September 24, 2025 • 36 mins
In this installment of The Midway, Doug and the crew talk about the biggest surprises of the NFL season through week 3. Doug welcomes NFL Analyst Daniel Jeremiah onto the show to discuss the Chargers, Colts and the other major NFL headlines. Dan Beyer takes Doug through The Press.
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ultimately the Achilles heel.
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Speaker 2 (03:08):
No thumb up on both choices. Here are the choices.
Fellas the biggest surprise in the NFL season through Week three.
Pick one, pick one and drove down on it, and
I feel the need to give instruction because in recent
days we have Iowa sam who the verb is developed
after samming it up, and then the host of the
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show has been samming things up.
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I want.
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We've been We've been filled, We've been philibustering, like we're
what's the guy shoot, he stood there all day, Corey Booker,
Corey Booker, Corey Booker philibustered for.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Like a day or five hours or something.
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Yeah, but you know, you guys have been IOWA samming
it up and philibustering more.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Than me lately. I feel that our ratings, by the
way in Charlotte through the Roof, because of the coverage
we've given the Panthers the last couple of weeks.
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Bryce Young has already become Bryce Old.
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Or I a playful yet serious discussion on the abs
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Speaker 3 (04:26):
I have a lot of thoughts. But of the three,
which do you guys? Of the two? What are you
guys like?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I thought we were doing NFL, so I didn't even
think that there was a Yeah, this guy didn't.
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I didn't even know about the.
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ABS line, Dan Byer.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Since you're excited about doing that, I could feel it
in your voice. What's the biggest surprise for you after
a week three?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Well, it's it's a surprise in a weird way, and
it comes from a place that we just were at,
Jason Stewart, we were in Buffalo and through three weeks
of the season. If you're a Buffalo Bill's fan, not
taking what your team has done on the field, but
you could not have asked for a better start to
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your season and the hopes of this being your year.
Didn't you see something in Buffalo, Jason where it said
this is our year?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, that was a pretty wame year mantra? You know, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Let me can I can? I I think this is
where you're going with it again? Come of them wrong? Right?
The rest of the teams that we think are the
top of the AFC are all collapsing. Is that what
you're getting doing.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
It's part of it. Yes, what's the other part of it, Well,
they've got to win over the Ravens. So their lead
over Baltimore right now is technically three games. Yes, if
it were to ever come to that. The Bills were
also the team in the NFL, I believe, the only
team in the NFL at the start of the year
where they would have been favored in every single game. Now,
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obviously if something happens with Josh Allen that would change,
but at the beginning of the year they were going
to be favored in every single game they played. They've
got the Chiefs coming to town in early November, They've
got the Eagles coming to Buffalo at the end of December,
and by the way, what could be a meaningless game
in week seventeen, and depending on how things shape out.
But it's not only the Ravens being one and two
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and they're win over the Ravens. It's the Chiefs being
one and two, their division in Buffalo, the Dolphins and
Jets and Patriots.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yes, it looks like the worst division in football outside
of the Bills.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yes, So even if you're looking at the Chargers at
three and zero, which by the way would be. I
think a nightmare matchup for the Bills. I think the
one team that they would not want to play is
the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But the Chargers go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Are three and zero in their division. But they do
have road games coming up with the Chiefs, with the
Broncos in rematches later on in the season, so there
could be could be some faltering there, but so far,
so good if you're a Bills fan, where everything is
lined up in your way, and even if the Colts
go sixteen and one or fifteen and two, I don't
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think that they would be worried about having a playoff
game having to go to Indianapolis to face the No.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, no. That's honestly a point that I was thinking
as you're talking Dan, which is if in worst case scenario,
Buffalo has to go to Indy or La, Josh Allen
on a fast track is actually better for Josh Allen. Right,
That's why you're talking about the Chargers if they had
to come to Buffalo AFC championship game in Buffalo. The
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Chargers are really a running, run based team, right, and
power football team. On the other hand, they're also the Chargers,
so there is no faith from anybody that they can
actually pull it off, they can even get that far
in the playoffs. So I'm with you. It is when
you look at when if you were to name the
top teams in the AFC, and you're like, Bengals, they're
done right. Chiefs don't look better, look worse. Although they're
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gonna get healthy a wide receiver, you think they'll get better.
The defense is not bad, but right now they're taking
l's and Baltimore losing two games they rightfully could have won.
And you know, like you have no faith in Baltimore
in the playoffs, let alone Baltimore coming to Buffalo. I'm
with you. Last year, that building playing outdoors, it's it's
been a good it's been a good month so far.
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Can I do mine? Mine's real simple. I can't believe
the Pittsburgh Steelers defense is playing how they're playing, you know,
I the Aaron Rodgers looking old and Russell Wilson looking washed.
I mean that there's a rant there, Jay stew that
at some point we got to come up with, which
is it's like the It's like when you go back
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to your college town with your old buddies and you
sit around and You're like, man, are these do these
girls look really young? You're like, no, we're really old.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It's that moment that you realize Aaron Rodgers at old.
Russell Wilson is old, like Tom Brady is an outlier
that he was able to perform that well in his forties. Like, guys,
look goal. But it's way more surprising that the Pittsburgh
Steelers defense hasn't dominated at all. Hasn't dominated at all.
And you know, cam Heywood wanted more money and they
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just gave him some incentives because they know he's over
the hill. You know, JJ Watt got a new deal, right,
but he hasn't been as dynamic and they're surviving games.
And I just I'm frankly, I'm surprised. I would have
thought that defense was nasty and they have not shown
it so far this year.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, good one.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
It's supposed to be in concert with what the offense
is doing. Now. They did force five Patriots turnovers, some
of those the fault of New England themselves, but that's
the only reason why they won the game against the
Patriots this past weekend. Turned the ball over five times.
You should lose force five turnovers.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You actually and I will and like, look, I love Rabel, okay,
but remember he kind of talked a little trash about Belichick, Like, look,
one thing Belichick's teams didn't do is beat themselves, and
his team beat to beat themselves.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm glad Dan brought up the term turnovers because my
surprise of the year involves a person who had seventy
three turnovers in his career coming into the season, is
currently three and oh with his new team and has
zero turnovers. That's Indiana Jones, Daniel Dollars, whatever the new
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nickname is for this guy three and oh as a
starting quarterback on the Colts. I can understand if Shane
Sichin has put him in places to succeed, if the
scheme is better, and Jonathan Taylor being healthy is a
big reason. I don't understand how you could coach turnovers
out of your turnover Leyden quarterback. That doesn't make sense
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to me. So whatever has happened is a complete anomaly
for three weeks or we're seeing a new quarterback. And
what I like best about this surprise is it has
provided the contrast to the Giants' decision makers. I honestly
don't think they make the decision yesterday about Jackson Dart.
If Daniel Jones isn't playing, or if he's playing poorly,
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that I think this has gone in to the mix
of the decision to further the process of getting rid
of Brian Dayball and let's start this rookie and take
a hail Mary chance at saving his job, Daniel Jones
providing the surprise for the Colts at three and zero,
and the contrast for likely a Hall of Fame quarterback.
