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Kevin Sheehan goes through his Game Take and breaks down what he liked and didn't like from Washington in their 20-13 loss to the Rams.
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00:05it's not really the good bad and the ugly it's the good it's the bad and then it's just a
00:08lot
00:08of other things it might be good might be bad there was some ugly in this game i'll stick with
00:13my overarching thought and takeaway from the game um they got miles garretted in this game
00:20they got aaron donald in this game they got puka nakuid in this game the other teams three future
00:28hall of famers had hall of fame games nakuha probably not i think you know nakuha had a couple
00:34of drops he fumbled a football punch out by caleb on chase on um but aaron donald and miles garrett
00:41in particular dominated the football game uh they've done that before against other opponents
00:47especially lesser opponents which washington is they're a lesser opponent to the rams the good
00:54i'm going to start with the defense because i think the defense did its part in this game
01:00i know that that may be a hard pill to swallow for some of you because they ended up giving
01:06up 125
01:07yards on the ground they gave up 150 yards 14 receptions to the guy that you couldn't let
01:13dominate the game offensively and you did he does that to a lot of teams um and let me just
01:20say the
01:21rams left a lot out there like they had drops stafford missed receivers uh they had 10 penalties
01:28in the game but it's not going to take away from my feeling that the defense in the first half
01:36was
01:37excellent and they made some big plays in the second half as well that gave the team a legitimate chance
01:43to pull off the upset i mentioned about the first half in the open to the show the rams first
01:49five drives
01:50five drives in the first half two field goals two three and outs and a fumble a forced fumble that
01:57wasn't you know uh a hand me the ball that was a punch out by caleb on chason second half
02:03i think
02:04really more than anything else they were just out there too much too long the offense didn't do its part
02:10you know uh from i i went back and i looked at the the drives that started it early in
02:19the second
02:19quarter after the jefferson touchdown that made it 10 to 3 washington's next seven drives which took
02:27them from early second quarter until uh midway through the fourth quarter actually a little bit
02:35later than midway through the fourth quarter they only ran on those seven opportunities 26 plays
02:43that's an average of just over three and a half plays per drive that's not enough the defense
02:53got off the field and then they were going right back onto the field over and over again over those
03:01final
03:01over those seven drives then the final two were the ones that ended actually in rams territory it
03:07became too much i mean at one point i tweeted out it was late third quarter early fourth quarter
03:12i i felt like my god you're starting to see signs this defense is starting to wear down starting to
03:19wear
03:19out keep in mind not deep up front with kinlon pain gone they have a new rotation and at that
03:27point
03:27i looked at it the rams had run 60 plays washington had run 34 plays uh during that strat during
03:37the game
03:38up up until that point that's a 26 play advantage okay for the rams the defense was wearing out at
03:47the
03:47end with that said the defense was my number one good from the game and there were individual performances
03:55i'm going to mention here in a moment but overall against that opponent even without davante adams
04:01you know they have been a good running football team they were very explosive offensively two weeks
04:06ago against a bad raiders defense understood but i mentioned you know late last week going into this
04:12game they were not you know they weren't in sync offensively yet you know they the first five six
04:19drives of the game last week against the chargers there were a bunch of three and outs
04:25defensively they they gave this team a chance to win the game period certainly in the first half
04:32until they started to wear out in the second half uh individually frankie louvu stood out to me
04:38throughout the game excellent pass rusher had a sack had another tfl i just thought he was all over
04:43the field i thought he was very good uh against the run um i thought that number four was as
04:50good as
04:50anybody on the field defensively for washington although there were a couple of close seconds
04:55caleb on chase on another forced fumble this one on nakua which gave the offense a chance first and
05:0210 at the rams 40 yard line with a 10 to 3 lead with two and a half minutes to
05:06go in the first half
05:07i also thought chase on when he dropped into coverage was really good nick cross man his return
05:15didn't know what we were missing actually we kind of did after the opener um excellent in coverage
05:20he had the interception it wasn't the greatest of decisions by stafford but still was able to full
