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[Assistant] We only have, we have the ones where the Jaguar's messed up a screen. That's more of a Jaguar's messing up discussion. I don't know that we need to necessarily need to get into that. Yeah, but it was cool. You know what's cool? Let's look at it. Okay, let's look at it.


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[Assistant] Maybe we'll see it against the Tennessee Titans as the Jaguars face them next. The 49ers face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and so perhaps the 49ers can keep rolling.


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[Assistant] As the weeks go on here. Let's take a closer look now at the Browns and Ravens. Browns defense versus the Ravens offense. Uh, Browns came back and won this game. We got to look at it because this is the last piece of good news that Browns fans will have from here on out. It really is a shame learning of the news earlier today, but that defense is still going to be solid. It will probably be solid from here on out unless.


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[Assistant] Like you've mentioned before, poor offensive play sometimes does bleed over into poor defensive play.


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[Assistant] Well, the good news for the Browns is that they did not break against the Ravens. In fact, they got better as the game went on. That fourth quarter was awesome for them, allowing fewer than three yards per rush and their pressure rate went up on Lamar Jackson. Jackson was just one of five for 11 yards through that interception in the fourth quarter.


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[Assistant] And so uhm, let's, let's start with your headline here. You looked at this. You looked at the Browns defense. You've been very complimentary of them before. You think a lot of their players are standing out. The team speed. Was it more of the same in this game or what did they do specifically to stymie a Baltimore Ravens offense that looked like they might be able to roll again? They've done this before at home.


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[Assistant] A detailed way to say it. So when you look at the Browns, what do they excel at? Because they've played teams that have similar strategies and different strategies. They condense them, some teams will condense them, bring them in tight, and some teams spread them out. If you're the Browns, which one do you like to see more?


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[Assistant] Alright, it's time to go inside the numbers powered by AWS as we take a look at how the Ravens, it looked like they were dominating this game. Next Gen stats, the Ravens win probability peaked at 96.7% when they were up by two touchdowns late, 31 to 17.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Ravens have had at least an 85% win probability in all three of their losses this season. A trend that we saw at times last season has continued into this season. Now there's a, that's a double edged sword too.


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[Assistant] Like for one, it's good to get up a couple touchdowns. Like that is the sign of a good team. You'd rather have that problem of like holding on to two touchdown leads than never having two touchdown leads. So I will say that. Uhm, but, but when you saw this game,


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[Assistant] Was it one of those situations where the Ravens kind of dominated for three quarters, ran down the field, just kind of taxed the Browns defense, or was it something different?


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[Assistant] Yeah, both teams walk away with some positives from this. Cause even if you're the Ravens, right too, you're like, man, even in a game where we really couldn't consistently move the ball, we scored a 31 because we were able to bust some big plays. We have big playability. They do have big playability.


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[Assistant] The Bengals Thursday night divisional rivalry and the Browns take on the Steelers. And when the Browns do play the Steelers, we know who their quarterback is going to be. Breaking news.


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[Assistant] We have breaking news. Reports that the Browns are going to start Dorian Thompson Robinson this week versus the Steelers. Now the Browns GM Andrew Berry says they will add a third quarterback, but the focus is on the current quarterbacks on the roster. That would be Walker and DTR, but reports out there that DTR is getting the start this week.


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[Assistant] So Browns and Steelers, you got some playmakers on the Steelers defensive side of the ball, which leads us to this week's Big Butt award winners.


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[Assistant] For the first time this season, we have a repeat winner at the edge position for a Big Butt Award winner. That is TJ Watt.


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[Assistant] Defensive tackle, big butt award winner for the first time in his career.


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[Assistant] Texas defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins generated a career high, nine pressures per PFF, had three sacks. All that came against the right guard for the Bengals, Alex Capa. Not a great day for him. Post game Rankins noted that he was familiar with the matchup with


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[Assistant] Kimberly Martin, Kimberly Martin, who's a Syracuse grad, she works at ESPN, I've met her before, very nice woman. Uh, she goes, uh, my favorite line of the day came courtesy of Sheldon Rankin's, as the young kids say, is this what he said, we don't duck no smoke. Doesn't matter who we line up against, who the opposition is, we like us, 100 times out of 100. I love that.


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[Assistant] Congratulations, first time in your career. You have to make a place for the Elephant Butt Award.


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[Assistant] Joshua Dobbs will be an astronaut one day. Who knows? I don't know. He could go to the moon. Uh, but right now he's playing very, very well for the Minnesota Vikings, despite only being there for about a week and a half. And let's start with this. You looked at him, a deeper dive into the film, and our friend Jay Croucher has been saying this to, uh, our producer, Pete Dimmillimillimillimillimillitis. Uh, he goes, is Joshua Dobbs


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[Assistant] But he was like better than we thought. Yes. He was never like that super superstar, but he was better than we thought. Where is Joshua Dobbs right now on the Insanity scale?


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[Assistant] From reading your notes though. You feel like if these two teams played again this weekend, the Saints would have...


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[Assistant] You take away the bootlegs, the runs, the play actions. You make the Vikings a drop back passing team. They're going to have trouble.


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[Assistant] Two guys who popped to you. One on defense for the Saints, one on offense for the Vikings, and the names surprised me, more so the one on the Vikings. Alexander Madison, this was his big year, you know, no more Delvin Cook, and so it was going to be his time to shine, but you actually liked another running back, Ty Chandler. I've liked Ty Chandler ever since the preseason.


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[Assistant] Sean Lattimore is going to be out for a bit here. He's, he's hurt or I don't know exactly what the situation is there. Pete, do you know there? I'm not sure. He's, he's red in my depth chart here. So yeah, they're going to need Paulson and Debo. Lean on him even more perhaps. Uh, Vikings at Denver on Sunday night football. Will the Dobbs vanity continue?


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[Assistant] What is this? This is the greatest football podcast ever invented. That's what it is. We talk about football and butts and lots of other crazy crap. What's up everybody? Chris Sims, Chris Sims on button. Ahmed Fareed is here looking handsome and sharp for a guy that's worked so hard and traveled around the country the last few days.


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[Assistant] We're in the midst of watching Sunday Night Football. Yep. The San Francisco Fighting Shanahan 49ers are whooping the Cowboys' ass right now. Marching down the field, 28-10, late third quarter, and the Cowboys are in deep trouble of going down three, maybe four scores here after this drive.


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[Assistant] This is, this is, I will say, just a hit on this game real quick, while we're sitting here watching it and just talking about what's relevant, uh, this is an impressive win right now, or looking like it would be an impressive win by the 49ers. This game had all the psychology elements of,


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[Assistant] Should have been on Dallas' side, right? Dallas has lost to them two years in a row in the playoffs, right? They want to prove to themselves, wait, we can beat them, so if we see them in the playoffs again, you believe, right?


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[Assistant] You know, 49ers kind of got their best shot from the Cowboys tonight and really have never flinched and kind of dominated the game throughout. You know, there was one good drive at the Cowboys offense, one okay drive for a field goal, but Purdy is tearing them up here in the second half in the pass game.


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[Assistant] And the Cowboys are in big trouble. It's a tough matchup. It's like we talk about all the time. It's a matchup league. The 49ers are one of the few teams that are as fast as the Cowboys, and yet they're bigger than the Cowboys. And that's where life is very tough on them in this matchup.


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[Assistant] I'm feeling good. I actually feel like I'm starting, I'm getting a season shape.


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[Assistant] I'm in football shape. Yes. It's the first time that I've come in here with less than force for, uh, yawns, uh, as we started the show. So I'm getting there.


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[Assistant] No doubt. I think that's the point. It's one of those where, hey, we give credit to the Steelers. We know the one thing we always love about the Steelers is they're tough, they hit, they compete.


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[Assistant] But really, come on. Bottom line is here, the Baltimore Ravens were the better team on the football field. Almost the whole game. Really the whole game for the most part. It was self-inflicted wounds, like you said, Ahmed. Mistakes. That was really the theme of the day.


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[Assistant] You know, a number of drop passes. You know, whether it was drop pass by Ze Flowers in the first try, that should have been a touchdown. You talked about that Rashad Bateman in the end zone should have been an easy touchdown. And even the play before that, Mark Andrews dropped the pass, where I go, you're Mark Andrews, you probably should have caught that too.


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[Assistant] We had Bateman drop a fade that would have maybe put them down inside the five yard line if he doesn't break the shoestring tackle and score a touchdown there. They had the punt blocked in their own end zone, right, that gave the safety to the Pittsburgh Steelers.


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[Assistant] A debacle. A debacle. Can you, is it fourth and two, right? Fourth and two? It looks like they're gonna see if they can drop Pittsburgh offsides and they're gonna kick a field goal and go in with a 13-3 lead. That's what it looked like.


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[Assistant] I don't know what happened. They snapped the ball. It's like it didn't look like they were all in conjunction and working together.


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[Assistant] And the clock ran out. And then, you know, they cut to, to John Harbaugh and he's sitting there stunned like, wait, what did we just do there? So you have that. And then you have coupled on to, hey, we're driving again and Justin Hill's making some people miss. He fumbles. So it was just.


