00:00Great Toblerone Alberhauser joining us.
00:03I'll let you get settled here.
00:04Can you please call that man by his right name?
00:07Tobias Altizer, I believe, is his right name.
00:11B, we do have some injury stuff.
00:14Jordan McGee, Johnny Newton, Odafa Owe, Kalevon Chason.
00:19These are not bottom of the roster, guys.
00:22They did not practice.
00:23They brought in a new linebacker.
00:25They brought in a new D lineman.
00:27I don't think Johnny Newton had his most impressive outing Friday night.
00:31I agree.
00:35You don't jump to conclusions in August.
00:37I can't encourage that enough.
00:39But that is certainly something of note,
00:43especially going into a couple days in pads that's supposed to be fairly.
00:47Can that be why they didn't practice today?
00:49Because Chason and Owe didn't do anything since Thursday last week.
00:53Right.
00:55I don't know.
00:56So it's something.
00:57We'll see tomorrow.
00:59Tomorrow's kind of a big day because Dan Quinn has kind of made it a big day.
01:02He's told us it's a big day.
01:04You know it's a big day when Toby joins us.
01:06Hello, Tobo.
01:06How you doing?
01:07What's going on, guys?
01:08Good to be here.
01:09What did you see today?
01:09What did you learn?
01:11Well, Josephs, you mentioned Owe not practicing today.
01:13They clearly like what they've seen from Josephs.
01:15He basically took all of his reps today.
01:16So you like to see that from the rookie.
01:19And I thought Jaden, he finished practice.
01:21I mean, Jaden was just on the money to finish.
01:24Two passes, touchdown, found Diggs on a little slot fade down the right sideline,
01:29and then immediately finds Chig right over the middle on a post route for a touchdown.
01:33I mean, that's the stuff you love to see, just right on target, right on the money.
01:37He's so good.
01:38My buddy Mike Farley is here today and was asking me, like, you know,
01:41what do you think for this season?
01:43And I just, the math, I'm not a math guy, but I can look at numbers, right?
01:50And I can draw some conclusions.
01:52We don't draw conclusions from August.
01:54But when Jaden Daniels is on the field, the Burgundy and Gold win about two-thirds of their games.
02:00Like, he's looked so freaking good that if Jaden Daniels is on the field for the majority of this season,
02:06I think they're a wild card team.
02:07Yeah, it's going to be a problem with some people.
02:10Yeah, I mean, when you look at, too, I wonder if they didn't tip their hands a little bit
02:15on what they're going to do today in terms of what they're going to do in Detroit
02:19because Jaden took so many reps today.
02:21And obviously that's a good thing, make sure you're getting ready for the season regardless.
02:25But he took so many reps today with the ones and even occasionally with some of the twos
02:31just to get those extra reps in.
02:33So I'm wondering if they're not tipping their hand a little bit
02:35that maybe he's not going to play against Detroit.
02:37I think DQ's kind of saying it.
02:39Hey, man.
02:39Yeah.
02:40If he's not going to play, he needs to get a lot of reps.
02:42Yeah.
02:43So we know he needs the reps.
02:44Get it.
02:45What do you – I have been clear that I don't think the risk is worth the reward
02:49of 11 snaps in Detroit for the guy that when he's on the field you win two-thirds of your
02:54games.
02:55And it's – they're going to play that game on August 22nd.
02:58They don't play in Philly until September 13th.
03:00I personally will completely understand if they don't play him.
03:04B is correct and played in this league and said you've got to play football to play football.
03:09Where are you, Toby?
03:10I'm more old school.
03:11I would love to see him play.
03:13I think you do need some of those reps.
03:14At the same point, the joint practices against Miami are valuable.
03:17You're going to get the joint practice against Baltimore, assuming they don't flake this time.
03:21And those are going to be valuable, right?
03:23So I do think that those matter.
03:25But I also think there's a difference when things are live versus when they're not.
03:29And even though I think when Jaden plays out here, he doesn't necessarily – it's not as if he plays
03:34like he's in practice
03:35and holds the ball for a year and a half.
03:37Like he gets the ball out on time and if he has to, checks it down.
03:40But I do think there is a difference.
03:41So I understand your point, JP, that if you lose him for any amount of time, then obviously that's going
03:47to be a massive risk.
03:48I also think you run the risk once again.
03:49If you start slow, you could bury your season because it's not like you play anybody easy coming out the
03:54gate.
03:55So you've got to be ready to go.
03:56When you're going live, like you're saying, live is different than when they're just in practice
04:01because you learn how to protect yourself more.
04:04You know, in practice, you get a little complacent.
04:07Yeah.
04:08I think nobody's going to touch me.
04:09This morning was fairly complacent until they kind of got a verbal ass kicking, I thought.
04:13Yeah.
04:14And sometimes you – what's funny, and I'm curious if this is your experience, me,
04:18sometimes you see a little slower practice pace when they're coming off off days.
