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00:00Sunday afternoon
00:02Game against the Vikings in Minnesota, mind you a large loud stadium their US Bank
00:07And but you know, Dan Graziano has already kind of come out and said that it's it's likely that Joe Mixon will sit on
00:15On Sunday, and I mean also you have the head coach of the team who was asked immediately
00:20About the Joe Mixon injury after you know yesterday at practice
00:23He was not nowhere to be found along with Damian Pierce mind you that that was the interesting part for me as well
00:29but
00:30D'Amico Rhines was asked about Joe mixes injury
00:32Yeah
00:32we'll take it day by day with Joe and his injury and see where he ends up at the end of the week still in a
00:38Hole now hope that he can make it
00:40We using words. Hope holding out. Hope we talking about it through the lens of home and figure that deserves it
00:47Yeah. All right. So hey, man, the the dude
00:51the to do that you're looking at to be basically the bell cow of this of this rushing attack and really I think in all the
00:57Conversations that we had when we were trying to kind of come back around and say all right
01:01Let's let's be reasonable
01:03The fact of the matter is Joe Mixon will get a lot of this if he is not there that really does open us back
01:08Up to training camp conversations of what's happening, but we were done with that
01:12At least for a while
01:15Football is a world of attrition. It is the car crash board as I like to call it
01:18It breaks down bodies right over time, especially with the position of running back is gonna get to you
01:23I think that was a week three
01:25Exactly. I thought maybe we talked about this week a right once we get to nah, man week three
01:30you are talking about the possibility missing your starting running back and with that being the case then what happened because as we know
01:36It's not like you have a clear or a confident position after that necessarily
01:41Especially seeing as Damian Pierce might also be in an injury situation himself
01:45yeah, look the other thing that D'Amico said yesterday, and we don't have to play the audio, but
01:49I'll paraphrase, you know, he's an old-school guy and he said it's really important for him to be out on the practice field
01:57If we want him to play so I mean he did the old school that we talked about a lot
02:01You know, are they gonna be there Wednesday, by the way, we'll let you know if he's there
02:05You know what the situation is today when they start practice and especially Friday if he doesn't practice
02:11He probably won't play and D'Amico is old-school like that. So it's it is as Graziano put it
02:17Looking less likely that that he'll play. So the question becomes then Reggie. What is
02:23Your preference for carries now, we don't know about Damian Pierce either. We'll find out on that as well
02:29but if Damian Pierce can play
02:32and
02:33and I still want to see cam Akers get the vast majority of
02:39Touches and and snaps on the offensive side of the ball and when I say vast majority
02:44I'm talking like Joe Mixon like Joe Mixon against Annapolis. No, and there's a reason for that
02:49Not necessarily in volume but in distribution. Yes. Okay. No and and volume of snaps, too
02:55And let me explain it because you're not asking cam Akers to be Joe Nick Mixon for 17 games
03:01You need him this game, you know, you need him this game
03:04You need to have a running game that can that can you compliment what CJ Stroud in the passing game does?
