September 9, 2025 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react live to the first Monday Night Football game of the season as JJ McCarthy makes his Vikings debut against the Bears. NFL Insider Jason La Canfora drops by to give the state of the Baltimore after the Ravens collapse against the Bills on Sunday night. Plus, the Dolphins may be even worse than we thought!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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that's true. And Mike Tomlin called him a serial kill.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah yeah yeah, pulse.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
You know.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Here's the thing. Here's the thing, just really quick. I've
seen that movie so many times in my life. Midway
through the fourth quarter, I knew how it was gonna end.
I knew when the Jets went for two in the
first half and didn't get it. I said, they're gonna
lose because of that, because again, I've seen that Jets
movie my entire life. The ending doesn't change, doesn't change.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You know what, Though the first two acts were much
better than what you've seen, yes most years, at least
the first time, just like Hollywood movies, though they couldn't
finish the third act and give you the big payoffs.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No I am, I am, I look, I am just
I am embarrassed that they lost like that to Rogers
to make him because Rogers wasn't great. He looked a
little bit better than he was, but it was still
the best game he's played in two years. And Rogers
gets to come back in and win a game, and
I'm just embarrassed that that's how it turned out. Like
I'm like Aaron gled I have no time for moral victories,
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which is what's why I love Aaron Glen. I got
no time for this. I got time for the mistakes
and all of this and fumbles and all kinds of
crazy ass stuff. No, I don't don't have time for that.
I'm just I'm embarrassed that they lost. And as soon
as as soon as we got to the fourth court,
I said, this is how this game is gonna end.
This is exactly his game, and I knew Buzzle is
gonna make that sixty yard field for sure. They needed
to rush it more. I get that they kind of
(02:07):
hung back a bit like, no, you can't let guys
kick it from sixty.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Anymore's gonna make him. You don't want to have a
penalty and move it closer. No, you gotta get after that,
because this is how kickers are, right, And it was
still the Jets kind of.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, we're gonna go halfway after it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Everybody's playing super tow on an NFL. It all started
with Janakowski and it continues today, literally today.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
So we'll have more on the Jets. Good Rogers, Rogers, Rogers.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But obviously we jump right intonight as we do every
Monday Monday Night football. Eleven and a half to go
on the third quarter. It is a seventeen to six
lead for the Chicago Bears over the Minnesota Vikings. This
is a tale of two quarterbacks. Let's deal with your
guy first. Sure, Caleb Williams, who wait a minute, but
wait a minute, I thought he was so bad and
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he couldn't he couldn't hit the net with the ball
in training camp, that day.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I thought he was terrible. I thought he was awful.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I told you everything is gonna be fine. I told
you he was gonna have a big year. Everything is fine.
He's thirteen out of nineteen so far. Tonight he's run
for thirty yards in a touchdown. I told you, I
told everything. Caleb Williams is gonna be fine.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
No, no, he's dead. But look at that thing with
the net. It looks awful.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
He's gonna be fine. Here he is. He's got a quarterback,
friendly head coach, and this is a pretty good Vikings
team and a pretty good Vikings defense. But Caleb Williams
looks okay. He's making the right decisions. Everything is going
Fine's not turn the ball over. It's been enough offense.
It's the first game.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
It's rusty. You don't have a lot going on in
the preseason. But Caleb Williams looks fine. Apparently after maybe
what's gotta do is miss nets in practice all the
time in the preseason. He was gonna be fine.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Here he is all right.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I know everybody was so nervous, But now, don't you
feel good? I told you he was gonna be I
just chuckle right.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And then right ahead of the season beginning, we get
the big story that dropped and a guy getting a
lot of run because he talked to some fired ex
coach that are salty and want to put all.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Blame on Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
He was aloof he didn't want to do in meetings,
they asked him questions and he just stared him down
and all of that fun stuff. Ben Johnson's like, I
don't know what happened last year, and every chance he
gets an opportunity, he's like, I've been here. I only
know what's going on now and how hard he's working.
So somewhere in there the truth lies. And today there's
been a couple of opportunities where it looked like Williams
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may have had shots downfield but checked down, but got
the ball out, made the completion, not taking the sacks
as opposed to a year ago where it was hey,
I'm still the fastest guy out here. I can outrun
and evade would be tacklers. No, that didn't happen, and
he took a lot of sacks. Yeah, I gave him
an interceptionless streak, but holding the ball doesn't do you
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much good. You know, playing behind the sticks today, getting
the ball out. You see the completions early and often,
and for Ben Johnson, it's exactly what he wants. Don't
take the negative plays, keep things pushing and keep that
Flores defense at bay.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And that's what they've been able to do.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Not running the ball effectively with Swift, but he's been
good as a receiver out of the backfield, and Caleb
making plays with his legs himself, including that touchdown scamper,
so all good things. The aggressiveness on fourth down to
a shoe taking points in the first half is one
of those that you raise the eyebrow. But evidently that's
the identity that's going to carry over from their time
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in Detroit. So you move forward, you get the pick six,
and here we are.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Everything is fine.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Listen, listen, listen to the beginning of a new year
for Caleb Williams and the touchdown that really sparked all
a change in the conversation about the Bears quarterback half
back pressure.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Pick it up by Tony rolling left. William's got green
Russ turn bite tack for the Endzie, throw them up,
will you Babby? Touchdown touchdown Bears hey yard touchdown Scrabble.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Bears Radio Network on the call. See, you were nervous,
you were nervous about me say all these good things.
And you said, oh, you're telling me you are a
good feeling everything. I told you everything was gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, I did it in a mocking tone for the
way it got covered nationally.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Checking if the NFL was about throwing the ball into
a small basket in preseason, Caleb Williams would not be
a quarterback. I would recommend.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, I tell you know, not for today.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I mean there were a couple of the throws as
I mentioned that, he would have had to put it
in those little windows, and he chose the check down.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, he's not been grant. I'd say he's not been great,
but he's been fine. He has moved the team, he's
not made mistakes. He looks, he looks confident back there
in the pocket. It's not like the last six games
last year it was three steps back going oh my god,
here comes a rush.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
He his his body language is a lot better during
the plays. In between plays of that.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Caleb Williams is fine. Yeah, I'm not I'm not worried
about it. It's a long, long process.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
As we've talked about, it's ay, but I'm I'm the
pragmatist in a world of hot take nonsense, right because
right now in Minnesota, I'm sure people are burning up
their keyboards with what they've seen from JJ McCarthy. We'll
get to him in a second. But for Caleb Williams,
right the referendum, especially with that story dropping this weekend
and all of the you know, different iterations and back
(07:15):
trying to back up as to what a train wreck
he was a year ago and taking no responsibility as
a coaching staff that if he didn't play well today,
you add fuel to the fire, because both locally and nationally,
the wolves are at the door. For Caleb Williams, I
don't know what it translates to a win loss record,
but we know it's a process.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
He's back under center, trying to do play action passes.
He's never done that before. So to think that you're
gonna go week one against Brian Flores in this Minnesota defense, no,
Harrison Smith, fine, but that you're gonna go and you're
gonna play perfect football.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
No, You're you're not going to.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's gonna be choppy at times and over the next
couple of weeks. I would expect that as well. But
if he and Ben Johnson had the relationship that they
both seem to be selling us, then over time, by
mid season, you'll see a much different Chicago offense that
will operate at a different level of efficiency. So that's
Caleb Williams. Everything is fine. Now how about the other guy?
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Watch the snap, gets it fullhouse, plets throwing out to
the left, It picked up down the sideline, right to.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
The forty yard line.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
He is history Berry, leave me the Vikings that tail
lights into the end zone for the touchdown. Touchdown, Bears
had a pick six per.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Nation right, there was Bears Radio Network again JJ McCarthy tonight.
