Jeff Passan: Aaron Judge Is Just In a Slump In a Really Inopportune Time

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Number two dial all your phone calls. We'll take that. Our podcast as soon as we're done today Chris Brockman and I will stay after class for overreaction Monday. On Tuesday Suzy Schuster and Amy Trask with What the Football. They're gonna have Mike Pereira on.

I want to talk about that face mask from last Thursday. You know what's also that's been going on too as you've been seeing it in college football. The targeting calls they come in and they some of them are well-intentioned others are just playing football man.

Yeah I feel like that happens a lot. There was one called against the Buckeyes they called against the Buckeyes and Michigan State. Michigan State lost its captain against Michigan for something that looked like playing football and just flag them and be done with it. Why do we have to kick them out? Yeah why do we have to eject these kids and then they have to sit out right yeah they have to sit out the first half of the next game.

Yeah there should be a difference between what is a 15-yard penalty and kicking you out of the game right? Yeah I think so. So it's a lot there's a lot to talk about with Mike Pereira um and that'll be on Tuesday show. Who's your guest for no contest wrestling this week? I don't know if we actually I don't want to say it yet but it's it's a good one. I'm pretty sure we've got one and if you know wrestling and you think of strong men yes this man is the strongest of them all and I'll leave it at that. Seems like you've described most of the wrestling world to be honest.

But there but there's one who's strong there's one who is stronger maybe the strongest of all time. Those are all available through the Rich Eisen show uh podcast network through the Cumulus podcast network appreciate that is our next guest right is he is all situated he looks he's all suited the hair looks perfect he's getting ready to go to Jeff pass and how are you you're ready to go huh you're ready to go that's world's world series rich I gotta be I have some guesses on the wrestler I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do it I was just about to say I bet you're passing those oh yeah talk about for sure go ahead Jeff just give me and then it's fine what do you got is it is it's either Mark Henry or Braun Strowman hmm it's one of the two it's one of the two my guy Jeff pass and see I didn't get it I didn't want to give it away but just say you know like a little bit of a tease I like that I like your style Jeff I like this very good thank you you know I'm always looking out for you guys passing man uh all right let's just jump in here is Otani playing tonight what do you think yeah I think so I mean unless something happens pre-game it looks like he's going to and considering like how he was on the ground right writhing in pain it was like oh boy this is this is not good and you know I I think when we a couple of reporters including my colleague Jesse Rogers saw him walking out of the Dodgers clubhouse after game two without a sling on and without any accoutrements on his arm and at that point it was like all right maybe you know maybe it's not as bad as as we thought it was going to be and it's not like they had to take him out of the game because he's the DH and his turn in the order didn't come up again so we really definitively didn't know how bad it was but then Dave Roberts yesterday told our Karl Ravitch that it looks like he's going to play and here we are and look the Yankees need every advantage that they can get at this point and not having Shohei Otani in there would have been pretty advantageous for them now uh because the the Fox microphones embedded in the bases I think picked up um a conversation between Shohei and uh what the interpreter that came out with the trainer and I think a trainer or the trainer came out you could hear him basically say his shoulder popped out and so do we know what he actually suffered in game two yeah it's it is a subluxation which is not a a full dislocation of the shoulder just a very slight one and you know guys have come back from sublux shoulders pretty quickly now the problem is once that happens once you are at risk of it happening again whether it's on a swing or if you play in the field you know you dive for something I don't think we're going to be seeing Shohei Otani steal any bases anymore in this World Series but the fact that he's not playing a position right now really does help his cause he's going to have somewhere between four and five at bats tonight and as long as he feels like he can swing at full strength because look it's the World Series man like you can't be going 70 or 80 or 90 you have to be at 100 to be your best and the Dodgers have enough good options otherwise where if Shohei Otani needed to sit out their lineup would be just fine. Jeff Passan here on the Rich Eisen show why did why did Aaron Boone go to Nestor Cortez instead of Tim Hill why does he go to a guy who hadn't pitched in 37 days to try and get Otani and Freeman and and not the guy that maybe earned his stripes in the first two previous series in the playoffs and Tim Hill Jeff? Yeah I don't think that's the right question to ask Rich I think the right question is why didn't he stay with Luke Weaver and that's the question that Aaron Boone is