NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - MNF Recap: The Purdy Question with MJD and Bridget Condon

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

Gregg Rosenthal is joined by Maurice Jones-Drew and Bridget Condon to recap the Lions and 49ers facing off on Monday Night Football. The show starts with a look at how the Lions played (01:37), followed by discussions about the state of the Lions heading into the playoffs (05:30), the tough decisions the 49ers will have to make this offseason (15:05), and the players of the week (27:48). Note: time codes approximate. NFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to the NFL Fantasy Football podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Toyota, the official automotive partner of the NFL. Visit Toyota.com slash NFL now to learn more. Welcome to NFL Daily, where we've all got some big rings on. I'm here in the Chris Wessling podcast studio. with my friends, Bridget Condon, and Maurice Jones drew to talk about Monday night football. And I misspoke. Maurice is not wearing the Rams Super Bowl ring that he had proudly on his finger throughout our telecast in Channel 5 throughout the night.

But it must be in your bag somewhere. Yeah, it's somewhere around here. I can't tell you where I hide all my stuff. But, you know, the ring was because I was the king of the game picks on Monday. Even though you didn't show up half the time because you were doing this show, which I applaud you for. You still had picks, and you came in second. You did well. Do you actually keep it in the network, your ring?

Possibly. I mean, maybe we shouldn't even be talking about this. I might have to go look. On the air. And yes, and you've got some beautiful rings. Congratulations to Bridget. You know, since you've been on the show since, you announced that you're going to have a baby.

Oh, yes. And congratulations on finishing the season of Monday Night Football. Our overseas listeners who do listen to NFL Daily have caught you guys all season. on Channel 5. There is nothing like Monday Night Football on Channel 5. It is so much fun. And every fan should be a fan across the pond because they're not like the ones. And you got to be dedicated.

You got to be up until four in the morning. And if you were up late tonight, you got rewarded with a banger. Lions 40, 49ers, 34. Let's head to Santa Clara. Play clock down to one. Golf wants the snap. Hands it to Gibbs. Outside right.

He's got the first out. That's touchdown. 25, 20, 15, 10, 5. So, touchdown, Detroit Lions. Jemir Gibbs on third down and two, breaks it for 30. And the Lions have a two-score lead on the board. It is 40 to 28. Oh, it finishes 40 to 34.

As I mentioned, that's Dan Miller on WXYT. Jemir Gibbs is enjoying being the lead dog. He ends up with 117 yards on the ground on 18 carries. 46 yards through the air on four catches. That's two straight games just like that. And if you thought the Lions were going to be a little careful and maybe

spread the ball around and not play their great guy, no, they had to come back in this game. They were down at one point, what, 21 to 13. They come back and Gibbs, Maurice, to me, is kind of having his little star turn here without David Montgomery and putting himself

right there in the top five running back to the entire end up. He's had this in spurts. when Montgomery's been out. But I'll say this. We knew this coming out of the draft that Jemir Gibbs had the speed, the explosiveness, the ability to catch ball out of the backfield. I love how Detroit is using him.

They don't really run him as a lead guy. Like, he gets the most touches, but they spell him a ton throughout the course of the game because they want to keep him explosive. And that's a smart way to do it. They utilize Jefferson, the night of kid out of Oregon State. They utilize Craig Reynolds as well. They put a lot of guys in different spots

to keep him fresh and allow him to go out and make some plays. But this is the biggest thing about the, Detroit. And if you want to really talk about what they are, it's the mantra of bite the kneecap off. Because if you look at the way that team was getting pretty much manhandled defensively up and down the field by the Niners, the second half, they made change, they made a second half adjustments defensively and offensively. And that was end of the game. Didn't they know? You kept mentioning how they're not going to get off their man coverage.

That's what they do. But it just got tighter in the second half. And then Kirby Joseph. And they started to blitz in the second half. They started sitting in pressure at Brock Purdy. They started to blitz. They started to play single high safetys. Kirby Joseph started to sit on more routes. Hey, there you go. You pointed out that they called basically the same play for that purdy through the two interceptions on to Joseph.

They probably called that four to five times. And Joseph picked off two of them. The last two, I think they probably called it maybe six to eight, to be honest. That's great. I started looking at it. I mean, that's their, their bread and butter. I'm setting Maurice up early here, Bridgett, because he's been threatening. He's been threatening.

