The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Richard Sherman Podcast - NFL Week 11 Reaction

Episode Date: November 18, 2024

Richard Sherman reacts to Week 11 of the 2024 NFL season, including Geno Smith providing some late-game heroics as the Seattle Seahawks came back to bear Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers who lost Nick Bosa to injury, Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills handing Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas CIty Chiefs their first loss of the year, Russell Wilson's Pittsburgh Steelers eking out a victory over Lamar Jackson's Baltimore Ravens, the Detroit Lions offense continuing to surge as Jared Goff led a blowout over the Jacksonville Jaguars, Aaron Rodgers' New York Jets losing to Anthony Richardson and the Indianapolis Colts, and the Green Bay Packers winning on a last-second blocked field goal against Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears. #volume #herdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Super Bowl. Championship. That should always be the expectation. All right. You're going on here. Welcome back to the Richard Sherman podcast, an incredible week. Some upsets. a team taking their first loss of the season.

Mitchell, your Detroit Lions, found away, though, in a big way. They did, Richard, and I was rocking that Hanolulu blue all day. You already know it. We know it. Our friends over at Brightling, I was rocking it. You already know. Got to keep it right, Mr. I know you have it on.

We got to start out in the NFC West. The Sherman Bowl, two points, whatever it has been, several times now. In San Francisco, Seattle goes on the road and gets, what is by Vegas standards, an upset, big win in the division. They climb back. What are your thoughts? Because this game, not a whole lot of people thought this was going this way. San Francisco is finally healthy-ish, and they lose.

Richard, your thoughts on this game. Well, it was a chaotic week in Seattle. You know, their center kind of Williams retiring. in the middle of the by week. You know, they cut their leading tackler. So, you know, it seemed chaotic, but this defense responded in a big way, Holden San Francisco 49ers to 20 points in the game, really keeping Christian McCaffrey in check for a majority of this game,

19 carries for 79 yards, four catch for 27. I mean, felt like a solid game from him, you know, still almost 100 yards total offense, but just could not get in the end zone again. just the way their season is gone, when they need a touchdown, they get field goals. And that's the frustrating part for this offense because they got to turn over. They got a sudden change opportunity where it looked like, hey, the momentum is going in San Francisco 49ers favor. It looks like they were going to be able to make a big play, score a touchdown, kind of start to pull away in that moment.

And the Seattle Seahawks got the stop, held him to a field goal. then you look up, Nicholas John Bosa gets hurt and the Seattle Seahawks take full of advantage of it, go down the field, score touchdowns, both touchdowns were scored after Nick Bosa was down with an injury. Jackson Smith and Jigba, 10 catches for 110 yards. He continues his excellent play throughout these last few weeks he's been on. I mean, he's been playing really impressive football. Gino Smith, 25 of 32 for 221 yards, had the interception. But really, really played well when they needed it, used his legs when he had to have it,

especially on the game-winning touchdown. And everybody, you know, even folks in Seattle, you know, haven't been as high on Gino this year, even though I think he's still playing really good football. He's just been beaten up. You know, he got sacked four times in this game. And with all that said, they're fine. five and five win off the by week against a very tough opponent. Got another divisional opponent coming up next weekend.

And you kind of control your own destiny from this point. You know, with this win against the San Francisco 49ers, they have the tiebreakers against a lot of these teams, the Seattle Seahawks do. And the San Francisco 49ers are one and three within a division. So it's just a really rough season, you know, because if you're looking at tiebreakers and how tight this race is when you get to one and three in a division,

you're not going to have the tiebreaker over a lot of these teams. So hopefully you get the tie with the Rams and you get the tie with the Arizona Cardinals, but you just, you know, you're putting yourself in a tough position. They're going to have an opportunity to separate themselves from the pack next week against Arizona Cardinals, Richard. But this San Francisco 49ers team is clinging on for dear life. And while they're finally healthy,

it's not the playmakers that you would expect. It's Juan Jennings that they're leaning on for 10 catches, 91 yards and a touchdown. Like, what's going on with this offense? Because while they seem to be getting healthy, they're not leaning on Debo. They're not leaning on CMC. I know he's roughly back now and they're going to lean on them more down the stretch. But the time is now for the San Francisco 49ers team. They've got to start winning now.

And they're going to go on the road against the peasant. Packers who've been playing impressive ball all season. I mean, once it's going to start, the pressure is building up on this team. They've got to win now, Richard. Yeah, they got to figure it out. And they got to start executing, you know, 159 yards, one touchdown and one interception from Brock Purdy, 21 and 28. It's just not good enough in a game like this where you had to have more.

