October 6, 2024 • 52 mins
Richard Sherman reacts to Week 5 of the 2024 NFL season, including the San Francisco 49ers blowing a 23-10 halftime lead in an "unacceptable" upset loss to Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinals, Geno Smith getting sacked 7 times as the Seattle Seahawks took an "inexplicable" loss to Daniel Jones and the New York Giants, Lamar Jackson out-lasting Joe Burrow in an elite quarterback showdown as the Baltimore Ravens scored an overtime victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, the Minnesota Vikings remaining undefeated as they shut down Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets, Josh Allen having one of the worst showings in his career as the Buffalo Bills lost to the Houston Texans in Stefon Diggs' revenge game, and the Davante Adams situation getting further exasperated as the Las Vegas Raiders fell to the Denver Broncos without their star wideout, who has formally requested a trade from the Raiders.
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Speaker 3 (01:58):
All right, man, go Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast. Mitchell,
it was upset City this week. I am not happy
about these results. Two teams, two opponents that I thought
my teams would dominate in the Seattle Seahawks in the
San Francisco forty nine Ers. I thought they would have
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these games against Arizona Cardinals, who had just lost by
twenty eight points to the Washington Commanders, and the New
York Giants, who just have been below average in a
lot of categories, but they played their best ball and
put off some huge upsets.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You're not lying. I mean my thoughts and prayers were
with you, Richard. I know these games were important to you,
and I'm telling you what it's like. These both of
these teams were finding a way to lose as opposed
to finding a way to win. Let's start in San Francisco,
because this team, they were up twenty three to ten
at halftime, all looked great, everything was going their way. Heck,
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until the seventh minute mark of the fourth quarter, they
had an eighty five percent chance of winning. Richard, the
offense in the second half goes interception, turnover on downs,
lost fumble, interception, What what wrong? Who do you point
the blame at for the loss in this game?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
There's a lot of people that deserve blame in this one.
There are sometimes the offensive line, Brock Perdy with pressure
in his face. Obviously the last interception gets hit. Maybe
he could have held it. Maybe he makes a better
decision to hold it and just take the stack. But
he's trying to make a play as George kittle Rye
open right in front of him. The Jordan Mason fumble
just feels like it's unexplainable, you know, unfortunate, like you
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fall them back. You know, guy swipes out the ball,
you squeeze it, you let the ball go. But just
the red zone wos throughout this season have just been inexplicable,
and really it's been darr A keelles heel. You could
hear Tom Brady talking about it during the broadcast. Hey,
you in these little battles, these battles throughout the game,
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holding them in three points from the six yard line,
holding them the three points, holding them the three points.
Like you win those battles, that's four points off the board.
That's four points off the board in the first half,
and those end up being huge points, especially in the
game you lose by one point. Now, it was a
really hot game, the hottest at Levi Stadium, but both
teams have to deal with the heat. Its not like
Arizona is a hot weather team and they're you know,
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they play in an indoor stadium. You know it's it's
hot in Arizona, but they play indoor. This offense just
never really gotten rhythm. You look and brock Perdy had
it went nineteen to thirty five for two forty four.
But he had the two interceptions and both of them
were off tip passes. But it just felt weird. It
felt off this game. He did have the one touchdown
to George Kittle that looked really good and looked really
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good drive pushed the ball down the field. But the
first drive of the game, Kyler Murray goes out there
and it's pointing forty five yards away from the end
zone that he's about to score. And you know, it
looked like that he had a Laye has tremendous speed
beat everybody had eighty six eighty three rushing yards in
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the game and a rushing touchdown through for one ninety five.
It just looked like they couldn't get to him. And
and and this this team looked very different than the
team that lost by twenty eight points to the Washington Commanders,
that that team got dominated on both sides of the ball.
This San Francisco forty nine Ers team, I just don't
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really have the answers. You you have too many turnovers.
Brandon Auk had the best game of the season, but
it's in a loss. Jordan Mason fourteen carries for eighty
nine yards, it seems really solid. But again, the fourth
quarter fumble is a huge reason why they lost this
ball game. Then you talk about the kicker getting injured
and Moody, Moody gets injured, and you you you can't
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kick field goals in the game, so you have to
go for it on fourth and twenty three. That's that's
a ridiculous play and it's nobody's fault. You know, that's
an injury. Again, there's a block field gold in the game.
Diamadora Leonor on his birthday, huge play. I was very
happy to see that, see that he can make that play.
Elliott gets his hand up blocks that blocks that field goal.
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But if you really think about it and you take
away that block field goal, they scored sixteen points on
the offensive side of the ball. That's unacceptable. And some
of those points were set up by Nicholas John Bossa's
interception return that that brought them into field goal range.
You have to get in the end zone. You have
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to you have to. You got to score in the
second half. You can't not score any points in the
second half. They went scoreless mental fourteen unanswered points, and
that's how you lose the game. You give give Arizona
a lot of credit. Let's not take anything away from them.
It's a huge win for them, a bounce back game.
Kyler Murray played well, James Connor played well, Michael Wilson
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had some big catches. Trade McBride had had some big catches,
Becauzer White's interception, Mac Wilson's interception. Those are all huge
plays in the game, but it's just felt like so
many missed opportunities for the San Francisco forty nine ers
and just uninspired play, at least offensively. I think defensively
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they battled. You know, the heat probably warmed down at
the end, but there was a time in a game
where it just looked like James Connor was just having
his way. This Arizona offense was just downhill, running four
or five yards a clip, and you can't have that
as an elite defense. You got to find a way
to get stops. You got to find a way to
put the fire out. You got to find a way
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to turn the ball over, and they did that with
Nicholas john Bos's interception. But you got to make more
plays down the stretch. But I think this one falls
on the offense. They didn't execute in the red zone.
They settled for field goals way more often than they
needed to, and that's you know, you don't deserve to
win these games when that happens.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
A couple things stood out for me. This is the
first game I really looked at and said, they could
really use Christian McCaffrey right now. They need somebody that's
a game breaker that can bail them out because that
second half offensively, they did not look like themselves whatsoever.
On the defensive side of the ball. Like you said,
James Connor, I think he averaged one and a half
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yards of carry in the first half and in the
second half, even when they were down multiple scores, Arizona
just kept pounding the rock because, you know what, James
Connor was productive. He had some big plays. He had
some runs that were stopped at the line of scrimmage
that he gained six to seven yards on. San Francisco
was getting bullied in that second half, Richard, and the
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end result, while shocking, Arizona deserved that to win that
game based on how they played in that second half,
and San Francisco frankly deserved to lose. And there was
multiple people to blame. Another thing that stood out for
me offensively, brock Perty is this slippery guy, you know,
and a lot of teams haven't been able to contain him.
He's able to sneak out of the pocket and pick
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up on these plays. And we saw Nae Kwon Jones,
you know, deliver a huge hit on that sack that
was one of those players. Like the tide is really
turned here. If Arizona is bringing the pressure and getting
to party in a situation that he might otherwise have
gotten out of San Francisco, this is a wake up call, Richard.
They're two and three. Where's your panic meter sit right now?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
With this teams a huge game eleven, it's at eleven.
It's it's panic panic mode because these are two unacceptable
division losses to the bottom dwellers of your division. This
isn't a team that's you know, the Rams. You say, well,
it's awful loss, but you say Stafford. You know Stafford
can get you sometimes, you know he has the ability.
But still unacceptable loss with the amount of injuries they
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had and things like that. Then you're like, this team
here just coming off of twenty eight point dropping to
the Washingtick Commanders and Jade and Daniels and dan Quinn
and you're like, hey, we should be able to look
at that tape and find answers and be able to
win this game. But you're not. You're not winning this game,
and you're the more talented team walking into the safe
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each and every time. And you could talk about the injuries,
you could talk about the heat. We can make excuses,
but these are the games you got to dominate, and
they're not dominating. I don't know what else to say.
I don't I don't really know. Thank God, it's a
short week and they got us this Thursday in Seattle
on Prime video. Seattle's coming off a very tough loss
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as well, where they just I mean, we're gonna get
to that game in a second, but it just doesn't
look good. It didn't look good in either of these
teams that are looking that are supposed to be the
class of this division looked good today against very very undermatched,
overwhelmed teams that just I mean out coached them, out
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played them, out efforted them, out random It's just it's tough.
It's tough to watch. It was tough to watch this game,
especially in the second half. In the first half, there
was there were some bright moments, some good drives, some
really good defensive plays. The blockfield gold as it was
a huge play, especially with what's been going on with
the special teams the first few games. But then everything
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else is falling apart. Brandon Ayu finally gets to shine,
but now we turn the ball over three times. You
know it's you know, it's like you fix one problem,
something else breaks. And that seems to be the luck
of the draw this season with the San Francisco forty
nine ers.
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Speaker 1 (12:00):
Let's take it to Seattle, the Division FO at home
against the New York Giants. Everyone thought this was going
to be a win, myself included, and it wasn't. Richard,
where do you point the blame here? Because again, this
this game was a w when you looked at it
on the on the wing column going into this game,
and maybe we overlooked it. This is the NFL. The
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Giants showed up, the Seahawks clearly did not.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Where do you point to blame? A lot of places,
A lot of places. Defensively, you need more, you know,
coming off the Jared Golf perfect game on Monday night,
you know you you expect to say, hey, let's let's
rinse that, watch that film, really be critical of each other,
really be critical of ourselves, and say we're going to
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get that fixed. We're going after this guy, Daniel Jones.
He's been struggling. Let's let's bury him, bury him early,
get the twelves into this game, have the crowd feeling good,
and just walk away with this game in a way
that you expect to feel good going in Thursday night.
