Richard Sherman Podcast - Week 14 Reaction

two thirty three in a touchdown. But it was Zach Sharbonnay who really really shined in this game on both on the ground and through the area. At seven catches for fifty nine yards. He had twenty two carries for one hundred and thirty four yards two touchdowns. One of them was a huge fifty one yard run where he just that looked like everything the Seattle Seahawks wanted to see when they drafted him out of UCLA, and he delivered. Obviously, your guy K nine is banged up, but he stepped

up in a huge way. This game, JSN continues his very consistent season. Five catches for eighty two yards. In the touchdown we talked about, Jonathan Hankins gets the sack, but it just was a solid effort. And I know that the Big Cat didn't get the huge play this week, didn't get the highlight play, but he made a number of huge deflections, taking on double teams all day, freeing up these linebackers. This defense just looks like a whole

different beast. They were harassing Kyler all night long. They were playing tight coverage. Devin Witherspoon again is all over the place. Tyreek Wohland Man, I thought he had a pick. He undercut Marvin Harrison on a comeback route in this game, and it was a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful cover play, and I thought he was gonna book him up the sideline for six. But they had the offensive PI. Marvin Harrison Junior wanted to hate on him. Arizona Cardinal team has

really started to stumble as of late. You know, they're still running the ball well. Kyler's playing decent, but he just looked rattled early on. This defense was getting to him. They were hitting him, they were turning the ball over. He had a great throw where he attacked Kobe Bryant on the corner route score a touchdown early in the game. But after that, this defense cut the water off and just kept going all night long. We talked about the

run game from the offense. This Seattle Seahawks team looks really good and I can't wait to see them Sunday night against the Green Bay Packers next week. That's going to be a great game, a game that really I mean, I keep saying barometer, I keep saying litmus test. They've won four in a row. But this Packers team has looked really good. You saw him take care of Detroit

Lions to the wire. So if the Seattle Seahawks can go in there and get their fifth straight, our our host the Packers and get their fifth straight, these conversations start to change, Mitchell. For this first year coach Mike McDonald, we have to start thinking, oh to the year.

or less. You know, this game did not start off great for them. I'm Kyler Murray connected with Michael Wilson on a forty yard forty one yard touchdown right out the gates, and Seattle looked like they might be in for a long day, and then they recover immediately. This was a huge, huge, huge win for the Seattle Seahawks. And you're absolutely right. I mean next Sunday night against the Packers, when they host the Packers, that is going to be the bar because we saw San Francisco. You know,

look back like San Francisco. They're not out of the race certainly yet. There's still a couple of weeks left in this season for them to make up ground. But if the Seattle Seahawks can continue their winning ways and put this division to bed, you got to look out for them in the playoffs. Because Geno Smith only six incompletions today. I mean, you gotta love to see that from Gino. What do they have to do to take out the Packers because the Packers are in desperate need of it to win as well.

in twenty five, twenty twenty five times a game. If he gets to throwing thirty thirty five times a game, this team may be in trouble because he gets a little reckless with the football. He starts to get a little chaotic, a little a little cavalier, pushing the ball down the field, allowing believing in his arm strength, believing in his arm talent, and putting the ball in harm's way.

We've seen that throughout the season, and that's why the last few games you just have not seen him really pushed the ball down the field as much as they had earlier in the year. They've really leaned on the run game. They're going to have to protect the football because Green Bay Packers turn it over at a really high level. Especially on defense. Jeff Afley has done a really great job all year long just coaching his team

put him in good position. If they can get JayR Alexander back, that'd be a huge boost for this defense and change the way that they're covering. Maybe they run a little bit more man coverage, so these receivers are going to have to beat man coverage consistently. But I'm just going to enjoy this one. This team has to feel good going on the road getting their fourth straight win. They look really good, they look confident, they look together.

You could see just the camaraderie on defense, the togetherness, guys celebrating one another, celebrating all victories. It's really cool to see. But you know what else is cool to see? Mitchell.

and twenty five yards, two touchdowns. Isaac Garndo with a really impressive game. Fifteen carries for seventy eight yards to two touchdowns, two catches for fifty yards, really getting dynamic. One of them. I thought that could have been a touchdown. Brock perty put that ball up early. I thought Grinda was gonna be able to roll into the end zone. He wasn't able to do it. But George Kittle, welcome back, my friend, Welcome back to getting targets. The creativity and

the play calling looked great. A lot of screens, middle screens, outside screens, just pushing it over routes. Kittle was involved in just about every quarter of the game. They finally don't waste a good Juwan Jennings game. Seven catches for ninety yards, two touchdowns and they get the win. You know, every other time Juwan has a great game, they find a way to stumble and lose that game. So I'm just happy for him. I'm happy for the team he

was he was going at you know, their dbs. They were going back and forth with Jalen Johnson, friend of the program, and they were battling. It's always good to see that kind of battle. But San Francisco forty nine ers putting up these kind of points was really good to see thirty eight points in the game against the Chicago defense has played really good throughout this season and have a lot of talent. Roma Doonza gets active, gets his first two i mean gets two touchdowns in this game.

