49ers DOMINATE Jets + Dak Prescott & Cowboys Agree to MASSIVE Contract Extension | 3 & Out

what's up everybody Welcome to three and- Out YouTube page I'm John middleof and we are talking football all day every day make sure you subscribe like the video share with your friends let's roll baby well well well Monday Night Football is back and the Jets fly five hours across the country to get curb stomped by the 49ers mcaffrey on the sideline Ricky Pearce saw recovering from a gunshot wound Trent Williams looks about 400 lb none of it matters Niners work the Jets we will dive in to the game obviously the ners showed up showed out move on uh and get Sam darnold AKA Joe Montana next week the Jets who are the all hype team the Notre Dame of the NFL get a healthy Rogers who we got to dive into because social media was anointing him like fully back I don't know like yeah his arm we'll dive into Rogers because I saw a couple things and just the overall hype on the Jets I I think there are serious question marks to one I mean a lot of people have just if they're fully healthy they can win a Super Bowl let's pump the breaks let's just go are they fully healthy can they compete to make the playoffs and I wanted to do a little thing I got to give credit to a listener uh we're going to do coughs Penthouse and ous that is instead of doing a top five or a top 10 or a bottom five my team's in the penthouse and there are a couple teams in the out housee let me tell you I I actually think I look more forward to the ouse uh because there are some doozies and one of the teams in the ouse uh their quarterback who they're getting paid who paying him a lot of money who's obviously terrible is getting sued again and I I read Florio wrote a little write up on the lawsuit and listen I I'm comfortable doing he said she saids but man he has a lot of uh similarities in a lot of his allegations over the years that's for damn sure it's got to feel good if you are uh Cleveland Ohio rooting for that guy uh but as PFT cometer said he's a better football player than he is a human so he's got that going for him but and we'll talk a bunch of other stuff football's back how good does this feel we got week one in the books we're off and running and uh I'm excited and if you want to go to one of the these games I knew a lot of people at the game tonight I don't want to say I had fomo because there's it's hard to beat from your own couch but I've been to a lot of games at Levis several Monday night games anyone listening that's been to a Monday night football game especially for your squad they're always a lot of fun there's always a lot of anticipation all day Monday when you know you're rolling to the game especially us on the west coast get you know if you get to leave work a little bit earlier for those of you guys on the East Coast you don't even get there the game doesn't I've lived phly games don't kick off till 8:15 don't know how you do it but College Pro concerts tennis match I saw Taylor Swift and the mahomes's at the US Open any event you want to go to been using these guys for a long time official ticketing partner of this podcast so take the guest work out of buying tickets with Game Time download the game time app create an account and use the code JN for $20 off your first purchase terms apply again create an account redeem the code JN John for $20 off download the game time app today last minute tickets lowest prices [Music] guaranteed it's funny hype and I I buy into it sometimes I'm I'm a fan I I get excited I I love sports so I I never have a problem with people being excited uh but you see it in football all the time in certain brands and a lot of people are tweeting me why do the Jets get so much hype and my first take always is well a large percentage of the media is based in that area and they would love for the Jets to be good yet in this off season and listen I I probably overreacted a little bit because the Niners had multiple holdouts uh the mcaffrey injury is very concerning we'll dive into a second everyone's like the NES they're done and then they play the Jets and they absolutely thoroughly work them they kicked their ass quick game ball it maybe we'll start doing some game balls on Monday night Christian mcaffrey is inactive a couple hours before the game be with a calf SL ailles which is very very scary uh anytime that Achilles pops up on injury reports I always look at those and listen I'm not a doctor just was an act business major and barely listened in school is that it feels like and we I saw it last year with Dre Greenlaw I remember Richard Sherman was Seattle it pops up it pops up and then it goes but I've been singing this guy's Praises because I've watched him in practice for two years and Kyle at the halftime was like we've been using this guy a lot the last couple years no you haven't Kyle this guy's really really good and he destroyed the Jets I mean he looked like and we talked about this last night with the Rams the mark of a really good team and a really good culture like good teams have great players you look at the Chiefs like Travis Kelce Chris Jones Patrick Mahomes Trent McDuffy but what happens when one of those guys gets hurt what happens when one of your consistent stalwart starters is not around what's the backup look like in the good teams usually the backup looks like high level starters why because to compete in the organization to operate in the operation you got to be really good at football you got to take it seriously not just on the practice field in terms of training in terms of your mental work this summer Jordan Mason one reason I think Kyle wouldn't put him on the field because there were a lot of question marks could he catch the ball what did he do he spent like $4,000 on a jugs machine who did he have shoot him balls his mother now tonight they didn't really need him to catch the ball because he ran it right down your throat and one of the best part about Kyle's run scheme and the shanahans including kubak who I include as a Shanahan family member nobody schemes to run better because when they get you off balance in the zone running scheme obviously Trent Williams has the power to shove you around but you don't need powerful offensive lineman it's