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Mike Florio the box through grease twenty judge Mike to
Rico hanging out with you to look back at Sunday number nine
in the NFL
Florio well we don't have as much time in the game as these
to do but I'm gonna start with you
we're halfway through I feel like I don't really on really
have a great feel for what's going on the league
can you put your finger on why it's been so inconsistent at
the top
throughout this first half of the season
I have absolutely no idea and today was the craziest one yet
I really felt like in the NFC we had six teams that were
separating the falcons had something to say about that
against the saints today and pulled them down to game
the falcons now have to be taken seriously it just seems like
once we figure a team out
they do something that makes us think we were wrong all along
and I think this happens every year and what makes it harder
this year seventeen games don't know how that seventeen game is
going to factor into don't know how many losses is going to be
one too
many to not get in droopy you're you're seeing in
the league in a different way
this year right you're so used to one week one week with
now you're seeing it from a broader perspective
what what is struck you as you watch the first half and how
inconsistent it's been to identify who the good teams are
yeah I I
I I I think you you understand there's going to be ebbs and
flows and %HESITATION
teams aren't going to play their best every week
but the teams that can find a way to win
there's a lot to be said for that
also the teams that have a certain amount of depth
just understanding to that
Hey you're gonna have injuries at times and you may end up
losing a guy or two for the year and you've got others that
have to step in so for example a team like Arizona
I think with the depths with the amount of explosive weapons
that they have you feel like all right they're hitting on
all cylinders they've got every element
that's a team to be taken seriously
other than that I just look around and say I'm not sure on
a weekly basis who's going to show up
I'm gonna go back to put my coach's hat on and go back
on my soapbox about preseason
I don't think we played enough in the preseason I don't think
teams are ready I always thought it's been about October
first you know who's good
I said this year it'll be November first
because we with that first month was like pre season
it's past November first and I still don't know but I don't
think teams really got Gruden fundamentals and purchases
we're gonna dive into the specific games the second will
follow up with you on that
the league is so transient right like forty percent of
the team changes you saw that in the locker rooms true I hear
come twelve guys thirteen guys is that one of the reasons why
we're having such a hard time focusing in on who the good
teams are it is and
you've got to play together you've got to build that
chemistry last year I live in Tampa and everybody what what's
wrong with us they thought Tom Brady was going to come in and
just set things on fire
well wonder Tom star plan well
December really and then they got on that run it takes time
you have to put things together
and now we're so afraid to get people hurt in
all this in
preseason practice getting yourself ready we're just not
doing enough in my opinion sixty yep I I think that you
know the teams that have established programs and
establish veteran leadership
you probably see is having a better chance as well just because
there's a program in place as a culture in place
and there's a level of consistency that they typically
will will come into play at some point all right Mike let's
start the conversation with the game specifically the Green Bay
Kansas city game
there's an Aaron Rodgers piece to it
we'll get to that the end
there's a Mahomes piece to it in Kansas city
let's start with the Jordan love peace
because we are waiting to see
him get his opportunity we didn't pre season a little bit
now we sought against what is one of the best defense is
a leading the chiefs and he really looked rusty or poor in
the first half got a little better
how do you think this will spin going forward with love play
today
well hi
I I think that goes a long way toward getting anyone who may
be in the Green Bay organization who's upset with
Aaron Rodgers after the events of the past week not upset
with Aaron Rodgers and I still for the life of me don't
understand why they did what they did with the Super Bowl
ready team training up
in round one to draft a quarterback now they had wanted
Justin Jefferson he was gone they wanted Brandon are you
okay got jumped by the forty nine is for him
they freaked out traded up
and took a quarterback
and I think that in hindsight they would admit that maybe
they should have just focused on adding a piece that would
help take them over the top because Erin Rogers
isn't going anywhere
and they they better hope he's not going anywhere
because if he does
they they may have to think about somebody other than
Jordan love unless unless with more time in seasoning he will
become the guy they need in the bay
it was not pretty today %HESITATION and you you saw
throws that were there things were available timing was off
and and it wasn't there he'll play better if he gets to play
next week he'll play better
but this is not the guy you want to put in when you're trying to
get home field advantage in trying to win every single game
you can right now yeah
I find it a lot of backup quarterbacks are
taught that they sit there and they watch
the starter in practice they watch film on the starter and
they think that they have to
try to do all the things that that guy does they
they become little imitators of that person so you watched your
love it's got the same foot work the same
off balance throws attempts that Aaron Rodgers says
it just doesn't translate the same way
like I think I've seen it a couple times now with Aaron
Rodgers back ups it
it's almost like you learn a bunch of bad habits and then
you go out you see it when when you watch them play N.