That was not the case. I mean, this is probably
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Daniel Jones's best game as a professional, moving the ball
at will, finding his players at will, and this is
without his best player, arguably the best player on their
team in elite Neighbors, and so that just adds another
layer of another component to how terrible this loss was,
because how are you letting him move the ball like
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this without Molik Neighbors And at one point he was
thirteen or fifteen and just really efficient moving around. They're
not getting into him. They're running the ball with a
relatively unknown sixth round drafted rookie in Tyrone Tracy who
had eighteen carries for one hundred and twenty nine yards
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and was just slicing and dice in this defense that
has been was tremendous. The first three weeks of the season,
they were three and oho and we're one of the
best defenses against the run. And again you're seeing where
Lanyard Williams and Byron Murphy would come into play mentel
you need those big fellows up front, and without them,
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you're seeing a drastic fall off on that level and
in that regard in terms of run defense. But on
the other side, on the other side, you're looking like, hey,
the secondary who's been really playing well, and Mike McDonald's
scheme has been doing really well, you're just i mean,
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they're not stopping anybody. Slayton was all over the field
having his way. He had eight catches for one two
in a touchdown. I just can't imagine how this would
have went. If elite neighbors would have played, it might
have gotten bad. I don't really have a lot of answers. Again,
Geno Smith didn't have a lot of opportunities because they
weren't on the field for very long. He was sat
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seven times, and again we talked about what Detroit he
was hit? What fourteen times? You got to stop like this.
This offensive line has to has to get this corrected.
They have to fix this problem, because again, when Geno's
kept upright and able to deal, he can play. He
can play at a really high level. But there are
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very few quarterbacks that can get sacked seven times and
still play a really good game. He threw for almost
four hundred last week and was getting the heck beat
out of him, and he played a really solid game
this week twenty eight to forty two, eighty four, one touchdown,
no interceptions, at seventy three rushing yards, which led the
team very critical rushes on that last drive to get
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them in field goal range. And for all intents and purpose,
I feel like he did everything he needed to do
to get this team in position position and win this game,
or at least tie it with Under the circumstances he's under,
they're not blocking for him. They're not blocking well, they
don't have the personnel up front to protect him. On
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the other side, that defensive line isn't getting the pressure
they once worked. Tyrol Dotson sack. Derrek Hall had a sack,
but one of the sacks was literally Daniel Jones just
falling over himself, dropping the football and then slapping the
football back towards the goal line. I mean, it just
looked like a ridiculous play, especially early in the game,
and you're thinking, oh, man, Daniel Jones is about to
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have another Daniel Jones game and the Seattle Seahawks are
gonna run away with this one. But that is not
what happened. He turned that game around immediately. It was
a third and long, I think it was a third
and eighteen, and they threw a screen. They threw a
screen pass Mete and they got the first down, and
then they threw another one. They said, hey, it worked
so nice, let's do it twice. And it worked again.
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And that's where I started to sense a little concern
for myself. I said, oh, this, this might not be
a good day because these are simple plays. You know,
I played with one of the best screen masters in
the game, and kJ Wright, if there was a screen,
even if he's the only guy over here, you know
that screen was snuffed out and done. He read it
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so fast, and you're not getting those kind of reads.
I don't know if it's you know, if they're adjusting
to new coverages or they're trying new things schematically, but
it's not looking the same as it was. The secondary
gave up some explosive passes throughout this game that just
were uncharacteristic of who they were. The first three games
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where Shawn Jenkins had a really cool play the one
hundred and two yard frump all recovery touchdown that looked
kind of like a touchdown early in the game, and
you you know, but even in that drive, they drove
the ball all the way down to the one and
they did it relatively easy. And although they came out
and the defense got to turn over and scored a touchdown,
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it still didn't leave you feeling like this was gonna
be their game. And Jerome Baker had fourteen tackles in
a sack, played a really good game. But when you
give up one hundred and twenty nine yards to a guy,
you never feel good about it. This was supposed to
be an easy win at home in front of the twelves.
Instead you're kicking a field goal to tie the game,
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they block it, return it for a touchdown, and just
break break your hearts. And it never should come down
to that. It shouldn't come down to that. They had
opportunities to win this game, to close it out, and
they just didn't get it done. And it really really
was sad and frustrating. Sure, it was frustrating for the
team and frustrating for the fans. Obviously, again, we have
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them this Thursday, seven pm Eastern on Prime in Seattle
against the San Francisco forty nine ers. Both teams looking
to get the bad taste out of their mouth, and
we'll see how that goes. But right now, it's really
a really disappointing, heartbreaking loss for these teams. And both
teams were at home and got to get in their
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cars and drive back and look in the mirror and
have some really tough conversations, and these coaches are going
to have to make some really difficult decisions in the
near future of how to fix these things, because that
interior offensive line for Seattle Seahawks has to get fixed. Obviously,
the right tackle has been revolving door, you know, injuries
and things like that. Hopefully Abraham link Lucas can come back.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Soon.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
But if they don't get healthy on that defensive line,
and I'm not sure they're going to get healthy enough
by this Thursday, they're going to have a really tough time.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Richard, Let's not understate this here. I mean this. These
two outcomes are shockers, put simply, and it could have
been a lot worse. You mentioned the Ray Shawn Jacobs
one hundred and two yard fumble recover for a touchdown.
That's a fourteen point swing right there. Seattle could have
been over and out a heck of a lot earlier
in this game. They stuck with it. The other thing
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is dk Metcalf. This is two I've really enjoyed watching
him this season. He's, in my opinion, he's stepped up.
He's become a leader on this team. But two games
in a row with crucial fumbles, right, I mean, it's
gotta correct that and then the Giants. They might have
found somebody in this tyrone tracy because he gashed the
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Seattle Seahawks defense time and time again. You're not used
to seeing that at a rookie six round pick, but
they might have found somebody there in New York, Richard,
Let's go across overseas to London. The Minnesota Vikings stay hot.
They're five and zero. Now they beat the Jets, and
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they make Aaron Rodgers' life heck early and often, jumping
out to a seventeen to nothing lead right out the gates.
This Vikings team is hot. I don't think anyone wants
to play him. Ryan Flores, his defense is all over
the field. They lead the league with eleven interceptions. Richard,
what were your thoughts about this game? Is Aaron Rodgers
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struggling to find his footing. It doesn't look like he's
very confident out there with his with the players he's
throwing to him, and Garrett Wilson finally gets more involved
with thirteen receptions, but it's like when it's in crunch
time he throws the pick and it's like, man, you
really wish he had someone like Davonte Adams over there
that he could trust to look for that back shoulder fade,
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and instead he had Mike Williams that was not looking Richard,
where's your head at right now? With the Jets and
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well, let's give a lot of credits to the Minnesota
Vikings and what they've been able to do this year
with Sam Darnold wasn't his best game at all, fourteen
and thirty one, one seventy nine in an interception, but
the rest of the team and that defense really picked
him up. Put a lot of pressure on Aaron Rodgers.
Aaron had a few errant passes that got away from him.
Things he would want back, things where he's throwing the
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football leads to that last interception, and I think he
expected Mike Williams, I mean to be looking back. They
executed that play a few times, the back shoulder fade
a few yards down the field, look early, put the
ball up. I don't know if he didn't get the
signal or what the case was. Aaron left it a
little bit inside. Stefan Gilmour made a lot of big plays.
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There weren't a lot of penalties in this game. I
did not agree with. I thought the refs got way
too involved. There were three penalties on sauz Gartner in
the first half, and I think only maybe one was legitimate,
only one that I'd say, yeah, that's probably p I
or a holding or something. But the other ones, I mean,
it's a pivot route he's running through, there's always going
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to be a little bit of contact. One of them,
justin Jefferson is running through and pushes on an out
route to DJ Reid and he pushes through and Dj
it's a little hand fight and he lets him go
and he runs through. He bets to pass away. I
don't think those are penalties, and those were really changing
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the trajectory of the game and the momentum in the game,
and they were making it easy to the point Minnesota
literally just started dropping back and throwing the ball up
and hoping for a pen they were getting it. I
don't like that, and I think that was a terrible
look by the NFL and the referees. They've been awful
this season and a lot of games, not just this game.
These reps that this is probably the worst ref season
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I've seen in probably last four or five years. I mean,
it's really bad, and it's starting to affect the quality
of the football game we're watching. But yes, Gip Brian
floores a lot of credit. They opposing quarterbacks are really struggling,
and they played some really solid quarterbacks. I mean they
played San Francisco forty nine ers gave him a really
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tough game. The eleven interceptions, you give a lot of
credit to Andrew Van Winkle, I mean Winkle the Ginkler
is what they call him. Two pick six is this season,
just seems to be in the right place at the
right time, have a great feel. You know, he's a
hand in glove fit in this defense. Stefan Gilmour we
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talked about had the interception. Cameron Buying them had another interception.
Justin Jefferson had six for ninety two, but drew multiple
PI calls and holding calls that helped move the ball
down the field. Harrison Smith had a sack. It just
seems like they're in a good rhythm. They're confident, they're
feeling good. They had some injuries today, you know, they
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lost Aaron Jones, so this buy couldn't have come at
a better time for them. They're gonna go into this
by heal up and then they play. You're Detroit Lions.
So we'll we'll have to talk about that. This NFC
North Division, it's pretty crazy. It's getting really crazy. Obviously,
the Green Bay Packers won today against the La Rams,
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but Aaron Rodgers this was a tough game to watch.
He does not turn the ball over in the way
he did. I think they said this is the first
time in his career he threw two picks in the
first quarter. I mean, he rarely has two picks two
interception games, period, point blank. He just looked a little
off and again, this might be the time where they
have to make a move. Move. You hear about the
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Davonte Adams situation, and I know there's a bunch of
teams are aggressive for him and doing this and doing that,
and trying to make a move for him. I don't
think he approved going anywhere but the New York Jets.
And sure he had his time with Derek Carr and
they have a good relationship, a good rapport. But I
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think the way things are going right now and the
just mishaps, the miscommunications, things that definitely wouldn't happen if
DeVante Adams were there, because they just have a different rapport.
I mean, we talk about it. It's almost like they
have telepathy with one another. They have a really incredible
connection and it works, and it would definitely it would
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have helped them win this game. I think if Davante
Adams was a New York Jet, they win this game.
