September 15, 2020 • 37 mins
Doug reacts to the Cowboys losing to another good team and why the excuses are running out for QB Dak Prescott. Super Bowl champion & QB guru Trent Dilfer joins the show to breakdown Tom Brady’s struggles in his first start with the Buccaneers. Plus, he praises Aaron Rodgers for his dominating performance over the Vikings after all the criticism he received in the offseason.
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last night was Sunday Night Football. It was the Rams,
who we did tell you were better than even last year.
We're better than your thought and this year would be
better we thought than advertised. In an oddly empty, amazing,
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brand new six billion dollars stake. Can you imagine paying
six billion dollars for a stadium? And hey, nobody can
go and enter it? Weird? And the Dallas Cowboys with
Mike McCarthy as their new head coach and and of
course the biggest story with the Cowboys is Dak Prescott.
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That's because Dak Prescott was the franchise Taggi. Dak Prescott
is a guy who was sent in when Tony Romo
got hurt, got an opportunity, went to the playoffs twice
with the Cowboys. Last year, they were disappointing the number
one offense in terms of net yardage and ratings, but
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against the good teams, they simply were inept and did
not beat a playoff team that they played last season.
So they changed head coaches, and you know what, we
are out of excuses for Dak Prescott. You can sit
there and tell me that Mike McCarthy shouldn't have gone
forward on fourth and three down three in the fourth quarter,
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and you're probably right. We all grew up playing Madden,
and when you don't get it on fourth down in Madden,
well then you can just preuss, reset or play another
game game. When you don't get it in the NFL,
suddenly you're an idiot. Instead of getting lost in the
fact that the Rams new uniforms are awesome. I love them.
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I don't like them. I love them. Cowboys blue uniforms
are atrocious. They always have been. That's why they were white.
Or the stadium or Mike McCarthy or Jared Goff, or
how much better the Rams are when they have a
competent running back. Let's just talk about the elephant in
the room. Dak Prescott. He finished the game one for
seven for eleven yards and a sack taken on third down.
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Third down is the down in the National Football Lake.
That's fourteen point three percent completion rate on third down
is the worst any game of Dak Prescott's career. The
Cowboys are one in seven and one score games since
two thousand nineteen. That again also indicative not just of coaching,
but of quarterback play. Only the Bengals have a worst
record and one score games since the start of last season.
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Oh and nine. By the way, congratulates to Randy Bullock
who completely and totally butchered a very easible, easy, makeable
thirty one yard field goal and pretended like he's hurt. Shocker,
He's hurt, not injured. He'll play this week. Look, I'm
not gonna sit here and attack Doc and tell you
he stinks. He has some really good intangibles. He is
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a very good leader, he's an athlete. It's not his
fault that at times, you know, Marie Cooper got hit
by Jalen Ramsey and and dropped the football. Not his
fault that Ceedee Lamb was probably a half yard short
of where he should have been on a mesh route
that ford and fourth and third throw, but the throw
was a little bit behind. The throw wasn't what it
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should be. And we're in the exact same place this
year with a new coaching staff, exact same place with
the new coaching staff that we were last year with
the old coaching staff, which is they play a good
team to score seventeen points. You know, a couple of
years ago was Zeke was suspended. That's why they fell
apart had Zeke. Last night it was offensive line injuries.
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Offensive line was fine. It was they didn't have Amari
Cooper enough weapons. Now they have plenty of weapons, including
going to getting Seedee Lamb who everybody said, Man, that's
gonna make the Cowboys unstoppable, And guess what they were
stoppable last night, specifically on third down. Don't don't don't
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tell me about options he's got him. Don't tell me
about coaching it changed. Don't tell me about environment. They're
playing in a dome. It's not even on the road
because there's no fans. By the way, truth is, had
that game been played with fans, it would have been
predominantly Cowboy fans. That's that's how l A rolls But
that's not the point. The point is simple. Everything has changed.
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The one constant is Dak Prescott, and the other constant
is they lose to good teams. And when you score
seventeen points against a good team, when you're one of
seven on third down, when your throws are just off
by a little bit, when you're you're you're indecisive at
the points in which you're supposed to be decisive. You
can't blame experience. He's got it. You can't blame personnel.
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He's got it. You can't blame having an offensive coordinator
hasn't called plays. They got the same guys last year.
You can't blame coaching staff. They changed it. You can't
blame anything except for at some point you go, hey,
you know what Bill Parcels is right, you are what
your record says you are. They don't beat good teams
with dark Prescott as a quarterback. But did seventeen points?
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Isn't enough? Do I think they got screwed in the
offensive past interference? I don't know. They call one on
a J Green, same spot and and you know, right
around the goal line. Whatever. It obviously is a point
of emphasis for the officials. I mean look that they
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missed a call. Jared Goff got got sledge hammered in
the head as he threw a football. Before he threw
the football, it should have been it should have been
unnecessary roughness. Instead it was an interception which led to
a field goal. So like we can go round and round.
It wasn't the officiating, wasn't the coaching, wasn't the personnel.
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At some point, you're the quarterback. You gotta own what's
your record is. It's not good against winning teams. This
is a trend. This is where we are. This is
who he is. I mean, you can ignore it if
you want. You can keep telling me that it's no,
it's this, it's that, no, this, and it's not even
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a small sample size. Just isn't not a small sample size.
It's not an experienced quarterback. It's not a guy who
doesn't have complete deal. It's not like you go out
you know he's got a bunch of new pieces. No
he doesn't. So yeah, they lost Blake Darwin for the year. Okay,
Like Blake Jarwin's an unbelievable stories. If we walk on
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in Oaklahoma State, an undrafted guy became their starting tight end.
That obviously hurts you, right, but stop it. Like Blake
Jarwin is like the fifth option on third down for them.
Jared Goff had you know, no Todd Gurley, no, Brandon
Cooks completely new new guys, and he figured it out. Now, look,
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you can tell me, hey, Aaron Donald's a beast. We
didn't know that going to the game. It's supposed to
be the best and one of the best offensive lines
in football. I mean, there are just times in which
he's too inaccurate. And it's not even missing badly, it's
missing by this much. So you hurt your Tom Brady
did it yard. We'll get to him yards after the catch.
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But I I like Dak, I like the intangibles, but
at some point it becomes about tangibles. At some point
it comes about I looked, I look, and I see
third down completion percentage, third down conversion for centage versus
good teams, points against good teams. How many points did
you score when you played somebody good. I don't care
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what you did against the Dolphins last year. I don't
care what you did against the Giants, so the Redskins
last year, don't care. I care what you did against
the Eagles at the end of the season at the
Patriots in a monsoon. Well, what you did against the
better football teams, the better coach football teams that take
away what you do best. Don't give me no Zeke.
He was there. Don't give me no Omari. He was there,
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he was on the field, he was healthy. They drafted
Ceedee Lamb. It's supposed to be unstoppable until they were stopped.
The l A Rams had a new defense coordinator news
scheme and supposedly we're a team where they loaded up
with Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey and a couple other
guys and the rest of the rest of them were
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all no names. Last two seasons playing teams. The winning
record there two and eight thirteen total tds including Russian
t downs, twelve turnovers, completion percentage. The excuses are over.
He is who he is. His record speaks for itself.