Juan Jennings played another excellent game. He was a standout in this game. Made a ton of big plays, huge third down conversions every single time they needed it. a third and 11 where it looked like he dragged half of the DBs in Seattle to the first down marker. And you need more of that. Got a touchdown on that drive. And you just need more consistent play. And it just doesn't seem like the plays are there as they have been in the past in the red zone execution.

I mean, it's been a storyline the entire season. They were the number one red zone offense last year. They cannot find a way their bottom of the pack this year in terms of getting the ball in the end zone, not just driving down into the red zone and kicking field goals there. I mean, I guess they're best in the league at that right now. But you can't have that if you want to be a championship football team. And that's the team that everybody expects that the faithful expected from them. I expected it from them, the amount of talent this team had.

You expected them to go out and play better football and execute at a higher level than they have been. And, you know, I'm sure Kyle is going to change something up and switch something up to spice it up because right now it's just looks stagnant offensively and the holes aren't there in the run game. You're not seeing the big yak in the past game. You're not seeing the big time explosive plays that they're known for and they've been known for throughout Kyle's tenure in San Francisco. But the Seattle Seahawks did a really good job in this game of just sticking around, hanging around, making plays when they were there. Devin Witherspoon tips the ball up to Jonathan Hankins for his first career interception. Huge play in the ball.

game while the San Francisco 49ers were in their own territory still, and that ended up contributing to points for the Seattle Seahawks. And those are the things tight window throws that Brock Party is trying to make and trying to force in there that helped lead to this defeat at the hands of the Seattle Seahawks. But this is a really, really positive game. Derek Hall and Traymond Jones continued their strong seasons. Sack each. D.K. Metcalf made some big plays when they had to have them.

had seven catches for 70 yards. Your boy, your boy, K-9, had 14 carries, 54 yards, got in the end zone. And you just look at this team, and you're doing what you need to do to win. And that's really all you need to do in this league. You know, you win ugly, you win pretty. But this is a good confidence booster. I thought their defense, the Seattle Seahawks defense played really, really well on this game. They got the stops.

They had tight coverage. Tariq Woolen was Titan coverage. Witherspoon was Titan coverage all day. disruptive from the D-line disruption, Byron Murphy, Ernest Jones looked really good, still kind of trying to find his way within this defense, but the young guy, Knight, they looked good in their first game since all the change. You know, you expected them to come out and execute at a high level, off the by week, fresh legs, et cetera, et cetera.

I'm excited to see what they do next week against the Arizona Cardinals who have been red hot, playing really good football, Kyler Murray, that defense, Buda Baker and those boys, have been playing really good. So I'm looking forward to seeing if the Seattle Seahawks can can really come back into Lumen Field and protect home field and come out with another win because if they can, then it really starts to heat up the playoff conversation.

It's time for a look at this week's tastiest matchup. In a segment we're calling Sunday night foodball, brought to you by Uber Eats. Another team that's been red hot, Kansas City Chiefs, they go on the road against the beach. Buffalo Bills. This was much watch football in Buffalo, and it was, the Buffalo Bills controlled this game early and often, and you've got to look at it from Josh Allen's standpoint. This is a team that could never get over that hump, and that was the Kansas City Chiefs,

and they controlled this game. I don't want to say that it dominated it because they didn't, but they always seemed to be in control. Richard, what were your thoughts on this game? Because to me, it looked like Buffalo was the better team early, often, and throughout. Well, it's just like Josh Allen said early in the week. He said, I mean, they've been able to beat the Kansas City Chiefs in a regular season. They just cannot beat them in the playoffs. So this isn't as surprising, you know, as of a win as anybody is going to say. You know, it's, Kansas City Chiefs have been playing on borrowed time for a number of weeks.

You know, could have lost last week, could have lost a week before that. And this week, it looked like a. again, if they get a stop somewhere, then you give Patch Mahones the ball back, but instead, Josh Allen breaks a 26-yard touchdown run late in that game to put the dagger to close this game up to kill the hope of the Kansas City Chiefs, because even then, if they kick a field goal at the end of that game and Patch Mahomes gets the ball back, I think everybody in the stands, everybody watching that game thinks he's going to win that game again. So this didn't feel like a dominant win, but the Buffalo Bills did look like.

the better team in this game. Patrick Mahomes through an early interception and just never looked right throughout this game. He completed passes to 11 different receivers. Again, sometimes you're trying to figure out which guys are working for you, who's going to be your go-to guy. He ended up getting four catches for 61 yards and a big-time touchdown from Xavier worthy. Kareem Hump continues to carry the load in the running game. But they've looked like this the entire season.

