Friday Morning Football Recap- Rams/ Seahawks

ended quickly. With that Nick Scott pick, the Rams kick a field goal to ice it final score to seventeen on a weird night, A weird night in a game that was played where we are in the middle of the night. Um got caught up this morning watching the game and now talking about it here from our hotels in London. A weird night, Greg with both starting quarter back Stathew Stafford and Russell Wilson's suffering finger injuries dislocations.

Stafford grinded through it and actually thrived in the second half, moving the ball thrown for two yards in a touch in the second half, but Russell Wilson had to come out of the game, which tells you that's a bad situation. And we know, Greg, what happens to the Seahawks if Russell Wilson is out for an extended amount of time do it because we've never seen it before. Well literally literally never one of the worst teams in football, Russell

Wilson not an exaggeration. Tell me what this team could do without Russell Wilson. Well, I've got a little Fox graphic for you. First of all, you know some games, when you're watching you realize I'm going to remember where I was for the rest of my life when I watched this game, and so I will remember being in my bed Landmark Hotel Friday morning football, watch the first

half live. Have to admit I passed out, then went went to bed, watched the second half, fun game, pass hearing the g no g no ge, no chance, let's hear it, Riggy, Come on, the entire West Coast is going crazy with me. I'm going wild in the bed. I had about seventeen texts at my phone. Really, you need to calm down. It just makes me. It makes me so proud that so many watched Smith play Greg and you were going wild in your bed, in your hotel room. Well, I woke up for it too, and yes,

so I'll always remember that. And it's unfortunate how it ended with Tyler Lockett slipping on his route and ruining heroic performance. But to your point that you think they're gonna fall apart, and we'll get to a lot more. This game was fascinated. There's a graphic that will have forever.

I'll keep it forever where it says the second half offense three drives sixteen yards with Russell Wilson two drives hundred forty four yards, ten points, Gino making checks at the line, impressing Troy Aikman on point who knows he was moving the ball. This defense stinks, But Gino gave a lot of people a lot of actes last night, you know, especially me. He has Mr. Friday Morning Football Dan. Now by the way, he lost. The Seahawks lost the game, greg Um and the wide receiver slipped as the dog

ate my homework of quarterback play excuses. But let me just just what you're like. You're like arguing the point that that has nothing to do with the quarterback course it does. It happened, and it is what it is. I'm not saying Gino stinks because of it. But it happened, and that's the way things work sometimes. But let me hear that Gino chan again when they're talking about like what's Gino doing at the line? He's checking. I actually have the audio down on the field. Hit it riggy. Yeah,

that's it. Yeah, that's manning down the field, the old field general Gino Smith. But I will give him credit. He goes ninety eight yards for a score. Uh. And he's exactly what you want from a backup quarterback, um, which is you come in the game and he was prepared and he made plays. But the problem is he was one of the only players on the Seahawks that did UM. And I'll start with the Seahawks from on this game because I just find their situation a little

more interesting than the Rams. The Rams good for them. They go on the road in prime time in a short week, uh and get the job done even when they didn't deliver a top performance. But the Seahawks again are showing signs now at two and three that this

might not be a very good team. And you know, I watched the game like you did, Greg this morning and finished the game, and then I did some reading on the game and Connor or our buddy wrote a really good piece for s I talking about like what's going on with the Seahawks and and he ended his piece with an open ended question, what are the Seahawks? Because we know they're Russell Wilson and his singular talent

and what he brings. They are two incredible receivers, Tyler Lockett and a DK Metcalf, But what their identity is supposed to be is we love to run the football and we do it successfully. That's not the case the middle of the pack we play defensive. That is not the case. I think they're They entered Thursday defensive d v O A, so they can't defend. They don't run the ball well, and it's all on Russell Wilson to

save the day. And if if he is, I don't expect Russell Wilson to mistime because that's not what he does. Report said. Surgery is a consideration on Friday morning, which would potentially knock them out maybe a week maybe not interesting. That's it was. It was. It was Pete Carroll sat up to the game. It was badly sprained. He's a

