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teams in the NFL. We've got

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a million different angles. Aaron

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Rodgers out for the year Achilles

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surgery. Devastating,

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daunting blow, gutting

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blow for the New York Jets. Not good for

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fans, not good for the city, not good for

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the franchise, not great for older Aaron

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Rodgers. Jmack, this

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was a rough one for you. I actually had

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multiple people text me last night and say,

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how's J Mack hanging in there? And I said, I'm

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just gonna let him deal with

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the night. I didn't text you after the injury,

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so it's a rough one.

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I was unwell for much of last evening.

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It was a tough one. We won the battle,

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won the game, but we lost the war on Aaron Rodgers.

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Yeah, out for the year. So it was a wonderful

1:30

win for the Jets. It really was. And

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it's the last week they're probably

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going to be in first place. When you look

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at that schedule and that O line and

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now Zack Wilson, that's fourth

1:41

place. Listen to Aaron and that offensive

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line. You I everybody

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didn't we say, God, if they can go three

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and three through the first six, you got a new coach,

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a new city, a new culture, a new old line.

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You don't know about your tackles. Aaron

1:55

Rodgers we thought was six and six. Now

1:57

it's Zach Wilson at Dallas's dB

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Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, Belichick at

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Denver. Aaron was always

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the difference with this team between seven

2:07

wins and potentially eleven or twelve.

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I've had coaches tell me this that a great quarterback

2:12

actually makes your defense even better

2:15

because they feel all they have to do is

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make a stop and get the ball to the Hall

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of Famer. Michael Vick had that

2:21

relevance and that ability was he was

2:23

in Atlanta. Players felt like, just

2:25

give Michael the ball, He'll

2:27

make something happen, and that was Aaron

2:30

Rodgers. It's a gutting loss, but

2:32

he had three dropbacks last night and

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had to move for all of them

2:36

and got hurt for the last one.

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Robert Salad deserves major props.

2:42

The Jets defense was amazing. It looks

2:44

even better this year. They were optimistic,

2:47

never lost energy despite the injury.

2:50

They still had plenty of fight left on

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the field a lot. It never

2:54

tired, and Zach Wilson didn't

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lose you the game. I never want

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to over act to one week in the NFL,

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but after one week I look at the Jets division

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and four things are true. Miami's

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offense maybe the best in the league.

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Buffalo still has a better quarterback

3:11

and a better overall roster. The

3:13

Patriots are going to be a tough

3:16

out, and the

3:18

Jets needed Aaron Rodgers to get

3:20

to the playoffs.

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They just do it. Stinks.

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It's a great win. It's not going to be a great

3:26

season. We've said this with older

3:28

quarterbacks. Offensive lines are

3:31

even more crucial. When the Rams

3:33

Matt Stafford had a good one, he won a Super

3:35

Bowl. Last year, they had injuries.

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He got hurt, Tom Brady

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to Tampa. First move, get me

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a right tackle. They raft Tristan

3:44

Wurfs. Get me Gronk, a

3:46

great blocking tight end. I

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did not have the Jets in the playoffs

3:51

before the season started. Virtually everybody

3:54

else did. I bought into the hype train

3:56

a little because he's Aaron Rodgers. He's one

3:58

of the most gifted throwers I've ever seen, maybe

4:01

first or second best. Dan Marino's

4:03

up there as well, But this team

4:05

needed Aaron. Defenses can

4:07

only be on the field so long. I

4:09

looked at the Jets' schedule this morning, and

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remember last night was the healthiest

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the jets o line is. What if

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they have an injury. Makai Becton can't

4:18

stay healthy. Dwayne Brown is thirty

4:20

eight years old, so last night was

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the best of the offensive line. But

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if you look at the schedule with

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Aaron Rodgers, there is only one game

4:29

on it. They would have been the Jets at a quarterback

4:32

deficit. That's Mahomes. But

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it looks like to me, Josh Allen's regressed.

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I take aeronover Josh. I take

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aeronover Russell Wilson. Look at the schedule,

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In every game but one, you could argue

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the Jets would have the best defense on the field

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and the better quarterback with Zach

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Wilson. Not trying to be mean, but

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they will be at a quarterback deficit in

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thirteen of the sixteen games.

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How long can you ask your defense

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to save the team? And

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two things can be true. It

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was a gutty impressive win and

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it will not be a great

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season. Aaron Rodgers

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was the difference between

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seven and eleven wins. Their defense

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was great last year. It

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was great last year, it's better this year.

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But he was the difference. This

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story's got so many layers. Robert

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Sala after the win, but

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talking bigger picture.

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Personally, I don't hurt for me, I don't hurt for

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our locker room. I heard for Aaron and how much he's

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invested in all of this. You

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know. So I'm still gonna say prayer, I'm still gonna hold that

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hope. But you

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know, my heart's with Aaron right now in

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the or els.

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Yeah, that's that's about I

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was actually surprised, pleasantly

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surprised that the Jets

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didn't unravel to some degree. It

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was so emotional for the city yesterday,

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but for the Jets to hang in there on

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the ball, play inspired defense,

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not unravel was really really

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impressive. There is something special about

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this just team. But when you start

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looking at that schedule, there's a reason

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they went out and got Aaron. I

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have my differences with Aaron. There are

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things I question about Aaron Rodgers,

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but he is the magic. He was

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the magic. Get well, get

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better. There's next year. I still

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hope this has a happy ending for

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Buffalo. I

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don't think there's a single NFL

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player, not one

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that missus a coach more than Josh Allen

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misses his former offensive coordinator

6:42

Brian Dable, since

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Brian Dable became the head coach of

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the New York Giants. Josh

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Allen, from that moment

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until tonight, has twenty picks

6:55

and seven fumbles and leads the NFL

6:58

in giveaways. His Canics

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are worse. He's had drama with

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his star receiver, and he still won't slide.

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I didn't like what I saw last night, and

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I understand with Alan's size and

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athletic ability and his talent. I'm

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not asking for perfection. Okay,

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this is not a guy that needs to go, you know, twenty

7:17

eight of thirty four. It's not what

7:19

I'm looking for. But he is a heavyweight

7:22

fighter and he has lost his corner man.

7:25

Mike Tyson was never the same

7:28

once he lost Costamato, and

7:31

people would argue Tiger Woods was never

7:33

the same when he lost his swing

7:35

coach, Butch Harmon, it

7:37

doesn't matter if you're a magnificent singing

7:40

talent. You'll notice in

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Hollywood the best actors often lean

7:44

and work with the same directors

7:47

over and over and over. Josh

7:49

Allen misses Brian Dable last

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night. These numbers are weird and shocking.

