00:00Would you have gone for it on that fourth down,
00:04or would you have kicked the field goal?
00:07Field goal.
00:08That was so dumb.
00:09Just put points on the ball.
00:10You're choking them to death for four quarters.
00:13They're not going to drive the length of the field.
00:16And if they tie it, then y'all are still tied.
00:19Because if you don't make that fourth, you're tied.
00:21I think he's playing with house money right now
00:25and trying to prove something, but that was a very dumb decision.
00:28How about this?
00:29Speaking of trying to prove something,
00:30you're hired because you think unlike any other head coach.
00:36You act unlike any other head coach.
00:38You're creative.
00:39You're a new breed of head coach.
00:43He's one of the few, I think, who goes for it in that situation.
00:48He's one of the few.
00:49And is he saying to himself, you know what?
00:53We've got three wins on the season.
00:55We're not going anywhere.
00:57We're in Spain.
01:01I don't want overtime.
01:02We killed Mario Cristobal for playing for overtime in that SMU game, right?
01:08And Mike McDaniel thinking to himself, I'm not playing for overtime.
01:13This would have given them, what, a minute and a half to get into field goal range?
01:17Yeah, so there was exactly a minute 44 left.
01:20So they kicked the field goal.
01:22So you're giving Washington a minute and a half just to get a field goal to tie the game.
01:27And I wonder if Mike McDaniel's thinking to himself, you know what?
01:30I'm going to be criticized as a three-win team being one yard away from really putting this thing on ice.
01:36Because they're not in a minute and a half with Marcus Mariota going all the way downfield scoring a touchdown.
01:44Ain't happening.
01:45We've watched them today.
01:46It ain't happening.
01:48So let me just salt it away here.
01:50Now, it didn't work.
01:51And like Clay said, today would have been a completely different show if they didn't come out of there with a dub.
02:01But could you justify it thinking it that way with Mike McDaniel that, hey, you know what?
02:08We're overseas.
02:09The eyes of the football world are watching because it's the only game on.
02:14Let me hammer this ball into the end zone and we'll get out of here with a dub.
02:21And we did it like men.
02:23We didn't kick a field goal.
02:24And let's get out of here.
02:26I can totally see what you're saying and that to be in his mind.
02:31If they were seven and three, not three and seven, he kicks that field goal.
02:35He kicks the field goal.
02:37We're proving we're going to, you know, I'm going to stop him.
02:40So the same thought.
02:40Every win counts at seven and three because you're in a tough division.
02:46Yeah.
02:46So like I said, it's four and seven or three and eight.
02:50Who cares?
02:50I think it's more on the line.
02:52But to be honest, Dan Campbell, he goes for it a lot.
02:55And it bit him in the butt against the Eagles last night.
02:57Yep.
02:58Because he got stopped on the goal line twice, I believe.
03:00But he's the man's man coach that everybody wants.
03:03Dan Campbell says we go for it.
03:05We bite ankles.
03:06We go for it.
03:07If we're that close to the goal line, we're going to go for it.
03:10I just wonder, I'm not telling you that I would have made that call.
03:14I was out of my mind, crazed that they were going for it.
03:19I couldn't believe it.
03:20I literally couldn't believe it.
03:22It hadn't even really entered my consciousness that they were actually going to go for it.
03:29And I'll tell you another thing too.
03:31If it's a 34-34 game, go for the touchdown.
03:35Because y'all's offenses are eating.
03:37Right.
03:38You're sitting at 13-13.
03:40Y'all ain't getting it.
03:41Before that, before that Devon A-Chan pass that got you your money,
03:46Tua was, what, 13 of 19 for 150 yards?
03:51Like, they're not doing crap on offense.
03:54Not only that, I like a coach that says, I trust my team.
03:58I think he was sending his team a message.
03:59We talk about how he hasn't lost the locker room.
04:01Hey, I trust you guys.
04:03Go make this play.
04:04Offensive line.
04:04Everybody's bleeping on you all season.
04:06I trust you.
04:07Go make this play.
