September 14, 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 all the week 1 performances for QBs around the NFL.
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Doug Gottlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. Damn, it's good to
have football on TV on Sunday. Um full disclosure. Usually
my Sunday mornings had been something like this. My son
was playing doubleheaders in baseball, and so what I would
do is in the West Coast, the first kickoffs at ten.
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He would have to be there at nine, you know,
and so I and his or his game would started
sometimes ten or eleven or whatever. I would go and
be the first one in the Buffalo Wild Wings in
between games. But right now there's no baseball and because
of it, I literally had nothing to do yesterday, which
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was amazing. My eyes are tired, my spirit is uh
is is a little worn, mostly because the one team
that I do in fact root for in sports is
the l A Chargers, and oh my goodness, did they
try as hard as they could to give away a
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football game? But in the opposite in two thousand twenty,
is this the perfect example of it? The Chargers won
when they should have lost. If that's not two thousand twenty,
I don't know what is. But watch the Town of
Football and watch some hoop yesterday. I'm not sure how
many of you are aware, but the Clippers blew a
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gigantic lead yet again and end up getting blown out
at the end of the game. Blown out, But it's
not even one of our top like five or six stories.
Tomorrow they'll play a game seven for their playoff lives,
and if they win, they get the l A Lakers.
If they lose, it becomes the Clipper curse. We'll talk
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about a bunch of that tomorrow. This is the Doug
Outlive Show on Fox Sports Radio. I got things for you.
I watched um a a portion and sometimes a good
portion of almost every game. Yes, Twitter can have fun
with the fact that I thought the Washington Redskins were
the worst team in the league. I'm sorry, the Washington
football team is the worst team in the league. I'm
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still not totally convinced that I'm wrong, but Mandy Carson,
Wentz and that offensive line look bad and they just
pooped the bed. Cleveland Browns are gonna be fun and
interesting to talk about. The New Orleans Saints are really
really good and fun and running trick plays. The New
England Patriots one two games yesterday they won on the field,
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and then of course they won when Brady lost. There
is so much to get to. The Arizona Cardinals had
the win of the day. Oh, Joe Burrow looked pretty good.
The Jets look terrible. Josh Allen's basically, Josh Allen, I
got so much for you. We have a great show
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for you. Trent Dilfer is gonna join us in twenty
five minutes. He of course prematurely called called the death
of Tom Brady as a football player. Is it now
time to announce that Tom Brady has seen his better days?
Brandan Christal, my buddy from Denver, is gonna join us.
Broncos play tonight, Will Courtland Sutton play, and Kyle long,
long time offensive line with the Chicago Bears, now in
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the media. He'll join us in the third hour of
the show. But last night was Sunday Night Football. It
was the Rams, who we did tell you were better
than even last year, were better than your thought, and
this year would be better we thought, then advertised in
an oddly empty, amazing, brand new six billion dollars stake.
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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. That's because Dak Prescott was the franchise Taggi.
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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 against the good teams, they simply were inept and
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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 and the fourth
quarter and You're probably right. We all grew up plating Madden,
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and when you don't get it on fourth down in Madden,
well then you can just plus reset or play another 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. I
don't like them. I love them. Cowboys blue uniforms are atrocious.
They always have been. That's why they were white. Or
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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. Third
down is the down in the National Football Lake. That's
fourteen point three percent completion rate on third down is
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the word 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 one score games since the start of last season.
Oh and nine. By the way, congratulates to Brandy Bullock
who completely, in totally butchered a very easible, me easy,
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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 Dac and tell you
he stinks. He has some really good intangibles. He is
a very good leader, he's an athlete. It's not his
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fault that at times. You know, Marie Cooper got hit
by Jalen Ramsey and 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 should be. And we're in the exact same place
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this year with a new coaching staff, exact same place
for the new coaching staff that we were last year
with the old coaching staff, which is they play a
good team, they score seventeen points. You know, a couple
of years ago was Zeke was suspended. That's why they
fell apart. They had Zeke last night, it was offensive
line injuries. Offensive line was fine. It was they didn't
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have Amari Cooper enough weapons. Now they have plenty of weapons,
including going to getting Ceedee 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 tell me about options. He's got him. Don't tell
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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 Ruth 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. The one constant is Dak Prescott, and the
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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.
He's got it. You can't blame having a offensive coordinator
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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 Dak Prescott as a quarterback, but it seventeen points
isn't enough? Do I think they got screwed the offensive
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past interference? I don't know. They call one on a J. Green,
same spot then, and you know, right around the goal line. Whatever.
It obviously is a point of emphasis for the officials.
I mean, look that they 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
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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. Wasn't the officiating, wasn't
the coaching, wasn't the personnel. At some point I think
you're the quarterback. You gotta own what's your record is?
It's not good against winning teams. This is a trend.
