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[Assistant] And they have a great committee anyways, but it did seem like Andy Reid was calling the play. And then, I think the other thing where I've just, the Chiefs were so good at staying ahead of the Chains last night. I mean, at one point they were 9 for 11 on third downs. Maybe that's part of the Mahomes thing too, where we just go, man, every third down he just makes it happen.


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[Assistant] I thought their ability to kinda stay in those manageable situations.


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[Assistant] That, that was a big key too, whether it was a run game or a screen game to keep them in.


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[Assistant] You know, a lot of third and fours and things like that to where I don't give a shit who you are and what defense you got. You got Patrick Mahomes in third and four too many times. You can't stop that. Along with Andy Reid and the talent they have on their team. So that was, that was impressive, let alone, you know, their defense was impressive too.


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[Assistant] I think that's, you know, I think that game played out, you know, exactly the way they didn't want it to play out. Should they have done that though? I mean, should they have tried to just still stay balanced?


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[Assistant] You know, we gotta, we gotta push the envelope a little here tonight cause it seems like, you know, Mahomes and Andy and the enemy got their mojo going. They could score 41. They could score 41. And then here's the other, the other element too, is


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[Assistant] You know, the one thing I love about Spags, when he plays Brady, he doesn't like, bow down. He puts people at the line of scrimmage. He makes Brady think.


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[Assistant] You know, how many times last night did you hear Brian, red giant, red giant, cause he's, you know, you know, Mike 54, Linda, Linda, Rita, Rita, he's changing things because Spag challenges him. There's a reason Spags has beat him in the Super Bowl. And hey, beat him with the Chiefs too, giving them some issues.


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[Assistant] You know, but that's where, you know, I think they're, they have a good balance of like, hey, we're crowding the line of scrimmage, we're giving you the pass, like, oh, we drop out. Hey, we're crowding the line of scrimmage, we're probably gonna drop out again, oh, we blitz somebody you didn't expect. And I thought that was a good job by him, just, you know, keeping them off kilter a little bit as well. Uhm, but, but,


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[Assistant] I-I still think, I think my overall thing is I'm not panicked by the bucks.


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[Assistant] You know, they ran into a team that was ready to go last night, pissed off.


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[Assistant] Super Bowl hangover from two years ago, that's still in their mind. I mean, Kelsey and Mahomes, the leaders of the team, they were there, so was Chris Jones and Frank Clark. They don't forget that moment. You know, so I think they really got their A game there going last night. And I think the Bucs are still a team that's kind of


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[Assistant] No, maybe it's dead. I hope so. You know, it should be. And again, I think last night shows a lot, a lot too, a little bit again. The way they spread the ball around, it's hard, other than Kelsey, it's hard to figure, you know, who they're going against. And you know, I hear people say like, well, you just gotta double Kelsey.


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[Assistant] You're gonna then give the looks that they want to throw down the field. And I know there's no Tyreek there, but McColl and Valdez-Gantling can still, Hardman can go and that group there to work. Watson, we saw against the Chargers. Watson, right, and Sky Moore.


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[Assistant] They're still going to be able to scare you that way. So that's where, you know, they got you in a bind right now. And yes, they're the number four offense in football.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to say he's dumb. All right. First off, I think he's a hell of a coach.


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[Assistant] Do I think that decision was not my favorite? I'm not gonna say it's dumb. I think there is some, some like, real, well there's a lot of thought. Merit there and thought. Right. This is not a guy that's just going by the seat of his pants. He's not, he's a little more well thought out than that. Hey, at the end of the day, like you heard me say last night, I'm kicking the field goal. I am.


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[Assistant] I mean, the drive before, they stopped, Buffalo didn't do anything. I mean, that's what I was looking up. Buffalo went three and out the drive before. Alright? And...


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[Assistant] You know, I'm just a believer in, and you've heard me say this over and over, and I think anybody that listens to the podcast, I don't know, I grew up in old school,


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[Assistant] Bill Parcell's, Bill Belichick way of football through my dad. You know, you take the lead and you put the pressure on the other team to execute and go and make the play and do things the right way to overtake the lead.


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[Assistant] That's just my thought, but at the same time, I think the biggest thing and what we hit on last night and you know, Jason Garrett made the point and I think it's spot on.


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[Assistant] And, you know, the interception changes the dynamic, cause now he's tackled in the end zone, the ball's at the 20, and, oh, there's a little breathing room. I mean, I bet you if John Harbaugh knew that was gonna happen, he'd go, oh yeah, I don't wanna do that, that's not cool. Uhm, so I don't think it's the worst decision in the world, but I wouldn't have done it, I'll say that.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's always, I mean, Drew Brees never brought the Saints back from 16 points down. People act like it's like, it's like, hey, he's never, he's never, can you believe Josh Allen's never brought them back from 17? I mean, we just saw the Saints last week have an all-time comeback. They had an all-time quarterback. We act like it's nothing.


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[Assistant] You know, it's not easy to overcome that all the time, especially too, in their instance with Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] Where it's just, you know, it's the Josh Allen show. There's no run game that the defense has to worry about. We don't have to worry about a draw play or this run play that might gash us all of that. I thought that played into the hands ultimately of Baltimore yesterday. I think you heard me maybe say that during the game. One thing I didn't think about was Baltimore didn't have to worry about a run game yesterday. That's why their defense looked a little bit better. They could just go, wait.


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[Assistant] All we gotta do is worry about the past, really, and just containing Josh Allen. And, and, you know, for the most part,


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[Assistant] Hey, the Ravens controlled the first half of the football game, we know that. They didn't contain Josh Allen though, running the football in the second half. They definitely did not. I mean, in the second half, he was making plays everywhere, and yes, they fell into issues with him scrambling more than anything, more than the design runs yesterday.


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[Assistant] I think the thing that, you know, the game was a little misleading in the fact that one of it was 20 to 3. The Bills had driven the ball, had some big drops on third downs. I mean, there was really a point in the first half where I went, well this is like the fifth or sixth pass that's gone through wet gloves that was right on target and kind of ended the drop.


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[Assistant] There was a conversation with players about when I should take the gloves off during the game. Changing gloves. And I want to go like, this is your third drop, maybe now is the time to do it. Like, let's do that. Yeaah. Uhm, but you know, overall, it's, you know, Bills, you gotta give them credit. They're still a banged up football team.


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[Assistant] To be down 20-3, to have that huge drive in the end of the second quarter, and then what I'm most interested to see, you know, yeah, the Ravens defense gave up, you know, 20 unanswered points, right? But, at the same time,


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[Assistant] The Bills couldn't get off the field. Lamar, the passing offense, the run game, whatever, just made every play they needed to to extend the drive and keep things going and really controlled the flow with the first half with a few Bills mistakes like we're talking about.


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[Assistant] They're just, there's some teams that can adjust at halftime.


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[Assistant] And there's some teams that can't. There's some teams that just can't see the game for what it is. And that's where like to me McDermott and Leslie Frazier are amazing. You know, I've been around like, you know, I've seen McDaniels and Belichick in action.


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[Assistant] You know, it was a lot different how they handled Halftime maybe compared to John Gruden. John Gruden would be like, hey, we'd still like these plays, blah blah blah.


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[Assistant] McDaniels, that kind of guy, I'm just giving some context, I'm sorry. McDaniels would come in and be like, Hey, they're playing us like this. They're doing this. This is this kind of game.


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[Assistant] They're doing this when we get in this formation. We're gonna start doing this now, right? And you're like, damn, okay, yeaah, that makes sense, right? Instead of just like, hey, these are plays we like. Okay, yeaah, I like them too, but does it mean they're gonna work today? I don't know.


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[Assistant] So, there was a real ta- and they seem to have always the right feel to go, you know, I'm sure they're charting things, how they're being played throughout the game, and they can get in the halftime, they can look at it and go,


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[Assistant] You know, they're doing this, this, and this. We gotta do this now. We gotta combat it with that. And, ooh, we've been gashed by this and that. Alright, when they get in that formation, we can't play this defense anymore. And they seem to have a real great feel and intellect on how to make those


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[Assistant] It's uhm, I'm not panicked about the Ravens. I still think their defense will get better. You know? Uhm, I think yesterday's blown lead is...


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[Assistant] Is less concerning to me than actually, it's at least from the defensive standpoint. Like I said, the offense I want to go check out, because it did sputter out completely. Which is concerning when there's no Jordan Phillips or Ed Oliver on the field or Tridavious White or, you know, Micah Hyde and some of these guys where you go, can the Bills defense really be what we think it can be? But, uhm,


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[Assistant] To me, it was less disappointing yesterday than the Dolphins game.


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[Assistant] Where it was just a free-for-all, and there was no answers, and then there was mental mistakes, and you're just like, oh my gosh, they're doing whatever they want. Like remember when we said it was screen for 15, and might open guy down the middle for 20, and then it was like, wait, we forgot how to play cover 2, and we don't even cover Tyree Kill. Yesterday, they made


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[Assistant] I felt like it was more extraordinary plays from Josh Allen and company that just got it done.