tough dude. We know that. I expect him to most likely continue to play, But how badly will that affect his play even if you avoid surgery, And if Russell Wilson is anything less than great, I think the Seahawks are absolutely me the ochre sub five in this division. I agree with everything you said. What they are is a potentially historic ly bad defense. They are the seventh team ever to give up more than four hundred and fifty yards in four straight games. No team has ever

done five straight. So they could set the record next week. And I'm gonna break a little news here. Maybe not worth it for this stupid joke. They're not going to break that record next week because they're playing Ben Roethlisberger. I mean, they're the Steelers. Aren't putting up for fifty next week. You gotta play Juno in that game. You can get the win. But here's the thing, Like people say, okay, okay,

well they played the Rams, they competed hard. You know, I actually thought, you know, the first half of that game, it was you know, they're making plays at the end of these drives, just like they did against San Francisco.

At least they were being resourceful. Quandary Diggs with a nice interception, even though it was it was a weird play by Stafford trying to throw the ball away, But two of the four teams they've played this year are the forty Niners and the Colts, which are hardly offensive juggernauts. And you're right the end, I really was struck by the margin for error that Russell Wilson plays with versus the margin for air Matthew Stafford plays with. Because think

of the mistakes Matthew Stafford made in this game. At least three or four drives ended because he just missed throws, just missed open throws, and he made a lot of great plays by the end of that game. Also had an interception when he was trying to throw the ball away that was like something we would mock lesser quarterbacks for. And then he and then he balled out and played

great too. But it's like, if Russell Wilson is making half of those mistakes, they're not winning, they're not even competing, Like he has to almost be perfect for them to win, and that that's tough to play that way. Uh No, I totally agree. They're running game the Rams, which you know they've suffered all the injuries, but they seemed to have something Uh, in a one to punch of Darryl Henderson and Sony Michelle. Uh. They were doing well. They

compliment each other well. And I was hoping you were going to bring it up, Greg, because I know Seahawks fans don't want to hear it from me of all people, but it Jamal Adams is a problem on their defense right now. And the Rams were able to take advantage of Jamal Adams, which is not supposed to be when you give up the two first round picks, when you give the biggest deal lever to his safety out this summer,

He's supposed to be a weapon. He's still You surprise me with that stat Greg, that Jamal Adams is not doesn't have a pressure on the quarterback a hurry this season yet I don't think he had one on Thursday night, and they are not rushing him as much, and they're using him more in coverage, and he's a liability that he was. I believe Troy Aikman put it as it was like a no contest or something like that. Okay, and then the Sean Jackson sixty five yard play that

was not a well thrown ball by Matthew Stafford. That was underthrown. That's the play that your safety needs to react to snatch that out of the air and change the game. Instead, Jamal gets turned around and gets beat bed. So I'm not like celebrating. Although this hired. It's a higher draft pick for the Jets, so obviously I have something invested fandom wise, but this is something to track now. And when I woke up this morning, I turned on Twitter,

uh and Jamal Adams was trending. I was like, oh, God, I hope he's not hurt. Number one and then number two. Oh, that's why he's trending. That's another issue for the Seahawks. That was like me trying to figure out through all these texts. I hadn't watched the game yet what exactly

was going to happen. I knew Gino was heavenly involved. Unfortunately, you know, as our friend Zumwalt blew it for me because one one text was like Gino exclamation, exclamation, and then the next one was Gino being Gino, And I was like, Okay, something went wrong at the end. You're you're right about Adams if you think about him versus Ramsey, It's it's hard of like, of course, Jalen Ramsey is better.

But when you think about that, what you gave up to get Jalen Ramsey and what you gave up to get Jamal Adams and the money, like, it's all kind of in the same area. And I think of the two drives in the first half of that game, where Aaron Donald stops one drive cold, they're best player, and then Jalen Ramsey competes and stops another drive cold with it, you know, tipped ball that turns in to an interception. And he competed against DK Metcalf all night. Metcalf had

a couple of wins. Ramsey certainly had his own, whereas they don't really have those guys on the Seahawks defense and theory it's Adams and in Wagner is not quite the player he was. They don't have the same pass rush. So you're right, it kind of goes back to Russell having to carry everything. And it gets to something I don't do we want to have a Russell talk because I heard something from the pregame with Jay Glazer that I found I found very interesting. Why don't we have

