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The Jacksonville Jaguars didn't quite get the memo. Talk about it. Disaster, man. I think, I know we're not talking about jags, but like I think that is rotten to the core there. And they're going to have to start asking some really, really tough questions here. All right. So actually before we get into Washington, we've already touched on it here. Let me ask you about Jacksonville. Do you think they fire Doug Peterson and press Taylor and or do you think they just fire press Taylor? I think they got to clean everything out at this point. A front office coaching staff. Like it's been a long time since the Super Bowl run in Philadelphia for Doug Peterson and pretty much most of it has been the majority of it has been bad since then. And like at the end of the day, we can say, oh, this is press Taylor who's calling plays it over. But Doug Peterson is the head coach and he is an offensive minded guy. Even if he is not calling the plays, yeah, right, theoretically, even if he is not the one putting the plays into the headset to Trevor Lawrence, like it comes, the buck should stop with him. It's not a well coached team. I don't think it's a well designed team and I don't think the players are all that good either. Like, I don't think they're I don't think they're bad, like from a pass catcher standpoint, but they're just they're it's it's the weirdest thing where I think the players are good enough. If it was a well designed well coached offense to sure to get there, but I don't think they're so good that you can also not point the finger at the front office and be like, why did you sign Gabe Davis and give him that money and like he just is doing he's like a net not a net negative, but he just doesn't move the needle at all. Yeah, so it says I think we're at that weird place in Jacksonville where it's like everything is bad and I don't know that it's going to get any better. I want to say in regards to Jacksonville's offense and again, I haven't, you know, totally broken this down or anything and I'm definitely not a film guy by any stretch of the imagination nor do I present myself to be. But God lead, the one thing I see when I see Jacksonville, I see way too much isolation ball. You know, there's not enough route concepts where there's layers like where where's the layering in this on the route concepts? I don't see it. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see it. I see a lot of individual ball where they try to isolate guys into certain spots and that's just that's tough. I mean, you first of all, you've got a rookie wide receiver who I think is the best receiver on the team. You're trying to isolate him. It's like, all right, I mean, he's not like, I love Brian Thomas Jr., but let's be real. I mean, you know, I don't think he's one of these, okay, I'm just going to win every single route type of guy. Christian Kirk is getting a little longer in the tooth. I mean, it seems as if he slowed down just a little bit, trying to isolate. It just, I don't know, whenever I see Jacksonville, I don't see an opportunity for Trevor Lawrence to quote, unquote, make reads like where's a high low read in that offense? Yeah, I just, again, I don't see a lot of that. Yeah. I don't really see it either. And yeah, I mean, your point about Brian Thomas, like I think he has exceeded my expectations, looks really good, but he still wasn't, you know, a tier one receiver in this class. He wasn't like a Marvin Harrison or Malik neighbors or Roman Dunes A, one of these guys where like you'd come out and just build the whole passing game out of them, right? He wasn't that type of guy. He was supposed to be like, okay, he can, we've got other players who can inhale some volume and he can be used as kind of a splash play throughout, which he's basically been so far through three games. It just, I just don't think it's coming together here. So yeah, it's just, they, what if they don't do anything well? I mean, they don't do anything well from an offensive standpoint. And that's been the case for, I think, a little bit too long now at this point. Yeah. I think you're right. Although, man, it's just going to be, I feel bad for Trevor Lawrence at this point, because everyone's dogging on him and it's like, man, he has not had good coaching in his young career. You know what I'm saying? So it's awfully tough to judge his talent level in regards to what he can do with the offensive play callers and play designs that he has had to work with in his young career. Anyways, we move on. Let's go back to Washington here. Again, Jayden Daniels, Terre McLaurin, Jayden Daniels, my God, 21 of 23 passing the ball, a smooth 91% completion rate, 254 passing yards, two touchdowns, a 141 passer running. This does not include all of the yardage that he picked up on the ground as well, right? So Jayden Daniels, talk about development going from week one to week three. My God, Matt, this guy has really come along as a passer in a very short period of time. Yeah. I'm sure commanders fans want us to eat a little crow for talking crap about their offers. 100%. Yes. And we will do that right now. We will do that right now because I will say just my journey with this offense was I was skeptical of Cliff Kingsbury as an office coordinator hire. I think you were just down right out on it. I was definitely definitely skeptical and I've always said they designed a good run game, but the past game design concepts leave a lot to be desired. But you know, that was that was kind of my first sort of thing. You're just skeptical about it. Week one, I did not love what I saw. Oh, a lot of horrid. A lot of horizontal stuff, but you know, it's a rookie quarterback in his first game against the veteran defensive play caller and Todd Bowles who will heat you up and think make things very difficult, especially for a mobile quarterback and they can get him moving off the spot and things like that. That was just a really tough matchup for his week one game. I thought in week two, looked a little bit better, still had some pretty clear issues in terms of just player usage, you know, how many just screen passes and behind the line of scrimmage stuff was going on in week two. Honestly, it sounds like Cliff kind of got the message from maybe some of the players and certainly outside voices here too, because I thought it was a great game plan in week three. Now, obviously the Bengals got no pass rush on Jayden Daniels, which was shocking. Their defense sucks. I think Cincinnati might be one of the worst defenses in the league, but that's kind of aside the point. So he did up Pat Mahomes in week two with Trey Henderson and those guys and right. Jayden Daniels was pretty much having a lot of clean pockets, but even when he didn't have clean pockets, I mean, obviously where he's getting barreled on the go route touchdown to Terry McLorn from the right side from the right side, by the way, that's right. I love that they actually let Jayden Daniels attack downfield because Jayden Daniels has a live arm. He's a guy that can really attack you deep and outside the numbers. And I think they finally got that connection going. I mean, the biggest thing here is Terry McLorn, 26% of the targets, 61.8% of the area yards. Like, this is what this offense needs to be prioritizing every single week. Can I just bro? Okay. Let's talk about Terry McLorn because I am fascinated by this. Okay. So again, he lines up, I mean, so hard on the left side. Okay. And, and really this is like the Cliff Kingsbury experience, right? He just doesn't move these wide receivers around and he sticks, you know, the primary guys on the outside left, right? So here's the problem. When you look at the passing chart here for Jayden Daniels, 18 of his 21 completions, 