 Welcome to the Up and Atom Show. Brian Barton paying a big part here. I'm standing for some reason. Eric Weddell is on the program. Looking forward to talking to Levante David as well. This is the Up and Atom Show. Point of the season baby, looking ahead and looking forward of course to week 10. Big Game in Germany. Lots of NFL media over there. My old NFL media family having the time of their lives. Getting set for what's gonna be an insane great game. Is this a turning point for Tom Brady? Bang that table, drop the F-bomb. They got the win. Wasn't pretty the rest of the game with that final drive. Maybe it turned something around. Talk to Levante David about that. We'll be sharing that throughout the week leading up to that big game over. The first game ever in Munich, Germany. And they've taken on the Seahawks. The Seahawks have been, my team's note. I feel like I talked about the Seahawks more than any other team on the show of late. But you're wondering why am I standing today? I mean I clearly wore the wrong outfit. Sometimes I completely mail it in. Today is that day. I'm not wearing water shoes, but I'm wearing my most busted Reeboks classics. I don't know if we have the jib shot. I'm literally wearing wrinkled like track pants. And I top that I actually really love from Carrie Underwood's brand. You can get it at Dick's Sporting Goods. Oh! But here we are. And why I'm standing at this podium that looks like it's straight out of Game of Thrones is because we're gonna do some mid-season awards. You're not even a sports television show unless you pull out mid-season awards and you find that stock award music and you have to have envelopes. Which by the way, if I was giving away awards for MVP, Brian Barton, Taylor, and I can't ever say, well how do you say Taylor's last name? I can never say it. Fue, Fue? It's Fue. Taylor Fue, oh it's so easy. I thought it was Fue. Taylor Fue, our wizard, our goat, and of course Musa McBride, who are glue gunning and pasting things because I decided I wanted envelopes at about 6.15 this morning. Also, my computer, I would not have a show because we don't have Frumpter, but without you, Musa McBride. So this one, yes take a bow, this one is for you. So let's do this, halfway through the season, no better time to ditch out some awards. Some will of course reward and reflect upon what has happened through nine weeks of action and some will be predictive on what is ahead. I wanna know your thoughts of course at Up and Atom Show. The first award we're giving out this morning is... The Tom Cruise Award. We're doing the Tom Cruise, oh hey, there he is. Where has he been, right? So the Tom Cruise Award, what is this? It is an honor bestowed upon someone who embodies his true essence, an icon in the industry, well respected, hardworking, dedicated, a star, adored, but as time has passed he sort of maybe went away. I'm not gonna say it's an afterthought. I mean, Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise, but it wasn't his moment. And then he appears again, a blockbuster hits, a perfect scenario, and he once again captures the world's attention, proving he is an ageless wonder. The Tom Cruise Award this year goes to... Oh, we wrote your wrong road too. When's the Tom Cruise Award? That's right, the Seahawk season with Gino Smith. This is Top Gun Maverick, that's what it is. Gino is, oh, I mean is Gino Maverick or is he? Unbelievable, halfway mark. Seattle is sitting at six and three. They're atop a division featuring the defending Super Bowl champs and two other playoff teams from last season. So, you think Tom Brady has found the fun, hey, Pete Carroll looks pretty good up there. How about Pete? He is 71 years young. Yogi Roth worked with him at USC saying he's not surprised at all by the chemistry he has, the coaching philosophy, how seriously he has it, and what is driving him and motivating him. Maybe even, like Tom Cruise, is fun, having fun, doing stunts, you know, doing whatever he wants out there with Gino reinvigorated after the Russell Wilson era. So Seattle Seahawks head coach, Pete Carroll, keep it going against the Buccaneers, tough sledding over in the land of Laderhosen. The next award, what's the next award? The House of the Dragon Award. You could do better, try it again. What's the next award? The House of the Dragon Award. It's your car, so we don't know, we don't know. You couldn't get me flames? You couldn't get me a flame shooter? Well, what's happening? Okay, so this award, let's see what this one is. This is a franchise that is taking advantage of an opportunity to reinvent itself. Legacy is involved. Most everyone is disappointed with last season of Game of Thrones, but it's come back strong with House, with what? House of the Dragon. In the same way, this team has been disappointing for the past six seasons, not just the finale season, but it's standing strong here, and the award goes to the New York Giants. Woo, the New York football Giants. We need a clap track, a clap track, clearly in the studio. Because much like the Targaryens themselves, the Giants have a proud history of tradition, right? It was painful to watch the Giants the last six seasons, right? It's almost as painful as the final season of Thrones. I think there was as much skepticism about the release of dragons as there was about this giant season, even with Dable, but both have delivered in a big way. And everybody thought that Dable would be ruling over a kingdom of ash and bone, but he has found a way to make this thing work in large part through the resurgence of his own dragon, St. Quine Barkley, looking like Vagar out there as he's torn through defenses. He's averaging, get this, 122 Rush Yards, eight game. So Wink, you know, Wink's got some daemon in him. Are you watching the show? I think he does. Guys, guys, got some daemon in him, an