Unc & Ocho RESPECT Kirk Cousins for SAVING the Falcons in wild 29-28 win vs Bucs! | Nightcap

Unc & Ocho RESPECT Kirk Cousins for SAVING the Falcons in wild 29-28 win vs Bucs! | Nightcap

Hey guys, it’s your favorite dunk here. Go ahead and click that subscribe button below so you don’t miss a single episode of Night Cap. That button right here. Come for the sports. Stay for the stories. Oo, we had a game and it came right down to the last. It took Zane Gonzalez’s field goal to get the Falcons over the hump. 2928 over the Buccaneers. First Cousins was sensational tonight. 30 of 44, 373, three touchdowns. All three of those touchdown went to Kyle Piss, senior, 11 catches, a buck 66, three touchdowns. Bjan Robinson had eight catches for 82 yards along of 21. Uh Davis Seals the fifth had six for 78. He should have had a touchdown. I don’t know who taught him to c catch a ball like that. Oo, I don’t know who taught him how to catch a football when But anyway, we gonna get this hat. But anyway, yeah, Baker Mayfield was 19 of 34, 277, two touchdowns, one very, very costly interceptions. They didn’t run the ball as well as I thought they would. 22 carries for 88 yards. Mike Evans came back his first game back and seemed like three almost three months, six catches a buck 32, 45 yard long, 12 targets. I thought Atlanta’s defense played exceptional tonight. Look, yeah, they gave up some yards, but they got after Baker Mayfield’s ass. They were on boy. They was on him. If you didn’t know, you thought it was a lion pride attacking the wilderbeast. That’s how they was trying to drag him down. Oo. And they got him five times. They picked him off once. Uh uh but it was a very interesting game. Oo, watching this ball game. What did you like about what you saw from the Atlanta Falcons? Hey, listen. Normally when we talk about the Atlanta Falcons, the one thing that we do talk about is we talk about their offense. We we talk about their offense. I Drake London. Obviously, Drake didn’t didn’t play tonight, but Kyle Pittz, his his emergence and looking like the number one pick that he is, and I’m not sure why they don’t use him as often and create plays as as as big and talented as he is, he’s a mismatch nightmare for for any defense you you you get out there. There not very many corners or linebackers that can cover him. So, I’m not sure why he’s not implemented into the offense more. So, he has the type of stat statistical nights like they did a Kurt Cousins. Kurt Cousins, listen. UNK, I’m not sure if he can do it every single game. If you protect him, he can. Yeah, this if you protect him, he can. But this is what you can get from Kurt Cousins, which is why I think the Atlanta Falcons even got him in the first place despite drafting, you know, Michael Penn. Michael Pitting Jr. like And you got him. And you got him, Oo. Not to cut you off, you got him after he came off an Achilles tear at the later stages of his career. Go ahead. Exactly. Knowing knowing what he can do at, you know, being a thrower of the ball, but but they look good. The defense had Baker make Baker Mayfield uncomfortable from the beginning of the game. From the start of the game, he was very jittery. He had happy feet. They caused him to miss some throws. They batted a few balls down. Obviously, he had an interception as well. But Baker would Baker had 277 yards bunk. He didn’t look like the Baker Mayfield that we we saw early in the season where they were stringing off win after win after win with Eme Ibuka, you know, playing really well with M in in the absence of Mike Evans. They they they didn’t look the same. But this was a really good defensive game and it came down to the wire and they should have lost the game too. Honestly, the Falcons Yes. Yes. They should have lost this game. They had they had nine penalties, I think. They had 19 accepted penalties. Oh, 19 19 accepted penalties. Hold on. 125 yards. Yes. Huh. 19. That That’s a tall accepted 19. They declined a few more. And see, that’s the problem. See, Raheem is coaching like he knows something that we don’t. Like he got job security for at least another year or two because first of all, now you look at the record, they’re five and nine. Okay. The record is not I’m sure and I know Mr. Blank a little bit. We used to work out at the same place. You go to Pilates and so I have a very great relationship with Mr. Blank. Yeah. But he can’t be pleased with the record considering the amount of money that he’s paying. Drafted quarterback paid Kurt Cousins a lot of money. You have 19 penalties. One or two things. Your team is undisiplined which negatively reflects on the coach. We got a bad record. our team is undisiplined because you coach it or you condone it, which in either case I place on your shoulders and then you make a bonehead play, you dial an even number and you go for two because if you get missing, guess what you have to do, oo, you have to chase it. Now you got to hope your defense and and and and Tampa did him a favor. Yes, Baker