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24:00Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, but I thought Jordan Love, I mean, he made a couple of plays like, okay. But other than that, I can't be mad at him. I really can't because, I mean, he's only in his fifth year and he's still there some things that he can clean up. But on that fourth down, when he threw that ball to Golden, he had some mustard on that. Oh, yeah, he did. He had some steam on it. Yeah, he did. But I thought he played really, really well. I thought Jacob ran the ball hard. He started making people miss on a couple of those runs. I was like, damn, somebody going to need some ankle transplants because he tearing people's ankles up left and right.

24:30Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, he was. Javante Williams, now you see him another year removed from that ACL surgery. He's starting to look like that Carolina Javante Williams, dragging people, making people miss. Hey, he was toting that rock, boy. I mean, I don't see any signs of him having an ACL injury based on his performance and the way he ran the ball tonight. Yes. Being able to cut and jump stop and all that and coming to balance and exploding. I'm like, well, God damn, what? I think Ocho had the game not gotten so, you know, they could have ran him more. Right. But they fell behind and so, you know, we want to get – Got to play catch up.

25:10Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. But I think – you know what? I think blocking that PAT, Ocho, gave them a life because they were a different team after they blocked that PAT than before because Green Bay was kind of having their way with them. And then they blocked that PAT and got a jolt of life, and the next thing you know, they're right back in the ballgame. Give the Cowboys a lot of credit. Like I said, I don't think, you know, look, this is only four games into the season, but the likelihood of you getting to the destination that you want to end up at and you start 1-3 isn't very good. It's not likely. 1-2-1, it still gives you a chance because you still get the Eagles.

25:45Shannon Sharpe:You still got two games against the Giants. You got two games against the Commanders, and you have another game against the Eagles, and you have your out-of-conference, your out-of-conference, your out-of-division games. So we'll see how that shapes out. Offensively, I think they're good. My concern is defense, Ojo. I just don't know if giving up 40 points, Ojo, at home? You giving up 40 points at home? Yeah. Yeah. Hey, shit. They gave up 40 also. Galva gave up 40 that first round of playoffs. Remember a few years ago now? Oh, yeah. Well, they gave up 40. I think they gave up 48 then. But this is the thing.

26:23This is the good side of things. Not only are you missing CeeDee Lamb and everyone else stepping up and trying to make up for the production that CeeDee Lamb would have had, but they also scored. Okay, you gave up 40, but you're scoring 40. So, offensively, you're playing extremely well. and the defensive side of the ball just has to find a way to catch up. Find a way to catch up. Find a way to get one or two stops in those four quarters. That would have made a difference in the game.

26:51Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, but can't – I mean, there haven't been very many defenses that you can just say, hey, go hunt with four, and they go attack the quarterback. Right. It's been very few. Now, it's been done. Yeah. But it's been very few times. The Eagles last year could get home with four. and they would play coverage. Fangio does not like to sacrifice that back end, and he had those big hogs, and they could collapse the pocket inside with Davis and Carter, and then those edge guys were screaming off the edge, and they would rotate them, and they could go eight deep, and they just go, just go, go, go, go. But I don't see that with the Cowboys.

27:29Shannon Sharpe:I'm not seeing that. Sam Williams came back. He looked good. They had a few guys that flashed. Yeah. But I think in order for the Cowboys to play this style of defense, man, you're asking an awful lot for your secondary, man. Because like you said, they're expanding to an area. Well, I'm just going to go sit down in an area where you vacated. Every time. And that foe got to get it. But this is the thing you got to understand, Unc. You have to have the personnel to be able to do it. He's not blitzing for a reason. Yeah. Because he doesn't want to expose the back end. Hell, you're only missing four and the back end is still exposed.

28:07Thank you.

28:08Shannon Sharpe:You're only bringing four, I mean. Excuse me. But that's his style of play. If you look at him when he was the head coach when he was at Indy. Yeah. What did he do? That's his style of play. Yeah. You go watch him when he was in Chicago. He's the head coach. Look at his style of play. Now you look at him. This is who he is. Yeah, same way. Now, on the flip side, you go look at Kansas City. Anytime Kansas City, when he gets threatened, what are you going to do? He'll heat you up. I'm coming to get you. You get down to his area, he'll come get you. Yeah. That's not. And honestly, this is what makes Spag's defense so good.

28:52Yes. He has the personnel to be able to do and execute exactly what he needs you to do. The game they had, we'll get to that. I don't want to go too much into it.

29:01Shannon Sharpe:but uh a 40 point tie i mean i mean i'm trying to think have i ever time no i've never i've never tied a game so i don't know how i would feel i just know i look it's kind of like playing cards you know what i'm saying don't show it's like and you get a push i didn't sit down at the blackjack table to push i sat down to win yeah so i guess i guess it's like pushing you know what i'm saying I didn't lose no money, but I didn't win money. I didn't sit down there to say, okay, yeah, push. No, bro, I'm trying to win something. But I guess in this situation, I don't know how to feel. I've never been in this situation before.

