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Or Lasky's got one of the games tonight, Rex and D Wood ready to go. Roll the highlight, people, Cowboys, Ravens yesterday had the feel of a playoff game for about 10 minutes. And then the Cowboys defense started Cowboys' defenseing. Lamar and company looking to avoid an 0-1-3 start in Teddy. They start quick first quarter, first in goal. Lamar keeps it. Is this on air or is this against defense? I don't know, there is nothing there. What is going on? Some resistance, please. Seven nothing Baltimore. Now it's a second and nine with a seven-three lead. Where's the tackling red? Uh, not in Dallas. Not in Dallas, and I don't understand it. What the hell were you doing all week? Nelson Aguilar, a 56-yard game, and then D Wood, King Henry. Let's go, baby! 14-3, Ravens. And we're not done yet. Teddy, why is Rashad Bakeman fizz open? I don't know. Ravens up 21-4. I don't have those kind of answers for you. Still 21-6 in the third. It's a third and one. Uh-oh, the stiff arm. The stiff arm. Oh, my goodness. Well, Teddy. I said, Matt, I stepped back. You need a new helmet. Face mask cracked. Oh, my goodness. Uh-oh. Henry had 25 carries, 151 yards, and then hey, diddlediddle there. Henry up the middle for the touchdown. 28-6, Ravens early in the third. Fans can't believe it. Micah can't believe it. Teddy, is the game over? The game's not over. He has to be left. Last football team played here, fellas. Tom Brady was saying it on the TV. Kyle was just need to get something started. And they do. Here comes Cavante Turpin. They're down to the one-yard line. Cowboys on their way. Dak's going to take it in. Teddy, they're still in the game. It's got a lot of football left here, fellas. I mean, I don't know what was going on in Dallas where they think it's over. You just need one bonus play. And here it is. The on-side kick. They made the play that they needed to come back and win this. The CJ Goodwin recovers the on-side kick. Remember those? And now that sets up this. Eight minutes to go on a third and four. It's Dak. It's Jalen Brooks. They're driving. Few plays later. Second and 10 for the 15. Holy smoke. Jalen Tolbert. A lot of time. I find him. We're right back in the ball game, Teddy. That's a ball game. A lot of time. A lot of time. A lot of time. Dak to do a 3.79. It's a 10-point game. They went for the two and don't get it. Ravens three and out. They majored in those in the second half yesterday. Then it's, who is Hunter Lipke? And how's he doing this? That's Bill Bates, I think. [LAUGHTER] 40 right there. Cowboys driving again. Oh my goodness. Cavante Turpin. It's a three-point game. So here's what it comes down to. Cowboys have used their timeouts. Now you need a play. Now you need a play. Need it. Oh. And you keep it in the hands of your best player. Lamar gets it done. They needed one play in the second half. They finally get it there. 28-25. The final. Micah, talk to me. Same thing. I think right now we've got people just trying to be superman. People just got one of the jobs, bro. Um, we don't need everyone to be superman. We don't need no superman at all. We just need a lot of guys playing together. How do you not get people to play superman, like you said? Or trying to make a super heroic place? Girl, I have no idea. Like, I'm going to be real. Like, like I said, like, I really believe we're being tested. Rex, so I'm trying to interpret the words. We have 11 guys, and we need them all to play together as a team. We're trying to be superman. I have no idea. What are you seeing? I'm seeing a team that I wonder what the hell they did all week. Like, were you surprised that Derek Henry ran the ball as much as he did? And Lamar Jackson is a runner. Like, look, I get it. It could happen to anybody one week. But not back-to-back weeks. In your own building, where you just got pounded. Like, this is a joke. I feel terrible for the DBs. Because you've got King Henry sitting back there going, "Oh my God, I don't know." They had to stop. Go ahead and see. Like, you know what I mean? That was no superman. No, you had to stop Superman. And this is just an ass weapon, and this is two weeks in a row. Yep. And I got, how about we do this? How about we take something away from a king? Like, and here's what I'd much rather give up 500 yards passing in a game, then give up 200 yards rushing. Because that's when you know you get your ass kicked. Like, forget it. I'm just telling you. I agree. How about we put the bull's eyes on our opponents instead of putting in on our guys? They're saying, "But they don't do anything." You know, they're not creative enough. And to me, sometimes it's okay to put some run blitzes in. Against a team that's going to run it all damn day long on you. And it just, it just bothers me. Here we go. Yeah, I want to play DB. Boom! Oh, I don't. If my kid's out there, I'm like, "What are you doing?" And look, they're trying to stack things up and all that. Bring up that they hit to the line of scrimmage and things. And to me, this guy in space, you ain't got to do anything with him. I wonder if that's a rhetorical question we have on the screen. Do the Cowboys have a defense problem? There are people who've never seen a football game in their lives. Maybe. Who know they have a defense problem. Cindy, can we put A22 on the screen? I want to show you the Cowboys' last three home games. This includes a playoff game last year. Remember they had won 16 straight at home? Well, now, starting with the playoff game last year in three consecutive home games, they've allowed 40 points per game. They've allowed over 200 yards rushing per game, and they've allowed 7.7 