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[Assistant] You know, it was a game of Raven's mess ups. And I don't want to say that to, like, degrade the Steelers in any way.


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[Assistant] They play tough. They do. And they compete. You know, but I, you know, Hey, there's games where you hear me say, Hey, this team earned it. This would be a game where, Hey, they earned it, but the Ravens like missed some opportunities that were not really like missed because of the Steelers. Right? It wasn't like,


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[Assistant] Oh, the Ravens had the ball over the middle and it was a tight throw and as he was catching it he got crushed and the ball popped in the air.


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[Assistant] No, nobody's in the screen and he just dropped the ball for a 20 yard gain. Or Lamar missing Zay Flowers way down the field late in the football game when he's wide open for another huge play. So yeaah, again, this is part of the Steelers culture. They do stuff like this all the time. I understand that.


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[Assistant] But I think when you look at the quality of play on the field, yeaah, you're gonna still look at it and go, yeaah, the Ravens are gonna be sick tomorrow with the way they played. But I do wanna give, like you said,


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[Assistant] Big plays, big moments, keep fighting, and then clutchness at the end of the football game, the hang in there, the resiliency, and picket and pickets kind of getting going, with a little splash of Warren to go along with it, and they made just enough plays to win an ugly AFC North football


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh. It's scary to say. And then I get confused about which one's first name it is because you're like, pick it through to George Pickens. It's very, it is actually really mentally tough.


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[Assistant] If Pickens is man to man, we throw to him, almost like we talk about with Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase, right? Just tell you, if that's the case, go to him and we'll live with the results of that play. Why did they play that defense? That is a great, great question. I mean, what were we at there? Second and nine, right?


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[Assistant] Well, they're, they're, they're to me, I think, playing a defense here, and as I'm going back through my brain, where, hey, it's 10-8.


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[Assistant] And they're going, we're going to either knock them out of field goal position, or they get a big play and maybe score. I think they were willing to take that risk. I get that. I think there was a little bit of that. That's at least what went through my mind at the time.


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[Assistant] Okay, and of course the Steelers have one of the greatest kickers we've seen in recent history, so I think they're going, wait, if they get five more yards, the game's kind of over. That makes sense. We're in deep crap, right? Yeah. So they were willing to roll the dice here, let's see if we can make them play, get them to third and long, and knock them out of field goal position altogether. I would, I would bet that's the logic. But, I mean,


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[Assistant] There's just so many things through this game, too. The other book, like, you know, first off, I want to state this. Lamar Jackson made some great throws in this football game. He really did.


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[Assistant] And he's gonna want a few back, like we talked about, whether it was Zay Flowers deep late in the game. But of course, the, the, the worst thing of all was they have a, what was it, a third and two? And they're down there close.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's after the Olshesky fumble on the punt return by the Steelers.


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[Assistant] And you're thinking, alright, well, that's it. Baltimore's finally got him, even though they've let him mess around here. And it was a third and five on the five yard line, excuse me. And he throws a back shoulder to Odell Beckham Jr. on the right sideline, okay, with the game at ten to eight Baltimore.


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[Assistant] And he throws a bad ball. He throws it inside.


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[Assistant] Doesn't really give Odell a chance to even make a play on the ball, and Joey Porter Jr. gets the pick, and that is what's set up.


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[Assistant] The Kenny Pickens touchdown, but again, just another instance of, hey, that was a good play by Joey Porter and all that, but I expect better execution from the, you know, a past NFL MVP who had been throwing the ball pretty damn well all day to another all pro-ish type guy, right? To where, hey, it's the back shoulder route, I don't expect that to be


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[Assistant] It wasn't great, but we battled, we worked hard, you know, we were resilient.


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[Assistant] I love it, okay. You know me, I've been the one that's complained a little bit about the simpleness of the Cincinnati Bengals offense.


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[Assistant] What did we say last week when we were talking about this? And please leave this, this picture up on the board here because I think it's very important to talk about. But last week, remember you hear me saying like, what are they good at? What is it that you're really good at? Okay. That's going to make teams start to go, wait, we got to stop that. And then you start to open up other things in your offense. Well, here's the start.


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[Assistant] That's the thing I was encouraged by today. As I was sitting there watching the game, the first drive of the game, not only did I go, wow, that was the best of Bengals looked on offense all year, they're subtly starting to move Jamar Chase around more and more and mess with formations a little bit.


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[Assistant] I like this. I can get behind this right here. This is like, it might not be like the Dolphins or the 49ers or whatever, but they're gonna, it looks like to me they're gonna go all in on, hey, Jamar Chase is our guy, we're gonna feed him the ball until you double him.


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[Assistant] And then we're gonna start to do things off of that, right? Okay, I'm cool with that. I mean, as we see, he's a game changer.


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[Assistant] But look at all the variety, the routes, where they moved him around, everything there. I think that's a start, at least as something successful for them on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. You're going to do that. Okay. Hey, when T Higgins is, when T Higgins is, is healthy or whatever else. Hey, great. He'll be back in the, in the full boy. Oh, you want to double him? Oh, it's going to help the run game with Joe Mixon, everything of that. So yeah, that's where I like it. And here's the big thing too, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, we're seeing, the Cardinals are not easy. The Cardinals have a good offense. They got some weapons on that side of the ball that are, you know, a little scary. And I like the way they're coached.


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[Assistant] The biggest thing of the game, and why this all happened, right, and it's still not perfect,


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[Assistant] Joe Burrow wasn't under assault every other play.


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[Assistant] The clock in his head wasn't affected to such a degree where he's going, wait, I've been railroad or blindsided seven in the last ten times. I need to get the ball out of my hand. He didn't have that today.


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[Assistant] So therefore then, oh, okay, I'll let Jamar work a little bit on the 20 yard in cut down the middle of the field or whatever there. So that was, you know, I think that the other big part of this, yeah, the offense got going, the big plays got going, but they opened up some holes in the run game and gave Joe a chance to have time to throw the ball down the field.


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[Assistant] You know, I think it's just progress little by little and hopefully last week he didn't aggravate it to a point where it set him back. You know, the problem with an injury like that, like what you're saying is, you know,


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[Assistant] Hey, we're good, we're good, we're good. We play the game. It sets us back five days. Now we get a, oh, okay, can we catch up again to get back ahead of normal? And it looks like he is at least making progress that way. But, uh, yeah, that was encouraging. And the big play bangles got off to, uh, or finally got off and got going this year. And that was good to see for Borough and Company.


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[Assistant] I think, I think they're on the cusp of something here. I do. You know, they're


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[Assistant] I don't want to go like too crazy and say they're back, they're back, but I do,


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[Assistant] They got some culture there as far as a football team, right? They played like the desperate team today in that game. They looked like they were flying around and being more physical.


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[Assistant] They could be, they play Seattle next. Alright, Seattle's lit up a lot of big pass plays this year. So I look at that and go, yeah, they're back.


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[Assistant] But I don't know, after the bye week they got the 49ers and the Bills, right? They still got work to do, but I just think it's a nice positive step in the right direction. And the biggest thing is, if they can just protect Joe Burrow, they're gonna be dangerous as hell, regardless. Even with their simpleness of their offense, that's the big thing. But the other thing that's a little concerning, and you and I were texting about this over the weekend a little, right?


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[Assistant] The bangles defense. Yes. That is the one thing that I look at and go...


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[Assistant] Like, it's shocking to me. He's a great defense coordinator, Lou Anarumo. They're very creative. They might be going a little too much like, hey, we're going to try to squash every play, but they're letting up way too many big plays. It's kind of been a theme for them here through five weeks and even today it was. So that's something that's a little disappointing and hopefully they can write that as well.


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[Assistant] Wow. Wow. I, meh. I mean, hey listen, he launched this right here.


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[Assistant] What'd they say it was in the air? What was it? 58.1 yards. 58.1 yards. It was a beautiful football. And let's watch it again here, and if you're watching...


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[Assistant] On our YouTube page here, you'll see they're kinda playing cover 2 to 1 side and quarters to the other side, right? So if you can rewind it, Pete, a little bit there, or just let it play again. 22 with Taylor Irwin right in front of him running the crow route. Well, that's his job to kinda stop that. So again,


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[Assistant] It gets into a little bit what we've talked about with the Mangos. When they start to get into Week 4 or 5 and they start to go, wait, they play this defense versus this formation, they start to call the right plays at the right time, and that's where the genius of Zach Taylor starts to really show up. And maybe that's what we'll see. Because we've seen that the last two seasons, and by the looks of today, we might


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[Assistant] Somebody cracked the Dolphins track me team? I mean, at one point today, I think eight of the fast ten fastest plays of the year were all Dolphins, right? So that, that is unbelievable. And, uh, yeah, good for them.


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[Assistant] I think he's starting to be, when you run that many, you run that fast and you have that many highlights on a week to week basis, you start to just have a one name.