But Caleb Williams gets sacked seven times, which was great for the San Francisco verdy nine ers because without Nick Bosa, they just haven't been able to get home very consistently. It was good to see Gross Matos get his three sacks, Leonard Floyd got two sacks. It was a collective effort and just you could see the sense of urgency from the d line. You could see the linebackers, everybody flying around.

It looked like a really good team. Now I get to go to San Francisco this Thursday to watch my San Francisco forty nine Ers play the La Rams in the game that's gonna be. It's gonna be the loser of this game. Likely it kills their hopes at the playoffs at the division. Honestly, the Seattle Seahawks might have pulled away already with the division. You know, in order for either of these teams to have a chance to win it, they're gonna need some help and need some

losses from the Seattle Seahawks. But anything is possible to the National Football League.

I mean, like you said, you lean on the reliable, George Kittle, Richard I promise you, whoever that two seed is in this NFL playoffs, if the San Francisco forty nine ers are able to sneak in as that seventh seed, they are not gonna want to see them. For the love of God, please do not have the Detroit Lions be the two seed and play in the San Francisco forty nine ers at home. I do not want to see that matchup San Francisco. If they can get this ship righted, look out down.

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Buffalo Bills fans travel well, but not so fast. My friend old Lee Corso, when you're playing Matt Stafford, you better bring you better bring your lunch, Baill, and you better bring your offense. And they did. If Buffalo Bill scored forty two points in this game, and I'm sure if they walked in thinking, hey, Josh Allen's gonna have five touchdowns, six touchdowns. He's gonna throw for three, he's gonna run for three. We're gonna score forty two points.

Kalisha Kiir is gonna have five kits for one hundred and six yards, Amari Cooper six catches for ninety five yards. You're like, that's a dug no, no, not this time. Matt Stafford twenty three to thirty three hundred and twenty yards two touchdowns, didn't get sacked once. You gotta give that Rams offensive line a lot of credit because this

is a defense that gets pressure on the quarterback. They give a lot of exotic looks, they bring pressure, they get home, and they were not able to sack him once. But Pooking the cool. The game Pooking Nikola had was legendary. Some of those catches he's left me scratching my head

because I I just I couldn't explain it. I mean the one where he backed up and kind of went over his shoulder, got his feet down like landed, and then another one on the same sideline pushed the defender by fly by catch it over his head like incredible catches and then the screen for the dagger touchdown to finish this game off Cooper Cup doing you know, five for ninety two in a touchdown, but doing all the dirty work blocking had a huge block on the final

Pooking the cool touchdown. It was a really great play. Just sacrificing these guys. Kyrin William has twenty nine rushers for eighty seven yards and two touchdowns. They're doing their scraping, clawing, doing everything they can to win these ball games. But Buffalo Bill's losing a game like this after everybody told me that it was that's the reason why Josh Allen was his candidacy was so great. And mind you, Josh Allen really raised his bar and scored six touchdowns in

this game. So is MVP candidacy For the numbers guy goes up tremendously. But for the argument that everybody's been trying to make about, hey, it's because his team is winning so much. Now they have their third loss? Has that change the argument at all? Is does that make it better? Is it worse? Now? Now the Bill's got to go to Detroit and beat the Detroit Lions, so they could potentially beat ten and four or they can go eleven and three. But if they're ten and four,

does that change things? Like That's why this whole thing, that, that whole idea and that whole argument was just it was not great. And Josh Allen had an MVP like performance today two hundred and thirty I mean three hundred and forty yards, three touchdowns, passing, three rushing, ten carries for eighty two yards, Like that's impact that's a huge impact. That's MVP candidate, But you have to look at the overall. He's having MVP performances. Win his team needs them late

in the season, that's definitely gonna bolster his chances. But if they lose these games down the stretch and other teams win, that's going to bolster their chance. Like if the Philadelphia Eagles would have lost this game, that would

