October 13, 2024 • 43 mins
Richard Sherman reacts to Week 6 of the 2024 NFL season, including Jared Goff leading the Detroit Lions to a resounding 47-9 blowout of Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys, Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry continuing their stellar play in a 30-23 Baltimore Ravens win over Jayden Daniels and the Washington Commanders, Caleb Williams throwing four touchdowns as the Chicago Bears beat Trevor Lawrence and the 1-5 Jacksonville Jaguars with ease, Philadelphia Eagles fans chanting for Nick Sirianni's firing in the Eagles' narrow victory over the hapless Cleveland Browns, C.J. Stroud and the Houston Texans spoiling New England Patriots rookie Drake Maye's debut, and the Green Bay Packers' defense forcing three turnovers in a 34-13 win over Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinals.
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Speaker 3 (01:54):
Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast. In what an
incredible week. Some crazy games, some upsets, some contenders getting
back to their ways, and the Baltimore Ravens. But the
most surprising game was obviously this Detroit Lions versus the
Dallas Cowboys game. The Detroit Lions had their way with
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Dallas the entire game. It looked like a preseason game
where they're just practicing, figuring out things that they like.
You don't usually see this in the National Football League, people,
You don't. You don't usually see teams practicing, Hey we're
gonna we're gonna throw it to this line, and hey,
we're gonna try this trick play. They ran four or
five trick plays in that game. I said it before,
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I'll say it again. I was not a fan of
the zimmer higher for the Dallas Cowboys, and you're seeing it,
You're you're seeing what he does is just not the
right fit for the league at this time, and the
players aren't responding to his system, they're not playing well
in it, and they're undermanned right now. They're banged up.
Without DeMarcus Loans, without Micah Parsons, they just don't deron
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Bland that corner. They just don't look like the same defense.
But you still shouldn't get blown out forty seven to nine,
And it really wasn't that close.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
They could have had more. There were a couple.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Times they got too cute in the red zone where
they were trying to complete trick plays, trying to make
up trying to give a middle finger to the Dallas
Cowboys in the National Football League and the referees that
took away their touchdown last year because the offensive lineman
didn't report, like at the point Dallas took their starters out.
The Detroit Lions had four hundred and fifty seven yards
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to their one hundred and sixty eight yards of total offense.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That is embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I can't emphasize it enough, like you can't win a
National Football League like this. This is the third straight loss,
and they had another horrible loss earlier this season, forty
four to nineteen to the New Orleans Saints at home,
and this is their worst home loss since nineteen eighty eight,
fifth worst loss in the history of this franchise. I
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Jerry Jones said before the season started they were all in.
They've given up forty plus points twice at home in
three games, but they were all in. Made no free
agent moves that were substinence. Substinence had any substance to him.
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So you made no crazy free agent moves, your offensive
line is worse. You lose Tyron Smith, you draft a
rookie still going to develop. We don't know what he
is yet, but he's not Tyron Smith. And although Tyron
was banged up, he still was a very solid player,
high level player. This offensive line is a big part
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of the problem. You can't run the football, so you
can't run the football, your one dimensional team. You're expecting
Dak Prescott to have the season he did last year,
but last year the running game was better. And when
you're able to run the ball, when you're able to
play good defense, it takes pressure off the quarterback. And
they're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I don't know. I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You're I expected from them, but I didn't. I expected
this game to be a lot better than what it was.
Micah Parsons people are talking about him doing his podcast
and and the distractions and the team they're they're three
and three. They're three and three, so they're fine. They're
in the middle of this NFC East race that just
doesn't seem like as strong of a division this year.
The Commanders, who look like a real, really cool fun
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team to watch, lost to the to the Baltimore Ravens
in a close game. Philadelphia Eagles beat the one in
five Browns by four points at home. You know there
their fans are booing Sirianni and tell and calling for
him to get fired and he's chirping back at the fans.
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So there's a lot of chaos in the NFC East
right now. So it's not out of hand, but it
just doesn't feel like a season where there's a lot
of hope, even when you you have hope. I'm sure
Dallas Cowboy fans don't have a lot of good things
to talk about. Offensively, they look disconnected, disjointed. Dallas Dak
Prescott seventeen to thirty three, one seventy eight, no touchdowns,
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two interceptions and just two bad interceptions that were overthrows
to Branch.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
He made the good play. He caught the ball.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I mean, I can't say he made a great play
because it was he was overthrown footballs, but he made
the play, almost took one of them back for a touchdown.
He was sacked four times, could have been sacked more
than that, but he got rid of the ball. Ceedee
Lamb seven catches for eighty nine yards on fourteen targets.
Just haven't hasn't had the production that we expect. We've
expected from him. And after my comment last year, everybody
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got on me and killed me or we're oh, you
look at you wrong. Now you know everybody's coming back
to earth. At Dak Prescott's coming back to Earth. Ceedee
Lamb is coming back to Earth, and it's because it's
offensive line more than anything, and he needs a number
two receiver. We thought, you know you hear rumbling straw
training camp, it's Tober. It wasn't Tober had a big
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drop and a lot of people were saying, Hey, maybe
it's the sun and the glare of that stadium. Jerry,
this has been an issue in this stadium for years,
and it's time to get it fixed. If it's affecting
your players and it's affecting the other team, then it's
not a home field advantage of any time of any kind.
So you need to put I don't know if they're
gonna shade that or put some tin on the windows
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or something, because it's an issue when you're looking in
that direction in the sun is positioned in a certain way.
I've played in that stadium, it becomes a really big issue,
and it was an issue in one of Dak Prescott's interceptions.
It appears, but let's talk about the Detroit Lions because
Mitchell wasn't here today because he was at the game.
So I don't want to go without speaking about the
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Detroit Lions, that Honolulu blue wearing team. They got their
revenge and they kept their foot on the gas the
entire game. Even once the backups came in, they were
still on the ball. Trying to get a touchdown caused
a turnover defense cost two turnovers once the backups came in,
so they weren't They weren't slowing down at all. Jared
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Golf played an incredible game eighteen to twenty five for
three point fifteen, three touchdowns, zero interceptions, and it just
looked so easy. He looked like he was throwing playing
pitching catch in practice against the scout team. The entire game.
He looked comfortable in the pocket. He did get sacked
a few times, but that's gonna happen. But this offensive
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line bullied the Dallas Cowboys the entire night. David Montgomery
had twelve carries for eighty yards two touchdowns. Jamier Gibbs
also had twelve carries for around sixty seven yards. I think,
no touchdowns, but they were able to get what they
wanted on the ground. Sam the Porter had the one
catch off the flea flicker for a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Looked really good.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
On the other side, there's a lot of calls for
con and prayers go out to Aiden Hutchinson, who has
been having an incredible season, a phenomenal season, lead in
the league in sacks, got a sack in this game
on that play. Tragically, it appeared that he broke his leg.
You hate to see any kind of injuries like that,
especially an injury that just looks so devastating and gruesome.
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So prayers go out to him and his family that
he has a healthy, fast, quick recovery and he's able
to be the same player or a better player than
he was before the injury, because he's a big part
of the heartbeat of this defense. He's a he's a
he's a great analogy of what this team stands for
who they are. Hard working, gritty player, works hard, play
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in and play out, does everything, does all the little things,
does all the dirty work, and was really, really really
a big time leader on this defense and a big
time playmaker. And that's a huge loss for this Detroit
Lions team, So go out to him. Brian Branch and
Kirby Joseph both have interception in the game. They played
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really good games. Their secondary, their team you just feel
like this Detroit Lions team is starting to jail and
starting to arrive after a season where you lose in
an NFC championship and you get all the way to
the Promised Land, and you kind of surprise people and
sometimes surprise yourselves. Sometimes there's a bit of a loll
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and sometimes there's a bit of a hangover, a disappointment
of what you could have been. But Ben Johnson came
back and his play calling and is more creative than ever.
