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GMFB Thursday Hour 2: Lamar Jackson vs. Jayden Daniels!

Published Oct 10, 2024, 5:08 PM

Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Peter Schrager, Kyle Brandt, Akbar Gbajabiamila and Manti T’eo answering Throwdown Thursday questions - is Lamar Jackson or Jayden Daniels having the better season? Is a “Big Man TD” or a “Brady/Manning” scramble more enjoyable to watch? NFL Media analyst Nate Tice joins the show and shares his take on the 3-2 Broncos, he looks at what Drake Maye brings to the table for the Patriots in his first career start, and then he names a player that could go off in week-6.

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That's right, this is Good Morning Football. We are presented by Old Trapper Beef Jerkey. We're live in Los Angeles and New York. It's a Thursday in the middle of October. This is Mattha Teo, akbar buj Bmlla, Peter Schrager, Kyle Brant, and myself Jamie eard All. You're here from Sherry Burris in the news as well. Peter, you have family in the Baltimore area. I believe you married into the Ravens flock. How are they feeling today?

Look, this is one of the coolest matchups you're gonna have Baltimore versus Washington. Lamar playing like the MVP, Jaden Daniels playing like the MVP.

They play on.

Sunday at a one o'clock game, So fans of all generations can go to this one and not complain of about the cold, the traffic, or anything with the game ending at one eleven am like it did in Pittsburgh this weekend.

Multi generational. That's how big this matchup is. It's the reason why we're talking about it. It's quarterbacks veterans rookies.

It's great.

It's the biggest game of week six Commanders Ravens rookie Jaden Daniels. We'll face two time MVP Lamar Jackson for the first time in his career. We hear from both quarterbacks on the comparisons made about both star players.

It goes back some time.

It's kind of like a big bro a little bro type of thing, but it's some mutual respect. I think it's go out there and just appreciate each individual for who they are. So I don't like when people really like try to compare me to Lamar and vice versa. You know, we're two different players, and just go out there just you know, just appreciate what's the quarterback players being played. So that's what I try to do, is just appreciate everybody who they are.

I agree, you know, he's his own player, he's his own man. At the end of the day, we're trying to make a name by ourself, not anyone else.

So I agree with that.

I've been catching glimpses of his play on social media and stuff like that, and he's going off, you're doing what we've seen the college. We got him to the HOSMA.

For the I know on social media, I'll catch his highlights.

I love it.

For the first time since nineteen fifty we have a matchup where both quarterbacks are averaging sixty rushing yards per game, which makes this game even more electric and dynamic through the air and on their feet. Throw down Thursday. All right, we love this part of our show. Here's the question at hand, and it pertains to the two gentlemen you just heard from rookie jayde and Daniels. Two time MVP Lamar Jackson Peter, who is having the better season?

Good question, Jamie.

We've been battling this around all week, like who's the MVP. I've got to say it's Jaden Daniels or the lifting.

All boats factor.

I think he is completely tread formed the d C sports fan base from being this one that's been in the doldrums overwatching their Wizards and Commanders.

And even the capitals the last few years.

To now being proud and peacocking a little bit around d C. That entire DMV area, which is DC Maryland, Virginia. You're seeing more jerseys being sold and they're wearing the Jaden number.

Five.

Fanatics put out a report. I don't have the actual numbers or the validity of what it is, but that is the number one selling jersey this season, Jaden.

Daniels, not Lamar, but that means not the NVV. Yeah it is.

He's completely transformed what it means to be a Commander's fan. This is like light years different from what we've seen in the last maybe fifteen years. Kids are proud to wear the jersey, adults are proud to wear the jerseys, and the numbers matchup. He's the most accurate quarterback in the NFL this year, his team has one loss, and he is lifting an entire fan base from the doldrums to the top of the mountain.

I'm saying that.

Yeah, I have no problem saying five weeks into the season, we've got a rookie as our most valable player and that is just crazy because no one's done it since nineteen fifty seven when Jim Brown did in Cleveland.

Yeah, yeah, I totally agree with you. I'm right with you with Jayden Daniels. I think he's having the better season, and a lot of it has to do with the idea that he's winning.

I was talking to RG three last night.