I I'm I think they need to develop their own style and
it's going to be different or whatever in Rogers does
nobody can play the game like that you can't make the throws
that he makes
being off balance the way that he is
and I've seen that way too many times with his backups and to
be fair about it though to to join love tell me who has been
a young
backup quarterback who's come in and play great
it's hard because you don't get the rest to not working with
the first group the great backup quarterback thank back
in their their veteran guides and say how good this guy and
he can come in and play
without practice
young guys it is very difficult so we're going to judge him
on the standard that really is unfair let's double down on
that for this week devante Adams is the number one
opportunity guy for the Packers in the receiving corps he then
practice most of the week right there was a back shoulder
in the second in the
second quarter late second quarter
they were in on the same page on
Mike what's the deal with Rogers here going forward
what Rodgers can come back as early as Saturday
and not a Florida coach the Packer said after the game
if he's cleared if he's back he will start
next Sunday against the Seahawks when Seattle
comes to town so he won't be able to practice all week you
can participate in all the virtual meetings and what not
the camp practice can't be in the building until Saturday
at the earliest and you know they try to they try to make up
ground
up as to what was a lost opportunity it because I don't
think any of us would say that today
if they had Rodgers in Green Bay or
in Kansas city for Green Bay
the Packers were to win that game look most of the ground
has been covered on this from Jordan love to Aaron Rodgers to
Pat McAfee to Joe Rogan I mean this this thing's gone
everywhere right
as you guys watch the conversation this week what
what was your take away about this entire situation with Erin
you know I saw the Pat McAfee so and I said Hey Erin I love
to hear all those points all your reasons
I would have loved to have heard that
back when you first got the question is are you vaccinated
no I'm not vaccinated because
all those things he laid out
and I was just disappointed because I didn't hear that and
so going forward
Hey you've got to come back and and get to tingle on that's
the the biggest thing
yep up I watch his wealth and I I think that with everything
swirling around I think you just need to put that all to
the side and say at the end of the day
what is your responsibility
as the quarterback of this football team
%HESITATION it is to be available
is to put your team the best position to win
%HESITATION certainly you're gonna need to follow all
the protocols everything in place regardless of whether you agree
to it or not right you guys are the rules are in place have you
must follow them
and again you have a responsibility to your team
to be available and in this case because or
not because he was vaccinated or what he was doing
the one supposed to be doing
he got it he's he's already missed the game with a lost
art believe could have should have won and who knows what's
gonna happen next week and then who knows what the ram
for cations of those losses might be on
the playoff seeding
but what's been through the games will get them as quickly
as possible
Denver Dallas is a stunner because Dallas got the save
right E. Cooper rush comes in and wins that game
the last second on Sunday night that's what you want that
backup quarterback to do and now dak Prescott comes back
he's supposed to be healthy
and Dallas offense we had their worst points in your store
that's one of those again that we're talking about the Dallas
plays well and loses on opening day
then they win six straight and we're Sam and these guys are
really good this is the best Dallas thing we've seen and
then we don't see it at all today I
couldn't run the ball couldn't stop the run
couldn't make throws just look like a bad football
there's such a psychology to winning
each week and so you put yourself in the Dallas locker
room coming off that win in Minnesota you say all we're
getting back back just imagine how good we're gonna to be
we're just gonna be a step out here and
it's all going to happen right
on the flip side here's Denver
you lose von Miller there's all the the all
the talk about that
and yet what that causes man everybody really focuses in
and do your job and we can
and then they go out there and they play lights out right and
soul it you see it his here every week with you a team that
comes off a big win and then they just don't show up
the next week
and they're such a psychology to playing each and every week
and putting your best effort together and finding a way to win
that game Mike
yeah I call that the step on a Rick James
we see it we saw with the Titans against the jets went
and we saw with the cowboys date to its we're getting back
back and we won without him so we're really good
and the Broncos traded von Miller what's wrong with
the Broncos why would they trade their best player and just it
all lines up perfectly the Broncos get motivated
the cowboys get complacent coach I think it comes down to
coaching because it's up to the coaches to always make sure
that the players are focused and team leadership to
but it starts with the head coach
you gotta be ready every week because
none of these teams been relegated to the CFO
they're still in the NFL they can beat you any given week
and
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can get recent Chris Anderson
l'oreal stamp honoring
Cleveland Cincinnati battle of Ohio
so they'll Beckham junior Mike first what's the deal with
Odell here going forward
he's gonna be wave tomorrow and they they've taken with his
contract but not so much
that it's out of the question
for a team that has the cap space or that can put the cap
space together quickly to claim him on waivers he doesn't wanna
be claimed on waivers he wants to become a free agent never
been one this time in his entire career
but I was talking to somebody tonight
who's in a decision maker position with one of the teams
and the idea is doesn't matter %HESITATION back in junior
wants
if one of these teams decided they want to claim
that's what the rules allow for
V. been cut last Monday he's a free agent
this week he has to go through waivers and I think back to two
thousand two Dion Sanders
was on the reserve retired list in Washington they wanted to
let him go join the raiders
well Marty Schottenheimer
who'd been a coach in Washington in the reason why
Dion Sanders retired he was not a coach of the Chargers and he
claimed the on Sanders on waiver
and kept that from happening so
I would be fascinated to see if somebody says sorry %HESITATION
del you don't get to pick your next team we're gonna exercise
our right to claim
and Mike it's the reverse order the standings the waiver order
list correct
yes right so it's your lan first outlines additives
they're they're Detroit's lines
so what you see on the map we not today well I almost could
see that one coming
%HESITATION all the drama %HESITATION Dale here not here
who's disrupting the
locker room who isn't what's going on
and they said you know what
forget whether he's here or not we're going to go back to
playing the way we know how to play we're gonna run Nick Chubb
we're going to pound the want to take some shots defense you
gotta start plan like you can play and you can almost feel
those guys and a
we we got to get this done and then they did
yeah I I can't get over what might just said about the fact
that the San Diego Chargers claimed him Dion Sanders in two
thousand two because I was with the Chargers
I could've been Dion Sanders teammate
I love
%HESITATION work from artists on her three years
he was not going to let anything good happened for the rate
as the doorways you know that real love lost in the
that's for sure bangles of lost back to back games at A. C.