about position blocking and then the running back chooses where to go it's why when you get a great player like a Christian mcaffrey in that scheme they can dominate I remember when I got to the league and the Houston Texans were leading the league in rushing Aaron Foster was Unreal in that scheme and you saw Jordan Mason you got to do two things to play for Kyle run downhill at a physical pace and know the hole to hit and he was doing that all night long breaking tackles running through guys running hard running with very good instincts when a little Gap hit he hit it and you don't dance around Dancing In The Zone scheme is death and he didn't do it so 28 carries 147 yards a touchdown replacing not just one of the best players on the team but one of the best players on the league and let's face it like one of the question marks is who knows when we're going to see Christian mcaffry again because as Adam shefer said on the pregame he's not going to play but the best part about being a well Runner organization and drafting good players developing good players Jordan Mason is an undrafted free agent is yeah he might have to play for a long time and you know what he'll do if he can stay on the field he'll run for 1,400 yards so congrats to Jordan Mason who I give him the game ball I'm sure Kyle and the team will give him the game ball he embarrassed the Jets who will'll dive into in a second and the pretty conversation is never going to die but how can you watch that guy play beside one bad drive tonight he was excellent do you watch how calm he is in the pocket look how many guys and I'm not even going to count the rookies it's unfair to put them in but look how many starting quarterbacks who have played in the NFL for a long time get so skittish in the pocket who quickly run around when they don't have to and you watch him you just see a calm collected confident player and I don't understand the conversation like can't it just kind of die can't we just acknowledge PR is one of the better quarterbacks in the NFL he's been awesome for the 49ers and I thought for the most part he was awesome tonight if Brandon iuk uh I don't know if he was working on his diving catches during his hold out hold in but doesn't drop the ball in the corner of the end zone pry statti would have looked even better uh I thought perty was fantastic debbo was a man amongst boys Fred Warner is to me the best linebacker in the league I've been talking about their secondary it's awesome they have two legitimate Corners most good teams have one they have two charvarius Ward and now Lenor their safety plays good their defensive Line's good the Jets defense that's all I hear from the media the Jets defense the Jets defense oh [ __ ] you saw one real defense and you saw one overhype defense the Jets have good players but are they a good unit the Niners are both they have good players and they've been a good unit now for like five straight years so they have a really good quarterback they have an elite play calling Coach they have replaceable players like oh who's this guy oh Jawan Jenning seventh round pick one of the better third wide receivers in the league Debo Samuel oh Christian mcaffry is out Jordan Mason needs a blow oh he can just play running back oh they also have George KD Trent Williams who's really big right now needs to get back in shape but the best left tackle in the league that's a loaded team and one question mark honestly they had last year was their third round kicker who was extremely erratic and what was he doing tonight splitting the uprights he actually almost missed the one but it was like a baby cut on the right Fairway they just came right in to the left side of the Fairway it worked hit the upright boom scored I think had a bunch of field goals tonight I don't have the box score in front of me but he was automatic and you saw one of the best teams in the league I'd argue the second best team in the league there are two teams to me clearly on their own tier they they both dominated their conference now for several years and the 49ers like the Chiefs look every bit as good as they've been and it'll all come down to key players staying healthy uh it's football guys are going to get banged up and I think the the only big big picture question mark right now with the 49ers is Christian mcaffry and is that Achilles gonna go is it just the calf and the Achilles are working together and something's just a little weird and off and it's going to be okay I'm pretty concerned but I think the bright side as when you watch tonight and this is what good teams do specifically the Shanahan family is their backup running can running back can immediately be inserted and dominate now are the Jets a top five defense I don't think so but they're definitely pretty solid and the ners shoved them around the night absolutely raged all them up and down the field so a lot of people were down on this team a lot of people want to question the quarterback all they do is keep winning I mean they they just rattle off win after win after win after win I don't know what else to say like sometimes it's not pretty sometimes they do some weird stuff but holy [ __ ] do they win a lot and the other thing they have guys their physicality and this goes to John Lynch and The Scouting staff the type guys they draft who are the guys laying on the ground tonight after big hits it was a lot of Jets and the Jets are quote unquote a physical team and they were getting smashed so and that's what happens when you know your $60 million wide receiver can also be a running back who a lower his shoulder over guys the Jordan Mason the power in which he runs you put the ball in George KD's hands he's lowering his shoulder even if you have a guy wrapped around his legs the next guy hitting him is also going to feel pain they just have a very very physical team and how long is this sustainable like is it five more years probably not but right now with all these guys on the field they are they got a bunch of tough sobs out there who are elite players who have won a ton and if they can just hold a lead in the Super Bowl they're clearly As Good As It Gets right there with Kansas City and very very impressive Night from from Kyle the offense the