05:26stafford drop into that zone underneath it uh pick it off but he had other really good plays in coverage
05:33and when he was in the box which was a bunch man he tackles well he is a really good
05:40tackler i think
05:41cross has played well since returning johnny newton stood out to me and his first action since going
05:49on injured reserve did he go on injured reserve before the season started i'm trying to remember
05:53that max yes before the eagles open yeah so in his first action this year you know he i'll i'll
05:59look
05:59up the snap count i'm gonna guess he was out there for 15 20 25 snaps at least has to
06:05be a part of the
06:10noticed i thought kwan martin looked good he tackles well and did yesterday they have actually
06:18been a pretty solid tackling team you know that punch out by chase on how about the swarming
06:26of the defense they came out they were fired up they were high energy i thought they tackled well
06:36you know that's that's a hall of fame quarterback and a hall of fame receiver and a hall of fame
06:41head
06:42coach offensive minded head coach they were going against they got some breaks there's no doubt about
06:48it you know higby cross had that you know a breakup on the higby double move which actually
06:53beat cross but good job and that was the challenge that quinn got right the other one
06:58not so much and it hurt more on that coming up but kwan martin i thought was a big time
07:04tackler
07:04in the game so i look were there problems checking nakua yes if you've watched him play before the
07:13entire league has a problem covering puka nakua for like three years now all right uh he was he had
07:23the fumble he had a couple of drops he blocks his ass off do you know he got hurt on
07:27the final play
07:28of the game they i think they've got an mri scheduled the very final snap before they punted it back
07:34with a minute to go he got hurt on that play hurt his knee they don't think it's an acl
07:39but that
07:40would be a massive blow because you look at the rams offensively what are they missing just one
07:47receiver please one other receiver davante adams is that guy but he's hurt and done uh one other
07:55receiver so nakua doesn't have to be the guy on every single play they um yeah uh defensively
08:06really really impressed with the defense overall this year the players are obviously better than
08:15the players they had last year the scheme is i think better nakua gets open mcveigh schemes them
08:21open they know what they're doing you know washington's gonna sit back in a lot of those
08:26zones i thought really some of the tackling against nakua some of the pressure against stafford i think
08:33led to some of the errant throws by stafford and maybe a one of the two drops that i think
08:39nakua had
08:40in the game overall i thought the defense did more than enough to give the team a chance to win
08:46the game
08:47the problem was the other team's defense did more than enough a lot more than enough to give their
08:55team a chance also on the list um of good from this game how about van jefferson you know he
09:02played a
09:02little bit last week you know van jefferson when they acquired him uh i said i really have always liked
09:09van jefferson i think he is a professional route runner i think he plays bigger than he actually is
09:15i think he's very good on the contested catch and you saw that yesterday you know with traylon burks
09:21out with terry obviously out obviously out with the army brown obviously out van jefferson five catches
09:27for 58 yards and some really good contested catches like the first third and four for nine yards jaden
09:33throws it to a perfect spot but he's got to make that as a contested catch i thought jefferson
09:39uh really played well and gives you some hope that without terry without burks without diami
09:45hopefully they get burks back on thursday night i don't know the status of that diami's on injured
09:50reserve um but jefferson has been everywhere he's gone a true pro who is going to be where the
09:59quarterback expects him to be he's going to catch the ball he's had excellent hands throughout his career
10:05um i thought he was as good as anybody was offensively chigakonquo has to be utilized even
10:13more he had six catches for 57 yards he's on my good list um he is he's a vertical threat
10:20people
10:20as a tight end he's as much of a receiver on this team in particular than he is a tight
10:26end and i think
10:27he's a really good tight end but i think he's got to become even a more you know focused on
10:33player
10:33i don't think i think he's a very difficult cover a very difficult cover especially i mean linebackers
10:40have no chance safeties don't have a great shot uh chigakonquo is on my good list uh rashad white's
10:49on my good list he had that screen that's good vision on the screen too perfect plate play call
10:53he had a couple of runs too he had a 14 yarder and then he had the 15 yarder on
10:59the play after
11:00the forced fumble on nakua and cosme got called for a hold i have to go back and look to
11:05see if
11:05the hold actually was the reason that white had the 14 yard run uh had the 15 yard run on
