The Herd with Colin Cowherd - HOUR 3 - Wilson, Jets

Episode Date: November 3, 2022

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the, um, do we have that guys? Oh, okay. So Richard Sherman, we're all confused about Denver, right? Nobody can figure it out. And I said earlier today is that when you, there's no precedent for like being really a good quarterback. I mean, if you go look at the passer rating of Russell Wilson, it was like 105, 100, 100, 6,006. Whether you think he was regressing a little, he's not the worst quarterback in the league suddenly. So a lot of us are saying, you know, there's no precedent for it. It must be Nathaniel Hackett. Richard Sherman was on a podcast, the Vaughn cast, Vaughn Miller's, and he talked about, you know, his former teammate in Seattle, why he's struggling in Denver. You can't just put anybody in any scheme and think, oh, well, I'm just going to make him

fit my scheme. Like you got to, it's almost like they didn't even watch tape of him in Seattle and say, hey, okay, this is what he likes to do. This is stuff. If you have Russell Wilson run the plays that he's run and had success with, he will be the guy you're expecting to be. But when you run him, have him run offense, he has not run in the 10 years he's played, expect him to struggle until he figures it out. It's just like acting, the great actors. They get scripts. They pick the scripts. they think work for them. Lamar Jackson, Tom Brady couldn't run that offense. but Lamar may not be able to run the Tom Brady offense. Like even for the most talented people, like Lamar Jackson, Tom Brady, for the most talented people, you have to build stuff around them.

You can take the best actors. There's a reason why great actors are in movies that bomb. The script's not good enough. They don't play to their strengths. The audience doesn't buy into the role. And that's for the best actors. So, you know, it's like at some point, if Denver's used. using the Green Bay Aaron Rogers offense that Nathaniel Hackett coached, well, Aaron's going

to be better on that offense because they tailored it for years around Aaron's strength. You know, people, Aaron Rogers, for instance, doesn't like motion in the offense. That's something that's understood in football. Albert Breer talked about it this week. Aaron doesn't like a lot of motion. Aaron doesn't like young receivers, likes guys that he trusts. Brady was the same way. Brady does like motion.

Peyton Manning didn't like motion in his offense. So if you have a coach and he's got motion everywhere and, you know, Kyle Shanahan's got motion everywhere, well, Peyton Manning would be like, hey, I don't want that to be part of the offense. So this idea that, you know, everybody, LeBron James, can't win with this Laker team because they don't have enough shooters. And at this point in his career, one of LeBron's great assets, he's a great distributors. He's probably, he and Larry Bird are the best.

big men passers. Well, Yokic is good. Arvita Sabonis was good. But I mean, LeBron for a six, nine forwards, an unbelievable ball handler and passer. That's why the teams like Pat Riley and Eric Spolstra in Miami got that. They got him Badiye. They got him Badiye. They got him Mike Miller. They got him Ray Allen because they knew D. Wade wasn't a great three-ball shooter. So the smartest people in the league arguably are Spolstra and Pat Riley. What did they get LeBron? They identified LeBron very quickly. Chris Bosch always had, even for a big, beautiful baseline jumper. Chris is a beautiful touch. I'd vote him in for the Hall of Fame. Mike Miller, Shane Batti, Ray Allen, they got him shooters. And that's LeBron. So LeBron wasn't

winning the first seven years in Cleveland. He didn't have enough good shooters. Even the best people, the best actors, quarterback, you got to play to their strengths. And this offense doesn't look like it's doing that with Russell Wilson. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays at noon Eastern 9 a.m. Pacific. On Fox Sports, Radio, FS1 and the IHeart Radio app. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal, but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque.

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You play the hits. Well, you like your gambling. I do. And you like arguing. And you and I like arguing, so we both like that. I don't like arguing. Oh, I love it. I like winning arguments.

Yes, you hear Mark Sanchez laughing off the state. I like the argument. He just likes the winning ones. Can bring some good stuff here in a minute. All right, let's start with the best player in the NBA. Luca Donchich, yes, that is correct. He's the best. Scored at least 30 points in each of the Mavs first seven games.

First to do that since this guy named Wilk Chamberlain. Wow. Luke is averaging 36 a night. Tops in the league. That's the third highest through seven games in the last 60 years behind this guy named Michael Jordan and James Hardin. Colin, are you getting on board, Luca, the best player in the NBA? Well, he's the best score. You're not going to get much on the defensive end.