was a little behind on Mecca Ibuka because he had a step on him and he threw it behind him, which is a hard catch to make when you’re running full speed and running this way and you got to open up this way and the defender is right there on you and as soon as the ball hits your hand, he he tackles you. So, that’s a very difficult catch to make. The Bucks made it very easy, but the Falcons are a very undisiplined team. They’re very undisiplined team. If Kurt Cousins doesn’t play out of his mind, they’re losing this game. They lose their game. Yeah. Uh Bjan, now what people are going to start to see like he’ll put it on the ground for us. He’ll give us an opportunity. Now it’s back to back weeks. You’ve done this. Yeah. You got you got to hit him, Monk. Put a put a hat on him. Put it Listen, you you you wearing pads for a reason. Put a hat on him. He going to cough it up. Once once you put once you put it once put it on film, then I was just saying once you put it on film and they understand, okay, we can get that ball up off of him. All you got to do is put a hat on and rake at it. Rake at it. Put a hat on. It’s gonna come out. Um, Falcons 29 27 first down. Uh, they were 5’11 on third down, 101 on fourth down. They had 66 total plays. Oo. 476 total yards. They had 10 drives, 7.2 yards per play. Again, Cousins had 365 yards uh passing. The biggest play he made is that when he sacked and somehow he like, I got to get this damn ball back. and he ended up getting it back. Uh they had 111 yards rushing, but 19 penalties. Think about it. A team come to your building, they they you they have 19 accepted penalties. Yes. For 125 yards, a turnover, and they still beat you. Yeah. Atlanta. Look, the defense I thought the defense played well. Look, they got the Tampa has some very talented receivers. You look at Mike Evans comes back. Chris Godwin had a sighting tonight. He He’s rounding back into shape. We know. But I hadn’t been the same since he kind of tweaked that. I think it was a groin or maybe a hamstring. He really hasn’t been the same. Bucky Irving just came back. Um because they normally run the ball a little better than what they did. But I got to give I got to give Atlanta credit because they they they they brought pressure on the biggest third down basically of this ball game. They brought a safety blitz. Bates Junior Bates the third made him step up and they got him. He almost got out of there, Oo. He almost got out of there. But that that was some big kahunas to say, you know what, y’all. Hey, you’re oneonone outside. Uh but Mike Evans was giving AJ Terrell, they had Bryant on him. Bryant was slip sliding like he was on a water like he was on a banana peel. He was slip sliding all over the place. He said, “No, hey, uh hey, Terrell, you got him.” He was giving Terrell the business and then they go to Mike Chris Godwin and then they go to Bua. So we only look everybody ain’t got two or three great corners. Now Philly got a situation where they got two but that third one he gets it handed to Adory Jackson. Most teams just have one solid corner and a and a and a good one. So if you got a couple of good receivers, h it could be a long night for the defense. But if Kirk Cousins first Cousins oo he played out of his mind tonight. Yes, absolutely. He played out of his damn mind. And he has that ability. If you protect him, if you protect, if you let him set his feet, if he drops back there on that fifth, he can do this. Oh, he going to light your ass up. He’s surgical. And listen, you got to get him off that mark. Listen, he not he not going nowhere. And this is how he was before his Achilles before his Achilles injury, you know. Yes. You let him sit back there. Listen, he like a goddamn surgeon, huh? He will dissect your whole He will dissect your whole defense and he’s surgical with that goddamn football. Yes. Until you until you make until you make him uncomfortable and you get him off the spot. If you don’t get him off the spot, these are the type of nights that Kirk Cousins can have consistently. And and honestly, even with drafting Michael Penning Jr., your security blanket was was was Kirk the whole time once they made the switch at quarterback and decided to move on because they understood the history of Michael Penning Jr. All right. There’s a chance that he might not be injuryprone. That’s that’s why I’m shocked though, Joe. Given his history, he’s injuryprone. He is. But you can’t you can’t leave him on the board. Huh? If if if you in that war room, it’s all about the next best player. And you understand Kirk C. You know what you you know what he can do? He’s put it on film. Okay, you know what? We going to get Kirk. But the next best player on the draft board was Michael Pittings Jr. So he was a security blanket. So when things didn’t go well for Kurt and you switch quarterbacks, okay, we still gonna keep Kurt because we also understand that hell, Michael Penn Jr. got a goddamn injury history, too. I give you I give you a choice. I give you