11:12that
11:13particular play um white runs with a little bit more power a little bit more vision a little bit
11:18more lean obviously than eckler does because he's a bigger guy uh than eckler at six feet 220 or whatever
11:24he is you know eckler is a little guy at five nine and a buck 95 um but i thought
11:29rashad white
11:30uh i think he's played pretty well for them uh this year and he'll be big clearly on thursday night
11:37and
11:38then the monday night game that follows against the bangles where it's going to be all about the
11:43offense staying on the field and keeping the ball away from joe burrow and the best receiver in the
11:47league jamar chase did you see his game against the falcons in madrid my god is jamar chase
11:54unbelievably good that that combination of chase and higgins is the best in the league um yeah that's
12:02it from the good list i mean i thought tress way had a couple of big time punts where they
12:09were able
12:09to pin the rams you know inside the 15 inside the 20 but you know when does tress way not
12:16really
12:16play well i mean i think he had a game earlier this season where i actually knocked him down
12:21but uh yeah that would be it for the good uh the uh bad list is longer and i'll get
12:27to that
12:27after this kevin sheehan show the team 980 and the team 980.com giants on thursday night yeah no doubt
12:34about it like you look there they've played eight games they've got more than half the season left
12:39heading into that game they're not a good football team it doesn't matter that that's a separate
12:45conversation from whether or not they could actually win the division they obviously can't
12:51win the division if they don't beat the giants on thursday night even if they beat the giants on
12:56thursday night they're not going to be the favorite to win the division but thursday night like last
13:01sunday night against the eagles is essentially a game to keep uh keep hope alive keep hope alive
13:09they're one and a half point underdogs to the giants and i was just telling max during the break
13:15my preference would be jj mccarthy starts the game he got hurt during the game yesterday
13:20jamis winston promptly came in and let a 14 play 80 yard drive that took eight minutes
13:25and he threw the go-ahead touchdown pass uh then mccarthy came back in and let a long drive that
13:31ended up
13:32in a field goal i'd rather face mccarthy personally on thursday night than james winston but either
13:38either one isn't you know necessarily a fear striker into anybody's heart uh our defense is playing
13:45pretty good football hopefully you can do it again uh the good list for me was uh just recapping
13:50the defense i thought it played more than good enough to give this team a chance to win the game
13:57specifically i thought luvu chason cross johnny newton kwan martin all kind of stood out uh van
14:05jefferson rashad white and chigakon quote were all on the good list here's what i didn't like from the
14:10game the offense again i mean yes i'm gonna hammer this home why because i believe it to be true
14:18and i
14:19think if i were watching the game without a rooting interest i'd really feel strongly even more strongly
14:24about it they played against two hall of famers on defense who played like hall of famers on defense
14:31yesterday that is a tough task uh for anybody offensively the return of miles carrett was one
14:38game too early too bad he didn't come back next week you could actually make the case that if he
14:45didn't play in that game yesterday washington wins um but with that said what's also true is that
14:51the offense was just kind of out of sync especially when gulbin came in for lucas patrick um the pass
14:58protection against you know essentially a grizzly bear two grizzly bears and a bunch of chihuahuas on
15:05offense was a problem it was disruptive they were disruptive and it was hard for them to hold up i
15:11didn't
15:11think coleman on the surface had it had one of his better games clearly they were struggling at center
15:17with gulbin the rookie against garrett when chris shula's lining him up over center he moved him
15:22all over there were stunts all kinds of things going on that they had to deal with that a rookie
15:27center had to deal with but it wasn't just garrett donald was unbelievable in the game i thought byron
15:33young was really good and i thought the guy stewart had a really good game they all had hurries and
15:39pressures and the offensive line and pass pro in general actually i thought rashad white one of the
15:46reasons he's in there a lot against an opponent like that is because he is their best pass blocking
15:51running back um but overall not a great day for pass pro the opponent gets a lot of credit for
15:59it
15:59uh there were some good productive plays against the pressure especially on the opening drives of the game
16:07the two opening drives um but there weren't enough plays there wasn't enough consistency there wasn't
16:16a drive starter you know on occasion they they had some plays even in the second half but they
