October 8, 2024 • 52 mins
Gregg Rosenthal is joined by Bridget Condon to recap the Saints and Chiefs facing off on Monday Night Football. The show starts with a discussion about the Chiefs finding their form against the Saints (03:08), followed by talk about Derek Carr and the state of the Saints (17:15), and highlights of Patrick Mahomes' stellar night (24:47). After the break, you get caught up on news from around the NFL including injury updates for Rashee Rice and Nico Collins (32:48), a debate on whether or not Drake Maye should start for the Patriots (34:50), and the players of the week (44:21).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chief said a power pistol.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Look here, they will shift to Kelsey.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Kelsey's in a wildcat position and to.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Give it off the Worthy on the right side.
Speaker 4 (00:09):
Worthy sneaks out of the hands out touchdown Kansas City
on an RPO and from Travis Kelsey and Lauren nut
shoulder and ducking under the defender and the Chiefs go
up twenty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Two to thirteen. That was Mitch Holtis wda F. The
Saints thought they were in the game for just a
second and the Chief said, no, thank you. This is
a one sided affair. Xavier Worthy rushes it in from
just a few yards out on the way to a
twenty six to thirteen victory. Welcome to NFL Daily, where
(00:51):
we wouldn't do anything stupid like picking the New Orleans
Saints in Arrowhead. I'm Greg Rosenthal. I'm in the Chris
Westleyan pod studio and so excited to be joined by
Bridget Condon for the first time, at least in person.
You did a summer episode with us from Cincinnati, but
(01:12):
here you are in the studio ready to talk some
Chiefs and some Saints. Welcome Bridget.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I know that you guys are probably wondering like how
do they pick which reporters get to be in the
studio The one and only Greg Rosenthal. Let me tell you,
I have been begging this man next to me day
in and day out.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's like a full time job.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Probably I spend more time doing that job than my
actual job, begging on my hands and knees to just
allow me one minute of his time for his beautiful
NFL Daily podcast that has been incredible since its inception,
And now finally I get the chance to sit beside
because I think nobody else could make it tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Now, no, that is not it. We were downstairs doing
the coverage on Channel five. So if you're in the UK,
maybe you watched this bridget does that every week. I'm
popping in here and there, and yeah, we got to
walk right upstairs. But I'm glad you brought up the
elephant in the room right off the bat, which is yes,
you have been You're very persistent, and you're hilarious, and
(02:12):
you're you're a mask like me, and look, we got
like our sets. I'm not gonna defend myself. We can
get into that during the show. But I'm just glad
that you're here.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
All I'm saying is, can you guys please give rave
reviews so that I can come back. It's I'm averaging
like one episode in this podcast studio a year, but honestly,
I've got a lot to say tonight. So I think
this is the beginning of the start of something beautiful.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I I agree. I think it's it's the beginning of
big time. Bridget condon Era on the NFL Daily. You
don't want to just like use all your stars right
off the bat.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
You want like Xavi, you're worthy, baby son, steady where
I was going with that. You want to like sprinkle
it in. Thank you Eric, our producer coming in on
a Monday night. It does feel good to be in
the studio on a Monday night. It's what the and
the Saints deserve.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And I'm glad we started with that highlight because that drive,
that possession, to me was kind of this game in
a nutshell. For a second, Bridget, we're doing this game.
We stupidly picked the Saints, which is really ridiculous. OK,
for yourself, I mean you picked the Saints as well.
I feel ridiculous. We keep track of the records and
(03:24):
just what a dumb pick even for them to cover
was dumb, but they got it to within sixteen fourteen.
After sixteen thirteen, they missed the extra point. Good point.
That's why you're you're gonna be in this studio a lot.
Colin Saunders had that insane interception that we will talk
about a bit, and for a second you're like, wow,
this game that the Saints really have been outplayed throughout.
(03:46):
They're in the game and I'm gonna just go through
like what happened. Immediately after that, they gave the ball
the Kareem Hunt for four yards like every Kareem Hunt
run felt like it was successful. Then they give it.
Then they throw it to Jujuspis fifty yards wide over.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
He almost looked like he was going into the end
zone that one Saints defender like came out of the screen.
But for a second he wasn't on the camera shot.
I thought he was going straight.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
To the end never a burner, but you know, probably
not as fast as he used to be. Jujus smiths Uster,
You're right, but it was just miles of green grass
in front of him, and Juju's like just running open
fifty yards like he has. Rod Mayo's turning off the TV.
Oh my god, like Juju hasn't been this happy since
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he was like doing his tiktoks when he was on
the Steelers and it was like the number one star
in the league, or maybe when he was winning the
Super Bowl as a really important role player for the Chiefs,
and who knows, maybe he will be again. And so
he ends up with seven catches for one hundred and
thirty yards, like what okay.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
How was his first game of more than one hundred
yards since Week seven of twenty twenty two and that
was when he was with Kansas City. So he goes
to New England, doesn't have a single game of one
hundred yards, like, we're gonna cut you. You're not good
enough for our team, heads back to Kansas City and
now has a dominant game.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
That the Patriots are paying him a lot of money
this year to not be on the Patriots because they
have offsets in the contract where the Chief's paying whatever
they're paying them, but all the remaining money that the
guarantees that the Patriots had, which was like seven or
eight million, they were like, you're so bad, we don't
want you on our team tonight. And this is a
shout out to Ben Solac of ESPN had the stat where, yeah,
(05:25):
Schuster is one hundred and thirty yards tonight is actually
more than any Patriots receiver has on the season combined.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
That just feels like the Patriots. I don't know what
else to say. I'm sorry if you're a Patriots fan listening.
Also an interesting stat I just saw from our research
team that one hundred and thirty receiving yards the most
by a Chiefs receiver since Tyreek Hill was treated.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Wow. Kind of crazy, right.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I don't think that coming into this season we would
be thinking juju Smith Schuster, the number one wide receiver
for the child. Of course they've dealt has multiple right,
multiple injuries. He had two catches on the season before tonight.
I don't think he he's gonna suddenly right but the
fountain of youth. But he could be a role player
for them.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
He can help and they are so good at scheming
guys open. And that was sort of my takeaway from
these sequences. It's just things were easy except in the
red zone for the Chiefs. So after that, Jujus Smith
Suster play hunt for another five yards. Like I said,
every run is successful. He looks like he has a
lot of Jews. There's a penalty on the play that
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gets them even closer. Penalties were a big problem for
the Saints tonight, setting the Chiefs up in advantageous situations.
And then finally the last play of the drive and
it took just you know, a couple of minutes. Is
that direct snap to Kelsey where he hands it off
to Worthy And we're watching the game and we're just
so used to this stuff with the Chiefs that it's like, oh, yeah,
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they snap it to Travis Kelce, the thirty five year
old tight end who's that quarterback, and he hands it
off to the twenty one year old guy who set
the record at the Combine for the fastest forty and
he runs in for the touchdown. It's just like, oh yeah,
that's what Andy Reid does. But it's just that's the
Chiefs in a nutshell, And I thought it was fitting
and great for the Chiefs that on their best night
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of the season, which I think this was by a
good margin, they immediately responded to what the Saints are
doing and we're like, no, you're not gonna win this game.
You're not really that competitive. You're not in our league.
A good friend of mine calls it the fake good Saints.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I won't say that, but it did look like a
different These last three games have looked like a different
Saints team than the first two games. Of course, they
are dealing with so many injuries themselves. But you talk
about this offense right coming into this game, it wasn't
the Chiefs are four and oh, the Chiefs are gonna
three peet, No, it was the Chiefs are four and oh,
but they don't look good.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
The Chiefs are four and oh, but their offense hasn't clicked.
Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I think they were forty five percent in the red
zone again tonight two two for six in the red zone,
or coming into this game forty five percent on the season,
and then tonight two for six. Patrick Mahomes and the
offense have you know, in the main key offensive metrics
some of the worst of the Patrick.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Mahomes error era.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
But tonight he breaks that six game drought without three
hundred or more passing yards. So it feels like this
was maybe the game. Yes, you put all the pieces together.
You made a good point on Channel five show about
how it kind of felt like the old school Patriots
where Bill Belichick gets his you know, sees what weapons
he has and then figures it out and is like, Okay,
this is what's going to work this season. This isn't
(08:22):
And it felt like tonight Andy Reid and this Patrick
Mahomes offense finally found a way to use all of
the pieces that they do have. Keep in mind, so
many are hurt, right. We got the news just before
the game. Ian Rapaport first reported that Rashie Rice is
not going to return this season.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So that huge blow. Yeah, that is a big disappointment
because there just was uncertainty. They were waiting for the
swelling to go down, They had to see more, they
had to do the surgery until they knew. And it's
framed as good news that it's not going to be
a torn acl it appears that, but either way, he
still expected to miss six months not coming back. So
you're gonna have to rely on Smith Schuster and Travis Kelcey.
(09:04):
You look at the guys who are getting all the yards,
Michael Hardman and Kareem Hunt, and yeah, spin the dial,
but you can certainly dial it back to like the
twenty twenty two season. I know Kareem Hunt was in
Cleveland at that point. So we're mixing different chiefs Era Eras,
Travis Kelcey with his nine for seventy and you know
his his girl in the crowd with with her, you're talking.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
About Eras, Yeah, talking about Taylor. I love the way
that you put that in for the gal. It's in
my mind today because Bill Belichick. Did you talk about
that yet?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
No, that was Monday. I don't know exactly what we
can talk about about the Bill Belichick Instagram picture wearing
Twitter tailor instaw it was. It was on his girlfriend's Instagram.
You follow her, they're public, No, but someone you know
copied it and put it out on Twitter, and well,
don't think the older follow now. No, even that feels creepy.
(09:59):
I mean, like forget dating her. But I'm glad they're happy,
and I'm mostly glad that his Taylor Swift sweatshirt had
was like chewed on or had the little rip thing
not chewed.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
But you know the way you just look like the
image in my mind, okay, it looks like it's it's
chewed by like your I have I have a young son.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
They chew all their sweatshirts and the way Bill Belichick's sweatshirts. Look,
that's what his sweatshirts always look like. But no, it's
because he cuts them and I wanted to see the
sleeves on it. But I'm very happy, and uh, you know,
he's out there. He's out there getting work. Just today
I saw to get off the game for like one second.
I saw that he's on the Jim Gray podcast with
(10:41):
a bunch of other coaching legends. He was on the
Pat mcaffee show earlier today giving like kind of vanilla analysis.
Sometimes I want a little more when when he's on
the Manning Cast, at least he dives into like what
the plays are. And then he was on the Manning
Cast tonight and I got a text from my wife Emica,
who said, for the first time ever, Walker turned off
(11:03):
de Manning Cast and because it's so boring with Belichick
that he ruins it. I think he ruins. He ruins
all the fun was the quote, which is like probably
how a lot of his players felt during his career.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I think that if he would just pull back the sweatshirt,
for lack of a better word, he could be really funny.
But I think that he's still reserved a bit because
who knows if he'll get back into coaching next year,
and I don't think he wants to completely give in
if he then has to go back and try to
control the locker room and they're like poking fun at
him for I don't know, doing a TikTok dance or something.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I think you've nailed it. And to build on that point,
I don't think he wants to say anything that can
be used against him when he's a coach next year,
like he said something negative about a certain player and
then he goes against that player or he's coaching that player,
but more likely he's going against it. I think you're
absolutely right, because I think he does a great job
when he's in storytelling Bill Belichick mode, and he gives
(12:02):
old stories and behind the scenes stuff, and sometimes when
he's a little caustic about you know, the league or
you know the teams that didn't hire him, he could
tell he had a little something about the Falcons. Okay,
let's get back to this game, because you mentioned it.
Mahomes throws for over three hundred yards, does not need
to throw the ball deep in this game, And I
just think it was kind of a masterclass and a
(12:25):
dominant coaching performance. This is a Saints defense that, yeah,
has a couple injuries, but not nearly the amount of
injuries that they do on the offensive side of the ball.