7:55

Zero for five on passes over twenty

7:58

yards, two picks, and his zero

8:00

zero passer rating. Tiger

8:03

was never the same without Bush. Mike

8:06

was never the same without Customato. Three

8:09

years ago, we looked at the best quarterbacks

8:11

in the league, and I think all of us would agree

8:13

it was Mahomes one and Josh Allen

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two. But when Mahomes

8:18

goes off the rails mechanically, and he

8:20

does about once a year, Andy

8:23

Reid brings him back home

8:26

when Josh Allen goes off the rails

8:28

and he's there right now. Buffalo's

8:30

got a defensive head coach and a defensive

8:33

minded culture. They still can't get

8:35

their O line right. It's like Steph

8:37

Curry. Steph Curry, if you've watched

8:39

him, we have, and we love him. He's Jmax's

8:42

favorite player and probably mine. We'll have these

8:44

stretches where he gets really

8:47

loose with the basketball

8:49

and then Steve Kerr

8:53

bring it back home. Let's reel

8:55

it back in. Let's go back

8:57

to basics. The greatest talent

9:00

need somebody in the sidecar,

9:03

a man, a woman, a trainer,

9:06

support, whatever it is. Josh

9:08

Allen, missus, Brian Dable. That is

9:11

not to say that Ken Dorsey's not a good coach,

9:13

but there are certain relationships

9:15

in the NFL. Matt Ryan Kyle

9:18

Shanahan. It was magic. Matt

9:20

Ryan still good without him, had great years

9:23

without him, but he was better with

9:25

Kyle. Creative, mega

9:28

talents, sometimes

9:30

they go off the rails. I love Lady Gaga the

9:32

meat dress moments like let's reel it back

9:34

in, a little too far out there, But

9:37

I feel like when I watch Josh Allen, he's

9:40

not the same quarterback as I felt

9:42

his last game with Brian Dable.

9:45

Mechanics won't slide, deep

9:48

ball, not as good, impatient,

9:51

not as accurate ball. Last

9:53

night. One of the interceptions, two were just brilliant

9:55

plays. One of them was just like he threw it to the

9:57

safety Josh Allen.

10:00

After kind of

10:02

force of the ball. Yeah,

10:09

same.

10:10

Same place, different day. I heard

10:13

our team to night, I cost our team to night, and

10:16

it feels really similar to last year, and I hate that

10:18

it's the same. Yeah,

10:22

that night was so many different

10:25

things. It was hype and awesome

10:27

optimism, it was fantastic.

10:31

It was there were so many

10:33

great emotional moments right

10:35

before the injury, and then in

10:37

the injury, you're basically

10:39

praying, crossing your fingers. Okay, two

10:42

weeks, three weeks. I immediately ran to the

10:44

jet schedule. I go online, Okay,

10:46

they can They'll lose to Dallas, they'll hang with Kansas

10:48

City, they can beat Denver and

10:50

then Robert sala after it's

10:53

bad news and this morning Aaron Rodgers

10:55

is officially out for the year. This

10:58

can still have a happy end. It's

11:01

not going to be in the next eight to nine months, but

11:03

it still can end. Well, we

11:05

cross our fingers that it does.

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11:17

You know, there's a saying, we don't appreciate

11:20

what we have until it's

11:22

gone. And I watched

11:24

the Packers this week and we discussed this yesterday.

11:26

They were a very, very well

11:29

oiled machine. Jordan Love had

11:32

the second least pressures

11:34

of any quarterback in the NFL this weekend,

11:36

and Aaron Rodgers was running for his life and his

11:39

three dropbacks. The Packers are stable,

11:41

inconsistent, and the Jets have historically

11:43

been turbulent and chaotic. So

11:46

this is not to say that Aaron did not appreciate

11:49

what he had in Green Bay. But what he did

11:51

have was two offensive coaches, no

11:54

impulsive crazy owner, no

11:56

bad offensive lines. In fifteen

11:58

years as the starter, he could hide

12:01

in Wisconsin. They didn't know as get the

12:03

best free agents, but since only about thirty

12:05

percent of free agents hit, that was probably

12:07

not a bad thing. If you looked at

12:09

Jordan Love this weekend, Clever

12:12

play calling from an offensive head

12:14

coach, unbelievably

12:16

solid protection, run game,

12:19

weaker division. And again

12:21

I said this before Aaron played

12:24

a game. I said, if you really break

12:26

this down, simplify it. The Packers

12:28

for fifteen years have been a really

12:30

well run business, and the Jets have been a poorly

12:33

run business. And they're acquiring

12:35

Aaron mostly because they put themselves

12:38

in that spot. They reached on

12:40

Zach Wilson, and they whiffed on a left

12:42

tackle who's now a right tackle that can't

12:44

stay healthy. So they had to overpay

12:46

for an expensive, thirty nine year old, prickly

12:48

quarterback who was gifted and great

12:51

and amazing. But there were some

12:53

warning labels on this. Let's be honest

12:55

about this. We discussed this in the preseason.

12:58

Robert Solid discussed it at team.

13:00

Older quarterbacks tend to need better offensive

13:03

lines. I do think Aaron rehabs

13:05

comes back. I do think this is going

13:08

to have a much happier ending.

13:10

If you remember FARV with the Jets started

13:12

well and ended poorly, this

13:15

is starting poorly. My guess

13:17

is it ends well Aaron comes

13:19

back. Here's a big bonus for the Jets.

13:22

There is a small silver

13:24

lining for the New York Jets. Their

13:27

biggest need is left tackle. They

13:30

don't need to draft anybody on defense.

13:32

Maybe after CJ. Moseley leaves they

13:34

need a left tackle. Next

13:37

year's draft has three

13:39

minimum great left tackles, and

13:42

the Jets do not have

13:44

to give up their first round pick.

13:47

Because Aaron had to play sixty five

13:49

percent of snaps. If

13:52

he did, the Packers got

13:54

their first round pick. Now they

13:56

don't, So the Jets number

13:58

one need. The number two I think is a

14:00

receiver, but they're good enough there.

14:03

Now their number one need

14:05

is left tackle. There's two great ones and

14:07

a third with Duke that's very good, and

14:10

the Jets, my guess, will be about fifteenth

14:12

around the middle of the pack in the NFL

14:15

seven eight nine wins a middle of the pack.

14:18

They can get one of those or move up. So the

14:20

little brief I know it's small

14:23

silver lining, but it's

14:25

also fair to say. And I

14:27

talked to a GM, a former GM in the league, it

14:29

is harder for older players to rehab.

14:32

Younger bodies heal more quickly, injured

14:35

less frequently. When they are hurt, they

14:37

rehab and they return quickly. How many times

14:40

have we seen a young player get hurt, He'll

14:42

be out eight weeks, he comes back in five or six.

