Do the Rams looking terrible in the opener mean anything?

0:00So Gator, I got a theory and it's a theory just to remind people that big giant moves come with risk. And a year ago, the big giant move that was made that impacted our Detroit lions was a green Bay Packers made a big giant move to go get Mike a person. That was a big giant move. And when you do that, it's not like the only way you're trying to win, but you're putting a lot of cap space and resources into getting this one big chip, right? This one big player. And that players, you know, there's a lot riding on that player's success and failure and they can get hurt. And like a person's did get hurt last year and isn't ready to go at the beginning of this year. And we ask, did we learn anything last night?

1:02Miles Garrett didn't record a stat. No sacks, no tackles, no assists, no pressures. When the game was over, he said, quote, that's the worst version of myself that I've ever put out there. Something that his knee was not 100% healthy going into this game now moves like that are tons of fun. And I'm not against them. Don't get me wrong. But when you make a big giant move and just because his knee hurts in week one, doesn't mean he's he's done for the year. But they put him on the field last night, apparently with a bad wheel. And he did not record one stat. That is that's troubling if you hear the Rams.

2:03Now maybe look, he they they know this going into it. Perhaps and they well, it's it's a long trip, whatever they can pull off the first game of the year. And I suspect that's what the Rams will do. They're going to blow this off and they should yuck throw it in the garbage. Yep. Don't need to look at this again. We know everybody knows what happened there. We were terrible. Whatever, you know, maybe his Mac got picked up for vagrancy. We don't know. But things were we're not good for the Rams in the game last night. And it's it's something that they'll the work on for sure. But I look I expect Miles Garrett to be an impact player. I actually do too. I don't want to get carried away here. But it's starting off where you're the worst version of yourself in your first game with a new team. That's not good. And now does a knee injury explain things away? It does. But you wonder if that was the case. I mean, look, Aaron Donald stayed back. He didn't play in this game. In fact, he didn't even travel with the team. Should Miles Garrett have stayed back too if his knee wasn't ready to go?

3:04I mean, I did see some footage, isolated footage of him going against Trent Williams because everybody looks at this one of matchup. One of the best laugh tackles in the history of the game going against one of the greatest defensive end in the history of the game. And Trent Williams owned them. You know, there were times I thought maybe this could have been called a pressure, but you said there were no pressures recorded. But Trent Williams did the job and that's got to be a little troublesome for the ramp. It's one of those things. It's just I make a little footnote here early in the year. And it's as we like to say on the program, it's something to monitor. Kang, what did you make of this debut by Miles Garrett? So obviously it wasn't a good one. But I did say yesterday and I felt this way for a while. Because week one in the NFL is always like the biggest liar or you know, you overreact to a way too much. But you don't forget it completely. So like you said, maybe Doug, it's like a little footnote. You just kind of remember to put a pin in it, whatever. But Miles Garrett clearly didn't look like himself. This guy's a beast, you know, raining defensive player of the year.

4:05Maybe it was the knee. Maybe it was the flight, you know, because they only, you know, they took the red eye in. Maybe it's because Trent Williams is an absolute stud at left tackle. All three of those things could have played a factor in the wide mile skirt was not effective last night. Or maybe it's the fourth one. I know it's crazy to sound for elite players, but they can have off nights as well or off mornings because this came was like 10, 30 in the morning. So you know, all that stuff can play a factor. I personally enjoyed it because I'm anti-Rams. I'm anti this super team. But you know, you brought up the stat. What was it? 30 years of 20 teams that have been favored this much favorite to win the Super Bowl have not won it. Yeah. Is this over 20? Yeah. Is this another example of that dog where you put a super roster together. Doesn't mean anything. I mean, I celebrated appropriately. The Rams getting smoked last night. I got was fired up that they got their butts handed to them. And I, you know, this is, I doubt it's indicative of the way their season is going to go, but that's one data point, right? That's one of 17 that did not go well and it didn't go well at all.

5:08Could it have been just the flight? It could be. Could it have been, you know, there, maybe you looked at staff and go, dude, what's up with that hair? I can't play like this. But I mean, could it have been just that San Francisco's good? It really could have been. Could it be San Francisco is dare we say better than the Rams? You know, they, and this is why the schedule game is so ridiculous is, hey, it's not the most surprising thing in the world. And one of NFL team beats another. The margins aren't that much. Now, I don't want this to be misinterpreted. Don't interpret this as I wish I'm glad the Lions didn't get my Oscar or Michael Parsons. I'm not. It's just a reminder that those moves do come with some risk. If Garrett's knee is a thing, oh, I, and, you know, Parsons got hurt last year. And the Lions certainly spread thinly, but got added more depth in the off season. And I, I hope the plan works. But there's no guarantees because you don't know who's going to get hurt.

6:09No, sir. But with that said, the other thing from these first three, uh, first four games rather. Is very little scoring. Only one team had more than 300 yards and only one team scored more than 13 points. So, you know, slow starts for offenses or is it, is it just too small sample size to think that this is a deal? I mean, we got two games of evidence to show that offense is slow. Is that a trend or is that just, you know, hey, first, first game jitters middle of the week? I tend to think it's probably more that than anything else. I, I don't expect that like Jared Goff's going to throw for 186 yards in the game on Sunday against the Saints. I think the Lions offense will be going just fine. And I suspect we're going to see a lot of offenses be fine on Sunday. But I mean, it's such a strange game because of the, it was Australia. Yeah. I mean, it's not just going West coast or even going six hour difference and playing

7:11in Germany or England and playing earlier in the day. I mean, this was, I mean, you're jumping 27 times zones or whatever. You're playing in the future, which is the past. I don't know what, what day it was. It just crazy to play it over there half literally halfway around the world. I think that maybe just brush it off that way for the Rams. But if you're San Francisco, you're feeling pretty good about yourselves in a Fred Warner talking about Brock, Purdy after the game saying, this is why I think he's the best quarterback in the league. And Brock Purdy has had a really nice start to his NFL career. And everybody still questions him. Like how good is Brock, pretty, can't be all that good. Well, they added Mike Evans and it looked pretty good there with that offense. So there's something to be gained there. It's not just Kristen McCaffrey and George Kittle. You got some other players there now and he both Samuel and running well with him again. So I, I think it was a bad start to the season for the Rams by a bad decision. Whoever's decision was of a Sean McVase or if it was their, their GM, I don't know who made that decision, but not a good decision to decide to fly in the day before.

8:14And Purdy was really good. Stafford didn't throw a touchdown pass in the game, which he'd thrown a touchdown pass in every game last year. He didn't throw a touchdown pass. Purdy went 25 to 34, three touchdowns, the one pick, plus he had a haircut. He was a better groomer than the two quarterback. The two quarterbacks had played last night. He got along with the kangaroos. Yeah. But Stafford looked off. Yeah, but you know, Drake may look off too. And he, those are the top two MVP vote getters last year. And they played in the States, Drake May. So there's no excuse that. Oh, I don't know what that happened to that game. MVP vote getters last year were horrible to start the year. Our predictions for the lion season coming up at 12.05 here on 97 one.