November 25, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if the 49ers overpaid Brock Purdy. Longtime NFL Insider Jason La Canfora joins the party to put a bow on Week 12.! Plus, two NFL coordinators get fired!
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you have the under you're feeling good. If you're a
Niners fan, boy, you're realizing money was better spent elsewhere.
Uh you think now, harm The Niners fans are realizing, boy,
we really.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Overpaid for brock Purty.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We got better, if not the same production from mac
Jones when the weapons weren't healthy. Then we're getting from Purdy,
who has single handedly kept this game close tonight, and
not in that way. Three picks for party tonight. He
has thrown a touchdown, it's a ten to three lead,
but boy, he has looked awful. His ball looks wobbly,
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just completely. The pass the Jawan Jennings that was really
just looked like it was waffling out of his hand.
He could have thrown at least two more. This is
not brock Purdy is bad. It's not Brock Purty is terrible.
It's just he was. He jumped in when maybe a
lot of guys could have succeeded in that forty nine
ers offense. Right, other guys just weren't healthy, couldn't keep
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the gig you had. All are great playmakers out there,
and they make the trade for McCaffrey and sell me think, well,
brock Purdy is an absolute game breaker. Well, perty was
okay when you have that kind of weapons. I think
even Zach Wilson could have done okay with those weapons. Okay, okay,
even even Mike White could have done well with those weapons.
But now you saw that Purdy not great last year,
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got hurt. This year, mac Jones steps in with a
lot of his main weapons injured. Right, man, There's been
no Brandon Ayuk all year and he's probably not going
to play for them again. There was no George Kittle
most of the way, all no Ricky Piersoll McCaffrey was healthy, right,
and of course you're gonna give him the ball a
thousand times a game. But you're getting the same kind
of production, the same kind of stuff from Purdy you're
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getting from mac Jones, who you know, you pay ten
million dollars a year or two, which it kind of
shows you what a great offensive coach Kyle Shanahan is.
But boy, you really mismanage the quarterback position and what
you had to pay a guy. Think the Niners, Well,
we have to pay brock Perty. We got we found him.
We found him for nothing, right, mister irrelevant. We found
the guy, and oh look what he is. What a
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great story he is?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Boy? All right?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And then you had your window, you had your window
to win, and you couldn't. And now you have to
pay him. And now you realize that, oh man, brock
Party maybe is a league average quarterback. Maybe he's a
league average quarterback. Now it's not just tonight, it's basically
what you've seen from Perdy when he's been healthy the
last season and now two thirds of a season compared
to what you got for mac Jones in a very
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short amount of time, short amount of time with the
ones in the playbook this year.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yeah, I think we're getting into difficulty with Purdy is
that the strength is supposed to be the ability to
push the ball down the field.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
The problem is he's a turnover machine.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
And for those that love to raise an eyebrow over
the league, what the hell was that play called by
Bryce Young on the one yard line one and a
half and you're throwing the ball you had all day
to run, he had a blocker out in front of him.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
What the hell are they doing?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
And basically in an opportunity for the Panthers to go
and claim a big piece after Tampa loses. But we'll
get to them in a minute. With the brock Purty
side of things, you're trying to push the ball, but
this is the fourth game he's played. Guess what multiple
interceptions in all of them, right, So the good and
the bad of it. When you're talking about air yards
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and trying to stretch the field, give McCaffrey a little
more run, give Kittle a little more space to operate.
It's come with the downside. And in this case, you're
starting to see memes of pictures of party with the
caption I think J C. Horn is opened downfield, Ye
Jase York, but it is best receiver tonight. Come on, man,
he's found a guy. I mean he's on the other team,
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but he's found a guy, finding him in space. There's
no question about it. But to your point, right, it's
the to some degree, it's the loyalty of a guy
that we found and he's our project guy. And look,
he was accomplished in college, had a good run at
Iowa State. We've seen all those receivers go on to
great prominence, all drafted by the same team. We watched
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him play for the Houston Texans, uh the last couple
of weeks. But when we look at what Purdy is,
you're thinking, all right, with these weapons, with him on
the com, he'll get better, he'll get more efficient, will
maximize this window with these wide receivers. The AUK thing
is a whole other mess that needs like three hours
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of dialogue and a bunch of PowerPoint presentations. But when
we look at what Purdy's done to date, Yeah, it's
it's hand ringing because you are in theory back towards
full strength.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
And yet it's looks just so inconsistent uh and inefficient.
And for Kyle Shanahan, he keeps making the excuses. Hey,
he's got to keep winging. It's like he just missed,
Like no, no, no, that's the margin of error in the
National Football League, just missing as an interception versus a completion.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, like, oh, we just missed. So what what what
does that mean? It means it means you missed. It
means you miss means you didn't get it. I mean, oh,
he just missed that game winning shot. Well, you know
lots of game winning shots you just missed. It means
they missed situation. In this case, it found your receiver's
hands or had found the defenders. And guess what, Generally
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in the defensive backfield, what do we say, those are
the guys that are failed wide receivers. So when they
actually catch it, that means it was a really good
ball that you threw dirrectly to the Most of the time, now,
there's obvious exceptions that you can go through, and all
our Sundays are littered with tip balls that go as
interceptions for the quarterback where they put it in the
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guy's chest, on their hands, whatever. None of those were
the case for Brockberty this evening, No and the Niners
go in for a touchdown. Here Christian McCaffrey runs it
in from twelve yards out, his first touchdown of the night,
to a seventeen to three lead. Look, the Niners defense
playing extremely well tonight. Bryce Young and the Carolina Panthers
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can't do anything with the football. It's one of those
it's where the Niners are lucky. This is who they're
playing right like, okay, because it's really hard to overcome
three interceptions like this and still be up by two
scores in a game for all the Hey, Carolina, No,
Carolina is not really good Carolina. Once in a while
they're the definition of a five hundred team. But they're
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probably not really as good as their record are now
last year.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
But it's the NFL in twenty twenty five, Jason is,
so that is they're great?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, six and five, we're fat. How bad does that
tell you? Like, teams like the Jets and the Raiders
are Man, Hey, we're great at six and five, what
are you at two and nine? Man?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
We can't even bring it up to us.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
But after the Tampa lost yesterday, all of a sudden
the door was open. Hey a big fire tonight. You got,
you know, go after your old guy. McCaffrey.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Here.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
By the way, he was minus three forty for at
any time touchdown today. I don't think I've ever seen
that no applies. Yeah, well, who I mean, who else?
They get close and they're gonna give it to what
every player, And I'd be like, why wouldn't you? Right,
he's got he's got sixteen rushing attempts, he's got seven
and catches tonight, like he's eighty percent of the offense.
He touched the part for the first five or six
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stabs on that first possession. McCaffrey again, he's gonna.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Have seventy touches tonight. Now he's got he's gonna be
like Jamior Gibbs yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
He's got like twenty rushes and like fifteen receptions, Like
that's the day he's avage.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
But you know what, he's got an ice bath waiting
for him. He'll be just fine.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Look, they're at home against an overmatched opponent tonight, so
he can overcome these interceptions. But you know that that's
the whole thing. It's not that brock Purdy's bad, It's
that you really miscalculated just what his value is as
a quarterback, because I'm telling you put brock Purty a
bunch of other teams. He's not giving you what some
other quarterbacks are. But lots of guys could do this
on the forty nine ers, as you have seen Mac
Jones walk in after being a failed quarterback going hey,
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I'm pretty good, And now the Niners had to go
to brock Purty as quick as possible because the more
mac Jones played and played well, the more you have
a quarterback controversy, and the more you look bad because
you did give brock Purty all that money and he's
sitting on your bed like we gotta put him.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Back out there. Okay, So you put him back out
is what you're getting.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Well, maybe mac Jones is the lead. How about that
I turned that coin over ude.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I'm telling you Mac Jones twenty twenty six New York
Jets starting quarterback. I guarantee it. Guarantee it's gonna happen. Well,
I guarantee, you know.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
In the swirling winds of all the scuttle button around
Bill Belichick and why he wouldn't be hired again, some
of it is personnel stuff and talking about who he
trusted with decision making and bringing players along.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
There's a giant picture of.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Mac Jones in the middle of that and Matt Patricia
with the pencil behind his ear.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
And Belichick pointed out, this is the guy that got
me fired. This guy got me fired. This guy right here,
this guy right here. So we'll have more in this
game throughout again. A Panther's getting the ball back now here,
about four and a half to go in the third quarter.
Niners lead at seventeen to three. Meanwhile, we now know
who the number one quarterback is going to be at
least for another week in Cleveland, as Shador Sanders earlier
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today was named the starter for the Browns next week,
even though Dylan Gabriel has cleared concussion protocol. Right now,
two big things on this because we talked about this
on Friday, and boy did we get this right. We
told you, look what Shador Sanders is going to do
against the Raiders number one. It's the Raiders number two.
