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that we're going to have. I'm going to be covering
the Eagles loss. Yes, the Eagles frustrating once again loss
in overtime to the Chargers. We I'll be opening the
show with that as well as I'll be talking about
the game between the Bears and the Packers, which was
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a great game, that one with the final score of
twenty eight twenty one, So we'll all dive into that
as well, and then some quick topics for you at
the end of the show. But let's get into it.
Let's get into the first game that I want to
discuss and break down. It's the Eagles and Chargers game.
The final score of that in overtime was twenty two
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to nineteen, Chargers coming out on top. And you know
most of you listening, I'm sure you're your Eagles fans.
So again this is where you know, he and I
are Eagles fans, so we specialize in the Eagles, even
though we love talking about other teams. So, uh, there's
usually there's not much For most of the season, I'd
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say there's there hasn't been much else to really cover
or to touch on in terms of what is you know,
what's going on, Like we we know the trouble, these
issues have been going on, uh for most of the season.
So let me start with this and saying, when I
look at this loss again, This isn't This isn't on
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the defense. Obviously, we know that. I know we had
a lot of you know, a lot the defense had
a really bad performance on the ground against the Bears
on Black Friday, and I know a lot of people
are really upset about that. And it happens to me,
like I've said it that with this defense, it was
only a matter of time before, like they have a
game like that where they're just tired and they're worn
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down constantly on the field for so many plays, so
much time because the offense goes three now, three out,
three now, so they bounce back with a tremendous game
like how many times again? And this can be because this
can be said through through so many games this season
where the defense just constantly bailing out the offense. And
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it happened again this game. I can't. You know, they're
not a perfect defense, you know, Like I wouldn't say
they're on the level of like the Texans, which is
the best defense in the league right now and then
or even the Seahawks, but they're still this defense is
still a great defense, and they're doing so many good things.
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So I have nothing but praise for them, and I
want to lead off with that because I want to
lead off given them giving the defense their props and
respect that they should get because they are. They are
balling right now, and so if there's one thing we
should take away from this game to start, I want
to give. For me, at least, I want to get
props to the defense. So many good things Vic Fangio
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and I had tweeted out during the game. I'm like,
I wonder if I could get a Vic fangild T
shirt because he's just doing a phenomenal job. Those guys,
those those guys on the defensive end. I can't say
enough about the job they're doing. And you know, hats
off to them. Uh, that goes without saying because they've
been consistent pretty much for most of the season. I
think there are two games where I'd really say, like
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they really had bad performances, but outside of that, they've
been they've been stellar. They've been sellar. But as for
the offense, you know, you look at that and it's
just like I for me, I think it's pretty obvious
and I'm not saying anything that's like outlandish when I
say that Hurts and A. J. Brown were probably the
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biggest culprits. Don't get me wrong, the whole offense, everyone
involved deserves blame. And when when things are this bad,
it's never just one or two people, it's so many parties.
And I've said this again like for the million of time.
There's so many issues with this offense. So almost everyone
is too blame for the offensive struggles. But yeah, if
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I'm going to point out the biggest culprits from that loss,
it's Jalen Hurts and A. J. Brown. I mean starting
with AJ Brown, like he had, Yeah, he had statistically
over one hundred yards. And you know, you look at
the box score, And this is why I say you
can't look at the box score. You can't be a
box score a box score scout because if you look
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just at the box score, you say, oh, ag had
a great game. No, he had several bad plays. Beginning
of the game. Drop pass deep could have opened the
game wide, put the game wide open. Drop pass in
the middle of the field. Yeah it was high, it
was definitely high. But that's a catch he's gotten make though,
and that leads to an interception, and then the drop
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at the end through the end of the game that
could have essentially sealed. It sealed the win for the Eagles.
Another another bad drop, another bad job, and I know
that the corner made a good play on it, but
still like we've seen aj make those types of catches before,
even through contact. I mean, he's he's J Brown. He's strong,
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like he's he's known to be a physical specimen because
like he's so strong, so he's got to come down
with that. So like, horrible, horrible game by a J. Brown.
And as far as Jalen Hurts, and that's another this
comment to kick it off, one of Hurts' worst games
as a pro, it doesn't get much. Yeah, that was
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horrendous by by Jalen Hurts, really really bad. And yeah,
the one interception wasn't on him. I'd say even the
one you know where s Mindy Davante Smith stumbled and fell. Okay,
that's not on him. But like constant throughout the game,
missed miss throws, missed opportunities, just usual tendency stuff where
he's just you know, not seeing the whole field and
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breaking the pocket when he doesn't need to. You know,
he really struggled the one interception to I think hand
the the defensive tackle that dropped he just completely didn't
see him, didn't see him that first interception, and then
he comes up with the fumble recovery and then he
fumbles that so too. Two turnovers on one play for
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Jaalen Hurts. And then I'll get to this. I'm gonna
break it down. But like that last interception and overtime,
just you can't do that. So horrible horrible game by
Jaalen Hurts. Just he's he could have he could have
had more interceptions that he had that one against Cover
two and it hit the ground just barely, so but
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that could have easily been another interception. He's he's got
to be better. And I'm sure he knows that. That's
not saying anything anything, you know, groundbreaking there, So horrible
horrible game by Jalen Hurts. One of the one of
the worst games I've ever seen him play. Uh, there's
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no way around it. And I think that I also
want to if you've followed me and listen to me
on on shows for a while now, you've you know
my stance on Hurts. But if not, I'll I'll touch
on it again real quick. It's I don't land when
it comes to Jailen Hurts. There seems to always be
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two extremes that most people saw, you know, fall on.
Like a lot of Eagles fans will crown him as
an elite quarterback, like a top three, top five quarterback.
I've never I don't see him as that. I don't
see him as an elite quarterback in the legs of
Patrick whom josh Allen, Lamar Jackson. Yeah, Lamar is having
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it down year, but he's also not not healthy. You know,
I don't see him as that type of quarterback. But
at the same time, there are a lot of people
that put him at as like the fifteenth or twentieth,
you know, ranked quarterback in the league. I don't fall
anywhere near that either. You know those people who say,
you know, he can't throw, he's not great, he's constantly
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being carried. I'm not on that end. I'm you will
find me as usual somewhere in the middle. I think
Jalen hurts if I were to tier them. You know,
I like doing tiers when I do rankings, I don't
like doing linear rankings. If I tier rankings, he's probably
like in that somewhere in that tier too. So like
the Elague quarterbacks are Tier one he's in that tier two.
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Like if you want to say like toward the bottom
of tier two, sure, but he's in that tier too.
He's as you know, when it comes to scouting, and
you know, the way I've learned to do evaluations from
the scouting academy, you when it comes to players, at
the end, it's it's a matter of can you are
they type of players? Especially with quarterbacks, do you win
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because of them or win with them? And to me,
Jalen Hurts is someone you win with. And that's not
again that's not saying anything outlants because obviously we've won
the Super Bowl with him, and the two Super Bowls
he's played, he's been the best player on the field.
So he's someone that falls into that win with category
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that will show flashes of when because of but he
needs he needs like he's not the type of quarterback
who can constantly carry a team and lift a team
that's void of talent. He's not that type of quarterback.
And he's he has limitations as a passer and those
get highlighted, those those get expanded on when he refuses
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to run or refuses or if he's not capable of
running the way he could years ago. So you take
the running element out of that, and all of a
sudden that element of passing that you need him to
take the next step in. If he doesn't consistently take
that next step, it makes him look even worse. So
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he's struggling, and I I really, really, really I don't
want to overreact either way. Okay, like it's it's a game.
It's a really bad game he's had ever since a bye.
He's he's struggled. He definitely has struggled. But I do
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still have faith in him, and I there's no reason
I think for us to get you know, over our
skis a little bit here and and overreact to them
and say, oh, like it's time, like say anything like
oh ten mur keys should be starting. No, like he
shouldn't be starting over Jalen Hurts. Uh, it's Jalen Hurts
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deserves a benefit of the doubt to turn things around.
And so I still have faith in Jalen Hurts that
he will turn things around. So keep that in mind.
I'm gonna get to some of the comments. Uh, let's
see uh at Defense thirty two, did that final play
look like an r P O two? You look like
the old line was run blocking. I will break that
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play down, so I will. I will come back to
you and answer that question. Rag Miller. Eagles need to
quit playing with with their food, no discipline whatsoever, and
I blame coaching for that, not focusing very unprepared week
after week. Fan Joe and Staltlin only two credible coaches yet. Yeah,
I mean Staltland. His old line hasn't been great, but
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he deserves the benefit of doubt because he's been great
for so long. So yeah, I absolutely get it. Defense
thirty two also says the definitely looks definitely looks like
Sirianni isn't getting these guys prepared. It looks like that.
It looks like they're they're The coaching is is absolutely lacking.
And I've been playing saying that for saying that for
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for a while now. Uh. He says Vic made it
a point to come after Herbert and it worked all night. Yeah. Uh.
Mystic Misfits says penalty is bitting us again to turnover
erase and the TD eras. Yeah, it's it's bad, It's bad.
Greg Miller. Only positive took away from that game was
the defense and the running game looks like it's taking off.
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Why would you throw forty plus pass place against the
league's number one past defense was just stupid. I mean
you have to. I mean I'll get into that in
a little bit, but I definitely hear what you're saying.
And there were the ground game didn't do some things
well again, which I'll get to. Let's see, feel like
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he which I'm from assuming Hurts might be pressing to
make up for lackluster offense falling back to twenty twenty
few problems. Yeah, I absolutely agree with that. I think
that he's pressing like the game plan they had and
then him pressing to be more aggressive is definitely a factor.
And you know, he made some uncharacteristic throws in terms
of being too aggressive where he's got to reel it
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back in a little. But yeah, it does look like that.
The Events thirty two says he is who he is.
It's it's good enough if the coordinator can play to
his strengths. Yeah, And like here's the thing, like for
once you get past that top tier quarterbacks, right that
second tier, and I guess you could say some of
the tier three, it's it's the same for a lot
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of them where you they have their strengths and weaknesses,
and you have to have an offensive coordinator who's going
to tailor to those strengths. So I mean, there aren't
a lot like there aren't a lot of quarterbacks where
they Jalen Hurts has his limitations as a passer, and
you want to see him being a dual threat, right,
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but there are other quarterbacks who also have limitations as
the passer. He has those strengths and weaknesses, and that's
why it's like, I can I can see an argument
for why he's in that tier two with a bunch
of other guys, because it's not like you have a
ten quarterbacks who are perfect or you have ten quarterbacks
who you know are when because of guys, you know,
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that's not that way. There's a whole bunch of women
in that character. That's kind of just like jumbled up,
Greg Miller. We have to get back at healthy Lane
Johnson and Jalen Carter, right, So Jalen Carter, they said
he should be back for the playoffs. Lank Johnson apparently
he could be back next week anst Raiders, So you know,
fingers crossed, Fingers crossed A Friday thirty one he's twenty seven,
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not twenty nine. He can still run like he used
to none as fastbook can still run. Yeah, he can
still run, and I want him to be able to
do that. I mean there's that report that he he
didn't that he doesn't want to run as much. Again,
I don't know what level of creatingce that report has.
