BEST OF NFL Week 1 Part 2: Micah's Packers DEBUT, & Vintage Aaron Rodgers!

19:54Shannon Sharpe:It's going to be some growing pains. Yeah, it's going to be some growing pains. and uh do do i think they'll figure it out yeah i do i think i think they'll figure it out but uh it's not going to be as smooth and as seamless as if as it has been the last couple of years that's for sure right but uh but i thought green bay defensively defensively that's what look i agree with you ocho they can run the football they got look they got receivers that i don't look at any of these guys like, oh man, I'm just, I ain't looking at none of these guys like I look at a chase. Like I look at a Jetta. Right.

20:33Shannon Sharpe:But they can hurt you. They can. And there is one. If he's all that he's been advertised to be in Matthew Golden, he's supposed to be similar to that, which is why they got him in the first round. Right. He's a 4-2 guy. We weren't able to see that 4-2 today. He did make some plays, but I'm excited to see what they do with him going forward. Jaden Reed, Nice. The thing that. All nice. What scares you about him, Ocho, is that because from week to week, you don't know. See, you set your game plan. You're like, okay, we got to take this guy away. We got to take Chase away. We got to take Jed away.

21:09Shannon Sharpe:We got to take Seedy away. There are certain guys you go into the game. Who are you trying to take away? Y 'all know. You don't. You never know who's the guy. You never know who's the guy. Week to week, it varies with them. Week to week, it varies. Because there's not a whole lot of difference between Dobbs, Reed, Wicks. There ain't a whole lot of difference, Ocho. Right. They all about this. And then, Kristen, he's not there. He's your speed merchant. He just can't stay healthy. He's phenomenal. I like him a lot, but he just can't stay healthy. He won't be back, what, until later in the season, huh?

21:47I mean, way, way, way back. Probably.

21:51Shannon Sharpe:And, you know, normally guys that have that kind of speed, they normally have – they bound, they wound tight. So they normally have hamstring issues. Right. He's battled a lot of hamstring issues. Yes, sir. But I did like what I saw from Green Bay offensively. Even though they didn't have a whole lot of plays, the stats don't jump off at you. They probably had, what,

22:21Shannon Sharpe:260 yards. But you only gave up 13 points, and they gave up that on a spectacular catch. The guy caught the ball one hand over outstretch. I can live with that. But Green Bay defensively, those guys were hunting today. They looked good. They were hunting today, and that's what you're going to need. You know, boy, I'm already chomping at the bit. I want to see week four. Wait, week four. Dallas and the Packers? Green Bay. Green Bay goes. Hey. Wait. I'm telling you, Dallas. Dallas. They playing in Dallas? They playing in Dallas. Hey, let's go to the game. I ain't going to the game. You can go. No, I'm asking you.

23:02Let's go to the game. So, I mean, we can live stream the whole game. Me and you sitting there watching the game, chilling in the stands. Like that's, you know, like a live broadcast. Uncle Nocho. Live it.

23:15Shannon Sharpe:I ain't trying to do I ain't trying to do Five hours of TV It just Nah I'm telling you Unk man Ash man Talk to Unk man

23:27Shannon Sharpe:It's I'm sure I'm sure they got Some stuff drawn up For him to try to You know try to But Micah gonna be Micah gonna be coming He believes He believes There's not anybody On the defensive On the offensive line That can block him Absolutely not Hell there ain't nobody On any defensive line That can actually block on any other 31 teams. So he's going to be chomping, chomping at the bit. I'm excited to see that game. But they look good today. Not just Micah, but the Packers defense. Defense in general. Quay Walker, Wyatt, Sean Gary, all those guys looked extremely well. They were getting after him.

24:07Shannon Sharpe:And it's easy to get – look, when you become one-dimensional, that's why everybody wants to try to establish some resemblance of a run game. Yeah. Once you become one-dimensional and those guys like, okay, we're going to play the run on the way to the quarterback. That's a wrap.

24:22Shannon Sharpe:The Commanders beat the Giants 21-6. New York offense did not look competitive with Russell running it. I was checking back and forth in this game. It seemed like every time I turned in, he was putting the ball. Russ was pressured on 16 of his 45 drawbacks, 35%, and handled that pressure quite poorly. He was 2 of 12, 26 yards, sacked twice when pressured. New York managed his 231 yards of total offense, averaged 3.2 yards per rush, stumbled twice into the red zone. When asked if he would consider starting Jackson Dart, excuse me, Dart, next week, Dayball said, we're going to get home and look at our game.

