October 17, 2023 • 36 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react live to Monday Night Football, where the Chargers once again make a poor decision to try to convert a fourth down against the Cowboys. NFL Insider Jason La Canfora joins the guys to tell Jason that he needs to calm down about the Jets after handing the Eagles their first loss. Plus, the Rangers are only 2 wins away from the World Series!
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what were your thoughts after that win?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm just highly entertained by the fact that teams that
lose eight games suddenly their quarterbacks suck.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Oh, it's all his fault.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Twenty four hours later, Jalen Hurts and Rock perty are
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the day. Look the Jets beating the Eagles, Browns beat
the forty nine ers. Right, it's a big deal. Suddenly
the Jets are a playoff team and the Browns at
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the best defense of the NFL. Brock Purty stinks and
Jalen Hurts is worse. This is what you call Monday,
Mike Harmon, this is Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Hot take laziness across our industry, no question about it.
We'll come at it with a little bit of nuance,
and yes, people, you will deal with Jets talk as
we flow. But we got the league championship series going
on in baseball. We've got a thriller on Monday Night football.
I couldn't say that with a straight face. At least
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it's close, I mean. And there was video of Jerry
Jones talking to Jimmy Johnson that our own Jay Glazer
put out. You want to talk about a breaking story
about that?
Speaker 5 (02:29):
You know? Uh, I never really got the head coaching
thing right.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Since you left, I don't know, Uh, you won't come back.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, you know, one of the the cool things that
we have is the crossover between Fox Sports Radio and
the Chargers Radio network. So we have all our our
people are are on the scene and we're there for
the pregame fight. So it's one of the most interesting things.
There's been nothing, uh in terms of specificity online. So
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I reached out to our guy, Isaac Gloangron, who handles
the pre and post and halftime dudies. He said, Chargers
DB's got in the path of the Cowboys when they
were running out of the field for warmups, and it
escalated quickly from there with Dante Fowler punching Austin Eckler,
who's just back from injury. What are you thinking about that? Hey,
we might lose you for the game. Why because you
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took a shot to the head in a pre game fight.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
See, because what I saw was that the charge the
Cowboys walked through the Chargers drill, which is which is
a big thing in the end of it. Players used
to do that. You're not supposed to do it. It's
gainsmanship before the game, you know, unless a team is
actually doing a drill on your side of the field, in.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Which case then that's gainsmanship.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Walking through somebody's drill is like it just like you
want you want to fight, walk through somebody's drill like that,
will absolutely have a fight. There's people I've wanted to
like as a coach, like nothing pissed me off in
youth sports when I see teams do that, I go,
I go, you just brought your team right through stretches
just because you felt like it.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
I mean, you realize this is.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
These girls are ten and eleven years old, right, They're
ten to eleven years old, and you're going through here
like you're getting ready to play the final of the
World Cup.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Did you ever go and attack the coach?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
No, because it happens all these guys would do it.
Are all guys bigger than me. They're all really big.
I'm like, why could it be a guy like my
size or something, or someone that looks.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Like I could take.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I look up and go, hey, you come down here
so I can get madd he come down.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'll do the thing down here and people can send
me the hate mail at Swollen Dump. The guy's coaching soccer,
not football.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So yes, there was a oh, come on, you didn't
do anything with that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Heck, I, well, what am.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I gonna say?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's football, So there was a big thing. We'll get
more details on than after the game. Yes, and Austin
Eckler's helmet does. Come on, Yeah, he was able to play. Yeah,
not not well, no, no, not well. He's caught a
couple of passes, but I believe he's got what eight
rushes from sixteen yards.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Bursch needs him to finish with fewer than like ten
point six points in the second half.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, that could happen unless Herbert hits him with a touchdown.
Here right now, the Chargers are inside the Cowboys ten
yard line. They are down ten to seven midway through
the third quarter. So while it looks like the Chargers
are about to go up on that, you don't know
what brandons Dale is gonna do.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
You have no idea.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You know, he may punt.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
You know he may punt from the five yard had
not expecting a punch.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Is he gonna go four it on fourth down with
points to be had? Like like they did the other side?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Wild card Brandon Staley wildcard?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Wait when they did the Dallas Cowboys failed version of
the Brotherly Shove is shooting a three points and giving
the ball back to the Chargers ahead of the half.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Well, look, there's two big things to talk about in
this game we had. We had the pregame fight that
we're still getting the information. Everybody was okay, everybody's playing.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
In the game, everybody's fine.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So but yeah, yeah, the Cowboys try the Brotherly shove
the tush push in the first half against the Chargers
and they don't make it. And it's a very very
simple play. It's gotten so much attention the last few weeks,
and really I thought the play would get outlawed in
the offseason after the Eagles using as much as they
did in the Super Bowl in the run up, it's all,
this play is illegal.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
You can't push.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Defensive players can't push, so why can offensive players push,
but it's legal. Why do the Eagles do it better
than anybody else, Well, I'll tell you why, and I'll
tell you why. Not only why the Eagles do it better.
Why the Brady sneak was always so effective for the
majority of his career. Because the Brady sneak always worked
on fourth down. It works for two reasons. One, you
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have to get there. You have to get up to
the line. You have to get up there fast right.
You have to can't give the team a chance to
line up and get comfortable in their gaps and know
where they're going to go and try to knock things over.
But the biggest thing you have to do as a
quarterback is you got to get low, and you got
to get low right away. That was always Brady. So
watch all the Tom Brady quarterback sneaks on fourth down.
He would get the ball and he's down low and
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he is right off the outside butt cheek of his
center and that's a first down, and he is diving.
That's what he's doing, is doing that, and he is
diving for a touchdown. You have to be okay with
going low if you're a quarterback. Look at Jalen Hurts
yesterday the touchdown in the first half there was they's
allowed them to go as long as they could like
him a touchdown, Like, what did he do to get
that touchdown? He got really low. Your quarterback has to
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be fearless in getting low because if you do that,
you're gonna get the first down. Jalen Hurts gets low
and he gets pushed. But if the quarterback's not low,
that's how you don't make it because you get stood
up more, it's easier to stop.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
And that's what happened to Dak Prescott in the first half.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
That's the key, and I get why a lot of
teams don't do it because your quarterback has to be
fearless and say I'm okay with going low and being
on the bottom of what's going to be a really,
really big pile. Jalen Hurts says, screw it, I'll do it.
Brady for the longest time said screw it, I'll do it.