That is something that you keep wondering. But like him
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being a runner has to be part of his game
or else the deficiencies as a passer are going to
be like highlighted even more. Like I said earlier, US
Misfit says, I saw a lot of good things on
their own line in past protection theme pockets. I mean,
believe it or not, for for the old line, they've
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been in terms of past protection, they've been actually good,
like they're that's what people think, like they've been so
bad at run blocking that they some fans automatically think
that it's a safer past protection, but that's not the case.
Like have they been like stellar like elite, No, but
they've been I'd say they've been good, like above average.
So pass protection isn't a huge issue. And yeah, I
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think in this game it was it was it was
pretty good. It was pretty good. Defense is yeah, definitely
better and pass yeah, they absolutely are all right. So,
I mean it's been talked about a lot, probably today,
and you know, who's to blame from the game and whatnot.
And I will get into some of the things that
they you know, that we can fix. But what did
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I see from the film, Because that's that's why you
hear guys, right, like the shows called film don't Lie.
You come to Pete and I for film analysis what
we see from the film. And I will let me
say this, after watching the film, I came away actually
pretty optimistic and hopeful over what I saw on film.
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I it's not perfect, it's not great. There's still a
lot of flaws, still still a lot of flaws, but
it was better than what we've seen. It's I saw
improvement that I haven't seen since the two games before
the bye week against what was it the Vikings and Giants.
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That was the last time I saw like improvement schematically.
I saw it again today and they did a bunch
of stuff that I was like, okay, all right, all right,
like we can build off of that, we can build
up that, and so like I got a kind of
a new sense of like optimism after they're watching watching
that film the film, the one thing you can say
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to start for the for the passing game is they
were more aggressive, you know, especially on first and second down.
You know, they really made it a point of emphasis
attacking intermediate and deep levels. I think the stat which
I heard Ben Solac, you know, give so your credit
to the Solac for providing this eleven pass attempts to
the intermediate levels of the field, which is ten to
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nineteen yards. That's tied for the most hurts has had
in the single game. So they really were trying to
stress attacking that intermediate and deep level of the field,
which you know, I know one of the commenters say that,
you know, this is the number one like pass defense,
or at least there's a pass defense that leads the
league in not giving up deep plays. And so you
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kind of questioned, like could could should that have been
a game plan? But honestly, it was working like they were.
They were getting guys open. There were there were a
lot of good things that we saw and I really
liked it, Like there were more three man route concepts
as opposed to static two men route concept concepts where
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it was just vanilla and too easy to kind of defend.
And when it comes to half the field in their zones, right,
So a lot of three men route concepts, progressions that
work to the same side so that it's not a
full field progression where you have you know, you have
to scan, uh, you know, to the first read on
one side, scan back to the you know, kind of
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the other side of the field for the second read,
and then work your way back over for the third read.
There's not a lot of that, Like say Kurt Werner
preaches this, how he believes same side progressions is you know,
very beneficial for any quarterback. So there were there were
more of those, a lot of high low concepts of
which we'll get into. They attacked the middle of the
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field a good amount, not as many hitch routes as
you saw. So it's it was encouraging. It was encouraging.
Now the bad, I mean, we already talked about Hurts
and his struggles. Yeah, the screens, get rid of them,
the perimeter screens. It just we never make them work.
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Just stop doing it. And I think the most egregious
one was late in the game, the third down screen
to Smitty Uh when it was yeah, late in the
game and the Chargers were doing were sending a zero
blitz zero blitz and you call a wide receiver screen
like you couldn't. That's a prime, prime defense to call
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a slant against because there will be no one in
the middle of the field. And they called a screen
that that was to me, the most egregious play call
of the of the day. And it sucked because with
Smitty dropping it, that stopped the clock and it made
you know, it gave the Chargers, it left them with
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that one time out. And so that was that was egregious. Again,
they they they didn't. That was just bad. That was
really bad. Another thing is still too many shotgun inside runs.
I like, I can't, I can't do it. It's not working.
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It's not working. Running out a shotgun is not working.
So they've got to stop. They've got to stop just
not working, not working. But what is working? What did work? Now,
let's let's start with the with the run game. So
I have some clips here and I'll put them up
while I read the stats. Right, So with this, uh so,
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when it came to under center runs, okay, underset of runs,
there were ten of them. They had a fifty percent
success rate, and uh, they there were so many runs
where they had a lot of success on. So if
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I'm gonna read down the line, the yard is games
on each of the ten carriers nineteen yards ten yards
negative one, which the only under center run that was inside.
The rest were outside five thirteen three, the fifty two yarder,
the fifty fifty two yard touchdown, and then two zero
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negative one. So towards the end the Chargers kind of
bogged down on the under center runs, but for the
most part that's still that's still a fifty percent success rate.
I forget what the EPA is, but it was really good. Obviously,
with the fifty two yard touchdown, it's going to contribute
to bumping up that EPA. But again, they were successful
running under center and to the outside. They need to
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do more of that. They need to do absolutely more
under center run games, under center runs, so to also
build off of that under center play action. Okay, two
of three for forty eight yards passing, and the two
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passes the two completions were were for twenty two yards
and twenty six yards, both at aj Brown. So not
only was the under center run game working well, under
center play action was working well, this team needs to
shift more to the under center, Like should the whole
offense be built around that? No, And that's fine, but
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it I think it should be more than what it is.
They're having success with it, so keep doing that, keep
keep doing that stuff where it's under center. So I
really liked what I saw from that build off of that.
Let's get to some other clips now. So I'm going
to go to two plays in overtime, you know, before
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I do, Let's get to more of the comments. Uh,
let's see it's see defense thirty two says sometimes no
answer for the blitzer though free runners no hot rocks,
which has been a problem for us. Yeah, I mean
it's a problem for you. They don't have hot rocks.
I don't know, Like I, I wish I had an
answer for you. I wish I had an answer for you. Simple, Yeah,
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simple fly to simplify it to one side of the field,
high lows yep, And we saw we saw a good
number of that. A fraud of thirty one says only
fears after changing the offense connectly those Uh, it's will
make them revert back to risk reverse. I that's I
don't I definitely understand that, and I think I hope
that's not the case. I hope this wasn't a beast
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boke game plan for just the Chargers where they were attacking.
They need to keep this up. I liked what we
saw astematically, keep going, don't make it only for only
for the Chargers. Continue this title style of play calling
an attack. So yeah, I hope they don't go back
to being a risk of Yeah. Okay, so let's get
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to some plays, guys, let's do it. The two I
the ones I want to highlight other than obviously the
same one runs that I that I showed, are two
places in overtime. Okay, this one, this was the third.
I mean, this was the clutch throw to Smitty on
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third and sixteen. It went for from twenty eight yards right.
This was undoubtedly, undoubtedly this was the best throw of
the game from hers. I could even argue this is
you can argue that this was the I could argue
this was the best throw from Hurts all season, if not,
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if not the best, like absolutely up there, phenomenal. So
this is going to go to Smodia. As we say,
this is during a two by two set, and as
you can see I circle and targeted UH spin up
top right. So you're going to have Goddard, who's number
two to that side. He's gonna run a hitch and
Smitthy is gonna run across the route over top of that.
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And I want you to watch the linebacker dayon Henley
in the UH number zero right there, Okay, on the
posit Henley is playing and committing kind of just ever
so slightly to Dallas Goddard, who's running that hitch again. Smitty,
who's running sort of like a wrap route over top
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of that, is gonna come on in on the inbreaker.
Look at Jalen Hurd's he's pulling the trigger. Now. This
is fantastic, fantastic anticipation Like where this ball gets placed
could not be any better. The anticipation, the velocity, the
placement on this was fantastic. So he's anticipating Henley committing
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to Goddard and he's gonna throw. Hurts is gonna throw
right to this window where somebody's going to be open
right boom right there. That is that's phenomenal. I can't
say enough. That's awesome, awesome into the anticipation and ball
placement by Hurts and this goes, like I said, for
twenty eight yards. That's awesome stuff. And I want you
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to keep that in mind when you talk about the defender. No, no, Henley,
the one here is Henley. But the defender when we're
talking about who who's who Hurts is anticipating, right, Who's
anticipating gonna be taking down and committing to an underneath guy. Right,
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We're talking about high low concepts in the passing game.
And Henley commits to the low route here, which is
god it and then it leaves DeVante Smith on that
wrap route open for the twenty eight yards. Now, awesome soft,
awesome play by Hurts. And like, as I'm watching this
game and he's continuing continuing to lead this offense down
(28:03):
the field, I'm like he's in a groove right now,
despite despite how bad he performed the rest of the game,
he is doing such a good job of leading them
down the field in overtime. And I thought, I was, like,
I was ready for this touch for a touchdown, a
(28:24):
game winning touchdown. This is the interception as we all know, uh,
John Dottson's going to be as as I targeted up top,
We'll see him player snapped. This is forget who asked it.
But this isn't RPL as you can see. And that's
the first thing here, Like the line is run blocking.
As you can see. The key defender right here is
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Khalil Mack. All right, Loue Mack on the edge. Hurts
is supposed to read him mac is is his eyes
are on the quarterback. His eyes are on Hurt. Hurts
should have given this to saqu This this should have
been a run first of all. Okay, And that's the
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thing where it hurts, Like when it comes to r
p O's he doesn't always make the right read, make
the correct read that needs to be there. So this
this should have been a run by Saku, right, but no,
Hurt is gonna pull it now. He's gonna pull it
and try to throw it. Now, I this you're you're
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gonna have another high low concept here. Okay. So here's Godard,
he's in the flat and dots it's gonna run kind
of like a sail on top of it, right this
hole right here on top but over top of the corner.
Who's in the flat and this and underneath the safety
who's over top right, So that's the window Now I
talked about before when Hurts is anticipating that defender right,
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who's committing to the control route right, the underneath route.