absolute wild card. And his defense has been going scorched earth on absolutely everyone. I'm sure Eric Weddle will have a lot to talk about when he joins our show about that in a bit. And we'll see if the success can continue in the second half of the season. There's no reason to think it won't. I will say, hopefully we don't see any late season curveball developments, like Laris pulling a Rex Y in with the Queen. I'm good on that. You know what? I'm good on that HBO. I'm just putting my, those are my thoughts though. Your thoughts, Adam and Adam show. Announcer, what's really, really, I want like diaphragm, bring it home. What's the next award? Don't worry, darling award. Don't worry, darling award goes to the team who's great job. Surrounding drama has been more entertaining than the actual product. The team would kill to get a behind the scenes look at what's going on behind this team. Just like, I mean, this was the story. All the TikToks were about this and the glancing and the drama of it all and the videos released and the Vanity Fair article of so much going on there. The spit, did this spit happen? Did anybody ever get to the bottom? You think it did. We're saying you would like to think that it happened. Okay, so the winner of the Don't Worry, Darling Award is, I'm gonna see how long the track is. Don't go. The Indianapolis Colts. An insanity going on there. This is team that had a roller coaster. I mean, did you guys see this press conference? Unbelievable bite by Jeff Saturday. I could run through a wall frame at this point now. The benching of Matt Ryan, the drama, the firing of Frank Reich, replacing with a former player with no NFL coaching experience. But holy moly, if it works out. Holy moly, if they are good with him as the head coach. The Ursa press conference talking about building rockets and making sausage. Now we may not have a spit gate yet in this drama, but this still has absolutely fascinating and it has been awesome to watch play out. And I just can't wait to see what happens. How about the cast of Don't Worry, Darling? Anybody see it? Yeah. You saw it? Oh, yeah. Interesting. You're the one. I love that. I'm kidding. Is it a good movie? It's not. She's a star though, this Florence. I mean, Janastin told me yesterday in a lore magazine that stars are no more. Movie stars are, but you can't. I mean, I don't know if Flo quite liked that Janastin. We'll have to talk about that on our next show. Okay, yes. We can't wait to see what happens and we'll try and to see if they're trying or not too. Nobody said anything. All right, we have another award to get to and the next award is... The Doja Cat Award. I do love her. Sarth, the Grammys in the bathroom. Fell in love with her. Love her. Okay, Doja, there's a lot going on. It's for the breakout star, of course, which she's beyond that now, of course. Shining as much as for the personality as they do for the work that they produce. You know, everything they put on display is going to be hit after hit and they're always going to find other ways to entertain you in the process. So I would, I'm trying to guess who this award could go to. So who's like the Doja Cat of the NFL? The award is that they're just as entertaining on the field as off. And the break up. Thank you, Marissa. What's going on with our prompter? I would love to read these things in our prompter. That's still efforting. The Doja Cat Award, if Doja Cat doesn't need a prompter, neither do I. The Doja Cat Award goes to, oh, this is a good answer. Sol's courage as a true shutdown corner in his league as rookie. Marissa, has he been a mayor of shutdown city? Four times. Yep, he's out here trolling his opponents and their fans every week. The cheese head, we all saw that. Al-Lazar, it's R and U. Every time the camera cuts to him and he's making a play, he is talking more trash than Doja Cat did about that Mexican pizza. Did you guys see that Mexican pizza thing that? I've no, anybody know? Tweet me. He's the number one graded corner in the entire NFL that's according to PFS. And I think he might run away from this defensive rookie of the year. What do you think Toss thinks about getting the do? He likes to talk to us on our Twitter and Instagram. He think he'll like this? He think, I hope he does. Taylor Few will let us know. He'd be a DMs there. I thought it was food the whole time. So it shows what I know. Okay, and our next award is? The Dwayne The Rock Johnson Award. Oh, is this like a glow up award or like what? Okay, okay, let's see what this one is. This goes to the player who we are so excited to see mature. Great on the left. I love a turtleneck. I love this whole look. But to see him sort of grow and mature and try new things and not be seen as a guy who's talking about what they smell like and what the rock is cooking and all of that, like a nice transition into just like a different plane. And that's what we're looking for. Just like this guy. So we saw him thrust into the national spotlight at 18 and continued to blossom before. The Dwayne The Rock Johnson goes and I wasn't talking about Dwayne there. I was talking about the winner of this award and I know who it is. Oh, I know who it is. I'm good. Tell her who the winner is. Jaylen Hertz. I'm gonna add a young gauge, young stage, but national, I mean big stage rather. National championship is a freshman in Alabama. Being forced to transfer to Oklahoma. Becoming a controversial second round pick of the Eagles. And now in his third year, year number three, Marissa McBride leading the team to an undefeated 8-0 record. Sitting along a top rolling at the top of the NFL standings and he's increased his passer rating over 20 points. He's throwing dots out there and he is the engine behind this juggernaut that is the Philadelphia Eagles. So Eagles fans, I mean you just gotta hope that what's happening