himself asking at this point Luke Weaver had only 19 pitches and I understand it's not typical for relievers to have two up downs you know you finish anything you go down you get back up and then you finish that inning and get back up one more time but the reality is Luke Weaver has been the best pitcher in the Yankees bullpen this postseason the guy who has gone multiple innings multiple times to close out games and while it would certainly have put him down for game two putting in somebody like Jake Cousins and and having him get into trouble which is what prompted the decision to face the top of the lineup with Nestor Cortez the the whole thing was a real mess now I think the Cortez has over hill decision has been a little bit overblown in the sense that if you feel like he's good enough to put on the roster then you feel like he's good enough to put into leverage spots his logic when it comes to first and second one out Otani at the plate Tim Hill is a ground ball guy Shohei Otani does not ground into double plays so after that you have Mookie Betts you're not going to want to pitch to him even even with Tim Hill being more of a ground ball guy and then you have Hill versus Freeman we hadn't seen going into this series any power from Freddy Freeman so that ambushed fastball that he hit 400 feet for the walk off grand slam I think that was surprising to everybody including people in the Dodgers dugout but this is the kind of decision that has the chance to haunt Aaron Boone because every choice that you make rich in a world series game is magnified and is dissected exponentially more than the ones during the regular season and in this case he chose wrong and we will be hearing about this the rest of our natural born baseball lives and beyond right Jeff that moment from game one right it was it was so cool here's here's the way that I know a moment in a baseball game is cool okay it's when I stand up and curse like I did it for Roger Davis like I just stand up and I was like I'm not gonna say it but you can imagine what I would say right in that instance and and with Freddy Freeman it was it wasn't quite to that level because it was game one not game seven but it was an epic moment and and just the the cap of a really great baseball game and I hope that fans not just the ones who are tuning in to watch the Dodgers and Yankees and root for them but the the fans who were tuning in to see good baseball felt like they were treated to that because there's been some really good baseball in each of these first two games. Jeff Passan here on the Rich Eisen show so what was what what do you what from what you're hearing the conversation about what ails Aaron Judge for I mean he's chasing pitches he would spit on any any day of the week throughout the rest of the regular season he's a he's uh he's his timing's off he's out on front feet where he never would like and and you know do you tip your cap like what are the Dodgers doing differently or or what like what are you hearing right now what's the what's the general conversation Jeff you know what he's in a slump and he's in a slump in a really inopportune time and when you compound all of these factors rich number one his swing does not feel great right now so when your swing doesn't feel great maybe you're getting a little antsy and you see Glaber Torres and Juan Soto and Giancarlo Stanton the guys who surround you in the lineup all having really good post seasons and you feel like you know I'm not contributing right now I need to like I need to do something and he hasn't been doing anything at this point and so he starts pressing a little bit and when you start pressing all of a sudden that takes you out of the things that brought you there right Aaron Judge is where he is going to win his second American League MVP award because he does not go chasing on pitches and because he hunts those mistakes in the middle of the plate I thought maybe the most telling one of all was he had two accounts on Yoshinobu Yamamoto in game two and he watched a fastball go right down the middle past him Aaron Judge normally takes pitches like that and and sends them into orbit and he didn't even trigger his swing at this point so when you have the physical his swing not where it needs to be his timing not where it needs to be and you compound that with the mental which is I have to be doing this I've got to I've got all of it is a recipe for absolute disaster he needs to hit the reset button and hitting the reset button Rich in the middle of the world series is an extraordinarily difficult thing to do even for the guy who has proven himself over the last few years as the best hitter alive and I guess you know obviously Judge gets the focus Jeff but the bottom third of the lineups right now the Dodgers are dominating that right now you know the Kiki Hernandez and I know Edmund bats a little higher sometimes uh Lux sometimes you know obviously Muncie's down around six it depends on Will Smith right like it's so those guys getting on base for Otani, Betts and Freeman and Volpe, Wells, Verdugo not getting on base for Torres, Soto and Judge that might be the end of it too right I mean that might be the difference yeah yeah Rich what you're doing is essentially laying out the case for why the Dodgers have a two games sit on the lead right now and and these are all things that the Yankees can fix I don't think the Yankees