He will have a handful of plays where he will
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play really where he will make really good decisions and
make really good throws. Right, the fifty nine yard throw
was a big one he had. That's the kind of
game he had. It's hard for me to watch all
the coverage day because, oh, Chador standers like the guy
didn't show up and go for three seventy and four touchdowns. Okay,
he was. He was good in spots and it was
the Raiders all right.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Man.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
As that pass he hit Dylan Samson with where Samson
then ran seventy four yards.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Count. Yeah, was he drinking wine?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
He saw he saw the act.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
He's drinking wine the whole way, all the way down
the field.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
He saw the yact. Right, it's all good, It's all yeah.
I saw.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
I saw that player was all count just the same look.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
We told you that was going to be the day
for Shador Sanders, and that's what it was. He wasn't unbelievable.
It was a great story. Dion there hugging him and
being excited. It really was.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
It was good to see the Browns have hope. Because
you needed to see him play at some point, and
now you have. And the correct decision was made to
give him another start. This was not a decision you
had to say, we're giving them the ball the rest
of the season. But he did enough to warrant another start. Now,
does this mean with a bad start, he's out.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I think what you've done here is okay, you've had
one good start. Now you see how next week goes.
And you do this on a weekly basis, not just
to make my Browns five quarterbacks prediction come true, which
is absolutely happening, but you know, but for the next week,
this was the right call that was made. He's the
starter for this week's tap the brakes. What Shador Sanders
earned was a chance to start again this Sunday. That's
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what fifth round picks do. They're not given they're not
given anything. And this was the right decision. The Browns,
who have completely slow played this and played this ridiculously
all year long, this has been the right call. He's
starting next week. You see how it goes, and you
go week by week after that. That's what Shador Sanders did.
That's what Shador Sanders earned.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
A great reminder that with a mediocre offense, they could
win some games when Miles Garrett is absolutely terrorizing quarterback
to quarterback to quarterback. But eight point four yards per
intended air yards per attempt, right now, that's what we
one of the big different and that's even with the
little swing passes. You know that big play down field
that you mentioned, the fifty nine yarder. Man, that's a
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great throw right there. You take nothing away from that.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
He's a bunch of not making that.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
But that's the thing, right Dylan Gabriel came out.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
I think he was at like five point five point
nine yard and intended air yards attempt.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
That ties in with Aaron Rodgers and Kyler Murray. Let's
have that conversation. Great. No, no, not great, not great.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Which means a lot of extra work or you really
have to scheme the hell out of it to get
your receivers in running backs some clearance to make hay.
But when we look at what Schador did, he left
a lot of plays on the field. Do I love
the cut of his Some of the post game stuff
rub people.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
The wrong way.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
It's like, man, you just won your first start. You've
been waiting for the opportunity you're gonna be peacocky. Now
you gotta go back it up this week because you
gotta go do it again. But you know, he made
a couple of big throws, goes over two hundred and
nine yards, well past the over hundred that we established
and talked about on Friday, and it played out exactly
as we thought. Some great plays, some terrible plays, and
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the fact that the Raiders are really bad on both
sides of the ball really helps you in a big way,
and it takes nothing away from the performance. It's a
nice data point. Deshaun Watson being there as a mentor
was an odd look and something I don't think we
anybody anticipated seeing on the sidelines and all but curious
to see how that all flows.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
He might end up being your fifth man.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
He might end up being that fifth man you've been
waiting for at the back end of this conga line
of quarterbacks. But for the interim, there's no reason to
go back to Dylan Gabriel. You have proof of concept.
Go see what shed Door can do in an encore.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And now he's gonna get this San Francisco forty Niners
defense next week at home, so hey prove it there.
Maybe then you keep the job for another three weeks
or so through Tennessee, Chicago, Buffalo bit but.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
It's this was the right thing was done.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Nobody panicked, nobody went too crazy, nobody went too low,
nobody decided No, Dylan Gabriel's getting.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
The job back.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
This is how it should go, and it's going well.
Sometimes you just tip your cap and say, hey, the
right decision was made. Now we go forward, We go
forward from here. Yeah, I love a big hot take,
but this is this is really what it is.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, and you know, there's only one
game on the schedule less left of their home games
where they really need the help to sell tickets otherwise.
I mean, you got the forty nine Ers at home,
the Titans game is what I'm looking at. And then
you've got the Bills and the Steelers. Bills fans and
Steeler fans are gonna show up regardless whether she Doer's
there or not. So just trying to find some opportunity
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saying get in there and sell, sell, sell exit.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
How about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Lot from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Ted McMillan. How about that on the end of a
thirty yard touchdown pass? Pretty easy, great pattern post end
zone open by five yards.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Bryce Young hits him.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We now have a one score game in San Francisco,
seventeen to nine, extra point pending. We'll off more on
this game coming up next. NFL insider Jason Lock and
Forest stops by. What do you make of the big
Dallas comeback win? Is Lamar Jackson really really healthy? What
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Speaker 4 (16:46):
In San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Tech McMillan's touchdown makes it a seventeen to nine game,
Carolina not converting the extra point, so an eight point
lead for the forty nine ers. As we begin the
fourth quarter, already, Niners on the move. Christian McCaffrey simply
doing it all for the forty nine ers tonight. He's
got one hundred and thirty nine yards from scrimmage and
the Niners total have like one hundred and forty yards
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from scrimmage. So this is where we signal of more
in this game coming up in a few minutes. But
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Washington Post. Wanta bet it is Jason lock and for it, Jay,
what's happening man?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Happy Monday, Happy Monday, Happy early Thanksgiving? Happy rock pretty
Patrick Piday?
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Did you you had over?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You have?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
You have a three pit? What did you have? Four?
Or five? Haven'ty had for party tonight?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I didn't. I didn't play his interceptions. I probably should have.
I played his rushing, but I did not play his interception.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You played genos receptions.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
So hey, speaking of quarterbacks, le let's start here because
watching yesterday, Lamar Jackson just does not look right. And
I know he is I know he has said he
is healthy. I know he has said he has just
banged up. But Jay, this is this is more than
just he doesn't look right, like he can't break to
the outside at all. He can't, he can't, he can't
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extend any plays like if he was playing, if they
were playing thirty other teams. Yesterday the Ravens lose instead
of but it's the Jets, so you get the Jets.
But boy Lamar just looks like he looks like he's
about sixty percent right now.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yes, that's exactly what. That's what, that's where I would
approximate it. And losing his legs has now thrown off
his mechanics and thrown off his fundamentals, and his ankles
aren't connected to his shoulders, and he his leverage on
his throws is off, and he's clearly compensating. Now they've
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added a tow to the indur report, so we've got
it's been an ankle, it's been a handstrained, it's been
a name, now a toe. Who knows what it really is.
But it's not great. And they keep putting in there
with a more plotting running back in the backfield, and
it's not going anywhere. And there's no tempo, there's no pace,
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there's no cadence to the offense, there's no confidence. They're
averaging four point seven yards per play in the first
half of games since we over the last seven games,
since Week five, there's a seven games stand where in
the first half of games. They've got four total offensive touchdowns,
just two passing touchdowns and those were both against Miami
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on that Thursday Night the Mark Andrews where Miamian looked
like they wanted to play football. It's a bottom. It's
the worst red zone offense in the NFL. Air's a lot,
there's no explosives to be had. There's a lot of issues.
Now defense has gotten better, but I think what the
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defense is about to see Thursday night a whole lot
different than Caleb Williams down Earlyue and Pyrod Taylor in
his first start after Fields was benched, and Bill and
Gabriel and would probably turn out to be his last
NFL start, And I mean you can just go look
at what they but you know JJ McCarthy, So we'll
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see the defense had better be real, real, real legit
because the offensive major problems.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Yeah, the return of Joe Burrow for that one Thursday
Night over under sitting at fifty one and a half
last I see no t Higgins but Jamar Chase coming
off the suspension and an apology, and he's five hundred
thousand dollars lighter. So curiosity of Joe Burrow and what
he brings in the table for sure.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, I mean, you know there's obviously some variants there.
He's missed a lot of times. You know, they say
probably could have maybe played on Sunday, so they buy
him a few extra days. You know, I guess one
more quasi practice. But you know he's fiery a bloke
and he'll be fired up for this. And you know
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they were pissed off when the schedule came out that
they have to keep coming to bottom all on Thursday nights.
And now this isn't just any Thursday night, it's Thanksgiving night.
