Jason McCourty reacts to Ja'Marr Chase limited in return to practice: Bengals have him at Week 1?

nyak New York yes sir nyak oh boy tough tough place to play tough place to play there's a Jersey right there behind us that is my high school football jersey not at nyak that is a Scarsdale High School football jersey you know tough streets over there um I threw eight interceptions in one game eight Jason was that your last game no they put you back in eight at nyak that's a tough place to play though oh my I know you didn't go to high school there but that's a tough place I I had l family members that went to high school there do you know who was intercepting you did you keep did you keep throwing him to the same like don't throw his way anymore in some ways do you put that on the coach like why was I throwing the ball not not in some ways in every single way like yes after the first four or five you had no choice but to throw the they had no chance to win that game if you didn't throw the ball so yeah uh he's from nyac and the other thing is we learned today that our producer Pat Costello actually texted you a few weeks ago before you came to ESP to have you on to try to get you on our show M while you were at your brother's wedding yeah yeah my older brother got married yeah yeah I was like I'm I'm a little busy like try to squeeze it in beforehand but and then I was doing the wedding too the first time I've ever done a wedding I'm the fishan so I'm I'm sweating the bullets are running down my back and Pat's texting you and he's texting me about I love you guys but I just I couldn't make it that time how did how did it go as the efficient I got good reviews uh so I would say it went well they got mad married so at the end of the day as long as they walked out as newly was then my job was done no we're judging we're judging you on them staying together though see now that you're hit rate for the officiate this the guy that Mar is we stayed together because he was the one that officiated ready I'm as long as they stay together I'm one and done okay we go all right let's bring you in on a conversation we're having you played a year in Miami with the dolphins you played for the Titans you went from worst to First with the Browns to the Patriots during the course of your career um we were talking about Tua so Mike McDaniel said that tua's got the Factor TOA backed it up yesterday by saying yeah I've had the it Factor since high school CC as a former player he like I don't want to hear a player saying it about himself that he is the it Factor Jason mccordi does Tua have the it factor to you I believe Tua does he hasn't shown that yet in when in the moments where it matters most I think in the regular season we saw when Mike McDaniel got there we saw a different side of Tua so I was there in 2021 with tu when B Flo was the head coach of that team and I think to your Point CC of Tua saying that because Tua had to find that belief in himself self cuz those first few years in Miami he probably didn't know if he still had that it factor that he believed since probably Pop Warner days that he had so I look at it for him it was kind of been a slow Bild since McDaniel got there of like no you know what I do have that if factor I can be that guy to lead this team and go further in the playoffs and actually make a run at the Super Bowl so I do believe Tua has that it Factor uh it's just a matter of now we saw that game in Kansas City where was freezing cold they got to be able to battle the elements and still be able to come through through Jason one of the more under the radar contract disputes in the NFL has been Jamar Chase with the Cincinnati Bengals he executed a hold in yesterday we had a development he was a limited participant in practice what does this mean for the Cincinnati Bengals how important is it to have Jamar Chase on the field for them in week one it it's a huge deal for them they're going against the New England Patriots and Demarcus Covington is the Patriots defensive coordinator he was there in 20122 when they played against Joe burrow Jamar Chase and these Cincinnati Bengals and they double team Jamar chase a ton in that game I think T Higgins had like eight catches for over 120 yards you look at that that offense if Jamar Chase is out there the defense has to pay attention to him that opens up stuff for T Higgins if he's not there I would expect the Patriots to go there and say you know what we're taking T Higgins away and Yosi Vos is gonna have to step up and Jermaine Burton's gonna now you're asking guys to do more than what they've shown in the past if you have Jamar Chase there now this offense is hitting on all cylinders Jason it's Football Christmas we're opening up the regular season tonight we have a huge matchup AFC championship game rematch between the Chiefs and the Ravens yes it's week one but how important is this game for Lamar Jackson and the Ravens tonight versus the Chiefs it's important to your point is week one you want