He he did such a great job of it on
the previous play, but here he gets baited. And let
me say this, like it was a phenomenal play by
the defense. Okay, so not only like I circled it
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here as you can see, like Khalil Mack is right
on Jalen, Okay, because he was reading Jalen the whole time, right,
So he's right on Jailen. So he does pressure Jailen
to get rid of the ball, and you could argue
make an inaccurate pass. But who's at Kim Hart, Yeah,
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Kim Heart, the corner who's supposed to have the flat
He instead of committing to Gardar, he does a really
phenomenal job of reading this. He is going to actually
pull back and that's what allows him to get a
hand on the deflection or get a hand on the
ball deflected, and then the safety Tony Jefferson is able
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to pick it off. So I understand what Hurts was
looking at and what he was trying to do. It
was it was a great play by the defense. I
get what Hurts was looking at in this type of situation.
First and ten during the red zone the charger seventeen,
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you've got to have better You've got to have better awareness,
like the decision making on this. You have to be
very careful live to play another down because you have
a lot of time, you have the downs needed. So
that's unfortunately, that's what happened. And it's like I I wish,
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I wish he could have scored a touchdown here too,
because if he had scored a game winning touchdown jalone
Hurts on this offense, this would have been like this
would have not totally a race, but it would have
made up for all the struggles before early in the game.
And it's it's tough to see, you know, it's unfortunate
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that we had those, you know. But again, like I
said earlier, really really bad game from Jalen, and I
wanted to see that touchdown drive. I want to apologies.
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I had some technical difficulties. Apologies, thank you for sticking
with me here. I had some issues with my mic
and cam, so I just reverted back to my other
camera and my other mike. Yeah, Greg, sorry, it was
technical difficulties with my mic and my camera, so I
was like scrambling to just get back to the thing. So, yeah,
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sorry about that. But yeah, it's as I was saying, Oh, yeah,
the hurts be better. He's got to be better than
the situation. I think he knows that. I think he
knows that. So the last thing I want to talk about, right,
the last thing I want to say, we're regarding the Eagles. Okay,
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the last thing I'll say here is that I said earlier,
how I do have some optimism when it comes to
the offense moving forward because we saw some good things Schematically,
Do I think it's going to be enough. Do I
think they can fix enough to repeat again? I don't
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think so. If I'm gonna be honest, I don't think.
I think there are way too many issues overall for
this offense to to get back to the super Bowl
and repeat and going again. And I hate saying that,
but that's just being realistic. Looking at the other NFC team,
especially the Rams, like I just there's too many things
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to fix. But looking at this film, and you know,
sitting on it and looking at the situation, I still
do think that if you just expectations, I think there's
still definitely hope to absolutely win a division, win the
NFC East, and to also come away with come away
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with like a playoff game, win you know, in the
first round, maybe second round. But I think that there
are things that can be fixed enough to where we
can still win a playoff game. I'm gonna go actually
down the list. I've made a list of all two lists,
two different categories. Things I don't see getting fixed this
season and things that I have some hope will get fixed.
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All right, So the first thing things I don't see
getting fixed this season, I don't think the offensive line
run blocking is gonna improve whatsoever. Well, I'll say, with
Lane Johnson coming back, I think it can improve, but
that's not saying much because it's been so bad. I
don't think it's gonna ever get to the point where
it's going to it's going to enable this run game
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to be dominant like last year or even really really good.
I don't see the run blocking getting to the point
where the run game is dominant again. Snapping the ball
late in the play clock, I don't see that. For
some reason, that's a thing we've it was, it's been
a thing for years, but it's so bad this year.
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I don't know why, So I don't I don't see
that going away. I don't see that going away. Uh,
sequencing plays to where they build off the success of
one play, that's a thing that comes with experience, and
you know detail and knowing what buttons to push when
and how to design certain concepts to build off each other,
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and you know what's working what's not working. That A
lot of that comes with experience. So I don't see
Petullo fixing that or getting better at sequencing talking about that.
This kind of like bleeds into the next one. But
marrying the run in pass game, like having looks where
it's you have a formation and you have a look
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where you're you're running the ball out of it, but
then a few plays later you're passing out of it.
We don't see that, and I don't I don't expect
it at any point. And then the last thing is
more creative run concepts. I don't you look at at
run games. I mean, we've played the Bears and we
highlighted their run concepts are are so good. They're so good.
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I don't see any of any anything like that happening
this season. I mean, it's never been really creative, but
I think last year we saw some form of creativity,
but I'm not enough to where I think it can
help the run game be dominant now. Things I have
some hope will get fixed this season. A lot of
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stuff is things I already mentioned that we've seen against
the Chargers that I think can persist. Working more from
under center. We were having success with it. Do a
little bit more, have it, have it be part of
your foundation. Utilizing more under center play action, which for
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the most part has has worked this or when we
we've gone to it. Continue using three more uh three
man route concepts. Keep doing that high low, all that stuff,
attacking the intermediate and deep levels, which I said, accessing
the middle of the field. I know that it's riskier
in the middle of the field, and especially against the Chargers,
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it didn't work it, you know, hurtside the interception, but
you got to keep doing it. You got to keep
doing it at least a few times a game. Uh.
Less hits routes, which we saw right and then last
which I really really hope they fixed. Less penalties, just
stop committing so many penalties. Stop. Uh So those are
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the things I think can be fixed. And have hope
will get fixed the season. Let's hope we continue to
see some stuff then you know that we can build
off of let go to lazy booking by hey, hey,
what's going on? Man? Uh? Jalen's only only only got
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like two to five seconds to read the defense before
he has to snap it. Lately, I don't know why
the huddle takings along. I don't know why we keep
wondering this. Why it's so late, like it's not even
five seconds? Is being general or generous two seconds like
two seconds or one second? And you're at such a
disadvantage when you're doing that because the defense can read
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that and time they're they're get off with that. And
what's even more frustrating is they're breaking the huddle so late.
So when you're bringing the hudder get into the line late,
that makes less That gives you less of an opportunity
to read the defense and make adjustments and make calls
like I don't. And that's part of the reason why
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when we go no huddle, we've been better going no
huddle because it gives Jalen time to read what's there
and make adjustments. So, yeah, I wish I had an
answer for you. I don't know why why. That's the thing.
Defense thirty two says, only chance is that they build
momentum and gain confidence over the next few weeks with
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easier schedule, And yeah, that's that's a big ask. But
you know, if there's going to be a game where
you can use as a get right game and build
a momentum, the Sunday against the Raiders is is a
good start, right, It's a good start. A fraud thirty
one says, isn't breaking the huddle on KP though he
has to give give the play called young, Yeah, it
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is on KP and systematically like that's something you could
also put on the head coach on Sirianni because if
he sees this, he's got to say, hey, like we
gotta we gotta be quicker. But it's so lacks the daisical,
the operation is so lackadaisical. I don't know, I don't
know why. I don't know why. Uh So that's Egostock
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forty minutes on ego Stock. I know that's you know,
we didn't have an Egostock show on Monday because it
was so late and we had people think. So I
wanted to definitely dive into some talk about some of
that game. If you got any more comments or questions,
definitely to or send them in the chat. I will
definitely answer them and and get to any questions you had.
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A defense he too. At least they stopped lead blocking
with colter kaal Katara was still on there in someplace.
I it's driving me nuts, but man like less Kalka Terra,
please please stop with the with Kakatara, leave blocking. I
don't I can't stand it. I cannot stand it. So yeah,
I want to also get into the other game that
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was phenomenal Bears Packers and it had NFC implications. The
Packers come out on top twenty one eight, and it
was a phenomenal game. It didn't look that way in
the first half. It looked like the it could. It
was on its way to being a route. But the
Bears came out the second half and Ben Johnson is
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so he is so good adjustments and that's why in
the second half the Bears came out prepared and they
they were running the ball on the Packers just a
yardage off. The yard is just consistently grinding them down,
grinding that defense down, and it turned into such a
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slugfest between two NFC North ryvals. I was so entertained.
I loved it so much so I wanted to go
and break down someplace toward the end. But I said this,
I think I said it in the last week's show
that this is another example they Jayden Reid came back
for the Packers and his presence was already felt as
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like the yak guy. He's going to add an element
of yak that the Packers don't or you know, lost
with Tucker Kraft out. And I've said Tucker Kraft is
like their best skip position player. Jada Ree coming back
is huge for them, absolutely huge. I just saw this
a front of thirty one. Well, Caleb isn't better than Herts,
but they still got him running a complex office offense. Yeah,
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I mean they they do. And that's why, like I
don't understand with whether it's not like with with Caleb Williams.
He's got physical tools where he can make some throws
that Hurts just cannot like he Caleb Williams has a
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canon like when you watch him throw the ball, it's
it comes out of his hand, so with such velocity velocity,
it's it's so impressive and he can I've said it
before that Caleb Williams leads the league in sack of
Wollams like. He's so elusive. He's he's like a magician
back there. So there are throws that Caleb can make
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that Hurts cannot because of Caleb's Caleb just has such
better arm talent that that Hurts has. Hurts is more accurate. Yeah,
the one thing of Caleb's game that is probably the
biggest drawback right now is his lack of accuracy. You know,
Caleb is not accurate and he's so inconsistent when it
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comes to that. So he's got to work on that.
It can get better accurate. No, don't let anyone tell
you that a quarterback cannot get cannot improve their accuracy.
They absolutely can. So Caleb can can do that. When
we were talking about you know, the Packers, Jordan Love
was inaccurate when he first came in, a very inaccurate quarterback,
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and he's improved his accuracy. Jalen Hurts at the same
time too, with timing, and Jalen Hurts had to adjust
his his timing and and speed up his anticipation. And
we've seen him and we've seen him work on that
and get better. So hey, don Don, Yeah, it's been
a minute man, how are you hope you're doing well?
Sorry about your Lions, you know, but but thank you
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Lions for beating the Cowboys. That was that was huge,
don Don. You're not gonna like the topic I have,
right I'm talking about right now, we're talking about the
Packers and Bears, So I apologize, But yeah, Caleb makes
throws that Jalen Hurts can just can't, and so that
opens that opens things up for Caleb to do certain
things schematically that you can't with with Hurts. So that's
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that's part of the equation there. But yeah, the Packers
that they they have, they're starting to click and Matt
Lafour is starting to really really you know, let loose
on calling an aggressive game plan and making sure Jordan
Love continues to attack downfield. And that showed every time,
like the Bears would have you know, one of their
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touchdown drives or they're you know running you know, running
the ball down the Packer's throats, the Packers got the
ball back and just immediately like chunk play in the
passing game. It was it was fun to see offenses
with two different styles. You know, go at it. It
was It was a lot of fun. So the Packers
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are going to be a team to be reckoned with.
And it's taken a while. I don't know why people
are so reluctant for or reluctant to buy in on
the Packers. But as I've said on this show, like,
the Packers are legit, and Jordan Love has been consistently
good all year. Like He's had his bad games, but
if you look at if you look at overall, like
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for the most part, Jordan Love has been consistently good,
consistently good, and I think this narrative that he's inconsistent
needs to just go away because he's been really good.
