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easier for their quarterbacks. There is something to be said if you're taught or trained by somebody on your side of the ball, you make it look easy. And that's what Morgan and Morgan does, America's largest injury firm. If you have an accident, go to fourthepeople dot com, slash Colin, or dial pound Law. That's five to two nine from your cell phone. I'm going to start with a late
afternoon game. I watched the Miami Dolphins edge the LA Chargers, and I've been on this now for several years that a quarterback that has an offensive coach has a decided advantage. There were multiple situational moments in that game when Mike McDaniel, that offensive coach, dialed up wonderful, clever, smart plays for Tua,
many coming on third and long. That really helps the quarterback. Meanwhile, Brandon Staley, defensive coach, supposed to be a brilliant defensive coach with good defensive personnel, has yet to figure it out. Remember that lead they lost in the playoffs to Jacksonville. How many third and longs do they surrender to Tua Brandon Staley to me, appears over his head. At the end of that game, Justin Herbert twice goes back to throw.
The Chargers are completely ill prepared, as Vic Fangio, which he's not prone to do as a defensive coordinator, dials up big blitzes. He doesn't do that a lot, not his style. I thought it was a great example of a really good coaching staff, Mike McDaniel and Vic Fangio completely working the Chargers staff. Brandon Staley, to me, was not viewed as the logical choice. Brian dabol was, who
was friends with a GM Tom Telesco. The Spanos family took the cheaper head coach available Brandon Staley, and I think he's completely, absolutely over his skis. Go back and watch the replay of this game, multiple situational moments where really good coaching and Miami's side won the game. I feel bad for Justin Herbert, but so much to this league is where you land, what coach you get, what
owner you get, and what franchise you get. The Chargers have so much talent, very few whiffs in free agency or the draft. It's a stacked roster at home favorite. But in the last two drives with each team, you saw obvious examples of superior Miami and inferior Charger coaching. Speaking of offensive coaching, Mike Tomlin, how many years is it? As the Steelers put out an embarrassing effort and get not only vanquished, get rolled at home against the Niners.
So here's another example. Brock Purty, seventh rounder offensive coach. Didn't he look comfortable, played with a purpose, played with tempo? Hasn't he just gotten better and better? Canny Pickett appeared to regress more frenetic. I thought at times he was lost, panicked, and hurried with a defensive coach. The Steelers now for five years, are trying to figure out their offensive line and they can't listen. I don't think Brock Purdy is a star. I don't think he's gifted. He's more than
capable and clearly coachable. But I talk about this all the time. If you look at the Niners and the Steelers' rosters, there's not that big of a gap. Obviously, Christian McCaffrey is better than the Steeler running backs, but I don't see one offensive line as staggeringly better than the other. And yet Purdy had time to throw. Purdy again played with pace and purpose. Kenny Pickett looked like a kid who needed help. And you can't tell me it's a
lack of weapons for Pittsburgh. This roster for the Steelers is stacked. They look ill prepared. And this was another example where I feel a quarterback two of for the Dolphins and brock Purty for the forty nine Ers have a really really smart offensive coach that gives them an advantage, such an advantage. Those just two examples. With the young offensive coach I thought really worked the defensive coach and
it becomes part of the culture. I thought Miami and San Francisco had very clever game plans, both going on the road, both San Francisco seizing opportunities. Early Dolphins doing the same late San Francisco. You know, Tony Roman was undrafted, Kurt Warner was undrafted. Brock Purty in the seventh round, Brady in the sixth. Tom Brady never had the best arm or was the best athlete. If you go in the seventh round, there's limitations. Maybe its size, maybe it's
arm strength. I'm with brock Purty, it's probably both. But this offense in Miami in this offense with the San Francisco forty nine ers. It's built for guys that get it away quickly and get it away accurately. And I got to tell you something, when you watch the Niners. I was sitting there today counting players I thought had the chance to be Hall of famers, McCaffrey, Trent Williams, Fred Warner, George Kittle. It almost feels like in the NFL there's two ways to win in Super Bowl, superstar
