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[Assistant] I think that's just a, uhm, what do we want to say? That's just proper. Why not in street clothes though? You know, I'm not going to play. Well, they're like, it's a dress rehearsal. Okay. So their coach wants sometimes like, I believe even Odell Beckham Jr. Did this with the Cleveland Browns. Like the coach wants you to go out there, get used to pregame warmups. Let's go through all.


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[Assistant] You know, the shenanigans that it'll be like for the regular season, except when it comes time to play, we're not going to let you get out there and get hit and get hurt. So I think that's more what it's about, just to kind of get used to the environment once again. Okay. They're not all going to hit. That was just a proper reaction. Yeah, that's okay. That's okay. Good.


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[Assistant] I think that we should give it a little bit more due diligence that it's getting. I'll say that. Because yes, it did show. One, some nice movement in the pocket, but two,


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[Assistant] Yeah, there was no semblance of a dumb decision or a-


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[Assistant] Why are you forcing that down there against the Pittsburgh Steelers? It looked pretty smooth. I guess it's not getting the attention it should be getting because we are probably expecting this improvement from Bruce Arias. But we've been expecting an improvement from, from Jameis Winston for four years in a row now and we still get these, you know, knucklehead


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[Assistant] Head scratching type moves, and we saw none of that. It was a good start, and uh, the Bucks are one of those teams.


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[Assistant] They can throw a whole wrench into the NFC. I don't know what to expect from them. They have some talent, some key positions. They got very good coaches on both sides of the ball.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but they're young. Jamus is unproven. You know, there's some defensive guys that are unproven. You know, they could be a pain in the butt and ruin a lot of people's playoff chances this year and be in playoff contention themselves. If you told me they ended up 4-12, I don't know if I'd be that shocked either. So I don't know what to think of them right now.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, I think you're right. I mean, we are underreacting. I mean, Philip Rivers tried to tell us that, that we're pretty deep in this position and we're gonna go with the guys we got. It wasn't a shot at Melvin Gordon or anything like that. He was just going,


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[Assistant] Damn, have you watched football the last two years? Austin Eckler's good. He can contribute. The kid Jackson they had last year who came in towards the end of the year when Melvin Gordon was hurt too, he showed some promise.


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[Assistant] Like the scenario you brought up, goal line touchdown runs, that's where they're gonna probably miss him. Because Melvin Gordon is one of those, whoa, look at this dude. When he walks in the room, I mean it's traps and shoulders and neck and he's a big guy. And of course he can move well too.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, I don't think that the Los Angeles Chargers are nearly as scared going into the season without Melvin Gordon as compared to the Cowboys with Ezekiel Elliott. I think there is some fear there. They can say all they want in Dallas.


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[Assistant] Zeke's pretty important. You know, in, in, in Los Angeles...


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[Assistant] The past game's proven. They've shown that they can win games with the past game. And Dallas? That's not so much a thing yet. And they're not as creative with the scheme. You know, Dak Prescott hasn't had that pressure on him like a Phillip Rivers to carry the team that way. Uh, I don't think the Melvin Gordon thing's gonna end pretty. It's either him gonna have to cave and come back, or...


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[Assistant] Uh, or he's gonna sit out the year, uh, because I can't imagine anybody trading for him either with his, with his knee situation. Yeah. Alright, so that was, that was it? Under reaction. Under reaction Monday. That was good, I like it. I don't wanna blow everything up and do a


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[Assistant] I'm all for giving, you know me, I mean, we do Robin Hood segments sometimes. I'm all for giving like attention to things that don't get enough attention. So good job by you.


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[Assistant] You know, Robbie Busto, Robbie Earl, new episode available, breaking down week one of the Premier League. Tape, they taped, I guess, this last show, In the Rain.


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[Assistant] Pitch side at Manchester United. And for all those which pitch side means, that means right on the side of the field, I'm guessing. I'm not sure either. But the Two Robbie podcast, if you're into soccer, you're definitely gonna like that. Listen, uhm, Two Robbie's, I guess they don't use Bob over there, huh? They go Rob.


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[Assistant] That's a classic. I mean, that is a classic. Uh, you know, it's a close one, but getting into a freezing machine and thinking your feet won't freeze is kind of crazy.


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[Assistant] Big Phil will be here, we'll talk football with him.


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[Assistant] We're also going to do an Ask Me Anything. Uh, that's what we're looking for. We haven't had one in a while. So please, send, send questions in, whether it's Instagram, Twitter, whatever it is, anything you want to ask me in the football, NFL football universe, feel free. And if you want to get personal, you know I'm always down to do that too. Alright everybody, peace out homies. Ahmed, you the man.


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[Assistant] We'll see you Wednesday. That was a weird slap. Why? Because that was like, that was like dorky white guy slap. Alright, peace, we're out of here.


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[Assistant] Yo yo, what's up? Come on man, subscribe on YouTube to Chris Sims on Button Podcast. I need you, please hit the subscribe button, please!


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[Assistant] Or rush six and just force the issue. Like force the issue, but I think five is like, you know, kissing your sister. It just, you're not doing anything and nobody wants to kiss their sister, okay? I don't even know why I said that, but it just came out of my mouth.


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[Assistant] I have two sisters. You have two sisters? Don't kiss them, okay? Alright? Just so you know, don't do that. You know, my dad, he's from Kentucky, right? Nice segue. You know, sometimes they do that there. In fact, my dad's mother and father, brother and sister.


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[Assistant] What? What? Stepbrother and stepsister. No. But they were. Yes they were. Yes they were. We like to pull back the curtain to start every unbuttoned podcast and there's a tidbit about the Sims family that the public did not know. You have tops or whatever the opposite. They got remarried, right? My, my, my


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[Assistant] And then a step-sister and a step-brother got married, then to have the Sims family. Yes, yes. Okay, you're taking a deep breath, it's okay.


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[Assistant] How you doing? I'm doing good. Happy Monday to you. Week three in the NFL. Okay. Uh, it was a fun one. Uh, all right. First rate review, the podcast, do all that stuff, but we got a good one today. We're going to deep dive two games as voted on by the public.


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[Assistant] The first one we're going to do is DJ NY. Yes, Daniel Jones, New York Giants and the Buccaneers. We're going to hit on that. We're going to hit on Kansas City versus Baltimore Ravens. Those are the two games I went back and watched film. Yes. We got, damn.


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[Assistant] Okay, coming up today. Uh, we also got, let's see, am I missing anything else? No, I don't have any check the rule books. We got a few other meathead moments by some other people around the NFL we're gonna hit on. Uh, and then, hey, first off, let's just start off. What, anything jump out to you particular, uh, in particular for the week three that you saw that


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[Assistant] Dominated the day. I mean, that was certainly one of the stories of the day, and he changed the look of that football team.


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[Assistant] I also, I think what I'm just, what I'm looking at that jumps out to me more than anything in football, I think there's four teams that stand above the rest right now after three weeks. You know, the two in the AFC, the Chiefs and the Patriots, no particular order there.


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[Assistant] Okay, and then I look at the NFC and go the Rams and the Cowboys.


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[Assistant] Those two right there, I think, are the cream of the crop of each conference. Why the Rams instead of the Packers? Well, uhm, the Packers are still, they're good. I'm really encouraged. We'll talk about some of those things, but, I mean, I'm not gonna sit there and go, they're the cream of the crop yet. I mean, not with the way they're kinda winning the game. It's good, it's great, they're 3-0.


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[Assistant] But I do think that the Rams and the Dallas Cavaliers have showed a little bit more of a specialness to their team at this point. It's still early. Teams are still a work in progress. And then, you know,


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[Assistant] Just the difference in, oh, you're two and one, you're one and two, the feeling in the building, that's something that just I think about because I remember some of the most intense weeks I had in my career in the NFL where


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[Assistant] We're 0-2, we're 1-2, because you started to get into must-win territory, and you go, damn, we're not out of September. And we're in must-win territory already? And that's where, I mean, you can taste the pressure in the building. And you got a number of teams who were in the playoffs last year who go, damn, we're


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[Assistant] You're right. Their hand is next to the panic button and you don't know what they are. Uh, so that's just something that jumped out to me through week one. But let's get into it. We got a bunch of quarterbacks who made their first start yesterday. All interesting. All had different styles of games. Uh, but let's start with the big one in Tampa Bay.


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[Assistant] Don't tell me talent doesn't matter, okay? Because what you saw yesterday was an offense open up. Why? Why? Wait for it. Wait. Oh, the quarterback that was in was more talented. Oh.


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[Assistant] You mean arm strength does matter? Oh, yeaah, oh, all of a sudden there was plays all over the field, you know, aggressive plays called that I don't feel that the Giants would call on a regular basis if it was Eli Manning.


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[Assistant] Uhm, how about the talent to move a little bit and run, extend plays, scramble for two touchdowns or run for two touchdowns?


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[Assistant] But not being, uh, afraid of it. And there's a difference there. And again, with Eli, I'm not trying to say anything bad, but Eli was a, ooh, I look down the field, it feels like the pocket's collapsing, let me look at the pocket to make sure where, oh, they're getting a little close to me, let me check it down.