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[Assistant] Alright, and I mean, we just haven't got to see Jalen Waddle out to stretch it out yet, before he starts to enter that. And then you got, and then you got Chase Claypool coming to town?


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[Assistant] We'll see about that. Well yea, we'll see. I think that for some reason that's gonna work. And I just did an update. Doot doot doot doot doot doot. Yeah. Doot doot doot. Dak Prescott just threw his third interception. The game is 42 to 10, 49ers. And he's gonna be re- he thought he was pissed off going in this week. Yeah. Wait till he's p- this next week. Oh didn't he say that? Oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] Well, he said he was very mad about the questions after the post-game press conference.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's as fun a offense to watch as I can ever remember. You know, like we've talked about, it's like Shanahan in reverse. Shanahan does it through the run game. They're doing it through the pass game. Right? But where they're special this year, we knew how dangerous they were in the pass game. We saw that all last year.


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[Assistant] They are equally as dangerous in the run game, and that's where it's gone to another level. The toughness, the physicality of their offensive line, and then I think Mike McDaniel,


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[Assistant] Putting in some extra hours to go, hey, wait, I love all these pass plays and pass yards and all this, but if we want to win the Super Bowl and beat the elite defenses in football,


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[Assistant] We can't just think I'm gonna drop back and pass with two all game and do it that way, right? And I think that's the beauty of what they're doing there.


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[Assistant] They're giving themselves other avenues, let alone they're protecting.


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[Assistant] Their top investments and they want to do the passing game. But if you're going to keep playing too deep.


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[Assistant] And keeps trying to stop all these big plays. Okay. Then we got something else for you here. And like we talk about with the bangles or anybody else, now you're going to have to adjust to that and that can open it up. But I've never seen a team go horizontal and vertically as fast as the Miami Dolphins. And the game was going to be a blowout.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was like, attract me, and you're like, I don't know, the Giants are barely two-hand touching them down, and then two went through the pick six, and it became a game again for a little bit.


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[Assistant] Uh, which was, hey, a big play by the Giants. Wink Martindale and company, the D-D, they tried to hang in there for a little while, but they don't have the horses or the manpower to mess with an offense like the Dolphins right now.


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[Assistant] That's what everybody does to the fastest guy, right? If you get caught, and what I want to say is first off,


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[Assistant] He's been running around like a psycho for you know, the last quarter and a half.


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[Assistant] And let's not forget too, he's got a ball in his hand. And the guy Xavier McKinney is really fast and he doesn't have a ball in his hand. So that does make a difference.


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[Assistant] But those are like, I bet you that pissed him off. I can tell you that. He is so fast. I mean, look how he reversed his field. And when he got to this point right there, I thought he was gone. Uh, it was a great job by Xavier McKinney. But I, I've never seen a guy who can start, stop, re-accelerate.


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[Assistant] Like a, a fun, reckless way about them and how they play. Uh, that's just, it's always aggressive. It's always, we're attacking, we're attacking, we're attacking. And I think that's the cool thing. And again, they're without their best pass rusher on defense right now.


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[Assistant] Let's just get to that side of the ball real quick. I mean, the Giants are incapable of doing anything on the offense. The Giants offensive line is an embarrassment. They gotta think of some other ways.


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[Assistant] And some things to do on that side of the ball to help their offensive line right now because there's just too many plays where Daniel Jones, who's banged up because he's been under physical assault for three weeks. And of course he's banged up. You've been hit by, he's been hit by one train and truck after another and it's getting to the point where, yeah, you just go, man, you worry about the guy taking that many hits.


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[Assistant] I think the big thing is they have injuries right now, right? It's three injuries, they're missing their best lineman at left tackle. They still got a young guy at right tackle, right? Bredesen and Schmitz, Schmitz are both like, Bredesen was in for a little while, then got hurt again today. You know, the center's out.


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[Assistant] And it was an old line that was still like a work in progress, not like it was like, Oh man, we got our group. We're really awesome. Like we were like, Hey, we saw progress, but we got to continue to get better and they can't even get on the field together to get better. Right. And then, you know, off of that, it's just like they can't.


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[Assistant] Get any momentum going or anything going to where they have the lead, and unfortunately they've played teams that are better than them, and that's put them behind the eight ball, right? To now it's like, wow, we're down fourteen to three, we're down ten to nothing, now we have to throw the ball more than we want to. And there's no Saquon Barkley, and I think it all kind of plays into itself.


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[Assistant] They gotta just start doing some things, whether it's keeping the tight end to block more, more chipping the back.


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[Assistant] Right, uh, I, I see too many just five man protections that I just don't think are fair to Daniel Jones and company.


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[Assistant] Well, I'll say no one's gonna be able to come in there and play quarterback behind that offensive line, right? I don't think they're gonna be at the let's draft a new quarterback thing because it's like what we said it almost in the past, right? You know, I think that's the big thing is James Lennox like


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[Assistant] The Giants ownership, and the coaches, and let's just say this is Daniel Jones' last game of the year, right?


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[Assistant] Alright, or, or, you know, whatever. They're, they're gonna look at it at least up to this point and go, what realistically


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[Assistant] Could he have done better, right? Yeah, yeah, he missed a few throws here or there. We saw some guys in the Seattle game that maybe he could have hit, but also that's also after getting like crushed seven times, you know, or 27 times at that point, right? And it's just nothing has worked or flowed for them on that side of the ball. And I think they're going to realize that and evaluate it that way. I think it's still going to be more about,


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[Assistant] We gotta help him a little bit. He's good enough to win, just like we saw last year, right? There's just gotta be a little more support around him, and uh, yeaah. The Giants, as we talked about this year.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's them or the Niners, right? But I know, I think you're right with that statement. You know, after week one, the next three weeks, Buffalo was probably the most impressive team in the league.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, Alan's been on point and awesome. Here was the big thing to me. Okay. First off, we've talked about Jacksonville a little bit, being close, right? Yep. The offense got going today.


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[Assistant] Alright, I think that's the big thing. One, no doubt, whether it was run game, big plays in the pass game, got Calvin Ridley going, Christian Kirk had a big day, right? They were the team that played with energy.


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[Assistant] They were the team that looked like they were used to life over in London.


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[Assistant] And the time change, Buffalo looked like a team that...


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[Assistant] Was still getting used to the time change and still getting done with their ticker tape parade from last week's victory over the Miami Dolphins, right? I mean it was instantly, I was sitting on the couch this morning with a cup of coffee at 9.30 and right away you kind of went


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[Assistant] Whoa, okay, wait, Buffalo doesn't look as fast as they did last week. You know, Jacksonville kind of looks like the team in a little urgency. So, one, I think the offense was really damn good by Jacksonville today like we talked about. The other side of this too that I think that jumped out to me in


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[Assistant] And one, hey, I mean not one, two, three, four, I'm at them right now. Six. Six, right. Jacksonville's good. We've talked about this. They're talented.


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[Assistant] You know, even in their two losses, I mean, it was close, like we said. That's where I wasn't concerned with them. I kept saying, I see a lot of good things. Some self-inflicted mistakes and a young team getting used to winning and playing football that way. Today, I think it came together. I wouldn't be shocked if this was kind of a launching point. They're extremely good up front.


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[Assistant] Right? They got great s- good up front on defense. They got good linebackers in the middle. They got a really good secondary. Right? They're a pretty aggressive scheme on that side of the ball. And then offensively, you know, I like everything what they do. You know, it doesn't blow you away like the Dolphins or the 49ers.


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[Assistant] They do everything and they, they're not afraid to trick it up, crazy formations or just go, Hey, wait, we think we can run you over today and we're going to run the ball. So they can do it all. And they have the flexibility because their roster is really good. And then their quarterback is really good. So their offense tore it up today.


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[Assistant] One, the Bills beat up on the defensive line, they had issues getting pressure on Trevor Lawrence, and, you know, you saw them get run on by ATN. You know, they found ways to get Ridley the ball down the field, but the biggest thing was this. Their defense, we've seen


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[Assistant] Josh Allen tear people up the last few weeks. And especially with down the field passes. Down the field passes. The Jaguars it looked like in everything I saw were like, you're not throwing down field.


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[Assistant] We're totally fine with you being patient and checking in underneath and I think they felt like


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[Assistant] That they were like, you don't have anybody great after the catch, we'll let you catch it for four, we're gonna rally and we're gonna tackle and you'll get maybe one more yard and it'll be five, but they weren't gonna let Josh Allen throw post corners for 50 yard lasers down the field, you know what I mean? That to me kinda looked like what it was, uh, and he was confused a lot through the day.


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[Assistant] Just by the look of the team, the way he got carted off. Daquan Jones, de-tackle.


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[Assistant] Coming off that phenomenal game last week, right? Had all the pressures on Tua.


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[Assistant] Alright, that'll be a big deal. That will. And that's where I don't want to over-assess this game a little with the Bills. I mean, no Rousseau, right?


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[Assistant] You know, those are some big injuries to overcome in a game like this. Well, at a certain point, you can't. No, you can't. You cannot. That's exactly right. And we'll see if they can here going forward. That's gonna be a big question. You know, uhm, because I know, I think even Epinessa got a little banged up towards the end of the football game.


