Kansas City was EATING UP the Baltimore Ravens – Damien Woody + NFL overview | First Take

Kansas City was EATING UP the Baltimore Ravens – Damien Woody + NFL overview | First Take

All [Applause] [Music] right, go ahead. Carson’s much anticipated return to Dallas ended in a 4040 tie last night as Brandic McManis nailed a 34 yd field goal as time expired in overtime. The 80 combined points are the second most in a tie in NFL history. So here’s Dak Prescott and Michael Parson’s reactions to the post. You don’t play the game for for for ties. Um I’ve told y’all before, I don’t care about the stats. I don’t care about the ups and downs, the abs and flows. I just care about the end result and the win. And so, yeah, it’s just it’s a weird feeling. I’m not even going to lie, I’m pissed off, you know. Uh I’m very disappointed just overall how we performed. Uh you know, I even told Jordan to the side, you know, thank you for having our back today. Jordan played like the player he was and we let him down. We a little up to the expectations on defense. Two very different reactions there for sure. And you can see why they’re very happy to welcome in Damen Woody into the conversation. All right. So, does the tie say more about Green Bay or Dallas to you? For me, it’s Dallas. Like, listen, everyone had an expectation coming into this game that Dallas that Green Bay was going to wipe the floor with the Dallas Cowboys. the defense getting going to be able to get after uh this this Gall this Dallas Cowboys offense with with the pass rush. Remember like a couple weeks ago this Green Bay Packers defense, they’re the number one defense in the league by by kind of a large margin coming into the you know coming to the game. And so when you look at the Dallas Cowboys missing missing a couple offensive linemen, okay, no CD Lamb, everyone’s, you know, everyone’s wondering coming to the game, okay, how are they going to generate points? You know, who’s going to be that guy? Dak Prescott has arguably been paying the the playing the best quarterbacking of any quarterback in the National Football League. Slow down. Slow down. No. No. Ain’t no slow down. See See, you know what? See, you know what? See, every time See, see, every time I come on here, you be trying to You be trying to beef with me. I don’t I don’t know why. Every time. But But listen, Dak Prescott has been playing his behind off for the Dallas Cowboys. And that trade and that trade for George Pickkins is working out absolutely wonderful for the Dallas Cowboys. And and so for me, when I look at the Green Bay Packers, they’re the youngest team in the National Football League. Remember the com you heard the conversations come out locker room where they’re talking about undefeated seasons and Super Bowl and all. And see you see how you see how that’s played out over the last couple weeks. You go on the road, you lose to the Cleveland Browns, and then ultimately you you go out here and you tie the Dallas Cowboys. But I got to give the Dallas Cowboys a lot of credit. I love the the game that Brian Shottenheimer called and in eliminating Michael Parsons. You know, you always got to eliminate those guys that are quote unquote playmakers who destroy a game. I got to give a lot of credit to Brian Shottenheimer and how he uh called the game. And Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott. Can we give that man his props? Can we give that man his props? You can sit here and roll your eyes about Dak Prescott right now because I know it’s so it’s so predictable. Just wait. I I He That’s all he gonna say. Just wait. Just wait. Just wait. Just wait. Just wait until December. Just wait on Dak Prescott, but we got to give Dak Dak Prescott, right? For nine straight years. Well, I mean, we got to give Dak Prescott his props, man. So, it says to me more about the Dallas Cowboys. Go ahead, Cam. Thank you. Because Woody, I can’t allow you to come on here when the the temp we playing. We spraying nothing but bad and uh spraying all bad vibes away. That’s good vibe repellent. You dig what I’m saying? Or good vibe energy. And when you say he’s playing the best, no, no, no, no, no. I’m going to remind everybody about this particular individual, Joshua Raheem, the individuals that’s over there in Buffalo. You dig what I’m saying? You remember him? So I remember. So, when you have a guy that’s playing out of his mind right now, the thing that everybody questioned last year, how would Josh Allen play without those receivers? And what did he do? Go win an MVP. I mean, it’s arguably I mean, it’s one of those scratching head moments, but he did it with a team. What that Quavius is doing is still the same. Play within yourself. Allow guys around you to make plays. Don’t don’t don’t go over and beyond because you don’t need to. Play within yourself. Gives guys opportunities. Let’s see what George Pickles can do. He showed you. Let’s see what everybody else can do. They showed you. And do not put the ball in jeopardy. That’s all we’re asking Dak to do. So when I’m looking at Josh Raheem Allen perform at a high level and you just going to sit up here and say