new defensive coordinator to just kick the Jets ass now one thing I'm I would imagine you're going to hear uh a lot on the television shows and the podcasts and if you listen to local radio which is Holding On by a shoe string Aaron Rodgers looks like Aaron Rodgers I gotta pump the brakes on that one yes his arm is fantastic he's going to be able to throw 95 mph fast balls till he's 75 years old Dan Marino John Elway right now if you put him out on a field could throw a 20 yard out route that looks like an NFL player the arm is not going to go on Aaron Rodgers but did you notice one thing because I did I've watched a lot of Aaron Rogers like a lot of people but living on the west coast I just watch a lot I watch a lot more NFC football than AFC football depending on where you live over the years just those are the big games before these four box situations most of us five years ago previously you're just watching One Main game and you're just obviously Aron Rogers and McCarthy and the Packers were just one of the main go-to National games what made him a great player and I've seen him live probably four or five times in my life was he was the total package he could dominate as a pocket quarterback Brady Manning Brie style and then he could scramble around and make throws as good as any player ever and you watch him tonight in the pocket can still throw darts can still throw bbb's still has a fantastic arm but did you notice him moving around oh wait you didn't because he didn't move he was stationary you know what he looked like tonight a more powerful armed Jared gof and this is what I've been wondering all offseason long is the mobility because when they traded for Aaron roggers and before he tore his Achilles even if he wasn't older 39 40 year old guy he still could move maybe not like when he was 30 but he wasn't some stationary player like Philip Rivers he wasn't moving the night at all beside in the little pocket radius they weren't doing rollouts he wasn't scrambling and making plays and I ask myself are those days gone and based off one week I'm not going to write it in Sharpie but I feel pretty confident that we see a new version of this player moving forward and big picture for the Jets who countless people they were the betting favorite to win the AFC East people pick this team to compete for the Super Bowl they're going to struggle to win 10 games if this is the version of him cuz he's just solid pocket guy but their team as a whole that defense is clearly a little overrated they lost Bryce Huff to the Eagles who gave them 10 sacks and 21 quarterback hits last year so they replaced him with Assan reic who had 11 sacks and 23 quarterback hits the problem is Hassan reck is just giving away and it's fluid because it's not necessarily ending unless he shows up $6 million so that player doesn't exist so you watch their defensive line tonight quinnon Williams is excellent but where's their extra pressure well Huff's nowhere to be found because he's gone and his replacement is at home eating Cheetos like me and you on the couch so their defensive line is just not as good and their secondary like sasot banged up it's it's solid but it's not exactly de and Rivas back there so this team starting with Robert Salah who we have major question marks on goodlooking guy he does a lot for the bald Community by just looking good in shape on national TV I like him High character human being is he any good as a head coach to me this team like I don't think they're bad but tad bit overrated might be an understatement did you notice a couple other things tonight and Troy Amman said he's like Rogers told us we're going to feed Bree Hall and Garrett Wilson which I get but you need more than that against good teams so when you can't feed Garrett Wilson what else can you do now Rogers is great at it but not everyone is going to jump at that Hard count you're going to get free plays to Lazard their passing game is kind of suspect outside of Garrett Wilson it's why I think the elephant in the room is like if they are competitive would they trade a first- round pick for Devonte Adams and I think the answer is yes I also would say I don't know if that'd be a great idea because you're dealing with a quarterback who has aged a lot post Achilles honestly he was aging before he got hurt but now he's a pretty stagnant player still good still a massive upgrade over what they were playing with and Aman said it tonight their quarterback play without Rogers over the last couple years has been some of the worst in the NFL and at times the worst in the NFL so it's better I'm not disputing that but the guy that they thought they were getting that I was like damn they just traded for Aaron roders I guess the trade we knew it was going to happen and then it took forever but you know what I mean the moment we found out the Jets were going to get Aaron Rogers even well well before the trade it's going to make them real well that guy's not the same guy anymore you have a guy that can't really move and then you have a defense that's clearly overrated and a head coach that might not know what he's doing so I'm not acting like the Jets are going to be the Giants here but this notion that they can be a Super Bowl Contender bull [ __ ] let's just work on can they get the seven seed and I have questions I do not do not think that's a lock by any means because one their margin for error with all these older players who get injured a lot is very small and even this version of Aaron when they play better teams he can't put on the Superman cape anymore those days are over and then the team around him as we saw tonight might be a little overrated so they are going to have to play much better football I would say to compete to get to that 910 Mark to put him in the wildcard mix and I think we learned that hype is just that this is what bich was talking about Caleb Williams in preseason and I'm not acting like I'm not guilty of I get excited just like everyone else listening but like Notre Dame the Jets are the classic team where the hype constantly exceeds reality I get the hype on the Dallas Cowboys like they've been winning 12 games games they just get a fumble and a good defensive series or two to go their way like they