They've been building this defense for Dennis Allen forever. I
picked the Saints in part because I thought their secondary
would be able to cover this Chiefs team. And what
do you see, Like it was just easy. It was
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just a lot of like five yard throws with ten
yards of yak afterwards, and Andy Reid had it all
over Dennis Allen. Dennis Allen doesn't want to give up
big plays. Well, he gave up fifty to Smith Schuster.
He gave up a room long pass interference to Xavier
Worthy that was on paulsen Adebo. There could have been
another one of those called earlier in the game. And
(13:07):
so this is a defense that needs to carry this team.
And they're good, but they're not good enough. Like they're not.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
But the offense wasn't helping at all. You throw the
first drive of the game, you throw an interception that
just took to me, totally offset the entire game because
their defense. Then very next drive to the Chiefs gives
up a touchdown that was the first time all season
they've given up a touchdown in the opening drive, and
it felt like they were playing catch up the entire time.
(13:34):
And then we didn't even talk about it. You talk
about the injuries to the offense. Derek Carr goes down
at the end of the game, and you know who knows.
I think that Dennis Allen just said in the press
conference that it's a right side injury and he doesn't
have updates.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I mean, that's just.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
It feels like bad news, fifteen guys on the injury
report coming into this game turning into even worse news.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
We hope that he's okay, but.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I don't know what's going on again, and like totally
different team first two weeks of the season to the
last three weeks.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, I looked back at the show that I did
with my friends, uh from the Saints Block Party podcast.
Who are going to be back on the show. I
guess they're going to get back on before you get
you get back on, but they're probably they're not in
the studio. Well, I've already better than I've already scheduled them.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I literally told you for weeks that I'm wide open,
my schedule open, Greig.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You call me, I respond, call me. Beat me baby.
I you know they have you know we have like okay,
Tuesdays this day, Wednesdays this day, but we have We're
getting bridget more in the mix. But I just was
saying this as a way to.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Pass it because I'm the host on Channel five and
you feel threatened.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
No, I love not hosting. I'm happy to like, but
I mean, you feel threatened that I might become the
host of NFL Daily. I mean, now you're now you're
going too far. I'm just kidding everybody. I'm joking. We know,
we know you're joking. It's it's the thing I love
about you is your your mass. Like me, when I
move moved out here, I just kept acting like I
acted in college. People out here don't like it. And
(15:06):
then in New York certainly, and I just kept getting
this vibe that's like, hey, he's an , or just
like he's not very nice. And then you start to realize, like, okay,
I got you, gotta you gotta pull it back now,
all right, I'll try not everyone like show's love by
just brutally picking at like other people's weaknesses. But that's
(15:27):
how I think that's how I do it, and I
think it is fun. I'll try to be better. I
think you do a great job. Greg. Thank you. I've
now been here for what twelve eleven twelve years. I'm softer.
I have kids, I'm softer. I'm like, look, I was
mean enough for some reason that Derek Carr at one
point block me on Twitter and then yes on the
on the Around the NFL podcast, we got together with
(15:49):
David Carr and they unblocked me. So I hope he
doesn't block me off for anything we're about to say.
I I just think it was a typical Derek Carr game.
We'll get into the injury side of it in a second.
I'm glad you brought that up. They said bleak officially,
like the the the broadcast said that, So that was
what the team said, and that.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Makes the team said left side in ja left.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, so that must be. It happened on his last
throw of the night, which was probably his best throw
the night, maybe the best throw the receiver should have
either quarterback. Yeah, that was Mason Tipton, which kind of
points out an issue from this Saints team. Mason Tipton
is an undrafted player and they're forcing him and they
don't really have a third receiver. Taysom Hill's not in
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this lineup, and so they're trying to play a little
more three receiver. And he had a couple third down
plays where he came up short. That was a play
where Spagnola gets early pressure. The Saints offensive line was
really banged up, did not play overall very well tonight,
and so that was a problem for Derek Carr. He
contributed to it somewhat too, and he throws a dime
(16:52):
down the field and he gets hurt really bad. But
I think that was a really typical car sequence because
the very play before that, he backs away as if
there's a ton of pressure in his face. There's a
blitz coming. You remember this play, there's a blitz coming,
Bridget and most of the night that blitz was getting
through and Carr was just having to throw the ball
(17:13):
against the pressure. But that time actually did they picked
up the blitz. It held up really well. He had
a nice clean pocket, but he just started backpedaling and
throwing it as if someone was right in his face,
and that throw was there. I think that throw was
down to a lavee and it was just a bad throw,
and that was kind of the experience of Derek Carr
tonight and Derek Carr throughout his career. Like you see
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enough in each game that is really high level quarterbacking,
and then you see enough that makes you think, I
can't trust this guy on a week to week basis.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
I think that I don't want to like talk paud
about Derek Carr because I think that he's a better
quarterback than a lot of people think he is. I
think the issue is his offensive line is so beat
up right now, and especially the center position right like
the cadence you get from working with your and to
have two or three different centers since the beginning of
the season, I think that adds to it. And that throw,
(18:07):
Like you said, he thought the pressure was coming on
him and he wasn't, But that to me says that
he's just not comfortable with that offensive line right now.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, the pressure rate was extremely high in this game. Up.
I'm looking for a tweet I shared earlier from Catherine
Terrell from ESPN just to summarize the left tackle. The
rookie Fuaga is playing through an injury. There is a
backup at left guard. One left guard, the other left
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guard shifted to center to start this game, Lucas Patrick.
He got hurt at one point, actually after she even
tweeted this, and was in and out of the game.
A backup right guard who is replacing Caesar Ruiz, who
is getting paid a lot, and then I'm at right tackle.
Is everyone's favorite punching bag over the last couple of years,
Trevor Penning, and so like, that's your offensive line.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
And also, okay, let's talk about Chris for a second.
He had and did you see was it his brother
the tweet? Did you see the tweet that no, his
brother put out. I'll find it in a second. He
had two receptions for ten yards. He was only targeted
four times. That to me is a question mark. And
for a while he had only been targeting targeted once.
I think those next three, Yeah, Jay Cayner came in
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and threw at least one to him. He came into
the game, I think banged up.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
There. There was a reporter that that saw I'm working
on something. I don't think he's one hundred percent healthy,
So I think he's out there gutting through it and
isn't really Chris o'lovey, But that again points out how
thin they are that wide receiver.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
And then without Taysom Hill too, right, like he's been
missing since Week three.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
He came back in briefly helped a lot. Yeah, the
on off splits for Taysom Hill are crazy that when
he's been on the field, I think for eighteen drives
they scored eleven touchdowns and when they've been you know,
Taysom Hill's not on the off the field, it's really
the running game that he impacts the most. He runs
the ball great, but if you looked at what Kamara
did tonight, you saw that first run that Kamara had,
Like Kamara's running well, yeah, but he ended up eleven
(20:10):
for twenty Yeah, how many yards did you get on
that run?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Because he only finished with twenty six and I yeah,
like that first run was majority of those yards, right.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
He could have gone for like a negative four on
that and he ends up getting positive yards. He had
a nine yard run. But they just couldn't run the ball.
And this Saints team isn't going to make sense if
they can't run the ball. So all the Clinton Kubiak
love that we were giving and yeah, I didn't finish
my thought earlier but thinking back to when we had
the Saints Twitter the block Party podcast on, it almost
(20:38):
seems like it was like this moment in time, like
if you were a Saints fan listening to that would
be like a horror movie. Everyone was so happy. We
were talking super Bowl, best offensive line in the league,
and yes, they will be back with me. You're going
to be back on this show too. It's not a competition.
Bridget is very competitive. He's like when someone else is on,
She's like, why why is he on it? Why is
(20:58):
she on? My boss is going to listen to this
and be like, hey, we need to talk. No, I'm kidding.
I have enough sense that it's okay. You can bring others.
She's like Weis have you seen have you seen his
gray hair? Like, let like, let's let's put him out
to pasture. I'm like, whoa, that's weird. You're getting ages
about Steve Weis's Bridget that that's.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
See if I love you, I would never ever, ever
dare say.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Anything like that. Before we uh take a quick break.
Let's just hit us a couple. Can I hit one
thing that we haven't please? Kareem hunt?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Like we talk about Andy Reid and what he does
for this offense. We talk about Juju Schuster, we talk
about Cream Hunt. Kareem Hunt had just one game with
one hundred or more rushing yards in his five seasons
with the Browns. He had one hundred and two tonight.
That is kind of ridiculous, isn't that?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Like?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
When I saw that stat, I was like, that is
massive what Andy Reid is doing with these players who
were backups, were cut from their teams, like didn't have
a place in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I mean, Browns fans have to be watching this and
wondering like where was this guy? Because towards the end
of his Browns career he just looked like a guy
who had run really hard for a really long time
and was banged up. And again it's just.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
One game, but I mean, to be able to get
that much out of these players, that says a lot
about a Patrick Mahomes. That says a lot about Andy
Reid and Travis Kelcey. We haven't really talked about him.
He had a career high nine receptions. Still hasn't even
found he's high, yes, season high. Yeah, sorry, he still
hasn't even found the end zone this season.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
No, but seventy yards. They did show him leaving the field.
I don't know if anyone else saw that, And maybe
he just got that by week Yeah, girls there, his
girlfriend's there. Maybe just wanted to get off the field quickly.
But while everyone is like hugging in everything, he's already
in the walk to the locker room and looking every
bit like a guy who you know, just participated in
(22:48):
forty different car crashes, which is what playing football is.
Let's actually listen to the Travis Kelcey moment of the night.
It was a reception, but he didn't end the play
with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
In twenty two, at the forty four yard line of
the Saints leitting ten to seven again, a four man
rush quick pass, Kelsey at the forty, coming all the way.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Across the field, flips it off. He goes to pay Ryn.
He's at the twenty five. He's close to our first down.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Kelsey came right the left all the way across the
field and almost was tackled, and then he shovels.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It underneath the Sama JP run on an old hooking ladder.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I mean it's not a hooking ladder in a way,
because I don't think it could have possibly been planned.
By the time you listen to this, the news will
be out of date, whether whether they say it or not.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Andy Reid was asked about this postgame, and he said
that they practiced Travis Kelcey's pitches in practice, but I
don't think it was drawn up in the huddle now.
It's something they just practiced. So he looked at Smaji
and is like, you know what's coming on right now?
And as you mentioned again on the show earlier, like
if you're a player.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
On this team, you gotta be ready.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Even if you're thinking you're running down the field, you
gotta be ready to cash that ball if he's looking
at you.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
That was awesome, And yes, so I guess I think
they've practiced that almost as part of the offense. This
is something that could happen with Kelsey gets the ball,
but it's not part of that specific play. And I
know that because p Ryan for a second gets in
the motion like he is going to run to block
for Kelsey, and then he kind of looks up, he
sees Kelsey and he realizes that's not the move. There. Yeah,
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they had another play, another trick play that did not
work out. Earlier Alantae Taylor was all over. I love
Alonte Taylor. There are some positives here for the Saints,
like Marshall Lattimore and Alonta Taylor are playing really well,
and he got Carson Steele to fumble on another play.
They are not going to give Carson Steel the ball
much more because he has been a part of a
lot of negative plays. I do want to say before
(24:43):
we move on from the recap that Mahomes's ability to
scramble is somehow getting better. As on his footwork.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Maybe he's going to some of the practices for Swift's
dance team, because the way that he is stepping, I
don't know what He's just trying to get his ten
thousand steps on his Apple watch or what some.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Of those Some of that footwork was impressive. Okay, So
there was the play in the inside the ten yard
line where he just spun around where he yeah, he
pivoted with off his left foot because he saw a
defender then there and just completely spun and then throw
to a pretty open receiver in the end zone. At
this point, I was just thinking, like, is he just
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doing this stuff because he wants to feel a little alive?