24:57Shannon Sharpe:When asked if Wilson would start against the Cowboys, Dayball was equally noncommittal. We're talking about after every game. I've got confidence, Russ, we'll go back, evaluate the tape. This game isn't on Russell Wilson. It's not a Russell Wilson. Let's make that clear. I have confidence in Russ. We have to do a better job all the way around. Now, it was reported that, and like I said, maybe I didn't stay long enough to see Dart get any snaps. Did he get any snaps in this game, Ocho? Did you watch it? I was thunk. I had all the games on at one time at the sportsbook, so I'm not sure at what point where Jackson Dart might have come in.

25:40when I was watching, I was watching Russell Wilson, most of the time he was running

25:44Shannon Sharpe:No, he didn't come in There were reports that he was supposed to have a package, they would have a package or two for Jackson Dart but Russell Wilson was 17 to 37, 168 sacked twice, under 26 quarterback rating they had 74 rush yards on 23 rush attempts Go ahead Ocho I'm going to say that goddamn defensive line But they had Russ running for his life. Every time he got back to even throw a ball, the passing lanes was gone because everybody in his face. Everybody was in his face most of the time, most of the game. Every time I looked up, I look at the TV to the left. I'm like, well, God damn, Russ, every time I look up, you're getting hit.

26:26You're getting sacked. You're running for your life. There's certain things you can't put on the quarterback regardless of who you put in there. Jackson Dart had to deal with that. But what I saw today, man, I don't think anything would have been any different because he would have been running for his life. True.

26:43Shannon Sharpe:All right. Washington ran the football extremely well today, 32 rush attempts, 220 yards. Obviously, sometimes, you know, when you played, obviously when I played, when Carson would get plays, when plays would come in, unplayed, but he has the freedom to be able to change the play based on what he sees. Right. Whether it's a run play, if it's tossed right, but you know what? You know, we can go dive left based on defense, based on what I see with my own eyes. Yeah. I have experience. I wonder if Russell has that freedom to do so. Or if a play comes in, he actually has to stick exactly what it's called.

27:15Because based on the play calling from what I saw today, it's like it's hindering Russ from being able to do some of the things that he does well.

27:25Shannon Sharpe:Well, I'm not so sure he had that ability. He probably hadn't had that. I don't know if he ever had it in Seattle, maybe later in Seattle. He definitely didn't have it with Sean Payton. Oh, no. And I'm not so sure he had it last year with Arthur Smith. No. So the likelihood of him coming in there and having that kind of control now, Ocho, doesn't seem likely. But, hey, they just need to play better. We're not going to put all this on Russ. No. Although he was less than 50 % completion percentage. and then neighbors, it seemed like, I don't know what that was about. What did neighbors and day ball was trying to get him to go back in the game?

28:05Shannon Sharpe:He was talking to him, trying to get, but neighbors seemed like he was like, man, I'm done with this. Yeah, he frustrated. He frustrated. He frustrated. Listen, players like that, I say this with A.J. Brown too, when the Eagles played, having to wait all the way to the third quarter, nine minutes in the third quarter to even touch the ball, you have a player that is special as Malik neighbors, you get him the ball early. It don't have to be nothing crazy. Throw him a little smoke route. Throw him a scream route. Give him a reverse. Let him feel like he's involved in the game instead of out there getting all that goddamn cardio.

28:41Shannon Sharpe:Get it to him early. Yeah. And you'll have him late. All game. That's what you should do. Yeah. What you should do and what they actually do is not always the case. But you're absolutely right. You're absolutely right, Ocho, is that when you're dealing with these number one receivers, you've got to give them something early in the first quarter. I mean, just to be – ain't nobody asking, you know, to ask Jordan or to ask Steph Curry or to ask one of these great players, look, we don't want you to take a shot until the third quarter. No, no, just you do everything, just run around out here, Steph.

29:19Shannon Sharpe:You just run around off these picks and do all this stuff, and we're going to run, you know. Hey, all that we're going to do, but don't take no shot until the third quarter. As a matter of fact, we ain't going to let you take no shot until the fourth quarter and see how that works out. But y 'all want these receivers to get out there and run and just run and just run and just run, and they don't get no action, don't get the ball thrown away, and then come fourth quarter, hey, here we come. Come to do what? Yeah, mentally united. No, you're not. It's hard. It's a struggle. It's a struggle. So we'll see what happens.

29:52Shannon Sharpe:They got the Cowboys. The Cowboys like, hey, we let one slip away last week. We ain't about to let one slip away this week. Cowboys might drop. I know it's a division game, Mocho. Yeah.

