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[Assistant] He's so chill. It feels like you just kind of have like five or six and like no change in personality.


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[Assistant] Where's Baker Mayfield on your list there, Pete? So Baker's at five, so if you wanted to have like a spring break type excursion, he's gotta be number one.


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[Assistant] I mean, let's see, gotta take the whole scene into consideration here. Off of a boat. I mean, so like, your bearings aren't gonna be that good. Definitely true, you're right. So maybe this person holding him up is worried about his sea legs more than his alcohol intake.


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[Assistant] See how you do tonight. At horse owner-er. Not horse owner.


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[Assistant] This is not kind of English right there. This is a Sims-y kind of thing. Add horse, owner, urr. Owner, urr, urr. A bad list. This is a bad list. Thank you. Gardner Minshew should be at the top of the list. I think this is for Pete's, I mean, Pete, Gardner Minshew has to be, he's gotta be a lot of fun. Yeah, Pete, that's, that's, that's awesome.


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[Assistant] Sneaky getting James Winston in there at four, Pete.


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[Assistant] Wild. He wants a fun night. He wants a fun night.


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[Assistant] Okay, Andrew Luck vs Carson Palmer. There's no segway from Pete's quarterbacks he wants to drink with to this, but at Jimmy Buzz. Who had a better career, Andrew Luck or Carson Palmer?


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[Assistant] You had to love Palmer before that first knee injury.


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[Assistant] I think I'd rather have Luck's career. Palmer was really good for a long time, and Luck was on a Hall of Fame track. He was.


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[Assistant] Think about the Russell Wilson interception that cost him that game late against the Patriots. If they didn't have the Super Bowl victory, I think from the season before, think about how much more rotten that would have been for him. That is the point.


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[Assistant] My good friend and sis, Brett Favre, is not a top ten quarterback and only brings up his interceptions and the drama when he left Green Bay. Please, for the love of everything sacred in American football, talk about this topic for me. By the way, he is a diehard Browns fan, and I'm a diehard Bills fan, so there's no rooting interest.


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[Assistant] And I would also say he had that gunslinger mentality, he had an unbelievable arm, like watching him throw in person was phenomenal.


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[Assistant] But, he was under-centered, three-step drop, west coast finesse offense, so he had- No shotgun. He had, I want to throw it anywhere in the field, I've got an unbelievable cannon, but it was about touch, timing, balance, and finesse, so.


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[Assistant] I don't know if that skiing that Holmgren was running, he ran it well and they won a lot, but it's not like it was perfect for his ability.


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[Assistant] I'm going to have to have the governor on because I'm driving my son to practice after, you know, kind of mid-party. Yeah, okay. So I'm going to be that version. I'm going to be that guy.


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[Assistant] So that's number one. Number two, this podcast comes up throughout a lot of different parts of the work cycle.


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[Assistant] And home cycle, no matter what else is going on, man, it's always fun to come in and talk ball with you. Thanks. So I appreciate that every single time.


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[Assistant] So, I will have a meeting here, probably about 3 or 3.30 in the morning each day. And then, uh, yeaah. And then we're on the air, 6 or 7. And then we come on during the race, we come on after the race.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Mike Tirico and thanks for watching. Make sure to hit subscribe for the latest news and highlights from NBC Sports.


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[Assistant] I appreciate you leading with that. Thank you. Because as the late great Hayden Pryor used to say, if you done it, it ain't bragging. That's right. You did it. That's right. You laid that out there. You were right. So why not run it up the flagpole?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I'm picturing like a freshman on campus doing that and the seniors seeing it and pulling them aside and be like, dude, that's, we don't do that.


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[Assistant] Well, just, I mean, we have, we have our Monday categories we're going to get to. But before we do that, just kind of from 10,000 feet, quarterbacks yesterday was almost like, we're going to give Paul and Chris just a little, little something extra to talk about here tomorrow. Man, oh man, great throws, great play and critical moments. Fun day.


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[Assistant] So we have our, oop, oop, oop, we forgot something.


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[Assistant] You keep posting that kind of record with your picks, I mean, shoot. Maybe I'll get there? Yeah, it could happen. So we have our Monday template, we're gonna, three ways, we're gonna hit every single game. Victory Lap, Damn Okay, and Gimme the Headlines. Thankfully, we have soundtracks and lead-in sound for a number of these. So let's begin with Victory Lap.


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[Assistant] You've been listening to the Victory Podcast, where they go over all the Entourage shows, by the way. Oh. Have you heard it? No, I haven't. It's great. Really? I think we just heard Kevin Dillon yell Victory there. It was. It totally was. It's very good. If you liked that show. Yea, I did. I loved that show. They hit every single episode for one podcast. Okay. Alright, that's cool.


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[Assistant] Keep that in mind. I will. Good one. Good plug. From a football standpoint though, why not start out with the Packers knocking off the Niners 30 to 28. And our theme here with the Victory Lab is quarterback to wide receiver connections. Yeaah. That had a lot to do with defining wins yesterday. So, Rodgers to Adams 12 times for 132 yards.


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[Assistant] I watched it, I mean I'm not, I watched it 25 times. Right.


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[Assistant] Last night and this morning. And that play does not exist. There isn't a 25 yard in route in anybody's playbook. And it was really cool that Michelle Tafoya got him to say after the game.


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[Assistant] We just drew that up over the weekend. Just tinkered with it. Just to try and drop one over Fred's head. Yeaah. But nobody throws a 25 yard in route which means he threw it 35 yards in the air. Yeaah. A play that doesn't exist for anybody else. 35 yards. Phenomenal.


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[Assistant] I think he had 6 players with 3 catches or more yesterday. I think Derek Carr was in that same category. Justin Herbert was near it as well. So Adams had 12 catches.


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[Assistant] I want to get your response to. Number one is from at the worst. Damn. Okay. Matt floor stuck it to your boy. Shani last night out coached him. I want to get back to that. I coached him online of four new guys in a defense that was supposed to get shredded.


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[Assistant] At SFMonkMonk, and this gets into uhm, it's kind of a clock management, game management. Did the Niners screw up by not pooch kicking the kickoff at the end? It would have forced the returner to pick it up and ate up a few seconds off the clock.


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[Assistant] Possibly can. Just getting started here with the quarterback receiver connections that played huge yesterday. Matthew Stafford to Cooper Cup. Whoa. Rams beat the Buccaneers 34 to 24. Cup 9 receptions 96 yards. Two touchdowns. Number one receiver in the NFL right now. 367 yards. Yeaah, right. It's amazing.


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[Assistant] It's not like they caught the Buccaneers on a horrible day. Like, sometimes you just catch a good team on a bad day and get credit to the team that makes the other team play lesser than. Buccaneers played pretty well. I mean, that was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And from the start, the Rams just looked 7-10 points better the entire time.


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[Assistant] Let's look at the other defense. I'm gonna throw out one number here for you. Stafford on third down was 10 out of 12.


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[Assistant] It reminds me of what we saw from the Buccaneer offense last year. They were pretty good but they kind of struggled and by the time they got to December they had a real identity and they were excellent in January. You think the defense with bowls can kind of be in this figure it out, adjust kind of way early in the fall and be better later on?


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[Assistant] One more Stafford comment here. I know it's only one month into the Stafford McVeigh relationship, but it's been even better I think than hoped or expected. He's at 70%. He was never


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[Assistant] His efficiency numbers are so high for how much he's pushing it down the field.


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[Assistant] Seemed unstoppable for a lot of the games. 7 catches, 122.


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[Assistant] Who impressed you more in September? Justin Herbert or the quarterback we just talked about, Matthew Stafford? Uuuh.


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[Assistant] The decision making and the accuracy are kind of like when the Chargers took him in the top ten, how you pictured, okay, maybe in year three or four with that talent, if he really gets it.


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[Assistant] If things really click and there's a good system around him, you could picture this happening. Right. Best case scenario. And he's there in September of his second year.


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[Assistant] Like, he, he gives you that feeling, like when he drops back, he can put it wherever he wants to.


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[Assistant] IceCube93, I think that was. Somewhere in there, I think you're right. College for me, maybe grade school-ish, middle school for you. And we spent so much time, I think two weeks ago right here, looking at that screen, watching the same play with Tyreek Hill running wide open against the defense. Cleveland should have been playing against him.


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[Assistant] Before we move on, I want the first thought that comes to your mind when I say something I never thought I'd say here on September 27th. We head to October, Chiefs in last place in the AFC West.


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[Assistant] Moving on, Josh Allen to Emmanuel Sanders as the Bills take down Washington easily, 43-21, and that combination led the way. Watch out.


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[Assistant] It looks like, and you have kids about the same age as mine, and they're probably still using the smaller footballs. He's playing in the NFL, like I feel when I'm in the yard with one of those junior high balls. He throws the NFL ball like that sometimes. Just kind of toys with it.


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[Assistant] I want to throw in one of the questions here, uh, at Dalton Mention. Damn okay. We've had a couple of damn okays here at the Victory Lab. We sprinkle them in here throughout. Josh Allen realized we weren't in preseason anymore.


