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Legendary Linebacker London Fletcher and Bram Weinstein recap the big week 1 Washington Commanders victory over the New York Giants. They discuss how Russell Wilson got cooked, the Giants D-Line got cut down to size, and how Jayden Daniels and company made the game never feel in doubt. Plus, Logan Paulsen joins to witness the seasons first Big Fletch Commander Heavyweight Championship Matchup!

 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up on the Booth Review London, the defense dominated
the Giants.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
And Debo was phenomenal in his debut as a Washington Commanders.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Bill Cross Samerta had an historic day.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Brian and what do we have?

Speaker 3 (00:10):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
We'll find out on the Booth Review. Welcome into the
first Victory edition of the Booth Review podcast. I'm Braham
Whiteside with Big Fletch London Fletcher. Were brought to you
by Microsoft Surface Co Pilot plus PC and we are
in the Big Bear AI Command Center Studio. A week
one win and a dominant one. London on defense.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Absolutely, and you know not to too my own horn,
but I'm going to toot it just a little bit.
On a couple of shows we did Command Center Players Club,
I mentioned I thought that our defense would take top
billing in this game. And it wasn't about the offense,
you know, kind of starting off slower or whatever the
case may be, because I thought they were. They had

(00:55):
a great game, from running when it thumps to rushing
the football. But I just felt like our defense was
being overlooked coming into this game. We have been talking
so much about our offense and the additions and Jaden
then the second and all that, and we talked a
lot about the Giants and their front foward, their pass

(01:15):
rush and all the things that they brought. And then
you have Russell Wilson making his debut with the New
York Giants. But not enough attention, in my opinion, was
being paid to our defense, and I particularly felt like
our defensive line was going to really set the tone.
We was going to dominate in the trenches. And lo

(01:35):
and behold, yesterday that's what happened.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
I mean, believe it or not, the Giants had the
ball longer than the Commanders did, not by much. Is
it pretty much an even split? I mean about a
minute now that you can turn the ball over in
the game, that's probably one thing defensively, if they're going
to find something that they want to talk about, it's
going to be that. Maybe a couple of penalties, but
when you give up six points, you keep them out
of the end zone. You have two red zone stands,

(02:00):
did one in the first half, one that really sealed it,
you know that it ensured that they were going to
win in the second half. There really isn't much to
complain about it. And kind of to your point, I
think the depth and size of the defensive line was
very much on display.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
The physicality. The physicality it started in the trenches. Javon
ken Low first running play by the Giants in the backfield,
negative yardist play. He made his presence felt right away.
De Ron Payne was an animal. Dietrich Wise, I mean,
there was so many Dorn's arms shown. There's so many
guys that had made a huge impact in that ball game.

(02:36):
On the back end, the coverage was outstanding. A lot
of times Russ had nowhere to go with the football.
He had to hold on to the ball. We were
able to get hits on him, got him down for
a couple of sacks, really confused him with the coverages
we showed some some variations show him, hey one look
look like a man a man defense. Did we morph

(02:57):
into his own coverage and the way we were getting
into our different types of zolls that really had them
confused quite a bit, and that led to the Giants
passing offense really being a n the making that whole
ball game.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
You know, this is one of the big differences I
think they hoped they were going to have from twenty
twenty four to twenty twenty five, the metrics across the
board in the fourth quarter for the Washington defense were
not particularly good down the stretch finishing games. They talked
a lot about this. They hadn't been getting the amount
of turnovers they were looking for, they weren't getting the
amount of pressures, and so they changed their front. They
wanted to play the style that they were more accustomed to,

(03:34):
and you could see the depth and we felt it,
and through the summer they were really the story here locally.
Maybe not nationally because Jane Daniels is going to take
a lot of attention the record that they had the expectations,
the schedule, but people see names like Javon Kinlaw Dietrich Wise,
it doesn't move the needle nationally. But we were watching
this through the summer and going, I think you're going

(03:55):
to see a very different stylistically defense that is way
more reminiscent of what Dan Quinn and Joe Witt were
doing in Dallas before they came here. And in week one,
I don't want to hear it about Russell Wilson. This
guy's a borderline hall of famer, may be a Hall
of famer. They completely shut him down. He completed less
than fifty percent of his throws. He was running for
his life. The defensive line dominated this game.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
They did. And it wasn't just the sacks, because we
got to him twice, but it was the pressure, the hits,
the making him feel uncomfortable. I thought they had a
great rushing game, rushing plan in terms of how they
were going to rush, rush, rush, rush in the passing

(04:39):
no pun attendant in the passing game. And what I
mean by that. A lot of times you'll see, especially
the defensive ends, they were extremely disciplined. A lot of
times you'll see these defensive ends just run up the field.
They're getting two yards past the quarterback, and these offensive tackles.
A lot of time they'll just run him past the

(04:59):
court the back and then quarterbacks able to step up
in the pocket or step up and kind of escape
the pocket through that lane that was created by the
defensive end being too far up the field and the
defensive tackle not getting enough push the game plan. Those
defensive ends they would get to about maybe five let's
call it five yards up the field and then they

(05:20):
would start to take a b line toward the quarterback,
just start to bull rush, and they yeah, we're not
necessarily gonna get the sacks, but we're going to have
a pocket and really keep him in a phone booth.
You got good pressure from the interiors and there was
nowhere for rush really to go with the football, and
a lot of time you see him just being uncomfortable.

(05:41):
He's a smaller quarterback, not really being able to see
over the line of scrimmage, and that's why you were
seeing some of those airend balls, especially in the red zone,
and that's what you really have to be disciplined in
your pass rush. And they executed that game plan, that
pass rush game plan to perfection.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
A number of these players that really had an impact
our newcomers to the team. I want to bring up
a few of them and just see what you think.
Dietrich wise really stood out to me across the board.
He was making plays on both sides of the line.
He was running off the line, making plays in the
screen game. He was really disruptive. He had one unfortunate
penalty down on the goal line, but outside of that,

(06:19):
his presence was really felt, specifically on the edge.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
You mentioned that, yes, because you highlighted him, talked about
the making plays on the screen game. Coming out of
the stack. Anytime you have screens, whether it's a screen
to the running back or a screen to the wide
receiving those those jets to screens or whatever you want
to call the rocket screens and him just hauling tail, pursuing,

(06:45):
making tackles. The bootleg play when they tried to boot again,
immediately he gets immediate pressure and Russell Wilson's face and
that led to another inaccurate throw. Very disciplined. They were
him missed out at the point of a tech. He
had a phenomenal game and you're gonna you're gonna look