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[Assistant] Daniel Jones was, let me look downfield. Ooh, that guy's not open. I'm not even still looking at the pocket and people are getting close to me, but I'm just gonna kinda move around with my feel.


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[Assistant] Oh, and the hell with that check down, there's another guy open 20 yards down the field, I'm gonna hit him. And that changed their, their, their team and the way they look. So when we talk about, oh, he gives you more energy, he just, when he came on, he felt more, no, it wasn't more energy, he's just a better


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[Assistant] Okay, and then he made the team have more energy because there was more opportunities to make plays and look good.


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[Assistant] That New Orleans out Seattle to Seattle in Seattle. Okay, that's what they did. What does it mean to out Seattle to Seattle? I mean, play defense, out hit you, cause turnovers, win special teams.


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[Assistant] And that's what the Saints did. The Saints never really had to rely on Teddy Bridgewater. You know, they really, they could really just say, ooh, let's manage the game, manage the clock.


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[Assistant] You know, let's try to keep our defense off the field here and there, but when you return a kick for a touchdown, uh, when you pick up a fumble, or they return a punt, sorry, when you pick up a fumble and return that for a touchdown, you give your team 14 points off of that.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, it allowed them to run the ball, play conservative, and Teddy never had to be asked to do anything. He didn't make the big mistake. He never made the big mistake. And that's what he's great at. And that's probably why Sean Payton started him in Seattle. Go, you know what?


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[Assistant] He doesn't lose games. That's the one thing we've seen. And I'll say it's debatable whether he wins games either, but he never has lost games. That's the great thing about Teddy Bridgewater. If you play defense and have a running game,


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[Assistant] He can keep you in a lot of football games and do the smart thing that a quarterback needs to do.


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[Assistant] It's a hard way to win. I don't know if you can consistently rely on that. I mean, they won by the skin or their teeth yesterday and, uh, you know, of course had a number of things fall their way. So, uh, you know, can they be the Dallas team next week that way again? I would say no.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, again, I think Sean Payton will find a few ways here and there to make things a little bit more helpful to Bridgewater, start creative pass plays. Right. And maybe he'll starly start to put the taste, I guess he's afraid of taste and help because he's just real backup now.


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[Assistant] So he goes, damn if Teddy really does get hurt and I hurt Taysom Hill on some he's going over the middle for a 10 yard completion, now I'm really screwed. So I think he has to be a little more careful with Taysom Hill now that he's a true backup instead of that third string swing.


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[Assistant] I, you know, how do I want to say this? You know, you don't, you don't have to be a franchise quarterback to win football games.


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[Assistant] If you just make some of the routine throws that are there, you can win football games. That's what I want to say. Because that's the thing from, that's jumped out about the Carolina Panthers. The Carolina Panthers played good football the first two weeks. They started 0-2 because Cam Newton was off. Now they had a guy that was on.


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[Assistant] You like Kyle Allen or Teddy Bridgewater? Ooh, well I think Kyle Allen made more plays to make his team win the game. He made more difficult throws. He did, he made some more difficult throws. They needed him to make some of those plays to actually win the game.


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[Assistant] You know, New Orleans never had to ask Teddy Bridgewater that, but I give Kyle Allen a lot of credit. I mean, he was, this is one of the dicier backup quarterback situations I thought in football.


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[Assistant] That, yeaah, they didn't capitalize, and that's why they started O and 2, and he capitalized on some of those things, and now, there's no pressure to like, oh, we gotta rush Cam Newton out there at 80% or 90%. Now they can go get healthy. In fact, we're good. Like, let's see how, let's see what this Kyle Allen train looks like going forward.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, I mean, my headline would be as far as pretending to Mason Rudolph. Heh.


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[Assistant] I feel like he's stiff as an athlete. He's not a gifted thrower of the football by any stretch of the imagination. I mean, he's a below average NFL arm. Uh, and I, yeaah, I just, I looked at it overall. I mean, hey, that game was there on a silver platter for them to take control and win the game.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's, you know, always concerning when


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[Assistant] You cause five turnovers. You had that many short fields and we only got 11 first downs and you know, what was it? 20, 20 something points on the day. You know, that was a game that the 49ers were trying their best to screw up.


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[Assistant] And still ended up winning and it's a sign of a good team and of course a sign of a bad team because of the way they gave it away especially with the James Connor fumble after they were given a chance to kind of put it away.


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[Assistant] Pretty good. They just didn't capitalize early where they had turnovers and you looked up at the scoreboard and you went, what?


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[Assistant] It's only 6-0? What? It's 6-3? What? They're losing 10-6? How is that possible? Right. I mean, every time you turn on, you know, the 49ers move the ball, move the ball, turnover. You know, same thing. I mean, they move the ball up and down the field. The 49ers are scary. That's what I'll say about that. Watch out for the 49ers. They're just another team that's kind of finding their way.


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[Assistant] And they're not playing their best football yet, and they're 2-0, and that's, that's scary. Quietly unbeaten, it's a pretty good place. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's like a, uh, there's like an Eminem song that I feel like you used to listen to that. Uh, I can't remember what it is, but we gotta do it. You used to listen to Eminem, huh? Ah, of course. Yeah, always, always. I still listen to a lot of hip-hop music, but, uh, to start our damn OK segment.


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[Assistant] We are gonna hit with number 58 down in Tampa Bay, Shaquille Barrett, okay? Yes. A guy who's been backing up Von Miller, uh, and Bradley Chubb last year in the, with the Denver Broncos has popped over the last few years when he was in Denver, but never got that role in the starting lineup, then had to deal with some injuries.


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[Assistant] Four sacks the last two weeks, okay? He's got seven.


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[Assistant] For the season, he's leading the NFL and disrupted. And listen, I'm not all about sacks, like, oh gosh, you're getting sacks, you're amazing. His sacks are real sacks though, they're not like,


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[Assistant] Oh, and Dominic and Sue, you know, busted through and then the quarterback had a run and he ran into Shaquille Barrett. That's how we got, no, they're a legitimate like.


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[Assistant] They're not missing JPP down in Tampa because of this guy right here. He's made us forget all about him.


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[Assistant] I still believe he is, uh, dad would, we'll ask him this on Wednesday. The hardest hit dad ever took, I believe is still Mark Gastineau in a preseason game. Really? In a preseason game. I think he can still pop his chest.


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[Assistant] From the hit. He could pop his chest for like 30 years after. How do you pop your chest? He would like go like this and you could hear it just pop. Like what? He would like spread it out and I don't know how to say it. Something separates in there? Something does something. I don't know, but either way. He should drive up and present it. Yes, with his shirt off.


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[Assistant] I would like to see that too. Uhm, alright, but Shaquille Barrett, damn, okay, you're a player, damn, okay, you're about to get more than that one year, four million dollar contract, damn, okay, you're about to be rich, mother-


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[Assistant] The Green Bay Packers, the Smith brothers, the brothers from another mother, I mean, holy crap. I, I just, first off, the way they dominated the football game again yesterday, but have dominated the first three games of the year to just, damn, okay.


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[Assistant] They've changed the look of the football team. They've changed the style of the football team. Paul, it was evident to me just being on the field in pregame against the Bears week one along with a number of other NBC people who were like, well, they make that defense look different. They're giant human beings on the edge of a defensive line.


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[Assistant] They're just such a physical presence. Not only in the run game, but the way they can collapse the pocket in the pass game.


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[Assistant] They are game changers right now. And for a Green Bay offense that's not lighting up the scoreboard offensively, well, this is one of the reasons they don't have to right now. They can play D, they can cover, they got good zone packages, they can play man to man, and they can beat your ass up front. And the two Smith brothers on the


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[Assistant] Defense, run game, they're dangerous. I mean, Green Bay, okay? But I don't think we got Green Bay coming up again, so I'm gonna hit it here. Green Bay, I would say watch out for Green Bay. You know, they're finding their way. They're still kind of like, this is week three, they're 3-0.


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[Assistant] And they're kinda still formulating the way they wanna play. Right? You know, they're finding their way, which is scary.


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[Assistant] Because, you know, they're gonna find the right things they want to do in the past game. You say finding their way offensively. Yea, offensively. Sorry, their defense has been found. They're good. But yea, offensively, they're still tinkering with...


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[Assistant] How they want to attack teams, but you see little more plays every week where you go, Ooh, I saw Aaron Rodgers throw some balls on rhythm yesterday where I went, Hey, he took five steps and threw it because coach showed him some plays last week and said,


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[Assistant] Definitely, yeaah. And I think he probably acknowledged that when he watched the film from that Vikings game last week. But Green Bay, uh, just like Minnesota, I say watch out for that NFC North.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, because he's been damn okay. He's been damn than just okay. I mean, yesterday he was phenomenal. Uh, first off, starting the game on fire. What was it, the first 16 passes of the day complete?


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[Assistant] You know, game-changing throws. You know, just everything he does. Pinpoint accuracy on the intermediate to deep throws down the football field. You know, the fearlessness in the pocket. You know, the first two weeks did a lot of good things, certainly. Uhm, but also had a few plays here and there where you went,


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[Assistant] Okay, you're still finding your way as a starting quarterback. And I also think they were managing him a little bit the first two weeks to where they were like,


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[Assistant] Okay, he's not Andrew Luck. Let's not expect him to drop back 45 times and throw for 400 yards and four touchdowns. So let's play a little different style. But I think last week when they saw Atlanta come into town and they said, damn Atlanta's got eight people at the line of scrimmage every play.


