Welcome to the football night in America week. One recap
served by Applebee's Maria Taylor alongside Tony Dungy,
Jason Garrett and Mike Florio here with us to break down week
one and guys, I want to start with what was a wild one
Steelers on the road taking on the Bangles.
We saw Joe burrow sex seven times. We saw five turnovers
from Cincinnati. We saw some mixed missed kicks. Mike
Florio. What was your biggest takeaway from this wild one?
Well I think it's that the Bengals still have plenty of
work to do on that offensive line. They have 80 percent
turnover on the starting five blockers for jobber. Oh now it
could be that they're not going to see a defense like
Pittsburgh's anytime soon
but this year's version of the offensive line didn't look all
that much different than last year's
I agree with you, Mike.
We said Joe burrow. Got hit way too much last year. Okay?
Cincinnati went out. We're going to fix that free agents
draft choices, change the line out. Same.
Results.
You've got a great young quarterback. You got to get him
protected. Jason it all depends on your perspective. You turn
the ball over five times. Seven sacks
Pittsburgh has to go into overtime and beat you with
a field goal late. Yeah so if your Zack Taylor your come in
here obviously we got to get better up front. No question
about that but to play with that team in our division
for that long as poorly as we played it almost gives you
a little sense of hope if you're looking for Silver, Linings,
but they got to get that front squared away and if you're Mike
Tomlin, You're saying what coach because you did have all
those turnovers and it was still quite the game. We've got
to get better on offense. Mr. Biscay, has to take a step
forward,
not having TJ W. It's going to be a big big blow to them, but
I think Mike Tomlin likes where they are. He likes this
Underdog role and nobody believes in us and he's
embracing the heck out of it. And he's instilling that
feeling in his
players, but losing W, going to be big for them. All right,
let's move on to the Dolphins, handling the Patriots. And
obviously, we were all wondering what this Patriots
offense would look like, some of the reports coming out of
camp.
I wouldn't be good. Didn't look good.
But to a tongue of a law, on the other hand, he looked good
with his new office, I love what they did, kind of taken
advantage of what to a does. Well, get in the ball to Tyreke
Hill getting the ball to some of the receivers quick game. A
lot of
read-option stuff for to it was great on offense, but the other
side of the ball words mean that New England offense did
not look good. Jason. Yeah. In regards to Miami offensive.
Football is about spreading out, the burden
to it can be an effective quarterback in this league. If
he doesn't have to do it all himself, if they run the ball
they throw some high percentage throws in those receivers, make
plays for him. He's going to function. Well I just think
it's going to take time in New England
to me. This is really about Coach Belichick and Mac Jones.
Those guys get together and coming up with the environment
that works best for Mac Jones going forward. Coach told me
that hey we've had the same offense focused on what Tom
Brady does best for the
last 20 years. So now we're going to try to do the same
thing for for Mac Jones, it's going to take a little time for
them to get into Rhythm your takeaway.
Well, I really am concerned about the Patriots and we get
blinded by the fact that it's Bill Belichick with his six
Super Bowl championships as coach the Patriots to more as
defensive coordinator, with the Giants, we give them
the benefit of the doubt. I think sometimes
a little too often going down there on Tuesday, five days
early. That's smacked of desperation. Having met
Patricia failed former head coach who was a defensive
coordinator running the offense of line, and calling plays
that just seems odd, but we give Bill Belichick a by
because it's Bill Belichick, Joe, judge special teams.
Coordinator
failed as the Giants head coach, he's running
the quarterbacks room. It just seems strange to me and I think
Bill Belichick. You hear him say over and over again. Blame
it on me it's my ultimate responsibility it's all on me
I think he knows he's got a lot of equity build-up he
may as well burn through some of the flavor figure out where
they're going from here. Really it's easy for him to say blame
it on me when they're never going to blame anything on him.
They never going to fire him but I just feel like it's going
to take some time to work through this and figure out
exactly what kind of a team
they're going to be.
And Mike, no disrespect, but the equity is real,
I mean, nobody's run a program in sports for 20 years. Like,
this guy has, he's made a lot of decisions along the way that
some people probably scratch their head about and somehow it
kind of works out. So I'm betting on not, it works out
when it works out, that's a problem. If it doesn't work out
then then but you're right. You're right. Look me Bill
Belichick that's we're going to at least two weeks.