(07:05):
at the You look at it, you see, Okay, four tackles,
one tackle for loss, one QB hit, but he had
way more impact than the status. Seat says, Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Think he is an example of it's not just the
formidable size that they brought in, it's the experience. They
have a tremendous amount of depth experience now across the line,
and this was their first real go together. Like remember
like just like the offense, they barely played in the preseason,

(07:36):
like a few snaps here and there, we didn't really
know what we were going to get. But when we
were watching the joint practice with New England or really
practices against their own offense. And that's a whole different story,
which we'll get to with Logan in a little bit,
where the offense was never really together on the field
at the same time. So I wasn't totally surprised that
it wasn't like shot.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Out of this. It is hard to engauge, well, not
the offense. It's hard to gauge out d line when
you're going against the office a lot that had to
keep moving parts, constant moving parts. But they were at
times in camp dominating. But until we see it, you know,
you don't know. And we saw it manifest this way,
and I think Wise is kind of the biggest example
of the level of experience that they brought in at

(08:18):
the position that gives them the opportunity to have this
kind of impact. He really does. And as I was
watching the game and the experience, but also one thing
about when you get a player like Wise he was.
He spent his entire career in New England. And the
thing about New England, they're so detail oriented and everything

(08:42):
like they harp on so many of the little details,
the minute details, where other coaches will let stuff go
by the wayside not addressed, and you can tell the
discipline that, Like I said, there was times where and
I'm sure our def as the coaches emphasized those details
as well, because Joe Witt talks about him like the

(09:06):
coming down the line of scrimmage and running flat on
those screenplays, or not getting too far up the field
or not, you know, chasing on that bootleg, not flying
down in line of scrimmage, think you're going to make
a tackle for a loss on a running back. No,
doing your job, being patient and then redirecting and making

(09:26):
Russ have to throw that football before he's ready to
throw it. So it's stuff like that, the small minute
details that really showed dividends that really showed in that
ball game yesterday.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
So the other one that really stands out of the
newcomers is Javon Kinlaw. Yes, so kin Law throughout the summer.
I mean when they signed him, the promise was you
haven't seen the best of him. Yeah that there were
injuries early in his career. Then he had one year
with the Jets that was a rough year. Up there,
he comes here, this front office knows him. They had

(09:59):
draft to him clearly, like he makes Doron pain look small,
so it's it's cartoonish when he's out on the field.
And then he had a couple of plays early that
we saw during the joint practice and saw during some
of our practices, and they've talked about all summer. He
blows things up in a way that very few people
are capable of doing. And we saw that again that

(10:20):
in the center of the Giants line, here comes kin
Law and the plays over before it started.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Is we call that he's heavy handed, and when people
don't think being heavy handed is a great thing when
you play football, especially in the trenches. His has He
shocks offensive lineman when he hits them like it's like
they've been hit by a ton of bricks. There's just

(10:48):
the pop, the power that he plays with, and his ability.
He has quickness too, like he's six five and what
I don't know, three ten, three fifteen whatever he's listened
to that.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
He looks enormous.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, I was walking back to the booth after Santana's
halftime presentation being inducted in the Ring of Fame, and
I see him like, this dude is massive. Man. He
had a tremendous You felt his impact in the ball game.
He had a hit on Russell that uh, he didn't

(11:23):
get get a hit, He didn't get a sack. But
he runs a they ran a te game. Well, he
uh hits the offensive tackles shoulder inside and then defensive
man loops inside of him and he ricocheted off the
tackle and hits Russ. I mean he rocked, Yes, trust me,
Russ felt that the rest of the game. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
He he reminds me. It's a different position because he
doesn't play defensive end, but the strength that he plays
with it reminds me of Dexter manly, where Dexter used
to be able to kind of overwhelm people.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Have you ever shoot Desters?

Speaker 1 (11:59):
You don't do that because he will break your hand,
like learn this through the years. And he's not trying
to do it, No, he is. You feel the bones
in your hand move it away that they shouldn't when
you just shake his.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Hand, Dex's doing that on purpose.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
So why would you do that to me already? Like
I didn't he need to.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
It's just it's just funny. So you've shoken, You've shaken
Dexter's hand more than once.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, you learned well the first time. You don't think
anything of it. The second you're just like, well that
was interesting, and then the second time you're like, I'm
never doing that again.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Listen. First time I met Dexter Mally, I mean, if
we I think it's my I had just came to
DC my first year playing for the team, and we
had to welcome home lunch. He remember we said that
the welcome home lunch. So we're there and Dexter's there
and I, hey, man, this Dexter Mally like. I had
a ton of respect for him when he plays. I'm

(12:52):
a gold you know, introduced myself to him. So hey,
you know, Dexter got to Fletcher and I no what
it told me not to shake Dexter's hand. I shake it,
shake his hand, and he's squeezing my hand and he's
looking at me. He's he's waiting to see my reaction.
And we're in we're in trying to camp. Really, we're

(13:13):
just breaking camp. And my hands are sore and my
knuckles are sore just from trying to camp. And I'm
looking at him and I was like, man, if you
don't let my hand go, I'm about to swing on you.
This is not gonna get off to a good start,
and I was like, man, this ain't funny. He's he
started laughing. So I've never shook Dexter's head again. After
after that it was a fist pile.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
I'd like to ask, they're very different personalities. Dexter played
really angry. He'll tell you that that like the light
switch went on and he was going to go hurt
somebody and shake their hand or not shake their head,
like he's gonna go hurt somebody. He played with this ferocity.
But what reminds me ken Law reminds you of him
is the way he overwhelms people, you know, like where
it's just like you can't stop him. I don't know

(13:55):
the kin Law does that. Kin Law's putting on product
glasses and different smile around, but something clearly turns on
on him, like when the games come around. Because we
saw this during the summer and then we saw it
yesterday a few times you were like, whoa You rarely
see somebody overwhelm people the way that he does it.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah. No, you mentioned the product sut glasses of whoever
they are, and just to swag and all that, and
maybe once he puts on a helmet. There's another personality
that comes out. I have a feeling you had that
I did. You must have I did.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
You're one of the nicest people I've ever met. We
went out, we went out. My wife met us out
last night and she when she got up, She's like,
London is such a warm person. I really like spending
time with him. And then I'm like, he made eight
million tackles, So there's another London somewhere. When they see bro.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
I turned it to big fletch on the football field.
This I was London off the field, a big fletch
when I come between the lines. And also when we
do the booth.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Review, let me ask you about another newcomer, Von Miller.
He was up there early. Actually didn't play a snap
in the preseason, so we had no idea. You know,
how are they going to use them? What's the volume
of plays in what situations?

Speaker 2 (15:10):
You know?

