What's up? Everybody. I've long enjoyed this guy's
work and I'm so happy that he's with NFL Media
. Now, let's bring in Nate. T some
takes on this 186, late Nate. What's up
, man? How are you guys doing? Happy
to be here. No, this is great.
I have no new posters, so I'll try it
out to update those for Kyle Ma. So,
yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Rotate Halloween poster is
coming. It's coming. I'll be here for next
time. All right, thematic. Uh Nate,
we like having you on because you say things you
don't just read that we have takes and that goes
a long way in television. We're trying to make
some, some, some headways here. And we're
telling you when we look at Broncos versus Chargers,
I turn to you because it's interesting. Broncos have
won three straight games. Everyone thinks Sean Payton and
Bo Knicks, but their defense has been awesome under
Vance Joseph, they're now three and two. What
have you taken away from the Broncos? Having a
look at the film and actually watch the games.
They are aggressive. They are fast and they look
like one of the real needle moving units right now
under Van Van Van Joseph. So even if what's
going on with Sean Payton Bo Nix and their sideline
conversations, really, the defense is really the focus
of this team right now. Their first and success
rate allowed and the success rate is 50% of the
yards are first down, second down, 100% of
yards at 3rd and 4th down. So that's efficiency
. They are first, they allow the least amount
of efficient plays for the offense. They will allow
the least amount of explosive plays to the offense.
So they're not letting anyone get on base. They're
not letting any home runs, doubles or triples or
anything like that. They play a lot of man
coverage and they're sticky. So this is very,
very good players playing a very aggressive scheme. It
really feels a lot like Wade phillips' old Broncos teams
. So that's what that kind of really feels like
a lot of man tight coverage. A lot of
aggressive blitzes. Uh, coming on, you got
guys playing really well like Zach Allen who looks incredible
, looks like the fourth watt brother with his little
elbow guard where 99 you got DJ Jones, DJ
Jones at nose tackles playing great against the run,
but it's just a lot of players playing the best
ball of their career in the scheme that under Vance
Joseph, that's letting them play fast. Nate,
I mean, you mentioned all those guys but Patrick
Sartan is playing lights out. Tell us Nate,
how good is this man playing right now? I
really want to say and it's a little bit of
a hipster thing, but I do mean it,
that he should be the defensive player of the year
front runner right now. This guy, this guy
is insane. He is the prototype at corner right
now, not only just coverage and size but tackling
intelligence, all these types of things technique him and
Riley Moss, his, his corner co patriot are
like phenomenal right now. Two of the stickiest corners
in the game right now, but uh in the
last four weeks E tan is allowed two catches 29
yards to George Pickens, three catches 29 yards.
DK Metcalf, two catches of 17 yards to Mike
Evans, five catches 41 yards to Garrett, uh
Garrett Wilson. So he's letting out 10 yards to
pop to these guys and he's doing it one on
one against the hardest receivers in the game. Most
difficult guys to cover. He's a great tackler.
He's got a little Heisman moment moment now with that
little pick six going against the, against the Raiders
, you see that perfect stride going into the end
zone. This guy is just playing phenomenal ball and
is truly one of the best players in the league
. I think he should be one of the defensive
play to your front runners right now. It's big
. Let's talk about a young quarterback Drake May has
been sitting on the bench for weeks and weeks and
this weekend he gets an opportunity to say I am
vengeance. He's going against the Texans. What's the
biggest part of his game that people can't overlook Nick
? Yes, it's, he, uh, well
, I talked about aggressive with the Broncos defense.
Drake May is very aggressive, very aggressive with his
arm. He's got a big arm, he throws
far. It's really fun to watch, but he's
also a great runner. That's something that's been underrated
with him. I think, I know why,
but he's 642, 25. This guy's a great
athlete, excellent athlete. I don't even say I
, he had coming from a family uh of,
of athletes, of basketball players, baseball players,
his dad was a quarterback, but the thing is
, is the Texans allow a lot of grambling yards
. They've allowed 11.3 yards per scramble this year.
