Nightcap - Hour 1: Dolphins still alive, Russ bests Daniels, Chiefs remain undefeated

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Oh Chill the Dolphins to beat the Rams by the score of twenty three to fifteen. Tua was twenty of twenty eight two oh seven, one touchdown one in reception. They ran the ball twenty two times for sixty seven yards. Not a whole lot, but Tua did just enough three sacks, one turnover. Matthew Stafford was thirty two of forty six two ninety three no touchdowns. No, they didn't score. They kicked five field goals that missed one. He had one intercession,

I mean, listen, they and not that. For the Dolphins to go on the stretch, two, it's gonna have to play perfect. You're gonna have to protect the ball, not throw any interceptions, and Mike Vidalias has to get that passing game going the way it was going last year. Every game Tyreek Hill was hitting his head off the goal post. They was putting Tyreekan positions to make plays. They got to get the ball of water. They need a third person, who I would say was Odell Beckham.

Now they got seven games.

No, they gotta win. They gotta win seven of the last nine, No, uncle, in order to make the guy there.

No, no, no, no, they can't win seven of the nine because there's not nine games left. Oh it's Monday, there's only seven games left.

What week is this?

We can dine? No, unc, they're three and six.

Okay, okay, okay, well if my mass hurd me right.

So that's not three plus six and nine, they got a gay Actually they got eight, so seventeen games, they got eight games left.

Right, Okay, okay, okay, so they gotta they gotta win the last eight.

Now, oh, Joe, I think the question is, yeah, now, if they get in, that means you might cause are they gonna be three teams from the NFC North because it might come down to them in Cincinnati, because I think you and I both believe Baltimore and Steelers are gonna get in. Oh yeah, most one will win the division. The other will be the probably the top wild card. Right yeah, Okay, you got Kansas City, right, and you're probably gonna you're gonna have looks like it's gonna be Houston.

Hold on you left off of Steelers. You can't even say Pittsburgh.

No. I said, one of those will win the and the other will be the top wild card. That's two, right, Buffalo three, Kansas City four, Houston five. Okay, you got Cincinnati, you got uh, Cincinnati, Miami, Denver, Denver.

What you what you threw them in that farm?

Because Denver is four is what? What's the record? Five and four? Four and four? The Broncos are five and four.

Hey, listen, listen, listen.

The Bronco See the Broncos are five and five.

Oh, Joseph, I know, I know they had five hundred. I know.

Listen.

This ain't the make a witch foundation. The Broncos ain't going nowhere. The Broncos, you.

Do realize their two games clear of the Dolphins in the wind column two.

You do understand it's did it take the snap of the fingers for the Dolphins to look like the Dolphins are old? And they turned that thing around and going and going to run. We can't compare the god damn Denver Broncos offensive.

But hold on, but you comparing the Dolphins of the Dolphins of old that can just snap a finger and get on the road. So what do you do?

The reason they don't look right offensively? And Tyreek and wadall numbers of down this year because tool was out. That's the only reason.

So what's the likelihood of the tour? You you you count on tour? You willing to be any amount of money? That too is going to stay healthy rest of the year, of course. Current Mark Drafts number one overall, pick Travis Hunter, number two overall pick to the Giants, North Sanders number

I like it, I like it, I like it. I like that love Mark draft as male type of shit.

I don't know who that. I don't know who that is. Okay, we might, ay, we might, we might uh we might start our own box. Yeah, we don't want to get that. We don't watch enough tap man, we don't watch no tape. We can't. I mean, look, I ain't got the time to sit down and break down the tape. I got too much over I playing right now with five shows, two ESPN shows and a show once two shows a week with clubs. I absolutely have it.

You know what's funny when I think about it, you know, without having a without having to dive deep into it. You know, from the surface level, from a fan watching watching collegiate games, I can kind of.

Tell you who is that boy and who's not.

I don't need to sit there and watch two hundred thousand hours of goddamn film to tell you, Oh, that young fella down he can play when you turn on the fan, when you turn on the film, there are twenty two people on the field.

If you really like that.

Outside of that twenty two on film, that individual always pops out. He pops out always. You can tell who's who. And that's that's pretty much. It's that's my piece.