yards per play. Now, let's flip that. D, what, if you're playing offense, if you're on the offensive line, and you're running the ball for 202 yards against your opponent, what does that feel like? Okay. Harry, let me tell you, brother. Tell me something. There is nothing, nothing in the world, when you're taking another man's will like down the football field. So physically assault another man out there like that. The way that other teams are doing, coming in to Jerry's will, and kicking these dudes out the club. Like, there's nothing, nothing that feels better out here in life. I miss it so much. I feel bad. I feel bad as a defender watching that, because to be in their shoes, to be a linebacker, and you feel helpless. You just feel helpless like no one's getting off blocks, because the scheme's not working, and then your techniques are not working. And by the way, they're tougher than you two. Here's the other thing, those things. So, look, we can all see. The Cowboys defense stinks. I mean, I don't know what else to say. They're just terrible. Maybe they can get that right. The figure it out, you saw some of the stuff on the sideline, you heard Micah after the game. But you were pointing out that both you and Tom Brady, and we all heard it, because Brady was talking about it on TV, the mentality in that second half. Yeah, I'm really, I'm really confused, is you, it was a three-point game, all right? Let's bottom line the whole thing. It was a three-point game. It was 28 to 6 with about 10 minutes left in the game. And gosh, I'm hearing my former teammate, Tom Brady, talk about like, I'm thinking it, he's saying it. We were both taught by the same guy in Bill Belichick. Okay, we need one stop. We need one defensive stop. We need one score. We need one score, one play on special team. Just the formula on how to win, and to come back from a deficit like this, because there's so much time, and there still is opportunity. But I look at CD Lam, and I look at Michael Parsons, and I look at them all on the sideline, and it's like it's over. The game was not over. The game was far from being over, and this is why I'm baffled, because I'm hearing Tom talk, but I hear the pictures and CD faces, and it's like, they don't believe, or know what he knows, and know what. All these, that experience players know that, you've got that Prescott. That Prescott is your quarterback. All I need is one stop. Can he score at any time in the game? Absolutely. And so, it's hard to turn it back on, is what I'm trying to say. All of a sudden, we're in the game, now we turn it back on. It's like, whoa, now we got to play, and it's almost too late, but it was so strange to me to see their faces and their mentality. It was all wrong. The term you used to be was next play. They don't seem to understand the meaning of-- They do not understand next play at all. That's it. Next play meaning, gee, just, literally, it's a literal frickin' term of next play. It doesn't matter what happened. It doesn't matter if Derek Henry ran you over, and embarrassed you won play. The next play is all that matters, and that's what isn't in Dallas. They're trying to win every, they're trying to win this Super Bowl on every single play, and that's not our championship. I look at it this way. This is the thing, they need success early. When they have success early, I mean, this is a classic front-runner team. It really is, and you hate to say it, but it's a fact. When you look at all of it statistically and everything else, it's facts. They start a game well, Cleveland. They can dominate you. This team is so talented that they can absolutely dominate you, but they need some, you know, like, hey. Good mojo. Good mojo, good. And momentum, unfortunately for them, they're getting their brains kicked in early, and they can't come back. Here's a crazy stat. Go. All right, good teams can run the football when the other team knows you're going to run it. Right. All right, and you, in good teams, stop the run when they know you can run it. This team has done none of that. Last two games, they've been out rushed by 345 yards. That tells me you don't want the fight. You don't like the fight. And to me, you're going to get punched in the face. You better punch back. Right now, the Cowboys aren't punching anybody back. 295 yards before contact in the last two weeks. Are you kidding me? 3.5 yards are rushed before contact? You're starting to play at four yards. Or every time. Starting to play four yards. Let's also talk about quite literally being front runners. I understand front runner has one connotation, but playing from in front is another thing. And Tom Brady, who, by the way, every week just gets better and better at that job. He made a really good point on the telecast yesterday. He said, it's the oldest cliche in the world. Do you want to start fast? Everyone wants to start fast, but he said there's a very literal reason why the Cowboys need to start fast, because their defense is built to play with the lead. That's right. And if they don't have it, they become one-dimensional. Right. And instead, the other team can just run the ball, which the Cowboys are not built to start. Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the face. It's literally true, especially with the Cowboys, because the Cowboys are specifically built on defense to get out the quarterback. They got Dak Prescott in this offense, where they just jump on top of you, get a lead, and then they want to rush the quarterback. If they run the ball, fine. We'll tackle the running back on the way to the quarterback. Well, guess what? If the team is taking a fight to them, like all these teams coming into the yards while doing, they're screwed. They're done. They're done. They can't do anything. Oh, no. We're going to show this again. That poor guy. There's nothing I'd love more, by the way, than the Derek Henry Stephon. By the way, the Ravens did everything they could to give this game back to them in the fourth quarter. All those plays you're talking about that the Cowboys just needed one thing to happen. The Ravens kept handing it to them. They major in blowing leads. This would have been a whole new low for them yesterday. We'll talk much more about them as we go, and we have a lot more to say about the Cowboys, because if you wanted to point the finger of blame at one person yesterday, I will tell you who that person was. A little bit later in this hour, as I promised you on Sports Center, I'll tell you who was the one person that you blame the most. But let me get in the division to a team that very quite literally might have saved their season yesterday with an unbelievable performance on the road. Saints Eagles yesterday, right? Derek Carr and company, they come in by far the hottest team in the league. First play of the second quarter, the Eagles have a chance to score. Teddy, who's he throwing to? What is that? I know this is a rounded route, though. This should have been a cleaner route by Devonta Smith. That's a trust throw, right? He has to make that cut. Seven straight games with an interception for Hurts, longest active streak in the NFL, then on a fourth and one for faking the Touchbush. This was the end of the first half. Teddy, they got much too cute. I understand the change up. We're going to get on because it didn't work, but give them a safe one. I don't have a proper, but the Touchbush and a little bit again. They made you the field goal. See you guys. It's the fourth quarter. They hadn't scored on the day, and then they had 65 yards on Tug. Sake one, 147 rushing yards in this game. The play that might turn around their season now, just over two minutes to play. D-wood, how about the toes from Chris Olave in the corner of the end zone? It's just picture-perfect, really. I mean, the throw and the have the wherewithal to just drag the toe, but they call it toe-drag swag right there? They should have had me talk about the toes. Correctly, yeah, yeah. You're on the toes later. They go for two and they don't get it. Now, here's the big play. Where's the defense on third and 16? We're going to break this play down for you a little more. That's called Miss. That's Dallas, got her. All along. It's Miss. For reasons 61 yards on the play, and then Sake one takes it in. They go for the two and get it. So the Eagles up 15-12. Last chance for the Saints. Again, they started out so hot this year. Derek Carr, over the middle. Mmm. Reed Blankenship calls game, and it's over. Jalen throws for 3-11. The Eagles were the win. They desperately need coach Siriani. Talk to me. I just want everyone to know. Like, if the product on the field is not, like if we make a mistake, a player makes a mistake, it's not in that player. It's always on me and me first. Nobody else. It's on me first. Okay, so he's obviously addressing a lot of the controversy of the week. Yeah, he's addressing you, Rex. It's basically what he's doing, right? He's talking directly to you. How do you feel watching that? Like, there's this... Communication is an interesting thing in life. The way you express yourself, the way you communicate, how did it feel to you watching that? Especially to professional athletes. I mean, I think what he said about everything's on me. It's all on me. That's good for high school football, really when you're protecting kids. But as a professional, sometimes it's on me. And I know it's on me, and I don't need you protecting me. So treat me like a man. There's a little bit of that there. He seems awkward a lot of times when I watch him and I hear him. And to be in a meeting room, I can imagine on Wednesday, I mean, the core four. Okay, let's go back. The core four of this team, all right? It was... Let your players see. That group's... Graham, those guys, all right? They're starting to get old and thin out. And leadership eventually transitions, okay? Transitions to where certain players have to pick it up. And if they don't pick up that leadership, and you're continually watching an awkward head coach continually speak in front of you, and you lose guys, okay? So that's why I think it's Jaylen Hertz picking up his leadership. He might be Rex. I think he is. Yeah. I think this is Jaylen Hertz team. And that's a good thing. When your quarterback takes that kind of role, I think that's a good thing. The thing about the inconsistencies at Sirianni, you know, at the press conference and things like that, this needed to be said from jump last week. It needed to be said. Put it on you, all right? I think the players appreciate you when you put it on. You're not protecting them. You're taking it. Just say, you're not in it by yourself. I'm right there with you. In fact, I'm in front of it. I'll take every damn bullet. That's what you're paid to do. And right now, when he deflected it last week, in my opinion, I thought that that was awful. That's a horrendous thing to do. But in Sirianni's credit, one week late, I appreciate it 'cause he was talking to me. 