Dak is playing better than him. Yeah. Slow slow down. Oh yeah. I just want to have the rights to that song. show you. Now, you got to edit it a little bit, but that’s that’s all I’m saying. Let’s keep things into perspective. Last night’s game did prove a lot for Dallas, right? And this is coming from a person I’ve been abundantly clear and open to tell you like, yo, I just call it spade how I call it. Dak is playing a very, very clean brand of football that’s needed to be continuous for them to have a chance moving forward. We can win without CD. We never thought that. last night showed that that can be the case. If we can get Matt Eberloose defense to lock in, get off the field on third down and stop having these blown coverages. Oh my goodness. What would that look like? So, basically, you agree with me. No, no, no. You You agree with me? I mean, it’s okay. We did a little bit. Okay. Okay. A little bit. We can agree to disagree. Okay. All right. Okay. See that, brother? Yeah. Last night’s game last night’s game was more about the Packers. We walked into the season knowing that the Dallas Cowboys would have a prolific offense and they have not disappointed. We were talking about the Green Bay Packers as arguably the number one seed. We were talking about them after they beat up on Lions and then the Commanders that this was the top threat to the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC. Two weeks later, after a loss to the Cleveland Browns, no offense whatsoever, and a tie to the Dallas Cowboys, no defense whatsoever. Now we finding out they ain’t what we thought they were because they came into last night as the number one scoring defense in the National Football League. And the Green Bay Packers put up the Dallas Cowboys put up 40 on them. Why did they put up that 40? Suddenly Green Bay couldn’t get to the quarterback. Suddenly they couldn’t tackle. Okay, they couldn’t stop a cold. That’s what we’re seeing. We don’t look at them the same way we looked at them two weeks ago. We found out their vulnerability. You got Michael Parson there. It’s a revenge game. Michael Parson coming back as a as as opposites. The Dallas Cowboys shipped him out of town. You couldn’t even muster up the gumption up the nerve to give your a performance for D for Micah Parsons. You couldn’t do that. This is what we’re talking about with the Green Bay Packers. Suddenly, we went from talking about them in that regard to looking at Philly to looking at Detroit to looking at Tampa to looking at the Rams before we even think about the Cowboys. Let me get to the Dak Prescott because I know y’all like to, you know, just just just talk about just shower him with all this praise. And by the way, the brother deserves it. He’s 77 and 48 as a starter. He’s 29 games, over 500 as a starter. And last night was his first tie, right? So, we got that part right. Then I’m looking at the fact that, you know, he averaging about 279 yards a game. I mean, it’s pretty impressive, wouldn’t you say? I mean, he really, really impressive. So, he I understand it, right? And then what I did was I took the liberty to scroll back up and to look at, damn, he might be doing something he never did before. Then I looked in 2019, 306 yards a game. In 2020, 33 371 yards a game. In 2021, 20278 yards a game. So, we’ve been here before. Where that g you see what I’m saying? The point that I’m trying to make is this. You see, this is the thing that make me laugh. This is what making me laugh. Now, I will do you this favor and acknowledge and acknowledge living in the moment that was then. It shouldn’t take away from what he’s doing now. Fine. Fine. But I would remind y’all, why don’t we talk about Dak in more glowing terms when we look at the landscape of the league because what we’re doing is gauging what you going to do. This because now now Cam before we go any further, let me tell y’all something right now. Ladies and gentlemen, Cam, former Heisman Trophy, win national champion, you know, all that good stuff. Come lead number one overall pick, carry the Carolina Pens, 151 record. You know what we used to do with Cam? Damn it. What’s he going to do here? What’s he going to do there? You know why? Because his game was here and we said, “What you going to do when it’s time?” Mhm. So the same cam that wants to sit here and wax poetically, you understand what I’m saying? Asking us to be dear Abby. Be so sentimental, so thoughtful. Is the same cam that periodically looks at other cats and go like that. Keep the same energy. Just like Michael Irvvin, same intensity. Please don’t lose the intensity. Keep the same intensity. Same energy. All I’m doing is keeping the same energy I always have. Dak Prescott can ball. He is not a scrub. He can play, but what you gonna do when it counts? We are seeing nothing that we have not seen from him before. It’s all the brother’s saying. So, so, so do, so do any of these games count? Does it not even matter to count? Does it not even matter to you? No. No. Let me tell you why it counts. Because we don’t even know if dad’s going to make the playoffs. Okay, I got Can I Can I see your hands? Can