Breaking Down the Big Week 3 Games

Daniel Jeremiah, Bucky Brooks, and Brian Baldinger break down the biggest games from Week 3 of the 2025 season. DJ opens up the show with a tribute to his longtime friend and former Appalachian State teammate, Shawn Clark. Then, the guys break down the NFC Divisional Round rematch between the Rams and Eagles (02:35), before diving into Broncos-Chargers (11:40), Texans Jaguars (17:23), Cowboys-Bears (24:00), Packers-Browns (29:09), Jets-Buccaneers (35:21) and Chiefs-Giants. (43:02)

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
What's up, everybody. Welcome to move the sticks. DJ and
Bucky going to be joined by our good buddy Brian
Baldinger as we look back at an incredible weekend of football.
Before we do that, though, I'm wearing my app State
hat today because it's just a sad day.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's been a sad.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Twenty four hours for everybody in our family, and it
is really a family up there in Boone. So lost
a former teammate of mine and a good friend. And
Sean Clark was an amazing All American tackle at app
State and was the head coach there, spent a lot
of his years and time really investing in people up
there in Boone and then was at Central Florida this

(00:43):
year as the offensive line coach and tragically passed away
over the weekend at fifty years old. Challe's a wonderful guy,
wonderful father, two kids. He always talked about every time
we had a chance to visit. Just an unbelievable guy
who's going to be in edibly missed by people all
over the college football landscape. And anybody who really came

(01:04):
in contact with him Buck. We had a chance to
have him on the show previously. It was fun to
kind of introduce him to you because he got kind
of two friends and then getting a chance to meet
each other. But in Baldi he's offensive lineman, like he's
your people man.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
You would absolutely loved him.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, that's a sad day, Djym's hardy to hear from
your low.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, yeah, it's really sad, DJ.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Because I was at the UCF Carolina game this weekend
in anticipation of not only seeing Natario's played the nice
but Lookshawn was going to be there Bill Belichick and shouted.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Him out ahead of the game. Talk to him postgame, So.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Just said news, you talk about fifty years old, so
much life, still the head to live and then really
the kids and the wife that he leaves behind. So
thought in prayers to him, his family, to the app
State family, to everyone who encountered Sean because he was
such a great Tuoe.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, great guy.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I had a chance to go up there and take
my family up there and I think twenty one in
the summer, and he kind of gave us a whole
tour of everything, showed my kids around. Couldn't have been,
couldn't have been nicer and just a better dude. And
then was up there for a game just last year
at this time, I think it was a year ago
today looking at the calendar, I was up there in
Boone and I you know, I saw him in the
locker room. He came, gave me a big bear hug,

(02:17):
and uh, he's going to be missed. He was a
great guy. So anyways, sending all my love to to
their family. All right, guys, let's let's jump in here
to the games we had yesterday. It's a crazy, crazy,
uh weekend. Man, I was at a crazy game. Uh,
I was where were you at yesterday? I let's start there,

(02:40):
Let's start there, go for it.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Well, I mean, honestly, like, uh, the Eagles couldn't have
it was tailored to two games. I mean, they couldn't
have been worse. In the first half. They literally couldn't
function as an offense. They lost Elane Johnson.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
Early in the game.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
They went to Matt Pryor Jared Versus used him a
couple of times. They ended up getting a fumble knock
the ball knocked out of jail and hurt his hand.
They recovered, I mean they scored twenty six straight points.
I mean, they got complete control of the game. Fred
Johnson went it right tackle, I mean, locked down everybody
he went against, and all of a sudden, the protection

(03:16):
got better.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
They had to throw it for the first time over year.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
They had to throw it, and they threw it and
aj Brown went after every single corner that tried to,
you know, take him on.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
But you know, it was Devonte Smith catching the game winner.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
But even that didn't win the game, you know, because
the Rams came right back down and they blocked two
field goals in the last four minutes, the last one
by we saw Jordan Davis, but Jalen Carter blocked one
before right It was middle block, right over the left guard.
They both backed him up. The first block by Jalen Carter,
Jordan Davis could have blocked that one as well. And

(03:51):
that's really the story for the Eagles defenses. Jordan Davis,
because we all recognized the talent that he had coming
out of Georgia and we just didn't see it. He
didn't stay on the field long enough to really make
an impact. I remember DJ his agent hit me up
after the game after the season last year and he
played thirteen plays in a Super Bowl. We really had

(04:12):
no impact. And he said, Paulie, I know you you
know you've been hard on Jordan, and I had been,
you know, but it wasn't personal.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
It's never personal.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
I just said, you know, he's not in good enough
condition to stay on the field to unpack these games.
He said, Jordan's going to He's going to come in
shape this year, and he did. He lost thirty pounds.
He's on the field, he's impacting the game. He's their
best defensive lineman right now. He won the game for
him yesterday. It's a chip shot field goal and it
gets blocked for a touchdown and the Eagles somehow pulled

(04:41):
out of their hat.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
But the offense woke up, the defense did their job.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
In the second half, they got to Stafford and they overcame.
Just a dreadful first half of football. Were literally only
in Philadelphia. Could you be undefeated World champs and be booed,
I ain't going to the locker room halftime. Here's sixty
five and they're all letting it fly out there, and I'm.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Like, only Hilly.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Baldy. There are a couple of things.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
One Jordan Davis speaks to what we always have talked about.
When Vic Fangio joined, I heard that they ramped up
to conditioning because previously maybe they didn't put a priority
on particularly the defense, conditioning, running to the ball, doing
those things.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
So Jordan Davis responding in kind.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
To me, that tells you everything that you need to
know about how the conditioning part impacts the play and
the performance of a player. The other part, and this is,
I guess the thing around the league, these field goal blocks, Baldy.
I've never seen the game impacted on field goal blocks as.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Much as we've seen of late.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
And I don't know if it's a schematic design, if
it's more time on task, if we're taking it for granted,
but we are seeing blocks on field go pats at
an alarming rate.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
You know what's funny about that?

