00:00Offensively, the grades weren't good, but they were passing.
00:04Defensively, I don't know what we do, Brian.
00:07Where do you want to start?
00:09Are we separating out the D-line and the edge rushers?
00:13Or do you just want D-line in totality?
00:16Well, I think both of them can get pressure, right?
00:20There were two sacks in this game on Dak, and, I mean, defensively,
00:25the one thing they did well was stop the Cowboys' run game.
00:27They stopped the run.
00:29They didn't get much pressure on the quarterback, though.
00:31Those two sacks did.
00:32So, I mean, we could almost do, like, D-line and then edge separate.
00:36If you want to.
00:37The sacks that came, one of them was from Kinlaw in the interior.
00:40The other was Chase-on on the outside.
00:42Yeah.
00:43But it's like one thing about sacks, you see an interior guy get it,
00:47the outside guy kept him in the pocket.
00:49You see an outside guy get it, it's going to stop him from stepping up.
00:52So, they work hand-in-hand.
00:54Yeah.
00:55We'll start there.
00:56D-line.
00:59I think they were exceptional against the run.
01:02I didn't get enough pressure in the pass game.
01:04And then Dak was throwing stuff so damn quick and on schedule.
01:07It's kind of hard for him to get there at some moments.
01:11I go C- with the D-line.
01:15Yeah.
01:15I think that's about right.
01:17Like, I don't know.
01:21D-line, edge, it's kind of the same.
01:23They were the best of the groups here.
01:26What did you think of the linebackers in this game?
01:28I mean.
01:30They were okay.
01:31They didn't do nothing spectacular.
01:32They didn't do nothing very, very stupid either.
01:34Chennau led them with 12 tackles.
01:36Chennau was.
01:37But Chennau, you got to be better.
01:39He didn't know where to drop and where to line up.
01:41And I think one time I saw a player and they looked at him and he was looking around and
01:45they were like,
01:45you got to drop back there and I think him being a veteran guy, he got to be better than
01:49that.
01:50Totally.
01:51So a quiet game for Sonny Stiles, finished with three combined tackles.
01:56It's just tough when the Dallas tight end, Ferguson, has four catches for 43 yards with two touchdowns.
02:05And I think Dan Quinn tried to kind of dismiss this yesterday when he was asked about it.
02:09But the similarities with which Dallas Goddard scored two touchdowns in Philadelphia and then Jake Ferguson scored two touchdowns against
02:19Washington and Dallas.
02:20Like, are they all the same plays?
02:22Are they all the exact same coverages?
02:24No, but there's definitely some similarities and it's problematic.
02:27With Goddard on the first touchdown, it was two safeties that were in that area.
02:34Yep.
02:34But with the kid, Ferguson, it was linebackers both times.
02:44So the linebackers, I mean, two touchdowns, that's a D.
02:48D.
02:52Corners.
02:54I think it's got to be an F.
02:56I think we're approaching F territory.
02:57I'm at D minus.
02:59I think one, nobody covered nobody else.
03:04I mean, it's hard to not be an F.
03:06Nobody covered anybody, F.
03:08Like, CeeDee Lamb in this game went eight catches, 153 yards, two touchdowns.
03:13I mean, there were various times where CeeDee Lamb, like, so for folks that aren't watching us on Monumental or
03:20whatever,
03:20we are in the middle of the Hanks house, the Hanks, Dick's house of cleats, right?
03:25Hanks is oysters, bro.
03:27You're right.
03:27And it's like this big, it's like this big circle.
03:29You are hungry, aren't you?
03:31It's like this big circle area, right?
03:33And we're in the middle of it.
03:35At one point, this was the amount of space CeeDee Lamb had in the middle of the Washington defense.
03:39Yeah, yeah.
03:40Like, it was like.
03:40You're right.
03:41You're right.
03:41You could color a radius around it.
03:44Did they think about that when they put us here?
03:45Maybe.
03:46Is this called a CeeDee Lamb spot?
03:48This is the CeeDee Lamb house of cleats, I think is what they call it.
03:50But, yeah, there were other plays where they were in relatively good position,
03:57where Sammer still was in relatively good position.
03:59And then CeeDee Lamb's just able to high point them.
04:02Yeah.
04:02And that's, I mean, even before the play on the field was really suffering, right,
04:09you got two short corners.
04:12CeeDee Lamb's 6-2 with all the athleticism in the world.
04:15Like, he's going to be able to just out jump.
04:16Like, that's the play right there.
04:18Yeah.
04:18He's just going to be able to out jump these guys.
04:20And so, like, you almost create an inherent problem.
04:24He's jumping.
04:24The other person's not jumping.
04:26The corners have got to be an F.
04:28And then I think the safeties aren't much better.
04:32The safety was involved with the running game, too,
04:35that helped them stop the running game.
04:36Yeah.
04:39So, and we sat here and said the tight ends.
04:43I mean, the tight end score because linebackers were out of position.
04:48So, the safeties, to me, in a sense, I don't think they're as bad as with the corners were in
04:55the line.
04:55Safeties, I can give you a D if you want.
04:58I'd give them a C-mine because they get involved with the running game.
05:02What do you make of this Nick Cross injury situation?
05:06I don't know, man.
05:07Because I did not know.
05:07So, I was standing outside.
05:09Internal always bothers me.
05:11I was standing outside of the Cowboys locker room.
05:14And there's just, like, there are always, when you've been in kind of, like, the bowels of stadiums,
05:21like, the lower levels and, like, the loading docks and stuff, there's always ambulances around.
05:26Like, you have to have that preparation, right?
05:30But then I see this ambulance pull up to the commander's locker room door, and I'm like, this is odd.
