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uh ocho the colts beat the chargers hey coach

indiana jones ball you see what happened when you got a quarterback matter of fact it's not only not only having a quarterback you're having a quarterback that's in the right situation that has the right complementary pieces around him.

This is what you get.

It wasn't nothing wrong with Daniel Jones. Maybe the Giants just wasn't a good fit for him.
But you know, who is a good fit for the Giants? Goddamn Jackson Dart.

But Daniel Jones is in a good place where they want him. Now I understand why they gave him that one year, $14 million.
That one year, $14 million, now it's going to turn us

about to turn into 50. Man, who you telling?

It's about to turn into five for quarter for a quarter of a billion. Because he's playing really

38 to 24, Ocho. Indiana Jones,

23 of 34, 288, two touchdowns. Jonathan Taylor, 16 for 94, three touchdowns.
They had 23 rush attempts, 120 yards, three touchdowns.

Indiana Jones tacked on another two touchdowns passing, and they were clean.

No turnovers, no interceptions, no fumbles. Justin Herbert,

37 to 55, 420, three touchdowns,

two picks.

That also was a difference. Turning that ball over was a difference.
Yep.

Buck got him twice.

Hey. Latoux got him once, so they had three sacks.

They were playing

uphill all day.

I didn't know

Gasson had a son. A Ronde Gasson?

Yeah, that's his son, right? It is?

I know. Isn't that a play with the Dolphins? Yeah, the receiver, Aronde Gasson.
I think Gasson.

Keenan Allen had 11 for a Buck 19. A Ronde Gasson

had seven for a Buck

64 and a touchdown. Lab McConkey had nine for 67.

Ocho, Lamb McConkey had 15 targets. Keenan Allen had 14 targets.
Gassin had nine targets. Quentin Johnson had six targets.

Hey,

is that his dad?

It is.

Yeah, now his dad dad wasn't fast, but if you throw it anywhere in the stadium, every time.

Man, that joker had the biggest hand. That joker had the biggest hands.
He had a catcher.

Hey, who played on the side, Ronde? That wasn't McDuffie, was it?

Yep. Yep.
Goddamn McDuffie. I wonder if that was the same time when Yatio Green was there.

You remember Yatio Green?

I do.

I'm trying to think was Tony Martin, the pretty Tony.

You remember back in Miami? Because uh, Tony, I'm trying to think, yeah,

Tony was there in the night, yeah, Tony was there with

Tony Martin, uh, Rondo, oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Uh,

is that what the right they're all around the same time? Uh, Ingram

nah, what was the one that from Penn State? What's the one that uh ended up having the turf, OJ McDuffie,

OJ McDuffie,

yep, yep,

oh Joe,

uh,

the Chargers.

Man, Indiana,

the Colts are for real, Ocho.

The Colts are for real. Yeah.

Listen, I would say if it's maybe

two games or three games, but this is every week with them.

This is every week with them.

Even, I think they, wait, they've lost one game.

Yeah.

And that's because what you call them, you know, they remember they foaming the ball out of the end zone? Yeah. uh, the receiver.

It was down, it was downs, downs from the ball going into the end zone. Yep.

And

I don't know if you noticed this, Ocho. He ain't been back on the field.

They're not using him much.

Nope. Pierce had five catches for 98 yards.
Warren, the tight end, had four for 69 of the touchdown. Pittman Jr., seven for 58 of a touchdown.
Jonathan Taylor had three for 38.

Mitchell, Moallie Cox, no,

but nope,

nope, but they look good, Ocho. They got they had 23, the score was 23-3 at the half, they scored 15 in the third,

and uh

they putting points on the board, man.

Look, and we said this, Ocho, they got pieces.

You got Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor is a top five back.
You know what, honestly, and that's why the offense is also working as well because there's ballot. They're not just

throwing the the ball all willy-nilly but it makes it easy to throw the ball because of what jonathan taylor is also doing out the backfield hey you know what you know i just thought about that was ad mitchell who who messed up that who uh dropped that ball too yeah

yeah

yeah he had one catch for yeah he well last week i don't think he played but he had one catch today for uh

one catch one catch for eight yards but uh

When you have Jonathan Taylor, when you can run the ball like they can,

and you look at the weapons that they have, And we said, I said, Ocho, if they get a, and if they get a decent quarterback, they got enough offensive firepower, they can be good.

And when they brought, I said, he's gonna be, I said, Daniel Jones is gonna be the starter.

The mere fact that you can't bring somebody in, pay him more than the starter, and don't expect him to be the starter.

They didn't put that in incentives, Ocho. That's his base contract is 14 million.
Now, he might have an additional three, four, five million in incentives, but they didn't incentivize this contract.

They said, we're going to give you one year, 14 million. He's about to parlay this into probably a quarter of a billion dollar deal.

It also makes me think, it also makes me think, as talented as Anthony Richardson is, why couldn't he get this done with the same pieces that Daniel Jones?

But hold on. You ain't talking about Anthony Richardson said that the NFL is easier than college, right? Yes, not him.

Yes, sir. That one.
That one. You see, now you know why you see?

Oh, man, it's easy to him. This is why you keep your mouth closed if you're a quarterback.

It's so easy. You started, you kept your job in college even when you was playing, man.

Who said NFL is easier than college? Who thinks that? Yeah, it might, you know what, Ocho? You ain't got study hall. You don't have all this stuff.
You have to be able to manage your time.

in the NFL because you're grown.

Ain't nobody come wake your ass up.

Hey, man, we got to go to study hall. Man, we got to go.
Don't nobody do that.

You got to be an adult to play in the NFL.

So from that aspect of it, but he made it seem like, oh, man, this series.

NFL are people.

What?

It's very difficult. I said, damn, the NFL,

it must be a different NFL than what we played in because it wasn't easy.

Not at all. I know one thing.
I'm not sure when the last time you've been to a game. Hey, Chad, I'm sure y'all been to football games and you sat in the stands, you watched it.
Hey,

when i went to the bingo game thursday the game looked so easy from sitting up there

damn i know you just went to the left wait look it's wide open it's right there just just

it look easy when you up there

so easy and i'm just thinking about i understand how difficult the game is when you actually in the line of fire as opposed to look

stands now i see why fans talk the trash that they do Oh, this is why y'all say all that stuff y'all be.

I said, oh, Joe, I can see stuff in real time. I told Carson Wentz, Carson Wentz, why did you take the flat route? The flat was open right now.
He'd have got a first down.

You grind the ball, you shove the ball in the ground. They throw an intentional grounding.
I'm like, bro, I saw it in real time.

And then I'll see the replay. They replayed it and talked about this where he should have went.
Yeah, I saw it in real time.

Like, damn.

Ocho, what's going on with the Chargers?

You know what? I'm not sure. I'm not sure because some some weeks they look very good.
Is this the first 400-yard game this season, Herbert? Is this the first 400-yard passing game this season?

I don't think there's really nothing wrong with the Chargers.

I don't think there's nothing wrong with them. I don't.
I still think they're going to compete

and be right at the top of that division when it's all said and done. Is this the first 400-yard passing game this season in in the NFL.
Who has to throw for 400?

Uh,

but look, Ocho, we can go back and forth. He should have stayed in college.
Ocho, I'm not staying in college when I can come out and get 35 million. I'm sorry, I'm not.

