00:00They played it perfectly, and on a defense that was not having a great second half in overtime, to say
00:06the least.
00:06Yeah, Campbell was all the way down by the official as waiting, just waiting to make the timeout call, so
00:15it was predetermined they were going to do that, as they should have.
00:20I mean, I think every coach in the league is going to do the same thing that he did there.
00:24Alan McComey on 97.1.
00:25Hello, Alan.
00:26Good morning, guys.
00:27Thanks for taking my call.
00:28Well, the general impression I get coming out of it, it didn't feel like a win.
00:33It felt like a reprieve.
00:35You know, you got out of it.
00:37You've got another week to prove yourself.
00:40So it wasn't a loss, but I won't go farther than that.
00:44And, you know, to be honest with you, at the end of it, I felt like, well, as the second
00:50half went on, but at the end, I felt like the 49ers NFC title game and the outcome I would
00:55have wanted, that they somehow eked out a win.
00:57So it's a reprieve in my book.
01:01What is the comparison between the 49ers NFC title game?
01:04Well, they were up, and then what happened was, you know, the Saints come charging back, similar to the 49ers,
01:12but the opposite ending.
01:13A good conclude.
01:14They actually, they were able to pull out a win.
01:18So that's the only silver lining in my book.
01:20Well, I got to tell you this, Alan.
01:22There's two things.
01:23You can feel however you want.
01:24Of course, fans can feel however they want.
01:26I would say it speaks to how much the standard has changed for the Lions that they win a football
01:34game like this, and you're not even that happy.
01:37You call it a reprieve.
01:39That's where the bar is now for a team that has great aspirations, and, you know, they're not the only
01:45team that have problems defensively, and so there's a lot of work to be done.
01:52Campbell said, you know, they know how to do it, and we'll find out over the course of the next
01:58couple of weeks.
01:58But, Alan, you're using the term reprieve is interesting to me just because it speaks to where what people are
02:07expecting now, and that's fine.
02:09It's totally fine.
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02:13Kyle, Rochester, Minnesota, says, my champ is Jameer Gibbs.
02:16Looked great in his increased role.
02:18Chump, those silky, smooth butter snacks, butter sticks Jameis and Williams calls fingers.
02:24Oh, boy.
02:27That was not the debut you want to see for the season for Jameau after all the hype he got
02:35in the preseason and the deserved hype that he got during the preseason,
02:39and then Goff throws that majestic pass on a line, perfect, deep downfield, which would have been like a 50
02:48-yard gain at the very least,
02:50and unfortunately it goes through his fingers, and so the next couple of passes, let alone the little end-around
02:57pitch thing that he didn't have.
03:00That he dropped.
03:01These are catchable passes.
03:03Yeah, there were four that were catchable.
03:04Catchable passes to Jameis and Williams that he did not, and I'm trying to think back to how many drops
03:15did he end up with last year?
03:18I don't know, but it's one of these things that you can hope that it's just in the rear view,
03:24that that was, you know, crazy blip on the radar screen,
03:27but it's, you know, it's heightened.
03:29Everybody's aware of it again, and you don't want to see this thing creep up and be a problem again,
03:36because it was yesterday for sure.
03:38It's highly unlikely, like, Jameis and Williams is ever going to be an elite hands guy.
03:42He's just not.
03:43He's not ASB.
03:44He's not, you know, Justin Jefferson.
03:46He's a take-the-top-off-the-field guy, so when those deep plays, like, those are the ones you've
03:50got to catch, man,
03:51because that's why you're here, you know, to pose a deep threat, get the safeties back.
03:57You know, every time he's running a deep route, you know, DBs are backpedaling.
04:01They don't want to get beat behind, and then when you do get, when you get behind the defense, you've
04:05got to catch those balls, man,
04:07and to me, he's, I still like Jameis and Williams a lot.
04:10I think he's a really good receiver, but he kind of looked, he kind of reminds me of Deshaun Jackson.
04:14You remember, like, it's just like, get down there, big plays, you know, he's not going to get those tough
04:19catches.
04:19You count on ASB for those type of things.
04:21What's interesting is, I remember last year, it felt like Aminra dropped the ball more.
04:27Remember all the talk about his hand?
04:29It was his hand, and Aminra had a great game yesterday, and the touchdown at overtime, contested catch,
04:35really, really tough catch, hit as the ball gets there.
04:37That's a big-time concentration catch.
04:39I just found this stat, and drops, I've noticed this about drop passes.
04:43Different websites have different numbers.
04:46Pro Football Reference, which is pretty good, last year measured Jameis and Williams with 12 drop passes,
04:52the most in the NFL.
04:54His drop percentage, you know, based on how many passes were thrown in his direction, was 11.8%.
05:01So, basically, one out of every 10.
05:05And that was fifth worst in the NFL.
05:10It was a rough debut, man.
05:13And it could, honestly, if he catches, like even the deep ball, it was 21-7 on that deep ball.
05:19If he catches that, it might set him up for a score.
05:22Was it 21-7, the deep ball?
05:23I have here, yeah.
05:25They'd scored their first two possessions in the second half, and it was a third and four.
05:29Nope, that was a different drop.
05:30A third and four goes through his hands.
05:32It was in the first half.
05:33Where was that one?
05:33The deep one was, yeah.
05:35Was it before?
05:36Oh, yeah.
05:36It was before he fumbled.
05:37Okay, so one possession, he drops it on their third possession of the game.
