Breaking Down the Big Week 2 Games

And now move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

What's up, everybody? Welcome to move the sticks?

DJ Bucky Rhett Following a week two slate of games, I am still in Charlotte, North Carolina. Looks like you two fine gentlemen are at home. Fun weekend of football. Boys, Buck, you got a grin on your face?

What are you? What are you grinning about over there? Are you enjoying your time in North Carolina? Because you stayed you stayed behind. I just wondered, like, if you're just hanging out, you're gonna make it.

You make a trippyy with the Mountaineers. There's anything, and oh this is the best.

Yeah, we've got South Alabama coming off of an eighty seven point performance coming up.

The couple of bets.

Yeah, we've got our work cutout for us on that One's a little Appstate South al Thursday night. Or Money's Money's gonna come up there as well to take in take in the ball game. By that's you're flying out, So we're gonna we're gonna make a whole whole big deal of it.

Money.

Then one on the air dur in the Charger game and said, DJ is being honored at the app State game, which is not happening. We are literally just going to a football game. Be very disappointing.

We're going We're going in the Ring of Honor. There's We're going in the Ring of Honor.

I just needed tickets. They got me tickets, that's all. So I've got a busy week out here at Carolina, which is going to get me to our first takeaway from the week, because we'll get to the games. We're gonna go through the games. But the biggest takeaway right now is just what happened. H Bryce Young is no longer the starter. So from number one overall pick to a year later, new coaching staff, new regime, and now

Wow, Like major surprise in terms of UH new coach, new tenure, new coach brought in to really resurrect Bryce Young.

Two gays in we're pulling the plug. Just really surprised at all of it.

Last year, we didn't want to put blame on Bryce Young because we felt like the supporting cast wasn't good enough. This year, we have a new coach, first time head coach, trying to bring in a new system. Yes, he has some veterans around him, but I don't know if two games is enough of a sample size to really know what a young.

Player can be. And the final point would be, Man.

I feel like we're doing such a disservice to the young quarterbacks around the league.

Like I don't think we train them properly. I don't think we give them enough time.

I think the expectations are outside based on I guess draft grades in those things. To me, look, I understand he hadn't played well, but two games into a new season. To me, it just seems like it's not enough time to fully understand who Bryce Young is and what he will be at the next level.

And I think you make some really good points there about the development piece, certainly, Buck, but I think you know this is a decision to me that you got to also go back, you know, a few years. I mean, like this is a team that has had mounting pressure to win after some very disappointing and look, let's be frank, embarrassing performances year over year, right, even going back to you know, the tail end of the Matt Rule era, and then you know into Frank Reich and you know,

Right.

We saw the reclamation project or the rejuvenation perhaps is a better word that he had with Baker Mayfield, and that worked right in Tampa. And so you know, now you're like, okay, well, where are we trusting that things are going wrong here? We're trusting that it's you know, the the second year quarterback into his second game, or we trusting that you know, it's his things are going role on his end, or you know, the coach in Canalis who comes off a very successful run as an

So then you make the change of quarterback.

I think it's a lot of things working here, and certainly getting embarrassed two weeks in a row to open this season plays a role here.

Dij Yeah, I'll start there because I said this to somebody after the game was over yesterday, which was when you have an offensive head coach and you can have a plan for a player in place, but when your reputation is built on the offensive side of the ball, and you are as inept as this team has looked through two weeks and including a game I was at yesterday where they could not complete a bubble screen, They couldn't complete a hitch, They didn't even try to push

It was so bad as I said, I don't think I.

Was anticipating a change would be coming because it and I'll get to the personnel here momentarily, but it was to be there and see it in person, because Buck, I think where you're coming at it from, it's like, this is a you can't do this, This doesn't make sense. This is number one overall pick. This is so early in his development. But to be in a stadium that's dead as a door nail and to see how embarrassingly

No, you know what I saw. I saw Muggsy Bogue jersey. That was what I saw.

There was more Buggsy Bogue jerseys in the stands in Carolina than there were for their current skill guys. Their offensive line is not good. It's just it's there's a long list of things that got us to this point. But I do think that it is in some ways not surprising that this this move is taking place this early. That's how bad it looked yesterday.

Yeah.