I'm not, oh Joe. Hold on, hold on.
How about oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Hold on,

I'm not

why leave college early, right? For 35 million when you can stay another year and develop a little bit better so you're that much much better prepared for the nfl

no

guess what i get ocho i get to that three year quicker what okay now you get to that three year quicker now what now look what happened

hey not now what happened ojo

here's ocho it's simple

you go back and look at him in college he was a barely 50 completion guy you go look at him in in in high school he was barely a 50 guy in the nfl he's 50

he is what he is.

He hasn't gotten any better. But you in awe of just the physical,

the talented. You know, the big discussion, Tom Brady wasn't talented.
Peyton Manning wasn't talented because they had things that

you couldn't measure. You couldn't measure their speed.
You couldn't measure their. They ain't got no jumping at.
What did he do? He ran 4-4, 40-inch vertical.

Short.

He had everything. He could throw the ball 75 yards.

damn

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Joe Flacco was 31 to 47, 342, three touchdowns. No sacks.
They ran the ball 23 times for a buck 42. Jamar Chase, 16 catches, a buck 61 in the touchdown.
Higgins, six for 96 and a touchdown.

Noah Famp had four for 44 and a touchdown. There wasn't a whole lot of defense being played, but here we go.
Oh, Joe, the Bengals beat the Steelers and 33-31 in what many call the icy hot bowl.

This was not the Unc Bowl. This was the Uncles.

Uncles. No, no, no, no.

They can't, they ain't no um. They're uncles.

That's what uncle. So, oh, you're watching this game.
I mean, look, Steelers jumped out to a 10-nothing lead. Like, damn, Bengals.
And then all of a sudden, start of the fourth quarter, the Bengals

have a 10-point lead. And then the Bengals have a 10-point lead to start the fourth quarter.
And the next thing you know, the Steelers go down the field. Rogers hit Friar Mooth.

He takes off and they have a one-point lead. But

if you're a Steelers fan, based on what you had seen up until that point, you could not have felt comfortable with the way your defense was playing.

Every defensive break from the Steelers, Chase gave it to everybody. He gave it to Ramsey the first half.
He said, you know what? I think Slay and Porter feeling left out.

I'm going to make sure y'all ass get it the second half. So, so don't nobody feel like, oh, he was

pick on somebody your size. Right.
I picked on everybody and gave it to everybody. And T.
A. said, hold on.
Did they forget about me? Hey, give me that shot down. Give me that real shot.

Let me end this thing. And he did something smart.
He said, nah, I could score. I could split it.
But now let me go on down because I don't want y'all to get a chance to do nothing crazy.

Cause I know Aaron Rodgers is known to throw a hair of merry here or there, but you won't get a chance to. Oh, Joe, watching this game, what did you like about what you saw from your Bingles tonight?

Well, first off,

we know what Flacco did. We know what Chase did.
We know what Tegan did, but I want to give credit to the Officer Lion.

I want to give credit to the Offensive Lion. I want to give credit to Zach Taylor, not worrying about all the noise on the outside.
Oh, he needs to be fired. Oh, it's the play calling.

It wasn't none of that. That was never the problem.

Winning games like this against a division opponent, it starts up front. The offensive line played extremely well tonight.
They kept Flacco clean for most of the game.

Obviously, TJ Watt and Hayward got a sack towards the end. I don't want to call it garbage time because it was very important that we were able to get down the field.

But outside of that, they kept Flacco clean all goddamn day.

That goddamn third down, and they ran a goddamn read option with joe flacco

they never expected it a read option with joe flacco who does that with a quarterback that's not a dual threat

beautiful play call that's why it worked because you're not expecting it at all at all beautiful play goal obviously the steelers they they they didn't really really play good defense they had some some blown assignments on defense allowed chase that chase to get off uh on that shallow cross laying the ball oh yeah that man got 15 catches how the hell you let him get free for 16 on La Shall Lacross?

It ain't nobody guarding it. Listen, there was confusion.
There was a confusion at the second level.

Once the motion went, Patrick Queen, they was confused on who was supposed to pick up who. And obviously, Chase, Chase freed up out.
Well, I'm picking up Chase.

If somebody else gets the ball, I'm good with that. I can live with that, Ocho.
I'm picking up Chase.

Man, that ain't your guy. Don't worry about it.
He got 15 catches. I'm just trying to make sure you don't get 16.
But, but listen, man, it's amazing, right?

It's amazing what happens when you get a quarterback with a veteran presence that's used to wheeling and dealing, and you put him in a situation, you put him in an atmosphere with two elite receivers like that, a good quarterback, a good number three, a nice tight end.

You saw

North Fan got integrated into the offense a little bit more tonight.

It looked great. It looked great.
This is one of the best games, and it got so good to the point,

I didn't even care who won the game. I didn't even care who won the game because it was so exciting

on both sides of the ball.

You know, not really much defense, but aaron rodgers was dealing he was joe flacco was dealing so one bad play he had one bad play the db made an excellent play on on uh a dk medcal pull that ball out yeah yeah the interception that's not on rogers oh yeah it definitely was that that was a good a tj turn a dj turner um yeah he he's he's cornerback number one He's quarterback number one.

I don't know what happened. I don't know why Cam Taylor Britt with a with a with a healthy scratch tonight.
I wasn't sure.

But after watching tonight, how they played, the DBs played, especially DJ Turner, boy, I salute you. Boy, I salute you because you showed Joe, you know what tonight, boy.

But that goddamn officer line, that officer line needs all the credit for tonight, because we already know what Chase could do. We already know what T.
Higdon could do.

We know what Chase Brown could do. We were able to establish the run.

Before tonight's game, Chase Brown was averaging two yards of carry, huh? Two. Two yards a carry.
He finished what, what, 106? I think maybe he had 107. 108 on 11 carries.
Man, that's beautiful.

Anytime you can run the ball like that, it makes everything else you want to do easy. It opens up the playbook.
Man, it was a beautiful thing. And the fact that we, as a team, now we can compete.

Why can we compete? Because we got a quarterback, a quarterback that's only been here for 24 hours.

Hang on. He's been here for 24 hours.
And I heard some...

some of this some of the stuff they gave they gave him he had 30 plays they gave him 30 plays last week that's all he had on his plate plate was 30 plays.

And obviously, playing in the Green Bay game, it's only so much you could do. But he looked good in that second half.

When I saw that, when I saw that drive in the second half, I'm like, wait a minute. I think we're going to be all right.
And tonight, I'm sure they added more to his plate. And this is what you get.

This is what you get. So next week, I'm not sure who we playing.
We're going to look even better offensively. Defense, just meet us halfway.
Meet us halfway. And by the time December gets here,

showing that we can compete regardless of who we playing, because the offense is now back because we have a competent quarterback that can make all the throws, we're going to be all right.

You got the jets. I'm happy.

Ojo,

now you understand why Tomlin made those comments. Oh, oh,

now you understand. He says you have a quarterback that was good enough to be your opening day starter.
Yes. You trade into a team that needs a quarterback.
Yes.

Either Andrew Berry is smarter than either of us. Yeah, most definitely.
Most definitely.

And the funny thing about it is Tomlin understood is you take a quarterback like Joe Flacco that's been in different situations, different offenses, and you put him in an offense with that kind of talent.

Yep. With the kind of talent that can raise your level of play.
Flacco ain't got to do much. He's not on a team where he has to raise his level of play because the lack of talent around him.

It's the opposite way when you come here. They're going to lift him.
Opposite way. Oh, Joe.