That's why it works for them. It doesn't work for
other teams because unless your quarterback is committed to getting
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low right away and being on the ground and being
under a big pile of bodies, it's not gonna work.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I mean you're also talking about just the continuity, the
consistency of the O line, how you were getting off
the ball, Like in this case for Dallas, the fact
that they ran it out of that formation was about
as dopey as it gets because that wasn't even a
full yard. They needed Your quarterback's over six feet tall,
come on, reach forward, push behind the offensive line. You
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saw what the Bears did yesterday with Beagent once he
came in, like literally, Cole Kmet came behind him and
just shoved him into the end zone. So you've got
the strategy and the effectiveness and trying to implement something
in week five to going you know what, it works
for them, that's great. You're in the same division, you're
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chasing them. Don't chase them on that play because clearly
your offensive line is not coordinated enough to pull that
off right now, because it's a bit of a weird
formation as you're getting up there, and so it requires
that these guys have worked together. This Cowboys offensive line
has been together for two weeks now, right, They've all
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been hurt, they're all coming off different things. It's like
it's not gonna be that fluid and Dak clearly wanted
no part of that, as you alluded to, So yeah,
just leave it off to the wayside until you actually
have some time to really focus on practicing that, and
given what the state of affair has been, not only
for your own line and just some of the getting
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bullied around. Although they're doing a good job defensively here
against the run against the Chargers, but we've seen that
with the Chargers run game sputtering at time to time here,
that there's other things to concentrate on clock management down
in distance, all of those things, rather than going and
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trying to execute this play just because your rivals do.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Now, we were going to get into the clock management
at the end of the half for Mike McCarthy because
oh my goodness, look, I'm gonna make a lot of
money again my off season clock maintenance end of half
clock maintenance seminar. Now it's gonna be twenty five grand
a coach, because you know I was twenty grand up
a coach last year. Now it goes up to twenty
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five grand. I got Brian Dable and Toad Taylor who
need to come after last night, and now he'd Mike
McCarthy after tonight.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
But we'll get to that because.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
A lot of guys that can come on board.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
There's a lot, but those are the guys that Okay,
those are the guys that need in the last twenty
four hours. I'm gonna make seventy five grand just off
of the three of them.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
But the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Facing fourth and one from the Dallas Cowboy six yard
line and Justin Herbert throws an incomplete pass to Palmer
in the end zone and the.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Cowboys take over.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
On downs, the Chargers again wind up getting no points
inside the ten and Brandon Staley just puts himself forefront
as what is he What are you doing? Are you
trying to get fired? Are you doing all these things?
Another bad decision on Brandon Staley on fourth and one. Now,
let's stop for a second because I can solve this
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because Brandon Staley, Hey, I'm gonna be that guy. I'm
gonna keep doing this until that if they fourth them
to fire me. You know, we talked to Jason Cole
last week. Brought up a great point about how when
you fail on fourth down and you and you don't
make it, it has an effect in.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
The locker room.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It has an effect that you know, if you don't
think we can do it, if there's questions, you can
possibly lose the locker room. So I understand that part
of it.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
I get that. The psychology of it.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm gonna go very black and white. If you're not
good on fourth and one, when you don't have to
go for.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
It, don't go for it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I mean, I think it's that simple. If you're gonna
go if you like to go for it on fourth
and one, yet you find your shelf self coming up
short in big situations that cost you games, don't do it.
Don't go for it on fourth and one. Would tell
me something in your life that you really struggle doing.
And when the chips are down and it's really important,
you go screw it. I'm gonna do it anyway, right
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like if I can't, but I mean I can because
I'm a great parallel parker, Like I was awesome parer parking, Like,
oh my god, I don't believe you if I was it, No, dude,
I was the only one in my car that passed
on the because in New York you have to parallel
park on the front fry on your driver's seys.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I was.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I was the worst driver in my car by far,
and I was the only one that pulled it off
on the first try. And I was like, yeah, I'm
walking around with muscles.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Man. I was good.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
But if I can't parallel park, right, if I can't
parallel park, and I'm sitting here going okay, boy, I
really might hit this really expensive BMW behind me if
I parallel park, it's not I don't and I don't
have to.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I can park up the street a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
It's not quite the close parking spot here, but it's
still a parking spot close enough. It's the difference between
three points and six points, right, I can park here okay,
but I can park up there. It's still getting me
three points. But if I park here at six points.
But boy, I really don't know. I think I'm gonna
hit that BMW. And that's really new man. I think
it's a I think it's a hybrid and I wow,
I think it's all wow. I think it's nineteen ninety one.
(12:55):
Oh man, that thing's a lot worth a lot of money.
Oh man, I'm not gonna still try to park. Three
or four times I hit the BMW. I'm not gonna
try to do it again. Going no, no, no, I
got it.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I got it. But haven't you hit cars before? Yep?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I've hit like four or five cars before doing this
exact same thing.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
So what are you gonna do? Screw it, Let's.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Try it again? What why would I do that? If
you're not good on fourth and one either you don't
have the play calling, you don't have the right person,
whatever it is. That's where you sit back and go, Okay,
we have to re examine this, and in the meantime,
don't go for it when you don't have to take
the points, go for and fourth down when there's no choice. Right,
It's like you go for two when you have to. Right,
going for two when you don't have to leads to
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a lot of problems. It's the same thing here. You
go for it on fourth and one when you have to.
Chargers didn't have to go for it, but they decide, no,
let's do it, even though how many times have they
had problems doing it? And how many times do we
say brandis Daley costing the Chargers games with all these calls.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
If you can't do it, don't do it. It's that simple.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, there might be great statistics on fourth down, probability
for the rest of the league. Right, we've seen this
and you have those analyst it's always thrown up. It
always baffles me that it's the unspoken part of you know,
there's a lot of instances where people don't go for
it and you have to go and extrapolate what does
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that mean for field position and eventual putting up points.
But for the Chargers, it's clearly been identified that you
don't do this well. Whether it's just execution of a
play or just poor play call. You've done this time
and again, and in this particular case, you are in
the middle of a fight with the Cowboys. You're not
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gaining a lot of track. This goes back to the
Cowboys going for it with the the Dak Prescott run
on the same thing. It's like points are at a
premium in this game.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
What the hell are you doing?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Both defenses are playing good aggressive ball. You got the
pass rush of the Chargers have been good again. The
Cowboys after being humbled, not really h last week by
the forty nine Ers, they came out and played a
different style and they're flying around. So why would you
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not take the three points?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Like?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I just don't I don't get it and stop trying
to out think things, especially when you're in the second
quarter or you're early in the third. Put the points
on and that play call to Palmer, I mean, that
was a good play by Bland, but that ball had
no chance of getting there. Get them covered like a blanket,
and they showed the reverse shot of the coverage on
Keenan Allen. There was nowhere to go with that football.
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And why can't you just get a yard? You're running
games that inept kick the ball.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I mean, there's no real I mean, I don't know
if you thought this was a case of, hey, there's
a lot of points being scored and field goals aren't
gonna do it right, and there's no way. All right,
I got but yeah, it's ten seven and we're nearing
the end of the third quarter, right, we're in the
middle of the This is not thirty eight thirty one.
And if we kick a field goal and they got
to this is ten sets. Both defenses are playing well.
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I don't understand. I don't know that he's someone that
kind of needs Branda say that kind of needs an intervention. Dude,
you realize what you're doing and how much you are
costing us by doing this. You realize what you're doing, right,
I mean, you realize that it's not working, and no
matter what you keep doing, it just keeps getting worse.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
So he needs somebody.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
He needs a bunch of coaches or a bunch to
just sit around and go, Okay, we have to talk
about this now because you have to stop this.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
He strikes me as the guy that's now walking around
going well, I was due right.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
To do what says forty eight percent of the time.
I'm waiting for my forty eight percent. I'm oh for
sixty two percent. But I gotta figure it out.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
This coin forty seven times and I've lost every time.
I'm I mean, I gotta just keep doubling down. Man.
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Speaker 5 (17:02):
I mean, it's easy. If you're not good at it,
don't do it. There you go.
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fdi C. Well, this time Brandon stalely faced with the
fourth dat w it's a little too far to make
it to go for a touchdown here on fourth down,
the Chargers kick the field goal, So now the game
is tied at ten apiece. And quite honestly, look, the
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Chargers go for it on fourth down, which is a
ridiculously bad decision by Brandon Staley because simply put, the
Chargers are bad at it. They turn the ball over
to the Cowboys, but the defense holds, so the Chargers
get the ball back, great field position and they get
down close enough for a field goal. So the zero
sum of this game is is that the game is
tied ten apiece and it should be ten apiece. But
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the whole thing is that you're a coach and you
it's like you want to put the press the fast
forward button on.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
How close am I going to be to getting fired?
