Grant and Danny
The Falcons Upset The Eagles On Primetime
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Up to four lines via virtual prepaid card, a left 15 days qualifying unlocked device credit service ported 90+ days with device and eligible carrier and timely redemption required. Card has no cash access and expires in six months. It's time for Pitch Hit and Run, the official youth skills competition of Major League Baseball. Give the kids in your community a chance to flex their superpowers, and they could earn a trip to the National Finals at the 2025 World Series presented by Capital One. So go ahead, be the one who powers their dreams, and sign up to host the local Pitch Hit and Run event. It's a free and fun way to promote baseball, softball, and your organization. To learn more, go to pitchhitrun.com. Let's talk Monday Night Football. Week two came to an end last night by way of a tremendous game. Both the Falcons and the Eagles were able to run the ball pretty effectively throughout the night. I thought Jalen Hurts in a losing effort was terrific. Only threw for a Buck 83, but he was ultra efficient, only seven in completions. Saquon Barkley is just a difference maker for the Eagles. He ran for 95 yards. He had 21 yards receiving, but he should have had more. On a third and three to put the game away, he dropped a pass in the flat, which gave the Falcons an opportunity down six to go march the length of the field, and Kirk Cousins for the 29th time in his career orchestrated a game-winning drive. And for the 23rd time in his career, a fourth quarter comeback, five completions, 70 plus yards on the road, and the Falcons got a stunning win. Cousins looks right, has a man. Touchdown, Drake London. I don't know what this means in the big picture for Atlanta, because they've still got some flaws and watching Cousins, he's still not quite right. He had good numbers last night. He ended up throwing for 240 and a couple of touchdowns on 20 of 29 passing had a big finish to the game was automatic in the second half, and they ran the ball beautifully. Bijon Robinson and Tyler Algier ran for a combined 150 yards, but they play the Chiefs, the Bucks, the Saints in the next three weeks, they're one in one. There are two teams in their division. They're already two and oh, I know they needed that game. I don't know that I'm buying stock in them right now. Cousins is still a long ways from being all the way back, but you could tell as the game went on last night, he started to trust his leg a little bit more, and he started to just play a little more free and easy. Yeah, 100%. The growth within game, just in terms of comfort level, the was obvious, right? He wasn't driving the ball in anything that's kind of deep or towards the sideline. It just didn't look like himself doesn't look comfortable. I still don't think he's physically right, but what a bizarre game. I mean, we'll talk about the second half and kind of the way that the things ended. Of course, the Philadelphia is just botching of everything, but both offensive lines in the first half were just destroying their opponent. Both offensive lines, Philadelphia and Atlanta dominant pushing people around, just mauling folks. Pijon Ramitz, you already alluded to, could do whatever he wanted. Ticwan Broccoli going eight nine yards a pop. Jalen Hertz was scrambling or designed runs or whatever. They were killing people. And again, zero zero deep into the second quarter, then only one field, a seven, six half times score. When both offenses, as a stencil, we were really good. Just a weird situation, Philadelphia kicking themselves. I'm sure because they missed opportunities. I guess Atlanta missed a couple too as well, but allowing them to kind of linger around multiple different things could have gone multiple different ways from Philadelphia down the stretch to lose that game or to just, you know, win that game, you just behave normally. I don't know what they're doing in that last possession. I don't know what they're doing when they had the football. Cali that. I mean, Atlanta needed that one desperately just because, as you said, what's coming up is tough. Yeah, don't forget about the Eagles losing five of six down the stretch last year and then getting blown out by the bucks 32 to nine in the playoffs. Going into the off season, they fired both coordinators. Remember, we didn't know 72 hours after the season. If Nick Siriani was going to be kept or not, he was still meeting with the owner of the team, Jeffrey Lurie at that point. And there was still questions as to if he would keep his job. So he entered the year in a pretty warm seat. They were lucky to beat the Packers because Hertz threw too bad interceptions. It was a really strange game internationally where neither team played well and the Eagles emerged with a win. They could easily be owned too right now with a disaster of a loss, just a catastrophic terrible loss last night. And in utter collapse, this was Nick Siriani post game. He and several of his players having to answer some tough questions after a game got away. We wanted to, they were, they were running a certain defense and they're jumping