October 22, 2025 • 35 mins
Coach Dave McGinnis and Rhett Bryan dive into the Titans' upcoming matchup against the Colts, break down Week 7 surprises, and preview key Week 8 NFL games. Featuring listener calls, injury updates, and deep analysis of the Colts' offensive firepower. Don't miss Coach Mac's keys to victory and insights on rising Titans players like Chimere Dike.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We welcome you in on another fall like Tuesday night,
we'll get down pretty chilly tonight. I'm htt Brian with
coach Mack Dave McGinnis, and your phone calls and questions
are welcome at six one five seven three seven one
four five, and we are going to prepare you for
Week eight in the National Football League as it pertains
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to the Titans who go north to Lucas Oil Stadium
to take on the Indianapolis Colts this Sunday. And it's
a special late afternoon slate start time. We're on the
air at two thirty, kick off at three twenty five
with Taylor Zarzer at Dave McGinnis. Let's go immediately to
the phones. Eric in Nashville, you're on MAC Talk. Hello sir,
(00:43):
Good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Hey guys. First of all, I want to give you
some good news an update. I didn't call it last
week because I had a Docs appointment that went pretty well.
In fact, they would tell me which I was CASTI pized.
They don't think I'll need surgery. Not only that they're
not even recommended as an X rays or MRI or
anything like that. I still have the pain in my
right knee and look at the payment left me and
the system my leg. But they're not calling for that
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right now, so I'm pretty happy about that. But we'll
see what happens down the road. Yeah, yeah, it certainly is. Guys.
A couple of things about the game. First of all,
I was near some Patriots fans. They were pretty nice
to me, and one of the things that was kind
of funny is they answered about place to go with
hot chicken, and I told them about heady Bees. I
was talking about Princess and I was told them the
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story behind Princess id of got started and they got
a good kick out of there if you know the story.
Of course, the wife the husband was cheating on her,
so she thought she'd give them a hot chicken just
to tell this inside. They loved it, so that's how
it got started. But anyway, guys, as first the game Sunday,
you know, I was kind of surprised we didn't go
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try to get pointed right before the half. I heard
different opinions and takes on that. But the two main things, guys,
is a common and then just want to get your
thoughts on questions. The comment was I've heard a lot
of people going after cam Ward, and I guess now
they feel like he's got to go after since Callahan
has been fired, and I've heard people saying stuff like
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you should be benched, you should be traded, you should
be cut, and I've even heard people saying these worse
than Will Levis, and I just laugh. A lot of
comments Tiden's fans, Please, you gotta be patient on him.
But coach, my comments and I wanted to get your
response to this again. I guess this past week I
heard reports that there was another player from the posing
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team from the Patriots that was talking about our effort
out on the field. And this is the fourth straight
week where I'm talking about losing efforts. At first it
was the Colts, then it was Houston, then it was
the Raiders, and now again where I heard opposing player
or too or something like that came out and question
that effort. And as a fan, it's frustrating to hear that. Now,
as the coach, you yourself, did you ever have to
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deal that where players from opposing teams would question your
player's efforts and if they, dude, what did you do
about it? And just wanted to get your thoughts about
that and if you had heard that. Guys is always
going to talk to tighten up.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
All right, Eric, tighten up.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Now, all of my years of coaching, all the teams
I was on, I never heard that from an opposing
team because I mean that just that just wasn't an issue.
It's not an issue now. I mean, anybody can say
anything they want after they win. And you know if
people want to say, I mean, that's just Look. The
only way that you quiet any of that stuff is
you win ball games. I mean, and that that's the
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bottom line. This is a zero sum business, and the
zero sum in this business, regardless of circumstances, is winning
ball games. And so but to pay attention to that,
to that stuff, I mean, it's just it's it just
it can't even be on your radar screen. That just
bounces off of you because you have to know what's
going on inside inside.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Your own building.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So the thing you got to concentrate on, you got
to concentrate on your performance being able to win the
ball game, just in the ball game, and all that
other stuff goes out the window.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, I don't know why guys keep saying that stuff.
I didn't see that last week. In fact, I haven't
I mean, look, there are plays and we're gonna get
through this to this hour about you know, tackling issues
and things like that. But effort has never been a question.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
No, I pay zero attention to that. I really do.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Eric, If you're still on the phone, I'd like to
ask you, did you wear your pont show this weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
He's not still on the phone, but I was gonna
ask next week. Yeah, we'll have to see how that
how that happened and held up in the weather that
it was asked the question. I want to go back
to some of the games last week in Week seven,
just kind of as the league year is starting to
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formulate to what it is, because we're going to get
to the Colts, who have the best record in football
at six and one right now. But some of your
impressions of some of the other games that you might
have taken in in the NFL last week, Mac, anything
stand out.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Well, I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
There's always going to be there's always going to be surprises.
I mean to me, when you when you look at
the games, they're they're all they they were all you know,
some of them pretty evenly played. Some surprised me a
little bits as to as to how far you know,
they got out of hand, But I'm really not surprised
by a whole lot in the National Football League for
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this reason. This time of year, the Helmets may look
the same, but I don't know all the injury issues
for all the teams and right now that that plays
a big, big part in what's going on in the
National Football League right now, And.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's gonna be this.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
That's gonna be the same way Rhett as you as
you go down through the rest of this season, because
as we both know that teams don't have a lot
of depth anyway, and so right now, if you're if
you are injured and the some primary play get injured,
it's going to alter just exactly a lot who you
are on the field. So without knowing exactly what's going
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on with a lot of the health issues with teams,
you know, seven weeks deep into the season, it's hard
to draw any conclusions about really as now, like the Colts,
they're very healthy and they're playing as good a football
as anybody you want to see. You know, I concentrate
really really, I mean, I've still got a lot of
coach in me, because all I really concentrate on rent
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is the team that's coming up the next week. And
I can tell you about the Colts is we'll get
into what their numbers are right now, but they're playing
as good as anybody in this league right now.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, the reason I was asking about just some of
the games, how they've kind of worked out here and
how they're working out. That fourth quarter between the Broncos
and the Giants Sunday was ridiculous because the Broncos scored
thirty three points in the fourth quarter. I think it's
the greatest comeback in the history of the league in
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the regular season.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, that's great if you're a Bronco. If you're I
mean a Giant, it's not real good. No, it's you know,
there's always there's always, there's always plus and a minus.
There's a cold and a hot to always to NFL games.
The hot was for the Broncos. Cold, it's for the Giants.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
But the thing I'm pointing to is, well, first of all,
when you don't have a dog in the hunt and
you're just watching, it's fun to watch just to see
how if a team can climb back into it or not.
Did you watch either or both of the Monday Night
football games.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I just watched the first one. I did not. I
did not I did not watch the second one.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, nine o'clock kick is is kind of rough for
that Seahawks Texans game. Seahawks took him down twenty seven
to nineteen. The Lions Buccaneers game at Ford Field was
interesting to me just to see you were talking about
injuries and what the injury situation is that the Buccaneers
are the walking wounded like a bunch of teams are
right now, and Baker Mayfield could not do it by himself.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
He just could And I think, I think to your
point there, he got beat up a little in that game.
I don't know how serious it was, but you could
tell at the end that he he was beat up
a little bit. And you're right, I mean, he's been
a guy that's been propping them up. You know, they
lose Mike Evans. Mike Evans had just come back, right,
you know, all of a sudden he breaks his claviical.
So injuries in this league, I mean, people really, I
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think don't even understand the gravity of what injuries do
to a National Football League team just because of the depth.