Five out of nine for forty eight yards and a pick.
These are up to date stats. This is not half hit.
Refresh on my computer, no, no, no, long done of
those five out of nine for forty eight yards and
a pick. Now, you pick the school of thought that
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you want to go through, because no matter how you
cut this up right, I'll give you the sunny side
up part of it, right, which is not the part
I believe the sunny side part is. And he does
he looks like a guy that hasn't played football in
a while, right, I mean, because remember, this is not
a guy coming out of college that hey give him
the keys to the offense. He has not played a
game in well over a year, right, You're you're talking
about a long time, nearly almost two years. You're talking
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about a game from so it's been a long time
since he's been under centered. Yes, he's had time preseason
joint practices, but it's different when the lights go on
on Monday night and it's your first time throwing the
football and you're doing it when everything is real. So
there is that because there is some of that for
JJ McCarthy, and I see that sometimes in a little
bit of his his you know, the way his eyes
are moving and looking across the field. But the more
(09:37):
apt thing to say is you sure you got the
right guy? You sure you got the right guy? Because
it's not like JJ McCarthy came into the NFL as
a can't miss guy. And this is where we talked
about how the decision making process of the Vikings can
go doubly bad if McCarthy's not good. Because mccarth, look,
I told you from the beginning McCarthy is someone who
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is overdrafted. He was never asked to win games at Michigan.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I told you nobody's watched more Michigan games less thirty years.
And I'm unless you coach the team, and even then
you're out because you're not coaching for thirty years.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
McCarthy was never asked to be the guy. He was
asked to be the head of the Snake and Michigan
with a loaded team to win the National Championship. You
see all the guys that went to the NFL the
last couple of years. McCarthy was a good college quarterback.
But I can't tell you one game where I say
Michigan won because of him.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
And you can.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Only try to try to make it happen for a
guy and say, oh, his skills will transfer to the
next level so much and so far tonight, I've not
seen it. Now again, it's two and a half quarters
of his first game. And there's that's why, my mom,
I'm gonna say, all the guy's terrible after this. But
understand that if this goes bad for the Vikings, it's
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not just we got it wrong with a quarterback, it's
we had a guy and we said, no, we had
a guy who we were hoping JJ McCarthy would turn into.
We had a guy with thirty five touchdowns and four
thousand yards, and we went thirteen and four last year
and we said.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, you know, we have this other guy though that
hasn't thrown a pass for us that we really like. Yeah,
but I just with thirty five touchdowns, four thousand yards. Yeah,
but the last two games kind of were in his God. Yeah,
but you saw the whole season was I'm a Pro
Bowl quarterback. Like three guys go from the conference, and
I was like a legit selection, like not one of those. Hey,
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seven guys said they don't want to play. And I'm
the guy that I'm not Snoop Huntley pro bowling it here,
I am legitimately pro bowling it.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
This is how it gets so much worse. And you know,
all Vikings fans right now, that's all their thinking, right
because it's a Monday night. It's different when you suck
Sunday afternoon at one o'clock than we suck Monday night
at eight thirty. And suddenly it's all these guys, all
these we could have had, We could have had Sam Darnold. Again,
we could have gone back in with this and look
at where you're at right now. Okay, your leading receiver
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is Jalen Naylor, who caught one pass at the end
of the first half. That's it, justin Jefferson. One pass
on three targets. This has been an abysmal start for
the Vikings, and again it's doubly worse because of the
fact you kick Sam Donald to the curb, which accelerates
all the negativity and all the bad things going around
Minnesota with this quarterback. So remember when he and the
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Vikings went down in the playoffs. I raised my hand
here you were with me. To a degree of everybody
wanted to just put it on Sam Donald. Well that's
the guy that couldn't do this that the other and
nobody wanted to point a finger at Kevin O'Connell except
for this guy. In terms of game plan, down distance
and how they came into that game. How did you
not figure out what Ben Johnson has done? And I
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know Darisaw is not there, he wasn't there last year?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
How did you not figure out a system whereby you
found some easy throws from early right? Dennis Allen is
no slouch, right, as much a we talk about Brian
Flora is from the defensive coordinator angle. Bears have done
a good job of getting pressure it and getting him
off his spot and making him work a little bit.
But you didn't up any easy throws getting Jefferson involved early, right,
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you had? The pick six was a pass intended for Jefferson,
clearly miscommunication, right, he's expecting him to stop instead, he's
five yards up the field and it's an easy run
back for the touchdown, but putting it on his shoulders.
You don't have enough of a run game just yet.
And Jordan Mason's had a couple of nice runs. Aaron
Jones is a decent receiver out of the backfield still,
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but you haven't done anything to make it easy for him.
And with Sam Donald and those numbers from a year ago, Yeah,
I mean, it's it's a much less vocal crowd than
what would happen in Chicago if the Bears came out
in Stone. But it still needs to be asked, right,
right guy, how quickly things get get torn asunder and
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whether the genius tag starts to come off O'Connell a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yeah, I mean, look, Remember it's it's always worse we do.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
We had a most support position, and we had him,
and we found a way to convince ourselves let's not
keep him. Let's go with the guy that hasn't really
thrown a pass for us. No, no, he's our guy.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Like you think. Sometimes we just really outthink ourselves. And
again it's a but JJ McCarthy, they have seventy seven
yards of offense. Man, this is midway through the third quarter.
All right, this is midway through the third quarter. Seventy
seven yards of us. I mean maybe the whole thing
is they'll get arch Manning. Can you imach up the
number one pick next year and saying no, no, no, we
have JJ McCarthy. Will let somebody else take arch Manning.
(14:25):
Now that would be interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Now you're really creating chaos theory here after two and
a half quarters.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I love that we're.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Gonna draft Caleb Downs instead and let the number two
team go get arch Manning.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Right now, we're talking absolutely chaos theory here.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
We're not even through the third quarter here.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But but it does raise the interesting point of you know, look,
I always talking about the dollar cost average and give
your quarterback position McCarthy's a cheap option year two of
his rookie deals, still coming off a big injury and
trying to work his way back, all reports positive, whatever,
and you would have had to pay Sam Darnold quite
a bit of money, right You saw what he was
able to sign for in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
You didn't see much of that on the field in
week Awe. See what I did there?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I tried to prop him up, and at the same
point I had to take a shot at him because
outside of JSN, I don't think we saw another receiver.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
They were all, you know, invisible.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, they were like the void running around in Uh
you know that that movie with Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
He's like this marble thing.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
He's like the lonely end from like you know, Army
in like nineteen forty six. He's the one guy we
have out there at receiver.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
He's just running, he's running wind sprints, so all of that.
But when you do the dollar cost averaging could have
kept them around. Not that you love the situation if
you're Kirk Cousins in Atlanta, but you're still getting paid
and eventually someone's gonna call come calling. The Vikings had
the opportunity to try to keep Sam around, would have
had to.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Pay a little bit more. I get it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
But you have a guy where you have proof of
concept of what he can do in your offense and
he can help McCarthy alot.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Or could have franchised him.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
That's the point, right, We could keep could cut both
of you.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Could it, could have done it again.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
He could have done it for a year and again
he becomes a valuable trade show if mccar if and
when McCarthy guests year. Now, obviously we are really going
hot take theory here towards the end of the third quarter, but.
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Speaker 4 (16:24):
Still seventeen to six Bears with the lead getting late
in the third quarter. We'll keep you updated on that.