This offense looks as good as ever. He's finding ways
to get everybody involved. Jamison Williams, who's a big time playmaker,
had three catches for seventy six yards. He found him
in a number of ways, and that's something that he
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seems like he's focused on spreading the ball around. Obviously,
i'man ross Saint Brown got his in this game, a
really cool touchdown reception at the end of the game,
corner of the end zone, front corner of the end
zone from Jared Golf. But I'm just really thinking, feeling
like this team is gonna be there late in the season,
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late in January and competing for the Super Bowl this year.
Potentially our at least in the NFC Championship again. San
Francisco forty nine Ers picked up a big win this week,
but coming off a really, really concerning loss to the
Arizona Cardinals, who again got their faces kicked in this
week by the Green Bay Packers and did not look good.
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Only scored thirteen points in the ball game. But I
think this Detroit Lions team is the BEA's and e's.
I think they're one of the best teams in the NFC.
It's gonna be tough. I want to see how they
compete against the Minnesota Vikings because they're the cream of
the crop right now in the North. And I know
it's unexpected, but they're five and zero, they're playing good football.
They've beat some of the NFC's best, mainly the San
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Francisco forty nine ers out in Minnesota. So this is
the division opponent this division with them Detroit's four and one,
Minnesota's five and zero. I think the Chicago Bears are
four and two now. Caleb Williams is starting to come
around and play good football. Went out to London and
had his way with the Jacksonville Jaguars, So this is
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gonna be one of the toughest divisions in football.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
It already was.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
We just talked about the Green Bay Packers putting a
whooping on the Arizona Cardinals in Lambeau.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
They're four and two.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
It's pointing towards some really really fun matchups, some really
really fun, meaningful games in November and December, and I
can't wait to see it. Because they're likely going to
put three, at least three teams in the playoffs this year.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
That's the way it's trending.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
And of course one of them is going to be
the Detroit Lions and that offensive line. Again, these teams
are built in their trenches, and the teams built in
their trenches usually have a lot of success in the playoffs.
And speaking of that matchup, we're getting that matchup that
I'm talking about next week. The Lions are in Minnesota
to play the Minnesota Vikings. Coming off of bye week.
I can't wait to watch game. The Cowboys have a
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bye week to think about this forty seven to nine
drubbing that they just took at the hands of the
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once the twos came in. The Dallas Cowboys drove the
ball down the field, got into the red area and
guess what, the Detroit Lions took it away. That was
Kirby Josiphs interception in the end zone. They took it
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away again on the next drive. You gotta give it
to them, the Ones, the twos, everybody on this team
came ready to play. This defense is going to be
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that I thought would be a really fun matchup between
the Washington Commanders and the Baltimore Ravens Jade and Janiel.
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I wanted to see how he would stand up against
a true contender in the AFC, A team that was
in the AFC Championship, that's been perennial contenders, that's always
got a really strong defense. Lamar Jackson does not lose
to NFC teams for some reason, and he did not
lose this day. Jaydon Daniels was twenty four to thirty
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five two sixty nine two touchdowns, a pretty solid game.
Didn't get as much on the grounds as he had
in previous games that he had a good plan for him,
they put a lot of pressure on him. Terry McLaurin
six catches for fifty three yards two touchdowns, Dante Fowler
had two sacks, was an impact player all day in
this game. But Lamar Jackson again incredible twenty of twenty
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six three to twenty three one touchdown, did throw the
interception early in the game. But Derrick Henry continues to
make this team go and continues to be the engine
that this team relies on early and of course Layton
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to two touchdowns, leads the NFL with nine rushing touchdowns.
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He's been a factor this team. It seems like the
Baltimore Ravens again on the ground, getting their mojo back,
getting their consistency back after a really head scratching loss
against the Las Vegas Raiders and a loss that you
can understand against the reigning Super Bowl champs and the
Kansas City Chiefs. They have fixed their formula. They're running
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the ball more than ever and when they're not running
the ball in Lamar Jackson is finding his way through
the air, being efficient with the football, taking his shots
when he can. They're running more quarterback powers and he's
getting some games there. But having Derrick Henry, I think
they're over the last seven to six games, they're the
greatest rushing duo to ever step foot in the National
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Football I'm talking about quarterback and running back together. It's
been incredible. They've won four straight. Derek Henry is the
first player since Ladanian Tomlinson in two thousand and five
with a rushing touchdown in six straight games. And he's
not just getting the one yard touchdowns. He's getting long gains,
big gains. He's wearing defensives down. He's the last of
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the great you know, every down back downhill I formation
full back in front downhill backs that is left in
the National Football League. There are some really good backs
in them, but they're more versatile Alvin Kamara, you got
Christian McCaffrey, who's obviously injured right now. You got a
lot of backs who catch the ball out of the backfield.
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Sa Kwon Barkley out in Philadelphia. But he's the last
of the old school, old school football backs that just hey,
line him up in eye, downhill, downhill, downhill, twenty four carries.
He's gonna wear down this off I mean this defensive line,
wear down these linebackers and continue to punish them. Hey,
Baltimore Ravens are playing just incredible football both sides of
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the football. They're playing incredible ball both sides and defensively.
They were able to corral Jaydon Daniels in a way
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Each and every week.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Six touchdowns, I mean a rushing touchdown in every single
game this season. He's a dominant for us. I think
He's the factor that the Baltimore Ravens were looking for,
and I think they're going to continue to lean on him.
And when the playoffs come, we're not gonna be talking about, man,
they should have ran the ball more. They're gonna give
it to Derrick Henry twenty to twenty five times and
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see what happens. If Lamar Jackson can continue to play
at the level he's playing, this team is going to
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I mean, and the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Texans.
It's gonna be some fun, fun, fun football late in
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And now it's time to move on and talk about
the Chicago Bears and the Jackson Bille Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
And I know, I know, I know, don't keep beating
up Trevor Lawrence. I mean, it's enough he's seen. I know,
I know, Trevor didn't even play that bad. I'll give
you that. Trevor didn't play an awful game. He didn't
have the he did have the interception, but didn't fumble
the ball, didn't have a lot of turnovers. Did have
a turnover, but they're not getting a lot from this defense.
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And Caleb Williams, who struggled with this season at times,
you know, to diagnose defense holds the ball a little bit,
especially when you when you disguise coverage a little bit,
had his best game as a pro. Caleb Williams has
gotten better and I've seen growth in him. He's getting
the ball out quicker. On three of his touchdown and
explosive passes, the ball was out and under two and
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a half seconds. That's a huge growth and a huge
improvement from where he was at the beginning of the season,
where he's holding the ball waiting for plays to develop,
trying to get the home run hit. Now he's understanding, hey,
you can get a home run off a line drive.
It's going to be an infield home run. But he's
getting the ball to his playmakers quick. Keenan Allen being
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back and healthy is a huge part of that. He
threw a dime to him early in the game for
a touchdown. That's a great safety blanket to have. Cole
Comet had a really good game. They're being creative. That's
what I really like about what I'm seeing about the
Chicago Bears is that creativity. Offensively, I'm seeing a lot
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of motion. I'm seeing a lot of screen games. I've
seen plays that I only seen from Kyle Shanahan and
Andy Reid before. I mean, you're talking about the fake
tunnel screen, to the fake bubble screen, to the scene
straight down the middle. I saw Kyle Shanahan do it
against the Seattle Seahawks a number of years ago. I
saw I saw the Kansas City Chiefs do it against us,
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and when I was in San Francisco in twenty eighteen,
I seen him with a number of other times.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
But it's that kind of.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Creativity that takes some of the pressure off the offensive
line and allowed makes the defensive line kind of take
a step back and think a little more than they
have to. They don't just get to pin their ears
back and go after the quarterback with no thought of, Hey,
it might be a screen, it may be this it
may be that you're putting their eyes in different places.
You're spreading the defense, You're putting a lot of hesitation
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and doubt in the defender's heads. And that's what's allowing
Caleb Williams to continue to thrive. He's seven touchdowns and
to one interception, seventy four percent completion percentage one hundred
and twenty two point eight passer rating in the last
three games. That's an incredible deal. We were very tough
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on the Chicago Bears offensive line, and some of it
was warranted and some of it is on the quarterback
holding the ball too long and taking unnecessary sacks. Both
sides have improved. The offensive line is playing better for
the Chicago Bears. Caleb Williams is getting the ball out quicker,
He's making better decisions, throwing the ball away when he
doesn't have it. Those are some of the things you
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learn as a young player. You get better. Another revelation
that's coming into the fold is DeAndre Swift seventeen carries
for ninety one yards and a touchdown. That rushing attack
again helps a young quarterback to thrive. It helps him.