I mean, depth is just not there. You're not dealing
with a lot of numbers on the roster anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, and you're right. So Mike Evans goes down with
a broken clavicle, and after he just returned to that
game after missing the first the last three had a hamstringing,
that's right. And then in Mecca and Buka had just
come back in that he had had a hamstring issue
or an ankle issue, I can't remember which. H One
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of the things I noticed about that Lion's front First
of all, Aiden Hutchinson is a dad bling game wrecker.
That dude is something else. But they had a Lee
McNeil back up front with him and some of those guys.
Those guys were crashing the gates with regularity.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well yeah, I mean it's coming off the edge.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I mean, I mean, look, tackles in this league have
a problem when people know you're gonna know you're gonna
you're gonna have to throw. And you saw Huddinson, just
to bring to your point, he was lined up out
there in that wide nine and he took about three
steps and he was around the corner several times, very
very easily.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I mean, it's just.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Tackles in this league when people know that they can
rush the passer and disregard the run.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
That's a hard life out there.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Uh. The other one I think is interesting is the Bears,
who I believe have won four straight if I'm not mistaken.
The Chicago Bears with Ben Johnson twenty six to fourteen
over the Saints. Uh, that is something to watch as
they kind of climb into this thing going towards the
back half of the season. I was some surprised at
how poorly Jacksonville played it at Wimbley Stadium early Sunday
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morning against the Rams.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah. I didn't want to see it. I didn't watch
any of that.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
But were you too busy doing TV? You're a big
time star.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, I am.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
The thing that about Jacksonville, though, is if anybody should
be used to playing in London, it's them, because I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
They played more over there than they played battle.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
There than anybody.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I mean, that's basically their second home, you know, during
during the season.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
And I was a little.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Surprised, just like you were, when I saw the final
score that they had gotten completely boat raced over there.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
The Carolina Panthers get in the win call him again,
thirteen to six over the New York Jets who remained winless.
And the reason I bring that one up is the quarterback.
It's quarterback league, so I believe it is that Bryce
Young has a high ankle spring in that so he
is going to miss some time in this Andy Dalton
is the backup. But conversely, it was a quarterback change
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there as they made a change and benched Justin Fields
and went with Tarrod Taylor the rest of the way.
And I have not looked at what they've made a
decision on today. So they still haven't made a decision today,
is what I'm being told.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, well, again, your quarterback is key in the National
Football League, and regardless of who your starter is, if
he goes down, the guy behind him is not as good.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I mean, that's just let's just bring that out.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And Andy Dalton, no, no disrespect to the red Rifle.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
You know, who's a frog.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
There's a reason that he's a backup quarterback there and
so but that's the luck of the draw in the
National Football League RT. I mean, you've been doing this
for a long time too, just like I have. In
this league, you get people hurt. I talk about significant
people hurt. Getting a quarterback hurt. That's about as significant
as you can get well.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
And it's not quarterback, but one of your best players
is hurt and we don't know his status this week,
and that's Jeffrey Simmons. Can't control that part of it,
but it does affect potentially the outcome in things. But
because without Jeffrey Simmons in that ball game, that changed
the last three quarters and change, and that in the
lagarious need with a quad injury, and both those guys
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will you know, will be updated on them as we
go through this week. But that's a couple of significant
losses on that side of the ball where other guys
have to step up with the problem is there. Jeffrey
Simmons is one of one. They only made him once.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
He's a right.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
You know, there's only so many elite players in the league.
And you know, on a on a team as Razor
Thin is what the Titans are, you had a guy
that was really performing at an elite level.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
He was at a different type of level.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I've been with a lot of you know, in my
career Hall of Fame interior defensive lineman. He was on
that kind of track. Uh, And it's that's that hurt.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
As soon as he went out. You could tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It hurt. Yes, it did. And this time it's a
special teamer, return man and wide receiver. Chim ray DK
with a big play like this, Cam rolls right now,
Census feet throws back to the left out, Bill hits
Clod Titans touchdown Jim DK thirty eight yards. Taylor fired
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up right there. Of course you were too. I'm surprised
you didn't say give me a hell yeah right there.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Well, I got to save those.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
But that, to me, there was a reason to get
say to get to get to get fired up about that,
because I mean, that was a That was the first
of all the thing that I like about it. When
I'm watching I'm watching plays and I'm watching, you know,
broadcasting games, you know, you know how much film work
we do before, and I was I was watching the
setup to that play, you know, because when play callers
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stacking plays, setting plays up, you can see the setup
for that play coming because we get to watch practice
and that that's that trans continental. It hit at just
the right time, caught him in exactly the coverage that
they had worked on.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Uh, it was really really nice.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Jim ray D k leads the National Football League in
all purpose yards one twenty five yards from scrimmage and
you just heard that right there. That was his first
career touchdown, receiving touchdown from cam Ward for thirty eight yards.
He's averaging nearly one hundred and fifty yards per game
total and by the way, more all purpose yards than
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the guys than the likes of guys like Christian McCaffrey.
That's doing something.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
No, No, he's been doing something when he's gotten his chance.
And what has happened is because of his return ability
and what he has done, he started to get more
playing time, you know, from the line of scrimmage, which
is only going to help him and help this team
moving forward.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Well, and I'm glad you said that because that was
my next question is is he earning the right for
some more snaps in this especially with the asked foreign
release of receiver Tyler Lockett and obviously the injury to
Calvin Ridley. So the answer to that is yes, and
that's you know, usually the way it works out. If
a guy has a skill set and he's doing really
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good things on special teams, he'll earn an opportunity for
further snaps at his to get her positioned or.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I mean, and he's he's earned every bit of it.
But you can.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I mean, you know, we're at practice too, Redd, we
watch him in practice.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I mean, he's he's worked at it. He's worked at it.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So all of this that he has so far he's
earned and he just needs to stay on this track.
I really like what he's doing. Yeah, something about that too, RhD.
I mean, just going along with some of the things
that we know about how honest they are. They told
me that immediately when I purchased that vehicle and everything
that they promised that they would do, you know, along
with becoming a customer. There they've done. I mean, there
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wasn't any, as you call it, any of the bait
and switch stuff. So it wasn't any add ons, It
wasn't any three card MONDI stuff that's playing shell games
and all of that stuff. Everything was right up front.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
What you see is what you get. Yep. Absolutely all right.
Let's take a moment now, or a few moments and
look at the next opponent for the Tennessee Titans. It's
the six win and AFC South Division leading Indianapolis Colts,
best best record in the league at six and one,
and Mac, I'll just start with this. What have they
improved on from when we saw them at Nissan Stadium
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back in week three?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, they continued on the same track we saw offensively,
I think offensively at that first ball game that we
did against the Titans, we thought, this is really an
efficient offense. But now, I mean the numbers that you're
getting ready to give, because you know, I do a
lot of extensive work, you know, to prepare for every broadcast,
and you dig really deep on the alphabet numbers, and
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so when you when you when you dig, when you
dig into them, you know sometimes I mean, I mean.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I watch tape.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I watched tape and get a lot of you know,
my information from tape what I see them doing to
other people. But when you start putting the numbers to
what they're doing offensively, it's very impressive.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So we'll get to the individuals involved. But the team
as an offense thirty three points a game, number one
scoring offense in the National Football League in fact, twenty
seven touch downs and two hundred thirty two points through
seven games. That two hundred thirty two points that they
have scored is third highest in their team history, behind
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only the nineteen sixty four, the nineteen fifty eight Baltimore Colts,
and there's ten games left. That's where it starts. So
some of these numbers team wise, number two in yards
per game at three hundred and eighty point three.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
That's nearly four hundred yards of game average.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yards per play six point three five, number one in
the league.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Yeah, and you can see you're.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
In second and manageable after every play every play. One
hundred thirty point one yards rushing per game seven top ten,
number seven in the league. Two hundred and fifty point
one passing yards per game top five, eight point oh
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seven yards per passing play, number three in the league. No, No, what.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
That does is that that possesses the ball for you
and it progresses.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
The chains keep going.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And we faced the number two offense in that regard
last week with the New England Patriots over eight point
one five yards per play.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
How about sacks per pass attempt two point seven six percent,
number one in the league? First downs per game twenty
three point six first downs per game.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Well, again, we number one of the league.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
You know you hear me talk a lot broke on
the broadcast and then when you know, doing all the
radio hits that you and I do. But it's just
true when you're staying ahead of the chains, and that
is ahead of the chains, good things happen because you
possess the ball offensively and you put defenses on their
left foot. So I mean, all these numbers stack up.
