GMFB Tuesday Hour 2: Rams-Bills Postgame Fight, Commanders Catastrophe

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Presented by Old Trapper Beef Jerky, Tuesday, October 13th. Jamie Erdahl, Manti Teo, Dante Wittner hanging out in L.A. at the breakfast table once again after being here with us in the summer. Dante, fantastic to see you. Kyle Brandt, I honestly feel for you in Buffalo Bill's basement. You have taken on a huge undertaking with the helmet readjustment and the realignment as it pertains to the conference leaders. Are we straight this morning? Because you have a lot to take care of Thursday games, Monday games.

You good?

We're great, Jamie. I keep the division leaders right here. I have to be honest, last night, if I can get a look at this, last night, I thought this one was going to come down. Because, you know, the Patriots are coming now. But no, we are set. Here is our group of eight. These are the division leaders right now. If the playoffs start today, they don't. But should we tell the story of last night and why this got to stay up here?

Yes, please.

I think we should.

Yes, please.

Because this was a classic game. Game of the year, all that stuff. The lead block, the generic blue football helmet for some reason. And SoFi Stadium. Last time they played, there were 86 combined points, and the Rams won by two. Here we go, second and seven. Allen out the gate. He's across the 50. There's that magical green line where they think Tyler Bass can make a field goal from, and they are now inside it. So bring them out.

This is that next score wins of any kind status with overtime. And Bass wins.

Perfect.

It was a no-doubter the second he hit it. And Josh Allen wins his first ever overtime game. The Bills appear to have a big-time kicker. Bass has been on the team for years. Matthew Stafford sees his team put up 34 points and lose at home to go to 2-3. The Bills are 4-1. All kinds of things to break down from this. And I believe we have the head coaches after the game.

We watch situations across the NFL. And, like, until that clock hit zero, I just keep playing, just keep putting the ball down. And that overtime was, you know, kind of showed the type of character who our team is, right? Like, obviously, you don't want to fumble. Like, that can't happen. But we just keep playing, man, and make them earn everything.

Greg has an incredible blocked kick, man, and, you know, make the big plays and go down. And T-Bass does his job and makes the game-winning kick. And you've got to love it in that situation. But so proud of him.

This one is, this is the one, this stings.

And it's going to hurt, but we can't afford to let it, we can't let this team beat us twice.

And we're going to have to regroup and reset ourselves.

And it's been a while since I've been this pissed after a game two.

And rightfully so. Here's the thing about the Rams. It wasn't just about last night. The Rams in the last two seasons, five times, Manti, they have lost a game on a game-winning drive in either the fourth quarter or overtime, which is tied for the most with the Falcons. And we saw that on Sunday night. So McVay doesn't like being a part of this company when it comes to these game situations. So you can imagine it's frustrating.

Yeah, it is really frustrating because you look at that team, you look at that offense, you look at that defense, and I think they did everything they needed to do to win that game.

A lot of talk about Puka Nakua.

Kyle mentioned in his highlight that he had 17 catches, but I don't think those 17 catches reflected his true impact on that game. Coming into that week... The Rams offense, they were second in yards per game. But when it came to the points category, they were 19th in the league in points per game. Well, last night, they were four for four in the red zone for scoring touchdowns.

And a lot of it went to Devontae Adams. But you got to see how Puka Nakua started to affect that game. Defensively, Landman doing his thing, punching the ball out. The only criticism I would say with the Rams would have to be in the fourth quarter in the overtime, allowing Josh Allen to go for 71 yards rushing on you.

But other than that, Dante.

I thought that from top to bottom, offensively and defensively, Matthew Stafford and company on the offensive side of the ball, Nate Landman and company on the defensive side of the ball did everything that you needed to do to win that football game. Obviously, it came down to a blocked field goal, and that's very unfortunate, but that's When you're playing against a team like the Buffalo Bills, and this was a big game because this was a game that I projected and I predicted would be the Super Bowl matchup across the street later in the year, next year in February.

What a great Monday.

Night football game it was, at least for the fourth quarter. And the overtime, because coming into the fourth quarter, I believe there were only four touchdowns.

