The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Richard Sherman Podcast - Week 7 Reaction: Chiefs beat 49ers, Seahawks lead NFC West, Lions-Vikings showdown

Episode Date: October 21, 2024

Richard Sherman reacts to Week 7 of the 2024 NFL season, including Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs moving to 6-0 with a convincing victory over Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers, the Seattle Seahawks seizing control of the NFC West with a road win over the Atlanta Falcons, Jared Goff looking like an MVP leading the Detroit Lions over their NFC North rival Minnesota Vikings, C.J. Stroud and the Houston Texans losing to the Green Bay Packers, and Russell Wilson notching a W in his first start as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers as they put a beating on the New York Jets in their first game pairing Aaron Rodgers with Davante Adams. #volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Championship. always be the expectation. All right, man, that you go on here. Welcome back to the Richard Sherman podcast. It's been a crazy week. Some unexpected wins, some unexpected losses. Obviously, the big games for me were the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers.

We'll start with the San Francisco 49ers. Home game versus the Kansas City Chiefs, a chance to exercise some demons, a chance to really kind of turn their seats. season around in a way and really get themselves back on track, get some positive energy in the building, get their fans feeling good about this season. And unfortunately, they could not figure out Spaggs' defense. Brock Purdy has maybe his worst game as a pro, three interceptions, a number of them coming in Kansas City's territory, you know, with chances to score, one of them coming into the red

zone. And he just looked off a lot of the game, didn't have a great connection with the receivers. Obviously, losing Brandon Iyuk to potentially an ACL is just a devastating, even thought for this team dealing with a lot of chaos already. DiBo Samuel had a sickness, a virus of some kind that held him out of this game. Juan Jennings still hasn't recovered from his hip injury. So they were down their top three receivers at a lot of the second half of this game. And for a gut portion, they only had Brandon Ayuk. So they down to their Ricky Persaw, who had a solid game, but it's his first game coming off the gunshot situation.

And I think he played solid. They tried to lean on Kittle and Jordan Mason got going in the second half. They started finding running lanes. and I thought the defense played good enough, good enough to win. If you hold Patrick Mahomes to what they were able to hold him to, they held him to 154 yards passing, no touchdowns. It was the second fewest passing yards of his career. They picked him off twice.

They tipped the pass, picked it off. Another pass. Diomador-Lenor-Norne made a great play on a pass to Xavier Worthy. You would think they win this game. But they allowed him to run the ball for, 33 yards, which was the longest run of his career on a play that I think they could have did it after five to eight yards probably, you know, but I think he got on the sideline, guys don't know if he's going to step out or he's going to keep going. He usually steps

out. And, you know, that's a play where I'm sure the fans are like, come on. You got to keep playing hard. But after playing this game, as long as these guys have, as long as I have, it's a weird situation when you're on the sideline. You know, it's not like you can get penalized. You can get fine. You run all the way over there and you hit the guy as hard as you can to knock him out. It's not going to go well. And a lot of times he's going to go out and you've got to slow your momentum so you don't run into him unnecessarily. But that was a play that probably could have been stopped and ended up being a factor in the game.

Cream Hunt ran the ball for 78 yards, two touchdowns. Looked really good. Ran behind his pads. I thought the defense did a good job stopping him at times. I know everybody wants to be able to. upset at the defense. Why didn't the defense do this? Why didn't they do that? They played well enough to win. When you hold Mahomes to these kind of numbers, when you cause the three in outs that they cause in the second half, get turnover, give the offense the ball back. If you have any

chance of winning that game, those are the stats you need to see when you're facing this team. But offensively, you can't turn the ball over three times at the quarterback position. I'm sure Brock understands that. I'm sure he's going to be critical of himself. Watch this tape and really try to come up with answers because right now I can't tell if it's mental or physical because they just don't have the answers. And they weren't on the same page. There was a miscommunication with Ronnie Bell where everybody wants to get on Ronnie Bell and say, hey, why, he messed it up again. You know, kudos to Brock for going to his press conference, standing up and saying, hey, that one was on me. He ran a good route. I didn't throw a great ball.

Got it. That's leadership. That's accountability. Understood, respected. But right now, the Niners, again, like I said earlier in the season, it was concerning losing that game to the Arizona Cardinals because you don't have that many Mulligans to give and to use them on division opponents that should not, not easy wins because there's no such thing in the National Football League, but these are games that are winnable games and comfortably winnable games, whether you're healthy or not, you have the better team and you. You have the superior team. You have to win those games. And when you don't, you want to see teams like this, where you need your mulligans, where you could say, hey, this game can go either way. And if we lose, it's not going to knock our season off track. Now, in all honesty, San Francisco, the 49ers, they've been here before. They've been here before.