are out of this series yet I just think they haven't played the level of baseball that they need to over the first two games to beat a team as complete as the Dodgers and and there are things that are going to be happening over the next few days that are going to be worth watching today how deep into the game does Walker Bueller go and if he doesn't go deep is Dave Roberts sit there and say well I'm not going to punt this one but I'm not going to chase a win either because I have a bullpen game in game four and I don't want the Yankees getting more and more and more looks at my relief arms because you know there there are numbers that show over the last decade in seven game series the league championship series in the world series when a reliever is seen multiple times in a series you know three four five times in a series which is possible because you have those off days between two and three and five and six when a reliever is seen that many times in a series his performance gets worse and worse and worse over time and the the batters they they look at it like I've seen this before I know this I know the shape of it I know the speed of it I know where it's going to be I know how I have to swing and so the Dodgers want this series to end as quickly as possible because for a team that is as reliant on its bullpen as they are it's going to be imperative that Dave Roberts manages this correctly so that the Yankees don't get those comfortable at bats with relievers in high leverage spots and laid in it. Love a great insight there Jeff and you know after seeing the beginning of game two where cube came out of center field and essentially ended the game before it started that was that was the coolest thing right I was yeah that was it if you've ever been in the Dodgers press box it is it is very cramped quarters yes and so I enjoyed it so much that I was wrapping along knowing that there were like dozens of people like right next to me who would probably be staring at me and judging I didn't give a damn it was okay it was like it was a good day yeah like what could you say if I'm if I'm Hal Steinbrenner I was on the phone to Jay-Z before the first pitch and ask him what he's doing in game three like we gotta we gotta we gotta marshal the forces here you know um any idea what the Yankees have planned over the next few days Jeff yeah I do not but remember Jay-Z Jay-Z and Alicia Keys uh performed I believe in the two yeah in the 2009 world series last time the Yankees were in it all right and and the fact that that song has been out for as long as it has is staggering to me but uh yeah they need something look then that's I mean do you go get Nas I don't like I know Nas doesn't doesn't like Nas doesn't hit for the wide audience in the same way that cube necessarily does but if you are a hip-hop ed then you know Nas uh and Illmatic might be the best rap record of all time also Fat Joe Jeff he's from the Bronx get some of these Bronx rappers out there Fat Joe going on I know or finesse or don't mess with success the Yankees won the 09 world series get Jay-Z and Alicia Keys back I don't think Cube was dropping any new hits when he came in from center field on game two like just go back to go back to what works you know what I mean it wasn't it wasn't just the song though it was the presentation of the whole thing like like ice cube just walking in from center field all the way to the center of the diamond it was it was incredible it was one of those moments I've tried in recent years not to be the phone guy like oh my god something cool is happening I'm gonna take out my phone and video it no I was just enjoying the moment and what a great moment that was yeah I'm glad I wasn't the phone guy when Freddy Freeman was up thinking I'm gonna get the flat the last out of the world series and video my 13 year old son's victorious moment at his first ever world series game I didn't I'm glad I didn't do that womp womp indeed Jeff uh enjoy game three and uh and beyond and obviously if it comes back here to LA um uh look me up okay look forward to it take it easy guys man that's Jeff passing heading off to Yankee Stadium the one and only Jeff passing makes us smarter makes us laugh all good with a great head of hair no listen you know he adds he adds to this program that's for sure we're struggling I know we wake up and you guys are struggling I'm ready to go we see it it's all we got that's all we got it's all I got he's got a lot we have none none I have hair but you hide it in a cap you put a hat on and every single time it's just like I got hat head I got my head here my salt and pepper what are you doing I stopped dying it what are we doing okay very good Jeff passing man I just love it so much fun talking to him and by the way that's a a great point right there Yankee's not out of it if they can get to uh Walker Bueller earlier tonight then maybe you know he's not going to go chasing wins like you don't go chasing waterfalls right right right listen to just stick to the things that got you yeah that's right rivers the light that's right okay um phone calls we come back and then we'll talk about the only undefeated team that doesn't look like they're the only undefeated team you know what I mean that's the Chiefs coming up the Rich Eisen show is sponsored by Grainger does this sound familiar you're a maintenance specialist and you've been squaring