29:41Shannon Sharpe:Have you ever had a tie game in your career? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. But listen, if I played for the Cowboys, if I played for the Packers, I would feel good. You didn't lose, huh? Yeah, I'd feel good I didn't lose. I'd be upset we didn't win the game. But we have some great things we have to build off of. Defensively, we need to work. Offensively, they could take the day off. Offense, y 'all could take Monday and Tuesday off. Defense, we'll see y 'all here in the film room Monday night. Matter of fact, even on Tuesday, on your off day Tuesday, bring your ass in here again. Yeah.

30:17Shannon Sharpe:But that game did some numbers. Oh, yeah. I can imagine. This is probably going to be the highest rated Sunday night game they've had in quite some time. Maybe about$28 million,$29 million. Yeah. Yeah. That Ryan, yeah. That Ryan. It's the Cowboys. It's a close game. Yeah. It was back and forth in the fourth quarter. It goes into overtime. So, yeah, it peaked. I'll agree with you, Ocho. I'm saying 28. Yeah. Probably. I like it. But the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys, they needed, what, 70 minutes, and they still couldn't determine the winner. They have a tie. 40-40. Jordan Love was 31 of 43, 337, and three touchdowns, no interceptions.

30:58Shannon Sharpe:Dak Preps got 31 of 43, 19, three touchdowns, no interceptions. I mean, you look at it, 500 yards for the – almost 500 yards of offense for the Packers. Yeah. A little over 400 for the Cowboys, but they played to a 40-40 tie and onward and upward. Mm-hmm. Oh, Cho. Yo. The game you just alluded to. Lamar Jackson leads the Ravens. Oh, yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Before you even start. Before you even start. Now, what I'm going to need you to do. I don't want to hear you say foot or ball. You've been talking about the Ravens is your team. And I told you was only there for two weeks. But you eluded and wanted to be adamant about the Ravens being your team.

31:49I need you to keep that same energy that you have for Joe Burrow when things aren't going well with Joe, especially last year. Keep that same energy for eight, for that Pompano legend with today's performance. Now I'm going to let you go, and at any point I feel you shucking and jiving, I'm going to interrupt. But go ahead.

32:13Shannon Sharpe:Go ahead. Keep that same energy. Your day coming tomorrow around this time. I just want you to know your day coming. Hey, listen. You're going to be real sad if you go 0 for 2. You got one team lost today, and your other team going to lose tomorrow. It won't be 2. It won't be 2. All right. Lamar Jackson leaves the Ravens in a 37-20 loss to the Chiefs with hamstring issues. Baltimore is now 1-3 for the first time since 2015 and two games behind the Steelers in the AFC North. Ocho, how much trouble are the Ravens and Lamar Jackson in as we currently speak? Boy, them boys in hella trouble. You hear me?

32:57They in hella trouble. They in a lot of trouble. For one, I'm not even going to talk about the injuries first. I just want to talk about the defense. They can't stop nobody. They can't stop the run. They can't stop the pass. They can't stop Nathaniel. Nothing outside of that. The good thing for the Baltimore Ravens, you're not facing the Kansas City Chiefs every week. So offensively, you're probably going to be very good against everybody else. With Spags dialed up today, pressure, pressure, pressure. We're not going to allow Lamar to sit back there and have his way. Not only that, when he does drop back, when he is in the shotgun, we're going to have a spine.

33:39Matter of fact, we're going to blitz and have a spine. Because I trust my back end to be able to handle their business and doing what they need to do. And it worked numbers. It was phenomenal. The game plan that Spagg came in with defensively worked phenomenal.

33:59Shannon Sharpe:I'm trying to figure out what Baltimore – look, Spagg has a history. If he feels threatened, he's going to blitz you. Yeah. You get down to his territory, he's going to blitz you. Uh-huh. You know this. It seems like the Ravens – everybody knows this except the Ravens. Now, they really – They had no answer for it. It's been a while. They had no answer. They did not. They did not. That offensive line, Ronnie Staley went out, and so now you got a backup fan at the most important position at the left tackle. Your right guard isn't playing up the snuff, and so now you're weakened in two areas. Yeah.

34:37Shannon Sharpe:You really couldn't get into your run game. Look, they had 166 yards on 17 carries, but 71 of that came when the game was out of reach uh justice uh justice hill yeah cracked off one um but you're able to neutralize derrick henry he only had eight carries for 42 yards yeah he's not that kind of back that can give you that kind of now he's more like as he gets going now he can pop off one oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but he can pop off but this is what you this is what you see from the chief defense goddamn super bowl we think of saquon gonna have a day what Spag said oh no no no no if anybody's gonna beat us it ain't gonna be 26 you gotta be the ball well hell if you're coming into a game like this like like like today what's the first thing you say well we taking two people out we taking two we not we taking two but we knock two birds with one stone we're gonna spy Lamar Jackson on path downs and blitz at the same time and anything with Derrick Henry uh-uh we got to see you we got to have that you won't be breaking off nothing a man and boy were laying that wood out there today what if you go back and look at how teams have beaten the chiefs in the postseason throw the ball first time they lost with patrick mahomes as their quarterback what did tom brady do go back and look at tom brady numbers yeah you go back and look at joe burrow they threw the ball yeah you go back and look you look at tampa in the superbowl they threw the ball yeah you've got to be able to throw the ball because spags got you got to take something away.