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Hall of Fame esque. I know that's a trigger term
for Dan who doesn't think Russell William's a Hall of Famer,
But to get that guy to lose his job and
potentially a head coach to lose his job by playing
so well, Danny Dollars or Indiana Jones my choice for
the death it is.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I think it's absolutely fair to say that because there's
no reason, legitimate reason why Jackson Dart should be starting now. Yeah,
because if you wanted to say that they were working
him in why now? I mean, Russell Wilson just threw
for four hundred and fifty yards. I can I guess
ten days ago?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Can I guess?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Dan? I think Jason did in saying like, that's why
they did it.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Well, why, Jace, why do you think they did.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I think that the Giant's decision to hastily put their
rookie quarterback in this week had something to do with
the fact that their old quarterback is balling it out
in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I don't think that's what it is. I don't. I
think this is a this is how you save your job.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
But I think that's also what Jason is saying too,
is that's my point, Yeah, this is this is why
you do it now, this is their hail Mary because
this ship is this ship is yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I mean, I I just don't. I don't know on
the Danny Dimes thing. The only thing I'm asiting on
the Danny Dimes sing was, do you guys remember when
Sam Donald went to Carolina and they were three, you know,
the first three games and McCaffrey McCaffrey was the running back.
McCaffrey gets hurt I don't know the third or the
fourth game, and then all of a sudden he goes
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back to New York jet Sam Donald and he gets
cut at the end of ye right if he split
time with with what Saint Baker ends up replacing him
at some point in the year. My point is that
Jonathan Taylor is a huge factor in Danny dimes, right,
and so there's still kind of that excuse, Like I
understand what you're saying. I just think this is a
classic overreaction of just play the kid and that's our future.
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And anytime we lose, we say we're playing a kid.
And anytime we win, where the quarterback whispered it's people
do that in college sports as well. Ah, my team
is so young, Well, you're only playing the young players
because that's how you save your job.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Can you ask Daniers Jeremiah something? I never do this,
but can you ask him something? How do you coach
turnovers out of your turnover ladon quarterback?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
How do you coach that out of them? How does
he have zero after three weeks?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's a great question. They've done a good job with
Jordan Love up until this past week. He hadn't turned
it over in like eight games.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Colts also have a great running game too. That helps.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yeah, the Colts did a couple of things. First of all,
they lost pieces via free agency going to Minnesota, Will
Fries and Ryan Kelly, but they still have Quenton Nelson,
they invested in a couple of other pieces that they
resigned along their line, and it's yeah, it's been Jonathan
Taylor as well. Jonathan Taylor's been the best running back
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through three weeks of the NFL season. So now you
have a mobile quarterback as well, not that that has
a threat to throw the football, which Anthony Richardson wasn't.
And maybe they've got something like I don't think that
Shane Stiken forgot how to coach football just because he
went to Indianapolis, So it seems to be working out
as well. Also the Donald thing, just because I know
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we're big and Charlotte Donald was there a year in
Carolina with that three and oh star Baker did and
come until the next year and then started right away.
But no, it's just the point of of how crazy
that whole situation was that the Browns then ended up
dealing him in the preseason to the Panther and then
the Panthers just gave him the starting job right away,
and then he ended up failing in Carolina.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Waitam, what do you got? Sam?
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Well, if it's wait and see with the Indianapolis Colts,
it's uh, it's gotta be wait and see with the Chargers, right,
I mean, they're they're they're the first When will they Charger? Listen,
they're they're three and o for the if it's inherently
a surprise. If you're three and oh for the first
time in twenty twenty three years, that is a surprise.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
It fits a definition perfectly.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
You know, they've had key injuries now Rashaun Slater in
the offseason before the season start. Now they have lost
Najee Harris, but man Harbob being there is just turned
Justin Herbert from a really good quarterback into a guy
you can put on, you know, put the game on
his back and he'll deliver. So maybe they won't Charger,
but I still think a lot of Charger fans are
gonna wait and see they have a they have three
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and oh up three and oh in the division that
that's really great. But I think that the biggest surprise
is if it's the winning side of the Chargers. Maybe
you go like the losing side, the Texans, but the
Chargers are the surprise. They are the positive surprise being
three and oo.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Can I argue with that?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's a good one, especially with Shaun Slater going down,
Khalil Mack going down.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Oh yeah, I forgot. I got that.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I mean the Slater injury. I really thought was like
that sealed the fate for them to maybe win nine
or ten games, maybe like creep into the playoffs. I
don't understand how they're doing this. Maybe you could ask
Jeremiah that.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
What's your what's surprise? Dan Jason? Oh you Oh you
did your yours with the with the New York Giants
and the quarterback play.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, yeah, we did as instructive. We went around the horn.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And we did we did one. I'm just again, I apologize.
We all talked about that topic. That's why I thought
about it. Okay, can I give you Can I give
you one more? That's a surprise, Yes, just I can.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Right, it's your show.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I'm frankly flabbergasted at what happened to the Texans. I'll
be honest with you. I don't follow a Texan football
in the offseason and what they've done two years ago, okay,
two years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
C J.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Stroud was the future, right. They have a dynamic young
coach who comes back from the Niners to a place
he played, and you're like, you got a defensive minded
coach that everybody thinks. He's like their version of Dan Campbell, right,
not as much of a of a of a raw
rose Dan Campbell, but solid everybody believes. You've got a
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quarterback who comes in at Ohio State. You're like, dumn
c J. Stroud is it? And you know last year
was a sophomore slump. Okay, it's been worse this year,
Dan explain, help help us.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Yeah, a sophomore slump, which is crazy enough they ended
up making the playoffs last year and meet the Chargers
in the playoff game, and which is true. Like I'm
not being sarcastic and saying, well, it absolutely was a
let down year for what we thought could have been
and how they were able to at least get what
they got last year. They've lost is again, they've lost
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close games, but it's not like they are close games
they should have won. Like when you don't score a
touchdown in a game because you fumble on your way
into the end zone, that is on you. That's happened
twice this season. This happened in Week three against the
Jaguars when they only had ten points on the board
and Nico Collins with the late fumble. Then Daria Gimbal
Walleye fumbled in their frantic comeback against the Rams, which
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they lost fourteen to nine. Like this is I mean,
they can't score more than twenty points in a game.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, nine.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yeah, they don't have an offensive line. They lost Jill Mixon.
Nick Chubb hasn't been the replacement that that mixing was
last year for them, And that's no fault on Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's just where he is. The injury.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Yeah, I think it's just that injury is just so
devastating to come back from that. Like he is what
he is and they've got you know, they have Damien Pierson,
Woody Mark's, a rookie out of USC could be options
moving forward, but they traded Lermie Tunzel to the Commanders
this past offseason when they already had a bad offensive line.
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So their defense has been really good so far this season,
and the offense in the little that they had to
do the little and that's just holding onto the football,
could not do it when they needed it the most.
And it's been, yeah, a dreadful start. They're already three
games back in the division. They got the Titans this weekend,
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So if they can't win that game. Yikes.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
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Of course, you can hear him broadcast the undefeated, undisputed
leaders of the AFC West, the the LA Chargers. Plus
he works for the NFL networking with the Sticks, the podcast,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. DJ, What what's this
experience like? Because how many years have been doing Charger games? Now?
(20:37):
I'm gonna guess seven. I just I feel like seven. Okay, okay,
So you've experienced playoffs before, right, So they haven't all
been like people we make the Chargers out to be
like they're the laughing stock of the league. They haven't been.