He was just talking about how winning is contagious, and you're seeing even the defensive side, that team, that side of the ball, they're getting better. Everyone around him is just seemingly getting better. Just remember when we started the season, it was like, yeah, Jaydeon Daniels, but what does he have around him? An aging Eckler and oh mclauren.

Yeah he's cool.

But now everybody's like, oh yeah, look, everybody's calling, you know, Terry by his nickname, scary, right, He's scary because he has a legitimate quarterback behind him. Kingsbury has done an amazing job setting him up, putting him in position to win. I'm absolutely loving this. And on top of that, they're going up against a really bad pass defense and the Baltimore Raven they give it up like two hundred and eighty yards a game. This is gonna set him apart from everything else. There's gonna be no questions asked. We won't even have to answer this question by next week.

I mean, we can talk about numbers all we want to, and Jayden and Daniels is having an amazing season so far, but I can't go against Lamar Jackson. It's talk about beyond him being the two time MVP. Lamar goes into the zone in the game where he just goes super Saiyan and I like to call it he likes to go into the white Earth zone from from Tombstone. I know you you're gonna appreciate this, KB. Remember that scene when we're at the river and they're getting depinned down by the Cowboys, and you know, God Holliday is over there, he's on the ground shot and there's that famous, famous scene where white Earth gets up and he's like, no, that's okay, Jamar Chase just scored a seventy seventy yard touchdown. Jump Lamar, it's over and Mark just comes back.

No touchdown.

I'm gonna fumble this snap.

Hubbard's gonna come and he's gonna sack me. No, I'm gonna sniff Arman twice.

You put it on the Angry Runs KB. He's going to throw a touchdowns too likely.

He just he gets into the zone where he does whatever he needs to do to win.

And when you have that type of.

Player, when he's the best player on your team, he's a leader of your team, and he has that edge and.

He gets into that zone where he just refuses to lose.

That's the thing about Lamar Jackson that I can't go against Lamar Jackson on.

The ayah is the of the QB.

Jayden Daniels having a great season so far, Yeah, but there's the intangibles in Lamar with that hunger and that want to that I just can't go against Lamar Jackson.

I'm sitting here smiling on a Thursday morning in our New York studio. I see Lamar in this instance as the Johnny Ringo, who is the fastest gun and the cockiest guy. And then what does Doc say, I'm a huckleberry and I hope.

That's saying right now. I think he's ready to go. I think he's got.

This, I think, and I think I've kind of tried to nail down Wyatt's so fun and Whyat's so special With Jayden Dams, We've seen a lot of really electric rookie campaigns. We've seen a lot of great rookies of the year at quarterback. But sometimes you guys who were amazing but they're not winning. You know, Cam Newton was six and ten, Vince Young was eight and eight, that they weren't winning, and then also you see guys like some more recent ones. Dak in twenty sixteen was really special, but it wasn't this sea change for the organization. We've seen a lot of great Cowboys quarterbacks, a lot of great Cowboys success.

Even CJ.

Stroud last year.

We had just seen them with Deshaun Watson be a sensation and seemed like the next big thing.

We haven't seen anything like this from the commanders. I'm still getting used to saying the commanders.

It's so cool that not only is he great, not only is he winning collectively, he's doing it on that w logo that looks like it was just typed.

Up an hour.

What I'm saying, it's all so fresh and so new, so in.

Vino veritas, he's flipping the cup right now. If we have a Johnny Ringo versus Doc Holliday shootout at the Oka Crow, literally this is what I'm in here for. But for right now, I'm saying, Jaye Lamar has been great for years. This is a fresh thing all across the board.

I got Jayden.

