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A Sunday Stinker and a Monday flight from hell has JP feeling some type of way on this misery Monday.
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00:00We got JP finally gotten here, and let's go to get College Park and go to Charlie,
00:04and then we're going to get to you, Jay.
00:06No, Charlie can hold.
00:07Everybody can hold.
00:08If you're on hold, stay there.
00:09We'll get to you.
00:10I want to start Monday with a giant bleep you for an unnamed airline,
00:15and we're going to start there, and I'm going to keep the airline's name to myself,
00:19but bleep you all the way to wherever your headquarters is and back.
00:25At most, I should have been about five minutes late.
00:27Like, I was supposed to land at 945.
00:30Not only they're delayed because some – the amount of cursing I want to do is astonishing,
00:36but I'm going to try to control myself.
00:38Nobody can find the log.
00:41That's the delay this morning.
00:42Nobody can find the log.
00:44I imagine the pilot half – like, shouldn't that be in the goddamn cockpit?
00:49Where does the log go?
00:52So then, in the half hour, it takes these absolute imbeciles to find the log.
00:57We're in Minnesota.
00:58It's four degrees.
01:00Then the damn plane ices up.
01:02So then you've got to de-ice.
01:03I understand that.
01:04But if we were ready to go, we would have just gone and not have to de-ice.
01:08Then, Brian, we land here in Washington.
01:11Of course, the parking spot's not ready.
01:16Of course.
01:17And then because this is a regional jet – on what planet is Washington, D.C.
01:23and Minneapolis in the same region?
01:25Why are you sending a regional jet from D.C. to Minneapolis?
01:29Probably 1,000 miles.
01:31That's not a – yo, D.C. to New York, little jet, no problem.
01:35D.C. to Boston, I get it.
01:36D.C. to Norfolk, maybe even Charlotte.
01:38Minnesota is not regional.
01:41So anybody with a carry-on, you've got to check it, right?
01:45On the way to Minnesota, they were efficient.
01:48They got the bags right up.
01:50God bless the two 75-year-old ladies in charge of the luggage at D.C.A.
01:55Wasn't the most efficient process.
01:57Somehow, grace to God, my bag was the first – I literally sat and watched my bag sit
02:02on the runway, the tarmac, whatever you want to call it, for like 11 minutes.
02:07I was looking at my phone, just going ballistic.
02:10I just – the ineptitude of commercial air travel is astonishing.
02:14Just astonishing.
02:16My preferred airline is United.
02:17They do a pretty good job.
02:19I was not flying United today.
02:20And when you have to – because of my crazy-ass schedule, you've got to just sometimes take
02:24whatever flight works.
02:26God, that was awful.
02:28Now, you know what else was – I don't know what was worse, my flight home this morning
02:33or the frickin' football performance we saw yesterday, B.
02:37This team had not been shut out since 2019.
02:42You and I worked that game.
02:43There was a frickin' tropical storm hovering over the DMV.
02:47It was raining sheets.
02:49The reason nobody – the Niners were a wagon that year.
02:52They connected on three field goals.
02:53It was a 9-0 game because it was raining so hard you could barely see
02:58in front of you.
02:59Yesterday, last I checked, there's a dome on that stadium.
03:03I know they dropped fake snow from the sky for some stupid reason,
03:06but there was no weather impacting Washington's offense.
03:10Their inability to recognize Brian Flores' advanced blitz concepts is really shocking.
03:17For an offensive staff that's got a whole lot of brain power,
03:20they couldn't figure out a damn thing.
03:24And the entire game, the entire game turned when you get first a goal from the four
03:30and you run it and you get second a goal from the one
03:33and you call three straight pass plays.
03:37And maybe Devo should have caught it on fourth down.
03:40You also should have run it.
03:43Three straight pass plays from the one.
03:46Yeah.
03:46I need Doc Walker injected into my veins.
03:51What are you doing?
03:51Oh, it's the only thing you've already been done there.
03:53I think you've already been injected, but the whole thing –
03:56What are you doing?
03:57And then you give up 19 plays, 98 yards, 12 minutes, one second drive,
04:03longest drive in the NFL in the last four years.
04:06Minnesota's longest drive since at least 2000 when they started tracking this stuff.
04:10Yeah.
04:12What are you doing?
04:13Third downs.
04:14James McCarthy was five for five on third down.
04:17All the dude does is throw picks.
04:19Yesterday he was Joe Montana.
04:20He was Joe Montana yesterday, but the –
04:21I am roasting hot.
04:23The throwing the ball inside the five, that's been happening all year.
04:28I'm not –
04:29There's nothing new.
04:30I'm not mad at –
04:32I'm mad that it's happening.
04:33If two of the four, you want to throw it, okay.
04:35You've got to run it one more time.
04:37You've got to at least run it one more time.