14:44

The medical staffs, the medical

14:46

professionals in New York are top of the

14:48

world. You're getting the very best help for

14:50

Aaron Rodgers. But there is a

14:53

likelihood, perhaps perhaps

14:55

that at thirty nine years old, with a severe

14:58

Achilles rupture, we may have seen

15:00

the best of Aaron Rodgers. Now good

15:03

Aaron Rodgers with his intelligence,

15:05

his moxie, his experience in his

15:07

arm, a good less mobile.

15:10

Aaron Rodgers with that defense could

15:13

still be a fantastic team if they get the left

15:15

tackle right. So there is a just

15:18

a sliver this morning

15:20

of positivity on this. You're gonna

15:22

find out for sure with Zach Wilson. Zach

15:24

Wilson gonna watch Aaron Rodgers for camp

15:27

summer. Did he learned some things from

15:29

Aaron? You're gonna be able to get your

15:31

first round pick. That's positive.

15:33

But we also have today, We've

15:36

got to be honest. The Jets

15:38

are in this position with Aaron because they reached

15:40

on Zach Wilson whift in a left

15:42

tackle. I said this two

15:44

weeks ago. There were a lot of flashing

15:47

red lights with this situation.

15:49

It's why I didn't see the Jets as a playoff team.

15:52

Two things can be true. I feel awful

15:54

for Aaron Rodgers Rogers, but I do

15:56

think it'll be a better ending, a happy ending. But

15:59

I I think, you know, for the

16:01

next four months, it's

16:03

going to be emotional and pretty rough.

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16:12

You know.

16:13

It's what's really interesting is that we came

16:15

into the season, all of us, you, me,

16:18

everybody thinking the AFC was significantly

16:20

better than the NFC. Well,

16:23

the NFC went four to zero against the AFC

16:25

this week, and the three teams

16:27

that most of us had at the top of

16:29

the AFC were Kansas City,

16:32

Cincinnati, and Buffalo and they all lost

16:34

and their offense is all stunk.

16:37

So where am I on those three

16:39

teams? Here's my gut feeling. Kansas

16:42

City is going to be fine. First of all, they have

16:44

an excellent GM and it's going

16:46

to be a busy trade deadline that can find

16:48

stuff they don't have. Secondly, they have an

16:50

offensive coach. They'll solve their offensive

16:53

problems. They've got Travis Kelcey

16:55

returning and now Chris Jones, and my

16:57

takeaway on that Kansas City loss was Wow.

17:01

That defense is good, fast,

17:03

and really young. Kansas City

17:05

will be fine. They may not be fourteen

17:07

win fine, they'll be eleven twelve win fine.

17:10

Cincinnati again, offense

17:12

struggled, but they've got great weapons.

17:15

They've got an offensive coach. They

17:18

have a highly efficient quarterback

17:21

who generally bounces back after

17:23

losses. There's no trend that

17:25

Joe Burrow's bad after week one disappointments,

17:28

and he's had several week one disappointments.

17:30

I think last year in Week one he was bad.

17:32

So they've started slow before. I

17:35

like their offensive personnel. They've upgraded

17:37

at left tackle. I don't worry about

17:39

Kansas City or

17:41

Cincinnati, though I did think it was ugly

17:44

and it may take him a few weeks to work

17:46

their way out of it. Buffalo's

17:48

different. They have a defensive coach,

17:51

Their quarterback has regressed, and the answer

17:53

perhaps is not in house. They

17:56

still have no run game, they do

17:58

not have a number two rely on wide

18:00

receiver. The defensive coordinator

18:03

quit. There are a lot of

18:05

things about this team. I just

18:07

don't like Stefan Diggs.

18:10

Has this team really over a barrel? You

18:12

saw in that final draft? How many times did they go

18:14

to him three or four times. He's it their

18:17

second best receiver, maybe a running

18:19

back or a rookie tight end. So I

18:21

think Buffalo's in some trouble. I watched

18:23

Miami's offense. I've seen the Patriots

18:26

and Jets defense. The Jets beat him last

18:28

year, and I think this defense is better now

18:30

than it was last year. And so you

18:33

know, we've always known this. Every year there's

18:36

at least four new playoff teams. The average

18:38

is about six. Seven coaches get fired

18:40

annually. There's a lot of fluidity

18:42

in this league. And

18:45

jaymck and I talked about this during the offseason.

18:47

I sort of leaned with they'll be fine

18:50

as long as Stefan digs at the trade

18:52

deadline, maybe they get another receiver. I

18:55

still think that is true, but they'll be fine. Jmack

18:57

was a little more critical of Buffalo, and right

18:59

now, I just don't

19:01

like what I see. Still can't run the ball, Pittsburgh

19:05

Steelers, Buffalo Bills. Defensive coaches

19:08

can't figure out the run game. Kyle

19:11

Shannan's always got a run game. I watched this weekend

19:14

rams Sean McVay, average, o'lone,

19:16

you got a run game, Mike

19:19

McDaniel figures out the offense with small

19:21

toua Bills

19:23

Steelers. How many years gonna

19:25

struggle with this online? How many years?

19:28

And inability to develop a run game with defensive

19:30

coaches. It's crazy,

19:32

but it's Buffalo still can't run the football,

19:35

which is remarkable because their quarterback is

19:37

such a great runner and athlete. He

19:39

can be such a diversion, he can be such a

19:41

decoy that you think

19:44

running the football they would eventually

19:46

figure it out, and they just can't.

19:48

By the way, the Jets can. The

19:51

Jets can run the football, the Bills can't.

19:54

That may be the secret sauce for the

19:56

Jets going up and beating Buffalo. Now

19:58

von Miller will return. But the one

20:00

thing I took out of the Jets game last night that

20:03

to help this team, if the run

20:05

game's good and the defense is good,

20:08

they're not necessarily man overboard.

20:10

I think they'll be in games. I just

20:12

think you get the fourth quarters, the

20:14

Jets defense is on the field, You're facing

20:16

Mahomes and Russell Wilson and here's a Jimmy

20:18

Garoppolo, and here say what you want. They're

20:21

better than Zach Wilson. So I don't think that.

20:23

I don't think the Jets cap size here.

20:26

I think they're going to be competitive. I like their

20:28

coach, I like their defense, I like

20:30

their run game. But they are going

20:32

to be in a quarterback deficit, and that that is

20:34

what it is. You start looking

20:36

at who makes the playoffs. About one team

20:38

a year can get in without a high

20:41

end quarterback. Maybe it's the Jets.

20:43

If they can go up to Buffalo again and run the

20:45

ball and Buffalo still cannot

20:48

run the ball. It's been five years. That

20:51

little that's your little matchup advantage. They did

20:53

it last year, where like Buffalo just

20:55

couldn't consistently run the ball, they rely

20:58

overwhelmingly on Jo and

21:01

his best receiver has to go up against Sauce

21:03

Gardner, the Jets strength. So the Jets

21:05

do match up very

21:08

well with Buffalo. Their best defensive

21:10

player takes out their only

21:13

Buffalo's only elite perimeter

21:15

player, and the Bills can't run the ball. So

21:17

you're left to Josh Allen throwing forty five times.