You know, like he's just like a little board, like
I'm here week five, like I've done this all before,
I got to do more stuff. That's what it felt
like to me. Then there's another play where the Saints
have an absolutely crazy defensive formation where they have nine
or eight guys lined up on the line of scrimmage,
all standing up, and a bunch of them drop out,
(25:47):
like just total Dennis Allen's in the lab like cooking
up this great stuff and it works. They confuse Mahomes.
He's like, what's going on here? He freezes and then
he's like, oh, I guess I'll just outrun every He
went to the corner for seven yards, get the first
down and completely ruin your play. And then that sets
up what was one of the better scrambles of Mahomes' career.
(26:08):
Let's listen to that.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Perron is in it running back. Nelson's had a very
productive night. He comes in chipped out motion. Now Mahomes
he's got time moving around, shifting the feet, and now
he's in trouble and he's gonna.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Tell about everybody talks by it. I've got there. He's
stretching out the football on the near side.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Shades of the Houston game in the AFC Championship of
twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I mean that is okay. People are getting annoyed. I
think of just like Mahomes and Chiefs. People are getting
tired of it. It's like how they were with the Patriots. Right,
yes to Mahomes. As long as he's doing that and
giving us these fun plays, I'm with it. What I
don't like is the boring Chiefs, which is what they
were for good chunks of last year and for much
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of the first month. Offensively, this was a much better performance.
They finished with twenty eight first downs four hundred and
sixty yards. That is an old Chiefs score line five
and zero. And they head into their by just feeling
great about life. They have the forty nine ers after
the bye, and they bullied the Saints. They were stronger
(27:15):
than them up front on both sides of the ball.
The Saints want to be bullies, but they got bullied.
Before we move on though, I keep saying that, but
I'm just having so much fun. Like Eric told me
the time in my ear of how long we've gone,
It's been a while already.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Really, and it's just like I feel like it's been
five minutes. We're just never getting out of this chair.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
We're we're having a good time, and that's a credit
to you. Maybe maybe we got to be in here
every Monday night. Now, Nick shook his feeling that he's saying, like,
what's happening here? I wanted to just give some love
to Colin sand Saunders. This guy. They're okay, where do
(27:51):
we even begin.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Let's begin on the broadcast how they were talking about him,
and they were saying that his brother leave. His name
is Cameron was there. His brother is a backup dancer
for Taylor Swift. Okay, and so they were asking his brother,
who are you rooting for? Are you rooting for your
brother who is a player on the Saints team, or
are you rooting for your boss Taylor Swift whose boyfriend
(28:14):
plays for the Chiefs. As they're telling this story, he
gets an interception. The big boy takes it thirty six yards.
One of my favorite plays the night.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
It was outstanding and it was a play worthy of
our best announcer in the game, Kevin Harlan. Take it away.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Here we go shucking down in gold, the homes and
the gun, the two in New Orleans. P Ryan in
motion there's a shotgun, snap the big cord off the
cook forth the goal whil it's deflected and it's intercepted
on the play by Saunders. He runs the big Man
the ten. Here's Sode line twenty. I'm the nether side
line thirty. Got a blocking from behind. The former chief
is taken down the Saints big man got it on
(28:54):
the rokachhet at the goal line on a pass intended
for Smith Schuster.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
A thick pick pick. Forget the thick six. It's the
thick pick. One of the moments of the year. Throw
the next gen stats on this. I just saw this
screen thick six. I love that phrase.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
He reached the top speed of fifteen point seven nine
miles per hour. That is the third fastest speed by
a ballcarrier who weighs over three hundred.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
And twenty pounds.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
I don't win twenty pounds, and I don't think I
could get up to fifteen.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
No, you definitely can't. I don't think. I mean I
couldn't either, right, I get I would have It's incredible.
I would have to do the math. But this is
was he a running back in high school? He was
It was nearby in Missouri, they mentioned, and yeah, that
essentially gave the Saints second life, gave us some entertainment
on what was otherwise starting to feel just like a
(29:52):
slow death march of this like a one sided game,
and that they were play is a play I'm gonna
remember all sees it and sometimes that's what these games
are about. We learned something. We'll find out if Derek
Carr is healthy enough to play next week, which is
really important. We'll get more reporting on that. The Chiefs
look better than ever. But ultimately from this game like
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that just gave us a shot of joy in the studio.
That in one of the best interceptions, and you just
never know when that play is gonna happen. Thank you
to collins On.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
We got the shovel pass, we got the fixed six.
What more could you need for a Monday night?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We could need a little bit of news, So we're
gonna take a quick break. We're gonna hit some news
very quickly, and if you're a fan of these Monday
night shows, you know we wrap up with our players
of the.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Week and then we're gonna drive home fun. This is
like your nighttime drive on the NFL Daily. Thanks for listening,
Stick around, as we return with your news, remember to
call into the hotline one eight hundred NFL Daily. We'll
give you our advice after the.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Break back on NFL Daily and uh yeah, Bridge's coming back.
I mean I have no choice in the matter that
people are gonna demand it. I demand it.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
You know what we could do for a segment coming
off of that music, can we do like advice with
Bridget calling one eight hundred NFL Daily And and like
you you write to us you need advice on your
team or like how you should handle a situation your
girlfriend is like not letting you watch the London games
because she wants you to stay in bed something and
we'll handle it on the advice segment.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I love that. So that's giving you what you called it,
miss Delilah vibes. I don't even remember, no, not Miss Delilah,
just Delilah.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Like I remember this is a very only Boston people
will remember this. Like going to the Cape on the weekend,
driving back Sunday night, it's late and like Delilah is
on the radio and she's like, you know, like she
would play jewel and like you know, slow love songs
and you could call into Delilah what.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Do you want to Yeah, I was thinking more. I
thought you were referring to more like of a Miss
Cleo vibe. That music, though, reminds me more of a
seventies or sixties game show, a seventies like match game
that is coming back from break. You don't even know
what match game is. But I was once like a
production no, a production assistant on the program Most Outrageous
(32:21):
Game Show Moments three I Believe and four, hosted by
Chuck Woolvery, where I just watched game shows all day long.
That's now you're the host. That's what everyone says that
that's a cool job to just watch old like password
episodes all day long. But after like a week or so,
after like a couple months of it, it gets pretty old,
(32:44):
you kind of go a little crazy. All right, let's
do some news, Eric, all right, So I mentioned the
Rashi Rice news from Ian Rappaport. He will I'll not
be back this season, and we're looking to find out
I did at Sometimes, you know, if you're connected with rapport,
(33:07):
I'm like, what's up with Pachecko? I never heard any
backup on pachecko Ian's like I had reported it six
to eight weeks and I said yes, but Andy Reid
said after that that they're not sure if he's going
to come back this season. So if you see an
Ian Rappaport report in the next day or two about Pachecko,
give me the credit that I was like, go go
find that out, like fantasy owners, That's why I'm asking. Yeah,
(33:27):
they want to know. But the Rashi Rice news uh
is big for the Chiefs injury wise this week, Nico Collins,
we found out from the Texans coach Tomko Ryans is
going to be weak to week with a hamstring injury.
He suffered that injury while scoring a touchdown.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Yeah, he leads the league with five hundred and sixty
seven receiving yards. You know, coach did say he's in
good spirits, but that's a blow, and it felt like
he and c. J. Stroud were finally getting their you know,
stride together, working together, going to give more time, I
guess to Stefan Diggs, tankdal Dell, and Dalton Schultz. But
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without him on the field Sunday after he got hurt,
they were limited to just nine points and those came
from three field goals. So it'll be interesting to see
how this offense adjusts if he's not out there on
the field.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yeah, I think it's a big issue for them because
I think they've been too reliant on CJ. Stroud and
Nico Collins just making magic. I kind of don't think
their system is working incredibly well because I look at
c J. Stroud and I'll save it. I'll save it
for future shows. This is not the CG. Strat Show.
But I think he and Nico Collins were playing as
well as any quarterback wide receiver combination in the league,
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and yet the total numbers of the team aren't amazing,
So that's a concern for them. I am can curious
what you think about what's going on in New England.
Now we got I'm glad we're talking about it. It's
in the name of the show. It's NFL Daily, so
I have a Unfortunately, like this show, this dudes will
get updated. I think we're gonna hear from Drake May.
(34:58):
I think he is going to be the quarterback, but
as we're taping this, we don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Well, they won't to announce it until quarterbacks don't talk
till Wednesday, so it won't be outdated tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Might might be might not be outdated soon. You never
know if a report comes out. But just the way
drowd Mayo sounded not fully backing to Kobe Brissett. Usually
when you do that on a Monday, a change half coming,
do you want you want it to happen? That's more okay.
So here's my question.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
My question is what's different now than the beginning of
the season, Because we knew this was going to happen, right, Like, yes,
they found a way to win Week one against the
Bengals and everyone kind of thought, oh my god, there's
hope for this team. Maybe they're better than we thought.
This offensive line has been a struggle throughout the entire
training camp. They were switching guys in and out. They
just didn't have I mean, even going back to last season,
(35:43):
this offensive line, the lack of weapons, the lack of receivers,
the lack of tight ends. Like we knew that this
Patriots team was going to be an issue. So and yes,
Jacoby Brissett made some throws we talked about earlier that
could have been better. But what is the point. This
is what I don't get And maybe you can answer me.
(36:03):
And I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. I just
am trying to understand what is the point of putting
Drake May in there now?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I think because you want to see what he can do,
You want to see how the offense is.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
So okay, I understand what you're saying. So you you
put him in there, he gets destroyed. Now you have
the fan base calling for him, saying.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Get this guy out of there, who had drown Mayo. No, no, no,
calling for may now.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
As they did with Bailey Zappi and Mac Brown a
little different.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Did I just say Mac Brown, I would like to
see him play quarterback. He could have maybe played quarterback
better than Mac Jones did last year. I think the
difference is their coaches and they they didn't think it
was going to be this bad. They thought they could
I disagree. I think they were hopeful that it would
go by this.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Okay, okay, maybe better than this. And yes, you lose
to a Dolphins team without their quarterback to a TONGUEO
vii loa. You should have won that game, one hundred percent.
Should have won that game. Poor clock management row at
the end of the game. I get that, But what
is going to happen if Drake may goes in there
get socked four or five times a game, the Patriots
(37:10):
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
It's football like. So I think you asked the right
question at the beginning. What's different now between now and
week one? I think that's a totally fair question. They
were hopeful it would be better. They've actually what's different
it is actually the offensive line is even worse. Now
they've lost two to three left back. You're going to
put it in in their center, so that that's a
point against it. They thought, we sign Jakobe Brissett, we
(37:32):
want to see how he can do. I actually think
they find value in the five weeks that Drake May
has just had to see see. I just greek to
weak process and everything like that. But I don't think
they wanted to play him. But here's the difference. I
think the locker room would want to play him because
they see him in practice every day and they're like,
this dude is better. And everyone acts with quarterbacks like,
(37:54):
oh my gosh, what if he gets destroyed? And I.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Understand it's the NFL, and you need to like you're
gonna get destroyed and you're gonna injury.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Is gonna happen in practice? It can even happen. They're
throwing out centers that just that just joined the team
ten days ago to go out there and make the calls?
Like what about? I under saying that I'm more just
this is what happens. If you didn't put.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Mac Jones out there as early as you did and
you got a you got an offensive line, you got weapons,
would people have been calling like Boston is such a
different sports market.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
You know than even Lay. But they're dumb and you can.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
But I understand, But I think that I wonder how
much of this is outside noise for drawd Mayo. How
much is he seeing Caleb Williams, how much is he
seeing Jayden Daniels And how much is he thinking Drake
making going to the Patriots system and do the same
thing Chicago And.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Who did I say?