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So let's get the Trent Olver Super Bowl champion quarterback
quarterback guru um. Let's start with Sam Donald. Is he
regressing or they just are they just such a mess
it doesn't matter deep deep, Um, they're a mess. So
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that's part of it. And I think Sam still is
one of those columns as a superman complex tries to
do too much. Uh and when you're not good, trying
to do too much just makes bad plays worse, um
because you don't have the other side to make up
for that. UM mean that you know the targets, the
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people making the place for you. So uh. However, I'm
putting all my first four weeks in the one big
giant context of this is a glorified preseason. We're looking
at someone's very impressive. I thought there are teams that
were incredibly impressive without a whole lot of preparation. But
I don't want to stamp anything for a few weeks. Um.
It wouldn't surprise me if Sam can be efficient and
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they can be solid. I don't think they're gonna be great,
but I think they could be efficient and solid. And
I think if Sam buys into playing the position that
way with some patients, that good things can happen down
the road. But by no stretcher, they're going to be dynamic.
Try do for joining us. Let let's get to the
stuff that really really matters. Um, what's what happened to
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Baker Mayfield? The same thing we've been saying since the
first part of last year. Like, he has an identity crisis.
He doesn't know who he is as a player. UM,
he needs to be Drew Brees and he's trying to
play like Kyler Murray. Um, he's he's not a great athlete.
Is a good athlete. UM, he's not a playmaker. He
needs to be a surgeon from the pocket. He's a
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smart kid. He's super accurate when he's playing from the pocket.
He has great anticipation. He could play the position like
Drew Brees played it, where he played primarily on time.
And then he's a good enough athlete of something where
to happen. He can extend and create. But he's frenetic
in the pocket. He's not climbing, he's bolting right, which
he always likes to bolt right, and he's making bad
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plays worse. So I think ultimately he has an identity crisis.
He thinks he's somebody he's not. Part that's the coaching. UM.
I told the story to Ryan Roussillo this morning about
Jim's orne and how he would create chaotic situations and
practice as the quarterback coach so that we could play
with with poise and timing rhythm within chaos. They need
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to drill him better. They need to emphasize this all
the time. They need to freeze the tape on a
first hitch and say, look at throw it now and
throw it here instead of waiting for something better to happen.
So there's a combination how he's being coached and who
he thinks he is. Can you fix that in season?
You can. Absolutely, guys can make dramatic improvements in the season. Um,
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they just have to be they someone have to be broken,
they have to be humbled and realized my way isn't
the right way. I need to do it another way.
When they have that self realization, when they have that
aha moment, a lot of times dramatic changes can be
made within the quarterbacks style of play. So, uh, they
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work pretty darn hard during the week and there's a
lot of reps to be had and they're they're very
good at what they do because they're in the NFL.
So it's really more of a recognizing, Hey, this is
who I need to be to be successful. So when
we go to work, I'm becoming that, am I? Am
I wrong to say that? Like what's remarkable about Lamar
is that he's getting better that there have been other
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super gifted athletes who could throw, but for whatever reason,
they didn't, They didn't progress as quickly as Lamar is.
When I watched Lamar, every time I watched him, you know,
with some exception, there are some regression moments. There have
been some tough moments with turnovers in the playoffs. But
I felt like watching him yesterday, like, man, he's gotten
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better on that than he was last year at the
exact same throat, no doubt. I thought his rhythm was awesome.
I did watch a ton of that game, and I
thought his rhythm and timing, his eyes, how about I'm jumping.
But you got got to his third progression. I can
think at three times in the game and was was
calm in the pocket, his eyes and his feet were
tied together. Um yeah, no, I he's super impressive, and
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you got to give off a staff a lot of
credit to they. You know, if you're Sionna say Michael Vick,
Like if Michael Vick would have had this offense, it
would have been a lot different now now now now Now,
Vic also, by his own accounts, wasn't a hard worker
then either. So you have that Lamar will do the
work and they built an offense around him that fits
what he does. It's the best of both worlds, right
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it is. Yeah, it's perfect storm. You have an incredibly
hard working, smart, um ambitious kid in Lamar Jackson, with
an offensive staff that's willing to um really create a
very unique offense that maximizes his skill set as a
runner anna passer, which is the real Mitch Drabiskie Quotters
one through three or fourth quarter. I'm not rooting for rich.
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I want to say four, but I think I think
it's more once for three. There is a certain comment,
there's a certain lack of comp I mean, like, look,
part of playing the position, part of playing professional sports
is confidence is a massive thing. And I wonder what
the fourth quarter does for his confidence. I wonder if
that changes some of his production. I'm not saying I
disagree with you. I'm just saying that there is a
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distinct has been a distinct lack of confidence in him
and by the staff in him up until that fourth
quarter well, and you look at the throw, but you
also look at the throws. So you know every quarterback
kind has a d n A. And when you start
studying hundreds and hundreds of throws, you start seeing what
throws he's comfortable with, What reads he's comfortable with. Some
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guys hate throwing in between the hash that some guys
only throw it out to the numbers. Some guys only
like to dink and dunk itt some guys want to
like to take shots. You don't see anything short and
the great ones can do it all. You know, Mitch
is a pick and stick guy still. You know he
say he's a product of a spread offense in college. Um,
he's in a spread offense in the NFL, or a
version of it where they try to get isolation on
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one person. And when that happens and all is right,
he's very decisive and he makes big time throws. You
can see the talent come out. But when he has
to work deep into a progression, when the defense is
dictating terms and where the ball goes, now you see
the indecisiveness. And there's a lot of us and I'll
say us because I was one of them that when
you're forced to play a game you're not comfortable with.
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Earlier in your career, you haven't developed the tools yet
to thrive. And I still don't think he's developed those
tools yet. I think he can. I've never given up
on him, but as of right now, a lot of
these big throws he's making are somewhere the pick and
stick quality. It's hard to to tell because the Vikings
did rework their cornerbacks because they didn't have to nail
Hunter and so Aaron Rodgers had all day to throw.
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On the other hand, you know, so much of the
offseason story was they don't have the talent at wide
receiver and Aaron Rodgers talent isn't what it used to be.
Were we wrong? Was it just one game? Are the
wide receivers better? Is Aaron Rodgers better or or still
in the place he has been? What what's your read
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on why Green Bay's offense after struggle. They struggled in
the red zone the first three possessions, but after that
it's just deemed explode. Well, honestly, I think the answer
is we were in a very unique offseason where you
guys were looking for talking points every day and feel
content and because tons of people are listening to talk
NFL football with nothing really to talk about. Um, those
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are very talented receivers, extremely talented. Now are they proven? No,
but they're super talented. Uh, Aaron is still super talented.
I think this is a psychological um answer. It's I
think that the Packers are brilliant, enlightening fire in their
Aeron's asked, Um, you know there are certain people when
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they have reached greatness for so long, they become a
little complacent, They become a little cynical, they become a
little henre get off my lawn. And I think Aaron
fit into all those things. And by getting by drafting
Jordan's love, by not coddling Aaron, um, by forcing him
to tap back, you know what makes them great, They're
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gonna get greatness. Um. I think any good coach, any
good leadership role in the NFL, you're constantly trying to
find ways to motivate and inspire your best players, because
you're only as good as your best players are gonna play.