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[Assistant] We gotta just take, we gotta take off the training wheels. We gotta start attacking. And he came out on fire. And uhm, I've just been so impressed with him.


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[Assistant] The Colts, one of those two-in-one teams, yeaah, they're not in the elite class like we talked about, or the Chiefs, or the Patriots, but they're in that next group down, who's again, like the Packers, who's just kind of finding their way how they want to win football games.


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[Assistant] You're still really good. I would say the only beat they've missed is maybe just some of the deep.


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[Assistant] Expulsive plays, Andrew Luck makes that way. And that's only because of like...


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[Assistant] His experience and knowledge and his knowledge of the offense and he got the play so much where I think Jacoby Percett's just starting to get in his wheelhouse there to go like, oh wait, you know, this coverage, we usually look at this.


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[Assistant] But coach did tell me the last few weeks, unalert on this coverage to look at my post route. It's not normally a part of my read. Andrew Luck was phenomenal at stuff like that, like where he would go, it's not really within the normal read of my offensive play here.


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[Assistant] I think the only other thing maybe, the scrambling as far as just tucking into run, he's not as good.


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[Assistant] You know, the first two weeks if I had a complaint, maybe stayed in the pocket too long.


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[Assistant] You know, you know, he's a big sucker, so he breaks a lot of tackles that could extend plays, but he also takes some sacks because he just stands in there forever. And he, and he, I would say over the first two weeks, and I didn't watch the film of yesterday's game, but just on TV.


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[Assistant] He didn't get stuck on the first read as much. I do think in the Chargers game, the Tennessee Titans game, there's moments because he trusts himself and his arm so much.


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[Assistant] Atlanta's not going to the playoffs. I'm saying that right now, okay? Wow, it's awfully early. I'm, I'm saying it. It's just the same old recklessness on, you know, offense. There's plays here and there. I can't believe Matt Ryan again through a dumb interception in the red zone. And really the biggest thing to me is, you know,


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[Assistant] Defense, hustle and team speed only goes so far. And when you're gonna line up in the same defense all game, every game, I mean you're just seeing, quarterbacks are so comfortable when they get to go out to the line of scrimmage and they go, oh it's the Falcons, oh it's the Seattle Scheme, oh it's the ninth play in a row.


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[Assistant] There's just, there's nothing to make the quarterback think or, or pull the ball down or go, ooh, I don't know what this is there. And, you know, he hit a number of plays, I think, that, that shredded that coverage yesterday.


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[Assistant] Trico has a podcast I've heard. He does. He does have a podcast that Michael Trico. Okay. Uh, first off,


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[Assistant] Mike, Tony, Rodney, Florio, they did a little breakdown of week three. They did that, they taped that last night. Were you not invited? So no, I was, I was at home. Even if I was invited, I wasn't going. I'm going, I've had enough for the week. These guys gotta work at some point during the week, okay? I can't do everything.


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[Assistant] It's available on YouTube. Check that out. The Mike Tirico podcast. I'm sure he's got a big guest coming on this week. He always has someone. Last week he had Baker Mayfield. That was a great conversation. Check that out. But Tirico, Tony, Rodney, Florio, Week 3 recap.


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[Assistant] Always a good listen. And Tony and Rodney always gonna give some great defensive insight to what they saw, uh, with the days of games and everything like that.


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[Assistant] Deep dive time. Deep dive time. I think it's good that the people selected Raven's Chief.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I mean, I think the first thing that I just, we gotta start with is, you know, just as far as the Kansas City offense and just some big picture things that jump out to me, I've just never seen anything like it. Right? I really, and this might be the second week in a row we're saying this, but,


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[Assistant] It's, it's the greatest downfield passing offense we've seen in the history of the NFL.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I know. It's a giant statement. And I, in fact, it came out when I was talking to a giant. His name was Phil Simms. Okay? He talked about it. And we were on the phone last night. We were on the phone. Sunday Night Football was going on. He always calls. Hey, what's going on? Oh, did you see this? See that?


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[Assistant] It's the greatest downfield passing offense I've ever seen. I said, it is.


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[Assistant] You know, the way they threw the ball down the field, the 2007 Patriots, that's another one.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, the Randy Moss Vikings as Pete, Peter gets in my head. I mean, yeaah, Air Corriella from the Chargers back in the day. You know, I mean, hey.


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[Assistant] Uh, even the Steelers with like Bradshaw and Stallworth and Swan there, they weren't known for that, but towards the end of their run there, they were phenomenal at throwing the ball deep down the field. Hey, Dan Marino in the mid-80s, you know, Elway and the three Musketeers, they could find ways to push that ball down the field.


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[Assistant] It's, there's been a lot of good ones. Yeaah. But nothing messes with this. Because? Because of the constant pressure of the plate design, the constant


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[Assistant] I'm gonna say this, the guy's, he's bordering on the greatest thrower I've ever seen. I mean, I thought Aaron Rodgers is the greatest thrower I've ever seen in my life, and Patrick Mahomes, through his second full year as a starter, week three, is making me question that Aaron Rodgers is the second greatest thrower I've ever seen. I mean, it's just amazing.


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[Assistant] The throws off balance, the throws fading away, the pinpoint, uh, location of balls that are 40 yards down the field and you just go, oh. Right. You know, he's, he's boring us to death with 18 yard touchdown passes to Demarcus Robinson where


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[Assistant] His feet are like in the air and not even towards the target, but his arm is like so flexible. It's like touches the back of the ground behind him and he can just fling it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we gotta, well, we gotta make sure we keep giving it its due justice because yeah, 374 and three touchdowns and like not through screen passes and like, oh, I, I, we did a shovel pass and the guy ran for 70 yards.


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[Assistant] You know, Patrick Mahomes, for the most part, when he throws to 374, he threw for 374. It's not like, oh, we threw 7 wide receiver screens, and we also hit a few running back screens, and we tricked the defense on the oh shit play a few times.


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[Assistant] You know, for the most part it's a lot of balls through the air and it's just the, just the relentless.


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[Assistant] Relentless just, uh, what do I want to say? Pressure that Andy Reid puts on you not only with different verticals, like passing schemes down the field, it's just vertical, vertical, vertical, horizontal.


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[Assistant] Oh, here's a wide receiver screen. Oh, here's a speed sweep.


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[Assistant] Here's an outside zone run. Okay, so now that you got you thinking, oh my gosh, we're going deep, we're going sideways. Oh, damn, there's Kelsey over the middle. Oh, damn.


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[Assistant] They trap this up the middle. McCoy runs for 10 yards up the middle. So they have you, just like every great offense, and I say this a lot, they make you defend every square inch of the field. But first what they do is they stretch you out.


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[Assistant] Vertically and horizontally. Vertically and horizontally. And then they start to go, oh now they open in the middle of the fields open. We'll hit a few there and then you'll condense down and we'll start taking our shots on the outside again.


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[Assistant] Honestly, again, I think I would probably still go back to their run game. Like, and I know it's not him, but as an offense, I still look at them and go,


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[Assistant] They're gonna play the Patriots at some point, whose secondary is really damn good, and they're gonna have a coach throw a few things at them that's gonna go...


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm ready for what you got, and I got a few curve balls for you too. Talking about the, the team run game. The team run game. I'm talking about the individual player. The player. Shit, there's nothing. Really? I don't see anything where I just sit there and go...


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I, I don't, because I haven't seen it enough to where I feel like it's hurting him yet. Like you're right, there's a few times, like even last week, I think on one of the go-routes where you just go, gosh, you could have just stood there and throw up. And I'm reaching here. I know, we're all reaching. I'm reaching for something that's not a criticism.


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[Assistant] It's, it's one of the few, I mean if you're gonna say one thing, it's very nitpicky. Yea. Yea, but because there's still enough throws to where I go, oh the pocket was clean, the guy was open, his feet were in the right spot, he made the throw. Right. If I started to start seeing like, oh man.


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[Assistant] He missed a few like 10 and 15 yard completions because he's being too f***ing cool with his feet or like fading away. Then I would start to tell you that.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, okay, and again, I mean, it's gonna happen here or there, but overall, it's just the pressure that they put on you, their ability to protect, okay, uh, I think are just, again, those are things I look at that just go phenomenal. You know, the Ravens, the reason I picked the Chiefs to win the game is, can the Ravens really rush the passer? It's still a concern to me.


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[Assistant] I was a little disappointed with the Ravens game plan in general. How so?


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[Assistant] Didn't think they threw as many curve balls at him as I was expecting.


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[Assistant] You know, it's early on in the game, there was a lot of man-to-man coverage, uh, I feel like they made the game easy on them. I think with an offense like Patrick Mahomes and then...


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[Assistant] You gotta do some different alignments, some maybe crazy zone blitzes, zone coverages in general, that just make Andy Reid and him think a little bit. I thought they kinda played it too straight forward early on, and uh, you know, I think it came back to bite him, just because they got off to, you know, once they got used to things,


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[Assistant] And being in the game, they couldn't just sit there and go, oh, we're just going to man up the Chiefs. That's not going to happen. I mean, it's not. And really, with Jimmy Smith, I don't know if they could do that. Like the Chiefs should have, I mean, the Ravens should have left Kansas City yesterday and called Jacksonville one more time.