Well, well, you... Okay, so Janus, you think is the best player. Yes. Okay, so let's say you swap Janus to the Mavs and Luca to the Bucks. I think the Mavs would be better and the Bucs wouldn't be as good. Oh, I think Luca just makes everybody around him better. unbelievable vision in passing can be bold dominant, but 36 a game.

Janice is the best player at any given moment in every game he plays on both ends. Okay, this guy is great on the offensive end. Teams attacked him in the playoffs. They attacked him. So, I mean, you know, you forget Michael Jordan was a great defensive player. He was. In his prime, Kobe was. Jabbar, Kareem was an unbelievable defensive player. LeBron, D. Wade, usually the great, that's why Carmelo's not. The greatest players in the game,

Kevin Durant will dee you up on the defensive end. He's not great, but he puts the effort in and he's long. In the history of the league, you generally, to be the best player in the league, you've got to give a little bit of an effort. Now, Kobe wasn't at the end, but Kobe in his prime would dee you up. But good offense always beats good defense, and that's why.

Right. So it's like the NFL. We know the league's about 70% offense, but you can't have a terrible Detroit lion defense. We know the NBA is 70% of, offense. You can't be a liability. I mean, Steph Curry tries, and they also surround him with Draymond, Wiggins, and Clay. But Steph puts the effort out. He's just not big. I'm not sure Luke always gives you a great effort on that side. He didn't last year at the end. Correct. He came in a

little overweight, but we've talked a little bit too much about. Luca, let's move on to the Raiders. One of the most underachieving teams in the NFL. I'm pushing this Josh McDaniels narrative. Things don't seem good there. Colin, listen, they made the playoffs last year with an interim coach. Now they got a new GM, new head coach, a new number one receiver, two and five start, and now the GM. Okay, now the GM, Dave Ziegler understands why everybody's so ticked off at the Raiders. The frustration from the fan base is totally warranted. And I can appreciate their passion. And for me and for Josh and for the organization, there's nothing more than we want than to win football games and to see this fan base get what they, you know, get what they deserve,

which is a consistent winner. For us up to this point, it hasn't gone as quick as we would have liked it to go, but we're not wavering in our approach, and we're going to keep, you know, stay with our, stick with our plan, improve it as we go along, and again, we're confident the results will come. That's what you always have to say as a GM. I appreciate the fan's passion because you can't bang on the fans for railing on you. So there's certain things you have to say.

That's what you have to say. I appreciate the fan's passion. The truth is fans overreact. It's a new coach, a new staff. It takes time. You know, you've got the chiefs in the division. Chargers pretty good. The schedule's not easy for them.

Hey, who's winning an arguing over a player? Dave Ziegler, that guy, or Josh McDaniels when he goes to the owner, says, I want this guy. Well, you're paying the coach a lot more so they often have a little more told. He's done a couple things in the NFL. By the way, I like the Raiders this weekend in Jacksonville. Remember, teams that get to get. shut out. What do they do the following week? Score. Thank you.

Finally, week nine of the NFL kicks off tonight. We've talked a little about this. Eagles going to Houston, Philly, 7 and O so far, hoping to keep the undefeated streak alive. No Brandon Cooks, no Nico Collins. I don't know who Davis Mills is throwing to. According to Fox bet, the Eagles are a massive 14-point favorite. Now, Colin, you know long-term, you cannot win in the NFL

betting double-digit favorites, especially on the road. That being said, in this one-off scenario, Mario, are you unloading on the Eagles tonight? Well, I just, I think Philadelphia is going to win the game, but these are pro athletes, they're men. When you're playing a home game or a two touchdown underdog, watch Houston probably give a very, very spirited effort tonight. Players don't want to be embarrassed. These are pros. And Houston's got plenty of guys who are all conference and all Americans. And, I mean, I, again, I'm not going to bet 14-point games.

I'm just telling you, Philadelphia should win and roll. My guess is they will. but keep your eye in Houston, give it in a very spirited first half effort. Some trick plays maybe. They've got to empty the playbook because Colin, if you watched any of that game against the Titans last week, Malik Willis is the starting quarterback.

You know he's not throwing. It's Derek Henry, Derek Henry, Derek Henry, and they couldn't stop it. I know. That's embarrassing. Awful. Jay Mack with the news. Well, that's the news.