The difference is the 30 points that Buffalo was able to put up on this Kansas City defense because this Kansas City defense has been elite, one of the best defenses in football throughout this season and previous seasons. Spags has been calling an incredible game. They've been covering well. They've been rushing a passer well. But Josh Allen had his way, 27 of 40, 262 yards, one touchdown in the interception. And he rushed the ball 12 times for 55 yards in that huge touchdown that put the nail in

the coffin at the end of the game. I'm sure this is good for this young team's confidence because a lot of these young players weren't in the same roles that they are in now. Curtis Samuel hasn't been a part of this rivalry. Taylor Rap had a huge interception in this game, and I don't think he was as huge of a part of this rivalry as he was in this game. And obviously, Khalil Shakur was a part of it, but he wasn't the go-to guy that he is now. So I'm interested to see what this does for them going into the playoffs that they have to

face to Kansas City Chiefs again. That's the thing. Does this give them confidence going into that week? I know they're feeling really, really good going into this by week. The Kansas City Chiefs probably feel slightly disappointed. I'm sure Andy Reid feels good because, again, you don't want to have an undefeated season. You want to have coachable moments. You want to be able to tell your team, hey, we got to do better than this.

We got to play better than this. We got to correct these things. And this gives them an opportunity to do that, to coach his team to tell that defense, hey, you're not world beaters yet. You know, we've won two back-to-back MVP. I mean, we've won back-to-back Super Bowls, and we've played, started off 9 and 0, but you see this team hit us in the mouth,

so we do have things that we can correct, things we can fix, things we can get better at. And I'm, I get to go watch this team in a couple of weeks when they play the Raiders in Kansas City on Black Friday, so I'm excited to go out there and see what they do against the Carolina Panthers and what they do against the Raiders when we come to town. But the Kansas City Chiefs,

the last several games, they haven't looked all that impressive. You know, they beat the Las Vegas Raiders by seven points. They win against the Buccaneers in overtime, you know, and then they go and squeak one off with a block field goal against the Denver Broncos, and then you see them go on the road and lose by two scores against the Buffalo Bills. I mean, they've been skating by all season, and finally they get caught. I mean, are the Kansas City Chiefs that good? Is there 9-1 record reflects?

Yeah, Mitchell, I mean, they're back-to-back Super Bowl champion. So you can say what you want about them skating by games. They skated through most of the last season. And then when it came to the playoffs, they dominated, dominated, dominated. And you could say they snuck by those games. They didn't blow the Baltimore Ravens out in an AFC championship game. They didn't blow the San Francisco 49ers game out in the Super Bowl. they won an OT, walk off touchdown.

But they won, and they got to hold the trophy at the end. So are they the team, or they are as good as their record says, because they are back-to-back Super Bowl champions. Because when you aren't, when you don't have the championship pedigrate, people can say, oh, we wonder how they're going to be in the playoffs. We know how this team is going to be in the playoffs. There are a lot of guys still on this team, still on this roster, with two Super Bowl rings on and very prominent positions.

So this team will be followed. especially with the best quarterback in football. I don't think you can count this team out or say they're not as good as their record, especially with the way their defense, Chris Jones is still going. Nick Bolton is playing really good football, Justin Reed, you know, friend of the program. We've got so many people that are playing really good football as a part of that team that I'm not really ready to say they're not who we thought they were.

That would be, that'd be silly to say. You know, this is a loss that they probably needed. I'm sure their coaching staff is thankful. I don't think anybody wants an undeped season going into playoffs because you just feel like your first loss is going to be at the worst possible time. I don't want to play spoiler here, Richard. I don't. That was this week's Sunday night food ball brought to you by Uber Eats,

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The Hinaloo Blue. I'm playing some forecasting here, Richard. Then future number one team in Richard Cher and Palmer Ranks, the Detroit Lions took on the Jacksonville Jaguars, 52 to 6. And I'm pretty sure that was after the third quarter. They're laying the Stone Cold Smackdown on the Jacksonville Jaguars. What didn't the Detroit Lions show you today that, I mean, this win could not be more impressive? Jacksonville scored first, mind you.

They got out three to nothing, and the Detroit Lion just said, ah, that's good enough. We'll take it from here. Your thoughts on my hometown Detroit Lions, I would love to hear it. Well, their defense looked really good. You know, obviously Mack Jones and this Jacksonville Jaguars offense haven't shown much all season. No, they didn't show much when they had the other quarterback back at the helm.