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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 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
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not like you go out, you know he's got a
bunch of new pieces. Now he doesn't. So yeah, they
lost Blake Darwin for the year. Okay, like Blake Jarwin's
and unbelievable stories off were a walk on in Oklahoma State,
an undrafted guy became the starting tight end. That obviously
hurts you, right, but stop it. Like Blake Jarwin is
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like the fifth option on third down for them. Jared
Goff had you know, no Todd Gurley, no, Brandon Cooks
completely new, new new guys and he figured it out. Now, look,
you can tell me, hey, Aaron Donald's a beast. We
didn't know that going to the game. It's supposed to
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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. You hurt your Tom Brady did
yard and we'll get to him yards after the catch.
But I I like Dak. I like the intangibles. But
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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 percentage versus good teams,
points against good teams. How many points did you score
when you played somebody good. I don't care what you
did against the Dolphins last year. I don't care what
you did against the Giants, so the Redskins last year,
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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, he was
on the field, he was healthy. They drafted Seedee Lamb.
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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 all
no names. Last two seasons playing teams, the winning record
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there two and eight thirteen total tds including Russian touchdowns,
twelve turnovers, completion percentage. The excuses are over. He is
who he is. His record speaks for itself, all right,
Coming up next, uh, Tom Brady struggled. Wait to hear
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what Bruce arians had to say about his new quarterback.
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Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. So Tom Brady, Tom
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versus time right now, it's important we do this with
all of these games, right It's it's really really important
because we do this thing that we're like it's always
one or the other. Now you can be the majority
one and not the other. It's like, Cleveland looked like
crap yesterday, But can we at least give a little
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bit of credit to the fact that Baltimore Ravens are awesome.
Lamar Jackson's getting better. We'll get to that later in
the show. I just I want to point out that, uh,
my assessment of Lamar Jackson over the past couple of
years was based upon the fact that every other guy
who came into the league with the style of play
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that he played didn't progress as quickly or as well
as he has. Right, It's it's no different than the
Steph Curry thing, right, like, oh, you missed on Steph Curry. Okay,
but the league changed, they built a team around him,
and Steph got better. He got better. I don't know
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what Mike Vick would have been had he not had
the dog fighting, had he had he been the first
guy in, the last guy out, had they built an
offense around him. But Mike Vick just kind of was
what he was in Atlanta. It didn't really evolve. Vince
Young famously like drinking every day after practice, not a
hard worker. There were other guys, you know, Tim Tebow
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didn't evolve become a better passer. Again, I know Tebow
is not as athletically gifted. Cam Newton got hurt, you know,
keeps getting hurt. So the part of the Maya Copo
with Lamar is not really a Maya co. But it's like, look,
give him Lamark credit. He's gotten better at the things
that he didn't do well that people and and he's
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still got a it even better if he wants to
win the playoffs. But well, everyone's gonna rightfully crush the
Browns today. Browns look like they hadn't practiced legit look
like did the head they have that practice. But sometimes
it's about the Bravens. So when I talk about Tom Brady,
let's give some credit. Like the Saints are really really
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really good. They're good on defense, good on offense. It's
not just Drew Brees. They got Taysom Hill all right,
they got album Kamara back fully healthy. They got Michael
Thomas like they have weapons, their lines good, like the
whole thing works. Take a listen to Bruce Arians and
what he had to say earlier today in regards to
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Tom Brady speaks for itself. You know, if you're throwing
an out route, you don't lowing inside, and and that
hasn't been the case up until that one. You know,
it was a little bit late on it, and probably
a better decision to go somewhere else with the ball now.
Bruce Arians yesterday put both interceptions on Brady. The first one.
There's some discrepancy there where Mike Evans didn't read read
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it right. I just thought Brady guessed and he he
threw and Mike Evans didn't keep going, Whereas if you look,
why are there two guys there? If Evans was supposed
to keep going, I don't know enough. But Arians today
put it on Mike Evans. Yesterday he put it on
Tom Brady. That point doesn't really matter. He just wasn't sharp.
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It looked like a guy who was playing in a
system that he wasn't totally comfortable in. And oh yeah,
by the way, there was lots of other little mistakes
that the Buccaneers made that you'd have to think it's
reasonable to say, hey, the Patriots don't do that, but
we should have seen this coming. No O t a
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s no preseason, completely different style, and he's forty three
years old. And when you get to that new job
that you always thought, man, that would be fun to
work over there, but they do things differently. This first
couple of months are hard, and it's not like the
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Saints are like, oh oh hey, Tom, it's your first game.
Don't worry. We'll just do based coverage. We're not gonna
try and confuse you. What we understand, not the way
it works. We should have seen it coming. We should
have seen Tom Brady struggling in this game. Whether the
fans or no fans, the Saints are built to play
in a dome. They're a really good team. They're a
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cohesive team. And the Buccaneers, hell, they haven't done anything
since they won the Super Bowl. And to assume that
everything would fit together perfectly right away with a forty
three year old quarterback who hadn't been out of the
confines of Foxborough his entire career. Yeah, that that, that
was foolish if you thought otherwise. Be sure to catch
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the live edition of The Doug gott Leap Show weekdays
at three p m. Easter noon Pacific. It's to trend
over 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 watch every snap. Um,
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They're a mess. So 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. I mean that
you know the targets, the people making the plays for you.
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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 any
thing for a few weeks. Um, it wouldn't surprise me
if Sam can be efficient and they can be solid.