All day. He says, I've got 10 minutes. We have a party we have to go to after the show, right? Bridget's going to come later because Bridget can't drink. And I have to go and, you know, mingle with the people. So I said I would come on the show. I would talk with and I got to go mingle with the folks. Aren't you inspired by the lions by how they give it their all when they don't even really need to?

You put that microphone on. You got to give it. I mean, this is the first time we even had you on NFL daily. I know. I'm a little frustrated about that. I'm a little bit frustrated about that. I haven't been invited until now. so, like, stingy with who he has on.

Don't you feel that way? Yeah. It's so weird. And for people who don't understand in the network where we're sitting right now, right across from us is glass window. So every time you walk by, you see Greg in here with, like, his two or three people that he loves. And you're always like, hey, Greg, hey, Greg.

I have good perspective, too. And MJD's outside the glass. Like, hey, Greg, you ever walk me on? And it's just like this stingy guy. And then now we're here. I know better not to ask MJD on days he's not here. And the days you are here, you are here. Stop making answers for people.

Oh, my goodness. You know, I really feel like Greg came on the Monday night football show just to have us here. Yeah. It's make us feel guilty. That's not sure. I wanted to wrap up the season. And it was a lot of fun. That show is fun.

And it was convenient for you? No. Well, my family is out of town. That doesn't hurt that, you know, I was missing the family time on Monday night. No, but like that is something I was giving up. When you're watching this game, Bridget, are you thinking, man, this line's team, they're not going to make it. Because even though they end up.

winning this game, they had to work so hard on offense and the defense is not looking good. And now next week, they're playing for the one seat against Minnesota. And if they don't win that game, they're not going to get any rest. And then they're going to be on the road to start the playoffs. So a lot in front of them. Like, are you worried about them long term? So I think my opinion changed from the first half to the second half. In the first half, completely worried, especially because they were playing from behind. The Niners have the ball first. They go down and score. And the lions were always playing catch up. But it feels like no matter what happens on defense,

Ben Johnson is going to go into his bag and make it happen. This offense is so good. And we talked about some of the offenses that, you know, could compete. Are the Lions the best offensive team in the NFL? You bring up the Eagles, the Ravens. I mean, even what Joe Burrow is done lately. But after seeing this game and the pieces,

you talk about David Montgomery, who's not there anymore, but Jemir, or Hurt, Jemir Gibbs, and you talk about Amin-Ross, St. Brown, and Jameson Williams, they have so much strength on offense. that they're going to have to face a team who's going to have to punch for punch with them. So what do you think of the answer? Are they the best offense in the league?

Maurice, good answer. I'm going to say yes, because they're the only team in NFL history to have five games of 40 points scored and zero turnovers. That's kind of the recipe. Where did you get that to have from? It was on Monday night when we were all like talking.

It popped up, but I knew it was something close to that because if you got to think about it, the game they have with the Buffalo Bills, it was score for score, right? And they end up coming fall and, short there. They've played in some big games. Now, to me, at the end of the day, if you're talking about the Detroit Lions, this is, and it's crazy to say this, but the Rams tradeaway Jared

golf, he goes there, he becomes this guy, this God, I would say, in Detroit. And literally his right arm is what's leading them. Yeah, they run the football, but he makes some tough throws. He's, he's always on the right read. Even in the game in Houston, when he threw five picks he threw five picks in the game they found a way to win it and then they double back and he throws five touchdowns against the buffalo bills and they find a way to lose it right like they just they're just scoring points at such a high rate even if he's off or not they still have playmakers so my answer is yes and ravens by the numbers like analytics and dv oa actually would be number one because they got so many explosive plays they don't turn the ball over and then i i think the lions are right

there. The bills, I think with what they can do running the ball and Josh Allen are certainly there, the Bengals. But to me, the consistency of what Goff can do and what the lines can do and that offensive line week to week is better. Like when he missed that fourth down throw, who was that too? Laporta. LaPorta in the red zone. And he missed it by about half a foot was behind him and they didn't score. That was the first possession of the game where someone didn't score. At that point, it just got touchdown for touchdown for touchdown for touchdown. You were just so surprised that he even missed one throw. And then he comes out at halftime.