diminish Sakwan Barkley's chances. But he just became the all time leading run or broke the single season rec rushing record for the Philadelphia Eagles already, and it's only week fourteen, and so he has three more weeks to put up more yards and break it even further and push down below That's what MVP candidates. It's always special seasons, records breaking, you know, leading the league those that's the kind of

things you say about MVP candidates. I'm sorry, I know they don't want to give it to a running back and they're saying, ain't give it to a running back anymore, and YadA, YadA, YadA, But at some point you gotta look and say, when sacred Jalen Hurst do for on one hundred and thirty yards is game something like that wasn't a great game from Jalen Hurts by any stretch

of the imagination. And if he's playing like that and the Philadelphia Eagles are still winning the games, it's because Saquon Barkley is taken over and he was running his butt off. And that's a story. Every single week. This team goes as Saquon Barkley goes, and they stumble when Sakuon Barkley is not having a great game. He just has not had many great bad games this season, so they don't lose. But you know that's my little Ted talk for the day, Mitchell. The Buffalo Bills have a

tough week next week against the Lines. We already talked about the Rams going to San Francisco to play San Francisco forty nine ers. I'm excited to be there for that week for that game. And that's this week's Sunday Night food Ball, brought to you by Uber Eats, the official on demand delivery partner of the NFL. Uber the best game day deals all season long. Order now for game Day.

it's their division, they go away with it. The San Francisco forty nine ers only chance is to win it go in as a wild card team, as the seventh seed, and so there's a lot of things that got to happen there for them to get in as that last wild card team. But win and give yourself the best chance. You know, at this point, I think they got to win every game. They got to win out and just to give themselves a shot at ten and seven, and at ten and seven, you know, I'm sure they'll have

an argument. You know, I'm not sure they have every tie breaker, honestly, but that will be giving themselves the best chance. And these guys are continuing to fight hard, They're gonna get healthier, and if they do get in those playoffs, it's going to be a very difficult team to be They're going to be a very difficult team to put out of these playoffs, and so we'll see.

two weeks ago. How impressed are you with the Steelers right now and the way they're showcasing it to the NFL that they are true competitors for the for the whole kitten kabudle the Super Bowl.

doing enough. But that defense, Cam Hayward huge plays, James Pierre with an interception, Keanu Benton with the interception. That's the big reason why they win this game. And it's happened both ways because I guess the Cincinnati Bengals, the offense had scored forty four points and you know, win all and need when they needed to have it. In this game, the defense steps up, holds Jamis will Winston the twenty and twelve yards, hosts this offense to fourteen points.

The offense scores twenty seven points. And that's what this team. They're so balanced, they're so balanced, and they're gonna have a tough decision at the end of the season to make with in regards to Russell Wilson and what they want to do with his contract, what they want to do going forward, because he's making himself some money. You know, anytime you're winning in this league, he six and one as a starter this year, you're gonna ask for good

money you deserve. And you know it's gonna be up to him whether he takes the deal you know that's friendlier to the team, or he tries to maximize his earning potential. You know, I think at this point in his career, he's earned a lot of money. He's made his money, so maybe he takes a more team friendly deal, you know, forty million dollars a year or so deal you know, spread out a different way or figure you know, maneuver or figured it out a different way. You know,

maybe he wants sixty million like that guy. You know, And again he has the leveraging this situation, especially if he continues to play well, to ask for whatever he wants to. He plays quarterback in the National Football League. Are you gonna come off a really good season and

let the guy walk away because of the money. The fans in the backlash would be great in Russell's case, are you really gonna leave a situation that seems perfectly tailored to your skill set perfectly Taylor to who you are, a supportive defense, a good run game, offensive coordinator, and Arthur Smith who understands you. You know, it seems like a perfect match. And I don't think he's gonna let money get in the way of them continuing this in the future. This is a great coach, not an all

time coach. And Mike Tomlin, who's done a really good job with him. So I think, you know, the way this team has embraced him, the way he's changed himself to fit this culture and to really step in and help this team in the way he has. He's gonna deserve the money he can ask for, but it's gonna be what you value more. And I think he's gonna value to fit more than the money, and so he'll probably take a more team friendly deal going forward. He got a lot of money from the Seattle Seahawks, got

a lot of money from Denver. Now you got to you gotta worry about, you know, legacy and reputation and all that going forward, and you don't want to end up with an another bad situation after you were in a perfect situation because because of the money.

