Mark Willard & Ephraim Salaam Talk Commanders Look More Legit, Jets Reach A New Low On The Season, Niners Vs Cowboys On Sunday Night, And More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well, nobody likes to admit this, especially when it comes
to professional pro sports, because Ephrom, you know, this just
a wee bit of machismo when it comes to professional sports,
and everybody loves to look at their quarterback and go,
we want you to not only be good, we want

(00:25):
you to be great. And that means it doesn't matter
what's going on around you. If you've got injuries, if
you've got poor coaching, if you've got bad weather, it
doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
We want you to be great.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
However, there is something that has a major effect on
the outcome in pro sports that nobody ever wants to admit, Ephram,
And you know what it is?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Luck? Holy crap, what was that? What was that?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Sometimes teams just have it going, man, and players have
it going. And Jade and Daniels and the Washington Commanders are.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Not only good, they've just they've just got it going.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Right now, man, I thought you were going to start
with something else.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
I apologize.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
What did you think I was gonna start with?

Speaker 5 (01:17):
Sorry?

Speaker 4 (01:17):
I mean, are we not in a World Series? And look,
I get that Giants aren't in it.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm not even look came out that you're telling me
that if I didn't live in San Francisco, we would
lead Week eight in the NFL with a Hail Mary
between Pick one and Pick two. Meanwhile, the two or
two of the biggest brands in the sport are about
to absolutely have the highest rated game all year long,

(01:49):
and you're telling me that if I lived in Phoenix,
I'd have been like, Hey, how about that World Series?
Come on, man, it's a beautiful world.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
You're absolutely it's a beautiful world. And I'm just a
little excited.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
We could talk about it.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
We'll get to it in the thirties.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
We're talking. No, no, they're not playing tonight. They're not.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
I wish, I wish they were playing tonight. But you know,
damn well, why they're not playing tonight. They don't want
to get their butts kicked.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
They're not that stupid, man.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
But now, look the Dodgers. I believe the Dodgers are
going to win this thing. And uh and obviously you're
talking about to just just epic viewing events the last
two nights between those two teams. But man, you're Washington commanders.
Oh my god, they're not just good. They've they've got

(02:45):
there they're in that flow. Man, they're in that zone
right now.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Look watching that game for the most part of the
entire game, it was hard to watch. It just was
if you're a if you're a Chicago Bears fan, I
believe Caleb Williams up until the fourth quarter had thirty
five thirty eight yards passing something like that. So it

(03:09):
was tough. It was a tough watch. And then you
just kept telling yourself, but but they're right there, They're
literally right there. If we can get one score in.
Then they got the score in, and then he got interesting,
and then he got exciting, and then they took the lead,

(03:32):
and then it went bananas. This is the future of
the NFL. These two quarterbacks, these two teams are the
future of the NFL. And we got a preview of that.

(03:53):
Remember how exciting the era of of of quarterback what
my era I considered the greatest era. But remember how
exciting it was with Tom and and Peyton Maiden, right,
we were like, oh, Drew Brees, Philip Rivers, It's like, oh,

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but Tom and Peyton were the you know, that was
the Marquis matchup, and we just got a preview of
that with these two young rookie quarterbacks who got willing
Barn injury will be the namesakes in the faces of

(04:39):
the NFL for some time to come.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
And that was spectacular, Yes, your spot on. Although the
winning quarterback got his team one touchdown and it came
on the last play of the game on a on
a freak.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Bounce, and that's kind of what I'm getting at.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'll tell you what, though, I will give him a
ton of credit because use even though he didn't necessarily
sparkle with touchdown passes, I thought two things today. He
still was a very mature, at times methodical, good decision
making quarterback.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
And I also know just without even.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Obviously I haven't talked to the guy, and I don't
cover the Washington Commanders, but something tells me he was
in a heap of pain the entire time. Oh yeah,
and and and he and he played through that thing
and they probably don't win that game without him. And
that in and of itself is as impressive as anything
he's done in this rookie year.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
It's a level of toughness that you don't necessarily see
from young players.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
And to that point, I enjoyed that neither one of.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
These quarterbacks through interceptions, yep, and so being clean. Caleb
had a fumble, He lost a fumble, but you saw
both of them extend plays with their feet. Jaden was
We were unsure until this morning if he was even
gonna play.

Speaker 5 (06:07):
And he came out there.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
He took some hits, he ran the ball, got tackled,
you know, stood in the face of free rushers and
delivered the ball. And to me, that's the exciting part.
I just want to see, guys, this young man threw

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for three hundred and twenty six yards. Now get it.
I know you need to be better in the red zone.
I need you, You need to score more points, and
so on and so forth. But just to come off injury,
hadn't practiced all week, really, this young and get your
team to six and two at the halfway mark. Come on, man,

(06:53):
that stuff. That's that's how you build your legend. That's
how your legend starts. And even Caleb four and three
with a chance to be five and two. Look, man,
this is how you build who you are. Fourth quarter comebacks.

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Quarterbacks in this day and age are measured by their
fourth quarter comebacks. That's the first stat you see when
he gets into the fourth quarter, it's one possession left
in the game. They throw that up on the on
the screen, yep, so you can see what type of
quarterback this is. And so whenever you have two young

(07:42):
guns and Caleb is the same way it was the
fourth quarter they scored when they needed to score to
take the lead in the game. I loved it. I
loved it every second of it, and I'm looking forward
to what you know moving forward.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
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here's where it kind of leaves the two teams. I mean,

(08:21):
I remember saying to you when you predicted that Washington
would win the NFC East. I said to you, I
love what they're doing, but my guess is that they're
still a year away. And now I think maybe I
should have said that about the Bears, not the commanders.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
The Bears.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Our look, I think they're good and they're definitely headed
in the right direction. I don't think they've got as
many answers yet as Washington does.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
And they're in a harder division.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Let's be honest, that's probably the hardest division in football.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Right now, without a doubt, I actually think, and we
can get to this later.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
For my eyes, if I had to do a halfway
point bet on someone to win the Super Bowl, give
me the Detroit Lions.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
They look like the best team to me. So that's
a really hard.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Division, and a loss like this really twists your season
in a different way if you dive into the Bears
second half schedule, like they have not touched their division
yet and so they've only got Look they're four and three,
they've got ten games left, more than half of them
are against those other three really hard opponents in that division.

(09:32):
So I think the Bears are a good story, they're fun,
they're on the right track, but I don't think they're
going to the playoffs this year.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
The Commanders, in the other hand, when you.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Look at what I thought was Philadelphia's most impressive moment
of the year today, and they look like maybe I
still think Jalen Hurts looks odd, but maybe they're figuring
some things out. The Commander pass that we just saw
has a huge effect on the next game that we're.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
About to watch.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Because now, and this was already true, but these two
teams that are about to play tonight. Everyone kept asking
me all week who needs it more? And my answers, yes,
my answers yes. This is an absolutely imperative football game
for both the forty nine Ers and the Cowboys. If

(10:23):
the Cowboys lose this one and find themselves a good,
solid three to three and a.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Half games behind the Commanders.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Curtains is over.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
It's curtains. You're not gonna make it. They're not good
enough to make it. They don't do anything well enough.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
You're absolutely right. And when you look at that, Chicago
is a year away. Yeah, they are a year away.
They have some great pieces. They're building a culture right now.
But the Wachton Commander have arrived. And in this division,

(11:08):
they have the Cowboys twice, still have the Giants again.
I mean, I'm like, they have the Eagles twice. I
to me, they're the better team. They're the better team. Look,

(11:30):
I agree with you.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
I just it feels different.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
It feels different than the other teams. It feels different
than Chicago Chicago's a great story. It feels different than Denver.
Denver is a great story. And I'm talking about teams
with rookie quarterbacks.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
But Washington, you know this in the NFL right now,
it's twenty four ten wins. It's almost assure that you're
going to find yourselves in the playoffs. Yes, look at
Washington's path to ten wins, provided that they have health.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
It's done. It's done.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
They only need to go four and five the rest
of the way. And you just detailed that. They're playing
the New York Giants, They've got a home game against Tennessee,
a couple games against the Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
They play New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
They won't win all of these, and I'm not saying
all of them are cupcakes, but this is a double
digit win team like that. Today essentially for me, clinched
that again provided.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Health, Yes, yeah, it's I mean they continued to get better. Right,
Everything was up in the air about Jaden. He stepped
up to the challenge. He came out, he played not
really practicing, which is a big step for a young player.

(12:53):
Can you still come out and play well without the
rigors of practice during the week. It's a right of PA.
All young players have to go through. Coaches will prefer
they not have to do that, but at the quarterback position,
it's important that you get those reps. This let you
know he can take mental reps and that's the most

(13:16):
important part. He's well beyond any of the other rookie
quarterbacks in my opinion, and we got some good ones.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
We sure do, We sure do, we sure do. Okay,
so there's a lot more to say on that. We
also definitely have a thing or two to share about
the game that is just about to kick off in
Santa Clara, California, So we'll preview that for you a
little bit coming up next as well.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Good Sunday evening to you.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Thank you for being with us wherever you are covering
Week eight in the National Football League and a little
bit of the World Series as well. With me from Salam,
Mark Willard. This is Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2 (14:11):
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Speaker 3 (14:15):
Natzi from Salam, I'm Mark Weather. We're juiced. We're juiced
after that day of football, and it's not.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Done yet because we're looking at SNF just about to
kick off as we speak. Give me a little something
something on these two football teams who are both disappointing
their fan bases right now.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yeah, it's one of those situations where I think expectations
for the Niners are higher than the expectations for the
Cowboys for sure, rightfully so, but we're in a situation here.
This is a must win for the Dallas Cowboys. And

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the reason I say that is because the the roster
can't support, you know, winning five to six in a row.
Now the Niners, on the other hand, when Christian comes
back and everybody, you know, they get a little bit healthier,
they can support that because we've seen them do that.

(15:21):
So for me, this is a must win for the
Dallas Cowboys because it's over after this.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
You have run the course.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, I hear you that course well, and mathematically you're
not wrong.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
It's kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
The forty nine ers sit right now at dead last
in the NFC West. If they win tonight, they're tied
for first. So no matter what happens tonight, the division
will be no more than a game away period, and
so you're right, then they get the buye and then
according to reports, they get Christian. However, I will say
this as someone who follows this team, as you know,

(16:04):
very very closely, and we talk about this every week
on our San Francisco affiliate.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
To me, you lose this one, that's when the alarms
go off.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
Yeah, yeah, I hear that.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
But the great thing about well coached teams and great organizations,
they don't let the alarms outside the building reverberate inside
the building. The exact opposite happens over at the Dallas Cowboys.
Jerry Jones listens to everything, sure, he answers everything right,

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he's calling out reporters, he's threatening. It's that's the difference
between a well run organization. They don't allow the alarm
bells from outside the building to affect what's going on
inside the building. And that's why another reason I believe

(17:03):
this is a must win for the Dallas Cowboys, because
how how loud will those bills those alarms be rinking?