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[Assistant] It does bring up the one thing that we have talked about again. That there's nobody in the front for Baltimore that can make a play in these moments.


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[Assistant] They don't have the closer. Hey, we're up by 17, it's 3rd and 12, I'm gonna get the fucking sack here and they're gonna punt away. Instead it's, you know, whoa, he escaped! And now he's on the edge, and he threw a great throw because they couldn't cover for 12 seconds, right?


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[Assistant] He escapes and there's nobody there to tackle him on third and five and he runs for the first down. And that to me is where they're missing those kind of guys right now. And you know, again, I think in a lot of ways the Bills offense was a favorable matchup for, for Baltimore because like I said, they didn't have to worry the run, worry about the run game, but you know, as we saw once again,


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[Assistant] I mean, Josh Allen is in a very elite class and he can become almost unstoppable at times once he kind of gets


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[Assistant] I mean, I mean, out of those three teams, right? You know, Cleveland, Sensi, Baltimore. It's right off the top of your head right now. Who's like, who do you think is the best of the group? I, I still think that it's tough.


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[Assistant] I know, I know, I know. I'm not gonna put Cleveland. It's definitely, to me, since you're Baltimore, for sure. You two talk about that, you're right, it's a major concern, but then you're like, well.


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[Assistant] It's Joe Burrow and those weapons and they'll figure it out. Uh, it, it is really hard, but uhm, it's two teams still that I think are gonna be in the thick of things here throughout the year. There's only one undefeated team and that


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[Assistant] An unbelievable roster going back to our pre-season rankings. It's like, oh wait, we can't maybe throw the ball as deep today and do that. Well, okay, we can play the power ugly football game. I think that's really what it is, you know, more than anything.


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[Assistant] It just, it's, they have so many ways they can beat you right now. I think that's what we're seeing through four weeks. And,


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[Assistant] I mean, really on the ropes in this football game, like you said, the pick six, really good drive by the Jaguars to go down and score a touchdown.


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[Assistant] You know, stop the Eagles on a fourth and three around midfield, and you're going, holy shit, the Jaguars, two first downs, and they're gonna be up 17-nothing here at the least.


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[Assistant] You know, a few plays later, it gets to fourth and three, I believe, I want to say, right? Maybe fourth and five. He leaves the pocket and just drops the ball. The ball looks like it, I don't know if it's just a jolt of him trying to running form or if his thigh hit the football. Either way he drops it and


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[Assistant] You know, huge moment in the football game, not only because he's probably going to be able to run for the first, if not, there's a guy wide open over there when I'm watching the replay on, on, I believe that was Fox yesterday.


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[Assistant] He's got an easy completion. They're gonna get the first down and it's gonna be, oh wow. And then from that moment on, that was the game changing moment in my opinion. There was a few plays yesterday in football that were game changing moments and that was one right there. That leads to a 7 play 57 yard drive and it was like,


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[Assistant] Jacksonville's offense couldn't quite get it together ever again after that. And you just saw the Eagles just go, oh, okay, well, you know, we might just have to play a little ugly today and run the ball and do that. And then we'll hit our shots here and there if we got to. And that's what they did. And their defense just wore down Jacksonville and, and Lawrence was,


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[Assistant] Always have your head on a swivel, like Lamar or Josh Allen or Mahomes where, hey, we look at one, we look at two, I gotta peek for a second to see, okay, now I can look at three, right? And, and I think yesterday he got a little of that, he fumbled a snap.


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[Assistant] You know, the interception down in the red zone when they had a chance, they're kind of driving and you're going, hey, they got a little momentum going here. And it looks like he has Christian Kirk if he drives the ball to him, you know, on a line drive.


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[Assistant] It doesn't see the corner falling off, James Bradbury. That was another big moment where, you know, what was the score of that game at that point? I want to say it was like maybe 23-14. It might have been 20-14. It was around the third quarter. Uhm, but either way, those were moments where,


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[Assistant] You know, they lost their chance to kind of climb back in the game and regain momentum and Philly is no doubt the best team in football right now.


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[Assistant] Well, no, I mean, again, am I, am I wrong? I'm wrong with this right here. I was questioning whether he was a legit NFL starter. He's proved me wrong there for sure. Now, whether


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[Assistant] So I am wrong about Jalen Hurts, but I'm going to pump the brakes on everybody that's trying to tell me he's the top ten quarterback in football already. I'm not ready to go there yet.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, this is gonna sound disrespectful, but it's not. A lot of quarterbacks would look really good in Philadelphia.


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[Assistant] I'm actually smart on this one. Feeling good about that one. How can you not?


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[Assistant] This game played out? Yeaah. You know, I saw the comments like what he talked about a little bit. This is not sustainable. This is what I've been trying to say a little bit. Like, and you heard me say this. What's not sustainable? The way they're playing to win. They're not gonna win a Super Bowl this way. It's not gonna happen.


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[Assistant] It's not. It's too hard. There's lack of big plays on the offensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] You know, it's too reliant on the defense, which again, I know is good. I'm not ready to write home and say it's like the best defense in football yet.


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[Assistant] You know, that's where I worry about it. We'll see where it goes. But either way, they got the victory. You know, New England's not a bad team by any stretch of the imagination. Their defense is good. And, you know, I think where they hurt is they're just trying to figure out their plays and their player that they're gonna start to


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[Assistant] Formulate around, right? Like, at some point, like we talk about, you gotta have something that, alright, this is our go-to stuff, this is what we do, and this makes defenses change what they do. See, they've been so Devante Adams.


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[Assistant] You know, reliant in that aspect to go, wait, we got him singled out, so now you have to double him, and now we have this play over here, right? And now, now you're outnumbered on this side. Oh, wait, wait, we have this cool play over here, and you're stopping it.


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[Assistant] And then it's, then Davante Adams into the, whoa, he is over here right now, a part of the concept.


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[Assistant] And there's a whole list of plays that they go to here, so they don't have that, anything in their offense right now that I think is making a defense go, oh no, we have to do this, we have to stop this, we have to change this on third down, we usually play these coverages, but we can't do that against this group because of what they're doing. And they don't have that yet. I think they'll get there.


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[Assistant] Lazard to me, I've always been a fan of Lazard. He's not a number one, he's a really awesome number two. You know, my hope, and you know, as I always like Aaron Rodgers and rooting for him, is that they can get Dobbs and Watson


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[Assistant] And Lazard on the field to where he can feel comfortable and then I can go, you better watch out for that crew right there.


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[Assistant] Where now he can call his plays and check and not feel uncomfortable about like, ooh, I don't know if Christian Watson knows exactly how to do this or whatever else. Because that, that to me has real talent to stress out a defense. And he's obviously getting more comfortable with dabs. You can see that clearly.


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[Assistant] And, and, and almost had the big connection at the end of the football game to really put the game away, right, with the touchdown that got, you know, overruled or ultimately got called incomplete and then Lafleur stupidly challenged. But I think that's where they're kind of at and they're


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[Assistant] There's potential is what I'm saying. Yeaah. I didn't know he would even trust Dobbs and that crew this early in the season. Last week it showed he'd trust them in Tampa Bay. There's more of trustery this week. If Watson can stay healthy, that's where I go, oh watch out, they could be a handful if those guys get going here. Yeaah. Already trying to use him as a weapon, he had that.


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[Assistant] I think, listen, it doesn't, it doesn't help. Nathaniel's...


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[Assistant] You know, smart, and I think, again, when you add another guy into that, into the think tank, right? Rogers, Lafleur is, oh, Nathaniel Hackett. They also lose, uh, uh, uh, Gideki, uhm, the offensive coordinator for the Bears, right? There's another guy that's now, you know, hey,


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[Assistant] Getsy, Getsy, excuse me. Uh, who the hell is Gideki? I'm just getting it mixed up with somebody. But Getsy, so you've lost, like,


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[Assistant] Okay, Hackett, Getzi, Devante Adams, Scott, like that's, that's, that's a pretty good crew to go, wait, we're different here on the side of the ball. And to add to that, to add CSims QB2, right, is what I would say is this a little bit. Their offense has never been that imaginative. It's, you know, it's just,


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[Assistant] They couple plays together the right way, they got the basics, and then they just rely on him to get in the right play against the right defense all the time. Him as in Rogers.


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[Assistant] And that's where, I've never turned on Packer's film, and I think you guys can attest to this and just gone, oh my gosh, some of the plays they ran there were the coolest things I ever saw, and oh my gosh. No, they're kind of boring and by the book.


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[Assistant] But they just do it the right way, and he never lets you relent in like...


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[Assistant] Oh, you got away with that one. I shouldn't have called that play. They call good play, and then if you get into different defense, he gets you in the right play. A little bit what Belichick was talking about after the game. It's hard.


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[Assistant] You know, Belichick probably drives him crazy because his schematics don't overcome Aaron Rodgers all the time.