For the Packers, they are absolutely a contender. Uh dond nass.
Do you believe whoever comes out of the NFC will
win the Super Bowl? I'd have to put my money
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on yes, because I think the NFC has been has
stronger teams the AFC. I think the best team in
the AFC. A lot of people will say the Patriots,
and I think that's if you want to argue Patriots,
that's fine. I think I think the Bills, even though
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they are still flawed. I think they they know that
this is the opportunity for them to to you know,
with the Chiefs out of there, the Ravens out of there,
this is their best chance to come out of the
AFC and get to that Super Bowl. So I think
they're driven and I think Josh Allen is is back
to playing really really good ball. So I would have
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to pick them. But if you look at them compared
to like a team like the Rams, like, the Rams
have much more completely than the Bills, the Bills like
they their defense is just not hard to have any
faith in that defense. And on the offensive side, their
passing game can still go through lulls because they don't
have a go to receiving option. The only time there
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their passing game can click is if Josh Allen works magic.
Other than that, on offense, it's it's it's there. They
have a dominant run game which they should lean on.
They should be a run for his team. But again
that's what I'm saying, Like, in terms of a more
complete team, the Rams are a more complete team. In
terms of a more complete team, the Seahawks are more
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complete team than the Bills. The issue is they have
Sam Donald compared to Josh Allen, So I get that.
But if you're looking just you know, roster and team overall, yeah,
it's it's the Seahawks have a more complete team if
they can get their run game with Walker and Charbs
to be more consistent and effective. Especially with Walker, I
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think he deserves more carries and more touches. I think
that run game can start clicking enough to put less
pressure on Donald. But we have to see, you know,
because we all know like Donald can, he's susceptible to
having really bad turnovers and that's nothing new. So oh yeah,
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that's to answer your question, Donal. Yeah, but the Packers Bears,
I wanted to get to some someplaces. So I mean
toward the end of the game, all right, Packers Bears,
they they had the Bears had I believe this is
the third and one. Yeah, third and one play, okay,
and third and one they're gonna run the ball. Uh,
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the Bears are gonna run the ball here on third
and one late in the game. They're trying to pick
up the first down, right, and they're gonna run it
up the middle with Mnong Guy. And if you've seen
Manong Guy, he is like he is my friend who
covers the packers. He he called he called Manonguy a
buzz saw with legs like he's so so much power
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and we saw that in this game. There's there's a
clip of him. He absolutely runs over Edgerden Cooper like pop,
like it's it's so impressive. Why did he get stuffed
on this run though? For no no gate And I'll
show you why. So on this run bears up the
middle like I said, they're gonna give it to Manong
guy before there you go. So we guys here, now
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I want you to see boom so that he gets
stuffed with zero yards. Now I'm gonna zoom in here
the edge defender, Uh what's his name again? Sorry? Uh?
The defensive end here, it's that is Anigbari, Yeah, defensive.
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He's gonna come in and he's gonna be the one
that stuffs calm Aong guy. Why does that happen? Because
as you can see here with Manong Guy, he has
to get around this. You know, these these blocks right
this garbage here at the line of scrimmage and I'm
gonna I'm gonna rewind it when he had with him
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having to get around that. He has to get skinny
and look at his frame. He he's not able to
get low like he usually does when he's able to
deliver that power. Right when you when you're running back,
you know that's saying low man wins. Right, You're able
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to get low to be able to have that leverage
and deliver that power from your base. But because Manungui
has to get around this traffic here, he has to
be upright. Did you look at him here? You see
that he has to be upright. And because he's upright,
when aig Bare comes in and lays a hit, he's
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not able to fall forward. Okay, so that's what happens.
That's the whole reason Whynng guy gets stopped for a
powerful running back. It doesn't matter what your frame is.
If you don't have that leverage coming through the line
of scrimmage, you're going to get driven back. And so
awesome play by the defensive end Enigbari here, which sets
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up again no gain and this goes through fourth and one. Right,
So now that leads to the Bears final play. Now,
before we get to it, let's go back to the
previous week. Bears at the end of the game against
the Eagles, They're gonna call this play. This was the
nail and the coffin play. This was the play action
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past the cole Comet right, play action, Comet deep touchdown,
game over. Okay, Bears go up twenty three, twenty three nine. Ah,
the Bears against the Packers. They're gonna call the same play,
same concept and were you're gonna see here comet, I
highlight him, I having circle targeted play action and there
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you go. See Now here's the difference. Okay, and I'll
get to what a lot of people were kind of
you no, you know, criticizing Caleb for. But let me
get to this first. Okay, So play action. There's Comet,
he is, this is now when he's open. He is open.
Caleb has to pull the trigger. Now he's got the window.
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Throw it now, But Caleb doesn't. He waits for it
seems like another one or two seconds. By the time
he lets it go. Nixon is able to get back
into the picture. But even here's the thing. Even if
he threw it at that point, if this ball is
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put or placed toward the back line of the end
zone more, Nixon still won't be able to make a play.
On the ball like he does there. If this is
again place it towards more, towards the back line, Comet
still comes down with this, I believe. I think there's
a very good chance Comet still comes down with this ball.
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But not only is the throw late, but it's underthrown.
And that's what happens, and that's why the pick is
thrown and game over. Now. A lot of a lot
of people criticize Caleb also saying he had DJ Moore.
I I don't agree with that sentiment. One the read
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is Cole Cobet. Okay, that's the read. Okay, So with
co Comet being opened right here, the decision to throw
to Comet is the right decision. Okay, that's he makes
the right choice. Now he's the balls on the throne,
like I said, and it's late. That's that's the problem.
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But the decision, the choice, the read is correct. That's fine.
If you want to look at DJ Moore, he doesn't
uncover like this is. He's back here, right, So Caleb's
gonna choose to throw more doesn't uncover like he's If
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you want to say, oh he's open, he's open. He's open.
The defender here is in that lane, So Caleb would
have had to change his angle and work around that
defender to kind of squeeze that into this window here.
Now I've heard people say he should have waited, he
should have waited. No, like by the time. Again, Caleb
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is under pressure too. You've got he's got defenders coming
at him. He doesn't have time to just wait and wait. Okay,
So if he waits for until DJ Moore gets open,
that's that might be too late for him to to
make that throw. And again he's he would have to
change his angle to work around the Packers defender. So
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again I don't I this is on Caleb for making
a late throw and an inaccurate throw. I don't think
this is on Caleb for not throwing djmore. That's the
easy Madden take on it. If you're playing Mad and
you say he just start your open receiver, that's not
how it works. As as I've said so many times,
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it's it's so easy to just say you throw it open. No,
you have to think of reeds. Is the first read,
the initial read, he's open, Go go with him, throw
the ballot him. It's just late and it's underthrown and
intercept so another example of just's gotta play on time
and with better accuracy. But I don't criticize him for
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not throwing the djmore. I have no problem with him
throwing to comment on that play. So that's that's my
two cents. I know people will disagree, but that's how
I see it. But Bears, despite the loss, they're playing
really really well, and I think they're going to They're
they're on borrow. I mean they're they're on house money, right,
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house money. They they've already exceeded expectations that most people had,
so they're playing really well. And I love seeing the
development of Caleb Williams and seeing what they can what
this offense can do under Ben Johnson. That defense defense
is bad, it's been a little bit better. The only
thing that defense hangs there had on is turnovers, and
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they generated turnovers. They lead the league in takeaways, so
if somehow they can keep it up and then and
takeaways sometimes it's volatile. So that's why I like, no
if you'm depending on takeaways, but if they can keep
taking the ball away, that's going to go a long
way into helping them make noise in the playoffs and
and come away with with a winner too, so awesome
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stuff Bears Packers and we get to see it in
a few weeks again. I'm gonna be watching that with
so much excitement. Uh. Donnan says, I kind of like
the Panthers. I hope the Panthers win the NFC South.
I really really hope they do. I think they have
so much, so much moxie, and I'm rooting for Bryce
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Young and the run game is awesome and the Bucks
are reeling, so I am room rooting for the Panthers
to win this. So I have for no huddle. I
had a couple of topics, but I kind of for
a second week in a row, I kind of wanted
to wait on it because I wanted to discuss it
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with Pete. So I think I'm gonna wait till next week.
I'll mention it so you guys can. If you guys
want to tune in next weekend you're a discussion on it,
you can. But the Chiefs with the loss, their loss
to the Texans, they're pretty much out. Uh. I really
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like the Texans what they're doing. They have that winning
streak going. I hope they they win the AFC South.
But yeah, the Chiefs all but pretty much like eliminated
from the playoffs, and it's just it just goes to
show that the Super Bowl hangover is a real thing,
Like this is this is with the Chiefs, you know.
I think there's a lot of stuff that you're gonna
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have to do this offseason, and I'll dive more into
it next week with Pete, but I think they have
to do a lot of self reflection two realize what
they have to change in their roster building and their philosophy.
Things have caught up to them. Travis Kelce, I think
I thought it was like kind of kind of uh,
(01:00:10):
what's what's the word it it? It figures I can't
think of the word I'm looking for. Poetic. I guess
that the game was pretty much sealed on that interception
because when it was an inaccurate past by by Mahomes,
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but then Kelsey dropped it and we usually see Kelsey
made those type of catches, right, but he's unable to
make the catch, bobbles it and it leads to an interception.
It's kind of poetic that the chief season essentially ends
on a play like that. Two guys involved that have
been you know, that connection that dual of Mahomes of
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Kelsey has been one of the best duos we've seen,
one of the best handems we've seen. So yeah, it's
it's crazy. It's crazy. Who knows what Kelsey's gonna do.
I don't know. Like he's clearly way, he's clearly I
don't want to say way, but he's clearly passed his prime.
(01:01:14):
It'll be interesting to see what the Chiefs do this offseason,
and we'll have a lot of discussions about that as
we get to the offseason. But yeah, Chiefs are out.
That's crazy to see. And it remains to be seeing
what the Super Bowl winner, the Eagles, they do as
they face also a Super Bowl hangover. Are they going
to collapse? Are they going to bounce back? We shall see.
(01:01:36):
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that we're going to have. I'm going to be covering
the Eagles loss. Yes, the Eagles frustrating once again loss
in overtime to the Chargers. We I'll be opening the
show with that as well as I'll be talking about
the game between the Bears and the Packers, which was
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a great game, that one with the final score of
twenty eight twenty one, So we'll all dive into that
as well, and then some quick topics for you at
the end of the show. But let's get into it.
Let's get into the first game that I want to
discuss and break down. It's the Eagles and Chargers game.
The final score of that in overtime was twenty two
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to nineteen, Chargers coming out on top. And you know
most of you listening, I'm sure you're your Eagles fans.