What do I gotta do? What do I gotta do?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I was hoping he was doubling down. I was standing
there with Birch and come on, push it, push all in,
let's go, And then he kicked the field goal, joining
us now in the hot line to break it all down.
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Speaker 4 (18:47):
Bud, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
What look dude, we gotta ask you what's going on?
Because I feel like Mike McCarthy and and Brandon Stanley
was saying.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Oh, you don't like what I did watch this.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Let's let's deal with the with the Michael Dorothy saying first, okay,
end of the first half, and we saw it with
with the Giants ran into it last night and they
could have potentially won the game if they don't botch
a field goal situation at the end.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Of the half.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
McCarthy runs four plays for the Cowboys in forty seven seconds.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
He goes in with a timeout in the out of pocket.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
The Cowboys could have gotten a touch, could have taken
a shot at the end zone, and could have had
a lead. I don't understand, Jay, why coaches how they
biff the end of the half with time so much,
even if they're not good at it as a coach,
How do how does how does this happen on the
field during the game so much?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Well, I just think the answer is in your question.
I mean, there's a lot of guys who are not
particularly adroit at the time management, close and late pressure
situation decision making of this hal And there's a reason
why I didn't put any any real money on this
game tonight. And the two head coaches have a whole
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lot to do with it, you know. I kind of
look for predictability or you know, accountability, certain hallmarks of
certain teams and what they are from week to week.
And these two guys, because in large part they're mismanagement
of situations at the end and halves at the end
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of games. The outcomes, you know, often like traditional indicators
of who should have won the game, time of possession, turnovers,
yards per play, it doesn't always predict their outcomes because
there's wild variants in terms of how a good coach
would handle certain situations versus how they handle it. So
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a lot of football to play, guys not done stretching
our heads yet, I guess would be my primary takeaway, like,
there is still plenty of time for these two guys
to play, you know, hold my beer in prime time.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Can Jimmy Johnson come down from the stands and coach
the Chargers?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
You know, And I understand he's got a wonderful quarterback there,
and I understand boy Kevin more desperately wants to be
an NFL head coach, and you know he wants to
fill up the box score to do it. But this
clearly has been a defensive struggles since really, you know,
each team kind of had their initial salvo, right and
(21:23):
they came out with their game scripts, and we had
a couple early touchdowns, and it's been what it's penned since,
you know, taking threes not the end of the world,
especially you know, in a game like this. So we'll
see what happens here at the end. But neither of
these teams have distinguished themselves offensively in the red zone tonight,
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and the Cowboys have an all season long.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
No, this is true now as we get into the
this is the end of week six and we're getting
into some bye weeks and all that fun stuff. Yeah,
it's all excited about his Jets, but beyond the clock
management week to week, we can count on a bunch
of injuries and for a lot of surprises. If you're
trying to make money betting other than I don't know,
(22:10):
it's tough go this year.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Well, road teams came into last week above five hundreds,
so that's something you should be very cognizant of. And
the NFL average quarterback rating right now is eighty eight,
which is pretty poor. And there were more coming into
this game, more interceptions than touchdowns thrown by quarterbacks this week,
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and a lot of teams are really struggling in the
red zone. So I you know, a lot of my
bets this week were on unders and I went over
once the Vikings Bears game. Let me down. You know,
if Justin Fields doesn't leave that game early, maybe it's
a little closer to at least flirting with going over.
But a lot of these games, I think a lot
of these teams are telling you who they are. And
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there's a number of teams in this league who have
a track record going back to really the middle of
last season that says the games they play, you're buying
large under games. I mean, the Saints are playing almost
exclusively under games in the middle of the last season.
The Titans are an under team, The Ravens are a
decidedly under team, The Browns are a decided lye under team.
(23:19):
You know, the Bucks, even with Brady last year, were
you know a lot of times an under team, and
especially this year, they're an under team. I just think,
you know, that's that's kind of where the money is
sure to be made right now. And Vegas is starting
to respond And I'm just sitting here doing some work
for next week, and I'm saying a whole lot more
(23:40):
early week unders, you know, already under forty. So like
Vegas is getting the memo. But I still feel like
a lot of these games, you know, especially like this
Raiders Bears game, I mean, who's scoring in that, you
know what I mean? Like these two weird gets whoever
that guy is playing for.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The best agent. Let's go pop gun.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Like, I mean, I don't know if I was going
to play that game, and I'm not positive that I were,
But if I was going to play that game and
you were trying to scare me off, the under like
thirty six and a half ain't gonna do it, I
know that might be twelve ten, you know, Like honestly,
I mean, if I was going to play it, what
other way would you play it? Like, I'd be fading
(24:21):
people and I'd have to go under. And there's a
lot of bad quarterbacking in this league. I feel like
there's a brain drain on offensive coaches. Like you tell
me who the hot coordinators are? You know what I mean?
Like that's we're getting to that time of year, right,
people start getting fired in October and November, and everybody
comes out with their list of the it guys, like
(24:41):
who are they?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Not a lot of clamorant. And it's funny because all
the unders as you lay it out, like you've done
everything with the rules to try to increase scoring, and
here we are.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Yeah, and again, I think offensive line plays at an
all time low. I think we've had so many coordinators
become coaches that I'm not sure that the guy's making
a lot of these offensive decisions like that next class,
I don't know if they've rounded in the form yet.
And then you have people like McCarthy, right, who wasn't
really a good head coach, and now he's the coordinator too, right,
(25:15):
he's putting more on his plate, so that you know,
is that really bringing out the best of that offense.
It doesn't seem to be so yeah. I mean I
think you look. And then quarterbacks, right, more of the
young ones are playing than than normal. We've had some
like Anthony Richardson, who, whatever you thought of where he
was in his development, the Colts could score quickly from
anywhere on the field with him, you know that that's
(25:37):
not the case when you go from him mcgarner minshew.
So I would say continue to keep an eye on
that under trend because I don't think it's going away,
and we've got the specter of more weather games looming,
and you know that can obviously have an effect.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
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Speaker 5 (25:56):
All right, Jay, the big question. You've dodged it long enough.
You believe the Jets.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Now, you believe it in the Jets now, Dude.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I knew you were going to ask me that did
Alan throw four picks or three in that game? I'm
trying to think there are two huge wins. There's been
what seven or eight quarterback turnovers? I'm trying to remember
it's at least seven.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Doesn't mean they didn't happen, does he get it?
Speaker 4 (26:20):
But that's again, that's an interesting script to replicate, like
if that's what it's going to take, because that offense
is still got awful. You know, Look, it's a weird
good for them whatever. They're the third best team in
that division and there aren't a lot of great teams
in this league. There may not be any right now,
depending on, you know, the San Francisco situation and how
(26:42):
long some of these guys are out. But I have
a hard time seeing the Jets in the postseason.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yep, we're gonna get Rogers back after the bye. He's
back for hollow. Really, he's only throwing on the field
without a lymp.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
He's got a buyonic a chilling. He's We're give to
be back in a week and a half.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, well, I just hope he's not taking any pharmaceuticals
that are over the counter in mainstream because we know
how he feels about that.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
No, you know he's got his own like puschdoctor or whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Right, we have whole food stocked out, we have GNC.