to start the season off on a good note I don't I don't want to make the game bigger than what it really is if the Ravens go out there and they lose this game to Patrick Mahomes I don't want to start writing orbituary and saying well you know what the Ravens can't get to the Super Bowl they still can't beat Patrick Mahomes it's week one we watched the Chiefs last year go out they lost week one to the Detroit Lions and then they still ended up going to PE and winning the Super Bowl so I do think it's a big game we're all going to talk about the conference Championship where they fell short but it is just one game and you can always say week one can be a liar a team that comes out on fire next thing you know they lose the next however many games and a team that loses goes on a good run after that we're talking with the ESPN NFL analyst Jason mccordi here in on Sportsman like Michelle smallman Chris KY Evan Cohen with you bigger hurdle to getting to the Super Bowl for the Dallas Cowboys Jerry Jones or Dak Prescott oh man I gotta say Jerry Jones Dak Prescott players are going to have struggles you're going to go through ups and downs Dak we need to see it in the playoffs we've seen it in the regular season it was an MVP candidate last year with Jerry you feel like do you have to always say something in the media couldn't you just decide you know what my availability today I'm just going to scale it down I'm gon keep it to two Word answers you know some of the topics I'm not going to hit on Dax Prescott's contract anymore I'm GNA keep it to you know what we're moving on and we're getting ready for the SE it just seems like every time it's something that you guys know in the media was like Jerry he's speaking today we know tomorrow we're going to have he did an hour with Stephen A yesterday what do you think we've been doing all morning just clip after clip reac what do you think you're going to do for the next four hours it right the show for you we're just going to react to Clips the whole time you know so that's the part where it's just like that hurdle is easily you just remove that off the track and just skip over that one but it's not going anywhere so one of the big things that we got this year in the off season was these rookie quarterbacks everybody's excited about Caleb Williams Jaden Daniels and Bo Nicks who's the start out there with the Denver Broncos now over the last three years there've been 13 first round pick quarterbacks that have Lo and and of the 13 12 of them has lost their first start so looking at the rookie quarterbacks on the Slate for this week one who has the best chance at being able to get a win I like Caleb uh going against the Tennessee Titans I I think we've said it all off season what Caleb Williams is walking into as a number one pick you don't typically see where you have Aroma dunza you have the guys that they have Keenan Allen you have DJ Moore that they just gave more money to so you look at what he's walking into the running backs they have and getting Swift there I feel like he has an opportunity to start week one off fast uh he was thrusted into that position early on so he's been getting all of those reps seeing those looks the Titans have a new defensive coordinator a new head coach they have a lot of new on their team as well as they're figuring out so I would say I like Caleb Williams to be able to do it in week one fairly or unfairly the measuring stick for a lot of these rookie quarterbacks is going to be CJ Stout who had an excellent rookie season last year but now that the NFL has an entire season of film on him a body of work of CJ stra they know how to scout him differently what challenges will that present to him as he enters your two and to your point now every defensive coordinator as you get ready for him you're going back and you're looking at the entire season to see what were the things that teams did that got to him and that's different because year one they don't have that so I look at it for CJ Stout you're GNA have defensive coordinators gon have probably a better game plan and then within his own locker room I look at it as now you've added Stefan Diggs and Diggs just came came out and said he was in the worst mental space of his NFL career last year in Buffalo and I got to imagine a lot of it had to do with when Joe Brady took over as a coordinator his targets begin to diminish y now you go to Houston where you have a niik Collins you have a tank Dell you added Stefon digs but then you also have Joe Mixon in the backfield and dton Schultz on the outside how does CJ stra find a way to get the ball to all of these different guys and get them in positions to succeed and keep them all happy see that's why I think Buffalo has a better season than Houston for that exact reason because I go back to the team that I root for that you obviously played for in New England I think Brady was at his best when he didn't have to just look for one guy like in my head and maybe I'm wrong you play defensive