Speaker 5 (38:44):
Jayden Daniels and Washington are two very different places than
New England right now. They have two very different types
of players on their own.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Oh yeah, No one is arguing that Drake may is
set up for success. He is. I Like I said,
a lot of quarterbacks play in really brutal situation.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
So you think Drake ma can go out there and
this Patriots team can contend for the AFC East, of
course not.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I mean, I don't even think he's gonna play that well.
I mean in the circuit, why to kill the kids confidence.
That's where I do disagree. I think, if you're gonna
be a great NFL player, you'll you'll withstand it. Like,
he's not gonna play worse than Jared Goff played as
a rookie. He's not gonna play worse than Eli Manning
played as a rookie. He's not gonna play worse than
(39:29):
Alex Smith played as a rookie. And the thing, what
about Trevor Lawrence. He's not gonna I don't think he's
gonna play worse than Trevor Awrence played as a rookie.
But if he did, all of those quarterbacks came back
and had the careers that they were gonna have. Anyways,
it's fine. Drake May is so much more talented than
Jacoby Brissett. Now, I have very little faith that this
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offensive staff is gonna have any solutions, any cohesion. They
really look like a coaching staff of leftovers, which it
is harsh, but it's kind of what they were. They
were all these guys on the other staffs that the
other teams didn't want to hire, like McAdoo is still
(40:12):
kicking around like Alex van Pelt. He's the one guy
in that Stefanski and McVeigh and Shanahan coaching tree. That's like,
no one was giving him those jobs. No one was
giving these opportunities. And it's not going well. And maybe
Drake Macon save them all. He probably can't, but he
is the most important person in the franchise and he's
the best quarterback on the team. Let's just see him
play some football, like, let's get some yards. And if
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it goes poorly, Like, what's that it's going poorly, it's
not gonna go any worse. Well, what's gonna happen? They
go from like thirtieth to thirty First, I'll stop talking.
People are gonna say, who cares about the people? You
can't worry about the boss.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
I'm not worrying about the media. Yeah, but I think
a young player that has to deal with media is
I don't know. Let's let's just see it happen and
then we can talk in ten weeks and figure out
who who was right?
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Okay, we will like if he if he really struggled
for the most part and only showed little signs of him. Well.
I think he wasn't. He came along a little slowly.
I think he came on better at the end where
people thought he was playing better. I think there is
frustration from the wide receivers to on this team that,
like Jacoby's just not throwing them the ball. I don't
(41:22):
think it's Jacoby Brissette's fault, but why not you took
this kid third overall? Quickly, We're going to go through
a bunch of injuries. I'm just gonna roll through these, uh,
and then we'll get onto our players of the week.
Dax Hill is believed to have a torn acl actually,
that was confirmed by his coach, Zach Zach Taylor. He's
the cornerback of the Bengals. Really disappointing for him. He
was having a good season for them at cornerback. David
(41:45):
and Joku hurt himself again. It's a new injury. It's
a knee injury. He's getting an MRI on that. That's disappointing.
A couple offensive linemen who were playing well or out
for the season. The Cardinals their guard Will Hernandez, the
Panthers their center Austin Corbett. Not like flashy teams, but
actually those have been two of the better offensive lines
in the league. So that's big news for those teams.
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Those are the strength of those teams. Taylor Moten, the
Panthers right tackle, is also going to be out this week.
And then the Cowboys pass rusher Marshawn Nelan has a
torn meniscus is probably going to be out a month.
Brutal another player at that position for Dallas. That is
really scary. Before we move on to our final segment,
I did just want to mention Hurricane Milton, which is
(42:29):
bearing down on Tampa. The Buccaneers, just to kind of
connect it with football, are evacuating Tampa. Like a lot
of the city, there's a mandatory evacuations in a lot
of Tampa. The Buccaneers are going to New Orleans actually
early in this week. They play the Saints on Sunday,
and so they will be staying in New Orleans, a
(42:52):
place very familiar with scary hurricanes. And this is the
reports on this are just I don't know, it.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
Comes after if they just dealt with a hurricane Hurracleen
just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
I mean this is brutal.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
You never want to see any city go through this,
especially a city that just dealt with this a couple
of weeks ago. Sarah Walsh, our very own reporter, dealt
with some scary, scary stuff a couple of weeks ago,
and is getting ready to evacuate once again. And you know,
our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody in the
Tampa area. I know, like coming from a news background,
(43:27):
I had to cover a lot of hurricanes, and I
know how scary really it is, especially because you don't know,
and you know, you don't know if it's going to
be as bad as they say they are.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
You don't know whether you should stay and risk it.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
And you know, of course the word is to evacuate
if you're in an evacuation area, because this looks bad,
it looks scary. You know, this is a football podcast,
and we hope that if you're in those areas, just
know that we're here whatever we can do to help,
and hopefully listening to us fight about football can get
your mind out away from it. But that doesn't dismiss
(44:01):
how severe and serious of an issue is.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
That it's happening. Yeah, it seems like a bad one
that kind of snuck up in terms of the severity
and the strength of the hurricane and how much it's
grown in the last few days. And so yeah, our
thoughts are with everyone in the Gulf Coast region. We're
gonna wrap up the show here. As we do, I
give you a little bit of homework, Bridget Did you
do it? Yeah? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (44:24):
Greg?
Speaker 3 (44:24):
You never? I wouldn't miss that mess up this opportunity.
Some people say they did the homework and then they freestyle,
and that's fine as long as you're good at freestyling.
It's our Captain Morgan Players of the Week time for
Captain's Corner. What if we have the same resent. I
haven't even talked about this by Captain Morgan. I guess
it's possible. I will let you go first, then, ladies first,
our first time guest, longtime listener. No, you've probably never
(44:47):
listened to this show. You want it? You're honking about
wanting to come on?
Speaker 5 (44:50):
What?
Speaker 3 (44:50):
I will say something.
Speaker 5 (44:52):
Before I got this job at the NFL, it was
twenty twenty one, right after the Super Bowl, right when
Chris passed, and I used to listen to this podcast
and I remember I was on a walk in Washington,
d C. Twenty twenty one right after the Super Bowl,
and it was the episode where you guys were all
like talking about how much Chris meant to you and stuff,
(45:12):
and that is the like one episode that's stuck in
my mind, and I remember I was like, if I
ever work at the NFL, like I got to meet
those guys. They sound like they have such a great
connection because you know sometimes when you listen to a
podcast and it's like these two people are talking and
nobody's listening, like like they're not listening to each other,
they're not collaborating together, They're just people want to hear
themselves talk. When I used to listen to Around the NFL,
(45:35):
it felt like you were just at the table with
your friends talking football. And yeah, no, I think it's
one of my favorite shows to listen to. NFL Daily
has been incredible. You've done an awesome job. I know,
hosting is okay, okay, forte, okay, fine, host It isn't
my forte. I mean, like, it's not what you usually do.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
It's not what I usually do. But it's been a
lot of fun. Now I appreciate everything you said about
right on that note, you're my player of the week. No,
I appreciate everything. Yeah that you said there, they're yeah,
I think of because that was the Tampa super Bowl.
That was the you know, one of the most brutal
weekends of our lives obviously, but one thing it did,
if you, if you want to find a positive about it,
(46:17):
is no podcasts seem hard. After that, there were some
I wouldn't say no podcasts seem hard. There were some
really tough ones this summer. I mean having or having
it around the NFL and the way that it ended
and and starting this that was brutal, but honestly, like
even that week I actually was thinking about like having
a podcast after Chris died and everything, like nothing will
(46:39):
ever compare to that in a way that in a
positive way. And he would remind you me of this
all the time, like we're just talking football here, like
you know, like we love football. We're talking football, like
even though it's our livelihood and there are stresses around
us and it's our careers and everything we just talked
about with like when this show is starting, like that's
all extremely stre life situations, Like nothing will be like that.
(47:02):
So I appreciate your kind words. Yeah, so never say
I don't listen. And Captain Morgan is like, what are
you guys talking about? We want a lighthearted segment about
players of the week, so give it to me, all right.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
My player of the week is mister Coles Cash himself.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
Okay, Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 5 (47:18):
I love him and I love his story, and I
just love that people continuously count him out, especially Kirk
in primetime. And look what he did Thursday night in
the primetime game over the Bucks to take the lead
for the NFC South. He had a career high five
hundred and nine passing yards, four passing touchdowns, and interception,
and led that game winning touchdown. He tied his career
(47:39):
high with four passing touchdowns. He just he was everything
that the Falcons wanted him to be that night, and
he did it on primetime where everybody could see.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
Kirk Cousins is still alive and well, and he is
my player of the week. I love that choice and
it sets up one of the most fascinated I stories
of let's just say the next month of the season,
because the way they won that game is that replicaal
can you keep doing it that way? Where he's just
slinging it in the pocket, barely moving at all and
(48:11):
just dropping dimes. It was impressive, It was awesome. It
was a great choice. I'm going similar in the sense
I'm picking a quarterback who's not always everyone's favorite player.
I'm gonna go with Daniel Jones just because we were
talking about this guy you making a face.
Speaker 5 (48:29):
I cover Daniel Jones at Duke, you know, and nice guy.
He seems like real, nice guy, like I would. We
were watching the video, you see that type of guy.
Everyone says, nice guy. No, we were watching the video
earlier of Sefon Diggs and the Vikings and everyone asking like,
who would you not want to date your sister and
they all said, Sapan Digs, I would.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
I would let my sister date.
Speaker 5 (48:49):
Daniel Yes, nice guy, nice guy, great quarterback, that's another question.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
Nice guy though, No, but a good quarterback when he's protected.
And the reason why I wanted to throw him out
here is more of like how this season is going.
I mean, he goes into Seattle. Did he block you
or something? You're trying to get him done? Block you? No.
I've always said that if he's protected, he can just
be like a league average quarterback. I don't mean a positive,
like he's not a huge positive. They shouldn't have given
(49:16):
him that contract. But if you protect him, he's not
like people this year coming to the year is like
he's the worst quarterback in the league. He's number thirty
two going into the league year after Week one, I
was one of the people saying, like, is this game
in Washington going to be his last start ever for
the Giants. That was the conversation because he was that
bad in Week one. If you look at his numbers
over the last month since Week two total EPA, he's
(49:40):
like fifth or sixth in the league. I mean, he's
not that good of a player. He's had some good opponents.
But my point is they went into Seattle. They dominated
that game. I watched that game on Monday, and they
the Seahawks were lucky to even be in that game.
If you protect him, he was mostly short stuff, accurate,
and the thing that gave him my Captain Morgan Captain
(50:02):
of the Week was him trucking defenders like he wanted
that business, like he saw out I don't know if
this is the smartest thing for his health long term,
but he saw Seahawks in his way, whether it was
going for a first out or not, and he ran
over them like he is playing with an edge that
tells me like, hey, I've got this job. I am
(50:23):
keeping this job. And he's playing pretty well right now.
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Oh thank you. Bridget what a time here in the
(50:43):
Chris Westleyan podcast. Dude pretty crazy. It's named after him
for all of our new listeners, Like it's good, it's
good to bring Sometimes I just bring him up with
no context and assume people know who I'm talking about.
And so I'm glad you gave some context there. And uh,
this was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (51:00):
A lot of fun. Monday is always fun when you're
in town. I am heading to Thursday night football in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
I mean I'm always in town. I live here. Well,
I see you in the news room like all day
and you ignore me. No, we we have great conversations.
I'm not what you're missing thing about Greg. I'll DM
him and he'll respond to me three days later. I'm
not like a DM. Yeah, text me? Do you want
me to respond? Text me? I'm an old You found
out how old I was today and you were like,
(51:28):
I was shook. You were a gay. I want to
know where you get your botox. I wish I look
so much older than I did a few years ago.
I looked so much older than I did like four
hours ago. When this game started. We got to get out,
We got to drive home. Thank you to Bridge of Condon.