quarterback or later round quarterback on a rookie contract. But that Niner roster. I think Pittsburgh's is good. San Francisco's is probably the best in the league. Pittsburgh's top five, but San Francisco best in the league. I want to talk about Chicago Bears hosting the Green Bay Packers once again. Jordan Love has an offensive coach, Justin Fields has a defensive coach. I thought Greg Olsen made a really good point during that game, is that for Justin Fields, running
has to be a complementary part of his game. It can't be the overwhelming part of the game. And I still don't feel that Justin Fields is entirely comfortable sitting in the pocket. He tends to stare down his first receiver, and if his first receivers covered, he's off to the races. And again it can be very productive. But again, Jordan Love offensive coach, better protection, solid running game for Matt Lovefleur. I don't think Jordan Love is a special player, but
I thought he looked very comfortable. He felt supported, he looked comfortable. And the theme with all these games is offensive coach against defensive coach. I got nothing against Matt Eberfluss, but you can't say now Justin Fields, he's five and twenty one as a starter, lost at home as a favorite. This was a big game for Justin Fields. I said this before the game. If Jordan Love loses, You're like, well, he's on the road. It's his first massive start, maybe
a second for Justin Fields. This is year three, He's at home. He's a favorite. They got on better weapons, and I thought the Bears offense looked very disjointed. Again, I'm looking and Luke gets he's a good coordinator, but I just feel like, I feel like it's just a series of plays. There's no themed the Bears. It's just a series of plays, and many of those are Justin Field's doing something remarkable because he's an absolutely remarkable athlete.
But in the end, three straight examples Miami over the Chargers, Niners over the Steelers, Packers over the Bears, young quarterbacks with offensive coaches that are growing, steady, playing with pace and tempo. Then you watch on the other side, can he Pickett Forrenetick? Justin fields at times frenetic? You know, basically, let's be honest.
It's like the.
Chargers could not block the Dolphins in those last couple of snaps. Ill prepared would they be with an offensive coach, offensive culture. I have my doubts. Final game, Russell Wilson and Sean Payton at home as favorites lose to the rival Raiders. I will say this. I know nobody loves Jimmy Garoppolo, but he does have a quick release's accurate, He gets rid of the ball. You know, Garoppolo, There's
some limitations. You know, he didn't throw the ball terrific up the sidelines, didn't have a deep ball, not super athletic, but Garoppolo again, Josh McDaniels has a system. He worked with Brady for years. Get it out, get it accurately placed and he Garoppolo does that, but I was really paying attention to Russell Wilson and Sean Payton. Now Jerry Judy was out and they're a little bit banged up, but I just this was a big game for them.
You're sort of setting up the season. Denver historically is very good at home in September because of the high altitude. It's considered a big advantage out of camp. And I got to tell you, the league has so many tall, mobile, gifted, accurate quarterbacks. And maybe I'm wrong. I don't think Russell Wilson is washed, but boy, he's he There's the it that he had two or three years ago in Seattle,
and I just don't see a lot of it. He did move more, he was more willing to move out of the pocket, but I didn't see a ton of special He had a nice touchdown where he rolled out and hit a receiver in the back of the end zone. Courtland Sutton, who's a really good player, but you know, he's not as accurate and decisive as a pocket thrower as Drew Brees. So he needs to give you juice on the perimeter, give you juice with his running. I
didn't see a lot of it. And I also think that Peyton's personality is raw, authentic, brusque, immediate, urgent, intense Russell Russell's more polished, more optimistic, not really cynical, not really negative. You know, sometimes coaches are negative for a reason. They're trying to get to the point quickly in meetings, on the sidelines, in games, in between plays, and Sean is very passionate and very urgent and very critical. And I don't know how Russell Wilson's going to take that.