30:05Shannon Sharpe:Cowboys might try to drop 50 on the Giants. 50?

30:14Damn.

30:20Yep, I'm trying to. Hey, what was neighbor's numbers today, Unc?

30:27Shannon Sharpe:He had 5 for 71 on 12 targets. Yeah, that's not bad. Wondell Robinson had 6 for 55 on 8 targets. That's not bad. That's not bad. I mean, you know, a little slow day at the office. Not what you like. I mean, ain't nobody go crazy at the receiver position, but Zay Flowers. Yeah, Zay was only one. they be killing that slot boy oh he be killing that slot and it's the same route over and over either that shallow or that deep over yeah oh yeah that's the thing yeah because you got to honor because they hold because Lamar stick it in there you think Henry so you hold just for a second and by the time you realize that he's already past the practice yeah yeah yeah What you think?

31:25Shannon Sharpe:You think there's some tread on the tires with Russ? Me personally, Ocho, I don't think he's going to start the whole year. You know, you and I, we had a bet over under eight games. I think it's going to be under eight games and Jackson Dart's going to be in there. I do. I think, honestly, based on what he has around him, it's all going to come down to his offensive line. If you give Russ time, you give Russ time to be able to process and allow him to make the decisions with the ball, I think he's going to be all right. You think so? If they can get a running game going, take some of the pressure off of Russ as well, which obviously helps with the pass game, I think they're going to be all right.

32:07But so many different factors have to go right for Russ to be able to succeed because he's not the Russ of old. He's not the Russell Wilson with the Seattle Seahawks that at one point he can make something out of nothing. As you get older, you need more help from those that are around you. And I'm not sure the New York Giant team is built with the right personnel where he can be able to succeed like that. Yeah. A lot of Russ was outside, was off script.

32:40Shannon Sharpe:Yes. Improvisation, you know, Russ was a magician with the ball. Yeah. pump faking and flicking the ball over guys and finding ways. He doesn't have that athleticism anymore. Like you said, I think in order for him to be at his absolute best, things have to be perfect and you know the likelihood of things being perfect more times than not, it ain't going to happen. It's not. So you say eight games. You think Jackson Dard? Yeah, I think over under eight games and Jackson Dard will be in there. Damn. I mean, Ocho, I mean, you got to think about it. This is his third team in three years. Yeah. Because, yeah, he went from Broncos to the Steelers, Steelers to the Giants.

33:28Shannon Sharpe:Man, Ocho, because you know when you start bouncing around like that, Ocho, when you start bouncing around like that, you know how they see you. On the back end, yeah. On the back end, that's what normally happens. But obviously, he's on one-year deals. When he was with the Steelers, when he came in, obviously, he was injured. Justin Fields took over. who did really well. Well, hell, when Russell Wilson did get the opportunity to get back in there after coming back from injury, he went on a 5-6, what, 7 game? They won like 7, yeah. 7 in a row, and then obviously the bottom fell out after that.

33:59But damn, I don't know. I don't know.

34:04Shannon Sharpe:And plus, plus the thing is, Ocho, they about to know his job's on the line. Oh, that's right. How does that look, Ocho? I draft a guy that I don't get to coach so if I don't play Jackson Dart there's a great chance I'm never going to coach him well hell if you do play Jackson Dart and things don't go well hell you still ain't going to be able to coach him but I got a year I drafted him I mean that's like you hey you build a house and get a divorce and the wife's living in it you ain't even get to live in the house Ocho

34:38Shannon Sharpe:so I just I just think the thing is that they're going to turn the dart sooner than later. Yeah.

34:50Shannon Sharpe:Because probably four or five games, don't you? You know. You look at your division. You'll see where Philly. You'll see where Washington. You'll see where Dallas is. You look around the league like, oh, man, we out of this. We might as well go ahead and start building towards the future. Right. At some point in time, Mocho, I got to start hoarding a bottle of water and canned tuna.

35:18Doomsday is here. I know. I don't want the fans out there in New York to overreact. It is week one. I think we're jumping the gun a little too much.

35:33Who the Giants got next, huh? Cowboys. Oh, shit.

35:38Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, you do realize they took this man number one. They took Jackson Dart number one, right? Yeah. What did they take him number one for? To start. And you got a journeyman. What people would consider Russ now is a journeyman quarterback. Yes, sir. Yeah. Obviously. And you know what? With that journeyman, we talk about a Super Bowl winning journeyman who has good experience, who has good success in NFL. Joe Flacco won a Super Bowl and won a Super Bowl MVP. How do people look at it? What is he? Journeyman. Okay. But again, Russell Wilson is starting for a reason. What better person for Jackson Dart to sit behind and learn the game from than someone that's already accomplished what he has?