could win a playoff game that they lost but this team has the longest running playoff drought in American team sports speaks to the organization it's the total package what happened tonight they kind of got into a tough spot the 49ers started beating on them did they match it no they kind of wilted and the Niners knew it and what did Kyle tell Aman yeah we're going to try to run it 35 to 40 times tonight between the Packers what's he basically saying we don't think they're that tough we don't think they can match that he wouldn't say that about the Chiefs or the Ravens or a team that is as equal physically but when he finds a weakness and he sniffs you out he's going to exploit it and they tapped out they tapped out early so pretty concerning that you lose the Ravens lost the Rams lost it's the NFL sometimes you just tip your hat what are you gonna do it's another thing to get your ass kick like that so dominant dominant 49er win um muscle Flex for the NFC Champs and pretty embarrassing performance by the Jets and let's face it going to be some sphincter getting tight in that place if they lose some tight games so the pressure on this team is immense and we'll see 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something because I've been trying to figure out how to call my top 10 my top five my bottom 10 someone hit me up I'm like I kind of like this they're like how about the penthouse and the ouse I'm like yeah I kind of like that so let's do uh middle cough or coughs Penthouse and ouse I think this is a pretty easy one because I only got two teams in my penthouse I'm not opening the doors to the penthouse to everybody and I'm not saying that the teams I'm leaving out aren't good and aren't even Super Bowl contenders but based on week one two teams stand out to me Kansas City and San Francisco and those were the two teams that met in the uh Super Bowl so it's like what about the Eagles like still got some question marks there what about uh the Ravens like can Lamar throw from within the pocket the bills like a little too close for me at home against the Arizona Cardinals Pittsburgh didn't even score a touchdown defense is Elite five field goals the Lions the Lions to me were pretty close I had the Lions actually Dallas pretty close and they could easily get in but right now the penous it's going to be hard to crack this door you win a couple games impressive fashion have no problem opening it up but I also have a hard problem putting teams in there that I don't believe can win the Super Bowl and as I said last week like I don't believe the Ravens can win the Super Bowl I I I I don't see it happening so if I don't see it happening how am I going to put them in the penthouse even if they're going to win 11 12 games which I I still think probably more of a 10- win team than the 12 13 win team I respect them I'm not a Ravens hater but Houston would be another team that that was a really really good win really good win watch that uh they would be knocking on that door big time they only have one playoff Victory but that win on the road Indy was really impressive but got to do a little bit more before I let you in the ouse though is uh is packed and it stinks because let's start with probably the least like negative would just be the Panthers because we already knew they weren't any good so it wasn't shocking I couldn't believe how many different people I heard in the gambling space that like the Panthers one problem for me is I loved the Saints and the Buccaneers this weekend to cover but I I used a bunch of parlays to try to get the odds up and the Titans completely screwed me but I love those two games it's like rookie quarterback against get a playoff team and you know where I stand on the Saints I think they're pretty good against the Panthers they lost by 37 points I kind of stopped paying attention in the fourth quarter I looked at the score today I was like 47 to 10 is this real he threw a pick to start the game a pick to start the second half he went 13 of 30 and two obviously those two picks like it is a disaster and then today Derek Brown who is a big time player who would start for every team in the NFL probably gone for the season he's going to get a second opinion but even Canalis was like yeah this is not ideal this is a problem so the one thing you felt kind of good is like hey the front might be good you lose your best player your quarterback sucks your coach I don't know might be a little over his head a little too good-look for me you know I just he's just too good-look but they got David terer that operation is in shambles right now and it's going to be a long season Cincinnati I don't know if Burrow's injured if they got some weird juju going on with their wide receivers they obviously consistently lose week one but to be at home against a team that universally is agreed upon is not going to be any good and score 10 points and lose the game and the other coach like a lot of coaches get their first win Jim Harbaugh just did you get a game in the locker room everyone celebrates it's fun he got a Gatorade bath you only give a Gatorade bath to a first-time head coach if you're in a situation where no one thought you could win and I mean you talk about Survivor pools I can't even imagine how many people took Cincinnati to win that game because if I was in a Survivor pool they would have been near the top of my list and they didn't just lose I mean they they looked they looked awful and here's the other thing it'd be one thing if jacobe well it's like you know jacobe threw for 260 and three touchdown threw for 121 yards 121 yards you can't be losing to a team when we hold you to the regard of like yeah you can be a Super Bowl Contender if you're healthy lose to jacobe bred throws for 121 yards well let's get to really stinking up the ouse let's start with the Giants the offseason Hard Knocks was not kind to them them and that viral video of John Marl when we were watching it this offseason I remember doing a podcast like the owner said are you guys sure on this one just a are we sure we're handling this correctly and two I won't be able to sleep if he goes to Philadelphia then not only does he go to Philadelphia in his first night in his first game for the Eagles