They play a lot of man coverage which puts eyes
on the receivers but not a lot on the quarterback
and they blitz a lot on that man coverage on
3rd and 4th down. So if things are struggling
, you know, bullets are flying a little bit
. Look for Drake May to run, maybe get
some yards. I'm not sure what his rushing over
under is, but look for that on draft kings
. Uh but really, really look for made,
make some exciting plays with his legs because he is
one of the best scramblers in college when he was
coming out, he had the second highest first down
per scramble rate coming out of college. So very
, very exciting player that I think is gonna have
some opportunity to use his legs. He gets a
really good Texas defense. All right, Nate,
we're in full stride now, you know, like
the teams have kind of worked out through the kinks
and, you know, we get that little extended
part of the preseason in the first couple of weeks
of the season. It's week six, who's a
player you have your eye on right now? That
could go off. We, we got to week
six, we don't even have to wait till the
night for somebody that I'm looking at. So it's
great. So you only have to remember this for
about 12 hours. So Jackson Smith and Jig B
for the Seahawks who is primarily a slot player,
80% of his snaps come from the slot. He
is very, very good. I compared him to
Brandon Stokely when he was coming out of Ohio State
, but he is really, uh, going against
his foreign defense, which has wrote some strong strengths
, but it has some glaring weaknesses in some spots
. One of those is defending the slot, the
49er have allowed a league high 13.8 yards per attempt
to slot receivers this year, more than two yards
than the next closest team according to the next gen
stats. The over under is 46.5. Uh on
draft Kings right now, Jackson Smith and Jaguars recorded
221 yards from the slot. That's the fourth most
in the NFL. So I think this is a
perfect strength going against one of the weaknesses of this
49er defense. I know they want to run the
ball a little bit. Kenneth Walker will be interesting
there, Zach Charbonnier as well, but I really
think this is a great spot for Jack Smith and
Jig, but I kind of have a blow up
game on Thursday night. Nate, it's been so
cool having you on the show, like Peter said
, it's been really fun to listen to your content
over the years and just knowing that you come from
this football family and you played and you just,
you're in it, man, you swim in football
and we all do. We all prepare for the
show differently. How much football do you watch,
like in any given week? Like, how,
how much of your day are you really dedicating to
? Like, I'm gonna sit here whether it be
on two speed, three speed, regular speed,
like walk us through how you prep for something like
this. I, I'm a regular speed guy because
I feel my age every, every day. And
I'm surprised, I'm, I'm surprised you didn't ask
me a hockey question because we have two Minnesotans talking
football. What are the odds about that? Uh
but I know I, I've purchased blue light glasses
. That's how much I, I've been, I've
been watching film. II, I like my eyes
. I, I want to have vision when I
turn 60. And II, I would say it's
about 25 to 30 hours a week. 20 to
30. Yeah, it is a full time job
. That's so, hopefully I'm here. Hopefully the
pay the check clears too. No, but it's
, it really is what I like to do.
And I think it's something that I find enjoying it
. I don't know any other thing to do.
Like it, it's, I've been watching films since
I was a kid and I just kind of like
doing it. I like watching it at normal speed
, listening to music at normal speed. I'm more
of a movie soundtrack guy. Now again, I'm
feeling my age, but this is something I really
enjoy doing. So sometimes it's nice to tweet it
out or come on a show like this and,
and get to share some of the stuff that I
see. We, we talking like we're talking,
we're talking James Horner, we're talking Hans Zimmer,
we're talking John Williams. What do you mean?
You're a music soundtrack scores or soundtracks like the Footloose
theme Hans Zimmer. Big Epic scores Dune soundtrack,
the Mad Mad Max soundtrack. Fury Road is very
good as well. That will really get you going
. I highly recommend the song Blood Back. Yeah
, that's a great, great song to drop on
here. Family friendly content. Uh But no,
that, that's what I like to get going.
So, uh there's another guy Icelandic composer I really
like and I can't remember his name. Peter always
does his draft prep to Danny Elfman. I love
Danny Tim Burton. Tim Burton and Danny Elfman.
Go back a long way. Kyle. I know
. I know you like a long way. Uh
Guys, Nate Ty. Awesome. As always Nate
, you're great. We're going from one great voice
to another. We're gonna have Stacey Dale's join.
When we get back here, she's gonna have us
a live update from overseas. Nate. Good work
, man. Thank you. Appreciate it. You
got it.