Man, it sounds like an organizational failure from top to bottom. And let's be honest, it's been a bit of a mess since David Teffery kind of popped in and all the moves, the secession of moves that were made. Right, So, you think about you fire Ron Rivere, you bring in I mean, Matt Rule, it doesn't necessarily work. You remove on from Cam Newton, you bring in, i mean, just

You know? Because when you put a plug to put.

Andy Dalton in man, that is saying something in a major way about.

How you feel about the number one overall pick and Bryce Young, you know.

And I wonder, and oh, look, here's the thing.

Dan Morgan was on the Panthers in that Panther's front office when they made that trade, but he wasn't, you know, the one with the final say there right, you know. But I do wonder if that had been if this had been his show, right, and if it had been Dave Canalis's show, and they had all you know, gone in on Bryce Young that way together, would there be

Yeah, and it's not it's not a Bryce Young singular issue, but he's not. You can say, I can say that Bryce Young is not the problem with this team, but I can also say, at this point in time, I don't know that he has the skills to be the solution to what they where they are right now, they don't at least with you know, with any dogts. You say, at least we have some experience and some knowledge to maybe provide to this group. But when you when you have not when you don't have hard of any weapons,

You know.

He targets shed yesterday zero zero. And it's not like I looked, I watched the game. I prepped for that game. There was not Andre Johnson and Randy Moss on the field with him to be taking targets away from him. That didn't make any sense to me. So I again, there are six players away from maybe being ten players away from being good.

And the only thing I.

Would caution, the only thing I would caution with the comparison with him and CJ, and CJ has been awesome. CJ has been fantastic. But the only thing I would caution is look at those rosters. How many players for the Carolina Panthers would start for the Houston Texans. And when you come to that conclusion, I think everybody will back off of Bryce Young just a little bit.

But it's bad.

It is bad right now in Carolina. Let's get to the next game here. Let's get to the one we're referencing with Houston and Chicago RTT. When you look at you look at that ballgame, offensively, both teams, I mean, only be talked about is the Bears having struggled. Both teams did struggle a little bit, and I think it's credit to two outstanding defenses.

No question.

But it's the one in Houston that's getting the headlines here today because of the pressure they put on Caleb William six sacks in the game, twenty three hurrys, thirty two pressures, pressured on thirty eight percent of his dropbacks, and big reasons for those pressures, of course were Daniel Hunter, this year's Marquis free agency acquisition by Nick Casario and the Houston Texans, and of course Will Anderson, the number three overall pick last year, each had seven pressures in

It didn't even touch Darnell Wright.

It kind of was like a receiver running a corner route at the top of his break and just kind of gave him a little stick and got a you know, Roxton Jones there on the left side certainly took his fair share of it as well. Everybody has, you know, some blame to wear in that one. I think it's amazing that Caleb Williams finished this game right. So they've got to figure some stuff out there. I think that

Yeah. No, it was a lot of pressure. I mean, he was under constant duress.

And I think what Kayleb Williams discovered is how much different the game is at the pro level compared to the collegiate level. The things that he was able to get away with at USC when he would leave the pocket, he can't do those things because the windows are smaller, the players are much faster, and the hits are far more vioalient. Now he escaped arm in terms of not being like stroke to the point where he was staying down.

But man, he took some shots.

And what you would like him to do is to be able to win with his arm and be less reliant on his legs. But when you're the Houston Texans, and the Texans are putting pressure on him, like like he was seeing, Look, man, you got to do what you can do.

But you just saw the.

Impact of pressure on a young quarterback and how it completely broke down not only his game, but it broke down to Chicago Bears game plan.

Look in DJ on that front with like there's just there's nowhere for him to escape to. It's like everybody's getting beat and some of these some of these guys are just getting pushed back into his lap. And so you know, even though it may not be a you know, a defender that's about to sack him, there, I mean like the offensive lineman is in his chest and so there's just.

There's nowhere to maneuver. It's like he can't step up and make a throw to beat the edge. It's just there.

There's no escape plan. There's no like easy solute. There were no easy solutions for him in this game.

Yeah, and also a game of adjustments, and I give Tomko ryans a lot of credit the Bears came out. When you start this tape and you watch it, Caleb got into a little them early. It was a it was a four man rush. They were able to get free releases off the line of scrimmage.

He was on time.

He actually started out the game well. And then what happened is they had an instance where they collapsed the center, and once they saw the kind of the instability of the interior of this offensive line, they attacked it. They attacked it with pressures, sim pressures. Then they ended up just just even when they went simple games like simple simple twists they.