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[Assistant] Right, he played good. We'll see where Von Miller is. He was on a pitch count today. Uh, but yeaah, that was disappointing for them and, and I hope they're okay because, uh, yeaah, they certainly won't be the same if, if the majority of those guys are out for an extended period of time or the whole season.


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[Assistant] Well, listen, you know I was hot during the game.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, again, I know they try to say it's a hybrid field.


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[Assistant] I don't, I'm sick of hybrid fields. Nobody wants a hybrid field. Everybody wants real grass. That's what all the football players want.


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[Assistant] You know, the Tottenham Spurs, their billion dollars worth of soccer players, they play on the grass field. They don't play on the combination field.


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[Assistant] So, yeaah, that bothers me. You know it does. I just, I'm annoyed by that. And I certainly think we saw some injuries today that, you know, you certainly could question if it was the field or not. And, uh, yeaah, I'm gonna continue to fight that fight.


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[Assistant] We rescind our apology from last week. Yeaah. I don't know. I still feel like it's post-season's coming. Yeaah. The injuries are a concern. The injuries are a game-changer. 100%. There's two things. Injuries, game-changing, right?


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[Assistant] You know, hey, we said about Jacksonville's good. They're talented. They are. And, I think the other thing we were seeing here,


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[Assistant] It's just, the AFC is really good. So if you have a team with one, oh I'm having an off week, or we are not motivated or a little banged up,


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[Assistant] It can, the pendulum can swing that aggressively to where we were literally going. The Dolphins and what the Bills did to them last week was so impressive. And are they the best team in the foot, in football and all of that? Oh, we're banged up. Oh damn, Jacksonville's healthy and they're really talented.


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[Assistant] And, uh, hey, it was 25 to 20, but felt like Jacksonville controlled the game more than a five point victory.


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[Assistant] Well yea, it wasn't me. I mean the pressure was on. I really do feel that if he had an average or below average day, that next week would have been Taylor Heinecke starting. I think it was that, I think that's where they were at this. Right? Very, best game of his young career. Right?


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[Assistant] You know, they ran the ball okay today, but in most of their victories, we see them control the line of scrimmage and go, Oh man, they dominated run the football and rid her through for like 130 yards and they found a way to win the game, right? Or maybe 180 or something like that. This was a day here where.


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[Assistant] You know, Houston was all over the run game, and they were kinda calling their bluff. Like, hey, if you're gonna win, you're gonna have to throw it. We're not gonna let you run the ball.


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[Assistant] So it was, it was tough sledding and you know, they started to open it up and Pitts got involved, Drake London got involved, and the biggest thing here, and, and this game had a lot of the feel


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[Assistant] A little bit of the Ravens and the Steelers where you were like, wait, the Falcons are kind of controlling this football game.


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[Assistant] Kind of messing it up a little bit. Yes. They had a late hit on a penalty that on a third down that took them out of field goal range. Bijon Robinson fumbled one time. Yes. That gave the Falcons a short field field goal. Right? Uh, they march right down the field on another drive and Jonu Smith fumbles.


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[Assistant] So there was, this is one of those games where you kept going, Oh, Atlanta's about to take control. Oh my gosh. Oh no, this happened. And then CJ Stroud, of course, who is still one of my man crushes in football. You give him too many chances. He's going to dice your ass up. Like we saw.


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[Assistant] Right. The Falcons D is the star of their team. Right? We know they can run the ball, and that'll continue to be a thing. But the Falcons D...


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[Assistant] To me, he's got everything. They're another one I look at. Their secondary is super talented. They got some big people on the front line, right?


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[Assistant] And, you know, maybe not a household name pass rusher at this point, but I don't think most people realize that the Falcons went into the, into this weekend as the seventh ranked defense in football, right?


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[Assistant] And, you know, not that their schedule has been like...


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[Assistant] The hardest ever, but it, it hasn't been easy. I mean, Detroit and Jacksonville, as we saw, are pretty good offenses. And, you know, they, they did okay in slowing them down. Uh, but yes, today, that was the big thing of the game, was holding the Texans to field goals. And a lot of those times in short field where you go, oh no, you know, Atlanta's in control.


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[Assistant] Holy cow. Here's Houston. They score a touchdown here. Might put Atlanta in a game where, oh no, they're gonna have to throw more than they'd like and drop back and be a little too obvious with that aspect. And, uh, their defense held them in it, like you said, and then, then Ritter started to hit some big plays.


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[Assistant] I give them credit for hanging with their quarterback, the guy that they evaluated all offseason and said, this is our guy. We're going to stay with them even though it hasn't been pretty. And, uh, we'll see if this, you know, jump starts him and gives him some confidence and gets their offensive pass game.


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[Assistant] Well, if mama says it's Bajan, then I'm going with Bajan.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be tough, cause I had a friend growing up named Bijan, Bijan, like you said it. So now that goes into my head instantly. But Bijan, I can throw that out there, I can do that. Mama Nando Bijan, I'ma call him Bijan.


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[Assistant] You don't even know what that's from that movie. I have no idea. You gotta see coming to America with Eddie Murphy. I have seen that movie actually. I have seen that. So that's the scene in the barbershop when Muhammad Ali, they go mama call him Clay. Mama call him Clay. Yes. Right? So that's where I was going off there.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's the headline. No doubt. I mean, geez, good for him.


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[Assistant] Right. Good win for the Jets to follow up the, wait, we almost beat the Super Bowl champs last week at home. You weren't sure how they were going to come out. Are they going to be like, hey, we're good now and we can play with the Chiefs. We'll play with anybody. It was sloppy. It wasn't a pretty football game by any stretch of the imagination.


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[Assistant] Nobody could score. No one could score. No, I mean, uhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, by the Jets, where they throw an outroute, they're in field goal range, the guy, they have no timeouts, they don't get anything there. Of course, the bad back shoulder throw by Zach Wilson at the end of the game. Yeaah. Right, that gets intercepted. Where again, I wanna say,


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[Assistant] Like, I know we want to be aggressive with Zach Wilson and be more aggressive than what they were early on here. But also still, like, realize he's still Zach Wilson and we can't totally just put him in the trust tree in every big moment and go, oh, he's gonna do it. Like, they gotta protect him from him a little bit. And for the betterment of themselves.


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[Assistant] You know, that was one there at the end of the football game with the back shoulder to Garrett Wilson where I just want to go kick the field, be simple, kick the field goal.


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[Assistant] And go up 27-21, just like we talked about last week with the Bears Broncos, and make the Broncos and Russell Wilson and Sean Payne who are feeling all the pressure, go down and score a touchdown.


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[Assistant] On your defense. Instead, they do that, they get that, and now you're like, oh gosh, I mean, here we are, and if they kick a field goal here, we're gonna go into overtime.


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[Assistant] So that's where they just need to manage some of those situations better, but nonetheless, D made some big plays and some big moments, which we expect from the Jets, right? And, Brice Hall is a star. I mean, Brice Hall is the key to their success.


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[Assistant] And when they can have a little success running with him, and you give him just a little bit of a space, he's a home run hitter. And it changes their football team, and then of course it opens up things for Zach Wilson and the pass offense and makes things easier there too. Uh, good win for the Jets and Matt Hackett and shoving it up Sean Patons, you know what, and the whole Broncos.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, Russell Stripsack at the end of the game, right? I mean, they're driving to get a feel, boom, they score a touchdown, Stripsack. P. Ryan fumbles on another drive where they were kind of driving, right? And then the Mims fumble


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[Assistant] I can't remember if he did that on a pun return.


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[Assistant] It was sloppy. It was a game that had a little bit of everything as far as sloppiness is concerned. And yeaah, it was, uh, you know.


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[Assistant] It's a good win for the Jets. The Jets offense still, as we know, needs to be better. But I think again, we saw another step in the right direction. There was moments of consistency from Zach Wilson and a few different drives.


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[Assistant] And the run game as we see, if they can get that going, and the defense...


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[Assistant] Is really damn good. You know, I wish again they'd start the game better a little bit that way. But man, they made a lot of plays and were all over Russell Wilson. And they're close to making a whole bunch of other plays too. Uh, so it makes me think that it's only a matter of time before this Jets defense really like has a


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[Assistant] A show out, you know, what do I want to be? A big game to just be like, hey, we are the real deal on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Quincy Williams, I'd put him up there as far as acceleration and speed with any linebacker in the sport, right? And that was him at the end of the game who closed in on Russell Wilson and stripped him, uh, and really ended up winning the football game for them there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah. It's a Broncos team that's still finding their way. You know, they


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[Assistant] Are still not great on defense as we saw. They got issues in the run game and the pass game. It's a Jets offense that had 407 yards of offense, right? That doesn't usually go along with them.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's that, but here's a bright spot for the, the Broncos. Okay. The damn running back, McLaughlin? Yea, he looked good. They found something there. I mean, he's got three rockets up his ass. I mean, he really does. I mean, he made some game-changing plays and flipped field position.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, pass game and run game that really like popped out to me. So he was something, definitely a standout for the Broncos and their football team.