Thank you to Eric Roberts behind the glass. Let's go, Dodgers.
(51:50):
Need to win. Your boys. Hey, when the Chiefs are
looking like a dominant team again, you know football is back.
Chief said a power pistol.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Look here, they will shift to Kelsey.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Kelsey's in a wildcat position and to.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Give it off the Worthy on the right side.
Speaker 4 (00:09):
Worthy sneaks out of the hands out touchdown Kansas City
on an RPO and from Travis Kelsey and Lauren nut
shoulder and ducking under the defender and the Chiefs go
up twenty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Two to thirteen. That was Mitch Holtis wda F. The
Saints thought they were in the game for just a
second and the Chief said, no, thank you. This is
a one sided affair. Xavier Worthy rushes it in from
just a few yards out on the way to a
twenty six to thirteen victory. Welcome to NFL Daily, where
(00:51):
we wouldn't do anything stupid like picking the New Orleans
Saints in Arrowhead. I'm Greg Rosenthal. I'm in the Chris
Westleyan pod studio and so excited to be joined by
Bridget Condon for the first time, at least in person.
You did a summer episode with us from Cincinnati, but
(01:12):
here you are in the studio ready to talk some
Chiefs and some Saints. Welcome Bridget.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
I know that you guys are probably wondering like how
do they pick which reporters get to be in the
studio The one and only Greg Rosenthal. Let me tell you,
I have been begging this man next to me day
in and day out.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's like a full time job.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Probably I spend more time doing that job than my
actual job, begging on my hands and knees to just
allow me one minute of his time for his beautiful
NFL Daily podcast that has been incredible since its inception,
And now finally I get the chance to sit beside
because I think nobody else could make it tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Now, no, that is not it. We were downstairs doing
the coverage on Channel five. So if you're in the UK,
maybe you watched this bridget does that every week. I'm
popping in here and there, and yeah, we got to
walk right upstairs. But I'm glad you brought up the
elephant in the room right off the bat, which is yes,
you have been You're very persistent, and you're hilarious, and
(02:12):
you're you're a mask like me, and look, we got
like our sets. I'm not gonna defend myself. We can
get into that during the show. But I'm just glad
that you're here.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
All I'm saying is, can you guys please give rave
reviews so that I can come back. It's I'm averaging
like one episode in this podcast studio a year, but honestly,
I've got a lot to say tonight. So I think
this is the beginning of the start of something beautiful.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I I agree. I think it's it's the beginning of
big time. Bridget condon Era on the NFL Daily. You
don't want to just like use all your stars right
off the bat.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
You want like Xavi, you're worthy, baby son, steady where
I was going with that. You want to like sprinkle
it in. Thank you Eric, our producer coming in on
a Monday night. It does feel good to be in
the studio on a Monday night. It's what the and
the Saints deserve.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And I'm glad we started with that highlight because that drive,
that possession, to me was kind of this game in
a nutshell. For a second, Bridget, we're doing this game.
We stupidly picked the Saints, which is really ridiculous. OK,
for yourself, I mean you picked the Saints as well.
I feel ridiculous. We keep track of the records and
(03:24):
just what a dumb pick even for them to cover
was dumb, but they got it to within sixteen fourteen.
After sixteen thirteen, they missed the extra point. Good point.
That's why you're you're gonna be in this studio a lot.
Colin Saunders had that insane interception that we will talk
about a bit, and for a second you're like, wow,
this game that the Saints really have been outplayed throughout.
(03:46):
They're in the game and I'm gonna just go through
like what happened. Immediately after that, they gave the ball
the Kareem Hunt for four yards like every Kareem Hunt
run felt like it was successful. Then they give it.
Then they throw it to Jujuspis fifty yards wide over.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
He almost looked like he was going into the end
zone that one Saints defender like came out of the screen.
But for a second he wasn't on the camera shot.
I thought he was going straight.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
To the end never a burner, but you know, probably
not as fast as he used to be. Jujus smiths Uster,
You're right, but it was just miles of green grass
in front of him, and Juju's like just running open
fifty yards like he has. Rod Mayo's turning off the TV.
Oh my god, like Juju hasn't been this happy since
(04:32):
he was like doing his tiktoks when he was on
the Steelers and it was like the number one star
in the league, or maybe when he was winning the
Super Bowl as a really important role player for the Chiefs,
and who knows, maybe he will be again. And so
he ends up with seven catches for one hundred and
thirty yards, like what okay.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
How was his first game of more than one hundred
yards since Week seven of twenty twenty two and that
was when he was with Kansas City. So he goes
to New England, doesn't have a single game of one
hundred yards, like, we're gonna cut you. You're not good
enough for our team, heads back to Kansas City and
now has a dominant game.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
That the Patriots are paying him a lot of money
this year to not be on the Patriots because they
have offsets in the contract where the Chief's paying whatever
they're paying them, but all the remaining money that the
guarantees that the Patriots had, which was like seven or
eight million, they were like, you're so bad, we don't
want you on our team tonight. And this is a
shout out to Ben Solac of ESPN had the stat where, yeah,
(05:25):
Schuster is one hundred and thirty yards tonight is actually
more than any Patriots receiver has on the season combined.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
That just feels like the Patriots. I don't know what
else to say. I'm sorry if you're a Patriots fan listening.
Also an interesting stat I just saw from our research
team that one hundred and thirty receiving yards the most
by a Chiefs receiver since Tyreek Hill was treated.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Wow. Kind of crazy, right.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I don't think that coming into this season we would
be thinking juju Smith Schuster, the number one wide receiver
for the child. Of course they've dealt has multiple right,
multiple injuries. He had two catches on the season before tonight.
I don't think he he's gonna suddenly right but the
fountain of youth. But he could be a role player
for them.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
He can help and they are so good at scheming
guys open. And that was sort of my takeaway from
these sequences. It's just things were easy except in the
red zone for the Chiefs. So after that, Jujus Smith
Suster play hunt for another five yards. Like I said,
every run is successful. He looks like he has a
lot of Jews. There's a penalty on the play that
(06:24):
gets them even closer. Penalties were a big problem for
the Saints tonight, setting the Chiefs up in advantageous situations.
And then finally the last play of the drive and
it took just you know, a couple of minutes. Is
that direct snap to Kelsey where he hands it off
to Worthy And we're watching the game and we're just
so used to this stuff with the Chiefs that it's like, oh, yeah,
(06:45):
they snap it to Travis Kelce, the thirty five year
old tight end who's that quarterback, and he hands it
off to the twenty one year old guy who set
the record at the Combine for the fastest forty and
he runs in for the touchdown. It's just like, oh yeah,
that's what Andy Reid does. But it's just that's the
Chiefs in a nutshell, And I thought it was fitting
and great for the Chiefs that on their best night
(07:06):
of the season, which I think this was by a
good margin, they immediately responded to what the Saints are
doing and we're like, no, you're not gonna win this game.
You're not really that competitive. You're not in our league.
A good friend of mine calls it the fake good Saints.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I won't say that, but it did look like a
different These last three games have looked like a different
Saints team than the first two games. Of course, they
are dealing with so many injuries themselves. But you talk
about this offense right coming into this game, it wasn't
the Chiefs are four and oh, the Chiefs are gonna
three peet, No, it was the Chiefs are four and oh,
but they don't look good.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
The Chiefs are four and oh, but their offense hasn't clicked.
Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I think they were forty five percent in the red
zone again tonight two two for six in the red zone,
or coming into this game forty five percent on the season,
and then tonight two for six. Patrick Mahomes and the
offense have you know, in the main key offensive metrics
some of the worst of the Patrick.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Mahomes error era.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
But tonight he breaks that six game drought without three
hundred or more passing yards. So it feels like this
was maybe the game. Yes, you put all the pieces together.
You made a good point on Channel five show about
how it kind of felt like the old school Patriots
where Bill Belichick gets his you know, sees what weapons
he has and then figures it out and is like, Okay,
this is what's going to work this season. This isn't
(08:22):
And it felt like tonight Andy Reid and this Patrick
Mahomes offense finally found a way to use all of
the pieces that they do have. Keep in mind, so
many are hurt, right. We got the news just before
the game. Ian Rapaport first reported that Rashie Rice is
not going to return this season.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So that huge blow. Yeah, that is a big disappointment
because there just was uncertainty. They were waiting for the
swelling to go down, They had to see more, they
had to do the surgery until they knew. And it's
framed as good news that it's not going to be
a torn acl it appears that, but either way, he
still expected to miss six months not coming back. So
you're gonna have to rely on Smith Schuster and Travis Kelcey.
(09:04):
You look at the guys who are getting all the yards,
Michael Hardman and Kareem Hunt, and yeah, spin the dial,
but you can certainly dial it back to like the
twenty twenty two season. I know Kareem Hunt was in
Cleveland at that point. So we're mixing different chiefs Era Eras,
Travis Kelcey with his nine for seventy and you know
his his girl in the crowd with with her, you're talking.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
About Eras, Yeah, talking about Taylor. I love the way
that you put that in for the gal. It's in
my mind today because Bill Belichick. Did you talk about
that yet?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
No, that was Monday. I don't know exactly what we
can talk about about the Bill Belichick Instagram picture wearing
Twitter tailor instaw it was. It was on his girlfriend's Instagram.
You follow her, they're public, No, but someone you know
copied it and put it out on Twitter, and well,
don't think the older follow now. No, even that feels creepy.
(09:59):
I mean, like forget dating her. But I'm glad they're happy,
and I'm mostly glad that his Taylor Swift sweatshirt had
was like chewed on or had the little rip thing
not chewed.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
But you know the way you just look like the
image in my mind, okay, it looks like it's it's
chewed by like your I have I have a young son.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
They chew all their sweatshirts and the way Bill Belichick's sweatshirts. Look,
that's what his sweatshirts always look like. But no, it's
because he cuts them and I wanted to see the
sleeves on it. But I'm very happy, and uh, you know,
he's out there. He's out there getting work. Just today
I saw to get off the game for like one second.
I saw that he's on the Jim Gray podcast with
(10:41):
a bunch of other coaching legends. He was on the
Pat mcaffee show earlier today giving like kind of vanilla analysis.
Sometimes I want a little more when when he's on
the Manning Cast, at least he dives into like what
the plays are. And then he was on the Manning
Cast tonight and I got a text from my wife Emica,
who said, for the first time ever, Walker turned off
(11:03):
de Manning Cast and because it's so boring with Belichick
that he ruins it. I think he ruins. He ruins
all the fun was the quote, which is like probably
how a lot of his players felt during his career.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I think that if he would just pull back the sweatshirt,
for lack of a better word, he could be really funny.
But I think that he's still reserved a bit because
who knows if he'll get back into coaching next year,
and I don't think he wants to completely give in
if he then has to go back and try to
control the locker room and they're like poking fun at
him for I don't know, doing a TikTok dance or something.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I think you've nailed it. And to build on that point,
I don't think he wants to say anything that can
be used against him when he's a coach next year,
like he said something negative about a certain player and
then he goes against that player or he's coaching that player,
but more likely he's going against it. I think you're
absolutely right, because I think he does a great job
when he's in storytelling Bill Belichick mode, and he gives
(12:02):
old stories and behind the scenes stuff, and sometimes when
he's a little caustic about you know, the league or
you know the teams that didn't hire him, he could
tell he had a little something about the Falcons. Okay,
let's get back to this game, because you mentioned it.
Mahomes throws for over three hundred yards, does not need
to throw the ball deep in this game, And I
just think it was kind of a masterclass and a
(12:25):
dominant coaching performance. This is a Saints defense that, yeah,
has a couple injuries, but not nearly the amount of
injuries that they do on the offensive side of the ball.
They've been building this defense for Dennis Allen forever. I
picked the Saints in part because I thought their secondary
would be able to cover this Chiefs team. And what
do you see, Like it was just easy. It was
(12:46):
just a lot of like five yard throws with ten
yards of yak afterwards, and Andy Reid had it all
over Dennis Allen. Dennis Allen doesn't want to give up
big plays. Well, he gave up fifty to Smith Schuster.