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Fox Sports Radio Studios. Two and a half to go
in the third quarter, Bears on the move. Caleb Williams
just scrambles for a first down. Bears lead at seventeen
to six again, two thirty two left to go. Here
in the third quarter, Bears on the move first and
ten at the Vikings thirty four yard line. This comes
after a drive where they finally look like they converted
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a third down. Did the Vikings third and two. They'd
been averaging in nine point nine yards on average. They
were zero for seven past the Adam Thielen, welcome back
to Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
He drops it.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, So another punt and now you have the scramble
followed by a big run by DeAndre Swift and here
we are.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
You finally get one of three good passes on the
nights from McCarthy and he drops us.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, puts it out his head and Ali and then
he did the head tilt and everything. It's like, no, no, no, no, no,
you don't get to do that.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Joining us now on the hot line. We'll get to
this game coming up in a couple of minutes. Because
I really he joins us every Monday. He's a longtime
friend of the show. He's on Twitter at Jason lockinfora Odyssey,
Washington Post one oh five seven, the fan in Baltimore
again in Baltimore. I mainly just want to make sure
you're okay after last night. Jay, I assume you didn't
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get any sleep and you've been rocking Red Bulls for
the last twenty four hours, all through your radio show
and everything today. Make sure you're okay right now.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
I'm good. I'm going burden John Harball. Okay, No, my
pockets are straight off of that game. So all right,
but I saw don't know Lamar and Derrick Henry and
the over. It's a very very good care of me.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, but what you know, following your Twitter last night,
I say, okay, so a little bit. Yes, it took
care of you pocket pocketbook wise, but you've been on
a big it's super Bowl or bust. Like Horrorball's out
if they don't get Harbor should be out after last night,
if they don't.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Get to the super Bowl. I do at this point,
you can't have this stuff drag. You know, we're now
in the parts of Sins twenty twenty one. They've been
blowing these games and doing historically significant I get accomplishments
on the failure side of things, and you know, the
quarterback is generational, and the front office thinks they've got
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the best roster in football. Again. I would say they're
they're way full of themselves too, and they're not as
good as they think. And there's nobody on that team
who anybody's going to look at and say, oh, that
guy scares me as a pass rusher. There just isn't.
I mean, Mike Green will will get there at some
point in time. I don't think it's going to be
particularly soon. So I think they've got more wards and
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blemishes than they're willing to admit. And they don't want
to pay for certain position groups, which I think is
a problem. But this coach has overseen epic collapse after
epic collapse after epic collapse. He's gone through different coordinators,
he's gone through different players, but it's systemic. You look
back at these games now and again, it spans year
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a year, for a year, double digit fourth quarter leads,
you know, double and triple score leads with with you know,
five minutes or less left. It's it's ridiculous. And there's
special team's mistakes, and there's offensive mistakes, and there's defensive mistakes,
and they just collectively come out small. They bring out
low i Q football in each other, and at some
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point you got to change what's going on with the messaging.
You got to change what's going on with the preparation.
You got to change what's going on with the macro
level decisions like that cowardly pathetic part last night, or
whatever the hell was going on on special teams with
twelve guys on the field, or whatever the hell was
going on rushing the rookie kicker and not managing clock
at the end of the half, or whatever the hell
(21:24):
was going on where you know that at the end
of the first half, Allen is throwing to a boundary,
yet somehow, you know, you don't keep that ball that
are in, you know, at whatever tight end it was
in the field to play you cannot get out of
bounds there to their inability to make plays as a
defense in the fourth Quarner. So yeah, I think and
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I didn't like his rhetoric, and you know, his messaging
coming into the season where he's saying, you clowns who
never played the game, don't understand super Bowl or Boston,
there's no such thing as Super Bowler bust and sort
of saying, you know, sort of alluding to the football
gods and things out of their control. And I just
thought it was kind of pathetic excuse making before the
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season has even started. At the same time, players are
admitting that, yeah, we're not getting where we should go
because we keep undermining ourselves like we're our own worst enemy.
And then the coach is coming out saying, I think,
you know, it's ridiculous to say super bowler buss Like,
I don't know, man, I think a lot of people
who are too comfortable around here, and it manifests itself
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at the worst possible times in the most critical times.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Well, that's you know, kind of sentiment about you know, players,
non players will get your desk somewhere.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
But we'll talk about that another time. Yeah, let's stay
in division.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Earlier in the day, Can Aaron Rodgers do a seventeen
game revenge store?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
No, he cannot. There were some impressive things obviously in
that game, but that's not a replicable game script for Pittsburgh. No,
it's kind of cool to know that's there. But you're
not going to get a sixty yard field goal every week.
You're not going to get that many points every week.
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You're not going to get that many short intermediate passers
that turn into big, big things, and you're sure as
hell better not be letting teams like the Jets. I
thirty two in you every week, so you know, I
feel like the Bengals and the Steelers both like survive, advance, escape,
but also you know, maybe not a red flag, but
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but a blinking amber light. You know about some things
better change there pretty quickly, because I think you know,
both kind of got away with one there against the
kind of teams they're going to want to beat weekend
week out.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Jason locking Forward with us A, Jason Smiths with Mike
Carmon Love from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,
so tell me, tell me your pockets for full because
you bet Daniel Jones to have the game of his
life yesterday.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I stayed off that one man, and honestly full disclosure.
If you would they and me bet something in that game,
I may have gone Miami money line, just because I
really didn't know what to make of that Colts offense,
and I did lean under. I didn't think it'd be
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quite that far under. But you got to know I'm
not bullish on Miami at all. I don't buy them.
I wrote it to Washington Post about their situation of
probably about six seven weeks ago. You know, people in
this league definitely expect Mike McDaniel to be the first
coach fired, and that was before that debacle. You know,
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keeping Tyreek Hill in that locker room was asinine. Building
a team skill position out, you know as skill positions
starting instead of building it from the inside out was stupid.
Some of these contracts have been stupid. They've gotten weaker
at the point of attack on both sides of the ball,
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and they just come up small and in any kind
of a big spot to come up incredibly small. And
for them starting this season off with all they had
hanging over them, that was a big spot. And they
didn't look prepared or interested to play in any aspect
to play. And when a coach has allowed a culture
like that defester and people identified beforehand, and then it
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manifests itself literally in the first quarter of the season.
You know, people don't show up to watch that. You know,
they'll sell their tickets for fifteen dollars on the secondary
market and call it a win. And I think that's
what's going to happen, and that's going to get the
owner's attention.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Jason.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Not a pretty game, but Washington takes a win over
the giants all the look see over at Dable and
Neighbors and Russell Wilson seventeen to thirty seven hundred and
sixty eight yards and neither Jamis Winston nor Jackson Dart
made available for comment post how much how close are
we do?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It's midnight? Cinderrena.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, Look, they really wanted to be able to get
at least I think, you know, talking to people there,
tikes weeks to half the season out of russ before
they had to start thinking about doing number two. That
was pretty bleak. And I don't think Washington's particularly special defensively.
Then I think we're going to see that bear out
well pretty quickly. I think starting Thursday night we're going
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to see that bear out, and then I think that'll
be the course for most of the season. So uh yeah,
Roff looks cooked. I mean he's looked cooked for a while.
And you've got some young players there. I mean, when
you're five or twelve to the best, you know, one
of the best younger seasons in the game, Like, you
target him twelve times, they end up in his hands
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five times. That's that's that's going to create a multi
to the problems. So yeah, I mean, I don't know
if it's next week or not. Like, I don't think
that's a very good defensive team for Dallas. They can't
move the ball at all on them. They you know,
they might have to do something else. I think the
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fear is you go to dark too soon and you
don't want to be like Yankee him back off the field,
and you know, you just don't want to get into
silly yoyo season. So well, I think he clearly passed
James Bye on the depth chart as the preseason more out. Well,
if they were going to make a change this early
in the season, I'm not entirely convinced it would be
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dark because I think they want to buy themselves a
little more time before they go there. But they might
not have that lunery.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four. That is
at Jason Locke and four. Honestly one oh five seven
the fan in Baltimore, Washington Post. Jay as always, Buddy,
appreciate it, man, enjoy the week. We'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Have a good one, gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Thanks Jason.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Can you imagine like, can you imagine New York? Okay
with with with Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson's terrible, right, hey,
dark the desire for Jackson Darts so like, and we
told you this right hold you so uh can you
imagine saying, yes, we're gonna make a change of quarterback.