It's a good point. It was fun to watch Joe Burrow Lamar Jackson go head to head last weekend. But if it becomes this again if we get overtime between these two quarterbacks. But I go Lamar Jackson for this one as well. And I'm actually gonna poach Peter's argument in the raising all boats mentality because the Ravens were down and out. They were on two to start this season. They had dropped a great game against the Chiefs and a really bad game against the Raiders, and Frankly and a lot of other teams could have just floated down the river for the rest of the season. But to man Tai's point, you have Lamar Jackson. You cannot be beaten, you cannot be taken down. So I go Lamar Jackson for better season, invincible. Thank you, Kyle Who Yeah, I'm confused by this wider talk and Wesson old Hollywood music and Daniels Lamar Jackson are like, Yeah, let's go old Hollywood Hollywood Westerns. Topic two for Throwdown Thursday. Colin Saunders stole the spotlight in this week's Monday Night game against the Chiefs with his thick pick his interception return in the end zone. It was when he started to rumble. Is the required word you must use when a big man gets a pick and runs it back. You take notice. The other time you take notice is when Tom Brady or Peyton Manning they get a pit and they have to chase somebody down. Okay, tom Brady threaded the needle here and he wrote this on the Big Man, Big Man on the move? Can we get the comparison of my top speed versus Saunders?

There?

Really?

Really?

Brady?

Usually guys are like, you stop bringing up my time.

Here we go.

We're gonna ask this, what is the more enjoyable play to watch and throw down Thursday? Is it the Big Man rumbling back? Or is it watching a quarterback like Tom Brady or Peyton Manning going on a long run when they have to take a play into their own hands.

Far you know what I'm actually gonna go, you know, watching Tom Brady and like an Eli Manning, because I think there's nothing better than to watching a slow motion running or quarterback running. And it's like watching a car accident and you know what's about to happen. I can't stop button look like look at this, you stop me going, Oh this is gonna be bad, this is gonna be bad.

Where's it going? But this one isn't bad?

They set me up for this one, but usually it's bad when you see that. So I like, as a defensive player, I love seeing a slow quarterback about to get demolished because he's running.

Yeah no, I google watching giraffes run through the Sahara. What the quarterbacks look like running like it is not entertaining at all. Just google with tarrasses running through Africa.

That's that. I gotta go. With the big man running.

It really reminds me of watching The Voice or like America America's Got talent. When somebody goes up on the stage, You're like, I'm gonna what are you gonna do for your talent? I'm going to sing you like this guy can't see and then he just starts sounding like Voice to men like how we were listening to go during breaks.

It's one of those.

Things I really love watching, like watch this big man, like look at it, look look at the knees, like I wish you would have ran somebody over so that he could have been on cabs and anger runs like I was waiting for him to stiff arm somebody. But he did have an oxygen oxygen tank on the sideline that KP could have used. One of those on Tuesday when he was doing his little segment now. But I love watching big men just roll like showing that athleticism. It's entertaining to me. And I don't like watching girafts run through the Sahara, So I gotta go with.

The big men. It's kind of sexy to see the giraff go through.

I agree, I agree, he actually I'm actually good.

I'm gonna go with the off. I'm gonna go with Lockbar in this one.

And I think there is something very humanizing and mortal and relatable when you see Peyton Manning scrambling out of the pocket or Eli Manning scrambling out of.

The pocket for Tom Brady. I look at Peyton here.

That is Look, I'm not making fun of him.

These are good runs.

They're fine, but it's like that's like a good run, and it's you're out there in.

The foot and it's like, wait a second, he's not the.

Best runner on the field, but.

Yet he's still gonna get I'm not laughing at this at all.

I think it's a great play. Looks like a forty yard run.

I love watching when the big men who aren't supposed.

To running out the corp. Has to get chased out by the.

Thing like that.

That's a smart play. I'm here for them. I'm not here to make fun of them.

I'm here because as a fan at home, I'm.

Like, oh, snap, those guys are out there in the wild. Now the one thing I didn't like. And you can get the camera on me for this.

One, because this is an address that goes back.

Many, many years.

You'd get this white quarterback and you'd throw them in the game and it would be Andrew luck who's maybe the most athletic player in football, and then he'd be running and he'd be making an amazing play and they'd be like.

He's sneaky athletic.

Or Steve Young, who's one of the best scramblers ever and he doesn't make it, makes a move and he's scrambling like that looks silly.

But Steve Young can actually run. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, it's okay.

Like some of these quarterbacks who are Cocadi you can actually run as well.

And these guys say, eight, I'm here.

For it, and you know what, You're absolutely right, You're absolutely right on that. It's like the little shade they throw at the athletic quarterbaw like, no, no, no, just say he's athletic. You don't have to say that's actually surprisingly.

Yes, I agree, So I'm here for I'm here. And back in the day they weren't subtle with Eddie.