Did, they couldn't pick it up. So now it just it sped Caleb up.

And then Caleb again Buck talked about trying to create and extend plays like a did a s seat. This is you know, this is not you're not dodging one car here, You've got this is a highway? Is an autobahns coming over the place he's playing, Yeah, it's exactly what was.

He's playing Frogger out there.

So I'm going through this and I'm like, okay, oh boy, the center got collapsed, and I just started checking that, checking it checking it, checking it, and so that that became a problem. Now he got hung up on number one a few times. That's a teaching moment. And I've seen Caleb in this game and throughout his career. He can get through progressions. It's not something he's incapable of doing. But there were some instance he hung on too long

You can't do that.

That's something that needs to be communicated to him and just a little a little recognition buck of Hey, maybe as receivers, maybe we go back and watch the heat that the stude was under before you start getting frustrated with the ball being a little left or right.

Yeah, now, DJ, I think that's one of the things that when you start a young quarterback is one of those things that should be communicated to not only all the veterans, but the coaches. How we handle, how we react, your body language, those things. Because you are playing a young quarterback who's in the second start. He's trying to figure it out. The speed of the game is so much faster than what he's used to and we have these outside expectations on what he should be able to

TV, so it becomes maybe a bigger issue than it really needs to be.

Yeah, and all that being said, their defense was so outstanding. They had the ball in their hands with the chance to drive at the end of the game to go win the ball game. So if you're a Bears fan, I would take tremendous encouragement from that. The defense is stellar, Your quarterback is really tough. There's some offensive line issues that aren't going to get solved, you know, personnel wise

I mean it is.

There's no shame in that for the Chicago Bears. Let's get to the next game here, Dallas, New Orleans. Rhett, you look at the Cowboys, you look at the Saints. I mean, I could make an argument that the Cowboys defense is the biggest takeaway. I can make an argument with the same are doing on offense their two games is the biggest takeaway. There's a lot of different ways you can go here.

Yeah, and I actually kind of looked at the sequencing of this thing a little bit too, because I think on the surface, most people kind of look at this, you know, like, oh, this will blowout from start to finish. Now, even though the Saints scored touchdowns on their first six possessions, say that again, they score touchdowns on their first six possessions, which is pretty incredible. I think you do have to look at this thing a little bit deeper in that you go back, it was twenty one to six in

I have very much a ballgame here.

Now.

The Saints then go on on eleven play seventy yard touchdown drive to make it a twenty eight to thirteen game. And this is where things start to get off the rails. Cowboys go on another drive of their own. They're approaching midfield here, and they got a chance to get it back to a one score game. And you got a wide open slant route that's going to go like Dak sees it, he fires, it's a good throw. Jalen Brooks is running that route and he trips, he trips, he falls,

Recall m okay.

So that's a good pool because that explains the nightmares at the bottom of the screen. What I would say this, having studied Clinton Kobi K's offense last week for the Notebook, I knew that he was really in his bag when it came to free snap motions, shifts, play passes, misdirection and deception. And I'm gonna say this, like Derek carl looks very comfortable running that type of offense. But it's not just Derek Carr. I think it's Alvin Kamar being

This is a fun offense to watch and I never imagine.

Going into this year that this was going to be a musty TV offense based on what Clint Kubiak is doing with Alvin Kamara, Derek Carr and all of the Bills.

And Wilson's with his offense.

Yeah, it was fun watching their offensive tape. It was physical, it was well coordinated, it was well designed, it was well executed. And next year when I released my first Top fifty, you guys, I need as friends and accountability partners to you guys to say, Okay, put now close your computer DJ and put it away and unplug your phone. Because I love Talisi. Fuaga loved him, and I ended up. I think I moved him down, maybe a couple spots,

Do different things. They don't need to be type cast, so to speak.

How many forty four point performances have you seen where the quarterback only completes eleven passes.

That's efficient, it's pretty amazing, an explosion bucks As a play caller on the high school level, efficiency and explosiveness is a good combination.

It is a good combination. And that's the thing that's

Hass off to Clan Kubiak. This this is fine.

I can't wait to continue to see how he builds and expand on what they've already shown the football world thus far.

Also hat tip to.

