00:00so i wanted to start with uh this um keys to the game right um look last week i said
00:07because the opponent was a much lower variety the opponent this week of course as we all know
00:17is much better now that doesn't mean they're perfect uh at all that does not mean that
00:23but they are better than the eagles i think we all know that right so to me i decided to
00:33kind of like
00:33come up with something of course generic last week i said 55 good minutes and we know they were
00:39absolutely hideously awful could not have been any more dysfunctional any worse in that first
00:46quarter right not that they were great the rest of the game but they were much better
00:52the rest of the game but they were absolutely hideously awful in that first quarter i mean
00:58everything the back-to-back false starts cosme and jade uh they had an illegal man downfield they had
01:04a kickoff go through rashad white's hands that cost them 15 yards they had a drop they had a turnover
01:13and a missed field goal they were absolutely awful embarrassing it was so humiliating i i just can't
01:24even explain how they could come out that bad this week obviously you can't get away with an entire bad
01:35quarter right now a quarter in the nfl is 15 minutes so i started to think about that i said
01:42mom
01:43is it impossible to ask them to come out and play you know like a lot of people that do
01:50what we do
01:50for a living say well i just play 60 good minutes kind of impossible to expect that especially this outfit
01:57so i said 55 good minutes this week i'm gonna lower that that's right because they haven't proven to me
02:10that they can head in the right direction sustainably and again the problem is getting worse
02:17but also the opponent is getting harder so i'm asking for 50 really good minutes
02:27i'm gonna lower the bar a little bit from 55 to 50 but i'm asking for 50 really competitive
02:34quality clean minutes what do i mean by that obviously again it's not that you can't make a
02:41mistake but can we very much limit the mistakes during that 50 minute period whenever it comes
02:47and again ideally it would come it would be more than 50 minutes ideally it would not be all
02:55after a terrible first 10 minutes ideally it would not be oh you just stop playing good quality
03:00football with 10 minutes left to go in the game and the ram storm back and win one somehow some
03:06way
03:07they're gonna have to balance that out okay but 50 really good minutes is not impossible
03:17we're not asking you to be better than the rams we're asking you not to kill yourself
03:24to not be terrible
03:32that's it's it's just not that hard to ask for it's not you're professionals you're highly paid
03:40you don't work that hard trust me you don't
03:46do you think you work hard you don't work that hard
03:52like it's not that much to ask for hey man if you lose because the rams are a better team
03:59and because they have matthew freaking stafford and puka nakua and sean mcveigh and miles garrett
04:05and aaron donald and trent mcduffie and all of these guys if you lose fine man like everybody
04:13would kind of understand that if you shoot yourself in every toe on your two feet during the game
04:24in one quarter of the game in the last part of the game what have you nobody's going to be
04:31able
04:31to process that nobody's going to be able to handle that because again the writing on the wall
04:37the evidence the data the statistics for all you number knuckleheads all show and and our eyes tell us
04:46that the problem is not getting better it's only getting worse
04:51only getting worse
04:56so 50 really good minutes and you want to give us one and then we'll take a time out and
05:01then we'll
05:01mix in some calls and some more keys um for me again 50 really good minutes again i don't know
05:07how to parse that out in terms of whether i want it to be the first 50 and then fall
05:11apart in the last
05:1210 minutes or a slow first five uh and then a wobbly last five i i don't know i'm just
05:20trying to lower
05:20the bar to match the expectation level of a team that has not proven that they are capable of figuring
05:28it out yet yeah no i mean that's a that's a really good key um i think my key and
05:34this is more so a
05:35defensive key as opposed to a team or offensive key um i'm going with we gotta continue to let
05:43matthew stafford you know throw the check down not necessarily push the ball down the field ever
05:49since davante adams went down he has not been able to you know push the ball down the field
05:55and you know for these deep crossers and you know deep in routes yeah because they don't have the
06:00personnel or they just don't have people getting over we look we look at also nakua doesn't really i
06:06mean he can run those routes but they prefer even when everything is clicking they like to get him the
06:12ball quick early and then get yak right no i mean yeah he does get the like he does get
06:18the ball out
06:18but also when you look at um matthew stafford's um career his yards per pass attempt like the first
06:27four weeks it was at nine it's now down to like five something so like i don't think he's been
06:32able
06:32to really be as explosive as that offense uh usually is so that's that's more so like what i would
06:38say
06:38and i think having him check the ball down now you're limiting the explosive you're not really
06:44allowing puka to get off and last time we saw a really good you know wide receiver one in j
06:51jsn
06:52he got off 10 catches 14 targets 128 yards two tuts like we cannot we can't allow puka to get
07:00off
07:00in that manner so um again let's make sure matthew stafford doesn't have that luxury of being able to
