WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.840 Are you a Steelers fan that's just tired of eating 00:00:01.840 --> 00:00:04.019 the same old, same old stuff every single day? 00:00:04.099 --> 00:00:07.320 You know, donuts and coffee or bland cereal, 00:00:07.700 --> 00:00:11.519 oatmeal, toast, a bagel. We're introducing Wacko 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:13.740 Flackos. That's right, folks, Wacko Flackos, 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:15.619 the best cereal that you can eat. If you are 00:00:15.619 --> 00:00:18.179 a Steelers fan, post a buy, especially for the 00:00:18.179 --> 00:00:21.780 Bengals. Now, see, with this cereal, it is different 00:00:21.780 --> 00:00:24.239 from every other cereal that you've ever had 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:27.660 before because this cereal is shaped in L's. 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:30.379 That's right, not lowercase. L's, not cursive 00:00:30.379 --> 00:00:33.799 L's, but big ol' large L's. That's right, folks. 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:36.079 You take about three bites of this cereal and 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:39.039 you are already full of L's like how every Steelers 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:42.179 fan is right now post this Bengals game. But... 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:45.140 You can only get it at your local Pittsburgh 00:00:45.140 --> 00:00:47.640 grocery store. That's right, folks. So go on 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:49.840 down to your local Pittsburgh grocery store and 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:52.859 get you as many boxes of Wacko Flackos as you 00:00:52.859 --> 00:00:55.960 possibly can. Now, once you buy these Wacko Flackos, 00:00:55.979 --> 00:00:58.859 make sure you go to the next Bengals game and 00:00:58.859 --> 00:01:02.979 have Joe Flacko. That's right, Mr. Wacko Flacko 00:01:02.979 --> 00:01:06.219 himself. Sign off on these boxes. And when you 00:01:06.219 --> 00:01:08.280 do so, make sure that you keep them so you will 00:01:08.280 --> 00:01:11.260 remember the ass beating that him, Jamar Chase, 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:13.680 and Tee Higgins gave. Now, with that being said, 00:01:13.739 --> 00:01:15.540 we have other things that we have to talk about. 00:01:15.659 --> 00:01:18.280 Brandon Graham returns to the Eagles. Brian Callahan 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:21.439 gets fired. Commanders and Cowboys recap. Dolphins 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:24.299 and Browns recap. Giants and Broncos recap. And 00:01:24.299 --> 00:01:27.560 Texans and Seahawks recap. All right, all of 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.379 this and more. On the 95th episode of the Football 00:01:30.379 --> 00:01:32.920 Junkies Podcast, okay, I am your host with the 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:35.939 most, all right? I am your hopium, hopium, hopium, 00:01:35.939 --> 00:01:38.700 hopium dealer. That's right. I am your GM who 00:01:38.700 --> 00:01:41.000 currently is not on a team right now. But don't 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:43.340 you worry about it, all right? Don't you worry 00:01:43.340 --> 00:01:46.239 about it because I am all these things and more. 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:48.459 But most importantly, the most important thing 00:01:48.459 --> 00:01:50.980 that you must remember is I am your host, Kale. 00:01:51.299 --> 00:01:53.719 Buckle up because it's going to be a long episode. 00:01:53.819 --> 00:01:55.400 It's going to be a great episode. It's going 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.200 to be an episode full of twists, turns, truth 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:59.640 bombs, and more. So guess what? On three. One, 00:01:59.739 --> 00:02:27.740 two, three. Let's lock in. All right, folks, 00:02:27.860 --> 00:02:29.819 let's get into the meat and potatoes of everything 00:02:29.819 --> 00:02:31.659 that is going on in the league right now. So 00:02:31.659 --> 00:02:34.439 I was going to start with the Steelers and Bengals 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:36.960 first, but I want to save that for last because 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:40.360 I have a lot to say with that, okay? So let's 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:42.900 just get into the Texans and Seahawks, all right? 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:46.219 So CJ Stroud, 49 attempts for 23 completions, 00:02:46.259 --> 00:02:49.599 229 passing yards, one touchdown, one pick, 4 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:52.979 .7 yards per attempt, a 46 .9 completion percentage. 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:56.990 CJ Stroud again. Two attempts for 25 rushing 00:02:56.990 --> 00:03:00.030 yards, 12 .5 rushing yards per carry, and two 00:03:00.030 --> 00:03:02.949 rushes of 10 plus yards or more. Dolson Schultz, 00:03:02.969 --> 00:03:05.810 10 targets for nine receptions, 98 receiving 00:03:05.810 --> 00:03:08.409 yards, and 10 .9 receiving yards per reception. 00:03:08.849 --> 00:03:11.930 Sam Darnall, 31 attempts for 17 completions, 00:03:11.930 --> 00:03:15.370 213 passing yards, one touchdown, one pick, 6 00:03:15.370 --> 00:03:18.310 .9 yards per attempt, and a 54 .8 completion 00:03:18.310 --> 00:03:21.759 percentage. Kenneth Walker. 17 attempts for 66 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:24.479 rushing yards, 3 .9 rushing yards per carry, 00:03:24.539 --> 00:03:27.639 and two rushes of 10 plus yards or more. JSN, 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:31.460 14 targets for eight receptions, 123 receiving 00:03:31.460 --> 00:03:34.780 yards, one touchdown, and 15 .4 receiving yards 00:03:34.780 --> 00:03:37.259 per reception. So here's a few junkie nuggets, 00:03:37.419 --> 00:03:41.479 okay? When the line out wide, JSN caught eight 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:45.080 of his 14 targets from 123 yards and one touchdown. 00:03:45.469 --> 00:03:48.229 Sam Donald targeted in breaking routes 11 times, 00:03:48.270 --> 00:03:50.969 completing seven passes for 97 yards and one 00:03:50.969 --> 00:03:54.210 touchdown. Sam Donald ranks third in passing 00:03:54.210 --> 00:03:59.590 yards at 1 ,541 passing yards, despite the Seahawks 00:03:59.590 --> 00:04:03.110 passing on 50 .3 % of their plays, the lowest 00:04:03.110 --> 00:04:06.229 pass rate in the NFL. So a couple takeaways from 00:04:06.229 --> 00:04:09.509 this game. For starters, the Texans need to protect 00:04:09.509 --> 00:04:12.500 C .J. Stroud. I understand that you're going 00:04:12.500 --> 00:04:14.580 up against a really good defense that has a really 00:04:14.580 --> 00:04:18.180 good defensive line, but just drafting one offensive 00:04:18.180 --> 00:04:21.079 lineman is not going to do the job. Because right 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:24.819 now, CJ Stroud has significantly regressed. When 00:04:24.819 --> 00:04:27.160 we look at his rookie year and compare that to 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:30.100 how he's playing now, it's really bad. And a 00:04:30.100 --> 00:04:32.139 lot of that you have to blame on what's around 00:04:32.139 --> 00:04:35.079 him. He has a bad offensive line. His run game 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:38.019 is not dependable. I mean, everyone was thinking, 00:04:38.139 --> 00:04:39.980 okay, you're going to have Joe Mixon and Nick 00:04:39.980 --> 00:04:43.040 Chubb. Joe Mixon still hasn't played. but you 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:45.540 have all these receivers. So what sense does 00:04:45.540 --> 00:04:47.879 it make? And I will continue to say this, and 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:49.920 I'm going to say this with the Dolphins and Browns 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.339 game. You can have all the weapons in the world, 00:04:52.379 --> 00:04:54.639 but if you don't have an offensive line that's 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:57.180 going to be able to protect you, you can't feed 00:04:57.180 --> 00:04:59.920 your weapons. And that's exactly what happened 00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:02.310 this game. If it wasn't for the Texans having 00:05:02.310 --> 00:05:05.009 Will Anderson and Daniil Hunter, best believe 00:05:05.009 --> 00:05:06.970 this would have been a shutout because that Texas 00:05:06.970 --> 00:05:08.990 offense couldn't do anything. The run game was 00:05:08.990 --> 00:05:11.129 inconsistent. The passing game was inconsistent. 00:05:11.550 --> 00:05:15.149 They had no consistency throughout the entire 00:05:15.149 --> 00:05:19.209 game. The Seahawks was locking it down. But let's 00:05:19.209 --> 00:05:21.470 continue. The Seahawks are the best team in the 00:05:21.470 --> 00:05:24.870 NFC West. I am willing to die on this hill and 00:05:24.870 --> 00:05:27.389 say that there is nobody else in that division 00:05:27.389 --> 00:05:30.480 that you have to worry about. The Rams still 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.959 look a little bit shaky. The 49ers, as I've said 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:36.279 before, before the season even started, I don't 00:05:36.279 --> 00:05:38.060 believe them. I believe that they are pretenders. 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:40.680 And the Cardinals are most likely going to just 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:43.699 tank for the rest of the year because Kyler Murray 00:05:43.699 --> 00:05:47.680 is just not the same guy. So as of right now, 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:50.680 the Seahawks are in pole position to win that 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:54.259 division and can really be true contenders against 00:05:54.259 --> 00:05:58.379 the Lions, Buccaneers, or Eagles. You could probably 00:05:58.379 --> 00:06:00.259 even sprinkle in the Cowboys in there as well, 00:06:00.300 --> 00:06:02.019 but we'll talk about them when we get there, 00:06:02.100 --> 00:06:06.319 okay? But as of right now, the Seahawks really 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:09.060 don't have a lot of flaws on neither side of 00:06:09.060 --> 00:06:12.079 the ball. The run game is consistent. The passing 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:14.899 game looks really good. Sam Darnold looks really 00:06:14.899 --> 00:06:17.379 good. The defense is sort of giving you like 00:06:17.379 --> 00:06:23.199 a Legion of Boom 2 .0 type of vibe. The DBs are 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:25.579 really physical. The defensive line is getting 00:06:25.579 --> 00:06:28.689 after them. Now, the question is this. Are they 00:06:28.689 --> 00:06:31.509 going to be buyers or sellers when the trade 00:06:31.509 --> 00:06:34.290 deadline hits? Put a bookmark on that. We may 00:06:34.290 --> 00:06:36.069 talk about that in the next episode. Just saying. 00:06:36.970 --> 00:06:41.529 Sam Darnold for MVP? Question mark? Yes, I know 00:06:41.529 --> 00:06:43.810 we all drunk from the same cup last year. And 00:06:43.810 --> 00:06:46.189 we all were thinking, you know, Sam Darnold's 00:06:46.189 --> 00:06:49.649 going to win MVP. And then he just, I don't know. 00:06:50.139 --> 00:06:52.819 went down the wrong slide or something. It was 00:06:52.819 --> 00:06:55.339 just atrocious towards the end of last season. 00:06:55.420 --> 00:06:58.399 But this year, I mean, we may have to have a 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:00.959 conversation because as of right now, there are 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:03.339 only four quarterbacks in my mind that I would 00:07:03.339 --> 00:07:06.259 consider MVP candidates. Baker Mayfield is number 00:07:06.259 --> 00:07:09.600 one, Dak Prescott, number two, Sam Darnold, number 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:13.040 three, and maybe Justin Herbert, depending on 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.160 how the rest of the season goes. I don't know, 00:07:15.220 --> 00:07:17.459 but just saying. But let's keep this thing going 00:07:17.459 --> 00:07:20.910 with a truth bomb. Self -inflicted wounds will 00:07:20.910 --> 00:07:24.129 be the downfall of the Texans. When they drafted 00:07:24.129 --> 00:07:27.490 C .J. Stroud, I was thinking, okay, they've turned 00:07:27.490 --> 00:07:29.970 the page from Deshaun Watson. They're going in 00:07:29.970 --> 00:07:32.470 a different direction. There's a light at the 00:07:32.470 --> 00:07:35.790 end of the tunnel. And since C .J. Stroud's rookie 00:07:35.790 --> 00:07:39.629 season, it has been a sharp decline in his play. 00:07:39.850 --> 00:07:44.209 And offensively, it's regressed. And so I understand 00:07:44.209 --> 00:07:46.350 that you traded Loremi Tonto. I understand that 00:07:46.350 --> 00:07:48.819 you've made a lot of movement. on the offensive 00:07:48.819 --> 00:07:51.639 line, and on the offense as a whole. But there 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:54.459 is no cohesiveness on this offense right now. 00:07:54.779 --> 00:07:57.459 I'm sorry. I understand that you've lost Joe 00:07:57.459 --> 00:08:00.000 Mixon for, I would say, maybe the rest of the 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.170 year. But you have to make a trade for a running 00:08:03.170 --> 00:08:06.529 back. You have to inject some energy into this 00:08:06.529 --> 00:08:09.250 offense because right now they just got their 00:08:09.250 --> 00:08:12.069 ass kicked by the Seahawks. And it's only going 00:08:12.069 --> 00:08:14.410 to get worse from here because right now the 00:08:14.410 --> 00:08:17.970 Colts is the number one team that every AFC team 00:08:17.970 --> 00:08:20.189 is going to have to face. And that's your division 00:08:20.189 --> 00:08:23.180 rival. So whoever their GM is, they need to be 00:08:23.180 --> 00:08:25.899 on the phone trying to make some trades now because 00:08:25.899 --> 00:08:28.100 things are not looking good within your division. 