All right, all right, Jameis Winston will start week three.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
No, no, that's the wrong guy.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Now can you imagine he would be one of the
three amigos from the preseason?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Can you imagine the fan?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yes, we're gonna get Dart.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
And officially today the Giants announced it will be Russell
Wilson for week two. And look, the best part for
Jackson Dart is probably coming up after week four. We
told you October first, that's your deadline. That's where you're
gonna see Jackson. Dart's gonna be much earlier than anybody thinks.
That desire to see him and how well he played
like Russ is an afterthought right now? But can can
you imagine? Yes, but Jamis will start a week week three.
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He's here for questions right now? Oh oh, thanks guys,
thanks a lot, great, all right, fine, Oh yeah, what
do you want to ask me?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Why is it you you're not.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
The chosen one?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
This is like saying, Hey, we got the guy who's
gonna be the next great Jedi. And it's like Bill Jackson,
who is just hanging out here, not Anakin. Where Wait
Bill Joe, What does Bill know? Bill doesn't know anything. Now,
come on Bill. He can't even he can't even turn
his lightsaber on without cutting a finger. On, come on,
mad Way. We want the other guy. We want the
good guy. Oh, okay, okay, No, you're talking like it
was the rope and Dope from that Skywalker series, right.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
He's like, no, it's not actually him.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
It's the guy pretending to be in Jedi who actually
he jumps the Savior.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Exit up about a Fresca exit swollen down. The Jason
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Mike Harmon. Still seventeen twelve bears with the lead early
in the fourth quarter. We'll off more in this game
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buying should be. Well, we talked about it. What happens
if he stinks this year? Let's give him credit. Let's
make the play of the day the first NFL touchdown
for JJ McCarthy A good.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Inter Come on, man, it's hollow at the twenty thirty.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You can twenty the Boznell field goal again from yesterday
for twenty five twenty.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I'm all right, five.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Jason, how's it field?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Aaron Rodgers snapped his achilles and force naps for the Jets,
and he already got four touchdown for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
How's it feel?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
I'm so I can't hear you. I have you your
your voume turned down on my head set.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Can you hear me now?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Yeah? Can we have the play of the day? Oh yeah,
yea yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
McCarthy's great drop to the end zone and touchdown.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
Justin Jefferson catches JJ McCarthy's first National Football League touchdown
and it's seventeen.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Twelve on two point conversion. No good Vikings Radio network
on the call.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
There.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
So the Vice Kings right now, thanks to McCarthy's touchdown
seventeen to twelve, they have a football. It's a one
score game. And the one thing I'm gonna say, Mike
is it looks like, despite the fact the Vikings can't
really throw the football, it looks like maybe they're wearing
down the Bears a little bit because they're running with
a little bit more success now as the game goes
on than they did earlier. Maybe whether it's the Bears
getting tired or not, but it seems like they're able
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to open up some more space for the running game
in the last few minutes.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Bears also did they did themselves no favors. After the
missed fifty yard field goal that looked like a knuckleball,
they go straight down the field, dude. The Viking six
plays sixty yards for the touchdown less than three minutes.
The two catches for Jefferson for thirty yards, but Jordan
Mason running the ball with authority. Bears get the ball
back and it's a quick three and out, and they
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were lucky that van Gankele couldn't didn't have more stick
him on his pall, otherwise it would have been a
pick six.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Reverting to some bad, bad things.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
In the final minutes of the third quarter, after playing
pretty clean, Caleb Williams with a couple of mistakes and
got away with a bad one there. But they go
three and out and now we have the Vikings on
the other side, to your point, now running the ball
with authority with both Jones and Mason.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
So still ten minutes left to go. I'll have more
on this game coming up again. Still seventeen twelve Bears
with the lead. When you get to Week one of
the NFL, there's lots of times to react and overreact.
Lok ESPN has a whole thing Overreaction Monday and all
it's okay, that's great, that's kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
But I'm gonna say, like Taco Tuesday, where everybody already
did that and then you try to brand it.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
But do you get food, If you get food, greater, Sure,
there's food there somewhere. I mean, it's what's overreaction. I mean,
I don't know, I don't know. You get turnovers, Apple
turnover reaction.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
You get a bunch of like pastries to try to
make yourself feel better. I might, Hey, if you want
to make it pastry Monday. If you if you can
get food, I can. I can get behind any sort
of Monday. Okay, you put food involved. Yeah, but one
story not an overreaction. It's bad. It's gonna get worse.
It ain't a week one thing for the Miami Dolphins
who showed up yesterday against the.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Did they really well?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
There were people wearing uniforms on the field. That's fair,
So they did show up. That's as bad as start
as you can get. And I told you in the offseason,
I can't get over how far the Dolphins fell in
a year from they're gonna own the AFC with their
new brand of football and all the speedsters they have
to Now it looks like it's.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Gonna be a rebuild.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Now. I don't know that Mike McDaniel makes it through
the season. Tyreek Hill will be on a new team
by the beginning of October. Already he is kind of
pouting on the sideline. He's gonna be gone. And this
looks like I bet you the last year for Tua
in Miami too. You saw the Colts players saying, we
made to a panic yesterday. He's never even though we
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got the contract, he's never gotten the hug from Miami
that yes, you're the guy we're building this team around. Clearly,
hey McDaniel came in, had a vision with Tua, trying
to make it work, but this is a disaster. They
looked like they didn't want to be there. They looked
like they were playing a week seventeen or eighteen game
where we've been eliminated.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
For a couple of weeks. Now we're not showing U
already for the offseason. This is oh bad.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
And the season's just gonna get worse for the Dolphins,
like I mean, could be in the running for the
number one pick NFL worse because you don't start a
season like this and all of a sudden things get better.
They've not bought into the message, or they've bought out
of the Mike McDaniel message, and it's gonna get ugly.
Guys are gonna get traded again last year for two
or they're gonna say we're gonna want to start over
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and somebody will think, hey, we can make tour work
here and we know what his contract is will be okay.
But this is as bad as it could be for.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
My Yeah, I mean you're looking at it. You've neutralized
what should have been two good weapons. Right when we
talk about Tyreek Hill, when you could say maybe he's
on the down side of his career, can still make
big plays, but they're disconnected. Then you got Jalen Wattle,
who's a non factor and was missing in action most
of last year, couldn't get anything going in the ground game.
Hell you and d Zach Wilson taken snaps by the
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end of things right for fantasy purposes. He was down
in scoring alongside Sam Darnold. Yeah see, I got Sam
back into the show. But fourteen to twenty three, just
one hundred and fourteen yards touchdown to a chan and
two picks. Just a dismal effort all around.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
It was. It was a no show.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
And we watch, you know, the Colts do something that
hasn't been done right. They scored on every position with
Daniel Jones at the helm.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
I mean posing that again, this is as bad as
a start as you could be. They had absolutely nothing
going on as a bad are a bad energy, bad everything.
It's as bad as you think it is for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Now, carly Ers Gordon was down on the sideline with
a headset and everything. Did she get to call plays
at the final minutes for the Colts? I think actually
call plays the entire game? Oh okay, that's that's all. Yeah,
that's how easy it was.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Despite the fact the Vikings have not looked good tonight,
they now have the lead over the Bears. Details next
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that's true. And Mike Tomlin called him a serial kill.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah yeah yeah, pulse.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
You know.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Here's the thing. Here's the thing, just really quick. I've
seen that movie so many times in my life. Midway
through the fourth quarter, I knew how it was gonna end.