north has now compressed
just like the west we're not gonna mention buffalo here but
buffalo in week one of the same number of wins all of a sudden
I using these things and they play twice in the last five
weeks I think it is
of the season so
I'm gonna put a bid for Arizona you mention the Marlins I think
that might be the best in the NSC guys maybe the NFL
Steve Kimes built a really good roster
we saw that deaf tested today
colt McCoy with them to victory
yes Colin Murray who has done so much in it often T. he
doesn't play deandre Hopkins doesn't play AJ green doesn't
play and use and where they're going to get points from well
off Cole McCoy
James Connor they they got the job done and
I think that's what you're saying Hey we got a rally
together we don't have all our guys let's go out and show
people what we're made of
it's it's the team with the most depth
and probably the most complete team too when you look at
the way that defense is played this year their ability to apply
pressure on the quarterback
they've got some playmakers in the secondary good ball skills
they've taken the ball away a lot so you combine those two
things and
even if they do lose a piece or two down the stretch here
you feel like they are built
built to win my tag on Arizona if you want but just to another
point here that's a that's a disappointing loss for San
Francisco
okay now and they continue to struggle at home
yeah it it's it's bad and you take away twenty nineteen when
they went to the Super Bowl and this is a team that has not
been good under Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch and you have to
wonder what's gonna happen there moving forward how hot
the seats will get next year will they become overwhelmingly
hot this year with a B.
a new GM next year in college and and stick around it a lot
of questions are gonna come up because this was a
a Super Bowl roster yet again and they've had injuries again
today everybody's got injuries everybody everybody's got to
deal with that the the cardinals went in there with
colt McCoy
at quarterback and won the game that falls into the eggs
inexcusable category from the forty Niners perspective all
right speed around here as we said
the end of the Monday night game Pittsburgh hosting Chicago
gets us to the exact mathematical halfway point
hundred thirty six of the new two hundred seventy two game
schedule done
so let's see draft teams %HESITATION to
you go first Tony seniority
because went out for something here
the ticket take a team of the AFC who's the team the feel
best about going into the second half and when the team
comes off the board
the other guys can have
I'm a start with Baltimore this week
one is that Baltimore I'm give you money for the rest second
half this year they can run the football as the weather gets
a little older all right
a lot of close games and they got a great kicker who can
finish off those gains us and talk
on the same bills
good defense
to figure out the run game very figure it out Florio
I'm gonna go with the patriots for wonder
what's
wait didn't wait with where on my my ears deceive me then we
just say that was also claim numbers when's the
mac Jones mac Jones has not lost on the road
they're getting better
before our eyes and if they get to the single elimination
tournament we know how dangerous they can be with bill
ballot check if they get to the playoffs they're going to be
a tough team to deal with in January
prefix prefix I would go to the NFC throughout your first
I think he'll let Arizona right
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you know what %HESITATION I think %HESITATION
I'd be happy
I'm gonna say I'm gonna say I missed a green back free bet to
go green bank
yeah all right for %HESITATION to go next all
right well I'm glad you let me go next because I figure coach
would've taken Tampa Bay I did not take him right there said
no one there by saying cowboys lose Packers news
brands are losing but may still win saints lose
looking good for the box to remember what they were last
year when they came out of the bye week didn't lose another
game through the Super Bowl sorry
I'm going to Arizona there's a lot of playmakers playmakers on
defense and %HESITATION I think %HESITATION the most complete
team
this week this week
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