'Cause I said I go, man, that's BS. You gotta, it's always on you first. And the fact he said, it is on me. Okay, cool. I will say this. Look, analytics, not a huge analytics guy. I think it's a tool, all right? But analytics said that you made three mistakes on three incorrect calls on four down situations. Right. Well, wait a second. We praised the hell out about the analytics. Are you going away from it completely now or what? But three times, himbo said that they made the incorrect call based on analytics. Exactly, but at the end of the day, they win. And let's get credit where it is, too. Whatever it is, he says, he says. This is a critical game because we all wondered what they splintered. It was also a terrible matchup. The Saints had the best pass protection. Derekar had been pressured the least of any quarterback in the NFL through two weeks. And the Eagles had lost the ability to rush the passer. So for them to shut that offense down, how would you see from that Eagles defense yesterday? Oh, man, that defense showed up and showed up yesterday. I thought they were starting, I thought they set the edge. You know, I thought they said the edge beautifully in the run game because the one thing about the Saints, everything is predicated on the run. They want to run the football because they won't play action behind it. Will you take away the run? And he said, you know what, Derek? I'm going to put it on you. Let me see if you can beat me, big boy. Yeah. And he couldn't do it. Okay, they put the ball in Derekar's hand and he couldn't make it happen. So I got to give a lot of credit to this Philadelphia Eagles defense. Sometimes when you're getting gassed like it, your manhood is on the line. Your man, your pride is on the line. And those boys went down there down in New Orleans and showed up. We talked about it in locker room. Bryce Huff talks about it in locker room. Zach Bond setting the edge. And when something said to you and preached to you over the course of the week, you can almost watch it happen on the field during the game in terms of how emphasized they were in terms of setting the edge, getting people, you know, hard edge penetration inside. I thought Bond had a great game yesterday. Carter had a great game penetrating inside. They were challenged. They were challenged and they answered, yeah. You know who answered the bell? Vic Fangio, the defensive coordinator, answered the bell in a big way. How? But how about all those edge pressures? You want to go big people? He brought edge pressures. What that does, it makes that back, have to make a quick decision. There's no dancing around in the hole like we've seen in the past. And so to me, he answered the bell. He challenged his guys. Derekar is one of the worst quarterbacks in the league when he's pressured. Right, yep. You mentioned it. He was never pressured by these other teams. Those are two games, correct. Well, guess what? He was pressured here. Eagle's dead last. Who changed himself? All right, yeah. Fancio is a guy that loves to rush for and play coverage. Well, it wasn't working. So you know what? I'm not just going to take an ass weapon. I've got to change and give my players a chance. Put them in the best position where they can be successful. Vic Fangio came out. Lane Johnson went down. All right. My guy Beckton, all right. Gone. AJ Brown didn't play. Devontae Smith went down. You talk about a head coach preaching mental toughness. So I got to give Sirioni some love here. Yes. Your team had everything against him in terms of, oh, man. He's gone. He's gone. He's gone. Let's still play and win a football game. Good job. And it took a flute play to win the game. We're going to show you that. The Dallas-Goddard play. It was a huge defensive, blown assignment. We'll get to that. And let's also just very quickly say. I know Saekwon had a play that won out of 100 times. He'll drop that ball. And you could say that cost them the game last Monday night. There's no way in the world they don't win the two games they've won so far this year without him, right? Saekwon has been phenomenal. People talk about don't pay it back. Saekwon Barkley is worth every penny they are paying him. In the meantime, we're just getting started. Throw the flag. Throw the flag. They didn't throw it. In Kansas City and the world has lost its mind. We have the only appropriate response coming up. Plus, did anyone see this coming? Justin Fields is dealing. Can he and the Surgeon Steelers win the division? Spoiler alert, the answer is yes. And it's on the way. You're watching Get Up on ESPN. Passion, drive, and patience. 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Oh my goodness, let's see it. Oh, it must be a single. Oh, are you kidding me? Oh my goodness. What is that? Is that a yellow stone park? That's one of the greatest seasons in major league history. 55 home runs. Oh my goodness. We're so used to it out of this kid, but oh my god. Did you see that dude? Get out too much dude. He's like six, seven, six, eight, whatever. That's a good man. He ain't his magic number to clinch the East is down to one. Meanwhile, we'll get back to the Alice Cowboys as we continue. Once again, the D doesn't show up. I'm going to point the finger of blame at one person. Spoiler alert attempt. We'll be right back. This episode is brought to you by Microsoft Azure. Turn your ideas into reality with an Azure free account. Get everything you need to develop apps across cloud and hybrid environments, scale workloads, create cloud connected mobile experiences and so much more. Discover what you can create with popular services free for 12 months. Learn more at azure.com. That's azure.com and sign up for a free account to start building in the cloud today. Bottom of the hour you're watching, get up we are presented by ESPN Bet. We've got to figure out a way to be better early in the game and start the game better. Ball is out of the Ravens and every cupboard. That is a frustrated Dallas team right now. And the Kings scores again. We've got to get something