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00:00on a tuesday afternoon at 2 30 that means we go right to the guest line to talk to our buddy
00:04mark slurith we're joined by the odyssey nfl insider and host of the stinkin truth podcast
00:10listen to the stinkin truth podcast now on spotify or apple podcasts insider calls are brought to
00:16you by nationwide for your insurance and financial needs nationwide is on your side mr slurith how
00:22we doing this week i am doing great how are you guys uh we're pretty good not as good as we've
00:28been i'm sure you saw the game in cincinnati they didn't necessarily dominate they got the win and
00:32it came at a cost they lose a couple players to injury injury namely a couple starting offensive
00:38linemen so i want to start there will campbell jared wilson left tackle left guard rookies looks like
00:43they're going to miss weeks uh multiple weeks each even if they avoided season ending injury
00:49not ideal but how big a deal is that i mean it's that's huge and they have been such a i mean such
00:57great tandem but such a pleasant surprise i think for two rookies to be out there on the left side
01:02and really you know ultimately dominate uh i think that's been a you know that's just been one of the
01:07great things that they've had come their way but listen man this is just the nfl i mean guys get hurt
01:13guys get injured and you've got to be able to figure out a way around those things and and i guess
01:18here's the good news like like i said not ideal um actually kind of sucks but the good news is you've got
01:25an unbelievable offensive coordinator and you can say whatever you want about josh mcdaniels
01:29as a head coach and his tenure as a head coach both with the broncos and the raiders but that dude is
01:34a phenomenal game planner and a phenomenal play caller and he understands his responsibility in keeping the
01:43quarterback clean he understands his responsibility in how to call a game um to to help your offensive line
01:51go from you know like i always say taking the passive out of pass protection and being the going
01:57from a passive kind of passing play to being able to be an aggressor in those situations so i think the
02:04best coaches in the league in my opinion really understand everybody's issues and they mitigate their
02:12own issues before they attack you know the defense's issues so you've got a great play caller in in josh
02:19mcdaniels who will have a plan to help that left side so that's the good news but um all that said
02:26it still sucks to lose players so stink it sounds like you feel as though josh mcdaniels may have to be
02:34first and foremost to quote step up in the absence of your left tackle and your left guard be they
02:40rookies or not being out for possibly a month or more who else needs to sort of step up and fill in here
02:46or is it just like not just a next man up but like a team-wide need for everyone to do a little more
02:51yeah i think it's i think it's one of those things you just have to understand
02:55like you have to understand you know like how difficult this situation is and then you know
03:02you really have to mitigate your own potential disasters first and i think it's really like i think
03:09it's with a lot of younger coaches or a lot of coaches that maybe don't have the experience
03:14um you know they'll see something that they want to attack and even though it exposes a weakness of
03:22their own team they can't overcome the fact that man this is a juicy matchup and we've got the
03:28potential to make a big play here and you know experienced coaches really great play callers really
03:34great play designers and schematic designers will look at that and say man we can't attack that
03:41because it opens us up to potential disaster and ultimately what ends up happening and this is an
03:47old belichick thing right more games are lost than one that's how you lose games you attack something
03:54you attack something say man we just got to take one more shot at next thing you know tight game
03:58strip sack fumble uh game's over you lose and so those are the things that you have to be able to do
04:05as an organization and so it it is more than next man up it's how are we going to give ourselves the
04:13best chance week in and week out and i think they're unbelievably well coached i think vrabel is
04:18is as good as it gets right now in national football league as far as being a head coach is concerned so
04:23they'll have a plan insider calls like this one with mark schlereth are brought to you by nationwide
04:27for your insurance and financial needs nationwide is on your side uh mark there were uh some goal to
04:34go situations on sunday in cincinnati against a bengals defense that is supposed to be historically
04:40bad uh where the patriots just couldn't find success i think they were actually stuffed at the one yard
04:45line six times in the third quarter there were tush pushes traditional runs nothing could work uh you've
04:52talked about vrabel and the physicality and winning the trenches how alarming is that that they
04:56couldn't punch it in with six tries yeah i mean it's not ideal obviously and it is one of those
05:03things where you know sometimes you give you guys an opportunity to say man we're gonna like we're
05:09gonna lean on you guys you guys got to go out and win these battles and um you know and and as a
05:15player i always wanted that i wanted that opportunity i wanted to prove that um that you know we could run
05:21the run the ball when you have to run the ball it's one of the things i always say about the red zone
05:25and everything else is running the ball is not you know popping a 14 yard run on third down and seven
05:31you know like hey we ran a draw and next thing you know you compile 145 yards rushing but you really
05:39had two breakout runs the rest of time you were garbage running the ball is when everybody and
05:44their brother's uncle knows you're going to run it everybody in the stadium the defense knows that you
05:49know it everybody in the stadium knows it and you still can churn out a first down you still can
05:54churn out four yards you still can pop one over the goal line that's when you know you're good
06:00when you know you can really run the ball and you know i appreciate braves putting all the guys and
06:06say man we're going to put this on you guys go out make something happen but when you see them get
06:10stuffed when you see you know consistently on the goal line them getting stuffed in those situations
06:16um that makes you you draw back and go okay maybe we need to throw some play action maybe we need to
06:22change it up a little bit um and then you saw the you know second time they were down there they got