a Russell talk? Go ahead? Okay, because Glazer watched I thought we kind of were already, but yeah, I was just hanking so much and I'm just like, okay, honk Man. Glazer watched Aaron Andrews and Russell Wilson on a deck, you know, with the water behind him was the mountains in the Fox prex like they were all very proud of the production value they put into this, and Russell Wilson during that at one point was like, you know, Aaron like thing. Things got really blown out of proportion

with with everything that happened this offseason. I was like, okay, and I really love Jay Glazer because when they came out of the video, he didn't mentors. He was like, it wasn't blown out of proportion, Like what's he talking about. Russell Wilson made it very clear if they don't upgrade things around him that he wants to go and the

way things are going, I've got my doubts. And I was Jay Glazer talking and I thought, Okay, this is that's why this We talked about it like when that drama with Russell Wilson played out, It wasn't at the level of the Aaron Rodgers storyline uh this summer, but it was significant that there were there were cracks in the relationship, and you knew this season for the Seahawks is gonna be very important because if they either bomb out in the playoffs again or god forbid, and this

is something that's never happened in the Russell Wilson or just bomb in the regular season, you imagine the relationship could go south permanently. So this this is there's a lot on the line right now and Russell needs to get healthy, uh to remove some of the class outs over lumen Field right now. I want to give a shout out to um. First of all, this has been a really good episode, a good app Ricky for a

segment that I had kind of forgotten about. I thank the user for Twitter on Twitter for reminding me that we've been able to do this, bring it back, hit It and now another edition of check. Yeah, it's a good app. I mean, I feel like it's been a good Gino Vito app. I don't know this is it. I almost don't want him to start against the Steelers because this is like, this was his legacy moment. I feel like he just said interception. Did you did we

watch the same game? Yeah? He moved the ball up and down the field, two straight scoring drives, great throws, touchdown against the good defense. I mean, here's the reality. What bar? What bar are we attempting to clear? Here? Greg? When it ends with two successful drives with an interception that loses the game. He didn't wanted He came in down two scores. I mean he played to what three drives? He threw as many touchdowns as Stafford and Wilson who

played the whole game alright? That played much more. Give a little love to you know, players matter here, hend Henderson mattered de Shaan Jackson taking easy. Shut up, Relax, We'll find out what this phone call is. Right after the break, I've got someone calling and then was another edition of sipping on Veno check. I don't know they're checking if I need some service. I just hung up Gregg's on tilted a little bit, right, What are you

ordering night now? I think it's like, you know, I've just had the don and since I got here, and they're like, do you ever want someone to come here? Hey? Actually that's a good question. Do you have them when you're here, like when you're in a hotel anywhere? Do you I leave the dono to disturb sign on. I don't need them changing the sheets every day, like I'd rather keep my own. This is a good question, disturb it depends after a handful of days. If I'm out

then for the day, then you'll take it off. But yeah, generally I don't like them coming in. I got by the way. I got audio of the phone call just now. Hello Mr Rosenthal, we heard uncontrollable moaning during an American football contest coming from your room. Please keep it down. The Atlanta Falcons cheerleaders are staying on my floor, and I kid you not. They were racing each other in the halls. They were like giggling, running as fast as

they could in the halls. This is your chance here, Ricky. You know there's different rules when you're overseas, you know. Yeah, they were all in front of we. We all are getting COVID tests while we're over here to be safe in There were thirty of them in line before me for my COVID tests. And Greg's pickup line was like, hey, you like Geno Smith. I'm not giving pickup lines please, you know, it's it's fun you want. Cheerleaders are more than just dancers and and good looking women. They have,

there's layers to them. But then when you tell me that you run into actual cheerleaders and they're just like sprinting up and down a hotel hallway, laughing and giggling, It's like, that doesn't sound like a very layered personality. It was weird because Greg was racing with them. He was like asked sneak shout out to Robert Woods, and shout out to Robert Woods. Fantasy owners, if you held the line and kept kept him involved with your starting lineup.