in the transition is a little more Moana and a little less the tooth fairy. Anybody seen the tooth fairy? No, no one's seen the, no, exactly. That's where we want, you've seen it? Yeah, nobody's seen the tooth fairy. But this is what we want out of Jaylen. And then we have a fans choice award, of course. We're like the hip. What are we doing? Comeback player of the year. That's what we want from Twitter. Hey, it's a great idea. Who is the comeback player of the year? Who's having a comeback right now? Brendan Frazier. Brendan Frazier's having a fun comeback. Low Waste Jeans are making a comeback. I did a Pilates class yesterday because I heard Low Waste Jeans are coming back. What else is coming back? Low Hand, Lindsay Low Hand has two movies. The New York Post, that's something we need to say about her but what else is new about The New York Post? We have Lavante David on the show before he heads over to Germany for the international series. If you've got him, love him. Future Hall of Famer, Lavante David, next. You stepped for your trip and I learned all about Germany. I don't know if you've ever been there before. Which teammate would you pick as your beer-guzzling partner? Now, Tom can throw him down. Hey, listen, listen. I can't just pick one person if you say that. It's a bunch of dudes. Go. Welcome back to the up and Adam's show. Mr. Todd Bowles, excited, of course. That's Tom Brady, not yelling, not throwing said Microsoft surfaces. And that is a win for Tampa Bay. They are sitting there pretty, the rest of the NSA cells, L's all around. So who's gonna stop Tom Brady in this division? Is this a turnaround? They've got a big game this weekend, of course. Overseas in Munich. Maybe we'll do our show for Munich one time. I don't think we can be trusted. I don't know if this group of cast, cast of characters, I'll be trusted. But then they're like, maybe we'll send you to the derby. And I'm like, that's a terrible idea. But I'm here for it, but a terrible idea. But we got to sit down and spend some time with Lavante David, who, Future Hall of Famer, such respect for players, such a leader in that locker room, I believe unheralded on a national level. And we caught up ahead of this huge game where he has to stop Geno Smith and company. Take a look. Huge win, my friend, over the defending Super Bowl champs, Saints lose, Falcons lose, Carolina loses, let's get a buck in your vibe check. How we feeling? We just need a win. Obviously, with the three games game we had, losing three in a row, it wasn't a good feeling. It wasn't a good test tonight. I'm out. It definitely was a good feeling to finally get a win and change the dynamics in the locker room. Changers, that's what you're seeing. I'm hearing that and I'm hearing turning point. I'm hearing Tom Brayton slam in that table and I just have a weird feeling about this team. That was awesome. That was awesome. How much more meaningful was it coming off a player's only meeting that I hear you were a keynote speaker in? It was real good. It kind of makes you feel like your message was received in a sense, but just a message that needs to be delivered, just trying to get a feel of everybody, just trying to check the temperature of everybody, make sure everybody's goal is still intact. Just me as a leader, just trying to keep everybody up, keep everybody positive and let them know that it's far from over. Then getting started the way we wanted it to start. But like I always say, I mean I got a lot of football left and I got a lot of conferences in the locker room. Yeah, so take me, I've never been in a player's only meeting, of course, who, I need to know more about them because everyone says, oh, they had a player's meeting, blah, blah, blah. Who decides that you're having one? Is it like an email zoom link or is it like a group text like, yo, meet me for protein shakes by the bleachers after practice? Like how does it go down? Nah, I really just random, you know, just random. You know, you just, you know, some of the things not going good. You just grab a bunch of people, you know, you could talk to everybody, you know, personally, you could talk to everybody all together. And that's what we try to do, man. We call ourselves brothers and that's how brothers act. It clearly had an effect on your little brother, Devin White, because I mean, how good must it have felt to watch him ball off into the Rams? It's always good, man. He knows he's a great player. I tell him he's a great player. So you can't let that outside stuff mess with you, man. You know, obviously the message was received. So he definitely wanted people to know that he's still Devin White. Me being 11 years in the league and dealing with a lot of things got dealt with. You know, I just try to, you know, just try to teach him and just try to let him know how to deal with certain things. I think I'm doing a pretty good job and I feel like he's taking it really well. You are, you can tell in the difference from a week from before the Rams game to what we saw against the Rams. And I'm sure we'll see this week and against the Seahawks. You have a lot to do with that. I hope you give yourself credit because your teammates certainly see it and they speak highly of you. But you, my friend, specifically, you lead. I do even know this. You lead all active players in solo tackles. Did you know that? No, I did not know that. You do. You do with 900, 908 solo by yourself. You do it alone. Lafonte, David, they do everything. Linebacker doing it for Tampa. There's someone on your team on offense. We can't avoid here in this conversation. He's been doing it for 20 years in this town. Great. And you've spent like three seasons with him now, I think. What's the one most important lesson that you've learned from him directly or just being around him? Just always being positive. He's a very