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Mike Jones Spins Us Around The NFL
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A lot of the starters have not played, and so that's why it's going to take a little bit of time for them to get their timing down, the rhythm down the flow of these offenses. So we'll come back here week four, everybody will probably be clicking on high cylinders by then. Like, pick one surprise positively and negatively of the team performances in week one that you think actually could be more than an anomaly and actually could be sustainable. A surprise, as far as how badly they looked, was the defense of the New York Jets. I figured Aaron Rodgers is going to be a little rusty. He hasn't played, you know, in the fourth snap, you know, that doesn't really count. And, you know, their defense, especially Robert Solagloin against Kyle Shanahan, who went against every day in San Francisco and every day when they were in Houston together, you thought their defense would be a little bit better. They were bad, and I think that that might not be just, you know, a week one thing. That could be a problem that would hurt them. As far as a team that played well, that surprised me, Sam Darnold and the Vikings. I really did not expect that he was going to look as good as you get. He did. Yes, he was going against the Giants. But everything that I had been hearing was that, oh, the year with Kyle Shanahan really has helped him, watching, learning from him, and then Kevin O'Connell. And I didn't really believe it, but the way we saw him, he was decisive. He took care of the football. He made good throws. He was in a good rhythm. Maybe it just took almost kind of going back to school and learning things the right way for him. Again, it's early, but I'm intrigued to see how this plays out for him. So this is a similar question of what's been asked here, but just deep dive into it. Give me a team that lost in week one where you came away saying, you know what, they're going to be just fine. The Cincinnati Bengals are going to be just fine even though they lost and the Baltimore Ravens, another team that lost and they're going to be just fine. Do you worry at all about that Bengals offense? I mean, this seems to be a thing that they do at the beginning of every year. Joe Burrow, just not healthy last year, injury no one's come back from at the position. T Higgins and Jamart Chase have taken turns being salty. I don't know if you've seen those Higgins, excuse me, the Chase press conferences, but he seems like a deep amount content right now. The vibes are not good. Yeah, they're not good leading up to it. I mean, both of those guys wanted to get paid handsomely and T Higgins had to settle for the franchise tag, Chase has not gotten his payday. But I think once they get into this, they're going to be locked in. It's going to take a couple of weeks again, you know, because they haven't been playing against together. They haven't been practicing together, but they always start slow, you know, and then all of a sudden they kick in. It's like it takes them a little while to get engaged. I'm not worried about them. I think they're going to be fine. As you go around the league here in week number one, what sort of data points are you looking at here, Mike, to go, because here in some of your conclusions makes a lot of sense to me. Like if we gave a team some credibility coming into the season and they played poorly, okay, that's just week one, but there are surprises that happen in teams that kind of creep up on us every year. How do you determine whether, hey, this one is serious, these guys are in trouble and how do you determine, you know what, these guys will be fine. I try to not pass a whole lot of judgment until week four. Mike Shanahan always would say, you know, it takes a quarter of the season for a team to really find themselves. So I try not to make knee jerk reactions, but if you do see things that are like really bad, then, you know, I mean, Daniel Jones, trash, it's not going to get any better. Bryce Young and the Panthers, that's concerning for me, you know, but I also feel like, okay, I'm not going to get really excited about the Saints because of who they were playing. So there's all these variables who they're playing, who they're playing against and how they played, that really make you kind of, you know, either pump your brakes or kind of give them pause and figure, okay, this is going to take a little time. Maybe they're not going to be world beaters, but you saw some good things like Will Levis with Tennessee. That first, you know, the way they started the game looked really good. Second half, once the defense made adjustments, he looked pretty lost. Is he more of the second half or is he more of the first half? I don't know yet, but I think because of what he has around him, there's a chance for him to get better. So that's kind of how I try to look at it. Mike, one more quick one. Daniel Jones was really bad for the Giants in week one. How close to benchable do you view him as in a year? I know it's only one week as you're saying, but it's kind of a, he's got to work out for that front office. Like what's that leash look like for him from Dabel? Well, I mean, I think it's a few weeks because Dabel actually needs to win as well. So they went out, they got Drew Lock. They didn't draft somebody, but if you have another week like this, maybe two more weeks like that, then you really have to start looking at this and saying, okay, we got to make a change because we want to be here next year and we know this guy is not going to be here next year. Mike, thank you as always, buddy. All right. See you guys. The seasons may be changing, but the deals and the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. 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