Speaker 1 (15:11):
We don't They were in really in what I already
considered a tight game yesterday, so we didn't see him
in that situation yet. And I don't remember you calling
his name much? So what did you see from von Millery?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
So I was able to I was watching von I
was able to look at the all twenty two. Of
a lot of the snaps that he was in, there
was a couple of times he had some really good
rushes and the ball came out quickly. He was this
dann plan from a pass rushing standpoint was going to be.
It was so detailed in terms of you didn't want
to get up past Russell, so some of this to

(15:44):
get up the field and dip and all that, and
that that Vonn is extremely good at. You could tell
they didn't want that type of pass rush game plan
because of Russ and not creating those those lanes. But
I felt like there were times where he was able
to come laps the pocket, pushed the pocket, and also
there was another time he beat the tackle a side.

(16:05):
I'm I feel really good about von where he's at.
And also you can you can tell the influence that
he's had he has in the room just with some
of those other guys.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
I mean, I thought Jacob Martin was outstanding. Yes, he
had a great camp. Underrated great camp again, not unlike
Dietrich wise, very underrated signing. And when people have talked
about coming into the season, where the sack's going to
come from, and people point to Vaughn because of how
many he's had his career. But you go, I think
he's a part time player. He hasn't had those kind

(16:35):
of numbers. Like I think we should slow our role
on what the expectation is on what kind of numbers
he's going to put up. But it's people like him
and Wise where I go. This is where collectively all
the sacks are going to come from. Martin had an
outstanding camp for them, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Camp, but yes, and that ball game there was some
some times we talk about the passing game for the Giants.
The reason that part of the in the Giants passing
game was so future it was because they couldn't run
the ball. And I think they felt like they were
going to have more success running the football. But there
were times where they tried to get outside and Martin

(17:15):
set such a hard edge. I mean it was a
wall that he just created these piles and there was
nowhere for the running back to go. There was no
movement being made by the offensive alignment of whoever was
trying to block Martin. That that really led to a
lot of their inefficiency in the passing game because now
you don't have a true play action passing game because

(17:38):
I'm not respecting your play action pass if you can't
run the ball. And Russ one of his big elements
of his game is the ability to play action pass
and take shots downfield and things like that. But you
ain't running the ball effectively. There is no pass. That's
his strength. Yep, his strength.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
It's almost old school, very eighties, like if you run
the ball well, he's terrific at play action if.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
He has time.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
He's extremely accurate on deep passes, specifically down the sideline.
None of that happened, and I agree with you. It
started with they literally couldn't run on them. They didn't,
and I thought the D line they really set the tone.
Bobby Wagner was outstanding getting into the backfield. The linebackers

(18:23):
also did a tremendous job getting double teams off of
the defensive tackles. And last year and Joe Wit talked
about being able to play more of his style of play,
and that's where I saw that play.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Huge diffidences yesterday. So just compare contrast last year. There
was a lot of two gapping being done by the
linebackers because you know you're not able, You're trying to
protect them back end, so you may be playing a
little bit more two shell defense. You're playing lighter boxes,
six man fronts or seven man fronts where you should
have been playing seven man fronts or eight man fronts.

(19:00):
So to speaking, you're not able to play one man,
one gap get downhill yesterday. They feel great about their secondary,
so that allows them to have a true extra man
fitting in the run game with the safety or nic oback,
or whoever the case may be, and the linebackers can
get those double teams off of the defensive lineman a

(19:22):
lot faster as opposed to letting those double teams stay
in the tackles getting moved a couple of yards down
the field. The linebackers coming downhill getting the double teams
off of those defensive tackles, and in turn, the defensive
tackles staying square on those blocks. And you saw pay
making tackles, You saw Kinlow making tackles at the line
of scrimmage. You saw Goldman making tackles right around the

(19:46):
line of scrimmage. Is because of a lot of that stuff.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
On New York running the ball seventy four yards three
point two carry average, that's amazing. The leading rusher is
the quarterback ninety percent of it is not scripted plays.
It's him running for his life to get scrambling. Tyrone Tracy,
who last year had a very good game in the
second meeting and actually the Giants against Washington last year
averaged five point five per carry. A lot of teams

(20:11):
had a lot of success. One of the big priorities
of the offseason fixed the run defense. Tyrone Tracy ten
for twenty four, ten for twenty four Like, you can't
do better than that?

Speaker 2 (20:22):
No, no, you could, and you can. And it's again
just I mean, it starts, it starts up front. It
starts up front. And I mentioned I mean everybody who
played in that game was just on it. They were
exactly what they where they needed to be, and.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
They played with the energy played with and Wit talk
about over and over is how we get down.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's how he says, that's what he brings it. Yeah.
I thought the secondary guys who came in and when
they had to fit into the runs, I thought they
did an excellent job. You know, I saw some big
hits by Will Harris, by Kwan Martin. Those guys were
exactly like you want your safety to play in the
rung game.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Another person not a newcomer here, but I think needs
to be pointed out. Georgets Armstrong had an outstanding camp.
They were moving him around. There were a couple points
in the game where we had four defensive linemens standing up,
you know, like, so this is starting to have that
look of what I remember from Dallas a few years
ago when they were a turnover machine against everybody and

(21:29):
had a top five defense. Armstrong was amazing yesterday. Nine
quarterback pressures nine nine from different positions across the line.
Again another sign of they completely overwhelmed whatever the Giants
game plan was and overwhelmed the personnel as well.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah, that was I think that's the dick Ewan Joe
with They know the Armstrong he was with them in Dallas,
his versatility to be able to rush outside, be able
to bring him inside on obvious passing situations, passing downs,
get him matched up on guards or centers and terry lineman.