And those throws are just on the money. Jamison Williams has turned into a really complete receiver. And so I think about the recipe of having the very best offense in the league and a defense is just kind of okay, but just makes like a couple plays. That recipe could get you to the Super Bowl. We've seen Patriots teams get to the Super Bowl with that sort of recipe. Like you can win the Super Bowl with the best offense in the league and just an okay...

Philadelphia beat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl with that recipe. Right. But can you beat Patrick Mahomes with that recipe? You can't? Well, at least you'd get there. They've beat Patrick Mahomes, though.

That's the thing. They've beaten them before. Like, that's the thing about Detroit that I think makes them scary very similar to Cincinnati. They've beaten everybody, right? Or they've been in a tight, close games with everyone.

You think the Buffalo Bills want to see Detroit again in the Super Bowl? I don't know. I don't know if they want to see that. It's a long way away. And we'll talk about this game coming up throughout the week because it is so massive for them.

I think they need a week off more than more than anyone. It is interesting. I think we will learn more about those Lions team against the Vikings than we did tonight against the 49ers. Even though they still went out there and showed that like Dan Campbell said, this game we're going to go out, we're going to throw everything at it, even though it really essentially meant nothing.

I think with the Vikings are a much better offensive team at this point than the 49ers are. Can the Detroit Lions stop them? can they come up with a clutch win when it matters most on Sunday night football? We'll learn. But is it fair to say that their offense is as good as it is because their playbook is the most expansive? Well, it's everything. But that's part of it that they've had this group together for three years and they know each other so well. And they have the offensive line.

And Ben Johnson's just not afraid. Let's actually listen to the hook and ladder play. So it is third and 12 here. Lions from the 42 of San Francisco. Golf's going to go empty out of the gun. There's the snap lineers. rush forward golf quick grow got to complete and it's a lateral back this time

down the right sideline and it's James who's going to walk into the end zone for the touchdown pass to Amman Ra, flipped it back to Jamo around the right side there was nobody there to deal with that speed and Jamo takes it to the house I mean they're just

pulling out stuff it was second and 23 then it's third and 12 like he's doing reverses to Jamo on the first drive just like he did in the NFD championship game it's like the bag is so deep but but this the thing. That lateral play may be something that we're shocked by, but if you really watch them, they run that every

three or four weeks. Like, that's been, and that's one of their staple plays on third and long. They try to run that play. They ran it against the Cardinals on third and nine. Here, we're going to do it, but this time Gibbs came out of the backfield and caught it, right? And so, they have different ways to do it. And really, the

honesty of it is a lot of people can think of those things, and you can practice them, but to call them in a game and have, like, to trust in your players that it's going to be executed. Almond Ross St. Brown caught that ball on his knees and flipped the ball to Jameson before he got tagged down. Right? Like, it's, it's, they're living on the edge, which is good. That's what you have to do at this time of the year to start making plays.

They're incredibly comfortable and they're willing to take any, like any play call, any design, any idea, and they can execute it, which just builds on their confidence. The crazy thing is I think the 49ers were very up for this game. Offensively, they came out hot. and defensively, they actually got a decent amount of pressure on Goff. Bosa had a good game. So it was sometimes sticky coverage that Goff was just getting nice passes to. And yet I do watch the way that Purdy went through them and they had touchdowns,

you know, three touchdowns early. Purdy didn't have an incompletion for a while. Ends up throwing a couple picks late where, you know, one was an overthrow. And you do start worrying just like, do they have enough pass rush? That's kind of like the number one thing. Yeah. This is what I will say, two things. One about the Niners. They came out. They were ready to go. I love that. I love that they competed.

They have their own issues, though. And hopefully we get a chance to talk about those before I leave. I know. I feel like I'm on borrowed time or something here. Talk about them. With Detroit, you have to be able to rush the quarterback and affect the quarterback. They don't have that premier guy yet, right? Hutchinson's supposed to come back if they make the Super Bowl. He's supposed to be able to come back by that point, which would be awesome for him. but Jesus don't know how much he'll be ready for

but really like if you can't affect the quarterback in the playoffs it's going to be tough it's always going to be tough and we've seen that again they've been in these high scoring games the last what four or five weeks the bears did it even Caleb Williams was moving the ball and they just got a couple of turnovers they're going to have to keep turning the ball over it yeah they blitz 41% of the time they only had 30% pressure rate

