The NFL’s New Normal: Monday QB Alex Smith on Week 10

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🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The NFL continues to redefine our sense of normalcy from week to week, and our Monday morning QB Alex Smith is here to ground us. The Chiefs took sole possession of first place in the wild AFC West. Elsewhere, Russell Wilson couldn’t shake off the rust in his return with the Seahawks, as Aaron Rodgers and the Packers gave Seattle its first shutout in a decade. And every football fan’s nightmare is coming true, as the New England Patriots won their fourth straight, with rookie QB Mac Jones delivering a signature win over the Cleveland Browns. Plus, the first tie of the season between the Steelers and Lions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is presented by supercuts, the smarter, easier way to get a haircut.
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0:11.8	The Holmes.
0:13.4	A ton of time.
0:14.5	Escapes.
0:15.8	Goes to the end zone.
0:17.5	It's Williams there.
0:18.9	And he makes the grab.
0:23.7	Oh, my goodness. Of course, you're going to take a running back and just throw up a prayer and expect him to make a play like that. Are you kidding me?
0:30.5	That is Patrick Mahomes throwing the fourth of his five touchdowns against the Raiders and reminding
0:36.1	all of us that the reports of
0:38.1	his demise were greatly exaggerated. And that degree of revival was not unique to Kansas City
0:45.5	on Sunday. It was a theme across the NFL from New England to Green Bay to even Carolina.
0:52.2	So today, our Monday morning quarterback, Alex Smith, walks us through
0:57.2	week 10, and he helps restore some order to the chaos of the NFL universe. I'm Pablo
1:04.5	Torre. It's Monday, November 15th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:28.3	So Alex Smith, it is 1155 p.m. Eastern, and I'm uniquely excited to talk to you right now, because when we brought you on ESPN Daily, I thought we were going to be talking about Chiefs games exactly like this one. But this is kind of the first one, I think, that kind of fulfills what I thought
1:34.0	this might have felt like. So what did it feel like to watch your former understudy? Patrick
1:39.7	Mahomes do this? What did you see out there against the Raiders? I mean, you hit it, hit the nail in the head right there.
1:45.4	Like, I feel like this is what we've all been expecting.
1:48.0	This, this was like vintage Kansas City offense.
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