They didn't show much with Back Jones. But still, this defense, you know, beating bad teams is still an art. Like there are teams that play to the level of their opponent. That's not what the Detroit Lions are. They showed them, hey, there's a huge gap between what y'all are and what we are. And they showed it over and over and over executing every single drive. Their first seven drives down the field, they scored touchdowns.

And again, back to the conversation with San Francisco 49ers, that's the difference between elite contenders, is that they score when they get into the red zone. When they get into the red zone, you know it's pretty, much a done deal. Your fate is sealed. They're scoring. And the Lions coming off that very, as Jemir Gibbs said, weird game where they had all the interceptions and everything working against them. Murphy's Law, everything that could go wrong, went wrong, and they were still able to win that game. I think it gives the team a bit of a shield, you know, a bit of an invincibility complex. Because you say, hey, even on our worst day, we can still win. So they're not having their worst day in this

game. Jared golf 24 of 29, 412 yards passing four touchdowns in a perfect passer rating would would almost get him back into that MVP conversation if he didn't throw five picks the last time, Mitchell, so he's nowhere near the conversation at this point. But a great game from Amunrah, St. Brown, a huge game from Jamison Williams, probably his best game as a pro. Four catches 124 yards and a touchdown. Cool to see him get back involved. That incredible safety duo played their but off Brian Branch had a really, really crucial hit in the game. Kirby Joseph had the interception.

So you just saw really good performances from all over the place. Jemir Gibbs and David Montgomery both got a touchdown in the first quarter. One got one yard touchdown. Then Jemir Gibbs said, I'm faster than everybody and I'm going to get a touchdown too. And so that was really cool. He also had the reception. Jamir Gibbs had the reception for 54 yards where he just looked so fast.

And I thought he was scoring a touchdown on that one. But they look great. They look like a really good team. And this is what they've looked like. They look like the team they're supposed to look like when you talk about a contender. And they're the best team in the NFC right now. And I think that's clear.

With Tony Gonzalez on the broadcast was saying that it may be somebody else as the best team in the NFC, the Philadelphia Eagles. And I said, not so fast, my friend. Lee Corso works both ways. And he said not so fast when you're talking about the other teams as well, because they are not as complete as the Detroit Lions are right now. And getting Zadaria Smith is only going to help them. He kind of got banged up a little bit in this game. I'm pretty sure he's all right.

But as he continues to get out there and get rolling, I think he's going to be really impactful. Well, you got to love it, Richard. We've seen it. I mean, you saw it guys, if you have not tuned in the Jemir Gibbs episode with Richard earlier this week, this podcast has turned into a Detroit Lions fan-based podcast. podcast. I love to see the Hanolulu blue tuning in every week. Let's take it to arguably the game of the day. The Pittsburgh Steelers against the Baltimore Ravens. Pittsburgh turns out a huge win. Divisional foe. Vegas had this game is a three-point game in Baltimore's favor. A lot of people

are saying, hey, Baltimore's got this. No question about it. But Richard, you pointed week after week after week the division rivalries saying these division games are different. Baltimore is showing us something here. I mean, this team, they're eight and two and they're looking like it. They win against the Baltimore Ravens. Pittsburgh, are they the team right now in the AFC North? Because they certainly look like it. Well, I mean, they definitely do. And obviously, you got to give them credit because they just beat the team that was challenging them for that supremacy and the team that won the AFC North last year and the Baltimore

Ravens. But the Baltimore Ravens are 0 and the last four matchups against the Pittsburgh Steelers. And that's with whoever it is at quarterback. And it's just like Lamar Jackson struggles against Tomlin coach teams. It doesn't matter if Kenny Pickett's

that quarterback, if Mitchell Trubitsky is that quarterback, they're finding a way to beat the Baltimore Ravens. And this is with the super tandem of Lamont Mar Jackson and Derek Henry. But again, Todd Monkin is falling victim to the thing that Baltimore Ravens, coordinators do every single time.

Things get tight in a ball game. In a big time ball game, they stop running the football. And everybody knows the statistics of their wins versus their losses. Every time they lose, it's because Derek Henry has 15 carries or less. It's got to the average averages 14 carries in their losses and like 20 carries in their win. So it keep feeding them the ball. But whenever they get down in these games, and it wasn't a huge lead, they missed multiple field goals uncharacteristically. You know, Justin Tucker, the all pro future Hall of Famer just could not get the ball through the uprights early in this game.