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40:15Shannon Sharpe:You run it, now he can't focus on what he needs to focus on. Your quarterback has to be up to par, and he has to beat you throwing the football. And you can't turn it over. Can't turn it over. You got to protect the ball against Spags if you want to beat it. Yeah. Lamar was 14 to 21, 47, one touchdown, one interceptions. He fumbled one. Got a little got hit from the back. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I need the same energy you have for Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow ain't played. I'm not. No, no, no. Joe, when Joe, when we lose, you have all this energy and Joe should have did this and Joe can't turn the ball over and Joe can't do that.

41:02I need you to have the same energy you have for Joe for Lamar. Okay. Hey, Lamar, that's my dog, right? Did he take himself out the game today or was he hurt? Hamstring. Huh? It was reported that he has a hamstring injury. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Well, I need you to be very critical of your team. That's your team, right? That's one of my teams, yes. I'm trying to make sure. The energy is not adding up based on the way you were talking yesterday. Okay?

41:31Shannon Sharpe:Hello. Did you expect the Ravens to beat Kansas City in Kansas City? Oh, is that what we're doing? Is that what we're doing? No, I'm just asking. So we're saying that the Ravens can't win on the road? Is that what you're telling me? Yeah, they can. Are you making excuses? No. The Chiefs are 1-3, huh? The Chiefs are 1-3. And the Ravens are 1-6 now against the Chiefs. Hold on. Hold on. Let me finish. Let me cook. Let me cook. Lamar Jackson is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, and he's still active. Yes. Yes. I expect Lamar Jackson and that defense that once was feared at one point to go in there and be able to beat the goddamn Chiefs.

42:13Yes, I do. They got Lamar Jackson and they got Derrick Henry. I expect it.

42:19Shannon Sharpe:Think about it. So last year, they had Lamar Jackson, and he was the MVP, and the defense was better than that. Yeah. And Kansas City came into their building. Yeah. In the AFC Championship game, what happened? Because what we have seen is that what happened today, Ocho, Ocho, Lamar turned the ball over twice. Yeah, okay. You're not going to be the Chiefs. You heard what you just said? I need you to say that. I need you to say it. I need you to get his death. we're both breaking out of games you can see no no no no people want me to let you talk so i was trying to let you talk hold on i need you to do eight like you do joe you and you be and you be real hyped you be real enthusiastic you'd be real passionate about the reason we lost and could joe turn the ball over he needs more no well you you lost for two the same reason the same reason the the bingos lose is the same reason the ravens lose is because lamar turned the ball over okay the defense up.

43:19Okay, okay. I just wanted to hear it out your mouth.

43:21Shannon Sharpe:But you know, I'm not breaking news. Excuse me. Let me interrupt your normally scheduled programming to break this news. Hey, you want me to give you an Amber Alert? The Baltimore Ravens defense isn't very good. We haven't seen Patrick Mahomes look like this in a very long time. All season. I don't know if we've seen him look like 25 or 37 274 touchdowns. When was the last time we saw him throw for four touchdowns. We haven't seen this Patrick Mahomes in an extremely long time. And he looked very, very comfortable. They ran the ball. They did a worthy. Pacheco ran hard. Kareem Hunt came in. He got some big time games.

44:04Shannon Sharpe:Hold on. Talk about Taekwon now. Hey, let me tell y 'all something. I don't know if y 'all noticed this, but if you want to have a good game, y 'all come on and talk to Uncle Troll and Nightcap. Everybody that comes on the show, for some reason they go crazy. Melissa Jefferson. They go crazy. Taquan. Rashawn Gary. Going crazy. Henley. Hey, I'm just saying. I tell you. Hey, matter of fact, all the Ravens fans out there, man, make sure y 'all check on butter. Make sure butter's straight. I mean, think, Ocho. I mean, the Chiefs hadn't scored 35. When was the last time the Chiefs scored 35 points?

44:43Shannon Sharpe:You probably got to go all the way back to 23. 23? I don't think they've scored 30. Speaking of 30 and 35 points, last year when the Chiefs were playing games, the games they're losing this year, those are the games that they won. They're losing to close games. They're losing all the close games. This is the first time the Chiefs have looked like the Chiefs have old in a very long time. Very long time, yes. Very long time. Because they were all in one score game. Remember Ocho? One score game. A field goal. They win by one. They win by two. They win by three. They went by four. They were all these one score games.

45:16Shannon Sharpe:This is the first time that they've won by, I mean, a comfortable margin. Yeah.