Kath Brown's having a hell of a season and he's
been a problem for the Ravens. I think Jamark Chase's
last two games against the Ravens has twenty one catches,
four hundred and fifty seven yards and five cuddies. So
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there's that. Yeah, I'm not sure it's going to be
an all out what's creating over game because I think
Baltimore is going to try to run the ball if
they're not doing it that well. Because as much as
that defense has improved, they know it's kind of for
gazy because they haven't played anybody, and I don't think
they trust their offense right now to win. They shootout
with Cincinnati and maybe Burrow is a little rusty, but yeah,
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it's an intriguing matchup. I mean, Cincinnati season is effectively over,
but obviously it's a huge game for the Raven.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Jay.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
When speaking of quarterbacks, We've got the news today that
Dylan Gabriel cleared from concussion protocol, but Shador Sanders will
stay the brown starting quarterback.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
What'd you make of what you saw yesterday?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Look, the kid is going to if anything, he hangs
in there too long and he took too many hits
in college to try to make too many plays. But
he's going to fling the ball around. He's going to
give dudes chances to have fun playing football. It's not
going to be let me run a three yard out
and turn around and see if this guy can throw
it within a country mile of my body. Like it's
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not that, and that's what it was. I mean, it's
just Dylan Gabriel. There's nothing about him that looked anything
close to an NFL quarterback. And I'm tucking even a
backup like it just it wasn't. And this kid has
got a much bigger arm and he will give guys
chances to make plays. And again, I think there's just
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a different energy there because dudes are having fun. They
feel like I can go and maybe do my thing
and maybe have a highlight. You know, in this game,
it's raw, it's rough, but that's by design because the
coach takes lots his hate sutch. But I mean the
coach clearly didn't brings them to the football player, because
the coach cold barely bring him up to say his name,
let alone give the kids, you know, a half decent
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rep here or there. So he's got a make up
for some lost time. But look, they'd go on thirteen
straight road games without winning. I mean that's just the fact.
And this kid makes his first NFL start and they
went on the road for the first time in the years.
So yeah, as he had tried to go back to
the other guy, it would have you would have heard
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about it. I think for the.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Locker first Brown's quarterback to win his first start since
Eric Zeier back in nineteen ninety five, with Bill Belichick
on the sideline.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
On Thursday Kansas City, Dallas.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
You could take either side of that coin as to
what we're seeing every time the Chiefs are left for dead,
they resurrect.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Like a movie villain. Uh, and then you.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Got the Cowboys suddenly a little plucky in that second half.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah. I mean, I think it's just one of those
games that the Chiefs find a way to win. Dallas's
defenses improved, for sure, and the Chiefs have been horrible
on the road, but I just think they win. This team.
Hats off Dallas to win the game. I did not
think they were gonna win coming in, and I certainly
didn't think they were gonna win when the Eagles jumped
them like they did. And this is you know, yeah,
(24:27):
this Dallas team has a little more heart and a
little more moxy than we've seen. And Schottenheimer, I gotta
get him credit. He's doing a heck of a job.
And Jerry went about it in a weird way. But
this defense is better than last year's defense. I believe that. Now,
if you had added a real d tackle and kept
Michael Parsons you know what she's got all the world,
(24:50):
then you might actually be a playoff team. Like then
you you might have could have actually been something. Now
it's just typical, you know, Cowboys. H That's a game
I don't think it's a shootout either. I think that's
an under game. The Chiefs have become a dead under team.
Chiefs are the highest under the tide for the highest
under eight on the road since the start of last season.
(25:13):
I think Spags will make the Cowboys run the ball
against the Shells and not give them the easy quick
hitters that Frankly, I was shocked the Eagles gave them
and the comeback. I think Dackle Philip Pick along the way,
and this is not Vintag's Mahomes right now. The Red
beat the chief Reds on offense on the road in
particular is a disaster, and it was a disaster at
home on Sunday. So I just think it's one of
(25:36):
those games that Andy Reid AND's Fags and Mahomes find
a way to win, but it might not be all
that aesthetically pleasing along the way.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
NFL insider Jason Locking for our guest here, Jason Smith
Mike harmon Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
All right, can you make sense of the Eagles?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
They come out House of Fire, score their first three possessions,
then suddenly that's like they stopped playing after the first quarter.
Like I always got to execute our offense to win
this game. Can you make sense of them?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I think it almost came too easy. I do. And
I think they thought we're going to score forty four
without breaking the sweat and there's no way these you know, Jimokes,
you're going to come back on our defense the way
it's playing right now, And I get it. I would
have been taking a lot of the same stuff. I
don't know. I still think they're a really good football
team that they don't do that very often ate and
(26:26):
the past game is coming along. And look with with
the injuries to the offensive line and Saquon looking like
a guy who's coming off a two thousand yard season,
which usually the next twyear is tough. They're going to
have to throw the ball and the quarterback is going
to have to put it out there and let people
make plays on a little bit more, and he can't
be quite as conservative. And I you know, I think
(26:48):
they'll be able to throw the ball on the bear
some so I think Devonte Smith and the slot against
that defense is going to be somebody who catches the
quarterbacks high quite a bit. I think them going back
home after a loss like that, I don't know if
they covered but I think they win the game, and
I think they'll be a force to be reckoned with
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in the playoffs, in large part because of the defense.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yeah, I gotta think that the run chart for Saint
Kawan Barkley looks a little better than minus two one,
minus two three, all of those that you actually get
some juice there. Now, if we stipulate that the Rams
are the best team in football right now, do we
just fill out with record with the Broncos and Patriots
to finish out the metal standard?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
You got somebody else in your eyes?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I mean, I think the Broncos and the Eagles are
probably the other teams that I would probably put in
that tier in Seattle. You know, if I trusted Sam
Doong a little more, I could maybe get there with
Seattle because I like pretty much everything else about them.
I can't. I just doing what hasn't really twitted body.
(28:00):
You know, they're best winners against Buffalo. Buffalo is bubbles,
a patently mediocre football team. So yeah, I can't. I
can't put it like Baltimore. We covered, They've got a
lot of issues right now. You know, the Chargers I
liked until the line got wiped out again. I mean,
(28:22):
I put Kansas City in Seattle kind of sniffing around
there just because the teacher cockroaches. They're not dead un
till they're ever totally dead. And I don't know how
many teams have the right like Concox and the Raid
to spray them en up and make them actually flip
over and stay dead. But I I do. I I yeah.
(28:43):
If I you know my talent rankings, I think it's
the Rams. And then sort of clustered around them is
Denver and Philadelphia in large part because of the defensive
and then there's a cluster of you know, five to
seven other teams.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
You He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four That
is at Jason lock and four also at wanta bet
Washington Post one of five seven, the fen in Baltimore
Odyssey j as always, Buddy, appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
Man.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Thanks to have a good holiday, buddy.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Thanks. All right, So there we go.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
The Niners have the football after picking off Bryce Young.
They continue to lead this game twenty to nine. Time
how to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from someone who's been called the Philadelphia Eagles
of Fox Sports Radio. Huh, he shows up and does
great in the beginning, then he just mails it in
the rest of the way.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
It's Steve the Sagy.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Wow, what a council of it.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
My goodness, we had five interceptions in this game at
San Francisco tonight. The Niners are ahead of Carolina twenty
to nine. Now, San Francisco had a great opening drive
to start the evening. It was nearly nine minutes worth
fifteen plays, seventy two yards. Brock Purty a touchdown pass
of twelve yards to Juwan Jennings, Party, then through three
(29:59):
and inters the rest of the first half. In the
last couple of years in the NFL, only one other
quarterback has thrown at least three interceptions in the first
half of a home game, and that was brought Party,
also on a Monday night game against the Ravens a
couple of years ago. Party right now one hundred and
eighty five yards passing Christian McCaffrey twenty carries seventy nine
(30:21):
yards and a touchdown. He's been targeted seven times and
has seven receptions for another fifty three yards. Bryce Young
won touchdown two interceptions. The TD pass was late third
quarter twenty nine yards to rookie Tep McMillan, twenty to
nine San Francisco leads because although the Panthers did kick
the extra point after that McMillan touchdown, well, there was
(30:42):
a defensive penalty, so they said, why not go for
two if you're going to give us the linescrivage at
the one. Yeah, that pass failed, so twenty to nine
for the home team. Browns quarterback Dylan Gabriel was cleared
to play, but Shador Sanders will start again Sunday against
the forty nine Ers. Gabriel is out of concussion proto
the Vikings places quarterback JJ McCarthy in concussion protocol. Backup
(31:05):
QB Max Brosmer will take the first team reps in practice.
Bucks quarterback Baker Mayfield has a sprain left shoulder, but
it's called a low grade sprain with no long term concerns.
Teddy Bridgewater would start this Sunday for Tampa Bay against
the Cardinals if Mayfield can't play. The New York Giants
fired defensive coordinator Shane Bowen. The Raiders promoted Greg Olsen
(31:25):
to interim offensive coordinator after firing Chip Kelly on Sunday night.