I knew when the Jets went for two in the
first half and didn't get it. I said, they're gonna
lose because of that, because again, I've seen that Jets
movie my entire life. The ending doesn't change, doesn't change.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You know what, Though the first two acts were much
better than what you've seen, yes most years, at least
the first time, just like Hollywood movies, though they couldn't
finish the third act and give you the big payoffs.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
No I am, I am, I look, I am just
I am embarrassed that they lost like that to Rogers
to make him because Rogers wasn't great. He looked a
little bit better than he was, but it was still
the best game he's played in two years. And Rogers
gets to come back in and win a game, and
I'm just embarrassed that that's how it turned out. Like
I'm like Aaron gled I have no time for moral victories,
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which is what's why I love Aaron Glen. I got
no time for this. I got time for the mistakes
and all of this and fumbles and all kinds of
crazy ass stuff. No, I don't don't have time for that.
I'm just I'm embarrassed that they lost. And as soon
as as soon as we got to the fourth court,
I said, this is how this game is gonna end.
This is exactly his game, and I knew Buzzle is
gonna make that sixty yard field for sure. They needed
to rush it more. I get that they kind of
(02:07):
hung back a bit like, no, you can't let guys
kick it from sixty.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Anymore's gonna make him. You don't want to have a
penalty and move it closer. No, you gotta get after that,
because this is how kickers are, right, And it was
still the Jets kind of.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, we're gonna go halfway after it.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Everybody's playing super tow on an NFL. It all started
with Janakowski and it continues today, literally today.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
So we'll have more on the Jets. Good Rogers, Rogers, Rogers.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But obviously we jump right intonight as we do every
Monday Monday Night football. Eleven and a half to go
on the third quarter. It is a seventeen to six
lead for the Chicago Bears over the Minnesota Vikings. This
is a tale of two quarterbacks. Let's deal with your
guy first. Sure, Caleb Williams, who wait a minute, but
wait a minute, I thought he was so bad and
(02:54):
he couldn't he couldn't hit the net with the ball
in training camp, that day.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I thought he was terrible. I thought he was awful.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I told you everything is gonna be fine. I told
you he was gonna have a big year. Everything is fine.
He's thirteen out of nineteen so far. Tonight he's run
for thirty yards in a touchdown. I told you, I
told everything. Caleb Williams is gonna be fine.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
No, no, he's dead. But look at that thing with
the net. It looks awful.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
He's gonna be fine. Here he is. He's got a quarterback,
friendly head coach, and this is a pretty good Vikings
team and a pretty good Vikings defense. But Caleb Williams
looks okay. He's making the right decisions. Everything is going
Fine's not turn the ball over. It's been enough offense.
It's the first game.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
It's rusty. You don't have a lot going on in
the preseason. But Caleb Williams looks fine. Apparently after maybe
what's gotta do is miss nets in practice all the
time in the preseason. He was gonna be fine.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Here he is all right.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I know everybody was so nervous, But now, don't you
feel good? I told you he was gonna be I
just chuckle right.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
And then right ahead of the season beginning, we get
the big story that dropped and a guy getting a
lot of run because he talked to some fired ex
coach that are salty and want to put all.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Blame on Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
He was aloof he didn't want to do in meetings,
they asked him questions and he just stared him down
and all of that fun stuff. Ben Johnson's like, I
don't know what happened last year, and every chance he
gets an opportunity, he's like, I've been here. I only
know what's going on now and how hard he's working.
So somewhere in there the truth lies. And today there's
been a couple of opportunities where it looked like Williams
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may have had shots downfield but checked down, but got
the ball out, made the completion, not taking the sacks
as opposed to a year ago where it was hey,
I'm still the fastest guy out here. I can outrun
and evade would be tacklers. No, that didn't happen, and
he took a lot of sacks. Yeah, I gave him
an interceptionless streak, but holding the ball doesn't do you
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much good. You know, playing behind the sticks today, getting
the ball out. You see the completions early and often,
and for Ben Johnson, it's exactly what he wants. Don't
take the negative plays, keep things pushing and keep that
Flores defense at bay.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And that's what they've been able to do.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Not running the ball effectively with Swift, but he's been
good as a receiver out of the backfield, and Caleb
making plays with his legs himself, including that touchdown scamper,
so all good things. The aggressiveness on fourth down to
a shoe taking points in the first half is one
of those that you raise the eyebrow. But evidently that's
the identity that's going to carry over from their time
(05:24):
in Detroit. So you move forward, you get the pick six,
and here we are.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Everything is fine.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Listen, listen, listen to the beginning of a new year
for Caleb Williams and the touchdown that really sparked all
a change in the conversation about the Bears quarterback half
back pressure.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Pick it up by Tony rolling left. William's got green
Russ turn bite tack for the Endzie, throw them up,
will you Babby? Touchdown touchdown Bears hey yard touchdown Scrabble.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Bears Radio Network on the call. See, you were nervous,
you were nervous about me say all these good things.
And you said, oh, you're telling me you are a
good feeling everything. I told you everything was gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well, I did it in a mocking tone for the
way it got covered nationally.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Checking if the NFL was about throwing the ball into
a small basket in preseason, Caleb Williams would not be
a quarterback. I would recommend.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, I tell you know, not for today.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I mean there were a couple of the throws as
I mentioned that, he would have had to put it
in those little windows, and he chose the check down.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, he's not been grant. I'd say he's not been great,
but he's been fine. He has moved the team, he's
not made mistakes. He looks, he looks confident back there
in the pocket. It's not like the last six games
last year it was three steps back going oh my god,
here comes a rush.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
He his his body language is a lot better during
the plays. In between plays of that.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Caleb Williams is fine. Yeah, I'm not I'm not worried
about it. It's a long, long process.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
As we've talked about, it's ay, but I'm I'm the
pragmatist in a world of hot take nonsense, right because
right now in Minnesota, I'm sure people are burning up
their keyboards with what they've seen from JJ McCarthy. We'll
get to him in a second. But for Caleb Williams,
right the referendum, especially with that story dropping this weekend
and all of the you know, different iterations and back
(07:15):
trying to back up as to what a train wreck
he was a year ago and taking no responsibility as
a coaching staff that if he didn't play well today,
you add fuel to the fire, because both locally and nationally,
the wolves are at the door. For Caleb Williams, I
don't know what it translates to a win loss record,
but we know it's a process.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
He's back under center, trying to do play action passes.
He's never done that before. So to think that you're
gonna go week one against Brian Flores in this Minnesota defense, no,
Harrison Smith, fine, but that you're gonna go and you're
gonna play perfect football.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
No, You're you're not going to.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's gonna be choppy at times and over the next
couple of weeks. I would expect that as well. But
if he and Ben Johnson had the relationship that they
both seem to be selling us, then over time, by
mid season, you'll see a much different Chicago offense that
will operate at a different level of efficiency. So that's
Caleb Williams. Everything is fine. Now how about the other guy?
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Watch the snap, gets it fullhouse, plets throwing out to
the left, It picked up down the sideline, right to.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
The forty yard line.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
He is history Berry, leave me the Vikings that tail
lights into the end zone for the touchdown. Touchdown, Bears
had a pick six per.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Nation right, there was Bears Radio Network again JJ McCarthy tonight.
Five out of nine for forty eight yards and a pick.
These are up to date stats. This is not half hit.
