Chiefs vs. Giants Reaction 👀 How KC’s offense got it done to avoid 0-3 start | SC with SVP

Chiefs vs. Giants Reaction 👀 How KC’s offense got it done to avoid 0-3 start | SC with SVP

New York football fans, man, you guys have had it rough for a while. Tim Aselbeck is here. Hi, buddy. What’s up? How are you? You got a touchscreen that I think maybe the best the best way to to set it up is to say that this is a Chiefs team that we saw at the peak of their powers obliterate people. Was a video game come to life? They’ve been stuck in the mud a little bit, right? Offensively kind of limited. They don’t have their full complement of players as we discussed and we will continue to discuss. No worthy Rice is suspended. But what do they still have? They still have Andy Reid. They still have what I think is probably the best play caller kind of of this generation. And I say it because like when they are stuck in the mud, it’s just like little things can help you win games. You just look at the the start of the second half. Okay, it’s 96. Abdul Carter is playing as a stacked linebacker. If we just run this slow-mo, he’s a problem. Watch what he does to Creed Humphrey here on a run play. Quick swim move. Tackle for a loss. So Andy Reed’s like, “Okay, a little bit later in that drive, you’re going to have you’re going to stack Abdul Carter up there. His thing is to rush the passer. His thing isn’t necessarily to be a stacked linebacker. They’re going to give the ball in this jet sweep. You’re going to end up having two blockers out here, but keep your eyes on Abdul Carter. What happens here? Look, he’s following Pacheco in the back field. Completely out of the play.” So they end up getting the first down. Nice little run later in that same exact drive. say, “All right, you want to keep him as a stacked linebacker because here he is stacked right here.” That’s fine. We’re actually going to end up running at him, but because of the misdirection, we’re going to take him out of the play. So, it’s going to end up being a windback run. You fake the the the jet, excuse me, you fake the jet motion um to the top. So, that goes up there. You’re going to have Pacheco start this way and wind it back. Watch what happens to Abdul Carter right here. he’s going to overrun the play and because he overruns the play now Pacheco’s on the perimeter and the running and then obviously they score on that drive. It’s little subtle things like that like we talked about Andy Reid being a a play designing genius and all that stuff in the passing game. They’re really good in the run game as well. And so in a game that’s tightly contested, you just need a couple first downs. You need something to get you going because the passing game isn’t working. Like that’s how you find ways to win. And as you look at their schedule, they’ve got Baltimore there at their place next week, then it’s a Monday night game in Jacksonville, then it’s Detroit. You started 0 and2, you just can’t put yourself so far behind early, especially with the Chargers, who we’ll get to later. They’ve figuring out ways to win games, close games, which hasn’t always been their calling card, but but Kansas City still has enough institutional sort of excellence to to absorb some of these losses. And and you got to win this game somehow. And even if it’s not pretty, who cares, right? Yeah. Exactly. and you have a great head coach, you have a great quarterback, you’ve got maybe the best defensive coordinator in the game, and so you have a chance and then hopefully you get some receivers back. Wilson looks like, how does this frame Dallas’s pass defense? My god, especially with what happened today. You guys have asked me uh about players after games. I’m not going to answer that. Does does not games like getting off to a slow start change the approach? respect. You have to start thinking about, okay, when can when do we put our obviously you invested a lot in Jackson. When do we put him in? Yeah, like I said, I got, you know, we’ll continue to work with Jackson, continue to develop him. He’s done a nice job since he’s been here and again, you know, we’ll go back, we’ll watch the tape, we’ll sit down, we’ll have our discussions like we normally have and um do what we think is best. He’s the number two quarterback and this is two games now the offense has been really bad. Like at what point is Russ’s performance dictate a decision strictly on Jackson’s timeline? Yeah. Again, Dan, everybody’s got to be better. Um it’s not we’re not going to put this on one person. Everybody has to be better um collectively. Again, the run game was was a step in the right direction. Uh but the pass game, particularly on third down when you’re one of 10, that’s that’s tough sledding. Just get on the Jamus roller coaster and hang on for dear life, man. I mean, at least it’d be entertaining. Sunday, the seventh game the Giants were held to single digits at home since Brian Dable took over 2022. That is the most of any span. Uh, the second team is the Jets again to all football