off with a leaky radiator at your facility for hours you're both drenched in sweat you've 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bro bro and uh he found out and back in the day they would you know if you had an old refrigerator they would put it on the curb and you know the junk man to come pick it up and and we had one on the curb down the street that was there for days it was like you know what slam your ass in that freezer on the end of the block when they pull you out you're gonna be ice cute you know kids die in the freezer right so so uh when i walked out the house you know i didn't want nobody to call me o'shea no more i'm like my name ice cube and so it just stuck they start calling the cube and never called me o'shea since yeah last one uh jerry curl wigs used in straight out of compton were valued at fifteen thousand dollars each man i'm supposed to know about a jerry curl wig we had the real deal you know i mean jerry did our curls back in the day and i've heard about gangs going in and stealing like wigs and extensions out of like nail shops and hair shops so i don't think they cost fifteen thousand if they did somebody got beat because i'm with someone was kind of tired they needed work well i'm just wondering if you were producing the film you had to you had to okay whether the wigs were yeah i did yeah i did i did i was really uh pretty anal about that because some jerry curl wigs can look comical and it's this was now no comedy you know so we had to make sure they look right and it didn't look like you know the soul glow family from uh coming to america love it love all of it on our youtube channel please back on the rich eisen show radio network sitting at the rich as ensure desk furnished by grange with supplies and solutions for every industry granger has the right product for you call click ranger.com or just stop by let's go to derek and missouri first and first up how you been derek did you go to the broncos contest or no because uh what do you think you there derek i gotta say rich it's another victory money in broncos country and no i did not attend this one unfortunately but it's a good feeling right now i'll say this because you showed that standings earlier for the playoff picture in the asc and to see the broncos number five right now it's a good feeling i gonna be more happier what i'm seeing bonix probably played his best game yesterday as far as him now holding the record for most wins by qb rookie quarterback in broncos history which is i never thought what happened in my lifetime but i gotta say rich it's a it's pretty awesome but we got both more coming up to sunday hey and that's a bit and that's a big one dude derek that's a big one right now because if the steelers win tonight that's a that's a battle of second place teams and again if the raven sometime and thanks to call derek appreciate always your like senior name on our on our call screen uh if the if the ravens and the broncos are both on the outside looking in in terms of their division chiefs and steelers win it this is a tiebreak game this is a tiebreak game and you laugh all you want oh no the ravens are the ravens i mean they're they won five in a row that they're one of the best teams in the national football league and the broncos you could just steamroll them the number of times that you think you're going to just steamroll the broncos and then they beat you over the last six weeks you've been wrong five times the broncos have won five of their they started 0-2 and they have won five of their last six and i'm telling you i remember week one the amount of crap i got when the rate the the broncos yeah got beat in seattle and i'm like there's a lot to like about bonix and i just got roasted by broncos nation let's ride you know i mean i got i got i got rode broncos country and and hung up that's right by by broncos country that's right and the five wins in the last six do you know that is a record for rookie quarterbacks in broncos history for wins in a season five five wow la la only had four like craig morton do you know who leads all nfl rookies with offensive touchdowns right now is it jayden daniels no no do you know who it is uh mr beauregard nix oh nix no way he's got 12. wow eight in the air four on the ground and the four on the ground leads the team in rushing touchdowns that's right i'm gonna have to pick him up he had a career high in completions completion percentage passing yards passing yards per attempt passing touchdown and passer ratings against the carolina panthers he's the first quarterback in broncos history to have three or more passing touchdowns one or more rushing touchdowns and no interceptions in the game elway didn't do it three quarterbacks in broncos history have had three or more passing touchdowns one or more rushing touchdowns but threw an interception elway did it twice manning did it once and brock osweiler did it osweiler nix is doing it guys the broncos are doing it and doing it well right they're five and three and and they're taking on the equally five and three ravens this is a big football game in week nine laugh all you want broncos keep beating you and sean payton is just laughing you know and by the way if they could do this with nix and make the playoffs while burning the most cash for a dead cap hit in the history of dead caps remember when they cut russell wilson and were like