Speaker 2 (17:12):
I'm oh, gosh, sure sure, and and maybe we're already there,
We're already there.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Here. Here's the difference, though, you're not wrong.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
I would argue that if the Cowboys lose this game,
they're in a worse situation than the Niners. But here,
here's the other part of that take. The Cowboys are
nowhere near as good as the forty nine ers, even
with the injuries that are there. And so if the
Cowboys lose this game, you can also wake up tomorrow

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morning and go, well, we'll also a better team on
the road if the forty nine Ers lose this game.
Following the most impassioned pregame speech of Fred Warner's career,
according to those who are currently on the scene, after
what happened last week with the Chiefs, the two blown
games against the Rams and Cardinals, if you lose this

(18:06):
game to a team that Let's be honesteve from you
and I have sat here every week and gone, I
don't know what the Cowboys are doing. I don't know
what their identity is.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Right.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
We had a chance to have Kurt Warner on our
show this week. You want to know what he said
about the Cowboys. They do nothing well.

Speaker 5 (18:24):
He's got a point.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
There's nothing that they Yes, there's nothing that they do
particularly well.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
So if you're the forty nine ers.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
I know Brandon Ayuk is gone, I know Juwan Jennings
is gone, and Christian McCaffrey's gone. But if you lose
on Sunday Night football in your own building to a
team that does nothing, well, well, what are you looking.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
At, Ephraim.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
You're looking at still winning, being able to win a division. Yeah,
that's a crazy part. Like I said before, they're tired
of destroying the regular season. There is a hangover. It's
real where these regular season games feel like Groundhog's day.

(19:10):
When you're used to going to NFC Championships and super
Bowls and not winning super Bowls, the road becomes longer
to get back to the super Bowl. Mentally, sure, and
sometimes you don't lock in. But there's a button, there's
a switch. I want to get to it. But how

(19:34):
many wake up how many wake up calls do you get?
Because I've argued they've already had three.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
But when you can tell a team you can still
win a division. If the Cowboys lose this game, they're
not winning the division. That's that's a that's a that's over,
that's not happening. So if you can win a division
and get a whole playoff game.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
What do we what are we doing? Because that's when
the real season starts.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
So until we're like, oh, you're three games outside, two
games away from winning the division, now you start to
you know, breathe a little heavier, a little deeper. So
I would I would just say their paths to the

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postseason are completely different.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
That's amen. Amen to that, and the other thing that
sort of sits underneath this.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
And I know fan bases are always going to scream
about coaches and play calling. Those are the two things
that that we can constantly yell about.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
And while the.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Fan base with the forty nine ers will will absolutely
moan about Kyle.

Speaker 5 (20:51):
Shanahan, they don't want the other problems.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
No, no, no, no, you know darn well, Kyle is
as safe as they can be and is not going
anywhere anytime soon, nor should he now on the other
side of the of the ball tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
That hangs over to me, that hangs over a sideline,
and in particular, like I know, you've got it on
in front of you.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Like their first set of downs, they get a first down,
and then on.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Third and five, wait for it, third and five, they
run the ball to full back Hunter loop Key.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
And got zero yards. What are you doing? What?

Speaker 5 (21:33):
That's it?

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Thank you? And that's that's where I think a fan.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Can look at Mike McCarthy right now, and even though
obviously you don't start making decisions based on one third
down call, but it's.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
That adds to you already have compiled.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
So head scratching, and not even that he called it
to me.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
The bigger head scratcher still goes back to the off
season and then the Boys seemingly never tried to do
anything about their run game and it was the most
predictable thing ever that it's the worst in the league.

Speaker 6 (22:09):
Yeah, so so, so many questions, no answers, so many questions,
no answers.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
You know who's got answers?

Speaker 5 (22:22):
Oh yeah, the Wise, the Wise one.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
I love that. We don't even have to pay it
off anymore.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
They just hit the music like, yeah, that's that's that's
Martin Wise, that's what's happening now.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
The wisest of them all, I'm the wist one.

Speaker 7 (22:37):
I'm just glad that's the music they played and it
wasn't somebody trying to play off Mike McCarthy, because that was.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
A terrible play call.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
What was that.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Much to be desired.

Speaker 7 (22:49):
Eleven forty four left in the first quarter here, just
getting started here, obviously on Sunday Night football San Francisco,
we'll have the ball. Dak Prescott two for two for
nine yards with two carries for seven yards. Ceedee Lamb
has two catches, one of them a little juggling act there,
but he reeled it in nine yards.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
He caught that one for a first down.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
But San Francisco has the ball here and these two
teams three wins between the both of them. All of
Dallas's wins have been on the road where they are
playing currently. That means they're owing three at home. That's
a rough one.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
Got some NBA games going on right now, get back
to football.

Speaker 7 (23:23):
In just the second the Brooklyn netley the Milwaukee Bucks
one hundred and eleven to one hundred one zher six
left in the fourth quarter, there Giannis with twenty two
to twelve. The Hawks lead the Thunder sixty two to
sixty one, ten thirty left in the third quarter, Troy
Young with seventeen, Shay gild As Alexander fourteen point seven assists,
and Clippers and the Warriors get started in just a

(23:44):
moment here Earlier today, the seventy six Ers beat the
Pacers one eighteen to one fourteen, and the Trail Lazers
beat the Pelicans won twenty five to.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
One, all three.

Speaker 7 (23:52):
Back to the NFL, the Chief beat the Raiders twenty
seven to twenty. Mahomes with two touchdowns and the interception.
Remember he had going to the last two weeks offt
throwing a touchdown pass Travis Kelcey ninety yards and a
touchdown on ten catches. Commanders you guys talking about at
the start of the show. Jade and Daniels offul rib
injury didn't finish last week's game. Finished this week's game, though,

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with they Hail Mary with as time expired to beat the.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
Bears eighteen to fifteen.

Speaker 7 (24:19):
Roshawn Johnson had a touchdown to take the leave with
twenty three seconds left for Chicago, but then twenty two
seconds later Jaydon Daniels went fifty yards plus for a
Hail Mary Broncos to beat the Panthers twenty eight to fourteen.
Bow next with three touchdowns through the air, one rushing touchdown.
Bill's trounce the Seahawks thirty one to ten. Josh Allen
two touchdowns, an interception, two hundred and eighty three yards

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through the air, James Cook one hundred and eleven yards
on the ground, two touchdowns there, Justin Herbert and the
Chargers beat the Saints twenty six to eight. Saints went
to backup quarterback Jake Hayner. Remember they're starting backup quarterback
Spencer Ratler because Derek Carr's hurt. Jay Canner finished the
second half there, but did not matter. Didn't get the
spark they were looking for. Texans beat the Colts three

(25:00):
to twenty CJ. Stroud twin or eighty five yards and
a touchdown. Stefan Diggs exited this game after a non
content leg injury. Anthony Richardson ConTroll continues with his completion
percentage struggles here ten for thirty two, one hundred and
seventy five yards, one touchdown, one pick. The Packers hang
on to beat the Jaguars thirty to twenty seven, second

(25:21):
consecutive week. The Packers picked the game winning field goal here.
Jordan Love left this game with a groin injury. Before that,
had one hundred and ninety six stars passing and a touchdown.
Josh Jacobs won twenty seven on the ground two touchdowns
as well. Falcons hold on to beat the Buccaneers thirty
one to twenty six. Baker Mayfield three touchdowns, two interceptions.
Kirk Cousins threw four touchdowns two hundred seventy six yards

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through the air. Patriots came back to beat the Jets
twenty five to twenty two. Drake may started this game,
scored a seventeen yard rushing touchdown. He ended it concussed.
Jacoby Brissett finished the day for the Patriots, who had
a comeback drive to go ahead and beat Aaron Rodgers
and those New York Jets, who had no turnovers on
the offensive side of the ball, held the Patriots to
two hundred and forty seven total yards and still lost.

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That makes them the first team to lose a game
in such a way since Week three of twenty twelve.
Wow Cardinals walking off with a thirty four yard field
goal by Chad Ryland to beat the Dolphins into a tongue.
Bai Lois return twenty eight to twenty seven to had
two hut and thirty four yards passing and a touchdown,
and he rushed for a little bit and had a
slide that everybody applauded in the stadium. Lions crushed the

(26:26):
Titans fifty two to fourteen. Jared Goff only had eighty
five yards through the air but three touchdowns. Lions offense
didn't do much here except for scoring points. There was
a lot of special teams here different two punt returns
over sixty yards. Kleef Framond had won for ninety Browns
defeat the Ravens and Jamis Winston's first start of the year,
final score twenty nine to twenty four. Jamis had three

(26:47):
thirty four through the air, two touch I'm sorry, three touchdowns.
Cedric Tillman had two touchdowns, including the go ahead touchdown.
Lamar Jackson with two touchdowns through the year. Derek Henry
eleven carry seventy three yards and a touchdown In the
first game of the day here the Eagles and the Bengals.
Eagles advanced to five and two thirty seven to seventeen
the final score. Despite that, Eagles still have not scored

(27:08):
a first quarter point this season. Jalen Hurts one touchdown,
three rushing and now back then it's Sunday night football.
Nothing still sky zero to zero just under nine minutes
left in the first quarter between the Cowboys and the
forty nine ers out there on your neck of the woods.
Mark Willards, Santa Clara, California. And with that back to you.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Guys, indeed, Martin, thank you very much. And we are
on the tyrack dot com studios. Yep, forty nine ers
are on there opening drive, which highlighted by a long
pass to Deebo Samuel but marred by a couple of
offensive line penalties already. But the Niners are in Dallas,
Cowboy territory.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
We will keep you up to date. What was the
that you just did there?

Speaker 2 (27:50):
I know, man, they're undisciplined right now. I don't know
what's going on with this team. I don't know what's
going on. They are playing undisciplined football.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
Not even just this team, across the league. Control.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll tell you what. But we'll keep
you up to date on that one. There's another and
Martin had it when he was giving the update, he
kind of.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Gave a little Anthony Richardson hook.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
And there's a couple of them actually, because there's the
whole part about how he's not playing great football. We
can talk about that, and then there's the part about
and I need you to speak to this and speak
to it loud. This young man took a few plays
off in the third quarter. They asked him why.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
He said because he was tired.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Oh no, no, no, no, from no, we don't do that.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
That's not okay.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
No, it'll never be okay. Ever, that'll never be okay
on any level, especially the professional level. Now nine and
ten year olds, Okay, we get it. You can't take
plays off, man, they don't pay you to take plays off.

(29:06):
That's like going to the bank and the teller is like, nah,
I'm good, I'm dying, I'm ted and I'm good.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Wait what we're closed? What do you mean you're closed?
It's one o'clock on Wednesday?

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Like you can't. My nephew. My nephew got in trouble.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
Uh. He works at a place and they close at ten. Well, no,
patrons had to come in for about an hour and
a half and it was nine fifty four. So he

(29:42):
closed up close enough, round up and almost got fired.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah boy, yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
Like literally Rodent written up, called in what's going on?
Was there an emergency? We're reviewing the footage literally six minutes,
six minutes, and no.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
One came through.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
The door like, oh hey, hey, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter,
you get paid to work, you're hours. Everybody's tired as
the offensive lineman who don't rotate out. Every other position

(30:34):
on the field can rotate in and out except for
the offensive line. In the quarterback, you got the best
pass rusher in the world. If you go on to
seven play drive, he's coming out of the game to
catch his breath. You got two positions that you don't

(30:59):
get to take a breath. Quarterback, offensive line. There is
no excuse for that. You know how tired I used
to be.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Oh god, and you got first of all, Anthony Richardson
gets certain plays where he doesn't even get touched. In fact,
it happens on a lot of them, you know, Like
he hands the ball off to Jonathan Taylor. Sometimes sometimes
he has a three step drop and delivers the ball.
I understand this was coming off of a scramble and
a run, but I just think, and this is what

(31:33):
I'd love to get into with you next. The Colts
right now, to me are the example across the league
of the team that is putting their locker room in
a bad spot because of their quarterback situation. And I
want to get to that, because I would love to
know what you think they should do. They're in a
real quickly spot and if some of the players are

(31:56):
mad at the front office, I'd get it. And so
let's let's dive into that a little bit next with
me from Salam Mark whether.

