Recapping Saturday's NFL Games: Chargers Struggle, Ravens Thrive

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00:00Joe, the Chargers at the Texans and the Steelers at the Ravens.

00:03Now, most people will talk about the second half of that Chargers-Texans game,

00:08everything that you could possibly want and more.

00:10Very entertaining, very WWE-like, if you will.

00:15But then the real football kind of came out in the latter game.

00:19And I think the casual fan, and I was watching with some casual fans,

00:23a lot of the people in the room were asking, the Steelers just appear lackluster.

00:27Everything they do just appears to be a step behind Baltimore.

00:31So even the casual eye could see that Baltimore had that advantage.

00:35Now, will we be seeing anything from yesterday today?

00:40Well, maybe a little bit here and there.

00:42But we'll get to that Ravens game in just a second.

00:45I just think the Ravens finally exercised the demons a couple weeks ago of Lamar Jackson

00:50always just kind of being owned, quote unquote, by the Pittsburgh Steelers.

00:54And then people have used that term on him.

00:56And guess what?

00:57You are until you're not.

00:58And by the way, don't sweat the technique on Mr. Matt Stryker,

01:02dropping some Eric B. and Rakim lyrics here on the show early in the morning

01:05before we even hit 9 o'clock.

01:07I mean, that's tremendous effort by you.

01:09However, on top of that, yeah, I mean, Lamar finally, again,

01:14was able to get that monkey off his back and performed really well

01:19in that last game against the Steelers.

01:20It was at home and last night as well.

01:21But let's start with the early game here with the Chargers.

01:24Because this was a game that most of us, quote unquote,

01:28Sharps were in on the Chargers.

01:29Harbaugh, a really good coach, Herbert playing very well.

01:33And think about the turnaround of this team, right?

01:34This was a team that was a disaster.

01:36They had a top three overall pick last year, right?

01:39Or top five, I should say, overall pick last year.

01:41And now they're a playoff team.

01:43So incredible turnaround in one year for the Chargers.

01:47But the Texans, a team that had been really lackluster

01:50and struggled against really good teams all season long,

01:54it seemed like an easy one.

01:56And now the problem was maybe the media put a little bit

01:58too much into the Houston Texans bubble

02:02because those guys were not feeling it.

02:05The defense was not feeling it.

02:06It was Rex Ryan called this a bye week for the Chargers.

02:10And the Texans took it personally.

02:11And after the game, Joe Mixon was lighting up a cigar

02:14and talking about the bye week.

02:16And it looks like some of these players sometimes hear this

02:19and it was the right motivation.

02:20And let's give credit first to the defense

02:23because they were put in some terrible spots

02:25in the first half of this game.

02:26They held to three, the Chargers over and over again.

02:31And when you're settling for threes instead of sixes,

02:32it's going to come back to haunt you.

02:34Turnovers were a problem, especially in the second half

02:36of this game here.

02:37Justin Herbert had three interceptions all season long.

02:40He had four in this game.

02:41Now, one of them, certainly not his fault,

02:42right off the hands of Disley.

02:43But still, at the end of the day,

02:45there's no official score in football,

02:47which I don't understand personally.

02:48I want to get that changed.

02:49I don't think every interception should be

02:51on the quarterback sometimes when you hit a guy

02:52in the numbers here with a pass

02:54and it goes off of him and somebody else.

02:56I think interceptions should sometimes

02:57go to the wide receiver,

02:58but that's another fight for me.

03:00However, the Chargers end up,

03:02unfortunately, coming up short.

03:03Great job by CJ Stroud in the second half of this game,

03:05running all over the place and doing what he does.

03:07Joe Mixon in the second half,

03:08despite a big fumble to open the second half,

03:10bounced back.

03:11So good stat line.

03:12So I was in on the overall McConkie receptions and yards.

03:15We certainly got that.

03:16That was an easy one, but the Chargers fall short.

03:19And the Pittsburgh Steelers,

03:20to what you were talking about, Matt,

03:22they seemed like a team that was just outclassed,

03:25outmanned, outnumbered.

03:26I mean, all the Hamilton stuff aside, man,

03:29like I'm telling you right now,

03:31the Pittsburgh Steelers need to search

03:34the souls here a little bit

03:35because this could have been a season

03:36about finding your young quarterback.

03:38You had 26-year-old Justin Fields,

03:40who was 4-2.

03:40You replaced him with 36-year-old Russell Wilson.

03:43Where?

03:43Why?

03:44To get to a winning record

03:46and get out in the first round of the playoffs again.

03:48Now, this offseason,

03:49you're in the same spot you were last time, right?

03:51Which is what?

03:52You're looking for a quarterback

03:54and you don't know if Fields could be that guy.

03:56Derek Henry is that guy.

03:57Lamar Jackson's this guy.

03:58And the Ravens literally ran the ball

04:00down the Steelers' throat.

04:02And I mean, 15 times in a row at one point,

04:05they were running the football.

04:0615 plays in a row, Matt, in an NFL game.

04:09I don't know what's going on here,

04:10but that was pretty impressive.

04:12They asserted their will, asserted their dominance.

04:13The Ravens are gonna be tough for anybody,

04:15the defense playing better.

04:17Look, I know in the second half there,

04:19in the third quarter,

04:20Wilson got them on the board.

04:21It looked like they might get back to this game.

04:22And then the Steelers said,

04:23nope, not happening.

04:25This was a very one-sided game.

04:26This was over at halftime.

04:28And the Ravens and Lamar Jackson

04:30are going to be a problem

04:33in the next round of the playoffs

04:34for whoever they get.

04:35So we'll see who that is today and tomorrow

04:38as everything starts to unfold.

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