03:11You're not asking him. Hey, we want you to get the ball 20 times a game
03:14You know for the next three months two months, whatever
03:18No, we need you this time right now today Sunday in in Minneapolis
03:23And the reason I say that is because he's better. He's better with the zone blocking scheme
03:28I think you know, they can say what they want
03:30They can have their preferences, but I think they've seen it, you know as well
03:33And the other part of it is when Damian Pierce had a little success against Indianapolis. It wasn't the zone blocking scheme
03:40It was a straight ahead
03:42You know change it up it was a change up basically it was a lot of power
03:46Yeah, pitching the ball and let's play power football. Well, they're not gonna change their identity
03:51They can't change their identity as an offense. This is a Bobby Slowick Shanahan Kubiak zone blocking scheme offense
03:58So so I think even if Damian Pierce is there but more precisely I'd like to see Daria goomba
04:04Wally get the second most carries and there's a reason for that too. So even even if Damian Pierce is there
04:10I still want cam acres to be the guy just just this Sunday man, you know, just this Sunday, you know
04:16Let's see what you got. Let's see
04:18Let's see you get a lot of carries and the reason I want Daria goomba
04:21Wally in there is because this pass rush of the Vikings is ridiculous
04:25Yeah that I'm with you right the idea of cam acres being the guy that gets
04:30Most of the carries I'm with you on that the idea that hey
04:35Maybe Daria should be number two oddly enough in snaps. Maybe not carries
04:39yeah, I agree with because I think that this is going to be a situation where no matter who the running back is Damian Pierce cam
04:46Acres Daria goomba Wally hell if you want to throw British books out there
04:50Shout out to the British books hive that apparently has developed in a way that I did not anticipate
04:53But again, he's been a fantastic story and a dude who has worked real hard and hit hard early on in this this tenure cool
05:00I'm hearing you
05:01But ultimately it feels like no matter what mix of those guys you want to throw in there feels like passing the ball is more
05:06Of an option when it comes to this team, especially when you look at the strengths of it all the way around
05:10Yeah, right
05:11I think that hey man and also with what we're starting to see with what the run blocking might ultimately be again for this team
05:18Yeah, man running you have to run the football
05:20You can't just go into being a run and shoot team or whatever air raid whatever we want to call it
05:23Yeah
05:24but I do think that you're going to lean I or you probably should lean more to putting the ball in CJ Stroud's hands and
05:30trying to get the ball into the hands of the likes of
05:32Stefan digs tank down. Of course, Nico Collins. Yeah, like I think that that is the look of ultimately
05:36So yeah having having Dari on the field, especially because of his past blocking past protection prowess
05:42That's yeah, that's where I'm starting to see that in the in my in my vision
05:46yeah, and you know, you really have to change a lot if Damian Pierce's is there and and the guy that you want to
05:53Carry the ball a lot. I don't want it. I don't want them to do that
05:55I don't think they want to do that and with Cam Akers
05:59I'm not a big country and Western guy. What's that song? Was it Toby Keith?
06:03I'm as good. I'm asking the wrong person country and Western. What is this 1985? I told you I wouldn't be country fan
06:10I'm as good once as I ever was that's all we want out of cam Akers. Just be as good once as you ever were
06:16And and that and that's he's carried the load for teams. He's he's got he's had 150 170 carries in his career
06:24Just do it
06:25Sunday
06:26That's all we're asking Joe Mixon's coming back. Hey, hey coach
06:30Will can makers get more reps of mix can't go against against the Vikings? Yeah, we'll see cameras again
06:36Cam is uh, he's ran the ball. Well as we seen he did a good job for us
06:41So we'll see where cam is as you go throughout the week as well
06:45That wasn't very enlightening
06:47It's about to be the Daria
06:50The Daria game, well, you need his pass blocking that is for dark definitely go ahead like maybe 12 carries. No, no, no way three
06:57Well, you said Daria 12 carries. I think so. No way
07:01I don't know
07:01I'm like
07:02I don't know that they're gonna be told in the ball that much for Daria to get 12 and then
07:05Finding some other ways for cam and if Damien is available to have carries within there as well
07:10Yeah, that's that feels like a lot but give me 15 to 18 from cam
07:14Three from Daria and sling that rock you a lot you're going a lot
07:18I thought I'm thinking my eight to ten now for cam and then maybe another four or five
07:23You really want them to sling the rock which we're gonna get to I think they will yeah, we're gonna get to so
07:29Yeah, but I think that that's that's probably the way that it goes and don't forget right?
07:32Like the idea of Daria and British Brooks getting involved here. I think that that'll be interesting when you consider also
07:38Brevin Jordan going to the IR, right?
07:40How much of the tight end type things are you going to have to then get a little bit from
07:44Your running backs in addition as well. Yeah. Okay. That's a what we're looking at as Joe Mixon did not practice yesterday
07:51neither did Damien Pearson, uh
07:53Your head coach used the word hope holding out. Hope
07:57Availability possibility for Joe Mixon on Sunday