The thing is, you say he gave him 30 plays he don't need but two plays if chase is one-on-one throw it to him if

they got chase double throw it to t higgins it's not really that complicated and he dropped he dropped one he had a shallow cross against queen

and you see

oh my god that was the easiest pass you the play that you made tonight and you dropped that one so he probably should have 17 or 18.

yeah i'm gonna start calling chase mr thursday night because we know what he does on thursday night you know last year he had 11 for 264.

11 for 264 three touchdowns three tds a matter of fact in the first half this i know and we talked about it too where i talked about how cars and i had that that uh that sense of if we see a certain play he had he had checking and change it man watch blacko and goddamn chase did that in the first half yeah blacko saw the coverage he tapped it he tapped his helmet checked out of the run and they must have knew what it was he threw right to chase threw it right to him i say you know we're gonna be all right we're gonna be

and i have i have one thing I want to say too, also. What's that? For all the Bengals fans that are probably watching tonight in the chat, this is why.

This is why, despite some of the things you were saying, it's not about Zach Taylor. It's not about the play calling.
It's all about those that are on the field executing the plays that are called.

And when you have a quarterback, this is why they're paid the big bucks.

When you have a quarterback, anything is possible. Anything is possible.
I know one thing, they better not let Flack out that goddamn room. I don't care.

Even when Joe Burrow come back, do not let number 16 get out that goddamn room.

That is our backup from now on. Oh, yeah, for sure.
For sure. That's why they went and got him.
They got a guy to have a big time arm. He can throw.
He can make throws.

He understands. Look, he doesn't have mobility.
So you got to protect him. You got to do a better job of protecting him because he has limited mobility.
Now, especially from the pocket.

Now, you saw him run that

naked on the zone read that naked.

I'm not, hey, ain't nobody. I mean,

hotsmith crashed down because i'm not anticipating him pulling the ball that's joe flacco

absolutely yeah uh uh fields or a lamar jackson or josh allen yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna be justin herbert yeah i'll be a little nervous joe flacco yeah y'all know they ain't gonna never damn they did it

steelers dbs just go ahead and chalk this up don't watch it yeah don't don't watch it don't worry about it don't even worry about it because

he gave it to everybody yeah everybody And it wasn't close. It wasn't like there was some, some, some throws like that.
He threaded the needle and you guys were right there. Y'all wasn't close.
Nah.

Y'all wasn't close. Not at all.
And just go ahead and chalk this one up. Hey, hey, it happens.

But

for him,

for Chase, for them, I've never seen somebody hunt the number one DB like they hunted tonight. Yeah, most definitely.
Most definitely.

I don't get, you're not, even with, even with Satan or the top corners, you're not supposed to hunt like like that yeah well actually i wouldn't even call it hunting i would say most of the time during our time you during our time huh when you had a great db most of the time the quarterback for some reason they would never go his way no hell you ain't taking that chance you don't even challenge them no for some reason and i'm telling you based on experience is when we're playing against top corners you know the offense it goes away from that individual and it it almost it almost make you upset it almost make you upset but tonight boy flacco didn't care he didn't he did not care he did not care i mean he gave it to it look ram had a bad had an off night yeah um slay they put slay on him slay they slay you take him in the second half slay couldn't do anything with him uh uh junior um joy porter junior you have to learn how to play better without his hands yeah he too touchy feeling he get a lot he get a lot of pi's calls yeah he get yeah you're gonna get a lot of pi and you you get you're gonna have to learn to do a better job locate the ball let the guy go uh he got two pis he got one on t higgins he got one on chase yeah and he's looking like man come what bro you can't tug the guy's jersey because the back judge is standing right there he can see it and you doing it in the middle of the field yeah you could you can see all of that

as a defensive back obviously you know playing against a t higgins playing against a jamar chase some of the stuff that you're able to get away with because of your skill set with with lesser caliber receivers, it'll work but when you play against your elite receivers nah your whole game plan have to change your whole game plan in the way you the way you play them it has to change it it just has to

the thing is ocho like when you play a great receiver what you normally would get away with with a lesser receiver like not holding that clutching and grabbing they're gonna call it every time because because normally

Chase is probably already gone to the officials. Now, you know, they can't guard me one-on-one, right?

So they're gonna pay a little extra attention.

He's he's so good in space, you can put him outside the numbers, you can put him in the slot, you can put him in motion. He's tremendous.

Run after the catch, he's not that big, but he's he he he runs behind his pads.

So, when you run behind your pads, you've got to tackle him. He's not going to go down with arm tackles, or he's not afraid of contact, so he'll run through contact.

He reminds you, he runs a lot because his style, his side, he's not as big as my brother, but he runs like my brother. He runs like Anquan Bolden.
He runs like T.O. Now, they were bigger receivers.

T.O. is a much bigger receiver.

But if you see how they run, they run like when they get the ball, it's almost like they're running back. Matter of fact, you know what?

You know who's a great comparison of Jamar Chase when he has the ball in his hands? As far as running behind his pass, that damn Steve Smith, who refused to go down. Yeah.

The exact same way, exact same. They're very strong.
And because he has that running back back pedigree that he played when he was younger, yeah, he's so good with running after catch.

Same with Steve Smith.

They played angry with the ball. They ran angry with the ball.

And

that was a hell of a game.

It was a great game. Really good game.
Both teams have to look. The defenses, neither defense came to play.

Outside of that, outside, oh, Ocho, outside of that one sack, I didn't even know. I thought TJ Watt was hurt.
Yeah. Oh, wait, obviously, he had, listen, Mim did a hell of a job.

Again, he had help. Noah fan with the chips.
Chase Brown with some of the chips. No, before they went out, before they went out

in the past coverage, so they did help him a little bit. But in that fourth quarter where TJ Watt and Hayward were able to get that sack on Flacco, it was one-on-one.
It was one-on-one.

So that's why he did.

He had help, but outside of that, they kept Flacco clean all goddamn game, man.

But you allowed to make other plays other than sacks.

He had a tackle. Yeah.

uh his imprint has got to be on this game you know if you first of all a non-mobile quarterback if you don't disrupt his timing he'll pick you apart and the same thing will happen with cousins if you don't if you don't put pressure on cousins what will happen we've seen him throw for 400 we've seen him throw for 500 yards if you do if you don't disrupt a mobile

a statue a prototypical drop back quarterback and that's what flacco is he's a prototypical 80s 70s old school drop back quarterback, Ocho.

He wants to drop back. He wants his, when his back foot hit, he's going to let it go.
He wants to let it go. He's not a guy that wants to try to buy time and wait for guys to get open.

That's not what he's good at.

He's a guy. One, two, three, ball's gone.
One, two, three, four, five, ball's gone. Now, most guys don't do a seven-step drop because most guys are in the shotgun.

So they'll take a three and a hitch and throw the ball or four, a five and a hitch and throw the ball. But

I was surprised.

I'm not surprised that Cincinnati's defense played like this because I don't think Cincinnati's defense is very good, especially since their best pass rusher Hendrickson was out tonight.

That being said, Steelers, I thought the Steelers were better than this.

I think they have the second most sacks coming into the game. I think they were 10 behind the Broncos.
The Broncos had 30. I think the Steelers had 20.

They got two sacks, and outside of those sacks, Flacco really didn't get pressure. If you don't get pressure on a drop back quarterback with those weapons at his disposable, at his disposal,

what do you think is going to happen?