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[Assistant] Ow, damn. The Hard Knocks champs, the Aaron Rodgers off-season champs came in and beat ya.


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[Assistant] Got it. Got the Eagles coming to town this week. That won't be easy. But still, two and three.


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[Assistant] At least sets you up for, hey, no matter what happens to the Eagles, they're not out of it. And if it's two and four, whatever it is after that, uh, you know, they're still in this, and they still got a lot of talent, and let's just see if Zach Wilson and company continue to grow.


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[Assistant] The Cowboys came out in the second half and did a, had a tough field goal drive and were absolutely smothered from that point on.


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[Assistant] There you go. 37 minutes of time in possession by the 49ers. 22 with 55 seconds from Dallas.


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[Assistant] Not gonna get it done. You know, they're a tough matchup.


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[Assistant] Uh, as we know, as far as the 49ers and the Cowboys there. The Cowboys do not match up well with them. And they're gonna have to find some new ways and some new avenues to attack them on the offensive side of the ball. Throwing the ball short and quick, which Dallas is doing a lot of this year.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's not conducive to being the 49ers. The 49ers...


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[Assistant] Their defenses are all played to take away that stuff. They're kind of one of those defenses you hear me say all the time. They dare you to go, we don't think you'll throw it deep. We don't think you'll throw it outside the numbers. We're gonna call your bluff.


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[Assistant] And, you know, the, the cowboys couldn't find anything along those lines to really scare the 49ers or back them off the whole night.


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[Assistant] No, it's, uh, Dak's gonna hear about it. And, you know, the, the, all three interceptions were, were pretty bad. They were. You know.


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[Assistant] The one at the end of Berks is really bad. He threw a post route into a bad coverage look that Gibson got.


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[Assistant] And I can't remember the Fred Warner interception, I believe that was off of a tip, but Fred Warner also had the forced fumble, uh, on Tony Pollard too, in a big moment early on in the football game that gave the 49ers the short field to go in and score a touchdown as well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, as I said, like, you know, I know Shanahan last week got pissed off, right, about, or just was like, oh, that's ridiculous to call him a system quarterback, right? There's this, like, negative connotation around system quarterback right now. That you need a system, I think, is the idea.


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[Assistant] Well yea, which, which, you know, again, I think is an overrated talking point. I do. A lot of quarterbacks can't run the system like Brock Purdy does. He's got a talent to do that. Right? There's nothing wrong with, like, being a quarterback like that.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. I mean, almost always. Like, only a few can overcome the system. And it usually doesn't mean they overcome it to winning a Super Bowl. Like you heard me say earlier before the podcast, Elway.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he didn't have a system. He was great. You know, went to three Super Bowls, lost all three. Got with Mike Shanahan, got in the system, got a running game. Oh, he won two Super Bowls. Oh, he's a system quarterback. I don't know. It's just a little bit of an overblown topic at times. And the beauty of Purdy and the strength of Purdy is the fact that he can take all this offense in.


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[Assistant] And process it all throughout the week, at the line of scrimmage, when motions are going, everything like that. And still know what's being done, read the defense, know where to go the ball. I remember what Shanahan taught me and all that. The 49ers are special. They really are.


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[Assistant] They're unbelievable the way they run the ball and then him on top of this. This is where


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[Assistant] I was trying to say to people all week, like everyone was like, oh, the Cowboys, the Cowboys. I'm going, the 49ers are better than last year.


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[Assistant] The offense is more, it's tougher this year than it was last year in that when they played them in the divisional round, they were still in like, hey, let's manage Brock Purdy, let's not let him mess it up, he's young, you know, we'll kind of control the ball and play through our defense. Now it's like, no, we don't care, we're attacking on both sides of the ball and that's where they're scary and are clearly the best team in football through five weeks.


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[Assistant] I say it all the time. I think you've heard me say it. I think we've said it on the pod here a little bit. I worry about them overworking him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's take a little bit off of his workload a little bit. Let's, let's let Jordan Mason run a few balls every now and then.


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[Assistant] You know, he's featured, he's so talented, and he's such a mismatch.


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[Assistant] Not only because he's a really gifted runner, but as we know, when they put him out at receiver or anything like that,


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[Assistant] Nobody, linebackers and safeties cover running backs and none of them in football can cover him out of the backfield. And so Shanahan loves those kind of threats and toys to play with there. But yea, he's got to be careful about wearing them into the ground. But McCaffrey is


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[Assistant] The greatest white football player I've ever seen. I mean, I've never seen a white skilled guy like Kirsten McCaffrey. I'm dead serious.


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[Assistant] I'm not even, I'm not even being like funny. I've never seen anything like him, right? And just to be that quick, that explosive, everything like it, like I'm crowning him the greatest white skill guy in the history of the NFL right now. I'm crowning him that.


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[Assistant] And he did fumble tonight. I was wrong. Pollard fumbled, and then McCaffrey ended up fumbling a few plays later. I got it mixed up a little bit there, but yeaah, listen.


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[Assistant] He is their ultimate toy, their ultimate chest peach that really puts defenses in a bind. And that's where I would say, if my buddy Shanahan asked me, I'd go, hey, like 5% less touches per game. And then we get to the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Today was like where I've been telling you I'm trying to get over Jared Goff, right? Like hey, Jared Goff's real. It's good. Like stop trying to think it's gonna fall back to what it was two, three years ago with the Rams, right? We've gone past that. Same thing with the Lions. Like I was sitting there today just going...


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[Assistant] The Lions, like we've talked about with a few teams here today, they do it in their own way, but like the 49ers or the Dolphins, they, it's, they attack you all the time. That's what I look at them.


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[Assistant] Their offense is incredible. They can gash you with a 40 yard run or a 40 yard pass, and it doesn't matter which way they do it. I mean, you start the game with two big passes, a big run, touchdown, hey, 7-0, we're up.


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[Assistant] And then they try to throw a little screen pass and freak Aidan Hutchinson makes an unbelievable one-handed interception and you're like damn it's 14 to nothing. They got it.


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[Assistant] You know, your D's not like it was in years past. So you're just going, okay, I mean, and then, you know, they, the, the, uhm, the, the Panthers answer and go on like a tough drive.


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[Assistant] Right? But then I think your defense created another turnover. I think that's where Bryce Young threw the interception on the left sideline, right?


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[Assistant] That's maybe what I'm thinking about. They got the ball right back and then they ran the trick play for the touchdown, right? That was the, the toss sweep. He tossed it to the, uh, receiver on the reverse. He tossed it to Jared Goff, who then threw it to Laporta up the sidelines. I might be a little off on that one. You might have the order off here, but that play did happen.


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[Assistant] But either way, yeaah, your D stops the run, right? You can rush the passer a little bit.


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[Assistant] And I don't see a ton of people open in the pass game when people play Detroit right now. Detroit's got it going. They're definitely one of the better teams in football. And they put the pressure on you on both sides of the ball all game long. Right? And that's where I'm really impressed.


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[Assistant] So this was the play after Young threw the interception to make it 28-7. Alright, so I got my facts straight finally. Either way, you knew the Dolphins, I mean the Detroit Lions are dangerous. We saw this same exact play from the 49ers tonight. They threw a touchdown pass to George Kittle on the same exact play.


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[Assistant] Yeah, again. Oh, we're playing the reverse, right?


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[Assistant] Okay, we pitch it back to the quarterback. Laporta kind of slow plays it like he's blocking for the toss sweep and the reverse.


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[Assistant] And then, what happens when that happens? Well, oh wait, I'm being blocked. The guy defending him or covering him starts to look in the backfield. He sheds them and it's like, oh no. And then, of course, that's where you see 21 chasing him from behind. But Laporte is really good in both areas of the football game. Running and passing. And that's where Detroit's dangerous.


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[Assistant] They literally can just go, wait, how's this team playing us? What are they good at? We'll do the other. Oh, they're good at stopping the run? Then we'll play action and gash you in the pass game. Oh, they're playing to stop the pass and play action? Well, we'll gash you in the run game. You know, you got a little bit of that, let alone your defense is the real deal this year, and that's where


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't remember the Lions ever looking like this in my lifetime. Even in the 91 Lions, I did not feel like their team was like this, right? Uh, you guys are legit in all areas.


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[Assistant] They can make the case for lions over cowboys not from what we saw here today.


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[Assistant] The Lions will be a tough matchup for the Cowboys. It's almost like the 49ers. It's gonna be the same thing, at least for the Cowboys defense, where they're gonna have to overcommit to stop on the run because they're not big enough.


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[Assistant] And it's going to make them vulnerable to some big plays down in the past.


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[Assistant] And big plays in the pass game, they don't happen often. In this one, they didn't really happen until the game got out of hand, and the Panthers got some late yards and cheap points that way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for the way they're built, they need their D and their run game to work and then just Bryce Young to make a few plays here and there. Right now, the D is okay. It's not playing as good as it can.