They played well enough defensively at times to win this game.
Will McDonald got another sack, Isaiah Oliver had a Zach
Brandon Eckles had an interception. DJ played a really solid game.
I thought Saults played solid regardless of the penalties that
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they called on them, because I don't think they are penalties.
But the Jets got to recover quick and get ready
for this Monday night divisional game against the Buffalo Bills,
and they have to have it. The Buffalo Bills are
coming off a really, really tough last second loss to
the Houston Texans. We're gonna get to that game and
talk about it. The Vikings, like we said, have a
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Rodgers to the twoe of three interceptions. They were hitting
them multiple times, him cringing. I thought he was about
to go into a blue tint before that, roughing the
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say it, but the Vikings look for real. They came
out they dominated early, defensively, offensively. This wasn't Sam Darnold's
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best game, but he got his beast involved in Justin
Jefferson and this team won ugly. That's the reality of it.
And when they do that, they stand defeated this game
against Detroit. Holy cow. I'm excited for it. But that's
gonna be a true test in the division. Talk about
another division test. We saw one in Cincinnati today and
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the Baltimore Ravens came in. They started out looking like
they were going to take care of business. And then
since he got going and Jamar Chase got involved, and
this was a game that you saw Joe Burrow earn
his keep, i mean, throwing for three hundred and ninety
two yards five touchdowns, career high, but they still cannot
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get the W and it was at home. Is it
time to panic in Sinci?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yes, yes it is. It's definitely time to panic in Sinci.
I mean, we just came off of the Uber Eats
almost almost perfect defense, to a game where nobody played defense.
You talk about what is this seventy nine points combined.
Give Lamar Jackson a lot of credit his six game
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with four passing touchdowns and fifty rush yards to most
in NFL history. He's nine and two against the Cincinnati
Bengals in his career. But for the Cincinnati Bengals, when
you played this well offensively, you talk about the numbers
and give Joe Burrow a ton of credit. You know,
I've been critical of him at times when he struggled,
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so I have to be just as praising when he
I have to praise him just as high as I
criticize him when he plays well. Because he was thirty
of thirty nine three hundred and ninety two yards, five touchdowns,
career high, one interception. Then you got Jamar Chase ten
for one ninety three and two touchdowns. It doesn't get
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much better than that, Mitchell. I mean, those are video
game numbers. And then you say who else was eating
t Higgins? T Higgins nine for eighty three and another
two touchdowns. When you play that well offensively and you lose, Oh, yes, sir,
it's calls for concern. Yes, I am very concerned because
that doesn't make sense quarterback. Those were five touchdowns in
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at AL. But you know why, Mitchell, It's because Derrick
Henry really really put his stamp on it, especially in
overtime after the McPherson miss miss field goal where and
don't let's not be critical of McPherson because that bibbled
snap is the reason he missed that field goal. You
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can't babble the snap in that situation. He was halfway
through his swing before they ever even got the ball placed,
and there's nothing you can do about that time, and
you can't really stop and slow down. People are going
to come block that kick, so you have to keep
your same rhythm and just hope the ball gets put down.
But the fifty one yard rush in overtime to set
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up the game winning field goal was incredible. That's why
they brought Derrick Henry here to take some pressure off
Lamar Jackson, and that's exactly what he was able to
do in overtime. A huge play. Zay Flowers, great game,
seven catches for one hundred and eleven yards. Cal Hamilton
getting back involved, getting back to form, had a sack
in the game, Marlon Humphreys interception in this game. But
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you you really, you really start to get concerned because
you talk about the Cincinnati Bengals and they're slow starts,
but usually you're not playing this well offensively with the
slow starts. Usually these are games you're winning. Hey, it
was slow start, and then Joe Burrow starts throwing five touchdowns,
four touchdowns, and then all of a sudden they look
like the team, but they're not their defense isn't stepping up,
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and that's the biggest concern given they just gave up
forty one points uh and and they have struggled all season,
given up points, giving up yards, just not looking like
the defense that caused a lot of chaos and created
turnovers and created havoc on their way to a Super
Bowl early in Joe Burrow's career. They're just they're they're
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they're not making the change that are necessary. They don't
have the personnel it looks like to really be a
strong defense, and without that, you're gonna waste offensive performances
like this from Joe Burrow and Tee Higgins and Jamar Chase,
where in any other game you'd say this should be
a walk off win for them, but not against the
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Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson and everything he was able
to do. Good game by them. Unfortunate for the Cincinnati
Bengals because they had a clear chance to win it
overtime with the McPherson field goal, but they didn't get
it done. And now the Ravens go to the Commanders
and the Bengals go to the Giants. Coming off a
big win against Seattle, Seahawks. That's gonna be a better
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game than people think.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
No doubt. And this Ravens team, this might be the
biggest upgrade this offseason. You go from Gus Edwards to
Derrick Henry and now we see this new version of
Lamar Jackson is already at league MVP. But when he
he's throwing for four touchdowns and he's getting the likes
his eight flowers involved for seven to one eleven. We
(33:05):
saw a little bit more of Mark Andrews today. This
combo with Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry can be absolutely lethal.
And now it's time for Players in Primetime, brought to
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I guess it probably would have gone to Joe Burrow
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forty two, three forty eight, four tuddies fifty five yards.
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we had another primetime game Houston Texans Stefan Diggs gets
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some revenge against the Buffalo Bills, and we saw Josh
Allen on the struggle bus. I think he probably wishes
he had Stefan Diggs in this game. Khalil Shakir cannot
possibly mean this much to this team because what you
saw today was just a Josh Allen. We've never seen
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Richard nine for thirty for one, thirty one in a touchdown.
It looks like they do not have the pieces in
Buffalo that they need. Khalil Shakir's out, They're turning to
Kean Coleman, who only had one catch, granted a big
one for forty nine yards and a touchdown. But this
Bills team does not look like the same Bills team
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we've seen in years past. He got out to a
hot start this year. Now they've dropped two straight. Where's
your concern meter with the Buffalo Bills, Richard.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Well, it's getting there, Mitchell. It's it's moving up. It's
probably about an eight right now, just because of the injuries,
the inconsistency. But let's not make it a bigger deal
than what it is because they had many chances to
win this game, and they had a chance to win
in regulation. This it wasn't a blowout. This wasn't a
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game where they just got totally manhandled or outclassed by
any way. Even when Josh Allen struggled mightily ninety eight
yards total in the last two first halfs, that's a problem.
But they caught three deep passes on their own three
yard line that that that didn't make sense late in
that game. That was that was some questionable decision making
(35:27):
for McDermott. When they punted to the Texans, they were
already in field goal range. Nico Collins going down with
the injury is concerned if you're to the Houston Texans.
But again, they're finding ways, just like the Kansas City Chiefs,
to win ugly, to win games where it's close, it's
a dogfight, you know, it's a single digit game, and
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they're being they're doing that consistently. Cam Akers had a
solid game, you know, in replacement of Joe Mixon. Joe
Mixon should be coming back in the near future. Stefan
Diggs had a really solid revenge game six for eighty two,
but CJ. Stroud looked like his old self. Twenty eight
to thirty eight, three thirty one, a touchdown end, an interception,
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Khalil Davis with a sack. They look like a really
complete team. And I know Buffalo is on a downward
spiral right now, but they had a chance to win
that game. I liked Real mc bernard. He had another
interception this game. He's been stepping up in a big
way for He's been a bright spot in that secondary
for the Buffalo Bills. But again Josh Allen says, everybody
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eat speed. This is sometimes that strategy that philosophy doesn't
work as well. And this is one of those games
where they're starting to find the answers. They're starting to
cover these guys well, they're starting to make tighter windows.
And when you're not, you don't have a guy that
can win one on one consistently, a go to number
one stud receiver, then you run into situations where you're
(36:59):
going to struggle. James Cook this is probably one of
his better games. Twenty carries for eighty two yards in
a touchdown, and so they were leaning on the running game,
and I think that's what kept them in this ballgame.
But this game at the Bill, I mean at the
Jets on Monday Night football is going to be huge
for them. They're three and two, still got a winning records,
still at the top of this division. But things can
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change in a hurry. If they lose that game, you know,
then they're sharing the then they only have a share
of the lead with the New York Jets. Things are changing.
Houston has a chance to really establish too Sales as
a contender, and with the five and one record, if
they go to New England and beat the New England Patriots,
that's a very realistic possibility. But anything can happen, and
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I don't put anything past anybody right now. I could
not have predicted some of these games that have happened
in the National Football League. I could not have predicted
Minnesota Vikings being five and oh. I could not have
predicted the San Francisco forty nine ers being two and
three at this point season. It's one of those years
where anything can happen and it's exciting. Let's move on
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to the Indianapolis versus the Jacksonville Jaguars game. The Jacksonville
Jaguars finally pick up their first winning the season. Trevor
Lawrence has the best game I think of his career,
twenty eight to thirty four, very efficient, three hundred and
seventy one yards, two touchdowns in an interception. They got
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contributions from a lot of places. Tank Bigsby continue continues
to shine, continues to make an impact at thirteen carries
for one hundred and one yard and two touchdowns. Brian Thomas,
they finally figured out, hey, if you throw him more
than two or three passes, he's going to get one
hundred yards. And they throw him a bunch of passes.
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He had five catches for one to twenty two and
a huge touchdown. Trayvon Walker was a huge story with
the three sacks three sacks of Joe Flatco. But this
was a dogfight of a game thirty four to thirty seven.
Give Joe Flacco a lot of credit. It doesn't matter
where he's at Mitchell, it doesn't matter what logos on
his helmet or where he is. He is a consummate professional,
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and he's a gunslinger. He can get hot at any
time at any age. And he's from the Old Guard.