It makes sure that the d line has to respect
the run. They have to respect that, Hey, we will
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gass you in the run game. So you can't just
rush past. You can't just rush up the field. You
have to play for the run too. So all those
things help a young quarterback, help a passing game, help
an offensive line, and that's what's happening. But then on
the other side, this Chicago Bears defense has been legit.
We talked about the number one defense since Week eight
of last season. Continuing what they started at from Week
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eight last season, They're playing good defense. They're getting turnovers,
they caused the force, fumbled, they got interception, They're causing
issues all to every team, not just the Jacksonville Jaguars.
They went over to London and they packed their defense,
they packed their run game. It's really cool to see
in this very, very tough NFC North Conference to see
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the Chicago Bears playing this well on both sides of
the ball, finally allowing all these playmakers to shine. Caleb
Williams did have a little blimish on his performance an
underthrown ball earlier in the game that got intercepted. You
can't have it. You gotta complete that. DJ Moore ran
a good route, was wide open should have been another
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touchdown pass for him, but it ended up being a turnover.
But those are just some of the things you gotta
clean up. You know, as a young player, he's gonna
have those moments. He's not gonna be perfect. He'll learn
from him. I'm sure Dj Moore is frustrated, like, hey,
come on, like, why do you have to mess up mine?
Everybody else got to eat. I want to eat too.
But those are things I think he'll get fixed. I thought,
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you know, Jacksonville played solid. The third quarter just was
I mean, it just was penalty field. It looked like
it was penalty after penalty after penalty after penalty. On
one of the drives where they had a chance to
stop the Chicago Bears and maybe flip the momentum back
to their side, they just could not get off the field.
Every third down penalty, every third down penalty, every third
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down penalty. They're just shooting themselves in the foot. And
people are calling for Doug Peterson's shop. And I get it,
your team's not winning there one and five. They're a
really talented team. But when you're one and five and
you just paid a quarterback fifty five million, you have
to start pointing a finger out more than the coach,
like did you did the did the quarterback?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Is? Is he not factoring into this?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I mean he had he was twenty three of thirty
five two thirty four, two touchdowns in an interception. Sometimes again,
these wins and losses, you give credit, you give money
to these guys to play at a high level, and
you have a high regard for him. And I was told, oh, man,
Trevor Lawrence got him to the playoffs, but he didn't
get him to the playoffs till Doug Peterson got there.
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And then when he got them to the playoffs, I
was told, Doug Peterson was the answer.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's what I was hearing from Jacksonville fans. Man.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
They were so happy, they were so got a coach
that can unlock the hitting talent of Trevor Lawrence. But
now you're they're calling for Doug Peterson to get fired.
And this is the same Doug Peterson that went to
a super Bowl with Nick Foles after Carson Wentz, who
was who was having an MVP type season went out
with injury, wanted with Nick Foles. And I just don't
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I don't think that that coach is the issue. Now,
maybe he's not doing a great job. Maybe maybe there's
other things factoring in. But Etn is a good player.
Evan Ingram is a good player. I think Gabe Davis
is a good player. I think you have solid players
on defense, especially the defensive line.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And I just don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't I'd love to hear what other people think.
The problem is. I think you have to put some
blame on the quarterback. You have to put some blame
on the defense not getting stops. You have to put
some blame on the head coach. But does firing Doug
Peterson get it done? Does that solve your issues? You
fired Doug Peterson, and who do you hire? Maybe Ben Johnson.
(28:19):
I guess he'll be a top candidate this year. You
hire another offensive coach, so then you give Trevor a
couple more years to blame another offensive coordinator as a
coach and say it's the coach's fault again because he's
not developing. I just don't know. I don't know if
they made the right decision paying him. And now you're
one and five and you have a you're likely going
to be picking in the top ten in the draft.
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Next year and you're not picking a quarterback because you're
just paying him fifty five million. If you pay a
quarterback fifty five million dollars and you're picking in the
top ten, and then he has something to do with it.
Congratulations to the Chicago Bears and the growth of your
young quarterback, the growth of your team, the growth of
your offense, the steady play of your defense in special
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that's been really impressive. I'm looking forward to see these
NFC North matchups because I think it's gonna be a
great game and I'm sure everybody in that building feels
confident and feels good about where they come as a
team after dealing with everything they dealt with last year.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
But on the.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Flip side, Jacksonville Jaguars, they got to figure it out. Now,
you gotta figure it out. You're staying in London, which
I don't know how you feel about that because you
just got your butt kicks there. But butts kicked there
and now you have the new England Patriots coming into town.
And Drake May didn't have the worst game in the world,
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but he's still learning. He's a rookie quarterback. They don't
have as much talent as he probably needs to really thrive,
but he made some cool plays had a forty yard touchdown.
So this isn't gonna be a pushover game either. This
is two two relatively bad teams by NFL standards, coming
in to play each other. And if the Jacksonville Jaguars
lose this game, I would expect them to make a
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move to remove Doug Peterson from the head coaching job.
I don't think it's the right decision, but I think
that the noise would get too loud for them not
to make a move for them not to fire somebody.
Somebody's gonna have to go if they're one and six
after this week and lose to the New England Patriots
in London, which is their pseudo home game in the UK,
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because that's a fan base that follows them, that's where
they put a lot of their resources. And so I'm
really gonna be paying attention to this game this week
because they're playing early enough for us to watch that game.
It'll happen before the ten o'clock games even start and
will likely have an answer on their playing right back
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of what they're gonna do. What the fate of Doug Peterson,
who I believe is a good coach is and then
what Trevor Lawrence is gonna have to do in the future,
because he's gonna be a fifty five million dollar quarterback
no matter what.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You just signed the deal.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
He hasn't even started making that money yet, so you
got at least two years with him before you can
move off of him. And I don't think he's the answer,
and I didn't think he was the answer in the
first place, and I would I had a lot of
questions about how they came to the decision to pay him.
It was like, hey, he's solid, so let's just give
him all the money. No, no, no, no, no, that's
the quarter quarterback you franchise and you may prove it again,
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but now you're stuck in that contract.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Now you're blaming head coaches.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So if you get rid of the head coach and
bring another head coach in and it doesn't work, then
what then they're like, oh, Jacksonville's.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Just Curt curse.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Well, I saw Blake Bortles take him to AFC championship,
so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I got I got ridiculed for the for the Gardner
Minshew comment. But if you're saying, oh, Trevor lawn should
should He took this team to the playoffs and if
he can do that, then he deserves well, y'all wasn't
trying to play pay Blake Bortles. And I know it
was Saxonville and one of the greatest d lines and
one of the greatest sack performances of a defens's had
(31:50):
in this decade. But still Blake Bortles took him to
the AFC Championship and it was really close to getting
him to a Super Bowl. So when you make that
argument about Trevor Lawrence, is gonna fall on deaf Ears
because it's football is a lot bigger game than that,
And that's that argument is it gets crazy once I
start bringing up other facts into it, So let's not
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get too crazy. But moving on, the Bears are getting
a much deserved by week. We're gonna move on to
the Eagles versus the Browns, which was just, I mean,
not a fun game to watch. The I thought both
defenses played solid. There were times again that that Deshaun
Watson looked like his old self. He second half. He
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started off with eight straight completions, not long completions by
any stretch, but completions and found a little bit of
a rhythm. They were getting a little bit of a
rhythm on the ground. Foreman went out for a while
but came back. The Philadelphia Eagles really missed all day.
Always open Aj Brown, he had a huge game. He
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came in and made a huge impact immediately. And that's
where Jalen Hurts was looking early and often. Davonte Smith
had a big time grabbing the game as well. But
they only beat the one in five rounds twenty to sixteen.