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Real quick here, DJ Port jump in like literally almost
simultaneous to Jordan Davis blocks, Will McDonald blocks one for
the Jets, takes it back for a touchdown to give
them the twenty seven to twenty six league.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
Banker finished it.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
But I mean it was almost like if you were
watching these games a real time on a big screen,
you see block touchdown block touchdown almost at the exact
same time.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
You know, it's funny, I'll give you a little peak
behind the curtain because I'm calling that Charger game and
money and you're calling the game. But during the breaks,
we'll check the scores and see what's going on. So
during one of the breaks, we see, oh my gosh,
you know, the Jets are like they're in the game
because it was out of control for a while, and
they're in the game. And then I look and I
show I remember pointing to him like this must have

(06:47):
been during a commercial or something, and I pointed him
out they're lining up to kick the field goal, like
this will kind of put this thing away. And then
you go back to calling the game, and then you
look back down at your computer and.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
You see the score happen. What the heck just happened?

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Like, cause you're it doesn't even and it doesn't even
function as like a possibility of that could take place.
But I guess you're gonna have to change our mindset
because this is happening more and more as you look
across these games. But I want to go back to
a couple of things. Jordan Davis. While you guys are talking,
I went back and looked at my notes. So Jordan
Davis when he was coming out, Remember he was six
h six three three and forty one pounds were in

(07:21):
a four to seven eighth. He was my eleventh overall player.
He played the one tech three tech. He's got a
quick first step, he can a little slap rip TfL.
He plays aware, he's block aware, he's got range versus
a run. He can walk centers back with power. The
biggest question gas tank, question mark, question mark, question mark.
So that was the whole thing, Baldy, that was the

(07:42):
whole thing. He just had to get himself in playing shape.
And it looks like he's done that.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
So two things.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
One, Bucky, you can jump in on is because you
know Dexter Lawrence, your dad coached him. But Dexter Lawrence
had the same issue his first three years with the
Giants and he couldn't stay on the field. He wasn't
impact in the passing game. And Wink Martindale really challenged
him a couple of years ago and he became like
a real dominant player. And I talked to Jordan Davis
forty game. Anybody that knows him have met him.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
He's a great kid. He's very articulate, he's very self conscious.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
But the thing that's amazed now DJ is he's had
three great games in a row and he won the game.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
For him.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
It's unbelievable what that does to a young kid's confidence
for for a long time, three years. You know, he's
the reason why. You know, he's not on the field,
he's not changing the game, he's not he's not living
up to the first round pick, he's not living up
to the eleventh pick in the draft, all this stuff,
and all of a sudden, you start making these plays
and it's because of you.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
It's he's a completely different kid right now.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, that's fun to see, Buck, That is fun to see.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
I want to go on the Rams side because I
do think out of this loss, I think there's some
confidence for them that can be built in terms of
being a legitimate title contender. They felt like last year
when they played the Eagles, they let one slip out
of their hands that they should have been the team
that played the Super Bowl and won the Super Bowl
and those things, given how they played, but the fact

(09:04):
that they were able to dominate the Eagles early, they
were able to run the football successfully early they were
able to go toe to toe with the champs. Man,
I just think this sets up for the rematch in
the postseason with the Rams if they can get it
on their terms in LA. Because both of those games
have been in Philly. I believe that the Rams feel

(09:25):
like when they walk out of that stadium. Man, this
is a team that we have did the rights. We
just need to get them on our turf so we
can beat them. And if we beat them, we can go.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
They ran the ball really well, really well. Both Blake
korm has really come on Kyron, both of them. I mean,
they controlled the line of scrimmage for basically the first
three quarters of the game.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Well, the other thing I would say, as we kind
of wrap up and we'll move on here, Eagles three
plays away from being zero to three, I mean, and
that's how razor thin the margin has.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Been for them.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
But they found a way to win it the last
two points on the Eagles and we'll keep it rolling.
AJ Brown going back through all his stuff and watching
his man, I don't know, there's no you can compare
receivers and how they are in certain areas. There's no
comparison of who these physically strongest wide receiver is in
the NFL. At the top of his route, you can't
get through him. And then once he catches the ball,
he's just done a nightmare to get on the ground.
And there's two plays where normal guys, you're going to okay,

(10:16):
it's a heck of a catch. You got a defender
on your back, it's it it catch on the ground
over and he somehow is able to muscle his way
through and pick up big chunks after the catch. So
that was my aj Brown point. And then Baldy last one.
I'll hitch you on this and you give me a
quick rebuttal and we can move on. But I went
back and I wanted to see John Campbell had some
tackle production. So I went back and I just want

(10:36):
to I just want to put my eyes just on him.
And what I came away saying is, okay, look, nothing's perfect.
There's times where he gets swallowed and walled off in
those things. But I would say good advice to give
to a young player, which they've clearly given to him,
is hey, just go make a mess. Man, play fast
and make a mess. And even on the pick, even
on the pick, he gets smoked by the.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Back when he blitzes.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I think it was Karen Williams might have caught him,
but he's playing a hundred miles and that to me
is way better than trying to I don't know what
I see, What am I doing? I'm not sure. Just
play fast and make a mess.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah. His partner, Zach Bond is amazing. I mean the
interception on DeVante Adams that led to the first touchdown
of the game, and I talked to him after the game.
I saw him down the field, but like he just
read the eyes of Stafford all the way, just jumped
out in front of the DeVante. He's just amazing instincts
for the game. Like literally, if you just put your
if you just put a picture and picture of camera

(11:28):
on Zach Bond, You're going to find the football every
single play.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
No doubt. All right, let's let's go through the three
games we were at. So we'll go through those three
and then we'll move on beyond that. I'll get to
the one I was at Chargers Broncos, which was a
rock fight. Man, these are two defenses that were playing
lights out and man, the let's start on the Denver
side of things first. They have fastballs that they are
bringing after you, Jonathan Cooper, big time, big time speed.

