00:00it's time for some nfl overreaction or reality you know we like to start with the cowboys on
00:07this one so let's start with this overreaction or reality this is definitely my opinion the
00:14cowboys returning all 11 starters fooled them into thinking their offense didn't need to evolve at all
00:22okay so well no i'm gonna say overreaction and the reason i say that is because tyler smith wasn't
00:31there early so that that affected them a little bit um they talked about evolving all offseason
00:39did they do it i've seen them change uh put cd on the same side as george pickens
00:45i haven't seen george pickens line up in the slot and that's something that shoddy was talking about
00:51or brian schottenheimer was talking about this week uh you called him shoddy during jerry and i wanted
00:56to tell i want to be like hey kevin uh let me we need to tell jerry this by me
01:02um but i i haven't
01:05seen him do that before but lining him up brian schottenheimer was talking about that this week
01:10about we need to move him around and that's part of the evolution they discussed going under center
01:17more often i haven't seen the exact numbers for the cowboys on that it doesn't feel high and again
01:23it uh i think ted win pointed out a lot of teams do that early and then change later well
01:28and
01:28especially can't be that high if you throw 37 straight times fair uh so that that's that's one
01:34factor but i don't believe because of what their their players returning isn't the reason they
01:41didn't do it um i think that their defense still not being good has kept them from doing some things
01:50that they'd like to try out uh because i think they'd like to get uh floridae more uh receptions
01:55right in other ways uh but they're like man we have to go to cd and pickens every play
02:01why wouldn't we go to our best guys so i will say that's an overreaction alec we go to you
02:08overreaction or reality the cowboys returning all 11 starters fooled them into thinking their offense
02:14didn't need to evolve at all i'll go devil's advocate here and say reality that's what clearly
02:20what i think i i do think that there is a level of i guess ignorance is the word but
02:28there is
02:28certainly some bliss to it whenever you actually bring the entire unit back that is something that
02:34is so rare just because of the nature of roster building i mean heck they even brought back the
02:40reserve interior guy in tj bass who other teams had plenty of interest in they brought back literally
02:46everybody that is so rare in today's nfl that i think you see the the fruits of the product last
02:54season and you say there's no way we can go backwards we can only go forward from here well
03:00how do you do that you evolve you keep looking around the league you take notes from people you
03:06go into clayton adams folder that he said he has on his computer that's just called cool s and you
03:12go
03:12you go in there and you start poaching ideas and you start implementing different looks and stuff
03:17it's looked very very similar which you think would be a good thing but nfl defenses are too smart for
03:24that nfl overreaction or reality now i've got some stats for this the patriots made a mistake
03:32maybe a big one trading for aj brown there are 121 players who have 20 plus targets this year 121
03:42aj brown is fourth worst in receiving errors fourth worst in catch rate eighth worst in epa per target
03:53and 12th worst in yards per target overreaction or reality the patriots made a mistake trading for
04:02aj brown by the way his catch percentage on throws of 20 plus yards zero he uh remind me what
04:08they
04:08traded for him do you have was it a second or what did they give up first maybe they did
04:15get the
04:15i'm gonna say i'm gonna say at the moment not oh yeah a 2028 first round pick and a fifth
04:24round
04:25pick for this year okay at the time i can't say it was agreed right now you're probably going
04:34but at the time when the trade was made you had just been to the super bowl you didn't have
04:41an elite
04:41number one wide receiver you had one available to you for this trade and you weren't thinking
04:47about the 2028 draft you were thinking about how do i get back to the super bowl this year
04:52and win it so i agree right now it says it doesn't look right and quite honestly we've seen aj
05:00brown in
05:01situations where it's not going so great sure uh i would probably always go with that thing first you
05:07know like hey guys is he gonna be a great locker room guy when things are crappy too or is
05:13he gonna
05:13be uh is he gonna be a bit of a problem so i'll say yes you're probably regretting it at
05:18the moment
05:19you're saying you want more out of that alec overreaction or reality the patriots made a mistake
05:25trading for aj brown i'll go overreaction for now um i think it really depends on the end result of
05:32their season does it feel like it's teetering though oh yeah absolutely but i i'm kind of with
05:37cory where i'm like i can't blame a team that was just in the super bowl or seeing an easy
05:43option
05:43because the draft especially when you are that good of a team and you're picking in the back end
05:48of the draft you're looking at that saying this is us taking a shot in the dark hoping that they
05:53can
05:54help us right now which i will say it probably could have because i had mocked in this year's draft
06:00denzel boston to the patriots oh man he's had a good uh little run up there hasn't he in cleveland
06:05i thought that would have been the perfect fit in new england so you could have made the right
06:10decision in the draft or you could have taken sky more for example no that's an unnecessary stray to
06:16sky more i'm sorry but um you could easily have one of those situations too or you could have jordan
06:22tyson um the oh in your face i will say this no look man um i alex dead on uh
06:32after that you that's the
06:35moment kevin when you have won the super bowl you say or it lost the super bowl you say i
06:42would
06:42trade some substantiative capital for the future for right now yeah now when you're still building a
06:50team right maybe you don't necessarily go there yet yeah no i that's why i keep asking the question
06:56to him and steven of do they still have stuff to prove before you're willing to like do that thing
07:02yeah and they keep saying well i mean we have put the pedal down you're like i no no i
07:06just you did
07:07the things to build the base of it but your team needs to show you that they deserve uh uh
07:13another
07:13the war right you know right nfl overreaction or reality the broncos may still have a stout defense
07:22but bo nix isn't good enough to get them back into super bowl contention he's not right now
07:28uh i thought he would be good enough to not let them screw it up uh like he would as
07:34long as he
07:35just kind of maintained that bad boy they'd be fine but they're asking him to do more now and he
