9/8 H3 Rodney Peete & Adam Auslund talk NFL Football with Rams great Eric Dickerson

 Rodney Peete & Adam Auslund talk NFL Football with Rams great Eric Dickerson

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Welcome back to the Ford NFL Spotlight with the Hall
of Famer Eric Dickerson, my man Adam Austlin in for Fred. Uh.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Ed.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
We we we talked about the Rams a little bit,
and we talked about the Chargers and their win over
Kansas City down there in Brazil.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
All the local teams and I call the Raiders the
local team because they really are. Yeah, they ended up
going back to New England and winning until all three
teams got a victory over the weekend. Outside of those three,
and what I want to I do want to talk
about the Razors, but outside of those three, who what
impressed you the most this weekend?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Ed?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
What team and what players impressed you the most this weekend?

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Uh? Well, I'll say, uh, I'll start with I'll start
with the Rams, but I think the defense really impressed
me because you know, we've been they've been hyping this
defense since last year. At the end of last year,
they were playing very well and everybody got healthy. It
showed in the playoffs and it came back right here
the first game. I mean, and a lot of these
guys didn't play doing the regular I mean, doing the
preseason defensive ends. Man, they can play. They can play.

(01:00):
They can play number Z.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
They feel like some type of no name defense right now.
They may not have Aaron Donald or Jalen Ramsey like
they used to have, but they got players.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
They got guys, they got they got it, they got
they got real athletes.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
The defensive secondaries looks good. I mean, they played very
very well. I got to say, I think something that's
impressed me was justin Herbert. I mean, I like him.
I like him as a player, I like him as
a quarterback. I just always felt he didn't have the weapons,
you know, for the like last year and the year before,
you know, to to really because you know people's and

(01:37):
coaching and coaching right. I mean, I still feel like
they should have kept Anthony n I think to.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Get a chance with him. But I'm saying we didn't
get a chance with him. He drafted him, drafted him,
and then that's gone in one year. And Brandon Staley,
I just felt like this the bad he got too
many chances. Yeah, but it feels like he's in the
right spot now.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
With hard I think I think he's in the right spike.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
I think I've hardballs a good coach, he's a he's
a former quarterback. But I gotta say for for for
Herbert Man, I mean I was really happy to see
the way he played. I mean, you know, I'm not
a Charger fan, not a charge of hater, but he
just he's he's really when you talk about m v
P s, I mean, he could be the m v
P too. I mean he's he's that kind of player.
I mean he's he's one of those, to me, generational quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
I mean he really is.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
At the end of the game, the game, that's a
game they lose last year, that's a game two years ago.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's the game they love.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, so so for sure that and then know and
I think in the game last night, I mean that
that that game with with the Bills and and the
way the raven the Ravens, I mean that game was
a man the Ravens I got. You know, it's certain
games like man, we beat them up and down the field.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
I mean, Derrick Henry looked like a man child.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
He did.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
You were as big and as strong and as fast
as anybody out there. You seeing anybody move their feet
at that size like Derrick Henry.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
I'm gonna tell you man, that guy. I'm a big
I was a big running back. I'm sitting out six
foot three. That played it two twenty five. He's six
foot four. I saw him. I made him at a
car show and I walked up to you know, he
walked into me. I'm like, damn, man, you bigger than me.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
You make me look little. He big all the way down.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
You remember that picture next to mark Ingram where they're
sitting there at the fifty yard line.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Dude, that was crazy.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Maybe mark Ingram looks like Kevin Hard or something.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
That made him look like Peter dinklish man.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
I'm telling you so. So that game, for sure was
it was a great football game. I mean, I said,
I said, this game over with. Man, this game is
over with. But I have to give it to the Bills,
and I have to give it to that that quarterback
of their man. He made some plays and throws and
you know, but you know, and I'm gonna say this much, yere,
I still don't think they going going. They can't go
to Super Bowl two. One dimensional, they depend on way