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[Assistant] Understandable confusion seeing as he didn't play in the first two preseason games. It's great to have him back.


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[Assistant] Speaking of you singing, or thinking about you singing, let's go from what we were just doing there with Victory Lap, into the next one, also has its theme song, Damn Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Me likey under armor. We're going defensive edition here. Okay. Breaking away from the quarterbacks and receivers a little bit. Rookie quarterbacks now 1-10 this season. Only win was Mac Jones against Zach Wilson.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So that just kinda gives us a little bit of a flavor of where we're going. Cleveland, beating the Bears 26-6. If you like offensive football here.


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[Assistant] That was, that was a tough watch. Yeah, it was a tough watch. You're right. 47 total yards. We can talk about that for the Bears in a moment. Let's start with Miles Garrett. Franchise record, four and a half sacks. Insanity.


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[Assistant] I hear, we hear a lot the last few hours, last night and this morning leading up to our show about just kind of what you said. You kind of opened us up to walk down that path. What were the Bears doing? Why didn't they help him more? How about a couple specifics, like a couple concepts that you wish they would have included to help him more in his first start?


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[Assistant] And that to me makes no sense at all. And you guys may have run this already. I'm looking at Chris and not the monitor. But if we haven't run the Justin Fields, there we go.


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[Assistant] Uh, week 3 at the Brown, 6 out of 20. Yikes. Uh, sacked 9 times. By the way, the 9 sacks, most times a quarterback has been sacked in his first career start since Greg McElroy. 11 times in his only career start week 16 back in 2012. 47 yards of total offense. I mean, that seems impressive.


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[Assistant] More convinced of that. Another rookie quarterback on the wrong end of a defense playing very well yesterday. Saints beating the Patriots 28-13. Cameron Jordan had eight pressures, eight and three quarterback hits on Mac Jones.


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[Assistant] What comes to mind when you say things we're not used to seeing from the Patriots?


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[Assistant] One of the things that's been fun for me, having these quarterback conversations with you the last two or three seasons, you chuck the stats aside. If the quarterback has a great line or a poor line, you kind of go with more of what you see. Let's put Max numbers aside, which weren't great. What did you see from his play?


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[Assistant] Another rookie quarterback struggling, Zach Wilson. Broncos beat the Jets 26-0. And we kind of came down as you should when you only have 47 total yards of offense on Justin Fields and the Bears.


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[Assistant] Jets haven't scored a touchdown in the last two games. Let's highlight someone in a positive way for the Broncos. Alexander Johnson, five tackles, two sacks, and a pass defender.


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[Assistant] Last two games for Zach Wilson, zero touchdown, six picks. 15 sacks, the fourth most ever for a first year player in that time in the Super Bowl era. Some names ahead of him, David Carr, 19 times, Archie Manning, 18, Kyler Murray, he was running around a lot. I was 16.


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[Assistant] And when I think of what was Zach Wilson in this month, and I would like to have some time where you can kind of crow hop into a little bit and spend some time really watching so we can go back and forth. But when a quarterback gets sacked that often, what happens is he'll drop back in that split second where there's people around him, but he has time where he has to let it go.


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[Assistant] He gets a little gun-shy and he doesn't let it go. He peeks instead of cutting it loose with anticipation and that really unique ability the good ones have can get clouded in a big way when there's a start like this with his protection.


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[Assistant] As long as you brought up Trevor Lawrence. Cardinals beat the Jaguars 31-19. We're highlighting some defensive play here. Jordan Hicks, 12 tackles, pass defended, and a game ending strip sack.


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[Assistant] We're talking about these rookie quarterbacks struggling with losses, with getting sacked, with throwing picks. When it comes to the interceptions and the relentless pressure they're seeing, which one of those two, the picks or the pressure, do you think more leads to this rookie feeling that a lot of times these kids can't get out of where they're afraid to cut it loose? Is it the interceptions piling up or is it the, I'm getting hit all the time?


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[Assistant] I think- I think it's the- I think it's the pigs.


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[Assistant] Think about how many times, whether it's Rodgers, Mahomes, any of these guys that are playing well, where you're watching the broadcast and they slow it down from behind, and from the time that they decide to throw the ball and you're looking downfield to where it goes, you're like, holy shit, that's not open? Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's not open at all. The anticipation and the placement there are terrific. And you kinda lose that little half second where you have the courage to cut that one loose. No doubt.


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[Assistant] Hey, remember when the Titans took Harold Landry out of BC, first round, 2 or 4 years ago? Titans beat the Colts 25-16, 5 quarterback hits, 10 total quarterback pressures.


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[Assistant] Can we go a little special teams? Yeah. For the final damn okay. What? Baltimore. What? Ravensby the Lions, 1917.


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[Assistant] And Justin Tucker knocks that one through from, how far was that? Sixty-six. Sixty-six. Okay, sixty-six yards. So that's awesome. Okay? It's insane. How about this? Sixteen for sixteen in his NFL career and field goals in the final minute of regulation.


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[Assistant] 16. I mean, is there a, I was trying to think of other sports. Like, is there a golfer who's hit 16 six-footers in a row on the back night in majors?


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[Assistant] Or uh, is anybody in baseball hitting 400 with runners in scoring position? I know. I don't, I don't know. That is an incredible stat.


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[Assistant] Okay, so that's where we're going. Um, at Triple X Neon, can you mention that the refs gave the game to the Ravens by ignoring a blatant delay of game on the previous play? 1.5 seconds highlighted last night on the show. I mean, sometimes, or a lot of times, there's like a split second where it's like, oh, was that late? Could have been.


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[Assistant] And I feel like that officiating crew kind of fell into that trap, but they're used to assuming the quarterback is going to get it off just a split second after. And it was way after.


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[Assistant] The best team I've, I was on in my career. Give me the headlines. Presented by Hyundai is up next. We don't have a theme song here. We gotta work on that. Yeaah, what's going on here? By the way, Christopher. Alright, Raiders beat the Dolphins 31-28 in overtime. Your headline is?


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[Assistant] Right. It was so atrocious last year, I think it's fair to say, even though Gus Bradley's done a good job with them, it's fair to wonder, like, okay, nice job in September, let's see you keep it up.


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[Assistant] Yes, probably. Yes, yeaah. I mean, it's, it's a tough schedule so far for them. Stay in the AFC here for the headline. Bengals beat the Steelers 24 to 10.


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[Assistant] Big time. Burrow looked really good. Jamar Chase, two receiving touchdowns, became the youngest player and first 21 year old in NFL history to have four plus receiving touchdowns in his team's first three games.


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[Assistant] Right. Another great reminder, even though we're all excited when football comes back in August for camp and preseason games, the number one storylines in Cincinnati, Joe Burrows uneasy in the pocket, he's afraid to step into a throw, and Jamar Chase can't catch. Yes.


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[Assistant] Defense, and thinking of that defense, uh, at vikes9090, Chris, ask a good question. Self-scout thyself, the Seattle scheme. I know you've been talking for years about how basic it is and teams are tearing it up. How did the Seattle scheme dominate for so long who created a way to attack it? Or how did Seattle's scheme that dominated for so long basically get beat up by the Vikings yesterday?


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[Assistant] We've got it backing up to our initial theme we started out with. I mean, quarterback with their favorite targets. Yes. Working time and time again. Time and time again.


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[Assistant] Your old team here, your old team in your family. Falcons beat the Giants 17-14, another game offensively that was tough to watch. And Eli Manning had his, uh,


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[Assistant] The difference in the league being this much. Right. They've really just, for lack of a better way of putting it, they have pissed away the game the last two games. Yea. Especially the game yesterday. I think so. They basically controlled that game. It seemed like it. And didn't have the points to show for it. I know. Matt Ryan got the ball back, made a couple of throws to


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[Assistant] Give me the headlines presented by Hyundai. And there's a show.


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[Assistant] That's all? Is that it? We had the victory lap. We had the damn okay. We did it all. No, we hit it all.


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[Assistant] Hi I'm Mike Tirico and thanks for watching. Make sure to hit subscribe for the latest news and highlights from NBC Sports.


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[Assistant] No, I haven't seen that. You know, I would love for it to...


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[Assistant] Be more and more each week, but you know, I think the situation is pretty similar right now.


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[Assistant] No, I haven't seen that. You know, I would love for it to...


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[Assistant] Be more and more each week, but you know, I think the situation is pretty similar right now.


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[Assistant] Yes, you're right. It's not, it's not the same. It is a difference. Yeah. I'm more like, hey kids, yeah, watch this. The real world. Grow up. What was the rated R?


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[Assistant] It definitely did. It definitely did. Yes, I'm not exactly the model citizen or model parent, but I'm okay.


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[Assistant] They are focused on performing better and taking their game to the next level.


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[Assistant] Everything from running shoes that propel you forward to hoop shoes that give you insane grip. And Steph Curry looked good last night in game one against the Lakers. They even make hoodies that reflect the energy. We're not just about the end result, winning or glory. Under Armors about that hard work.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're about that hard work too. The dedication, the cycle of training, competing and recovering. We give you advantages.