he scores three touchdowns on National Television on a Friday night night in a standalone game and then two days later you're not playing Joe Montana or Tom Brady you're playing Sam darnold and he [ __ ] eviscerates you and Daniel Jones throws another pick six gets booed fans are ripping him as he's leaving the stadium it couldn't have been more embarrassing and those guys feel like nice guys I I don't see how they survive this if they just suck this season and Barkley has 20 touchdowns and the Eagles win 11 games I think that's going to be bad because the owner the guy that signs everyone check literally told them in a room I don't know if this is a good idea and I give him credit I'm paying you guys I'm gonna let you make the decision I'm not going to medal here but holy [ __ ] you better be right because there are repercussions for Miss evaluations and Mis decisions and people are going to be held accountable and this is not the Rooney family John Mara has been firing people left and right and rightfully so Joe judge was awful Pat shermer's worse McAdoo got weird but he's been running coaches and GMS out of the building so if this saquan Barkley they play him twice what if he rushes for 200 yards against and has a game at MetLife and they lose 30 to3 and he kind of Dances all over their grave I I that thing could even get a lot worse and last but not least the Cleveland Browns I can't even imagine being a Browns fan and like even attempting to root for deshun Watson everything you read about every situation that has come out about him with the massage therapists and then today on Monday after an absolute embarrassment of a performance and just I mean such low-level quarterback play like you don't need to be a coach or a GM to just watch that and go this is pitiful like this is this is sad and just as a football fan if DeShaun Watson's on your TV just to watch a football player you will change the channel to go to a different game but like if Kyler Murray's on TV or I mean there are certain players like I'm gonna watch this guy that that's an immediate channel change so he's unwatchable player who his question marks off the field are pretty insane and I like I said earlier I don't like getting into the he said she said only no but those two people and it's happened to a lot of people and it's all been BS but how many people have you ever met that have had that many lawsuits that have all had consistent themes against an individual like eventually like Walks Like A Duck quacks like a duck might be a duck and he just feels like a complete loser I mean on and off the field so you are forced to root for this guy because I can't get rid of him his number is so massive that it makes Russell Wilson's look kind of small you're just stuck with this player and they kind of could see it coming because why wouldn't they have just resigned Joe Flaco well because they didn't want the drama because if this guy struggled what would everyone want Rojo flacko in the game so what do they do they go sign jamus Winston who's funny and has some viral Clips but we all agree is not very good so it's like they're just going to keep rolling them out and to get embarrassed like that the morning daak signs for $230 million and McCarthy and Dak are just stomping all over your field it's hard like the pan are stink we knew it coming in the Bengals that was shocking I think the Giants we all expected it was worse given how good darnold looked in the saquan situation but I think no one has had a worse 24 hours when you factor in the character uneasiness just disgusting of the whole situation as the Cleveland Browns I need to tell you about my friends at Mando this Mando deodorant the Mount Fuji I've been using it every day for the last month I go to the gym in the morning I'm a sweater no one wants to smell the rest of the day bad body odor biggest turnoff in America well here's the key 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I noticed this yesterday on Sunday is there weren't many quarterbacks throwing for 250 300 yards only two guys eclipsed three bills one was Tua who threw for almost 340 yards but 80 of them came on a vintage Tyreek Hill pass over the middle take another 50 60 yards and Matt Stafford who was for the most part brilliant on Sunday night but a lot of guys were 250 and below and I think we've become accustomed to just expecting guys to throw for 275 300 yards with their eyes closed and I remember probably three or three to four weeks at a training camp maybe mid like August 20th range I was uh texting with a friend who's an exec on a team and he's a team with a highly paid Star Quarterback I said ow does he look he said honestly John clearly throws the ball well but you can't tell and this is a guy that had been in the league since the early 90s he's like training camp now in the preseason is a complete joke it's impossible to tell no one gets hit no one tackles and for the most part beside a couple teams no high-end players play in the preseason game I know everyone was like drafting Marvin Harrison Jr High in fantasy it's like guys he didn't do anything all training camp he doesn't play any preseason games so you think he's just going to go on the road against Buffalo one of the best teams in the league and have seven for 110 and two touchdowns it's difficult we saw with a rookie quarterback who we'll get into it here in a little bit but football is not like basketball or baseball in baseball right if I'm a hitter any time of the year 365 I can get a major league pitcher and we can just run a live batting practice he can just pitch me like he would in a game and while there's no we could be in a batting cage or we could be on a field it doesn't matter I can get a look like I normally would in a Major League baseball game in the NBA or in college basketball I can get 10 other guys or nine I guess if I'm one of them and play a simulated game even if it might not be exactly the tempo and the pace of a normal NBA game or a normal college game we can get a legit run in that is actual basketball right play to 21 ones and twos do whatever but like you're guarding people you're running you're moving the ball you're trying football is the one sport that the only way you actually