He's from the old Guard quarterbacks. He had three hundred
and fifty nine yards three touchdowns, had a great some
great connections with Alec Pierce. Alec Pearce had three catches
for a one thirty four in a touchdown. Nick Cross
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had an interception. But that is ten straight home wins
that the Jacksonville Jaguars have had against the Indianapolis Colts.
But I think there's hope for the Indianapolis Coats. Joe
Flacco is the answer right down. And I don't think
even when Anthony Richardson comes back, I don't think you
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just throw him back in the lineup and you take
Flacco out. He's had four three hundred plus pass d
games and three touchdowns since Week fourteen of last season
when he was with the Cleveland Browns. You just don't
change that. You don't change that. You see, he's getting
everybody involved. A lot of these receivers are getting a shine.
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They're finally starting to see this offense, what this offense
could be with somebody at the helm that fully understands
the adjustments and what they're seeing and can play fast.
They have another division game at the Titans next week,
and the Jags go to the Bears, who are playing really, really,
really solid football. Now they've been playing great defensively. But
(40:37):
now it appears that Caleb Williams is starting to figure
it out in a big way. He may be what
he was supposed to be Minshall. They're finding more time,
he's getting the ball out of his hands a lot
faster than he was. They beat the Carolina Panthers, which
we know teams have been able to do this year,
but let's give him credit. He was twenty to twenty nine,
three and four yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions, ran the
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ball for thirty four yards. He was only sacked once.
That's the big story. He was only sacked once. He's
getting the ball out of his hands. In the two wins,
he's had seventy one percent completion percentage, four hundred and
sixty one yards, three touchdowns, and no interception. So if
you're a Bears fan, this is encouraging. This is really encouraging.
DJ Moore had a really great game, but you're seeing
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the things that the talent that everybody saw when he
was coming out and they were calling him a generational
talent be showcased. Now you know, when he's able to
be upright, when he's able to trust himself, trust his reeds,
get the ball out of his hands into his playmaker's hands.
It's been really great.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
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to the Packers. They hold off the Rams. This will
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look like a trap game, right, I mean, you get
Jordan Love's coming back. He's looking a little bit rusty
but getting better. They go to LA, they get out early,
and the Rams make it again. Thoughts about this team.
I'm still not sold on the Packers. I still think
they made a big mistake. And moving off Aaron Jones
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and moving over to Josh Jacobs, I'm still not sold.
Where's your head out with this team right now?
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Well, they're doing They're winning ball games, Mitchell, and and
that's what it's about. And their winning games are supposed
to win, and that there's something to be said for that.
We just saw the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco forty
nine ers not get that done, not win games they
were supposed to win. Jordan Love is coming back from
the injury, playing relatively well, you know, even with all
all things considered. He was fifteen to twenty six, two
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twenty four, two touchdowns, one interception. Josh Jacobs is playing
solid again. I think Aaron Jones, like you said, was
a better fit, but he did well. Nineteen carries for
seventy three yards, some crucial first downs, he had a touchdown.
I think there's gonna end up being three teams represented
in the playoffs from the NFC North, and deservedly so.
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These teams are playing well. I mean, Minnesota is the team,
the most unexp spected team and they're at the top
of the division. Your Detroit Lions are expected to be contenders,
that the Packers expected to be contenders, and they're showing
up the way they should.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Well, you look at another team that's turning into a
big contender right in front of our eyes. It's the
Washington Commanders. We talked about it in our season preview.
If Jaden Daniels can come in here and take this
team like CJ. Strouded with Houston, Washington's got all the
personnel to be a problem. They are a problem, Richard.
They beat the Bear or the Browns thirty four to thirteen.
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This game was never in doubt. Before we get into
Jade and Daniels, I want to talk a little bit
about the Shawn Watson because this Cleveland Brown team looks
so out of sorts. They look so dysfunctional out there,
and I think it starts at the quarterback position. If
you're coaching this roster, are you dumping Deshaun Watson in
(44:58):
favor of Jamis Instant?
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Well, I mean you got to make something change. You
got to make some kind of change. I don't know
if you do it now, you know, because again he's
shown sparks and flashes, but he hasn't shown enough to
merit the amount of money that he's been paid and
the amount of a claim. He has been a great
player in the past, and it just looks like a
shell of himself these last few weeks, last few seasons, really,
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But I want to talk about Jaden Daniels. He looks
like a top ten quarterback in the National Football League,
really looks in command, having fun. It wasn't as efficient
this game. He was fourteen to twenty five two hundred
and thirty eight yards, one touchdown in the interception, but
he had eighty two yards on the ground. Was really
dynamic running the football, keeping himself out of harm's way.
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Just looks totally in control, totally relaxed. It's not like
they're just winning these games, Mitchell. They're winning by multiple
scores each game. And this is a Cleveland Browns defense
that I have a lot of respect for. They have
a lot of big time playmakers, Ales Garrett, they have
a Denzel Award. They have really big time playmakers and players,
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and he had his way with him. I mean, he
still has a seventy seven percent completion percentage only year
has thrown for eleven hundred yards, four touchdowns, two interceptions.
But the Commanders just as a team look really confident.
I think his confidence is rubbing off on his defense
because they're playing well. Hilt the Browns to thirteen points,
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health the Arizona Cardinals to fourteen points last week. Dan
Quinn can draw it up. I said it when he
was hired. This is a great coach and a great
motivator of men, and it looks like he's in the
right situation with the right quarterback, the right coordinators, the
right men who believe, the right veterans and Zach Ertz
and Bobby Wagner to really get these guys and keep
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them in line and every they're hitting on all cylinders.
I said it on Thursday night. I think this team
wins this NFC East Division, and I don't think it's
going to be party curly close. The Philadelphia Eagles don't
look like they did once did. They look like a
shell of themselves, especially with aj Brown out, Davonte Smith out.
They just don't have a lot of answers. That offensive
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line looks a lot, looks a lot more leaky than
it did in the past. With Lane Johnson being out,
with Jason Kelsey not being in the fold anymore, they
don't look like the same dominant force the Dallas Cowboys. Offensively,
they don't have the offensive line that they've been known
for for the last decade. Defensively, they don't really have
any identity. You know, they used to be able to
(47:33):
rest the passer, but now DeMarcus Lawrence is on IR,
Michael Parsons is injured. You don't know where that pass
versus going to come from. And even when they were playing,
it wasn't a dominant attack. So I could see the
Commanders win in that division and ruining somebody's season in
those playoffs.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
I'm right there with you, and you know somebody you mentioned.
We got to get him back on the podcast. As
Bobby Wagner, your friend, how hot happy do you think
he is right now that he chose Washington this offseason.
I got to imagine he is absolutely thrilled with that decision.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
Well, it was a lot of things that went into
that decision, and people think, oh, it was just because
they golfing the most money. No, he has a chance
to go back with Ken Norton, who coached him with
the Seattle Seahawks, who's an incredible friend of him, and
they have an incredible relationship. And if he's gonna, you know,
continue his career anywhere, it was gonna be with Ken Norton.
(48:25):
And then you talk about Dan Quinn and the relationship
that they have. It was just a match made in
heaven there in terms of the personnel and the coaches.
But then you're winning ball games and I don't think
anybody expected them to be four and one at this
point in the season. I'm very happy for him, very
happy for that team and what they've been able to do.
Happy they got the quarterback of the future. Happy for Washington.
(48:47):
You know, they've had some dark years over the past
few decades, and so it's good to see that city
have some hope and have a team that's playing hard
and playing well and looking good.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
Doing it a city that does not have a whole
lot of hope right now. The last Vegas Raiders go
on the road and lose to the Broncos. They're looking
pretty rough right now. Richard DeVonta Adams this week formally
requested a trade out of town. What do you make
of this? I know you talked about DeVante inevitably ending
(49:19):
up with New York, But what does this do to
a team? How much does this fracture the Las Vegas Raiders?
Speaker 3 (49:27):
Well, it fractures you more if you're losing. You know,
it becomes more of an issue and it permeates throughout
the building if you're losing. And we heard the news
that Mark Davis isn't accepting anything lower than the second rounder.
But you don't get to make the call anymore, you know.
Are you going to continue to pay DeVonta Adams not
to play? Are you going to continues one of the
highest paid receivers in the National Football League? Well used
(49:49):
to be. I mean it's lower now, but you're going
to have to continue to pay him. And if you
don't want to play him, you know you're going to
just sit him on the bench and keep paying him.
That's a lot of money to pay somebody, and teams
know that. Teams know that you're gonna have to eventually fold.
We don't have to fold and give you a second
round or give you what you want. If you want
to hold him and continue to let your team sink,
(50:09):
and continue to let your team pay him money to
not play, then it's a lose lose for everybody. And
I don't think they're going to do that. I think
they're gonna I think Mark has to say that, you know,
has to say what the asking price would be. But
I think they're gonna settle for something less than that,
maybe a player in a third round pick or fourth
and a fifth or something along those lines. And I
(50:32):
think he's gonna make his way back, make his way
back to Aaron Rodgers in the New York Jets, and
that's the fit that I would want to see.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Well, Richard, I will let you conclude us. We got
a couple more games to play this week five, but
we saw a lot of action today. I know it
was a rough one for Seattle and San Francisco fans,
but there's a full season ahead of us. Richard sin
us off, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
Mean San Francisco fans know that this has happened before
this in the past. The San Francisco four nine ers
have started slow and then been able to pick it
up throughout the season and turn into this team that
we all know they can be. The Seattle Seahawks have
all the tools. Gino Smith is a really good quarterback
and can be elite if they give him time to throw.
If they can get those offensive line issues fixed and
(51:19):
get Leonard Williams back and Byron Murphy back, then this
defense is gonna be what they were the first three
games of the season. But you need pressure on a
quarterback to do that. You need big fellas who dominating
the way they do. They're really special players to get
that done. I appreciate you guys joining me this week.
I may sound a little more somber this week because
(51:40):
my heart is hurting. You know, I got a nice
box where my heart used to be. It's frozen and
I don't want to feel anything right now. My team's lost,
and they lost the teams they shouldn't have lost too.