I just want to know, what do you think is going to happen?

You got the best receiver in the game, and you got a guy that if you don't disrupt him, he can pick you apart.

Well, that's what happened. And then to exacerbate it, Ocho, you couldn't stop the run.
So now you're at their mercy.

You can't stop the run. They run it at will.
I mean, Jalen Warren had what Jalen Warren had, excuse me, Chris Brown, 11 carries for a buck weight. Chase Brown.
P. Ryan had seven for 31.

If you can't stop it, and Flacco had 31 of 47, 342, three tubs, no turnovers.

That was the difference in the ball game. I thought the Steelers looked, I thought the Steelers might be going to give a death blow.
They had it fourth and one, Ocho.

They jumped outside, trying to do the tush-push. They got the...
Hey, it's funny how y'all see the Steelers move, but y'all never see the damn Eagles move.

Settle for a field goal. Next thing you know, they come down the field, they get a touchdown, and now they've gotten life.

Ojo, you look at Ocho, what did you make of Aaron Rodgers going off on Jalen Warren, who ran a flea flicker by accident? Let readers think Aaron Rodgers shouted at him. What are you doing?

It wasn't a flea flicker. Yeah.
Hey,

he has to, he has to do that. He has to hold the players accountable.

What you lost?

Your ear thing?

I say, listen, Aaron has to hold the players accountable.

Aaron Rodgers understands that every play counts.

He has a standard that he has to abide by. He understands everything has to be right because we're in a close game.
We need every play. Every play has to count.
You can't make that mistake. You can't.

You can't. And I'm not saying that mistake cost him the game, but that's a play that they would have needed.
I said Chris Brown. I meant Chase Brown.
Chase Brown. Ocho.
Here's the thing, Ocho.

When you're in a game like this, every play matters because, okay, our defense is not customary tonight, right?

They're not getting off the field, they're not getting three and outs, they're driving the ball, they're getting points on these possessions. So, every play becomes magnified, yeah.

And so, you can't have a mishap like that. I'm trying to figure out what made him think it was a flea flicker.

Now, I don't that's that's seemingly what it that's what you know, lip readers think he was uttering, right? But I'm like, of all the things you could run,

I've heard people okay, I run the wrong route, Ocho. I ran, I went the wrong way, right? But damn, a flea flicker when no flea flicker was called.

Yeah.

And listen, little miscommunication, it happens the same way on defense. Both teams had

busts in the defensive coverages. The Bengals had one.
Hell, the Steelers had one. And just, listen, those plays make a difference.

And it's only one, two, maybe three plays in an entire game that change the trajectory of the play. And

the team that makes the fewest mistakes normally wins. And it just happened to be yesterday.

True.

Who they think they're going to, like I said, offensively, you guys are going to be able to put pressure on people. If you jump out to a lead, now you can play.

Like I said, I don't think your back end is very good, Ocho.

They made some big time plays. They made plays tonight.

The guy made a heck of a play. The one he took out of DK hand? Yeah, his name is DJ Turner.

Say it with me, DJ Turner. DJ Turner, yeah, yeah.

That being said,

if you go look at the first interception, it was like, I don't know if Roger was trying to throw the seven route

and he overshot the seven route or he missed the uh uh uh dk on the go route yeah because it was like in between you know what i'm saying like the seven ran the angle and dk but the ball was inside yeah i don't i don't know maybe the best maybe the ball got away from aaron um

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What's your game tonight?

Oh, oh, we got to get to this game.

Everybody knows what happened. Everybody knows what happened.
What game you talk about?

You're pretty excited. What game you talking about?

Don't worry about it. You're going to find out in just a second.

Oh, Joe, why you tweeting me, man? You ain't never tweeted me before. But all of a sudden today,

all of a sudden today, you want to tweet.

I ain't heard from you.

Well, most of the time, most of the time, you tweeting during the game.

You tweeting during the game, you know, about certain plays that how the team is doing and it just it just dawned on me somebody tweeted me and said boy go check on let's do a wellness check to make sure he's okay because he hadn't tweeted about the broncos all day that's when i tweeted you that's when i tweeted you i just want to make sure you was good

i was okay

you was my

the broncos scored 33 in the fourth quarter how about this for ironic

excuse me how about this before you say that you're not a conspiracy theorist are you

okay

go ahead all right

Demarius Thomas went into the ring of honor today.

Demarius Thomas passed. He was 33 years of age.
How many points did they score in the fourth quarter? 33.

That ain't. Hey, listen, that ain't number God.

For those that are conspiracy theorists,

I buy that one. I buy that one.
I'll buy that one.

The Broncos scored 33 points in the fourth quarter to come back and beat the Giants 33-32, three lead changes in the final two minutes.

Prior to the day, teams had lost 1,600 in two games, consecutive games, when trailing by at least 18 points with six minutes to play.

The Broncos' 33 fourth quarter points were the most points of the fourth quarter by any team that had been shut out the first three quarters in NFL history.

We did that. Y'all did it.
We did that. Y'all did.

Ocho, before we get into discuss this game, cameras caught a very ticked off Brian Burns leaving the field. Let's try to listen to what he had to say.

I guess we're not going to be able to try to hear what he had to say.

I know I'm not deaf, but I sure don't hear nothing.

I can see his mouth moving, though.

Yeah, but

we didn't get the audio. So, Bold Knicks was 27 of 50, 279, two touchdowns.

The Broncos ran the ball 24 times for a buck 42.

Cortland Sutton, big, big game, six catches, 87 yards.

Marvin Mills Jr., six catches, 85 yards. Evan Ingram, everybody was big that final drive.
It was huge.

And the Broncos pull out Jackson Dart. I was like, bro, are you, look,

man, I just knew it was over, Ocho, because when he threw the pass through the middle, the Broncos guys break it up and had come 84 from the Giants.

Get the ball and turn up the sideline and go 41 yards. I say, you know what? It ain't for us today.
It ain't for us. It ain't for us.
But you know what? That's one thing about My High.

They got ghosts in My High.

They got ghosts.

And if you are a Bronco fan, if you've witnessed games, you've seen the Broncos dig themselves out, whether it was John Elway, whether it was Craig Morton, whether it was Peyton Manning.

Hey, Tim Tebow, you've seen some unbelievable comebacks in that stadium. And today was unlike any other that I've ever that I've ever seen from the Broncos.
Ocho,

let's take it from the Giants perspective. Because Jackson Dart was 15 to 33, 283, three touchdowns, one interception.
He was sacked four times.

They ran the ball 32 times for a buck 19. Wandell Robinson was six for 95.

Bellinger was three for 88.

Scatterbolt ended up catching a

13-yard touchdown on

third and 11. From the Giants,

where did the Giants go wrong? What did they do? I think, you know what? Every play counts, huh? We always talk about that and how turnover sometimes is costly and they make you pay double.

You know, for a team to be able to come back 33 in a fourth quarter,

field goals that are missed. Field goal that missed that are missed, obviously, early in the game.

Those PLTs, they cost you, huh?

They cost you on the back end um outside of that jackson thought what you want to do you want to protect the ball you want to protect the ball you can't throw interceptions but what you what you see from him onk and just giving you a chance when giving you a chance offensively having a nice healthy balance of the run and the pass and then him being able to being able to be a dual threat and make plays with his legs, extending plays, looking downfield and doing some of the things he did towards the end of the game.