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[Assistant] I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying to get there, man. Between hanging out with you and Ahmed, I mean, I've got some pro stuff rubbing off on me, not for real.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a lot of defense. Looking back at the weekend. Yeah, a lot of defensive stuff that I think was interesting that kind of changed at least the way I look at teams and I think the way we should all look at teams kind of moving forward to go, hey, this has changed about them and this is why they're a complete team or a special team and nonetheless.


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[Assistant] No, no doubt about it. I mean, the Ravens, you know, continue to amaze me and I think, uh, Wink Martindale, defensive coordinator, he's a guy that I want to pay respect to because I think he should be in head coaching discussions this year when jobs and that, that whole conversation starts.


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[Assistant] You know, he's just so smart, he's so creative, and I think that's what jumped out to me more than anything. You know, they, they create the illusion of pressure maybe better than anybody in football.


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[Assistant] I think they are and I think that's why, you know, it's been a little bit of a work in progress. I think they've had to figure out who they're going to be, you know, this year had some of those injuries we talked about early on in the year and they've had to kind of readjust, but I think he's kind of found his mojo for what it works for this team this year. And not, you know, of course, Hey, they're big.


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[Assistant] And they're more dominant than I was even expecting early on in the year where I'm going, oh, the big guys are.


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[Assistant] You know, they're starting to play and pop, but the illusion of the pressure and then it ultimately being


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[Assistant] A four man pressure, but you still get a guy free. You're still create pressure on the quarterback with just four people. I think what separates them, and I think I've seen that a lot for a lot of the good defenses in football right now. That's what they've mastered a little bit. Yep. Offenses do too much stuff right now for us to be always going pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure.


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[Assistant] So you gotta create mismatches, you know, stress the protection plan a little bit and see if you can find ways to do that.


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[Assistant] With a lesser amount of people, and Baltimore is one of the kings of that for sure.


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[Assistant] Listen, and you know, there's a lot of plays to go through here, but I think this play kind of just encompasses what we're talking about, you know, right off the bat. Yeah, Chargers are down 14-0.


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[Assistant] You know, and I'd already seen it a number of times during the game where it's, whoa, a lot of people at the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] Well, they drop out. It's a four man rush. It's seven man coverage, right? And then, oh, when they do bring that fifth man, Paul, they do find a way to, let's see, bring five, but they still play some sort of too deep coverage behind it to like, hey, we blitz.


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[Assistant] But we're not like going crazy and just gonna let you throw some bomb on us easy. And then they might have two guys just floating in the middle reading eyes and doing, doing that type of stuff. Now here, I mean, look at this, look at this. I mean, you're playing quarterback. Anybody plays Madden, watches football. I mean, look, it's one, it's two, it's three, it's four, it's five, it's six, it's seven, it's eight. You go, I don't know who can come.


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[Assistant] Right, or they could do that too. And here you go, you got a guy, the safety over here, over the slot, who kind of unlocks some of these people, and you go,


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[Assistant] If you're Justin Herbert, you're going, okay, right now it looks like it's gonna be an all-out pressure, an all-out blitz, and I'm just gonna look for a one-on-one hot throw or try to get it out of my hand here and play matchup football. But I think what's cool about it, and as we're gonna show here, I mean, as, there we go. I mean, look, look what we're seeing here. I mean, again, safety dropping out, right?


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[Assistant] So, right at the snap, he knows the snap count. They've held it for a long time. Look, we might blitz, we might blitz.


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[Assistant] And now they're already getting into, ehh, we're not gonna blitz. There's gonna be coverage here. Okay? And then added to that, let's see. So now we got Deshaun Elliott out. We got a weak side backer out over here. We got one, two, three, four rushers. And yes, there's a Jimmy Smith fifth, but he's not really rushing.


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[Assistant] He's not. He's kind of like, if Austin Eckler blocks, I'll come. But, if it looks like he can be...


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[Assistant] Uh, going out on some sort of route or combination like that, he'll take him as well. And you can see he kind of like pauses, he's kind of waiting to see like what's Austin Eckler doing. Okay, he's good. If Austin Eckler went out the other side, then Harrison would have been there to watch him.


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[Assistant] Again, like the illusion of, woah, it's a crazy blitz.


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[Assistant] But yet ultimately there ends up being a guy here for that. A guy anything underneath they had that covered. You could see here there's a guy in front of the slant route and now he's thinking because it's an all out blitz let me throw my one on one match up out here to Marlon Humphrey and


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[Assistant] Marlon Humphrey is pretty damn good. There's a lot of pushing and shoving going on, certainly, but that's a 50-50 matchup, and I don't necessarily agree with that, you know, as far as taking that decision there.


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[Assistant] It's an illusion. Exactly right. So not only are you now thinking about the quarterback, he's going, set hut, oh wait.


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[Assistant] I thought I was going to be blitz, and I'm okay, so I have nobody coming free, but you've taken your eyes off downfield to a degree, and now you've got to get up and go, wait, so what exactly, what's the coverage here? And that's where Baltimore is really good. You know, they create this


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[Assistant] Confusion and chaos for the quarterback, and the quarterback kind of has to be able to talk to himself and be like, ooh, relax here.


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[Assistant] It's a lot of illusion, it's a lot of moving parts, but ultimately it's gonna be four. Let me see if I can maybe read the concept here and take a three person route as compared to just playing the one on one match up because I thought I was gonna get an all out blitz. And that's where they do a really good job of making life hard on quarterbacks for sure.


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[Assistant] Right. No, I think that's exactly the point. You're right. So there's a, there's a lot of unknowns before the snap when you play Baltimore. That's what you continue to see week after week after week.


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[Assistant] And, you know, like I said, when they do Blitz, they do a pretty good job of protecting themselves to a degree where, okay, yea, you might hit a pass play. Great, we Blitzed, we took a chance.


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[Assistant] But you only got 7 or 8 yards and we didn't get gashed for 40 or 50. And it doesn't change the football game. And that's where I think Wink Martindale is really awesome. Let alone, you know, he can create looks like this sometimes.


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[Assistant] And now they think it's an all-out blitz, right? And we got here, we got all these guys in the box that are potentially able to blitz. And you think, okay, let me slide the line this way, because they might bring everybody over here.


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[Assistant] And what he'll do is end up going like, yeah, one guy's over here.


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[Assistant] And then there's two guys here, and then there's three guys here, and they might bring a fourth off the edge, who gets totally scott free, just because you protected against, oh wait, they're gonna blitz over here, or blitz over there, and they find ways to stress your protection as good as anybody in football. I think that's one of the really impressive things about them. But, yea, you wanna go to the next play?


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[Assistant] Let it play out. Marlon Humphrey does a great job. I mean, like you said, I wouldn't...


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[Assistant] That would not be my choice. Marlon Humphrey gets asked to do more than any other corner in football. I mean, you just, all you need to do if you want to watch what he does for this team. Oh, big moment. Mike Williams got to cover him. Oh, big moment.


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[Assistant] This formation, they decided, we want you to cover Jared Cook, big moment of the game. Oh, big moment. We want you to now be man to man on Austin Eckler out of the backfield. I mean, he gets matched up and put in the toughest spots, maybe in all of football. And I hear people in Baltimore sometimes like think he's overpaid and I just go no.


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[Assistant] He's not. He's phenomenal. He's gonna lose some of these matchups because he gets put in the spot where a lot of guys, you couldn't even ask them to be in that spot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, yeah, I think it's, I think it might have been two drives later, right? Either way. Uhm. Into the third quarter now. Into the third quarter, yeah.


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[Assistant] But either way here, then let me just make sure I got this right. We got fourth and one.


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[Assistant] You saw that little pre-snap here, and again, most of the day to this point,


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[Assistant] And then a lot of dropping out. I mean a lot. It's just whatever, however you want to say it. So to this point, you know, they've played a game where now Justin Herbert's going, wait, don't, don't, don't panic here. They've shown this a lot and they drop out. We're going to be okay. We're going to be okay. And what they do to you now is they throw


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[Assistant] They throw the curveball. This is their curveball. So now, now he's thinking maybe I got enough time or whatever. And Baltimore's gone, you know what, in a big moments we've dropped out, we've dropped out, we've dropped out. And now they throw the curveball and it's one, two, three, four, five, six guys coming. And they might even add a seventh.


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[Assistant] Uh, they do. They had a seventh here with the middle linebacker, Bynes. And, you know, again, now it's like, oh wait, I gotta really get this ball out of my hand here. This is a real issue.


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[Assistant] And you can see here, he's on the top of the screen, I can't remember, number five, what the hell is number five's name? I'm blanking on his name.


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[Assistant] He decides to go, again, to go back to the one man cut here. Josh Palmer. Josh Palmer. That's who it is. Exactly right. From Tennessee. And, you know, this is just a missed throw.