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All right, man, go Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast. Mitchell,
it was upset City this week. I am not happy
about these results. Two teams, two opponents that I thought
my teams would dominate in the Seattle Seahawks in the
San Francisco forty nine Ers. I thought they would have
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these games against Arizona Cardinals, who had just lost by
twenty eight points to the Washington Commanders, and the New
York Giants, who just have been below average in a
lot of categories, but they played their best ball and
put off some huge upsets.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
You're not lying. I mean my thoughts and prayers were
with you, Richard. I know these games were important to you,
and I'm telling you what it's like. These both of
these teams were finding a way to lose as opposed
to finding a way to win. Let's start in San Francisco,
because this team, they were up twenty three to ten
at halftime, all looked great, everything was going their way. Heck,
(02:54):
until the seventh minute mark of the fourth quarter, they
had an eighty five percent chance of winning. Richard, the
offense in the second half goes interception, turnover on downs,
lost fumble, interception, What what wrong? Who do you point
the blame at for the loss in this game?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
There's a lot of people that deserve blame in this one.
There are sometimes the offensive line, Brock Perdy with pressure
in his face. Obviously the last interception gets hit. Maybe
he could have held it. Maybe he makes a better
decision to hold it and just take the stack. But
he's trying to make a play as George kittle Rye
open right in front of him. The Jordan Mason fumble
just feels like it's unexplainable, you know, unfortunate, like you
(03:36):
fall them back. You know, guy swipes out the ball,
you squeeze it, you let the ball go. But just
the red zone wos throughout this season have just been inexplicable,
and really it's been darr A keelles heel. You could
hear Tom Brady talking about it during the broadcast. Hey,
you in these little battles, these battles throughout the game,
(03:57):
holding them in three points from the six yard line,
holding them the three points, holding them the three points.
Like you win those battles, that's four points off the board.
That's four points off the board in the first half,
and those end up being huge points, especially in the
game you lose by one point. Now, it was a
really hot game, the hottest at Levi Stadium, but both
teams have to deal with the heat. Its not like
Arizona is a hot weather team and they're you know,
(04:20):
they play in an indoor stadium. You know it's it's
hot in Arizona, but they play indoor. This offense just
never really gotten rhythm. You look and brock Perdy had
it went nineteen to thirty five for two forty four.
But he had the two interceptions and both of them
were off tip passes. But it just felt weird. It
felt off this game. He did have the one touchdown
to George Kittle that looked really good and looked really
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good drive pushed the ball down the field. But the
first drive of the game, Kyler Murray goes out there
and it's pointing forty five yards away from the end
zone that he's about to score. And you know, it
looked like that he had a Laye has tremendous speed
beat everybody had eighty six eighty three rushing yards in
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the game and a rushing touchdown through for one ninety five.
It just looked like they couldn't get to him. And
and and this this team looked very different than the
team that lost by twenty eight points to the Washington Commanders,
that that team got dominated on both sides of the ball.
This San Francisco forty nine Ers team, I just don't
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really have the answers. You you have too many turnovers.
Brandon Auk had the best game of the season, but
it's in a loss. Jordan Mason fourteen carries for eighty
nine yards, it seems really solid. But again, the fourth
quarter fumble is a huge reason why they lost this
ball game. Then you talk about the kicker getting injured
and Moody, Moody gets injured, and you you you can't
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kick field goals in the game, so you have to
go for it on fourth and twenty three. That's that's
a ridiculous play and it's nobody's fault. You know, that's
an injury. Again, there's a block field gold in the game.
Diamadora Leonor on his birthday, huge play. I was very
happy to see that, see that he can make that play.
Elliott gets his hand up blocks that blocks that field goal.
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But if you really think about it and you take
away that block field goal, they scored sixteen points on
the offensive side of the ball. That's unacceptable. And some
of those points were set up by Nicholas John Bossa's
interception return that that brought them into field goal range.
You have to get in the end zone. You have
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to you have to. You got to score in the
second half. You can't not score any points in the
second half. They went scoreless mental fourteen unanswered points, and
that's how you lose the game. You give give Arizona
a lot of credit. Let's not take anything away from them.
It's a huge win for them, a bounce back game.
Kyler Murray played well, James Connor played well, Michael Wilson
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had some big catches. Trade McBride had had some big catches,
Becauzer White's interception, Mac Wilson's interception. Those are all huge
plays in the game, but it's just felt like so
many missed opportunities for the San Francisco forty nine ers
and just uninspired play, at least offensively. I think defensively
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they battled. You know, the heat probably warmed down at
the end, but there was a time in a game
where it just looked like James Connor was just having
his way. This Arizona offense was just downhill, running four
or five yards a clip, and you can't have that
as an elite defense. You got to find a way
to get stops. You got to find a way to
put the fire out. You got to find a way
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to turn the ball over, and they did that with
Nicholas john Bos's interception. But you got to make more
plays down the stretch. But I think this one falls
on the offense. They didn't execute in the red zone.
They settled for field goals way more often than they
needed to, and that's you know, you don't deserve to
win these games when that happens.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
A couple things stood out for me. This is the
first game I really looked at and said, they could
really use Christian McCaffrey right now. They need somebody that's
a game breaker that can bail them out because that
second half offensively, they did not look like themselves whatsoever.
On the defensive side of the ball. Like you said,
James Connor, I think he averaged one and a half
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yards of carry in the first half and in the
second half, even when they were down multiple scores, Arizona
just kept pounding the rock because, you know what, James
Connor was productive. He had some big plays. He had
some runs that were stopped at the line of scrimmage
that he gained six to seven yards on. San Francisco
was getting bullied in that second half, Richard, and the
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end result, while shocking, Arizona deserved that to win that
game based on how they played in that second half,
and San Francisco frankly deserved to lose. And there was
multiple people to blame. Another thing that stood out for
me offensively, brock Perty is this slippery guy, you know,
and a lot of teams haven't been able to contain him.
He's able to sneak out of the pocket and pick
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up on these plays. And we saw Nae Kwon Jones,
you know, deliver a huge hit on that sack that
was one of those players. Like the tide is really
turned here. If Arizona is bringing the pressure and getting
to party in a situation that he might otherwise have
gotten out of San Francisco, this is a wake up call, Richard.
They're two and three. Where's your panic meter sit right now?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
With this teams a huge game eleven, it's at eleven.
It's it's panic panic mode because these are two unacceptable
division losses to the bottom dwellers of your division. This
isn't a team that's you know, the Rams. You say, well,
it's awful loss, but you say Stafford. You know Stafford
can get you sometimes, you know he has the ability.
But still unacceptable loss with the amount of injuries they
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had and things like that. Then you're like, this team
here just coming off of twenty eight point dropping to
the Washingtick Commanders and Jade and Daniels and dan Quinn
and you're like, hey, we should be able to look
at that tape and find answers and be able to
win this game. But you're not. You're not winning this game,
and you're the more talented team walking into the safe
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each and every time. And you could talk about the injuries,
you could talk about the heat. We can make excuses,
but these are the games you got to dominate, and
they're not dominating. I don't know what else to say.
I don't I don't really know. Thank God, it's a
short week and they got us this Thursday in Seattle
on Prime video. Seattle's coming off a very tough loss
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as well, where they just I mean, we're gonna get
to that game in a second, but it just doesn't
look good. It didn't look good in either of these
teams that are looking that are supposed to be the
class of this division looked good today against very very undermatched,
overwhelmed teams that just I mean out coached them, out
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played them, out efforted them, out random It's just it's tough.
It's tough to watch. It was tough to watch this game,
especially in the second half. In the first half, there
was there were some bright moments, some good drives, some
really good defensive plays. The blockfield gold as it was
a huge play, especially with what's been going on with
the special teams the first few games. But then everything
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else is falling apart. Brandon Ayu finally gets to shine,
but now we turn the ball over three times. You
know it's you know, it's like you fix one problem,
something else breaks. And that seems to be the luck
of the draw this season with the San Francisco forty
nine ers.
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Speaker 1 (12:00):
Let's take it to Seattle, the Division FO at home
against the New York Giants. Everyone thought this was going
to be a win, myself included, and it wasn't. Richard,
where do you point the blame here? Because again, this
this game was a w when you looked at it
on the on the wing column going into this game,
and maybe we overlooked it. This is the NFL. The
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Giants showed up, the Seahawks clearly did not.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Where do you point to blame? A lot of places,
A lot of places. Defensively, you need more, you know,
coming off the Jared Golf perfect game on Monday night,
you know you you expect to say, hey, let's let's
rinse that, watch that film, really be critical of each other,
really be critical of ourselves, and say we're going to
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get that fixed. We're going after this guy, Daniel Jones.
He's been struggling. Let's let's bury him, bury him early,
get the twelves into this game, have the crowd feeling good,
and just walk away with this game in a way
that you expect to feel good going in Thursday night.
That was not the case. I mean, this is probably
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Daniel Jones's best game as a professional, moving the ball
at will, finding his players at will, and this is
without his best player, arguably the best player on their
team in elite Neighbors, and so that just adds another
layer of another component to how terrible this loss was,
because how are you letting him move the ball like
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this without Molik Neighbors And at one point he was
thirteen or fifteen and just really efficient moving around. They're
not getting into him. They're running the ball with a
relatively unknown sixth round drafted rookie in Tyrone Tracy who
had eighteen carries for one hundred and twenty nine yards
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and was just slicing and dice in this defense that
has been was tremendous. The first three weeks of the season,
they were three and oho and we're one of the
best defenses against the run. And again you're seeing where
Lanyard Williams and Byron Murphy would come into play mentel
you need those big fellows up front, and without them,
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you're seeing a drastic fall off on that level and
in that regard in terms of run defense. But on
the other side, on the other side, you're looking like, hey,
the secondary who's been really playing well, and Mike McDonald's
scheme has been doing really well, you're just i mean,
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they're not stopping anybody. Slayton was all over the field
having his way. He had eight catches for one two
in a touchdown. I just can't imagine how this would
have went. If elite neighbors would have played, it might
have gotten bad. I don't really have a lot of answers. Again,
Geno Smith didn't have a lot of opportunities because they
weren't on the field for very long. He was sat
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seven times, and again we talked about what Detroit he
was hit? What fourteen times? You got to stop like this.