Bo Knicks or I give you Michael Penn Jr. Who you taking? Based on what we saw, based on right now, what you know right now between both quarterbacks, Bo Knicks or Michael Penn. Based on what we know right now, we going Michael Penn Jr. I mean, I’m excell. But also, you have to remember because of the injury history. I I’m ler. I’m ly. And we’re gonna talk about your quarterback because he had the same kind of history also coming out of college. Yeah. We’re going to talk about your quarterback in Cincinnati. Oo, Cal Piss senior is the first tight end to have 100 plus rece 150 plus receiving yards and three TDs in a game since who? Oo. Hey, since since Shannon Shannon Emanuel Sharp Hey, y’all keep on sleeping on me. Y’all just think I’m a podcaster. But hey, yeah, the the shark said it. I was hell when I was way up. Yeah. Yeah. You and you was that boy now. That’s one thing about it. Now, I’m not going to lie to you. I lie for you before I lie to you. But but when you play when you play that game of football in between on that green grass, boy, you was hell now. Yeah. You you you was him. You was him. No, but but see Oh, Joe, we talked and we talked about this. We had Kyle Piss on this this summer and he was very excited. And I understand this is the first night he didn’t have any drops. He they didn’t throw it to him and he threw it back at them. The night he was a receiver. He wasn’t a retriever. He played his ass off. For him to be as big as he is. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen him up close and personal, but he is a large ass man. He like 66 and the fluidity in which he can move. He doesn’t move like he’s not clumbersome. He moves with fluid. He moves with grace. When I saw him in Florida, I said, “This guy, hey, and he was more of an F.” Uh, uh, and he’s still an F. I mean, he his blocking and, you know, I I tweeted like, “Bro, that combo, you got more time than you think on that combo block.” He ended up getting u the left tackle, Jake Matthews, a holding call because he didn’t give enough on that combo block so Jake can work his hips around and get and hook him. But that’s neither here nor there. Tonight is the what I see in Kyle Pittz. Now, I’m not saying Oo, he gonna You and you you and I both know, everybody knows he’s not going to have a game like this every damn game. But to see what the potential is. He has the ability to a couple of times a year have a game like this. He has the ability to get you 6, 7, 8, nine catches for 75, 80, 90 yards and a touchdown here, there. That five for 35ish, that he too good for that. But, you know, way too good for that. But but that that the onus in that and being used and being put in the right positions, the onus is is that’s on the offensive coordinator. That’s on the offensive coordinator understanding what you have at your disposal. That’s understanding. Listen, putting him in positions, moving him around and creating those mismatches for him. There is no one out there that can cover him in one-on-one situations, which most of the time he will be in because the running back is having success in the back field. Yeah. because such a a double threat, such a dual threat outside of running the ball, he can he can catch it out the back field as well. So, Kyle Pit is going to get those mismatches. There’s no there’s no nickel corner. There’s no there’s no DB and ain’t no goddamn safety that can cover Kyle Pitts oneonone. So, I’m to me obviously common sense and logic understanding what he can do. He should be able to have games like this consistently even if even not back to back to back. Hell, maybe every every other week. Well, I think I think I had this game I think I had this game in 1996. So, that just goes to show you talking about damn near 30 years that somebody’s had that many yards, 150 plus yards and three touchdowns in a game. Now, you know, your boy, you know, I put the thing together like that. Now, you know, one of time, you know, but you know, your boy got old and all of a sudden, plus I had Rod develop and he came along and he he planted your boy as the number one. So, I had to go back and go to number two and then get the same opportunities. Uh Kurt Cousins in his last three games against the Buccaneers. Oo, he’s 3 and 0, 1,158 yards, 11 touchdowns, one INT in three games. In three games. So he’s basically averaging 300 oo 385 yards a game. That’s na hey that’s nasty work. That’s na that’s that’s nasty work. That’s that’s good work. And and that’s what you want from someone that you’re paying that kind of money. Someone that you’re paying that kind of money. Obviously he was on the bench. But that’s our safety net. That’s our safety net. So now I understand for those who didn’t understand why they did it. Now you get it. when you see him have games like this because we used to seeing him have games like this when he was with the Commanders. You saw him have games like this when he was with um when he was in Minnesota. So this is what you get. This is also what Mike