positive guy. Always encouraging. You know, he's never down. You know, just having that competitive nature. You see the stuff that goes on, you know, on the sidelines, whatever. But after that, you know, he's back positive, back being himself. And it just encourages him to see. He's just trying to watch him from afar and just see how he carries himself and just see how he handles adversity, you know. Lafonte. That's so good. There are some Microsoft surfaces, those tablets, that would say, Lafonte, my life was lost. I was in the hospital. I know Microsoft said I was in the hospital. I was in the hospital weeks after Tom threw me. But you're saying, are you saying that there's these moments that are incredibly competitive, but they don't matter? People want to say like, he's yelling at people. He's like, it's really not how it's taken by teammate. Right. It's not taken that way. You know, it's a competitive edge that we all have. Yeah. And you know, when he's getting after with people, you know, shoot, I get after with people too. So I just don't get captured doing it. So it's just a competitive thing. You know what I'm saying? Everybody receives it well. And it just a will to win, and that's what he has. Was you and Bobby Wagner drafted in the year played with each other Sunday? I'm looking for footage of the, you know, this is like the perfect Jersey swap depth of scenario. Two studs, two future Hall of Famers. I was scouring the internet. Did y'all not swap jerseys? We swapped jerseys already when he was in Seattle. So he did that before. But we seem to encourage him messages throughout the year and stuff like that. So Bobby's a great deal, man. He definitely got who motivates me. He motivates each other to keep staying cool. Okay, so your next game. Let's look ahead here. You're going up against three Hawks who are fire right now speaking of Seattle. It's in Germany. I want to get you set for your trip. And I learned all about Germany. I don't know if you've ever been there before, but I'm going to give you a scenario and you have to pick a teammate that you're going to do that scenario with, okay? And you can't pick Devon. Okay, I can't pick Devon. You can't pick Devon. You're on this long plane ride over. You have to pick your morning teammate to sit next to and control the music. Who are you picking and what are you listening to? I'll probably pick Carlton Davis because we're from the same neighborhood and like we kind of like some of the same music, Miami music, some of that fast type music. And then we could probably switch it up sometimes. You know, Carlton listens to some old school. He listens to gospel. So we definitely have a similar vibe on the music. I love it. I would pick the first. I would pick Todd Bolst. I think he would not talk. I think he wouldn't listen to music. I think he'd be quiet for a while. Yeah. I love Todd Bolst. He's the best. That's a great pick. Okay, so there's this thing. I don't know if you're familiar. It's called the Audubon, okay? And it's this. It's crazy. I just found out what that was. So what teammate would you want to drive down the Audubon with? I'll probably go Leonard. Leonard kind of was a fad driver. He's a speed guy sometimes. He'd be pilling out the facility going fast and stuff. So I'll probably take the pick limit. So let's do track with it. What kind of car are y'all driving? What kind of car are you driving? Should we drive in the Ferrari? A Ferrari? Yeah, yeah. Leonard Fornette in the Ferrari. That's a good one. Okay, so then we have this thing called October Fest. And it's basically like a big party. Beers on beers on beers on beer. Which teammate would you pick as your beer guzzling partner? Now, Tom can throw them down. Listen, listen. I can't just pick one person if you say that. It's a bunch of dudes. Go. I go Vita Vale. I go Pat O'Connor. I go Will Ghoston. I go Jamel Dean. Okay. Levante, have you thought about this before? No, honestly, this is just guys who I've been out with and I know how to get down. Vita Vale has blew out your mouth. Yeah, yeah. Vita for sure. He's definitely getting the more. I love that. Okay, Germans are also famous for their food. They've got things like this, okay? It's called Schnitzel. It's like a pork chop breader. It's the whole thing, right? They've got sausages. They've got pretzel. Who would you eat your way through Germany way? Eat my way, I should. I'll probably go Vita again. A Keem Hicks. Okay, yeah, I could see that. Not Tom Brady. Not Tom. No, definitely not Tom. You know Tom may eat that type of stuff. Okay, last one. This is later host and this is with Outfit, right? I'm sure you've seen it before. Which teammate would be most likely to wear this as their fit and pull it off? Their game day fit? No, honestly, I would probably do Pat O'Connor for sure though. Why Pat? I'm not getting all this love in the segment. You know, because it's good for Pat. Pat do a lot of dorky stuff. And he would do something, yeah, he would do something like that for sure. So wait, so tell me for real, does this team have any vibe of a, I know you don't want to get ahead of yourself, but does it have any sort of feeling for the future like you had that year you were in the Super Bowl? Uh, not really. You know, like I said, man, we dug ourselves in the hole, so we're just trying to focus on one game at a time right now. We're not looking ahead, we're just focusing on the right now. We got Seattle, we about to play, who's spending like you said on fire. Got some great players, they're doing a lot of great job and go as a team. Are you going to be the team that brings this Gino party to an end? Hey, man, we're trying to, you know what I'm saying? We want to, and we're going to work at it. Levante, we are such big fans, you are amazing, and we are wishing all the best things for you. Thank you so much