Washington quarterback Jaden Daniels will return to practice this week,
but he hasn't been cleared for contact yet after a
left elbow dislocation three weeks ago. The Saints are reportedly
trying out two kickers, Cade York and Justin Tucker, whose
suspension is over. Blake Groupie missed two field goals on Sunday.
(31:48):
Eagles rookie safety Andrew mccouba will reportedly have surgery for
a broken ankle. New England rookie tackle Will Campbell is
believed to have a sprain to mcl and there.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Right, Stee, So you're telling me is TJ.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Groupie may no longer be with the band at this
time next week.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
J That was actually pretty good.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I'll tell you he got the actually nice. That's that's
a guy who has heard me do that so many times. Oh,
it's a good one.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
No, that's a good one, kind of like Berman himself.
Three games in the NFL this Thursday on Thanksgiving. The
late game on Thursday is Cincinnati at Baltimore, and Bengals
quarterback Joe Burrow is expected to play after the toe injury.
Bud wide receiver t Higgins is out with a concussion.
There is one game on Black Friday, streaming only unless
(32:38):
you're in Chicago or Philadelphia. That's Chicago at Philadelphia and
this Saturday on Fox TV number one, Ohio State at
number fifteen Michigan. Detroit's Pistons won their thirteenth straight game tonight.
Toronto won it's eighth in a row, Miami it's fifth
straight win. And the next one at Brooklyn won thirteen
one hundred, Carl Anthony Towns thirty seven points. Brooklyn is
(33:00):
three and fourteen.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. Thirty seven in
a row in a row.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Absolute test coming up next. We'll keep you posted on everything.
Monday Night football still twenty to nine, forty nine ers
with the lead midway through the fourth quarter, but straight ahead.
We had two big collapses yesterday and two coaches paid
for it with their jobs today. That's next, right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Ah wait, Jason, I think Notre Dame just scored again.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
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Speaker 7 (33:38):
Here he goes across the forty now over midfield, hits the.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Jets of the forty thirty twenty Tenny's gonna go all
the way.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Shaim alive. He's the best player in the country. Sixty
eight yards itit's his third touchdown of the game.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Send that man.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
To New York.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
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Speaker 3 (34:21):
Should extra cockfight what Frostbury.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
We didn't have the seventieth point from Notre Dame.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
No, we did not. We stopped rolling at fifty six nine.
The fact that we got to that point was surprising
to me. I would have thought after twenty one or
twenty eighth they we know we were rolling down to
fifty six nothing because Syracuse could have come back at
any point.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Mike Hey, when we Hey, when we made it. We
scored with a few seconds left. How do we not
go for two? I mean, you're down seventy to six,
Go for two, Go for two, Go for.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
Why did you just take kes and just be done
for two?
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Go for two.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I can't tell you how embarrassing this was Saturday to
watch this. I really Notre Dame up twenty one nothing
before they even got the football. This looks like it
looked like one of those games from one of those
football movies where the ragtag team just gets absolutely worked
in the first half and they're down like forty two
to nothing, but then the star player shows up the
(35:13):
beginning of the second half and everybody starts playing great.
But I mean, two pick six is in a block
punt for a touchdown? I looked up seriously. I looked
this up when it was thirty five nothing and Notre
Dame was in the Syria inside the Syracuse five yard
line with a minute left to go in the first quarter,
and I said, oh, my goodness, has anybody ever scored
forty two points in the first quarter of a game
in FBS history? And I googled it, and AI said,
(35:36):
we cannot find an instance of the football team scoring
forty two points in the first quarter of an FBS
game the most recent time, and they talked about thirty
five points and then it goes back to and the
most lopsided score of all time was Georgia and Cumberland,
which was two hundred and twenty two to nothing. Yes, yes,
the most famous blood ever. And I said to myself,
at least Syracuse avoided that. When Notre Dame got tackled
(35:59):
at the one and time ran out of the first quarter,
I said, well, at least it's gonna be thirty five
nothing and not forty two to nothing after the first quarter.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Yeah, I am about a morbid curiosity. Looked at the
live line. At one point it was minus sixty three.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Yeah, dude, I turned my phone off.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
So you got a push with the first.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
When the end of the first quarter happened, I tweeted
that out and I turned my phone off.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
I can't not.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
To hear stuff from everybody else going, wow, are you
watching this?
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
I do not need you to tell me how deep
the ocean is. I know what's going on. I'm seeing
it's in front of me. But that's that's.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Where you got to have your pre written, you know,
thousand words on how miserable is your life that you're
taking time to send me this note when you know
my team sucks.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I mean, right, Hey, Jason's having a craptastic day. Let
me just make sure he's having a worse one by sending.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Him a text. Hey, how's it going. You're watching the game? Yes,
I'm watching the game. We stink. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Maybe we were probably good not giving fran Brown a
contract extension, because I don't know what the hell he's
done the last eight weeks.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I really don't.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
There's a lot of coaches out there looking for employment.
A lot of guys been in the firing line, coordinators,
head coaches, you name it. The carousels alive and work,
and so who knows.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Well, listen, you bring that up, right, you bring up
And we had two coordinators that were fired today in
the NFL. Chip Kelly relieved of his duties as Raiders
offensive coordinator. They paid after eleven games, they fired him.
They paid him six million dollars a year to get
him out of Ohio State. And already the Chip Kelly
era is done. I went to one of the greatest
moves of all time.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
He got six million dollars to probably just throw pencils
up in his ceiling like he was David Letterman.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
He didn't seem to care. Hey, how you gotta win?
I get it. He didn't seem like he was too
broken up about got win.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I mean, I'd say it's embarrassing, but it's the Raiders.
What else do you expect embarrassing goes to the territory.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Now you got Gino flipping off fans, and you know
he got chesty after last week and this Like I'm
Chip Kelly, I'm going all after hitting you know how
many hours.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
He spent at the facility. Nothing, I'll tell you, chip Kelly. Look,
the Raiders are there great Quinn Essentially, they are great
for we get players that are past their prime, right,
that's who they've always done. And sometimes they used to
be able to catch lightning at a bottle and go,
Look we got a guy who's who you know, everybody
is cast him aside, and look, he could be a
star for us for three years. It's how he won
(38:27):
super Bowls in the seventies, right in the eighties. But
like Chip Kelly is like the latest example, he's ten
years past his prime.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
He was like a guy you needed to get, Like
in the mid.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Two twenty tens when he became when he's the head
coach of the Eagles, he was being like, he's like
ten years past his prime. He was great in college
last year. But clearly Ohio State's offense is great no
matter who's calling the plays. Like, but like Chip bringing
Chip Kelly and it's like you're ten years out of
date with that, man. I mean, I get that you're
you're in tune with who you are as the optics
(38:57):
for with the Raiders bringing in people you know years
after they were good.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
But wow, man, coaches didn't think that would happen.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Yeah, Julian saying currently plus three eightyes, second and Heisman
odds right now. Mind Mendoza ahead of your guy, Jeremiah
Love at five to one. But yeah, the Raiders averaging
fifteen points per game right down there with the noll
In Saints. Even the Titans have averaged slightly higher a
scochi higher point per game total than these Raiders. Should
(39:28):
Chip Kelly have just held the door for Pete Carroll
to clear out his office while he was at it, Man,
not your.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Time's up too, I think Pete's got another year. I mean,
maybe not more than that. I think Pete's probably got
another year being with a new quarterback. Most likely you
know who doesn't have another year as everybody.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
In New York. Now that's fair.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That's the other thing today, Right when you saw Shane
Bowen get fired Giants defensive coordinator who presided over yet
another collapse, right, Mike Kafka trying to show that, Hey,
I can be the guy here.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
I'll look, I'm making a big move.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
I'm getting rid of my defensive coordinator so I can
win the last six games and be the new head coach.
Not happening, right, Everybody's gonna be new in New York
next year, and it's gonna be the opening of the offseason.
You have the best chance to succeed.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
You have the.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Talent, and you have an owners who will give you
fair patience to get it done. Look how long they
stuck with Brian Dable Giants. Is gonna be the best
opening in all of the NFL.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
The end of the year, you got my league neighbors
tweeting and deleting. I mean, like all this great stuff
out there. Yeah, telling you man, that's what happens. You
get fired. One door closes and another one. That's a
new bit tweeting and deleting. We say something absolutely outrageous
and then delete it and see how viral it goes.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Everybody on this Giants coaching staff is done do everybody
has done.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
No one is coming back. Everybody's ye Now.
Speaker 6 (40:43):
Jamis wants to be a tight end. So like we
got more man, we got chaos.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Coming up next, we get into the biggest upset, come
from behind win of the weekend and what it means
for both teams. Keep it right here, that game of
the week. We break it down next Jason and Mike.
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(01:00):
you have the under you're feeling good. If you're a
Niners fan, boy, you're realizing money was better spent elsewhere.