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[Assistant] To me, and again, it's not about this play specifically, I'm just trying to show the broader theme of the, what the Baltimore Ravens do. And the fact that you just don't know what to expect from them at any given time. And I think that's what makes them a really good defense. And for a team that doesn't have really a big time pass rusher,


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[Assistant] This is the things you do to create pressure. And yea, this time was an all out blitz, and it's just not a good throw. But again, at the same time, I wanna go...


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[Assistant] I'm gonna have four guys, take your time on the throw, and all of a sudden it's like, oh shit! The guy off the edge did come! He's free! So...


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[Assistant] Uh, again, the, the broader, the broader point with Baltimore's defense is keeping you on edge. They do a masterful job of getting pressure with four man pressures, even though it looks like that more at the snap.


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[Assistant] And then they're getting better and better at being sticky in coverage here. But I, you know, again, the thing I would say here once again is,


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[Assistant] I would not advise doing, going after this matchup again. Humphrey again. No, definitely not. And you know, here to the concept side, see now this one, I think he doesn't even think concept cause he's probably thinking they're going to drop out.


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[Assistant] They're going to drop out, so I'm gonna have people underneath, I'm gonna have people underneath here.


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[Assistant] He was off all game and I think he was off all game just because mentally you don't feel comfortable playing Baltimore. Right. You don't. I mean I can say I've been there. I've been in those shoes. I played Baltimore once in my life and I just remember thinking like, man I messed some basic stuff up because there was so much movement and they were showing this to where I wanted to go. Ah, I mean.


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[Assistant] If I made this call, we would have protected it, and I make that call 99 or 100 times out of 100, but because it was Baltimore and all the different stuff they do, you start to mess up basics is the broader point I guess I'm trying to make here.


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[Assistant] I think so. I think that to me is the way to go. Very good example right there. It goes back to our old conversation of like, yea, you can be really basic if you want.


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[Assistant] But you better be super, super talented. You better be super talented because this day and age when quarterbacks know the defense, I don't, you know, you gotta be the 49ers of 2019. You gotta be the Seahawks of 2013.


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[Assistant] To pull that off. And that's just, they don't come around often. Right. So if you don't have that, then you gotta do something schematically to kind of throw these offensive coordinators and the quarterbacks off kilter a little bit because


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[Assistant] Hey, they got answers for everything on the offensive side of the ball this day, this day and age. And especially with coach to quarterback communication, you can call three plays in the huddle, uh, that, that, that changes things.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well first off, I mean, I just think he's more consistent throwing the football, that's for sure. We've talked about it, like his base, like again, if anybody wants to just watch Lamar turn on film from last year to this year, and how many times...


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[Assistant] You know, now he's always here. It's always boom, boom, boom. He used to get into this position where his legs would be closed. And he, you know, he would miss throws, certainly. He's become a better decision maker. I think that's the first thing too. And I think the way they're calling the game's a little bit different. I do. I got to give Greg Roman some respect.


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[Assistant] Hey, we know they can run the ball. They were dominant in this game running the ball. I mean, they just pushed around the chargers. But the other thing they make you do, and I'm continuing to see the offense a little bit grow in this way, is play action pass.


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[Assistant] And aggressive downfield. So they're stressing you to defend the whole field. They're like, well shit, we'd like to put up people up in the box, but shit.


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[Assistant] They throw a lot of deep balls and he, they're looking to like strike with Hollywood Brown and Mark Andrews on 30 yard crossing rounds. Like they're not looking to dink and dunk. So that puts a lot of stress on the defense, especially with the way they run the ball and can overpower you up front. And I think with that,


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[Assistant] He very rarely misses those throws right now. He's taking advantage of all that's there to be had. And I think the other thing too is when the defense takes it away, he's not like, well, this was a shot play. I gotta take my shot. He's very patient and goes through the progression.


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[Assistant] And very good to go. Okay, nothing was there. Gonna check it down. But damn, they're all 20, 30 yards downfield. Look at that check down. It's a 10 yard gain. So that's where he's gotten really good.


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[Assistant] Or the other thing he used to do is play action pass. We're going to take a shot and it's not there. And then he would look to scramble. And now to me, he's more patient with letting the play develop. And like I said, checking it down if it's not there. And then, okay, if I got a scramble after all that said and done, then I'll do it. And that's to me where his game's gone to a little bit of a different level.


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[Assistant] You know, again, those guys are good running backs, but they're not superstars at this point in their career. You know, I think, you know, you look at those yards and they go, hey, those, those are good holes. They're making, they're, they're moving people.


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[Assistant] And I'm not trying to disrespect those guys, but it's, it is about the blocking and the schemes, Greg Roman.


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[Assistant] You know, delivers, and he does a great job of what I always call checks and balances. Like, okay, yeaah, here's two pulling guards.


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[Assistant] Two pulling guards to the right. Two pulling guards to the right. Yeaah, we ran that a few times. And now it's two pulling guards to the right, and there goes Devin Duvernay on a speed sweep to the left. So you can't overplay us with the two pulling guards. Or, you know, he fakes it to the running back, and the two pulling guards go one way, and Lamar goes the other way.


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[Assistant] A receiver leading him out in the edge to block it. So he's got like answers to keep you honest. And I think that's what's real important about their offense too.


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[Assistant] Uhm, got some studs, okay. I mean, first off, and I think you and I have talked about that a little bit, just as far as pure athletic specimens. At all three levels. At all three levels, really. You know, in one area where I might have questioned them a little bit was like the interior part of their defense.


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[Assistant] I would say, I would argue it's the three fastest linebackers in football when you put them on the field. Isaiah Simmons, Jordan Hicks, Zaven Collins, and it's...


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[Assistant] Two of them got great size. Jordan Hicks may be a little smaller, but I mean, he could fly. So you got that. And then we've talked about Buddha Baker and Byron Murphy. So they really got a little bit of everything, let alone a creative scheme to go along with it.


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[Assistant] And they're not afraid to take chances and be creative. And the big thing to me in this game more than anything was, and I know that Brown's tackles weren't playing, I'm fully aware of that.


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[Assistant] When the Browns got in their running sets, where they're like. Which is a lot. It's a lot. It's where they make their bread and butter. We're two tight ends, we're three tight ends, one receiver. We're gonna bring it at you. Callahan's got a million different running schemes. They're maybe the most well-coached offensive line in football.


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[Assistant] Arizona was just like, no, we're gonna die another death today if we're gonna die. We're not gonna let that kill us. You're not gonna just smash it down our face to where now we have to just change everything in our game plan and not everybody can pull off what Arizona does, but Arizona, long story short, forced


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[Assistant] Yep, you're in that set. That's great. Here's nine guys, all within five yards of the line of scrimmage. And we're coming downhill too. We're not going to sit there and wait and let you drive us off the ball. And that to me was one of the big things of the game.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, right. Well listen, I got a problem with Kevin Stefanski going forward on 4th and 3 after the first drive. They're down 7-0. Alright, I just want to say this, and people like, it's because analytics has become a hot topic, especially for me and Florian on PFT.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I, I don't like those decisions. You're down 7-0, you're on, you're on the 10 yard line and it's 4th and 3. Kick the field goal and make it a 7-3 football game. Kick the, give your team some positive energy. You got no offensive tackle. You know, now instead you give the other team energy and go, whoa, we made a stop.


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[Assistant] And your defense is coming on the field like, damn, we didn't come away with any points there. And that's where numbers and analytics can't help out. I'm sorry to get off topic there. Now let's go back to the Arizona defense, alright? So here we go.


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[Assistant] Three tie down set, Paul. They love doing this stuff. They love it.


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[Assistant] You know, one tight end, two tight end, here's another tight end, and then what they want to do is go like, hey, we got one receiver out here, do you really want to leave us one on one out there? And with Byron Murphy, they're not necessarily afraid, but they keep the single safety back here shaded towards that one receiver to where


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[Assistant] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and then a ninth guy on the edge of the box to where, you know, again, Cleveland's a really good running team.


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[Assistant] But when you got size and speed on a defense with this many people at the line of scrimmage, I just don't care who you are. It's going to be hard to do it against a talented defense. So they really called their bluff.


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[Assistant] In this, in this department, in my opinion. And here he is, you know, Baker Mayfield, he's checking, you know, he saw him get up, he goes check, check, check.


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[Assistant] I am guessing, you know, off of alignment, and let's, let me rewind it so everybody can see this here a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, you see Baker right here, right? Baker gets up, puts the hands out, check, check, check, right? He's doing that.


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[Assistant] Probably had some sort of run play, I'm guessing, down here, but the linebackers are kicked over. Isaiah Simmons on the end of the line of scrimmage. He doesn't like that number.


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[Assistant] That those numbers there, so he goes check, check, check, so they can run the ball up here somewhere. There's not a great advantage there either, but they do have the numbers advantage. Alright? Now within that, like, Vance Joseph is, you know,


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[Assistant] No idiot, okay. He's got people coming off the edge here because, alright, first thing is, you see all the people at the line of scrimmage, but he's got people coming off the edge on the weak side because he goes, wait, they're great zone cutback team. I'm gonna take that away. And you even see Hicks, he's kinda hanging out back, back around here.