(22:11):
And I think even now there's gonna be You mentioned
the four defensive linemens standing up. I'm sure at some
point now they were standing up and maybe Armstrong may
have moved a little bit. I think at some point
they're going to have where you had those defensive linemen
all stand up, and you will see guys just moving
the line around along the front and you don't know

(22:32):
who's gonna be to, who's coming, who's uh, you know,
dropping back and covering, and it might be six guys
moving up in the line of scrimmage and around the
line of scrimmage, a couple of safeties, corner Nicholas whoever.
And now it forces you to make sure your communications
is on key from a protection standpoint, like who are
the four who are the four guys coming in? And

(22:54):
you just want them to be wrong on account at
least the free rushers immediate press showing a quarterback or sack.
So I think there's gonna be so much more to
the defensive that they'll.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Add to that that rush kind of Look, this is
gonna be interesting the next few weeks and the things
that we'll talk about. But like Jordan Love is mobile,
but not like Russ Actually he's not gonna run a lot.
Then they're gonna take on Gino Smith. He's not really mobile.
He's really more of a very good pocket quarterback. He's
really more of a pocket quarterback. They're gonna get Penick
so we're not sure if he's gonna run very much yet,

(23:25):
but he's really a pocket quarterback. Herbert, you know, can
run but doesn't do a lot of it. They have
they're not gonna see a lot of really what are
known for mobile quarterbacks over the next month. It's to
be interesting to see how this kind of materializes dealing
with people that you know mainly where they're gonna be.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah, that's that's and.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
And with that.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
The game planning on the rush, like, how what's the
best way to get to that quarterback? Do we get
into some wide knives way out and you know, get
up the field and able to if you feel like
you got great matchups against the tackles, can we beat
those guys with speed around the edge? Is a situation
where you run in these these games, these twist stunts

(24:07):
between the due linemen. Is that more effective? Do we
take advantage of their in terror lineman? Hey, maybe you
like some matchups of getting some guys with speed on
a guard or a center or things like that. So
it's so many different variations you have. I think the
great thing about this group collectively is that you have

(24:28):
so much versatility with these guys. Depth depth.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
They talk versatility and versatility. Let me give you Russ's
passing stats seventeen of thirty seven for under one hundred
and ninety yards forty five percent completion percentage.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
In the NFL.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
If you're under sixty, that's a bad day. These days,
the really good quarterbacks are up near seventy typically for
the season. Jayden was a guy who had I mean,
granted that was like one of the best seasons any
rookies ever had because he broke a qualified completion percentage record,
but it was up near seventy. Most of the good
quarterbacks are well over sixty and close to seventy forty

(25:04):
five percent completion percentage. That is extraordinarily low. Elik Neighbors targeted.
I don't even remember it this many times because I
think a number of more throwaways and he was the
closest receiver in the vicinity of it. He got targeted
twelve times, he only made five catches, and he only
made one play that I would even call an impact
play throughout the entire day. They neutralized their passing game too,

(25:25):
with one of the best receivers in the NFL period.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
The credit to the game plan, and I mean it's
a lot of it. They played a ton of man
of man, but they also were able to make some
and play the zones. And I mean you mentioned what
seventeen thirty, and it felt like it was worse than that. Yeah,
because one of them was on a lot of those incompletions.

(25:51):
As you mentioned, nobody had a chance to catch the trolls.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
It wasn't drops.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
It was like fifty to fifty balls, you're making a
nice defensive play, or he's fitting into a tight window
and things like that, but it was it felt like
it was worse than that.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
I mean, there was one where he got like twenty
of the yards when he got hit, just throwing it
up in the air and neighbors made a play for him,
right like he would have had one hundred and fifty
yards passing without that.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
The throwers in the red zone, I mean, were a
lot of them had no chances of being completion.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
No, no, we should bring that up. Two red zone stops,
one in the first half, one that sealed it in
the second half. The first one included a penalty that
gave him a first and goal with the one and
still held them to two field goals. That's another one.
I'm sure Quinn's going to be and winner gonna be
showing to everybody going that is us, right, what an

(26:48):
incredible start there, This is us.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
They extreme discipline. They tried to play action pad, they
brought a tackle Lamb made him eligible, thinking that we'd
fall asleep from a cover standpoint, Hey, how many times
do you throw the football to a extra offensivelignment tackle eligible?
Whatever the case may be. Will Harris extremely disciplined. Hey,

(27:14):
this is yeah, he's an offensive alignman, but he's eligible
to as a receiver. This is my guy in coverage.
If they were going to pass this football, My eyes
on him, we call the eyes on your work. Tremendous discipline.
They go play action pass, try to try to get
the ball to the tight end. Will Is all over him,

(27:35):
didn't panic, didn't create, didn't commit a passing ofference penalty.
He was where he needed to be. The I don't
know if it was wise, might have been wise or armstrong.
Somebody was right in Russ's face like they needed to
be perfect. There was a time where we had another
man and man coverage and think Bobby does a great

(27:55):
job of fighting due to traffic covering the running back
out of the backfield and everybody's gloved up, no where
to go with the football, has to throw it basically
out of the back of the end zone. It yeah,
I mean they a couple of times they changed the
tool called zone coverage. I think the Giants were expecting. Man,
we play zone coverage, tremendous, detailed attention to details, no

(28:21):
where to go with the football. So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
You care about the historic numbers. I like them, you
love me. I like them, that's your deal. I like them,
but there's one but when they matter and when they
stand out to me, I like to bring them up.
And last year it became because of what really what
Jayden was doing. Early in the season it was laughable,
Like how many times, like after the game I would
get these stats, it would be like, not since nineteen

(28:45):
forty five, not since nineteen sixty eight, not since this,
not since then? Was he And it was a lot
had to do with him and what he was doing.
Here's one for you I think you'll like. And this
is a streak. I write it on my board every
week every game I call to myself, hopefully this will change.
This team has not shut somebody out since nineteen ninety one.

(29:06):
It is the longest streak running in the NFL by
far and not close. And so after seeing them in
Week one hold a team to six points, and I
know the level of quarterbacks they're playing, especially this year
and really over the next month, that it's hard to do, yes,
but I'm hoping and I just want to put a
bug in their ear. It has not happened here since

(29:27):
nineteen ninety one. And the reason why I bring that
up is yesterday they did something on defense they have
not done since nineteen ninety one, which was hold their
season opening opponent without a touchdown. That has not happened
since nineteen ninety one. They had hadn't had a game
where they hadn't allowed a touchdown in like I've been

(29:48):
a long time anyway, right nineteen it was like two
thousands something like that. Two this was in the season opener.
They have not held the opponent without a touch down
since the nineteen ninety one season where they had three shutouts.
And so I'm just trying to put that in the
air right atmosphere me it's in the universe. I want

(30:09):
to put it in the universe. Of course, that if
you do that you will end one of the longest
streaks running in the NFL. This is like two hundred
more games than anybody else. That is since they last
had a shutout, too, it existed exactly. Yeah, manifested, that's right, Matt.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Listen. It's it's extremely difficult to to shut a team out.
It's one of the stakes. Yeah. Again, you can have
things happen, you get a short field team, team kicks
the field goal against you, whatever the case may be.
But yeah, it's it's extremely difficult. I know I've been
a part of some shutouts, but it's it's just so difficult,

(30:49):
especially in today's NFL. Yes, the hold the table, they touchdown.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
They came closer like actually against the Giants in the
season finale. It was a few years ago when Ron
Rivera was the head coach and they were down to
like their third quarterback. And I'll never forget this because
in the first half the Giants were so not confident
about their passing game that when they got the ball
at their own five yard line, they kneeled down to

(31:14):
not have a turnover. Really, yeah, it was the first
half and they kneeled down, and Washington got it to
the fourth quarter and they had a shutout and the
Giants scored late and they ended it. But the whole time,
I'm sitting there, going we're gonna end the streak. We're
gonna end this streak. I can't remember who the quarterback
was it was, but they were down to like a
third string quarterback. And I'm like, this could end today
and it didn't. So I'm just putting it in the universe.