Uh you think now, harm The Niners fans are realizing, boy,
we really.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Overpaid for brock Purty.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We got better, if not the same production from mac
Jones when the weapons weren't healthy. Then we're getting from Purdy,
who has single handedly kept this game close tonight, and
not in that way. Three picks for party tonight. He
has thrown a touchdown, it's a ten to three lead,
but boy, he has looked awful. His ball looks wobbly,
(01:37):
just completely. The pass the Jawan Jennings that was really
just looked like it was waffling out of his hand.
He could have thrown at least two more. This is
not brock Purdy is bad. It's not Brock Purty is terrible.
It's just he was. He jumped in when maybe a
lot of guys could have succeeded in that forty nine
ers offense. Right, other guys just weren't healthy, couldn't keep
(01:58):
the gig you had. All are great playmakers out there,
and they make the trade for McCaffrey and sell me think, well,
brock Purdy is an absolute game breaker. Well, perty was
okay when you have that kind of weapons. I think
even Zach Wilson could have done okay with those weapons. Okay, okay,
even even Mike White could have done well with those weapons.
But now you saw that Purdy not great last year,
(02:23):
got hurt. This year, mac Jones steps in with a
lot of his main weapons injured. Right, man, There's been
no Brandon Ayuk all year and he's probably not going
to play for them again. There was no George Kittle
most of the way, all no Ricky Piersoll McCaffrey was healthy, right,
and of course you're gonna give him the ball a
thousand times a game. But you're getting the same kind
of production, the same kind of stuff from Purdy you're
(02:46):
getting from mac Jones, who you know, you pay ten
million dollars a year or two, which it kind of
shows you what a great offensive coach Kyle Shanahan is.
But boy, you really mismanage the quarterback position and what
you had to pay a guy. Think the Niners, Well,
we have to pay brock Perty. We got we found him.
We found him for nothing, right, mister irrelevant. We found
the guy, and oh look what he is. What a
(03:07):
great story he is?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Boy? All right?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
And then you had your window, you had your window
to win, and you couldn't. And now you have to
pay him. And now you realize that, oh man, brock
Party maybe is a league average quarterback. Maybe he's a
league average quarterback. Now it's not just tonight, it's basically
what you've seen from Perdy when he's been healthy the
last season and now two thirds of a season compared
to what you got for mac Jones in a very
(03:30):
short amount of time, short amount of time with the
ones in the playbook this year.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Yeah, I think we're getting into difficulty with Purdy is
that the strength is supposed to be the ability to
push the ball down the field.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
The problem is he's a turnover machine.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
And for those that love to raise an eyebrow over
the league, what the hell was that play called by
Bryce Young on the one yard line one and a
half and you're throwing the ball you had all day
to run, he had a blocker out in front of him.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
What the hell are they doing?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
And basically in an opportunity for the Panthers to go
and claim a big piece after Tampa loses. But we'll
get to them in a minute. With the brock Purty
side of things, you're trying to push the ball, but
this is the fourth game he's played. Guess what multiple
interceptions in all of them, right, So the good and
the bad of it. When you're talking about air yards
(04:19):
and trying to stretch the field, give McCaffrey a little
more run, give Kittle a little more space to operate.
It's come with the downside. And in this case, you're
starting to see memes of pictures of party with the
caption I think J C. Horn is opened downfield, Ye
Jase York, but it is best receiver tonight. Come on, man,
he's found a guy. I mean he's on the other team,
(04:41):
but he's found a guy, finding him in space. There's
no question about it. But to your point, right, it's
the to some degree, it's the loyalty of a guy
that we found and he's our project guy. And look,
he was accomplished in college, had a good run at
Iowa State. We've seen all those receivers go on to
great prominence, all drafted by the same team. We watched
(05:02):
him play for the Houston Texans, uh the last couple
of weeks. But when we look at what Purdy is,
you're thinking, all right, with these weapons, with him on
the com, he'll get better, he'll get more efficient, will
maximize this window with these wide receivers. The AUK thing
is a whole other mess that needs like three hours
(05:24):
of dialogue and a bunch of PowerPoint presentations. But when
we look at what Purdy's done to date, Yeah, it's
it's hand ringing because you are in theory back towards
full strength.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
And yet it's looks just so inconsistent uh and inefficient.
And for Kyle Shanahan, he keeps making the excuses. Hey,
he's got to keep winging. It's like he just missed,
Like no, no, no, that's the margin of error in the
National Football League, just missing as an interception versus a completion.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, like, oh, we just missed. So what what what
does that mean? It means it means you missed. It
means you miss means you didn't get it. I mean, oh,
he just missed that game winning shot. Well, you know
lots of game winning shots you just missed. It means
they missed situation. In this case, it found your receiver's
hands or had found the defenders. And guess what, Generally
(06:16):
in the defensive backfield, what do we say, those are
the guys that are failed wide receivers. So when they
actually catch it, that means it was a really good
ball that you threw dirrectly to the Most of the time, now,
there's obvious exceptions that you can go through, and all
our Sundays are littered with tip balls that go as
interceptions for the quarterback where they put it in the
(06:36):
guy's chest, on their hands, whatever. None of those were
the case for Brockberty this evening, No and the Niners
go in for a touchdown. Here Christian McCaffrey runs it
in from twelve yards out, his first touchdown of the night,
to a seventeen to three lead. Look, the Niners defense
playing extremely well tonight. Bryce Young and the Carolina Panthers
(06:57):
can't do anything with the football. It's one of those
it's where the Niners are lucky. This is who they're
playing right like, okay, because it's really hard to overcome
three interceptions like this and still be up by two
scores in a game for all the Hey, Carolina, No,
Carolina is not really good Carolina. Once in a while
they're the definition of a five hundred team. But they're
(07:17):
probably not really as good as their record are now
last year.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
But it's the NFL in twenty twenty five, Jason is,
so that is they're great?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, six and five, we're fat. How bad does that
tell you? Like, teams like the Jets and the Raiders
are Man, Hey, we're great at six and five, what
are you at two and nine? Man?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
We can't even bring it up to us.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
But after the Tampa lost yesterday, all of a sudden
the door was open. Hey a big fire tonight. You got,
you know, go after your old guy. McCaffrey.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Here.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
By the way, he was minus three forty for at
any time touchdown today. I don't think I've ever seen
that no applies. Yeah, well, who I mean, who else?
They get close and they're gonna give it to what
every player, And I'd be like, why wouldn't you? Right,
he's got he's got sixteen rushing attempts, he's got seven
and catches tonight, like he's eighty percent of the offense.
He touched the part for the first five or six
(08:06):
stabs on that first possession. McCaffrey again, he's gonna.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Have seventy touches tonight. Now he's got he's gonna be
like Jamior Gibbs yesterday.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
He's got like twenty rushes and like fifteen receptions, Like
that's the day he's avage.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
But you know what, he's got an ice bath waiting
for him. He'll be just fine.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Look, they're at home against an overmatched opponent tonight, so
he can overcome these interceptions. But you know that that's
the whole thing. It's not that brock Purdy's bad, It's
that you really miscalculated just what his value is as
a quarterback, because I'm telling you put brock Purty a
bunch of other teams. He's not giving you what some
other quarterbacks are. But lots of guys could do this
on the forty nine ers, as you have seen Mac
Jones walk in after being a failed quarterback going hey,
(08:45):
I'm pretty good, And now the Niners had to go
to brock Purty as quick as possible because the more
mac Jones played and played well, the more you have
a quarterback controversy, and the more you look bad because
you did give brock Purty all that money and he's
sitting on your bed like we gotta put him.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Back out there. Okay, So you put him back out
is what you're getting.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
Well, maybe mac Jones is the lead. How about that
I turned that coin over ude.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I'm telling you Mac Jones twenty twenty six New York
Jets starting quarterback. I guarantee it. Guarantee it's gonna happen. Well,
I guarantee, you know.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
In the swirling winds of all the scuttle button around
Bill Belichick and why he wouldn't be hired again, some
of it is personnel stuff and talking about who he
trusted with decision making and bringing players along.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
There's a giant picture of.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Mac Jones in the middle of that and Matt Patricia
with the pencil behind his ear.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
And Belichick pointed out, this is the guy that got
me fired. This guy got me fired. This guy right here,
this guy right here. So we'll have more in this
game throughout again. A Panther's getting the ball back now here,
about four and a half to go in the third quarter.
Niners lead at seventeen to three. Meanwhile, we now know
who the number one quarterback is going to be at
least for another week in Cleveland, as Shador Sanders earlier
(09:56):
today was named the starter for the Browns next week,
even though Dylan Gabriel has cleared concussion protocol. Right now,
two big things on this because we talked about this
on Friday, and boy did we get this right. We
told you, look what Shador Sanders is going to do
against the Raiders number one. It's the Raiders number two.