They've had this record. And they've ended up in NFC championship. So there's still hope for nine are faithful that this team will turn this season around. But right now, I'm really concerned because, The injury to be a uncertainty with Debo Samuel, the uncertainty with Joanne Jennings, the uncertainty with CMC is just so much. I think the defense is starting to find their way, starting to figure it out. I think Drey Greenlaw, give him a couple more weeks, maybe a month, and he'll be starting to work himself back into the fold. But I thought the defense played

pretty well. I thought Malik Collins has been a phenomenal player this year. I thought Leonard and Nick Bosa had a good game. They both played hard, caused chaos, erect havoc throughout that game. Bosa was a part of the pressure that caused Diomador-Lanors interception. I thought he's played his best ball, his career. I look forward to him getting his payday. But the special teams continues to be an issue every game. And I just can't figure out why.

It just seems like guys aren't focused. It's not a lot of attention to detail that these guys are. putting forth. And these are simple things. These are things, yeah, I know everybody wants to say it's on the coach, it's on the coach. They coach these things. They coach lane integrity on punts. And you can coach it all you want. You can say, hey, stay in your lane, stay in your lane. You can drill it, drill it, drill it. If God's getting the game and they don't do what their coach to do, I don't know what you can do about it. You can say, fire the coordinator. I've never seen that work successfully and have a positive impact on the team. Guys got to play better.

They got to execute better on punt return, punt return integrity, lane integrity. You know, half the guys on one side of the field, half the guys on the other side of the field, and some guys in the middle. The gunner, I mean, the personal protector is up the middle, and there's a lane for everybody. Anytime you get half the team drifting one way, it's going to be an issue. And I think that's day one football. That's common sense football. I don't really understand that, but they've had a number of injuries. They've got guys playing that haven't played these positions before, so there's something to that.

But on the other side, the Kansas City Chiefs just keep winning. And I don't know how. Patrick Mahones is leading the league in interceptions, and it doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter because Spaggs in this defense, Chris Jones and McDuffie and Justin Reed, these guys just keep playing well. Christian Roland Wallace had an interception. He was a free agent they found from USC. Like these aren't guys that are just high-drafted guys.

They just have a good scouting department, a good culture, a good team, great coaches. who keep developing guys and keep putting guys in good positions to be successful. And they keep finding them. They keep finding these diamonds in the rough. And they're showing up and they're showing out. George Carl Loftus is having a really good season. Nick Bolton continues to show up, batten passes away, showing up and passing windows. I just, I wonder when it's going to catch up to them.

But I think we've been wondering that for a number of years. When is it going to catch up to the Kansas City Chiefs? When is it going to catch up? When is everybody going to catch up? Well, they're playing some of their worst football during this. run and they're 6-0. So that should have the rest of the league very, very concerned. It has me concerned because I'm watching these games and I'm looking and I'm like, I don't see how they're pulling these games off. And it's against quality teams, good teams, bad teams,

whatever you want to feel, but they're pulling these games off. They're winning, whether it's by one score or two scores, they beat the San Francisco 49ers who came into the season as one of the NFC's top contenders, in my opinion, a team that they're going to meet in the Super Bowl. They beat them by 10 points when Patrick Mahones probably plays one of the worst games of his career. The defense shows up. You got to give Spags. You got to give Andy Reed a ton of credit. They just know how to win.

They know how to win on the road. They know how to win ugly. They know how to win an elite way. I don't really have a ton of answers for that. I look forward to seeing how the 49ers play this Sunday night against the Dallas Cowboys. who are dealing with their own set of issues, who have their own set of problems and have consistently gotten beat by a lot of points

and giving up a lot of points at home. So, again, it's a good litmus test because the 49ers are going to have to put up a lot of points and they're going to have to do what these other teams have done and show that they're the elite team that we all know them to be, or else the narrative is going to begin to shift and it's going to begin to change.

And I hate for that to happen. The Kansas City Chiefs are at the loss Vegas Raiders, you know, that's again, a nice competitive divisional game. I'm sure that both teams are going to be up for that. These teams have a nice rivalry. They don't have a good liking to one another. And I think that's going to be a better game than people expect. 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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in our podcast point game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs.

I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reed. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nass would get that thing. That man, hell get to fly.

He running up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball. Like, you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah. You figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you. you get your podcasts. The other game that I was looking forward to went in a lot more positive of a direction. And that was the Seattle Seahawks at the Atlanta Falcons.

The Seahawks were coming off a three-game losing streak. And now they sit atop alone, atop the NFC West. They played a really good ballgame. They made a change at right tackle from Stone Forsyth. I think that that was a huge move. K-9 being even healthier than he was. Help. This D-line played their, I can't say their best game because they've had some really, really good games this season, especially early on.