Jeff Ireland, who's been you know, the personnel architect in New Orleans for a long time, who's done an excellent job of identifying and drafting players. Doesn't put his name out there, isn't somebody that needs all the love. He's been a general manager before. He is really good at

You know what I mean?

They match up well, it's a former coach when you look at at someone and Kevin O'Connor, who's got a very good understanding and familiarity with the way Kyle Shannon and coaches and teaches and schemes it up.

He's got some recent success here.

But the biggest story for me in this ball game was Sam You know, you look at Sam Donald two under sixty eight yards, including this ninety seven yard bomb to Justin Jefferson that was right on the money.

He's doing what we thought he would do.

Buck.

We knew we had all that ability, needed the opportunity. I'm in here in Carolina and I'm sitting here thinking they had Sam Donald and Baker Mayfield in the building. It wasn't working out for them there.

They both move on.

They've both been successful and more stable organizations. That leads you to believe that maybe the quarterback wasn't the issue when it comes to the struggles of the Carolina Panthers. But going back through this game, Sam, I mean, I just feel like I'd be repeating all the stuff that I liked about him coming out. I would just say the only difference maybe is if he has a negative play, I think he doesn't let it snowball maybe like he did at times with the Jets early on in his career.

It's really interesting to see Sam Donald's re emergence as a player that people like, particularly in the football world, because there were so many high grades on him in the twenty eighteen class third overall pick. And what it does is it goes to show you the importance of the pieces around the quarterback.

It's not only the play caller.

Kevin O'Connell, who's outstanding when it comes to quarterback play, but it's the weapons. It's having a Justin Jefferson on the outside. It's having some of the other pieces like the running game Tyd Chandler and Aaron Jones being able to kind of combind for well over one hundred yards. It's being able to give confidence to the quarterback because you know, hey man, you don't have to do everything.

Your job is just to be the distributor.

And maybe for the first time and Sam Donald's playing career, he has been given.

Those luxuries while being the starting quarterback.

It does say a lot when you go back and you look at the situations that he was previously in, particularly in Carolina, where so much of the blame was placed on him and.

It was kind of placed on Baker not being good enough.

Maybe we're seeing coaching matters, the support staff matters.

Quarterbacks need a.

Lot of things to play really well at the high level. Sam Donald's kind of like an example of how if you get the right things around the quarterback and you have the right play caller whispering sweet, nothing's guy can play at high level.

Play caller playmakers, right.

I mean we talked about that about, you know, justin Jefferson, you know, taking that ninety seven yard touchdown connection a lot of it. It was a deep throw, certainly from Darneld, but still the catch and run there from Jefferson was pretty impressive. I did want to look at things on the offensive side of the ball for the San Francisco forty nine ers.

Look they put up.

You know, they were production wized fine, four hundred and seven total yards, but just thirty three of those four hundred plus yards coming on third down, just a single rushing yard of those thirty three coming on thre They were two of ten on third down in this game, converted one in the in the first quarter, not another one until the fourth quarter. I think a lot of that. Basically, you got to give some credit to what Brian Flores is doing with that defense. Mixed up some really good

Cashman, Like Cashman out there has done a nice job.

Gilmore coming in light to play a bunch of snaps for him at corner, doing a really good job. And then Dallas Turner who they take in the first round, not just him Ivan Pace last year. And how about Pat Jones the second from Pitt It was a third round pick, and I'm he is coming on and really flashing and becoming a major contributor on this defense.

Really solid in the run game, stood up.

George Kittle a couple of times in this game he was in the backfield, closed down a run from the backside.

He had two of their five sacks.

DJ.

I mean like, I feel like he was a name. We didn't talk about a ton. What did you have in your report on Pat Jones?

Yeah, I just pulled up my notes on him. So interesting player. Patrick Jones come out of pit. He was six h four to two so and sixty one pounds. He ran four nine to four at his pro day, so not a great time in terms of the workout. I had him as my one hundred and forty sixth player. I dropped him after that workout, which is a great lesson to learn there because he was a ninetieth pick and he's been excellent. So here are the notes. They

Yeah, playing really well.

And it is it is something we talked about, lessons we learned and how you can get better. But DJ, I feel like we've said it multiple times. Read too, We've said it multiple times throughout this thing. Sometimes it's just trusting to tape. It's trusting to tape, trusting with your I s and then also hoping that the player goes to the right spot, he's in the right environment

Just so many lessons to be learned each and every weekend.