21:20

Look at the numbers. He turns it over twice a game.

21:22

Fumbler pick last twenty games. So

21:25

again there's silver linings to the Jets.

21:28

They're gonna get their number one pick, and

21:30

they're gonna get a left tackle, and

21:32

Aaron's gonna come back. So it's not all

21:35

and I do think this team will have fight.

21:38

But man thirteen to the next sixteen

21:40

weeks, they got the second best quarterback. Now

21:42

they could argue we'll have the better defense, We'll

21:45

have a comparable run game. We may have a

21:47

better coach in many of those. So there

21:50

is a way to walk into that locker

21:52

room if you're Robert Sala and

21:54

sell this to the team. We're gonna

21:56

have the best defense in the

21:58

next sixteen game games. We're

22:01

gonna have a run game that's as good as anybody

22:04

that we face in the next sixteen games.

22:07

We're young, we've got character. I

22:09

mean, there are things you can sell they

22:12

do. I don't know if they match up with Miami, they

22:14

match up with the Bills. I saw it again last

22:16

night. The Bills become overwhelmingly

22:20

Josh Allen save us. That's

22:22

their offensive game plan case Sauce

22:25

takes out Stefan Diggs mostly. So

22:27

that's the silver lining for the Jets

22:29

today.

22:30

Can I ask you real quick, how do they match up

22:32

with the Cowboys, Because I'm gonna I'm gonna put this out there.

22:34

Who scares you more? Offensively? The Buffalo

22:37

Bills are the Dallas Cowboys.

22:39

The Cowboys have more than one weapon. They

22:41

have cooks and Cede Lamb gallops.

22:43

Okay, not great. Tony Pollard

22:46

is better than any running back for the Bills, and

22:48

I would take Dallas O line over Buffalo.

22:50

Okay, Josh Allen or Dak Prescott? Who scares

22:52

you more coming in when you're game?

22:53

We're gonna tell you something. Josh Allen.

22:55

Four turnovers is starting to scare

22:57

me. Well.

22:58

The Jets have dominated Alan the last three meetings

23:00

thirteen sacks. So there's a world

23:02

where the Jets defense shows

23:04

well against Dallas this weekend.

23:06

No, No, the Jets defense gonna show well against everybody.

23:08

But Buffalo is interesting because the

23:10

Cowboys should be able to run the ball occasionally.

23:14

Buffalo can't do. It's six years in. They can't

23:16

run the ball. And if you only have one

23:18

receiver and my best player, Sauce Gardner, I

23:20

take out your perimeter player. So what

23:22

the Bills did last night is what they are against

23:25

the Jets. Josh, they look like justin fields

23:27

and the Bears, Hey, justin save us, Hey,

23:29

Josh, save us. That's not a game plan as

23:32

good as justin fields. I mean justin fields

23:34

right now in Josh Allen. It's the same

23:36

game.

23:37

But you why of us? Why they need the

23:39

saving when they were up thirteen to three.

23:41

Why is Josh Allen yolo ing it all over

23:43

the field?

23:44

I don't understand the game plan. Some of that's on

23:46

Dorsey, isn't it.

23:48

You're up thirteen three in the you're just saying it's

23:51

The Jets are not going to be losing thirty

23:53

eight to six every weekend. They're gonna be in

23:55

games. But generally over the course

23:58

of twelve possessions. I have Mahomes,

24:01

you have Zach Wilson. It doesn't matter how good

24:03

your defense is. I'm gonna win the game.

24:05

Thirteen possessions, I have two of you have Zach

24:08

Wilson. I'm gonna win the game. That's what I'm

24:10

saying. But the Jets are gonna be in games

24:12

with this run game and this

24:14

defense, they're gonna be nobody's scoring

24:17

twenty eight points on the Jets. I mean,

24:19

that would have to be a big turnover game. If Zach

24:21

doesn't turn it over all Let's say he's one turnover again,

24:23

You're not dropping thirty two in the Jets, Bill's

24:25

no way.

24:26

Bill's had one explosive play the

24:28

entire game to gave Davis.

24:30

And that's when Josh Allen two good

24:32

tight ends and Stefan Diggs yeah

24:35

one. And by the way, Element of Surprise

24:37

had a whole loft season to prepare for resol

24:39

had two himself explosive plays

24:41

yesterday. Look almost turned

24:43

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25:21

The top ten NFL teams according

25:23

to College Number ten.

25:26

I gotta be honest here. The Green Bay Packers,

25:28

Jordan Love led all

25:31

quarterbacks with one hundred and twenty three passer

25:33

rating, and he was perfect on third and

25:35

fourth down Situationally, they were fantastic.

25:38

They have the youngest roster in the NFL

25:40

average age twenty five, so they're

25:43

gonna make mistakes and be imperfect. They're really

25:45

young at receiver and tight end. But

25:47

I will say they were the second

25:50

highest scoring team. I thought they looked

25:52

organized. I thought it felt like Matt

25:55

Lafleur's team more than Aaron's,

25:57

and I like what I saw Green Bay at ten

26:00

nine the Chargers, I think their coach is over

26:02

his head. They're zero to two in their last two

26:04

games despite zero giveaways

26:06

and seven takeaways. That is an

26:08

alarming sign. Their defense

26:11

is twenty ninth ranked scoring defense

26:13

and twenty seventh total in the Brandon

26:15

Staly era, and they spend more money

26:18

than anybody on defense.

26:20

They may have the wrong coach,

26:23

get My guess is today they do. But

26:25

I love their own line, I love their run game, I

26:27

love their quarterback, and I like their personnel.

26:29

They could have won that game. Chargers nine, number

26:32

eight Jacksonville didn't play particularly

26:34

well. But Trevor Lawrence throwing the ball downfield,

26:37

this is what he does, nine for thirteen

26:39

and one hundred and fifty passer rating. So

26:41

they with Calvin Ridley, they're going to go over

26:43

the top a lot. Calvin Ridley had eight

26:45

catches, one hundred yards

26:48

and a touchdown. And so

26:50

I mean Calvin Ridley changes this offense.

26:52

This is a beat you over the top

26:55

offense. If they have to. They've got

26:57

plenty of guys underneath, like what I saw Jags

26:59

at eight, number seven Baltimore.

27:02

But what was my concern about Baltimore before

27:04

the season started? Why did I have them missing

27:06

the playoffs? Because most of their good players

27:08

have an injury history. What do you know? JK.