And when you have your head coach who's obviously a
human being, and when you're a human being, you hear
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the noise when they're chanting fire you during a game
in which you win. I personally would have turned around
and said, hey, I got some choice works for y'all too.
Like y'all, I can't say it on air, you know,
this is a PG show PG thirteen, But I would
have had the same energy form. But in this league,
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when you have that energy form, there's going to come
with a lot of conversations, a lot of questions, a
lot of ridicule, and I expect them to have to
answer some questions that was a big win, but they
did not win by the margin that you expect them
to beat a one in five team and which your
two weapons back, you expected them to just play and
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perform better offensively. You got the new coordinator. Do you
think intively big Fangil system seems to be starting to
growing guys and guys starting to understand. I thought Quinny
and Mitchell had a good shot of interception, but CJ.
Gardner Johnson, you know, they came together. He was just
a lot of frustration, but there was a chance out
of turnover. I thought Jalen Carter had a lot of
impact this game. He's starting to figure this system out.
(34:20):
They're playing like their K ball on the defensive side.
But again, when you have discourse and you've got chaos
of fans coming after the head coach and bowing them
at home in a game you're winning, and then you
have the coach going back at the fans, that just
doesn't make for an ideal scenario for anybody. I'm sure
it'll be addressed, and I'm looking forward to hear what
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he thinks about that. The Texans continue to roll and
Mitchell's not going to be happy because he thinks is
Detroit Lions need to move up to third in my
power rankings. But the way the Houston Texans are playing.
They put up forty plus points for the first time
with CJ. Stroud at the helm. He threw for one
hundred and ninety two yards three touchdowns in the one interception.
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Joe Mixon man he came back with a vengeance, had
one hundred and two yards and a touchdown. Stefan Dicks
had six catches for seventy seven yards in a touchdown.
Will Anderson, Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter are just fun
to watch it. You just see the pockets collapsing every
single time they're rushing up the field. He had three
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sacks in the game, four TFLs. Three quarterback kids obviously,
but he is becoming the player that they always knew
he would be. I mean three sacks in this game.
And as I said before, they are just built the
right way, the foundational pieces that you want to build
your team around. The Houston Texans have the left tackle
Laramie Tunks and one of the best in football. You
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got the pass rushers now and Daniel Hunter and Will Anderson.
You got the corner in Stingley. You got the receivers. Obviously,
Nico Collins is down for a while, but it was
leading the league in receiving yards for a while when
he was available. You got a good tight end and
Dalton Schultz. You got a good running back or really
good productive running back in Joe Mixon, who has been
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a revelation. I think he's been better than even they
expected him to be coming off the injury. He just
looked fantastic in the past game and a run game.
And then when you lose a guy like Nico Collins,
to have a veteran, outstanding number one receiver who's been
a number one in this league for a long time,
and Stefon Diggs just step up and move right into
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his place. Tank Dale again making an impact. It's just
a cool team to watch, and I still think they're
gonna be there near the end causing problems. I look
forward to seeing which team they play later on in
those rounds. Is it gonna be the Baltimore Ravens or
the Kansas City Chiefs, because either way, I'm gonna be
sitting there with my popcorn watching. I think CJ. Stroud
is gonna find a way to get it done. He's
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the gamer, and he's one of the best quarterbacks in
the National Football League for a reason. Moving on to
the Green Bay Packers in Lambeau, facing the air on the Carndals.
Three fumbles recovered in that game. This defense leading the
league in turnovers. My guy Jeff Haffley at the helm
making sure he gets these guys in the right plays,
(37:11):
gets these guys in the right call. We had Xevier
McKinney on and he just says he has a way
of talking to the players, accepting criticism, accepting feedback from
the players what they want to run, what they don't
want to run, and it has this defense rolling. They're humming.
They're a true contender because offensively they're playing really well.
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Jordan Love playing well enough. Again, they're doing it by committee.
You don't know. Romeo Dobbs had two touchdowns today, Reid
had one. Whether it's gonna be Reid, is it gonna
be Watson. You don't know whose day it's gonna be.
And I don't think they care. Josh Jacobs continues to
run the ball really well, but this defense is causing
turnovers at an alarming rate, and that is why they're
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a very dangerous team, especially late in the season. This
Packers team really abused the Arizona cart News, who were
coming off a huge win against the San Francisco forty
nine ers in which they ran the ball well, they
threw the ball well, they defended well, and they had
no answers to the Green Bay Packers. But this defense
has held opponents below twenty points in four of their
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first six games, which is incredible. This defense, I think
has the makings of one of the best defenses in
the National Football League, and they're coming together and again,
Jeff Hafley is a big reason.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
He's a big change.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Xavier McKinney and his five interceptions and the six turnovers
is also a huge part. Some of the additions they
made along with JayR Alexander and guys like Kenny Clark
continuing to develop, Preston Smith continuing to be in a menace.
I think all those guys, Keishawn Nixon again, they've built
a really strong secondary, really strong defense from the front
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to the back, and it's been impressive. I look forward
to seeing when they run into the Detroit Lions, when
they have to deal with the Minnesota which they've already
played and it didn't look great early and then they
found started to find their rhythm and come through. I
think it's gonna be some really fun again games in
November and December for this team. The Coats find a
way to win again with my guy Flaco. Flaco is
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just getting it done. He's from the old guard. He
has a poise about him. It's not gonna be perfect,
but he's going to get it done. You call the
right plays, he's gonna feed the right guys, he's gonna
hit the open guy, make the right decision. And he's
playing with no nothing to lose. What does he have
to lose? And the Indianapolis Coats could have started Anthony
(39:37):
Richardson this game, but they decided to go with Joe
Flacco the veteran and continue to let Anthony Richardson watch
and learn from this guy. And they're continuing. They won
this game. They had a chance to win against the
Jacksonville Jaguars. Unfortunately they didn't get it done. But it
wasn't because of flacoh mass for sure. He threw for
three fifty nine that game, and he had another good
games eleven play, seventy five yard game winning dry deserves
(40:01):
a lot of credit and a lot of praise for
the way he's played last season with the Browns and
this season with the Indianapolis Colts. If they make the playoffs,
he'd be a big part of it and a big
reason why. And I'm very proud of you Forlao as
one of the guys from the old guard. Keep holding
it down for the veterans.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Well.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
The Buccaneers found a way to put up fifty one
points in the rivalry game against New Orleans Saints. Now
this game, I've been a part of this rivalry at
least in my short tenure with Tampa Bay, and it's
always chaotic, heated. I've never seen fifty one points put
up by either team. I don't think that I can remember,
(40:40):
But Tampa Bay has put up thirty plus in three
straight ball games. Baker Mayfield is playing some of his
best football. He threw for four touchdowns, but he did
have the three interceptions trying to get aggressive, trying to
put the ball into his playmaker's hands. It didn't always
work out great, but this team continues to play well
and do things defensively. Again, Todd Bowles finds a way
(41:02):
to get the most out of his players. They got
the guys to get it done. Vita Bay I had
a good game. Levante David looks like his old self.
They're covering well, They're forcing turnovers at a high till
Baker mayfields through for three hundred and twenty five yards,
four touchdowns three interceptions. His fifteen touchdown passes lead the
National Football League at least for now before the Sunday
(41:25):
night game because Joe can throw for four and be
leading the league again. Chris Godwin, again, the most underrated
receiver in the National Football League, has eleven catches for
one hundred and twenty five yards and two touchdowns, and
one of those touchdowns came he had to work for it.
Broke multiple tackles, probably broke four or five tackles on
that play. To help break this game open for the
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good guys. Tampa Bay Buccaneers come away with the game
where they score with the win, scoring fifty one points
versus their hated rivals, and I know Cam Jordan got
on the podcast and say it does not a rivalry
to them. Their rivals are the Atlanta Falcons, but Tampa
fields this rivalry and putting up fifty one points Saints
(42:10):
might want to take them a little more seriously, that's
for sure. Well again, thank you guys, everyone who's tuned in,
everyone who's hit that subscribe button, everyone who's watched even
a minute of this podcast. I appreciate you for joining
us every single week. Please please continue to stop by.