going momentum. We're controlling we can control them right now. We've got an opportunity to go do that. Dallas is right back in it. The Ravens have not been able to get anything done here in the fourth floor. Just shoot down the fingernail time. And it was out of time out. And we just had to get that straight down. After a glorious fourth quarter, the Ravens can finally exhale and celebrate. Unbelievable game yesterday in so many ways. And if you take a look at one stat from this game, Derek Henry who ran all over that cowboy defense yesterday has now this season out rushed the entire Cowboys offense somewhat handling and it figures to stay that way, which led many reporters after the game to ask Jerry Jones about Derek Henry, who was training in Texas during the offseason and made no secret of wanting to be a cowboy. Here's what Jerry said. Watching Derek Henry do what he did. It didn't make you rethink your approach to the run game. We couldn't afford that game. A mansion when you live in a different kind of house. We couldn't afford it. We couldn't make that all fit. That's as simple as that. No, it's not. Okay. And so I like and admire Jerry Jones very much. But that cannot be gone. Cannot be said unchecked. We must fact check things like that. You know how you easily could have afforded Derek Henry? If you had paid CD lamb when you should have. If you had paid Dak Prescott when you should have. Most teams don't wait until an hour before the season starts. To sign their quarterback to the biggest contract in the history of the National Football League. If they had decided to treat the offseason like it began before September 1st, they could easily have afforded Derek Henry and a lot of other pieces. So what you saw on display yesterday was a team that during this offseason got worse and more expensive, which is bad management. It is bad ownership and is bad leadership from a football standpoint. And that's what was on display from the Cowboys yesterday. So they could easily have handled the Derek Henry contract if they had paid CD lamb before everyone else got their contract. If they had paid Dak Prescott before all the other quarterbacks got their contracts. And if they had handled any of their offseason business in the actual offseason, that has to be said that has to be fact checked in the moment. And that is one of the reasons why the Cowboys this year are definitely a lesser team than they were last year. No, I mean, it makes sense what you're saying. I mean, it really does. If you're going to pay those guys, I get it. And to Dak Prescott, if you're going to give him the richest contract, he's going to sign it, you know what I mean. So I get where you're coming from. I think the future of it, I'm not so sure they really were sold on giving Dak Prescott that. Then don't. My point is you can't be a little bit in and a little bit out. Whatever the experience, a little bit pregnant, whatever the expression is. You're either doing it or you're not. You do it with the finitiveness and conviction and then you do it. If you don't want to pay Dak, don't pay him. That's fine. But one way or the other, they could easily have afforded Derek Henry as what I'm saying if they had managed their team the way most other teams do. It's the one position that desires exception in terms of playing a hard line is usually not really, you want to play it with CD, you want to play it with Micah, that's fine. But with Dak, that's the exception because of the quarterback position. And getting that wrapped up taken care of, I see what you're saying. It would have been nice to have Derek Henry on our team last night. Yeah, it would have been nice to have Derek Henry on our team last night. And our buddy Marcus Spears is watching right now and he's screaming and he's texting me like crazy about all this. There'll be on Monday night countdown tonight talking about this and that's the reality of it. Look at the teams. Look at the Eagles added pieces during this offseason. So many of the NFC contenders added pieces during this offseason. The Cowboys lost pieces and replaced them with guys who weren't as good. If it's your quarterback, do it. Do it soon. Do it now because it's only going to be more in the future. I understand that. But if you know you've got the quarterback, get it done. That said, I have to say something like, I mean, all the coaches are on one year contract. Right. So this is like, it was like, you know, it's different. Instead of just saying, no, we're going to go out. We're going to spend this money and all that type of stuff. He's probably thinking of, well, if I get these long term deals, how's it going to affect if it doesn't go right, the new regime coming in and things. I'm telling you, there's more things to think about than that. I'm not saying that Jerry Jones was right in this situation. Right. I would have, hell yeah, if you went Derek Henry. Why the hell wouldn't you bring in there? Historically, has that worked? Having coaches on a one year deal, having your quarterback on a one year deal, going to make it a break? I don't think we've ever seen it. That's my point. Like, literally, I don't think we've ever seen it. We've seen it many times. And you know what usually happens? The quarterback gets cut and the coach gets fired. This very rarely happens. If you are convicted in the people that you have, unlike Carolina who changes coaches after 11 games and changes number one overall picks after 19 games, you like what you have in place, you plan it for your future and you go from there and you balance your books in a way that works. Now, let's move past that for a minute here. You can't wait. There's two