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[Assistant] To go, are you sure you don't want to give us Jalen Ramsey? Because I don't know if they can beat this Chief's team.


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[Assistant] With the team that they have right now, and uhm, I don't think Jim Harbaugh necessarily coached the game to give them the chance to win the game the right way either if we want to get into that. I think it's John.


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[Assistant] He is a hell of a coach. He's one of the best head coaches in football. I'm not going to believe that propaganda he just tried to throw at me right there. Which part of it? Well, I don't know. First off, from the very get-go, going for 2. Oh, we're going to be a great. You haven't gone for 2 all year. I saw you scored 97 points against the Dolphins the first three touchdowns of the year. You didn't go for 2.


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[Assistant] You know, I watched you last week against the Arizona Cardinals. You didn't go for two.


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[Assistant] So, you decide to go to Kansas City and now is when you want to get in the pissing match with that team? That's when you want to go, oh, I want to get in the shootout this week. I just feel like they kind of played...


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[Assistant] into Kansas City's hands a little bit through the game. Not only with that, okay, the game seven to six, the defense is kinda hanging in there early, Kansas City's having a hard time getting in a rhythm.


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[Assistant] Fourth and two on your own forty, what was it, on forty-seven yard line, go for it. Okay? I got no problem with that. I, I, I do. I do. That early on, on the road, like, what are you trying to do? It's seven-six. You know, aren't you the Ravens? Aren't you, like, your defense is, is your team? Like to me...


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[Assistant] I mean, I know, but he did it. I mean, and I understand he scares you, but I'd also don't, I think they gave that offensive life a little bit. I do, I think, you know, oh, okay, they scored a touchdown at 7-6. It's kind of a slugfest. Fourth and two in the middle of the field. Okay, we're gonna go for it.


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[Assistant] Uh, and give them the short field and then kind of get them going to where, oh shit, we're rolling now.


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[Assistant] And it did, it worked out. And I understand some of his aggressive plays worked and all of that, but I just think I look at that. Here's a question on that one.


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[Assistant] Well, I guess they had stopped them, I know, but they had stopped them the first three series before. I'm gonna make him show it to me first, that it's all working that day. And I have a great defense who, I mean, man, they paid a lot of money to some of those guys on that defense. They're, they're allowed to stop teams too. You know, I just, I just didn't agree with the mindset, let alone they came out trying to throw the football. Uh, I feel like they tried to go like,


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[Assistant] Oh no, we're also one of the greatest shows on turf. And I want to go, no, you're not. You're really awesome, but what you do is control line of scrimmages, you muck games up, you play defense, and then Lamar will make some throws here and there. But don't come out trying to like out Patrick Mahomes, Patrick Mahomes. And that's what I felt like they did a little bit, and that's what I think


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[Assistant] So then they go down 30-13, or 23-13 I should say. After they were up 6-0. 6-0, now they're down 23-6. They start the second half, and they run the ball almost every play. And they go right down Kansas City's throat.


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[Assistant] And score a touchdown. And now it's 23 to 13. Uhm, and of course, that was it though. The Chiefs offense had already found their rhythm, and that was the game from that standpoint, as far as that goes.


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[Assistant] The back, did the back go out here on the wide route here? I can pull it up on there if you want to say it, but I can't remember either.


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[Assistant] That's new. Oh, it is new. I mean, well, I mean, thank you for first off, accentuating the point of like arm strength does matter. You're right. Because yeah, there, there have no fear of calling these plays ever because they know he can deliver and throw it with great ease and he can hit this on the money just like he hit a 20 or a 15 yard completion right over the middle because he's that gifted wise.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the defense is also, cause of what you're saying, they're different landmarks and where to attack. They're just not thinking.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, I should be looking for a ball here at this part of the field. You know, usually I've already like, okay, I've hit one part of the field where I look for a ball and if it's not from there, now I'm thinking it's going to be way farther down the field, right? Like a deep post or a deep corner on a straight go route.


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[Assistant] I don't know who messed this up as far as the coverage goes, okay? Yeah, you wanna do it? Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. You think it was Earl all the way? I'm pretty sure too that it was Earl. I would think that Earl took the bait, and the way he reacted on film too is he kinda went like this as soon as he saw him.


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[Assistant] You can defend it two different ways to where either he does this and he carries this guy up the seam.


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[Assistant] Or, you know, he kinda can play down here in this curl flat area and this guy would almost 2-1 them and maybe steal it if possible. Where this guy's underneath to protect like an outrider or a comeback. But if he stays wide enough. That's really tough. Right. A guy like Patrick Mahomes is gonna go, oh, it's 2-1-1. Whichever way he guesses, I'm going to the other way.


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[Assistant] It's the tremendous pressure they put on you with formations, putting three receivers to one side. Oh gosh, we can't play straight man to man with this either because if we go straight man to man, then I'm going to have to leave a linebacker or somebody one on one with Travis Kelsey in the backside. So the corner stays backside because they know he's legit.


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[Assistant] So they have to play a zone match type of coverage. And yeaah, Andy Reid through study just said, you know, let me put them in a bind somehow. And this part of the field's open. Let me just throw right here. And he played like two on one ball with this group of guys. And I think he just tried to read Earl Thomas.


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[Assistant] And if Earl went deep, he was gonna throw the guy over the middle. If Earl went shallow, I'm gonna look at that seam and try to throw it.


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[Assistant] They're amazing, and he's got 9 million different ways to find 15 and 20 yard completions. Andy Reid, yeaah, that's why it's so fun to watch. I mean, uhm, I just want to make sure I didn't miss anything.


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[Assistant] You know, I mean, I talked about his poise in the pocket again, Mahomes, which is so amazing. You know, we talked about the pass pro that I love. Uh, I wrote that he is the best thrower I've ever seen. And they are the most high-flying offense I've ever seen. So that was it. We hit all the things with the Chiefs offense.


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[Assistant] There's two game plans that jump out to me. First off, the AFS, both time the Patriots played them last year. The Patriots gave him a lot of different looks in the first game when they beat them in Monday night up in New England, right? Last year, gave him different looks. Remember, he threw some interceptions early on in the game that


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[Assistant] Guys dropped out of the line of scrimmage. I don't think he saw. Oh, I got a crosser open. Oh, Dante Hightower looked like he was in a blitz, but he dropped out. Man, he tricked me. Uhm, they had somebody for every time he scrambled to the right.


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[Assistant] They had somebody there to go, Oh, you want to scramble the red? We've noticed on film, not every time you do it. So when you do it, we're going to have somebody there. New England did that, right? So they did that in game one and then the AFC championship game. They played a coverage that nobody's ever played in the history of football. They played man to man across the field.


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[Assistant] And the free safety doubled Tyree kill every play. So they basically played it like cover zero.


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[Assistant] They double Tyree kill, play man to man against the other receivers, and then played


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[Assistant] Because they're afraid, they can't coach all the ways like, oh, what happens with like things like, oh, we're going to double team a guy when they do this, all of a sudden they get shifted or motioned to a bunch and the defense messes up their calls and somebody ends up scot-free. Well, Bill's smart. He knows how to coach through all that stuff, even though it's very difficult. That's why he's


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[Assistant] So he did that. The other game plan that jumped out to me a little...


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[Assistant] Chargers on the, what was it, the Saturday night game in Kansas City last year. Yes. And the Seattle Seahawks, who I believe was also a Sunday night game, uh, last year in Seattle.


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[Assistant] Now that was the Seattle scheme, but what they did was like, they really backed off and they called the bluff of Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes where they said, we're not going to let you throw anything deep. Can you guys be patient and run the ball and throw the ball underneath?


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[Assistant] They weren't. They were not capable of doing it. I think they are now, and I think Patrick Mahomes is smart enough and they have enough ways to throw the ball underneath to where you're not going to be able to pull that off on them again.


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[Assistant] Those are the things I would say. You gotta throw some curve balls at em. You gotta mix up coverages.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's why he's special though, because he's got the balls to do those type of things. And then the, the smarts to coach it in those five or six formations where most coaches would go, whoa.


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[Assistant] This is too much here. There's three receivers here. I can't ask for my two guys to double this one guy where we're all playing man to man because if one gets picked off, then somebody's wide open, whatever. And no, they find the right way to do that, let alone their secondary is the best secondary in football. So that goes with it.


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[Assistant] Is there anything we wanna talk about? Yea, we gotta talk about the Ravens offense vs. the Chiefs day. Uhm, okay.


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[Assistant] Here's the first thing that jumps out to me. Chiefs defense, you've listened to me the first two weeks.


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[Assistant] They, they got the three S's I wrote. Simple, sound, and size. Uh, to me that's, that's always a good recipe for a good defense. They're simple.