Outside of that, you know, defensively, no, 33, 33 onk, 33 points, 33 in one quarter. In one quarter, not over a span of an entire game, but that comes down to, listen, defensively,

we got to be a little tight-knit. We got to be a little tight-knit.
And obviously, in those situations as well, offensively, you want to hold the ball. You want to chew some of that clock out.

You want to chew some of that clock out so they're not able to come back, you know, from a deficit like that in just one goddamn quarter.

So I think this is a learning experience for jackson dart within with it being hit just his fourth start but i think they're going to be all right man for one thing even though they lost the game you have to feel good as a giants fan you have to

you got something special

scatterboat scatterball gonna have to understand oh joe you can't run over everybody or you or you'll have no you'll have no memory by the time you're 25.

I understand that you look,

everybody, to play in the NFL, everybody have a certain level of toughness. Now,

I ain't telling what somebody told me. I'm telling you what I know.

What'd you say?

You don't have to prove how tough you are. It's okay.

He ain't going to be able to remember his name at 25. He keeps on trying to headhunt people.

But look, they found their quarterback. They've identified their quarterback, and he was phenomenal.
Absolutely.

He was really good today. He made the one mistake.

And the one thing that you can't have happen, even if, Ocho, even if you punt the ball away, you make them drive, you let them get the ball back, and they only have to go 20 yards for a touchdown.

So now you minimize the amount of time that you've used off the clock. If you punt that ball away, Ocho, and they got to drive 80 yards, so be it.

Unless you give up,

you know, you say nothing cheap, nothing deep. As long as you don't give up a bomb, it's going to take them a minute, minute 30, maybe even two minutes.
That's what you need.

Time is your friend, not a scorer. Time.
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.

And so that's the thing. I thought the Broncos, look,

I was like, Sean Payton, what are you doing? Where is this? You're at home.

You're at home. Guys did drop some passes, but I, look,

J.K. Dobbins needs more than 14 carries.
He had 14 carries for 81 yards. But when you're behind by the margin that they're behind, Ocho, it kind of takes you out of running the football.

So now I've got to throw. It's hard to run yourself back into a game.
You have to throw yourself back into a game.

But I thought Sean Payton did a well enough job of still incorporating a few runs here or there. The Broncos almost knew this.
Bro, why are y'all fighting all out?

Let them score.

They missed the PA.

Let them score. Let them score.
Now you get the ball back with a chance that, because I was a foregone conclusion that I thought the guy was going to make the PAT. So now

you get in field goal range. Now you make a field field goal.
Now you go into overtime.

I was so glad that they reviewed it and said it was a touchdown and then gave the Broncos an extra six seconds because originally it was scored. It was 31 seconds.
They put an extra six seconds.

Remember when they killed a clock, it was two seconds.

Every second matters when you're behind.

But I thought they did a great job. Look at, I mean, it looked like he was throwing the ball.
It was like a, I don't know what they did because Marvin Mills Jr. is supposed to run a scene to clear it.

Cortland Sutton is coming in with a dagger. For some reason, they all in the same spot.
Mims pulled them all in the same spot, yeah.

And it looked like Sutton was like, and he pulls his hand back.

Hits Mims. Okay, they get up there, they kill it.
Now, from the inside, they love to run this play. They put a Cortland Sutton in the slot and they run him on a fade up the rail.

He's a great jump ball guy. He's a big.

They switched it. Yeah.
Yes, yes. Because guess what? The guy in the slot, he don't want you to run a shallow cross, so he's going to be slightly inside.
So it's going to be an easy release.

And every time, it's going to be an easy release. So you got the advantage on him.
He ups over the top of him, catches it, gets out of bounds,

come down, spike it, and then will look. You know what? Obviously, Giants fans,

John, the owner, John Maher, right?

Yeah, John Maher, Brian Davo. John Maher's E.
Tish, the Tish and the Marr family.

Brother Tish.

Well, they sold a 10% minority steak. I don't know who they sold it to.

I'm not sure who they sold it to, too. But if you're having trials for kickers tomorrow, if you're having trials for kickers tomorrow, you know who to call.

Because I'm probably the best kicker in NFL history because I've never missed.

And if you want somebody that's consistent, that you can count on, where you can win games on their leg, and they have one job to do. You have one job.
You do one thing for a two-hour practice.

You kick the ball. That's it.
Yep. So I'm not too far away.
I could be in New York tomorrow.

Those two missed PATs definitely helped the Broncos.

And you look,

I don't care what anybody says. It's deflating.

Everybody's high. You high five and on the sideline, Ocho.
You're like, yeah, we just got a touchdown. And then all of a sudden, the field goes, then all the kicker, the kicker shakes.

It is a letdown. I don't care what anybody says.
Like, oh, yeah, we good. We are.
We are. No, bro, no, we worked too hard to get that six points for you to come out there and jack off that one point.

And it's so funny. I was so confident I was so confident.
I'm watching the game. I'm like, well, God damn, the Broncos getting whooped.

And then somebody tweeted me, well, shoot, I ain't heard from Unk. Hey, Oto, you might want to go check on Unk, man.
The Broncos getting there. You know what? Whoop.

I see Jackson Dart go down there like a goddamn magician. And he leap, he scored, you know, great effort.
I'm like, oh, let me tweet i'm gonna make sure i'm good over there

i look back up i go to the bathroom and come back i'm like what the hell happened

i did the same thing i let the dogs out ocho after the broncos scored and then i come back in like a minute later the broncos got the ball i said how the hell we get the ball i don't know how we got it but i was glad we had it And the next thing you know, I mean, think about it.

I think I read a stat that says

Bo Nix is the first player in nfl history to score two throw two passing touchdowns and have two rushing touchdowns in the fourth quarter

and that's that's i mean defensively i mean

this ocho if you're a giants fan or you're a giants player this hurts you got you this hurts oh i'm telling you i've had i don't know if i've ever had a defeat like this

Where we had such a big lead. I mean, T.
Lao team to score 33 points in the fourth quarter. I don't know if I've ever had a loss like this, but this one hurts.

I mean, I've lost the game, you know, walk-off game. We lost a couple of times to walk offs to

lost to Kansas City one year. I think it's 97.
Guy hit a, I think, a 54, 57-yard field goal to walk it off. But man, because you played well enough,

you didn't turn the ball. Think about it.
You had one turnover. You had one pick.
Interception. Interception.

But see,

when did he throw the pick in the fourth quarter? Remember, all turnovers aren't created equal.

You turn this over, you just have this pick in the first quarter.

Now, now the team just scored. Now you give them an opportunity to score again.
They're right back in the ball game. Now that stadium is rocking.
I can just imagine.

Now, I know some people had left because I see, but hey, I saw a lot of, and I saw the cameras moving. I said, yeah, Bronco, Bronco, they

are rocking that stadium right now. And man,

boy,

I can say football.

Hey, you can, you can say it. Hey, listen, you can say it.

Listen, you worthy. You worthy of it.
You can say football. You can say pig skin.
You can say Broncos Country. Let's ride.
I mean, whatever you want to say, you can say it. I'm with you.

I got to put my foot in my mouth. What was in the locker? I got to put my foot in my mouth.

Hey, you can put your robe on, too.

You can put your robe on.

Not the football.

No, we don't want the football. We want to see what's in the locker.
Oh, Joe, just bear away. I beg you.

Take your time.

Listen, I'm with you when you're right.

