Ep.574: Have the Rams FIXED their red zone offense?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, guys, welcome back to Downtown Rams. As always,
I am Alexis Kraft. Join here with my co host
Jake ellen Bogan, and we are coming to you live
tonight to recap our rams thirty five to seven win
over the Jacksonville Jaguars in London. The Rams went overseas
to the UK to take on the Jaguars. It was

(00:23):
story of the week. We all woke up really early
to watch them, some of us earlier than others. Jake
and I are a little bit later East Coast and
Central time, so we didn't have to wake up as
early as our friends on the West Coast to watch
this football game. But regardless, we all woke up early.
We ate our breakfast and drank our coffee watching the
Rams play football. And Jake, it was a great game

(00:44):
to wake up early. Four certainly no regrets. What don't
regret it either way, but it's certainly as much sweeter
seeing the show that the Rams put on that early.
I mean, just almost complete dominance over a really good
Jacksonville Jaguars team, a team that you and I both
gave a lot of praise too, rightfully so, a team
that's played pretty well this season. You know, it was

(01:05):
both of us were foreign too going into this game
over in London. Uh, it was certainly a matchup. I
think that a lot of football fans were excited to
watch and the Rams surprised. You know. I think that
the Rams came out and you know, some people took
the Rams to win, but nobody was taking the Rams
to blow out the Jaguars. I mean, that's that wasn't
reported anywhere. I mean, Jake, this game was so fun

(01:28):
to watch. There's so much to talk about. But overall,
you know, what were your thoughts on this, because I
just thought it was a fantastic game start to finish.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, no, I thought, well, my first thought was I'm
glad you changed your mind about them winning. But but no,
I'll jokes aside. I thought this was the most important
game of the year because it showed the Rams ability
to travel long distance, not as long distance as it

(02:02):
would have been, but travel adjust, you know, react and like,
you know, you're assessing all these different things that have
happened over the course of the year and you actually
like rectified it. And I thought, like the red zone offense,
I mean that was just amazing. Four for four, big
touchdown to Terrence Ferguson. We finally get it. We get

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one mumfield which I called, you called the Ferguson one.
DeVante Adams, who is one of the best, if not
the best, contested catch guy in the league when he's on,
he hasn't been this year, looked like he was in
this game. So just a lot of really good things.
I mean, I was saying this on Twitter. I don't

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know how many people realize it. The Rams defense right
now has allowed fewer points than the Rams defense did
in the Super Bowl season, which I'm sure that you realize,
but they've also scored more points. The Rams offense has
than the Super Bowls and Rams through seven games in
twenty twenty one. So I think right now we're looking

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at a team that in a year full of parody
and no one knowing who is actually good and who's bad,
who's amazing. I don't think there's anybody that's amazing yet.
But I think this was a huge step in the
right direction because people, you know, will say, now, all
the Jags aren't good, right, but they were good when
they beat the Chiefs, and oh that was a really

(03:26):
good win by the Seahawks. Last week when they held
the Jags to twelve points. But now the Rams do
something against them in front of everybody, and it's, oh,
the Jags just might not be that good. I don't
subscribe to that. I think the Jags are a good
football team. I think the Rams just punched him in
the mouth consistently. And to be fair, they had every
opportunity to keep this a close game. If they just

(03:46):
kicked field goals. It's not to say that they would
have won the game. But going for on fourth down
six times in this game, they only came away with
it twice. I mean, that's what happens. So you know,
at the same time, I thought the score was a
little misleading. I thought the Rams could one by more.
But I think it kind of goes to show you.
I mean, that's just how it went down. And you
got to credit the Rams because you know, the Jaguars

(04:07):
were in London for a while and that was all
the media was rolling with. Right, it's, oh, Jacksonville, they're
in London, they're getting ready in the Rams or whatever reason.
They're staying in Baltimore. They're doing their practice at a
baseball field. I don't know if that's smart, and then
I saw people, you know, kind of criticizing them for

(04:28):
throwing off a mound and not taking it seriously. And
then they go and they handle business overseas. So great
win by the Rams, great win by Sean McVay, great win.
Just everything I thought really came together in this one.
There are some things they got to clean up, and
I'm sure we'll discuss that special teams, but to go
into the buy at five and two, they went in

(04:49):
the buy the year they won the Super Bowl at
six and one, I feel really good about the team
moving forward.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, it was I agree with you and all that,
and you know, like I mentioned earlier, I think it
was a majority a great game from the Rams. Obviously
some things, you know, to clean up, but you look
at thirty five to seven, you can't complain too much, right,
I mean, it was absolute dominant performance, especially with the
way that the defense played. I feel like the defense
gets a lot of credit.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
You know.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
I think everybody is kind of talking about the Rams
offense this game because the Rams offense has had a
lot to prove, you know, going into this game, there's
been you know, basically three targets that have been reliable
for Stafford, it was pukin Aqua DeVante Adams, which was
on and off to be quite frank until this game.

(05:36):
But in theory, you know, DeVante Adams and Kien Williams.
Other than that, we weren't really seeing anybody who was
able to do anything on offense, you know, for Stafford.
And there's a lot of red zone concerns, right, and
a lot of question around how are the Rams going
to spread the ball going forward? Right? You can't just
keep focusing on pukin Akua. You're gonna have to diversify

(05:58):
who you're throwing the ball to. So we go into
the game this week, pokin Aku was injured, right, and
so the question then becomes what are the Rams gonna do?
What are the Rams gonna do? Well, they showed us
it kind of in a way, Jake, you know, pukin
Akua being injured forced the Rams to do what we've
all been wanting them to do, which is kind of
the irony of the situation. Is Okay, pukin Aku is

(06:19):
no longer an option. Now you're gonna have to start
throwing to some of these guys that you don't normally
throw to. And obviously Devonte Adams ended up having three touchdowns,
so it was very clear who wide receiver one is
in Pukinuku's absence, and he's great and Adams is, you know,
still a great receiver in this league. It's so funny
to see, you know how people thought he was washed
or whatever. Right, Yeah, so you know, you look at

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who Stafford you know, started getting involved. You look at
all the tight ends, look at all the tight end action.
It was like We've been starving for tight ends to
get involved, like for the season, and then we got
like every single we got four tight ends involved in
one game. It was just like overstimulation with how much
like we were seeing. Like it felt like what team