it up in the middle. So we're trying to go on the round the outside and, you know, it didn't work. What was your fall pattern there on going, kicking field of 4.3? Did you think about going? You know, again, in that scenario, I was thinking they might not have any time outs there, but obviously they did with the incomplete pass. You know, that would have that would have came down to maybe a minute. And so we wanted to go up six points, you know, and it didn't work. So, you know, the decision to pass it there. Again, like I said, you know, where they were jumping it up inside with it being fourth and three to go for it, I thought, you know, with them not having any time outs, I wanted it to be down a touchdown and. I don't know where you're at on the third and three pass that Barkley dropped. I have no problem with that call. And in fact, it was wide open. Like, let's say it wasn't wide open and they played it well and there was no one to throw to and her had to throw it out of bounds or something. You could kill them more. But even then, I would say the idea was pretty good. When the idea is good and everything's executed beautifully and all sake one Barkley has to do is catch a ball that he will catch the next 99 times it's thrown to a amount of 100. I'm not going to blame the coach for that where I blame him is when they didn't get that. I would have gone on fourth and three because the Falcons in terrible field position inside their own 15 at that point would have had to go to the length of the field to go get a field goal sends time outs, let's say, potentially had you have run that fourth down play and gone and gotten it. You would have won anyway. If you don't get it, they still got a lot of work to do. That's the gripe I have with him was the fourth down decision, not throwing it on third. So yeah, I mean, obviously it didn't work. So because the drop you mentioned by Barkley, the thing is though, if you don't do that, let's just say you do this to touch bushes, you use the full allotment of clock, you force Atlanta to use whatever timeouts they have left. I think they had one at that point, right? And they got an extra because of the incomplete pass, then you've really got them at a disadvantage and you're probably going to get the first down and then you kneel and you kneel down the game. And if you don't, they have no time outs as they take over to go the length of the field. So that to me was the best course of action. Now you you dialed something up that worked. So everyone killing him for that, I think, is it's a little bit silly. It's it's aggressive. It's creative. And as you said, take on Barkley so good, him dropping that pass is not something you'd count on. You run that a hundred more times. He catches it a hundred times. That was the hundred first time. So obviously it didn't work there. But to me, the easy thing would have actually just been the thing to do. They can't stop the touch bush. They still can't. No one can do it. So do it twice, even though it was four and three or a fourth and three or a third and three, rather, is you run more plays with the football instead of the sheer possibility of the clock stopping. To me, I would have rather just forced them into the most difficult possible position, which that didn't do. Huge upset for the Falcons over the Eagles in Philly. NFL underdogs of five and a half or more points. These are the biggest underdogs of the early season and that the 10 biggest spreads are nine and one at covering and they are five and five straight up in those games. It's just a sign that we really don't know anything yet. Predicting these games is borderline impossible in the early part of the season without a preseason, especially. We don't know enough. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Whether you love true crime or comedy, celebrity interviews or news, you call the shots on what's in your podcast queue. And guess what? Now you can call them on your auto insurance too, with the name of your price tool from Progressive. It works just the way it sounds. You tell Progressive how much you want to pay for car insurance and they'll show you coverage options that fit your budget. Get your quote today at progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Progressive Casualy Insurance Company and affiliates, price and coverage match limited by state law. After investing billions to light up our network, T-Mobile is America's largest 5G network. Plus, right now, you can switch, keep your phone and we'll pay it off up to $800. See how you can save on every plan versus Verizon AT&T at t-mobile.com/keepandswitch. Up to four lines via virtual prepaid guard, a left 15 days qualifying unlocked device credit service ported 90 plus days with device ineligible carrier and timely redemption required. Card has no cash access and expires in six months. It's time for pitch hit and run, the official youth skills competition of Major League Baseball. Give the kids in your community a chance to flex their superpowers and they could earn a trip to the National Finals of the 2025 World Series presented by Capital One. 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