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.560 The Jaguars actually look pretty good this year. 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:32.679 The Titans, I mean, that's just a lost cause. 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:35.279 We already know. But the Colts is the team that 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:37.179 you're going to have to worry about. But let's 00:08:37.179 --> 00:08:39.759 talk about the Giants and Broncos games. So Jackson 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.799 Dart, 33 attempts for 15 completions, 283 passing 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.940 yards, three touchdowns, one pick, and a 45 .5 00:08:46.940 --> 00:08:50.240 completion percentage. Cam Scadabo. 16 attempts 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:53.000 for 60 rushing yards, 3 .8 rushing yards per 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.419 carry, and 1 rush of 10 plus yards or more. Wondell 00:08:56.419 --> 00:08:59.899 Robinson, 12 targets for 6 receptions, 95 receiving 00:08:59.899 --> 00:09:02.879 yards, and 15 .8 receiving yards per reception. 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:08.159 Bo Nix, 50 attempts for 23 completions, 279 passing 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.720 yards, 2 touchdowns, 5 .6 yards per attempt. 00:09:11.149 --> 00:09:14.049 and a 54 completion percentage kay dobbins 14 00:09:14.049 --> 00:09:17.169 attempts for 81 rushing yards 5 .8 rushing yards 00:09:17.169 --> 00:09:19.990 per carry and one rush of 10 plus yards or more 00:09:19.990 --> 00:09:24.149 courtland 10 targets for six receptions 87 receiving 00:09:24.149 --> 00:09:27.009 yards and 14 .5 receiving yards per reception 00:09:27.009 --> 00:09:30.830 so here's a few junkie nuggets against the broncos 00:09:30.830 --> 00:09:34.129 blitz jackson dark completed eight of his 14 00:09:34.129 --> 00:09:38.190 passes for 193 yards two touchdowns and one pick 00:09:38.649 --> 00:09:41.429 the third most passing yards by any player facing 00:09:41.429 --> 00:09:46.870 the Blitz. On 37 coverage snaps, PS2 didn't allow 00:09:46.870 --> 00:09:50.529 reception. PS2 was targeted twice and only recorded 00:09:50.529 --> 00:09:53.169 one pass deflection. With that being said, let's 00:09:53.169 --> 00:09:55.230 talk about the Broncos offense. So for starters, 00:09:55.389 --> 00:09:57.649 they couldn't get a scoring drive together to 00:09:57.649 --> 00:10:01.090 save their life. Every time that they had a little 00:10:01.090 --> 00:10:04.289 momentum going, guess what? The Giants just knocked 00:10:04.289 --> 00:10:06.690 it down. That pass rush was doing its thing. 00:10:06.690 --> 00:10:09.309 And mind you, This offense is supposed to be 00:10:09.309 --> 00:10:11.809 one of the better offenses in the entire league. 00:10:12.230 --> 00:10:15.590 So for Abdul Carter, Brian Burns, you know, the 00:10:15.590 --> 00:10:18.730 same old same do their thing. Man, oh man, is 00:10:18.730 --> 00:10:21.950 that great to see. Now I will say this. Andrew 00:10:21.950 --> 00:10:26.929 Phillips was physical. I mean, old school 2000s 00:10:26.929 --> 00:10:30.190 quarterback physical. He was making tackles. 00:10:30.210 --> 00:10:33.710 He was doing it all, man. I mean, this Giants 00:10:33.710 --> 00:10:36.389 defense looks really good, really productive, 00:10:36.509 --> 00:10:40.070 really consistent, honestly, on all three levels, 00:10:40.149 --> 00:10:42.110 which is actually really good. Because they are 00:10:42.110 --> 00:10:44.570 the bright spot of this team. But we have to 00:10:44.570 --> 00:10:46.669 talk about Jackson Dart effectively distributing 00:10:46.669 --> 00:10:50.070 the ball to everybody on that offense. Wondell 00:10:50.070 --> 00:10:52.909 Robinson was getting his. Theo Johnson was getting 00:10:52.909 --> 00:10:55.929 his. The other tight end was getting his. Everybody 00:10:55.929 --> 00:10:58.690 was getting some attention. And that's how you 00:10:58.690 --> 00:11:01.450 win games. Now, I mean, we all know how they 00:11:01.450 --> 00:11:03.190 lost. And that's a little bit controversial by 00:11:03.190 --> 00:11:04.990 some people's standards. But we're not going 00:11:04.990 --> 00:11:06.669 to talk about that, okay? We're just going to 00:11:06.669 --> 00:11:09.990 leave that alone. But this is very promising. 00:11:10.730 --> 00:11:13.870 Even though they lost, for Jackson to own against 00:11:13.870 --> 00:11:16.690 a really good defense like the Broncos says a 00:11:16.690 --> 00:11:19.990 lot. Now, am I saying that, hey, this team could 00:11:19.990 --> 00:11:23.389 possibly make it to the playoffs? No. But I will 00:11:23.389 --> 00:11:26.909 say this. Anytime you have a quarterback, a rookie 00:11:26.909 --> 00:11:29.610 quarterback on top of that, to be this effective 00:11:29.610 --> 00:11:33.129 without their supposed number one weapon, that's 00:11:33.129 --> 00:11:35.389 promising right there. But with that being said, 00:11:35.470 --> 00:11:37.850 if you're Joe Shane, should you make a move to 00:11:37.850 --> 00:11:40.200 bring in another receiver? Now, I understand 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:42.580 that Wanda Robinson, Jalen Hyatt, and everybody 00:11:42.580 --> 00:11:45.740 else is being really productive, but you still 00:11:45.740 --> 00:11:49.100 need somebody to play that number one wide receiver 00:11:49.100 --> 00:11:52.700 role. So do you bring in a Chris Alave? Do you 00:11:52.700 --> 00:11:55.639 bring in a Jacoby Myers? Do you bring in an Alan 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:58.320 Lazard if he is available? Do you bring in another 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:01.139 receiver to help out? Because I think what they 00:12:01.139 --> 00:12:04.340 have right now is sustainable. Now, am I saying 00:12:04.340 --> 00:12:06.460 it's sustainable enough for them to possibly 00:12:06.460 --> 00:12:09.620 make it in the playoffs? No. But I think it's 00:12:09.620 --> 00:12:12.759 enough to maybe win seven, maybe eight games. 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:16.240 And I think if you do that, John Mara has to 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.399 keep Brian Dable and Joe Shane. You can't get 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:21.159 rid of them now. If Russell Wilson was still 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:23.679 in the game, oh, by all means, everybody's gone. 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:26.419 But with Jackson Dart playing the way that he's 00:12:26.419 --> 00:12:29.159 been playing, you got to keep him. There is something 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:32.159 there that can be built off of this season. But 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:35.450 with that being said, the Broncos defense. I'm 00:12:35.450 --> 00:12:37.929 not saying it's the best, but it's up there. 00:12:37.990 --> 00:12:40.289 I would venture to say it's probably top three 00:12:40.289 --> 00:12:42.970 right now because if it wasn't for them having 00:12:42.970 --> 00:12:46.169 that defense, the Giants would have easily steamrolled 00:12:46.169 --> 00:12:48.450 the Broncos because the Broncos offense couldn't 00:12:48.450 --> 00:12:50.830 do anything. And the defense was the only thing 00:12:50.830 --> 00:12:53.059 that was keeping them in the game. But let's 00:12:53.059 --> 00:12:54.740 talk about the game that not a lot of people 00:12:54.740 --> 00:12:57.259 watched. I can assure you there was a lot of 00:12:57.259 --> 00:12:59.519 people that was probably taking a nap, maybe 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:02.259 getting some brunch or making dinner, you know, 00:13:02.259 --> 00:13:04.620 just doing different things just to pass the 00:13:04.620 --> 00:13:06.759 time because who in the world is watching the 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:09.879 Dolphins and the Browns? Nobody. But let's talk 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.679 about it. Tua, 23 attempts for 12 completions, 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:15.980 100 passing yards, three picks, 4 .3 yards per 00:13:15.980 --> 00:13:19.220 attempt, and a 52 .5 completion percentage. Quinn 00:13:19.220 --> 00:13:22.820 Ewerts. 8 attempts for 5 completions, 53 passing 00:13:22.820 --> 00:13:26.139 yards, 6 .6 yards per attempt, and a 62 .5 completion 00:13:26.139 --> 00:13:29.820 percentage. Devon Achan, 13 attempts for 82 rushing 00:13:29.820 --> 00:13:33.159 yards, 6 .3 rushing yards per carry, and 2 rushes 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:36.519 of 10 plus yards or more. Dee Eskridge, 2 targets 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:39.100 for 2 receptions, 45 receiving yards, and 22 00:13:39.100 --> 00:13:41.970 .5 receiving yards per reception. Dylan Gabriel, 00:13:42.250 --> 00:13:46.149 18 attempts for 13 completions, 116 passing yards, 00:13:46.370 --> 00:13:49.470 6 .4 yards per attempt, and a 72 .2 completion 00:13:49.470 --> 00:13:52.929 percentage. Quinshaw -Junkins, 25 attempts for 00:13:52.929 --> 00:13:56.049 84 rushing yards, 3 .4 rushing yards per carry, 00:13:56.210 --> 00:13:59.370 3 touchdowns, and 2 rushes of 10 plus yards or 00:13:59.370 --> 00:14:03.149 more. Harold Fannin Jr., 5 targets for 4 receptions, 00:14:03.169 --> 00:14:06.110 36 receiving yards, and 9 receiving yards per 00:14:06.110 --> 00:14:09.120 reception. So with this game, honestly, yes, 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:11.740 it was a bad game on both sides. It was rainy 00:14:11.740 --> 00:14:14.899 and everything, but there is something to come 00:14:14.899 --> 00:14:18.399 out of this. There's no need to fire Mike McDaniel. 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:21.779 I understand that's not the popular option. I 00:14:21.779 --> 00:14:24.539 understand it's not the popular thing that Dolphins 00:14:24.539 --> 00:14:27.659 fans want to hear, but that's the truth. There's 00:14:27.659 --> 00:14:31.419 no need in firing him if Anthony Weaver, who 00:14:31.419 --> 00:14:33.980 by all intents and purposes will be the interim 00:14:33.980 --> 00:14:36.700 head coach, is not doing a good job either. So 00:14:36.700 --> 00:14:39.639 all you're doing is replacing crap with more 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:41.799 crap. It's like that meme of the grandfather. 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:44.720 He got the same shirt that he's wearing for Christmas. 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:46.460 That's exactly what it is in this situation. 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:49.779 So you might as well want to suck it up and just 00:14:49.779 --> 00:14:53.000 deal with it. Because guess what? This is what 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.919 happens when you try to take an easy pass in 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:58.039 roster building. We're going to go to class right 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.059 now. Here's the thing. Okay. And I had to really 00:15:01.059 --> 00:15:02.779 think about this when I was watching the game. 00:15:03.049 --> 00:15:06.389 Who can you blame for the Dolphins not being 00:15:06.389 --> 00:15:08.509 where they're supposed to be? Mike McDaniel, 00:15:08.710 --> 00:15:13.230 Chris Greer, Stephen Ross, Anthony Weaver, Tua. 00:15:13.629 --> 00:15:16.809 Who do you blame in this? And the number one 00:15:16.809 --> 00:15:19.190 person that needs to be blamed for this is Chris 00:15:19.190 --> 00:15:21.529 Greer. And here's why. And this is something 00:15:21.529 --> 00:15:25.080 that I've said in multiple episodes. Whenever 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:27.980 you are drafting a quarterback, you must make 00:15:27.980 --> 00:15:30.879 sure that you invest into a good offensive line. 