for making time. No problem, okay, thank you. Go do it, go get it done. Bye. Tampa Bay Buccaneers face the Seattle Seahawks, they, of course, on their way to Germany for this one. We bring in Matthew Hamilton. We're waiting for Eric Weill to get logged in, and I appreciate you hopping on. I know he'll be on later in the show. He's such an unassuming future Hall of Famer. I loved, my favorite thing that, I mean, that was one of my favorite interviews I ever did. And it was last minute. That was awesome. It was last minute. He last minute said, yeah, I have time to sit down. Thank you to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for helping facilitate that, of course. And we all sat for five minutes, our whole team, like, what do we ask him? What do we ask him? And you brought up wanting to bring up Bobby Wagner, which I didn't even think of. And it's so true. And they're both so unassuming, even though they're both wearing those gold jackets at a certain point, I love the respect he has for Bobby. And I can only imagine what those messages share between the two of them. So I thought that really stuck out to me. And he's a little too humble as, you know, and he's smiley and he's great, but we saw what Devin White looked like week eight. We saw what he looked like week one through seven. And then you saw there's a player meeting. We all hear that Levante David is a spokesman, the person making that happen and loud. And then you saw it on the field. So he deserves mutual credit. He really does. And that was one of the byproducts of Brady going there. Like he's been so great for so long since he broke into this league. And he didn't really get recognized for it. And that was one of the cool that Brady going there, shed some light on a lot of other guys that deserved a lot of credit. And I think he was at the forefront of that. He's, as he talked about in the interview, leading the league in solo tackles among active players. So he's been doing it at such a high level for such a long time. It's awesome to see him getting more of the spotlight now. And as he said, such an unassuming personality, but also so much fun there and what he's meant to that entire defense. I'm just looking like his Twitter. And I think this is, he has 2,687 followers. It's not verified. I mean, the bucks need to spring for that $8 thing. Don't get me started. I actually don't even know what's going on there. I'm too, I don't even know. But he's so honest, but he's so great. And we loved having him on the show. And I love this next guy coming up on the show. It is the bearded one, the guy who's beard, your beard aspires to be, Matthew Hamilton. There's a gritty feeling in the air. Here he is, Eric Weddle. Joining us after this one of the best safety, he's going to put on the safety goggles and look at matchups for week 10. A Super Bowl champion in our midst rams. Those Ravens look so, are the Ravens winning the Super Bowl? This year they might. A Chargers superstar as well. Best friend to somehow ever guess that comes on the show and always wants to like to ask Weddle questions through them. I'm just here to ask Weddle questions for Danny Woodhead and Andrew Whitworth. Here he is, Eric Weddle. There he is. What's going on? What's going on? Lots is going on. Oh my goodness, it's week 10. There's a game in Germany this weekend. Aaron Rodgers is throwing interceptions up against the Lions, the lowly Lions defense. So we have a lot to get to. And you my friend are taking over as head coach of your local high school team next year. The big NFL news of course was a surprise Jeff Saturday, hiring by the Colts as an interim guy. A guy with no college, no NFL coaching experience. But he says he's a leader of men and he wants to do it. Here's my question for you. Let's say the Rams job opens up tomorrow. You get the call for, I guess it would be Demoff, right? Or Les, somebody calling you. What are you, what's the first thing that you think? Take me through like, imagine I'm Demoff saying, Weddle, the coaching job is open for whatever reason. I want you to take it. Yeah, it would be a big jump obviously, a commitment. And, you know, like Jeff said, he's not in there to, he knows what it's like in the sense of as a player, he's been around it. And he knows he's got to go earn the respect of the guys. He hasn't been around, not any off season training camp. So he's going to go in there with the approach that I'm going to earn the guys respect. I'm going to be me. And try to do the best he can. Like there's a reason why Jim Hersey reached out to him. And for all the understanding, is it the right thing to do? Is it the not, is there better qualified guys? Of course, but at the end of the day, he's the owner, he's going to do what he wants. And he feels most comfortable with the guys he knows and trusts, and that's Jeff Saturday. So at the bottom line is he's the owner, he makes that decision, whether he's right or wrong, he'll decide that after eight weeks. And it might be the best hire, it might not be, but he does bring a lot of quality. Listen, at the end of the day, head coaches just got to galvanize the units. They got to inspire, they got to manage personalities, right? And they just got to lead the ship. It's not the X's and O's, it's not all this other crap at times. You just got to lead men. And Jeff Saturday said it perfectly. And I think he'll do great because he was a stud player. He, I mean, the list goes on and on. So I think it's, yeah, I think it's awesome. Anytime any X players get coaching jobs or head coaching opportunities, they usually do outstanding. So we'll see what happens, but I love it. And I think it shakes everything up. It's definitely the players and the coaching staff and this and that. We'll see, it's eight game, eight game audition for the Colts and everybody else. I didn't ask about