sides to the rushing attack issue that they have. One, they can't stop the run. Two, they can't run it at all. Is that, what is that a function of? Because they can't run the football at all on their offensive side. So they are purely one-dimensional. Yeah, I mean, listen, they still got, they got, they were placing a couple pieces on the office line. Some of this, honestly, what are you doing in practice? You only get better at football by playing football. And what I mean by playing football is in practice, you got to strap on the pads and get after it. Okay, both, first offense, first defense, let's get after. Because clearly, we can't run it, we can't stop the run. So the only way to do it is we got to practice it in practice. There's a Dallas Cowboys doing this every weekend and week out. Forget all this, you know, trying to preserve yourself for a game. Hell, teams will thrash you even when you're fresh. You need to go out there and practice stopping the run and blocking and typing and hitting people. Well, there are times you walk into the facility. There are times you walk into the facility as a player, and you look at the schedule and you look at the dress. Okay, you see if you're... Oh, that's like one of the first things you say. Sometimes you see in your full pads like, "Damn, I thought we had a good week last week in full pads." So sometimes you can think that way. I can see how now you don't think that way at all. You understand why. Right. Why we're in full pads and why it could be a physical practice and as it should be. Well, I mean, I think this goes back to the mentality of your football team in the off season. When you're sitting back, what do you want to be? They should have said, "Hey, look, we got to be tougher." They got their butch kick in some of those situations against teams that will run the football. You got to be committed that way. Look, you know exactly how we did it. We would have nine on seven, which is an inside run period. Yeah. We would always do that. We would always have groups. So we would put three linemen over here and do half line run stuff before our nine on sevens. Right. And then we go team and I'd say Danny Woodhead's live. Because we were going to tackle the backup running back. And that's how you build that type of toughness. That's not done. And a lot of times it's not done. It's clearly not done here. They're not going to turn into a power running football team. They just won't turn into one no matter how much they work. Because the pressure is now on their highest paid player, which is Dak Prescott. I understand, but you've danged your better stop the run. You better stop. On the other side, yes. They would dang sure better beat the Giants on Thursday night. Who by the way, if they addressed a kicker two weeks ago, might be two and one right now. Because look at their schedule then. They get the Steelers, they get the Lions, they get the 49ers. The season could get away from the Cowboys before the end of October. They desperately need to win on Thursday night. Meanwhile, Sunday night football in Atlanta. Let me show you Kansas City against the Falcons, Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins. Pick it up second quarter. Rashy Rice, Teddy, has become clearly Patrick Mahomes, number one target. Another spectacular night. And even at times he's doing Travis Kelsey-like things because they're getting on the same page. Patrick Mahomes has a new weapon. One would tie the game at seven. Next Falcons drive. This is Kyle Pitts with a 50 hard play behind the defense. Sends up a first in goal from the one. You love Beijon Robinson. He takes it in. He gives it to him. He's my favorite running back to watching the lead now. It's like so explosive and strong right here because that hole wasn't there. He made a hole right there. He had a sort of a quiet night with the Falcons like a 14-7 lead. Now here we go. Five and a half minutes to go. Chiefs are up by two. And then this is a 27 yard play two. Rashy Rice. He had 12 catches, 110 yards. Now we're in the red area on a third and seven. Nice play here. Juju Smith or Smith Schuster going to take it in. Yeah, absolutely. And these are the things, man. You've got to win situational football. Can City wins in a red zone again? They missed the extra point. That's critical. So the lead is eight. It's a one-score game. Now here we go. Fourth and two, six minutes to play. They got it to Drake London. Keep the chains moving. Here's the play everyone's talking about. Third and five from the six. Cousins, Kyle Pitts. Take a look. Teddy, you're a defensive player. Is there a contact? Yes. Should this be defensive pass interference? Absolutely not. Not. Not. We're all this time rising. We'll talk more about it. They go for it on fourth and five and don't get it. Falcons turn it over on downs. Chiefs get it back. They're looking to ice it. Third and two. My homes. Xavier. Worthy. Worthy. Miscommunication. Looks that way. Worthy stopped. Falcons have life. Back we go to Atlanta. One minute left. Third and one at the Kansas City. 13 Tyler Algiers. Stuffed. Fourth and inches. What are we going to do Rex? What play? Run right up the middle. Run right up the middle. Right up the middle. Where are we going? Outside and you're not going to make it. Right up the middle. I hate that play call. I hate running side line of side line. Like if you want to rush through it, please rush through the air. And I love Nick Paul. I'm telling you. I'm on that defense. Go ahead, Nick Paul. That's a great thing, man. OK, so fair enough. The play call. Terrible. But at the end, are you familiar with Twitter X? Is that something that you're-- You check