I think a lot of that. I think a lot
of what the Packers did had this in mind. Let's
get him back on edge. Maybe that's an easier way
to say it. You want an edge, Aaron Rodgers, you
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don't want to complace Aaron Rodgers. That's the voice of
Trent Dilford joining us, your Bowl champion quarterback, quarterback Goo Roots,
Doug Otleep show here on Fox Sports Radio. Uh, what's
your Dak Prescott one of seven on third down? Obviously,
oh of one on fourth down? UM and and Jared Goff,
I thought looked better, look more comfortable. Let's let's start
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with Dak. What's your read on why they struggled on
third down? I didn't like how they dropped back so much.
I think they needed to be more of an action
based team. I think you need I think that's a
team that's exposed enough to get a lot of first
downs on first and second down, but they don't need
to live in the third down world. UM. I think
play action, pass movement. You utilizing his running ability with
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some of the options stuff and his own read stuff.
That's when we've seen the best back Scott. We're we're
seeing dac struggles when you drop back, straight, drop back
like five six man protection, read the full field five.
You know that type of stuff more than fifteen twenty
times a game. I think you're gonna get in trouble.
So I didn't like you. Again. It's week one. There's
a lot they're still learning as the staff. But um,
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I think the more you see with backs back to
the defense, the more action pass, the more movement, the
better doctor you're going to get. The more catch the
ball in the shotgun, uh take five steps back and
climb the pocket, you're gonna see more inconsistencies. And that's
what you saw last night Doug Gotlives show here on
Fox Sports Radio. I like Joe Burrow. I really like two.
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I like his I like his presence. Just a dude.
He just got dude quality. He's like, you're gonna follow
him here. He just has a an aura to him.
He you know, he's never flinches. He's a pro already.
He's not uberly talented, like he's not he's not even
the top fifteen when it comes to talent, but all
the other stuff he has, like he just got all
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the other right stuff. And and because that he's going
to be highly highly successful. I think, I think, I
think I agree with think what's all the Carson wins.
He's a guy that still doesn't under kind oft the
Sam Donald realm um. He thinks every play is the
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most important play of his life. And there's something to
admire about that, right, there's something to say, Oh my gosh,
I love competitors like that. I do too, And you
know you're root for Carson because every play is life
or death to him. But he just plays with such
a lack of discernment, like he he extends plays when
they're already dead. He makes bad plays worse. He's always
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trying to be a superhero instead of just just get
to the next play, like sometimes just getting to the
next place the victory. Let let me give you example. Okay,
so I watched every snap of the Packers game and
Aaron Rodgers in the red zone in the first half.
It seemed like he was ticked. I don't know if
he didn't like the play calls or if nobody was open,
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but there are three straight plays where he just threw
it away. He just read it, read it, don't like it,
throw it away to kick a field goal, and he
was still mad. But it's the idea of like, if
you look at Rogers and what's change over the past
couple of years. He doesn't take those risks one because
he doesn't. You don't want to get hit and get
hurt again. But too he knows that the more you
turn it over, the more likely are to lose football games.
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And you live to play another day. Whereas a guy
like Carson Wentz, you said, tries to win every play
and you can't win every play. It's like the sermons
no longer celebrated in life or in sport, like everything
that celebrates like splash, sizzle, dramatic, um, you know, big
stuff and a lot of quarterbacking, and don't listen to
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you know me, I'm the game manager. But Steve Young
used to say that we used to watch games together.
Even as a Hall of famer, eighty five percent the
game is managing it. Eight per cent of it is
just making good decisions, making sure people are all going
in the same direction, making sure you're not making bad
plays worse like truly managing it. And when you're great,
when you're a Hall of Famer, that's fiftcents enough to
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fill up a highlight reel. But it's not make plays management.
And too many of these guys have been celebrated for
all the fantastic, incredible things they could do. I mean,
I celebrate it too, but what winds long term is
the of just doing the boring stuff. Well, um does
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does do the Niners have problem with Garoppolo. I mean
he just played in Suita Bowl. Obviously, they didn't have
a ton of confidence in him. In Meserable, they didn't
the NFC Chantip game. And then he just made some
decisions just say like wow, whereas Kyler has been doing
it for a less time than he has, and Kyler's
decision making was better. Tyler's magic. Tyler is something special.
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I think very quickly he'll be in this discussion of
one of the top five quarterbacks in the league. I
like Jimmy g I just think there's too much gun
slinger in him. From my for Kyle Um. You know,
you look at Kyle's best years with quarterbacks and their
system based guys. Their guys are gonna make really good decisions,
sound decisions, get their eyes in the right place off
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of action or if it is dropped back. Game. Uh,
He's gonna make it pretty simple for your own. Man one,
I too high, gotta YadA YadA, I just do it.
He's not real. I'm kind of the same way. I'm
not in this. I don't think being a quote unquote
playmaker gun slinger is the way you win long term. Um,
that's why Tom Brady is the go you know. He
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he plays within the system. He enhances the system. He
doesn't go outside of it very often. I think Jimmy
g goes outside the system too much to this point. Now,
he is very talented, he's very young, and his career
starts too. Like we jumped to these conclusions before. These
guys have fifty starts and a lot of times they
hit their stride around forty five or sixty starts. So
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I do think you're gonna see a better Jimmy j
And he's gonna get coach really, really hard in his career.
But who's coaching him? But I think this is a year,
you know, mid year, end of this year. I don't
know what his exact career starts are, but by the
end of this year, if he's still making those mistakes,
and then I think it's a concern. Right now, I
think he's still kind of learning the Shanahan Away awesome stuff.
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That's Trent Dilferd, head coach at Lipscom Academy, kind of
just join us on the Doug gotlip show on Fox
Sports Radio trying. Thanks so much. Be sure to catch
the live edition of The Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays at
three p m. Easter noon Pacific. Here's the thing. The
Packers were right, and we were right, and they were
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right again. Here's what they're right. One. Aaron Rodgers is
still legit. He's still one of the two or three
best quarterbacks in the game. If you want to say
Pat Mahomes, it's fine. I'm not gonna argue Pat Mahomes
the best quarterback in the game, but he's right there
in any conversation with Russell Wilson or lamar Ja Aackson,
who hasn't even been close in a playoff game yet. Right,
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it's it. It went to the NFC Championship game in
the first year of the guy who was inexperienced and
inexperienced wide receivers around Davante Adams. And when he had
Davante Adams last year, their offense was dominant. And guess what,
they had Davanta Adams yesterday, yesterday, and their offense was
dominant and Alan Lazard, Mark Marquez Valda's scantling. Turns out
they can actually play, maybe they can evaluate players, and
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you know why they drafted Jordan's love. Did you watch
Drew Brees play? Did you watch Tom Brady play? You
know two things are undefeated. One his father time. The
other one Daniel House found out about down in in
the bubble. Okay, Aaron Rodgers now he isn't done, he
ain't close. And the last dude you want to tick
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off is Aaron Rodgers because that guy can play. And
it wasn't just that he can play, play within himself.
Then the offense, I'm I I understand Daniel Hunter didn't
play is the best pass rusher for the Vikings. That
changes everything. I know that that the cap issues that
have there's cap issues and age issues and reason they
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turned over their defensive backfield. I get it. I'm not
sure Minnesota is nearly as good defensively as they've been.