But their best game in a while, they put a lot of pressure on a quarterback. They play with a lead for most of the game. And that changes the way Mike McDonald's able to call this to defense. It changes the way they're able to rush. they're able to cover. It helps the secondary because it's the line. Boy, Yeh Maffei, has been one of the best pass rushers this season and last season, going back into last season. When he's healthy, he's a devastating pass rusher. Byron Murphy, Leonard Williams got a sack.

You just saw a lot of guys having their way with this team. And I think that's what you want to see and that's what you appreciate in a Mike McDonald coach defense, that they're going to pressure, and that pressure creates turnovers. They're running a lot of too deep, and they're stopping to run. He made a point to say it. We have to be able to stop the run while playing too deep. And both is safety's Kobe Bryant, who's had his struggles at times, switch positions to safety, got his first start, and had an interception,

played a really good game, had been sound tackling. Sometimes you just got to stay the course. And he has saved the course, and he got rewarded in an interception in this game. Julian Love, It's getting healthier, got an interception in this game, and it just goes to show, like, when this defense works, but it needs a lead. You need to have a lead.

You need to be able to rush and show these disguises. It's hard to play this defense when you've got to come from behind consistently, when you've got to deal with deficits instead of leads. Gino Smith, the numbers don't tell the story. He was 18 to 28, 207 yards, two TDs, but he just is under so much, so much pressure. every single game. And I don't mean pressure from the outside world. I mean legitimate pressure in his face. His guys, guys coming scot-free, guys, whether it's a blitz or they're just beating their men one-on-one,

this offensive line, it just hasn't consistently done a great job of protecting him. In this game, they did a lot better. But still, he was under duress a lot of his game. His two touchdown passes came from pocket movement. He's staying within the pocket. He's keeping his eyes downfield. He's stressing his offensive line, and he's delivering dimes. If they could protect him and keep him upright, I mean, he can throw for four or 500 yards and really devastated, especially with the weapons that they have offensively. He delivered some really cool passes to K-9, a dime to D.K. Medcalf right before the half. Even JSCN.

JSC got a pass in there, and I don't, you know, it was a pass. You know, I'm sure he would have got back to the receiver room, had he not. throwing that pass up to DK. And DK would have been like, man, if you would have just put it up, I would have called it. Now, every single time they run that play, J.S. Z is going to be like, well, D.K., I got to put it up there. D.K. is going to go back to the room and they're going going to be pissed off. He's going to be like, I told you, I would have called it. I'm not going to let him pick it off. That was a great pick, great adjustment by D.K., hopefully he's, okay from my understanding and everything that's out there right now. Mike McDonnell seems to

believe that D.K. Metcalf's injury isn't as serious as they thought it was. initially, so that's positive, especially with everything else that's going on, the positive energy, everything is going in the right direction. They have a game coming up against the Buffalo Bills who are a really good football team, but can be had. And if this defense continues to play at the level that they played at this game and that they played at the first three games of the season, I think they can win this game against the Buffalo Bills, even though it's in Buffalo, It's a game that I don't see Buffalo getting a lot of pressure on Gino. And I think Gino can do a great job with Ryan Grubb coming up with a plan to attack this secondary.

Of the Buffalo Bills who've been beat up and they've been injured a lot of this season. And they've played next man up, next man up mentality. But I think they can have that game. But this is the kind of game you expect this team to have. And I know everybody was ready to jump off the bandwagon after they lost. three straight and legitimate, you know, those were good teams. They were saying, hey, they just beat bad teams. Well, this was not a bad team. This Atlanta Falcons team had won three straight. They had been playing good football. Kirk Cousins have been playing. We just watched them on

TNF throw for 500 yards. So we're not going to act like against a really talented Buffalo Bills, I mean, Tampa Bay Buccaneers team who's been playing good football throughout this year. But John Robinson has his best game of the season, gets 21 carries for 103 yards. And that's that's one of the concerns coming out of this game for a lot of the fans is, man, they didn't do a good enough job against the run game. I understand this. Understand this. It's legitimate concern.

It's legitimate. But 90 of those yards came in the second quarter. And when you go to halftime, if you would have told me after halftime, they gave up 90 in the third quarter and they gave up 90 in the fourth quarter or something like that, then I'd be concerned to. I'd be like, oh, man, they can't get it figured out. But this is a game of adjustment. understand that the Falcons had a good plan coming into the game.

