats, Kirk Cousins is
(27:33):
thirty one in average intended yards per play. In other words,
he wants to get rid of it as quickly and
as horizontally as possible. That's the average how many yards
each past step traveled past the line of scrimmage. It's
crazy because what it used to be was Kirk Cousins
in primetime games. But he hasn't played primetime games yet.
(27:55):
Now he's he's just shook, just shook. And I will
say that this does speak to this is a Jay
Gruen is probably gonna get fired, a right, like, there's
enough rumors now Jay Grub's gonna get fired. Didn't want
him to draft Dwayne Haskins, didn't want to play Dwayne Haskins.
(28:17):
And of course they played Dwayne Haskins last week and
he threw three picks and looked totally overwhelmed. But Jay
Groom was also the same coach that he just didn't
think Kirk Cousins had it, and they thought Alex Smith did.
If the story is told about Jay Gruden, and we
can go through the how he didn't get along with
Kirk Cousins, how Bruce Allen called He kept calling him
(28:40):
Kirk Cousins instead of Kirk Cousins, and I'm sure that
pissed him off. Alex Smith broke his leg in two
places and multiple places. He'll never likely never played football again.
That's what led to the downfall. They were in first place.
That's what led to the downfall the Redskins. But of
course cold McCoy got hurt like the next week. So
(29:01):
if you if you say I don't like the case
Keenom signing, or I don't like the Dwayne Haskins, that's fine.
But they found themselves in such a desperate position, that's
what they had to go with. But Jay knew that
Kirk didn't have it, and Jay knew that Alex Smith
did you know. I mean, I would say that one
(29:24):
of the reasons Sean McVeigh got a shot was people
didn't totally believe in Kirk Cousins. And yet Kirk Cusins
threw for over four thousand yards and got a big
contract because of the offense that he put Kirk Cousins in.
So that the customs things that they're stuck with him.
They're gonna have to make it work. They ain't know
buy anyway at thirty one million in dead cab money,
(29:47):
He's just gonna have to play better. They're gonna have to,
you know, put lipstick on a pig. I was told
by somebody on the Vikings this offseason that before big
games he's inconsolable, like he's so stressed, he's so tight,
nobody can even have a conversation with him. That's a
member of the offense of the Minnesota Vikings told me
he's like, Kirk, say, great, dude, He's like, but when
(30:09):
we play a big game, especially one of those night games,
he's like, he's in too early. He's too stressed, he's
too worried about everything, and he plays that way. He
plays tight and the rest of his play type because
of it.
Host
Doug Gottlieb
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