16:22weren't able to double up on those plays uh they weren't good enough on third down that's for sure
16:28three for 12 and look it wasn't like all of them were long third third downs they had a third
16:32and three
16:33that they missed on uh rashad white was open jaden made a bad throw third and one uh they had
16:39two third
16:39and fives that they got stopped on so some decent distances to some of those third down misses there
16:46were some long ones in there as well uh but not good enough on third down there were three offensive
16:52penalties you know if you're living on social media media you probably thought that washington had 29
16:59penalties offensively in the game they had three but they were impactful you know coleman had a false
17:05start you're not overcoming first and 15 consistently against that defense uh with with 95 on the field
17:12the holding on cosme was a crucial call i've got to go back and look at it i don't know
17:18if that's the
17:18reason rashad white ran for 15 yards it may have been but that was the first play after the fumble
17:24that started at the rams 40 yard line and you had a chance to go up two scores late in
17:30the first half
17:31so that was a crucial fumble and then they had the delay of game on the fourth down that they
17:35were
17:36going for and i put that one on jaden ultimately the quarterbacks got to get the ball snapped or
17:43has to call a timeout which you would have hated in that spot um jaden's overall numbers and i'll grade
17:50out his game uh in a bit but they don't look terrible 24 of 35 for 274 yards a touchdown
17:57no
17:57interceptions he had the fumble miles garrett forced that fumble uh and that was a shame because
18:03obviously they got a shot there to you know get into field goal range worst case go up 13 to
18:08three
18:09uh before the end of the half instead that fumble gives the rams the opportunity to score at the end
18:15of the half which they did to cut the lead to 10 to 6 at halftime i think that the
18:20two throws that i
18:22don't love from jaden and there were a couple of others but the two that really stood out and again
18:29nobody that was a legit deep threat no running game really to speak of a backup center against
18:36miles garrett aaron donald byron young etc this is a tough ask of any offense uh but um i didn't
18:46like
18:47the i've already mentioned i didn't like the second to last play of the game i think that showed a
18:52lack of awareness on jaden's part to throw the ball that short of the end zone to stefan diggs
18:57if he catches it it's game over they lose um i would have preferred that he launched that one
19:03quickly out of bounds or towards the end zone to get it into the end zone um and i think
19:09that if he
19:10lets it go a little bit early to van jefferson on the fourth and 17 after he got sacked by
19:18garrett
19:19for a 12 yard loss i think there's a shot to sneak it into that hole so i thought that
19:25throw was late
19:27and how amazing would that have been on fourth and 17 if he dropped one in there we've seen him
19:33do that
19:34i thought he was late um on that throw i'd have to go back and look at it multiple times
19:39and have
19:40somebody more expert than i to kind of look at that but i thought it was a bit of a
19:45late throw
19:46there was that you know that honey hole that they call uh against that coverage that seemed to be
19:54there it would have been an incredible throw but it would have been uh that was the the throw and
20:00he
20:00had a chance there and didn't get that done um yeah i mean it was not a smooth day for
20:07jd5 it wasn't
20:08but it was far from all on him i mean the offensive line didn't hold up of course it didn't
20:15against garrett and donald and by the way how about the coverage from the rams during the course of this
20:21game you know who played great emmanuel forbes had one hell of a football game you know no jalen
20:28watson no trent mcduffie they were banged up and emmanuel forbes stepped up and had an excellent
20:34football game for the rams uh also on the list of things that i didn't love um so offensively
20:40just not in sync enough you know just not enough answers not enough you know creativity against a
20:47really good team they had a they had a screen that was timed at the perfect you know uh that
20:53set up the
20:53first touchdown they needed more of those the rams never felt like they were on their heels after the
20:59second drive of the game um i thought there were two possessions that really hurt the uh first three
21:08and out after they took a 10 to 3 lead the offense gets the seven yard run by eckler and
21:12the 15 yard
21:13penalty by forbes uh on the unnecessary roughness call the balls at the 40 and then after a scramble
21:21for seven yards on first down by the quarterback the quarterback did something that i didn't like
21:29and i'll share that with you when we come back along with the rest of the things on the list
21:34of not good
21:35and several other observations you can start lining it up on the phones in about 15 minutes
21:40start taking calls at around 11 25 kevin sheehan show the team 980 and the team 980.com
