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SHIFT: NFL Power Dynamics SHAKEN as Jacksonville Jaguars STUN Kansas City | Patriots Beat Bills
In this episode of Lockdown NFL, hosts Tony Wiggins and Kevin Ostracker discuss the shifting power dynamics in the NFL, highlighted by the Jacksonville Jaguars' stunning victory over the Kansas C...
SHIFT: NFL Power Dynamics SHAKEN as Jacksonville Jaguars STUN Kansas City | Patriots Beat Bills
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Well, you notice this weekend, I think that they're starting to be a shift of power
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at the top of the National Football League.
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We'll discuss that here today.
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All right, let me tell you where we're going and where we're going to begin.
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We're going to end up talking about Jay Daniels is back to live the commanders and the
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Lions also win.
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So the two teams that started our shift of power like last year will hit them.
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But we're going to hit some new teams like Mayday.
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Arriving in New England right smack in the middle of the show that the very top is getting
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to change man.
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The leadership has been in the change full circle last night Kevin Kansas City Chiefs.
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They usually pull games like that out, but my Jacksonville Jaguars and I was live and
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in the building found a way to win a greedy game.
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Man, we're getting a lot of good prime time games to start the NFL season this year,
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which is really fun.
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And did I need privacy to see any score touchdowns for me to win my fantasy matchup?
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Oh, man.
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Yeah, he's hand that ball to that man and get him in the end zone.
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But you know what?
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Ever Lawrence found a way somehow anyway after I think it was McCary wasn't it step
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on his step on his.
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It was McCary.
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Yeah, it was.
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Yeah.
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Man, I'll tell you what you're seeing a lot.
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And this is honestly the way the NFL should be.
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And you know, in the AFC in particular and Wigg, you know, this being a guy that covers
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an AFC team as well.
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You know, all the all the say Fc guys had to go right from the Brady Belichick dynasty
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of New England all the way now just that ends.
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No, all the sudden you don't get any parity as Kansas City taken over.
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The NFL is better when there's parity.
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The NFL is better when you got all these contending teams vying.
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It's not just one favorite.
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And I was like, okay, they're just going to win every year.
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This is the way it should be an I love it.
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No, it should be that way.
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The chiefs though are still a real good team.
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They just got out chief normally.
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You see them do what they actually did.
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They took the ball down and took the lead and then Trevor Lawrence.
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And people might have said it looked like he was drunk.
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I don't care what it looked like.
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They they they had to wear with all the belief that they can beat them.
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And that's exactly what they did.
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But here's my man from Lock on cheese Ryan Tracy.
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Tough loss for the Kansas City chiefs tonight.
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Going down to the Jacksonville Jaguars in the game that was ruled by big plays.
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It was not what the chiefs had won.
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And we're going to break it all down for you all over the lock down podcast network.
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Starting with locked on chiefs, but everywhere.
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This is what it comes down to 12 penalties for the Kansas City chiefs.
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This was all about the chiefs tonight.
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The pick six turned this game around kudos to the performance of the Jaguars.
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We're able to put forth didn't really have them being able to keep up with these chiefs.
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But when you take your opponent for granted, that's what happens.
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Couldn't put it away even though they scored late the Kansas City chiefs didn't have quite enough kudos.
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Creme hunt.
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I thought putting a good performance that counter for the touchdown was perfect.
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And I do like where they're going in that direction.
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But it was enough to overcome Trevor Lawrence.
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Seven Lloyd and the Jaguars tonight kudos to Trevor Lawrence as well.
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Putting in a running performance to match my homes.
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I thought it was really impressive that last score.
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But hard pill to swallow for the Kansas City chiefs.
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They're going to have to regroup and get back after it.
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You'll hear all about a walk down chiefs and all over locked on podcast that work.
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Your team every day.
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Let's talk about the winners.
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The team that I cover.
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Do you now see why I call it the full Jacksonville Jaguars and Trevor Lawrence experience?
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There's a roller coaster ride, man.
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I like it to intrumes last night.
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I say I ain't never done it.
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But if I did, that's probably what I felt like watching this game.
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Man, I think you just got to let out a sigh of relief for the doval.
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You got to just just got to just got to let it out.
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You know, it's intense.
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It's crazy.
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Doesn't doesn't always look good.
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But they're getting the job done and look.
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I mean, everybody kind of anticipated out of the AFC South.
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That's just Houston.
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And that's it.
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And I don't know.
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I'm going to do anything.
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Man, you got to Colts and the Jaguars looking like a potential AFC championship matchup
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right now between those two teams.
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So I mean, it's really fun and exciting.