81% of his completions came throwing to the right side of the football field. And by the way, this makes a lot of sense for a mobile quarterback, right? If you're right handed, you want to be moving to your right so that you can continue to throw with your right arm, right? So I am just, I'm, I'm befuddled, I'm confused. You have one legitimate receiver. Why would you line him up on the left, design your offense so that if you are going to keep him static and not move around, just have him on the right side. Like, I don't, I don't understand this, Matt. Why would you line this dude up on the, on the, on the left side? By the way, Matt, did you hear the post game? The post game comments from, from, uh, Terry McClellan right after the game on the sideline there? No. Uh, I admittedly watched this game, uh, while in an airplane. So I did not, it didn't, it got to turn it off like right after it was over, but yeah. So they interviewed Terry McClellan. Okay. I'm in, and again, fascinated by this. They're interviewing Terry McClellan on that, um, game when he touched him or a game clinching touchdown. Right. McClellan said he went to Cliff and said, let me line up on the right side. And that's what set up the game clinching touchdown. Brother, again, you talk about maybe Cliff got the message from the media. He obviously is like, all right, I got to let some of these players just play. Right. And, and, and Terry McClellan being the veteran that he is basically saw something and was like, yeah, dude, what the hell, bro? Let me like, I think he clearly saw his quarterback not looking to the left and was like, dude, this is ridiculous, man. Like just put me on the fricking right side and let me just work, you know, right. And that's what set up that touchdown. Come on, man. Like, again, I, I just moving forward. If they don't permanently move Terry McClellan to the right side, I, I just think that's like, that's like criminal mile practice or something in Washington. It just doesn't make any sense. Well, and I think it can come with like they can use him as a outside left receiver, uh, or even like a receiver, all the, the farthest left guide, but he's like kind of tighter to the line of scrimmage. And he can run routes from that side to the right side. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Of course. So we're not saying like he needs a completely then he's running all of his routes from the right side or anything. But, you know, look, we do, and we're guilty of this. Everybody's guilty of this. We want everything to be like instant, instant, instant, right? But, um, this is a coach figuring out this quarterback, uh, it's a quarterback figuring out the NFL. I think the quarterback is figuring out the NFL, by the way. I think Jayden Daniels looks like a stud, um, he, he looks awesome. But, um, you know, and I think this is a receiver who is figuring out a new offense and figuring out a new, a new quarterback three weeks in. Like it does look like that's coalescing much better than sort of what I would imagine after watching week one. So for sure, uh, taking the, and week two, I agree. So, and yeah, Terry McLaurin, you know, he is a number one receiver. He is a guy who has so much cashier, um, and credibility built up within this franchise. Even if it is a new group, everybody knows like Terry McLaurin is that guy. So he should have the absolute like authority to go over to the office coordinator and say, hey man, like I'm noticing this stuff too. And like let's, let's mix this up a little bit because that's who Jayden Daniels was like in college. He's not a guy that, um, like when he gets pressured, he's not, he's going to, he's going to scramble. Yeah. He's going to try to reset that platform. And if you're going to, if you're going to want him to do less scrambling and resetting the platform, having a guy in his vision on that right side, you know, running routes to that area and it being Terry McLaurin instead of some of the other guys on the roster, absolutely makes the most sense. So, you know, it's a credit for McLaurin for doing that. It's a credit for Cliff to, for listening to it. Cause you know, say what you want about Cliff, but there's a lot of coaches that would have heard that. I mean, like thanks for the feedback, um, get back over there on the left side, you know. So that that's good, just everything involved here, um, yeah, I feel pretty good. If you're a, if you're a Washington fan after these, um, after I would say both of these last two games, but definitely, uh, obviously what you got on Monday night. Okay. So on Monday night, Terry McLaurin played 10 snaps on the right side that accounted for about, uh, 21% of his total snaps, right? So still 79% on the left there, right, uh, on the season, again, just keep in mind he played 10 snaps on the right side on Monday night coming, uh, for the season long, uh, he has played 20 total, excuse me, 19 total snaps, uh, on the right side. So in get in weeks one and two combined, he had about nine snaps on the right side, nine total. And he played 10 on the right side, uh, and much, much of that, by the way, in the second half, um, here in week number three. So man, I tell you what, if they don't go back and look at that film and say, man, we have, we have definitely found something here. We have definitely discovered something here. Um, I just don't know what to say. I really don't. If we, if, if we co come out Matt and in week number four, we see Terry McLaurin line up on the left side again for 90% of the snaps, I am just going to throw something at my TV. I, I, I just, I'm not going to be able to handle it, man. Um, and again, I know where the alignment bros and there's a lot of people out there being like, who cares where he lines up? It matters too. Yeah. It matters. It absolutely matters anyways. Okay. Uh, by the way, just wanted to run through some, uh, some of the other stats here in terms of usage here, Terry McLaurin team high 23 routes, no other wide receiver ran more than 14 routes. Okay. That was, uh, and I think that was Noah Brown with 14 Luke McCaffrey ran about 10 routes, uh, which is surprising given his first, uh, first half production, uh, three targets, three grabs, 40, 40 yards for Luke McCaffrey on just 10 routes, uh, which is very, very interesting. So do we, let me ask you this, Matt, do we need to issue a mea culpa on my bad on Cliff Kingsbury or no, uh, yeah, I think a little bit, I think a little bit cause this, this performance showed a little showed adjustment. Um, it showed like, Hey, we can just make things simple, get the ball to our best player. And mostly it's attacking downfield that like all the stuff about where Terry McLaurin lines up and all the stuff about, okay, um, what are the answers in this past game? That's one thing. The thing that you just can't do is have a guy like Jaden Daniels who has such a good arm and he is so accurate pushing the ball downfield. You can't have him just running a bunch of Mickey Mouse nonsense to Zach Gertz and some of these other receivers here and throwing to the running backs at such an absurd rate. Um, you know, I, again, I get it in week one, you're going against a great defensive coordinator. Week two, the Giants do have a really good pass rush, especially, especially Dexter Lawrence is a, is a, is a star. I get that. You're trying to protect your, your, your young quarterback. You don't want him to get hit a ton. Um, you don't want to get him into a ton of pressure situation. So you're trying to get the ball out quick, but this offense should be we drop back and we push it downfield to Terry McLaurin, who's a great deep game player and, uh, and like the rest falls into place from there. The rest then you, yeah, you can have some short game concepts to Zach Earth. You can