Hour 2: Big Game Darnold?

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Hour 2 begins with Sam Darnold's shaky performance in another big time game. Hear why DanO is livid with Stephen A.'s opinion on star QBs 6 TD Josh - The Bills smoked the Bucs off of Josh Allen's 6 TDs, but Cam needs to see them perform on the road before he calls them Super Bowl contenders. Shedeur's Dud - Why was Shedeur unprepared? Cam thinks the Browns are sabotaging him! J.J. Can't Hack It - Hear which Viking Stephen A. thinks should request a trade after another stinker from J.J. McCarthy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here's tonight's Monday night football matchup, Jack Prescott, Cedie Lamb, and the Cowboys. We're going to take out Max Crosby and the Raiders. 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on ABC, ESPN, ESPN Deportes, and the all-new ESPN app. We got Peyton and Eli on ESPN 2. Coverage kicks off with NFL live at 3 Eastern in Las Vegas and then Scott Van Pelt and the Monday Night Countdown crew will get us there at 6 Eastern.
0:23.2	Back to yesterday, the Rams held on to beat the Seahawks, 21 to 19, and yesterday's fight for
0:28.3	NFC West supremacy.
0:30.3	LA's defense stepped up in a huge way, picking off Sam Darnold four times and keeping Seattle
0:36.6	out of the end zone until the closing minutes of the fourth quarter.
0:40.3	After the game, Seahawks linebacker Ernest Jones defended his quarterback for play.
0:45.2	Here it is.
0:47.5	Sam's been bawling.
0:48.9	If we want to try to define Sam by this game or what, man man Sam's been had us in every
0:54.7	game so for him to sit there and say oh that's my fault no it's not it was
1:00.1	plays that defensively we could have made plays there were opportunities where
1:03.2	we could have got better stops yeah I mean like it's football man and he's our
1:08.9	quarterback we got his back in you You got anything to say, quite frankly, fuck you. He might be flipping up this bird here in a minute. I loved that. Didn't love what we saw from San Darnold, obviously, yesterday. We've talked about this leading up to this game. We wanted to see him perform big in a big game. Stephen A. What did you make of Sam Donald's? To Ernest Jones, I'm going to take that. I know he wasn't talking about me,
1:35.8	but I'm going to take it as if he is talking about me because I'm the two. That's the
1:40.7	culprit. Well, it's going to come to talk about Sam Donald. I gladly accept that. By the way, I want a teammate like Ernest Jones. I want a teammate that I have my back like that. I got no issues with him supporting Sam Donald more power to him. But that don't mean a damn thing to the rest of us. We talk about football. This ain't Dear Abby. You understand what I'm saying? This ain't some damn therapy session. We're talking about a football game that happened on a
2:06.7	Sunday afternoon where Sam Donald stunk up the joint. Now, I will remind you that this is the same
2:13.3	Stephen A that sat up there and said he was a leading candidate for MVP.
2:19.0	But as I had to tell this dude to my right,
2:22.0	no, no, no, no, no, no.
2:24.0	Zip it, I don't want to hear anything from you.
2:26.2	You just be quiet for the next 60 seconds at least, okay?
2:29.3	You're on the clock.
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