There aren't that many, just three of them, the Cardinals,
the Packers and the Buccaneers. It just shows you how crazy
this season is. It's going to be down to the wire for so many
of
these teams and all three of them are in the NFC, not
the AFC day. FC is a wild crazy Mad scrum and every week is going
to be more and more. We welcome in MDS who joins us for
the weekly Awards segment. We do it every
Tuesday MDS, first.
And second, you are up. We're going to get right to it.
Offensive player of the week.
I got Gardner Minshew. We played extremely well in his
first start as an eagle on Sunday, completing 20, or 25
passes for 242 yards two touchdowns. No interceptions.
Yeah, I was against the Jets. Okay, but hey, they
they play. Who's on the schedule
means you played very well
and I just think the Eagles made a great move when they
traded from into before the season giving up, only a sixth
round draft pick to the jack.
Jaguars. I questioned
why the Jaguars were so willing to give him up
for so little men. She's 25 years old. He's under contract
for less than a million dollars. A year, both this year
and next year,
and when given an opportunity both in Philadelphia
and in Jacksonville,
he has shown real talent.
The Eagles say, there's no real quarterback controversy and
maybe she will go back to the bench. As long as Jalen Hurd.
Says healthy, but hey, even if he's just a backup quarterback,
he's a backup quarterback. Who has real promise, I think.
It's not very often that we give a player of the
of the week award to a player on a losing team. But I thought
George Kittle deserve that. I mean, I had that game and he
was absolutely dominant in that 32:23 loss
to the Seahawks 12 targets, nine catches, 181 yards, two
touchdowns. He had never had, I was stunned. He had never had
more than one touchdown in a game. It was the best game of
his career. He also had a five yard, run.
Just outstanding.
Yards after the catch, he had a 48-yard touchdown that was
spectacular down the sideline. Just a great effort in a losing
effort, but he did everything he could to help the 49ers win
that game. And we know athletes are superstitious. I think that
George kiddo needs
to hope that a fan shows up for every game with a sign that
says George kittel, wishes. He was Grom with an M Kowski and
he finds that fan and signs that sign.
Then he unleashes a Hey grum, Kowski like performance
for me. It's calamari. Welcome back, Kyler.
Remember when he first had that injury always not going to miss
any time. So it's just going to be one game. Oh, he's gonna be
back.
He missed a month and he was phenomenal against the Bears.
Who look a little like the Broncos right there, but two
touchdown passes
to touchdown runs.
As the Arizona Cardinals, went back to Chicago,
one of their former homes and played like the team
that plays in the elements on a regular. So congrats to them
defensive player of the week time MDS Europe.
Well, it's dream mentioned. We usually don't pick players. I'm
losing teams, but I've been wanting to mention Bengals
defensive, and Trey Hendrix, and for a while. Now on Sunday,
he had a sack against the Chargers,
you know, has at least one sack in eight consecutive games,
which is the longest active streak in the NFL, you know,
Hendrickson had 13, and a half sacks last year for the Saints,
but they were in such rough salary cap shape that
they just Couldn't afford to re-sign him, and when he hit
free agency, the Bengals made an aggressive offer for him.
He has emerged as one of the best pass rushers in the NFL.
I don't know what else we say about TJ W, but we couldn't
leave him off this list as outstanding as he was with
those three and a half sacks. Six tackles, six quarterback
hits a forced fumble. Perhaps his best play. I assume didn't
even show up
in the stat sheet. And that was on the two-point conversion.
When he completely changed the way Lamar Jackson, threw that
ball had a wide-open receiver and couldn't hit him because of
TJ W, but I do think he's in that conversation to become
only the third defensive
player to win the MVP award.
Hard. We've got at least mention him in there
and I do think he will get some votes the way he's playing
right now.
Yeah, just phenomenal. And made that surprise return from
the covid list to be a huge difference maker in that game
and disrupted. The two-point play in addition to the two and
a half sacks. I got Carlos Dunlap from the Seahawks what
a game that they had.
What a performance that they desperately needed. Is things
were crumbling and he had a sack of Jimmy Garoppolo for
a safety and then he batted down the critical final.
Pass of the game, the last ditch effort by the Seahawks
tie, the game up and I can't help. But wonder whether they
would have gone for two, if they had scored, you know, you
had to division rivalries playing out to Bitter rivalries
at the same time
and you know, potentially the same result if there hadn't
been that bad at pass and there's the Dunlap wearing
number eight, sack of Jimmy G. So great week for Carlos Dunlap
and the Seahawks
for a change. Rookie the week MDS, who you got?
I'm taking an arm on Rusty Brown. The rookie receiver for
the Lions. Scored, the game-winning touchdown on
Sunday. One of the reasons I don't like tanking is that
I think you can
not really develop your young players in an atmosphere where
you're not trying to win. And I think I'm on, Rusty, Brown are
the lines, is a young player. They're developing the right
way
by putting it in competitive situations where he has
an opportunity to help them win games. We know the Lions stink.
They're We still going to get the first overall pick
in the draft, but I respect the way, they're playing hard
beating teams that are still competing for playoff spots
like the Vikings coming close to beating some other teams as
we've seen. That are competing for playoff spots. They tied
the Steelers.