Twelve for one fifty on fourteen targets. Um, the Rams four four and one, they're in good shape. The Seahawks two and three not in good shape. And we'll find out what's going on with really both quarterbacks. Keep an eye on the Stafford finger situation too. We'll see if he's fine. He certainly was productive in the second half, but again this is a veteran quarterback and it's a hand injury. So um, all right, good times in London.

We are in our respective hotel rooms right now recording as you probably put together by now, um, and we had an incredible, incredible Thursday night with the listeners here in London and surrounding territories are are live shows awesome stuff and I just want to thank everybody listening right now who came out last night. There were people from England, from Ireland, from Germany, from Scotland, from where else. Austral I think they probably just lived here. I don't think

they flew in for the show. But America that I mean, we had everything about every Buddy Will Robinson, a former around the NFL Desk editor who flew in from Amster damn you you specific We called out the Asian market Greg on our last show. Anybody that came in from Asia, Well, Australia is the Asian Pacific, so let's we'll count that a little bit. I think we heard New Zealand now it's I mean it's literally that's what they say, the Asian Pacific, New Zealand. I think we had that was amazing.

I mean, an impromptu chant Daniel did it. Um had a really nice touch bringing h this picture of West that you brought up to the front of the stage and uh we did two shows in the first show, like just an impromptu chanting of West which just like cool shivers my back that it was awesome. Favorite moments in the history of our show, UM, and that was

that was really nice. And they and the fans after the show, you know, we were talking to them and they you know, really to hear all the all the nice things that they had to say about what the show meant to them and how it how it has helped them and times of hardships and you know during COVID and all that. It was just understand we are aware, um, and we you know take it seriously and we're very indebted to you guys for loving the show as long as you have, so thank you for your support. That

was a special night. Yeah, we love you. It's it felt like the the energy back and forth like it. It gives. It gives me a lot of energy to to hear all those stories about about what West mattin the show and everything. So we're looking forward to doing it again. It's not like this will be the last time felt good. I'm still riding on a high. When the guy was like, you know, everyone's quiet, and they bring me out first, Ricky Hollywood, I got the music going.

I'm up there. I gotta do a little intro feeling good. Blood is blood. You were up there the whole time. You did. Reg and I were behind a curtain, and Ricky did twenty five minutes of material and like anyway, it was awesome. Mark Sessler was missed by the audience, missed by us. I don't know how we how we would even fit him on the stage. It was very but no, it was. It was a unique show. I don't imagine we'll ever do it again where it's just me, Greg and Ricky, the three amigoes. But it was a

memorable night. So thank you for everyone coming out. Um, coming up on the show Sunday night, we will be doing our flagship program recapping the rest of the week five games. UM. We will be at the Big Tot the Hot Toddy on Sunday for Jets Falcons do all our work with Sky Sports, Neil Reynolds in the whole gang, and then all day more than we've ever been on.

We'll be on all day, not just the sideline during the game, but in the studio throughout the make sure I was gonna say you you will be watching if you're over here, uh sky Sports, so you're gonna see plenty of our mugs. UM, so that's coming up, and then we will give you that show recapping all the games back at the hotel room on Sunday night here in the UK Monday morning. Actually, uh, and that is it? All right? You want to go to the you want

to go to the Jets bar. Nick Mangold will be there. Yeah, I didn't. We didn't go to Jets practice, So go get my point. I will yes that we didn't go get my pint segment on the live show, Ricky threw it out there that we wouldn't make Jets practice, and I would have gone. I really would have gone if if it was if it wasn't an hour and fifteen minutes away, that was like a bridge too far for me,

maybe literally a bridge too far um. But instead I will go to the Jets Bar and hope and maybe I'll meet some more podcast fans there, and hopefully I'll meet Nick Mango, one of my favorite Jets of all time, one of the great centers the team ever had, and I think a Hall of Fame level player. So I'm going to enjoy that moment. If I haven't. All right, anybody have anything else to now? That was beautifully recapped

by our tech. Let's let's close it out with yeah one last time frags on Gina and that was another edition of sipping on veno, checking on Gino? What h Hello? What the um? No? I'm okay, thank you, thank you, Hello madam? Would you like some services in your room today? Out of my hotel room? Your answer was your answer was better than my total panic, and then hanging up responding it wasn't really just what she said. I guess I should be accepted. Back to the call any second.