(07:08):
was I thinking of other Steelers or another team that
I feel like have like forty tight ends. We watched
that Thursday night football game and I'm like, why are they?
How do they have like six tight ends that Aaron
Rodgers is out here throwing too. But it felt like
the Rams did that on Sunday. You know, you saw
Kobe Parkinson get involved. You know, Davis Allen even got
a little bit of action. Obviously, Tyler Higbee was evolved

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quite a bit, and then Terence Ferguson, the rookie that
we have all been dying to see get involved, particularly
in the red zone. We've been wanting him involved, and
he didn't even get a touchdown in the red zone,
which is the irony of it. He got his touchdown
on a ballsy fourth and one play to the end zone,

(07:49):
which was just immaculate. I can't stop thinking about it.
I tweeted the video out last night. It was just
kind of like, I keep thinking about this amazing and
t fer basically showed us that he is who we
thought he is, right like, he made the big play.
He's a receiving tight end. He's available. Now. We can

(08:09):
only pray going forward that McVeigh keeps utilizing him that way,
and I think that he will. I think that, you know,
after that game, it's going to be hard to deny
the impact that Ferguson can bring to this offense. But Jake, yeah,
I just think that, you know, there was a lot
of narratives answered with this about the Rams offense, and

(08:30):
I think it probably is fair to say it might
have even surprised them a little bit because, like I said,
you take Puka Nukua away, you know, he's been that
option for you this season. Now he's just not available.
He's injured, right, and so you kind of have to
look at what can we do now that he's out
of the game. You look at the run game, which
was somewhat utilized. Probably you could argue it could have

(08:52):
been utilized a little bit more. I thought Jacksonville did
a pretty good job though, to be honest, and stuffing
the run. I mean, you did see Khiroen breakthrough for
you know a couple you know, ten yard games or
you know that, but it wasn't as hot as it
typically is. But also we didn't need it to be
right because we showed that we could get the ball
out in the receiving game, in the passing game could

(09:14):
be fresh. I mean, you had your quarterback throw for
five touchdowns. So I can't really complain about a lack
of a run game there if the pass game is
working so well, right. So Yeah, I just I really
loved what we saw from this Rams offense. And my
hope is that after the bye, even when Pukunukua comes back,
McVeigh sees these options that he has and we continue

(09:34):
to kind of spread the ball out going forward.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, No, I agree completely with that, and you know,
I want to say something about like the Kiraen Williams carries.
I didn't really like the fifty to fifty split, but
I do feel like we went into this game with
you and I saying, this isn't going to be a
run game, this isn't going to be a Kien Williams game.
They're going to throw the football, and even though it
was rainy, they were still throwing the football. What I

(10:00):
want to address because I saw a lot of people
saying like, oh, yeah, the yards weren't great, and I
think people are way too focused on their fantasy football teams,
if I'm being honest and not giving unbiased analysis when
it comes to that. But when your defense dominates the
way they did, when you just absolutely impose your will,

(10:21):
you're getting field possession. Like think about this, You're getting
field positioned. That's like at the fifty, at the forty,
there's not gonna be a lot of yards. That was
what we saw. They just there wasn't a lot of
There wasn't a lot of yards. And so that's why Stafford,
while it looks like he threw over three hundred in
this game, he didn't He threw one hundred and eighty

(10:43):
two and he relinquished first place in the passing yards
this week in the league. I think he'll live because
he also leads the league in touchdowns pending Tonight's two games.
Five touchdowns in this game, all time record international game
seventeen on the year, two interceptions. I mean, I just

(11:06):
think that I understand, like with the yards, like people
wanted more and everything. But I think because of how
this game went and the fourth downs and the stops
and the defensive domination, all that field position being so positive,
it took two two at Well out of this game.
Not a lot of field to have to stretch when
you're a constantly at like the forty. I also think

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too too out Well wasn't healthy, so I think that
they had him in case they needed him. But that's
why we saw two catches for Xavier Smith and three targets,
whereas two two didn't even have a target. But this
is the most a RAMS quarterback has spread the ball
out since Nick Foles in twenty fifteen. And you know
who was part of those those that I just basically

(11:53):
I guessed yesterday Blaine reached out to me. He asked
me and I actually guessed all of them off the
top of my head. Do you know who was part
of that? There's one name in particular that like you
would never expect. Okay, actually, i'm gonna ask you. I'm
gonna put you on the spot, Alexis you name him
twenty fifteen?

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Well, I have to be totally honest. I briefly saw
that tweet so and I don't remember all of it,
but it was, I mean, Tavon Austin, right, was it
like Brian Quick, Jared Cook Marquez?

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yes, yes, you're right.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Okay, so I started with Tavon Austin. This was twenty fifteen.
It's not Givens. I'm way off. Givens was way before.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
No, Gibvens was on the fifteen roster, but for like
three games. I think they traded him. He wasn't on
this though.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
No, Okay, it would be like Wes Welker.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yes, that's the one, by the way, that's like bes Welker, Like, yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
So, how many how many I'm at? I'm at five?
So let me go back to twenty fifteen. Ooh, this
is hard.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
It's weird have to go through that.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
I'm gonna have to go through. It's I'm missing a
tight end because I had Jared Cook. But who's the
I can picture him other tight end?

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Shoot, do you want to hint?

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, give me a hint.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Eighty eight.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's not helping me.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
What uh?

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Because it's not Everett because this is before Everett.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Wad Kendrick.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Oh, Derreon Kendrick.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
No, no, no, it's not Kendrick. Sorry now, Lance Kendricks.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Oh yeah, duh, Oh my god, Lance Kendricks also, real quick,
am I Gerald? Everett was a Saint Louis ram right
his firky season. Oh he was drafted in LA.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
He was first draft pick.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Okay, I'm totally off. So Lance Kendricks saw, I'm at six.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, we'll give you the Lance Kendricks.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well, no, I'm really a five. So who are the
Who are the other ones?

Speaker 2 (13:58):
So the other ones were you said Jared Cook? Right?

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Oh? Wait, would be Stebling and Bailey. Nope, but he
was on that team.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
He was, but he was not one of the The
other players are Benny Cunningham, Todd Gurley, and Trey Mason.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Oh how did I forget Gurley and Mason? I was
not even thinking about running backs.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
All of them Kenny Britt, Brian Quick, Tavon, Austin, Oh,
did you say Kenny Britt? I don't think he did.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Didn't I didn't say Britt, so it would.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Have been yeah, Kenny Britt, Brian Quick, Tavon Austin, Trey Mason,
Todd Gurley, Lance Kendricks, Jared Cook, Wes Welker, Benny Cunningham,
and Bradley Marquez. Good lord, what a poll like? I
can't even I guess that off the top of my head.
I still don't know how. But this, this will be
a This will probably be some trivia questions someday. So guys,

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remember this.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Remember it.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Coolby Parkinson was the leading pass catcher this week forty
seven yards, our friend Colby So, Colby Parkinson, Davante Adams,
Terrence Ferguson, Tyler Higbee, Xavier Smith, Kyron Williams, Jordan Winnington,
Blake Krum, Kanate Mumfield, and Davis Allen. That is wild.