They had some answers for some of the things this defense was able to do or this defense had done throughout the season. And so you go into the half, you say, hey, they have those answers. Now let's come up with our answers and our response to what they did. They were able to hold them down, hold them the 28 yards in the second half. That's what you've got to remember. That's what you got to remember. And the biggest thing is 14 points.

You can have all the rushing yards in the world. If you're not getting points on the board and you're getting stopped in the red zone, then it really is not that much of a concern. And they were able to hold this team who's been scoring points in bunches to 14 points. This isn't a team that's a low-scoring offense. They've been putting up a lot of points. They've been using their playmakers in a great way. And Drake London and Kyle Pitts.

And they were able to hold both of them guys under 70 yards receiving. Sometimes you've got to celebrate the. victories. Don't just look for things to criticize and look for things to be frustrated about. Like, this is a hard game and it's a hard season, and this team hasn't had a lot of hope. This team is at the top of their division. They're playing good football. They go into a game against the Buffalo Bills that I expect them to come out with a victory. You know, it's a game they can win, going against a really good quarterback, but they have a really good quarterback. But do not be surprised now because I know how happy everybody is with Gino,

as they should be because Gino is a good quarterback. But he deserves more and more. money. So don't be, don't change your mind about him when he asks for more money because he deserves it. He's been playing good football. He's playing at a high level. There are quarterbacks getting 55 million that aren't playing at a highest level as him. And I'm not saying he's going to get 55 million. I'm just letting you know there's quarterback. I mean, right now, Daniel Jones is getting 40-something million. You think he's better than, you know, he's not. I'll answer that for you. Not. There are very few quarterbacks right now that are playing at a better level than Gino.

And even those quarterbacks, you can watch the tape. You can check out the tape and look and see, point out mistakes in their game. So he's one of the most underrated and underpaid quarterbacks in the National Football League. So he deserves the money that he's going to get. I would expect it to be more than $40, $45 plus million soon. You know, if the Seahawks are doing it right, they have no other succession plan. You're not about to be drafting high enough to get one of the top guys. So start to wrap your head around Gino being the quarterback for the foreseeable future.

And that's a good thing. That's a positive thing. Gino's playing good football. This is the best he's ever looked in his career. He looks comfortable. He looks confident. He's a good leader in that locker room. He's respected by his peers, his teammates.

He got all the weapons around him. He's got a great rapport with the coordinator. I think this will be a good thing for everybody. And I'm happy for Gino that he was able to find a home in Seattle. I'm looking forward to seeing him play next week against Bob. Buffalo. And you know what Seattle earned, and I'm so happy they earned it as a defensive guy. It makes my day because this is the segment that is brought to you by Uber Eats. It's the almost, almost perfect defense. We highlight the NFL defense that put on the week's most

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Now, moving on to the New York Jets playing the Pittsburgh Steelers. Two teams that I've been cheering for. You know, I love Mike Tomlin and I loved Rob Rassala and this New York Jets team. But Woody Johnson's decision has just, mm, it's irked me. But I still want to see this team be successful because he built this culture. And I want to see it come to fruition. His vision comes to fruition to show, hey, what he did work. And it seems like they're doing Woody Johnson's doing everything he can to prove that he was right, firing Robert Sala.

Now all of a sudden you want to pay Hassan Redick. You want to bring him in? You couldn't have brought him in five weeks ago. Now you want to trade for Devante. You want to do everything that you can to make sure this team has a job. chance at winning. Now that you got rid of the coach so that you could prove he was the problem, that's not how you prove it. He wasn't the problem. You're the problem. It's unfortunate. But the Jets have not played well defensively since they fired Rob Salah. Oh my God. What a,

what a coincidence. They've given up 60 points. And before that, the previous four games, they had allowed 53 points. That's what happens when you put more on your defensive coordinator, who's doing it, who was doing a great job. Overick was. doing a phenomenal job calling a defense, him and Robert Sala, making sure they game planned it together, coming up with great plans, making sure this team played well. Now you put so much more on his plate, so much more navigating, so much more to juggle. Now it's tough for him to really focus just on the defense because he has to make decisions about the entire team, things he hadn't planned on, things he hadn't envisioned making

decisions on. he has to do in-game. And so his in-game play calling is different because it's, you know, but that's the story for a different day. But we're going to first off talk about the Jets. I thought the Devante Adams trade was a good move. I thought that Aaron would do better with it. I've never seen Aaron Rogers play as bad as he's playing right now.