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I don't think they're gonna be great, but I think
they could be efficient 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 del Ford
joining us. Let let's get to the stuff that really
really matters. Um, What's what happened to Baker Mayfield? The
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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 smart kid.
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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 some thing 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 that he has an
identity crisis. He thinks he's somebody he's not part. That's
the coaching. UM. I told a story to Ryan Rossillo
this morning about Jim's orn 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 to drill him better. They need to emphasize
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this all the time. They need to freeze the tape
on his first hitch and say, look at throw it
now and throw it here instead of waiting for something
better to happen. So it's a combination how he's being
coached and who he thinks he is in season. You
can absolutely guys can make dramatic improvements in the season. Um,
they just have to be they someone have to be broken,
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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 a style of play. So, uh,
they worked pretty darn hard during the week and there's
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a lot of reps to be had, and 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 my wrong to say that? Like, what's remarkable about
Lamar is that he's getting better that there have been
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other 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 watch him, you know,
with some exception, there are some regression moments. There have
been some tough moments, but turnovers in the playoffs. But
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I felt like watching him yesterday, like, man, he's gotten
better on that than he was last You're 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 I'm jumping.
But you've got got his third progression I can think
at three times in the game and was was calm
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in the pocket, his eyes and his feet were tied together.
Um yeah, I know. He's super impressive and and you've
got to give the offensive staff a lot of credit
to they. You know, if you're seen to 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
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then either. So you have that Lamar will do the work,
and they built an offense around him that fits what
it does It's the best of both worlds, right it is. Yeah,
it's perfect storm. You have an incredibly hard working, smart,
um ambitious kid and Lamar Jackson with an offensive staff
that's willing to um really create a very unique offense
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that maximizes his skill set as a runner and a passer.
Which is the real Mitch Drabiskie quarters one through three
or fourth quarter. I'm not rooting for rich. I want
to say four, but I think I think it's more
once for three. There is a certain content, there's a
certain lack of com I mean, like, look, part of
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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 distinct has been
a distinct lack of confidence in him and by the
staff in him up until that fourth quarter. Well, and
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you look at the throw, but you also look at
the throws, so you know, every quarterback came as a
d n A. And when you start studying hundreds and
hundreds of throws, you start seeing what ros he's comfortable with.
What reads he's comfortable with. Some guys hate throwing in
between the hash that some guys only throw it out
to the numbers. Some guys only like to dncon duncut,
some guys want to like to take shots. You don't
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see anything short and the great ones can do it all.
You know, Mitch is a pick and stick guy. Still,
you know he's 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 one person. And when that happens and all
is right, he's very decisive and he makes big time throws.
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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 earlier in your career, you haven't developed the tools
yet to thrive. And I still don't think he's developed
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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 quarterbacks because they didn't have the
nail hunter and so Aaron Rodgers had all day to throw.
On the other hand, you know, so much of the
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offseason story was they don't have the talented 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
on why Green Bay's offense after strug They struggled in
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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 to
feel content and because tons of people are listening to
talk NFL football with nothing really to talk about. Um,
those are very talented receivers, extremely talented. Now are they proven? No,
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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 were brilliant, enlightened to fire under
Aaron's ass um. You know, there are certain people when
they have reached greatness for so long, they become a
little complacent. Um, they can become a little cynical, they
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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 gonna get greatness. Um. I think any good coach,
any good leadership role in the NFL, you're constantly trying
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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 them back on edge. Maybe that's an easier
way to say, you want an edgy Aaron Rodgers, you
don't want to complace in Aaron Rodgers. That's the voice
of Trent Dilford joining us your Bowl champion quarterback quarterback
gur Roots Doug out Liep show here on Fox Sports radio. Uh,
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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 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
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think that's a team that's explosed enough to get a
lot of first downs on first and second down that
they don't need to live in the third down world. UM.
I think the play action pass movement, you utilizing his
running ability with some of the options stuff and the
zone read stuff. That's when we've seen the best Dak Prescott.
We're reseeing Dak struggles when you drop back straight, drop
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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 And again it's week one. There's
a lot they're still learning as the staff. But um,
I think the more you see with backs back to
the defense, the more action pass, the more movement. The
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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 going to see more inconsistencies. And
that's what you saw last night Doug Gotlive show here
on Fox Sports Radio. I like Joe Burrow. I really
like two. I like his I like his presence. Just
a dude. He just got dude quality. He's like, you're
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gonna follow him here. He just has a an aura
to him. 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 fIF team when it comes to talent, but
all the other stuff he has, like he just got
all the other right stuff. And and because that he's
going to be highly highly successful. I think, I think,
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I think I agree with what's all the Carson wins.
He's a guy that still doesn't under kind ofto the
Sam Donald realm um. He thinks every plays the 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
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like that. I do too, And you know your 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 trying to be a
superhero instead of just just get to the next play,
like sometimes just getting to the next place the victory.
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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, but there
are three straight plays where he just threw it away.