have some, uh, designer stuff to Luke McCaffrey. I get that, but the basis of the offense should be pushing it down the field at Terry McLaurin. So if we continue to see this, you know, against the Cardinals next week, uh, you know, Browns and Ravens, weeks five and six, those are going to be tougher games, tougher defenses. Uh, that, that's, that's for sure. If we continue to see this, then yeah, I think we do, Oh, Cliff, a, a, a mea culpa right now. I think we're trending towards me a culpa. We're not all the way there, but certainly let me just, let me, let me just say for sure. Okay. I exceeded my expectations, uh, like I would say overall Washington's offense has exceeded my expectations from what I said and all saw in the preseason. That's earth for sure. Oh my gosh. I mean, again, night and day with what we saw in the second half of this game Monday night versus what we saw, uh, week one night and day, um, a lot more accuracy, a lot more deep threats and just yeah, man, it was, it was a, it was a good watch. It was a fun watch. Um, okay, where, where are we at with Caleb Williams? So I, I went on my serious XM show Matt and, um, and my host, um, Fenty asked me about, um, Caleb Williams and my, my message to bears fans was this. Was it a, was it a great game? No, but if we are just grading on a scale on a curve, um, in Caleb Williams, if you talk about the growth arc from week one to week three, I'm very encouraged. If I'm a Chicago bears fan, what was your takeaway with Caleb? Yeah. I, I think you could say it's been a steady progression upwards from week one to week three for Caleb Williams because week one was definitely brutal. Um, yeah. Week one horrible. Oh, he was the worst, he was the worst quarterback in the NFL. Matt. I mean, again, I don't care what stats you look at. Use the worst quarterback in the NFL and we're including Bryce Young in that mix too. You know, but week one, it was, it was her horrid, but, uh, but week three, I thought, you know, he really obviously they threw the ball a ton, 52 times, but, but overall I, I thought we saw some real development. I think we saw some real development. I just don't know if it's ever going to look great this year for a variety of different reasons, which, you know, number one is rookie quarterback. You always got to just remember rookie quarterbacks, usually struggle use rookie quarterbacks are usually we are, and I think we overreact to their struggles, uh, overall is, is the biggest thing. And then we, when we get rookie quarterbacks who don't struggle, you know, then we get really high on those players, of course, um, like we just talked about with Jane Daniels, but with Caleb Williams, I think he is just working with a lot stacked against him. Um, you know, number one, it's the scheme. It's the offense. I don't love it. Don't love what Shane Waldron has presented for this team this year. The line play has not been good, uh, just flat out has not been good, both from a run and pass game standpoint. Dion just with his averaging 1.8 yards per carry. Now that was a, that was a dumb signing at the time, mostly because it mostly because of how fast they, like that was the first thing that needed to happen in all free agency was Deondris with getting like a three year contract, spending money on O line. What are you doing? Like, I don't, yeah, I mean, the, the other problem with that backfield too, Matt, was they already had guys like what? Yeah. They had like rush on Joe Herbert and Michelle Johnson is it. Yeah. Like what are you talking about? And even, and even Deontay Forman, when they asked Deontay Forman to play starter reps, he was a good player, like what are you doing, bringing in Deontay Swift? It doesn't make any sense at all. Yeah. And like, so yeah, they, they spend money on Swift. They spend money on Gerald Everett, um, again, another luxury position. Like what? And now, and now Gerald Everett's barely playing. Well, as he should, because he's not good, like he's a net negative out there. Um, so is the Deontay Carter, who they're having like seal the edge on a run play in the goal line. I mean, it just is doing the player usage. The deployment and, and that comes back to the front office too. Um, I just need the product needs to be better on the field for, for Chicago. But yeah, I, I thought that Caleb looked, and they're also asking him to do a lot, by the way, like they're not asked, they're asking him to run road dropback concepts and they're asking him to do a lot at the line. And I think he's doing that, which is great. And overall his ball placement's been good. I think the accuracy's been good. Uh, he's just under pressure a lot and he's going to make some mistakes when he's under pressure period. Like that's going to happen, but that first interception he had was, wow, that was bad though. That was. And, and again, we've seen that every single week is, is just some of these turnovers. You're like, geez, what, what are we doing, Caleb? Stop throwing those. They're not, they're not Will Levis turnovers, but they're, they're, yeah, they're not that bad, but they are like, they're just, they're just classic mistakes. I think I don't think it's anything with like a, you're right with an arm talent or anything like that. It's just, no, he's going to make those mistakes because he's a rookie man. Like it is what it is. You can be as good a prospect as you want, but I definitely think I've gone a 180 on kind of the situation here. Uh, I do not think this is a good situation. I think they overemphasize like let's get a bunch of weapons, but we do not have an offensive line. Um, that I think has been problematic, uh, but you know, I, I will say from a receiver standpoint, I think Roman Dunes. He's been great. Um, I did not understand some of the criticisms of him as a player. Uh, that, that other people had in the first, after the first two weeks, I thought his film looked great. I put up, uh, charting notes on him from week one and week two last week. And you know, it was guy that was consistently getting open against man press coverage. And in week two, I, his zone numbers came down. I think a lot of that is because he wasn't able to really fully accelerate because he was dealing with the sprained MCL. And then this week you really saw him take off like, but week one, he was great against zone coverage. We're incredibly high success rate against zone in the first game. So, um, I thought he's looked great past the eye test. He obviously was super productive, uh, in week three, you know, and like all these rookie receivers, we're going to talk, even talking about Malik neighbors, who's, you know, the number one receiver in fantasy or whatever. None of these rookie receivers are going to be perfect. They're all going to make their fair share mistakes, but you just got to feed them the ball and let them go through it. Um, you know, even DJ Moore, I thought, you know, the usage is, is okay there. So, uh, it just, I think this will slowly trend up, but because I think Caleb is working with a lot stacked against him, there's always going to be some issues this, this year. That's for sure. Okay. So Romo Dunes, he ran 53 routes. I mean, he was, he did not leave the field. It was, you know, again, I, I thought he was trying to still come back from some kind of injury. I guess not 11 targets, six grabs for one 12, uh, in a touchdown and, um, and you really did see some of that, you know, explosive nature from Roma Dunes here in week number three. DJ Moore, meanwhile, also played, uh, also ran 53 routes, um, 10 targets, eight grabs for 78. So what the person that is not here obviously is Keenan Allen here. So does adding Keenan Allen back into this mix, does it make it messier for Caleb Williams? I wonder. Um, to be honest with you, Matt, I, I feel