27:10

Dobbins out for the year, Ronnie Staley hurt,

27:14

and by the way, now Tyler Linderbauman,

27:16

excellent young center, is banged up.

27:18

Zave Flowers did though,

27:21

have an exceptional game. Ob

27:23

j Lamar Jackson. I think they may be the

27:25

fastest team in the league. I love watching

27:28

them play. They're gonna win a lot of games.

27:30

But my concern is their injury

27:33

history, and it's already the injury

27:35

bug is already struck. Number six

27:37

Detroit Lions nine

27:39

to two over their last eleven games. It's

27:41

a good football team with a great

27:44

offensive line. Jared Goff three hundred

27:46

and fifty nine straight passes without a pick.

27:49

That's the third longest in league history. They

27:51

held Mahomes to fifty four percent completion

27:53

percentage. They've got a real pass rush.

27:55

Detroit's for real. I have them at six,

27:58

number five. At Kansas City mail lost,

28:00

but Travis Kelsey was

28:02

a huge factor. Listen,

28:05

here's the good news for Kansas City Mahomes.

28:08

With Kelsey, they'll be great and their defense

28:10

is young and spectacularly

28:13

fast. This could be the best defense

28:15

in the Mahomes era. But I do

28:17

worry that if you can take out

28:19

Kelsey, I don't trust Tony. They're

28:23

really young and unproven. It wide

28:25

receiver really young. I

28:27

think the defense, you gotta feel great about it.

28:30

I still think they're better than the Lions with Kelsey

28:32

and Chris Jones, I have him at five.

28:34

Number four.

28:35

Philadelphia didn't blow me away in Week

28:37

one, but Jalen Hurts is eighteen

28:39

and one in his last nineteen starts. But

28:42

they were outscored twenty to nine in the

28:44

final three quarters and I think losing Shane

28:47

Stiken changes their offense. Look

28:49

at Josh Allen without Brian Dable

28:52

got twenty turnovers, twenty giveaways.

28:54

He's not the same guy. His

28:56

mechanics now aren't good. He's still not sliding.

28:59

Jalen Hurts is not going to put up last year's numbers.

29:01

But but they're very very good. It's a

29:03

very very good football team. I have them

29:05

at four number three. I gotta go

29:07

Dallas. I saw what I saw, forty

29:10

nothing. The bottom line here is they're

29:12

eleven and one in their last twelve games against

29:14

the Giants. So this was a little bit the

29:16

big coop kid in the playground beating

29:18

up in the small defenseless kid. They just

29:20

have a major matchup advantage over the

29:22

Giants. But they had seven sacks

29:24

and three takeaways, and they led the NFL

29:27

in each of the last two years

29:29

in takeaways. Brandon Cooks,

29:32

Ceedee Lamb and Tony Pollard are home

29:34

run guys. Potentially their own line

29:36

I thought was better than I suspected. Listen,

29:39

last two years they lead the league and taking the ball

29:41

away. This is what they are now. It's

29:43

not a fluke, it's not a statistical

29:45

aberration. They take the ball

29:48

from your offense. They'll do it against the

29:50

Jets probably this weekend. Number

29:52

two Miami five hundred

29:54

plus total yards on the road and by the way,

29:56

big plays Tua led the NFL

29:58

despite not having a big arm ten point

30:00

four yards per attempt. This

30:03

offense was spectacular, spectacular,

30:08

and they did it without their left tackle. It's

30:10

only gonna get better. I worry about

30:12

this team down the stretch, but on week

30:14

one of hurd Hierarchy, they blew

30:16

me away. Not just winning, just the fashion,

30:19

the creativity, the multiple sets

30:21

playing from behind blew

30:23

me away. Number one

30:26

San Francisco. Can we be honest?

30:29

Brought Pertty's pretty good. He's not great. Nobody's

30:32

saying top ten, but the kids more athletic

30:34

than I gave him credit for. He led him

30:36

in six scoring drives. Christian

30:39

McCaffrey was a monster. Christian

30:41

McCaffrey's insane. I don't even

30:43

know what the comp is. He could

30:45

be a wide receiver in the league. He's a running back.

30:47

Brandon Nyuk, Deebo, Samuel George Kittle,

30:49

Christian McCaffrey the best left tackle in

30:52

football, and Brock Purty is not just

30:54

capable and coachable. Like I said, he's

30:56

better than that. Whatever it is, Iowa

30:59

State football is not the same without him.

31:02

Right like he left, they don't look the

31:04

same as a program. Fellow broadcaster

31:06

Aaron Amy guest I could have picked to be on the show

31:08

today, it would have been Mark Sanchez, who comes

31:10

on fairly weekly for us. He did

31:12

the rams Seahawks game, which was the shock of

31:14

the weekend, so wow

31:17

for all of us. A game they got receivers

31:19

making plays. They were playing college last

31:21

year I didn't even watch. Okay, so Mark Sanchez,

31:24

ten years in the NFL, led the Jets

31:26

obviously to AFC championships. He

31:28

knows the city very well. So I

31:30

don't want to speculate nor to you, but I

31:32

was talking to a GM Steve Kaim last night

31:34

in a former GM, and I said, you know, a forty

31:36

year old or a thirty nine year old with a

31:38

torn achilles is not a twenty two year old linebacker.

31:41

It's hard, rehabs brutal for

31:43

a young player that didn't get the bag, doesn't

31:45

have the legacy the Super Bowl. Aaron's

31:48

gone all that. It's a mental

31:50

game, are you? And I said this if

31:52

Aaron went six months into this rehab

31:54

and then just waved the white flag and said, it's not

31:56

healing. What is your gut feeling

31:58

about what he's going maybe mentally

32:01

is an older player in a tough surgery.

32:04

I've had a season

32:07

wiped away in one play when I hurt my shoulder.

32:09

So I know that rollercoaster

32:12

of emotions that he's feeling because

32:14

you put so much into it, and you

32:16

ask so much of yourself during the offseason

32:18

and so much sacrifice for something you absolutely

32:21

love and then it's gone like that.

32:23

And so coming to.

32:24

That realization of I'm not playing

32:26

football for the rest of this year, you lose a little

32:28

bit of your identity number one psychologically,

32:32

and then you go into this like

32:35

think of like Christian Bale when he has

32:37

to go down in that deep dark pit

32:40

in Batman, right, and he's got to be like in

32:42

the muck and the mere and just kind of like hang

32:45

with himself and toughen himself up and

32:48

get into this injury cocoon where you kind

32:50

of block out everybody and

32:52

you build this new

32:54

reality of Okay,

32:57

a couple days ago, I was just slinging the ball

32:59

and doing whatever I wanted to do with this shoulder,

33:01

and now I mean I can barely out

33:04

of surgery, move it in circles, hanging

33:06

with like gravity, letting it move. So

33:09

he's gonna go through a lot of that. He's gonna be on a scooter

33:11

for a little bit. He's gonna be on a boot in a boot

33:13

for a little bit. And you you start

33:15

to create this like fictitious

33:18

or like imaginary ladder of these rungs

33:20

you have to hit yeah, and those become your

33:22

new Sundays.