saw when he drafted him. Remember they took RG2 RG3 the second pick in the draft and Mike still took Cousins because he believed that he could run this offense. He processes information very quick. Now, he’s not as mobile as you would like West Coast quarterbacks. When you look at the old school West Coast quarterbacks, you look at Montana, you look at Young, you look at Elway, you look at Marv, you look at Rod, you look at you look at the guys McNab, you look at guys that play in this system, he’s the really the only stationary guy that they have, but because he can get the ball out of his hand extremely quick because he processes information really, really well. Because that’s what you got to do in the West Coast. Because a lot of stuff, oo, is quick stuff. We running shallow crawls. We run bubble screens. We know things like that. Things that are extension of the run game because most West Coast teams didn’t have a Terrell Davis. They didn’t have a guy that could go get you 1,700 rush yards in a season. They had guys that could get you a,000 maybe, 1100, but they would also catch you 30, 40, 50 balls like Roger Craig did when he went, and thousand. That’s mostly what the West Coast backs are. And you see, look at Saquon. You see what Seaquin did in that West Coast, basically that West Coast system. Oh yeah. So when you look at it, I was like, “Okay.” But I just I need somebody I need somebody to explain it to me. And I ain’t talking about no analytics because because you mofos couldn’t play football. Y’all try to infringe on the game saying this is what you should do. You should not go for effing two when you’re down an even score game. I get it. If you’re down 15, oo, I get that because you’re going to have to go to go for two at some point. Yeah. But when you’re down an even score, oo, you’re down. You score a touchdown. You kick the PAT. Guess what, Oo? I’m down seven. Score again. Kick a PAT. We tied. And And listen, you see the way you just explained that. You see the way you just explained that now. I’m not sure if you’re understanding. Hey Chad, I’m not sure if you guys are paying attention. We’ve seen all these different scenarios where there’ve been lapses in judgment and logic and obviously common sense when it comes to coaching decisions, you know. And again, the the the the knock is coming at the door, but you’re not answering it and you being a coach. Okay? Not not again, this is another example of you being in a position and and and and allowing the NFL itself and players to have opportunity to be coached extremely well with structure and discipline. That’s something that you can provide, but you choose not to answer the call or the knock that’s coming at the door. So, I’mma ask you one more time. Let me know because I I can put it in, man. Hey, now listen to me now. There there’s a coaching there’s a coaching there’s a coaching vacancy open down there in Ann Arbor and those n based on based on my track record and what just transpired. Nah. They they they they uh they came to mine and they just go ahead denied. They they already they already went ahead and put the nine. Um Okay. Okay. But oo, looking at Cousins, let me ask you a question. Let’s let’s be real. We can be real here. Come on. How different you think the season would be for the Falcons if Cousins had started instead of Phoenix Jr. Oh, you you know what? You know, that that that’s a great one. That’s a great one. That is a great one. Uh would it have been any different? How many games could Kurt Cousins have strung along? How many games could he string along back to back that looked like this? How consistent could he could he have played for the Atlanta Falcons to help when they when when the coaches had lapses and judgment and some of the things that that that he did with the team being as undisiplined as they are? Will Kurt Cousin be able to save them every single night when they bonehead decisions to lead points on the field like they did today, but still manage to win the game? How many games can Kirk Cousins save the team when they have 19 penalties for 10 goddamn some goddamn yards and he has to come save the day and be Superman? I look at it like this. He was the only quarterback that they have on that roster that could have saved them tonight. I don’t believe Michael Penn Jr. win this game. Mhm. Now, with that being said, I don’t know if there’s going I I can’t recall a team having this many penalties. I know I’ve never played on a team that had this many penalties and I can’t recall off the top of my head, Ash put this in my notes, the most when the last time somebody had 19 or when did the last time somebody had uh 20 or more penalties in a game. I can’t recall off the top of my head. Oo, but still won and still won at that. when I look at it like this. I thought this year would have been a better year if you’re gonna start c for cousins because guess what Oo, he’s a year further past removed from that surgery. So now he’s in his second year. So now he feels