(31:35):
We haven't had this since nineteen ninety one. And the
defense just did something yesterday that hadn't happened since nineteen
ninety one.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, and again even holding a team like you said
to without a touchdown. Yeah, that's no small feat right there.
It's just I mean, especially in today's NFL, where a
lot more passes, these receivers are coming into the league,
the highly skilled a quarterback players at all time high,
and the rules are set up to benefit the offense.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
They are all right, let's talk about the offense. So
let's get Logan Paulson in here. It's time for Paulson
from the Pine as he joins us if he hears
us to join us in the room. On what was
I would described kind of a mixed day on offense.
I think that's kind of how I would describe what
it was. I thought the defense really stole the show.
I'm not surprised that that happened. But for you, as

(32:26):
we welcome in Logan, did you would you think just
generally of the offense and how they performed.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
I thought the running, the rushing attack was phenomenal, as
evident by rush of over two and twenty yards.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
Is that the most sen stunting anyone?

Speaker 2 (32:41):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
I say, you love those story statistics.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
I feel like we rushed for lord of that last year.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
No, I'm kidding, he's making fun of me.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
An, he can't get day up to the offense pass
the game and we're a couple of drops that really
you have those drops and Jayden probably has if not
a three hundred yard day or close to a three
hundred yard day. But the running game was was phenomenal.
There's some things obviously you need to clean up here there.

(33:16):
Maybe it's some protection stuff like that, but all in all, overall,
I thought it was a good first start for the offense.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeah. I think with the offense, you kind of look
at unforced errors as the thing that comes to mind
like the drop passes, the penalties, getting off schedule, and
the thing when you're like when we were doing the games,
I'm always super impressed with their ability to overcome negative situations,
Like how many times have we seen them this year
and obviously last year where they're in it's second and
twenty and somehow they get to third and ten, then

(33:43):
they get first down off a third and ten, Like,
they find ways to overcome that. But it's just not
a sustainable thing to just putting yourselves in high level
leverage situation. So I think kind of to Fletcher's point,
like there's a lot of really cool things that they did.
I left some of the backfield action with Debo. His
utilization Like really Deebo's utilization was awesome, Like when he
came here, I wasn't sure if Cliff would be able

(34:03):
to like maximize him, you know, because it's such a
unique thing to do. People have a hard time with it.
But if today is any indication of what the season
is going to be, it's going to add such a
nice dynamic to the offense. And then obviously, like the penalties,
the incompletions are things that really kind of like sink
in your cross an offensive player.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
The thing that really stood out that we talked about
a million times leading up to the game was the
Giants front Dexter Lawrence, who we said after the game.
I don't remember calling his name. I think he had
a few tackles, but there was no big play by him.
They neutralized him yesterday.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
It's crazy watching the phone back. I just did that
last night. Like, he is so good. He is such
a good player. He's so physically dominant. You might not
feel him like in the tackle or the sack statistic,
but he is just like a problem like instinct. He
uses his hands well, like plays like that. They ran
a trap where alleg Redy's blocking back. He's the backside
three technic, Like that's a great angle, this should be

(34:55):
an easy play, reads it perfectly, plays over the top.
He's kind of hanging on to him as he made
Like and again that's a that's a three yard game,
four yard game. But like that play and Fletch know's like,
that's like a crazy play for a three technique to make.
But I guess I think the thing is, like you said,
you don't feel him when you play him, Like even
Abdul carter I went back and watched him. He had
some awesome rushes where he's beating the guard, he's rushing

(35:17):
from an awful linebacker spot. But again, like Jaden's scrambling
ability getting the ball out the runs away on some
of those, and you're just like, even though they're even
though these guys are playing well in isolation, like if
you were to make a cut up, you're like, dang,
Like they don't have the gravity of it. Because I
think we've got a good playmakers.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, I think, like we talked a lot about their
front because one sid's Brian Burns. The others came on
Thibodeau Carter. This is his debut. He was extremely impactful
on special teams after day as well. And you go,
you know, where do you who do you run away from?

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Where do you go?

Speaker 1 (35:48):
There's kind of nowhere to hide, and yet somehow they
had a tremendous amount of success on the ground against them.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Well to that point, I mean, even like just larger picture,
like Larmie Tunsel is amazing at football, like whoever was
rushing on his side, man like his ability to adjust
and his feeling pass protection hands inside in the run games.
Sync kind of unload from the hips. Like there was
a couple of times where they're running a like an
et and so he's the ends penetrating and he washes

(36:15):
it down. Coleman gets a little bit heavy on it,
and then the guy loops around and he's kind of
blocking two people. And I'm just like, that's what that
edition gives you, Right, So you talk about negating their
best players on the edge, and it's to me, it's
learning me tounsle Like that's a huge element. And like
Josh Connery, I think I think people are going to
kind of point to the two sacks.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Is that what it?

Speaker 3 (36:35):
But I think overall, Man, you see a really consistent
football player with a tremendously high ceiling, like in the
run game specifically.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Oh yeah, then he was dealing with two guys that
have good good players, two guys that are really good players.
They worked the ad, worked his age. So this is
stuff that he'll look at the fail. Hey, this is
this is what NFL pass rushers, premiere pass rushers look like.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
And I think the other thing too is Jayden I
didn't notice this last year, but he sets a little
bit deeper than the other two guys, like Sam Hartman
and Josh Johnson. He's he's like a yard deeper and
so for the tackles, that's a weird thing to get
used to.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
And I haven't he doesn't playing with him, didn't in.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
The preseason, and so, like I talked to alig ready
and he was like, Yeah, one of the things I
got to talk to Josh about is just how how
different it is playing with a guy like Jayden Daniels
because he you know, he gets a little bit deeper,
he's more, he's got more capability to his game. So
it was interesting to watch him kind of in real
time try to figure out that angles. There's time where
he's getting a good punch on Burns and you're like oh,
and you could see he's like I'm okay. Then he's like,