(11:55):
I'd have to go through. I know we can get
the get off numbers, but if Benito is not in
the top three to four or get off guys in
the league, I'll be shocked. I mean he he got
al off the snap a few times. Uh. He was excellent.
Their defense overall played great offensively. The kind of the
turning point for them that that got the Broncos in
the game was Chargers up ten nothing inside a minute

(12:15):
to go and in the half they go for it
on a fourth down. You're thinking they're gonna run the ball,
They're gonna move the pocket, try and get you know,
Bonnicks on the move and Sean Payton dials up a
shot play, they catch a busted coverage, they get a touchdown.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Bam, They're right back in the game.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
And they ended up being in control of the game
until Justin Herbert just you know, took over over took
over at the end. But Buck, two things I want
to hit you on. Aronde Gadson, the rookie tight end,
was awesome in this game, including the last driver two key,
two key plays he wins on a on a little
pivot route. He wins on a slant route on those

(12:50):
on that last two drive he got Justin's trust. It
makes two plays there. He was targeting a little bit
earlier in the game as well. So excellent performance. First
game he's been active as in his rookie season. He
steps up. And then the other one was Hampton with
the unfortunate achilles injury to Naji Harris, who had been
running the ball really well. Amarian Hampton is involved not
only as a runner and he's able to squeak through

(13:12):
and pop a couple, but man second half of the
game caught the ball really well and to combat all
the different rushers and blitzzes you're going to see from
that defense advanced Joseph. Their answer, which they got to
Greg Roman found was hey, let's just pitch it out.
Let's just throw the ball outside to Hampton, and he
gobbled up a lot of yards.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
You know, it's funny to show about two rickies making
major contributions. One we expected Omarion Hampton. You expect him
to make a contribution. He's the first round pick. And
even though they were sharing to load him and Naja
Harris at some point, you expected him to take it
over and be the guy. And what you're seeing is
what a lot of North Carolina people would tell me
is you can't utilize them enough.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Whatever you want to see he can do.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
It might not have showed up on college tape, but as
a pro, he has those skills, so you expect to
see Hampton do that. Arondies, I got to tell you
one for anyone who remembers his dad, his dad was
a freakazoid in terms of being a supersized wide receiver
down there in Miami, kind of doing things and making

(14:11):
it happen. Watching a Rondez Gassen junior at the East
West Shrine Bowl, you understood what he could do and
practices in terms of being a pass catching specialist in
the middle of the field. To see him first game
active make plays, it just bowls well for what the
Chargers are creating. A young, dynamic offense that has old

(14:34):
school values, but they got a franchise quarterback that can
make a new school whenever they need to. This is
a really good team and I can't even say they're
laying in the weeds as a contender, but they're right
there ready to make that next step and if you
know har Brough, you two is typically when it happens.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
You know what caught my eye, especially towards the end
DJ is you lose beck To he's out, Jamari's in there,
you lose Pipkins, he's out. You got backup right guard,
right tackle in the game, backup to the backup right
tackle in the game, and you're not skipping a beat.

Speaker 5 (15:07):
Like That's when you know the quarterback is playing.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
At an unbelievable level what she was well, Like when
you stopped noticing the drop off in offensive line play
and you're down to the backups to the backups and.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
You're still moving the football and scoring like that.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Another thing is, you know Quentin Johnson, there was a
nugget a nugget in the.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Research packet this week.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
I think coming into this game, he was fourth in
the NFL since the start of twenty four in touchdown receptions.
And then he made some more big plays in this game,
including he got Sartana a couple times down the field.
And I was staying there on the broadcast, I'm like, guys,
the whole narrative of Quinton Johnston.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Oh yeah, that's cute.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
He kind of turned it around like he can catch
the ball now, ha, Like he's a little bit better.
It's like this guy's playing like a number one receiver.
He's got the numbers to back it up. And so
then you get him rolling like that. You know, lat
mccackie hadn't had like a huge, huge game yet, he
doesn't really had to keenan still clutches. Ever, when you
get in those third down situations and now I'm say, okay,
well these are all established guys now, and now you

(16:07):
mix in a couple of these rookies. They're dropping in
there now. They're gonna have to go get another back.
They're gonna you know, they have Hassan Haskins there. They
got to get another back. Now that Najee Harris is
going to be down, and you know, Herbert can't continue
to get hit like that. I don't know how many
teams defensively are equipped to do what the Broncos do.
I came out of that stadium in the Broncos. I mean,
they let one get away against the week previous week,

(16:28):
and this one was, you know, like they had a
real good shot to win this game. So there you go, Drew,
just put it up in the in the not Bernito. Yeah,
point seventy four, top five in the league in terms
of his get off and the number one guy with
Jonathan Cooper his teammates. So that's one of those ones.
I love when we can do that in real time, Bald,
because your eyes when you're watching it, you're like, these

(16:48):
guys are getting off the rock, man, Well, you.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Know, I mean, it's it's just you know, the old
saying that you can't win the hundred meters das unless
you get a great start.