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[Assistant] And they're getting in situations where Bryce Young and company have to throw the ball too often and they're just not that good enough in the pass game right now to say, oh we'll carry the game by ourselves without a run game. Uh, so yea, the Panthers I think got some tough times ahead here.


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[Assistant] Right, this is what McVeigh does. This is why, you know, Pooka Nakua had all these catches to start the year. Every play to start the game was for Cooper Cup. Every play.


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[Assistant] Right? And some of the guys will tell you in the back, I was like calling out players going like, Hey, watch, they're going to do all this and it's going to be Cooper Cup over the middle. And it just, that's what McVay does. And again, it goes back into, he's going to make you defend something to open up some other things, you know, for their offense.


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[Assistant] The Rams hang in there, as we always know. They're well coached, their defense gave the Eagles a tough time there for a while. You know, they're, they're, they're creative on both sides of the ball. They just don't have the


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[Assistant] What they're, what they've showed me the last two weeks and where they're a little different than maybe what I would have said last year or maybe some of the people that like thinking I'm negative on Jalen Hurts. Alright, what I like about what I've seen two weeks in a row here is


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[Assistant] Teams playing things to stop the run or the run not working and the Eagles being able to go, oh okay, well that's no big deal, we'll tear you up at the pass game.


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[Assistant] I do, I do. I feel like there's more precision passing over the middle that's going on.


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[Assistant] Right? And what I do worry about them a little bit is, in their secondary, their scheme itself,


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[Assistant] They don't seem to be very good at playing zone coverage, and they're a good man-to-man team, but as we know, you play a ton of man in this league with these receivers and some of these play-callers, it's dangerous.


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[Assistant] And that's where I, I do worry about their ability to stop the pass maybe against some of the better passing teams in football. I know they're gonna win, they're never gonna lose battles up front. I know that. But that would be my one thing I look at at them right now. Just go, hey, if you can block them a little like we saw with Sam Howell and company.


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[Assistant] You know, I do think there's ways to attack them down the field in the pass game. They got the Jets coming up next. I mean...


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[Assistant] Should be interesting. It's not gonna be easy for that Philadelphia offense, for sure. Right? The big thing is, is can the Jets offense do anything on the Philadelphia Eagles defense? That's gonna be the big thing. Uh, but it'll be a lot of green on the field that day.


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[Assistant] Like commercials with his quarterback? Yes. Like that doesn't go down a lot, right? I think that speaks to like them in general and their relationship have and how cool and eagle-less they both are and why they can just make it work week after week.


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[Assistant] I think the big thing that I look at with the Chiefs right now, the defense is really encouraging, right? Again, to me, the defense is kind of the star of the show once again.


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[Assistant] No, I mean, just didn't let Justin Jefferson go off, right? You know, Kirk Cousins' numbers were good, but not great. There was no run game to speak of. I think that's what I'm most surprised with with the Chiefs this year, is that the defense, week after week, has been a handful.


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[Assistant] The thing that I worry about is offenses hard. It's hard. It's work for them. I know they're still good in one of the best offenses in football. I get it. I know that. But it's just a lot of jamming into a tight window.


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[Assistant] Oh, the pockets collapse and let me make a move and throw a ball sidearm into another tight window. Oh, this guy caught a ball and broke this guy's ankles and did something else and just got the first down. Right? I guess that's kind of how I feel right now. To me, I look at them


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[Assistant] And it's a little like we talked about last year, but I think I'm a little bit even more concerned this year than last year. They need another weapon on the offensive side of the ball in the pass game. That's what I worry about with them right now.


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[Assistant] It's too relying on my homes right now. You know how we used to be like with Josh Allen and it was always like, eh, it's always Allen, Allen, Allen. And right now that's, you know, at least there's a little running game to go with this.


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[Assistant] But I still feel like in every big pass situation, I just want to go, can someone catch a slant and run for 40 more yards? Can somebody do that? Right? I mean, does it always have to be him finding Kelsey over the middle in a big moment to get, Oh, it's starting five. Oh, it's Kelsey for six. Oh, he got it again. Like that's just what it feels like too much.


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[Assistant] You know, those are plays where anybody else, you go, that's luck right there, but they do it like four times a week. It's like, no, that's what they do. It's unbelievable. But yeah, you know, again, can you beat the one in four Vikings that way? Sure. Can you beat the other upper echelon teams in football that way? I don't know right now. And where, you know,


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[Assistant] Hey listen, as you've always heard me say, their offense is good, right? It's really good. They do a lot of moving parts and creative, right? But the way they run their offense, it's predicated on somebody being scary.


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[Assistant] And right now, the only scary thing is Mahomes. And then, oh, him finding Kelsey underneath, right? And that to me would be the big thing there. You know, Kaderius Tony, they can't ever seem to really get him going on a regular basis. You don't see anybody catch like,


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[Assistant] You know, big passes down the field on a regular basis, right? So that to me is where I'm worried about them a little bit, and we've seen what now? The Jaguars game, last week against the Jets, this game right here.


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[Assistant] Right? And your Lions game early in the year was kinda like, they did a few good ones, but a lot of little, uh, too.


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[Assistant] Now I know their numbers are always somewhat good. They got one of the if not the greatest quarterback ever in the history of football plans.


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[Assistant] That's what I mean by how much work it is. That's what I'm talking about. Exactly right. Thank you for bringing me back there. That's a lot of work and a lot of throws for only 281 yards and that's what I worry about them going in the future.


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[Assistant] Careful, protect him. Right. It just shows you what a brutal sport the NFL is. It doesn't matter how big and tough you are, you think you're in college, you get in the NFL, it's a different game. These guys are just bigger, faster, it's a way more physical style of game.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't get it now either. Why didn't we just pay him this five weeks ago? Could have done that too. Right. I don't understand it.


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[Assistant] Now, they're probably looking at a handful of these plays that were going, and I think it's fair, because I remember seeing a few in the Ravens, and I've seen a few plays to go, hey, that was a good run, they got 15.


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[Assistant] But if that was Jonathan Taylor, so I've said that to myself a few times, and I'm sure they've seen that and gone, damn, that's a touchdown for Jonathan Taylor. It's a 25 yard gain for Zach Moss. And I don't mean that to be disrespectful, Jonathan Taylor's just a pretty special specimen that way.


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[Assistant] To have both of them. Exactly right. It is. In this day and age to have that and I think we're starting to see that they're like a legit running team to your point.


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[Assistant] You know, this is the Shane Steichen effect. Shane, he's got, he's great at not only


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[Assistant] Before the game, game planning, but then as the game goes along, figuring out, wait, they're playing us like this, this run will be a pain in the ass for them, let's do all that. Uh, so that was the shocking thing. But again, their offense, week in and week out, continues to find a way, find ways to move the ball. And I did not expect them to run the ball like that on the Tennessee Titans. The Titans have been


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[Assistant] Damn good at stopping the run this year. I mean, damn good. And I just did not expect them to break as many big runs as they did and kind of control the line of scrimmage all day.


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[Assistant] He's, you know, this is why we always have him in the low thirties, right, in the quarterback rankings and all that. He's definitely one of the best backup quarterbacks in football.


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[Assistant] A good starting quarterback. I'm not saying, you know, he's a top 20 guy, but he damn, he, I mean, you could see he can run an offense. He does the right thing with the ball. People open downfield. He'll make some big plays there, right? And this game, it wasn't like, I know you look at the numbers in the run game and you go, Oh, the Colts must have dominated this. No, the Titans actually showed


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[Assistant] Offensive ability in this football game too. Derek Henry down at the goal line. I mean, what? At the end of the game. Holy crap.


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[Assistant] I mean that, we saw Tannehill in the pass game have some moments. DeAndre Hopkins had his best game as the Titans there, uh, as a Titan football player. Um, but yeaah, you know, get stopped on fourth and two, right? And then shotgun run on


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[Assistant] Fourth and two. Alright, so they get the big pass to Hopkins. It gets them down the field. They're there in the red area to score a touchdown. I hated the fourth down call. It's shotgun


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[Assistant] Derek Henry, he's gotta run sideways for a few yards before he can get downhill and ever get the momentum that makes him so dangerous. That was one thing that certainly jumped out to me that I didn't love. Uh, but then,


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[Assistant] The Colts, I mean, that was the end of the game, right? I mean, that was really what did it, because they made the stop there. I think Moss had another big run, and then Moss had a big catch.


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[Assistant] And got them down the field to kick the field goal to go up 23.


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[Assistant] He and E.J. Speed have kind of been the, like, damn, I just didn't realize they were that good for that Colts defense, right? They're the guys every week I go, man, 44 and 45, 44 and 45, holy shit, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, we knew some of the other guys were good on their team, but yeaah. Like really impressive Zyra Franklin. He was everywhere today. I mean, made tackle after tackle.