(15:17):
That is I'm telling you that's going to be a
trivia question someday.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
It probably And again it's just wild that there's four
tight ends involved.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, I know, it's it's insane. And then the running
backs for the nick Foles one with Todd Gurley, Trey Mason,
and yeah Cunningham. I'm sure somebody would have been like, oh,
Zach Stacy, but he never played with the Rams. He
played with he never played Gurley because the day Gurley
got picked up, yeah, he was, he like called his

(15:48):
agent or whatever and he's like, oh, it's like I
want out.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
This is when they were he and he was on
Twitter when we drafted Gurley and he tweeted.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yikes, yes that I really forget that.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
I remember seeing that come across like by feet of
rubber back in twenty fourteen fifteen wherever that draft was,
and I just was like, uh oh crazy, Yeah, I
mean I forgot, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
I missed. I Trey Mason play man.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
He like, yeah, I liked Mason when he.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Was Yeah, no, I did too.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Because it was him. And it was like because I
remember there was like kind of an argument was it
him and State? It was originally him and Stacey was
the argument. And I was always a Trey Mason girl,
like I was like.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Watching I love him both because I was like, Zach
Stacy's your bowling ball and then Trey Mason shifty where
he's just going to House one for you know, seventy
yards or whatever. And I thought the Raiders game really
encapsulated that. But you know, the thing that was really
surprising about this game, in Particularlexis, was the lack of turnovers.

(16:53):
I had Trevor Lawrence throwing three picks. I could not
have been more wrong. I thought Lawrence, I am the least.
I am not high on him at all, and it
is not a secret. I think he was overrated from
the get go, and if I was a Jacksonville fan,
I'd be hoping they trade him that set. I thought
Lawrence in the I don't know how cold it was,

(17:14):
but in the pouring rain against this Rams defense that
had seven sacks and pressured him thirty four times, I
thought he took care of the ball pretty well. I do.
I mean there were times you know he had you know,
could have been an interception here and there, but I
thought he did a decent job of taking care of
the football, held on to the football. I mean, I
don't know how that happened, but the only fumble in

(17:37):
this game was a Hunter long fumble that happened out
of bounds like almost immediately like Blanke and you'll miss it.
Type of fumble that was it, Alexis, No running backs
dropped the ball, No, none of that. There were drops.
There were absolutely drops, but yeah, pretty pretty nuts when
you think about it.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
So well, Yeah, in that weather especially, it was like
kind of like it would have been a no brainer
for some yels or whatever. And yeah, no, I was
surprised too, especially because you know, when we were previewing
this game and Trevor Lawrence and I'm not that high
on Trevor Lawrence either. I've gone I've had a roller
coaster with Trevor Lawrence. I wasn't high on him during

(18:18):
the draft, as you know, because you weren't either. I
thought he was really overrated. Then I thought he was
kind of bad, and then he kind of and then
he kind of armed my respect. I thought he was
getting better. Now I'm kind of like, I don't. I
think he panics too much. And when we were previewing
this game, something that we talked about is like we
felt the key was to put the pressure on Trevor
Lawrence because he absolutely will throw in completions, throw interceptions right,

(18:39):
he would get rattled and he did those things. He
just didn't throw the interceptions. But you know what, something
weird has to happen in these London games, right, we
talked about it. There always has to be something that
doesn't make sense. This one lack of turnovers in the rain,
we'll call it that. If that's the most surprising thing
that happened, trust, thirty five to seven. Ising, But like,

(19:00):
I also, you know, want to give like I don't
want to use that as like to people who don't
like the Rams, They're like, oh, well, you know, I'm
not in theory surprised.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Well, what was the most surprising part of it? Thirty
five to seven? If you told me the Rams beat
the Jaguars thirty five to seven before the game started,
they're gonna win thirty five to seven. Colby Parkinson is
going to be their leading receiver, Yeah, with forty seven yards. Yeah,
Matthew Stafford is going to throw one hundred and eighty
two yards, Kyron Williams is going to run for fifty

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four yards, and Trevor Lawrence isn't going to turn the
ball over. I'd be like, how the hell do they
find that many points? How do they win no turnovers?
How does that happen? Because typically speaking at thirty five
to seven, game. Normally, like the script if you will
to winning a game like that is a blocked punt,
kick interception, like pick six kickoff return. There was none

(19:57):
of that. So this is one of those wins where
they really had to just dominate and they did. And
so I'm just it's funny people were still being like,
I don't know about this team. They're not a super
Bowl team, and this this this they don't trust Josh Cardy.
I mean, we'll get into that, I'm sure, but I

(20:18):
just I don't know how you could come away from
this game and not feel excited about the Rams, because yeah,
like I feel like you're falling into the trap if
you're like, oh, well, maybe the Jaguars aren't that good,
Like that's that's some bs. The Jaguars are a good
football team. They are. And yes, they had injuries, Okay,
I get it. They didn't have Devin Lloyd, they didn't

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have Brenton Strange. Okay, those are injuries. But Robert Hainsey
was back and it didn't matter. Because there's a guy
that a lot of people just continue to act like
he's playing like garbage when in reality, he's been very good.
And that's Braden Fisk. He had eight pressures in this game. Yeah,
offensive line gave up eleven. Bradon Fisk had eight just himself.