the Darius Smith I think has been good for them but other than him it's he needs help though it's the linebackers he's not like the old Zaziria Smith when he was with the Green Bay Packers, he didn't need help. He needs help now, meaning that he needs someone to kind of also get pressure so that

he can win because he wins late. Bridget, did you think that Kyle Shanahan was out there and he knows everyone's watching and he's going up against the other hot play caller who he beat in the NFC champion? And he kind of broke out the good stuff tonight because that was like, for a while that was like the 49ers

offense that we've been waiting to see all season. You were saying it. You were like, where is this 49ers offense been all year. I mean, it's interesting, right? Because it's for players when we get late into the season when a team like the 49ers are out of the playoffs or something like that where the game doesn't matter. You wonder why these players are playing so hard

or why these coaches are coaching, like you said. They were hitting tonight. Yeah. Because everybody else is watching. And they understand, like, I mean, I remember it was crazy a couple weeks ago. People thought Kyle Shanahan was on the hot seat and they had to come out and be like, no, are you kidding me?

But like some of these players, like their contracts are coming up. They're trying to put on tape that, they can, I mean, you've been there trying to put on their best stuff so that they get paid next season. I could be wrong, but I remember, it's kind of like a showcase. I kind of remember Maurice had a big contract year one year. It was the whole thing, you know, and you put it out there. 2008, we played against the Baltimore Ravens. I was hurt too. Knee injury, MCL, gave him 100, a honey bun. Got to pay. A quick condo. Yeah, quick honey bun. Do you have to hold out a little for that? No, I didn't. They thought I was holding out.

Family member of mine had passed away. They thought I was holding out. I was just at her funeral. but I would have you know me I'm all about that dollar That's why like is he getting paid for this But no he's not can we go to the Niners real quick Because I just feel like we haven't talked enough about them And what they the problems that they're going to have to face this offseason right What are you going to do with Trent Williams? You have to pay your quarterback now this is the thing about the quarterback

I have buddies who are Niners fans and they're saying Oh, I'll give him 40 million That's not the going rate for Brock Purdy and what he has been able to do Right You talk about a guy that's been two NFC championship games, a Super Bowl appearance. This year, he's really been the only thing you've had offensively that's kind of stuck around him and George Kittle, right?

And then at the end of the day, like if you expect to be great, you have to pay your guy. The Niners have been playing on borrowed time like Greg for some time here, not paying your quarterback, right? Wait, what is my borrowed time? Well, I'm about to leave in like five minutes. Oh, yeah, yeah. But anyways, imagine who they have to lose

if they pay their quarterback $65 million. right? Is Debo a guy gone? Is George Kittle a guy gone? Right? You have to revamp your offense. Okay, I'm going to answer your question with one by one. Trent Williams, if he wants to play, you just let him keep playing because he's like one of the greatest of all time. Debo's gone. Kiddle, you got to just keep it going. He played at an all pro level this year. And Purdy, I thought it was interesting that Aikman on the telecast said, well, they've got some tough decisions coming up and, you know, those aren't going to be easy for them to make. And you just know, and I know Maurice knows this, you do two, Bridget, like, how it works.

Troy Aikman is not saying that in a vacuum. He's talking to the people at the highest levels, who he knows well. One of them is the GM of the 49. And so for him to just throw it out there like that, that's just, it just might be the 49ers have shown us a long process here to figure out how this is going to go like it was with Ayuk and Debo back in the day. And Purdy's going to want $60 million. He's not going to take some big discount because every quarterback gets paid like the highest.

Do you think they should? My question is, if you don't pay Brock Purdy, what do you want? What is a perfect scenario for you if you're the 49ers? Not going to a playoffs if you don't play Bob Purdy. But I just don't understand. Like, this conversation of if you should pay Brock Purdy and not pay Brock Purdy, it's just giving me a headache because we keep going, there totally is. No, no, I agree.

There is what I don't, I think they got to pay them. No, I 100% agree. But if you go on Twitter, all these Niners fans are like, Brock Purdy's not the guy. you know, Brock Purdy can't execute. If you think about, like you mentioned, who he, the lack of playmakers he had this season, what he did in his first season,

like literally went in and beat Tom Brady game one and then went to the NFC championship game. Like, he has done so much. The narrative around him, because he was the last pick in the draft, is that you should not pay him. Now, if it was another quarterback, let's talk about the Giants.

