December 2, 2024 • 22 mins
On this episode of the Coach McVay Show, Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay joins J.B. Long and D’Marco Farr to reflect on Sunday's win over the New Orleans Saints, discuss the impact of the run game, preview Sunday's Week 14 matchup against Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
We hope you had a great holiday weekend. Welcome back
to the Coach McVeigh Show pers ented by Microsoft Surface
on JB Long with DeMarco Farr and the head coach
of your Los Angeles ram Sean McVay. There's six and
six and home to the Buffalo Bills this Sunday at
Sofi Stadium. Let's dive into that road win in New Orleans.
The Saints having a couple extra days of preparation, but
you exhibited some real toughness coming back from that six
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to zero deficit we did.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I was proud of our group, JB and I really
thought that it was awesome for the defense to get
some of the red area stops to just make them
snap it one more time. And then you know, offensively,
those guys only had three possessions in the first half.
You go three and out, then you have a long drive,
don't convert on a fourth down that would have given
us a chance to probably score touchdown there if we
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make that play that I think we're capable of. And
then then we had another sustained drive that didn't lead
to points, but getting the ball coming out of the
half for it to only be six to nothing in
spite of the way that it went. I think there
was a lot of optimism. There was a lot of
understanding of what we needed to do to be able
to execute more consistently. We did get a feel in
that second and third drive of some of the knockoff
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that our offensive line our backs were leveling runs off
and getting downhill decisively, and I thought that was the
difference in the game, being able to come out in
the second half establish the run, be able to finish
three out of the four drives with touchdowns, and then
defense to be able to come up with a handful
of big stops, none bigger than the four down sequence
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at the end of the game. But it was a good, tough,
gritty win and a tough road atmosphere, a team that
had a bunch of momentum, and it's a tough football team.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
That I got a ton of respect for. Gritty, gritty
is a good word.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I thought the button gut guys, the old line, and
the running backs were great. Anytime you have running backs
that are averaging close to what seven yards of carry them,
that means you're doing the job up front, no.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Doubt, And you could see it's one of those deals
I see better than I hear it. We were changing
the line of scrimmage. They had a lot of defensive
structures that were committed to stop in the run. But
I thought our guys violently set combinations. I thought they
aggressively attacked. I thought our backs had good tempo to
the line of scrimmage and made decisive decisions when they
put their foot in the ground. I thought they ran
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through some arm tackles. I liked what I saw from Blake.
I thought Kyron did an excellent job throughout the course
of the game, and then I thought, you know, his
last run was outstanding. To be able to finish it
where you're able to knee it out there in kind
of a four minute situation, if you will, after verse
ends up forcing the turnover.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You know, Sean, you've made some performance related decisions at
other positions this season. I don't think anyone would have
found fault if you did flip the switch at running
back and organize that differently for this game.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
But you didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You stuck with Kyron atop the depth chart, And he responded,
why was that the case? Why did you have that
sense that he was going to react out well?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, I think you believe in the human being. You know,
there's enough experience. You know, he's mentally tough, you know,
and there was there was honest conversations that we were
able to have about, Hey, here's what we need, here's
what we're looking for, here's the things that you can control.
And I thought he did a great job of that.
You know, Ron Gould does a great job leading that room.
But you did see Blake got some more opportunities. I
thought that allowed Kiren to be fresher throughout the game
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but still make a tremendous impact.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
He had played more snaps.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Really, he's played as many snaps as any back in
the league over the last couple of years. And so
how do we really make sure that we keep him
fresh get the most out of him. But his mental toughness,
his physical toughness, his ability to respond when you do
face a little bit of adversity and know that, ay man,
I'm right there with you every step of the way.
I thought that was really cool and I'm not at
all surprised. And I know he's only going to continue
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to just push himself as teammates and everybody that he's around,
you know, to just raise the bar.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
What about you staying with the run? Is it more
if we have success stay with it or is just
how the game unfolded.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I think it was important, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I mean, it's obviously easier when there is efficiency DeMarco
to to be able to do that, but I thought
our guys gave us a reason to do that. There
was success, no doubt about it. But that was the
type of game that we felt like we needed to
be able to play. And there were some things that
offense of a guy we weren't executing as well in
the past game, so we were able to lean on
the run game and ultimately the players executed that phase
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of our offense really well. And then I think it
ultimately set up some chances and opportunities to throw the
football efficiently with Matthew and the receivers in the second
half of the game, and that ended up being a difference.
But no, you want efficiency to be able to consistently
commit to the run.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
You need that. But there are some times where you're saying,
let's stick with it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Let's understand if it's not working, why, let's get those
things fixed. Let's clean up the techniques, maybe the angles
maybe some of the different run concepts we want to
get off. But I thought yesterday, really throughout the course
of the game, guys were able to hit blocks, do
a good job of changing up the variety of some
different things that they were presenting to New Orleans. But
I thought they set the line of scrimmage against a
physical defense.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
See that strain you're always talking about trying to get
to the next lie.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It was on display. And I think there's even more
in the tank, and I think we can build off
of that.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I'll call out two names, but take this wherever you
want in terms of your offensive line. How did you
feel the return of Rob? And then also it seems
like in recent we Kadot has really found whatever he
tapped into last year in a career season, has that materialize?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I think that's a I think that's great observation, without
a doubt. I thought Rob was excellent. I thought he
imposed his will in the run game. I thought, you know,
just the way he was finishing, even when you look
at he and Bo Steve kappanoff to be able to
push Kyron into the end zone on that first touchdown run.