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[Assistant] Rogers goes, oh wait, it's Bill, he's playing this, I gotta check for that. Now his defense is in trouble here. And I think if you couple that with a few ideas and then bringing these guys together, that's why the offense hasn't looked right. But again, I think there's some hopefulness here in the last two weeks.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean that's what he is, that's what they like, or he's, you know, Brian Hoyer-like, or, I mean he's, he is, it's smart, he knows where to put the football, you know, he had the bad strip sack fumble, right, kinda early on when he first got in, uhm, I can't, I wanna say that was maybe Rashawn Gary that stripped him, uhm,


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[Assistant] I think it was, I can't remember exactly. It was Rashawn Gary. Yea. But, you know, he looked good. But like, you know, as we were, you're doing a segment, I'm watching some of these drives here at the end. It was run, run, run, run, run.


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[Assistant] Play action pass to somebody wide open. Run, run, run. Play action pass to somebody wide open. And he did a good job getting the ball to the guy he was supposed to. Yea. You know, it was a very tough situation, certainly. And, you know, one that, damn, I would have liked to have seen that game with Brian Hoyer, because I think that game probably would have been a little bit, even more interesting than it was.


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[Assistant] I think that's the biggest thing. I mean, I think we're definitely seeing the Sean Payton effect in New Orleans and the fact that they're missing him and a few tricks that he can bring to the game on a weekly basis and a little edge that way. I know they're losing these type of football games right now. You know, watching this game,


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[Assistant] I really felt like Minnesota was in control of the football game. Really? They missed so- I mean, first off, in control of the football game, Kirk Cousins throws an interception. You know?


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[Assistant] Get back control of the football game. Andy Dalton fumbles. They strip sack him. They're down there close. It's a wide open third and two throw. It goes right through the guy's hands.


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[Assistant] And now they get a kick at field goal. You know, they had that. They had the, uh, they forced the other fumble with Hardy, the receiver. That was a kick, pun return, I believe, on one of the fumbles, if I remember correctly. You know, really felt like Minnesota was outplaying New Orleans, but didn't kind of take advantage of it.


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[Assistant] And New Orleans hung around and then started to kind of get a little mojo going on the offensive side of the ball and put a few drives together. It wasn't easy, but they got it done. You know, but, but yeaah, I just, New Orleans...


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[Assistant] And really, you know, I thought they were fortunate, honestly. And when I go back and watch, maybe I'm wrong, but I thought they were fortunate really to be in the game. And ultimately, I think the biggest thing that jumped out at the end of the football game where, you know, New Orleans couldn't stop Minnesota in some big moments was the fact that


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[Assistant] You know, New Orleans said we're gonna put our best guy on your best guy, and Justin Jefferson won. And what I wanna just say is like,


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[Assistant] Debo, Samuel, you can't play them man to man. Like the Dolphins on Thursday night, they went


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[Assistant] We're gonna double chase every play and put Xavier and Howard on the second best receiver.


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[Assistant] I think that's the way to go in the NFL right now against some of these elite guys. It's too hard to say, I don't care who you are at corner, to just go, hey cover this guy who runs 4-3 and he's a great route runner and he's got great ball skills, and just cover him all over the field. And they're gonna, you know, rub him against people and do this and do that.


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[Assistant] I think it's just, well, that adds to it. You're right, that would add to it. But I think it is. It's the talent of the receivers. The quarterbacks, the receivers, they're so good right now as we've talked about. This is a culture thing in the world, in our country.


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[Assistant] Just, people are throwing the ball 40 times in 8th grade now. Receivers are catching, like, they're playing sophomore football in high school and they're like, I got 17 catches today. And it's like, what?


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[Assistant] When you and I were growing up, nobody threw the ball 17 times. All year. All year. I mean, seriously. And here we are, you know, later on where it's that way. So, uh, yeaah, I would say you gotta have a different approach when it comes to guys like that for sure.


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[Assistant] The Vikings are, the Vikings, I do think the offense has a little more versatility. I will say that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the defense, yeaah, there's not great, great talent on the defense.


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[Assistant] But I think, you know, all in all, they're sitting here at three and one, and there's a different energy about their football team. You know, and I'm not saying it was Mike Zimmer's fault, but I think it was just came to that time where they needed something new in the building.


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[Assistant] Definitely. And, you know, like Ed Donatell, what he's doing on the defensive side of the ball, yea, it's not gonna look perfect. They're still in the process of, I think, of getting the right personnel that would fit that Ed Donatell 3-4-ish type scheme, Vic Fangio type scheme.


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[Assistant] So that's not all there, but I still think it's a good start here. And, you know, for an ugly week two loss against Philadelphia,


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[Assistant] Right? And then last week to come back and beat the Lions. And then again this week, you know, gut it out in a game where really you blew opportunities to kind of control the football game. And I gotta give them credit there. And I'm not blaming Mike Zimmer totally for those things there, but I do think it was time for a fresh new story.


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[Assistant] They're pretty good. The pass rushers are pretty good. You know, we've talked about the secondaries, maybe needs a little work there, but you know, all in all, it's, it's a pretty well coached football team and damn, like you, you know, they're three in one. It's hard to argue against that.


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[Assistant] You know, but, I do see things over the last two weeks to go, ooh wait, the running game's closed, the play action pass game, watch out, right?


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[Assistant] You know, there's some of that. They just don't have a receiver that scares you. That's the biggest problem. You're exactly right, Amin. I think that's the part that they're gonna have to continue to work on here. I think that's why you're seeing Derrick Henry for the second week in a row. A little more of the part of the pass game, the screen game, right? You know, the tight end, O'Quonko, he's very talented.


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[Assistant] I liked him coming out of Maryland. He's very raw, but man, he's, he's better than I thought he was going to be, at least contributing here early on in the football season.


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[Assistant] I think that's the next piece of the puzzle for them. You're right. They gotta find that go-to guy or that guy that puts you in a bind with, oh wait, now you're stopping the run and doing all that and you're one-on-one out here.


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[Assistant] Like, that's kind of a big part of our formula here. And yea, Trey Lump-Burks has definitely not, you know, gotten to that level yet. No. But, but they are closer. I think that's the thing. And it was easy for them, you know, moving the ball. And then they made some plays on defense.


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[Assistant] Where, you know, again, I'm gonna give them credit for being the more physical team on the football field. And the Colts just every week get out hit. Every week. I know they won against the Chiefs last week. They were out fucking hit in that game too.


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[Assistant] The, the cults are concerning to me for sure. I mean, Matt Ryan doesn't look the same.


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[Assistant] He looks weak, right? I would say to Matt Ryan, if I was like his friend, I'd go,


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[Assistant] It looks like he's in this, I'm trying to stay thin and light and fast mode. I'd go, do the opposite.


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[Assistant] Be, you're not that fast and you never will be. Just be thicker and a little stronger and have a little more pace on the football, right? I mean every time he gets hit it seems like he fumbles right now.


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[Assistant] You know, there's just, it doesn't look good. And then their offensive line here, you know, almost every week since week one, we're just talking about gets pushed around, whether it's the run game or the pass game. And, uh, it doesn't look good for the Colts right now, and I'm not sure if they can really turn it around. I'm definitely skeptical about that.


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[Assistant] They, they, they, they, they escape the very dangerous ang, like it's, it's, he might be able to play. It's not going to be out for an extended period of time. No, maybe not, it's Thursday, I forgot. But he's not going to be out for an extended period of time.


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[Assistant] If you were to make the argument. Anything? It's hard that just you, you, you, uh, that hey the O line will regain its form. Right? Defense? I don't know.


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[Assistant] You know, defense, I mean, I thought for sure they'd be able to stop the run game a little bit at the Tennessee Titans. That was disappointing. And then Shaquille Leonard being back, and he gets a concussion right away, right back in action to get going there. But no, I think you're...


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[Assistant] You're saying it right. I mean, they had four shamrocks up their ass last week to pull the game off against the Chiefs. They really, realistically should be 0-3-1. That's really what they should be.


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[Assistant] And as of right now, yeaah, if you made me bet, or if you made me look at a team and go, oh, they're not in the playoffs right now, but watch out for them, the Colts are not one of the teams I'm picking, for sure. I'm not, I'm not going there.


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[Assistant] Patriots at one and three then I do the Colts for sure, you know, you know, if Mac


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, you still haven't, have you made the YouTube page promo yet? No.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it is amazing that way. I mean, they were unstoppable early on in the football game. They were. Davis Mills threw an interception early and the Chargers scored and it was like, oh my gosh, this is, I mean, this is fun to watch. Herbert was on fire.


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[Assistant] I mean, he was making every throw, he was moving a little bit, throwing, you know, big time throws that way. And you just went, oh, this one's over.


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[Assistant] You know, there we are, 27-7, and they put a good drive together, and then, okay, the Chargers stall out, and they put another good drive together. I think that's the drive Damon Pierce broke, like the 75 yard run.


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[Assistant] And then all of a sudden you're going, oh, okay, hey, they're gonna make this respectable. And then DeAndre Carter fumbles the kick return. And it's a short field. And you're going, holy shit.


