00:00When they say A-Chan had a rib.
00:02Dude, okay, you got to explain this because I watched that play, right?
00:05First of all, I was very sad because he's amazing.
00:08Did you see him weave through, like, nine jets?
00:10It's like they were – and keep in mind, do you see how different the speed looks?
00:18That's how it looks when it's hot.
00:20He looks faster, but they look faster.
00:22When it's cold, everybody looks slow, and he looks fast.
00:25Yeah.
00:26And so, like, your athletic ability is still different.
00:30It's just – it looks different because it's cold.
00:33So he gets – so I was scared when he got hit or when he got tackled on the back.
00:38I thought it was, like, his knee or something.
00:40You're telling me that that can mess up your ribs?
00:42Dude, you don't even – I got hit in the back, reaching up to catch a ball.
00:49I got hit in the back and broke two ribs underneath my scapula.
00:54I didn't even know I had ribs that high.
00:55What the hell's the scapula?
00:57Back here, the bone, the shoulder bone back here.
01:00Okay.
01:00Right?
01:01Didn't even –
01:02You have ribs back there?
01:03Yes.
01:04Whoa.
01:04Underneath.
01:05They go all the way up.
01:06And I had no idea what it was.
01:10And I got hit, like, just hard in the back.
01:13Like, you – you would be in any twisting.
01:17If you get twisted the wrong way, you could do cartilage.
01:22Like, I have calcium deposits all over them.
01:25Like, yeah, man.
01:27It – getting hit as a running back, twisted, pulled or whatever.
01:32And sometimes it's the simplest of hits.
01:35It looked like not –
01:36You can't explain it.
01:37I thought, like, he got – when he first got –
01:39and you could see he was in –
01:39I was like, oh.
01:40I thought that twisted his knee.
01:42Is that Kentucky Finn?
01:43Yeah.
01:44Landing on the football.
01:45Oof.
01:46That'll get you.
01:47Which means it says,
01:48the only ribs Toby can locate are baby back.
01:50Oh, dude.
01:51I love him.
01:52No, I'm a St. Louis guy.
01:55More meat.
01:56More meat.
01:57Both good.
01:58So, yeah.
02:01It's – there's a lot of injuries that happen in football
02:05where it's not just a knockout blow or anything like that.
02:10It's a twist or a turn.
02:12I mean, hell, we see more non-contact injuries than we do hits.
02:17Bro, did you see the Daniel Jones?
02:19That was rough.
02:20I felt bad for him.
02:20No, what happened?
02:21Blew his Achilles out.
02:23But you get – so he was already playing on a fractured fibula.
02:25And he played yesterday.
02:28And you know what happens.
02:30Other leg.
02:31Other stuff.
02:32Other leg went.
02:33And he was toast.
02:34So, it was the most obvious Achilles blow of all time.
02:36I feel bad for him because this was his get back year.
02:40Yeah.
02:40You know what I mean?
02:42Yeah.
02:43So, here's the – everybody's saying,
02:46I don't think A-Chan should play.
02:49Let me tell you what they do.
02:52All right?
02:52If it's a small area, they can give you a shot.
02:58It doesn't help because it still hurts.
03:01Then you got to wear the jacket, the Kevlar vest.
03:07Does that slow you down?
03:09No.
03:09It just –
03:11It's tight, uncomfortable?
03:13If you're a woman, it would be a bustier.
03:15Oh.
03:16It's tight like that.
03:17It just holds and –
03:20Is that like Downton Abbey?
03:23Yeah.
03:24Yeah.
03:25But in some cases, it's Kevlar.
03:28You can't move as well, but you feel much better because when you get hit.
03:35Now, the problem is, it's still twisting and turning or breathing or laughing.
03:42So –
03:42It should be noted, Mike McDaniel did say after the game that he could have gone back in.
03:47They were just smoking him.
03:48Yeah.
03:48So, they decided not to.
03:48I finished – in all the games I broke my ribs, I finished the game.
03:51So, just to let her – like that was –
03:53I finished the game.
03:54Now, it could be cartilage.
03:56That jet ski is bad.
03:58Especially on offense.
04:00That poor new quarterback.
04:02Poor new quarterback.
04:03Wait.
04:04New guy.
04:06Dude, I'm going to tip my hat to Weebs.