(04:03):
too way.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Way they've got and James Cook is a good what
do you think I think he's a really good back.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
They think.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
I think he's a good back. I don't think he's
a great I think he's a good I think he's
a good running back.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, but but they don't they don't feature him enough.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
I mean it's like they depend on I mean, at
one point, I think they drove back to pass and
they wouldn't even think they're behind by like this point
may make seven points. I think he drive back to
past like the two previous times they had the ball
every time, I'm like, you got to run the ball sometime.
But you know, I think for those games, I mean,
and I think those are to me the top three games.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
I was really impressed with the Raiders. The Raiders back
and getting Pete Carroll, you know, revenge to the Patriots.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Peter the Patriotsyi, I thought that was a good win.
I got to say, I got I've got to get
a Raiders credit for one thing right then? And you
talked about the Cowboys. So the Raiders had a reunion.
They had They've been happy. I guess the last couple years.
I've been going for the last two years. I wasn't
gonna go this year, and I think I had time,
but I went because Marcus kept asking me to come.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
I sol can we go.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Man, they do a great job with with their reunion.
I gotta say it. I just have to get the
Raiders credit. They Mark Davis and those young ladies. They
do such a they do such a great job.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
And I get so much I get from the Raiders
and I get from any other team.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Any other team.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
I mean, I gotta say, I met I met one guy.
He said, I played one game for the Raiders, one
game and Andy and they and they asked me to
come back. I mean, I mean, and that's how that's
I gotta say. When they say that once a Raider,
always a Raider, I mean, I gotta said. I was
pulling for them. I was pulling for him, saying I'm
glad to see the Raiders win.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Commitment to excellence at least in that way.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
That's what the reunion.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
You were going to say, Well, you go back to
that game last night. You guys have both been in
these positions. It's fourth and three.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
They're on their.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Own side of the field. But John Harbaugh had a
decision to make. He said most game he thought about
going for it. They get that first down, they seal
the game, and steady punts. Josh Allen goes down the field,
they kick a field goal with no time remaining. To me,
how do you not have faith in Lamar Jackson and
Derek Henry to get three yards there and then the game?

(06:16):
Why are you gonna let Josh Allen get the opportunity
to finish you off?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Oh, fourth and three is different than fourth and one, Okay,
I mean.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
How are you feeling though? If you're the player out there,
you know the Lamar Jackson won.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
And fourth and three is different. But I do tend
to agree with you and the just because we talked
about analytics earlier. The feel of the game, it just
felt like, okay, Buffalo at that point, the Ravens couldn't
stop them.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
They just they put up thirty eight points already.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, they couldn't stop them, especially in the fourth quarter.
They couldn't stop them. So but I also get it
if you miss it now, it's a chip shot, easy
chip shot to go win the game. So make them
drive the length of the field. But when you're not
able to stop a team in the second half, especially
in the fourth quarter, you know sometimes and it's game one,

(07:10):
game one, you still want to figure out can our defense.
I believe in our defense more than I believe in
their offense, and to a certain extent, you're putting it
on them, and that's a gut check. So I wasn't
overly mad at it. Now, if you ask me after
you've seen ten games and you've watched them play ten
games and how they go back and forth, and how
the defense is playing and how the offense is playing,

(07:32):
and you make that decision, I'll maybe question it. But
in game one, no, I'm gonna probably punt that and
let them go and make them go make plays to
go beat me.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Here's my problem. You tried that at the end of
the first half with thirty one seconds left.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (07:48):
They got a Fueld goal out of it, which just
thirty one seconds left. You give it back to them
with a minute and a half left, they had all
the momentum. To me, it felt like that game between
the Bills and the Chiefs and the playoffs, where you
knew whoever go out of first and overtime was gonna
finish it off. Neither offense could be stopped. I just
today he did double down on that. John Harbaugh said
he believes in the defense, and he wanted to put

(08:11):
it on them, and that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
On so you got one, they wake one first down
and you give it to them. So I get that.
It makes it tougher, and and it's I don't think
it's a matter of believing necessarily, and Lamar and the
offense at that moment. Again, if it's fourth and one, yeah,
all day long, more than three, it's it's a little bit.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yeah, that's it. That's that's a that's a tough call.
But uh, you know, like you said, I mean.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
They hadn't.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
They hadn't stopped Josh Allen. So if you give me
if you need, if he's gonna get the ball back
with a minute plus, you're gonna have some problems. I mean,
and they were down three, don't three to win, So
I mean that's a hard call. And the defense hadn't
They wouldn't. The defense. The Rangers defense was falling apart.
I mean, they wasn't doing their job. The offense was