45:25Shannon Sharpe:So the last time they scored more than 30 was against the Raiders in November of 23. So almost two years. Damn. That's what the Ravens defense has allowed Kansas City to do. Right. So in almost two years since they scored more than 30, they just go in there and made it look easy. Yeah. Well, this is the funny thing. I know I'm being funny about the Ravens. You know I love my Bengals, but the Ravens are going to be okay. As bad as their defense is, their identity is not their defense. Their identity is their offense. As long as you have number eight, it's no different than when we talk about the Buffalo Bills.

46:05It's no different than we talk about the Bengals. Obviously, Joe Burrow is out. But as long as you have eight, you're going to always be in contention. I don't care if you're 1-3. I don't care if you're 1-4. Their team is so good offensively and can score 30, can score 40, can put up 28 a game. It's just you're playing. You're not playing against the Kansas City Chiefs every day. You're not playing against Spags or a defense like that every single day. Other teams you're going to play aren't going to have the personnel that say, we're going to blitz and have a goddamn spot. That's not the makeup of other teams.

46:37So that's how I know the Ravens are going to be okay. But right now they're down in the dumps. As a matter of fact, they fans so fickle, huh? The fans throwing jerseys all in the trash. They're making fun of Lamar. You know, Lamar is like, come on, man. Y 'all come on, man.

46:54Shannon Sharpe:This is what we do. The very thing that we criticize Josh Allen for, playing great, but he had turnovers and he couldn't overcome them. His defense, and we blamed everybody. At what point in time did we say, Lamar, you got to stop turning the ball over? we did this for Josh Allen for years because Josh Allen would play great. He would throw an interception in the end zone. He would follow the ball trying to do too much. Go back and look at Lamar in the games that he's lost. Yeah. Especially big, big games. Look at his turnovers. Yeah. Look at Kansas City in the championship. Look at Buffalo. Today, one pick, one fumble.

47:39Shannon Sharpe:when your defense is as inept as it is the last thing you want to do is put them back on the field i want to i want them to play as little as possible yeah that's the thing what the cowboys are up against as good as the cowboys offense is unfortunately you got to play you got to put your defense back on the field and i want them to play as little as possible so guess what happens I turn the ball over I break Joe Burrell knows about this I turn the ball over I gotta put the team the unit that I least want to be on the field back on the field now I don't know what's gonna happen I don't advocate anything but I just think the thing is is that I don't know what Zach Orr is calling I don't know what's going on whoa whoa whoa whoa this is what we will not do what we will not blame that the all the defensive coordinator for the woes and the struggles of the defense because them boys they got back there wiggins marlon humphrey kyle hamilton who they just paid 237 trillion dollars no y 'all got to get it done a wosie whatever the coach a woozy a woozy whatever whatever the coach call a woozy You got to ask you.

48:59Shannon Sharpe:Hold on. That's the woozy from the Cowboys. He played with Cincinnati. Wasn't he in Cincinnati? That's all the men. They call him first down. Because you throw the ball on him. It's the first down. That's what they call him. Hey. He's on the Ravens now. But he was with Cincinnati. Wasn't he with the Cowboys also? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. On first down. Yeah. Yeah. I know first down. That's his nickname. You call him first down? Throw it on him. First down.

49:35Shannon Sharpe:oh joe the thing is is that they can't their two best pass rushers are out so with that being said now wiggins and humphrey and hamilton you need i don't care how great your secondary is without pressure their secondary will become average oh yeah absolutely with With great pressure, an average secondary can look great. Great, yeah. Man, Ocho, the problem in that we saw this with Joe Burr, and we saw this with Josh Allen, and I was the main one. I'll be the first to say, I said, yeah, the defense isn't good. But what about those turnovers? So what role did throwing an interception in the end zone and you don't get a chance on first down, or you throw an interception on second down, and you don't get a crack at third down or you don't get a crack to kick a field goal.

50:29Shannon Sharpe:What role did that play? Okay, you turned the ball over in negative territory. What role did that play in you losing the game? It's easy to say, well, they gave up 40 points. Did any of those turnovers help them get to that 40-point total? Absolutely. Absolutely. So you know what that tells you? Your Ravens is not as good as you thought they were because you was talking cash, you know what, before the season started. about the AFC North come through the Ravens. I told you. It damn sure ain't going through Cincinnati. The AFC North is going through Cincinnati. As a matter of fact, and just to put a stamp on it so we can dot our I's and cross our T's, when we beat your team tomorrow night, I want you to come on here.