But but Rob was great. You know, he's just got
such a good play energy. He's got a great understanding
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of some of the things that we're trying to get done.
And I thought he really let the techniques. I thought
he'd let it go. He went for it, and you
could see it. He had a bunch of success. There
was a physicality, there was a violence at which he played,
and there's an energy that's exuded from the rest of
the guys around when you're able to change the line
of scrimmage. And he and Ka Dot had some great combinations.
Thought Ka Doot did a great job. And he's one
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of those guys. I mean, he's an excitable guy. He's
shooting jump shots. But when those two are excited and
that and that that right side of the line gets rolling,
usually that means good things are in store.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
For the Rams run game.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And and those two guys were key and critical factors
without a doubt, Jama.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Look in a professional three technique. I mean that to
me is what fires me up.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You never got reached as a three.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I got reached every now and then. But when you
see that in a game where a guy can just
reach that three technique and shove him inside so you
can run outside that's that's the stuff you can't coach.
That's just big dude doing big stuff to big No,
it was good.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You know, there was definitely, you know, some some illustrations
of being able to capture the edge. But then there
was also some times of being able to create some
vertical removal or being able to expand that you know,
that b area for that ball to level offense side
of it. And I think it's important for us to
give guys no different than routes, the complimentary you know, blocking.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Schemes off of it.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But guys went for it. I thought they thought there
was an aggressiveness. You know, even when you're running the zone,
people think, oh, you're just running around blocks. No, there's
a physicality at which you want to set the line
of scrimmage. You're setting your landmark. But then hey, I'm
getting my second step in the ground.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I'm violently going through.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
When I'm making contact on this defender, whether I'm sold
up or whether I'm working in combination. And now let's
have the back be able to press it one gap
at a time and let's see if we can move
the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It seemed like he might have been intentional about building
de Marcus backup after a bad decision off the field
last week. Am I reading too much into that or
was there a sentimental party.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think it's important, you know, because he was remorseful,
and like we've talked about, you know, you don't minimize
the severity of what he did, and it was a mistake.
It was a bad mistake that he made. It doesn't
make him a bad person. And I think those are
opportunities where if you since there was an authentic and
a genuine accountability of remorse and ability to try to say, hey,
let me be a learning experience and an opportunity so
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nobody replicates this mistake. I thought that was authentic, and
so then I think it's important then when people go
through something that they're not alone, you put your arm
around him, whether it's bringing back I think he knew
that he had the support of us, based on the
way he handled it, what's in his heart and what
he's been since he's been an la Ram and how
we've gotten to know him. And I thought he did
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respond in the way that I would have expected, and
that was reflective of him knowing that he's not in
thiserny alone, and he's got a lot of love and
support from his teammates and from his coaches as he's
trying to be able to learn from from a mistake
that he'll recover from.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
And he bawled out, is he okay? And he left
the game with the hands.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, he's okay. You know, he got it banged up.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Fortunately, it's one of those deals that you can pat
and protect and he was going to be able to
return and be a factor if we needed him.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Put together a little three play sequence for you, because
I don't know that I've ever seen a player do
almost the exact same thing like Puka has these last
three weeks, like Diving catch full Extension, three games in
a row. Yeah, you want to power rank them for us,
you have a favorite or a highest degree of difficulty.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
One they were Philadelphi super important.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I mean, you know the first and the third are
going to be the most important. I mean, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Right here. I thought, this flipped the momentum of this game.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
After Fisk ends up forcing the fumble, Kobe Turner recovers
it for this to be the very next play, I mean,
that's full extension. And then he went drama mode, acting
like he was hurt after this. But I mean, this
is this is pretty outstanding, but it's eerie. What it
shows is that he can make these plays on the
right end in the left sideline. When you look at
how similar the catch that he made on the third
down we had to have against New Orleans, I mean,
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this is eerily similar. I thought there was some contact
at the top of the route, but full extension, he
shows that he is ambidextrius left hand right.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
But this was big time and.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
We had to have this. This was a huge conversion,
unbelievable body control. And you talk about a guy laying out,
I mean he beat the ground up pretty good on
both of these to get his hands underneath it. Those
two plays, I'm not ranking one more so than the
other because they were critical plays in a game that
we had to be able to win. This would be
the third of them for me. It's a pretty good catch.
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But anytime that your full extension, when you're able to
get your hands with that over that that top hand
can get over the top, that's an easier catch.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Both of these were full out.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Layout extension, not able to get that top hand over
the top. The first and the third were definitely second
ones or the last one that you just showed was big.
But I'll take the two games that we got the
result we were hunting up. Those are definitely one A
and one B. And then that's number three against the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I mean, what do you say to him when you're
watching this on tape? Thank you you're g You're a G.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I mean, wow, unbelievable, yes, and I mean really too
you talk about it. You know, the one against New
England was unbelievable, full out extension.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
What you don't see even in the one against New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I mean Amadi ended up basically, it's kind of just
wrapping him at the top of that route. So the
strength to be able to collision, separate, get out of
that and then be able to have the awareness to
make the catch on the sideline was really impressive.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
So you don't get the flag there. But fourth quarter,
you face third and ten from the New Orleans twenty five,
you get the neutral zone infraction and then I see
you racing down the sideline in front of De Marco
to go preview a play.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
It looked like at the pylon, don't.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Give me trouble.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Here's what you know.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Sometimes you want to be able to alert the guys
in terms of where their responsibilities lie of what's coming
up and you know, being aware of that. And it
was one of the I thought it was a good
call in that given situation, but could have told the
you know person that's a little bit closer to me
to alert instead of running down there.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I got to be better there. What was the call there?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
He didn't re establish on the catch of the pilote.