Jeff's, I asked about you and you somehow turned it into your thoughts on Jeff Saturday, which is incredible. I will say this though, lots of people want you to be a head coach in the NFL, including Jeff's Reback, a friend of the show, who of course covers the Ravens for the athletic. He thinks it's a good idea. Which former Ravens player, I mean, there's a lot of good ones to choose from and that you would be the best head coach. I'll ask you this, you're saying that the head coach's job is to galvanize men, to be a leader, to manage personalities. You have what it takes, what would you do in that Colts locker room to do that? What would be your first most important thing of business in it sort of getting those guys to buy in? It just gets back to the basics. Why haven't we been successful? And it starts with the O-line and D-line and controlling the run, protecting the football, protecting your quarterback, running the football. I mean, this was the number one Russian team just the year ago. So why has that not been the case? And figuring out what's holding this team up? You know, like you talk with the leaders on the team, talk with the guys that you trust within the organization and figure it out. And the bottom line is just being real and honest with the players. When I was a player, the coaches I respected most were the ones that were up front with me and told me, hey, if I'm playing that crap, Eric, you're playing that crap, you gotta pick it up. Like you're the top guy on this defense. Like you can't have a bad game, right? So let's figure out why are we putting you in bad spots and the scheme, whatever it is. So as a coach, just figuring it out, figuring out what your team needs and being honest and upfront with them and be collaborative with them, right? It's not just all on the head coach. It takes everybody. And I know the head coach and the stars get the limelight, but it takes all 53. It takes every coach within the organization to be successful on Sundays. It's not just one person and just understanding that. We had Lara Overton on the show. So she's the team reporter for the Indianapolis Colts. She's more than that, though. She's a producer. She's really close to the guys in that locker room, the front office all over. And she came on when this happened and told us that, you know, I asked her about the shock, like the player shocked and they said, yes, they were stunned when they benched Matt Ryan. And of course, even the Naim Hines trade and then the Frank Reich thing and then out of the Jeff Saturday thing. They, but they also feel the burden of responsibility. Like they feel culpable. They feel like, well, man, if we played better, if we were this, if we were that, none of this would be happening. So I ask you, you know, if you put yourself back in the locker room as a player, how would Eric Wettel, the player feel about Jeff Saturday coaching him? Cause there's also the, you know, the fact that Jeff wasn't in the building. He was there for a little bit in training camp, but there's a lot of Reggie Wayne. There's a lot of guys who were in the building that players might want to have seen. How would Eric Wettel handle or like Jeff Saturday coaching him? The bottom line is it doesn't matter what I want or think or and concern with. My job is to be great on Sundays and try to leave this team. And obviously the guys in that locker room probably feel that they haven't done a good enough job. So it always comes back to yourself. You look yourself in the mirror and figure out how can I do a better job? How can I better, how can I prepare better? How can I be a better teammate? How can I make sure on Sunday that I do everything throughout the week that I play great on Sunday? It doesn't matter who the head coach is, quite honestly to me. I don't need a coach to motivate me and get me ready for the game. I just need a guy to make sure that the ship's going in the right direction and make great decisions on Sunday and not going for fourth down when we should be punting it or kicking field goals. Like that's what I care about, but ultimately you need a guy, obviously to lead men. And I think Jeff can do that and we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens, of course, we'll see what the real plans are for this Colts team. There's a lot, they got a lot to look at in this office and know that about it. I mean, you could even say, and I know this is wild thinking, right? And I'm not saying by this, by any means, but you could easily, or say you could call Jeff and be like, hey, Jeff, hey, Jeff, like we're struggling. I just need a guy that I trust to just write it out and we need to lose as many games to get the top pick. Like that could easily be the case as well. Like we don't know, but maybe save one of the guys, one of the assistants on staff, the embarrassment of the rest of the season and actually is doing them a favor. Like we don't know because we're not in that building, we're not in those conversations. We could all just think about, why is this, why that? But I mean, that could easily be the case too. But you're not wired that way as a player, right? Or as a coach and maybe Frank Reich, Frank Reich, I don't know him very well, but I don't think he's wired that way. I'm sure he would not have been on board with that sort of a philosophy. No, well, Frank was gone at this point. I'm saying Ursaid to Jeff Saturday. But I'm saying, why is Frank gone? All I'm saying, if you're saying that we're struggling and this is the plan potentially, we need somebody to carry that plan out, is Frank Reich gonna carry that plan out? Likely no. I mean, listen, I'm just throwing another dart at the board to just get people talking because we don't know, nobody knows, right? And we're gonna find out after eight games if it was a good decision or not. And they're gonna move