05:35Like, I've seen enough of this.
05:37This is odd.
05:38And I wondered if maybe Cosme, because he was concussed, if they wanted to keep him overnight for, like, observation,
05:45I guess you'd call it.
05:47But then I saw Sam in the locker room, and he was moving around fine.
05:50And then I see him, like, getting his dinner and walking to the bus.
05:54I'm like, all right, it's not Cosme.
05:55And you're like, what is going on here?
05:57And then I kind of heard, like, a whisper of who it might be.
06:01But with ambulance stuff, I don't know.
06:03To me, that is not an area of speculation.
06:06So, Dan Quinn revealed yesterday that they had to keep Nick Cross overnight for an internal organ situation for observation.
06:13And he's cleared now and headed back to D.C.
06:16He's probably back in D.C. now.
06:19That's a problem, man.
06:21And perhaps a problem bigger than football.
06:24Like, some things are cautionary.
06:26We don't know how serious it could be.
06:28You know, so, I mean, at this point, I'm not going to speculate because I don't know.
06:32So, I've heard internal stuff before, and a guy played his next game.
06:36I heard internal stuff, and he don't play.
06:38You know, so, I don't know.
06:40We'll see.
06:41Yeah, I mean, B, if you just start to think about the injuries stacking up for this team,
06:47we don't know.
06:48Chig and Louvoo missed last week.
06:50Cosby's in concussion protocol.
06:52Kinlaw, they're saying, is going to be limited, but he has to go get an MRI on the shoulder
06:56and force him to come out twice.
06:59Obviously, you've got the Jaden Daniels situation.
07:01I'm curious where you land on this, Brian.
07:04If they know Jaden's going to be out, do you think they'll go into Sunday's game
07:11with Kaliak Maness as the backup?
07:15I think if you kept him on the team and the way I saw him play, I think you're okay
07:19with that.
07:21I like Kaliak.
07:23You know, I truly like this kid.
07:26This kid lets the ball fly quickly.
07:29He doesn't sit up there.
07:30He makes decisions quickly, which I think helps him out at this level.
07:35You know, young guys that don't throw the spots, he throws the spots,
07:39and can't make quick decisions, that's a vast problem for them.
07:43I think just about any NFL team, if you get to the third quarterback,
07:46you're probably in big trouble.
07:48I think with Kaliak it's kind of interesting because, you know,
07:54maybe Dan Quinn would rather be able to go to Josh Johnson or something.
07:59But, dude, I'm guessing you've already gotten this.
08:01I've had enough people already say to me, we know who Marcus is.
08:03Why not just play Kaliak Maness right now?
08:06Because they're trying to win games.
08:08See, that's the minus.
08:10They're trying to win games.
08:12You don't punt on a season in September.
08:14When I get people coming to me and they say stuff like that,
08:17that is why I distance myself from listening to a lot of people.
08:20And they can get mad at me.
08:22They can think I'm being a little snooty and obnoxious.
08:24But guess what?
08:24I think when you make comments like that, that's obnoxious.
08:27I think if we get to mid-December.
08:30We're not in mid-December though.
08:32See, I'm not going to give them an out for asking me something after week two.
08:37So, I just – when sometimes when the people involved with sports say,
08:42you don't know what I know, they're telling you a fact.
08:45It's not them trying to be one-up on you.
08:47You don't know what a lot of them know.
08:52I'm very interested.
08:53I think some of the quarterbacking decisions will hinge upon what they hear
08:59from these specialists.
09:01I don't even know.
09:02What kind of specialist does Jaden go to here?
09:05Is it an elbow specialist, an orthopedic specialist?
09:08Right, elbow.
09:09Orthopedic probably handles all those different things.
09:11So, it's probably orthopedic.
09:12But there are some people that specialize in the actual elbow dislocations
09:16and things of that nature.
09:19Josh Johnson.
09:20Is Josh Johnson on the Bengals roster?
09:23I think he is.
09:25Yeah, okay.
09:26So, Josh Johnson, not an option because I don't think he's on the practice squad.
09:30Maybe he is.
09:31Where's my man Jeff Driscoll?
09:35And not to mention, if they do sign somebody else, like,
09:38what are we doing with this Sam Hartman experiment?
09:40Just what are we doing here?
09:43How long do you get to just hang out?
09:44I don't –
09:45That right there to me, we have to find a way to have a guy,
09:48a third guy that you have confidence that can go play.
09:51Well, fourth guy, I guess, now.
09:53Right.
09:54Yeah.
09:54Like –
09:55Because, I mean, listen, I like Sam.
09:59But you tell me you had this much time,
10:03and if you're not seeing what you want to see,
10:05then somebody else should be getting that opportunity to try and show it.
10:08Yeah, it's just like –
10:10it just feels like a bit of a charade.
10:13And at some point, wouldn't you not want to be a part of it?
10:17You know, like, I don't know.
10:19Maybe they won't sign anybody, and then it's Caliak Maness,
10:22and then, I mean, who knows what happens after that.
10:25Maybe Jaden's only out a week.
10:26Like, there are a zillion possibilities.
10:29As for the grades here, they're bad.
10:33Cumulative grade offensively, probably a C.
10:38Cumulative grade defensively.
10:40I mean, we got Ds for the linebackers, Fs for the corners.
10:43I got a D.
10:44You went C- on the safeties.
10:47I mean, defensively they've been bad, and this is bad, and I think it's fair.
10:52Oh, yeah.
10:52Give up 37 points.
10:54Part of me wonders, Dallas kind of took their foot off the gas a little bit there,
11:00and then when they had to score late, they just did.
11:02I don't know, man.
11:03It's not a great place to be for the Burgundy and Gold.
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