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[Assistant] They just kinda took it to the Browns with the sheer numbers and the athleticism to where you can see here at the front side, on the top here, I mean they're getting pushed back, there's no, they're not winning anything there.


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[Assistant] Arizona's shooting gaps and coming downhill at such a capacity that this was kind of the theme every time they got in these formations throughout the game.


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[Assistant] Where it was just like, hey, that's great. I like it. You know, sure, try to run the ball with two and three tight ends, but you know, they were going to come downhill and be aggressive and slow down the run game and scare them with just with the sheer numbers where an offensive coordinator is going to sit there and go,


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[Assistant] Man, I'd like to run it, but it's going to be tough. They're good, they got talent, and they just got more people there to block than we do. So we're a little compromised that way. They kind of scared the Browns out of the running game for that standpoint, at least in these type of formations.


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[Assistant] No, he's not. And again, here's a similar thing here, right? We got two tight end sets, and a full back, and...


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[Assistant] So we got one tight end, two tight end, full back, running back. There's Odell. Same type of look really, right? It's one on one with Byron Murphy. The safety's cheating over there, so he's gonna help out on Odell. And, again.


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[Assistant] It's eight guys, with a nine guy, that's yes, he's gonna be worried about in David and Joku if he comes out.


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[Assistant] He's, he's been taught all week to, we're gonna get downhill if we see the run, and he's right on the edge of the box, right?


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[Assistant] You know, what I really want you to see first off is just like, look at the, look at the fast flow of the linebackers. I should have pointed this out a little bit more in the last play where-


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[Assistant] I mean, they're winning almost every matchup to at least a stalemate, and now you got this crew pursuing and coming downhill, the three linebackers we just talked about, who all have size and physicality in Simmons, Collins, and Hicks.


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[Assistant] There's just, there's no chance. And the good thing too is, they always like,


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[Assistant] You know, and here's my man Jordan Phillips, who's a big dude, he's hard to move, but the other thing too is, you know, they always had a good job of like, slanting the back side, right, to make sure like, hey, if you think you're gonna get a cutback lane or anything like that, we're gonna have guys there, that's just not gonna happen.


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[Assistant] And as you see, like you said, I mean, there's no chance in this play. There's nothing. There's absolutely nothing. There's nowhere he can go. People are losing the one-on-one battles, let alone the guys at the second level are coming down and clogging holes. And he's got, you know, Kareem Hunt has nowhere to go.


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[Assistant] No, it looked like that, like, that's where I go back to like, again, I know they didn't have their tackles, but these three inside?


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[Assistant] That's the starting three. Treader, Bentonio, and uh, Wyatt Teller, they're as good an interior three as you want. They lost the battles too in this game. They did. And that doesn't happen much either. Now here's one other thing I just want to point out. I'm almost 100% sure there's supposed to be a reverse. Alright? I don't know why he doesn't give the ball.


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[Assistant] And if you have, if we could show it on film or anything else, uh, you would see, I mean, look, first off, look at Baker. Just look at Baker. He's looking back like, wait, and he's going to have a point here, Baker, where he's ready to block. He's ready to block. And you'll see because the little score bug here blocks it.


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[Assistant] He looks at Odell, and they're like, why didn't he give it to him? And to me, it does look like it was a called reverse. Look, look at, here's another guy to look at here. Look at Joe Bentonio. Watch as I let this play, okay? Watch his reaction. He's going, well, look at, you're supposed to


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[Assistant] They're not, that's not the strength of their team to get in the shotgun and spread you out and be surgical that way. No, they're a little bit, we want to run the ball, we're going to create play action passes off it, bootlegs off of it.


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[Assistant] And then, yeaah, we got a handful of drop-back passes and shotgun plays that we're pretty good at. But when you make them do that play after play, and especially against that defense, when Vance Joseph knows, oh, now I got him passing the ball, and he can do all his crazy zone coverages and zone blitzes, they're pretty hard to stop Arizona.


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[Assistant] You know, this is where stats lie. Like, Cleveland's defense was top three in football. That's great. When you have the schedule they had, there would be a lot of teams that have been in the top three in football. I mean, they got to play Bears and Justin Fields, right, with that offense when they ran the Andy Dalton offense with Justin Fields. They got to play the Houston Texans and Tyra Taylor got hurt.


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[Assistant] That was huge. And then, uh, you know, they had


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[Assistant] Alright, there's great common knowledge between those two teams.


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[Assistant] You know, Stefanski was in Minnesota. I'm sure he coached, you know, uh, defensive coordinator, um, Woods.


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[Assistant] Uh, into, into some of the things that Minnesota likes to do on that side of the ball. Uhm, but, but yes, the Browns defense, and listen, it's disappointing to me. The Browns are disappointing all together. They're three and three and they have definitely one of the five best rosters in football.


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[Assistant] And I know they were injured and all that, but that's why this Thursday night against Denver is gonna be big.


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[Assistant] They mess up a few things every game. And when I say they just mess up, it doesn't mean like they mess up and let up a 5 yard game. They mess up and let touchdowns and 40 yard gains and 50 game changing plays. And that's not acceptable.


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[Assistant] Right, and like again, you should be ultra conservative here if you're anybody on the Cleveland Browns defense. I mean, it's like you said, it's third and 18 on the 21 yard line.


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely. At least. I mean, you really should just be going, don't let them score a touchdown. Doesn't matter. That's all that matters. Alright, and they're playing a little bit of a different coverage here. Alright, so, what they're doing here, oops, is


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[Assistant] Really kind of a quarters combination with these two, and they're letting Denzel Ward lock up with DeAndre Hopkins. So he's basically in man to man, and it's hey you other ten guys, you run the defense. That's what they're doing. I could be wrong, and if I am wrong, somebody in Cleveland call me and tell me I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm right on this one.


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[Assistant] Alright, and so I understand it all the way. Now, as this play develops, okay, with Kyler Murray and everything here,


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's basically for these two, right, as they drop back, you got the first guy that goes inside, you got the first guy that goes outside. And what they're gonna do here is Ronald Moore's gonna run the post route.


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[Assistant] And Christian Kirk is gonna run the corner route right underneath it. And our man Troy Hill, who I like and is a good player,


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[Assistant] He for some reason takes the bait on Ronald Moore's post wrap. And all they need to do is just go straight back. You have no business in there. There's nothing for you to worry about. There's a safety. John Johnson is there. There's no reason. Okay, so now here we go. I'm gonna let it play.


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[Assistant] And watch, it doesn't take much, but here you go. Look how he just takes a few steps inside following him. Okay, and I hope everybody can follow. Alright, it's this guy we're talking about right here if you're just listening on, you know, strictly audio.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is where Troy Hill just takes the bait. And you can't do that. Not in this situation.


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[Assistant] And to me, it's just these type of mistakes on a weekly basis, where...


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[Assistant] I don't know what to say, but that's him all the way.


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[Assistant] Hell of a throw, perfect throw, but it should never come down to that. It should never come down to that. And again, you know,


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[Assistant] I would be shocked that this is his responsibility as far as Denzel Ward. I don't think it is.


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[Assistant] And the way Troy Hill reacts and looks back at the safety, nobody looks at Denzel Ward, okay? And I'm almost 100% sure I'm right about that, okay? I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything like that.


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[Assistant] Yes, ultimately it's that type of mistake and you see it a handful of these every week. I don't know what he's worried about. Just stay along this line right here. Stay on the outside leverage and you'll be absolutely fine.


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[Assistant] He lets it up. You can see he's disgusted with himself after the guy catches the ball.


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[Assistant] And that's that. Not a bad idea what they're doing coverage wise. Not. It's just details kind of get messed up every week. We watched last week the Chargers game. They were messing up the quarter coverages and some of that. Messing up coverages almost on every drive. And that's just, they're too talented to be doing that right there.


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[Assistant] He's doing a little bit less. He's more efficient doing it. But them as an offense are doing more. You know, I think that's the big thing. You told me before we started the show, you watched back the game.


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[Assistant] They run the ball. There's more, there's more tight ends involved in the football game. It's not always so relying on let Kyle, let's make, let Kyler make a play. Right. You know, now we're seeing like, yeah, they can make plays. We know that with that superstar group and him at quarterback, definitely.


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[Assistant] No, no. Definitely not. No, it's a handful of scrambles and just a cherry picked, oh here comes a quarterback design run to screw you over.


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[Assistant] That's all it is. And it's the perfect little formula they got going right now. Again, you don't know really what to defend. And to me, where they've gone to the next level, and I think I've said this a little on the pod, is yeaah, the big play is we know they can do that. He's a superstar. He's way better on third down.