It was anybody else if it was? Anybody else would be wondering
what's going on? Leave it to Mike Florio to throw the first
Punch. But I want to give you an opportunity to glow and be
excited about something and so I'm going to bring up
the Minnesota
Vikings. So you can have a happy response, they get a win
against the Packers. What was your thought on seeing your new
coach Kevin
O'Connell, taking
the helm and the Vikings get in the victory against the Packers
in this one?
Well, I say this as someone who is openly advocating that
the Vikings hired Jim Harbaugh. I was wrong. He made her a higher
and Kevin O'Connell and this is something coach Dungy said.
During football night in America, there's a different
vibe
The organization, the players
are looser, there's a different style, far different from Mike
Zimmer,
and it had just gotten the point under Zimmer,
where the players felt that they were to drag down. He was
too - he was never happy. And we've seen this from time to
time the NFL where coach just over stays as welcome, and it
was time for a change.
And we see that we can feel that in the Vikings today and
their ability to handle the Packers, look, the Didn't have
to be much better because it was so bad. The past couple of
years
and you bring Kevin O'Connell in with a creative offense that
takes full advantage of Justin Jefferson makes him, the Cooper
cup of that offense gives Kirk Cousins time to get rid of
the football
before the walls close in.
You see, a team that I think can be much better this year.
No, Kevin O'Connell, I think has brought a change in just
the atmosphere of the attitude in the locker room that's been
great but
his style to and the system that they brought in place
we're looking at the Graphics today during the game. Justin
Jefferson in motion twice as much as he had been last year.
Three wide receivers
twice as much as they played last year.
I just think that that energy and utilize in your personnel
they've got good receivers in a good quarterback, they're using
them. Yeah, the one guy that I don't think anybody's really
embraced up there is Kirk Cousins. Look at his numbers
compared to a lot of the top quarterbacks in
the league over the last number of years. This is a good
player. Kevin has some history with him from his days, back in
Washington, he Embraces him.
Hey we love you.
We want you to be our quarterback, and he responds.
There's a lot of weapons around him. He's going to be a good
environment. Certainly, a good start for the Vikings. Yeah.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the Packers. We've seen Aaron
Rodgers, say before I relax, you know, it was just weak one.
But is there cause for concern with the way, the Packers
looked without Davante Adams,
and The Chemistry Between the whiteouts, I think that
chemistry will come the more they play this. I look at this,
like week for the preseason. They didn't have a fourth
preseason game, that's what it looked like. But my concern is
with that protection.
You know, it's not chemistry up front. You got to block some
people and give it time. That's exactly right. And
again, I bet on him not against Aaron Rodgers has been great.
I think they as a team can simply look to what happened last
year. Hey look what happened in week 1 against the Saints last
year.
We're in the same spot that was an ugly day. This was an ugly
day. Let's regroup, but he's got work to do last year, they
had Davante Adams, they don't have them this year. He's got
some young guys,
but he's one of those guys that over time will bring out
the best in those receivers as well as any Quarterback, really
who's ever played Mike your thought on Rogers, or remember
in the offseason. Patrick Mahomes
with the Chiefs was dialed in
locked in there for the offseason program. God is new
receivers together, he pivoted away from not having Tyree
kill, I'm still not convinced Aaron Rodgers, put in enough
work with his new receivers, he didn't put in any
until training camp, other than the mandatory minicamp.
It's going to take time to get to wherever they're going to be
post Davante Adams.
Meanwhile, we saw the 49ers taking on the Bears and It was,
it was a sloppy game for sure, but Mike, I'm gonna come right
back to you because obviously the quarterback situation,
this is Trey Lance's, you know, he's starting out the season.
We know he's qb1 but give us an understanding of maybe what
the vibe is of the team, how closely Jimmy garoppolo's
footsteps are behind or not,
and what the path forward is for this 49ers team that's
Owen. One to start the season.