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Pretty crazy when you think about it.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah, I mean I think those are all really good points,
and the Rams defense certainly deserves credit. I mean, this
defense really played well. And you know, when we talk
about kind of like we touched on earlier about how
there's things that the Rams could have done better even
in this thirty five to seven win, right, they could

(21:31):
have when they started the second half, they missed a
lot of opportunities offensively, and that was disheartening. And listen,
I am not somebody. If my team is up twenty
one nothing and if they go out on the football
field and they start playing horribly, I'm going to point
it out. I think that's a very reasonable thing, especially
for a team like the Rams, who have blown massive

(21:54):
leads this season. Right, you have a team that comes
out who has already on a couple occasions blown a lead,
you know you are gonna be hesitant to be satisfied
being up twenty one to nothing and then realizing that
your offense is struggling to score because I you know,
the third quarter of that game you know, I felt

(22:14):
for a period of time we were a bit lucky
that Jacksonville was kind of beating themselves. Jacksonville, by the way,
you want to talk about penalties, what an egregious showing
from Jacksonville, like mentally, like, you know, they were absolutely
not making it easier on themselves at all. And I
don't think that that's the reason they lost, but it

(22:34):
certainly they didn't help themselves when they were committing that
many errors. So I think it's really reasonable to say
that if the Jacksonville Jaguars had been playing remotely competent
football for part of the third quarter, this game could
have been a lot closer. So I think it is
fair to say, you know, the Rams still had some
things they needed to clean up offensively, and they're lucky
that the Jaguars made some mistakes in the third quarter,

(22:59):
and I think the kind of circled back towards the
end and kind of fix that. But I just wanted
to point that out because this was, by all means
not a perfect football game from the Rams, and you
think what they could do if they played a perfect
football game and they had Puka Nukua come back, it
could have been crazy, right, it could have just been

(23:19):
an absolute blood bath. So you know, obviously a thirty
five to seven win is great, but you know, I
would like to see some more consistency in the red
zone and maybe not this like complacency that I think
we started to kind of see after you know, the
twenty one to nothing lead. It felt like the Rams
kind of went out there and they were already playing
super conservative. It was like, before the end of the

(23:42):
first half, McVeigh got really conservative again. He didn't want
to score. He had plenty of time on the clock
and listen, I understand that you're up. But I think
that it was very fair for a lot of people
to say, hey, hold on, we've been here before, We've
seen this story before. We played conservative before the half
because we had the lead, and then we come out
in the second half super flat, flooded, and then we
blow it. So there's just a couple of things that,

(24:04):
you know, I felt could have gone differently. But at
the end of the day, it's it's hard to be
you know, that pressed about at thirty five to seven,
and those are things that they'll still look at, you know,
in the bye week and and take advantage of but
Jake I just was really proud of the offense for
stepping up. I think that there's a lot of unfairness

(24:25):
towards them. And I think that as we you know,
close out talking about the offense, we talk about Matthew Stafford,
because you know, Matthew Stafford, in my opinion, is playing
at an MVP level. I think he's certainly worthy of
being in the conversation right now. He you know, listen
the season, you know, I know that we're five and

(24:45):
two right now. The season didn't start like out great
at times. You know, We've talked about the red zone struggles,
We've talked about things offensively stalling, We've talked about you know,
really their only being for the first four or five
games this season, it felt like only three playmakers and
offense aside from Stafford, right like, there wasn't anybody anything

(25:07):
else being created. And how much of that, obviously it's
play calling, we don't know. But I think that at
the end of the day, like Stafford deserves a lot
more credit than he's getting from the media, a lot
more credit than he's getting from football fans, from some
Rams fans, I think it's I think it's very fair
to say that he's in the MVP conversation, and Jake,

(25:29):
I know you agree with me, so I'll throw it
to you. But I just think it's good to point out.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Oh, I mean, he should be the favorite to win
the MVP. You know, I think you look at I mean,
he leads the league in touchdowns, he has the most
big time throws. He's fourth in completions, third in yards,
seventh in drops by the way, which is wild second,
and average depth of target fourth in passer rating. I mean,
when you look at what he brings to the table,

(25:55):
this is somebody who has been pressured ninety one times
this year. See all of the guys, most of the guys,
pretty much all the guys in the MVP conversation have
not been pressured at that level. And so that's kind
of what I get at, where it's like, yeah, I understand,
you know, so and so looks great and so and
so whoever that is right, whether that's Dak Prescott or

(26:18):
it's you know, Drake may because by the way, Dak
Prescott absolutely belongs there. But we have to be honest
with ourselves right now when you look at Matthew Stafford
and by the way to be fair. Dak press guy
is being pressured a ton two. They both are tied
with ninety one pressures. Drake may is actually being pressured
a lot ninety Baker Mayfield eighty six, Patrick Mahomes eighty five.

(26:41):
The fewest pressures in the league for a quarterback right
now is Aaron Rodgers at fifty. CJ Tries fifty eight,
and Mac Jones is sixty two. Now that's not a lot,
that's not a lot. But he's also only played four
games so or five games. So that's the thing right now.
Like you look at Jared Goff with the Lions and

(27:02):
people are like he should be, you know, an MVP.
My tiebreaker would be Jared Goff has been pressured sixty
nine times before this game being played. Okay, Matthew Staffords,
he's been pressured the eighth most in the league. He
also has only allowed on his own because PFF has

(27:23):
a metric who's responsible for what pressures. Matthew Stafford is
responsible for five point two percent of his pressures, which
is third among all qualified quarterbacks. What we've seen from
him is that when he's he's kept cleaning the pocket,
he's amazing. When he's not kept cleaning the pocket. He's

(27:44):
still amazing. I mean it's kind of crazy under pressure.
Stafford is tied for second with five touchdowns on the year.
He has almost six hundred yards, second in the league.
He's tied for the most big time throwers in the
league with nine. His average depth of argate is thirteen
point one yards, which is the most, and he's third

(28:04):
in passer rating with ninety five point eight. I mean,
play action, he's decimating teams. He has the most touchdowns
in the league. He has the most big time throws
in the league. He's second in yards. He's completing passes
at a seventy three point one percent clip. And it's
really as long as you don't get Stafford in the

(28:24):
screen game, he's gonna dominate. Like that's the only thing
I've come across. His screen game numbers aren't great. I
just truthfully, I don't feel like, and we've talked about
that before, that's not his bread and butter. I mean,
he can do it. But a lot of those issues
that like Kyron had in the passing game that were
blamed on Kyron, I think where just Stafford doesn't throw

(28:46):
the best ball, you know, in that close proximity. But
in the short game, you look at the zero the
you know, zero for nine, not behind the line of scrimmage,
but we're talking up to nine yards the short passing attack.
He's got ten touchdowns, it's the most in the NFL.
He's third in first downs. He has the best passer
rating at one hundred and sixteen point five. Then he's

(29:07):
got a passer rating in the intermediate portion of the
field at a third in the league one hundred point five.
And then he's fourth in passer rating twenty plus yards
down the field at a fourth in the league at
one hundred and thirty point six. But really, what I'm
getting at is there five and two. He's gone up