I don't care. I was told Aaron Rodgers skills are
starting to fade. Then I watched yesterday, like you know what,
He's as good as anybody I've seen play the position,
which is what I said about him in his prime,
and I said about him last year, and I'll tell
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you about him now. And if an ancillary benefit of
drafting a potential quarterback in the future. And again, worst
case scenario for Jordan's Love is he can't play and
Aaron Rodgers plays really well and they trade Jordan's Love
for another first round pick because nobody knows that he
can't play and played in preseason game right a couple
of years. Oh, he's trained under Aaron Rodgers. Let's just
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get it for another first round pick or even second
round pick. Fine, no sweat out there back and oh yeah,
by the way, it stands to motivate, stands to motivate Rodgers.
If if you think he can't play, or you think
his skills started to fade, bro you should did you watch?
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Don't give me box scores? And I'm not I'm not trying.
Tomean Russell Wilson was great, not trying to mean Lamar Jackson,
but he makes the old Aaron Rodgers throw a guy
open in the right side of the end zone. The
Valdes scantling throw, which was a touchdown, was one of
those drop in the buckets right. You're like, you put
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a big trash can in the corner of the end
zone thirty five yards away and you drop back and
you throw it and there's like five guys on earth
that can get it in the trash can whenever they want.
He's one of them. He looked mobile and agile. You
already know he's tough. He can make every throw. There's
no arm strength issues. I mean, he's thirty two of
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forty four four touchdowns, no interceptions. You tell me, you know,
you tell me. And there's none of these screen passes.
You know, what do they do? What do they shuffle
passes that are considered passes that the guy takes thirty
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five yards to the house. He's like, oh yeah, that's
not a no. He does the old fashioned way drafts back.
Found Davante Adams fourteen times through him seventeen times for
a hundred fifty six yards. He's amazing. He's amazing. And
by the way, like the dome does in fact help,
you don't have elements. That's why the old guys want
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to play in good weather, playing a dome. And the
Packers aren't dopes for believing in their talent. They're not
dopes for drafting a J. Dillon. They're not dopes from
getting a replacement quarterback for three or four years from now.
Because that's about the age when guys start to fail.
That's what happened with Brady and Breeze, and that's what
that's just gonna happen with all of them. Everybody has
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an expiration date, but I would just point out, Aaron
Rodgers expiration date is not next week, it's not this year,
It's probably not next year. You know what Aaron Rodgers is?
Do you ever body checking at the store? Uncooked right?
And you put in your fridge and you look at
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the date, like, man, I've been sitting there a couple
of days, and you you're like, he should open us
up because you assume that it's gone bad. There's nothing
worse than you opened the package, like, oh, oh, I
guess I gotta go back to the store if I
want to cook dinner. Aaron Rodgers is the package of
meat and everybody's like, man, I think that went bad
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and you open it up like nope, still good. Throw
it on. He is every bit as sharp, every bit
as talented, have every bit of the arm and foot
talent that he's ever had, and you don't get dumber
over time. He doesn't turn it over, and he scores
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a lot of points and against the division rival, granted
one depleted by major injury to arguably the best defensive player.
I'm gonna give you all that. He was as good
as he has ever been and maybe even better. Fox
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was I was impressed, but I was also reasonable about it.
As as good as as competent as Cam Newton looked,
he threw the football nineteen times for a hundred and
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fifty five yards. Everything was dinking, dunk over the middle.
Julian Edelman, his leading wide receiver, five catches fifty seven yards.
Nikkil Harry, who had essentially been left out in the
dust by Tom Brady, had five catches. I think he
almost had like four in a row for thirty nine yards.
James White three catches out of the backfield. Um the
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the only time he threw the ball and the only
the only The longest reception was Um. Ryan is though,
the tight end, who had a twenty five yard catch.
That was it. So here's the thing. I'm not gonna
tell you that Cam Newton was a one hit wonder,
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but we do know they played the Dolphins, the Dolphins
of the world's best five win team last year, Like
the Dolphins were surprisingly not a train wreck by the
end of the year. That that really what happened. Go
back and look last year. At the start of the year,
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they were totally confused by what Baltimore did, and Baltimore
came in and it was an embarrassment. Then they go
out to Dallas and the exact same thing happened. We
had real conversations, real conversations. Was smart not me? Smart
football people who said that might be the worst football
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team of all time? Now it's just last year. Like
while they're taking for Tuah, turns out they didn't have
to tank that bad for Tuah. They did, in fact
get to uh he'll eventually be their quarterback. But they're
like in year two of a complete gut redo. The
Patriots won the division last year, and what have had
home feel advantaged throughout had they been all beat the
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lowly Miami Dolphins at the end of the season. So
I'm not gonna sit here and tell you, hey, Cam
Newton stinks, you can't play I'm not that guy. But
the questions about Cam Newton really really simple. This is
an NFL GM told me. He's like, look, man, I
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don't care about the suits, about the panash, the person
like stuff doesn't matter. Guys like him, you know, Young
guys grew up watching him play. Older guys know he's
a tough embre and he's been in some big games.
Does he have some flaws, absolutely, but he can win
a lot of football games. The problem everyone had who
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I talked to in the NFL was I don't know
how well he throws the football and if he can
stay healthy. The question wasn't if he was healthy. He
hadn't played footall, he barely played football in the last
two years. Of course he's healthy, and that's what those
videos showed you. The question isn't can he throw a football?
Can you throw a football well accurately down the field?
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Well you don't. Oh, and the Dolphins shure's how we're
going to try and make him prove it because they're
just not good enough. It's hard to play against the
team that's playing eleven on eleven football, that has a
running quarterback. It's hard to play against the Patriots because Hey,
guess what. That guy is just about the best coach
we've ever had in the sport. And part of it
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is his coaching philosophy, which is like, yeah, look, this
is Bill. Listen, this is Bill Belichick. And the difference
in building offenses for Cam and Tom Brady. We always
try to do what's best for the team to win,
and um, you know, everything we done for the last
twenty years, and rightfully so has been for Tom Brady
was for Tom Brady. Um, everything was dedicated to him,
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other than the games that he didn't play in, like um,
you know when Castle played um or Jimmy and then
Jacobe um when Brady it was suspended. So you know,
there were times when we we had to plan differently.
But you know, when you you're starting quarterback, has uh
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things that he's good at or things that you can
take advantage of them. I think he tried to take
advantage of them. Right, don't be so set in in
a system. That's the stupidity of people. Are is a
system of Cobody was a system quarterback. Well, the system was, Hey,
let's try and win this game. Everybody's a system quarterback.
If that's the system, they are pragmatists. What does it
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take to win this game with this quarterback, with whoever
is healthy this week? How do we do that? They
are pragmatic, right, pragmatists. And as soon as we wrap
our heads around that, as soon as we figure that
out and understand that's an absolute gift and absolute skill,
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and we take a breath and say, they're playing against
the Dolphins, who aren't good. I know Peter King picked
them to go to the super Bowl, but they're not good.
At some point to a is going to play. We
just don't know when that point is because you're worried
about two is leg falling off. All right, if they
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were if they were good, if they were set, guess
what they wouldn't have done. They wouldn't have drafted to
a tongue of ioloa. If they were good, they were set,
they wouldn't have gone out and overpaid for free agents.
So they're building. They have a nice draft, but those
rookies hadn't ever played in a preseason game. Now they
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go into New England and take on the Patriots, who
all they do is they're they're the their DJ khalin
DJ College wishes he could win as much as the
Patriots win, especially in Foxborough. I'm not sure what people expected.
I did think the dolls would keep it closer, and truthfully,
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and Ryan Fitzpatrick not throwing a late pick, it would
have been closer. But the least surprising thing ever, is
Bill Belichick doing whatever it took to win a game
against the team that beat him last year, and it
ticked him off the entire off season.