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Speaker 2 (32:20):
We will continue the discussion we started the Colts Anthony
Richardson situation.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Real quick just because it happened though E.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
And it's Mark with an E from Salam with you.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Give me give me your Dak Prescott take right now.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Just got picked off by the way, for those listening,
just got picked off on threw deep down the left
sideline and literally was one of those that like and
just watching on TV.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
The minute he lets it go, I'm like, that's got
too much air underneath it, way too much that Like
the minute he.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Throws it, You're like, any safe he worth assault is
going to be there in plenty of time, And they were,
and Jyer Brown was and he caught it and.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
Beat the ball there.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Yeah. Yeah, he's waiting for it. What's your take.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
I think he's pressing too much. He makes the most
anyone's ever made in the NFL, and the.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
Holdout was such a big deal that he feels like
he has to.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
Do more for this team that's ill equipped to compete,
and so he's forcing, he's pushing. There's NonStop noise around
him from the owner, the fans, the media. There's non stop.
It's non stop. The whole summer was about right, so

(33:59):
it can play on your psyche. Getting the money is
getting the money, yeah, but now feeling like you gotta
play too, you know, play up to the level of
of of the contract opposed to just going out there

(34:19):
in ballin doing the thing that you love to do.
There's a lot of holes in the Dallas Cowboys roster.
Being the leader, you feel like you have to plug
those holes. But you can't plug the whole not of
no running back though, correct that that's not a hole

(34:42):
you can plug.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
No, that's a good point, right.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
That's that's not a hole you can't You can't plug
the whole of We only have one receiver.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
He's double teams all the time and.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
You can't plug the whole of we don't have a
good defense.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
It's like the Cowboy I think, didn't we do the
list last week?

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (35:03):
The number of NFL teams and now it's all messed
up because a bunch of them have played and the
Cowboys have not. You know, the Cowboys have only played
six games. But if you want to do a points
for the Cowboys have given up one hundred and sixty
eight points in six football games. Do the math that
that is. That's horrible. Yeah, that's absolutely horrible. And so

(35:26):
you know what. This is not to make excuses for Dak,
but it's hard to quarnerback when there's nothing good going
on around you.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
When you feel like you're the answer to the question
everyone's asking, you're going to try to answer it on
every play. And that's why we're getting what we're getting.
That's why we're getting what we're getting.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Yeah, so we'll keep you up to date. There.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
It's three nothing, forty nine ers and they have the
ball deep in their own territory. Although one of their
I would imagine worst nightmares is unfolding here. As on
the first down play, Jordan Mason goes for a five
yard carry and didn't get up. And so the injury bug,
which has just killed the forty nine ers as much
as any team, and they don't have McCaffrey back, are

(36:17):
now looking at, you know, very very little in the
running back room. Behind Jordan Mason. They would go to
rookie Isaac Garndo, journeyman Patrick Taylor. We'll see what the
situation is with Jordan Mason, who's been struggling with injury
as well in the last few weeks.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Keep you up to date there.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Talk to me about the Indianapolis Colts. If you were
an offensive lineman on that team right now, you're four
and four, you're very much in the thick of the
wild card race. You just took the team that's going
to probably win this division right down to the end today.
I would think if I were playing for that team,

(36:57):
I would want my coach to play Joe Flakau. Yes,
So what do you do because I get the investment,
the draft pick et cetera.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
Well, you gotta ride him out, man. I mean, you
gotta make the decision now. You can't make the decision
next year. You have to make the decision now. When
I mean make the decision. I mean he has to
play to a point where, oh, there can't be a
next year. You get what I'm saying, Like he had,

(37:29):
you gotta get it all out of him, and if
it's all bad, then.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
You can move on.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
So you you you either you got to try to
get him better, are you? You know you got you
gotta go down with it. But after a because you
remember he's been hurt.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Yes, it's been hurt. He hasn't played that many NFL game, played.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
That many games, So you gotta get it all. If
he's healthy, you gotta keep him in there, and he's
got to play, and you gotta assess the value of
him playing.

Speaker 5 (38:03):
That's the only true way you can do it.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
Now, you can get to a point where it's just like, Okay,
this isn't getting us anywhere, and it's not going to
get it's not we're not getting better. So now you
have to look to the future in terms of, Okay,
what do we do at our quarterback in the years
to come, next year and so on and so forth.

Speaker 5 (38:27):
That's where they are right now.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
So you're telling me, though, if you're an offensive lineman
on that team, you want Joe Flacco, But you understand
why the organization is no gonna do that.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
No, I can understand it now being on the outside
looking in it. If I'm there, I'm pissed.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
If I'm there, I'm pissed.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
Like it's no, there's no question, there's no question which
guy right now makes them a more viable team. And
then and I'll bring in another point like if i'm
if I'm paying the check on that team and I
just broke off Michael Pittman twenty three million per year
in this wide receiver run that we're all watching. If

(39:10):
I did that and I realized, thank you, you're right.
But if I did that and I realized that when
Anthony Richardson plays, Michael Pittman can pull up a chair
if he wants to, that would really upset me. Like,
what do you do? It's no different than watching the

(39:30):
Dolphins when.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Two is out YEA. Wide receivers are just done.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
Well, I look, all you could do is your job.
That's it, that's all you got. You could only do
your job. Once you start worrying about what the GM
is going to do and the coaches, then you lose
focus and lose track of your job and then now
they're making a decision about your job for you.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
I'm glad you just brought up decisions because there's a
high prof file player in the NFL. We've talked a
lot about recently who I think was proven today made
a bad decision. Tell you what we're talking about coming
up next.

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The first quarter has come to a close, the Cowboys
moving those ball a little bit into the high territory
of the forty nine ers, but trailing three to nothing
after one on Sunday Night football.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
Keep you up to date there while we talk out
the rest of the league.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
And here's one of the things I know we want
to get to tonight. Davante tried to tell you, I
hope you're happy, but that was the wrong place to go.
And I say that without really having any info on
how much of an imprint DeVante Adams had on where

(41:13):
he ended up. I know there were finances that were
involved in this as well, and the Jets being able
and willing to kind of take some of that on
might be a little bit of a window into why
he ended up with the Jets. But obviously he did
push this on some front. We had that right away

(41:36):
that when he requested a trade, the Jets was one
of the places that was very high, if not the
number one spot on his list, because of the presence
of Aaron Rodgers. Well, now you're two and six. You're
two and six. Aaron Rodgers is not the Aaron Rodgers
that I think you remember.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
And I didn't.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Even grab the stats on today, but it certainly was
nothing special. And I know we're only two games in,
but DeVante Adams today four catches for fifty four yards
and that's pretty similar to what he did in his
first game with the Jets. And today, to me, that's
the loss. You know, we keep talking about what's like

(42:21):
a nail in the coffin, if you will. There's a
whole half of the season left, but you can't go
loose to the New England Patriots. You can't lose to
the New England Patriots and have their quarterback get knocked
out and have their journeyman backup come in and move
up and down the field and score almost twenty points

(42:41):
on you in the second half alone. I don't know
where the Jets go from here, other than to Robert
Sala's house to say, sorry.

Speaker 5 (42:51):
Yeah, he's it.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
To point the finger when everyone's looking at the person
you're pointing at. When the smoke clears and you realize, oh,
it wasn't him. Oh when you add extra pieces and
now you still can't win, Oh, well, I guess it. Huh,

(43:16):
I guess it. I guess we did have enough. When
you demote the offensive coordinator and you don't win, Like
there's a common denominator here. They wanted Aaron Rodgers. Aaron

(43:38):
Rodgers hasn't thrown for three hundred yards in a game
in three years in a passing league, in a passing league.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
With two number one wide receivers now on his team,
two of them. Hell, you could argue three. Mike Williams
has been through injuries. But I mean, my god, this
guy was the seventh pick in the draft, not that long.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
Oh, he can still play. He can still go to play,
and so just uh. You can keep trying to make
excuses and point the finger, but sometimes an experiment doesn't work.
You can keep adding stuff to the solution to try

(44:30):
to even the chemical balance out, but more times than not,
you just make it worse. You make the mess worse
because when it erupts, which it will if you keep
putting stuff in, it.

Speaker 5 (44:46):
Doesn't belong in there. Now you got to clean up
the whole room.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
And the Jets are the situation where, according to Aaron Rodgers,
the darkness.

Speaker 5 (45:01):
They're in the darkness. I've been there before.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Just turn the lights on.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
You have to embrace the dark night. Whatever, man, Yeah,
just basketball. Win games. You can't lose to New England
with no quarterback, a rookie head coach. Just a terrible team.
They were one in five. There were one in five.

(45:34):
That's embarrassing. Your defense gave up twenty five points to
a team that was one in five. That's in your division.
So do you sit here at the bottom of the division.

(46:00):
You've made choices and changes that you felt would benefit
make Aaron more comfortable, and you haven't won a game.
What are we doing, What are we doing? What we're doing?

(46:23):
Where are we going? Who's in charge of the state.
It's hard to watch.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
It's really hard to watch.

Speaker 4 (46:36):
And I was like, Okay, let's just let's sen Uh. Yeah,
I like him more here than I did. What it
was like, you know what I mean? Like it was
the same thing with Brady Brady, and I was like,
oka'd be nice to see you know, old fellow Aaron
Rodgers is a shell of himself, and he he's got

(47:00):
the Jets thinking that he can recapture what he's lost.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
Green Bay knew he couldn't recapture it, so they let
him go.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
And so now you're stuck with it and you've altered
everything in your franchise for him, everything, You've altered it
all for him with no payoff.

Speaker 5 (47:31):
Yet. Can they go on a run?

Speaker 3 (47:41):
Imen?

Speaker 5 (47:43):
Can they win five, six, seven in a row?

Speaker 2 (47:47):
No? No, No, they can't. Can they go on a run? Okay, Like,
I'm not gonna say that they're out of it, but
that's not realistic.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Not realistic.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
They're behind the Miami Dolphins, who've played more than half
their season with no quarterback. You know, they're they're behind
teams that have experienced all kinds of trauma with their
season so far. You know what I mean, Like we
right now the New York Jets, and by the way,
touchdown Ezekiel Elliott.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
The Cowboys take the lead, beat him six to three.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
Yes, everybody get a bowl of cereal to celebrate. Zeke
Elliott into the end zone that after a pass interference
in the end zone set the Cowboys up at the one,
and so Zeke went right in and the Cowboys have
the lead.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
Like we think of the Jets. You know, you and I.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Talked about this about how the NFL really knows what
they're doing when they're scheduling and the TV contracts, and
you remember the opening night like the Jets and the
forty nine ers and the sex appeal now with Aaron
Rodgers and DeVante Adams and Garrett Wilson and Breeze Hall
and the fantasy football all of you know who they are.

