Panthers Take NFC South Lead as Bucs Fall & Bowles Lets It Fly

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Around The NFL with B Scott as the Panthers suddenly take control of the NFC South after the Bucs fall to the Falcons, and Todd Bowles goes unfiltered following the loss.

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00:00I wonder what inspiration was necessary for the Atlanta Falcons to not Atlanta Falcon.

00:04I'm going to be entirely honest.

00:06Watching this game on Thursday night, you had Thursday night football in division in the NFC South.

00:11You had Falcons at Buccaneers.

00:13Buccaneers broke up the cream sickles, which I appreciated.

00:15Very nice.

00:15Which was fun.

00:17The Falcons kind of had the Dirty Birds.

00:19They had the old, I think it was even before that, I think it was that 70s look.

00:22Yeah, because the Dirty Birds didn't have those red helmets.

00:25Fair, fair.

00:25They had black helmets.

00:26This was back in the, I don't even remember some of the players back then.

00:29No Tommy Nobis days or something like that.

00:31That is not a name that's going to refresh my memory there, Don Lopez.

00:33I'm just going to be entirely honest with you.

00:35That's a deep cut.

00:36Yeah.

00:37But the game, I mean, the Bucs are out to a two-touchdown lead at a point in this game,

00:42and they absolutely crumble.

00:43Or maybe you say, Kirk Cousins did the thing that he does against the Bucs.

00:47The last three times he's played them.

00:483-0, I think 1,100 yards, six touchdowns and an interception, I believe, if memory serves.

00:55Or maybe it's eight.

00:56I need to actually double-check this.

00:57But he go ham, they go ham, and I, knowing the Falcons, I'm like, the Falcons are going

01:03to find a way to mess this up.

01:04And they didn't.

01:05I thought they did when they missed the two-point conversion to tie it up.

01:07They got the football back, went and scored the touchdown.

01:10I don't know what the inspiration was, but shout-out to the Falcons doing that, and also

01:15shout-out to Bryce Young looking up and finding himself on this Friday with his Carolina Panthers

01:20at 7-6 in the playoffs if it was to end today.

01:24Well, that's the craziest part about it.

01:26The last part that you mentioned that, lo and behold, now, it's the Carolina Panthers

01:31that could emerge as that division leader and go to the playoffs and all of that.

01:35I don't think that's anything that, even if you thought that the Panthers were going to

01:38be better, I don't think anybody had them winning that division this year.

01:42Oh, God, no.

01:42So, yeah, of course not, especially with, you know, with Baker Mayfield and how he was playing

01:46earlier in the year.

01:47But I would say this.

01:48Not only did the Falcons – it wasn't just that the Falcons didn't falcon.

01:53It was that it felt like the Bucs kind of falcon.

01:55Bingo.

01:55You know what I mean?

01:56Bingo.

01:56And so they benefited.

01:59It's like the Bucs beat them at their own game or lost at their own game.

02:04Snatch them.

02:05Defeat from the jaws of victory.

02:07Yeah, 14 in the fourth quarter.

02:08Yeah, man.

02:09And did y'all see the biggest thing that stood out to me watching this game was Mike Evans,

02:14who we are all familiar with.

02:16Horrific human being.

02:17An amazing human being.

02:19I wouldn't say mild mannered, but just a polite and good dude.

02:23He looked livid, like he was ready to kick somebody's ass on that sideline.

02:27Why wouldn't he?

02:28That was a y'all lost performance.

02:30Exactly.

02:30Six receptions, 132 yards.

02:33In his first game back.

02:34Yeah.

02:35And he looked that way rightfully so.

02:38That stood out to me.

02:39It's like you did so bad that you got Mike Evans over here out of his element and justifiably so.

02:46The interesting thing to me about this game – well, a lot, but two of the greatest human beings

02:53in the NFL went completely out of character in this game.

02:57Mike Evans, you just talked about, and Bijan afterward.

03:00Oh, yeah.

03:01Yeah, Bijan afterward.

03:02We were actually talking about that game earlier this week.

03:05Yeah.

03:05He just said the name.

03:07That was odd.

03:07Yes.

03:08What game was it?

03:09Well, D'Amico called it hotball.

03:11Yeah.

03:11Some people have called it smearly, and here is a homophobic slur.

03:15These are two of the greatest people.

03:16Dino man.

03:17You know, you want them to marry your daughter.

03:18Yeah.

03:18You know, and I'm like, wow, both of these guys.

03:21And then talk about losing it.

03:23By the way, I've got to fall on the sword here.

03:25Yesterday, I was sitting right here going, you know, I think Tampa Bay and Mike Evans back.

03:28You know, they might be a little on to something.

03:30I wasn't going to do it.

03:31I wasn't going to do it.

03:32That's so much.

03:33And I went, oh, Lee.

03:35Then there was Todd Bowles postgame.

03:37And I gave Figge a lot of work.

03:39What do you tell them in the locker room?

03:41I forgive them.

03:42It's inexcusable.

03:43You don't make excuses.

03:45You've got to f***ing care enough where the s*** hurts.

03:49You've got to f***ing care enough where the s*** hurts.

03:51It's got to f***ing mean something to you.

03:53It's more than a job.

03:54It's your f***ing livelihood.

03:56How well do you know your job?

03:58How well can you do your job?