04:38I just think when you get to the one-yard line,
04:40then you should be able to just drop a set and say we're going to get this one yard.
04:45You agree with me that the entire – that sequence –
04:47It changed everything.
04:48Seven-nothing.
04:49You don't get it.
04:50And then it's 14-nothing because they're able to go 98 yards on your defense.
04:54And listen, them not getting it doesn't automatically mean you have to allow a 97-yard drive.
05:01No.
05:01But I believe you run that ball four times, you get in the end zone.
05:07I mean, watching that unfold.
05:10So you try to go jumbo, try to get cute.
05:13You run Coleman to the corner.
05:15Minnesota was all over it.
05:17All over it.
05:17I don't understand why that play was called at all.
05:22Sometimes you wonder if people are putting tape out there for their next job.
05:25I don't know.
05:26But you go jumbo, throw there.
05:29It was never there.
05:31The third down was never there.
05:33Jaden's getting pressured.
05:34The fourth down, maybe Debo should have caught that.
05:37There was a lot of hand fighting there.
05:38I'm okay with it not getting called.
05:41Debo's pushing too.
05:42The ball does hit him in the hands.
05:43He's also falling down.
05:45Like, if that's your third down, and it's like, damn.
05:48But then you run it on fourth.
05:50If they got stuffed running it on fourth down, I'm not complaining.
05:55Because that's the right call.
05:56And I'm not saying you've got to line up a jumbo with a fullback.
05:59Like, you can still spread them out.
06:00You can still put Terry and Debo out to one side and run it off the edge.
06:05Your offensive line in the Denver game, which I talked about, the amount of back patting that came after a loss, I found problematic.
06:16Because you did take Denver to the wire, but you also lost the game.
06:21The back patting that was reasonable and resonated with me was that it was the offensive line's best performance.
06:29You know what the O-line wants to do?
06:31Second and goal from the one?
06:33Oh, great.
06:34Forward, not backwards.
06:35That, not everything boils down to one sequence because, so Minnesota goes 1998-12, 14-0.
06:45Then Washington is able to get a stop.
06:47Jayden and company got the ball with a minute 50 and two timeouts.
06:53That's a prime opportunity to go get some points.
06:55You're getting the ball coming out of halftime.
06:57That game could look very different.
07:00Six and out.
07:01Hunt.
07:01And you know what?
07:02You know what Kevin O'Connell is thrilled to do with his struggling second-year quarterback?
07:07When he gets the ball with, I don't know, 25 seconds before halftime and a 14-0 lead?
07:12Take a knee, baby.
07:13We're going into halftime with the lead.
07:16Everything about that performance was god-awful.
07:21And I know, I heard, so I had the radio on driving from the airport and I heard Jeff say,
07:26we got to figure out some time to say something positive.
07:28That's tomorrow.
07:29Today is not the day for positivity.
07:32Because there was, C-Rod, I heard you say that, C-Rod was running well.
07:36When they had second and goal from the one, he was averaging eight yards per carry.
07:42How many carries did he get after that?
07:44Not everything boils down to one thing.
07:47But when you get blanked by a team that got blanked last week, zeros, we're talking.
07:54How many times in your career, in 14 years playing in the NFL,
07:57how many times in your career were you part of an offense that got zero points?
08:02I bet you can count it on one hand.
08:03Probably much twice.
08:05Right?
08:06You played 14 years.
08:07What's 14 times 16?
08:09You played, I don't know.
08:11200 plus.
08:12200 plus NFL games.
08:14That doesn't happen.
08:15The rules are designed for the offense to have every advantage.
08:20Every advantage.
08:21But I think the thing of it, though, Jay, and I understand that.
08:26They threw for 108 yards in an NFL game.
08:28Like I said, everybody should be frustrated.
08:30But I think we also got to understand,
08:32this team has shown it is not good as we thought it was for a long time here now.
08:37Sure.
08:37So I think my frustration was with the performance I saw and the effort I saw.
08:47I don't think it's a very good team right now.
08:50Clearly not.
08:51I'm not excessively pissed because I recognized that a while ago,
08:57that they were not very, very good.
09:00And the injuries was a big problem with it.
09:04So, like, now I see everything, I see too many different things happening.
09:10We're trying to implement somebody back into the system.
09:15Why?
09:15Trying to make somebody understand the system.
09:17Why?
09:18We got too much stuff going on instead of everybody on the same accord.
09:22You get what I'm saying?
09:22And I don't, I just don't see it how I expected to see it.
09:29But I thought we had started to see something in the last two games.
09:33And then yesterday, I'm like, oh, hell.
09:35That was a hell of a step back.
09:38So, DQ, when he opened his comments afterwards, he said, you know,
09:41I felt like last week was a step forward and then this was three steps back.