He just read it, re 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
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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 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
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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
you know me, I'm the game manager. But Steve Young
used to say that we used to watch games together
to say, even as a Hall of Famer, eighty five
percent a game is managing it. Eight of it is
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just making good decisions, making sure people are all going
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 fifteen percents enough to
fill up a highlight reel. But it's not eight percent
make plays, twenty percent management and too man of these
guys have been celebrated for all the fantastic, incredible things
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they could do. I mean I celebrate it too, But
wins long term is of just doing the boring stuff. Well,
um does does do the Niners have problem with Garoppolo?
I mean he just played in Super 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
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been doing it for a less time than he has,
and Kyler's decision making was better. Tyler's magic. Kyler is
something special. 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,
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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
of action or if it is dropped back game. Uh,
he's gonna make it pretty simple for your own man
one I two, I gotta YadA, YadA, I just do it.
He's not real. I'm kind of the same way. I'm
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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
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
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starts too. We jumped to these conclusions before. These guys
have fifty starts and a lot of times they hit
the stride around forty five or sixty starts. So I
do think you're gonna see it better Jimmy G. And
he's gonna get coach really, really hard in his career.
But who's coaching him? But I think this is the year,
you know, mid year, end of this year. I don't
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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 Way. Awesome stuff.
That's Trent Dilfer head coach and lives an academy. Kind
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Doug Gottlieb Show, David Gas. What's the game? We got?
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Big deal, little deal, no deal? Anyways, Doug, how about this,
let's start things off in the NBA. He gets a pick,
spins away from that, driving a bit the corner, Harris three.
That's it. The Nuggets are on top one oh nine
and nine and game number six. There's gonna force a
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game seven, baby, because this thing is you sound like
that when after you've done cooking this man, I was
cooking last night. I was growing up a stone yum yum.
All right, So what they got, big deal, little deal
or no deal at all? With the Clippers bowling a
three one lead so far, that's a big deal. It's
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a it's a big big deal. Uh. You do remember
what happened last time a team blew a three one
lead in the second round series? Right? So? Um? Actually
that was in the Western Conference finals. But that doesn't matter.
I mean, the Clippers are destined to take on the Lakers.
They had all the swag and now of a sudden,
the pressure is on the Clippers to win tomorrow night
against the team that they've had a nineteen point lead over,
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nineteen boy lead over, and they got blown out. It
wasn't like that nineteen point lead, came back, tie game,
ball goes in at the buzzer miracle finished like they
got their asses kicked really crazy. Your Kits had thirty four,
Jamal Murray had twenty one. We go from that to
how about this? The Colts lost the Jaguars yesterday. They
were over a touchdown favorite, and that affair Philip Rivers
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through a couple of picks, one of them back breaking
with less than five minutes to play and the team
trailing by four. Big deal, little deal or no deal
at all. It's a little deal. And here's why. That's
Philip Rivers. You know, I can't like Philip Rivers and
point out that he has a horrendous record in one
score games because he's prone to the big interception. That's
Philip Rivers. Fair enough. Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks
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yesday on the road in the Dome and the A
t M they beat the Falcons. Wilson on the day,
Doug thirty one, thirty five, three two and four touchdown passes,
Big deal, little deal or no deal at on Russ
Big deal, I mean he looked phenomenal like unbelievable. I
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was a little concerned about his his the talent around
him and on. I mean, look, there's a bad drop
on one of those incomplete paths right right in his hands.
He was amazing, I mean simply amazing. You were mentioning
with Trent, So will go there San Francisco forty niners.
They lost to the Cardinals at home. Here's Kyle Shanahan.
Obviously it was a little different today without the crowd
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high just that feel game day feels. It just wasn't there.
But um, you know, it just comes down to execution,
like I said, especially when it comes in the last
couple of minutes like that. Every place crucial, every yards crucial,
and we didn't execute when we needed to. Oh, big deal,
little deal or no deal at all? Doug, What what
was the big deal? Little deal? No deal? As of
what the crowd, the environment, the uh, the spectacle that
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is Santa Clara. No, there's no, there's never a crowd there.
That's not what a joke, right. If it's it's like that,
that would be like the Chargers going like, man, we
don't have the normal home bield advantage we got. Santa
Clara has not been a good home Bieldvanage for them.
So that's that's a no deal. Last one, Mitchell Rabinsky
in the Chicago Bears came from twenty three six down
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to win anti trip over the Lions. Doug big deal,
little deal or no deal at all. I think it's
a little deal. It's a big deal in that Trabisky
look like a guy who's gonna get benched at halftime,
But it's a little deal in that at the end
of the day, the first three quarters do matter. We
seen guys, you know he did he kind did the tebow,
you know, put out a fire, he started um and
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if DeAndre Swift holds on the football, he still lose
the game. But it's a big deal in the short term.
But I think a little deal long term. This is
game time on the Duck Gottlieb Show. You know, there's
been a lot of talk about Aaron Rodgers. Did the
Packers do him wrong by drafting Jordan's Love Should they
(37:26):
have gone and gotten another wide receiver? But the bigger
talk has been about if he still has it right
or if his skills have begun to fade.
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Doug Gottlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. Damn, it's good to
have football on TV on Sunday. Um full disclosure. Usually
my Sunday mornings had been something like this. My son
was playing doubleheaders in baseball, and so what I would
do is in the West Coast, the first kickoffs at ten.