51:11I want you to apologize to me, and I want you to apologize to everybody in the chat, and I want you to say Ocho was always right. Because I told you what was going to happen. Don't get that Ravens helmet please Don't do that

51:30Oh Oh Tonight is Denver huh Oh tonight is Denver Rock on country stand up

51:43Last night it was Raven this It was Raven that It was Lamar Jackson It was Derrick Henry What happened huh

51:51Shannon Sharpe:what happened they lost Ocho okay okay well I need I need you say they're not in trouble what is Cooper Rush gonna do if Lamar Jackson miss any time what is Cooper Rush going to do hey y 'all might y 'all might the season probably over for y 'all man that is what you just said you just said they're gonna be okay I said as long as Lamar Jackson is playing you're gonna be okay there are a few there are a few teams in the nfl that can dig themselves out of a hole a one and three hole a one and four hole no one and three now the baltimore raven could do that offensively but you do realize so they're one and three yeah in order in order to go to get to 500 you got to win two games in a row so you win two games in a row that's five so what happens if you go one and one what happens if you go oh and two cooper rush you're not winning your defense isn't playing up to great up the standards with lamar and quarterback what the hell you think they're going to do lamar uh cooper rush is not going to get you anything with those legs hey i i uh a wise man once told me he told me that cooper rush was a very good quarterback i don't know who told you that his name jerry man please i listen i'm not telling you what i'm not telling you what i know i'm telling you what i heard also said that michael michael ain't win no super bowls we didn't win no super bowl with michael jerry y 'all ain't won a super bowl in michael's lifetime so what the hell you talking about you ain't winning no super bowl with him you haven't won a Super Bowl in this man's lifetime.

53:32Shannon Sharpe:Oh, man. Nobody thought, the only person that thought Cooper Rush was good was Jerry. Nobody thought it was good because when he became a free agent, nobody put a bid out there for him. Right. Oh, I remember Troy. Troy said, oh, he's going to be a hot commodity on the free agent market. No, he's not.

53:52Shannon Sharpe:Maybe that was, you know, because a lot of times they'll do that now. These guys that call the game, they'll put that bug out there. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, he did play the game, and he studied the game, and he knows. No, no, if you watch, watch the games closely. Yeah. Just pay attention. Watch them. They're not. It was Zeke running. They had to play outstanding defense, and Zeke had to run the ball, and they gave him easy stuff. But now, if Lamar Jackson can't go, they're going to be dependent? Yeah, on the defense. or Cooper Rush. I don't understand why you get a guy that's so vastly different than Lamar.

54:32Shannon Sharpe:I understand there is no Lamar Jackson, but Ocho gets something similar. There is nothing similar. Well, we talk about number eight. We talk about Pompano's finest. There's nothing like that. So that offense has to change drastically. The offense has to change drastically because Cooper Rush, what Cooper Rush can do is nothing compared to Lamar Jackson. So the playbook is going to shrink like this. So you shrink. So let me ask you a question. So you shrink the playbook and then they look for the offense to be more explosive while trying to minimize your defense exposure. How does that work? Hey, listen, I don't know.

55:12Harbaugh won't have to figure that one out. But you better hope whatever's wrong with Lamar's hamstring is not significant. And it's day to day. Let's hope. I'm hoping because I want to see Lamar out there on the field. I'm a Ravens fan. I enjoy the game of football and I enjoy watching one of them. You're a Lamar fan.

55:29Shannon Sharpe:You ain't no Ravens fan. Oh my bad. That's what I meant to say. But I love the Ravens fans though. They've always been good to me and I've been good to them. So technically I'm a Ravens fan because I love their fans. But I'm a Lamar fan and I really want him to play. I don't want him to miss no time. I don't want him to miss no time at all because he's exciting to watch. the Ravens defense is allowing an NFL worst 33.3 points per game already entered Sunday's game without four starters the Ravens are now 7 and 11 including the playoffs when Lamar turns the ball over multiple times after no turnovers in his first three games Lamar threw an interception and then fumbled when he ran into the back of Tyler Lindenbaum um Ravens safety Kyle Hamilton on the one and three to start.

56:20Shannon Sharpe:I just want to apologize to the fan. The product that we're putting on the field right now is not up to par to what the Ravens have been in the past and in the recent past. We're trying our best to correct it, but obviously something's wrong. Hey, man, Tim, man, listen. The Ravens defense, the Ravens offense, the coaching staff, they need to apologize to the fans and they need to apologize to the number one fan, Butter, but I know you're probably watching, boy. I apologize. I'm sorry. y 'all just ain't it this year the AFC North will be run through Cincinnati through the 5-1-3 and we ain't even got Joe Burrow but we gonna whoop y 'all and we go with the Broncos tomorrow night I can tell you that we gonna sack him probably about five times sack who?

57:07Shannon Sharpe:Jake Brownie sack him with who? with what? not with our offensive line if you crazy what? man please Boy, it's Monday night. It's Monday night. Jake Brown, and they never lost a game on Monday night. Never played one either. He did when Joe Burrow was out. That was Thursday. Same thing. Monday, Thursday, it's all the same because we're the only ones on TV. After getting Xavier Werther back on the field, Chiefs had their biggest scoring day in more than two years. Ocho, is the offense finally on track? In just one game. In just one game. But they look good. but Xavier Worthy, Juju Smith, Pacheco, toting that thing today.