09:44Later in his press, he's like, three steps back.
09:46This was ten steps back.
09:47I feel like that was real.
09:51You are right.
09:52Like, this team isn't good.
09:53You don't lose seven in a row and fall to three and nine if you're good.
09:57Like, were there a confluence of factors?
09:59Yes.
10:00Were injuries a big one?
10:01Yes.
10:01Yesterday's the healthiest they've been all year.
10:04It was terrible.
10:06And you're right.
10:08Like, the performance yesterday, maybe we shouldn't be shocked,
10:13but that was a shocking result.
10:16I was.
10:18J.J. McCarthy had thrown ten picks in six games.
10:20I don't know.
10:21I guess Louboutin batted one pass.
10:23I don't think a DB got a hand on a football.
10:26I didn't understand the coverage.
10:29Well, they were selling out to stop Jefferson for breaking their back.
10:32They were clouding him everywhere.
10:34That's why the tight ends were just running wide open,
10:36because everything was designed to stop Jefferson.
10:39I understand that.
10:39I understand stop Jefferson, but you're giving people 12 and 13 yards in front of you.
10:45There was a third and seven where the DB was 11 yards off.
10:48That is what I don't understand.
10:52Brian, coming into that game yesterday, Minnesota was 29th in points scored,
10:5628th in yards gained, and 31st in the NFL on third down.
11:01I know.
11:03In the first half, I believe they were perfect on third down.
11:06On the 98-yard drive, they went five for five on third down.
11:10Yeah.
11:10And it wasn't third and ones.
11:13It wasn't tush-push.
11:14It was third and seven, third and eight.
11:15There was a third and 12 in there.
11:17Mm-hmm.
11:19I don't know.
11:22I know that I've watched that team come off the field in pure silence,
11:27and I've watched a lot of bad losses.
11:29I don't know that I'd ever heard or felt silence to that degree.
11:33And I do think some of that was the emotion of seeing Zach Ertz
11:37and understanding what that probably means for his career.
11:40Maybe not, but possibly anyway.
11:43But I saw Adam Peters and Josh Harris stand there and shake everyone's hand
11:49as they walked in, players, coaches.
11:51So I know people are going to light these phones up talking about hot seats
11:54and who should go.
11:55So I did not get the feeling or the opinion that those two, the big boss
12:02and then the boss, are looking to fire anyone.
12:05But I know after a performance like that, NFL coaches don't outrun the storm.
12:11Most NFL coaches can't outrun an eight-game losing streak.
12:15That's just the reality.
12:17Go around the league.
12:18Atlanta, Kansas City, L.A., wherever you want to go,
12:22an eight-game losing streak generally gets dudes in trouble.
12:26Three and ten generally gets you in trouble.
12:29Now, I think they're going to preach continuity
12:31and maybe it was the injuries this year
12:34and we're going to get this thing back on track.
12:36But they're in trouble, dude.
12:38You're riding an eight-game losing streak and you're three and ten.
12:41You've got four left and they can say four division games.
12:44This is going to be our barometer.
12:46They're dogs to the Giants.
12:49I expected that.
12:51How could you not?
12:51They got blanked yesterday.
12:53I expected that.
12:54They lost 31-0 to a four and eight Vikings team
12:58with quarterback trouble like we used to have.
13:02Yeah, but listen, I just think that they lost to a four and eight team.
13:09We were three and nine.
13:11We were worse than that team coming into the game.
13:14Dude, and they lost to the Dolphins?
13:16That was a team that was going to – they're bad.
13:18Like, there's got to be – like, we all need to take a deep breath
13:22and be like, oh, my God, this thing, we invest so much time, energy, effort, money.
13:26I saw all the Commanders fans on my flight.
13:29They're spending real American currency to fly back and forth to Minnesota.
13:33God bless these people that plan a trip to Minnesota.
13:35You and I have to go.
13:36That place sucks in the winter.
13:39It was six degrees.
13:41That is not fit for human inhabitation.
13:43Well, I saw a bunch of little kids walking around with just a T-shirt on, Jay.
13:48God bless them.
13:48We don't have the right blood.
13:49It ain't me.
13:50That place is not for me.
13:52I've been to Minnesota enough during the sale process.
13:55That's where the NFL held all the meetings because it's very convenient for NFL owners
13:59because there's a private jet runway next to a JW Marriott.
14:03They can fly in and out.
14:05For us flying commercial air travel, it sucks.
14:08Here's the thing about Minnesota.
14:09It's so damn cold, so you've got to be convinced the summers must be great.
14:12Wrong.
14:13Hot and humid.
14:14Felt like it did here in D.C. in the summer.
14:17Get me the hell out of Minnesota.
14:19We'll get to the phones.
14:21I'm angry about a lot of things.
14:23It's B. Mitch and Finley.
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