But there there was the Charging thing which became a
thing which is no game was ever intact because you
always they always found a way to lose. That thing
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is flipped, right, I mean last week, like you're like, now,
this is classic Chargers let down, lose to the loose
to the Broncos. And yet and yet Herbert within a
couple amazing plays and they pull it out. What what
is that like? As somebody who has watched this thing
evolved evolve over the last.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Eight years, Yeah, I just changes from what could you know,
what could go wrong? To what could go right? You know,
like that's that's just the mindset that's completely flipped. And
I give not only Jim Harball a lot of credits,
but you know, Ben Herbert, their strength coach, all the
extra work that they put in. I think the offense
was on the field for eighty six snaps and you're
down a couple offensive linemen and they found a way
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on the biggest drive to you know, to make the
plays they needed to make. And it's not only kind
of you know, avoiding being physically tired, but being mentally
focused and in tune when you got to have it.
And late in that game, they had to have a stop.
The defense gave it to them, they had to move
the ball, the offense did it, and they had to
make a kick and the kicker is the best in
the league of doing that right now. So you know,
they just got a real, a real complete team. And uh,
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I think hardball, you know, coming in and uh, kind
of establishing some confidence is a is a huge part
of that.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, it seems to be a very very big part
of it. What's wrong with the Broncos.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Nothing wrong with their front. I mean their defense is
really really good, and I you know, you look over
the last couple of weeks, they've had two heartbreaking losses
down at the last minute. So they're they're right in games.
They've just they've missed they've missed the throws. I mean
bow Nicks missed three throws in that game, which should
have been huge, huge home runs. And uh, you know,
it's not a it's not a super hard fix. He's
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seeing it, he's getting the ball where it needs to go.
He just throwing the ball when he's got guys in
the clear with way too much air and he's he's
airmailed some instead of when you're that open to put
it on him. I mean that should be a you know,
a teaching point that you can nail home and be
able to solve and fix. But uh, that to me
is uh, you know kind of my takeaway. Look like
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I've seen them up close. That was a fast the
defense as you're going to see up front, very very physical.
It looked like a playoff team. They just don't have
the record to support that right now.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Stut Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. That's the
voice of Daniel Jeremy I moved to sticks to his podcast. Okay,
let's bounce around the league a little bit. I think
Jason Stewart asked a great question, but instead of me
taking his question, I'll let Jay Stu, our Steam producer,
asked the question. No, it is not baseball related, Jase,
(23:31):
do go ahead.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Thanks, Doug, I'll take it from here. Doug Daniel question. Yeah,
so not only are the colch Serano, but Daniel Jones
looks great. I know Jonathan Taylor's has a lot to
do with this, But the weirdest thing for me is this.
You have a guy that is renowned in his career
for being a turnover machine, has zero turnovers in three weeks.
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How do you coach turnovers out of a guy who
has been turnover laden.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
It's a great question. I would say the circumstances and
situation have changed. He's playing behind a better offensive line
than he ever had with the Giants as part of it,
so that makes life a little easier on you. He's
got buying and complete belief from everyone in the building,
coaching staff, you know, the front office, everyone. So he's
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playing with confidence. He's not playing scared. A lot of times.
It's like they always would say, like if you play
not to get hurt, you're going to get hurt. And
if you play not to turn the ball over, you
end up turning the ball over. You got you got
to see it, trust it, and let it rip. And
you do that when you have guys that instill some
confidence in you. So I think he has that. You know.
My thing, Jayce was thinking about this the other day
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and I said this on a couple platforms, but Eli
Nanning is the only quarterback who had really long sustained
success in the New York market Jets or Giants at
the quarterback position in the last what thirty years, and
even that came with some ups and downs in the
regular season. He just had a couple of magical postseason runs,
but that that market has now chewed up and spit out.
Geno Smith, who we've seen go on and be a
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solid productive player. Sam Darnold, who now is doing it
for another team, looks like he's he's solved some of
his problems. And now Daniel Jones, I think that's there's
an aspect to that New York pressure that that I
don't know enough recognition.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
There you go, s Doug Gottlieb show here on Fox
Sports Radio. Daniel Jeremiah is our guest. Is Jackson got ready?
Speaker 7 (25:28):
I don't know that he's ever going to be, you know,
ready for that first start. It's just going to be
so different than what he did in college. But it
was not really a decision. They've had a choice with
dway Russ had looked into of these first three games
and they've they've got to try and protect him as
best they can and try and run the ball. I
think use him to run the ball a little bit
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the RPO game, doing things to make him comfortable. I
think you've got to tell him, Hey, the goal isn't
to come out and light the world on fire right
out to shoot. The goal is for us to get
better each and every week with you out there. So
I think I would lower expectations initially and the hope
that he continues to grow and get better and and
figure out ways to get Molik neighbors the ball as
many many different ways as you can. You know, I
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think that it's going to bring some excitement. I'm excited
to be in the building. I think he'll bring some
juice and some buzz to the stadium after what's been
kind of a painful watch here outside of one game
against the disgustingly bad Cowboy defense.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Okay, but what why not? Why not? Jamis?
Speaker 7 (26:27):
I just think you're spinning your wheels there. I look
at teams like the Giants. I've talked about this with
the Browns. I know they had a big win last week,
but this season for teams like that the Saints, I
would put in that category as well. You're trying to
find out who's going to be part of this group
next year. Let's get a chance to you know, evaluate
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as many young players as we can to know what
we have and h in the hopes that we're rocking
and rolling next year. These teams aren't playoff teams this year.
They're not going anywhere this year. So to roll out,
you know, a stopgap quarterback in Jamis Winston in the
hopes that you're going to make the playoffs this year,
I don't. I don't think that's the smart move. I
think the smart move to see what you got with
this kid.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Why why is the Steelers defense not not better?
Speaker 7 (27:13):
I mean, they're just turnovers. They got some turnovers this
last week, but that was really the kind of the
only reason that they won that game. You know, Offensively,
I think they were they were great. I think it
was a little bit better defensively. So that was encouraging
based off what we saw the previous two weeks. But
they've they've been hit with some similar concepts and struggled
(27:35):
to make some adjustments inside of games, which I would
say it's been kind of a you know, an issue
for them. But at least, you know, at least for
one week, they were you know, they were able to
take the football.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Away for one week. Uh, it's the Gottlip Show here
on Fox Sports Radio. I don't know whether to ask
about the Eagles or the Rams, right, I think it's
the Eagles, But like two block field goals in the
fourth quarter, I get this. It kind of circles back
to where we started with Harbaugh. The Eagles just have
(28:09):
that we find a way to win thing that few
teams have, and they that's how they won football games.
Does it ultimately catch up to them?
Speaker 7 (28:20):
You know, I don't know that it does. I don't
even think it's just a football thing. I talked to
my kids about this, Doug Is, and I'm sure you've
had similar conversations with both your kids and your teams.