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[Assistant] They're sound in what they do. There's no mess ups. That's been a big issue for them. They have size. They did a great job of disguising in some obvious passing situations. That might be a bored thing we do later in the week. Just on third downs. Nothing crazy. Just like,


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[Assistant] Simple complexities, just a cool way to play Tampa 2, but you would have never expected it to be Tampa 2 if you're the quarterback and as you're getting the shotgun snap you're going, oh, looks like it's going to be man to man like robber coverage.


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[Assistant] Yes, I thought they passed it too much early on in the game. I do. I think they got way too into, let's pass the ball, and it wasn't until the second half.


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[Assistant] Also, yeaah, they passed the ball too much. It's 20-6, and all of a sudden they decided, we're gonna be the greatest show on turf again, and we're gonna try to go score, and we're gonna throw every play before the half's over. Oh, you know what happened?


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[Assistant] They ended up having to punt the ball. And they gave Kansas City the ball back with one minute and 18 seconds left. And they went down and got a field goal. So a 20-6 lead became a 23-6 lead. The Baltimore Ravens I know would have bled the clock.


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[Assistant] And gone, maybe we kick a field goal as the half is expiring, but we're not going to give Patrick Mahomes the ball one more time. So that to me was different too. I don't understand that.


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[Assistant] In the pocket and outside the pocket. Well, just like the bread and butter for the Kansas City Chiefs is my home and throwing the ball down the field.


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[Assistant] Not, oh, we can spread it out and throw it like Patrick Mahomes. So again, it's still, like a lot of things I like. I'm not trying to be totally negative on Lamar Jackson or Baltimore.


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[Assistant] 43 passing attempts and, and two miracles to make it not look like a blowout. Not three? Not a fourth and not three, not like Mahomes did last year.


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[Assistant] But remember, a fourth and five, I'm gonna get sacked and let me throw the ball up. The guy gets at the one yard line. A third and seventeen run to the right side line and throw it all the way across the left side line. That should have been intercepted. That ended up being a completion.


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[Assistant] So those two plays there, this game is going to get ugly because of the style of play they played up until that point. So I just, I didn't understand that. I just felt like I wrote this down a number of times. They forgot who they are, they out thought themselves in this one, tried to be too cute, and uh, I think it kind of got them away from what they're better at.


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[Assistant] In the playoffs with the right game plan. And if they can cause a turnover or do something, they can win a football game there. But it's gotta be the right way. They're not gonna win it in a shootout. I know that.


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[Assistant] Would you have Lamar carry it himself more? We're talking about running backs more in general. I just wanted to see more of the run game in general because I think that is their golden ticket. You know, we talk about so much about, you know, just teams are used to spread football. Teams are not used to


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[Assistant] Guard through the hole. Tackle through the hole. Full back through the hole. Oh, running back through the hole. And now the quarterbacks got the ball? I mean that's, that's to me their golden ticket is to be able to do that. And that's where they were beautiful the first two weeks because they forced teams to stop that. And then it made the passing game wide open where I felt like in this game they went out and went, we're going to catch them off.


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[Assistant] The Browns have no identity. That's, that's where I want to say. I said this early this morning on, on Pro Football Talk, and you know, actually when I got done, I know, uh, Odell Beckham Jr. came out and said this as well. But I am, I'm a believer in identity, okay? First off, I don't want to take away credit from the Rams. The Rams are really


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[Assistant] Battle tested, tough, don't lose games. Uhm, do so many things the right way to win those type of football games.


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[Assistant] To me, it's one of two things. It's either two tight ends on the field, let's play smash mouth football, and start to make teams, put extra people in the box, and then when we get one on one outside, we're gonna hit Odell and Jarvis Landry and do that. It's either that, or it's...


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[Assistant] Take a page from the Houston Texans and every play is designed for Odell Beckham Jr. and we're gonna make you stop him and then when you do, then you'll start to see Will Fuller and all these other guys catch the ball.


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[Assistant] It's got, to me those would be the two things you can hang your hat on that can work on a week to week basis that will get defenses to get out of their comfort zone to go, ooh, we have to stop this if we want to beat them. And then you can build off of that.


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[Assistant] I think the Odell Beckham Jr. thing suits, uh, Odell Jr., Odell Beckham Jr. thing suits Baker best. I don't think it suits the team best, okay? I think they're best off to run the football. Smash it out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, but again, again, last night running the ball wasn't as big as an issue. It was the pass protection. It's not a bad run blocking offensive line. This is something that's jumped out to me since the preseason.


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[Assistant] What their issue was last night, and the theme of the game, and Collinsworth hit on this a little, but more than anything that just jumped out to me is, I mean, the Rams don't have to buts.


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[Assistant] Their front four can get there all game long. It's the luxury every coordinator wants. Number 99 and 56 can whoop anybody's ass in football one on one.


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[Assistant] And Fowler and Donald, let alone, ooh, we're not a great pass protecting O-line with guys like Greg Robinson and, you know, our right guard Kush and things like that, they were outmatched.


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[Assistant] So then therefore, they couldn't call some of the pass plays they wanted. I mean, how many times did Collins worth mention? Look at all these pass, how quick he's getting out of his hands. Yeah, they didn't want to call those plays. They had to. They had no other choice or it was going to be strip sack fumble or Baker getting hit and the ball flying in the air and somebody intercepting it.


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[Assistant] I think the best thing that gives them a chance is to run the football, play a little more smash map. That might not be as sexy, but their defense as you see, is pretty damn good.


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[Assistant] I mean, their defense is good. It's played good all three weeks. I mean, they can do it all. They got a little of everything on that side of the ball. Offensively is where they just gotta find what it is they wanna be awesome at and then build off of that.


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[Assistant] That would give Dallas the edge, but just by a little. Just by a little. One to one A. Yea, one to one A. I got such respect for the Rams and Sean McVay and the way he coaches his team and Wade Phil. I mean, you know, again.


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[Assistant] You know, they sat back there because of the front four that we just talked about and you're sitting there watching the end. Gosh, they're getting around Baker Mayfield every time he holds the ball.


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[Assistant] They never had a play man to man last night. I'll be interested when I watch the film. I don't think they ever had a play man. They played zone the whole night.


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[Assistant] Every time I looked up at Keith Tlaib, Marcus Peters were 9, 10 yards off the ball, looking at the receiver, looking at the quarterback.


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[Assistant] I'm impressed by the Lions, okay. I guess I feel like a jerk because I'm looking at this through the eyes of the losing team more. But when I just look at the Eagles right now, I go, man, can't rush the passer and can't cover people. Not a good combo.


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[Assistant] I think the not ability to rush the passer is probably more shocking to me. I don't think Fletcher Cox is totally himself. That's a good D line.


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[Assistant] Schwartz is in a bind, you know, because he wants to get some pressure at the quarterback, but he's leaving his corners who are just not great cover man-to-man type corners, like lockdown kind of guys, he's leaving them in some vulnerable spots. And they've gotten toasted because of it.


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[Assistant] No, I think they were bored yesterday. Once they got up 30 to nothing, I mean...


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[Assistant] I'm sure there was a lot of people out there that had action on the game that were like, come on, wake up. You gotta cover that 22.5 point thread, you're getting, you're getting scary here. And then, still would have covered it.


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[Assistant] Sleeping through the second half, but Jarred's syndrome throws the pick six, and now Tom's gotta put his helmet on, but...


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[Assistant] Yes, they've been fortunate to play three dysfunctional teams, one in which we didn't expect the Steelers to be dysfunctional to start the year, but they capitalize on it and they don't...


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[Assistant] They lower their level, but not to like the level of like, where we're concerned, like, they lower the level and they only go up 30 to nothing instead of 50 to nothing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I have to play a game for four quarters. Yeah. And I mean, that's coming. Let's just see real, real quick. Who do they got coming up this week? 3-0 Bills? They got the 3-0 Bills. The 3-0 Bills. At Buffalo. In the dildo bowl. Okay? They will get...


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[Assistant] Their money's worth in this game. I will say that. I would be shocked if they blowed the bills out of the water. Alright.


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[Assistant] You know, the 10 yard completion was there, but he threw it, he wanted the 40 yarder. You know, there's just a little like, over-greediness early on in the game. But once they settled in, good teams make good plays.


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[Assistant] Teams like the Dolphins find ways to f*** the game up, and they did that with fumbling or dropping balls in the back of the end zone, whatever it may be.


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[Assistant] Cowboys are clearly in the conversation for one of the best teams in the NFL. Raiders Vikings. I mean, Zimmer Ball is my headline. Zimmer Ball. This is like, like we talked about with Green Bay early. I'm excited about what I'm seeing in Minnesota.


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[Assistant] Okay? Yeaah. I mean, what's wrong with that? I don't, why does every, why do we have to see the quarterback throw for 400 yards to go, ooh, the offense is good? With an O-line and running back like that? Yes!


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[Assistant] Play to the strengths of your team. The strength of their team is not their drop back pass game. Most people can't name their third receiver on that team. I'm still working on that. Yea, right. And Irr Smith, he showed himself yesterday at the tight end position. Maybe he's now the next third option on that offense. But, you know, their defense is legit. We know that.


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[Assistant] They're staying patient with the run game and they have arguably the most explosive running back in football. And they're not going to stop getting him touches. I love that. And then you got a guy like Madison coming off the bench who's a starting running back for like 24 teams in football. I mean he's that explosive too. So they're doing that.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's an aberration. No. I don't know. This is what they want. They want cousins to be like somewhere between 15 and 25 passes. They would love it. That's their wheelhouse because that means they're running the ball, they're playing defense.