We're going to continue to give you player interviews and
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recaps every single week. I know you could be anywhere
in the world, but you're here with us and we
appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Have a blessed night.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
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Speaker 2 (01:47):
Don't fo the Bowl championships. That should always be the expectation.
All right, man, ex you go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast. In what an
incredible week. Some crazy games, some upsets, some contenders getting
back to their ways, and the Baltimore Ravens. But the
most surprising game was obviously this Detroit Lions versus the
Dallas Cowboys game. The Detroit Lions had their way with
(02:17):
Dallas the entire game. It looked like a preseason game
where they're just practicing, figuring out things that they like.
You don't usually see this in the National Football League, people,
You don't. You don't usually see teams practicing, Hey we're
gonna we're gonna throw it to this line, and hey,
we're gonna try this trick play. They ran four or
five trick plays in that game. I said it before,
(02:39):
I'll say it again. I was not a fan of
the zimmer higher for the Dallas Cowboys, and you're seeing it,
You're you're seeing what he does is just not the
right fit for the league at this time, and the
players aren't responding to his system, they're not playing well
in it, and they're undermanned right now. They're banged up.
Without DeMarcus Loans, without Micah Parsons, they just don't deron
(03:03):
Bland that corner. They just don't look like the same defense.
But you still shouldn't get blown out forty seven to nine,
And it really wasn't that close.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
They could have had more. There were a couple.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Times they got too cute in the red zone where
they were trying to complete trick plays, trying to make
up trying to give a middle finger to the Dallas
Cowboys in the National Football League and the referees that
took away their touchdown last year because the offensive lineman
didn't report, like at the point Dallas took their starters out.
The Detroit Lions had four hundred and fifty seven yards
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to their one hundred and sixty eight yards of total offense.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That is embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I can't emphasize it enough, like you can't win a
National Football League like this. This is the third straight loss,
and they had another horrible loss earlier this season, forty
four to nineteen to the New Orleans Saints at home,
and this is their worst home loss since nineteen eighty eight,
fifth worst loss in the history of this franchise. I
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Jerry Jones said before the season started they were all in.
They've given up forty plus points twice at home in
three games, but they were all in. Made no free
agent moves that were substinence. Substinence had any substance to him.
(04:26):
So you made no crazy free agent moves, your offensive
line is worse. You lose Tyron Smith, you draft a
rookie still going to develop. We don't know what he
is yet, but he's not Tyron Smith. And although Tyron
was banged up, he still was a very solid player,
high level player. This offensive line is a big part
(04:47):
of the problem. You can't run the football, so you
can't run the football, your one dimensional team. You're expecting
Dak Prescott to have the season he did last year,
but last year the running game was better. And when
you're able to run the ball, when you're able to
play good defense, it takes pressure off the quarterback. And
they're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I don't know. I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You're I expected from them, but I didn't. I expected
this game to be a lot better than what it was.
Micah Parsons people are talking about him doing his podcast
and and the distractions and the team they're they're three
and three. They're three and three, so they're fine. They're
in the middle of this NFC East race that just
doesn't seem like as strong of a division this year.
The Commanders, who look like a real, really cool fun
(05:32):
team to watch, lost to the to the Baltimore Ravens
in a close game. Philadelphia Eagles beat the one in
five Browns by four points at home. You know there
their fans are booing Sirianni and tell and calling for
him to get fired and he's chirping back at the fans.
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So there's a lot of chaos in the NFC East
right now. So it's not out of hand, but it
just doesn't feel like a season where there's a lot
of hope, even when you you have hope. I'm sure
Dallas Cowboy fans don't have a lot of good things
to talk about. Offensively, they look disconnected, disjointed. Dallas Dak
Prescott seventeen to thirty three, one seventy eight, no touchdowns,
(06:14):
two interceptions and just two bad interceptions that were overthrows
to Branch.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
He made the good play. He caught the ball.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I mean, I can't say he made a great play
because it was he was overthrown footballs, but he made
the play, almost took one of them back for a touchdown.
He was sacked four times, could have been sacked more
than that, but he got rid of the ball. Ceedee
Lamb seven catches for eighty nine yards on fourteen targets.
Just haven't hasn't had the production that we expect. We've
expected from him. And after my comment last year, everybody
(06:45):
got on me and killed me or we're oh, you
look at you wrong. Now you know everybody's coming back
to earth. At Dak Prescott's coming back to Earth. Ceedee
Lamb is coming back to Earth, and it's because it's
offensive line more than anything, and he needs a number
two receiver. We thought, you know you hear rumbling straw
training camp, it's Tober. It wasn't Tober had a big
(07:07):
drop and a lot of people were saying, Hey, maybe
it's the sun and the glare of that stadium. Jerry,
this has been an issue in this stadium for years,
and it's time to get it fixed. If it's affecting
your players and it's affecting the other team, then it's
not a home field advantage of any time of any kind.
So you need to put I don't know if they're
gonna shade that or put some tin on the windows
(07:28):
or something, because it's an issue when you're looking in
that direction in the sun is positioned in a certain way.
I've played in that stadium, it becomes a really big issue,
and it was an issue in one of Dak Prescott's interceptions.
It appears, but let's talk about the Detroit Lions because
Mitchell wasn't here today because he was at the game.
So I don't want to go without speaking about the
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Detroit Lions, that Honolulu blue wearing team. They got their
revenge and they kept their foot on the gas the
entire game. Even once the backups came in, they were
still on the ball. Trying to get a touchdown caused
a turnover defense cost two turnovers once the backups came in,
so they weren't They weren't slowing down at all. Jared
(08:11):
Golf played an incredible game eighteen to twenty five for
three point fifteen, three touchdowns, zero interceptions, and it just
looked so easy. He looked like he was throwing playing
pitching catch in practice against the scout team. The entire game.
He looked comfortable in the pocket. He did get sacked
a few times, but that's gonna happen. But this offensive
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line bullied the Dallas Cowboys the entire night. David Montgomery
had twelve carries for eighty yards two touchdowns. Jamier Gibbs
also had twelve carries for around sixty seven yards. I think,
no touchdowns, but they were able to get what they
wanted on the ground. Sam the Porter had the one
catch off the flea flicker for a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Looked really good.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
On the other side, there's a lot of calls for
con and prayers go out to Aiden Hutchinson, who has
been having an incredible season, a phenomenal season, lead in
the league in sacks, got a sack in this game
on that play. Tragically, it appeared that he broke his leg.
You hate to see any kind of injuries like that,
especially an injury that just looks so devastating and gruesome.
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So prayers go out to him and his family that
he has a healthy, fast, quick recovery and he's able
to be the same player or a better player than
he was before the injury, because he's a big part
of the heartbeat of this defense. He's a he's a
he's a great analogy of what this team stands for
who they are. Hard working, gritty player, works hard, play
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in and play out, does everything, does all the little things,
does all the dirty work, and was really, really really
a big time leader on this defense and a big
time playmaker. And that's a huge loss for this Detroit
Lions team, So go out to him. Brian Branch and
Kirby Joseph both have interception in the game. They played
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really good games. Their secondary, their team you just feel
like this Detroit Lions team is starting to jail and
starting to arrive after a season where you lose in
an NFC championship and you get all the way to
the Promised Land, and you kind of surprise people and
sometimes surprise yourselves. Sometimes there's a bit of a loll
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and sometimes there's a bit of a hangover, a disappointment
of what you could have been. But Ben Johnson came
back and his play calling and is more creative than ever.
This offense looks as good as ever. He's finding ways
to get everybody involved. Jamison Williams, who's a big time playmaker,
had three catches for seventy six yards. He found him
in a number of ways, and that's something that he
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seems like he's focused on spreading the ball around. Obviously,
i'man ross Saint Brown got his in this game, a
really cool touchdown reception at the end of the game,
corner of the end zone, front corner of the end
zone from Jared Golf. But I'm just really thinking, feeling
like this team is gonna be there late in the season,
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late in January and competing for the Super Bowl this year.
Potentially our at least in the NFC Championship again. San
Francisco forty nine Ers picked up a big win this week,
but coming off a really, really concerning loss to the
Arizona Cardinals, who again got their faces kicked in this
week by the Green Bay Packers and did not look good.