But I have a firm believer that grid is a muscle,
and the more you exercise it, and the more you
prove that you can do something when things are against
you and those gotta habit moments, I think it tends
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to happen more and more and more and more. And
you don't win whatever they are now, what like nineteen
out of twenty games without having ways in those big
moments when you not necessarily have played your best, but
there's those key moments The Eagles have gotten really, really,
really good at digging down and finding ways to make
those plays. And I think you draw the right comp
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with the with the Chargers, because I think that's what
Harbaugh's instilled with this group, and you're starting to see
that as well. The Eagles have done that on a
completely other level. I mean, you could argue if their
three plays away from being winless this year, and I
would push back and argue and say, but that's why
they're the Eagles, because they know how to make those
three plays absolutely had to make.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I agree with you. Last thing, what is your status
as far as the Padres and the Cubs, Like, are
you going to fly to Chicago for this series?
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Well, I don't know that I'm gonna have to fly
because I think we got a very good chance of
catching them in that series, could be at Petco. Know
we're only a game and a half behind them. We're
a game and a half behind the Dodgers. We don't
have the tiebreaker with the Dodgers. To be honest, I
want jay SEUs Dodgers to win the divisions, so then
they have to go get beat by Philadelphia and then
we can just cruise through the Cubs and the Brewers.
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So that's my game plan.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Cubbies have lost five in a row. They have two
more against the Mets, including one tonight and tomorrow night.
Then they got the cards for for three, so we'll
see how that that plays for the week.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
By the way, the Brewers, the Brewers, best team in
National League, have scored eight runs in five games against
the Padres.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Come on, okay, I mean listen, let's let's let's see
how it plays out. I mean see how plays out.
I mean Jase Stuo's doing a victory lap because he
predicted that the Dodgers bullpen would be their downfall. It has.
But again, see what happens in the second season. DJ,
you're the best man. Appreciate it. Talk to you soond.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
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Speaker 5 (31:15):
Dad the Press, Doug, we have an update from Cleveland
Guardian's DHDA.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Believe that.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Not necessarily appropriate from what I'm about to say right now,
but Guardians designated hitter David Frye suffered multiple fractures on
the left side of his face in addition the nasal
fractures after he was hit in the face with a
pitch during last night's game against the Tigers. Trek Scoubel
was on the mound. He was visibly distraught. Fry out
six to eight weeks. The team says he's been discharged
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from the hospital and is resting comfortably.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Okay, so did the ball he squared round to bunt
and it hit him in the face. But did it
ricochet off his bat or was it right into his broadcast?
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Said yes, but after further in the team saying no,
it did not. So it was a straight fastball to
the face.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Oh, oh, that's a what was the Canigliari? Maybe what
was the what was the guy with the red sox?
It basically like ruined his career. Uh, this is like
in the fifties, maybe, Jase do this is this feels up?
Speaker 5 (32:27):
This is baseball? This is you what?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
What what era are we talking about? Who lost his
career to get a hit in the face by a pitch? Yeah, yes,
I remember Dicky Thon was a brutal one and.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
The no, it's Tony Uh Caniglierio. Do you guys remember
Tony Totes. Yeah, then I don't remember Tony Canigliero. Yeah.
It was in nineteen sixty seven. Okay, he was playing
the then California Angels, Jack Hamilton through a ball, He's
(33:01):
hit by a pitch on his left cheekbone, carried off
the field in the stretcher. He sustained a linear fracture
to his cheekbone dislocated. Joss up. Anyway, he had vision problems.
He was never never really the same.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
So just a recap. Okay, all right, So David Fry
and this is scary scene, which is why so Doug
Yell has yelled Cleveland as I'm talking about David Fry's
fractured face. Then he went into Italian accent in talking
of out all right, anybody else.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Well, it should be pointed out that David Fry wasn't
he he was He was having rough here too.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Right, Yeah, I don't think that matters in this situation.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I know, I'm just like, I hope to be okay,
Like faceball, fastball to the face, anything else, I don't know.
Fastball to the face. That sounds terrible and it looks
worse on video. It sounds it's honest, scar. Yeah, I
like videos, you know where a guy gets hurt that one.
I don't like fastball to the face where just and
he turned right into it.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Oh and just to quarify, it wasn't Doug doing an
Italian accent. It was Doug doing Ted Cruz doing a
Boston Italian.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Acts, which is.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
Like Italian meets like Bostonian meets like, I don't know, Hungarian.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It was hard to do an Italian Bostonian right, because
the Italian accent naturally leads yourself to talking like you're
in New YORKA. But that's not how you talk with
you in Boston Boston is not New York. It's basting.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
I don't know if you have a Philly accent, but
the Philadelphia seventy six ers are going to wear their
black Road jerseys from the nineteen nineties. We all know
them as the Iverson jerseys from there when they went
to the two thousand and one NBA Finals. They're gonna
wear those twenty times in the upcoming season. And I
don't know of a jersey more associated with a player,
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because let's be honest, it's an awful logo, awful color scheme.
Yet we all think of Alan Iverson when we see it,
and so now it's going to be worn a quarter
of their games this season.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I actually love the Doctor J Sixers uniforms. Why I
wann not bring those ones back?
Speaker 5 (35:05):
I like those as well. I just like the red,
white and blue of the Sixers.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
How many of those games wild Joel andb be in
uniform four?
Speaker 5 (35:11):
Eight is my guess? Eight of those? Fox broadcaster and
Raiders Limited partner Tom Brady says there is no conflict
of interest between his two positions and his weekly newsletter.
Brady said only the quote paranoid and distrustful end quote
Field there is a conflict of interest with his gigs.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Anybody, anybody, first of all, with common sense, knows that
this is the very definition of conflict of interest. So
don't deny that. I think we all agree that it's
a conflict of interest. It's just how much do you care?
How much does the NFL care.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I'm going to offer up an alternative solution. Anybody with
the brain can see. It's the appearance of a conflict
of interest. It's the appearance of the conflict of interest
that's really what's, in my opinion, what's at stake here,
And it is really really bad optics. I actually think
there's again, there's you and I. We've Dan and I
(36:01):
have talked about. Dan didn't think it's that big a deal, right, uh,
but again, and I kind of agree. I think it's
a good thing when you're fully invested in the sport
and you know what's going on in the sport. But
it's the appearance of a conflict of interest that I
think is unsettling to so many people, like wait, he's
calling the game next week and he's in their coaches boxing.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
What good news for me. I'm not paranoid and I'm trustworthy.
According to Tom Brady and that's the press bag. Get
out there and pressed.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
That was the press.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
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How you doing trying to get to the bottom of uh?
Did I hear a guy named Jibebroni is the new
general manager of the Nationals. He's a JIBEBRONI? Is that
what I heard? To BONI? I thought it would have
been better if his name was JIBEBRONI. Hey, JIBRONI, do
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doo doo doo doo doo. It's the Doug Gottlieb Show.
I hope you're having a great day. You do know
this is a Wednesday, which means, among other things, we
got football tomorrow. We can figure out a little bit
of baseball to talk, although I'm not sure after yesterday
Jason Sewer wants to talk baseball because really this is
kind of his prediction, which was the bullpen would be
(01:06):
ultimately the Achilles heel.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So you just answered your own question. Yeah, you said,
I don't know if Jason will want to talk about
something that he has been predicting all season long. Of
course I would want to take a victory lap, so
that it's a contradiction.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
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Every Wednesday, we do this, Okay, it's sometimes we talk movies, TV.
Most times we try to keep it too sports, but
it's the middle of the day, the middle of the show,
the middle of the week. Let's get to the midway.