He's never thrown this many interceptions this early. I don't think he's thrown multiple interceptions and multiple games in his career until this year. I could be wrong. Don't fact check me on that, but it just looks odd. He had eight full seasons where he threw six interceptions or less over the entire season. He's thrown six interceptions over the last three weeks. So I don't know what's going on there. Some of it is errant passes. Some of it is miscommunication. One of the passes was off the hands of Garrett Wilson, and Garrett Wilson took full accountability of that after the game, made sure sure that he didn't throw us, he said that's why we lost the game, which isn't true either,

you know, but you respect him, taking that kind of accountability and that kind of leadership role and making sure that his teammates know that, hey, you know, to those with great power come great responsibility. And that's the shoulders that he has to bear. You know, those are the burdens that he has to bear. But it wasn't catchable ball, a good pass by Aaron, but I don't know, I don't know at this point what they can do to fix things. because Brees Hall had a really good game receiving, you know, didn't have the greatest game running the football. He 12 carries for 38 yards,

but he had six receptions for 103 yards. Devante only had three catches for 30 yards. Again, it's going to take a second to knock the rest off, you know, get there. It doesn't just happen in a day, but they're getting so far behind the eight ball. They're two and five now. And again, as I said, you injected chaos. an uncertainty into a team that didn't need it. And that's what Woody Johnson did.

So you think you're solving one problem, but you're creating several more. And so the defense that was playing really good, second-ranked defense in the league, has started to play worse, gave up 37 points to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's the most points they've scored since 2021.

And you start to wonder, you say, hey, it's not all just because Sala got fired, but it's a domino effect. He got fired. Then Moore's on brick. And now the players don't know what the future holds. And hey, what's next year going to look like? And you're just creating unnecessary discourse in this locker room.

That's what Woody Johnson did. And you think, oh, man, now I'm going to make all these moves to like try to prove solid wrong. No, you were wrong. You're wrong. And at the end of the season, that's what they're going to say. They're going to say Woody Johnson made a rash decision that damn this season for this team. That's what they're going to say. that's the truth. Sure, Aaron Rogers has to play better. Aaron Rogers has been better than this.

This team was four and three with Zach Wilson last season. And so, yes, you expect to be better than two and five. Have they had some bad luck in some of these games? Sure. Greg Zerlind missed some kicks that just were uncharacteristic for him. I think you're going to make those kicks against Buffalo. They win that game, but they didn't. They're two and five. And they got a game against the Patriots who have only won one game this season. They'll probably get a win there. They'll go to three and five. But it's going to be a tough role to make these playoffs, regardless of all these moves. And I think I don't know if his, if Woody Johnson's heart is in the right place and making him. Now you're, now you want to talk to Hassan Reddick. If you had talked to Hassan Reddick in August

and got this situated the same way, then maybe this defense would have been even more imposing, even more devastating. If you had made the, the, the, Devonte Adams trade when he was available, maybe they would have a better rapport by this time, this in the season. But you didn't. And so this is what you get. This team is just unfortunately in turmoil, and that's where they're going to be

until somebody is able to turn this around. I don't know who it's going to be. 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.

Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the I-Hard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care which I'm saying. Yep, that's me, Cliver Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football,

or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment, and the next we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music. The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast.

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Well, you can find out on the Look Back at it podcast. I'm Sam J. And I'm Alex English. Each episode, we pick a here, unpack what went down, and try to make sense of how we survived it. Including a recent episode with Mark Lamont Hill, waxing all about crack in the 80s. To be clear, 84 is big to me, not just because of crack. I'm down to talk about crack on day, but just so you all know. I mean, at this point, Mark, this is the second episode where we've discussed crack.

So I'm starting to see that there's a through line. We also have AIDS on the table right now. Thank you for finishing that sentence. Yes. I don't think there's a more important year for black people. Really? Yeah. For me, it's one of the most important years for black people in American history.

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Without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reid. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us

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Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Available, October 23. now it's time for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Mike Tomlin. And I said, I wasn't sure about this decision, but you got to trust Mike Tomlin.

So I got to trust Mike Tomlin. And that's at the end of the day, he's got 17 years, hasn't had a losing season yet. I'm going to trust him. He knows more than me. I don't coach. And that's why. Because he knew Russell Wilson would give this offense the better chance to win.

And early on, it didn't look that way. And I think a lot of people put some tweets out, in the universe that they probably end up having to either delete or explain because it takes a second. You know, it takes a second. I expected it to take a second for Russ to knock the rust off because it's his first game. And he didn't have very many, you know, reps in the preseason. Even those reps aren't real, real game reps. Like it takes a second to get up to game speed to take some hits to really see the game and see get the speed of the game and let it slow down for you. And by the second quarter, I think he had his feet under him. The game had slowed down

for him, finally put up some deep passes. A contested ball to George Pickens early. George Pickens made a heck of a catch. That got him started. He threw another number of deep passes. He even threw a few short passes that went for long gains. And I think that was back the defense up, back the jets up, took some guys out of the box because they had to play them too high and they were able to open the run game of.