So again this is where you know, he and I
are Eagles fans, so we specialize in the Eagles, even
though we love talking about other teams. So, uh, there's
usually there's not much For most of the season, I'd
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say there's there hasn't been much else to really cover
or to touch on in terms of what is you know,
what's going on, Like we we know the trouble, these
issues have been going on, uh for most of the season.
So let me start with this and saying, when I
look at this loss again, This isn't This isn't on
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the defense. Obviously, we know that. I know we had
a lot of you know, a lot the defense had
a really bad performance on the ground against the Bears
on Black Friday, and I know a lot of people
are really upset about that. And it happens to me,
like I've said it that with this defense, it was
only a matter of time before, like they have a
game like that where they're just tired and they're worn
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down constantly on the field for so many plays, so
much time because the offense goes three now, three out,
three now, so they bounce back with a tremendous game
like how many times again? And this can be because this
can be said through through so many games this season
where the defense just constantly bailing out the offense. And
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it happened again this game. I can't. You know, they're
not a perfect defense, you know, Like I wouldn't say
they're on the level of like the Texans, which is
the best defense in the league right now and then
or even the Seahawks, but they're still this defense is
still a great defense, and they're doing so many good things.
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So I have nothing but praise for them, and I
want to lead off with that because I want to
lead off given them giving the defense their props and
respect that they should get because they are. They are
balling right now, and so if there's one thing we
should take away from this game to start, I want
to give. For me, at least, I want to get
props to the defense. So many good things Vic Fangio
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and I had tweeted out during the game. I'm like,
I wonder if I could get a Vic fangild T
shirt because he's just doing a phenomenal job. Those guys,
those those guys on the defensive end. I can't say
enough about the job they're doing. And you know, hats
off to them. Uh, that goes without saying because they've
been consistent pretty much for most of the season. I
think there are two games where I'd really say, like
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they really had bad performances, but outside of that, they've
been they've been stellar. They've been sellar. But as for
the offense, you know, you look at that and it's
just like I for me, I think it's pretty obvious
and I'm not saying anything that's like outlandish when I
say that Hurts and A. J. Brown were probably the
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biggest culprits. Don't get me wrong, the whole offense, everyone
involved deserves blame. And when when things are this bad,
it's never just one or two people, it's so many parties.
And I've said this again like for the million of time.
There's so many issues with this offense. So almost everyone
is too blame for the offensive struggles. But yeah, if
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I'm going to point out the biggest culprits from that loss,
it's Jalen Hurts and A. J. Brown. I mean starting
with AJ Brown, like he had, Yeah, he had statistically
over one hundred yards. And you know, you look at
the box score, And this is why I say you
can't look at the box score. You can't be a
box score a box score scout because if you look
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just at the box score, you say, oh, ag had
a great game. No, he had several bad plays. Beginning
of the game. Drop pass deep could have opened the
game wide, put the game wide open. Drop pass in
the middle of the field. Yeah it was high, it
was definitely high. But that's a catch he's gotten make though,
and that leads to an interception, and then the drop
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at the end through the end of the game that
could have essentially sealed. It sealed the win for the Eagles.
Another another bad drop, another bad job, and I know
that the corner made a good play on it, but
still like we've seen aj make those types of catches before,
even through contact. I mean, he's he's J Brown. He's strong,
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like he's he's known to be a physical specimen because
like he's so strong, so he's got to come down
with that. So like, horrible, horrible game by a J. Brown.
And as far as Jalen Hurts, and that's another this
comment to kick it off, one of Hurts' worst games
as a pro, it doesn't get much. Yeah, that was
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horrendous by by Jalen Hurts, really really bad. And yeah,
the one interception wasn't on him. I'd say even the
one you know where s Mindy Davante Smith stumbled and fell. Okay,
that's not on him. But like constant throughout the game,
missed miss throws, missed opportunities, just usual tendency stuff where
he's just you know, not seeing the whole field and
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breaking the pocket when he doesn't need to. You know,
he really struggled the one interception to I think hand
the the defensive tackle that dropped he just completely didn't
see him, didn't see him that first interception, and then
he comes up with the fumble recovery and then he
fumbles that so too. Two turnovers on one play for
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Jaalen Hurts. And then I'll get to this. I'm gonna
break it down. But like that last interception and overtime,
just you can't do that. So horrible horrible game by
Jaalen Hurts. Just he's he could have he could have
had more interceptions that he had that one against Cover
two and it hit the ground just barely, so but
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that could have easily been another interception. He's he's got
to be better. And I'm sure he knows that. That's
not saying anything anything, you know, groundbreaking there, So horrible
horrible game by Jalen Hurts. One of the one of
the worst games I've ever seen him play. Uh, there's
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no way around it. And I think that I also
want to if you've followed me and listen to me
on on shows for a while now, you've you know
my stance on Hurts. But if not, I'll I'll touch
on it again real quick. It's I don't land when
it comes to Jailen Hurts. There seems to always be
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two extremes that most people saw, you know, fall on.
Like a lot of Eagles fans will crown him as
an elite quarterback, like a top three, top five quarterback.
I've never I don't see him as that. I don't
see him as an elite quarterback in the legs of
Patrick whom josh Allen, Lamar Jackson. Yeah, Lamar is having
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it down year, but he's also not not healthy. You know,
I don't see him as that type of quarterback. But
at the same time, there are a lot of people
that put him at as like the fifteenth or twentieth,
you know, ranked quarterback in the league. I don't fall
anywhere near that either. You know those people who say,
you know, he can't throw, he's not great, he's constantly
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being carried. I'm not on that end. I'm you will
find me as usual somewhere in the middle. I think
Jalen hurts if I were to tier them. You know,
I like doing tiers when I do rankings, I don't
like doing linear rankings. If I tier rankings, he's probably
like in that somewhere in that tier too. So like
the Elague quarterbacks are Tier one he's in that tier two.
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Like if you want to say like toward the bottom
of tier two, sure, but he's in that tier too.
He's as you know, when it comes to scouting, and
you know, the way I've learned to do evaluations from
the scouting academy, you when it comes to players, at
the end, it's it's a matter of can you are
they type of players? Especially with quarterbacks, do you win
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because of them or win with them? And to me,
Jalen Hurts is someone you win with. And that's not
again that's not saying anything outlants because obviously we've won
the Super Bowl with him, and the two Super Bowls
he's played, he's been the best player on the field.
So he's someone that falls into that win with category
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that will show flashes of when because of but he
needs he needs like he's not the type of quarterback
who can constantly carry a team and lift a team
that's void of talent. He's not that type of quarterback.
And he's he has limitations as a passer and those
get highlighted, those those get expanded on when he refuses
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to run or refuses or if he's not capable of
running the way he could years ago. So you take
the running element out of that, and all of a
sudden that element of passing that you need him to
take the next step in. If he doesn't consistently take
that next step, it makes him look even worse. So
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he's struggling, and I I really, really, really I don't
want to overreact either way. Okay, like it's it's a game.
It's a really bad game he's had ever since a bye.
He's he's struggled. He definitely has struggled. But I do
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still have faith in him, and I there's no reason
I think for us to get you know, over our
skis a little bit here and and overreact to them
and say, oh, like it's time, like say anything like
oh ten mur keys should be starting. No, like he
shouldn't be starting over Jalen Hurts. Uh, it's Jalen Hurts
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deserves a benefit of the doubt to turn things around.
And so I still have faith in Jalen Hurts that
he will turn things around. So keep that in mind.
I'm gonna get to some of the comments. Uh, let's
see uh at Defense thirty two, did that final play
look like an r P O two? You look like
the old line was run blocking. I will break that
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play down, so I will. I will come back to
you and answer that question. Rag Miller. Eagles need to
quit playing with with their food, no discipline whatsoever, and
I blame coaching for that, not focusing very unprepared week
after week. Fan Joe and Staltlin only two credible coaches yet. Yeah,
I mean Staltland. His old line hasn't been great, but
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he deserves the benefit of doubt because he's been great
for so long. So yeah, I absolutely get it. Defense
thirty two also says the definitely looks definitely looks like
Sirianni isn't getting these guys prepared. It looks like that.
It looks like they're they're The coaching is is absolutely lacking.
And I've been playing saying that for saying that for
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for a while now. Uh. He says Vic made it
a point to come after Herbert and it worked all night. Yeah. Uh.
Mystic Misfits says penalty is bitting us again to turnover
erase and the TD eras. Yeah, it's it's bad, It's bad.
Greg Miller. Only positive took away from that game was
the defense and the running game looks like it's taking off.
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Why would you throw forty plus pass place against the
league's number one past defense was just stupid. I mean
you have to. I mean I'll get into that in
a little bit, but I definitely hear what you're saying.
And there were the ground game didn't do some things
well again, which I'll get to. Let's see, feel like
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he which I'm from assuming Hurts might be pressing to
make up for lackluster offense falling back to twenty twenty
few problems. Yeah, I absolutely agree with that. I think
that he's pressing like the game plan they had and
then him pressing to be more aggressive is definitely a factor.
And you know, he made some uncharacteristic throws in terms
of being too aggressive where he's got to reel it
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back in a little. But yeah, it does look like that.
The Events thirty two says he is who he is.
It's it's good enough if the coordinator can play to
his strengths. Yeah, And like here's the thing, like for
once you get past that top tier quarterbacks, right that
second tier, and I guess you could say some of
the tier three, it's it's the same for a lot
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of them where you they have their strengths and weaknesses,
and you have to have an offensive coordinator who's going
to tailor to those strengths. So I mean, there aren't
a lot like there aren't a lot of quarterbacks where
they Jalen Hurts has his limitations as a passer, and
you want to see him being a dual threat, right,
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but there are other quarterbacks who also have limitations as
the passer. He has those strengths and weaknesses, and that's
why it's like, I can I can see an argument
for why he's in that tier two with a bunch
of other guys, because it's not like you have a
ten quarterbacks who are perfect or you have ten quarterbacks
who you know are when because of guys, you know,
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that's not that way. There's a whole bunch of women
in that character. That's kind of just like jumbled up,
Greg Miller. We have to get back at healthy Lane
Johnson and Jalen Carter, right, So Jalen Carter, they said
he should be back for the playoffs. Lank Johnson apparently
he could be back next week anst Raiders, So you know,
fingers crossed, Fingers crossed A Friday thirty one he's twenty seven,
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not twenty nine. He can still run like he used
to none as fastbook can still run. Yeah, he can
still run, and I want him to be able to
do that. I mean there's that report that he he
didn't that he doesn't want to run as much. Again,
I don't know what level of creatingce that report has.