(49:02):
They're the Browns, the Raiders and the Jags that the
exact same record.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
They have the same record.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
And by the way, I'd give them still some of
the sex appeals if it was like, well.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
But you're losing games thirty four to thirty one. You're not.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
You're not You're doing the same thing that these other
struggling teams do. You're scoring seventeen points and losing football
games because you're just not very good. You're not explosive,
you're not any of the things that all of those
need those names should make you. And so I like

(49:38):
your point, which is to say that I just at
a certain point, you don't know where else to look,
because there isn't anywhere else to look. And so I
would imagine, you know, you talk about Colts players being
ticked off because Anthony Richardson's playing, I'd be getting pretty
close to a spot where if I'm a That's player,

(50:01):
I'm pretty upset. Also, not because you're playing Aaron, who
else would you play, But I'd be pretty angry at
his press conferences every week.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Where this guy puts.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
On a beautiful jacket and sits down and tells you
about all the things that everybody else did wrong.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Wow. Wow, that would that would get triggering at some point, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
It would. This is a disaster, and it gets worse
every week because every week they go into it like
this is the week we fired Robert Sala Okay, now
now we're gonna show you nothing. We get DeVante Adams.

(50:52):
Ooh you go see now. The only thing that happened
is Gary Wilson is open. Still can't win a game, right,
so they're in the sunken place. It's all illusion. They

(51:13):
got a quarterback who was well past his prime and
now they're stuck with it.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
It's just a stat however, it is one that people
like to use. Aaron Rodgers is twenty fourth in the
NFL in quarterback rating, one slot ahead of Andy Dalton,

(51:45):
two slots ahead of Daniel Jones, and three slots ahead
of Deshaun Watson. Oh lord, that is that is Aaron Rodgers.
He is behind the likes of Gino Smith, Trevor Lawrence,

(52:07):
Justin Fields, Kyler, Murray Drake May, Derek Carr, Joe.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Flacco, and on and on and on.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
That's that, Like, if you want to take emotion out
of it and just play numbers that give you some
sort of a window into what's going on. That that's
the Jets quarterback. Let that in your pipe and smoking yep, yep, yep, yep.
That's bad company to be in. So all right, much

(52:39):
more to get to I wanted to throw this one
at you because I find it a little bit of
a head scratcher. They won their game today, but I
find them to be the most boring team in the
entire NFL. And uh and and so let me run
that by you. That's coming up next with e from
salam I'm Mark Weard. It's Fox Sports Radio. We are
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(53:03):
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Speaker 3 (53:10):
Series like no other.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Where is New York gonna take us the next few
nights we shall see before we dive into where we're
going next. Hit me with your thought on down seven
to three, second quarter early, you're at home, You're just
across midfield, fourth and three. You and I talk about

(53:34):
fourth down a lot. It's become like this thing.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
You just do it. You don't even think about it,
You just do it. Did you like the call there
to go for it on fourth down?

Speaker 5 (53:42):
I did, because the play was there.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Yep, I just totally missed it.

Speaker 5 (53:47):
I mean, our debo dropped it.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Well, did you did you see the the Shlomo instant
replay that's pretty far behind him?

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Yeah, that's a that's a tough catch.

Speaker 4 (53:56):
So receivers have this thing that they say, right.

Speaker 5 (54:02):
I'm not a receiver. I don't say it. They say
what they say, if he touches your hands, you can
catch it.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
They do say that, that's what they say.

Speaker 5 (54:13):
Guess what.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Some catches are really hard. But that's why they pay
you guys so much money. That's the whole thing. It
would be great. Anybody can catch a perfect pass. Anybody
could mark you could catch a perfect pass.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
I could.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
I don't want somebody I don't running running one direction
and bending back to catch a pass behind you at
top speed.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
Well, that's why you're a pro, and that's why they
pay you the way they do.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Apparently that's why you're you're all worth thirty five million
dollars a year.

Speaker 5 (54:55):
Now, that's the point.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
If that's your price tag, I don't want to hear
you talking about bad passes.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
Hold on, could I not fire right back?

Speaker 2 (55:10):
The thirty million dollar receiver is catching the ball from
the sixty million dollar quarterback.

Speaker 4 (55:15):
No, no, he's catching the ball. He's catching the ball from
the nine hundred thousand dollars quarterback.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Fair, but he's about to be fifty five to sixty
about we can't about is any auditioning for that about
to be?

Speaker 3 (55:27):
Is we can't ask for We can't ask for an
accurate pass.

Speaker 5 (55:30):
About to be is?

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (55:35):
The cousin to Finna?

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Right, that's fair.

Speaker 4 (55:41):
Okay, you know what I'm saying. I don't know what
I'm saying, but let's keep it in perspective.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
That's kind of difficult throw. That's not a difficult throw.
It's right over the middle.

Speaker 5 (55:50):
Not a difficult catch.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
Well million dollars a year, twenty eight, twenty five million
dollars a year.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
You want them all to drop in your bat and
the bad as it?

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Yeah, no, I got you, I got you. I mean,
at least give it to both of them. That's got
to be a better pass. If you want to say
that's he should catch it, Okay, he should catch it.
It's also got to be a better pass, don't you think.

Speaker 4 (56:13):
Yeah, okay, I'm not you know, I'm not excusing the
the inaccurateness of the pass. But what I'm saying is
if it hit both your hands, hey man, do something special.

Speaker 5 (56:24):
The team needs you to continue to drive.

Speaker 6 (56:28):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (56:28):
Hello, when you look.

Speaker 4 (56:31):
At your defensive end and this third and long and
you need to get what you expect him to.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
What Joey Bosa?

Speaker 4 (56:39):
Uh put the pressure on sure on Dak to throw
to force the interception.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Yep, yep, yeah, he's already He's got a sock and
he had the pressure that.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Forced the interception.

Speaker 5 (56:55):
So you asked.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
Nick nick bossa, right, whatever, I knew.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
But that's what you're paying for. So I'm on the
fourth down. Yeah, I'm up. Hey man, I'm sorry. It
wasn't for whatever reason, it wasn't perfect, but you gotta
catch it if you got both your hands on it.

Speaker 5 (57:16):
That's why. That's where I stand.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough, all right, we'll keep you
up to date. Cowboys out the ball just across midfield,
leading seven to three, and we'll keep you up to
date Niners and Cowboys on Sunday Night football.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Hey, what about this?

Speaker 2 (57:34):
This team, one of these teams that we're watching right now,
used to be coached by Jim Harbaugh. And Harbaugh has
a cadence, and his cadence is I come in, I
fix your program. We do some pretty good things. Then
I wear you out and I go somewhere else. Rinse repeat,

(57:57):
Stanford forty nine Ers Michigan Now now Los Angeles Chargers
of Los Angeles San Diego. I'm wondering if from one
trip to the NFL to the next, I'm wondering if
something didn't change. Because I know that Harball loves a

(58:21):
cloud of dust. I know he loves to run the ball.
I know he loves to grind you out. We're waiting
to see if Justin Herbert is everything he's cracked up
to be. And he hasn't looked bad this year at all.
He's barely turned the ball over. I've watched a lot
of his games. He looks, he looks good, but he's
also averaging under two hundred yards per game throwing the football.

(58:45):
And they're coming off of a nice win. So I'm
not here to criticize, but I'm here to ask if
their way can still work in the NFL, because their.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
Games absolutely put me to sleep.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
They like every game they're trying to do the like,
let's get twenty and see if we can keep you
to ten. And I don't think that's a great idea anymore.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
In the league.

Speaker 5 (59:19):
Well it's working, is it.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
I mean they're okay.

Speaker 5 (59:25):
They're all right, yeah, I mean they're.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
They're in third place. Four three, they're in third place.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
As a as a new head coach to a team,
all you can ask for at the halfway mark is
to still be in the hunt. I'm talking about brand
new walking into the building inheriting someone else's team. Essentially,

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if you would have told him that they he could
be four and three and we eight, would he sign
up for it?

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
I imagine, I guess, I guess yes.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
Yeah, But let's I mean, let's keep it, keep it real,
Like it's in a division with Kansas City, who always
wins the division? Like, what what were we expecting to happen?
Justin Herbert to light the skies up? No, because what

(01:00:44):
does Harba do? Harball specializes in running the ball, sure,
and managing the game with the quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
But that's what I'm getting at, that's what he specializes
in in ido peal.

Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
Until the trust level of him in court in the
quarterback turns the page like it did with Andrew Luck,
like it did with Colin Kaepernick.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
It's all about they still don't know each other.

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
Yeah, you can watch all the tape you want and
get to know justin that way, But until you've been
in the fight and in the war with someone your
quarterback to know how they respond to situations. Then you're
going to try to take as much off their plate

(01:01:44):
as possible for early success. That's all I'm trying to say. Wow,
and it's working. Now, Can Justin Herbert come out and
throw for three hundred? We know he can throw for
three hundred, four hundred yards, We've seen it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:01):
We know he's.

Speaker 4 (01:02:03):
Had more passing yards, more three hundred yard games than
anybody at this point in his career coming into the league,
coming into this year, so we know we can put
the ball up.

Speaker 5 (01:02:18):
Have they won with him doing that?

Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
So you have to look at things as a new
coach coming into a new situation. It's okay, what do
we need to do to win? Not to make this
kid look all world? Look, JJ McCarthy is gonna turn
out to be a pretty darn good pro football player

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from what we've seen in pre stating.

Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
And all that. Maybe right, I don't know, but.

Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
We wouldn't have even known any of that in college.
Why well did he have to for four hundred in Coline?
You could throw four thousand yards in a game. It
is just right right?

Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
They won the national championship.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
Yes, but who are the Chargers really going to be
able to beat My question is is when you get
when you get there, can you beat Patrick?

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
Can you beat Lamar? Can you beat Josh?

Speaker 5 (01:03:17):
If they don't have the ball, you can?

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
Well, I get that, if they don't have the ball.

Speaker 5 (01:03:22):
You can, And that is a real recipe.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
I understand what you're saying. Hardball specializes in You know
who specializes in putting the game together just.

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
The way he likes it? Yeah, Martin Whites, that's who.

Speaker 5 (01:03:42):
Not quite going away.

Speaker 7 (01:03:43):
You'd like it to go if you're the San Francisco
forty nine years. It feels like they've been dominating this game.
But the Cowboys somehow with the ten to three lead,
Brandon Aubrey just kicked the field goal through the uprights there.

Speaker 5 (01:03:55):
I want to play that.

Speaker 7 (01:03:55):
I just looked like a fumble to me, But that
was a third They did not complete the third down
version and a Brandon Alby kicking it to go ahead,
go up at touchdown there. Brandon Alby didn't practice all week.
He was in jury duty down in Dallas. But good
to see he's out there now. They already hit an
extra point as well as the field goal. Dak Prescott
thirteen for fifteen one hundred and three yards through the air,

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one interception, Ezekiel Elliott with the touchdown for Dallas. He's
got six carries in twenty nine yards. Cede Lamp seven
catches forty eight yards so far. For the forty nine
er side of things, Rock Party is seven to ten
for one hundred and six yards. Jordan Mason eighteen yards rushing,
Deebo Samuel with fifty two yards receiving again. Three minutes
left there with the Cowboys kicking off to the forty

(01:04:39):
nine Ers, they lead the forty nine Ers ten to three.
Had a couple NBA games going on right now. Wrapping
up right here. The Oklahoma City Thunder and the Atlanta
Hawks won twenty eight to one oh four. The lead
to the Thunder just under fifty seconds left. Trey Young
had twenty four points and eight assists in what will
eventually be a losing effort. Shake Gildess Alexander one assist

(01:04:59):
off of t triple double. We'll see if you can
get that in the last thirty seconds here. Thirty five points,
eleven rebounds, nine assists, six thirty five left in the
second quarter here between the Clippers and the Warriors in
Los Angeles with a one point lead, forty three to
forty two because Zu box to the high man thirteen points,
eight rebounds. Steph Curry stuckling six points for quite some
time here. Earlier today in the NFL, we had the Texans.