We're in front of all the places. We're in front
of all of them for him, Dori, we're there.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
You know, he doesn't believe in shots, right, he doesn't
leave vaccine, So I don't know what he thinks of of,
you know, over the counter science either. He's probably got
his own. Like I said, he's got his own.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Guy, it's bionic Achilles. Though, it's bionic Achilles. He's gonna
be fine. You watch, he'll be able to throw the
ball even further now with this bionic Achilles.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Great, I give it six snaps till he snaps that
one or the other. Fine. Keep him off that meadow
lance turf. I don't know how you're gonna do that. Wow,
he's like messy. You got to bring in your own
grass field for him. He thinks he'll do that.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Garrett Wilson's the latest guy to say this turf sucks.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
We need more.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yeah, he ain't.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Wrong, No, No, he's not.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Hey, so you mentioned Anthony Register really quick? Is that
it looks like, according to or say, he's probably done
for the year. And you know, it's so it's so
tough because he looks like he's so talented and his
assimilation time to the NFL wasn't that great despite the
fact that he hasn't played a lot.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
But now I wonder.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Does he have a body that can hold up because
this was two injuries really early, and it didn't look
the last injury didn't look like it was a really
bad play.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
He just happened to go down and get tackled. I
feel like his career is a question mark right now.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Well, you know, we're going to see him and unfortunately,
he just hasn't played a whole lot of football since
high school and this is going to be something of
a lost season again. Although certainly what what he gained
from the offseason and and you know, what he was
bringing to the table was pretty special. I can't speak
to his doorability. You know, we're going to have to
see I mean, I feel like he was he at
(28:53):
least was on the sideline. I think he missed time
in all but one start, Like there were other games
where he left for you know, a period of time
or his return was in question and then he was
able to come back. So yeah, that certainly is problematic
and none of the other abilities matter without availability. I
(29:15):
think he can be a dynamic force in this league
and that that could be a really interesting offense with
him next year. But yeah, you'd have to be concerned.
I mean, yeah, he was taking some you know, sort
of quasi kill shots early and I don't know if
it was just the accumulation of those or what have you,
and it's football. Things happen, but yeah, more slides, more
(29:39):
getting out of bounds, all the normal sort of you know,
evolutionary stuff with a running quarterback. He probably needs to
take that the heart immediately come you know, year two.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
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Jay as always, buddy, appreciated man. We'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Hey have fun, guys, So good week. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
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Cowboys lead the Chargers seventeen to ten into the fourth quarter,
justin Herbert misfiring on third and eleven, so the Chargers
punting it back to the Cowboys who have it first
(30:37):
intended their own. Twenty one eight forty one left to go.
Will bring you more on this game coming up, and
more on the craziest at the end of the first
half from this game coming up in about ten minutes
or so. But big story today, we're looking at the
the LCS is going on in American and National League
and a stunning result that I think people are still
(31:00):
having some difficulty with right now. The Phillies trying to
put away the Diamondbacks in the top of the ninth.
They lead game one, five to three, but the Diamondbacks
have a runner on runner out. The Rangers are up
to zip going home over the Astros. They had a
five to one lead they hold on. Nathany Ovaldi gets
out of a bases loaded, no out jam what it
looked like. Here come the Astros to take control of
(31:21):
this game. He strikes out nine and six innings. He
gets the win, Framber Valdez gets the loss, and now
the Astros have to go to Texas, have to go
well of Dallas and Arlington down to Zip to try
to get back in the series. Now here's the thing
is I understand the intimidation factor of the Astros. Here
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are the champions, right, Maybe they still know the pitches,
maybe they don't. Here are the champs, and we're afraid
of them because they've been so good for so long.
It's a lot of the same players from last year,
the last couple of years. And boy, I am it
because I can see the Astros going in the next
three games and putting up like thirty five runs and suddenly, boom,
they're back in this series.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Right. I understand that.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
However, however, there's enough history, there's enough data to look
back on to know that coming back from two Zip
just doesn't happen, Okay, in the last twenty seven years
in baseball history, right, last twenty seven years, a team
has gotten down two ZIP in a best of seven
series and come back to win twice, okay twice once.
(32:27):
We all know Red Sox down three zip against the Yankees,
and that's one of the momentous comebacks ever in the
history of all sports. Right that and the Dodgers coming
back from down two zip against the Braves in twenty
twenty during the Bubble playoffs. That's it. All the other
two zip leads those teams have won. When you get
up to nothing in a series, it used to be, well,
(32:47):
you know, it doesn't start until a team lose on
its own field. No, you get down two zip, that's it.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
And I know that.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Hey, the Astros, everybody's afraight, this series is over. The
Rains are up to nothing. They're up to nothing. They're
going home and maybe they split the next two. But okay,
they're up three to one. I mean, it's yes, the Astros.
This is not one hundred and ten win juggernaut. This
is an Astros team that barely squeaked in, that won
ninety games, that needed the Raiders to lose at the
end just to come in and be the division champion.
(33:15):
This is not a great Astros team. This is not
a team that I look up and go, man, the
all stars up and down the lineup. All this is
a team that struggled to win ninety games? Is this
the Astros year? Not like it was years before. If
it was, I would say, well, here there are they
still have that, They still have that mentality. One win,
you never know what could happen. Everything can They can
catch fire and we can see it roll out from there.
(33:37):
But you're going on the road and you have to
win the next two to get back into it, and
it just doesn't happen. Right, It just doesn't happen twice
in the last twenty seven years in baseball history.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, I mean, you thought you've gotten some continuity down
the stretch. You had a lot of miss time over
the course of the year. You're looking at Alvarez, who
just don't pitch to him. Seems to be the mantra here.
He took the trick of strikeouts game one and then
came back with a couple of home runs, but he
missed fifty games this year. You look at al Tuove
(34:08):
was limited to ninety games, and various players missing a
couple of weeks here and there, but thinking they got
healthy and right down the stretch. And then you look
at Valdez's last two times out, he's been awful. Couldn't
get through the third today four runs allowed, only lasted
two and two thirds, So invincibility that that cloak, that
(34:34):
super suit is gone, right, And for the Rangers, even
without the high priced editions. And now we're seeing Sureser
is gonna pitch Game three? How much do you love that?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I kind of feel like I'm watching the Mets, so
I'm at this point, I'm like, well.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
You just kind of a dolled him at this time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Well, well, and the same thing with Verlander, right, I
mean later for the As, it's like I haven't met playing.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
In it, freaking no, that's just it, right, It's like,
which guy do you like more? And look, nobody's feeling
sorry for the Astros man. I do like that, you know,
long coat that Dusty Baker wears that kind of looks
like Darth Vader's cape and all. But for the Astros. Yeah,
not not a charmed life, not a massive runoff. And
it's what we've been talking about with the playoffs. You
(35:18):
and I of winning one hundred games or or whatever,
it doesn't matter. Are you hot at the right time,
do you pull the right strings and can you jump
out to a lead right that that's been The other
thing is are you fast starters, cause we've seen starting
pitching get beat up pretty early in these in these games,
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and then it's a frantic pace to try to come back.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
I'll tell you man, it's it's I know.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
And this makes a lot of people happy because obviously
watch want to see the Astros win. Hey, uh yeah,
it's gonna be almost impossible.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
This is what happens.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Just means a lot of shots of Nolan Ryan coming.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
All the controversies of the final few minutes of the
Chargers Cowboys, things getting close in LA.