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of the Doug Gottli Show on Fox Sports Radio. But
last night was Sunday Night Football. It was the Rams,
who we did tell you were better than even last year.
We're better than your thought and this year would be
better we thought than advertised. In an oddly empty, amazing,
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brand new six billion dollars stake. Can you imagine paying
six billion dollars for a stadium? And hey, nobody can
go and enter it? Weird? And the Dallas Cowboys with
Mike McCarthy as their new head coach and and of
course the biggest story with the Cowboys is Dak Prescott.
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That's because Dak Prescott was the franchise Taggi. Dak Prescott
is a guy who was sent in when Tony Romo
got hurt, got an opportunity, went to the playoffs twice
with the Cowboys. Last year, they were disappointing the number
one offense in terms of net yardage and ratings, but
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against the good teams, they simply were inept and did
not beat a playoff team that they played last season.
So they changed head coaches, and you know what, we
are out of excuses for Dak Prescott. You can sit
there and tell me that Mike McCarthy shouldn't have gone
forward on fourth and three down three in the fourth quarter,
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and you're probably right. We all grew up playing Madden,
and when you don't get it on fourth down in Madden,
well then you can just preuss, reset or play another
game game. When you don't get it in the NFL,
suddenly you're an idiot. Instead of getting lost in the
fact that the Rams new uniforms are awesome. I love them.
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I don't like them. I love them. Cowboys blue uniforms
are atrocious. They always have been. That's why they were white.
Or the stadium or Mike McCarthy or Jared Goff, or
how much better the Rams are when they have a
competent running back. Let's just talk about the elephant in
the room. Dak Prescott. He finished the game one for
seven for eleven yards and a sack taken on third down.
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Third down is the down in the National Football Lake.
That's fourteen point three percent completion rate on third down
is the worst any game of Dak Prescott's career. The
Cowboys are one in seven and one score games since
two thousand nineteen. That again also indicative not just of coaching,
but of quarterback play. Only the Bengals have a worst
record and one score games since the start of last season.
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Oh and nine. By the way, congratulates to Randy Bullock
who completely and totally butchered a very easible, easy, makeable
thirty one yard field goal and pretended like he's hurt. Shocker,
He's hurt, not injured. He'll play this week. Look, I'm
not gonna sit here and attack Doc and tell you
he stinks. He has some really good intangibles. He is
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a very good leader, he's an athlete. It's not his
fault that at times, you know, Marie Cooper got hit
by Jalen Ramsey and and dropped the football. Not his
fault that Ceedee Lamb was probably a half yard short
of where he should have been on a mesh route
that ford and fourth and third throw, but the throw
was a little bit behind. The throw wasn't what it
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should be. And we're in the exact same place this
year with a new coaching staff, exact same place with
the new coaching staff that we were last year with
the old coaching staff, which is they play a good
team to score seventeen points. You know, a couple of
years ago was Zeke was suspended. That's why they fell
apart had Zeke. Last night it was offensive line injuries.
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Offensive line was fine. It was they didn't have Amari
Cooper enough weapons. Now they have plenty of weapons, including
going to getting Seedee Lamb who everybody said, Man, that's
gonna make the Cowboys unstoppable, And guess what they were
stoppable last night, specifically on third down. Don't don't don't
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tell me about options he's got him. Don't tell me
about coaching it changed. Don't tell me about environment. They're
playing in a dome. It's not even on the road
because there's no fans. By the way, truth is, had
that game been played with fans, it would have been
predominantly Cowboy fans. That's that's how l A rolls But
that's not the point. The point is simple. Everything has changed.
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The one constant is Dak Prescott, and the other constant
is they lose to good teams. And when you score
seventeen points against a good team, when you're one of
seven on third down, when your throws are just off
by a little bit, when you're you're you're indecisive at
the points in which you're supposed to be decisive. You
can't blame experience. He's got it. You can't blame personnel.
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He's got it. You can't blame having an offensive coordinator
hasn't called plays. They got the same guys last year.
You can't blame coaching staff. They changed it. You can't
blame anything except for at some point you go, hey,
you know what Bill Parcels is right, you are what
your record says you are. They don't beat good teams
with dark Prescott as a quarterback. But did seventeen points?
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Isn't enough? Do I think they got screwed in the
offensive past interference? I don't know. They call one on
a J Green, same spot and and you know, right
around the goal line. Whatever. It obviously is a point
of emphasis for the officials. I mean look that they
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missed a call. Jared Goff got got sledge hammered in
the head as he threw a football. Before he threw
the football, it should have been it should have been
unnecessary roughness. Instead it was an interception which led to
a field goal. So like we can go round and round.
It wasn't the officiating, wasn't the coaching, wasn't the personnel.
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At some point, you're the quarterback. You gotta own what's
your record is. It's not good against winning teams. This
is a trend. This is where we are. This is
who he is. I mean, you can ignore it if
you want. You can keep telling me that it's no,
it's this, it's that, no, this, and it's not even
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a small sample size. Just isn't not a small sample size.
It's not an experienced quarterback. It's not a guy who
doesn't have complete deal. It's not like you go out
you know he's got a bunch of new pieces. No
he doesn't. So yeah, they lost Blake Darwin for the year. Okay,
Like Blake Jarwin's an unbelievable stories. If we walk on
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in Oaklahoma State, an undrafted guy became their starting tight end.
That obviously hurts you, right, but stop it. Like Blake
Jarwin is like the fifth option on third down for them.
Jared Goff had you know, no Todd Gurley, no, Brandon
Cooks completely new new guys, and he figured it out. Now, look,
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you can tell me, hey, Aaron Donald's a beast. We
didn't know that going to the game. It's supposed to
be the best and one of the best offensive lines
in football. I mean, there are just times in which
he's too inaccurate. And it's not even missing badly, it's
missing by this much. So you hurt your Tom Brady
did it yard. We'll get to him yards after the catch.
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But I I like Dak, I like the intangibles, but
at some point it becomes about tangibles. At some point
it comes about I looked, I look, and I see
third down completion percentage, third down conversion for centage versus
good teams, points against good teams. How many points did
you score when you played somebody good. I don't care
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what you did against the Dolphins last year. I don't
care what you did against the Giants, so the Redskins
last year, don't care. I care what you did against
the Eagles at the end of the season at the
Patriots in a monsoon. Well, what you did against the
better football teams, the better coach football teams that take
away what you do best. Don't give me no Zeke.
He was there. Don't give me no Omari. He was there,
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he was on the field, he was healthy. They drafted
Ceedee Lamb. It's supposed to be unstoppable until they were stopped.
The l A Rams had a new defense coordinator news
scheme and supposedly we're a team where they loaded up
with Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey and a couple other
guys and the rest of the rest of them were
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all no names. Last two seasons playing teams. The winning
record there two and eight thirteen total tds including Russian
t downs, twelve turnovers, completion percentage. The excuses are over.
He is who he is. His record speaks for itself.
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So let's get the Trent Olver Super Bowl champion quarterback
quarterback guru um. Let's start with Sam Donald. Is he
regressing or they just are they just such a mess
it doesn't matter deep deep, Um, they're a mess. So
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that's part of it. And I think Sam still is
one of those columns as a superman complex tries to
do too much. Uh and when you're not good, trying
to do too much just makes bad plays worse, um
because you don't have the other side to make up
for that. UM mean that you know the targets, the
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people making the place for you. So uh. However, I'm
putting all my first four weeks in the one big
giant context of this is a glorified preseason. We're looking
at someone's very impressive. I thought there are teams that
were incredibly impressive without a whole lot of preparation. But
I don't want to stamp anything for a few weeks. Um.