03:59You can't sugarcoat that s***.

04:00It was inexcusable.

04:02And there's no f***ing answer for it.

04:04There's no excuse for it.

04:06That's what you tell them in the locker room.

04:08Look in the f***ing mirror.

04:09That's my AI?

04:10Seven F-bomb.

04:11Yes.

04:11I had to double check.

04:12That's my AI, man.

04:13And he's F-bomb right.

04:14Seven.

04:14He's bleeping right.

04:15It was crazy.

04:16Todd Bowles ain't the F-bomb guy.

04:17Right.

04:17That's what I'm saying.

04:18Like, he's not that guy.

04:19And he even went further when he was talking about Baker wanting to take the blame last

04:22night.

04:22He said he could look himself in the mirror and be honest with himself.

04:25If everyone did that, we would figure out our problems real quick.

04:28That dude is calling out the entirety of the team all the way to the quarterback in

04:32a very direct way, which they should.

04:36They've lost five of their last six.

04:37I think they've lost six of their last eight, I believe.

04:40Yeah.

04:41It's been bad.

04:41There are two ways to look at it, though, because he threw everyone under the bus.

04:45And he also said the coaches did their job.

04:48Yeah.

04:49Is it?

04:50Is it?

04:50Yeah.

04:51We kind of get to meet a hard time.

04:53It's on me.

04:54Yeah.

04:54I think other coaches always say, hey, it's on me.

04:57I'm there.

04:57It's on me.

04:58But he did the complete opposite.

05:00So is this like, hey, I got to look out for number one here?

05:04You know?

05:04They've lost all of these games, like Reggie just mentioned.

05:07They falconed against the Falcons.

05:09And now they've allowed.

05:10That's an excuse.

05:11They have enabled the Panthers to win a division, to win a division in the NFL.

05:16And so that just speaks to the opportunity that's in front of you.

05:19All these games, or that was in front of you, all these games that you lost.

05:22This game in front of this national audience against the Falcons, who falcon all the time,

05:27and you did that instead.

05:28Yeah.

05:29And now, like, it's the Panthers that are going to reign supreme in your division?

05:33That is inexcusable.

05:35Yeah.

05:36I think that's absolutely the case.

05:38Can I also, real quick before we move away from this, mention one of the things that was

05:41also very odd, and what was a very odd game, Kyle Pitts becoming the first tight end to

05:47have three touchdowns and over 150 yards in a game since 1996.

05:52That is good for how many?

05:5430 years, basically.

05:57And Kyle Pitts is not the person who I would have called to do that.

06:00Although, like, if you just take Kyle Pitts and you go, player X, with this talent, this

06:04capability, you go, yeah, Kyle Pitts should do it.

06:06Except, Kyle Pitts has been one of the greatest disappointments.

06:09How many people had him on their fantasy bench?

06:12I can imagine.

06:13Well, my underdog account was not happy last night.

06:15I'll put it that way.

06:16Ah, okay.

06:17Look, but Kyle Pitts is one of those examples of when you say a thing and it's true, but,

06:24like, you get more information or new information and that thing is not true, but you still keep

06:27saying the old thing, like, he was a disappointment and it's starting to look pretty much like

06:34what people thought it would look like.

06:35It just took way longer than it was supposed to or way longer than we preferred to the

06:40point to where you thought it was a disappointment and it looked like a disappointment.

06:43Maybe that part is disappointing, but that dude's going to get paid at some point.

06:46Like, somebody's going to pay him a hefty amount of money to play tight end for them.

06:50Yeah.

06:51And I think justifiably so.

06:52And they absolutely should.

06:53But he has the talent, he has the capabilities, although I will say, the touchdown catch that

06:57he had, he made that way harder than it needed to be.

07:00Yeah, but that's how good he is.

07:01Which one?

07:02He's a really good guy.

07:03Well, yes, that's fair, but the final one that ended up taking them to being down two

07:08points at that point, where he is backing up in the end zone, and if he just grabs it

07:12the first time, easy touchdown.

07:14He bobbles it and then we have to do the, did he get the cheek down first before his elbow

07:18hit out of bounds?

07:19It was like, what are we doing here, man?

07:20Just catch the football, brother.

07:21But speaking of the Falcons, since we were on this game, like, what a, so I'm talking

07:25about disappointing.

07:27Uh-huh.

07:27All of the investment that they've put in, their weapons, you've got John Robinson, Kyle

07:32Pitts, Drake London, who didn't play in this game, but just overall, they've actually invested

07:38a lot to their credit.

07:39Terry Fontenot and those guys have invested a lot in that defense, and they're just still

07:43the Falcons.

07:44I know they won this game, but my God.

07:47They still look, they still look like the Falcons until they went and won it.

07:49They did.

07:50It's kind of hilarious, because one of the big Falcons things, and I will leave it here,

07:53I promise, is that they've been trying to, man, we've got to get this defense better.

07:57Specifically, they've got to have better defensive line play.

08:00They've got to be able to generate pressure.

08:01They have that now, and the rest of the defense is back.

08:03It's kind of amazing that they finally did that.

08:05It's like they wished on it with the monkey paw.

08:08They're like, please, give us a good pass rush.

08:11He's like, okay.

08:12All right.

08:12It's going to come with something.

08:13You sure?

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