No.

You know you look at the guy. You wouldn't expect him to run like that. There he is like you Andrew Love right at fot for what do we do?

You know?

So who knows? I think that my.

Way I go against the running quarterbacks. That really bothers me about It's just that, like the humor of it has been so beaten to a pulp by those guys themselves, Like I am so done with the Brady I'm slow jokes, and the Manning cast has done a thousand jokes about Peyton is slow and elis slow, and we've seen Brady's forty so many times. We've really pumped those oil fields of all the humor. I think a timeless joke is someone over at three hundred pounds running with the football and he often has the football vertical like not not like this kind of like a baby. There is nobody. I don't care if you watch football every day or never. Who when something like this happens. You're not like, oh yeah, go go go. I think you're kind of giggling at a awkward looking quarterback, but you're scream laughing at big Limbo Joseph down the sideline. It's probably the most amusing thing that happens in our sport.

I will always be here for.

I think it's timeless. I don't think Peter. It's it's a doesn't see color. You know, it's independent of era or.

Dan Connolly.

Run fine, I'm here for any of that stuff. I just that Peyton clip, God, Peyton man. And when when we were showing him he has what the kids call negative drip, Like, I can't believe that's how Peyton took the field of those giant baggy sleeves, ridiculous face of mask, gotness. He like, it's just there is no ris whatsoever.

I'm sorry, Oh my god, with that quarterback who have negative drip went down in bounds and kept the clock rolling.

So smart, it's very smart.

We know that.

He cow.

I got a question, box pants, Yeah what do you got?

So?

No?

He said, you know what about if a guy is like two hundred and forty pounds, does he get credit for that? Like d Lineman is like one of those smaller dns. Or do you have to be at a certain weight?

Yeah, Like, I'm not that.

Impressed that Khalil Macka. I know he's a physical freak.

Aaron Donald, No, No, Ted Washington ten at him. That's my guy.

So you have to be three hundred plus, is what you're saying.

Yeah, j Raji at this point, I like it closer to three forty.

But at three hundred you're still.

In the buck.

We're not stopping here, are we.

No, Let's keep, let's keep, let's keep, Let's keep attacking this cre.

Keeps him touch job all right? Hi, after plan, Let's go attack him.

Up to his right, look it down field, throw it for McClory behind the dark catches at the fifty.

Daniels says, gout it again.

Every time we are we've got a smoke and it's on that open gables.

Have to avoid the run run run, run rung forty thirty.

Thirty, twenty five, twenty always like.

A reddow absolutely amazing.

Jayden loos what off towards the Emmy Roddy got up.

We still left them meet on the bone about it.

But that is our identity every word, Oh baby, this is the matchup of the weekend.

It's Commanders Versus Ravens and with the Lamar Jackson Jaden Daniels Showdown Sunday on CBS and Baltimore. It got me wondering how often do we get raining MVP quarterbacks facing off against the hot shot rookie quarterback.

The answer is quite a bit.

You see, since two thousand, this is the seventeenth matchup between a rating MVP quarterback and a rookie quarterback, and the results they're heavily tilted towards the MVPs.

In fact, of the last ten times a.

Raining MVP quarterback even face the rookie quarterback, the MVP's team has won nine of those ten times, the one exception Christmas Day last year, when the eighty O'Connell Raiders went into Arrowhead and shocked the Patrick Mahomes led Chiefs in front of a national television audience.

That day, the raining MVP threw a pick six.

And was sacked four times, while Aidan O'Connell, despite just throwing for sixty two yards, led the Antonio Pierce led Raiders to a twenty to fourteen victory in arrowhead.

All right, so that's just one rookie versus MVP game. What was some other notable rookie quarterbacks.

Facing up against raining MVP's showdown? About Week five, twenty twelve, Rogers versus Luck.

This one actually mattered a lot for reasons outside of football.

He see.

It was Bruce Arians' first game since taking over for Chuck Pegano in Indianapolis. The Packers led twenty one to three at halftime, and Rogers was dialed in.

Then the Colts came rumbling back. They're down five late.

In the fourth.

Remember Cancer just took Chuck Pagano.

He's out, Bruce Arians is in. They're down five, and Andrew Luck had to.