All right, let's let's get to the next game here at Tampa Detroit. What was your takeaway there?

You no, I went in.

I was like, all right, let me see what's going on this. You know, the Baker Mayfield phenomenon, right, the resurgence in Tampa, you know, deserves a good hard look and I just kind of felt like they held on on offense. I mean it's nothing spectacular, certainly, and they just kind of held it, you know, kind of held tough.

I think credit to the Bucks defense for sure, but they made some plays. Certainly.

You've seen this one here to Godwin, and Baker's been really good these his running. The way he ran the football in this game was big. This this you know, design QB draw for Baker Mayfield didn't know that Liam Cohen had that one in the playbook, but obviously worked out for him there. I think this ultimately just comes down to, you know, the Lions made some serious mistakes

Of the first half.

Buckying with your head coaching perspective here, you can kind of give us a sense of what's going through the mind of a head coach. Right, So they get the ball, they have no time, they've used their last time out, they're down in the red zone. Golf completes as del Mona Saint Brown. They got seventeen seconds left. The clock is running tick tick tick tick tick tick, and it's like, okay, you got the field goal team coming in from the sideline.

Yeah, it obviously sounds like it's one of those things where if the head coach is indecisive, it's not communicated quickly to the special teams coach and to the offensive coordinator, what are the next steps? What's the plan of action? And you would like to think it's something that's been rehearsed. You know what the magic number is in terms of how many seconds we need to be able to either run the field, go team on the field, or what

Uh.

It's an expensive learning lesson, but it's one that I can guarantee you going forward, you will never have the same kind of mistake.

At the end of mass right, I just love the fact there was ownership there.

I mean, real quick.

Listen to listen to what he said after the game, because this is this is what ownership looks like.

You know.

I asked for improvement from last week, was the story. And we did improve, we did improve, and their coach cost him. Their head coach cost him this one so.

Critical error in the half.

And uh me, we improved. There's areas we got to continue to approve on. But it's not okay, there you go.

That's accountability.

That's why Dan Campbell's beloved by his players because he owned it when it was when it was on him. Last thought on this one is Chris god from Tampa HTT talked about nothing really jumping out to me.

I just feel like he's just one of those underappreciated players.

Maybe it's just being in the shadow of Mike Evans, but you watch him all the guy does.

He can play inside, he can play outside.

He's strong, he's physical, he's good after the catch, he's competitive in the run game like just a really really solid player. That is one of those shadow guys. I just feel like he hasn't necessarily got his due. But I remember when Tom Brady first got to Tampa, of all the different players they had on that particular team, Chris Godwin was the one that he would often mention as someone who was just a pros pro and someone that he felt comfortable with. So just want to give

Cincinnati Bengals. Once again, they start zero to two.

They had every right and opportunity to win this ball game, but just did not make the one play that needed to be made. It was we'll start there, Buck, I guess I can go with you first. It is past interference. People lose their minds about it. Chiefs have won back to back Super Bowls three out of four. I get all that that was a legit penalty. This was a game the Bengals had to win, had it right in front of them, just didn't finish.

Yeah, you gotta finish the game.

And I mean in the odds when you turn the ball over three times, it's really hard to win it this league. And this was a game that was right there or set upon a platter for the Bengals to take advantage of it, and they didn't. And it's one of those things that we'll look back at the end of the year, whether they get into postseason or not, or if they were what seed they earned.

They're gonna regret giving this one away.

But if you're the Kansaity Chiefs, I just liken it to Andy Reid and the Chiefs have mastered the art of winning. There is something about when you win games and you're used to winning, it just continues to kind of build that confidence or that know how to get it done. And that's what I see when I look at the Kancity Chiefs. No matter the situation and that circumstance, they have enough in that that that bank, that mental bank of how to win, and they get it done.

I think I look at a cause and effect in this one. DJ Bucky, I get your your thoughts on this, guys. I think we started to see the armor come off of the rookie left tackle Kingsley Suamatia in this game against Yeah, I got bench late in the game one Ye Morris had to come in and Morris, I mean almost helped him lose the game, negated a you know, a twenty one yard catch by Rashid Rice with illegal

He had nineteen carries in this game for ninety yards.