I am not mal Mike Rodgers posts a little fun hashtag red line at Aaron Rodgers after Aaron Rodgers called out Mike Williams for running the wrong route route and they lost to the Bills. Williams took the high road. After Williams made a stellar debut and the Steelers, he posted on ig celebrating his first game. Williams added three hashtags whole lot of hashtag number two was we back, and number three hashtag red line The last one was

Hey see how you threw Mike Williams under the bus.

He's off, oh Joe, that's his history.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I liked I like it. I like the subliminal shot though, yeah, I like it. I like the little jazz. Hey, the stealers the Steelers played, don't play the Justice year.

I don't know the steel Jets or they already played them.

Probably not, probably not either way, listen, I like it. I like I like the fact that it was it was bothering them.

You know. Oh yo, nobody listen, nobody likes to be thrown under the bus. And that hurt. That hurt because do you know how many times we could ay, what

Y'alls said he was better than that, but they were trying to be funny cowboy fans.

Jery had people believe that he was even even Troy. Even Troy and Tony Romo said, nigger, hey, there might be a frenzy for a Cooper Rush. He's a very good quarterback.

He right back there in Dallas and got damn media dollars. Me know they gonna they gonna see anything to support support a young fella. Man. I understand what he's saying, but he knew he wasn't better than that.

No matter what you no, come, I knew nobody would bro He'll back up. He could win you a couple of games here and there until your starter comes back. But what't nobody gonna put their franchise in.

His understand I don't, I don't. You know what's funny is that's for them to be able to say that and understanding that he is a backup and he wouldn't be the future of your franchise, especially putting the keys in his hands, uh for success and being able to compete at a high level week in and week out. We need to take their credibility cards too.

I'm just saying.

So it's okay for them to do it, but if it's us, you know, we're hered of a different standing when to come to see in certain things about certain players.

Got yeah, but I tried, oh Joe. I try to be a look. I try to evaluate what my eyes tell me, what my what my experience tells me. I don't look at where he plays, I don't look at

And if anything, if you go, if you're gonna miss, don't miss inside, miss wide and outside.

It's not it's incomplete out of bounds.

Yeah, yeah, he got to be one of the other You can't. You can't leave it inside, but it is one the other way.

Give cart Davis a lot of credit because he Doe made a heck, go play on the ball. He had two outstanding interceptions. I don't know why CJ on the secondes uh, the first interception put so much air on it. Oh Joe, what if he think that that Carlton David was gonna give up on the plate.

Yeah, you know what I think?

Was it the pressure? You think he rolled out? No, he had to. He rolled out of the pocket the one he brought in the end Z on that Carlton Davis got.

No, that picked up that.

There was no pressure on him. He had an easy throw. He even directed and told him. And I don't know why he didn't put put it more on the line because carl David seeds that he's beat, so he's running full speed. The last thing you want him to do is have an opportunity to break that ball up when he's that wide open. I know you don't want to overshoot him, but you got to put it more on the line. Yeah. We still have more questions than answers

Yes, I'm gonna be see on passing downs.

And their secondary is improving game by game. Branch and Joseph and those guys, they're getting better and better and better.

They're getting better. We got to get tyrry On Arnold to be a little bit more patient, be a little more patient look back for the ball. Too many, too many pass interference plays, too many holding, twenty holding plies. Every single game, he's getting called for something, sometimes two and three a game.

They might have could have got him on that last play that on that third down, they could have easy.

Yeah, they could have called it easily. They let it go. Though, they let it go. They didn't want that to be the deciding factor, you know, in the game, in the game. But he, I mean, he gotta work. He got to work on that, you know, using your eyes, man, playing playing with your eyes instincts, and stop being so handsy and look back for the ball a little bit. Look back for the ball some of them. You know, it's

Yep. And I think the thing is ocho. I'm watching this game. The Lions offensive coordinator got afraid to call his game. They were started just handing the ball off the Gibbs and handing the ball off to Montgomery. I'm like, bro, it's thirty seven, y'all let the fifty yard line and y'all hand the ball off a straight dive because they had gotten I mean, I'm looking at some of those interceptions. Ain't no whar in hell God thought those guys were open.