I don't know how this relationship's gonna work. It works if they win games, but if this team is average and starts losing games, I can see Sean Payton and Russell Wilson really really struggling. Sean is going to tell you how he feels every minute of the day, whereas with Russell, the criticism is, you know, sometimes he's overly optimistic, polished, not authentic. You got to win those games. You win today, you move on. You lose today, you start second guessing decisions,
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he didn't have to. He's not spat up again the Vikings twice, no pass rush, he's not sped up. He can work. But the Cowboys D line just engulfed and overwhelmed the Giants O line. After about that first drive. You could see the Giants in the first drive running right at the Cowboys to take away their edge, and then eventually they fall behind. You have to throw, I thought the Giants O line, though it's young, could sustain some sort of you know, pocket shield for Daniel Jones.
The Giants were completely overwhelmed up front, and Daniel Jones is just not the kind of player that can overcome that. He just can't.
It's funny, you know, you have these strong takes for six eight months of what you think is going to happen, and then week one. You know, I thought the Giants might have a similar record last year, nine or ten wins, but be much closer to the Eagles than the Cowboys, and tonight at home, the gap looked wider.
Now.
One thought I had is that game just separated by the snap was the Cowboys. And we'll get into the Niners a little bit. Have a similarity in the sense they have a lot of high end players on defense. Dan Quinn is like a three or four million dollar a year defensive coordinator currently, and they have other guys mainly are in their prime right and they dominate at the defensive line, and they have a ton of good dbs where if you are a little off.
They can really expose you.
I mean, my take coming into the season, Colin, I don't know who did you pick the Eagles for the East. I picked the Cowboys, just trying to mix it up a little bit. Yeah, you know, I think it might just come down to a field goal here or a fumble here between those two teams. I think the Cowboys, now, it's hard to judge Dak. He didn't have to do anything. Their defense is has a chance to be the best in the league. And anytime that's the case, I don't
care what year. If it's seventies or twenty twenty three, you've got a chance to win a lot of games.
Yeah, they didn't ask much a Dak tonight, and that's when he's at his best. I do want to pivot. I want I would be you know, whenever we talk, I like to talk about the Niners because you're so connected to them, and that this is the difference. Brock Purty has an offensive coach, a brilliant offensive coach, and every time I watch him, he's just a little better. Kenny Pickett behind an O line under Mike Tomlin that
for five years can't sustain the run game. Kenny Pickett I thought looked frenetic and panicky.
I thought it was the.
Difference in two young quarterbacks. I don't love either's talent. One has the ecosystem, the offensive culture. I gotta be honest on brock Purty, I don't think he's gifted, but John he delivers the ball. I mean, I think we do. I have to just come to terms with this is gonna be a this is gonna be an NFL starter for a while.
Yeah.
I mean, I think anytime that a guy gets drafted because of you know, late, because of limited physical skills, if he's gonna have success, it's gonna be a lot of intangible stuff, right, His intelligence with football, his drive and desire and then instincts. Right, it's hard to really quantify. You're not gonna see that him on a bench press or at a combine, but when you watch him, you kind of see it. And I think historically we've seen that in guys, you know, Tony Romo, just guys that
just have a natural feel for playing football. Now, it doesn't mean they're ever gonna be Peyton Manning or Tom Brady or Patrick Mahomes, but the kid has something special. And I also was thinking today watching Anthony richardson why you take a swing, because you've been talking about this now for a while. The hit rate on quarterbacks is hard. It's not even close to fifty to fifty. So the chance that you're gonna when you draft the Kenny Picketts,
I know, max numbers look better. I'm still not a huge believer for them to hit their ceiling, which is actually lower than most of the high end guys, probably middle tier floor. Everything has to go right, and I think you saw with Kenny Pickett. The Niners, like the Cowboys, are an elite defense, so they're gonna get after your ass. But he to be good accuracy, timing, rhythm, under control. If he plays for Neetick, he's not Josh Allen. He's gonna look atrocious.
I mean, what did he look like today?