like Caleb has done a lot better these, this past week, uh, and really over the last couple of weeks by just locking in on a guy and let's just get that ball, ripping that ball out there. Um, I have not seen his, his first read numbers. I didn't look into that, but, um, it feels as if he is saying, okay, I got my read and I'm going to stick to that and let's just rip this ball. Um, and so again, it just, it, I think the results have been a little bit better. In week one, I almost wondered, did he have too many options? I know that sounds ridiculous, uh, you know, on a surface level, but I just wonder, is he making too many reads? Is his mind all over the place? I mean, you know, um, is he just, you know, out there, just trying to figure out what to do versus week three, I thought he looked a lot more decisive. No, I, I actually really liked this take from you, um, about, is there too much going on, um, in terms of the, in terms of the bears receiver room? I know that sounds crazy, but yeah, no, I, I feel you. And like in terms of first read targets, uh, DJ Moore had nine, uh, and Roma Dunes, they had nine, uh, in this game, like, well, there you go, same, which is, and then Colcomette had seven. He was, and then nobody else really moved the needle into, we have four Deandra, Deandra Carter, first read targets. We do not need those enough, but no, but here, actually, when you read those out though, again, that it's to the point that I'm making here that a lot of his throws were just first read throws. Um, you know, DJ Moore had 10 targets, nine of them were first read targets, Roma Dunes, they had 11 targets, nine of those were first read targets. So that's a huge portion of what we're talking about here. 100%. Yeah. I, I, and the way they use those two guys too, I think was, was right. Um, DJ Moore had three designed targets according to fantasy points data, um, that, and then Roma Dunes, they had none. Right. Like I always say, I think I said this on the show last week. And I'll just go to my grave, not understanding like why teams don't want to design targets to DJ Moore, get the ball in his hands and let him roll after the catch. They did a little bit more of that in this game. That's good to see. Um, you know, also he has the lower average of the target was Roma Dunes is 21.3 average of the target. Like, yeah, listen, let's get this dude who can run who can separate and who can win tight coverage passes. Let's give him the ball down the field, man. Um, yeah, I kind of agree with you about this, this, this idea of almost overloading a rookie quarterback with guys. I, I do think that sounds, maybe we're just wrong about this. We're theorizing. We're, we're kind of, you know, trying to take shop this a little bit, but yeah, because I don't, like you guys know where I'm at with Keenan Allen at this point. People listening to the show know where I'm at with Keenan Allen. I think he's like a role player, but he's not a guy that, yeah, he was like the first free target player in week one and like you saw how that offense went. Uh, okay. It was not good. Like, I think more and O'Dunes, they need to be more involved going forward. So if you get Keenan Allen back out there and he's taking like the DeAndre Carter snaps, that's fine. I'm cool with that. Cause sure. For you, you said for first three targets, I need zero first three targets for DeAndre Carter. Correct. They need to stone zero. So yeah, I, I, but I, I do think like, okay, if you want to paint yourself a positive picture as a bears fan, more, a Dunes, a more DJ, more, more cold combat in week three. And I think the results were good there. Caleb's still going to make mistakes. There's still going to be kind of like talented, but troubled moments for him. But I think the receiver usage is right. I think, um, Roman Dunes, a looks fantastic. DJ Morris, who he is, uh, things can get a little bit better from here for the bears, but I do think they're always going to have a little bit sacked against him because of the wall drain in the offensive line effects. If you're in the market for investment worthy bags, watches in fine jewelry, rebag is the answer. 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Don't you sit on the sidelines, cash the ticket with us, follow cash the ticket in the free Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcasts. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man, then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laughing me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign, go to linkedin.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkedin.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. Linkedin, the place to be, to be. By the way, can we flip it to the other side here in regards to the Colts? The Colts get their win, right? You talk about mind melting interceptions. My God, Anthony Richards, I can't help but laugh, honestly. I don't mean this disrespectfully, but, God, at least, some of these throws are you kidding me. Oh my gosh, that interception in the end zone was maybe the worst throw I have seen in my life. Oh my God. He floated it back there. I mean, who's not catching that? Who is not catching it? It's crazy. Yeah. Will Levitt saw that interception was like, you need to relax, man. Totally. Totally. That was crazy. It was insane. Okay. So let's flip it to the other side with the Colts here. Okay. Anthony Richardson was 10 of 20 for 167 and zero touchdowns, two interceptions. You know, again, this is a player. I know we don't talk fantasy a lot on this one, but people are wondering, what's happening with Anthony Richardson? There's just not no volume. I mean, 20 pass attempts, right? And the guy only, and I shouldn't say only, but he has eight rushing attempts as well. So that's really only 28 opportunities for him to make a play, right? And we know his completion percentage is going to be extremely low. I did not expect it to be this low. This is, this is horrid. I thought it was going to be closer to, I mean, low sixties, you know, again, passable. I wasn't expecting high sixties, that's for sure. But something like the low sixties, maybe like 61%, it's like a 50% right now. It's insane. Okay. To show that focuses on wide receivers, Matt, I was really curious and I didn't know if you felt this way. I was like, man, okay, Josh Downs is back. Where are we going with Josh Downs? And then on top of that, really, what does that mean in regards to the, the snaps splits between Alec Pierce and 80 Mitchell, and we got a resounding answer here in week number three, because, you know, again, Alec Pierce ran 19 routes, 80 Mitchell ran two. Yeah. And just in terms of opportunities within the offense is, is low for everyone for a variety of reasons. Last year, they were 12th in plays per game, 64.4 Indianapolis Colts. This year, they're dead last with 50 plays per game. So this is a very different style of offense that they're trying to run this year. That's for sure, which is a little bit surprising, but there isn't as much of the like RPO stuff. I think they finally just kind of gotten back to running the ball a little bit. John Taylor was great in this game against the Bears. But yeah, man, I mean, from a receiver usage standpoint, look, 80 Mitchell, I know, is like popping up in certain separation metrics and things like that as a guy that's getting open. And there's definitely some moments where he gets open route running is good and stuff like that. But he's made a lot of mistakes as well. And like he's, he's, he's looked like he's not been always in consistently in the right place. And that's made some of the Anthony Richardson misses, I think look worse. And Anthony, which is not, not a consistently accurate quarterback, as we've always said. So, but yeah, Josh now is getting back