05:41Would have put him up, at least in field goal range.
05:43They were up 7-0.
05:44Then he comes back and fumbles the reverse on the next possession, which gets him behind the sticks.
05:49They eventually punt.
05:50Then he has one go through his hands on third and four when it was 21-7.
05:54And then the catchable ball on the last possession.
05:57I mean, I was...
06:00Jameau, I expect to be better.
06:02I think he probably expects to be better, because that wasn't good.
06:05Exactly.
06:06And we'll talk to Jared about it.
06:08But, I mean, it didn't discourage Jared Goff from throwing the ball to Jameson Williams.
06:13I'm not surprised by that.
06:14Yeah, I mean, the overtime down-and-out pattern was big.
06:19Let's go to David in Brighton.
06:20You're next.
06:20Hello, David.
06:21Hi, how's it going?
06:22What's up?
06:24Okay, I'm calling for a champion jump.
06:27Yep.
06:28Ben Johnson, I believe, is the champ with 69 points.
06:31I don't want to say it, but 69 points is a lot of points.
06:34Yeah.
06:35So it was 59.
06:37Yeah, 59 points is a lot of points.
06:40But anyways, I'm going to go with Detroit Lions defense in the fourth quarter.
06:44Like, what happened?
06:48They gave him 10 points in the fourth quarter.
06:50The Lions did.
06:51They just...
06:52I don't know...
06:53I don't know if Shuck got comfortable.
06:56Did they just...
06:57They were able to pick up any blitz package, the Lions are throwing at them, or what?
07:01But Chris Alave destroyed the Lions.
07:03And then it became Vele and Juwan Johnson also had games.
07:08Yeah, it was take a pick.
07:10I mean, Lance had a couple of big catches.
07:12He was the one on that fourth and 12 they converted.
07:14But it was Alave for...
07:16I mean, any time they didn't want to throw to him, it seemed like he was open.
07:20And open by a lot.
07:21And then he also made some pretty spectacular plays, but it can be frustrating for sure.
07:26One thing that didn't necessarily surprise us was that the secondary might have some issues
07:34and that the D-line was going to have to help the secondary out.
07:39Now, when the defensive front pressured, it looked way better than when they didn't.
07:46Way better than when they didn't.
07:49And some of those pressures as the game went on, yeah, we'd have to ask, and we will ask,
07:55Hutch, what changed as the game went on?
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08:00Steve writes in, Champ Tigers Youth Corps, Champ, the Red Wings, to show that each day that goes
08:05by continues to be much more of a cluster blank.
08:09No thanks to Head of the Snake, he writes.
08:14Champ Jameer Gibbs, Champ, Oregon football.
08:17What the hell was that?
08:18That's from Mark and Graham Rapids.
08:20I mean, Oklahoma State lost to Tulsa to open up the season, then comes back and beats Oregon.
08:26Oregon's a...
08:27That's a real story right now of how poorly they're playing to start the season.
08:31I mean, that's not good.
08:33Dante Moore was terrible in this game.
08:35Less than 50% passing in the game?
08:39Yeah.
08:40Wow.
08:41Yeah.
08:41I mean, look, you know, we...
08:43You see the week one game, which was a touchdown victory over Boise, and my first thought was,
08:48okay, so Boise might be really good.
08:50And then they come back Oregon and loses the next week, and it makes you wonder, hmm.
08:55Hmm.
08:56My champ is CJ Carl, looking like a real Heisman candidate.
08:59My champ is ESPN for on-field interview expectations.
09:02That's from Chris and Davison.
09:04I don't know what to make of that.
09:05Like, if people missed it, there was two walkaways in the Texas-Ohio State game where the interviews
09:10didn't get done, and coaches, I guess, ran out of time.
09:14Yeah, they were waiting.
09:14And having been a person who conducted on-field interviews at my time as a sideline reporter,
09:21I've seen fans basically blister them, saying, nobody says anything anyway.
09:25And I'm like, okay, do you not want us to do them?
09:28And I don't know.
09:29Do people want to hear from coaches at halftime and right after games?
09:33I think people do when something could be spicy.
09:38And sometimes coaches deliver with something spicy.
09:41We've seen it happen, and that always ends up going, oh, that was, hey.
09:47But when you're up by 31 to nothing at the half and you're talking to the coach that's
09:51going into halftime with the lead, there's not going to have a whole lot that's going
09:54to be said.
09:55And they already have that set up ahead of time with, hey, we're going to talk with
09:59the home team coach at halftime, and afterwards, we'll see if we can start the second half
10:04of the other coach.
10:04But I think, by and large, there's not a whole lot to be gleaned there.
10:09I mean, it's just, coach doesn't want to do the interview.
10:11Coach wants to get in the locker room and talk to his players.
10:14Isn't it like with the TV contracts as well?
10:17Like, you know, they pay a lot of money for these games, and they get certain access that
10:21no one else gets.
10:22And whether, I don't think much comes out of them either, guys, but they do get the
10:25first dibs.
10:26Like, after a game, they're the first ones to get the quote or whatever, you know,
10:30the reaction.
10:31And same thing with halftime, of course.
10:33But I think that's just part of it.
10:35And if something comes out of it, cool.
10:36If not, hey, we still have access to, you know, which no one else has.
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10:42We'll have our Champ and Champ nominations today at 1035.
10:45Get yours in.
10:46You're on Carson Anderson, 97.1.
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