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[Assistant] When they do drop back to pass, they're gonna be more dangerous than they were last year. Yeah, he's not gonna get 31 touchdowns and 10 interceptions like he did last year in 4,000 yards. No!


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[Assistant] When he does strike, it's gonna be, oh damn, they're stealing on a deep post, first drive, double move, touchdown. Why, why was that? Oh, it's because they had to worry about Dalvin Cook, so they went, let's put an extra guy in the box, and now we're playing man to man outside against stealing and digs, and he, he hit him. I think they're a more dangerous team going forward.


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[Assistant] It showed up, it is, yeaah. They're gonna do some of that stuff, for sure. Uh, but they're, they're not gonna reinvent the wheel on the offensive side of the ball, and they're not gonna let the offense lose them games, which they did last year. Not Kirk Cousins. He did not lose them games last year. The offense led them. They couldn't protect the passer. They sucked at running the football.


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[Assistant] They didn't make the playoffs last year and I believe they were the 28th rushing team in football, maybe lower than that.


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[Assistant] Don't always blame Kirk Cousins. They're doing the thing that's right by what they have on their team.


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[Assistant] The bills are like, can't miss football right now. They're like the most exciting, dysfunctional, all over the place team going. What's your favorite part of that team? Josh Allen. I mean, I of course love the defense. I'm a huge Sean McDermott fan. But Josh Allen, you know, he...


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[Assistant] They're completely controlling the football game, and he throws truly one of the most stupid interceptions we've seen this year. Running backwards and tries to throw the ball 25 yards over the middle. Tropic Thunder. Right, full Tropic Thunder. Full Tropic Thunder, and you never go full Tropic Thunder.


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[Assistant] And that jump started the Vangels to where it got them going. Okay, gave them the short field, they got a touchdown, and all of a sudden you're in a competitive football game.


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[Assistant] Their defense is real and Josh Allen is a playmaker and it makes them dangerous. He's gotta eliminate the one or two bonehead things he does every game.


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[Assistant] It's a little reckless. It's a little crazy. It's like Brett Farr of early days in Green Bay where you go like, I gotta see this throw. This is unbelievable. And then three throws later you go, I gotta see this throw. That was so f***ing stupid. I can't even believe he did it. But it still looked cool and I'm watching.


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[Assistant] Because he just, he's a little that way. And then of course they don't get away from the run game either.


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[Assistant] Dawson Knox at Knox at tight end, showing some like breakability at the tight end position. And the way they play defense, they're gonna be a pain in the butt all year. They're gonna be in this playoff conversation.


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[Assistant] You know, I just think with the personnel they have, being good at all four levels, the way they're coached, splash from man to man, but you always hear me say, you know, game plan specific zone coverage, you know, that's kind of nuanced for the team they're playing on a week to week basis.


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[Assistant] He makes you defend the whole field as a defense, and we talk about that with all the great offenses. Yea, they might not be doing it as like the machine the way the Patriots and the Chiefs are yet, but because of him, there's not a square inch of that field that you have to say, oh, we don't have to worry about it over there because they don't attack it. No, they do because of his running ability and a big arm.


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[Assistant] He really is, he was the difference of the football game, uh, in general. I mean, I think there's a few things here, uhm, you know,


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[Assistant] Doesn't matter if he's right there. You're going the wrong way. But that got them in the hole early on.


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[Assistant] Chargers having chances to really put a game or put a team in a stranglehold for the second week in a row and not capitalizing. You know, they're up 17-7 at the half. They get the ball to start the half. They knew, they do nothing with it. They punt the ball.


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[Assistant] And then, you lose a game you should have won in week two against the Lions.


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[Assistant] And then, oh gosh, a team that's dangerous like the Texans who can make some big plays, they come into town and all of a sudden you're 1-2 going, damn, we were an inch away from being 2-0 and we fumbled on the goal line in Detroit or had a penalty or whatever it is and now we're sitting here going 1-2. But I really think Deshaun Watson's just physical


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[Assistant] His specialness as a player was the reason they win that game yesterday. I mean, some of those throws, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, the seam throws for the touchdown, the scramble down the middle, he's gonna tuck the ball away and as he's tucking it away, he sees that everybody's running at him and he gets it back in the throwing position and throws it to Aiken over the middle. Who runs for the long touchdown? I mean, I just look at Deshaun Watson in some games and just go, man, this is,


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[Assistant] It's really special. Another guy, it's, it's, we get, he gets lost in the shuffle because of Patrick Mollins, I think. You know, where we just go, man, that's the sexiest guy we see every Sunday, number 15 in red.


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[Assistant] And I want to go, damn, number 15 in red is sexy, but let's not forget number 4 in red and blue because he's damn sexy too. And he's just a baller and some of the throws he makes are just truly phenomenal.


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[Assistant] Well, Peter King is Football Morning in America column each Monday. Also does a mini podcast off of that. So you can always check that out. Snippets of the column. He reads that on the mini podcast.


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[Assistant] Worth the listen. My, uh, Peter is on the show tomorrow PFT live with me on Tuesdays. Me, Mike Florio, the threesome that everybody wants to see. You know, we like a good threesome, but come on.


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[Assistant] Peter King football morning in America column. It's the best column out there. Always. On a week to week basis in the NFL. Always great tidbits of knowledge, stories, whatever it may be. And then the little mini podcast he does just to put it, uh, verbally and maybe add a little nuance that he can't through his writing. But Peter King podcasts always worth a listen.


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[Assistant] We talked a lot about it already, but I mean, I think the first thing I noticed just from the game, I mean, aggressive decisions, unaware of the pass rush, right?


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[Assistant] I wrote down, doesn't need a clean pocket. No, that's it, that's it, right. And for a kid making his first start. I just, I'm amazed with how first start and then, hey, you haven't played in a few weeks, you know what I mean? It's not always easy when you get into that first action and you haven't been in preseason football or anything for a little while because you're just going, whoa.


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[Assistant] You know, Vita V is big, and Andama Kansu is big, and oh, they're all around me, and it just feels like it's closed quarters in here.


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[Assistant] I think that was really the story of the game, was his aggressiveness in decision making, his movement.


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[Assistant] And then, you're right, his ability to throw with people around him and not be affected by that and then still striking down the field with big time throws. I mean, come on. I mean, whether it's the uhm,


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[Assistant] The throw in the second half, okay, you start the second half, Evan Ingram down the middle. Let's give him some love because Evan Ingram is becoming a superstar at the tight end position.


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[Assistant] Turn the corner and that gives you, yes, it's little nuances like that that allow a, oh, that would have been a 40 yard completion.


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[Assistant] I mean, not only just the scrambles and the off-schedule stuff, but we saw, you know, boots, bootlegs. We saw bootlegs that were, okay, boot out and set up, and now we want you to set up and take a shot down the field. We haven't seen any of that. I mean, the throws under duress, like you talked about, uh,


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[Assistant] Second and seven, second and seven, second and goal from the seven, a read option, score from the quarterback of the New York Giants. I mean, we've never seen that, okay, out of any Giants quarterback ever in the history, alright.


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[Assistant] You're seeing that. I mean, I just was so impressed with his fearlessness in the pocket and just how he was not affected by people around him. And then they of course did put a good game plan around him, uh, and everything else. But I just, it was a really special day for Daniel Jones.


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[Assistant] Double covered and, you know, he knew he was double covered, I'm sure on the play, too. He saw it, but he saw...


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[Assistant] There's not any negatives really to talk about with Daniel Jones. I was gonna ask, what's your critique? I mean, if there was a critique, maybe just being...


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[Assistant] Too fearless in the pocket? Like, not like, not even realizing people around you to the point where it's like, okay, you know, there's people gonna hit you, you might have to actually go down or just tuck the ball away. That would be the only thing I'd look at.


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[Assistant] So, oh yeaah, you're right. He was repeating out of my ear. He was running with the ball. So that's the wrong play. I'm thinking of a preseason fumble.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I think that's the only thing I can look at yesterday and just go yeaah, just have a little feel of


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[Assistant] Okay, this play is over. I need to tuck it and run or get down or just throw it away. And I like, it's, this is not a major problem to where I'm concerned about it. I think it's a smart enough guy to where he'll have the feel to, oh, okay.


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[Assistant] Somebody's about to pop open. I'm gonna hold the ball for an extra second. Where I think yesterday on the two fumbos he went


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[Assistant] Ooh, nobody's open. Let me just sit here and hope somebody gets open here soon. And nobody does. And I think he'll get to the point in his brain where he, when he goes, I hope somebody, oh wait, no, nobody's gonna go open. I need to get the hell out of here. Right. And, and that's the difference. But, uh, either way, it was an awesome, awesome game by him. Yep. And awesome that they won the football game.


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[Assistant] And uhm, man, the Giants defense sucks if we want to just get into that, okay? They, they suck.