07:06push the ball down the field yeah i i mean i agree and i think it's just as important to
07:12because
07:13his elbow is hurting because the commanders can generate the pass rush because there's no davante
07:20adams because they like to try and again get the ball and move the ball in little chunks it's a
07:26yards
07:26after catch type attack and puka is very very capable of catching a little five yard option route
07:34or little slant route or shallow cross or something like that and then turning it in
07:39to something big if he's in the right space or if you miss tackles which hasn't been as big of
07:46a
07:46problem this year for this team as it was last year but still could be an issue uh we will
07:51see
07:52all right before we get into a um defensive key to the game because i gave you you know an
07:58overall
07:59arching one and explained all that so anthony brett just brought up matthew stafford and
08:05obviously they're not the same offense without davante adams and we know how good davante adams is
08:11on those 50 50 back shoulder fade stuff red zone so that's going to help right not to say that
08:18nikua isn't really good in the red zone of course but stafford is banged up so it's very likely without
08:25davante adams on the road stafford banged up that they're going to try and get rid of the football
08:32as quickly you would think as you can because you've got to somewhat negate the commander's pass rush
08:37which last week granted against a lesser offensive line and obviously a third string quarterback who is
08:44now benched they got pressure 83 of the time so stafford you would think and mcfay
08:54gonna try and counter that right otherwise that's gonna be trouble so stafford um he's got you know
09:04for you number knuckleheads he's got a 5.09 total epa whatever epa play per play 0.02
09:11a success rate of 48.6 percent a passing epa of 15.49 uh an epa per pass of 0
09:22.05 these are all fine
09:23numbers pass success percentage 49.8 percent okay so i'm just giving you the lay of the land here he's
09:32completed 67.3 percent 15 touchdowns eight interceptions yeah
09:41the key i think to counter what i expect out of the rams is to get quick pressure one okay
09:53but like
09:55last week they were at 83 percent pressure rate which was exorbitant they've got to get pressure
10:0360 plus percent of the time on stafford how do you get quick pressure well to me this is me
10:10i don't know
10:11if durante will do this i would show a lot of send the house type blitzes i would show more
10:19cover zero
10:21looks maybe you drop out of some of them but i would what i would like the commanders to do
10:29is not just say oh well hey we got pressure 83 percent of the time last week that's going to
10:35be
10:35the same every week because that's not that's not so they didn't blitz a lot last week i'm going to
10:45let anthony kind of talk a little bit about that but when they did they were effective but how do
10:53you
10:53do that against a hall of famer and a genius of a play caller with a much better receiver a
11:01better
11:02offensive line better tight ends and better running backs you got to do it quick man quick pressure rate
11:09like there's pressure and then there's quick pressure rate affect the throws get in his face
11:15get your hands up clog the throwing lanes because they're going to try and get rid of the football
11:21quick and i mean i think that's pretty elementary do you want to see them blitz a lot more in
11:26this
11:26game or no i don't want to see them blitz i think what they did last week in terms of
11:31only blitzing 12
11:32times they blitzed 12 times and they were able to generate 10 pressures one sack granted i would love to
11:38see them get more on the 12 blitzes yeah 10 pressures on the 12 12 yeah 10 pressures one sack
11:44my thing is again we're getting the pressure but we're not getting home we're not sacking you know
11:50the quarterback but again we were able to limit tanner mckee tanner mckee isn't matthew stafford though
11:56right he's dealt with pressure before so i think we got to be able to get home so in this
12:01game i wouldn't
12:02want to blitz more um just because matthew stafford he's seen all this before like i don't want us to
12:09get exploited because we're trying to be ultra aggressive to a guy that you know has seen all
12:15of this before is it too much though to show what i was talking about i agree with you i
12:19think we
12:19should show okay i think we should show um that like a lot and maybe drop out of it yeah
12:24right and
12:24then drop yeah i don't think we need you know a ton of zero blitzes and all i'd rather not
12:31do that
12:31they have a guy in puka nukua that is dangerous as they come so um i think sort of kind
12:37of what we
12:37did last year blitzing five blitzing six like we don't necessarily have to send the full house
12:42every single time and then drop an offensive coverage i'm gonna give you another element
12:46right after the break here at the top of the hour and then we'll get to your calls i know
12:50we'll get to your calls um about dropping out and why i think showing loaded fronts might be a good
12:57thing in this particular game another element that matthew stafford is known for in just a couple of
13:04minutes good good points by anthony there uh hopefully some good points by me hopefully some
13:09good points ahead from you what do you expect on sunday against the la rams for the washington
13:14commanders i said 50 really good minutes is that too much to ask your thoughts on that and how to
13:20attack matthew stafford sean mcveigh and the rams 301-230-0980 timeout here uh approaching four o'clock in the
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