In the fourth quarter alone, there were five. And that's how you want to end that game Monday night football is complete fireworks, Dante.

Absolutely. And Sean McVay has every right to be upset.

Mm-hmm.

This L.A.

Rams team has a Super Bowl caliber offense like the Buffalo Bills do, but they have losing habits. Did you see their defense give up 234 yards rushing? They had 11 penalties as a team. They had two missed field goals and one that was blocked in overtime. This is why Sean McVay is mad. All of that hype in the offseason that we heard about all the L.A. Rams or Super Bowl caliber, their foundation is starting to crack over there. They did everything that they had to do on the offensive side of the ball, and Matthew Stafford was the catalyst for it. 383 yards passing and three touchdowns, and they had five red zone trips.

Which they scored in all five.

So this defense has to vastly improve, and for... A championship team, you have to have more than just championship talent.

That talent has to mold together.

You have to communicate. You have to play at a high level each and every week.

How many times are you going to allow Josh Allen to break the pocket because you are abandoning your pass rush lane? How many times are you going to allow the running backs to break outside because you don't set the edge on the defense? You become a winning team because the details and run fits and pass rush, the tackling, the field position, the details on special teams. The Rams have Super Bowl talent. But they're playing with preseason discipline.

That's a good take. It's a really good take. And listen, you are what your record says you are. I know they have a lot of good players. They're 2-3. And I know that Miles Garrett is coming back and this and that. But is he coming back to a 4-5 team? We'll find out. Thank God they won that game against Philly right now. But I have a very compelling piece of video. John Sutcliffe is a guy we've watched for years.

He is the Spanish interviewer and broadcaster that's associated with Monday Night Football. and he does an incredible job. I've met him briefly. Normally, he has funny moments with Aaron Rodgers in these post-game interviews where the players try to speak Spanish, and John does a really nice job with it.

The video he had with Josh Allen last night was so compelling because, basically, I don't know if you saw the story. We've been on it this morning. Larrick Jackson and Bradley Chubb were throwing punches, at least one of them was, after the game, and it got really ugly. So I'm going to run this video after the Bills win.

Come for Josh Allen speaking like seventh grade Spanish and stay for how distracted he is watching punches as he's trying to do the interview live. I just found this very compelling.

Josh Allen, describe me a game like the one you described in.

Tonight's game, Josh. It's very good. Very good? It was more or less for a little bit.

We found a way. We found a way. So we got to break something up back here. Extremely happy. Our guys fought.

There was a little fight. Josh, a victory that gets a lot of confidence for you guys, for coming here, the stadium of the Super Bowl.

What do you take out of this victory?

We found a way to win against a really good team. Anytime you beat a good team and we didn't feel like we played our best tonight, we found a way to win.

We found a way to win. It wasn't our best game. It's Monday.

Help me with a Monday night football.

It's Monday.

Viva Los Bills.

All right.

So there's a lot to unpack there. First of all, Josh went with the, it was mas o menos at first, which I totally respect. That's a tough grab. Those of us who didn't take much Spanish, when we're put in those situations, we always reach for the words that we remember. Biblioteca, zapateria. Like you try to do it respectfully as he did.

But then in the middle, he's like, if you've seen the video of Bradley Chubb, it looks like he's taking a right hand to the face and that's Josh's teammate. and he's super distracted, but then trying to do the interview. Imagine, you're trying to do an interview not in your first language, and you see this going on right behind you. Look at the two of them doing the interview, Sutcliffe and Allen.

And then he's trying to be like, yeah, you know, we just kept believing and mas o menos. Oh, no. And then, like, he doesn't. That's a very difficult thing to do. And I've rarely seen an interview like that. I thought he did a good job. I thought Sutcliffe did a good job. You guys, what do you think about this?

I'm watching Josh and like I haven't I haven't had that interaction before as a sideline and the postgame interview. But if someone's ever that distracted and some and there's a fight breaking out, my passive brain would be like, you know what, Josh, just go, just go.

If you need to tend to your.

