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ITL dives into a fresh round of Would Ya Rather?: Jonathan Taylor running for 100 or Daniel Jones throwing for 250? Beat the Colts this week or the Chiefs next week?
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00:00But it feels like the perfect situation to do a little Would You Rather,
00:03Colts edition.
00:03Yeah, because it's not just a pivotal game, as you said.
00:07Pivotal!
00:07It's going to say a lot, man.
00:09You know, coming off, finally coming off the games you've just played
00:11and then playing the division leader and all that.
00:14So let's play a little Would You Rather.
00:17And, Figgy, of course, you are in on this.
00:20Would you rather Jonathan Taylor run for 100 yards
00:24or Daniel Jones throw for 250 yards?
00:27Daniel Jones, as you may well know, I mean, he has a streak,
00:32I think, of like four or five games.
00:34He's damn near throwing 300 yards every game.
00:36And 250 yards is a lot in the current circumstance.
00:40Like, again, whatever you think of as, wow, that's a good amount of yards.
00:44I think take that minus 30 because offense has been down all the way around
00:48by 30 yards this year.
00:50So 250 is a ball game.
00:51And so 250 is a, yeah, you had a solid ball game.
00:54That is real problematic.
00:56Like, on the other hand, Jonathan Taylor, go for over 100.
00:59Yeah, you're taking time off the clock.
01:04This is really uncomfortable.
01:06This is very, I mean, neither of those are particularly good.
01:08I'm trying to figure which one of those breaks the game the most.
01:14It's probably Jonathan Taylor running the football.
01:16I think Daniel Jones throwing for 250.
01:18I don't think I'm happy about it.
01:19Also, I think what that means is that he's felt the need to throw the football a lot.
01:23And so is there more opportunity for interceptions within there?
01:27Like, I think that that probably is something that exists.
01:29And, well, yeah, I'm going to go with that.
01:32I'm begrudgingly.
01:33I don't think any of the either of those are particularly good opportunities for me.
01:37I'm going to say, honestly, if Jonathan Taylor can rush a little more,
01:42I think I would rather take that because we saw it last week how James Cook,
01:47I know he had, like, a bigger run that kind of made his yards look a lot more.
01:52But they found the way to win and dominate even with James Cook having an okay game.
01:59I think it's an easy answer.
02:01Is it Jonathan Taylor?
02:02I would much rather Jonathan Taylor rush for 100 than Daniel Jones throw for 250 or more.
02:07When he has thrown for 250, can I interest you in some stats?
02:10Oh, no.
02:11When Daniel Jones is thrown for at least 250 yards, the Colts have put up 33, 41, 40, 31,
02:21excuse me, 38, and 38 points.
02:24If Daniel Jones is throwing the ball, their offense puts up a ton of numbers, a ton of points.
02:30I would rather just take my chances limiting Daniel Jones.
02:33This sounds so weird to say.
02:35It's really rough.
02:36It sounds so weird.
02:37And that's the thing is, like, I think also the idea of stopping Jonathan Taylor would be,
02:42seems to be.
02:43You would think Jonathan Taylor, right?
02:44Stop him.
02:45Fair enough.
02:45Josh Allen threw for 250 in the Texas still won.
02:48I think that's part of what I'm thinking about as well,
02:50especially because this is an explosive offense.
02:52I could see it to where that 250 is probably like they had a 75-yarder and then like a 40-yarder,
02:58and that's the majority of what we're talking about to begin with, right?
03:00I think it's simple.
03:01When Daniel Jones, if he's allowed to have a good game and throw for 250 yards,
03:05they're scoring in the 30s and 40s.
03:08Oh, I like what we're doing here from the 8-3-2.
03:11Throwing yards, it could mean that they were behind.
03:14I like that.
03:15It could be.
03:16Because you're not running Jonathan Taylor like that if they're just behind.
03:20This season shows if he's having a good game, they're lighting up the score.
03:23Sure.
03:24And then the other thing I was thinking about is just the way that the clock goes if Jonathan Taylor is able to run the football like that.
03:30Although, a text does come in where they come with the idea of he also can create explosive plays.
03:36What happens if he has a good 57-yarder?