This offensive line has to has to get this corrected.
They have to fix this problem, because again, when Geno's
kept upright and able to deal, he can play. He
can play at a really high level. But there are
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very few quarterbacks that can get sacked seven times and
still play a really good game. He threw for almost
four hundred last week and was getting the heck beat
out of him, and he played a really solid game
this week twenty eight to forty two, eighty four, one touchdown,
no interceptions, at seventy three rushing yards, which led the
team very critical rushes on that last drive to get
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them in field goal range. And for all intents and purpose,
I feel like he did everything he needed to do
to get this team in position position and win this game,
or at least tie it with Under the circumstances he's under,
they're not blocking for him. They're not blocking well, they
don't have the personnel up front to protect him. On
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the other side, that defensive line isn't getting the pressure
they once worked. Tyrol Dotson sack. Derrek Hall had a sack,
but one of the sacks was literally Daniel Jones just
falling over himself, dropping the football and then slapping the
football back towards the goal line. I mean, it just
looked like a ridiculous play, especially early in the game,
and you're thinking, oh, man, Daniel Jones is about to
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have another Daniel Jones game and the Seattle Seahawks are
gonna run away with this one. But that is not
what happened. He turned that game around immediately. It was
a third and long, I think it was a third
and eighteen, and they threw a screen. They threw a
screen pass Mete and they got the first down, and
then they threw another one. They said, hey, it worked
so nice, let's do it twice. And it worked again.
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And that's where I started to sense a little concern
for myself. I said, oh, this, this might not be
a good day because these are simple plays. You know,
I played with one of the best screen masters in
the game, and kJ Wright, if there was a screen,
even if he's the only guy over here, you know
that screen was snuffed out and done. He read it
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so fast, and you're not getting those kind of reads.
I don't know if it's you know, if they're adjusting
to new coverages or they're trying new things schematically, but
it's not looking the same as it was. The secondary
gave up some explosive passes throughout this game that just
were uncharacteristic of who they were. The first three games
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where Shawn Jenkins had a really cool play the one
hundred and two yard frump all recovery touchdown that looked
kind of like a touchdown early in the game, and
you you know, but even in that drive, they drove
the ball all the way down to the one and
they did it relatively easy. And although they came out
and the defense got to turn over and scored a touchdown,
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it still didn't leave you feeling like this was gonna
be their game. And Jerome Baker had fourteen tackles in
a sack, played a really good game. But when you
give up one hundred and twenty nine yards to a guy,
you never feel good about it. This was supposed to
be an easy win at home in front of the twelves.
Instead you're kicking a field goal to tie the game,
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they block it, return it for a touchdown, and just
break break your hearts. And it never should come down
to that. It shouldn't come down to that. They had
opportunities to win this game, to close it out, and
they just didn't get it done. And it really really
was sad and frustrating. Sure, it was frustrating for the
team and frustrating for the fans. Obviously, again, we have
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them this Thursday, seven pm Eastern on Prime in Seattle
against the San Francisco forty nine ers. Both teams looking
to get the bad taste out of their mouth, and
we'll see how that goes. But right now, it's really
a really disappointing, heartbreaking loss for these teams. And both
teams were at home and got to get in their
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cars and drive back and look in the mirror and
have some really tough conversations, and these coaches are going
to have to make some really difficult decisions in the
near future of how to fix these things, because that
interior offensive line for Seattle Seahawks has to get fixed. Obviously,
the right tackle has been revolving door, you know, injuries
and things like that. Hopefully Abraham link Lucas can come back.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Soon.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
But if they don't get healthy on that defensive line,
and I'm not sure they're going to get healthy enough
by this Thursday, they're going to have a really tough time.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Richard, Let's not understate this here. I mean this. These
two outcomes are shockers, put simply, and it could have
been a lot worse. You mentioned the Ray Shawn Jacobs
one hundred and two yard fumble recover for a touchdown.
That's a fourteen point swing right there. Seattle could have
been over and out a heck of a lot earlier
in this game. They stuck with it. The other thing
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is dk Metcalf. This is two I've really enjoyed watching
him this season. He's, in my opinion, he's stepped up.
He's become a leader on this team. But two games
in a row with crucial fumbles, right, I mean, it's
gotta correct that and then the Giants. They might have
found somebody in this tyrone tracy because he gashed the
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Seattle Seahawks defense time and time again. You're not used
to seeing that at a rookie six round pick, but
they might have found somebody there in New York, Richard,
Let's go across overseas to London. The Minnesota Vikings stay hot.
They're five and zero. Now they beat the Jets, and
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they make Aaron Rodgers' life heck early and often, jumping
out to a seventeen to nothing lead right out the gates.
This Vikings team is hot. I don't think anyone wants
to play him. Ryan Flores, his defense is all over
the field. They lead the league with eleven interceptions. Richard,
what were your thoughts about this game? Is Aaron Rodgers
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struggling to find his footing. It doesn't look like he's
very confident out there with his with the players he's
throwing to him, and Garrett Wilson finally gets more involved
with thirteen receptions, but it's like when it's in crunch
time he throws the pick and it's like, man, you
really wish he had someone like Davonte Adams over there
that he could trust to look for that back shoulder fade,
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and instead he had Mike Williams that was not looking Richard,
where's your head at right now? With the Jets and
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well, let's give a lot of credits to the Minnesota
Vikings and what they've been able to do this year
with Sam Darnold wasn't his best game at all, fourteen
and thirty one, one seventy nine in an interception, but
the rest of the team and that defense really picked
him up. Put a lot of pressure on Aaron Rodgers.
Aaron had a few errant passes that got away from him.
Things he would want back, things where he's throwing the
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football leads to that last interception, and I think he
expected Mike Williams, I mean to be looking back. They
executed that play a few times, the back shoulder fade
a few yards down the field, look early, put the
ball up. I don't know if he didn't get the
signal or what the case was. Aaron left it a
little bit inside. Stefan Gilmour made a lot of big plays.
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There weren't a lot of penalties in this game. I
did not agree with. I thought the refs got way
too involved. There were three penalties on sauz Gartner in
the first half, and I think only maybe one was legitimate,
only one that I'd say, yeah, that's probably p I
or a holding or something. But the other ones, I mean,
it's a pivot route he's running through, there's always going
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to be a little bit of contact. One of them,
justin Jefferson is running through and pushes on an out
route to DJ Reid and he pushes through and Dj
it's a little hand fight and he lets him go
and he runs through. He bets to pass away. I
don't think those are penalties, and those were really changing
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the trajectory of the game and the momentum in the game,
and they were making it easy to the point Minnesota
literally just started dropping back and throwing the ball up
and hoping for a pen they were getting it. I
don't like that, and I think that was a terrible
look by the NFL and the referees. They've been awful
this season and a lot of games, not just this game.
These reps that this is probably the worst ref season
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I've seen in probably last four or five years. I mean,
it's really bad, and it's starting to affect the quality
of the football game we're watching. But yes, Gip Brian
floores a lot of credit. They opposing quarterbacks are really struggling,
and they played some really solid quarterbacks. I mean they
played San Francisco forty nine ers gave him a really
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tough game. The eleven interceptions, you give a lot of
credit to Andrew Van Winkle, I mean Winkle the Ginkler
is what they call him. Two pick six is this season,
just seems to be in the right place at the
right time, have a great feel. You know, he's a
hand in glove fit in this defense. Stefan Gilmour we
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talked about had the interception. Cameron Buying them had another interception.
Justin Jefferson had six for ninety two, but drew multiple
PI calls and holding calls that helped move the ball
down the field. Harrison Smith had a sack. It just
seems like they're in a good rhythm. They're confident, they're
feeling good. They had some injuries today, you know, they
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lost Aaron Jones, so this buy couldn't have come at
a better time for them. They're gonna go into this
by heal up and then they play. You're Detroit Lions.
So we'll we'll have to talk about that. This NFC
North Division, it's pretty crazy. It's getting really crazy. Obviously,
the Green Bay Packers won today against the La Rams,
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but Aaron Rodgers this was a tough game to watch.
He does not turn the ball over in the way
he did. I think they said this is the first
time in his career he threw two picks in the
first quarter. I mean, he rarely has two picks two
interception games, period, point blank. He just looked a little
off and again, this might be the time where they
have to make a move. Move. You hear about the
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Davonte Adams situation, and I know there's a bunch of
teams are aggressive for him and doing this and doing that,
and trying to make a move for him. I don't
think he approved going anywhere but the New York Jets.
And sure he had his time with Derek Carr and
they have a good relationship, a good rapport. But I
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think the way things are going right now and the
just mishaps, the miscommunications, things that definitely wouldn't happen if
DeVante Adams were there, because they just have a different rapport.
I mean, we talk about it. It's almost like they
have telepathy with one another. They have a really incredible
connection and it works, and it would definitely it would
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have helped them win this game. I think if Davante
Adams was a New York Jet, they win this game.
They played well enough defensively at times to win this game.
Will McDonald got another sack, Isaiah Oliver had a Zach
Brandon Eckles had an interception. DJ played a really solid game.
I thought Saults played solid regardless of the penalties that
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they called on them, because I don't think they are penalties.
But the Jets got to recover quick and get ready
for this Monday night divisional game against the Buffalo Bills,
and they have to have it. The Buffalo Bills are
coming off a really, really tough last second loss to
the Houston Texans. We're gonna get to that game and
talk about it. The Vikings, like we said, have a
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bye week and mettell now it's for We got to
talk about this defense in a way that gets a
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Rodgers to the twoe of three interceptions. They were hitting
them multiple times, him cringing. I thought he was about
to go into a blue tint before that, roughing the
punter call. Stefan Gilmour was playing lockdown coverage. We talked
about the Ginkler and the impact that he's having. It's
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just been fun to watch this defense bringing pressure and
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Speaker 1 (27:32):
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say it, but the Vikings look for real. They came
out they dominated early, defensively, offensively. This wasn't Sam Darnold's
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best game, but he got his beast involved in Justin
Jefferson and this team won ugly. That's the reality of it.