Bottom five quarterback beside like one drive because his physical skills are not there a lot like Mac. When Mac plays outside of it, you're like, what is going on? That's where Purdy can kind of playmake a little bit and he has it right. But because of the infrastructure that they have, the offensive play the play caller that they have in Kyle, and let's face it, they're offensive weaponry.
You could argue the top four nine ers McCaffrey, Kittle and the two receivers I UK and Debo are as good of A four as any in the league.
And probably the best top to bottom MOOST four.
I want to touch on this. We'll get to other stuff, but I kind of led my Sunday rant with this years and years ago when I worked at another company and I was I just had left it. One of the people at that company, ESPN, had called me about a certain host and said, Hey, what do you think. We think he's really smart? And I said, well, I said, I don't know how smart Charles Barkley is. I'm sure he's pretty smart, but he's good on TV. I said, I don't know how smart Terry Branshawe is, but he's
good on TV. You run a TV network, like, make sure that's the lead. Is this person good on TV? The person got a show, it didn't work very well. Blah blah blah. Brandon Staley's smart. I always hear how smart he is. He always wins the press conference. I don't think I've seen a defense in three years. Give up more third and longs. And it's not like they have atrocious defensive personnel. They've got a BOSA, they're active.
Everybody was healthy today. I thought you could see such a gap between McDaniel's clever offensive coaching, especially when they got into tough third and longs with Tua, who's not mobile justin Herbert's a big, strong, physical player. But as I watched that game, Fangio dials up a couple of late blitzeres, which he's not prone to do. Chargers are not even equipped to block it. And I look at Brandon Staley and I think, I'm sure he's a smart guy.
I don't see the coaching. I always worry John. When you're side of the ball, you can't master in the first year, Dave Ball fixs Daniel Jones to some degree, right, But the defense you hire a coordinator. What are the people inside the league s and on Brandon Staley?
You know, watching Tyreek Hill today, who's not just one of the best players in the NFL, he's one of the truly great players of all time. If Steph Curry's going for sixty on you, by the time he gets to forty, you throw a couple guys at him, right, throw him, have the safety cheat, do not put him in one on one situations. Honestly, today was pretty embarrassing
in that situation. If He's gonna beat you short and run around guys whatever, but to continually beat you deep when he is truly I'd say him and Randy Moss are the two greatest deep receivers I've ever seen uncover unstoppable, and if you don't put another guy over there, you have no chance. And you know it's funny you bring up the intelligence. I remember when I was scouting, I was hammering a guy for low GPA, but the football coaches all said that he was actually a football genius.
And it goes back to like Jason Kidd, it took him like five times to get the minimum amount of SAT scores to get into Cali. He's like the smartest basketball player ever. They're not playing school, right, they're playing football. Just like coaches Andy Reid would tell you he's not a Harvard grad, but his football intellect is really, really high. And I think I've always thought Brandon Staley talked like a guy who watched youtubes of coaches the way they
were supposed to speak and listen. No one disputes like his ability on a whiteboard to tell you what you should do. But eventually, in these situations you have to call and he's the defensive play caller that today was Tyreek's gonna get his But the relentless nature of that, over and over and over. If Jalen Wattle or some of these other random guys on the team are going to beat us, we'll.
Tip our hat.
But we're not gonna let Steph Curry go for seventy points here once he gets to forty eight. And that's what it felt like. And I listen, I'll defend Justin Herbert. He can have his moments, but I think Justin Herbert's a stud I think he's a better player than Tua. But and I heard you talking about this, you know, on the open about you know, Tua and the play caller. I mean, he just has a huge advantage, right, Yeah, that's what made the forty nine ers kind of unique
a lot of teams. If they would have lost the equivalent of Mike McDaniel, who played a big role in their scheme, influenced the offense, worked with help Debo a couple of years ago, become kind of that running back, they would have been screwed.
But Kyle's the play caller, right.
