00:00All right, we're back. We're going to get out to your calls in just a sec. Let me just finish
00:04up one other thing about number two and number one on the list. Clock management, game management, what have you.
00:15And then the offense falling asleep at the wheel. And let me combine it into two. Or let me give
00:22you an example of one thing that is kind of representative of both. Okay.
00:29On the second to last play of the game, the second to last play of the game, the commanders had
00:41to spike the ball with nine seconds left on the clock. I'm sorry, with eight seconds left on the clock.
00:50They started the play at nine seconds.
00:56But the reason why they had to spike the ball is because they only had two timeouts to spend on
01:03defense. And they had to spend them because their offense was so inept.
01:10And they failed on the fourth and 17, which is just impossible to convert unless you get super duper lucky.
01:20They had to spend that. And by the way, man, Emmanuel Forbes knocked that away. Just in case you were
01:25wondering, they had to spend the two timeouts that they had remaining at 149 and 144 to stop the clock.
01:32Right.
01:34And then Puka gets injured on that, um, uh, kind of the, um, what do they call that? The, um,
01:42jets, uh, the kind of the jet sweep handoff. Right.
01:46So Los Angeles runs the ball three times. They try and take as much time off the clock as they
01:52can, because they now realize even on third down on the third down run, which some people hated.
01:56I have no idea why now Puka got hurt, obviously a good reason to hate it, but that's not why
02:01they hate it.
02:03They run all this time off the clock. So the commanders, okay. Get the ball back after the punt.
02:11They start the possession at 52 seconds. No timeouts from their own nine. Good luck.
02:17Not impossible, but good luck. The second to last play after they spike it, after Jaden Bradley catches a ball
02:26over the middle.
02:27I'm not sure if I would be targeting Jaden Bradley over the middle with no timeouts left, but Hey, that's,
02:33that's for somebody else to sort out.
02:37Daniel spikes it. So you got eight seconds left second and 10, and he throws a long ball incomplete from
02:47the 31 yard line.
02:48And with the drop, probably around the 38, 39 yard line, somewhere in that range.
02:53And he over fires Stefan digs who does kind of get open, but with three safeties, basically lined up along
03:03the goal line, playing prevent defense.
03:07Now what would have happened if Stefan digs would have caught that pass, a bunch of you would have said,
03:13well, well, he would have had momentum.
03:15He would have been streaming and he would have broken through the goal. Maybe, or maybe he would have been
03:20tackled at the one yard line by all the Rams defenders that were sitting there guarding against just that.
03:29So the commanders threw a pass, not into the end zone.
03:35They threw a pass well short of the end zone to a streaking Stefan digs.
03:45And they overthrew him and under through the wall of safeties at the line of scrimmage.
03:53I went back and I watched, they only rushed three on that play, the Rams, they only rushed three.
04:04There should have been no impact by the pass rush or the pressure.
04:11You could have, should have been able to get somebody into the end zone.
04:16Why? Because guys, even if you think you can get a catch and run type scenario, you can't guarantee it,
04:27especially over the middle of the field when there's no chance to go out of bounds.
04:36If they would have caught the pass, the second to last play of the game, there's a good chance that
04:44Stefan digs gets blown up, doesn't get across and the game ends.
04:51They didn't even throw the pass towards the sideline.
04:56And this was after Stefan digs comes away with a 42 yard catch and run on the first play of
05:06the series that everybody knows he's got to get out of bounds on.
05:10They have no timeouts.
05:11Again, we keep saying this play starts at 52 seconds.
05:16You need as much time as you can.
05:18You need to go 91 yards.
05:21And of course, Stefan digs cuts back towards the middle.
05:27And then Jaden has to spike it.
05:30Okay.
05:31That's a lot of time to lose.
05:33Just say big play.
05:35A lot of time to lose 20 seconds when you have no timeouts.
05:40And again, on the second to last play of the game, like everybody's all concerned about what happened on the
05:47final play of the game.