(08:58):
doing it.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
The offense that ain't early in the game that the
Ravens defense was balling early.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
In the game.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, but the end, but the end, they were not.
I mean, and I say, you know that fumble that
that Derrick Henry had. Of course that that that changed
the whole dynamic of that football right back in it.
But that goes to show riding, you know as.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well as I do.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
In pro football, college football, especially pro football, sometimes it's
two or three plays that couldn't win a losing game.
And sometimes it's not a play that big. Like, it's
not a fumble, it's something that the fans doesn't see.
It could be a guard missing a block, right, it
could be a pass that should have been knocked down.
You gotta went to tip his fingers and the guy
caught it. I mean, it's just it's a few plays

(09:37):
that that really lose it always, but see the good teams.
But but the big, the bigger than that game is
that fumble that changed the whole game. Everybody everybody saw that,
you know, the fumble. You know, they just just I.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Don't see like the five other things that were pivotal
that could have been.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Right, that could do the same thing. Right, that's it.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, what did you make of Aaron Rodgers going back
to New York and then Justin Field's playing for the Jets.
I was surprised that Jets played as well as they did.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
And nobody was talking about Justin Fields coming into this season.
That must have been the least talked about starting quarterback
in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
He bawled out. He bowled out.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Man, I was shocked when I looked at the score.
I'm like, wait, did I see the Jets winner? I'm
like the Jets. I'm serious. I mean, I mean, I
was shocked that they were. I'm like, okay, but they
are the Jets. I said, ain't at the end, I
just can't see him beating them.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
And I was right.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
They and the Browns they did not beat the allegations
that they revert back to exactly who they were when
they when it came down to let him hang time.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
I mean, I like Aaron Rodgers played it played a
really good football game at four touchdowns, I mean an
opening day. I mean, what what a better way to
go back and stick it to your your former team,
the team that didn't want you. Man, First of all,
you know, right, you know as well as I do.
It's just some organizations they're just bad.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
They bad.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
They They could have first round draft picks from here
to the end of time and they still ain't gonna
wan nothing.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
You know that, and I think the Jets is one
of those teams.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
I hate to say it. My fan is a big
Browns fan, Jason here, but I think the Browns are
one of those teams.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
You know.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
You know we called the Browns the Clowns, and we
called we called the Bingles the Bungles, and you know
it's just certain teams. You know, they ain't gonna do
that no matter what they have.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Do you guys ever have that much animosity post game
for a former team that you just beat, like Aaron
Rodgers had what he said, I wanted to beat everybody
in this organization. It wasn't just about Aaron Glenn. I
wanted to beat everybody here.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
They didn't want me, they didn't want me, and I
didn't want them, and I'm gone, I'm glad. How ironic
is that? Because that the schedule comes out before he
signed with the Steelers, so they knew they were gonna
play the Jets, but they have that have an opening
day where he goes back and plays the Jets in
New York. And Justin Fields, who was with Pittsburgh, he

(11:59):
can feel the same way Pittsburgh threw me under the
bus because he started off I think he was three
and one as a starter, and they brought in Russell
Wilson and replaced him and then got rid of him.
It's like hell with the Steelers, right, And he played
his ass off, he said. Now that remains to be
seen because I liked him out of Ohio State. I

(12:19):
just think the Bears are that's another team right now.
We'll see how they are tonight. That was been dysfunctional
since Richard did left right. They haven't been good since.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Quarterbacks in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
So hopefully it changes. Hopefully it changes tonight. But I
don't think he got a shot at Justin Fields got
a shot really at at at Chicago and then Pittsburgh
obviously was a different dynamic with Russell Wilson being there.
But I thought he played extremely well and hopefully he
can play well. But again to your point, he is
playing for the Jets, so we'll see how that goes.