That is something that you keep wondering. But like him
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being a runner has to be part of his game
or else the deficiencies as a passer are going to
be like highlighted even more. Like I said earlier, US
Misfit says, I saw a lot of good things on
their own line in past protection theme pockets. I mean,
believe it or not, for for the old line, they've
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been in terms of past protection, they've been actually good,
like they're that's what people think, like they've been so
bad at run blocking that they some fans automatically think
that it's a safer past protection, but that's not the case.
Like have they been like stellar like elite, No, but
they've been I'd say they've been good, like above average.
So pass protection isn't a huge issue. And yeah, I
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think in this game it was it was it was
pretty good. It was pretty good. Defense is yeah, definitely
better and pass yeah, they absolutely are all right. So,
I mean it's been talked about a lot, probably today,
and you know, who's to blame from the game and whatnot.
And I will get into some of the things that
they you know, that we can fix. But what did
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I see from the film, Because that's that's why you
hear guys, right, like the shows called film don't Lie.
You come to Pete and I for film analysis what
we see from the film. And I will let me
say this, after watching the film, I came away actually
pretty optimistic and hopeful over what I saw on film.
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I it's not perfect, it's not great. There's still a
lot of flaws, still still a lot of flaws, but
it was better than what we've seen. It's I saw
improvement that I haven't seen since the two games before
the bye week against what was it the Vikings and Giants.
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That was the last time I saw like improvement schematically.
I saw it again today and they did a bunch
of stuff that I was like, okay, all right, all right,
like we can build off of that, we can build
up that, and so like I got a kind of
a new sense of like optimism after they're watching watching
that film the film, the one thing you can say
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to start for the for the passing game is they
were more aggressive, you know, especially on first and second down.
You know, they really made it a point of emphasis
attacking intermediate and deep levels. I think the stat which
I heard Ben Solac, you know, give so your credit
to the Solac for providing this eleven pass attempts to
the intermediate levels of the field, which is ten to
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nineteen yards. That's tied for the most hurts has had
in the single game. So they really were trying to
stress attacking that intermediate and deep level of the field,
which you know, I know one of the commenters say that,
you know, this is the number one like pass defense,
or at least there's a pass defense that leads the
league in not giving up deep plays. And so you
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kind of questioned, like could could should that have been
a game plan? But honestly, it was working like they were.
They were getting guys open. There were there were a
lot of good things that we saw and I really
liked it, Like there were more three man route concepts
as opposed to static two men route concept concepts where
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it was just vanilla and too easy to kind of defend.
And when it comes to half the field in their zones, right,
So a lot of three men route concepts, progressions that
work to the same side so that it's not a
full field progression where you have you know, you have
to scan, uh, you know, to the first read on
one side, scan back to the you know, kind of
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the other side of the field for the second read,
and then work your way back over for the third read.
There's not a lot of that, Like say Kurt Werner
preaches this, how he believes same side progressions is you know,
very beneficial for any quarterback. So there were there were
more of those, a lot of high low concepts of
which we'll get into. They attacked the middle of the
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field a good amount, not as many hitch routes as
you saw. So it's it was encouraging. It was encouraging.
Now the bad, I mean, we already talked about Hurts
and his struggles. Yeah, the screens, get rid of them,
the perimeter screens. It just we never make them work.
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Just stop doing it. And I think the most egregious
one was late in the game, the third down screen
to Smitty Uh when it was yeah, late in the
game and the Chargers were doing were sending a zero
blitz zero blitz and you call a wide receiver screen
like you couldn't. That's a prime, prime defense to call
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a slant against because there will be no one in
the middle of the field. And they called a screen
that that was to me, the most egregious play call
of the of the day. And it sucked because with
Smitty dropping it, that stopped the clock and it made
you know, it gave the Chargers, it left them with
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that one time out. And so that was that was egregious. Again,
they they they didn't. That was just bad. That was
really bad. Another thing is still too many shotgun inside runs.
I like, I can't, I can't do it. It's not working.
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It's not working. Running out a shotgun is not working.
So they've got to stop. They've got to stop just
not working, not working. But what is working? What did work? Now,
let's let's start with the with the run game. So
I have some clips here and I'll put them up
while I read the stats. Right, So with this, uh so,
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when it came to under center runs, okay, underset of runs,
there were ten of them. They had a fifty percent
success rate, and uh, they there were so many runs
where they had a lot of success on. So if
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I'm gonna read down the line, the yard is games
on each of the ten carriers nineteen yards ten yards
negative one, which the only under center run that was inside.
The rest were outside five thirteen three, the fifty two yarder,
the fifty fifty two yard touchdown, and then two zero
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negative one. So towards the end the Chargers kind of
bogged down on the under center runs, but for the
most part that's still that's still a fifty percent success rate.
I forget what the EPA is, but it was really good. Obviously,
with the fifty two yard touchdown, it's going to contribute
to bumping up that EPA. But again, they were successful
running under center and to the outside. They need to
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do more of that. They need to do absolutely more
under center run games, under center runs, so to also
build off of that under center play action. Okay, two
of three for forty eight yards passing, and the two
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passes the two completions were were for twenty two yards
and twenty six yards, both at aj Brown. So not
only was the under center run game working well, under
center play action was working well, this team needs to
shift more to the under center, Like should the whole
offense be built around that? No, And that's fine, but
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it I think it should be more than what it is.
They're having success with it, so keep doing that, keep
keep doing that stuff where it's under center. So I
really liked what I saw from that build off of that.
Let's get to some other clips now. So I'm going
to go to two plays in overtime, you know, before
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I do, Let's get to more of the comments. Uh,
let's see it's see defense thirty two says sometimes no
answer for the blitzer though free runners no hot rocks,
which has been a problem for us. Yeah, I mean
it's a problem for you. They don't have hot rocks.
I don't know, Like I, I wish I had an
answer for you. I wish I had an answer for you. Simple, Yeah,
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simple fly to simplify it to one side of the field,
high lows yep, And we saw we saw a good
number of that. A fraud of thirty one says only
fears after changing the offense connectly those Uh, it's will
make them revert back to risk reverse. I that's I
don't I definitely understand that, and I think I hope
that's not the case. I hope this wasn't a beast
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boke game plan for just the Chargers where they were attacking.
They need to keep this up. I liked what we
saw astematically, keep going, don't make it only for only
for the Chargers. Continue this title style of play calling
an attack. So yeah, I hope they don't go back
to being a risk of Yeah. Okay, so let's get
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to some plays, guys, let's do it. The two I
the ones I want to highlight other than obviously the
same one runs that I that I showed, are two
places in overtime. Okay, this one, this was the third.
I mean, this was the clutch throw to Smitty on
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third and sixteen. It went for from twenty eight yards right.
This was undoubtedly, undoubtedly this was the best throw of
the game from hers. I could even argue this is
you can argue that this was the I could argue
this was the best throw from Hurts all season, if not,
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if not the best, like absolutely up there, phenomenal. So
this is going to go to Smodia. As we say,
this is during a two by two set, and as
you can see I circle and targeted UH spin up
top right. So you're going to have Goddard, who's number
two to that side. He's gonna run a hitch and
Smitthy is gonna run across the route over top of that.
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And I want you to watch the linebacker dayon Henley
in the UH number zero right there, Okay, on the
posit Henley is playing and committing kind of just ever
so slightly to Dallas Goddard, who's running that hitch again. Smitty,
who's running sort of like a wrap route over top
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of that, is gonna come on in on the inbreaker.
Look at Jalen Hurd's he's pulling the trigger. Now. This
is fantastic, fantastic anticipation Like where this ball gets placed
could not be any better. The anticipation, the velocity, the
placement on this was fantastic. So he's anticipating Henley committing
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to Goddard and he's gonna throw. Hurts is gonna throw
right to this window where somebody's going to be open
right boom right there. That is that's phenomenal. I can't
say enough. That's awesome, awesome into the anticipation and ball
placement by Hurts and this goes, like I said, for
twenty eight yards. That's awesome stuff. And I want you
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to keep that in mind when you talk about the defender. No, no, Henley,
the one here is Henley. But the defender when we're
talking about who who's who Hurts is anticipating, right, Who's
anticipating gonna be taking down and committing to an underneath guy. Right,
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We're talking about high low concepts in the passing game.
And Henley commits to the low route here, which is
god it and then it leaves DeVante Smith on that
wrap route open for the twenty eight yards. Now, awesome soft,
awesome play by Hurts. And like, as I'm watching this
game and he's continuing continuing to lead this offense down
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the field, I'm like he's in a groove right now,
despite despite how bad he performed the rest of the game,
he is doing such a good job of leading them
down the field in overtime. And I thought, I was, like,
I was ready for this touch for a touchdown, a
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game winning touchdown. This is the interception as we all know, uh,
John Dottson's going to be as as I targeted up top,
We'll see him player snapped. This is forget who asked it.
But this isn't RPL as you can see. And that's
the first thing here, Like the line is run blocking.
As you can see. The key defender right here is
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Khalil Mack. All right, Loue Mack on the edge. Hurts
is supposed to read him mac is is his eyes
are on the quarterback. His eyes are on Hurt. Hurts
should have given this to saqu This this should have
been a run first of all. Okay, And that's the
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thing where it hurts, Like when it comes to r
p O's he doesn't always make the right read, make
the correct read that needs to be there. So this
this should have been a run by Saku, right, but no,
Hurt is gonna pull it now. He's gonna pull it
and try to throw it. Now, I this you're you're
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gonna have another high low concept here. Okay. So here's Godard,
he's in the flat and dots it's gonna run kind
of like a sail on top of it, right this
hole right here on top but over top of the corner.
Who's in the flat and this and underneath the safety
who's over top right, So that's the window Now I
talked about before when Hurts is anticipating that defender right,
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who's committing to the control route right, the underneath route.
He he did such a great job of it on
the previous play, but here he gets baited. And let
me say this, like it was a phenomenal play by
the defense. Okay, so not only like I circled it
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here as you can see, like Khalil Mack is right
on Jalen, Okay, because he was reading Jalen the whole time, right,
So he's right on Jailen. So he does pressure Jailen
to get rid of the ball, and you could argue
make an inaccurate pass. But who's at Kim Hart, Yeah,
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Kim Heart, the corner who's supposed to have the flat
He instead of committing to Gardar, he does a really
phenomenal job of reading this. He is going to actually
pull back and that's what allows him to get a
hand on the deflection or get a hand on the
ball deflected, and then the safety Tony Jefferson is able
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to pick it off. So I understand what Hurts was
looking at and what he was trying to do. It
was it was a great play by the defense. I
get what Hurts was looking at in this type of situation.