So Mike goes on and they both kind of can thrive where you know you get Brandon Staley, It's like, what are you doing on defense? It just we've watched it now two and a half, two years plus. This opener doesn't feel like anything's changed because it can't be disputed the talent, the players they have and their ability. I mean, they should walk to twelve wins.
Today, I go into a game, I met I do a blazing five. It went over five. So I've said this last year I had a winning week opening week. I couldn't recall ever having a winning week opening week. I tend to take underdogs, and today some teams like Baltimore, of course they were better. They flush them out. Tampas is more talent, Yeah, Tampa. I mean you there's a lot of weird stuff. But I gotta be honest to watch the Rams not just beat Seattle, suffocate their offense
and almost get four hundred yards. Seattle's one of the toughest places to play. The defense is Aaron Donald and I mean just a bunch of twenty one year olds, Like they drafted fourteen guys. They all made the team, like they just need players. That wasn't second half, that wasn't close. I mean three and out, three and out, three and out. Yeah again, offensive coach, talented quarterback, Rams veterans outside of Copper health. Is this the Rams or is it just sort of a one off that you know,
they're not terribly deep, they'll get banged up. But I mean, I watched the second half that game. I'm like, Okay, this isn't competitive. This is not a competitive football game. It was almost Niners. Beating Pittsburgh. The way they did was surprising. The Rams hammering Seattle, to me, was one of the shocks of the day. How was it for you?
Turn turns out Stafford's been studying that scrapbook of all the guys' names. Huh, Because here's the reality. If he is healthy, he can go to toe to toe with anyone in the league on a given game. I don't care who he's playing with because he's used to playing with inferior teams for what a decade plus in Detroit. I know they had some years where they were talented, but he played with a lot of bad teams. Every time I looked up, Stafford was clearly awesome today. I mean,
he was throwing seeds all over the field. The number one thing I thought about Seattle coming into this season, and everyone just chocked them up because he has a great story, he's easy to root for, and we're all humans. When you see a game, I kind of go through the mud and then come out. And the perspective that he has. Who's not rooting for Gino Smith when you
hear him talk. But in the history of the league, most guys, they might have a year like that, they usually don't go on to resurrect what rich Gannon did in Oakland is like an all time outlier situation, right, so, and most people, and I'm guilty of this too, I just chock Seattle. Oh yeah, there'll be ten ten wins. Their roster's pretty good. If Gino's just solid, Well, what if he's not not solid, what if he's bad? Right,
He's three and seven in his last ten games. In a lot of those games, several against the Niners, he has not looked good. He looks overwhelmed. He's not a great athlete, so he's not gonna make plays out of nothing. And if they're not blocking for him as they did today, he's in major trouble. I mean, he was, he was atrocious. He was really bad. Staffords listen, as you said a long time ago, they tried to, you know, trade the pay cuts. He makes a lot of money, but he
does make a lot of money for a reason. Yeah, you know, when they gave him the contract, no one thought it was that crazy. His talent when he's on and he's healthy, when mess Safford is healthy and playing well, he's a high end, Pro.
Bowl level guy.
I do think it's a little bit of a red flag though. What if Gino comes back to Earth and what if he's the twenty third well quarterback in the NFL this year not the fourteenth.
Yes, and the Seahawks one of their tackles got hurt, so it's like, oh, now it's Gino without the pressure, with pressure and not the protection he got last year. So it's like, yeah, I mean, I think you said it best to start. We all have these storylines, we're all filling time during the baseball season, and then a Week one and you're like, oh, you know, Sean McVay is a really good coach and they actually have some pretty good offensive personnel.
I do think you gotta be careful, and I'm guilty of this, just like we all are overreacting to Week one right, everyone will right off the Giants and you'll look up and they'll be fourn two the Steelers. Next week I playing the Browns. Everyone's gonna take the Browns, I'm sure because of what happened the day in both games, and it usually kind of plays itself out. Same thing with the Rams, Right, is he gonna look like that every game they played the forty nine Ers this upcoming week?