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You're even being bailed? No. We're bringing you up. By the way, you got the Seahawks. And Gino Smith. I saw a stat, and again, I'm flying through stuff in the morning, but I saw a stat. Like, Gino Smith is the blankety-blank most accurate quarterback on deep balls or something. And I'm just like, wow, wow, wow.

So you talked a little bit about this last time. The Gino you know and the Gino now. Let's talk a little bit about, first of all, D.K. Metcalf, Lockett, Kenneth Walker. What is, they're obviously building an offense around Gino's strengths. If I had never seen the Seahawks play, what is that offense? Define it for me. First and second down, you're getting runs, run action, naked, throws out of the pocket, and quick game. Third down, game plan specific with D.E.

K and lock it either one or two in the read, sprinkling some tight end stuff, sprinkling some halfback stuff, third end, you know, eight plus, incredibly conservative. You know, if you can hit one of five of those, you're doing just fine. You know what I mean? That's essentially what they are.

And that's kind of Pete's mindset, is it? No doubt. And that's that old school West Coast mindset. It's keep the quarterback on track. And quarterback, keep the offense on track ahead of the sticks. You know, If he can throw on the run, let's do it. Marry up, I love what they do. They marry up either the zone read runs

or any kind of runs from under center with their play action game. So the exact same motions, the exact same personnel's, you got a run out of it or two runs out of it, you know, some sort of downhill gap trap run and then maybe some sort of zone outside, you know, designer type run for a specific defense. And then you have the exact same formation,

exact same action, whatever it is by the quarterback, turns his back to the defense, puts it in his belly, flips around, snaps his head around, boom, and now surveys the defense. And a lot of times, on those 10 times they run, run action, he'll dump it down to the back because there's nothing wrong with that because those guys can really go after they get the ball in their hand. So it's an extended version of the run game.

It all looks, feels, and sounds the same. It's a great plan right now, and Waldron's really down on them up. So let's talk Giants. They had a rough afternoon, didn't do much. You know, we've said this about Daniel Jones. Obviously, he's a big time. I mean, he's a pro quarterback. We know he's talented.

But in this league, the way it works, Mark, at the end of your first contract, you either get the bag or they're not extending you. There's no middle ground. Blake Bortles was the very rare. We'll give you a couple years, 20. Right. So it's bag or it's not. And once you go to the big money, now we can't have that second great corner.

We can't have an off-ball linebacker. So what happens is in that second contract, Mark, as you know, now you've got to have a little special in you. Sure. because the roster's not going to look like Baker's roster on his rookie contract or goff. But, you know, right? Right. So that's the question with Daniel.

Not that he can quarterback, but these are the years you got to make, hey, is he a tenure? I mean, what do you? Oh, I think he's shown plenty. I think if you wanted to structure it in a way where he's got to perform, you know, have more of a performance-based contract, I'm sure the team's going to push for that because they're going to make that same argument to his agent. And the agent has one job, right? rep the player, get him as much money in that bag as you can. So I understand his argument,

but the team's going to be like, dude, we still got a lot of holes to fill, namely wide receiver. And what he's shown me with this group, his ability to make the right decisions and learn how to win with this group as banged up as they are, giving away 14 points on special teams by fumbling two punts, not even muffing the puns, but like you've secured the ball and now you just cough it up. I mean, you can't win like that. It's almost impossible. And he still took care of the football. He's got to be thrown to the tightest windows in the game right now. Right. And I mean, my man's doing it like, like it's just automatic. So I think I've seen enough. Me personally, the team's going to have to decide on that one. But between him and Barclay,

they got to figure it out. And most importantly for those guys, like, if you want to win moving forward, would you potentially take a little bit less, both of you? Like, go to the table together almost? Like, all right, dude, we're doing this. It's you and me. It's the best. Big Apple, let's get as many good players as possible. You know, that's one way to approach it, but that's obviously having a lot of good faith in everybody that everybody's going to get taken care of and all that. So that's the worst part about this deal, but they'll get it figured out. I think he's playing his butt off, though.

So it was funny, the other day in our morning meeting, which lasts about an hour and a half, I was doing a Bears thing. So I wrote down some names and I put Chase Claypool. I said if I was the Bears, I thought he would go to the Giants. Well, I said I would draft Jordan Addison if I was the Bears on my first pick, and I would go get Chase Claypool. And so during the show, it broke, these guys as my witness.