The mere fact that Garoppolo is the number two quarterback on
the depth chart after a month. Went by of the 49ers telling us
all that Garoppolo. Going to be gone, is reason to wonder,
is Trey Lance going to be the guy
that Kyle Shanahan and the rest of the organization thought he
was going to be. When they made that move, they traded up to
get the third pick in the draft in 2021, and then they selected
Trail and instead of
Justin Fields who beat them today, and it's hard to really
tell because of the weather but trade Lance is going to have
a ton of pressure on him. No matter what they do to try to
reduce that heat. It's going to be there. Jay Glazer reported
day on the fox pregame show.
That when they decided to keep Garoppolo Kyle Shanahan and
John Lynch, the GM got 15 team leaders together and basically
said, hey guys, will you help us out with this where you
prop this guy up or you
make sure that everything's fine because they know what's
going to happen. If if Trail and struggles and those 49ers
fans don't care about the whether they think this is
a game, they should have won easily and they're not going to
be happy
that the 49ers lost,
you know. Usually
when you're a top five pick as a quarterback, you're going to
add bad football team. That doesn't have a quarterback
Okay. Trey Lancer is a top five pick who went to a team that
had a Super Bowl winning quarterback
and so you're fighting that battle to. Not only do you have
to prove yourself but you have guys on that team, that
remember, hey, two years, what was
two years ago? We were in the Super Bowl with this guy who
now is on the bench so it's going to be an issue. I think
we just were talking about Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers,
the first round, pick Grand at the 24th, pick the draft. Brett
Favre. Was Green, Bay's quarterback. He sat for three
and
a half, Soon. He was an accomplished quarterback in
college. He was a fantastic player. Trail ants played one
year of college football.
Yeah, it's a starter for one season. He's fantastic. He's
got a ton of ability, but the idea that we got to anoint him
in year two, when we have this other guy sitting here,
who's taking us to the Super Bowl,
I don't know. I just think play Jimmy Garoppolo keep,
you know, developing tray Lance. You're gonna have
a great transition at some point, but you got to win games now
and Garoppolo gives them the best chance. It's going to be
a story week in and week out until
Trail ants. Really lights things up if he does, that'll
quiet it. But if he doesn't it's going to be in
the background. Well let's talk about the fourth quarter and
that Justin Fields was able to quiet some critics because he
came out and was able
to make the plays that were necessary
and that wet and sloppy game.
But ultimately he made the place that one that matches
the weather almost acted to his benefit. He's one of those guys
who's athletic. He got out in Space. The amazing play was
when he rolls left and throws it back to Pettis. That's
the one that got him going,
but he's making plays with his feet. He's having fun out there.
Enjoy it. The weather, the rain, all that kind of stuff.
He made some big throws at the end of the game. He made some
big plays with his feet. It was a huge finish because it was
ugly early, and for him to hang in there a tribute to him. But
also to Maddie revised rear their head coach. He did
a great
job, the defense was playing well containing the 49ers
but it was almost a calm about these guys. They just kept
playing 460 never saw a letdown on the sideline. It was ugly.
They weren't scoring there behind but you just had
the sense that hey we're in it were energized on the sidelines.
I do think that's a tribute to the
Coaching staff and Mike your Takeaway on the Bears.
Well,
nobody expected them to win today and let's see what they
do under normal conditions, where it's not a monsoon,
weather isn't six inches of standing water on the field. If
they can, if they can build on this and play Under normal
circumstances and Thrive there, then they're a team that needs
to
be taken. Seriously, and if C
is so wide open, the AFC
is jammed, with great teams in the NFC, we're going to be
spending some time figuring out
who the contenders really are and the Bears could be one.
Okay, we're going to find out about the Bears when they take
on the As in week, two on Sunday Night, Football, and
remember Aaron Rodgers says,
I own you. So, we'll see whether or not you can almost
find that won't be on the bus. Now that we're going to replay.
That either way it goes all right, it's time for our
lightning round
and you guys are going to fill in the blank here. So blank was
the biggest surprise of the day coach, to me, the Giants went
in the game and not the fact that they won that the way they
want it to be in down, and Daniel Jones, bring them back.
That was a surprise to me. Yeah,
so happy for Daniel and and forsake one, those guys,
you said a coach they were down there.
Battled back showed their mental toughness. Yeah, big day
for the G-men 194 total yards per se Kwang Berkeley. That was
huge. What about you Mike?
Well, and I'm going to stick with that game. And I was
pleasantly surprised that Brian table, the first game first
year head coach of the Giants with the opportunity to win
went for two and got the win. It's the classic case.