(29:28):
against three top ten scoring defenses in the Colts, right,
the forty nine Ers and the Jacksonville Jaguars. Right, excuse me, Houston,
not Jacksonville. Houston. Houston's number one in the league, the
forty nine Ers are seven, and India's number eight. He's
also had to play in London, He's had to play

(29:48):
in Baltimore, right, He's had to go on the road
and play in Philly. So he's already had to go
across the country quite a few times now and it's
only week seven. Are you now going into week eight?
Matthew Stafford and what he's been able to do when
the offensive line hasn't been healthy all year. Your left
tackle barely had any opportunities in the off season because

(30:10):
he was dealing with blood clots. Steve Ovulz started two games,
by the way, in like over one hundred reps or
what have you. He hasn't given up. He's given up
one pressure, but that's great. But he's only started two games.
Your center is the only one who has not missed
any time whatsoever. Your right guard has been dealing with issues,

(30:32):
and then your right tackle. You were dealing with two
different guys there. So it's not like things have been
smooth sailing for Stafford. But people will look and say, well,
he's got Davonte Adams and Pukinakua, he's got Kyron Williams,
he's got Sean McVay, and it's like, so for me,
I think Stafford's the MVP in the league, and I
think you look at the way he's able to throw

(30:52):
off platform, and he throws better off platform than more
than half of the quarterbacks in the league throw when
they're fully set and able this step into their throat.
He's just different, absolutely different he.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Is, and I'm excited to see, you know, the rest
of the season is you know, we have this kind
of newfound discovery of these amazing weapons for him, right
and seeing you know, what this Rams offense can do
going forward, and if they can just become more consistent
in the red zone. I mean, that's scary to think
of what the Rams could be if they start putting
up consistent numbers in the red zone, It's going to

(31:28):
be crazy crazy. But Jake, I think just overall, what
a fun Sunday. I mean, what like an awesome you know,
it's early, right, you know we talk about, you know,
waking up early, and people on the West Coast especially
had to wake up early, and you know it was
I was on my couch. I woke up like twenty

(31:50):
minutes before the game because I was out late Saturday,
so then you know, we wake up early Sunday. I
had my coffee while I was watching the game. It
was like a rainy in Chicago, so as bundle up,
having my coffee watching the Rams dominate. It was perfect.
It was a great morning. I couldn't ask for a
better morning, and it could have gone very differently had

(32:10):
the Rams played the opposite of how they did. If
they didn't show up in London and things got out
of hand, my perfect, picturesque esthetically pleasing morning would have
just gone right downhill. So I thank you, I thank
you Rams for giving me a really good Sunday morning
and giving us all like a fun London experience, because
it is always fun when it's a primetime game and

(32:32):
you know you've got everybody tuning in to watch your team.
So you know, that's just how happy we were, you know,
as viewers. I can't imagine the feeling within the organization
to be able to go and put on that display overseas,
you know, with the crazy travel that they had and
all that. I mean, just great. And now they get
some rest, Jake, Now they get some rest going into

(32:54):
the by and they can reset, which I'm sure is
much needed.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Yeah, did you hear Matthew Stafford, Let's get the hell
out of here. Yeah. And it wasn't you know, I
saw some people like I shouldn't have said that, Like
it's London, like it just looks bad. I'm like, I
don't take it like that. I don't think, Yeah, they
didn't have they didn't find any issue with London. They're
just like, you have to understand, these guys haven't been home.

(33:20):
They stayed in Baltimore, so like there you go. I
mean maybe they they met up with family in London,
but that was only a hot minute. You know. It's
like you gotta be honest with yourselves. I mean, they
didn't really have a lot of time, uh to themselves.
This is all business and it really was NonStop. Whereas

(33:40):
when you play a home game, you know now on
the West Coast, you get to sleep in your own
bed and see your kids and see your wife or
you know, your husband or whatever you like. And that's
the whole literally the whole organization too. It's not just
the players, it's the coaches, right, it's the staffers. We're
talking about the equipment staff. I mean, it was just

(34:01):
a long trek. Everybody kind of had to stay in
Baltimore and yeah, it's not easy.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, well they did it, guys. They went to London.
They got the win and it was great to watch
and we appreciate everybody talking about it with us and Jake,
I think we've got some supers that we can get
to now.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
Yeah, yeah, no, definitely, So let's check out Matthews here.
Thank you for the fuck you Da and Ferguson. We
should be able to score in the red zone when
a team has less yards and high scores, it is
efficient made every yard count. So this is thank you Matthew.
This is the beautiful thing about this game, and the

(34:45):
way I see it is that Kyraen Williams didn't have
one rushing touchdown okay, and I think he only had
like one carry in the red zone, maybe two. This
is good because we already know they have him when
they need him. He's been so efficient in the red
area and he's been a big reason why the Rams
have been able to score. So if they're able to

(35:07):
start scoring via the air, well, now it's gonna make
it even easier for Kiren Williams on the ground and
when and vice versa. So it really just keeps defenses
off balance. It makes the play action in the red
zone work. Well, how many times do you see, for
whatever reason on a Sunday, you're watching red zone or

(35:29):
you're watching the games and a quad box whatever, and
you see that one touchdown where It's like the tight
end or the wide receiver is just wide open in
the end zone and he's just sitting there like this.
The Rams don't seem to have a lot of those opportunities.
This is how you start getting those opportunities, because you
have to zig when other teams zag, and so this

(35:51):
is the first step in doing that. When you can
prove that you can play at that level, when you
get into the red area, good things are gonna happen.
So I think it's a really good sign because they
didn't have to lean on Kyron in this game and
they still won thirty five to seven. That's wild in
and of itself. Courtney, thank you for the five. How
do you feel about the offensive line? And d Will

(36:14):
has been playing like the old d Will? Do you
think the Rams still look for another corner?