If he makes those field goals, they likely win this game, but he didn't. And the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin knows how to win in an ugly ball game. He knows when things aren't going great, Hey, that defense is going to step up into Pittsburgh Steelers defense stepped up in a big way. You just saw all their big time guys stepping up. T.J. Watt had a sack. Peyton Wilson had a really incredible one hand, like diving, ripping away interception. Late in the ball game that really turned the tide to the Pittsburgh Steelers and really kind of closed out this game.

Cam Hayward had a huge deflection in this game late in the game that they had to have, Hagee Harris, 18 carries for 63 yards. Russell Wilson didn't have the biggest game. You know, he struggled early on. I think he had 88 yards, you know, somewhere middle of the third quarter, but he turned it on late, 23 or 36, 205 yards, very costly interception in the end zone late in the game, but played well enough, made big enough plays, converted third downs to help them win this game, to help them run that clock,

control the ball game, and that's what they need it. That's what Tomlin needs. to protect the ball, run the clock. And I think his tight end probably could have done, helped him out a little bit and batted that pass down in the end zone. Didn't really seem like he gave a lot of effort. But George Pickens with another good game. I think he's really happy to have Russell Wilson in the fold,

eight catches for 89 yards. But it's, it's concerning. And it has to be scary for Baltimore Ravens fans because it just seems like another, more of the same. Like, okay, we, we have an MVP. candidate likely to win MVP. I mean, touchdown interception, Mitchell, I don't think he had the same regression that

Jared Gough said. I don't know if one touchdown, one interception is five interceptions in a game. Those aren't created equal. But it's definitely not the huge four or five touchdown games he had been having. Derek Henry also got a touchdown, fumbled for the first time in 538

touches. Not the kind of game he's used to having. Obviously, you can't go away from Derek Henry just because he fumbles the football, but I don't know what you do. This has to be a lesson. And you would have thought they learned this lesson after losing in the playoffs the same way every year. And everybody saying the same thing, including their own staff saying, hey, we went away from running the football. We'll never do that. We'll never make that a mistake again. I don't

know why we did that. We went away from running the football. I don't know why we did that. We went away from running the football. I don't know why we did that. Stop doing it. Run the football. run it, run it, run it. Run the football. Chris Brown, when you see it running, running, running. Like, run the football. Do I need to put the hat on? You're going to have to.

I'm going to have to. Because when they run the football, they win football games. When they don't run a football game, when they don't run the football, they lose. And it's been true in the playoffs. It's been true all of this year when they lost to the Raiders. They didn't run the football well. They lost to Cleveland.

They didn't run the football well. Well, Kansas City, they didn't run the football well. The Pittsburgh, they didn't run the football well. It's a common theme. It's not hard to see. You don't need analytics or research to really dive deep and see it. You got one of the best running backs of National Football League, turn around and hand them the ball sometimes, at least 20 times a game.

And sure, you can have Lamar throw at 30 if that's what you want to do, but do not go away from the run game. And that's what they did. Give the Pittsburgh Steelers a lot of credit. They're looking like a top A. seat contender. And if the Kansas City Chief slip up again, you might look at them as a one seat going into these playoffs. And I don't know if Kansas City really wants to go down that road because they'd be seeing the Buffalo bills a lot earlier than they want to. There's no question about it. This

Steelers defense is nasty. I mean, this offense, I mean, this is the second time this season. They've not scored a touchdown and won a game. I mean, the rest of the NFL is two and 18 without scoring a touchdown in a game. And the Pittsburgh Steelers have managed. to win two games without scoring touchdowns. Kudos to the Steelers. Yeah, I mean, kudos. That's huge. And Richard, you know all too well a defense that carries a team.

And Russell, I don't want to speak poorly about him by any means because he seemed to turn this offense around in Pittsburgh, but he's a beneficiary of another great defense here. Let's see how far he can take this Steelers team because it seems to me like. he's got the weapons. He's got Najee Harris. I mean, George Pickens, there's probably no bigger fan. I mean, George Pickens is proving himself to be one of the top receivers in this league

ever since Russell Wilson's taken over those reins. So let's see what happens here in Pittsburgh. They've got an opportunity. You're going to see him firsthand on Thursday night football, brought to you by our friends at Prime Video. And Richard, you'll walk away either impressed or in questions because this Pittsburgh Steelers team is 8 and 2. It doesn't matter how you debate it.