Oh, nice. So I was like, because we thought it made sense. And no insider trading info? No, no. Mooney's small, he's a big. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And so it's like they needed a different.

MapleTron. Yep. So they needed a different body type. So you tell me, so they're throwing this in to Justin Fields. It's, Luke gets he's doing a good job. but what should I expect this weekend? Will he be in the game plan? He'll definitely be in the game plan.

We actually have their game in two weeks, but it's almost like when we brought in Braylin, my rookie year, we brought him in like week four. Yeah, I think he came in week four. He's going to be able to run big ins. He's going to be a run goes. Goal line stuff. He's going to be pack everybody in tight.

He'll be the single receiver. You want a one-on-one, just throw him a fade. And we'll have a run called with it. but, you know, stuff on the backside of routes, it's just like bang eight or easy, you know, the 12-yard post and stuff that he's really good at, that big body guys are really good at. Yeah, they box you out.

Now, if it's like, you know, third and six, and we need a designer route inside and read this guy and feel that guy, probably not what you want to major in this week. Give him some basic A-to-B, like straight-line, easy stuff, and just let it happen because he's going to demand respect, right? He's going to command respect from the defense. So now you just remind Justin, you haven't had this before, maybe in college. But now, every time he's on the backside of like a three by one set, right, just check him.

What's that backside safety doing? Is he helping or is he one-on-one? And if he's one-on-one, be ready to make, you know, cut that thing loose over there to the big guy. So I just think you can really simplify the game that way for a couple weeks as you catch him up in the game plan. you know, but it's a little easier for somebody like McCaffrey or somebody who makes a big transition like that. I mean, there's just such an ensemble cast. It's like he probably feels a little bit of relief. Like I don't have to tote the rock 40 times a game.

That's right. And catch 12 balls and do the and return punt. Like, no, you're okay. You're good. I want to talk about this. So there's a lot of theories out there why Russell's so bad. I don't believe he's washed. I don't think you go from a B plus quarterback to terrible.

So a lot of people say Denver wanted Aaron Rogers. That's why they hired Hackett. So they got Hackett in. Aaron didn't come. So they settled for Russell and Hackett's like, well, this is my offense. It's the Aaron offense. Sure. Now, now, Jason pushed back and said, come on, you shouldn't have more than one offense.

You should be. But there are like Kyle Shanahan's got his scheme. McVeigh's got his scheme. I can tweak off it, but this is what I largely do. You tell, I mean, maybe we're wrong. You tell me is what if Hackett was expecting Aaron got Russell and he has a base foundation belief system and this is what it is. Are coordinators like that?

There are, I think those guys are being phased out. Okay. Because you have to adapt. The playbook's this big, but we can only run this based on our personnel. Certain teams, you can only run this. Wow. Good Lord, we need draft picks. We need to trade.

Like, we got a lot of work. Well, as the thing grows, and you've got to imagine, instead of the offense being like this lifeless book with a bunch of names, numbers, and drawings in it, it's a, it's a, it's a, breathing, living thing that evolves over time. That's why consistency and having same coaches, same players, over time the Kelsey's and Mahomes and Andy Reid and Bienami, it starts to grow. Now, there's counters off of your counter and a counter off of that.

And it just becomes more than it ever was, but it has to start somewhere. And a lot of times the infancy and, you know, beginning stages of these offenses are ugly. They're ugly when Tom Brady went to the bucks for seven weeks. It was rough. Yeah. Right? There were four and three at the break. Whatever. Matt Stafford last year. I mean, it's a transitional deal. New quarterback, new offense. Now, some of the stuff that they're missing carries over no matter what offense you're on. Right? No matter what offense you're in. Certain mistakes that Russ has made outside the pocket where he's the best, those can't happen. I don't care who's calling the place.

You know, if you're calling your own place, that can't happen, right? Same thing with Zach Wilson. Some of those mistakes, we'll get into them. But it's, the offense has to be curtailed to your players. You have some concepts that you want to teach those players, but at the same time, you've got to adapt to what you have, or it's just not going to work. All right, he's going to break down a play.