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Thank you? Corney. Yeah, the offensive line, lexis, what are
your thoughts, because I mean, I think they look pretty good.
I My thing is they're not going to be what
he had in the Super Bowl season. They're just not
Alec Jackson's kind of struggling, but it's not like catastrophic
like he He's given up a lot of pressures. He

(36:41):
got worked by you know, Josh heinz Allen. But I
mean war mc clennon junior looks really good all things considered,
I think right now I would say Ovula is the
best on the offensive line currently in pass Pro. But
what stay you on that? And then we'll talk about
d Will after.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
I agree about the offensive line. I mean, I think
they're okay. They're doing better than I guess average, like
if you're looking at like a scale of opinion, but
like I have, you know, there are a couple of
times this game, particularly in the run game, where they
kind of folded right away. I think the thing with

(37:21):
this offensive line that I've noticed is the consistency is
probably the problem more so than the actual talent. I
don't know if it's a chemistry thing, but like there
are times, particularly in the run game, where I feel
like they just collapse right or you see a couple
of plays where Stafford doesn't have any time at all,
hardly and the offensive line just collapses. And I think,
you know, you bring up Jackson, that's a fair point,

(37:43):
you know, I think it's like one of those situations
where it's not probably the offensive line that you feel
is solid and you're like, this is like rock solid, right,
but you can win with them, as we're seeing. And
it also could just be a chemistry thing getting players
now playing all together right for multiple games. It could
be that type of thing. I don't know. I haven't

(38:05):
really felt to to like strongly about it. I found
mc clennon looked really good, you know, from what I saw,
And yeah, I don't know if that's like a great answer,
I guess they answer. My answer is the same as Jake's. Really,
it's just they're they're doing okay, all right?

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yeah, and then d Well looks great. I want to
give him his praise. He needed to step up because
it wasn't really anybody stepping up after a Kellow. And
I think the biggest issue that we've had is it's
not necessarily that these guys can't play. I stood here
and said, I believe that this cornerback room is really good,

(38:46):
and people are like, why. My biggest thing is this.
It's that they don't have a guy to match up
on an AJ Brown caliber. You know, wide you're receiver.
I'm not just talking about his skill set, but more
so the body type. It's hard when you're five nine

(39:06):
five tens scrappy having to go up against like a
Mike Evans, right and so if you don't have a
guy that can cover like a Kello right now you're in.
You're at a disadvantage. And so Darius Williams has a
sixty seven point eight targeted passer rating this year, he's
given up forty point nine percent of receptions on targets.

(39:30):
He's been targeted twenty two times. He's given up nine
receptions for eighty seven yards. He's had five pass breakups.
Kobe Durant has a sixty six point nine targeted passer rating.
He's given up fifty six point three thirty two targets,
eighteen given up. And Emmanuel Forbes, who I think got
off to a rocky start this year, he's done a

(39:53):
much better job. I think the last two games, eighteen targets,
he's given up fourteen receptions for two hundred and two yards,
and he has one hundred and fifty three targeted pass rating,
which is horrendous. But I think lately I think he's
played much better. Now, the question was Rams still look
for another corner. I don't think they're necessarily going after

(40:20):
any position, you know, entirely. I think the Rams are
looking at this team knowing that this team should win
the Super Bowl. Things go according to plan and if
somebody comes, you know, just becomes available. I mean they've
done stuff in the past. They trade away as starting
you know, linebacker in the past. They trade away Kenny

(40:42):
Young like he was starting, and they traded him away
at the beginning of their Super Bowl season. I wouldn't
be surprised what they did. I mean, I'm not even
against them standing pat, I will say, and I think
you'll follow me on this because I've been Maybe I'm wrong,
but I'm not sold on the you know, first, you know,

(41:06):
the first round draft picks. I'm not sold on them
going to a quarterback. So yeah, if you could get
somebody who has some years of control and who's young
and can be a franchise piece, and you give up
a first round pick and you feel like they can
help you win a Super Bowl now, but they can
help you down the road as well, I think I

(41:29):
would be for the f them picks. Again, I really do.
Before I was like, no, hands off, Like, I'm definitely
but that's kind of where I'm at. But what about you.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
In terms of like what I think, what I think
they're going to do for the first round, or what
I want them to do?

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Uh, what you think?

Speaker 1 (41:53):
I am under the firm belief that they entirely were
focused on Manning. I'm willing to to bet my legacy
on that for things that you know that that is
you and I know they were a thousand percent and
on Arch Manning. This that I don't think is the
case anymore.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
So.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
I think that the Rams themselves are now entirely unsure
what they're going to do going into twenty twenty six.
I think they obviously have leverage now with that Falcons pick.
I'm going to guess that it depends on I'll say this,
I am not if the Rams don't win the super

(42:34):
Bowl this season. I'm not convinced Matthew Stafford retires. If
the Rams win the Super Bowl this season, I would
probably hedge my bet on probably and I could be
and nobody knows, right, But I think that that's going

(42:55):
to depend on, you know, the first round pick, because
if they get a superper Bowl, it's going in it's
going to entirely change everything. I don't necessarily know, you know,
I guess there's a situation, and maybe this is something
that's not thought of yet. There's a situation where maybe
the Rams do win the Super Bowl this year, Stafford
stays and they try to do it right. They try

(43:17):
to do like the back to back thing obviously that
you know they've been wanting to do. There's a there's
a thought there, and then the question becomes, do you
still draft the quarterback? I think I've been let down
by this quarterback class for twenty twenty six. I think
my expectations probably were too high. So I think the

(43:37):
Rams are probably not focused on a quarterback anymore. For
twenty twenty six, they I think they very much were,
and I think now probably not. But I think it
depends on what Stafford does.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
That's definitely interesting. The arch Mayning thing makes sense. I
so we have a little bit of a different I
don't think Stafford retires after this year, no matter what.
And I think there's a chance that Stafford could be
around a lot longer than we thought now. I think

(44:11):
it's always been kind of assumed it's a two year thing.
But I mean, you look at Stafford and he's in
pretty good shape. And I mean today I truly believe
as of October twentieth, twenty twenty five. He's the best
quarterback in the NFL right now. I believe that does
every throw I see, I feel like he's better than

(44:31):
Josh Allen. Is Josh Allen more talented? Absolutely? Is Matthew
you know Patrick Mahomes more talented? Yes, they're more gifted.
I think that's a better way to put it. But
I would take Matthew Stafford over every single quarterback in
the NFL. There's not one quarterback I'd take over him
right now? Why would I take them? Like this guy

(44:52):
already knows what it means to win, and then you
know you have him playing the way he's playing, and
it's like, why would you take anybody else? So that's
kind of like where I'm at, And I just feel like,
what could what was probably two years, I could see
it being extended to three potentially. I mean, there's no

(45:13):
way Matthew Stafford won There's no way he wants to
leave the Rams. The Rams aren't going to low ball
him after this season. If he keeps this up, they're
not going to low ball him, and he's going to
be a Ram for life. I just I feel like
the big thing The big indicator is what they do

(45:34):
with these picks. Like if if they were to draft
a quarterback, I'd be like, Okay, they're definitely getting ready
for Stafford to leave after two years. But I mean,
there's no reason why he can't do what like Aaron
Rodgers is doing right now. There's no reason, you know. So, yeah,
he's been around a long time, but he's thirty seven.