And when they do that, they stand defeated this game
against Detroit. Holy cow. I'm excited for it. But that's
gonna be a true test in the division. Talk about
another division test. We saw one in Cincinnati today and
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the Baltimore Ravens came in. They started out looking like
they were going to take care of business. And then
since he got going and Jamar Chase got involved, and
this was a game that you saw Joe Burrow earn
his keep, i mean, throwing for three hundred and ninety
two yards five touchdowns, career high, but they still cannot
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get the W and it was at home. Is it
time to panic in Sinci?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yes, yes it is. It's definitely time to panic in Sinci.
I mean, we just came off of the Uber Eats
almost almost perfect defense, to a game where nobody played defense.
You talk about what is this seventy nine points combined.
Give Lamar Jackson a lot of credit his six game
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with four passing touchdowns and fifty rush yards to most
in NFL history. He's nine and two against the Cincinnati
Bengals in his career. But for the Cincinnati Bengals, when
you played this well offensively, you talk about the numbers
and give Joe Burrow a ton of credit. You know,
I've been critical of him at times when he struggled,
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so I have to be just as praising when he
I have to praise him just as high as I
criticize him when he plays well. Because he was thirty
of thirty nine three hundred and ninety two yards, five touchdowns,
career high, one interception. Then you got Jamar Chase ten
for one ninety three and two touchdowns. It doesn't get
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much better than that, Mitchell. I mean, those are video
game numbers. And then you say who else was eating
t Higgins? T Higgins nine for eighty three and another
two touchdowns. When you play that well offensively and you lose, Oh, yes, sir,
it's calls for concern. Yes, I am very concerned because
that doesn't make sense quarterback. Those were five touchdowns in
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at AL. But you know why, Mitchell, It's because Derrick
Henry really really put his stamp on it, especially in
overtime after the McPherson miss miss field goal where and
don't let's not be critical of McPherson because that bibbled
snap is the reason he missed that field goal. You
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can't babble the snap in that situation. He was halfway
through his swing before they ever even got the ball placed,
and there's nothing you can do about that time, and
you can't really stop and slow down. People are going
to come block that kick, so you have to keep
your same rhythm and just hope the ball gets put down.
But the fifty one yard rush in overtime to set
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up the game winning field goal was incredible. That's why
they brought Derrick Henry here to take some pressure off
Lamar Jackson, and that's exactly what he was able to
do in overtime. A huge play. Zay Flowers, great game,
seven catches for one hundred and eleven yards. Cal Hamilton
getting back involved, getting back to form, had a sack
in the game, Marlon Humphreys interception in this game. But
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you you really, you really start to get concerned because
you talk about the Cincinnati Bengals and they're slow starts,
but usually you're not playing this well offensively with the
slow starts. Usually these are games you're winning. Hey, it
was slow start, and then Joe Burrow starts throwing five touchdowns,
four touchdowns, and then all of a sudden they look
like the team, but they're not their defense isn't stepping up,
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and that's the biggest concern given they just gave up
forty one points uh and and they have struggled all season,
given up points, giving up yards, just not looking like
the defense that caused a lot of chaos and created
turnovers and created havoc on their way to a Super
Bowl early in Joe Burrow's career. They're just they're they're
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they're not making the change that are necessary. They don't
have the personnel it looks like to really be a
strong defense, and without that, you're gonna waste offensive performances
like this from Joe Burrow and Tee Higgins and Jamar Chase,
where in any other game you'd say this should be
a walk off win for them, but not against the
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Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson and everything he was able
to do. Good game by them. Unfortunate for the Cincinnati
Bengals because they had a clear chance to win it
overtime with the McPherson field goal, but they didn't get
it done. And now the Ravens go to the Commanders
and the Bengals go to the Giants. Coming off a
big win against Seattle, Seahawks. That's gonna be a better
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game than people think.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
No doubt. And this Ravens team, this might be the
biggest upgrade this offseason. You go from Gus Edwards to
Derrick Henry and now we see this new version of
Lamar Jackson is already at league MVP. But when he
he's throwing for four touchdowns and he's getting the likes
his eight flowers involved for seven to one eleven. We
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saw a little bit more of Mark Andrews today. This
combo with Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry can be absolutely lethal.
And now it's time for Players in Primetime, brought to
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I guess it probably would have gone to Joe Burrow
if that kick were different, but we got to give
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it to the winner, Lamar Jackson going twenty six for
forty two, three forty eight, four tuddies fifty five yards.
I got my Brightling on today. It's another beautiful one. Richard.
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we had another primetime game Houston Texans Stefan Diggs gets
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some revenge against the Buffalo Bills, and we saw Josh
Allen on the struggle bus. I think he probably wishes
he had Stefan Diggs in this game. Khalil Shakir cannot
possibly mean this much to this team because what you
saw today was just a Josh Allen. We've never seen
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Richard nine for thirty for one, thirty one in a touchdown.
It looks like they do not have the pieces in
Buffalo that they need. Khalil Shakir's out, They're turning to
Kean Coleman, who only had one catch, granted a big
one for forty nine yards and a touchdown. But this
Bills team does not look like the same Bills team
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we've seen in years past. He got out to a
hot start this year. Now they've dropped two straight. Where's
your concern meter with the Buffalo Bills, Richard.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Well, it's getting there, Mitchell. It's it's moving up. It's
probably about an eight right now, just because of the injuries,
the inconsistency. But let's not make it a bigger deal
than what it is because they had many chances to
win this game, and they had a chance to win
in regulation. This it wasn't a blowout. This wasn't a
(35:04):
game where they just got totally manhandled or outclassed by
any way. Even when Josh Allen struggled mightily ninety eight
yards total in the last two first halfs, that's a problem.
But they caught three deep passes on their own three
yard line that that that didn't make sense late in
that game. That was that was some questionable decision making
(35:27):
for McDermott. When they punted to the Texans, they were
already in field goal range. Nico Collins going down with
the injury is concerned if you're to the Houston Texans.
But again, they're finding ways, just like the Kansas City Chiefs,
to win ugly, to win games where it's close, it's
a dogfight, you know, it's a single digit game, and
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they're being they're doing that consistently. Cam Akers had a
solid game, you know, in replacement of Joe Mixon. Joe
Mixon should be coming back in the near future. Stefan
Diggs had a really solid revenge game six for eighty two,
but CJ. Stroud looked like his old self. Twenty eight
to thirty eight, three thirty one, a touchdown end, an interception,
(36:11):
Khalil Davis with a sack. They look like a really
complete team. And I know Buffalo is on a downward
spiral right now, but they had a chance to win
that game. I liked Real mc bernard. He had another
interception this game. He's been stepping up in a big
way for He's been a bright spot in that secondary
for the Buffalo Bills. But again Josh Allen says, everybody
(36:35):
eat speed. This is sometimes that strategy that philosophy doesn't
work as well. And this is one of those games
where they're starting to find the answers. They're starting to
cover these guys well, they're starting to make tighter windows.
And when you're not, you don't have a guy that
can win one on one consistently, a go to number
one stud receiver, then you run into situations where you're
(36:59):
going to struggle. James Cook this is probably one of
his better games. Twenty carries for eighty two yards in
a touchdown, and so they were leaning on the running game,
and I think that's what kept them in this ballgame.
But this game at the Bill, I mean at the
Jets on Monday Night football is going to be huge
for them. They're three and two, still got a winning records,
still at the top of this division. But things can
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change in a hurry. If they lose that game, you know,
then they're sharing the then they only have a share
of the lead with the New York Jets. Things are changing.
Houston has a chance to really establish too Sales as
a contender, and with the five and one record, if
they go to New England and beat the New England Patriots,
that's a very realistic possibility. But anything can happen, and
(37:46):
I don't put anything past anybody right now. I could
not have predicted some of these games that have happened
in the National Football League. I could not have predicted
Minnesota Vikings being five and oh. I could not have
predicted the San Francisco forty nine ers being two and
three at this point season. It's one of those years
where anything can happen and it's exciting. Let's move on
(38:07):
to the Indianapolis versus the Jacksonville Jaguars game. The Jacksonville
Jaguars finally pick up their first winning the season. Trevor
Lawrence has the best game I think of his career,
twenty eight to thirty four, very efficient, three hundred and
seventy one yards, two touchdowns in an interception. They got
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contributions from a lot of places. Tank Bigsby continue continues
to shine, continues to make an impact at thirteen carries
for one hundred and one yard and two touchdowns. Brian Thomas,
they finally figured out, hey, if you throw him more
than two or three passes, he's going to get one
hundred yards. And they throw him a bunch of passes.
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He had five catches for one to twenty two and
a huge touchdown. Trayvon Walker was a huge story with
the three sacks three sacks of Joe Flatco. But this
was a dogfight of a game thirty four to thirty seven.
Give Joe Flacco a lot of credit. It doesn't matter
where he's at Mitchell, it doesn't matter what logos on
his helmet or where he is. He is a consummate professional,
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and he's a gunslinger. He can get hot at any
time at any age. And he's from the Old Guard.
He's from the old Guard quarterbacks. He had three hundred
and fifty nine yards three touchdowns, had a great some
great connections with Alec Pierce. Alec Pearce had three catches
for a one thirty four in a touchdown. Nick Cross
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had an interception. But that is ten straight home wins
that the Jacksonville Jaguars have had against the Indianapolis Colts.
