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NFL Insider Mark Schlereth joins the Nation to give his thoughts and observations of NFL Week 1
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And now it's a big guess Carolina Panthers should take that with for what it's worth. And the Carolina Panthers, when you look at their roster construction, you have to understand that I think they, I think they grabbed seven guys or seven or eight guys off the waiver wire. Yes. And I believe five or six of them were starting on Sunday. So, you know, other people's garbage is our gold. So, you know, I mean, you got to understand what their roster is actually constructed like right now. And that's a rebuilding process in Carolina. So, you know, that's just part, that's, you know, part and parcel or part of the course, I guess, out there. But the, uh, the New Orleans Saints, there are several things that are always true or have been true, you know, going back to Sean Payton, they're going to dominate lines of scrimmage. They're going to be built tough from the inside out, both on the offensive line of scrimmage and defense line of scrimmage. And that's going to allow them to do some pretty special things. Coopiac came over there. They're running the heck out of the ball under him, um, under that West Coast offense. The other thing is Derek Carr looked for him to have this resurgence this year because he's back in an offense that he ran for the Raiders, all those years with John Groot and something that he loves. Um, and I think the Saints are, are a sneaky good team that nobody's really talking about. So, this is going to be a big challenge for the Dallas Cowboys without question. I think even more so than what they did last week, uh, obviously with, uh, with Cleveland because offensively Cleveland and Deshawn Watson were just so awful. They're just so bad. So, uh, I think this is going to be a much better challenge for the Cowboys. Stink. I didn't know if you had a chance to go back and watch the cowboy game, uh, on film. I know a lot of you guys break that stuff down every week for yourself. And, but I was just curious though, when you look at, you mentioned the, the Saints and their, the, the trenches and stuff. How would their defensive line be it? Maybe having to deal with Dallas and the two rookies that they're, that they're starting with right now. Yeah. You know, I mean, I haven't, I, I went back and looked at the, uh, at the film of, or peruse the film. I went back and looked at all the Dak Prescott, what he did because obviously, you know, Dak Prescott signed that contract right before the game and then went out there and I thought he played really good football. Um, I thought the thing about Dak Prescott, you know, people don't, I think people always are critical. You know, they see, hey, he was only 19 to 32 or whatever it was. And, you know, they'll look at that and say, well, he wasn't, you know, that stellar. I mean, his completion percentage was not that, I think it was 59% or whatever it is. And I tend to look at things that I think are more important to me. Like, you know what, he threw a couple balls away where he didn't put his team in harm's way in a game that they were controlling. So he didn't let Cleveland get back into it, even took a couple of sacks. I thought, you know, those are self-sacks. Those are one of those things where like, yeah, you know what, let's fight another day. I'm not going to, I'm not going to put us in harm's ways. We're, you know, we're so much better. So some of those things, sometimes, you know, where people will look like, oh, he didn't have a great game because he'll look at statistics. And, you know, I always say this, if you spent statistics in my eyes, either you didn't watch the game or you watched it and you don't know what you're looking at, I thought that was really good in that game. You know, and Cleveland is, Cleveland's an outstanding defense. Don't get me wrong. They just couldn't do anything offensively. And when you play that style, when you don't play complimentary football, when your offense can't possess the ball and your quarterback throws 14 balls out of bounds. I mean, it was awful. It's hard for a defense to stand up. So this is going to be much more balanced attack. And I think it'll be a much bigger challenge for the offensive line of the Dallas Cowboys. You mentioned Dak and everybody and how scrutinized he is. You got to see Derek Carr. What are your thoughts on Derek Carr? Well, there's a couple of things. Derek Carr loves his offense. So, so that's really big. The other thing, and I'll tell you guys, just traveling around the league and doing games. And this is endemic of a lot of young coaches. You always hear, oh, we want to get to a premium play. And so what ends up happening is, there's a couple things. When I say premium play, you're going to call a play or you're going to have multiple plays called and you're going to get to the play that you think is the best matchup. Maybe you're running towards the bubble. You know, if there's a, there's an uncovered guard, that's we call that a bubble. So maybe you're running towards that bubble, or maybe you're running away from the bubble, like whatever, maybe there's a safety rotation. So you're running away from the safety rotation, or you're running to the safety rotation, depending on, you know, what your, your particular deal is, right? And a lot of young coaches want the perfect play called, which I think is absolute garbage. I just think it's so, it is so, you know, let me tell this 80 year old owner that we're always going to have the perfect play on. So it'll hire me. And I think it's a bunch of garbage. And so one thing I know about Clint Kubiak and Rick Dennison, Rick Dennison was a coach when I played for the Broncos and had a ton of success in this league. One of the things they did for Derek Carr was to say, listen, we're not going to have you play on the high dive for 65 snaps. We're going to take you off the high dive. And we're going to give you a bunch of call and run it, or what we call sometimes tank plays, where we just line up and we run it regardless, because it's good against everything. And for quarterback, all of a sudden, you have enough of those plays in there. And then instead of having to operate everything, line of scrimmage with shifts and motions and everything that you do, you just line up and you run it and you let the offensive line come