(37:37):
oh no, Like he's a little bit deeper than I thought.
So again, you know, like one of the things you
talked about earlier is just like the lack of continuity
with the offense in terms of preseason play. I think
it shows up with some stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Yeah, I mean I think like over over arching, you know,
coming into this, I hope the defense would have a
performance like that that you'd get to see something like this,
But with the offense, all the offensive linemen were kind
of up and down. They didn't play in the preseason.
You know, a terry situation was Noah Brown barely practiced
throughout the summer. They never had their starting unit on
the field at really any point in time. Maybe over

(38:10):
the last week when we weren't watching practice anymore, but
not throughout the course of camp. The fact that it
was kind of up and down and maybe not where
I think any of us hope it's going to be
as the season progresses. That's not a surprise to me
to start the season.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
But you know what's crazy, though, is when it was good,
like that drive on the zach Ertz touchdown, Like I
don't know if you could call and execute a better
drive in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
The throws by Jaden on that particular drive, like show
you what he is, the throw to Chris Moore, the
throw to er Go. Watch that that is a dart
in between two defenders.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Bobby pushing through to that, and you could tell he's surprised.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
He's a plug. He's a plug whole player who's just
bringing the quarterback and he's trying to rob and try
to get in line to make interception. Thok the player call.
You touched on this a little bit about the the
uses of Debo. So the one thing, the run that
he scored on. They used that motion probably four or

(39:10):
five times in the game, and on several of those
places it was an inside reverse handoff to run the
running back on the counter, same action, same kind of
You think it's about to be that same hand off
to the running back and no, he hands it off
to Debo. And the block that he got out front
led by Larry me Toms. So you know Scotts.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
Llccaffrey had a devastating block on the end, you know,
talking about it.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Yeah, exactly. So that play we're gonna set you up
for them. Weren't run this play multiple times in for
a defense. You see this, You see this motion. See
it happened three times, three or four times. You're like, oh, run,
they're about to hand us off to the running back
and you get hey, alert, alert, the ball's going here.

(39:58):
Next year, you know, oh no, you take that one
false step and they get angles only from a block
and standpoint and it's de boat to the house.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
There's nothing more amazing to watch than when you see
a place start and you go, that could be a touchdown. Yeah,
immediately the second he got the hand off and you
saw it, you saw the two pullers. I just step
back and I went, he's gonna score. You can you
see it like you like the way it was just
designed set up the people. I knew he was gonna
score your call. I knew he was gonna score.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Your call like you were raising your octailer, octailery whatever.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Earlier than usual. I saw it coming. I'm like, he's
either gonna score or someone's gonna get knocked out at
the one.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
That's what's gonna happen. That's it.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
It was crazy like being I was on the hash
like where they ran it, so right behind the and
you see the pullers come out in front of I'm like, well,
they're still gonna have a free hitter, like I think
it was the outside linebacker and the safety. But to
your point, I was like, he's gonna score because he's
going to break that tackle. Yeah, and then like that
dude runs so incredibly hard, violent, violently, and like the
way he returns kicks, it's like there's not a there's

(41:06):
no fear in his body about anything. It's it's crazy
to watch, like his the power and the explosiveness, and
he's going to be a problem man. Like even on
like it was on the on the play that they
scored with zach ert It's like they're running like what
I would call like a jet sweep with like a
Wanda action across and Jayden keeps it and then he's
got two blockers out in front of zach Ertz and Debo.

(41:26):
I'm like, just the flexibility that stuff gives you because
you're like, oh, that's just eye candy, window dressing. We're
going to ignore it. The linebacker's push over with the
Wanda run and then it's like, oh no, we got
to get back over here. It's just like it's just
every time they're running the ball, like the eye discipline
needs to be at an all.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
And I think you probably did this too, because you
tell me you listen to a lot of the stuff
that that the opponents, like the podcasts or or stuff
that they're going on, stuff like we're talking now for
the opponents. So leading up into the game, you you
go listen, say, hey, what are their guys see them
on a daily basis talking about.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
You?

Speaker 2 (42:05):
Here I was hearing them talk about our office and there,
it's like, yes, it's a bunch of window dressing and
it's all you got to do is just kind of
protective perimeter and it's it's not that hard stuff to
it's not that complicated. I'm listening to this this these
guys talk about this, and I'm just like, you never
know that. Man, they play this is plenty too.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
I'm not gonna.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
But I'm saying, I'm like saying to myself, you have
no clue what it's like to be on that field
and all that stuff is happening to be in front
of you. You're gonna hesitate for a second trying to
figure out who has the ball. And that's all you need.
That's all the office is looking for. Now, they got
angles for you. You got a guy with speed. If

(42:51):
if Jaden decides to keep it, I mean, yeah, it
sounds good in air condition is what we call it.
But when you get in between those white lines, you
have to deal with that. It math moroz people.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
And I will say I think the giants Labebackers actually
did a pretty good job with their high discipline, but
there's I think they had twenty four runs in the game,
and let's say there's window dressing on fourteen or fifteen
of them just takes one and the one was a touchdown,
you know what I mean, Like, I think that's the thing.
It's like, yeah, you could be good four yards here,
five yards here, three yards here, but then you get
a nineteen yard touchdown run in the red zone.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Mike McFadden got a hurt early age. He's a very
good player for them.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
So a man, we talked about Bill yet.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
I know we haven't talked about that. Man, Dude, I
think Bill is. I was really improve. I mean it
was all the stuff you saw in the preseason though,
right Like you saw the explosiveness, you saw the burst,
you saw kind of the home run ability. You know,
I don't know if he's a four. He's not a
four to four guy. He's a four low four or
five guy, high four four guy, but he's got that
the acceleration is that tame catches me in the vision.
Like there's times where it's it's looking really murky, you know,

(43:52):
like in you know, think about this, like when you're
running back and you see like a crease in the NFL,
it's about this big. There are times where it's overlapped.
Likes are overlapped. His ability to kind of snake through,
run behind his pads and get positive games on muddy
runs is really impressive.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
The he he makes the first person miss consistently. Yeah,
we saw that early in the preseason and the time
that he was playing even up in New England. The
first person misses with him and that's been pretty consistent.
And this is one of those players that like, you
know it when you see it. He's got the look
and the feel. It's just experienced. Now, how many times

(44:28):
is he going to get the reps before he becomes
I think a regular of the offense.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
And he's so the only the only concern I have
with him really is just like workload, Yes, do you
think he can carry how many times do you think
he can carry the ball, like in the course of
a season, Like is he going to always be like
a twelve to sixteen touch guy or could he be
at I.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Think right now and to in our offense, that's probably
going to be his max anyway. I think ten care
he had ten yesterday. Maybe twelve is a max because
max number because you go had Jaden, who's gonna get
his his carriage. You're gonna have Debo runs, You're gonna
Eckler runs. You'll have whoever, whether it's Chris Rodriguez or

(45:08):
mc nicholas up. You know, you're gonna divide those thirty
runs up. Let's say yesterday you said it was twenty
four runs that we had as a tech twenty four,
So you're going to divide that up so much that
I think from a workload standpoint, you don't really have
to worry about that right now. With him, what I
did find interesting he was on the on the series

(45:28):
that he had that forty two yard run. They're backed
up and really we're in four minute offense and he's
the running back they put into the game.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
Yeah. I mean, he's got he's very talented. He's a
very talented runner. And I think to me, it's just
he's going to maximize money runs. He's going to do
everything you want to do. He's a little bit more
skilled than like McNichols or Rodriguez, you know, kind of
with some of that short area quickness stuff. You know.
I mean the only question I have about him is like,
can you do it for the whole season?