But I think there's hope for the Indianapolis Coats. Joe
Flacco is the answer right down. And I don't think
even when Anthony Richardson comes back, I don't think you
(39:54):
just throw him back in the lineup and you take
Flacco out. He's had four three hundred plus pass d
games and three touchdowns since Week fourteen of last season
when he was with the Cleveland Browns. You just don't
change that. You don't change that. You see, he's getting
everybody involved. A lot of these receivers are getting a shine.
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They're finally starting to see this offense, what this offense
could be with somebody at the helm that fully understands
the adjustments and what they're seeing and can play fast.
They have another division game at the Titans next week,
and the Jags go to the Bears, who are playing really, really,
really solid football. Now they've been playing great defensively. But
(40:37):
now it appears that Caleb Williams is starting to figure
it out in a big way. He may be what
he was supposed to be Minshall. They're finding more time,
he's getting the ball out of his hands a lot
faster than he was. They beat the Carolina Panthers, which
we know teams have been able to do this year,
but let's give him credit. He was twenty to twenty nine,
three and four yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions, ran the
(41:00):
ball for thirty four yards. He was only sacked once.
That's the big story. He was only sacked once. He's
getting the ball out of his hands. In the two wins,
he's had seventy one percent completion percentage, four hundred and
sixty one yards, three touchdowns, and no interception. So if
you're a Bears fan, this is encouraging. This is really encouraging.
DJ Moore had a really great game, but you're seeing
(41:23):
the things that the talent that everybody saw when he
was coming out and they were calling him a generational
talent be showcased. Now you know, when he's able to
be upright, when he's able to trust himself, trust his reeds,
get the ball out of his hands into his playmaker's hands.
It's been really great.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
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to the Packers. They hold off the Rams. This will
(42:46):
look like a trap game, right, I mean, you get
Jordan Love's coming back. He's looking a little bit rusty
but getting better. They go to LA, they get out early,
and the Rams make it again. Thoughts about this team.
I'm still not sold on the Packers. I still think
they made a big mistake. And moving off Aaron Jones
(43:08):
and moving over to Josh Jacobs, I'm still not sold.
Where's your head out with this team right now?
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Well, they're doing They're winning ball games, Mitchell, and and
that's what it's about. And their winning games are supposed
to win, and that there's something to be said for that.
We just saw the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco forty
nine ers not get that done, not win games they
were supposed to win. Jordan Love is coming back from
the injury, playing relatively well, you know, even with all
all things considered. He was fifteen to twenty six, two
(43:35):
twenty four, two touchdowns, one interception. Josh Jacobs is playing
solid again. I think Aaron Jones, like you said, was
a better fit, but he did well. Nineteen carries for
seventy three yards, some crucial first downs, he had a touchdown.
I think there's gonna end up being three teams represented
in the playoffs from the NFC North, and deservedly so.
(43:56):
These teams are playing well. I mean, Minnesota is the team,
the most unexp spected team and they're at the top
of the division. Your Detroit Lions are expected to be contenders,
that the Packers expected to be contenders, and they're showing
up the way they should.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Well, you look at another team that's turning into a
big contender right in front of our eyes. It's the
Washington Commanders. We talked about it in our season preview.
If Jaden Daniels can come in here and take this
team like CJ. Strouded with Houston, Washington's got all the
personnel to be a problem. They are a problem, Richard.
They beat the Bear or the Browns thirty four to thirteen.
(44:36):
This game was never in doubt. Before we get into
Jade and Daniels, I want to talk a little bit
about the Shawn Watson because this Cleveland Brown team looks
so out of sorts. They look so dysfunctional out there,
and I think it starts at the quarterback position. If
you're coaching this roster, are you dumping Deshaun Watson in
(44:58):
favor of Jamis Instant?
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Well, I mean you got to make something change. You
got to make some kind of change. I don't know
if you do it now, you know, because again he's
shown sparks and flashes, but he hasn't shown enough to
merit the amount of money that he's been paid and
the amount of a claim. He has been a great
player in the past, and it just looks like a
shell of himself these last few weeks, last few seasons, really,
(45:24):
But I want to talk about Jaden Daniels. He looks
like a top ten quarterback in the National Football League,
really looks in command, having fun. It wasn't as efficient
this game. He was fourteen to twenty five two hundred
and thirty eight yards, one touchdown in the interception, but
he had eighty two yards on the ground. Was really
dynamic running the football, keeping himself out of harm's way.
(45:46):
Just looks totally in control, totally relaxed. It's not like
they're just winning these games, Mitchell. They're winning by multiple
scores each game. And this is a Cleveland Browns defense
that I have a lot of respect for. They have
a lot of big time playmakers, Ales Garrett, they have
a Denzel Award. They have really big time playmakers and players,
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and he had his way with him. I mean, he
still has a seventy seven percent completion percentage only year
has thrown for eleven hundred yards, four touchdowns, two interceptions.
But the Commanders just as a team look really confident.
I think his confidence is rubbing off on his defense
because they're playing well. Hilt the Browns to thirteen points,
(46:26):
health the Arizona Cardinals to fourteen points last week. Dan
Quinn can draw it up. I said it when he
was hired. This is a great coach and a great
motivator of men, and it looks like he's in the
right situation with the right quarterback, the right coordinators, the
right men who believe, the right veterans and Zach Ertz
and Bobby Wagner to really get these guys and keep
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them in line and every they're hitting on all cylinders.
I said it on Thursday night. I think this team
wins this NFC East Division, and I don't think it's
going to be party curly close. The Philadelphia Eagles don't
look like they did once did. They look like a
shell of themselves, especially with aj Brown out, Davonte Smith out.
They just don't have a lot of answers. That offensive
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line looks a lot, looks a lot more leaky than
it did in the past. With Lane Johnson being out,
with Jason Kelsey not being in the fold anymore, they
don't look like the same dominant force the Dallas Cowboys. Offensively,
they don't have the offensive line that they've been known
for for the last decade. Defensively, they don't really have
any identity. You know, they used to be able to
(47:33):
rest the passer, but now DeMarcus Lawrence is on IR,
Michael Parsons is injured. You don't know where that pass
versus going to come from. And even when they were playing,
it wasn't a dominant attack. So I could see the
Commanders win in that division and ruining somebody's season in
those playoffs.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
I'm right there with you, and you know somebody you mentioned.
We got to get him back on the podcast. As
Bobby Wagner, your friend, how hot happy do you think
he is right now that he chose Washington this offseason.
I got to imagine he is absolutely thrilled with that decision.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
Well, it was a lot of things that went into
that decision, and people think, oh, it was just because
they golfing the most money. No, he has a chance
to go back with Ken Norton, who coached him with
the Seattle Seahawks, who's an incredible friend of him, and
they have an incredible relationship. And if he's gonna, you know,
continue his career anywhere, it was gonna be with Ken Norton.
(48:25):
And then you talk about Dan Quinn and the relationship
that they have. It was just a match made in
heaven there in terms of the personnel and the coaches.
But then you're winning ball games and I don't think
anybody expected them to be four and one at this
point in the season. I'm very happy for him, very
happy for that team and what they've been able to do.
Happy they got the quarterback of the future. Happy for Washington.
(48:47):
You know, they've had some dark years over the past
few decades, and so it's good to see that city
have some hope and have a team that's playing hard
and playing well and looking good.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
Doing it a city that does not have a whole
lot of hope right now. The last Vegas Raiders go
on the road and lose to the Broncos. They're looking
pretty rough right now. Richard DeVonta Adams this week formally
requested a trade out of town. What do you make
of this? I know you talked about DeVante inevitably ending
(49:19):
up with New York, But what does this do to
a team? How much does this fracture the Las Vegas Raiders?
Speaker 3 (49:27):
Well, it fractures you more if you're losing. You know,
it becomes more of an issue and it permeates throughout
the building if you're losing. And we heard the news
that Mark Davis isn't accepting anything lower than the second rounder.
But you don't get to make the call anymore, you know.
Are you going to continue to pay DeVonta Adams not
to play? Are you going to continues one of the
highest paid receivers in the National Football League? Well used
(49:49):
to be. I mean it's lower now, but you're going
to have to continue to pay him. And if you
don't want to play him, you know you're going to
just sit him on the bench and keep paying him.
That's a lot of money to pay somebody, and teams
know that. Teams know that you're gonna have to eventually fold.
We don't have to fold and give you a second
round or give you what you want. If you want
to hold him and continue to let your team sink,
(50:09):
and continue to let your team pay him money to
not play, then it's a lose lose for everybody. And
I don't think they're going to do that. I think
they're gonna I think Mark has to say that, you know,
has to say what the asking price would be. But
I think they're gonna settle for something less than that,
maybe a player in a third round pick or fourth
and a fifth or something along those lines. And I
(50:32):
think he's gonna make his way back, make his way
back to Aaron Rodgers in the New York Jets, and
that's the fit that I would want to see.
Speaker 1 (50:41):
Well, Richard, I will let you conclude us. We got
a couple more games to play this week five, but
we saw a lot of action today. I know it
was a rough one for Seattle and San Francisco fans,
but there's a full season ahead of us. Richard sin
us off, Well, I.
Speaker 3 (50:56):
Mean San Francisco fans know that this has happened before
this in the past. The San Francisco four nine ers
have started slow and then been able to pick it
up throughout the season and turn into this team that
we all know they can be. The Seattle Seahawks have
all the tools. Gino Smith is a really good quarterback
and can be elite if they give him time to throw.
If they can get those offensive line issues fixed and
(51:19):
get Leonard Williams back and Byron Murphy back, then this
defense is gonna be what they were the first three
games of the season. But you need pressure on a
quarterback to do that. You need big fellas who dominating
the way they do. They're really special players to get
that done. I appreciate you guys joining me this week.
I may sound a little more somber this week because
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my heart is hurting. You know, I got a nice
box where my heart used to be. It's frozen and
I don't want to feel anything right now. My team's lost,
and they lost the teams they shouldn't have lost too.
I don't know what else to say. You could have
been anywhere in the world, but you decided to spend
time with us, and we appreciate you joining us every
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