They are 8 and 2, and they proved it at home against one of the best teams in the league in the Baltimore Ravens. Let's see where they go from here. In terms of the Baltimore Ravens, it's the Harbaugh Bowl on Monday Night Football. They're going to take on the L.A. Chargers next. We'll see how they recover from this loss.

Because, again, these division games are weird. So even when Pittsburgh's 8 and 2, when you feel really good about this huge win against Baltimore, sometimes that's setting you up for a letdown in another very tough division game against the Cleveland Browns. And James just threw for almost 400 yards against the Saints. Like, it's not that they can't do it. It's not that they can't push the ball down the field and they can't execute.

So I hope they don't have a case of overlooking the Cleveland Browns. And that's what I'm going to say on air Thursday night. It's just, you know, this is a really talented defense, a really good football team. But if their offense struggles like they did, because Cleveland's defense is very capable. Miles Garrett is just as capable of wrecking a game as anybody in this football. And so if they get out there and start lollygagging and you let James get hot, this can get scary for Pittsburgh and Cleveland. So I know they deserve to feel good about this game and feel good about their season, eight and two. I'm sure their fans could not have predicted

them going eight and two this season after the seasons that they've had. But they look like a really complete team. And I can't wait to see what they look like Thursday, short week. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential. Either way, the podcast's Superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year.

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you get your podcasts. The Chicago Bears in desperate need of a win, going under the 500 mark last week, they're hosting the Green Bay Packers at home. They make it super competitive and lose by a blocked field goal at the buzzer. We saw what appeared to be a lot better game from Caleb Williams.

He looked a lot more comfortable in the pocket. When the bucket broke down, he was scrambling, he was picking up yards. He looked more like a veteran out there. than it had a rookie. And I think Chicago needed to see that. But nonetheless, they come away with the loss. Richard, how does this happen for Chicago?

How do they turn the tides here? Because they had this game and they lost it. Well, they just don't know how to finish. And you do have to give Caleb Williams a lot of credit. He looked really good. The offensive line looked better. The entire offense looked better. DeAndre Swift had a really cool touchdown run

where he made a corner miss and open feet. field, got loose, got busy. Caleb Williams was making plays with his legs, but he wasn't depending on it. And you saw him rush the ball. You saw him go out there and use his legs to really put the defense in jeopardy and put the defense on its heels and really make them adjust, make them have to account for his legs in a way that he hadn't really been doing throughout the season as much as he could. And I think that opened up some plays for him. He was getting the ball out quick on time. Even when he's looking left, sometimes. he glanced back right and hit the checkdown for a lot of yards because the defense is moving with him.

And I thought he looked really solid coming off a really tough game, some tough conversations in the locker room. Teammates really frustrated with his performances in the past games. So I thought this was really a step forward for this team. It just sucks that they weren't able to finish because in a game like that, that's how you take the next step. You kick that field goals, you win it, and you're talking about a team that may sneak into the playoffs. the team that's feeling confident that they can beat anyone. And that defense is playing like a defense that can play with anyone. But they didn't.

The field goal got blocked. Carl Brooks blocked the game winning field goal, got his fingertip on it. And that's all you need at that distance to be able to get it. Jordan Love, though, he's a risk taker. And he's a guy that's reckless with the football. And he's thrown interception in eight straight games, 11 on the season and 11. And I don't even think he hasn't played every game. missed two games in this season. So that's something that I'm concerned about the Green Bay Packers.

This is a good win for them. They're seven and three, keeping up with your Detroit Lions in the division race. Minnesota Vikings are also up there at, I think they're eight and two now. So this NFC North is really starting to heat up at it and look like one of the best divisions, if not the best division in football. But if you're a Green Bay Packers fan, you have to be concerned. about these interceptions because that is what ended your season last year. At the hands of the San Francisco 49ers, two Jordan Love interceptions. And the clutch is what ended your season. So he has as many interceptions now as he did through the entire season last year.

And he has to get that fixed. These aren't just like tipped interceptions at the line of scrimmage or our lucky plays by guys or, hey, it bounced off the receiver's hands and got interception. these are balls he's throwing to defenders. And he has to get that fixed. I like how they leaned on Josh Jacobs throughout the game. 18 carries for 76 yards, even got involved in the past game. Four carries took some short passes and made them big gains.