play it are the games practice doesn't even simulate the games because nobody tackles to the ground and I would say half the teams barely even touch each other some teams do a thing called thud where you kind of run into each other hands up no one goes to the ground and the offensive guy gets to keep running obviously you can't hit the quarterback they wear a different color jersey in practice so those guys get used to why I can never get sacked even my joint practices the defender knows can't tou quarterback it's like the number one rule right now in football I don't know how they do it in high school but definitely division one college football in the NFL live practices which aren't actually live because you're not tackling the ground quarterback is off limits if anything is a Defender you run right by him maybe you tap him on the ass so that's not like the game because the game starts like you can get Molly whopped you can get destroyed we saw guys yesterday getting destroyed left and right so you can't simulate that and now the majority of the league doesn't even play any of the preseason snaps so you go into the week one like it's a different speed and the one thing that jumped off the screen yesterday was the speed of defensive players they are so fast and we see it every year at the combine speeds have never been quicker I'm talking defensive lineman linebackers are smaller now than they were 30 years ago but they're all faster every DB worth assault is running a 450 or faster especially Corners in safeties like yeah John Lynch and Steve Atwater might not exist but those guys aren't as fast as most of the guys starting right now in the NFL and their speed also when you mix in the schemes you get and this is where bich was critical of Caleb like preseason is kind of a joke from a schematic standpoint on defense they're just running the same coverage over and over and maybe they run one of their go-to blitzes but you're not getting a lot of looks that are going to make you that uncomfortable and then you get these regular season games it's like shit's flying all over the place so I do think it's tougher like no matter what you do when you're in the mode of doing something it's easier to keep doing that when all of a sudden you go zero to 60 if you take anyone that's taken a vacation for a week two weeks when you come back it's like you could be a little rusty I give the number one sales guy in America six months off that first week back is he gonna be super dialed it's hard so imagine being a quarterback that hasn't played anything like what you're going to play week one for nine months even if the rules are on your side even if the referees are on your side still really hard and this is where I said about the rookie quarterbacks of like guys we need to pump the breakes we haven't seen a guy held to such a high regard of Caleb since luck and there has been a very very short group of guys they were just like this guy's can't miss he's going to be a superstar it's like this [ __ ] is really really hard these defensive coordinators make millions the the other guys the 11 guys lining up on like Jeffrey Simmons drives a rang R and lives in a mansion and goes to the Pro Bowl even though it's not a game and they just do activities now like they got real players like it's it's really hard I remember asking about the wide receivers at um during the combine to a buddy of mine that's a wide receiver coach it's like what do you think of Marvin Harrison like obviously he's really good but he's playing Iowa ruter Wisconsin every week in the NFL every week or every other week he's going to be playing a guy that makes $13 million who's been to a couple Pro bowls who's got two kids and who lives in one of the biggest houses in his neighborhood and likes that lifestyle and ain't trying to give it up and is going to try to take the kids lunch and it's not like he has a group of a bunch of friends in that unit to like take pressure off him so every time he plays a team with a good Corner highly paid corner a highly paid defensive guy they are going to Zone in on him it's hard it's a tough transition it's not easy no different for quarterbacks you don't think all week long the Tennessee Defenders circled Caleb Williams Seattle circled Bo Knicks Tampa think how many guys on Tampa have a Super Bowl ring played for years with Tom br they've been going to the playoffs four straight year they just won a playoff game they embarrass Jaylen Herz who makes 45 million dollar a year on National Television in the Wild Card round it was Monday Night Football you you think they just went oh yeah but uh we'll just we'll let Jaden light us up we're intimidated [ __ ] no so it is hard and the key with these young guys is like sometimes I think the easiest time to kind of assess yourself or look in the mirror is when [ __ ] hits the fan I've been fired a couple times it's probably when I was my most ambitious and I fought the hardest why because I was at my lowest spot when times are good sometimes it's hard to find motivation and have that same fire burning into you it's why we admire like the crazy successful people whether it's Michael Jordan or Tom Brady or Tiger Woods or you know Steve Jobs or Warren Buffett it's like what keeps them going how do they keep and and they tell these stories how they like make things up in their head to keep the desire or a super successful business guy goes I every night I think about being broke you know and you have to do that well when you struggle as a rookie quarterback you don't need to manipulate anything it's like you got embarrassed and when your coaches coach you hard throughout the next week like this is hard guys like you got to listen to what I'm telling you you need to calm down you need to take the check down in college especially for Jaden and Caleb they could be superum it was really easy it was like at any moment I can run around and make something happen and I'm better than 99.9% of people that I'm playing against my physical attributes and my talent we in the NFL even playing bad teams have guys that can eat your lunch and a coordinator who can just throw you off and the other thing with the orator once they find something that's kind of working they will