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I mean, all these numbers just quantify what I'm seeing
with my eyes when I'm doing fail work.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Kick off return average per game twenty nine point four,
number two in the league, third down percentage forty six
point seventy five percent, top three, fourth down percentage eighty
one point eight percent, top three, Red zone percentage sixty
seven point sixty five percent, eighth in the league, thirty
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three point one points per game, so first in the league. There,
and turnover margin turnover ratio, give away takeaway plus seven,
top three in the league.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Well, these are all elite stats.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I mean they're they're you know, if you if you
are a stat person and you're you know, you're an
alphabet numbers viewer when you start, when you start to
look at it, I mean, there's no mystery as to.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Why they're as good as they all correct. They're just
very very efficient.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I mean, this is an efficient offense that just they
don't give the ball up. They don't i don't turn
the ball over, and they score touchdowns with possessions. Think
of all of those things. I mean, you had a
very interesting punting statistic too, that again just points out
how much they possess the football, going the.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Difference in six and one versus one and six. So
Johnny Hicker has punted thirty two times for fifteen hundred
and twenty three yards.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
And by the way, has done a great job fantastic
I mean, great job of punting, great job of field
position metrics, great job of coverage.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But go ahead, Rigoberto Sanchez, the Colts punter has punted
twenty less times twelve times for six hundred eight yards.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, they're just not punting. I mean they're finishing drives
with points. You know, they're not finishing drives with punts.
They're finishing drives with points.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
And we're gonna get to how well they are doing
in three phases of complimentary football. A lot like what
we saw last week. But it's really the offense that
is driving this thing, because we're gonna get the defense
has its issues, but we're we'll get that minute. So
Daniel Jones, he is a huge part of this. Seventeen
hundred and ninety yards passing already ten touchdowns to just
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three interceptions. He has four more rushing touchdowns, so he
has fourteen total touchdowns to just three interceptions, completing seventy
one percent of his passes. Passer rating right now and
has been all but one game over one hundred is passing.
Quarterback rating for the season is one oh five to nine.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Well, I mean again, I mean, it all bears out
when you start, when you start to watch it, and again,
I mean, you've got a veteran quarterback points out the
importance of time on task as a quarterback in this league.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I mean, because some people.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Had given up on him as being washed up, Well,
clearly he's not worshed up.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
And the other thing.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
That's important to know is, I mean he's on a
one year contract, so that's going to be very interesting
too to see what happens here.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And we're going to get to his aerial weapons in
a moment. But I tell you who else is a
huge part of this is running back Jonathan Taylor. He
leads the NFL with six hundred and ninety seven yards
rushing five point three yards per carry. He has ten
rushing touchdowns. He has another one out of the backfield,
so he's eleven total, but ten And just to tell
you how prolific that is in their team history, three
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games already this season with three rushing touchdowns. First of all,
in his first five years in the league, he had
two different games in his first five years with three
rushing touchdowns. He has three of a kind through seven
games in twenty twenty five, and it's the first time
that's ever happened in franchise history.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Now you talking about franchise history.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
That didn't mean to interrupt you, but just thinking about
the backs that they've had in the past in that franchise.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
To go back to Lenny Moore back in the fifties
and sixties, but more recently, Marshall Falk and Eric Dickerson
and Edger and James, all of those guys have jackets.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
All these guys have gold jackets.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And that to me, I mean, it's just to me,
the pace that this offense is on right now.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
It is significant, red significant.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Now. The receiving options wide receiver Michael Pittman thirty three catches,
five touchdowns for him, Tyler Warren thirty five. I think
catches with thirty three catches has three touchdowns. But both
of those guys seventy plus percent catch rate.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Yeah, now think of that.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
That That means seven out of every ten throws that
you throw to them, they're completing.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
And they're making yards after catch. That's a pretty good
du ho.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
You do any anywhere near that in baseball hitting wise,
and you're in the you're going to Cooperstown on the
first ballot, just to think about that. But seven out
of ten times it's.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
A catch, it's a catch.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I mean bananas.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
You know, when Indiana Jones throws it in their direction,
they're going to catch it.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Indiana Jones. All right, let's get to the defense here
for a moment, because they're only allowing twenty and a
half points per game. And I'm prefacing that with the
things I'm about to bring up. It's still Grover Stewart
and it's still the Forest Buckner up front where this
thing has its teeth with Quitty pay and all those guys.
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But the last couple of games mac this defense has
allowed four hundred plus yards of offense. For twenty last
week against the Chargers at sofar to be exact, but
it's just that it's explosive plays and yardage. When you're
allowing twenty and a half points per game and your
offense is scoring thirty three. I'm not good at math,
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but the difference the offense is the difference in this.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Well, let me help you a little bit with that
math from my West Texas growing up.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yes, do that. That's thirteen.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
That's a thirteen point leeway that you have with a
score separation on a consistent basis.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Which is, by the way, number one in the National Football.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Number one in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And so it's no team point one points per game difference.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
There's no mystery as to why they are where they
are right now and playing you know a lot of
teams when you start looking at it, you say, well,
you know, the way they're playing doesn't really match up
with these numbers.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
This matches up perfectly.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And by the way, uh, the Forest Buckner has had
a little up and down season. In this he had
ten pressures and two quarterback sacks of Justin Herbert Sunday.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah, well, the Forest Buckner, go ahead and go to
sleep on the forest tact, just like you, you know,
you go to sleep on Max Crosby.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Max Crosby's done, he's watching.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Max Crosby's done.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
He's worshed up, and he's just wrecking games, you know,
all over the the Forrest Buckner just close one eye
and play against him for about ten seconds.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
You got to put how that works out. Grover Stewart,
he matches hands with Justin Herbert, deflex the ball to
himself his first career interception. And that's the other thing.
They've created turnovers. They're allowing chunk plays, but they've created
turnovers to give it back to their offense, and so
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they've done their part. They're just they're allowing chunk plays.
It's what the the.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Crux says, defense when they turn it.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
And just your point too, when they give it back
to their offense, I guess what their offense is doing
with it.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Scoring And by the way, twenty seven touchdowns so far,
twenty seven touchdowns, that's impressive, thirty three points per game.
And then the special team's part of this is, you
know that stuff's always good and we didn't even know.
We didn't even really get into Josh downs and how
fast he is. And but that Tyler Warren, that's a problem.