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Kirk Cousins coming back to town the Atlanta Falcons, a lot of motivation to get a win in Minnesota for Kirk coo, and it looked decent, you know, at the first half, early in the second half, and then all of a sudden Minnesota took over. It's time to talk about Sam Donald and this team because I don't know if it's going to be a one season and done for him in Minnesota. He looks like he's found a new home, Richard. They just drafted JJ McCarthy with a

first round pick. How do you handle this situation? If you're the GM of the Minnesota Vikings. Do you let Sam walk? Do you assign him to a couple of year deal? Obviously he's gonna want some money. What do you do if you're Minnesota? What if you're doing if you're Sam Donald.

But none of this looks like law. It doesn't look like he's just oh man, it's tipped passes or anything like that. He's going through his progressions. It just seems like a hand and glove fit in Minnesota. And so I can't see them really really moving on from him and really restarting with JJ McCarthy. Maybe they would, you know,

they spent a high draft pick on him. But if that happened, I expect Sam Donald to get to find work somewhere else and and and get a really really lucrative contract, whether that's the New York Giants, if that's an it would be really crazy. If it's the New York Jets, I mean, you're talking about full circle. Oh my god, I couldn't imagine. Sheeez, that'd be a storyline.

It could be a number of teams. It could be the Raiders if they don't draft Shadora Sanders or our Ward in the draft, you know, if they don't take a quarterback, or if they don't get the guy that they want. So there's a number of situations he could walk into and become the Day one starter. But I think it's in Minnesota's best interest to just keep continuity. You know, maybe maybe you give yourself an out after

two years and then give JJ chance. But I don't think you bring a rookie all coming off an ACL injury into the National Football League who hasn't played a down and replace a quarterback playing as well as Sam Darnold du has been for your team and really winning you a lot of these games. To have five touchdowns this game twenty two, twenty eight for three, forty seven, a career high five touchdowns, a career high one hundred and fifty seven point nine pass rating, almost a perfect

passer rating. It just seems like the receivers trust him. He's got a great rapport with him. Jordan Addison for eight for one thirty three, three touchdowns. Justin Jefferson seven catches for one thirty two, two touchdowns. I think you're gonna have a hard time having a conversation with those guys and saying we couldn't pay Sam. He's gone. We got JJ, and you guys will figure it out with him.

These guys are having really, really impressive seasons with him, and I know that they've had success with her Cousins before, but you just I don't know how many times you're gonna be able to keep doing this. And maybe JJ McCarthy comes in and it does just as well, but I don't want to risk that if I'm the Minnesota Vikings, well.

This team started off hot and now they're six and seven. They've had a four game losing street. Kirk Cousins struggled in that four games, zero touchdowns over four games, eight interceptions, sixty two pass grading, fifteen interceptions so far. Richard, is it time that they close that chapter on kirk Cousins and turn the keys over to the car to Michael Pennix Junior, their first round draft pick.

conversation that gets people fired. And so I don't think they'd sit him because you you have fifty million dollars backing up just get you imagine that they're talking every game, that's talking point and so every time the rookie has stumbles or those interceptions or makes a mistake, it's going to be like, well, why do you have fifty millions on a bench, or when you can't afford a free agent, why do you have fifty million sitting on a bench?

If there are just so many conversations and Kirkus struggling in a really big way right now, but hopefully he's able to come out of it and play well. You know, he's played well at point to this season. He threw for three hundred and forty four yards. He did throw the two interceptions, but they were battling in this game for a while and it was really closer than the score show that got away from him. Late this Minnesota Vikings defense Byron Murphy made a really great interception, one

handed interception in this game. But I don't think you can bench him. I don't think you can bention him at this point of the season. I don't think you can bench him with all the money you have invested into him, because I just don't think you have a way to answer those questions this offseason about what you're going to do with the guy you promised. He has one hundred and something million guaranteed, so it's not like you could just cut him and hey, next season, you

don't have to pay a salary. You're going to be paying him fully guaranteed money next year, So you got to just this is the decision you made. This is the guy, and you got to stick with him, good or bad. You gotta keep going.

hosted you in town this week in Detroit. I mean I first off, I mean listen, the Richard Truman piet has become the official podcast of the Lions here. I feel like in Detroit, you know a lot of folks talking about your podcast here Detroit, and we're excited to see you come to Detroit. You've spoken a lot of kind words about my Detroit Lions over the last couple of years. And what was your rating of Detroit as a city as your time here? What was your thoughts on Detroit overall?