57:51They didn't have a running game the past four weeks, three weeks, excuse me. But today, they had a running game for some reason. That addition to Tyquan Thornton showing his value, just getting there, making plays. Every time he threw a ball, it's a touchdown. Every time he touched the ball, it's a touchdown. So they look good. Now the offense is catching up to where the defense is. now the Chiefs are starting to look like the Chiefs of old. But can they string it together? Can they do it back-to-back weeks?

58:22Shannon Sharpe:Who they got next week?

58:26Shannon Sharpe:Man, stop playing. He looked good. I mean, they got speed galore. Xavier Worthy can run. Tyquan Thornton can fly. Hollywood Brown can fly. The Ravens play the Texans. Who did the Chiefs play?

58:45Shannon Sharpe:and they still the Jags in Jacksonville or in Kansas City okay that'll be a very good game where they playing at in Jacksonville Sunday right yeah

58:58Shannon Sharpe:okay okay that's how you know they get they get they get Rasheed Rice back after what six games or seven games? Six. Once they get him back, especially if they start hitting their stride after this game and continue that same momentum and then Rasheed Rice come back, man, listen, man. Yeah. Boy. But they look good. This is the best the Chiefs offensive look in a very, very long time. Yeah, long time. Patrick Mahomes look comfortable. He still, I mean, he hit one deep ball to Worthy. Yeah. But that deep ball ain't what it like. When he was hitting that deep ball, when he had Tyreek, he get back on that level with these guys because he got speed.

59:43Shannon Sharpe:Hey, pick a side. Yeah. Pick one. Let it rip. Because Worthy can fly. Thornton can fly. Rasheed Rice, he and Trav going to be working the middle. Hollywood. That's going to be crazy. Oh, the Jags play Kansas City on Monday night. Wow. Next week? Next week they play Monday night, Ocho. In Jacksonville? Yep. I'm going to go to that game. I'm going to do the show from Jacksonville. I'm going to go to that game. Damn, man. Hey, listen, the Chiefs, quietly, they got a little 4-by-1 team. I don't know who's going to run that fourth leg, but the first three legs fast as hell. Rasheed Rice. I'm going to let Rasheed Rice win.

1:00:27Shannon Sharpe:Because you got Thornton. You got three guys that run four. Hollywood ran 4-2. Oh, yeah, absolutely. That boy's a fan. Thornton ran 4-2. Xavier ran 4-2-1. Pick anybody. Hell, let Mahomes run second league.

1:00:44Shannon Sharpe:They got speed to burn, don't you? They do. I think Rasheed Rice ran 4-4, so he good. All I know, ain't a team trotting out three receivers, three players that cannot run those guys. Nah. I don't give a damn what you got on your team. Nah. you ain't charting out three guys that can outrun Thornton, Hollywood, and Xavier Worthy that ain't happening as fast as they are they just have to make sure it shows up not only on film but in the games where they play everything should be it should look explosive when Tyree catches the ball he just looked so much faster than everybody else it's just different I don't know how to explain it but see he compact.

1:01:34Shannon Sharpe:See he's short. Man Thornton's tall. Thornton's like 6 '2". Yeah. The Giants earned their first win of the season beating the Chargers 21-18 rookie quarterback Jackson Dart in his first career start. Completed 13 of 20 passes, 111 yards, a touchdown, no interception. But the Giants lost Malik Nabors in the second quarter to what is believed to be an ACL injury. Excuse me. Odell Beckham tweeted after the neighbor's injury, their NFL. I mean, this with the utmost love and respect. We the NFL take all precautions in the world with everything else when it comes to players health and safety. Please, please, please get rid of this turf.

1:02:17Shannon Sharpe:Thank you in advance. Love respect. And, you know, I love the Giants, but death life has taken too many talented players away from the game. I know it's not all turf's fault, but maybe it's where we've got to go. we've gotten all research done to turn state it's the highest quality as possible. At least we can start that discussion. Ocho, we're looking at from 2025, there have been at least 16 documented ACL and Achilles injuries at MetLife Stadium. Aaron Rodgers, Achilles, Jalen Phillips, Achilles, Nick Bosa, ACL, Malik Nabors, suspected ACL. What you thinking, Ocho? Nothing. nothing at all I played on that same turf I played in that same turf at their goddamn Cincinnati I played in the same turf for 11 goddamn years ain't got nothing to do with no goddamn turf if it was grass if something's gonna pull if something's gonna pop it's gonna pop regardless of what the surface is that's below you it doesn't matter it had nothing to do I mean we got to get that out our mind we got to get that out of mind oh we're suffering these injuries because of the surface we're playing on no that's coming from within that's within that's the ground the ground has nothing to do with that at all i'm just being honest it doesn't it had no correlation at all people may get people get acls and achilles on on regular grass it's the same thing but are they having with the same frequency oh come on man it so let me ask you a question let me ask you a question has no bearing well so why have there been so many ACL and Achilles injuries in that stadium specifically I mean why I mean let's say that stadium specifically right why have there been so many ACL and Achilles injuries in general why is it risen not just in MetLife just in general maybe because there's a lot more of these stadiums that have this synthetic turf no that has nothing to do with it because sometimes people aren't even being touched some of these are non-contact injuries yeah no it had nothing to do with it well that's what the studies so but see you don't believe in studies and science anyway and that's the problem we keep worrying about science it's science that's why everybody getting hurt that's why that's the problem we listen to these people that never played the fucking game oh my bad my bad i'm sorry we're listening to these people that are experts on what we're supposed to consume and put in our bodies that have never played any sport at the highest level and know what it takes to be able to play a four-quarter game in a barbaric sport where we're running to each other 30 miles an hour but yeah eat this green stuff it's healthy for you it's going to help you no for some reason everybody's continue to get hurt soft hitch injury this achilles quads hamstrings everything blowing out.