Najee Harris has his best game of the season. 21 carries for 102 yards and a rushing touchdown. George Pickens, five catches for 1-11. just looked ecstatic out there. He was making some really incredible grabs, but he was getting an opportunity from Russell Wilson to make those incredible grabs. He's putting the ball up early, giving them a chance to make these jump ball catches that he wasn't necessarily getting when Justin Fields was at the helm. Sure, they ran into some situations in a red zone that I think had they had Justin Fields, maybe he would have run it in and they were to scored, but it didn't end up

mattering. The offense looked really good. It looked like a final. oil machine, especially in the second half. Last few drives, they were moving a ball down the field, whether they're getting a field goal or a touchdown. Defensively, Beanie Bishop Jr., the rookie, had two interceptions off Aaron Rogers. I'm sure he's keeping both of those footballs. I kept every single one that I had. Really incredible game for him, but that's the kind of guys they needed to step up as they

have injuries. That defense at time early on looked like they were bin, but don't break. they gave up 15 points early. And then they stood strong. And I don't think they gave up any points in the second half. They continued to put pressure on Aaron Rogers. They disrupted these receivers. Joy Porter, Jr. looked incredible, strapping.

You know, all night, all you kept seeing was scrap, seatbelt, seatbelt, because he was playing an incredible game. And that's what they need. That's what you expected from this Pittsburgh. Seeler's defense all season. That's what they've been. they've been the heart of this team and the reason they've won ball games

but this offense really picked up the slack in this game and they found their rhythm they found their guy so it looks like Russell Wilson will be starting for the foreseeable future and deservedly so he's thrown he's thrown some incredible passes through some incredible passes gave his offense a lot of

energy and a lot of juice in this game so you've got to give him credit and then you've got to give Mike Tomlin a lot of credit for for having the wherewithal to make that decision, even though Justin Fields had gone four and two, 10 touchdowns, five rushing, five passing, only one interception. He still thought, hey, I think I can make a decision

to make this team better. And again, he's made decisions throughout his tenure that everybody else doesn't agree with. They end up being a right call. This looks like another one he made that looked like, we don't know early on, and it looked like it was the right call. Russell Wilson played a really good game,

especially come rusty first game of the season. I think he'll only get better as he gets more comfortable. And it's Steelers' offense, if they can get the run game going like Najee Harris did in this game, they're going to be a very formidable opponent going forward. And they have a winnable game on Monday night against the Giants who looked really bad against the Philadelphia Eagles and Saquan Barkley, got his revenge game,

ran up and down the field on them. had his way, and I'm sure he's going to happily get this GM fired for making the decision of Daniel Jones over Saquan Barclay. That's never a decision you should make. He stayed in the division, made sure he got his revenge game and had a heck of a game in doing so. So I think the Steelers are going to end up six and two still in a battle for it first in the AFC North. I don't think anybody, including myself, could have seen him with this record halfway through the season. But Again, Mike Tomlin, Mike Tomlin may be up for a coach of the year right now. Maybe he should be, should be, should be up for coach of the year right now,

not even just based on the decision to play Russell Wilson, but a number of decisions throughout this season that have put his team in position, the position they're in right now tied for top of their division. He's been phenomenal. So I look forward to continuing that discourse about his coach of the year. status, but the game of the week, the actual game in a week, was the Detroit Lions versus the Minnesota Vikings. And I think it lived up to every bit of that billing, came down to the last second, a walk-off

field goal. You can't say enough about both of these teams. Minnesota Vikings are who we thought they, I can't say who we thought they were, but they are who they were coming into this game, which is a really good ball club and a top contender in an NFC. I think Sam Darnold played a really good game. Obviously, he had the interception, but 22 of 27, really efficient game, 259. Aaron Jones, 14 carries for 93 yards in the touchdown.

Justin Jefferson looked like his good old self, seven catches for 81 yards in the touchdown. And Andrew Van Ginkle is having an all-pro year, had two sacks in the game. He's had a number of pick sixes this season and just continues to just thrive in this Ryan Flores defense, but they could not handle the culture of the Detroit lines and Dan Campbell. Jared Golf, 22 of 25, almost broke the record for consecutive games with a pass rating over 150, end up having an incompletion late in the game that took that away. I think it was 140-something, but he's playing incredible football. I mean, we talk about top five quarterbacks. You've got to put Jared golf in it. And I know people who are, system, system,

I don't care about that. It's hard to play good football in National Football League. And he's playing as well as anybody this season consistently. Jemir Gibbs, his best game in the season. 15 carries for 116 yards, two rushing touchdowns, and one of those long rushing touchdowns. He looked really dynamic, gave him the old 1-2R-1 button down the field. Really, really looked explosive throughout this game.