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Only scored thirteen points in the ball game. But I
think this Detroit Lions team is the BEA's and e's.
I think they're one of the best teams in the NFC.
It's gonna be tough. I want to see how they
compete against the Minnesota Vikings because they're the cream of
the crop right now in the North. And I know
it's unexpected, but they're five and zero, they're playing good football.
They've beat some of the NFC's best, mainly the San
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Francisco forty nine ers out in Minnesota. So this is
the division opponent this division with them Detroit's four and one,
Minnesota's five and zero. I think the Chicago Bears are
four and two now. Caleb Williams is starting to come
around and play good football. Went out to London and
had his way with the Jacksonville Jaguars, So this is
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gonna be one of the toughest divisions in football.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
It already was.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
We just talked about the Green Bay Packers putting a
whooping on the Arizona Cardinals in Lambeau.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
They're four and two.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
It's pointing towards some really really fun matchups, some really
really fun, meaningful games in November and December, and I
can't wait to see it. Because they're likely going to
put three, at least three teams in the playoffs this year.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
That's the way it's trending.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
And of course one of them is going to be
the Detroit Lions and that offensive line. Again, these teams
are built in their trenches, and the teams built in
their trenches usually have a lot of success in the playoffs.
And speaking of that matchup, we're getting that matchup that
I'm talking about next week. The Lions are in Minnesota
to play the Minnesota Vikings. Coming off of bye week.
I can't wait to watch game. The Cowboys have a
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bye week to think about this forty seven to nine
drubbing that they just took at the hands of the
Detroit Lions. I mean, they just looked better in every
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once the twos came in. The Dallas Cowboys drove the
ball down the field, got into the red area and
guess what, the Detroit Lions took it away. That was
Kirby Josiphs interception in the end zone. They took it
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away again on the next drive. You gotta give it
to them, the Ones, the twos, everybody on this team
came ready to play. This defense is going to be
a problem going forward. And this is after they lost
one of their biggest playmakers in a game, which is
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to that my favorite game, my game in a week
that I thought would be a really fun matchup between
the Washington Commanders and the Baltimore Ravens Jade and Janiel.
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I wanted to see how he would stand up against
a true contender in the AFC, A team that was
in the AFC Championship, that's been perennial contenders, that's always
got a really strong defense. Lamar Jackson does not lose
to NFC teams for some reason, and he did not
lose this day. Jaydon Daniels was twenty four to thirty
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five two sixty nine two touchdowns, a pretty solid game.
Didn't get as much on the grounds as he had
in previous games that he had a good plan for him,
they put a lot of pressure on him. Terry McLaurin
six catches for fifty three yards two touchdowns, Dante Fowler
had two sacks, was an impact player all day in
this game. But Lamar Jackson again incredible twenty of twenty
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six three to twenty three one touchdown, did throw the
interception early in the game. But Derrick Henry continues to
make this team go and continues to be the engine
that this team relies on early and of course Layton
Ball games twenty four rushes for one to thirty two
to two touchdowns, leads the NFL with nine rushing touchdowns.
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He's been a factor this team. It seems like the
Baltimore Ravens again on the ground, getting their mojo back,
getting their consistency back after a really head scratching loss
against the Las Vegas Raiders and a loss that you
can understand against the reigning Super Bowl champs and the
Kansas City Chiefs. They have fixed their formula. They're running
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the ball more than ever and when they're not running
the ball in Lamar Jackson is finding his way through
the air, being efficient with the football, taking his shots
when he can. They're running more quarterback powers and he's
getting some games there. But having Derrick Henry, I think
they're over the last seven to six games, they're the
greatest rushing duo to ever step foot in the National
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Football I'm talking about quarterback and running back together. It's
been incredible. They've won four straight. Derek Henry is the
first player since Ladanian Tomlinson in two thousand and five
with a rushing touchdown in six straight games. And he's
not just getting the one yard touchdowns. He's getting long gains,
big gains. He's wearing defensives down. He's the last of
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the great you know, every down back downhill I formation
full back in front downhill backs that is left in
the National Football League. There are some really good backs
in them, but they're more versatile Alvin Kamara, you got
Christian McCaffrey, who's obviously injured right now. You got a
lot of backs who catch the ball out of the backfield.
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Sa Kwon Barkley out in Philadelphia. But he's the last
of the old school, old school football backs that just hey,
line him up in eye, downhill, downhill, downhill, twenty four carries.
He's gonna wear down this off I mean this defensive line,
wear down these linebackers and continue to punish them. Hey,
Baltimore Ravens are playing just incredible football both sides of
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the football. They're playing incredible ball both sides and defensively.
They were able to corral Jaydon Daniels in a way
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Speaker 2 (18:43):
Each and every week.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Six touchdowns, I mean a rushing touchdown in every single
game this season. He's a dominant for us. I think
He's the factor that the Baltimore Ravens were looking for,
and I think they're going to continue to lean on him.
And when the playoffs come, we're not gonna be talking about, man,
they should have ran the ball more. They're gonna give
it to Derrick Henry twenty to twenty five times and
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see what happens. If Lamar Jackson can continue to play
at the level he's playing, this team is going to
be very tough to get out of the playoffs. Even
for teams like the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens,
I mean, and the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Texans.
It's gonna be some fun, fun, fun football late in
the season. I can't wait for it. Shout out to
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Great game.
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Speaker 2 (20:55):
And now it's time to move on and talk about
the Chicago Bears and the Jackson Bille Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
And I know, I know, I know, don't keep beating
up Trevor Lawrence. I mean, it's enough he's seen. I know,
I know, Trevor didn't even play that bad. I'll give
you that. Trevor didn't play an awful game. He didn't
have the he did have the interception, but didn't fumble
the ball, didn't have a lot of turnovers. Did have
a turnover, but they're not getting a lot from this defense.
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And Caleb Williams, who struggled with this season at times,
you know, to diagnose defense holds the ball a little bit,
especially when you when you disguise coverage a little bit,
had his best game as a pro. Caleb Williams has
gotten better and I've seen growth in him. He's getting
the ball out quicker. On three of his touchdown and
explosive passes, the ball was out and under two and
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a half seconds. That's a huge growth and a huge
improvement from where he was at the beginning of the season,
where he's holding the ball waiting for plays to develop,
trying to get the home run hit. Now he's understanding, hey,
you can get a home run off a line drive.
It's going to be an infield home run. But he's
getting the ball to his playmakers quick. Keenan Allen being
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back and healthy is a huge part of that. He
threw a dime to him early in the game for
a touchdown. That's a great safety blanket to have. Cole
Comet had a really good game. They're being creative. That's
what I really like about what I'm seeing about the
Chicago Bears is that creativity. Offensively, I'm seeing a lot
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of motion. I'm seeing a lot of screen games. I've
seen plays that I only seen from Kyle Shanahan and
Andy Reid before. I mean, you're talking about the fake
tunnel screen, to the fake bubble screen, to the scene
straight down the middle. I saw Kyle Shanahan do it
against the Seattle Seahawks a number of years ago. I
saw I saw the Kansas City Chiefs do it against us,
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and when I was in San Francisco in twenty eighteen,
I seen him with a number of other times.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
But it's that kind of.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Creativity that takes some of the pressure off the offensive
line and allowed makes the defensive line kind of take
a step back and think a little more than they
have to. They don't just get to pin their ears
back and go after the quarterback with no thought of, Hey,
it might be a screen, it may be this it
may be that you're putting their eyes in different places.
You're spreading the defense, You're putting a lot of hesitation
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and doubt in the defender's heads. And that's what's allowing
Caleb Williams to continue to thrive. He's seven touchdowns and
to one interception, seventy four percent completion percentage one hundred
and twenty two point eight passer rating in the last
three games. That's an incredible deal. We were very tough
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on the Chicago Bears offensive line, and some of it
was warranted and some of it is on the quarterback
holding the ball too long and taking unnecessary sacks. Both
sides have improved. The offensive line is playing better for
the Chicago Bears. Caleb Williams is getting the ball out quicker,
He's making better decisions, throwing the ball away when he
doesn't have it. Those are some of the things you
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learn as a young player. You get better. Another revelation
that's coming into the fold is DeAndre Swift seventeen carries
for ninety one yards and a touchdown. That rushing attack
again helps a young quarterback to thrive. It helps him.