out there and like, obviously, it's his first game. He doesn't have a very high average depth of target, but he leaves the team in first three targets with 33%. Not a lot of targets for anybody overall, but he's definitely going to help, I think, a little bit. The Bears have a good defensive front. That's a part of this too. You got to adjust for opponent here, but look, Richardson's going to have really bad games. I don't know if, I mean, week four against the Steelers is that coming any better? I'm not sure about that. So he's, he's just a guy that I think people are going to want to hyper focus on small moments and things like that. I almost don't even like want to consider who Anthony Richardson is until the end of the season when we have like a full season's worth, the full catalog of him. But yeah, yeah, there he is definitely not good enough at this point for all of these receivers to be productive players, even though they're all pretty good players. Michael Pitman, 83% of the snaps, Alec Pierce, second with 78% of the offensive snaps. Josh Downs coming back from that injury played 57% of the snaps. You got to think that number is going to go up. By the way, what's very interesting too is Josh Downs did play 25% of his snaps lined up as an outside wide receiver, just something to track right there. And meanwhile, Adonai Mitchell played just six snaps total, resulting in 11% snap share for Adonai Mitchell. Okay, we move on. Malik neighbors, you talked about it a little bit before he's the wide receiver 1.1 in fantasy football right now. He's making plays each and every week and my goodness gracious man, Malik neighbors, is he actually this guy? Is he this dominant dude that we are seeing in front of us or is some of it just match ups and some good breaks as well? Well, first of all, yeah, obviously play commanders and week two, that's going to be a part of it. That's going to be part of boosting any receivers numbers. Dude, any receiver goes against the commanders, any number one receiver, they're going to light them up. It's been like a trend even back to last year with a completely different coaching staff. But that's been the case so far. You know, Jamar Chase finally, oh, what's up with Jamar Chase? Well, he plays the commanders. No one cares. He'll be fine. He'll be fine. But that's going to boost any receiver numbers, but yeah, Malik neighbors is a sick player. This guy is really, really good. All the reasons that you would like him in college are apparent on the NFL field right away. So I went and charted his week three game against the Browns just for one. The usage is so, so good with Malik neighbors right now. I think they and I said this at the time after week one against the Vikings, the Vikings might have the best defense in the league and what the heart, it might be the hardest defense to go against for any team in the league right now, certainly if you're Daniel Jones. But I thought they were a little to one Dale Robinson in the first game, you know, where it was just a lot of like little gimme stuff to Robinson, trying to, you know, if an aggressive defensive play call or back there mixing things up and all that. So, but they've eased away from that. I think as the games have gone on, Robinson still has a nice role. He's a good little layup receiver every now and again, but like this passing game should be all based around Malik neighbors all the time. And you look at pretty much any usage stat. That is the case. I mean, he's running away with a bunch of different volume metrics. And I think that was a good thing after week one to just make this more about him. He plays about in just in week three, about half of snaps off the line, half of snaps on the line. They move him around all the positions. I love that. He plays X. He plays flanker. He's not a full time slot player, but he's definitely an over 20% slot player. He gets in the backfield some. So that right there, the usage is great. They have him running so many, just slant routes, drag routes, get him right into Daniel Jones's vision so he can pin that ball on him. But man, there are other times too, we're just from just a man cover sample. I don't think he's, I don't think he is a perfect route runner yet reminds me a little bit. And this was who I kind of compared him to pre draft. It reminds me a little bit of Garrett Wilson in his like rookie season where the route running isn't all the way there, but the separation is there because he's just so darn explosive. So when I say that, that like the route running isn't all the way there from a league neighbors yet, it wasn't all the way there for Garrett Wilson and week one week, I mean week one week, like very early of his rookie season, certainly there now at this point, like this guy can just get better and better and better, which is scary to say because he's already a great player. Like there's the, his first touchdown though, this is the area where I think neighbors has impressed me maybe more than I expected. Okay. As a prospect is for one, he, I think is Martin, Martin Emerson is a Browns corner covering him on his first touchdown and he just like sells him a little bit to nothing fancy, but just like sells him a little bit to the inside and snaps the route outside. And the way he contorts his body at the catch point is just like unbelievable. It was really an out, I think it was an all out outrageous play, how much separation he was able to get. And then still it's not the, you know, the easiest pass to catch. He's got to contort himself on the sideline. That's where it's just been like, Oh my God, this guy's like a nat. He's a natural wide receiver is what I is what I would say about Malik neighbors. So yeah, he's been one of the most impressive producers in the NFL, certainly against a very good defense in the Browns, the charting data shows. He has, he has been working for that. So I think there's a lot going on here scheme, definitely. The fact that there is no one else, they should be prioritizing and they are prioritizing their best player. That's good to see. And you just got a guy who like Daniel Jones is a not a good quarterback, but like a functional quarterback and he can deliver the ball to Malik neighbors. That is kind of all kind of in concert here. In addition to Malik neighbors being an outrageous player, Daniel Jones, what an interesting guy, you know, because I know people want to rag on him and say he's, you know, they got to make a quarterback change or he's not worth it. He's not worth the contract. That's not much is apparent, but as we saw in Carolina, when you had a functional quarterback in there, certain things can be unlocked, certain things can happen. And what I will say about Daniel Jones is he's not an accurate quarterback by any stretch of the imagination. He makes bad throws routinely. But I do think he's got the arm talent to be able to get that ball anywhere on the field. And, and I know that's like such a low bar and low threshold, Matt. But as we saw in Miami, okay, oh, when you don't have a guy that can actually put the ball in, in certain spots on the field, the defense is just going to win. You know, the defense only has to play a certain portion of the field. And when you truncate that to an already, you know, truncated area where the cover two is taking away deep passes like, man, it gets really, really difficult. And so I'm not, I'm not caping up for Jones by any stretch of the imagination. But I am saying that he can get the ball to any part of the football field. And I think that has helped Malik neighbors to know you do you're being fair, you're being completely fair about Daniel Jones, which I think most people just lump all bad quarterbacks in together. And this is especially true when we're talking about receivers, like, Oh, this