Ravens Slipping, Joe Douglas, and the Coach of the Week - Good Morning Football Selects

Published Nov 22, 2024, 8:10 AM

Highlights from Peter's reporting this week on Good Morning Football. Peter shares insight on the big changes coming to the two New York teams, the Ravens' recent stumbles, and his Fab Five Rookies of the Week!

The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. Well, look, Jets fans are up in arms, obviously because this season has been such a mess. And I think from ownership on down to the guys working in the parking lot, they would tell you that this was as disastrous a twenty twenty four campaign as they could have possibly imagined, especially to go back to Week one when there was so much excitement and so much hype going into this team. Five years is a long time for a general manager to be employed and not make the playoffs. They weren't making the playoffs again, I think on paper, if you look at it, Joe Douglas's time had run its course. The question is is he to blame for how this went down? And should he be the one to fall on the sword here? Well, that that doesn't matter.

He's gone. The owner's going to make the decisions.

There's a lot of revisionist history too on this, and it's like, well, they shouldn't have gotten Rogers, or they shouldn't have gone for Mike Williams.

Are they why do they go for Davonte? Guys?

They were all in on twenty twenty four, they were all in the second they made some of those moves and went after Rogers last year. So when you're all in, you swing the bat. You keep on swinging the bat. There's no in between. Now Sala's gone, Joe Douglas is gone. I think the original sin for Douglas is that he never got a quarterback.

And it's very rare.

In this league that you get a chance to not only inherit one that was a top three pick in Sam Darnold, draft your own, which was Zach Wilson, and then get the green light to go get Aaron Rodgers. A lot of people online and a lot of reporters we trust are like, yeah, but this guy brought in such a roster with Sauce and Garrett Wilson and Jermaine Johnson and look at all the young talent, and it's like asking, you know, Mary Todd Lincoln, how is the play?

You need a quarterback?

Good?

You need a quarterback. And at the end of the day, that's what's gonna do them in.

And now they're in this hole where Rogers might want to come back. Rogers isn't saying I'm retiring at the end of the season, and the Jets might.

Not want Rogers back.

It's gonna be a decision that they have to make at the end of the season. Joe Douglas will be fine. He's a scout and is a scout at his heart, like, he'll be okay. He'll work for twenty years in this league, either being a GM again or he'll be a personnel guy. But after five and a half years of not sniffing the playoffs, he's the one who's gonna take the fall here.

And to Ian Rappaport's point, the.

Jets knew this was happening Douglas having Douglas has not been himself this year. He obviously was just finishing out the string as it was. Let's everyone get a head start on things. Joe can figure out what he's gonna do the next six months of his life, and the Jets can get a headstart and actually doing research without doing it around his back on who might be their next general manager coach. The definition of insanity. He's doing the same thing over and over again and coming up with the same results. And that's what the Jets have been for the last twenty years and really since Woody Johnson took over the team in the early two thousands. They had a couple of brief years of Rex Ryan football where they were great, and then it's been just downtrodden since they have the longest playoff drought thirteen years.

They're not going back today. There was an interesting dynamic here. Sala lost his job. I'll tell you. I told you on the next morning.

Joe Douglas wasn't aware that Sala was getting fired that morning, so he shut up to work.

And it's like, oh, your guy that you're arm in arm with, Like he's.

Out of work too. So that list right there. Okay, so it's Joe Douglas. That is Himie who's the president? That is Christopher Johnson, the younger brother. That's Aaron Rodgers. And that that's Woody Johnson too, is right. That's the brain trust with Joe Douglas with an ex throom. Those are the guys who are going to decide.

Now.

There's been a lot of talk in league circles that maybe the Jets hire a president of football operations type. You know in Detroit we talk about the Lions. Chris Spielman came in and kind of overlooked things from this president's role, but more of an ownership ally and a bridge between ownership in the front office. Maybe that's possibility. And I saw Gary Meyer suggested Curtis Martin for that job. I've seen Chad Pennington's name mentioned. I've seen Anthony Beck's name mentioned, who still works with the organization.

That's a possibility. That's more of like a figurehead position. You need a coach, You need a coach.

GMS in this league, they'll come and go.

They need a coach.

And I think the most important process here is going to be a determining what to do with Rogers, and if Rogers wants to come back, that is a very interesting discussion to be had because he does not owe any more guaranteed money. And then be the hiring of the coach along with a general manager. But I don't know if it's hey the GM makes a decision on the coach here.

I think coach is so important in the league right now.

GM is almost secondary to who's going to be the man calling the shots?

What's up everybody?

And we did the Coach of the Week award and this week we're going down to the Big Easy where the coach of the week is interim head coach for the Saints, Darren Rizzi. Darren Rizzy, Saints won again, did so in dramatic fashion. And you know the broadcasters last night, they had a joke. It was Kenny Albert Jonathan Vilma that maybe he's got a curse on opposing kickers because young wig.