(12:58):
But the other question, uh that came up over the
weekend ed real quick is the Giants, right? And I
don't know what the Giants are doing either now, Like
they they they they had plans to draft a quarterback
and they did and Jackson Dart, but they before that
they signed Russell Wilson and Jamis Wilson or Winston, I

(13:22):
mean Jameis Winston there, so they got two quarterbacks and
then they draft Jackson Dark Jackson Dart plays out plays
everybody in the preseason. Little that little vibe going is
that is that? Is that the playoff music for the Grammys.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
It wasn't playoff music for the Giants. I know that
they ain't going there.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Uh anyway, Uh so Edie, they so so Russell Wilson,
Russell Wilson. Uh starts the game, they don't play well,
they get beat in Washington, and then after the game
they head coach Brian Dable like, well, we we're not
sure it's gonna start next week.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Just like after one game, I said, after one game.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
But now he's confirmed as Russell Wilson.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Today he did, Yeah, today he confirmed Russell's.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Said I'm going back to it.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah he saw that. Well, sometimes you look at the
tape and go, maybe that wasn't all Russell's fault. True,
you know, and so but after one game, why why start,
especially doing that in New York. E sahould know better.
He's been there for a little bit. Now, you can't
do that in New York Now page six the post.
Everything is running with all that quarterback stuff, and the

(14:35):
calls for Jackson Dart now are going already through the roof,
but for him to start. So if you bench Russell Wilson,
who you know, at some point, you got to he's
done a little something. You may or may not like
Russell Wilson, but you got to give more than one game.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
One game for sure.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
And they went on the road to play the team
that was in the NFC title game last year.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Great, the commander is a commander a good football team.
It's not like they played a slouch right like they
played the Browns or the Jets of somebody. I mean, look,
but to me, I hae to say it, the Giants,
to me a know better. They they're an organization that
when the last time they really had to win the season,
yeah a long time.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
They got one Danny Dimes year where they made the playoffs.
So it was flooky. It was a few years ago.
Nobody believes it. And therefore he's an Indian. He looked
pretty good yesterday himself. But yeah, yeah, are you selling
the fans on We're not giving up on this year.
We're playing Russell Wilson because we're playing to win. This
isn't just about the future, where if you start Dart

(15:42):
now you're kind of giving up. If he doesn't play, well,
what are you gonna do? Who are you going to then?

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, the thing is you gotta start with to see
if it goes and then once you go to Dart,
then it is like we got to let him play,
get some experience and if Russell has to come in
to mop up or if Dark gets hurt, then you
go back. But if you start Dart too early without
giving Russell a chance, then you are telling your team.
That's the thing You're telling your team this is kind

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of gonna be a wash because as a young quarterback
because they don't have it, they don't have the team
around Dart carry him. The infrastructure is not the quarterback,
not yet. So you need a quarterback that can make
some plays and kind of come up with some wins
for you. But it's it's an interesting situation that is
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(16:31):
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Ed's take on on the uh influence of AI and

(16:52):
coaching and all that kind Okay.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
I thought you were going somewhere else. I was about
to say, I'm out of here.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Right.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
We already discussed the Clippers.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
All right, We're dene with that. Seven the LA Sports.
We are back with the Rambassador on the Ford NFL Spotlight,
Eric Dickerson, Hall of Famer, Adam Auslin, and for Fred
talking some NFL football real quick. It rounds out Week

(17:19):
one tonight with the Bears and the Vikings, which is
an interesting matchup before but it's interesting for a couple
of reasons because we talked about green Bay and Michael
Parkson's going to green Bay and the green Bay kind
of making making the Lions kind of look bad a
little bit in green Bay. Coordinators. Yeah, so losing Ben Johnson,

(17:40):
how much of a difference do you think that made
for green Bay? Or is that just a Is that
just a Week one Lions going on the road to
play a hot team that's all excited about a new
player in Michael Parsons being in Green Bay that it
was just green Bay's day, or is this something that
to really be concerned about if you're the Lion.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Well, I mean I think that Green Bay just played
a good football and I think I don't think it's
not I mean, nothing to be concerned about it. They
played better. I mean, and that happens right now. You
you know, sometimes the better team just plays well, and
you may have a good football team which you just
don't play that well because you know pretty much, you

(18:22):
know all these coaches. I ain't gonna say all of them
the same, but you know they one one offensive coordinator,
one defensive coordinator, pretty much all of them know what
they're doing. It just tends. It depends if you have
the personnel. If the guys mix it, they mix together.
Sometimes it takes a week. Sometimes it takes a couple
of weeks, you know, to to really get it together.
I mean, sometimes it happens right away, I mean, and