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And for the Jacksonville team that clearly has bought into it, Liam Cohen and
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Celen and everybody on that staff.
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And you look at it because Jacksonville, I mean, you know it.
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I don't have to tell you twice, Wig.
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They're going to have a bit of a crossroads of Trevor Lawrence.
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And in what hit, you know, who is he going to be as a quarterback?
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And is he the right guy for Jacksonville?
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And do they have enough players around him?
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You know, it's Travis Eats Yen, the player that they need him to be.
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And, you know, after a great start to his career and kind of been phased out of the offense last year.
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And like, what's that going to look like?
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And, you know, Travis Hunterhouse, he's going to fit it.
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And he's starting to come alive a little bit now.
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Like everything is falling into place.
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The way that I think would be the best case scenario.
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I mean, I'm sure you talked about it on your show where it's like, hey, what is the best case scenario?
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Look like for the team this year.
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They're living that out right now in full view of everybody.
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Flat out, flat out living it out.
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And and Trevor Lawrence is living it out too.
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Because what you're seeing with Trevor Lawrence is, you're actually seeing a group being deconstructed and reconstructed right in front of your eyes.
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He just didn't have to leave his team in order to do it.
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Somebody else did though.
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And that's Daniel Jones.
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You seeing him reconstructed too, Alive Baker may feel than Sam Donald.
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But he did it on a new team and they're winning an automatic.
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They're winning right away.
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And now it's making the coach Jaguar's games this year looking like a lot more fun.
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Here's a lot of coach.
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Dominating Indianapolis Colts win today.
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40 to 6 over the visiting Las Vegas Raiders.
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Your Colts are 4-1.
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They're first in the AFC South.
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They've now got three wins in dominating fashion.
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They've got another against the Broncos who just so happened to topple the Eagles.
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So this resume starting to get some style points to it.
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This was a total complete team win for the Colts.
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Not a lot of gripes to go around.
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Offensively they scored on six consecutive drives there and throughout the middle of the game.
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Defensively four sacks, three turnovers.
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They basically forced Geno Smith into a lot of mistakes that we said they needed to do.
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You got a lot to get in his second interception of the season.
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You got Taekwondo with extending his team lead with three sacks.
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You got a blocked punt that led to another Colts touchdown.
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Tyler Warren gets his first career receiving touchdown.
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Throws a pass.
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It was incomplete.
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But Jonathan Taylor gets another hat trick three touchdowns today.
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The early season chats of offensive player of the year have begun.
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You're kind of starting to see more appreciation there nationally.
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So yeah, we're going to have a lot more on this matchup and the next one against the Cardinals.
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They offer some unique, some unique challenges on defense.
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We're going to have way more on this one and that one coming up throughout the week.
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That's locked on Colts on YouTube and we're every listening to podcasts.
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Colts are a real deal, man.
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One thing I'll never say about a team that people cause a fluke.
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If they're physical fluke and physical don't go in the same category.
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The jaguars on the coach are not flutes because they're both very physical football teams.
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Yeah, and look, I mean, there are again, a lot of questions about Daniel Jones, you know,
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that old quarterback competition and everything.
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I mean, man, at this point, I love how many stories
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were seeing like this around the NFL, you know, even, I mean, someone who leaves the team,
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clearly not working.
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They're done with the quarterback.
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Quarterback's pie done with them.
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I mean, Baker Mayfield obviously is one of those stories.
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Sam Donald is another one of those stories.
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You know, you're seeing that more now across the NFL.
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And part of it is just not giving up on your guys.
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And Daniel Jones got the extension from the Giants and it wasn't like they got rid of him
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after his first or second year in the NFL.
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But sometimes it just takes the right system, the right guys around you.
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And again, it's not like, you know, Jonathan Taylor has been awesome, like Jake said there.
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But it's not like the Colts have like these, these star level receivers around Daniel Jones.
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Tyler Warren is a rookie's look great.
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Like Jake said, but I think that when you look at the physicality like you talked about with
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that to me shows that they're bought in.
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I keep going back to buy it because, you know, I guess I'm
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harping on it so much because I cover a team right now that's not bought in.
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It feels like it's going wrong.
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So, you know, when I see a team that is bought in, that's what it starts with.
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Is you got to buy in 100% effort on these plays.
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And to remember last year, we were talking about anything Richardson taping his helmet,
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saying, Hey, I'm tired.
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Get me out of the game.
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It just feels like a very big vibe shift there in Indianapolis right now.
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They sense an opportunity and they're taking advantage of it.
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Vibes shift the new England to we're going to discuss that in just a second here.