Refresh on my computer, no, no, no, long done of
those five out of nine for forty eight yards and
a pick. Now, you pick the school of thought that
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you want to go through, because no matter how you
cut this up right, I'll give you the sunny side
up part of it, right, which is not the part
I believe the sunny side part is. And he does
he looks like a guy that hasn't played football in
a while, right, I mean, because remember, this is not
a guy coming out of college that hey give him
the keys to the offense. He has not played a
game in well over a year, right, You're you're talking
about a long time, nearly almost two years. You're talking
(09:15):
about a game from so it's been a long time
since he's been under centered. Yes, he's had time preseason
joint practices, but it's different when the lights go on
on Monday night and it's your first time throwing the
football and you're doing it when everything is real. So
there is that because there is some of that for
JJ McCarthy, and I see that sometimes in a little
bit of his his you know, the way his eyes
are moving and looking across the field. But the more
(09:37):
apt thing to say is you sure you got the
right guy? You sure you got the right guy? Because
it's not like JJ McCarthy came into the NFL as
a can't miss guy. And this is where we talked
about how the decision making process of the Vikings can
go doubly bad if McCarthy's not good. Because mccarth, look,
I told you from the beginning McCarthy is someone who
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is overdrafted. He was never asked to win games at Michigan.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I told you nobody's watched more Michigan games less thirty years.
And I'm unless you coach the team, and even then
you're out because you're not coaching for thirty years.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Right.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
McCarthy was never asked to be the guy. He was
asked to be the head of the Snake and Michigan
with a loaded team to win the National Championship. You
see all the guys that went to the NFL the
last couple of years. McCarthy was a good college quarterback.
But I can't tell you one game where I say
Michigan won because of him.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
And you can.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Only try to try to make it happen for a
guy and say, oh, his skills will transfer to the
next level so much and so far tonight, I've not
seen it. Now again, it's two and a half quarters
of his first game. And there's that's why, my mom,
I'm gonna say, all the guy's terrible after this. But
understand that if this goes bad for the Vikings, it's
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not just we got it wrong with a quarterback, it's
we had a guy and we said, no, we had
a guy who we were hoping JJ McCarthy would turn into.
We had a guy with thirty five touchdowns and four
thousand yards, and we went thirteen and four last year
and we said.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, you know, we have this other guy though that
hasn't thrown a pass for us that we really like. Yeah,
but I just with thirty five touchdowns, four thousand yards. Yeah,
but the last two games kind of were in his God. Yeah,
but you saw the whole season was I'm a Pro
Bowl quarterback. Like three guys go from the conference, and
I was like a legit selection, like not one of those. Hey,
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seven guys said they don't want to play. And I'm
the guy that I'm not Snoop Huntley pro bowling it here,
I am legitimately pro bowling it.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
This is how it gets so much worse. And you know,
all Vikings fans right now, that's all their thinking, right
because it's a Monday night. It's different when you suck
Sunday afternoon at one o'clock than we suck Monday night
at eight thirty. And suddenly it's all these guys, all
these we could have had, We could have had Sam Darnold. Again,
we could have gone back in with this and look
at where you're at right now. Okay, your leading receiver
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is Jalen Naylor, who caught one pass at the end
of the first half. That's it, justin Jefferson. One pass
on three targets. This has been an abysmal start for
the Vikings, and again it's doubly worse because of the
fact you kick Sam Donald to the curb, which accelerates
all the negativity and all the bad things going around
Minnesota with this quarterback. So remember when he and the
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Vikings went down in the playoffs. I raised my hand
here you were with me. To a degree of everybody
wanted to just put it on Sam Donald. Well that's
the guy that couldn't do this that the other and
nobody wanted to point a finger at Kevin O'Connell except
for this guy. In terms of game plan, down distance
and how they came into that game. How did you
not figure out what Ben Johnson has done? And I
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know Darisaw is not there, he wasn't there last year?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
How did you not figure out a system whereby you
found some easy throws from early right? Dennis Allen is
no slouch, right, as much a we talk about Brian
Flora is from the defensive coordinator angle. Bears have done
a good job of getting pressure it and getting him
off his spot and making him work a little bit.
But you didn't up any easy throws getting Jefferson involved early, right,
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you had? The pick six was a pass intended for Jefferson,
clearly miscommunication, right, he's expecting him to stop instead, he's
five yards up the field and it's an easy run
back for the touchdown, but putting it on his shoulders.
You don't have enough of a run game just yet.
And Jordan Mason's had a couple of nice runs. Aaron
Jones is a decent receiver out of the backfield still,
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but you haven't done anything to make it easy for him.
And with Sam Donald and those numbers from a year ago, Yeah,
I mean, it's it's a much less vocal crowd than
what would happen in Chicago if the Bears came out
in Stone. But it still needs to be asked, right,
right guy, how quickly things get get torn asunder and
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whether the genius tag starts to come off O'Connell a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yeah, I mean, look, Remember it's it's always worse we do.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
We had a most support position, and we had him,
and we found a way to convince ourselves let's not
keep him. Let's go with the guy that hasn't really
thrown a pass for us. No, no, he's our guy.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Like you think. Sometimes we just really outthink ourselves. And
again it's a but JJ McCarthy, they have seventy seven
yards of offense. Man, this is midway through the third quarter.
All right, this is midway through the third quarter. Seventy
seven yards of us. I mean maybe the whole thing
is they'll get arch Manning. Can you imach up the
number one pick next year and saying no, no, no, we
have JJ McCarthy. Will let somebody else take arch Manning.
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Now that would be interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Now you're really creating chaos theory here after two and
a half quarters.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I love that we're.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Gonna draft Caleb Downs instead and let the number two
team go get arch Manning.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Right now, we're talking absolutely chaos theory here.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
We're not even through the third quarter here.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
But but it does raise the interesting point of you know, look,
I always talking about the dollar cost average and give
your quarterback position McCarthy's a cheap option year two of
his rookie deals, still coming off a big injury and
trying to work his way back, all reports positive, whatever,
and you would have had to pay Sam Darnold quite
a bit of money, right You saw what he was
able to sign for in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
You didn't see much of that on the field in
week Awe. See what I did there?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I tried to prop him up, and at the same
point I had to take a shot at him because
outside of JSN, I don't think we saw another receiver.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
They were all, you know, invisible.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, they were like the void running around in Uh
you know that that movie with Uh.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
He's like this marble thing.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
He's like the lonely end from like you know, Army
in like nineteen forty six. He's the one guy we
have out there at receiver.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
He's just running, he's running wind sprints, so all of that.
But when you do the dollar cost averaging could have
kept them around. Not that you love the situation if
you're Kirk Cousins in Atlanta, but you're still getting paid
and eventually someone's gonna call come calling. The Vikings had
the opportunity to try to keep Sam around, would have
had to.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Pay a little bit more. I get it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
But you have a guy where you have proof of
concept of what he can do in your offense and
he can help McCarthy alot.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Or could have franchised him.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
That's the point, right, We could keep could cut both
of you.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Could it, could have done it again.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
He could have done it for a year and again
he becomes a valuable trade show if mccar if and
when McCarthy guests year. Now, obviously we are really going
hot take theory here towards the end of the third quarter, but.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Hey, that's what we do. Man.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
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Speaker 4 (16:24):
Still seventeen to six Bears with the lead getting late
in the third quarter. We'll keep you updated on that.