Speaker 5 (16:56):
And yes, it's everything right now, it's the start.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Like if you Bryce Huff in San Francisco right now,
you get a great start, you're gonna give these tackles
problems to the league. Man, you're gonna get you're gonna
get them turned, and you're gonna have a chance to get.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
To the quarterback, no question. But that was a big win.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
The Chargers start off three and oh, three and oh
inside the division, so when you factor in the type,
I think they're two and a half up on everybody
in the division. So pretty incredible start for Jim Harbaugh
and the Bolts.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
Buck.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Let's get to your game here. Not at all what
I anticipated. I mean I went back and watched I'll
get to what I watched of it in a little
bit here, but just tell me what it was like
in the stadium in a weird Houston Jacksonville game.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
Look, it was a good game to watch. Offensively, if
you lay office the ball, this hit you back. A
lot of drop passes from the Jaguars. Brian Thomas Jr.
Has a bit of the yips. He's having a tough
time catching the ball, but a bunch of other players
are struggling as well. And then when you look at
the Texans, the Texans just are trying to figure out

(17:55):
this new offense and they don't have an identity. And
I'll be honest, Cia Stroud is struggling in terms of
you know, we talked about the sophomore slump and that
way in year three. He's struggling trying to figure out
where everything is. And someone who is so gifted as
a passer, like the body's not connecting with the mind

(18:16):
and so his superpowers are negated by the overthinking and
it's really kind of ground this offense to a halt.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Yeah, I went back and watched just a Stroud part
of it, because man, his rookie year, there's so much
good and even last year was up and down.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
But I was shoot.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
I was in the building and he carved up the
Chargers of the number one defense in the NFL. After
a slow start in that game, he got heated up.
To me, I was just watching that. Man, there's no
rhythm to it. I feel like every throw is pretty hard.
Like Baldy, I want to get your thoughts on this
because going through and watching all these games this morning
and going through and watching the different cutups, I wanted
to peek out. One of the things I've noticed is, man,

(18:56):
if your offense is not incorporating a lot of smoke's greens,
tunnel screens quick here like these are not only are
they you know, look you get the escort screens we
see out there all the time, like you need to
be getting. Those are six to seven completions of game.
You should just bake in. Those are gimmes and if
they pop, they pop. If not, what they do is
they work as kind of a rhythm, a rhythm builder

(19:18):
for a quarterback. When you drop back and you're looking
at it, everything is hard and covered and down the field. Man,
that's hard way to play quarterback with all the two
high looks and the shell coverage you see in this league.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Not only that, but you know the offense line has
not played well and it's all new and you know,
whether it's Titus Howard or ariantae Urseri, I mean Lake
and Thomas has been this league a long time.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
He doesn't miss games, but he's not a very good player.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yeah, and you know to plug him in that left
guard like they they've had a problem at left guard
for a long time. And you could change coaches, offensive
line coach coordinators like they have a lot of those
issues are still there. And I don't care who you are,
you get hit early in these games, Like you know,
I think that I saw Trey vonn who's having a.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
Great season walker roster. He's becoming a dominant player.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
He looks like a number one pick, you know, the
way physically, like he's getting after guys like they're not
staying you know, nobody's staying in front of him right now.
And so the quarterback kids said early, man, like you're
gonna be a little skintch. I know, we got the
big touchdown to Nico, but I mean, honestly, like it's
it's been a real problem.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
But you gotta but to me that that thing that
comes back to my point though, you've got to have
stuff baked in to control then, like I watched it,
we just talked about the chart. I watched Justin Herbert
get the tar kicked out of him, and then eventually
they figured out, Hey, we're just gonna release Hampton like
we're keeping keeping him. Man, they still got us out number.
We're we're having trouble picking this stuff up. We're just
gonna he's gonna have a place to get the ball
out quick.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
You know.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
You know who does did that a lot yesterday with
Sean McVay. Like they run a lot of fly sweeps.
They run a lot of stuff to meat uh to
nicula on the outside and they're just trying to pick
up a block and go trying to rather than just
trying to hammer it inside against the eagles.

Speaker 5 (20:51):
I mean, they found different ways to run it.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
But I'm with you, DJ, you got to get some
easy completions and just get the ball out of his
hands without having to really think about it and diagnose
something pre snap.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Real quick, buck before we move on, give me the
Travis Hunter update. I rely on you every week. What
was the usage, how they use him and what do
you do?

Speaker 1 (21:10):
I mean he played a lot.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
I mean he played a lot of defense. He's on
the field, he's all over the place. They can do
a better job of getting in the ball in a
critical moment. They found it to him on like a
little curl. He makes a move dress out and you
can see the explosiveness. The problem that they're having is
there's a lack of confidence because they had so many
drops in the game that now the quarterback is pressing

(21:32):
trying to figure out who I can trust, and so
Breton Strange was the guy that he could rely on.
Travis Hunter, I would say, would probably be second in
that group. I think going forward you'll probably see a
re shuffling of the deck when it comes to the
pecking order.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
But I think Travis Hunters started getting more balls.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, they put it in their thirty five snaps on offense,
forty one on defense, so darn near fifty.

Speaker 5 (21:53):
A lot of tackles in that game, Bucky, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
The tackles.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
The thing that I will say is the JAG's defense
is playing much better for as exceeded expectations. Josh Heinz
Allen Eric Armstead on the inside and Treyvon Walker. They're
getting after it and what they're able to do now
they're playing zone, so it's a sea ball kipball defense.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
They have nine takeaways I think in three games.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
They're I mean they're getting tips and overthrows and the
zone is working because they have these dynamic athletes that
are just tracking the ball and you're seeing more plays.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
Travis Hunter hasn't scratched yet.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
But it's only a matter of time because the way
they're playing the zone, he is going to snack some
balls out there.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Let me ask you a buck Yus. I don't know
much about companyly. You know, the new defensive coordinator man,
but obviously the breakdowns they had last year were ridiculous.
I mean there's turn of guys lose, but I don't
see that right now. What is what is his strength?
Why did Liam like lean on this guy right here
to run this defense?