04:08But he has to know his offensive line is not capable of making that play.
04:13We all know it.
04:14If the Dolphins' offensive line this season was more productive in that short yardage situation,
04:21I would say I like the decision.
04:24They're not good at converting those plays.
04:27Historically, in the Mike McDaniel era,
04:29they're the worst team at converting third and short, fourth and short plays.
04:33I mean, that's a fact.
04:35So I didn't like it because of that.
04:38If it was a different situation and you've shown that you've been able to convert that play,
04:44I'm with you.
04:45You trust your team.
04:46You say, we're going to go win the game because I like that mentality.
04:49If you're Philly, you've got the tush push.
04:51It never fails except last night when it failed.
04:53But the Dolphins can't make that play.
04:55And even earlier in the game, they failed to convert that type of play.
05:01It was silly.
05:02Like, I'm cool with saying, hey, this guy's got nothing to lose.
05:05They're throwing the kitchen sink at him.
05:07That was dumb.
05:09And even though it worked out, it was dumb.
05:12Do you know what play would have waltzed into the end zone untouched?
05:16And it would have cashed my half yard over for that play.
05:20I agree with you.
05:21I mean, literally, if you've got Tua naked boots somewhere on the play call sheet,
05:26that was the situation that you are waiting for.
05:30Yep.
05:31There is no one on earth that thinks there's going to be a naked bootleg for Tua in that situation.
05:38He waltzes into the end zone untouched.
05:42He would have ran all the way to the oldest restaurant in the world.
05:46Sign Tim Tebow for the jump pass or something.
05:53Like, go do something.
05:54Or how about run a wildcat?
05:57Like, line Tua up to the outside.
05:59Now, again, this borders, though, where people go, oh, you got cutesy when you just need to jam it up the middle.
06:06Like, people always like to play the other side if it doesn't work.
06:08But if they broke the huddle, Tua lines up wide at wide receiver.
06:13Ollie Gordon and Devon Achan are back there.
06:16One of them is going to get the snap.
06:17You don't know what's going on.
06:19Maybe something like that.
06:21No, because they yesterday, I think they did this, but maybe not.
06:25Just bring in Brunskill.
06:26You know how they're doing the extra offensive linemen?
06:29Yep.
06:29Instead of putting them on the actual offensive line, let Greg Dulcich line up as your sixth offensive lineman and just put Brunskill as the fullback.
06:38And direct snap it to Ollie Gordon or to Devon Achan, whoever.
06:43Jalen Wright, I don't care.
06:44And just set up a formation where the quarterback's out of the effing picture.
06:48Tua's literally, if they're not even going to do the naked boot there, Hawk.
06:52They will never.
06:53Right.
06:53They will never.
06:54Then having a Wildcat formation with Tua on the field is worthless because you know he's not getting the ball.
07:00He's not even a decoy.
07:02They're not putting him in a situation to be reckless, which is what the Wildcat does with a quarterback out in the open field.
07:08No, but I would put him out wide and then have him run sideways out of bounds.
07:13But he's not a decoy.
07:14But that'll shake it up.
07:15They don't even have to put somebody over there.
07:17But people can't even believe what they're seeing.
07:19And it just – they start looking.
07:21You freeze the defense because he runs right to the sideline.
07:24Crowder, put Alec Engel, put Devon Achan or Ollie Gordon and put Brunskill all lined up next to one another and just have those two lead.
07:34And at the very least, you have two guys who are going to put their heads and their face masks into people in front of them
07:40because the offensive line can't create any push at the line of scrimmage.
07:45One of those – on the goal – that goal I started at one point when Ken Law slapped Julian Hill in the side of the head
07:52and just grabbed Achan and his whole head was wrapped up in the guy's bicep.
07:58Why is – why are you putting the ball behind a tight end?
08:00To your point, put Brunskill there.
08:02Do put some big dudes on big dudes because they could not block Ken Law on short yardage.
08:08But knowing defenses, guys, and I know it sounds crazy and y'all were BSing,
08:12if Tua goes and lines up at wide receiver, a human being from the other defense has to go out there with him.