33:24

Those become your new milestones

33:26

and.

33:26

Markers of Okay, this is where

33:28

I have to get by next week. I need this much range

33:30

of motion, I need this much blank, I need this

33:33

much blank. Okay, fine, that's my next

33:35

test. Do we pass or do we not?

33:36

Have?

33:36

I regressed at all?

33:38

And you're constantly with a new team and

33:40

a new it's the same mindset,

33:42

but with different goals and they're much smaller,

33:44

and you have to you have

33:47

to come to the realization that it's not the same, but

33:49

you can be the same. You can get

33:51

back to where you want to go. It's just so far ahead.

33:53

It's like climbing a really steep mountain, right

33:56

You're not staring at the summit the whole time. It's just,

33:58

Okay, we got to get to that plateau. Let's

34:00

go what do we need to get to there? All

34:02

right, let's go get me there?

34:04

All right, I'm here. What do we need to get to the next one? And

34:07

he's going to go through all that while

34:09

everything's going on in the world, because unfortunately

34:13

for Aaron, you know, when you take

34:15

the emotions out of it, the

34:18

world keeps spinning. The sun came up today

34:20

and Zach Wilson's the starting quarterback for the New York

34:22

Jets, and they got sixteen more games to figure

34:24

out, you know what I mean. And that is a harsh

34:26

realization, but it's reality.

34:29

And so Aaron's going to be on his own track.

34:32

The Jets are going to be on their own track at some point.

34:34

Hopefully Aaron's healthy enough and he's around

34:36

the team and can help, you know, Zach

34:38

along the way because he can definitely use it. He's

34:40

a calming presence for Zach. You could tell, you could

34:42

see it in hard knocks. But there's

34:45

also schools of thought like we don't want our hurt

34:47

players around our healthy players because then

34:50

it just like kind of detracts from you know what, I

34:52

mean, you don't want a bunch of it is

34:54

a terrible.

34:54

Yeah, never mind, negativity.

34:57

Is yeah, it's just yeah.

34:58

So it was interesting. The run

35:01

games better this year than last. The

35:03

defense looks better. All those young kids. Yeah,

35:05

no, I mean it was insane. So I'm

35:07

gonna spin it positive. I'm Robert

35:10

Solo. What is my speech? Oh, Okay,

35:12

I come in and I say, this defense

35:15

it's better than last year. This run

35:17

game is better. And Zach just spent six

35:19

months with Aaron, he's better, and

35:22

I believe all those to be true.

35:24

I think you're right. I agree with that.

35:26

I think you can spin it. My question

35:28

is Aaron was more than throwing

35:30

a football when you drove to work as

35:32

a jet. He was the magic.

35:34

It's true.

35:35

And you know what, and this is part of what I

35:37

saw with Garrett Wilson. But there were a couple shots

35:39

that I thought were incredible last night

35:42

of him on the bench with Zach. I

35:44

believe it was after he threw the interception. But

35:46

Garrett Wilson is the one

35:49

talking to Zach Wilson, telling

35:52

the quarterback like, yo, we got you, We're

35:54

good. We've all put too much into this, like

35:57

we're gonna figure it out. You

35:59

saw the catching man, that dude ain't

36:01

losing, Randall cob ain't losing,

36:03

you know, Lazard. These guys refuse

36:06

to lose. And Zach started to pick

36:08

up his play towards the end of the game and made a couple

36:10

of crucial throws. That's gonna

36:13

be the key is getting him in the right mind

36:16

frame, getting him to understand when

36:18

to throw balls away, when it's zone, when it's

36:21

man, and how to react and how to act

36:23

accordingly.

36:25

But there's so much.

36:26

Talent on that team, and there's such an urgency

36:29

to win on that team, and you felt

36:31

it. A lot of that was heightened by Aaron, And

36:34

now that he's gone, it's like, all right, we're kind of doing

36:36

this for him, We're doing this for ourselves. Like come

36:38

on, man, we're not done after week one.

36:40

Let's go.

36:41

Let's go see how far we can take this thing. So I

36:43

think there is positivity, but gosh,

36:45

it's just such a crushing blow. I mean, I

36:48

haven't rooted for the Justice heard since I played for him,

36:50

I feel like, you know, and that one, like

36:53

it was just a gut punts last night and you're just kind

36:55

of crossing your fingers hoping it's not the worst. And

36:58

here we are, so you got to figure it out.

37:00

So I've always

37:02

felt like the more

37:04

talent somebody has as a singer

37:07

is an actor. It could be Christian

37:09

Bale, it could be Denzel, it

37:11

can be Josh Allen, it could be

37:13

Beyonce. The more talent

37:16

somebody has, I'm

37:18

not begging for efficiency

37:21

because when you take big swings, you

37:23

have big misses. So I'm not

37:25

looking for Josh Allen to play

37:28

like Alex Smith.

37:29

Correct.

37:30

I'm not looking for Lamar Jackson to

37:33

have a seventy four percent completion percentage.

37:35

I want the magic.

37:36

Sure.

37:37

I do worry though, that all

37:39

great performers need kingmakers

37:42

or support systems. He has

37:44

regressed, in my opinion, without Brian

37:47

whatever day Bowl did sandpaper

37:49

refine in his head. I think as mechanics

37:51

have eroded. I

37:54

mean, he's got twenty seven turnovers giveaways

37:56

in since last year, week one. There's

37:58

some magic still

38:00

there. But Mark, when I watch him, I

38:02

think he's a little less patient.

38:06

It's it's the discernment of

38:08

when to use your superpower right,

38:10

because he clearly has superpowers just like Patrick

38:12

Mahomes does, just like all these great guys have. But

38:15

it's win and it's not every down.

38:18

You can't do it every down, And so you

38:21

know, you got to understand. Like I live down

38:23

the street from the guy. I know, the kid one

38:25

of my favorite humans of all time, forget football.

38:27

Whether he plays football or not, I love him as a person.

38:30

But it's my job to criticize

38:33

performances and critique performances.

38:35

So when I make the comment last night Josh

38:37

Allen ran into his own guy and fumbled the ball.

38:39

Weird, Okay, I'm joking, number one, you gotta

38:41

understand, Like, yeah, if that's the biggest takeaway

38:44

for Josh Allen and the Bills that I tweeted

38:46

that we got bigger fish to fry, like we

38:48

got bigger issues. The problem

38:51

was the giveaways, right, four turnovers.