back obviously you know better than I do Josh Allen looked for 14 and then looked for who was open versus just looking for who was open is that fair for sure because you have that Bonafide guy and a lot of coordinates I remember talking to Josh McDaniel and he was McDaniels he said early on I found a way to get the guys the ball so in my first 15 plays I'm going to have a pass to Julian Edelman maybe a screen to somebody else I'm doing something to get everybody touches early on just to get him into the flow of the game so I will say though as a DB you have a guy out there like a guy when Tom Brady had Randy Moss out there I got Randy in Tennessee at the end of his career and he can still run it just changes your mindset when that guys out there you know you're getting 15 targets and if I'm covering the number one guy all game I have to be perfect 15 times Jason I got to ask you this question we've got an interesting matchup down in Brazil on Friday uh the Green Bay pack are taking on the Philadelphia Eagles now these are two teams that that were interesting I guess they were heading in opposite directions when we got to the playoffs last year of course the the Eagles ended last year losing six to their final seven whereas the Green Bay Packers became the youngest playoff roster to win a playoff game in 50 years what do you look at in this matchup and is this are these two teams that you could see potentially getting to the Super Bowl out of the NFC I really like Green Bay to your point the way they finished the season the way Jordan love was playing and a lot of young guys especially at the receiver group kind of coming together I look at Philly and there's so many question marks going into this game of just who who are the Philadelphia Eagles we saw them at 10 and one and then they got to a sunken place that they never were able to get out of to end the season so my biggest thing going into this game is for one with Jaylen Herz Kell Mo now as the offensive coordinator they couldn't handle the blitz last year when they played the Tampa Bay Buccaneers I would imagine the Green Bay Packers they do the same thing as Jeff Halley's coming over as their coordinator send pressure see if they can pick those things up and if they can't then you're going to see a lot of what you saw the end the season last year with the Philadelphia Eagles I Sayan Barkley now too like let's find a way to get him the ball and take a lot of pressure off Jaylen Herz go ahead sir oh Jason another big match up we have 49ers and the New York Jets on Monday Night Football last year obviously electric as Aaron Rogers ran out of the tunnel but it ended in disaster four plays into the game so much talent on the Jets a lot of expectations surrounding them but you have a quarterback in his 40s coming off a really severe kill's injury what are your expectations for the New York Jets this season it's funny uh going to go on with greeny later on on get up and he keeps saying leave Aaron Rogers home for this Monday night game and just keep him safe and start the season next week I look at this Jets team and over the last two three years they've had probably the worst quarterback play in the NFL and still throughout the season we've talked about them as up until getting into the teenss of the Season where they were still vying for a playoff spot this is a team where Aaron roders to 0 point 40 coming off in Achilles but they don't need Aaron Rogers to definitely be the MVP version of him if they have an Aaron Rogers who just makes good decision that doesn't turn the ball over which he's done his entire career it gives him a fighting chance to be a playoff team if they get a version of Aaron Rogers that is anywhere near an MVP type of caliber of what we've seen in his career I mean now you're talking about a team that has inserted themselves in a Super Bowl conversation so yeah I do think there are question marks of with Rogers we're all expecting it to be at this extremely high level let's see when he goes out there what it looks like and how long it takes him to get back in the Rhythm all right Jason let's finish with this and you'll see Jason McCord and get up at 8 a.m. eastern on ESPN as a Pat's lover and bich lover I'm very uncomfortable with this because I don't know how to think how do you think how do you think he's going to do an Instagram now this is very weird I'm like very confused by all of this I'm I'm I'm upset by it the way he would describe the social media platforms and team meetings he'd come in I mean can we get you guys off the insta face and the snap gram and he will pretend as if he didn't know what they were and now all of a sudden like he's going to be his Instagram gr and I'm pissed he's not following me so GNA go on there like Bill can I get a follow I'm not going to follow him if he doesn't follow me W hard to get with bich may not work out for you see if he cares hello video you went [Music] [Music] good [Music] 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