a little better. Mhm. Look, his arm is what it is. Ain’t nothing wrong with his arm. He doesn’t have the strongest arm. He doesn’t. But I tell you what, he throws with great anticipation now. Be Robinson, the one that he caught on third down, bro. All you had to do is do that in the first half. I’m trying to figure out why you pulled up. They played it off. They blew the coverage. The guy retreated and the guy stayed inside. All you got to do is break away as if you’re going to break away and you pull up and he’s looking at you like Yeah. Listen, when he when he look at film, when he look at film, he’d be like, “Oh, god damn. Oh, god damn. I I got to be able to read that better.” And obviously once you come off the ball, you can see it because I I saw it right right from jump. Go ahead and go ahead and take that thing all the way outside because it’s not it’s not zone. It’s man. No, it’s wide open as it’s ready for you. That would have been easy catch easy catch and you turn right up on the field and get as much as you can. Oh, Joe, tonight was the fourth tied for the fourth most penalty in a game by a winning team. Uh the Raiders had 23 penalties in a game and won in 2016. The Browns had 21 penalties and won the game in 1951. The Jets had 20 penalties in a game in 2013 and won the game. And the Falcons uh Eagles uh the Falcons did it tonight uh had 19 and won the game. The Eagles had 19 in 1988 and won the game. And the Cowboys had 18 in 2015 and won the game. Look, no, I’m not. Look, oo and I are not saying that Kurt Cousins, nobody in the history of the game is going to throw for 376 yards and three touchdowns every game. Even when Pton Manning threw for 55 touchdowns in the NFL record, he didn’t throw for 376 and three touchdowns every single game. No, there are some games that he threw for four, some games he threw for one, some games he threw for seven. to understand that. But his abil and oo he did this without Drake London. Oh yeah. He did this without Drake London. Mhm. If you can protect him. If you can protect cousin and that’s always going to be the issue. If if if and I know look it’s the it’s the largest smallest word in the English language. If but when he’s protected he is surgical. Hey, because he processes information extremely well. Extremely well. You have to get him a quarterback that’s stationary. Oo, if you don’t get him off that mark, he’ll carve your ass up every time. You have you look like have you looking like the f uh uh the Halloween pumpkin? He carve your ass up. And I’m surprised that Tampa’s defense uh uh gave up the kind of yardage that they did. Now, they started trying to blitz him on on that last drive. They got to him a couple of times. They got the ball out of his hand. I thought they one time they hit Cousins in the face and they got him for an intentional grounding, but they hit him in his face before he did an intentional grounding. They didn’t call it You’re not going to be able to see everything. I only saw it because they showed it on replay. But the officials, the referee, that’s his job. His job to look at the quarterback. But tonight was Atlanta’s night. Tonight was Atlanta’s night. I was I was surprised. I was like, and when Bron fumbled that ball, I was like, bro, yeah, bro, you de you developing a you’re developing a habit you don’t want because guys are going to start tackling the ball. Not worried about you. They’re not They’re going to start tackling the ball, bro. That’s that’s twice in backtoback weeks you done coughed it up. And you don’t you don’t want you don’t want that problem. You don’t want that problem. But the Atlanta Falcons moved to 5-9, 2928, thanks to a walk-off field goal by Zayn Gonzalez. And guess what, oo, your team, the Carolina Panthers, are in first place in the NFC South. I listen, I I’m You know what? I’m not even going to take credit. You ain’t going to take credit. No, I’m You know what? I’m not going to take credit. I’m just telling you as a person that watches football that that that most people probably wouldn’t be the first to listen to when it comes to to my takes on the game unless it has something to do with playing the position of wide receiver or maybe defensive back. No, your opinion you based on what you know how you played in the league. You know when how teams put together, you watched them in the preseason. You like the additions that they have. You like Mc You like McMillan. You like you like Bryce Young. He finally figured it out. Uh, you know, hopefully Leot can can can get it together. They signed Rico D, Chuba Hubard defensively. They’re really good defensively. Yeah. Um, yeah. I mean, I I listen, I I saw it. I I saw it. I felt it.

Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson react to the Falcons’ 29-28 win over the Buccaneers! Unc and Ocho break down how Kirk Cousins stepped up in the clutch to bail out Raheem Morris’ questionable play-calling and keep Atlanta from blowing the game.

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