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They beat the Colts twenty three to twenty. Anthony Richardson
still struggling, completing passes ten for thirty two, one hundred
and seventy five yards, a touchdown and a pick. Ce
j Stroud went two hundred and eighty five yards through
the air, one touchdown, Joe Mixon one hundred and two
yards rushing. Chargers beat the Saints twenty six to eight.
Justin Herbert two hundred seventy yards seventy nine yards through

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the air, two touchdowns. Ladi mccontee caught both of them.
Bill's outscored the Seahawks thirty one to ten. Josh Allen
finally through his first interception of the year, but again
a twenty one point win, so I think he'll take it.
Two touchdowns through the air, James Cook two on the ground.
Broncos defeat the Panthers. Panthers fall to one seven, Broncos
five and three twenty eight to fourteen. There the margin.

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Bownicks four total touchdowns, three through the air. Chiefs beat
the Raiders twenty seven to twenty. Mahomes with two touchdowns
and an interception. Remember he hadn't thrown a passing touchdown
in the last two games, so he got two today.
Travis Kelce ninety yards through the air and a touchdown.
Jayden Daniels played last second hil Mary passed to go
ahead and beat the Bears eighteen to fifteen. The Bears

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had just taken the lead twenty three seconds left win.
Roshawn Johnson had to score a rushing touchdown to take
a fifteen to twelve lead, but was not enough, as
Jayden Daniels able to get the final score as the
time expired. Falcons hold on to beat the Buccaneers thirty
one to twenty six at Atlanta, first place in the
NFC South. Patriots came back and beat the Jets, both

(01:06:45):
of those teams now two and six, twenty five to
twenty two. Drake May had a seventeen yard rushing touchdown
in this game and received a concussion was knocked out.
Jacobussett finished the day remindre Stevenson with two touchdowns. This
is the first game since Week three, twenty twelve that
the losing team had no turnovers and held the opposing

(01:07:05):
team to less than two hundred and fifty yards and
still lost. So special times going on in the medal
hends for the Jets, Cardinals walking. I mean, you can't
write that out.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
Special to special, very special.

Speaker 7 (01:07:18):
Tua Tonguebailoa did return for the Dolphins today, but it
wasn't enough. Cardinals walking off with a Chad Violin field
goal thirty four yards out to go ahead and beat
the Dolphins of twenty eight to twenty seven. Kyler Murray
three zho seven through the air, two touchdowns, Marvin Harrison
Junior one hundred and eleven through the air, one touchdown.
Good to see him getting in the fold. Also good
to see Tua in the full with two thirty four

(01:07:39):
through the air and a passing touchdown himself and the
most applauded slides you will ever see in the NFL
Lions carts the Titans fifty two to fourteen. Jared Goff
had eighty five yards passing and three touchdowns. Special teams
a big deal in this Lions gave. He had two
big returns. Khalif Raymond had one of them, ninety yard
pund return. Browns beat the Ravens nine to twenty four.

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Jamis Winston is get to win in his first start
of the year. Just a second win for the Browns
on the year, first time Cleveland has scored twenty points
all season. Maybe the fans were right. Jameis Winston was
the right option. Eagles defeat the Bengals thirty seven to seventeen. Eagles, somehow,
despite scoring thirty seven points, have yet to score a
first quarter point this season.

Speaker 5 (01:08:22):
Bengals haven't won at home yet.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
But back to you guys, Okay Martin great stuff, Yes,
special times. Indeed, we hope this show is that every
single Sunday night, Tyrek dot Com Studios. Mark Willard he
from Salaam with you. On this one, he kept talking
about that the most applauded slide ever. I don't know
if you were watching this one, but listen, Yeah, red

(01:08:46):
Zone is on, and like, I'm trying to follow every
game at sort of an equal level, and if my
team's not playing, it's sort of the like, hey, kick
your feet up, get some unhealthy food, and let's just rely.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
I stood up.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
I stood up when he took off, and I'm yelling
at my television set. Slide slide, slide, slide, slide, And
then he did and I.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Was so grateful.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
What would how would you describe sort of like the
emotional feel of watching two a play today.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
I just didn't want them to get hurt man, Yeah, yeah,
I wanted.

Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
Him to play well.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
I wanted the receivers that they're paying a lot of
money to to actually become part of the team and
the game plan. I just didn't want them to get hurt.
And he's got to learn to protect himself because that's
what it's that's what it's going to be all about.
He's got to learn to protect himself. And you know,

(01:09:50):
the refs aren't going to protect him. He's got to
protect himself. And that slide was a good indication of that. Yeah,
if you see a defender coming free, do what Tom
Brady does or did do what Peyton manning, they just
go down. They go down, because what you do is
you get to live to to throw another day or

(01:10:13):
another play.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
And also the other Yeah, the other thing that that
kind of pops to mind in watching to a play,
and I know that we all do this. We we
we get into all kinds of handwringing over like who's
worth what Dak Prescott sixty, Trevor Lawrence fifty five. To me,
if there's any player so far this year whose contract

(01:10:38):
has become validated, it's too absolutely, it's like, oh my god,
like you just we watched this, We watched this this year,
and they.

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
Can't function without him.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
They literally cannot function without him.

Speaker 4 (01:11:00):
Deepo saying he just dropped another pass, just be going sorry, yes, no,
how was that was that one?

Speaker 5 (01:11:05):
Who's that too high? Too hard?

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
That one was? Let me how let me see how
I can describe that one? That one was right between
his two thumbs.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
Okay, cool, cool, that one was right between his two thumbs.

Speaker 5 (01:11:20):
You know what, my man? You know my wife just texted.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
Me, I, oh god, oh god. Really she said she.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Is alleging that the forty nine ers are throwing the season.

Speaker 4 (01:11:36):
What she's saying is that's what it looks like, and
shame on them because they're professionals and they should be
making these catches.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Well, let's get into it a little bit more. Let's
get into it a little bit more. Plus, I want
to unveil the player in the NFL who nobody thinks about,
nobody talks about, who has had maybe some of the
most profound impact on the game in the last ten
months in the NFL. And like you can guess a
thousand times and you will not guess who I'm thinking of.

(01:12:07):
I'll unveil that. Coming up next with you from salam
Mark Willard. This is Fox Sports Radio. Let's keep riding
ty rack dot com Studios. Another field goal for the
Niners makes it ten to six. The Cowboys have just
been stopped just short of midfield. About a minute to
go until the half. They'll kick it to the Niners.

(01:12:28):
How aggressive would you be? Like, I don't know how
this is gonna go.

Speaker 5 (01:12:31):
You gotta go. You gotta go get it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
Would you? Would you get aggressive? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
You have to.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
All right, We're watching We're watching teams run the ball.
I'm third and long a lot tonight. I don't know
what the hell's going on out there.

Speaker 5 (01:12:43):
You gotta go be aggressive, man, you gotta all right.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
Would you fake this if you were Dallas?

Speaker 5 (01:12:48):
No, you punt it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:50):
But I'm talking about be aggressive in terms of uh,
San Francisco, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
Got the ball? At their own, their own seven line.

Speaker 5 (01:13:00):
The three time outs, fifty four seconds. Let's go get
this money.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Okay, and they get the ball in the second half too.
We'll keep an eye on it for you. The watch
party continues here with you from Salammark Werer.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
Glad you're with us.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Whatever you're doing on your hole, there's so much to
go through from the day. I wanted to give this
guy a couple minutes of our time because he never
gets it ever, ever, ever. But I've noticed two things.
We talk about the diva receiver a lot in the NFL,
don't we, Yes, we talk about these receivers a lot,

(01:13:35):
especially lately, the contracts, the Netflix doc whatever. Here's what
I've noticed. Last year, George Pickens was about to go crazy.
He was about to lose it. It looked like at
times he had already lost it. And he and Mike Tomlin,

(01:13:58):
who knows how that was going to play out. And
then what happened at the end of the season for
the Steelers. All of a sudden they were forced to
just shove Mason Rudolph into the situation, and Mason ended

(01:14:18):
up taking George Pickens on an absolute ride. Take it
from someone who had George on a fantasy team. There's
some money in the bank account because Mason Rudolph showed
up and the Steelers went.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
To the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (01:14:34):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Now we are two weeks removed from Calvin Ridley was
about to go crazy, and he's in the locker room
ripping on things, and the Titans aren't going anywhere. They're
one and six and DeAndrea Hopkins got traded. That's part
of this story. But here comes Mason Rudolph and look

(01:15:01):
what happens. Here comes Calvin Ridley with like a thousand
yards in one game.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
I mean, he was over one hundred in the first half.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
I think came from Yep. So there's a Will Levis
conversation to have. And I'm not saying that somebody should
sign Mason Rudolph to be their starter, but a little
respect on the name, that's what I'm saying tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:15:26):
Well, yeah, look, when you have these teams, much maligned teams,
who have talent outside at the receiver position, and then
you stumble into a backup quarterback. Oh that just happened today. Hello,

(01:15:48):
Jameis Winston, uh huh and Cleveland Browns. Now, that's that's
you know, you want to talk about the Ravens getting
hit with an uppercut, and they weren't prepared for that,
and it was it was evident because they went from

(01:16:12):
looking like the best team on the planet Earth to
trying to figure out what the heck is going on.

Speaker 5 (01:16:20):
And you know, the.

Speaker 4 (01:16:26):
Worst thing that could happen to a team is for
a backup quarterback to come in sometimes because he just
you haven't prepared for it. Now, granted, Jameis Winston, they
knew he was going to be the starter, but they
didn't know which shape or form he would manifest himself into. Well,

(01:16:50):
they manifested himself into three hundred and thirty four yards
and three touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
And it might have been I mean, I guess.

Speaker 5 (01:16:58):
Had you heard of sed Tillman.

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
And actually, my lovely lady was sitting with me and
she goes, she we are in the Little Family and
Fantasy League and she's playing my parents.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
She's playing my parents today. And she opens up the
app and she goes.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Hey, because my parents were kicking her butt and she goes,
what's what's ce Tillman?

Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
What's that?

Speaker 5 (01:17:24):
Who's that?

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
I'm like, Uh, I think that's the guy with the
Browns who's apparently now they're number one receiver with Noah
Mauri Cooper.

Speaker 4 (01:17:35):
Nine targets, Yeah, seven receptions, ninety nine yards and two touchdowns.

Speaker 5 (01:17:42):
Who is this? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:17:45):
You know who it is. You know who it is.
I talked to you about this last week. He is
a He is a receiver who spent more time with
Jameis Winston doing scout team than he did with Desjohn

(01:18:07):
Watson in the first team offense.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
Yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:18:13):
And so now there's rapport there.

