00:00The time period of getting to watch everything is over.
00:03So this is the real deal.
00:05They've gone from 90 to 53.
00:07And Jeff Walker asks,
00:09after everything that has happened this preseason
00:12on a scale of 1 to 10, where are your nerves?
00:15Now, Zay, I ask you this.
00:17Scale of 1 to 10, where are your nerves?
00:19Where would freaking out be?
00:2110?
00:23Okay, so 10 is bad.
00:25I'm asking you.
00:26This is freak out.
00:26What would you say?
00:27I'm just getting the scale right.
00:29I think we're at DEFCON 7 right now.
00:34Worried about the season.
00:36Now, remember, expectations are the key to life, JP.
00:39If you keep your expectations low,
00:41you are disappointed a whole lot less often.
00:45Under promise, over deliver.
00:46So I don't know what is a realistic expectation.
00:50I look at the team and I say,
00:51look, there's a lot of patches on this tire.
00:54There's a lot of purchased patches.
00:57I think Chig is the X factor, by the way.
00:59If you can have a tight end that's an 80-catch-8-touchdown guy,
01:01that is going to make life so much easier on offense.
01:04They've got to find guys who can block reasonably well.
01:06And I want Daniels to realize that, look,
01:08there's no point in being a superhero taking all these hits.
01:11I think we saw a really, honestly,
01:15probably the most encouraging thing we saw all of August
01:19was the first down in Detroit
01:21when he faced immediate pressure
01:23and he just chucked the ball away.
01:24Love it.
01:25Love it.
01:25That single play may have been the best thing.
01:28Love it.
01:29Because you can get caught up in Robert Henry's touchdown run
01:31or, you know, Amik Robertson's sack.
01:33That's all fool's gold.
01:35If Jaden knows to throw it away, that's value.
01:38Yeah.
01:38Now, the reason I ask...
01:40But I'd say there's genuine concerns
01:41because they're digging out of the previous regime.
01:45I know you don't want to hear about it.
01:46How long does that last?
01:48Well, hold on.
01:48They're digging it out,
01:50but then they had this burst of success
01:53that mandated the decision.
01:56The decision was,
01:57do we ignore the burst of success like that's a fluke
02:00and continue with the path?
02:02They said, no, we can't do that.
02:04Not with new ownership.
02:05We owe it to the fans to try to give it a go
02:09with some trades and bringing some guys in
02:12and that turned into a crap seven clear the line.
02:15It's like when you're playing craps
02:16and you've got a lot of numbers up there
02:18and the shooter keeps hitting numbers
02:20and you start getting more aggressive
02:21and as soon as you have all the numbers covered,
02:24seven out clear the line.
02:26That's kind of what happened.
02:27I almost think the team took a risk
02:30and traded two years, 25 and 26,
02:35for the slower, steadier rebuild.
02:37Because if 25 didn't work with the guys they brought in
02:40and the guys they traded for,
02:42then you were putting this year, 26 at risk.
02:45And I think it's at risk right now,
02:47but we don't know.
02:47We'll see how it comes along.
02:49Before we get to these phones,
02:50the reason I wanted to ask you-
02:51So I'd say seven would be a reasonable person's
02:55panic factor, one to 10.
02:59Regardless, wherever you are on the panic factor,
03:01if you're doing a scale of one to 10,
03:04the higher number is the scarier part, right?
03:08Jeff had it reversed.
03:09He said a one is freaking out
03:11and 10 is the commanders are going to have a good season.
03:13Oh, okay.
03:14Jeff, I don't know how-
03:15I'm sorry.
03:15I was rushing this morning.
03:16There is no excuse for it.
03:18I was rushing.
03:19I apologize.
03:20You're good, brother.
03:20You're good.
03:21A lot of moving parts this morning.
03:22All right, let's get to these phones.
03:24Well, by the way,
03:25the DEFCON scale, five to one,
03:28higher is good.
03:29It means things are calm.
03:31DEFCON five is fade out.
03:32DEFCON one is cocked pistol
03:34or maximum readiness.
03:36We're on one to 10 freaking out scale.
03:38You just said DEFCON seven,
03:40which doesn't even exist.
03:42Dennis is in rest.
03:43But my point is DEFCON works backwards.
03:45Hello, Dennis.
03:46Are you concerned?
03:49So, first of all,
03:50thanks for taking the call, guys.
03:51You're welcome.
03:53Yeah.
03:54Okay, I'm concerned.
03:54There's two things, okay?
03:56There's two people I'm concerned about.
03:58The first person is Allegretti, okay?
04:01And he's got a good track record.
04:04And I thought I heard some statistics
04:07on Allegretti's track record
04:08earlier this morning on the junks.
04:10And I think he's got a pretty good track record.
04:12He makes it through a lot of things.
04:14His attendance record is good.
04:15But how long can that keep up for?
04:18And if he gets hurt,
04:19just like everybody's been talking,
04:21you guys have discussed it a million times,
04:22who in the heck is going to back him up?