(45:54):
Aaron Rodgers is forty two, So I think Stafford can play. Yeah.
I mean, I everyone is rushing to see who is
the future post Stafford. I'm just gonna enjoy the here
and now. But I will say that I think as
somebody that was like, yeah, I'd love to have a

(46:14):
quarterback sit behind him and all that, I'm starting to
feel like that's useless. If you feel like you have
a super Bowl team, which I do believe they have,
and you have a really good defense that you don't
have to pay currently you will soon, why not strike
while the iron's hot, try to win as many as
you can with Stafford in this defense, and then figure

(46:35):
it out after. And that's kind of where I see it.
So we'll see. But this is a great question, Courtney.
We appreciate it, Deuce Falco, thank you for the ten.
Enjoy the bye everyone, great win by Rams. We weren't
embarrassing on international TV, so.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
True, good point. Thank you Douce from the Super and yeah,
it is always nice to not be embarrassed in prime
time because Lord knows we've been there as RAMS fans
knows we've been there.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
I'll never forget we were recording. This is back when
not only Downtown RAMS wasn't a live stream, it wasn't
even video, it was just audio, and we were recording
a podcast in the third core after the Ravens took
a i don't know, thirty five to six lead over

(47:28):
the Rams at the Coliseum, Yeah, in twenty nineteen, and
we're just like, yeah, this one's.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Gonna We're just gonna start recording.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Yeah we did.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
We just started recording because it was that bad. I
mean I just think of even in recent thing, even
in uh like recent memory, I mean just prime time
even has just been hit or miss with the Rams.
So you know what, I'll take it. I'll take the

(48:02):
win over in London. It was nice. Gonna enjoy it
going into the by and Jake, I think that's gonna
do it for us.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Well, cheeky Metro wants to throw oh eight ten dollars
super chat. We appreciate you, cheeky Metro. Lawrence needs a
fresh start like Baker and Jones. You know my issue
with this, and I understand what you're saying. I don't
think Lawrence is I don't think he makes good decisions

(48:31):
like I don't necessarily think this is you know, a
thing where you get him under the right guy. I mean,
I really don't think he's a good decision maker. He's
got plenty of weapons. The offensive line has started to
really struggle, But what about when the offensive line didn't struggle?
I don't know. I think you look at him and
we talked about it in Jay Live the other day.

(48:53):
He's Mark Brunell. Mark Brunell was a good player, but
he you know how good? How good should a quarterback
be if you intend on winning the Super Bowl? See,
I don't think Trevor Lawrence is good enough to win
a Super Bowl with. Is Daniel Jones good enough? I
mean some people might say no because they're just used
to Daniel Jones being the guy that, like you mean

(49:16):
about and was overdrafted by the Giants and was left
for dead. But Daniel Jones has some of the best
numbers against the Blitz in the league. I mean, he's
playing very well in Indy and they have a potential
MVP candidate in Jonathan Taylor. He's back to you turn
back to clock to twenty twenty one. You got a

(49:38):
good offensive line, you got you know, Tyler Warren, you
got Michael Pittman, junior, Alec Pierce, Josh Downs a good
defense like he's good enough where he makes good decisions,
you know, he's careful with the football like, and then
Baker Mayfield is kind of the same thing where I mean,
I know right now Tampa's struggling, but you know, you

(50:01):
look at that team and they're really banged up, but
Baker's kept them afloat. I just is Trevor Lawrence that guy,
like can he see? I think they're different players. I
think Daniel Jones is is somebody that you want him
to be a part of something, and Baker's somebody you
want to kind of lift you up above water and

(50:21):
help you breathe, Whereas Trevor Lawrence is kind of a
guy where it's like he needs stuff around him and
yet he still struggles and I feel like people look
at the stat sheet and they see two hundred and
ninety six yards in this game and a touchdown, no interceptions.
And while I give him credit for not turning the
ball over, he was twenty three of forty eight. I mean,
he wasn't good. You know. It's a reminder that the

(50:44):
yards are kind of overblown. I thought Travis Hunter looked great,
happy for him, but I think when it comes to
Trevor Lawrence, I just think he's he's like Jared Goff,
but he's nowhere near the dis decision maker. He can
make those wow throws that's like, oh my god, Okay,
that's why he was yeah, but then the next throw,

(51:07):
he's a damn roller coaster. And that position at quarterback
is just way too important to have a roller coaster
at quarterback. I just don't. That's why, like when people
are like, oh, I hope Trevor Lawrence replaces Matthew Stafford,
Please God, No, that's that's what I would say. I

(51:29):
don't know where you are on that Alexis, but there
are I would rather I'd rather do the Stafford again,
go out and get dak if if Stafford retired, I
would rather do this all again with a veteran go
out and get Dak Prescott, who's bawling out in Dallas
over going out and getting a disgruntled Trevor Lawrence. So

(51:50):
I don't believe he'll ever be anything more than just good.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
I agree with you. I I just think I wanted
to give Trevor Lawren's kind of a fair chance when he,
you know, entered the league. I think I was a
little bit. I mean, I wasn't as high on him
as everybody else. I don't think I ever saw what
everybody else saw, and I think that you kind of
were on the same page with me. And I think
he's certainly had his moments. But you know, I don't

(52:17):
know if I think it's a fresh star situation like
it was with Baker Danny Dimes, but again, it very
well could be. But I think it is more about
his play style and the decision making as you touched on,
because I mean, the team that he's on right now,
and you know, I think is pretty solid and I

(52:38):
think that he has tools around him. I will say
this is just a sidebar. I was a little disappointed,
not like disappointing, because he was playing our team but
Brian Thomas Junior is so fascinating to me as a
player because he is another hot and cold type of
player where it's like you start to believe in him.
It's kind of like the same thing with Trevor Lawrence,

(52:59):
Like you start to believe in Brian Thomas Junior, and
then he does what he did against the Rams in
like a random game where he like can't catch the
ball and maybe it's fixed though maybe it's like the
Quinton Johnston thing. I mean, where Quentin Johnson like couldn't
hang on to the ball for a season or two
and then finally figured it out. And because like I
want to believe in Brian Thomas Junior, but like he again,

(53:21):
it's the same thing with like him and Trevor are
just too hot and cold for me to really fully
buy into. But that's a sidebar, woar.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
I mean, I almost I feel bad saying that I
do like Brian Thomas Junior, but he is he's like
made out of glass man, Like, yeah, I think he
was hurt the entire game every time he got up
He's like and then like that one play in particular
where he barely got jammed by Kobe Durant and he
thought like his arm was gonna fall off. I'm like,
what are we doing? Like yeah, so yeah, I mean

(53:56):
obviously I felt bad, Like I wasn't happy he got hurt.
It was just more so like this is a little ridiculous.
So that's just kind of where I'm at on him,
Like he needs to stay healthy and like it's just,
you know, it's not great over there for him. Travis
Hunter is going to take over that wide receiver room anyway.
And he's also really good at corner. He had a

(54:20):
great coverage rep against DeVante Adams, was right on the
hip pocket made a really nice play. Anyone that said
that was a bad move to trade up and get him,
I don't know what you're talking about. I think this
guy can be the Otani of the NFL. He's fun
to watch. He's he just he emanates this like star power.