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:34.220 Because if you don't, you're going to put your 00:15:34.220 --> 00:15:37.200 quarterback in harm's way. We have seen it multiple 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:40.639 times where teams neglect offensive line. And 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:42.919 by the time that they actually start to do it, 00:15:42.980 --> 00:15:45.480 it's already too late. The damage is already 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:48.779 done. Now, I'm not saying that, you know, once 00:15:48.779 --> 00:15:50.899 the Dolphins drafted Tua, the next few years 00:15:50.899 --> 00:15:52.620 they need to be drafting an offensive lineman 00:15:52.620 --> 00:15:55.019 in the first round. No, but you have to make 00:15:55.019 --> 00:15:57.899 investments on that line. Otherwise, guess what? 00:15:58.059 --> 00:16:01.000 Your quarterback is going to be a sitting duck. 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:04.419 And that's exactly what's happened since Tua 00:16:04.419 --> 00:16:07.509 has been with the Dolphins. You cannot just make 00:16:07.509 --> 00:16:10.570 a trade for Tyreek Hill, draft Jalen Waddell, 00:16:10.649 --> 00:16:13.250 make a trade for Bradley Chubb, make a trade 00:16:13.250 --> 00:16:15.850 for Jalen Ramsey and think, oh, okay, we're this 00:16:15.850 --> 00:16:17.950 really good team. We can do whatever we want. 00:16:18.110 --> 00:16:21.450 No, it doesn't work like that. There is a process, 00:16:21.549 --> 00:16:24.990 and that process starts with good scouting, drafting, 00:16:25.289 --> 00:16:28.049 and being frugalent when it comes to free agency 00:16:28.049 --> 00:16:31.679 moves. Not just throwing everything away within 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:33.720 the first two or three years and thinking, oh, 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:36.299 okay, we can compete with the Chiefs. We can 00:16:36.299 --> 00:16:38.840 compete with the Ravens or the Bills or any other 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:41.200 Super Bowl team. No, you can't. Because guess 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:43.980 what? When you guys went to Kansas City, you 00:16:43.980 --> 00:16:45.759 learned right then and there that guess what? 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:48.480 You still can't hang with the big dogs. I don't 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:50.779 care if you have Tyreek Hill, Jalen Ramsey, this 00:16:50.779 --> 00:16:53.240 person, that person. You still can't do it. Because 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:55.980 why? Not everything else is built around Tua. 00:16:56.269 --> 00:16:58.250 And granted, there are some quarterbacks that 00:16:58.250 --> 00:17:00.889 can overcome their situation, but it's very rare. 00:17:01.269 --> 00:17:04.150 Tua is not one of those people. Tua is somebody 00:17:04.150 --> 00:17:07.190 that needs everything around him in order for 00:17:07.190 --> 00:17:10.150 him to be successful. So I don't understand why 00:17:10.150 --> 00:17:13.250 the Dolphins try to take the fast way to try 00:17:13.250 --> 00:17:16.529 to build this roster when you didn't. Okay, you 00:17:16.529 --> 00:17:18.869 paid for Teron Armstead, but how long did that 00:17:18.869 --> 00:17:23.190 last? OK, you paid for Tyreek Hill and then you 00:17:23.190 --> 00:17:25.869 had to repay him again, which was unnecessary. 00:17:26.309 --> 00:17:28.490 And then you did the same thing for Jalen Ramsey, 00:17:28.529 --> 00:17:31.609 which was unnecessary. So you see the kind of 00:17:31.609 --> 00:17:34.490 get out here, folks. This is a clear cut example 00:17:34.490 --> 00:17:37.730 of what happens when you do not build a team 00:17:37.730 --> 00:17:40.849 the right way. You can't just keep on writing 00:17:40.849 --> 00:17:43.990 check after check after check after check, thinking 00:17:43.990 --> 00:17:45.650 that guess what's going to build the team. No, 00:17:45.750 --> 00:17:47.569 you have to start hitting on your draft picks. 00:17:48.059 --> 00:17:51.500 You look at any dynasty, the Chiefs, Patriots, 00:17:51.539 --> 00:17:54.920 even the dynasties of old, what is the one thing 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:57.940 that they all have in common? A majority of the 00:17:57.940 --> 00:18:00.440 people that are on that roster, they drafted 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:03.460 and developed them successfully. So when you 00:18:03.460 --> 00:18:05.640 don't hit on your draft picks, guess what happens? 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:08.940 It pushes the process back even farther. We see 00:18:08.940 --> 00:18:11.839 that with the Steelers right now. The Steelers' 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:14.500 success in the early 2000s was because of what? 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:18.400 Good drafting and development. It wasn't because 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.220 they got lucky in free agency. No, they were 00:18:21.220 --> 00:18:23.680 hitting on their draft picks year after year 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:26.819 after year after year. And sooner or later, guess 00:18:26.819 --> 00:18:29.759 what? It made the process easier. And all they 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:31.880 had to do was just get this person in free agency, 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:34.440 get that person in free agency, just to put the 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:37.839 bowl on the gift. And that's it. But with the 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:40.099 trade deadline coming up, I think the number 00:18:40.099 --> 00:18:42.319 one question that needs to be asked in the front 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:45.579 office is, who are the building blocks for this 00:18:45.579 --> 00:18:48.339 team? Is it Jalen Waddell? Is it Devon A. Chan? 00:18:48.460 --> 00:18:52.680 Is it Kenneth Grant? Is it Jonah Savanaya? Is 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:55.819 it your tight ends? Who on this team can you 00:18:55.819 --> 00:18:58.900 say is a building block? Somebody that you're 00:18:58.900 --> 00:19:01.819 not going to trade away no matter who offers 00:19:01.819 --> 00:19:05.940 you what. Because right now, you are going to 00:19:05.940 --> 00:19:08.140 have to scrap this thing to the nuts and bolts. 00:19:08.500 --> 00:19:10.259 But you're going to have to keep some players. 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:13.839 So who's it going to be? But let's talk about 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:15.940 the Browns. So for starters, defensively, this 00:19:15.940 --> 00:19:18.839 was a really good bounce back performance. Because 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.839 prior to this game, I had a lot of questions 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:24.960 about this Browns team as a whole. But this defense, 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:28.019 although I am confident that it's still going 00:19:28.019 --> 00:19:30.859 to be top five, I wanted to see how they're going 00:19:30.859 --> 00:19:33.299 to respond after losing to the Steelers the way 00:19:33.299 --> 00:19:35.900 that they did. I wanted to see, hey, are they 00:19:35.900 --> 00:19:37.420 still going to be effective in the run game? 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:39.779 Are they going to be better in the passing game? 00:19:40.140 --> 00:19:42.359 How are they going to approach the Dolphins? 00:19:42.700 --> 00:19:45.240 Because everybody knows that the Dolphins' offensive 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:47.579 line is not good, and they know that they could 00:19:47.579 --> 00:19:50.480 get after Tua. And that's exactly what they did. 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:54.619 But when we look at the offense, however, there 00:19:54.619 --> 00:19:57.460 is promise with Quenshawn Jenkins and Dylan Gabriel. 00:19:57.740 --> 00:19:59.920 However, you must reduce their expectations. 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:03.240 They're going to have highs, lows, head -scratching 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:06.869 moments, and just WTF moments. But that's what 00:20:06.869 --> 00:20:08.450 happens when you're a rookie in the National 00:20:08.450 --> 00:20:11.809 Football League, okay? The one critique I do 00:20:11.809 --> 00:20:15.650 have for Kevin Stefanski is, let Shador Sanders 00:20:15.650 --> 00:20:18.849 play. And the reason why I say that is because 00:20:18.849 --> 00:20:22.450 at this point, with you trading away Joe Flacco, 00:20:22.630 --> 00:20:26.329 you need to do a fair assessment on both quarterbacks. 00:20:26.529 --> 00:20:29.150 You need to see their limitations, their pros 00:20:29.150 --> 00:20:33.029 and cons, as well as what situation would be 00:20:33.029 --> 00:20:36.279 best for them if... you were to move forward 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:39.039 with it. That's the only way you can really know 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:41.480 what you have in these two. The preseason is 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:44.599 nice, yes, but you need to see how they react 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:49.059 in real competition in real time. That's the 00:20:49.059 --> 00:20:52.279 only way you can know, hey, he's good when he's 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:55.319 facing cover two, cover three, cover four. Hey, 00:20:55.339 --> 00:20:57.920 this person isn't good when he's facing the blitz. 00:20:58.019 --> 00:21:02.339 Hey, this person is good with little to no offensive 00:21:02.339 --> 00:21:05.880 line. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Only then 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:09.519 can you come to a real conclusion of, hey, next 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:12.019 year we're going after a quarterback. Or, hey, 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:15.480 next year we need to go after a wide receiver 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:19.160 or offensive lineman or just a whole different 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:21.880 direction. Remember, the Browns have two first 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:24.099 round picks next year. They have the Jaguars 00:21:24.099 --> 00:21:28.819 and their own. So you really need to make a real 00:21:28.819 --> 00:21:30.980 decision on what you're going to do moving forward. 00:21:32.170 --> 00:21:36.109 Because right now, listen, I understand that 00:21:36.109 --> 00:21:39.710 Shador Sanders is, you know, the name carries 00:21:39.710 --> 00:21:43.369 a lot of weight, both negatively and positively. 00:21:43.690 --> 00:21:47.650 But at the same time, it is your job as the head 00:21:47.650 --> 00:21:51.750 coach to assess with what you have on your team. 00:21:53.069 --> 00:21:55.069 Because the Browns aren't going to fire you. 00:21:55.150 --> 00:21:58.130 We all know that. But you need to see what you 00:21:58.130 --> 00:22:00.910 have in both Dylan Gabriel and Shador Sanders. 00:22:01.900 --> 00:22:04.579 One of them needs to play one whole game and 00:22:04.579 --> 00:22:06.880 the other one needs to play the next game, regardless 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:10.799 of who the opponent is. We all know that the 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:13.099 defense is going to be great this year, but the 00:22:13.099 --> 00:22:16.059 offense isn't. Because why? The offensive line 00:22:16.059 --> 00:22:21.680 is beat up and depleted. The weapons, eh, they're 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:24.980 there, but they're not really there. So you just 00:22:24.980 --> 00:22:27.259 need to see what you have. And everybody, honestly, 00:22:27.500 --> 00:22:30.339 I would expand it for every single position. 00:22:30.940 --> 00:22:34.619 offensive line, wide receiver, tight end, running 00:22:34.619 --> 00:22:38.299 back, you name it. Because again, the Browns 00:22:38.299 --> 00:22:41.440 would be in a much better situation if they just 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:44.400 addressed quarterback. If they find stability 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:48.680 at quarterback, this is a playoff team. Remember, 00:22:48.779 --> 00:22:53.099 a Joe Flacco -led Browns team made a deep playoff 00:22:53.099 --> 00:22:56.789 run. So imagine if they get their guy. Imagine 00:22:56.789 --> 00:22:59.630 if they have Baker Mayfield on this team. That's 00:22:59.630 --> 00:23:02.410 a Super Bowl team, guaranteed. So you have to 00:23:02.410 --> 00:23:04.990 do these things now. There's no need for you 00:23:04.990 --> 00:23:07.309 to just have Shador just on the bench holding 00:23:07.309 --> 00:23:10.410 a clipboard. No, put him out on the field. Let 00:23:10.410 --> 00:23:13.680 him call some real plays. Not that bull crap 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:16.839 that you guys say are real plays in training 00:23:16.839 --> 00:23:19.059 camp and in the preseason because it's not. It's 00:23:19.059 --> 00:23:22.160 the generic stuff. Have him play call. Have him 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:25.259 execute. Have him do the things that he needs 00:23:25.259 --> 00:23:28.720 to do on a Sunday. He needs to experience this. 