guy, this guy doesn't have a great quarterback situation, like Malik neighbors just not have a great quarterback situation. Let's be super clear about that. But I did say when he was drafted by the Giants, like, you know, I said this on my Yahoo show, I might have said it on our post draft show that he was uniquely skilled to survive in this landing spot. Not thrive, but survive in this landing spot because he is not Marvin Harrison or Roma Dunes, these like classic boundary ex receivers. Look, like if Marvin Harrison or Roma Dunes, they were playing in this offense with the, with the Giants, they would not be putting up the numbers that Malik neighbors is putting up right now. And that doesn't mean that Malik neighbors is better than those guys or whatever. It's just the way you're going to use Malik neighbors is so much more conducive to a quarterback, like Daniel Jones, because you can, because of the ways you can scheme him up, because of the ways you can get him off the lines from just cause he can make plays in the open field. He can, like I said, run, just immediately get open, like rifle himself open against zone coverage and just be there for Daniel Jones. And he can do something after the catch it that like that was type of, I wrote a piece on the website about Khalil Shakir and sort of time at this type of receiver. And like, by the way, by the way, very prescient. It was very good cause Khalil Shakir had another great game on Monday night. So I love that. Well, Shakir's a baller, bro. I mean, but he is, he is, he is sort of the, this archetype of receiver that I think is very, very valuable in today's NFL. And I think Malik neighbors is sort of the peak of this archetype goes, goes beyond just this archetype, but because, you know, and, and I think this was obviously in the scouting process, something to consider with Malik neighbors is that, yeah, he could go to this offense and thrive because of this. But what I mean by all this quarterback stuff is like, we, we group bad quarterbacks together, but not all bad quarterbacks are created equal, like Daniel Jones is much better than like Zach Wilson or Desmond Ritter. These guys that, you know, Drake London or Garrett Wilson have had to play with. Like those guys, you can't run a functional NFL offense with those guys. You can't really run a good offense with Daniel Jones, but we've seen you can get too functional with this guy. You got to do a lot of work, you got to do a lot of smoke and mirrors, but like that's good coaching. Right? That's what, that's what good coaching is about. That's what good schematic work on offenses about. And when you have somebody on the other end of those smoke and mirrors plays like Malik neighbors who can, who can also, who can also win with no smoke, no mirrors, just go out against your guy. I mean, the one, this one pass that neighbors did not bring in because Jones missed him on it. He just gets on top of the corner so quick because he's so explosive. He is a, I would say he's a good route runner. Like I said, he can get even better, but he's already a good there, especially against press man. That's just, then you have that, like you can, you can create something here. Like the Giants aren't going to be a good team, they're not going to be a great offense. But Daniel Jones is enough to get Malik neighbors, the ball, and I mean, who cares otherwise? Giants have Dallas, Seattle, Cincinnati over their next three games. You look at Dallas. They're very vulnerable, but they're probably, that's going to be a tough game for them. Seattle too. Again, I think that's a winnable game, but probably will be very tough. And let's see where Cincinnati is at because Cincinnati is going to be in desperation mode as well. Anyways, the one thing I would say about Brian Dable too, we haven't even mentioned his name. I think he's done a pretty good job, I think he's done a pretty good job, obviously, scheming it up very nicely for Malik neighbors. As you mentioned, moving him all around the field and not just all around the field on the line mat, but just all over the field in terms of depth. We're going to get him short. We're going to get him intermediate. And yeah, we're going to give him some deep shots. Yeah, 100%. Why not? You know, I think the design for Malik neighbors has been, has been really, really good and really, really impressive. But I will also say this. They have done such a good job designing a functional run game. Their run game over the last two games, I've just been so impressed. And again, Devin Singletary, professional running back. He's like, Devin Singletary is like, and it's funny that they're on the same team. I've said for a couple of years now, he's like the Darius Slaton of running backs. Okay. Like, is he good? No, he's not good, man, but he's like a professional more than just functional. Like he's, you know, he can do all the things that you need to get done at the running back position. You know, whether you're running inside, whether you're running outside, whether you're throwing to the running back out of the backfield, Devin Singletary can make it happen, man. So I've just, like I said, I think I've been really impressed with how Brian Dable and company have kind of leaned on Devin Singletary in the run game. And that balance, I think, has added a lot to the overall Giants offensive ecosystem as well. Yeah. Um, I do think there's, it's going to be a tough season for the Giants overall. I agree. You know, they just get their first win here. Um, you know, they, uh, unfortunately, Malik neighbors dropped the fourth down pass and we too, they might have won that game otherwise, but, um, you know, Brian Dable just looks pretty frustrated all the time. Like, I hope he can survive this for Giants fans because I do think good offensive coach, there's just a few things that, um, there's just a few things that need to be tightened up here. I agree. No, I agree. I agree. I agree. Okay. Um, all right. Let's move on. Let's talk about, uh, let's talk about this. Um, the, the Panthers and, uh, what should fans expect there? What should the, the community at large expect here from Xavier Laguette now that Adam Thelin has been placed on IR, I think Laguette's going to get a real solid runway to actually, you know, exhibit his wares. Pet emergencies can happen at any time. That's why Vege, ER for pets, is open 24 hours a day, including weekends and holidays. Vege has revolutionized the ER experience for pets and their owners. 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I wonder how much he's going to be up to that opportunity just because like I always said with him, he is a he's a big time project receiver. I don't think he's he's ready to be like a true number one, but they don't need to be a true number one because Deontay Johnson career high 122 receiving yards. James, you know what I saw when I watched this game back because I'm a sicko and I had to see Andy Dalton got to check in on the best quarterback in the league, which is apparently Andy Dalton. Most productive quarterback in the league so far, Andy Dalton on a per on a per game basis for sure. On a per game basis. Yep. That's just the world we live in. Like I saw Deontay Johnson get target on 37% of his routes, which is cool. But the coolest thing was I actually saw a quarterback that threw Deontay Johnson a intermediate pass over the middle of the field. There you go. Never seen that in his career. Not one time because he's playing with in Matt Canada's offense with all these goofball quarterbacks. Oh God. It's so brutal. You know, we're having this like meta conversation, you know, but like, how do you beat cover two and two high defenses and all this stuff is a football world right now. We're just like the way to beat cover two and we