07:41can't and he doesn't look like uh i think this is reality i he doesn't look like he's very confident
07:47in his body i'm very concerned about his confidence in in uh getting tackled and sacked and stuff even
07:53though he's still getting lit up you're running around like a fool and you don't need to and he's
07:58like but i'm scared just throw the damn ball alec what say you overreaction or reality the broncos
08:07may still have a stout defense but bo nix isn't good enough to get them back into super bowl contention
08:13reality bo nix is just not good at nfl cornerbacking right now and i think there might be some level
08:22of
08:22it to the injury thing that cory was just mentioning because you saw it at times there
08:27was that clip of him that went viral where he had the just absolute beady eyes in the middle of
08:33a drive
08:34where he was uh jawing at a defender and it was like oh this dude has the killer instinct he's
08:39willing
08:40to step up and make the big play and right now he just doesn't have that mentality he's running out
08:46of bounds whenever somebody gets within 10 yards of him he's not taking any deep shots and i don't
08:52think sean payton's that bad of a coach to not call for big plays he's just not taking them
08:57nfl overreaction or reality even coming off an injury saquon barkley is gonna light the cowboys up
09:06overreaction oh that might have been too dramatic next question alec actually no seriously i'd their
09:15offensive line leaves a lot to be desired still the cowboys at this point i just have to think
09:24that they're so honest i'll say it again i think they're embarrassed enough to say we can't that
09:29can't happen again and i know who he is as a player but he's going to take some time to
09:34get back into it
09:35so i say overreaction to the question that it sounds like you think that he's going to destroy us this
09:41weekend i am a little bit concerned oh no alec overreaction or reality even coming off injury
09:49saquon barkley is going to light the cowboys up overreaction i'm going to change the verbiage a
09:55little bit i don't think he's going to light up the cowboys defense i think he'll have a solid day
10:00because i do think to cory's credit i think the injury is still he might be on a pitch count
10:06even if
10:06he's not he's got to get his legs underneath them again so i think he might see a little bit
10:10of
10:11hesitation a little bit of slow play nfl overreaction or reality man this is going to make vikings fans
10:18mad the chicago bears are the second best team in the nfc i mean by record no what i have
10:30i still have
10:30concerns about their defense at times there um and i don't have concerns about the vikings defense
10:37very fair i lots of concerns about their offense i have some concerns about the bears offense at times
10:44like last night very very much on the hey you're in field goal range don't take a 15 yard sack
10:53right
10:53quarterback was like bet and then did it and it was like ah why did you do that they're like
10:59well
11:00hopefully we can kick out his long our kicker's career long field goal is 55 let's line them up
11:08for a 58 yarder yeah what could possibly go wrong and i know it worked barely got through dude i
11:13know
11:13feet um so i do have concerns there i'll say no i still think it's the vikings until proven otherwise
11:20even though their offense looks like poo poo alec you don't have to respond to that last part
11:26overreaction or reality the chicago bears are the second best team in the nfc i cannot say
11:34anything that goes against brian flores well they did already lose to the vikings too exactly look at
11:40that so um man kyler murray and company they can score 14 points their defense is gonna allow three
11:49give me the vikings overreaction to reality kevin
11:55cowboys senior defensive assistant mike petten is not attending practices the belief is he's better
12:02utilized watching game game planning etc cowboys defensive coordinator christian parker doesn't
12:08mind not having petting at practice he joked there's a lot of people on the practice field that don't need
12:13to be there oh i love it facts facts reality i'm fine with all of that especially since he said
12:22that he's talking about you media overreaction or reality i love that so you stay at home and do what
12:31you gotta do if he ever becomes a head coach which right now it's not looking too great but if
12:36he ever
12:36does true you think he's gonna allow media to be around man yeah because if it's here
12:43because jerry i'll be like you better uh all right one more overreaction or reality bryce young and cj
12:50stroud are on their way to justifying their draft status there are times when this felt like a foolish
12:57question the two quarterbacks went one two in 2023 they're on a combined four game winning streak
13:05and they have 20 touchdown passes in three interceptions this year overreaction or reality
13:14bryce young and cj stroud are on their way back to justifying their draft status i i
13:23we're we're ahead you're a little ahead on this because always it's two games for stroud
13:31in my opinion um that i've that i've been like okay you're you look like the dude again there was
13:38the bills game that looked pretty good uh the last two they finally won bryce young had the amazing
13:46night with ted roa i think they he's eighth in the nfl and qb and if i'm getting ready to
13:53sign stroud
13:53to this contract that he wants i gotta see us so much more because i've seen you in the big
13:59games
14:00and you stunk bonus then you have the choice money is the same bryce okay and and i wanted bryce
14:09in the draft right over stroud uh you looked really good though because you were dead you were stern about
14:16i want yeah stroud in that first season it looked great and bryce young has looked bad but i always
14:22said
14:22i didn't think that i thought that somebody would make a mistake not getting bryce young right uh
14:27it was fortunate for him that he got the chances he got to be where he is right now though
14:31quite
14:32honestly that program was terrible when he got there and they've grown with uh with canalis and
14:38this feels pretty easily the best they've both played at the same time even at in a short way i
14:43think
14:43you're right about that for sure alec overreaction to reality bryce young and cj stroud are on their way
14:48back to justifying their draft status 100 reality i think they have both been incredible um a little
14:56bit more impressed with bryce um i think i don't know if it's public perception getting to me but i
15:04started doubting him way more than i started doubting stroud um and stroud even in the losses
15:09this season i thought has been phenomenal and there's some of these throws that he's making
15:15on specific plays that i'm like that's rookie year that's like that's the confidence of hey i got a
15:20lot to prove with a team that's ready to win i like everything that i'm seeing from both of them
15:25and it wouldn't shock me if both of them sneak into the playoffs