It wouldn't surprise me if Sam can be efficient and
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they can be solid. I don't think they're gonna be great,
but I think they could be efficient and solid. And
I think if Sam buys into playing the position that
way with some patients, that good things can happen down
the road. But by no stretcher, they're going to be dynamic.
Try do for joining us. Let let's get to the
stuff that really really matters. Um, what's what happened to
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Baker Mayfield? The same thing we've been saying since the
first part of last year. Like, he has an identity crisis.
He doesn't know who he is as a player. UM,
he needs to be Drew Brees and he's trying to
play like Kyler Murray. Um, he's he's not a great athlete.
Is a good athlete. UM, he's not a playmaker. He
needs to be a surgeon from the pocket. He's a
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smart kid. He's super accurate when he's playing from the pocket.
He has great anticipation. He could play the position like
Drew Brees played it, where he played primarily on time.
And then he's a good enough athlete of something where
to happen. He can extend and create. But he's frenetic
in the pocket. He's not climbing, he's bolting right, which
he always likes to bolt right, and he's making bad
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plays worse. So I think ultimately he has an identity crisis.
He thinks he's somebody he's not. Part that's the coaching. UM.
I told the story to Ryan Roussillo this morning about
Jim's orne and how he would create chaotic situations and
practice as the quarterback coach so that we could play
with with poise and timing rhythm within chaos. They need
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to drill him better. They need to emphasize this all
the time. They need to freeze the tape on a
first hitch and say, look at throw it now and
throw it here instead of waiting for something better to happen.
So there's a combination how he's being coached and who
he thinks he is. Can you fix that in season?
You can. Absolutely, guys can make dramatic improvements in the season. Um,
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they just have to be they someone have to be broken,
they have to be humbled and realized my way isn't
the right way. I need to do it another way.
When they have that self realization, when they have that
aha moment, a lot of times dramatic changes can be
made within the quarterbacks style of play. So, uh, they
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work pretty darn hard during the week and there's a
lot of reps to be had and they're they're very
good at what they do because they're in the NFL.
So it's really more of a recognizing, Hey, this is
who I need to be to be successful. So when
we go to work, I'm becoming that, am I? Am
I wrong to say that? Like what's remarkable about Lamar
is that he's getting better that there have been other
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super gifted athletes who could throw, but for whatever reason,
they didn't, They didn't progress as quickly as Lamar is.
When I watched Lamar, every time I watched him, you know,
with some exception, there are some regression moments. There have
been some tough moments with turnovers in the playoffs. But
I felt like watching him yesterday, like, man, he's gotten
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better on that than he was last year at the
exact same throat, no doubt. I thought his rhythm was awesome.
I did watch a ton of that game, and I
thought his rhythm and timing, his eyes, how about I'm jumping.
But you got got to his third progression. I can
think at three times in the game and was was
calm in the pocket, his eyes and his feet were
tied together. Um yeah, no, I he's super impressive, and
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you got to give off a staff a lot of
credit to they. You know, if you're Sionna say Michael Vick,
Like if Michael Vick would have had this offense, it
would have been a lot different now now now now Now,
Vic also, by his own accounts, wasn't a hard worker
then either. So you have that Lamar will do the
work and they built an offense around him that fits
what he does. It's the best of both worlds, right
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it is. Yeah, it's perfect storm. You have an incredibly
hard working, smart, um ambitious kid in Lamar Jackson, with
an offensive staff that's willing to um really create a
very unique offense that maximizes his skill set as a
runner anna passer, which is the real Mitch Drabiskie Quotters
one through three or fourth quarter. I'm not rooting for rich.
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I want to say four, but I think I think
it's more once for three. There is a certain comment,
there's a certain lack of comp I mean, like, look,
part of playing the position, part of playing professional sports
is confidence is a massive thing. And I wonder what
the fourth quarter does for his confidence. I wonder if
that changes some of his production. I'm not saying I
disagree with you. I'm just saying that there is a
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distinct has been a distinct lack of confidence in him
and by the staff in him up until that fourth
quarter well, and you look at the throw, but you
also look at the throws. So you know every quarterback
kind has a d n A. And when you start
studying hundreds and hundreds of throws, you start seeing what
throws he's comfortable with, What reads he's comfortable with. Some
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guys hate throwing in between the hash that some guys
only throw it out to the numbers. Some guys only
like to dink and dunk itt some guys want to
like to take shots. You don't see anything short and
the great ones can do it all. You know, Mitch
is a pick and stick guy still. You know he
say he's a product of a spread offense in college. Um,
he's in a spread offense in the NFL, or a
version of it where they try to get isolation on
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one person. And when that happens and all is right,
he's very decisive and he makes big time throws. You
can see the talent come out. But when he has
to work deep into a progression, when the defense is
dictating terms and where the ball goes, now you see
the indecisiveness. And there's a lot of us and I'll
say us because I was one of them that when
you're forced to play a game you're not comfortable with.
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Earlier in your career, you haven't developed the tools yet
to thrive. And I still don't think he's developed those
tools yet. I think he can. I've never given up
on him, but as of right now, a lot of
these big throws he's making are somewhere the pick and
stick quality. It's hard to to tell because the Vikings
did rework their cornerbacks because they didn't have to nail
Hunter and so Aaron Rodgers had all day to throw.
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On the other hand, you know, so much of the
offseason story was they don't have the talent at wide
receiver and Aaron Rodgers talent isn't what it used to be.
Were we wrong? Was it just one game? Are the
wide receivers better? Is Aaron Rodgers better or or still
in the place he has been? What what's your read
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on why Green Bay's offense after struggle. They struggled in
the red zone the first three possessions, but after that
it's just deemed explode. Well, honestly, I think the answer
is we were in a very unique offseason where you
guys were looking for talking points every day and feel
content and because tons of people are listening to talk
NFL football with nothing really to talk about. Um, those
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are very talented receivers, extremely talented. Now are they proven? No,
but they're super talented. Uh, Aaron is still super talented.
I think this is a psychological um answer. It's I
think that the Packers are brilliant, enlightening fire in their
Aeron's asked, Um, you know there are certain people when
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they have reached greatness for so long, they become a
little complacent, They become a little cynical, they become a
little henre get off my lawn. And I think Aaron
fit into all those things. And by getting by drafting
Jordan's love, by not coddling Aaron, um, by forcing him
to tap back, you know what makes them great, They're
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gonna get greatness. Um. I think any good coach, any
good leadership role in the NFL, you're constantly trying to
find ways to motivate and inspire your best players, because
you're only as good as your best players are gonna play.
I think a lot of that. I think a lot
of what the Packers did had this in mind. Let's
get him back on edge. Maybe that's an easier way
to say it. You want an edge, Aaron Rodgers, you
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don't want to complace Aaron Rodgers. That's the voice of
Trent Dilford joining us, your Bowl champion quarterback, quarterback Goo Roots,
Doug Otleep show here on Fox Sports Radio. Uh, what's
your Dak Prescott one of seven on third down? Obviously,
oh of one on fourth down? UM and and Jared Goff,
I thought looked better, look more comfortable. Let's let's start
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with Dak. What's your read on why they struggled on
third down? I didn't like how they dropped back so much.