It's not getting the middle with you.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's time for the.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Midway, all right, Jay Stu, this is your show. What's
the dog?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Thank you, Doug.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I'll take it from here.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Thank you, Doug. Are you guys are working together?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Look it's finally you're finally working together with the drop.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I sent the following text out to the crew today.
I got one response from Iowa Sam.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
No, you got two response.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
You got two?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Okay, did you see the thumb up?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Oh, the thumbs up. That's a response that could be subtle,
but I like it.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It was nothing subtle about it. It was right after you
sent it thumb up.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So just to get this straight for the listeners who
aren't on the group text, I sent a choice of two.
Doug sent thumbs up and thinks I should accept that.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
No no no no no no no no no no
is the thumb up on both choices.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No thumb up on both choices. Here are the choices.
Fellas the biggest surprise in the NFL season through Week three.
Pick one, pick one and drove down on it, and
I feel the need to give instruction because in recent
days we have Iowa sam who the verb is developed
after samming it up, and then the host of the
(03:29):
show has been samming things up.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I want.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
We've been We've been filled, We've been philibustering, like we're
what's the guy shoot, he stood there all day, Corey Booker,
Corey Booker, Corey Booker philibustered for.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Like a day or five hours or something.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Yeah, but you know, you guys have been IOWA samming
it up and philibustering more.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Than me lately. I feel that our ratings, by the
way in Charlotte through the Roof, because of the coverage
we've given the Panthers the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
There you get number one number one national sports showing Charlotte.
Also number one showing which talk.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Up Which Talk Charlotte Observer.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I just saw the headline today, dud Gottlieb's coverage of
Bryce Young has already become Bryce Old.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
So drilled down on one, we go around with a dad.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Like nineteen years that's like your worst dad joke ever?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Or I a playful yet serious discussion on the abs
challenge system.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I have a lot of thoughts. But of the three,
which do you guys? Of the two? What are you
guys like?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
I thought we were doing NFL, so I didn't even
think that there was a Yeah, this guy didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I didn't even know about the.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
ABS line, Dan Byer.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Since you're excited about doing that, I could feel it
in your voice. What's the biggest surprise for you after
a week three?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Well, it's it's a surprise in a weird way, and
it comes from a place that we just were at,
Jason Stewart, we were in Buffalo and through three weeks
of the season. If you're a Buffalo Bill's fan, not
taking what your team has done on the field, but
you could not have asked for a better start to
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your season and the hopes of this being your year.
Didn't you see something in Buffalo, Jason where it said
this is our year?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, that was a pretty wame year mantra? You know, yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Let me can I can? I I think this is
where you're going with it again? Come of them wrong? Right?
The rest of the teams that we think are the
top of the AFC are all collapsing. Is that what
you're getting doing.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
It's part of it. Yes, what's the other part of it, Well,
they've got to win over the Ravens. So their lead
over Baltimore right now is technically three games. Yes, if
it were to ever come to that. The Bills were
also the team in the NFL, I believe, the only
team in the NFL at the start of the year
where they would have been favored in every single game. Now,
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obviously if something happens with Josh Allen that would change,
but at the beginning of the year they were going
to be favored in every single game they played. They've
got the Chiefs coming to town in early November, They've
got the Eagles coming to Buffalo at the end of December,
and by the way, what could be a meaningless game
in week seventeen, and depending on how things shape out.
But it's not only the Ravens being one and two
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and they're win over the Ravens. It's the Chiefs being
one and two, their division in Buffalo, the Dolphins and
Jets and Patriots.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yes, it looks like the worst division in football outside
of the Bills.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yes, So even if you're looking at the Chargers at
three and zero, which by the way would be. I
think a nightmare matchup for the Bills. I think the
one team that they would not want to play is
the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But the Chargers go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Are three and zero in their division. But they do
have road games coming up with the Chiefs, with the
Broncos in rematches later on in the season, so there
could be could be some faltering there, but so far,
so good if you're a Bills fan, where everything is
lined up in your way, and even if the Colts
go sixteen and one or fifteen and two, I don't
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think that they would be worried about having a playoff
game having to go to Indianapolis to face the No.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, no. That's honestly a point that I was thinking
as you're talking Dan, which is if in worst case scenario,
Buffalo has to go to Indy or La, Josh Allen
on a fast track is actually better for Josh Allen. Right,
That's why you're talking about the Chargers if they had
to come to Buffalo AFC championship game in Buffalo. The
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Chargers are really a running, run based team, right, and
power football team. On the other hand, they're also the Chargers,
so there is no faith from anybody that they can
actually pull it off, they can even get that far
in the playoffs. So I'm with you. It is when
you look at when if you were to name the
top teams in the AFC, and you're like, Bengals, they're
done right. Chiefs don't look better, look worse. Although they're
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gonna get healthy a wide receiver, you think they'll get better.
The defense is not bad, but right now they're taking
l's and Baltimore losing two games they rightfully could have won.
And you know, like you have no faith in Baltimore
in the playoffs, let alone Baltimore coming to Buffalo. I'm
with you. Last year, that building playing outdoors, it's it's
been a good it's been a good month so far.
(08:12):
Can I do mine? Mine's real simple. I can't believe
the Pittsburgh Steelers defense is playing how they're playing, you know,
I the Aaron Rodgers looking old and Russell Wilson looking washed.
I mean that there's a rant there, Jay stew that
at some point we got to come up with, which
is it's like the It's like when you go back
(08:33):
to your college town with your old buddies and you
sit around and You're like, man, are these do these
girls look really young? You're like, no, we're really old.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
It's that moment that you realize Aaron Rodgers at old.
Russell Wilson is old, like Tom Brady is an outlier
that he was able to perform that well in his forties. Like, guys,
look goal. But it's way more surprising that the Pittsburgh
Steelers defense hasn't dominated at all. Hasn't dominated at all.
And you know, cam Heywood wanted more money and they
(09:01):
just gave him some incentives because they know he's over
the hill. You know, JJ Watt got a new deal, right,
but he hasn't been as dynamic and they're surviving games.
And I just I'm frankly, I'm surprised. I would have
thought that defense was nasty and they have not shown
it so far this year.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, good one.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
It's supposed to be in concert with what the offense
is doing. Now. They did force five Patriots turnovers, some
of those the fault of New England themselves, but that's
the only reason why they won the game against the
Patriots this past weekend. Turned the ball over five times.
You should lose force five turnovers.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
You actually and I will and like, look, I love Rabel, okay,
but remember he kind of talked a little trash about Belichick, Like, look,
one thing Belichick's teams didn't do is beat themselves, and
his team beat to beat themselves.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm glad Dan brought up the term turnovers because my
surprise of the year involves a person who had seventy
three turnovers in his career coming into the season, is
currently three and oh with his new team and has
zero turnovers. That's Indiana Jones, Daniel Dollars, whatever the new
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nickname is for this guy three and oh as a
starting quarterback on the Colts. I can understand if Shane
Sichin has put him in places to succeed, if the
scheme is better, and Jonathan Taylor being healthy is a
big reason. I don't understand how you could coach turnovers
out of your turnover Leyden quarterback. That doesn't make sense
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to me. So whatever has happened is a complete anomaly
for three weeks or we're seeing a new quarterback. And
what I like best about this surprise is it has
provided the contrast to the Giants' decision makers. I honestly
don't think they make the decision yesterday about Jackson Dart.