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:32.759 Otherwise, it's just wasted talent. That's like 00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:34.980 you going to the grocery store and you buying 00:23:34.980 --> 00:23:37.380 groceries and you're just going to let them sit 00:23:37.380 --> 00:23:40.720 and just rot. Then what's the point of going 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:43.259 to the grocery store? Now, for the Dolphins, 00:23:43.259 --> 00:23:47.420 however, I probably would do the same thing because 00:23:47.420 --> 00:23:49.940 most likely there's going to be a new regime. 00:23:50.740 --> 00:23:53.259 There's going to be, you know, a lot of changes 00:23:53.259 --> 00:23:55.700 and a lot of people are going to be moved. So 00:23:55.700 --> 00:23:58.599 you need to see exactly what do you have so far? 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:01.359 What other positions do you need to address? 00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:06.119 Because right now, whoever is the next head coach 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:09.779 and GM, you have a lot of work you have to do. 00:24:11.150 --> 00:24:14.690 Let's talk about the Commanders and Cowboys. 00:24:15.950 --> 00:24:20.890 Yes, yes, yes. How about them Cowboys? How about 00:24:20.890 --> 00:24:25.509 them Cowboys? You got to say it sometimes, folks. 00:24:25.569 --> 00:24:28.150 You just have to, all right? So Jaden Daniels, 00:24:28.170 --> 00:24:31.930 22 attempts for 12 completions, 156 passing yards, 00:24:32.089 --> 00:24:34.809 one touchdown, 7 .1 yards per attempt, and a 00:24:34.809 --> 00:24:37.950 54 .5 completion percentage. Marcus Mariota, 00:24:38.190 --> 00:24:41.220 10 attempts for four completions. 63 passing 00:24:41.220 --> 00:24:44.519 yards, 1 pick, 6 .3 yards per attempt, a 40 % 00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:47.720 completion percentage. Jaden Daniels again. 8 00:24:47.720 --> 00:24:51.000 attempts for 35 rushing yards, 4 .4 rushing yards 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:53.920 per carry, 1 touchdown, and 1 rush of 10 plus 00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:57.740 yards or more. Jalen Lane. 6 targets for 3 receptions, 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:00.440 60 receiving yards, and 20 receiving yards per 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:04.500 reception. Dak Prescott. 30 attempts for 21 completions. 00:25:05.320 --> 00:25:08.839 264 passing yards, three touchdowns, 8 .8 yards 00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:12.640 per attempt, and a 70 % Javante Williams. 19 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:16.519 attempts for 116 rushing yards, 6 .1 rushing 00:25:16.519 --> 00:25:19.039 yards per carry, one touchdown, and two rushes 00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:22.019 of 10 plus yards or more. CeeDee Lamb, eight 00:25:22.019 --> 00:25:25.380 targets for five receptions, 110 receiving yards, 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:28.180 one touchdown, and 22 receiving yards per reception. 00:25:28.519 --> 00:25:31.700 So here's a few junkie nuggets. In play action. 00:25:32.299 --> 00:25:36.619 Dak was 9 of 11 for 130 yards and two touchdowns. 00:25:36.619 --> 00:25:40.759 When Dak threw under 2 .5 seconds, he was 10 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:44.799 of 11 passes for 71 yards, but all three touchdowns 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:48.119 came from throws that took more than 2 .5 seconds 00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:51.799 to release. Javante Williams gained 75 yards 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:55.220 and two explosive eight carries running to the 00:25:55.220 --> 00:25:58.579 left, 9 .4 yards per carry, while gaining 41 00:25:58.579 --> 00:26:01.519 yards and one touchdown. when carrying to the 00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:04.779 right, 3 .7 yards per carry. So a couple takeaways 00:26:04.779 --> 00:26:07.059 from this game. For starters, the Commanders 00:26:07.059 --> 00:26:10.420 need Terry McLaurin. I have never seen, well, 00:26:10.460 --> 00:26:12.339 actually, you know what? I lied, because, I mean, 00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:15.200 we've seen a lot of bad Commanders football, 00:26:15.420 --> 00:26:17.359 but we're not going to talk about that. We're 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:19.299 not going to talk about that. But all jokes aside, 00:26:19.460 --> 00:26:21.839 the Commanders do need Terry McLaurin. The receivers 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:26.019 were just struggling, and this isn't a really 00:26:26.019 --> 00:26:30.750 good Cowboys defense. But, I mean, you had Robbie 00:26:30.750 --> 00:26:33.769 Chosen, you had Jalen Lane, you had Luke McCaffrey, 00:26:33.789 --> 00:26:36.650 and they were just struggling. Nobody could really 00:26:36.650 --> 00:26:38.869 create separation. Nobody could really get to 00:26:38.869 --> 00:26:42.410 the ball. It was just bad, honestly. But if I'm 00:26:42.410 --> 00:26:44.930 not mistaken, I think Terry McLaurin will be 00:26:44.930 --> 00:26:46.970 playing on Monday night. Don't take my word for 00:26:46.970 --> 00:26:50.569 it. I think I saw it somewhere on Twitter. I 00:26:50.569 --> 00:26:54.089 don't know. Don't worry about that. Moving forward, 00:26:54.210 --> 00:26:56.609 the commander's cornerback struggled against 00:26:56.609 --> 00:27:00.009 Pickens and CeeDee Lamb, specifically Marshawn 00:27:00.009 --> 00:27:02.349 Lattimore. I have never seen Marshawn Lattimore 00:27:02.349 --> 00:27:06.650 struggle that bad. Like, he was struggling hard 00:27:06.650 --> 00:27:10.849 against George Pickens and CeeDee Lamb. And it 00:27:10.849 --> 00:27:13.410 was a barbecue chicken alert every single time 00:27:13.410 --> 00:27:15.369 he was matched up against one of those corners. 00:27:15.670 --> 00:27:18.509 And mind you, he's the most veteran corner out 00:27:18.509 --> 00:27:21.180 of everybody in that room. But... We're going 00:27:21.180 --> 00:27:22.640 to put a bookmark on that, all right? Because 00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:24.039 there's a lot that needs to be talked about that. 00:27:24.220 --> 00:27:27.039 The Cowboys need interior defensive line help. 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:29.559 Granted, you traded for Kenny Clark. Kenny Clark 00:27:29.559 --> 00:27:32.839 is only one person, okay? You need to bolster 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:35.960 up that defensive line. But the problem is you 00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:39.140 can't do it when people are not available. Because 00:27:39.140 --> 00:27:41.980 it sounds like to me like Maxie nor Jeffrey Simmons 00:27:41.980 --> 00:27:44.519 is available. So it's like, who do you get an 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:47.599 interior defensive lineman from? Because the 00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:50.140 compensation isn't a problem. They have two first 00:27:50.140 --> 00:27:53.039 round picks. It's just a matter of can they do 00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:56.019 business with another team? That's the question, 00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:59.539 right? Or do you take a cheaper route and try 00:27:59.539 --> 00:28:04.019 to get someone that's not as well known but is 00:28:04.019 --> 00:28:06.380 productive? I think that's just the best way 00:28:06.380 --> 00:28:09.279 to put it. But I mean, we'll talk about that 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:12.299 as the days go by and as we get closer to the 00:28:12.299 --> 00:28:17.000 trade deadline. The Cowboys' best move this offseason 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:20.079 was signing Javante Williams. Super productive, 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:24.380 quick, hitting his gaps, and is just really, 00:28:24.539 --> 00:28:28.559 really, really good. But moving forward, the 00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:31.259 Commanders need another receiving tight end option. 00:28:32.019 --> 00:28:36.400 I'll be honest here. I feel like the Commanders 00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:38.859 should have drafted Tyler Warren. And the only 00:28:38.859 --> 00:28:42.890 reason why I say that is because The best friend 00:28:42.890 --> 00:28:46.170 for any rookie quarterback or any young quarterback 00:28:46.170 --> 00:28:50.490 is a tight end. Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, Peyton 00:28:50.490 --> 00:28:54.170 Manning, even Ben Roethlisberger. They've all 00:28:54.170 --> 00:28:57.069 had productive tight ends at some point in their 00:28:57.069 --> 00:29:00.329 career, and it worked. So I would have at least 00:29:00.329 --> 00:29:03.250 dabbled with the idea of maybe getting one in 00:29:03.250 --> 00:29:05.069 the first round or maybe even in the second round, 00:29:05.109 --> 00:29:07.910 personally, because Zach Ertz is showing his 00:29:07.910 --> 00:29:11.740 age. He really can't create separation. He really 00:29:11.740 --> 00:29:14.480 can't get to the ball like how he used to. And 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:16.819 some of that is out of his control. I'll be honest. 00:29:17.380 --> 00:29:21.000 But I think in this situation, where you don't 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:24.119 have your two primary receivers, having that 00:29:24.119 --> 00:29:27.079 tied in would have at least added a little bit 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:30.279 of stability to the offense. Instead of you relying 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:34.019 on Robbie Chosen and Luke McCaffrey and Jalen 00:29:34.019 --> 00:29:36.700 Lane and other receivers. And this is no disrespect 00:29:36.700 --> 00:29:39.670 to them at all, but... I just feel like a lot 00:29:39.670 --> 00:29:41.690 of the problems that the commanders are having 00:29:41.690 --> 00:29:45.349 is because of poor roster building. And that 00:29:45.349 --> 00:29:48.630 goes directly towards Adam Peters. Because when 00:29:48.630 --> 00:29:51.210 we really look at this, right, trading Marshawn 00:29:51.210 --> 00:29:56.529 Lattimore, it's starting to look like it was 00:29:56.529 --> 00:29:59.970 a bad move. Okay, I'll be honest here. Granted, 00:30:00.029 --> 00:30:02.349 you didn't have to give up a lot to get him, 00:30:02.450 --> 00:30:04.789 but it looks like it's starting to look like 00:30:04.789 --> 00:30:07.799 a bad move because You're not seeing any production. 00:30:08.539 --> 00:30:11.039 You're not seeing the same Marshawn Lattimore 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:14.220 that the Saints had. Instead, you're seeing somebody 00:30:14.220 --> 00:30:17.359 that really can't go toe -to -toe with number 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:20.259 one, number two receivers. I'm sorry, that's 00:30:20.259 --> 00:30:23.140 a problem. Because outside of him, who else can 00:30:23.140 --> 00:30:26.460 you rely on? You have Mike Sandstrom. You have 00:30:26.460 --> 00:30:29.339 Jonathan Jones. Can't rely on him. Who else can 00:30:29.339 --> 00:30:31.920 you rely on? He's supposed to be the most reliable 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:35.119 cornerback in that room, and he isn't. So what 00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:37.859 do you do? Do you have to make a trade for Tyreek 00:30:37.859 --> 00:30:40.079 Woolen? Do you have to make a trade for somebody 00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:42.799 else that may be available? Because right now, 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:45.880 that secondary is a weak spot. And I think another 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:47.920 thing that the commanders also have to address 00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:52.160 is pass rusher and running back. Because I feel 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:54.559 like with them losing Austin Eckler and then 00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:58.140 trading away Bryan Robinson, they need an elusive 00:30:58.140 --> 00:31:01.299 back. They need somebody that can just cut one 00:31:01.299 --> 00:31:04.349 time, go. And I feel like, you know, going after 00:31:04.349 --> 00:31:08.470 someone like a Brees Hall or David R. Chan or, 00:31:08.589 --> 00:31:10.930 you know, somebody that has some speed to him, 00:31:10.950 --> 00:31:12.890 I think that would actually provide a lot of 00:31:12.890 --> 00:31:15.269 help for the commanders. Because I feel like 00:31:15.269 --> 00:31:17.690 with Jaden Daniels being hurt, right? Coming 00:31:17.690 --> 00:31:19.950 into this game, I feel like the plan should have 00:31:19.950 --> 00:31:22.529 been, you know what? We are not going to put 00:31:22.529 --> 00:31:25.049 Jaden Daniels in harm's way. We are going to 00:31:25.049 --> 00:31:27.390 try to take the ball out of his hand as much 00:31:27.390 --> 00:31:29.970 as possible. And I would say, you know what? 00:31:30.009 --> 00:31:32.769 Hey, we about to run this thing 20. 