I spoke too soon. I put my foot in my mouth.
Listen, I'm not too wrong too many times.

I was wrong tonight, though.

You should have worked. But one thing about it, listen, I wasn't on the field.
I wasn't playing defense.

I don't know what you and you were. I wasn't playing defense for the Giants.

So when you become a Giants fan, when you become a Giants fan,

yeah, I mean, stop telling me who be. Yeah, you, I'm talking about the family.

Listen, I'm not a Giants fan. I'm a fan of Jackson Dart and his excitement that he brings to the game.
Oh, he played for the Giants. So that means you root for him.

You root for him, you root for them. No, no, no, no, no, I'm, I like Scatterball.
I like Scatterball and Jackson Dart.

Oh, yeah, okay. You root for him, you root for them.
No, I'm reading for the individual, not the team itself.

And I don't have no ill will towards the Giants, but I like what Jackson Dart and Scatterbore.

I hate eggs, but I love chicken. How you going to love the byproduct or something that how you gonna look? You don't like the animal, but you like the byproduct.
I mean, it happens sometimes.

It happens sometimes.

Listen, I ain't never said nothing bad about the Broncos.

I never did.

That's a different helmet.

Oh, oh, what's that? I don't even know why y'all go at this guy.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, he's nice, too, though. He nice.

He nice.

You got socks, too.

I don't even know why they thought that's what I'm talking about. What you doing with the damn socks?

Hey, I'm like, hey, you lucky I didn't come out here padded up.

Hey, y'all lucky I didn't come out here padded up. Matter of fact, you know what? Matter of fact, I'm trying to think, when my team play again, we play.

Y'all play Sunday. Okay.
Hey, after we beat the Jets, I'm coming in my full uniform.

You should? I'm coming in my full uniform. Really? I don't show the Jets.
What? Whoa, whoa, this is an NFL team.

I can't tell you. I can't tell you.
I'm an NFL team. I have nothing.
I have nothing to do with how they're doing. Did you see them play today? Oh, that was bad, though.

Yes, that was bad, boy. Ocho, we had a conversation, and we're going to get to it in a minute,

about Justin Fields. I said, Ocho, I don't know how much longer they can let me go.
I didn't know it would be this soon, though.

If he gonna keep playing like he played, we saw him last week against the Broncos, Ocho, minus 10. Hold on, that's not fair.
That's against the Broncos defense, one of the best defenses in the league.

Now he played Carolina, and it wasn't much better.

Listen, listen, stay with me real quick. Now, this ain't the same Carolina of old now.

Ain't the same Carolina. They have won no games.

They've won no games.

I'm with you. I'm with you.

There's not much I can say. But the Broncos,

I don't know how,

and I ain't asking no questions why.

But we came back. Scored 33 in the fourth.
Have y'all ever seen anything like that? Yeah, on Madden.

on the video game. I mean, we scored 33 in the fourth.

I see the majors come back. That's the most points they've ever scored in a fourth quarter when you didn't score any points in the first three.
That's crazy, ain't it? That's crazy. I'm not sure.

What did the Giants do defensively different the first three quarters that they didn't do in the fourth?

Because the Broncos hurting themselves. Because they started playing instead of behind the sticks, they started playing in front of the sticks.
It's hard.

It's hard to keep converting third and 10, third and 11.

It's hard to get that. It's hard to, you know, all of a sudden you're second and 15.
You first and 20. Man,

you're not going to make a living making those, getting that down in distance.

But the Broncos kept plugging away.

And the spirits of DT Man would not let them lose today.

So congratulations, Broncos, Bronco country. You know, we proud.

Are you happy?

I'm happy.

We ain't mad, and We ain't cocky, but we ride on your team like a car with socket.

We ain't bad and we ain't cocky, but we ride on your team like a car with socket. I like that.
I like that.

We did it. Yeah.
I know we did. That's a nice little rhyme right there, okay?

Yeah.

I like that. I like that.
Yo, T.

Yeah. Bronco,

stand up. Bronco, please.

That's what I'm saying. Bronco, stand up.
I mean, listen,

I put my foot in my mouth. I apologize to you.
I apologize to all the Bronco fans out there. I still love you.
I never say anything bad about you. No ill will, nothing malicious towards y'all.

It was just a little fun banter between me and Unc. That's all.
That's all.

Yeah, take no offense.

I was,

hey, you know, the Broncos, Jackson Dart got dinged a little bit. I was like, yeah, put Russ in there.
I had that bird man hand rubbed. I was like, yeah.
Hold on, hold on.

Russ is a child of God now. Russ is a child of God.
Now, you asked for one of God's people to come on that field, then the outcome might not have been what you thought.

Yeah. Hey, well, Russ must be a stepson and Jackson Dart is real son because Jackson Dart got the starting job now.
So what is he? I understand what you're saying.

I understand what you're saying. Mac Jones filled in again for Brock Purdy.
Did a great job. He was 17 of 26, 152, won an exception, but it was a combination of C-Mac.

C-Mac led him in rushing, 24 carries, a buck 29, two tubs. He also led him in receiving, seven catches, 72 yards, along with 17 on eight targets.

He was missing everything, and they relied heavily on him. And that's what you're supposed to do.
And the defense got at the Penix.

They didn't really sack him a whole bunch, but they pressured him. They hurried him up.
They made it rush his throws and they went a ball game.

They're now moved to five and two as the Falcons fall to three and three. Ocho, watching this game, what did you like about what you saw from the 49ers, who, you know, they have lost.

The best defensive player, Mbosa, the best defensive player,

and Fred Warner. You know,

they've been banged up. The quarterback, starting quarterback, $50 million quarterback.
He's out. Ayuk, he's out.

Kittle just came back today, but somehow Kyle Shanahan has pieced it together, kept this team together, and they're five and two. Hey, listen, Mac Jones has been doing a hell of a job.

He's done a hell of a job in filling in for Brock Purdy. After Brock Purdy went down, it seems like they haven't missed a beat offensively, despite the injuries obviously on both sides of the ball.

Kittle come back today. I don't really like the way they use Kittle tonight.
They've used him as if he's a blocking tight end.

Didn't really give him anything on the offensive side, offensive side of the ball, you know, through the air. But Christian McCaffrey leading the way, not only on the ground, but also in the air.

They had Jawan Jennings, who I expected to be more of a contributor after just, you know, just paying him, allowing him to get a feel for the offense and get some passes.

Kendrick Bourne, who just went crazy. last week, if I'm not mistaken, just went crazy the previous week.
And he wasn't as effective as he was from an offensive standpoint for them.

But they still won the game on the other side, on the other side of the ball. The Falcons, it was obviously a snooze fest.

If you watch the game, I'm not sure if you watch it, you might have watched it with the sound with the sound off. If you watch it with the sound off, you might have been sleeping.

It wasn't exciting at all. It wasn't exciting at all.
They kept trying to do the same plays over and over, outside zone, outside zone, outside zone, but they couldn't really get Bijan free.

He couldn't bust one, bust one open tonight. Kyle Pitts, they had some plays, but they got on the ball.
Drake London. That's what.
Yeah, I thought he was involved. He had 10 targets tonight, Ocho.
But

it just wasn't enough.

Look, teams, look, they're going to have to beat teams throwing the football. Teams are not going to let B.
John Robinson. We know what Bijan Robinson can do.

We're not going to let him have the type of game that Christian McCaffrey had. You remember the other night, Ocho? Against Buffalo, we saw what he did.
He ran the ball and he received the hit.