Teammate, Sutcliffe made him stay and commit to this interaction that he clearly was distracted by.

And then not to forget.

That you have Miles Garrett waiting five feet to Josh's left wanting to congratulate.

Him on the wig.

You see him in the sweatshirt.

So you got Miles there, Josh, and then the punch being thrown.

This is quite the scene.

Yeah, that's that's just some composure by Josh Allen. And, you know, he said muscle metals. Well, there is mass models going on to his left. There are a lot of hands being thrown. Now, it kind of reminds me when you're at the playground and your kid is is going like on the monkey bars and there's some other parent that's trying to talk to you and you're like.

Hold on, buddy.

My son's about to go in some territory that he might hurt himself, and you're trying to be cordial with the parent and talk to him a little bit, but you're constantly looking.

Over at the safety of your kid.

Great job by Josh Allen in being able to finish that interview, show some composure, but you got to see him be a little bit colorful in the beginning, and then when the fight broke out, he went very locked in, and he was giving very plain answers and professional answers, so right on for Josh.

It seems like he was trying to distract everybody from having limited Spanish. That's what I would have done because I only know like one phrase. I know Dame on Bezos. And I would have just kept saying Bezos, Bezos. So that's my take on it.

Dante, when you're watching that, is there any part of you that says like Josh should have said, no, I got to go and run over and broke that up? Or is that not quarterback stuff?

Yeah, as a leader of the team, you don't really want guys to be in those scenarios and situations. So if you're not going to be attentive to the interview, you have to leave and.

Go break it up.

So you either answer the questions and show your limited Spanish or you go over and break it up. But you can't do both.

Yeah.

KB, it's a great poll. Sutcliffe also is on it. Like this interaction comes immediately after he gets done with the lower Rutledge interview. Sutcliffe was like, my turn, my turn, my turn. And then this is all unfolding. It's entirely too long for the players to be out there at this point. This is the kind of skirmish that happens.

Mike Garofalo, what do you make of all this?

What I make is that the NFL does review all on-field behavior pregame.

During the game, post-game, during the jersey swap.

So I'm just going to tell you, Jamie, that this is going to be reviewed by the NFL. Aleric Jackson, the Rams left tackle here. He is also awaiting word on any discipline potentially from an off-the-field incident, domestic violence charges that were deferred. There was a pre-child intervention there.

So Aleric Jackson awaiting that and also awaiting to see what the league will say in this case about with his shot to Bradley Chubb. So we'll see about any discipline potentially going from there.

Moving on to some injury updates.

And these are all brought to you by the muscle known as the hamstring. Caleb Williams potentially making his return to the Bears.

Now, I reported the other day.

He's the one pushing. He's trying to get back for this game here. This is right around the time that we thought he would be back from that grade two hamstring, three.

To four weeks. This would be three weeks.

And then his return. So Ben Johnson's got the door open for him. Let's see how the week goes for him. I'm going to say that for all these guys, including Saquon Barkley and Devontae Smith. Boy, the Eagles badly need their two top offensive weapons back for Jalen Hurts. And yeah, there is a chance that these guys are both going to be back. I would say at least one of them is going to return. But the hope is that both potentially could be back on the field for a game against the Panthers that this team is badly going to need. And then there's Debo Samuel. Now, this one happened on Sunday, and then he was quickly ruled out.

So not surprising that this is going to be one where he's going to miss a couple of weeks here. This looked like a bad one immediately. You could see him down there. So Kyle Shanahan saying that he is going to miss some time. So the 49ers without one of their key offensive weapons, who's really had a resurgence since he got back to San Francisco.

But that is on.

Pause, at least for the short term, Jamie.

How's your hamstring, Mike J.

Uh, pretty good.

Um, I've never, I've, I've like tweaked it from time to time and just a minor, minor, and it's unbelievably painful. And you think like, if I ever had a real hamstring injury, what would that feel like? And there are probably some former athletes sitting next to you right now who are laughing at the notion that I can't take like this little, little, little, tiny little tweak.

I thought you were going to have your new segment brought to you by, and then you just said the hamstring.