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Mo Aley Cox is always a problem. He's back there
in that red zone stuff too. But Daniel Jones, he
and Jonathan Taylor are heading towards career years. And Jonathan
Taylor's had a good one back three four years ago,
eighteen hundred and some odd yards and I forget how
many touchdowns, but he's tracking for that. But Daniel's getting
ready to smash all of his career season highs.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Oh yeah, well, this is a career resurrect for Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
On a one year deal. Yep, somebody's going back up
the brinks truck for him. We'll see if it's into
or not. Week eight of the National Football League is
here mac or it will be officially on Thursday night,
as the Minnesota Vikings head to Los Angeles to take
on the Chargers.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Those two teams are kind of interesting to me right
now because they both had really high expectations coming into
this and they've both had kind of uneven They've had
some really high spots in their season, but they've been
a little bit and even both of them have. But
there's still ten weeks left in this season. So there's
a lot of time for teams like that to get
back on track.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well. And the thing with the Vikings, you know, we've
been talking about injuries all hour because it's such a
big story at this point in the season and beyond.
JJ McCarthy's had a high ankle sprain in once he's
missed two three games, you gonna miss maybe a couple more.
So that's a big part of that story. Here's a
couple of interesting teams that start the noon slate on Sunday.
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Atlanta is hosting the Miami Dolphins. Now, Atlanta got a
big win at home their last home game against the
Buffalo Bills and then lost out in San Francisco, lost
at Levi Stadium to the forty nine ers over the weekend,
and Miami is just all kinds of trouble. That's just
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something crazy to watch. But those kind of matchups intrigued
me just to see who rises out from the pile
of ashes in that deal.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Well, it's an AFC NFC matchup too, so they don't
see each other, that's correct.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
They don't see each other that often, that's correct.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
But Atlanta, Atlanta, I was impressed with him against out
there in Santa Clara. They're playing good football.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Jon Robinson is doing a very nice job on the
ground and.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
They shut him down pretty good.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I mean, you got to give Robert Sala a lot
of credit with that defense. Forty nine ers with missing
missing some peace. They did a good job because going
into that game, b Jon Robinson was on a hot streak.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
He was, and in fact, he, much like the aforementioned
Jonathan Taylor, is one of a handful of backs that
have two hundred plus yard games from scrimmage, like Rico
Dudeles did it in back to back weeks four thirty
two and four to thirty nine. I want to say
v Jon Robinson had a game two thirty plus from scrimmage.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah, he was on a hot streak at going out.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
There Chicago at Baltimore to take on the Ravens. We'll
see if Lamar Jackson plays or not. And if I'm
not mistaken, I think the I think the Chicago Bears
have won four in a row.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
They have and Lamar Jackson being hurt, I mean, you
talk about injuries that hurt a team, I mean it's just,
you know, people don't like to hear it, but it's
just fact in the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Start losing your dudes, you've lost something.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well. It's just like, if anybody's listening to what we
did with the breakdown of the Colts and the last
long segment, people might say, well, gosh, y'all are really
down on the Titans. No we're not. We say anything
about that.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
It's not a matter of this show is not a
matter of being up or down on anybody.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
It's just a matter of telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
The numbers lie, Well, it's not numbers, it's just what
you see with them doing.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
It's the alphabet. Okay, yeah, those.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Those types of things. It's just like we were doing
a broadcast. I mean, of course, we want the Titans
to win. We want the Titans to play very very well.
But when you're when you're broadcasting a game and you've
got to be honest with what's going on structurally, you know,
out on the field. And that's what we talk about
on this show, not only with the Titans, but with
all teams across the league, and injuries are structurally an
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issue for teams throughout the league.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
I promise you the Colts.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
You know, some of these teams you'd look at and
look at how they got to their record, and you
can see the hidden yard and stuff. There ain't a
whole lot of hidden yards because they're doing all of
it on offense especially. I mean, there's not a lot
of surprise there.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
And as I say, just you know, when you and
I when we get together to work on these teams
on a weekly basis, I mean, you run all the
numbers and you dig very deep into that and I
just I just grind the tape and when it comes together,
I mean, and then you know, we compare notes as
to what we're seeing, why we're seeing it. And this
football team I think we both came out with when
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we had our big product, our big production meeting, just
you and I getting ready to what we're going to
do on the air, to be ready for any scenario.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Is the fact that they're a complete football team right now.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
They are I'll tell you who's somebody trying to figure
it out. And this is a new game at Bank
of America Stadium in Charlotte, Carolina hosts the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Yeah, it's kind of surprising to me that.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
And again I don't know completely their injury history, but
the Buffalo is struggling a little bit, and normally in
this in this regime that they have there, now it's
been a while since they struggled.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Jacksonville has a bye week as it pertains to the
AFC South. The Houston Texans host the San Francisco forty
nine Ers at Narchi Stadium on Sunday at noon.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Well it's a cross country trip, but from what I
saw from the forty nine ers, they're playing good. They're
playing decent, decent football right now, and they've been injured.
I mean, they've overcome some injuries. They're starting to get
some of their people back though.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
The one player that isn't injured who is helping them
as he usually does, is Christian mccafs.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Well, Christian McCaffrey's coming, you know, coming back, and I
mean he's their horse. I mean you can tell when
they saddle him up that they're going to ride him
as long as they can.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
New York Giants lose that heartbreaker that we mentioned in
the last segment with Denver thirty three thirty two. They
go to Philly and play the Eagles NFC East game. There.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, they've got a lot, they've got a lot to do.
Just to overcome psychologically from that last ball game. What
were they up by nineteen? They were up by nineteen.
That's a hard, hard thing to swallow after a ball game.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah, and to surrender thirty three points in the fourth
quarter to your opponent and lose by a point, I mean,
that's just bananas.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
That's hard.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
That team that did that, the team that came out
in the winning that game. The Denver Broncos are back
at Mile High hosting the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
So that'll be a game, you know, and of course,
you know, I mean it's always a little different when
you got there to play at Denver, not that it's impossible,
but the Cowboys are playing really decent now too.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
So that's a ballgame, it absolutely is.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And one of their top defenders, Drake Greenlaw, will be
suspended for that Broncos defense. His suspension was upheld today
by the league. So just as a footnote, how about
a Monday night football Washington at Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, Well, Kansas City's got their foothold back, I mean
they do. The reported demise of the Kansas City Chiefs
a little premature.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
And just in time for them right here at the
middle of the meat of the schedule, getting ready to
he down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Well, and that's kind of the way they've been since
Mahomes has taken over that the Reins, that's Andy Reid's
teams have kind of been like that since he's been there.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
How about on Sunday Night football, Green Bay at Akroscher
Stadium three Rivers formerly or used to be the old
Building take on the Pittsburgh Steeters on Sunday Night.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Now, I like Green Bay in this ball game.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I do too.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
What Michael Parsons had three sacks last week?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
It sure did.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
He's kind of starting to warm up.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
No double header on Monday night football as Arizona Detroit, Jacksonville,
the Rams, the Vegas Raiders and the Seattle Seahawks all
on a bye week.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Well, it's starting to be that time for Bie Weeks.
Now that's coming up.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
It is, it's coming up for the Titans.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Very yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
All right. So in our final minute or so here,
what are your keys to this Sunday game against the
Colts at Lucas Oils.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Well, because of how good they are offensively, you got
to possess the football with your offense. Because I don't
care how good they are offensively, if they don't have
the ball, they can't do anything with it. So you've
got to be able to possess the football offensively. The
other thing you cannot do, you cannot press and turn
the ball over to them. You just that's that's you
just don't want to do that. And the next thing
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you need to do, you got to score touchdowns when
you get a chance to score against these people. Field
goals is not going to get it. What are they
thirty three points a game?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Whether I mean, you've got to score touchdowns when you
get a chance to score in this game.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You absolutely do. Tennessee and Indianapolis two thirty Titans count
down three twenty five kick with Taylor and Mack Joseph
Bonano for running it behind the glass. And we appreciate
all the phone calls tonight
We welcome you in on another fall like Tuesday night,
we'll get down pretty chilly tonight. I'm htt Brian with
coach Mack Dave McGinnis, and your phone calls and questions
are welcome at six one five seven three seven one
four five, and we are going to prepare you for
Week eight in the National Football League as it pertains
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to the Titans who go north to Lucas Oil Stadium
to take on the Indianapolis Colts this Sunday. And it's
a special late afternoon slate start time. We're on the
air at two thirty, kick off at three twenty five
with Taylor Zarzer at Dave McGinnis. Let's go immediately to
the phones. Eric in Nashville, you're on MAC Talk. Hello sir,
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Good afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Hey guys. First of all, I want to give you
some good news an update. I didn't call it last
week because I had a Docs appointment that went pretty well.