He gave up a room long pass interference to Xavier
Worthy that was on paulsen Adebo. There could have been
another one of those called earlier in the game. And
(13:07):
so this is a defense that needs to carry this team.
And they're good, but they're not good enough. Like they're not.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
But the offense wasn't helping at all. You throw the
first drive of the game, you throw an interception that
just took to me, totally offset the entire game because
their defense. Then very next drive to the Chiefs gives
up a touchdown that was the first time all season
they've given up a touchdown in the opening drive, and
it felt like they were playing catch up the entire time.
(13:34):
And then we didn't even talk about it. You talk
about the injuries to the offense. Derek Carr goes down
at the end of the game, and you know who knows.
I think that Dennis Allen just said in the press
conference that it's a right side injury and he doesn't
have updates.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I mean, that's just.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
It feels like bad news, fifteen guys on the injury
report coming into this game turning into even worse news.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
We hope that he's okay, but.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I don't know what's going on again, and like totally
different team first two weeks of the season to the
last three weeks.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, I looked back at the show that I did
with my friends, uh from the Saints Block Party podcast.
Who are going to be back on the show. I
guess they're going to get back on before you get
you get back on, but they're probably they're not in
the studio. Well, I've already better than I've already scheduled them.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I literally told you for weeks that I'm wide open,
my schedule open, Greig.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You call me, I respond, call me. Beat me baby.
I you know they have you know we have like okay,
Tuesdays this day, Wednesdays this day, but we have We're
getting bridget more in the mix. But I just was
saying this as a way to.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Pass it because I'm the host on Channel five and
you feel threatened.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
No, I love not hosting. I'm happy to like, but
I mean, you feel threatened that I might become the
host of NFL Daily. I mean, now you're now you're
going too far. I'm just kidding everybody. I'm joking. We know,
we know you're joking. It's it's the thing I love
about you is your your mass. Like me, when I
move moved out here, I just kept acting like I
acted in college. People out here don't like it. And
(15:06):
then in New York certainly, and I just kept getting
this vibe that's like, hey, he's an , or just
like he's not very nice. And then you start to realize, like, okay,
I got you, gotta you gotta pull it back now,
all right, I'll try not everyone like show's love by
just brutally picking at like other people's weaknesses. But that's
(15:27):
how I think that's how I do it, and I
think it is fun. I'll try to be better. I
think you do a great job. Greg. Thank you. I've
now been here for what twelve eleven twelve years. I'm softer.
I have kids, I'm softer. I'm like, look, I was
mean enough for some reason that Derek Carr at one
point block me on Twitter and then yes on the
on the Around the NFL podcast, we got together with
(15:49):
David Carr and they unblocked me. So I hope he
doesn't block me off for anything we're about to say.
I I just think it was a typical Derek Carr game.
We'll get into the injury side of it in a second.
I'm glad you brought that up. They said bleak officially,
like the the the broadcast said that, So that was
what the team said, and that.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Makes the team said left side in ja left.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, so that must be. It happened on his last
throw of the night, which was probably his best throw
the night, maybe the best throw the receiver should have
either quarterback. Yeah, that was Mason Tipton, which kind of
points out an issue from this Saints team. Mason Tipton
is an undrafted player and they're forcing him and they
don't really have a third receiver. Taysom Hill's not in
(16:30):
this lineup, and so they're trying to play a little
more three receiver. And he had a couple third down
plays where he came up short. That was a play
where Spagnola gets early pressure. The Saints offensive line was
really banged up, did not play overall very well tonight,
and so that was a problem for Derek Carr. He
contributed to it somewhat too, and he throws a dime
(16:52):
down the field and he gets hurt really bad. But
I think that was a really typical car sequence because
the very play before that, he backs away as if
there's a ton of pressure in his face. There's a
blitz coming. You remember this play, there's a blitz coming,
Bridget and most of the night that blitz was getting
through and Carr was just having to throw the ball
(17:13):
against the pressure. But that time actually did they picked
up the blitz. It held up really well. He had
a nice clean pocket, but he just started backpedaling and
throwing it as if someone was right in his face,
and that throw was there. I think that throw was
down to a lavee and it was just a bad throw,
and that was kind of the experience of Derek Carr
tonight and Derek Carr throughout his career. Like you see
(17:34):
enough in each game that is really high level quarterbacking,
and then you see enough that makes you think, I
can't trust this guy on a week to week basis.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
I think that I don't want to like talk paud
about Derek Carr because I think that he's a better
quarterback than a lot of people think he is. I
think the issue is his offensive line is so beat
up right now, and especially the center position right like
the cadence you get from working with your and to
have two or three different centers since the beginning of
the season, I think that adds to it. And that throw,
(18:07):
Like you said, he thought the pressure was coming on
him and he wasn't, But that to me says that
he's just not comfortable with that offensive line right now.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, the pressure rate was extremely high in this game. Up.
I'm looking for a tweet I shared earlier from Catherine
Terrell from ESPN just to summarize the left tackle. The
rookie Fuaga is playing through an injury. There is a
backup at left guard. One left guard, the other left
(18:36):
guard shifted to center to start this game, Lucas Patrick.
He got hurt at one point, actually after she even
tweeted this, and was in and out of the game.
A backup right guard who is replacing Caesar Ruiz, who
is getting paid a lot, and then I'm at right tackle.
Is everyone's favorite punching bag over the last couple of years,
Trevor Penning, and so like, that's your offensive line.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
And also, okay, let's talk about Chris for a second.
He had and did you see was it his brother
the tweet? Did you see the tweet that no, his
brother put out. I'll find it in a second. He
had two receptions for ten yards. He was only targeted
four times. That to me is a question mark. And
for a while he had only been targeting targeted once.
I think those next three, Yeah, Jay Cayner came in
(19:20):
and threw at least one to him. He came into
the game, I think banged up.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
There. There was a reporter that that saw I'm working
on something. I don't think he's one hundred percent healthy,
So I think he's out there gutting through it and
isn't really Chris o'lovey, But that again points out how
thin they are that wide receiver.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
And then without Taysom Hill too, right, like he's been
missing since Week three.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
He came back in briefly helped a lot. Yeah, the
on off splits for Taysom Hill are crazy that when
he's been on the field, I think for eighteen drives
they scored eleven touchdowns and when they've been you know,
Taysom Hill's not on the off the field, it's really
the running game that he impacts the most. He runs
the ball great, but if you looked at what Kamara
did tonight, you saw that first run that Kamara had,
Like Kamara's running well, yeah, but he ended up eleven
(20:10):
for twenty Yeah, how many yards did you get on
that run?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Because he only finished with twenty six and I yeah,
like that first run was majority of those yards, right.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
He could have gone for like a negative four on
that and he ends up getting positive yards. He had
a nine yard run. But they just couldn't run the ball.
And this Saints team isn't going to make sense if
they can't run the ball. So all the Clinton Kubiak
love that we were giving and yeah, I didn't finish
my thought earlier but thinking back to when we had
the Saints Twitter the block Party podcast on, it almost
(20:38):
seems like it was like this moment in time, like
if you were a Saints fan listening to that would
be like a horror movie. Everyone was so happy. We
were talking super Bowl, best offensive line in the league,
and yes, they will be back with me. You're going
to be back on this show too. It's not a competition.
Bridget is very competitive. He's like when someone else is on,
She's like, why why is he on it? Why is
(20:58):
she on? My boss is going to listen to this
and be like, hey, we need to talk. No, I'm kidding.
I have enough sense that it's okay. You can bring others.
She's like Weis have you seen have you seen his
gray hair? Like, let like, let's let's put him out
to pasture. I'm like, whoa, that's weird. You're getting ages
about Steve Weis's Bridget that that's.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
See if I love you, I would never ever, ever
dare say.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Anything like that. Before we uh take a quick break.
Let's just hit us a couple. Can I hit one
thing that we haven't please? Kareem hunt?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Like we talk about Andy Reid and what he does
for this offense. We talk about Juju Schuster, we talk
about Cream Hunt. Kareem Hunt had just one game with
one hundred or more rushing yards in his five seasons
with the Browns. He had one hundred and two tonight.
That is kind of ridiculous, isn't that?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Like?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
When I saw that stat, I was like, that is
massive what Andy Reid is doing with these players who
were backups, were cut from their teams, like didn't have
a place in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I mean, Browns fans have to be watching this and
wondering like where was this guy? Because towards the end
of his Browns career he just looked like a guy
who had run really hard for a really long time
and was banged up. And again it's just.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
One game, but I mean, to be able to get
that much out of these players, that says a lot
about a Patrick Mahomes. That says a lot about Andy
Reid and Travis Kelcey. We haven't really talked about him.
He had a career high nine receptions. Still hasn't even
found he's high, yes, season high. Yeah, sorry, he still
hasn't even found the end zone this season.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
No, but seventy yards. They did show him leaving the field.
I don't know if anyone else saw that, And maybe
he just got that by week Yeah, girls there, his
girlfriend's there. Maybe just wanted to get off the field quickly.
But while everyone is like hugging in everything, he's already
in the walk to the locker room and looking every
bit like a guy who you know, just participated in
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forty different car crashes, which is what playing football is.
Let's actually listen to the Travis Kelcey moment of the night.
It was a reception, but he didn't end the play
with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
In twenty two, at the forty four yard line of
the Saints leitting ten to seven again, a four man
rush quick pass, Kelsey at the forty, coming all the way.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Across the field, flips it off. He goes to pay Ryn.
He's at the twenty five. He's close to our first down.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Kelsey came right the left all the way across the
field and almost was tackled, and then he shovels.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It underneath the Sama JP run on an old hooking ladder.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I mean it's not a hooking ladder in a way,
because I don't think it could have possibly been planned.
By the time you listen to this, the news will
be out of date, whether whether they say it or not.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Andy Reid was asked about this postgame, and he said
that they practiced Travis Kelcey's pitches in practice, but I
don't think it was drawn up in the huddle now.
It's something they just practiced. So he looked at Smaji
and is like, you know what's coming on right now?
And as you mentioned again on the show earlier, like
if you're a player.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
On this team, you gotta be ready.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Even if you're thinking you're running down the field, you
gotta be ready to cash that ball if he's looking
at you.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
That was awesome, And yes, so I guess I think
they've practiced that almost as part of the offense. This
is something that could happen with Kelsey gets the ball,
but it's not part of that specific play. And I
know that because p Ryan for a second gets in
the motion like he is going to run to block
for Kelsey, and then he kind of looks up, he
sees Kelsey and he realizes that's not the move. There. Yeah,
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they had another play, another trick play that did not
work out. Earlier Alantae Taylor was all over. I love
Alonte Taylor. There are some positives here for the Saints,
like Marshall Lattimore and Alonta Taylor are playing really well,
and he got Carson Steele to fumble on another play.
They are not going to give Carson Steel the ball
much more because he has been a part of a
lot of negative plays. I do want to say before
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we move on from the recap that Mahomes's ability to
scramble is somehow getting better. As on his footwork.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Maybe he's going to some of the practices for Swift's
dance team, because the way that he is stepping, I
don't know what He's just trying to get his ten
thousand steps on his Apple watch or what some.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Of those Some of that footwork was impressive. Okay, So
there was the play in the inside the ten yard
line where he just spun around where he yeah, he
pivoted with off his left foot because he saw a
defender then there and just completely spun and then throw
to a pretty open receiver in the end zone. At
this point, I was just thinking, like, is he just
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doing this stuff because he wants to feel a little alive?
You know, like he's just like a little board, like
I'm here week five, like I've done this all before,
I got to do more stuff. That's what it felt
like to me. Then there's another play where the Saints
have an absolutely crazy defensive formation where they have nine
or eight guys lined up on the line of scrimmage,
all standing up, and a bunch of them drop out,
(25:47):
like just total Dennis Allen's in the lab like cooking
up this great stuff and it works. They confuse Mahomes.