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[Assistant] You know, we discussed that a lot going in the year. He was not good on third down early in his career. Now I think he's number one quarterback in football on third down, right? And, you know, added on top of that, they've shown an element of


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[Assistant] Because they're not so reliant on the big play that they can go on 14 play drives and 12 play drives and move it five and six yards at a time and be patient that way and have enough scheme stuff to kind of nickel and dime their way down the field if, okay, you want to take away our big plays, that's fine. And that's to me where they've gone


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[Assistant] Listen, I'm, I'm still skeptical to a degree. Yeah, sure. Yeah, it's one game, but like I kind of like the thought of what they did this game. And basically what we're about to show you is, you know, instead of what we saw the first few weeks of


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[Assistant] You know, an occasional blitz, but a lot of disguised coverages and, you know, we're showing this coverage and now we're dropping out over here and everything that way. You know, teams have kind of shredded them and torn them apart. What they got to in this game was a little bit of like, you know what, screw it.


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[Assistant] We're messing up some of these calls and these crazy disguise coverages. We're not playing it with great detail. So they got a little bit more into like, we're gonna play some man coverage a little bit, and we're gonna just force the issue at the line of scrimmage. You know, a little bit like we just talked about with Arizona and Cleveland in the run game. I think they basically just said,


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[Assistant] Wait, quarterbacks are sitting back there all day. I don't care what coverages you play. They're going to pick you apart if they can sit there all day. And we're getting gashed in the run game because we're trying to show like, you know, play certain coverages and disguises. So they kind of overwhelm the line of scrimmage. And within that, yeaah, they pressure Tyler, Taylor Heinecke a lot.


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[Assistant] Here's the other thing that, you know, even I lose sight of sometimes. When you do blitz and do stuff like that.


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[Assistant] You know, if your studying's right, you get a good feel of what teams do against the Blitz.


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[Assistant] Oh, if we blitz four off this side, he likes to throw it hot to this receiver. And you could teach your defenders that to now where, all right, we're blitzing. I let me get ready to come downhill because he's probably going to throw it hot to this guy. And that's what I saw from this game more than anything. And I thought it was a good approach. Certainly it forced the issue and it helped out the football team. That's a game of the year for them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, third down to nine for the football team and, you know, you could see.


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[Assistant] At the line of scrimmage again, you know, you're not sure, you know, but it's like you can obviously see there's some man-to-man principles here.


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[Assistant] And what they went to in this game is they just said, Ligeria Snead and Fenton, you're starting if we're in base defense. If we get nickel, Mike Hughes, you come.


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[Assistant] You come in the game, you play outside, Fenton plays outside, and we'll put Ligeria Sneed at nickel. They took Sorensen out, they put Thornhill in, Thornhill has three rockets up his ass, he can fly, he changes the way their defense looks when he's on the field at the safety position. At least in my opinion. And, you know, here we go. So, you know, typically, would like,


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[Assistant] With Kansas City, you see these types of looks, and then it's like boom, he drops out, he drops out, he looks like he's in a blitz, and he goes down the middle of the field, and they're playing some sort of Tampa 2, or some version of that, okay? No, but they, they changed that up this week. And again, this is where we get into, here it is. Okay.


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[Assistant] Boom, it's third and nine, we're gonna make you make a decision and make a throw and we're bringing six people, right? And, and really bringing six people, it's, it's all out pressure. It's all out blitz. Like if this guy goes out and this guy goes out, these guys got them, okay? They're man to man.


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[Assistant] They must have had a good feel for protections, what you're gonna do off of that, and they knew if we blitzed, these backs will stay in and block. Okay? And now that gave like a little freedom, of course these guys are on an island, there's no, there's no hiding that.


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[Assistant] Within that, watch these two safeties back here everybody. You know, once they see their guys block, they start looking for crossing routes and things like that to help out on these other two guys.


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[Assistant] Fenton's gonna be on the island. There's nothing you can do. But either way, they're not gonna let the quarterback sit back there all day and make a decision. And now he's going back and he's going, wait, I got a three man route and there's nothing in the middle of the field. And they force them to pick one of the one on one matchups on the outside. Yep. And Fenton's all over it. It does a great job.


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[Assistant] That's the right number if you're going to do it. I hear you there. I do. You know, I think why you don't see it is because a lot of the good teams in football, even when you bring six, have figured out we can block it up and then we can still gash your ass some of the pass down the field. But they obviously had a good feel for how they were going to be attacked off these sets and let's go to the next play.


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[Assistant] Early second, second and seven, seven and three, and, you know, again, the Blitz numbers, I don't think were necessarily up for the team.


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[Assistant] But what I would tell you is I go, yes they were. They were up. For sure. In the competitive part of the game, they blitzed more than any part of the season so far.


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[Assistant] You gotta remember, once they go up 24 to 10 or 24 to 13, whatever it was, they stopped blitzing. They played a little more conservatively. So we didn't get a full four quarter picture of the defense they had to play here in this game. I think that's worth talking about a little bit. Because like, I brought it up to Pete and Pete was like, well, you know, the numbers show they blitzed.


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[Assistant] And I was like, yea, but it was fourth quarter, the game was over, and they played a different style of defense, to where if the game continues to be competitive, I think we would have saw a greater number of blitzes.


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[Assistant] Same type of thing here. I mean it's, again, you see what we got here.


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[Assistant] Okay, Washington's got a tight end to the left, receiver to the left, and then two receivers to the right.


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[Assistant] They're not really disguising much, they're trying to be crazy here. It's, again, they're going up, up yours, it's man to man coverage, the hell with it, and now you're gonna have to try to make a throw into tight coverage, and we'll see if you can block all these guys that we got coming here on the Blitz.


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[Assistant] And that's, again, I gotta think there was a little feel okay for how the protections would be called, right? You're gonna see this guy goes this way, this guy goes this way, they're probably worried about some sort of slot blitz, and Kansas City actually just has two guys off the edge there.


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[Assistant] And it's these four, and now it's this guy who comes with a wraparound, right? So now they're wrong. They're wrong in the way they're pushing their protection. You know, the safeties kinda dangle out here to where you go, I don't know if this is all-out blitz. You can't definitely say it's gonna be all-out blitz. But, when it comes down to it,


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[Assistant] It really is. You know, and again, here, I just want everybody to watch. This safety, Juan Thornhill here, right here, he's man to man on the tight end who came across. Even though he's 7, 8, 9 years, long way to go. But it goes back again to, I guarantee they had a feel for where the ball might go in some of these situations and they were comfortable with it. Tyrone Matthew,


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[Assistant] Is man-to-man on McKissick, the back. That's who he's covering. Look, I mean, before the snap...


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[Assistant] And he helps out on the other receiver up top on the one-on-one matchup, right? So, to me it was really well thought out calculated blitzes and okay, we blitzed, we forced the issue, we got pressure on the quarterback, it was second on seven, okay, whoop-de-doo, they got three or four yards and now we got them in third and three.


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[Assistant] But that to me is what we continue to see early on in the game a lot.


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[Assistant] I talked about with Pete with all these, uh, yesterday, so I forget all the damn plays we got here. Yep. Okay. Next one. You see it's...


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[Assistant] Again, a lot of people at the line of scrimmage for anybody listening on audio. You got a bunch left to the top here. Three guys. Back offset weak. Here we go. To the right it's a one on one matchup. Terry McLaurin on Fenton. Okay, so what's gonna happen?


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[Assistant] You know, you see a little orbit motion where the receiver goes there and back. They're trying to gauge the coverage. Alright? This one's not all out blitz. It's not. It's just a 5-man pressure. Okay? 5-man pressure, but it's tight man-to-man coverage once again. Alright?


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[Assistant] At the top here, again this is where it goes back to like,


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[Assistant] The, the, they must have had a good feel for the attack. They're basically man to man on the point of them three man bunch. Thornhill has the first guy inside. And this is, I believe, Ligerious, or no, this is Mike Hughes. He's gonna take the first one that goes outside. Tyrone Smith's gonna go back.


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[Assistant] The awesome thing off of it is, we've seen this look a lot already, and they've brought six guys, right? So we've already shown that three times, but now it's, oh, it's just a five man, and we got an extra guy in coverage. And again, they kind of overwhelm the pocket.


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[Assistant] As far as the pass protection, to where he's got people in his face, and now he's gotta make a throw with people in his face, and yeaah, he's got a guy open, but again he can't really step into the throw, somebody hits his arm as he throws it.


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[Assistant] Well, there's definitely less of an element of, oh, we have to worry about quarterback design runs or this guy scrambling and doing that for sure. I don't know how much that played into it. That's a really good question. I think we'll get the answer next week.


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[Assistant] So we'll see. If they have a similar approach, I go, no, this is, they just decide they're going to play this way and they don't like the way they've been playing.


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[Assistant] You know, if they go back to a little bit of what we saw in the first few weeks.


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[Assistant] Patrick Mahomes is awesome in that game. Yeah. Awesome. Like.


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[Assistant] Again, I know he had the stupid turnover where he dropped the snap and then threw the ball like he was in third grade again, playing in the backyard. Guys are allowed to have a bad play or three. Right, well, they got a ton of pressure on them. I mean, they gotta do it all, I mean, to a degree, and I think they've kind of...


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[Assistant] With that pressure, tried to do too much at times, but man, I mean, out of this world good in that game.


