00:08all right jared welcome uh to the show we always appreciate it uh mark ryan is in for
00:13doug karch today doug's a little little ill under the weather today we hope you are feeling well
00:17getting ready to head out to germany yeah man ready to go um just finished learning some words
00:24from st brown and um i'm ready to go words you think words is going to get it done yeah
00:30we're
00:30gonna we're gonna speak exclusively german this week and um have us have an edge on our opponent
00:35i like it i like it uh one of my favorite terms for teams that are are reaching their potential
00:40during the course of the season when you know they're a good team is is stacking wins you guys
00:45have got four in a row right now have you seen the confidence grow since you guys have been
00:49stacking those wins the last four weeks i think so i think uh good teams in this league
00:56string them together and then are able to get off of a losing streak quick after one if that happens
01:01you know so we're in the middle of this stretch right now and um you want to have multiple winning
01:05streaks for a year but we're in the middle of a good one right now and want to keep it
01:08going
01:09jared if you look at the teams that commit the fewest turnovers tops and turnover differential top
01:14five teams have a 75 winning percentage among qbs who have started every game you have the fewest
01:21turnovers what's the biggest key to you playing such mistake-free football yeah you know just trying
01:29to be good with my decision making um you know i've had two weeks in a row with with one
01:33so i need
01:34to stop that streak here this week but um yeah just just trying to be disciplined and be good with
01:39my
01:39decision making and and there is some luck involved and and then there's some bad luck involved in
01:43and what happened the other day so it's it goes both ways but you just try to be consistent and
01:48disciplined you guys had lots of scoring drives against the dolphins but not so much in the red
01:52zone what's the biggest obstacle that was preventing the touchdowns from happening in miami
01:58you both say ourselves you know i i think we broke it down we we scored on
02:03five possessions five out of seven possessions you know the last one i'm not counting because we
02:07tipped the knees but um and i believe we were in the red zone three times i think and scored
02:13once and and that's just that's not good enough and that's the difference in the game and um
02:17most of ourselves you know we shot ourselves in the foot and let's say we're able to score on on
02:21one or two of those and execute the right way i think the game uh turns into a little bit
02:25of
02:25different ball game but we didn't and uh had to finish it there on the last drive jared with
02:30everything you guys had to get through last week how do you go about it with the team making sure
02:37you're emotionally in the right place to play the game that you did
02:42uh i don't know i mean just lead the guys the best i can i thought dan did such a
02:46great job of
02:47um as he does with kind of everything but you know making sure that you know guys are heard and
02:51um we he knows where we're at mentally last week and um making sure that you know he he recognizes
02:59that
02:59but at the same time you know pushing us in the right direction to kind of um get us going
03:04again
03:04and moving us forward and um kind of honoring jack in that way that we play and the way that
03:09we prepare and um yeah i thought it was really handled really well it it doesn't happen every
03:15week with with uh in in the nfl but it does typically with with with teams that are good
03:20or teams that are perceived to be good where you guys and you're one of those teams do you feel
03:26like
03:26you get the best punch from the opposition each week that like you're held up as a barometer for
03:31for the rest of you know that that team's season like hey we we've got the lions this week we
03:37got
03:37to really tighten things up do you feel like you're getting your best punch from the other teams
03:42yeah sometimes i think so i mean um i think there's a lot of good teams and i think we
03:47are one of them
03:48and yeah certainly those teams want to see where they stack up against us and a handful of other
03:52teams and play us hard and play us you know good and um we got to expect that jared the
03:58defense
03:59allowed over 28 points a game the first four games 15 and a half the next four have you ever
04:06seen such a big turnaround defensively what's been the key there uh you know i don't know that you
04:14have to ask those guys i think they've just come together and played well i think um you know you
04:18can you look at a season across the season there's going to be good games there's going to be bad
04:22games
04:22and um they certainly play really well and have held us up in a lot of these scenarios and a
04:27lot of
04:28these games and um kept the score low so we can kind of get our footing and and get going
04:32there
04:32in the second half last few games and we don't want to keep doing that you know we need to
04:36start
04:36faster and play a little bit better in the first half offensively and alleviate some of the pressure