08:19They have to – you cannot leave a dude standing there by himself.
08:22It's true.
08:22It's true.
08:23And then watch what happens when he runs straight for the sideline.
08:27That guy – that guy's out of the game.
08:29Crowder, Andy Reid could cover Tua Tungavailoa as a receiver.
08:34Andy Reid could cover him.
08:35So now Andy's at corner, and you only have 10 guys in the box on my 10 guys.
08:41I think I want to win that battle.
08:44Man, look what RC is wearing.
08:46And where are they tonight?
08:48They're in Las Vegas.
08:50That's right.
08:51Vegas and Dallas tonight.
08:53RC is wearing – looks like a leather sport coat.
08:57I don't know if that's a long coat or a sport coat, but it is leather.
09:03I got to – they'll go back to him after the commercial.
09:05Just like Catwoman?
09:07Kind of.
09:11Hey, Huck, did you see people defending that play yesterday?
09:15Because I see some people in the chat defending it.
09:16Joe Shad did an entire column defending the play.
09:21I don't understand it.
09:22And look, genuinely, I like aggressiveness.
09:24I do, but it's stupid.
09:26But that's the – well, it's not stupid.
09:28I mean, even someone in the chat was saying they're 13 of 13 in scoring situations
09:33in, I think, this season, scoring situations when it's something and goal,
09:40first and goal or whatever.
09:42I think they're 13 of 13 this year.
09:44So based on percentages, you have a pretty good chance of getting that ball
09:48in the end zone.
09:49The only thing that I would take issue with was the actual play call
09:53because that's really the only thing that they're going to go out there
09:57and try to defend, right?
09:58I think Washington at that point is saying, all right, if they run it up the middle,
10:03that's where we're going to defend it.
10:04If they get cutesy and they beat us in some cutesy fashion, the Philly Philly
10:10or whatever, well, what are you going to do?
10:12So I would take issue with the play call more than the decision.
10:15Again, I put points on the board in that situation, but also I understand
10:20where Mike McDaniel is coming from.
10:22He's a guy who has shown you time and time again.
10:26He leans towards going for it in most situations.
10:30And as Crowder said, there's RC's jacket.
10:33He's got like a bolo tie from like 2025, though.
10:39It doesn't look like an old Native American bolo tie.
10:43It looks more like a Star Trek bolo tie.
10:46And he's got a leather jacket on.
10:49You've got to see this outfit, man.
10:52And it's 315 in the afternoon.
10:54So it's what?
10:551215 there in Vegas?
10:571215.
10:58Like this isn't his primetime outfit.
11:00This is just something he threw on for the afternoon.
11:04This is the warmup, the track suit.
11:06This is something he just threw on for the afternoon.
11:08He's changing for the game tonight.
11:11100%.
11:12Yeah.
11:12Yeah.
11:12100%.
11:13I just say, as Mike McDaniel, a guy who's known to go for it and believes, as Crowder
11:20said, in his team, and maybe that is another way to show the locker room like, hey, I've
11:27still got your back because you've got my back and let's go out there and do this thing.
11:32Like, but if that doesn't work and Washington does go kick a field goal or even wins it
11:39in overtime.
11:40Well, they're lucky that Matt Gay sucks.
11:42Understood.
11:43I'm just, I'm saying he doesn't have Riley Patterson range.
11:46If it doesn't turn out the way that it turns out, it is possible that Mike McDaniel loses
11:52his job after that game because there's a bye week.
11:55Like it is possible that the decision is considered at that point to be so egregiously dumb that
12:02he doesn't even get to coach another game.
12:05Which is why I don't understand it.
12:06And by the way, the AP put this out yesterday.
12:09That was only the second time since 2000 that a team went for it instead of kicking a field
12:16goal on fourth and goal from the one with the score tied inside of two minutes.
12:21But that's why you hired Mike McDaniel.
12:23No, it's not.
12:24Yes, it is.
12:25No, it's not.
12:25A guy who thinks outside the box.