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[Assistant] Defense did a good job holding the field goal, 27-24. They get the ball back and, you know, they go down the field and score a touchdown and kind of put the game away. But, uh, I know, it is amazing, but I think it just shows you in the NFL right now.


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[Assistant] No lead is safe. It doesn't matter who you are. You get a lead. It's hard to play super aggressive on defense. And then it goes back into the quarterbacks and offenses are just so good against some of these vanilla looks where I almost get to the point here where I'm going to go,


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[Assistant] Like what's, where's the analytics on prevent defense? Like if they go down and score in five plays against prevent, then maybe we should just keep calling the blitzes and the man demands and all that too. And so what if they score in five plays? It's the same as the five plays in the prevent.


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[Assistant] I don't know, am I crazy to have that thought? I sit and watch games lately and just go, I don't even think you should worry about that defense anymore. I don't know, there's a part of me that's just like, it's so easy when it gets to that point of the


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[Assistant] Their season is in trouble. You know, they got some injuries, they gotta win games like this, so that was good to see. And Herbert seemed healthy, I didn't see him really grimace or do anything with his rib yesterday.


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[Assistant] It is, it's, you know, no great pass rusher there with Houston, but hey, protecting him, good start there, we'll see where it goes. I mean, I'm, I'm excited to see that, and then I know Derwin James balled out, right, on that, on the, on the defense side of the ball, I know, but like,


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[Assistant] With him, I know, with him I just wanted to talk to him because I didn't get to talk to him, talk about him. I feel like I'm seeing the best Derwin James we've seen. Right now, through like...


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[Assistant] You know, through four weeks. It just seems like it's every game that I've turned on, whether it was I watched the Raiders film to open the year, the Kansas City film.


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[Assistant] It's just run game, pass coverage. He's being used in more different, you know, more, more versatile spots than I feel like I've ever seen. Uhm, he's just a phenomenal talent. He's like the jack of all trades there. I just wanted to give him credit before we moved on.


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[Assistant] Definitely, you know. And, I mean, Max Crosby is by far the best defensive player on Las Vegas Raiders. I mean, that's not even close. You've heard me complain. That's one of the issues with their team. They don't have anybody that can make plays on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Alright, but the, you know, the odd game and it was like the tale of two halves. First off, it felt like Denver was kind of controlling the first half of the football game. And then, you know, as we talked about, what was the game I just said with the game-changing play that we were just talking about a few minutes ago?


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[Assistant] This, uh, the Melvin Gordon fumble, right? And I know, like, the game was only 10 to 10.


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[Assistant] The Broncos kinda seemed like they had Mojo going on the offensive side of the ball. They were driving, and now you're down 16 to 10. I know they got the touchdown before the half, but it's like, it seems like from that point on, the Raiders kinda got going as a football team. And, you know, ran the ball impressively.


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[Assistant] Ugly, really. The way they kinda won the football game. It was just ugly, hard fought drives, you know, some good third down conversions, some, you know, good eight and ten yard runs that way. Like nothing that I can jump out to me that I remember watching going, oh man, they're doing this.


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[Assistant] You know, I think really McDaniel has a good feel for like that defensive scheme, the Vic Fangio scheme. Derek Carr seemed, you know, kind of on his game, didn't make any dumb mistakes and it was the first game all year. We saw the Raiders offensive line come alive and kind of win in the running game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, listen, I hope they can continue to do this.


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[Assistant] I think that's, you know, again, we know balance and all that, but McDaniels, when he gets a little run game going, he's one of the best play action pass designers in football.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's where I think life could be a lot easier. And then it takes a little pressure off of, wait, you can't double Adams or you can't double, uh, uh, uh, uh, Darren Waller.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, yeaah, that was, that was a good start, certainly. I mean, something that we hadn't seen to this point. You know, we've seen like, okay run game, but that yesterday had moments of like, damn, they're getting five, six yards at a clip whenever they want, and that was impressive to see.


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[Assistant] Well, I think, uhm, no, that was over. He burned too many bridges there in Seattle. They were sick of him, as you could tell with Pete's comments after that, and I think he was sick of them, so uhm.


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[Assistant] I think, again, let's not judge it just after four weeks, right? There's some things that we've liked here. They're sitting here at two and two. It hasn't been pretty, I know.


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[Assistant] And that, you know, changes the way things look to a degree. Right. Right? You know? Would be three and one. Right. Week two, yeah, okay, ugly win, but kind of winning against Houston Texans. Right? And week three, had to play the 49ers, and we know that's a really good defense.


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[Assistant] And then yesterday, yeaah, you know, make a few mistakes, don't play your best, and uhm, the Raiders pull out the victory, so there they are.


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[Assistant] No, but, you know, he, he, well I watched this game pretty closely.


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[Assistant] He's a guy that his presence on the field is very well known when you're watching. You know, he's one of those guys that I think every team in football is looking for, where it's like...


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[Assistant] You know, hey, he's great in the pass game and a safety, but when we play him down here in nickel or he's around the box, man, he's an aggressive tackler and will throw his body around. He's very good. He's perfect for a Robert Salah defense.


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[Assistant] So that's where it makes a lot of sense. He's been in this scheme before throughout his playing days. Uhm, but yeaah, that was a big win for the Jets. Good job by him. Defense played solid.


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[Assistant] You know, just off the top of my head here, I mean, the defense has been much better than the last, what we saw last year. I know they gave up a few big plays to Joe Burrow and company last week in that game, but, you know, Lamar and the Ravens, that wasn't easy.


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[Assistant] You know, Cleveland, Cleveland ran the ball on them, that was probably their least, their worst defensive performance, but that's better, and then the juice that Zach Wilson, aka the Milfinator brings is, is tangible to their football team.


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[Assistant] He did, and he was, you know, he made some big throws even on their first drive of the, er, their first touchdown drive of the game to go up 10-0. You know, where I went, damn, I mean, he looked good. Now, you know,


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[Assistant] Then it moves them in the field goal position and Boswell kicks a field goal before the half to take, uh, to make it 10-6. There was some dumb shit there, for sure.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, the pick six of course that put them in a tough spot and now it's, you know, uh, or it wasn't a pick six, but it was, it got them down close, right? Right. So that makes it 13 to 10 and they're down. So a lot of things went against him.


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[Assistant] So my big thing with him is just, you know, a little, like, just be a little more tactical in your aggressiveness, a little too gunslingery at times, a little too loose, right? That would be the thing to answer the question specifically about, like, you know, what he needs to get better at. You know, he's one of the, he's got great confidence in his arm, but I don't know, first off, he's not


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[Assistant] You know, a statue in the pocket. We saw him get out of the pocket and avoid a bunch of sacks and pressure that Joe Flacco would have never gotten out of. And then, you know, to me,


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[Assistant] Some of the quickness and the precision and the power on some of the intermediate throws over the middle.


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[Assistant] You know, again, I know some people are gonna just go, oh look, that's a 12 yard completion over them. Oh great, I'm gonna go, yea, but the, the, the quickness in how he gets the ball out of his hands, puts the ball on the money, and the RPMs on the football overall, you know,


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[Assistant] They're thrown into tighter windows. They give a guy a chance to run after the catch. You know, I thought he looked great that way. And again, it's, they're running plays too that I look at and go,


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[Assistant] They're not trying to hide him. He's not throwing 12 screens and, oh, we're managing the game. I mean, they let it go with him and he made some big throws those last two drives of the game. You know, reading coverages, making the right decisions down the middle of the field that I thought were big time and, uh, he deserves a damn okay.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I don't care about the Hail Mary, right. I don't care about that. Take that one away. But the first one was not great when he tried to throw the post to Chase Claypool, right? And it was kinda double coverage, and really, he just didn't throw it far enough.


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[Assistant] Right, so that was, that was not good. Second one was high, off the fingertips of Fryermuth, I think. Right, you just can't make that throw there. It's just not worth it. For what? The one yard gain? Off your back foot? 25 yard throw across the field?


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[Assistant] With pressure in your face, on the sideline? Like that's...


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[Assistant] You know, hey, next year make that throw. We'll trust you a little bit more, but your first time playing, doing that, you know, late into the sidelines is definitely a thing that you get told about in the NFL. Don't throw it late to the sideline, because there's gonna be bodies there.


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[Assistant] Listen, I like the way he looks, and I would be shocked if he's not the guy going forward. You know, again, his...


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[Assistant] He's such a consistent, smooth thrower of the football. And then like he had the one play we showed on our highlights last night with Freiremuth down the middle, got hit in the face and the one he was talking crap and all that. Yeaah. Yeaah, I mean he's tremendous under pressure. He really is. He's got great feel of just how to avoid the hit.


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[Assistant] Long enough so where he could throw the ball how he needs to throw it to get the job done. And, uh, that's where I give him credit.


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[Assistant] That's a good way to put it, you're right. There's a playmaking element of them that is very scary. Whether that's Micah or Trayvon Diggs who are, you could argue are the two best playmakers of the position of football. I mean Micah Parsons?