I see your hands? Can I see your shoes? cuz I would think that this man got the most rugged hands and he got boots on. How much construction this man is doing moving his goal post because of the go. The topic is are we more surprised about Dallas or Green Bay? We ain’t talking about if we seen this before. We ain’t talking about the surprised. We I’m extremely surprised you Dallas. It was not expected. Stephen Anthony from the offense. And we was not. You didn’t get up to them. You did not get to them. What’s the You did not expect that. A lot of people are looking like, “Yo, they’re going to get dominated. They going to get their ass whooped. It’s going to be so much belt swinging around here. We going to have to call defax.” I’m trying to tell you, when it came down to last night’s game, we’re watching this game and it’s unfolding and we’re saying to ourselves, “Hold up. That Quavius is looking amazing right now. We didn’t expect him to do that. Jordan Love, we expected him to have an unbelievable game. And on top of that, last night, Micah Parsons was supposed to be a wrecker. So when Jerry Jones say, “Hey, we can nuke that.” Will he have opportunities of being close? I mean, he had a opportunity. Then he had another opportunity. Did Michael Parson hurt his back? Did he hurt his back a little bit? I’m trying to check when he was getting the man. He had his hand his hand gets it going on his back. It’s like owie owie owie. That’s what Jerry Jones knows. It’s a lot of pressure for one person. I got pigs, Stephen. Hey, I got something that nobody really has. You know, but you know, but you know what? See, you know what? See, it it it hurts him to his soul that he got to give some props to the Dallas Cowboys. And they do. And you do. And you do because guess what? Like I got to give Brian Shenheimer some credit. like he he he took Michael Parsons out the game. Out the game. The one game record that they have on rushing a lot. Took him out the game. Took him out of the game. The hell was they had backup offensive lineman out there. And what what’s Dak name? What is it? Duavius. Dquavius. Dquavius out there balling. Balling. Balling. And I would like to say this publicly. Coach Shottenheimer, I apologize, brother. Don’t make me recant my apology because I was saying who is he when he was first hired on the left sideline and it is a catch. A Mitchell. There he goes inside the 30 down the front line by 10. Five. Touchdown AG Mitchell. Touchdown as he loses the football going out the back of the end zone. He bobbled the ball at the end. Matt, it looks like he may have fumbled it before he crossed the goal line. The officials waving their arms making a collective decision. Ball is loose. Fire crossing the goal line. Oh, you hate to see it. Back on first take with a quick take. Colts wide receiver AD Mitchell made the cardinal sin of celebrating too early as he fumbled just before crossing the goal line in the Colts 27 to20 loss to the Rams. Doing too much. How does this keep happening? I don’t know. And I hate to be the one to like pile on, but bro, can you celebrate when you get in the zone, please? Like, come on. Like, we’ve seen this time and time again. It’s not just AD Mitchell. We’ve seen it all across the National Football League, guys. Just get in the zone and do whatever you stanky leg, whatever y’all want to do in when you get in the zone. All right. And he also had the holding call, you know, when when Jonathan when Jonathan Taylor scored. So, wasn’t a great day for him yesterday. I feel I listen I felt bad for him at that moment. And let me tell you where my sympathy went out the window when Jonathan Taylor had that spectacular run and to to to which would have iced the game and it got called back because he was holding. That’s right. So, you know, when you make that kind of drastic mistake and then you come back and you make another one, it just shows clearly the issue ain’t your skills, it’s your focus. And it’s it’s you starving for attention and recognition so you know you can finally be recognized for having the talent you do. You got to close, bro. You got to always close. Ladies and gentlemen, coaches, parents, and most definitely players, I’m about to give you free game. When you’re trying to protect the football, as you’re running, do not cover your forearms with any type of material. It’s not your friend, twin. It’s your enemy. Anytime you would see me run or anytime you see me play, my arms will be covered, but not my forearms. As you’re seeing Mr. Mitchell here as he’s running the slickness of that fabric can work against you because it’s turf and the turf anybody knows the turf has this type of you know element to it that we don’t necessarily know. Free game for everybody that’s watching. Cover up your for Do not cover up your forearms. And if you really want to get jiggy, that’s lean, bro. Real question. The other one to piggy back off that. Do you talk about just this area or don’t don’t let it come up to don’t What about the elbow? No, for sure. Like I would always cut off at the elbow. Got it. Right. Especially for runners, right? Like when you