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Kevin, I'm hopping on this because a lot of it was like you said, went from the Patriots
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dominating and having some peers, you know, the Broncos, the Colts and all of that
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stuff and then the Chiefs eventually the Chiefs took it over and then the Chiefs
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having some peers, the Broncos, the Brams, the Bengals, the 49ers to a certain extent.
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But really it's the Eagles, right?
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So we were looking for these other teams, all of these other teams, the Packers,
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the teams that have been close.
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I'm sorry, Kevin, the Ravens, the teams that have been right there knocking on the door,
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right?
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Pittsburgh has been that and both of those errors that I've mentioned because they've
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been so consistent for so long.
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The 49ers were that now you seeing a little slippage.
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Now the teams that we thought were going to actually grab at the time from these teams
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to put themselves in position aren't the ones that's doing it.
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Just these young teams, the two of us just mentioned in the first segment.
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And somebody else that has a real good quarterback, the next three teams we're going to
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talk about anyway, the next four, somebody that has a real good quarterback, a young team
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with another new direction.
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I think the biggest win, even though I want to be biased and say the Jaguar's winning at
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home on Monday night was the biggest winner of the weekend.
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I think the biggest winner of the weekend was the Patriots and going up and knocking off
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the Buffalo Bills.
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And here's my man Nick Cassey, you're going to talk about exactly how big it was locked on
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Patriots.
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That is by far the biggest moment of Drake May's NFL career going into Buffalo.
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Brian time with just over two minutes left, drive the team down the field for a game-winning
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field goal by rookie Andy Borragales, a true, true great moment from Drake May.
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Two or three incredible plays late in this game.
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The first and 10 play right off the bat somehow, some way gets it to Stefan Diggs who had
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a huge night and moves the chains.
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That could have been a drive killer right there.
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Then K-Shon Booty down the sidelines, perfect throw in between the cornerback and the safety.
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And then don't overlook the scramble.
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He keeps the clock running.
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He gets the football to his kicker for the game, winning kick with just seconds left on the
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clock, a huge win from Mike Vrable, a huge win for Drake May, a huge win for the New England
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Patriots.
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We're going to react about this game right at lockdown Patriots.
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You don't want to miss it.
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What a win by the Pats.
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Thanks to Nick Cattle's up with locked on Patriots.
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Look, man, that's a huge win on the road against the team that everyone had at number one
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in the league and thought they were going to run away with everything.
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And this young team says not so fast.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, you can tell, you know, Drake May is for real.
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He absolutely is.
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And in the big time moment, like Nick talked about there, he delivered when it mattered.
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You know, you saw some of those on time throws when he was rolling out of the pocket and,
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you know, obviously he's the fun.
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Biggs is having a great time out there.
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Stick it to his old team.
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And I just think that this New England team with how much money they spent in the off season,
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I mean, they clearly were trying to get this roster, you know, not necessarily to like a
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Super Bowl level, but just improve it to a way where you can take that next step.
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And that to me, it's the make of a good building process where you're not trying to go from
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top five pick Super Bowl champion in one season, right?
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For a lot of teams, yeah, that's the dream.
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But it takes multiple years, especially with a young quarterback to build up a roster,
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especially with how much the Patriots needed this off season in general.
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I thought they attacked it really well.
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And now we're kind of seeing that where, you know, the Patriots, the best team in the NFL,
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no, they're not the best team in the NFL.
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But we're seeing signs where if they can continue building and growing these guys together,
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keep getting the right veteran pieces in around Drake, man, I mean, you have Will Campbell,
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Travion Henderson looks like he's going to be great in the next couple of years.
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I mean, you get maybe a receiver or two more in there.
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And you're looking at a really, really good Patriots team.
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And he's next couple of years that, you know, I'm not going to say you're going to overtake the
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bills in that division every single year, but at least making a lot more competitive than it
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has been because it's just been the bills and nobody else for the last handful of years.
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I think the Patriots are that sneaky team that could really surprise some people over the next
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handful of seasons.
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Got a lot of good skill players, good corners.
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I got a young promising edge rushes, the thing that they're investing in right now is their trenches.
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And I believe it's going to get better.
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There's another team that I have in this category.
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And some people may disagree with this, but JJ McCarthy's out.
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You got another reclamation project at quarterback in Carson Wins.
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The question that I have is, can we watch a public reconstruction of Carson Wins the same way we're
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seeing with Trevor Lawrence and Daniel Jones, not to mention Sam Donald, who was with the Vikings last year.
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Could this be something where while the young kid is injured, they realize they have something because
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why the reason I'm mentioning them because they do a lot of things right.