Is mass Stafforc gonna look like that against that defense? Probably not, is Roku. I don't even know who this guy is making all every time I looked up, seventeen's catching the ball over the middle, making plays, Cooper cups on ir. Eventually, some of this stuff catches up to you. Unless they hit on some of these players. And actually we know they have a high end coach. Maybe they're scrappier.
And if Matt Stafford can play seventeen games as a healthy player, maybe they're closer to an eight win team than a four win team. Because part of my thing was like, No's elbow will creep up. He'll get banged up because they won't be able to block. Today look pretty perfect when you looked up now historically, right, the last three or four years, Seattle hasn't exactly had Nick Boson TJ.
Watt running after you. So we'll see how it.
Looks this week with the forty nine ers, seven eight guys that they're going to be chasing them all game.
So obviously we're all judged by certain things. In my business, it really is ratings in revenue. If you don't get them, you're off radio right. For pass rushers, I need sacks and quarterback hits. That's where you get the big money. For coaches, it's.
All about wins.
Nothing else matters, personalities and irrelevant quarterbacks. It's mostly about winning. But if you do have talent, people will stick with you longer and see if they can turn it around. But Justin Fields is now five and twenty one got dragged as a home favorite. Jordan Love I thought was more composed and as I watched Justin Fields today and Greg Olsen said this, like it's supposed to be running
to complimentary piece to a quarterback. Even Lamar, you got to sit in the pocket and I still don't see a really truly comfortable, consistent look around the field go to a second, third read quarterback. He is incredibly dynamic. I almost feel like it's a curse. He is so dynamic athletically that it's just he can get yards every time he runs. But I mean, where are you now in Justin Fields? And again it's not like Jordan Love tore everybody up, but Jordan's got a better on line.
Jordan had a better run. But I feel like it's the curse of being gifted. Cam Newton had some of this where it's like, I can run and get yards. Josh Allen, by the way, until day Ball got that I can run and get yards? Where are you now in Justin Fields? Because he didn't look you know, that was an ugly.
Loss at home.
I had the volume on that game. And let me just say, I think Greg Olsen is the best young former player on TV right now. I mean he's he's really good.
He really is.
He's stud Listen, I going back a couple of years, I lean with guys like Justin Fields coming out in a draft, right the size, the arm strength, he did it at a high level in the playoff game. Obviously, the athleticism, the blue chip pedigree. But let's face a lot of coaches in the NFL, and listen, they don't
always agree with with us to talk about it. With scouts sometimes they can you know, see don't see eyed eye, But with quarterbacks they view a lot of the intangible stuff, the processing how they see it, and that was a huge knock on him. For example, Kyle Shanahan wanted nothing to do with him. It was between Mac and Trey Lance because he didn't think he could probab.
So when you watch.
Today, he looks exactly to me like he did in the middle of last year. This is the same exact player. It's not there. You just kind of run around right, makes a couple of plays in the flat. Now, going into this game, I love the Packers, and I had no clue what Jordan Love was gonna look like. And I assumed justin fields wasn't gonna be great, just because I think their team is a lot better than the Bears be not very good. You know, there are lines terrible that their defense.
Packers. These are all businesses. The Packers are a well run business. The Bears aren't.
No exactly, But I think I said this to you last time we talked. I do think the Bears are going to be in a good position if this doesn't work out, because they won't be good. So they're gonna have eye pick and they have Carolina who's gonna have a very long year. So if sometimes you're in a position where it's like, oh, we're gonna end up and with a six pick and we had this guy that we traded up for didn't, that's not gonna be the situation.
It's gonna be an easy pivot. But I today was not a good day for him just in terms of the eye test. Obviously statistically it wasn't great. As an athlete, he is remarkable. I mean remarkable. He is Michael vick Lamar, but he's got a little more power. He's got like Jalen Hurt's power to him. He's a special athlete. But to be good at that position, especially what they're kind of looking for. And think of where Ryan Pol's come from.