(18:44):
sometimes it doesn't. I mean, I just go back to
the to the to the rams. You know, they look
that defense look good. I mean they really did. I
mean in the Dallas Cowboys, I'm gonna take me talk
about the use the Cowboys, and that's how the Cowboys.
I'm like, wow, I was, I was shocked the way
they played. I'm like, Okay, this defense looks better than
they did last year. I mean, and you know, offensively,

(19:04):
they look better. And that was the first football game,
so I don't think say it was nothing to panic over.
I mean, it's the first game of the other year.
I mean, if you look up and you're in week
four and five, man like that, it's like, okay, we
got some problems and and and if you don't have
injuries now you know as well as I know as
I do, if you have injuries to a team, it's

(19:27):
a whole different dynamic. It's a whole different football team
you have the injuries, especially injuries to players that's starting,
not backups, but starters.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
I anesto think Green Bay might just be that good.
We look back at the beginning of the season and say, oh, well, yeah,
they won the toughest division in the NFL, the NFC North,
and the Lions are taking a step back because they
lost both coordinators. They don't have as much talent as
they used to. Golf was dinking and dunking his way

(19:55):
the entire game. Like you look at his numbers, they
don't look that bad. He he wasn't throwing the ball
downfield at all. He felt the rush he got sped up.
Green Bay looked dominant in that game, honestly, and I
think they're gonna win that division.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Now, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
What's gonna happen and who's going to be at the bottom.
It could be the Bears, you know, we still got
to see them tonight.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, probably be Johnson. Yeah. I mean that's the thing too.
You talking about coordinators and Eric you hit it. It
is really all about personnel, right because you can be
the you could be the greatest mind of all time.
But if you don't have the weapons, the personnel, the quarterback,
the receivers, the running back, the offensive line, you you're

(20:39):
gonna look at people gonna look at you like you
don't know what you're doing, and you could be the best.
So it'll be interesting to see how Ben Johnson and
you also know this there, how Ben Johnson does this
year with the Bears, and how that translates. He had weapons,
I mean, and they were healthy last year for Detroit.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
In number one.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Seed had Jared Golf in his third or fourth year
in Detroit, so he was feeling comfortable there as well.
And then those two two headed running backs that they had,
and Gibbs and Montgomery were great, and then Saint Brown
and you know, Dames and Waye. They had weapons in
Detroit that they could feel you up and make you
look bad. And now going to a new new team

(21:17):
and you know this, Ed, it's different. It's different being
offensive coordinator and then being a head coach and understanding
the whole dynamic because you know, you got to coach
the whole team, not just the offense. You got to
coach the whole team. So it will be interesting this
first year with Ben Johnson, who everybody you know went
Google guy guy over us, the guru, the next John

(21:39):
Sean McVay. But let's just pump our brakes and wait
and see how he handles the whole team.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Well, now he's got like Manya's personalities. Right, This isn't
just being a dark room guy or a mastermind like
let's say Mike Marts back in the day taking over.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
You got more in your yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, yeah, a lot more than you play, lot more
and you play I mean, I think about it, I
think about that. Let's talk Let's talk about the Lions.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
The Lions, they had their window, I really believe in
the last two years, and I think that window might
have closed on them. They're not that you know. You know,
right in this NFL, you only have about two or
three years and then you can pull some real magic.
I mean, Kansas City has been able to do it
for a while. And I look at their football team.
To that team is I think you think they're done?

(22:22):
U I think they're done. Yeah, I think they old.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
I mean I really do. I think that.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
I think they're an older football team. I don't think
that they're they don't have that same dominance. I don't
think people are afraid of them. I mean, after seeing
that game with San Diego and San Diego, you wouldn't
if you thought look at San Diego, you would think, man,
they got Diego.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
When Brothers the Little brother down South over there they.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Charge, you wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
You wouldn't think, man, this is a high powered offense.
You wouldn't think that at all. But they looked high
powered against Kansas City. I mean, and they like they did.
But back back to what we talked about it, I
just feel like, you know, Chicago.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
You know, hey, I don't know about the Bears.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
Man.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
They had a good team since eighty five.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
They haven't had a good quarterback. That's the problem, right, Yeah, yeah,
that's right. Bears like to run the ball and play
good defense. One of those things isn't exactly in vogue anymore.
Throwing in the football.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
D No.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Here's the thing. They offensively, they do have some weapons now,
They've They've got some young receivers that are pretty good.
They got a couple of tight ends that they they
drafted in the last couple of years. It's a matter
of the offensive lineman, but also ultimately, obviously it's gonna
fall on Caleb Williams. He cannot take the sacks that
he did last year, and the things that you know
that you know that you always thought about this. The