Speaker 4 (01:18:19):
You know as a quarterback, the type of Rowty's going
to run, you know where he's going to be. There
is an automatic chemistry there and in manifest we talked
about it last week. It's a real thing. And now
everybody's going to try to get Cedric Tillman.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
Every year, dude, every year. It's the best. That's my
favorite part of fantasy football. Yes, you walk out of
that draft and they'll always be that guy's like, I'll
beat you all. I'm like, don't you realize that the
people who are going to win, Like, there will be
players who win leagues who today on August twenty eighth,

(01:19:07):
you've never heard of ever.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Ever, how many people have heard of Jordan.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
Mason when they left their draft, Like maybe maybe you've
heard them, maybe you know who we're talking about. But
happens every single year.

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
Yeah, is Cedric Tillman.

Speaker 4 (01:19:31):
Maybe a man, backup quarterback man Jameis Wooster came in
would have now look shame on the Ravens.

Speaker 5 (01:19:37):
They should have picked them up at least four times in.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
That game for sure. Oh well, and there was the
one that was the game ending.

Speaker 5 (01:19:43):
It was it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:44):
Hamilton had a game end.

Speaker 5 (01:19:45):
It was over. Yeah and.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
All right, nowhere near done yet more coming up Fox
Sports Radio. You don't get a true halfway point in
the NFL season anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:20:00):
Ten game schedule.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
I guess you could do eighteen weeks, so you could
say after next week, after week nine is in theory
a halfway point. However, some people have already had their buy.
You get my point. You've either played seven games or
eight games or whatever. We're approaching the halfway mark of
the NFL regular season. Who you got, Let's play that

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Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
Should be look. I laughed at it too. It was funny.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
It was funny when he took the podium a few
years ago and started talking about biting kneecaps and doing
all the weird things. Whatever the hell Dan Campbell was
talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
But then he went about slowly but surely changing a culture,
and then they started going about a very smart way
of building a roster. The one to two punts that
they've got in their backfield between Jamiir Gibbs and David
Montgomery is absolutely for me. It's unmatched as far as

(01:21:20):
a run game. They've lost their best defensive player. We'll
see how that affects them going forward, but they can
still play. They've got to take away at least one
of them in every single game. They're good on special teams.
They're young, they're fast, they're creative on offense. It seems

(01:21:41):
like they've got answers everywhere, and they often blow people
off of the field when you give them a chance.
Right now, for me, Ephraim, give me the Detroit Lions
that's the team that I think looks the best.

Speaker 4 (01:21:55):
But yeah, I mean I would agree with you, especially
after this week. Prior to this week, I would have
said it was the Baltimore Ravens. But this year has
been one of those years where you just don't know
what you're gonna get from week to week except for
one team, all right, and that would be the Kansas

(01:22:20):
City Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
The team that people are yelling that neither of us
brought up. So for me, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:22:28):
Kansas City would be the best team in the league
because they can win.

Speaker 5 (01:22:35):
Ugly, they can win unspectacular, and they're always in the game, yep.
And to me that's scary.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
Well, they've got the best defense.

Speaker 2 (01:22:52):
And it's an old adage that I don't know if
is if it's as appropriate anymore as it was when
people first started saying it. But if you say defense
wins championships, I like the way you said it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
It keeps you in every single football game.

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
And we all, you know, all Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey,
the Kansas Chiefs are the best defense in the league
and that's that's why they're seving it out.

Speaker 4 (01:23:22):
Yeah, And so I couldn't. I'd be hard pressed to
put a team over them at the halfway mark in
terms for me, the best team. Now we can go
conferences and you take the NFC and you have, of
course Detroit and I agree with that. And I take
the AFC and it's obviously the Kansas City Chiefs, because

(01:23:49):
I mean, it's it. It blows my mind how consistent
they are, and consistent by consistently winning, that's the thing
that's the difference, consistently winning the games don't look like it.

Speaker 5 (01:24:14):
Like I said, if you.

Speaker 4 (01:24:16):
Have him, Patrick Mahomes is your quarterback and fantasy football
you may be ohen whatever right now?

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
Oh gosh, yeah, I have him in a league. I
don't even play him anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:24:27):
You can't.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
No, no, Remember when we were doing the quarterback rating
thing earlier in the show, and I told you how
far down Aaron Rodgers is. Yeah, you know who's one
slot ahead of him? Yeah, Patrick Mahomes. That's right, Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
Yeah. Statistically there's absolutely nothing going on. Nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
I don't think he cares, but statistically there is. There's
nothing going on. Patrick Mahomes as a rating of eighty
two point five, right behind Doc Prescott, right, you know,
right right behind Caleb Williams right behind Geno Smith, Like,
and he's got more, you know, at least going into today.

(01:25:09):
I know he had a couple today, but going into
today he had more picks than touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (01:25:15):
Wow, think about that. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
Yeah, six touchdowns, eight picks at the start of today,
and today he had two touchdowns and one pick. So yeah,
he still does got eight touchdowns and nine interceptions.

Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
Yeah, but I think the top three teams in each
conference are are there and and and and that holes
right Kansas City obviously, Houston and Buffalo and then that's.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
The Houston ahead of Baltimore.

Speaker 5 (01:25:52):
And in terms of yeah, like.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
Each week matters to me. Sure that loss that they
had today, yeah was horrific. Now will they bounce back?
I suspect they will, But that was a bad loss
by a bad by even worse team, And so yeah,

(01:26:20):
you get bumped down a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:26:23):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
You know what's funny is these two teams that we
talked the most about in the AFC, they've done a
role reversal.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
Who do you talk about with the Kansas City Chiefs.
You you talk.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
About Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey, But they're doing it
with defense. Yes, and through the years, and I know
Lamar has changed this a little bit, but through the years,
what do you think about when you think of the
Baltimore Ravens defense, Right, their defense is awful. Then they've
given up the most points in their entire division.

Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
They've given They've given up more points than the.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Browns, a lot more points than the They've given up
more points than the Bengals, who seem to be in
a shootout each week. Ready for this, and I know
they've played one more game because they've played Tomorrow night.
They've given up more than twice as many points as
the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
One hundred and nine points they've given up the Steelers
have given up one hundred and one.

Speaker 4 (01:27:21):
How about this, Yes, sir, we talked about the Harbaugh effect.

Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
I know.

Speaker 4 (01:27:30):
How about their defense is got? They have the number
one defense in the league.

Speaker 3 (01:27:35):
They sure do.

Speaker 5 (01:27:38):
They've given up ninety one points.

Speaker 3 (01:27:43):
Wow, it's pretty impressive.

Speaker 4 (01:27:48):
Think about that as a coach who has a quarterback
who can make every throw and a defense. So when
this thing, when you open this thing up second half
of the season, you got a quarterback that we know
can make every throw, and you got a defense at

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a run game. Boy, they're like them down the stretch.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
You're gonna call this cherry picking, but I want you
to listen to the seven offenses they've played.

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
They are good. I'm not taking your point from you.
They're good.

Speaker 5 (01:28:25):
Sounds like you're about to but go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
Their numbers are a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
Misleading because I don't think they've played any good offenses yet. Now,
this is what happens when you finish in third place
or fourth.

Speaker 3 (01:28:42):
Place or favor You got a favorable schedule.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
But they have beaten the Raiders, They've beaten the Panthers,
they've beaten the Steelers. Now, actually they lost the Steelers.
They lost to the Chiefs, but we were just detailed.
Ain't got the Chiefs offense.

Speaker 5 (01:28:56):
They just everybody's lost to the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
Right right.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
They played Denver, they played Arizona, they played the Saints
with a second and third string quarterback. When the Chargers
get later on, there's a two game stretch in early
December that I want to see. In six days on
a Monday night, they will host Baltimore, followed by going

(01:29:23):
to Atlanta six days later. If they hold both of
those teams down in the neighborhood of twenty one points
or less. Then we got some we got action. But
I'm not taking your point from you. It's a good defense.
It's a good defense.

Speaker 4 (01:29:42):
Yeah, you know, that's how you win, man, That's how
you win. Harbor had a plan. He's bringing the defense,
he's bringing the running game, everything else. It'll it'll look
everything else to take care of itself, because you know,
it is not a situation where you're questioning if you're
it back and throw the ball down the field, right,

(01:30:03):
So you got to strip it away and you got
to build it again. And I'm not mad at his
approach because it's going to pay dividends in the long run.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
I hear you got I got a question for you
that's totally off the subject. You know when you watch
kickoffs now in the NFL, and you see that like
on TV, the yellow box that gets created to the
twenty and to the goal line. Yeah, and that's the
return area, right, it's got to land in there. If
you kick it over that into the end zone, you
can take it out. You can also kneel and go

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to the thirty. Do you know what happens if you
kick it and it lands in front of the twenty.
It doesn't even get there.

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
Yeah, what happened? Penalty and you get the ball?

Speaker 3 (01:30:45):
That very good, very very good.

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
I don't know that that that that's widely known yet.
And and the Cowboys just did it on the opening.
They just kicked the book. They just landed the ball
the twenty five yard line and the Niners have the
ball like midfield almost right away. It's like, wow, what
are you all right? There's a lot of stuff going

(01:31:14):
on going on. Man, it is very uh, it is wobbley.
It is wobbley out there in this world right now.
So anyway, lots still to get to the concern level
for both of these teams as we move into the
second half of this game. The Cowboys leading the forty

(01:31:38):
nine ers right now ten to six. We have also
got to get back to these first round qbs, the
performance they put on today and what's really.

Speaker 3 (01:31:47):
Going on with Joe Burrows Bengals.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
Okay, that's all around the corner with you from Salama
Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio. We are live in the
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(01:32:12):
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Speaker 3 (01:32:14):
Again.

Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
All you gotta do is search Fox Sports Radio wherever
you get your podcasts. See the show posting right after
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Speaker 3 (01:32:22):
And make the air.

Speaker 4 (01:32:24):
They did the job and money came with ease. But
one couldn't stop us, like he had a disease. He
wrapped another and another, and his sister and her brother
tried to rub him. Man, it was a g t
undercover got grab your kids, started at the knee ready
and said keep still getting no need for static. Paunch
it in the belly and he gave him a slab literal.

Speaker 5 (01:32:40):
Did you know?

Speaker 4 (01:32:41):
The little boy was strapped? Kid pulled out the guns,
said why aren't you hitting me? The barrelhead streight traidle
cops getting eat the cops got kid get okay, all right,
I'm done.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
Can see that pretty good? I was good.

Speaker 5 (01:32:56):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:32:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:32:58):
I mean, come on Mary to me every week. Man,
she hit me with something and it just takes.

Speaker 2 (01:33:04):
Hits you with something half in you're allowed to flow
a word a minute and a half in.

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
That's pretty good run. It's a pretty good run, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:33:12):
I'm not gonna lie to do it on purpose.

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
You're doing well.

Speaker 5 (01:33:16):
Yeah, I know. It's a good show when you can
recite a word for word.

Speaker 4 (01:33:19):
Uh damn, I've messed up because Dak Press got through
another interception so well, and I was.

Speaker 8 (01:33:25):
Going to apologize, but then you took over and started
with the flow. I was gonna apologize because I'm like,
you gotta understand our audience. When if you hear kids
and dogs freaking out in the background, that means something
good happened to the Niners. And so you know, I

(01:33:45):
was gonna apologize, and then I realized that nobody heard
it because because my man had flow.