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He would have to be there at nine, you know,
and so I and his or his game would started
sometimes ten or eleven or whatever. I would go and
be the first one in the Buffalo Wild Wings in
between games. But right now there's no baseball and because
of it, I literally had nothing to do yesterday, which
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was amazing. My eyes are tired, my spirit is uh
is is a little worn, mostly because the one team
that I do in fact root for in sports is
the l A Chargers, and oh my goodness, did they
try as hard as they could to give away a
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football game? But in the opposite in two thousand twenty,
is this the perfect example of it? The Chargers won
when they should have lost. If that's not two thousand twenty,
I don't know what is. But watch the Town of
Football and watch some hoop yesterday. I'm not sure how
many of you are aware, but the Clippers blew a
(01:58):
gigantic lead yet again and end up getting blown out
at the end of the game. Blown out, But it's
not even one of our top like five or six stories.
Tomorrow they'll play a game seven for their playoff lives,
and if they win, they get the l A Lakers.
If they lose, it becomes the Clipper curse. We'll talk
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about a bunch of that tomorrow. This is the Doug
Outlive Show on Fox Sports Radio. I got things for you.
I watched um a a portion and sometimes a good
portion of almost every game. Yes, Twitter can have fun
with the fact that I thought the Washington Redskins were
the worst team in the league. I'm sorry, the Washington
football team is the worst team in the league. I'm
(02:38):
still not totally convinced that I'm wrong, but Mandy Carson,
Wentz and that offensive line look bad and they just
pooped the bed. Cleveland Browns are gonna be fun and
interesting to talk about. The New Orleans Saints are really
really good and fun and running trick plays. The New
England Patriots one two games yesterday they won on the field,
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and then of course they won when Brady lost. There
is so much to get to. The Arizona Cardinals had
the win of the day. Oh, Joe Burrow looked pretty good.
The Jets look terrible. Josh Allen's basically, Josh Allen, I
got so much for you. We have a great show
(03:22):
for you. Trent Dilfer is gonna join us in twenty
five minutes. He of course prematurely called called the death
of Tom Brady as a football player. Is it now
time to announce that Tom Brady has seen his better days?
Brandan Christal, my buddy from Denver, is gonna join us.
Broncos play tonight, Will Courtland Sutton play, and Kyle long,
long time offensive line with the Chicago Bears, now in
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the media. He'll join us in the third hour of
the show. But last night was Sunday Night Football. It
was the Rams, who we did tell you were better
than even last year, were better than your thought, and
this year would be better we thought, then advertised in
an oddly empty, amazing, brand new six billion dollars stake.
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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. That's because Dak Prescott was the franchise Taggi.
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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 against the good teams, they simply were inept and
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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 and the fourth
quarter and You're probably right. We all grew up plating Madden,
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and when you don't get it on fourth down in Madden,
well then you can just plus reset or play another 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. I
don't like them. I love them. Cowboys blue uniforms are atrocious.
They always have been. That's why they were white. Or
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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. Third
down is the down in the National Football Lake. That's
fourteen point three percent completion rate on third down is
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the word 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 one score games since the start of last season.
Oh and nine. By the way, congratulates to Brandy Bullock
who completely, in totally butchered a very easible, me easy,
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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 Dac and tell you
he stinks. He has some really good intangibles. He is
a very good leader, he's an athlete. It's not his
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fault that at times. You know, Marie Cooper got hit
by Jalen Ramsey and 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 should be. And we're in the exact same place
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this year with a new coaching staff, exact same place
for the new coaching staff that we were last year
with the old coaching staff, which is they play a
good team, they score seventeen points. You know, a couple
of years ago was Zeke was suspended. That's why they
fell apart. They had Zeke last night, it was offensive
line injuries. Offensive line was fine. It was they didn't
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have Amari Cooper enough weapons. Now they have plenty of weapons,
including going to getting Ceedee 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 tell me about options. He's got him. Don't tell
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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 Ruth 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. The one constant is Dak Prescott, and the
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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.
He's got it. You can't blame having a offensive coordinator
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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 Dak Prescott as a quarterback, but it seventeen points
isn't enough? Do I think they got screwed the offensive
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past interference? I don't know. They call one on a J. Green,
same spot then, and you know, right around the goal line. Whatever.
It obviously is a point of emphasis for the officials.
I mean, look that they 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
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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. Wasn't the officiating, wasn't
the coaching, wasn't the personnel. At some point I think
you're the quarterback. You gotta own what's your record is?
It's not good against winning teams. This is a trend.
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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 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
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not like you go out, you know he's got a
bunch of new pieces. Now he doesn't. So yeah, they
lost Blake Darwin for the year. Okay, like Blake Jarwin's
and unbelievable stories off were a walk on in Oklahoma State,
an undrafted guy became the starting tight end. That obviously
hurts you, right, but stop it. Like Blake Jarwin is
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like the fifth option on third down for them. Jared
Goff had you know, no Todd Gurley, no, Brandon Cooks
completely new, new new guys and he figured it out. Now, look,
you can tell me, hey, Aaron Donald's a beast. We
didn't know that going to the game. It's supposed to
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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. You hurt your Tom Brady did
yard and we'll get to him yards after the catch.
