Jordan Love’s Chaotic Debut, Titans Find Answers No One Expected
The MMQB NFL Podcast
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3.9 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
We hit the (kinda) halfway point of the regular season with a Sunday full of upsets, but the week’s headlining game ended up being nothing like it was supposed to be.
Jenny and Gary break down Jordan Love’s underwhelming start in Kansas City, but also why there’s nothing you can really say about the quarterback’s long-term prospects after Aaron Rodgers’s positive COVID-19 test forced him into action. Also, a discussion of a Chiefs offense that still isn’t quite there.
Then, a look at the Titans defense dominating in L.A. as the absence of Derrick Henry doesn’t factor in at all, the Broncos defense forces a rough day for Dak Prescott (but could the QB’s calf injury have something to do with it?), and the Browns finally get a couple turnovers in a dominant performance to beat the Bengals.
Plus, Colt McCoy has the answers in San Francisco, the Jaguars defense steps up and stuns the Bills, the Saints’ head-scratching lack of Taysom Hill in a loss to the Falcons, Mike Zimmer plays it safe in another heart-breaking Vikings loss, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and we are going to the MMQB Monday morning NFL |
| 0:07.9 | podcast I'm Gary Gramling and I'm Jenny Brentus And we are starting off our week nine Sunday recap |
| 0:15.7 | with what went down in Kansas City. |
| 0:18.5 | We're going to talk about the chiefs |
| 0:19.8 | and what went on with their quarterback |
| 0:21.6 | and what's going on with their offense. We're also going to talk about a quarterback who did not |
| 0:25.1 | participate in this game for reasons that you might have heard of. But we're going to start |
| 0:28.9 | this one off with Jordan Love, who was forced into action for his first NFL regular season start, and, uh, you know, not, not great. It didn't go great. |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah, Love definitely struggled. |
| 0:44.0 | I think it's important though to look at the bigger picture and he was put in a situation that was really difficult. |
| 0:51.5 | On the road in Arrowhead Stadium, which is a tough place to play even |
| 0:55.2 | when the chiefs aren't at their peak against the defense that blits him a lot, whatever |
| 1:00.6 | you think of how the Kansas City Chiefs defense has been playing this year. |
| 1:04.3 | Steve Spagnolo knows how to get pressure and generate pressure and they certainly |
| 1:08.8 | were able to blitz a lot on third downs which played into the woeful third down conversion rate for the Packers. |
| 1:17.0 | Also, special teams had a lot of miscues in the first half and Love didn't know that he was going to play until Wednesday and |
| 1:26.3 | most of the week was dominated by this maelstrom that came out of the fact that Rogers had misled people about whether or not he was vaccinated and then took to a radio interview with a friend to try to explain himself, but ended up spreading a lot of misinformation so it was just not |
| 1:46.4 | an ideal circumstance for love to make his starting debut in Gary and certainly there were things |
| 1:52.4 | you could criticize about love's performance. |
| 1:55.0 | His ball placement was off in a lot of different situations. |
| 1:59.0 | He was definitely green, which showed up in critical game management situations. |
| 2:05.0 | So yeah, he has a lot of work and development to do as a player, but ultimately I don't know that we should be holding this up as a critical data point necessarily, |
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