21:47going through my game take you can start to line it up on the phones if you'd like 301-230
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22:02xfinity score the most reliable wi-fi one price five years guaranteed xfinity imagine that uh so i'm going
22:12through the list of things that i didn't like from the game i thought the offense was just out of
22:15sync
22:16i think the other team had a lot to do with that uh i do i think jayden's internal clock
22:21was clearly
22:22sped up as it should have been uh yesterday um but still not enough after that second drive
22:30offensively continuity wise um hell they even tried a zone read that looked like an awkward play from
22:36the start i was wondering uh on friday would we see maybe a zone read keeper um we saw one
22:43in the
22:44game yesterday i think that's going to be important moving forward their run game right now is just
22:49nowhere near good enough with just the running backs the quarterbacks are going to have to be
22:54incorporated into the run game if they're going to become i think an offense that has the ability to
23:00stay on the field for longer periods of time more consistency again option runs tend to be a little
23:06bit safer than even in the pocket as long as he is uh protective of himself i'm not talking about
23:12a quarterback counter or a quarterback power or a quarterback you know sweep you know none of those
23:17plays that that cliff had in the playbook where those plays end in a pile i'd like to see more
23:22of
23:23jayden at least being a threat out of the zone read so that the defense has to account for that
23:29uh week in and week out i think that typically results in an improved running game for the running
23:36backs and makes it a little bit easier on the offensive line um two possessions i mentioned
23:43that really were on the list of things that i hated for for different reasons because they were really
23:49opportunities in this game to take advantage of a team that hasn't been great the rams offensively
23:56obviously they were great defensively with the return of garrett yesterday uh but after the three
24:03running out following the van jefferson touchdown they get a 15 yard penalty on forbes actually
24:09against uh on a play that eckler had seven yards and you got the ball at the 40 yard line
24:14on your
24:14on your third drive up 10 to three at that point by the way it's a fast moving game you
24:20know they're
24:20churning yards they're churning clock this is the kind of game you want to be in um and they've got
24:27it
24:27going and then jayden takes off on a scramble on first down at second and three and this is
24:32nitpicking okay i admit it it's nitpicking because most of you know this i love jayden daniels i think
24:39he's incredibly talented and gifted and yeah there are some things about this season that are you know
24:45new and borderline startling that's not borderline uh borderline concerning startling is pretty
24:53definitive uh certainly the end of the giant game and the throwaway in the 49er game was concerning to
25:00say the least um but he was kind of jawing on the sideline with some of the rams players after
25:06he ran
25:07out of bounds and on that play at second and three and you got it going you're at the 47
25:12yard line
25:13you got to move the sticks again here you got to keep the football you got to go down and
25:18you got to
25:18score you got a chance to take advantage of this west coast team playing at one o'clock on the
25:24east
25:24coast 10 a.m their time that hasn't been great recently on offense in particular and you got a
25:30chance to build a two score game and the next snap it looked like was kind of rushed now there
25:36were six
25:36seconds i think left on the play clock when they snapped it it wasn't the true you know barely getting
25:41it off but i just thought that he looked like a guy that wasn't for that next play as dialed
25:49in as
25:49he could have because there had to be a better run or a better play to check to rather than
25:55a handoff
25:56to rashad white that got stuffed for zero yards and then on third down he's got white now it's a
26:03tough fit throw but he's unable to get the throw to white and they punt it back that possession in
26:10the
26:10larger scheme in the moment doesn't seem as big as it does when you get to the end of the
26:14game and
26:15it's like they had a chance they're at the 40 yard line they're second and three at the 47 you
26:21got
26:21you got to move the sticks when you're second and three you've got to you got to get that ball
26:26into
26:27to ram's territory worst case you got to come away with three your third straight scoring drive and then
26:34later on in the quarter the second possession that i think really was impactful to the game
26:39is the big defensive play and my god that was a that's one of those plays in a game
26:44the bench is going nuts it was a swarming defensive play chase on punches it out you got the ball
26:52at
26:52the ram 40 yard line and you're still up 10-3 you have forced a three and out and a
26:58second three and
26:59out and now you've forced a fumble and you have it at their 40 yard line with two and a