Yeah, yeah, most definitely. That's why he stopped. That's why he stopped calling the normal offense, in which so how can we get the ball out of Golf's hands until we feel he's a little bit more comfortable.

They started screening him, screening him to death. They throw this wing to have your gibbs on one side, on one side on the offset of the quarterback, and they running behind and throw it to him so he'll get some a great block. They run a jail break screen to armand Saint Brian for the touchdown. They started doing everything they could. Hey, one two three, throw the ball.

That's perfect, though. You know, you know what Ben Johnson is doing when he does that.

You know what.

Let's get golf a little, Let's get him comfortable again. Let's get him in rhythm with some easy throwers, get the ball out of his hands, and get.

Whatever to think, o Joe, Because you're thinking too much now, So yeah, right away one two three, a screen one two three, jail break one two three, quick out one two three, stick route. I don't want you thinking because you killing us. As a matter of fact, you probably hurt your damnself too, because you don't say I was thinking about something. I hope you don't hurt yourself. Now. Don't look at him like, bro, what are you doing? What do you seem? But this is a good team, Ojoe.

To not not at all.

It was a sloppy game. It's funny.

It's probably makes no sense. It was a sloppy game, but.

It was a good game at the same time. Yeah, the forty nine has defeated the Bucks twenty three to twenty. In the return of Christian McCaffrey. The forty nine ers emerged victorious with the biggest story of the side was on the sideline with a scuffle between Deebo Samuel long snapper Tabor Pepper. After the game, d Boy explained what prompting the heat exchange occurred after kicker Jake Moody's third

As time got to loosen everything up, got to loosen everything up. As a kicker, you got one job, got nothing else. You do one thing, five, six, seven, eight days out the week. I'm talking about eight days. It's only seven.

All you got to do.

You got one job is to kick. So when they ask you to do that one job that you do, do you know you're gonna miss. You're human, It's the NFL. You know you want to be as perfect as possible. That's the reason why you practice. You know, if you fall short of being perfect, it'd be better than most. But you can't miss three kicks that could have cast you the game today. Three come on that most of the time.

Yeah, he wrong.

Boss is a receiver likelihood you unless you're a number one elite player, probably not gonna be playing.

But what happens if Debo fumbled the ball and they lose the game and the guy goes up there and grabs his pace mask. What if he drops two passes on the last drive and we lose the game, he grabs his page mass when he gets in this pace you think Devo.

Will be cool.

So that's why you have to lo and I get it. Look, you and i've both been on the sidelines. We've seen kickers miss it, We've seen you know, guys do things, and yeah, it's frustrated. It is extremely frustrated. But you also have to understand now, the way football work. In the football gods, they'll put you in that situation to have you drop a path or they have you right every time. They get you right time. Yeah, but like I said, look, I know they're frustrated. They're not having

It's funny, but.

They got damn forty nine ers.

They always going to f and run when it counts.

This is the first time they went back to back game, so they couldn't be only something who The forty nine ers got next next two to three games lash they got Seahawks at home at Packers, at Bills.

Seahawks at Packers and Bills.

Oh who's.

Mm hmm all them? All them tricky. I'm playing the Seahawks. What Seahawks, What Seahawks team? Are we gonna get?

You know? Man Seahawks been I mean Gino been putting up big numbers. He's been turned down league un passing Ainty he was, yeah, he was. I mean, Party's gonna be up there, knocked the well. Gino had a big down.

When the Steelers play away, they travel extremely well. So wherever they play at basically it's their stadium. The Steelers Steelers will make it their stadium, no matter how far, no matter how far they're playing, it don't matter.

You know why wout yo, Because the Steelers were really good in the seventies and a lot of people right now, they got kids, They grew up watching the Steelers. They became Steelers fans, and a lot of times kids become fans like their pants are the teams that their parts groupe right right, right right, So when you go you're absolutely right when you go on the road. I'm looking, I'm like, hold on, Washington got the ball? Why the crowd is in a frenzy. Why they're waving the towers.

Yeah, and I was like, let me go. I said, they take it there, take a stay, take the stadium over, take your airport.