I think that's going to be positive for him. Christian Watson had his best game, four catches for 150 yards. Rashon Gary made some plays on defense. Our guy Xavier McKinney did not, was not able to get Caleb Williams this time, even though he's gotten just about everybody else. But I thought this was a rare kind of win-win for both teams. It's good for, I'm sure Chicago feels a lot better about their selves

and about their team than they did coming into this game. And I'm sure Green Bay is thankful to be able to get out of this game where they didn't play as well as they possibly can with the win. Green Bay has a tough game against San Francisco 49ers who are reeling right now after that loss to Seattle in Green Bay. the Bears have a tough game against the Minnesota Vikings who are rolling 8 and 2, and they're going to put a lot of pressure on Caleb Williams. So he better keep getting that ball out fast.

They finally scored a touchdown. I mean, they went 26 drives without one, Richard. And they're on a four-game losing streak. I know you could say you can take away, you know, some field goods after losing this game close, but it's a four-game losing streak. And it all started with that Hail Mary against the Washington commanders when Tyreek Stevenson was celebrating over there

or doing whatever he was doing with the crowd. I mean, how long does a loss like that carry over? Because this Bears team was 4 and 2, and now they're 4 and 6, and we're talking about feel-good losses. Yeah, I mean, but they weren't expected to be anything like that, Metro this year. They weren't, you know, you're not drafting the quarterback that high.

And, you know, I mean, their draft pick was, what, nine or 10? But you're not drafting top 10. in making the playoffs many times. There are teams that have done it, but they had a really good defense, and they have a really good defense, but there's still ways to go offensively, especially offensive line,

and the quarterback. You've got a young quarterback that has to develop. I think they're starting to figure out the rhythm that he needs to be in, where they have to run the ball with DeAndre Swift, they have to lean on the run game, and then let Caleb Williams go. You can't just sit there and drop back with Caleb Williams

and have the run game as a second, as an afterthought. That can't be the way you approach games. And I think at least they're figuring that rhythm out. I think they're showing signs of life. Maybe they can get hot and win some games that they won't be favored in down the stretch and sneak into the playoffs, but they really need at this one for their confidence going forward. But yeah, I mean, I guess it does linger. You know, I mean, there's nothing else to say about that. They're on four since that game. So clearly, it's having some carryover effects. You want to talk about a disaster season. Let's go to the New York Jets. Aaron Rogers and this whole feel-good story about him coming back from the Achilles

injury, I don't know where this season's going to land for them, but it's not looking good. You already lose the coach and Robert Sala. They've made so many different moves and nothing seemed to work, and it all culminates with another loss against the lowly Indianapolis Colts, who just brought back Anthony Richardson. Where do we go from here? I mean, who do you cast the blame on other than Woody Johnson in New York, New York Jets territory, Richard. Yeah, I mean, you've got to put a lot of the blame on Woody Johnson because you've made an unnecessary decision in the middle of the season. And it's been shown statistically, no matter what team you're looking at, if you fire the head coachman's season, the rest of that season,

it's pretty much wrap. You're not going to the playoffs. You're not having success. You're not, you're not doing anything worthy of mention in that season. And I know he tried to cut the front office loose to make all these moves, to make him look better and say, oh, get redik in here, get, get DeVante, do all this so that it doesn't look bad so you guys can win and it can look like I fired Robert Sala. He was the problem and I was the answer. Clearly Robert Sala wasn't the problem.

Aaron isn't playing as well as he has in the past. It's probably his worst season of his football career, probably since the first season he started. They're not playing well on defense. Ever since Brick became the head coach, they've been one of the worst defense. I think they've given up the second most points since he's become the head coach. And that's just, you know, that's just one of the side effects of moving your defensive coordinator to head coach and throwing all this responsibility on his back, all these extra things to think about during the game, during the week, all these extra meetings that

he has to be. And he has to, you change in the whole dynamic of the staff, five days. into the season. And that's a shock that they just haven't recovered from. The players are kind of frustrated. You saw the comments sauce had about, you know, Brick's tackling presentation and then they went out and they missed a lot of tackles in this game.

So it's just a lot of things compiling, a lot of frustration, I'm sure, mounting in that locker room, mounting with that coaching staff and disappointment because, you know, they were, they're really talented team and they've had a talented defense for the entire time this staff has been employed and they just haven't had the offense. And everybody thought when Aaron came in, he would, he would fix a lot of the problems. And Devante would help fix Aaron and he would help fix Gerard Wilson. And it just hasn't culminated the way they would have wanted it to when it's disappointing. The other side of the football, Anthony Richardson comes back from his break.