I want to show it to you next, but I'm going to take a break first and be back with Mark Sanchez. We love having them on. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the IHeart Radio app. Hey, it's me, Rob Parker. Check out my weekly MLB podcast Inside the Parker for 22 minutes of pipe and hot baseball talk, featuring the biggest names and newsmakers in the sport.

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Mark Sanchez, former Jet, decade in the NFL. All right, I want a deep dive Zach Wilson. I didn't like him before the draft. I thought he was Johnny Mansell with a better arm. I'm always capable of being wrong. It happens daily. Three hours a day. But you're going to show us some film. You played this game. You love the Jets. You still have friends there. Let's talk about some stuff you're seeing. Yeah, I think I've talked to him before. I've talked to Zach. I've seen plenty of his film. And he's shown me flashes of being able to handle this position and make the right reads, but watch his first play, the touchdown to Conklin. This is Conklin one-on-one. He's number one,

bottom-mear screen, and Zach hits his back foot, number one's open, and nails it. That's a tight window right at the pylon, tight spiral, money. The kid was like nails to start this game, right? He's on fire. Well, once you get past your opening script, I need a little help here. These third downs show the next play. He's treating these third downs like it's fourth down and the games on the line. So right here, it's the shallow cross to Conklin. Again, the backer just blitzed and vacated. Conklin has to go slam on the brakes right at that hash mark. And Zach, as he's retreating, needs to throw a bullet right at the guy, not a little

lollipop. And part of that, he got tricked by the receiver by Conklin. Conklin, don't give me your eyes. I want you to run to your spot and then turn around, reveal yourself, show me your hand, show me your numbers, not kind of tiptoe through the tulips here, waiting. Oh, I wonder if I'm getting the ball. I don't know what's going on. You're tricking the quarterback.

show that again. That doesn't look like a difficult NFL throw. No, but Zach's confused on where to go here. He's got pressure and he's waiting for number one, right? Number one's going to be open, but number one has to help him. He's got to run to a spot, slam on the brakes, not keep trotting. So basically, if you're looking at the quarterback on a shallow cross, that means you're running. If you're not giving him your eyes, that means you're going to run to your spot, slam on the brakes, turn around and reveal yourself to be open. He could have easily hit him right there and done it properly, but that's partially the receiver. And just because the receiver's wrong,

doesn't give the quarterback, you know, leniency to be wrong as well. Don't drive up to an intersection with a, you know, fender bender and go run into them 80 miles an hour. Don't do that. So your escape plan there is you've got a back flaring out to the side,

dump it over his head in the third row. This next one, we're talking about dumping it over his head in the third row. He gets outside the pocket. It's a naked. Number one, new rule. No sacks, no turnovers on naked's for him. And when you're throwing this ball out of bounds,

I need it outside that white border around. Like, no question. This was like the kid in junior high high school that writes like true and false test, right? And you put like a T with like a little bit of an F in there and you're like, yeah, that's what it is. What was the answer? Oh, it was true.

Yeah, it was a T. You know what I mean? There's no gray area here, okay? On broad boot? On boot? Number one, on naked, first, second down, no sacks, no turnovers. That is like a cardinal sin for quarterbacks, right? Secondly, and trust me, I've done it, dude.

I've made giving coaches plenty of gray hairs. about this kind of stuff. So I understand. But nothing is more important than the football. And I don't know if he knows that right now, right? He's very casual. Think about this, third downs. Let's just look at it like from a global perspective, right?

From a bird's eye view. You're going to get anywhere from 10 on a really low game to 16 maybe. Let's call it like 12, 13, 14 third downs a game, right? If you hit seven of them, seven, you're balling. Seven. So the other seven plays, I need really good decisions and potentially throwaways and checkdowns. That's it. So games become those seven or eight moments.

And it sounds so easy. It's easy to say in this nice cushy chair and a suit, right? Right. In the game, you can see him get like so worked up. Like, I got to get rid of this football. I got to get rid of this football. And in some of these situations, dude, even take the sack is fine. Even take the sack, be anything but give them the ball.