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what were your thoughts after that win?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm just highly entertained by the fact that teams that
lose eight games suddenly their quarterbacks suck.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Oh, it's all his fault.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Twenty four hours later, Jalen Hurts and Rock perty are
the two worst quarterbacks I've ever seen. It's the greatest
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on the Jee. We're not listen the two big bays
the day. Look the Jets beating the Eagles, Browns beat
the forty nine ers. Right, it's a big deal. Suddenly
the Jets are a playoff team and the Browns at
(01:47):
the best defense of the NFL. Brock Purty stinks and
Jalen Hurts is worse. This is what you call Monday,
Mike Harmon, this is Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Hot take laziness across our industry, no question about it.
We'll come at it with a little bit of nuance,
and yes, people, you will deal with Jets talk as
we flow. But we got the league championship series going
on in baseball. We've got a thriller on Monday Night football.
I couldn't say that with a straight face. At least
(02:21):
it's close, I mean. And there was video of Jerry
Jones talking to Jimmy Johnson that our own Jay Glazer
put out. You want to talk about a breaking story
about that?
Speaker 5 (02:29):
You know? Uh, I never really got the head coaching
thing right.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Since you left, I don't know, Uh, you won't come back.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, you know, one of the the cool things that
we have is the crossover between Fox Sports Radio and
the Chargers Radio network. So we have all our our
people are are on the scene and we're there for
the pregame fight. So it's one of the most interesting things.
There's been nothing, uh in terms of specificity online. So
(03:01):
I reached out to our guy, Isaac Gloangron, who handles
the pre and post and halftime dudies. He said, Chargers
DB's got in the path of the Cowboys when they
were running out of the field for warmups, and it
escalated quickly from there with Dante Fowler punching Austin Eckler,
who's just back from injury. What are you thinking about that? Hey,
we might lose you for the game. Why because you
(03:22):
took a shot to the head in a pre game fight.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
See, because what I saw was that the charge the
Cowboys walked through the Chargers drill, which is which is
a big thing in the end of it. Players used
to do that. You're not supposed to do it. It's
gainsmanship before the game, you know, unless a team is
actually doing a drill on your side of the field, in.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Which case then that's gainsmanship.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Walking through somebody's drill is like it just like you
want you want to fight, walk through somebody's drill like that,
will absolutely have a fight. There's people I've wanted to
like as a coach, like nothing pissed me off in
youth sports when I see teams do that, I go,
I go, you just brought your team right through stretches
just because you felt like it.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
I mean, you realize this is.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
These girls are ten and eleven years old, right, They're
ten to eleven years old, and you're going through here
like you're getting ready to play the final of the
World Cup.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Did you ever go and attack the coach?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
No, because it happens all these guys would do it.
Are all guys bigger than me. They're all really big.
I'm like, why could it be a guy like my
size or something, or someone that looks.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Like I could take.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I look up and go, hey, you come down here
so I can get madd he come down.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'll do the thing down here and people can send
me the hate mail at Swollen Dump. The guy's coaching soccer,
not football.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So yes, there was a oh, come on, you didn't
do anything with that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Heck, I, well, what am.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I gonna say?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's football, So there was a big thing. We'll get
more details on than after the game. Yes, and Austin
Eckler's helmet does. Come on, Yeah, he was able to play. Yeah,
not not well, no, no, not well. He's caught a
couple of passes, but I believe he's got what eight
rushes from sixteen yards.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Bursch needs him to finish with fewer than like ten
point six points in the second half.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Well, that could happen unless Herbert hits him with a touchdown.
Here right now, the Chargers are inside the Cowboys ten
yard line. They are down ten to seven midway through
the third quarter. So while it looks like the Chargers
are about to go up on that, you don't know
what brandons Dale is gonna do.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
You have no idea.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You know, he may punt.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
You know he may punt from the five yard had
not expecting a punch.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Is he gonna go four it on fourth down with
points to be had? Like like they did the other side?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Wild card Brandon Staley wildcard?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Wait when they did the Dallas Cowboys failed version of
the Brotherly Shove is shooting a three points and giving
the ball back to the Chargers ahead of the half.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Well, look, there's two big things to talk about in
this game we had. We had the pregame fight that
we're still getting the information. Everybody was okay, everybody's playing.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
In the game, everybody's fine.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So but yeah, yeah, the Cowboys try the Brotherly shove
the tush push in the first half against the Chargers
and they don't make it. And it's a very very
simple play. It's gotten so much attention the last few weeks,
and really I thought the play would get outlawed in
the offseason after the Eagles using as much as they
did in the Super Bowl in the run up, it's all,
this play is illegal.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
You can't push.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Defensive players can't push, so why can offensive players push,
but it's legal. Why do the Eagles do it better
than anybody else, Well, I'll tell you why, and I'll
tell you why. Not only why the Eagles do it better.
Why the Brady sneak was always so effective for the
majority of his career. Because the Brady sneak always worked
on fourth down. It works for two reasons. One, you
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have to get there. You have to get up to
the line. You have to get up there fast right.
You have to can't give the team a chance to
line up and get comfortable in their gaps and know
where they're going to go and try to knock things over.
But the biggest thing you have to do as a
quarterback is you got to get low, and you got
to get low right away. That was always Brady. So
watch all the Tom Brady quarterback sneaks on fourth down.
He would get the ball and he's down low and
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he is right off the outside butt cheek of his
center and that's a first down, and he is diving.
That's what he's doing, is doing that, and he is
diving for a touchdown. You have to be okay with
going low if you're a quarterback. Look at Jalen Hurts
yesterday the touchdown in the first half there was they's
allowed them to go as long as they could like
him a touchdown, Like, what did he do to get
that touchdown? He got really low. Your quarterback has to
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be fearless in getting low because if you do that,
you're gonna get the first down. Jalen Hurts gets low
and he gets pushed. But if the quarterback's not low,
that's how you don't make it because you get stood
up more, it's easier to stop.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
And that's what happened to Dak Prescott in the first half.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
That's the key, and I get why a lot of
teams don't do it because your quarterback has to be
fearless and say I'm okay with going low and being
on the bottom of what's going to be a really,
really big pile. Jalen Hurts says, screw it, I'll do it.
Brady for the longest time said screw it, I'll do it.
That's why it works for them. It doesn't work for
other teams because unless your quarterback is committed to getting
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low right away and being on the ground and being
under a big pile of bodies, it's not gonna work.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I mean you're also talking about just the continuity, the
consistency of the O line, how you were getting off
the ball, Like in this case for Dallas, the fact
that they ran it out of that formation was about
as dopey as it gets because that wasn't even a
full yard. They needed Your quarterback's over six feet tall,
come on, reach forward, push behind the offensive line. You
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saw what the Bears did yesterday with Beagent once he
came in, like literally, Cole Kmet came behind him and
just shoved him into the end zone. So you've got
the strategy and the effectiveness and trying to implement something
in week five to going you know what, it works
for them, that's great. You're in the same division, you're
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chasing them. Don't chase them on that play because clearly
your offensive line is not coordinated enough to pull that
off right now, because it's a bit of a weird
formation as you're getting up there, and so it requires
that these guys have worked together. This Cowboys offensive line
has been together for two weeks now, right, They've all
(08:58):
been hurt, they're all coming off different things. It's like
it's not gonna be that fluid and Dak clearly wanted
no part of that, as you alluded to, So yeah,
just leave it off to the wayside until you actually
have some time to really focus on practicing that, and
given what the state of affair has been, not only
for your own line and just some of the getting
(09:20):
bullied around. Although they're doing a good job defensively here
against the run against the Chargers, but we've seen that
with the Chargers run game sputtering at time to time here,
that there's other things to concentrate on clock management down
in distance, all of those things, rather than going and
(09:41):
trying to execute this play just because your rivals do.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Now, we were going to get into the clock management
at the end of the half for Mike McCarthy because
oh my goodness, look, I'm gonna make a lot of
money again my off season clock maintenance end of half
clock maintenance seminar. Now it's gonna be twenty five grand
a coach, because you know I was twenty grand up
a coach last year. Now it goes up to twenty
(10:06):
five grand. I got Brian Dable and Toad Taylor who
need to come after last night, and now he'd Mike
McCarthy after tonight.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
But we'll get to that because.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
A lot of guys that can come on board.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
There's a lot, but those are the guys that Okay,
those are the guys that need in the last twenty
four hours. I'm gonna make seventy five grand just off
of the three of them.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
But the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Facing fourth and one from the Dallas Cowboy six yard
line and Justin Herbert throws an incomplete pass to Palmer
in the end zone and the.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Cowboys take over.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
On downs, the Chargers again wind up getting no points
inside the ten and Brandon Staley just puts himself forefront
as what is he What are you doing? Are you
trying to get fired? Are you doing all these things?