I thought he caught the pylon. Wouldn't that be a touchdown?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No? They I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
They said that it was a true catch based on
you know, getting two feet in, but there was definitely
a pi.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
How about you spin it out the ball? Don't live
play where you get to touchdown anyway. And the blocks
from Colby and Cooper and Chage.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
That was big, you know, I mean that was really
And I'll tell you what the the level of difficulty
people just think, oh, it's a little bubble screen. To
be able to catch and turn two like a second
baseman right there or shortstop.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Unbelievable by Matthew.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I mean, to be able to get that ball up
and down when you're accepting a shotgun snap to Pooka
and then to be able to get Colby and Cooper
to basically create a little cavity form to be able
to punch that thing in. That was huge, and that
was a well blocked run. Play ended up being a
touchdown passed right there. And there was a good spike
by Aleric Jackson.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
As well, one about eight feet in the air.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Loved it.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I mean, just when you catch that, that momentum cares
to the end zone, it's almost great.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Pots.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I have a question about the defense. And tell me
if this is rude. I asked one of your linebackers,
Chris rose Boom, what's gotten into you? You look like
a completely different player. Is that rude to say to
a guy?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Uh, I mean there might be a little bit better
way to articulate, you know, like I need to say
it on the radio. He played really good football the
last couple of weeks. Man, I think he's really taken
it up a notch. That feels different to.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Me than whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
What he's been bling, Yes, you know, but you see
you act like you're so surprised by it, you know,
but he has I'll tell you what. It is cool
that you say that, though, DeMarco, because we're in the
defensive staff meeting this morning. We're going through stuff, and
you know, Jerry Schaplinsky does a great job. He's got
offensive background as a tremendous help to our defensive coaches,
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has a great understanding of what's the big picture, you know,
and he mentions you know, I thought Rose Boom was
one of the guys that really jumped.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Off the tape.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You could really feel his sideline a sideline, and he's
always had great athleticism, but now I think he's able
to put it together where I'm getting that experience, I'm
understanding where I fit within the framework of these defensive
calls and coverages, and I can be able to play fast, decisive.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
And then I think he's tackling well.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
He's played really well the last couple of weeks and
he was a huge factor yesterday, and I thought he
made his presence felt early in the game, especially on
that perimeter toss crack play where he ends up making
the TfL on Kamorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
You don't see Kamara freeze that often.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
No, he was nowhere to go and you.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Can see he's confident, the way he's carrying himself, he's
playing violin, He's doing a great job. I think Greg Williams,
our insidelinebacker coach, has done an outstanding job. I thought
Omar Spates, you know, he played forty five snaps, had
a really good game. But Rose Boom was outstanding. He's
a game ball guy.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Along those same lines. You're always looking for response. You
say that on this show all the time. A week
after Saquon goes nuclear at Sofi Stadium, to see that
defense hold Camaro's having a career year to point four
yards per touch, Like, what should we take away from that?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I thought it was good. You know, he obviously had
a good hit on the first play of the game.
There was a couple of different things where we can
be a little bit better. But I thought our thought,
our competitive stamina was exactly what we're hunting up, you know,
the ability to make him snap it one more time,
to pursuit all eleven to the football arriving violently with
our approach, our fit, our finish. I thought it was
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excellent and I got a ton of respect for Alvin
Kamara and the pressure that he can put on you.
He's such a threat in the past game as well,
and for us, you know, he still made his plays,
but I thought, you know, all in all, for the
caliber of season that he's having, for the caliber player,
I was really pleased with our ability to be able
to keep him kind of corraud and you know, and
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and I think he felt the defense all day. They
did a really good job.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
And Taysom Hill, I mean, he had been a stud.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I hate to see that when guys get injured, that's
the worst part.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Nobody wants that.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
But those were the two key guys that that we
said we needed to limit their impact on the game,
and I thought we were able to do that defensively.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I have one question about complimentary football. Yeah right, okay,
So if the offense isn't getting off to a fast start,
it's up to the defense to keep them off the board.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yep, they did that.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Wouldn't you count that as complimentary?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
To me, complimentary football isn't exclusively building off each other's momentum.
It might be picking each other up when the other
one needs it. And I thought that was a huge
example of complimentary football. And then that enabled us to
be able to play the kind of complimentary football that
we want at the end of the game, where the
offense goes and scores to take the lead, and then
defense keeps him from scoring and then the offense is
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able to close it out in the four minute situation.
But that is no doubt that's complimentary ball to.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Me, especially if Kobe gets that strip sack because Brandon fists.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
The question of if you were going to give a
fullback dive to any of the d line, he looked awesome.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I mean, he got up quick. I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Great examples of two Cam Kitchens and Jalen mccolly getting
some blocks.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Oh man, the damn tuck role.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
So you're saying red zone package.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Swinging the ball, I mean he looked smooth.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yes, cast After that, you know, I was skeptical just
because of some of the ways that had been officiated
that it's coming back and I was still a big
stop to force the field goal there. Uh, but I said, hey,
let's not be down. If they overturned this, it's probably overturning.