Speaker 4 (45:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (45:57):
He also you know he didn't play very much last year,
played one game, so that I thought was interesting to
walk into the NFL having not even really been through
a season.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
I guess there's good that. Yeah, fresh legs. But said
about fresh legs, but I think running back is the
easiest for a rookie to to excel at earlier.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
It's like the end running back, you know, like those
low lower life.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
We'll say a good one in two weeks with Ashton.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
The thing that also impressed me there was a think
of five or six yard run he had early in
the game. He showed great patience. A lot of young
backs don't have patients. They want to just hit a
whole one hundred miles an hour. But sometimes you need
to let the let the blocks develop, play with playing

(46:49):
a little game with the linebackers, you know, make him
think you're going to go, uh to the C gap,
get to the boss out there, and hey, boss back
in and you run through the B gap for for
four or five yards, creating your own blocker, being your
own blocker sometime. But there was a run he had
yesterday where just the paces he had and he was
able to get I think about six yards.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Yeah, Well he had that one where I don't remember.
I think it was Burns, I think who was kind
of waiting for him, and he saw it, stopped, came
back and got positive yardage where it's like, this is
not a rookie shoot.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Even the touchdown run like I'm gt right, you're getting
a down blocked by the to the end. There should
be a kick out there the creases between the tight ends,
but and the tackles or the guards, but kicked out
and the tackles leading up. There's a little bit of
penetration on Bates's block. He did a great job, was
run through, did a great job on it, gets a
little bit condensed, and you're his ability to kind of
subtle dip right like kind of just square the shoulders up,

(47:43):
pull everybody in the defensive end, tucks his head inside,
and then he's just able to bounce it. And that
doesn't happen if you run straight to the sideline. He's
got to kind of give you that little weave in
there and then bounce out for the touchdown. And so
those are the like that like kind of dark arts
of running back where you are it's not about you,
about you setting up your offensive line like I went
to I went to college with Maurice Jones Drew and

(48:04):
Eric Banamy was the running back coach, and so he
used to make Maurice come in and apologize to us
as the tight ends if he didn't set us up
on the block. And I'm like, and I kind of
look at Maurice and I think I just messed that up.
I think that's just my fault. You know, you have
to come apologize because he didn't set us up just right.
But I think that's that's what it takes to be
a good running back.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
In ten carries, eighty two yards a touchdown, it's not.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
A bad day at the office. It was most most
most yards by a rookie, seventh round draft picks and.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
First player in NFL history picked two hundredth or lower
with seventy five plus rush yards and a touchdown in
his debut.

Speaker 5 (48:38):
It's very specific, but yeah, that's not even there's not
even a date on that one. It's like, yeah, first
player twenty So he had an incredible debut.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Now, a lot of it obviously came on one big
run at the end of the game, but itame I feel, yeah,
So let me ask you this, because everybody was asking
about the run game, what was it going to be
coming into it? What did you expect yesterday?

Speaker 3 (49:06):
Actually, this is pretty in terms of deployment, like kind
of general philosophy, this is kind of what I expected.
I expected a little bit more tight zone from the gun,
so to see all kind of the heavier twelve personnel
counters inside pulling stuff, I was a little bit surprised
by that, just because I wasn't expecting that. I knew
they were going to do that, I wasn't expecting that

(49:27):
kind of volume because I thought if you look at
the Week one or Week two matchup from last year,
they really spread them out. They ran some stuff here,
little zone read, but it was bigger personnel's more kind
of nuanced blocking surface structures with the pullers. So that
was the only surprise. When in terms of run volume
kind of and Cliff's approach of kind of being a
quote unquote run first team, I think that was kind
of what I was expecting.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
I was expecting a lot of what we call off
tackle plays because of we mentioned Dexter Lawrence. You're not
going to make hey consistently running the ball side against
the tackles they had. They were really good run stoppers
in between the tackles. But I thought, because with our
athleticism across the board, with the offensive line, a lot

(50:12):
of pulling, a lot of getting outside, Yeah, a lot
of a lot of pulling, a lot of getting outside,
more outside zone type of runs. Using the bubble screenes
kind of as an extension of the run game. I
don't think we do anyway.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
A couple of debo but those were more like traditional screens.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Yeah. Yeah, but as far as this is kind of
how I saw them more looking to get outside the
running off the tackles, really at those defensive ends, outside linebackers.
I sent.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
The last couple of weeks for the Fantasy football world
was very interesting. Everybody after the trade of Brian Robinson
decided in that world that Bill was going to be
a very high pick, so they made him one. And
then when the depth chart came out, they all freaked
out and in most cases probably didn't start. I didn't
learn their lesson about they find it. So there's some

(51:04):
waiver I pick up this. This is a message to
fantasy football managers Dan Quinn and Cliff Kingsbury, don't care
about your team at all.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Yeah, trying to talk about a lot. Didn't care about
my fantasy too, because yeah, I had him as my
QB yesterday.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
One thing I do want to address that I think
we should bring up because this was this was not
all perfect. We're throwing a lot of roses here. Twelve
penalties yesterday, But how are you thinking about that? Because
that is a carryover from the preseason and I know
it wasn't just the starters playing, but like that was
something Dan cru was mad about after the New England
preseason game.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
A lot of penalties. Well that was really the one,
like the major major disappointment from this game where you say,
man that the penalties and some of them were just
so costly. All penalties hurt, but some of them are
just so costly. A couple of times I think we
were off the field defensively. Yeah, we off to feel
Bobby Wagner. Bobby Wagner wise automatic first down found I

(52:05):
found out. So thanks for pointing that out. Thanks your
pointing out my big mistake.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
I was just.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Bobby's penalty in the gates, the quand interception, they were
they were the right calls. There wasn't a situation where
you looked at these penalties like oh this this is
kind of.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Questionable intentional grounding too in the YEA.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
All right, it is time for our first edition Commanders Championship.
Hey man, you know we we do big things here. Yeah,
here's Commander's Championship Belt week one, and we got a
new belt. I've yet to see the new belt. This
is the unveiling.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
But if it's made of like macrimony or something, we
got we got a big.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
So I'm gonna unveil the new Commanders Championship belt.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Oh look at that thing.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Look at this thing right here?