fans in the New York area. I How do you do it? What a play to end the game, Jordan. Unbelievable. Tell me about what happened. Uh, just comes down to the basic the details. We knew he was going to stroke low. Just had to buck it. Get up there. I’m 66. For God’s sake, I got to get my hands on. But I couldn’t do it without a push of my brothers, man. Boys got a push, follow the ground, scoop, and run. Scoop and score, man. He ran the whole way. Yeah, man. You never see never left. But man, what a game, man. What a game. S, you got to let the man catch his breath. Sal’s the king of Philadelphia. Either him or Dom, I’m not sure. Jaylen Herz has his 10th career dub when trailing by double digits. Only Patrick Mahomes has more since he entered the league. The Rams allow a 19-point second half lead to evaporate is the third largest lead in team history to get away from him. Tim stayed right where he was from just a moment ago. Completely different team in the second half, right? We show what Kansas City did to start the second half that gave them a lead they never really were going to relinquish. What did Philly do to totally flip the script in this game? Well, some personnel changes after Lane Johnson got hurt because they were struggling protecting uh Jaylen Herz, you know, once Lane came out of the game. Now, he comes back. I think what they did was said, “Look, anytime we have isolated opportunities, one-on- ones for AJ Brown, we need to take him.” And that was the difference when you look at it. So, you put him backside of three by one. So, trips to the top of the screen, got one-on-one backside. Like for Jaylen Herz, this is a a matchup you like every single time really versus anybody you’re playing. Three by one in the red zone. Same thing. He’s just too big, too strong, too physical. And as you said in the highlight, like if they’re not going to call it, it’s indefensible. Third and 10. Very similar situation. Backside of 3×1 isolated route once again. Again, at like the moment of truth, the physicality to catch the football. He won that 5050 bowl, right? He wins it. And so, you know, to think that he was shut out in the first half and then in the second half, six for over 100 in a score. Like, they need to get him involved because when they get him involved, then you can’t just one-on-one him. You have to dedicate other people to to guard him. Well, now Squan’s running against a lighter box. So, like it just is it just goes hand in hand. But the protection has to be the thing that comes first. Felt like Devonte got away with one. Felt like like AJ got away with one. So again, like I when you’re a big physical receiver, play big and physical. Um the the the superpower that Philadelphia seems to possess at the moment, and this is going to sound real basic or pedestrian, but I think it’s real. They don’t lose football games. It’s it’s I mean, I’m I’m paraphrasing, but Nick Seriani said, “A team that continues to fight is dangerous.” And I agree with that 100%. But it it takes a certain something, doesn’t it, to not just look around on a beautiful Sunday and go, you know what? I guess today is not the day. They they just don’t have that, do they? They don’t. I think it’s Jaylen Herz. You know what I mean? Like it’s Look, their coach has been a successful coach. They’ve got good players all over their team. I don’t know that there’s another quarterback that goes through a game with the amount of poise it seems like he goes through games with when things are awful. Like it doesn’t look any different than if he just threw two touchdown passes. And even then when you talk to him after the game, it sounds exactly the same. I I really think that that’s it. 33 yards of offense in the first half against Matthew Stafford and that team and what they’re doing and to be unfased by it. There’s leadership that, you know, I think it, you know, helps you persevere through that. I think it’s hurts. Competitive greatness when it’s required, man. And it’s and and you’ve you nail it right there. It’s it’s the poise and it’s just never different. That’s the stayed in the fight for 60 minutes and at the end of it won by seven. Again, it’s a good I I don’t I don’t think I have the vocabulary to uh to really express how great I feel uh with this win and and uh just admiration for for our team and for our players. I mean, gritty uh spectacular, that’s about the best word I can uh I can come up with to uh to describe it. I’m just uh just great thrill of winning. Wonderful, wonderful feeling of uh of victory. Great thrill of victory. Yeah, that’s about all I got. It the guardian of victory, his quarterback. Uh Justin Herbert was four years old the last time the Chargers began 3 and 0. Now, this team forever has had this narrative. They can’t win close games. They in fact invent ways to lose close games. Well, in this one, they find a way again and they’re 3 and 0. the significance of the way that they have won these three are all a little bit different, but what do you think about them at this point? I