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[Assistant] He's in the conversation for the best defensive player in the game along with Aaron Donald and you know, Chris Jones and other guys that I'm, I'm certainly freaking, Miles Garrett and TJ Watt and all that crew, right? He's definitely in that combo.


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[Assistant] And then Diggs, I don't think there's anybody with better ball skills in the game at corner. Him and Xavier Howard.


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[Assistant] Are like receivers. And the balls around them, you just go, uh-oh, they get a hand on it, they're gonna grab it.


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[Assistant] And he's phenomenal that way, has size to go along with it, you know, and to your point, scary, cause he just goes, Oh, you want to throw the 10 yard out? Well, you might get a touchdown, but it might be a touchdown for me too. Like that's where they're scary. And then you couple that with Dan Quinn.


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[Assistant] Where, he deserves a lot of love. He does. You know, I was critical of Dan Quinn in the end in Atlanta. Just going, it's so predictable and it's just so easy to game plan. He reinvented himself.


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[Assistant] And their defense does a lot of different stuff and it, you couple that with the talent they have in the defensive line and then his ability to stress the protections out a little bit, it does make them scary to your point and then they're playing the right way on the offensive side of the ball and you go damn, they're playing as a complete team right now and playing really, really good football.


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[Assistant] Well, this is my problem. First off, I'm gonna go, I don't know if they're gonna play this way with Dak Prescott. You know me, this is one of my gripes.


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[Assistant] You know, it's, hey, the other guy's in. We gotta help him out. We gotta make a few plays. You know, the way we, let's play a game plan that's the best for us to win the game.


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[Assistant] I just hope they continue to play this way. Cooper Rush, great. He's done a phenomenal job. There's no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] He has solidified himself as one of the better backups in football.


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[Assistant] If not, maybe a chance to be a low-end starter and prove himself from there. Like a bridge quarterback, where you go, hey yo.


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[Assistant] We'll go with Cooper Rush. We're not sure what we want to do this year. We got a young quarterback, right? And then see if he can jump on the scene and be an established starter. But I think he's gotten to that point there where you'll go, Cooper Rush is going to be in the NFL for the next six to eight years now for sure. He's bought himself that.


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[Assistant] His ability to throw the ball down the field, stand in the pocket, make big throws, all of that. And the way they're playing right now, like Dallas is better than I gave them credit for coming into the season. I was wrong about that. Michael Gallup is back. One of my, I like Michael Gallup too, he's fun to watch for me. You put C.D. Lamb, Michael Gallup, and Noah Brown on the football field.


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[Assistant] Those are some tough matchups. And you know, you talk about tight end play and Schultz and Ferguson, they're not bad and that they just stay patient with the run game and all of that.


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[Assistant] I think Dallas is more of a player in the NFC than I wanted to give them credit for.


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[Assistant] We'll take it. They know who they are. A little bit like we were talking about Dallas, right? Like, Giants have no illusion of what they are to start the year.


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[Assistant] You know, they manage the offense. The defense is better than people think.


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[Assistant] And it's pretty well creatively coached and they have some size up front to where you can't just dominate them in the run game always. So they have that at least going for them. And I think when you couple that with Wink Martindale's ability to be creative in the back end, it makes them tough. But legs, legs are their, I mean that's who they are.


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[Assistant] Daniel Jones legs, Saquon Barkley's legs, Graham Gano's leg, it's the best thing the Giants got going for them.


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[Assistant] They're not gonna do anything. Listen, listen, hey, I'm a Giants fan, and I'm, and, and Kyle Vert 53. The Giants receivers suck. They're not gonna, this, nothing's gonna change. We gotta ride Saquon if we wanna keep winning games. There's no other way. And give some credit, Giants fans, to Daniel Jones. I'm sick of it.


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[Assistant] Damn, like, give the guy a little credit. Two touchdowns, big runs, you know, we'll see. You know, it's gonna stink with, he looks like a high ankle sprain, and, you know, that sucks because it's, we're talking about it, he's such a big part of the offense, his movement, and they gotta play Green Bay, he's not gonna be able to move the same way.


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[Assistant] You know, and Tyrod Taylor's gonna be in Concussion Protocol. You know, I expect Daniel Jones to play this week, but he's not gonna be the same guy. I would think it's gonna be, you know, a little bit of one-legged Willie out there playing in London.


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[Assistant] It's, I think they're really like, the Giants stress their protection schemes a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, but their offensive line has proven they can run the ball just about on anybody here so far during the year. They're running the ball on everybody. They ran the ball on Green Bay, they ran the ball last week, you know, and, uh, you know, they ran the ball a little bit on the 49ers, they ran the ball a little bit yesterday, at least with enough success. It's the pass game that really fails them.


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[Assistant] There's just no consistency there. There's no ability to stay on the field, you know, get ahead of the chains. It's like, if they don't run for six on first down, it's like, uh oh, what's gonna happen on this drive?


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[Assistant] And other than, you know, a few runs and a one deep ball to Darnell Mooney, I just feel like there's very little to speak of or really get a feel or get excited about with their offense right now in Chicago.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I mean that's, that's ridiculous in itself, that 174, and again, this is, I think it's a little bit of, I'm gonna say, you know, you heard me say this, a little bit of both here. Yeah, they don't have great talent, I don't think he's given them great confidence about, you know,


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[Assistant] His accuracy, some of his decision making early on in the year where they want to let him just drop back and throw the football. You know, like I said, the film has told me the last two weeks that


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[Assistant] They're managing him a little right now. They don't trust the decisions. They don't trust the ball. And that's why there's lack of pass attempts. And then I don't think, you know, pass protection goes into this as well. Uhm, but yeaah, there certainly needs to be some growth from the Chicago offense.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, this game, the other headline I thought about coming up was like, Elway vs. Marino. Oh, nope, it's Chino vs. Goff. Yeah. But, uh, seriously.


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[Assistant] It doesn't seem like anybody has any problem moving the ball however they want against the Lions defense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Gino has been phenomenal. He's played really good the whole year. I hope people back up, you know, back up off him a little bit here. You can see the guy's got talent, he does. He's a pretty good decision maker, you know. The ball pops out of his hands.


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[Assistant] He's, uh, done more than I think answered questions about whether he deserves to be a high-valued backup or a starting quarterback. I mean, again.


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[Assistant] You know, there's Jared Goff, who played really well too. He's been to a Super Bowl. You can't sit there and tell me that, you know, the ball comes out of the hands of Jared Goff the same way it does of Geno Smith, nor can he run like Geno Smith. So, you know, there you go. Sometimes just the perception leads to this false reality that's not real, but it was good to see. And then, you know, Goff just seemed like,


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[Assistant] You know, they were going to take their cuts with Metcalf and Lockett yesterday. And I know Metcalf went off, Lockett had a real damn good day too. They were aggressive. They weren't going to like let the Lions off the hook and be like, we're going to run the ball and play this kind of game because we're the Seahawks and Pete Carroll. They were like, I think what you said, they're like, you guys suck. We're attacking you.


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[Assistant] Is that what he's saying? Like he would have beat himself? He's saying that clinch, I don't think it's more than P. I don't think he's worried about P. You don't take the card in because you can't hold it. That's, that's, that's a emergency right there.


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[Assistant] Right. Really? If you had a pee that bad in the NFL, guys would huddle around you and they would go and somebody would hold the towel up and you pee on the sidelines into a garbage can.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, definitely. Definitely a thing. A hundred percent. Or like when every now and then, you gotta watch the sideline. You know, there's probably a guy peeing on the sideline once a week. Did you ever do that? Uhm...


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[Assistant] No, I don't think I did. I think I held the towel around a guy once who had to do it when I was in Tennessee. I can't remember who it was. Right? Or you might see guys get down on a knee, they get down on two knees and then people huddle around them and somebody will like hold the garbage can down so you can go down there and they can hide from the crowd and everything like that.


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[Assistant] I always had like, the night before the game, I could never eat a full big meal cause I was already starting to get a little anxious for the game. The morning of the game, I mean, like no appetite. Had to force a waffle down my mouth with like some bacon and even I was like literally like halfway through the waffle like, yeah.


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[Assistant] This is, this feels better to play now and stop thinking about it. Yeah. Uhm, but, but, uh, yeah, I never had to take that, that break right there. But the, your lions too.


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[Assistant] You know, Hyundai didn't know this, this was going to be part of the segment. Managing, yea, managing the game and mistakes still, you guys just can't afford to do that, whether it's, you know, missed fourth quarter, turnovers, missed fourth downs, I mean, or even like,


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[Assistant] You know, hey, golf starts the second half, alright, with the pick six.


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[Assistant] Alright, Josh Reynolds has the fumble at an inopportune time, so it seemed like every time you guys kind of get going and he's like, okay, woo, this could get, become a closer game, which I know it ultimately did, you know, you guys would make a mistake and the Seahawks would go up by, you know, ten points or two scores or whatever and it was just like you guys were always chasing, sorry.