He was around Patrick Mahomes for years. He didn't draft the guy, so the clock really was on all off season when they added Dj Moore. I think he's going to be in major trouble as the season progresses because I don't think they're teams that good, and honestly, he just has some flaws that maybe a lot of the coaching staff around the league that evaluate him would say he's always had.
Now, what did you make of Jordan Love's performance? Again, better protection, nice run game, mostly hit the throws that were available. I thought he was I would just say steady, and I thought he had a certain pace to him that was comfortable. That was my euro former scout.
Yeah, I mean he missed a big deep ball. I think they called a PI, but he overthrew him by a time. Obviously the play floor schemed up on the throwback that I.
Think was a touchdown.
Yeah, he definitely has some athleticism and clearly he's not terrible.
I think it's hard to judge.
I think I'm gonna need about three or four more games to feel like, Okay, they got something there or by no means am I putting the stamp of approval on it. But today was definitely a positive. I think he inherits And this was always talked about with Trey Lance forever with the forty nine ers and why it's easy for Brock perty Now the team is pretty good, right Watson, who had eight or nine touchdowns last year, was on the sideline in street close.
He'll be back right now.
We'll see what happens Aaron Aaron Jones had a hamstring or whatever. He's excellent. They have a good offensive line, they have a ton of highly drafted defensive players.
The beef with Aaron.
Rodgers like, wait, do you understand you got it pretty good here.
You got a lot of good players around you.
You're not playing for the Houston Texans here, And I think Jordan Love got pretty lucky in the sense that that's the team that drafted him and the way this all played out, Now, it's going to get harder, right when you start just playing The Lions are a much better team, right, and you have to look at their schedule, but the.
Bears decent chance, they're one of the worst.
Teams they will play all season, even though it was a road game.
Yeah, all right, finally Jets Bills. I you know, I talked to somebody, Chad Millman's are real sharp better and he said, you know, and who else did I talk to? Was Eric Mangini said, this is that Aaron Rodgers on a Monday night in New York, He's going to be dialed in. And when Aaron's dialed in, now, we've seen times when he's not dialed in for the off season
he can. You know, we've seen what He's not completely committed, he's not as good, and he has aged, but I just have this feeling he's really been really laser focused. My guess is we got we have ourselves a really fun game tomorrow night. Is there any side do you like any what do you expect to see.
I've come around on the Jets. Now we got to see how Beckton, if he can just stay on the field, and if he can just be a functional right tackle, because the forty nine ers have a bad right tack. You can function with a questionable right tackle right most most are not Lane Johnson. I think their formula, just
big picture, is gonna be pretty simple. Elite defense, have a dominant pass rush, which they have a ton of them, Sauce takes away half the field, and then offensively lead the league in rushing or be a top two or three team, and then let Aaron have a little magic in there make some big plays. But it's not gonna be the McCarthy or even the MVP version of Aaron where they just put it all on his back, and
it'd be much more of a team effort. Mainly starting on defense, where it's like, you're not gonna score many points on us.
And I think that pass rush.
They've drafted several guys the last couple of years high obviously Quinn Williams that was a home run from several years ago. It could be overwhelming, and just the random guys they have coming, it's gonna be a lot like some of these forty nine er teams over the years, and then you just got to hammer the run game and we'll see. I mean there's gonna be a microscope on Nate Hackett, right. I mean, he's gonna be talked about a lot every play that he calls him and
Aaron does Aaron override him? Because Aaron, you know, likes being in the shotgun of four or five wy that's where he's most comfortable and historically he's had a lot of success. But I think for this team, with the way they're built, with their questions and offensive line, get him under center like Lafleur did right when he got there, and hammer the run and can the one question with Buffalo, right, which is weird because there's this cold weather, blue collar city.
It hasn't really been a tough team. They've really been more of like a run and gun score a lot of points squad, right, and that hasn't translated for him, you know, in the playoffs, so it doesn't get much better, right, nine to eleven. It's gonna be a pretty powerful night. I think Aaron Rodgers MetLife the whole thing.