Another bad decision on Brandon Staley on fourth and one. Now,
let's stop for a second because I can solve this
(11:02):
because Brandon Staley, Hey, I'm gonna be that guy. I'm
gonna keep doing this until that if they fourth them
to fire me. You know, we talked to Jason Cole
last week. Brought up a great point about how when
you fail on fourth down and you and you don't
make it, it has an effect in.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
The locker room.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It has an effect that you know, if you don't
think we can do it, if there's questions, you can
possibly lose the locker room. So I understand that part
of it.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
I get that. The psychology of it.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm gonna go very black and white. If you're not
good on fourth and one, when you don't have to
go for.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
It, don't go for it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I mean, I think it's that simple. If you're gonna
go if you like to go for it on fourth
and one, yet you find your shelf self coming up
short in big situations that cost you games, don't do it.
Don't go for it on fourth and one. Would tell
me something in your life that you really struggle doing.
And when the chips are down and it's really important,
you go screw it. I'm gonna do it anyway, right
(11:55):
like if I can't, but I mean I can because
I'm a great parallel parker, Like I was awesome parer parking, Like,
oh my god, I don't believe you if I was it, No, dude,
I was the only one in my car that passed
on the because in New York you have to parallel
park on the front fry on your driver's seys.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I was.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I was the worst driver in my car by far,
and I was the only one that pulled it off
on the first try. And I was like, yeah, I'm
walking around with muscles.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Man. I was good.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
But if I can't parallel park, right, if I can't
parallel park, and I'm sitting here going okay, boy, I
really might hit this really expensive BMW behind me if
I parallel park, it's not I don't and I don't
have to.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I can park up the street a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
It's not quite the close parking spot here, but it's
still a parking spot close enough. It's the difference between
three points and six points, right, I can park here okay,
but I can park up there. It's still getting me
three points. But if I park here at six points.
But boy, I really don't know. I think I'm gonna
hit that BMW. And that's really new man. I think
it's a I think it's a hybrid and I wow,
I think it's all wow. I think it's nineteen ninety one.
(12:55):
Oh man, that thing's a lot worth a lot of money.
Oh man, I'm not gonna still try to park. Three
or four times I hit the BMW. I'm not gonna
try to do it again. Going no, no, no, I
got it.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I got it. But haven't you hit cars before? Yep?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I've hit like four or five cars before doing this
exact same thing.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
So what are you gonna do? Screw it, Let's.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Try it again? What why would I do that? If
you're not good on fourth and one either you don't
have the play calling, you don't have the right person,
whatever it is. That's where you sit back and go, Okay,
we have to re examine this, and in the meantime,
don't go for it when you don't have to take
the points, go for and fourth down when there's no choice. Right,
It's like you go for two when you have to. Right,
going for two when you don't have to leads to
(13:33):
a lot of problems. It's the same thing here. You
go for it on fourth and one when you have to.
Chargers didn't have to go for it, but they decide, no,
let's do it, even though how many times have they
had problems doing it? And how many times do we
say brandis Daley costing the Chargers games with all these calls.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
If you can't do it, don't do it. It's that simple.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, there might be great statistics on fourth down, probability
for the rest of the league. Right, we've seen this
and you have those analyst it's always thrown up. It
always baffles me that it's the unspoken part of you know,
there's a lot of instances where people don't go for
it and you have to go and extrapolate what does
(14:12):
that mean for field position and eventual putting up points.
But for the Chargers, it's clearly been identified that you
don't do this well. Whether it's just execution of a
play or just poor play call. You've done this time
and again, and in this particular case, you are in
the middle of a fight with the Cowboys. You're not
(14:35):
gaining a lot of track. This goes back to the
Cowboys going for it with the the Dak Prescott run
on the same thing. It's like points are at a
premium in this game.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
What the hell are you doing?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Both defenses are playing good aggressive ball. You got the
pass rush of the Chargers have been good again. The
Cowboys after being humbled, not really h last week by
the forty nine Ers, they came out and played a
different style and they're flying around. So why would you
(15:08):
not take the three points?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Like?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I just don't I don't get it and stop trying
to out think things, especially when you're in the second
quarter or you're early in the third. Put the points
on and that play call to Palmer, I mean, that
was a good play by Bland, but that ball had
no chance of getting there. Get them covered like a blanket,
and they showed the reverse shot of the coverage on
Keenan Allen. There was nowhere to go with that football.
(15:33):
And why can't you just get a yard? You're running
games that inept kick the ball.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I mean, there's no real I mean, I don't know
if you thought this was a case of, hey, there's
a lot of points being scored and field goals aren't
gonna do it right, and there's no way. All right,
I got but yeah, it's ten seven and we're nearing
the end of the third quarter, right, we're in the
middle of the This is not thirty eight thirty one.
And if we kick a field goal and they got
to this is ten sets. Both defenses are playing well.
(16:01):
I don't understand. I don't know that he's someone that
kind of needs Branda say that kind of needs an intervention. Dude,
you realize what you're doing and how much you are
costing us by doing this. You realize what you're doing, right,
I mean, you realize that it's not working, and no
matter what you keep doing, it just keeps getting worse.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
So he needs somebody.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
He needs a bunch of coaches or a bunch to
just sit around and go, Okay, we have to talk
about this now because you have to stop this.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
He strikes me as the guy that's now walking around
going well, I was due right.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
To do what says forty eight percent of the time.
I'm waiting for my forty eight percent. I'm oh for
sixty two percent. But I gotta figure it out.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
This coin forty seven times and I've lost every time.
I'm I mean, I gotta just keep doubling down. Man.
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Speaker 5 (17:02):
I mean, it's easy. If you're not good at it,
don't do it. There you go.
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fdi C. Well, this time Brandon stalely faced with the
fourth dat w it's a little too far to make
it to go for a touchdown here on fourth down,
the Chargers kick the field goal, So now the game
is tied at ten apiece. And quite honestly, look, the
(17:57):
Chargers go for it on fourth down, which is a
ridiculously bad decision by Brandon Staley because simply put, the
Chargers are bad at it. They turn the ball over
to the Cowboys, but the defense holds, so the Chargers
get the ball back, great field position and they get
down close enough for a field goal. So the zero
sum of this game is is that the game is
tied ten apiece and it should be ten apiece. But
(18:18):
the whole thing is that you're a coach and you
it's like you want to put the press the fast
forward button on.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
How close am I going to be to getting fired?