25, maybe 00:31:32.769 --> 00:31:35.670 30 times. We're going to chuck up the ball a 00:31:35.670 --> 00:31:37.170 few times to some of these receivers and tight 00:31:37.170 --> 00:31:39.190 ends, but we're going to run this ball. We're 00:31:39.190 --> 00:31:41.789 going to run this rock hard. You know that the 00:31:41.789 --> 00:31:44.250 Cowboys defensive line isn't that strong, especially 00:31:44.250 --> 00:31:49.730 in the interior. So I just don't understand why 00:31:49.730 --> 00:31:52.490 you guys haven't made any moves by now. Because 00:31:52.490 --> 00:31:55.869 you need to. Because trying to bring that same 00:31:55.869 --> 00:31:58.930 energy from last year to this year is not going 00:31:58.930 --> 00:32:01.980 to solve anything. Because guess what? Everybody 00:32:01.980 --> 00:32:04.799 knows how to counter what you're trying to do. 00:32:05.059 --> 00:32:08.220 Everybody now has tape on Jaden Daniels. Everybody 00:32:08.220 --> 00:32:11.180 now has tape on how you run your defense, how 00:32:11.180 --> 00:32:14.299 you run your offense. Switch things up. I understand 00:32:14.299 --> 00:32:17.079 that they still have a lot of things that they 00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:18.420 need to clean up and it's going to take some 00:32:18.420 --> 00:32:21.940 time. I get that. But again, you cannot fall 00:32:21.940 --> 00:32:24.619 into the same pitfalls as the previous regime. 00:32:24.660 --> 00:32:27.369 I'm sorry. We have to be honest here. The offensive 00:32:27.369 --> 00:32:30.029 line has to be better. I don't understand why 00:32:30.029 --> 00:32:33.049 as a head coach or as anybody, why you would 00:32:33.049 --> 00:32:35.230 want Jaden Daniels to play this game. If it's 00:32:35.230 --> 00:32:37.930 me personally, I'm not letting Jaden Daniels 00:32:37.930 --> 00:32:40.430 play until after the bye because you are our 00:32:40.430 --> 00:32:43.289 future. And so I can't afford for you to get 00:32:43.289 --> 00:32:45.829 hurt like how you are now, where most likely 00:32:45.829 --> 00:32:48.990 it's going to take him after the bye to get healthy. 00:32:49.210 --> 00:32:52.500 So what exactly do you do at this point? Because 00:32:52.500 --> 00:32:54.619 I don't expect the Commanders to do a lot this 00:32:54.619 --> 00:32:57.420 year. I expect for them to probably be maybe 00:32:57.420 --> 00:33:00.119 the third or fourth best team in their division. 00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:02.200 Just being honest here. When you compare their 00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:05.859 roster to the Cowboys, Eagles, and the Giants, 00:33:05.900 --> 00:33:08.740 they got motion right now. And that defense is 00:33:08.740 --> 00:33:11.619 more productive than what Washington has. Let's 00:33:11.619 --> 00:33:13.359 just call it spade to spade, folks. Let's just 00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:15.500 have an honest conversation. Now, when we look 00:33:15.500 --> 00:33:18.779 at the Cowboys, however, the Cowboys offensively 00:33:18.779 --> 00:33:22.640 look great. George Pickens and CeeDee Lamb? greatness. 00:33:23.819 --> 00:33:27.400 And this is the recipe for success with Dak Prescott. 00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:30.599 You give him two productive wide receivers or 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:33.240 more, and you give him a productive running back 00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:35.700 and a decent offensive line, he's going to make 00:33:35.700 --> 00:33:39.019 some magic. As I've said before in the early 00:33:39.019 --> 00:33:42.940 part of this episode, Dak, to me, is an MVP candidate. 00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:45.339 Now, am I just going to give him the award? No. 00:33:45.539 --> 00:33:48.400 But I would say right now, he is playing at an 00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:51.940 MVP level. And it's only up from here because 00:33:51.940 --> 00:33:55.299 mind you, again, as I've said before, the Cowboys 00:33:55.299 --> 00:33:58.660 defense can only do so much. So the Cowboys offense 00:33:58.660 --> 00:34:01.319 is going to have to do the heavy lifting. So 00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:04.660 right now, if you're the Cowboys, what are you 00:34:04.660 --> 00:34:07.519 going to do to make this team better? Are you 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:09.440 going to make a trade to target the offense or 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:11.679 are you going to make a trade to target the defense? 00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:13.860 And since we're talking about George Pickens, 00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:17.059 another thing we have to talk about is the Cowboys 00:34:17.059 --> 00:34:19.760 were right in trading George Pickens. And the 00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:21.760 Steelers are now regretting that move because 00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:24.739 now you have this super productive receiver who, 00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:27.820 granted, you probably would like for him to run, 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:32.440 you know, more routes, but hey, he's super productive. 00:34:33.420 --> 00:34:35.820 Anytime that ball is coming his way, he's getting 00:34:35.820 --> 00:34:38.119 it. Now, I mean, he did have a little bit of 00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:39.800 an outburst and, you know, he did have a little 00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:42.320 bit of an attitude when playing Chicago and whatnot, 00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:45.199 but all is forgiven, right? The fact that you 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:47.219 got George Pickens for the compensation that 00:34:47.219 --> 00:34:49.320 you got him for, It's a blessing in disguise 00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:53.500 because personally right now, he's playing at 00:34:53.500 --> 00:34:56.059 a second round pick, possibly a late first round 00:34:56.059 --> 00:34:58.239 pick if he was to be traded, just being honest 00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:01.920 here. But if you're the Steelers, you have to 00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:04.579 have some level of regret right now because why? 00:35:05.019 --> 00:35:08.179 You could have had that same production or more 00:35:08.179 --> 00:35:10.659 out of George Pickens had you could have tried 00:35:10.659 --> 00:35:13.530 to make things work. And granted, I know there's 00:35:13.530 --> 00:35:15.289 going to be a lot of Steelers journalists and 00:35:15.289 --> 00:35:17.389 people that follow TV will be like, well, George 00:35:17.389 --> 00:35:20.070 Pickens was just such a problem in the locker 00:35:20.070 --> 00:35:22.750 room and on the field and we just couldn't deal 00:35:22.750 --> 00:35:24.989 with him and whatnot. Y 'all knew who George 00:35:24.989 --> 00:35:27.550 Pickens was when you drafted him. So I don't 00:35:27.550 --> 00:35:29.730 understand why you guys are reacting like this. 00:35:29.829 --> 00:35:32.969 You knew what you were getting with him. You 00:35:32.969 --> 00:35:35.949 knew the attitude problems. You knew that he 00:35:35.949 --> 00:35:38.829 wanted to get fed a lot. You knew all these things. 00:35:38.989 --> 00:35:42.230 So why would you continue to draft him? This 00:35:42.230 --> 00:35:45.190 isn't like AB. You guys have tried to do this 00:35:45.190 --> 00:35:48.610 over and over and over again. And every single 00:35:48.610 --> 00:35:50.809 time that you do it, it blows up in your face. 00:35:51.030 --> 00:35:53.610 You tried it with Chase Claypool. You tried it 00:35:53.610 --> 00:35:56.010 with George Pickens. You tried it with Deontay 00:35:56.010 --> 00:35:58.289 Johnson. All three of them are gone. And now 00:35:58.289 --> 00:36:00.869 look at you. You are now in a situation once 00:36:00.869 --> 00:36:03.159 again. when you're trying to get another receiver. 00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:06.000 But you didn't have to do it had you just kept 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:08.800 him. And mind you, George Pickens said that his 00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:10.920 favorite quarterback that he wanted to be thrown 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:14.900 to was Aaron Rodgers. So I guarantee you he probably 00:36:14.900 --> 00:36:18.420 would have bought in. Aaron and DK alone probably 00:36:18.420 --> 00:36:20.019 would have pulled him to the side and said, hey, 00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:22.360 dog, listen, we're going to run things this way. 00:36:22.539 --> 00:36:25.139 We're not going to have no problems because DK 00:36:25.139 --> 00:36:27.840 would have been the big dog. But again, this 00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:30.369 is the Steelers. But with that being said, the 00:36:30.369 --> 00:36:33.010 Cowboys right now are putting up a fight. And 00:36:33.010 --> 00:36:36.170 depending on what the Eagles do during the trade 00:36:36.170 --> 00:36:38.969 deadline, depending on what the Giants do, I 00:36:38.969 --> 00:36:41.769 could make a strong case that the Cowboys have 00:36:41.769 --> 00:36:44.570 a chance. I'm not saying it's a big chance, but 00:36:44.570 --> 00:36:47.289 they have a chance to disrupt somebody in this 00:36:47.289 --> 00:36:50.309 division high up. Whether that be the Eagles, 00:36:50.670 --> 00:36:54.210 whether it be the Giants, whoever. Because mind 00:36:54.210 --> 00:36:57.019 you, this division, if I'm not mistaken, has 00:36:57.019 --> 00:37:00.179 not had a back -to -back divisional winner in 00:37:00.179 --> 00:37:03.539 a long time. Every single year, there's always 00:37:03.539 --> 00:37:06.699 another team winning the division. Hey, just 00:37:06.699 --> 00:37:09.699 saying. If the Cowboys do it, I think it's working. 00:37:09.880 --> 00:37:12.739 I think right now, Brian Schottenheimer was a 00:37:12.739 --> 00:37:15.250 good hire. We got to be honest here, folks. If 00:37:15.250 --> 00:37:18.369 we cannot be honest, if we cannot have honest 00:37:18.369 --> 00:37:21.150 conversations about the assessment of teams right 00:37:21.150 --> 00:37:23.289 now, then what's the point in having podcasts? 00:37:23.429 --> 00:37:25.889 What's the point in just having conversations 00:37:25.889 --> 00:37:28.650 about football? But let's talk about Brian Callahan 00:37:28.650 --> 00:37:31.349 getting fired. So if you guys did not know, he 00:37:31.349 --> 00:37:35.570 was let go last Monday. And with him being fired, 00:37:35.750 --> 00:37:38.989 his overall coaching record with the Titans was 00:37:38.989 --> 00:37:43.070 4 -19. In this season, it was 1 -5 with Cam Ward, 00:37:43.170 --> 00:37:46.489 according to Teron Davenport of ESPN. Now, this 00:37:46.489 --> 00:37:48.750 is what Titans president of football operations, 00:37:48.929 --> 00:37:51.750 Chad Brinker, had to say on why Brian Callahan 00:37:51.750 --> 00:37:54.929 was fired. And I quote, We just felt like this 00:37:54.929 --> 00:37:57.409 was the right time to make a change. We were 00:37:57.409 --> 00:38:00.070 looking for growth in this football team, and 00:38:00.070 --> 00:38:02.550 that's what this is about right now. We're not 00:38:02.550 --> 00:38:04.730 seeing enough growth from this football team, 00:38:04.829 --> 00:38:07.710 end quote. During halftime against the Colts, 00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:11.119 Fans were chanting, and I quote, fired Callahan 00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:14.820 during the game and booing the team. Shortly 00:38:14.820 --> 00:38:18.199 after, Callahan turned over play -calling responsibilities 00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:22.420 to quarterback coach Bo Hardegree. After a 26 00:38:22.420 --> 00:38:25.940 -0 loss to the Texans, Cam Ward voiced his frustration, 00:38:26.119 --> 00:38:28.820 saying, and I quote, if we keep it in the book 00:38:28.820 --> 00:38:32.179 right now, we're ass, end quote. Now, with the 00:38:32.179 --> 00:38:35.079 Titans firing Brian Callahan, Mike McCoy is now 00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:37.519 the interim head coach. He was the head coach 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:41.019 for the Chargers from 2013 to 2016, with a 27 00:38:41.019 --> 00:38:44.460 -37 overall record and a playoff appearance within 00:38:44.460 --> 00:38:48.139 his first season. Now, this is what Titans GM 00:38:48.139 --> 00:38:50.920 Mike Borgonzi had to say about Mike McCoy, and 00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:54.380 I quote, What Mike brings right now is experience 00:38:54.380 --> 00:38:57.500 and leadership. He has been a head coach. He's 00:38:57.500 --> 00:38:59.360 a former quarterback who's had some years in 00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:02.380 the NFL as a player and has been around NFL quarterbacks 00:39:02.380 --> 00:39:04.820 like Phillip Rivers. Peyton Manning, and he was 00:39:04.820 --> 00:39:07.820 with Trevor Lawrence last year. Now, here's the 00:39:07.820 --> 00:39:12.119 thing. According to ESPN research, six of the 00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:15.199 last head coaches of number one overall quarterbacks 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:18.519 were fired. Cam Ward this year, Kayla Williams 00:39:18.519 --> 00:39:22.079 last year, Trevor Lawrence in 2021, Bryce Young 00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:25.780 in 2023, Baker Mayfield, and Jared Goff. Here's 00:39:25.780 --> 00:39:28.559 the problem that I have with this, okay? You 00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:31.659 cannot make Brian Callahan the scapegoat for 00:39:31.659 --> 00:39:34.730 your mistakes. Because this all stems back to 00:39:34.730 --> 00:39:38.110 when Mike Vrabel and that GM was there. You can't 00:39:38.110 --> 00:39:41.849 trade away A .J. Brown and then just let Derrick 00:39:41.849 --> 00:39:45.050 Henry walk and then not properly try to build 00:39:45.050 --> 00:39:47.750 this team the right way and then just say, you 00:39:47.750 --> 00:39:49.809 know what, we're just going to fire this GM and 00:39:49.809 --> 00:39:51.010 then we're going to fire him and then we're going 00:39:51.010 --> 00:39:52.929 to fire him and fire him. You know what? He's 00:39:52.929 --> 00:39:54.309 not showing enough. You know what? Fire him, 00:39:54.389 --> 00:39:56.869 fire him, fire him. You cannot continue to keep 00:39:56.869 --> 00:39:59.530 on firing people. You have to give them a chance. 