36:21I could be wrong. Or you can throw caution to win and throw Jackson Dart out there to the Sharks. And what normally happens to young quarterbacks when you throw them out there to the Sharks and they don't play well and they start losing confidence?

36:36Shannon Sharpe:All right. Well, if it got started, I mean, it's tough because I, and that's why I think it's going to be, I don't think it'll be in the next couple of weeks, but I think by week six, week seven, you kind of know. Right. And you got to, you just got to move forward. And once we make this decision, Ocho, it ain't no turning back now. It ain't no turning back. Once you do that, it ain't no turning back. But that's why I say it wouldn't happen that soon. It wouldn't happen that soon because once they do make that decision, Jackson Dart is the quarterback for the foreseeable future unless things just completely don't pan out, similar to that of Daniel Jones.

37:18Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, you ever been on a road trip? Look here. Okay, now, I'm going to drive. And once I drive, I ain't stopping. Right. So once we gas up, get everything you need. get water, get your goodies, whatever. Use the bathroom, all that. Yeah, I'm with you. Because, hey, I ain't stopping.

37:47Shannon Sharpe:All children, Steelers went on the road, beat the Jets 34-32. Aaron Rodgers threw four touchdown passes. If I'm not mistaken, it's his first game with four touchdown passes and no interceptions since 2021. Aaron Rodgers threw four touchdown passes in his Steelers debut. Rodgers, after the game, there were probably people in the organization that didn't think I could play anymore. So it was nice to remind those people that I still can. I'm just happy to be everybody associated with the Jets. Yeah. Were you surprised how well Aaron Rodgers looked today? Well, I wasn't surprised, obviously, based on the team he's at, where he is, what he has to work with offensively.

38:26The Steelers, obviously their identity is their defense. even though they looked okay because the goddamn Jets and Justin Fields, they were playing some ball today, boy. Yes. Justin Fields and the boy were playing some ball today, but I'm happy for Aaron. DK Metcalf, they had very, very, very good chemistry. Very good chemistry. He's caught some good balls. And outside of that, I mean, they look really good. And this is what I really expected. For the Steelers to have a quarterback that is four-time MVP, Super Bowl winning quarterback and putting the right pieces around him and all he has to do is do what's ass of him and don't turn the ball over.

39:06Just don't turn the ball over and you will always have a chance. And that's exactly what they had today. That's exactly what they had today. Let defense take everything. And again, what happened?

39:17Shannon Sharpe:It was a turnover. Remember the fumble? Hey. Look, we know Aaron Rodgers can have games like this. He looked like the old Aaron Rodgers, not an old Aaron Rodgers, the old Aaron Rodgers. 22 of 30, 244, four touchdowns. Just got after him a little bit, got him sacked him four times. Did a great job of neutralizing the run, only 50 yards on 20 carries. Then you go to the other side, Justin Fields, played really well today, 16 of 22, 218, one touchdown. They had 182 rushing. Yeah. but when you get a situation like that you got to kill a net with a sledgehammer yes you you can't leave a team with these type quarterbacks you can't let them hang around no show they'll find a way to beat you every time you can't when you get a team down and they got a great quarterback on that side of the football Rodgers can still beat you Josh Allen can beat you on my home these guys they can beat you you better put them away when you get a chance but the funny because if You leave him hanging around on Joe.

40:22Okay. But the funny thing about it, when teams get in a situation where you can kill an ant with a sledgehammer, everything gets conservative. Right. The play calling gets conservative because now I don't want to be responsible for the loss. As opposed to let's keep our foot in the pedal and just kill him right away. But no, every time, every single time, which is why I tweeted what I tweeted tonight, why the Ravens and Bills are playing. every time. Listen, it looks like a blowout, but for some reason in every football game, the play calling, mistakes, they get conservative, things happen, fumbles, interception, and for some reason the game always ends closer than what it should be.

41:06Shannon Sharpe:You know, you turn the ball over, you give the Packers a short field, and the next thing you know, the game is boom, boom, boom. give Jalen Ramsey credit. You can't go low Jalen now. You can't take out the lead blocker by taking out his knees. They won't allow you to do that on the defensive side of football. You used to could, but you can't do that anymore. But he says, okay, don't worry about it. I'll make up for it. He did. I'll make up for it. He dropped the hammer on Gary Wilson. I think the thing is you got to know that guy's over there, Ocho. Yeah. Because what are they trying not to do, Ocho?