Amman Rahsaim Brown, eight catches for 112. in the tug in the defensive line. You know, everybody wondered how they would look without Aidan Hutchinson, devastating loss. They had four sacks in the game. They gave up some points, but this Minnesota Vikings' offense scored points on everybody.

They were able to get stops when they needed. And again, they got the walk-off field goal. It's the, the lions are the first team ever to have more touchdowns than incompletions over a four-game span. I'm going to say that one more time for you because it sounds ridiculous when I say it. And even though I'm saying it and I know it's a fact, it still sounds ridiculous. They have more touchdowns than incompletions over a four-game span.

It's never happened before. And there's a reason it's never happened before because that's crazy. So again, it's a testament to how well Jared Golf is playing right now. It's incredible. The Detroit Lions, this Honolulu Blue, I'm sorry that Mitch can't be here. But I know he's over there hype because. he's been at these games watching Jared Gough, hard, scissors, surgical, dissect these defenses,

and it's been incredible. It's great for him. Jared Gough playing his best football, 85% over the last three games, 85% completion percentage, 296 yards, seven touchdowns, no interceptions, 153.1 pass rating. You can't say enough about that.

He's in the lead for MVP because of those, numbers because of everything he's done in the success of the team. They're five and one. They can beat anybody. I think they'd compete with anybody. And then you got to give Jake Bates a lot of credit. He was selling bricks last year. And he's kicking game winning field goals this year. What a what a career arc. We're going to talk about that. I'm sure there's going to be a Disney movie written about it because what a dang arc. The Detroit Lions are such a fun team, a such an easy team to cheer for. And so are the Minnesota Vikings. So many underdog stories that you want to cheer for, overcome adversity, developing late, you know, being thrown

away and then fighting your way back to the top for Sam Donald. This NFC North Division race is going to be a fun one, especially with Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers still in it. Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears playing really good football, him finding his footing, that Chicago Bears defense. I can't. wait for it. The Lions play the Titans next week, which I'm not sure will be a good game. Titans have shown some fight, but got blown out late against Buffalo this week. But the game of the week that I'm excited about because I'll be there is the Rams playing the Minnesota Vikings in LA. That's our Thursday night football game. Be there or B Square. It'll be on Amazon Prime,

prime video, download the app, get a membership. 30-day free trial. You can cancel it if you want to. You don't have to, but you can so you can at least watch a couple games of us for free. Check us out. I'll be there. And of course, our Breitling player in prime time this week,

who else could it be other than Jared Gough, the surgeon, didn't go to medical school, but it's still out there slicing and dicing people open. I just, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, would I trust him to do surgery on me? Probably not. And I will on these defenses because he's just been carving. It's never been done the things that he's doing. It started a couple weeks ago when he went 18 for 18 in Seattle, I mean, against Seattle. And he's just continued on that streak. I expected to continue versus the Titans. I can't see, I can't wait

to see how far this record goes. I love to see records get broken. But let's continue on our path in the NFC North. Houston Texans go to the Green Bay Packers, and they lose the game 24 to 22. The Green Bay Packers, again, a walk-off field goal. As time expired, Brandon McManus, who just got there, a 44-yard field goal, was signed last week.

Jordan Love is tied with Patrick Mahones for eight interceptions leading the league, but continues to have really, really great passing games outside of that. He threw the two interceptions, but he threw for three touchdowns. His eighth game with three touchdowns plus since last season, the most in NFL. He threw for 220 yards. Josh Jacobs, 12 carries for 76 yards. Also had a receiving touchdown.

Romeo Dobbs was the flavor of the week this week, because it's always somebody new with Green Bay Packers. It's going to be Reed. It's going to be Dobbs. It's going to be Watson. You never know. But you just know somebody's going to be going off. And this week it was Romeo Dobbs, had 94 yards.

Eric Wilson had two sacks. Xavier McKinney had a sack. Didn't get a turnover this week. But you know, our boy, Xavier McKinney is going to make an impact, continuing his all-pro season. Stefan Diggs and Jaira Alexander, get into it early in the game, before the game even starts. And it was fire eight.

You just love to see that. You love to see random chaos in the NFL. That's why it's the ultimate reality TV show. You really never know what's going to happen. You never know when a rivalry is just going to develop before your eyes. And one between Jaira Alexander, Kishon Nixon, and Stefan Diggs just manifested itself. Regame. And so you're just like, yes, give me more.

And of course, they gave us more. C.J. Strout might have had one of his worst games. He was 10 per 21 for 86 yards. Again, this Jeff Hathley coach defense is doing a really great job. They're getting a lot of turnovers, which is great. But this game, they didn't cause the turnovers, but they put a lot of pressure on C.J. Stroud, which didn't allow him to be as effective.