well that's gonna set them down that's gonna set them back and if they go ahead and make the playoffs anyway sean payton i mean is his start it's been a very nice start five and three and nix is doing it yes sir drew lock went four and one in 2019 so that's why i guess you gotta pump the brakes a little bit but uh they're five and ones to start knowing too yeah they're ahead of baltimore in the standings because uh percentage win percentage in conference games so their fifth baltimore sixth dylan in vancouver canada has been hanging on for a while what's up dylan good morning rich eisen good morning little christmas and congratulations to the tj driver on the great no contest wrestling pod ladies and gentlemen what up what's up listen i don't want to freak you guys out and i hope you're all still sitting down we are but back in june i told you guys the indianapolis colts would be four and four that's beating the undefeated steelers and losing to the winless jags most notably though i told you anthony richardson would get hurt in week four against the steelers so i had to boot up the crystal ball again to give you guys three more predictions sure okay yes here we go hold on i'll write them down okay crystal crystal ball showed me glimpses of katelyn clark luka doncic and connor mcdavid rich a future face of the league will lose super bowl 59 this year okay oh i'm thinking cj stroud or jaden daniels and in super bowl 59 we'll learn that running backs matter because our running back will win the super bowl mvp since the first time since tarell davis okay dylan in vancouver i was ready did you have one more because or did we get them all last last one here last one here yeah rich eisen will join the nfl competition committee okay and make no ground on the funnel to the end uh dylan you're the best dylan in vancouver everybody thanks for calling dylan i appreciate the moxie i mean i love the first two i'm not making the competition committee in my entire life uh i've never seen them it seems unlikely but you never know yeah anything can happen i should though and you guys know it well i mean i think you should be on it i just think some of your views are wrong mike in brooklyn new york my birthplace what's up mike we're brooklyn i'm all for you on the competition committee because they definitely need somebody what's up mike no regarding my uh my cults i know you know uh shane stine and chris dalvin a little bit i'm just wondering as a cult fan and i'm sure i'm not the only one is there anyone in that organization right now who's not suffering from a mass delusion that anthony richardson could possibly be ready to play quarterback in the nfl right now because this is embarrassing i mean this is completely different from the rookies that are playing now uh he's just he doesn't even have the basic fundamentals he can't get better you know the argument that oh well he's going to get better he has to play but it's like using the analogy of being you know a squadron leader for top gun when you're still in the fight school it's not going to happen he needs to sit he needs to sit now they need to sit him they need to play slack oh and they got to play it out that way i i understand that mike let me ask you this question because again by the way i love when you call because it sounds like i'm back home number one but number two it's just like you know uh hearing your passion um is is always great and that said heart of hearts is this a super bowl team mike heart of hearts no but okay even with flaco even with flaco even with the playoffs even with flaco is this with flaco played yesterday you probably would have won that game i understand that but i'm i'm asking you your heart of hearts is this a super bowl winning team and if you're jim ursay and you have handed off the caretaking of this franchise to chris ballard which i think is a smart move i like him and shane stryken who i think is really really good and really smart remember we interviewed him gents pre-season and was we love talking to him and you're doing that and then you could see the skill set that this guy has you've got to play it out you've got to play it out and i know that might be unfair to some veterans in the locker room like deforest buckner only have a certain amount of time left in their careers and they feel like they can win the super bowl ej speed is really you know what i mean like you've got some really good players but this kid has got to learn he's got to learn point he's got to get in if you get in you have a chance so i mean every year you see i mean the new york giants went to super bowls they had no business being in the playoffs really with eli manning i mean you play it out you the main point is you are hurting the player no because this is how quarterbacks get ruined he's not going to develop because he's steering the headlights clueless he can't get any better until he has to sit down you got to put joe flacko on the contract for next year and see if he can actually go through another whole off season and compete for the starting job chris ballad is all about competition competition you have one of the top rated quarterbacks sitting on the bench and you have a quarterback with a 44 percent completion percentage starting i mean compared to carston wince i mean carston wince looks like patrick mahomes compared to this guy so i'm praying for a jimerson intercession