Speaker 5 (01:33:51):
Well, you know, my man had flow. You know who
doesn't have flow right now?

Speaker 3 (01:33:57):
That the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 5 (01:34:00):
Yes, it is gracious.

Speaker 3 (01:34:01):
Yeah, yeah, well.

Speaker 5 (01:34:02):
Look give it away, why don't you.

Speaker 2 (01:34:04):
The Niners opening drive touchdown to take a thirteen to
ten lead, and now you give them a really short
field on a third down, a three and out and
a really nice pick by Diamidor Leonois and the Niners
are all set up with a second down in the
red zone again, and yeah, suddenly the uh, the niner

(01:34:26):
faithful are feeling a little bit better, feeling a little
bit better.

Speaker 5 (01:34:29):
A little bit better, a little bit better, a little
bit better, little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:34:32):
Although if they have to settle for a field goal here,
people are still going to be mad because that's how
football works. That's how it works.

Speaker 4 (01:34:38):
Yeah, you got to be able to punch it in
the red zone, man. The good teams, kid, that's how
they separate themselves. Right, you get into the red zone
four or five times, you come away with three or
four field goals.

Speaker 5 (01:34:51):
That's not it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:53):
Well, as an offensive lineman, I wonder if you like
the popular thought with the forty nine ers who were
number one in red zone a fish and say last
year and they've been a bottom five team in it
this year. And most people will just give you two words.
They'll say Christian McCaffrey. And yes, that's that's a big
part of it, huge part. That's a that's a huge
part of it. But I wonder if you could expand

(01:35:15):
a little bit more from an offensive standpoint, what other
than the obvious we get it. The field is smaller,
so there's less space, But like, right, what do you
how would you describe the difference?

Speaker 3 (01:35:26):
What is it that suddenly happens in the red zone.

Speaker 2 (01:35:29):
That is an offense you need to account for, Well,
what happened?

Speaker 4 (01:35:32):
What you have to do? Number one, it's a it's
a game of ventches, it's a game of aggression. So
once you get into the red zone as an offensive lineman,
I want to impose my.

Speaker 5 (01:35:46):
Will on you.

Speaker 4 (01:35:49):
Right, So the actual ability to run the ball from
the twenty end and there's nothing you can do about it,
And that's that's our dream because what it does is
it really opens up what would normally be a compressed

(01:36:09):
plane area. Because if when you start to send nine
players to stop the run, that's when that hard play
action you ever watched and someone just standing wide opening
the end zone, like, how did that happen?

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:36:28):
That's how that happens. When you physically impose yourself on
the defense and they have to over commit to stop
you and you get an easy touchdown. But if you
can't run the ball there, the field stays compressed, Safeties

(01:36:50):
aren't coming up, linebackers are at proper depth, and there's
no windows. There are not a lot of windows to
get passes in. So that's the philosophy in the in
the red zone and they're showing it. They're in the
red zone. It was sixty eight last year. Yeah, that's

(01:37:11):
a huge difference. It's a huge difference. And I and
I think forty nine er fans would love to just
go well, Christian McCaffrey. But at the same time, and
they're in although there's flags.

Speaker 5 (01:37:24):
Down, a bunch of flags.

Speaker 2 (01:37:25):
Flags everywhere. George Kittle's upset with it. He caught a
touchdown pass, but he's not gonna like this call. We
got to take another look at it to see what
we think about it. But it has to be more
than that, right Like, I'll buy that that's a big
piece of it, But it's got to be more than that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:42):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:37:44):
Well, it's oh will it's a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
Yep. They called it off, Okay, they we're gonna call
the pick play.

Speaker 5 (01:37:53):
Okay, they were.

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
Gonna say that Chris Conley ran a pick to all.
But can you explain that rule? By the way, you
got two receivers set up next to one another. One
of them runs his man right at the man of
the other guy and.

Speaker 3 (01:38:07):
It frees him up.

Speaker 2 (01:38:08):
What's the legality in terms of you know, because obviously
you're not supposed to do it. But it's almost like, well,
how do you know that's not where I'm running my route?
What's the legality of that play?

Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
You have to be making an offensive move, you have
to run a route. You can't just run into a defender.
You have to be literally running a route. So you
have to make.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
Tell well, because I mean it looks like he's running
a slant and it looks like he runs right into
George Kittle's man.

Speaker 5 (01:38:41):
Well, that's you know, spacing.

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
The defense does have a responsibility to you know, to
their spacing as well. Right, if two defenders are compressed
on top of each other and he can't get through
you running a route, that is not on you. But
if you actively go to be a shield or in

(01:39:05):
a blocking manner, then yeah, it's it's a penalty.

Speaker 2 (01:39:10):
Well, that didn't take long. I can just tell you
live from the Bay Area. That didn't take long. To
calm everybody down.

Speaker 5 (01:39:17):
No, it's all calm now.

Speaker 3 (01:39:18):
Yeah, yeah, Niners up by ten early third quarter. A
long way to go.

Speaker 2 (01:39:24):
And you know you said at the top of the
show that this is more of a must for the
Cowboys than it is for the forty nine ers. So
give me an idea right now, the Dallas sideline and
the sphincter level, we're looking at Dak Prescott, sixty million dollars,
has thrown two picks. Michael McCarthy hot seat down by

(01:39:46):
ten on the road, second half Sunday Night football, staring
at a losing record in the face. If they don't
come back and Washington is six and two, talk to
me about what's going on.

Speaker 5 (01:39:58):
Not not a happy place right now.

Speaker 4 (01:40:01):
I wouldn't be surprised, and I don't want to wish
this on anybody, but I wouldn't be surprised if Dak
threw another pick, because now you gotta be perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
Right well, now you gotta put down, you're gonna press. Now,
you have to take.

Speaker 4 (01:40:16):
Take chances now. And that's not where you want to be.
You you don't want to be. You don't want to
be there. And so this is this is a terrible
place for a much maligned team to be in right
now on the road. Uh and and not playing your

(01:40:41):
best ball.

Speaker 3 (01:40:42):
Yeah, they're just not or or maybe they are from.

Speaker 5 (01:40:48):
Man looking at it like that, Well cry again.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
If we're going to state what we said off the show,
which is that they don't do anything particular like they're
not ill at anything. I'm not going to tell you
the Cowboys the worst team in the league, but understand
what I mean by that, the different facets of the game.
There's nothing that makes a defense stay up at night
as they prepare for you. You can say ceedee lamb.

(01:41:15):
But anybody can focus on one thing and and and
so there's there's no second receiver that freaks you out.
There's no run game, there's no The defense doesn't freak
you out. They don't. They're not great at anything. Martin
Wise is great at radio.

Speaker 5 (01:41:36):
Oh here's that.

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (01:41:39):
Too kind?

Speaker 7 (01:41:40):
Too kind becomes Martin Wise, all right, appreciated guys. San
Francisco forty nine of the ten I'm sorry, ten point
lead twenty to ten over.

Speaker 5 (01:41:49):
The Cowboys by midway through the third quarter.

Speaker 7 (01:41:51):
Here let's see Isaac Garrindo leading the forty nine ers
and carries after Jordan Mason, still questionable to return with
a shoulder injury, he went to the locker room late
in the first half. Rock Pridies fourteen for twenty with
two hundred and eleven yards passing one touchdown. George Kittle
with five catches one hundred and one yards and one
touchdowns well, including a big one that set up he ended.

Speaker 5 (01:42:12):
A half field goal.

Speaker 7 (01:42:13):
Dak Prescott now has two interceptions on the night, one
of the first end of the and Dzeko Elliott with
a rushing touchdown.

Speaker 5 (01:42:19):
That's the one touchdown the Dallas to score so far.

Speaker 7 (01:42:21):
Ceedee Lamb eight catches for fifty four yards Dax Stone
at FO one hundred and sixteen. Cowboys do have the
ball here at their own twenty five yard line as
Ezekiel Elliott takes a first down carry about seven yards.

Speaker 5 (01:42:32):
Keep you updated on everything going on in that game
as well. Seven minutes left in the third quarter.

Speaker 7 (01:42:38):
One game going on in the NBA remaining the Warriors
and the Clippers. The Clippers with a sixty I mean
eighty six to seventy nine lead over Golden State at
Golden State Evica Zubox with a double double, seventeen points,
fourteen rebounds, Steph Curry eighteen points and six assists. Earlier
today in the NFL, we had all types of action
going on, including Roshawn Johnson scoring the go ahead touch

(01:43:00):
down for Chicago that would have given the score that
would make the score fifteen to twelve, but Jayden Daniels,
with one second remanding on the clock, rolled out had
a Hail Mary touchdown pass to Noah Brown. Commanders over
the Bears eighteen to fifteen. The Chiefs beat the Raiders
twenty seven to twenty. Match Mahomes with two touchdowns through
the air and one interception. Travis Kelce Tech catches ninety

(01:43:21):
yards and a touchdown. Broncos beat the Panthers twenty eight
to fourteen. Bow Knicks with four total touchdowns Bills I'll
score the Seahawks thirty one to ten. Josh Allen with
his first interception of the year, but he did throw
for two hundred and eighty three in the air and
two touchdowns. James Cook with two rushing touchdowns. Justin Herbert
had two hundred and seventy nine yards and two touchdowns
to Lad McConkey. As the Chargers beat the Saints twenty

(01:43:42):
six to eight. Saint ended up benching Spencer Rattler Jay
Hayter finished the second half only one hundred and twenty
two yards for him. Texans survived twenty three to twenty
against the Colts. Anthony Richardson still having struggles completing the
ball ten for thirty two, one hundred and seventy five yards,
a touchdown, and an interception. She destrow out two hundred
and eighty five yards in a passing touchdown. Joe Mixon
added one hundred into rushing and a touchdown on the ground.

(01:44:05):
Falcons hold on to beat the Buccaneers thirty one to
twenty six. Car Cousins with four passing touchdowns Kyle Pitts
had two of them, Bacon Mayfield with three touchdowns two interceptions.
Drake may got to start for the Patriots as they
beat the Jets twenty five to twenty two. He lost
lost didn't play the second half of the game after
he suffered a concussion. Jacoby Brissett finished the game. Reminder,

(01:44:26):
Stevenson had two rushing touchdowns. The Jets had no turnovers,
held the Patriots to under two hundred and fifty yards
of offense and still lost. They're the first team to
do that since Week three of twenty twelve. Cardinal was
walking off with a thirty four yard field goal by
Chad Ryland. They beat the Dolphins twenty eight to twenty seven,
and to his return after he suffered a concussion and
week or earlier this season. He finally cleared concussion protocol

(01:44:49):
just a couple of days ago, two hundred and thirty
four yards through the air, one touchdown for him. Kyler
Murray had three oh seven passing two touchdowns there. Marvin
Harrison Junior six catches, one hund and eleven yards one
touchdown for the rookie Lions across the Titans fifty two
to fourteen. Jared Goff only had eighty five yards passing.
That's because you had multiple big punt and kick returns

(01:45:10):
for the Lions here. Khalif Raymond had one of them
for ninety yards. David Montgomery had a rushing touchdown and
a touchdown pass to ham and Ross Saint Brown. Jamis
Winston in his first start for the Cleveland Browns, is
also the first time the Browns were scored over twenty
points this season and the second time that they have
won twenty nine to twenty four over the Baltimore Ravens again.
Jamis Winston three thirty four through the air, three touchdowns,

(01:45:32):
two of them to Cedric Tillman. Lamar Jackson had two
passing touchdowns. Jerreck Henry seventy three yards and a touchdown
on the ground. Eagles beat the Bengals thirty seven to seventeen.
Despite scoring nearly forty points, Eagles still haven't scored a
first quarter point.