Speaker 4 (53:11):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Wow, Jason, where did you get that? Wow?

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Did you get You did not.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Get this off of Amazon or oh East logo? We
got our crest Our logo. Man, who bab Let's all right,
let's go. Sorry, you want me to tell you to

(53:36):
hold it?

Speaker 3 (53:36):
I can hold it.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Who are the contenders?

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Contenders are I'm gonna go with Depot. Sammy has the
uh one of the contenders.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Okay, nearly nearly one hundred yards of total offense most
highly targeted receiver, which I think was not that much
of a surprise considering he was there all throughout camp.

Speaker 3 (53:58):
What do you have?

Speaker 2 (53:58):
Seven receptions?

Speaker 1 (53:59):
Seven percent seventy.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Seven and had the one rush for nineteen yards. Had
had an impact on the return game as a kick returner,
and also his presence in his you have to hate
where's waldough type of thing when you see him, the
motion and the attention that he garners by once he

(54:20):
moves everybody at tennis go up, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Was he the most backful offensive player?

Speaker 2 (54:26):
You think? According to me in my in my ward,
I mean, ye, yes, yes, he was all right. So
he's uh, he's one of the contenders. I feel like
I now, I feel like the way the defense played,
there's gonna be a defensive player in the mix. And

(54:46):
there were several guys I could have chosen to put
up for the championship belt. That's the contenders for the
Championship Belt. Thought didrich Wise was outstanding, Ken Law was outstanding.
Payne was outstanding. I thought Will Harris was outstanding. People
really not not gonna you go watch the film and

(55:06):
Will Harris was outstanding. My choice as a contender. It's
gonna beat the Ryan Paine pay was balling House of
Pay Vic Danny Pay, I'm bringing the pay whatever you
want to call him. Well, do you have four tackles,
five tackles.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
Four tackles, a sack tackle for a long two pass defense.
Remember you had to reach out with the left hand,
knocked them down in a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Played great in the run game, taking on double teams.
So I got I feel like I got some great contenders.
But I only can give this to one guy, So
we can't split the belt.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
You like, do it every week or they.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Wins and wins and.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Wins, right, and was it like does it do they
get the belt at the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
No?

Speaker 1 (55:55):
This, No, that's his, that's your.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Wen a certificate.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Okay, yeah, piece of paper this week.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Big Fletcher's command this heavyweight championship belt ghost too drum
roll Please, there's a right and.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Wrong answer here. I'm gonna complain if you picked them
out one go ahead. I'm gonna go with Demo Samuel who.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
I'm surprised. I'm surprised.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
The defense deserves everything today. You know what, you got
some consideration and I'm checking them.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
I'm giving it to the rock.

Speaker 5 (56:36):
Right.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
I did a Steve Harvey. Wait a second, it's not
yeah combat his heavyweight championship.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Wait really really well man, I mean that's maybe the
best game I've seen him play since covering the team.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
We had him in the locker room. Man, now, I
told him, I said, that was like a vintage from
a few years ago when he.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
Yeah, he was rolling.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
It's been double double digit.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
Yes, he was just all over the place in the
run game coming out the stack like you just all right, man,
He doesn't get doesn't get.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
That people could people could chime in, Hey, if you
felt like somebody else that we didn't have as the
belt winner, put the comments in there. Also, let me know,
do you look, do you prefer Big Daddy came Big
Big Daddy Paine or the House of Pay And for
you younger people, unless you were born check out the

(57:35):
seventies and then you know eighties rap. Big Daddy came
K A N E. Google him. Boy was he he
was smooth?

Speaker 3 (57:45):
Very So we keep.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
You take this home?

Speaker 3 (57:52):
Is that what happens?

Speaker 2 (57:53):
No, no, no, we have a special place for this.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
I do like, if we're gonna do eighties rap nick names,
that's a road I'd like to go down.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
So yeah, because like, yeah, so seriously, I'm fifty two, yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
How old are you in the eighties, like like in
high school or do the math.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
I'm fifty two, how almost eighties?

Speaker 2 (58:20):
So this is high school?

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Yeah, these are like my grade school years where it's
like Daylight Soul tribe call quest or in this case,
since we have Debo, whose nickname comes from Friday, which
is an old school movie. I like Jane Daniels and
Debo being kid in play. So if that's right, I
just hope.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
Deebo doesn't find out that I that I read the
wrong name. I don't want him coming to me like, man, hey,
give me where my bike? AT's my brother? What're my
belt at? Deebo? Leave me alone. Man, if you want
the belt, you can have it. You can, you can
share it. We don't care.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
That'd be like all right before before we go real
quick short week, So you want to give a quick
little what do you think green Bay one to O
just dominated Detroit?

Speaker 2 (59:03):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (59:03):
I don't know if they dominated Detroit.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
I mean just say they did. They're listening to us London.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
Through a red zone interception. I don't know like it
was it was. It was definitely a tight game, divisional game.
Like they they only had forty eight offensive plays green Bay,
so they weren't super.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
We're watching Bram and I we were watching The Gang together. Logan,
you don't want to come, have a.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Stop, have a bavage, do anything. That's why I'm sitting
that we do.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
You're either at the gym protein watching tape of high
school kids playing.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Somebody. Yeah, but I look like Josh Jacobs had a
really good game running the football, and I saw their
defense had four sacks, maybe nine hits on a quarterback.
So yeah, a little bit Park had a little some
impact in the game.

Speaker 3 (59:50):
Some cool pressure packages from the Green Bay Yeah, for sure. Yeah,
I don't know. It's going to be tough anytime. It's
a tough week. With the diversity that they play on defense,
it's always hard offense.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
I'll say it is. Going on a road with a
team as good as Green Bay is, our penalty is
gonna have to they don't have to be at a
minimal just to a team like that. In that environment,
you can't have that type of that amount of penalties.
And they understand that. DQ is going to address that.
Our players understand that you got to really put yourself

(01:00:22):
in great positions. And you mentioned Logan being able to
overcome all those second and fifteen second and twenties and
it's just you don't want to live in that world consistently.
It's just hard to do.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
Yep, all right, See you from Lambo Thursday night, and
see you next week on.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
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