Speaker 1 (22:47):
So it's funny body.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
As much as I would love to say that it's
the exison hosts, I would say that what I've learned
from watching this team, it is all about the connectivity
between players and coaches and talking to guys after the
talking to some of their veteran leaders, they were like,
it's a difference in having coaches say things that you
actually believe in and wanting to play for them as

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opposed to just going out and playing. And so I
would say Camp has challenged the guys, but he's challenged
the guys. And it's almost like when you have an
old teacher that tells you, ay, Baldy, I promise you
if you just follow the formula, it'll take and you
do that first big problem and it's right. And so
now the trust that you have and the teacher takes

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you to the next level. That is what's happened. Kevinnillius
told those guys, if you run to the ball, if
you keep the ball in front, I promise you, good
things are going to happen. And over the first three games,
those things have happened, and so now their confidence is
sky high.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Through the roof.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
No doubt, it's been a different unit completely, and they've
always had guys on that side of the ball particularly.
So good to see the Jacks playing. Well, let's take
a quick break, we come back, we'll knock out.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Some other games.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
All right, Baldy, I saw you had posted on this
and then actually after you posted it than I wanted
to go through and check it out for myself. So
and I'll set this up properly because we've mentioned Bucky
and I have mentioned this no shortage of ten times
on the show where we've said we were out there together,
shoulder to shoulder watching Jimmy Garoppolo and Davante Adams carve

(24:20):
up the Dallas secondary like a Thanksgiving turkey during during
traning camp, and we came out of that saying the
Rams are going to score sixty points a game or
this Dallas back in is horrendous, and I think we're
figuring out, Hey, the Rams are, They're pretty good, But Baldy,
the bigger takeaway is Dallas defensively.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
What in the world is going if they make.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
It any easier for Caleb Williams. I mean they left
meat on the bouncer. They have meat on the.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Bouncer, trying to jam like a one an jam live
on Roman Doomsday and Missus and falls and Domsay is
like literally it's like a Friday afternoon like egg toss.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
That's one ye.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
And then like you know, look, Kyer Elim, I know
where he got drafted I mean that guy's out there,
he's a liability man. Yeah, like Caleb, he threw four
touchdown passes. Honestly, three guys were completely wide open, you know.
I mean, you know, the kid from Missouri is a
really good player, but I mean it helps me nobody's

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covering him. I mean it's a one breakdown after another.
And the other part to this, I mean, Jerry Jones
doesn't want to hear this. They've got no pass rush,
no pass rush. I mean in Chicago, who struggled like
crazy against Detroit. Like, honestly, Caleb barely got hit in
that game. In fact, he got hit one time by
Sam Williams after he completed the pass. I mean, he
couldn't get near him in this game, and that was

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that was a big story. But like, you can't give
it up any easier than they gave it up.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yeah, I'm going through my notes, Buck, and it's one
thing when you write lay up, you know, open easy,
when you write all caps, comet, wide open, all caps
all the way across, exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point.
They were actually you know, and Caleb play well. They
made it easy on him, but I thought they left
a little meat on the bone, like, there were probably

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three or four throws that he would love.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
He definitely.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
They had some opportunities that he missed. When he when
he's driving the ball in the scene, for some reason,
it takes off on him. There's times where I think
he's overthrowing it and the ball just kind of jumps
on him and he's missed. But the thing that I
liked about in talking about Caleb every week, the things
that I continue to see improvement in. He had four
runs in this game. Okay, technically four runs. Two were
nil down. So he had two runs in this game,

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and they were both zone reads designed quarterbacks run yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
And then you had some other drop backs.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
He had two scrambles, and on the scrambles, one is
where they're moving the pocket, so he already got him
kind of in movement mode and then he sees it
and takes it.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
The other one was a.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Trick play, another one of the trick plays that they tried,
and it wasn't there. So he takes off and runs.
But there's not this panic. There's not this I got
to get out of here. I got to get out
of here. And he's finding check down. So he's starting
to realize. Look, I don't think DeAndre Swift's a great
runner of the football, but he's actually really valuable in
the screen game and catching the ball out of the
back field. And you know, look, he's been with him twice.

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Ben Johnson's had him twice. I think he knows who
and what he is. But they're figuring out a way
to get him the ball and those opportunities, which shows
growth to me from Caleb. But that was you know, hey, look,
if you can just start with the simple things, let's
hit guys when they're you know, make it wide open.
He's doing that. Let's let's not just try and you know,
make some incredible scramble play on every single drop back.

(27:23):
He's doing a better job of that. And he's finding
his he's finding his outlet, he's finding his checkdown buck.
Those are three tangible ways we can say Caleb Williams
has shown growth in getting better.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
Yeah, and I think it was a perfect storm playing
the Chicago Bears. Chicago Bears are simplest. I mean, playing
the boys. Matu is simplistic by design. Made Tampa two.
They're not gonna do a lot of disguise. It's gonna
be very easy for them in terms of seeing what
they're doing. The PICI is not gonna change a lot
post snap, and then it's a matter of are you

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disciplined enough to take what's available now.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
The thing is, you should not see.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
The bust that you're seeing from the cow Boys, given
the simplicity of the scheme.

Speaker 5 (28:04):
None.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
I don't think there was a two. I was looking
for the two. I didn't see that too. You should
not care.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
You should not see these breakdowns, And to me, it
speaks to a lack of discipline and a lack of
attention to detail from their players because look, I know, look,
I've seen this defense with Maddy Eberflus work successfully in
Indianapolis and all those things. But for whatever reason, there's
there's a disconnect up front. And it also doesn't help
when you have no one, I mean no one who

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can rush the passer.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
I don't care what defense you play.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
If you can't affect a quarterback, you got no chance
in this league.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah, well, well it speaks to just one big, like
a league wide issue. I see, Like I know everybody
says quarterback driven league, it's a cornerback driven league.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
And I see some of the worst corner play right now.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
There's not enough of them, Nick, you begin with, and
then they're asking guys that aren't very good to do
things that they're not very good at. And so I
just see the shortage of good corners in this business
right now. And if you can get three or four
of them that can stay on the field and stay healthy,
then you're way ahead of the curve of how you
want to play defense.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
No doubt, Baldy Cleveland, Green Bay. That may be the
most shocking result of the weekend.

Speaker 5 (29:15):
It was, except this.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Is third three weeks in a row now where the
defense has carried this team, and they got after Jordan
Love in the past game, they completely shut down your run.