But coming up next we break down the game of
week one, maybe the game of the year. We have
to check in and make sure our next guest is
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Speaker 2 (16:44):
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Fox Sports Radio Studios. Two and a half to go
in the third quarter, Bears on the move. Caleb Williams
just scrambles for a first down. Bears lead at seventeen
to six again, two thirty two left to go. Here
in the third quarter, Bears on the move first and
ten at the Vikings thirty four yard line. This comes
after a drive where they finally look like they converted
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a third down. Did the Vikings third and two. They'd
been averaging in nine point nine yards on average. They
were zero for seven past the Adam Thielen, welcome back
to Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
He drops it.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, So another punt and now you have the scramble
followed by a big run by DeAndre Swift and here
we are.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
You finally get one of three good passes on the
nights from McCarthy and he drops us.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, puts it out his head and Ali and then
he did the head tilt and everything. It's like, no, no, no, no, no,
you don't get to do that.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Joining us now on the hot line. We'll get to
this game coming up in a couple of minutes. Because
I really he joins us every Monday. He's a longtime
friend of the show. He's on Twitter at Jason lockinfora Odyssey,
Washington Post one oh five seven, the fan in Baltimore
again in Baltimore. I mainly just want to make sure
you're okay after last night. Jay, I assume you didn't
(18:54):
get any sleep and you've been rocking Red Bulls for
the last twenty four hours, all through your radio show
and everything today. Make sure you're okay right now.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
I'm good. I'm going burden John Harball. Okay, No, my
pockets are straight off of that game. So all right,
but I saw don't know Lamar and Derrick Henry and
the over. It's a very very good care of me.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, but what you know, following your Twitter last night,
I say, okay, so a little bit. Yes, it took
care of you pocket pocketbook wise, but you've been on
a big it's super Bowl or bust. Like Horrorball's out
if they don't get Harbor should be out after last night,
if they don't.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Get to the super Bowl. I do at this point,
you can't have this stuff drag. You know, we're now
in the parts of Sins twenty twenty one. They've been
blowing these games and doing historically significant I get accomplishments
on the failure side of things, and you know, the
quarterback is generational, and the front office thinks they've got
(19:56):
the best roster in football. Again. I would say they're
they're way full of themselves too, and they're not as
good as they think. And there's nobody on that team
who anybody's going to look at and say, oh, that
guy scares me as a pass rusher. There just isn't.
I mean, Mike Green will will get there at some
point in time. I don't think it's going to be
particularly soon. So I think they've got more wards and
(20:19):
blemishes than they're willing to admit. And they don't want
to pay for certain position groups, which I think is
a problem. But this coach has overseen epic collapse after
epic collapse after epic collapse. He's gone through different coordinators,
he's gone through different players, but it's systemic. You look
back at these games now and again, it spans year
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a year, for a year, double digit fourth quarter leads,
you know, double and triple score leads with with you know,
five minutes or less left. It's it's ridiculous. And there's
special team's mistakes, and there's offensive mistakes, and there's defensive mistakes,
and they just collectively come out small. They bring out
low i Q football in each other, and at some
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point you got to change what's going on with the messaging.
You got to change what's going on with the preparation.
You got to change what's going on with the macro
level decisions like that cowardly pathetic part last night, or
whatever the hell was going on on special teams with
twelve guys on the field, or whatever the hell was
going on rushing the rookie kicker and not managing clock
at the end of the half, or whatever the hell
(21:24):
was going on where you know that at the end
of the first half, Allen is throwing to a boundary,
yet somehow, you know, you don't keep that ball that
are in, you know, at whatever tight end it was
in the field to play you cannot get out of
bounds there to their inability to make plays as a
defense in the fourth Quarner. So yeah, I think and
(21:49):
I didn't like his rhetoric, and you know, his messaging
coming into the season where he's saying, you clowns who
never played the game, don't understand super Bowl or Boston,
there's no such thing as Super Bowler bust and sort
of saying, you know, sort of alluding to the football
gods and things out of their control. And I just
thought it was kind of pathetic excuse making before the
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season has even started. At the same time, players are
admitting that, yeah, we're not getting where we should go
because we keep undermining ourselves like we're our own worst enemy.
And then the coach is coming out saying, I think,
you know, it's ridiculous to say super bowler buss Like,
I don't know, man, I think a lot of people
who are too comfortable around here, and it manifests itself
(22:31):
at the worst possible times in the most critical times.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Well, that's you know, kind of sentiment about you know, players,
non players will get your desk somewhere.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
But we'll talk about that another time. Yeah, let's stay
in division.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Earlier in the day, Can Aaron Rodgers do a seventeen
game revenge store?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
No, he cannot. There were some impressive things obviously in
that game, but that's not a replicable game script for Pittsburgh. No,
it's kind of cool to know that's there. But you're
not going to get a sixty yard field goal every week.
You're not going to get that many points every week.
(23:09):
You're not going to get that many short intermediate passers
that turn into big, big things, and you're sure as
hell better not be letting teams like the Jets. I
thirty two in you every week, so you know, I
feel like the Bengals and the Steelers both like survive, advance, escape,
but also you know, maybe not a red flag, but
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but a blinking amber light. You know about some things
better change there pretty quickly, because I think you know,
both kind of got away with one there against the
kind of teams they're going to want to beat weekend
week out.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Jason locking Forward with us A, Jason Smiths with Mike
Carmon Love from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,
so tell me, tell me your pockets for full because
you bet Daniel Jones to have the game of his
life yesterday.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I stayed off that one man, and honestly full disclosure.
If you would they and me bet something in that game,
I may have gone Miami money line, just because I
really didn't know what to make of that Colts offense,
and I did lean under. I didn't think it'd be
(24:17):
quite that far under. But you got to know I'm
not bullish on Miami at all. I don't buy them.
I wrote it to Washington Post about their situation of
probably about six seven weeks ago. You know, people in
this league definitely expect Mike McDaniel to be the first
coach fired, and that was before that debacle. You know,
(24:38):
keeping Tyreek Hill in that locker room was asinine. Building
a team skill position out, you know as skill positions
starting instead of building it from the inside out was stupid.
Some of these contracts have been stupid. They've gotten weaker
at the point of attack on both sides of the ball,
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and they just come up small and in any kind
of a big spot to come up incredibly small. And
for them starting this season off with all they had
hanging over them, that was a big spot. And they
didn't look prepared or interested to play in any aspect
to play. And when a coach has allowed a culture
like that defester and people identified beforehand, and then it
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manifests itself literally in the first quarter of the season.
You know, people don't show up to watch that. You know,
they'll sell their tickets for fifteen dollars on the secondary
market and call it a win. And I think that's
what's going to happen, and that's going to get the
owner's attention.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Jason.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Not a pretty game, but Washington takes a win over
the giants all the look see over at Dable and
Neighbors and Russell Wilson seventeen to thirty seven hundred and
sixty eight yards and neither Jamis Winston nor Jackson Dart
made available for comment post how much how close are
we do?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It's midnight? Cinderrena.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Yeah, Look, they really wanted to be able to get
at least I think, you know, talking to people there,
tikes weeks to half the season out of russ before
they had to start thinking about doing number two. That
was pretty bleak. And I don't think Washington's particularly special defensively.
Then I think we're going to see that bear out
well pretty quickly. I think starting Thursday night we're going
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to see that bear out, and then I think that'll
be the course for most of the season. So uh yeah,
Roff looks cooked. I mean he's looked cooked for a while.
And you've got some young players there. I mean, when
you're five or twelve to the best, you know, one
of the best younger seasons in the game, Like, you
target him twelve times, they end up in his hands
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five times. That's that's that's going to create a multi
to the problems. So yeah, I mean, I don't know
if it's next week or not. Like, I don't think
that's a very good defensive team for Dallas. They can't
move the ball at all on them. They you know,
they might have to do something else. I think the
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fear is you go to dark too soon and you
don't want to be like Yankee him back off the field,
and you know, you just don't want to get into
silly yoyo season. So well, I think he clearly passed
James Bye on the depth chart as the preseason more out. Well,
if they were going to make a change this early
in the season, I'm not entirely convinced it would be
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dark because I think they want to buy themselves a
little more time before they go there. But they might
not have that lunery.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four. That is
at Jason Locke and four. Honestly one oh five seven
the fan in Baltimore, Washington Post. Jay as always, Buddy,
appreciate it, man, enjoy the week. We'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Have a good one, gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Thanks Jason.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Can you imagine like, can you imagine New York? Okay
with with with Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson's terrible, right, hey,
dark the desire for Jackson Darts so like, and we
told you this right hold you so uh can you
imagine saying, yes, we're gonna make a change of quarterback.