He's like, what's going on here? He freezes and then
he's like, oh, I guess I'll just outrun every He
went to the corner for seven yards, get the first
down and completely ruin your play. And then that sets
up what was one of the better scrambles of Mahomes' career.
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Let's listen to that.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Perron is in it running back. Nelson's had a very
productive night. He comes in chipped out motion. Now Mahomes
he's got time moving around, shifting the feet, and now
he's in trouble and he's gonna.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Tell about everybody talks by it. I've got there. He's
stretching out the football on the near side.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Shades of the Houston game in the AFC Championship of
twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I mean that is okay. People are getting annoyed. I
think of just like Mahomes and Chiefs. People are getting
tired of it. It's like how they were with the Patriots. Right,
yes to Mahomes. As long as he's doing that and
giving us these fun plays, I'm with it. What I
don't like is the boring Chiefs, which is what they
were for good chunks of last year and for much
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of the first month. Offensively, this was a much better performance.
They finished with twenty eight first downs four hundred and
sixty yards. That is an old Chiefs score line five
and zero. And they head into their by just feeling
great about life. They have the forty nine ers after
the bye, and they bullied the Saints. They were stronger
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than them up front on both sides of the ball.
The Saints want to be bullies, but they got bullied.
Before we move on though, I keep saying that, but
I'm just having so much fun. Like Eric told me
the time in my ear of how long we've gone,
It's been a while already.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Really, and it's just like I feel like it's been
five minutes. We're just never getting out of this chair.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
We're we're having a good time, and that's a credit
to you. Maybe maybe we got to be in here
every Monday night. Now, Nick shook his feeling that he's saying, like,
what's happening here? I wanted to just give some love
to Colin sand Saunders. This guy. They're okay, where do
(27:51):
we even begin.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Let's begin on the broadcast how they were talking about him,
and they were saying that his brother leave. His name
is Cameron was there. His brother is a backup dancer
for Taylor Swift. Okay, and so they were asking his brother,
who are you rooting for? Are you rooting for your
brother who is a player on the Saints team, or
are you rooting for your boss Taylor Swift whose boyfriend
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plays for the Chiefs. As they're telling this story, he
gets an interception. The big boy takes it thirty six yards.
One of my favorite plays the night.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
It was outstanding and it was a play worthy of
our best announcer in the game, Kevin Harlan. Take it away.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Here we go shucking down in gold, the homes and
the gun, the two in New Orleans. P Ryan in
motion there's a shotgun, snap the big cord off the
cook forth the goal whil it's deflected and it's intercepted
on the play by Saunders. He runs the big Man
the ten. Here's Sode line twenty. I'm the nether side
line thirty. Got a blocking from behind. The former chief
is taken down the Saints big man got it on
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the rokachhet at the goal line on a pass intended
for Smith Schuster.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
A thick pick pick. Forget the thick six. It's the
thick pick. One of the moments of the year. Throw
the next gen stats on this. I just saw this
screen thick six. I love that phrase.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
He reached the top speed of fifteen point seven nine
miles per hour. That is the third fastest speed by
a ballcarrier who weighs over three hundred.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
And twenty pounds.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
I don't win twenty pounds, and I don't think I
could get up to fifteen.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
No, you definitely can't. I don't think. I mean I
couldn't either, right, I get I would have It's incredible.
I would have to do the math. But this is
was he a running back in high school? He was
It was nearby in Missouri, they mentioned, and yeah, that
essentially gave the Saints second life, gave us some entertainment
on what was otherwise starting to feel just like a
(29:52):
slow death march of this like a one sided game,
and that they were play is a play I'm gonna
remember all sees it and sometimes that's what these games
are about. We learned something. We'll find out if Derek
Carr is healthy enough to play next week, which is
really important. We'll get more reporting on that. The Chiefs
look better than ever. But ultimately from this game like
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that just gave us a shot of joy in the studio.
That in one of the best interceptions, and you just
never know when that play is gonna happen. Thank you
to collins On.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
We got the shovel pass, we got the fixed six.
What more could you need for a Monday night?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
We could need a little bit of news, So we're
gonna take a quick break. We're gonna hit some news
very quickly, and if you're a fan of these Monday
night shows, you know we wrap up with our players
of the.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Week and then we're gonna drive home fun. This is
like your nighttime drive on the NFL Daily. Thanks for listening,
Stick around, as we return with your news, remember to
call into the hotline one eight hundred NFL Daily. We'll
give you our advice after the.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Break back on NFL Daily and uh yeah, Bridge's coming back.
I mean I have no choice in the matter that
people are gonna demand it. I demand it.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
You know what we could do for a segment coming
off of that music, can we do like advice with
Bridget calling one eight hundred NFL Daily And and like
you you write to us you need advice on your
team or like how you should handle a situation your
girlfriend is like not letting you watch the London games
because she wants you to stay in bed something and
we'll handle it on the advice segment.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I love that. So that's giving you what you called it,
miss Delilah vibes. I don't even remember, no, not Miss Delilah,
just Delilah.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Like I remember this is a very only Boston people
will remember this. Like going to the Cape on the weekend,
driving back Sunday night, it's late and like Delilah is
on the radio and she's like, you know, like she
would play jewel and like you know, slow love songs
and you could call into Delilah what.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Do you want to Yeah, I was thinking more. I
thought you were referring to more like of a Miss
Cleo vibe. That music, though, reminds me more of a
seventies or sixties game show, a seventies like match game
that is coming back from break. You don't even know
what match game is. But I was once like a
production no, a production assistant on the program Most Outrageous
(32:21):
Game Show Moments three I Believe and four, hosted by
Chuck Woolvery, where I just watched game shows all day long.
That's now you're the host. That's what everyone says that
that's a cool job to just watch old like password
episodes all day long. But after like a week or so,
after like a couple months of it, it gets pretty old,
(32:44):
you kind of go a little crazy. All right, let's
do some news, Eric, all right, So I mentioned the
Rashi Rice news from Ian Rappaport. He will I'll not
be back this season, and we're looking to find out
I did at Sometimes, you know, if you're connected with rapport,
(33:07):
I'm like, what's up with Pachecko? I never heard any
backup on pachecko Ian's like I had reported it six
to eight weeks and I said yes, but Andy Reid
said after that that they're not sure if he's going
to come back this season. So if you see an
Ian Rappaport report in the next day or two about Pachecko,
give me the credit that I was like, go go
find that out, like fantasy owners, That's why I'm asking. Yeah,
(33:27):
they want to know. But the Rashi Rice news uh
is big for the Chiefs injury wise this week, Nico Collins,
we found out from the Texans coach Tomko Ryans is
going to be weak to week with a hamstring injury.
He suffered that injury while scoring a touchdown.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Yeah, he leads the league with five hundred and sixty
seven receiving yards. You know, coach did say he's in
good spirits, but that's a blow, and it felt like
he and c. J. Stroud were finally getting their you know,
stride together, working together, going to give more time, I
guess to Stefan Diggs, tankdal Dell, and Dalton Schultz. But
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without him on the field Sunday after he got hurt,
they were limited to just nine points and those came
from three field goals. So it'll be interesting to see
how this offense adjusts if he's not out there on
the field.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yeah, I think it's a big issue for them because
I think they've been too reliant on CJ. Stroud and
Nico Collins just making magic. I kind of don't think
their system is working incredibly well because I look at
c J. Stroud and I'll save it. I'll save it
for future shows. This is not the CG. Strat Show.
But I think he and Nico Collins were playing as
well as any quarterback wide receiver combination in the league,
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and yet the total numbers of the team aren't amazing,
So that's a concern for them. I am can curious
what you think about what's going on in New England.
Now we got I'm glad we're talking about it. It's
in the name of the show. It's NFL Daily, so
I have a Unfortunately, like this show, this dudes will
get updated. I think we're gonna hear from Drake May.
(34:58):
I think he is going to be the quarterback, but
as we're taping this, we don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
Well, they won't to announce it until quarterbacks don't talk
till Wednesday, so it won't be outdated tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Might might be might not be outdated soon. You never
know if a report comes out. But just the way
drowd Mayo sounded not fully backing to Kobe Brissett. Usually
when you do that on a Monday, a change half coming,
do you want you want it to happen? That's more okay.
So here's my question.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
My question is what's different now than the beginning of
the season, Because we knew this was going to happen, right, Like, yes,
they found a way to win Week one against the
Bengals and everyone kind of thought, oh my god, there's
hope for this team. Maybe they're better than we thought.
This offensive line has been a struggle throughout the entire
training camp. They were switching guys in and out. They
just didn't have I mean, even going back to last season,
(35:43):
this offensive line, the lack of weapons, the lack of receivers,
the lack of tight ends. Like we knew that this
Patriots team was going to be an issue. So and yes,
Jacoby Brissett made some throws we talked about earlier that
could have been better. But what is the point. This
is what I don't get And maybe you can answer me.
(36:03):
And I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. I just
am trying to understand what is the point of putting
Drake May in there now?
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I think because you want to see what he can do,
You want to see how the offense is.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
So okay, I understand what you're saying. So you you
put him in there, he gets destroyed. Now you have
the fan base calling for him, saying.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Get this guy out of there, who had drown Mayo. No, no, no,
calling for may now.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
As they did with Bailey Zappi and Mac Brown a
little different.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
Did I just say Mac Brown, I would like to
see him play quarterback. He could have maybe played quarterback
better than Mac Jones did last year. I think the
difference is their coaches and they they didn't think it
was going to be this bad. They thought they could
I disagree. I think they were hopeful that it would
go by this.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Okay, okay, maybe better than this. And yes, you lose
to a Dolphins team without their quarterback to a TONGUEO
vii loa. You should have won that game, one hundred percent.
Should have won that game. Poor clock management row at
the end of the game. I get that, But what
is going to happen if Drake may goes in there
get socked four or five times a game, the Patriots
(37:10):
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
It's football like. So I think you asked the right
question at the beginning. What's different now between now and
week one? I think that's a totally fair question. They
were hopeful it would be better. They've actually what's different
it is actually the offensive line is even worse. Now
they've lost two to three left back. You're going to
put it in in their center, so that that's a
point against it. They thought, we sign Jakobe Brissett, we
(37:32):
want to see how he can do. I actually think
they find value in the five weeks that Drake May
has just had to see see. I just greek to
weak process and everything like that. But I don't think
they wanted to play him. But here's the difference. I
think the locker room would want to play him because
they see him in practice every day and they're like,
this dude is better. And everyone acts with quarterbacks like,
(37:54):
oh my gosh, what if he gets destroyed? And I.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Understand it's the NFL, and you need to like you're
gonna get destroyed and you're gonna injury.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Is gonna happen in practice? It can even happen. They're
throwing out centers that just that just joined the team
ten days ago to go out there and make the calls?
Like what about? I under saying that I'm more just
this is what happens. If you didn't put.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Mac Jones out there as early as you did and
you got a you got an offensive line, you got weapons,
would people have been calling like Boston is such a
different sports market.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
You know than even Lay. But they're dumb and you can.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
But I understand, But I think that I wonder how
much of this is outside noise for drawd Mayo. How
much is he seeing Caleb Williams, how much is he
seeing Jayden Daniels And how much is he thinking Drake
making going to the Patriots system and do the same
thing Chicago And.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Who did I say?
Speaker 5 (38:44):
Jayden Daniels and Washington are two very different places than
New England right now. They have two very different types
of players on their own.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Oh yeah, No one is arguing that Drake may is
set up for success. He is. I Like I said,
a lot of quarterbacks play in really brutal situation.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
So you think Drake ma can go out there and
this Patriots team can contend for the AFC East, of
course not.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I mean, I don't even think he's gonna play that well.