04:25Yeah.
04:26And I believe they were here yesterday for a walkthrough, but still, like it's not –
04:29They're not doing much.
04:30It's stiff.
04:31You know, if you've been going to train again for the last two and a half weeks, you get some
04:35days off, what you going to do?
04:36Sit around.
04:37Yeah.
04:37And then when you go out to run, you're by like, hey, what the hell is wrong with you, man?
04:40I thought we were chilling.
04:41Right.
04:42You know what I'm saying?
04:43You're going full again, and it takes a little time to get there.
04:46Yeah.
04:46And then you sometimes need that coach to act like he's a jockey and start whipping so you can go.
04:52My buddy Sanai texted me, said, please tell Mr. Clean himself happy birthday and more blessings.
04:57Mr. Clean.
04:58I like that one.
04:59You know that it's Bemich's birthday, Toby.
05:01Is it?
05:01Yeah.
05:02Well, happy birthday.
05:02Yeah, Toby turned 48, man.
05:04I'm kidding there.
05:04Do you know that Bemich kicked my ass at golf yesterday?
05:07Well, that sounds about right.
05:07I think he beat me by 15 strokes.
05:09Oh.
05:12Which the handicap system was only giving me about nine.
05:15Oh.
05:15So you still got killed either way.
05:17He just don't know how to fight.
05:19I gave up too much.
05:20I took 20 bucks off Beasley, but I owed him 60.
05:24So it was a net loss of $40.
05:27Yeah, not ideal, but I guess happy birthday.
05:29Yeah.
05:30Happy birthday, B.
05:31Toby, where are you on the kicking situation?
05:34They're going with Stephens.
05:35I like it.
05:36I mean, he's got a bigger leg, and I think in the modern NFL, I mean, you see the weapon
05:40that Brandon Aubrey gives you in Dallas, being able to essentially cross midfield
05:45and you're in field goal range.
05:46So I think that having that bigger leg matters.
05:49Now, you've got to be able to make every kick inside 40, basically.
05:52I need you to be automatic inside there.
05:54But having that extra weapon, I wonder if you go back to 24, we talk so much about them
05:59going for it on fourth down so much.
06:01I wonder how much of that is, well, we don't trust the kicker, and we don't want to punt.
06:05So there's your decision.
06:06I'm going to go for it.
06:07So I wonder if you throw this into the mix, when you get to the 40-yard line, are you
06:11more
06:11apt to kick it?
06:12Does it just give you a little more of an option there instead of going for it on fourth
06:16and short every time once you get past midfield?
06:19Does it make a defense play you differently if they know you have a weapon like that?
06:22Yeah, and it's just, with Dallas, with the new kickoff rules and everything and where
06:27starting field position is, Dallas picks up a first down and a half, picks up 15, 20
06:32yards.
06:33There's three points on the board.
06:34There you go.
06:34It changes the way that the game is played.
06:36I mean, yeah, because generally your starting field position is about to 35 now.
06:40Yeah.
06:40And if you can get two first downs, you're almost in range.
06:42Yeah.
06:43Which is why I wish they had kicked Friday night from the Dolphins 44 instead of punting.
06:49Yeah, after that injury, though, Jay, you throw things out of whack.
06:51Yeah, yeah.
06:53How concerned are you about Mariota, Toby?
06:57I mean, ideally we don't see Mariota.
06:59Right.
06:59Like, it's tough to say because you would love to have him.
07:04I do think that it actually works, and I was thinking of this at the end of practice there.
07:08I think it works for Caliak Maness in his favor because he gets more reps now.
07:12He's having to basically rep with the twos, and he needs all the work he can get.
07:16I love the way he moves in the pocket.
07:19Yeah, I mean, he's a different style, you know, like Mariota.
07:23He's just not very mobile, but he's got a good arm.
07:25He's not mobile, but he seems to be, like, you don't have to be very athletic to be able
07:31to move in the pocket.
07:32I watched the other night, guys are coming around here, he just slides up, they go right
07:36past him, and he delivers the ball.
07:38Yeah, I mean, Brady.
07:39A lot of guys can't do that.
07:40Brady wasn't athletic, and he avoided Zach as good as anybody, right, being able to move
07:44around, so that's the thing that I'm interested to see is the more reps that he starts getting,
07:49B. Mitch, is how does he start to evolve?
07:52But I do think the Mariota thing is interesting because now that you do not have him for the
07:57rest of the preseason, does one of those two step up?
08:01Are you more forced now to keep that third quarterback going into week one?
08:05Because I would assume that, you know, DQ said he's optimistic that he's going to be
08:09good to go for week one, but I think that's kind of pushing it a little bit.
08:12That's a little bit, you know, early on and quick to have him back, so that's going to
08:17be interesting to see if they're maybe forced to keep that third quarterback so they're
08:20ready for week one.
08:21Yeah, listen, I just, I think right now when someone goes down, they're being overly cautious.
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