(23:42):
transition from college to pro is different. Those those guys
that you were running away from in college, you're not
running away from him. I do I remember that, you know,
playing against you know, I was in Detroit playing against
the you know that same division and playing against those Bears,
And it wasn't too far removed from from the eighty

(24:04):
five Bears, because I got there in eighty nine and
couldn't believe how fast some of the defensive linemen were
and some of the linebackers were. It's like we're playing
Minnesota and Chris Doleman ran me down one time on it.
So I was trying to get around the corner, Like god,

(24:25):
that used to be an easy picking. I was trying
to cruise. He turned me down. W I got out
of bout. I was like, man, it's a whole different
ball game. So it is different. So Caleb's got to
learn that. You know, he's not gonna be able to
take those sacks and play the hero ball that he
did last year. So it's gonna be an interesting game tonight.
I look forward to seeing how they how they progressed

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from last.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Week on Rodney. You correct me if I'm wrong here,
But isn't his biggest bugaboo hanging on to the ball
too long and trying.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
To make that is? That is and hopefully, but that's
the thing about hopefully. Ben Johnson has taught him that,
you know, it's not about scrambling around making a play,
it's going on time in rhythm. If it's not there,
FECI early down, throw it away and live to fight
another day. But if you're holding it all of a sudden,

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it's not second and ten, it's second in eighteen.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
You know, now they're off schedule.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Now they're off schedule, and he's taken he's taking a sack, which,
as you know, Eric, when the muffins and linemen don't
like give up sacks, especially when it's on the quarterback.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
No, no, they don't.

Speaker 4 (25:30):
But you know one thing about when they had justin
fields And I told you just riding even last year before,
I said I would argue with Richard Dinn about this.
I said, Dent, it's not his fault. He said, he
hold the ball to them. I said, Dent, he ain't
got nowhere to throw the ball to him. He got
to throw it away. I said, but he ain't got
no blocking. And then I know they're talking about drafting

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Caleb Williams. I say, okay, watch, the same thing is
going to happen with him. Remember I told you this,
I kept telling him. Remember I told him, oh no,
I said, okay, what happened the almost exact same. I said,
he running for his life. I said, you got a
quarterback running for his life. It's not fair to him.
I said, it's like a running back. I could be
the biggest, fastest, greatest running back, but if I don't

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have no offensive lineman, Brother, it ain't happening up there.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
He only got sacks seventy times last year.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Wait to throw that out. Oh, it's been great. The
first edition of the Ford NFL Spotlight, brought to you
by Ford. Uh we'll be back to wrap it up
with the Hall of Famer Eric Jerkinson, Adam Austin and
for Fred right on AM five seventy l A Sports.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Oh okay, got that Rex, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
We got that drastic remix. Let's go right on, right on,
right on. Hey, I tell you what, it's been h
great opening weekend for our Ford NFL Spotlight with Eric Dickinson.
Ed you always bring it, brother, We really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Man.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
We're looking forward to all whole a whole season of
good stuff.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Always truth, truth.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Man, always brother, always and always bring the colorful stories. Adam,
it's always been great hanging with you, man, my god.
And for Fred as he uh he he chases the
things when hever he's chasing down in the Coachella Valley.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Well, we'll figure it out out. What is he? What
does he chasing that.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
I don't know, with those legs, who's he catching?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Come on, freking dunk off two feet at you don't know?
You ever heard that story?

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, that's the tall tales I've heard.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
That's right, the goal standing right under the goal. Yes,
all good, all good Vikings and the Chicago Bears tonight
on Monday Night football. We'll see what happens after that.
But uh a d again, always a pleasure man. Always
good to talk to you, my brother. Yes, you back

(27:58):
next Monday. I'm gonna see you tomorrow. Let's go, let's go,