Chris Simms
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 27 Apr
Chris Simms’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think those are the things that just made me start to go, wow, after evaluating him.
Well, I think that's the amazing thing. They trust him with everything, right? I mean, that's like he's a rookie quarterback. And, you know, most times when we got into the playoffs, the rookie quarterbacks are getting late in the year. Hey, they're still managing them a little bit. Hey, let's be careful here. Let's not put them in a tough situation. Right.
Let's let's limit some of our play calls and make things simpler. It's the opposite from what history has told us. They're a little bit like, hey, it's a big moment. Let's put it on his shoulders. He'll carry us. He'll do it. And then he plays like this extremely mature brand of football. And I think this is the thing that shocks me more than anything is.
One, one of the advantages he has is he ran this system that Cliff Kingsbury runs in college a little bit. So there's great knowledge of that. But I think it's the fact that Cliff Kingsbury is obviously seeing a guy that he can trust and a guy that can mentally take in a lot of offense to where he could just give them everything and it's just go ahead.
And I think the part that I look at it to where I think, you know, I don't know if Kingsbury saw this in training camp or if he earned this right early in the year, but But how many drives, again, last night, 17 plays, 92-yard drive, right? 10 plays, 66-yard drive. They're kind of a ball control passing offense. They kind of trust him to five yards here, four yards here, five yards here.
Oh, it's fourth and one. Well, maybe we'll run him. Maybe we'll throw it. Maybe he'll scramble. I don't know. But I think that's the thing that I'm more amazed by. Usually young quarterbacks, when they have to go on 10 and 12 and 14 play drives, you know this. They make mistakes. They fumble. They throw a stupid interception. They make a dumb mistake.
They call the game like he's in year seven and he's been doing this for a long time at a high level and they have no fear of all of that. And I think that really pops out to me when I watch them play.
Yeah, Jordan Love has been, you know, if you watch my podcast, Chris Simms Up Button, I've been talking a little bit. He's not been himself the whole year. One of the things I've said about the Packers is they're going to the playoffs. They're dangerous because they have a really talented football team, but they're going to the playoffs. And this tells you how good their team is.
Their quarterback kind of played B minus ball the whole year. And I do think, hey, he's young. We still got to remember that. It's not a ton of playing time and experience. The second thing I do think is the injuries. From week one until really until last week, as we saw, he didn't practice last Wednesday.
There was too many weeks where he didn't get to practice or he got to just do the walkthrough on Saturday and then tried to play in the game, even though he wasn't 100%. So he certainly had an off year. He didn't see the field well.
And like you saw yesterday, there was just plays and there's throws throughout the year where you go, he's too good, he's too talented to miss that throw right there or be that off target. So they never really got him going in that flow this year. And it's disappointing because...
Their talent, to me, they're one of the few teams that's up there with the top teams in football as far as talent's concerned. And then they can run the ball. But the quarterback and the passing offense just never totally meshed in full totality this year like we saw at the end of last year. And yesterday, yeah, you saw it.
They couldn't dominate with the run game, and they had to rely on the pass game to beat Philadelphia. And they're just not good enough in that department right now at the end of this season.
Yeah, they're creative on the defensive side of the ball. You said a lot of right things. I mean, first off, I'm with you. I'm not going into the next offseason thinking Jordan Love, oh no, I'm concerned about that. He was off this year. He did some dumb things. He missed some balls, the injuries, the injuries of receiver. That, I think, is something they will have to address.
So I'm with you there 100%, right? He needs to throw the ball with more authority. Sometimes if you watch Jordan Love, too, it's off the back foot. It's always like a flick of the wrist. It's too much instead of like, hey, let's drive the ball and get our whole body into it like you see the other top quarterbacks do a lot of the time. He'll get that. His talent's real.
I think with the Eagles, I'm a big Eagles believer, first off. I think the Eagles are the best team in football. I have picked them when the playoffs started. I said the Eagles are going to win the Super Bowl. We'll see. Now, yesterday, like you're saying, didn't make me feel real warm and cozy.
But I do think you have to take in the aspect of like, hey, that's a pretty good Green Bay defense, just like we were just saying. Green Bay's talent is up there everywhere. as far as their full football team with the Lions, the Eagles, the Chiefs, the Bills, the Ravens. They're that quality of a football team as far as offensive, defensive line, secondary, tight end play, all of that.
So that was not an easy matchup for Philadelphia. That's the first thing. They were pretty creative on the defensive side of the ball with Green Bay and Jeff Halfley and what they did, what they do. They looked like they did not give...
the Philadelphia Eagles a lot of one-on-one opportunities and that'd be one thing that that's what Philly their their formula is very simple and my biggest concern about Philly Ryan is that they're very simple on offense altogether it's one of my themes of my podcast this year is that Philly doesn't do much they go we're gonna run the ball you know we're gonna run the ball they only have about two run plays and they just go screw you we're better than you
And then when you overdo that and they start to get favorable matchups on the outside, you watch Philadelphia, then it's just, whoa, throw it up to A.J. Brown. Boom, throw it up to Devontae Smith. Oh, hit him on a slant against one-on-one. Now they run after the catch and do that. So it's not incredibly complicated to break down Philadelphia and what they do in the passing game.
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