What do I gotta do? What do I gotta do?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I was hoping he was doubling down. I was standing
there with Birch and come on, push it, push all in,
let's go, And then he kicked the field goal, joining
us now in the hot line to break it all down.
Longtime NFL insider with Odyssey Washington Post, it is Jason
lock And fora he's on Twitter at Jason locket for
what's happening.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Bud, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
What look dude, we gotta ask you what's going on?
Because I feel like Mike McCarthy and and Brandon Stanley
was saying.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Oh, you don't like what I did watch this.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Let's let's deal with the with the Michael Dorothy saying first, okay,
end of the first half, and we saw it with
with the Giants ran into it last night and they
could have potentially won the game if they don't botch
a field goal situation at the end.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Of the half.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
McCarthy runs four plays for the Cowboys in forty seven seconds.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
He goes in with a timeout in the out of pocket.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
The Cowboys could have gotten a touch, could have taken
a shot at the end zone, and could have had
a lead. I don't understand, Jay, why coaches how they
biff the end of the half with time so much,
even if they're not good at it as a coach,
How do how does how does this happen on the
field during the game so much?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Well, I just think the answer is in your question.
I mean, there's a lot of guys who are not
particularly adroit at the time management, close and late pressure
situation decision making of this hal And there's a reason
why I didn't put any any real money on this
game tonight. And the two head coaches have a whole
(19:56):
lot to do with it, you know. I kind of
look for predictability or you know, accountability, certain hallmarks of
certain teams and what they are from week to week.
And these two guys, because in large part they're mismanagement
of situations at the end and halves at the end
(20:18):
of games. The outcomes, you know, often like traditional indicators
of who should have won the game, time of possession, turnovers,
yards per play, it doesn't always predict their outcomes because
there's wild variants in terms of how a good coach
would handle certain situations versus how they handle it. So
(20:42):
a lot of football to play, guys not done stretching
our heads yet, I guess would be my primary takeaway, like,
there is still plenty of time for these two guys
to play, you know, hold my beer in prime time.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Can Jimmy Johnson come down from the stands and coach
the Chargers?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
You know, And I understand he's got a wonderful quarterback there,
and I understand boy Kevin more desperately wants to be
an NFL head coach, and you know he wants to
fill up the box score to do it. But this
clearly has been a defensive struggles since really, you know,
each team kind of had their initial salvo, right and
(21:23):
they came out with their game scripts, and we had
a couple early touchdowns, and it's been what it's penned since,
you know, taking threes not the end of the world,
especially you know, in a game like this. So we'll
see what happens here at the end. But neither of
these teams have distinguished themselves offensively in the red zone tonight,
(21:45):
and the Cowboys have an all season long.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
No, this is true now as we get into the
this is the end of week six and we're getting
into some bye weeks and all that fun stuff. Yeah,
it's all excited about his Jets, but beyond the clock
management week to week, we can count on a bunch
of injuries and for a lot of surprises. If you're
trying to make money betting other than I don't know,
(22:10):
it's tough go this year.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Well, road teams came into last week above five hundreds,
so that's something you should be very cognizant of. And
the NFL average quarterback rating right now is eighty eight,
which is pretty poor. And there were more coming into
this game, more interceptions than touchdowns thrown by quarterbacks this week,
(22:34):
and a lot of teams are really struggling in the
red zone. So I you know, a lot of my
bets this week were on unders and I went over
once the Vikings Bears game. Let me down. You know,
if Justin Fields doesn't leave that game early, maybe it's
a little closer to at least flirting with going over.
But a lot of these games, I think a lot
of these teams are telling you who they are. And
(22:55):
there's a number of teams in this league who have
a track record going back to really the middle of
last season that says the games they play, you're buying
large under games. I mean, the Saints are playing almost
exclusively under games in the middle of the last season.
The Titans are an under team, The Ravens are a
decidedly under team, The Browns are a decided lye under team.
(23:19):
You know, the Bucks, even with Brady last year, were
you know a lot of times an under team, and
especially this year, they're an under team. I just think,
you know, that's that's kind of where the money is
sure to be made right now. And Vegas is starting
to respond And I'm just sitting here doing some work
for next week, and I'm saying a whole lot more
(23:40):
early week unders, you know, already under forty. So like
Vegas is getting the memo. But I still feel like
a lot of these games, you know, especially like this
Raiders Bears game, I mean, who's scoring in that, you
know what I mean? Like these two weird gets whoever
that guy is playing for.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
The best agent. Let's go pop gun.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Like, I mean, I don't know if I was going
to play that game, and I'm not positive that I were,
But if I was going to play that game and
you were trying to scare me off, the under like
thirty six and a half ain't gonna do it, I
know that might be twelve ten, you know, Like honestly,
I mean, if I was going to play it, what
other way would you play it? Like, I'd be fading
(24:21):
people and I'd have to go under. And there's a
lot of bad quarterbacking in this league. I feel like
there's a brain drain on offensive coaches. Like you tell
me who the hot coordinators are? You know what I mean?
Like that's we're getting to that time of year, right,
people start getting fired in October and November, and everybody
comes out with their list of the it guys, like
(24:41):
who are they?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Not a lot of clamorant. And it's funny because all
the unders as you lay it out, like you've done
everything with the rules to try to increase scoring, and
here we are.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Yeah, and again, I think offensive line plays at an
all time low. I think we've had so many coordinators
become coaches that I'm not sure that the guy's making
a lot of these offensive decisions like that next class,
I don't know if they've rounded in the form yet.
And then you have people like McCarthy, right, who wasn't
really a good head coach, and now he's the coordinator too, right,
(25:15):
he's putting more on his plate, so that you know,
is that really bringing out the best of that offense.
It doesn't seem to be so yeah. I mean I
think you look. And then quarterbacks, right, more of the
young ones are playing than than normal. We've had some
like Anthony Richardson, who, whatever you thought of where he
was in his development, the Colts could score quickly from
anywhere on the field with him, you know that that's
(25:37):
not the case when you go from him mcgarner minshew.
So I would say continue to keep an eye on
that under trend because I don't think it's going away,
and we've got the specter of more weather games looming,
and you know that can obviously have an effect.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
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Speaker 5 (25:56):
All right, Jay, the big question. You've dodged it long enough.
You believe the Jets.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Now, you believe it in the Jets now, Dude.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I knew you were going to ask me that did
Alan throw four picks or three in that game? I'm
trying to think there are two huge wins. There's been
what seven or eight quarterback turnovers? I'm trying to remember
it's at least seven.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Doesn't mean they didn't happen, does he get it?
Speaker 4 (26:20):
But that's again, that's an interesting script to replicate, like
if that's what it's going to take, because that offense
is still got awful. You know, Look, it's a weird
good for them whatever. They're the third best team in
that division and there aren't a lot of great teams
in this league. There may not be any right now,
depending on, you know, the San Francisco situation and how
(26:42):
long some of these guys are out. But I have
a hard time seeing the Jets in the postseason.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yep, we're gonna get Rogers back after the bye. He's
back for hollow. Really, he's only throwing on the field
without a lymp.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
He's got a buyonic a chilling. He's We're give to
be back in a week and a half.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, well, I just hope he's not taking any pharmaceuticals
that are over the counter in mainstream because we know
how he feels about that.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
No, you know he's got his own like puschdoctor or whatever.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Right, we have whole food stocked out, we have GNC.