03:39And then the rest of it is just like another 40-something yards of fine on a whole bunch of carries.
03:45I promise I had this one on the dock here before we had that conversation with B. Scott.
03:52I think we know the answers here now.
03:54Would you rather beat the Colts this week or the Chiefs next week?
03:58I think it's the Chiefs next week.
04:02Probably.
04:03Honestly, I kind of want to beat the Colts, man.
04:06Maybe it's a personal thing.
04:08That matters.
04:08That counts.
04:09Yeah, I think I'd rather beat the Colts.
04:11I have the same feeling, but feelings don't matter.
04:13I'd rather beat the Chiefs.
04:14If you had to pick one or the other, based on what we just said,
04:17your playoff probability, you know, if you beat the Chiefs and the Chargers,
04:20is higher than even if you beat the Colts.
04:22Yeah, and honestly, I want to be able to say beat the Colts
04:26because not only, like, I think there's also the idea of you get that win
04:29and then, you know, you look at it and you still have an opportunity to win the division,
04:35but I think we were talking about it.
04:37If you win the division, that's cool,
04:38but, like, the perspective simply has to be getting to the dance.
04:41And, you know, I do like the idea of having the possibility
04:44of getting that tie break versus them.
04:46Like, I think that that would be really fun.
04:48That'd be really cool.
04:48No, that's true.
04:49So, yeah, I hear it because also the Colts,
04:52the rest of their schedule is also still very tough.
04:54Like, you could not win that game and still see them falter,
04:57especially if what the trends are of us seeing them playing,
05:00the Colts playing right now, if those trends continue,
05:03they might be falling anyway.
05:04All right.
05:04Without knowing the, you know, who wins, would you rather the final score?
05:09This is a good question.
05:10The final score of Sunday's game be 17-14 or 31-28?
05:18This is a really good question.
05:20And the reason is, I mean, there's, you can make such a strong argument on both sides.
05:25The thing that I'm thinking about, because, again, it's basically.
05:28If you win 17-14, your defense mauled somebody again.
05:30Your defense absolutely shut them up.
05:33If you win 31-28.
05:34And your offense did the thing that they do, which is just kind of, eh.
05:37Then I'm kind of like, who was the quarterback?
05:39Oh, yeah, that too.
05:40Oh, I hadn't considered that.
05:42You added another fly in the waitment there.
05:44Because the 31-28.
05:45If it's Davis Mills, then I'm happy as hell.
05:4731-28 would say that your offense did some things.
05:49But your defense all of a sudden against the team that can put both in.
05:52But if it's C.J. Stroud and he helped put up 31.
05:56I'm not saying they win.
05:57I'm saying the final score is 17-14 or 31-28.
06:00Oh, you're not saying you don't.
06:01Without knowing who wins.
06:03Without knowing who wins.
06:04Oh, well, that feels like you lost that football game.
06:08But honestly, if this Texans offense put up 28 or 31.
06:13Yeah.
06:14With C.J. Stroud, I would be a little more encouraged.
06:17Win or lose.
06:18Yeah, if they put up 31, that's like.
06:20And you know what's funny is, I don't even think that that's the defense falling apart.
06:23I think that's also, you probably have some special teams woes in there as well.
06:28And then I have a whole bunch of hair pulling out moments that are pop.
06:3217-14.
06:3317-14.
06:34I think that that's the one that you're more likely to win of those two.
06:36I think if you had told me you win in either of those circumstances, I'd go with 31-28 because
06:40I believe that your offense has gotten better.
06:42Your defense, you trust them strong enough.
06:44Even though in that one instance, you can maybe go, oh, they had a bad game or whatever.
06:48You know that they can close out games.
06:49Or at least that they can play solid enough to get you to those circumstances.
06:53Seeing the offense flourish would be great.
06:54I just, the 31-28 doesn't guarantee a win.
06:58I think 17-14 to me does.
07:00I'm going to say 31-28, man.
07:02Because that way, I feel like I got a little more faith in the offense.
07:06Maybe the offense is clicking somehow.
07:08Even if it's with Davis Mills.
07:10Win or lose, give me 31-28.