We're not letting him do that. If Drake, if Michael Pennington's Jr.
can drop back and throw the ball and beat up, so be it. But

we're not going to let that running back beat us because he's special. We understand just how special he is.
You're going to have to beat up.

Your quarterback's going to have to beat us from the pocket.

And you look, actually, I want to put him on the move because he's not nearly as accurate on the move as he is from the pocket.

And you notice they brought some pressure to get him on the move, and he was inaccurate. 21 of 30s, 8, 241, one touchdown, was sacked twice, hurried a bunch.

But they steinmed him running the football ultra. 20 carries, 62 yards.
That's not good enough.

That is not nearly good enough

for this team in order to win because they have to have some type of sales.

And that's when they're at their best.

When they can get Algeria running the football, when they can get Bijan Robinson running the football, that's when they're absolutely, that's when the Falcons are at their best.

And tonight, they couldn't get the running game. And so they became so reliant on the passing game.
And I don't think Pennix Jr. is there yet.
Drake London had 10 targets on the four catches.

As you mentioned, Kyle Pitts had 10 targets. He did have seven catches for 62 yards, which was probably one of his better games thus far this year.

But in order for the Falcons to be what they think they can be, especially with this offensive firepower, it starts with that running back. It starts with him.

He is the,

look, he might not be,

he's the spoon to stir it. Now, he might not be the sugar.
He might not necessarily be the tea.

But if you just dump sugar and tea in there and puts water in there, hey, all the things is going to go to the bottom. He stirs it.

He makes everything swirl. He makes everything better.
If he makes everything better, he makes everything go offensively.

When you have a night like tonight, when the 49ers say, obviously, the second level did one hell of a job with Fred Warner being gone, Nick Bosie being gone.

The second level did a hell of a job in stopping B. John Robinson.
So what's the next thing you have to go to? You have to go through the arm. You have to go through your passing game.

Drake London, Mooney, Kyle Pitts, all those guys have to be able to contribute to the offensive game plan and allowing Michael Pennington Jr. to flourish through the air.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

What happened?

It hurt.

Why you took your helmet off, Uncle?

Hey, anyway, Chad, I think for Michael Pennington Jr., if the run game is not working with Bijan Robinson, he has to be able to get back there and throw the ball. He has to.
And then, Uncle

Screens, they throwing smoke screens to Kyle Pitts. They throw, you heard me.
Yeah.

They throwing smoke screens to Kyle Pitts.

That does nothing for him.

That does nothing for him. He's not that kind of player with, and he's not that twisted.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, and face somebody up and make moves. That's not what he does.
You put him in positions like you did on the third down

out there, you know, and you put him out at receiver and you have complete mismatches. Use them that way.
But I mean, listen,

I think they misuse him a little bit.

Outside of that,

I don't know. I mean, look, OJo, I would have liked to play in today's game and catch, because I'm going to have a bunch of catches because they throw so many screens and shuffle passes to

the tight ends and all that stuff. But putting me down the field, I'm trying to get down the field.
I ain't got to worry about nobody.

I ain't got to worry about the receiver kicking out somebody or the tackle kicking out somebody or the running back blocking somebody. Send me down the damn field.

I know what coverage it is, and so I know I'm vulnerable. So, but look, this is a big win for the 49ers.
And this is what you like.

When you sign a backup quarterback, you want your backup quarterback to be able to hold a fort down until your starter comes back.

I still believe, I firmly believe they should have stayed exactly where they were, took Mac Jones. You don't have to give up anything.
Now,

those picks, those first round picks and those second round picks that you had to give up, think about what you could have done because they do a good job of drafting.

They do a great job of identifying a player and developing said player. They do a great job of that.

But Brock Purdy saved him, but going to get Mac Jones has really helped him out this year because I'm not so sure Mac Jones has been a starter. He's been a Pro Bowl player.

He understands he's perfect for this system. He doesn't have a big arm.
He has great anticipatory skills. He can throw on time and he understands.
He's a smart guy. He's not mobile.
He's not.

But

he can do what Kyle Shanahan needs him to do in order to win ball games. And that's all I need you to do.
Son, keep us afloat. I just, hey,

you got this light project.

Them lights that they have on that stay for 24 hours.

I need you to keep us afloat for 24 days. It's been longer because this is his fifth game starting, Ojo.
But

I thought he played really well. He got

a couple of drops in there.

Had a deep ball. And number five, I don't know what his name is.
Like, bro. You got to have that.
Drop.

You got to have that, Ojo. That was a nice puck return.

That's that's what you gotta have it, Ocho, because look, we're playing with our backup quarterback. We gotta help him out.
You know, Ocho, now you got to step in and place. We got to have everything.

We got to make those tough catches, excuse me, those tough catches. And

that's what they needed to do.

Dallas Cowboys double up the Washington Commanders. 44-22.
The Cowboys' offense is rolling. Dak, 21 of 30, 264, three touchdowns.
Javante Williams, 19 carries, a buck 16, one touchdown.

CeeDee Lamb, first game back, five catches, a buck 10, touchdown. Long, 74.
George Pickens, 4, 82. Long, 44.

Jake Ferguson, seven catches, 29 yards, two tubs.

The Cowboys' offense looked really good. Their defense looked a lot better because they played from behind and now they get to pin their ears back.
That's the one.

They got after,

they have

four sacks today. Kenneth Murray Jr.
had one. James had one.

Jadavian Clowney had one. I can't even

miss this brother's name.

Oh, Joe, watching the Cowboys. As a matter of fact, guess where they're on the road next weekend? Yeah.
Hey.

I ain't not even going to talk no trash. I'm not even going to talk no trash, but I know one thing.

Pat Sertain the second, he's going to have his hands full, depending on who he follows, whether it be George Pickens or whether it be CD Lamb. But I know

he's going to do a hell of a job. See, I'm not even going to talk no trash.
I ain't going to talk no trash. Hey,

hey, Dak, stay away from two. That's all I'm saying.
Hey,

CD spends a lot of time with the squat. He don't really go.
So he'll probably deal with Pick, probably stay with Pick.

But there's, look, when the Cowboys, when you can run the ball like the Cowboys, it's hard Javante Williams from getting getting four five six seven yards to carry

So you got I mean you got the single up you ain't got no choice Riley Moss you gonna have the button hey, bro

Bro, I mean at some point in time ojo I'm not gonna lie at some point in time You got to say you know what every time somebody need a big throw

I'm talking about at some point in time you say enough. Yeah.

I'm like Reggie and Professor Clump with reggie when they came with a uh uh with a what you call him uh what's his name uh what was what was professor clump uh with clump

uh

yeah professor clump when he uh he was on with reggie at the at the uh at the comedy club and reggie said enough

all them jokes yeah

yes riley at some point in time you've got to say enough

I mean, you gotta make them pay.

You gotta make them pay. They want to come at me.
They got to make them play.

I remember Deron Bland, since we talked about the Cowboys, and they chose not to throw Trayvon Diggs away, and they kept throwing over there the Bland, and he kept picking everything off like a booger.

Got another one. Yeah, you got it.
Got another one today. I mean,

the Cowboys look good. They look good.
They look red. They look so good.

They have looked good offensively. Their problem has been defensively.

When other teams, when they're playing ahead, that's when the defense look good.

Yeah, because you neutralize the threat of the run.