00:40:00.380 --> 00:40:03.500 There's a reason why you got the number one overall 00:40:03.500 --> 00:40:08.420 pick, because you suck. But again, this goes 00:40:08.420 --> 00:40:11.500 back to what I've said a couple minutes ago with 00:40:11.500 --> 00:40:15.519 the Dolphins. When you don't draft well, when 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:18.360 you don't develop well, when you don't go through 00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:21.659 the process of properly building a roster, guess 00:40:21.659 --> 00:40:24.179 what's going to happen? You're not going to see 00:40:24.179 --> 00:40:27.860 success. That's just what it boils down to. Okay, 00:40:27.900 --> 00:40:30.420 granted, you had Jeffrey Simmons. You traded 00:40:30.420 --> 00:40:33.739 for a luxurious need. Okay, you signed Calvin 00:40:33.739 --> 00:40:37.420 Ridley. That's not enough. Rand Carthorne was 00:40:37.420 --> 00:40:39.940 trying to build this team, but guess what? You 00:40:39.940 --> 00:40:41.840 fired him because you wasn't happy in the direction 00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:44.440 of the team. It's a process. It's a rebuild. 00:40:45.869 --> 00:40:48.989 You guys are trying to rebuild from the years 00:40:48.989 --> 00:40:51.329 when you guys were productive, when you had a 00:40:51.329 --> 00:40:53.670 great defense, and then on the offense you had 00:40:53.670 --> 00:40:57.070 A .J. Brown, Corey Davis, Delaney Walker, Derrick 00:40:57.070 --> 00:40:59.269 Henry, Ryan Tannehill, and that really good offensive 00:40:59.269 --> 00:41:01.489 line. So of course it's going to take some time. 00:41:01.530 --> 00:41:03.670 What do you expect? This is the problem that 00:41:03.670 --> 00:41:06.630 I have with dysfunctional organizations and dysfunctional 00:41:06.630 --> 00:41:09.710 ownership. You guys would rather penalize the 00:41:09.710 --> 00:41:12.530 head coach for flaws that are out of his control. 00:41:12.690 --> 00:41:16.119 Now granted, Can you be critical of Brian Callahan 00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:19.239 for the coaching staff? Most likely. But you 00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:22.239 cannot penalize him for the lack of success that 00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:24.400 you are seeing in the quarterback and in the 00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:28.940 team as a whole. You guys suck. Now my thing 00:41:28.940 --> 00:41:32.760 is this. If you know that you suck, why don't 00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:35.219 you just trade away Jeffrey Simmons? You know 00:41:35.219 --> 00:41:37.380 that you can get a guaranteed first round pick 00:41:37.380 --> 00:41:41.360 with trading away Jeffrey Simmons. Guaranteed. 00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:44.920 There are teams right now that would be willing, 00:41:45.099 --> 00:41:49.059 willing to give you a first round pick and more 00:41:49.059 --> 00:41:52.659 for Jeffrey Simmons. That way, guess what? You 00:41:52.659 --> 00:41:55.739 can completely reshuffle the deck and then really 00:41:55.739 --> 00:41:57.940 build this team in the way that you want to. 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:02.280 Because so far, all you've done is invest a first 00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:04.500 round pick into Cam Ward, another first round 00:42:04.500 --> 00:42:06.639 pick in Peter Skowronski, another first round 00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:09.079 pick in JC Latham, another first round pick in 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:11.699 who? Tavondre Sweat, if I'm not mistaken? That's 00:42:11.699 --> 00:42:17.099 not enough. It takes time. Sure, losing is not 00:42:17.099 --> 00:42:20.099 good. Being in a stadium where there's not a 00:42:20.099 --> 00:42:22.440 lot of people there isn't good. But guess what? 00:42:22.659 --> 00:42:25.920 This is the nasty side of building a team. This 00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:28.260 is a side that not a lot of people want to talk 00:42:28.260 --> 00:42:31.900 about, but every team has to go through it. Every 00:42:31.900 --> 00:42:35.400 single team goes through a rebuild. Now, the 00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:38.980 severity of the rebuild depends on the team and 00:42:38.980 --> 00:42:41.639 the direction of the team. When you have stable 00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:45.460 ownership that isn't super involved with the 00:42:45.460 --> 00:42:49.119 roster building process, the rebuild can be a 00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:51.320 little bit faster, especially if you're hitting 00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:54.480 on your draft picks. But if you're missing out 00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:57.039 on your draft picks, especially your first, second, 00:42:57.079 --> 00:42:58.960 and third round picks, you're not going to be 00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:02.000 able to do anything. So what do you expect? Now, 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:04.179 am I saying that Brian Callahan was this great 00:43:04.179 --> 00:43:06.599 coach and he was scheming up great ideas and 00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:08.969 whatnot? No. But I'm not going to say that he 00:43:08.969 --> 00:43:11.710 was just the sole reason of why this team is 00:43:11.710 --> 00:43:13.210 not where they're supposed to be. I mean, come 00:43:13.210 --> 00:43:15.670 on. What do you expect? Did you really expect 00:43:15.670 --> 00:43:18.789 this team to be an 8 -9 team? Did you expect 00:43:18.789 --> 00:43:20.949 this team to be in the playoffs? Did you expect 00:43:20.949 --> 00:43:23.429 this team to win the playoffs? I didn't. Everybody 00:43:23.429 --> 00:43:26.570 else didn't. So what are we doing? But I'm going 00:43:26.570 --> 00:43:28.710 to get off my soapbox. I'm going to leave it 00:43:28.710 --> 00:43:31.730 alone. But just know, when Mike Borgonzi gets 00:43:31.730 --> 00:43:34.510 fired and everybody else gets fired, just know 00:43:34.510 --> 00:43:37.380 I was right. But let's talk about Brandon Graham, 00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.619 all right? So he has decided to un -retire. But 00:43:40.619 --> 00:43:43.000 before we get there, we gotta pay some bills. 00:43:43.340 --> 00:43:45.420 Pardon the interruption, but this is your GM, 00:43:45.539 --> 00:43:48.739 your bad bro, Domus, here to talk about rss .com, 00:43:48.820 --> 00:43:51.219 all right? So if you guys already don't know, 00:43:51.340 --> 00:43:54.300 I am a rss .com affiliate. And so I just wanna 00:43:54.300 --> 00:43:57.719 tell you for just a quick moment about why you 00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:01.079 should choose rss .com. 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Although Graham didn't want to 00:45:43.739 --> 00:45:46.900 retire, he decided to stay retired at that time, 00:45:47.039 --> 00:45:49.500 thus making the Eagles signs to Darius Smith. 00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:53.650 But here's the thing. Graham found his passion 00:45:53.650 --> 00:45:55.989 while attending a joint practice against the 00:45:55.989 --> 00:45:59.530 Browns during training camp. So here is Brandon 00:45:59.530 --> 00:46:02.329 Graham explaining why he decided to un -retire, 00:46:02.429 --> 00:46:05.829 and I quote, I understood both sides of it. Year 00:46:05.829 --> 00:46:08.489 15, there's no better way to go out. They was 00:46:08.489 --> 00:46:11.190 probably thinking the same thing. But then reality 00:46:11.190 --> 00:46:14.110 set in for both of us. Another opportunity came. 00:46:14.469 --> 00:46:16.849 That first one, I was like, nah, I'm going to 00:46:16.849 --> 00:46:18.829 stick with it. And then I was like, who am I 00:46:18.829 --> 00:46:22.070 fooling? If it come again, though. Baby, we gonna 00:46:22.070 --> 00:46:25.250 get it. End quote. Now, this is how Brandon Graham 00:46:25.250 --> 00:46:27.809 prepared himself to return to football. And I 00:46:27.809 --> 00:46:30.530 quote, I put myself through some stuff already. 00:46:30.969 --> 00:46:34.010 I'm excited with where I am and I feel springy, 00:46:34.010 --> 00:46:37.650 bouncy. I feel like myself. I feel good. I can't 00:46:37.650 --> 00:46:39.369 wait to go out there and be like Lane Johnson. 00:46:39.610 --> 00:46:42.090 What's good? You thought I was finished? That's 00:46:42.090 --> 00:46:43.949 where I'm at, man. I just can't wait for that 00:46:43.949 --> 00:46:46.449 first initial jog out. I'm going to mess with 00:46:46.449 --> 00:46:48.610 Jordan Malata first and then I'm going to see 00:46:48.610 --> 00:46:50.940 Lane. Then I'm going to go out and... and get 00:46:50.940 --> 00:46:53.880 the ones on the inside. Everybody gonna get it, 00:46:53.900 --> 00:46:56.340 end quote. So this is actually a really good 00:46:56.340 --> 00:46:58.380 move for the Eagles because let's be real here. 00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:02.280 Once Adarius Smith unexpectedly retired, their 00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:06.219 edge was just devastated, okay? And it also doesn't 00:47:06.219 --> 00:47:09.460 help that all the edge options that they could 00:47:09.460 --> 00:47:12.639 have traded for have basically dried up. Trey 00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:16.539 Henderson looks like he's off the market. I know 00:47:16.539 --> 00:47:18.659 there was like a few other edges that people 00:47:18.659 --> 00:47:21.690 were talking about. But it looks like there's 00:47:21.690 --> 00:47:24.130 no option. So you might as well want to go back 00:47:24.130 --> 00:47:26.349 to Brandon Graham. He knows the system. He knows 00:47:26.349 --> 00:47:28.510 the people. You might as well want to do it. 00:47:28.570 --> 00:47:31.389 But I think the most important reason why they 00:47:31.389 --> 00:47:34.849 did it is because of leadership. I think with 00:47:34.849 --> 00:47:37.969 so much turmoil going on publicly and privately 00:47:37.969 --> 00:47:41.429 with the Eagles, I think getting someone like 00:47:41.429 --> 00:47:43.409 a Brandon Graham who's going to add stability 00:47:43.409 --> 00:47:46.610 and eliminate all of that noise, I think that's 00:47:46.610 --> 00:47:49.400 going to help out tremendously. Not to mention, 00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:51.820 you signed him for pennies on the dollar and 00:47:51.820 --> 00:47:55.099 you possibly have given yourself an opportunity 00:47:55.099 --> 00:47:58.280 to maybe go after another pass rusher. Now, the 00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:01.320 thing is, with you going after another pass rusher, 00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:04.000 it doesn't have to be an elite one. It could 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:07.260 be someone that's a tier two or tier three pass 00:48:07.260 --> 00:48:10.579 rusher just to help out. Because remember, you're 00:48:10.579 --> 00:48:12.239 still waiting for Nolan Smith to get healthy. 