Let’s Overreact to Week 1! | NFL Deep Dive
The MMQB NFL Podcast
SI NFL
3.9 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Jenny, Conor and Gary took in all the action and bring you every take imaginable about all 14 games played on the first Sunday of the 2021 season.
First, Matthew Stafford immediately showed why the Rams went and got him, as Sean McVay dialed up an early touchdown that simply wasn’t in the playbook with the previous quarterback. Plus, why Matt Nagy will have a tough time sticking with Andy Dalton after that meek opening-night offensive performance.
Then, a look at the impressive Browns in a losing effort, falling victim to the kind of plays only Patrick Mahomes can deliver, the Packers’ meltdown against the Saints in Jacksonville, and a hearty debate about whether or not we should be impressed by the Steelers after their victory in Buffalo.
A look at everything that went wrong in Urban Meyer’s disastrous NFL debut, the good and bad of the Patriots-Dolphins battle in Foxboro, the utter dominance of the Chandler Jones-led Cardinals defense in Tennessee, the utterly underwhelming Giants offense in an opening loss to Denver, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Gary Grumley. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Gary Grumley. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Danny Bruntia. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Connor Orr. |
| 0:12.0 | And guys, we are through the first Sunday of the 2021 season. |
| 0:16.0 | We had a pretty topsy-turvy day. |
| 0:19.0 | We had some surprises. |
| 0:20.0 | We had some not very surprising things, and we're actually going to start with one of those and that was the Sunday night football game and the Rams debut for Matthew Stafford which went pretty much exactly as Sean McVeigh would have drawn it up. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, I mean, right from the beginning of the game, the Rams third play from Scrimage was that 67 yard touchdown to Van Jefferson. |
| 0:45.4 | You know, Matthew Stafford bootlegs to the left and he throws the ball across the hashmarks |
| 0:51.2 | to Jefferson who, you Jefferson who then was untouched and ran the remainder into the end |
| 0:56.3 | zone. |
| 0:57.3 | But just that play was representative of why they made a change at quarterback, |
| 1:03.4 | the physical talent that Stafford brings, |
| 1:06.0 | the expectations that have been raised. |
| 1:08.8 | I mean, you can see the Rams defenders on the sideline, |
| 1:11.7 | Jaylin Ramsey was essentially skipping up and down with glee. |
| 1:15.0 | So everyone there is excited about how much the ceiling has been raised by pairing Matthew Stafford with John McVeigh and Sunday night was kind of a long-awaited |
| 1:27.2 | debut we all thought it would be. |
| 1:29.2 | I think the best |
| 1:33.6 | like what Sean McVeigh wants it to be is that every play is |
| 1:36.7 | accomplishing something on like a micro level but also on a macro level right |
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