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They have built the trenches.
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They have built their entire defense.
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They have very, very good coaches and they want to game and London the other day that they look like they
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shouldn't want against Cleveland.
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Check this out.
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Well, it wins the win no matter how stupid.
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What's up, everybody?
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Luke Brown from Lockdown Vikings and the Vikings did bring their best to London, but they end up with this trip.
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One and one skull.
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Thank you, buddy.
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The Vikings got outplay for most of this game.
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Let's be honest about it.
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Run defenses absolutely terrible despite somehow giving Jonathan Allen and Dave on hard drive, like the most rest ever.
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The backups get destroyed for like a big long drive.
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It looks really nasty.
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The O-line is down to one starter.
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They run out of snaps on Christian Darius offer some reason.
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Gets his snap count.
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You got Walter Rousen there for the last drive of the game, but somehow some way backup quarter back,
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back up running back back up the O-line.
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They find a way to move the ball on a fearsome Brown defense and get that final
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touchdown. Get the win.
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They're going to go into there much needed by with a lot of injury watch going on and will keep up with it with you on lockdown.
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Vikings.
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The Browns have played tough.
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They beat the Packers.
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The Browns aren't on a pushover.
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If a Minnesota to win that game over in London, it shows you that they have the potential to do exactly what I said.
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I mean, yeah, their skill position players are incredible.
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It's literally just about the quarter back spot.
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And, you know, I mean, hey, they didn't last year with Sam Darnold.
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I mean, it's not impossible.
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Kevin and Connelly company.
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So, you know, again, it was very ugly.
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Like Lucas 100%.
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No, 100, 1000% ugly.
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You know, it doesn't matter because why you're one and only win column.
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And while I don't expect them, if they do that exact same thing again next week,
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and then we gather that and then we gather that, they're trying to get what a lot of games do in that.
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But, you know, we want to know in that week, I think for the Vikings,
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and they were the team to me.
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We talked about this in the off season.
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I thought I had the best off season, considering how they invested in their trenches,
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both offensively and defensively.
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We were just wondering, OK, is JJ McArthur going to take that leap?
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Obviously, JJ hasn't been out there in Carson Wentz.
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And, you know, he is a high level backup, or at least one of the higher level backups in the league you can get.
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And, you know, he has all the position players around him to make an impact.
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And he's he set up for success.
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It's not like he's going out there and playing with nobody.
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So, yeah, I mean, in an NFC North division that has two really incredible teams and the Packers and the Lions right now,
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the Vikings seem to be that team that's always kind of overlooked at certain points.
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And I think they can make some noise again, but I think for Carson Wentz,
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it'll be interesting to see the quarterback conversation that comes out of Minnesota here.
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Over the next couple of weeks to see how that ends up unfolding.
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It's like a race to relevance because all of the teams that were mentioned in Minnesota is a little different.
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Like you said, because they had some success last year during the regular season.
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It still comes down, especially in the NFC, the Washington and Detroit.
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They started this mess.
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Can they topple all of those teams at the top before these upstart teams that we've mentioned earlier?
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Leapfrogs then Washington did a good job the other day with Jane Daines coming back.
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We'll discuss that in the third and final segment here of Lockdown NFL.
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They take that show, man.
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We're going to do that when you're in a round, Kevin, man.
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You know how it is, man.
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You know, you're friend going through it.
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You know, I talk about it.
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Yeah, just let him go ahead and leave.
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I spare me.
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You got spare me.
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Yeah, man, he's going through it over there.
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But we will talk about a team down the belt wave 35 miles away from Baltimore.
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That's Washington.
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They got their quarterback back and I was wondering, are they going to get back on track?
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Is the defense going to learn how to play again when the quarter, since the quarterback was gone,
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they didn't look that good.
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Guess what happens?
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Complimentary football.
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When you know you got that dude on the other side, things work out for you.
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Here's my man, David Harrison from Lockdown Commanders.
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It didn't start off pretty, but 27 unanswered points.
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Middleway through the second quarter, throughout the entire rest of the game,
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gave the Washington Commanders their 27 to 10 win.
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More importantly, they're third win of the season now,
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stand of three and two, even more importantly, a road win.
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Talk to several defensive players from the Commanders, defensive locker room after the game
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and every single one of them echoed that it's great to get the defense on track from that midway
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point through the second quarter.
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Juan Martin forced in the fumble, March on Latin, we're getting the recovery.
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So it's great to have that moment and that game come together the way that it did.
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Shutting the Los Angeles Charters out after they scored those first 10 points.
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But it's even more important they did acknowledge that it happened on the road.