And oh my goodness.

Yeah, that was a good game, though it was it was now looking. I was listening to some of the command of fans. They were upset about taking the ale today. Do y'all realize, y'all at the top of the division. Do you realize you just lost only your third game? Do you realize the quarterback.

That you do have at the helm?

You have a decade plus some of winning football with him as your quarterback. You have nothing to hang your head on about losing today. It's cool, It's cool. I'm happy for rus though three starts, he's three and oh. A lot of people questioned Mike Tomlin putting him back in as a starter.

Yep, but at you.

I wouldn't call it a gamble, but the gamble that most people say it is, it's paying off.

Yeah. Absolutely, And he said it himself. Yeah, oh Jo, he said it himself. He was a lone ranger on this decision.

Okay, Okay, okay, but and he.

Said, but he also said, this is why they paid me the big bucks to make these decisions. And I can.

Hey, I mean, I'm thinking about the damn still is sitting at the top of the goddamn yes she North and who who ever thought last year you didn't even have a quarterback. No, last year you didn't have a quarterback. And you know you're bringing Russell Wilson, you're bringing Justin Fields. Then you have too so I'm thinking, well, hell, they got a quarterback carself going on, they definitely gonna be

Him, and he cooking, Yeah, cooking so to look good based on that. The thing is that but in order for this to be a success, Justin had to do what he was doing, because imagine if he goes over so now all of a sudden, you're trying to get to five hundred instead of being seventy two. Mike Tomlin knows his team. He's around this team. He knew how his team will respond. He knew he was making a very, very tough decision, but he knew that he had the type of guys in the locker room that would back

Yeah, you can't compare the two now that there are two things that they do are like they can run the ball, they can throw the ball, but they two completely different type of players all together.

Yeah. I mean, look, just because somebody is black and they can run the football and throw the football, that'll mean the lamar. Let's get to this game. The Chiefs stay undefeated with a block field goal. The chief leads the NFL in seven one possession wins this season. The most one score game by the eventional Super Bowl chap is nine, both by the twenty fifteen Broncos and the nineteen eighty six Giants.

Hey, Broncos played good. Hey can I tell you.

Didn't I tell you that we had a conversation, said, Oh, I would be surprised. I'm not gonna say nothing.

They got damn Broncos d The boys played goods.

Yes, they always play.

This is a vision game. This is an a visional game, and most of the time when you play within the division, the games are always close. Again, the Chiefs looked like they look They've looked the entirety of the season, always fighting in a way to win. It's unfortunate. But the Broncos should have won this game today and what it can't? You know, obviously it came down to a block field goal field goal at the end. And I'm gonna let

You know you know why.

I don't have the energy right now. So I'm gonna let you slide tonight and just say that it was it was a good game, and it was a good game, even though I was impressed with the Broncos defense.

You got a heavy heart right now and a lot on your mind. I do understand.

No, I don't got no heavy heart. I don't know about that.

You gotta heavy heart. You gotta hear me.

Hold on, let me take let me take my shades off so you can see my ass. I'm good, right, yeah me.

You don't mean it, Remember what I told you?

I mean listen, can't stay with me real quick?

Right? No, we don't get right football, okay.

You know how to compartmentalize, right, yeah, how to manage your expectations right based on situation. Right, Okay, I'm gonna leave it at that. Let's talk about the game.

I'm good now, you're then fire the coach, you're the demoted the office coordinator. Well, the defense gave up thirty one where you know the office is allowed to score more than since absolutely, because that's the one thing I like about football. It's not like when you play one on one, you play make it, take it. I'll make a basket. I get to take it back out again. Now in football, I scored touch that I kick it off. You can score too.

But they're not gonna have they gonna they're gonna have nobody. Ain't nobody nobody else to fire, ain't nobody else to blame. You fight it, Sallah.

See. The thing is that you gotta be careful. You gotta be careful when you do things for the wrong reasons. See. A lot of a lot of this have to do and a lot of this have to do with him being mad at the Packers for drafting Jordan Love. So I'm gonna go show you that I still got something left. Yeah, if you're not, oh Joe, You've heard me say it a lot. If you're not careful, you'll become the bad thing you despise the most of the person the guy that preceded him, What did he do? He got mad

That's the same thing, same same thing.