But I I like Dak. I like the intangibles. But
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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 percentage versus good teams,
points against good teams. How many points did you score
when you played somebody good. I don't care what you
did against the Dolphins last year. I don't care what
you did against the Giants, so the Redskins last year,
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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, he was
on the field, he was healthy. They drafted Seedee Lamb.
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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 all
no names. Last two seasons playing teams, the winning record
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there two and eight thirteen total tds including Russian touchdowns,
twelve turnovers, completion percentage. The excuses are over. He is
who he is. His record speaks for itself, all right,
Coming up next, uh, Tom Brady struggled. Wait to hear
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what Bruce arians had to say about his new quarterback.
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Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. So Tom Brady, Tom
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versus time right now, it's important we do this with
all of these games, right It's it's really really important
because we do this thing that we're like it's always
one or the other. Now you can be the majority
one and not the other. It's like, Cleveland looked like
crap yesterday, But can we at least give a little
(13:27):
bit of credit to the fact that Baltimore Ravens are awesome.
Lamar Jackson's getting better. We'll get to that later in
the show. I just I want to point out that, uh,
my assessment of Lamar Jackson over the past couple of
years was based upon the fact that every other guy
who came into the league with the style of play
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that he played didn't progress as quickly or as well
as he has. Right, It's it's no different than the
Steph Curry thing, right, like, oh, you missed on Steph Curry. Okay,
but the league changed, they built a team around him,
and Steph got better. He got better. I don't know
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what Mike Vick would have been had he not had
the dog fighting, had he had he been the first
guy in, the last guy out, had they built an
offense around him. But Mike Vick just kind of was
what he was in Atlanta. It didn't really evolve. Vince
Young famously like drinking every day after practice, not a
hard worker. There were other guys, you know, Tim Tebow
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didn't evolve become a better passer. Again, I know Tebow
is not as athletically gifted. Cam Newton got hurt, you know,
keeps getting hurt. So the part of the Maya Copo
with Lamar is not really a Maya co. But it's like, look,
give him Lamark credit. He's gotten better at the things
that he didn't do well that people and and he's
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still got a it even better if he wants to
win the playoffs. But well, everyone's gonna rightfully crush the
Browns today. Browns look like they hadn't practiced legit look
like did the head they have that practice. But sometimes
it's about the Bravens. So when I talk about Tom Brady,
let's give some credit. Like the Saints are really really
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really good. They're good on defense, good on offense. It's
not just Drew Brees. They got Taysom Hill all right,
they got album Kamara back fully healthy. They got Michael
Thomas like they have weapons, their lines good, like the
whole thing works. Take a listen to Bruce Arians and
what he had to say earlier today in regards to
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Tom Brady speaks for itself. You know, if you're throwing
an out route, you don't lowing inside, and and that
hasn't been the case up until that one. You know,
it was a little bit late on it, and probably
a better decision to go somewhere else with the ball now.
Bruce Arians yesterday put both interceptions on Brady. The first one.
There's some discrepancy there where Mike Evans didn't read read
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it right. I just thought Brady guessed and he he
threw and Mike Evans didn't keep going, Whereas if you look,
why are there two guys there? If Evans was supposed
to keep going, I don't know enough. But Arians today
put it on Mike Evans. Yesterday he put it on
Tom Brady. That point doesn't really matter. He just wasn't sharp.
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It looked like a guy who was playing in a
system that he wasn't totally comfortable in. And oh yeah,
by the way, there was lots of other little mistakes
that the Buccaneers made that you'd have to think it's
reasonable to say, hey, the Patriots don't do that, but
we should have seen this coming. No O t a
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s no preseason, completely different style, and he's forty three
years old. And when you get to that new job
that you always thought, man, that would be fun to
work over there, but they do things differently. This first
couple of months are hard, and it's not like the
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Saints are like, oh oh hey, Tom, it's your first game.
Don't worry. We'll just do based coverage. We're not gonna
try and confuse you. What we understand, not the way
it works. We should have seen it coming. We should
have seen Tom Brady struggling in this game. Whether the
fans or no fans, the Saints are built to play
in a dome. They're a really good team. They're a
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cohesive team. And the Buccaneers, hell, they haven't done anything
since they won the Super Bowl. And to assume that
everything would fit together perfectly right away with a forty
three year old quarterback who hadn't been out of the
confines of Foxborough his entire career. Yeah, that that, that
was foolish if you thought otherwise. Be sure to catch
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over 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 watch every snap. Um,
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They're a mess. So 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. I mean that
you know the targets, the people making the plays for you.
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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 any
thing for a few weeks. Um, it wouldn't surprise me
if Sam can be efficient and they can be solid.
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I don't think they're gonna be great, but I think
they could be efficient 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 del Ford
joining us. Let let's get to the stuff that really
really matters. Um, What's what happened to Baker Mayfield? The
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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 smart kid.