04:24And I'm not real happy about Adam Peters
04:27not nipping that in the butt already.
04:29Secondly, here's the second thing
04:32I'm a little concerned about.
04:34I'm concerned about every single one
04:36of our coaches right now.
04:38Not because I think they're bad coaches
04:39or because they need to be fired
04:41or anything silly like that right now.
04:43Okay, but that game against Baltimore,
04:45and yeah, I'm tweaked about that game.
04:47Okay, you can tell by my voice.
04:49Okay, Dan Quinn did not have that team
04:52mentally prepared for that football game.
04:55Okay, I don't care if it's a preseason game
04:58in August or whatever.
04:59Those kids need to come out
05:01and they need to impress people.
05:02Okay?
05:03Furthermore, every specialty coach,
05:06wide receiver coach,
05:07all these coaches that you barely used to hear
05:09about years and years ago in the NFL.
05:10Okay, all these specialty coaches
05:12need to be, it's their fault too.
05:15They should have had each and every individual
05:17wide receiver, quarterback, linebacker,
05:20whatever, whatever position,
05:22ready for that game.
05:23So all the coaches I'm upset with
05:25because they did not have them ready.
05:27And that's how I feel, guys.
05:29Appreciate it, Dennis.
05:30Good call.
05:30Did he say he was twinked
05:32about the Baltimore game?
05:34Did I mishear that?
05:36Tweaked, I think.
05:37Tweaked.
05:38Okay, good.
05:38Twinked would be a hell of a verb.
05:40That's what I was thinking.
05:42Twinked.
05:42Let's go to Steve in Fredericksburg.
05:44Steve, what's up, dude?
05:47Hey, thanks for taking my call.
05:50The two calls ago, he got me upset.
05:53I mean, yeah, they got blown out by Baltimore,
05:57but Zabe's right.
05:58It's just a preseason game.
06:01You know, they're running the ball
06:02to try to see what this offensive lineman can do.
06:05You know, run the ball here to see,
06:07you know, if he can handle this type of block.
06:09They're just looking.
06:11They're not trying to win.
06:12They're just looking.
06:13They're not going to lose 10 games.
06:16You know, they're probably going to win 10 games.
06:18Just everybody needs to relax.
06:21It's all good.
06:22You can't fire Quinn, you know,
06:25three games into the preseason.
06:26It doesn't make any sense.
06:27That's all I needed to say.
06:29All right.
06:30Appreciate you, man.
06:31I applaud someone looking big picture
06:35and not freaking out.
06:37The problem is there's a lot of times
06:40where I will discount people that are getting upset
06:42and just say, hey, man, it's too early.
06:45But at this point, you see the 53, you know,
06:49if you're concerned, I think it's valid.
06:51Yeah.
06:52But I think that's a great call.
06:54Like, it's preseason.
06:54They didn't game plan for Baltimore.
06:56They were super beat up.
06:5841 guys didn't dress for that thing,
07:01which is insane.
07:02So you don't want to draw tremendous conclusions from it.
07:05Can I ask you where you stand on Sonny Stiles
07:08in his first August?
07:10Yeah.
07:10Um, there's a lot of chatter.
07:15I think 85% of the chatter is nonsense.
07:20Fair.
07:21I won't say 100% of it is nonsense,
07:24but I'll say 85% of the chatter nonsense.
07:28Okay.
07:28Like we actually, that was my instinct
07:31because I saw it and I saw people starting
07:33to get completely unhinged.
07:35And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
07:38Because, you know, people want to take one game,
07:42one practice, one play, and they're all 22s.
07:44They get from NFL league pass and go,
07:46oh my God, this guy, what is he doing?
07:48The screen grab society.
07:50Screen grab culture is the worst.
07:53But specific with Stiles,
07:55if you look at what they want him to do,
07:57it's kind of a accumulation of a lot of things
08:01over the course of time.
08:03Yeah.
08:03You're hoping he's 140 tackle guy.
08:06Yeah.
08:06Over 17 games, that means you need like
08:09nine tackles a game.
08:10Like what you want in the first month
08:12from Sonny Stiles is nine tackles in a TFL,
08:16eight tackles in a pass defense,
08:1811 tackles.
08:18Like you want him to be this growing,
08:21steady presence in the middle.
08:23And the coverage, I think you already saw in spurts,
08:26especially in that Miami game.
08:27Like the people screaming about flash plays,
08:30it's much the evolution and almost dominance,
08:36I would say,
08:37or at least like significantly higher
08:40on the priority chain of fantasy and player props
08:43has made people so addicted to stats.
08:46They can, you know, quantify.
08:49And then you drafted an off-ball linebacker at seven.
08:52Like that's not a flash position.
08:54Not to say he can't make some plays.
08:56And I think they would argue,
08:58yeah, once he's out there for four quarters
09:01and playing 95% of the snaps, you'll see it.
09:04Yeah.
09:05That's a volume position.
09:06Right.
09:07And that's not what the league values anymore.
09:08It's not the Ray Lewis, Brian Urlacher NFL anymore.