the staff. Everybody was so positive. Everybody was so optimistic. Everybody was so energetic, so excited. And they deserve it. They deserve this season. These fans have been loyal and dedicated for so long and they get to finally see their team come home and win week after week. Jared Golf has a really good game thirty two forty one eighty three, three touchdowns, did have the one interception to my guy, Keishawan Nixon, friend of the program. We got

to have him on here soon. But they really did a really great jobs at Darius Smith in this defensive line of misfits. You know, guys that you had to look up as they were making plays. Aaron Glenn deserves to be a head coach. And you know, I hope you guys don't lose both your coordinators, but there's a chance you lose both your coordinators this year. And that's what you know. That's one of the things about being a really good team is is they take from you,

They take from good teams. They everybody want some of what you're doing. They want what you're doing, they want some of a piece of that pie so that they can help increase their team and help their team win games. What he's been able to do with a bunch of guys that he just got off the street, that he

elevated from practice squad. He gets a tip of the cap from me because this is This Green Bay Packers team is a really good team, and Josh Jacobs has been running the ball down in just about everybody's throats. He was held eighteen carries for sixty six yards, which isn't a bad game. He had three rushing touchdown, but it's not the kind of game that he's been having in the past. Christian Watson has the four catches for one hundred and fourteen yards, but lost to fumble a

great play made by Carlton Davis. You know, didn't give up on the play, punched it out it was able to be recovered. We talked about Keishaw Nixon in his interception. This Green Bay Packers team is really good, but they needed this win. They falled in nine to four. Now two and three games behind the Detroit Lions for the division. But like you said, it's the Minnesota Vikings that you got to worry about, and you play them at the

end of the season. Jamier Gibbs continues his excellent season with seventy three all purpose yards the receiving touch down. Tim Patrick has two touchdowns any game. It just seems like this team doesn't care who gets the ball, doesn't care who gets the credit, doesn't care who gets the success. They just want to win. And if you can see it each and every week, you could see it. Each and every play, gods are doing whatever it takes, blocking, tackling, hitting.

Pane Sewell's catching passes. He didn't catch any of this game, but every time, every time, every week you look up, they running another play for him. And they ran like a reverse for him. A couple of weeks ago, I said, what are we doing now? We're running running traps with Piney Sewell at getting the ball. But I'm excited for this game coming up against the Bills in Detroit. That's going to be the game of the week. I would imagine Josh Allen and his crew coming into Detroit to

play this very talented Detroit Lions team. They win that game, they're gonna have a claim as the best team in the National Football League. And it's that It's going to be very difficult to say. It's close depending on what happens tonight with the Kansas City Chiefs. I think that's going to be a doll fight of a division game with the Chargers. We'll see how that goes. But your Detroit lines are the beast. It can't be the beast in the East, the best in the Midwest. That might.

what was going between Dan Campbell and his mind. What was that conversation, because I think it's important for the Detroit fan base and the heck the National Football League fan base to hear what was going through a mind between player and coach when you're facing a fourth and one in field goal range with forty seconds left. Richard, what was the words you share with Jared Goff post game.

kick it. And Jared, you know, dejected. It's like, man, man, I want to go, and Dan Campbell just looks at him and said, you want to do it, efort, We're going for it. And then he changes his mind and goes for it. And he trusts his men, He trusts his team, He trust his offensive line that they're gonna get it done for him. And some people may look at that and be like, hey, is that really how it should go? Yeah, that's how it should go. You

can do all the analytics in the world. You can say, oh, man, this percentage and this percentage, but at the end of the day, do you trust your team, do you believe in your guys. And if your quarterback says he thinks they can get it done, and you say, I'm gonna believe in my quarterback and what he sees and what he does, that's a gut feeling and that's what that's what his team is ready to run through walls for Dan Campbell because he believes in them like they believe

in him. And he is a leader of men. And as a leader of men, in order to show them leadership, you have to show them trust and faith and belief. And that is what he did. He said, Hey, if we lose, I lost with my men the way they wanted to go out. I didn't play it conservative. I didn't play it soft. I didn't play scared. Scared money, don't make no money. And they reach in Detroit right now.

freshoff of loss. This next Sunday's game is gonna be one that I'm sure America is gonna tune into. And I'm so proud to be a Detroiter right now. I love to see this eleven straight. Let's keep this train rolling, Richard. I'm thrilled that you are on the train. I like to think you're an honorary member of the Detroit Lions bandwagon, and I'm gonna I'm gonna, I'm just gonna leave it at that. I'm gonna buy you a Detroit Lions hat so you can swap into that when we do these game breakdowns.

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