Carson Steel had seven carries in this game and was getting some big carries late in the game to try to ice this thing. So, you know, I think that part of it DJ probably goes hand in hand with how we saw the Chiefs operate. Because anytime you're seeing you know, Travis Kelcey get three targets in a game and only one catch, you know that they were doing some things on the ground or trying to minimize some things through the air.

Yeah.

Look, I'm not in the camp that's surprised that Kingsley Suamtea is having difficulties.

I thought he was a project, you know. That's why I was a little bit surprised he went as high as he did.

He was my one hundred and first player, so I he was my fourteenth tackle in the draft and now the he looks great on paper with six ozho four five three twenty six, he's got thirty four and change arms. He ran a five oh four to forty. He is you know, he's very quick footed. Going through my notes, he's thick, he's proportioned, he's got quicks going to the second level. He's pretty good in space. He just ducks his head a lot at the point of attack, and

Yeah, you know what's interesting about that.

You talk about the slow stars and how what one and nine and the Joe Burrow era, and we always talk about AH to two start being a death sentence, but when you really think about it, I mean, you have seventeen games. There's plenty of opportunity for the schedule to kind of come back to you where you have an opportunity to close ground and do those things I do want to win. You're Zach Taylor and the approach that they have taken throughout the preseason where they don't

You would like to start out faster, but you do know as a marathon not a sprint. It just kind of.

Cuts some of the cushion that the Bengals have in terms of having a couple of hiccups later in the year.

They're gonna have to be playing their best.

Once we get into the muss of November December to be able to kind of secure a playoff berth and to be one of the teams that we thought it would be, which would be.

A top team.

It's a team that when you get over to the Kansas City side of things, is going to be without Isaiah Pacheco.

I'd believe was six to eight weeks coming off of surgery coming out of that game.

So gonna be a little more steel action there for the Kansas City chiefsrtt. Let's get to the next one here. Maybe one of the big surprises of the day Vegas going on the road. They lose to Jim Harbaugh and they go on the road and they beat John Harball, which puts the Ravens at zero to two for the first time since twenty fifteen.

Yeah, I don't know.

I think the guy that you're going to talk about here in a minute, Brock Bauers at a big, big, big say in the Raiders comeback effort there in the fourth quarter in this game, at four straight scoring drives to end the game.

That's winning football right there if the Las Vegas Raiders.

Now for the Ravens, I kind of looked at that side, what do we see him with this, you know, Baltimore offense, what do we see?

This is I think what they want to look like.

I mean, had twenty seven attempts on the ground, went for five yards of carry. I mean Lamar was I think five carries forty five yards is about right what you want to see from him. And I think ultimately this comes down to an interception, a turnover that you know, Rashad Bateman probably should have caught for the Ravens. Tough catch, but it goes right into the arms of robertsplane and

With looks like a corner and just kind of whiffs it.

Or there was maybe some miscommunication about what was happening, and that corner just has an easy layup to bring Lamar down right there, and so they're in a third, you know, a third down situation. They don't get next one right guard completely misses Crosby on a stunt and Crosby just smashes Lamar for a second sack of the game.

Yeah, Bowers was awesome this second week in a row. And Buck I don't think that it was an exaggeration when I said it at the time. I thought he'd be their best offensive weapon this year. You're seeing it through a couple of games, his speed, his ability to line up all over the field. They've run a nice little seven man protection, you know, getting just a couple guys out in the route so they give menshoot time. They're able to get kind of that little wineback going backside off of a boot.

They've hit that two weeks in a row.

Hit it against the Chargers, hit it against the Ravens, getting Brock Bowers to ball in space, and for a team that doesn't have a ton, He's already proving himself to be a good selection there for Tom Tellusca with his first pick as the Raiders GM, yeah, he has.

Proven to be a really good pick. And you can't go wrong with those offensive weapons. When you talk about a guy like Brock Borroughs who can do so many different things, and you know, the tied end position is one that is really tricky to scout and evaluate.

But the things that we have found as those guys who are hyperds.

On the perimeter who can do a lot lineup outside, lineup inside, play the traditional white or the flex while also taking the ball on handoffs, you can have a lot of success and a lot of fun with those and so I am not surprised to see the Raiders have success with him.

Kind of as the focal point of the passing game.

I'm looking forward to seeing them expand their multi tied end packages and do some fun stuff to really make the tied end the primary option in their passing game.