me as a person who might not be impressed. Well, Twitter X believes that the referees are so pro Kansas City and that the Falcons got dropped and that was just as much pass interference as the week before when they just got the call. What's your reaction? I chuckle. I chuckle because the Chiefs have now entered a realm that our teams once were in the New England Patriots when everyone is trying to bring you down any way they possibly can. Bagging for calls, talking in press conferences about officials, saying that your routes aren't-- something's wrong with your route. Something's wrong with your equipment. Or the reps are also with you, too. And it's just funny because you know you've done your job when everyone's sick of you winning. Everyone's sick of you winning different ways, too. And even when you get calls. That's where the Chiefs are now. And that's where Twitter is now. And everybody's out there is tired of the Chiefs winning. And I say, keep winning because that's what you're supposed to do. And you know what? That's why I still hate petty. [LAUGHTER] I hate them then. I hate them now. And it's just the way it is. It's a great speech. It's a great speech. It's true, though. But it's also interference. I mean, can someone else at this table acknowledge that's Cindy Rowland again? This is pass interference, right? I'm not suggesting that there's anything that the reps are-- If Kansas City threw it, it would have been. Well, OK, fair enough. Well, it is obviously interference, right? He never turns around. He doesn't play the ball. He tackles the man. The official is standing a foot away. How is the flag not thrown? Anyone? This would not be a big deal if this was Jacksonville, or if this was Arizona, or if this was any type of 0 and 2 team that's done nothing in the past. This would not be a big deal. Granny, I've seen this no call before. You don't have to have your head turned around and playing the ball. That's not the rule. But look, does he make contact before? Absolutely. Have we seen it called a million times? 100% we have. He's facing the other way in tackling the receiver before the ball or off. But I've also seen it not called. So that's where the inconsistency comes in. In the officiating, I totally get why you're upset and why people are upset here. Did I think it was better? I absolutely did. I don't want to say this. If you want to be the man, you got to beat the man. Right. OK. You can't rely on these. But knock out. You can't-- by knock out. Can't rely on calls, even though you might think it's past the experience, you got to go beat the man. The Chiefs fans understand. Patriots fans understand from the past. The Jets fans will never understand. That hurts. Oh, that hurts. That hurts. Everywhere it can. Roll a break. Roll a bump. Do something. Super ball, read it. Cindy, roll anything. Coming up big. Did anyone see this coming? Justin Fields, dealing. Can his team win the division? We'll answer that question and many more. We're going to talk about the value of elite coaching. Next. Whoo. We are back on get up and we are going to run the hurry up and we are going to talk about the value of elite coaching. I tweeted about this yesterday. It got 24,000 likes. Let's start with that, man. Then a lot. Justin Fields, that's a lot, Teddy. I'll teach you Twitter a little later. The Steelers beat the Chargers 20 to 10. Look at Justin Fields' numbers on your screen. The interception is a tip ball. He was efficient. He looks like a different person. For more to the point, he looks like the person that coming out of Ohio State, you imagined he could be. How much of that D-wood is you watching play right now? Do we attribute to him being in the right place with elite level coaching? A lot. Listen, he's starting to look more quarterback than athlete. And when you start ascending, when you start ascending to that level with what Pittsburgh have, particularly on the defense side of football, that's a scary football team right there. Scary. Is this sustainable, Rex? I mean, you watch what he's doing. If he keeps getting better and better, we talked about their early season schedule being an opportunity to win games. They've got it. Now, it becomes one of the most scariest players in the national football league. Why is that? Because when you talk about that, you know, athlete, now he's becoming a better quarterback than athlete. Yeah, when you're thinking about it in the past, you're thinking, I'm not saying he's Steve Young, but it's Steve Young. It took time to develop. And when you hit on these guys, you hit with a spectacular player. I always call them the future, because I thought this guy's future was going to be unbelievable. And you know what? It looks like it's going. And it's within the formula of what I call the stealer way. It's just what they want. Take care of the football, smart decisions, defense, run games. So that's elite coaching stop number one. Let's go to elite coaching stop number two. K-O-C, Kevin O'Connell. The Vikings are run beaten. Sam Darnold looks sensational. A guy who was completely broken by bad situations he was in early in his career. Now all of a sudden looks really good. Teddy, what are we seeing from him and these Vikings? It's the most comfortable I've ever seen Sam Darnold watching all of his career, because as a defensive, you watch a quarterback, and you can tell when he's unsure. I hardly see that anymore with Sam, which I used to see all of the time. And when the word comfortable is big, because it means I'm set with the plan, I'm set with how I'm being coached, the relationship I have with the play caller, it's all in one thing, how he looks in the pocket. And