They let you hang around,
they gave you an opportunity to steal it
and you go take it.
I know analytics has its place in football. I don't need
the analytics Mafia On my back, just in week 1,
but I like it. When
a coach recognizes,
they left the door open, and now we're going to go kick it
off the hinges. All right. Mike coming right back at you. I am
not at all worried about blank.
I would say that I'm ultimately not worried about the Bangles
for the reasons. It coach Garrett mentioned earlier,
there is a silver lining. Here, they took the best punch
possible from the Steelers. The offensive line got banged up.
They had a bunch of turnovers, a bunch of sacks. And they
still almost won the game and they should have won the game.
If they're Long Snapper. Doesn't get injured.
They would have won that game. So I think the Bengals will be
fine
coach. I'm going to say, I am not worried about Patrick
Patrick Mahomes function.
I'm sorry kid,
he's got good coaches. They've got great weapons and he's
a great player.
Almost 500 yards, a day 44 points, their Chiefs offense,
is going to be fine.
Yeah, I'm not worried about Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay
Packers, he owns the Bears.
Don't know. They'll snap back next week. He'll go working
with those guys. It'll take some time. We'll take some
communication. They'll take some lumps here early, but
they'll get rolling as the season goes on. All right,
Mike, the quarterback that showed up most
with a new team was,
we know it's funny. One point today. Matt Ryan was playing,
like Carson Wentz. And Carson Wentz was playing like, Matt
Ryan. And then Carson Wentz was playing like Carson Wentz
again, but he turned it around.
And he came back and fought through the adversity and won
the game. It would have been so easy for him. To just say, here
we go again, and, and surrender to the Jaguars and, and they
came from behind after blowing the lead. And
I think it was impressive, what, Carson, Wentz ultimately
did Coach, I would say Carson Wentz as well, you know, kind
of got blamed for the whole season in Indianapolis and to
go there and when it opening day and really have to bring
him from behind. That
was great. Yeah, really happy for Carson Wentz, but I'll take
Matt, Ryan, you know, they're down, 2:40 in this ballgame and
he brings them back, you know, they were trying to play
Football and finally, there behind, they got to be a little
bit desperate. He's been in those situations and credit to
him to get back into that ball game. They play through
overtime, it's still a tie, but
a good day for Matt Ryan. Alright.
Last question. The head coach with the new team that
impressed you the most was who Mike,
I'm going to say Mike McDaniel, the new coach of the Miami
Dolphins and not, because of his inability to lock his card.
Or if anybody saw that this morning, when he arrived for
work and struggled to figure out how to actually press
the button.
But he look, he had that. At Fourth, and seven. And I talked
to him after the game about how he went through, the whole
process of deciding
what to do, and he went for it late in the half,
didn't kick the field goal because there was a concern, 60
yards, was too far for the kicker would have given
the Patriots, maybe, an opportunity to get a field goal of their
own decided to go for it. Called what?
What they had on their list is one of their got to have it plays
and it popped for a touchdown. It made it 17, nothing that
point. It felt like the game was over and I got to give him
credit when the game was over
and he went out to meet. Boo. Boo. Check in Midfield
and there wasn't much of a conversation.
He told me I pride myself on reading the room and I could
tell coach Belichick was not in the mood.
That's probably Fair. He made the right decision because I've
been able to read that room before the gun went off.
What about you? I'm gonna say, Kevin O'Connell. I just thought
the Minnesota Vikings looked like a different team. Kirk
Cousins looks so comfortable. In that offense utilizing,
Justin Jefferson Adam thielen. The receiver core.
I just thought Vikings played great today. I agree. I'm going
to stay in that NFC North with one of our former coaches.
Maddie brief lose.
If you told us before the game who wins Chicago
or San Francisco San Francisco is one of the better teams
in the NFC. It was a monsoon, a lot of things work to their
advantage but impressed with their start in Chicago. How
long did it take you guys to get your first one,
took me two months.
We won the first week. Coach one a lot more though over
time.
You look at it, okay? How you start or how you finish either
way? We are finished with our week one recap. Thank you so
much for joining us. We've got the Bears. We've got
the Packers and we to on Sunday Night Football. Obviously
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