Episode Transcript
We begin the third hour of the second hour, excuse
me of this program with some football conversation coming up
in a few minutes. Greg Tapper, managing editor of Dave
Campbells Texas Football Magazine. So we'll hear more from Loghorn's
linebacker Leonga Lafowl this hour as well. We'll have some
more on that four o'clock hour. Neil Price, play by
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play voice of the Mississippi State Bulldogs, will be with us.
We have all of that coming up. All right, So
there's two weeks, three weeks, excuse me in the books
for the NFL. I asked you yesterday and I threw
in several names that you several team names that you
cameraon and ask you know which ones surprised you? Or
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I asked you which performances surprised you the most. You
surprised me. I think with your answer of the Texans
allowing the Vikings to score thirty four points and summarily
thump them thirty four to seven on that you were
more surprised by that than the Carolina Panthers getting their
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first win of the season. Well, I think the Raiders
just a bad football team. Okay, all right, you were
more surprised by that than the Rams beating the forty
nine ers, and the forty nine ers aren't a bad
football team, but they are one.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And two, and they're also without Christian McCaffrey, who really
completely changes that offense when he's on the field. No
Deebo Samuel and if the Niners team that when they
don't have their stars, they are very you know, it's
kind of like kryptonite, right, Superman's kryptonite, that's their kryptite.
Is just whenever they don't have McCaffrey or Deebo or
Ayuk or whoever, they seem to really struggle and curious.
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You know, we've had a lot of injuries this season.
You know, we got the news McCaffrey going to Germany
to get a look at his achilles. That's never good
in terms of like things that happened during an NFL
season and ranking like, what's the worst thing that could
happen finding out your star running back is going to
Germany to get an extra low on his achilles, probably
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near the top of the list. So Nighters fans, not
feeling too good about that, came away with a little
bit more injuries from that loss. Over the Rams. So
we talked about the Year from Hell teams. I kind
of thought maybe it would be San Francisco in the
preseason because you had you holding out, you had Trent
Williams holding out, the McCaffrey stuff, and they got those
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contracts figured out. But now it does look like it
could possibly be the Year from Hell because one and
two the Rams are right there in Seattle, by the way.
Three and oh is three and oh and no one's
talking about them.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, that's true, and we'll find out more about them.
What is it on the doubleheader Monday night football next
week when they play the Lions?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So, by the way, because we discussed why is they're
a doubleheader, it's because the Manning cast is off. So
they decided, Okay, when the Maning cast isn't on, we're
gonna have two football games.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Because it takes two for anybody to accept it on
a Monday night when you don't have the Manning cast.
So maybe there there you go. I understand what you're
saying about the forty nine ers. Name those players again
that you said that were.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Out McCaffrey, yep, Deebo, Samuel or the two. And then
there was I was there he was there. They were
missing an offensive lineman, correct, and then didn't someone tear
their achilles game might have, but.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Notice you didn't mention any defensive players, and they gave
up twenty seven points to a Rams team that did
not have Pukakua and did not have Cooper Cup. In fact,
the Rams have already said Cooper Cooper Cup is out
for the Bears game, even though they put him on
I R to do that. Their defense has become vulnerable.
That's what the thing. I mean. You had you had
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Matthew Stafford throwing to to two at well and and
some of those other guys.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Uh, George kill didn't play either as well.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, okay, yeah the way, and Kittle was out. He's
on my fantasy games. I had to, you know, I
had to do something something without him. But anyway, their
defense became kind of vulnerable as well in that football game.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So what was the score? At one point?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
They were up twenty one to seven in the third yeah,
I mean seven points through three quarters is and then
pretty good, they completely imploded in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Well, he had some they gave really cost the offensive penalties, correct,
and then Jake Moody missed the fifty five yarder, and but.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
They gave up some deep shots for a second Aarreya's
supposed to be pretty good. They didn't get Listen, the
Rams offensive line is not good, and they got Matthew
Stafford a time or two, but they couldn't get him enough.
They didn't get him enough pressure on him, so he
was able to find some targets. Stafford maybe getting long
in the tooth, but if you give him enough time,
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he can pick you apart.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oh, he's surgical. He's surgical. He's I mean, in terms
of quarterback play this year, Craig, it's been pretty awful.
Kurt Warner are over Sunday about how pitiful the quarterback
performance has been this season. But Matthew Stafford, I think
he's been one of the more fun quarterbacks to watch
this season because he's playing at the top of his game.
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And it stinks because you know, Greg is a Rams fan.
The old line's not healthy. It's not no Puka, no Cup.
Yet he his level of plate is still at the
top of the league right now. I mean, he's looked
better I think than Mahomes so far. Mahomes has had
some really poor interceptions. I know, they're three and oh
but I think Stafford maybe Mays may have a case
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up there with sam Donold, which I can't believe I
just said for best quarterback in the league. I'll get
I'll give you one other one, gosh Allen, Yeah, yeah,
that's true. Alan. He's probably MVP favorite right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
He looked really really good for Buffalo in that win
over Jacksonville. So yeah, that's Buffalo looks good.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah. Now he's plus two hundred favorite to win MVP.
So it tells you what they think.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
They play the Ravens on Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It'll be fun.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, that'll be a fun one to watch. All right, upnag,
we'll talk from college and high school football.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
In the state of Texas.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
We'll visit a Greg Tepper, managing editor of Dave Campbell's
Texas Football magazine. That's next. Well, continue on Sports Radio
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