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[Assistant] Yeah. The kid doesn't miss that field goal. Man, they're gonna lose the game. And this is what I don't understand, just to rule real quick, because I didn't write a ton of notes on this side of it, I kind of newsreeled this one quickly just to get a feel for it, but Giants come out early, play way too much man to man. I mean, you saw it, it was bombs over the top to Mike Evans.


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[Assistant] Yeah, neither one. They don't. And I understand they're a little compromised there, so they're blitzing a little to create pressure, which is of course putting their secondary in some tough binds. But, in the second half,


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[Assistant] When the game was 28-10, they stopped doing that stuff. They stopped putting Jabril Peppers, who can't cover Paul Burmeister man-to-man, in man-to-man coverage. You know, they stopped having Janoris Jenkins, who's still a good cover corner.


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[Assistant] But there's no islands going to be named after him anytime soon. He can't be on an island with Mike Evans like 20 plays in a row. Clearly, right? So that to me was just a big thing. And the Giants...


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[Assistant] Change their defensive game plan the whole second half. And then got to the last drive and went into man to man again. And they threw a bomb to Mike Evans. Right over the top.


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[Assistant] Did we not see the last four series where they couldn't move the ball? Because you played zone and dropped people into areas.


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[Assistant] Uh, but either way, that's going to be an issue I think throughout the year for the Giants. When you don't have a good pass rusher and then you don't have great cover people in the back end, it's hard to stop people. And I think it's going to lead to a lot of great Daniel Jones moments because they're going to be forced up the


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[Assistant] He doesn't always translate the wins for them either. I feel like some of his best games are always like, ah, they lost by three. It's not his fault. I mean, shit.


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[Assistant] He, you know, he didn't make Bruce Arians go full Tropic Thunder and take a five yard penalty to make the kick five yards deeper. Right. I mean, that's just, that's some of the dumbest crap I've ever heard of. Yeah. I don't, I don't get the logic of that, but alright, that's it. That's Giants bucks.


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[Assistant] Uh, we did the deep dive there. We did? Yup. Uhm, you know, Wednesday, we got the deep dive. You're back Wednesday, right? Wednesday. Wednesday, I'm gonna deep dive a whole bunch of other games. I want you here. And we're gonna preview a little. We'll preview a little. Sounds good.


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[Assistant] Please subscribe, rate, review. We are gonna get to ask some Ask Me Anythings. Feel free in those comment sections to throw in questions, anything you acknowledge or wanna see.


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[Assistant] From the podcast, from me, anything you want to hear that way, X's and O's, be happy to do it. I am a man of the people. For Paul Burmeister, I'm Chris Sims, you the man. Peace out, enjoy the Bears, Redskins game, Monday night.


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[Assistant] Uh, have fun. Bears are gonna win that, and a close one. Peace out.


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[Assistant] There you have it. You can rest easy. Bill Belichick said it's okay for Andrew Luck to retire. He respects it. We can move on with life. Well, you know the controversy around that, do you? Do you not even know this yet?


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[Assistant] He, he said he did not see that, okay? So I'm gonna, and then he said he did not see that, and then New England sent out a press release last night and added the word coming to the end of his, he did not see that coming in parentheses, right? Which was total bullshit because he could see the freaking video, okay? And he doesn't say that, alright?


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[Assistant] I mean, do you really think Bill Belichick didn't realize Andrew Luck didn't, uh, retired?


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[Assistant] Believing he was oblivious to Andrew Luck retiring. Probably true. Right? Alright, alright. So, and then I wanna ask you, why do you think he would not wanna act like...


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[Assistant] Right, right, which I mean Josh certainly looks like he was in the wrong there, and I know Josh didn't do that to intentionally screw them over or anything like that. Right. But I would think Deflategate was at the root of that, to go like, ah, I don't even pay attention to that team. Sniff that out well. I don't know if I did. I don't know if I did. I might be just causing shit by doing that, but that's what I think.


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[Assistant] I was watching preseason football, okay? I mean, I was trying to watch Miami Florida college football, but that was unbearable, alright?


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[Assistant] So that drove me crazy. That's what happens when you get scarred by the NFL, because the game is just more efficient.


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[Assistant] So I'm sitting there, going back and forth between that and the Jets and the Saints. Okay.


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[Assistant] I'm there, it's my nephew's birthday, so I'm at my dad's house.


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[Assistant] Ignoring family. The party's over. I've had enough. Like, get outta here, okay? It's time to sit on the couch. And...


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[Assistant] I have a guy here, a guy, a family friend who is like, wait, wait, did you guys not just see that? And we're like, what are you talking about? And he's like, I swear, I just said Andrew Luck retired on the bottom of the screen. We're all like, no, it didn't. Right. And we, you know, of course we get direct TV and the DVR. You can rewind it right there. And I was like, I gotta see. I don't believe you throwing the challenge flag.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, we were so locked in on the game, and I think Taysom Hill was playing at that point, but there it was, breaking news, and I mean, shocking. Completely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I think at first I was disappointed, and not like in Andrew Luck, but because I'm a football fan, I go, damn, the Colts are like a Super Bowl contender, and I kinda wanted to see what they were gonna look like this year, and I like watching Andrew Luck play.


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[Assistant] But I get it. I feel like I came to that, and especially me, because I know I battled through some of this crap myself, and maybe didn't get beat up to the capacity of all different body parts hurting, but


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[Assistant] I struggled with my- You lost a vital organ. I lost a vital organ and it took me really about 18 months to- It took me a full year just to find somebody to give me some answers to what the hell was going on and why did I have one of the strongest arms in football and now I'm like third on the peewee team in arm strength, okay? So I didn't understand any of that. So I understand his frustration.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, at first, I just, I, uh, as it went on, I just went, hey, the guy's, it's, he's not in it. Physically, mentally, the grind of the sport and him physically having to try to get ready on a day-to-day basis.


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[Assistant] It's worn him out to where he doesn't love the game anymore. And I get that because I got to periods where, with my rehab, where I was just like, every day I'd wake up and I'd be, I hope this is the day I can throw again. I hope this is the day I can throw again. And then it's day 415 and you're going, and I'm going damn, I mean, do I want to keep doing this?


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[Assistant] I think you're exactly right, and I think he probably felt like with all the injuries and him having to struggle and rehab and not feeling right, that it was probably hurting that identity that you're talking about as a human being when he talks about, I'm not getting to live life.


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[Assistant] To win the way I want to. And that's scary. And I'm sure he's sitting there thinking, wow, it's only going to get worse as I continue to play. You know, hey, he did a good job avoiding hits last year, but he's still in the pocket. I'm going to stand there and wait for that guy to get open down and run a lot and take hits as well. And again, this is where I'll go back. You know, we know about


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[Assistant] All the major injuries he's had. And it's a long list. We don't know about all the other knickknacks and nagging injuries. You know, he's old school. He's not gonna sit there and tell you about every little thing that's bothered him through his career.


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[Assistant] You know, I think it's a guy that, you know, probably had a lot of issues and just was like, oh, okay, I feel okay today. I'll, I'll push through it. And then he's got these other issues where obviously he cannot push through it. And, uh, I, I feel for him.


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[Assistant] You know, and the fact that it is not easy to continue to battle like that day after day after day. And if you're not totally invested in the game, you know only bad things can happen. Right. You know, and I think that's where he got to. He lost the joy of the game in general. I think he worried about his future life and how he was gonna feel after that.


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[Assistant] Okay, and he's still gonna collect a check, but you know what? He did the admirable thing. He said, not only am I banged up, I don't really know if I wanna do this. Right. And, uh, I'm never gonna get involved in someone's personal life, uh, as far as that's concerned, and I hate to see him go, but I totally understand it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's a true professional. I've been around him before too. Like you said, smart, couldn't be kinder.


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[Assistant] Okay, now I understand why you're the number one pick. You can run four, five, nine, and you're this big. I mean, he's a special, special skill set. His measurables at the combine, the closest person we've seen to him are really Cam Newton. I mean, that's kind of what he's been. And he played with that type of physicality. But again, it shows you.


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[Assistant] Physicality, like that, even at the quarterback position, I don't care who you are, Cam Noon or Andrew Luck, if you play that way, your ass is gonna get beat down over time. And, you know, I think the other crazy thing is, he, his team is finally good.


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[Assistant] You know, honestly, like, he was a victim of his own greatness early in his career. I really do believe that. Where, okay, he was on a team where he knew he had to push the envelope, tote the line of reckless,


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[Assistant] I gotta play almost reckless if we wanna win, because if I don't stand in the pocket and take that big shot to hit T.Y. Hilden, we're not gonna win the game. Or if I don't scramble and lower my shoulder, we're not gonna beat the Broncos when we're at home against them.


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[Assistant] And, and sometimes that's what happens to the great quarterbacks that are on team, then less than. I use this example with Borio the other day with Mike, with Aaron Rodgers, the same thing.


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[Assistant] You know, he's hurt his shoulder a few times. Yeah, think about how he hurt his shoulder. It's in the pocket, dancing around, trying to get away cause he knows.


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[Assistant] Damn, if I don't make the play, who's gonna? And so then you have to play a different way than maybe compared to, let's just say, Peyton Manning in his prime with the Colts or Tom Brady in his prime with the Patriots where the team around him was so good.