First and ten during the red zone the charger seventeen,
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you've got to have better You've got to have better awareness,
like the decision making on this. You have to be
very careful live to play another down because you have
a lot of time, you have the downs needed. So
that's unfortunately, that's what happened. And it's like I I wish,
(31:44):
I wish he could have scored a touchdown here too,
because if he had scored a game winning touchdown jalone
Hurts on this offense, this would have been like this
would have not totally a race, but it would have
made up for all the struggles before early in the game.
And it's it's tough to see, you know, it's unfortunate
(32:05):
that we had those, you know. But again, like I
said earlier, really really bad game from Jalen, and I
wanted to see that touchdown drive. I want to apologies.
(34:08):
I had some technical difficulties. Apologies, thank you for sticking
with me here. I had some issues with my mic
and cam, so I just reverted back to my other
camera and my other mike. Yeah, Greg, sorry, it was
technical difficulties with my mic and my camera, so I
was like scrambling to just get back to the thing. So, yeah,
(34:29):
sorry about that. But yeah, it's as I was saying, Oh, yeah,
the hurts be better. He's got to be better than
the situation. I think he knows that. I think he
knows that. So the last thing I want to talk about, right,
the last thing I want to say, we're regarding the Eagles. Okay,
(34:49):
the last thing I'll say here is that I said earlier,
how I do have some optimism when it comes to
the offense moving forward because we saw some good things Schematically,
Do I think it's going to be enough. Do I
think they can fix enough to repeat again? I don't
(35:13):
think so. If I'm gonna be honest, I don't think.
I think there are way too many issues overall for
this offense to to get back to the super Bowl
and repeat and going again. And I hate saying that,
but that's just being realistic. Looking at the other NFC team,
especially the Rams, like I just there's too many things
(35:35):
to fix. But looking at this film, and you know,
sitting on it and looking at the situation, I still
do think that if you just expectations, I think there's
still definitely hope to absolutely win a division, win the
NFC East, and to also come away with come away
(35:57):
with like a playoff game, win you know, in the
first round, maybe second round. But I think that there
are things that can be fixed enough to where we
can still win a playoff game. I'm gonna go actually
down the list. I've made a list of all two lists,
two different categories. Things I don't see getting fixed this
season and things that I have some hope will get fixed.
(36:21):
All right, So the first thing things I don't see
getting fixed this season, I don't think the offensive line
run blocking is gonna improve whatsoever. Well, I'll say, with
Lane Johnson coming back, I think it can improve, but
that's not saying much because it's been so bad. I
don't think it's gonna ever get to the point where
it's going to it's going to enable this run game
(36:45):
to be dominant like last year or even really really good.
I don't see the run blocking getting to the point
where the run game is dominant again. Snapping the ball
late in the play clock, I don't see that. For
some reason, that's a thing we've it was, it's been
a thing for years, but it's so bad this year.
(37:06):
I don't know why, So I don't I don't see
that going away. I don't see that going away. Uh,
sequencing plays to where they build off the success of
one play, that's a thing that comes with experience, and
you know detail and knowing what buttons to push when
and how to design certain concepts to build off each other,
(37:29):
and you know what's working what's not working. That A
lot of that comes with experience. So I don't see
Petullo fixing that or getting better at sequencing talking about that.
This kind of like bleeds into the next one. But
marrying the run in pass game, like having looks where
it's you have a formation and you have a look
(37:51):
where you're you're running the ball out of it, but
then a few plays later you're passing out of it.
We don't see that, and I don't I don't expect
it at any point. And then the last thing is
more creative run concepts. I don't you look at at
run games. I mean, we've played the Bears and we
highlighted their run concepts are are so good. They're so good.
(38:13):
I don't see any of any anything like that happening
this season. I mean, it's never been really creative, but
I think last year we saw some form of creativity,
but I'm not enough to where I think it can
help the run game be dominant now. Things I have
some hope will get fixed this season. A lot of
(38:35):
stuff is things I already mentioned that we've seen against
the Chargers that I think can persist. Working more from
under center. We were having success with it. Do a
little bit more, have it, have it be part of
your foundation. Utilizing more under center play action, which for
(38:57):
the most part has has worked this or when we
we've gone to it. Continue using three more uh three
man route concepts. Keep doing that high low, all that stuff,
attacking the intermediate and deep levels, which I said, accessing
the middle of the field. I know that it's riskier
in the middle of the field, and especially against the Chargers,
(39:20):
it didn't work it, you know, hurtside the interception, but
you got to keep doing it. You got to keep
doing it at least a few times a game. Uh.
Less hits routes, which we saw right and then last
which I really really hope they fixed. Less penalties, just
stop committing so many penalties. Stop. Uh So those are
(39:43):
the things I think can be fixed. And have hope
will get fixed the season. Let's hope we continue to
see some stuff then you know that we can build
off of let go to lazy booking by hey, hey,
what's going on? Man? Uh? Jalen's only only only got
(40:06):
like two to five seconds to read the defense before
he has to snap it. Lately, I don't know why
the huddle takings along. I don't know why we keep
wondering this. Why it's so late, like it's not even
five seconds? Is being general or generous two seconds like
two seconds or one second? And you're at such a
disadvantage when you're doing that because the defense can read
(40:28):
that and time they're they're get off with that. And
what's even more frustrating is they're breaking the huddle so late.
So when you're bringing the hudder get into the line late,
that makes less That gives you less of an opportunity
to read the defense and make adjustments and make calls
like I don't. And that's part of the reason why
(40:50):
when we go no huddle, we've been better going no
huddle because it gives Jalen time to read what's there
and make adjustments. So, yeah, I wish I had an
answer for you. I don't know why why. That's the thing.
Defense thirty two says, only chance is that they build
momentum and gain confidence over the next few weeks with
(41:10):
easier schedule, And yeah, that's that's a big ask. But
you know, if there's going to be a game where
you can use as a get right game and build
a momentum, the Sunday against the Raiders is is a
good start, right, It's a good start. A fraud thirty
one says, isn't breaking the huddle on KP though he
has to give give the play called young, Yeah, it
(41:30):
is on KP and systematically like that's something you could
also put on the head coach on Sirianni because if
he sees this, he's got to say, hey, like we
gotta we gotta be quicker. But it's so lacks the daisical,
the operation is so lackadaisical. I don't know, I don't
know why. I don't know why. Uh So that's Egostock
(41:51):
forty minutes on ego Stock. I know that's you know,
we didn't have an Egostock show on Monday because it
was so late and we had people think. So I
wanted to definitely dive into some talk about some of
that game. If you got any more comments or questions,
definitely to or send them in the chat. I will
definitely answer them and and get to any questions you had.
(42:14):
A defense he too. At least they stopped lead blocking
with colter kaal Katara was still on there in someplace.
I it's driving me nuts, but man like less Kalka Terra,
please please stop with the with Kakatara, leave blocking. I
don't I can't stand it. I cannot stand it. So yeah,
I want to also get into the other game that
(42:34):
was phenomenal Bears Packers and it had NFC implications. The
Packers come out on top twenty one eight, and it
was a phenomenal game. It didn't look that way in
the first half. It looked like the it could. It
was on its way to being a route. But the
Bears came out the second half and Ben Johnson is
(42:56):
so he is so good adjustments and that's why in
the second half the Bears came out prepared and they
they were running the ball on the Packers just a
yardage off. The yard is just consistently grinding them down,
grinding that defense down, and it turned into such a
(43:16):
slugfest between two NFC North ryvals. I was so entertained.
I loved it so much so I wanted to go
and break down someplace toward the end. But I said this,
I think I said it in the last week's show
that this is another example they Jayden Reid came back
for the Packers and his presence was already felt as
(43:39):
like the yak guy. He's going to add an element
of yak that the Packers don't or you know, lost
with Tucker Kraft out. And I've said Tucker Kraft is
like their best skip position player. Jada Ree coming back
is huge for them, absolutely huge. I just saw this
a front of thirty one. Well, Caleb isn't better than Herts,
but they still got him running a complex office offense. Yeah,
(44:02):
I mean they they do. And that's why, like I
don't understand with whether it's not like with with Caleb Williams.
He's got physical tools where he can make some throws
that Hurts just cannot like he Caleb Williams has a
(44:23):
canon like when you watch him throw the ball, it's
it comes out of his hand, so with such velocity velocity,
it's it's so impressive and he can I've said it
before that Caleb Williams leads the league in sack of
Wollams like. He's so elusive. He's he's like a magician
back there. So there are throws that Caleb can make
(44:46):
that Hurts cannot because of Caleb's Caleb just has such
better arm talent that that Hurts has. Hurts is more accurate. Yeah,
the one thing of Caleb's game that is probably the
biggest drawback right now is his lack of accuracy. You know,
Caleb is not accurate and he's so inconsistent when it
(45:06):
comes to that. So he's got to work on that.
It can get better accurate. No, don't let anyone tell
you that a quarterback cannot get cannot improve their accuracy.
They absolutely can. So Caleb can can do that. When
we were talking about you know, the Packers, Jordan Love
was inaccurate when he first came in, a very inaccurate quarterback,
(45:27):
and he's improved his accuracy. Jalen Hurts at the same
time too, with timing, and Jalen Hurts had to adjust
his his timing and and speed up his anticipation. And
we've seen him and we've seen him work on that
and get better. So hey, don Don, Yeah, it's been
a minute man, how are you hope you're doing well?
Sorry about your Lions, you know, but but thank you
(45:50):
Lions for beating the Cowboys. That was that was huge,
don Don. You're not gonna like the topic I have,
right I'm talking about right now, we're talking about the
Packers and Bears, So I apologize, But yeah, Caleb makes
throws that Jalen Hurts can just can't, and so that
opens that opens things up for Caleb to do certain
things schematically that you can't with with Hurts. So that's
(46:16):
that's part of the equation there. But yeah, the Packers
that they they have, they're starting to click and Matt
Lafour is starting to really really you know, let loose
on calling an aggressive game plan and making sure Jordan
Love continues to attack downfield. And that showed every time,
like the Bears would have you know, one of their
(46:39):
touchdown drives or they're you know running you know, running
the ball down the Packer's throats, the Packers got the
ball back and just immediately like chunk play in the
passing game. It was it was fun to see offenses
with two different styles. You know, go at it. It
was It was a lot of fun. So the Packers
(47:00):
are going to be a team to be reckoned with.
And it's taken a while. I don't know why people
are so reluctant for or reluctant to buy in on
the Packers. But as I've said on this show, like,
the Packers are legit, and Jordan Love has been consistently
good all year. Like He's had his bad games, but
if you look at if you look at overall, like
(47:22):
for the most part, Jordan Love has been consistently good,
consistently good, and I think this narrative that he's inconsistent
needs to just go away because he's been really good.
For the Packers, they are absolutely a contender. Uh dond nass.