just go to that well over and over and over again so all three of these guys struggled I think it's kind of a good thing especially if you're Shawn pyton Eber Flo in the offensive staff Dan Quinn and Cliff kingsberry you can kind of just like hey guys th this is going to be difficult this is not easy like Caleb and Jaden Daniels we saw on Hard Knocks when he gets up in front of the room and says a signing bonus his signing bonus was 25 M million and I understand Caleb's made good money when he was at USC it wasn't $25 million in your bank account Rich so it's like listen we we all got money and a lot of guys you're going to play have a lot more money than you so we got to figure this out like next week the Bears are playing the Houston Texans they got Derek Stingley who's G to be a $100 million Corner they got multiple defensive linemen who are high Millions level guys like this is they got a head coach Deo who has played and coached in this league for a long period of time who I'd call very good schematically it ain't going to be easy and the next week and the next week and the next week there are not off weeks this is not college football where when you do lose to a inferior opponent it's a complete embarrassment in the NFL like the Bengals can beat the Patriots or screwed that one up Patriots can beat the Bengals massive lines massive lines for week one were like not even a touchdown it was Denver six points on the road in Seattle rookie quarterback Arizona six and a half points on the road in Buffalo Buffalo's a team that's won double digit games four straight years goes to playoffs every year wins playoff games Arizona hasn't sniffed the playoffs in a while they're not even getting a touchdown that's how difficult this is I I remember sitting in people might laugh at this name but David Cully who was an excellent position coach when I was with the Eagles and I used to my first year I had a random task and I don't know if it was the injury report or maybe the weather report or I was taking him something and we were playing the bills at the time were really bad and uh we were playing the bills and I'm like ah kind of an easy week here and he wasn't happy with that comment he's like son they got a lot of guys guys that drive really nice cars on that team they got good players and if you ever have that mindset as a coach or a player in this league you will lose and he was right it's true so as a rookie quarterback th this is not GNA be what CJ stra did last year is an outlier so I'm not jumping off the ship on Caleb but I do expect it to be a lot more difficult than everyone thinks like even Justin field who was all over the map last year for the Bears had played in the NFL for a while understood the speed of guys understood like throws that he could attempt to make had experience on his side none of these guys have any experience think of the first time you ever walk into a job whether it's when you're young in your early 20s or whether you've done it recently at first early on like there's a feeling out process you don't start putting your feet on your desk maybe six months a year in then you get comfortable you know everyone's name hey Bill James how's the weekend it doesn't happen day one and that's what Sunday was for these guys day one in the most competitive physical sport we have in this country I'd include hockey but new found hockey guy uh two other things I watched H Indian Houston Monday afternoon because while I had it on my TV I wasn't super locked in and I was like that's too good of a game not to just watch back back and on NFL plus it's like $99 a year you can watch these condensed games so you can watch the TV copy condensed game in like 30 minutes I just have it on my computer boom I can be shooting a couple emails while plays watch it it's over quick it's been doing that forever and was blown away first and foremost the Texans I feel even better about them uh CJ is really a throwback player last night we were watching the Sunday night game and Maria looked at me after Jared gof had his running first down she's like geez he's really slow I was like yeah he's kind of a throwback player those type guys don't really exist anymore he was much more like the players that I grew up on 6'4 65 couldn't really moves sits in the pocket and throws he's not a runner those guys don't really exist and what makes CJ strad kind of unique is he's a better athlete than goth but he's a pocket passer he wants to sit in the pocket and make throws that is his game which usually can sustain for a long period of time it's why Jared goff's going to have a 18-year career same with CJ strout if if they don't get injured like and they're less likely to get injured because they're not running around getting crushed like Lamar Jackson or Jaden Daniels can't slide it's getting hit constantly it's Anthony Richardson getting popped all the time and Houston's really good Nico Collins and tank Dell has to be one of the better onew wide receiver combos that are young I mean Nico I didn't know much about him till last year when he kind of broke out I was texting with a buddy who uh who's in the loop and he basically said like not only is he an awesome player he's super humble Super High character just the type guy you want on your team and when I watch the Houston Texans they feel like a group that just has a bunch of demo types bunch of physical guys that like football obviously they have a lot of talent they're a smart team like it's a really really highle team and they got a good Young quarterback like that's a team that should win 13 plus games and I actually don't think Indie is that far off I've been watching football for 30 plus years been doing it for a living now for about 15 maybe even a little longer since 2008 so 16 years college and pro and Anthony Richardson's first touchdown pass to uh I forget who it was even two might have been one of the best individual throws I've ever seen in the sport he was he's a right-handed quarterback he's rolling to his left off his back foot like on Twitter and the blogs they keep writing a 60 yard pass it actually was like 68 yards so I'm going to round up and call it a 70 yard pass did he hit the guy in stride there is a short list of human beings