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[Assistant] Okay, because these two quarterbacks, as we know, won that Heisman in back to back years at Oklahoma, and it was, offense was easy, and we throw the ball all over the place. These two offenses suck. There's no other way to say it.


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[Assistant] They suck. You know, I don't want to say the quarterbacks suck.


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[Assistant] Uh, the one thing I'll give Kyler Murray credit for is he's rare to force the ball, even in these ugly games. Baker Mayfield, you can't say the same. He's a little more apt to like, let me squeeze one in the window here. And uh, you know, his mistake, I think the interception to Gardek late in the football game was really the thing that closed the deal. But yeah, I mean, look at...


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[Assistant] Look, like, look at the Carolina offense. They can't even get DJ Moore the ball. You know, Christian McCaffrey leading the game and receiving. It's just like every week, it's like, well I hope McCaffrey breaks a big play just to make our stats look somewhat okay. I mean, they're, they're pitiful on that side of the ball and yeaah, I don't think that much of the Cardinals offense either.


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[Assistant] This could be an in, this could be an in the season firing. You know, Pete's in my ear going, maybe before Halloween. I think it could, you know, be that way. David Tepper doesn't seem like he's got a whole lot of, you know, patience that way. Do we have their schedule? And then, and then, you know, like, early on in the game, the Cardinals were like,


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[Assistant] I'm good. And I've certainly talked about it when we watched the Chiefs game, right? When we did the Wednesday podcast. I said, man, he pops a lot.


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[Assistant] Yesterday, yea, whether it's pressure on the quarterback, he's like little like mini J.J. Watt. He's got that same type of feel. The one thing he is phenomenal at that always pops out to me is, you know, high motor, disruptive, but great eyes as far as batting balls down. I'm sure J.J. Watt's taught him a little bit of that right there. But yea, that's...


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[Assistant] You know, he is, he's definitely one of the best players on the front seven for a team that doesn't have really a lot of difference makers up there in, in, uh, in Arizona. But, yeah, Panthers are too talented to be looking the way they look on the offensive side of the ball. I don't mean to go back there, but it's just... Brutal. It is brutal. And...


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[Assistant] You know, the two interceptions, they were bad too by Baker. They were. You know, he throws the first one where I think Thompson gets it. He's got DJ Moore down the field in a man to man situation on a corner route, and he throws the ball behind him, throws it in the worst spot, and DJ tries to


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[Assistant] You know, reach back and as he's reaching back, the ball gets tipped in the air and it's interception. So, you know, it was nothing special. And of course Arizona was nothing special either, but they, at least they make less mistakes and Arizona at least gives you the feel of like,


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[Assistant] They're gonna make a play at some point. They're, they just got too many guys who are playmakers to where you just feel like somebody. Arizona. Arizona at some point. It might not be pretty, but, you know, you're in a 10 to 10 game and it's fourth quarter. You know, my money is on Arizona to kind of make a play to kind of separate them.


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[Assistant] I don't really remember seeing very, any marquee passes the whole game. As I'm writing down my notes and as the game's going along, I'm going...


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[Assistant] Man, Brown's drive down the field, three big runs, got him down there, and they scored a touchdown. Oh, the Falcons answered back, it was two huge runs, and they got a field goal, they're a touchdown. I mean, it was certainly the rushing game that seemed to be, you know, the star of the show in that one, and uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean we knew that Cleveland's running game was going to be good coming into the year. The Falcons and Arthur Smith, again, I just, I can't give enough credit for a team that I don't think is overly that talented.


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[Assistant] You know, they play the right way and they're tough and they hang around and here they are at two and two. And I think that's a lot because of Arthur Smith and his X's and O's knowing what they are as a team and managing the game the right way. They're your mini-crush. Jaguars have been your big crush.


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[Assistant] Well, I always, it's like, it's like Robin Hood. It's just like, they're like a team that we didn't expect to kind of be this way, and they're physical, and there's some grittiness to them to where I don't know how you can't respect it and like it to a degree.


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[Assistant] With that O line, which I think is pretty damn good, and Cordero running back, and then Mariota's ability to run the ball, they put you in a bind that way. And then they're just hoping to...


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[Assistant] Hit a few big plays to Pitts and Drake London and they'll call it a day in the passing game. Defense has been damn good. Grady Jarrett, your guy from last week, big ass, he looked good again. I mean he certainly popped to me a few times. Could he win the Big Butt of the Week award?


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[Assistant] I picked Tampa and, you know, as we were like getting before the show and I was like, damn, the hurricane stuff and they were in Miami and all that. I was like, man, maybe I should just pick the Chiefs. I hate to change it, but maybe this is one, but I didn't and I paid for it. And then I was yelling around going, how could I pick this old quarterback over my homes? What was I thinking?


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[Assistant] I would expect low scoring. I think it's two defenses and two even offensive coaches that I think help their defenses out to know, hey, Kyle does this, McVeigh does that.


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[Assistant] We wanna stop this, here's how you stop that. He's not gonna, they know each other too well. Yeaah. And Raheem Morris, defensive coordinator for the Rams, you know, he coached under Kyle Shanahan, so he knows some of his tricks there. And I have a hard time thinking, I'm taking the 49ers really out of a, more of a desperation thing. The fact that, woah, you could be 1 and 3 here.


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[Assistant] You know, the Rams are playing better football than they are, there's no doubt.


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[Assistant] But Jimmy G's gotta play better, but my breakdown, and you've heard me say this before, is just where the 49ers are a tough matchup for the Rams because the Rams want to overwhelm you with their team speed. The 49ers...


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[Assistant] Maybe not as fast as the Rams overall, but it's not far off, but do have a size advantage that I think is significant. So that's where they kind of win this match up a little bit. We'll see if Garoppolo can take advantage of some of the opportunities given to him tonight.


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[Assistant] I'm expecting him to bounce back and the 49ers, like I said, to be looking down the barrel at one and three to win an ugly football.


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[Assistant] If they have a big night passing tonight, it's gonna have to be somebody else. You know, and we've seen glimmers of Alan Robinson. It's getting close, but I just think, you know, I'll go back to, first off, I think D'Amico Ryan is a really good defensive coordinator. I think, excuse me, Shanahan.


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[Assistant] We're never going to force you to do anything. You don't have to give your money or bet money on football games. But hey, I understand. All my friends do. If you do, you have fun with it and maybe you'll win some money. Yea, just don't bet your house on it. Don't bet your life on it. Let's not lose everything over the 49 grams.


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[Assistant] Then it's guaranteed to win. Absolutely not. Not right now. Please don't listen. Just listen to the information and make your own bet, okay? Because I'm not, I'm on a cold one right now. I definitely am. But you know what we will be doing this week?


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[Assistant] You know, keep sending in the questions, homies. Hope everybody's good. Hope everybody enjoyed week four. Ahmed, thanks for being on time as usual today. One of these days, I'll be on time as well. That's alright. Way to go. It's a long day yesterday. Way to lead the charge. It's a long day. I know. I don't really have an excuse. I'm just a late person. I'll be late for my funeral. Everybody be good. Enjoy the Monday night game. We'll see you Wednesday. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] Thanks for watching, homies. Hit subscribe to see all my Unbuttoned videos. You get to see me, Ahmed Fareed, all the big player breakdowns, game breakdowns, player interviews, and my film analysis. So please subscribe. Chris Sims, Unbuttoned. Peace out.


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[Assistant] Woah, well if you think his voice sounds distinguished, then you need to see this guy now, because he matched that.


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[Assistant] Brown raspy tone of his voice with a beautiful brown tan from Turks and Caicos now. So now he does really look like he might be the most interesting man in the world. Ahmed Farid, Christmas up button, week 11 podcast. Recap, what's up man, how are you?


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[Assistant] No, I don't. I definitely don't. But I do want to talk about Turks and Keikos, so what's up? It was great.


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[Assistant] Marky, crazy game like we've had maybe the last few weeks. I mean, there's been, there were some good ones, some close ones, but maybe not as crazy of a Sunday as we've seen.


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[Assistant] You know, as of late with, you know, the Bills Vikings games and some of these games that have had these unbelievable finishes, but still always an entertaining Sunday and always shocks and surprises. I mean, who could have called some of these games? Certainly. I mean, you know.


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[Assistant] Dallas, what they did to Minnesota, we'll dive into that.


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[Assistant] He's on fire right now. He's playing awesome. And I think, you know, you've been hearing me say the last few weeks, I think he's playing as good as any year of his career. Every bit as good as his MVP season, his second league in the NFL, his first as a starter. He's just special and it's just...


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[Assistant] It, it's, he's one of those guys that, yeaah, when the Chargers score a touchdown with 1.46 left, you just go, damn, well, that's too much time.