It's gonna be cool, all right week one. As of tomorrow night will be in the books. John and I will do this every Sunday night. We'll chop it up for about thirty minutes. On Sunday nights, I'll do my fifteen minute opening rant. We'll put that out early on YouTube under the volume, and then John and I will come in and usually we'll let the Sunday night game play to completion. But the Giants Cowboys was so awful at the end of the third we decided to sound.
Colin, we gotta do thirty seconds. Though.
On Dion Sun, who somehow after week one feels like he impressed me more in week two, he is Shadoor is beyond, He's unreal. He really is a pretty special team. He layered a couple throws in that game, and I tweeted this out. One of the things that knocks out quarterbacks from college to the pro it's not big arm. Even every guy misses some throws. It's that layer throw, the intermediate throw over a defender, which takes a lot of touch. We know he has all the physical attributes
to throw bombs and throw lasers. He can layer it. Caleb can layer all the great prospects, Trevor Lawrence, He's got that. I thought we two was a pretty wold game for Shadoor Sanders against a much better defense in Nebraska.
And Nebraska was getting a great pass rush early, like just you know again it was Cowboys Giants like overwhelming. Yeah, you know Colorado's O line. If he comes out, I would say it's Caleb Schadeur Sanders and Drake May and that's that's about as strong as a top three. And listen to the next three are probably Pennix, Riley Leonard, the kid out of Duke, maybe bon Nicks. I didn't you know, it's funny bon Nicks at Auburn didn't do
a thing for me. And then he goes to Oregon and it looks like he's his arms stronger, he moves a little better.
Now.
I'm like, okay, you gotta can't you can't judge a kid on a freshman year at college.
And NFL community is much higher on him at Oregon, and I think he's matured as a human. I think people are much more bullish on the players.
How about I'll be honest. Quinn Ewers could not hit a deep throw his entire career. Holy shit, he against Alabama. I thought like I had to just say, Okay, it's a new it's a new kid. Like last year. He couldn't. Even early in that game, he missed on two deep throws. That's been the knock on him. He can't hit the deep throw. He hit four against Alabama. I thought quinn Ewers took his stock from falling to rising.
You're more di in to the rivals dot com and maybe even the transfer portal, But you don't need to know rivals to just watch that game and go. Texas has as much, if not more talent. You have an AWF quarterback than Alabama.
Hey, let's be honest about this. Is that you know Bill O'Brien. Nick has run through offensive coordinators and he kept hitting. He just kept kiffing Sort and Bill O'Brien. But Bill's not. Bill's not probably the great recruiter. Bill was there to clean it up and get back to the pros. So he may not even have been an active recruiter, right, Like, no chance.
I feel like.
Alabama, I feel like they miss Sark's creativity, like they just there wasn't a lot. I mean, they literally had a nineteen eighty eight passing game. I think they're in trouble. I just I don't think you can. I don't think you can win at the highest level in twenty twenty three and be just an athlete that can't throw a quarterback. Are bad at quarterback. I don't care what your roster is. I watched Clemson and Duke. How many players does Duke
have that Clemson recruits and the woodshed five max? But one team had a great quarterback and it's a difference.
I had an NBA guy text me yesterday if NIL leveled the playing field in.
College and I said a little bit.
But I think it's the combination of the ability to transfer to the NIL, which I think has directly hurt. It just lessened the power of Ohio State Alabama because now even the other five or six teams that can easily be on their level that have more access to the money, USC Texas, Oregon. I don't really know what's going on in Miami. They've always been up into but
they just kicked text A and m's ass. I just think they get a guy in the Port Florida state cutting big checks and gets you to play, and I can promise you the NFL well, those guys might not have left the program.
Before, especially just sit out.
So it's college football's fun right now.
It's that there are a lot of teams in the mix.
That's really fun, all right, Buddy John Middlecough Three and Out is the podcast former NFL scout.
Good seeing you, see you Colin, Have a good night.
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