And I was like, all right, here we go.

At least now we know how this is going to go.

I mean, phone's on. Holler at your boy. Sponsors, here we go.

It's time for the two-minute timeout presented by the active cash credit card from Wells Fargo. The ending of the Giants-Commanders game still has everybody puzzled when Washington mishandled their clock management situation, resulting in a tie and a multitude of questions. Two days later, head coach Dan Quinn still answering to said puzzled situation, and we're trying to find clarity somewhere.

We wanted to use.

Some clock after getting into field goal range. There have been four kicks that have been missed in the game, so burning some time is the smart call as you kick near the end of the game. With about 56 seconds, we handed off to Rashad White, and it took entirely too long from there on to execute our strategy from subbing to clock awareness to clocking the ball, and when I told the team and with the coach, like it was a breakdown that it can't happen. And our time today as a team was spent on the how and the why and make sure that it never does again.

Amanda, he looks so shook by this bad body language. He hates answering these questions and I'm still not quite sure who the responsibility falls on in the mismanagement of that situation. What do you think?

Yeah.

Well, from what we know, right, Dante, the person that is talking to the quarterback is offense coordinator. The head coach doesn't, have the ability or hasn't had the ability to talk to the quarterback who is the green dot for the offense.

And that comes from the defense of the offensive coordinator.

Now, the head coach does tell the offensive coordinator what he wants to do in those situations. And there is this thing on Saturdays, the day before the game, where we call them situational Saturdays, where you have the offense on one sideline, the defense on the other sideline, and the head coach will stand in the middle of the field and he'll yell out different situations. Like, we'll go over Hail Mary, sidelines, two-minute, every variation of two-minute.

He'll say, hey, we have.

49 seconds left at one timeout. What are we going to do? We have a minute 12 and two timeouts.

What are we going to do? And you run through those situations, right, Dante?

This is one of those elementary type of things where you practice it over and over again. And I think every player, every fan is like... Listen, the Baltimore Ravens did it. You snap the ball, you ask your kicker where does he feel the most comfortable from, what hash, what part of the field, and Jaden Daniels snaps it, goes to the area, kneels the ball down, very next play clocks it, and they kick it with four seconds left in the game. That's what should have happened. That's what didn't happen. We still don't know to what Dan Quinn said, Dante, the how and the why. That's something I don't think we'll ever know, but that is an elementary type of situation that we've all kind of found the answers to.

And it really doesn't matter what he says in the interview.

All we know is that Dan Quinn didn't lose the game on the field.

He lost it on the clock.

And it's almost as if he's preparing for his departure from the Washington Commanders. This type of debacle being one, three and one can and will.

Get you fired. Think about it.

It was 55 seconds on the clock. They had the ball on the 26-yard line.

They ran the football.

When you get up, the offensive coordinator, the head coach, must let the quarterback know that he doesn't have any timeouts.

You snap the ball.

With 13 seconds remaining on the clock without timeouts. there's not many times when you're playing offense that you're going to be able to get up, get everybody back set, and spike the football. So in that moment, yeah, it ultimately boils down to the head coach letting the players on the field know, hey, we.

Don't have any timeouts.

We have to clock the football so that we can get an opportunity to kick a field goal. This just shows that, you know, Dan Quinn could ultimately be.

Out of Washington. Yeah, I mean, it may very well come to that. You know, that's a part of the business that I don't relish. But what are we talking about here? And it's reality. I think yesterday I thought it was really interesting in media is that it felt like there were really swords drawn about whose fault this was.

And anyone who wanted to put it on Jaden was was screamed at about it's not a Jaden thing or anyone who didn't put enough on Quinn. It's a Quinn thing. There's fault in both. Absolutely. I understand everything about communication flow and coaching and sideline control and all that. Like at some point as a quarterback, you have the wherewithal having played enough football to supersede any other factors that are going on. When Jane Daniels comes up to take this last snap, it's like, it's like a baseball player.