And yes, that didn't work out well. But remember, they paid Daniel Jones? That's different. But why? Because he was a first round pick, and it was an easier decision. If Brock Purdy was a first round pick playing exactly the same way as he is now, would we even be having this conversation? I totally agree. I think it's a great point.

He is getting punished. I say it's different because Daniel Jones wasn't good. If you're going to pay him, why not pay Brock Purdy? Of course. Let me add this too. The defense wasn't the top defense that has been all year, right? Everything on the Niners fell apart this year. The defense wasn't good.

You couldn't run the football. You played with four or five different running backs. receivers were banged up, didn't show up for training camp, dropping passes, all these different things. But he's been the one consistent thing there. He's been the one consistent piece. He has, his level of play has gone up and down. And I think it's a fantastic point. If he was first round pick, we probably aren't having this conference. If he dressed better, like he kind of dresses like Maurice does showing up for the Monday Night Football Channel 5, just like a plaid shirt. If he got his players, like, I don't know, air monarchs or what he like, you know, that. Why did he

have to get him Toyota's? Like, couldn't he have gotten a Mercedes? He has a Toyota deal. Okay. He's got it, right? If he got the Mercedes-Benz, he would have gotten. There's no way he could afford that. People were like, oh, he must have taken out loans. Like, no way. Toyota just did that. It's a big Toyota thing. All right. Well, can they do it for us? We're talking about it. I knew you were going to say that's all I. We're talking about right now. I do think it's nuanced, though, because it's just a weird spot that because of the salary cap and these quarterbacks that if you're a top 13 to 14 quarterback. It's like you all get about roughly the same amount of money. $65 million. And that's really, it's, it's kind of not fair because we kind of know where

Brock Purdy is. He's way above that Daniel Jones level, which was the 40 million, but he's not in that top five to six level. That's fair to say. And I think that's going to continue. He's somewhere, depending on what's around him. What's in that six or seven? Is he better than 30 level? How much money how do you say? Is he better than him? He's right at that. He's in that same ballpark. Is he better? Yes or no. Would you rather have him or do it? I'd rather have him. I mean, so you're going to pay him more than you pay that. That's 55.

Yeah, that's what I mean. So it's just, there's something awkward about it. It's like, why does that guy? And it happened when Derek Carr was the highest paid player in the league. Like, it keeps happening that there's, it's unfair. What it really points out is that Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are criminally underpaid, not just, not just under the salary cap. Imagine if there was no salary cap. Oh, Josh.

Patrick were home. $200 million. Okay, can I make two points, though? One, how much money have you saved by having Brock Purdy the past three seasons? Fair. Two, if you don't sign Brock Purdy, okay, here are your options. I don't know where they'll end up in the draft. Say they're in mid-pick at this point.

Yeah, they're in the teens. Okay, so you trade up or whatever, get a quarterback that you take a risk on. You're not going to get a top two quarterback. You take a quarterback, you get a risk on. You hope that he works out and you get his rookie deal. Or you sign one of these other quarterbacks to a one or two-year deal. and you're still not, like, building a foundation for the future. If you sign Brock Purdy, that can be your guy for years to come and you can start

getting all the pieces around. If you sign one of these other free agent quarterbacks on a one or two year deal, you're taking a risk again. I agree. Trey Lance. I mean, let's be honest. They traded up to get Trey Lance. Didn't work out.

And then they drafted Brock Purdy. And Trey Lans had already been there. And Brock Pardt had been playing better. And it took for Trey Lance to get hurt for them to do it. That's the business side of it. I completely agree with you. Like I said, they're going to have to start dealing with, with everyone else is dealing with, right?

Like being able to build a roster around a quarterback that you have to pay $50 to $60 million to. Charvergarius Ward might be another guy that might not be around there for long. By the way, why didn't you win the Super Bowl last year when you had all these players? Because they ran into Patrick Mahomes.

Well, that's what I'm saying. But that, to me, his playoff performance and we'll get off Purdy here is the reason why you can't let him go. He was in those positions. What more did you want? Right. Like he was in those positions

where you needed a drive to get to overtime or win the Super Bowl and he made the drive and then you get into overtime and he has another great drive and the people around him and the people around him kind of fail him and he did the same thing

in the NFC championship game he did the same thing in the divisional round so it's like you just you just can't throw him back now you could justice for Brock you could choose to just be very uncomfortable and not give him his money next year and make him go into his contract year

it's a little dicey when he's making that little money Joe Flacco did that and you had to overpay for Joe Flacko right he would maybe hold out They are 11th in Tankathon by the way right now. I mean, I'm not going to stop you from leaving Maurice. We probably going to land this plane in like 10 minutes or something like that.