But somebody that was effective was Joe Mixing, 25 carries for 115 yards and two touchdowns. He looks phenomenal. Their defense looked really good. Again, they caused the two turnovers from Jordan, Love, but you've got to give this team a lot of credit. When they have to have it, Jordan Love has given it and delivered, pushed the ball down the field, a little reckless at times,

but they're winning ball games. They're five and two. They look as good as they've ever looked defensively. They're opportunistic. They're putting pressure on guys. They look like a team that's going to cause a lot of pressure. I mean, I just can't wait to see what this division. I think they're putting three teams, at least in the playoffs.

They might put four. they put four teams in the playoffs. That'll be incredible. But that's the way it's looking. They got a bunch of talented teams in this division, a lot of talented defenses, and I can't wait to see it. The Packers go to Jacksonville to play the Jags next week,

a team that's won two games and just has struggled through this season. I think they'll be able to get that win. The Texans have a divisional game against the Indianapolis Colts, who beat the Miami Dolphins this week. But Anthony Richardson did not look good in that game. and I think, you know, some teams would probably be more fearful if they were playing against Flacco than they are Anthony Richardson,

but he's a young quarterback who they believe in, who has an immense amount of talent that I think they understand there are going to be some growing pains. It's going to be some things he needs to learn, and he just needs to fight through, and they're going to have to be on for the ride. But I'd play Flacko, but that's just me. That's just me.

Whatever. Some other topics that happened this week again, Seekwon got his revenge, 176 yards, and a touchdown. The Eagles are 3 and O when Sequan rushes for 100 plus. Of course, what's new? Sequan's bawling behind a more talented offensive line, better offensive weapons. They benched Daniel Jones in the fourth quarter for Drew Locke.

Should that be a permanent move? Probably, should you have never paid him? No question. The fans booing Deshaun Watson at home. when he's down with an injury. Understand this. I don't care of your personal beliefs or where you stand on a lot of things.

But if you cheer for somebody being hurt regardless of the circumstances, you're wrong, regardless of what you believe or what you think is right and wrong. Like, I don't know how you can feel good about that. And I never feel good, whether they're on your team or your opponent. Like, somebody's down injured.

Like, nobody wants that. It's still a game. This is a game, ladies and, gentlemen, it's just a game. So for you to be cheering and not only cheering, but cheering your starting quarterback for the home team down with an injury and clearly a serious injury because this isn't, this isn't soccer, this is one in other sports. But guys goes down, stays down and gets a cart. It's a serious injury. These are tough guys. They're going to get up. They'll get up with a knee spraying. They'll get up with a dislocated shoulder. They'll get up with dislocated fingers and

all that. They'll walk away. They'll walk off. But I was just one of the more disappointing things. that I've seen this week or even this year. You know, I understand there's a weird political climate. You see all these ads and just a lot of negativity in the world today. I try to ignore it and try to look past it because it has nothing to do with me. It is what it is. People have their opinions. Live and let live.

It's the way I think and the way I was raised, everybody else is raised how they're raised. That's fine. But that's disgusting. That's disgusting. You're booing throughout the game. Cool. You don't think your team's performing the way you want them to perform. understandable, frustrated.

But quieted when the guy's down with an injury. Quiet, just quiet. You don't got to cheer. You don't got to be somber. Just quiet. Like, let the guy have some decency as he gets up and has to deal with

a devastating season-ending injury and potentially career-altering injury. That's the least you can do. You can be frustrated at your team's not playing as well as you want it. You can be frustrated that he's not playing the way you want to. him. And he's getting paid a lot of money. Understood. But it's not acceptable to boo people

while they're down. I mean, literally booing him why he's down. Everybody's had bad days. Everybody's made bad decisions. Everybody's like had moments where they're down or you're, you're, dealing with something that you didn't expect and it's bad. Could you imagine being in that moment and thousands of people booing you? Thousands of people that you thought cheered for you, thousands of people that you're sacrificing your mind and body for every week trying to give them what they want and you're obviously devastated that you're not able to and you can understand their frustration but who wouldn't come on now you can be better than that and i hate to end on such a somber note but that's sometimes how it goes and go out there and vote be with your families

love on each other try to be more positive the world at least america right now is just Such a divisive place. Don't be divided. Come together. Love each other. Love our brothers and stuff like that. Like, do you say something nice to somebody today. Please.

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Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob O'Don to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer, Streeter Seidel, help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter.

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Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On the Look Back at it podcast. From 1979, that was a big moment for me. 84's big to me. I'm Sam J.

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