And then you're looking and those guys did a great
job of transition to be able to finish, But you
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were on the sideline oxygen. I mean it was that
was that was a fun play though.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That was some fun with that.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
On Wednesday, Verse deserve a stripsack too, plays the same,
doesn't matter, but on the play before and at critical
junctures throughout the season, Bobby Brown seems to be right
there in the middle.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, and I'll tell you, jb My favorite part about
that was what happened on second down, a little frustration
with some stuff going on post whistle.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
He kept his poise and he was pissed off, and
he used.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It to play with that controlled aggression that Ad used
to always talk about on the third down, knocks the
guard back, is able to shock shed, come off, force
the fourth down and three right there. But that was
a big time played by Bobby Brown on a third down, uh,
forcing it to fourth down and he looked like a
man right there.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
That was a great play by Big Bibes.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
They do get in big in the middle. I mean,
that's that's the type of game. It's not that's a
big win down there. And I don't know how long
how many times have we been down there when the Bayu
Classic was actually going on at the same time.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
It feels like every time.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, it was rocking and I ran into a couple
of the Southern head coaches sisters in the elevator.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
The different things like that. They were all fired up.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Yeah, so there's a party going on, but you got
a game the next day. It's it's like tough to
focus and you got it all done and you got
the win.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, the guys did a great job. You know, I
thought we were ready to go. Obviously there were some things,
like any game that you had to navigate through adversity wise,
but stayed the course and I think it was you know,
gutsy is a way that I would describe it mentally
and physically tough, and that was the type of game
that we thought thought it was going to be. And
we were able to do the things that we thought
we needed to do to come away with the result.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
We were hunting up two good returns from Jordan Whittington.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
That what you know, what that's I think I thought
they were well blocked. You know, obviously we want the
holding on Omar space to come back. You know, we
can be in some better position. But I think you know,
you talk about a guy that's fearless, you know that
that kickoff play is different and when he caught it.
We knew we were going to get some return ops
just based on how Coach Rizzy and the Saints special
teams had been approaching it. I thought he hit it fearless.
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I thought chasing Coach Frost had some good returns set up.
For the most part, guys executed. Obviously, we had the
one that was called back because of the holding, but
then the second one, I thought that was a big deal.
Not talking about the one at the very end of
the first half. We were kind of running a bounce
scheme there, but I thought the one that he had
in the fourth quarter was big and it got us
in good field position. He hit it, and we're ever
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so close for him to really being able to come
out on that. And you know, I thought, I thought
guys did a good job of being able to get
it started, and then he had the juice and the
strength to be able to hit it, the fearless mindset
of mentality, and uh, he looked explosives.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
He's a study, did a good job as a gunnery.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
You know, he's a and we got to keep figuring
out ways to you know, allow him to impact the
game offensively.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
But he's he's gonna be good player for us.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Did you watch on a night football on the plane
the snow globe situation with your next two opponents?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
So yeah, that was uh yeah, that that was That
was wild weather, you know. And the Bills they did
a great job, but it looked like it was hard
to get their footing. A couple of big explosive runs
early on in that game. My wife textan meter in
that game and I'm so glad that the game's.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
How about the Alan to Cooper to ball.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah, we say don't reach it out unless it's fourth down. Uh,
you know, he said screw that rule, went just full
extension mode. That was impressive.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
What do you think makes them special?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I mean, I think he's a great competitor.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I mean, obviously he's got.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Incredible ability to extend plays. You know, he's got a
bunch of physical tools. I think he's a really mentally
tough competitor. I think he's smart. I think he's seeing
the field really well. I think they're doing a great
job of allowing him to be able to play quarterbacks
settle in for a handful of concepts. I think there's
a rapport and a comfort with the skilled players around him.
I think coach Kromer and their offensive staff has done
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a great job of establishing a legitimate run game.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
He's he's got such great athleticism to extend. He can
beat you with his arm, his legs, and his brain.
And so he's playing at a really high clip. And
I think he's only gotten better since we saw him
an opening game in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And that's what it's.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
That's why we know it is going to be a
damn good challenge for us and we better be ready
to be at our best if we want to have
our you know, a chance to be able to compete.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
A couple final ones for me, you claimed a former
first round defensive back. Yeah, today, I understand Emmanuel Forbes.
What does he offer at twenty three years of age
and how soon can the impact games?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You know, we liked him coming out of Mississippi State.
You know, I thought he had a bunch of good
ball production, was able to you know, catch balls and
then be able to you know, return them for scores.
A guy that can come up and play press. I
think he's got the ability to be able to play visual.
He's tough, he's he's a leaner build, but he showed
some competitive toughness if he's asked to come up and
run support. We played against him last year when we
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played Washington later on in the season.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I thought he had some good tape.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
But this is a reflection of you know, very rarely
do some guys that recent evals that are high ranked
come available. I didn't actually think we would get him
because of where we're at in the claim order. So
we were pleased that we were able to get him,
and we'll add him to the mix. We'll get to
know him and we'll see where he fits. But that's
kind of it was kind of a simple thing that
came to Fruition, you know, a few hours ago.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
And then finally, I love the scene post game.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You're always so good about awarding game balls to people
who have special ties to the.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Game or the city.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yesterday it was Louisiana, it was Ka Dot and ac Carter.
But I know our fans noticed the hangtime from you
and coach, like, what's that the hangtime on your celebration?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Sleep on my athletics.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
I'm in your thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Now you're one high spring away for and Achilles.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Every time I open up you know, I still sometimes
feel good and I'm like, oh what next. Body might
not be agreeing with me anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Well, good to see a healthy and catching some air.