Kum is three of his four field goal attempts last week.

Dustin Hopkins was wide left on all three of his field goal tries this week.

But also Rizzy was going.

Forward on fourth down time and time again on his team and they were converting. Rizzy goes for it on fourth and here's Kenny.

Albert with the call of the week.

He touchdown. That's why ball for you. That's Rizzy ball for you. Okay, what are the kids saying? He's got that risk, He's got something.

Let's go.

This is where they were at in the last you know, the losing strict with Dennis Allen. Suddenly the four and seven, the Falcons can't buy a win. Panthers are the Panthers and the Buccaneers have lost four street.

The Saints are alive again.

Darren Rizzy sixteen years Special teams coaches coach, with everyone from Parcels to Dan Campbell right on down the list is now the head coach of the Saints and they are red hot, and Jamie he is my coach of the week. We do the Fab five, which means we reward the top five rookies.

As these guys are checking their phone. That's a rough one. Director, Here we go. Maybe that's the rest of the audience too. Let's get in now. Yeah, I got it.

Let's go.

I got it. That's the thought bubble in my head. Off and here we go.

Let's get into the top five rookies of the week. Number five, we're going to Tyresee Knight, the Seahawks defensive lineman who was an absolute clog at the line for a team that had Christian McCaffrey and a ton of other offensive players trying to get going. Tyrese Knight ten tackles, one quarterback hit. We led all rookies in tackles, and you also went zero misstackles. Now, Mike McDonald was a former linebackers coach. If he's gonna draft a linebacker, he better be good Night was all over the field. If you were watching this game on Sunday, he was a heat seeking missile. Now we've talked a lot about the Seattle defense in some of the big names over the years that they've had with Weatherspoon and Woolen and of course up front with Leonard Williams. The best player on the defense on Sunday was this guy, Tyreese Knin.

His story is cool. It's from Lakeland, Florida.

But he was at Independence Community College and Independent Canvas.

If you're like, what is Independent? Remember Last Chance You?

Yes, sure, Last Chance You was that series on He was a player on that team. He was on Last Chance You, goes to UTEP and eventually is a fourth round pick of the Seahawks. Tyrese Knight, we see you, our only linebacker on the board. Number four best performances from the rookies. Here is wide receiver Ladd McConkie for the LA Chargers, second round pick out of Georgia. Now this didn't necessarily start the way that Ladd wanted. If you remember here, he makes this play and he goes down on the sideline and it's like, oh no, the Chargers just lose.

Ladd McConkie.

He went into the blue tent, the whole thing, and then the guy comes back and has maybe his best game as a dayla.

Ussa is gonna fight that injury.

Huge catches all over the field. Ladd was awesome in this game.

And if you look at what he's done this season, Lad McConkie.

In a rookie class that includes Marvin Harrison Junior and Malik Neighbors and Roe Mdoonza, Lad mcconkey's up there as one of the best rookie performers. We talked about it like that good Lad good job produces.

That's good, Chris McClain, I see you, good, Lad Good.

Lad McLean is IRUs she knows as well. Forty three catches rank some third, all these things third, and he's the only player who's in the top three of all the rookies in all of these categories. So Lad McConkie, another big performance.

Including clutch catches number three. We're going to New England with.

A quarterback who actually lost in the game but was awesome again. Hey Patriots fans, smile this morning. You got somebody. You got a dude. His name is Drake May, and Drake May was awesome on Sunday, a losing effort. Drake May, guys, tossing the ball all over the yard and had one here to the big offensive lineman. He played so well that he had maybe the greatest offensive coach in the league, talking as if he sees something in the future from New England. Here's Sean mcvagh, the opposing coach, on Drake.

May after the game.

You know, you look at it and you can really see his ability to create off schedule. I thought he did a great job of being able to make plays in the pocket today extend drives. I thought he was patient taking some underneath checkdowns where guys were able to create. We had some tighter coverages and he was able to fit the ball into tight windows. So he looks like a stud.

Yeah, it does look like a stunt.

And take out the list of all the rookies since nineteen ninety.

Let's go back to that far.

You're talking about guys who have had forty pass attempts and still completed seventy percent of their passes.

Herbert did it three times.

The rookie Burrow did it, and that same COVID year, Drake May's already done it twice. And he's the only rookie to do it twice in his first six starts New England.

You got someone. Congratulations.

Drake May's a stud, but he's not in our top two.

Our top two.

I had hard time with this because he had one player on offense and one player on defense. Number two player was last week's number one player, and he's a guy who absolutely silenced Terry McLaurin.

Quineon Mitchell makes the list.

Quinon Mitchell, Eagles cornerback, is back on the board number one.

Last week he was number two. Terry McLaurin enter this game as one of the best players in all of football, a guy who was red hot.