here if you've made them bench carson wince please somebody he's not ready there's no shame in it he's just not ready he needs more time to develop and he's not getting any better he's getting worse mike better as a rookie mike thanks for the time appreciate it that's mike at brooklyn yeah and that was my point last week when we talked about it on overreaction monday dude when you draft a quarterback in the top five you've got to live and die with him until it's it's 100 apparent he ain't the guy yeah but that's wilson though rich he was bent she's not bad she's benching now he's on a different team and looked pretty good with denver in the preseason so like you can't use him as that example why is that wilson is a million times better than anthony richardson as a player i i can't sit here and say that and i lived and died with zack wilson and you have to you have to play it out and the part of the the damn shame about it is is is this stuff that you saw where he's admitting he's tired or he gets tired or he throws the bad horrible game altering pass right before halftime doesn't run out of bounds when you need him to doesn't have that sort of situational awareness you you crush you have to have from your quarterback this is the sort of stuff that they missed him playing out and getting better at last year and that means they had to start again this year with a guy who is still a raw rookie who did not have a ton of time at florida and i know he said in his postgame press conference that he's been playing quarterback his entire life not at this level not at this level and if he is one of those guys who can play a type of game altering position like lamar josh allen cam newton where he can run you over he can run past you and he can throw from the pocket and beat you with the neck up if he does have that ability you've got to play out these moments right now he might be the worst quarterback in the league and he needs to be on jordan love plus plan like he needs to sit three four years before he can play he doesn't understand the basic fundamentals of the position that's the way it looks sometimes i'm not gonna i'm not gonna sit here and push back on that it's too bad they win that game yesterday they're five and three and they're the four five seed in the conference are they gonna are they gonna get past the chiefs they're gonna get past the bills but but to the but to the guy's point nobody thought that about the giants every year there are teams from who go on super bowl runs that you don't see coming why can't it be them they have a world-class running back they have a good defense they have playmakers at receiver a good line too they got a good you can't stunt the growth of 52 other men because one just isn't up to par you still have a full roster of of players who who are going out there busting their butts and i i understand what you're saying if you draft a quarterback that high you have to stick with them but to the detriment of your team do you stick with them great questions great conversation you know again when mike and brooklyn calls in it it's like if we wanted to have a comedy bit right where a guy sounds like he's calling wfan in new york and instead of bitching and moaning about the jets of the giants he bitches about the last team you'd expect and it's sort of like like a cults can he call in and act like an angry jaguars fan but sound like that you know what i mean great like that's that would be like a bit if we wrote it but that's real like you heard him like he didn't tell us once though he's a baltimore fan or something like that from back in the day or his family i think i don't i don't recall but he's been calling for years i just know he was passionate big fan of mike bennett and kansas you're here on the rich isin show what's up bennett well rich you know you were talking about buffalo earlier and uh i'll tell you who else can print playoff tickets and for the 10th straight season it's the kansas city chiefs they are seven and oh they've won 13 straight and homes get to all the attention but i'll tell you who everyone should be talking about who's that why don't we have a nation going to finally admit that the chief's defense is the best in the league they traded away legeria sneed top five corner traded away willie gay jr traded away collin sanders charles omen who out mike dana out jaylen watson out 90 johnson hurt mid game and what's the result two straight goal line stands one of which ended in a field goal from within inside within the 10 and the other the raiders had four straight downs inside the 10-yard line and turned it over this unit hasn't allowed more than 28 points in 28 consecutive games and time after time comes up a big place in the biggest moment steve spagnuolo best dc in league history he's pretty i mean he's he's up there right now on a run you know lebo like don't you think right now like he's coaching himself into the hall of fame i think he kind of is isn't he kind of right i mean i mean with the giants run and then if the cheese three-peat because of the defense again right and chris jones in the middle of it all his defensive he's he's a first-bound hall of famer when it's all said and done you know and and thanks to call bennett you know and now they just add josh uche for i believe a 2026 draft choice which is brett veach doing brett veach things let's add the andre hopkins for