There you go back in the wind, calm, good luck
against the Buffalo Bills. DeMarco, thank you for being here
as well, and thank you as always for joining us
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on JB Long with DeMarco Farr and the head coach
of your Los Angeles ram Sean McVay. There's six and
six and home to the Buffalo Bills this Sunday at
Sofi Stadium. Let's dive into that road win in New Orleans.
The Saints having a couple extra days of preparation, but
you exhibited some real toughness coming back from that six
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to zero deficit we did.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I was proud of our group, JB and I really
thought that it was awesome for the defense to get
some of the red area stops to just make them
snap it one more time. And then you know, offensively,
those guys only had three possessions in the first half.
You go three and out, then you have a long drive,
don't convert on a fourth down that would have given
us a chance to probably score touchdown there if we
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make that play that I think we're capable of. And
then then we had another sustained drive that didn't lead
to points, but getting the ball coming out of the
half for it to only be six to nothing in
spite of the way that it went. I think there
was a lot of optimism. There was a lot of
understanding of what we needed to do to be able
to execute more consistently. We did get a feel in
that second and third drive of some of the knockoff
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that our offensive line our backs were leveling runs off
and getting downhill decisively, and I thought that was the
difference in the game, being able to come out in
the second half establish the run, be able to finish
three out of the four drives with touchdowns, and then
defense to be able to come up with a handful
of big stops, none bigger than the four down sequence
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at the end of the game. But it was a good, tough,
gritty win and a tough road atmosphere, a team that
had a bunch of momentum, and it's a tough football team.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
That I got a ton of respect for. Gritty, gritty
is a good word.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I thought the button gut guys, the old line, and
the running backs were great. Anytime you have running backs
that are averaging close to what seven yards of carry them,
that means you're doing the job up front, no.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Doubt, And you could see it's one of those deals
I see better than I hear it. We were changing
the line of scrimmage. They had a lot of defensive
structures that were committed to stop in the run. But
I thought our guys violently set combinations. I thought they
aggressively attacked. I thought our backs had good tempo to
the line of scrimmage and made decisive decisions when they
put their foot in the ground. I thought they ran
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through some arm tackles. I liked what I saw from Blake.
I thought Kyron did an excellent job throughout the course
of the game, and then I thought, you know, his
last run was outstanding. To be able to finish it
where you're able to knee it out there in kind
of a four minute situation, if you will, after verse
ends up forcing the turnover.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You know, Sean, you've made some performance related decisions at
other positions this season. I don't think anyone would have
found fault if you did flip the switch at running
back and organize that differently for this game.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
But you didn't.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
You stuck with Kyron atop the depth chart, And he responded,
why was that the case? Why did you have that
sense that he was going to react out well?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, I think you believe in the human being. You know,
there's enough experience. You know, he's mentally tough, you know,
and there was there was honest conversations that we were
able to have about, Hey, here's what we need, here's
what we're looking for, here's the things that you can control.
And I thought he did a great job of that.
You know, Ron Gould does a great job leading that room.
But you did see Blake got some more opportunities. I
thought that allowed Kiren to be fresher throughout the game
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but still make a tremendous impact.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
He had played more snaps.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Really, he's played as many snaps as any back in
the league over the last couple of years. And so
how do we really make sure that we keep him
fresh get the most out of him. But his mental toughness,
his physical toughness, his ability to respond when you do
face a little bit of adversity and know that, ay man,
I'm right there with you every step of the way.
I thought that was really cool and I'm not at
all surprised. And I know he's only going to continue
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to just push himself as teammates and everybody that he's around,
you know, to just raise the bar.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
What about you staying with the run? Is it more
if we have success stay with it or is just
how the game unfolded.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I think it was important, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I mean, it's obviously easier when there is efficiency DeMarco
to to be able to do that, but I thought
our guys gave us a reason to do that. There
was success, no doubt about it. But that was the
type of game that we felt like we needed to
be able to play. And there were some things that
offense of a guy we weren't executing as well in
the past game, so we were able to lean on
the run game and ultimately the players executed that phase
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of our offense really well. And then I think it
ultimately set up some chances and opportunities to throw the
football efficiently with Matthew and the receivers in the second
half of the game, and that ended up being a difference.
But no, you want efficiency to be able to consistently
commit to the run.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
You need that. But there are some times where you're saying,
let's stick with it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Let's understand if it's not working, why, let's get those
things fixed. Let's clean up the techniques, maybe the angles
maybe some of the different run concepts we want to
get off. But I thought yesterday, really throughout the course
of the game, guys were able to hit blocks, do
a good job of changing up the variety of some
different things that they were presenting to New Orleans. But
I thought they set the line of scrimmage against a
physical defense.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
See that strain you're always talking about trying to get
to the next lie.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It was on display. And I think there's even more
in the tank, and I think we can build off
of that.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I'll call out two names, but take this wherever you
want in terms of your offensive line. How did you
feel the return of Rob? And then also it seems
like in recent we Kadot has really found whatever he
tapped into last year in a career season, has that materialize?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I think that's a I think that's great observation, without
a doubt. I thought Rob was excellent. I thought he
imposed his will in the run game. I thought, you know,
just the way he was finishing, even when you look
at he and Bo Steve kappanoff to be able to
push Kyron into the end zone on that first touchdown run.
But but Rob was great. You know, he's just got
such a good play energy. He's got a great understanding
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of some of the things that we're trying to get done.