In fact, they would tell me which I was CASTI pized.
They don't think I'll need surgery. Not only that they're
not even recommended as an X rays or MRI or
anything like that. I still have the pain in my
right knee and look at the payment left me and
the system my leg. But they're not calling for that
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right now, so I'm pretty happy about that. But we'll
see what happens down the road. Yeah, yeah, it certainly is. Guys.
A couple of things about the game. First of all,
I was near some Patriots fans. They were pretty nice
to me, and one of the things that was kind
of funny is they answered about place to go with
hot chicken, and I told them about heady Bees. I
was talking about Princess and I was told them the
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story behind Princess id of got started and they got
a good kick out of there if you know the story.
Of course, the wife the husband was cheating on her,
so she thought she'd give them a hot chicken just
to tell this inside. They loved it, so that's how
it got started. But anyway, guys, as first the game Sunday,
you know, I was kind of surprised we didn't go
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try to get pointed right before the half. I heard
different opinions and takes on that. But the two main things, guys,
is a common and then just want to get your
thoughts on questions. The comment was I've heard a lot
of people going after cam Ward, and I guess now
they feel like he's got to go after since Callahan
has been fired, and I've heard people saying stuff like
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you should be benched, you should be traded, you should
be cut, and I've even heard people saying these worse
than Will Levis, and I just laugh. A lot of
comments Tiden's fans, Please, you gotta be patient on him.
But coach, my comments and I wanted to get your
response to this again. I guess this past week I
heard reports that there was another player from the posing
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team from the Patriots that was talking about our effort
out on the field. And this is the fourth straight
week where I'm talking about losing efforts. At first it
was the Colts, then it was Houston, then it was
the Raiders, and now again where I heard opposing player
or too or something like that came out and question
that effort. And as a fan, it's frustrating to hear that. Now,
as the coach, you yourself, did you ever have to
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deal that where players from opposing teams would question your
player's efforts and if they, dude, what did you do
about it? And just wanted to get your thoughts about
that and if you had heard that. Guys is always
going to talk to tighten up.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
All right, Eric, tighten up.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Now, all of my years of coaching, all the teams
I was on, I never heard that from an opposing
team because I mean that just that just wasn't an issue.
It's not an issue now. I mean, anybody can say
anything they want after they win. And you know if
people want to say, I mean, that's just Look. The
only way that you quiet any of that stuff is
you win ball games. I mean, and that that's the
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bottom line. This is a zero sum business, and the
zero sum in this business, regardless of circumstances, is winning
ball games. And so but to pay attention to that,
to that stuff, I mean, it's just it's it just
it can't even be on your radar screen. That just
bounces off of you because you have to know what's
going on inside inside.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Your own building.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So the thing you got to concentrate on, you got
to concentrate on your performance being able to win the
ball game, just in the ball game, and all that
other stuff goes out the window.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, I don't know why guys keep saying that stuff.
I didn't see that last week. In fact, I haven't
I mean, look, there are plays and we're gonna get
through this to this hour about you know, tackling issues
and things like that. But effort has never been a question.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
No, I pay zero attention to that. I really do.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Eric, If you're still on the phone, I'd like to
ask you, did you wear your pont show this weekend.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
He's not still on the phone, but I was gonna
ask next week. Yeah, we'll have to see how that
how that happened and held up in the weather that
it was asked the question. I want to go back
to some of the games last week in Week seven,
just kind of as the league year is starting to
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formulate to what it is, because we're going to get
to the Colts, who have the best record in football
at six and one right now. But some of your
impressions of some of the other games that you might
have taken in in the NFL last week, Mac, anything
stand out.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Well, I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
There's always going to be there's always going to be surprises.
I mean to me, when you when you look at
the games, they're they're all they they were all you know,
some of them pretty evenly played. Some surprised me a
little bits as to as to how far you know,
they got out of hand, But I'm really not surprised
by a whole lot in the National Football League for
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this reason. This time of year, the Helmets may look
the same, but I don't know all the injury issues
for all the teams and right now that that plays
a big, big part in what's going on in the
National Football League right now, And.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
It's gonna be this.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
That's gonna be the same way Rhett as you as
you go down through the rest of this season, because
as we both know that teams don't have a lot
of depth anyway, and so right now, if you're if
you are injured and the some primary play get injured,
it's going to alter just exactly a lot who you
are on the field. So without knowing exactly what's going
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on with a lot of the health issues with teams,
you know, seven weeks deep into the season, it's hard
to draw any conclusions about really as now, like the Colts,
they're very healthy and they're playing as good a football
as anybody you want to see. You know, I concentrate
really really, I mean, I've still got a lot of
coach in me, because all I really concentrate on rent
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is the team that's coming up the next week. And
I can tell you about the Colts is we'll get
into what their numbers are right now, but they're playing
as good as anybody in this league right now.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Well, the reason I was asking about just some of
the games, how they've kind of worked out here and
how they're working out. That fourth quarter between the Broncos
and the Giants Sunday was ridiculous because the Broncos scored
thirty three points in the fourth quarter. I think it's
the greatest comeback in the history of the league in
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the regular season.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah, that's great if you're a Bronco. If you're I
mean a Giant, it's not real good. No, it's you know,
there's always there's always, there's always plus and a minus.
There's a cold and a hot to always to NFL games.
The hot was for the Broncos. Cold, it's for the Giants.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
But the thing I'm pointing to is, well, first of all,
when you don't have a dog in the hunt and
you're just watching, it's fun to watch just to see
how if a team can climb back into it or not.
Did you watch either or both of the Monday Night
football games.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I just watched the first one. I did not. I
did not I did not watch the second one.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, nine o'clock kick is is kind of rough for
that Seahawks Texans game. Seahawks took him down twenty seven
to nineteen. The Lions Buccaneers game at Ford Field was
interesting to me just to see you were talking about
injuries and what the injury situation is that the Buccaneers
are the walking wounded like a bunch of teams are
right now, and Baker Mayfield could not do it by himself.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
He just could And I think, I think to your
point there, he got beat up a little in that game.
I don't know how serious it was, but you could
tell at the end that he he was beat up
a little bit. And you're right, I mean, he's been
a guy that's been propping them up. You know, they
lose Mike Evans. Mike Evans had just come back, right,
you know, all of a sudden he breaks his claviical.
So injuries in this league, I mean, people really, I
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think don't even understand the gravity of what injuries do
to a National Football League team just because of the depth.
I mean, depth is just not there. You're not dealing
with a lot of numbers on the roster anyway.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, and you're right. So Mike Evans goes down with
a broken clavicle, and after he just returned to that
game after missing the first the last three had a hamstringing,
that's right. And then in Mecca and Buka had just
come back in that he had had a hamstring issue
or an ankle issue, I can't remember which. H One
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of the things I noticed about that Lion's front First
of all, Aiden Hutchinson is a dad bling game wrecker.