27:05half to go
27:06and it's your second legitimate chance second legitimate chance to build a two score lead
27:13and rashad white rips off a 15 yard run cosme holding penalty now it's first and 20 it is really
27:21hard against that team with number 95 on the field to overcome first and 20 it's not the spot you
27:27want
27:27to be in and on the next play jayden scrambles is stripped by number 95 miles garrett and the rams
27:35are
27:35the one getting points at the end of the half to make it 10-6 so you got a shot
27:40you're in field goal
27:41range after the fumble the 40 yard line with stevens he can certainly kick a 57 yarder you hope to
27:47gain
27:47a lot more yards you hope to get a touchdown before the end of the half but you had a
27:51legit shot to build
27:53a two score lead in this game that would have gone a long way to winning the game those two
27:59drives
27:59i thought were really significant missed opportunities and at halftime it felt like
28:05i think many of you may have felt the same way man the defense has played well the offense started
28:11off
28:12really well and it feels like it should be more than 10 to 6 i mean they were 0 for
28:197 the rams were
28:20in the first half on third down now they were 3 for 3 on fourth down but they were 0
28:24for 7 on third down
28:26uh also on the list of things that i did not love just a terrible challenge on the blake quorum
28:32non-catch which it was had to be obvious to anybody in charge of that watching the normal replay that
28:41he
28:41never has possession of that ball and that it is a correct ruling of incomplete on the field i don't
28:48know why they challenged it i don't know if it was the fans looking at do not listen to the
28:53fans in the
28:54stadium watching the replay please do not do that you got to have somebody in that spot that's
29:01competent that can say nope that's not a catch do not challenge because you know what would have
29:08helped at the end of the game that third time out defensively but they didn't have it so that's 40
29:15seconds that they didn't have when they were down there at the rams 31 yard line an extra 40 seconds
29:21terrible use of the challenge flag now uh that leads me to the other list other observations about
29:31this game the challenge that quinn won was exceptional you know it was the big one to higby
29:38on the double move against cross cross gets back in that play he had an excellent game that's a third
29:44down challenge of a play that i didn't see in real time i don't know about you guys i didn't
29:50see that
29:51higby didn't maintain possession to the ground and that the ball hit the ground they did that was an
29:57excellent use of the challenge it's a third down conversion instead they're punting so that was a
30:03good one the one on the quorum non-catch was not a good one uh and that cost them dearly
30:11because they
30:11needed that time out at the end of the game uh lucas patrick's snaps are driving me nuts i know
30:20that
30:20he is he's played the position at a competent level this year but these snaps are not only high
30:26but they're slow getting back to jayden
30:32maybe that's the way jayden likes him maybe he doesn't want maybe that enables him to never take
30:40his eyes off the defense you know if you're catching sort of a slower higher ball in your periphery
30:48rather than one that gets fired back chest high maybe he's asking for the snaps to be that way
30:54i don't know um because it does make sense to me that a higher slower snap when i say higher
31:01it's not
31:02higher like it's sailing over his head it's higher in that it's slow and high it's like a big looping
31:09snap maybe jayden can catch those without really looking at him and so therefore he never takes his
31:16eyes off the defense versus one that comes back faster and sort of mid-chest mid-hands i don't know
31:22uh this is like the third consecutive week i've made that observation they clearly aren't doing
31:29anything about it which leads me to believe that maybe it's that style of snap that the quarterback
31:36prefers is that possible uh we're gonna have this conversation about the center position um for i
31:46guess maybe years to come you know teams make personnel decisions in the offseason that don't
31:52always work out this one was high profile for us because we kind of called it as we saw it
31:57in real
31:58time and i'll add to that that the general manager in august you know kind of said in a very
32:06condescending
32:07way yeah you guys don't get to see what we see well what we saw was beatish as a better
32:14performer than
32:15allegretti last year beatish still under contract and the idea that allegretti may not have been plan a
32:22tyler linderbaum may have been plan a but was like a solid comfortable plan b it backfired he's not
32:31even the backup center quinn after the game saying that allegretti's working as a backup guard gulbin's
32:37working as the backup center now these are players right that we've been told many times before
32:44that the coaching staff would prefer some positional flexibility why isn't allegretti both