It's going to take too long if you go. Just say. Just keep going, Greg. Don't give them the opportunity. I'll see you guys. I got to go. We have half our time to them. I gave you like 20 minutes.

No, but you, people want to hear what you have to say. They don't care what I say. They do care what you say. No, I do. I think we need more Bridget in our life. All right. We're going to say goodbye to more. No, he's going to, you're going to say on, by on the microphone, and then we're going to go to break quickly.

And you're going to, because, you know, you haven't talked to this audience yet, you're going to say a proper goodbye. You're not just going to. Yeah, what are you going to say? Oh, no, listen, hey, first and foremost, I love what Greg is doing. I love Bridget. He's been an awesome time working with them. Greg, over the last couple years, even though he ducked on me this year. And I'm happy for this.

And I want to come back and do this again. So we'll do it again. I'll see you in about 15 minutes. Hey, we'll waive to you from the glass. All right, I'll see you. We'll see ya. And it's funny that he's saying he wants to come on this guy. All right, we'll be back. Just a couple.

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I didn't know we were going to get so fired up about Purdy. And that was fun. I just feel bad for him. A couple little things left, and then we're going to get to our captains of the week, and then we're going to get across the street and celebrate the end of the Monday night football season. Did you, because I was actually eating, I was standing up to the side. I was eating a tamale.

It actually got on your shirt. I didn't want to call you out on TV. But, yeah, just make sure you put that in the dry cleaning. That's on the, that's like a button. That's a problem. Did you see when Jake Bates was trying to work out that? I felt his pain because I've been having some low back problems. Do we have the clip?

Let's, let's do it. Yeah. Yeah, Joe, Detroit Lions kicker or Jake Bates over here on the side. sidelines. He looks like he's okay now. He hasn't gotten any treatment from the medical staff, but he was on his left head. He had a softball. He'd probably done that at home when you've had like a nod in your body somewhere. That's what it looked like he was doing. I asked him how he was doing. He said he was fine. That explains the video we just showed. He's laying on something. I mean. So the funny thing about that clip is it looks like he's on the field.

They don't do a good job of making it look like he's on the sideline doing that because you don't see anything around him. And I'm like, is he just on the field, like doing that and a break? That was borderline. Like, you couldn't show that on broadcast television. Someone got it in my mentions and said Channel 5 back in the day, late night used to be some softcore action. Get your head out of the gutter. They were telling me, Jake Bates, by the way, booted a nice.

It's the facial kick here. impression too. Going into, at a key point in the game where they were trying to take a six point lead, he had a 57-yarder. Pretty impressive from that. Was that after this stretch or before? I think that was after the stretch. So they're going to feel good about him.

Who? Jake Moody. Someone should have given him a tennis ball. So Jake Moody, I think, has kicked his last field goal extra point for the 49ers. the third round pick from a year ago who's been struggling. And again, you know, leaning on Troy here said how he thinks Kyle Shanahan is kind of sick of this kid. And he missed a couple kicks tonight.

And there was a moment where he sent him out there to kick a 58-yarder on a fourth and 10. And I honestly thought like he's almost setting up Jake Moody to fail. That he's going to give him another chance to almost redeem himself, but not really have any faith in a game that isn't that important for the 49ers. and Bates just missed and Moody just missed another one and then after that in garbage time he missed an extra point

and I thought like that was it they're not going to keep Jake Moody just a little note he's not going to be here week 18 correct interesting like tomorrow we're going to wake up and Jake Moody gone or they bench him and keep him on the roster

for whatever reason but I kind of would be surprised yeah if he kicked again it's kind of like those games that you see like the Colts the other day after doing this long enough it's not like it takes rocket sides and you say oh that's the type of game that people

get fired not sure exactly which people but people get fired from the game like the Colts had against the giant I've seen the end of kicker runs of like highly drafted kickers like that's how it ends is a night like this after already it was going in decline and on primetime and they show the face of

caution like that's how it ends it's probably over we shouldn't end on I disagree but yeah Well, it's just an opinion. It's just an opinion. And don't wish bad against somebody. I'm not wishing when you're predicting. Be positive.