the offense and josh uche for the defense and let's do it well before the trade deadline uh 2026 sixth round draft choice he's coming from new england he's one of the better that new england has fielded in the last couple years yeah you can see this coming he was a healthy scratch yesterday the writing was on the wall he didn't fit system wise and scheme what they're trying to do in new england so and may i go may i go higher register on the uh on the two-time defending super bowl champ kansas city chiefs at 7-0 for the seven and oh for the first time in the mahomes era you you normally don't go higher register on that certainly when you're talking about the offense but the chief's offense is looking very chiefs like over the last two games two passing touchdowns in week eight he had zero in october i know that's been your point in the last couple weeks here they've scored 27 or more points in each of their last two they only scored 27 or more in first of their five games prior to their week six by travis kelsey showed up 10 receptions 90 yards of receiving touchdown those were it's easily his best game of the year well tom brady recently got raider's ownership but he bought his stake from travis kelsey who has owned this team for quite some time well done well done yep it broke a career-long 12-game streak without a receiving touchdown in the regular season we all know what he did in the playoffs which is my been my point it's been my point because they're just they're they're just beating you situationally it may not look pretty you may think that they can get got you may think that they're getting lucky whatever they are the best at beating you at what you do best in the most important moment of the game that's what they are expert at coaching it up executing it when it happens and it needs to happen and now they've got d'andre hopkins in the mix this is what mahomes had to say after d hop had a little bit of cup of coffee with him in week eight i probably did a great job obviously um third down hit the big catch early in the game um and then he had a couple other big plays i missed him on the one corner route early um but still got open and then um as i looked back at the table there's a couple times rain man covers he was just really uh working and winning even the touchdown to trav um i threw if you look back on his side he's open to for an touchdown there and so um now that i can i mean you see that i mean obviously i know the top player he is but you see that on the field um it shows that they're gonna play man coverage against him um he's gonna get open and i have to give them chances to go out there make plays all right that's mahomes after the game and this was uh mahomes in the summer he'll get handled when it gets handled that's what he said about playing the raiders and he came up with his um his first 250 uh or better passing yards in tour better passing touchdown game of the year that was his first he did it he handled it and uh went over 30 000 passing yards of his career and beat matthew stafford by six games in terms of the fastest to do that so there's that and all they're going to do is spend the regular season in the laboratory that's it in the lab keep working at it keep grinding home for tampa on a monday night next week then they get denver at buffalo that's going to be the one that we'll talk about a measuring stick and if the bills win that game we'll talk about how that can come home to roost in january is that uh is that a sign for anything don't overlook denver i'm not they got two games against him that's right i mean these are these are these are teams that can absolutely beat them on any good day any given sunday sure certainly if they're playing up and down football i get it sure but they're in the lab this team's in the lab they're adding pieces here and there and they're gonna have a half a season to get those pieces ready for the playoffs and in terms of situational football i would get a patriot that's for sure they know how to do it and uh and i'll go get dhop what i need and if you think brett feach is done uh i don't think so he's bargain shopping he's going in the filings basement he's getting josh uche for a sixth round draft choice two years from now okay what are we doing honestly we get free barbecue with that i mean that's fine everybody keep looking past the chiefs that's fine keep overlooking them what are you talking about you're the one who's been like mahomes isn't the top 10 guy he's not a top 10 quarter that's him okay you know no i think there's a lot of people who give voice that i don't think he's an outlier he played really good yesterday i don't think it's a coincidence that you know he maybe maybe i inspired he did well i think it could have been the kermit the frog thing for the summer too it was probably more he'll get handled when it gets handled everyone's overlooking them i mean come on they're the betting favorites for mvp and super bowl and like number one on everyone's power i think everybody thinks that they can get got right now and i just think they're in the lab and just laughing they're laughing in the lab right now i'm laughing at people who think they're going to get got we already know how this story is going to hit yeah mike williams is going to catch the touchdown either him or d-hop yeah like williams well i do have the script and i don't want to i don't want