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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 some thing 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 that he has an
identity crisis. He thinks he's somebody he's not part. That's
the coaching. UM. I told a story to Ryan Rossillo
this morning about Jim's orn 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 to drill him better. They need to emphasize
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this all the time. They need to freeze the tape
on his first hitch and say, look at throw it
now and throw it here instead of waiting for something
better to happen. So it's a combination how he's being
coached and who he thinks he is in season. You
can absolutely guys can make dramatic improvements in the season. Um,
they just have to be they someone have to be broken,
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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 a style of play. So, uh,
they worked pretty darn hard during the week and there's
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a lot of reps to be had, and 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 my wrong to say that? Like, what's remarkable about
Lamar is that he's getting better that there have been
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other 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 watch him, you know,
with some exception, there are some regression moments. There have
been some tough moments, but turnovers in the playoffs. But
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I felt like watching him yesterday, like, man, he's gotten
better on that than he was last You're 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 I'm jumping.
But you've got got his third progression I can think
at three times in the game and was was calm
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in the pocket, his eyes and his feet were tied together.
Um yeah, I know. He's super impressive and and you've
got to give the offensive staff a lot of credit
to they. You know, if you're seen to 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
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then either. So you have that Lamar will do the work,
and they built an offense around him that fits what
it does It's the best of both worlds, right it is. Yeah,
it's perfect storm. You have an incredibly hard working, smart,
um ambitious kid and Lamar Jackson with an offensive staff
that's willing to um really create a very unique offense
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that maximizes his skill set as a runner and a passer.
Which is the real Mitch Drabiskie quarters one through three
or fourth quarter. I'm not rooting for rich. I want
to say four, but I think I think it's more
once for three. There is a certain content, there's a
certain lack of com I mean, like, look, part of
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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 distinct has been
a distinct lack of confidence in him and by the
staff in him up until that fourth quarter. Well, and
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you look at the throw, but you also look at
the throws, so you know, every quarterback came as a
d n A. And when you start studying hundreds and
hundreds of throws, you start seeing what ros he's comfortable with.
What reads he's comfortable with. Some guys hate throwing in
between the hash that some guys only throw it out
to the numbers. Some guys only like to dncon duncut,
some guys want to like to take shots. You don't
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see anything short and the great ones can do it all.
You know, Mitch is a pick and stick guy. Still,
you know he's 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 one person. And when that happens and all
is right, he's very decisive and he makes big time throws.
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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 earlier in your career, you haven't developed the tools
yet to thrive. And I still don't think he's developed
(24:43):
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 quarterbacks because they didn't have the
nail hunter and so Aaron Rodgers had all day to throw.
On the other hand, you know, so much of the
(25:03):
offseason story was they don't have the talented 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
on why Green Bay's offense after strug They struggled in
(25:24):
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 to
feel content and because tons of people are listening to
talk NFL football with nothing really to talk about. Um,
those are very talented receivers, extremely talented. Now are they proven? No,
(25:48):
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 were brilliant, enlightened to fire under
Aaron's ass um. You know, there are certain people when
they have reached greatness for so long, they become a
little complacent. Um, they can become a little cynical, they
(26:10):
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 gonna get greatness. Um. I think any good coach,
any good leadership role in the NFL, you're constantly trying
(26:32):
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 them back on edge. Maybe that's an easier
way to say, you want an edgy Aaron Rodgers, you
don't want to complace in Aaron Rodgers. That's the voice
of Trent Dilford joining us your Bowl champion quarterback quarterback
gur Roots Doug out Liep show here on Fox Sports radio. Uh,
(26:57):
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 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
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think that's a team that's explosed enough to get a
lot of first downs on first and second down that
they don't need to live in the third down world. UM.
I think the play action pass movement, you utilizing his
running ability with some of the options stuff and the
zone read stuff. That's when we've seen the best Dak Prescott.
We're reseeing Dak struggles when you drop back straight, drop
(27:39):
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 And again it's week one. There's
a lot they're still learning as the staff. But um,
I think the more you see with backs back to
the defense, the more action pass, the more movement. The
(28:00):
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 going to see more inconsistencies. And
that's what you saw last night Doug Gotlive show here
on Fox Sports Radio. I like Joe Burrow. I really
like two. I like his I like his presence. Just
a dude. He just got dude quality. He's like, you're
(28:21):
gonna follow him here. He just has a an aura
to him. 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 fIF team when it comes to talent, but
all the other stuff he has, like he just got
all the other right stuff. And and because that he's
going to be highly highly successful. I think, I think,
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I think I agree with what's all the Carson wins.
He's a guy that still doesn't under kind ofto the
Sam Donald realm um. He thinks every plays the 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
(29:06):
like that. I do too, And you know your 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 trying to be a
superhero instead of just just get to the next play,
like sometimes just getting to the next place the victory.
(29:28):
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, but there
are three straight plays where he just threw it away.