We're in front of all the places. We're in front
of all of them for him, Dori, we're there.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
You know, he doesn't believe in shots, right, he doesn't
leave vaccine, So I don't know what he thinks of of,
you know, over the counter science either. He's probably got
his own. Like I said, he's got his own.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Guy, it's bionic Achilles. Though, it's bionic Achilles. He's gonna
be fine. You watch, he'll be able to throw the
ball even further now with this bionic Achilles.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Great, I give it six snaps till he snaps that
one or the other. Fine. Keep him off that meadow
lance turf. I don't know how you're gonna do that. Wow,
he's like messy. You got to bring in your own
grass field for him. He thinks he'll do that.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Garrett Wilson's the latest guy to say this turf sucks.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
We need more.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yeah, he ain't.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Wrong, No, No, he's not.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Hey, so you mentioned Anthony Register really quick? Is that
it looks like, according to or say, he's probably done
for the year. And you know, it's so it's so
tough because he looks like he's so talented and his
assimilation time to the NFL wasn't that great despite the
fact that he hasn't played a lot.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
But now I wonder.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Does he have a body that can hold up because
this was two injuries really early, and it didn't look
the last injury didn't look like it was a really
bad play.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
He just happened to go down and get tackled. I
feel like his career is a question mark right now.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Well, you know, we're going to see him and unfortunately,
he just hasn't played a whole lot of football since
high school and this is going to be something of
a lost season again. Although certainly what what he gained
from the offseason and and you know, what he was
bringing to the table was pretty special. I can't speak
to his doorability. You know, we're going to have to
see I mean, I feel like he was he at
(28:53):
least was on the sideline. I think he missed time
in all but one start, Like there were other games
where he left for you know, a period of time
or his return was in question and then he was
able to come back. So yeah, that certainly is problematic
and none of the other abilities matter without availability. I
(29:15):
think he can be a dynamic force in this league
and that that could be a really interesting offense with
him next year. But yeah, you'd have to be concerned.
I mean, yeah, he was taking some you know, sort
of quasi kill shots early and I don't know if
it was just the accumulation of those or what have you,
and it's football. Things happen, but yeah, more slides, more
(29:39):
getting out of bounds, all the normal sort of you know,
evolutionary stuff with a running quarterback. He probably needs to
take that the heart immediately come you know, year two.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
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Jay as always, buddy, appreciated man. We'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Hey have fun, guys, So good week. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
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Speaker 1 (30:15):
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Cowboys lead the Chargers seventeen to ten into the fourth quarter,
justin Herbert misfiring on third and eleven, so the Chargers
punting it back to the Cowboys who have it first
(30:37):
intended their own. Twenty one eight forty one left to go.
Will bring you more on this game coming up, and
more on the craziest at the end of the first
half from this game coming up in about ten minutes
or so. But big story today, we're looking at the
the LCS is going on in American and National League
and a stunning result that I think people are still
(31:00):
having some difficulty with right now. The Phillies trying to
put away the Diamondbacks in the top of the ninth.
They lead game one, five to three, but the Diamondbacks
have a runner on runner out. The Rangers are up
to zip going home over the Astros. They had a
five to one lead they hold on. Nathany Ovaldi gets
out of a bases loaded, no out jam what it
looked like. Here come the Astros to take control of
(31:21):
this game. He strikes out nine and six innings. He
gets the win, Framber Valdez gets the loss, and now
the Astros have to go to Texas, have to go
well of Dallas and Arlington down to Zip to try
to get back in the series. Now here's the thing
is I understand the intimidation factor of the Astros. Here
(31:41):
are the champions, right, Maybe they still know the pitches,
maybe they don't. Here are the champs, and we're afraid
of them because they've been so good for so long.
It's a lot of the same players from last year,
the last couple of years. And boy, I am it
because I can see the Astros going in the next
three games and putting up like thirty five runs and suddenly, boom,
they're back in this series.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Right. I understand that.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
However, however, there's enough history, there's enough data to look
back on to know that coming back from two Zip
just doesn't happen, Okay, in the last twenty seven years
in baseball history, right, last twenty seven years, a team
has gotten down two ZIP in a best of seven
series and come back to win twice, okay twice once.
(32:27):
We all know Red Sox down three zip against the Yankees,
and that's one of the momentous comebacks ever in the
history of all sports. Right that and the Dodgers coming
back from down two zip against the Braves in twenty
twenty during the Bubble playoffs. That's it. All the other
two zip leads those teams have won. When you get
up to nothing in a series, it used to be, well,
(32:47):
you know, it doesn't start until a team lose on
its own field. No, you get down two zip, that's it.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
And I know that.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Hey, the Astros, everybody's afraight, this series is over. The
Rains are up to nothing. They're up to nothing. They're
going home and maybe they split the next two. But okay,
they're up three to one. I mean, it's yes, the Astros.
This is not one hundred and ten win juggernaut. This
is an Astros team that barely squeaked in, that won
ninety games, that needed the Raiders to lose at the
end just to come in and be the division champion.
(33:15):
This is not a great Astros team. This is not
a team that I look up and go, man, the
all stars up and down the lineup. All this is
a team that struggled to win ninety games? Is this
the Astros year? Not like it was years before. If
it was, I would say, well, here there are they
still have that, They still have that mentality. One win,
you never know what could happen. Everything can They can
catch fire and we can see it roll out from there.
(33:37):
But you're going on the road and you have to
win the next two to get back into it, and
it just doesn't happen. Right, It just doesn't happen twice
in the last twenty seven years in baseball history.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, I mean, you thought you've gotten some continuity down
the stretch. You had a lot of miss time over
the course of the year. You're looking at Alvarez, who
just don't pitch to him. Seems to be the mantra here.
He took the trick of strikeouts game one and then
came back with a couple of home runs, but he
missed fifty games this year. You look at al Tuove
(34:08):
was limited to ninety games, and various players missing a
couple of weeks here and there, but thinking they got
healthy and right down the stretch. And then you look
at Valdez's last two times out, he's been awful. Couldn't
get through the third today four runs allowed, only lasted
two and two thirds, So invincibility that that cloak, that
(34:34):
super suit is gone, right, And for the Rangers, even
without the high priced editions. And now we're seeing Sureser
is gonna pitch Game three? How much do you love that?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I kind of feel like I'm watching the Mets, so
I'm at this point, I'm like, well.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
You just kind of a dolled him at this time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Well, well, and the same thing with Verlander, right, I
mean later for the As, it's like I haven't met playing.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
In it, freaking no, that's just it, right, It's like,
which guy do you like more? And look, nobody's feeling
sorry for the Astros man. I do like that, you know,
long coat that Dusty Baker wears that kind of looks
like Darth Vader's cape and all. But for the Astros. Yeah,
not not a charmed life, not a massive runoff. And
it's what we've been talking about with the playoffs. You
(35:18):
and I of winning one hundred games or or whatever,
it doesn't matter. Are you hot at the right time,
do you pull the right strings and can you jump
out to a lead right that that's been The other
thing is are you fast starters, cause we've seen starting
pitching get beat up pretty early in these in these games,
(35:39):
and then it's a frantic pace to try to come back.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
I'll tell you man, it's it's I know.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
And this makes a lot of people happy because obviously
watch want to see the Astros win. Hey, uh yeah,
it's gonna be almost impossible.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
This is what happens.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Just means a lot of shots of Nolan Ryan coming.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
All the controversies of the final few minutes of the
Chargers Cowboys, things getting close in LA.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
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