(54:42):
When you watch him, you're like, yeah, that guy. So
I was happy for him, genuinely happy. I knew the
Rams had the game in the bag, and I just
like the guy, you know, I really do, because I
like Shuitar Sanders. But I felt like it was a
little unfair. We're talking about this potentially generational talent. We
hear this term all the time. Travis Hunter is a

(55:05):
generational talent. He can play both sides. He's very I
think he's like the first one legitimately. I'm not talking
about Mike Furry or anything like that, but I'm talking
legitimately the first legitimate potential star on both sides since
Champ Bailey. So I just I feel like, whatever reason,

(55:25):
he was drafted really high. But at Colorado, all we
were talking about was should a Sanders and like where
should A Sander's gonna go? And we're talking about him
like now that he's on the bench, And like I said,
I like the guy. I don't have any issue with him.
But I feel like Travis Hunter is probably the most
slept on top three pick I think I've ever seen
with the talent he has. So it was good to
see that. I genuinely enjoyed it. He had fourteen targets

(55:48):
in this game. You know, keep it going.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Down, touchdown, Yeah, Chris screw a touchdown. You know, obviously
bittersweet that it was against the Rams, but you know,
I think that Travis Hunter is going to be scoring
plenty more in his career against many other different teams,
so good for him, I agree, and the Rams won,
so we can at least have that memory. Even though

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he got Jacksonville's seven points, the Rams got thirty five.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
Yeah, Edwin, thank you for the five. How are you
guys spending your bye week? I'm going to be watching
my Dodgers went back to back World Series and the
Lakers season is starting to go la. Well, we appreciate you, Edwin. Yeah,
thank you. Unfortunately, the Dodgers are likely going to win

(56:39):
back to back World Series. I don't remember the last
time it's happened, but it's been it's been a while.
And then yeah, the Lakers their season starting. Lebron James,
I don't know, just doesn't feel like playing until like December.
No idea what's going on there. But yeah, how are
we spending our bye week?

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Alexis I mean, not doing a damn thing.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
I'm gonna be content, that's about it.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
I'm I'm taking a weekend off. I've had very, very
crazy weekends, uh, pretty consistently for the past few months,
so I'm going to enjoy it. I'm gonna might try
to get together with some friends nice on Saturday, but
you know, pretty much it Saturday Night Live. I watch

(57:30):
every Saturday Night, so you know i'ven't got that locked in.
But yeah, it's for Sunday. I mean I'll watch the
games that are on, you know, I'll tune into whatever
whatever's playing. But yeah, pretty boring, I guess.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
I So I have a wedding to go do on Sunday,
so I won't even be able to watch the games.
What else am I doing? I mean, I'll be making content.
I have my what did I learn from this game?
Like film review with all my notes. I'm gonna make
a Matthew Stafford MVP propaganda video because it just needs

(58:09):
to be It just needs to happen. I'm gonna probably
make some content Yankees unloaded Downtown Lakers on Friday. What else? Oh,
and I'll play the new Pokemon game that just came out.
So yep, that is pretty much it for me. And

(58:33):
I'll be going to the gym. But you asked for
how I was gonna spend my bye week, not like
my whole schedule, So appreciate you. Edwin and last year
cheeky Metro. Come on, Jake, don't respect though, Tani like
that disrespect. I see this a lot a lot, and

(58:56):
I don't feel like it's disrespectful because because Travis Hunter
is a freaking alien, he's so talented. I really don't
feel like that's disrespectful to Otani. I think that's giving
him credit. So I don't mean it as disrespect at all.

(59:18):
Otani is insane, But I mean, I think it's important
for us to realize Travis Hunter on Sunday against the Rams, Okay,
had over one hundred yards receiving. It's his first hundred
yard receiving game. He had his first touchdown. That's great.
But Travis Hunter going into this game had thirty one

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hundred and thirty nine coverage snaps. Okay, he only played
ten in this one. He's had one hundred and forty
nine coverage snaps this year Travis Hunter has, and Travis
Hunter is on pace for over seven hundred receiving yards.
That's gonna go up. So so he could have a

(01:00:00):
thousand yard receiving season and play five hundred to six
hundred covered snaps on defense, and I mean, he's got
a below eighty targeted passer rating. That would be insane
in twenty twenty five to have a season like that.
So I'm just giving credit where credit's due. That's all.

(01:00:27):
And then we got one more DTR rocks. Thank you,
little smokes, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Hell appreciate that. Hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
So do you have anything you want to throw in there?

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Or I mean I just well, Jake, actually before I
give my thoughts, I think you have a thought that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
You Oh yeah, earlier definitely without Alexis of course.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
I don't know why it does that, but it don't.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Yeah, it cuts the screen. Listen, yeah, you fixed it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
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Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
And with that, Yeah, I don't have anything to say.
There's nothing to like promote because we're going in the
bye week. You know, I'll still be on Twitter talking everybody,
and you know, like I said, I'll be watching all
the other games. I'll be working on some film stuff

(01:02:15):
and improv stuff and all that jazz. Uh, probably more
intensely because we've got the bye week. But guys, I
hope everyone like takes a nice little mental health break,
you know, just do something nice for yourself this bye
week to treat yourself. Detoks, take a deep breath. You

(01:02:37):
can watch football on Sunday without having any steak in
the game unless you bet, you know, which I know
a lot of people do, including myself, but you know,
just emotional steak. You won't have any emotional steak in
the outcome on Sunday. So I hope that everybody has
just a very nice bye week. And Jake, I think
that's going to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Do it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
You know, we'll have a week off as well. We'll
be to preview our the next game a week from Friday,
per usual. But guys, if you like what you hear,
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Bogan and guys will be back soon, but until then,

(01:03:20):
as always, stay safe, take care, and go Rams