Don't give him anything, not an inch, right? And then this final one, he's outside the park. pocket again. You're going to see it. This one, number one's open again. Get up in the pocket. Don't escape if you don't have to and dump it to your shallow crossrunner who's got everybody out leveraged underneath. And I think it's Conklin again. But if you're going to set up out there in between the numbers and the sideline and you're going to stop, that is like dead man zone. Okay? If you're going to stop because everybody's running chase behind you. So number one, you're going to get your head taken off. And number two, you better have a high IQ. As that play gets longer,

you have to get smarter. And right now his IQ's dropping as these plays extend, and he threw it into a defensive team meeting. Even in that position, throw it out of bounds. So fall down, right? And it's, once again, it's really, I'm oversimplifying some of this stuff, but it's like-

Well, no, I think you're describing it well. And here's the other thing, right? If you're going to run only 20 pass plays a game. And that's it. That's fine. If that's your formula to win, defense, special teams, and limited offense run game, Brees Hall goes down, that's a huge hit.

If you're running 20 plays and that drive concept, the drive, the basic, which is a 10 to 12 yard in-rout, arc release to give spacing and time so you can get spacing an oblique stretch on those linebackers, right? Run that play nine million times in practice

because if you're going to run it five times a game and you only throw 20 times, that's 20% of your offense. You better know that play, like the back of your hand, man, I want drive basic back. Drive basic back. Drive basic back. It's like, you know, the mighty ducks.

I will not quack at the teacher. I will not crack at the teacher. Like, ride it out a million times until you do it. And then the other thing, I love what Chip Kelly did and some other offensive coordinators, but we go a rack of 10 to 20 plays in OTAs and even in training camp, we would run drive. The same exact play versus every single defense

versus every formation we got it out of. Start switching, interchanging, tight ends, wide receivers, running backs. everybody needs to run this play and know exactly what to do. Don't trick the quarterback. Sit down when it's time to sit down in a vacant zone. If it's man to man, stare, step them over the ball, basically give him a quick little move and run away from the guy, give the quarterback your eyes.

But nothing happens to you cross the ball. Then the basic, you've got to know when to slow down, when to speed up, when to find your quarterback in the window, and then no matter what, number three is always the back. It's always going to be a two-by-two checkdown or some sort of flare opposite the drive. And he's got to have that contingency plan, right? I drop back on Drive Basic Checkdown. I know this play. Like nobody's business.

Boom. There's a problem immediately. I know exactly where to go with the ball right away. I watch your, first of all, that's as good of anything I've seen you do. That's fantastic. Sorry,

I got to work. Because I want it to work for it. No, no. But when I watch that, you know a thousand times more than I. When I watch that, that's a player issue,

not a coaching issue. That stuff is open. Listen, some of it's open. There's blame to go around. I'm not saying it's just the coaches or just Zach that it's everybody but bottom line like you're either coaching it or you're allowing it to happen and that's both of them that's Zach and the coaching staff that's and it's these things are fixable especially if you eliminate two of them and you just have the screw up on

drive okay fine it's a miscommunication player and receiver quarterback receiver fine those are going to happen now the throwaways the stuff outside the pocket all this other stuff like that's where it can't And you could tell the pressures they're running, stuff that New England did, Belichick was just waiting, just waiting. Like, let him do it. Go ahead. He's going to throw this one. And once he throws us one, they're like grapes.

They come in bunches. You know what I'm saying? And that's not just Zach. That's a lot of quarterback. I've been there. I put Lee Bodden in the damn Pro Bowl. Like the guy bought me a drink at Super Bowl, whatever. And he gave me like a what up from across the bar.

I was like, thanks, dude. You were my number one receiver that day. Awesome. By the way, now, now how did this land for you? I would like to do this every week. Sanchez's breaking down. New York Jets offensive film. Nobody else in the league.

Coselle's going to kill me. But I'll tell you, I think the audience, if you're a Jets fan, that's really helpful. Because it's, you know, what I see is they're giving him easy outlets. They're giving him like, when you roll a quarterback out, first of all, Zach can move, it's okay to just keep moving, get sick sliding you're out. And only when you've got to move. Obviously, a designed rollout. Yes, you're on the move, you're outside the pocket.

But don't move unless you have to. When number one is open, buddy, it ain't easier than that. Like two, three, four, and five, that's hard stuff. When number one's open, take it. Force them to take number one away. I mean, I remember Shottie telling me that a million times. If he's there, rip it. And don't even think twice.

Mark Sanchez. Let's hear it for Mark Sanchez. Even very critical of the Jets. I thought that was an excellent performance. It's all right in front of them. They can still make this work. So is this ad, which I have to read, but don't have time. Mark Sanchez, you're great.

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