Make the play of the game.

Down five, fourth quarter, very little time left. Here's how it all went down. Take it away, broadcast.

Takes the snap, sets up, looks, he throws caught Heggie. Did he get in you too?

Yes?

Yes, he got in Reggie. Now they're gonna ridview this. Oh he got in though the refue was right on top of him. Saw it yep, Reggie caught.

It, spun around and stuck the ball out all you He just touched the very.

Front corn of it, Mason Crosby would miss a field goal and the Colts would be glorious, and it was glorious in the locker room after just relish in this moment.

This is one of the most special afternoons and moments in forty years that I've seen where a group of men just banded together and then wouldn't take no for an answer and given this to their coach and making him so proud.

And this ball is going right down.

Sit bruts Arians right there next time. Now it was for Chuck mcgonno.

An amazing season for Rader luck.

Why are we showing Kenny Stabler highlights, Well, we got snake stuff.

He was the MVP in Oakland.

And his Raiders face the number one overall pick in Atlanta Falcon Steve Barkowski in Week eleven of a seventy five season Hall of famere Cliff Brins scored three touchdowns in the first quarter of this game, and the Raiders would start to roll, but then came Steve Barkkowski and his.

Team came rolling back. They wouldn't go away.

The Raiders were up eleven, but Barkowski would have that touchdown and this touchdown.

And suddenly the Falcons were in this thing.

They go to overtime and there's our favorite kicker in NFL history, there's George planning straight on, and George planned it hits a thirty six yarder for them to win in overtime, as Stabler found a way to hold off the first overall Pickbark Counseki.

That was MVP first rookie. Look, there's not a ton of this sense examples here.

The first round rookie quarterbacks are just two and twelve versus raining MVPs since nineteen fifty and there has never been a reigning Heisman quarterback as you see in Jaden Daniels beaten an MVP in that next season. Never Jaden Daniels has a chance to become the first ever to do so.

It all comes.

Down to Sunday, what's already being dubbed as the game of the year thus far, first round rookie quarterback going up against an MVP quarterback. You don't get it too often, and in many cases it's the MVP just mopping up against that rookie quarterback. Andrew Luck was one of the exceptions, Kyle. A lot of history, a lot of piecing up through there. But at the end of the day, it's the superstar Jaden who's the MVP to be, and it's Lamar Jackson who's the MVP for now.

And look at the fine print there. I think we have to shout out Mark Sanchez who beat Peyton Manning and a big one that's one of the only that's the two in the twelve. What this does, Peter now is it sets up even bigger than Jaden experience if he does win this game, because you just laid it out two and twelve. The rookie doesn't win, it's the MVP. They're already the middle of their career, their cruising. If he makes it three and twelve, then it's like we can run this whole thing back and like this is not just another rookie, This is not just another fun season. Rookie never beats the MVP. It's a new thing for him. I'm already ready for Monday show. Ready, Yeah, Monday is Good Morning Football. If Jayden wins, is Peter's gonna fall off his chair?

Jayden we if that's.

The case, if that hasn't already been the first five Yeah, you know.

The other thing too, is that the fact that you know, you have Jaden who's really getting his first opportunity to go up against a team that is a Super Bowl contender. You look at the guys that they've already beaten, you know, obviously with the Bengals, the Cardinals, the Browns, Like this is like to me, it's like a legitimate shot for him to prove and cement himself. But I also too, I want to give you shout out, Peter that that Andrew Luck won and Aaron Rodgers.

I know Andrew Luck pretty well.

That's a core memory for for Andrew Luck beating Aaron Rodgers. Both those guys are packed twelve guys, packed ten whatever it was back then Stanford cal So it meant more than just you know, him getting that big win to to for the for the Coats.

Yeah.

Kind of building off of what Akbar just said, this is going to say a lot about Jaden because Jayden's going to go against the best defense that he's gone against so far, and the Baltimore Ravens defense. They're they're going to show him different looks they're gonna disguise, and this is going to really say a lot about Jalen's development in the National Football League and his ability to diagnose place post now a lot of the things that he's been able to face so far in the first five weeks, the defenses has shown their cards early in the play call, so he's able to diagnose things that way. Well, the Ravens, they don't show their hands until the ball snapped. And so for Jaden to go out there and to diagnose things that quickly, it's going to say a lot about his progress and his development as a quarterback in this league. And to go against somebody like Lamar Jackson and I know they're going to feed off each other. So it's a game that's going to be definitely one you want to watch.