He will have a handful of plays where he will
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play really where he will make really good decisions and
make really good throws. Right, the fifty nine yard throw
was a big one he had. That's the kind of
game he had. It's hard for me to watch all
the coverage day because, oh, Chador standers like the guy
didn't show up and go for three seventy and four touchdowns. Okay,
he was. He was good in spots and it was
the Raiders all right.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Man.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
As that pass he hit Dylan Samson with where Samson
then ran seventy four yards.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Count. Yeah, was he drinking wine?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
He saw he saw the act.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
He's drinking wine the whole way, all the way down
the field.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
He saw the yact. Right, it's all good, It's all yeah.
I saw.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
I saw that player was all count just the same look.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
We told you that was going to be the day
for Shador Sanders, and that's what it was. He wasn't unbelievable.
It was a great story. Dion there hugging him and
being excited. It really was.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
It was good.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
It was good to see the Browns have hope. Because
you needed to see him play at some point, and
now you have. And the correct decision was made to
give him another start. This was not a decision you
had to say, we're giving them the ball the rest
of the season. But he did enough to warrant another start. Now,
does this mean with a bad start, he's out.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I think what you've done here is okay, you've had
one good start. Now you see how next week goes.
And you do this on a weekly basis, not just
to make my Browns five quarterbacks prediction come true, which
is absolutely happening, but you know, but for the next week,
this was the right call that was made. He's the
starter for this week's tap the brakes. What Shador Sanders
earned was a chance to start again this Sunday. That's
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what fifth round picks do. They're not given they're not
given anything. And this was the right decision. The Browns,
who have completely slow played this and played this ridiculously
all year long, this has been the right call. He's
starting next week. You see how it goes, and you
go week by week after that. That's what Shador Sanders did.
That's what Shador Sanders earned.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
A great reminder that with a mediocre offense, they could
win some games when Miles Garrett is absolutely terrorizing quarterback
to quarterback to quarterback. But eight point four yards per
intended air yards per attempt, right now, that's what we
one of the big different and that's even with the
little swing passes. You know that big play down field
that you mentioned, the fifty nine yarder. Man, that's a
(12:25):
great throw right there. You take nothing away from that.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
He's a bunch of not making that.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
But that's the thing, right Dylan Gabriel came out.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
I think he was at like five point five point
nine yard and intended air yards attempt.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
That ties in with Aaron Rodgers and Kyler Murray. Let's
have that conversation. Great. No, no, not great, not great.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Which means a lot of extra work or you really
have to scheme the hell out of it to get
your receivers in running backs some clearance to make hay.
But when we look at what Schador did, he left
a lot of plays on the field. Do I love
the cut of his Some of the post game stuff
rub people.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
The wrong way.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
It's like, man, you just won your first start. You've
been waiting for the opportunity you're gonna be peacocky. Now
you gotta go back it up this week because you
gotta go do it again. But you know, he made
a couple of big throws, goes over two hundred and
nine yards, well past the over hundred that we established
and talked about on Friday, and it played out exactly
as we thought. Some great plays, some terrible plays, and
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the fact that the Raiders are really bad on both
sides of the ball really helps you in a big way,
and it takes nothing away from the performance. It's a
nice data point. Deshaun Watson being there as a mentor
was an odd look and something I don't think we
anybody anticipated seeing on the sidelines and all but curious
to see how that all flows.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
He might end up being your fifth man.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
He might end up being that fifth man you've been
waiting for at the back end of this conga line
of quarterbacks. But for the interim, there's no reason to
go back to Dylan Gabriel. You have proof of concept.
Go see what shed Door can do in an encore.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And now he's gonna get this San Francisco forty Niners
defense next week at home, so hey prove it there.
Maybe then you keep the job for another three weeks
or so through Tennessee, Chicago, Buffalo bit but.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
It's this was the right thing was done.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Nobody panicked, nobody went too crazy, nobody went too low,
nobody decided No, Dylan Gabriel's getting.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
The job back.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
This is how it should go, and it's going well.
Sometimes you just tip your cap and say, hey, the
right decision was made. Now we go forward, We go
forward from here. Yeah, I love a big hot take,
but this is this is really what it is.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, and you know, there's only one
game on the schedule less left of their home games
where they really need the help to sell tickets otherwise.
I mean, you got the forty nine Ers at home,
the Titans game is what I'm looking at. And then
you've got the Bills and the Steelers. Bills fans and
Steeler fans are gonna show up regardless whether she Doer's
there or not. So just trying to find some opportunity
(14:50):
saying get in there and sell, sell, sell exit.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
How about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Lot from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Ted McMillan. How about that on the end of a
thirty yard touchdown pass? Pretty easy, great pattern post end
zone open by five yards.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Bryce Young hits him.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
We now have a one score game in San Francisco,
seventeen to nine, extra point pending. We'll off more on
this game coming up next. NFL insider Jason Lock and
Forest stops by. What do you make of the big
Dallas comeback win? Is Lamar Jackson really really healthy? What
next for the Chiefs? All that and more next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 4 (16:46):
In San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Tech McMillan's touchdown makes it a seventeen to nine game,
Carolina not converting the extra point, so an eight point
lead for the forty nine ers. As we begin the
fourth quarter, already, Niners on the move. Christian McCaffrey simply
doing it all for the forty nine ers tonight. He's
got one hundred and thirty nine yards from scrimmage and
the Niners total have like one hundred and forty yards
(17:10):
from scrimmage. So this is where we signal of more
in this game coming up in a few minutes. But
joining us now on the hotline, nobody better to break
down all the big news in the NFL. Longtime NFL
Insider Odyssey one oh five seven the Fan in Baltimore,
Washington Post. Wanta bet it is Jason lock and for it, Jay,
what's happening man?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Happy Monday, Happy Monday, Happy early Thanksgiving? Happy rock pretty
Patrick Piday?
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Did you you had over?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You have?
Speaker 4 (17:41):
You have a three pit? What did you have? Four?
Or five? Haven'ty had for party tonight?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I didn't. I didn't play his interceptions. I probably should have.
I played his rushing, but I did not play his interception.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You played genos receptions.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
So hey, speaking of quarterbacks, le let's start here because
watching yesterday, Lamar Jackson just does not look right. And
I know he is I know he has said he
is healthy. I know he has said he has just
banged up. But Jay, this is this is more than
just he doesn't look right, like he can't break to
the outside at all. He can't, he can't, he can't
(18:22):
extend any plays like if he was playing, if they
were playing thirty other teams. Yesterday the Ravens lose instead
of but it's the Jets, so you get the Jets.
But boy Lamar just looks like he looks like he's
about sixty percent right now.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yes, that's exactly what. That's what, that's where I would
approximate it. And losing his legs has now thrown off
his mechanics and thrown off his fundamentals, and his ankles
aren't connected to his shoulders, and he his leverage on
his throws is off, and he's clearly compensating. Now they've
(18:54):
added a tow to the indur report, so we've got
it's been an ankle, it's been a handstrained, it's been
a name, now a toe. Who knows what it really is.
But it's not great. And they keep putting in there
with a more plotting running back in the backfield, and
it's not going anywhere. And there's no tempo, there's no pace,
(19:15):
there's no cadence to the offense, there's no confidence. They're
averaging four point seven yards per play in the first
half of games since we over the last seven games,
since Week five, there's a seven games stand where in
the first half of games. They've got four total offensive touchdowns,
just two passing touchdowns and those were both against Miami
(19:37):
on that Thursday Night the Mark Andrews where Miamian looked
like they wanted to play football. It's a bottom. It's
the worst red zone offense in the NFL. Air's a lot,
there's no explosives to be had. There's a lot of issues.
Now defense has gotten better, but I think what the
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defense is about to see Thursday night a whole lot
different than Caleb Williams down Earlyue and Pyrod Taylor in
his first start after Fields was benched, and Bill and
Gabriel and would probably turn out to be his last
NFL start, And I mean you can just go look
at what they but you know JJ McCarthy, So we'll
(20:18):
see the defense had better be real, real, real legit
because the offensive major problems.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Yeah, the return of Joe Burrow for that one Thursday
Night over under sitting at fifty one and a half
last I see no t Higgins but Jamar Chase coming
off the suspension and an apology, and he's five hundred
thousand dollars lighter. So curiosity of Joe Burrow and what
he brings in the table for sure.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah, I mean, you know there's obviously some variants there.
He's missed a lot of times. You know, they say
probably could have maybe played on Sunday, so they buy
him a few extra days. You know, I guess one
more quasi practice. But you know he's fiery a bloke
and he'll be fired up for this. And you know
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they were pissed off when the schedule came out that
they have to keep coming to bottom all on Thursday nights.
And now this isn't just any Thursday night, it's Thanksgiving night.