I mean in the circuit, why to kill the kids confidence.
That's where I do disagree. I think, if you're gonna
be a great NFL player, you'll you'll withstand it. Like,
he's not gonna play worse than Jared Goff played as
a rookie. He's not gonna play worse than Eli Manning
played as a rookie. He's not gonna play worse than
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Alex Smith played as a rookie. And the thing, what
about Trevor Lawrence. He's not gonna I don't think he's
gonna play worse than Trevor Awrence played as a rookie.
But if he did, all of those quarterbacks came back
and had the careers that they were gonna have. Anyways,
it's fine. Drake May is so much more talented than
Jacoby Brissett. Now, I have very little faith that this
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offensive staff is gonna have any solutions, any cohesion. They
really look like a coaching staff of leftovers, which it
is harsh, but it's kind of what they were. They
were all these guys on the other staffs that the
other teams didn't want to hire, like McAdoo is still
(40:12):
kicking around like Alex van Pelt. He's the one guy
in that Stefanski and McVeigh and Shanahan coaching tree. That's like,
no one was giving him those jobs. No one was
giving these opportunities. And it's not going well. And maybe
Drake Macon save them all. He probably can't, but he
is the most important person in the franchise and he's
the best quarterback on the team. Let's just see him
play some football, like, let's get some yards. And if
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it goes poorly, Like, what's that it's going poorly, it's
not gonna go any worse. Well, what's gonna happen? They
go from like thirtieth to thirty First, I'll stop talking.
People are gonna say, who cares about the people? You
can't worry about the boss.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
I'm not worrying about the media. Yeah, but I think
a young player that has to deal with media is
I don't know. Let's let's just see it happen and
then we can talk in ten weeks and figure out
who who was right?
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Okay, we will like if he if he really struggled
for the most part and only showed little signs of him. Well.
I think he wasn't. He came along a little slowly.
I think he came on better at the end where
people thought he was playing better. I think there is
frustration from the wide receivers to on this team that,
like Jacoby's just not throwing them the ball. I don't
(41:22):
think it's Jacoby Brissette's fault, but why not you took
this kid third overall? Quickly, We're going to go through
a bunch of injuries. I'm just gonna roll through these, uh,
and then we'll get onto our players of the week.
Dax Hill is believed to have a torn acl actually,
that was confirmed by his coach, Zach Zach Taylor. He's
the cornerback of the Bengals. Really disappointing for him. He
was having a good season for them at cornerback. David
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and Joku hurt himself again. It's a new injury. It's
a knee injury. He's getting an MRI on that. That's disappointing.
A couple offensive linemen who were playing well or out
for the season. The Cardinals their guard Will Hernandez, the
Panthers their center Austin Corbett. Not like flashy teams, but
actually those have been two of the better offensive lines
in the league. So that's big news for those teams.
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Those are the strength of those teams. Taylor Moten, the
Panthers right tackle, is also going to be out this week.
And then the Cowboys pass rusher Marshawn Nelan has a
torn meniscus is probably going to be out a month.
Brutal another player at that position for Dallas. That is
really scary. Before we move on to our final segment,
I did just want to mention Hurricane Milton, which is
(42:29):
bearing down on Tampa. The Buccaneers, just to kind of
connect it with football, are evacuating Tampa. Like a lot
of the city, there's a mandatory evacuations in a lot
of Tampa. The Buccaneers are going to New Orleans actually
early in this week. They play the Saints on Sunday,
and so they will be staying in New Orleans, a
(42:52):
place very familiar with scary hurricanes. And this is the
reports on this are just I don't know, it.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
Comes after if they just dealt with a hurricane Hurracleen
just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
I mean this is brutal.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
You never want to see any city go through this,
especially a city that just dealt with this a couple
of weeks ago. Sarah Walsh, our very own reporter, dealt
with some scary, scary stuff a couple of weeks ago,
and is getting ready to evacuate once again. And you know,
our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody in the
Tampa area. I know, like coming from a news background,
(43:27):
I had to cover a lot of hurricanes, and I
know how scary really it is, especially because you don't know,
and you know, you don't know if it's going to
be as bad as they say they are.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
You don't know whether you should stay and risk it.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
And you know, of course the word is to evacuate
if you're in an evacuation area, because this looks bad,
it looks scary. You know, this is a football podcast,
and we hope that if you're in those areas, just
know that we're here whatever we can do to help,
and hopefully listening to us fight about football can get
your mind out away from it. But that doesn't dismiss
(44:01):
how severe and serious of an issue is.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
That it's happening. Yeah, it seems like a bad one
that kind of snuck up in terms of the severity
and the strength of the hurricane and how much it's
grown in the last few days. And so yeah, our
thoughts are with everyone in the Gulf Coast region. We're
gonna wrap up the show here. As we do, I
give you a little bit of homework, Bridget Did you
do it? Yeah? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (44:24):
Greg?
Speaker 3 (44:24):
You never? I wouldn't miss that mess up this opportunity.
Some people say they did the homework and then they freestyle,
and that's fine as long as you're good at freestyling.
It's our Captain Morgan Players of the Week time for
Captain's Corner. What if we have the same resent. I
haven't even talked about this by Captain Morgan. I guess
it's possible. I will let you go first, then, ladies first,
our first time guest, longtime listener. No, you've probably never
(44:47):
listened to this show. You want it? You're honking about
wanting to come on?
Speaker 5 (44:50):
What?
Speaker 3 (44:50):
I will say something.
Speaker 5 (44:52):
Before I got this job at the NFL, it was
twenty twenty one, right after the Super Bowl, right when
Chris passed, and I used to listen to this podcast
and I remember I was on a walk in Washington,
d C. Twenty twenty one right after the Super Bowl,
and it was the episode where you guys were all
like talking about how much Chris meant to you and stuff,
(45:12):
and that is the like one episode that's stuck in
my mind, and I remember I was like, if I
ever work at the NFL, like I got to meet
those guys. They sound like they have such a great
connection because you know sometimes when you listen to a
podcast and it's like these two people are talking and
nobody's listening, like like they're not listening to each other,
they're not collaborating together, They're just people want to hear
themselves talk. When I used to listen to Around the NFL,
(45:35):
it felt like you were just at the table with
your friends talking football. And yeah, no, I think it's
one of my favorite shows to listen to. NFL Daily
has been incredible. You've done an awesome job. I know,
hosting is okay, okay, forte, okay, fine, host It isn't
my forte. I mean, like, it's not what you usually do.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
It's not what I usually do. But it's been a
lot of fun. Now I appreciate everything you said about
right on that note, you're my player of the week. No,
I appreciate everything. Yeah that you said there, they're yeah,
I think of because that was the Tampa super Bowl.
That was the you know, one of the most brutal
weekends of our lives obviously, but one thing it did,
if you, if you want to find a positive about it,
(46:17):
is no podcasts seem hard. After that, there were some
I wouldn't say no podcasts seem hard. There were some
really tough ones this summer. I mean having or having
it around the NFL and the way that it ended
and and starting this that was brutal, but honestly, like
even that week I actually was thinking about like having
a podcast after Chris died and everything, like nothing will
(46:39):
ever compare to that in a way that in a
positive way. And he would remind you me of this
all the time, like we're just talking football here, like
you know, like we love football. We're talking football, like
even though it's our livelihood and there are stresses around
us and it's our careers and everything we just talked
about with like when this show is starting, like that's
all extremely stre life situations, Like nothing will be like that.
(47:02):
So I appreciate your kind words. Yeah, so never say
I don't listen. And Captain Morgan is like, what are
you guys talking about? We want a lighthearted segment about
players of the week, so give it to me, all right.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
My player of the week is mister Coles Cash himself.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
Okay, Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 5 (47:18):
I love him and I love his story, and I
just love that people continuously count him out, especially Kirk
in primetime. And look what he did Thursday night in
the primetime game over the Bucks to take the lead
for the NFC South. He had a career high five
hundred and nine passing yards, four passing touchdowns, and interception,
and led that game winning touchdown. He tied his career
(47:39):
high with four passing touchdowns. He just he was everything
that the Falcons wanted him to be that night, and
he did it on primetime where everybody could see.
Speaker 3 (47:51):
Kirk Cousins is still alive and well, and he is
my player of the week. I love that choice and
it sets up one of the most fascinated I stories
of let's just say the next month of the season,
because the way they won that game is that replicaal
can you keep doing it that way? Where he's just
slinging it in the pocket, barely moving at all and
(48:11):
just dropping dimes. It was impressive, It was awesome. It
was a great choice. I'm going similar in the sense
I'm picking a quarterback who's not always everyone's favorite player.
I'm gonna go with Daniel Jones just because we were
talking about this guy you making a face.
Speaker 5 (48:29):
I cover Daniel Jones at Duke, you know, and nice guy.
He seems like real, nice guy, like I would. We
were watching the video, you see that type of guy.
Everyone says, nice guy. No, we were watching the video
earlier of Sefon Diggs and the Vikings and everyone asking like,
who would you not want to date your sister and
they all said, Sapan Digs, I would.
Speaker 3 (48:47):
I would let my sister date.
Speaker 5 (48:49):
Daniel Yes, nice guy, nice guy, great quarterback, that's another question.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
Nice guy though, No, but a good quarterback when he's protected.
And the reason why I wanted to throw him out
here is more of like how this season is going.
I mean, he goes into Seattle. Did he block you
or something? You're trying to get him done? Block you? No.
I've always said that if he's protected, he can just
be like a league average quarterback. I don't mean a positive,
like he's not a huge positive. They shouldn't have given
(49:16):
him that contract. But if you protect him, he's not
like people this year coming to the year is like
he's the worst quarterback in the league. He's number thirty
two going into the league year after Week one, I
was one of the people saying, like, is this game
in Washington going to be his last start ever for
the Giants. That was the conversation because he was that
bad in Week one. If you look at his numbers
over the last month since Week two total EPA, he's
(49:40):
like fifth or sixth in the league. I mean, he's
not that good of a player. He's had some good opponents.
But my point is they went into Seattle. They dominated
that game. I watched that game on Monday, and they
the Seahawks were lucky to even be in that game.
If you protect him, he was mostly short stuff, accurate,
and the thing that gave him my Captain Morgan Captain
(50:02):
of the Week was him trucking defenders like he wanted
that business, like he saw out I don't know if
this is the smartest thing for his health long term,
but he saw Seahawks in his way, whether it was
going for a first out or not, and he ran
over them like he is playing with an edge that
tells me like, hey, I've got this job. I am
(50:23):
keeping this job. And he's playing pretty well right now.
So that was our Captain's Corner, presented by Captain Morgan.
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Oh thank you. Bridget what a time here in the
(50:43):
Chris Westleyan podcast. Dude pretty crazy. It's named after him
for all of our new listeners, Like it's good, it's
good to bring Sometimes I just bring him up with
no context and assume people know who I'm talking about.
And so I'm glad you gave some context there. And uh,
this was a lot of fun.
Speaker 5 (51:00):
A lot of fun. Monday is always fun when you're
in town. I am heading to Thursday night football in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
I mean I'm always in town. I live here. Well,
I see you in the news room like all day
and you ignore me. No, we we have great conversations.
I'm not what you're missing thing about Greg. I'll DM
him and he'll respond to me three days later. I'm
not like a DM. Yeah, text me? Do you want
me to respond? Text me? I'm an old You found
out how old I was today and you were like,
(51:28):
I was shook. You were a gay. I want to
know where you get your botox. I wish I look
so much older than I did a few years ago.
I looked so much older than I did like four
hours ago. When this game started. We got to get out,
We got to drive home. Thank you to Bridge of Condon.
Thank you to Eric Roberts behind the glass. Let's go, Dodgers.
(51:50):
Need to win. Your boys. Hey, when the Chiefs are
looking like a dominant team again, you know football is back.
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Gregg Rosenthal
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