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[Assistant] He didn't always have to risk his body because he knew, okay, I'll get another chance to hit Gronk down the middle or something like that. Uh, so all of it is crazy. I also think of the Bruce Arians factor. You know, I look at, well, Bruce is like,


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[Assistant] Stand in there. I mean, he's doing it this year to Jameis Winston. Put weight on. I want to throw the ball down the field. You're going to get hit. Big soldier.


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[Assistant] I think of Big Ben. He got beat the crap up with Bruce Arians as the OC. And I'm not blaming Bruce Arians here, I'm just trying to point out things that go through my mind football-wise. Carson Palmer got the shit beat out of him at the end in, uh, out in Arizona. And you know, Andrew Luck certainly took his beatings there too, all together, but it's a shame to see him go nonetheless. Cults are gonna be fine though.


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[Assistant] Are they 10 and 6? Yeah, I mean, I think realistically we could say something like that. I don't think that's totally crazy. Okay, this is how I look at it really more. This is the greatness of Andrew Luck. The Colts are not going to fall off earth. I mean, they're not. They're a good football team.


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[Assistant] Yes, I mean, I think on paper, I think it's a very close division, but I think from top to bottom, you know, yes, maybe I would give them the edge right now. I think Jacksonville's nipping at their heels. I'm a Jacksonville believer. Uhm, but yeaah, let's just say, the Colts were 10 and 6 last year, right?


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[Assistant] The big question I will have with Jacobi Percet and why I say Andrew Luxworth 2 wins is


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[Assistant] Because Andrew Luck, I think the greatest quality he had was his clutch factor. I mean, I just felt like... Define clutch factor. Clutch factor is no matter...


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[Assistant] What week it was, if I looked at it and turned on the Colts game and I said, uhm, they're down by 10 with 10 minutes left, I said, I guarantee he's gonna get the ball one time to have a chance to win the game. And most times he delivered. And if he, and if he did deliver, or if he didn't deliver, he really delivered and maybe the defense gave up one more score at the end to where they lost on the defense on the field.


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[Assistant] His clutch factor, very much like a Derek Jeter or a Tom Brady, where you just felt like, man, he's got the ball in his hands right now. He's gonna make it happen. And he showed us that last year, he showed us that prior to his, you know, year out of football in 2017.


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[Assistant] How the Colts built their team and Chris Ballard and Frank Reich. Frank Reich, this isn't her first rodeo in this type of uh, situation. Been there recently. And then he's been in it too when he had a film in for Jim Kelly. So he really knows what it's going to take.


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[Assistant] But this is why you have a great backup quarterback. Because now if you lose one guy, your whole season doesn't go down the drain. You know, we talked a little bit last week about concerning backup quarterback positions. This was not one of them.


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[Assistant] I know, don't have to change anything. He's a good deep ball thrower. He's a pretty good athlete. He's willing to stand in the pocket and, and okay, I'm big. I'm a big soldier. I can take the shot too. Uh, so I, again, I don't think the Colts fall off earth by any stretch of the imagination. It's just going to be those two or three games, like I say.


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[Assistant] Where is Jacobi Percett gonna come through last drive of the game. They're down by four. They need a touchdown to win and there's 205 left on the clock. Andrew Luck delivered more times than not. Now Jacobi Percett is gonna have to prove it to us. He can too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, alright, so we got a good day coming. Yes, we do. We're gonna get into a little film breakdown. We're gonna get into a little AFC over-unders.


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[Assistant] Who's making the playoffs? I'm going to make a fake playoff bracket and we're going to go right down to the Super Bowl. That's coming up. I think we're going to do that on Tuesday of next week. So if you guys want the answer key early, you want to tune in the next Tuesday.


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[Assistant] It's, it's in all my covered folded shirts right there. It's in a respectable spot. When you wear it, send a picture. Okay, I will. Okay. And then, alright, so I got one read here, the Peter King podcast. I'm gonna show him some love. Speaking of Andrew Luck, check out the Peter King podcast. He's got Carson Palmer for his thoughts.


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[Assistant] On Andrew Luck's retirement. Oddly enough, I just brought that up about Luck playing for Bruce Arians and whatever else. Other guest, Phillip Rivers. I mean, those are both going to be great gets. I mean, Carson Palmer is a great dude, been around him a lot.


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[Assistant] He is sneaky funny and Philip Rivers doesn't even need to be funny and he's funny. Great interview every time. Yeaah. He's amped up all the time, as usual. Peter's killing it and I would recommend anybody to listen to that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it looked good. I mean, it was a huge improvement. There was no more deer in the headlights factor with Jimmy Garoppolo.


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[Assistant] Now, am I gonna sit here and just go, oh, it was perfect, I feel a whole lot better about everything? No, not totally, but at least I felt like he saw the field well, he didn't just throw some balls up into an area like, oh gosh, the pocket's glassing, I'm just gonna throw it there and hope it works out. Oh, it was an interception, or it was a dropped interception, you know, two weeks ago.


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[Assistant] This week, I think he knew where to put the ball when he was in danger in the pocket, but made decisions, was decisive with it, and threw, threw some great balls, you know, down the sidelines, had a little double move to number 13, uh, I think it was Richie James, I can't always forget his name, you know, had the touchdown to Brita,


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[Assistant] You know, uh, along the left sideline, when he was lined up in the slot, recognized the matchup. Ooh, I have a Reggie Raglin on Matt Breida, and makes the appropriate throw, a decision there to get the touchdown. Made a number of other good throws to go along with it.


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[Assistant] Now, do I think Kyle Shanahan, you know, game planned a little for this, and, and did things like that to make sure Jimmy Garoppolo? Yeah, of course he did. And it's preseason game number three, that's what you're supposed to do, but especially you do it in this scenario, when you want a guy to start to gain confidence and get going, and this is what it was all about, more than anything.


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[Assistant] The one thing that does concern me, and I think you heard me say this last week, like his feet are still messed up.


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[Assistant] You know, and you, you play. How so? Well, he, he does not like to hitch into throws at times. He loves to just sit there and instead of like, I'm gonna throw the 20 yard comeback and bam and throw it, he kind of just sits there flat footed and tries to do it all arm and with like the torque of his hips. And because of that ball, he loses control of the ball at times.


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[Assistant] He is balanced, like you're saying. He's always in this spot, right? So he's always ready to throw. But the thing is, when you throw a 20-yard in-cut, usually Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers or most quarterbacks in football, oh, there's the 20-yard in-cut, I get towards the top of my drop, and then, bam, and I step into it, throw it. He gets to the top of his drop and just sits there, and then just tries to, huh, do it like that.


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[Assistant] And he loses control of the ball at times. And he loses power on the football at times. And I don't necessarily like that. He got away with that in preseason game number three against the Chiefs defense.


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[Assistant] He hasn't always been kind of that way. I just don't think his game is going to go to the level he wants it to go to, especially in the West Coast offense. I'm gonna do one more jib thing, I forgot to say it. Sorry, you're earning your pay today.


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[Assistant] The West Coast offense, all they talk to you about is listen to your feet, listen to your feet, listen to your feet, right? So let's just say you had a concept where there's a guy in the flat and let's say there's a 20 yard outrout. You take the 7 step drop, they would coach you. On the first hitch, you want to throw the 20 yard outrout.


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[Assistant] If you get to the second hitch, you listen to your feet and you throw it down to the guy in the flat or whoever the second read is. And because of that, I think he stays on the first read too long at times. He throws a rhythm of himself off within the offense of doing that.


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[Assistant] I mean, he looked phenomenal. I mean, when you just look at him in general. Throwing, running, throwing, running, all of it. He's being smart, like he's not letting anybody get cheap shots on him. He's not trying to like prove to us, oh, I can turn the corner and I can get 10 when everybody else can get five. Just going out of bounds. Please keep doing that, Kyler Murray.


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[Assistant] We don't need you to be like, you know, pancaked on the sideline and out of football for three weeks.


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[Assistant] You had to get three extra yards in a run or tear your ACL like Jimmy Garoppolo did because you just want to cut it upfield because you're frustrated. But the physical ability


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[Assistant] Is special. I just, there's no denying that. I think if you sat there and watched the film, you'd just go, damn.


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[Assistant] I mean, you can see how the ball spins. It pops out of his hands. You saw some of the highlights. I mean, some of the throws are just like, damn, that's a 20 yard laser with no effort. Damn, that's a 30 yard laser. No effort. That's where it's impressive. My concerns are still with that offense. I have concerns with that offense.


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[Assistant] The scheme. The scheme. And I, you know, I wrote to him, hey, the O-line, they're gonna be a little bit better this year, so that gives them a fighting chance. But I don't see anything yet, schematically, that excites me about the Cardinal offense. I don't see anything.


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[Assistant] I understand that, but this is too vanilla even for vanilla, okay? This is like translucent ice cream right now, okay? The shit's clear. Alright, I don't know what else to say. Alright, it's got no taste. It's just, and that's where it bothers me because the majority, and if you think back about the game,


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[Assistant] The completions he had in the game, none of them are concept related. They're all one-on-ones. They're one-on-one back shoulder, one-on-one, ooh, he beat him off the line scrimmage, I'll throw the perfect ball, ooh, it's cover two, and I'll throw a laser in between the safety and the corner,