That dude is something else. But they had a Lee
McNeil back up front with him and some of those guys.
Those guys were crashing the gates with regularity.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well yeah, I mean it's coming off the edge.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I mean, I mean, look, tackles in this league have
a problem when people know you're gonna know you're gonna
you're gonna have to throw. And you saw Huddinson, just
to bring to your point, he was lined up out
there in that wide nine and he took about three
steps and he was around the corner several times, very
very easily.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I mean, it's just.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Tackles in this league when people know that they can
rush the passer and disregard the run.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
That's a hard life out there.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Uh. The other one I think is interesting is the Bears,
who I believe have won four straight if I'm not mistaken.
The Chicago Bears with Ben Johnson twenty six to fourteen
over the Saints. Uh, that is something to watch as
they kind of climb into this thing going towards the
back half of the season. I was some surprised at
how poorly Jacksonville played it at Wimbley Stadium early Sunday
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morning against the Rams.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Yeah. I didn't want to see it. I didn't watch
any of that.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
But were you too busy doing TV? You're a big
time star.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, I am.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
The thing that about Jacksonville, though, is if anybody should
be used to playing in London, it's them, because I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
They played more over there than they played battle.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
There than anybody.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I mean, that's basically their second home, you know, during
during the season.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
And I was a little.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Surprised, just like you were, when I saw the final
score that they had gotten completely boat raced over there.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
The Carolina Panthers get in the win call him again,
thirteen to six over the New York Jets who remained winless.
And the reason I bring that one up is the quarterback.
It's quarterback league, so I believe it is that Bryce
Young has a high ankle spring in that so he
is going to miss some time in this Andy Dalton
is the backup. But conversely, it was a quarterback change
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there as they made a change and benched Justin Fields
and went with Tarrod Taylor the rest of the way.
And I have not looked at what they've made a
decision on today. So they still haven't made a decision today,
is what I'm being told.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, well, again, your quarterback is key in the National
Football League, and regardless of who your starter is, if
he goes down, the guy behind him is not as good.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I mean, that's just let's just bring that out.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And Andy Dalton, no, no disrespect to the red Rifle.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
You know, who's a frog.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
There's a reason that he's a backup quarterback there and
so but that's the luck of the draw in the
National Football League RT. I mean, you've been doing this
for a long time too, just like I have. In
this league, you get people hurt. I talk about significant
people hurt. Getting a quarterback hurt. That's about as significant
as you can get well.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
And it's not quarterback, but one of your best players
is hurt and we don't know his status this week,
and that's Jeffrey Simmons. Can't control that part of it,
but it does affect potentially the outcome in things. But
because without Jeffrey Simmons in that ball game, that changed
the last three quarters and change, and that in the
lagarious need with a quad injury, and both those guys
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will you know, will be updated on them as we
go through this week. But that's a couple of significant
losses on that side of the ball where other guys
have to step up with the problem is there. Jeffrey
Simmons is one of one. They only made him once.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
He's a right.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
You know, there's only so many elite players in the league.
And you know, on a on a team as Razor
Thin is what the Titans are, you had a guy
that was really performing at an elite level.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
He was at a different type of level.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I've been with a lot of you know, in my
career Hall of Fame interior defensive lineman. He was on
that kind of track. Uh, And it's that's that hurt.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
As soon as he went out. You could tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
It hurt. Yes, it did. And this time it's a
special teamer, return man and wide receiver. Chim ray DK
with a big play like this, Cam rolls right now,
Census feet throws back to the left out, Bill hits
Clod Titans touchdown Jim DK thirty eight yards. Taylor fired
(13:08):
up right there. Of course you were too. I'm surprised
you didn't say give me a hell yeah right there.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Well, I got to save those.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
But that, to me, there was a reason to get
say to get to get to get fired up about that,
because I mean, that was a That was the first
of all the thing that I like about it. When
I'm watching I'm watching plays and I'm watching, you know,
broadcasting games, you know, you know how much film work
we do before, and I was I was watching the
setup to that play, you know, because when play callers
(13:36):
stacking plays, setting plays up, you can see the setup
for that play coming because we get to watch practice
and that that's that trans continental. It hit at just
the right time, caught him in exactly the coverage that
they had worked on.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Uh, it was really really nice.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Jim ray D k leads the National Football League in
all purpose yards one twenty five yards from scrimmage and
you just heard that right there. That was his first
career touchdown, receiving touchdown from cam Ward for thirty eight yards.
He's averaging nearly one hundred and fifty yards per game
total and by the way, more all purpose yards than
(14:13):
the guys than the likes of guys like Christian McCaffrey.
That's doing something.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
No, No, he's been doing something when he's gotten his chance.
And what has happened is because of his return ability
and what he has done, he started to get more
playing time, you know, from the line of scrimmage, which
is only going to help him and help this team
moving forward.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Well, and I'm glad you said that because that was
my next question is is he earning the right for
some more snaps in this especially with the asked foreign
release of receiver Tyler Lockett and obviously the injury to
Calvin Ridley. So the answer to that is yes, and
that's you know, usually the way it works out. If
a guy has a skill set and he's doing really
(14:54):
good things on special teams, he'll earn an opportunity for
further snaps at his to get her positioned or.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I mean, and he's he's earned every bit of it.
But you can.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I mean, you know, we're at practice too, Redd, we
watch him in practice.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
I mean, he's he's worked at it. He's worked at it.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
So all of this that he has so far he's
earned and he just needs to stay on this track.
I really like what he's doing. Yeah, something about that too, RhD.
I mean, just going along with some of the things
that we know about how honest they are. They told
me that immediately when I purchased that vehicle and everything
that they promised that they would do, you know, along
with becoming a customer. There they've done. I mean, there
(15:32):
wasn't any, as you call it, any of the bait
and switch stuff. So it wasn't any add ons, It
wasn't any three card MONDI stuff that's playing shell games
and all of that stuff. Everything was right up front.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
What you see is what you get. Yep. Absolutely all right.
Let's take a moment now, or a few moments and
look at the next opponent for the Tennessee Titans. It's
the six win and AFC South Division leading Indianapolis Colts,
best best record in the league at six and one,
and Mac, I'll just start with this. What have they
improved on from when we saw them at Nissan Stadium
(16:08):
back in week three?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, they continued on the same track we saw offensively,
I think offensively at that first ball game that we
did against the Titans, we thought, this is really an
efficient offense. But now, I mean the numbers that you're
getting ready to give, because you know, I do a
lot of extensive work, you know, to prepare for every broadcast,
and you dig really deep on the alphabet numbers, and
(16:31):
so when you when you when you dig, when you
dig into them, you know sometimes I mean, I mean.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I watch tape.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I watched tape and get a lot of you know,
my information from tape what I see them doing to
other people. But when you start putting the numbers to
what they're doing offensively, it's very impressive.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So we'll get to the individuals involved. But the team
as an offense thirty three points a game, number one
scoring offense in the National Football League in fact, twenty
seven touch downs and two hundred thirty two points through
seven games. That two hundred thirty two points that they
have scored is third highest in their team history, behind
(17:09):
only the nineteen sixty four, the nineteen fifty eight Baltimore Colts,
and there's ten games left. That's where it starts. So
some of these numbers team wise, number two in yards
per game at three hundred and eighty point three.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
That's nearly four hundred yards of game average.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yards per play six point three five, number one in
the league.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Yeah, and you can see you're.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
In second and manageable after every play every play. One
hundred thirty point one yards rushing per game seven top ten,
number seven in the league. Two hundred and fifty point
one passing yards per game top five, eight point oh
(17:57):
seven yards per passing play, number three in the league. No, No, what.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
That does is that that possesses the ball for you
and it progresses.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
The chains keep going.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And we faced the number two offense in that regard
last week with the New England Patriots over eight point
one five yards per play.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
How about sacks per pass attempt two point seven six percent,
number one in the league? First downs per game twenty
three point six first downs per game.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Well, again, we number one of the league.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
You know you hear me talk a lot broke on
the broadcast and then when you know, doing all the
radio hits that you and I do. But it's just
true when you're staying ahead of the chains, and that
is ahead of the chains, good things happen because you
possess the ball offensively and you put defenses on their
left foot. So I mean, all these numbers stack up.