start seeing guys wear sleeves and I don’t know how they necessarily do it, they have too much uh stick them on the hands now for you to really not protect the ball at a high level. But when you add in the dimensions of the force when you got defenders punching the ball out and it’s working counterproductive to you if you don’t have it high and tight. So if you have a slick slickness material, polyester, any type of sheen, I mean MJ would know more type more than me. Well, I talked to my polyester knew. But I mean like what you talking about is the four points of pressure. Like you can’t have that slick material right here when you’re trying to secure the secure the football. So my memory does uh Derek Henry wear those at all. He does not. I just want to make sure I know I wanted to make I’m just saying the first now that now with Derrick Henry it goes back to your strong hand. Strong hand left hand like it’s if you putting it in you know in your your strong hand now you’re more dominant and have more control with it. And we obviously seen it with uh IT Smith. And you may not be stricken running to the right side, but at least you have full uh control of the football. I can guarantee you one thing. He’s probably re-watching that and replaying it in his brain all day. They could they should have won that game. They should have won that game. Absolutely. All right, our next topic. In a matchup between two Super Bowl hopefuls, the Chiefs, they took care of business against the Ravens on Sunday. Patrick Mahomes was in vintage form, throwing for 270 yards, four tugs in a 37 to20 win. his counterpart Lamar Jackson unfortunately had to leave that game with a hamstring injury in the second half. A tough start for the Ravens who find themselves at 1 and3 for the first time since the 2015 season. Only 11% of teams made the playoffs after such a one and three start to the season in the Super Bowl area. This was a team that I had as early favorites, but their issues are really coming to the surface early. Stephen, you and I saw this in person in Baltimore on Monday night just last week. Um, it’s it’s wild. Are are they still the Ravens? No. That we heard of as Super Bowl contenders? No. No. Because their defense is not impressive at all. Um, because the Bills are there and the Chiefs are coming. Rasheed Rice will be back eventually. Xava Worthy got back last night, yesterday rather. and we saw how much of a positive impact he had on them. But when I think you look at the Ravens right now, um you want to believe that John Harbaugh is going to get it together because his reputation speaks to that. Um but the reality is he’s got some big- time questions to answer. This is the Ravens that we’re talking about here. You don’t hear about these kind of problems on defense. And by the way, I don’t want to hear about Lamar Jackson’s hamstring injury. They were down 27 to 10 when that happened, which means they were in route to losing that game. they were getting smacked around and his frustration is really, you know, is really stirring up. You can see it. He’s not he’s not able to hide it. That’s not usually him. So, they know that something is wrong. And the biggest thing is this. There’s immense pressure on the offense because they have no faith that the defense can get stops when they really, really need to. And even when they’ve had injuries in the past, the culture, what they stood for, what they represented, they made sure you knew that Ravens defense was going to have a say in some capacity. They might bend a little bit, but they weren’t going to break. They’re breaking quite often right now. Teams are salivating at the opportunity to go against the Baltimore Ravens defense, and we never thought that we would see that before. When I when I’m thinking about, you know, Baltimore, this is the thing that I don’t think we’ve ever said about this particular team with a question, what’s their edge? Like, what is Baltimore Ravens edge? Is it the defense that we’ve known the the the Hodinadas, you got the Ed Reeds, the Ray Lewises, the these guys that have been the the landmark of when you think about the purple and black dominate and insert King Henry, we can dominate and run the football when we want to and when we need to and when we have to. Well, that hasn’t necessarily been the case. I don’t think that the Baltimore Ravens have been held to the fire with this type of merit. Let’s get back to playing winning caliber football. And how do we do that? We have to protect the football. Have to. And not protecting the football through the arm of Lamar Jackson. We have to protect the football through the the the the willy-nilly in the pocket. Obviously, Lamar Jackson had a fumble yesterday. That was that was out of character for him. And it was just those type of situations that it makes a fan extremely frustrated because, you know, on paper there’s not a roster in the NFL that should be able to come and stand toe-to-toe even with Xavier, even with Rashid, even with the Philadelphia. When you talk about the best on paper roster, it’s the Baltimore Ravens. And I’m waiting for coach Harbaugh to hold