They say like, if the ball gets hit to you, what are you doing with it? You know that you're going to second or you're throwing it home. Like as he's about to take this snap, Does he know that there's no timeouts and that he can't do what he's about to do? I know there's voices in his head. I know he's getting coached or not getting coached. I just still can't believe that he did this. Doesn't something his football experience and the wherewithal supersede what anyone else is saying to him? Like, oh, my God, we have no timeouts. The clock's ticking down. I can see it right there. I can't just fall down. You know, would other young quarterbacks have done this? Would Bryce Young have done this? Would Caleb have done this? Would Drake May

have done this? I know that there's a lot of fault on Quinn. I'm not defending Quinn at all. Quinn's not even defending Quinn. But anybody who says that Jane Danis is completely blameless, come on. He's played a bunch of football in his life. He understands how it works. It's pretty simple. Clock, scenario, timeout, all these things going through your head. You can do almost anything other than exactly what you did. So for something this bad, is it the coach's fault? Is it the quarterback's fault? The answer is yes.

Yeah, it's a combination, right, KB, for me, I think. The conversation that should have been had is before that first down play. Like, there should have been two plays sent in. Like, hey, this is what we're going to do on first down. We're going to run this ball with our running back to the right.

Wherever he gets tackled, this is what we're going to do immediately after.

The fact that they ran one play and there wasn't a plan after that first down play and there was their second and eight and there's kind of like, okay, what are we going to do? And then they start to... They start to sub people in. They subbed in a totally different package, a personnel package. That was what I was like. Why is there any type of confusion in that situation?

You're the head coach or the office coordinator. You're the quarterback. You know, you have no timeouts.

There should have been a conversation in that headset of, Hey, we got two plays coming up.

We're going to run this one on the first down. And when you get down, this is what we're going to do. Second down.

And that should have cleared everything up for Jane and Daniels and that offense. It, it, It was very surprising to me that that wasn't a conversation.

And reading into the sequence of plays called, think about how they ran the football on the first one and they went play action on the second play. It seems to me that the offensive coordinator or somebody told Jaden Daniels, if it's not there, throw the football away.

You don't have any timeouts.

You don't go play action and make the quarterback slide and keep the clock moving. So he was probably told to throw that football away and stop the clock.

There's positions in all of sport, whether it be a catcher on a baseball field, moving guys around, depending on who the batter is, the point guard. Like, you know how much time you have in the backcourt before you hit half court. You've got to know as the quarterback where the clock is, who your guys are, how many timeouts are. That's why we marvel at these videos of these quarterbacks and they're going through the draft process of rattling off all these play calls and, look, he's on the board doing X, Y, and Z. That's why it's a challenging position and, frankly, for the position that we see the elite perform at. We just would expect more in that situation, but we'll continue to track it.

This was a 13 to seven game.

At the half.

We saw 35 fourth quarter points in this game. And we are going to overtime. That ball comes out. His second fumble of the night. Game-winning tribe is blocked. They're inside field goal range.

It is good.

Sends the Bills out of SoFi with an overtime win.

What a ride that was last night.

Can you believe the gift that Monday Night Football was? We've been talking about this game all morning. And with that, we welcome somebody on Good Morning Football now who had a front row seat to it. Please welcome to our show our friend, Bill's offensive lineman, Alex.

Alec Anderson.

Kyle, be the historian.

How often do we get a player from a game last night in an overtime win near hours after it finished?

Yeah, and he's on the Pacific time zone, dude. You're a maniac.

It's 6.34 a.m.

As we're having this conversation. We love you. How are you doing?

Man, I am feeling sore as hell, you know. And, yeah, in TV terms, I'm feeling like.

I just got in a car accident, in all honesty.

Yeah, I hear you.

Airbags and everything, Alec. Buckle up, because that's what it felt like probably to go against the Rams. You had 10 matchups against Aaron Donald last night. You allowed zero pressures. What was the entire experience, though? Because that one was free football for us all, but you guys paid the price, but you got the ultimate win.

We did get the ultimate win, and the preparation this week for myself was really not anything out of the usual. We came into the game plan of like, hey, Aaron Donald's going to be out there. It's been two years since he's been playing. He's had a couple games underneath his belt, but at the same time, he's not the exact same person that he's been. He has flashes. He had a couple sacks against us last night, I believe.