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They're going to need their defense to travel this season.
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And so far, they've got a really good start on that here in week five.
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So things to clean up, but a lot of good to talk about as well over on Lockdown Commanders,
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part of Lockdown podcast network, your team every day.
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Just the presence of having a great player like that.
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And you know this, there's no way the Ravens lose 44 or whatever they lost the other day.
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If Lamar Jackson is there just the defense knowing that these dudes are there,
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gives them a big chance and Jay Daines is the heartbeat of the commanders.
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Yeah, and they just need to get them back.
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I mean, that's just this is what it is.
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You know, for a lot of these teams and, you know, for the Ravens, I'll talk about it on myself.
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You know, well, you'll have your start quarterback out there.
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Life gets a lot more difficult.
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And, you know, this is the commander's team that a lot of people thought they were going to see again.
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Still stuff to clean up most definitely.
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But, you know, I think that there are teams still and once they get Terry back whenever that will be,
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they just got to keep getting healthy.
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The thing for them is just continuing to grind away.
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I mean, they have a star in Bill over there, man.
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Bill is doing his thing if that running back position.
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He looks like he's a future of that team at that position.
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So you have a lot of guys that can make impacts.
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You know, it's just a matter of can they take that next step without Jay Daines in there for a couple weeks.
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You know, it looks like it looked like it did because well, Jay Daniel says that dude.
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He's one of those guys.
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So I still like the commanders this season.
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It's still early.
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I think they can clean up what they need to clean up.
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And at the end of the day, they have the roster to get it done.
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But so do so do a lot of other teams that NFC.
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So they got a step up to the plate.
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I'm glad you said that because the team that is the poster child from the transfer of power.
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They're telling you that they are not done yet.
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They are.
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People don't realize at this point last season, nobody was talking about the Eagles.
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They were talking about the Detroit Lions being that team that were going to take everybody's lunch money.
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In fact, that went all the way through the regular season until Detroit put like their 85th person on injured reserve.
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And then people like me start saying you had to watch the Eagles because they're healthy.
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But they're right back.
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They're right back in the thick of it and Matt Daryl is going to let you know.
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That's for straight wins for your Detroit Lions as they improved to four and one with a 3724 win over the Cincinnati
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Bengals today at pay core stadium.
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All Detroit really from the start today, Jake Browning brutal for the Bengals and Lions took advantage with three
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interceptions, great homecoming for David Montgomery, a rushing touchdown, a passing touchdown.
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Lions were just better today, a little bit sloppy in the second half, lost some defensive backs, which hurt them.
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And a concern left tackle Giovanni Manu, not a good game, Philly Infra Taylor decker, but regardless,
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Lions just so solid on special teams, offense, defense, a better football team today than Cincinnati.
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And they win 34 points or more down the last four games.
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All victories as the Lions improved to four and one more come up unlocked on Lions.
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Detroit said hold my beer, man.
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We ain't done yet.
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They look good, man.
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They look absolutely vicious and look like the team that is going to like the Eagles got all these issues right now.
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Everybody's blaming important fingers and all that stuff.
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And that's to come with the territory of winning and having high expectations.
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Detroit, man, they look like they're about their business.
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Yeah, every year there's a team that's kind of like the post a child for a week one over reactions.
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And Detroit is that team this season.
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How they looked against the attackers in week one, that's where they look now.
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Week one is week one for a reason for a lot of these teams and we're seeing this Detroit Lions team.
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I mean, look, their offensive skill position players are incredible.
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Their defense has stars at all three levels.
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I mean, this to me is a team that is absolutely one of the Super Bowl favorites.
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And I just love the way they play.
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You know, Dan Campbell is still biting kneecaps in the team.
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Yeah, still plays that way.
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And the impressive part is they lost both coordinators in the off season.
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And they're still doing what they're doing and looking and good while doing it.
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So I think that for the Lions, they're one of those teams that just have a lot of confidence in when they go out there and play
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because I'm not only the talent that they have on the field, but you know, the coaching staff.
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And there were a lot of questions.
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You know, Ben Johnson goes to Chicago.
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Are they going to be able to keep up that same offensive firepower?
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And you know, Aaron Glan, he's a New York.
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You know, what's that defense going to look like?
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And right into both those guys stepping into those roles, especially in a year,
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where you're trying to best what you did last season in a year that was very incredible for them.
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And they're looking the way that they do right now for a lot of different reasons.
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But I got to give a lot of credit to the coaching staff.
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I got to give it to them too, man.
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And we appreciate everyone who provided those clips for us today here on Locked On NFL.
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