Kath Brown's having a hell of a season and he's
been a problem for the Ravens. I think Jamark Chase's
last two games against the Ravens has twenty one catches,
four hundred and fifty seven yards and five cuddies. So
(21:25):
there's that. Yeah, I'm not sure it's going to be
an all out what's creating over game because I think
Baltimore is going to try to run the ball if
they're not doing it that well. Because as much as
that defense has improved, they know it's kind of for
gazy because they haven't played anybody, and I don't think
they trust their offense right now to win. They shootout
with Cincinnati and maybe Burrow is a little rusty, but yeah,
(21:50):
it's an intriguing matchup. I mean, Cincinnati season is effectively over,
but obviously it's a huge game for the Raven.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Jay.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
When speaking of quarterbacks, We've got the news today that
Dylan Gabriel cleared from concussion protocol, but Shador Sanders will
stay the brown starting quarterback.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
What'd you make of what you saw yesterday?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Look, the kid is going to if anything, he hangs
in there too long and he took too many hits
in college to try to make too many plays. But
he's going to fling the ball around. He's going to
give dudes chances to have fun playing football. It's not
going to be let me run a three yard out
and turn around and see if this guy can throw
it within a country mile of my body. Like it's
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not that, and that's what it was. I mean, it's
just Dylan Gabriel. There's nothing about him that looked anything
close to an NFL quarterback. And I'm tucking even a
backup like it just it wasn't. And this kid has
got a much bigger arm and he will give guys
chances to make plays. And again, I think there's just
(22:56):
a different energy there because dudes are having fun. They
feel like I can go and maybe do my thing
and maybe have a highlight. You know, in this game,
it's raw, it's rough, but that's by design because the
coach takes lots his hate sutch. But I mean the
coach clearly didn't brings them to the football player, because
the coach cold barely bring him up to say his name,
let alone give the kids, you know, a half decent
(23:18):
rep here or there. So he's got a make up
for some lost time. But look, they'd go on thirteen
straight road games without winning. I mean that's just the fact.
And this kid makes his first NFL start and they
went on the road for the first time in the years.
So yeah, as he had tried to go back to
the other guy, it would have you would have heard
(23:40):
about it. I think for the.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Locker first Brown's quarterback to win his first start since
Eric Zeier back in nineteen ninety five, with Bill Belichick
on the sideline.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
On Thursday Kansas City, Dallas.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
You could take either side of that coin as to
what we're seeing every time the Chiefs are left for dead,
they resurrect.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Like a movie villain. Uh, and then you.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Got the Cowboys suddenly a little plucky in that second half.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah. I mean, I think it's just one of those
games that the Chiefs find a way to win. Dallas's
defenses improved, for sure, and the Chiefs have been horrible
on the road, but I just think they win. This team.
Hats off Dallas to win the game. I did not
think they were gonna win coming in, and I certainly
didn't think they were gonna win when the Eagles jumped
them like they did. And this is you know, yeah,
(24:27):
this Dallas team has a little more heart and a
little more moxy than we've seen. And Schottenheimer, I gotta
get him credit. He's doing a heck of a job.
And Jerry went about it in a weird way. But
this defense is better than last year's defense. I believe that. Now,
if you had added a real d tackle and kept
Michael Parsons you know what she's got all the world,
(24:50):
then you might actually be a playoff team. Like then
you you might have could have actually been something. Now
it's just typical, you know, Cowboys. H That's a game
I don't think it's a shootout either. I think that's
an under game. The Chiefs have become a dead under team.
Chiefs are the highest under the tide for the highest
under eight on the road since the start of last season.
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I think Spags will make the Cowboys run the ball
against the Shells and not give them the easy quick
hitters that Frankly, I was shocked the Eagles gave them
and the comeback. I think Dackle Philip Pick along the way,
and this is not Vintag's Mahomes right now. The Red
beat the chief Reds on offense on the road in
particular is a disaster, and it was a disaster at
home on Sunday. So I just think it's one of
(25:36):
those games that Andy Reid AND's Fags and Mahomes find
a way to win, but it might not be all
that aesthetically pleasing along the way.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
NFL insider Jason Locking for our guest here, Jason Smith
Mike harmon Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
All right, can you make sense of the Eagles?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
They come out House of Fire, score their first three possessions,
then suddenly that's like they stopped playing after the first quarter.
Like I always got to execute our offense to win
this game. Can you make sense of them?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I think it almost came too easy. I do. And
I think they thought we're going to score forty four
without breaking the sweat and there's no way these you know, Jimokes,
you're going to come back on our defense the way
it's playing right now, And I get it. I would
have been taking a lot of the same stuff. I
don't know. I still think they're a really good football
team that they don't do that very often ate and
(26:26):
the past game is coming along. And look with with
the injuries to the offensive line and Saquon looking like
a guy who's coming off a two thousand yard season,
which usually the next twyear is tough. They're going to
have to throw the ball and the quarterback is going
to have to put it out there and let people
make plays on a little bit more, and he can't
be quite as conservative. And I you know, I think
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they'll be able to throw the ball on the bear
some so I think Devonte Smith and the slot against
that defense is going to be somebody who catches the
quarterbacks high quite a bit. I think them going back
home after a loss like that, I don't know if
they covered but I think they win the game, and
I think they'll be a force to be reckoned with
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in the playoffs, in large part because of the defense.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Yeah, I gotta think that the run chart for Saint
Kawan Barkley looks a little better than minus two one,
minus two three, all of those that you actually get
some juice there. Now, if we stipulate that the Rams
are the best team in football right now, do we
just fill out with record with the Broncos and Patriots
to finish out the metal standard?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
You got somebody else in your eyes?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I mean, I think the Broncos and the Eagles are
probably the other teams that I would probably put in
that tier in Seattle. You know, if I trusted Sam
Doong a little more, I could maybe get there with
Seattle because I like pretty much everything else about them.
I can't. I just doing what hasn't really twitted body.
(28:00):
You know, they're best winners against Buffalo. Buffalo is bubbles,
a patently mediocre football team. So yeah, I can't. I
can't put it like Baltimore. We covered, They've got a
lot of issues right now. You know, the Chargers I
liked until the line got wiped out again. I mean,
(28:22):
I put Kansas City in Seattle kind of sniffing around
there just because the teacher cockroaches. They're not dead un
till they're ever totally dead. And I don't know how
many teams have the right like Concox and the Raid
to spray them en up and make them actually flip
over and stay dead. But I I do. I I yeah.
(28:43):
If I you know my talent rankings, I think it's
the Rams. And then sort of clustered around them is
Denver and Philadelphia in large part because of the defensive
and then there's a cluster of you know, five to
seven other teams.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
You He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four That
is at Jason lock and four also at wanta bet
Washington Post one of five seven, the fen in Baltimore
Odyssey j as always, Buddy, appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
Man.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Thank you, guys.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Thanks to have a good holiday, buddy.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Thanks. All right, So there we go.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
The Niners have the football after picking off Bryce Young.
They continue to lead this game twenty to nine. Time
how to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from someone who's been called the Philadelphia Eagles
of Fox Sports Radio. Huh, he shows up and does
great in the beginning, then he just mails it in
the rest of the way.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
It's Steve the Sagy.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Wow, what a council of it.
Speaker 8 (29:37):
My goodness, we had five interceptions in this game at
San Francisco tonight. The Niners are ahead of Carolina twenty
to nine. Now, San Francisco had a great opening drive
to start the evening. It was nearly nine minutes worth
fifteen plays, seventy two yards. Brock Purty a touchdown pass
of twelve yards to Juwan Jennings, Party, then through three
(29:59):
and inters the rest of the first half. In the
last couple of years in the NFL, only one other
quarterback has thrown at least three interceptions in the first
half of a home game, and that was brought Party,
also on a Monday night game against the Ravens a
couple of years ago. Party right now one hundred and
eighty five yards passing Christian McCaffrey twenty carries seventy nine
(30:21):
yards and a touchdown. He's been targeted seven times and
has seven receptions for another fifty three yards. Bryce Young
won touchdown two interceptions. The TD pass was late third
quarter twenty nine yards to rookie Tep McMillan, twenty to
nine San Francisco leads because although the Panthers did kick
the extra point after that McMillan touchdown, well, there was
(30:42):
a defensive penalty, so they said, why not go for
two if you're going to give us the linescrivage at
the one. Yeah, that pass failed, so twenty to nine
for the home team. Browns quarterback Dylan Gabriel was cleared
to play, but Shador Sanders will start again Sunday against
the forty nine Ers. Gabriel is out of concussion proto
the Vikings places quarterback JJ McCarthy in concussion protocol. Backup
(31:05):
QB Max Brosmer will take the first team reps in practice.
Bucks quarterback Baker Mayfield has a sprain left shoulder, but
it's called a low grade sprain with no long term concerns.
Teddy Bridgewater would start this Sunday for Tampa Bay against
the Cardinals if Mayfield can't play. The New York Giants
fired defensive coordinator Shane Bowen. The Raiders promoted Greg Olsen
(31:25):
to interim offensive coordinator after firing Chip Kelly on Sunday night.