07:12Because we've seen signs.
07:13We've seen a little progress on the offense.
07:16I'm not worried about the defense.
07:17I was going to say, I still got faith in the defense.
07:21If they gave up 31 points or 28 points.
07:25That means the offense all of a sudden is starting to...
07:27I would feel a little better about the offense.
07:28Yeah, starting to put some things together, win or lose.
07:30That is absolutely fair.
07:31I think you guys know.
07:32I don't want this.
07:33I don't want the margins to get any thinner.
07:34We were just talking about it with B. Scott.
07:36We just said it there.
07:37You probably want to win that Chiefs game more than you want to win this Colts game.
07:40Right.
07:41I don't want to get these margins any thinner, man.
07:43Yeah.
07:43All right.
07:43I want you guys to really think about this one.
07:45This next one.
07:46Would you rather have...
07:47I wasn't thinking about the other ones.
07:49At all.
07:49Would you rather have the Texans challenge a play or have a play challenged?
07:59All right.
08:01So, just to make it abundantly clear, it's either D'Amico Rines is throwing the red challenge
08:06flag or Shane Steichen is challenging something.
08:09Shane Steichen is a little better at challenges, right?
08:11Well, that's part of the reason we asked this question.
08:14I think I'd rather have Shane Steichen challenge a play.
08:18I mean, I think I've gotten to the...
08:21It's very clear that I don't trust D'Amico Rines.
08:23And really, it's more the apparatus that he has when it comes to challenges.
08:27And I think that that puts you in a place where you might lose a timeout that you probably
08:31need.
08:32Mm-hmm.
08:33Especially with the way that they use timeouts.
08:35Yeah.
08:35I would probably rather Shane Steichen throw a challenge out there, man.
08:40Hey, it's a trend.
08:42Me too.
08:43And then that's not...
08:44Keep that flag in your pocket, D'Amico.
08:45And that's still not saying that, especially when it comes to the timeouts, because sometimes
08:49it seems like they don't be using them at the right time.
08:51Well, this ties in with game management, you know, just in general.
08:54Much less losing a...
08:56You know, because of you losing a timeout.
08:57That second, or I think the end of that first half, that was about to be awful if they didn't
09:03score.
09:03I think they scored towards the end, right?
09:05They did.
09:05They did.
09:05But if they didn't score, that would have been awful, man.
09:08It also bugs me that, and this was going back away, but when D'Amico said, you know,
09:13they told me, basically said they told me to throw the challenge, and I hadn't had a chance
09:17to see it.
09:18I don't know if I trust anybody up there.
09:20Well, that...
09:20Who the hell is they?
09:21That's who I have more consternation for.
09:24Like, D'Amico Ryans, I think there's so much that a coach is doing in that instance.
09:28That's why you have those people there.
09:29Yeah.
09:30And for him to explicitly say that, it was already like, hey, what are you seeing?
09:33Who is telling you to do this?
09:34And then for him to be like, well, they just told me to do that.
09:36Yeah.
09:37And that, oof.
09:38I don't have belief up there.
09:39I agree.
09:40Would you rather Stroud not get sacked, zero sacks, or the Texans rush for more than 120
09:47yards?
09:48Oh, it's the rush for 120 yards, without question.
09:51He's coming off a concussion.
09:52I hear you.
09:53And that's 100% fair.
09:55He's not technically cleared yet, at least not of anything that we've seen.
09:58Neither him nor Petrie as of right this moment, but we anticipate that that happens by the
10:04end of the day.
10:04We'll see what we get.
10:06But no, I think, again, one of the things that we've talked about, and actually, this
10:10could work counter to me, but if you go and you rush for 120 against not the Buffalo Bills,
10:16I can actually look at this and go, the offensive line has some push, and this might be actually
10:20sustainable, and this is what they've hinged their entire supposed offensive identity on
10:26as being able to run the football.
10:27If you come out and show me that you can actually do that in a way, in a circumstance that's
10:30not against a very bad run defense, I go, oh.
10:33I mean, it's not a great run defense in the Colts.
10:35I want that to be acknowledged.
10:36But it would be like, oh, this might be something that you can actualize.