If Daniel Jones isn't playing, or if he's playing poorly,
(10:58):
that I think this has gone in to the mix
of the decision to further the process of getting rid
of Brian Dayball and let's start this rookie and take
a hail Mary chance at saving his job, Daniel Jones
providing the surprise for the Colts at three and zero,
and the contrast for likely a Hall of Fame quarterback.
(11:19):
Hall of Fame esque. I know that's a trigger term
for Dan who doesn't think Russell William's a Hall of Famer,
But to get that guy to lose his job and
potentially a head coach to lose his job by playing
so well, Danny Dollars or Indiana Jones my choice for
the death it is.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I think it's absolutely fair to say that because there's
no reason, legitimate reason why Jackson Dart should be starting now. Yeah,
because if you wanted to say that they were working
him in why now? I mean, Russell Wilson just threw
for four hundred and fifty yards. I can I guess
ten days ago?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Can I guess?
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Dan? I think Jason did in saying like, that's why
they did it.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Well, why, Jace, why do you think they did.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I think that the Giant's decision to hastily put their
rookie quarterback in this week had something to do with
the fact that their old quarterback is balling it out
in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I don't think that's what it is. I don't. I
think this is a this is how you save your job.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
But I think that's also what Jason is saying too,
is that's my point, Yeah, this is this is why
you do it now, this is their hail Mary because
this ship is this ship is yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I mean, I I just don't. I don't know on
the Danny Dimes thing. The only thing I'm asiting on
the Danny Dimes sing was, do you guys remember when
Sam Donald went to Carolina and they were three, you know,
the first three games and McCaffrey McCaffrey was the running back.
McCaffrey gets hurt I don't know the third or the
fourth game, and then all of a sudden he goes
(12:55):
back to New York jet Sam Donald and he gets
cut at the end of ye right if he split
time with with what Saint Baker ends up replacing him
at some point in the year. My point is that
Jonathan Taylor is a huge factor in Danny dimes, right,
and so there's still kind of that excuse, Like I
understand what you're saying. I just think this is a
classic overreaction of just play the kid and that's our future.
(13:20):
And anytime we lose, we say we're playing a kid.
And anytime we win, where the quarterback whispered it's people
do that in college sports as well. Ah, my team
is so young, Well, you're only playing the young players
because that's how you save your job.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Can you ask Daniers Jeremiah something? I never do this,
but can you ask him something? How do you coach
turnovers out of your turnover ladon quarterback?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
How do you coach that out of them? How does
he have zero after three weeks?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That's a great question. They've done a good job with
Jordan Love up until this past week. He hadn't turned
it over in like eight games.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Colts also have a great running game too. That helps.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yeah, the Colts did a couple of things. First of all,
they lost pieces via free agency going to Minnesota, Will
Fries and Ryan Kelly, but they still have Quenton Nelson,
they invested in a couple of other pieces that they
resigned along their line, and it's yeah, it's been Jonathan
Taylor as well. Jonathan Taylor's been the best running back
(14:22):
through three weeks of the NFL season. So now you
have a mobile quarterback as well, not that that has
a threat to throw the football, which Anthony Richardson wasn't.
And maybe they've got something like I don't think that
Shane Stiken forgot how to coach football just because he
went to Indianapolis, So it seems to be working out
as well. Also the Donald thing, just because I know
(14:43):
we're big and Charlotte Donald was there a year in
Carolina with that three and oh star Baker did and
come until the next year and then started right away.
But no, it's just the point of of how crazy
that whole situation was that the Browns then ended up
dealing him in the preseason to the Panther and then
the Panthers just gave him the starting job right away,
and then he ended up failing in Carolina.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Waitam, what do you got? Sam?
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Well, if it's wait and see with the Indianapolis Colts,
it's uh, it's gotta be wait and see with the Chargers, right,
I mean, they're they're they're the first When will they Charger? Listen,
they're they're three and o for the if it's inherently
a surprise. If you're three and oh for the first
time in twenty twenty three years, that is a surprise.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
It fits a definition perfectly.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
You know, they've had key injuries now Rashaun Slater in
the offseason before the season start. Now they have lost
Najee Harris, but man Harbob being there is just turned
Justin Herbert from a really good quarterback into a guy
you can put on, you know, put the game on
his back and he'll deliver. So maybe they won't Charger,
but I still think a lot of Charger fans are
gonna wait and see they have a they have three
(15:52):
and oh up three and oh in the division that
that's really great. But I think that the biggest surprise
is if it's the winning side of the Chargers. Maybe
you go like the losing side, the Texans, but the
Chargers are the surprise. They are the positive surprise being
three and oo.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Can I argue with that?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's a good one, especially with Shaun Slater going down,
Khalil Mack going down.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Oh yeah, I forgot. I got that.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I mean the Slater injury. I really thought was like
that sealed the fate for them to maybe win nine
or ten games, maybe like creep into the playoffs. I
don't understand how they're doing this. Maybe you could ask
Jeremiah that.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
What's your what's surprise? Dan Jason? Oh you Oh you
did your yours with the with the New York Giants
and the quarterback play.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, yeah, we did as instructive. We went around the horn.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And we did we did one. I'm just again, I apologize.
We all talked about that topic. That's why I thought
about it. Okay, can I give you Can I give
you one more? That's a surprise, Yes, just I can.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Right, it's your show.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I'm frankly flabbergasted at what happened to the Texans. I'll
be honest with you. I don't follow a Texan football
in the offseason and what they've done two years ago, okay,
two years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
C J.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Stroud was the future, right. They have a dynamic young
coach who comes back from the Niners to a place
he played, and you're like, you got a defensive minded
coach that everybody thinks. He's like their version of Dan Campbell, right,
not as much of a of a of a raw
rose Dan Campbell, but solid everybody believes. You've got a
(17:30):
quarterback who comes in at Ohio State. You're like, dumn
c J. Stroud is it? And you know last year
was a sophomore slump. Okay, it's been worse this year,
Dan explain, help help us.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Yeah, a sophomore slump, which is crazy enough they ended
up making the playoffs last year and meet the Chargers
in the playoff game, and which is true. Like I'm
not being sarcastic and saying, well, it absolutely was a
let down year for what we thought could have been
and how they were able to at least get what
they got last year. They've lost is again, they've lost
(18:08):
close games, but it's not like they are close games
they should have won. Like when you don't score a
touchdown in a game because you fumble on your way
into the end zone, that is on you. That's happened
twice this season. This happened in Week three against the
Jaguars when they only had ten points on the board
and Nico Collins with the late fumble. Then Daria Gimbal
Walleye fumbled in their frantic comeback against the Rams, which
(18:30):
they lost fourteen to nine. Like this is I mean,
they can't score more than twenty points in a game.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, nine.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yeah, they don't have an offensive line. They lost Jill Mixon.
Nick Chubb hasn't been the replacement that that mixing was
last year for them, And that's no fault on Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's just where he is. The injury.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Yeah, I think it's just that injury is just so
devastating to come back from that. Like he is what
he is and they've got you know, they have Damien Pierson,
Woody Mark's, a rookie out of USC could be options
moving forward, but they traded Lermie Tunzel to the Commanders
this past offseason when they already had a bad offensive line.