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[Assistant] It's gonna have to be something miraculous for you guys to win even though you just took the lead with four minutes and you're up by four points. It's gonna take you something miraculous still to win the football game. It's like maybe they'll score fast enough to give you


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[Assistant] Right. Or maybe he'll just throw one of those trick shots or be, you know, tied up and try to throw a 20 yard outroute with four guys hanging on. That's what you're hoping for. Because like, it's almost inevitable at this point. And then really, it's the Chiefs. I mean, Ahmed, we were kind of waxing poetically at the end of the football game. It's just like,


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[Assistant] They thrive for those moments. It seems like when they're like,


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[Assistant] Hey, we're down 20? We're down 17? We're down a touchdown? It's like, they're almost like, hey, let's play football now. And it's hard not to root for them because of it. It is. It's infectious. And just the way they battle, again, they're the toughest


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[Assistant] You know, passing team I've ever seen in the history of the league. They're not soft or finesse by any stretch of the imagination. Again, just the adjustments they make in the second half.


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[Assistant] You know, we were talking about that last night, right, Ahmed? I mean, first half, Chargers throwing the ball around a little bit. They're pushing the ball down the field. Second half, they can't do Jack Diddley shit on until the drive you're talking about. I mean, we gotta, they were shut out.


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[Assistant] By that defense, until really what I thought looked like an offense pass interference on Keenan Allen on the big third and 18th row. So, but that's where I just, the Chiefs are so amazing that way. And then even the adjustments at halftime.


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[Assistant] You know, that we, we also joked out because it's Andy Reid and, you know, there they are last week against the Jaguars and you go, man, they ran the ball. This is great. And they start off the game last night and they're running the ball and you're like, man, this new Chief Sullivan. And then they forget about it. And you're like, what? You're running for 10 yards a carry and you stopped running.


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[Assistant] And they come out in the second half and it's like somebody grabbed Andy Reid and shook him and was like, here's a, here's a Mr. Goodbar, you know, get your hangry out and we got to run the ball Andy. And then he was like, oh yeah, okay. Yeah, you're right. We do. And they come out and run the ball and they just, they kind of control the whole second half.


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[Assistant] Even though they dug themselves in a hole in the first half and, uh, they're just a tough, resilient team and to your point, he's magical. He just, he's magical.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, he'd probably have to have some games, maybe like we're seeing from Josh Allen a little bit, where he just does some dumb things and throws a few interceptions and all that, but yeaah, you know, I'm with you. I think when you...


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[Assistant] You know, again, argue the fact of no Tyree kill, the adjustment to that. And not even that. There was no Juju in this game. Exactly. No McColl Hartman. No, but that's, that's what's amazing about that. It's just, we, we don't even care. We kind of just.


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[Assistant] You know, just go up. Well, we still expect him to make great throws and great plays and throw for 300 yards. That's where he's gotten. That's why he's, he's already a first ballot Hall of Famer.


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[Assistant] I would agree with your assessment there, that, you know, his...


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[Assistant] He's definitely in the league for the MVP voting, you know? And the way Allen has played the last few weeks, Hertz hasn't, you know, done anything extraordinary. Tuas, the stats are always gonna be good with Tua. You know, again, I don't think he's in the class of this, but the stats are gonna keep him in this.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, I would go with my homes there too. But then Chris Jones at the end of the football game, him making plays, Ahmed. The Chiefs are the, just a battle tested, tough football team and, uh, they're just, I can't say enough positive things about them.


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[Assistant] It sticks. I think it's gonna stick. I mean, I thought it would have stuck a little earlier in the first half last night. But I think that's why they, like, he's the starter now.


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[Assistant] You know, I, you know, like we talked, well, you weren't here last week, but last week we kind of, I on Monday was kind of hitting on- I was in Turks and Caicos. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, you were, yeah, yep, yep, you're nice and tan. But yeah, that was one of the things, he does give them another element of toughness that we're talking about. And I think that's, it is real. He's a guy that,


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[Assistant] You know, defenses really legitimately have to worry about it. He's not a space runner.


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[Assistant] So that's where it's different too. They can call some players and go, Hey, let's just go between the tackles and he'll find the seam and he'll smash it in there. And even though it's a game of three, maybe with Clyde Edwards-Helaire with Isaiah Pacheco and the way he runs, it's a game of six and there's a difference there.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, you couple that with Travis Kelce and what he does in the past game. It's just, uh, it got a special combination of a lot of things there in Kansas City.


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[Assistant] I think Chris Jones is the first ballot Hall of Famer in my opinion. They got three of them on the team.


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[Assistant] I think Kelsey, I think what's amazing about Kelsey is just that we're getting into a part of a career where you start to see guys usually start to slow down or go the wrong way. And he's played his best football the last two years. And I think it's, again, no disrespect to the Shannon Sharps of the world. I've never seen anything like this in the pass game. Never.


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[Assistant] He's, he's the best pass catching tight end I've ever seen in the history of football.


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[Assistant] Gronk would be not far off of that for me, and of course we know Gronk, it's just a different style of a tight end, with his blocking and all that.


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[Assistant] But I think these are the two guys of the era, and you know, yeaah, it's not only, it's an amazing combination, one, because yeaah, they got an offensive coordinator, and they know how to use him, and he's a great talent, but then when you couple that with Mahomes when he leaves the pocket or does anything that way, Kelsey just,


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[Assistant] He grew up playing football in the backyard. He's got great feel for like, Oh wait, he's running this way. I see this guy running this way. Let me stop and find the hole here. Oh wait, this guy stopped.


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[Assistant] And, you know, my home stopped. Wait, I see a hole over here. Let me just kind of shuffle over there and get in the hole. And he finds me. So that's where they're special too. It's like you stop them and okay, great. But then backyard football comes into play and you don't stop them. Um, it was the second time in three weeks too. I feel like as we were watching the game.


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[Assistant] There was more man to man in the football game. I think people have gotten to the point, and I don't disagree with this approach of what the Chargers did last night.


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[Assistant] You just can't play sit back, take away the big play defense. You know, we're seeing that. And you know, I said to you at one point, which they ran at the end of the football game, the game winning touchdown. I said, Kansas city oddly enough has got to get back to.


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[Assistant] They're man to man plays that you used to call early on in Mahomes' career when teams were still not scared of the defense and we'll play the man and double this guy or whatever and they would cross you and pick you and get to some of those plays and I felt like they got to some of those plays at the end of the football game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'd like to watch that, you know, a little more close to it. At times too, when you're in the red zone like that, right, and you know you are in a situation where it's man to man.


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[Assistant] The other thing that can, that can play into maybe not wanting to be too aggressive, is just like, well if I do miss him at the line of scrimmage, and he runs a seam route, I mean, it's, it's touchdown. It's gonna be an easy pitch and catch. So that would be the only thing I can think of, but yea, that was one of the few plays all night we saw him not


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[Assistant] Yeah, I did. Oh, I mean, I like, I have a crush on Kansas City and the way they play. Cause they have a bunch of guys that...


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[Assistant] You know, we've talked about with some other teams where they just fly around and they bring it. They have no regard for their body. And Nick Bolden is perfect that way. He is. And he was all over the field last night. He did some dumb things too.


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[Assistant] Had the late hit out of bounds on Justin Herbert that we sat there. Had the face mask in the end zone there where you held on the guy's face mask for like seven seconds.


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[Assistant] Uh, he, he is, he's, he's your modern day NFL linebacker. A guy that's kind of a thumper in the run game, but has great speed, sideline to sideline, the screens, pass coverage, all that. He's really good. And, yeah, it's, it's, uh, it's, it's a really good overall football team.


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[Assistant] You know, again, I know that the, Kansas City to me over the last three weeks, four weeks, they're the best team in football in my opinion. I would take, if they played the Eagles tomorrow, I would take Kansas City to win that game.


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[Assistant] They need to get those receivers healthy and hopefully Mike Williams isn't out too long. You know, again, for the second week in a row with the Chargers, we saw them come out, push the ball down the field. And for the second week in a row, we saw them not do anything in the second half of a football game. Now, again, I know that, you know, to your point, they played really good teams and there's tough matchups.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't be, I picked the 49ers and the Chiefs to be in the Super Bowl, so I wouldn't be shocked, right? I mean, they're both good teams, but yes, I'm not giving up on them. The one thing I've liked about the Chargers is they have shown some toughness here as of late, and I do respect that. Eckler's running the ball a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, their run defense, yeaah, it's still not perfect, but they're fighting and trying to stop, and with their schedule, Cardinals, Raiders...


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[Assistant] Dolphins, Titans, hey, it's going to be tough, but there's no team that's just going to totally outclass them. I'm not giving up on them. They do get in the playoffs and they're healthy with the Joey Bosa and Derwin James and everybody on the offensive side. They could definitely make a


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[Assistant] That is exactly right. You're right. And it's a Colts team that's kind of re-energized and found a new way to play. And I think we saw that again, where you gotta give Jeff Saturday, you know, some respect there. They're still fighting there in Indianapolis, and they're playing the proper way to what their team is.


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[Assistant] I think again, we saw another game with Matt Ryan. They got the ball out of his hands quickly for the most part of the day. They stayed patient with the run game.


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[Assistant] You know, I saw basically the same two or three runs that I, I talked about last week on the podcast where I said, I feel like that's what Jeff Saturday did. He simplified things, just said, wait, we're good at these ones. Let's just keep doing them. I felt like I saw that again last night.