used to rag on Matt Canada about this all the time when we tell me like the defense is right now playing so much cover two and two high safeties and he's just having him run go routes and curl routes and right into the zones of cover two. That's what Deontay Johnson was doing forever. And now it's like, Oh yeah, Dave can actually call intermediate passes over the middle. And we've got a quarterback who will just be an adult. Just be a big boy and drop back and push those passes over the middle. So that was great to see, but I say that to say, because I, that's also where Xavier Laguette is going to be good. I think right now and he already had a couple of plays against the Saints where he's crossing over the middle. And I see me not the Saints, the Raiders in week three, he's got, he's crossing over the middle and Andy Dalton's just going to pin that thing on him and he's going to pick up yards after the catch in that way. So that I think if you're a Panthers fan, you're looking for ways to get excited about Xavier Laguette is about to have this big opportunity. Obviously only two catches, two targets in this game, but 26 yards after the catch, which was higher than only, only Deontay Johnson had higher on the team. And I think that's where you're going to, by the way, how about Deontay Johnson of all people, 53 yards after the catch. What? Who is this guy? Who is this guy? I love it. He was so excited to play with the best quarterback in the league that he was like, I'm running full. I'm running forward. We don't need me to make, we don't need me to do all the stupid stuff. Yeah. He's normal going behind and all that running backwards and all that. Like, no, we're going, Andy Dalton is going, making us go forward, I'm going to make us go forward. Dude. I love it, man. It's, it is shocking, shocking, how bad Bryce Young must have been because Andy Dalton comes in and just absolutely sets the world ablaze, man. Like, it's the exact same team, Matt. It's the exact same team and you can't be like, oh, well, the Raiders stank. You know, it's like, no, yeah, you know, it's like, it's really not, that's not what it is. I just, man, it's, it is really impressive what Andy Dalton did here coming in in week number three. Okay, let's talk about, I want to talk about Laguette in terms of his role. I think that you, if I remember correctly, you thought that a role, the best role for him would be this power slot. Do you still hold by that? And obviously with Thielin on the shelf, that again, he just can slide right into that role if that, if that, if he needs to be, if that's where he needs to be. Yeah. I think he's a guy that does, like what you don't want him to do is just run out as the extra seaver, which they don't have to do because Deontay is an extra seaver. He's, he's a smaller ex, for sure, but he is definitely a guy that, that you want to get, that he can, he's the best press man beat around the team by a mile. So you can line him up there. What I don't want from Laguette is, yeah, to be an outside big boundary receiver. It's very similar to the trail and Berks discussion from years ago where it's like, the worst thing this guy can do is you just have him out, run out there as an extra seaver, which is exactly what the Titans did for whatever reason. And we've seen what's happened with trail and Berks's career since then, because yeah, I mean, for Laguette, I want to, I think Keon Coleman is like a better power slot prospect. And he hasn't been used this way so far, but like 40% of his routes were slot routes for his neighbor to get in this game. Obviously, Thielin's 76.5%, but so he's going to have some more slot reps, you would think. I also think Mingo, who's like a 50 50 outside wide player for them, a slot player for them. He's a guy who should be getting some slot reps as well. So I'll be interested to see if it's Mingo or Laguette is the guy that gets more slot usage from a percentage standpoint. It was certainly more so Mingo than Laguette this past week. But even for Laguette, you can line him up outside as long as he's off the ball and as long as you're getting his, like you're getting him horizontal routes where he can break open. You do not want him running, you know, the traditional kind of like curls and comebacks and outs and go routes and things like that, he's going to make most of his plays as sort of the non-gagity Debo Samuel type ways is the best way I would say to use him. According to the reception perception pro prospect profile, his best routes really were the dig route and the slant route. You know, I get excited about the dig, but these are two routes, Matt, that will allow him to utilize his after the catch athleticism, right? We're talking about a guy who's 61, 220 pounds, he ran a 4, 3, 3, 40 with a 40 inch vertical. This guy can get out and scoop and the other thing I really love about him too, and I don't know how you feel about this, but I know he only had a 44% success rate on the nine, which is not good. Okay. That's well below average. You want that to be around about 50%, especially at the prospect level, but he was at 44%. There are plays, and I know you saw a bunch of his downfield stuff, but I just feel like there are plays where he's just not open, but he's open. If you know what I'm saying? Yeah. It's a ball winner. He's not a separator of downfield, but he's a ball winner. Right. Right. So that's why that score might not look as good, but to me, I just feel like if he does get downfield and if he's got some nickel corner on him, can you imagine some nickel corner on this dude at 220 pound beast? He's just gonna, I mean, come on, man, like throw him that ball, get him on the seam, get him going downfield, bro. Get him on a nickel corner and let's let him work, dude. That's what I want to see in Carolina's offense. Yeah. I love it. I'm in favor of that. And yeah, man, I just, there's a lot that you can do with because of the flexibility that you can just line up Deontae as the extra seer and like, let him go to work and they're going to do some stuff with him too. They're going to move him around. It's not going to just be solo ex stuff, but you know, you can do, you can do some sacrificial ex stuff with Mingo or whatever to get these cuts kind of working in combination. But yeah, there's some fun, there's some fun potential here with Legat. I just, it might be a little bit of a slow development, but I do think he will be useful in many of the ways that you just outlined there in terms of those digs slants and then being a ball winner downfield. Okay. By the way, it should be noted too, right? Like they brought in Dave canals to be a quarterback whisperer in Carolina, right? He's done this with Gino Smith, right? He's done this with Baker Mayfield. I think those guys need to cut him like they need to cut him a check, all right? Like they've both went and signed $100 million deals after Dave canals. Let's go. Let's go. These guys got to cut our guy Dave canals a little bit of a check. So we thought he was going to come into Carolina, Matt, to renovate and, you know, resurrect the career, the very short career of Price Young, but this is the crazy thing. He's actually going to apply those skills to now Andy Dalton, which is going to be great. Well, okay, so let's talk about this real quick with Andy Dalton. Like this is a guy who's played a long time in the league. No, he's been playing in the NFL since I was in college. So like he's been playing in a long time. I think at this point, you know, again, we're having this sort of meta conversation about why is scoring down to the two high defense boogie man, all this stuff. Right. Even Mel Kuiper of all people is saying to, to, to make too high, come on. What the hell? Too high man. I mean, crazy. I respect the shit out of