38:53

Trust me, dude, I've been there. When you

38:55

think I can make all these throws, when you think

38:57

I got this on first

39:00

down when you don't need it. Oh, my guy's

39:02

gonna make a play. I'm gonna get hit. Let me get rid of this ball

39:04

downfield. Eh, you gotta hold

39:06

yourself back. I mean, he put whitehead

39:08

in the Pro Bowl most likely. Okay, last night

39:11

I did it to Lee Boden when he was a defensive back

39:13

in New England. Okay, he sent me a

39:15

drink later on in the year at Super

39:17

Bowl. We were both at an event for Super Bowl

39:20

and he sent me a drink across the bar and he said, Hey, tell

39:22

Sanchez, thanks for the Pro Bowl nod. And

39:24

I see him across the bar and I was just like, all

39:26

right, bro, got you?

39:27

Yeah, you know.

39:28

And so it's this idea of you're

39:30

so competitive you have to win every single

39:32

snap. And if I

39:34

can relate it to other quarterbacks like Stafford,

39:37

which we'll get into later, the

39:39

snaps, you know, the defense

39:41

guest right, and they got

39:43

you dead to rights. You have no chance on

39:45

this play. Those ones have to be just immediate

39:47

dirt, the ball, fall down, anything, but

39:50

give them the satisfaction of being correct.

39:52

And how do you do that? You check it down, immediately, fall

39:55

down, you throw the ball away, whatever it

39:57

is. But the bottom line for Josh

39:59

is great players have been

40:01

there, Mediocre players have been

40:04

there. All players have been there. Where you give the ball away?

40:06

Okay, now, what what are you gonna do? How

40:08

are you gonna respond?

40:09

To this.

40:09

Where where is the tough coaching

40:12

where you look him in the eye and say, listen, we can't

40:14

have this at this time in the game.

40:16

At some point, the situation,

40:19

the situation and

40:21

circumstances of the game dictate

40:24

how you read some of these plays. These plays are a

40:26

bunch of lines drawn on paper. The situations

40:28

bring those plays to life, and then the

40:30

players give them a little magic if

40:32

that makes sense, right. They totally the

40:35

plays jump off the page when Josh Allen

40:37

runs them as opposed to somebody else, when Patrick

40:40

Mahomes runs them as to somebody else. This

40:42

was the plan, but this happened, and

40:44

look what he did.

40:45

Wow.

40:46

Okay, when it doesn't work, cut

40:48

bait and move on with your life. Don't make

40:51

me chicken salad out of chicken crap, you

40:53

know what I mean. Yeah, And so that's really where it's

40:55

at. And Josh realizes it, he said in the post conference

40:58

a press conference. He knows

41:00

what the issues are. It's understanding

41:02

the situation, when to take the shot, when

41:04

to be superman and throw on the cape, and

41:06

when to just be average Joan get

41:09

rid of the ball.

41:10

So I think you know.

41:12

It's hard for super talented people to

41:14

tell you.

41:14

It is because he's gone away with it for so

41:16

many, so many years, being a little loose

41:18

with the ball, that kind of thing. But bottom

41:20

line to this position, and you

41:23

know, I feel like we're on a nature walk or

41:25

a safari. But you got to have armadillo

41:27

skin and a goldfish memory,

41:31

bottom line, because if you've got deer skin

41:33

and an elephant memory, you ain't

41:36

gonna last year. It just doesn't work. It's

41:38

the hardest position in sports. I don't care what anybody

41:40

says. So now, waking

41:42

up this morning, the sun came up. By the way, Josh

41:45

Allen, You're gonna be just fine. You got

41:47

another shot next Sunday, and this game

41:49

can't come soon enough for him. Okay,

41:52

now, what how do you respond? Show me how you're gonna

41:54

make this right. Show me how you're gonna understand

41:58

what the mistakes were. Get to the truth, because that's

42:00

really what the day after the game is yet to the

42:02

truth, get to the truth of it. Was I loose with

42:04

the ball? Did I make the right decision? Was that the right throat?

42:06

Was it a bad throw, a bad decision, or a really good

42:08

defensive play? Most of those were bad

42:10

decisions. I saw one really really good defensive

42:13

play, okay, and he knows that. Okay,

42:15

so what show me what you're gonna do?

42:17

And I know the kids got more than enough talent.

42:19

Oh yeah, like it's all there.

42:21

It's just pick and choose your spots,

42:23

you know, manage your missus like a golfer.

42:25

Yeah.

42:25

No, oh shoot, I'm way off. I'm way off the

42:28

fairway here. Either I'm you know, just

42:31

going for it and aiming for the green. Or let's

42:33

just get back on the fairway and get

42:35

back in the center lane and drive fifty five and

42:38

let's.

42:38

Go Golf's a perfect

42:41

analogous moment there, because

42:43

golf is the classic. You better

42:45

have a short memory.

42:46

Oh no doubt, Amnie.

42:50

It's it's unbelievable.

42:51

Okay, so you did. How lucky are we? So

42:53

we talked about this yesterday. I mean, the

42:55

Niners hammering Pittsburgh's

42:57

one thing, the Rams dominating

43:00

the Seahawks. To me, I sat there and I thought,

43:03

how is this defense doing it? Seattle couldn't

43:05

get first down? So you did the game. The

43:09

one thing we came back and said is.

43:11

Let's let's be honest.

43:12

When Stafford's got time to throw coach.

43:15

It is beautiful.

43:16

Many people better, I know, people give

43:18

him a hard time. They gave him a hard time for giving the ball

43:20

away the Super Bowl year. All that, my

43:23

man is just so you met with McVeigh before

43:25

the game. Oh many people thought, well, they're

43:27

gonna be in the they're gonna be in the quarterback sweepstakes.

43:31

What was mcveig because mcbah, I thought they changed

43:33

their run game. They were pulling guards.

43:35

It was different.

43:36

It's so funny.

43:37

So the traditional McVeigh

43:40

run game is more spread.

43:43

You out run zones, these plays that

43:45

kind of get pushed and flushed

43:47

towards the sideline and then the running back like

43:50

Todd Gurley would stick his foot in the ground and

43:52

boom and dissect the defense. Right they

43:55

get this wave. He rides the wave of this zone

43:57

game and then cuts back. Okay,

44:01

they went a completely different route,

44:03

and it's gap trap, which is man

44:06

blocking schemes instead of like kind

44:08

of zone for zone and spot blocking everything.

44:10

It is a man identification you

44:12

and me for these two dudes. Right now,

44:14

we're gonna jump on this technique at the line

44:16

of scrimmage. Bam, hit him in the mouth. Get

44:19

to the second level, give the back a clear

44:21

defined hole and he has one option

44:24

off of that hole, or we're toast

44:26

right. And the reason you do that

44:28

is when you play like an athletic defense,

44:30

or defense like Seattle, or

44:33

with your own offensive line that's

44:35

not quite as experienced together,

44:37

you don't have all the time on task. You

44:40

want to just get to the answer quickly and

44:42

jump them right away, get up in their face right

44:44

away, and give you back some chance nor

44:47

exactly, and that takes time. That's

44:50

like a dance, you know, between five

44:52

zero linemen maybe six with the tight end and

44:55

the halfback.