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[Assistant] You know, it was there. It was there to be had. The Colts messed up some situations. Jonathan Taylor fumbling as the pockets get, you know, as the piles being pushed and all that. That was a big moment in the football game. But yeah, that's, I mean, that's probably in the Eagles right now. The Eagles are, have gotten to that point where they're good enough to,


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[Assistant] Turn the ball over maybe one or two times and still be like, no, we're still going to win this game.


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[Assistant] That's where they're special. And then if you do turn the ball over, then it's like, uh-oh, well they're that good, you're in trouble now. But yeaah, this was a, you know, a dog fight. And I think you said it right, they found something just at the end of the game because their own line could not dominate the Colts.


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[Assistant] And as we've been saying here on the podcast for the last few weeks, the Colts defense is phenomenal.


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[Assistant] It's phenomenal. It went into the game yesterday as a top five defense and like I've been trying to say, that offense has been so bad and there's still a top five defense. That tells you. That was the biggest thing to me. Eight people in the line of scrimmage because of that Seattle scheme.


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[Assistant] You know, they couldn't overpower them in the run game because there's eight people at the line of scrimmage so often too. It's hard to, you know, come off the edge on the read option at times and be free because there's always the extra guy there. And then they play a defense where.


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[Assistant] They don't let you have big plays. It's press bail. It's cover three, press bail. Jam them at the line of scrimmage, then just get back and don't let them go deep. So those were some issues for the, the Eagles, but the quarterback design run at an empty.


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[Assistant] And him just scrambling on a few plays were the difference in the football game. And yeah, it wasn't pretty. I'm not downgrading the Eagles when he's stretching the imagination. They played, I think, again, like we were just talking about with the Chargers, two teams that I think match up well with them in a lot of ways.


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[Assistant] Two defenses that have some elite things about them that canceled out some of the eliteness of what the Eagles usually can do to people. And I think that's kinda how I assess that game.


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[Assistant] Well, it just gives them more fresh bodies, depth, some versatility to change. Those are two big guys who understand, like,


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[Assistant] Again, under, they can two gap both of them, which I think is very important in this day and age of the running quarterback and some of the teams you have to play. You know, we talk about it so much, these quarterbacks and what they can do. It's like, oh wait, you know, they fake the ball this way, two guys pull the other way. And you're like, well, you got, you're a guy short here in this gap now over here.


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[Assistant] And that's where the big D tackles like them can come into handy because they go, wait, I got two gaps.


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[Assistant] So now we have an extra gap for this guy out here. Now that play doesn't gash us as much. That's where they add a little value along with some depth. But, you know, also too.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's going to totally fix them. I don't look at it and go, oh man, this did it. They got it now.


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[Assistant] To me, the run game started off strong. Hey, we see this every game, a lot of games, right? Defenses, it's a first 15, the defense is kind of...


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[Assistant] Figuring out, like, how they're attacking us and getting a feel for the strength and what they need to do for guys blocking them and all that. I think the other thing that just came to, you know, at least to my mind as the game went on is just, I feel like Philly got pretty aggressive as far as just going, wait,


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[Assistant] They don't have anybody that really scares us. You know, their downfield passing game, like we've talked about, doesn't really scare us. And I feel like that allowed them to play some aggressive coverages and some aggressive fronts to kinda slow down.


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[Assistant] Dang. Yeaah, I love it. Sticking up for his guy.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, I don't, you know, we didn't get to discuss this a lot.


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[Assistant] Cause you were on the beach putting suntan lotion on your wife, but either way, like, yeaah, I mean...


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[Assistant] I don't think Frank Gregg should have been fired. I'm one of those guys. I'm with him. I don't think it justified it. And the ugliness of the year, like we talked about, was forced on him by the benching of Matt Ryan.


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[Assistant] So that's where I just feel for them that way. Uhm, I do. But that was a good win for the Eagles. That was. I don't care. People don't look at the record. Whatever. The Colts match up. Again, this is a match up league.


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[Assistant] With that defense of Indianapolis and the scheme, that's the thing to watch for here. That's what I, this is where, this is the time of year where


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[Assistant] Codes get cracked a little bit and teams start, it's a copycat league, right? You always hear that.


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[Assistant] So I think that's one thing to watch here going forward is, you know, usually when it's a great team like Philadelphia, we saw this with Kansas City a few years ago. Once one team can kind of lay out a blueprint a little bit of at least how to slow them down.


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[Assistant] Now team, the next team goes, ooh, they did that. Ooh, okay. I like that. I'm going to, I'm going to take that. I'm going to do that. Ooh. And I got my own little thing. I think that's going to help here.


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[Assistant] And then the next team comes along and they go, oh wait, okay, Washington did that, the Colts did that. Okay, we kind of combine that and do that. And it starts to give people an idea of like, all right, now we know how to defend these guys a little bit. So we'll see if that goes on going forward here, but.


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[Assistant] Two really good defensive lines are the two things that are in common, slowing down the Eagles. I don't think there's a lot of teams that have the personnel that are going to do this to Philadelphia that often.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, again, tough physical football game. Both defenses are really good. Both defenses have a great feel for how the other one wants to attack.


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[Assistant] You know, the biggest, the biggest thing, the biggest difference to me is like, one team had an offensive line that could do something and the other one didn't. You know, I mean, Mac Jones, you know,


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[Assistant] They had a game plan of get the ball out, be able to throw the football that way and then they could run the ball. The Jets couldn't run the ball at all and didn't have great pass protection and


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[Assistant] Didn't really have a passing game he could talk to at all, and then he, you know, stretches the imagination. It was ugly.


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[Assistant] Well, to me, I know the game came down to that moment in that punt return, but the Patriots outplayed the Jets for the majority of the day. I never, I never, I didn't get done with this game and go, oh man, the Patriots got lucky here. They really, ooh, had two missed field goals that were very makeable, right? They should have had the lead already.


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[Assistant] Uh, honestly, Belichick in a field goal type of game, I thought he made a blunder towards the end of the game and went forward on fourth down one time when you went, wait, they can't get past the 30 yard line.


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[Assistant] Why wouldn't you just keep playing field goal, field position and, you know, go for a field goal there? But either way, his defense was so dominant and, you know, the Jets had no chance really in any, in any phase or area of the football game as far as their offense is concerned.


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[Assistant] Well, we're just in the era of anything he does, we're gonna jump on. I'm gonna say, I wish he'd be able to answer that differently too. It's the last question of the press conference is a throwaway. You know, and I think sometimes guys are just like, you know, did we let them down? No, I don't know. They've had games where they let up 30 points. Did you ask me if they let them, did they let us down when they let up 30 something points?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well they're fishing. They're fishing. I wish you would have answered it more like you were talking about too.


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[Assistant] If he would have said that, of course, yeaah, that's what I would have liked. But it is also at the end of a day where yeaah, he just got his ass beat, they didn't play very well, he's probably freezing f***ing cold, he's tired, and he's answering questions, and he said that. So okay. So it wasn't the greatest answer. But it's just, it's the theme of, look at anything we can to jump on Zach Wilson. That's where I defend it.


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[Assistant] You know, I think they're playing a team first off that's really good and has a good feel for them. And for the, I mean, if I go back to the first game, there wasn't three people open the whole game. Now he threw two out of his three dumb interceptions in that football game.


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[Assistant] I don't know, so far too on social media, every play I've seen of the Jets game, everybody's covered, but they're all going, look, Zach Wilson didn't do this and he didn't do that. And I want to be like, but neither did this guy do that or this guy do that. And the play sucks and they're all over it. So what do you want to say?


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[Assistant] You know, there's a little bit of a predictability that we've talked about over the last few weeks with their offense too, where everything is over the middle. Everything. And you watch them for the most part, they had...


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[Assistant] The game against Buffalo is the only game where they like kind of broke those tendencies. And I think they realized that they were so strong, but yesterday it looked like it went back to that. And then to his point, you know, it did seem like it was a day where it was windy enough to where it was affecting the play.


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[Assistant] And it seemed like it was windy enough to where New England


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[Assistant] You're gonna show one place on, one play on Twitter, not really know the rules of the play, and then say the guy doesn't know a playbook.


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[Assistant] Now, yeaah, there's a play he's explaining where there's two receivers to the left, one's running a shallow cross, one's running a deep in cut, and then on the right we have a post route and then a wheel route by the tight end who kinda chip blocked, right?


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[Assistant] So, you know, what Dan is trying to say here is, hey, he threw the ball to the backside post route and it looks like it was supposed to be a deep post down the middle of the field and he threw it quick, quickly.


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[Assistant] And now he's questioning whether he knew the playbook. What I would say is, first off, I have some experience with this type of play where, in this coverage right here, sometimes the guy that's supposed to run the deep post, the big post as he calls it in this video, it converts


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[Assistant] Because of the coverage and to maybe what we would call a glance or a skinny post and his route and what his eyes look like.