'Ted Lasso' Recap: Ted Gives 'The Signal' For Appointment Television

Game Highlights

Roy asserts himself as a coach and encourages Jamie to assert himself as a jerk. Higgins struggles with his obligations as a friend when Beard gets back together with Jane, and Rebecca struggles with her obligations as a daughter when her mother breezes into town. And Ted, who has been sprinting to stay ahead of his own brain for quite a while, runs out of room.

Play-By-Play

Jamie and Roy

AFC Richmond wins a game right off the bat, and it turns out it's their fourth in a row. Jamie, however, is frustrated by the fact that new coach Roy, who's being credited for the team's successes, just refuses to coach him. When Roy finally relents, it's to say that Ted is at fault. He's made Jamie "average" by pushing the team-player angle so hard to the exclusion of all else. Roy commands Jamie to act like more of a jerk (though he does not say "jerk"), stressing that the key is to be able to take command of your jerk tendencies and use them to your advantage. And so, at a critical moment in a tournament game against Tottenham Hotspur, the entire coaching staff flips Jamie the bird, which is his signal to get selfish. He does, and it works, and the team chalks up another big win.

Rebecca and her mom/Higgins and Beard

Rebecca is in the middle of sexing sexily with sexy Luca when her mother drops in for an unannounced visit and announces