12:28Remember the offense he was running with Debo Samuel?
12:31It was like, this guy thinks outside the box.
12:34He doesn't run offenses like others.
12:37And so ostensibly he won't run a team like others.
12:42He's a new age guy.
12:44I I'm telling you, this is why he was hired outside the box.
12:49That's dumb outside the box is the shovel passes outside the box is the no look stuff
12:53that he was throwing to Tyreek a couple of years ago.
12:56That's what we hired him.
12:57We didn't hire him to make bad football decisions.
12:59That was a bad football decision for a lot of them to say that's that, that you talk about
13:04the Andy reads.
13:05We talk about the Belichicks.
13:06We talk about the Harbaugh.
13:07We talk about the respected Hall of Fame coaches for them to never make that decision
13:11and him to make it is not outside the box.
13:13Hawk.
13:14It's silly.
13:14It's just damn silly or their P words.
13:22Professionals.
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13:40You guys saw who was on the elevator today?
13:42It was HN, yeah?
13:44No.
13:44Who?
13:45Jack Jones.
13:46Oh, it was Jack Jones.
13:47Jack Jones.
13:50Jack Jones.
13:50Huge, man.
13:52That was huge.
13:53My guy.
13:55Hey, since when did Country Roads become the anthem for NFL fans outside the United States?
14:04Seems to be an international anthem.
14:06They use it a lot at NHL games as well.
14:09NHL Outdoor Games always does a Country Roads.
14:13I'm not complaining, by the way.
14:14I love that song.
14:15That might be my go-to karaoke song currently.
14:18It changes.
14:18It varies.
14:19But when did that get adopted by the international fan base?
14:24I don't know.
14:24It's a good sing-along song.
14:26Very American.
14:27Take me home, Country Roads, to the place I belong, West Virginia, Mountain Mama.
14:42Take me home, Country Roads.
14:47Those are the real words.
14:49Yeah.
14:49I think.
14:50I think.
14:51Well, you got it.
14:51West Virginia.
14:53I did?
14:53Take me home, Country Roads?
14:55It's Country Roads.
14:57Take me home.
14:58Yeah, you're right.
14:59It says West Virginia Mountain Mama.
15:02Yeah.
15:03Yeah.
15:04Like a woman in West Virginia?
15:07I don't know.
15:08However you define a mountain mama.
15:09I've never listened to the words.
15:13I don't think about lyrics at all.
15:15I just sing them.
15:18That's America's anthem in Spain?
15:21Come on, man.
15:22All the London games.
15:24They sing that song.
15:25Like every time there's an international NFL game, that song goes viral.
15:29Like people posting the video of the entire crowd singing it.
15:32Let's give it to DBJ.
15:33There's two games left.
15:34I think we have.
15:35We have?
15:36Yeah.
15:36I mean, we'll give it to him again.
15:37Who cares?
15:39All right.
15:39Let's go with Apple Bottom Jeans.
15:42Take me.
15:43Apple Bottom Jeans.
15:45The flurb with the derb.
15:47I think that's as catchier as song.
15:49How about the game balls, gentlemen?
15:55And, you know, I get it.
15:57You know, you guys have to keep your agenda moving here, your narrative moving.
16:02No, Riley Patterson deserved a game ball.
16:04Well, no, no.
16:04But, I mean, it's 3-20.
16:05We've done an hour and 20 minutes of the show yet.
16:07Neither of you have mentioned the MVP from last night's game or yesterday's game.
16:11He wasn't the MVP.
16:12In Riley Patterson, he was the MVP.
16:13He was not the MVP.
16:14I mean, it's not even close to the MVP.
16:16Devon H.N. was the MVP by a mile, as always.
16:18They couldn't even kick a one-yard field goal because they didn't trust Riley Patterson.
16:22I mean, he hit the game-winning field goal and had more points than anybody else again.
16:27No, he's been a baller.
16:28He has.
16:29There's no question.
16:30You got your pickleball championship.
16:33You got Riley Patterson.
16:35I mean, you got a couple that you can lean on for the next couple of months.
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