And I thought he really let the techniques. I thought
he'd let it go. He went for it, and you
could see it. He had a bunch of success. There
was a physicality, there was a violence at which he played,
and there's an energy that's exuded from the rest of
the guys around when you're able to change the line
of scrimmage. And he and Ka Dot had some great combinations.
Thought Ka Doot did a great job. And he's one
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of those guys. I mean, he's an excitable guy. He's
shooting jump shots. But when those two are excited and
that and that that right side of the line gets rolling,
usually that means good things are in store.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
For the Rams run game.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And and those two guys were key and critical factors
without a doubt, Jama.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Look in a professional three technique. I mean that to
me is what fires me up.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You never got reached as a three.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
I got reached every now and then. But when you
see that in a game where a guy can just
reach that three technique and shove him inside so you
can run outside that's that's the stuff you can't coach.
That's just big dude doing big stuff to big No,
it was good.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You know, there was definitely, you know, some some illustrations
of being able to capture the edge. But then there
was also some times of being able to create some
vertical removal or being able to expand that you know,
that b area for that ball to level offense side
of it. And I think it's important for us to
give guys no different than routes, the complimentary you know, blocking.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Schemes off of it.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
But guys went for it. I thought they thought there
was an aggressiveness. You know, even when you're running the zone,
people think, oh, you're just running around blocks. No, there's
a physicality at which you want to set the line
of scrimmage. You're setting your landmark. But then hey, I'm
getting my second step in the ground.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I'm violently going through.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
When I'm making contact on this defender, whether I'm sold
up or whether I'm working in combination. And now let's
have the back be able to press it one gap
at a time and let's see if we can move
the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It seemed like he might have been intentional about building
de Marcus backup after a bad decision off the field
last week. Am I reading too much into that or
was there a sentimental party.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think it's important, you know, because he was remorseful,
and like we've talked about, you know, you don't minimize
the severity of what he did, and it was a mistake.
It was a bad mistake that he made. It doesn't
make him a bad person. And I think those are
opportunities where if you since there was an authentic and
a genuine accountability of remorse and ability to try to say, hey,
let me be a learning experience and an opportunity so
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nobody replicates this mistake. I thought that was authentic, and
so then I think it's important then when people go
through something that they're not alone, you put your arm
around him, whether it's bringing back I think he knew
that he had the support of us, based on the
way he handled it, what's in his heart and what
he's been since he's been an la Ram and how
we've gotten to know him. And I thought he did
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respond in the way that I would have expected, and
that was reflective of him knowing that he's not in
thiserny alone, and he's got a lot of love and
support from his teammates and from his coaches as he's
trying to be able to learn from from a mistake
that he'll recover from.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
And he bawled out, is he okay? And he left
the game with the hands.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, he's okay. You know, he got it banged up.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Fortunately, it's one of those deals that you can pat
and protect and he was going to be able to
return and be a factor if we needed him.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Put together a little three play sequence for you, because
I don't know that I've ever seen a player do
almost the exact same thing like Puka has these last
three weeks, like Diving catch full Extension, three games in
a row. Yeah, you want to power rank them for us,
you have a favorite or a highest degree of difficulty.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
One they were Philadelphi super important.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I mean, you know the first and the third are
going to be the most important. I mean, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Right here. I thought, this flipped the momentum of this game.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
After Fisk ends up forcing the fumble, Kobe Turner recovers
it for this to be the very next play, I mean,
that's full extension. And then he went drama mode, acting
like he was hurt after this. But I mean, this
is this is pretty outstanding, but it's eerie. What it
shows is that he can make these plays on the
right end in the left sideline. When you look at
how similar the catch that he made on the third
down we had to have against New Orleans, I mean,
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this is eerily similar. I thought there was some contact
at the top of the route, but full extension, he
shows that he is ambidextrius left hand right.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
But this was big time and.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
We had to have this. This was a huge conversion,
unbelievable body control. And you talk about a guy laying out,
I mean he beat the ground up pretty good on
both of these to get his hands underneath it. Those
two plays, I'm not ranking one more so than the
other because they were critical plays in a game that
we had to be able to win. This would be
the third of them for me. It's a pretty good catch.
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But anytime that your full extension, when you're able to
get your hands with that over that that top hand
can get over the top, that's an easier catch.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Both of these were full out.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Layout extension, not able to get that top hand over
the top. The first and the third were definitely second
ones or the last one that you just showed was big.
But I'll take the two games that we got the
result we were hunting up. Those are definitely one A
and one B. And then that's number three against the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I mean, what do you say to him when you're
watching this on tape? Thank you you're g You're a G.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I mean, wow, unbelievable, yes, and I mean really too
you talk about it. You know, the one against New
England was unbelievable, full out extension.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
What you don't see even in the one against New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I mean Amadi ended up basically, it's kind of just
wrapping him at the top of that route. So the
strength to be able to collision, separate, get out of
that and then be able to have the awareness to
make the catch on the sideline was really impressive.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
So you don't get the flag there. But fourth quarter,
you face third and ten from the New Orleans twenty five,
you get the neutral zone infraction and then I see
you racing down the sideline in front of De Marco
to go preview a play.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
It looked like at the pylon, don't.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Give me trouble.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Here's what you know.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Sometimes you want to be able to alert the guys
in terms of where their responsibilities lie of what's coming
up and you know, being aware of that. And it
was one of the I thought it was a good
call in that given situation, but could have told the
you know person that's a little bit closer to me
to alert instead of running down there.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I got to be better there. What was the call there?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
He didn't re establish on the catch of the pilote.