And he had a couple of good plays and he's still number 99. He's still a great player. But we went in there in the sense of like, we're going to block him. And that's what we did. And I think our game plan worked. And I was really happy with how we handled him.

Alec, you have to handle him any way you can. And since you won, we can bust chops a little bit here. On the James Cook touchdown run, you have to talk us through this blocking strategy because I've never seen this before. People should know about it. Roll the video, and Alec, tell us what we're watching here in the trenches.

Oh, my God. Why would you?

Yeah, no. Take us through it. All right.

So shout out to my mom taking me to Tumbling Teddies when I.

Was like four years old. I'm not going to lie. I was sitting here.

It was, it was a touchdown at the end of the day. It's a touchdown, but I was sitting there and I'm not going to lie. It was one of those plays where you're just like, I don't care what's about to happen. I just want to hit this guy as hard as I possibly can. And that's what you get when you play out of control.

And so I'm for sure going to not be living. I'm going to be living this one down for a minute, man. Oh my God. Shout out to them.

That's so good, bro. That's athleticism all in one place.

Oh, 100%.

Now, Alec, take us into the locker room after the win. What did Coach Brady have to say? Describe that scene for us.

Yeah, it was a scene for sure. We got back in there. Everybody's hyped up, as you know. It's a big win, especially in L.A., an overtime win. It's great. It was a great feeling.

We got in there.

You know, he addressed, like, you know, we've got to stop turning the ball over, and that's just part of the football game. But at the same time, he was just so happy and so juiced, honestly. It was so quiet in there, but Coach Brady was yelling at the top of his lungs, and he was like, you know, I'm just so happy, you guys. Like, I'm so proud.

I love y'all. And it was really a great moment. You know, James getting the game ball, also Greg Rousseau with that big bat down of the ball. So it was a great time. Just being able to be in there. It's kind of one of those moments where like I can for sure see the older guys saying like those are the moments you got to cherish. Those are the ones that they kind of miss just because it was like you're all sweaty. You're all tired. You're all beat up and you're always like man like just a little bit less sore just because it was a win, you know, and so it was really nice.

Alec blocking for Josh his ability to extend the play. to run the football what's your mindset as a group the play must feel like it lasts forever and do you guys ever blame him for any of those holes.

Not at all man we just got to know that that's going to happen and get our hands back in place um but no it's it's honestly crazy and it's it's nuts seeing him take off and how big josh is you know he's six five 230 plus pounds like That's a, that's a lot of man running around, but the way he's able to run and kind of move and he makes it look effortless. And I mean, you saw it all, all during the game, but then also like, it's just nuts what he's been doing for 10 years now, you know? And it's, it's insane to see on the field.

It was insane to see on the sideline, but then blocking for him now, it's like, wow.

All right.

Like one, I really got to lock in and know this guy's not done pass rushing. He's looking where Josh is at and trying to retrace. So I get, it's a lot of re-blocking and retracing and re-fitting your hands, but it's that little like game within the game, you know, that you have to understand and you have to be ready for.

Alec, one of the things that Josh does is at the end of the game, he always sits on the bench. He looks up at the score. He's done this for years, his whole career. When the defense is out there, he sits on the bench. And a lot of times it hasn't ended well, especially in overtime. Last night it did, but it only did because of the blocked field goal.

So take me through from you guys on the sideline. you just flew all the way to LA. You know, you got to stay there for a long time. Damn it. This guy's going to make this kick and we're going to lose. And then all of a sudden, boom, it's blocked and you have hope. What is the vibe and atmosphere on the sideline for you?

It's exactly that, man. It's like, all right, like, come on. Somebody's got to make a stop, you know, like offense. We didn't do the job when we first had the ball. And that's, you know, those are those costly turnovers that we're talking about.

And so being able to sit there and.

It's funny now, like, I was on field goal block last year and it was a lot of fun being able to go out there and do it, but seeing them do it on the sideline is a whole new experience and seeing Greg get up there and smack that ball down. Like there's a reason why we call them baby group, like that dude was tall as a tree.