Speaker 5 (29:27):
Josh Jacobs got a couple.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
But these two rookies, Mason Graham and Carson's Wessinger, like
they're incredible, Like they know how to play the game.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
Questioner is sideline and sideline.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
He got a sacked the other day coming out of
you know, out there somewhere in the curl flat, you know,
like he was twenty yards away from Jordan Love and
got him down. But he comes one hundred miles out
ro Mason Graham. The thing that impressed me, dj is.
I didn't think he was going to be a good
pass rusher. I thought he had played with leverage. I
thought he was technically sound. You see all that in
the run game. But he knows how to get on

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the edge. He knows and and because of the way
Schwartze gets after it, either by adding a fifth rusher
or their twist stunts that they run, like that's sometimes
all you need to move that quarterback. And then here
comes Alex right, We're here comes uh, you know, Elie
Collins on a pick and like they really affected the
passing game of green Bay. And I don't think anybody

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thought they could do that to green Bay.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
And that was that.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
They did it for three quarters to Baltimore the week
before they completely shut down Derrick Henry.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
They did it to Joe Burrow week one. They should
have won that game. You don't need stats at all
to watch Cleveland say that's the best defensive football.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah, a couple of things. Buck.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
By the way, we're gonna I'm gonna put forth a
nominee show of hands. Can we nominate Jim Schwartz for
our coordinator of the week. We're gonna go h we
get a three for three from that shorts he wins
that award.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
He loves to hear that too deep.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, uh Graham. Going back through, I've watched
I've won him every week. It's kind of been a
pet project because he was getting so much grief. He
pukes at a practice and then in the preseason he
gets flat backed by by I don't know it was
Trey Smith or whoever in one play, and it's like, oh,
so now we have a verdict on the guy that

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every thought, we all agreed was a really good player
at Michigan. So I've watched him each and every week
and then watch him going through this week. He have
four pressures. He's got an innate feel on games, like
when you run games that's not everybody, Oh, it's just simple.
There's a feel of technique to that. He's very good
at it. That he's that wrestler. So he plays with
the leverage he's gotten that little push pull, little snatch move.

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He's got such upper strength and corp strength, and he's
able to get guys off their skis a little bit
and then all of a sudden, you look and he
beats you with just a pure get off and he's
just ripping through and getting pressure that way against the run.
Everybody knows he's because of the wrestling thing. Front side
leverage all no problem. He's winning backside with quickness and
making plays on the backside. Beat and cut off them off.

(31:57):
Can't cut him off. So he's been awesome. And I
was thinking about this trade, uh buck, from this standpoint,
do you remember the the Stafford golf trade? And the
whole thing was, Okay, they're tradings. The Detroit's trading Stafford
for a bunch of for draft picks because they want.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
To get younger. And then there's golf, like it was
the it was Bill that.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah, golf was kind of the other piece, whereas and
then Cleveland was, hey, we don't have our quarterbacks, so
we're going to trade this pick with Travis Hunter available
for draft picks. You know, that's kind of the and
then and then oh yeah, they ended up getting Mason Graham.
Like I feel like Mason Graham and Jared Goff weren't
the key components of those trades. And in some ways
it's like, well, hold up, let's pay attention here. Jared

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Goff obviously is huge with the with the Lions and
their success. Mason Graham, that's the cherry on top because
they're going to have two first round picks next year.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
You know, it's funny because I hate you guys raving
about their defense. And I think in the middle of
this game, uh Ketas and Fanski had an epiphany and
we'll continue to have an epiphany in terms of how
this team needs to play. Quin Shawne Jenkins gets eighteen carries,
ninety four rushing yards.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
He's averaging over five yards and carry.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
And when you have a great defense, as we're talking
about the best defense in football, the Cleveland Browns have
to embrace an ugly brand of ball that can make
it make them really the team no one wants to face,
because as the weather turns and as it gets cold,
and as you're having to go to the dog pound,
they can run the football effectively with the rookie, They

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can play great defense. They can make every game like
a game of half court basketball, and all it takes
is a turnover or two and you look up and
you walk out of there with an l if. They
embrace who they are with a great defense and compliment
it with a very conservative, run oriented offense.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
This team.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
I'm not saying they're gonna be a playoff team, but
they could be a tough out that you don't want
to have to deal with each and every week.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
The other part to the draft process DJ is so
they take Quinn Shawn Jenkins, you know, in the in
the second round, and then they get Dylan Samson. Ye,
and you watch these two guys like, you don't need
anybody else. You got two fresh legs, they can practice.
Samson catches the ball great, Quinn Shawn is your number one.
Like they've got a real combination right now going forward.

(34:18):
And look, I mean Nick Chubb was a great player,
but honestly, it almost goes back to that, you know,
not de emphasizing running backs is you want great running backs.
But what's wrong with drafting too, you know what's right,
what's wrong with drafting? You know the sweet spot in
the second round where a lot of these guys fall,
and then go get yourself that fourth round pick like
Samson and you know out of Tennessee and a little

(34:41):
bit of a guy can do everything.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
I mean, it's pretty good approach.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
So you mentioned the two running backs Harold fannin Bucks, that's.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
That's very often rookies. Isaiah.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
We talked about Swetzs and Gerry and Graham, like, that's
a heck of a draft class man.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
Yeah, and that la Aiden Huntington is a good player. Yeah,
he's the lead back on the touchdown.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
He's a he's a you know, he's a rotating kid
on defensive tackles. You know, he's a free agent at
a two lane, but he's he's in the mix special
teams all three phase.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Of the game.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
It's a it's a nice little you know, uh, being
able to use his abilities.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
No question.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
I want to get to some more young guys as
we get to this next game here Jets and Bucks
and uh, you know, it's funny.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
I watched this game just looking at it.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
I want to watch a couple of things, and I saw,
like Levonte David had eleven tackles. Levonte David's thirty five
years old, you know, so I wanted to watch that.
And this is why he keep the box. Scores can
be different than the game. So you go watch it
and I'm actually go through the tape and I'm like,
you know, he actually missed a sack, missed a couple
of tackles, potentially I think tackles for loss, like he
could have had a monster game, and I think twenty
five year old Levante David that's like, that's like an