I thought he caught the pylon. Wouldn't that be a touchdown?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No? They I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
They said that it was a true catch based on
you know, getting two feet in, but there was definitely
a pi.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
How about you spin it out the ball? Don't live
play where you get to touchdown anyway. And the blocks
from Colby and Cooper and Chage.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
That was big, you know, I mean that was really
And I'll tell you what the the level of difficulty
people just think, oh, it's a little bubble screen. To
be able to catch and turn two like a second
baseman right there or shortstop.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Unbelievable by Matthew.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I mean, to be able to get that ball up
and down when you're accepting a shotgun snap to Pooka
and then to be able to get Colby and Cooper
to basically create a little cavity form to be able
to punch that thing in. That was huge, and that
was a well blocked run. Play ended up being a
touchdown passed right there. And there was a good spike
by Aleric Jackson.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
As well, one about eight feet in the air.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Loved it.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I mean, just when you catch that, that momentum cares
to the end zone, it's almost great.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Pots.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
I have a question about the defense. And tell me
if this is rude. I asked one of your linebackers,
Chris rose Boom, what's gotten into you? You look like
a completely different player. Is that rude to say to
a guy?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Uh, I mean there might be a little bit better
way to articulate, you know, like I need to say
it on the radio. He played really good football the
last couple of weeks. Man, I think he's really taken
it up a notch. That feels different to.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Me than whatever you say.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
What he's been bling, Yes, you know, but you see
you act like you're so surprised by it, you know,
but he has I'll tell you what. It is cool
that you say that, though, DeMarco, because we're in the
defensive staff meeting this morning. We're going through stuff, and
you know, Jerry Schaplinsky does a great job. He's got
offensive background as a tremendous help to our defensive coaches,
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has a great understanding of what's the big picture, you know,
and he mentions you know, I thought Rose Boom was
one of the guys that really jumped.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Off the tape.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You could really feel his sideline a sideline, and he's
always had great athleticism, but now I think he's able
to put it together where I'm getting that experience, I'm
understanding where I fit within the framework of these defensive
calls and coverages, and I can be able to play fast, decisive.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
And then I think he's tackling well.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
He's played really well the last couple of weeks and
he was a huge factor yesterday, and I thought he
made his presence felt early in the game, especially on
that perimeter toss crack play where he ends up making
the TfL on Kamorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
You don't see Kamara freeze that often.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
No, he was nowhere to go and you.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Can see he's confident, the way he's carrying himself, he's
playing violin, He's doing a great job. I think Greg Williams,
our insidelinebacker coach, has done an outstanding job. I thought
Omar Spates, you know, he played forty five snaps, had
a really good game. But Rose Boom was outstanding. He's
a game ball guy.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Along those same lines. You're always looking for response. You
say that on this show all the time. A week
after Saquon goes nuclear at Sofi Stadium, to see that
defense hold Camaro's having a career year to point four
yards per touch, Like, what should we take away from that?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I thought it was good. You know, he obviously had
a good hit on the first play of the game.
There was a couple of different things where we can
be a little bit better. But I thought our thought,
our competitive stamina was exactly what we're hunting up, you know,
the ability to make him snap it one more time,
to pursuit all eleven to the football arriving violently with
our approach, our fit, our finish. I thought it was
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excellent and I got a ton of respect for Alvin
Kamara and the pressure that he can put on you.
He's such a threat in the past game as well,
and for us, you know, he still made his plays,
but I thought, you know, all in all, for the
caliber of season that he's having, for the caliber player,
I was really pleased with our ability to be able
to keep him kind of corraud and you know, and
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and I think he felt the defense all day. They
did a really good job.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
And Taysom Hill, I mean, he had been a stud.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I hate to see that when guys get injured, that's
the worst part.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Nobody wants that.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
But those were the two key guys that that we
said we needed to limit their impact on the game,
and I thought we were able to do that defensively.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I have one question about complimentary football. Yeah right, okay,
So if the offense isn't getting off to a fast start,
it's up to the defense to keep them off the board.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yep, they did that.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Wouldn't you count that as complimentary?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
To me, complimentary football isn't exclusively building off each other's momentum.
It might be picking each other up when the other
one needs it. And I thought that was a huge
example of complimentary football. And then that enabled us to
be able to play the kind of complimentary football that
we want at the end of the game, where the
offense goes and scores to take the lead, and then
defense keeps him from scoring and then the offense is
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able to close it out in the four minute situation.
But that is no doubt that's complimentary ball to.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Me, especially if Kobe gets that strip sack because Brandon fists.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
The question of if you were going to give a
fullback dive to any of the d line, he looked awesome.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I mean, he got up quick. I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Great examples of two Cam Kitchens and Jalen mccolly getting
some blocks.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Oh man, the damn tuck role.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
So you're saying red zone package.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Swinging the ball, I mean he looked smooth.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yes, cast After that, you know, I was skeptical just
because of some of the ways that had been officiated
that it's coming back and I was still a big
stop to force the field goal there. Uh, but I said, hey,
let's not be down. If they overturned this, it's probably overturning.