04:09Because Weebs – when the new quarterback went in, he goes,
04:13I have an announcement.
04:15Blood in the water.
04:17Jump.
04:18Attack.
04:19I mean, they blitzed every play.
04:23Six sacks on that kid.
04:26Six sacks on him.
04:27And the – but I will say, like, look, the Dolphins – that's a game I wanted, right?
04:33Like, I wanted – just go – you've had these last two weeks.
04:37I wanted to see them just throttle and smack a team in the mouth.
04:40They did.
04:40And they did.
04:41Like, that felt good.
04:43That felt good to watch.
04:44Right.
04:45Woo!
04:46Wow.
04:47Hey.
04:48Hey.
04:49But you know what's amazing about that?
04:52Here's what I would tell you about football.
04:54And football is contagious.
05:00We've watched A-Chan for the last two years and talk about how small he was,
05:05but how physical he ran.
05:07Mm-hmm.
05:08Every guy that comes into the game, when A-Chan is not in,
05:13brings a level of physicality.
05:15And that's what you want out of that room.
05:17Yeah.
05:18So, like, when you watch Jalen – is it Jalen, right?
05:22Jalen Wright.
05:23Jalen Wright.
05:23Mm-hmm.
05:24You watch him run the football, and you look at how he's running,
05:30you go, that tone has been set in that room.
05:33Yeah.
05:33They all run like that.
05:35Now, I would also like to say, I've said something else to you a million times.
05:42Okay.
05:42And this year is evident of that more than anything.
05:49Sometimes, it's not how good the individual offensive linemen are,
05:54but the fact that they get to play with the same offensive linemen all year.
05:58Some cohesion.
05:59And if you look at how that started, with us talking about the individual players
06:05to where it is now, and now we're talking about them as a unit,
06:11that's, like, I can't emphasize that enough.
06:14And it looks like it's pretty confidence, because Savai and I, he was balling yesterday.
06:17Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
06:18He was mowing people over.
06:19Well, he had a whole – he had a whole nother part to add to that,
06:25and that is being young and having to pick up on stuff.
06:28So, he's learning on the fly, too.
06:30On the other side of the ball, good Lord.
06:34Biggers and Phillips.
06:39Is it Phillips?
06:41Yeah, I was actually thinking, because I wasn't going to text you yesterday,
06:43but I realized I was texting you way too much about Bengals-Bills
06:45is that old Jordan Phillips had to play.
06:47Yeah.
06:48Because Joe Boudreau.
06:51Tough day.
06:52Tough day.
06:52So, when you look at the offense and defensive line
06:59and how they developed during the course of the year,
07:03it sucked having to go through that with them
07:08because the team wasn't very good early.
07:12But if you're looking at this team now and how they're playing, right,
07:17it is remarkable how – credit to the coaching staff,
07:23to them just being patient with it and not making a whole bunch of changes,
07:30partly because you couldn't.
07:33Right.
07:33Chris Greer had a good draft year 10.
07:36Chad Johnson said, Chris Greer built this offensive line, defensive line.
07:38I would say –
07:40It's a tough give and go.
07:41It's a tough give and take because they're also 4-0
07:43since they've gotten rid of them.
07:44So, you know, I don't know what to do with that.
07:47Well, it could be like –
07:47Bad timing.
07:49Look, I would like to say that he picked good people,
07:58but I would also like to say the job they've done developing these guys
08:03–
08:03Great job.
08:04– has been unbelievable.
08:05And that's not – that's not –
08:08He also signed a guy with a torn Achilles to play right guard too.
08:11So, you know, let's not give them all the flowers in the world.
08:16So –
08:17Can I just ask you one thing, though?
08:19Okay.
08:20And I don't mean to put a damper on this party because it was a fun win.
08:25That'll happen to two after the first three drives.
08:28I don't know.
08:29I think one –
08:30One, I think that –
08:34Because he was cooking.
08:34I think one, they got to the point where they say we're dominating them up front.
08:40And so they kind of –
08:41They did more of the run game, short pass, you know, stuff like that.
08:47Well, let me tell you something, dude.
08:48That ball –
08:49Whoa!
08:50I have to –
08:50Look.
08:51No lie.
08:52I had my pencil on the TV like this.
08:56For that ball.
08:57Oh, you're talking about the backwards pass?
08:59What was that?