forward. And all of us talking heads is really relevant because we don't make any decisions. Yeah, Ursaid wants, you know, people wanna say what they want about. Ursaid wants to win. And Ursaid knows that time is of the essence with this close organization. Quarterback carousel since luck decided to retire. I mean, it's not the lack of effort, just the decisions they've made haven't been, I mean, outside of Phillip Rivers, that was the one successful season with the quarterback carousel, which is unfortunate. Any time we give Phillip Rivers love on the show, you know I love that. All right, tonight we've got Falcons Panthers and let's just be honest, this is a rematch of one of the best games of the season, D.J. Moore's touchdown, there's the controversial celebration penalty, Atlanta's win in overtime. I hope it's a high scoring game, but I'm gonna ask you, our safety of record on the show to give us a closer focus on the game. Whoa, look at that, young man. What's a matchup you're looking closely at? 50 goggles. I'm looking at how is the Carolina defense going to minimize the opportunities of their great tight end pits. He is one of these new generation type tight ends, they're athletic, they're fast, they're big, electric, right? And if I'm Atlanta, I'm trying to get this guy at least at the bare minimum 10 touches a game because of the mismatch he presents every snap of the game. So I'm curious to see how they match up with him. He had 80 yards of touchdown in the first game, couple of explosive plays. I mean, at any time you can get this guy a matchup whether it's third down in the ISO, off the ball, an option route, or those overs, those crossers, those routes that are run away from the defender, that's their best option. So he needs to be getting the ball and Carolina knows that. So I'm interested to see if they've got a good plan for him. If not, he can wreck the game. I mean, he's too big, too fast, too explosive to not have a plan for him every single snap. Feisty young defense on the Carolina side, they got something to prove Kyle Pitts up against those linebackers. Let's see what happens tonight. Who do you think wins? Panthers, Falcons. I got the Falcons. They kind of gave that game away last week against the Chargers. I think they're hovering around mediocre to good. At times they're good and at times they just aren't there. So I think it's obviously a division battle. I think it's going to be a close game, but I think Atlanta is a better team. Carolina is going in the wrong direction, which unfortunately, I love Coach Wilkes and the job he's trying to do there, but they're just not very good. You're very good though. I love that safety goggles. Am I right? I love that, but now we have to do the serious business of what we've done here to do. It's time to get down and gritty. The grit list. Last week. Last week. I know I guess people are getting up war, so I'm thinking maybe halfway through the season we strap the first half and get a new list in there because they just think my top three isn't good enough for everybody else. They want to change where I'm a routine type guy, but we're going to go with, we've got Mack here coming in the sideline coming out. He dropped in coverage for one, which you don't really like to see with Mack, but he's a freak of nature. So he can't do that every once in a while. And the guy literally just takes the ball from Drake London on the sideline, just an impressive man grizzly bear type play. And that's just grit. Like, I mean, the dude just. That's just grit. I mean, seriously, like, how do you just let the ball get ripped like that? You gotta be tough on that. You gotta be tough on that. Number two, we had tasted him. I mean, my wife Marmar, I love my guy. Yeah, I got him as a rookie in Baltimore. I love him and he is one of the most physical dudes in the game as a corner. But my guy, Taysom Hill, Taysom Hill did this to me my last year in Baltimore. I came up on a zone rate. He didn't really run me over. He just outran me to the sideline. I just didn't have the pep in my step as a 34 year old, but Taysom Hill is great to the tee. He plays all over the place. And he just trucks Marmar like that. Sorry, buddy. And we got Samuel right here. Here's Samuel with a triple coverage. I'm not sure what he's doing here. And a terrible decision, but he gets helped by the rep. I think the rep is more gritty on this than the actual catch for actually being a bonus offender for the red for the Redskins. Yeah, they are the Redskins. They'll always be the Redskins to me. And yeah, make a catch. Harrison Smith, he's not trying to get PI. So he kind of lets up. What a catch. They probably thought his partner was gonna pick it, which is just crazy. So these do not make my top three. I'm sorry. Oh! My top three stays the same. And it's unfortunate to say this will be the retirement of the first half three. Wow. Yeah, we're gonna move on to a new top three next week. So who knows, this is the new week 10 will be a new grit list top three and we'll see who makes it. Very excited. And if you guys see anything tonight's game, it could happen. Kyle Pitts could have a gritty play, like you're saying. Thank you. You only had two grabs last week in a loss. Let's figure it out. Kyle Pitts tweeted us at up and Adam's show and let us know. And we just really appreciate you're the best. Thank you so much. And we have a new grit list. And I mean, that ref was crazy. What was that ref doing? It was just comical that a ref screws up a play like that for, I mean, typical. I mean, the refs. Good for Curtis Samuel. We'll be back after this on up and Adam's. Thank you, Mr. White. I'll get back to making avocado toast this morning. Sprinkle of sea salt in the land variety. All right, we'll be back. We got some DF. Yes, guys to get in your fan dual sports book lineup next. Gear