(19:12):
So their defense has been really good so far this season,
and the offense in the little that they had to
do the little and that's just holding onto the football,
could not do it when they needed it the most.
And it's been, yeah, a dreadful start. They're already three
games back in the division. They got the Titans this weekend,
(19:34):
So if they can't win that game. Yikes.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
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But let's let's welcome in Daniel Jeremiah who joins us.
(20:17):
Of course, you can hear him broadcast the undefeated, undisputed
leaders of the AFC West, the the LA Chargers. Plus
he works for the NFL networking with the Sticks, the podcast,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. DJ, What what's this
experience like? Because how many years have been doing Charger games? Now?
(20:37):
I'm gonna guess seven. I just I feel like seven. Okay, okay,
So you've experienced playoffs before, right, So they haven't all
been like people we make the Chargers out to be
like they're the laughing stock of the league. They haven't been.
But there there was the Charging thing which became a
thing which is no game was ever intact because you
always they always found a way to lose. That thing
(20:58):
is flipped, right, I mean last week, like you're like, now,
this is classic Chargers let down, lose to the loose
to the Broncos. And yet and yet Herbert within a
couple amazing plays and they pull it out. What what
is that like? As somebody who has watched this thing
evolved evolve over the last.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Eight years, Yeah, I just changes from what could you know,
what could go wrong? To what could go right? You know,
like that's that's just the mindset that's completely flipped. And
I give not only Jim Harball a lot of credits,
but you know, Ben Herbert, their strength coach, all the
extra work that they put in. I think the offense
was on the field for eighty six snaps and you're
down a couple offensive linemen and they found a way
(21:39):
on the biggest drive to you know, to make the
plays they needed to make. And it's not only kind
of you know, avoiding being physically tired, but being mentally
focused and in tune when you got to have it.
And late in that game, they had to have a stop.
The defense gave it to them, they had to move
the ball, the offense did it, and they had to
make a kick and the kicker is the best in
the league of doing that right now. So you know,
they just got a real, a real complete team. And uh,
(22:02):
I think hardball, you know, coming in and uh, kind
of establishing some confidence is a is a huge part
of that.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, it seems to be a very very big part
of it. What's wrong with the Broncos.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
Nothing wrong with their front. I mean their defense is
really really good, and I you know, you look over
the last couple of weeks, they've had two heartbreaking losses
down at the last minute. So they're they're right in games.
They've just they've missed they've missed the throws. I mean
bow Nicks missed three throws in that game, which should
have been huge, huge home runs. And uh, you know,
it's not a it's not a super hard fix. He's
(22:39):
seeing it, he's getting the ball where it needs to go.
He just throwing the ball when he's got guys in
the clear with way too much air and he's he's
airmailed some instead of when you're that open to put
it on him. I mean that should be a you know,
a teaching point that you can nail home and be
able to solve and fix. But uh, that to me
is uh, you know kind of my takeaway. Look like
(23:00):
I've seen them up close. That was a fast the
defense as you're going to see up front, very very physical.
It looked like a playoff team. They just don't have
the record to support that right now.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Stut Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. That's the
voice of Daniel Jeremy I moved to sticks to his podcast. Okay,
let's bounce around the league a little bit. I think
Jason Stewart asked a great question, but instead of me
taking his question, I'll let Jay Stu, our Steam producer,
asked the question. No, it is not baseball related, Jase,
(23:31):
do go ahead.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Thanks, Doug, I'll take it from here. Doug Daniel question. Yeah,
so not only are the colch Serano, but Daniel Jones
looks great. I know Jonathan Taylor's has a lot to
do with this, But the weirdest thing for me is this.
You have a guy that is renowned in his career
for being a turnover machine, has zero turnovers in three weeks.
(23:54):
How do you coach turnovers out of a guy who
has been turnover laden.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
It's a great question. I would say the circumstances and
situation have changed. He's playing behind a better offensive line
than he ever had with the Giants as part of it,
so that makes life a little easier on you. He's
got buying and complete belief from everyone in the building,
coaching staff, you know, the front office, everyone. So he's
(24:22):
playing with confidence. He's not playing scared. A lot of times.
It's like they always would say, like if you play
not to get hurt, you're going to get hurt. And
if you play not to turn the ball over, you
end up turning the ball over. You got you got
to see it, trust it, and let it rip. And
you do that when you have guys that instill some
confidence in you. So I think he has that. You know.
My thing, Jayce was thinking about this the other day
(24:42):
and I said this on a couple platforms, but Eli
Nanning is the only quarterback who had really long sustained
success in the New York market Jets or Giants at
the quarterback position in the last what thirty years, and
even that came with some ups and downs in the
regular season. He just had a couple of magical postseason runs,
but that that market has now chewed up and spit out.
Geno Smith, who we've seen go on and be a
(25:04):
solid productive player. Sam Darnold, who now is doing it
for another team, looks like he's he's solved some of
his problems. And now Daniel Jones, I think that's there's
an aspect to that New York pressure that that I
don't know enough recognition.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
There you go, s Doug Gottlieb show here on Fox
Sports Radio. Daniel Jeremiah is our guest. Is Jackson got ready?
Speaker 7 (25:28):
I don't know that he's ever going to be, you know,
ready for that first start. It's just going to be
so different than what he did in college. But it
was not really a decision. They've had a choice with
dway Russ had looked into of these first three games
and they've they've got to try and protect him as
best they can and try and run the ball. I
think use him to run the ball a little bit
(25:48):
the RPO game, doing things to make him comfortable. I
think you've got to tell him, Hey, the goal isn't
to come out and light the world on fire right
out to shoot. The goal is for us to get
better each and every week with you out there. So
I think I would lower expectations initially and the hope
that he continues to grow and get better and and
figure out ways to get Molik neighbors the ball as
many many different ways as you can. You know, I
(26:11):
think that it's going to bring some excitement. I'm excited
to be in the building. I think he'll bring some
juice and some buzz to the stadium after what's been
kind of a painful watch here outside of one game
against the disgustingly bad Cowboy defense.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Okay, but what why not? Why not? Jamis?
Speaker 7 (26:27):
I just think you're spinning your wheels there. I look
at teams like the Giants. I've talked about this with
the Browns. I know they had a big win last week,
but this season for teams like that the Saints, I
would put in that category as well. You're trying to
find out who's going to be part of this group
next year. Let's get a chance to you know, evaluate
(26:49):
as many young players as we can to know what
we have and h in the hopes that we're rocking
and rolling next year. These teams aren't playoff teams this year.
They're not going anywhere this year. So to roll out,
you know, a stopgap quarterback in Jamis Winston in the
hopes that you're going to make the playoffs this year,
I don't. I don't think that's the smart move. I
think the smart move to see what you got with
this kid.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Why why is the Steelers defense not not better?
Speaker 7 (27:13):
I mean, they're just turnovers. They got some turnovers this
last week, but that was really the kind of the
only reason that they won that game. You know, Offensively,
I think they were they were great. I think it
was a little bit better defensively. So that was encouraging
based off what we saw the previous two weeks. But
they've they've been hit with some similar concepts and struggled
(27:35):
to make some adjustments inside of games, which I would
say it's been kind of a you know, an issue
for them. But at least, you know, at least for
one week, they were you know, they were able to
take the football.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Away for one week. Uh, it's the Gottlip Show here
on Fox Sports Radio. I don't know whether to ask
about the Eagles or the Rams, right, I think it's
the Eagles, But like two block field goals in the
fourth quarter, I get this. It kind of circles back
to where we started with Harbaugh. The Eagles just have
(28:09):
that we find a way to win thing that few
teams have, and they that's how they won football games.