Their problem is, Ocho, is that

when the defense is bad and the offense, Dak, you know, he turns it over, he gets a pick,

or they fumble the ball. If you tell me that they're going to be able to play with a lead, or they're going to be able to be nip and tuck,

you're going to have your hands full because they can run it with Javante and they got two guys that can go get it. And then that tight end, that

nice

Jake Ferguson.

He ain't got no great speed, but he got great hands. Jake Ferguson is night.
And the funny thing about it, too, when you see the Cowboys playing, chat, chat, y'all stay with me.

When you see the Cowboys playing the way they're playing today,

they can compete with anybody. They can compete with anybody.
I'm talking about the Packers. I'm talking about the Chiefs.
I'm talking about the Eagles.

All those teams that are high-scoring that can score 25, 30 points a game. The goddamn Cowboys can do that every single week.
Every week. Hey, one thing.

I want you to tell Cowboys fans something. I tweeted something earlier today.

I was talking about George Pickens, right? Obviously, George Pickens there. He's on a one-year deal.
And obviously, you know, they have to do something with Dak at the end of the season.

Dak, I mean, his

price point is going to be too high. They're going to have to restructure.
Ceely Lamb has already got his money.

And I'm telling people, it would be good for George Piggins to be able to go somewhere and get his money, which is well-deserving based on the seasons seasons he's having, being that all the other receivers have gotten their money.

And everybody's about, oh, Ocho, shut up.

Pickens ain't going nowhere. He's going to stay here.
Well, who's going to take a discount? Because

well, here's the thing, Ocho.

They got, look, they're going to have money under the cap for the simple fact, they're going to redo Dak's deal. Let's just say Dak's cap number is going to be 74 million.

He ain't playing on that number next year.

So they'll probably

do get give Dak another, you know, say he has two years left on that deal.

We'll add four years to it. We'll give him, you know what? We'll give him another 60 million.
We'll give him 150 million, 200 million guarantee, whatever the case may be.

To get that cap number down, we get his cap number 30. Now we can focus our attention on George Pickens.
Hold on. So if you're going to focus your attention on George Pickens, right?

And the cap is round 30,

what you giving Pickens a year?

I'll give him somewhere between between 32 and 35. Okay, okay.
We're talking business.

I like where you're mine at. I like where you're mine.

For me, for me, honestly, based on what he can do, based on what he can do, and what he showed you he can do, he showed it with the quarterback Carousel with the Steelers.

He's showing him what he can do in a consistent, competent offense with a good quarterback and deck. Hey, give me 35.
We can talk.

Because here's the thing.

He knows he has a quarterback that can give him the ball. He knows if if they double CD, he's getting one-on-one coverage.
Dak's going to look for him.

Dak's going to give him every opportunity to look at him. And he's making every last one.

And he's making every last play. Now, the only problem,

and the people sit with Shannon,

the Bengals were able to keep T. The difference between George Pickens and T.
Higgins,

the Bengals drafted T.

T had been there for three, four years. George Pickens is right now as a rental.
Now, you can buy rental cars. You can go to Hurts.

They had the Mustangs that you can buy. You can buy a rental car from Avis.
You can buy it.

Hey, but this is the problem I don't like, huh? You understand Jerry Jones. You understand how Jerry Jones conducts business.

He loves offensive. You understand how he's made all his stars wait and he drug out the process when it comes time to pay players.
That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying.

But look, here's the thing. He has David Mugaletta.

You know, David, David Muguetta.

But hey, he said one negotiation doesn't represent another negotiation. George Pink is going to want somewhere between 32 and 35 million.
He don't give a damn who gives it to him. Say it again.

Cowboy.

He said he don't give a damn what?

Who gives it to him? I told y'all, y'all don't listen to me.

Hey,

it's like anything. Oh, Joe, you might like shopping the whole food, but if they don't got it, I I go to Trader Joe's.
If they don't got it, I go to Smith's. If they don't got it, I go.
Hold on.

Hold on. These are the people.
The people tried to tell me earlier, you know, early on Twitter. Oh, he ain't going nowhere.
He's going to take less money. Huh?

No.

Do y'all understand?

This is his first.

Look, the thing is, is that, like I said, when you look at Dak's number, Dak's number is $74 million. He's not playing on a $74 million cap.

They're going to get that down and probably next year's cap, probably be somewhere around $20 million, $30 million. But

give him a big signing bonus. Probably $100 million to sign.
Yeah, yeah.

But George Pickens is going to want to eat. Got to.

You're going to want to eat. Now, you got money because you didn't sign Micah.
You got money. And you've taken care of, you've taken care of your guards.
You've taken care of Deron Bland.

You've taken care of people that you need to take care of. And Pick is a guy.
Look, Jerry loves offense. He loves the way Dak is playing.

And when you see offense, be like, okay, this is when you had Michael Irving and you had Alvin Harper.

You double Michael, Alvin Harper is going to make you pay on the backside.

You got a Jay Novicek

and Jake Ferguson, short-handed, reliable, not the best blocker, but you know what? We didn't brought you here to block. We brought you here to...
to catch.

Keep us a first down.

Keep the chains moving. And and

touchdowns.

He had a touchdown in his catch in his four straight games. Javante had his second 100-yard rushing game, six rushing touchdowns on the season.

He's healthy.

I loved him coming out of North Carolina. And

he had a good early years with the Broncos, but he hurt his knee. And then he came back and he wasn't the same.

Unless you're Adrian Peterson, you know, it normally takes you a year and a half for that knee to get right. Now they got the guy

that's a year and a half removed from that surgery. And now this is what, when the Broncos selected him in the second round, this is what they thought they were doing.

Now the Cowboys got the Cowboys look good. Now we got to talk about Jane Dangs.
He was 12 of 22, 156, one touchdown. He ended up tweaking his hamstring.

We'll see. He'll get an MRI tomorrow.
We'll see the extent of that. I don't know

how far they can go. Without him?

Without Jane? Listen, Mariota

showed he can play some good ball.

He can string off some wins, but he's too up and down.

You don't know which H get. You don't know which H you're going to get.
But obviously,

coming in and starting in a game where you haven't had many reps with the ones and being thrown in the fire,

you have to catch yourself in the rhythm. You got to get yourself going.
Obviously, you're not acclimated to the speed of the game. You're not acclimated to the tempo in general.

You know the play. You know what you're supposed to do, but your timing is going to be off a little bit.
Your timing is going to be a little rusty. I think, obviously,

if he's not able to go this week, if Jaden Daniels is not able to go this week and he gets another week under his belt with the ones and

getting that rhythm going with the ones and tempo going with the ones, I think he'll be fine and play much, much better next week.

But it's hard. It's hard to come off the bench and make sure the team doesn't miss a beat.

And you come and just do your thing, especially when you're playing from behind.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They just pinning their ears back.

Dak last four games, Ocho, he had 319 pass yards, three touchdowns, 237 yards, four touchdowns, 261 yards, three touchdowns, 264 yards today, three touchdowns, zero interceptions. He's got to be

who is leading the league in touchdown passes, Stafford? Because Stafford had less than 200, had five TUs today.

I think Jacksonville, you know, emptied their tank against Kansas City because they look like some stir-fried the last two games. But we're going to talk about it.

Hey, because Dubai, because y'all talk about Ocho and I, we don't talk about the Jags enough. So we're going to jump on y'all ass today.
We're going to talk about you. We got something for you.

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