off the ball. You let them be aggressive. And mentally, you don't have to do gymnastics for your quarterback. So ultimately for you, you're like, oh, I've got these 15, 16 plays off. We're also going to do turn around and handle ball off. And it really, it really takes some pressure off you because there's a bunch of times where you're going to have to really orchestrate the entirety of the offense. And Derek loves the offense and he loves the fact they're doing that for him. And, you know, against that Carolina team, now be it. There was probably four or five guys on the defense side of the ball. They got there in late August, right? They were starting. So, you know, it wasn't exactly the greatest competition, but boy, I tell you what, they were humming on the office side of the ball. They really look good and he was super sharp. Stink, I'm glad we're actually talking to you right now because I've been a big fan of yours for a long time. And I know that you will be somebody that can give me good advice in this area. We do survivor picks every Friday. I picked Cincinnati to beat New England. So, I've got to do a bet payoff on this coming Friday. One of ours is the Peter Pants. And it is, you do that, you just go in the pants and now I got to do the rest of the show like that. What kind of advice or guidance do you think I should go through with this? You have to be your pants. It's an option. It's an option. Or what's the other option? There's tons on the tickle. One take a piece feet. Yeah. The ass hat where you wear a dirty diaper on your on your head for the course of the program. Yeah. It's just like, can you just, you just pay the money or you've got to actually have a humiliation shot. It's about the humiliation the suffering. Yeah. But you were, I mean, you were paying in your pants like regularly at work. He kind of made it seem okay. It was all, you know, so sweaty and there's some, you know, a little bit of urine mixture and that's what it wasn't. So it wasn't like it wasn't like it was uncomfortable. But if you're just sitting in your own urine and you're going to sit throughout the entirety of the show, that's not comfortable. I can guarantee you that. But the dirty diaper on your head is certainly not anything that anybody wants to do either. So, you know, if I had a chute between those two, I would, you know, push my pants without even thinking about it. It's Mark Slerith. You're breaking it down for you. We do it. We have the blue injury tent on the sidelines. Couldn't we get some type of bathroom situation for these players going here? Oh, yeah. They have a bucket in there. Oh, just a little sideline bucket is all. Yeah. There's the sideline bucket they do. But, you know, that would be, that would require effort on my part. Like, I wasn't going to give effort. I was already miserable in you now. So what's the little urine in your pants? And you would, you were, you would, you would vomit before games as well. Correct. I have that, right? Yeah. Every game I ever played. Probably all the way back to maybe even high school. Always vomited. We had a trash can in the middle of, well, so the, the offensive line when I played in the demo, we had a little trash can if we were in the corner. So we went down one side and then on the other side, we're right in the corner, the coaches offices were right there. We had a trash can right in the corner. And then, you know, it's like, it's like, once one guy starts chain reaction vomit. Yeah. So we had three or four guys that were real pukers, myself, Tommy Nalen, Matt Lepsis. So as soon as the first guys started puking, then it was a line at the, at the trash can, we'd all just be taking turns standing around group puke. Because once one guy goes, there's a wall, wall, wall, and you got to run to the trash can, and then it's just all over. You just haven't, you know, you have an eight, like I said, it's like a group puke. So that would, yeah, that would happen. Well, every game. Did Shanahan wait for the pregame speech before you guys all started puking? Or did he, was it after? How did, how did that all transpired? We would. So we would come back in from warmups before you got a little white. Hey, guys, we're going to go out there. We're going to do this. And let's, you know, so we would the pregame puke was before when we're going out to warm up. Okay, there we go. Yeah. Yeah. So you're going out to warm up and you're just like, you know, you work yourself up because there's nothing good that can have it for you in your offensive lineman. Yeah. Like, I mean, think about it, you could absolutely dominate the defensive line. You guys can put, you know, 250 yards rushing up, not give up a sack and all that stuff. And ultimately, all you are is a tagline at the end of the game by some star running back. He says, I got to think the big fells up front, man, what a job they do, you know, and that's it. Right. So you can dominate the game and you're just a big fella up front. But you know, give up one holding call or give up one sack. Like, you know, I can kick your ass or 65 plays in a row. I give up one sack. You go to the pro bowl and I'm a piece of garbage. So like that's, that's the paranoia playing the position I played. So yeah, every guy on the offensive line, for the most forever guy I ever played with that. I don't know if it's, you know, if there's a different philosophical approach to the game now, but every guy I ever played with was completely motivated out of fear and paranoia. Like we were an erotic route, like, incredibly rude. Gary Zimmerman is all decade in two decades. And that dude had to drink a bottle of NyQuil to get two hours of sleep before game. And he'd go out with everybody's ass. Like, he just absolutely neurotic. So that's just kind of how, let's just kind of how that position tends to usually kind of operate. You're the man, Mark. Thanks for the insights and the stories. And we look forward to next week. Sounds good guys. Be well. Cheers. There he goes. Mark Schlerith and Sutter calls are brought you by Hellman's Real Manays. You can purchase Hellman's at your local Walmart Kroger or grocery store to add some extra deliciousness and creamy flavor to your game day dishes this football season. Okay. Coming up next in addition to the finest Eric what's in store for us, we got current and former NFL running backs, making some headlines. And we have the good bad and the ugly from the football weekend next year in the nation.