44:55

It all has to fit perfect and it's got to be nice

44:58

and smooth.

44:58

It's the old school Mic Shanahan stuff

45:01

and Kyle Shanahan stuff from before.

45:03

But now what are they doing San Francisco. It's

45:05

more of that game plan because Lafleur came

45:07

from Shanahan to McVeigh,

45:10

now you know what I mean. So he implemented some of

45:12

this downhill north and south

45:14

in your face gap trap

45:17

schemes, and so they ran that to

45:19

perfection. I thought Kyen Williams looked awesome.

45:22

I thought cam Akers looked great. But

45:25

most importantly from this game I

45:27

thought neither team turned the ball over.

45:30

Matthew Stafford was the difference in

45:32

that game? Oh yeah, and the

45:34

same thing we're talking about. Josh Allen. He managed

45:36

the misses a couple times. He came

45:39

out on a bootleg and he's it's called

45:41

a naked for a reason. You got no protection. You're running

45:43

naked out in the flat. There's a dude in his

45:45

face and another guy coming to take his head off. He makes

45:47

one guy miss and chucks this ball into the

45:49

stands so fast, before the play

45:51

could even get started, they were done. Dead to

45:53

rights once again. They got us. And

45:56

what did Matthew do? He didn't try and force it. He

45:58

wasn't loose with the ball, just get rid of it.

46:00

They try to flee flicker, dead

46:02

to rights, they got nickel pressure. Kobe Bryant number

46:05

eight from Seattle's coming off the edge ready to just

46:07

stone Matthew Stafford right in the chin. What

46:09

does he do? Dirted it? They get

46:12

I made the comment I said, this Rams

46:14

offense is stuck in the mud. I feel like I'm at

46:16

Burning Man. So they

46:19

end up like third and thirty. Okay,

46:22

what do they do? Quick completion play? The field

46:24

goal game. The stands are going nuts, right, they're

46:26

ready for a big play. It's prime for

46:29

a young quarterback to make a mistake and throw a

46:31

pick six on your own twenty or something. What is

46:33

matt, dude, quick completion? Give me ten yards.

46:36

Yeah, we didn't get the first down, but we're punting. They

46:38

ended every drive with a kick, a

46:41

punt, a field goal, or an extra point, right,

46:43

And that's it's so easy

46:45

to say from this chair, But in those

46:47

moments, so many players

46:49

make the mistake of what Josh Allen did last

46:51

night, trying too hard.

46:53

I'm gonna get hit.

46:53

I gotta make this throw, take the hit,

46:56

fall down, live to see another down.

46:58

And Matthew Stafford did that perfectly.

47:00

But that's a veteran guy. With time

47:03

and these quarterback coordinator combinations.

47:07

The coordinator's gonna bail you out a lot. You

47:09

got a handful of times during the game where you got to help

47:11

him too, because he just sets you up with

47:13

all those sequencing of plays, all that

47:15

time he spending burning the midnight oil, just

47:18

grinding for you on tape and setting

47:20

you up for those perfect throws and the touchdowns

47:23

and the trick plays and all that You gotta

47:25

bail them out too, And Matthew Stafford did that

47:27

for Sean McVay.

47:28

They work. They were in lockstep on Sunday.

47:30

That was impressive.

47:31

You've been great today, Final final,

47:33

you really have The final question

47:37

is brought pretty better than I think. Bart.

47:41

Here's talk about managing your misses

47:43

and when it's time to cut it loose, cut it loose.

47:45

Talk about a kid who's grown up.

47:48

You know what it is too, the reps

47:50

he's had in college, and I'm oh,

47:53

see, okay, it's it's time

47:55

on task and being in those situations

47:58

over and over and over, yes,

48:00

and getting stressed in practice in

48:03

a way. Rahee Morris brought this up about his defense

48:05

last week. He said, we got to stress these young guys

48:07

in practice because we got to make it harder in practice

48:09

than it's gonna be in the game. So they make the right decision.

48:12

And watch him right here, just getting down, just

48:14

getting down. Towards the end, a lot of guys will try

48:16

a little bit more understanding your personnel.

48:19

A ukes matched up one on one,

48:21

the DB's not looking at me, give him a shot.

48:23

That's an athletic receiver.

48:24

Now back end line throws up

48:26

by the crossbar, not down low, because

48:28

those things get tipped up by the crossbar and he gets tipped

48:30

out of bounds. Everything you see is like

48:33

the perfect quarterback play exactly

48:36

what throws on the front end

48:38

of the goal line. You want to belt, loop and lower so

48:40

the guys can get down dirty, catch the ball and fall

48:42

down because there's gonna be a big time collision back

48:45

end line. Throws in the back of the end zone, it's got to be helmet

48:47

or higher, so the guy jumps boom.

48:50

If he misses, the ball goes out of bounce. If he catches

48:52

it, he falls down. He's got to get his feet in. You do

48:54

your part.

48:55

That's it.

48:56

And he just he has a knack for understanding

48:59

what wins games, what loses games. And he

49:01

stays in that mind frame and he's

49:03

like when he's on the field, he'll smile

49:05

occasionally, but that dude's like a stone cold killer.

49:07

Man.

49:08

I like, I really enjoy watching him.

49:09

Play, so do I I really really do.

49:12

But the reps at Iowa State really

49:14

helped him.

49:14

You know, Bill Parcells used to have a rule

49:18

three years of college starting now these

49:21

days, you can't of course different Now, there

49:23

was a reason he had the rule one.

49:24

Hundred percent stress. Been in those

49:26

situations and you know what to do. Similar

49:29

to like military training. Right, they're

49:31

not thinking on the fly. You are, but you're

49:33

not. You're so trained in these situations that you

49:35

have a checklist in your brain of Okay, this this,

49:37

this contingency plan, boom, get out.

49:40

That's it.

49:41

That's all you have to know, and it's eat. Once again,

49:43

easy to say from this chair when you got three

49:45

hundred pound guys trying to take your head off in

49:47

less than two seconds, it's really hard.

49:49

All right, rams, Niners, you're on this

49:51

game. Continued success at

49:53

a fantastic job. It was wildly entertaining

49:56

if you're from Los Angeles, if you're from Seattle,

49:58

it was.

49:59

It was a fine, they'll be fine long

50:01

season. They got a.

50:02

Tackle issue, but they'll be fine. They just brought in a

50:04

tackle today.