41:47Shannon Sharpe:Let you out of bounds. So if they're not going to let you out of bounds, what does that mean? Somebody's close to the sidelines. The sidelines. And keeping everything inside. And so now, Ram see him. Mm-hmm.

42:04Shannon Sharpe:I'm about to, ooh. Hey, let me get some barbecue sauce because I'm going to put some sauce on the ribs. Boom. That was it. That's what happened. That was a textbook tackle too now. Textbook. That was teach tape. Teaching tape on how to tackle and not get no flag. That was nice. That was. That was an unbelievable play by an unbelievable player. But I thought Justin Fields showed great poise. Did a great job. He's only sacked once. The tackle got beat really bad. He got beat really, really quick. And I think because I thought they had something on that play. Looking at it, they had something. If the tackle doesn't get beat so quick, Highsmith beats him clean, and Fields really doesn't even get a chance, really gets a chance to do much of anything.

42:56Shannon Sharpe:But I was impressed with Rodgers. No, I'm not finna sit here and tell you I saw four touchdowns and no turnovers, 22 or 30. No, I knew they were going to try to establish the run. Right. But that's why you got a guy like Rodgers, because if we can't run it, we feel comfortable. but if we can protect him, he can make plays. He can still make plays off his back, but he still can roll out the pocket and throw with pinpoint accuracy. He still has those capabilities. He's not as elusive as he once was. Hey, we're not the same people at 30. We were at 25. We're not the same people at 35. We were at 30.

43:31Shannon Sharpe:Rodgers is, what, 40, 41 years of age. He's definitely not the same person athletically as he was in his 30s. but his arm, his ability to change arm slots, his ability to move on the run, to throw on the run. Now, he don't have the foot speed he once did, Ojo. He's not going to really beat you like he once could with his legs, but his arm is still dangerous. Yeah. His arm is still very, very dangerous. Very, very much so. I didn't see the four touchdowns. If somebody would have told me, could I see 244? Yeah. But I don't think either team is really happy One team gave up 34. The other team gave up 32.

44:12Shannon Sharpe:Now, hey, if I give up 32 and I win, I'm happy. But there were some concerning things that I saw. But if I think if you're Mike Tomlin, you're like, okay, I think we found our quarterback. And you look at the receiver. You look at DK doing what he did. You look at Calvin Austin III. Fryer Muth had a big play. Skoronic catches it. He's normally a special teams maven. I think he was at the Rams. That's where I remember him from. I don't know if he came from there last year or a couple years ago, but I remember him at the Rams as a special team mavering. Caught a touchdown, recovered a fumble. But I like what I saw from the Jets.

44:49Shannon Sharpe:There are some positives. Absolutely. There are some positives that you can take out of this. You're just like, man, we had it. Yeah. But you give up 17 points, just like the Ravens gave up 22 points. You gave up 17 points in the fourth quarter. Yeah. you can't you're not going to win very many games that kind of in the fourth quarter but the Steelers play well Steelers are 1-0 in that division Cincinnati is 1-0 and you got Cleveland Baltimore at the bottom of the division at both 0-1 it's early one game in the season one game does not make a season win, lose, or draw but I definitely like teaching after a win than a do a loss.

45:36Shannon Sharpe:Yes, sir. Now, I might have your undivided attention more so after a loss than a win, but I like teaching after a win.

45:48Shannon Sharpe:So, Steelers, what you thinking? How many wins? 10, 11? Steelers? 12, yeah. Ooh, that's a good one. Just off the quarterback alone, if he can be consistent and not turn the ball over and show us vintage signs of old Aaron Rodgers, old Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, they could win more than that, especially if the defense carries him because the defense is their identity now. The defense is their identity. I got them winning more than 10, more than 10 easily. No, I'm saying if it all comes down on your quarterback, if you look at the league, you look at the landscape of the league or the team that are always successful year in and year out, what's the common denominator on what each one of those teams have.

46:33They have a competent quarterback that puts them in the best situations to win week in and week out. And that's something that the Steelers have now, which is why Tomlin had no problem going to get Aaron Rodgers. We don't need you to be Aaron Rodgers down there in goddamn Green Bay. We don't need that. If we can get flashes of brilliance every so often, and you do what we ask of you, and don't turn the ball over, We can hand it off from time to time to take some of the pressure off of you. DK, make the plays. Calvin Austin III, you make your plays. Friermuth, how you say his last name? Friermuth.

47:09Yeah, Friermuth, make your plays. We're going to be fine. Let the defense do all the heavy lifting.