32:52the backup guard and the backup center why isn't that possible i understand where he might be
32:59getting most of his work during the week um look the bottom line is allegretti they think is the
33:06third best center on the team after lucas patrick and matt gulbin that's what it is
33:13uh all right the end of the first half a lot of you weighed in a lot of my friends
33:18did on group text
33:18they thought that quinn completely mismanaged the end of the first half not using his timeouts
33:23on defense to get the ball back i actually disagree with that um and i'll tell you why
33:28so the rams take over with 207 left after the jaden fumble uh at midfield and they have just one
33:37timeout left they burned one on the challenge remember on the digs catch that sean mcveigh on the
33:43opening drive of the game thought may have been a fumble that was a bad challenge by them um so
33:48uh
33:49i'm sorry that was early in the game so the second half they burned two timeouts elsewhere no yeah
33:56first half i'm talking about the end of the first half lost my train of thought there for a second
33:59so he had burned that first one on the challenge on the digs drop slash punch out um by landman
34:07nate
34:07landman man that dude punches a lot of balls out if you've watched him this year uh and they burned
34:13one somewhere else uh anyway they having that one time out and needing a lot of distance to cover
34:21for a touchdown i felt like on that drive because my son i had family in town this weekend including
34:29my son uh who lives in nashville was in town he's like don't don't you want quinn to use the
34:34timeouts
34:34i'm like not with the rams having one timeout left because i felt like the probability and it's
34:41probably a very close call on probability here the probability of the rams kicking a field goal
34:50over getting a touchdown with one timeout left in the half there's probably some validity to that
34:57that the odds with one timeout favor a field goal over a touchdown and by using timeouts on
35:04defense they would have increased the rams chances of scoring a touchdown at the end of the half
35:09the bottom line is it worked because the rams had to waste a down on the goal to go situation
35:17with a spike to stop the clock with seven seconds to go on a second goal at the two if
35:24washington had
35:25used just one of their timeouts they would there would have been 40 something seconds left so they
35:30would have had more than the plays that they had they would have had a full allotment of plays
35:35so i think that i was okay with it i think i would have been okay either way i think
35:40it's a tough call
35:41in that spot that's not a slam dunk use your timeouts on defense it's 10 to 3 they're gonna score
35:48you want
35:48to get one more chance plus they're getting the ball to start the third quarter which would have been
35:52part of what would have factored into the decision but i think that the probability with one timeout left
35:59was field goal over touchdown and i would have let them get down and kick the field goal i'm trying
36:04to stop them i'm trying to hold them to no points obviously but as it turned out it did work
36:10out
36:10because the rams ran out of time to score a touchdown in a goal to go situation
36:19uh spiking it on one of those plays and missing out on a normal play that they could have run
36:25on second
36:26and goal at the two so i i was okay with that uh what else is on my list here
36:33uh before i finish with
36:35jayden and a grade you know the rams have several teams have done this washington has not done it with
36:41steven jet but they have perfected at least they did yesterday that dirty kickoff where that ball is low
36:48it's a screamer that hits in the landing area between the two returners and gets into the end
36:55zone so that the other team starts their drive at the 20 not the 35 washington's got to figure that
37:02out because i think they had two kickoffs into the end zone which gave the rams the 35 yard line
37:06to
37:06start remember the rule is if it hits in the landing zone which is 20 yard line to goal line
37:13all right and it goes into the end zone for a touchback the other team has to get take the
37:18ball
37:18at the 20 yard line if the ball is into the end zone for a touchback you know on the
37:25fly then it
37:26comes out to the 35 so they're calling that the dirty kickoff and some teams have really done it well
37:34washington hasn't done it well yet they got to figure that one out because the rams did it on two
37:39different occasions that's a 15 yard difference in starting field position uh yeah oh speaking of
37:50stevens he almost missed the extra point again after that touchdown that was barely barely good
37:57the extra points seem to be the problem for him uh all right jayden daniels so on the day look
38:03again
38:04if you don't consider the opponent the fact that you had no running game really to speak of you
38:13didn't have a stretch the field receiver probably their best stretch the field receiver was chig
38:18um and you're facing a team with two hall of famers playing at a hall at hall of fame levels