his team accountable to the standard. Let’s stop let’s stop playing down to our opponents. Hey, let’s stop giving our away our our ourselves a way out here, man. Let’s play Baltimore Ravens football. Let’s play ticked off like we usually see those Baltimore Ravens teams play. And I just haven’t seen that all year. They’ve shown it, but not sticking to what that standard is at all times. You know, as a as a guy who was part of a team that started one and three, went on and won a Super Bowl, I don’t say this lightly. I think as far as the Ravens, considering them a championship ball player, I think that’s done. I think it’s over. I think it’s done from that aspect. Could they make the playoff? Could make the playoffs. I don’t know if I necessarily buy the Steelers like like that. I think Baltimore could make the playoffs, but as far as championship, no, I don’t think that is the case for them this year. Again, we talk about what’s their DNA. Yeah. What’s their DNA as a team? Over the years, we’ve always talked about them defensively. like their DNA has always been on the defensive side of the football. Remember last year they had they had had problems. Now they were able to fix some things and kind of get back on track. But here we are again, second year in a row where defensively they haven’t been able to stop a nose bleed and teams are attacking the Ravens offensively. They’re blitzing and coming after Lamar Jackson because you know what? See what happened? Cam can speak to this. What happens is when you can’t stop anyone, guess what you do on offense? You press. Yeah. Because you know I got to keep scoring. And you know, yesterday was a situation where Patrick Mahomes was just it was like barbecue chicken out there against that against that Baltimore Ravens defense, just eating them up. And Lamar Jackson just out here just pressing, pressing, and that Ste Spagnolo defense was attacking Lamar Jackson. See, this is the thing that’s really shocking about the Baltimore Ravens. They’re like counter punchers right now. They’re not delivering. They’re not I we’ve been over the years so accustomed to the Baltimore Ravens being the ones to initiate the action. They’re now absorbing the action. That is something that we have rarely seen from the Baltimore Ravens. Steve Spagnolo loves to blitz and he pressured Lamar Jackson on 48% of his drop backs. He was blitzing from angles. He had linebackers spine from different angles, containing them in the pocket. You’re Lamar Jackson and you come into a game against Kansas City. What are we looking at? All right, man. You going to be Patrick Mahomes? You going to do something? I mean, are you gonna get it done? He throws an early interception and he pulls a Mark Sanchez fumbles running into his own offensive lineman. This is what happened in route to going down 27 to 10. Once again, you were called upon to step up and you didn’t. Now, it ain’t his fault, you know, in terms of, you know, he ain’t the only thing wrong with the Baltimore Ravens. They don’t scare anybody. And I don’t know this for sure. I haven’t reached out to my boys Ray Lewis and Ed Reid to ask them this question, but I I haven’t seen them at a Ravens at a Ravens game this year. And I don’t think And I don’t think that’s an accident. And and by the way, and if they have been at the game, because I don’t know, again, I didn’t ask. They have been at the game. Notice that the cameras couldn’t follow them, you know? I mean, that’s what I’m thinking about. Now, I just got told that Ray went to a couple of games, but they don’t show them. Mhm. You know why they don’t show him? Because the defense hasn’t given them a reason to show him. Because when the defense shows up, you think about Ray Lewis because you know what culture of excellence he helped establish and cement for years to come. That mystique that was once with the Baltimore Ravens is gone. Is gone. They got the talent to make the playoffs. When you think about Kansas City, when you think about the Buffalo Bills, if you look at the Baltimore Ravens right now, ain’t nobody picking them to win to beat those dudes in the playoffs. based on what we’re seeing. That’s the problem. Where is the identity? The identity what we’re looking at. And you can’t go find yourself in the middle of the season. That doesn’t No one’s coming to save you. No one is coming to save you. Is that how you going to be in therapy by yourself trying to figure out the identity? All right. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

On First Take, Damien Woody, Stephen A. Smith and Cam Newton join MJ Acosta-Ruiz to discuss what happened during NFL Week 4 showdowns!

0:00 Dak Prescott’s & Micah Parsons’ comments
1:05 Is this result more impactful for the Green Bay Packers or the Dallas Cowboys?
3:30 Is Dak Prescott the best QB?
5:50 Stephen A. Smith weighs in
10:20 Stephen A. and Cam Newton get into it
13:00 Los Angeles Rams vs. Indianapolis Colts
13:45 Thoughts on Adonal Mitchell fumbling the ball
17:00 Kansas City Chiefs vs. Baltimore Ravens
17:55 Are the Ravens still Super Bowl contenders?

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