1:05:18Something has to give. And we blame it on injuries. I mean, we blame it on turf. No goddamn turf. When y 'all played, y 'all played on concrete. Y 'all played on concrete with carpet laid over top of it.

1:05:33Shannon Sharpe:With no problems. The end of Wendell Carter's career. He tore both patella tendons in bed. Come on, man. Look, I just think the thing is that if you know if you if you know more you should do more and i think there's a reason why so in other words so let me ask you a question talk to me so why did they kick this kickoff out if it doesn't hurt guys gonna get hurt anyway so why so why not continue to run down there and let guys run into each other oh the nfl covering the ass okay we'll cover wait don't you want to cover your ass with these injuries hold on hold on hold on listen to me real quick we're trying to prevent the collisions from so far apart.

1:06:12So we're going to shrink it down, right? Because we lost a lawsuit to what, what, three generations ago?

1:06:20Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, in early 2000. Yeah, three generations. Or three eras, three eras ago. We lost a billion dollar lawsuit. Three, you know what I'm trying to say. We don't want to have that happen again. So what are we going to do? We're going to take precautions. Anyone that gets hurt we're going to continue to throw flag we're going to continue to find you so you don't come back 10 years later from now trying to sue us saying well my head or this is messed up because of these circumstances that we had back then that's what the NFL is doing I think the thing is uh is that the NFL the product suffers when your best players aren't on the field there's a reason why that you can't hit the quarterback below the knee.

1:07:03Right.

1:07:05Shannon Sharpe:Trent Green suffered the exact same injury on their very similar play, and they didn't change the rule. It wasn't until Tom Brady. Yes. And they call it the Brady rule. Yeah. There have been a lot of quarterbacks that got hit in the knee and got hurt. Yeah. But it was, I just think, look, Look, I think if you know more, you should do more. You don't believe in science. You don't go to the doctor. Oh, yeah. I mean, I go to the doctor. Why? Because I have to. He ain't never played no sport. How do you know how to treat your body? Because I can't check myself. No, but I'm saying he don't play sports.

1:07:48Shannon Sharpe:I got to make sure I'm healthy. But why? You don't listen to no nutritionist. I don't. So why would you listen to a doctor? Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Listen to me. Listen to me. I don't listen to nobody that does studies and tells me what I need to put in my body to play the game of football at the highest level. Why would you tell you what you should put in your body to heal your body? So why would you do that? Well, hold on. Hold on. You I need better context. I need better context. Would you listen to anybody to say you need to put this medicine in your body so you can feel better? so you won't be sick so you won't have a sore throat why would you listen whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa my sore throat is because of the ac and i don't know ac i'm just asking you a simple question you need me answer let me answer okay i don't take medicine for one let's start there okay that's all i will say so you say you're the way to say you go to the doctor to take medicine no i didn't say that i said a checkup you don't we gotta go why are you why are you going to get check up because we owe you don't you're not gonna listen to what he says anyway so why do you care no because he has to let me know if everything is okay with me we gotta get a check out joe why do you care you're not going to listen to him oh we gotta get a checkup every man and why do you have to get a checkup when you're not gonna listen to what he says because we're in our 50s uncle we have to what are you talking about you don't have to yeah we do did your mom get check up did your grandma get check up no they didn't the whole people didn't get no checkup i'm asking you if you're not going to listen to what the doctor says why are you going to get checked up why do you even why do you even have medical it makes you everything is okay with me why so i can know so you just want to know you're not gonna do anything about it so why you want to know because i'm supposed to go get a checkup every six months you don't do that why do you need a checkup when you're not going to listen to what the doctor says to help you feel better make you feel better or be healthier why are you going well for one this is the good thing right so every time i go do my checkup there's nothing wrong with me so really there's nothing for the doctors told me i need to do because i always feel good okay so i'm good but you're going for some reason because i have to do my checkup every single you don't have to there is no law that says you have to go get a checkup where's the law what do you mean they said it in school once you hit 40 you got to get to check up they said a lot of things in school they said study and do your homework you ain't listen to that no because i wanted to play football i ain't kidding i wasn't no scholar yeah but then you found out you know what i got to study and do my homework to play football i did i did i did yeah yeah let's get a little bit of a Jackson Dart is the first quarterback since Patrick Mahomes to lead their team to an 80 plus yard drive on the first drive of their first career start.