And so it's, it's insane.

And so to go back on the field, like it's for sure a surge of like adrenaline, the morale gets boosted up and everybody's like, all right, like, we got a second chance. We're a hundred percent going to score. We're a hundred percent going to take advantage of it. Like defense did their job, even though it's field goal block, like they were able to stop them and put them in that fourth down situation for them to kick the ball. And, you know, special teams capitalized in all three phases of the game one.

Alex, so thoughtful about this game and your team. It's really cool. I'm going to focus on you for a second. Recently, we found out that you are a big fan of Modern Family. Is this correct?

Oh, yeah.

I love Modern Family. Cam's my favorite character.

Oh, well, Stone Street's our guy, okay? Eric Stone Street comes on GMFB all the time. And recently, he was with us in Kansas City. He's a big Chiefs fan, and Patrick Mahomes is his quarterback.

However.

He said if he couldn't have Mahomes, he would take Josh Allen.

Just speak openly.

About your love for Stone Street, but also why you should advocate for Josh Allen being his quarterback, his favorite quarterback instead.

I love Eric stone street. He, uh, he and I actually did a Jersey swap. I gave him a Jersey and he sent me one of his little TV shirts.

I tried it on. It didn't fit, but I gotta, I gotta, I gotta hang it up.

It's, um, it's actually in one of my like little frame boxes that I have all my other jerseys in. So it's going to go up in my game room with all my jerseys and stuff. So what I love him, shout out Eric stone street.

And then two, why Josh would be your quarterback. why not Josh Allen?

I think it's pretty self-explanatory. We had a, you know, MVP moment last night of why Josh Allen is Josh Allen. And I just believe that we're going to, we're going to, you know, Do whatever we can to keep that man upright.

Exactly.

Yes.

Like, you know, that's all it is. And so I'm excited for the rest of the season. Everybody else should.

You should be. And I know there's such good vibes here. And I love that you joined us this morning. There was also like just this really weird, crazy, ugly thing that happened last night. There was a punch thrown and Bradley Chubb got punched. One of the linemen on the Rams. This is after the game. Did you hear about this or see it?

Sadly, I did not until I was back in the locker room. So, uh, I think it was for, for the betterment of everybody that.

I wasn't out there.

That was kind of messed up, you know, you know, it's kind of, that's kind of messed up and I'm not gonna let my boy get, you know, kind.

Of chin check like that. So that's, that's, that's messed up, but you know, it is what it is.

Temperaments get a little bit hot, but Some people got to find their, their Zen and their little, and their.

And their little tranquilo. So hopefully he'll work on that being in LA, man.

That's right, Alec. That's right.

You find your zen this week in Southern California. The Bills are staying all week because they play the Raiders next week. So you enjoy. And I know you're at Bruins, so I'm sure you have people to see all week.

Alec Anderson, thank you so much. Yes, sir.

Thank you so much for coming on.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Shout out to the IE, baby.

We'll see you soon, Alec.

We love you.

Thank you so much. I appreciate y'all.

Made it, dude.

So last night was a game filled with emotional highs and lows. We've been talking about it all morning. Bills, Rams. And with that, we want to bring in NFL national reporter Lindsay Theory.

Hey, what's up, Liz?

I didn't know it was dress-up day. I can't believe I wore jeans.

Girl, you look great.

Come on.

Lindsay, you've got to probably go catch a flight or go to a practice.

You've got the entire day. I've got a preschool drop-off coming up. That's important. That's the most important job.

But, man, what about that game last night? You got preschool drop-off. You're here this morning, but did you stay up and watch the entire overtime?

Watch the entire thing. Of course you have to. And I was really stunned.

First of all, I kind of thought, I know Sean McVay doesn't really go for two.

It's not his thing.

But I thought maybe this is the situation before overtime that they just go to win it right there. Like the way you saw Matthew Stafford drive the field, what they did to the defense. If ever there was a time, I thought maybe that would be it. Probably the most shocking thing, obviously, though, is that they didn't finish the game with Stafford going as far as he could.