10:40You might have actually found some answers here outside of just throwing the football.
10:42I think, in my head, I'm like, Stroud can get sacked one time.
10:47Just keep your head up?
10:48Yeah, just keep it.
10:49Just get sacked one time for us to run for a whole bunch of yards.
10:52CJ, sound good?
10:53What do you think, Figgy?
10:54Honestly, I kind of don't want CJ to get sacked.
10:57Fair.
10:57I'd rather the offensive line just come out of that game with no sacks giving up and keep
11:03CJ Stroud up.
11:04And I know it could be a little soft sack that don't mean nothing, but I'd rather be safe
11:09than sorry, man.
11:10Yeah, me too, and also, both of these things, in different ways, are going to show progress
11:16with the offensive line.
11:17Without question.
11:17If Stroud does not get sacked, the offensive line is protecting him, obviously.
11:22If they run for 120 yards, even if Stroud gets sacked, your run game, all of a sudden,
11:26you know, is looking healthier.
11:28I was going to ask you, somebody said easiest one yet, no sacks.
11:31Okay, y'all are just like, don't need to run the football at all.
11:33I'm with Figgy.
11:34I see you, 2-8-1.
11:35I don't want any sacks.
11:37But yeah, this offensive line, though, which of these do you feel like,
11:40is, I guess, speaks more to what you believe they're capable of doing.
11:44Because I feel like the one that is more capable is no sacks.
11:46We've seen this offensive line configuration do that with Davis Mills.
11:49I don't know that we've seen them put up like, hey, 120-yard rush games behind this line.
11:53Yeah, you're probably right.
11:53That would be more of a statement kind of thing, if they can rush for 120 yards.
11:58Would you rather the Chiefs, Jaguars, Chargers, and Bills, the four teams that you're battling for a wild card with for a wild card,
12:09would you rather the Chiefs, Jaguars, Chargers, and Bills all lose or the Texans win?
12:15Oh, it's a, ooh, wait a minute, hold on.
12:17I think it's the, I think it's the others.
12:20I think it's the others all lose.
12:22So you'll take a loss if those other teams also all lose.
12:24I think so.
12:25I think so.
12:26I think that this is one of the tougher games that you have.
12:28I think that you also, you know, you have the opportunity to still get your wins.
12:33We were just talking about this.
12:34Yeah.
12:35That is a whole bunch of teams losing.
12:36And one of the things that, again, Reggie's anxiety is popping up is that Jaguars team over there
12:41and the easiness of the ease of their schedule.
12:43Like, I want them to ask Mel's in here.
12:45Like, I sincerely do.
12:47Because I know that you have the Texans losing in that instance as well.
12:50But at least you get the Jaguars getting a loss.
12:53I don't feel as bad about the Colts in the remainder of their schedule because they got a lot of tough games in there too.
12:58Yeah.
12:59Give me all them other teams catching a loss.
13:01I'd rather the Texans win, man.
13:03I think they want what they want, three in a row already?
13:06They have.
13:06I kind of want them to keep going, man.
13:08Kind of build on something, man.
13:10So, you know, I'd rather win this game and everybody win rather than everybody lose.
13:16And you do have a path to, like, control your own destiny if you can win all these games.
13:20I think that that's fair.
13:20This is me being neurotic of sorts.
13:23Yeah.
13:24Looking at this and going.
13:25Yeah.
13:25And I kind of think about just them getting that magic word momentum.
13:29Just kind of getting some momentum.
13:30Well, you see why I didn't pick that then.
13:32Yeah.
13:32So, I'm trying.
13:33You know, I kind of want them to get in the groove a little bit.
13:36I hear you, but I'm actually with Reggie on this one.
13:38I'm looking for the easiest path.
13:40The easiest path is they all come back to you.
13:43And, you know, you can still.
13:45We talked about it a couple times already.
13:46You know, you can still get there with it.
13:48Actually, easier with if you had to lose one or the other with losing this game and winning those others.
13:54Finishing the season with 10 wins is where you're looking for.
13:57And 10 wins can be had if you get four more.
13:59It doesn't have to be this weekend.
14:01It'd be really good if you added one this weekend.
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