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[Assistant] Uh, big, big time win for the Colts. Colts are another team where I keep going, oh, they're young. It's a new head coach. It's going to fall off here a little bit. And it just shows you how good Stike it is. They have a good game plan every week and that defense is a handful and here they are sitting


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[Assistant] It's just, they're doing things on a regular basis that we didn't see the Patriots do for 20 years. Pick 6 to start the game. Pick 6, another...


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[Assistant] Offense lets the other team score a touchdown with their defense. I mean, holy crap. Big plays in the pass game, right? I mean, it's a pick six and they hit a big pass to Rashid Shahid.


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[Assistant] And I look up, and the game's 14-nothing. And you're going, damn, this is not what the, the Patriots wanna be. I mean, in that position? Again.


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[Assistant] They're slow on offense. They can't run the ball right now. They have to throw the ball more than they would like.


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[Assistant] But, like Billy, it's predicated on them being able to run the ball a little bit. Billy O'Brien's not where he is because it's like, hey, I throw the ball 45 times a game and we just tear you up that way. It's not that, you know, creative and eccentric and all that. So, they're being forced to play games that they're just, they're not capable of winning.


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[Assistant] And, and then you add that with the injuries and some of the things they got going on their roster, like yeaah. I'm concerned. No doubt. Your best defensive player, Judon's out.


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[Assistant] Your secondary, which is always kind of your, wait, we're really good at coaching and being creative on that side, they're banged up. That's not the same. That's another big advantage taken away from them. They're usually pretty creative and physical in their run game, but they've been beat up on the O-line. They can't do that at all.


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[Assistant] Okay, so now they're being able to throw with a slow group of receivers and a quarterback that's really a system guy.


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[Assistant] That would benefit from give me a million plays and coach me up instead of


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[Assistant] I'm gonna be basic and throw lasers around the field. That's not who he is. And it's just all rolling downhill in a bad way. They're one in four right now. I'm regretting.


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[Assistant] Playoffs. Cause I don't think that's gonna happen. No, I can sit here right now and tell you that it's not happening. You would kiss my foot. I'll kiss your foot part two. Okay. Kill Bill part two. Kiss your foot part two. If the Patriots get into the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Not like the Saints were awesome. No, they wasn't pretty. The Saints are the same thing we talk about too. It's ugly on offense, you know, but today at least they, they can run the ball a little bit. They made a play or two in the pass game, but never even really had to cause the Patriots are just like, Hey, here's the game right away. You're up. Go ahead. Run away with it.


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[Assistant] Uh, here, here's great field position. No problem. I mean, it's just, it's, it's a disaster for the Patriots and I don't know how it's going to really change. I don't. You know, the biggest thing to me is that they have not evolved on offense. That would be the biggest thing. They have not evolved scheme wise and they're still kind of old world thoughts of like,


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[Assistant] You know, we're just gonna be big and we're gonna play that way. And it's just like, no, you gotta have some speed at receiver to scare some people. You gotta have somebody like we always talk about that can maybe take a reverse or catch a slant and get changed to field position. And they never have any of that. And it's just too hard to win the way they play week in and week out. They have no weapons right now.


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[Assistant] You know, this week at least got the win. They didn't have mistakes. Like, that was maybe one of the shockers of the weekend. You thought, I really thought the psychology of that game was the Bears were gonna fall apart after losing that way to Denver, right? 28-7 lead and all that.


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[Assistant] And then I thought, Washington, they went toe to toe with the Eagles, they got a lot of talent on their team, they're gonna be, they're gonna show up to the party here.


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[Assistant] And it was the exact opposite. Very disappointing. Very disappointing. Washington should be embarrassed with the way they played. Magic Johnson said it right. There was no fight. There was no... There was no...


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[Assistant] Aggression, I mean, it was another game, as soon as you turned it on, you went, man, the Bears are flying around, and Washington just thinks their shit don't stink, and they're gonna win the game, cause they just, they went toe to toe with the Eagles.


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[Assistant] Right? And I am glad, one, Justin Fields did great throwing the football. You know, we're seeing them taking advantage of some of these plays that they were there the first few weeks. Now he's hitting them all the time.


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[Assistant] One of our guys that we've been pubbing on this podcast for a long time.


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[Assistant] DJ Moore is a superstar. Everybody's finally seeing it. Cause he's on the Bears and getting a little notoriety and all they do is feed him.


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[Assistant] But you could see, you get the ball in the hands of that guy, he is special. He really is. But yea, that was a disappointing, the commanders are too talented to get dominated like that against a team like the Bears.


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[Assistant] You know, I know people are gonna talk about the sacks. He missed a few throws in the first half. You'd like him to make.


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[Assistant] You know, but the other thing too, like, yeaah, he takes, he could learn to throw the ball away. Yeaah. Or learn where to get the ball out so he doesn't have to take the sack. But also like, like I say sometimes too, you gotta take context, how many great throws did he make with people in his face or as he was getting hit too? Right? So that's where there's a fine line there. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] No, no, exactly right. They got too far down and got into a one-dimensional football game. And even with that, Logan Thomas doesn't fumble when they were kind of around midfield that time. It felt like they were about to, you know, mount a comeback and make it really interesting. But good for Matt Eberfluss, who's coaching the defense like we talked about.


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[Assistant] Right? And he looked like he had a little attitude on that sideline the other night. Like, hey, it's your last chance, Eberfluss. Coach that defense up, get in everybody's face, show intensity, and they kind of showed that and they played like that in the field. And yeaah, that was kind of concerning by the commanders. Like his hair for Eberfluss was like even more in his face.


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[Assistant] He didn't care, you could tell he was, he was yelling at people, he was intense. And I think he finally realized, wait, if I'm going out, I'm going out on my terms. And hopefully this is a good thing for him and that Bears team. Justin was like to coach your hair, he's like, I don't care. I don't care, let him do what he's gonna do. Keep going to Moore.


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[Assistant] Coin toss with a burp in it, alright? Uhm, I'm a little concerned with that last showing by Green Bay. Yeah. And...


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[Assistant] You know, the Packers offense has been very inconsistent. We've seen some good early on in the year there by Jordan Love and Company. But we saw, you know, we've seen certainly a few quarters of going, damn, that's not good enough right there. The second half of the Falcons game.


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[Assistant] The whole first three quarters of the Saints game, and then no quarters in the Lions game. Yeaah, I'm going with the Raiders. I'm a little too worried about Detroit that, I mean Detroit that way, Green Bay that way, and Jimmy Garoppolo, sounds like he's going to be playing, uh, and, and you know, I think this is a game that


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[Assistant] Yeah, and you know, and they're another team too, like, you know, can they, can they start to run the ball a little bit to help him? They haven't been able to do that either, right? So that's not exactly what they want to do is, hey, Jordan Love, you know, throw it 40 something times a game. No.


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[Assistant] I mean, he led their team in rushing against the Saints, and then of course Detroit, they couldn't run the ball at all.


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[Assistant] And that's not a recipe for success for the young quarterback and a bunch of young receivers and everything like you're talking about.


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[Assistant] We did it. We did it. It's another week in the books. It's a great week. I mean, there are always great weeks in the NFL. They really were. I mean, we had some blowouts. We had some tight games.


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[Assistant] Yeah, in the NFL, if they don't come down in the last second, it's like, whoa, they put that team away with two minutes and seven seconds slaps, right? And you're like, they really controlled it. That's how close the NFL is. And like we always say, if you don't take advantage of some chances to put some teams away every week, we see that team that was down most of the game come back and win.


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[Assistant] We'll be on the lookout for all your tweets and questions. Be good out there. Peace out homies. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] A horse's ass covering horses. So my, my, my birthday is always this time of year, November 3rd, just like Big Phil. Happy birthday, by the way. Yep. And so if you would have told me in my twenties, like, Hey, once you turn 40,


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[Assistant] It's a beast of an event. There are like 14 championship races, all for multi-million dollars. And so it's exhausting, but.


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[Assistant] It's one of those where when you get done with it, you're like, yeah, that's pretty cool. It's a sense of accomplishment. So that was a fun time. Had some good races.


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[Assistant] Alright, Connor, I listened to Connor, I was on the plane, great replacement as always, and then you just did solo film with you. Damn, solo dola by myself there, wasn't easy. Well he was kinda sad, I was like, he's got no one there to talk to.


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[Assistant] Uh, 430. So, we're gonna go through those. Those quadruple header we'll call it. Taking care of business. Some teams just went out there and took care of business. The old fashioned way. Got a win when they were supposed to get a win. Uh, some teams are back in the win column.


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[Assistant] We'll go give me the headlines and we'll do a quick Thursday night football recap and a quick Monday night football preview. So if you've never listened to a Sunday night Monday morning pod before, that's the, that's how we do it. That's how we do it.


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[Assistant] Let's get right into it. The quadruple header. The four biggest games of the week. We'll start with the earliest one. In Germany. How did Germany get this game?


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[Assistant] He was talking to Mahomes after the game and he asked him, is this the best defense that the Chiefs have ever had since you've been here? He didn't answer that, but he did say, I do think we have the number one defense in the NFL.