All right, all right, Jameis Winston will start week three.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
No, no, that's the wrong guy.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Now can you imagine he would be one of the
three amigos from the preseason?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Can you imagine the fan?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Yes, we're gonna get Dart.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
And officially today the Giants announced it will be Russell
Wilson for week two. And look, the best part for
Jackson Dart is probably coming up after week four. We
told you October first, that's your deadline. That's where you're
gonna see Jackson. Dart's gonna be much earlier than anybody thinks.
That desire to see him and how well he played
like Russ is an afterthought right now? But can can
you imagine? Yes, but Jamis will start a week week three.
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He's here for questions right now? Oh oh, thanks guys,
thanks a lot, great, all right, fine, Oh yeah, what
do you want to ask me?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Why is it you you're not.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
The chosen one?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
This is like saying, Hey, we got the guy who's
gonna be the next great Jedi. And it's like Bill Jackson,
who is just hanging out here, not Anakin. Where Wait
Bill Joe, What does Bill know? Bill doesn't know anything. Now,
come on Bill. He can't even he can't even turn
his lightsaber on without cutting a finger. On, come on,
mad Way. We want the other guy. We want the
good guy. Oh, okay, okay, No, you're talking like it
was the rope and Dope from that Skywalker series, right.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
He's like, no, it's not actually him.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
It's the guy pretending to be in Jedi who actually
he jumps the Savior.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Exit up about a Fresca exit swollen down. The Jason
Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (29:33):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend
Mike Harmon. Still seventeen twelve bears with the lead early
in the fourth quarter. We'll off more in this game
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buying should be. Well, we talked about it. What happens
if he stinks this year? Let's give him credit. Let's
make the play of the day the first NFL touchdown
for JJ McCarthy A good.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Inter Come on, man, it's hollow at the twenty thirty.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
You can twenty the Boznell field goal again from yesterday
for twenty five twenty.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I'm all right, five.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Jason, how's it field?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Aaron Rodgers snapped his achilles and force naps for the Jets,
and he already got four touchdown for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
How's it feel?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
I'm so I can't hear you. I have you your
your voume turned down on my head set.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Can you hear me now?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Yeah? Can we have the play of the day? Oh yeah,
yea yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
McCarthy's great drop to the end zone and touchdown.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
Justin Jefferson catches JJ McCarthy's first National Football League touchdown
and it's seventeen.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Twelve on two point conversion. No good Vikings Radio network
on the call.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
There.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
So the Vice Kings right now, thanks to McCarthy's touchdown
seventeen to twelve, they have a football. It's a one
score game. And the one thing I'm gonna say, Mike
is it looks like, despite the fact the Vikings can't
really throw the football, it looks like maybe they're wearing
down the Bears a little bit because they're running with
a little bit more success now as the game goes
on than they did earlier. Maybe whether it's the Bears
getting tired or not, but it seems like they're able
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to open up some more space for the running game
in the last few minutes.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Bears also did they did themselves no favors. After the
missed fifty yard field goal that looked like a knuckleball,
they go straight down the field, dude. The Viking six
plays sixty yards for the touchdown less than three minutes.
The two catches for Jefferson for thirty yards, but Jordan
Mason running the ball with authority. Bears get the ball
back and it's a quick three and out, and they
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were lucky that van Gankele couldn't didn't have more stick
him on his pall, otherwise it would have been a
pick six.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Reverting to some bad, bad things.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
In the final minutes of the third quarter, after playing
pretty clean, Caleb Williams with a couple of mistakes and
got away with a bad one there. But they go
three and out and now we have the Vikings on
the other side, to your point, now running the ball
with authority with both Jones and Mason.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
So still ten minutes left to go. I'll have more
on this game coming up again. Still seventeen twelve Bears
with the lead. When you get to Week one of
the NFL, there's lots of times to react and overreact.
Lok ESPN has a whole thing Overreaction Monday and all
it's okay, that's great, that's kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
But I'm gonna say, like Taco Tuesday, where everybody already
did that and then you try to brand it.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
But do you get food, If you get food, greater, Sure,
there's food there somewhere. I mean, it's what's overreaction. I mean,
I don't know, I don't know. You get turnovers, Apple
turnover reaction.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
You get a bunch of like pastries to try to
make yourself feel better. I might, Hey, if you want
to make it pastry Monday. If you if you can
get food, I can. I can get behind any sort
of Monday. Okay, you put food involved. Yeah, but one
story not an overreaction. It's bad. It's gonna get worse.
It ain't a week one thing for the Miami Dolphins
who showed up yesterday against the.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Did they really well?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
There were people wearing uniforms on the field. That's fair,
So they did show up. That's as bad as start
as you can get. And I told you in the offseason,
I can't get over how far the Dolphins fell in
a year from they're gonna own the AFC with their
new brand of football and all the speedsters they have
to Now it looks like it's.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Gonna be a rebuild.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Now. I don't know that Mike McDaniel makes it through
the season. Tyreek Hill will be on a new team
by the beginning of October. Already he is kind of
pouting on the sideline. He's gonna be gone. And this
looks like I bet you the last year for Tua
in Miami too. You saw the Colts players saying, we
made to a panic yesterday. He's never even though we
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got the contract, he's never gotten the hug from Miami
that yes, you're the guy we're building this team around. Clearly,
hey McDaniel came in, had a vision with Tua, trying
to make it work, but this is a disaster. They
looked like they didn't want to be there. They looked
like they were playing a week seventeen or eighteen game
where we've been eliminated.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
For a couple of weeks. Now we're not showing U
already for the offseason. This is oh bad.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
And the season's just gonna get worse for the Dolphins,
like I mean, could be in the running for the
number one pick NFL worse because you don't start a
season like this and all of a sudden things get better.
They've not bought into the message, or they've bought out
of the Mike McDaniel message, and it's gonna get ugly.
Guys are gonna get traded again last year for two
or they're gonna say we're gonna want to start over
(34:22):
and somebody will think, hey, we can make tour work
here and we know what his contract is will be okay.
But this is as bad as it could be for.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
My Yeah, I mean you're looking at it. You've neutralized
what should have been two good weapons. Right when we
talk about Tyreek Hill, when you could say maybe he's
on the down side of his career, can still make
big plays, but they're disconnected. Then you got Jalen Wattle,
who's a non factor and was missing in action most
of last year, couldn't get anything going in the ground game.
Hell you and d Zach Wilson taken snaps by the
(34:49):
end of things right for fantasy purposes. He was down
in scoring alongside Sam Darnold. Yeah see, I got Sam
back into the show. But fourteen to twenty three, just
one hundred and fourteen yards touchdown to a chan and
two picks. Just a dismal effort all around.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
It was. It was a no show.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
And we watch, you know, the Colts do something that
hasn't been done right. They scored on every position with
Daniel Jones at the helm.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
I mean posing that again, this is as bad as
a start as you could be. They had absolutely nothing
going on as a bad are a bad energy, bad everything.
It's as bad as you think it is for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Now, carly Ers Gordon was down on the sideline with
a headset and everything. Did she get to call plays
at the final minutes for the Colts? I think actually
call plays the entire game? Oh okay, that's that's all. Yeah,
that's how easy it was.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Despite the fact the Vikings have not looked good tonight,
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