00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:15.000 You're still waiting for Zach Bond to, you know, 00:48:15.019 --> 00:48:18.750 get in his groove. I think this move was great, 00:48:18.829 --> 00:48:22.050 and it's only up from here at this point. Now 00:48:22.050 --> 00:48:24.170 let's talk about the game that everybody has 00:48:24.170 --> 00:48:25.949 been talking about, everybody has been crying 00:48:25.949 --> 00:48:28.269 about and everything, and that is the Steelers 00:48:28.269 --> 00:48:32.329 and the Bengals, okay? So Aaron Rodgers, 34 attempts 00:48:32.329 --> 00:48:36.590 for 23 completions, 249 passing yards, four touchdowns, 00:48:36.590 --> 00:48:41.070 two picks, 7 .3 yards per attempt, and a 67 .6 00:48:41.070 --> 00:48:44.010 completion percentage. Jalen Warren. 16 attempts 00:48:44.010 --> 00:48:47.590 for 127 rushing yards, 7 .9 rushing yards per 00:48:47.590 --> 00:48:50.329 carry, and 4 rushes of 10 plus yards or more. 00:48:50.570 --> 00:48:54.110 Pat Fryer move, 6 targets for 5 receptions, 111 00:48:54.110 --> 00:48:57.650 receiving yards, 2 touchdowns, and 22 .2 receiving 00:48:57.650 --> 00:49:00.969 yards per reception. Joe Flacco, 47 attempts 00:49:00.969 --> 00:49:05.230 for 31 completions, 342 passing yards, 3 touchdowns, 00:49:05.230 --> 00:49:08.349 7 .3 yards per attempt, and a 66 completion percentage. 00:49:08.860 --> 00:49:11.960 Chase Brown, 11 attempts for 108 rushing yards, 00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:14.820 9 .8 rushing yards per carry, and three rushes 00:49:14.820 --> 00:49:18.360 of 10 plus yards or more. Jamar Chase, 23 targets 00:49:18.360 --> 00:49:22.380 for 16 receptions, 161 receiving yards, one touchdown, 00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:25.500 and 10 .1 receiving yards per reception. So here's 00:49:25.500 --> 00:49:28.599 a few junkie nuggets. So Jalen Warren had a 62 00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:31.280 .5 rushing success rate against the Bengals. 00:49:31.460 --> 00:49:35.599 Chase Brown rushed 11 times for 108 yards with 00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:39.789 101 yards after contact. His 9 .1 yards after 00:49:39.789 --> 00:49:42.750 contact per carry were the most by any player 00:49:42.750 --> 00:49:47.309 this season. Joe Flacco completed 28 of 37 passes 00:49:47.309 --> 00:49:50.650 for 336 yards and three touchdowns from a clean 00:49:50.650 --> 00:49:53.690 pocket. The most passing yards in a clean pocket 00:49:53.690 --> 00:49:57.070 for Flacco since week four of 2018 versus the 00:49:57.070 --> 00:50:00.369 Steelers, which he threw for 338 yards within 00:50:00.369 --> 00:50:03.670 a clean pocket. Flacco was pressured a season 00:50:03.670 --> 00:50:07.789 -low 24 .5 % of his drops while averaging a time 00:50:07.789 --> 00:50:10.670 -to -throw of 2 .4 seconds, the quickest this 00:50:10.670 --> 00:50:14.469 season. On quick throws, throws under 2 .5 seconds, 00:50:14.809 --> 00:50:18.789 Flacco was 21 of 31 for 202 pass yards and three 00:50:18.789 --> 00:50:22.409 touchdowns. When facing pressure, Flacco was 00:50:22.409 --> 00:50:25.030 10 attempts for three completions for six yards. 00:50:25.429 --> 00:50:27.550 There's a reason why I'm saying this for last 00:50:27.550 --> 00:50:30.090 because there is so much I have to say about 00:50:30.090 --> 00:50:34.000 this, okay? For starters, I'm glad the Steelers 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.460 lost this game. I'm glad they got their ass whooped 00:50:37.460 --> 00:50:40.820 because they needed it. They needed to be exposed. 00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:44.579 They needed to feel that sting of an L because 00:50:44.579 --> 00:50:47.719 they needed to understand that, listen, though 00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:51.059 you have great defensive players, you are not 00:50:51.059 --> 00:50:54.780 playing well, okay? Because here's the thing. 00:50:55.420 --> 00:50:59.179 Anytime you have a quarterback, that has only 00:50:59.179 --> 00:51:02.880 been with the team for 10 days, put up the numbers 00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:05.500 that he just put up against your defense, your 00:51:05.500 --> 00:51:08.800 defense that your head coach says has the potential 00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:13.139 to be historic, that knocks you back down a few 00:51:13.139 --> 00:51:16.320 notches. That puts you back into reality. Because 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:19.619 let's be real here. The run game wasn't a problem 00:51:19.619 --> 00:51:22.679 for the Steelers. It was the passing game. It 00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:26.119 was the one position That they tried to turn 00:51:26.119 --> 00:51:28.280 over this offseason thinking that, oh, okay, 00:51:28.380 --> 00:51:31.039 if we bring in these people, guess what? We are 00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:33.579 going to see more production. And you haven't. 00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:37.039 You traded for Jalen Ramsey. He had a bad game. 00:51:37.460 --> 00:51:40.300 You signed Darius Slay. He looks like a shell 00:51:40.300 --> 00:51:43.340 of himself. You go after Juan Thornhill. You're 00:51:43.340 --> 00:51:45.719 not using him a whole lot. You bring in Jabril 00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:49.800 Peppers. Excuse me. You're not using him. Why 00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:53.650 is Chuck Clark out snapping Jabril Peppers? Chuck 00:51:53.650 --> 00:51:56.489 Clark is not that good. And if you don't believe 00:51:56.489 --> 00:51:59.349 me, ask the Ravens and ask the Jets. Or better 00:51:59.349 --> 00:52:01.989 yet, ask Kyle Hamilton. He'll tell you personally. 00:52:03.010 --> 00:52:06.469 So I don't understand why in the world do the 00:52:06.469 --> 00:52:09.030 Steelers continue to do the same things year 00:52:09.030 --> 00:52:12.130 after year after year. You know that you're going 00:52:12.130 --> 00:52:14.489 up against the best wide receiver tandem in the 00:52:14.489 --> 00:52:17.750 entire league. And I dare anybody to say any 00:52:17.750 --> 00:52:20.389 other name than Jamar Chase and Tee Higgins. 00:52:21.079 --> 00:52:24.920 Those two receivers alone are elite when it comes 00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:26.679 to creating separation at the line of scrimmage. 00:52:26.780 --> 00:52:29.019 They are elite when it comes to making contested 00:52:29.019 --> 00:52:32.460 catches. They are elite in every category that 00:52:32.460 --> 00:52:35.380 is needed to be an elite receiver. Jamar Chase 00:52:35.380 --> 00:52:40.840 was cooking, cooking with hot grease. And I'm 00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:44.280 not talking about just that mild, timid hot grease. 00:52:44.380 --> 00:52:47.260 No, I'm talking about you could just put a speck 00:52:47.260 --> 00:52:50.750 of flour in it and it's cooking. That's exactly 00:52:50.750 --> 00:52:54.309 what happened. And they needed to know that, 00:52:54.329 --> 00:52:57.250 listen, although you may have this name and that 00:52:57.250 --> 00:52:59.570 name on your defense, that don't mean a damn 00:52:59.570 --> 00:53:02.869 thing. Because let's be real here, folks. The 00:53:02.869 --> 00:53:07.289 one quarterback that Mike Tomlin fears, it's 00:53:07.289 --> 00:53:10.250 not Patrick Mahomes. It's not Lamar Jackson. 00:53:10.590 --> 00:53:14.590 It's not Josh Allen. It's Joe Flacco. Because 00:53:14.590 --> 00:53:17.789 Joe Flacco knows Mike Tomlin like the back of 00:53:17.789 --> 00:53:21.809 his hand. No matter how fast TJ Watt or Alex 00:53:21.809 --> 00:53:24.210 Highsmith or Nick Herbert try to get off, it 00:53:24.210 --> 00:53:27.329 still is not going to be enough time to get after 00:53:27.329 --> 00:53:29.969 Joe Flacco. I'm sorry. He's a seasoned veteran. 00:53:30.130 --> 00:53:33.849 He's seen it all. Joe Flacco knows how to go 00:53:33.849 --> 00:53:37.969 up against elite pass rushers. Anytime that Andre 00:53:37.969 --> 00:53:41.849 Yoshibas, a wide receiver three slash four in 00:53:41.849 --> 00:53:44.429 a lot of teams, can beat someone like Darius 00:53:44.429 --> 00:53:48.050 Slay, that's a problem. Anytime I see bad tackling, 00:53:48.840 --> 00:53:51.440 From Patrick Queen and Jalen Ramsey and Darius 00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:54.219 Slate and others on this defense, that's a problem. 00:53:54.460 --> 00:53:56.940 And so for all the Steelers fans that want to 00:53:56.940 --> 00:53:59.739 talk about, well, Mike Tomlin has to go. Terrell 00:53:59.739 --> 00:54:02.079 Austin has to go. We have to get rid of them. 00:54:02.179 --> 00:54:04.739 They're just so toxic to this team. Give me three 00:54:04.739 --> 00:54:07.280 reasons why. And I don't want you to say the 00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:10.920 same generic crap. I want articulate, detailed 00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:14.320 reasons on why you want both Mike Tomlin and 00:54:14.320 --> 00:54:16.889 Terrell Austin fired. This is the same thing 00:54:16.889 --> 00:54:20.030 that I asked somebody on Twitter because they 00:54:20.030 --> 00:54:22.469 said the exact same thing. And I literally said, 00:54:22.630 --> 00:54:26.469 when Mike Tomlin leaves this team, you will be 00:54:26.469 --> 00:54:29.829 begging and pleading for someone like him to 00:54:29.829 --> 00:54:33.050 come back to this team. Now, I'm not saying that 00:54:33.050 --> 00:54:35.590 I'm a Mike Tomlin fan. No, I respect him for 00:54:35.590 --> 00:54:39.590 what he does. But I'm very critical of the things 00:54:39.590 --> 00:54:41.929 that he has done within the last five years. 00:54:42.519 --> 00:54:45.300 So let me give you my three reasons on why Mike 00:54:45.300 --> 00:54:47.860 Tomlin should go. For starters, you have a bad 00:54:47.860 --> 00:54:50.579 coaching staff. I don't know if people understand 00:54:50.579 --> 00:54:55.199 how important coaching is. Anytime you have players 00:54:55.199 --> 00:54:58.659 like Keanu Benton and Joey Porter Jr. who have 00:54:58.659 --> 00:55:02.420 not shown that next step in their progression, 00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:07.920 that goes back to coaching. Keanu Benton is not 00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:10.480 an interior defensive lineman. He is an end. 00:55:11.070 --> 00:55:13.909 But you continue to put him in an uncomfortable 00:55:13.909 --> 00:55:17.190 situation. It's like a child trying to put a 00:55:17.190 --> 00:55:20.349 triangle peg in a circle peg. It's not going 00:55:20.349 --> 00:55:23.590 to work. And Joey Porter Jr., his mechanics, 00:55:23.750 --> 00:55:27.909 everything about him is just bad. He is a liability, 00:55:28.130 --> 00:55:31.849 then an asset. Anytime that you are just holding 00:55:31.849 --> 00:55:34.949 on people just so you can win that rep, that's 00:55:34.949 --> 00:55:38.940 a problem. And granny, you guys let go the other 00:55:38.940 --> 00:55:41.880 DB coach just so you can bring in Gerald Alexander. 00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:45.019 Gerald Alexander, what are you doing with Joey 00:55:45.019 --> 00:55:47.699 Porter Jr.? Because all I see is a whole bunch 00:55:47.699 --> 00:55:50.039 of holding. That's all I see. Hold, hold, hold, 00:55:50.219 --> 00:55:52.860 hold, hold, hold, hold. At this point, you might 00:55:52.860 --> 00:55:55.340 as well want to play Mariah Carey touch my body 00:55:55.340 --> 00:55:58.260 when Joey Porter Jr. is facing somebody. Because 00:55:58.260 --> 00:56:00.679 that's all he's going to do, touch. So explain 00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:05.079 to me. Why certain people on this team have not 00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:09.039 shown that next level of progression. Coaching. 00:56:09.340 --> 00:56:13.500 You have to give hard coaching to these players. 00:56:13.719 --> 00:56:16.900 Because guess what? Keanu Benton and Joey Porter 00:56:16.900 --> 00:56:20.699 Jr. are approaching contract years. And you know 00:56:20.699 --> 00:56:22.559 they're going to want big money. So what are 00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:25.269 you going to do? But you know what? This all 00:56:25.269 --> 00:56:28.349 goes back to one thing and one thing only. You 00:56:28.349 --> 00:56:30.590 could have easily addressed the quarterback room 00:56:30.590 --> 00:56:33.349 had you just simply drafted Christian Gonzalez. 00:56:33.650 --> 00:56:36.090 Or better yet, you could have drafted Nate Wiggins. 00:56:36.170 --> 00:56:38.710 Or better yet, you could have drafted Quenya 00:56:38.710 --> 00:56:41.320 Mitchell. But you didn't want to do it. Now, 00:56:41.340 --> 00:56:44.039 going back to the coaching staff, you know that 00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:45.900 Pat Meyer is not a good offensive line coach. 00:56:46.099 --> 00:56:48.280 So then why in the world would you continue to 00:56:48.280 --> 00:56:50.920 keep him when you know that you invested two 00:56:50.920 --> 00:56:53.860 first round picks in tackles and back -to -back 00:56:53.860 --> 00:56:56.539 years and you still have not seen the progression 00:56:56.539 --> 00:56:59.360 that you have been looking for? That is something 00:56:59.360 --> 00:57:01.179 that you can be critical of Mike Tomlin because 00:57:01.179 --> 00:57:03.699 he has control of that. Another thing that we 00:57:03.699 --> 00:57:06.400 need to be critical with Mike Tomlin is his decision 00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:08.800 making when it comes to free agent acquisitions. 