47:15Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. I mean, I like what I saw with DK. He did a great job of getting the ball in his hands. He dropped one early, and then he came back and made two spectacular plays, turned on the afterburners, like they got out down the sideline. I saw Calvin Austin catch a touchdown. He played well today. Fryer moved when given the opportunity. He did what he does. Skoronic, they slept on him. Did the run the over route. You know, Rodgers likes to throw the ball outside the pocket. They don't have a problem putting him on the move. He does a great job because if you roll him to the left, he can open his hips up and still get the completion.

47:48Shannon Sharpe:A lot of the right-handed quarterbacks or left-handed quarterbacks that have to roll right or right-handed quarterbacks that got to roll left, it's an awful lot to throw on the move because you got to open your hips up, especially if it's not like a comeback where the guy, you know, you roll in that way and you just throw it. But sometimes you got to open your hips. And I think Rodgers does that as good as anybody that's ever, ever played the game. I like what I saw from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Excuse me. I like what I saw from the Steelers. I like Justin Fields. I like what I saw today. I can, if I'm A.G., I'm going to say, son, A.

48:23Shannon Sharpe:I know you're disappointed that we didn't win, but there's no question in my mind you showed a lot of improvement you showed a lot of growth today we can win a lot would you play it like you played today son we can win a lot of football games we can win a lot of football games um so Steelers go to 1-0 Jets fall to 0-1 34-32 you know Rodgers had something to prove you know hey hey you you didn't want me you didn't think I can play. Say, I want to beat everybody that's associated. You know, he gave it a little bit. He's like, hey, y 'all got something for me walking off the field today? I think he's walking next to Cam Haywood.

49:00Shannon Sharpe:He's like, y 'all got something for me? Y 'all look, y 'all, y 'all, y 'all, y 'all.

49:08Shannon Sharpe:So, but like I said, I think the Jets, that division, it's Buffalo's. Yeah. It's Buffalo. Miami looked horrible on both sides of the ball, Ocho. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Ocho, they look horrible. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. No, they did that. I didn't do nothing. I didn't. Man, Minnesota. I'm speechless, Ocho. Because Minnesota was just going around like, how long Justin Jefferson before he threw his helmet up in his stands? Because they're not targeting him. JJ threw a horrible pick, you know, horrible pick six. You know, that deep out, if you late and inside, he got a reservation for six in the end zone.

49:47Shannon Sharpe:And the next thing you know, Minnesota has seized control of this ballgame. I'm almost certain. The Chicago Bears spent$94 million, excuse me, on offensive linemen. Yeah. They got a new center. They got a new left guard. They got a new right tackle. Oh, Joe, I couldn't tell. No. Caleb Williams was running for his life. If Caleb Williams is not as – if Caleb Williams was Jared Goff, he's sacked 10 times tonight. Easily. Easily. He's running for his life. And I was like, hold on. I thought you and I both, because we talked about this at Ocho, they approved the offensive line. They got Roma Dunze.

50:24Shannon Sharpe:They got DJ Moore. They got Zaccheaus. They got another tight end. They got Cole Komet. Defense seemed to be flying around. And they got Ben Johnson calling plays. DA, Dennis Allen is the new DC. I said, I like Chicago. Rebamped offensive line. Ocho, the offensive line looked the same, if not worse, than what it did last year. Give Minnesota credit. I have to give J.J. McCarthy a lot of credit. Theoretically, he's not a rookie, but last year he got hurt in his rookie season, but this is like his rookie season. To throw a pick six on the road and not get down, Ocho, and to come back and throw two touchdowns and to win this game in your first start, give J.J.

51:05Shannon Sharpe:McCarthy some credit. Yeah, absolutely. Listen, watching this game, I really thought at some point, I thought the Bears were going to run away with this one. I did too. Caleb Williams looked like Houdini back there. Obviously, being able to process dropping back when things don't happen, one of the few quarterbacks in the NFL that can make something out of nothing when things break down. He looked good, made some very good throws. Obviously, once the pick six happened, once the pick six happened, and J.J. left that out route inside, I was like, you know what? Yeah, at this point, this one's over.

51:40This game is over. man JJ kept on plugging he did kept on plugging a play here a play there he also being a dual threat quarterback both of them can move with the ball too yeah for sure yeah both of them can move with the ball man before you know it man we got a ball game baby we got a ball game

52:03Shannon Sharpe:you looking at Ocho you throw that out route you got to be early and outside because even if you late is going to be knocked down at worst. Yeah. No, it'll be knocked down at best. The worst thing that'll happen is a pick six going the other way. But if you late and inside. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. And you got to have an arm. You know, most coaches don't. You throw it from the bar hash all the way out? You got to have an arm. So, obviously, J.J. must got a gun on him for the coaches to be comfortable with him even throwing that ball. But it's all about placement. It's all like you want to miss far rather than miss inside.