06:27the fourth down and one from the one yard line they ended up just kicking a field goal i think to make
06:30it 23 to 13 at the time so um you know it's one of those failures you go back and you look at and say
06:37what can we do better um but it is disappointing no question about it so with a team like the new york
06:44giants coming to town you know their record is not great and they're starting their third string
06:49quarterback famous jamis who's gonna take one and he's gonna give you one um should a team like
06:55that be kind of feared uh you know obviously you respect every opponent it is the nfl you want to
07:01try not to overlook them and get into a trap game but a two and ten team that is basically you know
07:07playing with house money and has nothing to lose would a team like that be one that you would almost
07:12kind of uh have to prepare extra for because you know they're calling trick plays and have nothing to
07:17lose yeah i don't know about preparing extra i mean they're going to do what they do and there's
07:23always going to be you know some unscouted looks that you're just going to have to deal with but
07:27the bottom line is if you look at them and and you mentioned their record at two and ten man how many
07:32games if they had to lead in the fourth quarter five or six games you know with i mean they had the
07:37broncos down by 18 19 points something like that they had chicago down 10 points um you know 10 points
07:45with uh like three something left to play and and they come back and you know and lose that game
07:52they just fired their defensive coordinator because of all the collapses they've had in the fourth
07:56quarter they already fired their head coach so um like these are these are real issues like they
08:02have when you watch them on film i guarantee if you go through it you'll be like damn they're they're
08:07a lot better than their record would indicate they've just given it up um you know at the end of
08:12game so they're a dangerous team and as you mentioned famous jamis like that dude can make
08:17some plays you saw the reception he had for the touchdown the other day was remarkable but like
08:23he'll throw into a team meeting now uh he ain't afraid like he will just he just throw right in
08:29their defensive team meeting and see what comes you know and sometimes obviously you can turn that ball
08:34over but sometimes he'll fit it in there and it'll become a big play so it's that kind of um like i said
08:41that unscouted look that that hey man he'll never throw it over here and he will um those are
08:46things that you have to concern yourself with mark last week we asked you about a spitting incident
08:51uh this week on monday night football we see juan jennings get hit in the uh i guess ron burgundy
08:58would call it the baby maker by trayvon morig um kept his composure during the game then kind of
09:04got a little uh retribution after the game what's your history uh either punching or being punched in a
09:10very sensitive area yeah i don't like that wasn't i mean it hasn't happened you know i mean you might
09:17get grazed in the coin purse every now and again but um it's not like intentional i don't think and so
09:24um you know it just was like there was a different time you know like there was this frontier justice
09:32where you you know when i played you you policed the league policed itself and so there was like if
09:39somebody did something stupid um you took a you know mental inventory and you logged it and then
09:47within the next drive or two um there was going to be some payback and and that's the way it operated
09:55and and you knew if you did something cheap it was coming your way and you know it was just like i
10:02mean listen i'm gonna hold you on every single play and i knew as soon as we threw a pick man
10:09somebody's gonna light my ass up like because they're sick of being held and so as soon as it
10:14happened you're just like there was an expectation somebody's gonna blindside me and and you know what
10:22and i probably deserve it and so you just you kind of live with the consequences um and nobody was
10:27malicious and trying to injure you but if you know if you could knock somebody's ass out you're gonna
10:33take that shot and so like right now there is there's so much you know we're so conscientious about
10:41um about not hurting people's feelings and you know and not oh we can't celebrate and we can't do this
10:47that and the other that um i don't know it just feels like it just feels like there's you know the
10:54retribution is after the fact almost fake tough guy hold me back um as opposed to you know the way
11:01it used to be where you you really get after somebody within the you know between the whistles
11:05uh all right i'll ask uh lastly um as a longtime follower of all the food stuff you do with the
11:12stinking green chili and the queso and all that jazz uh i know you're a big food guy big tailgater so
11:18what does the schlereth thanksgiving look like and uh what's the power ranking on the dishes and how
11:25you how you prep your thanksgiving meal um well my wife does all the cooking so i uh i just partake
11:33but the one thing that i do is um for years and years and years my mother um picked cranberries uh wild
11:43cranberries from alaska and she would send them down and they're very small very tart cranberries
11:49and i make uh the cranberry sauce and really my thanksgiving dinner really consists of nothing but
11:55uh turkey and cranberry sauce and i smother my turkey in the cranberry sauce and that's
12:01pretty much all i eat and it's freaking delicious it's the best cranberry sauce you ever had
12:07all right i would say that is on brand for an nfl offensive lineman mark schlereth we uh we
12:12appreciate you joining us do have a happy thanksgiving enjoy all the good football games
12:17thursday friday over the weekend we'll talk to you next week sounds good guys take care thanks mark
12:21thanks nick that was odyssey nfl insider mark schlereth host of the stinking truth podcast
12:27insider calls are brought to you by nationwide for your insurance and financial needs nationwide is on
12:32your side remember to listen to the stinking truth podcast on spotify or apple podcasts mark had a
12:39very uh distinct reaction on who needs to step up for the patriots in the wake of the will campbell
12:45situation injury we'll talk about that next and we'll also look at the rankings the rankings are out
12:51and did you know the patriots actually fell in one power ranking this week with a win in cincinnati
12:57that's up next here on weei
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