The Rams' special teams has been a problem for a really long time now.

I feel like ever since Jon Fossil left years and years ago, it's been a rotating door of them trying to find solutions. So the fact that they went with the thicker kicker in that situation when he's already missed a PAT, and I don't know that he should probably feel good about where his job is this week.

Well, that was the kind of conversation that we were having about Green Bay two weeks ago. And then this past week, you were there in Green Bay for the Packers versus the Bears to see that shellacking that Jordan Love was putting on that defense. What stood out to you, Lindsay, with the Green Bay Packers?

I mean, I think Matt LaFleur is still dialing it up, right? Matt LaFleur's like, I have a deep ball. Let's go again.

Let's go again.

I mean, there came a point where, like, Matt's going for two here.

You know, he's dialing up again for another deep ball from Jordan Love.

I love that he called that.

A rage call.

After the pass interference. But to me, what really stood out was it wasn't just what Christian Watson was doing, what Matthew Golden was doing. He had come into the game with a lot of drops. He didn't drop any, I believe. But it was also the fact that they were able to establish a run game inside the red zone.

They hadn't scored a rushing touchdown yet. And then the defense, Christian Watson said it best after the game. He mentioned, like, we had so many possessions. We had the ball so long. I don't even remember how many times the defense turned it over. I had to remind him it was five.

Right.

So for the Packers, who really kind of had a mishmash of performances, for them to put together a really complete performance minus special teams kicking into the wind that day, this is a really good launching point for them and for Matt LaFleur to kind of get right.

And this week you'll be at the Falcons and Bears game. What will you be looking for in that one? B.

John Robinson. I'm so excited.

Behold.

I get to see him play in person.

It's been incredible to watch him light it up on the screen, but I'm very eager to see him play in person, to see exactly what it is he can do.

They might obviously need to go to him a lot with Michael Penix dealing with a rib issue.

There's not a lot of certainty whether or not he's going to play. And for the Bears, their defense. Can they get their defense right going into this one?

So for the Falcons, they're kind of knocking on the door. They're in and out. But to see B. John Robinson and what he can do against a good NFC North team.

Lindsay, you're such a pro. Can you imagine showing up at a game, talking to somebody for a while, and then they actually go to check your credential, and they're like, wait, who are you again?

It happens every Sunday.

Are you kidding? In a rude way, though.

What if, like, the way that Mike Evans checked Trayvon Diggs in that game?

Did he not love that? That's just so epic of Mike Evans. And the fact that he.

Legit was like, I didn't know who I was talking to. That's what I was just kind of like, oh, that's actually kind of a double dig right there.

Mike Evans, what a treat he's been to watch. And then that is a moment that I think is going to go down in.

Infamy, right? How do you top that? Totally.

When you look at the unbeaten teams real quick, the Vikings and the Niners and the NFC, the Niners, the way that they're operating, this is the moment here. But where do you assign this to? Who do you take responsibility for the 5-0 start here?

For the 49ers, they've just been phenomenal. I was with them, obviously, all week starting this journey. Do you guys remember Australia?

Do you?

We've already been there, in fact.

I was with them all week and the 49ers are such a professional team, a professional locker room. But as the weeks go on and the injuries piled up and piled up and you wonder like how is this team still 5-0? And it's such a testament to what Kyle Shanahan does there. Obviously Brock Purdy and Christian McCaffrey, two keys in this entire situation keeping them healthy.

But for the 49ers, they needed that piece in Mike Evans.

I just think this is a really, really impressive team that probably because they're here year in and year out, we don't talk about enough. There's nothing super sexy about what they did this offseason, but this team is just so solid top to bottom. And the addition of Mike Evans, George Kittle, I remember talking to him in the training camp, and he actually said, like, everyone's forgetting that we got this guy now named Mike Evans.

He goes, that's going to change the game. And that really, really showed up for them.

Truly. And now they get to be at home to finish out week six for Monday Night Football. They'll host the Commanders, which that's for a commercial break conversation, what happened with them last week.

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