52:45Shannon Sharpe:Hey, when he catch that ball, Ocho, he out of bounds. You catch it, you get two feet down, you out of bounds. Yes. Basically, when you throw that, when that joker playing that right foot, that ball need to be in the air because he's running on the speed. Now, he's not stopping, so he's running a speed out. Yeah. So when he hit, so before he hit, that ball got to be in the air. When he speed out, when he 10-rolled a 12, it got a drop in his hands. When his eyes turn back to look for the ball, that ball already got to be in the air. Oh, for sure. That ball got to already be in the air, and he got to catch the eye line of the ball in flight.

53:24Not watch it leaving your hand, because if it's leaving your hand, it's way too late.

53:28Shannon Sharpe:It's way too late. And you see, first of all, Ocho, the dude playing off. Yeah. So once he see now, he ran out and up, he cooked. But you see how hard he drove on that, Ocho? So he knew. He knew. Once he saw Jetta put that foot in the dirt, he said, you're running out of the out. I'm driving this. You got to trust it, though. Because a lot of guys, they hesitate. I don't know. What if it's an out and up? And you know, you might get there to knock it down. He's like, nah, I'm going to trust this. If they got an out and up, coach, oh, well, they got me on this one. That's what I mean. I'm taking this one to the house.

54:06Shannon Sharpe:But Minnesota, I didn't see, I saw no signs of life. Because think about Ochoa. Like I said, the score was 17-6. Yeah. 17-6. And the next thing you know, Minnesota scored 21 unanswered. Chicago got a late touchdown, got a late touchdown to make it 27-24. But I think Minnesota going on the road in a hostile environment, this is a division game. and they're doing it with a rookie quarterback. And for him to put up the stats that he did, it wasn't 13 or 21, 43. They ran the ball 26 times for a buck 20. But for him to go on the road in that environment and to do when things do not – because, Ochoa, if he had got off to a great start, I would have totally understood them winning.

54:53Shannon Sharpe:But it got off to a shaky start. And for him to keep plugging away and keep plugging away, his quarterback coach is Josh McCown. I say within three years, Josh McCown is the head coach. Oh, Josh. What you're over under three years, though, is your head coach. Yeah, probably. Especially with quarterback success. Anytime you coach a specific position and that specific position continues to succeed on whatever team you're coaching. Especially if it's the quarterback. Yeah, you're going to get your opportunity. Yeah. You're definitely going to get your opportunity. He played a long time, you know, back up, made some plays.

55:28Shannon Sharpe:I mean, I think he played like 17, 18 years, don't you? Long time. Yeah, he played a long time. But Minnesota, you got to give Minnesota credit, Jack. Because like I said, I didn't see – I saw nothing that would make me believe that they had a chance to win this game, especially through the first three quarters. I saw nothing. I saw no life, especially offensively. Now, give the defense credit and the D.C., who's the former coach of the Dolphins, give him credit. Because he had those guys flying around. They're making plays. Van Grinkle and Hargrove, those guys were flying around tonight. That's one thing he could do.

56:07Shannon Sharpe:Now, hey, he dialed up that defense. They get after you. He's about to do Vikings. Vikings, D.C. Brian Flores. Flores, yes, yes, Flores. Oh, give him credit. He had those guys playing. Yeah. They were getting pressure with four guys. Occasionally they'll bring extra pressure. but I thought Chicago would be better because they invested in what many thought was a weakness, which is their offensive line. Tooney is an all pro, a pro bowl player. They got Jackson from the Rams. I forget where the center came from, but they got it. And I'm like, damn, are y 'all sure? Yeah. Did y 'all forget how to block?

56:47Shannon Sharpe:Did y 'all have to get how to pass it? Did you get out of run block? I'm like, cause this is, this is a, a, a, a recap of what it was last year. Last night, basically. Hell, J.J. McCarthy, he threw two TDs in less than what, three, four minutes? Yep. Yep. Matter of fact, it's games like this, like what we saw last night and what we saw tonight where people say, oh, man, 1760s, game is over. No, they go do something else, go in the garage and come back in, and the Vikings win the game. Oh, man, hell no. This shit is rigged. Man, you know everything rigged. It's all rigged. And listen, it was surprising to me too, but to actually watch it unfold, I'm like, well, God damn, I see why people say that, but then you think to yourself, no, it ain't rigged because I haven't been out there on that field.