Mel Kuiper, but that was a crazy thing to say. So like we're having the all these kind of like, you look at some of the best offenses right now, they're all like with their well designed offenses with just veteran quarterbacks who've seen it, been there, done that, whatever. I mean, beyond the freak shows, you know, like Josh Allen and stuff like that. Well, Josh just played a long time in the league, but like think about the lion's offense. It's well designed, players execute, they got guys in there who can do the job and they have just a veteran quarterback who can get, can get the job done has had a catalog of things he's seen at this point, right? Even, you know, Gino Smith in Seattle, pretty good offense right now. It's a well designed offense. And it's a veteran quarterback who's seen it, been there, done that. Gino and other guys played since I've been in college. So like, yeah, we're some of these type of guys, even Mayfield, Mayfield's not as much of a veteran as these other guys, but it's a well designed offense. I know they got blown out on Sunday, but like it's a well designed offense with good players who execute and he's just a veteran quarterback who's seen it, been there, done that like Andy Dalton is that guy, like I'm not saying that the Panthers about to go to the playoffs or they're about to, you know, become the next Detroit Lions or something like that. Like let's get Andy Dalton, my contractor extension or something like that. But veteran quarterback who can with these defenses that I mean, well, hold on, hold on, man. Hold on. I don't know. I don't know. Every stop he's been at these dudes getting 100 million contracts. I'm just saying. I don't know. I mean, I guess anything is possible. Yeah. I don't know about what? 36 year old. Yeah. 36 year old and he's all maybe Andy Dalton's 36. That's crazy. 36. Yeah. But yeah, like 15 years. I think godly. Yeah. Like I said, since I've been in college, getting old. But yeah, like with Dalton, again, with these defensive coordinators that are so far ahead, I think right now, defensive coordinators are, they've got the jump for now on offenses. And that's why we're seeing this, especially all these teams with young quarterbacks, like think about the, think about this conversation we had about the Bears thing with the conversation we have at the Colts, you know, like these are young quarterbacks that have a lot on their plate. Yeah. And like they're just not ready to handle that against some of these really good defensive coordinators and play callers and things like that at this point in their career. But you know, Dalton, you know, you're going to mix up coverages and mix and match and all this stuff. Like I've seen, I've seen the coverages. Okay. I've seen their been there done. I know how to get up to the line and idea blitz and get this guy into this spot and get the protection locked up. If the unit is well coached and well designed, which I do think Caroline is and the quarterback is just a functional veteran that's seen it been there done that like, yeah, you can get a really good offense going at this point. So we'll see what happens the rest of the way in Carolina, but I do think Dalton sort of fits into this archetype of quarterback said, um, can run a really good offense at this point. By the way, I, I love that we're talking about, you know, he's been there seeing that done that and he Dalton has been in the league so long, Matt, that when he first came in cover two was the predominant defense, then it became so outdated that people used to make fun of you for running cover two, right? Then we go through that whole period. Now he's back in where cover two is now back in Vogue. Like he's been in the league so long, what was a fad then turned outdated has now become a fad again. Like that's what's crazy about the, the career arc for, for Andy Dalton. Yeah. And look, we, we definitely talk too much about cover two and two high safeties as a general NFL like analysis community. Yeah. I just, can I, I don't know, man, again, I'm not an exit nose guy, Matt, but can, can, can you explain to me like I'm a fifth grader? Why could, why did, why did offense is tear apart cover two at some point to the point where it was so bad that if you ran cover two, you were laughed out the building to now it's so back that now it's like an unbeatable defense. Like what's happening here? I don't get it. Uh, I think it was less so about that and it was more about like what teams were doing behind it from a pressure standpoint. Like what we always talk about with Minnesota, right, is that they're really good at mixing things up there. Because this is, this is the thing of why it's not like it's not just about cover two. It's about what you do from like a mix and match coverage perspective. Can you rotate the safeties? Can you glove up like underneath coverage? You know, that's a whole other part of it too. And I think that team started to really think about like those offenses that came in vogue, you know, Shanahan and things like that that were really going to play action shots over the middle of the field off of a good run game. And that's where you can find those holes in cover two. I think that's what teams need to get back to because teams could kind of spread and shred against some of these cover three looks and really attack like the Legion of Boom and all those things. That's all cyclical, man. That's just the way it is. I don't. It's discussed as it's this unbeatable coverage. I know. It's not. There are a way that's because I think this is why I'm saying it's like over discussed and like we should be presenting cover two is this some kind of boogeyman. Yeah, offenses figured out how to beat two high safeties before. They will do it again. Good offenses are doing it right now. It's just about like, do you have a quarterback that can, it comes back to coaching too. Do you coach up a good protection scheme? Like do you coach up your quarterback to ID pressure and be like, okay, this is, this guy's coming from here. Like let me move things, slide to protection, whatever. Let's get a chip on this guy so that I can have time, drop back and push this thing in the middle of field. That's the problem right now. It's less so about like the actual, I don't know, shells and the whole thing. It's so, it's like very over discussed. It's so, oh my God, I just, I feel as if we have collectively forgot that cover two was ridiculed not that long ago. I mean, I know I'm, it was long ago. It feels long ago. I know I'm old. I know I'm old. But dude, it wasn't that long ago, like we're talking, I mean, probably less than 10 years ago, it was literally ridiculed. If you ran cover two as your primary base coverage, like that's what's so insane to me. I just, I'm so confused, bro. Like I don't get it. I really don't get it. And now, and now we got Mel Kuiper out here talking about trying to legislate it out the game. What? What? This doesn't make no sense. Doesn't make no sense. Anyways, we got to go. Great show today. I thought we covered a lot of ground. And when we come back, oh, by the way, apologies because we are a day late on this podcast, but, but Matt was obviously traveling and doing some, some things there. So, but anyways, we will be back with you tomorrow. Oh my goodness. We'll be back with you tomorrow. We got plenty to talk about here as we preview here week number four. So, so yes, for Matt, I'm James Scott. I'll see you and remember it's next to you. Peace. At King Super's Pharmacy, care is making it easy to get vaccinated. Care is helping you stay protected from flu, COVID and RSV. Seasonal vaccines are available seven days a week with evening hours. Care is giving you a shot at staying healthy this season. 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