I think they needed to be more of an action
based team. I think you need I think that's a
team that's exposed enough to get a lot of first
downs on first and second down, but they don't need
to live in the third down world. UM. I think
play action, pass movement. You utilizing his running ability with
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some of the options stuff and his own read stuff.
That's when we've seen the best back Scott. We're we're
seeing dac struggles when you drop back, straight, drop back
like five six man protection, read the full field five.
You know that type of stuff more than fifteen twenty
times a game. I think you're gonna get in trouble.
So I didn't like you. Again. It's week one. There's
a lot they're still learning as the staff. But um,
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I think the more you see with backs back to
the defense, the more action pass, the more movement, the
better doctor you're going to get. The more catch the
ball in the shotgun, uh take five steps back and
climb the pocket, you're gonna see more inconsistencies. And that's
what you saw last night Doug Gotlives show here on
Fox Sports Radio. I like Joe Burrow. I really like two.
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I like his I like his presence. Just a dude.
He just got dude quality. He's like, you're gonna follow
him here. He just has a an aura to him.
He you know, he's never flinches. He's a pro already.
He's not uberly talented, like he's not he's not even
the top fifteen when it comes to talent, but all
the other stuff he has, like he just got all
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the other right stuff. And and because that he's going
to be highly highly successful. I think, I think, I
think I agree with think what's all the Carson wins.
He's a guy that still doesn't under kind oft the
Sam Donald realm um. He thinks every play is the
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most important play of his life. And there's something to
admire about that, right, there's something to say, Oh my gosh,
I love competitors like that. I do too, And you
know you're root for Carson because every play is life
or death to him. But he just plays with such
a lack of discernment, like he he extends plays when
they're already dead. He makes bad plays worse. He's always
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trying to be a superhero instead of just just get
to the next play, like sometimes just getting to the
next place the victory. Let let me give you example. Okay,
so I watched every snap of the Packers game and
Aaron Rodgers in the red zone in the first half.
It seemed like he was ticked. I don't know if
he didn't like the play calls or if nobody was open,
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but there are three straight plays where he just threw
it away. He just read it, read it, don't like it,
throw it away to kick a field goal, and he
was still mad. But it's the idea of like, if
you look at Rogers and what's change over the past
couple of years. He doesn't take those risks one because
he doesn't. You don't want to get hit and get
hurt again. But too he knows that the more you
turn it over, the more likely are to lose football games.
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And you live to play another day. Whereas a guy
like Carson Wentz, you said, tries to win every play
and you can't win every play. It's like the sermons
no longer celebrated in life or in sport, like everything
that celebrates like splash, sizzle, dramatic, um, you know, big
stuff and a lot of quarterbacking, and don't listen to
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you know me, I'm the game manager. But Steve Young
used to say that we used to watch games together.
Even as a Hall of famer, eighty five percent the
game is managing it. Eight per cent of it is
just making good decisions, making sure people are all going
in the same direction, making sure you're not making bad
plays worse like truly managing it. And when you're great,
when you're a Hall of Famer, that's fiftcents enough to
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fill up a highlight reel. But it's not make plays management.
And too many of these guys have been celebrated for
all the fantastic, incredible things they could do. I mean,
I celebrate it too, but what winds long term is
the of just doing the boring stuff. Well, um does
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does do the Niners have problem with Garoppolo. I mean
he just played in Suita Bowl. Obviously, they didn't have
a ton of confidence in him. In Meserable, they didn't
the NFC Chantip game. And then he just made some
decisions just say like wow, whereas Kyler has been doing
it for a less time than he has, and Kyler's
decision making was better. Tyler's magic. Tyler is something special.
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I think very quickly he'll be in this discussion of
one of the top five quarterbacks in the league. I
like Jimmy g I just think there's too much gun
slinger in him. From my for Kyle Um. You know,
you look at Kyle's best years with quarterbacks and their
system based guys. Their guys are gonna make really good decisions,
sound decisions, get their eyes in the right place off
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of action or if it is dropped back. Game. Uh,
He's gonna make it pretty simple for your own. Man one,
I too high, gotta YadA YadA, I just do it.
He's not real. I'm kind of the same way. I'm
not in this. I don't think being a quote unquote
playmaker gun slinger is the way you win long term. Um,
that's why Tom Brady is the go you know. He
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he plays within the system. He enhances the system. He
doesn't go outside of it very often. I think Jimmy
g goes outside the system too much to this point. Now,
he is very talented, he's very young, and his career
starts too. Like we jumped to these conclusions before. These
guys have fifty starts and a lot of times they
hit their stride around forty five or sixty starts. So
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I do think you're gonna see a better Jimmy j
And he's gonna get coach really, really hard in his career.
But who's coaching him? But I think this is a year,
you know, mid year, end of this year. I don't
know what his exact career starts are, but by the
end of this year, if he's still making those mistakes,
and then I think it's a concern. Right now, I
think he's still kind of learning the Shanahan Away awesome stuff.
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That's Trent Dilferd, head coach at Lipscom Academy, kind of
just join us on the Doug gotlip show on Fox
Sports Radio trying. Thanks so much. Be sure to catch
the live edition of The Doug Gottlieb Show weekdays at
three p m. Easter noon Pacific. Here's the thing. The
Packers were right, and we were right, and they were
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right again. Here's what they're right. One. Aaron Rodgers is
still legit. He's still one of the two or three
best quarterbacks in the game. If you want to say
Pat Mahomes, it's fine. I'm not gonna argue Pat Mahomes
the best quarterback in the game, but he's right there
in any conversation with Russell Wilson or lamar Ja Aackson,
who hasn't even been close in a playoff game yet. Right,
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it's it. It went to the NFC Championship game in
the first year of the guy who was inexperienced and
inexperienced wide receivers around Davante Adams. And when he had
Davante Adams last year, their offense was dominant. And guess what,
they had Davanta Adams yesterday, yesterday, and their offense was
dominant and Alan Lazard, Mark Marquez Valda's scantling. Turns out
they can actually play, maybe they can evaluate players, and
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you know why they drafted Jordan's love. Did you watch
Drew Brees play? Did you watch Tom Brady play? You
know two things are undefeated. One his father time. The
other one Daniel House found out about down in in
the bubble. Okay, Aaron Rodgers now he isn't done, he
ain't close. And the last dude you want to tick
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off is Aaron Rodgers because that guy can play. And
it wasn't just that he can play, play within himself.
Then the offense, I'm I I understand Daniel Hunter didn't
play is the best pass rusher for the Vikings. That
changes everything. I know that that the cap issues that
have there's cap issues and age issues and reason they
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turned over their defensive backfield. I get it. I'm not
sure Minnesota is nearly as good defensively as they've been.
I don't care. I was told Aaron Rodgers skills are
starting to fade. Then I watched yesterday, like you know what,
He's as good as anybody I've seen play the position,
which is what I said about him in his prime,
and I said about him last year, and I'll tell
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you about him now. And if an ancillary benefit of
drafting a potential quarterback in the future. And again, worst
case scenario for Jordan's Love is he can't play and
Aaron Rodgers plays really well and they trade Jordan's Love
for another first round pick because nobody knows that he
can't play and played in preseason game right a couple
of years. Oh, he's trained under Aaron Rodgers. Let's just
(26:57):
get it for another first round pick or even second
round pick. Fine, no sweat out there back and oh yeah,
by the way, it stands to motivate, stands to motivate Rodgers.