I mean, obviously they sideline him and showed him what Joe Flack who could do for the last few weeks. and he comes back and he looks like a lot more competent quarterback out there throwing for 272 yards of touchdown, getting done on the ground too with two rushing touchdowns. How much do you think that time off, that time to just examine and look and study benefited Anthony Richardson? I think it benefited in a tremendous amount. Just being able to sit there and listen and watch and get hungry and get frustrated and work your craft and be able to push the reset button on everything and go out there and just play free. you know, what's the worst that can happen?

They already said he's going to be named a starter for the rest of the season. So now just go out there, let the ball fly, be confident, trust your reads. And it looks like he's a whole different quarterback. I mean, his completions, he's not overthrown as much as he was at the beginning. He was completing a lot more passes. He's not putting his body in danger as much. Obviously, he took a hit when he ran that first touchdown in. But he looks a lot more in command, a lot more accurate.

his feet are under him. I think it benefited it. You talked about it so much. Paralysis by overanalysis. I mean, these younger quarterbacks, and you can speak to this way better than I can, but it seems like the more you think about a play, the less you are instinctive.

And to me, it looked like he was just playing naturally, letting the play come to him as opposed to trying to force something. And if you see this down the stretch, I mean, this Indianapolis Colts team is still in the thick of things when it comes to the playoff race. If they can get hot, we'll see. I mean, they play my Detroit Lions next week. I welcome Anthony Richardson, but we'll see.

Let's go to the Minnesota Vikings. I know they played the Tennessee Titans today, but this team is now 8 and 2, and Sam Darnold gets back on track of it, throwing for 246 yards, two touchdowns. Richard, I know we talked about the Minnesota Vikings and their falloff of the last couple weeks. Like, how much do you believe in this team?

because this NFC North Division, I mean, they're dominating the league right now. The Minnesota Vikings are 8 and 2. The Green Bay Packers are 7 and 3. The Detroit Lions are 9 and 1. We're potentially seeing three teams to the north going into this playoffs. How much do you believe in the Minnesota Vikings, all being against the Tennessee Titans today? I mean, defense translates. And Andrew Van Deghiko had two sacks in the game.

He's got eight on the season. They're putting a lot of pressure on quarterbacks. They're getting a lot of turnoff. overs. I think that translates. And they're going to make it tough. Offensively, they got a very competent coordinator and Kevin O'Connell, well, head coach coordinator. He calls a really great game. And every time you talk to a defender who was gone against him, they talk about his creativity, the acumen he has, the creativity within the game, you know, making plays look like other plays, but then having pretty much counters off of it. And so if they can get to the play,

playoffs and they get the right matchup. I think they can do damage. And I think every team in NFC North has that story. If they can play well enough, this defense has a lot of unknown guys making huge plays and just fitting in this system like hand in glove. So yeah, I think this is going to be a dangerous team down the stretch. I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do during the playoffs. You witness the Eagles. I mean, and the commanders go at it. And it looked like the commanders had control this game. They were playing the game. the way they wanted to slowing it down, letting the defense control the game. And then all of a sudden we saw Sequan take over late in that game.

Philadelphia looks like the real deal. I mean, if they can put a full 60 minutes together, week in and week out, they look like a top contender in the NFC. What are your thoughts after being in Philly and witnessing their dominance late in that game against the commanders? Well, I just don't, you know, it just doesn't look like the commanders are quite there yet with the weapons offensively and defensively. Just don't have the firepower.

They need to stop that offense. But I didn't walk away really impressed with the Philadelphia Eagles offense. I walked away impressed with Sequan Barkley. But at times, it just looked discombobulated, disconnected. And you look at it through the first half and you're like, they have too many superstars, too much firepower to only have six points in the game. I'm not sure how this defense is getting stops. They don't have a ton of great corners.

you know, Marshawn Lattermore wasn't playing in this game. And so you wonder why A.J. Brown wasn't dominating. Devante Smith wasn't really dominating in this game. And so that's the stuff that concerns me because if you run against a team with some real dogs in the secondary, some dogs on defense and some offensive firepower. I think they, you know, people pull away from them in a game like that. So I'm not quite ready to put them up there with the contenders. I'm not willing to put them up there with your Detroit Lions or or even the Minnesota Vikings. And, you know, I think the Minnesota Vikings are a more complete team than a Philadelphia

Eagles. So I'm not quite sure where they fall in the hierarchy yet. But I need to see them play somebody like that and not start the way they did in this game. Well, Richard, this concludes our week 11 recap of the games. Guys, we really appreciate you tuning in, week in, week out. I mean, make no mistake about it. We see your comments. We welcome all feedback.

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