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[Assistant] So if you're watching on Peacock or YouTube right now, we're showing the graphic that we showed on Football Night. So yeah, versus teams currently over 500. The Dolphins are 0 and 3 points per game, 17 points per game. Versus teams that are currently under 500, 6 and 0, undefeated, scoring almost 40 points per game. That's a drastic difference.


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[Assistant] And you think they will at some point. Like they should figure out something maybe a little bit better. Maybe it won't be the dominant offense that we've seen in the past, but they'll figure out something a little bit better. But yea, they held Tyreek Hill to a season low yards per catch of 7.8. Season low in points for the Dolphins in 14.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what, watching rugby, you don't have to watch it for too long to be like, there are some things that.


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[Assistant] And I don't want to take too long on this game, but I mean, having said all of this, the Dolphins did come back. Yes. And they did have a chance. Right. And Tua did have a wide open receiver on third and ten that I don't know what happened on that play. Well, I mean, yea, you do know what happens.


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[Assistant] Congratulations to Andy Reid. He ties Hank Stram for most regular season wins by a Kansas City head coach. So Andy, big Santa Claus as we get here towards the holiday season. Another notch in the bell.


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[Assistant] Get a win in Germany. The Ravens get a win in Baltimore. Another blowout home win.


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[Assistant] 37-3 over the Seahawks. And so, it's the opposite of the Miami Dolphins basically. You go, who have the Ravens beat? So the Ravens now are 3-0 this year.


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[Assistant] Yes. Uh, Keaton Mitchell, the running back 138 yards on just nine carries. That's a pretty good clip. 15 yards per carry. And this is it. I mean, this is what we were talking about all off season, right? With some running backs. And this is what, this is what can happen, right? Keaton Mitchell comes along. Isaiah Pacheco comes along and has a big year on a playoff team.


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[Assistant] It is true. You know, it's like, you seem, they seem to have a lot of weapons. Jackson Smith and Jigba has not really gone off as much as maybe we thought he would. Maybe he's getting going.


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[Assistant] Gino Stone becomes the first raven with an interception in four straight games since Eric Turner did it in 1996. That's amazing. Ball hawking defense. Lamar Jackson now improves his record in his career versus the NFC to 18-1. Wow. 18-1 versus the NFC. That's it's...


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[Assistant] Watch out for the ravens. Alright, so that one in the books, that was in its own window.


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[Assistant] And in the afternoon window, we had the battle of the Eagles versus the Cowboys, 28 to 23. The Eagles get the win there. The Cowboys now have lost four of the last five at Philadelphia. Uhm, I think that the story for this game is pretty simple.


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[Assistant] See if you disagree with me. Eagles continue to find ways to win with the talent and the most talented players they have on the team. That's right. AJ Brown with another touchdown and the Dallas Cowboys as we've seen in the past few years, a good team that just is, it seems like in the big moments is just a couple of plays short.


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[Assistant] To beat the 49ers or the Eagles. They've been there at the end of games, right? It's like minutes to go in games. They're there. Yes, they just can't make those


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[Assistant] You say they remind you of the Patriots back in the day. Let me give you another comparison here. Perhaps the Colts of the early 2000s, because just for the stat, maybe not in the style that they play, but they're the first team to start 8-1 or better in consecutive seasons since the 2005-2006 Colts. The Colts in 2005 lost in the playoffs, but then,


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[Assistant] They won the Super Bowl in 2006. They had to grow into it. Yeaah. But two good starts, uh, two back to back years for them. And yeaah, they've been in these close games so far this year. Their sixth win this season by nine points or fewer. Which, I mean, that was the Vikings M.O. last year and didn't necessarily help them in the playoffs. Yeaah. But it does feel like. I think it'll help them. They have the confidence they can win these games.


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[Assistant] Before we move on to the next game, let's give some credit to some of those guys that were making Dak Prescott escape the pocket. Josh Sweatt with six quarterback pressures per next gen stats. Now tied with Micah Parsons for most in the NFL this season with 50. So it's Micah Parsons and Josh Sweatt. Josh Sweatt is number one.


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[Assistant] Bird Gang Biss says to us, damn okay, Brandon Graham. Dallas had first and goal on the six to win it. Uh, Bird's definitely on tilt. BG with two huge sacks to help seal it. Yeah, he did. He just- 14 years deep, still wrecking games. Unbelievable.


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[Assistant] And I like to say this, so that means we were completely right on this one. That's why I was saying that. We nailed this one. Time to go into the printing press. Oh, we're getting the paper out early on this Sunday night, Monday morning.


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[Assistant] That's pretty cool. Alright, Joshua Dobbs. Amazing. Four, five days on the job. Four days on the job. Four days on the job.


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[Assistant] You've done the one more thing on this game. It gave Pete time to do one more tweet from one of the homies out there. Colton Parr says damn okay to the Falcons for finding more ways to not get the ball into the hands of their highly drafted playmakers.


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[Assistant] And for forgetting how to tackle. Legit damn okay to Josh Dobbs, though. Don't know what's more impressive, the physical or mental side of today's game. So, uh. Yeah, it's both. A little Valken's hate and some, some pub on Josh Dobbs.


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[Assistant] Robinson's fumble probably was the reason he didn't get much carry at the end of the game.


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[Assistant] With what, five days on the job, play a Thursday night game in LA and get a win. And we were like, how, how, we might never see that again. Little did we know that would happen, uh, the very next year. But speaking of Baker Mayfield.


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[Assistant] He's got our second game here and give me the headlines. The Buccaneers go down to the Houston Texans. Looks like they had a last second win to the Buccaneers, but no, it's the Houston Texans with CJ Stroud. Our headline for this game is...


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[Assistant] Just four incomplete passes, 325 yards and four touchdowns. He had as many touchdowns as incomplete passes. And oh, by the way, he still needed to drive them the entire length of the field in less than a minute with no timeouts.


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[Assistant] I mean, how about, how about defensively? You'd think D'Amico Ryans could figure some stuff out as they go. I know they've had some injuries there, they've had to shuffle some people in. Right. Especially in the defense of secondary, but...


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[Assistant] Bucks are trending in the wrong direction. They are definitely in the post Tom Brady era now. Longest losing streak, four games since 2019. And that was Give Me the Headlines presented by Hyundai.


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[Assistant] So we're gonna do our recap even before the Chevrolet post game show where they have Melissa interviewing the stars of the game. We're gonna do it, we're gonna do it before Melissa can do that. Uh, so let's, let's get into it. The Bengals get the win.


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[Assistant] Everyone but Jason Garrett picked the Bengals to win from the panel. Geez. You guys crushed it. What was he thinking? Well done. Well done. Uh, I mean, a statement, statement win for the Cincinnati Bengals. At home, people thought they were going to win.


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[Assistant] The Buffalo Bills have been, have looked like a team that's not going to make the playoffs at time this year and also at times look like one of the better teams in football this year. They just continue that roller coaster. What's your big headline from, from this game?


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[Assistant] And we finish up our recap just before Melissa Stark does the post game interviews with the stars of the game. We beat Melissa once again.


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[Assistant] Alright, time for the taking care of business section of the program. Some games where the team that was favored and was supposed to win won in our first game in dominant fashion.


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[Assistant] It's their first shutout, surprisingly, since 2007. They've had a whole lot of talent on that defensive side, but haven't really put it all together like this in recent memory. Let's get right to the


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[Assistant] Inside the numbers powered by AWS because I kind of, I think it speaks to.


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[Assistant] What they've done here in the defensive success rate. So the Browns defense allowed 59 net yards on 48 plays in week 9. Is that amazing? Recording the highest defensive success rate that is 87.5% in a game in the next gen stats era. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] There's no other way to say it. So now they have the number one success rate, and so I don't know exactly what goes into determining success rate. Is that just like you won the play, basically? I'm guessing so. It's like I give that to the defense. It's like 3 yards, you're like, I give that to the defense. I think they won that. I think that's exactly what it is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, four yards on first down, as Pete is explaining to you in my ear. There's a lot of numbers involved here, but I trust the people at AWS that they got this handled.


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[Assistant] Uh, so Cleveland right now, according to their metrics, success rate, they're number one in the NFL, 69%. Baltimore Ravens, you just declared the Baltimore Ravens the number one defense in the NFL. But not in success rate. Not in success rate. According to AWS, they're number two at 63%.


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[Assistant] Currently hold the number one pick in the 2024 draft. There we go. That's what they wanted. Crash for Caleb or whatever we're talking about here. It's their worst start since 2006. They're 1-8 right now. That is interesting what they're going to do with that. I don't know what they're going to do either.


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[Assistant] And now legally, I have to close the segment that was Inside the Numbers powered by AWS.


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[Assistant] We move on to the New Orleans Saints taking care of business against the Chicago Bears. Chicago looked pretty good early in this one.


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[Assistant] But is he showing the ability to rein those in when it matters the most?


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[Assistant] I'm looking up and down like a Debo had the huge game with the two interceptions, the forced fumble, a fumble recovery to, uh, Taysom Hill was also really interesting in this game, right? Leading rusher for them through a touchdown pass also.