And then you're looking and those guys did a great
job of transition to be able to finish, But you
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were on the sideline oxygen. I mean it was that
was that was a fun play though.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That was some fun with that.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
On Wednesday, Verse deserve a stripsack too, plays the same,
doesn't matter, but on the play before and at critical
junctures throughout the season, Bobby Brown seems to be right
there in the middle.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, and I'll tell you, jb My favorite part about
that was what happened on second down, a little frustration
with some stuff going on post whistle.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
He kept his poise and he was pissed off, and
he used.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It to play with that controlled aggression that Ad used
to always talk about on the third down, knocks the
guard back, is able to shock shed, come off, force
the fourth down and three right there. But that was
a big time played by Bobby Brown on a third down, uh,
forcing it to fourth down and he looked like a
man right there.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
That was a great play by Big Bibes.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
They do get in big in the middle. I mean,
that's that's the type of game. It's not that's a
big win down there. And I don't know how long
how many times have we been down there when the Bayu
Classic was actually going on at the same time.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
It feels like every time.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, it was rocking and I ran into a couple
of the Southern head coaches sisters in the elevator.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
The different things like that. They were all fired up.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Yeah, so there's a party going on, but you got
a game the next day. It's it's like tough to
focus and you got it all done and you got
the win.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, the guys did a great job. You know, I
thought we were ready to go. Obviously there were some things,
like any game that you had to navigate through adversity wise,
but stayed the course and I think it was you know,
gutsy is a way that I would describe it mentally
and physically tough, and that was the type of game
that we thought thought it was going to be. And
we were able to do the things that we thought
we needed to do to come away with the result.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
We were hunting up two good returns from Jordan Whittington.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
That what you know, what that's I think I thought
they were well blocked. You know, obviously we want the
holding on Omar space to come back. You know, we
can be in some better position. But I think you know,
you talk about a guy that's fearless, you know that
that kickoff play is different and when he caught it.
We knew we were going to get some return ops
just based on how Coach Rizzy and the Saints special
teams had been approaching it. I thought he hit it fearless.
(18:28):
I thought chasing Coach Frost had some good returns set up.
For the most part, guys executed. Obviously, we had the
one that was called back because of the holding, but
then the second one, I thought that was a big deal.
Not talking about the one at the very end of
the first half. We were kind of running a bounce
scheme there, but I thought the one that he had
in the fourth quarter was big and it got us
in good field position. He hit it, and we're ever
(18:50):
so close for him to really being able to come
out on that. And you know, I thought, I thought
guys did a good job of being able to get
it started, and then he had the juice and the
strength to be able to hit it, the fearless mindset
of mentality, and uh, he looked explosives.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
He's a study, did a good job as a gunnery.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
You know, he's a and we got to keep figuring
out ways to you know, allow him to impact the
game offensively.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
But he's he's gonna be good player for us.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Did you watch on a night football on the plane
the snow globe situation with your next two opponents?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
So yeah, that was uh yeah, that that was That
was wild weather, you know. And the Bills they did
a great job, but it looked like it was hard
to get their footing. A couple of big explosive runs
early on in that game. My wife textan meter in
that game and I'm so glad that the game's.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
How about the Alan to Cooper to ball.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah, we say don't reach it out unless it's fourth down. Uh,
you know, he said screw that rule, went just full
extension mode. That was impressive.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
What do you think makes them special?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I mean, I think he's a great competitor.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I mean, obviously he's got.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Incredible ability to extend plays. You know, he's got a
bunch of physical tools. I think he's a really mentally
tough competitor. I think he's smart. I think he's seeing
the field really well. I think they're doing a great
job of allowing him to be able to play quarterbacks
settle in for a handful of concepts. I think there's
a rapport and a comfort with the skilled players around him.
I think coach Kromer and their offensive staff has done
(20:15):
a great job of establishing a legitimate run game.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
He's he's got such great athleticism to extend. He can
beat you with his arm, his legs, and his brain.
And so he's playing at a really high clip. And
I think he's only gotten better since we saw him
an opening game in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And that's what it's.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
That's why we know it is going to be a
damn good challenge for us and we better be ready
to be at our best if we want to have
our you know, a chance to be able to compete.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
A couple final ones for me, you claimed a former
first round defensive back. Yeah, today, I understand Emmanuel Forbes.
What does he offer at twenty three years of age
and how soon can the impact games?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You know, we liked him coming out of Mississippi State.
You know, I thought he had a bunch of good
ball production, was able to you know, catch balls and
then be able to you know, return them for scores.
A guy that can come up and play press. I
think he's got the ability to be able to play visual.
He's tough, he's he's a leaner build, but he showed
some competitive toughness if he's asked to come up and
run support. We played against him last year when we
(21:12):
played Washington later on in the season.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I thought he had some good tape.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
But this is a reflection of you know, very rarely
do some guys that recent evals that are high ranked
come available. I didn't actually think we would get him
because of where we're at in the claim order. So
we were pleased that we were able to get him,
and we'll add him to the mix. We'll get to
know him and we'll see where he fits. But that's
kind of it was kind of a simple thing that
came to Fruition, you know, a few hours ago.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
And then finally, I love the scene post game.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
You're always so good about awarding game balls to people
who have special ties to the.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Game or the city.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yesterday it was Louisiana, it was Ka Dot and ac Carter.
But I know our fans noticed the hangtime from you
and coach, like, what's that the hangtime on your celebration?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Sleep on my athletics.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
I'm in your thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Now you're one high spring away for and Achilles.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Every time I open up you know, I still sometimes
feel good and I'm like, oh what next. Body might
not be agreeing with me anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Well, good to see a healthy and catching some air.
There you go back in the wind, calm, good luck
against the Buffalo Bills. DeMarco, thank you for being here
as well, and thank you as always for joining us
for the Coach McVeigh Show, presented by Microsoft Surface
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