Does it ultimately catch up to them?
Speaker 7 (28:20):
You know, I don't know that it does. I don't
even think it's just a football thing. I talked to
my kids about this, Doug Is, and I'm sure you've
had similar conversations with both your kids and your teams.
But I have a firm believer that grid is a muscle,
and the more you exercise it, and the more you
prove that you can do something when things are against
you and those gotta habit moments, I think it tends
(28:40):
to happen more and more and more and more. And
you don't win whatever they are now, what like nineteen
out of twenty games without having ways in those big
moments when you not necessarily have played your best, but
there's those key moments The Eagles have gotten really, really,
really good at digging down and finding ways to make
those plays. And I think you draw the right comp
(29:00):
with the with the Chargers, because I think that's what
Harbaugh's instilled with this group, and you're starting to see
that as well. The Eagles have done that on a
completely other level. I mean, you could argue if their
three plays away from being winless this year, and I
would push back and argue and say, but that's why
they're the Eagles, because they know how to make those
three plays absolutely had to make.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I agree with you. Last thing, what is your status
as far as the Padres and the Cubs, Like, are
you going to fly to Chicago for this series?
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Well, I don't know that I'm gonna have to fly
because I think we got a very good chance of
catching them in that series, could be at Petco. Know
we're only a game and a half behind them. We're
a game and a half behind the Dodgers. We don't
have the tiebreaker with the Dodgers. To be honest, I
want jay SEUs Dodgers to win the divisions, so then
they have to go get beat by Philadelphia and then
we can just cruise through the Cubs and the Brewers.
(29:50):
So that's my game plan.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Cubbies have lost five in a row. They have two
more against the Mets, including one tonight and tomorrow night.
Then they got the cards for for three, so we'll
see how that that plays for the week.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
By the way, the Brewers, the Brewers, best team in
National League, have scored eight runs in five games against
the Padres.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Come on, okay, I mean listen, let's let's let's see
how it plays out. I mean see how plays out.
I mean Jase Stuo's doing a victory lap because he
predicted that the Dodgers bullpen would be their downfall. It has.
But again, see what happens in the second season. DJ,
you're the best man. Appreciate it. Talk to you soond.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
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Speaker 5 (31:15):
Dad the Press, Doug, we have an update from Cleveland
Guardian's DHDA.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Believe that.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Not necessarily appropriate from what I'm about to say right now,
but Guardians designated hitter David Frye suffered multiple fractures on
the left side of his face in addition the nasal
fractures after he was hit in the face with a
pitch during last night's game against the Tigers. Trek Scoubel
was on the mound. He was visibly distraught. Fry out
six to eight weeks. The team says he's been discharged
(31:48):
from the hospital and is resting comfortably.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Okay, so did the ball he squared round to bunt
and it hit him in the face. But did it
ricochet off his bat or was it right into his broadcast?
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Said yes, but after further in the team saying no,
it did not. So it was a straight fastball to
the face.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Oh, oh, that's a what was the Canigliari? Maybe what
was the what was the guy with the red sox?
It basically like ruined his career. Uh, this is like
in the fifties, maybe, Jase do this is this feels up?
Speaker 5 (32:27):
This is baseball? This is you what?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
What what era are we talking about? Who lost his
career to get a hit in the face by a pitch? Yeah, yes,
I remember Dicky Thon was a brutal one and.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
The no, it's Tony Uh Caniglierio. Do you guys remember
Tony Totes. Yeah, then I don't remember Tony Canigliero. Yeah.
It was in nineteen sixty seven. Okay, he was playing
the then California Angels, Jack Hamilton through a ball, He's
(33:01):
hit by a pitch on his left cheekbone, carried off
the field in the stretcher. He sustained a linear fracture
to his cheekbone dislocated. Joss up. Anyway, he had vision problems.
He was never never really the same.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
So just a recap. Okay, all right, So David Fry
and this is scary scene, which is why so Doug
Yell has yelled Cleveland as I'm talking about David Fry's
fractured face. Then he went into Italian accent in talking
of out all right, anybody else.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Well, it should be pointed out that David Fry wasn't
he he was He was having rough here too.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Right, Yeah, I don't think that matters in this situation.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I know, I'm just like, I hope to be okay,
Like faceball, fastball to the face, anything else, I don't know.
Fastball to the face. That sounds terrible and it looks
worse on video. It sounds it's honest, scar. Yeah, I
like videos, you know where a guy gets hurt that one.
I don't like fastball to the face where just and
he turned right into it.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Oh and just to quarify, it wasn't Doug doing an
Italian accent. It was Doug doing Ted Cruz doing a
Boston Italian.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Acts, which is.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
Like Italian meets like Bostonian meets like, I don't know, Hungarian.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
It was hard to do an Italian Bostonian right, because
the Italian accent naturally leads yourself to talking like you're
in New YORKA. But that's not how you talk with
you in Boston Boston is not New York. It's basting.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
I don't know if you have a Philly accent, but
the Philadelphia seventy six ers are going to wear their
black Road jerseys from the nineteen nineties. We all know
them as the Iverson jerseys from there when they went
to the two thousand and one NBA Finals. They're gonna
wear those twenty times in the upcoming season. And I
don't know of a jersey more associated with a player,
(34:51):
because let's be honest, it's an awful logo, awful color scheme.
Yet we all think of Alan Iverson when we see it,
and so now it's going to be worn a quarter
of their games this season.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I actually love the Doctor J Sixers uniforms. Why I
wann not bring those ones back?
Speaker 5 (35:05):
I like those as well. I just like the red,
white and blue of the Sixers.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
How many of those games wild Joel andb be in
uniform four?
Speaker 5 (35:11):
Eight is my guess? Eight of those? Fox broadcaster and
Raiders Limited partner Tom Brady says there is no conflict
of interest between his two positions and his weekly newsletter.
Brady said only the quote paranoid and distrustful end quote
Field there is a conflict of interest with his gigs.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Anybody, anybody, first of all, with common sense, knows that
this is the very definition of conflict of interest. So
don't deny that. I think we all agree that it's
a conflict of interest. It's just how much do you care?
How much does the NFL care.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I'm going to offer up an alternative solution. Anybody with
the brain can see. It's the appearance of a conflict
of interest. It's the appearance of the conflict of interest
that's really what's, in my opinion, what's at stake here,
And it is really really bad optics. I actually think
there's again, there's you and I. We've Dan and I
(36:01):
have talked about. Dan didn't think it's that big a deal, right, uh,
but again, and I kind of agree. I think it's
a good thing when you're fully invested in the sport
and you know what's going on in the sport. But
it's the appearance of a conflict of interest that I
think is unsettling to so many people, like wait, he's
calling the game next week and he's in their coaches boxing.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
What good news for me. I'm not paranoid and I'm trustworthy.
According to Tom Brady and that's the press bag. Get
out there and pressed.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
That was the press.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
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