(18:56):
I mean, all these numbers just quantify what I'm seeing
with my eyes when I'm doing fail work.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Kick off return average per game twenty nine point four,
number two in the league, third down percentage forty six
point seventy five percent, top three, fourth down percentage eighty
one point eight percent, top three, Red zone percentage sixty
seven point sixty five percent, eighth in the league, thirty
(19:25):
three point one points per game, so first in the league. There,
and turnover margin turnover ratio, give away takeaway plus seven,
top three in the league.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Well, these are all elite stats.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I mean they're they're you know, if you if you
are a stat person and you're you know, you're an
alphabet numbers viewer when you start, when you start to
look at it, I mean, there's no mystery as to.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Why they're as good as they all correct. They're just
very very efficient.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I mean, this is an efficient offense that just they
don't give the ball up. They don't i don't turn
the ball over, and they score touchdowns with possessions. Think
of all of those things. I mean, you had a
very interesting punting statistic too, that again just points out
how much they possess the football, going the.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Difference in six and one versus one and six. So
Johnny Hicker has punted thirty two times for fifteen hundred
and twenty three yards.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
And by the way, has done a great job fantastic
I mean, great job of punting, great job of field
position metrics, great job of coverage.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
But go ahead, Rigoberto Sanchez, the Colts punter has punted
twenty less times twelve times for six hundred eight yards.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah, they're just not punting. I mean they're finishing drives
with points. You know, they're not finishing drives with punts.
They're finishing drives with points.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
And we're gonna get to how well they are doing
in three phases of complimentary football. A lot like what
we saw last week. But it's really the offense that
is driving this thing, because we're gonna get the defense
has its issues, but we're we'll get that minute. So
Daniel Jones, he is a huge part of this. Seventeen
hundred and ninety yards passing already ten touchdowns to just
(21:09):
three interceptions. He has four more rushing touchdowns, so he
has fourteen total touchdowns to just three interceptions, completing seventy
one percent of his passes. Passer rating right now and
has been all but one game over one hundred is passing.
Quarterback rating for the season is one oh five to nine.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Well, I mean again, I mean, it all bears out
when you start, when you start to watch it, and again,
I mean, you've got a veteran quarterback points out the
importance of time on task as a quarterback in this league.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I mean, because some people.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Had given up on him as being washed up, Well,
clearly he's not worshed up.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
And the other thing.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
That's important to know is, I mean he's on a
one year contract, so that's going to be very interesting
too to see what happens here.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
And we're going to get to his aerial weapons in
a moment. But I tell you who else is a
huge part of this is running back Jonathan Taylor. He
leads the NFL with six hundred and ninety seven yards
rushing five point three yards per carry. He has ten
rushing touchdowns. He has another one out of the backfield,
so he's eleven total, but ten And just to tell
you how prolific that is in their team history, three
(22:19):
games already this season with three rushing touchdowns. First of all,
in his first five years in the league, he had
two different games in his first five years with three
rushing touchdowns. He has three of a kind through seven
games in twenty twenty five, and it's the first time
that's ever happened in franchise history.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Now you talking about franchise history.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
That didn't mean to interrupt you, but just thinking about
the backs that they've had in the past in that franchise.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
To go back to Lenny Moore back in the fifties
and sixties, but more recently, Marshall Falk and Eric Dickerson
and Edger and James, all of those guys have jackets.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
All these guys have gold jackets.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And that to me, I mean, it's just to me,
the pace that this offense is on right now.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
It is significant, red significant.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Now. The receiving options wide receiver Michael Pittman thirty three catches,
five touchdowns for him, Tyler Warren thirty five. I think
catches with thirty three catches has three touchdowns. But both
of those guys seventy plus percent catch rate.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Yeah, now think of that.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
That That means seven out of every ten throws that
you throw to them, they're completing.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
And they're making yards after catch. That's a pretty good
du ho.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
You do any anywhere near that in baseball hitting wise,
and you're in the you're going to Cooperstown on the
first ballot, just to think about that. But seven out
of ten times it's.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
A catch, it's a catch.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I mean bananas.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
You know, when Indiana Jones throws it in their direction,
they're going to catch it.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Indiana Jones. All right, let's get to the defense here
for a moment, because they're only allowing twenty and a
half points per game. And I'm prefacing that with the
things I'm about to bring up. It's still Grover Stewart
and it's still the Forest Buckner up front where this
thing has its teeth with Quitty pay and all those guys.
(24:15):
But the last couple of games mac this defense has
allowed four hundred plus yards of offense. For twenty last
week against the Chargers at sofar to be exact, but
it's just that it's explosive plays and yardage. When you're
allowing twenty and a half points per game and your
offense is scoring thirty three. I'm not good at math,
(24:40):
but the difference the offense is the difference in this.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Well, let me help you a little bit with that
math from my West Texas growing up.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yes, do that. That's thirteen.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
That's a thirteen point leeway that you have with a
score separation on a consistent basis.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Which is, by the way, number one in the National Football.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Number one in the National Football League.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And so it's no team point one points per game difference.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
There's no mystery as to why they are where they
are right now and playing you know a lot of
teams when you start looking at it, you say, well,
you know, the way they're playing doesn't really match up
with these numbers.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
This matches up perfectly.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And by the way, uh, the Forest Buckner has had
a little up and down season. In this he had
ten pressures and two quarterback sacks of Justin Herbert Sunday.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yeah, well, the Forest Buckner, go ahead and go to
sleep on the forest tact, just like you, you know,
you go to sleep on Max Crosby.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Max Crosby's done, he's watching.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Max Crosby's done.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
He's worshed up, and he's just wrecking games, you know,
all over the the Forrest Buckner just close one eye
and play against him for about ten seconds.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
You got to put how that works out. Grover Stewart,
he matches hands with Justin Herbert, deflex the ball to
himself his first career interception. And that's the other thing.
They've created turnovers. They're allowing chunk plays, but they've created
turnovers to give it back to their offense, and so
(26:04):
they've done their part. They're just they're allowing chunk plays.
It's what the the.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Crux says, defense when they turn it.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
And just your point too, when they give it back
to their offense, I guess what their offense is doing
with it.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Scoring And by the way, twenty seven touchdowns so far,
twenty seven touchdowns, that's impressive, thirty three points per game.
And then the special team's part of this is, you
know that stuff's always good and we didn't even know.
We didn't even really get into Josh downs and how
fast he is. And but that Tyler Warren, that's a problem.