Speaker 5 (01:45:46):
Bengals winless at home.

Speaker 7 (01:45:48):
So Saquon Barkley twenty two carries one hundred and yards
Jalen Hurts two hundred and thirty six in the air,
four total touchdowns for the Philadelphia quarterback Mark Willard.

Speaker 5 (01:45:58):
And Ephraim Slick Rich Salom come back to you, guys, brother, Is.

Speaker 3 (01:46:03):
That a real stat? The Eagles haven't scored in the
first quarter this year?

Speaker 5 (01:46:06):
Hey, listen did you say that? Mark? Hey?

Speaker 7 (01:46:09):
November first is quickly approaching. I will be paying my
rent on under Philadelphia three and a half points in
the first quarter. Only team in the NFL to not
score a first quarter point, not a first quarter touchdown,
a first quarter point, the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 3 (01:46:24):
Well that's why.

Speaker 5 (01:46:26):
What what five and two say to you?

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
I mean, yeah, they're five and two, But like you
got Nick Sirianni's script, how we doing? How like? What
does that say to you?

Speaker 4 (01:46:40):
Ephraim game plan is rubbish? First fifteen, that's that's the
set to toe. You gotta be able to score on
your first fifteen and for those who don't know, each
team scripts out the first fifteen plays of the game,
that's normally your first quarter, unless you're going to you know, ten,

(01:47:05):
play twelve, play drive the beginning of the game. Now,
there are some caveats to there if it's a third
and long or whatever, but you the night before the game,
you go over the first fifteen. You guys, prepare for
it based on what you think the defense is going
to give you. And so if you can't score on
your scripted plays, goodness, its gracious.

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
And the Eagles, I mean, I wonder about Jalen Hurts
right now, you know, I really there's a curiosity there
by the way tyrack dot com Studios, because one thing
I've noticed in the football world and the football fan
community now is we have a hard time sometimes separating

(01:47:52):
fantasy from reality. So if somebody is scoring a lot
of points for your fantasy team, we think they're playing
great football. And Jalen Hurts is scoring a lot of
points for people's fantasy teams right now, and that's largely
because of this tush push thing, the brotherly shove, and
so he's getting one or two of these a game,

(01:48:14):
and I'm not gonna say he doesn't have any passing touchdowns.
He hit DeVante Smith with a dot, a deep dot today.
It was a beautiful throw. At the same time, there's
been a lot of stress about Jalen and there are times,
and I do think early in the game is often
that time where you watch him play and he just
looks totally out of sorts.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
They're five and two. His fantasy numbers are great. But
how would you answer that, is Jalen hurts playing good football?

Speaker 4 (01:48:44):
Uh? I guess he's playing good enough football. It's not
playing great football. It's not turning the ball over a lot,
which is a prerequisite for sure for play good football. Yep,

(01:49:05):
you can put all the numbers up you want. If
you turn the ball over. Jamis wants to had thirty
touchdowns and thirty interceptions. That's not good football. You know,
this is a couple of years ago when isn't Tampa.
But what I'm saying is that like that the cat,
can you take care of the ball, and if you

(01:49:25):
can do that, you open yourself up to extending drives
and to doing other things. Kittle's having himself a game wo.

Speaker 2 (01:49:33):
Indeed he is, and the Niners are in the high
red zone again, okay, and the completely different football team
in the second half. Rock Purty looks like Brock Purty. Yep,
George Kittle's having a huge night. The play calling looks creative.
None of those things were true in the first half.

Speaker 4 (01:49:54):
And the Dallas Cowboys just looks slow. They look they
look a step slow, slower than San Francisco.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
Well, I mean, styles make fights, so sometimes I have
a hard time with that, you know what I mean,
that whole thing. But like I will say this for
for those who maybe watch a certain team or don't
canvas the league or whatever, I can promise you this
is the cleanest pocket that Rock perty has worked with
all year. Yes, absolutely, unequivocally this is Aime number eight.

(01:50:25):
He has not been this clean, had this much time
to throw in any game until tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:50:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:50:37):
It is. It's and and and there. The power rush
and their pass rushers are out, So I get it.

Speaker 4 (01:50:43):
Shout out to the offensive line doing your job, That's
what it is. Give them time. They don't have either
one of their premier pass rushers, so this is what
it should look like. Sure, sure, I mean even when
they did have their as much as they really wouldn't
put anything.

Speaker 5 (01:51:02):
So there's that part too.

Speaker 2 (01:51:04):
There's there's that too, all right, uh with me from
salam Mark Willard coming up next.

Speaker 3 (01:51:10):
Uh oh and four at home to me.

Speaker 2 (01:51:13):
If you have Joe Burrow, that's enough for nine and
ten wins by itself, or it should be.

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
Why isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
Let's get into that coming up next on Fox Sports
Radio alright, dot com studios. Two things before, I do
want to talk Joe Burrow and the Bengals with you.
But but two things first, real quick. First of all,
don't stop. Now what you hear is not a test.

Speaker 5 (01:51:47):
Do the bead? All right? Go ahead?

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
Sorry, Now, there's really nothing better that we can do
on the radio than that, So feel free at all times.

Speaker 3 (01:52:00):
Brock Purdy sneaks it in. I think, gosh, that's going to.

Speaker 2 (01:52:05):
Be close on review. Oh boy, that's close. They called
it a touchdown. Me thinks that might get overturned, but
we'll put that aside for the moment. The Niners are
up by sixteen and it's late third quarter. But while
we're all focused on football, Steph Curry just went to

(01:52:27):
the locker room with an ankle injury at Chase Center.
On the home opener for the Golden State Warriors. So
that's something to monitor. And then I did not want
to go the entire show without letting you wax poetic
on the World Series. It sounded like you really wanted

(01:52:47):
to and you probably should, so say what you want
to say.

Speaker 3 (01:52:50):
Man, what is it?

Speaker 5 (01:52:51):
Look, it's been a phenomenal thing.

Speaker 4 (01:52:53):
Remember doing the baseball season when the Dodgers and the
Yankees played each other in the series, right, and we said, Yep,
wouldn't it be just the perfect ending to a season
to have the Dodgers and to have the Yankees in

(01:53:18):
the World Series. We were like, Oh, the world needs it,
Baseball needs it. That's what we're waiting on. And lo
and behold, that's what we have. And these first two
games have been spectacular. They've been amazing, star power, hitting power,

(01:53:41):
just everything you could have asked for. Ice Cube opened
up the game. But yesterday, I mean, it's been everything.
And look, I'm late to being a baseball fan because
I got into baseball when I started coaching baseball for
my kids.

Speaker 5 (01:54:00):
So I had to throw myself into it and really
really learn what it is.

Speaker 4 (01:54:06):
And I love it. I respect it. I know it's
a game of failure, right. It's the only sport where
you can fail and become a Hall of Famer. Meaning
if you bat three hundred, which is three out of
ten integrating scale in the world, that is a fail

(01:54:33):
except in baseball. So you have to learn how to
become great losing and I'm not saying losing in terms
of a game, but your bulk of your stats will
be below five hundred, and just the nuance of baseball

(01:54:56):
and the pitching and all of that. I've become a great,
great fan of the sport, and to watch this World
Series play out like we wanted it to phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (01:55:11):
I don't care who you root for. You can't deny
the energy, right, but you turn it on. Well, I mean,
I think I said this to you last week. There's
only probably, like the average fan, there's probably only I
don't know, six or seven players in baseball who you're like,

(01:55:31):
that's just stop what you're doing, Yes, stop what you're doing.
I really want to watch this person play, no matter
who I root for. I'd argue that pretty much all
of them in this series except for Bryce Harper.

Speaker 3 (01:55:46):
Sure, I mean I'm exaggerating. There there are great.

Speaker 2 (01:55:49):
Players, obviously I get you, but but to have Otani
and Judge and and and Betts and and Freeman and
Stanton and have all of these people all in the
middle of the lineup looming at all times when these
two teams are on the field.

Speaker 5 (01:56:09):
It's ran slam.

Speaker 2 (01:56:10):
And then the way they've looked yes when you go
extra innings, and a Freeman moment that I don't care
who you are or who you root for, that was
touching after what he and his family have been through
this year, and and him running right over to.

Speaker 3 (01:56:27):
His dad like come on, man, like that's that's incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:56:31):
And you know, the shades of Kurt Gibson because he's
been hurt and he like just crazy. And then even
last night into the ninth inning, it goes and the
Yankees mount the rally and they're there and it's all
the ducks are on the pond, and then it doesn't happen,
like you know, the only thing I think that the
networks are hoping for right now is for the Dodgers

(01:56:51):
to maybe slow down a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:56:53):
Jez is over on, please don't get this over and
ye three days.

Speaker 2 (01:56:57):
If this is over on Tuesday, that's gonna be a
little disappointed.

Speaker 3 (01:57:02):
But I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:57:03):
I mean, yeah, this, this this thing is Look in
a week where everything was on, I'm talking about everything,
anything you wanted sports wise was on, and it just
it stuck out.

Speaker 5 (01:57:18):
It really stuck out.

Speaker 4 (01:57:19):
L A had was was was the Lakers, the Dodgers,
sc everything was going on in l A. Oh, by
the way, the Lakers are three, and oh, JJ Reddick
is is.

Speaker 3 (01:57:34):
Oh, you're feeling it.

Speaker 4 (01:57:35):
Look what I'm feeling is that I went in and
I took my son the opening opening game against Minnesota
last week, which was great. A good friend of mine
works in the front office over at the Timberwolves, and
he invited us out to the game, and.

Speaker 5 (01:57:53):
You know, he knows Mama Laker guy and all that.

Speaker 4 (01:57:55):
But we got a chance to to really see Lebron
and his on get checked into the game make history.
But what I really was looking forward to seeing was
Number one, JJ Reddick, his lineups, substitutions, adjustments, and I am.

Speaker 5 (01:58:14):
Pleasantly pleased.

Speaker 4 (01:58:17):
This early NBA season and his adjustments to when teams
make runs or when they're down. Like I'm thoroughly pleased.
And Anthony Davis is a grown man right now, It's
been three Lakers to start the season thirty plus game,

(01:58:39):
thirty plus points, elgend Baylor, Jerry West, and Anthony Davis.
Now that alone, and then you think about the great
Lakers that have played and to be in that. If
he can just stay healthy and keep this up up, man,

(01:59:00):
we're gonna be a problem. Lebron James thirty plus triple
double yesterday.

Speaker 5 (01:59:06):
This is crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:59:07):
And I know it's early, but I'm excited. I know
you are, And that's fine. You should be excited. You're
so excited that we're going to have to talk about
Joe Burrow next week. Nut to talk about Joe Burrow
next week.

Speaker 3 (01:59:18):
Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, we get to do it every week.

Speaker 5 (01:59:21):
So we do great stuff, man, man, great show.

Speaker 2 (01:59:24):
Okay, free from Salama, Mark Whelller, everyone, have a good night.
Plank and Span, You're coming up next. Fox Sports Radio.

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