Do you believe whoever comes out of the NFC will
win the Super Bowl? I'd have to put my money
(47:44):
on yes, because I think the NFC has been has
stronger teams the AFC. I think the best team in
the AFC. A lot of people will say the Patriots,
and I think that's if you want to argue Patriots,
that's fine. I think I think the Bills, even though
(48:06):
they are still flawed. I think they they know that
this is the opportunity for them to to you know,
with the Chiefs out of there, the Ravens out of there,
this is their best chance to come out of the
AFC and get to that Super Bowl. So I think
they're driven and I think Josh Allen is is back
to playing really really good ball. So I would have
(48:28):
to pick them. But if you look at them compared
to like a team like the Rams, like, the Rams
have much more completely than the Bills, the Bills like
they their defense is just not hard to have any
faith in that defense. And on the offensive side, their
passing game can still go through lulls because they don't
have a go to receiving option. The only time there
(48:52):
their passing game can click is if Josh Allen works magic.
Other than that, on offense, it's it's it's there. They
have a dominant run game which they should lean on.
They should be a run for his team. But again
that's what I'm saying, Like, in terms of a more
complete team, the Rams are a more complete team. In
terms of a more complete team, the Seahawks are more
(49:14):
complete team than the Bills. The issue is they have
Sam Donald compared to Josh Allen, So I get that.
But if you're looking just you know, roster and team overall, yeah,
it's it's the Seahawks have a more complete team if
they can get their run game with Walker and Charbs
to be more consistent and effective. Especially with Walker, I
(49:34):
think he deserves more carries and more touches. I think
that run game can start clicking enough to put less
pressure on Donald. But we have to see, you know,
because we all know like Donald can, he's susceptible to
having really bad turnovers and that's nothing new. So oh yeah,
(49:54):
that's to answer your question, Donal. Yeah, but the Packers Bears,
I wanted to get to some someplaces. So I mean
toward the end of the game, all right, Packers Bears,
they they had the Bears had I believe this is
the third and one. Yeah, third and one play, okay,
and third and one they're gonna run the ball. Uh,
(50:15):
the Bears are gonna run the ball here on third
and one late in the game. They're trying to pick
up the first down, right, and they're gonna run it
up the middle with Mnong Guy. And if you've seen
Manong Guy, he is like he is my friend who
covers the packers. He he called he called Manonguy a
buzz saw with legs like he's so so much power
(50:36):
and we saw that in this game. There's there's a
clip of him. He absolutely runs over Edgerden Cooper like pop,
like it's it's so impressive. Why did he get stuffed
on this run though? For no no gate And I'll
show you why. So on this run bears up the
middle like I said, they're gonna give it to Manong
guy before there you go. So we guys here, now
(51:00):
I want you to see boom so that he gets
stuffed with zero yards. Now I'm gonna zoom in here
the edge defender, Uh what's his name again? Sorry? Uh?
The defensive end here, it's that is Anigbari, Yeah, defensive.
(51:22):
He's gonna come in and he's gonna be the one
that stuffs calm Aong guy. Why does that happen? Because
as you can see here with Manong Guy, he has
to get around this. You know, these these blocks right
this garbage here at the line of scrimmage and I'm
gonna I'm gonna rewind it when he had with him
(51:43):
having to get around that. He has to get skinny
and look at his frame. He he's not able to
get low like he usually does when he's able to
deliver that power. Right when you when you're running back,
you know that's saying low man wins. Right, You're able
(52:04):
to get low to be able to have that leverage
and deliver that power from your base. But because Manungui
has to get around this traffic here, he has to
be upright. Did you look at him here? You see
that he has to be upright. And because he's upright,
when aig Bare comes in and lays a hit, he's
(52:26):
not able to fall forward. Okay, so that's what happens.
That's the whole reason Whynng guy gets stopped for a
powerful running back. It doesn't matter what your frame is.
If you don't have that leverage coming through the line
of scrimmage, you're going to get driven back. And so
awesome play by the defensive end Enigbari here, which sets
(52:48):
up again no gain and this goes through fourth and one. Right,
So now that leads to the Bears final play. Now,
before we get to it, let's go back to the
previous week. Bears at the end of the game against
the Eagles, They're gonna call this play. This was the
nail and the coffin play. This was the play action
(53:10):
past the cole Comet right, play action, Comet deep touchdown,
game over. Okay, Bears go up twenty three, twenty three nine. Ah,
the Bears against the Packers. They're gonna call the same play,
same concept and were you're gonna see here comet, I
highlight him, I having circle targeted play action and there
(53:33):
you go. See Now here's the difference. Okay, and I'll
get to what a lot of people were kind of
you no, you know, criticizing Caleb for. But let me
get to this first. Okay, So play action. There's Comet,
he is, this is now when he's open. He is open.
Caleb has to pull the trigger. Now he's got the window.
(53:58):
Throw it now, But Caleb doesn't. He waits for it
seems like another one or two seconds. By the time
he lets it go. Nixon is able to get back
into the picture. But even here's the thing. Even if
he threw it at that point, if this ball is
(54:19):
put or placed toward the back line of the end
zone more, Nixon still won't be able to make a play.
On the ball like he does there. If this is
again place it towards more, towards the back line, Comet
still comes down with this, I believe. I think there's
a very good chance Comet still comes down with this ball.
(54:40):
But not only is the throw late, but it's underthrown.
And that's what happens, and that's why the pick is
thrown and game over. Now. A lot of a lot
of people criticize Caleb also saying he had DJ Moore.
I I don't agree with that sentiment. One the read
(55:03):
is Cole Cobet. Okay, that's the read. Okay, So with
co Comet being opened right here, the decision to throw
to Comet is the right decision. Okay, that's he makes
the right choice. Now he's the balls on the throne,
like I said, and it's late. That's that's the problem.
(55:24):
But the decision, the choice, the read is correct. That's fine.
If you want to look at DJ Moore, he doesn't
uncover like this is. He's back here, right, So Caleb's
gonna choose to throw more doesn't uncover like he's If
(55:45):
you want to say, oh he's open, he's open. He's open.
The defender here is in that lane, So Caleb would
have had to change his angle and work around that
defender to kind of squeeze that into this window here.
Now I've heard people say he should have waited, he
should have waited. No, like by the time. Again, Caleb
(56:05):
is under pressure too. You've got he's got defenders coming
at him. He doesn't have time to just wait and wait. Okay,
So if he waits for until DJ Moore gets open,
that's that might be too late for him to to
make that throw. And again he's he would have to
change his angle to work around the Packers defender. So
(56:27):
again I don't I this is on Caleb for making
a late throw and an inaccurate throw. I don't think
this is on Caleb for not throwing djmore. That's the
easy Madden take on it. If you're playing Mad and
you say he just start your open receiver, that's not
how it works. As as I've said so many times,
(56:48):
it's it's so easy to just say you throw it open. No,
you have to think of reeds. Is the first read,
the initial read, he's open, Go go with him, throw
the ballot him. It's just late and it's underthrown and
intercept so another example of just's gotta play on time
and with better accuracy. But I don't criticize him for
(57:12):
not throwing the djmore. I have no problem with him
throwing to comment on that play. So that's that's my
two cents. I know people will disagree, but that's how
I see it. But Bears, despite the loss, they're playing
really really well, and I think they're going to They're
they're on borrow. I mean they're they're on house money, right,
(57:32):
house money. They they've already exceeded expectations that most people had,
so they're playing really well. And I love seeing the
development of Caleb Williams and seeing what they can what
this offense can do under Ben Johnson. That defense defense
is bad, it's been a little bit better. The only
thing that defense hangs there had on is turnovers, and
(57:54):
they generated turnovers. They lead the league in takeaways, so
if somehow they can keep it up and then and
takeaways sometimes it's volatile. So that's why I like, no
if you'm depending on takeaways, but if they can keep
taking the ball away, that's going to go a long
way into helping them make noise in the playoffs and
and come away with with a winner too, so awesome
(58:16):
stuff Bears Packers and we get to see it in
a few weeks again. I'm gonna be watching that with
so much excitement. Uh. Donnan says, I kind of like
the Panthers. I hope the Panthers win the NFC South.
I really really hope they do. I think they have
so much, so much moxie, and I'm rooting for Bryce
(58:40):
Young and the run game is awesome and the Bucks
are reeling, so I am room rooting for the Panthers
to win this. So I have for no huddle. I
had a couple of topics, but I kind of for
a second week in a row, I kind of wanted
to wait on it because I wanted to discuss it
(59:03):
with Pete. So I think I'm gonna wait till next week.
I'll mention it so you guys can. If you guys
want to tune in next weekend you're a discussion on it,
you can. But the Chiefs with the loss, their loss
to the Texans, they're pretty much out. Uh. I really
(59:25):
like the Texans what they're doing. They have that winning
streak going. I hope they they win the AFC South.
But yeah, the Chiefs all but pretty much like eliminated
from the playoffs, and it's just it just goes to
show that the Super Bowl hangover is a real thing,
Like this is this is with the Chiefs, you know.
I think there's a lot of stuff that you're gonna
(59:46):
have to do this offseason, and I'll dive more into
it next week with Pete, but I think they have
to do a lot of self reflection two realize what
they have to change in their roster building and their philosophy.
Things have caught up to them. Travis Kelce, I think
I thought it was like kind of kind of uh,
(01:00:10):
what's what's the word it it? It figures I can't
think of the word I'm looking for. Poetic. I guess
that the game was pretty much sealed on that interception
because when it was an inaccurate past by by Mahomes,
(01:00:31):
but then Kelsey dropped it and we usually see Kelsey
made those type of catches, right, but he's unable to
make the catch, bobbles it and it leads to an interception.
It's kind of poetic that the chief season essentially ends
on a play like that. Two guys involved that have
been you know, that connection that dual of Mahomes of
(01:00:54):
Kelsey has been one of the best duos we've seen,
one of the best handems we've seen. So yeah, it's
it's crazy. It's crazy. Who knows what Kelsey's gonna do.
I don't know. Like he's clearly way, he's clearly I
don't want to say way, but he's clearly passed his prime.
(01:01:14):
It'll be interesting to see what the Chiefs do this offseason,
and we'll have a lot of discussions about that as
we get to the offseason. But yeah, Chiefs are out.
That's crazy to see. And it remains to be seeing
what the Super Bowl winner, the Eagles, they do as
they face also a Super Bowl hangover. Are they going
to collapse? Are they going to bounce back? We shall see.
(01:01:36):
But that pretty much wraps it up for me. Guys
in the chat, I appreciate it. Thank you so much
for keeping me company and keeping this chat active and
tuning in. Like you know, with these solo shows, it's
it's it can sometimes be tough. But you guys, when
you tune in and you you contribute to the conversation,
I it makes my job easier. It makes my job
(01:01:56):
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The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.