Indianapolis Colts with an interim coach, who had no
college or Pro coaching experience. Would take a team
in to Las Vegas and beat the Raiders. It may say
more about the Raiders and it does about the Colts but
amazing, that they were able to turn it around. After all
the craziness, the we call the dysfunction Matthew and get
the win. Yeah, look
credit to Jeff Saturday, credit to the Colts organization,
who easily could have come into this game until you know, we're
giving up on the season and they didn't. I said this on
fan,
To see football pregame
I work with Jeff Saturday for a number of years at ESPN,
consider him a friend. And I what I said is, is like,
I don't know what kind of head coach he's going to be, I don't
know what kind of offense is going to be,
he's going to run, but I can tell you this,
he's passionate, he's charismatic, he's smart, and
people loved him, you know? I mean like I really like the guy
everyone at least been really like the guy. I thought he
would be able to go in that locker room
and get people to believe in whatever message. He was selling
and I felt like that happened.
You're talking about a former All-Pro.
Her and if nothing else the offensive line in this game,
showed up, Mike Florio, right? I mean like
he wasn't sad, you know, he was sacked only once
you know and they ran the ball, really effectively Jonathan
Taylor had a great game here. They were pressured among, you
know, one of the lowest moments, they have
this entire season, so really an impressive Performance
top to bottom. You had a little Stuart Smalley vibe in there.
He's good enough, he's smart enough and gosh darn it
a little bit, right? But but look, you go into that
difficult situation and you get people to play and you get
the coaches
to respond. The coaches could have been tempted to not
necessarily have a mutiny, but just to be a standoffish,
something that was going to take more than a few days to
turn around. So, impressive for the Colts. And
you know what, by the way,
he also clearly there was some sort of discussion before he
came on board saying like, I'm playing my best players and
that includes, Matt, Ryan, a quarterback. And is my Trang
great.
No, he is not, but he's a lot better than what. They were
rolling out there and Sam ehlinger these days. And look,
Matt Ryan we needed to in this game,
made big plays and you sort of you compare
look. It came to one score game that came down to a fourth down
that, you know, the Colts ultimately didn't. I'm sorry
that the Raiders ultimately didn't convert and, you know,
credit the cult for holding on to win. But you think about
the coaching situation in Indianapolis
and compare that to Josh McDaniels and what's going on
in Las Vegas? I mean, like, that's a game. The Raiders
should have one and we can say that about a lot of games this
year and just for whatever
reason they haven't gotten it done.
And credit, Jeff Saturday who came in in four days
and got the Colts to believe, enough in his message, to pull
out a w. You know, I really think that if Josh, McDaniels
didn't have a massive buyout from Mark Davis, he'd be back
coordinating the doing than offense by Christmas, really,
the way things had gone.
But real quickly, three receiver injuries. Today, I'll
summarize them in, then you tell me which one you think has
the biggest fantasy impact. You just miss Schuster with
the concussion on that Wicked hit. That didn't draw a foul, it did
until it didn't. Jerry, Judy has
what they thought was an
Injury. It's actually back of his ankle, they're looking at
that and then Cooper cup into the ankle two weeks ago,
injured it again. Now it's looking worse this time around
which one overall is the most significant creates most chaos
it from fantasy Cooper
cup and not particularly close. I mean he's you know one of
the top receivers in fantasy had the greatest fantasy season of
all time. Last year. It's Cooper cop who's like
parentally the number one or number two wide receiver any
given week. It's basically it's him and Justin Jefferson Tyree
kills right there in the mix as well. But Cooper cup, I mean
dude. Who's had a nice season and and Jerry Judy's, come on
the last couple of weeks. But this would be a it's been
a tough year for the Rams
and if Cooper cup is to miss any amount of time, it's just
you know another tough blow for Sean McVeigh in the entire Rams
or you mentioned Justin Jefferson. You can impress your
friends and family with this nugget Jefferson. Today, became
the player with the most 100-yard receiving games in his
first three seasons and the most 150 yard receiving games
in his first three seasons and he still got eight games left
to add to that in his third season. Just Jefferson is
ridiculous and I'm not just saying this because you're a
die-hard Vikings fan. I am saying this because
he actually is, you know, it's so funny. We talked a lot in
the offseason about. Hey, Justin Jefferson was like
I want to be, you know, Cooper comes the number one wide
receiver. Last year, I want to be at this year and we're like
you know what? With Kevin O'Connell's offensive scheme
and Kirk Cousins, a quarterback and his talent. That's got
a real shot at happening and hard to
argue with him. After today's performance in Buffalo, Justin
Jefferson was just in Jefferson had probably the catch of
the century. I
was making the MVP case for Justin Jefferson before
the season and his performance early on got me to shut up
after today.
And when this settles in,
it's still a long way to go but I haven't seen anything like
what he did today when you think about the fact that
they're on the road against a Bills team that they're, you
know,
and fourth down and just sort of everything that went into
that moment
that catch is as good a catch. As there's ever been an NFL
history, given the stakes that were involved and the degree of
difficulty
of Justin Jefferson coming down with that off-balance,
one-handed in the air. Like just ridiculous. We keep doing
this all night but they won't let us. They want us to shut
up.
Well, takes time.