09:00I was like –
09:01I think he was trying to just throw it away.
09:03Yeah.
09:04But he wasn't like –
09:06He had two at the –
09:07And I was just like, Tua –
09:08I'm like, Tua, there's –
09:10Tua, there's literally only one way this goes.
09:13And it's bad because you guys are killing them right now.
09:15They just got a punt return touchdown.
09:17The only way is –
09:18This becomes a game.
09:19And then, what?
09:21I was like –
09:22Yeah.
09:23Right.
09:24And I'm just thinking myself –
09:25And I texted you this.
09:26Like, I don't know –
09:28Because I know Tua has to have like a trust with the receiver.
09:30And I think with Jalen Wright, they tried doing the A-chan stuff.
09:33And it just wasn't working.
09:34You give him the rock, let him run forward.
09:37Yeah, but –
09:37But the whole pass game thing, I don't know.
09:39They just weren't on the same page or whatever.
09:41It just –
09:42Two of the passes nearly led to disaster.
09:44Uh-huh.
09:44Uh-huh.
09:45I would say that –
09:51I'm going to tell everybody this.
09:55And I'm not saying this.
09:57This comes from a place of kind of knowing.
09:59Mm-hmm.
10:01And kind of feeling that way in an offseason where I had surgery
10:06and never really had a chance to do the things I'd do in offseason.
10:12Right.
10:14Tua doesn't look fit.
10:19And I would say this.
10:23It's not an injury thing.
10:25Everybody's going to injury.
10:27When I watch him play, it just looks like he didn't have a full offseason
10:36to do all the things he did the year before.
10:39No, you're saying it makes sense.
10:40And so it's starting to show up after doing this for three months.
10:46Mm-hmm.
10:47And that's usually when it shows up.
10:50And I would say going into next year, having a full offseason,
10:58and you're realizing it yourself, right,
11:03that I better get my tail in some kind of good shape
11:07because I know how I felt.
11:09But it's all part of the deal.
11:14It's all part of the ebbs and flows of a career.
11:19It's just that he's not in a position to be able to experience all that.
11:25You got to – Tua is one of those people,
11:27he has to be on point all the time for this team to function.
11:31And I think realizing that in the middle of a season
11:35and not being able to do nothing about it,
11:38is frustrating.
11:41So, look, I'm not taking – he's had a bad year.
11:46Oh, yeah.
11:46And I'm not –
11:47It was weird.
11:48I didn't know if that was like a scripted play thing
11:50because he was humming early.
11:52It is.
11:53Something has to do with that.
11:54But I think when you start having success running the ball
11:58and you run the ball five, six times in a row
12:01and get past midfield, you kind of get away from it.
12:06Yeah, I was happy that McDaniel after a couple of those was just like,
12:09you know what, let's just give it to right the whole way
12:11and put the hammer on this game.
12:12I was like –
12:12I mean, when you're getting five, six, seven, eight yards of carry,
12:16Mike –
12:16He did that one drive and then he went away from it.
12:18And that's his thing.
12:19And I'm like, stop.
12:20Right.
12:20Stop overthinking the room.
12:22Yeah, just keep giving him the rock, dude.
12:24Like, let's go.
12:25Well, you say, Leroy, how does that old-ass Rodgers
12:27with that bum Achilles move better than lefty?
12:30It's not a matter of moving.
12:33Aaron Rodgers, we assume, is moving great
12:36because he's got a hand cannon, an arm cannon.
12:39Tua has to be very –
12:43Tua has to be technical when he throws the football.
12:50And he's not one of those guys that can –
12:53I mean, who did we see?
12:56Chicago quarterback.
12:57Sidearm throw.
12:59Dart.
13:00Just kind of under –
13:01Like, it was crazy.
13:02Like, a lot of these quarterbacks,
13:03they have different angle throws.
13:05Like, Tua's not that guy.
13:06He's talking about Kayla Williams.
13:07Yeah, Kayla Williams.
13:09But a lot of guys have to be more technical.
13:14You look at a guy like –
13:15I'll give you a perfect example.
13:16Drew Brees.
13:17Drew Brees had to be very technical.
13:19If he couldn't step into a ball,
13:21that's why they did a lot of pressure up the middle.
13:23If he couldn't step into a throw,
13:24it looked like a duck.
13:27And he's one of the best to ever do it.
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