that have ever played the sport that could pull that off in my lifetime like lway was a little before my time at least in his prime it would obviously be Favre uh Rogers momes Allen I mean it is a not a long list of guys that could do it like Brady and Manning could not do it because they're not athletic enough and they don't have the I mean Brady has a good arm when his feet is set Manning could not have made that throw it is just such a diff like of the top 10 quarterbacks of like the Steve Youngs and the Joe Montanas they couldn't do it obviously lway and Marina when they were his age could pull that off but it is a small small group of people forever it was like JaMarcus Russell could throw at 700 yards but he couldn't play like Anthony Richardson who is a work in progress like CJ strout's not really a work in progress obviously you can get better when you're young but his style is kind of a style where Anthony Richardson still a little erratic balls fly he went nine of 19 yesterday for like 200 yards and two touchdowns threw a bad pick but his second touchdown over the middle on like a deep in where the defender for most guys probably picks it off because a guy's not throwing 150 miles an hour but he throws just an absolute rope that hits the wide receiver faster than you can even blink like his physical attributes are everything you want in a quote unquote project then you just hope he's willing to work he's because if you work hard at it and you have the football smarts you can naturally improve now is he ever going to be you know Drew Brees accuracy or Steve Young probably not but that is a very talented player Houston won I think Houston's headed toward 13 14 wins I think the Colts are a 10 11 win team like that that's a playoff team and the physicality in that game I mean Joe Mixon running for 160 yards looked fantastic if the Texans are going to get that running back Diggs had a couple touchdowns he's really their third wide receiver as a good squad love Deo love slowick um that was a fun game and last but not least and I mentioned this to Colin props to Jerry who just understands TV understands marketing he put that story out for a reason on Sunday morning like this is our day boys we're gonna own the morning before anyone kicks off with the number one story and then obviously we got the Tom Brady game so they're going to be talking about Dallas not just for the four hours of the game but for like two and a half before it and to think they're like yeah we just we'll just sign them and they start doing it on Friday clearly they had been working on this thing for a while and I would imagine it's basically been done regardless what was said this was this was a marketing Ploy which works and Jerry likes being in the headlines even if he's naturally in the headlines anyway but sometimes you know Colin had an old saying uh don't try to be happier than happy and sometimes we always try to upgrade coaches it's cool part about football like can we do better should we fire this guy in all offseason it was like is McCarthy and serani on theot Hot Seat why get the serani thing because you go what's he really doing where you look at Mike McCarthy who has won a Super Bowl and was you know the head coach SL offensive mind for one of the greatest quarterbacks we've ever seen in Rogers and Green Bay and now he's currently the offensive coordinator as well as the head coach for the Dallas Cowboys and in 2023 Dak had the best year of his career through 36 touchdowns and nine interceptions now until they answer the bell in January that conversation isn't going to go away but he's won 12 games three straight years I think they got a very good chance to win the division again them and the Eagles to me are a coin flip and his quarterback excels under him so like Bill's out there and it's a conversation that's not going to go away but let's say McCarthy wins 12 games again and loses in the second round you're going to fire him for Bill well Bill's not the offensive coordinator Bill's gonna bring in Josh McDaniels you just gave Dak Prescott $230 million which he now by far is your most important asset in your franchise it's not even close so whenever you invest highly into something in any industry you kind of got to put all your focus toward that thing because you need it to succeed it's what the Browns try to do with DeShaun Watson turns out he's unsalvageable well this is working with Dak you know this is 1 million per working why would you mess with it is it inconceivable if the Cowboys just have a solid start doesn't Jerry just go like is it really G to get that much better in this why would I risk this thing going the other way because right now I know for a fact I'm a playoff team every year with Mike and deck why would I just want to keep that rolling and as I've said football's a little weird like the only thing we've really learned the last 25 years is Tom Brady and Bill bich if you're playing them in January or Andy Reed and Patrick Mahomes they're going to beat you but everyone else like Eli got hot a couple times Joe flacko got hot Cam Newton one year got Matt Ryan got hot like Dak is capable of just two good games all of a sudden you're in the NFC championship game it is very plaus it has not happened it doesn't mean it won't happen who would have thought two years ago Brock py would have been a starting quarterback in a Super Bowl this Dallas team is really good they do a great job and Mike deserves credit for drafting offensive lineman high and then immediately inserting them and having them function they started a rookie left tackle who's a late first round pick Who coming out of college was viewed as very raw against the defensive player of the year and it went pretty damn well so like if I was Jerry honestly I would extend Mike McCarthy and maybe if you're Mike like I'm not taking a low ball because if you were to fire me I'm better than 99% of anyone that's going to be out on the open market look at my resume so I I think the situation yesterday Dak getting the extension was really really good for Mike and if I had to make a prediction I bet Mike has a contract extension before Midway of the season if the Cowboys are winning football games which I would expect them to do