He just read it, re 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
(29:49):
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 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
(30:10):
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
you know me, I'm the game manager. But Steve Young
used to say that we used to watch games together
to say, even as a Hall of Famer, eighty five
percent a game is managing it. Eight of it is
(30:33):
just making good decisions, making sure people are all going
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 fifteen percents enough to
fill up a highlight reel. But it's not eight percent
make plays, twenty percent management and too man of these
guys have been celebrated for all the fantastic, incredible things
(30:56):
they could do. I mean I celebrate it too, But
wins long term is of just doing the boring stuff. Well,
um does does do the Niners have problem with Garoppolo?
I mean he just played in Super 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
(31:20):
been doing it for a less time than he has,
and Kyler's decision making was better. Tyler's magic. Kyler is
something special. 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,
(31:42):
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
of action or if it is dropped back game. Uh,
he's gonna make it pretty simple for your own man
one I two, I gotta YadA, YadA, I just do it.
He's not real. I'm kind of the same way. I'm
(32:04):
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
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
(32:24):
starts too. We jumped to these conclusions before. These guys
have fifty starts and a lot of times they hit
the stride around forty five or sixty starts. So I
do think you're gonna see it better Jimmy G. And
he's gonna get coach really, really hard in his career.
But who's coaching him? But I think this is the year,
you know, mid year, end of this year. I don't
(32:44):
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 Way. Awesome stuff.
That's Trent Dilfer head coach and lives an academy. Kind
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Doug Gottlieb Show, David Gas. What's the game? We got?
(33:26):
Big deal, little deal, no deal? Anyways, Doug, how about this,
let's start things off in the NBA. He gets a pick,
spins away from that, driving a bit the corner, Harris three.
That's it. The Nuggets are on top one oh nine
and nine and game number six. There's gonna force a
(33:46):
game seven, baby, because this thing is you sound like
that when after you've done cooking this man, I was
cooking last night. I was growing up a stone yum yum.
All right, So what they got, big deal, little deal
or no deal at all? With the Clippers bowling a
three one lead so far, that's a big deal. It's
(34:08):
a it's a big big deal. Uh. You do remember
what happened last time a team blew a three one
lead in the second round series? Right? So? Um? Actually
that was in the Western Conference finals. But that doesn't matter.
I mean, the Clippers are destined to take on the Lakers.
They had all the swag and now of a sudden,
the pressure is on the Clippers to win tomorrow night
against the team that they've had a nineteen point lead over,
(34:31):
nineteen boy lead over, and they got blown out. It
wasn't like that nineteen point lead, came back, tie game,
ball goes in at the buzzer miracle finished like they
got their asses kicked really crazy. Your Kits had thirty four,
Jamal Murray had twenty one. We go from that to
how about this? The Colts lost the Jaguars yesterday. They
were over a touchdown favorite, and that affair Philip Rivers
(34:53):
through a couple of picks, one of them back breaking
with less than five minutes to play and the team
trailing by four. Big deal, little deal or no deal
at all. It's a little deal. And here's why. That's
Philip Rivers. You know, I can't like Philip Rivers and
point out that he has a horrendous record in one
score games because he's prone to the big interception. That's
Philip Rivers. Fair enough. Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks
(35:17):
yesday on the road in the Dome and the A
t M they beat the Falcons. Wilson on the day,
Doug thirty one, thirty five, three two and four touchdown passes,
Big deal, little deal or no deal at on Russ
Big deal, I mean he looked phenomenal like unbelievable. I
(35:37):
was a little concerned about his his the talent around
him and on. I mean, look, there's a bad drop
on one of those incomplete paths right right in his hands.
He was amazing, I mean simply amazing. You were mentioning
with Trent, So will go there San Francisco forty niners.
They lost to the Cardinals at home. Here's Kyle Shanahan.
Obviously it was a little different today without the crowd
(35:58):
high just that feel game day feels. It just wasn't there.
But um, you know, it just comes down to execution,
like I said, especially when it comes in the last
couple of minutes like that. Every place crucial, every yards crucial,
and we didn't execute when we needed to. Oh, big deal,
little deal or no deal at all? Doug, What what
was the big deal? Little deal? No deal? As of
what the crowd, the environment, the uh, the spectacle that
(36:20):
is Santa Clara. No, there's no, there's never a crowd there.
That's not what a joke, right. If it's it's like that,
that would be like the Chargers going like, man, we
don't have the normal home bield advantage we got. Santa
Clara has not been a good home Bieldvanage for them.
So that's that's a no deal. Last one, Mitchell Rabinsky
in the Chicago Bears came from twenty three six down
(36:43):
to win anti trip over the Lions. Doug big deal,
little deal or no deal at all. I think it's
a little deal. It's a big deal in that Trabisky
look like a guy who's gonna get benched at halftime,
But it's a little deal in that at the end
of the day, the first three quarters do matter. We
seen guys, you know he did he kind did the tebow,
you know, put out a fire, he started um and
(37:05):
if DeAndre Swift holds on the football, he still lose
the game. But it's a big deal in the short term.
But I think a little deal long term. This is
game time on the Duck Gottlieb Show. You know, there's
been a lot of talk about Aaron Rodgers. Did the
Packers do him wrong by drafting Jordan's Love Should they
(37:26):
have gone and gotten another wide receiver? But the bigger
talk has been about if he still has it right
or if his skills have begun to fade.
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