think they’re a really good team. You look at the the AFC West, there’s nothing that really is separating anybody from the next team. So, like, look, they beat the Broncos. I think that they are as good, maybe better than the Broncos. You saw, you know, Bo Nicks, you know, nearly, you know, makes a throw that that would have changed the outcome of the game. But what what you’re saying, Scott, is like this is a battle tested team now that has won tight games. You’re changing the belief of like how you finish those games. That play that you pointed out in the highlight is absurd. You have a quarterback that can do that stuff. And then for all of his quirkiness with with Jim Harbaugh, like there is a little bit of this like Dan Campbell to him of like, look, we’re going to be tough. This is how we’re building this football team is to be a tough football team that that is going to be gritty and grinded out. That’s a good thing in terms of the identity of who the Chargers are trying to be. They got a pretty nasty defense, too, don’t they? They do. The thing that just makes me a little nervous is they’ve gotten hit with some pretty significant injuries early. Sure, everyone’s going to have injuries from here to the time playoffs start, but when you have them early and they’re going to be long or season ending, you’re going to hit some more and that would just make me nervous. But there’s a pretty widely held sort of understanding in the National Football League that divisional wins are almost worth a little bit more than they reflect in the standings. And they have three and all are in their division. One of them over Kansas City that was in Brazil to start the season. Patrick Mahomes on getting the victory tonight and how different the second half was in New York than the first. We just executed better. I mean, I think the first few drives, I mean, we drove the ball really well down the football field. We just had mistakes and penalties and I mean, alignment stuff. Um, stuff that we’re going have to clean up for sure. Um, but I feel like we were moving the ball the right way. Kind of struggled there at the end of that second quarter, but was able to get points at the end. Um, but it was just finishing the drives, and I think that’s something that’s important in this league is getting touchdowns, not field goals. And, uh, when you score touchdowns, it looks a lot better than when you’re kicking long field goals. York. I don’t think anyone is writing the or has been writing any obituary as it relates to Kansas City. Everyone knows who they are and and over the course of time they’ll probably demonstrate that they’re one of the very best teams. But do you think are you willing, I should say, to say that you’re going to look at the Chargers as a team that that you’ll buy as being right there all season long in the West? No question about it. The Chargers are a team that can compete. They’ve already beaten them. compete, be, you know, go toe- to- toe with to them and potentially win the division. Now, the the difference I would say with Kansas City is we think they’re getting guys back, right, by forms of receiver, that type of thing. That would be, you know, kind of my point in terms of look, the Chargers have already lost their left tackle, right? So, more offensive line injuries would be a problem, but max out for right now. Yeah. And so, when I But yeah, when you look at it, he’s a superstar. Justin Herbert is an absolute superstar. There’s a few quarterbacks that have the talent that’s just at that level. You know, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert is in that same category in terms of physical ability. The fractional differences though between winning and losing are insane to me because if you look at Denver, like how did they lose last week? They lost on a 60-yard field goal that was no good where they got called for leverage, right? And then you lose in this game where you you miss one deep to Sutton. And so now you’re one and two. But I don’t think that I don’t think Denver’s a one-2 team. I think they’re really good, but it does start to change how you feel about your team when you go in for victory Monday. Yeah. And the Chargers live forever in that space where they’re one and two and they’re looking at going, we’re better than that. Well, Bill Parcell said, you’re right. You are what your record says you are. Appreciate very much the time. Tim Hasselbeck every Sunday with us here. 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Tim Hasselbeck joins SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt in studio to break down the Kansas City Chiefs beating the New York Giants, 22-9, for their first win of the season. They also recap some of the other biggest games in Week 3, including the Eagles’ comeback win against the Rams.

0:00 Chiefs vs. Giants
3:01 Brian Daboll news conference
4:28 Eagles vs. Rams
8:16 Broncos vs. Chargers
10:44 Patrick Mahomes news conference
11:15 AFC West discussion

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