 Sean Payton, we have not said that name on this show in a quick minute. He might go to the Derby too, we're manifesting that. He, Ian Rappaport, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, all probably going to be there. And so is our show, we're very excited about that. But Sean Payton might not go to the Derby because he has so much to do. Lots of post-it notes all over his computer because he has a to-do list with his new team, the Broncos. I'm sorry, I keep getting people calling me. My mom's calling me in the middle of the show for my birthday. Thanks, Mom. Thanks for watching. He's got a big task in front of him, inheriting Russell Wilson. What is Russell Wilson coming off the roughest season of his career with some doubting that his best days are in the rearview mirror? So clearly, Coach Payton doesn't believe that he, because he wouldn't have taken the job, of course, but I still wonder what it's gonna take to get Russell back on track. And that's why we have Matt Hamilton for another! That intro was way too long, by the way. Hammer time! Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh. Oh, what is this? You know, talking with your mom calling in the middle and, you know, kind of broke it up a little bit. But I have to say, just before... We can't play hammer time anymore. Yeah. Okay, I'm moving. But before we get into that, I know you're a private person. I know you don't like to make everything, you know, put everything out there and make a big deal out of things, but I would be really remiss if I didn't take the opportunity to wish a happy birthday to Billy D. Williams this morning. I've been waiting for that. He loves Lando. Yeah. Lando Calrissian. Hello? Superstar. Yeah, yeah. You cannot love Lando. So happy birthday, Billy D. We love you, and we appreciate you so much. You're 86 years young. Yeah. But as for Russell Wilson... Aren't you getting married this weekend? Yes, yes I am, on Saturday. Excited. Good luck with that. Very excited. All right, continue. Thank you. Tell me, listen. Listen, really quick, we are going to the Derby. I did ask Mr. Champagne if he could go to the Derby, but he does have his hands full. I've talked a lot about how he's such a renegade, such like a hard ass kind of a guy, and Russell Wilson is not that. So that is a reality show in the making. You might cast them into White Lotus season three in Thailand, those two together. But when it comes to on the field, what is the key to getting Russ back to the guy that we know he can be, young, durable, and a champion? Yeah, so I think when you go back through Russell's career, what's made him so successful and when he's always been at his best is when he has a stronger run game and is able to take shots off of play action. And when you look at the Broncos last year, they're just 19th in run percentage when it came to run in the ball, 21st in run offense. And when there was play action, like defenses really weren't worried about it at all. They weren't threatened by the run game. And Russell wasn't able to do what he does best. So when you look at the tape from last year, you'll see the Broncos are in 12 personnel, run heavy set, but they're gonna run four verts out of it. No play action here. And watch what happens with the Jaguars linebackers. The balls barely even in Russell's hands and they are bailing out of the box. They are not worried about the run game at all. What that allows them to do is take away these seams. So Russell's really left with only one option here and it's to try to throw that whole shot against cover two, drive that ball in. But there's no threat to the flat here. So the corner Tyson Campbell's just gonna be able to keep dropping, undercut that ball and pick it off. It's not great play design, but it's also the product of not really having that run game to threaten a defense. And there's this school of thought that you don't really need to run the ball out or have a strong run game for play action to be effective. I don't buy that at all. I think when you really look at things, having a strong run game really correlates well to play action success. It does and I want you to check this out because I knew this was coming. Cause I look at the show run down in the morning. Look at this over the course of Russell's 10 seasons in Seattle, the two NFC championship wins the Super Bowl, his three pro goals, his eight playoff appearances. Listen, the Seahawks ran the ball more frequently than any other team in the NFL. This is good stuff here. And as you mentioned, the Broncos, they were 19th in the NFL last year when it came to running the ball. And you know that you and I have been like, hey, go get us an Echler, Echler, go back home. Like we're trying to make the run game. Listen, he sat on our set at Super Bowl and Josh Jacobs was there and he was sizing him up. And you know, doing all, so there's a lot going on with the run game. What else you got? Yeah. And when you, and when you look at how the commitment to the run and play action has benefited Ross in the past, you really see it. Let's look at this next play when he was with Seattle in 2017, also happens to be against the Jaguars. And you'll see here at 12 personnel once again, but because they're worried about the run game, the Jaguars have to put eight guys in the box here. And you'll see once the play fake happens to Chris Carson, they're going to sneak Doug Baldwin back in that soft spot in the zone, but watch how everyone reacts with that play fake. Everybody's coming up. All eyes are in the backfield and you'll see that soft spot created that Doug Baldwin's just going to be able to sneak into there. And then this is where Russell goes to work. He's so precise. He's so good picking apart defenses off in these play fakes. Just there's a perfect ball to Baldwin for the touchdown. And to tie all this together, I want to pull up the best play action passers of the next gen stats era. Spanning Russell's time in Seattle. And you see Russell there at number four. He's as good as it gets. But look who's number one, Drew Brees. And I know he's a Hall of Fame quarterback. Well done. He's one of the best ever do it, but that's also, it was also product of Sean Payton's system and Sean Payton's play design. He's as good at drawing up things off of play action as there is. And I think it's going to be a perfect pairing in Denver. Damn, was that your best tamer time? That was good. Yeah, I appreciate it. You know, I try to bring the best on your birthday. Yeah, you brought a full screen that really capped it off really well. And listen, Payton, he has gone all in to upgrade the offensive line. Mike McGlinchey, Ben Powers, he doesn't need to watch hammer time because he understands what the path is when it comes to turning this offense around. Get the run gin go in and get Russ back to picking teams apart off of play action. That's what you should do. Excellent hammer time. But even though we can't use that, are things are things going downhill here at Fandall that we can't use the hammer, MC Hammer song? Huh? I mean, we'll see. We gotta talk to hammer. We gotta talk to hammer. Yeah, you gotta talk. Sounds good. We'll be back after this on Up and Out. Where has this guy been? Darius Butler doing pushups, eating raw eggs out of a blender. Darius Butler joining us. Oh, that's a Yukon alum smile if I've ever seen one. We've got a lot to talk about. Who's the corner to look at at the draft? We got it next.