In The Pocket: Lamar Jackson enters the MVP race, Kirk Cousins balls out, and the trade deadline effect in NFL locker rooms
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Any list of top quarterback performance to date this season has to include what Lamar Jackson and Kirk Cousins did in Week 7. Robert Mays and Chase Daniel break down those performances on this episode of The Athletic Football Show's In The Pocket. The guys also discuss trade deadline dynamics in the locker room, on-field histrionics from quarterbacks, and the continued uncertainty surrounding Deshaun Watson's playing status.
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome, the athletic football show. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:52.4 | Joining me today in his long time NFL quarterback, Chase Daniel. |
| 0:56.2 | Chase, how you doing, man? Good, man, good, good. Excited about this show. We got a lot to talk about, a lot to get into. But it was a good week of football, I thought, for the most part. It absolutely was. Sunday was probably the most fun I've had watching NFL games all season. It just seemed like every single game had something interesting happen. |
| 0:53.2 | And as a result of that, we are going to talk about specifically a couple of had watching NFL games all season. It just seemed like every single game had something interesting happened. |
| 1:11.6 | And as a result of that, we are going to talk about specifically a couple of performances from |
| 1:15.8 | Sunday. |
| 1:16.4 | One that we dug into in our Sunday night recap show, but I definitely wanted your perspective on. |
| 1:21.0 | And that is the monstrous day that Lamar Jackson had against Alliance defense that |
| 1:25.2 | had been playing very well over the first six weeks of the |
| 1:28.0 | season or so. It really did feel like everything came together for that Ravens offense. |
| 1:34.0 | And I just wanted to ask you kind of on a broad level, what stood out to you about their |
| 1:38.6 | performance on offense on Sunday and specifically the way that Lamar played? |
| 1:42.2 | Well, everything stood out for me on this Lamar Jackson-led offense because, in my opinion, they did everything right. I've been in a bunch of these games, well, not a bunch, but some of these games, when you're on the sideline and you're in the offensive coordinator, and it just is like everything you call is working. And it's not like stuff was covered and he was just making |
| 2:02.7 | some of these. I mean, he made some amazing throws. But the dude was just straight up bowling. And then |
| 2:07.4 | you got to give it to Tom Monkin because stuff was like wide open. I mean, I actually broke down |
| 2:12.4 | both quarterbacks for this game for these quarterback breakdowns I'm doing. And I started with Jared |
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