Peter, when you do these segments, what's the year cut off for using the film's music? Because I love when that tune comes in.

I think anything seventies seventies, especially seventies Raiders like I think that gets to that NFL film's music.

Now, seventies Falcons.

I don't have a long history with those guys and Steve Barkowski, but they got the treatment today and you know, we'll see, we'll be fine.

We're going to get all of this.

He's just going to be played over like Michael Bick highlights. At the point, it's just going to keep going and going and going nineties today.

What's up, everybody.

I've long enjoyed this guy's work and I'm so happy that he's with NFL media.

And now let's bring in Nate tight or some takes on this late and day.

What's up man?

How you guys doing? Happy to be here? No, this is great. I have no new posters, so I'll try it to update this for Kyle matt Ty so yeah, yeah, yeah, well rotating with Halloween posters coming, It's coming over here for next time.

Nice all right?

The matic?

Uh, Nate, we like having you on because you say things you don't just read stats have cakes and that goes a long way in television.

We're trying to make.

Some headways here and we're telling you when we look at Broncos versus Chargers, I turned to you because it's interesting.

Broncos have won three straight games.

Everyone thinks Sean Payton and about Nicks, but their defense has been awesome under Vance Joseph. They're now three and two. What have you taken away from the Broncos? Having looked at the film and actually watched the games.

They are aggressive, they are fast, and they look like one of the real needle moving units right now under Vance Joseph. So even if what's going on with Sean Payton bo Nicks and their sideline conversations, really the defense is really the focus of this team right now. They're first and success rate allowed, and the success rate is fifty percent of the yards on first down, second down, one hundred percent of yards the third and fourth down, so that's efficiency. They are first. They allow the least amount officient plays for the offense. They're allowed the least amount of explosive plays to the offense, so they're not letting anyone get on base, not when any of home runs, doubles or triples or anything like that. They play a lot of man coverage and they're sticky. So this is very very good players playing a very aggressive scheme. It really feels a lot like Wade Phillips's old Broncos teams.

So that's what that kind of.

Really feels like a lot of man tight coverage, a lot of aggressive blitzes coming on. You got guys playing really well like Zach Allen, who looks incredible, looks like the fourth Watt brother with his little elbow.

Guard work ninety nine.

You've got DJ Jones J Jones at nose tackles playing great again. It's the run, but it's just a lot of players playing the best ball of their career and a scheme that under vance Joseph that's letting them play fast.

Nate, I mean, you mentioned all those guys, but Patrick Surtin is playing lights out. Tell us, Nate, how good is this man playing right now?

I really want to say, and it's a little bit of a hipster thing, but I do mean it that he should be the defensive Player of the Year front runner right now. This guy, this guy is insane. He is the prototype at corner right now, not only just coverage and size, but tackling intelligence, all these types of things.

Technique.

Him and Riley Moss, his corner co Patriot are like phenomenal right now, two of the stickiest corners in the game right now. But in the last four weeks, et Tritan's allowed two catches twenty nine yards of George Pickens three catches twenty nine yards dk Metcalf two catches of seventeen yards to Mike Evans five catches forty one yards to Garrett Garrett Wilson. So he's letting out ten yards of pop to these guys and he's doing it one on one against the hardest receivers in the game, most diffuilt guys that cover.

He's a great tackler.

He's got a little higsman a moment now with that little pick six going against against the Raiders, you see a perfect stride going into the end zone. This guy is just playing phenomenal ball and is truly one of the best players in the league. I think he should be one of the defensive player the year front runners right now.

It's big. Let's talk about a young quarterback.

Drake May has been sitting on the bench for weeks and weeks, and this weekend he gets an opportunity to say I am vengeance.

He's going against the Texans.

What's the biggest part of his game that people can overlook?

Nick, Yes, it's he I talked about aggressive with the Broncos defense. Drake May is very aggressive, very aggressive with his arm. He's got a big arm. He throws far. It's really fun to watch. But he's also a great runner. That's something that's been underrated with him. I think I know why. But he's six four two twenty five. This guy's a great athlete, excellent athlete. I would even say I have coming from a family of athletes, a basketball players, baseball players.