it's there. It's comfortable, that's the word. Does it help to have Justin Jefferson? Yes, but still, this guy is playing great. Well, but they've been so much of this season. No, Jordan Addison, down to the tight end. Hi, Anderson is, but like they're doing, obviously they lost the rookie quarterback before the season even began. They're pulling some stuff off there. Is this team for real? Are they gonna be there all year long? Absolutely, like when you get an elite level coach in, with Kevin O'Connell. Both sides. Yeah. That's what I'm about to go? And then Brian Flores, what he's doing at the DC? Like he's, boy, he's putting quarterbacks in a blender out there. Rex, we did a great bit on NFL Sunday Countdown yesterday. Teddy had a magnificent tape on the way Brian Flores disguises his coverages. Confusing, opposing quarterbacks. He's doing the terrific job with that defense. 100% doing an amazing job. And the thing is, he's so multiple, and not just with the sky's coverage-wise, but his blitz package is terrific. Nobody blitzes more than Flores. But it's the, that, that omnipresent thing, that pressure's coming. It's coming, it's coming, and it ain't coming. And then he held the sky, saying he's still, I mean, it's crazy, but that is elite coaching. And then Kevin O'Connell's doing a great job with Sam Darnell, and thanks. So yeah, they're damn, you're absolutely, they're for real. Absolutely. Yeah, both sides of the ball, it's amazing. You come to play the Minnesota Vikings, you better get in your books, you better get in the film room, because you know you're up against two intellectual, intellectually smart coaches, and they'll both be prepared. And then the third example, and maybe for my body, the best example, what they're doing with Malik Willis and Green Bay right now, Rex, go. Look, I'm just gonna say this, I thought this guy couldn't have played dead in a B Western, Malik Willis. I'm being honest, I watched him, he was absolutely atrocious. They saw something in this man, that they said, you know what, we can do some things with him. You know what they're doing? They're running wide, they're running a wing tee offense, which is what every high school in America used to run. They took that package and said, you know what Malik? Yeah, you might not be the greatest dropback guy. Here's a package you're gonna be, and I'm gonna tell you, it's an absolute problem for people. One thing we know, this kid can run the football, and you know what, he can throw it a little bit too way better than I thought. But this, the floor to me, there's no way. I thought they were dead. No way in hell they're gonna win with Malik Willis. Well, you know what, he said, I saw something in him, I had a plan, and oh my God, is it working? And this coach is absolutely terrific. We've seen it in the past, but when he took the kid, this ain't Aaron Rodgers, this in Jordan Love, first round picked. This is a guy that people were left for dead, and rightfully so I thought. And you know what, it just shows you, elite coaching makes a difference, the guy is doing an amazing job. I don't know how they did it, but they simplified it for this kid into where he is free. Because you could see the steam coming out of his ears at times, where he was like, I am just frenetic. And you see this right here? That's coaching, that's a screen pass. And defensively watching that, a well-run screen is a beautiful thing to see as an analyst, but it's so difficult as a defensive player, because the cell, the footwork, the body language, that every player has to have, especially, the quarterback with his footwork. And so Malik, I'm like, that's a pretty darn good screen pass, and that's where I recognize like, man, this guy's being coached really well. - The system changes. - Yeah. - Like he took his guy, imagine that. He's not trying to take a square bag, you know what? - Yep, yep. - No, he's like, you know what, here, Malik, here's your dang offense. - Right. - And hold my God, and I tell you, moving forward, it's gonna be a problem for people. And the Titans now are the only Owen 3 team in the NFL. There are a few Owen 2s who will play tonight. Get ready for Monday night with ESPN back the official sports book of ESPN. Make a deposit with the promo code MF100 to unlock your 100% profit boost for tonight's game. Build your parlay, engage your boost, increase your winnings, download the ESPN bet app to get started today. Meanwhile, WNBA playoffs began yesterday, and that meant Kaitlin Clark was on ABC, the fever, visiting the sun, she had a very tough first playoff game. No other way to put it. Seven minutes left in the third, sun have a nine-point lead. Kaitlin Clark, she was 0 for her first eight from three. She knocks that one down. It's a six-point game, they're kind of hanging around, but then Marina Marv Mayberry happened. She knocks down the three, she had 27 off the bench, including five threes, and here's one of them here turning defense into offense. Why not just pull up and knock this one down. - Right. - Again, 27 off the bench. Sun with a 12-point lead, and then here's Dijene Carrey, then, and she knocks that down. Kaitlin Clark, four of 17 from the four, 11 points. Sun, win it. These series are best of three. Game two will be Wednesday night. WNBA playoffs may well continue tomorrow. Seven-thirty Eastern Liberty Dream, then Asia Wilson and the Aces try to finish off the storm. Carbage tips with WNBA countdown at seven. Honey, ESPN, and the ESPN app. Comment up once again. The D doesn't show up in Big D. Is there any solution for the problems of the Alice Cowboys? We'll answer that question right after this. (upbeat music) (upbeat music)
