00:00But in any case, okay, let's get to the Rams
00:02because the Rams bounced back on Monday Night Football.
00:04Everyone was talking about this Rams team.
00:05You guys remember my hate rant about them in week one
00:09after they lost to the Niners in Australia.
00:12I was upset for about nine days, and then Monday came.
00:16I was like, all right, Aaron Donald's coming back.
00:18They're wearing their new uniforms.
00:19It's prime time at SoFi.
00:21I'm going to give it a chance.
00:23And, well, listen, John, I'm going to say this.
00:26The Rams did win 28-6.
00:29Okay, good.
00:30They won.
00:31Got a win on the ledger this year.
00:32Good job.
00:33They did have 481 total yards.
00:36Awesome.
00:37Great job.
00:38And that's a good Giants defense.
00:39That's a good defense.
00:40It is.
00:40I will say that.
00:42They didn't have Puka Nakua.
00:44Oh, wow, you did all that without Puka Nakua
00:46and without Jordan Whittington.
00:48They had a lot of guys out.
00:50I am still not, like, there yet with this Rams team.
00:54They still made a lot of mistakes.
00:56Stafford threw a pick.
00:57Kyron Williams fumbled.
00:58Harrison Meade missed a kick.
01:00Blake Corum fumbled, too, but he actually recovered it.
01:04They did play great defensively.
01:06I will say that.
01:07But the reason why is because, first of all, Aaron Donnell was back.
01:10It was so good to see him back.
01:12Not just that, but Jackson Dart was hurt in the first quarter,
01:17maybe the second quarter.
01:17The first year.
01:19Yeah, within the first quarter.
01:21And he was out the rest of the game.
01:22We're still trying to find out what happened.
01:24It's a knee injury.
01:24It looked bad initially, but he was walking around.
01:27He came back on the field in street clothes, all that stuff.
01:29So they were playing against Jameis Winston.
01:31And Jameis Winston was thrown out there when he probably didn't even think
01:34that he was going to play on Monday.
01:35And he looked absolutely atrocious.
01:37So I'm going to kind of chalk it up to that.
01:40But also, like, it was good to see the Rams kind of look like themselves again.
01:43Devontae Adams looked like prime Green Bay Devontae Adams on Monday.
01:47So with all that being said, John, like, how much did this performance for you
01:51change your opinion of the Rams at all?
01:55Now, first of all, the answer to that question is zero,
01:58because I thought they would be great before.
02:00I still think they're going to be great.
02:03But I will say this.
02:04If Jameis Winston can complete a 10-yard pass, the Giants would have won this game.
02:09See?
02:09The Giants would have won this game if Jameis Winston can complete very simple NFL passes.
02:14Because the way that the Giants planned to run the ball completely got railroaded
02:19when he could not complete simple passes.
02:22Now, this is where you got to take your head off to the coaching staff,
02:25because either the quarterback or the replacement comes in,
02:28and either he has a groove and you have no film on him,
02:31and you don't know what to do because now he's completing everything.
02:33So now you got to kind of back off and go back to the drawing board,
02:36kind of cover two, and kind of get everything in front of you as a coordinator.
02:41When he can't complete five 10-yard passes,
02:43screen passes,
02:45at that point you just go,
02:46oh, no, no, no, no, no.
02:47All they can do is run the ball.
02:49Let's cut that off and see what they can do.
02:50Let's make him make those passes.
02:53And repeatedly he couldn't.
02:55Repeatedly he could not.
02:57And so at the end of today's game,
03:00I don't feel any different about the Rams
03:02because I felt like they'd be successful.
03:04But this does not count in my way of viewing them
03:08because once Jackson Dart went out,
03:11he's such a different quarterback than Jameis Winston,
03:15their game plan completely becomes altered,
03:18and they were not able to complete simple passes
03:20because Jameis Winston is now a broadcaster.
03:23Okay?
03:24I don't think many people know this.
03:26Jameis Winston is phenomenal on television when he's not under center.
03:31When he's on the sideline covering something,
03:34he the best in the business.
03:35When he out doing men on the street,
03:37he best in the business.
03:38When he playing quarterback,
03:39it's trying to get his job up.
03:41It's trying to let somebody else be the backup, buddy.
03:44Because that was atrocious.
03:47He was dirty open 10-yard passes.
03:51I just don't,
03:52if I'm the Giants,
03:54we love him.
03:55He's great in the locker room.
03:56We just gave him a new deal.
03:58But you're basically the third quarterback now, buddy.
04:01You're a coach.
04:02You're a coach.
04:02And we got to get somebody else in here
04:04because if he's actually hurt,
04:06if he's actually,
04:07if Jackson Dart is hurt three, four weeks,
04:09that could be your season.
04:10That could be your season in that division
04:12because either the Cowboys
04:14or whether we like it or not,
04:16the Eagles could run away with it.
04:18Yeah, it's really unfortunate.
04:20We'll get to the Giants injuries in the second block
04:23because we want to talk about that at length
04:25because it wasn't just...
04:25I think I got hurt watching the Giants.
04:27Yeah, jeez.
04:28I mean, it feels like everybody was hurt in week two.
04:30Like you said,
04:31what did you call it?
04:32Cart week.
04:33Cart week.
04:34It was like shark week,
04:35but for carts.
04:36That's what it felt like, man.
04:39So, John,
04:39do you put a lot of stock
04:40into what this defense looked like?
04:42Again, we'll hit what Aaron Donald did
04:44later in this block,
04:46but do you put a lot of stock
04:47into what the Rams...
04:48Did the Rams look any different to you on defense?
04:50They'd look more dominant,
04:51more locked in,
04:52or was it just a product of the Giants being bad?
04:54Nah, it was...
04:55I think this game
04:57is completely dedicated
04:58to Jameis Winston's inability
05:00to complete passes.
05:03I think that's all this game comes down to.
05:06You can't...
05:06If you tell me you think
05:07that the Rams are going to dominate
05:09on defense after this,
05:10I got a bridge I want to sell you.
05:12Because that...
05:13We don't know.
05:14We don't know.
05:15We don't know.
05:15We don't know.
05:15We don't know.
05:15We don't know.
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