Washington quarterback Jaden Daniels will return to practice this week,
but he hasn't been cleared for contact yet after a
left elbow dislocation three weeks ago. The Saints are reportedly
trying out two kickers, Cade York and Justin Tucker, whose
suspension is over. Blake Groupie missed two field goals on Sunday.
(31:48):
Eagles rookie safety Andrew mccouba will reportedly have surgery for
a broken ankle. New England rookie tackle Will Campbell is
believed to have a sprain to mcl and there.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Right, Stee, So you're telling me is TJ.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Groupie may no longer be with the band at this
time next week.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
J That was actually pretty good.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I'll tell you he got the actually nice. That's that's
a guy who has heard me do that so many times. Oh,
it's a good one.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
No, that's a good one, kind of like Berman himself.
Three games in the NFL this Thursday on Thanksgiving. The
late game on Thursday is Cincinnati at Baltimore, and Bengals
quarterback Joe Burrow is expected to play after the toe injury.
Bud wide receiver t Higgins is out with a concussion.
There is one game on Black Friday, streaming only unless
(32:38):
you're in Chicago or Philadelphia. That's Chicago at Philadelphia and
this Saturday on Fox TV number one, Ohio State at
number fifteen Michigan. Detroit's Pistons won their thirteenth straight game tonight.
Toronto won it's eighth in a row, Miami it's fifth
straight win. And the next one at Brooklyn won thirteen
one hundred, Carl Anthony Towns thirty seven points. Brooklyn is
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three and fourteen.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. Thirty seven in
a row in a row.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Absolute test coming up next. We'll keep you posted on everything.
Monday Night football still twenty to nine, forty nine ers
with the lead midway through the fourth quarter, but straight ahead.
We had two big collapses yesterday and two coaches paid
for it with their jobs today. That's next, right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Ah wait, Jason, I think Notre Dame just scored again.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
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Speaker 7 (33:38):
Here he goes across the forty now over midfield, hits the.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Jets of the forty thirty twenty Tenny's gonna go all
the way.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Shaim alive. He's the best player in the country. Sixty
eight yards itit's his third touchdown of the game.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Send that man.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
To New York.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
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Speaker 3 (34:21):
Should extra cockfight what Frostbury.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
We didn't have the seventieth point from Notre Dame.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
No, we did not. We stopped rolling at fifty six nine.
The fact that we got to that point was surprising
to me. I would have thought after twenty one or
twenty eighth they we know we were rolling down to
fifty six nothing because Syracuse could have come back at
any point.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Mike Hey, when we Hey, when we made it. We
scored with a few seconds left. How do we not
go for two? I mean, you're down seventy to six,
Go for two, Go for two, Go for.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
Why did you just take kes and just be done
for two?
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Go for two.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I can't tell you how embarrassing this was Saturday to
watch this. I really Notre Dame up twenty one nothing
before they even got the football. This looks like it
looked like one of those games from one of those
football movies where the ragtag team just gets absolutely worked
in the first half and they're down like forty two
to nothing, but then the star player shows up the
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beginning of the second half and everybody starts playing great.
But I mean, two pick six is in a block
punt for a touchdown? I looked up seriously. I looked
this up when it was thirty five nothing and Notre
Dame was in the Syria inside the Syracuse five yard
line with a minute left to go in the first quarter,
and I said, oh, my goodness, has anybody ever scored
forty two points in the first quarter of a game
in FBS history? And I googled it, and AI said,
(35:36):
we cannot find an instance of the football team scoring
forty two points in the first quarter of an FBS
game the most recent time, and they talked about thirty
five points and then it goes back to and the
most lopsided score of all time was Georgia and Cumberland,
which was two hundred and twenty two to nothing. Yes, yes,
the most famous blood ever. And I said to myself,
at least Syracuse avoided that. When Notre Dame got tackled
(35:59):
at the one and time ran out of the first quarter,
I said, well, at least it's gonna be thirty five
nothing and not forty two to nothing after the first quarter.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Yeah, I am about a morbid curiosity. Looked at the
live line. At one point it was minus sixty three.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Yeah, dude, I turned my phone off.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
So you got a push with the first.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
When the end of the first quarter happened, I tweeted
that out and I turned my phone off.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
I can't not.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
To hear stuff from everybody else going, wow, are you
watching this?
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
I do not need you to tell me how deep
the ocean is. I know what's going on. I'm seeing
it's in front of me. But that's that's.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Where you got to have your pre written, you know,
thousand words on how miserable is your life that you're
taking time to send me this note when you know
my team sucks.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I mean, right, Hey, Jason's having a craptastic day. Let
me just make sure he's having a worse one by sending.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Him a text. Hey, how's it going. You're watching the game? Yes,
I'm watching the game. We stink. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Maybe we were probably good not giving fran Brown a
contract extension, because I don't know what the hell he's
done the last eight weeks.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I really don't.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
There's a lot of coaches out there looking for employment.
A lot of guys been in the firing line, coordinators,
head coaches, you name it. The carousels alive and work,
and so who knows.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Well, listen, you bring that up, right, you bring up
And we had two coordinators that were fired today in
the NFL. Chip Kelly relieved of his duties as Raiders
offensive coordinator. They paid after eleven games, they fired him.
They paid him six million dollars a year to get
him out of Ohio State. And already the Chip Kelly
era is done. I went to one of the greatest
moves of all time.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
He got six million dollars to probably just throw pencils
up in his ceiling like he was David Letterman.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
He didn't seem to care. Hey, how you gotta win?
I get it. He didn't seem like he was too
broken up about got win.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I mean, I'd say it's embarrassing, but it's the Raiders.
What else do you expect embarrassing goes to the territory.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Now you got Gino flipping off fans, and you know
he got chesty after last week and this Like I'm
Chip Kelly, I'm going all after hitting you know how
many hours.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
He spent at the facility. Nothing, I'll tell you, chip Kelly. Look,
the Raiders are there great Quinn Essentially, they are great
for we get players that are past their prime, right,
that's who they've always done. And sometimes they used to
be able to catch lightning at a bottle and go,
Look we got a guy who's who you know, everybody
is cast him aside, and look, he could be a
star for us for three years. It's how he won
(38:27):
super Bowls in the seventies, right in the eighties. But
like Chip Kelly is like the latest example, he's ten
years past his prime.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
He was like a guy you needed to get, Like
in the mid.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Two twenty tens when he became when he's the head
coach of the Eagles, he was being like, he's like
ten years past his prime. He was great in college
last year. But clearly Ohio State's offense is great no
matter who's calling the plays. Like, but like Chip bringing
Chip Kelly and it's like you're ten years out of
date with that, man. I mean, I get that you're
you're in tune with who you are as the optics
(38:57):
for with the Raiders bringing in people you know years
after they were good.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
But wow, man, coaches didn't think that would happen.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Yeah, Julian saying currently plus three eightyes, second and Heisman
odds right now. Mind Mendoza ahead of your guy, Jeremiah
Love at five to one. But yeah, the Raiders averaging
fifteen points per game right down there with the noll
In Saints. Even the Titans have averaged slightly higher a
scochi higher point per game total than these Raiders. Should
(39:28):
Chip Kelly have just held the door for Pete Carroll
to clear out his office while he was at it, Man,
not your.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Time's up too, I think Pete's got another year. I mean,
maybe not more than that. I think Pete's probably got
another year being with a new quarterback. Most likely you
know who doesn't have another year as everybody.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
In New York. Now that's fair.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That's the other thing today, Right when you saw Shane
Bowen get fired Giants defensive coordinator who presided over yet
another collapse, right, Mike Kafka trying to show that, Hey,
I can be the guy here.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
I'll look, I'm making a big move.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
I'm getting rid of my defensive coordinator so I can
win the last six games and be the new head coach.
Not happening, right, Everybody's gonna be new in New York
next year, and it's gonna be the opening of the offseason.
You have the best chance to succeed.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
You have the.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Talent, and you have an owners who will give you
fair patience to get it done. Look how long they
stuck with Brian Dable Giants. Is gonna be the best
opening in all of the NFL.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
The end of the year, you got my league neighbors
tweeting and deleting. I mean, like all this great stuff
out there. Yeah, telling you man, that's what happens. You
get fired. One door closes and another one. That's a
new bit tweeting and deleting. We say something absolutely outrageous
and then delete it and see how viral it goes.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Everybody on this Giants coaching staff is done do everybody
has done.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
No one is coming back. Everybody's ye Now.
Speaker 6 (40:43):
Jamis wants to be a tight end. So like we
got more man, we got chaos.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Coming up next, we get into the biggest upset, come
from behind win of the weekend and what it means
for both teams. Keep it right here, that game of
the week. We break it down next Jason and Mike.
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