If if you think he can't play, or you think
his skills started to fade, bro you should did you watch?
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Don't give me box scores? And I'm not I'm not trying.
Tomean Russell Wilson was great, not trying to mean Lamar Jackson,
but he makes the old Aaron Rodgers throw a guy
open in the right side of the end zone. The
Valdes scantling throw, which was a touchdown, was one of
those drop in the buckets right. You're like, you put
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a big trash can in the corner of the end
zone thirty five yards away and you drop back and
you throw it and there's like five guys on earth
that can get it in the trash can whenever they want.
He's one of them. He looked mobile and agile. You
already know he's tough. He can make every throw. There's
no arm strength issues. I mean, he's thirty two of
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forty four four touchdowns, no interceptions. You tell me, you know,
you tell me. And there's none of these screen passes.
You know, what do they do? What do they shuffle
passes that are considered passes that the guy takes thirty
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five yards to the house. He's like, oh yeah, that's
not a no. He does the old fashioned way drafts back.
Found Davante Adams fourteen times through him seventeen times for
a hundred fifty six yards. He's amazing. He's amazing. And
by the way, like the dome does in fact help,
you don't have elements. That's why the old guys want
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to play in good weather, playing a dome. And the
Packers aren't dopes for believing in their talent. They're not
dopes for drafting a J. Dillon. They're not dopes from
getting a replacement quarterback for three or four years from now.
Because that's about the age when guys start to fail.
That's what happened with Brady and Breeze, and that's what
that's just gonna happen with all of them. Everybody has
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an expiration date, but I would just point out, Aaron
Rodgers expiration date is not next week, it's not this year,
It's probably not next year. You know what Aaron Rodgers is?
Do you ever body checking at the store? Uncooked right?
And you put in your fridge and you look at
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the date, like, man, I've been sitting there a couple
of days, and you you're like, he should open us
up because you assume that it's gone bad. There's nothing
worse than you opened the package, like, oh, oh, I
guess I gotta go back to the store if I
want to cook dinner. Aaron Rodgers is the package of
meat and everybody's like, man, I think that went bad
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and you open it up like nope, still good. Throw
it on. He is every bit as sharp, every bit
as talented, have every bit of the arm and foot
talent that he's ever had, and you don't get dumber
over time. He doesn't turn it over, and he scores
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a lot of points and against the division rival, granted
one depleted by major injury to arguably the best defensive player.
I'm gonna give you all that. He was as good
as he has ever been and maybe even better. Fox
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(30:35):
com and within the I Heart Radio app search f
s R to listen live. When I watched yesterday, I
was I was impressed, but I was also reasonable about it.
As as good as as competent as Cam Newton looked,
he threw the football nineteen times for a hundred and
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fifty five yards. Everything was dinking, dunk over the middle.
Julian Edelman, his leading wide receiver, five catches fifty seven yards.
Nikkil Harry, who had essentially been left out in the
dust by Tom Brady, had five catches. I think he
almost had like four in a row for thirty nine yards.
James White three catches out of the backfield. Um the
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the only time he threw the ball and the only
the only The longest reception was Um. Ryan is though,
the tight end, who had a twenty five yard catch.
That was it. So here's the thing. I'm not gonna
tell you that Cam Newton was a one hit wonder,
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but we do know they played the Dolphins, the Dolphins
of the world's best five win team last year, Like
the Dolphins were surprisingly not a train wreck by the
end of the year. That that really what happened. Go
back and look last year. At the start of the year,
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they were totally confused by what Baltimore did, and Baltimore
came in and it was an embarrassment. Then they go
out to Dallas and the exact same thing happened. We
had real conversations, real conversations. Was smart not me? Smart
football people who said that might be the worst football
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team of all time? Now it's just last year. Like
while they're taking for Tuah, turns out they didn't have
to tank that bad for Tuah. They did, in fact
get to uh he'll eventually be their quarterback. But they're
like in year two of a complete gut redo. The
Patriots won the division last year, and what have had
home feel advantaged throughout had they been all beat the
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lowly Miami Dolphins at the end of the season. So
I'm not gonna sit here and tell you, hey, Cam
Newton stinks, you can't play I'm not that guy. But
the questions about Cam Newton really really simple. This is
an NFL GM told me. He's like, look, man, I
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don't care about the suits, about the panash, the person
like stuff doesn't matter. Guys like him, you know, Young
guys grew up watching him play. Older guys know he's
a tough embre and he's been in some big games.
Does he have some flaws, absolutely, but he can win
a lot of football games. The problem everyone had who
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I talked to in the NFL was I don't know
how well he throws the football and if he can
stay healthy. The question wasn't if he was healthy. He
hadn't played footall, he barely played football in the last
two years. Of course he's healthy, and that's what those
videos showed you. The question isn't can he throw a football?
Can you throw a football well accurately down the field?
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Well you don't. Oh, and the Dolphins shure's how we're
going to try and make him prove it because they're
just not good enough. It's hard to play against the
team that's playing eleven on eleven football, that has a
running quarterback. It's hard to play against the Patriots because Hey,
guess what. That guy is just about the best coach
we've ever had in the sport. And part of it
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is his coaching philosophy, which is like, yeah, look, this
is Bill. Listen, this is Bill Belichick. And the difference
in building offenses for Cam and Tom Brady. We always
try to do what's best for the team to win,
and um, you know, everything we done for the last
twenty years, and rightfully so has been for Tom Brady
was for Tom Brady. Um, everything was dedicated to him,
(34:47):
other than the games that he didn't play in, like um,
you know when Castle played um or Jimmy and then
Jacobe um when Brady it was suspended. So you know,
there were times when we we had to plan differently.
But you know, when you you're starting quarterback, has uh
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things that he's good at or things that you can
take advantage of them. I think he tried to take
advantage of them. Right, don't be so set in in
a system. That's the stupidity of people. Are is a
system of Cobody was a system quarterback. Well, the system was, Hey,
let's try and win this game. Everybody's a system quarterback.
If that's the system, they are pragmatists. What does it
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take to win this game with this quarterback, with whoever
is healthy this week? How do we do that? They
are pragmatic, right, pragmatists. And as soon as we wrap
our heads around that, as soon as we figure that
out and understand that's an absolute gift and absolute skill,
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and we take a breath and say, they're playing against
the Dolphins, who aren't good. I know Peter King picked
them to go to the super Bowl, but they're not good.
At some point to a is going to play. We
just don't know when that point is because you're worried
about two is leg falling off. All right, if they
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were if they were good, if they were set, guess
what they wouldn't have done. They wouldn't have drafted to
a tongue of ioloa. If they were good, they were set,
they wouldn't have gone out and overpaid for free agents.
So they're building. They have a nice draft, but those
rookies hadn't ever played in a preseason game. Now they
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go into New England and take on the Patriots, who
all they do is they're they're the their DJ khalin
DJ College wishes he could win as much as the
Patriots win, especially in Foxborough. I'm not sure what people expected.
I did think the dolls would keep it closer, and truthfully,
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and Ryan Fitzpatrick not throwing a late pick, it would
have been closer. But the least surprising thing ever, is
Bill Belichick doing whatever it took to win a game
against the team that beat him last year, and it
ticked him off the entire off season.
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