it up for another week of college football. You can get in on the action and win part of a $20,000 prize pool. It is part of Twisted T's college football picks contest. It is free to enter. You'll make six picks, earn points for each. Sign up today at fandual.com. I got some DF. Yes for you. Right here. Let's take a look. These are guys you plug into your lineup. And let's take a look. Justin Fields, all the rage, man. Ride the hot hand. He's worth paying for. Lions on the docket. Tony Pollard crushing it lately. Love this value. Who does he have? The Packers. You can definitely run on them. Mooney at $60,200. I like stacking Mooney and Fields against the Lions. Defense do it. Dalton Schultz, impressive breakout year. You know, slowed by some injuries, dropping his value. So I'd say you take advantage of it. Six catches for 74 and he's coming off a buy. We'll be back after this little hammer time. Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. I have to, can't touch this. What am I doing? All right, we'll be back. Matthew Hamilton. Is it? All right, whatever. We got this. We got more on Josh Allen after this. Oh yeah. Can't touch this. Big time matchup this weekend. Seven and one Vikings visiting the six and two builds all eyes on Josh Allen's elbow, ulnar, collateral, something. But even before he suffered the injury against the Jets last week, he was having some uncharacteristic struggles. So we bring in Matt Hamilton for another round of hammer time. Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. There you go. Yeah, you were right last time when you were bumping. That's the song. Okay, did the Jets expose something seriously in the bill's offense last weekend? You'd be worried about. Well, there was something interesting that I noticed because one of the biggest keys to Josh Allen's success that we've seen over the past couple of years has been his ability to move and manipulate defenders like this play I'll show you right here. These pump fakes have become such a signature part of his game. And with his arm strength and mobility, defenses get especially jumpy and tend to bite at his first movement trying to make plays on the ball. But I want to show you what the Jets did on Sunday that was a little bit different. We'll start with the first interception that he threw in that game to Jordan Whitehead. And you'll see the Jets are playing a cover three here. This is the second play. But here, this is the, okay, here we go. All good. This is a cover three from the Jets down in the red zone. The bills are gonna roll Josh Allen out, get him into space, where he's especially dangerous. But I want you to watch how this plays out. So watch, he gets his head around, he spots him right away, Dawson knocks. He has some leverage on the flat defender, Whitehead. But he knows he's gonna need a little bit of time to get there with the Jets getting a jam on him. So look, his eyes come to the middle of the field. That's just to try to move the defense, get these Jets defenders to drop off a little. Look, he's even pointing down field to try to move those defenders. And look, the first time he looks at Dawson knocks, that ball's already about to come out of his hand. He didn't account for Jordan Whitehead staying in that flat, not reacting to the pointing, to him putting his eyes down field. He never saw him there. He just expected Whitehead to move as he tried to manipulate the defense. And we saw it again later in that game. The Jets playing cover to here, you'll see Sauce Gardner dropping to the flat there at the bottom of the screen. He's the one that ends up coming up with this interception. The Bills run a little route combo here to try to play with him. Gabe Davis is running the go route. He's got, and James Cook is running to the flat. They're gonna try to use James Cook to hold Gardner in place so Allen can hit that whole shot. And look, he's pumping, everything says he's gonna throw this ball to James Cook. Every other defender in Sauce Gardner's position is breaking on James Cook, trying to get a hit in on him, trying to break it up. Instead, Gardner just stays in his drop. He knows Allen's gonna try to hit that whole shot so he keeps dropping, gets into that passing lane and comes up with the interception. And we haven't really seen defenses do this. Gardner knows most of the time Josh Allen's first move that he shows you is gonna be something to try to move you out of the way so he can, exactly, he's gonna try to get you out of the way so he can do what he ultimately wants to do which is take a shot down field. So I think it's more about the Jets and their discipline as a defense than it was about Josh Allen. But yes, exactly, it's a lesson going forward, I think, for defenses as they prepare for Josh Allen. Don't take the bait, stay disciplined. Vikings can be disciplined. What do you think of this game? I think it's gonna be interesting. I know upfront I think the Vikings can mimic what the Jets did as far as being able to get pressure with four or five keeping guys in coverage to account for those bills receivers but I don't know if the secondary is good enough. Yeah, 27 this year. Exactly, so I think they might struggle on the secondary. I still like, given the elbow injury, the total's 43 and a half, I think I'd lean towards the under here with that. The under, for Matthew Hamilton, that's such an incredible breakdown. I gotta tell you, Brian Barton, who of course is a huge Bill's fan, is like, he's literally making noises while you're showing those interceptions. But you're showing the lesson that I just learned is when you're on defense, Vikings, be patient. Be patient. Exactly. And let him show you what he wants you to do and then don't let him do it. Matthew Hamilton with hammered tongue. Dun, dun, dun, dun. 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