I mean, Devontae Adams had thirteen targets. He got six passes for thirty one yards.

Damn.

You're probably thinking I could have stayed where I was, did exactly this and kept I think the state income tax in Jersey New York wherever it is about ten percent. I pay nothing. The state income tax in New York. New Jersey's got to be like ten percent. Ten whoy?

I can I catch you? I'll catch all the end of my career. I'll pay you back later.

What's that? Jersey is ten point seventy five almost eleven because he stays in Jersey, so we don't have to do New York. But he stays in Jersey. Nobody stays in the city. New York's eleven. So he's playing ten on that ten ten point seven five percent. Well you know how that is? Yeah, hide in giraffe. Huhuh. But here's the thing, Oh show That's the thing. You just think, see what Peyton, because remember when Peyton to Denver, they

You don't see Aaron as a leader, huh? I mean just your own personal opinion outside of the dump.

All I know is what i've what I've read, what I've read with coaches. Okay, I see what you mean now, coach, excuse me what I've read. When the reports about the CEO, Mark Murphy, Aaron, don't you be the problem. They don't consult with him. They didn't consult with him when they hired. They didn't consult with him when they let somebody go. Damn the matter of fact of how he does things.

He got, Bro, why would you do you can't throw you play under the bus?

Why would you do that? Name the time you've ever heard Peyton Manny name the time you've ever heard Peyton or Tom Brady, Because this is the guy that he wants to be in the category with. When if Tom Brady ever throw somebody under the house, When does Peyton Manny ever throw somebody? Every time they'll eat it and then have the conversation with the guys like, look, you know, I would expect you to be on the red line right,

Yeah, mm hmm. He speaking of Mike being on the red line. You know they had that exact same play today, Mike. Oh, Mike had just had that exact same play today with the cover zero in. The corners were sitting there squad waiting on the slant, waiting quick roll.

Oh Joe, you can't stand that far inside. You can't give a receiver with that cat of pre release to let him.

Just run right up the field and he's standing in the inside, which made it even worse.

It pushed it.

Yeah, side, Yeah, that was a good player. That was a good player.

Bout Mike. These guys here, oh yo, these guys are too good if you don't put hands on them. Oh but he remember his cover zero, so he was off. Remember he was.

He was saying he was sitting off.

Yes, but oh Joe, you can't be that far. He was tripping because he think about it. You already two guards inside. If he stem you inside, now you're gonna be three to four. You give that guy so much area to just throw the ball, and Rus throws as good as deep ball as they called it, a little moon ball. You you ain't got no chance to recover. I don't care how fast you is. No, No, you can't come from that. And you get he give him a big target because he got all this to drop

Hell I'm surprised. Honestly, I thought I thought, I thought things would have been different. I was giving Aaron Rodgers his praise for what I felt he was going to be able to do on the field. I didn't really care about the stuff he was doing off of it. You know, do whatever the hell you want too off of it. But I'm thinkingful he has I'm expecting him to look like maybe not that Aaron Rodgers of Bowl. Just give me fifty percent of that, give me fifty fifty sixty percent of the old Aaron Rodgers.

And I thought, you know, the.

Jets, they're gonna be on one, they gonna be fighting.

Well. He talked about he talked about Kyne Water and living how that work out for him today. Cayenne, Yeah, cayenne water, kayene pepper, water and lemon or. It is the fountain of you. Even had to even had the kicker that drill the field go oh yeah, this thing is working. Bro, That stuff don't work. Look, I understand all that cleans and you go to these holistic places and they give you all that stuff that I get it.

I ain't never heard of no cayenne. I know about the poorest cayenne.

Kaye pepper. They put kayee pepper and they put water, lemon. I mean, what what did what?

What?

What was he had? And somebody instrumt I've discovered the fountain of you. Bro. Clearly you don't watch your t play because the ain't nothing useful about you. Ain't nothing. I'm not breaking any new chat. Do y'all think there's anything useful about Aaron Rodgers play? Does he kyenne pepper water? Does he move like he once did? Absolutely not.

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