1:10:45Shannon Sharpe:Ocho, the moment didn't look too big for him. No, absolutely not. Look, it's the first game. Look, you and I are not going to start. We're not going to get a parade going. Right. But what we will do is that we saw flashes and we saw glimpses of him in preseason. He looked good. Yeah. Like Ocho, he looked good. And I was like, Ocho, over under eight weeks of Russ. Right. I said, I'm going to take the under and I'm not so sure it's going to be four it's going to be much longer than four or five weeks right also I was you and I was talking I said oh if it's me I'm going to start him at home against the Chargers right I'm not going to start him on the road in the Saints in that building that noise on I'm going to start him in my building because I know at least for the first game the crowd is going to be on his side and they won't boo him yeah but he he looked he He looked good.

1:11:34Shannon Sharpe:Now, it hurts that he's not going to have his most talented player on the offensive side of football joining him. But he looked good. Very good. Very good. What did you like about what you saw from him? Listen, not only did they run the offense, right, even with Malik Nevers going out, he still looked good. Obviously, he plays a call offensively. Seeing him use his legs on some of those third downs and get those first downs and being able to play off script outside of the scheme and the plays of the call is what I was most excited about. I think about the difference between him and Russell Wilson.

1:12:08Obviously, Russell being in there, being able to stand in the pocket, and he doesn't have that ability to be a dual threat as he once was when he was in Seattle. So having that addition of Jackson Dart, being able to come in, drop back, being in the shotgun, being able to go through his reads and not see anything there and be able to pull that thing down and take off, and not only he taking hey boy he can run huh? yeah he can run he got legs I ain't know he was fast like that I'm not saying Lamar Jackson nothing like that but young Bull got wheels on him

1:12:41Shannon Sharpe:yeah he can run and I like Scattaboo running the football Scattaboo remind me of Peyton Hillis he does he does he absolutely does or All-Star Mike All-Star remember All-Star from Tampa All-Star nice but Peyton Hillis and Scattaboo got a little bit more wiggle to him know yeah he got a little more wiggle to him yeah uh let's see here giants i mean oh man i thought big guy i thought uh uh dex i thought sexy dexie you you know he gonna go low man get that hey hit him with that hazmat balls and get that all down and get him off we got to get dex to work on that stiff arm if he got in the end zone you know that's a big man dream an interception a pick a pick hey boy I think the stadium would have erupted if he would have if he would have got past that and hurt it over that that tackle but that would have been nice boy they did a great job of getting after Herbert yes Thibodeau Burns uh abdul carter sexy dexy those guys did a great job yeah of putting pressure on it um he never really felt comfortable give them credit give them credit they got they they they got after they got out they got after justin herbert um and he finally he finally looked mortal because he had been playing out of his mind the first three games he had played out of his mind Yeah, crazy.

1:14:17Shannon Sharpe:But today, he looked like a mere mortal. And my young boy over there on the other side who's been having some struggles, Quentin Johnston. Yeah, yeah. Looking like that boy. Looking like how he's supposed to be. Now that confidence is set in, he's stringing games like this, back to back to back. And for him, it's only up from there. I just want to give him his praise because we've been down on him because his recent – He had some drops. Yeah, he struggled early. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, hey, Quinn Johnson, boy, I know you're going to see this, boy. Boy, you that boy. Keep going, boy. Keep going.

1:14:53Keenan Allen look good. Yeah. Keenan Allen, Keenan Allen. We already know what he can do. We know what he can do. So we just picking up where he left off. Hampton.

1:15:03Shannon Sharpe:Hampton had 12 for$1.28. Hey, boy, he was toting that thing. What? Mm-hmm. And can. Yeah, he was nice. He was nice. Yeah, but Scat Pack. Scat Pack go, hey, hey. Hey, he get a couple hundred yard game, he and Jackson Dart go on to City. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Listen, if Dodge was smart, they'd be doing a commercial, a scat pack commercial with Scatterbow. It only makes sense. It only makes sense. I need 3 % if that happened to Scatterbow. Hey, Dodge, Holla Scatterbow, scat pack commercial. The Chargers have an O-line problem with your left tackle Joe Ault. Left the game early with an ankle injury, putting an already injured offensive line because he was filling in for, what's the guy?

1:15:52Shannon Sharpe:He just got the big contract. Slater, Rashawn Slater. He was filling in because he moved from right tackle to left tackle to replace Slater. Slater's out. Herbert was under siege. He was pressured on almost 48 % of his dropbacks.

1:16:09It's tough. It's tough. Now listen, he look normal because he ain't got your offensive line now. It's hard. It's hard. You're running for your life from your old line up there. Lamar today. Justin Herbert. I mean, man.

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