He had zero catches, zero catches on twenty five different routes that were passing routes. Quineyon Mitchell lined up against Terry McLaurin and there was not a single catch to be had.

But that's nothing new.

This is a guy Mitchell who has stopped everyone from Mike Evans to Chris Olave and I love this before the game and the starter jacket eight that's him and Cooper dejen Now I knew they wore T shirts that got all Twitter a buzz and everyone loved it on Instagram.

And the T shirts you can sell them you want. This is just cool.

This is nineties Eagles throwback starter jackets. Shout out to Reggie White, Shout out to Delight Jerome Brown, Shout out to Clyde.

Simmons, Seth Joyner and the crew. Look at what this guy is doing.

Quinnion Mitchell, the first defensive back taken in April's draft and out of Toledo, has been an absolute game wrecker in his first season in the NFL. He's number two on our list, and yet he's not number one because I couldn't go a different direction than this guy.

Bo Nicks, your first week is number one on the list. Bot Knicks was sad station all on Sunday. Nicks went twenty eight of thirty three.

That's eighty five percent completion percentage for three hundred and seven passing yards. He threw four passing touchdowns, he had no interceptions, and he threw a passer rating for oh one hundred and forty five, which is off the charts. This guy's the first rookie in NFL history to complete eighty percent of his passes, have four passing touchdowns, and three hundred or more passing yards in a game.

Unbelievable.

Performance, and yet my favorite bow Knicks pass, my favorite one was not one of the big touchdown passes.

It was this one. Here.

Let's go to the broadcast and my favorite bow Knicks to Courtland Sutton play of the afternoon.

Here's Nicks, a couple of pumps.

Now he's gonna run, floats it down to sun shut ball for Courtland Sudden hugainst Day j Terrell. Two pumps and a twenty three yard toss from Nicks to Sutton.

That play is so beautiful because it's a play action, it's a scramble and then it's two pump fakes and he completes the pass, drops it in the bucket. The guy's amazing. He's having an incredible season. The Broncos are in the thick of the playoff.

He was the.

Sixth quarterback taken in April's draft, the sixth quarterback taken, but he is the first our list this week, let's take a look at the top five rookies. There's a lot of guys who didn't make this list. And I know Brock Bauers wants to get in here, and I know there's several different names that might have deserved it.

But We're going with these five.

Bo Nicks one, Quinnon Mitchell two, Drake May three, Ladi mcconki Tyrese Knight. We see you, Braden Fisk, we know you were awesome. Also, you didn't get on the list this week. You've got the Eagles two rookies on defense versus the Rams two rookies. They're playing Sunday night. Here's my final five on the list. This is the fab five from week eleven.

What you got, Jamie Peter.

If everyone was about to crown Jade Daniels halfway to the season for offensive Rookie of the Year, can bo Nicks come run in the second half?

Wow?

You better believe it, especially if the Broncos keep winning. And I'll tell you something, Jamie, it could get interesting if Drake May keeps on having these performances too. It's a loaded rookie class of quarterbacks and Jaden Daniels has not been crowned anything yet. See, we're not looking like a Super Bowl championaier game, I think Russell Wilson went two of seven in the red zone through a horrible interception.

The Ravens just happened to be worse. The Ravens have issues.

You watch those highlights, like all right, they got a chance at the end.

To do it.

All the little things that the Ravens used to do right, they're doing wrong, like Justin Tucker missing these kicks here.

Little things like that the fans don't see. But you make decision choices too.

This is a close one score game. Throughout the game, Derek Henry only touched the ball thirteen times all season. They've been awful in the defensive backfield. This play here like right off the face mask and then the two point conversion. Kyle, you see agal Or screaming at someone beforehand.

This is after a timeoutur It looked like they're going to do a jump pass. They didn't get a chance to do it.

The Ravens didn't deserve to win this game, and they don't deserve to be discussed like Super Bowl contenders when they win and shootouts thirty six to thirty five against the Bengals. We celebrate Lamar as the MVP, and we're doing Steph Curry, you know, cutups and stuff. But they're a mediocre team right now, they're seven and four, they're in the mix. They'll play wild Card weekend right now. And you'll see maybe they'll win around. But like I can't come in this morning and be excited about the Ravens and the Steelers. Steelers, that's a great win for them, and they did it because that's how they do it. The Ravens, though.

They are four losses, and those four losses, they do not look great.

Waited on the bye week, Joe Shane was actually in Colorado watching Shador Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes over the weekend. On the bye week, Giants are one and five in close games. They've gotten little to nothing from the quarterback position, and Daniel Jones is not a second or third year guy, He's a six year player. That season is most likely done for New York. So why not see what you got and Drew Locke see what you got in time of the video and see if they can give a lift.

To the team.

But I would assume that the Daniel Jones era in New York for the Giants, with a high draft pick coming up, is likely coming to a.

Close up to this year.

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