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[Assistant] Again. I thought his decisions were amazing. When he did get pressured, he looked good moving around and making some plays that way. And he just...


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[Assistant] Every throw he made was almost on the money. I mean, almost everyone. And yeah, we'll see. I think Kansas City's offense is getting close to getting hot here again and starting to go like, yeah, we're going to stop messing up and we're going to start messing you up.


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[Assistant] And then, oh, this team's moving the ball down the field and they just do something stupid. Like there's a difference there as far as.


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[Assistant] You know, the quality there. And that, they're more of part two of that. They just mess things up.


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[Assistant] We'll see if they can get back on track, but they're still one of the greatest units in football.


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[Assistant] Yeah, really good. I mean, had a phenomenal day. You know, you could tell they had a good plan for how Denver was going to attack them. And I think the biggest thing is, you know, he just, I always talk about this. Oh yeah. He threw for 335 yards. Great game.


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[Assistant] I wanna go, well, it depends sometimes. You know, if there was 450 there to be had, then that's not that great.


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[Assistant] You know, I go back to like Jalen Hurts in Kansas City a few weeks ago. People are going to look at his stats and go, great. I'm going to go, yeah, but two out of the three field goal drives they had, it was wide open touchdowns. He didn't hit him. He should have had another hundred yards in the game. There is something to that.


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[Assistant] Derek Carr takes advantage of all that's there to be had. He definitely did in this football game. And, uh, compared to the other quarterback, Teddy Bridgewater, who didn't. And that's kind of where we're at right now. But let's go into some of this Raiders film and see what they did to the Broncos defense.


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[Assistant] I gotta go to rugs on a post route, rugs on a post route, alright. You know, Denver, listen, I don't know exactly sure.


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[Assistant] If this is half field cover to coverage or if it's man to man straight across the board and this safety's just over here trying to make it look like it, alright? Either way, we got, it's gonna be man on man.


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[Assistant] On man on the front side, okay? That's what you're gonna get.


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[Assistant] And again, Derek Carr, I think the thing that I love about it is just the recognition, I think when he sees this safety back over here, okay, and


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[Assistant] I know, I think he's really trying to scare them from throwing the single cut. And I think Vic Fangio...


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[Assistant] He thinks he has a good feel for what the Raiders do in these little bunch sets. So he's like what they would call like almost, you know, he's got a guy here waiting inside, he's got him, he's got him. They got four, four on three basically, cause they're probably worried about some sort of Hunter-Renfro option play, which they do a lot.


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[Assistant] But within that, that leaves Ronald Darby, okay, one on one with rugs, with really no safety held, because the safety, like you said, is on the inside edge of the other numbers there.


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[Assistant] Which, which I wanna go, you know, again, you got Patrick Shartane the second there, why don't you just let him live on his own? And...


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[Assistant] Now, again, I don't know what Patrick Sertan's doing there. You know, really, like this is where I'm not sure it's truly a Cover 2 look. I think they're trying to make him feel like that. Because if this was like a Cover 2 look, I think he'd be trailing him a little bit more. But he's staying on top of him like it's man to man.


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[Assistant] And that gets, you know, Justin Simmons, who's the safety and a hell of a player, but I just think he stays over here too long at the top of the screen. He just stays over there too long. And as you see now, again, on the bottom of the screen, like Ronald Darby's in a tough spot.


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[Assistant] You know, he's in a tough spot and I bet you the numbers show that they run a lot of this type of stuff and options that they don't necessarily attack down the field in these formations. I'm betting Vic Fangio played those numbers and of course he was wrong and the Raiders must have had a good idea


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[Assistant] That, that was gonna be the case. And Derek Carr just stands in there nice and calmly. Pretty good pocket.


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[Assistant] Boom! Gets it in there just before Simmons gets over to make the play.


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[Assistant] And it's a touchdown, but that's taking advantage of all that's there to be had on an offense.


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[Assistant] Third and two. So that goes back to my point. I'm, I'm, you gotta remember my points. They're worried about Hunter Renfro. They call it Third and Renfro in Las Vegas.


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[Assistant] They're trying to stop that. So they said, okay, you want to try to stop that and overplay a hand that way, we got this for you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, again, just another great play by Derek Carr. Not, not that I wanna like,


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[Assistant] Show anything great schematically here, okay? But it's, it's man to man coverage. It's, it's a five man rush.


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[Assistant] Denver's got one, two, three, four, five. They're trying to create five one-on-ones. The Raiders do a pretty good job in protection. You can see you got man here, you got man here, man here, man here. This Justin Simmons is coming down for the back, okay? And then there's a free safety back here.


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[Assistant] You know, but Derek Carr just does a great job of like not panning in the, not panicking in the pocket and reading the play out the right way and knowing that like, man, I got Darren Waller matched up to the,


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[Assistant] I'm pretty sure it is. I can't remember exactly who it is. He's on the outside edge and he trusts him that he's going to kind of work him out and get back inside him and run the deep cross route. And with the safety being so deep, he just makes the perfect throw to Darren Waller. And it's easy pickings.


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[Assistant] No, exactly right. There's none. None. Exactly right. And, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just to rush 5, it's like kissing your sister. I'm just, I'm not a fan of it. I'm not, you know? I mean, I'd rather have that guy, or do something crazy and rush 4, create some sort of advantage, but right now,


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[Assistant] Like, you can't, you can't do that. I just know that. And I mean, and you're right. It's just, there's nothing. There's nothing to be gained there. The Raiders protected better during the game in general. And I'm being heckled by fans.


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[Assistant] Turn, and then, and again, like, you know, first off...


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[Assistant] You see here, right? Not a lot of disguise. Not a ton of it. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But Derek Carr, he knows, like right now, he's like, wait, all these guys are at the same level? This is gonna be an all out pressure look. He knows that. There's no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] And within that, you know, we talked about before as like, post routes being a route you go to and all out pressure.


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[Assistant] Right? And what does he have here? At the top of the screen, he's got Henry Ruggs on, I believe that's Darby again, with outside leverage.


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[Assistant] No, no doubt. What you want, he's, he knows he's got his backs alright. He knows he's one short as far as the Blitz is concerned. Like he knows, okay, yeaah, I got six guys protecting, they're bringing seven, and that's why you're gonna see him kinda fade away just to protect himself so nobody gets there just as he's throwing the ball.


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[Assistant] Off the back foot, and we've seen this a number of times already this year. He throws it across the field a little bit so the receiver can use his body to shield off the defender. He puts the ball over here instead of over here, which is a mistake that's made a lot. And Henry Ruggs for a small guy does a great job using his body and being physical and catching the football.


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[Assistant] He's stepping up big time and, and that's, hey, the Raiders got offense, you know, got answers for everything. You gotta be careful about blitzing the Raiders too much and showing these type of looks. They're, they're, they have shown that they know what to do. And then of course Derek Carr is not being Johnny conservative this year. He's going after it. Yeah, no doubt.


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[Assistant] They're just not enough like, let's go to the plays, they're just not enough like...


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[Assistant] Good plays from Teddy Bridgewater in the pass offense during the competitive parts of football games right now. I'm sorry, that's just the way it is. A lot of it's end of the game stats or yea, we're down 27 to 10 and okay yea, you made some great drives against the Steelers who were a little bit of a different


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[Assistant] Defensive mindset at that point. You almost came back, I get it.


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[Assistant] You know, even the Ravens game before that, there's just not enough. He's not taking advantage of all that's being, uh, it's all there to be had. And here's your first example. I mean, it's four man rush, it's cover three zone. I mean, we just saw Derek Carr hit this same throw basically.


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[Assistant] To Darren Waller, except this time you're gonna have Courtland Sutton, who is a freak of nature. I mean, he's a star, and this is just coming back from a torn ACL last year, but like,


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[Assistant] Hey listen, I don't know what else to say. It doesn't get any more wide open than the NFL. You missed them.


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[Assistant] Missed him. I mean, missed him to the point where he can barely get a hand on the football. Okay, so, you know, that, that's what's troubling to me with the Teddy Bridgewater stuff because


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[Assistant] He was playing because he was going to take care of the football and it looked like he was going to be more aggressive down the field and he was early on against bad defenses but now it's better defenses


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[Assistant] And he's not as good at throwing the ball into tight windows or hitting some of the plays that are going to be a difference in the game. And he's turned the ball over in this game too, so it's a double whammy, and I think that's concerning.


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[Assistant] I thought he changed his way, yeaah. He's being aggressive, he's hitting downfield shots, but we're getting back a little bit into like the Teddy that we've always seen. It's just a little too conservative, he misses too many of the big throws that change the, change the game. Four picks. And then yeaah, you got four picks to go along with it.


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[Assistant] Four picks to go along with it, had the fumble in the game too.


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[Assistant] Third down and five, and look at it, all we gotta do is the bottom of the screen. It's Cortland Sutton.


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[Assistant] It's man to man across the board. There's nothing to look at. Sutton gets a little banged here at the bottom of the screen as far as his release, but he's big, he gets off it, and a little bit of again a wobbler football out there.