00:57:09.699 --> 00:57:13.010 Mike! Why do you continue to go after these old 00:57:13.010 --> 00:57:15.829 ass corners? You get Patrick Peterson thinking 00:57:15.829 --> 00:57:17.309 that you're going to get the same production 00:57:17.309 --> 00:57:20.090 that the Vikings got out of it. Prior to Patrick 00:57:20.090 --> 00:57:23.250 Peterson signing with the Steelers, he was coming 00:57:23.250 --> 00:57:27.829 off a season where he had five picks. Five picks. 00:57:28.269 --> 00:57:30.469 You didn't see that type of progression when 00:57:30.469 --> 00:57:33.190 Patrick Peterson joined the Steelers. It was 00:57:33.190 --> 00:57:35.349 so bad that the Steelers said, you know what? 00:57:35.449 --> 00:57:38.449 We're going to try you at safety just to see 00:57:38.449 --> 00:57:40.710 if it'll work. Just to see if there's a little 00:57:40.710 --> 00:57:43.489 bit of a spark. And it wasn't. Then you tried 00:57:43.489 --> 00:57:46.250 it with Dante Jackson. My back hurts. Then you 00:57:46.250 --> 00:57:48.269 tried it with Darius Slay. I can't do anything. 00:57:48.590 --> 00:57:50.909 Where's Big Play Slay? I don't see that. I don't 00:57:50.909 --> 00:57:53.409 see Big Play Slay. You know what I see? Someone 00:57:53.409 --> 00:57:56.269 getting slayed. Jalen Ramsey. You're supposed 00:57:56.269 --> 00:57:58.849 to be the big dog. You called out Jamar Chase 00:57:58.849 --> 00:58:02.389 on the Pivot podcast. And you got exposed. You 00:58:02.389 --> 00:58:04.349 gotta get your lick back, big dog. Joey Porter 00:58:04.349 --> 00:58:07.989 Jr., I don't expect anything from you. because 00:58:07.989 --> 00:58:10.530 I know that you can't go toe -to -toe with a 00:58:10.530 --> 00:58:12.730 Jamar Chase, a Justin Jefferson and company. 00:58:12.809 --> 00:58:14.969 I know you can't do that. You're not on that 00:58:14.969 --> 00:58:17.710 level, but you have all the intangibles to be 00:58:17.710 --> 00:58:20.800 on that level. Even when we look at the success 00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:23.940 from when they had Brian Flores, you saw how 00:58:23.940 --> 00:58:26.820 potent that defense was by adding someone like 00:58:26.820 --> 00:58:29.619 a Brian Flores. So then why in the world didn't 00:58:29.619 --> 00:58:31.880 you do it? And you can't say that there wasn't 00:58:31.880 --> 00:58:34.039 people that wasn't available because guess what? 00:58:34.139 --> 00:58:36.239 You could have easily signed Antonio Pierce. 00:58:36.539 --> 00:58:39.139 You could have easily signed Gerard Mayo, but 00:58:39.139 --> 00:58:41.340 you didn't want to do it. It's the same thing 00:58:41.340 --> 00:58:43.780 that you can do with the offense. You had Pep 00:58:43.780 --> 00:58:46.559 Hamilton. You could have brought in Byron Lethwich. 00:58:47.230 --> 00:58:49.309 But you decided that you didn't want to do it. 00:58:49.730 --> 00:58:52.230 You could easily bring back Dick LeBeau to help 00:58:52.230 --> 00:58:54.170 you out with the defense just so you can make 00:58:54.170 --> 00:58:56.269 the defense a little bit more creative. But you're 00:58:56.269 --> 00:58:59.030 not willing to do that. Why? And you want to 00:58:59.030 --> 00:59:01.570 know what makes things worse? There is a good 00:59:01.570 --> 00:59:04.110 chance that Arthur Smith might leave and be the 00:59:04.110 --> 00:59:06.769 next head coach for the Titans. So then what 00:59:06.769 --> 00:59:09.070 are you going to do then? Because you know that 00:59:09.070 --> 00:59:10.650 next year you're going to have to get a quarterback. 00:59:11.130 --> 00:59:14.010 These are the type of legitimate arguments that 00:59:14.010 --> 00:59:16.369 you can make about Mike Tomlin. And the last 00:59:16.369 --> 00:59:19.030 thing that we need to talk about when it comes 00:59:19.030 --> 00:59:22.329 to some of his deficiencies, and that is his 00:59:22.329 --> 00:59:26.449 inability to just change up his scheme. Quarterbacks 00:59:26.449 --> 00:59:29.170 know what to do to counteract what you're trying 00:59:29.170 --> 00:59:32.130 to do. We no longer live in a time where, guess 00:59:32.130 --> 00:59:36.250 what? My guys are bigger. They're stronger. They're 00:59:36.250 --> 00:59:39.090 tougher. They're faster. They can do it all. 00:59:39.190 --> 00:59:41.409 And they're going to beat you. It doesn't work 00:59:41.409 --> 00:59:45.420 like that. You have to be two, maybe three, maybe 00:59:45.420 --> 00:59:48.179 six steps ahead of a lot of these offenses. Because 00:59:48.179 --> 00:59:49.420 guess what? You know what's going to happen? 00:59:49.679 --> 00:59:52.519 Patrick Mahomes is going to pick you apart. Josh 00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:54.940 Allen is going to pick you apart. Lamar Jackson 00:59:54.940 --> 00:59:57.599 is going to pick you apart. Those NFC teams, 00:59:57.719 --> 01:00:00.239 they're going to pick you apart. Anytime Julian 01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:04.920 Edelman, that's right, Julian Edelman and other 01:00:04.920 --> 01:00:08.119 former players and people that still play right 01:00:08.119 --> 01:00:11.000 now all say the same thing. Oh, we already knew 01:00:11.000 --> 01:00:13.710 what they were doing. That's a problem. They're 01:00:13.710 --> 01:00:16.110 not supposed to know what you're already doing 01:00:16.110 --> 01:00:18.369 before the game even starts. What sense does 01:00:18.369 --> 01:00:21.670 that make? But again, that all goes back to Mike 01:00:21.670 --> 01:00:24.389 Tomlin. So again, when we look at this game, 01:00:24.530 --> 01:00:27.909 passing defense is the bigger problem than the 01:00:27.909 --> 01:00:31.210 run defense. And I understand that he said that 01:00:31.210 --> 01:00:33.110 in his press conference, and I understand that 01:00:33.110 --> 01:00:35.510 Terrell Austin said it in his press conference. 01:00:35.690 --> 01:00:38.190 Well, they're lying, okay? And the stats back 01:00:38.190 --> 01:00:41.530 it up. The Steelers rank 31st in pass defense. 01:00:42.389 --> 01:00:44.570 I'm going to say that again so you can hear what 01:00:44.570 --> 01:00:49.550 I just said. The Steelers rank 31st, 3 -1 in 01:00:49.550 --> 01:00:54.150 pass defense. And they are allowing 258 .8 passing 01:00:54.150 --> 01:00:57.750 yards per game, 6 passing yards per play, and 01:00:57.750 --> 01:01:00.630 have allowed 10 passing touchdowns so far. Now 01:01:00.630 --> 01:01:04.809 they are ranked 18th in run defense. And so far 01:01:04.809 --> 01:01:08.880 they've allowed 4 rushing touchdowns. 115 .8 01:01:08.880 --> 01:01:11.960 rushing yards per game, 4 .4 rushing yards per 01:01:11.960 --> 01:01:15.340 play, and have allowed 20 rushes of 10 plus yards 01:01:15.340 --> 01:01:18.639 or more. You cannot say that this defense is 01:01:18.639 --> 01:01:21.579 historic when they are not doing historic things. 01:01:21.659 --> 01:01:25.219 When you are not doing historic things. The 2000 01:01:25.219 --> 01:01:29.659 Ravens is the gold standard for historic defenses. 01:01:30.489 --> 01:01:32.630 They didn't just go into that season and say, 01:01:32.690 --> 01:01:34.210 oh, this is going to be the greatest defense 01:01:34.210 --> 01:01:36.530 of all time. This is going to be a defense that's 01:01:36.530 --> 01:01:38.929 going to be so great that nobody will be able 01:01:38.929 --> 01:01:41.349 to replicate this. They let their play speak 01:01:41.349 --> 01:01:45.170 for themselves. So I don't understand why you 01:01:45.170 --> 01:01:48.150 tried to hype this thing up before the season 01:01:48.150 --> 01:01:51.170 even started. That was stupid. Because every 01:01:51.170 --> 01:01:54.070 single time that Darius Slade, Jalen Ramsey, 01:01:54.170 --> 01:01:57.409 Joey Porter Jr., Brandon Echols, whomever gets 01:01:57.409 --> 01:01:59.670 blown up, guess what? They're going to revert 01:01:59.670 --> 01:02:01.730 right back to what you said in the summer, Mike 01:02:01.730 --> 01:02:04.769 Tomlin. And even then, at this point, I think 01:02:04.769 --> 01:02:07.269 you may have to start using Brandon Echols on 01:02:07.269 --> 01:02:10.849 the outside more and may have to use Darius Slade 01:02:10.849 --> 01:02:14.260 in a more creative role. Because right now, he 01:02:14.260 --> 01:02:17.940 can't do it. He don't got the juice. So something 01:02:17.940 --> 01:02:21.480 has to change right now. Because you're going 01:02:21.480 --> 01:02:24.300 to face the Packers on Sunday. After that, you're 01:02:24.300 --> 01:02:26.760 going through a gauntlet. You're facing the Colts. 01:02:26.760 --> 01:02:28.940 You're facing the Chargers. You're facing the 01:02:28.940 --> 01:02:31.380 Lions. You're facing the Bengals, the Ravens. 01:02:31.380 --> 01:02:33.880 You're facing all of those teams. And they have 01:02:33.880 --> 01:02:36.079 quarterbacks that can play mistake -free football. 01:02:36.719 --> 01:02:39.320 And another thing we need to talk about is this 01:02:39.320 --> 01:02:44.139 turnover culture bullcrap is not working. I understand 01:02:44.139 --> 01:02:46.940 that Terrell Austin has this vision of, okay, 01:02:46.960 --> 01:02:49.420 if we just keep on making splash plays, everything 01:02:49.420 --> 01:02:53.159 is going to be okay. No, it does not work. You 01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:55.300 want to know the difference between a great defense 01:02:55.300 --> 01:02:58.760 and just a subpar defense? A great defense is 01:02:58.760 --> 01:03:03.510 consistent. Every single week, every single matchup, 01:03:03.510 --> 01:03:06.570 no matter who is on the field or off the field. 01:03:06.769 --> 01:03:11.090 A subpar defense hopes and prays and holds their 01:03:11.090 --> 01:03:13.929 fingers together and have a rabbit's foot in 01:03:13.929 --> 01:03:17.769 a four -leaf clover just to get some luck to 01:03:17.769 --> 01:03:20.409 try to make a play. That doesn't work. You have 01:03:20.409 --> 01:03:23.849 too much talent on this team to hope that you 01:03:23.849 --> 01:03:26.869 make a big play. No, you just need to be consistent. 01:03:27.639 --> 01:03:30.320 The passing defense needs to be consistent. The 01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:33.199 running defense needs to be consistent. Everybody 01:03:33.199 --> 01:03:36.400 needs to be consistent. And I understand that 01:03:36.400 --> 01:03:40.500 consistency is hard, but you have to do it. That 01:03:40.500 --> 01:03:43.599 is how you can classify yourself as an elite 01:03:43.599 --> 01:03:47.739 defense, as a historic defense. You look at all 01:03:47.739 --> 01:03:50.900 those great defenses. They were all consistent. 01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:54.059 You look at all those great defenses for the 01:03:54.059 --> 01:03:57.280 Patriots. They were all consistent. Sure, they 01:03:57.280 --> 01:04:00.159 had their struggles. Sure, there were some players 01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:02.340 that, I mean, they just gave them the business. 01:04:02.400 --> 01:04:04.920 It happens. But when we look at the Bengals, 01:04:04.980 --> 01:04:07.619 though, for them to overcome the Steelers the 01:04:07.619 --> 01:04:11.460 way that they did is just great. I mean, let's 01:04:11.460 --> 01:04:13.900 be honest here, folks. Coming into this game, 01:04:14.099 --> 01:04:16.639 everybody was saying the same thing. The Bengals 01:04:16.639 --> 01:04:19.239 are going to lose. The Steelers are going to 01:04:19.239 --> 01:04:22.099 wipe the floor with the Bengals. And the Bengals 01:04:22.099 --> 01:04:23.840 say, you know what? To hell with it. We're playing 01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:26.059 with house money. We're going to fight. We're 01:04:26.059 --> 01:04:27.719 going to fight to the end. And that's exactly 01:04:27.719 --> 01:04:31.800 what they did. Joe Flacco put on a master class 01:04:31.800 --> 01:04:35.059 of how to properly beat the Steelers. Now, am 01:04:35.059 --> 01:04:37.199 I saying that Joe Flacco is going to continue 01:04:37.199 --> 01:04:38.960 to play like this throughout the rest of the 01:04:38.960 --> 01:04:42.960 season? No. Is there a chance? Yes. But I think 01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:46.019 by them winning this game, that allowed them 01:04:46.019 --> 01:04:47.980 to say, you know what? We're not going to sell 01:04:47.980 --> 01:04:50.750 off our pieces. We're going to see how this season 01:04:50.750 --> 01:04:53.309 goes and then make a decision moving forward. 01:04:53.409 --> 01:04:57.750 Which I think, A, if Joe Flacco can buy Joe Burrow 01:04:57.750 --> 01:05:00.949 enough time, I would say maybe by Christmas. 01:05:01.469 --> 01:05:04.550 If they have a winning record, hey, we might 01:05:04.550 --> 01:05:06.489 have to have a different conversation about this 01:05:06.489 --> 01:05:09.070 team. I'm just saying, this is the second time 01:05:09.070 --> 01:05:12.150 that Joe Flacco has done this. Remember, he did 01:05:12.150 --> 01:05:14.829 this with the Browns. And the Browns, if we're 01:05:14.829 --> 01:05:16.429 being real here, this is my personal opinion. 01:05:16.469 --> 01:05:18.230 I could be wrong. The Browns probably could have 01:05:18.230 --> 01:05:20.329 made it to the Super Bowl. 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