They were very close against the Ravens. They did
competitive games against good teams. I think that's how you
develop young players, like my rookie of the week. I'm on
racing Brown.
Rams. Linebacker, Ernest Jones, that was only his fifth career
start and he played outstanding third-round. Pick nine. Tackles
five of those were run stops. Three tackles for
loss, half a sack of pass defense. He was really, really
good. He went and covered seven times and only gave up 13
yards, total in
those seven times in coverage.
They bench Troy reader, it took play Troy to play, Ernest Jones
and I think they found something, he paid 56 of 59,
snaps and played. Really? Well,
so he's helped their defense and that Rams defense. Now,
might be back Mike, now that they've gotten a little juice
in them. They need Von Miller to play better though.
You're going to think that I'm messing with you with my
choice. But I mean this Mac Jones are the Patriots. Just
the fact that there's never a question. There's never
an issue. He's going to do whatever they tell them to do.
Even if
the game plan is you only throw three passes,
you have to execute the handoffs flawlessly all night long and
hey even with the game on the line, he didn't Have any
screw-ups. He didn't have any blunders. He did everything, he
was supposed to do all game lawn and he never would be
a guy who would make a face about it or have a bad demeanor about
it
or an attitude about it. He is already the
consummate Stepford Patriot doing everything
that his overlords want him to do. Including and this was
the kicker for me,
Peyton Manning had him on the phone. Peyton Manning who talks
to the quarterbacks
of the games that Peyton and Eli broadcast with
the alternate feet on it.
P into the Manning cast and Mac Jones, says to Peyton.
I'm sorry. I want to do this. But can you check with Stacey
James? The pr director first to make sure it's okay
and Stacy told Peyton, respectfully.
No, we really don't want to do this Mac Jones, just
the veteran presence of Mind,
understanding everything that it takes
to be a full-fledged Patriot for better or worse.
He maybe he'll tolerate it for 20 years and finally, blow
a gasket and want to go play for someone else, but he is
already. Eddie fully indoctrinated into the Patriot
Way. And I say that somewhat jokingly. But also
if you want to make this offense, go and you want to
make this team go, the key ingredient is not just
a quarterback who can do what you need him to do with
the football. He needs to be the right guy
to carry himself, the way that they want to say, what they
wanted to say. And not say what they don't want him to say, and
I think that's a critical ingredient in where
the Patriots are and will continue to be
coach of the week MDS, Europe.
I'll stick with the Patriots and I'll name not Bill,
Belichick is weak. But offensive coordinator Josh,
McDaniels who had such a unique approach to play calling on
Monday night. He only called for Mac Jones to throw it three
times. And, you know, I actually think some people
today, have been overstating
a little bit, how dominant the
Patriots Run game was. I mean, actually just a couple weeks
ago the Colts had an even more dominant running game against
the bills and the Patriots had on Monday night, but
Really Josh.
We're losing them dies. We lost serious. Is he there? We're
going to do what?
Sure and watch go ahead. Which one's right. There. Is how
did you lose me?
We got you now? Okay. So, you know, I think the Josh
McDaniels just said with his play going we're gonna do what
we want to do.
Keep doing it over and over and over again.
I like that kind of playing calling it.
Just saying we've got our priorities
for our team. We're going to call the our game the way we
want to call it that to a Josh, McDaniels do
Well, I'm gonna go with Dan Campbell and it's for all
the reasons that you said, MDS this team is still playing hard.
They're still playing tough. You saw how much that Victory
meant to them just from, on the sidelines.
You question, Dan, Campbell, and I am sure he's been
questioned and will be questioned even more for
the series. Before that the fact that they went for it on fourth
down at their own 20 eight their late, but this is a team
that's playing to win. I mean, they know where they are in
the standings. They know what,
Role is as an underdog and they're doing everything they
can to win games. I love that. I love this team. I love Dan
Campbell, and I'm so happy that they got their first victory.
That they are not going to
go 0 for this year. They course had the one tie
but I think this was big for Detroit and big for this team
to take that step and and of course, dedicating the game and
given the game ball to Oxford High School was just a cherry
on top for Detroit this week.
I'm gonna go with Mike Tomlin.
I think he
made the Right Moves coming out of an embarrassing loss to
the Bengals in Cincinnati, with the padded practice on Wednesday.
There was an interview of Tomlin that dropped on
the Steelers website on Sunday morning, which I thought was
kind of odd, but there
was some stuff in there that helped you understand why he
took the approach, he did and he had some great X's and O's
stuff about the cat and mouse game that you get into with
a team. Like the Baltimore Ravens.
Look, he put together a game plan on both sides of the ball.
He got the most out of his players. In order to get
a critical Victory to keep them alive for a playoff berth, at
a time when
everyone had written them off. And
I said it all week. I didn't have the guts to pick them to
win, but I set all week. I've lived in around Pittsburgh, my
whole life and I'm never going to doubt them again. When
everyone is throwing dirt on the Steelers. That's when they
are
the most dangerous.