It makes sure that the d line has to respect
the run. They have to respect that, Hey, we will
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gass you in the run game. So you can't just
rush past. You can't just rush up the field. You
have to play for the run too. So all those
things help a young quarterback, help a passing game, help
an offensive line, and that's what's happening. But then on
the other side, this Chicago Bears defense has been legit.
We talked about the number one defense since Week eight
of last season. Continuing what they started at from Week
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eight last season, They're playing good defense. They're getting turnovers,
they caused the force, fumbled, they got interception, They're causing
issues all to every team, not just the Jacksonville Jaguars.
They went over to London and they packed their defense,
they packed their run game. It's really cool to see
in this very, very tough NFC North Conference to see
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the Chicago Bears playing this well on both sides of
the ball, finally allowing all these playmakers to shine. Caleb
Williams did have a little blimish on his performance an
underthrown ball earlier in the game that got intercepted. You
can't have it. You gotta complete that. DJ Moore ran
a good route, was wide open should have been another
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touchdown pass for him, but it ended up being a turnover.
But those are just some of the things you gotta
clean up. You know, as a young player, he's gonna
have those moments. He's not gonna be perfect. He'll learn
from him. I'm sure Dj Moore is frustrated, like, hey,
come on, like, why do you have to mess up mine?
Everybody else got to eat. I want to eat too.
But those are things I think he'll get fixed. I thought,
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you know, Jacksonville played solid. The third quarter just was
I mean, it just was penalty field. It looked like
it was penalty after penalty after penalty after penalty. On
one of the drives where they had a chance to
stop the Chicago Bears and maybe flip the momentum back
to their side, they just could not get off the field.
Every third down penalty, every third down penalty, every third
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down penalty. They're just shooting themselves in the foot. And
people are calling for Doug Peterson's shop. And I get it,
your team's not winning there one and five. They're a
really talented team. But when you're one and five and
you just paid a quarterback fifty five million, you have
to start pointing a finger out more than the coach,
like did you did the did the quarterback?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Is? Is he not factoring into this?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I mean he had he was twenty three of thirty
five two thirty four, two touchdowns in an interception. Sometimes again,
these wins and losses, you give credit, you give money
to these guys to play at a high level, and
you have a high regard for him. And I was told, oh, man,
Trevor Lawrence got him to the playoffs, but he didn't
get him to the playoffs till Doug Peterson got there.
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And then when he got them to the playoffs, I
was told, Doug Peterson was the answer.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
That's what I was hearing from Jacksonville fans. Man.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
They were so happy, they were so got a coach
that can unlock the hitting talent of Trevor Lawrence. But
now you're they're calling for Doug Peterson to get fired.
And this is the same Doug Peterson that went to
a super Bowl with Nick Foles after Carson Wentz, who
was who was having an MVP type season went out
with injury, wanted with Nick Foles. And I just don't
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I don't think that that coach is the issue. Now,
maybe he's not doing a great job. Maybe maybe there's
other things factoring in. But Etn is a good player.
Evan Ingram is a good player. I think Gabe Davis
is a good player. I think you have solid players
on defense, especially the defensive line.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And I just don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't I'd love to hear what other people think.
The problem is. I think you have to put some
blame on the quarterback. You have to put some blame
on the defense not getting stops. You have to put
some blame on the head coach. But does firing Doug
Peterson get it done? Does that solve your issues? You
fired Doug Peterson, and who do you hire? Maybe Ben Johnson.
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I guess he'll be a top candidate this year. You
hire another offensive coach, so then you give Trevor a
couple more years to blame another offensive coordinator as a
coach and say it's the coach's fault again because he's
not developing. I just don't know. I don't know if
they made the right decision paying him. And now you're
one and five and you have a you're likely going
to be picking in the top ten in the draft.
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Next year and you're not picking a quarterback because you're
just paying him fifty five million. If you pay a
quarterback fifty five million dollars and you're picking in the
top ten, and then he has something to do with it.
Congratulations to the Chicago Bears and the growth of your
young quarterback, the growth of your team, the growth of
your offense, the steady play of your defense in special
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that's been really impressive. I'm looking forward to see these
NFC North matchups because I think it's gonna be a
great game and I'm sure everybody in that building feels
confident and feels good about where they come as a
team after dealing with everything they dealt with last year.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
But on the.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Flip side, Jacksonville Jaguars, they got to figure it out. Now,
you gotta figure it out. You're staying in London, which
I don't know how you feel about that because you
just got your butt kicks there. But butts kicked there
and now you have the new England Patriots coming into town.
And Drake May didn't have the worst game in the world,
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but he's still learning. He's a rookie quarterback. They don't
have as much talent as he probably needs to really thrive,
but he made some cool plays had a forty yard touchdown.
So this isn't gonna be a pushover game either. This
is two two relatively bad teams by NFL standards, coming
in to play each other. And if the Jacksonville Jaguars
lose this game, I would expect them to make a
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move to remove Doug Peterson from the head coaching job.
I don't think it's the right decision, but I think
that the noise would get too loud for them not
to make a move for them not to fire somebody.
Somebody's gonna have to go if they're one and six
after this week and lose to the New England Patriots
in London, which is their pseudo home game in the UK,
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because that's a fan base that follows them, that's where
they put a lot of their resources. And so I'm
really gonna be paying attention to this game this week
because they're playing early enough for us to watch that game.
It'll happen before the ten o'clock games even start and
will likely have an answer on their playing right back
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of what they're gonna do. What the fate of Doug Peterson,
who I believe is a good coach is and then
what Trevor Lawrence is gonna have to do in the future,
because he's gonna be a fifty five million dollar quarterback
no matter what.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You just signed the deal.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
He hasn't even started making that money yet, so you
got at least two years with him before you can
move off of him. And I don't think he's the answer,
and I didn't think he was the answer in the
first place, and I would I had a lot of
questions about how they came to the decision to pay him.
It was like, hey, he's solid, so let's just give
him all the money. No, no, no, no, no, that's
the quarter quarterback you franchise and you may prove it again,
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but now you're stuck in that contract.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Now you're blaming head coaches.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So if you get rid of the head coach and
bring another head coach in and it doesn't work, then
what then they're like, oh, Jacksonville's.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Just Curt curse.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Well, I saw Blake Bortles take him to AFC championship,
so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I got I got ridiculed for the for the Gardner
Minshew comment. But if you're saying, oh, Trevor lawn should
should He took this team to the playoffs and if
he can do that, then he deserves well, y'all wasn't
trying to play pay Blake Bortles. And I know it
was Saxonville and one of the greatest d lines and
one of the greatest sack performances of a defens's had
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in this decade. But still Blake Bortles took him to
the AFC Championship and it was really close to getting
him to a Super Bowl. So when you make that
argument about Trevor Lawrence, is gonna fall on deaf Ears
because it's football is a lot bigger game than that,
And that's that argument is it gets crazy once I
start bringing up other facts into it, So let's not
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get too crazy. But moving on, the Bears are getting
a much deserved by week. We're gonna move on to
the Eagles versus the Browns, which was just, I mean,
not a fun game to watch. The I thought both
defenses played solid. There were times again that that Deshaun
Watson looked like his old self. He second half. He
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started off with eight straight completions, not long completions by
any stretch, but completions and found a little bit of
a rhythm. They were getting a little bit of a
rhythm on the ground. Foreman went out for a while
but came back. The Philadelphia Eagles really missed all day.
Always open Aj Brown, he had a huge game. He
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came in and made a huge impact immediately. And that's
where Jalen Hurts was looking early and often. Davonte Smith
had a big time grabbing the game as well. But
they only beat the one in five rounds twenty to sixteen.
And when you have your head coach who's obviously a
human being, and when you're a human being, you hear
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the noise when they're chanting fire you during a game
in which you win. I personally would have turned around
and said, hey, I got some choice works for y'all too.