His dad was a quarterback.

But the thing is, the Texans allow a lot of scrambling yards. They have a lot eleven point three yards per scramble this year. They play a lot of man coverage, which puts eyes on the receipt but not a lot on the quarterback. And they blitz a lot in that man coverage on third and fourth down. So if things are struggling, no bults are flying a little bit, look for Drake By to run, maybe get some yards. I'm not sure what is rushing over under is, but look for that on DraftKings. But really really look for made make some excited plays with his legs, because he is one of the best scrambers in college. When he was coming out, he had the second highest first down per scramble rate coming out of college. So very very exciting player that I think is gonna have some opportunities to use his legs. Like it's a really good Texans defense.

All right, Nate, we're in full stride.

Now, you know, like the teams have kind of worked out through the kinks and you know we get that little extended part of the preseason. In the first couple of weeks of the season, it's week six. Who's the player you have your eye on right now?

That could go off? We got to week six.

We don't even have to wait till the night for somebody that I'm looking at. So it's great. So you only have to remember this for about twelve hours. So Jackson Smith and Jigba for the Seahawks, who is primarily a slot player. Eighty percent of his snaps come from the slot. He is very, very good. I compared him to Brandon Stokely when he was coming out of Ohio State. But he is really going against this forty and aris defense, which has real some strong strengths, but it has some glaring weaknesses in some spots. One of those is defending the slot. The forty Niners have allowed a league high thirteen point eight yards per attempt to slot receivers this year, more than two yards than the next closest team incording the next ten stats. The over under is forty six and a half on DraftKings right now, Jackson Smith and Jiguaz. You recorded two hundred and twenty one yards from the spot. That's the fourth most in the NFL. So I think this is a perfect strength going against one of the weaknesses of this forty nine ers defense. I know they want to run the ball a little bit. Kenneth Walker will be interesting there, Zach charvinay as well. But I really think this is a great spot for Jackson with and Jig but a kind of have a blow up game on Thursday night.

Nay, It's been so cool having you on the show. Like Peter said, it's been really fun to listen to your content over the years and just knowing that you come from this football family and you played and you just you're in it. Man, you swim in football, and we all do. We all prepare for the show differently. How much football do you watch, like in any given week, Like how much of your day are you really dedicating to Like I'm gonna sit here, whether it be on two speed, three speed, regular speed, like walk us through how you prep for something like this.

I'm a regular speed guy because I feel my age every every day, and I'm surprised. I'm surprised you didn't ask me a hockey question because we have two Minnesotans talking football.

What are the odds about that?

But I know I've purchased blue light glasses. That's how much I've been watching a film.

I like my eyes.

I want to have vision when I turn sixty. And I would say it's about twenty five to thirty hours a week. Yeah, it is a full time job. That's so hopefully i'm here. Hopefully the check clears too. No, but it's it really is what I like to do, and I think it's something that I find joy in it. I don't know any other thing to do. Like I've been watching film since I was a kid, and I just kind of.

Like doing it.

I like watching it at normal speed, listening to music at normal speed. I'm more of a movie soundtrack guy. Now again, I'm feeling my age. But this is something I really enjoyed doing. So sometimes it's nice to tweet it out or come on the show like this and get to share some of the stuff that I see.

I gotta wear.

We're talking like we're talking.

We're talking James Horner, we're talking Hans Zimmer, We're talking John Williams.

What do you mean you're a music? Soundtrack scores our soundtracks like the theme.

Hans Zimmer Big Epic Scores, Dune soundtrack, the Matt mad Max soundtrack Fury Road is very good as well.

That'll really get you going.

I highly recommend the song Bloodbag. Yeah, that's a great, great song to drop on here, family friendly content, but no, that's.

What I like to get going.

So there's another guy, Icelandic composer I really liked and I can't remember his name.

I love it Chet.

Okay, Peter always does his draft prep to Danny Elfman.

I love Danny, Tim Burton, Timur and Danny Elfman go back a long way, Kyle, I know, I know, like a long way. Great guys, Nate Ties