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[Assistant] And Sudden does all he can. He dives, he lays out, and he gets some fingertips on it. But, you know, again, that's just the bigger, like, if people want to know why Denver's not been this great lately, it's, they've left yards and plays on the football field, for sure.


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[Assistant] You know, you don't throw the ball high up in the air or do that. You know, at release here, Sutton's already got the guy beat by two or three yards. Just throw a line drive and hit him. Just make sure he catches it. It's like, forget about leading at this point. Just make sure you get the completion and get the 30 or 40 yard game.


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[Assistant] No, it is. It is gonna be the same thing. It is. And listen, I could've showed you probably another three or four plays after this, alright? I mean, again, here we go. Drop back. You see, it's a four-man rush. It couldn't be an easier read. It's three, it's, it's, uh, cover three. It's Seattle Scheme. I mean, it's basically like a little form of a double post.


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[Assistant] And the safety's gonna go with the underneath post. And Teddy Bridgewater pockets good. It's just severely under thrown.


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[Assistant] And, of course it gets knocked down for an incompletion.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, it's just either throw it out there or make that decision quicker, uh, but I, I mean I think it's something to watch for with Denver on Thursday night and to watch for them going forward here because I think we are getting into the time where if he continues to play like this or another game or two, then you're gonna start out hearing the, we want Drew Lock stuff in Denver.


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[Assistant] In the passing game, that's mind boggling. It's mind boggling. And again, I remind people the thing that wins football games


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[Assistant] Is turnovers and explosive plays. That's, that's, that is, I mean, that's been broken down. I mean, that hasn't changed since I got done playing football. We'd have a team meeting every now and then where they would remind everybody like, yeah, this is the two biggest factors that help you win a game.


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[Assistant] The league's too hard to be thinking you're gonna go six or seven yards at a time.


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[Assistant] And then if you're gonna go six and seven yards at a time and then turn the ball over occasionally, then damn, you're double whammy craps on there. And that's where, you know, there's just, there's been very few teams.


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[Assistant] Hey, Peyton Manning and the Colts, if you wanted to play past Stevens, yeaah, he's gonna tear your ass up and go on 12 play drives and take 6 or 7 yards at a time. Brady and the Patriots, Breeze and the Saints.


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[Assistant] You know, but those are special offenses with special quarterbacks. Not everybody can do that. And that's where you gotta strike on those type of plays right there.


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[Assistant] Cowboys defense, hey, the one thing you say about them is they got, they got, you know, got some size, got some guys that look the part.


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[Assistant] I'm not necessarily like biggest defensive tackles in the world, but damn, some good looking defensive ends. Their linebackers of course look good with Vander Esch and Micah Parsons. Of course Trevon Diggs is a stud and they play


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[Assistant] And they hustle like hell and they bring it. I mean, they hit you and they don't care if their own head gets knocked off. They're coming back the next play to try to hit you again. And I respect that attitude about them. This game, the first two drives of the game, Paul, maybe the first two and a half, they played a lot of man to man. They learned their lesson.


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[Assistant] They went, uh oh, wait, New England, nobody teaches how to run routes better than New England. Attack your leverage. Of course they had a few tricks too to go along with it that helped their guys get open on man to man.


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[Assistant] And that made them have to change their style a little bit and after they did that.


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[Assistant] The Patriots had a hard time moving the ball on them, again, until they hit the 75 yard touchdown pass, uh, double move play on Trevon Diggs.


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[Assistant] Yep, and again, like I said, the Cowboys had had issues playing man to man.


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[Assistant] Alright, so that, that had really been a little problem for them. And they had gotten away from it for the most part. Alright, but, you know, it's the first play of the drive, maybe they're not sure if they might get a run. So they go back to it. And...


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[Assistant] You can see here, there's Troy Aikman, he's circling the matchup down there, that's not me.


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[Assistant] Uh, but this is simple. I mean it's, it's, it's a simple concept. It's just, it's double move here, it's a little out and up here, and it's man to man everywhere on the board as you can see, right?


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[Assistant] And there you go. And you got a guy here just free in the middle. So the guy read things. So they're playing like our old one robber, right? Cover one robber. This guy's the robber. He's looking just to rob anything over the middle to help out guys. Alright. And.


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[Assistant] You can see here at the bottom, Bourne, Bourne makes a nice move where Troy Aikman circling him. Diggs is not in a bad spot.


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[Assistant] I mean, Diggs really, he bites on the fake but recovers really well to where if Mack Jones under throws this, he's gonna get his second pick in a row in two plays. Now, with this move and how long it took, and let me just add to this, Kendrick Bourne in a tight split?


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[Assistant] It's not a great ask for your safety who ultimately is going to get over here to get right here to make this. That's not a great ask. Not at all. And that to me, again, Trevon Diggs, yea, you know, I know he took one for the team and says, oh, I got beat and he didn't want to blame anybody else. That's a horrible play by the safety.


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[Assistant] 100%. I mean, two things should happen here 99 out of 100 times. Either Kendrick Bourne loses his head from decapitation or the ball gets an easy interception.


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[Assistant] I mean, one of the two. I mean, Diggs, he slows down right here once he realizes the trajectory of the ball, and he slows down because he's like, wait, my safety's about to kill this guy. He's like kinda, I think is like almost like,


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[Assistant] Like, well, let me, look, as he turns back, he kinda stops and slows down, cause he's like, wait, this guy's gonna pick it off or crush this guy. Let me make sure I'm not in, like, dangerous way. Which safety is that? And that's Damonte Kazee. Okay. Right?


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[Assistant] It's like, it's like he looked at the ball but didn't really know where the receiver was exactly. Like he thought the ball was just gonna get through and come right to him. I don't, I really don't know. But as you can see with, with Trevon Diggs right here, I mean, he's gonna throw up his hands here in a second to be like, come on, I'm in a good spot. I got him underneath. Where are you?


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[Assistant] And that was of course a huge moment in the football game and gave the Patriots another chance.


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[Assistant] Man to man though, that was one thing that they learned they couldn't do against the Patriots. The Patriots are just too good at attacking leverages of man to man, getting their guys in splits like that to make it hard on you to play man to man. And of course the crosses and the picks and everything like that, that's where they're tough to do that. And Dallas hadn't done it much ever since those first two drives.


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[Assistant] And that's when they really changed. Even on the third drive, where the Patriots threw a touchdown pass.


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[Assistant] And had it called back, I believe, for holding, the very next play was the Randy Gregory strip sack fumble. That play before the touchdown that was called back was a man-to-man play. And after that, they were like, okay, we've seen enough. We're better, we've got more talent than these guys. We're killing ourselves getting beaten in some of these one-on-one matchups and the plays they're throwing at us.


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[Assistant] I mean, of course, you know, coulda, shoulda beat Baltimore. I'm not gonna lie. I think they outplayed them. They lost. You know, they didn't kind of take advantage of their opportunities to put the game away, but definitely better play. I mean, less holding on the ball, better decisions. Of course, you know, been some bigger plays in the past game.


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[Assistant] The run game has come alive a little bit, and let's not forget, I mean they are missing maybe the best


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[Assistant] They're really close. They're a dangerous 2-4 football team. I would say so too. The defense is good. It's a real top 10-ish type defense. I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's a top 3 or 4 or 5 type defense, but it's real good.


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[Assistant] And then if their offense can play like it has the last few weeks, they're going to be a handful down the stretch here. There's no doubt. And I think Wentz has got comfortable within the scheme again and the players and the place. Jonathan Taylor's really good. I mean, listen.


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[Assistant] Frank Reich, I would say, if there's anything I watch a little bit, I wish they'd be a hair more patient with the run game. I think there's more there to be had, but either way, it's hard to argue with the results they've had on that side of the ball lately.


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[Assistant] Good night. He's as creative as it gets once he gets a good feel for how you're attacking him. And, you know, with Lovey Smith, they play too much cover too on the Texan side of the ball. That's one of, you know, that's his, that's what Lovey does. And to me, it's just a little too much to where teams can every now and then dial up a play and you go,


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[Assistant] That's hard on cover too. That's hard on it. And this is one of those examples right here. And they don't exactly execute it the right way. So.


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[Assistant] Here we go. We're in a little, uhm, it's, it's a, it's a, a four wide receiver set here, even though they got tight splits, okay? And, you're gonna see a little play action fake to the right with Carson Wentz. And again, here. So everybody watches. It's cover two.


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[Assistant] It's cover two, it's cover two, alright. And you're gonna have, you know, guys right here underneath looking for anything cross. It's not Tampa two, if it was Tampa two, we'd get a guy down the middle. This is just cover two, alright. And, play action fake to the right by Carson Wentz.


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[Assistant] And what we're gonna get here is, listen, a lot of teams when they do this right here, it just goes post, and deep cross, and then you got some guys that are down for a check down, right? So you go one, two, and then three to some sort of check down here, right? Alright, well, it's cover two.


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[Assistant] And they know they can stress it a little bit. So what do they do? They have Parrish Campbell run a post corner.