38:26with the return of garrett uh also coinciding with one of the most dominant defensive performances
38:33of the season in the nfl ben sent me the pff information where's the uh thing that he sent me
38:41um miles garrett and per pff for what it's worth miles garrett and aaron donald lived up to their
38:49billing in their first game together remember they didn't play together in australia donald wasn't
38:55ready to go garrett played but was injured and then this was their first game together the rams
39:01teammates notched the two highest pass rush win rates of qualified defensive linemen in week nine
39:07and i think ben mentioned to me that garrett had like a 94 grade per pff i i said on
39:13my podcast last
39:14night there's no chance any player in the league on defense was rated by any advanced you know grading
39:21service higher than he was yesterday he was an absolute grizzly bear in the woods against lost
39:29chihuahuas it was a mismatch with that said you know it put jayden on a very you know sped up
39:38clock
39:39had to get the ball out to avoid seven or eight sacks rather than the four that he took i
39:45thought
39:45early on he was sharp i mean the third and four to jefferson for nine yards is a good throw
39:50good catch
39:50the second and 10 versus the blitz to chig for 15 yards out of his hands quickly accurately
39:56i thought the first field goal the i thought that was a smart check down i don't know if it
40:00was called
40:01that way i'm assuming it was on third and 13 i checked it down to jefferson for much better field
40:06goal range you can't take a sack there um accurate throw to yankoff to move the sticks i thought that
40:13was a nice play on their second drive the under center yeah they were under center yesterday still
40:19i'm a little bit um confused as to why under center was apparently one of the reasons we moved
40:27on from cliff to blau and yet they're still near the bottom of the league and under center snaps
40:32as a percentage of overall offensive snaps anyway uh there was that under center play action throw to
40:40antonio williams for 18 yards that was a well schemed up play uh the touchdown pass to jefferson you see
40:46the lightning quick release you see the accuracy that he has um a lot of the time he had other
40:53big
40:53throws including by the way um good throws on that next to last drive to start the drive to chig
40:59again balls out quickly has to be quick one versus pressure to digs um big one down the middle to
41:07jefferson for 21 yards that set him up you know in rams territory down seven this was the next to
41:13last
41:14drive that ended up with the sack on third and five that turned into fourth and 17 it was a
41:1912 yard sack
41:20how about the final drive the 42 yarder where they rolled them out they moved the pocket
41:24what a dime to digs for 42 yards um had one to williams uh that he dropped digs dropped one
41:33as well
41:33but there was a penalty on the play um the negatives you know the late throw to jefferson on the
41:40fourth and
41:4117 i think it's a little bit late again somebody more expert than i would say if that ball's out
41:47immediately if he moves the safety with his eyes and he lets it go he's got a chance to you
41:53know what
41:53they refer to as honey hole it you know uh against that coverage down to literally inside the 10 yard
42:00line on the fourth and 17 i thought the shot to digs with eight seconds to to go uh the
42:05second to last
42:06play of the game showed a sign of again lack of awareness you cannot make that throw if digs catches
42:13it it ends the game um checking to the check down on the final play i i'd prefer like again
42:22he was aware
42:23this was you know part of the uh plan against you know pressure perhaps zero coverage uh pressure they
42:31didn't get that they got five man pressure but i thought that you know jayden would want to be jayden
42:38on that play let's move around let's run around let's try to get something to the end zone and again
42:44from the 31 yard line i said this from the 31 yard line you run around enough you extend enough
42:48even
42:49with two deep three deep on the goal line they had two deep to start the play they ended up
42:53with
42:53three deep during the play you may get somebody loose you can throw it on a rope for a touchdown
42:59you know it doesn't have to be a 50 50 true hail mary ball when you're at the other team's
43:0431 yard
43:05line you're not going to get it in the normal rhythm of the play because of the way the rams
43:11are defending
43:11the play but yeah um i gave jayden a c i think it's the lowest grade i've given him in
43:19any game this
43:20year but again i have to emphasize the opponent had something to do with it people like watch the
43:27game most of you are capable of doing it and letting the emotion you know roll off and just say
43:34wow miles garrett dominated the football game aaron donald was dominant in the football game
43:43oh i think i mentioned this already one zone read play that he kept it on i don't know if
43:49there
43:49were any others that he gave it on maybe
43:51you