05:48Got it.
05:48That wasn't good either.
05:51But the second play of the game, if they would have connected on that, there's no guarantee Stefan digs goes
05:56into the end zone.
05:57It's in the middle.
05:58It's on the run.
06:00They've got safeties lined up at the goal line.
06:02Somebody's going to hit and tackle Stefan digs.
06:04I think.
06:05I can't prove it, but somebody's there.
06:10And the game would have been over because they didn't throw it towards the sideline.
06:15They didn't get it inbound or they didn't get it in the end zone.
06:18And they had eight seconds left.
06:19Now, I know.
06:20They're trying to get two plays.
06:22I got it.
06:23I got it.
06:24But they ultimately wound up with three seconds to run that final play.
06:31If you would have gotten digs another eight yards, maybe you still have a second left.
06:41Maybe you have two.
06:44There's a lot of maybes here, but I didn't quite understand that.
06:51And then on the final play of the game, they show a zero blitz.
06:57They show a heavy pressure look.
06:59They only rushed five.
07:03Dan Quinn said, if two plays that you come with on the first one, you're taking a shot to the
07:09end zone, just like you described, meaning the final play of the game, the lateral, the short pass to Chig
07:15instead of a shot directly into the end zone.
07:20And he says, and sometimes to check for that against a team that does what we call a zero blitz
07:25or a max blitz, they don't call it that.
07:29Everybody calls it that.
07:30You want to say, OK, here's the other play where you can't block them all up, which, OK, fine.
07:35They blitzed five.
07:36They showed seven.
07:37What have you?
07:38You don't know what they're going to send, but they ultimately only send five.
07:43And so they did a good job in showing that one.
07:46Correct.
07:46So we got to the second play of what would have been everybody blitzing.
07:51Check it down and move forward from there.
07:54Well, there is no place to move forward.
07:57None.
08:00There's nowhere to go.
08:03There's nowhere to go.
08:06There is no forward.
08:08There's only backward.
08:12So what is he talking about?
08:14The second play that you had an opportunity to was the play before the last play.
08:19There was no other play when you run a play with three seconds left.
08:25There is no other play unless there's a defensive penalty.
08:30That's the only exception.
08:33So what is he talking about when Dan Quinn says, so we got to the second play of what would
08:40have been everybody blitzing?
08:42I mean, check it down and move forward from there.
08:47Where is the move forward?
08:50That's the point.
08:52There is no, again, moving forward.
08:56Moving forward is just what?
08:58Having a freaking lateral party?
08:59Like tossing hot dogs up in the air to each other?
09:05I don't, I don't understand it.
09:07Sorry.
09:09And then he goes, so with eight seconds left, you want two chances at something.
09:13Okay, I agree.
09:15And so to not have those didn't love our execution at the end.
09:20At our end.
09:22They ran the two plays, Dan.
09:24You just ran both of them maniacally wrong.
09:30One, the second to last one, Diggs is nowhere near the end zone when he would have caught it.
09:36And there was a three-man rush.
09:39And on the next one, the last one with three seconds left, there is no moving forward.
09:45There's, can you make a miracle last second play from the 31-yard line?
09:49That's it.
09:52That's it.
09:53Maybe I'm missing something here, guys.
09:55I don't know.
09:56I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed, I'll admit that.
09:59I think I know football.
10:00I don't know everything.
10:01I've been trying to figure this out in my mind.
10:05All right.
10:06I went a little bit too long.
10:08I promise we're going to get to your calls.
10:10But I had to do that because that's a big part of the, that's a big part of why number
10:17two and number one on the list, three and out, is where it is.
10:20Because it's, again, terrible strategy, terrible thought, terrible lack of common sense.
10:28It's almost like they live in this alternative universe that most of us, if not none of us, live in.
10:35It's almost like that.
10:37On the Team 980.
10:38Stay with us.
10:39Stay with us.
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