to ruin it for everybody if i'm the jets i'm selling off mike williams to the highest bidder like well he's not even on the field for him and they're two and six jets should honestly sell off everybody all right we'll take a break let me tell you what happens to the jets this week chris all right very good throw that script out for both 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time all right gents listen um we've been talking about it all show all show involving anthony richardson bob kravitz who as you know has been covering indianapolis sports for years he writes a sub stack now he just tweeted out shane steichen was asked about anthony richardson starting the next week he said we're evaluating everything yeah it's flaco season i mean again it really depends on how hey i gotta be honest with you i was tired plays in that locker room and and and in the owner's suite yeah the general managers aren't tired yeah defensive players aren't tired everybody's tired dude flaco must wake up and feel every joint in his body whenever he plays without question i guess maybe i'm hoping that the teachable moment is those guys pull him to the side and kind of explain to him and that's kind of he's only what 22 and if he's benched no better if he's benched he's going to get back in there at some point he is the future they need him to be the future he's got to sit and watch for a while i think i kind of yeah watch a professional go about business it's only going to help him this is a tough position we all know this it's not easy to go play quarterback in the national football league especially when how many college games did he start 13 16 12 didn't play he doesn't play a lot of football so that's the latest in indianapolis before we go out the door um i i know this isn't like the sexiest subject matter with all due respect well that's what the but the arizona cardinals folks are the sleeper team i had in the nfc and i know washington might be your sleeper team or at least they're six and two nobody saw that coming right the arizona cardinals are four and four and because of who they've beaten and what their record is they are in first place in the nfc west if the playoffs started today the arizona cardinals and kylar murray would have a home playoff game they just won in miami nobody thought they'd win in san francisco nobody thought they'd win in miami an early window game for west coast team to come across the the country i am a to a back and the vibe exactly kylar had 307 passing yards two in a year no interceptions and a passer rating of a buck 16 it's his first 300 passing yard game since blowing out his knee wow yep oh and uh the last time he had 300 passing yards multiple passing touchdowns no interception was his rookie season and the cardinals have finally finished the business of winning one losing one or just winning multiple ones in a row winning one and then losing multiple ones in a row it's the first time they've won back to back games in three years they went 46 games in a row without a back-to-back win that has now changed they're four and four and the arizona cardinals have the chicago bears next and that is as we know the game in which we're going to find out if the bears are who we think they are the dennis green may he rest in peace game bears at cardinals bears at cardinals man love it that's a big one caleb versus kylar yet another heisman versus heisman match up for him kylar's welcoming the bears in the house if they go above 500 while the rams go up to seattle and the niners are on their bye week amen jonathan gannon pew pew pew the arizona cardinals in the mix for the nfc west right now three four and four teams one three and four teams that is a wide open race the rams who started this week with their most impressive win of the season it's fun stuff 49ers come from back from their buy they'll be healthier the rams are healthier the cardinals are just like okay let's do it marvin had a good game they put marvin on the case it's a midnight run reference for everybody what a fun crazy ass season we're having right now dude totally unpredictable totally unpredictable totally unpredictable totally wild totally fun and we're halfway done bow nix is doing as well as as jayden daniels and caleb williams the jets two and six jamis winston's now starting and the browns at two and six feel better about themselves the cardinals are in first place you know bengal think about how many people's seasons are over that you thought would be playoff teams cincinnati jacksonville i'm not counting cincinnati out yeah well you're the only one they still have burrow and chase and t higgins comes back healthy again you never know they can go on a run it happens every year anthony richardson being on the brink of being benched that's nuts you know the packers at six and two and part of the reason why is because malik willis has been looking so terrific right vikings start five and oh they lose two in a row sam darnold has looked good overall and the steelers behind russell wilson is the starter after benching justin fields despite starting four and two they beat the giants tonight on monday night football they're in first place through eight weeks and the bills can basically start printing playoff tickets the runy marable that is your setup sports solstice you want to crown them then 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