That's a big win. That's a big win for the Raiders going on the road and knocking off the Ravens. Buck you were there for the clash of the Clemson quarterbacks. Trevor Lawrence, Deshaun Watson. Look, this is a game that I think you can make a case both teams feel like you got to have this one. Your Jags don't come away with the Trevor Lawrence. Oh, and seven is last starts. At last seven starts. You see that little

Dj I would equate it to a baseball player, a hitter being in a bad slump where you are out at your last twenty two at bats. But we know in life there's no such thing as momentum in terms of every interval at bat is a different experience, and so every game for the Jags is a different experience.

That should be cleaned up by now.

Trevor Lawrence spoke out about that, and as he continues to kind of grow into his role as the leader of the team, he has to check people like that.

They're struggling right now. Offensively.

Defensively they're playing pretty well, but right now, Trevor Lawrence in this offense, they got to get going and he needs his best players Christian Kirk, Evan Ingram, Travis Cittienn to help him. Because I will say this, when you see the CA that's Brian Thomas Junior that he made on Denzel Award down the field. DJ, the replay doesn't

One.

I kept watching that one.

In fact, Bucky, I was like that the adjustment to that ball, just the way that that thing, I mean, that thing was, I mean was humming, and that was really impressive.

You know what.

I think a lot of times when we see games like this, the team puts up thirteen points, like, ah, you know, no explosive plays, They're just thinking and dunking.

It all over the place.

They had five explosive plays that accounted for one hundred and seventy two yards of their passing offense in this game, and so you take those out and outside of those plays, DJ treumbor Lawrence.

Is nine of twenty six about forty yards. So it's like the opposite right, Like.

They couldn't figure out maybe the layups is kind of what it felt like in this one. So I mean, like, yeah, they had the big plays, but they got to make the routine ones too, no doubt and quickly on Deshaun, much better game for him. Buck and I were talking before we got started here today about looked like he found a little bit of the swagger that had been missing.

So that's interesting to see.

Also, you know, mechanical stuff that I mentioned last week about sinking a little too much, sinking into throws and not being up up a little more upright, not getting so low and crouched and kind of losing losing his balance so to speak, that was a little bit better this week as well. So good for good for the Cleveland Brown's a good win for them over the Jacks. Last game here, Buck Washington and the New York Giants,

I thought, Cliff.

Kingsbury, someone who does understand the quick game, the screen game, you know, think about his background and where he came from with Mike Leach did a nice job of that. And I also thought, you know, he took sacks, but you know, sometimes I feel like sacks we view as negatives. And obviously as a veteran, you throw the ball away, but I'll take sacks over forces over forcing.

Ball into harm's way. He avoided that. He did avoid that.

And you know the other thing that I like about Jon Daniels, I like the way they utilized his running ability we saw in the clip, like just kind of the way they were able to pull it and have a little escort.

Coming around the corner and doing some of those things.

I also like the poise and him getting his first game, I guess game winning victory or whatever you want to call it.

But they need to score touchdowns. They can't keep selling for field goals, but to be able to.

Win again against the division rival. As a young quarterback in your second start, you have to like that. Dan Winn certainly has plenty to build upon, but he has alike where his young quarterback, how is young quarterback is progressive?

I just got one thing on this one, and it was the quote from Dan Quinn after what this team's been through.

I'm not about making field goals, and they.

Made seven, so I would agree, you know you gonna get your first win of the season.

I'd kick seventeen field goals if that's what it took.

And so credit to Austin Cyber for making seven field goals like that is incredible and obviously you'd like to turn some of those into touchdowns, but I thought that was pretty cool.

Well, I will add this to finish it up with the Giants. Make sure that I get the number right here, because I was going for the tape. It jumped out to me. I mentioned the Panthers and the bewilderment of having traded up to get xavierly Get and then not throwing him one target in that game. Hey, the Giants know they've got one in elite neighbors and they're not affair to wear him out.

Eighteen targets eighteen.

Ten for a buck twenty seven and the speed is real, the shallow crossers getting in out of breaks. He is dynamic, he is going to be fun. So for a team that desperately needed a guy like this, he's just what the doctor ordered and didn't result in the win. But I applaud them for feeding him the rock, something that you know, some of these other teams got to figure out. You got your best players, your best athletes, give him the ball, give him a chance. And that's what Brian

You're gonna enjoy it. Fun week here at Moon to six. We'll see you next time.

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