04:40off of them but man they played great and um deserve their credit right now can you kind of take
04:44us into
04:45halftime of what it's like because you've had some weeks where things aren't going very well for you
04:51guys maybe offensively in the first half you're under duress maybe some bad decisions you'd like to have
04:55back or whatever things just aren't working well but then the second half comes around and you guys
05:00look like a more focused team that you're on your feet the entire uh half you haven't been sacked you've
05:05got guys that are open you're making great decisions what what is what happens at halftime is it is it
05:10just
05:11you've got chance to refocus or is is there something more than that yeah the whole you know halftime
05:18adjustment thing i think is sometimes a little bit overblown i think what you're able to do is kind
05:22of take a breath and like see you know as a coaching staff you'll look okay this is what
05:26they're trying to do and this is going to be our um our way to counter that you know and
05:31and and
05:32sometimes it's communicated to us sometimes it's not um and for us mostly it's in there just kind
05:36of catching our breath you know making sure we're on the same page if there are some things we need
05:40to fix sure but um for the most part just settling in a little bit i i don't know i
05:44mean i've been on
05:44teams that play really well in the first half and not so well in the second half and vice versa
05:48and
05:48i believe you play well for four quarters and um don't have to worry about it gonna widen the lens
05:53a bit here jared the nba did away with division winners getting an automatic birth in the playoffs
05:58do you like that a division winner gets the auto birth because right now second place in the nfc
06:04north would get the five seed third place would get the six seed you play in a historically good
06:09division what's the best way for the nfc to for the nfl to conduct playoffs should the division winner get
06:16it yeah i think so i mean i don't know i'm not it's easy for me to say in our
06:20division that yeah
06:21i think i think yeah the you know the best division should get it because i'm in this division and
06:26um certainly if i was in a different division you know with with the lower wins you'd have a
06:32different answer but you know i don't know i think you know we're in a really good division it's really
06:36difficult it's fun it's exciting each of these games that we play in our division feels like playoff
06:40game and i know every other team feels the same way and um it makes it that much more fun
06:44i don't
06:46think you've played overseas before if i'm not mistaken i think the lines haven't been there since
06:502015 maybe is that i think i played there four seasons in a row in la oh when you were
06:56no okay you
06:56did so what are the challenges and you've been you're a veteran of this what are the challenges
07:00of playing overseas uh yeah i think just staying focused and and uh making sure you know what you're
07:07there for and um getting your sleep and preparing the right way and you just have to have a little
07:12bit of an extra focus to it because there's some uh extenuating circumstances that you can't really
07:17handle or you can't really uh control and making sure you have a handle on it and and handle it
07:23in the right way you mentioned earlier that you're learning some german from uh from amara saint brown
07:27is is he going to be exhausted by the end of this trip because he feels that you know the
07:33need to be
07:34the leader while he's over there in germany with you guys no i don't think so i don't i don't
07:40know
07:40what you know i think he's got like maybe like one extra media availability that he'll probably do
07:45but i think he'll be just fine pop quiz jared v gates v gates i'm not that far yet i
07:54asked you how
07:54are you doing there you go i got good good mugging good mugging like it good morgan to you too
08:01sir
08:01every week we have a question from the listeners and uh king sifts through those uh questions and
08:06this week king you got another one for jared goff yeah jared this one's from evan and roseville he
08:10says he's noticed that you like to wear jordans when you play especially the jordan 10 how do you
08:15decide which shoes to wear for the game and do you have a favorite pair of jordan shoes
08:20uh yeah i've been wearing those cleats for shoot five or six years now i broke my foot when i
08:25was in
08:29a tarsal um in part because of the cleats i was wearing so when i was coming off of that
08:35surgery
08:36i found those jordans and they were just so comfortable and um i haven't been able to find
08:41anything better since so i guess the tens are your favorite then yeah those are those my favorite for
08:46sure yeah so you blame the cleat for the broken foot uh no not entirely but that was certainly part
08:53of
08:53it fair enough well we appreciate your time as always wishing nothing but the best of luck this
08:58week have a great time in germany and hopefully a great time is because you guys are winning and
09:01you come back uh safe and everybody's uh healthy awesome yep thank you guys all right thank you very
09:07much there's jared goff lions quarterback here on 97.1