(35:50):
old school eighteen tackle two sack like elite, elite performance.
But he's still he's still good. He just not you know,
kind of what he was. And then you look on
the other side to see Mike Evan. Mike Evans makes
a couple of plays. Mike Evin I think had three
drops when I was going through there looking at that
where he had opportunities. So again, Mike Evans not quite
what he was. So if you're a general manager and
you've got some good aging players who are unbelievable leaders

(36:12):
and winners and future Hall of famers, then man, we
got to supplement them with some good young players. And Baldi,
I look, get a Mecca Buka. It is every week
he's doing some freaky stuff. Man, it's unreal.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
The one handed catch was unreal. I mean, pump that
right to his resume. Real. Baker implicitly trusts him.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
I mean the you know, Evans gets hurt, you know
they I mean like they have backup to backups on
the offensive line. They didn't have one guy in their
natural spot. They lose mockt they you know, they lose
the right guard. I mean it was all backups in there,
and you know you're going up against you know, Will
McDonald and Quinn Williams. They made plays, but you know,
Baker just he's just so crafty man with the ball,

(36:52):
like his ability just to be able. It's like squeezing jello,
like he's gonna find somewhere to come out of and
extend the play.

Speaker 5 (37:00):
But ultimately he's gonna find a buka for a big play.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
And I don't know, Like I know, Sauce Garter was
a high pick and he's gotten paid big, but man,
those penalties that he's committed.

Speaker 5 (37:11):
Two weeks in a row.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
I started for what started and you give them a
first down, like you can't if you have a free
agent out there and he's just you know, you just
called a kid up from a practice squad.

Speaker 5 (37:23):
You might expect that miscape. You can't, like sales can't
make that mistake.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, I would agree with you. And in theory are
about it. I thought that specific one was. Yeah, there
was a whole lot there. Man, they kind of each
got their hand out touching each other. I don't think
it impacted to throw it all. And I was actually
I had a Jets fan friend as a baseball guy.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
It sent me a text and he was like.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Can they fix this rule where it just we're just
going to bail out these offenses on third and forever
you get a tick tack TICKI tech penalty and that's
that's a that's not a ten to fifteen yard penalty.
That's a massive penalty, and you kind of bail out
the offense almost like Buck. I don't know if you
ever you know, being in both those position rooms and
as a receiver and a DA it's almost liked, man,

(38:05):
come on, let's have you ever complained to refle like, hey,
let's have a little awareness of like this is your
barrel on these guys out on.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Is one of my biggest gripes with the rule.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
I think they make it too easy to throw balls
up in these desperate situations and reward the offense with
a first down look. Sauce Gardener has to be aware.
Sauce Garden's played in the all pro level. He has
to play better, giving the money, a conversation and the expectation,
but he can't put his team in that situation. As
I go back and I look at the bucks Man,

(38:36):
Baker Mayfield, third week in a row, game winning drive,
finishes in the final minute, making a strong case for
the MVP. And I think we've said this when we
look at him, we look at Daniel Jones, we look
at some of these other quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Man, you can't give up on a quarterback too soon.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
The right environment, scheme, player supporting cast, all those things
can really help a player find his role. And I
think Baker Mayfield and Tampa and best version of Baker
that we've ever seen, and it's only going to get
better as they continue to believe in him and empower
him not only on the field but with the people

(39:16):
that they put around him to really compliment his game
and allow him to be at his best every week.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Baldy, can I ask you a question on this real quick?
On that point, the Buck just made so talking with
personnel guys around the league, and we're early in the
college season, but there hasn't been you know, Mendoz has
played well at Indiana, but there hasn't been anybody just
wowing anybody from the quarterback standpoint. So they were one
of them asked me you know, hey, who do you
think will emerge? Who you think will be that guy?
And I said, I don't know, man. You look around

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the league and now you see Daniel Jones light in
the world on fire. And we've seen Sam, we've seen Baker,
we've seen go We've seen all these guys.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
So I kind of put it. I wrote it down
like this.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
If we're looking at the maybe a recycled quarterback new
opportunity versus a draftable quarterback. If we just did these
three categories age, well, these guys you're getting recycled. There
are still young guys. They've been they've been pushed through
the system, and they're still twenty five, twenty six years old,
in some cases younger. So the age is not really different.
The talent level, well, they were both viewed talented enough

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to be first round picks, so that's somewhat similar. So
then we get to the third column, the risk, Well,
no risk, there's no risk, I mean Baker or why
wouldn't you lean in that direction?

Speaker 3 (40:26):
Well, I mean, just to throw the next name out
there is Carson Wentz. Yeah, I mean Kevin O'Connell traded
Sam how Away for a reason. He's like Carson Wentz
is sitting on a couch. I know Sean McVay liked him.
I know Kyle like all these guys places that he's been,
Andy Reid liked them. He went out opening drive, right
down the field, three plays, touchdown. He didn't play great great,

(40:49):
but he played pretty good. I mean the talent level,
the size, you know, the ability just to move, the
arm strength, all of that is still there. And they're
going to get Jordan Adison back this week. You know,
It's it was like they can win games with Carson
right now. Mac Jones played played very well two weeks
in a row, you know, I mean here we are, yes,

(41:10):
I mean, do you want you want to take all
of these retrans for nothing? Basically, they didn't pay Carson
any money and here he is winning games for it.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
So, Baldy, you weren't on the show, but I think
last Thursday or Friday we talked about this. We talked
about if I am a quarterback that has to go
in the relate reclamation reclamation, Yeah, yeah, if I got
to go in that cycle, I want to get into
a scheme that is prevalent across the league. Yeah, I
want to be coach with coaches that can pick up
the phone and vouch for me. When you think about

(41:40):
the mac Jones, you think about what Carson Wentz has
been through, you think about Baker, all those guys went
to systems and quarterbacks, Well now it's prevalent it went.