57:39And the momentum, you know when the momentum –

57:41Shannon Sharpe:Hey, when you're home and away, it does not matter. If when you – that's what I try to explain to people, Ocho. Yeah. When you have the momentum, you're going to have it because the momentum is going to swing. you get it they get it you get it they get it they get it how much separation can you put between you and the team when you have the momentum because they're going to get it back at some point absolutely and if you haven't put enough momentum if you haven't put enough space separation they're going to come back and bite you well you would think with that momentum you would think a 17-6 lead is enough is enough space to not lose the game but you have jj come come together in that fourth quarter is like, well, who the hell is?

58:21Shannon Sharpe:Well, if you think about it, Ocho, that's really, that's not, I mean, 17-6, that's really a touchdown, a two-point conversion and a field goal. It's not like the Ravens last night. The Ravens were up 15 with under five minutes to go. And so now, Ocho, you need a touchdown, you need two touchdowns and a two-point conversion just to get even. Yeah. Just to get even. so that was a little bit more formidable especially and it's still like you said it's the fourth quarter right but i thought that was a more of seemingly an insurmountable lead than what we saw tonight but considering you got a rookie yeah who hadn't been doing much that is look no matter what you thought about buffalo that they do have the reigning mvp yeah they do have a guy that you know he can go crazy we haven't seen we haven't seen anything from J.J.

59:13Shannon Sharpe:McCarthy that would make us think that the Minnesota had that in them other than pride other than this was the division rival and we know them they know us because guess what Ben Johnson he was at he was at Detroit last year so offensively even though he's at another team Brian Flores already know what he's gonna run because I've been coaching against this guy for the last two three years so I know what I know who and what he is the only thing changes the color of the uniforms now now uh o 'connell is gonna have to go back and fill out a look at say da and see what he ran when he was in uh new orleans you know maybe pull out some tape when he was the head coach at uh the the raiders or old footage of when he was the dc at denver but for the most part they know this offense they know chicago's offense because they uh flores has been coaching against ben johnson for two to three years but i was i was i was very disappointed in what I saw from Chicago, Ojo.

1:00:13Shannon Sharpe:Offensively. You think so? Yeah. You got two number one. Okay, you got Roman Dunsley, number one pick. You got DJ Moore. You got Cole Komet. You got Zacchaeus. You got Loveland.

1:00:30Shannon Sharpe:And you got the number one pick in the draft. And you rebuilt your offensive line. You spent$94 million. dollars 55 of it goes this year towards that offensive line and the offensive line doesn't look any better yeah you all right you had chicago you say chicago was your surprise team i i did i did you did i mean so you should be surprised also they look like this to me to me i'm not i'm not i'm throwing caution to win simply because it's week one that's all that's all and i've done that you notice when it comes to the week one games yes i haven't been due too crazy The way the Dolphins look, the chance of them actually looking that bad again in back-to-back weeks is slim and none.

1:01:11It's the NFL. So because it's week one, I've given almost every team some grace. Now we get down the road, Duncan, we in week three or week four, and stuff is looking like what we saw tonight, allowing teams to come back from being down in a deficit like that, and they come back and win in the fourth quarter. what happened the other night with Baltimore? Yeah. With the field scoring 16 points in a four-minute span in an NFL game in one quarter? They scored 22 points in the fourth quarter.

1:01:44Shannon Sharpe:They scored 28 in the second half. Yeah. Hey, we talk about in real life, not a video game, real life. Yeah. Josh had like 240-something passing yards, if I'm not mistaken, in the fourth quarter alone. Yeah. He was crazy. But again, week one, I'm going to give the Bears really some grace. Watching Caleb Williams made some good throws, had to run for his life. He had to be Houdini. Yeah, man. Oh, my goodness. Things happen. And I don't know. Joe Tooney would be the captain. Left guard. Yeah, he would be the leader of that offensive line. And I think Jonah Jackson, they got from the Rams. I think Delman or Dahlman.

1:02:28Shannon Sharpe:I'm not sure. I just glanced at his name when he was on the back because it was, you know, you could see it and the next thing you know it was sideways. I couldn't see it because he was chasing somebody that was going by. But this is not what Ben Johnson envisioned. Like you said, it is the first game, but I just thought I would see more. I would see better from what I saw from the Chicago Bears. But give Minnesota credit. They go on the road basically with a rookie quarterback, and they get a very hard-fought division win. So they're tied with Green Bay. I want to know what top the division, and the Bears and the Lions are 0-1.

1:03:11Shannon Sharpe:They're at the bottom of the division. Oh.

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