(26:37):
Mo Aley Cox is always a problem. He's back there
in that red zone stuff too. But Daniel Jones, he
and Jonathan Taylor are heading towards career years. And Jonathan
Taylor's had a good one back three four years ago,
eighteen hundred and some odd yards and I forget how
many touchdowns, but he's tracking for that. But Daniel's getting
ready to smash all of his career season highs.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Oh yeah, well, this is a career resurrect for Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
On a one year deal. Yep, somebody's going back up
the brinks truck for him. We'll see if it's into
or not. Week eight of the National Football League is
here mac or it will be officially on Thursday night,
as the Minnesota Vikings head to Los Angeles to take
on the Chargers.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Those two teams are kind of interesting to me right
now because they both had really high expectations coming into
this and they've both had kind of uneven They've had
some really high spots in their season, but they've been
a little bit and even both of them have. But
there's still ten weeks left in this season. So there's
a lot of time for teams like that to get
back on track.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Well. And the thing with the Vikings, you know, we've
been talking about injuries all hour because it's such a
big story at this point in the season and beyond.
JJ McCarthy's had a high ankle sprain in once he's
missed two three games, you gonna miss maybe a couple more.
So that's a big part of that story. Here's a
couple of interesting teams that start the noon slate on Sunday.
(28:05):
Atlanta is hosting the Miami Dolphins. Now, Atlanta got a
big win at home their last home game against the
Buffalo Bills and then lost out in San Francisco, lost
at Levi Stadium to the forty nine ers over the weekend,
and Miami is just all kinds of trouble. That's just
(28:26):
something crazy to watch. But those kind of matchups intrigued
me just to see who rises out from the pile
of ashes in that deal.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Well, it's an AFC NFC matchup too, so they don't
see each other, that's correct.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
They don't see each other that often, that's correct.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
But Atlanta, Atlanta, I was impressed with him against out
there in Santa Clara. They're playing good football.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Jon Robinson is doing a very nice job on the
ground and.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
They shut him down pretty good.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I mean, you got to give Robert Sala a lot
of credit with that defense. Forty nine ers with missing
missing some peace. They did a good job because going
into that game, b Jon Robinson was on a hot streak.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
He was, and in fact, he, much like the aforementioned
Jonathan Taylor, is one of a handful of backs that
have two hundred plus yard games from scrimmage, like Rico
Dudeles did it in back to back weeks four thirty
two and four to thirty nine. I want to say
v Jon Robinson had a game two thirty plus from scrimmage.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah, he was on a hot streak at going out.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
There Chicago at Baltimore to take on the Ravens. We'll
see if Lamar Jackson plays or not. And if I'm
not mistaken, I think the I think the Chicago Bears
have won four in a row.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
They have and Lamar Jackson being hurt, I mean, you
talk about injuries that hurt a team, I mean it's just,
you know, people don't like to hear it, but it's
just fact in the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Start losing your dudes, you've lost something.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well. It's just like, if anybody's listening to what we
did with the breakdown of the Colts and the last
long segment, people might say, well, gosh, y'all are really
down on the Titans. No we're not. We say anything
about that.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
It's not a matter of this show is not a
matter of being up or down on anybody.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
It's just a matter of telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
The numbers lie, Well, it's not numbers, it's just what
you see with them doing.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
It's the alphabet. Okay, yeah, those.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Those types of things. It's just like we were doing
a broadcast. I mean, of course, we want the Titans
to win. We want the Titans to play very very well.
But when you're when you're broadcasting a game and you've
got to be honest with what's going on structurally, you know,
out on the field. And that's what we talk about
on this show, not only with the Titans, but with
all teams across the league, and injuries are structurally an
(30:43):
issue for teams throughout the league.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
I promise you the Colts.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
You know, some of these teams you'd look at and
look at how they got to their record, and you
can see the hidden yard and stuff. There ain't a
whole lot of hidden yards because they're doing all of
it on offense especially. I mean, there's not a lot
of surprise there.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
And as I say, just you know, when you and
I when we get together to work on these teams
on a weekly basis, I mean, you run all the
numbers and you dig very deep into that and I
just I just grind the tape and when it comes together,
I mean, and then you know, we compare notes as
to what we're seeing, why we're seeing it. And this
football team I think we both came out with when
(31:20):
we had our big product, our big production meeting, just
you and I getting ready to what we're going to
do on the air, to be ready for any scenario.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Is the fact that they're a complete football team right now.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
They are I'll tell you who's somebody trying to figure
it out. And this is a new game at Bank
of America Stadium in Charlotte, Carolina hosts the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Yeah, it's kind of surprising to me that.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
And again I don't know completely their injury history, but
the Buffalo is struggling a little bit, and normally in
this in this regime that they have there, now it's
been a while since they struggled.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Jacksonville has a bye week as it pertains to the
AFC South. The Houston Texans host the San Francisco forty
nine Ers at Narchi Stadium on Sunday at noon.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Well it's a cross country trip, but from what I
saw from the forty nine ers, they're playing good. They're
playing decent, decent football right now, and they've been injured.
I mean, they've overcome some injuries. They're starting to get
some of their people back though.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
The one player that isn't injured who is helping them
as he usually does, is Christian mccafs.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Well, Christian McCaffrey's coming, you know, coming back, and I
mean he's their horse. I mean you can tell when
they saddle him up that they're going to ride him
as long as they can.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
New York Giants lose that heartbreaker that we mentioned in
the last segment with Denver thirty three thirty two. They
go to Philly and play the Eagles NFC East game. There.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, they've got a lot, they've got a lot to do.
Just to overcome psychologically from that last ball game. What
were they up by nineteen? They were up by nineteen.
That's a hard, hard thing to swallow after a ball game.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah, and to surrender thirty three points in the fourth
quarter to your opponent and lose by a point, I mean,
that's just bananas.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
That's hard.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
That team that did that, the team that came out
in the winning that game. The Denver Broncos are back
at Mile High hosting the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
So that'll be a game, you know, and of course,
you know, I mean it's always a little different when
you got there to play at Denver, not that it's impossible,
but the Cowboys are playing really decent now too.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
So that's a ballgame, it absolutely is.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
And one of their top defenders, Drake Greenlaw, will be
suspended for that Broncos defense. His suspension was upheld today
by the league. So just as a footnote, how about
a Monday night football Washington at Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, Well, Kansas City's got their foothold back, I mean
they do. The reported demise of the Kansas City Chiefs
a little premature.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
And just in time for them right here at the
middle of the meat of the schedule, getting ready to
he down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Well, and that's kind of the way they've been since
Mahomes has taken over that the Reins, that's Andy Reid's
teams have kind of been like that since he's been there.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
How about on Sunday Night football, Green Bay at Akroscher
Stadium three Rivers formerly or used to be the old
Building take on the Pittsburgh Steeters on Sunday Night.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Now, I like Green Bay in this ball game.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I do too.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
What Michael Parsons had three sacks last week?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
It sure did.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
He's kind of starting to warm up.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
No double header on Monday night football as Arizona Detroit, Jacksonville,
the Rams, the Vegas Raiders and the Seattle Seahawks all
on a bye week.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Well, it's starting to be that time for Bie Weeks.
Now that's coming up.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
It is, it's coming up for the Titans.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Very yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
All right. So in our final minute or so here,
what are your keys to this Sunday game against the
Colts at Lucas Oils.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Well, because of how good they are offensively, you got
to possess the football with your offense. Because I don't
care how good they are offensively, if they don't have
the ball, they can't do anything with it. So you've
got to be able to possess the football offensively. The
other thing you cannot do, you cannot press and turn
the ball over to them. You just that's that's you
just don't want to do that. And the next thing
(35:13):
you need to do, you got to score touchdowns when
you get a chance to score against these people. Field
goals is not going to get it. What are they
thirty three points a game?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Whether I mean, you've got to score touchdowns when you
get a chance to score in this game.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You absolutely do. Tennessee and Indianapolis two thirty Titans count
down three twenty five kick with Taylor and Mack Joseph
Bonano for running it behind the glass. And we appreciate
all the phone calls tonight
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