Speaker 5 (41:51):
To graduate school. They all went to graduate school.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Yeah, they walk away with their nbas and had they
have an opportunity to really rebuild their career and make
it better. That is the move that I think everyone
should be looking for. I am shaking the trees trying
to find the next young cast off quarterback that I
can rebuild and repair and make into a solid starter.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
It's not only getting coached by those guys, Baldy, it's
like you're learning a language. Like Okay, he already speaks
my language. He's been with the guy that runs the
same exact stuff and terminology is very somach what we're doing.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
But you know, if you if you look at Okay,
the school that you're going to, let's say the Sewn
McVeigh school, Baker Mayfield, it's you know, traded on a Tuesday.
On Thursday, he's starting and winning a game. You know,
Kevin O'Connell's taking guys from Arizona, putting them in the line.
He's telling them what to do each play, and they're
winning a football game. There's something about these guys that
they know how to program these quarterbacks. You talking about

(42:44):
a language, DJ, it's like you know, you know, it's
it's it's like one of those language things where you
can learn it in thirty days.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
You know, Stone languages.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Yeah, the Rosetta stone, the McVay stone, Shanahan stone. Change
the name of this whole thing. All right, let's get
to one more game before we got to catch a
loose baldy and that was the Sunday night game.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Have a weird game, Kansas City and the Giants. What
you got.

Speaker 5 (43:11):
Well?

Speaker 3 (43:11):
I mean, Russell Wilson was horrible Week one against Washington
and he was awful last week. They have plays to
be made. I mean the last the last four plays
were you you're hitting the crossbar with the ball and
fourth down like that. They can't make melite neighbors isible.
How is melik neighbors invisible?

Speaker 2 (43:30):
It's just hold on, hold on, hold on, boy, hold on.
I'll tell you exactly how. And I went through and
looked at his targets. I was like, I don't know
how this is not a factor. So every overthrown deep
balls just hero like you got double covered down the field,
which is going to throw the ball fifty feet in
the air and hope for the best there. They hit
him on a hitch what they were, which they were
laid on, and then they hit them on a slant
which was an easy pickings. But like outside of that,

(43:52):
it was just hand garnads. Just throw it up and
as high as you can. In the double game plan,
there is.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
An it's not an offense. And you could call the
designers bad. The quarterback can't see, you know, last week
Dallas gave him vision.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
They have no pass rush. He just took his got shots,
his go shots.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Okay through for four p fifty he was as bad
as he was yesterday as he was Week one against Washington.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah, I know what we've established, Buck is the Cowboys
are terrible on the defensive side of the ball.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
That's what we've established. Yeah, just really bad.

Speaker 4 (44:25):
And you know the thing about the Giants and not
the belaver but yeah, Malik Neighbors needs to get in.
And then when you do put Jackson Dart in, it's
kind of like the predictable offense and play. He's gonna
come in for one play, run this, then get out.
At some point, man, you need to throw him in
the pool, Like just throw him in the pool. Let's
say you sweat them with Remart. Yeah, running this offense,

(44:45):
Let's try and figure out how to do it. Because
I do believe this. They got something in the running
back in camp scatter of it. There's something that you
can build around. They have enough where they can be
a functional offense that can pick up first downs and
score points.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
The trigger man is what was holding him back. They
got to put Jackson Dort in there. Well.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
The thing on scataboo real quick baldy that he does
the thing that all Scott used to do. When you
go back and watch him where it comes. Normally, when
you see guys run people over, they accelerate into contact,
their feet are alive and they kind of just run
through them. His feet stop. He just kind of pops
and like it's a little just short, little six inch
he just kind of punches them and then he kind

(45:23):
of skirts away. It's very unique. He looks like a
little shrunk down a little mike. Allstart out there.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Well, that's a good call, and it's true because you
can't get to his legs now from Texas legs.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
You can't get his legs.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
You're not getting him down on the ground real real
quick before I run here, watching Isaiah Rodgers and Minnesota
play this weekend from the pick six to start the
fumble recovery, like that guy was. You know, that guy
was probably the second best corner in Philly right now,
and Minnesota picked him up. And Brian Flores just knows
how to use these chest pieces. But what are performance

(45:55):
by Isaiah Rodgers yesterday? Vikings and Steelers. They led the
league and take away a year ago with thirty three.
They both had five yesterday and they both need well.
The Vikings blew them out, but the Steelers needed all
five because their offense still is a real challenge.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Yeah, I won't hit on the rest of those games tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
Baldi's been great this time, by the way, the chief
side of that thing when they needed it in the
second half. Offensively they came alive a little bit. Defensively
they were excellent.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
I don't you know.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
I think that was a good, hopeful sign for them.
But I'm not going to read too much into it.
Let's see next week Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs. We're
talking about that next week, looking forward to that one. Guys, Hey, Baldy,
you're the best brother. We appreciate you.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
Man.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Have a great week. I see you next Monday. You
better all see it all right, Buck.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
That was a fun one getting a chance to catch
up with Baldy and rip through those games again. We
will hit the games we did not touch tomorrow and
roll through those ones. But what a while weekend football
man DJ.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
The league continues to let you know that is a
one score league, no matter how bad you think the
team is, no matter how good you think the team is,
is always within a and it's about playing the right
way or whatever. It's just it's just amazing to see
the parody that exists within the league and how you
have to play the right raate each and every week
to chuckle these dupes.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
No doubt, fun weekend, fun show today. We'll be back tomorrow.
We'll hit the rest of those games. We'll have our
rookie recap and rookie draft for the next week. Quin
John Jenkins is gonna find his way into getting picked.
I can tell you that much after what he looked like.
It's good week for the leave, good week for a lot.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Of the rookies.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Yeah, we'll revisit that tomorrow. So we appreciate you guys
hanging with us. We'll see you tomorrow. Right here on,
move the sticks.