Like y'all, I can't say it on air, you know,
this is a PG show PG thirteen, But I would
have had the same energy form. But in this league,
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when you have that energy form, there's going to come
with a lot of conversations, a lot of questions, a
lot of ridicule, and I expect them to have to
answer some questions that was a big win, but they
did not win by the margin that you expect them
to beat a one in five team and which your
two weapons back, you expected them to just play and
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perform better offensively. You got the new coordinator. Do you
think intively big Fangil system seems to be starting to
growing guys and guys starting to understand. I thought Quinny
and Mitchell had a good shot of interception, but CJ.
Gardner Johnson, you know, they came together. He was just
a lot of frustration, but there was a chance out
of turnover. I thought Jalen Carter had a lot of
impact this game. He's starting to figure this system out.
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They're playing like their K ball on the defensive side.
But again, when you have discourse and you've got chaos
of fans coming after the head coach and bowing them
at home in a game you're winning, and then you
have the coach going back at the fans, that just
doesn't make for an ideal scenario for anybody. I'm sure
it'll be addressed, and I'm looking forward to hear what
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he thinks about that. The Texans continue to roll and
Mitchell's not going to be happy because he thinks is
Detroit Lions need to move up to third in my
power rankings. But the way the Houston Texans are playing.
They put up forty plus points for the first time
with CJ. Stroud at the helm. He threw for one
hundred and ninety two yards three touchdowns in the one interception.
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Joe Mixon man he came back with a vengeance, had
one hundred and two yards and a touchdown. Stefan Dicks
had six catches for seventy seven yards in a touchdown.
Will Anderson, Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter are just fun
to watch it. You just see the pockets collapsing every
single time they're rushing up the field. He had three
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sacks in the game, four TFLs. Three quarterback kids obviously,
but he is becoming the player that they always knew
he would be. I mean three sacks in this game.
And as I said before, they are just built the
right way, the foundational pieces that you want to build
your team around. The Houston Texans have the left tackle
Laramie Tunks and one of the best in football. You
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got the pass rushers now and Daniel Hunter and Will Anderson.
You got the corner in Stingley. You got the receivers. Obviously,
Nico Collins is down for a while, but it was
leading the league in receiving yards for a while when
he was available. You got a good tight end and
Dalton Schultz. You got a good running back or really
good productive running back in Joe Mixon, who has been
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a revelation. I think he's been better than even they
expected him to be coming off the injury. He just
looked fantastic in the past game and a run game.
And then when you lose a guy like Nico Collins,
to have a veteran, outstanding number one receiver who's been
a number one in this league for a long time,
and Stefon Diggs just step up and move right into
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his place. Tank Dale again making an impact. It's just
a cool team to watch, and I still think they're
gonna be there near the end causing problems. I look
forward to seeing which team they play later on in
those rounds. Is it gonna be the Baltimore Ravens or
the Kansas City Chiefs, because either way, I'm gonna be
sitting there with my popcorn watching. I think CJ. Stroud
is gonna find a way to get it done. He's
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the gamer, and he's one of the best quarterbacks in
the National Football League for a reason. Moving on to
the Green Bay Packers in Lambeau, facing the air on the Carndals.
Three fumbles recovered in that game. This defense leading the
league in turnovers. My guy Jeff Haffley at the helm
making sure he gets these guys in the right plays,
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gets these guys in the right call. We had Xevier
McKinney on and he just says he has a way
of talking to the players, accepting criticism, accepting feedback from
the players what they want to run, what they don't
want to run, and it has this defense rolling. They're humming.
They're a true contender because offensively they're playing really well.
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Jordan Love playing well enough. Again, they're doing it by committee.
You don't know. Romeo Dobbs had two touchdowns today, Reid
had one. Whether it's gonna be Reid, is it gonna
be Watson. You don't know whose day it's gonna be.
And I don't think they care. Josh Jacobs continues to
run the ball really well, but this defense is causing
turnovers at an alarming rate, and that is why they're
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a very dangerous team, especially late in the season. This
Packers team really abused the Arizona cart News, who were
coming off a huge win against the San Francisco forty
nine ers in which they ran the ball well, they
threw the ball well, they defended well, and they had
no answers to the Green Bay Packers. But this defense
has held opponents below twenty points in four of their
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first six games, which is incredible. This defense, I think
has the makings of one of the best defenses in
the National Football League, and they're coming together and again,
Jeff Hafley is a big reason.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
He's a big change.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Xavier McKinney and his five interceptions and the six turnovers
is also a huge part. Some of the additions they
made along with JayR Alexander and guys like Kenny Clark
continuing to develop, Preston Smith continuing to be in a menace.
I think all those guys, Keishawn Nixon again, they've built
a really strong secondary, really strong defense from the front
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to the back, and it's been impressive. I look forward
to seeing when they run into the Detroit Lions, when
they have to deal with the Minnesota which they've already
played and it didn't look great early and then they
found started to find their rhythm and come through. I
think it's gonna be some really fun again games in
November and December for this team. The Coats find a
way to win again with my guy Flaco. Flaco is
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just getting it done. He's from the old guard. He
has a poise about him. It's not gonna be perfect,
but he's going to get it done. You call the
right plays, he's gonna feed the right guys, he's gonna
hit the open guy, make the right decision. And he's
playing with no nothing to lose. What does he have
to lose? And the Indianapolis Coats could have started Anthony
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Richardson this game, but they decided to go with Joe
Flacco the veteran and continue to let Anthony Richardson watch
and learn from this guy. And they're continuing. They won
this game. They had a chance to win against the
Jacksonville Jaguars. Unfortunately they didn't get it done. But it
wasn't because of flacoh mass for sure. He threw for
three fifty nine that game, and he had another good
games eleven play, seventy five yard game winning dry deserves
(40:01):
a lot of credit and a lot of praise for
the way he's played last season with the Browns and
this season with the Indianapolis Colts. If they make the playoffs,
he'd be a big part of it and a big
reason why. And I'm very proud of you Forlao as
one of the guys from the old guard. Keep holding
it down for the veterans.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Well.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
The Buccaneers found a way to put up fifty one
points in the rivalry game against New Orleans Saints. Now
this game, I've been a part of this rivalry at
least in my short tenure with Tampa Bay, and it's
always chaotic, heated. I've never seen fifty one points put
up by either team. I don't think that I can remember,
(40:40):
But Tampa Bay has put up thirty plus in three
straight ball games. Baker Mayfield is playing some of his
best football. He threw for four touchdowns, but he did
have the three interceptions trying to get aggressive, trying to
put the ball into his playmaker's hands. It didn't always
work out great, but this team continues to play well
and do things defensively. Again, Todd Bowles finds a way
(41:02):
to get the most out of his players. They got
the guys to get it done. Vita Bay I had
a good game. Levante David looks like his old self.
They're covering well, They're forcing turnovers at a high till
Baker mayfields through for three hundred and twenty five yards,
four touchdowns three interceptions. His fifteen touchdown passes lead the
National Football League at least for now before the Sunday
(41:25):
night game because Joe can throw for four and be
leading the league again. Chris Godwin, again, the most underrated
receiver in the National Football League, has eleven catches for
one hundred and twenty five yards and two touchdowns, and
one of those touchdowns came he had to work for it.
Broke multiple tackles, probably broke four or five tackles on
that play. To help break this game open for the
(41:48):
good guys. Tampa Bay Buccaneers come away with the game
where they score with the win, scoring fifty one points
versus their hated rivals, and I know Cam Jordan got
on the podcast and say it does not a rivalry
to them. Their rivals are the Atlanta Falcons, but Tampa
fields this rivalry and putting up fifty one points Saints
(42:10):
might want to take them a little more seriously, that's
for sure. Well again, thank you guys, everyone who's tuned in,
everyone who's hit that subscribe button, everyone who's watched even
a minute of this podcast. I appreciate you for joining
us every single week. Please please continue to stop by.
We're going to continue to give you player interviews and
(42:31):
recaps every single week. I know you could be anywhere
in the world, but you're here with us and we
appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Have a blessed night.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
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