I will. I'm going to. Just having a bad couple of... End this show positively by talking about our Captain Morgan, Captain of the Week. It's time for the Captain's Corner presented by Captain Morgan. I'm going to go first. Oh. Why not?

Kind of rude, but go for it. I thought it would give you more time just in case. Give me more time. It's already in my brain, baby. You go. No, you go. No. Now it has to be you. I mean, you've already shown you've got nerves of absolute steel. Put on the spot on television tonight. You were asked to do 90 seconds of your stand-up set, Bridget.

And you didn't laugh once, and I'll never forget that. That's not true. I absolutely laughed. But you were set, I was absolutely laughed when you got to the punchlines. You were setting up the joke. It was a very quick thing. It was way too quick. If anyone ever says,

go on TV and do 90 seconds. You need like a setup. Right. This is very unfair that you're playing up is just like knock knock who's there. Ha, ha, ha, ha. No, like, it's like storytelling. But you've been working on five minutes. You've been working on a tight five?

I already did a tight five. I don't know where you missed this story. I think you were working on. It was something you wanted to do. No, I did it. Yeah, but I haven't talked to you since then. It wasn't I didn't come. I'm glad to do.

None of this is true. Now you're just making up things. No, but it's true. Okay, let's get to the Captain Morgan, because I need to go to bed. I'm going to go with Saquan Barclay. Mr. Saquan Barclay. He surpassed 2,000 rushing yards.

And dare I say, in 16 games. I know there's a lot of controversy because there's an extra game now that they play 17, but he was able to do it in 16 games. I thought his quote was so just like I want to say cute

but that's not the word I want to say it was just like so pure when he was like this is my first hat and t-shirt game I didn't even know those existed like the fact that he did this in his first season with a new team it is so hard to not root for this guy

he has been everything and more that the Eagles could have asked for from him I think you know we're just seeing the beginning of this next wave of Sequin Barclay doing it at 29 years old, doing it after he, you know, gets basically cut from his old team. Like, pay, pay this man.

Pay this man. He is happy that they didn't, frankly. In the end, it worked out well for me because he would have taken that money. He wanted to stay if they had offered him the right value. And, yeah, he leads the league with 345 carries. Just give the man the week off next week. Don't worry about the rushing record. They have the Giants.

And he could break the rushing record. But here's the thing. it took him over 22 carries to get over 100 yards last week against the Cowboys like you can't have him out there just giving him carry after carry that would be the worst case scenario my captain of the week is going to be T. Higgins one of my favorite wide receivers to watch of the last four years ever since he came out of Clemson I just love his style of receiver because yeah he doesn't create all the separation in the world but he is so good at the

catch point and that's the hardest thing to do as a wide receiver it's almost impossible to find them, guys that consistently just can win in tight coverage. And he has the perfect quarterback who will give him a chance to do that over and over. And so he can be physical like he is in the end zone. He can moss guys. He has great hands. And he had a tough moment where he fumbled there. And what do you do? You go make up for it with a game, you know, go ahead touchdown. And then the game winning touchdown. Just a ridiculous performance. And it might be the last time he ever plays in Cincinnati. Or it might be the game. actually convinces Mike Brown, their team owner, to just open the wallet and pay Jamar and

T. Like, that was the type of performance that actually could change all their futures. And he was playing hurt. Let us not forget that. I think I did just see something online where, like, the government is giving money to people who overpaid on their taxes. So maybe that's Mike Brown and like, send that money directly to T. Higgins. I haven't heard about that one. I liked it, you know, when they got the child credit back in the day, that was fun. I guess I'm out of that. Maybe you can get into that business if they bring it back. Oh, okay. I'm waiting for the next stimulus. All right. That was the captain's corner presented by Captain Morgan. It's delicious and crisp. Perfect for game day with friends. Spice it up. Visit Captain Morgan.com to find a

captain near you. Please drink responsibly. And on that note, let's hit it. Bridget. Thanks for having me back. I'll be waving from the glass. I will have you back soon. We're just getting going. We're into playoffs. We're into the off season. We've got a couple good months of Bridget before we say goodbye for just a little while. Yes, when Monday night football is done for the year, I think football is back. We'll see you on Tuesday. Hey, everybody, Daniel Jeremiah here.

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